"... Listening to Joe Biden on the campaign trail is about as painful as listening to Trump. The gaffes just keep on coming! Running for the senate or the presidency? ..."
"... That Biden didn't break a sweat and seemed to know that he wouldn't win in liberal Massachusetts on Super Tuesday is one sign of just how fucked-up the political, economic, and social systems are. ..."
"... If a person buys into the argument that elections mean anything at all, and they do to some extent, then the fact that a left/progressive coalition couldn't pull it off here speaks volumes. ..."
"... Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War Resister (2017). ..."
Listening to Joe Biden on the campaign trail is about as painful as listening to Trump.
The gaffes just keep on coming! Running for the senate or the presidency?
That Biden breezed to a presidential primary victory in supposedly liberal Massachusetts
leaves nothing but a sense of despair for anyone on the political left. If Philip Berrigan or
Eugene Debs were alive, either leftist might say "I told you so."
That Biden didn't break a sweat and seemed to know that he wouldn't win in liberal
Massachusetts on Super Tuesday is one sign of just how fucked-up the political, economic, and
social systems are. What was the combination of demographics that gave Biden a victory in
much the same way as a runner on third base comes home and scores after the batter walks with
the bases full?
So-called moderates flocked to Biden, as did those over 50 years old and older Black voters.
Liberals, younger voters, young Black voters, and Latino voters supported Sanders. Political
analysts can go on and on, ad nauseam, but the fact remains that a vibrant and well-organized
campaign by Bernie Sanders on the ground in Massachusetts fell on its face, as did that of
Elizabeth Warren. If a person buys into the argument that elections mean anything at all,
and they do to some extent, then the fact that a left/progressive coalition couldn't pull it
off here speaks volumes. The people who went to the polls spoke, and they would rather
have a neoliberal bumbler than someone who would champion, at the very least, liberal
causes.
... ... ...
Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a
Vietnam-Era War Resister (2017).
Well, it's no way to run a country, lying your ass off all the time, as the results show.
I have long been mystified by the political hacks here faith in the efficacy of bullshit for
running a country. But then I realized that is not what they want to do, they want to exploit
the country and get rich, and then depart like their 3rd world collaborators. And bullshit is
what they do.
"Keep smirking, making your faces and rolling your eyes, Leland. I get it. I get it. You guys spent years trying
to run up the Russia hoax against the president and trying to say this is over, and the hypocrisy continues."
C3
@C_3C_3
FBI knew the Dossier was FAKE
CIA knew the Dossier was FAKE
DOJ knew the Dossier was FAKE
ODNI knew the Dossier was FAKE
Media knew the Dossier was FAKE
Mueller knew the Dossier was FAKE
Congress knew the Dossier was FAKE
BO Admin knew the Dossier was FAKE
They were all in on it
Creative_Destruct 44 minutes ago
Creative_Destruct 44 minutes ago
Biden relentlessly virtual signals to cover for both his own severe intellectual
deficiencies and insecurities and to cover for his corrupt influence-peddling, all aided and
abetted by the partisan MSM.
Only a few drops of swamp water were drained, at most, by Trump,
and that will now be more than replenished. Actually, oversupply is coming. Swamp expansion
here we come.
Nature_Boy_Wooooo 5 hours ago (Edited) Nature_Boy_Wooooo 5 hours ago
(Edited)
Imagine sitting in court for tax fraud and the prosecutor saying........ "we gotta make sure
this doesn't happen in the future.".....but you get to walk and keep the money you stole.
"... In honor of Mr. Biden's remarkable comeback from fourth place in the primaries I move that his portrait should be embossed on every $3 bill, and that Ms. Harris portrait should adorn every wooden nickel. ..."
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Everyone likes a fair election. No one likes cheaters.
Save Americans the suffering and damage and embarrassment.
Pelosi should hand in her resignation.
Biden should be a man and concede.
Hillary should turn herself in at the nearest police station.
Dominion executives should be arrested.
Rudog 1 hour ago
In honor of Mr. Biden's remarkable comeback from fourth place in the primaries I move that
his portrait should be embossed on every $3 bill, and that Ms. Harris portrait should adorn
every wooden nickel.
I would not got so far as to claim that China has freedom of speech. You can be jailed for
many years for publishing your views. As I wrote, USA has freedom of speech so they jail
people for opinions by tagging them as "foreign agents", something that is perhaps not needed
in China. "Fomenting distrust in the institutions of the state as a foreign agent" elegantly
circumvents 1st Amendment, American judiciary is well practiced in undoing the follies of the
Founding Fathers -- without criticizing them. The effect is (un-)surprisingly similar to
Chinese formulation "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" that in turn (because of faulty
translation?) resembles
English legal tradition .
Airish1 @airish1 #millennialvoters
unironically spent the afternoon cruising around in their fossil fuel powered vehicles honking
in joy at the apparent victory for the #GreenNewDeal today.
99.99%? WOW! That level of accuracy is definitely going to piss off Kim Jong-Un. I think
he topped out at 99.965. Maybe we should keep this on the low-low.
Silentwistle 14 hours ago (Edited) Silentwistle 14 hours ago (Edited)
Biden's already been President for years. Just ask him. He was also the first man to land on
the moon. He stayed for weeks. He also lit Hitler on Fire in the bunker. Don't you remember, he
was in the car with Kennedy in Dallas. He tried to save him but he slipped on his own hair
plug.
"A study done a few years ago showed that over 2/3rds of international affairs stories in
major European newspapers were basically reprints of NYT articles"
Now we don't need a study, we can see it happening in real time on Google News. Also, which
stories are ignored or whitewashed by MSM.
The AT&T building on 2nd Avenue suffered significant damage in the blast. That facility
includes connection points for regional internet services as well as local wireless,
internet and video. In the hours that followed the explosion, our local service remained
intact through temporary battery power. Unfortunately, a combination of the explosion and
resulting water and fire damage took out a number of backup power generators intended to
provide power to the batteries. That led to service disruptions across parts of Tennessee,
Kentucky and Alabama. More than 48 hours later, some customers are still experiencing
outages. We know it is frustrating and we apologize for the inconvenience. We also thank
you for your understanding. -AT&T statement
Wake me up when the MSM gives the *explanation* how/why the alleged 63yr old 'lone bomber'
knew *exactly* the location to park [allegedly] his RV bomb to take out AT&T internet
services for big chunks of *4-5* US States...
"There are many bodies around the world that function and achieve their goals showing full
respect for the UN Charter. Among them are all bodies within the CIS space: the CIS itself,
the CSTO, the Eurasian Economic Union and the SCO. It should be remembered that 10 or so
years ago, after the 2008 crisis, the G20 began to meet regularly, because the Western G7
realized its inability to rule the world and set the rules in the economy and finance on its
own. It used to be the prerogative of the group of seven nations, and everyone else tacitly
accepted its primacy. Now with the G20 in place, the G7 is only one of many groups. The
second group is BRICS (Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa). A number of other G20
members think like the BRICS nations and want the global economic and financial system to
become more democratic.
"To put it bluntly, they want it to become democratic, because at the moment it is not
democratic at all. Things that are happening with the abuse of the role of the dollar are of
concern not only to the countries on which the United States is imposing illegal sanctions,
thus distorting its role as an issuer of one of the main currencies, but other countries as
well. Not only Russia, China, Iran, and the SCO member states want to switch to mechanisms
that will rely on national currencies in trade and investment settlements. Europe is
beginning to ponder, especially given the fairly strong position of the euro, moving away
from dependence on the dollar."
On this page, I've written that the Outlaw US Empire must change its ways domestically and
internationally, and Lavrov's presentation yet again provides many reasons why it must.
Twenty-three days remain until the known War Criminal and manifestly corrupt Joe Biden is
made POTUS; so, things are likely to worsen on all fronts. In today's political cartoon, the
masked donkey was selling unmasked elephants T-Shirts emblazoned with RESIST!--an excellent
reference to Seuss's Sneetches.
