Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230208/live-updates-death-toll-from-quakes-in-turkey-and-syria-exceeds-7000-1107062119.html

On 6 February, south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria were rocked by a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, several powerful aftershocks and then another earthquake causing unimaginable devastation. | The earthquake toppled thousands of buildings and has left more than 8,000 dead in both countries. The death toll is expected to climb as more bodies are recovered from the rubble. Many international organizations and world leaders have offered assistance to the Turkish and Syrian authorities to deal with the consequences of the disaster. Turkey says it was the most powerful earthquake recorded in the country since 1939. It was followed by more than 78 aftershocks and a second quake of 7.5 magnitude.

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/571153-medvedchuk-zelensky-ego-ukraine/

Viktor Medvedchuk | The country was plunged into a fire for the inflated ego of this man | President Vladimir Zelensky condemned Ukraine to destruction in the name of Western interests because he is too incompetent and ambitious to govern it properly, exiled opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk believes. Zelensky was elected in 2019 as a “peace candidate” who pledged to put an end to the warmongering policies of his predecessor, Pyotr Poroshenko, Medvedchuk, who was the leader of the banned Opposition Platform – For Life, wrote in an article published by RIA Novosti on Wednesday. But instead of becoming “a sentence” for Poroshenko, which was his campaign promise, Zelensky became a sentence for Ukraine, the politician said. The new leader had a mandate to rebalance Ukraine’s political system and make the country neutral and peaceful, Medvedchuk wrote. But this required a boring routine and difficult work. Zelensky “failed to put the nation in order, and found that blaming Russia rather than his own incompetence for the problems” was easier.

Link: https://t.me/EvPanina/8366

Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | Historical parallels: Kursk-1943 - Bakhmut-2023 | The upper photo shows German Ferdinand SAU shot down near Kursk in 1943. On the lower photo - Latvian SAU M109A5Ö, transferred to AFU and shot down near Bakhmut in 2023. The two photos summarize the whole point of the West's wars with Russia. History repeats itself. We will have to answer the challenge again, just as we did 80 years ago. It will not be easy. But our cause is right. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours! (Translation: DeepL.com)

Link: https://linhdinh.substack.com/p/if-only-normality/comments

Linh Dinh | [Siem Reap, 2/5/23] When Princess Bajrakitiyabha collapsed last December, I was in Chennai, India. Returning to Thailand two weeks later, I expected news of her death to dominate conversations. The palace never admitted she had died, however, but was just in a coma, and Thais were urged to pray for her recovery. Everywhere across the kingdom, shrines with her portrait have mushroomed. You can even find them at schools and shopping malls. As of 2/6/23, the princess is supposedly still alive, though unconscious, and if you’re inside Thailand, it’s literally a crime to challenge or question the king, so she isn’t dead until he says so. ● Tyrants don’t just control lives, but information, and here, I’m also talking about the entire West, of course. When a Pfizer employee was recently taped boasting about Jewjabbing crimes, YouTube deleted the evidence, “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.” With so much pushback against Covid lies from the Jewjacked media, YouTube disabled its dislike button 16 months ago. YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, is Jewish. Did I just commit a hate crime? Is Jewish a hateful word?

■ Thailand to become first country in the world to declare its Pfizer contracts null and void

Link: https://t.me/russianhead/11027

The West imposes brutal sanctions against Syria, debilitating & ruining every aspect of Syrians' lives, in addition to stealing their oil, backing terrorist groups & creating the unnecessary war on Syria in the first place...and after the tragic earthquakes in the region, who helps Syria? Those vilified by the hypocritical West: Iran, Russia, Iraq, Lebanon, & Syrians themselves (although, thanks to those damn sanctions, fundraising efforts by Syrians abroad are nearly impossible). * Russian Ministry Of Emergency Services Personnel Get To Work In Syria. 50 personnel and three search-and-rescue canine crews arrived in Syria on Tuesday to assist with emergency operations following the deadly earthquakes that struck the country. Earlier, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu ordered Russian military personnel deployed to the country to begin assisting search-and-rescue operations. (Eva Bartlett)

Link: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/06/after-earthquake-devastates-syria-us-shows-no-interest-in-lifting-sanctions/

US sanctions are specifically designed to prevent Syria's reconstruction | After a devastating earthquake hit Syria and Turkey, killing thousands of people, the US State Department showed no interest in lifting crippling economic sanctions on Syria that are specifically designed to prevent the country’s reconstruction. ● As of Monday night, the earthquake has killed at least 2,921 people in Turkey and 1,444 in northwest Syria, including in Syrian government-controlled territory and areas controlled by anti-government fighters. ● State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday that the US would work with NGOs in the country but wouldn’t engage with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He didn’t give any indication that the US would lift sanctions on Syria.

