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[Tom Mazanec]

Old Christmas Songs Playlist (The Very Best Christmas Oldies Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6g8H13lqpE

[John]

Thursday, December 22, 2022.

according to an epidemiologist from the firm airfinity interviewed on Bloomberg TV, covid is now spreading rapidly in China, overwhelming the health system (hospitals and crematoria ) in Beijing and Shanghai and in cities across the country. she says that they're expecting two peaks in the next few months. there are now something like 1 million to 1.5 million cases, which she says will peak at 4 million in mid-January. then she expects a second peak to occur in mid March, also with 4 million cases. she points out that the official numbers from China are not to be trusted, which is something we all knew anyway.

[NoMansLand]

​HomeIndia NewsPakistan's Ruling Party Leader Threatens India With "Nuclear War": Report
Pakistan's Ruling Party Leader Threatens India With "Nuclear War": Report
Edited by Debanish Achom (with inputs from ANI)Updated: December 18, 2022 7:00 am IST
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pakista ... rt-3616408

It seems the heart of this story is about men in the Pakistani and Indian governments calling each other names. Terrorist, Butcher, etc. The name calling is escalating on both sides into accusations of past or ongoing bad actions, and turning a blind eye to such. Now, a party leader, has chosen to "remind" everyone that Pakistan is a nuclear power.

Does it make a difference that this politician is a woman? I know that both cultures tend to be more patriarchal, and that both can be, in some instances, less than deferential to women. So how does this play over there? How does the average Pakistani man feel having a woman rattle a saber on his behalf? How does the average Indian man feel having a woman rattle a saber at him? At his entire country? Or, are things that westernized? Is she just a politician saying the words the base wants to hear?

[Guest]

China Could Be Preparing For Full Scale WAR - Chris Martenson
10,385 views Premiered 3 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxLKBEgifc

That's interesting, thanks Tom.
China is doing the sensible early preparations for war he says, such as securing energy and food, together with clamping down heavily on domestic information and creating a xenophobic population with the narrative of bad outside people who've historically oppressed them,
Interesting that they're rapidly reducing oil dependence from sea routes and supplementing with Russian oil. I wonder if those pipelines will be safe, as we're seeing lots of Russian pipelines mysteriously get damaged or destroyed.

The deciding point in this war will come when China decides Russia is more of a liability than an asset. They have their own problems, Putin can't be helping.

[FullMoon]

China Could Be Preparing For Full Scale WAR - Chris Martenson
10,385 views Premiered 3 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxLKBEgifc

That's interesting, thanks Tom.
China is doing the sensible early preparations for war he says, such as securing energy and food, together with clamping down heavily on domestic information and creating a xenophobic population with the narrative of bad outside people who've historically oppressed them,
Interesting that they're rapidly reducing oil dependence from sea routes and supplementing with Russian oil. I wonder if those pipelines will be safe, as we're seeing lots of Russian pipelines mysteriously get damaged or destroyed.

The deciding point in this war will come when China decides Russia is more of a liability than an asset. They have their own problems, Putin can't be helping.

Understand that China is probably taking advantage of and using Russia, as they are apt to do with anybody. They are getting cheap oil and are helping test the Western powers. Also, they're getting Russia weakened so that Siberia will be that much easier to take. Western powers are using up large caches of armaments and getting their economies undermined as political divisions weaken their resolve. Probably Putin is a pawn and his successor will be nasty. History has seen VERY much worse dictators in that country.

[Tom Mazanec]

FLOATING INFERNO Russia’s only aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on FIRE as infamous Cold War ship seen belching smoke in mystery blaze
Anthony BlairWill Stewart
Published: 11:01, 22 Dec 2022Updated: 12:22, 22 Dec 2022
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20835140/ ... -murmansk/

Russian Nationalists Reveal Everything Wrong With The Russian Military In Ukraine
BySebastien RoblinPublished2 days ago
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/12/rus ... -failures/

Kremlin says no chance of peace with Kyiv after Zelensky Washington trip
By REUTERS Published: DECEMBER 21, 2022 11:40
Updated: DECEMBER 21, 2022 12:02
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-725439

Ukraine’s Patriot Missiles Will Take “Several Months” To Arrive
BY
HOWARD ALTMAN
PUBLISHED DEC 21, 2022 9:15 PM
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u ... -to-arrive

Zelensky to Congress: 'Your money is not charity'
Tracy Wilkinson, Courtney Subramanian, Nolan D. McCaskill
Wed, December 21, 2022 at 11:31 p.m. EST
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/risky-ventu ... 57506.html

