The race of the police officer was “announced” when it wasn’t announced. As soon as it was apparent that there was a blackout (couldn’t resist) on the cops’ races it was then apparent what they must be.

The prison rape elimination industry is another bunch of nuts, though. Maybe the administration finally came to realize that. Eliminating prison rape is of course a laudable ideal, but the details of what they want are total belief in all allegations made by prisoners (a notoriously unreliable body), and staff and/or cameras at every point in a prison that a sex act could physically occur. Plus all sorts of social welfare staff to cater to the prisoners. The expense of all of this would be mind-boggling, and prisons would turn into something akin to giant child-care centers.

So let me get this straight, we are to intervene in Syria against the pro-Iranian Assad regime and in support of ISIS, while we already are back in Iraq supporting the pro-Iranian Iraqi government against ISIS. Seems like we picked sides in the Shiite-Sunni war and chose everyone!

Low performance at the tactical level in Vietnam was not just the low quality of recruits; all the World War II vets hit their 20 at the beginning of the war and punched out leaving the army bereft of good sergeants (especially since the WWII vets had jammed the natural promotion pipeline for so long).

The operational and strategic problems with the war were due to a failure of political leadership that senior military leaders refused to confront. There were war plans on the shelf for how to win the war but they were never implemented. Things like cut the Ho Chi Minh highway with ground troops instead of endlessly stepping on mines while hunting guerrillas in the south.

The biggest reason for our lesser casualty count was smaller exposure (fewer troops in contact) against far less competent opponents. When sending lots of troops to actually win a war against uber-competant Germans, one is likely to rack up huge casualty counts. Rotating the regular army to Iraq to patrol against buffoons whose only effective tactic is roadside bombs is not nearly as dangerous. As for the smarter army in Iraq, IQ scores for the military have dropped since the 1990s; the military which fought Panama and Desert Storm was probably our “smartest” military.

This just shows the power ranking of left wing identity politics. It’s been long-established, and now re-established, that race trumps gender in the grievance industry.

A disgruntled MOSSAD officer wrote an expose´ (“By Way of Deception”) that detailed how MOSSAD is small and poor, but punches above its weight by employing Jews to spy in their local countries and use their businesses to pay for it all. Sort of like how Pollard suddenly got employed on Wall Street or something. The actual professional case officers are very few in number, but who needs them when high-status Jews throughout the world will hook you up with either information or influence.

Don’t confuse professional intelligence agents, who in Israel’s case are very well vetted and trained, with the thousands of various contacts and assets they utilize. A German just got convicted for having been retained by the CIA; he worked as a mail handler for the German intelligence agency. The German was the asset, the actual “agents” worked in another country.

In an above comment I reference an expose´about MOSSAD that discussed their use of Jewish locals to augment their otherwise meagre operational force. That same book also alleges that Israeli intelligence had specific advance warning of the 1983 attack on our Marine barracks in Beirut and decided to not share the information with us. The book implies that it was done out of sheer indifference; but I would imagine such decisions would be made by people thinking about strategy and not emotions. If Israel had specific advance knowledge (or even just suspicion) of 9-11, it would be very interesting to somehow know why they kept it to themselves. My guess is because they knew America’s retaliation would be to Israel’s benefit, whereas thwarting the attacks would not trigger the same retaliation. So it is plausible that they decided to just sit back and watch while eating popcorn.

There are above and below level supports for women in combat positions.

1. The moderate American figures we are unlikely to need major ground combat ops anytime soon, so nice government jobs like in the military should be open to any “qualified” woman just like with police and fire departments. No thought, just the input of anecdotes of women succeeding and the cultural imperative of “equality.”
2. The more liberal idea from Senator Fulbright in the 60s “if we have a military that can go anywhere and do anything, we’ll forever be going somewhere and doing something.” So the inclusion of women might drum capability down so we surely wouldn’t invade Iraq again. So this dumb but apparently widely held idea goes. Plus, the military then becomes another civil service spoils, so for equality the girls should get their fair share.