Closing out today by linking to "The Ever Fonky Low Down's Libretto ,
where you'll immediately be confronted by Mr. Game. Follow his jive to learn why I think this
bit of musical construction powerful and educational. I'll leave the last word for Mr.
Game:
"Leave everything up to us and we'll make sure you never have to do anything except pay.
And
while you hate each other and fight against a never-ending 'them', we will remain us. Who
is
us? Haha, we are you when you get the opportunity to be ." [Emphasis Orihginal]
But the small print shows Biden, 33, won't see a day behind bars after she negotiated a plea
deal with the Montgomery County district attorney.
Instead of jail, she got five-plus months of probation, with 20 days of rehab in January
counted toward her sentence.
The walk-free plea continues a long Biden family tradition of avoiding jail time. A Post
investigation in July found at least eight other busts of Bidens resulted in wrist
slaps.
"She will be on probation Should she then violate or break the law at any time, then she
will be on the hook for the rest of the sentence," Kate Delano, a DA spokeswoman, told The
Post."
"Biden, daughter of James Biden, was busted in Lower Merion Township, Pa., in August 2019
after slamming her car into a tree. Arresting officer Jeffrey Seamans noted Biden, who was
driving without a license, "had difficulty focusing on the conversation" as he questioned
her."
"As her Uncle Joe campaigned for president, the case took more than a year crawling through
the Pennsylvania courts. Her arraignment was held on Nov. 4 --
one day after the presidential election.
A court spokesperson insisted the date was auto-generated and its post-election timing was
coincidental.
Mike Gottlieb, a Norristown, Pa., attorney with experience in DUI cases, said the ruling was
fair for a first offense. "It is not an unusual sentence to get credit for the time in the
rehab. So truthfully, I don't think she was treated any differently than any of my clients
would have been," he told The Post." foxnews
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So, this gal;
Borrowed a credit card from someone to pay a bill at Bigelow's Pharmacy (in New York
City?). She then used it to open a line of credit with BP and over a year charged $110,000 to
the account, but - she says she was a naughty girl and is very sorry.
And then, there is this DUI with the tree ramming while whacked incident.
And before that there is a little matter of hitting a cop who displeased her.
So, she is James' little girl. The Bidonians are not really very good at "this." You know
what "this" is. Someone (I could name them now) will write to say that the Trumps are no
better. Really? Tell us about it. pl
Summers and the financial press don't speak of asset price inflation as overheating. No, our
elites would very much like stock prices to rise to infinity forever and ever.
Trump's sincerity regarding the $2,000 can be suspect but he has some skill at making the
regulars in Washington look ridiculous hypocrites but that's not hard to do
People are angry and that creates problem for neoliberal elite. They tried Russia bogeyman to
distract people's attention (Look squirrel), but that did not work.
Yep.. 2 trillion of liquidity pumped into the economy by the Fed, 2.3 Trillion in the
CARES act.. not a peep about inflation on his Twitter. (I looked.. he fully supported all of
the spending).
But give $0.5 trillion directly to people.. inflation boogeyman comes out.
It's really kind of funny. Now that the American public has seen a side of Joe Biden that
he apparently kept hidden for years, one wonders what all the excitement was about when
President Trump said a few things that seemed radical or mean spirited. How much more radical
or mean spirited can one get than Biden challenging potential voters who don't agree with him
to a fist fight in the back alley, or calling women dog faced or donkey faced or calling a
voter that simply wanted to ask him a question and a–hole etc. Talk about mean
spirited? This clown is mean spirited. If he was asked the kind of questions and constant
agitating like the media spent four years pounding on President Trump with, Biden would go
crazy punching and kicking people, the cornpop .lol
Every time I see Gov. Whitmer on television, she reminds me of evil Nurse Rached
(wretched), played by Louise Fletcher, in the great 1970's film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest." Psychiatric nurse Rached loved nothing more than to grind down the male patients she
lorded over, until all their manhood and self-respect were gone...
hundreds and thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other and we concern ourselves
with a simple virus. I would like to end the utter bullshit altogether, there is no chance
that war will ever happen again on such a grand scale. Politicians are here to keep us apart,
keep the threat going and distract. Money and power is all that matters. All the words in the
world will not change the "TRUTH". Thx for the entertainment guys and gals!
Obama won 871 counties and garnered 69 million votes . Biden won 477 counties and got 81
million votes thanks to Dominion
Salisarsims 4 hours ago remove link
All that means is he got out the vote in the cities.
Ron_Mexico 4 hours ago
yep. Nothing to see here folks. Move along now, move along . . .
DotSap 4 hours ago
Biden was also very popular with the over 120 set, too!
Chocura750 1 hour ago remove link
Biden's supporters wear masks and avoid crowds.
Uncle Sugar PREMIUM 30 minutes ago
And they're buried 6' under
Lee Harvey 6 hours ago
What is really disturbing is the fact that anyone would be stupid enough to vote for a
party that wants to eliminate the bill of rights and enslave them, and a candidate that is an
older, whiter, griftier, misogynistier, pedophilic, professional swamp creature for 47 years,
who proved he cannot even raise a decent family, let alone run a nation.
Someone, even if its only is one or two people, actually voted for Biden. Apparently,
retards are allowed to vote...
Why didn't the FBI just call their good friends at CROWDSTRIKE to bust into Hunter's lap
top, instead of begging MacIsaacs to do it for them?
Too bad the DOJ already put Roger Stone behind bars, because who knows what some low level
FBI staffer could have gotten the National Enquirer to pay for those Hunter porn pics.
Under oath, how many within the FBI's inner circle will admit they got to watch those
videos.
2020 - Voting machines are totally secure. It should be interesting to see how the systems were secured during those 3 years.
Edit:
" The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally. "
This smacks of lawfare. Interestingly (((The Only Democracy In The Middle East))) excels at
that (via Shurat HaDin) - partly in response to attempts to hold it to account. From wiki
(yeah, I know)
"The NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban Conference (31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001) called for
the "establishment of a war crimes tribunal" against Israel."
For some reason, that appears to have gone nowhere.
As for Croomer, there is very little background. He says "I've worked in international
elections in all sorts of post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people
are getting killed over it." - That sounds straight out of CIA/USAID organised US regime change
ops.
Maybe it's a telltale that the Soviet-like demise for the US is near. Hopefully the American
empire will not come to a SUPERNOVA-like ending (inflicting great damage to the rest of the
world), before turning itself into a dwarf.
Which is fine -- victori sunt spoila and all that -- but it's already safe to say the Trump
years will be remembered as a brutal black comedy that made winners and losers alike look very,
very bad. It was supposed to be a historic, norms-smashing catastrophe, but the reality is that
almost nothing actually happened during the Trump years, except for a very long, exhausting
story. The major in-between change was a total loss of our collective grip on reality,
beginning with the fact that most of the country thinks we just went to hell and back a
thousand times, instead of making just one noisy trip in a circle, arriving just where we might
have four years ago, if Joe Biden had run instead of Hillary Clinton. The tiniest conceivable
step, but oh so much grief and self-deception to get there!
y_arrow
highwaytoserfdom 1 hour ago
Matt Im sure you know the
"The press is a gang of cruel(censored) . Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is
a cheap catch-all for (censored)offs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life,
a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough
for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
RexSeven 2 hours ago
He put on display for all to see exactly what our media, deep state, and democrat party
is. And you dud nothing Matt. Nothing. Go F yourself.
incharge1976 PREMIUM 1 hour ago (Edited)
Crap article and terrible picture.
The reason Trump's 4 years were crazy was because of the corrupt Democrats who lied the
entire time with bs investigations and hearings.
Richard Chesler 1 hour ago
A breath of fresh air after corrupt charlatan Homobama.
NotKennedy 1 hour ago
An American hero, Donald Trump prevented Hillary.
Itchy and Scratchy 1 hour ago
Trump garnered a historic 75-80mm legitimate votes and a massive landslide victory and
this irrelevant dope writes a banal hit piece on him? SERIOUSLY PATHETIC!
