@Whisper

But the mission was liberal hegemony. And, no, that's not just the way the mission was sold. It's the way the mission was carried out.

It was originally sold as "remove Saddam". There was a lot of "and then what?" being asked by almost everyone for the first year plus.

That "install a democracy they don't even want" crap was a pivot.

Persians

Persians are Iranian. Iraqis are Arabs.

Yes, it matters, but not for our discussion. Just a correction.

why [remove Saddam]?

I went over this many times already. See upthread.

setting up an assassination would cost 10 million dollars, maybe 25, tops

Can't. Against the law.

Additionally, one of the grievances against Saddam was his attempts to have two previous US Presidents assassinated (Bush 1 and Clinton). That would have been a pretty bad move to assassinate Saddam right after listing that among the grievances.

Why? Because you are enabling them.

Not at all.

You are supporting these missions.

I was a professional Soldier. As long as the missions given to me were legal, I had to complete them.

And this was legal.

Did bad people end up benefiting? You bet. They seem to find a way to do that no matter what, and some profiteers doing what profiteers do wasn't really my problem, and was beyond any power I had, whether as a junior enlisted Soldier or as s junior officer.

Any military member will fulfill the missions given, even by politicians they hate.

Civilian control of our military is one of the foundations of this republic. If the military picked and chose what orders to follow, eventually we'd be a military state.

I'm certain you don't want that.

You are closing your eyes to corruption.

I have done no such thing.

Saddam needed to be removed, based on what we knew at the time.

Bad people benefited from this.

Both of those statements are true.

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@redpillschool Gaaaah slow walkers... I remember going to some big show at the civic auditorium with a date's church group. When it was over we spent 20+ minutes slowly working our way down the grand 4 story staircase. At the bottom her church group decided the bottom of the staircase (still backed up all the way to the top) was the perfect place to stop, circle up, and start saying long goodbyes. I tried to pull a couple of them aside, two just looked blankly at me and the third said, "Oh, it's ok." and went back to it as teenage ushers also tried to politely move them along. (Stopped seeing the gal after that night for many reasons)

Anyway, Infowars was reporting off The Telegraph's article but both are tertiary reporters and neither cited their source. Always try to find original source material whenever possible. Cross check the quality and biases of your favorite news sources against the original material.

Primary source: The study itself

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752818 (PDF)

Secondary source: Article on the study university's website

today.duke.edu/2019/10/new-zealand-study-connects-walking-speed-brain-health-45-year-olds

@WanaxAgamemnon I wouldn't mind if it's poor quality. Like me, you are probably not getting money of it so don't stress about video quality imo. It's pro bono activity, so making best out of our research should be enough. What Klokov is saying on this videos is the most important.

If it comes to anyone abilities I wouldn't doubt that person only becouse his popularity. Clarence Kennedy has high numbers and he has been training under quality coach from Poland, so also his educational content is highly informative. I don't promote his business so I don't care about his coaching skills. For "sidebar material" it's quintessential to make best out of information publicly available. Also you might know that Oleksiy Torokhtiy has a lot of edu content on his yt channel. Personally I don't watch him too much.

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@destraht

It's an interesting ratio mate, but "world is proper fucked" status happens only when central banks lose control. That event occurs when 24hr borrowing markets freeze up, which is what kicked off the 2008 full panic. Once the banks cannot accurately price US Treasuries, which serve as the benchmark for every other piece of debt in the world, the overnight markets freeze.

Ask any (former or current) banker and they will tell you that the "repo market" or repurchase market is the signal. About $2-4 trillion USD trades there every day.

From source: www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/01/28/what-is-the-repo-market-and-why-does-it-matter/

A repurchase agreement (repo) is a short-term secured loan: one party sells securities to another and agrees to repurchase those securities later at a higher price. The securities serve as collateral. The difference between the securities’ initial price and their repurchase price is the interest paid on the loan, known as the repo rate.

Holding cash is, tautologically, expense for banks. It doesn't pay interest. However, if banks decide they need to hold $XXX in excess reserves, and their net position is short of that self-defined number, they exit the repo market and hold treasuries and cash. This means, in short, they stop lending. When there are a lot of people with Treasuries who want to use them as collateral for cash, demand exceeds supply in this scenario. The repo rate rises sharply. Suddenly, $2-4trn USD gets 3-4x more expensive.

THAT is when things collapse.

@firmware_pimp

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full ACEII receptor has high concentration in asian males

www.stripes.com/news/us/us-military-is-interested-in-bats-as-possible-defenders-against-bioweapons-1.542849 Two years ago the US military was interested in using bats to combat them as vectors of disease, ehen there was no clear evidence that anyone was doing research on bats as vectors of bioweapon vectors. www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2153562/how-pentagon-planning-using-bats-battle-against

Furthermore, DARPA already has a program on using insects as vectors of disease transmission www.newsweek.com/darpa-biological-weapons-insects-scientists-warn-1152834

For some reason DARPA has had much interest in bats as a reservoir for disease trnasmission. www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-01-04

www.grease-network.org/content/download/5407/40323/version/1/file/2017+cbep+spr+program+book_final.pdf They had a study on Bat-Borne Zoonotic Disease Emergence in Western Asia

USAMIIRD conducted research on how bats can harbor diseases without getting sick phys.org/news/2018-04-egyptian-fruit-genome-yields-clues.html

Furthermore, there was research coming out of the US on bat coronaviruses as late as last year www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30999711 The bats under research were known to migrate to China amongst other places.

Although it may seem like this study was funded jointly by Duke/Government of Kazakhstan, it recieves a great deal of funding through US military www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc6521082/ And duke plays an important role in DARPAs bioweapons program dhvi.duke.edu/our-programs/pandemic-preparedness/duke-darpa-pandemic-prevent-platform-p3 And reportedly the lab that ran this research was part of a biowepaons lab the US built in Kazakhstan www.salon.com/2013/08/29/the_us_is_building_a_bioweapons_lab_in_kazakhstan_newscred/

There is also evidence of the US developing bioweapons in cladestine labs around the world

www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/21/criminal-behavior-us-may-be-developing-biological-weapons/ dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/

In a report called "Rebuilding America's Defenses there is this passage: "combat likely will take place in new dimensions: in space, “cyber-space,” and perhaps the world of microbes…advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." archive.org/details/rebuildingamericasdefenses/page/n5/mode/2up

China was cited as "the biggest threat to our way of life" by two Pentagon officials www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/top-pentagon-official-china-a-threat-to-our-way-of-life-in-the-united-states

Russia accused the US government of running secret bioweapons lab to target chinese and russians www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2167058/pentagon-denies-russias-claim-us-running-secret

The have also been reports that the US military was collecting DNA samples from ethnic Russians and this was deeply troubling to the Russian gov www.mintpressnews.com/putin-questions-us-air-force-dna-collection-ethnic-russians/233946/

The US was also caught by the Chinese government in conducting Genetic tests on 200, 000 chinese farmers without their consent ahrp.org/article-30/

There is also evidence of US soldiers being in wuhan in october when the first official Coronavirus case was recorded www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/15/c_138473332.htm

Finally, there is no known evidence that the coronavirus came from Chinese bioweapon labs www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487

With everything put together it is safe to say this virus is not Chinese in origin and is likely an effort at biowarfare by the Americans that went out of control