2022-03-07

Worthy

• Reality Crash - Pirate Wires

  The United States in particular, and the west more broadly, today is in a crisis. It is primarily a crisis of epistemology, and has many dimensions which parallel those which faced the Soviet people. It is not quite the same; material conditions in the U.S have not deteriorated to bread lines just yet, and the possibility is still remote (though no longer impossible). But reality is increasingly, acceleratedly, diverging from the official narrative as delivered through official media organs.

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• Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two, releasing superstitions nine-tailed fox

Horseshit

• Miso Soup Won’t Protect You in a Nuclear War

• Sony unveils new gold-plated Walkman

• Antique clock repairs at risk due to expert shortage

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Kony 2012 Never Ended - Common Sense

• He's probably going to run again - by Branko

• New Documents Show NBC Promised To Go Easy On Biden Official’s Domestic Terrorism

COVID / VaxCult

• US Senate Passes Bill To End COVID-19 National Emergency

• Covid Policy Killed My Grandmother

• The ventilation of buildings and other mitigating measures for Covid-19

• Masks Can Be Detrimental to Babies' Speech and Language Development

• Fox News & Newsmax Took Biden Money To Push Deadly COVID Vaccines To Its Viewers

  I have been contacted by a whistleblower inside Newsmax who has confirmed the broad details of this story. That insider confirms: Newsmax executives agreed to take the money from Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) to push only positive coverage of the new COVID vaccines. Let me add another personal detail: I was contacted by top Newsmax executives and told to halt any negative coverage of the vaccines in 2021. I was told that “it was problematic” for Newsmax. I was given some version of this warning multiple times by multiple executives.

• When Is a Pandemic ‘Over’?

• COVID Vaccine Bombshells You Probably Missed › American Greatness

• (Feb 25) Worst Fears Realized: Pfizer mRNA Transcribes into DNA

• Genetic study reveals causal link between blood type and Covid severity

• Death toll from Covid-19 surpasses 6M for the Pandemic now in its 3rd year

• Covid Can Shrink the Brain as Much as a Decade of Aging

  • SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure

• Even mild Covid is linked to brain damage

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Covert and overt political signaling online

• How Gay Activists Challenged the Politics of Civility

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook Gains Inside Role in U.S. 250th Anniversary Project with $10M Agreement

TechSuck

• Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100M Samsung Galaxy phones

• Samsung confirms hackers stole Galaxy source code

• I just wanted to play Duck Hunt: on a mission to bring back the light gun

• FCC considers crackdown on bad wireless receivers

• SATCOM terminals under attack in Europe: a plausible analysis.

• Greedy Receivers: FCC Considers Regulating Receivers After Altimeter Showdown | Hackaday

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin surges 9.3% over demand from Russians and Ukrainians

• Dallasite sells toilet paper NFTs as a joke, then wipes out $7M in medical debt

• Coinbase prohibits transactions with Russian-owned wallets

  • Coinbase blocks 25,000 crypto wallets linked to Russia users

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Oil Surges 10% in Asia

  • U.S. crude oil spikes to 13-year high of $130 overnight

• Third of UK shoppers now buy food from supermarkets’ price reduced sections

• Amazon Delivery Companies Are Being Crushed by Debt

• Global bank stocks decline as more firms cut Russia ties

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Saudi Arabia isn’t having it

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Box of human heads stolen in Denver, Colorado

• Jan. 6 panel has tough case to make on Trump criminal conspiracy

• January 6 Defendant Being Illegally Detained – Locked up More Than 80 Days With No Indictment – RedState

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US officials hold Venezuela meetings amid hunt for alternative oil supplies

• China ag minister says winter wheat condition could be worst in history

• America’s tariff wall on Chinese imports looks increasingly like Swiss cheese

• Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken

• Russian Diplomat Says Iran ‘Got Much More Than It Expected’ In New Nuclear Deal About To Be Finalized.

• Orban allows deployment of NATO troops in western Hungary

World

• Food Protectionism Is Spreading as Hungary Bans Grain Exports

• China aims to build 450 GW of solar, wind power on Gobi desert

• China-Russia trade grew 38.5% in January-February

• Truck crashes into gates of Russian Embassy in Dublin

• Brazilian voting machines and my erosion of trust in institutions

• Britain to start approval process for Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor

Health / Medicine

• Four-year-old Israeli child tests positive for polio, first case since 1989

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• UN report: Climate change is so severe we're running out of time to adapt

• Six key lifestyle changes can help avert the climate crisis, study finds

• In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong

• Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea

Ukraine War

• Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say

• Ukraine/Russia: Beware the False Flags - by Techno Fog

• Second cease-fire to evacuate Civilians from Ukrainian City of Mariupol fails

• Ukraine Conflict Update 16

  • Russia violated two Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire agreements, collapsing efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor to help evacuate civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha on March 5 and 6.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin has not demonstrated any willingness to de-escalate with Ukraine or the international community, nor has he provided reasonable demands that would lay the groundwork for de-escalation or negotiations.
  • The Kremlin is likely laying the domestic information groundwork for a declaration of martial law in Russia should Russian President Vladimir Putin decide that mass mobilization and conscription are necessary to achieve his objectives.

