Reader’s Links for October 27th, 2022

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38 Replies to “Reader’s Links for October 27th, 2022”

  1. Deer (Leader) season is approaching. The question I have is: if the Emergencies Act invocation is found to have been unnecessary, what then?

  2. Freeze all the Liberal and NDP bank accounts. Get in touch with their mortgage holders- cancel their mortgages, cancel their insurance, seize their vehicles, throw them all in jail and leave ALL of them there until we the people (the World Ethics Forum) decide what to do with the lying criminals.

    Since the freedom convoy Patriots only wanted a dialogue with the government regarding the “vaccine” mandates, the World Ethics Forum should demand an inquiry into the “vaccines”. Trials should follow. Death sentences will be the only acceptable outcome for a guilty conviction. Show no mercy.

  3. Freshly-minted British PM (C)entral (B)ank (D)igital (C)ollectivist Sunak is another money-changing globalist insert. 15 min:

  4. The World Ethics Forum wants clarification, a ruling on the NDP’s collaboration with the Liberal Party of Canada:

    NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it is unlikely that his party would pull their support for the Liberals in the Public Order Emergency Commission examing the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act that doing so was not justified.

    Shocking – methinks not. When I complained to the NDP MP in the area I live, regarding the police dragging a minister down a Canadian highway, I was told “He should have done what he was told”.

    You will own nothing and be happy mentality of the World Economic Forum is alive and thriving in the Liberal and NDP parties. They deserve no party status.

    They are criminals who are working outside the law.

  5. FBI Whistleblower

    The FBI has been mired in controversy. An FBI lawyer — caught doctoring documents to spy on a Donald Trump campaign supporter. Former FBI Director James Comey — given a pass after being referred for criminal charges.

    He’d allegedly mishandled documents in a campaign to smear Trump.

    The FBI misdirecting the public on the Hunter Biden laptop just before the election.

    And, of course, the FBI’s Russia collusion probe of Trump, ginned up by the Clinton campaign. All this time we’ve heard little to nothing publicly from FBI insiders. Until now.

    Today we begin with a remarkable interview with a current FBI agent: Stephen Friend. He claims that things are so broken at high levels inside the nation’s premiere law enforcement agency that he had to blow the whistle.

    ( 8 min 44 )

  6. Energy Crisis

    We begin with an amazing development on the energy front.

    Right now, some of the world’s leaders in green energy are reluctantly returning to fossil fuel in a big way.

    That’s because what some see as a climate emergency has been overtaken by a more immediate crisis: a global energy disaster.

    Europe is rationing power and on the cusp of shortages and blackouts, worrying about citizens literally freezing over the winter.

    Today, we travel to the United Kingdom and Germany, where experts say their experience is a warning of what may come here, as the U.S. follows in their green energy footsteps.

  7. The World Ethics Forum is opposed to:

    * Experimental vaccines

    * Pledging our Armed Forces to the EU

    * Artificial Intelligence- Chips in our children’s brains

    * Central Bank Digital Currency

    * Carbon Pricing

    * Clearing land of trees to put up windmills and solar panels – – wind and solar -so-called “green energy “ that meets less that 3% of our needs, while disrupting and killing many species of birds and animals.

    * Our children eating bugs

    * We of the World Ethics Forum support the lives of cows and maintain that we could eliminate copious amounts of methane by mandating most politicians and all supporters of the World Economic Forum shut their mouths.

    • Last night YouTube removed Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion, citing a terms and policies violation.

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      Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion (2022) Oracle Films | News Uncut

      https://rumble.com/v1lwbgs-safe-and-effective-a-second-opinion-2022-oracle-films-news-uncut.html

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      https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective

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      The Vaccine Injury Cover-Up – Mark Sharman, Director of “Safe & Effective: A Second Opinion 2022”

    • Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion (2022) ( re-upload on YT )

      Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion shines a light on Covid-19 vaccine injuries and bereavements, but also takes an encompassing look at the systemic failings that appear to have enabled them.

