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We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War

If you “vote out fascism” and then the president you voted for turns out to have the same effective policies as the previous administration, it’s time to start asking who the fascists actually are.

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Hoo you’ve done it now, CIA. You are in trouble. It was all good fun when you were doing fine normal stuff like toppling governments and running torture programs and assassinating people, but collecting bulk data on Americans?? You better prepare for some accountability, mister!

And the next time you suggest the CIA might be up to something nefarious, you’ll still get called a crazy conspiracy theorist.

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“Abolish the CIA” is almost too weak a position for an agency that should never have been made in the first place and should have been dismantled in the fucking nineteen sixties.

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The US war machine is just a rich man’s mafia.

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It’s not about Joe Rogan. It’s not about Covid misinformation. It’s not about QAnon, Russian trolls, domestic extremists or election security. It’s about ruling power structures needing to normalize and expand the regulation of online speech to protect consent for the status quo.

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A liberal is someone who yells all day about far right truckers and far right Joe Rogan and then applauds when their president gives weapons to literal Nazis.

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Very excited to find out whether “The US intelligence community says Putin has decided to invade Ukraine any minute now” is the kind of psyop that’s just designed to ramp up cold war hysteria or the kind of psyop that’s designed to prime us for US proxy war aggressions.

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The PR black eye the US empire sustained from the Iraq invasion ensured that it will greatly preference using proxy forces over US troops wherever possible. Middle Eastern jihadists, Latin American reactionaries, and Ukrainian Nazis all make very good proxy forces for the empire.

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A lot of confusion about Russia and Ukraine could be easily avoided if English language news media would end the appallingly unethical practice of printing unsubstantiated assertions by opaque intelligence agencies and presenting it as a “scoop”.

Continue reading “The US War Machine Is Just A Rich Man’s Mafia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – by Caitlín Johnstone”

ByRhoda WilsononFebruary 13, 2022•( 9 Comments ) via By Tessa Lena, republished from Mercola.

This story is about a crazy and dangerous project that is being carried out behinds the scenes — with a potential to impact all life on earth.

The monster is called the Internet of Underwater Things, and the objective of the initiative is to fully invade and disrupt the oceans in the name of, what else, lucrative “sustainable development,” plus military gains.

Story At-A-Glance

• The Internet of Underwater Things is an invasive and dangerous initiative that has been quietly unfolding for a number of years.
• Development of “smart oceans” is a part of the overall agenda of financialization of nature.
• The initiative requires introduction of a wide range of invasive technologies into the ocean on a massive scale (including potentially 6G).
• The Internet of Underwater Things involves device communication using acoustic waves, which can drastically interfere with marine life as inhabitants of the ocean rely on acoustic signals for basic everyday functions.
• Among the interested parties are World Economic Forum and DARPA.

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In a 2012 paper, the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is defined as a “world-wide network of smart interconnected underwater objects that enables to monitor vast unexplored water areas.”

This project is an easy candidate for the Darwin Awards. It includes such obviously bad ideas as introducing underwater devices that communicate long-distance through impactful acoustic waves — deafening marine life — as well as installing nodes and devices at the ocean floor, scattering numerous underwater vehicles and robots all over the oceans, creating electromagnetic interferences, and much more..

Continue reading “New Threat to Life: The Internet of Underwater Things- WEF mandate for Stakeholders Ocean Profitability”

Kids Go Wild With Cheers When Learning Mask Mandates Are Over

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BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, FEB 09, 2022 – 12:43 PM Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Sweden, a country which never imposed significant lockdown measures, has officially declared that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” and announced that it will be lifting all remaining restrictions. “As we know this pandemic, I would say it’s […]

Germany to end most now ‘idiotic’ COVID-19 curbs

Germany was on the point of following Austria in a mandatory vaccination totalitaritian war measure When Omicron arrived they postponed the crackdown due to “technical reasons”. With ever mounting demonstrations and now Convoys the mandates are suspended and the end of all the severe restrictions is urgently plasnned.

