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Among classic examples of American political humor are the following George Gavlin performances:
RadarKat73080
Nope. I've already said that George answered his own question when he asked where were all the good people of conscience in government. He mentioned ,in Life Is Worth Losing, the people who often end up assassinated: Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK, John Lennon, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X. Folks who talk about peace, love and doing good to one another. These folks RARELY get elected to high office and those that do end up dead!
RagingCapitalist
If you think that the people who didn't get elected would actually be different, you need to watch this video again a few times.
Some not bad examples from Comedy Central (especially apt "Bullsh**t Mountain characterization of Fox network by Jon Steward):
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Aug 08, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
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HedgeJunkie , 15 hours ago
Kinskian , 15 hours agoI guess the swamp is draining Trump.
PT , 14 hours agoTrump is a clumsy and transparent Zionist stooge.
Pliskin , 9 hours agoGotta admit, if you're going to have a Zionist stooge then you are better off having a clumsy and transparent one.
Bokkenrijder , 10 hours agoYou're all idiots!
Can't you see that this is just another multi-dimensional chess move to 'drain the swamp' by filling the swamp with swamp creatures!
Genius move...pure 'stable' genius move!
Oldwood , 14 hours ago"No Difference Between John Bolton, Brian Hook Or Elliott Abrams": Iran FM
Trump: "I'll hire the best people and drain the swamp." 🙄
What Trump meant was: I'll hire neocons and war criminals and continue the US Empire and funnel more money to the MIC.
Thank you Trumpturds!
Element , 10 hours agoThe only thing provoking Trump is the unending criminal attacks to remove him.
Most people can deal with competition until it becomes obvious the the game is rigged. Once rigging is accepted, most will still try to figure a way to work within those biased rules even when it is apparent that they are designed to your disadvantage..
But when the rigging is not for simple advantage but for your elimination, your demise, then you've got to get out.
Trump can't get out. Once he loses the protection of his office, they will do all in their power to destroy him, his family and friends and ANYONE who openly supported him.
Keep that in mind, because there's lots of deplorables out there who have been very open in his support.
Trump MUST win reelection to simply survive. He's cornered now and will be making lots of compromises. But he may also get dirty...dirty like a Democrat.
And given our weak *** support, our hiding I fear while complaining of his failures, he may just risk igniting the fires of hell that progressives have been threatening him with.
Exciting times.
May we all survive to laugh about it. Many won't.
Jkweb007 , 10 hours ago"Pardoned by George H.W. Bush in 1992, Abrams was a pivotal figure in the foreign-policy scandal that shook the Reagan administration, lying to Congress about his knowledge of the plot to covertly sell weapons to the Khomeini government and use the proceeds to illegally fund the right-wing Contras rebel group in Nicaragua ," NY Mag reviews.
This is warped bullcrap. Iran was at war with Iraq.
The real purpose of selling weapon shipments to Iran then were as an inducement for Iran to free western hostages being held in Lebanon, during the whole of the 1980s by Iranian backed "paramilitary groups".
The funds from those weapon sales were eventually used in other operations in central America, but that is not why it was done.
Read Colonel Oliver North's account of what occurred, and why it was done.
BTW, the CONTRAS were engaging large numbers of hard-core communist death-squads in the country at that time, who were supported by Castro in Havana and Moscow. It was absolutely the right thing to do to fund a military action to find and eliminate those communist death-squads who were murdering people all over the country, they particularly loved to murder Catholic Priests and Nuns at the time, who dared to speak out against the foreign-backed communist murder-squads, who were murdering local people in very large numbers to force them all to shut up and not resist a communist take over. The same sorts of things were occurring in El Salvador and Honduras.
It was these people who prevented all of central America falling to communist mass-murderers.
Seriously you back your arguement by Olly North? No the fact is the Iran Contra ordeal happened. First we enticed Saddam lol our ally to attack Iran then we back doored a deal so the CIA could have thier little war with the Sandinista.
I loved the part that if this wasnt done Nicaragua would likely attack us you know like Vietnam the domino thoery where the world would fall to the commis. The military Industrial complex made bank, poor kids died all with the front keeping freedom. Right like that exists in south american countries, good grief look at the Mexican drug cartel runs everything. I am surprised we havent attacked Mexico but they arent commis.
If the dollar does not die soon who knows a war with China. The dollar printing just feeds the war machine. If we were fiscal prudent we would not be waring the past 30 years. Every fiat currency has been destroyed the same way, no one learns or is it greed?
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Aug 08, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Max21c , 6 hours ago
Ms No , 6 hours agoMakes sense since Pompeo is such a brilliant strategist when it comes to Foreign Policy. Pompeo is not just your everyday ordinary run of the mill Washingtonian genius. Nor is Pompeo your typical off the rack Ivy League genius. Mike Pompeo is not merely an everyday CIA brilliant wizard like the common folk wizards in the state security apparatus, intelligence community, secret police community, inside the beltway think tanks industry, National Security Council type.
NuYawkFrankie , 9 hours ago" Chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States , in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something . They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. " - President Woodrow Wilson
There's a BIG difference between Bolton and Abrams: Bolton is just a fcking imbecile...
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Aug 08, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
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Pernicious Gold Phallusy , 15 hours ago
I understand it's only occasionally bad to lie to Congress.
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Aug 07, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: "So we can all deter Russia and avoid peace in Europe".
Priceless!Thank you Patrick Armstrong.
Posted by: Jim | 06 August 2020 at 04:14 PM
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Aug 07, 2020 | www.youtube.com
Jimmy Jenkinson , 1 year ago'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.' George Carlin
Like George Carlin once said "political correctness is fascism disguised as politeness"
I am Mexican and we joke badly about ourselves. These two guys are amazing.
Cleese's huge laugh at the "religion of peace -- a piece of you here, a piece of you there" was wonderful -- he laughed so hard -- almost as though he'd never heard that before -- and perhaps he hadn't -- but he sure seemed to enjoy it, as did I!
"The world wouldn't work without stupidity." ....was the lost and forgotten conversation.
1:47 absolutely amazing. An elderly man swearing. That's pure comedic gold
"Almost nobody has any idea what they are talking about." That's the problem with this internet age giving every moron a voice. Used to be that you had to have some kind of intelligence or talent to get recognition.
How were the early protestants teased by the catholic hierarchy: "They read the bible as if it was true!"
"He threw the money lenders out of the temple" Clever John, clever.
Social Justice Warriors = political correctness on steroids.
Chris Bonnett , 1 year ago"It starts off as a halfway decent idea and then it goes completely wrong" Sums up all this stupidity in the wake of the BLM protests. What started out as legitimate anger about the murder of an unarmed black man by a police officer has denigrated to people trying to cancel comedy shows from 20 years ago and bitching about "inappropriate language" and just
Haftepaff , 5 years agoTake any ethical position to its extreme and if it holds together it's good. - Kant. Liberalism taken to an extreme fails. Get a clue.
Marc Law , 5 months agoI love these guys, the whole "political correctness" is an absurd illusion. In my country we love to make jokes about western countries and specifically our neighbors, but you will most certainly get arrested if you make joke about other nationalities, origin or "that" religion.
PC is just a way of conditioning us into a controlled submission. Fack PC,an individual should be able to be themselves.
Jyotsna Gokhale , 2 years agoFor John Cleese Fans.. If you've never seen an old 80,s film of his called "Clockwise" Please check it out. Small budget film By Handmade Fims which was in part George Harrison's company.. and very very funny FYI
"...Stupidity, I've heard you're against it "!!!!! "Australians are so well balanced, because they've a chip on each shoulder"!!!!!! 3:30 "religion of piece - there's a piece of you over there, there's a piece of you over there, ..."!!!!
Understand the following like you have understood nothing else before: (Maher and Cleese obviously had not at the time of this interview.)
'Political Correctness' is now a construct utilised almost exclusively to trivialise and dismiss anything that seeks to redress injustice, unfairness and the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege.
Whatever the issue it will be dismissed as being only 'political correctness' and even common decency of courtesy are disparaged as 'political correctness gone mad' . It has also become at the same time a 'weasel' term used by cowards and bullies to avoid having to openly state that the have no care for the rights, concerns, feelings and well-being of others.
Look for how and by whom 'political correctness' is currently used and you will see what Maher, Cleese and posters commenting on this clip hve not and be less likely to be misled and duped.
John Smith , 2 years ago (edited)I love how Cleese puts it. Fundamentalism does not just have to do with religion, or the far right. It is taking anything to an extreme. The same goes with political correctness.
AmerginMacEccit , 5 years agoIt's hard for rich liberal like Maher to be truly subversive against an Establishment they largely control.
Crescendo , 1 year ago"Political incorrectness... Could we just bitch about that?"... And here I sense feminist hysteria storm coming Bill Maher's way. I definately prefer the British style. John Cleese was one of those people I looked up to and thought "I want to be like him when I grow up".
Bill Cleveland , 3 years agoJohn Cleese outclasses Bill Maher by an absolutely massive margin and Bill Maher is so full of himself he always thinks he's the smartest, most important person on the show. Bill Maher is embarassing to watch.
Gulzat Matisakova , 1 year agoGeorge Carlin - Political Correctness is Fascism pretending to be Manners..................
Robert McElwaine , 2 years ago (edited)Despite loving Mr. Cleese, I want to point out that when you joke about oppressed group it becomes part of oppression. That's why joking about Mexicans in USA or Britain it is different than joking about Mexicans in Mexico by Mexicans. Context is everything
clarence crawford , 5 years agoCleese's logic here is irrefutable; and really shines a light on the incredible double standards that are prevalent in contemporary society. It's rewarding to know; watching this when he speaks about Jesus that there are religious academics, and representatives that see the wise satirical insight of; Life of Brian. If only we had a movie now that lampooned radical Isalm. Oh wait there is; its called; Four Lions.
Bill Cleveland , 3 years agoIf you read Fahrenheit 451...
Political correctness is another way of stating: "I not only want my piece of the cake to eat for myself, but I also want the whole cake to eat for myself too." Political correctness is another way of stating: " I want to make rules of tolerance that only apply to everyone else in society. But only don't apply to everyone on the same side as the group I'm with"
lachazaroony , 1 month agoCleese is so spot-on about the madness of political correctness. Goebbels would have loved it, except this fascism is of the left, in the heads of "open-minded" liberals (so-called.)
Ben Jamin , 4 years agoPolitical correctness and Social Justice isn't about protecting minorities, or protecting the LGTBQ community etc, its about control and censoring through bullying. its about telling you how to think, and what you can say. Our Great Grandparents died to protect our right to think and speak freely, and to tell me how to think and speak, you are literally pissing on the graves of the people who died to protect that right, and THAT offends me.
So annoying watching bill maher. He's so arrogant and conceited. He's always cutting in awkwardly to say some middle-of-the-road boring hum-drum to get an obligatory clap from his audience. Can't we just listen to the fantastic john cleese and not the wannabe political spokes-person?
It seems to me thar racial tensions in particular or worse now than they Were before they shoved this whole political correctness thing down our gullets. And that statement goes back to before the Minneapolis police killed a man for using a counterfeit $20 bill(being black). Forcing political correctness on people doesn't work. You're not changing peoples ideas you're just suppressing them. When you suppress a persons ideas those ideas fester. When suppressed ideas fester they build up pressure and eventually explode. Instead of telling people what they can't say or do, we need to re-educate our people to except those that are different. Humor is a very good way of getting people to see how ignorant their ideas are.
v1e1r1g1e1 , 2 years agoOzzy Bacchus , 4 years ago''Political correctness'' is for people who have achieved nothing, done nothing, and ARE nothing. It is their way of pretending to have power over REAL people. That's why celebrities and Hollywood actors love being PC so much.
Punching up or across is funny. Punching down isn't funny.
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Aug 07, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
hooligan2009 , 2 hours ago
MartinG , 3 hours agoi saw a joke today
big female BLM supporter wearing a nappy mask that says "i can't breathe" on it
soccer mom says "well take the stupid mask off"
tardpill , 3 hours agoHow many Wokesters does it take to change a light bulb?
- One to complain that the light bulb is white.
- One to complain that the light is white.
- One to blame boomers for wearing out the old bulb.
- One who doesn't know how.
- And one Wokester who says there must be change as he changes the bulb.
DaBard51 , 2 hours agothe only one that can possibly change the bulb with it out being a racist privilege is not available because they are too busy burning **** down
Roger Casement , 3 hours agoYou forgot:
- --One who complains that there isn't enough diversity in light bulbs.
- --One who says "Bulb Lives Matter!"
- --One who complains that screwing the bulb is sexist.
- --One who can't decide whether the bulb is DC or AC.
When nine hundred years old you become, look this good you will not.
<edit> whoever up-voted, my thanks. Shadow-banned, I am not, now, I see...
philipat , 2 hours agoThey are the joke.
45North1 , 2 hours agoYes, and that is why humor is so important, especially at the margin. Politicians, especially Democrat politicians, don't like comedy because it draws attention to the absurdity of most of what they do.
Monty Python was the pinnacle of contemporary comedy precisely because it drew attention to the absurdity of modern society and it pompous hypocrisy. It gave me more laughs more consistently than anything I have come across since. 'God speed John, you stay with what you believe and ***k the humorless wokesters who need to get a life and lighten up for their own sake and for that of all the rest of us!
EvlTheCat , 2 hours agoAn Antifa member, a BLM'er and a Proud Boy go into a Bar.....
"Woke" in itself is a joke and a oxymoron, which if you know the definition makes it ironic also. Touches all bases John.
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Aug 07, 2020 | www.youtube.com
Steven Moore , 1 month agoWhat's really sad is this is like, 40 years old and is exactly true today
Jesus Christ this so true despite this being so old this is why I don't take sides! God I hate current year politics!
Still completely accurate today. What a brilliant mind.
@valleyshrew He never says that having enemies makes you an extremist. He said being an extremist gives you justification to make enemies and to blame them for everything.
"...almost all kinds of authorities, the city, police, Americans..." Bwahahaha!
this is the best description of extremism I have ever heard
"keep your man focused on the war....not so much his ailing mother....." - C.S. Lewis "The Screwtape Letters"
Some of these people have probably since jumped from one enemy list to another. But it's still overall a timeless message. Sadly.
Funny how Russia is listed as an enemy of the hard right in this clip. How times have changed!
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Aug 06, 2020 | crookedtimber.org
lathrop 08.05.20 at 12:52 am (
189 )I can only imagine what lead Mark Twain to write this; undoubtedly one of his own opinions he forbore from publishing from the need to preserve his own book sales:
"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."
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Aug 05, 2020 | www.rt.com
The Gallup poll , released Wednesday, was conducted throughout July and involved over 36,000 adults across the US.
A whopping 81 percent of black respondents said they want police to spend the same amount of time in their neighborhoods that they already do or to have even more of a presence. The results are similar across races, with 88 percent of white Americans, 83 percent of Hispanic Americans, and 72 percent of Asian-Americans all saying the same thing.
The poll also confirmed that black Americans are more likely to see police presence in their communities, with 73 percent of respondents answering that they notice cops in their neighborhoods "sometimes" or "very often." That's compared to 65 percent of non-black respondents.
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ALSO ON RT.COM 'Do as they say': Minneapolis police warn people to obey criminals for their own safety as violent crime surges amid BLM protestsIf you like this story, share it with a friend!
pogohere 2 hours ago
The state of US domestic insecurity: citizens don't trust the enforcers of the power structure, but don't want to be thrown to the wolves, whether it's black or white.
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Aug 04, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
AGPhillbin Fred Bowman • 2 hours ago
Bungalow Bill • 2 hours agoPersonally, i am voting for Incitatus in the presidential election. Incitatus was supposedly appointed to the Roman Senate by the emperor Caligula. He was also a horse. How about this for a slogan:
IT'S TIME TO VOTE FOR A WHOLE HORSE...
... As George Carlin said, "garbage in, garbage out."
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Mar 21, 2014 | www.opendemocracy.net
An American in Maidan by Daniel Heintz
Suspecting that neither Ukrainians nor people elsewhere were being given an accurate portrayal of what has been going on in Kyiv, I felt I had no choice but to travel there and offer an honest portrait of Maidan as I saw it.
The physical layout of Maidan is both impressive and inspiring. Piles of sandbags, tires, household furniture and concrete paving blocks form the barricades that guard the entrances to the square. Inside are countless tents and makeshift shelters which people have occupied for nearly four months now. Graffiti, fliers and stickers, written in Ukrainian, Russian and English, cover any vacant space on walls; dozens of Ukrainian flags flap in the wind And there's no way you can miss the flowers.
Piles upon piles of flowers, spread all over Maidan, commemorate those who lost their lives there. Scattered among the flowers you can find photographs of Maidan's lost 'Heavenly Hundred', with a constant flow of family members, friends and fellow countrymen quietly mourning nearby.
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Jul 26, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Fred | 22 July 2020 at 03:59 PM
To all professional athletes, black and white, here is an important announcement -- the "white" Americans who bought tickets to watch you play and plunked down thousand for sports merchandise in the past are fed up.
If you think these pampered millionaires have struck a nerve by proclaiming to the world that they are victims of a ruthless capitalist system of oppression that did nothing to help them get where they are and that everyone who came before was an evil racist supremecist you're probably on to something.
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Jul 24, 2020 | twitter.com
Russian Embassy, UKRussian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy Jul 22"So what has Russia done?" - "That's the question." Love it.@RussianEmbassy Jul 22@RussianEmbassy@RussianEmbassy Jul 22They're making fools of themselves. First they were blaming China for everything, now it's blame Russia time again. Maybe The UK should look in the mirror, that way they'll see the one who is responsible for all its problems.
@RussianEmbassy...but it's good that he's able to ask a question without the threat of being pushed out of a 5th floor window
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Aug 03, 2020 | www.goodreads.com
"I will be the best, the best, you know, you know the thing!"
- Joe BidenGrope and Hope
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Apr 19, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
loveyajimbo , 3 hours ago link
Trump DID commit obstruction of justice... he refused to force HIS Dept of Justice to indict Hillary, Comey, Brennan and Clapper for their obvious major felonies.
And YES... he could have.
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.unz.com
Reg Cæsar , says: July 31, 2020 at 10:51 pm GMT
The media could care less about the devastation and ruined lives.
No, they couldn't. It's impossible to care less than they do now.
If you water down your cynicism, you'll never understand these people.
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.unz.com
Mick Jagger gathers no Mosque , says: August 1, 2020 at 12:25 pm GMT
Why should the Russians have all the fun of remaking a world ?"
This is the concluding sentence in
A New Deal , a book by Stuart Chase published late in 1932
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.unz.com
Chris Moore , says: Website
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
librul , Jul 31 2020 16:41 utc | 7
To NYT subscribers: "You pay for your own indoctrination?"
I need to keep this clip from The New York Times in my wallet. Laminating it would be a good idea.
"Adding to these challenges, democracy in Latin America has also lost a champion in the United States, which had played an important role in promoting democracy after the end of the Cold War by financing good governance programs and calling out authoritarian abuses.
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Aug 02, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Contrary to claims by the media and the ego maniac Dr. Fauci about a tidal wave of Covid infections, I have first hand, albeit anecdotal evidence, that there is a lot of bullshit surrounding reports of people who have "tested" positive for Covid.
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.reddit.com
swingchef771 1 point· 2 days ago
The dems have added so much Marxism to their platform and general beliefs, that they are blind to the direction they are taking us. I see a civil insurrection in our future. It's getting that bad.
Atschmid 1 point· 2 days ago
WTF are you talking about? The dems are as corporatist as you can get
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
spudski , Aug 1 2020 18:03 utc | 128
"Never use the word "whore" to refer to a sex worker; they earn an honest and respectable living and they shouldn't be demeaned for it. That word should only ever be used for members of the mainstream news media." - Caitlin Johnstone
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.reuters.com
You make all kinds of recommendations. You make comments on dating, on baseball and everything you could imagine. "Trump, who appeared to be watching the proceedings, weighed against his Democratic critics on Twitter: "Our massive testing capability, rather than being praised, is used by the Lamestream Media and their partner, the Do Nothing Radical Left Democrats, as a point of scorn. This testing, and what we have so quickly done, is used as a Fake News weapon. Sad!"
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Aug 02, 2020 | www.msn.com
Democratic Congressman Believes a Black Woman on the Supreme Court Is a Priority Over VP
A top Democratic lawmaker said Friday that it was more important to have a Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court than as a running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
"The V.P. is good on style, but, on substance, give me an African American woman on the Supreme Court," House Majority Whip James Clyburn said during a segment on PBS News Hour . "That's where we determine how our democracy will be preserved."
... "I long for an African American woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court," he said. "It's a shame that we have had three women to sit on the United States Supreme Court, and no one has ever given the kind of consideration that is due to an African American woman."
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Aug 01, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Indeed, the media's commitment to tempering their descriptions of violent riots sweeping the nation as "mostly peaceful" is relentless – that particular phrase has become a media cliché practically overnight . Of course, America's police officers could also be accurately described as "mostly peaceful," but any journalist who dared to give cops the same generous benefit of the doubt would likely cause a riot in their own newsroom.
