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The First Defeat of the Central Powers in the Great War: The 1914 Battle of Cer
The Serbian army in the Battle of Cer lost 260 officers and
around 16.000 non-commissioned officers and soldiers.
by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
It passed more than the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War in 1914−1918. Proportionally, in the war, Serbia suffered mostly among all countries involved in the conflict as it lost ¼ of its population followed by 50% of industrial destruction. Furthermore, the first war crimes or even the genocide occurred on the territory of Serbia. Still, on the other hand, the first Allied victory on the battlefield against the Central Powers also happened in Serbia – the 1914 Battle of Cer in the Machva District with the administrative center of Shabac. Before and during the Great War, the town of Shabac and the district of Machva have been bordering Bosnia-Herzegovina, at that time Austria- Hungary, on the Drina River being situated in the north-western part of the Kingdom of Serbia). Before the war, the area of Machva District was developed in both industrial and cultural aspects, with many features according to the Central European pattern (for instance, the first piano in Serbia appeared in the town of Shabac in the 19th century).
However, in the district, everything changed when the Great War broke out with Austro- Hungarian military aggression on the Kingdom of Serbia in August 1914. The town of Shabac fell into the hands of the Dual Monarchy on August 12th, 1914. From August 16th to August 20th, 1914 Cer Mt. nearby the town of Shabac became the place where the first battle has been fought in the Great War against the Central Powers. The operations of the Austro-Hungarian-Balkan troops started on August 12th, 1914 intending to crush Serbian resistance and occupy Serbia with the “blitzkrieg” to ensure overland links with the Ottoman Empire. The Austro-Hungarian General Oscar Potiorek decided to use the Fifth Army to attack Serbia, without waiting for the Sixth Army to be ready for these operations. However, the operation was to start, and even to end, before the Second Army of Austria-Hungary could move from the Sirmium (Srem) region (today in Serbia), headed to Galicia.
The Digital Revolution Is Satan’s Master Weapon
There is no way off this road to pure Hell and the destruction of mankind.
Paul Craig Roberts
Readers know that I am death on the digital revolution. I regard it as an equivalent disaster to the creation of nuclear weapons. Both can, and most likely will, destroy our lives, nuclear weapons by physically destroying us, and the digital revolution by destroying our freedom.
The digital revolution is the foundation, already in place, for the police state, and it will be a total police state far worse than the one in George Orwell’s 1984. The fact that the nerds who came up with the digital revolution were too stupid to see the consequences indicates that tech people are really not very smart. Whenever man plays God disaster results.
For the last three days I have been experiencing digital Hell. The Internet has been down for three days and there is no information. The company provides such minimum customer service that it has been difficult even to reach a robot. You have to leave a number for a call back as “all our representatives are busy helping other customers.” When the call comes you learn that there is an outage in a large area and given an estimated repair time. They put you on a message list for cell phone texts. The repair time estimates lengthened four times from August 13 into August 14 and have now ceased. The morning of the 14th a text informed me that my service was restored. It wasn’t. I called the service provider who, after a call back, eventually was able to confirm that the service was not restored.
The Unspeakable, The Unthinkable and The Imperative to Increase Consciousness
David T. Ratcliffe | The Imperative To Increase Consciousness | In recent years, Katherine Watt has worked with Sasha Latypova, an ex-pharma/biotech professional with 25 years experience in clinical trials, clinical technologies, and regulatory approvals. She owned/managed several contract research organizations, worked for 60+ pharma companies worldwide, and interacted with FDA as part of a scientific industry consortium on improving cardiac safety assessments in clinical trials.
On 13 December 2022 Watt and Latypova participated in a zoom call with Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) scheduled by Johnson’s staffers, and subsequently worked up this memo upon his request: IN RE: Evidence of Covid-19 Regulatory Failures, Criminal Wrongdoing and Attempts to Avoid Liability by Senior Executive Service Officials in Multiple Federal Agencies. The opening paragraphs [emphasis added] state:
💬 Americans were misled about all Covid-19 “countermeasures,” including those products marketed as “vaccines.” Covid policy was managed by the National Security Council (NSC) acting on war footing and countermeasures were contracted for by the Department of Defense (DoD) and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) without any effective regulatory oversight at any stage along the process. The activities passing as “regulatory processes” appear to have been fraudulent attempts to create color of law and avoid liability for what were clearly criminal acts. These multiple overlapping and mutually reinforcing violations of federal law have imposed serious harms on the American people, including severe injury and death.
The Looming Crisis: How Oil Addiction and Agricultural Collapse Threaten Global Food Security
The implications of this situation are stark.
by Tracy Turner
The Insidious, Looming Crisis of Starvation: A Convergence of Agricultural Decline, Resource Depletion, and Environmental Catastrophe
Some people fear spiders or snakes, Ebola or Covid, but the terrifying truth that few wish to confront is the looming specter of hidden, impending starvation—a fate increasingly inevitable for a world unable to address its unsustainable trajectory.
Historical Context of Agriculture
The history of agriculture began around 9500 BC in the Levant, where early humans first cultivated essential crops like emmer wheat and hulled barley. These foundational practices facilitated the rise of complex societies. By 8000 BC, agriculture had already flourished along the Nile, and by 6200 BC in China, the cultivation of rice marked a significant advancement in agricultural development. This transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled farming laid the groundwork for the growth of human civilization (1)(2)(3).
America Is Entering End Times
The United States will be the worst tyranny ever created.