The below level imperatives are:

3. The military ultimately is another (and huge) government bureaucracy. Those at the top are those who win at bureaucracy, not those who win at war. Women, and men who leverage women to defeat macho competitors, want women in combat positions to justify more women general officers.
4. Since the end of the draft, the civil service has taken over much of the military bureaucracy. They don’t like pushy macho military types bossing them around; and they like the added civil service responsibilities of more females in the military. Things like more health care, day care, and social services.
5. Finally, there are the actual feminists who are all over D.C. who want to deliberately de-masculine the military as part of their overall cultural marxist project.

On the positive side, as long as we have a volunteer military I suspect this initiative will have as much impact as opening the military to open gays; i.e. very little as few women actually want to be in combat (as opposed to those many women who are OK with some other girl being in combat) just as there turned out to be few gay men interested in working in the mud with a bunch of straight men.

Much of the “deadly female sniper” idea came from World War II Soviet propaganda. On closer examination is appears to have been largely nonsense to help morale, not any sort of accurate battle account. Full Metal Jacket was make-believe; the real Battle of Hue pitted Marines against a North Vietnamese infantry division, not female insurgents.

Snipers carry more, not less, gear than most infantry. This is because they need to sustain themselves in a hide site for a long period of time without moving much. They also carry heavier rifles, and often a secondary weapon (in case they need to shoot their way out of being discovered), plus their own long range radio. Shooting well is the least significant attribute of a good sniper.

Short answer, the only source for Soviet female snipers is wartime Soviet propaganda. Can’t find anything on it from the German side.

Longer answer, Glantz indeed has the best access to Soviet archives. His “Colossus Reborn” indicates that up to a million women served in a uniformed capacity during the war at one point or another (out of 35 million total) mostly in traditional roles and a few pilots. He has a footnote for a source that says about 100,000 women may have received “sniper” training (which might indicate marksmanship, not actual sniper, training). He has another footnote that yes there is anecdotal information on Soviet women in combat but he had yet to find conclusive archival information.

In addition to medics (which can mean anything from a front line medic to someone working in a rear area hospital) the WWII Soviets drafted women into all their signals units. This led to the practice of officers obtaining “field wives” from their radio operator ranks. Interestingly, the Israelis (who draft females) staff their brigade signals companies with young women, with apparently a similar “field wife” phenomena between the HQ officers and the supporting radio operators.

As a non-scientist reading this, I have to say I have yet to see where HBD and Mr. Chisala have incompatible positions. Hereditary basis to intelligence appears well established, to include variances in averages between populations. However, when we examine the “at first glance” anomaly of African immigrant achievement, we may be seeing the interplay of some genetic influence (e.g. Igbo over representation?), plus macro-environmental impacts such as influence the supposed Flynn and Super-Flynn phenomena, plus simply the exploding African population that would, when combined with the previous influences, result mathematically in a larger total number of smart Africans.

However, Mr. Chisala has been setting us up for his fourth installment in this series where he will provide his theory of why African-American academic achievement apparently halted decades ago and has yet to reach the average white score for IQ or other academic achievement. I for one am anxious to see what he has to say.

My own pet hypothesis is that development might differ by race. Physical development clearly differs by race, with blacks generally maturing earlier than white with consequent advantage in sports since early advantage in sports leads to early skill development. Perhaps mental development works similarly in some populations; and possibly opposite to physical development? As academic achievement relies upon early school mastery, later development would be little noticed in academia. This may not explain African immigrant data, but might play into African-American experience.

This whole “nation of immigrants” schema is arguably a Jewish cultural imprint on Americana. Before the 20th Century, Americans understood themselves to be a nation of settlers.

I don’t know about the Muslim world’s education program, but Charles Martel was once among the pantheon of men studied in western civilization. He not only stopped the Muslim invasion, but he was the grandfather of Charlemagne. I can remember my grandfather telling some poem about Martel stopping “the Moors at Tours.”

Given French military units that use Martel as an honorific, I suspect he remains better remembered in Europe.

But a heck of a lot of anecdotal evidence. Remember that case a few years ago of an army sergeant in Afghanistan who walked out of his little patrol base one night, killed a bunch of Afghans in a nearby village, then walked back in? It was learned he was a big steroid user as well. Not a lot of toxicology ability in that environment, and it was a PR disaster by the time they got him back to the states for court martial, so no way we could ever get scientific evidence of the role of steroids in his behavior.

