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Sanctionistas Go Shopping for Rubles

Dmitry Orlov

As the situation stands today:

1. Russia has announced that since the US and the EU have defaulted on their US dollar and euro obligations, respectively, by freezing Russian reserves, Russia will now only sell natural gas for rubles.

2. There is no other source of sufficient quantities of natural gas available; thus, the EU has no choice but to continue importing natural gas from Russia.

3. The EU has to keep the gas flowing or it will be unable to make it through next winter without shutting down all industrial production or letting the housing stock go unheated.

How will the EU get the required quantities of rubles? Good question! The following comprehensive analysis (credit: “adventurist”) answers it pretty well:

1. Trade. Countries of the EU export product to Russia and earn rubles. The problem is that the EU ran a trade deficit with Russia even during the best of times (for it) and it will get much worse now that the flow of goods from the EU to Russia has been curtailed because of sanctions. Also, a lot of Western companies are voluntarily curtailing their exports to Russia because of fear or misplaced feelings of Western solidarity. Lastly, Russia itself is working on freeing itself of strategically important Western imports because it doesn’t want to depend on unreliable suppliers. Thus we have the situation that the EU needs 20 trillion ₽ per year to survive but can only export goods worth 2 trillion ₽.

2. Use intermediaries. The next scheme to try is to buy rubles indirectly; for example, by first buying rupees or yuan, then exchanging them for rubles. Here the problem is that neither China nor India are in the market to buy such vast quantities of euros, given that the good reputation of the euro as a reserve currency has been badly damaged by anti-Russian sanctions. Thus, it is unlikely that the required quantities of rubles could be procured in this manner, and whatever quantities could be procured would exert a strong downward force on the price of the euro. Fire sales require steep discounts, you know! And then there are the commissions: if you pay 2% here, 3% there—pretty soon you find yourself shirtless.

3. Liquidation. The EU sells all of its Russian assets: stocks, government and commercial bonds, strategic shares in companies, its own factories and facilities, real estate. These are bought by Russian entities for rubles. This is a fairly realistic way to raise rubles, although the prices will be quite depressed by the sheer volume of sales. Furthermore, now that the Russian government has blocked all sales of assets by non-residents, it is unclear how such transactions would be allowed to proceed.

4. Pawn the gold. This is very simple from a technical perspective but politically impossible. This is the same stunt that the US pulled after World War II: the Europeans parked their gold in the US and in return they got credit to buy what they needed to rebuild. Later they were allowed to get their gold back—or not, because the US has “leased” it all to China in the meantime. But that’s another story. In any case, even if the EU is willing to work this way with Russia, its gold reserves won’t be enough to pay for even single a year’s worth of Russian gas.

5. Colonization. This is a perfectly workable scheme that requires the EU to capitulate to Russia. It would then transfer to Russia controlling shares of its strategic industries and facilities: ports, airports, pipelines, factories and plants, gas stations, etc.—whatever Russia happens to be interested in. In this case, and in this case only, it would be possible to raise almost arbitrary quantities of rubles because the result would be a dramatic expansion in the size of the Russian economy. But then the EU would effectively pass under Russian control—first economic, later political—and some Europeans may find this objectionable.There are various other clever schemes, but they wouldn’t add up to much. The basic take-home from all this is that the Europeans will be forced to struggle mightily to raise the requisite number of rubles to keep their jobs, their houses heated and the lights on. There is no doubt that this can be done; the problem is, time is short.

Over the next month or so the European leadership has to run the gamut of the five stages of grief—all the way to acceptance—on the double, because there simply isn’t time for any of their denial, anger, bargaining or depression.

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National Geographic: Why Is It So Hard to Compensate People for Serious Vaccine Injury?

By David Charbonneau, Ph.D.

Vaccine injury compensation in the U.S. is broken, according to Tara Haelle, an independent science and health writer. In an article for National Geographic, Haelle outlined some of the flaws in existing programs, and what might be done to fix them.

Vaccine injury compensation in the U.S. is broken, according to Tara Haelle, an independent science and health writer. In an article for National Geographic, Haelle outlined some of the flaws in existing programs, and what might be done to fix them.

Haelle interviewed healthcare experts who told her the government’s failure to acknowledge vaccine injuries and compensate the injured has undermined public trust in vaccines and created more “vaccine hesitancy.”