      We look at leading analysis of pharmaceutical trials, the role of the MHRA in regulating these products, the role of the SAGE behavioural scientists in influencing policy and the role of the media and Big Tech companies in suppressing free and open debate on the subject.

      […]It appears that the original has been taken down

      […]Nearly 1 million views and 7000 comments on the original!

      • OCTOBER 27 2022 -We’re asking for proper debate’ | Mark Sharman on Covid vaccine documentary

        Mark Sharman tells Mark Steyn he is ‘not surprised’ YouTube have removed his Covid vaccine injury documentary from the platform.

    • REVEALED: Pfizer-Funded Consultant Behind CDC-Linked Group Advising Doctors How To Convince Parents To Vaccinate Kids Against COVID-19.

      The co-founder and President of Unity Consortium – a non-profit group working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to convince parents to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 – is a healthcare consultant whose clients include Pfizer Inc.

      In an apparent conflict of interest, Unity Consortium is also partnered with Pfizer Inc., which manufactures the same COVID-19 vaccines and boosters the group is promoting, and other pharmaceutical companies. The group also lists one of its official “liaisons” as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recently voted in favor of adding the Covid vaccine to the recommended immunization schedule for children.

      Unity Consortium, which seeks to “raise adolescent and young adult vaccination rates,” was founded by pharmaceutical industry veteran Judy Klein. Klein is also the founder of inKlein Consulting, whose website reveals that one of its primary clients is Pfizer.

      Klein’s bio on the Unity Consortium website, however, fails to disclose any of her financial links to the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer.

      Unity Consortium has launched an aggressive campaign to encourage parents to make their children receive a COVID-19 vaccine, even lobbying healthcare providers to instruct their patients to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

      The non-profit, which has hosted pro-COVID-19-vaccine events in partnership with Chelsea Clinton, distributed a fact sheet to healthcare providers in 2021, instructing them to “encourage parents and teens to schedule well-visits and routine and COVID-19 vaccinations”

      “Use clear, confident and accessible language when recommending vaccines to parents and teens,” insisted the group.

      Unity Consortium has also crafted social media posts for users to share that encourage COVID-19 vaccination, including:

      “We’re part of @UnityConsortium’s “Don’t Wait. Vaccinate” campaign! Adolescents need their routine vaccinations AND the COVID-19 vaccine!
      Learn more: https://bit.ly/3e0KY98 #dontwaitvaccinate”

      It has also attempted to intervene in the relationship between healthcare providers and their patients, offering drafts of email and text messages to incentivize COVID-19 vaccination.
      “Adolescents should be vaccinated even if they have had COVID-19 previously. Highly contagious variants continue to spread,” reads one draft before adding, “Most side effects are mild and last a couple of days. Getting vaccinated is the safer choice.”

      Unity Consortium also encouraged healthcare providers to contact their patients via text with drafted messages including “Adolescents should get the COVID-19 vaccine even if they have had COVID-19 previously. Call us at [XXX-XXX-XXXX] to schedule an appointment. It is safe to visit.” and “Billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been given with significant benefits and limited risks. We recommend that your teen be vaccinated. Call us at [XXX-XXX-XXXX]. It is safe to visit.”
      Unity Consortium’s Judy Klein has also been quoted in mainstream media articles urging adolescent vaccination, such as “Gen Z Wants to ‘Wait a Little Bit’ to Get COVID Vaccine. Experts Say There’s No Time to Waste.”

      The USAToday, however, fails to disclose any of Klein’s ties to Pfizer:

      “Now is the window of opportunity,” Judy Klein – president of Unity Consortium, a nonprofit that advocates for vaccine protection for adolescents and young adults – told USA TODAY. If high rates of unvaccinated students show up at schools, that’s a recipe for coronavirus outbreaks and yet another semester derailed by the virus, she fears.”

      Amidst Unity Consortium’s efforts to increase the number of children receiving COVID-19 vaccines, it has omitted any mention of the product’s true side effects.