(deplorables) should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty
position or be accepted into 'polite' society. We have a list." – Jennifer Rubin
Never interfere with an adversary who is letting their mask slip. Thank you for the
Hillary moment, Jennifer.
Robert Reich is the guy who while doing nothing as Labor Secretary under Clinton, went on
to to write books denouncing the immirseration of the working and middle classes. Talk us
cheap I guess. I've always wondered why this fake couldn't stick around in government and
made a difference when he could. He is perhaps auditioning for a role as the world's tallest
midget with his fighting talk.
"Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of
voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a
corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into 'polite' society. We have a
list ."
"... the media – playing judge, jury and executioner – has leveled blame on the usual suspect. ..."
"... Did anyone actually believe that Russia would escape a major US election season without a ceremonial tarring and feathering by the media? It's almost as though frantic journalists, unable to sell the 'Trump Beats Biden with Kremlin Collusion' narrative, have dreamt up this latest work of pulp fiction to keep the ball of 'Russian villainy' bouncing into the next US administration. Heaven forbid if the media just sat by and let protracted peace break out between Washington and Moscow. ..."
As incoming nominees of a future Biden administration have
stopped short in naming a culprit in the SolarWinds hack, the media – playing judge, jury and executioner – has leveled blame on
the usual suspect.
Did anyone actually believe that Russia would escape a major US election season without a ceremonial tarring and feathering by
the media? It's almost as though frantic journalists, unable to sell the 'Trump Beats Biden with Kremlin Collusion' narrative, have
dreamt up this latest work of pulp fiction to keep the ball of 'Russian villainy' bouncing into the next US administration. Heaven
forbid if the media just sat by and let protracted peace break out between Washington and Moscow.
No standing before the election. Too late to complain or sue after the election.
The new Catch 22.
Definition of catch-22
1 : a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance
inherent in the problem or by a rule the show-business catch-22 -- no work unless you have
an agent, no agent unless you've worked -- Mary Murphy also : the circumstance or rule that
denies a solution
2a : an illogical, unreasonable, or senseless situation
b : a measure or policy whose effect is the opposite of what was intended
c : a situation presenting two equally undesirable alternatives
3 : a hidden difficulty or means of entrapment : catch
NoPension 6 hours ago
Heads I win. Tails you lose.
Tristan Ludlow 6 hours ago
Those that make fair elections impossible, will make violent revolutions inevitable, to
paraphrase Kennedy.
StaySunny3000 7 hours ago
What a weasel decision. How do the judges expect the plantiffs to round up all the clerks
who looked at ballots? Is it not the Sec. of State's responsibility to oversee the actions of
the clerks? Wouldn't it be more proficient and, dare I say it, logical , to focus on the man
that made the fraud possible?
Courts have been totally politicized. Justice isn't blind, it's been decapitated.
tunEphsh 7 hours ago remove link
Usual BS from courts--lack standing. No one has standing. Judges afraid of losing their
jobs if they rule against the state. Shows how corrupt Georgia is (and other states too).
yerfej 7 hours ago
The reality is the US (all western nations) is done as a country, it is now a giant
Mafioso organization run by neoliberals. After six decades the neoliberals have finally
consolidated power over the media, courts, academia, bureaucracy, and big tech. No one can
challenge the power structure, it is total and vicious, and anyone in their sights will be
destroyed. Now is when people begin to realize what has transpired and the opposition begins
to create resistance which will take a long time to formulate.
In Plato's legendary tome, Republic, Thrasymachus, responding to Socrates' question as to
whether or not he feels justice is a vice, emphatically asserts: "No, just very high minded
simplicity." Republic was written way back in 375 BC, but unfortunately "high minded
simplicity" is alive and well in the intellectually ignominious year of 2020.
Maybe we could launch a fund-raising campaign to purchase some anti-malware software for
the government's (obviously unsecured) computers. If possible, we could raise enough money to
hire a teacher to instruct them on basic computer security. (Thrifty suggestion: Hire some
local high school teens).
Apparently, some kids in Russia made a hobby of hacking into the Pentagon, itself (I know
this, because I just made it up), so on Monday, we need to launch this story on MSNBC, the
official media of the New Democrat Party.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who voted for President Donald Trump's deficit-exploding tax
cuts for the rich in 2017, blocked fellow Republican Sen. Josh Hawley's attempt Friday to
pass legislation that would provide $1,200 direct payments to U.S. adults and $500 to
children amid a devastating pandemic and ongoing economic collapse.
So Hawley the next move is yours. You now BLOCK this turd from passing and if you need help
with it tell Bernie to stand with you. This kabuki BS has been exposed for what it is. A ploy
that apparently on the GOP can use to make sure nothing gets passed that helps the working
class. I see so many folks only blaming the GoP or more McConnell for what's happening, but
remember Pelosi could have said OK on the bill and put the pressure on Mitch. SHE is now OK
with a much smaller bill after saying that $2.2 TRILLION didn;t go far enough. I see through
you too you old bat. Just sick that everyone can't see through their lies and games they play
with OUR lives. up 9 users have voted. --
"Restoring the soul of this nation" is just MAGA with more words
Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of transportation, Laguna Pueblo Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) as
Interior Secretary, former EPA head Gina McCarthy as climate czar (what happened to Kerry?),
Katherine Tai, Nominee for United States Trade Representative, Michigan Governor Jennifer
Granholm to serve as secretary of energy, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, and of course we
knew DecDef Lloyd 'Rayethon' Austin already.
lots of diversity, as promised! wasn't andrew yang appointed to some post?
Attorney General yet to come. Will he and obomba choose... Hellary?
on edit : arrrrgh! i'd forgotten he/they'd nominated Tom 'Mr. Monsanto/dicamba'
Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture. boy howdy: feed the nation with round-up ready GMO
foods!
I love America and its non-stop CIA psyop cyclops social media television.
The New Year will bring renewed police crackdown on private assembly, people's homes, the
continued destruction of employment, $40 checks from Uncle Joe to "tide you over," hysterical
harpies physically assaulting anyone without a mask in blue states, and a full-out propaganda
assault to destroy the defenseless minds of your friends and family.
You're going to lose a lot in the New Year. 2020 was just the beginning. Wait until summer
2021 and BLM/Antifa chaos. Conservative politicians like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul will be crying
"insurrection act!" and Tucker Carlson will launch into Season Two of 30-minute cracking-voice
monologues "this is your America!" while nothing and no one does a goddamn thing to protect
you.
We are on our own. Doctors, schools, cops, families, people you work with -- all are slowly
being sucked into the vortex of this simulacrum of hell being broadcast on their "smart"
phones. Compared to what's being sold to them, your voice sounds positively insane...
The Soviet Union went into it's twilight years under a gerontocracy. Give it 8 more years,
and the USA will have fallen. (If history repeats, that is, as it usually does)
I remember back in 80's when we mocked the Soviets for their elderly leadership that kept
dying a few months after being appointed to office until Gorbachev showed up.
It's not ageism if it's true. I'm a senior citizen and even i can see these people are too
old and set in their ways to enact legislation that changes anything for the benefit of the
people. They'll cling to their positions of power until they die and decay on their
thrones.
If you take a look at that chart, you'll see that the oldest committee chairman is in
charge of the science, space, and technology committee at the bright young age of 84, nearly
85. The political class hate the people.
It is an interesting observation, especially when you look to other western countries and
their leaders are a good 30 years younger than ours. I think there's something to be said for
a politician needing to live in the world they create post-service. Biden and Trump don't
really care because they're time here is short compared to someone like Macron or
Trudeau.
We had two young people with courage and a fresh perspective running for president, of
course the powers that be would have none of that so Gabbard and Yang were shut out. More of
the same coming our way.
US is turning more and more into USSR under Leonid Brezhnev... Just an old guard of ppl
that dies amd hand over power to another old guard, and so the cycle continues
All the geriatric "leaders" have only one plan: Our generations will not take
responsibility or pay for our self-enriching decisions that have left the earth in crisis
after crisis. And our corporate friends who are essentially our bank accounts would pay
either. Finally, someones recognizing what's really happening. Its not Dems vs GOP. Its old
politicians vs the needs of the many
These people many [of them] globalists are heavily financed by foreign powers that drives
these engines. Add in unions everywhere that is why they are there and stay there. Look at
the mechanics of why they hold power and cannot be removed then bypass them to bring this
mess down. This is a money game !
