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@Robert

If you go to Sachs’s Wikipedia page, and scroll down to “Awards and Honors,” you’ll see it begins with…

In 2004 and 2005, Sachs was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time. He was also named one of the “500 Most Influential People in the Field of Foreign Policy” by the World Affairs Councils of America.

In…[Read more]

@Robert

More Putin propaganda. This time renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs explains how he knew immediately it had to be the U.S. who did it. He doesn’t use the words, but basically if you apply Occam’s Razor you almost have to arrive at the conclusion the U.S. did it.

While few countries do, both the U.S. and Russia have the means to sabotage…[Read more]

@Robert

I think you’ve been derailed by taking my admittedly clickbaitish subject line more seriously than intended or warranted.

My point, based on the Cochrane Library study isn’t really that masks don’t work it’s that the evidence they are effective in practice isn’t there.

“In practice” is crucial. Even if masks can work, most ordinary…[Read more]

@Robert

The White House denies Hersh’s allegations, as expected, and their motivation is twofold. First, it could damage relations with European allies who are suffering a very tough winter in terms of heating and the cascading problems in supply chains resulting from a severe shortage of natural gas.

Second, and equally if not more serious, to…[Read more]

Wow, you guys have really degenerated quite a bit, eh?  And here I thought atheists were supposed to be rational sorts.

Kudos to @Robert for trying, but trying to reason with anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-public health folks who’ve been sucking down Russian propaganda is just a never-ending Gish Gallop.   One is left trying to explain all of mi…[Read more]

@Robert

Dr. Campbell is hardly “just a nurse.” He’s a qualified medical pro at the doctorate level who is clearly well enough educated to read and understand academic articles in the medical arena. Besides, where is this low opinion of nurses coming from?

Poor countries aside, Campbell has discussed excess deaths in first world countries (the UK…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert There’s little comparison between a screening exam like a colonoscopy or a blood panel and someone whose life is hanging on by a thread while they wish and hope a kidney, liver, or heart will become available before the cascade of organ failures that will end their life begins.

That’s true of course, yet in so many of t…[Read more]

@Robert

There’s little comparison between a screening exam like a colonoscopy or a blood panel and someone whose life is hanging on by a thread while they wish and hope a kidney, liver, or heart will become available before the cascade of organ failures that will end their life begins.

@Robert

Gabbard is on Fox because the mainstream media (other than Fox) exists to serve the Democratic Party, which has people who hate her ever since she nominated Bernie Sanders at a Democratic Party convention. I don’t agree with her on everything, but she’s right about many things.

Dore and Qanan? Document that, please. I know what Qanon…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Don’t worry. Biden assured Zelenskyyyy that we’ll be spending more money than we have for as long as it takes (which will be when the military-industrial complex says “We don’t want to make any more money”).

We already spent that money mostly because of Russia. If Russia was out of the picture, we can reorganize to be able t…[Read more]

@Robert

Don’t worry. Biden assured Zelenskyyyy that we’ll be spending more money than we have for as long as it takes (which will be when the military-industrial complex says “We don’t want to make any more money”).

Unseen wrote:
@robert Much of what I described in terms of what modern Russia faces with/without Putin also applied to the old USSR and ended up turning into another America-engineered regime change.

Unlike the US and her allies, the USSR annexed the land it conquered from Nazi Germany into the USSR. They occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,…[Read more]

@Robert

Much of what I described in terms of what modern Russia faces with/without Putin also applied to the old USSR and ended up turning into another America-engineered regime change.

@Robert

Both sides have reached the point where pretty much only draftees are fighting with little or no training. The reason? Ukraine has lost almost all of its professional army over the last few months. They are being propped up by the West, who are increasingly giving them weapons we said we wouldn’t give them early on in the war for fear of…[Read more]

@Robert

You refer to a government (and, worse, military) source as evidence when…

They said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
They told us that we were winning in Afghanistan.
They told us that we were winning in Vietnam.

And from the administrations at various times…

They told us that NATO would be disbanded after the fall…[Read more]

@Robert

So, you view a government source of information to be reliable…in wartime? OK…

“The most senior US general estimates that around 100,000 Russian and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine.”

Given the vast difference in population size between Russia and Ukraine, which side do you think is likely…[Read more]

@Robert

Mixed use works for small towns or small areas within towns. Converting an American city—even a small to medium sized city—won’t happen. And that’s for political reasons as well as practical ones.

Who is going to tell Americans to spend most of their time within the distance of a 15-minute walk or even bike ride? Answer: No one who wan…[Read more]