The sanctions become more and more like collective punishment of the Russian population: Days after Netflix stopped services to Russia, Amazon stops Prime video services and shipments to Russia.
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Ukraine War Updates: Drugs, Sanctions, Students, Cauldrons
Latest developments:
1. India may be sanctioned by the US for buying weapons from Russia, following her neutral position on the UN vote condemning Russia
2. Labs making combat drugs, including captagon, have been found in Mariupol, suggesting that the reckless and stupid defiance of the Ukie army and its president might be drug fueled. Captagon has been used by ISIS. I saw two videos of Zelensky supposedly high on alcohol or drugs, but in both he could just have been exhausted. However, it was Zelensky himself who challenged Poroshenko in the presidential campaign a few years ago on the issue and then when Poroshenko publicly took and passed a drug test, Zelenksy backed out and only tested himself later at a clinic owned by a friend. Poroshenko then used the drug charge against Zelensky in the campaign, from where Putin picked it it up. So there seems to be some truth to the charge.
3. Indian students trapped at Mariupol and planning to march on foot to the Russian border carrying Indian flags have deferred the march after the Government of India advised against it.
Video of Putin charging the Ukrainians with holding hostage citizens and students, especially Indian students.
4. The Russians have total control of the skies over Ukraine and are now closing off several cauldrons [encirclements] on the grounds, cutting off the Ukie army from reinforcements
5. The Atlanticists are so desperate, they have decided to cut off Russia from all internet services of all kinds, very likely including cloud services. As with the economic sanctions, which probably had less of an impact on Russia than was hoped and have since been back tracked by France, there is likely going to be back tracking on this too.
6. The issue of US funded and supported biological weapons labs in the Ukraine is backed by opposition members in Ukraine, although US outlets continue to dismiss it as conspiracy theory.
How do you expect the Russians to rise up against Putin, if they don’t know what’s going on and can’t communicate with each other?
What happens to all the Western companies doing business in Russia or to all the other people doing business with us who have ties with Russia?
Whom do you suppose all that will affect?
What is the point of bringing Putin down, if you also bring down the EU and America?
Or is that the whole point and Putin just the pretext?
Who wants a global reset?
Who profits from chaos and restructuring?
Rehabbed Animals Slaughtered For Permit Violation
Proving that environmentalism is the religion that puts animals ahead of human beings but isn’t much about animals either, a government agency slaughtered all the animals living at a unique Michigan family farm that had saved countless animals lives for decades.
The agency said it was because the owner did not have the necessary permit.
“Folks in her community say that [owner] Hall has saved countless animals over the years and has provided a much needed service in the absence of a Michigan Licensed Rehabilitation facility. However, a warrant was issued for her arrest last week because the government forces people like Hall to pay them first before rescuing animals.
Hall explained she has done this for years and she was known for providing her service. However, she says when an employee was caught stealing from her farm, that person became upset and lodged a false complaint with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Petoskey.
After the complaint was lodged, Kei Ju Farm was raided by DNR agents who served her with an arrest warrant. The charge was for holding wild animals in captivity without permit.
“That Thursday, the DNR rolled in with four trucks. They knew exactly where all the animals were,” Hall said.
Unfortunately, the arrest warrant wasn’t the only thing these DNR agents brought. They also brought their guns and began killing all the animals Hall had been rehabilitating.”
Biden EX ORDER Brings NWO War On Farms To America
Unlock 1.0: “You Can Keep Walking”
Ruchir Sharma in The Times of India:
“After three weeks the government began replacing lockdown 1.0 with looser versions, but rather than relax many upper class Indians were learning to love life under lockdown. They posted odes to recipe sharing, Netflix, Zoom cocktail parties, the clear view of the sky and moon as the smog lifted over an idle nation. They gasped over images of leopards venturing into shuttered cities like Chandigarh, 250 kilometres from Delhi. Ah, nature!