All elected officials are suppose to have term limits it is the entire reason that we have
elections and not one of those terms say 10,20,30,40,or50 years so any person that has been
in our government pass the term limits has been breaking the rules and cheating to do it
which means they have been rigging our elections for a very long time and the american people
have been asleep at the wheel and allowing them to do it because we have been completely lied
to by every single elected official that is and has been in our government not even one of
them has ever kept their word or their promises to the american people but every single one
of them has gotten rich are richer off of stealing the american people's hard earned tax
money all while making laws and regulations for them to take more and more of what we had to
pay on top of everything else our own government criminals in the government swamp has been
doing to their own people because of the simple fact that the american people have been
asleep at the wheel and allowing them to get away with it for so long that none of them even
had a clue that if Hillary Clinton would have won their wouldn't even be an America anymore
much less rights or freedoms God and his chosen one DONALD J TRUMP is saving and sparing the
united States of america one last time key words one last time
Our politicians blow over a trillion dollars a year on US "security" and they can't figure
out a way to keep hackers off of our hard drives? This shows you the quality of the overpaid
clowns in charge of our government. Now we can't even run an election fair and square and are
in the same class as El Salvador, maybe worse.
captain noob 2 hours ago
The problem with money is that it doesn't necessarily buy you things of value
I want to know why we aren't hiring the Russians for everything? They appear to be the
best, whether military equipment, spycraft, hacking, diplomacy, or global strategy. All we
have are butthurt bureaucrats, gay entertainers and loudmouthed athletes always eager to bend
a knee.
radical-extremist 3 hours ago
They were the best at honeypots too, until Swallwell fell for Fang Fang.
Dabooda 2 hours ago
Epstein and Mossad would be the gold standard for honeypots.
PrideOfMammon 2 hours ago
As I said, if Putin ran in a fair election in the USA, he would win hands down.
Thanks for the redfish video suggestion. Worth watching not only to get insight about the
current developments in India but also understanding the global Zeitgeist.
I couldn't avoid to identify the exact same type of developments and problems that working
class and increasingly also middle class facing in other parts of the world.
The globalization of capitalism since the fall of USSR and Warsaw pact, has caused
accelerated monopolization of political and economic power everywhere in the world,
this was achieved by enforcing the same neoliberal agenda globally. No matter if you look at
the USA, Germany, Iran or India, you discover the same type of "reforms". Reforms that result
in increased poverty, more and more middle class families are losing their socioeconomic
position and becoming part of working class.
One come to the understanding that the "Great Reset" we are talking about recently, is not
something new in the beginning and making, it's only the continuation of an agenda which has
been in implementation since 30 years ago.
Consent of the governed is the definition of legitimate authority. Kleptocrats spent decades
abusing us with corruption, violence and theft.
Now they stand 'stunned' at the giant middle fingers and weapons pointed at them.
I think the interwebz are not long for this Earth, but we can thank the infowarriors of this
period for helping many (hundreds of millions worldwide) understand that the core of the
globalist power structure is NOTHING but criminal syndicate bosses of the worst possible
kind.
Those domestic servants of these globalist slave traffickers, and their pets in the
DNC/never-Trumper/Deep State mob, are rank imbeciles, evil hollow souls, and deserve no
quarter, no discussion, and no influence of any kind, ever again.
oregon4TRUMP @shawgerald4 • Dec 15
Replying to @kayleighmcenany
In 1915, these two bullets collided during the Battle of Gallipoli. The chances of this
happening was 1 in 1,000,000,000 or about 300x more likely than Biden winning the election
without cheating.
"... I will also state that in "real" democracies, rigging the vote count is a rarity--it is far more effective just to rig the candidates so it doesn't matter if Tweedledee or Tweedledum gets more votes. ..."
1) Biden got more votes
2) The intelligence agencies rigged the vote count via fraud
In the prior case, Biden will clearly be president. In the latter, Biden will also be
president because the agencies' authority is absolute.
I will also state that in "real" democracies, rigging the vote count is a rarity--it
is far more effective just to rig the candidates so it doesn't matter if Tweedledee or
Tweedledum gets more votes.
To be honest, I'm looking forward to a Biden administration. All the late night TV jokes
at his expense about the gaffs, mental lapses, and blank stares should be a hoot. Can't wait
for the first SNL skit! Yep, I can't wait.
SillyWabbits 9 hours ago
There was no fraud.
It was outright theft.
gilhgvc 10 hours ago (Edited)
Well, it's official...we are ruled over now. Congress and senate are dukes and duchesses,
courts are the new court JESTERS and biteme/cameltoe are the new king and king of the
realm....I want to send an apology out to our Founding Fathers and all the men and women who
died for this idea of america...we blew it guys. We are nothing like you brave souls. While
we wallow in the muck with our nikes, cell phones and nose rings, the world dies a little
more each day. I apologize for tearing statues down of great men, who merely did what was
normal in those times. You gave it all to us on a silver platter and the morons squandered
it, fat & happy to sit around bitching about being poor, while playing video games on
thier $1000 I-phones....I am sorry. play_arrow
Mzhen 10 hours ago remove link
Some lowly cyber security professional testified to the Colorado legislature yesterday,
saying that nobody at CISA has a background and qualifications that would allow them to state
that the election was the most secure in history.
The hearing came to naught because the Democrats dominating the state don't want an audit.
Colorado turned Blue almost overnight -- or it was after statewide all-mail-in voting was
instituted. Probably not a coincidence.
Hal Turner - a pretend "Nazi" who was/is an FBI informant (look it up) and was convicted
anyway of threatening a judge. I'm not clicking on a Hal Turner link because it is, by
definition, disinformation. Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself.
Totally_Disillusioned 1 day ago
Robert's intimidated by the rioting? Wonder what threats were made on him, his
family...
2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away
with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly
what happens when anyone challenges them.
[...]
GloboCap is not insane, however. They know exactly what they are doing which is teaching us
a lesson, a lesson about power. A lesson about who has it and who doesn't. For students of
history it's a familiar lesson, a standard in the repertoire of empires, not to mention the
repertoire of penal institutions.
The name of the lesson is "Look What We Can Do to You Any Time We Fucking Want." The
point of the lesson is self-explanatory. The USA taught the world this lesson when it nuked
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. GloboCap (and the US military) taught it again when they invaded
Iraq and destabilized the entire Greater Middle East. It is regularly taught in
penitentiaries when the prisoners start to get a little too unruly and remember that they
outnumber the guards. That's where the "lockdown" concept originated. It isn't medical
terminology. It is penal institution terminology.
Operation Mokingbird2: looks like the CIA remains firmly in charge of US policy and the
mainstream media.
Notable quotes:
"... 1) If the first sentence contains a variation of the words "according to," then the story is at least partially bullsh*t . (2) If a variation of "according to" is in the headline, then every word of the story is a lie ..."
"... What is so cynical is that during the last three years of fake "Russian Collusion" certain politicians were colluding with the Chinese CCP, ie in actuality doing what they were accusing Trump of doing. ..."
I believe that there are a few golden rules that can be applied to news stories:
1) If the first sentence contains a variation of the words "according to," then the
story is at least partially bullsh*t . (2) If a variation of "according to" is in the
headline, then every word of the story is a lie
What is so cynical is that during the last three years of fake "Russian Collusion"
certain politicians were colluding with the Chinese CCP, ie in actuality doing what they were
accusing Trump of doing. Inevitable now that there is big trouble brewing in the US, I
don't see how all the fraud evidence on every level can be disregarded, let alone apparent
foreign involvement in the voting machines.
Regarding the David Sanger fantasy piece published in the NYT, I commented on the Times's
website that Sanger made the claim of Russian culpability without providing a shred of actual
evidence. Much to my surprise, my comment was accepted for publication.