• Evacuation route out of Mariupol was mined, Red Cross says

• By using Ukraine to fight Russia, the US provoked Putin's war

• Lets start the war by feeding a bunch of civilians into the grinder first thing: Doc Searls Weblog · The frog of war

• When is a no-fly zone not a no-fly zone? When it’s an airlift

• Russian armored train spotted in Ukraine, as roads too dangerous. WW1 Tactic

• New iron curtain: Ukraine bans males from leaving the country

• The Failed Logistics Of The Russian Invasion « Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

• Putin has deployed nearly 100 pct of pre-staged forces into Ukraine- US official

• The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model

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• Russia forces services to move to Russian DNS, stop using external CDNs

• Russian police arrest more than 3k protesting Ukraine invasion

• Netflix Suspends Service in Russia

  • Netflix Is Shutting All Services in Russia After Ukraine War

• US in ‘active discussions’ over Russian oil import ban

• Russia's War Prompts a Pitch for 'Socially Responsible' Military Stocks

• Russia, without evidence, says Ukraine making nuclear “dirty bomb”

• Ukraine's little-known space feats

• Ukraine conflict: Your guide to understanding day 11

• CNN verifies social media footage from the war zone

• Food crisis looms as Ukrainian wheat shipments grind to halt

• Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia Don’t Believe It’s a War

• Pakistani premier hits out at Western envoys' joint letter on Russia

• Ukraine Is Trying to Goad the US into World War III

• Russia's War on Ukraine Is Dire for World-Hunger

• Calling all pirates: This US lawmaker wants you to seize Russian vessels

• Civilians Killed as Russian Military Strike Hits Evacuation Route in Kyiv Suburb

• The US Is Documenting Reports of Russian 'War-Crimes' in Ukraine

• The reason Russia is blocking Facebook

• Russia's Ukraine invasion may have been preventable

• Russian gymnast investigated for wearing pro-war symbol on podium

• Japan urges nationals not to travel to Russia

• TikTok suspends live-streaming and posting new content in Russia

• Elon Musk asked by Twitter users to deactivate all Teslas in Russia

• U.S. Officials Repeatedly Urged China to Help Avert War in Ukraine

• Putin decrees foreign bondholders to be paid in rubles

• What America Should Do About Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

• Steps we've taken around Cloudflare's services in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

• Ukraine's gypsy refugees recount discrimination on route to safety

• How the U.S. Raced to Arm Ukraine Against Russia

• CAN RUSSIA NATIONALIZE LEASED AIRCRAFT FLEETS?

• Anti-aircraft missiles Germany offered Ukraine don’t work

• Why the U.S. Doesn't Mind India's Notable Silence on Ukraine

• Russia will stop 'in a moment' if Ukraine meets terms – Kremlin

• Russian news channel RT to broadcast on Rumble after Big Tech curbs

• ‘Reckless ignorance’: Senators criticised for sharing photos of Zelensky

• Levi's and PwC among firms pulling back from Russia

• Could Russia’s invasion of Ukraine trigger a global food crisis?

• The Anti-Dollar Axis

• Russia Swaps Signal 80% Chance of Default on Ruble Decree

• Ukraine invasion hampers wire harness supplies for carmakers

• Billionaire Russian-Born Stoli Founder Changes Vodka Name

• Moscow says it will let Ukrainian civilians flee – to Russia

• UK rejects opening borders to Ukraine refugees

• A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War

• Upwork announces suspending operations in Russia and Belarus

• War will be a total failure, FSB whistleblower says

• War in Ukraine: 'It's hell, it's hell' – Families flee bombs in Irpin

• Polish Families Open Their Homes to Ukrainian Families Fleeing the War

• Russian shelling destroys atomic-physics research lab in Ukraine

• How Railways Helped Drive Russia Off Track and into Ukraine’s Cities

• Russian Priest Arrested for Delivering Sermon Against Ukraine War

• Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say.

• Morgan Stanley Says Russia’s Set for Venezuela-Style Default

• Russia mulls legalizing software piracy as it’s cut off from Western tech

• Russia Pummels Ukrainian Civilian Targets Ahead of Talks.