When I looked out of my living room window, I saw dorms for the community staff, and had to wonder how sublime this life could be for them. Does social distancing have any meaning for labourers packed six to a 200 sq ft room? Does a lockdown make any sense in such crowded living conditions?
Meanwhile the crisis was liberating for Indian bureaucrats and the police, self-important in normal times, “essential” during this crisis. Videos posted on WhatsApp showed police beating people caught on the streets without a satisfactory excuse, or forcing them to perform squats while holding their ears – a punishment common in government schools. The commentary was often less horrified than humorous, including one mash-up that went viral with cricket style play-by-play.
By mid-April many rich countries had started to debate reopening their economies. Protests were breaking out against lockdowns in the United States. In India, there was little public debate, much less protest.
[Lila: This is not true. There was plenty of debate, but it doesn’t get into the major English media, which is largely leftist, favor of an expansion of government, and inclined to criticize Modi reflexively from that angle. While, Modi appears to have followed the dictates of the globalists at every turn, he is commonly derided as being too insular. ]
The hardest hit, the poor and unemployed, seem to accept their misery as fate, likely unaware of evidence that the most stringent lockdowns are generating the most severe economic damage.
While the pandemic quickly became the leading cause of deaths in many countries, in India many more still die each week, mostly in rural areas, from diseases like tuberculosis or diarrhea. Still, the urban elite has the political influence and most continued to support a tough lockdown
“If the government lifts restrictions millions of illiterate Indians will pour into the streets and super-spread the disease,” says a friend.
Of estimates showing that each week the lockdown is pushing tens of millions of Indians below the poverty line, the elite’s standard answer is “The government should take care of them, just look how much the United States is spending on displaced workers.” Never mind that India has one-twentieth the average income of the United States, or that no bureaucracy, including those of much wealthier nations, is equipped to handle a sudden exodus of tens of millions of workers.
The irony now is that with India headed for what could be its worst post-Independence recession, economic pressure is forcing a retreat to lockdown lite, even as the virus case count surges.
Lockdown fatigue has set in. Confronted on the street by a police patrol after Delhi’s 7pm curfew last week, a friend pleaded that it was insufferable to go out earlier, with daytime temperatures around 45 degrees. “It is my job to make these announcements,” said the weary officer. “You can keep walking.”
Indian Medicos Vindicate Hydroxychloroquine, Aspirin for Covid-19
On May 23, Medical researcher Alok Srivastava of the Christian Medical College, Vellore, reported his finding that blood clots in the lungs are a leading cause of Covid-19 mortality.
This validates the observation of Dr. Kyle Cameron-Sidell of Maimonides Hospital, NY, as early as March 27, that in Covid-19 patients suffering from hypoxia (reduced oxygen intake) intubation (using ventilators) was counter-productive, as the hypoxia was caused by haemoglobin pathology, not lung dysfunction. Ventilators were actually damaging patients’ lungs.
In that light, the establishment’s prescription of early intubation (ventilation) is bizarre, if not sinister.
Srivastava’s findings suggest a simple prophylactic – take aspirin in appropriate doses to thin the blood, if you suspect exposure to the virus. Or, better yet, take garlic, fish oil, or any other natural blood-thinner.
And, forget lockdown. Get out doors. Lack of exposure to sunlight means low Vitamin D levels and low immunity.
Here too the establishment’s prescriptions are not merely pointless, but downright damaging.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has tested and proved that in general hydroxychloroquine has no major side-effects that would prevent its therapeutic use for Covid-19.
Ferguson Lover Is Avaaz (US Intel) Campaigner
The Neil Ferguson fiasco gets more and more revealing. While Ferguson is conventionally married (I’m not publishing his estranged wife’s name here, as she is blameless) and a father of one, his girl-friend (mother of two and wife of a SOAS professor) is in an open marriage, meaning hubby is OK with wife’s horizontal moves with like-minded nerds.
Well, so are we, since it’s none of our business how they do holy matrimony. We’re also not concerned with the hypocrisy of the sanctimonious weed Ferguson. We don’t expect anything else from the academic-government complex.