      On its “COVID-19 and Adolescents” information page, Unity Consortium suggests that “arm soreness” is the primary side effect:

      “Some people have reported arm soreness at the injection site, which generally goes away quickly. Some people experience short-term side effects after being vaccinated, such as tiredness, headache, or chills. These side effects may affect your ability to do daily activities, but they typically go away in a few days. These are normal signs that your body is building protection.”

      As revealed by scientists including Dr. Robert Malone, COVID-19 vaccination in children has the propensity to cause life-threatening cardiac problems and affect hormonal cycles and reproductive organs.

      https://warroom.org/2022/10/27/revealed-pfizer-funded-consultant-behind-cdc-linked-group-advising-doctors-how-to-convince-parents-to-vaccinate-kids-against-covid-19/

    • DAILY MAIL – COVID ‘most likely’ leaked from lab, explosive Senate report concludes, as lawmakers say China ‘no longer deserves benefit of doubt’ over animal transmission theory

      Policymakers said ‘substantial’ evidence pointing to lab accident has emerged

      But evidence for a natural spillover ‘is missing’ even after three years of probes

      Unwillingness to cooperate means China ‘should no longer get benefit of doubt’

      Findings come in an interim report pubished by the Senate Committee on Health
      Origins of Covid still shrouded in mystery with no concrete evidence either way

      But China has shut down independent probes into lab and silenced scientists

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11362165/Covid-likely-leaked-lab-explosive-Senate-says.html

  8. New York Post website hacked…
    Posted by Kane on October 27, 2022 11:10 am

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/new-york-post-website-hacked/

    (Richard: It was probably done by Twitter employees.

    After the election results are in the DNC will probably activate the direct action arm of ANTIFA . We need to be ready for more hacks and physical attacks of/on conservative people and organization.

    Check out the tactics of the US and European terror groups of the 60s thru the 80s. The US groups (and some European groups) went out of their way to avoid killing civilians. Some of the European groups sent hit squads after any rich industrialist that didn’t bribe them to be left alone.

    We can expect both tactics to be used, Musk has made himself prime target.

  9. zero hedge – Putin Says Russia Will Never Be “Wiped Off Geopolitical Map” As West Plays “Dirty Game” In Ukraine

    “Russia is not challenging the western elite. We are not trying to become the hegemon,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said early in an important speech before the Valdai Discussion Club meeting outside Moscow on Thursday. Each year the Valdai speech is a major one and closely watched by Western officials and media.

    This year it was touted with the eye-catching title of “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone.” And of course, this year’s Valdai meeting comes against the backdrop of the biggest war Europe has seen on its eastern doorstep since WWII.

    Putin said in his remarks that Russia merely wants to “defend its right to exist” and “won’t let itself be destroyed and wiped off the geopolitical map.” This as nuclear rhetoric and threats of defending red lines between Moscow and the West have reached heights not seen since the Cold War.

    more :

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-russia-will-never-be-wiped-geopolitical-map-west-plays-dirty-game-ukraine
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    transcript :

    http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69695

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    sky news UK – Watch live: Russian President Vladimir Putin is speaking at a think tank event

  10. bloomberg – Pentagon’s Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats

    (Bloomberg) — Citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates and, in the past, by President Joe Biden.

    “By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday. In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.

    Biden pledged in his 2020 presidential campaign to declare that the US nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. The threat environment has changed dramatically since then, and the Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the White House.

    The nuclear report that’s part of the broader strategy said the Biden administration reviewed its nuclear policy and concluded that “No First Use” and “Sole Purpose” policies “would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage” to the US and allies.

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has openly threatened to use nuclear weapons in his invasion of Ukraine. In the document, which was framed before the invasion, the Pentagon says Russia continues to “brandish its nuclear weapons in support of its revisionist security policy” while its modern arsenal is expected to grow further.

    China’s Warheads

    Meanwhile, China remains the US’s “most consequential strategic competitor for coming decades,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a letter presenting the new defense strategy. He cited China’s “increasingly coercive actions to reshape the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to fit its authoritarian preferences,” even as it rapidly modernizes and expands its military.