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
The Seattle City Council advanced legislation on Friday which would replace the 'racist institution of policing' with a civilian-led activities and organizations under a new 'Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention.'
The bill justifies the move by pointing to the prevalence of 'white supremacy culture' and the Seattle PD's role in 'perpetuating racism and violence.'
"WHEREAS, the Council is committed to confronting the structural and institutional racism as a fundamental step towards addressing the racist institution of policing ,"
" Whereas, these protests forced many nationwide and in Seattle to confront the racism that has been plaguing the Black community for centuries and spread to other communities of color, the harmful impacts of white supremacy culture , and the Seattle Police Department's (SPD) role in perpetuating racism and violence. "
The organizations replacing the SPD will need to demonstrate several characteristics, including:
- Culturally-relevant expertise rooted in community connections
- Well versed in de-escalation skills and mental health support
- Trauma-informed, gender-affirming, anti-racist praxis
- Connected to resources like housing, food security, and other basic needs
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.rt.com
Bob_Marleff 6 hours ago
Rampant state propaganda, troops pulling out from Afghanistan and Germany, tanking economy and geriatric leaders. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery lolz
sndiousdfiohgs 2 hours ago
Interesting comparison to Brezhnev. Perhaps the American empire will go through a similar decline to the soviet one. A "stagnation" period of gerontocracy with very old fools like Trump and Biden in charge before it falls apart, maybe after a last gasp with a charasmatic Gorbachev trying to keep it together but destroying it accidentally instead.
ninaaaaa 58 minutes ago
He is not the first one that doesn't know where he is. Should not forget Bush who seemed to be totally intellectually retarded. Or should we forget sexual ma...c who couldn't stop laughing or the one who didn't sleep at night. And yes Reagan who went to meet with the Pope, both of them totally mentally gone, sleeping at the meeting.
CrabCoon 1 hour ago
He is the best America has to offer.
bobRT 3 hours ago
Brezhnev slurred because he had nerve damage in his cheek from being hit by shrapnel. It got worse as he got older...
westernman 5 hours ago
You know, i think a half functioning malleable idiot is a far preferred choice over a fully functioning psychopath
allan Kaplan 3 hours ago
No price is big enough for the ordinary Americans to pay for the Deep State and its network of criminals
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.msn.com
Pelosi upbraids counterintel chief in private briefing over Russian meddling
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top House Democrats admonished the country's top counterintelligence official during a classified election security briefing Friday, accusing him of keeping Americans in the dark about the details of Russia's continued interference in the 2020 campaign. Pelosi hinted at the conflict upon emerging from the briefing Friday morning, saying she thought the administration was "withholding" evidence of foreign election meddling.
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Max.Power , 11 hours ago
theory , 12 hours agoYeah, all this put many other things in perspective. It may turn out that Trump is the most decent US president of last 30 years. Who would've thought...
El Chapo Read , 11 hours agoAND........
Who was running the FBI at the time........???????Good old Bob Mueller.......!!!!!!!!!!!!
MongoStraight , 12 hours agoThat was "out of his purview"
Jam Akin , 12 hours agoIt's hard to believe that Marvin Minsky would have to pay for it.
This is a real life Minsky moment...
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
lester1 , 11 hours ago
Republicans want to build a billion dollar new FBI building in the coronavirus stimulus bill. Lol
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.msn.com
Tucker Carlson described former President Obama as "one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics" after his eulogy at the funeral of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Thursday.
© The Hill tucker CarlsonCarlson, who also described the former president as "a greasy politician" for calling on Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act and to eliminate the filibuster, which Obama described as a relic of the Jim Crow era that disenfranchised Black Americans, in order to do so.
"Barack Obama, one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics, used George Floyd's death at a funeral to attack the police," Carlson said before showing a segment of Obama's remarks.
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Just when we thought the woke PC madness of 2020 couldn't get anymore absurd, a local incident out of Michigan is so astoundingly stupid that even the AP reported on it with a tone that aptly captures the inanity :
Owners of a Michigan bed and breakfast have removed a Norwegian flag outside of their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who think that it is a Confederate flag .
Kjersten and Greg Offenecker, owners of The Nordic Pineapple, hung the flag opposite of the American flag after they moved into the Civil War-era mansion in 2018, the Lansing State Journal reported. They took both flags down last week.
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Jul 31, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Brasidas • 5 days agoA faction of BLM hijacked cities today: It's a madhouse! A madhouse!
Brasidas • 5 days agoSounds like a worthy read.
Vitam Regit Fortuna, Non Sapientia
Fortune rules the world, not Wisdom
CiceroCaeca dea est rerum rectrix; Fortuna vocatur:
Non minus at caeci, quos dea caeca regit.
A blind goddess rules the world, called Fortune.
But they are no less blind whom the blind goddess rules.
Owen"Sh*t happens."
Anonymous"Life is a crapshoot."
Me" Imagine a t-shirt that reads S**T HAPPENS*" and then, in much smaller print below, "*subject to selective evolutionary pressures."
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Jul 30, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
kalendjay L RNY • an hour agoIts difficult for me to speak objectively because I haven't read a newspaper in reliably for about 40 years and even then I got very tired on news reporting always being biased to the left and sensationalizing the news which was right around the time when real objective investigatory news ended and commentator based news as well as entertainment news started to take over.
A leftist newspaper is always the one that advertises butt lifts and lawyers.
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Jul 30, 2020 | sports.theonion.com
THE HEAVENS -- Admonishing His flock for concerning themselves with human affairs beyond the ballpark, God, Our Heavenly Father and the Creator of the Universe, reminded angels Wednesday that helping struggling baseball teams was their number-one priority. "If I don't see you giving a lackluster batter the strength to hit a home run, I'm shipping your ass out," said the Lord Our Savior, clarifying that MLB players experiencing family strife, which could be solved with a World Series win, should receive priority status. "I understand some of you are new here and want to help poor and sick people, but you need to understand that we focus on scrappy ball clubs. That's the point of religion. Sure, every now and then I'll grant a dying child's wish, but that's for Me to worry about. You should spend most of your day distracting elite baseball teams, so tenacious underdogs can score off errors." At press time, God banished six angels from His heavenly kingdom for gambling on the Yankees.
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Jul 30, 2020 | www.theonion.com
STANFORD, CA -- In a survey of how the nation's local officials have responded to the pandemic in the absence of a consistent federal approach, Stanford University researchers confirmed Monday that more cities have begun offering drive-thru Covid-19 injection sites to put citizens out of their misery. "By injecting people with SARS-CoV-2, these pop-up locations provide an effective way to escape the endless anguish, gloom, and isolation this virus has inflicted upon us -- and all from the convenience of one's car," said report co-author Sara Pappas, explaining that a certain percentage of those receiving the injection inevitably die, but whether through death or immunity, all those infected receive sweet release from an untenable situation they just can't take anymore. "Individuals who have experienced feelings of hopelessness or despair in recent months may wish to seek out one of these drive-up facilities. Restaurant and service workers who interact with the public on a regular basis can generally receive their injections for free, and those with health insurance are covered as well, with most insurers paying the full cost of the injection and up to 10% of any subsequent hospitalizations." Pappas went on to state that if only 80 to 90% of Americans would visit these Covid-19 injection sites, the pandemic would be over in weeks.
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Jul 30, 2020 | www.unz.com
Feelings don't care about facts. The mass hysteria that's gripped the Western world after the death of George Floyd can't be explained in rational terms
... the facts are almost irrelevant. We're dealing with faith , religious ecstasy. We're in the midst of BLMania.
Collective frenzies aren't new. Almost every American knows about the Salem witch trials, during which Christians claimed they saw demons and devils.
Ann Coulter analyzed mobs in her 2011 book Demonic . She heavily cited Gustave Le Bon's famous 1895 book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind . Miss Coulter said a mob is "an irrational, childlike, often violent organism that derives its energy from the group" and is "intoxicated by messianic goals."
This new faith even has holy sites and sacred rites. The site of George Floyd's killing is now a shrine , with white activists declaring it "holy ground." According to journalist Michael Tracey , the unwashed police generally do not enter this sanctum sanctorum .
What can we call this death-cult? Some leftists, including Ignatiev, called for "abolishing" the white race.
The creed's violence, militancy, and destructiveness lead me to call it Eradicationism. Like some Christian sects, whites who embrace it want collectively to abandon the world, if not through suicide then by failing to reproduce. Instead of making the world better "for ourselves and our posterity," they will expunge their blood guilt by ending their line. White Saviors share a curious mix of self-hatred and self-exaltation, something we see when white protesters post themselves indulging in BLMania online.
Worse, because this creed is impervious to truth, it must always seek new scapegoats (or devils) for egalitarianism's continuing failure. Despite the constant funding, programs, and repression, equality never arrives.
Black Lives Matter is more sacred than the American flag or Christ. Federal agents , police , military , athletes , politicians , and many others all genuflect before BLM. Many would never bow before God. This new, powerful faith even has a liturgical calendar and a hymn built on a sacred myth.
This is the thinking of a fanatic religious sect, like the one Jim Jones led . "We were too good for this world," Jones said before the infamous mass suicide.
This ends in denying truth itself. Claire Lehmann found a slide at an education conference in Washington that said that "if you conclude that outcomes differences [sic] by demographic subgroup are a result of anything other than a broken system, that is, by definition, bigotry." Actually, bigotry is "obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices." We've now come full circle, and define bigotry as not being bound by opinions and prejudices.
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Jul 29, 2020 | www.unz.com
AnonFromTN , says: July 29, 2020 at 6:48 pm GMT
In the next US presidential election, we are going to have a choice between a psychologically immature moron and a senile moron. If that is Putin's fault, he should be faulted for solar eclipses.
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Jul 29, 2020 | www.amazon.com
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It's Not Awful, But Not Great Either 3.0 out of 5 stars It's Not Awful, But Not Great Either Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2020 Verified Purchase I went for the Kindle edition.. because of the large credit back to purchase other kindle books. So I was only out of pocket a few buck to directly read for myself what Bolton has penned here.
1) Bolton is going to need prolonged physical therapy for the damage done to his arm with so much self-serving patting of his own back. Seriously... he devalues his entire effort with this sort of narcissistic bent.
2) There is not that much new in the book, that is not already publicly known through real journalists reporting on the Trump administration. I think some folks were gleeful to see a warhawk republican turn on Trump... but honestly.... nothing impacts what Trump does.. so this is largely fantasy wishes by anti-Trumpers. Note: I am an anti-Trumper.
3) If you want to read the sorted snippets of "rumors" from within the white house.... this book will provide entertainment.... but again.. nothing much new. And we already have numerous books and real journalist coverage of all of this already.
4) I guess it is possible that some journalist will find some new clue to pursue in reading this book... but time will tell on that.
5) you do get a much clearer view of Bolton's ideology and world view in this book.. and that is because that is really what Bolton is focused on...... pushing Bolton ideology and world view in foreign policy.
6) while I rarely agree with Bolton's viewpoint on anything... at least he is honest and transparent about his viewpoints... AND.. unlike Trump... consistent.
3 months from now.. nobody will be talking about or reading this book. So.. this is yet another flash in the pan of "inside dirt" on Trump. Bolton will keep his big fat advance, and book royalties, but he will also have Trump hounding him in court for years... demanding every single dime earned be taken away and given to Trump as some sort of "reparations"... and that will be the most interesting outcome from this book... Trump V Bolton in court.
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Jul 29, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
One big gotcha show, offending everyone's sense of fair play. Appalling, but will play very differently on both sides of the fence.
Democrats forget how many were totally disgusted by the media's relentless gotcha shows in 2016. So watching all the Democrat congress people engage in the exact same sh*t show for three hours was disgusting.
Thank goodness for both Barr and Jordan not losing their cool. Favorite line was Barr claiming they could have held the hearing without him, when one complained how long they had waited to "ask" him questions.
Posted by: Deap | 28 July 2020 at 05:04 PM
What do you call 435 lawyers and/or Congress critters on the bottom of the ocean floor? A good start.
Posted by: Rick Merlotti | 28 July 2020 at 07:54 PM
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Jul 29, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Deap , 29 July 2020 at 12:17 AM
Deap , 29 July 2020 at 12:25 AM"Reclaiming my time" - one minute supercut: https://news.grabien.com/story-supercut-democrats-demand-ag-barr-testify-not-actually-talk
Part Two: "Reclaiming my time", sauced up with in your face insults at Barr: https://www.weaselzippers.us/453114-barr-was-barely-allowed-to-answer-a-single-question-today/
Anyone who missed watching the full hearing, you can now get the flavor of the entire three hours in only these two minutes of takeout clips. I can only wonder what Nancy Pelosi really thought - not what she will say - but she is a savvy pol - what she really thought. Between the Biden-Harris ticket and the disgusting clown show today, Democrats don't have a shred of decency to run on in 2020.
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Jul 29, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
vk , Jul 28 2020 12:32 utc | 149
US Citizens in Iceland Want Ambassador Removed Amid Firearms Dispute, COVID-19 Controversy
A petition to relieve US Ambassador to Iceland Jeffrey Ross Gunter of his duties has been placed on the White House site.In the petition, Gunter is accused of "misrepresenting" the people of the US in Iceland, as well as mismanaging consular services and offending Iceland, an "invaluable US ally".
One of the reasons for their discontent is that Gunter, despite being assigned to a country that has consistently ranked as the most peaceful in the world, wanted the State Department to obtain a special permission to carry a gun. CBS described Gunter as "paranoid" about his security since coming to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik and reported that he also sought door-to-door armoured car service, as well as a stab-proof vest. At the same time, the US Embassy in Iceland placed a job listing in Icelandic newspapers looking for local bodyguards in what US government officials described as a bid to "placate Gunter's irrational concerns".
Those annoying provincials. They don't know civilization...
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Jul 29, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
aquadraht , Jul 28 2020 5:36 utc | 121
Just read an "opinion piece" demonstrated how remote from reality are not only people like Pompeo from a"liberal" commentator:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pompeos-surreal-speech-on-china/ar-BB17bk0t
The Chinese Communist Party wants a tributary international system where smaller countries are deferential to larger powers, instead of a rules-based international order where small countries enjoy equal rights.HAHAHA!
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Jul 28, 2020 | townhall.com
Joe Biden's alternate reality: "I know a fair amount about American foreign policy." Reality Check from Robert Gates, Obama/Biden's former defense secretary: Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
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Jul 27, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
I fail to see your problem with masks. My grandfather wore a gas mask on the front during World War 1. I wear a mask, indeed a N99 mask, when sawing concrete or doing fine wood sanding. When I was in the chemical process industry, some stations had Oxygen rebreathers to deal with the hazards in case of accidents. Medical staff have always worn respirators around patients with airborne diseases, as have researchers handling such agents. Covid-19, Tuberculosis, and late stage plague are all airborne. Wearing a mask when in a situation when you are potentially exposed is common sense.
So wearing my N99 mask when I go shopping is a trivial additional step. I actually wear nitrile gloves as well - I had them for dealing with paints and solvents.
Now I have had to give up eating out and going to my professional society meetings. I am not happy about that, but I am not willfully stupid. I am approaching 70...
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Jul 27, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
In a perfect example of the disconnect between Ivory tower Democrats and reality, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) gave a shocking answer when writer-producer Austen Fletcher asked him if he would disavow Antifa violence in cities like Portland.
After a brief pause, Nadler said it was a "myth that's being spread only in Washington D.C."
To which Fleccas replies: "Sir, there's videos everywhere online. There's fires and riots and they're throwing fireworks at federal officers. DHS is there. Look online."
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Jul 26, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Rick Moran via PJmedia.com,
If you're looking for peak idiocy from academic institutions who are falling all over themselves to kowtow to the mob's notions of "social justice," look no further.
The English Department at Rutgers University has declared that proper use of grammar is a hidden form of racism because it disadvantages students of "multilingual, non-standard 'academic' English backgrounds."
JoePorkChop , 19 minutes ago
zipit , 19 minutes agoThis complements nicely the goal to dumb down all students attending university. Why try and build up those so called disadvantaged when you can bring everyone else down to their level... Brilliant.
Ajax_USB_Port_Repair_Service_ , 19 minutes agoEbonics, yo.
Downhill from here , 5 minutes agoThe University of Wisconsin didn't like my English at all. My English professor told my I was flunking her class after I submitted my first assignment. I think I could really fit in at the Rutgers English Department.
Depends entirely on your gender and ethnicity.
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Jul 26, 2020 | www.unz.com
"Looking at Biden vs Trump almost makes me long for the days of the 2016 election – almost. As I have written, Trump is out of his depth dealing with these crises, and the generals who could have helped him are long gone – and gone on bad terms, at that. Biden is so visibly senile the only question is whether he drops out as soon as his VP is announced (who then moves into the lead slot & picks her own VP), or is propped up through the election like Brezhnev in his final year.
"Trump it seems has boxed himself into a corner. This situation needed decisive, tough action up front, and that didn't happen. Now we have simmering violence & renewed lockdowns to keep the pot boiling. We simply may not make it to November without a three (or four?) – sided civil war – I would hate to make book on it either way, the right spark and the whole thing blows up. But if we get to the election, what then? If Trump wins, the DNC-Antifa-BLM "Axis of REAL Evil" which is fueling these crises (aided by the MSM, of course) will shriek 'foul!' and the cities burn again, at which point old guys like me & my veteran neighbors & younger versions of us pick up our AR-15s and fight it. If Trump loses, the same thing happens between November & January. We are, my old friend (well, younger friend .!) heading between political versions of Scylla & Charybdis with broken rudders. Barring a miracle (and I hope SO much I am wrong!), this will make the 1861-65 war seem like a walk in the park."
obwandiyag , says: July 23, 2020 at 7:26 pm GMT
@Kevin BarrettThank you for that. I oppose BLM "antiracism" color-revolution whatever-it-is, and I oppose police brutality, too. Am I crazy?
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Jul 26, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
fzrkid , 4 hours ago
I wonder why the BLM clowns havnt said anything about all the 'brown' people the military has killed, woman and children included...
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Jul 26, 2020 | www.rt.com
By Graham Dockery, Irish journalist, commentator, and writer at RT. Previously based in Amsterdam, he wrote for DutchNews and a scatter of local and national newspapers.
Dark, incisive, and anti-authoritarian, George Carlin was a rebel until death. Now the woke left have claimed him as their own, a figurehead in their anti-Trump crusade. But George's legacy isn't one of feelgood social justice.
"They call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it," Carlin sneered in a famous 2005 monologue. In a devastating broadside against politicians, the media, corporate interests, and the "dumb ass motherf**kers" who remain ignorant to the "big red white and blue d**k jammed up their a**holes everyday," Carlin takes no prisoners, and the crowd delights in his shredding of the status quo.
Now, a group of activists based in Portland have repackaged the famous monologue, putting it alongside video clips of President Donald Trump's America: race riots, coronavirus deaths, and of course, Trump shaking hands with Vladimir Putin. "#AmericaWakeUp," reads a caption at the end of the clip.
https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1287284095286796291&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F495910-george-carlin-trump-video%2F&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&width=550px
Released on Sunday, the video was cheered by the anti-Trump brigade. "This video is completely devastating for Trump," one activist wrote . "George Carlin gives him the finger from the grave." More commenters shared the video, encouraging their followers to vote Democrat in November.
However, Carlin's hatred for politicians and the elite was not just limited to the Republican Party. Throughout his career, Carlin ripped on the "criminal" administration of Ronald Reagan, both Bushes' fondness for "bombing brown people," and Bill Clinton, who he said "might be full of shit, but at least he lets you know it."
The "big club" Carlin talked about in the latest video included Democrat and Republican lawmakers, and Carlin didn't shy away from skewering both.
Furthermore, Carlin's best and most loved routines were written and performed when the right held more cultural sway in the US. From Nancy Reagan's moralizing to the media-enforced patriotism of the post-9/11 years, Carlin could count on the right as a reliable target. Times have changed though, and the left holds far more power now than it did two decades ago. Conservatives are regularly 'deplatformed' on college campuses, politically incorrect speech can jeopardize one's career, and the consensus enforced by the mainstream media is overwhelmingly a liberal one, no matter how many clips of Fox News' Tucker Carlson the Portland activists can splice into their video.
"Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance," Carlin wrote in 2004, adding "political correctness is just fascism pretending to be manners." In an autobiography published a year after his death in 2008, he was even more explicit.
"The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with," he wrote. "Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy."
Carlin is unfortunately not alive to offer his opinion on the times we live in. However, it's not difficult to imagine him scoffing at the media's non-stop 'Russiagate' hysteria , just as he scoffed at the media's coverage of the Gulf War in the 1990s, accusing the press of working as an "unofficial public relations agency for the United States government." It's also easy to picture him tuning out of the 'Orange Man Bad' liberal consensus on Trump, even if he would probably savage his policies and personality.
That's assuming he would even have a stage in the first place. After all, Carlin delighted in provoking the would-be speech police, with his 1970s '7 Dirty Words' routine aimed explicitly at angering the censors. An updated version of this routine could well see him canceled by the woke torchbearers of the social justice movement.
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Jul 26, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Musum , 8 hours ago
QABubba , 8 hours agoOne good turn deserves another.