“Vaccine hesitancy stems from lack of public trust,” said Maya Goldenberg, who studies vaccine hesitancy at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

As of March 22, about 217 million people are “fully vaccinated” in the U.S., but 16% of Americans still refuse to get the vaccine, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. A previous survey found one in five people cite side effects as the top reason for not getting vaccinated.

“People need to be confident that vaccines are safe and effective when they make a decision to get vaccinated,” said Goldenberg. “They also need to know that, insofar as there are real dangers involved, people will be cared for and not stranded in that rare situation [of vaccine injury].”

Walter Orenstein, associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta, told Haelle, “Vaccination is not a per-individual benefit, it’s for societal benefit, and when someone is injured by that vaccine, I think society owes that individual compensation.”

Haelle interviewed several people injured by COVID-19 vaccines, including Jessica McFadden, a 44-year-old fundraising officer in Indiana who was hospitalized with thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS, one week after getting the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine.

McFadden said she’s vexed the government pushed so hard for everyone to get vaccinated and did not push to compensate those who, like her, were harmed.

“It’s like [we’re] the cost of doing business in a pandemic,” she said.

McFadden said she has good health insurance. Still, she was stuck with a bill for more than $7,000 for a five-day hospital stay and she missed two weeks of work not covered by sick leave due.

Cody Robinson, a 36-year-old stuntman from Atlanta who has won awards for his performances in two dozen films, was also injured by a COVID vaccine. After having COVID in July 2021, Robinson didn’t see a reason to get vaccinated right away, but the Screen Actors Guild began allowing productions to require vaccines on set.

After losing several jobs worth more than $40,000 in wages, Robinson said he felt “strong-armed” by his industry. “It became clear to me that the message in the industry was, if you don’t get vaccinated, you ain’t working,” Robinson said.

Like McFadden, Robinson developed multiple blood clots after his J&J jab, including one in his jugular vein. He’s now taking blood thinners and can’t do stunts, so he’s losing money — more than the wage cap of $50,000 established under the Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program (CICP), the government-run program for compensating people injured by COVID vaccines or other countermeasures.

‘If the government’s going to force you to do something, they should provide compensation if they’re screwing you over,’ he said.”

Anna Kirkland, a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan and author of “Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury,” told National Geographic, “the country’s already fragmented and inequitable healthcare system makes it even more important that an injury compensation program functions efficiently.”

“Vaccine injury compensation may be a last line of support for families confronting devastating or lifelong medical conditions because we don’t have a medical or social safety net that reliably keeps sick and disabled people out of poverty in this country,” Kirkland said. “Medical bills are a major cause of bankruptcies.”

How  vaccine compensation programs operate

Typically, someone who is injured by a medical product can sue the manufacturer for damages, as was the case in lawsuits involving opioids and baby powder.

But that’s not the case with vaccines. Legislation passed in 1986 set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to adjudicate and compensate vaccine injury claims in lieu of the civil courts.

Under the VICP, it was still possible to sue vaccine companies for injuries resulting from anything except vaccine design — which arguably covered a lot of ground — but all claims had to first go through VICP before they could proceed to a civil court.

The program was described by the legislation as “no fault:” Victims did not have to prove manufacturer negligence and companies would not be held responsible for the effects of their products. Compensation would be paid from a federal fund supported by an excise tax on vaccines — not by the vaccine manufacturers.

The argument at the time was that companies were halting production of certain vaccines because the legal liabilities were greater than potential profits.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, by 1985, families were seeking a combined $3.16 billion in damages for just the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine — 30 times that vaccine’s entire annual market share.

In 2005, President George W. Bush enacted the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act to protect pharmaceutical companies from financial liability for products developed to address public emergencies.

The PREP Act today bars people from suing Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J for COVID vaccine injury.

The PREP Act also introduced the CICP to cover any injuries arising from emergency measures, including non-routine immunizations, medical devices and drugs.

This legislation took certain vaccines out of the jurisdiction of the VICP, including pandemic vaccines, since they are considered “emergency countermeasures.”

Haelle reported a stark difference in the outcomes for claims brought to CICP and those brought to the VICP. Of approximately 400 eligible cases, CICP compensated just 7%, totaling about $6 million. Nearly all the denied claims were related to vaccines.