    China wants to have at least 1,000 deliverable nuclear warheads by the end of the decade, the nuclear strategy document says, saying it could use them for “coercive purposes, including military provocations against US allies and partners in the region.”

    The nuclear strategy document doesn’t spell out what non-nuclear threats could produce a US nuclear response, but current threats include hypersonic weapons possessed by Russia and China for which the US doesn’t yet have a proven defense.

    It does spell out, however, in the strongest terms, what would happen to another nuclear power, North Korea, if it launched a nuclear attack on the US, South Korea or Japan. That action “will result in the end of that regime,” it says. US nuclear weapons continue to play a role in deterring North Korean attacks.

    The nuclear strategy affirmed modernization programs including the ongoing replacement of the aging US air-sea-land nuclear triad. Among them are the Navy’s Columbia-class nuclear ICBM submarine, the ground-based Minuteman III ICBM replacement, the new air-launched Long-Range Standoff Weapon and F-35 fighter jets for Europe carrying nuclear weapons.

    The review confirmed previous reports that the Pentagon will retire the B83-1 gravity bomb and cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile program. But the review endorses a controversial Trump-era naval weapon, the low-yield W76-2 submarine-launched nuclear warhead, which is described as providing “an important means to deter limited nuclear use.”

    The broader strategy report also offered gently worded criticism of major US weapons programs, which often runs years behind plans and billions of dollars over initial budgets.

    “Our current system is too slow and too focused on acquiring systems not designed to address the most critical challenges we now face,” the Pentagon said. It called for more “open systems that can rapidly incorporate cutting-edge technology” while reducing problems of “obsolescence” and high costs.

    The Pentagon strategy documents were sent to Congress in classified form in March so they were considered during congressional approval of the fiscal 2023 defense budget.

    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/pentagon-s-strategy-won-t-rule-out-nuclear-use-against-non-nuclear-threats-1.1838278

    • Given the way the left has been working to destroy the US Military the only way they can defend the US is with nukes. Our current military can’t be depended on in combat.

  11. Druthers -Public Health Officials Cash in On Covid

    Recently published Sunshine List

    Penny Sutcliffe Medical Officer of Health Sudbury. Her 2021 pay increased from $347,324.55 to $800,726.87.

    Ian Arra , Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Grey Bruce from $385,349.79 in 2019 to $631,510.22 in 2020, to $514,572.06 in 2022.

    Mustafa Hirji, Commissioner Public Health, Ministry of Health, Niagara, $296,583.32 to $457,013.15

    Lisa Berger, Associate Medical Officer of Health for Toronto; pay increased from $214,809.24 in 2019 to $355,940.01 in 2020

    Robert Kyle, Commissioner and Medical Officer of Health for the Region of Durham; pay increased from $337,142.41 to $535,190.04 in 2021.

    Elspeth McTavish, Associate Medical Officer of Health for the Region of Durham; pay increased from $246,774.14 in 2020 to $463,598.40 in 2021.

    These are just a few and it should be noted that most of these people likely worked from home.

    The Sunshine List includes (10) Associate Medical Officers of Health for the City of Toronto whose pay for 2021 totalled $2,890,021.94, which is an average pay of $289,002,19. This includes what appears to be two new hires with a combined salary of $386,639. The increase for the remaining eight employees for the 2-year period of 2019-2021 totalled $1,380,300.64, an average increase of 40.5%. It is only tax dollars right?

    Durham region 37 individuals was $4,819,617.67 in 2020 increased to $7,741,615.25 in 2021.

    It goes on and on.

    3 million Canadians lost their jobs.

  12. HUGE BREAKING! Democrat Blows Whistle On Widespread Orlando Area Ballot-Harvesting Operation In Black Communities [VIDEO]
    By Patty McMurray
    Published October 27, 2022 at 1:30pm
    153 Comments

    For many Americans, the Dinesh D’Souza 2000 Mules movie, based on investigative work by True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips, tracked thousands of ballot mules across several key swing states in 2020 using geofencing tracing data was an eye-opener.