My grandfather was big city cop 40s to 70s and spent much of that time walking a beat in the ghetto. Pulled his pistol once his entire career and never fired a shot on duty; but he could twirl his nightstick like a bandleader (and reputedly used it, hence little need for deadly force as you point out).

As for martial arts training for cops, that is what Tokyo’s police department is famed for; although they spend enormous time on it which is the major obstacle to its implementation here in the U.S.

Cops may not be “the brightest of folks” as you say, but they are far from the dumbest. Most non-rural police departments favor college degrees as a hiring filter since in today’s economy the police is a good job. In unionized departments, after you get your tenure you don’t even have to arrest anyone anymore if you aren’t motivated.

As for this problem you portray of cops killing a “lot” of citizens in transactions that ought not to have been deadly, I would be curious for some data. The only anecdotal cases I know of are SWAT raids on wrong addresses, and shootouts with crossfire that hits bystanders. And those are few cases (even giving that one can be considered too many). The cases of someone interacting with a cop for a minor issue that then escalates is not so much a wanton cop killing spree as it is stupid people being stupid. If someone has a gun pointed at you, would you run your mouth or be combative as much if it were not a cop?

Hmmm, hot young blonde manages to get older male has-beens to do what she wants because she mysteriously manages to appeal to them? Notice her board comprises people with government contacts, but nobody who knows anything about business or science. But all guys who probably more easily fall for some hot chick whispering in their ears and stoking their egos.

I perceive that a lot of feminism’s success is thanks to powerful but on the decline older guys who sentimentally promote females while simultaneously undercutting the up and coming younger males. Promote the cute and smart young female (who reminds you of your daughter?) and be happy while remaining in charge, or promote that fired-up young male who is seeking to supplant you.

Lawsuits create legal documents and sworn statements that reporters can use with fewer problems than when they simply quote people on the street. Court documents are also a one-stop shop for making a deadline. Thus, the lawsuits have a chance of returning this stupid story back to public awareness.

I first read it on a Facebook post by a guy I follow there. Then I heard an identical statement from a retired journalist. Or the other way around; about a week ago the reading and the telling happened so close together that it easily stuck in my mind.

There can be valid reasons to go to war. However, to avenge the brief detention of incompetent buffoons who drifted into another nation’s waters is not among those reasons. This was an embarrassment to America, but not because of what Iran did but because of what our own navy did. I suspect today’s PC navy will not have a board of inquiry that results in the relief of every leader in the chain involved in this demonstration of inadequacy, though. Nimitz must be rolling in his grave.

Today’s American military fails because it is not what you think it is. It is a huge government bureaucracy (comprised of large numbers of civil servants and civilian political appointees in addition to the uniformed military) that exists for its own internal purposes and that of the contractor benefactors. Above the unit level, nobody is concerned with victory in war, only in budgets and expanding fiefdoms. This is why today’s military is squandering billions on things like the F35 that will never work and asking for new bases in Europe while having troops gender-integrate and get “training” on not raping the just-integrated females. Little involved in there for war fighting. The special ops community does some occasionally competant war fighting, but they are targeted for social engineering to get them to stop.

As with any government database, the fact that some easy information is unavailable can be assumed to mean that the results would be what we presume they would be from their absence. It seems everyone reading this presumes the lack of H1B demographic data by sex is due to the fact they would show a tremendous male bias. I remember back in the 90s we got told we were switching to some FBI crime stat form; a three-page form was replaced with a much longer form that asked all sorts of demographic data on crime suspects. Yet race was strangely absent from an otherwise comprehensive questionnaire – transparently so the government would be unable to produce such data if asked.

I’ve often felt that a big part of pushing women in any industry or profession (like police or military as well as business leadership) is the desire of mediocre or otherwise threatened males to subvert other males. Look for example who is inflicting women in the infantry – nobody from the infantry but lots of civilian executive leadership of the DOD who probably felt threatened by more masculine males holding their ostensible superiors in contempt. Make an organization a certain percentage female and its male luster disappears and its high performing males go elsewhere.