The VICP, meanwhile, has compensated 41% of resolved cases and paid more than $4.6 billion since 1988.

In the case of COVID vaccines, the CICP has not yet compensated a single claim, though it did approve one. In contrast, Thailand has paid more than $45 million in COVID vaccine claims.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/why-hard-compensate-people-vaccine-injury/

NATO Summit Fails to Address Disagreement Among Members

Telesur

In the statement after the Brussels summit, there was no agreement to impose additional sanctions against Russia, especially the country’s oil and gas products.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies gathered here on Thursday, for what Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called “an extraordinary NATO summit in an extraordinary security situation” amid the Ukraine crisis.

The meeting, held on the day that marked one month since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, might temporarily boost unity across the Atlantic, but could not easily balance the demands of relevant parties or put out the fires in Ukraine.

Behind closed doors, NATO heads of state and government agreed to form four new NATO battlegroups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, to supplement the four established ones in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. They also agreed to strengthen “longer term deterrence and defense posture” supported by “enhanced exercises.”

Stoltenberg also said that NATO will strengthen the cyber defenses and offer Ukraine cybersecurity assistance. In the statement after the gathering, there was no agreement to impose additional sanctions against Russia, especially the country’s oil and gas products. This demonstrates the obvious divergence among NATO members, who have different security and economic concerns.

The biggest difference is whether to place sanctions on Russia’s energy industry. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has clearly expressed opposition to such penalties. Upon his arrival for a summit with leaders of the EU countries on Thursday, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo warned that the 27-member bloc should not consider sanctions against Russia as such a move would unnecessarily weaken its economy.

FM #Lavrov: Facts have been uncovered of a dangerous bioweapons programme that Pentagon has been carrying out in Ukraine. Now thatarmed forces have acquired access to these documents, the US has been trying to cover its tracks. We will be fighting for the truth to come out. pic.twitter.com/0sNs3MUH5W

— Russia in RSA (@EmbassyofRussia) March 23, 2022

In contrast with the Western European states, some countries adjacent to Russia such as Latvia and Estonia are calling for stricter sanctions against Russia as they claimed that energy sanctions would be an crucial measure to stop the country’s military operation in Ukraine.

In order to cut dependence on Russia’s gas and oil, the EU is seeking long-term liquefied natural gas supplies from the United States, making the latter a beneficiary of the European energy crisis prompted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Besides the divergence on sanctions, the NATO members in Brussels also shied away from Ukraine’s request for more advanced weapons systems, participations of NATO troops and a no-fly zone in Ukraine. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, invited to address the NATO leaders, hit out at Western nations for not doing enough to help his country.

“You have thousands of fighter jets! But we haven’t been given any yet … You have at least 20,000 tanks! Ukraine asked for a percent, one percent of all your tanks to be given or sold to us! But we do not have a clear answer yet… The worst thing during the war is not having clear answers to requests for help,” Zelensky said during the meeting.

NATO has been clear it will not send troops or planes to the battlefield. “We have a responsibility to ensure that the war does not escalate beyond Ukraine… this would cause even more death and even more destruction,” Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

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Via https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/NATO-Summit-Fails-to-Address-Disagreement-Among-Members-20220325-0006.html?

 

Russians Welcomed as Liberators in Southern Ukrainian City of Henichesk

Russian troops in Henichesk. [Photo courtesy of Sonja Vandenende]

Sonja Van Ende

Covert Action Magazine
Last week I was embedded with the Russian army and visited two towns in southeastern Ukraine. The first town was called Henichesk, a port city along the Sea of Azov in Kherson Oblast (province) of southern Ukraine, bordering on Crimea.

The Russian army, patrolling the city, went with us—the embedded journalists—for protection. But actually the protection was not really needed; the people in Henichesk, at least the majority with whom I spoke, were very happy that the Russian army was there.

The people that I spoke to all said the same thing: They felt protected from the criminal gangs, with their Nazi ideology, who raged the towns. They in turn hoped that Ukraine will prosper again.

[Source: wikipedia.org]

Since the coup d’état of 2014, the economy of Ukraine has become very bad, according to many citizens in Henichesk.

I could see that people were standing in line to get money from ATM machines outside the banks, money which was barely there.

At the market, the food was scarce. The Russian army is providing humanitarian aid, which they do in every village and town, liberated from these criminal gangs. This is how many Ukrainians call them.

