Folks, I did NOT INTEND for a visual connection, linking the first two below audios.
I only realized the dead cat angle, when I googled for “Pet Sematary” images (thinking of the 1989 movie poster zombie/ghost with the head injury), after having recorded the second, longer audio, and deciding to make it the headline piece.
Synchronicity, huh?
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More “Death by cat?”
Please listen:
(Audio file duration: 3:55)
“Afterword”: Come to think of it, it’s POSSIBLE that the Korean cat shelter bought a large quantity of contaminated, chilled/frozen chicken meat, at one time, from one source, then fed it to the cats over a weeks-long period. But, I dunno, who feeds REAL, raw and unprocessed meat to shelter animals? And, in Korea??? (Millions of Koreans still eat dog, at least occasionally, FYI.)
*****LATEST NEWS: Three more suspected H5N1 cases at another cat shelter in Seoul, not clear if alive or dead. Test results may take a few days, supposedly. (I guess testing for a specific strain takes longer than what we’re used to, at the clinic?) FWIW.
Bootlicking the Pet Sematary
One little point of clarification on the below. I understand why the Clinton administration allowed the mega-consolidation of the arms contractors—new orders went downhill in the 1990s, and some of the secondary and tertiary players were not going to survive, otherwise. Well, it is what it is. We are where we are.
(You know, the Clintonistas also (with bipartisan support in Congress) allowed for the mega-consolidation of the banking industry. I’m sure they had a great reason for that, too. Of course, no one ‘fessed up at the time, “Hey, we won the Cold War, so we’re no longer threatened by socialist-revolutionary thinking, or any “other camp” that we need to compete with, that dissidents or the Democrat “hard left” can point to, so why not let our campaign donors, finally, LIVE IT UP?”)
Please listen:
(Audio file duration: 7:21)
Scott Ritter
Folks, it’s GUARANTEED that Scott Ritter is under FISA surveillance. If (again, if) he’s not registered as a foreign agent under FARA, “they” have probably more or less built a “case” already. In which case, they’re just letting it go on for longer, to put him away for longer.
Bottom line, as per the below audio:
“This is not a prediction, but if anybody in the geopolitical dissident camp is going to have any kind of legal problems first, the first one is going to be Scott Ritter.”
Please listen:
(Audio file duration: 3:18)
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Re: What’s wrong with Kissinger?
The ‘issue’ with Kissinger is that he doesn’t belong in that line. He belongs to the globalist faction, the others to the US-hegemonic one. (Kissinger was and is still a subject of global politics). Different goals, partly similar actions, because the imperialists have cribbed some tools from the globalists. For us, the world population, both concepts are unacceptable.
That resurrected cat from Pet Sematary comparison is good, except the USA didn’t visibly die and go to the Pet Sematary. It’s more like something started slowly turning it into a zombie about the time the USSR collapsed and the first Iraq war ended. That was when the US establishment declared the victory of Democracy over the entirety of human history. Some people smelled something off during the ’90s because you could see that Washington was meddling in things around the world purely out of a sense of outrage (e.g., Somalia). Somalia ’93 was the first of the Globohomo Wars if you think about it. How dare some people fight a bitter tribal conflict right after Democracy won History once and for all? More people noticed things smelled off after 9/11 and when the second Iraq war started. That said it’s really the decade after 2008 with the financial crash combined with the rise of social media (greatest Globohomo asset ever!) where everyone started to notice something in America was really starting to stink. Too bad your baby sitter is almost certainly too young to have seen the transition or to truly understand what it means.
Great comment…. but she’s at least 20 years older than I am. Retirement age. She’s been fully Ukrainized.
On the subject of Gonazalo Lira which came up in this discussion – looks like he’s on his way out of Ukraine and looking to go to Hungary.
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140626348257280
He’s got something coming up on Youtube in half an hour (at time of posting).
The consolidation isn’t the problem. After all, the Russian MIC is consolidated too, but the difference is – as you pointed out in an earlier comment – its purpose is to ensure the survival of the Russian State.
Ours otoh is run for profit. Although it’s not clear what that even means anymore if the Fed can make trillions of dollars appear out of nowhere.
Not saying he wouldn’t screw up anyway but I recall an interview of RItter that had to have been a year or so ago where he said he knew his phones were tapped. Whether he was careful even with that knowledge I dunno. I don’t know the man but I do seem to get the idea he sure doesn’t trust his former masters. Hopefully he has been cautious. I would also assume he has an attorney he has run some things by………or hope so.