Of course Hillary will get an overwhelming amount of the gay vote; there are persistant rumours that she is herself either a lesbian or has had bisexual relations and that’s enough to trigger gay tribal loyalty.

As much a role as cronyism and bureacratic agrandizement have in the increase in admistration, don’t forget the role of federal regulations. All those regulations end up requiring administrators to track or enforce compliance and mandatory reporting. Part of the solution would be for the Department of Education (and parts of the Department of Justice) to also be reduced as a first step.

The Royal Navy, with some minor assistance from the fledgling US Navy, put the stop to the slave trade. Part of this accomplishment required colonizing pieces of West Africa. So white people stopped slavery, yet get blamed for it.

All sorts of facets to the decision to drop the bombs. Roosevelt wanted Soviet participation in the war against Japan from the beginning, and probably didn’t want Japan weasiling out of the war before that happened. So plenty of “FDR was a commy agent” room for theorizing, especially given the importance of the August ’45 Soviet invasion of Manchuria in the ultimate triumph of Chinese Communism.

The other thing to remember is that Truman was simple guy. We had an invasion plan moving inexorably forward, and nobody could answer this question “if we made the atom bomb and kept it secret from everyone [except the Soviets] then how do we know for absolute certainty that Japan isn’t about to do the same?” In other words, once we had the bomb, it pretty much had to be dropped absent an immediate Japanese surrender. Not to mention the threat of Japanese biological warfare possibly someday amounting to something – why wait to find out when you can end the war right now?

Some of the more commonly named-names are Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, and Harry Dexter White.

Slightly OT, but I’ve noticed that all the MSM Orlando shooting talk has been either about homophobia or gun control. However neither appears to be a factor. The gun control angle has been addressed here before, but the fact the shooter chose a gay club on Latin night appears from available evidence to be a matter of picking an easy target, not homopobia. Granted, the shooter’s father has expressed typical Muslim attitudes against homosexuality, but the shooter himself appears to have been gay. He reportedly drove around several possible targets that night and probably settled on his gay nightclub hangout because it was a target rich environment that he was familiar with. All his communications before and during the shooting referenced ISIS or US bombing of Afghanistan, never anything against gays. He seems to have shot the club patrons becaus he saw them as American infidels, regardless of how the victims may have self-classified.

I cannot now find where I first saw all this. But some quick Google found the Orlando Mayor reporting that the shooter had driven around the city to other sites before the shooting

http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/orlando-nightclub-shooting/486713/

And another report is that the shooter’s wife claimed their April trip to Disney was to “case” it as a possible attack site

http://nypost.com/2016/06/14/orlando-shooters-wife-knew-about-his-plot/

1. We all know this isn’t about “accessing more capable Americans as potential recruits” it’s about further politicizing the military. The left hates the military – it represents one of the vehicles of western ascendacy and its ranks typical schew politically conservative. So they picked up where they left off in the Clinton admin with socially re-engineering the military into another liberal jobs program.

2. Keeping with the “liberal government jobs program” re-engineering of the military, that they will lose wars is probably seen a a feature, not a bug.

3. How many people will flood the military to take advantage of the free sex change operation, and then get out? So just that much more deadweight in the ranks.

But keep heart, dropping the “don’t ask” policy really just revealed that many career females were lesbians, while dissapointingly few males have come out. I am curious how many transexuals actually are either already in the ranks or will now seek to join. I suspect not many.

Isn’t the HBD assumption that all those successful Jews marrying hot gentile wives is what has driven down Jewish achievement? Although the obervation of no longer being “hungry” is also apt since Jews command such overwhelming percentages of power postions in America – similar to WASPS at the beginning of the 20th Century. Perhaps the Jews are the new WASPS, and the Asians are the new Jews? At least that was what I thought Unz was driving at.

The gradual introduction of greater padding (especially helmets and shoulder pads) changed American football to the point where it is today such a vastly different sport than rugby. I like to use the comparison of the change in boxing from bare-knuckled to today’s gloved version in the late 19th/early 20th century. Rugby/football or bare knuckled/gloved boxing may appear broadly similar from afar, but the change in hitting allowed by the pads changed the game dramatically. Interestingly, the padded versions of the two sports resulted in worse and more numerous injuries.