Countries like Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Israel, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark are all removing restrictions and mandates

Through its Young Global Leaders program, the World Economic Forum has been instrumental in shaping a world order that undermines all democratic principles. 

For several decades, this program has nurtured compliant leaders acting as WEF agents in governments around the world.

The consequences are far-reaching and may turn out to be devastating for humanity. Billy Boy (Global Leader […]

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Posted on February 14, 2022 by ELCOMUNISTA.NET in HISTORY

Music turned out to be the key to success in the unique rescue operation.

In 1985, some 2,000 beluga whales became trapped in thick ice that quickly encircled them and threatened to kill the mammals. The icebreaker ‘Moskva’ was deployed to free the whales, but they did not want to follow the noisy ship into open water. But then ingenuity (and music) came to the rescue.

an ice trap

beluga whales

In late December 1984, local hunters and fishermen near Ytigran Island in the Bering Sea, just off the coast of Chukotka and only about 130 miles from Alaska, saw something disturbing: a pod of approximately 2,000 belugas was trapped by fast ice near the coast.

Belugas, known as “belujas” or “polar dolphins” in Russia, are mammals that need to come to the surface to breathe. Being trapped in rapidly closing ice spells certain death for the animals. Without the help of humans, the whales would soon have died.

The sparse local population quickly came to the rescue. For weeks, the locals crushed the ice to prevent the small pool from freezing completely, while feeding the animals frozen fish. However, their efforts proved insufficient, as the fast ice inevitably closed in on the trapped animals.

the icebreaker

Thanks to the help of locals, the animals survived for more than a month, when authorities finally sent an icebreaker to the region to free the slowly dying trapped whales.

“The icebreaker ‘Moskva’ raced against time and plummeting temperatures to reach the whales before they suffocated or starved to death in the shrinking pools of open water,” reported the New York Times, which called the incident as “one of the most unusual rescue operations in the history of Arctic shipping”.

Continue reading “How a Soviet icebreaker saved 2,000 beluga whales with Music between Chukotka and Alaska”

Posted on febrero 14, 2022 by ELCOMUNISTA.NET in HISTORIA

La música resultó ser la clave del éxito en la singular operación de rescate.

En 1985, unas 2.000 ballenas beluga quedaron atrapadas en un hielo espeso que las cercaba rápidamente y amenazaba con matar a los mamíferos. El rompehielos ‘Moskvá’ fue desplegado para liberar a las ballenas, pero éstas no quisieron seguir al ruidoso barco hasta aguas abiertas. Pero entonces, el ingenio (y la música) acudieron al rescate.

Una trampa de hielo

Las ballenas beluga.

A finales de diciembre de 1984, cazadores y pescadores locales cerca de la isla de Ytigran, en el mar de Bering, cerca de la costa de Chukotka y a sólo unas 130 millas de Alaska, vieron algo inquietante: una manadade aproximadamente 2.000 belugas estaba atrapada por el hielo rápido cerca de la costa.

Las belugas, conocidas como “belujas” o “delfines polares” en Rusia, son mamíferos que necesitan salir a la superficie para respirar. Quedar atrapados en un hielo que se cierre rápidamente significa una muerte segura para los animales. Sin la ayuda de los humanos, las ballenas habrían muerto pronto.

La escasa población local acudió rápidamente al rescate. Durante semanas, los lugareños aplastaron el hielo para evitar que el pequeño charco se helase del todo, mientras alimentaban a los animales con pescado congelado. Sin embargo, sus esfuerzos resultaron insuficientes, ya que el hielo rápido se acercaba inevitablemente a los animales atrapados.

El rompehielos

Gracias a la ayuda de los lugareños, los animales sobrevivieron durante más de un mes, cuando, finalmente, las autoridades enviaron un rompehielos a la región para liberar a las ballenas atrapadas que morían lentamente.

Continue reading “Cómo un rompehielos soviético salvó a 2.000 ballenas beluga con Música entre Chukotka y Alaska “