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Serious Side Effects Exceed the Risk of Hospitalization with COVID-19 in the Swedish Population ⋆ Brownstone Institute BROWNSTONE.ORG In the interests of public health, we implore the authorities to conduct a fully transparent and independent expert review. Sweden study

Oh no. Don't go! Anthony Fauci Announces Planned Retirement After Joe Biden's Term LINK.BREITBART.COM Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his plan to retire at the end of President Joe Biden's term in a new interview published Monday.

"Rampant treason", the cause Zelensky gave for firing his head security honcho and 5 others. This article is factual without conjecture, but I'd guess "treason" is absent when you're winning and instantly present when you're losing. Top prosecutor fired in Ukraine security shake-up — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM A massive shake-up in the Ukrainian security service sees its boss and five regional chiefs fired

https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/558987-ukraine-fatigue-west-russia/

Right. What gets me, the flowing of crocodile tears for the Ukrainian people's sorry plight. All the while, keen to keep the war escalating.

Neo-Nazis beloved by all: Not worth your sympathy: The story of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov battalion — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM The Azov Battalion is portrayed as heroes defending Ukraine's freedom, but their track record is one of heinous crime

Fight on. We don't want no stinking peace. https://www.rt.com/russia/558047-nato-tells-ukraine-fight/

"In this essay, I warned that while I was pro-choice, I also recognized that the death of a fetus is a real death, and that an abortion always represents a loss'; that we as feminists risked becoming increasingly hard-hearted and soulless if we continued to embrace a discourse in which a fetus was merely “a clump of cells”, if we persisted in pretending that abortion was spiritually meaningless, and if we continued to posit that a second- or even third trimester abortions were nothing more bloody or catastrophic than “personal choices”."[Wolf] Trust Naomi to extract the critical nuances. I contested ARI's Ben Bayer ("Abortion should be Legal until Birth") on this very point Naomi Wolf expounds. It's not moral, if it were ever one's right, to dispose of a fully formed, active-brained, "baby in waiting", certainly by a rational ethics and by any other ethics. It is the personal loss of an actual being and value, no more a potential. Advocating the right to abortions until birth ¬weakened¬ his moral argument for abortion, I maintained. (And his bringing in Rand like some SJW activist, to justify the moral argument for late abortion, on which she said nothing, is taking a great liberty). A sane woman of self-worth, feminist or no, would be disgusted at the prospect, "spiritually" and selfishly. Bayer the fanatic, of course praises "Shouting out your abortion!" (Stick it to the conservatives).

A mad Englishman. That there are some who approve of western forces going in... https://www.rt.com/news/557443-uk-russia-army-europe/

Ellen, A low key reaction from Moscow so far. https://www.rt.com/russia/557418-lithuania-trade-blockade-kaliningrad/

Newsweek outlines Russia's nuclear weapon policy, better https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiQkp-8rLr4AhXPu6QKHaEkDEoQFnoECAYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Frussia-says-they-will-use-nuclear-weapons-these-conditions-1705132&usg=AOvVaw1jJocybzF6-nKyJ1_s-awK

"Use" nukes is what I'd expect from Ukrayinska Pravda. A propaganda outlet for Ukraine, it makes RT look impartial. "Deploy" - is another thing, and would be the expected defense if a neighbor joined Nato and could base Nato nukes there. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiQkp-8rLr4AhXPu6QKHaEkDEoQFnoECAIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Frussia-warns-baltic-nuclear-deployment-if-nato-admits-sweden-finland-2022-04-14%2F&usg=AOvVaw2eE09eHSh0aGebGXzWsS5i NYP: Russia threatens nukes for US ....Incendiary headline. "Threatens" is: I point my gun at you point blank. I tell you about how powerful is the gun in my jacket, that's critically different. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiQkp-8rLr4AhXPu6QKHaEkDEoQFnoECAMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2022%2F05%2F14%2Frussia-threatens-nukes-for-us-uk-finland-if-nato-expands%2F&usg=AOvVaw2gT2zLN_ii6ZpxAnSkXdcO

Russia's threats to expand - where? Threatening to invade two other countries - which?

What does not occur to anyone, is that it might well have been in Putin's mind, an essential *self-defense* of Russia (and of Russian-Ukrainians). Pre-emptive self-defense, which any self-respecting country would use.

Very happily, for Nato, Russia "has proven them right". Nato was fully aware, weren't they, that Ukraine was Russia's and Putin's "line in the sand". 'So far, with this unnecessary, irrational Nato-expansionism, (against "the USSR", which exists no longer) we have put up with ... no further'. But Nato cleverly premeditated and possibly manipulated an 'obviously' unjustified invasion (obvious, to those who've little interest in the antecedents and conditions in Ukraine). And were proven right. But Putin's suspicions and paranoia about Nato's long term objectives to isolate and weaken Russia were ALSO proven right. But Russia is the aggressor! Everybody, hide behind Nato!