To be historically accurate, you mean what the SA (Sturm Abteilung or storm detachments) were to the Nazi Party. The SA were party, not government, people. The Gestapo were government employees for the “secret state police” which Gestapo was the official German acronym for. The Gestapo equivalent today for the Democrats would appear to be the FBI.

I share the somewhat dismissive attitude towards this. The military was just beginning to develop the SIOP, and apparently figured out that prior intell about Soviet capabilities was wrong and likely to stay wrong for another couple of years. In any fight, whether a street fight or global nuclear war, tactical advantage accrues to he who can hit first. Moral (and hence political) advantage accrues to he who gets hit first. So the intersection of military and political strategic planning is how to reconcile those two contradictions (defense in depth to absorb a firrst hit? False flag to justify your own first strike? Advertise an actual grievance to justify first strike? Claim rightly or wrongly that you were pre-empting the other side’s first strike?). Looks like in 1961 they talked about it and then didn’t do it. They would talk about it again in 1964 WRT China’s development of nuclear weapons, and again in 1969 when the Soviets proposed a joint nuclear attack against China. They’ve probably talked about it many other times as well.

Besides, military plans tend to look different once the politicians implement them. Look at the disparity between the military’s plans to fight the Vietnam War and what the national leadership actually did (https://www.amazon.com/American-Plan-Victory-Vietnam-Implemented/dp/1482795329). Above comments about the realities of actually conducting a global nuclear attack (especially in the technology’s infancy in the early 60s) are apropos.

What I really find potentially fascinating in this story would be if there is a tie to Soviet intelligence picking up on this similar to the 1983 Able Archer crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83). If, as in 1983, some Soviet leaders really believed that the American first strike discussions reflected an imminent attack then the JFK assassination looks a lot different. The most plausible “conspiracy” theory about the JFK assassination is that the KGB engineered it (https://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Kill-Harvey-Kennedy-Assassination/dp/1566637619). However, the basic counter is whey would the KGB have killed a leftist president who was trying to attain early detente. However, if they believed him about to attack it makes more sense.

The Patton death’s comingling of trails to both government and Soviet fingerprints (with perhaps some of the same possible suspects being linked to both i.e. an American official who is a communist working with the NKVD) matches another high-profile but unclear death – JFK’s. Indeed, putting blame into neat categories may be the obstacle to figuring out what happened when key players may have worn several hats. For example, a mafia member who does freelance work for an American intelligence agency yet whose contact is a communist infiltrator who works along the suggestions provided by a NKVD/KGB contact; in whose interests does he work?

I have to back Ron on this one. Patton (and also Simson who commanded the 9th Army) were more competant than the Army’s “in crowd” of 1st Army (Hodges), 12th Group (Bradley), and Ike. With Patton’s death, the histories were written by the in-crowd. That is where Patton is historically important despite being a “mere” field army commander in a war of even larger formations.

As to the Soviet Army at war’s end, it was a shambles in Europe. The best part was being transferred to Asia to invade Manchuria, while what was left had been shattered in the final offesnive against Berlin. The Soviets would require more than a generation to recover from the casualties inflicted by the Germans. They had shot their bolt in Europe and while I wouldn’t think a third world war on the heels of the second would have been wise, a firmer stance against the Soviets was possible.

Or as we said in the army while on staff duty, “none of us is as dumb as all of us.”

Zhukov. He commanded the largest armies in history’s largest military operations in history’s largest war. And he ultimatelly won his war. You can’t put Western generals even in the same category for never having engaged in the type of epic operations Zhukov conducted. Take away Zhukov, and maybe Germany’s last stand on the Oder River holds long enough for an accomodation with the west.

I have had the impression a chunk of Antifa is the unemployed (from their protest jobs) prior gay rights activists. Remember how ruthless, if unimpressive looking, the gay rights vigilantes were? Antifa seems to have sprung up right after gay marriage was passed. It might explain why they look wimpy but are very nasty. Also why they expect the press to cover for them. Now who funds them is a more interesting question.