Shortly thereafter, it mysteriously vanished into the ether, no doubt having been read and
removed by some editor or even by slimeball Sanger himself. Now that was not a surprise.
A memo for the Russian government: if the Western MSM condemns your actions then you did
the right thing. If it prizes whatever you did: repent and reverse!
Donald1958 19 hours ago 13 Dec, 2020 01:13 AM
Maybe Vanessa Kogan can now move back to the US or the UK and try to get justice for Julian
Assange. See how succesful she will be with that.
In these United States of the Insane, the inmates are running the asylum as American
militarism and corporate power are now deemed benign, it is declared gender doesn't exist, and
Kamala Harris is worthy of celebration while Tulsi Gabbard is deserving of denigration.
America always gets the leadership it deserves, and when Joe Biden falls, or more likely
gets pushed, down a flight of stairs and Queen Kamala ascends to the throne, we will get what
we deserve. And that certainly isn't a person of the quality and worth of Tulsi Gabbard, that's
for damn sure.
The announcement drew praise from many professional climate activists and groups, perhaps
assuming that Kerry was taking his lead from Bernie Sanders, who has for years been saying
the same thing. Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement, Varshini Prakash said his
statement was an "encouraging move," while 350.org's Bill McKibben, predicted Kerry would
be an excellent climate czar. Yet, as media critic Adam Johnson argued, Kerry's
proclamation should deeply concern progressive activists and will likely lead to expanding
the already bloated military budget.
Kerry is a founding member of the Washington think tank, the American Security Project
(ASP), whose board is a who's who of retired generals, admirals and senators. The ASP also
hailed the appointment of their man, explaining, in a little-read report, exactly what
treating the climate as a national security threat entails. And it is nothing like what
Sanders advocates.
For the ASP, climate change constitutes an "accelerant of instability" and a "threat
multiplier" that will "affect the operating environment," and notes that Kerry will have
three priorities in his role as President Biden's right-hand man. What were those three
priorities? Making sure people in the Global South could eat and have access to safe
drinking water? Reparations? Disaster relief or response teams? Cutting back on fossil fuel
use? Indeed not. For the ASP, the primary objectives were:
A huge rebuilding of the United States' military bases,
Countering China in the Pacific,
Preparing for a war with Russia in the newly-melted Arctic.
Listen, I have a lot of sensitive information from my years in gov't service. Stuff that's
rated at TOP SECRET. Please don't tell the Chinese about my highly valuable info that I
possess. However, if anyone should need my contact info for an interview from say the
Chinese/American Committee to Fight Prejudice I'd be pleased to pass it along...
They told you: -The Steele Dossier was real. -The protests were peaceful. -The Hunter Biden
story was Russian disinformation. And now? They tell you we shouldn't ask questions about the
integrity of the 2020 election.
One anonymous whistle blower was OK to impeach the President of the United States but, 1000's
of sworn affidavits of election fraud is not enough to investigate?
You'd think a democrat with a heterosexual lover would be big news to the left!
oromae 4 hours ago
I am shocked. Shocked.
gcjohns1971 4 hours ago
Where a host of legal expert called for charges for treason and other crimes against
Trump Jr., there is nothing but crickets when a liberal Democrats members is accused of far
more extensive contacts with a Chinese spy. Why?
Because their allegiance, despite their claims and oaths is not to their countrymen, to
facts, or to human rights.
Isn't it obvious?
They work for others who intend us harm.
VWAndy 3 hours ago
its just like election rigging kiddies. Nobody is really gonna turn over that rock because
everyone knows whats under it. Both parties are neck deep in it.
So some rabid Russiagaters slept with with women who are suspected to be Chine agents of
influence; Others like Biden took money from china while instigating and promoting RussiaGate .
So nice
Arthur
Schwartz @ArthurSchwartz · Dec 8 If @RepSwalwell hadn't been banging the Chinese
communist spy, he would be doing wall to wall MSNBC hits claiming that this was a Russian
disinformation campaign. Instead, all he can say is "it's classified." No one is buying it,
Eric. Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec · Dec 8 I'm told the unreleased
portion of the Swalwell report is far, far worse for the Congressman and he is actively
fighting to obstruct its release to the American people Nick Short @PoliticalShort · 14h China owns
Hollywood, the media, our supply chains, etc. It's idiotic to believe they wouldn't also own a
good portion of those in Congress. The question is, how big of a portion? Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr ·
16h
How'd that one work out Fartwell? Quote Tweet Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell · Jan 8, 2019
"Stated plainly, the President's son met with a Russian spy." On @DeadlineWH about
#NataliaVeselnitskaya 8.2K 12.1K 46.6K
As Donald Trump Jr noted so poignantly on Twitter:
Does anyone else notice that the Chinese Spies seem to always attach themselves to
Democrats while simultaneously always attacking Republicans? That should tell us all we need
to know about who's fighting for who. Democrats are the party of China!
President-elect Joe
Biden 's campaign is the first in history to raise $1 billion from donors , adding yet
another broken record to the 2020 cycle that set a new benchmark for political fundraising.
Biden wielded a massive financial advantage over President Donald
Trump during the final months of the 2020 campaign. Biden heavily outspent Trump on the airwaves
in key swing states he ultimately won by narrow margins. He also had superior backing from
big-money super
PACs and "dark
money" groups .
"Fulton County officials illegally accepted more than $6 million in private grants that
imposed conditions on the conduct of elections without authority from the state legislature."
Follow the private grants to the election interference.
snowshooze 28 minutes ago
And so I read thay purchased ballot counters?
Waitaminute... you can't bring your own gear into an election...
Russian collusion disappeared quicker than BLM after the election.
ominous 1 hour ago
one is returning soon
High Vigilante 16 minutes ago
Demsheviks: "There was never Russia collusion, and we have always been in peace with
Eastasia"
LevelHeadedMan 26 minutes ago
Russia narrative was a scapegoat for the real cause. The Democrats lost the working class.
They became the party of the coastal suburbanite liberal middle class. And now they are the
party of fraud. lay_arrow
Francis Marximus 1 hour ago (Edited) remove link
I guess all the countries that have a higher GDP then Russia the US has in their pockets.
Hence...Russia has to be the fall guy.
The media and Democrats need simple minded people, people who are easily fooled and people
with no conscience to exist
ominous 1 hour ago
why would Russia interfere?
we're doing a bang-up job ******* things up on our own.
divide_by_zero 1 hour ago
Putin should announce his candidate has won, just to **** either as Soros will run our gov
otherwise
NotGonnaTakeItAnymore 1 hour ago
Let's all recall that genius of the senate from CT, Chris Murphy, who took every
opportunity to stand before anyone who would listen and had a camera, as repeatedly stating
that Russia was involved with Trump and with Hunter's laptop.
And now he's remarkably quiet.
Hey Chris, can you show me the Russians now??? You are so going to lose you next election.
We are sick of your games.
Baba Yaga 1 34 minutes ago
The American election is a farce in itself. Puppeteers from the Deep State have pushed
Biden's candidacy by all means. The American people are just extras in these elections,
nothing depends on them. This is the American way of democracy.
with extra foam 32 minutes ago remove link
That moment of clarity when you realize that modern America is no different than Soviet
Russia.
Bobby Farrell Can Dance 23 minutes ago (Edited)
With much worse propaganda and a bigger budget. Meaning the fall will be harder.
monty42 14 minutes ago
Worse in some ways. The devil that poses as an angel of light is actually more
dangerous.
Ms No 1 hour ago (Edited)
I have to pat the CIA on the back. This has dual purpose.
Both China and Maduro are accused of meddling in this election. They got Russia last time.
Amidst it all, thinking people are demoralized by the assholes who actually believe any of
that absurdity. It's a hideous and cruel weapon.
Well played.
youshallnotkill 1 hour ago
According to Rudy is was Chavez, don't cha know. Guy apparently just faked his death ...
/s
ouluoulu 24 minutes ago remove link
I am watching the death throes of the news business, newspapers, television and magazines.