Maybe fat Pompeo knows he's on his way out and desperate to make a lasting mark on the geopolitical stage on behalf of the West Point mafia and his brothers-in-arm at the Jweish mafia.
Haboob , 7 hours agoQuit stealing Russian consulates, Chinese consulates, etc.
It serves no purpose.
Salisarsims , 7 hours agoClosing diplomacy with nations as USA shrinks on the world stage shows America's juvenile behavior.
Haboob , 7 hours agoWe are a young twenty something nation what do you expect but drama.
me or you , 9 hours agoIt is funny how the young and arrogant always think they are right and have manifest destiny over the old and wise. The young never listen to the old and as the story goes they are defeated everytime. China is older than America, older than the west, they understand this world we are living in far more than we do.
To Hell In A Handbasket , 9 hours agoHe is right!
The world has witnessed the US is not more than a banana Republic with a banana healthcare system
To Hell In A Handbasket , 8 hours agoI love seeing how gullible the USSA dunces are susceptible to hating an imaginary enemy. Go on dunces wave the star spangled banner, and place the hand over the heart, you non-critical thinking imbeciles. I told you fools years ago we are going to invoke the Yellow Peril 2.0, and now we are living it. China bad, is just as stupid as Russia bad, while the state stenographers at the MSM netowrks do all in their power to hide our rotten behaviour.
Who falls for this ****? The poorly educated, and the inherently stupid.
No, it's called nationalism or self preservation.
What are the citizens of the US suppose to do,
You are wrong on so many levels, but ultimately the Chinese have beaten us at our own rigged game. When I was riling against unfettered free-markets, and the movement of capital, that allowed the west for centuries to move into undeveloped foreign markets and gain a stranglehold, I was called a communist, and a protectionist.
While the USSA money printing b@stards was roaming around the planet like imperialists, and their companies was not only raping the planet, but gouging foreign markets, the average USSA dunce was brainwashed into believing USSA companies were the best.
Now these same market and economic rules we the west have set for the last several hundred years no longer work for us, we want to change the rules. Again, my point is "where was you on this position 5-10-20-30 years ago?" I've always seen this outcome, because logic said so. To reject our own status quo, and return to mercantilism, makes us look like the biggest hypocrites ever.
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Jul 26, 2020 | www.unz.com
Roberto Gentilli , says: July 24, 2020 at 3:59 pm GMT
obwandiyag , says: July 25, 2020 at 2:36 am GMTIf you allow a foreigner to give advice (although I should mind my own business) this is one proposal to save America. President Trump goes to the Republican Convention and says: "I admit that I am problematic, we all know that it is unfair, but we had four years of lies and derangement, and it was not my fault, but anyway I don't accept the nomination, I step back and I propose as candidate Tucker Carlson. Please give him a standing ovation". Then have a live TV debate between Carlson and Biden.
@Roberto GentilliSounds wonderful.
You know, of course, that Carlson is just as compromised, more probably, as Trump or Obama or Biden or you name it, don't you? And just as blackmailable and just as bribable?
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Jul 25, 2020 | caucus99percent.com
How can there be a constitutional crisis when neither party, nor any federal or local law enforcement, actually recognizes the constitution any more? It's absurd.
Submitted by The Wizard on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 1:06pm The Deep State is in fact extra-constitutionalThe CIA, NSA, and all the other XYZs in the War Department believe strongly that they set policy. In effect, that they are in charge and know best. How does that fit in with the Constitution. Where are these powers specified?
The Treaty Clause is part of Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution that empowers the President of the United States to propose and chiefly negotiate agreements between the United States and other countries, which, upon receiving the advice and consent of a two-thirds supermajority vote of the United States Senate, become binding with the force of federal law .
(My Bold)
Since we ratified the UN Charter that makes all of our wars of aggression unconstitutional and war crimes. Our use of phosphorus and napalm are war crimes.
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Jul 25, 2020 | stephensemler.substack.com
The more money a member of Congress accepts from the defense industry, the higher the probability that they'll vote how the defense industry wants them to vote. (So probably what you expected.)
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If you order the members of Congress based on the amount each of them accepted from the defense sector (2020 cycle) with their respective votes then break your list down (roughly) into fourths, you'll get something that looks like this:
Amount member accepts from defense
industry Likelihood that member lets us down Less than $3,000 70% $3,000-$9,999 77% $10,000-$29,999 84% More than $30,000 More than 98%Notes
41 House Democrats didn't let us down (in this case)
These 41 received (on average) $7,005.63 in campaign contributions from the defense industry so far in this election cycle
179 House Democrats did let us down
These 179 received (on average) $30,075.85 in campaign contributions from the defense industry so far in this election cycle
Adam Smith , Democratic Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, has received $376,650.00 in campaign contributions from the defense industry so far in this election cycle. (He also named the NDAA after his Republican counterpart.)
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Jul 22, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Zalamander
One by one the so-called Russiagate "evidence" have collapsed. The fake Steele Dossier, "Russian spy" Joseph Mifsud who is actually a self-admitted member of the Clinton Foundation, Roger Stone's non-existant Wikileaks contacts, Russian Afgan bounties, etc. But the neoliberal mainstream media still presents these as "facts" with no retractions.
This is not journalism, its disinformation designed to distract the American public from the failures of capitalism.
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Jul 24, 2020 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
MARK CHAPMAN July 24, 2020 at 9:14 am
With some tweaks for technique, the same method bragged about by Bill Browder as "The Hermitage Effect", and if truth be known, a similar method to those of venture capitalists everywhere. Nobody has time to wait anymore for a company's stock to take off, and guess right so that you are ahead of the curve – investors want to be rich nownownow, and venture capitalists have learned you can make your own luck. Browder billed himself as an 'activist investor', because his claim was that he was actually doing the company a favour, trying to help it succeed with western governance procedures and transparency and all that. He would identify a company which he assessed was undervalued, and then begin a whisper campaign against it – the bosses were on the take, lots of merchandise going out the back door, cooking the books to conceal the losses, bla, bla, bla. The company's stock would fall, and Hermitage would buy in when it felt the government's attention had been attracted and it would try to save the company. Government investigation, some management changes and maybe a government contract or some orders. Confidence returns, stock goes up, Browder rakes in the cash and virtuously claims to have saved the company's bacon, when it was his destabilizing efforts that made it shaky in the first place.
Singer is more like Richard Gere's billionaire capitalist in "Pretty Woman" – buying up companies, busting them up, stripping off the salable assets and selling the husk; a real-life example would be Mitt Romney.
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Jul 24, 2020 | www.rt.com
Roger Thornhill 2 hours ago If I recall correctly, Obama gave the Russians all of 48 hours to leave their consulate in San Francisco, which had been occupied since the 19th Century. This was around Christmas time in 2016. So I don't find this particularly surprising. Two days to have the diplomats, staff, and families completely out of the country.
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Jul 24, 2020 | www.nationalreview.com
he FBI agents who gave Donald Trump his first intelligence briefing during the 2016 election season had already opened an investigation into ties between Trump's team and Russian officials, a document declassified on Thursday shows.
That document is a seven-page summary of the briefing on August 17, 2016, written about two weeks later and filed as part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The summary was written by agent Joe Pientka, who took part in the briefing, and approved by Peter Strzok and Kevin Clinesmith. (Strzok was dismissed from the FBI following the leak of his politically-charged, anti-Trump texts, while Clinesmith is a lawyer accused of altering a document used to renew a FISA warrant on former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page.)
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Jul 23, 2020 | consortiumnews.com
JOHN CHUCKMAN , July 17, 2020 at 11:18
"'Putin Hacked Our Vaccine' Is Dumbest Story Yet"
Agreed. It does seem almost as though there's a race for producing the dumbest in the ongoing stories. Maybe Pompeo offers secret bounties?
Russia and China have good vaccine candidates well along in testing.
It is sad that Western, American-dominated governments commit so much time and resources to the effort .
The flow of stories just never stops. It follows the old advertising and propaganda principle that if you throw enough crap at the wall, some of it will stick.
Just ask yourself, are there any figures in today's world leadership more dishonest and less trustworthy than the Trump tribe of Pompeo and Grenell and Bolton et al?
I just don't think so. Trump has been caught, again and again, lying to us about many matters, and his own niece says he is a sociopath.
Here is a well-written, incisive piece by a former Canadian security service man, expert on Russia, which sheds a great deal of light on all of this nonsense about Russia:
see: strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/17/real-russian-playbook-written-english/
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Jul 23, 2020 | www.rt.com
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are perfect brand ambassadors for Black Lives Matter, which poses as a radical threat to the status quo, but, in reality, is one of the most elite-backed movements ever.
,,, News that the LA-based formerly royal duo, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are "shifting their focus " and will be putting their energy into supporting the Black Lives Matter movement is so predictable it's positively reassuring.
According to the US publication Entertainment Tonight , Meghan is "passionate" about supporting Black Lives Matter. Its royal expert opines: "the...movement matters to Meghan and it matters to Harry. And I understand that this is going to be an area where we're going to see the couple doing a lot more work and taking a lot more interest."
Of course they are! The only surprise is that anyone thought a slipped-out announcement was needed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been leading us up to this point with all the subtlety of a bulldozer in front of a Confederate statue. From the first days of their relationship, they have highlighted every perceived slight and countered every criticism with accusations of racism.
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Jul 23, 2020 | consortiumnews.com
vinnieoh , July 17, 2020 at 11:34
"Fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, how obnoxious and idiotic is it that coronavirus vaccine "secrets" are even a thing?? "
As I started in on this piece, I desperately hoped Caitlin would make this point. Just as soon as China sequenced the genome of this virus THEY PUBLISHED IT FOR ANYONE TO USE. Without that crucial grunt work, efforts to create a vaccine would be stumbling around in the dark.
But in the US it is disaster capitalism on parade.
There was a good joke posted by b, over at MoA:
Q: "What borders on insanity?"
A: "Canada and Mexico."
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A UK charity arts chief has suggested British museums are hypocrites for showing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, while the colonial artefacts they display are similar to that of Nazi-looted works.
Dr. Errol Francis, CEO and artistic director of arts charity 'Culture&', who has called for British museums and galleries to support the decolonization of their collections and reword racially sensitive artwork titles, has hit out at their recent public statements in support of BLM.
Francis accused the UK cultural institutions of hypocrisy for appearing to show support for oppressed black people on the one hand, while on the other still possessing items taken by force from African nations, such as the Benin Bronzes that were looted by the British in the late 19th century.
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A.I.S. JULY 21, 2020 AT 11:33 AMHow can anyone think that Bowder is an authority of anything other then high level Nigerian crown prince scams? Enrique JULY 22, 2020 AT 9:55 PM
Russia's goal? ..to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids, of course. Didn't you read the report? Mikhail JULY 22, 2020 AT 8:18 AM
Talk about "Garbage In-Garbage Out", the idiocy behind that is how she/he/it punked out of live discussion:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2007/08/a_new_cold_war.html
Much easier to lob pot shots from a distance where there's little, if any challenge. Enrique JULY 22, 2020 AT 9:31 PM
I think she finally found a husband and stopped ragging on western expats drooling over slavic women like schoolboys.
Enrique JULY 22, 2020 AT 9:11 PMThe article mentions Steele as a discredited participant but what about Applebaum, or are we to forget how her Polish husband was demoted by his own government for concocting a story about Putin offering to split Ukraine with Poland, at an alleged meeting that he was shown to have never attended. Poland no doubt sanctioned him for fabricating such an easily disproved event, certainly not out of any such notion as a search for truth.
That said, not having invited even a token moderate voice to this august 'panel of experts' speaks volumes about either the ignorance, the incompetence, the perfidy or just plain 'We don't really care what you think. We've done our duty' arrogance of the report's authors.
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Jul 23, 2020 | consortiumnews.com
John R , July 18, 2020 at 11:15The Russians did it (pick from the list of provided baseless accusations or add your own as desired, ie. the Russians stole my car) – it's the new version of "the dog ate my homework", only weaker.
michael888 , July 18, 2020 at 05:08
"We've got to find a way to snap out of the propaganda trance so we can start creating a world that is based on truth and a desire for peace."
Obviously Caitlin is on some strong recreational drug. This post-truth fact-free easily manipulated world view is EXACTLY where the DNC/ CIA/ Establishment MICIMATT wants us!
Tim Jones , July 18, 2020 at 01:15
"I mean, there are just so many layers of stupid." True, and Caitlin also helped me to see the humor in it.
Tom , July 18, 2020 at 01:00
The hacking fake news story indeed is very, very stupid one meant to be digested by stupid people. Firstly the global scientific community shares findings and information and publishes it in scientific magazines. Secondly if the UK had New or advanced research data that could lead to an effective and reliable vaccine, why than was it Russia who was able to produce that new vaccine and not the UK. The fake narrative simply does not add up. It's trash. The western media is a propaganda media.
Zhu , July 17, 2020 at 22:32
Too many Americans seem to be post-modernists, convinced there are no facts, only opinions. When reality bites their butts, they hop around like a scalded cat, looking for scapegoats.
Randal Marlin , July 17, 2020 at 21:15
The shame is not that a country might spy on vaccination research in search of a counter to a pandemic killing many thousands or even millions. It is that the principle of protecting profit over lives dooms the poor while preserving the lives of the rich. I think I know what Jesus would say about that principle.
DH Fabian , July 18, 2020 at 13:44
A pandemic requires a cooperative INTERNATIONAL effort, with scientists around the world working together, sharing data.
Daniel P. , July 17, 2020 at 12:15
Russiagate has made unbearably righteous twits of main stream Democrats. And it is completely disheartening to see the continued use of this psy-op to keep unthinking Dems in line.
Shame on the D party for foisting this fraud upon the public and pitting Dems against each other. But I guess that's what they do, isn't it?
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ET AL July 21, 2020 at 6:01 am
This is a biggie:
Al's Jizz Error: Egypt's parliament approves troop deployment to Libya
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/egypt-legislators-vote-deploying-troops-libya-200720141515828.htmlMove comes as Libya gov't and Turkey demand an end of foreign intervention in support of commander Khalifa Haftar.
####I suspect In'Sultin Erd O'Grand is a mole of the garden kind. He goes about digging one hole for himself after another. If he keeps this up, all the holes will merge in to one and he will disappear! It would give the West a chance to have someone running Turkey with a more reliably western perspective though I think it is clear that whatever comes next, Turkey will not allow itself to be treated as a western annex and pawn.
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MOSCOWEXILE July 21, 2020 at 6:57 am
ET AL July 21, 2020 at 7:20 amRainsford of the BBC on that report (it's labelled as an "analysis"):
What this report has done is to present a broad picture of Russia as a powerful foe.
And I don't think in the Kremlin they will be too unhappy at that.Cos Russia is really weak, see, and it wants to be big and strong, but it can't be because . because they're dullards and because . well, because they don't make anything, see, and their military is shit, it appears as terribly fearsome one, but it really is shit, Russian crap . although it is a real threat to the "Free World" because it is strong . but at the same time weak.
Russia is strong AND weak, see, and that's what peeves the Orcs because they want respect, see; they want the USSR back and they want a big tough tsar as well, see, which they have now, an autocrat, as in Russian imperial days of
glory, when everybody was scared shitless of them. But back then as now, Russia was strong AND weak, see, but you can never be too careful with Russians: they're genetically sly and deceitful, always denying the wicked things that we all know they have done.They want to be the big boy on the block, see, and knock the USA off it's pedestal as leader by example and guiding light to the "Free World". And if that happened, wel civilization as we know it would cease and we would enter a new Dark Age.
That's why Sarah Rainsford, BBC Moscow correspondent, believes that they in the Kremlin will not be "too unhappy" in learning that the West views Russia as a "serious foe".
Of course, she hasn't a fucking clue about what "they" think in the Kremlin.
If I were one of "them" in the Kremlin, though, I would tell Rainsford to fuck off back to London. And to take her pal Rosenberg back with her as well.
I would tell them both to fuck off out of Russia before midnight tonight.
Heap of shite source:
Russia report: UK failed to investigate interference in elections
Maybe the real reason is that British intellience services gave little to the committee because they saw what a useless bunch of pompous pricks they are and were likely to do more damage if they were trusted with anything of note. After all, the Committee has nothing to lose by Russia bashing, whereas there is still cooperation on organized crime, terrorism (Russian tabs on western and foreign sponsored jihadis etc.) and other stuff that the UK services that are of significant value. This stuff is not publicised of course.
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Jul 21, 2020 | www.realclearinvestigations.com
debard 1 day ago
The praetorian guard has become indistinguishable from the yellow journalists. Indict them all for treason.
russellremmert 1 day ago
is steel in prison yet Reply 12
DonEstif -> russellremmert 1 day ago
Ban-me Fagggot 1 day agoAlmost, he's an expert pundit used by CNN
If Russia stole the election when Obama was President, why wouldn't they steal the election when Trump is President? Democrats should protest by not voting. It wont make a difference.
TGrade1 1 day ago
Behind all of this, hidden behind the curtain, is a pants suit...
Justis -> TGrade1 11 hours ago
And more importantly, the then leader of the free world, Obama...
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Jul 21, 2020 | www.msn.com
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's recent criticism of him in which he called the infectious disease expert an "alarmist."
... Fauci warned last week that the coronavirus pandemic could be as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed at least 50 million people worldwide. He also warned late last month that the number of COVID-19 cases could top 100,000 a day.
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Jul 21, 2020 | crookedtimber.org
Tom 07.20.20 at 1:37 pm (
23 )likbez 07.22.20 at 3:46 am ( 25 )As a share of GDP, military spending today is half of what it was in 1986. Data here:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US
I am not a fan of military spending – following an excellent post by John about Eisenhower's famous speech (more tanks or more hospitals), I often use it as an example opportunity cost when teaching. One can certainly claim that the budget should be lower but, as a share of overall economic resources, the budget has been cut substantially in the last 30 years.
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@Tom 07.20.20 at 1:37 pm
Funny, but "not a fan of military spending" for some reason sounds like a military contractor or, worse, MIC lobbyist ;-)
If you are not fun of military spending how do you explain
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.CD?end=2018&locations=US&start=1960&view=chart
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MARK CHAPMAN July 18, 2020 at 9:58 am
I once thought the whole thing was a Big-Pharma scam to grab a shitload of cash. But Big Pharma – I don't think – would have engineered it to start in China, and it's not made-up;
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MOSCOWEXILE July 17, 2020 at 9:17 am
Well waddya know!
White Helmets co-founder stole aid money destined for Syria – report
A former British officer and gentleman, no less!
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MARK CHAPMAN July 17, 2020 at 11:58 am
PATIENT OBSERVER July 17, 2020 at 12:16 pmMaybe this will give some people a different perspective on Lukashenko. He was offered ten times the previous amount discussed in negotiations for IMF loans, if he would impose a lockdown and follow western quarantine measures. He told them to get stuffed.
So, the IMF tried coercion to maintain the COVID hysteria. I wonder if other sorts of "inducements" were offered Russia.
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MOSCOWEXILE July 19, 2020 at 10:03 am
MOSCOWEXILE July 19, 2020 at 10:07 amTrump is a moron!
https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1284846580747640835
By the way, Fort Bragg was named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, and he was bloody useless -- in my opinion, the worst CSA general bar none!
MARK CHAPMAN July 19, 2020 at 11:07 amBum link, I think.
This is what the moron tweeted:
"We won two world wars. Beautiful world wars. That were vicious and horrible. And we won them out of Fort Bragg, we won them out of all of these forts, and now they want to throw those names away" .
Absent his usual ridiculous grandstanding and his babbling about 'I love that state' when he probably does not know what state Fort Bragg is in, I have to broadly agree with him.
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MOSCOWEXILE July 19, 2020 at 9:33 pm
From what I have just read, creepy, touchy-feely Uncle Joe has an 11-point lead over the Moron:
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ET AL July 20, 2020 at 1:56 am
Not much different from the British public (media). UKgov was in trouble last week for failing to have their own man as head of the toothless rubberstamping parliamentary intelligence and security committee, shortly afterwards UKGov amped up 'Russia wot stole our vaccine' and the whole UK media ran with it, save a couple of articles qustioning the 'timing'.
The thinking the US & UK have in common is that there is no cost to their lying. They're only thinking of the short term obviously, but they depend on the other to turn the cheek ignore it as 'domstic politiking.' Last saturday I saw the al-Beeb s'allah preview of RusAmb interview to be broadcast on Sunday. The anchor had an 'expert' to help her. Cue cherry brief picked quotes from the interview to make the Ambassador look weak and the 'expert' saying 'that's what you would expect them to say.'
Today I see that Scotland is now the target, i.e. that Russia 'interfered' with the independence referendum. It's not even anything goes August yet. This whole year has been August reporting.
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MOSCOWEXILE July 19, 2020 at 7:35 pm
I just cannot see why the US public -- better said, some of the US public. -- fall for that torrent of verbal diarrhoea that Maddow regularly gushes forth on TV about all things Russian.
The shite that she so regularly spews out is patently untrue and clearly propagandistic. Time and time again, the content of "The Rachel Maddow Show" (Why "show" FFS? Is it because that is what it is -- a distraction, an entertainment vehicle for the uncritical masses?) has repeatedly been shown to be untrue, but never an apology from Maddow.