Numerous villagers in Henichesk told me that, as the Russians entered their town, they left everything intact. I heard this stated many times. No damage, no dead, no wounded. Most people, they said, are happy that the Russians were there.

The town of Henichesk was undamaged after the Russian army came. People were rushing on the streets to do their shopping or just talking and socializing on the street. The population was very diverse. It included ethnic Russians, Ukrainians and Tatars. They have churches and mosques.

According to residents, before the 2014 coup d’état,[1] the people lived in harmony. Many Tatars originating from Crimea live in Henichesk. They have been allowed to go back to Crimea since Vladimir Putin became Russia’s president.

Propaganda has been spread on the Wikipedia page of Henichesk, stating the following: “On 24 February 2022, Henichesk was captured by the Russian Army in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was where the famous incident occurred where an old woman confronted Russian soldiers and said ‘Put sunflower seeds in your pockets so they grow on Ukraine soil when you die,’ as well as the death of Vitalii Shakun blowing up a bridge to stop their advance.”

Indeed, Shakun tried to blow up the bridge connecting Crimea with southern Ukraine. But they neglect to tell that he was not from southern Ukraine, but from Lviv, in the western part of Ukraine. He was also a combat engineer with the Ukrainian Army. The damage his explosives caused to the bridge was actually minor and the bridge is still passable. It is a pity generally that boys (Shakun was born in 1996) should die for a false ideology, by blowing up a bridge without success.

Fact Versus Fiction

Western propaganda claims that the Russian army is besieging towns and that the population is starving. From my observation, the latter was not true in Henichesk or in the next town called Melitopol, which I also visited (to be discussed in a future article).[2]

The Western countries are pouring in weapons, most of them old Soviet weapons into Ukraine to shoot at the “evil Russians,” and imposing sanctions. Nothing positive is being done to help the long suffering people of Ukraine.

The Zelensky regime is presented as a moral beacon in the West, but has banned opposition parties and spurned a negotiated settlement to the war that could end his people’s suffering. Before the war, Zelensky had failed to stimulate much economic development or curtail corruption, which he himself appears to be implicated in, according to revelations in the Pandora Papers.

In the past years, many Ukrainians have gone to Russia. Crimea is nearby and there they get shelter and help. Russia has no refugee camps, but provides them with shelter, food and medical care.

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Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/25/u-s-media-decries-brutal-russia-invasion-of-ukraine-yet-an-intrepid-reporter-finds-that-the-russians-were-welcomed-as-liberators-in-the-southern-ukrainian-city-of-henichesk-along-the-sea-of-a/

Europe has no alternative to Russian natural gas

Dmitry Orlov
Those who are still paying attention to the pronouncements of European marionettes I mean national leaders, and who know a thing or two about energy, were probably quite amused to hear one of them say that Germany plans to reduce its imports of Russian gas to 10%, and another one to declare that Europe won’t be paying for Russian gas in rubles because he doesn’t even know what a ruble looks like. Silly pronouncements like these are to be expected from marionettes, who probably haven’t been to school, and if they were, then it was probably some sort of marionette school where they didn’t have to struggle with hard subjects like math, physics or chemistry.

We can lament all we want the sorry state of old European nations and the fact that they are figureheaded by brainless prats, but for those of us still possessed of mental faculties this won’t change the fact that Europe cannot survive for long without Russian natural gas. A proper motto for Europe would be “Give me Russian gas, or give me death!”I will now provide a full rationale for this motto in both a short-term and a long-term perspective.

When pointing out that Europe’s energy situation is absolutely desperate, one often hears the following quick retort: “This is all nonsense. Europe simply won’t buy any gas right now. There is plenty of time before next winter and by then Russia will capitulate and offer its gas for free.”Let me fill you in on how natural gas delivery networks operate. In order to survive the winter heating season, Europe has to completely fill its underground gas storage by November while currently it is close to empty. If that doesn’t happen, then, even with natural gas deliveries from outside at full flow,

