The Secretary of State called for Washington to continue to put militarism before diplomacy, by Kyle Anzalone

The US will focus its efforts on arming Ukraine and not attempting to bring the war to a negotiated settlement, America’s top diplomat said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.

In a speechdelivered in Finlandon Friday, Blinken stated, “The United States – together with our allies and partners – is firmly committed to supporting Ukraine’s defense today, tomorrow, for as long as it takes.” He continued, “We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression.”

Blinken dismissed the idea of even a temporary pause in the fighting.…………………………

The Secretary of State offered an ambitious vision of Kiev’s future military capabilities.”America and our allies are helping meet…

The FDA recently rejected Neuralink’s PMA application for human clinical trials citing dozens of safety issues. How did Neuralink receive FDA clearance for human use less than 30 days later?

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June 6, 2023:According to aMarch 2, 2023REUTERS article, the FDA rejected Neuralink’s Premarket Approval (PMA) application to test brain chips in humans.

Per the article,KipLudwig, former NIH program director for neural engineering stated, “Neuralink doesn’t appear to have the mindset and experience that’s needed to get this to market anytime soon.”

Neuralinkbelongs to the category of brain computer interface (BCI) devices that use electrodes to penetrate and rewire the brain. Per the article,no company has ever received final FDA approval (PMA approval) to market a BCI implant such asNeuralink.

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The debt ceiling is merely a marker for the way the warfare and welfare states are bringing this country down. From Jacob G. Hornberger at fff.org:

Statists all across the United States, especially those within the mainstream press, are uncorking their champagne bottles today and celebrating the newest deal that lifts the debt ceiling. Predictably, the political strategy of crying “Default! Default! Default!” succeeded spectacularly, just as it does every time. In fact, it worked so well that this time Congress decided to not even set a new ceiling. Instead, the deal authorizes federal officials to spend and borrow to their heart’s content for the next two years — beyond Election Day 2024, of course.

The people who will pay the price for this deal will be American taxpayers. If you happen to die before the day of reckoning arrives, you’ll escape having to bear the consequences of what…

ByMike Whitney

Global Research, June 03, 2023

First published on Global Research on July 7, 2022

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“The ferocity of the confrontation in Ukraine shows that we’re talking about much more than the fate of the regime in Kiev. The architecture of the entire world order is at stake.”Sergei Naryshkin, Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence.

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Here’s your ‘reserve currency’ thought for the day:Every US dollar is a check written on an account that is overdrawn by 30 trillion dollars.

It’s true. The “full faith and credit” of the US Treasury is largely a myth held together by an institutional framework that rests on a foundation of pure sand. In fact,the USD is not worth the paper it is printed on;it is an IOU flailing in an ocean of red ink.

The only thing keeping the USD from vanishing into the ether…

I, for one, welcome our new flesh eating overlords.

Meanwhile, Florida’s Guv more concerned about the “woke mind virus”.

Activists show, discuss nuclear documentary ‘Atomic Bamboozle’ at Kiggins in Vancouver, Film, panelists warn against return of nuclear power,

ByScott Hewitt, Columbian staff writer, June 2, 2023, https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/jun/02/activists-show-discuss-nuclear-documentary-atomic-bamboozle-at-kiggins-in-vancouver/

Get used to the phrase “small modular nuclear reactor” and its abbreviation, SMR. A global debate about this old-made-new energy idea is already heating up, with big implications for the people and environs of the Pacific Northwest.

SMRs are either the cleaner, safer, cheaper future of nuclear power or the return of the same old bundle of hazards, dressed up in newly attractive camouflage.

“They’re going to make nuclear energy cool again,” said former Trump administration energy secretary Rick Perry (consistently mispronouncing the word “nuclear”) in a news clip featured in the new documentary film “Atomic Bamboozle.”

“Atomic Bamboozle”is the latest in a series of timely, social-issue documentaries directed by Jan Haaken, a retired Portland State University psychology professor…

Nuclear Waste in Pacific Ocean: Japan’s Plan Triggers Controversy

Japan plans to discharge millions of metric tonnes of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. This wastewater has been accumulating since disaster struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011. Japan is running out of storage space for this wastewater, which is why it is desperately trying to dump the waste in the ocean. But Tokyo’s plan is marred with controversy, with physical protests being arranged against it as well. Watch this Vantage report to know more.

In Canada, the Nuclear Waste…

Finnish study showed that breast cancer rates were 1.7 times higher than expected among radiologists, surgeons and cardiologists when compared to female physicians who don’t work with radiation.

Finnish study showed that breast cancer rates were 1.7 times higher than expected among radiologists, surgeons and cardiologists when compared to female physicians who don’t work with radiation.

https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/female-health-care-workers-need-better-protection-from-radiation-doctors-sayJune 2, 2023

London — A group of physicians is calling on health care employers to provide female workers who are exposed to on-the-job radiation with added protections to minimize their risk of breast cancer.