NEVER GIVE UP Ukraine war news latest: Putin’s Wagner Group ‘no better than Russian army’ as Zelensky vows he will ‘never surrender’
- Putin ‘readies hypersonic nuke missile for LAUNCH’
- Putin's massive 60 missile barrage causes ‘colossal damage’
- Drone will guard UK internet cables from Putin
Joseph GampSophie GableMatthew Aquino
Updated: 12:00 ET, Dec 22 2022
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6929252/uk ... t-putin-2/

From Bad to Worse: Mobile Air Defenses Deployed Around Moscow Russia
WORLD
HAL TURNER
21 DECEMBER 2022
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.ph ... cow-russia

2 minute readDecember 21, 202211:38 PM ESTLast Updated 13 hours ago
Taiwan scrambles jets to warn away Chinese air force incursion
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 022-12-22/

[Tom Mazanec]

That's interesting, thanks Tom.
China is doing the sensible early preparations for war he says, such as securing energy and food, together with clamping down heavily on domestic information and creating a xenophobic population with the narrative of bad outside people who've historically oppressed them,
Interesting that they're rapidly reducing oil dependence from sea routes and supplementing with Russian oil. I wonder if those pipelines will be safe, as we're seeing lots of Russian pipelines mysteriously get damaged or destroyed.

The deciding point in this war will come when China decides Russia is more of a liability than an asset. They have their own problems, Putin can't be helping.

Understand that China is probably taking advantage of and using Russia, as they are apt to do with anybody. They are getting cheap oil and are helping test the Western powers. Also, they're getting Russia weakened so that Siberia will be that much easier to take. Western powers are using up large caches of armaments and getting their economies undermined as political divisions weaken their resolve. Probably Putin is a pawn and his successor will be nasty. History has seen VERY much worse dictators in that country.

And none of those dictators were thermonuclear Superpowers. At most, Stalin had a few Hellbombs when he died, not thousands.

[FullMoon]

​HomeIndia NewsPakistan's Ruling Party Leader Threatens India With "Nuclear War": Report
Pakistan's Ruling Party Leader Threatens India With "Nuclear War": Report
Edited by Debanish Achom (with inputs from ANI)Updated: December 18, 2022 7:00 am IST
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pakista ... rt-3616408

It seems the heart of this story is about men in the Pakistani and Indian governments calling each other names. Terrorist, Butcher, etc. The name calling is escalating on both sides into accusations of past or ongoing bad actions, and turning a blind eye to such. Now, a party leader, has chosen to "remind" everyone that Pakistan is a nuclear power.

Does it make a difference that this politician is a woman? I know that both cultures tend to be more patriarchal, and that both can be, in some instances, less than deferential to women. So how does this play over there? How does the average Pakistani man feel having a woman rattle a saber on his behalf? How does the average Indian man feel having a woman rattle a saber at him? At his entire country? Or, are things that westernized? Is she just a politician saying the words the base wants to hear?

Very interesting analysis! They do seem like patriarchal societies.

[Tom Mazanec]

A battle over Social Security is coming in 2023, and some retirees are gearing up for a fight
Published: Dec. 21, 2022 at 3:38 p.m. ET
By Eleanor Laise
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-bat ... e=20221222

[Cool Breeze]

Thursday, December 22, 2022.

according to an epidemiologist from the firm airfinity interviewed on Bloomberg TV, covid is now spreading rapidly in China, overwhelming the health system (hospitals and crematoria ) in Beijing and Shanghai and in cities across the country. she says that they're expecting two peaks in the next few months. there are now something like 1 million to 1.5 million cases, which she says will peak at 4 million in mid-January. then she expects a second peak to occur in mid March, also with 4 million cases. she points out that the official numbers from China are not to be trusted, which is something we all knew anyway.

Do people not know what an IFR of 0.5% is, still, at this point? Ioannidis pre covid study, revisited again, the nothing burger (from October):

A new study on Covid-19’s infection fatality rate (IFR) by age from a team led by Dr. John Ioannidis, the world’s most-cited physician, estimates that Covid’s IFR in the pre-vaccine era was under 0.1% for those under 70—even lower than previously believed.

Dr. Ioannidis et. al. found that across 31 national seroprevalence studies in the pre-vaccine era, the median IFR was 0.0003% at 0-19 years, 0.003% at 20-29 years, 0.011% at 30-39 years, 0.035% at 40-49 years, 0.129% at 50-59 years, and 0.501% at 60-69 years. This comes out to 0.035% for those aged 0-59 and 0.095% for those aged 0-69.

Yes, it was the flu. No, no one should be or ever have been worried about it from a societal or generational point of view. Theplan was to fearmonger people into taking the real bioterror weapon, the jab.