    100 Percent Fed Up reports – Without naming names, over the fear of being sued, Gregg Phillips has repeatedly stated that the stash houses they’ve identified that were used by ballot harvesters to make their mule operations possible were ALL funded by left-leaning NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/huge-breaking-dem-blows-whistle-widespread-orlando-area-ballot-harvesting-operation-black-communities-video/

  13. Brittney Griner supporters plan pot ‘smoke out’ outside Russian Embassy
    BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN 10/27/22 12:48 PM ET

    Demonstrators with advocacy group DC Marijuana Justice plan to gather at the Russian Embassy in Washington around 4:20 p.m. Thursday and light up in protest of Moscow’s treatment of WNBA star Brittney Griner.

    The move comes two days after a Russian court rejected Griner’s appeal of her nine-year sentence for possessing cannabis oil cartridges in the country.

    We want Brittany released and free of the sham charges that Putin imposed on her as his failed invasion of Ukraine backfired and he elevated Russia to the status of most dangerous rogue nation on the planet,” DC Marijuana Justice co-founder and event organizer Adam Eidinger said in a statement, adding he wants Russian President Vladimir Putin “to take a good look at what freedom looks like” in the U.S.

    “Cannabis is a medical and personal choice for adults in America, no matter the party, gender, religion or race,” Eidinger added. “Putin hates freedom, but that’s exactly what we want to give him, a freedom toke.”

    Eidinger told The Washington Post that protesters will also bring flags with green pot leaves and a 50-foot inflatable joint with a message about Griner. He also plans to throw marijuana leaves onto the Russian Embassy grounds.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/3707911-brittney-griner-supporters-plan-pot-smoke-out-outside-russian-embassy/

    (Richard: When you travel to a foreign nation you have to obey their laws. Since the Libs don’t obey our laws and aren’t punished they think they can get away with breaking the law in other nations.)

  14. Putin: “It doesn’t make sense” to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

    QRussian President Vladimir Putin denied that he would conduct a nuclear strike in Ukraine, saying Thursday that “it doesn’t make sense for us to do it.

    Driving the news: Putin has deployed veiled nuclear threats several times in the past few months. His remarks come just a day after Putin oversaw the start of annual drills of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces.

    https://www.axios.com/2022/10/27/putin-russia-nuclear-weapons-ukraine

  15. Read Chrystia Freeland’s book Plutocrats

    Her personality is on display, her praise of Soros, Obama, Schwab is sickening.

    Years ago I attended a nomination meeting – a dyed in the wool volunteer, a Christian man, a plumber vs.big obnoxious businessman.

    The room was stacked with 5 minute party members. The meeting was held up for 45 minutes while delegates waited for the 18 year old daughter to fly in from a private school in Switzerland. She arrived draped in a full length mink coat.

    The plumber never had a chance. Freeland would have loved the businessman, the guy who said to me “hey girl, get me a coffee.”

    Freeland wrote about Google’s Eric Schmidt speaking about income polarization “Many tech companies solved this problem by having the lowest paid workers not actually being employees. They’re contracted out. We treat them differently because we don’t actually hire them. The person who is CLEANING THE BATHROOM IS NOT EXACTLY THE SAME SORT OF PERSON. which I find sort of offensive, but it is the way it is done.”

    Freeland has been a member of the World Economic Forum for many years and is now a committee chair. She is one of them. Never forget the stupid smirk she had on her face when she announced what she was going to do to the Patriots who belonged to the Freedom Convoy, her condescending attitude to the people who were not same sort of person.

    The World ETHICS Forum does not endorse Freeland for anything.

  16. Huge Implications: “Georgia Supreme Court Rules *Voters* Have the Right to Sue Election Officials Who Violate Law” – Via VoterGa
    By Brian Lupo
    Published October 27, 2022 at 4:00pm
    Comment

    In a press release from VoterGa on Thursday, we learned the Georgia Supreme Court has issued a ruling that will impact at least one major election challenge in Georgia and potentially others throughout the United States. The timing of this decision is significant: there is only 8 days remaining before Georgia State law will allow for the destruction of 2020 election evidence.