Blogs, newsletters and individuals releasing their own videos will finally kill it off.
Investigative reporting is nonexistent, replaced by fake news that answers to the "Big
Club" that George Carlin referred to when he said "It's a big club and you ain't in it, you
and I are not in it."
Bobby Farrell Can Dance 18 minutes ago
Western MSM is all paid shilling, fully compromised by 5 Eyes + Mossad intel agency
staffers. The last place I would want to learn about the way the world works, but the first
place I would look to see their projections.
The fact that Cr (number of amplification cycles) was not reported, creates some bad
thoughts. Especially about Fauci and his gang ;-) Can Fauci be sued for criminal negligence?
I lost my dad due to a drunk driver. Therefore, we should ban cars and alcohol. Maybe, we
should also ban bottles because the drunk driver drank out of a bottle. Oh, and maybe we
should ban humans too because ... You see the logic!
LEEPERMAX 3 hours ago
It's worth repeating
A POSITIVE PCR TEST IS NOT A "CASE"
Lansman 2 hours ago
They will continue to manipulate the test results to ensure the desired level of fear and
panic. It is the only way to get the public to accept their absurd lockdowns and mask
requirements.
Patrick Bateman Jr. 2 hours ago
99.9992% of the US population has survived.
ThePub'Lick_Hare 2 hours ago
Time for every state to follow Florida by class action suit. This farce has gone on too
long. Kudos to Florida for taking the initiative. Now at last people can ask relevant
questions and insist on proper protocol. The Portuguese High Court saw false COVID testing
for what it is, the spark and flame of a reign of terror. Time to douse the flames and the
douche-bags inflaming the scam-demic.
Lucky Guesst 3 hours ago
The test results weren't supposed to change until after they got Trump out and after the
vaccine release so the sheep could bow to the Democrats for "saving" them. The PCR cycle
threshold will change to 5 after our 100 days of penance.
Ajax_USB_Port_Repair_Service_ 2 hours ago (Edited)
" Whoever wins the presidency " Will get the credit.
Agree, covid hysteria is being controlled by some group more powerful than our
president.
LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ New
Trafalgar poll of Georgia voters on whether the presidential election there was compromised
because of voter fraud: All voters: 53.2% yes, 37.9% no, 8.9% unsure. GOP voters: 74.6% yes,
15.9% no, 9.5% unsure.
..."A total of 1,974 people were sent to state prisons for marijuana-related offenses
during Harris's 2011-2016 tenure as the Golden State's lead prosecutor, the Washington Free
Beacon reported." MOSTLY blacks.
All hail to Saint Biden. With even the pope being among the first to praise him. After all,
tens of thousands of people rose from the dead to vote for him; truly a miracle! Now being
such a devout "catholic" if only he could figure out how to pronounce "psalms" correctly, or
at least figure out what a psalm actually is.
Ohhho 4 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 07:14 PM
Usually the elections do not matter at all since both candidates are properly vetted and
virtually irrelevant. Last time they've allowed it to slip and had to correct it now. So it
was kind of forceful. But please do not assume it was out of desperation or weakness. If it
shows anything it would be the deep disrespect for the American cattle, nothing else.
If it was rigged, it was rigged for a reason. To get the worst president of USA out of
office. The GOP in 2024 will have to come up with someone better than Trump. Getting rid of
Trump was getting rid of another dictator. Trump was taking the USA down a path of
destruction and the people voted him out, plain and simple. His supporters well they are easy
picking for the con of all cons Trump. The world also wanted him gone with the exception of
the USSR.
Brod1aga trmput 2 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 09:53 PM
Sir. may I suggest you to update your world news? Unless I am wrong there are rumors that
USSR was abolished some time ago.
The wonderful world you talk about was not experienced by the peoples of Guatemala, Iran,
Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Argentinia, Haiti, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iran, Iraq,
Libya, Syria and many of the homeless and destitute in the US, UK, Japan etc. The wonderful
world you describe is an illusion.
There is a line from the 1960s Science Fiction series called the Invaders from another
galaxy who wish take over the world. At the beginning of each episode the narrator says " they
wish to take over the world and make it their world".
The Transnational Financiers have been working towards that goal for centuries!!!!
Zucker – who now presides over one of the most fervently anti-Trump media outlets in
the American corporate press – hatched the idea to give then-candidate Trump a weekly
slot on CNN during a March 2016 phone call with Micheal Cohen, a lawyer for Trump at the time,
according to audio obtained by Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
Speaking with Cohen hours before the final Republican primary debate in the 2016 race,
Zucker said that while the Trump campaign had shown "great instincts, great guts and great
understanding of everything," he insisted victory would be impossible without CNN's
backing.
"Here's the thing you cannot be elected president of the United States without CNN,"
Zucker boasted. "Fox and MSNBC are irrelevant – irrelevant – in electing a
general election candidate."
When Cohen suggested the CNN chief relay his thoughts to Trump himself, Zucker demurred,
saying he is "very conscious of not putting too much in email," as Trump – "the
boss" – might go blabbing about it on the campaign trail.
You know, as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency if I call him or I email
him, he then is capable of going out at his next rally and saying that we just talked, and I
can't have that, if you know what I'm saying.
Zucker soon talked himself back into contacting Trump, however, committing to "give him a
call right now" to "wish him luck in the debate tonight" – hosted by none
other than CNN – adding "I have all these proposals for him, like I want to do a
weekly show with him and all this stuff."
He went on to lavish praise on Trump, saying he had "never lost a debate" and would
do "great" during the CNN event later that night, even offering detailed advice for how
the president-to-be could deflect allegations that he is a "con man" from other
candidates.
While the source of the recording is unclear, the leak has made waves online, given that
Zucker has since made himself into Trump's "
cable news nemesis ." The network itself, meanwhile, has fielded an endless stream of
negative coverage of the president, heavily pushing the discredited 'Russiagate' conspiracy
theory for years and throwing full weight behind the Democrats' failed impeachment effort.
Some netizens have already suggested the "damning" revelation could soon result in
Zucker's ouster from his high perch at CNN.
"You think Jeff Zucker will be fired? I actually think there's a decent chance he will
be. Trying to kiss up to Trump is on par with murder in CNN world,"wrote filmmaker and
conservative pundit Robby Starbuck.
Others were less taken aback by the audio, as many pointed to the fact that Zucker and Trump
have a lengthy history together, both working on 'The Apprentice,' the hit reality show that
helped to solidify Trump's status as a pop culture icon. In 2012, Trump even hailed Zucker's
takeover as CNN president, saying the network made a
"great move," and that Zucker "was responsible for me and The Apprentice on NBC
– became #1 show!"
"Everyone knows Zucker made Trump, it's 100% true," one user said . "Trump was down and out.
Zucker pitched him a reality TV show called the Apprentice. Why? Because he likes his New
Yorkers, he likes Trump."
Fauci has lied again the PCR maximum cycle for a accurate test results is 25 NOT 35. PCR
is run, or should be run at 21-25 cycles everything else will give a false positive. Had a
friend in Scottsdale MAYO. I had to go to this god-forsaken place to get him out. They were
running the PCR at 42 cycles to keep him in the hospital because he had very, very good UNION
insurance!! The health industries are all crooks, lying to people to get more money being
paid to the orgainizations by the feds.
U.S TOTAL DEATHS
2015: 2,602,000
2016: 2,744,248
2017: 2,649,000
2018: 2,839,205
2019: 2,909,000
According to usalivestats(dot)com, there are 2,486,700 so far this year. There could be a lag
in reports, but I doubt enough to fulfill their doomsday claims. The CDC still admits only 6%
of these "COVID" are without 2 or more comorbidities, so that's about 25,000 or so. This is a
mild flu season. Here are the recent flu numbers:
FLU DEATHS 2010's
2010: 36,656
2011: 12,447
2012: 42,570
2013: 37,930
2014: 51,376
2015: 22,705
2016: 38,230
2017: 61,099
2018: 34,157
africoman 9 hours ago
How dare you granny killer /sarc
Frito 4 hours ago
The past was erased, the erasure forgotten, the lie became truth.