Given how the CCP has been paying off Democrats for decades, it may be the same thing.

The couple are reportedly lifelong Democrats but apparently that won’t help them. They are lawyers who sue people though so maybe they will manage…

Another thing, pre-school was not really much of a thing in Saddam’s Iraq. Children stay with their families.

I assume you are referring to the “50 day siege” planned by some Occupy Wall Street offshoot to start September 17th?

Theory 1: Deep state/DNC anti-Trumpers conspired with Chinese communists to use COVID to bring down America thus causing Trump to lose the election. Evidence being DNC complicity with CCP (like that spy who was a driver for Feinstein) and the MIT guy charged with colluding with the Wuhan lab. Plus the obviously pre-coordinated Antifa/BLM riots all summer.
Theory 2: The Israelis did this to attack Iran, and it got out of hand blowing to China and thence the rest of the world.
Theory 3 is the one Mr. Unz has supported, that Trump was in on it with the rest of the deep state to attack China as part of our trade war, and it blew back on us.
Theory 4 is the one promulgated in respectable society yet few believe: that a rare bat virus mutated in China and then spread around the world.

I ordered those theories in my personal rank of most to least likely.

Thanks for the correction. I think his theory works with or without Trump involved but does work best without.

It could tie into the theory I posited in comment #15 above about a combined CCP-DNC/deep state operation. I said MIT guy, I think you are correct it was a Harvard guy.

Dems are pro-war because they assume only Republicans will enlist and fight/die. They see war as a “two-fer” killing Americans they hate as well as foreigners they hate.

I have often put on my tinfoil hat and wondered if Lewinsky was a MOSSAD asset used to blackmail Clinton.

Like International intervention from a country with the numbers to do so, the media and at least one political party already bought, and a desired outcome? Like maybe China? They could place “volunteers” on the west coast to support the antifa they may be helping to bankroll.

I wonder if the increase in white men voting for Biden was that was who the Dems pulled from old death lists to fabricate mail in ballots.

It is pretentious and boorish behavior by our alleged next First Lady he is pointing out. The other women you mentioned did not use a pretend advanced degree as a putative PhD or MD for those who didn’t know better, and the only real complaint generated against Trump was his boorish behavior over the decades. Now TPTB want to foist a decrepit and corrupt mediocrity led by his boorish wife on us and it goes without remark by our MSM which launched a four year moral panic for every Trump joke or disparaging tweet.

The panorama of the last year is getting a bit clearer:

1. Covid, either planned or “never let a crisis go to waste” pandemic from China, allows massive amounts of mail ballots and also permits crashing the economy.

2. BLM riots using clearly bogus pretexts are instigated by media and financed by (China? Democrat mega-donors?) and led by Antifa (another suspicious operation) to create no-go zones in Democrat urban areas.

3. Polls in Democrat urban areas use the harvested ballots from #1 above, and the immunity conferred physically by #2 above (and legally/media-wise by same BLM movement since the poll workers are mostly black and thus not to be impugned) to effect the vote steal.

4. Massive security for the inauguration, since apparently nobody believed QAnon more than Democrats, suggesting whomever is behind Q had some tantalizingly accurate accusations.

Seems pretty simple actually.

While higher speeds on empty roads might account for some increase in traffic deaths, higher speed alone is not causative – you still need to get into an accident for the higher speed to have made things worse. I think folks have been drinking a lot more in quarantine (more accidents) plus the greatly and obviously reduced traffic enforcement resulted in less careful driving overall.

My observation was there was no law enforcement on the highways here in the midwest most of last year. And having come from the East where cops look upon traffic enforcement with disdain (often as a punishment assignment when your sergeant is upset with you), I was surprised moving here how traffic enforcement is law enforcement’s primary activity. After last April it vanished. Two weeks ago they returned in force, couldn’t go two exits down the highway without seeing a stop. Everyone has slowed back down.

I first assumed the cops were back out because Biden was installed. Learned from a police friend what really happened was a federal grant to fund greater traffic enforcement. Although, that likely was also politics related – cops are mostly unionized and unions support dems. Cops as individuals are conservatives and took face-shots all last year. Traffic enforcement overtime pay might be a small payback for the police unions. We shall see.

