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Threatened Normals,
Anything "President Biden" says is deniable by Washington, and can be considered a trial-balloon to evaluate responses. Moon of Alabama (Germany) NATO and Ukraine both believe that the Russian forces, even after receiving the 300,000 mobilized troops, will not be able to defeat Ukraine. This inability to achieve the desired objectives, they believe, will compel Russia to resort to the use of tactical nuclear weapons on Ukrainian targets in order to break the will to resist on the part of the Zelensky government.
The reality, however, is that Russian nuclear doctrine does not allow for such a scenario. Indeed, there are only two conditions where Russian nuclear doctrine permits the employment of nuclear weapons.
No 1. “[I]n response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies,” the 2020 Russian Nuclear Posture document states, or
No 2. “in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy.” U.S. nuclear posture, however, does allow it.
All the war mongering talk and reports about Russia's alleged threat of nuclear weapon use in Ukraine is totally unfounded. That 'western' media suddenly engage in it shows that it is part of a well directed propaganda campaign.
Meanwhile the Ukrainian comedian has called for 'preemptive' nuclear strikes on Russia:
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that "NATO should make it impossible for Russia to use nuclear weapons."
"Preemptive strikes are needed so that they know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons. Not the other way around, waiting for Russia's nuclear strikes and then saying, 'oh, you've done that, then get this,'" he said on Thursday, speaking via video link at Australia's think tank, the Lowy Institute...
..One ..must ask what this propaganda campaign about a non existing threat is really about. Could it be in preparation of a false flag incident in which a U.S or British nuclear device is used in Ukraine to then blame it on Russia as the pretext of an all out military engagement in Ukraine?
Setting off a tactical nuclear weapon as a pretext for a direct US and Polish military incursion into Western Ukraine - perhaps to preserve a Ukrainian rump state there, in the event that Kiev looks likely to fall somewhere down the line in the conflict.
False flags and/or WMDs are after all the indisputable standard US MO and playbook for pretexts for military action from the Spanish American War, to Vietnam, to Iraq, to Syria.
The Pentagon has been openly and proudly developing and deploying what they call “more usable” battlefield nuclear weapons, specifically for use against Russia and China. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/bidens-fearmonges-about-a-russian-nuclear-threat-that-no-one-has-made.html#more
Denied: "After President Biden's ultra-alarmist nuclear "Armageddon" statements related to the war in Ukraine given at a fundraiser in New York City Thursday night, naturally the first question to arise was whether his assessment is based in any clear evidence or observed heightened nuclear posture coming out of Russia. US intelligence has answered...
On Friday CNN cited multiple unnamed US intelligence officials to say "The US still has seen no evidence that Putin is moving toward using Russia’s nuclear capability, nor is there any intelligence showing he’s decided to do so." https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-nuclear-armageddon-statements-not-based-any-evidence-us-intelligence
John Helmer at Dances With Bears explains the position now taken by Polish president Andrezej Duda, welcoming US nuclear weapons into Poland, 12 minutes from Moscow. It is speculated that this may already be the case.http://johnhelmer.net/poland-escalates-war-in-europe-with-nuclear-bomb-threat-to-kremlin/#more-68989 Biden’s Secret Promise To OPEC Backfires
In 2020, Democrats blocked Trump's proposal to buy American oil at $24 a barrel. Yesterday, a Biden official disclosed a secret offer to buy OPEC+ oil at $80 a barrel. The confusion around the Biden administration’s petroleum policy was cleared up yesterday after a senior official revealed that the White House had made a secret offer to buy up to 200 million barrels of OPEC+ oil to replenish the SPR in exchange for OPEC+ not cutting oil production. The official said the White House wanted to reassure OPEC+ that the US “won’t leave them hanging dry.”
Eleni sent this article from David Chu, Love Letter to Ireland, in which he makes a very strong case that the Irish external debt per capita of about $600,000(US) is unserviceable as interest rates rise. It is by far the highest in the world. He foresees the Irish being completely taken again, but what remains?Perhaps the more salient point he makes is that the US Fed is faced with a situation similar to early 1980 when the US Treasury bond market briefly went buyerless, similar to what just flashed in the UK "gilt" market. This is set to happen again, and is the reason that the Fed is raising rates sharply. If the Fed does not raise rates sharply enough to keep buyers interested, the western government-debt Ponzi scheme will collapse. No funding for governments. https://www.unz.com/article/love-letter-to-ireland/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=article
Charles Hugh Smith: We Blew It: Malinvestment and the Plundering of Productive Assets We blew it: rather than investing in a sustainable mix of energy and in increasing the productivity of labor and industrial processes, we squandered irreplaceable oceans of capital and credit in oh-so profitable skims and scams such as $10 trillion in stock buybacks and completely unproductive speculative absurdities.
All the capital that was malinvested in shifting production overseas, financial scheming and speculation cannot be replaced. All the credit that was squandered on skims and scams (borrow billions to fund stock buybacks, borrow trillions to reward cronies and buy the complicity of the masses) is now an unstable toxic dump that threatens a financial system that is now the crumbling keystone of the entire global economy. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/10/we-blew-it-malinvestment-and-plundering.html
Michael Hudson : A Roadmap to Escape the West’s Stranglehold (excerpts)
“Any idea of a common currency has to start with a currency-swap arrangement among existing member countries. Most trade will be in their own currencies. But to settle the inevitable imbalances (balance-of-payments surpluses and deficits), an artificial currency will be created by a new Central Bank...