    The case that may be impacted is Favorito et al v. Cooney et al. This case was dismissed on Oct. 13, 2021 by Judge Brian Amero using the aforementioned case, as well as Wood v Raffensperger. Judge Amero stated the following in his Order Granting Motion to Dismiss:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/huge-implications-georgia-supreme-court-rules-voters-right-sue-election-officials-violate-law-via-voterga/

  17. Pennsylvania Democrat officials sent out 240,000 255,000 ballots to people they could not verify either by their Social Security or Driver’s License numbers.

    The ballots should NEVER have been sent out to these voters.

    Fifteen Republican State Representatives sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh Chapman after they discovered that over 240,000 illicit ballots were sent out in the state prior to the 2022 midterm elections.

    Deputy Secretary Jonathan Marks testified in September before the Pennsylvania House that counties are responsible to verify the voter ID when a completed ballot arrive to the county. The counties argued that this was nonsense. The ID must be verified before a ballot is even sent out.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/breaking-pennsylvania-democrat-officials-mailed-240000-ballots-unverified-voters/

  18. Whistleblower Who Sounded Alarm On Migrant Crisis in El Paso Faces Backlash From Local Democrats
    By Margaret Flavin
    Published October 27, 2022 at 3:15pm
    70 Comments

    El Paso, Texas Councilwoman Claudia Rodriguez exposed the shocking lengths her colleagues will go to protect Joe Biden and the Democrat Party at the expense and safety of the citizens they have pledged to protect. Her reward for caring more about the people suffering in her community from a constant stream of illegals flowing across Biden’s broken border is an outright attack by the El Paso County Democratic Party. EPDP seems to care more about providing cover for Biden in the lead up to the election than protecting their community.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/whistleblower-sounded-alarm-migrant-crisis-el-paso-faces-backlash-local-democrats/

  19. New Project Veritas Drop Suggests DOJ May Go After “Misinformation” as “Election Crimes”
    By Brian Lupo
    Published October 27, 2022 at 4:30pm
    99 Comments

    It’s 2022 but it feels a lot like 1984, doesn’t it? According to Project Veritas on Truth Social, an FBI whistleblower has leaked a document that suggests “Misinformation” and “Disinformation” are “Election Crimes”.

    This colorful document titled “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet” that was leaked to Project Veritas is reminiscent of an exposé The Gateway Pundit published back in August. The basis of the exposé article was the discovery of contracts from the Department of Homeland Security with an organization called the EI-ISAC not only to secure elections at the county level at the behest of the DHS. That same non-profit was also subject to a

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/new-project-veritas-drop-suggests-doj-may-go-misinformation-election-crimes/

    • Monday’s the Israeli election. A balagan, a mess, but too small for outright fraud. In the parliamentary system dirty dealing is baked into coalition scramble. After the election it’s all smokey back-room business.

      I remain dubious about our own system. I’m from MA not MO, but this time around I say Show Me.

  20. Urgent last weeks, trying secure positions before weather forces a pause. The line of contact is hard fought, a couple kilometers taken, lost, retaken, over-&-over. Casualties are absurdly high for such apparently minimal gains. But that’s the way it is.

    Given that 390,000 Ukrainian soldiers are DEAD, and more incapacitated, the ranks of pathetic conscripts have grown thin. It’s not wise to judge a man by the uniform he’s wearing.

    A group of fresh, well-trained soldiers was in one of these tough positions, thrown back repeatedly, comrades fallen each time. Finally they decided to disobey a suicide order and turn back.

    Just to their rear was the “anti-retreat” unit. Their job is straightforward: shoot laggards, even the moderately wounded who can’t keep going forward. Their position is marked by an icon on every Ukrainian Ministry of Defense deployment map. An analogue of the SS in WW-2, nothing’s subtle here.

    But this group of soldiers was from Poland and Romania. NATO-land. They tried to make themselves understood to these nazis. Nicely, respectfully.

    It didn’t go well.
    Dozens of the “anti-retreaters” were shot dead.