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A set of international codes are used by the medical industry for billing purposes under Medicare-Medicaid and the private insurance companies, but it's not just about billing.
These codes are part of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) system set forth by the United Nations World Health Organization and they're about to get far more invasive.
This system was originally created after World War II for the purpose of tracking the diagnosis of major diseases within a population. But over the years, there have been 11 major revisions, and with each revision the data being collected on each individual has become more precise and all-inclusive.
More than 1.6 million clinical situations can now be coded, according to the WHO website.
And it's also become more coercive, to the point where it's become impossible for doctors to get reimbursed by insurance companies if they don't upload all the requested data points.
"People underestimate how much resistance to imperial edicts out of DC there is, they underestimate how many people are waiting for the fall, but they also misunderstand that this resistance is taking a muscular but passive form." — Deep South SR on TwitterOf course, the "Joe Biden" classified document scandal is less about the documents per se than it is about the Biden family business, which was accepting large sums of money from shady foreign interests for unspecified services rendered. "Joe Biden," the brand, is owned, perhaps to the degree that he can be called "a sell-out." Selling out your country is kind of serious.
For instance, our country is right now deeply involved in a war between a Biden family client, Ukraine, and its angry relative, Russia. The USA has pumped more than $100-billion into Ukraine just this past year. That's quite a return-on-investment for the million or so Hunter Biden grifted out of the Burisma gas company. It is alleged that Ukraine has operated as a gigantic international money laundry, especially since our State Department and Intel Community overthrew Ukraine's government in 2014 and put in a series of errand boys.
"Unelected lifers in the Federal agencies make the biggest decisions in American government and crush anyone who tries to rein them in."
Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin has denounced former US national security adviser John Bolton as a would-be "colonial governor" whose attempts to interfere in Turkish democracy are doomed to fail. Bolton had proposed threatening Turkey with expulsion from NATO in a piece published by the Wall Street Journal.
Kalin tweeted:
"Bolton, who previously admitted that he supported coups, called on NATO to intervene in the elections in Türkiye. It is a futile effort to try to take the democratic will of the Turkish nation under tutelage. Gone are the days when you played colonial governor."The Turkish-language tweet also linked to Bolton's op-ed in the WSJ, published on Tuesday, in which the hawkish Republican advised NATO to "put Ankara's membership on the chopping block" as a way to influence the Turkish elections.
Comment: Neocon warmonger John Bolton: One of the most despicable and sour creeps to ever invade politics.
To save themselves, they are begging their counterparts in Washington, DC, to find a way to lose the war in the Ukraine as quickly as possible without losing the US empire in Germany. This means overruling or replacing, not only Vladimir Zelensky's regime in Kiev but also the Green Party ministers in power in Berlin, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, and maybe Chancellor Olaf Scholz to boot.
The Wehrmacht plotter this time is a retired brigadier general named Erich Vad (lead image, right). As German military officers go, he's unusual. He was trained by a German-born Israeli infantry general turned academic. Vad then reached general's rank, according to a senior German politician, but "never led a battalion, never led a brigade, and was never deployed in active operations"; he is a "desk general".

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a House Rules and Manual book during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 27, 2020.
House Republicans have officially ended the practice of proxy voting, which was established during the COVID-19 pandemic to permit lawmakers to vote without being present in-person.
"No more proxy voting," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced Thursday. "Effective immediately, Members of Congress have to show up to work if they want their vote to count."
Proxy voting was established by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in May 2020 to allow Congress to operate under COVID-19 pandemic protocols. Instead of showing up for votes, a member of Congress could submit a letter to have a colleague announce their position on bills and amendments and even cast votes in their name.

Members of the Islamic State (IS) group stand alongside their weapons, following their surrender to Afghanistan's government.
The US has been reaching out to armed groups that oppose the Taliban and secretly giving money to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Zamir Kabulov, Russia's presidential envoy for Afghanistan, has said.
When asked if the US is in contact with the Afghan opposition in an interview with Russia 24 TV on Friday, Kabulov said, "Yes, there is such data."
The Americans have been acting this way "because they really want to avenge their shameful military-political defeat in Afghanistan, and in retaliation they do everything so that peace isn't established in this troubled land," he claimed.
"But worst of all is that, in addition to contacts with the armed opposition in Afghanistan, the Anglo-Saxons are covertly sponsoring Islamic State, who are aimed at undermining not only the stability of our Central Asian partners... but also the security of Russia," Kabulov added.
Comment: See also:
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- VIDEO: U.S. fighting alongside ISIS, playing both sides of the conflict
- Russia defeated ISIS in Syria so what was the US doing?
- US gives ISIS 45 minute warning before dropping bombs, then claims low target destruction numbers are due to "running out of ammo"
Kireev was killed on March 2 last year. His body was dumped on a Kiev sidewalk "with a bullet hole in the back of the skull," according to the WSJ. Ukrainian media reported at the time that the country's security service, the SBU, had "clear" evidence Kireev had committed high treason. The military intelligence, however, said he "died protecting Ukraine."

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia.
Despite this, Russia and Türkiye didn't break off ties. Amidst conflicts in Syria, the Caucasus, and Ukraine, both sides resorted to compromise and continued holding a constructive, mutually beneficial dialogue. In this article, Russian turkologists explore how Moscow's former enemy and one of NATO's oldest member states became one of Russia's most stable partners.
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FILE PHOTO: President of the European Council Charles Michel. European Council President Charles Michel concedes there's a divide between Kiev and Brussels on sanctions.
"Each debate on sanctions is much more difficult than the previous one," Michel told reporters, as quoted by Bloomberg. "We have good debates with President Zelensky, and I will brief my colleagues on what are the Ukrainian proposals and we will consult. I'm confident we will be able to strengthen the pressure on the Kremlin."
Comment: Davos supports increasing compliance via digital tracking: Welcome to the global petri dish. Full compliance is mandatory - resistance is futile.