Oh, what a surprise! Her paternal grandfather's family name was Medvedev, a Four-by-Two who fled the Evil (Romanov) Empire and set up shop in the "Land of the Free".
Something that has often puzzled me is this: If the Russian Empire was such a "Prison of Nations", all crushed by the autocratic state, how come Western Europe and the USA is swarming with the descendants of the Tsar's former Jewish subjects?
To be fair to Maddow -- though I see no reason why I should be, for she is a lying cnut -- her family background is not really kosher: her mother hails from Newfoundland and is of English/Irish descent, and one of her grandmother's forebears were from the Netherlands. Furthermore, Maddow says that she had a conservative Catholic upbringing. I suppose that's why she's now a liberal lesbian. And guess what: she's a Rhodes Scholar with an Oxford PhD.
That wanker Cecil has a lot to answer for!
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Jul 20, 2020 | www.strategic-culture.org
I found headlines such as these: Former CIA Director Outlines Russian Playbook for Influencing Unsuspecting Targets (May 2017) ; Fmr. CIA op.: Don Jr. meeting part of Russian playbook (Jul 2017) ; Americans Use Russian Playbook to Spread Disinformation (Oct 2018) ; Factory of Lies: The Russian Playbook (Nov 2018) ; Shredding the Putin Playbook: Six crucial steps we must take on cyber-security -- before it's too late. (Winter 2018) ; Trump's spin is 'all out of the KGB playbook': Counterintelligence expert Malcolm Nance (May 2019) .
Of course, all these people are convinced Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Somehow. To some effect. Never really specified but the latest outburst of insanity is this video from the Lincoln Project . As Anatoly Karlin observes: "I think it's really cool how we Russians took over America just by shitposting online. How does it feel to be subhuman?" He has a point: the Lincoln Project, and the others shrieking about Russian interference, take it for granted that American democracy is so flimsy and Americans so gullible that a few Facebook ads can bring the whole facade down. A curious mental state indeed.
So let us consider The Russian Playbook. It stands at the very heart of Russian power. It is old: at least a century old . Why, did not Tolstoy's 1908 Letter to a Hindu inspire Gandhi to bring down the British Indian Empire and win the Great Game for Moscow? The Tolstoy-Putin link is undeniable as we are told in A Post-Soviet 'War and Peace' ...
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What can we know about The Playbook? For a start it must be written in Russian, a language that those crafty Russians insist on speaking among themselves. Secondly such an important document would be protected the way that highly classified material is protected. There would be a very restricted need to know; underlings participating in one of the many plays would not know how their part fitted into The Playbook; few would ever see The Playbook itself. The Playbook would be brought to the desk of the few authorised to see it by a courier, signed for, the courier would watch the reader and take away the copy afterwards. The very few copies in existence would be securely locked away; each numbered and differing subtly from the others so that, should a leak occur, the authorities would know which copy read by whom had been leaked. Printed on paper that could not be photographed or duplicated. As much protection as human cunning could devise; right up there with the nuclear codes .
So, The Russian Playbook would be extraordinarily difficult to get hold of. And yet every talking head on U.S. TV has a copy at his elbow! English copies, one assumes. Rachel Maddow has comprehended the complicated chapter on how to control the U.S. power system . Others have read the impenetrably complex section on how to control U.S. voting machines or change vote counts . Many are familiar with the lists of divisions in American society and directions for exploiting them . Adam Schiff has mastered the section on how to get Trump to give Alaska back . Susan Rice well knows the chapter "How to create riots in peaceful communities".
There is no Russian Playbook, that's just projection. But there is a "playbook" and it's written in English, it's freely available and it's inexpensive enough that every pundit can have a personal copy: it's named " From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation " and it's written by Gene Sharp (1928-2018) . Whatever Sharp may have thought he was doing, whatever good cause he thought he was assisting, his book has been used as a guide to create regime changes around the world. Billed as "democracy" and "freedom", their results are not so benign. Witness Ukraine today. Or Libya. Or Kosovo whose long-time leader has just been indicted for numerous crimes . Curiously enough, these efforts always take place in countries that resist Washington's line but never in countries that don't. Here we do see training, financing, propaganda, discord being sown, divisions exploited to effect regime change – all the things in the imaginary "Russian Playbook". So, whatever he may have thought he was helping, Sharp's advice has been used to produce what only the propagandists could call " model interventions "; to the "liberated" themselves, the reality is poverty , destruction , war and refugees .
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Silentwistle , 24 minutes ago
Silentwistle , 21 minutes agoMissouri attorney general is getting involved with the case. He's pissed. Good.
Joe A , 30 minutes ago...Missouri has a castle doctrine. They were well within their rights.
Trying to prosecute personal injury lawyers while they have the backing of the governor and the president?
Good luck with their counter sue where they will claim mental personal injury. They will clean you out dry.
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Jul 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Blue Dotterel , Jul 20 2020 9:13 utc | 96
For anyone who has forgotten, Fauci told 60 Minutes that:
There's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think it is. And often there are unintended consequences – people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face."
But he does make an astute point:
"Recently I had the poor judgment to turn on National Public Radio for about an hour, under the impression that I was going to learn something about the day’s news.
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No – for a solid hour, I heard the following: that COVID19 – in reality, at most, a moderately serious flu virus – is the worst medical threat the United States has ever faced.
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But the real theme of the hour was masks, masks, masks: how to make them, how to wear them, their different types, who doesn’t seem to have enough of them, and why muffling our faces (even though no such thing was ever demanded of us during dozens of past viral outbreaks) is absolutely, positively good for us all."
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Jul 19, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Angela Davis has endorsed the Democratic nominee
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Jul 19, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
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Stonewall Jackson , 4 hours ago
JoJo Kracko , 4 hours agoLook for the last time you Media Matter or Anti Fa Twinks who come here incessantly... If Trump was balls deep into the activities of that Island:
1)Epstein would have a video as he likely did for all of his guests.
2)The Deep State led by the Turds of the Obama administration including the Chief Turd himself would have released said video faster than crap through a goose.
The Washington Establishment has spent four years of endless investigations and you numbnutses think that the corrupt FBI and the intelligence agencies with guys like Mueller Rosenstein, Strzok and a caste of others inside the bureaucracy would not have leaked such stuff which would effectively end Trump.
But at least you are on topic here... it is about Trump. You silly sod twinks usually have some stupid comment about Trump no matter what the topic.
Stonewall Jackson , 4 hours agoWell Trump would know first hand if it was a cesspool right?
d_7878 , 3 hours agoSecond hand due to the social circles of New York. William Jefferson Clinton would know first hand. Epstein had an adorable portrait of him on the Island.
disagreeableness , 3 hours agoTrump's secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta, cut a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 with Epstein allowing him to continue on his spree.
You mean the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida under Obama? Who's administration was in power when the deal was cut, and who's boss' boss was Obammy hisself?
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disagreeableness , 3 hours ago
Johny Galt , 3 hours agoI'm a bit mystified by the entire Trump presidency. It's a given that the structure of corruption is intractable, but if the point of his tenure was to drain the swamp, it just seems there'd be a bit more muck on display by now.
It certainly could be that the plans for firing up the sumps was deferred until his second term upon the occasion of his first inauguration, but that speaks a level of caution that I find it difficult to muster enthusiastic support for.
"Damn the torpedoes, tomorrow"! Is not all that inspiring a battle cry.
It's mid July in an election year, if Trump had any serious intentions towards swamp draining, he best get to it, post haste.
Lucius Quinctius , 58 minutes agoI always enjoy quality sarcasm!
Like in the cartoon ,"Peanuts", Lucy pulls the football away at the last minute.Fooled again. Clinton and," don' t stop thinking about tomorrow" ,Obama,"Hope and change",Trump ,"make America great again".The sincere hopes of good Americans for their country offered up to this stratum of cons and quislings.
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WTFUD , 1 hour ago
Thordoom , 2 hours agoTrump loves/worships 3 things -
1) The Stock Market
2) His zionist buddies, Adelson & Netanyahu
3) Himself.
The rest is noise with little substance.
Weedlord Bonerhitler , 2 hours agoThis president is a total idiot who doesn't understand the severity of his actions. He is a literal moron who gave a blank cheque to CIA.
This moron doesn't understand that the other side will now do the same and US is far more vulnerable to cyberwarfare than China or Russia.
Non of those 2 use contractors and other idiotic stuff .
I love that this is "breaking news" in the age of Stuxnet and random facility explosions. Oh I truly do.
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Ink Pusher , 1 hour ago
alex kalish , 1 hour agoYahoo! is a digital plague on the internet.
Kinda like a digital form of chlamydia combined with binary syphilis , it never seems to wanna go away no matter how many times you treat it.
Encroaching Darkness , 1 hour agoOh Yahoo News - why does ZH reprint blatant crap ? Is their source Christopher Steele ? LMAO. A 17 year old pimple face kid could hack the CIA and they are going on the offensive ? They may blow up Hoover damn or shut down the electric grid by mistake....
DaBard51 , 1 hour ago********, top to bottom.
(A) Yahoo news - seriously, Yahoo news?
(B) Brennan wanted to overthrow Flynn / Trump - his proteges are still roaming through the agency. Why would Trump trust Brennan's underlings to hold a cookout at Langley, let alone unsupervised operations?
(C) Why MUST the CIA be responsible for Iran's explosions? Aren't the Israelis (with much higher motivation, closer location and more contacts) capable of doing this all by themselves?
Article full of unsupported and unsupportable assumptions, from a pseudo-news organization, trying to blame Trump for Iranian incompetence. Major fail!
Keter , 1 hour agoThe source is... Yahoo News? Yahoo News is the new "Paper of Record"?
The same Yahoo News that "corroborated" the Steele dossier?
NoPension , 1 hour agoYahoo News? What a scoop.
Yeah right. Russia version 6.5
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JLee2027 , 1 hour ago
according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
So, it's made up garbage.
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Jul 18, 2020 | www.rt.com
New documents show the FBI was aware that the infamous dossier used as a pretext to spy on President Donald Trump's campaign was unreliable, and that the New York Times published false information about the 'Russiagate' probe.
Mickey Mic 1 day ago What on Earth does Hillary Clinton got to do to be arrested ? Wow, still I hear no handcuffs...
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BM , Jul 18 2020 17:43 utc | 1
The signers of the letter against the 'cancel culture' had cancelled Glenn Greenwald from signing it.
I am not sure who should be more embarrassed about this - Greenwald or the other signers.No reason for Greenwald to be embarrassed - he is a fake Liberal like many of the others, and should have been allowed on the platform.
Interesting Chomsky was on the list, very contradictory character, hard to finger. I'd be interested what other people think about Chomsky.
vk , Jul 18 2020 17:54 utc | 2
From a historical perspective, the term that most attracted my attention was "[the forces of] illiberalism", which is an obvious recall of the term "totalitarianism" from the post-war "center-left" intellectuals from the West.
History repeats twice: once as a tragedy, and once as a farce.
By the way, the letter has also been called as bullshit by the British leftism's newspaper The Canary: 'Cancel culture' is a myth. So is the idea that the political right is under siege The key here is proportion. What is concretely happening? What are the facts on the field? What are the material results of each opinion?
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Jul 18, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
We know that coronavirus death counts are being inflated - we just don't know by how much. After all, how could they not be when there is a financial incentive for states and municipalities to report deaths as coronavirus deaths? And for some states, there may even be a political incentive...
Which is why it shouldn't come as a total surprise when a man who suffered a fatal motorcycle accident in Florida last week was added to the state's Covid-19 death count.
Fox 35 did an investigation where they talked to Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino about two deaths of people in their 20s that were labeled coronavirus deaths. When they asked if the people who died had underlying conditions, Pino responded: "The first one didn't have any. He died in a motorcycle accident."
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Jul 18, 2020 | www.kptv.com
Look at the picture of the arrested
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Jul 18, 2020 | turcopolier.typepad.com
"The reason why we shouldn’t believe most of the current or future polling results about President Trump can be summarized in two words: Social Desirability..."
I've long wondered what the numbers would look like if the pollsters cataloged every response along the lines of "go f*** yourself" as a vote for Trump...
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MOSCOWEXILE July 17, 2020 at 9:17 am
MARK CHAPMAN July 17, 2020 at 9:29 amWell waddya know!
White Helmets co-founder stole aid money destined for Syria – report
A former British officer and gentleman, no less!
Honour among thieves – he says he didn't mean to steal, it was a mistake, and they conduct an investigation on the down-low so the press doesn't get wind of it, or is warned that it should not. The same cooperative that solemnly preaches western morality, and screeches 'Russia!!!' as soon as anything happens before it can be attributed to someone else. I think I understand Russia a little better every time something like this happens – it's a honour to be hated by such a crooked and wretched entity, and approbation by the same would be an implication that one has as little a sense of values.
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Jul 17, 2020 | off-guardian.org
RobG , Jul 16, 2020 10:44 PM
To paraphrase Galloway, you can always tell a Russian agent because they have snow on their boots.
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Jul 16, 2020 | www.theamericanconservative.com
john • an hour ago • edited
....Are the Chinese going to lend us the money to fight them?
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andrewp111 , 29 minutes ago
m0ckingbird , 6 minutes agoI'm sure Trump thinks - Let the CIA play in their cyber sandbox. The Norks dissed Trump and the others deserve it, so, so what? It keeps the spooks happy and occupied, and out of Trump's hair.
play_arrow 1are you sure trump thinks? like AT ALL? you give your grown man-child way too much credit
ExposeThem511 , 1 hour ago
metanoic , 54 minutes agoWhen has the CIA ever had oversight?
Pretty sure oversight jumped out the 84th floor window very early on. Voluntarily of course.
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Jul 16, 2020 | www.unz.com
Anonymous [661] Disclaimer , says: July 14, 2020 at 10:09 am GMT
The Talmud is the absolute paradigm for racial supremacy, intolerance and hatred, a satanic bible compiled for psychopaths and pedophiles. Anyone who burns it gets my vote for a statue.
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GMC , says: July 14, 2020 at 7:05 am GMT
gotmituns , says: July 14, 2020 at 8:43 am GMTSarc. Yep those nasty Russians – they keep interfering with our elections and our country – we need to sanction them some more! Hard to believe that the USAs population , can't see past those big nose greedy suckers and their accomplices, that have totally ripped the country apart and stolen the wealth and future of the Nation. The best writers , in decades, are now riding Paul Revere's horse, writing articles, books and making documentaries/videos, trying to warn the People , that their country is in huge Peril – yet only about 15% are aware of it. Thanks UNZ Review.
One thing you can take to the bank is that if the statue is taken down, it will be done by a White owned rigging company by White workers. Blacks could never do such a project.
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With questions continuing to swirl about his mental health, a new Rasmussen poll has found that only 54 per cent of Americans believe Joe Biden is capable of debating President Trump.
The national telephone survey found that just over half of likely voters thought Biden could take part in a debate with Trump while 36 per cent disagree and say he is not capable. A further 11 per cent are not sure either way.
... Polls show that 38 per cent of American voters think Biden has "some form of dementia," including one in five Democrats. 61 per cent of voters also think Biden should address the dementia issue publicly.
CB March 9, 2020 at 13:07Today, NPR has been playing clips from Biden's terrifyingly incoherent St. Louis speech. He sounds like he's falling down drunk.
Here's my transliteration of 31:10 on C-SPAN:
"You're all part ma movemen a moob men that has a backbone the backbone of the Democratic Party a mooin's gun defeat Donald Trump."
Hearing the clip this morning put tears in my eyes because it so acutely reminded me of the final speech patterns of my grandfather, a brilliant nuclear physicist who died of Alzheimers at age 78.
I also cried at clip #33 because the pain in Jill Biden's eyes projected me right back into the helplessness of witnessing Granddad's cognitive decline.
It's tragically time to take away Biden's car keys, and yet these endorsements are trying to buy him a Maserati. How can this nightmare be happening. Thank you, Caitlin Johnstone, for maintaining this much-needed reality check.
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Jul 15, 2020 | www.msn.com
Navarro wrote in the op-ed for USA TODAY Tuesday that "Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, but he has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on."
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The White House's deputy chief of staff for communications, Dan Scavino, who has been by the president's side since the 2016 campaign, on Sunday posted a cartoon on Facebook depicting Fauci as a running faucet washing the U.S. economy down the drain.
"Sorry, Dr. Faucet! At least you know if I'm going to disagree with a colleague, such as yourself, it's done publicly -- and not cowardly, behind journalists with leaks. See you tomorrow!" Scavino wrote in a caption accompanying the cartoon.
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Brad Ellison , 1 month ago
I can't wait to see Hillary identify as a strong black woman.
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Duane Fernandes , 5 months agoDark humor is like health care in America, y'know, not everyone gets it.
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PATIENT OBSERVER July 10, 2020 at 10:16 am
Not a profound observation but consider these two stories
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/494433-deblasio-blm-new-york-protests/
Bill de Blasio has decided that summer is cancelled for New Yorkers unless they're campaigning for BLM. The New York City mayor has announced that all big events for the summer season in the Big Apple are called off in order to tame Covid-19, the only exception being if those gatherings are in the name of social justice.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86266
n Louisiana, African Americans accounted for 70% of COVID-19 deaths, while comprising 33% of the population. In Michigan, they accounted for 14% of the population and 40% of deaths, and in Chicago, 56% of deaths and 30% of the population. In New York, black people are twice as likely as white people to die from the coronavirus.
Isn't the focus on anti-virus measures to protect susceptible populations from exposure? Yet, we have De Blassio and his ilk pushing for events virtually guaranteed to worsening the infection rate in a vulnerable group. Three possibilities:
– he is simply pandering
– the need to cower resistance is paramount
– Black Lives Don't Matter to him and his cohortsSide note – here in the heartland, the cynicism regarding politician and the media has never been stronger. If Trump were not such a fucking moron, he could waltz into the White House after the election.
Despite his moronism, Trump can still win. Biden looks like a block of wood with eyes glued to the teleprompter. His mind is gone.
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Cloned Poster , Jul 13 2020 12:11 utc | 173
Situation and trends
There were 1.35 million road traffic deaths globally in 2016.There were 1.35 million road traffic deaths globally in 2016, with millions more sustaining serious injuries and living with long-term adverse health consequences. Globally, road traffic crashes are a leading cause of death among young people, and the main cause of death among those aged 15–29 years. Road traffic injuries are currently estimated to be the eigth leading cause of death across all age groups globally, and are predicted to become the seventh leading cause of death by 2030.
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MOSCOWEXILE July 10, 2020 at 5:59 am
Simonyan loses her cool:
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, asked a diplomat at the American embassy in Moscow to shut her mouth after she had tried to shame the Russian Federation about arrested journalists. U.S. embassy spokeswoman Rebecca Ross said Washington was keeping an eye on successive arrests in Russia.
Simonyan said in response that allegations of an attempt against the "freedom of the press" are especially cynical in the light of the numerous arrests of journalists in the United States. During the riots in the United States alone, 58 journalists have been arrested and more than 470 injured at the hands of the police.
But Simonyan did not say "mouth", as it says in the lead of the Russian article linked below:
Just shut your gobs, right! And do not open them until you have rewritten your methodology manuals so that your couriers are able to work, observing at least a minimal illusion of connection with reality. Otherwise, this [what you say] is completely ridiculous , writes the editor-in-chief of RT in Telegram.
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vk , Jul 13 2020 18:57 utc | 2
Funny how the visa-free map from before the COVID-19 pandemic is roughly equal to the extent of the American Empire itself.
And the loss of foreign students signifies much more than the mere loss of income for the American universities: it also means the loss of grip over the provinces' regional elites.
Most of the foreign students in the USA are sons and daughters of the regional elites. They live the American way of life, get westernized, and go back to their countries (which they will likely rule) with a liberal ideology ingrained in their minds. They are the rough equivalent to what the hostage was during Antiquity. To lose 263,000 hostages in less than one year would be a devastating blow to American diplomacy.
Peter AU1 , Jul 13 2020 19:09 utc | 4
vkOne commenter mentioned a brain drain in relation to foreign students no longer coming to America but I guess the brain drain will occur when out of work professors start heading off to other countries like China in search of work.
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Richard Steven Hack , Jul 13 2020 11:53 utc | 172
The Church paid out over $200 million in sexual abuse claims - and gets 7 times that much from the taxpayer.
AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
Hackers - rev your engines!
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Jul 13, 2020 | news.yahoo.com
REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
President Trump confirmed in an interview with the Washington Post that the US launched a cyberattack against infamous Russian troll farm the Internet Research Agency (IRA) during the 2018 midterms.
The Post reported the attack in February 2019, but this is the first time Trump has confirmed it took place. It is unusual for countries to publicly talk about cyberwarfare tactics.
The IRA was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller in 2018 for conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. Russian influence campaigns were also detected during the 2018 midterms .
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Peter AU1 , Jul 13 2020 4:56 utc | 150
JC 143
Plenty of decent people have headed to five eyes thinking they would find a better life, but we also take in the scum of the world that can be used against their own countries. These generally rise to high places.