..But unlike the IMF’s SDR system, the aim of this new alternative Central Bank will not be simply to subsidize economic polarization and indebtedness. Keynes proposed a principle that if a country (he was thinking of the United States at the time) ran chronic surpluses, that would be a sign of its protectionism or refusal to support a mutually resilient economy, and its claims would begin to be extinguished, along with the bancor debts of countries whose economies prevented their ability to balance their international payments and support their currency...
..In a meeting to create such a bank, China would be in a similar dominant position to that which the United States enjoyed in 1944 at Bretton Woods. But its operating philosophy would be quite different. The aim would be to develop the economies of bank members, with long-term planning or trade patterns that seem most appropriate for their economies to avoid the kind of dependency relationships and privatization takeovers that have characterized IMF and World Bank policy.
..These development objectives would involve land reform, industrial and financial restructuring, and tax reform, as well as domestic banking and credit reforms. Discussions at the SCO meetings seem to have prepared the ground for establishing a general harmony of interests in creating reforms along these lines.”...
..“It is unlikely that German industrialists will act to prevent their country’s de-industrialization, given the US/NATO stranglehold on Eurozone politics and the past 75 years of political meddling by US officials. German company heads are more likely to try and survive with as much personal and corporate wealth intact as they can in the wake of Germany being turned into a Baltic-state-type economic wreckage.
There already has been talk of shifting production – and management – to the United States, which will block Germany from obtaining energy, metals and other essential materials from any supplier not controlled by US interests and their allies...
..“A year or two ago it seemed that the task of designing a full-fledged alternative world currency, monetary, credit and trading system was so complex that the details hardly could be thought through. But US sanctions have proved to be the needed catalyst to make such discussions pragmatically urgent.
The confiscation of Venezuela’s gold reserves in London and its US investments, the confiscation of $300 billion of Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves held in the United States and Europe, and its threat to do the same to China and other countries resisting US foreign policy has made de-dollarization urgent..
..Holding securities denominated in dollars, and even holding gold or investments in the United States and Europe, is no longer a safe option. It is clear that the world is breaking into two quite different types of economies, and that US diplomats and their European satellites are willing to tear up the existing economic order in hopes that creating a disruptive crisis will enable themselves to come out on top...
..It also is clear that subjugation to the IMF and its austerity plans are economic suicide...
..The only alternative to imposing economic austerity on themselves is to withdraw from the dollar trap in which US-sponsored “free market” economics... The break will be difficult, and US diplomacy will do everything it can to disrupt the creation of a more resilient economic order. But US policy has created a global state of dependency in which literally there is no alternative but to break away.”.....The ultimate problem is that the only way Germany can restore trade with Russia is to withdraw from NATO, realizing that it is the major victim of NATO’s war. This could only succeed by spreading to Italy, and also to Greece (for not protecting it against Turkey, ever since Cyprus). That looks like a long fight.
Maybe it’s easier just for German industry to pack up and move to Russia to help modernize its industrial production, especially BASF for chemistry, Siemens for engineering, etc.. If German companies relocate to the US to get gas, this will be perceived as a US raid on German industry, capturing its lead for the US. Even so, this won’t succeed, given America’s post-industrialized economy.
So German industry can only move eastward if it creates its own political party as a nationalistic anti-NATO party. The EU constitution would require Germany to withdraw from the EU, which puts NATO interests first at the federal level. The next scenario is to discuss Germany’s entry into the SCO. Let’s take bets as to how long that will take.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/michael-hudson-roadmap-escape-west-stranglehold/5795636
Marcus Guest, a Briton who lives and works in Moscow, draws on Sun Tzu's classic military philosophical text, The Art Of War, to explain The Eastern Approach To Strategy. This is excellent work and a most digestible bite-size. https://marcusguest.medium.com/the-eastern-approach-to-strategy-420e1bbf7056
Meryl Nass MD points out that Kaiser Permanente just rediscovered that after 5 months the COVID-vaccinated are increasingly more likely to catch COVID than the unvaccinated. Nobody speaks of the 14-day period following vaccination, when they are much-more-likely to catch COVID than the unvaccinated. It is worse after 3 shots then after 2 shots. Negative vaccine efficacy keeps rearing its ugly head. Now Kaiser admits it.
CDC confirms USA suffered 338x increase in reports of AIDS-associated Diseases & Cancers in 2021 following COVID 'Vaccine' roll-out Official data made available by the U.S. Government and Centers for Disease Control strongly suggests that fully vaccinated Americans may be developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or a similar disease that is decimating the innate immune system.
But they are not alone, because further data made available by the UK Government and the Government of Canada suggests the vaccinated population in both of these respective countries are also developing the debilitating condition.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans sought medical care after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released on Oct. 3. Some 782,900 people reported seeking medical attention, emergency room care, and/or hospitalization following COVID-19 vaccination. Another 2.5 million people reported needing to miss school, work, or other normal activities as a result of a health event after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
The reports were made to the CDC’s V-safe program, a new vaccine safety monitoring system to which users can report issues through smartphones. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hundreds-thousands-americans-sought-medical-care-after-covid-19-vaccination-cdc-data
U.S. Buying $290M Worth of Anti-Radiation Drugs for Use in 'Nuclear Emergency' (If you need this drug, you got bad internal radiation burns.)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is purchasing a supply of the drug Nplate from Amgen USA Inc; Nplate is approved to treat blood cell injuries that accompany acute radiation syndrome in adult and pediatric patients (ARS).
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63385
Grateful for Health (pictured with working kitchen sink)
Great old quote: "The first casualty of War is Truth." Your kitchen remodel is looking good!
Russian nuclear doctorine #3 First strike will be at Israel, the Neocon home base.