Europeans will have to choose between shutting down industry and leaving buildings unheated. Existing European natural gas infrastructure simply does not have the capacity to fill its underground gas storage in a day, a week or a month. Its volume is assessed at 100 billion cubic meters. Nord Stream 1, at maximum flow, can deliver 160 million cubic meters per day. Another 100 million cubic meters per day is currently being pumped through the Ukrainian pipeline. Add to that Yamal-Europe and Turk Stream, at 300 million cubic meters per day. By the end of the current heating season there will be less than 20 billion cubic meters left in underground storage (excluding trapped “technical gas” used to keep it pressurized). Maximum capacity of liquefied natural gas regasification plants in Europe is another 400 million cubic meters per day. Oh, and Europe still produces 150 million cubic meters per day on its own. And so the maximum available natural gas delivery capacity for all of Europe adds up to 850 million cubic meters per day. Applying advanced arithmetic principles, we arrive at the inevitable conclusion that it is impossible to fill Europe’s underground storage in any less than 100 days!

But that assumes that not a single cubic meter of gas will be used up in the meantime. That assumption is obviously not valid. Also, there are restrictions on how fast underground storage can be pumped up; the process slows down as storage is filled and pressure increases. In reality, to reach the stated goal of 90% of capacity by the beginning of the 2022 heating season, underground storage has to start getting filled by the middle of April—that is, right freaking now! Otherwise there will be no chance of catching up. And if Europe refuses to buy Russia’s 300 million cubic meters per day using rubles it currently doesn’t have, then there is no hope at all of making it through the heating season.

[…]Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov

The First Towns in Mesopotamia

Episode 4: Eridu and Other Towns in the Ubaid Period

Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization

Dr Amanda H Podany

Film Review

The Halaf culture, dating the 6th millenium BC, consisted of small villages supported by simple irrigation agriculture. Eridu, located on the Persian Gulf, consisted of marshy wetlands. The latter dried out as the Persian Gulf retreated (from sea level drop), and Eridu villagers were the first to build irrigation reservoirs, levees and canals to water their fields and pastures.

They have left behind exquisite stone and obsidian tools and highly prized foreign goods (including imported obsidian, copper and shells). In addition to organizing a significant number of workers to build irrigation works, they also collaborated to build a temple Enke, the god of sweet waters. The temple was measured in cubits, which would become a standard measure of measure, even though they had no written language.

The villagers manufactured, clay pots (which they traded for foreign goods), clay sickles and clay balls to use with slingshots.

The northern cultures of Mesopotamia adopted Ubaid pots somewhat later than southern Mesopotamia, although copper smelting originated in the north. As in Eridu, there is clear evidence of an elite class, with larger houses and tombs and more accumulation of foreign luxury goods.

Northerners also smelted gold, silver and the gold-silver alloy electrium for jewelry, as well as “arsenic bronze” (produced by adding arsenic to copper). Eventually northern Mesopotamian towns imported tin from northern Europe and Asia, which allowed them to smelt copper into sturdy bronze tools and weapons.

Some northern Mesopotamian towns from this period had populations over 3,000 and reveal evidence of publicly run kilns to fire pots, as well as the use of pictorial stamp seals to prevent illegal access to the personal goods and rooms.

Chalices of obsidian and marble (some with gold inlays) also date from this period, along with evidence of Syrian domesticated dogs in northern Mesopotamians.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on kanopy.

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/video/eridu-and-other-towns-ubaid-period

10 Lives Changed Forever by Covid Shots

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

“These are real people with real stories to share, and the more people who see them, the more awareness can grow to provide those who survived with the help and medical care they deserve — while warning others of the potentially deadly consequences of COVID-19 injections.”

Story at-a-glance:

Some people who have received COVID-19 shots experience a range of debilitating symptoms or death.Healthy teenagers, athletes and doctors are among those who have died within hours or days of receiving COVID-19 shots.Others have experienced stroke-like symptoms, paralysis, tics, partial blindness and seizures following the shots.Increasing numbers of people are becoming compelled to speak out and share their stories of how COVID-19 shots altered their lives.

Despite assurances of safety from health officials, it’s what the long-term effects of COVID-19 shots will be that come to question. Spike proteins from the shots can circulate in your body after injection, causing damage to cells, tissues and organs.

“Spike protein is a deadly protein,” Dr. Peter McCullough, an internist, cardiologist and trained epidemiologist, said (6:00).

Experimental and observational evidence show that the human immune response to COVID-19 shots is very different than the response induced by exposure to SARS-CoV-2, and people who’ve received COVID-19 shots may have damage to their innate immune system that’s leading to a form of vaccine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, due to the impairment in interferon signaling.