"I would take this news more credibly if they came up with a vaccine and they said it
worked, like, 53% of the time. There's something about that 94.5% that just looks fishy to
me.
From this moment on I'll be the new POTUS, as there is no democratic election possible!
Guaido should support me.
TheFishh Ironmanx 41 minutes ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:41 PM
Let's just have Guiado be president. After all, he was anointed by St. Trump Himself.
Brayar 1 hour ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:14 PM
The election was stolen. Even most Democratic voters are realizing this. The only people
still denying the fraud are the media, big tech, and those who are in on the fraud.
Jeffrey Perkins 51 minutes ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:37 PM
ok then..now the citizens of the usa need a group of countries to come liberate us
Whoa, hold your horses ! Remember the CIA "regime change play book"...
Lansman7 1 hour ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:24 PM
The US election may not have been 'stolen', but if this happened in any other nation America
would brand it illegitimate and bomb the hell out of its citizens FIFY
Ibmekon Lansman7 25 minutes ago 4 Dec, 2020 06:06 PM
.if it had happened elsewhere, it would probably have CIA fingerprints all over it.
Here is what SNOPES has to say, while taking some licks at just about everything else - no
German computer raid and no election fraud. Let's see how this all checks out with the
emerging facts, not just their "fact-checking": https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gina-haspel-found-dead/
About this time in 2016, Democrats were pushing the Trump pee-pee tapes and demanding
Electors become faithless and cast their votes for Clinton ...to save the Republic.
As they say, the US sausage making factory is messy to behold.
All the news that is fit to print- and pretty close to the same stuff Schiff, Pelosi and
Nadler spent four years dishing out about Trump. Why do we do this to ourselves?
Democrats spent four years tossing bogus and heinous claims against Trump, yet the stomach
churns immediately when this same tactic is now reversed and the other side is getting in
some licks too. Bogus then and bogus now? Or is this turnabout is fair play - stop the world,
I want to get off. No, this is not how I want this game played.
2. They seem oblivious of the permanent security cameras in the room,
Sir, I seriously doubt this. If had been one of them, it would be quite easy to convince
me it was for my own security. Just in case I was accused by some poll-watchers of deviously
underhanded schemes?
But I hope Biden stays the winner because it will make the wife shut up. There is no fate
worse than being stuck living with somebody suffering with TDS.
That is the end all and be all of my interest in this "election" choice between Tweedledee
and Tweedledum.
There are times I really like this Pepe Escobar term for the Outlaw US Empire--
Stupidistan --and the incoming buch of fools are wasting no time in proving that
nomenclature is perfect:
"DNI Ratcliffe Warns Next US Administration that China Is 'the Greatest National Security
Threat'" instead of taking a look around and declaring the virus as the biggest threat
since it's on its way to having killed 300,000 US citizens while China's killed none. What a
fool, but that's par for the course.
If you think the US policy is stupid - and of course it certainly is - have a laugh at
Australia's, in this 91-second video clip that sums it up perfectly:
Biden offers 'bizarre' story of breaking foot, says he pulled dog's tail while getting out
of showe
Many also got a laugh from Biden's seemingly childish behavior. "As a non-dog owner, is it a
usual occurrence to chase after your dog fresh from the shower in an attempt to grab its tail?
Or is Joe Biden basically my four-year-old after a bath chasing a doggie?" conservative
commenter Ben Shapiro sarcastically tweeted.
Then today we found out that individuals stuck around in the Atlanta Center on election
night after the water main break occurred and everyone else was sent home.
There is a map, courtesy of the Brookings Institute, showing the roughly 500 counties
Biden won and the roughly 2,500 counties Trump won.
The bolsheviks have figured out they only have to install the dominion in 500 counties
Lost in translation 12 hours ago
"The status quo has been increasingly rigged to benefit insiders and elites as the powers
of central banks and governments have picked the winners (cronies, insiders, cartels and
monopolies) and shifted the losses and risks onto the losers (the rest of us)."
Charles displays a remarkable grasp of the obvious. I sometimes wonder if his target
audience isn't 11-year olds.
WedgeMan 3 hours ago
It is more accurately called Crony Kleptocratic Capitalism.
J J Pettigrew 6 hours ago
And we were supposed to get ..
the missing 20 pages from the 9/11 commission
the declassified Russiagate papers
the Kennedy assassination papers
NOPE
Weihan 21 hours ago
The rally today in Atlanta, GA, was very encouraging. The people who are loyal to the USA
are ready with their pitch forks to haul out the treasonous globalist thugs who have led the
country into this unprecedented morass.
sacredfire 21 hours ago
Do you have any idea on how many were there?
Don Storm 8 hours ago (Edited)
There's is no denying. The present 2020 election has abuse, manipulation, obstruction and
blatant voter and election fraud written all over it. The absentee ballots have been abused
beyond your wildest dreams with a staggering number of ballots void of a persuasive chain of
custody, much less proof that the vote was cast by a living and breathing US citizen
qualified to vote. It's a very sad tale when you think about it, the Founding Fathers are
turning in their graves. And to those who participated and facilitated the fraud and
dishonesty: shame on you, shame on you.
considering cuomo was responsible for spreading the virus exponentially in the early days, he probably has had more
influence on all of our lives than the others
Story about Fauci, at least at the time was that it was so hospitals wouldn't be liable for deaths among medical
staff. But I think it was completely bad what both Cuomo and Fauci
Dr. Fauci was the trusted expert who intentionally lied to the American people and made things far worse. Cuomo is
directly responsible for why New York's response to the virus was so bad and cost many lives. Bullshit award.
We have more intelligent and successful derivatives traders and hedge fund managers than
China. And how much do lawyers earn in China, huh? I'll bet that there aren't that many
lawyers in Beijing who earn $1,000,000-$5,000,000 per year, so take that Fred. And we got
sports, you know, Basketball, Football, Baseball, Hockey, and Hollywood and MMA too.
Important stuff. Yeah, China, huh.
You haven't even begun the list. What about America's lead in rappers, professors of black
studies, college diversity officers, critical race theorists, etc? Let's hope China doesn't
poach them with the offer of bigger salaries. A brain drain like that would be the death
knell for the Republic.
Looking back, its like some of those listening to Eisenhower saw his speech as an
opportunity: "30 schools? What a waste! Lets build that heavy bomber."
I will henceforth refer to the MSM as the regime media or RM.
We reluctantly turned off Tucker last week. I felt bad about it as after watching him for
a few years my wife slowly left behind her liberal north eastern views and came around to the
right side of things. I'll thank him for that.
As we were driving to the park, I noticed a few bike riders on the side of the road wearing
masks while biking. I thought to myself – WTF. That is completely idiotic. Then we began
walking along the miles of trails. The park was moderately busy, but you passed someone every
few minutes.
Sadly, I would estimate that 80% of the people we passed on the trails were masked and
fearful of us unmasked hooligans. I can only imagine their thoughts as they wondered why we
were risking their lives by being so careless.
I was disgusted by the lack of critical thought exhibited by these people. I might have
understood if it was only people over 70 years old wearing the masks, but most of these people
were young. They have virtually a zero risk of dying from this flu. They have virtually a zero
risk of catching it on a walking trail at a State park. But, they obediently and silently do as
they are told by their overlords.
I am saddened by how easily the totalitarians have been able to use fear, propaganda, lies
and misinformation to turn the vast majority of Americans into compliant sheep. It is so clear
to me that this engineered flu panic is nothing more than another chapter in the scheme to
enslave global populations under the thumb of global elitist billionaires who want to control
us and enrich themselves.
NotMyCircus 5 hours ago
Everyday I see people alone in their cars wearing masks - there are very few people in the
world who can think critically and use reasoning to understand the actual risks for
COVID-19.
99.63% of the people don't get it...
StubbleJumper 4 hours ago
Putting on a mask to drive in the car alone is like putting on a condom to go to bed alone
and fall asleep.
DamnSheeple 1 hour ago
I just stare at them, honk and laugh.