Regarding that incident with the online trolling stuff……man, thats getting to be a LONG time ago and the man did the time they gave him and the “offense” was pretty fucking modest if non existent in todays clown world, plus the matter is supposedly under appeal. Time to let the man slide for that in a world where ‘chest feeding” has become acceptable. And for having his career pretty much getting shit canned for telling Congress the truth about there being no “WMDs” in Iraq……..well if that kind of treatment by those you swore an oath to regarding protecting the Constitution wouldn’t drive somebody to behaving “uniquely”, then I don’t know what would
Scott Ritter might have a late night swim after a few beers in his future! Now totally off topic, thanks for all the video and photo dumps, a tremendous amount of work. I’ve largely avoided the war porn, I got into a few little scrapes in Afghanistan and can only imagine the hell all those poor bastards are going through. Great work as usual the audio files are great!
You’re not the only one among the clued-in regarding concern for a Bird Flu outbreak soon. I just watched this video presentation earlier today. She did a great job of breaking down the threat. She’s a European scientist, not sure which country. Most likely Germany. Speaks English well though, and doesn’t espouse a political viewpoint.
One thing she mentioned was an outbreak at a Mink farm in Spain. Yikes! This virus is definitely feeling more at home in mammals.
Sabine Hossenfelder:
“I looked at the recent bird flu data, and now I’m really scared”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALduFqONN58
20:55 long. Has time stamps. Uploaded 2 months ago.
Scott Ritter is a rather rare type combining a (credible) history of “doing things” with a certain amount of childish fantasy chasing mentality. Can easily imagine him walking around with a bunch of those Dungeons and Dragons dices. I read his book about the US- Soviet disarment pact, and his part in it (for which he still carry the weired title of “inspector” when being hosted), and could read between the lines (by his own admissions) he is sort of a low level organizational gambler and troll. I do not think he is too effective in his latest job. He is mainly playing in a narrow niche a certain crowd has demand for: he is war lover pretending to be a peace fighter. Fanatic American old fashion patriot posing as a “moderate universal observer”. He makes, sometimes, great observations but those tend to be noticed only because the market is short of critical thinking English speaking commentators. It would be stupid of the US federal political outfit to go after him. He is controllable and manageable by his own weaknesses and faults.
Yes, well said, there’s no sense in going after him right now. He is completely unknown to the general public. They might as well just continue to spy on him and his contacts. As I said, his legal problems (if any) wouldn’t start until the Ukraine saga is obviously closing, and they decide that it’s time to tie up the loose ends, and hammer who they can hammer, before moving on to the next big thing.
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Putin should be nominated for a Nobel prize in medicine – the moment that the tanks went into Ukraine, the Wuhan Coronoavirus ceased being the world-ending threat that they had been hanging over our heads for over two years and the Ukrainian Flag emojis started to edge out the syringes and mask emojis in Twitter bios.
If there is a new nasty flu variant going around, I’m sure that the establishment will choose to hype it at a time that suits them and that can be most effectively used to further their agenda. For now they problably don’t want to divert public focus away from the glorious Ukrainian struggle for freedom and democracy .. but things will likely rapidly change as facts of the ground can’t be covered up any more. Then we will start to hear about it in the media, A LOT.
After all, they ignored the coof until around March 2020 before doing a 180, presumably after they’d came up with a plan to exploit it fully to push their Agenda 2030 forwards. They pretended it didn’t obviously come from a lab in Wuhan until very recently – because they want to put pressure on China.
Yes, a lot of “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia” going on, the last few years.
As I’ve said for 17 months, they will discard the Ukraine “like a used condom.” Now, even the GODDAMN ZOMBIES are sensing it.
(Can I get an “amen”?)
When it happens, the hate and hysteria will be re-directed internally, and it will be vicious and even violent. There’s no other way, they have to top the last act, keep the game going.
And, if (again, if) the next pandemic hits in 2024… bar the door. Every “red” state or county that refuses to enforce extreme lockdowns, or accept the next nationwide eviction moratorium or whatever, will be deemed an insurrectionist. They’d paint an insurrection so well, it would probably become one.