Further, likely due to monocyte activation by the spike protein from the vaccine, some people who have received COVID-19 shots experience a range of debilitating symptoms similar to those found in long haul COVID-19 syndrome, such as headaches, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, joint pain and chest pain.

For some, however, the shot’s adverse effects occur quickly, resulting in life-changing debilitation. You can see 10 powerful examples below, ranging from deaths to lives upended due to illogical quarantine rules that illustrate the absurdity of COVID-19 tyranny.

These are real people with real stories to share, and the more people who see them, the more awareness can grow to provide those who survived with the help and medical care they deserve — while warning others of the potentially deadly consequences of COVID-19 injections.

If you find these stories helpful and motivating then I would encourage you to visit our breaking news blog on our site as this is where the stories below were initially posted. The blog posts stay up continuously and are not removed after 48 hours.

10 People Whose Lives Changed After COVID-19 Shots

1. Jim Ashby — learning to walk again

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Ashby was forced to get a COVID-19 shot by Dec. 3, 2021, or his employer would consider him “voluntarily resigned.” Eight days after receiving the Pfizer jab, he had a major hemorrhagic stroke.

He’s been in rehab since October 2021, suffering from complete paralysis on the left side of his body. He still has a long way to go in recovery, and still can’t feel or use his left arm or walk without assistance.

His rehab is excruciatingly painful, he says, and he spends up to six hours a day learning how to walk again.

What’s worse, his employer isn’t covering the medical bills for the costs of this stroke. “My life has been totally changed, all because of the vaccine mandate … my old life is dead,” he says, “and I have started my new life as a paraplegic.”

2. Athletes collapsing and dying

Healthy athletes around the world are dying of heart attacks and strokes. The numbers are exploding, with athletes suffering neurological problems, too.

What’s happened in the last six months to a year that’s different? Is there anything in common that’s changed that hooks all these athletes together? They all have had COVID-19 shots. Among them:

Abou Ali, a 22-year-old football (soccer) player, suffered from cardiac arrest in Denmark on Sept. 11, 2021.Caddy Alberto Olguin collapsed and died from a heart attack on the golf course on Oct. 9, 2021.30-year-old Venezuelan marathon champion Alexaida Guedez, 30, died of a heart attack during a 5,000-meter race on Aug. 22, 2021.Andrea Astolfi, 45, sports director of Calcio Orsago in Italy, died of a heart attack on Sept. 11, 2021, after returning from training.Ava Azzopardi, 14, collapsed on a soccer field in the U.S. on Oct. 15, 2021, suffering from cardiac arrest — she had to be put in a medically induced coma to survive.

3. Dr. Neil Singh Dhalla, died from myocarditis

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Dr. Neil Singh Dhalla fell asleep four days after he got a COVID-19 booster shot — and died from a heart attack. The autopsy stated myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle that’s a recognized adverse effect of mRNA COVID-19 shots. A CEO of a major health clinic, he was only 48 years old and had never had heart problems in his life.

4. Faith Ranson, 16-Year-Old Plagued by Convulsions and Tics

A happy, healthy 16-year-old girl in Australia who got the Pfizer COVID-19 shot is now crippled with convulsions, persistent nausea and visible tics. The problems began three days after her second shot and have been ongoing for months.

Health officials actually admitted “there is no question Faith has had a delayed reaction to the second Pfizer vaccination” and is suffering adverse reactions from the shot. Her story even made it to mainstream news.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/people-lives-changed-forever-covid-vaccines/

Survey: Fully vaccinated believe every lie about Russia and Ukraine, fully support wartime escalations

Dr Eddy Betterman

A new survey by the Canadian national polling firm EKOS has found that the more “vaccine” injections a person gets for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the more likely he or she is to believe every word of corporate media propaganda about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Unvaccinated Canadians, EKOS found, are 12 times more likely than those who received three “doses” of a Fauci Flu shot to believe that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was justified. Almost nobody who is “fully vaccinated” supports Putin’s actions, the survey revealed.

A mere two percent of triple vaccinated Canadians said they support Putin’s attack compared to 26 percent of people who received no jabs. This, says EKOS president Frank Graves, shows that vaccination status is a strong predictor of one’s views on the war.