■ Fresh 5.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Turkey as Death Toll Rises to 3,381 (02/07/23)

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/570921-maidan-sniper-killings-censorship/

■ US Openly Salivates Over Ukraine's Vast Untapped Titanium Reserves (01/29/23)
■ The Minsk Agreements Explained (12/09/22)
■ How Obama Started Ukraine’s War (Eric Zuesse) (08/12/22)
■ Both Zelensky and Poroshenko Acknowledged They Came to Power Illegally (08/04/22)
■ WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’ (08/04/22)
■ Ukraine: A War Over Oil And Gas (First published on AWIP on 08/18/14) (02/28/22)
■ All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’ (11/21/14)
■ Euromaidan supporters justify Odessa massacre, defend member accused of killing (09/05/14)
■ Watershed press conference by top Novorussian officials (MUST SEE!) (09/01/14)
■ 400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op (05/12/14)
■ Blackwater Killers in Eastern Ukraine (Stephen Lendman)(05/12/14)

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/571046-democrats-not-happy-biden-reelection/

Only 37% of his party colleagues want the 80-year-old president to seek re-election, a new poll has found | A clear majority of Democrats are not enthusiastic about US President Joe Biden’s plans to seek re-election in 2024, according to a new poll released on Monday. The survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only 37% of Democrats say they want Biden to run for a second term – 15% lower than the figure recorded before the midterm election in November. Overall, only 22% of adult respondents believe that the 80-year-old Biden should run for another four-year term. This is down from 29% prior to the midterms. ● The poll notes that the dwindling numbers of Democrats approving of Biden’s potential re-election bid seem to be based on the sentiment prevalent among younger voters.The lack of enthusiasm for Biden appears most pronounced among younger Americans. Among those aged 45 or over, 49% said the president should run again. Only 23% of respondents under 45 felt the same, however.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230207/awareness-gap-us-failed-to-detect-four-previous-chinese-spy-balloons-top-general-says-1107030141.html

On Monday, the US imposed a temporary security zone in waters off South Carolina as the military tries to recover the wreckage of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down late last week. | General Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command, has confirmed that Chinese spy balloons briefly flew over America at least three times under President Donald Trump, and once previously during the Biden administration. 💬 I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out,” VanHerck told a news briefing, declining to elaborate on the location of the previous balloons. ● He added that US intelligence identified the previous flights after they occurred through what the General described as "additional means of collection". VanHerck offered no further details on whether that might be cyber espionage, telephone intercepts or human sources.

Link: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1284860.shtml

US sanctions against Russia are illegal and are unilateral moves unauthorized by the United Nations. Now the US is even transferring the personal assets of Russian individuals to others, which highlights the plundering nature of the US as a robber. | According to US media reports, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday the first transfer of forfeited assets from sanctions against a Russian oligarch during an appearance with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin at the US Justice Department. The assets, confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev after his indictment on sanctions evasions in April, will go toward aiding Ukraine. ● The transfer of assets is a high-profile political stunt, which the US government is pretty good at. The $5.4 million assets can be just pocket money for the US - it offers to Ukraine as aid, while Ukraine would use it to buy weapons from the US to feed the US military-industrial complex. This reminds people of how the US dealt with the $7 billion in frozen funds from Afghanistan's central bank. In February 2022, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing approximately half of the $7 billion to be reserved for victims of 9/11 attacks, which means the US keeps the money for its own. This is the very US - robbing money while at the same time appearing to be compassionate for others.

Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2023/02/new-2-2-billion-arms-package-for-ukraine-includes-longer-range-rockets.html

The Biden administration on Friday announced a new $2.2 billion arms package for Ukraine that includes longer-range rockets, marking the latest US escalation, although they won’t be delivered until much later this year. | The Boeing-made Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) can hit targets up to 94 miles away, nearly twice the range of the munitions Ukraine is currently using with the US-provided HIMARS rocket systems. 💬 “This gives them a longer-range capability — long-range fires capability that will enable them, again, to conduct operations in defense of their country and to take back their sovereign territory in Russian-occupied areas,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. The announcement comes after a series of other US escalations, including pledges to provide M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Each step brings the US and Russia closer to a direct conflict.

■ What's in the Latest US Arms Package? (The New Atlas)(VIDEO)
■ Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine (Mike Whitney)
■ Former Israeli PM Bennett Says US ‘Blocked’ His Attempts at a Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal (02/06/23)

Reports have emerged suggesting that 3 of the 5 officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols are members of the Vice Lords street gang. | The Memphis Police Department has a long history of its cops being tied to violent street gangs, an issue that’s facing renewed scrutiny after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, and after reports have trickled in saying that some of the cops involved are members of the Vice Lords. Three of the five Memphis police officers involved in the beating of Tyre Nichols, who later died at the hospital, could have ties to, or even be full-fledged members of, the Vice Lords street gang, and may have been carrying out a gang-ordered attack when they set upon Nichols.

■ Tyre Nichols Cops Killing Indictment, January 27,2023 (PDF)(Cryptome)

Link: https://slaynews.com/news/heart-attack-deaths-soaring-among-young-adults-experts-warn/

Experts are raising the alarm over the soaring number of deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes among young people. | Excess deaths have skyrocketed in the past two years but many fear the issue is being ignored, or even covered up, by governments, Big Tech, and the corporate media. Early last year, a bombshell study compiled data from several life insurance companies. The researchers determined that there was an overwhelming spike in the death of young people. The data revealed an unexplained increase (40%) in “all-cause deaths” among 18 to 49-year-olds.