Imperial France seems of the same mindset and Chechen freedom fighters are now fighting for their freedom in France.Yankistans freedom fighter Osama Bin Larden was just fighting for freedom apparently. Like the AQ media wing 'White Helmets' that UK and Canada took in, not to mention the nazi's that participated in the genocides in their own countries in WWII.
When peasants living conditions are constantly improving, there will be no revolt and no civil war. Yankistan propaganda can't even come up with an opposition in China.
Angloshere propaganda mostly projects onto target countries what they themselves are doing.
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PATIENT OBSERVER July 8, 2020 at 7:02 am
So, Kayne West is running for President. If he goes through with it and is registered as a candidate in key states, he could draw a fair fraction of the black vote otherwise going to Biden.
I wonder if Trump figured in this gambit. Hardly 3-D chess but there is some sense to it.
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MOSCOWEXILE July 6, 2020 at 5:08 am
MARK CHAPMAN July 6, 2020 at 12:03 pmNice one, Mark!
In a word, Straw is a Blairite twat.
I remember him as far back as 1969, when he was president of the National Union of Students. He was already a grade-A tosser then.
Now just take a gander at this:
BBC
Last Updated: Monday, 27 February 2006, 19:11 GMT
Straw's warning to Russian tycoon
Boris Berezovsky
Berezovsky was granted political asylum in the UK in 2003Jack Straw has warned a Russian tycoon that his refugee status could be reviewed after he reportedly said he was planning a coup in Russia.
London-based Boris Berezovsky, 59, was granted asylum three years ago and has a fortune estimated at £800m.
He told a Russian radio station in January he wanted to replace what he called the "anti-constitutional regime" of President Vladimir Putin.
The foreign secretary condemned his remarks in a written Commons statement.
Russia – 'a valued partner'
Mr Straw said the government would "take action against those who use the UK as a base from which to foment violent disorder or terrorism in other countries".
"Advocating the violent overthrow of a sovereign state is unacceptable and we condemn these comments unreservedly," he said.
The UK Government respects Russia's constitutional arrangements and the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.
"We enjoy a close working relationship with Russia, as a valued partner of the UK."
Mr Straw said Mr Berezovsky, who is wanted in Russia for fraud and tax evasion, had not entered the UK on the government's invitation.
"Those granted asylum in the United Kingdom have duties to the UK which require, in particular, that they conform to its laws and regulations," said Mr Straw.
"They are advised that their refugee status can be reviewed at any time where it is considered their presence is not conducive to the public good."
Former computer scientist Mr Berezovsky sold the Sibneft oil giant in 1997 for £1bn and was ranked 50th in the Sunday Times Rich List last year.
What a two-faced twat!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4756880.stm
By the way, BBC: Berezovsky was indeed a mathematician before becoming departmental head of the institute of Control Sciences.
Berezovsky, having in 1989 taken advantage of the opportunities presented by traitor Gorbachev's perestroika founded LogoVAZ with his Georgian business partner Badri Patarkatsishvili and senior managers from Russian automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ.
LogoVAZ developed software for AvtoVAZ, sold Soviet-made cars and serviced foreign cars.
And then the feeding frenzy began in the Glorious Yeltsin years.
The big automobile scam that Berezovsky then organized profited from hyperinflation by taking cars on consignment and paying the producer at a later date when the money had lost much of its value.
There were competitors in this automobile skulduggery and Tolyatti, the city where The AvtoVaz (Lada) plant was located became for a while the murder capital of Russia.
There were also turf wars in Moscow over control of car dealerships. Nice Mr. Businessman Berezovsky's enforcement team consisted of Chechens. I well remember how there was once an infamous firefight in Moscow between team Berezovsky and another gang of armed gunmen. Whenever Berezovsky was asked about his car dealer activities and the killing spree that was associated with it, he always claimed he didn't know anything about gunfights and gangs, of course.
And then there was the murder of US citizen Klebnikov, Editor of the Russian "Forbes". Klebnikov had had the temerity to write a book about businessman Berezovsky, daring to label him as "The Godfather of the Kremlin".
Needless to say, Berzovsky and clan Yeltsin were at the time as thick as thieves.
They were, in fact, thieves.
And didn't Washington just love that drunken bastard Yeltsin! How Boris and Bill chuckled together at the White House in front of the cameras!
Yes, it's hard to believe Jack Straw – with his other face on – once argued that Berezovsky should be careful of Russia's feelings. And the holier-than-thou psalm about not overthrowing sovereign governments was too precious to believe. It was around this time, when Boris Berezovsky was the subject of tentative deportation investigations, that the poisoned-pen scheme was dreamed up, and authenticated by Litvinenko, so Berezovsky got to stay because Putin tried to kill him.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/apr/14/uk.russia
Also hard to believe now that Berezovsky was himself a suspect in the murder of Litvinenko. The idea!!
"Among the 100 suspects is Mr Berezovsky, who has accused the Kremlin of being behind Mr Litvinenko's death – a claim Russian officials deny. Mr Berezovsky has been the subject of two extradition attempts; the total cost to the UK taxpayer of Russia's attempt to extradite oligarchs is put at £3m. His asylum stems from a court claim that an agent had been sent to kill him with a poisoned pen."
Luckily, Christopher Steele happened along and told them it was a Russian state hit.
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ET AL July 13, 2020 at 8:45 am
MARK CHAPMAN July 13, 2020 at 10:49 amAntiwar.com : US Warns Iran and China Against Major Investment and Security Deal
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/07/12/us-warns-iran-and-china-against-major-investment-and-security-deal/State Dept vows to impose costs on both nations
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Must. Pass. Foreign. Relations. Policy. Past. USDoS. First.Well that is unforgiveable for the Masters of the Universe(TM). No-one knows exactly what's in it except that it is substantial. Still, the USDoS is having a public aneurism tells us that they care a lot.Every time you "impose costs" on another country, you make more enemies and inspire more end-around plays which take you as an economic player out of that loop. And by and by what you do is of no great consequence, and your ability – your LEGAL ability, I should interject – to 'impose costs' is gone.
Sooner or later America's allies are going to refuse to recognize its extraterritorial sanctions, which it has no legal right to impose; it gets away with it by threatening costs in trade with the USA, which is a huge economy and is something under its control.
But that practice causes other countries to gradually insulate themselves against exposure, and one day the cost of obeying will be greater than the cost of saying "Go fuck yourself".
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MARK CHAPMAN July 7, 2020 at 8:25 am
ET AL July 7, 2020 at 9:58 amWhy do western politicians always claim these actions send a 'clear message'? What is it? We are good, and you are evil? Roughly the same number of individuals get banned on each side in tit-for-tat, so is the Russian side also sending a 'clear message'? Is it maybe 'fuck you'? And for God's sake stop with the 'blood-drenched' hyperbole – I'm pretty sure I remember Britain chopping up fuzzy-wuzzies by the score in its drive to extend its Empire ever further into countries which most definitely did not welcome it. If you make laws that supposedly send a 'clear message' to your own populations and then ignore them yourself, aren't you a dictator?
MARK CHAPMAN July 7, 2020 at 8:20 amMaybe it's a typo, rather the British government sending a clear massage ?
ET AL July 7, 2020 at 2:53 amOf course they need justification to be shown to the public to substantiate decisions which may have far-reaching commercial consequences – a Scandahoovian 5G network is going to cost more, for sure, and probably not be as good although we only have the word of industry insiders for that. Enter a made-up threat so they can say "We had to act". But they have learned a little from the Litvinenko and Skripal fabrications – learned at least that they are not very good at making up convincing stories, and so the public had perhaps best only see the headlines and not the content, because the public has proved quite adept at picking apart the content.
Ever wondered what happened to our mouth foaming favorite russophobe, Ed Lucas?
Daily Fail: EDWARD LUCAS: At last! The end of the age of appeasing Beijing bullies
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8495983/EDWARD-LUCAS-end-age-appeasing-Beijing-bullies.html
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Cyril , Jul 13 2020 2:56 utc | 140
@JC | Jul 12 2020 22:37 utc | 109
[China invented the dinner fork] Good one
Thanks.
I wouldn't be surprised Trump sincerely believe Xi Jinping is peeing in his pant if he tried threaten China...Someone who lies so much, like Trump, will often have trouble keeping things straight. I wouldn't be surprised if he started believing his own propaganda.
Trump wanna China to be with Russia on the nuclear armaments talks, China's Fu Cong said "I can assure you that if the U.S. says that they are ready to come down to the Chinese level, China will be happy to participate the next day"Heh, Fu knows he can say that safely, since there's absolutely no way the US will ever cut its nukes down to China's level.
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Jul 13, 2020 | pbs.twimg.com
Hello, Peter Ludlow here, CEO of InGen, the company behind the wildly successful dinosaur-themed amusement park, Jurassic Park. As you're all aware, after an unprecedented storm hit the park, we lost power and the velociraptors escaped their enclosure and killed hundreds of park visitors, prompting a two-month shutdown of the park. Well. I'm pleased to announce that, even though the velociraptors are still on the loose, we will be opening Jurassic Park back up tc the public!
Now, I understand why some people might be skeptical about reopening an amusement park when there are still blindingly fast, 180-pound predators roaming around. But the fact of the matter is, velociraptors are intelligent, shifty creatures that are not going to be contained any time soon, so we might as well just start getting used to them killing a few people every now and then.
Some might argue that we should follow the example of other parks that have successfully dealt with velociraptor escapes. But here at Jurassic Park, we've never been ones to listen to the recommendations of scientists, or safety experts, or bioethicists, so why would we start now?
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Richard Steven Hack , Jul 13 2020 0:59 utc | 120
lex talionis , Jul 13 2020 1:17 utc | 123American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)
Oh the places you can't goNow all those countries should make that permanent...
@114 - I would also add that Oppenheimer's follow up film "The Look of Silence" is well worth a watch, too.@120 - At least we can still go to Ukraine!
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blues , Jul 13 2020 1:36 utc | 128I'm a Moron, and damn proud of it!
Moron Lives Matter! MLM!
Antonym , Jul 13 2020 1:44 utc | 131
@ Jen 114
"As long as this continues, the likelihood that similar persecutions and genocidal purges of outsider groups and individuals, be they Chinese, Christian, Shi'a and other heterodox Muslim, academics, trade unionists, separatists in Maluku, West Papua or other parts of Indoneisa, and all these purges supported by the West in some way, will occur in the future is strong."Yeah, "we" Anglos" are the only bad guys on this planet - not.
The CIA & co are not yet into slaughtering of Christians. Extremist Indonesian Sunni Muslims were guilty in the above atrocities, continuing as harassments till today. Hard to swallow: bad brown people do exist!
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Jul 12, 2020 | www.msn.com
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that he will agree to a Democratic request to have former special counsel Robert Mueller testify about his investigation into Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign.
"Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have previously requested Mr. Mueller appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his investigation," Graham said in a statement.
"That request will be granted," he added.
The statement from Graham, which was also posted to Twitter, comes after Mueller published a Washington Post op-ed defending his team's findings on President Trump's associate Roger Stone after Trump moved to commute Stone's sentence.
Stone "remains a convicted felon, and rightly so," Mueller wrote.
He added that he felt compelled to "respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes."
Graham referenced the Washington Post op-ed, saying that Mueller is "apparently ... willing-and also capable-of defending" the investigation.
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William Gruff , Jul 12 2020 0:58 utc | 45
juliania 39
JC is correct. Neoliberalazis have zero tolerance for ethnic slurs against Black Americans (though not necessarily those against Black Africans... odd) but are willing to excuse those against Asians.
It is funny, but when discussing "diversity" on college campuses, that "diversity" never includes Asians, or for that matter Eastern Europeans, or Syrians, or Iranians or so on. In fact, "diversity" often doesn't even include Latin Americans. It is strange how narrow neoliberal middle class Americans' concerns about "diversity" are.
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Jul 11, 2020 | www.rt.com
Would CNN's Don Lemon cancel himself over shockingly unwoke 2013 tips to black community?
A vintage clip of CNN anchor Don Lemon telling black people to act civilized and disregard "street culture" has the woke pundit's detractors' jaws on the floor, wondering what happened to him over the intervening seven years. In the 2013 clip, Lemon praises Fox News host Bill O'Reilly as the Republican pundit decries the " disintegration of the African-American family ," even arguing O'Reilly " doesn't go far enough " when he denounces " street culture. " The video was posted to social media by " Panda Tribune " on Wednesday and quickly circulated among conservatives, who had a hard time reconciling this Lemon with his painfully-PC modern-day counterpart.Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired the segment on his show Wednesday night, marveling that if Lemon or one of his colleagues came out with those lines in 2020, " that would be their last live broadcast ever - they'd be fired immediately ."
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Authored by Karol Markowicz via Spectator,
Wealthy white [neo]liberals don't suffer the consequences of their fringe ideologies...
Walk along the leafy streets of any neighborhood in so-called 'brownstone Brooklyn', Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and you'll see 'Defund the Police' in many a home window.
Owners of $3 million dollar brownstones proudly proclaim their agreement with a fringe policy, designed to remove resources from police squads, as a solution to police violence. How exactly less funding for police will result in better policing is unclear, but virtue signaling of the kind that has rich people pushing for fewer resources for poor people doesn't get tangled up in the details.
The details are specifically grim. The New York Post reported on Monday that 'between Monday, June 29, and Sunday, July 5, the city saw 74 shooting incidents with 101 victims'. Those numbers are more than tripled from the same period in 2019.
... The issue, of course, is that these shootings are largely happening in majority-black neighborhoods around the five boroughs. Brownsville, Brooklyn has been hit particularly hard. Upper Manhattan. Harlem. Dozens shot , many dead. No shootings have taken place in Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights. The position 'Defund the Police' can easily be shorthand for 'I'm rich'.
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Authored by Matt Taibbi. As excerpted from " If it's Not "Cancel Culture," What Kind of Culture is it ? "
Any attempt to build bridges between the two mindsets falls apart, often spectacularly, as we saw this week in an online fight over free speech that could not possibly have been more comic in its unraveling.
A group of high-profile writers and thinkers, including Pinker, Noam Chomsky, Wynton Marsalis, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem and Anne Appelbaum, signed a letter in Harper's calling for an end to callouts and cancelations.
"We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom," the authors wrote, adding, "We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences."
This Hallmark-card-level inoffensive sentiment naturally inspired peals of outrage across the Internet, mainly directed at a handful of signatories deemed hypocrites for having called for the firings of various persons before.
Then a few signatories withdrew their names when they found out that they would be sharing space on the letterhead with people they disliked.
"I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company," tweeted Jennifer Finney Boylan, adding, "The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry."
Translation: I had no idea my group statement against intellectual monoculture would be signed by people with different views!
In the predictable next development -- no dialogue between American intellectuals is complete these days without someone complaining to the boss -- Vox writer Emily VanDerWerff declared herself literally threatened by co-worker Matt Yglesias's decision to sign the statement. The public as well as Vox editors were told:
The letter, signed as it is by several prominent anti-trans voices and containing as many dog whistles towards anti-trans positions as it does, ideally would not have been signed by anybody at Vox His signature on the letter makes me feel less safe.
Naturally, this declaration impelled Vox co-founder Ezra Klein to take VanDerWerff's side and publicly denounce the Harper's letter as a status-defending con.
"A lot of debates that sell themselves as being about free speech are actually about power," tweeted Klein, clearly referencing his old pal Yglesias. "And there's a lot of power in being able to claim, and hold, the mantle of free speech defender."
This Marxian denunciation of the defense of free speech as cynical capitalist ruse was brought to you by the same Ezra Klein who once worked with Yglesias to help Vox raise $300 million . This was just one of many weirdly petty storylines. Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams, who organized the letter, found himself described as a " mixed race man heavily invested in respectability politics ," once he defended the letter, one of many transparent insults directed toward the letter's nonwhite signatories by ostensible antiracist voices.
The whole episode was nuts. It was like watching Bruce Springsteen and Dionne Warwick be pelted with dogshit for trying to sing We Are the World .
This being America in the Trump era, where the only art form to enjoy wide acceptance is the verbose monograph written in condemnation of the obvious, the Harper's fiasco inspired multiple entries in the vast literature decrying the rumored existence of "cancel culture." The two most common themes of such essays are a) the illiberal left is a Trumpian myth, and b) if the illiberal left does exist, it's a good thing because all of those people they're smearing/getting fired deserved it.
In this conception there's nothing to worry about when a Dean of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell is dismissed for writing "Black Lives Matter, but also, everyone's life matters " in an email, or when an Indiana University Medical School professor has to apologize for asking students how they would treat a patient who says 'I can't breathe!' in a clinical setting, or when someone is fired for retweeting a study suggesting nonviolent protest is effective. The people affected are always eventually judged to be "bad," or to have promoted "bad research," or guilty of making "bad arguments," etc.
In this case, Current Affairs hastened to remind us that the people signing the Harper's letter were many varieties of bad! They included Questioners of Politically Correct Culture like "Pinker, Jesse Singal, Zaid Jilani, John McWhorter, Nicholas A. Christakis, Caitlin Flanagan , Jonathan Haidt, and Bari Weiss ," as well as "chess champion and proponent of the bizarre conspiracy theory that the Middle Ages did not happen, Garry Kasparov," and "right wing blowhards known for being wrong about everything" in David Frum and Francis Fukuyama, as well as -- this is my favorite line -- "problematic novelists Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie , and J.K. Rowling."
Where on the irony-o-meter does one rate an essay that decries the "right-wing myth" of cancel culture by mass-denouncing a gymnasium full of intellectuals as problematic?
Continued reading on Matt Taibbi's Substack
booboo , 16 seconds ago
Jackprong , 7 minutes agoHow long before Tiabbi is forced into a life of dumpster diving. I am pretty sure his world is rocking right now but free speech needs all of the defenders it can get.
Secret Weapon , 10 minutes agoThey're even throwing Orwell to the dogs! They have no shame!
Justus_Americans , 13 minutes agoMao and his Red Guard invented cancel culture. This is the Chinese cultural revolution American style. Same ****, just round eyes instead of slant eyes.
The Overton Window The Illusion Of Choice Free Speech Respectful Discourse The Best Interests of USA
" The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate " Noam Chomsky
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When Colin Powell of all people has to appear on MSNBC to slam fake reporting you know mainstream media has lost the plot.
In a rare moment, the former Secretary of State under Bush slammed the wall-to-wall coverage of the Russian bounties in Afghanistan story as "almost hysterical" . It's all the more awkard for MSNBC, which had him on the network Thursday to talk about it, given he's one of those 'never Trump' Bush-era officials, who despite a legacy of having fed the world lie after lie to invade Iraq, has since been given "resistance hero" status among liberals.
Describing that military commanders on the ground didn't give credence to The New York Times claim that Russia's GRU was paying Taliban and other militants to kill American soldiers, Powell said the media "got kind of out of control" in the first days after the initial report weeks ago.
"I know that our military commanders on the ground did not think that it was as serious a problem as the newspapers were reporting and television was reporting," Powell told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. "It got kind of out of control before we really had an understanding of what had happened. I'm not sure we fully understand now."
"It's our commanders who are going to go deal with this kind of a threat, using intelligence given to them by the intelligence community," Powell continued. "But that has to be analyzed. It has to be attested. And then you have to go find out who the enemy is. And I think we were on top of that one, but it just got almost hysterical in the first few days."
He also deflated the ongoing manufactured atmosphere which seeks to maintain a perpetual Washington hawkish position vis-a-vis Moscow, based on perceived "Russian aggression".
"I don't think we're in a position to go to war with the Russians," Powell said. "I know Mr. Putin rather well. He's just figuring out a way to stay in power until 2036. The last thing he's looking for is a war, and the last thing he's looking for is a war with the United States of America."
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Submitted by Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations
The unnamed FBI "Supervisory Intelligence Analyst" cited by the Justice Department's watchdog for failing to properly vet the so-called Steele dossier before it was used to justify spying on the Trump campaign teaches a class on the ethics of spying at a small Washington-area college, records show.
Above, Brian J. Auten, the FBI analyst who vetted applications to spy on Carter Page, has taught a course on spying ethics at Patrick Henry College since 2010The senior FBI analyst, Brian J. Auten, has taught the course at Patrick Henry College since 2010, including the 11-month period in 2016 and 2017 when he and a counterintelligence team at FBI headquarters electronically monitored an adviser to the Trump campaign based on false rumors from the dossier and forged evidence.
Auten, identified by congressional sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, never confirmed the most explosive allegations in the dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, cutting a number of corners in the verification process, Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz pointed out in his December report on FBI abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
By January 2017, the lead analyst had ample evidence the dossier was bogus. Auten could not get sources who provided information to Steele to support the dossier's allegations during interviews. And collections from the wiretaps of Trump aide Carter Page failed to reveal any confirmation of the claims. Auten even came across exculpatory evidence indicating Page was not the Russian asset the dossier alleged, but was in fact a CIA asset helping the U.S. spy on Moscow.
Nonetheless, he and the FBI continued to use the Steele material as a basis for renewing their FISA monitoring of Page, who was never charged with a crime.
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Realist , says: July 3, 2020 at 10:38 am GMT
AnonFromTN , says: July 3, 2020 at 7:42 pm GMTDoes the Next Presidential Election Even Matter?
