For instance, Putin’s line that it’s the NATO threat vs. the creation of a new Great Russia. How about both? Putin may very well be worried about a growing alliance to his west, or he may think it’s a good excuse to gobble up land he believes belongs to Russia. The result is the same. He’s invaded what has been a sovereign nation for several decades, with disastrous results for that nation and for his own.

And, is it in America’s interest to become directly involved? I don’t think so; but I do think it’s in our interest to provide what indirect assistance we can. I gather that “globalists” are scheming to get us involved, or that’s what the theory is. What may be happening to “globalists” is that their paradigm is collapsing before their eyes. Nationalism is real, and globalist institutions and their gilded leaders can’t do much about it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_correlation_between_vaccines_and_the_ukrainerussia_war.html

When you look back over the last 60 years and think of anti-war types, they’ve been Democrats and other leftists. Also, when you look back over the last two years and think of pro-lockdown, pro-mask, and pro-vaccine types, they’ve also been Democrats and other leftists. With those two facts in mind (anti-war but pro-totalitarianism), you’ll find as fascinating as I did a poll out of Canada looking at the different responses vaccinated versus unvaccinated people have to the conflict in Ukraine.

Jack Posobiec tweeted out a chart based on data from EKOS Research Associates, a Canadian polling company, showing that the more vaccinated people were (three or more shots) the higher their rates of support for doing anything they could to support Ukraine, including western military involvement:
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The new Democrats—the people on college campuses like Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn—were not anti-communist. They were very pro-communist. They opposed the Vietnam War for two reasons: (1) As products of American academia they supported the Viet Cong; and (2) also as products of American academia, they opposed anything that would benefit what they were already viewing as an evil, imperialist, racist, sexist nation that did not deserve support.
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When the next major conflicts rolled around—the Iraq and Afghanistan War—the 1960s war protesters had completed their takeover of academia. They and the generations of students they had raised up opposed the war for two reasons: (1) They supported anyone who attacked America because they were another generation trained in anti-Americanism; and (2) they despised George Bush because he was not a Democrat so his war was automatically bad. (This is separate from whether the wars were wise.)

And then, along came Trump and COVID. The anti-war protesters from the 1960s and the 2000s despised Trump more than any other human being, ever (“worse than Hitler”). Additionally, the young’uns had absorbed the concentrated America-hatred of two to three generations of leftist academics. They embraced COVID, not just because they’re fearful people, but because they saw it as an opportunity to destroy Trump. They also quickly realized that COVID was giving them the political and social power they’d always dreamed of so that they could break down and remake America.

In both Canada and America, the new leftists, the ones who embraced COVID wholeheartedly, have in place hard-left governments that they support with religious fervor for sharing their dream of destroying the western liberal democratic experiment. These governments and their media outlets despise Putin. (Some possible reasons: the Trump Russia hoax; Putin’s hostility to gays; Putin not being a communist.) Conversely, these governments and their media outlets like Ukraine because, at least since 2014, it’s been a money-laundering nation (e.g., Hunter Biden + Burisma), which all corrupt government governments and ruling class people need.

The Canadian and American establishments are therefore propagandizing wildly for Ukraine and seeking to outdo each other in their rhetoric. (This is not to make Putin a hero. He’s bad too. They’re all bad. Only the civilians on the ground getting killed are the innocents in all this.)

Which gets us to the massively vaccinated’s strong support for the war. They trust the establishment figures who shared with them a hatred for the West, pro-Western wars, Putin, and Donald Trump. And if this ruling class says, “War is good,” well, damn! This war must be a good one.

I didn’t see any links in the thread, but have read several stories about this today.
The changes are because of a “coding error” that was counting the deaths that were not actually, you know, from Covid.
Whodathunkit?

https://notthebee.com/article/whoops-the-cdc-just-reduced-how-many-kids-it-says-died-from-covid-by-24-due-to-a-coding-error

There were several stories out, but I want to give NTB the clicks.

“It sure is great that we’re giving all our freedoms up to a bureaucracy that’s so efficient, accurate, and moral, huh???”

I’m with liz on this: “I wonder if some states are revising their death counts to avoid the count reaching 1,000,000 under Biden.”

