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United Health's CEO was assassinated in NYC by a man who, it appears (from the video footage of him doing it) was cool as a cucumber and clearly had made the decision to kill him and damn the consequences, whatever they might be. Of course a person who does something like this in such a fashion has to expect they're very likely to get caught and thus deemed it worth it -- whether that decision was the product of insanity or coldly calculated is of course at this point unknown.
UNH is an extremely large corporation, having its fingers in all manner of health-related insurance and operational aspects. They are one of the largest firms involved in what I have long-considered the largest racketeering enterprise in the United States by far, comprising fully one dollar in five spent -- that is, health care generally, and have millions of consumers enrolled in their "plans" along with over 6,700 hospitals. They claim to be the largest single health carrier in the US -- I don't know if that's true or not, but they certainly are extremely large and apparently are considered the "biggest by revenue", so there you have it.
Of course it would not be unfair to note that since Obamacare came into existence their stock has risen by more than 20 times, and thus its quite clear that contrary to the various claims by many (including Obama himself) that the federal "redesign" of health care "would be of benefit to everyone" that was a blatant and outrageous lie; multiplying the value of a public company by 20 is not some small amount and points to exactly what I've been talking about since before it started -- that the system was on the verge of collapse (I saw it personally as a CEO and more than once had to intervene in a screwing it was serving up on my employees when I ran MCSNet) and rather than fix it government, the medical, pharmaceutical and insurance industries all conspired to fuck everyone in the ass rather than stop doing what they had been for decades on an exponential basis.
We have no information at this point who was pissed off enough to do this and whether its related to the corporation or it was personal, of course. Its entirely possible this was related to something entirely personal.
However, this much is quite-clear: At some point if you keep screwing people in the ass they will have had enough of it and this might well be the result, especially when government and private actors get together to screw people in size and you prove through more than a decade of time that there is no voting out of it because there have now been both Democrat and Republican Administrations that have refused to prosecute anyone for rampant price-fixing and various forms of screwing up and down the line -- in fact the financial screwing and crappiness of coverage has gotten much worse.
Proof of the screwing is trivially found in every public health insurer's stock price. Show me the one that hasn't shot the moon.
You can't.
But you can't expect that you can screw people without consequence forever, particularly when the government refuses to enforce 100+ year old laws on a serial basis irrespective of which political party is in power, both at a State and Federal level.
Of course you won't hear that perspective in the mainstream media, will you?
... that we don't need to actually use our military.
In, you know, an actual war. When people shoot back. Not this BS "bomb that guy" game, when the range is two-way and they're shooting at us.
Why?
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How about that for why?
We have only one oiler -- vessels that carry fuel for things like, oh, aircraft -- available where that ship is. ONE, and it just went hard aground and apparently, from that video, ripped up the rudder post mount quite nicely, shearing off several bolts.
How much damage was done to the underwater gear? I don't think anyone knows yet but it clearly is leaking so the answer isn't "none." Whether that damage impacts its mobility (e.g. rudder jammed or the screw damaged) is an open question, but its not going anywhere while hard aground -- that much I can assure you.
How "capable" is our allegedly "great" military of doing its job right now? You know, actual fighting in a lethal combat situation where the other side can shoot back?
How many of our "officers" running said vessels and other assets are not competent to do the job under pressure when they ground ships (or, as we've previously seen, run them into other vessels) when nobody is shooting at them?
How many of said "officers" were promoted because of their blue hair, what they have between their legs and/or pronouns rather than because they were the person who was most competent to take that command irrespective of any of that horseshit?
You better pray we don't find out the hard way; not only may thousands of our troops die but you may glow in the dark.
Oh by the way, that's the Democrat answer -- Diversity, remember? Kamala Harris is the poster child for this shit along with Joe and the people they both have in their administration and have placed in command. Like, for example, the "fine gentleman" with responsibility over spent nuclear fuel who likes to cross-dress and got caught apparently stealing other people's luggage.