No just like the elections, for at least, the last 35 years.
mark tapley , says: July 3, 2020 at 9:05 pm GMTIt is indeed shameful that narcissistic moron Trump is the sanest person among the US politicians. They are all corrupt and narcissistic, but most Dems appear to be insane at the same time. Biden is simply senile (used to be corrupt before he lost his marbles). The Empire will slide further down regardless who is in the White House. Dems will cause an irreparable destruction of the US as a country, as well. Senile Biden is a perfect "leader" for that. So, what's to be done? Pinch your nose and vote Trump, as never-Trumpers are also scum, and much more despicable.
@Trinitygotmituns , says: July 3, 2020 at 9:10 pm GMTI know that you think Trump is the lesser of the two evils compared to Biden, but this is all just a circus using these puppet actors in order to give the illusion that the goyim are really making a difference.
It's a race between Draft Dodger #2 & Draft Dodger #3 – take your pick. Draft dodger #1 if you don't know was clinton.
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libfrog88 , 1 hour ago
Salsa Verde , 1 hour agoNYT is not journalism. It's good only to wipe your ***.
naro , 2 hours agoDoesn't matter what gets proven or disproven; rumors and baseless allegations ARE the new "facts" of the woke left.
WTFUD , 2 hours agoNYSlimes has lost all credibility. When I see "anonymouse" source I just see a lazy, lying, affirmative action hired reporter. ay_arrow
fackbankz , 2 hours agoThe only way you can stop this diarrhea is to publicly hang the perpetrators.
scaleindependent , 2 hours agoI can't believe they're still trying to sell that "Russian interference" nonsense.
No, actually, I can because they're still trying to sell this COVID-1984 nonsense.
JedClampIt , 3 hours agoNow they tells us, right after the fake story was used to cancel the end of the Afghanistan war.
Stable-Genius , 3 hours agoI'm surprised Tyler hasn't yet ripped apart today's NYT editorial, which proves that when you're wrong, just keep repeating it louder.
zerohedgeguy , 3 hours agoI would trust a Russian far more than I would trust any democrat
Thordoom , 3 hours agoHere's another theory : the democrats placed these bounties
consider me gone , 3 hours agoIt doesn't matter it was a BS story.
Everybody who at least have some sense and knowledge of the world knew it made no sense whatsoever.
The damage has been done.
Most of the americans now hate russians even more than ever and even want them dead or sanctioned to hell.
This psy-op was a stunning success.
Son of Captain Nemo , 3 hours agoLike the Taliban needs money to inspire them to kill Americans. They do that as community service work on their days off. Now if you told me the Russians gave them some weapons to help, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. But the US would never do that to the Russians and certainly not in Afghanistan.
Question:
Why isn't Russia raising the murder of the U.S. involvement in Andrei Karlov's assassination ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Andrei_Karlov )?... Vitaly Churkin ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-diplomats-deaths-theories-putin-kremlin-a7602201.html )?... Michel Lesin ( https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/fbi-releases-docs-claiming-rt-founder-beat-himself-death-his-hotel-room )?.... Or for that matter Iran in Qasem Soleimani's execution ( https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/killing-iran-qasem-soleimani-unlawful-expert-200707132312296.html ) by U.S./CIA/DOD?!!!...
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Down South , Jul 8 2020 8:12 utc | 56
Kay Fabe 33
I disagree with you.
The campaign against Trump has been too ferocious and has been carried on for far too long for it to be fake.
It started with the Obama administration using the FBI to derail the Trump campaign long before the election even took place. We know the FBI used the fake dossier and even lied to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign and it has simply progressed from there.
The Mueller investigation, the impeachment, the relentless pursuit of Trump by the media to the point that have have lost all credibility. If you just look at the lengths the Democrats have gone to to overthrow Trump. It is quite clear that a colour revolution is currently underway in the US.
All these point to a serious, persistent and relentless effort to remove Trump. Why? Behind the scenes Barr and Durham have been investigating how the FBI was used against Trump in the run up to the election (Obamagate) . The Durham report is ready from what I've read and reportedly at least 3 dozen indictments are being prepared.
In Trump's interview with Hannity recently he made an interesting comment. When he first came to Washington he knew no-one ) which explains why his first term was so chaotic) but now he knows everyone. Trump second term will be a whole different ballgame.
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pretzelattack , Jul 8 2020 0:09 utc | 38
The New York Times has just published an editorial about this propaganda fiasco (40 min ago):
Don't Let Russian Meddling Derail Afghanistan Withdrawal Plans
Looks like a sophisticated admission of defeat to me, while preparing the terrain for a comeback. Don't know for sure.
as usual, by the time the truth had its boots on the lie had already spread halfway around the world . the liars have an intrinsic edge here as long as they still have some credibility with the msm consuming public. as long as they own the msm.
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moon , Jul 7 2020 23:40 utc | 35
We're under attack so we must stay to get killed??
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@Caliman | Jul 7 2020 17:25 utc | 1I basically doubt that Trump will matter more then Obama did. Didn't Trump claim more or less directly Obama created ISIS by withdrawing the troops from Iraq?
The Old Normal. Why we can't beat our addiction to war, by Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's March 2020 issue:
http://archive.vn/7NjMh#selection-839.0-839.559
Only when foreign-policy elites cease to cite isolationism to explain why the "sole superpower" has stumbled of late will they be able to confront the issues that matter. Ranking high among those issues is an egregious misuse of American military power and an equally egregious abuse of American soldiers. Confronting the vast disparity between U.S. military ambitions since 9/11 and the results actually achieved is a necessary first step toward devising a serious response to Donald Trump's reckless assault on even the possibility of principled statecraft.
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Jul 07, 2020 | consortiumnews.com
In an oped on Thursday McFaul presented a long list of Vladimir Putin's alleged crimes, offering a more ostensibly sophisticated version of amateur Russian specialist, Rep. Jason Crow's (D-CO) claim that: "Vladimir Putin wakes up every morning and goes to bed every night trying to figure out how to destroy American democracy."
Francis Lee , July 4, 2020 at 04:49
“Vladimir Putin wakes up every morning and goes to bed every night trying to figure out how to destroy American democracy.”
Yes, of course it is a well-known ‘fact’ that Putin has nothing better to do than destory American democracy, and I bet he has dreams about it too! But I am minded to think that if anybody has a penchant for destroying American democracy it is the powers that be in the US deep state, intelligence agencies, and zionist cliques controlling the President and Congress.
”Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”
The American establishment seems to be suffering from a bad case of ‘projection’ as psychiatrists call it. That is to say accusing others of what they are themselves actually doing.
The whole idiotic circus would be hilarious if it were not so serious.
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Authored by Alex Nitzberg via JustTheNews.com,
As protesters target statues around the nation, one town is becoming a statue sanctuary city for monuments honoring select figures.
Newton Falls, Ohio City Manager David M. Lynch has signed a proclamation that states that the city will accept and display spurned statues of people including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and certain other prominent figures.
"A Proclamation declaring that Newton Falls is a Statuary Sanctuary City and declaring a general amnesty for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Patrick Henry, Francis Scott Key, Theodore Roosevelt and Christopher Columbus as represented by the statues of these great leaders, and volunteering to accept these statues that have been removed throughout the USA and place them in a location of honor in our community," the proclamation says, according to a copy posted by 21-WFMJ .
"They founded our nation, they ended slavery, and established and protected our national parks," Lynch said, according to Fox 8 .
"Yes, they had warts but they laid the foundation for what we have today," he said.
Protesters in Baltimore, Maryland on July 4th toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and dumped it into the city's Inner Harbor.
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CitizenX , Jul 6 2020 18:49 utc | 114
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"Three weeks into the war, Marine Sgt. Ed Chin got the order: Help the Iraqis celebrating in Baghdad's Firdos Square topple the statue of Saddam Hussein."My captain comes over and he's got like this package. He hands it to me and he's like, he tells me there's an American flag in there and when I get up there, you know, he's like, show the boys the colors," said Chin.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-decade-after-saddam-husseins-statue-falls-a-tale-of-two-memories/
I'll speak very slowly and simply just for you.
Are you seriously incapable of making a connection regarding the hypocrisy of the US Govt/US military wrapping an American Flag on the Saddam Statue and destroying it for a media photo op while cheering about it? And the condemnation of the US Govt declaring statues should not be destroyed?
Do you see no insanity regarding the US Regime illegally invading and destroying another Nation and its statues (war crime w/millions dead)? The very same Nation celebrating a "bad" Iraqi statue being destroyed is suddenly disgusted when its own statues are being destroyed by its own people?
My point is obvious if you can step back from your myopic view. The US is a mentally ill Nation ridden with hypocrisy. I personally do not put much merit into statues, cultural idolatry comes to mind, just as foolish as religious idolatry.
So what are your thoughts on the destruction of the Saddam statue sanctioned by the US govt and military?
dh , Jul 6 2020 21:40 utc | 125
@114 I expect V will be along at some point but here are my thoughts on the Saddam statue.....
The US is ridden with hypocrisy as you say ....no surprise there. The statue was actually pulled down by a rentamob of Iraqi Saddam haters while American troops high-fived each other.
They wouldn't see anything wrong with pulling the statue down because Saddam was a 'bad guy' and an American enemy.
Those same troops would probably not feel the same way about Confederate generals.....who just happened to be Americans who kept slaves and picked the losing side. They would be seen as major figures in American history.
That is how a lot of Americans would justify it. Of course it is rank hypocrisy..
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karlof1 , Jul 6 2020 16:59 utc | 110
The verbal truth assault continues at Global Times today with this op/ed , "US threatens world's epidemic control with 'low human rights advantage'":
"Many people are wondering what is wrong with the US. The self-proclaimed defender of human rights has attached no importance to human life; instead, it has been using the sort of 'low human rights advantage' to pay the price for Washington's ineptitude in fighting the COVID-19....
"The right to life is of prime concern to human rights. But the US keeps preaching about human rights without really caring about it, with its top leader downplaying the 100,000-plus deaths, as he believes it could have been up to 2 million if not for his leadership. Regrettably, the democracy that many Americans are so proud of has failed to do them justice ... People from other countries now see the US as a helpless underdeveloped country.
"Money is needed to guarantee human rights. This is why lieutenant governor of Texas Dan Patrick immorally suggested that fellow seniors should sacrifice their health for the sake of the country's economy. But China - a country frequently blamed by the US for "infringing human rights" - has left no one in its COVID-19 fight, safeguarding the life of every Chinese at tremendous economic cost. The US would never consider a similar option, so it is sitting back idly to get rid of economic burdens. Could there be any country more immoral than the US?
"The US has not only failed to reflect on its poor performance in defending the right to life but also continued to make use of its low human rights advantage, while simultaneously using human rights as a stick to beat others. The raging epidemic in the US will continuously hurt the world and stop the world from taking a turn for the better. Performance in the US has severely dragged the progress of epidemic control worldwide."
What's most troublesome about this op/ed is the fact that it's not propaganda--it's reporting the facts of the matter. 130K deaths and rising while Trump lies about his Do Nothing Policy. As one of my wife's co-workers observed: Trump gets tested and is informed of COVID-19's progress daily, so he knows what's happening, but he clearly doesn't give a Damn about the deaths and economic disruption.
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El Dato , says: July 6, 2020 at 1:32 pm GMT
Emily , says: July 6, 2020 at 1:54 pm GMTFor some reason, the anti-capitalist revolution has not touched the Goldman Sachs headquarters and the expensive so-called art collection in its lobby. Wall Street is mysteriously untouched by this alleged anti-capitalist revolution. Really makes you think. In fact, lower Manhattan overall is largely unaffected. Life is good, if really quiet.
The ONE place in New York that looks like Escape From New York is directly adjacent to City Hall. The so-called autonomous zone in New York is literally a large stretch of sidewalk adjacent to City Hall. City Hall Park itself is locked down by the NYPD. The pathetic pseudo-revolutionaries only control a small stretch of sidewalk.
The only buildings in Lower Manhattan that are covered by ACAB, F12 and KILL PIGS graffiti are CITY BUILDINGS, the Surrogate Court and the old Tweed Courthouse which is now the Department of Education. I REPEAT, the only buildings in Manhattan that are covered in KILL COPS graffiti are controlled by THE MAYOR. The rest of the City is largely clean of anti-cop graffiti. Again, it really, really makes you THINK.
@KenH...From the Duran
https://theduran.com/businesses-who-are-supporting-the-antifa-and-blm-riots-video/
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CitizenX , Jul 6 2020 3:41 utc | 87
Peter AU1 , Jul 6 2020 5:07 utc | 90
Paco , Jul 6 2020 5:53 utc | 91Destruction of monuments in the US is meaningless. Considering the types they have running the country, the clowns destroying monuments are a few hundred years behind the times. At the moment, they have the chance to destroy many war criminals, but being brainless americans they destroy stuff that's long past. Reminds me of the Rove quote about creating new reality while everyone is still studying past reality. PC americans are a few centuries behind current reality.
I sent the link of the lincoln project ad to a russian friend, the reaction was: что это за хрень? what the f*** is that?
The level of idiocy reached by the greatest empire in the history of mankind.
https://youtu.be/eUBAAeuBpPQ
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CitizenX , Jul 6 2020 1:03 utc | 71
"In China, you cannot change the party, but you can change the policies.
In America, you can change the parties but never the policies"To be fair the only policy changes I've seen from either party in the US have been consistently worse...and generally in lock step with each other. Both "parties" should be crashed and bashed.
-Or as Americans are fond of quoting "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" the origin of the modern phrase, "Kill them all and let God sort them out." Another civil war in the states would be doing the world a great justice. Let the Americans lovingly slaughter each other rather than the rest of the world. Even the bible thumpers love to do "gods work"
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450.org , Jul 6 2020 21:07 utc | 122
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CitizenX , Jul 6 2020 1:56 utc | 76"Iran will have to respond, 4 attacks in less than 2 weeks is really taking the piss and makes them look weak. Quite a reversal from the Iran that was seizing tankers, acting on its threats and dictating the tempo of escalation."
Posted by: Et Tu | Jul 5 2020 23:07 utc | 56...
Iran is playing Chess, the US are still trying to find the checkerboard yelling "King Me".
US military policy has been misguided for decades based on militarism as economic profiteering, not on the life or death principle of a Nation under attack.
Pure Propaganda-
"SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us. I know that the American men and women in uniform are always prepared to sacrifice for freedom, democracy and the American way of life.MR. LAUER: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright." Interview on NBC-TV "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer
Columbus, Ohio, February 19, 1998
...1997 The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives -Zbigniew Brzezinski.
War profiteering, stealing resources and destroying other nations/economies is not much of a Grand long term Strategy. Iran is preparing, organizing and waiting- the Iranian Red Flag of "Revenge" for Soleimani is flying while Americans burn their own flag.
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From Taibbi:
It's the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate consultant's white guilt self-help manual, and a New York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong.
Much of America has watched in quizzical silence in recent weeks as crowds declared war on an increasingly incoherent succession of historical symbols. Maybe you nodded as Confederate general Albert Pike was toppled or even when Christopher Columbus was beheaded, but it got a little weird when George Washington was emblazoned with "Fuck Cops" and set on fire, or when they went after Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionist Colonel Hans Christian Heg, "Forward," (a seven-foot-tall female figure meant to symbolize progress), the Portland, Oregon "Elk statue," or my personal favorite, the former slave Miguel de Cervantes, whose cheerful creations Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were apparently mistaken for reals and had their eyes lashed red in San Francisco.
Was a What the Fuck? too much to ask? It was! In the space of a few weeks the level of discourse in the news media dropped so low, the fear of being shamed as a deviationist so high, that most of the weirder incidents went uncovered. Leading press organs engaged in real-time Soviet-style airbrushing. Here's how the Washington Post described a movement that targeted Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, Abraham Lincoln (a "single-handed symbol of white supremacy," according to UW-Madison students), an apple cider press sculpture, abolitionist Mathias Baldwin, and the first all-Black volunteer regiment in the Civil War, among others:
Across the country, protesters have toppled statues of figures from America's sordid past -- including Confederate generals -- as part of demonstrations against racism and police violence.
The New York Times, once the dictionary definition of "unprovocative," suddenly reads like Pol Pot's Sayings of Angkar. Heading into the Fourth of July weekend, the morning read for upscale white Manhattanites was denouncing Mount Rushmore, urging Black America to arm itself, and re-positioning America alongside more deserving historical parallels in a feature about caste systems:
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PATIENT OBSERVER July 3, 2020 at 2:24 pm
MARK CHAPMAN July 3, 2020 at 7:45 pmThey missed "short list".
Twitter's engineering team will systematically purge a list of offensive terms from its source code and internal documents in the name of political correctness. Terms like "master" and "slave" will go, as will gendered pronouns.
"We're starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language," Twitter Engineering announced on Wednesday.
Among the terms to be terminated are "whitelist" and "blacklist,""master" and "slave," which will be replaced with "allowlist" and "denylist," and "leader" and "follower" respectively. Gendered pronouns such as "guys" will be swapped for gender-neutral terms like "folks" and "y'all," while the terms "man hours" and "grandfathered" will have their patriarchal connotations expunged, and will be replaced with "person hours" and "legacy status." Even "dummy value" was deemed offensive.
https://www.rt.com/news/493764-twitter-bans-offensive-language/
All the more reason Twitter can go fuck itself. I have a Twitter account, but almost never use it, and only created it so I could respond to things that really make me mad. Since then almost everyone I strongly dislike has banned me anyway, so if they want to go to Ze and Zir and Zippity Fuckin' Doo Da, it's no bother for me. But if they are really serious in their busybody political correctness, they are embarking on a path which will eventually make the English language almost unrecognizable. "Master" is a useful and common verb – I hope one day to master the knots used in rigging – as well as an adjective: he is a master of the instrument.
Sort of unsurprising for the country that claims to be the last word in free speech, though. One wonderful day the only words allowed to be used in any questionnaire sent around by your employer will be "I approve", and anything you say will be changed to that by software.
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In a video produced by Campus Reform , young Americans displayed a complete lack of knowledge about the 4th July holiday, instead bleating about how the country is racist.
When asked what the holiday commemorates and other details concerning the Declaration of Independence, most of those interviewed had no clue.
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Bunga Bunga , 28 minutes ago
GoldRulesPaperDrools , 16 minutes agoNext these low IQ zombies will become mass murderers.
Watt Supremacissss , 22 minutes ago"Become"?
Bunga Bunga , 12 minutes ago"Whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
-Voltaire
Even the Soviets behaved more civilized.
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Whoa Dammit , 13 minutes ago
Finn McCool , 9 minutes agoWe can't keep coddling these stupid brats. It's time to start making their parents pay for the mess and destruction that their ill raised offspring cause.
ToWo , 12 minutes ago"coddling these stupid brats." You'll get a kick out of reading this story. It's about Kelly Ann Conway's "woke" 15 year old daughter.
What a disaster. Pretty funny though.
Insert farm animal here , 13 minutes agoRerun
_arrow100 percent, choose your side wisely now.
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"This good and benevolent government was given to us by, you know, the thing," said Joe Biden.
"We should take a moment and be thankful for that. You know, I was around on the first Dependence Day, when Paul Washington and George Revere rode their donkeys into the holy city of Washington. I watched them come into town. I even stuck a feather in Revere's hat and called him 'macaroni'. He didn't really appreciate that, you know. But it was a good time."
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Ashino , Jul 3 2020 11:20 utc | 129
The Russian Constitution Was Projected Onto the US Embassy Building in Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watchtime_continue=1&v=J1Bk11INPNI&feature=emb_logo
The organisers projected an image of the cover of the Russian Constitution against the background of Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and the inscription "1993. It was yours " Then there is an image of the Russian people and the message "2020. It will be ours!", followed by a call to come to vote, was projected on the building of the US Embassy. The light projection was organised by the art group "Re:Venge".
https://www.stalkerzone.org/the-russian-constitution-was-projected-onto-the-us-embassy-building-in-moscow/Ha, I really like this one ! Would have loved to watch 'das dumme Gesicht' (something like >>stupid face<< but stronger. like the Germans say) of the latest Trump's edition of silly ambassadors, lol !!!
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Crazy lady: Math is discriminatory!
Mia Light , 8 months ago (edited)
Sometimes I wonder if the world is some kind of sitcom for aliens.
Comprehending mathematics requires IQ ! Not equality. Lord, this woman lives in a rabbit hole.
Ruttigorn Logsdon , 7 months ago
And son that's how America became a third world country over night!
The bottom line is, they want to take away any problem solving skills that might build character, because someone might get hurt! Victimhood culture run amuck.
Mathematics is the cornerstone of all forms of trade, communications, home economics and every other aspect of life. Truth is they're dumbing everyone down to control populations!
Oprah and Michael Jordan are black billionaires , 4 days ago
Jewel Heart , 7 months agoAs a black American, this is so ignorant and offensive to me
The brilliant NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson just proves what a load of bx this latest rubbish is.
I have Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and I'm 62-years old. I have never once cared about the history of mathematics, other than a curiosity. Knowing the history of mathematics never helped me once to solve an ordinary second order differential equation.
