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.”

Excellent and balanced analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war and its roots. From Banjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne at harpers.org:

On the dangers of American hubris

From Murmansk in the Arctic to Varna on the Black Sea, the armed camps of NATO and the Russian Federation menace each other across a new Iron Curtain. Unlike the long twilight struggle that characterized the Cold War, the current confrontation is running decidedly hot. As former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of defense Robert Gates acknowledge approvingly, the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia. Thanks to Washington’s efforts to arm and train the Ukrainian military and to integrate it into NATO systems, we are now witnessing the most intense and sustained military entanglement in the near-eighty-year history of global competition between the United States and Russia. Washington’s rocket launchers, missile systems, and drones are destroying Russia’s forces…

“Strikes on this territory are considered by us as an attack on any other region of the Russian Federation.”

ByZero Hedge

Global Research, May 26, 2023

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(ZH)—Russia has issued another stern warning related to further potential Ukrainian attacks on Crimea. “Strikes on this territory are considered by us as an attack on any other region of the Russian Federation. It is important that the United States is fully aware of the Russian response,” Moscow’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov,warnedSunday.

This was in response to an earlier weekend statement by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to CNN. Hesaidwhile speaking from the G7 summit in Japan over the weekend, “we have not placed limitations on…

26 May 2023|Andrew McLaughlin Riotact,

A report prepared for Congress on the US Navy’s Virginia Class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) procurement program has highlighted what issues need to be considered and overcome to allow the transfer of US submarines to Australia.

Under Pillar 1 of the AUKUS construct with the US and UK which was announced by the leaders of all three countries in March, Australia is slated to receive between three and five Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to begin replacing its own Collins Class conventional submarines from 2032.

After this, Australia plans to switch submarine classes and acquire eight SSN-AUKUS submarines under a cooperative program with the UK from 2041……………………………….

The report says Congress needs to consider several factors relating to the legislation, including whether the legislation needs to be considered under the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) or can be deferred, whether the authorisation should be…

ByDr. Binoy Kampmark

Global Research, May 28, 2023

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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.”

Anthony Bourdain,A Cook’s Tour(2002)

If a heavy resume of crimes is a guarantee of longevity, then surely Henry A. Kissinger (HAK, for short), must count as a good specimen. The list of butcheries attributed to his centurion, direct or otherwise, is extensive, his hand in them, finger fat and busy. There were the murderousmeddles in Latin America, the conflicts in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. (The interventions in Laos and Cambodia are said to have left 350,000 Laotians and 600,000 Cambodians dead.) Then came…

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Helpfullist from FDA, found while doing research and organizing my files on:

1. Public Health Emergency (PHE), Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and PREP Act notices, declarations, determinations and authorizations issued by HHS Secretaries and their delegees from Jan. 2020 to the present;
2. Legal advisory opinions about PREP Act liability immunity, issued by the HHS Office of General Counsel from Jan. 2020 to the present; and
3. Guidance to pharmacists about PREP Act liability immunity, issued by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, from Jan. 2020 to the present.

May biochemical weapon uptake rates approach zero in coming months and years, as rational popular response to the truth rendered much more visible since January 2020, and in firm opposition to all “recommendations” of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Biochemical weapons deployed by injection have been…

23 may 2023

Simpsonwood Scandal: How an ‘Absolutely Catastrophic’ Autism Link Was Covered Up by Health Authorities

“Simpsonwood was effectively a highly-secret meeting between representatives of federal agencies and vaccine experts to cover up the fact that they had discovered a highly-significant link between exposure to thimerosal in the hepatitis b vaccine and autism,” shared Andrew Wakefield.

“And they did do a vaxed/unvaxed study, a comparison of those who received a thimerosal-containing vaccine versus those who did not. And there was a sevenfold [7.6] increased risk of autism in those who received the vaccine,” he relayed.

“And what they did then was to fudge the data — to take out the comparison unvaccinated group and to present the data as saying that there is no link between thimerosal and autism,” Wakefield attested.

“But then they went on, obviously, to remove it slowly — recommendations … And it was all done…

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AT-A-GLANCE

• According to a May 11, 2023, report by the British Express, Britons are dying by the tens of thousands, “but no one knows why”
• Between May and December 2022, there were 32,441 excess deaths in England and Wales, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and that doesn’t include COVID-related deaths
• In 2022, the No. 1 cause of excess deaths in the U.K. was signs and symptoms of “ill-defined conditions.” In England, this nebulous cause of death was 36.9% above the five-year average, and in Wales, it was 30.4% above average
• The U.K. was the first European country to approve the Pfizer COVID jab and began its mass injection campaign December 8, 2020. It currently has the highest COVID-19 jab rate in all of Europe
• The misuse of mechanical ventilation created the appearance that COVID was exceptionally deadly, which in turn helped promote acceptance…

That seems to be the answer dollar crisis that the GOP has for the crumbling retirement infrastructure….every time they control something in DC their first reaction is that workers need to retire later than last fiddled with…..