From the seizing of property from Russian oligarchs to providing non-military aid to Ukraine, the fully jabbed support just about anything that is “pro-Ukraine,” the survey found. And this is because the same media that told them to get injected for their own “safety” is now saying that Ukraine is good and Russia is bad.

“In each case, a vast majority of vaccinated Canadians agreed with measures to help Ukraine and oppose Russia, a view held by only a small minority of unvaccinated people,” reported the Toronto Star, which apparently supports Ukraine.

Graves says unvaccinated support Russia because they read too much news “online”

Conducted from March 9 to March 13, the survey asked a random sampling of 1,035 Canadians a series of questions about Russia and Ukraine. It reported a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Ten percent of those surveyed, or about 105 people, identified as unvaccinated. The rest had received anywhere from one to three injections of a Fauci Flu shot in obedience to Justin Trudeau’s regime.

Of those Canadians who received three injections for COVID, a whopping 82 percent said they agree with imposing tougher sanctions on Russia, even if doing so means much higher prices for food and fuel at home.

Conversely, only 18 percent of unvaccinated survey respondents said they support sanctions.

As for taking in Ukrainian refugees, 85 percent of triple-jabbed respondents said they would welcome an influx with open arms. Only 30 percent of unvaccinated respondents feel the same.

Based on what the Western media and government officials are saying, the triple jabbed almost unanimously believe that Russia is guilty of committing war crimes with the invasion. Less than 33 percent of unvaccinated Canadians, meanwhile, believe similarly.

All in all, the study found, a “plurality of vaccine refusers are much more sympathetic to Russia.” This is probably due to the fact that, just like they did with COVID injections, the unvaccinated did their own due diligence and independent research, and did not simply digest whatever they were told about the war by propagandists.

Naturally, the Toronto Sun reported this as a negative thing. Graves himself was also upset by the results, calling them evidence of “the highly corrosive influences of disinformation.”

Unironically, Graves said that the unvaccinated believe differently than the fully jabbed because they are “reading this online” and “consuming this from the same sources that were giving them the anti-vax stuff.”

The same is true of the fully jabbed, of course, who receive all of their information from the likes of CNN, but Graves made no mention of that. Instead, he tried to pretend as though his opinions are facts and everyone else’s beliefs are “misinformation.”

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2022/03/25/fully-vaccinated-believe-every-lie-about-russia-and-ukraine/

New Zealand Drops Almost All COVID Restrictions

Luis T

We have written a great deal about the sheer insanity of the response to the COVID-19 global pandemic over the past two years; however, nothing showcases the COVID madness like what New Zealand is doing right now.

In late March 2020, New Zealand recorded 5 cases of COVID-19 infection and immediately shut down everything, locked down borders and citizens, and instituted the most severe restrictions on formerly free citizens in global history. [And back in 202021, they put the city of Auckland in full lockdown after only 3 cases have been recorded].

In late March 2022, New Zealand recorded 20,000 cases of COVID-19 infection (yesterday), and announces they are dropping almost all COVID restrictions, removing vaccination mandates and eliminating COVID passports.

Nothing shouts ‘scamdemic‘ louder than the government’s own behavior in this example.

Was COVID-19 ever more concerning than a severe flu, which was then weaponized by government to induce a global fear and trigger mass formation psychosis as a gateway for a new model society?

That question is for the history books. However, the changed political landscape, in combination with the Florida result, appear to hold the answers. (…)

Keep in mind, this announcement is happening at the same time COVID-19 infections are higher than at any time previously in Kiwi history.

You will never be able to convince the masses of people that they have been victimized by the most widespread global hysteria in modern history.

Indeed, it would be a futile effort to do so, just like it would be futile to try and stop the people who are thirsting desperately for their fourth, fifth or whatever booster shot.

People now define themselves and others by their behavior during the pandemic scare of the past two years. It would be an exercise in futility to try and convince anyone; and factually it would be exhausting and wasteful.

However, for anyone who can intellectually look at the landscape, it is impossible not to have seriously well founded questions about the statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic – when contrast against two ordinary years of a strong flu season in both the northern and southern hemisphere.

One of the key *tells*, amid this entire COVID fear timeline, is the difference between how western government leaders spoke publicly about the rules, regulations, mandates and restrictions, and how they personally acted in private when they didn’t know they were being watched.