Yet women think men are the babies. In my family, I go to work (as socially distanced and face-masked as it is) while my wife has stayed home this whole time. I come home in December feeling a bit weird like I was coming down with a cold, and was accused of merely having the “man flu.” For those who don’t know, the “man flu” is what we men get that our women decide is just sniffles and we are being babies about it.

Turned out I had just started to be symptomatic with COVID. Then gave it to wife and daughter. Wife ended up being sickest out of all of us. So I went from having the “man flu” to being the jerk who must have not followed some dumb rule such that I brought COVID home and made others sicker than myself.

I concur; I think it was a bioweapon operation but with a US element working with a Chinese element. The same people now run both countries.

While I find the idea that COVID was a neocon attack against China and Iran, I think it even more plausible that it was a neolib attack engineered with the connivance of the CCP. Hence the use of Wuhan. The objection that the CCP would not attack their own people I find unpersuasive by itself and besides they may have underestimated their ability to contain it (they seem to have done well anyways). Iranians could have gotten it inadvertently, or as a side operation. The American side I see as DNC related. Democrat controlled areas worked in perfect synchronicity with lockdowns, media operations, and the related BLM/ANTIFA operations. In sum, I think COVID was a DNC-CCP biowarfare operation in conjunction with other operations to gain control of the US.

Ummm, if my suspicion of DNC-CCP colusion of some sort is in any way correct, the WHY would seem to obviously be a combination of Democrat victories in the Nov 2020 elections and subsequent extreme liberal agendas immediatelly implemented, plus CCP advances in their own realms (reduced trade war, solidify advance to first island chain, less Silk Road opposition, etc). Moron.

I agree that all the public evidence suggest a biowar event for COVID. However, I still suspect that the explanation can be a neo-liberal versus neocon engineered event. At the operating level they may be the same people even if they are entirely different at the public pundit level. The Democrats are the beneficiaries of COVID, and they acted immediately in ways to maximize the damage of covid and their own benefits from it come the elections. Antifa, BLM, blue state lockdowns, election shenanigans, all came out perfectly planned and coordinated with supporting media. I never sensed the democrats to be that competent before without a plan.

Ya know, given the heavy British involvement in Russia-gate and fake Syrian chemical attacks, the Russians might actually be onto something other than merely flinging wild accusations as the story implies.

The “Biden” regime is retreating globally not to rationalize strategy or improve the US Military. They are doing so because they were the greatest believers in the QAnon conspiracy and thus want to make the military as “woke” as possible so as to unleash it against their domestic opponents. That such a “woke” military is useless in actual combat is irrelevant to them.

I have read (but cannot currently find) a hypothesis that long hair suggests good protein intake and processing (or some similar attribute) that provided the evolutionary basis that made long hair in women attractive to men.

The most compelling indication of the “conspiracy theory” that China had involvement in the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020 and the Nov 2020 election frauds is their apparent anxiety about Trump figuring it out and lashing out in his last month. They thus activated their Democrat allies (like Pelosi) to tell corrupt Milley to prevent Trump’s ability to do anything. Just like in summer 2020 when the military announced they would do nothing about actual domestic insurrection in many US cities.

Trump was never a threat to his enemies; he could never even figure out who they were.

Chicago gangs and politicians have long been supportive of each other. These gang bangers let off the hook are probably associated with one of the Soros organizations that organized BLM/ANTIFA riots last summer. They may even be soldiers in BLM and/or antifa. Of course the Soros DA had to let them go any way she could figure out.

My operating theory as well. I think COVID has to be seen in combination with the fake BLM/ANTIFA riots of summer of 2020 that created “no go” zones in critical urban areas where the vote fraud was then conducted in safety.

Antifa is the para-military arm of the DNC, funded and organized by their donors such as Soros. There is no real comparable right wing counter because law enforcement’s primary mission at the federal level is to infiltrate every attempt to organize such a thing.

Our deep state consists of a lot of pampered chickenhawks who have never even been in a schoolyard fight. They thus come up with such silliness as gradual escalation. After the Cold War ended, the Poles revealed the Warsaw Pact’s plan, which was to use nukes on day one since they knew that the war would ultimately end with them being used anyways.

