January 2022
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How the CDC fooled the world
Throughout the pandemic, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) published numerous false and misleading studies that bolstered national and international political goals and guided social media censorship. Three recent examples illustrate the issue. Continue reading
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Against Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back
In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a dissolved monastery, Wilton Abbey near Salisbury. Herbert didn’t need farmland, so he had the buildings torn down, expelled the monastery’s tenants, and physically destroyed an entire village. In their place he built a large… Continue reading
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99.9987% of Under-20s Survive Covid, Study Finds – And 97.1% of the Elderly Do As Well
How deadly is COVID-19? Early last year renowned epidemiologist Professor John Ioannidis published an analysis of seroprevalence (antibody) studies from 2020 which concluded the infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 – the proportion of those infected who die – was around 0.15% globally. It varied significantly by region, up to 0.3%-0.4% in Europe and the Americas and… Continue reading
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Turkey Helped Instigate Uprising In Kazakhstan To Advance “Great Turan” Project
Ankara is seemingly more emboldened than ever as early signs show that the bloody unrest that engulfed Kazakhstan had significant Turkish involvement, not only through its intelligence services, but also through Kazakhstan’s Turkey-oriented politicians and business community. Continue reading
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CSTO’s mission accomplished in Kazakhstan
The readout of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “working meeting” in the Kremlin on Wednesday with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu regarding the Collective Security Treat Organisation’s mission to Kazakhstan needs careful analysis. As is customary with Putin, so much more was said in the unsaid. Continue reading
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ASSA 2022: part two – the heterodox
In this second post on the annual ASSA economics conference, I look at the papers and presentations made by radical and heterodox economists. These presentations are mostly under the auspices of the Union of Radical Political Economics (URPE) sessions, but the Association of Evolutionary Economics also provided an umbrella for some sessions. Continue reading
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In Australia, people vaccinated against Covid are 13 times more exposed to serious risk
Statistics from New South Wales (Australia), released on 12 January 2022, indicate that people doubly vaccinated against Covid-19 are 6 times more likely than the non-vaccinated to be hospitalized and 13 times more likely to be placed in an intensive care unit Continue reading
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The War Party wins – Russia is now free to act unilaterally
First, a quick update on Kazakhstan: the CSTO will begin its withdrawal tomorrow and that operation will be completed by the 19th of January (dunno if anybody will inform Blinken about how quickly the Russians leave). This operation was truly a triumph for Russia and her allies. Continue reading
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Turkey draws closer to the US and Europe
Being a “swing state” may have tactical advantages but when life gets tough and the tough gets going, there could be consequences. Turkey once faced such a moment of truth a hundred years ago. It faces a similar predicament today. Continue reading
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Kazakhstan News Links 13-14 January 2022
Friday, 14 January 2022 • 13:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular. CSTO’s Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report Thursday, 13 January 2022
Thursday, 13 January 2022 — Black Agenda Report Nicaragua in the Multipolar World The U.S. regime change effort in Nicaragua has failed. The people are determined to assert their rights of self-determination and the U.S. is not the only player on the world stage. Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Policies of the U.S./EU/NATO Axis Continue reading
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Why Washington’s focus on ‘credibility’ is a recipe for war
The most pressing threat to global security right now isn’t so-called “provocations” by either Russia or China. It is the United States’ misplaced obsession with its own “credibility”. This rallying cry by Washington officials – echoed by the media and allies in London and elsewhere – is code for allowing the US to act like… Continue reading
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A Programme for a Future Society That We Will Build in the Present: The Second Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 13 January 2022 — Tricontinental Chittaprosad, Indian Workers Read, n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report that received barely any attention: the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, notably subtitled Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender. ‘Multidimensional poverty’ is Continue reading
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Putin draws the line for colour revolutions
This must be a rare page in American diplomatic history that a US Secretary of State has been literally off his rocker. Antony Blinken’s outbursts on the events in Kazakhstan were not only boorish but also illogical. Continue reading
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With No Progress In Talks Russia Will Have To React
Monday’s negotiations over Russian security demands between the U.S. and Russia were, as predicted, a failure. Russia’s core demand, to end the NATO drive to its borders by excluding membership for the Ukraine and Georgia, was rejected. A for once realistic NYT piece did not even try to hide the disaster: Continue reading
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National Endowment for Democracy Provided $1.2 Million to Kazakhstan to Help Spark Color Revolution Against Pro-Russian and Pro-China Regime
Wednesday, 12 January 2022 — CovertAction Magazine By Jeremy Kuzmarov Protesters climb on top of a van in Almaty on January 6. [Source: nbcnews.com; collage by staff] Media Has Covered Crisis in Kazakhstan in Biased Way On January 2nd, protests erupted in the city of Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan that have since spread across the country. Continue reading
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Kazakhstan News Links 11-12 January 2022
Wednesday, 12 January 2022 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. BTW, cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular. National Endowment for Continue reading
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Military analysis of the attacks on Kazakhstan
The attack on Kazakhstan on January 2, 2022 involved two independent main groups linked to the same foreign command. It involved about 20,000 fighters, both foreign and Kazakh. These personnel had been trained for jihad in Syria or Afghanistan, as the case may be. The Kazakh and Russian armies were taken by surprise, but managed… Continue reading
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Professor Ehud Qimron: “Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure”
Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
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Glyphosate: EU assessment report excludes most of the scientific literature from its analysis
The preliminary EU report on glyphosate prepared by the Dutch, Hungarian, French and Swedish regulatory agencies fails to take account of the vast majority of recent studies published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, according to a report by the association Générations Futures. Continue reading
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