What worries us is that those forcing criminal laws on the population rather obviously do not take those laws seriously. They know the whole thing is bogus.
“Antonia Staats has refused to comment on the affair – but in the gap between her two nights with her lover she recorded a podcast describing her life in lockdown, and the impact it was having on her, her husband and their children.“
The poor dear can’t find a nanny and is out of toilet paper. I’d suggest she use Neil’s charts, but they’re already full of it.
Why spotlight Staats? It turns out she is a climate-alarmist, anti -fossil fuel activist, and senior campaigner for Avaaz (a Hindi word that means voice).
Avaaz is a liberal-left outfit closely tied to US intelligence, a front for imperial interests.
Her husband Chris Lucas is related through his conservative grandfather to Douglas Bader of WWII RAF fame. His father is a Tory, a former lawyer, investment banker, and a conservation big-wig.
The suspicion is the leak of the affair came from that side. I wonder. Possibly Ferguson was torpedoed before too many questions about his funding and his ties destroyed the remaining rags of crediblity hanging off of his scrawny carcass.
Thousands Expropriated For Lock-down Violations
The goondas-in-uniform (aka police) show their true colors. These are the arrests and penalties in just one state in India, Tamil Nadu:
“According to police, as many as 1,24,657 persons were arrested for violating prohibitory orders and venturing out on the roads. They were immediately released after collecting fines and the seizure of their vehicles. Over 97,146 vehicles were seized. Police have filed altogether 1,14,832 first information reports so far, and collected ?38.54 lakh in fines from the violators.”
Top Indian Experts Were Against Extending Lock-down
“Two veteran infectious diseases experts — Jayaprakash Muliyal and T. Jacob John (both of the Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore) who were at the forefront of the leprosy eradication and pulse polio immunisation programmes, respectively — feel it’s time to end the lockdown, with one of them describing a long-term shutdown as akin to ‘burning the house to kill a rat’.
Muliyal preferred cultivating herd immunity to a lock-down, while Jacob John supported a lock-down of no more than 2 weeks (March 24 until April 6-7). For him, a lock-down is less about containing the virus than it is about buying time to prepare, and, as he cogently points out, if one cannot prepare in 2 weeks, one is unlikely to prepare in 4.
Two other experts, M. Sivakami, chairman of the Center for Health and Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Abdul Ghafar, an Apollo consultant in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology advocated a lock-down only until May 1 (a total of 5 weeks) and until April 15 respectively (a total of 3 weeks).
So, 4 of the most prominent infectious diseases experts, representing private hospitals geared to research, teaching, and mission/social service (CMC), research institutions (Tata), and private urban hospital chains (Apollo), supported 0, 2, 3, and 5 weeks of lock-down, at the most. That means, only the Tata Institute consultant advocated extending the March 24 lock-down at all, and then only by 2 weeks.
Notably, the Tata Institute is fully funded by the University Grants Commission of the Indian Government, possibly suggesting a desire to toe the government line.
The private sector recommendations conflict directly with those of the government’s panel of medical experts who wanted to extend the 21-day lock-down. Two who spoke to the press only on the condition of anonymity wanted the extension to mitigate the unforeseen migrant exodus. One wanted a 1-week extension, but the other wanted a full 2-month lock-down, that is, a 39-day (4 1/2 week) extension.
Covid19: airlines flout lockdown
Private airlines IndiGo, Spicejet, Vistara and GoAir have re-opened passenger bookings for flights starting mid-May in violation of aviation regulator DGCA’s explicit order.
“…all airlines are hereby directed to refrain from booking tickets… Further, the airlines may note that they shall be given sufficient notice and time for restarting of operations. This is for strict compliance by all airlines,” DGCA Deputy Director General Sunil Kumar wrote to all domestic and foreign airlines on April 19.
– Business Today, April 27, 2020
GoAir and SpiceJet will restart domestic flights in mid-May, as well as some international flights (to Dubai and Singapore) from June 1. IndiGo and Vistara will start from June 1.