As the relevance of SARS-2 recedes ever further, public health managers seek to apply the same risk magnification, testing, vaccination and hygiene regime to the flu. | Two weeks ago, NBC News posted a long and disturbing article about “What Covid taught scientists and the public about the flu.” It’s basically as bad as you can imagine. It taught them that “Flu transmission can be stopped” and thus that “Nonpharmaceutical interventions work,” that “Flu can spread via aerosols,” that “‘Long flu’ may be a risk,” that “Asymptomatic flu infections may be underappreciated” and that “People want to test – and they’re good at it.” In short, scientists have learned that if an excess of hygiene hysteria can be stirred up over one unremarkable virus, it can be stirred up over another, and there’s every reason to hope for a new pandemic party in the near future.

It’s a trend which has unfortunately been increasing over the past two years, and it is showing no sings of slowing down. In fact, official Government figures published by just 38 countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia, and most of Europe. show that there are at least three-quarters of a million people who have died suddenly in 2022 alone. | No, we’re not making this up. Just 20% of the countries in the entire world have recorded 0.75 million excess deaths so far this year. And there is one thing all these countries have in common. They all coerced millions of their citizens into getting the Covid-19 injection. Why is that significant? It’s significant because official government reports prove that Covid-19 vaccination increases the risk of death. We know this because the unvaccinated population in the UK have the lowest mortality rates per 100,000 population in every single age group. Even children. This probably explains why Europe has recorded a 552% increase in children who have “died suddenly” ever since the European Medicines Agency (EMA) decided they should be offered and coerced into getting the Covid-19 vaccine. But don’t just take our word for it. Take a look at the figures taken from all the official Government reports yourselves…

The Norwegian government has postponed the issuing of new oil and gas exploration licences for another three years as part of an internal political deal. | The minority government needed the support of the Socialist Left Party (SV) to vote on the budget and was forced to make concessions on sensitive environmental issues for socialists. ● As a result the 26th licensing round for new oil and gas fields will not take place until September 2025. Although Norway has displaced Russia as Europe's largest gas supplier, there is no talk of replacing Russian energy sources altogether. The Norwegians are not yet producing sufficient resources. Investors' hopes have been focused on untapped fields in the Arctic. Now a significant increase in production by the end of the current government's term is out of the question. ● Approximate Norwegian oil production this year is expected to amount to ~730 mln barrels and natural gas production to 122 bcm. By comparison, Russia exported 155bn m3 of gas and 1,675m barrels of oil to Europe in 2021. ● Oslo's refusal to develop new fields effectively leaves the EU without the ability to get [...] energy sources anywhere else but the US. So we will have to continue overpaying for "freedom oil" several times over. (www.DeepL.com/Translator)

Stoltenberg: Victory in war with Russia is prerequisite for Ukraine’s NATO membership | NATO Allies are currently focusing on providing Ukraine with immediate and urgent assistance…as any talks about Ukraine’s full-fledged NATO membership will be possible only when Ukraine prevails as a sovereign…nation. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated this today in Bucharest during a press conference following the two-day meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs…. 💬 “The most immediate and urgent task, is to ensure that Ukraine prevails….And to do so, we need to mobilize as much as we can, when it comes to military, economic, financial and humanitarian support to Ukraine. And this is exactly what we do.

[There will be NO victory for Ukraine. Russia has already seen to that. Ukraine as we knew it is gone. So historic Ukraine will never be a member of this criminal organisation. But a Ukrainian rump state, how about that? Only if it is useful as a launching pad in NATO's war against Russia. If this happens, they may be in for a big surprise. One more thing: Why this inordinate interest in a war against Russia? Whose war is it? We're asking, whose war really? -Editor]

■ Pentagon signs $1.2 billion deal on air defense systems for Ukraine
■ Debunking Lies About the War in Ukraine (Eric Zuesse)

Former CIA chief General David Petraeus told German newspaper Tagesspiegel about the US and European plans to end the conflict in Ukraine. [Extract:] 💬 "The fighting in Ukraine will end through negotiations. (...) However, neither [Russian President] Vladimir Putin nor [Ukrainian President] Vladimir Zelensky are ready to start negotiations at the moment. (...) When the time comes, the leaders of the US, EU, UK and other countries will work with Ukraine and Russia to create and implement a solution," Petraeus said (quoted by RIA Novosti). He added that the West would continue to support Ukraine both militarily and financially, and threatened Russia with continued economic pressure...(www.DeepL.com/Translator)

John Helmer | For the buffer zone to achieve the demilitarization of the Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in July that military factors, not politics, will decide. 💬 “I see no reason to question what President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, and reaffirmed a few days ago,” Lavrov said. “Our goals remain the same. And they will be met. There is a solution to this problem. The military know this.” ● In case the distinction Lavrov was making between political negotiations and military operations, between soldiers and civilians, wasn’t clear enough, Maria Zakharova, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, made it the target of her irony last Thursday. In her regular briefing for reporters, Zakharova was asked to comment on US weapons supplies to the Ukraine. 💬 “Something is wrong with this world if two women are discussing Stingers, MANPADS, SAMS, and HARM anti-radar missiles,” she answered the journalist. “As a reminder, scaling up its military supplies to Kiev and directly controlling Ukrainian forces, including the provision of real-time recon data, Washington has, in fact, become a party to the conflict in Ukraine." [...] The Kherson manoeuvre, announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Sergei Surovikin on November 9; the electric war campaign which has followed*; and the cutoff of troops, arms and supplies by train from Kiev to the eastern front, first announced by the Russian Defense Ministry on November 24, foreshadow how the military are preparing to establish the Ukrainian Demilitarized Zone (UDZ), its depth to the west of the Dnieper River, and the cities to be included in Russian-controlled territory. This is a future to be established by the Russian General Staff, negotiated and signed by military officers of the NATO-controlled commands in Kiev and Lvov. The outcome is an end to hostilities with an armistice that is not a peace treaty.

■ How the Ukraine Demilitarized Zone of 2023 Will Separate the Armies Like the Korean DMZ of 1953 (Yves Smith)
■ Putin's Remedy: A Fragmented, Toothless Ukraine Separated by a 100 Kilometer-Wide No-Man's-Land (Whitney)