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I reached out to Peter Breggin and his wife immediately after their review was published, proposing to have a constructive public or private conversation about their review. It is about two months later now, and it seems that they refuse to accept my invitation. That's why I will respond here.
This seems to be their core criticism: that I argue there was no intentional manipulation at work in the crisis, and no conspiracy — only a spontaneously-emerging mass formation from the population itself. For Breggin and Breggin, that means I am blaming the victims (the population) and psychiatrically labeling anyone who thinks there was, in fact, conspiracy at play.
It is correct that in my book, I describe the societal dynamics of the corona crisis as an emergent phenomenon, driven by a certain narrative of man and the world — the mechanistic-rationalist-materialist ideology — which created a certain elite and put the population in a certain state that made it vulnerable to mass formation. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism and numerous podcasts, I describe that mass-formation can emerge in a more or less spontaneous way (as happened in the first stages of Nazism in Germany) or that it can be artificially provoked through indoctrination and propaganda (as in the former Soviet Union). In this process, both the elite and the population itself shoulder responsibility — the first because they actively manipulate the population and the second because they prefer to stay blind and, ultimately, commit atrocities towards those who don't join them.
© Sputnik / Konstantin MikhalchevskyZaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Energodar, Ukraine.
Washington has been supplying Kiev with crucial intelligence to designate targets for shelling around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the head of Russia's Security Council Nikolay Patrushev has claimed.
Speaking at a security meeting on Monday, Patrushev said there was a "serious threat" to radiation safety posed by Kiev's shelling. He claimed that attacks near the plant are carried out using NATO-supplied weapons while Washington was supplying Ukraine's forces with the targets.
The security official noted that the continued attacks on the ZNPP could lead to an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
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Harari's remarks were made as he joined a discussion hosted by the Warwick Economics Summit which framed "climate change" as "the most pressing threat facing humanity."
Relevant portion begins at 25:40:
Comment: What a sales pitch. Under the guise of addressing 'climate change' for everyone - Harari wants the worlds' political and business classes to effectively double down on policies and business practices - that have already shown themselves to be unmitigated disasters.
One wonders if the technological Noah's Ark for elites idea Harari speaks of isn't some form of doublespeak and actually a promise to help save those who jump on the WEF bandwagon. At any rate, you can be sure that such advanced facilities exist and have been promised to some of those aiding various agendas.
Americans have raised the alarm over identity politics, particularly the variety that allows people to change their gender at will and demand that others play along. Is this what 'unhinged hysteria' looks like?
Last week, Farhad Manjoo argued in the pages of the New York Times that Americans, particularly those Bible-thumping, gun-toting troglodytes of the "far right," have worked themselves into a "moral panic" due to their "unhinged hysteria" when it comes to accepting the latest experiment from the liberal laboratory known as transgenderism.
© AFP/FileNorway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store speaks during the World Leaders Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, November 2, 2021.
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store voiced doubts on Monday about a possible price ceiling on natural gas imports proposed by a majority of EU member states.
"We approach discussions in an open spirit, but we are skeptical of a maximum gas price," he said in a statement following a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The PM elaborated that "A maximum price does not change the fundamental issue that there is a gas shortage in Europe."
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"London Bridge is Down" were the code words delivered by the Queen's Private Secretary Edward Young to high ranking officials upon the death of Queen Elisabeth II.
This code was selected as part of a larger protocol dubbed strangely enough "operation Unicorn" for reasons beyond the wildest imagination of this author and which sets into motion a set of actions culminating in the anointing of Prince Charles as the new King of Britain and the Commonwealth.
For Canadians who had thought they would no longer be forced to endure watching their Prime Minister slavishly declare his oaths of fealty (and oaths of secrecy) to an inbred monarch sitting on the other side of the ocean as had occurred in 2017 they will be very disappointed. Canada's Parliamentary Oaths Act of 1866 demands that both houses of Parliament are required to take pledges of allegiance after the deaths of all sitting monarchs. That's right, every single member of the supposedly "elected and democratic" government of Canada must declare their oaths of fealty not to the people or non-existent constitution, but to some inbred family bloodline on the other side of the world.
© AP/Evan VucciBiden speaks to members of the 82nd Airborne Division • Jasionka, Poland
The demarcation of the border took place in the 1950s, when the outcome of World War II was being settled. Poland and what was then Czechoslovakia, who were both part of the Communist bloc at the time, disputed some lands, and Poland believes it didn't receive its fair share. Warsaw wants to get 368.44 hectares in compensation, the newspaper said.
Polish MP Jaroslaw Krajewski from the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), told Rzeczpospolita that Poland was right to reject a 2005 Czech proposal to settle the issue by paying compensation.
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In this NewsReal, Joe and Niall remind listeners that Russia is fighting in Ukraine with one arm (and leg) tied behind its back, so if its leadership decides it needs to untie those 'limbs' in order to achieve its goals in Ukraine - which have been planned over many years - then it will do so. Absent the crazies in Washington and London nuking Moscow, Russia is still going to win in Ukraine!
In the second hour, they take in the latest genocidal moves by Western governments to cut off food and energy supplies to their own populations, and comment on the queer reactions to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
Running Time: 01:50:28
Download: MP3 — 75.9 MB
Picture claimed to be of a fire at a Ukrainian Thermal plant that was shelled
"The (Russian) occupiers have struck critical infrastructure in the city and region of Kharkiv," Olegh Synehubov wrote on Telegram.
"In several population centres, there are no electrical or water supplies. Fires have broken out where these strikes occurred and emergency crews ... are containing the blazes."
Comment: TopWar.ru reports of simultaneous strikes against two different Ukrainian thermal power plants:
A series of explosions thundered on the territory of the Kharkov and Poltava regions of Ukraine, after which the light went out in half of the regions of the Left-Bank Ukraine.Alleged footage of one of the strikes and fires:
With a high probability, the strikes were carried out on some important object of Ukrainian infrastructure, since electricity was lost not only in Kharkiv itself and the region, but also in other regions of Ukraine. It is reported that the light disappeared in the Poltava, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.
The Dergachev City Council reports a strike on "critical infrastructure facilities" located in Kharkiv, but no details are given.
Presumably, it arrived at CHPP-5, one of the largest combined heat and power plants in Ukraine. The station is located on the outskirts of Kharkov and just belongs to Dergachi. The second station, judging by the messages that have appeared, is the Kremenchug TPP in the Poltava region.
The situation is better than you can imagine: today, the sixth power unit of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which fell out of the energy system of Ukraine, is turned off, and now strikes are being made on two main thermal power plants of Left-Bank Ukraine at once, which immediately knocks Kharkiv and Poltava regions out of the network. The redistribution of the load did not help and the networks of the Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Odessa regions fell down.
If we draw parallels with the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, it is clearly the Ukrainian troops that are shelling themselves in order to blame Russia later. But seriously, hitting two or three thermal power plants at once is already grown-up, stop playing spillikins with Kyiv.
Presumably, the strikes were carried out by sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea, but there is no official information that it was Russia that launched the strikes, and it is possible that there will not be. The option of shelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves also has the right to exist.
More updates and information from Twitter:
Netblocks confirms the internet cut in Kharkov:
Meanwhile, back in June, the EU's Ursula von der Leyen announced the following:
Comment: Russia reiterates it will not give up the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Better in their hands than the Ukrocrazies.