When a person lies while giving an interview they should be shocked or something. This lady is sitting there lying trying to prove a point. I have been in enough arguments to kow when someone is just arguing to keep the discussion going. She has already lost the argument deflected and differed responsibility when confronted with the legitimacy of the paper.
Go exercise healthy body makes a healthy mind not the other way around.
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uncle tungsten , Jul 3 2020 8:46 utc | 118
Richard Steven Hack #115
The question now is: How do they stop Ghislaine from testifying? Having her "commit suicide" in her cell with all the cell block cameras off starts to look a little, I don't know, "blatant", wouldn't one think?Well, blatant is not a concept that the oligarch class actually feel any problem with.
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HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen- year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd forgotten for the moment what they were about.
Continue reading "Kurt Vonnegut's Literary Prophecy Coming True by Larry C Johnson" "
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Writes The Washington Post:
"Durkan called for charges to be dismissed against those who were arrested for alleged misdemeanors The mayor also said that Seattle arts and parks departments would preserve a community garden and artwork and murals that protesters created within the zone."
...Statues of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Theodore Roosevelt are dragged down, while the murals and graffiti of misfits who trashed downtown Seattle are to be preserved.
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This controversy began when Dr. Neal-Boylan wrote the email which started with the following words:
"Dear SSON Community," the email provided to Campus Reform begins.
"I am writing to express my concern and condemnation of the recent (and past) acts of violence against people of color. Recent events recall a tragic history of racism and bias that continue to thrive in this country. I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE'S LIFE MATTERS. No one should have to live in fear that they will be targeted for how they look or what they believe."
Soon thereafter the University reportedly fired Dr. Neal-Boylan.
play_arrowGentlemanJim , just now
porco rosso , 1 minute agoSo much for freedom and free speach
US has become a marxist hell hole. I hope that woman sues the hell out of this despicable university.
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Actor Dean Cain, who portrayed Superman for a 1990s TV show, has set Twitter ablaze after arguing that modern 'cancel culture' would have outlawed the superhero's catchphrase – "Truth, justice and the American way."Speaking with Fox's Ainsley Earhard on Thursday, the conservative actor took aim at 'cancel culture,' dubbing it "like an early version of George Orwell's 1984" which would have barred the 90s-era character from uttering his iconic slogan.
"I promise you that Superman – I wouldn't today be allowed to say: 'Truth, justice, and the American way,'" Cain said, responding to a recent op-ed in Time Magazine calling for a "re-examining" of how superheroes are portrayed on screen.
Also on rt.com 'You're 25 years late': Non-white Superman actor trolls site calling for 'diverse' Man of Steel
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...After drawing outrage from progressives for having Larry Summers – a neoliberal economist who ran the Treasury under Bill Clinton and later Harvard University – advising the campaign, back in April, Biden's handlers have decided to keep mum about his advisers going forward.
Anyone advising Biden has been sworn to secrecy, banned from even acknowledging their relationship with the campaign, let alone revealing the names of other members, according to a New York Times feature on Thursday, titled 'Biden's Brain Trust on the Economy: Liberal and Sworn to Silence'.
"Simply put, do not talk to the press": Biden is now seeking input from more than 100 left-leaning economists and other researchers, but shrouding his team in secrecy. @jimtankersley @thomaskaplan https://t.co/E6h8Eumydf
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As the Seattle Police Department cleared out the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone', some protesters refused to go without a fight. Video footage shows them scrambling to barricade the streets. Seattle police officers descended on the so-called 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ, or CHOP) on Wednesday morning, clearing out the 'Black Lives Matter' protesters who had occupied the six-block area for nearly a month. Columns of cops in riot gear, backed by officers on bicycles and in armored vehicles, arrested those who refused to leave, and set about removing tents and debris from the garbage-strewn streets.
Some refused to go silently. As police directed a crowd of stragglers to move, they formed a human wall in front of the police ranks, before toppling graffiti-tagged port-a-potties and forming makeshift barricades.
Just saw a cone thrown at police. Protestors trying to barricade w toppled porta potties. @KING5Seattle pic.twitter.com/6eLOoBpLrO
-- Michael Crowe (@MichaelReports) July 1, 2020"This is a peaceful protest!" one demonstrator shouted, though it was unclear if she was trying to calm her comrades or the police.
As police and city workers swept through the area, they discovered homemade spike strips, designed to puncture vehicle tires.
City workers have also recovered improvised spike strips -- designed to puncture vehicle tires -- in the area of the CHOP. pic.twitter.com/x4Des6hPGq
-- Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) July 1, 2020Several reporters on the scene described the hangers-on throwing traffic cones at the riot cops, but across the short-lived anarchist encampment, officers retook the streets with little effort, thanks to overwhelming numbers and equipment.
Demonstrators continue to react as Seattle police work to clear out the CHOP zone pushing protesters south on 12th. Some are refusing to leave and we are seeing traffic cones and other objects flung in the air. Other protesters have gathered right outside the CHOP zone. pic.twitter.com/C4EElCMHNO
-- Kierra Elfalan (@KierraElfalanTV) July 1, 2020BREAKING: Seattle Police dismantle violent CHAZ district pic.twitter.com/B0Ope33RXQ
-- Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 1, 2020By 7:45am, police had arrested 29 people for "failure to disperse, obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault." One of the arrestees was found with a large knife and improvised bat when he was taken into custody.
As of 7:45 AM, officers have made 23 arrests in the #CHOP zone for failure to disperse, obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault. One of the arrestees, a 29-year-old man, was in possession of a large metal pipe and kitchen knife when he was taken into custody. pic.twitter.com/12qT7psBQQ
-- Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) July 1, 2020Once described by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan as a "summer of love," the CHAZ (or CHOP) has degenerated in recent weeks into a hotspot of violence. Durkan gave the order to clear the zone on Wednesday morning, after two black teenagers were shot on Monday, one fatally. Police say two people have died since activists first took control of the zone in early June, and multiple overdoses, assaults, and instances of vandalism have been reported.
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If the DNC is rolling up CHAZ or whatever the hell it's called today, presumably that means diminishing returns are kicking in. Likewise, there will be the next "event" in this regime-change op in order to keep the heat on up to the election. What will their next move be?
Posted by: casey | 01 July 2020 at 02:24 PM
Comedian Russell Brand has an analysis that is well worth a watch.
My view is that politics in contemporary America is about divide & distract to enable the real looting that is taking place in front of us. The societal breakdown is a direct consequence of the policies and politics of the past 50-60 years that continues today and there are no signs that it will change anytime soon.
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the cork , 29 minutes ago
AAPL Slayer , 23 seconds agoWould Maxwell last longer then Epstein did?
Paul_TBull , 16 minutes ago#GhislaineMaxwellDidntKillHerSelf
Might as well get ahead of this one
Hell's Dragonfly , 26 minutes agoThere is a room full of billionaires shyting themselves right now.
Whatever value Ms. Maxwell may have had to Pedophilia, Inc.has expired
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Richard Steven Hack , Jul 3 2020 3:06 utc | 83
Meanwhile, in the "land of the free and the home of the stupid":Daily number of new coronavirus cases in U.S. tops 50,000: The new record was hit on Wednesday. The total was 52,789 new coronavirus cases, which is the largest single-day total since the start of the pandemic.
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Jul 02, 2020 | www.rt.com
Presumptive Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden has perplexed the Internet by making a highly confusing brag against sitting President Donald Trump, by saying that he will "read his daily briefings."
...The lack of overt context in his statement quickly led many commenters to declare his pledge the "lowest bar ever" for a presidential hopeful.
Biden can't read a teleprompter, never mind daily briefings. https://t.co/MMSnPM2pao
-- 🇺🇸 Mark Trumpinski 🇺🇸 (@mbski23) July 2, 2020
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Is this a new type of female hysteria or what ?
A Harvard graduate has reportedly lost her job after posting a now-viral TikTok video in which she vowed to assault anyone who didn't support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
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Claira Janover became an overnight sensation after several news outlets caught wind of a video in which she threatened to attack anyone "entitled" enough to believe that "all lives matter.""I'ma stab you, and while you're struggling and bleeding out, I'ma show you my paper cut and say, 'My cut matters too,'" she declared in the TikTok clip.
...Holding back tears, Janover said she'd "worked really hard" to receive a position at the company, and complained that her contract had been terminated even though Deloitte claims to "stand against systemic racism."
..."File under Schadenfreude or Karma," noted conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin.
...Janover's firing is unusual as it marks a rare case of 'reverse' cancel culture. Social-justice activists have typically been the ones using social media to attack anyone who is suspected of holding politically incorrect views.
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Trump says 'all black lives matter' "The Greater New York BLM president has said if this country doesn't give us what we want, we will burn down the system," Ms McEnany said. "I'd call that a pretty hateful statement."
President Donald Trump agrees that "all black lives matter", but not with the organisation that chants hateful statements about police officers and burning the system, according to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
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willie , Jun 28 2020 23:59 utc | 74
Haven't read the article in french that I link to now:
https://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/ghislaine-maxwell-rabatteuse-de-225385
but I'm off to bed.
The title says: Ghislaine Maxwell lives in a very luxury appartment in Paris,at a few minutes distance from both the 8.6 million dollars Epstein property and its neighbour the Israeli Embassy.
International criminals usually live in Paris,where Interpol always looks on the wrong side,inspector Clouseau heads it.
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dh , Jun 29 2020 22:39 utc | 182
@180 'Property is theft'. Unless it is turned into homeless shelters with blocked toilets.
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karlof1 , Jun 29 2020 23:00 utc | 185
Apparently, nobody's linked to or sought to discuss Alastair Crooke's recent essay : "'The God That Failed': Why the U.S. Cannot Now Re-Impose Its Civilisational Worldview". But was it actually the USA's "worldview"? Crooke says this:
"Liberal core tenets of individual autonomy, freedom, industry, free trade and commerce essentially reflected the triumph of the Protestant worldview in Europe's 30-years' civil war. It was not fully even a Christian view, but more a Protestant one."
Then he follows with a caveat:
"This narrow, sectarian pillar was able to be projected into a universal project – only so long as it was underpinned by power . In Mill's day, the civilisational claim served Europe's need for colonial validation [Link at Original]. Mill tacitly acknowledges this when he validates the clearing of the indigenous American populations for not having tamed the wilderness, nor made the land productive." [Emphasis Original]
But where is the connection with the title and which of the many books written about God failing? Thankfully we're told who the lead author is--André Gide--it's an anthology from 1949, The God Who Failed .
But given the who and when, how much veracity should it merit? And why wait so long in the essay? Is Crooke At Sea as his recent writings seem to suggest? Or is he just a reflection of the general confusion being caused by the unfocused nature of the ongoing protests that aren't just occurring within the Outlaw US Empire?
Are there any barflies willing to admit they're "Woke"? Or is that just another label the Establishment Narrative's trying to use for its own purposes?
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Matthew Parker • 12 hours ago>
former-vet Matthew Parker • 7 hours agoBlack Lives Matter is to black lives what Pravda was to the truth.
Feral Finster • 8 hours agoI am fluent in Russian. I've read old Pravda newspapers from the 70's that a friend gave me. I remember the events at the time and have a pretty good understanding of them. You might accuse me of hyperbole, but Pravda was far more balanced in its reporting than CNN, MSNBC, The New York Time, and The Washington Post are today. It was far less manipulative of its readers, and far more likely to include all of the facts of a story. The current Pravda website has no relation to the older paper.
There's a reason, just like there's a reason the most violent cities in America are ran by Democrat mayors (which probably have more to do with size and cosmopolitanism than political party). In a totalitarian society it's better to let the air out of the balloon steadily and slowly than to let it swell and explode. In America, it's hit and run, winner take all. Major U.S. media figures that by the time their propagandistic nature is called out, they'll have moved on and anyway no one's strong enough to take them on directly.
Which is exactly why people trust the media even less than they trust the providers bringing it to them, like the monopolistic Comcast.
Lord, the chattering classes love them some symbolic gestures, probably precisely because those gestures do nothing to affect the way the pie is sliced.
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Jul 01, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Today no one with a salary will stand up for colleagues like Lee Fang. Our brave truth-tellers make great shows of shaking fists at our parody president , but not one of them will talk honestly about the fear running through their own newsrooms. People depend on us to tell them what we see, not what we think. What good are we if we're afraid to do it?
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No Friend Of The Devil , says:
Control freaks that cannot even control their own criminal impulses!
...They suffer from god-complexes, since they do not believe in God, they feel an obligation to act as God, and decide the fates of over 7 billion people, who would obviously be better off if the PICs were sent to the Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants!
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Alexander Turok says: Website June 30, 2020 at 9:20 pm GMT 100 Words @Vojkan
I'd rather be ruled by a crook who was intelligent than a true-believing, good-hearted communist.
The issue with coronavirus is not socialism versus neoliberalism, it's not nationalism versus globalism, it's smart versus stupid.
The question is whether you grasp the fact that there are some questions where you need to have to have mathematical knowledge to determine the right answer , if all you have is rhetoric, you're gonna be blind and walking in circles.
You could call that an ideology, I just call it stupidity.
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Realist , says: June 30, 2020 at 3:46 pm GMT
@Thulean FriendThat said, the extreme racial inequality in wealth between black and white households are impossible to ignore.
Yes, lower IQ and education level are not very profitable.
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King of Ruperts Land , 15 seconds ago
THORAX , 5 minutes agoWhy isn't Trump taking an appropriate response to this enemy provocation? Can't he just use Predator drone to "inspect" the NYT building.
pluto the dog , 12 minutes agoHow many more lines will the NYT bust through in their rush to perdition?
Max21c , 47 minutes agoShe's yet another chosenite. Thanks to them we now know Russia bad and black lives very good - oh and white people are ****
radio man , 1 hour agoA new low even for the NY Slimes-Times...
Wtf. Is the NYT building invisible to Predator drones?
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Jul 01, 2020 | townhall.com
They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white half of me will have to pay the black half of me? If progressives want to push reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim Crow -- the Democrat Party! Let them ante up. But the #BlackLivesMatter movement bizarrely demands : "Reparations for full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education retroactive forgiveness of student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs." Uhhh, good luck with that.
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Flavius , 28 June 2020 at 09:48 AM
'Intel' without evidence is "bunk". Have we learned nothing from Chrissy Steele and the Russiagate fiasco - I know a guy who knows a guy who said... the Russians are bad and Donald Trump is an a......e. Bob Mueller and 18 pissed off democrats have concluded that the Russians are systemically bad and Donald Trump is an a......e. 4 months before a Presidential election intel sources have revealed to the NYT that the Russians are very very bad and Donald Trump is an a......e.
Ah yes, the New York Ridiculously Self Degraded Times has broken another important story. I wonder why? Enough already...and yes, we have made a systemic laughing stock of ourselves.
Oh, and remind me again of why we've been staying around Kabul - something about improving the lot of women, or gays, or someone?
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or about a month now, America's major cities have treated to nightly orgies of old-fashioned, rope-and-torch iconoclasm. Statues of variously "problematic" historical figures (including both Robert E. Lee and, for some reason, Ulysses S. Grant) are defaced, torn from their rivets, and set on fire.
As cooler minds have always known, it was only a matter of time before these iconoclasts moved out of the public sphere and into the private. But that day came much sooner than many of us anticipated.
https://lockerdome.com/lad/13045197114175078?pubid=ld-dfp-ad-13045197114175078-0&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com&rid=www.theamericanconservative.com&width=838
Enter Shaun King, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter and a doyen of the cultural elite. Last Monday, Mr. King issued gave his followers a rather disturbing order:
Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark. Tear them down.
Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.
The Christian Post identifies King as a "retired pastor," which is a pretty big stretch. In 2008, at the age of 29, Mr. King founded a church in Atlanta called "Courageous Church" -- only to step down four years later, aged 33, because his congregation didn't really like him. "I think in some ways I moved people too quickly for their comfort and it just didn't work," he explained. "Some people really loved the changes and transitions that I was proposing, but it didn't work." I guess so. In fairness, destroying statues of Jesus and the saints went out of vogue with Protestants a good four hundred years ago.
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arby , Jun 29 2020 15:48 utc | 131
Those carpet hagglers are smart : Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over Soleimani killing, will ask Interpol to act – local media -- RT World News
A nice little permanent black cloud over some heads including the orange buffoon.
450.org , Jun 29 2020 18:50 utc | 147
This is great. Fat Donny better double down and triple down on his security. It's time also he's starts to think about his life once he's out of office.
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Blue Dotterel , Jun 29 2020 10:00 utc | 121
"This virus has shown up at just the right time" - Dmitri Orlov
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55279.htm
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lizard , Jun 29 2020 5:56 utc | 105
I've been maintaining a 'Dear Diary' log of all this madness and my update tonight is this:
Global, geopolitical madness.
- Some massive explosion in Iran. They say it was just a gas leak.
- Chinese soldiers killing and capturing Indian soldiers.
- North Korea blowing shit up.
- ALL American wars, both overt and covert, continuing and simmering with little media attention or shits given by distracted American public.
- Israel does whatever the fuck they want to Palestinians.
- Israel bombs targets in Syria and Iraq.
- Turkey wants in on the action.
- What the fuck is going on in Libya? Who is backing Haftar?
- Yemen. Dear God, Yemen.
- Biden wants to get tougher on Venezuela than Trump.
- Putin pays the Taliban to kill US soldiers, claim the Russiagate cult.
- Europe: where you at, bro?
- Brazil: Covid? Locusts?
- Southern Europe: fuck off and die.
Geopolitical madness.
All I want to do is cry.
Peter AU1 , Jun 29 2020 7:01 utc | 108
lizard 102
Crawl back under a log.
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David G , Jun 28 2020 18:24 utc | 38
David G | Jun 28 2020 17:22 utc | 31:
I see the Russian Foreign Ministry shares my wish for at least a little craftsmanship in our deep-state fictions:
"That unpretentious fake clearly demonstrates low intellectual abilities of US intelligence propagandists who have to invent such nonsense instead of devising something more credible." https://m.facebook.com/RusEmbUSA/posts/1343011085909278
450.org , Jun 28 2020 18:58 utc | 47
Piotr Berman , Jun 28 2020 20:36 utc | 64By Donald Trump's own standards and precedence, he should order a drone strike on Putin just as he did with Soleimani. Trump used intelligence from the same source in making his decision to assassinate Soleimani, so if he was consistent and not a cowardly bully, he would do to Putin what he did to Soleimani. But he won't, because he's a cowardly bully and he knows Iran can't really fight back but Russia can and would. What a sissy Fat Donny is. How is it no one has taken this sh*t out long ago all things considered? It's a miracle he's still alive.
...On the other hand, for people who treat our media with some trust, Russians are incredible bunglers. The unit that supervised the bounties (or most probably among the Russian intelligence units) is also attributed with failed assassination of Skripals, three (!!??) failed poisoning attempts on a Bulgarian weapon manufacturers and a failed coup in Montenegro, and now, additionally it is credited with a scheme to kill American soldiers that did not result in any killing, but in a wad of American currency found in a Taliban outpost. I guess that the full name of the unit is Boris & Natasha Ltd.
Russian (alleged) scheme to split Catalonia from Spain and another, to have Bernie Sanders win primaries, failed too. One could write an article summarizing that record to conclude that because of indefatigable efforts of our intelligence agencies and their apt allies (yes, Australia, you can bask in glory as well), we can sleep in peace.
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Richard Steven Hack , Jun 28 2020 16:53 utc | 27
I saw a cartoon today that showed a chart of the rise and fall of the pandemic. It showed the peak in April and the peak now which equals the one in April and showed they were on the same line drawn between them. The blurb on the cartoon: "We've finally flattened the curve." Meaning we've undone the progress achieved by the lockdown - rendering the lockdown a failure.
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karlof1 , Jun 29 2020 21:30 utc | 171An example of My Screed @169: "'Absolute Robbery': Gilead Announces $3,120 Price Tag for Covid-19 Drug Developed With $70 Million in Taxpayer Support"
I remember there was once a Conservative Columnist who coined the line: "There ought to be a law." But for several decades now, we've seen conservative politicos providing similar "profit opportunities" to their campaign sponsors. Such crap is one of the massive number of straws that have broken some of the public's back and have them out in the street. I recall a few voices back then when the hew and cry was for Deregulation that said that would be the same as abetting the criminals. So, along with removing regulations, the regulators were captured by the industries they were charged with regulating. But if a corporation like Gilead gets hacked and loses millions, that's deemed a crime instead of Robin Hood vigilance--and the corporation gets to write-off the loss.
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Jun 30, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Forbes has decided to unpublish an article by award-winning climate activist Michael Shellenberger, in which he apologizes "for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years."
On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years . Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem.
I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30.
But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public .
Here are some facts few people know:
Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction"
The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world"
Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
The amount of land we use for meat -- humankind's biggest use of land -- has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California
Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s
Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor
We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
Preventing future pandemics requires more not less "industrial" agriculture
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No wonder #BarelyThereBiden has been trending...
Nearly 40% of voters think former Vice President Joe Biden has dementia, including 20% of Democrats , according to a new Rasmussen poll.
... And as the Washington Examiner 's Paul Bedard notes, a recent Zogby Poll found that 55% of voters think Biden is in the early stages of dementia.
