a follow up from a post I did a few days ago about CIA corruption and what seemed to be getting funding to manipulate the news to destroy Duterte, who hated drugs and hated the CIA who got one of their drug dealing patsies out of jail when he was mayor in Davao. But, as the saying goes: What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
So are the same puppet masters manipulating the press in the USA for the next election?
Multiple sources in the Middle East and North Africa have told me they believe NPR boss Katherine Maher was affiliated with US intelligence. What we know for sure is that Maher was part of a US-backed regime change operation in the early 2010s. Read more:https://t.co/8GfkTvuUn8
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 24, 2024
The West’s favored methods of supporting Color Revolutions include fomenting dissent, organizing activists through social media, promoting student movements, and unleashing domestic unrest on the streets.... The summer of rioting following the death of George Floyd, which ushered in the new DEI regime, was in many ways a domestic Color Revolution, advanced by progressive NGOs, media entities, and political actors.
A minor figure in these movements, a woman named Katherine Maher, has recently come to greater prominence. Maher was involved in the wave of Color Revolutions that took place in North Africa in the 2010s, and she supported the post-George Floyd upheavals in the United States in the 2020s. She was also the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and was just recently named the new CEO of National Public Radio.
At NPR, Maher has already been embroiled in controversy. Longtime editor Uri Berliner, who has now resigned, accused her of left-wing bias and suppressing dissent. Following these accusations, I did extensive reporting demonstrating that Maher has a troubling history of arguing against the notion of objective truth and supporting censorship in the name of democracy.
Ironically, such interference was supposed to be by the right wing in the CIA, but apparently now it is the progressive deep state doing these things.
I don't feel like making another post, but here is a discussion about other bad guys who want to change the world. But instead of the American plan, which essentially puts friendly governments in place, the Chinese want to steal everything in site and take the place over (and believe me, the Chinese are a lot more racist than the Yanks):
translation: If someone was thought to have covid, they were given a tranquilizer to lower their anxiety but sometimes no other treatment... Of course, this tranquilizer would depress their ability to breathe, meaning it would result in them dying.
in treating such patients, there is a fine line between relieving their anxiety and causing respiratory depression, so sometimes this happens. But was a deliberate overdose given with the object to kill?
Ethically you can give pain relief and anti anxiety relief to the dying even with this risk. '
I was once accused by one nurse of overdosing one such dying patient: but when I checked him, he was moaning in pain. So I gave a dose that relieved the pain but his breathing rate went down to 8/minute but did not stop. So I had to titrate him to keep his breathing rate over 8 but not so low that he was in pain....What finally helped was a pastor who prayed over him, and he calmed down and died peacefully a few hours later without having to push extra narcotics to relieve his suffering.
However, with covid, you are not giving narcotic pain relief but anti anxiety medicine.
And the medicine cited causes respiratory depression in higher doses: in people already low in oxygen from pneumonia this can be fatal. However, relieving the suffering from air hunger is important, and can save a life because anxiety increases your oxygen consumption.
and there are traquillizers that do not slow the breathing.
and I have read some of these deaths were when doctors being phoned about a patient with covid and would just order the tranquillizer but no other medicine (prednisone, antibiotics).
This will have to be looked into because in the UK, there was a protocol for people with severe pain from cancer, but it was found that this was ordered for people with non fatal diseases or when the cancer was not terminal.
the dirty little secret is that once euthanasia becomes a treatment, then making someone dead is not seen as bad: and the elders, handicapped and critically ill are all at risk from medical staff that sees death as an optional treatment.
there is also a question if the ventillators were overused. But that is another question for another time.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 was designed with the primary goal of conducting close-up studies of Jupiter and Saturn in a five-year mission. However, its journey continued and the spacecraft is now approaching a half-century in operation.
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, making it the first human-made object to venture out of the solar system. It is currently travelling at 37,800mph (60,821km/h).
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 probes were both cutting-edge pieces of technology for their time. The computers at the heart of their operations consisted of three systems, each with dual-redundancy, that worked together to enable the probes to journey to Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond: the Computer Command System (CCS), the Flight Data Subsystem (FDS), and the Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACS).