In an editorial recentlypublishedin the journalBMJ, the physicians point out that ionizing radiation is a known human carcinogen, and breast tissue is highly sensitive to radiation. “As such, there are concerns that regular exposure to ionizing radiation during image guided procedures may be linked to a higher risk of breast cancer in female health…

Debt Ceiling Deal Puts No Limits on Ukraine Aidhttps://scheerpost.com/2023/06/02/debt-ceiling-deal-puts-no-limits-on-ukraine-aid/

Emergency spending that has been used to arm Ukraine is exempt and it could also be used to arm Taiwan

June 2, 2023, By Dave DeCamp /Antiwar.com

The debt ceiling agreement reached between the White House and House Republicans places no constraints on spending on the war in Ukraine,a White House official toldBloomberg.

The $113 billion that has been authorized to spend on the war in Ukraine so far was passed as supplemental emergency funds, which is exempt from the spending caps that are part of the debt ceiling deal.

According to theCongressional Budget Office, funding “designated as an emergency requirement or for overseas contingency operations would not be constrained, and certain other funding would not be subject to the caps.” The deal suspends the nation’sdebtlimit through January 1, 2025.

Hawks in Congress are

I know some think I spend too much time writing about the War Department and its stranglehold on the Congress and budget…..maybe so but how else will readers learn what is being done with their money.  (Apparently too many could care less)

After weeks of negotiations the House and Biden come to a deal….the shit show went on and on…..and yet there is NO negotiations on the budget for the War Department. Why?

The debt ceiling agreement reached between the White House and House Republicans that was announced Sunday caps military spending at $886 billion for 2024, matching President Biden’s requested budget.

Republicans negotiating the debt ceiling deal only sought non-military spending cuts. The $886 billion cap for military spending represents about a 3.3% increase from 2023.

The White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) still need to get the debt ceiling agreement passed through Congress. Many hawkish Republicans…

To surmount the debt crisis, America needs to stop feeding the Military-Industrial Complex

By Jeffrey D. Sachs

June 01, 2023:Information Clearing House—In the year 2000, the U.S. government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The U.S. debt is soaring, hence America’s current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are missing the solution: stopping America’s wars of choice and slashing military outlays.

Suppose the government’s debt had remained at a modest 35% of GDP, as in 2000. Today’s debt would be $9 trillion, as opposed to $24 trillion. Why did the U.S. government incur the excess $15 trillion in debt?

The single biggest answer is the U.S. government’s addiction to war and military spending. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, the cost of U.S. wars…

from thefreeonline on 30th May 2023 by RTWorld and The Exposé

Not a single healthy person under age 50 died of Covid-19 in Israel, according to data released by the country’s ministry of health in response to a freedom of information request from lawyer Ori Xabi.

“Why were all the extreme measures of school closures, vaccination of children, and lockdowns needed?” internal medicine specialist Yoav Yehezkelli, a prominent critic of Israel’s Covid-19 policies, asked the Epoch Times.

Facebook admits COVID Vaccines destroy Immune System & cause new form of AIDS ByThe Exposé on•( 1 Comment )Facebook has confirmed that five months’ worth of official Government data does in fact prove Covid-19 vaccination destroys the immune system leading to what can be described as a new form of […]

In addition to requesting the number of Covid-19 deaths that had occurred in patients under 50 with no…

In Starokonstantinov about 250 km southwest of Kiev, a stock of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles at £2,200,000 each is hit, as well as planes supposed to launch them.

from thefreeonline on 30th May 2023 byNicolas Cinquini and South Front at atlanticist-counter-offensive/

While the UK is plunged into poverty not seen for generations the Russophobic Tory Regime has gifted a €1.200,000,000 (FY2011) project of 200 Storm Shadow missiles at a unit cost of £2,200,000 (FY2023) (US$2,700,000)^[1]

On May 29, 2023, Russia is conducting a new wave of strategic strikes all over Ukraine, aimed at military targets on airfields.

The local authorities acknowledged damage to five aircraft and the runway in the region. There is also a fire in the local fuel warehouses and the storage of military materiel.

Thanks to Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian defense minister, who in the euphoria on May 24 of a…

It can happen here. “Here” being any country in which capitalism rules. When does a bourgeois formal democracy tip over into fascism? That is a question that needs an answer in many places, certainly not excepting the United States, which has already experienced a self-coup attempt with unmistakable fascist overtones.

We’re referencing Donald Trump’s attempt at a self-coup, to use the Latin American phrase, in January 2021. Many people, even on the Left, laugh at that day’s events, pointing out that the would-be putsch had no chance of success. It did have no chance of success. That does not mean it should be cavalierly dismissed; on the contrary, it should be taken with utmost seriousness. Hitler’s beer hall putsch of 1923 had no chance of success, either, and his violent movement remained on the lunatic fringe for several more years. But we know how German history would turn out.

There…

Dozens of tanker trucks full of Syrian oil have been smuggled by US occupation troops into their bases in northern Iraq.

On March 25, the US military smuggled at least 80 tanker trucks loaded with hundreds of tons of stolen Syrian oil from the Jazira region to its bases in Iraq.

The tankers left Syria as part of a 148-vehicle convoy that crossed the illegal Al-Walid border crossing early Saturday morning last week.

Among the other vehicles in the U.S. convoy were refrigerated trucks and armored vehicles.

