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From Beyond the Trees in the Other Forest (CTH):

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According to the infographic by Statista, US financial support for Ukraine has already exceeded the annual amount of US military spending on the war in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010.

Take into account the numbers for Ukraine doesn't include costs for weapons & military equipment pic.twitter.com/mI728d1k0S— Trollstoy (@Trollstoy88) February 24, 2023

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joe123

A Major News Service Finally Covered the Epidemic of Sudden Deaths

“Ed Dowd was recently interviewed by Tucker Carlson (see below) about his book “Cause Unknown,” which I previously reviewed on Christmas Eve. Since the time that article was written, public opinion has continued to turn against the COVID-19 vaccines and more and more people are recognizing there is a wave of sudden deaths sweeping through the country (presently around half of America believes the vaccines are causing a wave of sudden deaths).”

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/a-major-news-service-is-finally-covering?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748806&post_id=104871017&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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Aggiegirl

I came across this one and found it interesting….

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-drugmakers-akorn-abrupt-closure-investigation

They apparently did not file the required notice for mass lay offs….They are in New Jersey, New York and ….Switzerland.

layoffs in IL……bankruptcy and no buyer. I think chapter 11 here gives them an additional 60 days…I imagine, potential buyers will show up for the fire sale?

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My neighbor told me a couple of days ago that her son and his wife were just laid off from Akorn in Decatur Illinois last week. They told her they had watched the Project Veritas news about Akorn but never dreamed the plant would be shut down and everyone let go. From what I was told the plant had 4,000 people working there.

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California Joe

DISARMING UKRAINE: From Moon of Alabama today.

The military of Russia has launched an operation to disarm, and possibly regime change, the Ukraine. I understand why Russia is doing this – it is either attack now or defend itself later with way more casualties and the danger of total defeat.

I had hoped though that it would find other methods to protect Russia from further NATO aggression. In 2014 the U.S. instigated regime change in Kiev and has since controlled the Ukrainian government. It has build up the Ukraine as a base to strangle Russia economically and militarily.

During the last two centuries Russia had to defend itself, with horrific casualties, against two huge invasions from the west. It is understandable that it does not want to repeat that experience. It is difficult to discern what the planed end state of this operation is. Where is this going to stop?

The most advantageous end state for Russia would be the creation of a new independent country, call it Novorussiya, on the land east of the Dnieper and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population and that, in 1922, had been attached to the Ukraine by Lenin. That state would be politically, culturally and militarily aligned with Russia.

This would eliminate Ukrainian access to the Black Sea and create a land bridge towards the Moldavian breakaway Transnistria which is under Russian protection.

The yellow part of that map marked ‘Ukraine in 1654’ was actually the land of the Eastern Orthodox Zaporozhian Cossacks. Under threat from the Catholic Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth, which at the time held the green parts under serfdom, they negotiated the Pereiaslav Agreement (1654) with Russia and pledged allegiance to the Tsar. They area thus became an autonomous part of Russia.

The rest of the Ukraine would be a land confined, mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon. Politically it would be dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union.

Thanks to Stalin’s additions to the Ukraine three countries, Poland, Hungary and Romania, have claims to certain areas in the Ukraine’s western regions. If they want to snatch those up again it is now probably the best time to do so. Despite being part of NATO, which likely would not support such moves, those three will have domestic policy difficulties to withstand the urge.

I hope for a sharp but short fight which destroys the Ukraine’s military capabilities but causes as little casualties and other damages as possible.

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Belle

The news is so very dark and frightening, but I do try to see humor in some things going on.

The EU and US froze Russian assets, supposedly totaling $300 billion. The EU wants to take steal any interest on those assets to send to Ukraine, while not touching the principal. However, the EU is frustrated because they can find only a relatively small percentage – about $36 billion. (Russia cannot withdraw assets because the money would have to go through the Swift system which would alert the West to asset location, but assets the US and EU can’t get information about can’t be touched.)

Today, Bloomberg has an article telling that Russia also froze assets of Western companies and any interest that accrues to those assets. These amount to approximately $150 billion, but it is hard to know because some companies don’t want to admit to the amount of their investment or even that they have had investments in Russia. So, some of those investors are really hacked – BlackRock, J. P. Morgan Chase, and other big names in international finance – and are frustrated.

Maybe these companies can push Biden to seek peace for their bottom line….LOL!

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California Joe

Prof Jeffrey Sachs Addresses the UN Security Council on Destruction of the Nordstream Pipelines. US Denies Guilt Says Sachs is Distracting Russian Agression in Ukraine:

Jeffrey D. Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, also briefed delegates, noting that the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines required a very high degree of planning, expertise and technological capacity. Only a handful of State-level actors have both the technical capacity and the access to the Baltic Sea needed to have carried out such an attack. Describing himself as a specialist in the global economy and emphasizing that he represents no Government or organization in his testimony, he said a recent article in the Washington bnew outlet revealed that the intelligence agencies of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries have privately concluded that there is no evidence that the Russian Federation carried out the attack.

He said a detailed account of the Nord Stream destruction by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh attributes the pipeline destruction to a decision ordered by United States President Joe Biden and carried out by United States agents in a covert operation. President Biden’s Administration has responded by characterizing Hersh’s account as “completely and utterly false”, he added. Against that complex backdrop, he urged the Council to require Denmark, Germany and Sweden to submit to it the results of their ongoing investigations of the Nord Stream incidents.

Also briefing today was Ray McGovern, a political activist, who said his remarks are in his personal capacity and reflect his 27-year-long career as an information analyst in the United States intelligence community. Referring to the article published by Seymour Hersh — who often attracts whistle-blowers because of his perfect record of protecting their identities and accurately publishing what they reveal — he said those attempting to smear Mr. Hersh themselves lack a strong record of credibility. He also shared his views on the broader geopolitical landscape, referencing events from past decades and threats facing the planet today.

As Council members took the floor, the representative of the Russian Federation said his delegation convened today’s meeting because Seymour Hersh’s investigation, released on 8 February, showed that the United States executed the Nord Stream sabotage with the help of a NATO ally — a use of force not in line with the aims of the United Nations. His delegation has proposed a draft resolution asking the Secretary-General to set up an independent, international investigation to verify the facts put forward by Mr. Hersh and other journalists. Detailing his doubts about the impartiality of the investigations now being carried out, he said the Russian Federation’s appeals to be involved in those probes have been hypocritically ignored.

The representative of the United States said today’s meeting is a blatant attempt by the Russian Federation to distract from the impact of its illegal and full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which will be deliberated on by the General Assembly later this week. This is not the first time that Moscow has used its seat on the Council to amplify conspiracy theories from the Internet, he pointed out, stressing that accusations that the United States was involved in the act of sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines are completely false.

https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15206.doc.htm

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