And it is that time again…..GOP is trying to push through another extension on your working ages…..

But is that truly the answer to the looming crisis?

Right-wing lawmakers’ preferred method for dealing with the United States’ looming retirement crisis—telling older workers to keep toiling until they’ve saved enough to stop—is “not a viable solution,” says a report published Wednesday.

“Millions of people are entering their retirement years with insufficient savings to cover basic expenses and medical bills,” the new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) notes. “In response, some policymakers have proposed that older Americans could delay retirement to increase their savings.”

But this ostensible fix “overlooks the large group of…

After a couple of weeks of no progress on the debt ceiling thing the GOP has come up with a plan (they always have a plan that does little to solve the problem…..as usual it will involve benefits for business and of course the inevitable tax cuts.

Here is a look at this ‘plan’…..

With the U.S. careening toward a default crisis that they manufactured, House Republicans are reportedly crafting a major tax cut package that would overwhelmingly benefit the rich and corporations while blowing a multitrillion-dollar hole in the federal deficit.

The fresh push for tax cuts, according to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), further shows that “this hostage crisis has never been about deficits for the GOP.”

“It has always been about wealth transfer—taking away food and healthcare from the poor and middle class to give away $3 trillion more in tax cuts to their rich friends,” Omar, the…

Climate Denial’s perfect singularity.

Why are there so many Globes? Obviously – it’s the Globalists!

Yahoo:

Kandiss Taylor, arecently electedGOP District Chairin Georgia, would like to know why Big Globe won’t stop shovinground-Earth propagandadown our throats.

In an interview with David Weiss (AKA “Flat Earth Dave”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers.”

All…

Gigantic 5,000-mile blanket of rotting seaweed dubbed the ‘red tide’ which is TWICE the length of the US and can be seen from space invades the coast of Florida – as residents report burning eyes and trouble breathing

LINK – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKFM3UzQQY

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Dana Durnford’s Crime: Telling the TRUTH about Nukes

Academics Under the TEPCO Spell ($$$$) 

 Fukushima: Impact Of Fallout On OceansPart 1▐Part 2

An ensemble estimation of impact times and strength of Fukushima nuclear pollution to the east coast of China and the west coast of America
HAN, G. et al., Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg August 2013, Vol.56, No.8: 1447–1451.
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http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2013/08/fukushima-nuclear-pollution-impact-on.html

GE – The Little Engine That Could – – – Destroy Humankind!

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Professor Bhakdi’s real “crime” was warning the world about the safety and efficacy of Covid vaccinations. From 2nd Smartest Guy in the World at 2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com:

This substack has covered Professor Bhakdi on numerous occasions. The man is a bonafide hero in the Medical Freedom Movement.

Dr. Bhakdi says the German government is persecuting him with totally false charges of antisemitism, but he is really being punished for speaking out against the CV19 vax. Early on he told people not to get the CV19 injections. If convicted, Dr. Bhakdi says he faces 5 years in prison. His trial is in 2023.

CV19 Vax Destroys Hearts & Brains of Billions of People – Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi

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October 30, 2022

by Greg Hunter World renowned microbiologist and virologist professor Sucharit Bhakdi MD has won many medical and scientific awards and has more than 300 peer…

Peace and Securityhttps://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136932

The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine lost all external power for several hours on Monday morning, highlighting the urgent need to protect the facility and prevent an accident, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement.

This marked theseventh timethat Europe’s largest nuclear power plant had been completely disconnected from the national electricity grid since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion 15 months ago, the agencysaid, noting that the facility was forced to run on emergency diesel generators once again.

The plant’s only remaining external 750 kilovolt power line had been cut around 5:30am, local time, and re-connected after more than five hours, according toIAEAexperts located at the facility.

‘We’re playing with fire’

Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said the situation demonstrated “the highly vulnerable nuclear safety and security situation” at…

Democracy Now, MAY 22, 2023

The G7 summit wrapped up Sunday in Hiroshima, where much of the summit focused on the war in Ukraine and China. While in Japan, President Biden and other world leaders paid tribute to the victims of the world’s first nuclear attack — the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 — laying wreaths at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and planting a tree.

But President Biden did not issue an apology for the attack, which killed an estimated 140,000 people and seriously injured another 100,000. For more, we speak with Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and devoted her life to nuclear disarmament. In 2017, she was chosen to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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• Nuclear Weapons

Russia’s Deputy head of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a news conference in Vientiane, Laos, May 23, 2023. (Photo by Sputnik)

Russia has warned that supplying more destructive and advanced weapons bythe US and its allies to Ukraine increases the probability of a “nuclear apocalypse.”

Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently serving as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said on Tuesday that “the more weapons are supplied, the more dangerous the world will be,” according toRussian news agencies.

“And the more destructive these weapons are, the more likely the scenario becomes of what is commonly called a nuclear apocalypse,” he warned during a trip to Vietnam.

Russia began what it described as a “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 as part of a national security measure against the persisting eastern advance of the US-led NATO military alliance as well as protecting…