And now we find ourselves with barely enough time to take down the COVID-19 decorations before those same western government officials began weaponizing the Ukraine fear.

Here is the announcement, straight from the horse’s mouth:

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Via https://luis46pr.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/new-zealand-drops-almost-all-covid-restrictions/

Not the new world order you ordered

By Dimitry Orlov

US and EU Face Deep Economic Quagmire

The “Russians killing Ukrainian civilians” fake news factory is still going strong, but sooner or later this story will have to be phased out and some new mass media obsession will be needed to distract the distraught masses from what’s actually happening. What shall it be? Central Park squirrels with bubonic plague? Hunter Biden’s sex change operation? A baby that fell down an oil well?

Joe Biden, tottering on his spindly legs, flew off to Europe to preach unity in the face of Russian aggression in the Ukraine or some such. That was the plan, but then Putin changed it by announcing that Russia will only be selling natural gas for rubles. Coming on the heels of Saudi announcement that it will start selling oil for yuan (a quarter of its exports goes to China) this didn’t sound like good news at all.

You can probably find some expert to tell you that the US, with 20% of world’s oil production, can still call the shots and that ’tis but a scratch. But given enough pre-existing conditions, even scratches can be fatal. First, to present a happier picture, in the US just about any liquid that comes out of a well and isn’t water has been redefined as “oil”—but most of it just isn’t that useful, especially for making jet fuel or diesel; for that, actual real high-quality oil from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia or Russia has to be imported. Second, the US burns an awful lot of oil just driving around its bloated, blighted suburban sprawl, which is more or less all it has at this point except for a few tiny pin-pricks of old urban goodness.

Given the massive decades-long build-out of sprawl, 20% of the world’s oil production just isn’t enough for its 5% of the world’s population—it needs more! Third, the US has grown accustomed to getting the extra oil it needs by printing dollars and using them to pay for it, and that’s no longer going to work.

The long and short of it is, the US has managed to cut itself out of the international oil market. First, it refused to import Russian oil because of the special military operation in the (former) Ukraine. Second, Biden sent a high-level delegation to Venezuela, to try to sweet-talk Nicolas Maduro into resuming oil sales to the US. The delegation was told to go talk to Juan Guaidó, whoever he is and wherever he may be. Third—and this is the most painful part—Biden tried phoning Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and Mohammed Bin Sayed of United Arab Emirates, and both of them refused to take Biden’s call, which is the diplomatic equivalent of a bitch-slap.

And now Biden lands in Europe all ready to announce even more sanctions against Russia and talk about unity and solidarity with the European leaders. Except the European leaders are now passed out cold from shock because yesterday Putin announced that from now on Russian exports will only be available for rubles, starting with natural gas. If they can’t find a way to start paying rubles for gas they will face industry shutdowns, electric outages and the next heating season simply won’t happen. What makes this situation particularly painful is that they have no right to complain. Who was it that confiscated Russian reserves held in dollars and euros, proving to Russia that these currencies are unreliable? Some people made a feeble attempt to argue that payment in dollars is stipulated in the existing gas contracts; however, the gas in question happens to be on Russian territory, where, according to the Russian constitution, presidential orders and Russian laws take precedence.

And so the agenda in Europe has suddenly been revised from “What sanctions do we impose next?” to “how do we get some rubles?” And that’s a really good question. Suppose you want to buy rubles with dollars or euros. Well, there’s an issue with that: rubles can only be purchased inside Russia, and getting dollars or euros into Russia is problematic because of sanctions against Russian banks. And there’s another issue with that: flooding the Russian foreign currency market will drive the exchange rate sky-high in a big hurry and cause traders to hoard rubles. So, what else is there? Well, you could go to the Russian central bank and take out a loan. The interest rate will be 20% and you’ll need collateral. Cash, be it dollars or euros, is useless as collateral because these currencies are unreliable; see above. You could put up stocks, but not Microsoft or IKEA or Siemens because they have pulled out of Russia, and not Facebook because they have violated Russian law and have been banned. And you probably wouldn’t want to put up stocks of Western defense companies, for obvious reasons. And then if you default on any of these loans, then you’ll end up with Russian central bank officials on the boards of Western corporations. Maybe it would be better to put up land. The EU could put up Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; the US could put up Alaska and Hawaii.[…]Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/d38385af-f2e2-4028-ac3c-406cc97ff421