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He's talking about the Bubonic Plague that wiped out about half of the European population in the Middle Ages. Obviously, nothing whatever to do with COVID, but I'm sure he knows that.

And what does that have to do with COVID? Just asking for a friend.

Some people think it was the masks and the resulting bacterial infections that did most of the damage back then, not the "flu." Anyway, apples and oranges. The COVID thing was most definitely planned. All of it. In 1918, the authorities were just stupid, as usual.

Of course. That should be common knowledge by now for anyone who was paying attention. One guy who helped to invent the PCR test is of the opinion that, as used during COVID, the test was invalid. It could be used to show anyone tested positive of just about anything. And so, during COVID. lots of people tested "positive." And when those same people later died in the hospital, the hospital got big bucks. You could have been hit by a Mac Truck the day before and died of your injuries, but if you also tested positive on a phony baloney PCR test, you were classified as a COVID death. I forget the dollar figure the hospitals collected, but it was astronomical. $39,000? Something like that. It's easy to see how it world turn out.

Just a nobody congressman looking for his 15 minutes. And he thinks jumping on the "get Trump" bandwagon will be his ticket to fame.

With any luck, Trump will be able to solve the mail-in vote problem, or at least curtail a lot of the abuses. I put the whole COVID thing out of my mind a few years ago. I was one of the lucky ones that wasn't stupid enough to get jabbed, and that's the way it's going to stay, if I have anything to say about it. They can find someone other than me to "depopulate."

That's just the tip of the iceberg, if that. I won't lay out the whole thing, but as far as the hospitals go, sometime look into how they were compensated during COVID. A lot of money for every "COVID" death and even more money if the patient died while on a ventilator. And, at least according to some doctors, it was the ventilators that were deadly. And the advice they gave out during COVID didn't help much. I think they told people to go home and wait until they got really really sick, and then come back. Did they bother with Ivermectin or other possible treatments? Of course not. The "science" told them not to do that. Maybe. someday the truth will come out.

The food there is pretty good, and somewhat unique. Cajun, Creole, and other influences, all in one city.

I'm pretty sure most people don't realize how dependent they are on the grid, especially people in large urban areas. Maybe the grid can go down for a day and everyone will be OK, but what happens if it's down longer than that? Imagine NYC or LA with no power for a week. The food would be gone in a few days. All electrical appliances useless. No ATM machines. No stores open. No lights anywhere. Or imagine a big city like Phoenix, in the middle of the summer in the desert heat, suddenly with no power. 115 degrees F in the summer is fairly common. Only a few roads to higher elevations. Lots of people wouldn't survive.

Probably not. They have no plan.They have no ideas, other than to "get Trump." This congressman, whoever he is, is just looking for his 15 minutes. What ideas could they possibly come up with that would top their prior nonsense? How much further left can they go? I'm not sure what they're thinking, but it hasn't been working so well, lately.

Thailand is important to the US for geopolitical reasons. Strong military ties, a history of military cooperation, a US foothold in the region, and so on. It's not enough of a big deal one way or the other, economically, but in the larger context, it is important because of its location.

It absolutely does matter. The point is that the last thing the world needs is a destabilized situation in that part of the world. MAD only makes sense if both "players" possess an equal ability to attack and destroy the other. Do some research on game theory and why and how MAD works. In game theory, MAD is a situation where the only way to win is to not play the game. Correct? But, once the situation is destabilized by the introduction of short and intermediate range missiles close to Russia's western border and to critical parts of their early warning systems, that would give the West an advantage and make war more likely. In other words, it would be stupid to create such a situation in the first place. MAD needs a level playing field to be effective. And so yes, it really does matter where missiles are placed.

It makes a difference to Russia because shorter range missiles can shorten the time Russia would have to assess and react to an attack. Short and intermediate range missiles close to western Russia (containing parts of their early warning systems) would therefore have a destabilizing effect. MAD may be a good deterrent when rational players are involved, but only if there's a level playing field, so to speak. Short and intermediate range missiles close to Russia's western border make outcomes less predictable and would give the West a strategic advantage.

Apparently, it's not quite that simple. Sure, missiles can be launched from anywhere, but for Russia and its strategic defense setup, time is critical. Shorter range missiles would arrive at their targets more quickly and therefore pose a greater threat. And once missiles start to fly, it's a game of "use them or lose them."