Washington’s latest oil theft operation came just hours after the Conoco and Al-Omar oilfields in northeastern Syria were bombed with missiles and drones in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike on Friday in Deir Ezzor province that killed several people.

The Conoco oil field was hit by more than 15 missiles. Speaking to the Al Jazeera television network, a U.S. official said that one…

On March 20, Romanian Senator Diana Sosoaca introduced a bill rejecting good neighborly relations with the Kiev government and the annexation of part of the Ukrainian territories. The bill amends a 1997 law on Good Neighborliness and Cooperation between Romania and Ukraine.

The bill claims the transfer to Romania of the “historical lands” on the territory of Ukraine: Bukovina, Herta, Bugeacul (Cahul, Bolgrad, Ismail), the historical Maramures and the island of Serpents. The Romanian senator proposes to implement this plan by 2027. “Taking into account the conflict in Ukraine and the fact that the Romanian state finances Ukraine with military equipment and weapons through NATO, as well as the fact that about 3 million Ukrainians have passed through Romania, we ask Ukraine to give us the lands inhabited by our Romanian brothers,” she explained.

Sosoaca denounces that Romanians in Ukraine are discriminated against: “Unfortunately, our Romanian brothers in Ukraine are…

Source: Xinhua, Editor: huaxia, 2023-05-30https://english.news.cn/20230530/5bdd921cc81744ffbcfd0eb7b76dd09b/c.html

GENEVA, May 28 (Xinhua) — A Chinese delegate on Saturday expressed firm opposition to Japan’s unilateral decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated water from Fukushima into the sea, when attending related discussions at the 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) held here.

Given the strong currents along Fukushima’s coast, the radionuclides will spread to waters worldwide in 10 years after a discharge, the delegate said, adding that this move is to shift the risks to all mankind, and is not Japan’s private matter, but a crucial issue affecting global public health.

Noting many countries and stakeholders have expressed serious concerns, the delegate urged Japan not to unilaterally discharge the nuclear-contaminated water before reaching an agreement with all parties.

In response to a Japanese delegate’s defense, the Chinese side said that the defense can be summed up as “the water quality is non-toxic and the discharge is…

It’s hard to fight a war without ammo. From Yves Smith at nakedcapitalism.com:

Even for well-reported 20th century wars, decades later, historians are still seeking to improve our understanding of them. With the Ukraine conflict, we’re in the midst of the unprecedented experience of being able to discern a remarkably high proportion of what is afoot, albeit with a great deal of noise in the signal between aggressive propagandizing and issues of sourcing with various purported close-to-the-action accounts.

But the war has gone at a seemingly slow pace, due to Russia shifting strategy to attrition (rather than trying to force negotiations), the time required to break extremely well-fortified lines (without incurring huge and unnecessary human costs), and Russia choosing to grind down other elements of Ukraine’s military, notably its air defenses. That’s lead commentators to focus on battles and even hot spots on the line of contact, in part…

On Thursday last week, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland stated that Washington has been helping to plan the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia for almost six months.

“Even as you were planning the counteroffensive, which we’ve been working with you on for 4 or 5 months, we were already beginning our conversations with the Ukrainian government and with friends in Kiev – both on the civilian and military side – about the long-term future of Ukraine,” Nuland told the Kiev Security Forum via State Department video conference.

The attack will likely “begin and take place at the same time” as events such as the NATO summit in Lithuania, scheduled for July 11.

Nuland painted a rosy future in which Ukraine would be the “engine of European revitalization” and “a democratic example […] for the whole world.”

The forum was organized by the Open Ukraine Foundation, created…

ByTed Snider

Global Research, May 30, 2023

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On May 3, two slow moving drones flew over the Kremlin and then exploded in flames when the Russian military forced them down. Whether the drone attack was a serious attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s life or not, Moscow perceived it as one,announcingthat “Last night, the Kiev regime attempted a drone strike against the residence of the President of the Russian Federation at the Kremlin. . . . We view these actions as a planned terrorist attack and an assassination attempt targeting the President.”

Western officials were quick to dismiss the dramatic event as a drama event, suggesting…

30 May 2023

Source: Agencies

ByAl Mayadeen English

According to a Russian law enforcement source, the Security Service of Ukraine went after whoever they accused of cooperating with Russia in the region in 2022.

A Russian law enforcement source toldSputnik,on Tuesday, citing sources in the Ukrainian police, that torture chambers were opened, by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in order to elicit testimony from persons who had allegedly “collaborated” with Russian personnel while the city was under Russian control between March and November 2022.

According to the source, the torture chambers were established in two district police offices, Dniprovsky and Komsomolsky.

It was also noted that while the Dniprovsky department employed Ukrainians, the second location, however, was exclusively set for the use of foreign mercenaries who speak only English…

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has now reported on the “Staggering’ rise in climate emergencies in the last 20 years.’ Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS

Indeed, several scientific findings, released ahead of the 2023 World Environment Day (5 June), staggeringly indicate that the world-spread climate carnage is predicted to hit all-time records.

See: global temperatures are set to break records during the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on 17 May 2023 alerted.

Warmest year ever

“There is a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years, and the five-year period, will be the warmest on record.”