What is amazing is that even after four decades of traveling through the harsh, sometimes unpredictable, environment of space, both probes continue to function and call home with new insights and data. It is taking longer and longer to be able to communicate and upload new routines to the probes, but the fact it is still possible with technology from a bygone era is a testament to the quality of engineering put into these spacecraft.
how old is it? It used Fortran.
The original software for the Voyager probes was written using Fortran 5 then ported to Fortran 77, and today there is some porting in C. Low-level, light-weight software is increasingly important as the probes move farther and farther away from Earth and communication becomes slower.
this is making waves on the internet since the miniseries is being released this week on Netflix. UKGuardian review here.
this is okay to publish, because it is about the Iran Contra scandal, and Reagan can be smeared,
But of course, the CIA has their fingers in the pot all over. The MENA cocaine connection with Clinton and the Southern Mafia won't come to light because Clinton is a Democrat, and was probably CIA when he was doing anti war rallies in London as a student.
CIA conspiracies will make your head spin: The problem: The CIA are after bad guys and will cut corners to win, because they think it will help the USA.
and the bad news: Destroying the CIA will mainly help the bad guys who are doing the same thing.
But if these bad guys (the rabid communists or rigid Islamicists ) win, the results will be a lot worse than if the US/West wins.
Can you say genocide children?
Here in the Philippines, Marcos is making nice with the USA because China keeps threatening us.
Obama stopped the Philippines from stopping China from moving into the West Philippine sea: because PNoy tried to be honest and cooperative with the USA and no one wanted a war, so he obeyed Obama and went to court, and won.... and China just ignored international law.
When Duterte won, the CIA/US MSM had a fit, and we saw a full court press to vilify him.
Ironically, his popularity among ordinary folk was high because the criminal and drug crimes went down, but hey don't expect the US MSM to notice fewer dead innocent people like my neighbors killed in home invasions by drug addicts, dying of overdoses, or kidnapped by gangs for ransom.
But I also have posted about the way Omidyar money (the same money helped to orchestrate the overthrow of the pro Russian Ukrainian president) set up Rappler (and later got the one who accepted that illegal money a Nobel Peace prize).
The CIA was busy trying to destroy Duterte, who hated the CIA for releasing a drug dealer from a Davao prison.
Instead of trying to help him get rid of drugs, they arranged to manipulate the press to demonize him in the usual way: Twisting his Pinoy humor as if he meant it, trumpeting innocent deaths in drug raids but ignoring the dead from drugs, ignoring that the Philippines was in danger of becoming a narco state when he took over.
all it did was to push Duterte to get help from China and Russia. China of course screwed him and didn't keep their promises and lied a lot about it. For example, in today's news China said that Duterte had okayed their presence in the West Philippine sea so if the Philippine objects they are wrong.
Of course, this is nonsense: A president can't do that without okay by the senate and courts, and China knows this, because that is what stopped them years ago: when they used the ZTE money to bribe GMA to let them do this, and the courts stopped them. Of course, after many court cases, GMA went free and the whistle blower went to jail for "corruption" but hey, the Philippines where anyone can be accused of corruption.
So today, AnnAlthouse comments on an interview (Which I have not seen) of Tucker Carlson by Joe Rogan, where the CIA connection to the JFK murder was mentioned. And they question why some documents are not yet being released; and then Tucker related that he was warned about releasing secret information by a lawyer of Mike Pompeo.
here's the interview, for what it is worth
hmm..
well, that might explain why President Biden denied secret service protection for RFK Jr.
and it might explain why suddenly there are a slew of court cases that popped up to accuse Trumpieboy of various stuff: All this stuff happened years ago and were deemed in the past as minor stuff or lacking merit or past the statute of limitations, but of course they changed the laws and reinterpreted the laws in novel ways to try to stop him.
Coincidence? I think not: And I suspect despite wall to wall demonization in the press, it won't work.
What really will destroy Biden is that the demonstrators who destroyed the cities are now becoming toxic and pretending Hamas and other Iranian terror groups are the good guys.