Force, first used against Russian-Ukraine citizens by their Govt. Is this not initiation of force? You've not answered to that, or doesn't it count? False promises, fraudulent treaties, false pretenses. By Nato and by Kyiv (which Poroshenko gloated about). Objectivists are uniquely-placed to recognize fraud as the indirect use of force. "A unilateral breach of contract" is serious, no less when it is critical to a nation's security and forward-planning. ARL: Fraud "A unilateral breach of contract involves an indirect use of physical force: it consists, in essence, of one man receiving the material values, goods or services of another, then refusing to pay for them and thus keeping them by force (by mere physical possession), not by right—i.e., keeping them without the consent of their owner. Fraud involves a similarly indirect use of force: it consists of obtaining material values without their owner’s consent, under false pretenses or false promises".

Ayn Rand might have decried the use of force by a government against its own citizens seeking self-determination and security in a region (after they had been repressed in certain ways and been undemocratically denied an election and a president via a coup d'etat). Ayn Rand might have decried the fraudulent breaking of contracts (verbally, by Nato) and by the Ukraine Government. A negotiated contract to grant autonomy to said breakaway regions, that was a fake and deceit by Kyiv from the start, as we now know from the ex-president, but was entered into in good faith by the rebels and Putin (as far as can be surmised). And she would no doubt be aware that "Russia"- today - was not the "Communist Russia" she knew, "dominating" some of the world with an ideology: Autocratic, clearly, but it has long since renounced communism. By FORCE alone, without that ideology, Russia hasn't a snowball's chance of world dominance and they know it, if even they desired it.

“It’s clear what we’re talking about. They [western countries] don’t want a complete defeat of Russia. They want to force Russia to negotiate in order to achieve peace,” Arestovich said in an interview. West doesn’t want ‘complete defeat’ of Russia – Zelensky aide — RT World News WWW.RT.COM The West isn’t sending tanks and planes to Kiev as it doesn’t want a complete defeat of Russia, Ukrainian president’s aide has said And about time reality is setting in. Since the war has turned against Ukraine, the "western countries" have apparently seen the writing on the wall, while Kyiv and Zelensky and his aide (above) go on denying it, living in the media-constructed bubble and global populist outcry - total victory and repossession of the East (and Crimea) by brave Ukrainians. Goes to show the danger of believing in your own PR image; now, the West will gradually let Kyiv down from its heights of a month or two ago. While leaders and politicians keep making all the right supportive speeches and while sending in a little more arms so their conscience is clear. From the beginning, this could have been firmly stated: "We" can't help you win this unwinnable war, besides giving you limited weaponry (and humanitarian support) - so, strongly urge you "negotiate in order to achieve peace" which we will help facilitate by putting diplomatic/economic pressure on Putin to come to the table (who appears amenable to withdrawal if the Donbass is granted its autonomy as promised and Nato membership renounced and Ukraine neutrality observed). And, in effect: "If that is unacceptable, Zelensky, you are on your own". Presently, they are back to advising what they should have then: negotiating the peace. Likely precluding all the subsequent losses. All that was not clarified by the western countries in their zeal (for Ukraine) to beat/weaken Russia and humiliate Putin. This war was avoidable, if contracts and treaties were kept to. The fiction of Putin's "imperialism", Russia's supposed expansionist aggression into Europe(!) following the fantasy of its successful "defeat and occupation of Ukraine" - simply the excuse by war mongers to get at Russia.

Michael, that too. Somebody's cashing in big time, starting with Big Pharma - ooops, I meant Big Arma. Some of those neat shoulder-fired missiles will be appearing in the ME and Africa, soon to be seen "in a theater near you ..."

It's all about the West saving face, from this point. There was expert advice, saying Ukraine could not win a war against Russia, should encourage a treaty early on, but (Boris Johnson, in particular) dissuaded Zelensky from suing for peace in Istanbul, piled in weapons and money, nonetheless. Wishful thinking, "evasion" one could say. So: the casualties pile up. And the Donbass territory at least will be lost, anyway. Military casualties as admitted by Kyiv yesterday, though could be exaggerated for effect: Ukraine reveals daily military casualties — RT World News WWW.RT.COM Kiev’s top negotiator David Arakhamia claims up to 1,000 Ukrainian troops are being killed or wounded each day in Donbass

The war in EAST Ukraine, is all but over. Russia is in control. But the war mongers want more arms sent in. Because they continue in their pretext or stupidity that it's "ALL of Ukraine", which Russia is after control of. This guy's an Admiral? Really? "The head of the UK’s armed forces has said Russia has already “strategically lost” the war in Ukraine and is now a “more diminished power”. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said Russia was suffering heavy losses, running out of troops and advanced missiles and would never be able to take over all of Ukraine. “This is a dreadful mistake by Russia. Russia will never take control of Ukraine,” Tony Radakin told PA Media in an interview published on Friday". The Guardian

Poroshenko admits (brags) in a vid interview that the Minsk agreement was not meant to be kept, a ruse to gain time and militarize: in which case all that followed has been as much Kyiv's fault. Minsk deal was used to buy time – Ukraine's Poroshenko — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM Petro Poroshenko said the Minsk Agreements “meant nothing” and claimed credit for giving Ukraine enough time to militarize

From the other side, here is today's news RT News - June 14 2022 (09:00 MSK) — RT News WWW.RT.COM A maternity hospital is hit during Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk The UN calls the attack a violation of international law

Wait for it. She gets even better in the next half. I'm bowled over, that looks to me like the spirit, intellect, work ethic, independence and guts of a free America, still there. And I knew she was an original leftie intellectual, Michael. Which only makes me more heartened.