They already redid the Covid counting protocols early in Brandon’s tenure so that it would look like cases and deaths were decreasing on his watch.

This one is about no longer using the PCR tests with cycles that were over-stating the number of cases — which was recognized as a problem very early in the pandemic.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/right_on_schedule_covid_pivots_for_biden.html

This is about the sudden unexpected (!!) discovery that deaths with covid are not the same as deaths from covid (which apparently are still being miscounted because of a coding error a full year later).
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/will_covid_numbers_now_shift_for_bidens_benefit.html

And I’m sure “Dr” Fauci has absolutely no idea why Senator Cruz is so angry with him.
(h/t PA+Cat)

In fact, this current revelation was deja vu all over again. (From a Red State post.)
https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/01/21/obama-may-have-begun-the-lowering-of-the-oceans-but-biden-has-suddenly-vanquished-covid/

It just so happens that—on the very day Joe Biden took office—the World Health Organization also released new guidelines ratcheting up the diagnostic criteria for COVID-19…

For some reason, as of today, the organization decided that those tests for the virus we’ve been relentlessly assured are the gold standard for detecting infection are, in reality, just a mere “aid for diagnosis.”

Clinicians now, not only can, but “must” also consider a wide array of other factors, like “timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts,” and even something called “epidemiological information”—whatever that exactly is—before diagnosing anyone with COVID-19.

WHO has also suddenly decided that, if you don’t show any symptoms, you’ll need to get a second test for confirmation as well…

if you look closely, you’ll notice these new tighter guidelines—though released today—were actually all typed up and ready to go on January 13.

Wonder why they waited a week?

It also demands we burn corn in our gas tanks.

Heartbreaking first-person testimony and photographs from the last journalists to leave the city.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-edf7240a9d990e7e3e32f82ca351dede
Mstyslav Chernov is a video journalist for The Associated Press. This is his account of the siege of Mariupol, as documented with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and told to correspondent Lori Hinnant.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.

We were the only international journalists left in the Ukrainian city, and we had been documenting its siege by Russian troops for more than two weeks. We were reporting inside the hospital when gunmen began stalking the corridors. Surgeons gave us white scrubs to wear as camouflage.

Suddenly at dawn, a dozen soldiers burst in: “Where are the journalists, for fuck’s sake?”

I looked at their armbands, blue for Ukraine, and tried to calculate the odds that they were Russians in disguise. I stepped forward to identify myself. “We’re here to get you out,” they said.

The walls of the surgery shook from artillery and machine gun fire outside, and it seemed safer to stay inside. But the Ukrainian soldiers were under orders to take us with them.

Well, thanks for nothing!
Now they’ll have to kill us for finding out.
Been nice knowing all of you!

Most all of us seem to agree that adversity can accelerate aging. Adversity from illness, or depression, even watching a loved one suffer from illness or pain. Illness, losing a loved one, moving, job loss,

It’s also obvious that medical costs are typically higher the longer something goes undetected. Early treatment is often less expensive treatment.

I have a theory that it will be very common for most 1st world folks to have annual blood urine and stool* samples checked; maybe even more frequent. Just as most of us see a dentist twice a year to make sure nothing is going wrong, most of us will have a blood sample taken and drop off a urine and stool sample at a diagnostic center. Maybe we’ll even do the blood sample ourselves, for drop-off.

I imagine most of us know someone (or this has happened to you) who learned some, essential enzyme, hormone, vitamin… was out of whack in their body. Iodine, potassium, zinc… Not all of our bodies make all essential hormones, enzymes, etc. in sufficient quantities and different folks likely have different ranges they can tolerate.

Imagine if your doctor had a database with analysis of a blood urine and stool sample from you from every single year of your life! You would know your baselines** and you would know with no more than 11 months and 30 days’ notice when something is increasing or decreasing.

*The Japanese are already obsessed with their stools and health. They even make toilets that take and test stool samples.

**I have a friend who learned he did not have a spleen when he was 50 years old. His son was having medical trouble and they learned the son did not have a spleen so they tested Mom and Dad. Turns out Dad didn’t have one, but Dad’s body was fine without one. Son’s was not. Baselines vary a lot across humans.