Historically, no major invasions of Russia have come through Finland. They all come rough Ukraine. The last time Finland and Russia had a conflict, Russia didn't exactly win. So I'd say Finland doesn't really count, at this point. Putin's focus is elsewhere. Longer term, who knows? I'd say NATO may cease to exist. And even if they do, Scandinavia will be the least of Russia's worries.

It all seems silly to me. Take a look, sometime, at a map of Russia. Twelve time zones? They have all the land and resources they need. The last thing they want is a European entanglement. They tried that before and it turned out badly. It's simple. Russia wants a buffer zone. It doesn't want NATO missiles in areas where those missiles can pose a threat to the Russian strategic defense system. And yet the warmongers in the West want the war in Ukraine to continue. Big $$$$$ kickbacks. All paid for by the Western taxpayers, of course, who are now having trouble paying for basic necessities such as housing and food.

Probably a stupid question, but doesn't Thailand have its own pigs with intestines? Or is it simply a matter of saving a few baht by importing intestines that have not been properly inspected?

Do you think cancer treatment is free these days? Usually not. And why should the US taxpayers pay for that when homeless Americans are sleeping on sidewalks in tents and dying from a lack of medical care? The word has over eight billion people. What if they all show up in America? Do they all get Obama phones, free medical care and lodging, free health care, and $2K on a debit card every month? The average US citizen who worked all his life would be tickled pink to get such treatment. What does he get instead? A Social Security check that won't even cover rent and food in most cities, and a congressional representative that's more interested in visiting MS-13 gang members held overseas than in staying home and worrying about the problems of Americans.

Of course, they're already on the verge of bankruptcy. Spending billions on a revitalized military is just a recipe for trouble. For what purpose? To fight a ground war with Russia and possibly start WW III in the process when that didn't go as planned? Remember, it's one thing to fund military hardware. It's something else again to be able to advantageously deploy that military to fight a real ground war in Russia's back yard. That has been tried before, at least twice in modern history. Napoleon thought he could do it, but no. Hitler thought he could do it, but how did that turn out? And more recently, we have the Ukraine proxy war with the West. Again. the outcome was predictable. To fight a modern war, you need to be able to maintain supply chains. Fuel, equipment, repairs. It's a massive undertaking. Try doing that in the winter in that part of the world. Russia won't sit back and watch. The EU wouldn't be able to assemble and sustain a military force that had even a remote chance of success.

Sure, but did they cross the line? It's one thing to be a business, it's something else again to be a business that profits from death and actively participate in making that happen.

I didn't t read the article, but I've read enough of them lately. What it boils down to is that I never click on any links I receive in an email for any reason. If I want to check my account or whatever, I know how to do that.

Money. $$$$$$. That's how they survive, these days. Drug company payments. Sometime, look into how physicians are compensated by drug companies if they meet certain vaccination "goals." And if you're really adventuresome, look into how hospitals were compensated for every COVID "death." You could have just been hot by a Mac Truck and yet they would figure out a way to call your death a COVID death.

Fair enough, but it doesn't look they're now headed in a different direction with this election. So, when do they turn things around?

I have to admit, for the first 30-60 days of the Plandemic, they almost had me fooled. Maybe there really was a deadly virus spreading around the world. And then, from my Twitter feed, I could tell they were deleting information that didn't fit their narrative but was probably true. The first read flag, for me, was when they dismissed the fact that some huge percentage of patients who ended up in the emergency room had a very significant Vitamin D deficiency. That, coupled with what I already knew about viruses and the function of Zinc and Zinc ionophores in halting virus replication, and I smelled a rat. Valid information was deleted from twitter almost instantly, but not fast enough for me to read a lot of it. Fast forward a while and they started calling Ivermectin a "horse dewormer." Another huge red flag. Anyway, I fortunately didn't have to do anything back then. I wasn't employed and no one could make me take the jab. To make the grocery store people happy, I wore a mask when I went inside. The same mask for almost three years. I stocked up on Vitamin D3 + K2, Qucertin, and Zinc, and made sure I got lots of sun every day, which was easy in AZ. Since then, even more information has come to light, but I'll leave it at that. Just as soon as travel to Thailand was open again in July 2022, I hopped on a plane and got out of there. Exit, stage left. I wasn't about to be one of their victims.

Am I right in assuming that without subsidies from the USA, Canada will collapse? Isn't the economy there already in shambles? I wonder how long it will take?