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karlof1 , Jun 29 2020 20:57 utc | 169
US Empire is Exceptional, as in Exceptionally Dangerous , a far worse manifestation than COVID-19 or any other virus?
My neighbor thinks something major's going to occur on 4 July. I think he might be correct.
vk , Jun 29 2020 19:30 utc | 152
Europeans' Trust in US as Global Leader Plummets Over 'Appalling' Handling of COVID-19 Pandemic
[...]commissioned by the Berlin-based European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktankAccording to the survey, conducted by Datapraxis and YouGov from late April to the first week of May out across nine EU countries, over 60 per cent of respondents in Germany, France, Spain, Denmark and Portugal revealed they had lost trust in the US as a global leader.
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Jun 30, 2020 | www.thegatewaypundit.com
Mark McCloskey, who along with his wife grabbed weapons to defend their St. Louis home from demonstrators who were protesting police brutality, had previously represented a victim of police brutality.
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juliania , Jun 29 2020 8:20 utc | 113
I've been mulling over the subject of iconoclasm. I've had in mind the statement by Colin Powell before the start of the Iraq war: "You break it; you own it." And I think that is a good enough subject to mull over. Is Colin Powell correct, and if so, how?
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karlof1 , Jun 29 2020 1:20 utc | 78
Americans pay their government to lie to them through major news media! Although it's been ongoing for decades, some are just now getting the message! But then, that's only some. And polling data shows demonstratively that a majority of the American public still find the national government and major media credible--but just barely. Many are incensed at this recent data and continue to rebel; but against what specifically, they have no unified answer.
If honest reporting from major media actually became the norm, would we believe it?
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James Cliff , 6 days agoThe crowd was hesitant to cheer because they know they're the people Bill is talking about....
Jonny , 1 month agoI disagree with him on almost everything and I don't like him very much at all as a person, but I can stand with him on this all day 😂
I told some liberal friends to watch this. They think I'm a right wing prejudice person Now. (Btw I'm Latino) I think I need some new friends.
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Jun 29, 2020 | www.rt.com
The scenes of thousands of people marching in Chicago in a joint Pride and Black Lives Matter parade have raised some questions about double standards in reporting and enforcing social distancing rules amid Covid-19 pandemic.
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Jun 28, 2020 | thehill.com
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany later denied that Trump and Vice President Pence were briefed on the intelligence, but did not deny that the intelligence was accurate.
The Russian government and Taliban officials have also denied the reports.
..."This is beyond the pale. It's a betrayal of the most sacred duty in the nation: to protect our troops when we send them into harm's way," Biden said.
UnFNbelievable • 37 minutes ago
"Vlad! Vlad! You gotta give me something here! They're MY men! You want to kill MY MEN and I don't get NOTHING? Vlad! I thought you were a businessman!"Jose Canisales • 2 hours agoShut-up Biden, you old fart. Always criticizing every move Trump makes. I'm tired of hearing you complain. You have no solutions other than criticize.SlammoFandango • 4 hours ago
This Latino-Hispanic for Trump. section data-role="main" data-tracking-area="main""Intelligence" is not evidence.There was "Intelligence" that Saddam Hussein was furnishing terrorists with chemical, biological, and radiological weapons.....but of course there wasn't any evidence because there can not be evidence of something that does not exist. A war was started based on "Intelligence" that was never supported by evidence.
There was "Intelligence" that the North Vietnamese Navy attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin and a war was started but never was there evidence to support the claims of "Intelligence".
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Jun 28, 2020 | saraacarter.com
A suspected Antifa anarchist accused of inciting riots in Pittsburgh was turned in to police by his own parents Monday evening. Brian Bartels, 20, is accused of inciting violent protests in the city on Saturday in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd .
"Police secured the warrant as part of an investigation into a male suspect who incited Saturday's violence by breaking the windows out of a marked Pittsburgh Police vehicle Uptown, against the wishes of peaceful protesters who tried to stop him," police spokesman Chris Togneri told Fox News of the search law enforcement conducted on his home in Shaler, PA.
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Jun 28, 2020 | mobile.twitter.com
Dan BonginoDan Bongino@dbongino 8hBe EXTREMELY skeptical of any foreign affairs story emanating from the fetid jowls of The NY Times. They were the primary pushers of the biggest hoax in American history, the pee-pee tape. Trust nothing they say or write.8hMollie 8hMollie@MZHemingway 18hAt this point, at this late date, if you swallow whole New York Times claims based completely on alleged anonymous intel officials, there is something seriously wrong with your judgment. https://mobile.twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1277084668882542595Office of the DNI 18hOffice of the DNI@ODNIgov 18hStatement by DNI Ratcliffe: "I have confirmed that neither the President nor the Vice President were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times in its reporting yesterday." (1/2)
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Jun 27, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
Black Lives Matter protesters marched through the streets of California's upscale Beverly Hills Friday night chanting "Eat the rich!" and "Abolish capitalism now!" - only to be confronted by the police, as reported by the Daily Wire .Black Lives Matter mob shouts "eat the rich" as they march down a residential area in Beverly Hills. They're coming for your homes. pic.twitter.com/gs5Hszjb7m
-- Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 27, 2020According to the Beverly Hills PD, several arrests were made.
The unlawful assembly in the area of Rexford Dr & Carmelita Ave has ended with arrests being made. Protesters have now left the City.
-- Beverly Hills Police (@BeverlyHillsPD) June 27, 2020"The Black Lives Matter mob shut down Santa Monica Boulevard, Rodeo Drive, and intersections around the city center," wrote Human Events managing editor Ian Miles Cheong - who posted several clips of the activity on Twitter.
The Black Lives Matter mob shut down Santa Monica Boulevard, Rodeo Drive, and intersections around the city center. They don't want you to do business. pic.twitter.com/3C2kt7cSZI
-- Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 27, 2020The Black Lives Matter mob in Los Angeles seized a privately owned American flag in a residential suburb, shredding it and pulling it down. pic.twitter.com/gCffXqZuwZ
-- Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 27, 2020Then the police showed up...
The police showed up in full force to arrest members of the Black Lives Matter mob making a nuisance of themselves across residential Los Angeles streets. One pretended to be injured by the police and forced them to drag him. pic.twitter.com/9hBjv4og8M
-- Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 27, 2020Several weeks ago, Beverly Hills officials issued an order limiting gatherings to 10 people or less "between the hours of 9 p.m. and 8 a.m.," defining an assembly as "any gathering or group of 10 or more people on a public street, sidewalk or other public space if those 10 people have a common purpose of goal."
Of course, none of that's being enforced until BLM sets foot in posh Beverly Hills .
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Jun 28, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
ToSoft4Truth , 7 hours ago
Republicans are going to get a Final Stand.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there should be a "review" of historical statues for possible removal, perhaps even those of the Founding Fathers.
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Jun 28, 2020 | www.theonion.com
"Our data shows a rapidly increasing disparity between Americans living in poverty and the top 1% of Americans' pets," said study co-author Madeline Greggs, adding that from access to high-quality food and stable housing to consistent medical care, the average pet of a rich American family had a significantly higher quality of life than a vast majority of low-income Americans.
" Since the 1970s, economic growth has slowed for all but a tiny fraction of Americans and their pets, such that not only are the vast majority of luxury goods much more available to these purebred dogs, cats, and chinchillas than the average person, rich pets enjoy lavish lifestyles that many U.S. citizens could only dream of ."
The report concluded by suggesting that the most viable path to prosperity for low-income Americans was becoming a wealthy family's pet.
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Jun 28, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
play_arrowsquid , 19 minutes ago
KnitDame , 1 hour agoThe lockdown was a totalitarian test to check if the average American has been sufficiently pussyfied.
I'd say the test was a success. Had nothing to do with colds or viruses.
squid
Lockdowns lost all credible economic and health justificaitons when they were lifted for rioting looters.
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Jun 28, 2020 | www.unz.com
I'm not a conservative, no way; I am not a supporter of the current regime. I think that a revolution – even the fake one, organized by Soros out of the GayLib crowd, lightly sprinkled with Africans for colour – will do some good for America and the world.
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Jun 28, 2020 | thehill.com
Bonsoir • 24 minutes ago • edited
Who's kidding who? Joe has early stage Alzheimer's. I know it. You know it. The people running Joe's campaign know it. But they also realize Joe is the only candidate with a chance to beat Trump.So the plan is to run him, despite his failing memory and unfortunate mental disease, get him elected, then use Amendment 25 to send him to Shady Grove Assisted Living and elevate his VP to the Whote House.
The disgrace of course is the Dems running mentally handicapped man for strictly political reasons
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Jun 26, 2020 | www.rt.com
Bezos announced the purchase in an Instagram post on Thursday, saying the name will serve "as a regular reminder of the urgent need for climate action." The e-commerce kingpin said that the National Hockey League (NHL) venue will "be the first net-zero-carbon-certified arena in the world," will generate no waste, and will use reclaimed rainwater in its ice system.
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Jun 25, 2020 | angrybearblog.com
Anarchists are unable to learn history
OK, the one that has really put me off happened last night at sometime after 10:30 PM in Madison, Wisconsin. A statue I know well was not only pulled down, but it was decapitated with both parts thrown in a nearby lake, although apparently since recovered. This statue stood on the east corner of the Capitol Square downtown. It is of Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863). An immigrant from Norway, he was an active anti-slavery abolitionist and member of the Free Soil Party who led the 15th Scandinavian American regiment in the Union army. He died fighting against the Confederacy in the Battle of Chickamauga, which it says on the base of his statue. There is absolutely no justification for this event.
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
vot tak , says: Show Comment June 24, 2020 at 4:18 am GMT
Read recently how a george washington monument was toppled. This proves Putin is directly behind these protests.He is personally regime changing america and breaking down the moral fabric of American society.
PS: vote republican, they are our saviors.
;-D
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
JoaoAlfaiate , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:48 pm GMT
Before confronting the Russians, it might be a good idea to regain control of Minneapolis and Seattle ..
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
Bill Jones , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT
@Larchmonter420 It is little noticed that those Countries consumed by the evil Soviet Union have fared much better in conserving their culture and sense of self, after they were upchucked in the early '90s, than the Champions of Democracy of the West have done under the freedom and tutelage bestowed by the US.AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:25 pm GMT
Funny dat.@Bill Jones There is even funnier thing now with covid: the countries that do not toe the imperial line, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, are doing a lot better than imperial sidekicks like Brazil, Colombia, or Peru. Rephrasing old Russian saying, "tell me who is your friend, and I tell you how stupid you are".
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
Colin Wright , says: Website Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 5:01 pm GMT
' Michael Ledeen, "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." 'Now, if that 'small, crappy little country' could be Israel, me 'n Mike could have a real meeting of minds.
but I suppose that's not what Mike meant.
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 2:19 pm GMT
Yes, Nudelman and her ilk are rabidly anti-Russian. But what they did in Ukraine revealed a very different thing: globohomo elites are mentally degenerate, they cannot foresee even immediate consequences of their moves.There was a joke in Russia that for the coup in 2014 in Kiev Obama deserves a medal "For the liberation of Crimea" (there was a medal of this name in WWII). There was another joke, that Ukraine without Crimea is like a purebred stallion without balls.
Neocons planned to make Ukraine a battering rum against Russia. They did not understand that a log rotten through and through cannot serve as a battering ram. Now they are stuck with that wreck ("you break it – you own it" rule) and don't know what to do with it. Previous US administration and DNC big shots (Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, and Co) used it mostly as a rout of stealing US taxpayers' money. Current administration does not seem to have even this use for it. The US keeps proving the age-old wisdom that when you see your enemy committing suicide, do not interfere. Putin appears to have a huge stock of popcorn.
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
AnonFromTN , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 3:44 pm GMT
@Biff I've heard another version of this.
Ukrainians are asked:
– If you believe that Crimea belongs to you, why don't you fight for it?
– We are not stupid, Russian troops are there.
– But you say that there are Russian troops in Donbass, yet you fight.
– That's what we say, but in Crimea there really are Russian troops.
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Jun 24, 2020 | www.unz.com
Rahan , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 6:41 am GMT
It would be super funny, if Russian, Chinese, Serbian, Sudanese, Afghani, and Iranian diplomats now went out en mass to give out cookies to the US rioters.chris , says: Show Comment Next New Comment June 23, 2020 at 1:53 pm GMTTaking PR pictures with the poor oppressed black looters and antifa trannies, lecturing Washington on human rights, and pledging support to the "moderate terrorists" i.e. the democrat mayors and governors who decide to not interfere with the looting and autonomous zones.
I think this would be the most epic troll ever. Especially if Venezuela then paraded some nervous spook and declared him the "legitimate president of the United States".
Or maybe, kek, just appoint Bernie the real president. "For two elections the corrupt system has denied this true hero his rightful position. Enough! We support the people's choice!" etc. Bernie would be all: "I don't know who these people are, honest," and they'd be: "stay strong, comrade, we shall help you in your fight to become a true people's president!
HAHAHA, I'm still laughing !!! That's friggin hilarious, Rahan!!!
Bernie the cowardly comrade
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Jun 23, 2020 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Daniel Raphael , June 22, 2020 at 5:34 pm
Um irony work not well on screen, methinks and not for the first (or last) time
But as to "intelligence community" pejorative, I think good old-fashioned 'scum' works quite well. Mind you, this is for those who have "proven" themselves by persisting and upping the ante of loathesomeness; I certainly do not mean to include people-in-process who sometimes exit Big Brother's nether fissure to emerge as woken humans.
I'm thinking specifically and especially of John Kiriakou, for whom I had the honor of extending jail support during the time he was incarcerated for "outing" a CIA torturer (who, needless to say, received not even a tap on the wrist).
Keep it simple, pithy, homely, and familiar: I advocate for 'scum' as a serviceable moniker of all-around utility for those who do the dirt because it's business and pleasure, all in one.
Lambert Strether Post author , June 23, 2020 at 3:52 am
> I think good old-fashioned 'scum' works quite well.
Now that I think of it, " the filth" is British slang for the police. That could work. Cockney rhyming slang is "Sweeney" ("flying squad" = "Sweeny Todd"). That has the right connotations, but it's a little twee.
Ignacio , June 23, 2020 at 4:49 am
With my handicapped level of English I got the irony pretty well. It was polite and clever irony.
ewmayer , June 23, 2020 at 3:52 pm
Re. preferred pejorative, I lean toward "IC creep" myself. Because they seem to creep around Washington, from one administration to the next, forever whispering in the ears of the power players, and more recently, weaving their evil spells directly to millions, as respected members of the MSM.
"The Slime" also seems to fit quite nicely.
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Jun 22, 2020 | www.washingtontimes.com
Slavery is a disgusting, despicable, horrific, soul-destroying aberration of God's will for humankind -- and, sadly, a terrible and tragic historical truth of American past.
But America and all that America offers is still the best deal in the world.
Pretending as if the America of 2020 is the same as the America 1700 is not only ridiculous. It's insanely ridiculous. It's leading free society down a path of anarchist-driven mayhem and violence and anger -- which is to say, it's leading free society into bondage. A nation driven by chaotic politics and culture with rampant calls for dismantling of law and order -- and police departments -- cannot long stand without seeing the Big Government Guns stomp into the picture, bringing so-called solutions for peace wrapped in collectivist, controlling bows. This is where America's headed.
Capitulation, third -- followed quickly by loss of freedoms, sweeping societal changes and substantial crackdowns by the body politic, desperate to instill calm at all costs.
We've hit second base, rounding to third.
"Here's What Black Lives Matter D.C. Is Calling For, And Where The City Stands," NPR reported , a couple weeks ago, in a story about the activist group's demands for criminal justice reform, social justice and restrictions of how police can police.
Another headline, from across the nation: "Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County lists demands," wrote the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber.
Another, from BlackLivesMatterChicago.com: "10 Demands of BLMCHI," which goes on to list "no cops in school," the end of "youth incarceration," and the "immediate disinvestment" of police with the money instead going toward schools, mental health and addiction treatment centers, housing for homeless and jobs' training for the unemployed.
It's not as if Black Lives Matter hasn't issued similar lists and similar demands in the past.
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Jun 22, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jen , Jun 22 2020 1:45 utc | 69
I should think when Joe Biden's brain starts flat-lining and only a cryogenic chamber can keep him alive will he finally become the perfect candidate to contest the 2020 US Presidential elections. One has to be brain-dead to even think of campaigning for a job where the main job requirement is to park your brain at the door, irrespective of how much you might earn and whether you get to have that little gadget with the red button (that sends all the start-up codes to your nation's nuke missiles) in your desk.
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Jun 22, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
John , Jun 17 2020 19:24 utc | 4
I'm fully expecting the Dem "left" to try and praise the monsterous Bolton for "going against Trump", as they did with war criminal Mad Dog Matis and Bush. Bolton has to be one of the most evil mass murders on the face of the Earth. The world will be an infinitely better place when he and his ilk like Netanyahu, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Chertoff..etc finally go back to hell.
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Jun 22, 2020 | news.yahoo.com
12 hours ago My fellow Americans,1. In a nuclear war, expect Russia and China to fight back by sending nukes towards USA cities.
2. The first USA cities to be nuked are: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, San Antonio, Las Vegas, San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, etc...
3. All American port cities that host the USA Navy fleets will be nuked
4. All USA cities with Strategic Oil facilities and reserves will be nuked
5. All USA Strategic Dams and Bridges will be nuked
6. All USA high tech universities, companies, and research facilities will be nuked
7. All bridges connecting USA to Canada and Mexico will be nuked
8. All USA Airports and military bases will be nuked
9. The goal of Tussia and China is simple: Total Decapitation of USA military, economic, transportation, industrial, financial, oil and gas facilities, urban centers, etc...
10. In other words: USA, Russia, and China will go back to the Stone Age.
Happy Fighting... Just don't touch my internet connection and Netflix, that is where I draw the line and that's why I didn't mention a nuke dropping on Internet and Satellite communication lines, Text messaging services, TiK Tok, Facebbok, Instagram, and Twitter...
If that happens, the 330 million American ZOOMERS will fight back HARD...
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Jun 22, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
Tower , Jun 17 2020 21:43 utc | 13
It's just about time. John Bolton deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. At this point, why not?
JC , Jun 17 2020 23:43 utc | 23
Posted by: Tower | Jun 17 2020 21:43 utc | 13
This is the most intelligent post so far.
Yes why not? If Obama awarded the Noble prize even before he begins serving his first term I can't see why Bolton not nominated now. America is a joke, not a banana republic. It deserves Obama, Trump, Bolton or Biden another stoopid joker.
Stoopid president elected by stoopid citizens
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Jun 22, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
uncle tungsten , Jun 17 2020 21:00 utc | 12
karlof1 #5
Blastocystis hominis could be renamed easily enough. It is a pain in the gut and arse.I will not bother to read any more on Bolton the man is beneath contempt. b has said more than enough.
Jen , Jun 17 2020 23:40 utc | 21
At least the one saving grace about John Bolton's memoir is that it might be a tad closer to reality than Christopher Steele's infamous dossier and might prove valuable as a source of evidence in a court of law. Maybe Yosemite Sam himself should start quaking in his boots.
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Jun 21, 2020 | www.unz.com
Servant of Gla'aki , says: Show Comment June 18, 2020 at 11:38 pm GMT
@Digital SamizdatI'm starting to think that this time not only will Trump win the election, but he'll probably win the popular vote, too.
Assuming an essentially two-way race between Biden and Trump, yes, you're probably correct.
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Jun 21, 2020 | www.zerohedge.com
As Ben Garrison recent noted, in an interview Bolton stated that it was OK for the government agencies to lie to the American people if national security is at stake. And it always seems to be at stake for dominant men who want secrecy and power. Bolton is a dangerous liar and his anti-Trump screed cannot be trusted.
It's time to slam the book shut on Bolton.
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Jun 20, 2020 | www.moonofalabama.org
RussianSoul , Jun 20 2020 19:48 utc | 18
Where Soviet Union or Russia were wrong was that after kicking out the Nazis from Soviet Union they should have stopped right there and not marched all the way to Berlin.They should have left Poland and other occupied states to deal with it themselves :-).
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Jun 20, 2020 | taibbi.substack.com
Check Jun 13
"If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants."
Edward R. Murrow
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Jun 20, 2020 | taibbi.substack.com
Mascot Jun 13
...And your "snowflakes" sneer is stale and trite. Not that you've given me any reason to think that you're capable of better.
LorriAnn Jun 16
I think the word "snowflake" is now considered racist :-)
Kate Jun 14
How closed minded you are. You must be very well educated.
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Jun 20, 2020 | www.rt.com
While attempts to build similar zones were thwarted in Portland, Oregon and Asheville, North Carolina, local authorities in Seattle allowed the activists to run the secessionist enclave unimpeded, with Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan effectively giving her blessing to the activists, describing the outlet as a "summer of love."
Despite mounting concerns that the CHAZ's leadership is failing to reign in crime that has been reported to run rampant during the night, the city authorities have been reluctant to take any decisive action against the encampment - even after a shooting left one dead and another with life-threatening injuries at the main entrance to the zone on Saturday morning.
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Jun 20, 2020 | www.unz.com
Here's some darkness: the symphony orchestra of Austin, Texas has