People might be sceptical about the Floyd murder riots but there is some sympathy because racism is a problem. But the wall to wall lies out of Gaza might not make people think riots proclaiming hatred of the USA and attacking Jewish students who have no ties with Israel is okay.
I don't think so.
PJ O'Rourke was once asked why conservatives don't demonstrate, and he quipped: Because they have jobs.
So who are funding all these student protesters? The elite students have rich parents, but the foreign students are being supported by someone.
No one wants to call those supporting Hamas part of a cult, of course. Just like the transgender cult, or the anti Vietnam protests of the 1960s it is a way for rich kids to feel like they are the good guys, and of course, they will never have to clean up the messes caused by their self righteous piety.
But the huge Trumpieboy rallies suggest they are out there. When these are noticed, those attending are called cultists.
Sigh.
Lots of corruption out there, and after the Twitter files were exposed for manipulating covid information, it looks like a lot more people are manipulating the news than the CIA....
an essay on the simple things we collect and cherish.
Moving a lot, I lost a lot of stuff, but the special photos and clippings I put inside my bible.
When I was babysitting my granddaughter, I would often put her on my lap and open my bible and show her the photos of the family and the places I had worked, and told the family stories that were behind the photos.
translation: Marcos is making nice with the US against China, who is threatening our resources.
China, of course, is also planning to invade Taiwan, meaning they can block the sea lanes more efficiently
and blackmail us (Manila is on the western side of the Philippines) and this doesn't even mention the internet cables going through that area;
in some ways, China blew it when they failed to keep promises of aid with Duterte: Now China is claiming Duterte had a gentleman's agreement they could steal the West Philippine sea from us, but there is a problem: NO paperwork, of course, and the president can't do that without the senate agreeing.
This isn't the first time they pulled this trick: The ZTE scandal with GMArroyo did the same but was stopped when our free press caught them at it.
But of course this year's execizes are more worried about the possible invasion of Taiwan than China's continued steal of the Philippine resources in the West Philippine sea. When they started making those artificial islands etc. President Obama told PNoy not to fight but take them to court. The Philippines won in courts, which sent China a nasty letter which they ignored of course.
since a nearby airbase is used by the Philippine special forces to teach Yanks jungle warfare etc, usually we know they are there when we hear planes and helicopters going over us.
And ironically, most of the training is about coordination between militaries, which comes in valuable when a disaster strikes. And this being the Philippines, disasters are always striking (earthquakes, volcanos, landslide, typhoons, floods). Indeed, disasters are so common we have our own Wikipedia page.
in the meanwhile, it is "TagInit", aka hot season/summer. It is supposed to go up to 100 F today. No not global warming: It does this every year.
And with the hot/dry season comes other problems; My airconditioner needs to be cleaned because it isn't working as well as usual.
But the city water got a leak, so we are without water. We do have a pump but it is not efficient. Kuya is too busy harvesting the rice to hire someone to fix it, so our handiman is trying his best.
We still haven't had electrical brownouts so that is good (usually the hydro electric power available relies on adequate water, which goes down during hot/dry season).
Oh well, I know how to shower with a tabo so no problem.
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update; also see yesterday's post.
Some of Chinese students in Cagayan were reportedly shelling out P2-M to obtain degrees with others not even bothering to attend classes amid worries about the reported surge of their presence there where there are two Edca sites @inquirerdotnethttps://t.co/XNlBF18UrS
The pressure of big Pharma, not just by their advertisements, but because they fund the studies that get published in journals, was pointed out by former editor of the NEJM, Dr. Marcia Angell, twenty years ago:
For two decades the drug industry was the most profitable sector; even in 2003 it came third, behind crude oil and banking. But now, Angell says, it is facing “a tidal wave of government investigations and civil and criminal lawsuits.”
She writes, “The litany of charges includes illegally overcharging Medicaid and Medicare, paying kickbacks to doctors, engaging in anticompetitive practices, colluding with generic companies to keep generic drugs off the market, illegally promoting drugs for unapproved uses, engaging in misleading direct-to-consumer advertising, and, of course, covering up evidence. Some of the settlements have been huge.”