Yes, I am talking serious ugliness. I have a vision of them sending a Federal SWAT team to try to arrest some state official who’s not playing ball. Let’s see how that goes over in, say, Texas. It wouldn’t be quite the army chaos passage from Stephen King’s The Stand, but it would be close enough.
And, the China war won’t be ready until 2025 or later (or, perhaps never, depending on how 2024 goes.) They have to fill the gap somehow.
Looks like Scott Ritter is suffering from Trump syndrome… doing things against the established power structure without carefully considering the consequences. Not all that dissiimilar. Both started with “wanting to help” (Ritter to a greater extent probably), but with popularity comes a false shield of protection and arrogance. Ask Gonzalo Lira how it turns out.. that guy is probably in a “it puts the lotion in the basket” scenario.
Hahahaha LOL. Yes, no other explanation for what Lira was thinking. Now he can sit out the war in “solitary.”
Yes, it’s a different country. For starters, all the laws and regulations that were implemented to protect the middle class and consumers (including consumers of news) against monopolies have been slowly rolled back.
A story along the lines of how much our country has changed. I’m 59 years old. When Trump was running for President in 2016, my then 17 year old daughter questioned me about the slogan “Make America Great Again”. She was confused and asked me, “Dad, aren’t we great now? What is he talking about”. Unfortunately, I don’t think I was successful in conveying how massively different our country is today from the 90’s or the even more so from each preceding decade.
I’d wager that you’re right about Ritter’s future. He made so many wrong calls about UA-RU that I stopped paying attention to him but, that said, I respect his willingness to openly question the regime. You’re likely right that he’s too much of a loose cannon but, based on the little that I’ve read about his legal troubles, it seems that he was caught in a honey trap triggered by someone higher up the food chain than the local police. Given how outspoken he was about the Iraq WMD, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was, at a minimum, something gently suggested by someone at the federal level. Regardless, the subsequent charges related to online solicitation of a minor (or whatever it was) and his plea bargain certainly provided the regime media with a convenient excuse to dismiss everything he said thereafter with an ad hominem smear.
Anyway, you’re a smart guy, you’re being careful and perhaps your profile is still obscure enough that maybe you won’t catch the attention of a state apparatchik with a grudge or some Mirotvorets crazy. However, your truth-telling and acerbic style are certainly such that it would piss off such people. Between your Russian language skills and, I gather, your unique connections to sources for your material (even if it’s technically in the public domain), all the megabytes of war porn might be pushing it.
As you know, the system is fine if you’re simply enjoying Chipotle and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee while driving your kid to swim practice and, to a point, exercising your First Amendment right to publicly criticize the regime. Given how corrupt things are now though, it’s hard to say where the regime draws the line that they won’t let you cross.
All that to say, I’d hate to lose your analysis and commentary. Thanks for all you do.
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Hi Jacob, Finland and Norway are currently battling a fast spreading bird flu. Whether the feline deaths and these bird flu outbreaks are linked is anyone’s guess. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-finland-battle-rapid-spread-bird-flu-2023-07-28/
Hello! Yes, birds are now dying by the millions in parts of northern Europe (Scandinavia and Scotland and perhaps northern Ireland as well as north England.) At the same time, they are getting a big break now in the USA, it’s pretty much subsided here. So, it’s hard to judge the significance. I focus exclusively on spread to mammals.
I go wondering how/if 90s DNC foresaw how giant corporations would fit so well with socialist, more authoritarian dynamic?
At that time they also handed over the whole shop to China. Yet now they hype confrontation with China.
Foresight or fumbling?
Ritter is definitely low-hanging fruit.
Purges are as American as apple pie. The Palmer raids of the twenties, the black listings in the fifties, the suppression of the anti war movements in the sixties, etc. Meanwhile, the actual monsters – the Kissingers, Perles, Wolfowitzs, Abrams, Nulands – feast off the largess of the hegemonic elites.
What’s the problem with Kissinger? He’s been more or less retired since before I was born. Lately, he’s been a relative (again, relative) voice of reason. An inconstant one, evidently subject to “peer pressure”, but nonetheless. How many of such are there, who have his experience?
Thanks for the cat update.Human nature being what it is,one can imagine a pet shelter being reluctant to go to the authorities until the outbreak is too far gone to ignore /hide. Which increases the chance of it spreading. When i read about it in my local media it will be too late & one of Mr D’s virus scenarios is up & running .