Paul Craig Roberts
Does anyone remember the 2020 presidential campaign? Trump campaigned widely and had massive audiences. Enthusiasm was everywhere. Biden ventured out of the basement a few times and no one attended his campaign rallies. Trump got more votes in the 2020 election than he got in the 2016 election, but Biden got more votes than any president in history. Somehow the people elected an invisible candidate.
In the swing states vote counting was stopped in the middle of the night while truck loads of boxes arrived, some from out of state, in Democrat controlled vote counting centers. The votes were almost entirely for Biden, and when counting resumed, Trump’s lead disappeared.
The same thing is going to happen this November. Trump supporters, clearly a majority of legitimate voters, think Trump is going to win. Trump voters are energized and enthusiasm is high. Has anyone seen a Trump-sized turnout for Kamala? Trump will again win as he did in 2020, but Democrats count swing state votes, and Kamala will “win.”
The Anti-white, Anti-British UK police commissioner now Threatens Elon Musk with extradition and imprisonment British Police Commissioner Declares Extra-territoriality of UK Law
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping
on a human face - forever" - George Orwell
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s practice of declaring the extra-territoriality of its laws has spread to the UK. The woke white British commissioner of police threatens to extradite American citizens from the US for exercising their free speech rights and jailing them in the UK for violating UK rules about political speech that criminalize protests against immigrant invasion as a hate crime.
“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News on Friday.
Asked whether the Metropolitan Police planned on charging people posting on social media from other countries, Rowley replied: “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law,” and named “the likes of Elon Musk” as potential targets for investigation. https://www.rt.com/news/602420-elon-musk-hate-speech/
Pretending Project 2025 Cuts Military Spending Is Weird
David Swanson, World BEYOND War
In the August 4 San Francisco Chronicle, Brett Wagner, formerly of the U.S. Naval War College, and now adjunct fellow at the weapons-funded Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes that the “Department of Defense” section of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” “envisions a world in which the U.S. slashes its military commitments and related funding to such draconian levels that we would cease to be a global superpower.” Its author, Christopher Miller (who was Secretary of Defense for three months under Trump), Wagner writes,
“has long argued that the Pentagon’s budget should be slashed by 40% to 50%, declaring that what our country needs is ‘someone with the courage and experience to get in there and get it done.’ In his Project 2025 document, he reveals just how he plans to ‘get it done.'”
Except that he doesn’t. The editors of the San Francisco Chronicle could have learned that by reading the thing. Miller lays out his goals for the U.S. military, with which Wagner strongly disagrees (I disagree with both of them), and then concludes: “The reality is that achieving these goals will require more spending on defense, both by the United States and by its allies.”
The History of Oil and Coal Driving Overpopulation
by Tracy Turner
As the global oil demand continues to rise while reserves dwindle, the geopolitical landscape is poised for significant shifts.
If you could wave a magic wand (Governor Newsome), and make the entire Global Food Chain "electrified," there would be massive Global Hunger and Massive Starvation, worsening exponentially as the weeks and months wore on.
The history of oil and coal is the foundation of human development (population boom). The Industrial Revolution, beginning in the late 18th century, marked a significant shift in energy consumption. Coal became the primary fuel source for steam engines, factories, and later electricity generation. This transition allowed for mass production of food, leading to urbanization and massive, unending, totally unsustainable population growth.
In the 20th century, oil emerged as a dominant energy source. The discovery of vast oil reserves transformed economies and societies—oil-powered food transport vehicles and farm machinery, facilitating 8 billion People, worldwide.
DNA biowarfare: House Intelligence Committee member warns Americans against using DNA testing kits
The Russian military has been presenting evidence of the Pentagon’s
alleged involvement in funding biolaboratories in Ukraine.
Ethan Huff
Biosamples gathered by various DNA testing services could be sold and used to develop bioweapons specifically tailored to target certain groups or even individuals, US lawmakers have claimed at the Aspen Security Forum – echoing concerns long voiced by Russian officials.
“There are now weapons under development, and developed, that are designed to target specific people,” US Representative Jason Crow (D-Colorado), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said in Colorado on Friday. “That’s what this is, where you can actually take someone’s DNA, take their medical profile, and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable.”
Given that threat, Crow added, it’s troubling that expectations of privacy for personal data have diminished over the past 20 years, to the point that young people have “very little expectation of privacy” and readily give their data to private companies, such as DNA testing services.
The Economic Situation of the West
The new American economy rests on the indebtedness,
not the prosperity of the American population...
Paul Craig Roberts
Once upon a time America had a capitalist economy. Bank deposits were used for loans that expanded productive ability. America produced its own goods and grew its own food. America’s currency was backed by gold and inflation was nonexistent. New technology brought into play by new investment improved the productivity of labor, and living standards rose. Profits were plowed back into improved methods and expanded production.
Governments subsidized social infrastructure and education. This lowered the cost of transportation and, thereby, the cost of production and prices, and it provided industry and manufacturing with an educated work force. As an instate resident, my annual tuition at Georgia Tech came to about $450.
This highly successful way of running an economy was replaced by an entirely different economy, the one we have today. Who is responsible and how it came about is a story that can be told later but not in this column.
In the current economy bank loans are not made to finance new investment in new plant and equipment. They are made in order to finance the purchase of existing assets. Loans are made to purchase existing companies, load them up with debt, and sell off their assets. Loans are made to finance a buyback of a company’s own stock, thus raising the stock price and resulting in executive and board “performance” bonuses. Loans are made to finance real estate purchases and thereby drive up the values of real estate, thus raising the cost of housing.