Not paying attention to Ukrainian war reports as we can trust none of them. But as for soldiers killing a bicyclist, I know first hand how it can happen. During a foot patrol in Iraq around midnight, a teenager on a bicycle came barreling towards us. By the ROE we could have blown him away (and others in similar incidents did just that). We were yelling at him to stop and blinding him with flashlights, but still he came to us. As the leader of the patrol, I just had a “sense” that this wasn’t a suicide bomber but just a dumbshit kid who was too shocked and scared to stop or turn away. So I stepped forward and as he approached I knocked him out with my rifle butt. Dumbest thing I ever did, but I was lucky since he was not a terrorist as we ascertained after searching him. Later my guys were pretty split on whether we should have shot him or not, since if he had been a suicide bomber I let him get close enough to blow us all up. We knew we were always being watched, so if it had happened again we would have opened fire on assumption some terrorist was trying to take advantage of a pattern we had just set.

The Cuba analogy is poor for today’s Ukraine. In addition to Lourdes SIGINT the Soviets had their entire 7th Special Motorized Rifle Brigade present in Cuba to defend it, along with who knows what else they had in Cuba. They also supported the export of Cuba’s army to serve in proxy wars in Africa so whatever advisory and infrastructure support that entailed remained after the 1962 missile crisis as well.

As we are already over 100 comments not sure if this was mentioned, but the argument that we do not see current increase in overall all-cause mortality, after substantial rise in same during the pre-vax COVID period, does not prove the vaccines are safe. We should be seeing a comparable decrease in all-cause mortality because COVID essentially killed people in 2020/2021 who mostly were destined to die between then and say 2023. It shaved 1-2 years off old people’s life expectancy so we should have a lowering of all-cause mortality now; but we do not. That delta between the lowering we should see, but don’t, thus constitutes a plausible rise in all-cause mortality possibly from the vax.

Secondly, look at the age range in all-cause mortality. It appears skewed to younger cohorts (who took the jab and now suffer from it).

The confound to all of this is the increase in homicides, accidents, drug overdoses, suicides, and consequences of deferred medical services.

Also, the argument against the vax is two-fold. One is the threat of myocarditis and similar clotting type issues which we may be seeing now in younger cohorts. The other is the damage to immune system from the “immune imprinting” of the vax resulting in serial re-infections as well as susceptibility to other diseases so over time we risk ever-increasing rises in all-cause mortality.

Bottom line, the mRNA vaccines may have made sense for old people, but not for anyone else. Mandating them for young people is at best ignorant, at worst criminal.

Might the worsening Hispanic stats be partially due to continued (uncounted) immigration bringing in people less onboard with the “get a job and keep your head down” attitude a lot of the 1990-2008 Mexican immigrants had?

Maybe the turks want to influence private schooling and/or test prep?

I have always wondered what really happened as I was personally almost involved. I was an army lieutenant stationed in Germany, and my company was ordered to prepare a detachment, with me in charge, to deploy to Rwanda to participate in a larger US Army operation. We sent a senior NCO to Kenya, which was being set up as the staging base, with a small team that included a senior general to establish the initial logistics. Long story short, after much preparation the whole thing was called off. When our NCO returned from Kenya, he said the general they were with was constantly in contact with “the pentagon” yelling that the true situation was confused and not a good place for the army to go. The excuse given for the stand-down was newly discovered epidemiological dangers that were too difficult to overcome on short notice.

I participated in the Balkan Wars. First as a US Army attachment to the UN peacekeeping force, and then later in a regular unit as part of the NaTO intervention. It was the experience that led me to realize at a young age that everything is bullshit. The incident that led to NaTO air strikes was an obvious false flag (or accident leveraged as such) to most UN people there at the time. In NATO, the conventional army was not onboard with anything beyond actually keeping the peace as per our mandate. However we were aware of shadowy units hunting Serb “war criminals” and even once hosted a strange FBI female agent with her Croat-American lesbian lover/international criminal court liaison who were fanatical about arresting Serbs and were upset we were indifferent to doing so for them.