PS: Nice OpSec you got there with someone on board running around with a fucking cellphone, shooting video of the damage and uploading it to social media sites! I mean, what could possibly go wrong doing THAT sort of shit?
News: Zelinskyy no longer insists on joining NATO.
The actual news: Russia won.
Now the terms of surrender are under discussion.
I'll make a prediction: They'll be exactly the same terms Russia offered before, with another few additions, and Ukraine will take them.
That's it.
We'll see whether I'm right.
Don't be even slightly surprised if the "breathless analysts" at CNN and elsewhere continue to insist Russia is losing right up until pen meets paper, which will take a bit of time.
My bet is that as of right here and now it's over.
Oh darn, there goes Veritas again releasing well...... not just a smoking gun, but a rank indictment of both actors abroad (including China) and right here in the United States.
So the "work" (gain of function) was rejected by DARPA but NIH, including Fauci who personally signed off on it, did it anyway.
And he did not just do it in China the work included was in part done here.
We now have a plausible explanation, for example, why agreements related to the spike were executed by at least one US University prior to Covid-19 being "known." What institutions were involved and how involved were they? When was the first such agreement executed?
But... it gets better.
We knew the vaccines would not work and were harmful. We didn't think so, we knew so, and further we knew that someone who had been infected was at least in part protected from said harm by the mechanism infection uses.
I pointed all this out without having what Veritas has now published merely by deduction.
We knew in September of 2020 there was a risk issue with the spike in the circulation that was not in most cases present from natural infection and we knew by December of 2020 it was singularly dangerous. It is now confirmed that THE GOVERNMENT knew this and proceeded to purchase and deploy the shots anyway.
We also knew that there were other fingers in the pie including American ones before Covid-19 was announced to exist because the transfer agreement with a US University was known to exist more than a year ago and it was executed in 2019 before Covid-19 was claimed to have "emerged" in China. How can you do something that requires a thing before the second thing happens? You can't, ergo, the government and the private organizations knew damned well Covid existed before the agreement was signed.
So now have what I've maintained all along is in in official government-documented form:
So why all the histrionics ginned up worldwide continuing to this day?
The experiment went bad and if the public knew why it went bad and who was involved in it the people might reasonably conclude there really is a valid reason to get rid of every single government agency and individual involved. Unlike "conspiracy theories" that are flat-out crap its not crazy to contemplate doing that either, especially given the death toll. It was evident within weeks that medically frail people were going to get buttraped by this thing and thus if the government told the truth the pitchforks might well come out since they actually created this fucking monster and it wasn't just China - it was also the United States Government that did it and several institutions within this nation were intimately involved as well.
Oh by the way the same documents also contain evidence that the Government knew both HCQ and Ivermectin were effective against the virus by April of 2020. How many people died that were denied access to safe drugs that our government had every reason to believe worked?
Still sitting on your ass America?
May I point out that these assholes have killed roughly twice as many people in the United States over the last two years, by their claims, as did both Nazi Germany and Japan in all of WWII and that these are all people and businesses within the United States?
Gonna take another jab or allow the USSC and Biden administration to tell you that you should or indeed must, never mind private employers, when the government factually knows its dangerous and has known for well over a year both that it is the case and why?
Still want to consider Trump a "savior" eh, when he pushed and continues to push these known dangerous jabs?
How many people did they they intentionally let die again? Twice the toll of WWII with every single death chargeable directly against not a foreign adversary but rather agencies of our own government and publicly-funded "educational" institutions?
Want to argue with all this?
Argue with the source material; its either real or it isn't, and if it is its the best argument I've seen in over 100 years for a national divorce with prejudice.
PS: There are people claiming that what Veritas released is a forgery. If it is then O'Keefe needs to go to prison forever and break rocks until he dies. This is the sort of information that can legitimately be the reason for a government to be discarded by its population. To participate in a forgery is equally as bad as to undertake the actions in the first place. If someone has evidence that this is indeed false -- let's see it. While you're at it make sure you account for the verified by FOIA release of this email from Peter Daszak himself....