Link: https://thinkcivics.com/us-downs-chinese-balloon-drawing-a-fury-from-china/

● China said Sunday after the United States a day earlier shot down its unmanned research ballon off the South Carolina coast that the Communist-run country is “reserving the right to take further actions in response.”
● China also called the balloon takedown an “overreaction” to the matter.
● The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it took a path across the country that went over sensitive military sites across
● China has said the balloon flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and repeated the claim Sunday saying it will “resolutely uphold the relevant company’s legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time.”
● President Biden ordered the Pentagon to take down the balloon Wednesday but waited until Saturday when it was over water and the crashing of the payload to the ground would not injure civilians.

■ U.S Officials Confirm Third Chinese Balloon, Refuse to Reveal Location (Slay News)

Link: https://t.me/sputniknewsint/29831

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/570918-us-inmates-trade-organs-freedom/

A proposed bill in New England could see vulnerable convicts making decisions out of desperation | State legislatures around the United States are keenly watching the fate of a Massachusetts bill allowing prisoners to receive up to one year off their jail sentence by donating their organs. ● According to reports, Bill HD.3822, called the "Act to establish the Massachusetts incarcerated individual bone marrow and organ donation program," would allow participating prisoners to receive a minimum of 60 days and up to a whole year off their sentence. It would be set up in a special parole hearing based similarly on commuted sentences for “good behavior.” ● However, it would also encourage repeat donations, and since those incarcerated in the US are disproportionately minorities and low-income earners, it bears similarities to the country’s blood and plasma donation scheme. That system preys on low-income earners and students, encouraging them to consistently donate their blood at for-profit collection centers, effectively selling it in a sort of vampiric version of capitalism. In a 2019 piece titled ‘Harvesting the Blood of America’s Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism,’ Alan MacLeod observed that “around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is one of the few booming industries America has left.”

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/570962-ukraine-strike-crimea-burn-medvedev/

Moscow could retaliate “in any way possible” should Kiev decide to attack Crimea, Dmitry Medvedev has said | Washington’s decision to supply Ukraine with longer-range missiles and allow Kiev to use them at will can only lead to further escalation, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday. He added that the US appears to not want the Ukraine conflict to end. In an interview with Russian journalist Nadana Fridrikhson, Medvedev denied that Ukrainian strikes against the Crimean peninsula would force Moscow to sit down at the negotiating table. “The result would be exactly the contrary. There would be no talks in such a case. There would only be retaliatory strikes,” he warned.

■ DMITRY MEDVEDEV @medvedev_telegram replied in writing to several of my questions (02/05/23)

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20230204/mars-like-frost-recorded-on-mount-washington-nearly-breaks-century-old-record-1106981093.html

Mount Washington is the highest mountain in the northeastern US at 1,917 meters. The mountain is known for its dangerously variable weather and has long held the record for the 372 km/h wind speed measured on the ground. | The Mount Washington area recorded its worst frost since 1934 and the coldest winds ever recorded. Temperatures of -45°F (-43°C), with windchill temperatures of -106°F (-77°C). Wind gusts reached over 125 mph (200 km/h), reports Mount Washington observatory. The wind gusts and blizzard drove visibility down to just over 90 meters. The National Weather Service reports that previously such low temperatures had only been recorded in the region in 1934. The comparison with Mars is by no means accidental because this week, according to NASA, temperatures on the surface of the Red Planet ranged from the not so significant 16°F (-8.89°C) to the much more serious -104°F (-76.11°C). Thus, it can be stated that it was colder on Mount Washington than on Mars.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-02-thailand-first-country-pfizer-contracts-null-void.html

Thailand seeks billions in retribution from Pfizer for fraudulent covid injections | A Thai government spokesperson told Professor Sucharit Bhakdi this week that his country could soon become the first in the world to nullify and make void its contracts with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. According to Bhakdi, the spokesperson said, in reference to the company’s experimental covid “vaccines,” that “we will see to it that Thailand is the first country in the world to declare this contract (with Pfizer) null.” We are told that the Royal Family in Thailand was directly impacted by Pfizer’s covid injections, which reportedly harmed the king’s daughter, Princess Bajrakitiyabha. Because of this, Thai authorities are working towards ending the country’s relationship with Pfizer. ● Bhakdi says he met with top government advisors and explained to them how the entire premise behind the “vaccines” is built on a throne of lies. Pfizer fraud is the only thing backing the jabs as there is no safety data to show they work as claimed. Upon hearing this, Thai government advisors were shocked and assured Bhakdi that they are making preparations to sever Pfizer’s contracts with the country.

Link: https://twitter.com/RetsefL/status/1619945525670981632

The evidence is mounting and indisputable that MRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially among young people. We have to stop giving them immediately! pic.twitter.com/chFLvqlDqu

— Retsef Levi (@RetsefL) January 30, 2023