Omega Point 4 hours ago
I agree, it really pisses me off seeing kids with masks. It is child abuse. Not only is it
physically harming, it is doing psychological damage too. These kids will be afraid of their
own shadow.
Anyway, I'm getting a new t-shirt made that displays two children with masks on and the
title "child abuse". I should get some interesting comments.
diana_in_spain 4 hours ago remove link
Parents telling their children to wear masks outside , it's beyond belief. We are truly
doomed
trailer park boys 4 hours ago
Masks don't prevent. Masks don't minimize spread. Masks are unhealthy for the wearer.
The whitecoat bureaucrats know this. It is not about science or health. It IS all about
control.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H.L.
Mencken ay_arrow
JUST THE FACTS 4 hours ago
I dip my face diaper in cheap Vodka so its all wet looking
before entering the supermarket.
People get out of my way without being asked.
fnfcst 1 hour ago (Edited)
Right! If social distancing works, stay way the F* far away from me.
sentido kumon 4 hours ago
People have always been like this. They can not grasp philosophy, history, science or any
other subject beyond eating and f'king. This whole covid hysteria has made that much obvious.
Its likely that humans devolve and relinquish their brains since they have no use for it
(other than eating and f'cking) and are just content being told.
Omega Point 4 hours ago
Perhaps the "elites" have a point. Too many useless eaters, breeders, and breathers.
Self-proclaimed President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a budget director, Neera Tanden, who
once argued the US should ease funding shortages for left-wing social programs by making
countries like Libya pay for being bombed. Biden's transition team on Monday announced its
nominations for the six people selected to fill key economic roles in the incoming
administration, led by former Federal Reserve Bank Chair Janet Yellen as treasury secretary.
Tanden, a Hillary Clinton loyalist who currently heads the Center for American Progress, will
be director of the Office of Management and Budget if Biden's media-declared election victory
withstands legal challenges from President Donald Trump.
This crisis-tested team will help lift America out of our current economic downturn and
build back better -- creating an economy that gives every single American a fair shot and an
equal chance to get ahead. https://t.co/F6JMBHUgVx
-- Biden-Harris Presidential
Transition (@Transition46) November
30, 2020
However, critics have already recalled an example of her unusual budgeting philosophy. In a
2011 email that was made public by WikiLeaks, Tanden said Libya should be made to pay for the
bombing campaign that helped to topple Muammar Gaddafi's government, which would help balance
the US domestic budget.
"We have a giant deficit, they have a lot of oil," Tanden said. "Most Americans
would choose not to engage in the world because of that deficit."
If we want to continue to engage in the world, gestures like having oil-rich countries
partially pay us back doesn't seem crazy to me.
One analysis shows that voting machines in Michigan systematically removed votes from
Trump and handed them to Biden. I saw a rebuttal (which I cannot locate now) that purported
to debunk this but did so by using a different scale on the X-axis, which I found inherently
suspicious. 19. Over 100,000 Pennsylvania absentee ballots were returned a day after they
were mailed out, on the day they were mailed out, or on the day before they were mailed out.
20. In all the contested areas, and at Dominion's website, Democrats have been systematically
failing to create or have destroyed all data that could be used to demonstrate fraud. This
creates the legal presumption that the data do, in fact, show fraud.
On behalf of all Trump voters, I say to the Democrats who are trying to gaslight us:
don't spit in my face and tell me it's raining. gary.l.wagner 7 hours ago Hundreds of
millions of Americans don't believe Biden won. Most of the world knows Biden lost. Half of
them don't care that he didn't win. They want him to replace Trump and are willing to look the
other way at unconstitutional, illegal, and fraudulent election results. lakjo65 8 hours
ago Best analysis I have read, by far. Went to see Kennedy exhibit about the time Trump was
elected and the similarities were OBVIOUS. You don't mess with the deep state (nothing
INTELLIGENT about them- they are power THUGS). This is just what happened and if Trump does not
get to the bottom of this, it will NEVER stop. kejjer 7 hours ago google --which countries
use electronic voting machines. -- No 1st world country except the USA uses them. Minsky 10
hours ago 2004 election: -irregularities in vote counting procedures in Florida and Ohio
-statistical 'discrepancies' between exit polls and voting results -strange behavior exhibited
by Diebold voting machines used in the Ohio counties that gave Bush the election Question for
all Republicans supporting Trump's post-election escapades: were you urging John Kerry not to
concede, as he did the day after the election, due to all this strangeness? Were you upset when
he did? Didn't think so.
> What's hilarious is that it looks like McKinsey gave Purdue advice between 2008-2010 on
how to boost up opioid sales, when apparently both the client and firm knew that such a
strategy would lead to overdoses, then came back in 2017 to essentially give Purdue a PR
strategy on how to apologize for all the people they killed. This was when everyone and their
mother knew that Purdue was facing an existential legal crisis. So you paid McKinsey to dig
you a hole, then paid them to help you climb back out. <
Just because Annegret Kramp [something] did not serve in military, it does not allow to
conclude that she is not qualified to oversee Defense. However, nothing in her biography in
Wikipedia suggests that she knows the difference between Clausewitz and Santa Klaus.
Since high school, she toiled as an aparatchitsa in CDU in her home Saarland. She had OK
looks, motherly demeanor (I guess, proud mother of three), nicely balanced moderate position
and led CDU to a victory in that land. While working and nurturing, she got a master in
law/politics.
This led Merkel to pick her as a Successorin. But on the federal arena she flopped and was
demoted within a year, to the (apparently unimportant) post of defense minister. There she
has some really interesting initiatives, like having some navy vessel plying seas of
Indo-Pacific to promote freedom of people and navigation.
Trump should try to stop foreign wars the day after he was inaugurated--Caitlin Johnstone has
a good grasp of the political situation in the US we had a choice between two warmongers. Biden
will likely be worse overall on starting wars, but Trump isn't some innocent spring lamb being
led to the slaughter.
That would be more accurate. Sleepy Joe (or Creepy Joe -- take your pick) will be the
Boris Yeltsin of the Oval office. At least with old Boris, it was too much vodka -- and
he could have quit the bottle. Sleepy Joe doesn't have that option.
It's just delightful to see how the room HATES being made fun of. They're also petrified
of anything even remotely edgy. You hear less "ohhhs" at a middle school assembly. Blitzer in
particular seems congenitally unable to take a joke.
The smartest comedians are the ones that can rip on anyone because they love them, the
best comedians are the ones that don't let audience reaction affect their game. Quick witted,
fast paced, she had one of the best sets out of all the comedians who have done this
dinner.
The jokes were great, specially the "what to do with my body" and those related to race
& police, but that Joe Biden joke is more relevant in 2019 than ever. XD
"My prior experience has showed me how these dinners work, if the president laughs,
everyone laughs, and if the fox news table laughs, a little girl just fell off her bike" -
lmao. I still laugh about this line at least once of week.
Washington elites are breathing a sigh of relief, as power players on both sides of the
aisle gear up for 'business as usual' following a four-year disruption in swamp-activities -
thanks to one Donald J. Trump, whose perhaps prematurely anticipated departure from the Oval
Office has the DC establishment licking their chops.
... Shoving the Uniparty's collective excitement in our plebeian faces, Roberts writes in.
full. stops. " Washington is exhausted. Washington is optimistic. Washington is desperate for
change. The aristocracy of this city is ready to move on, daring to hope that the last four
years was a fever that finally broke and life can get back to normal."
... I fondly remember Senator [Daniel] Inouye and Senator McCain all getting into these
wonderful debates about various issues on the environment and on the economy," says Marshall.
"It was very entertaining to watch. And in the end, they would lift their glass, give each
other a toast, a smile, a great laugh and carry on ."
It's such a polite virus. Obviously a special design of upper crust investors and
scientists of the first degree.
This virus will try to attack you as you walk into a restaurant and through it - so take
all available precautions. After you are seated and receive your menu, it does a courtly deep
bow, kisses it's fingers towards the ladies, then clicks it's heels smartly, and turns away.
What a marvel!
hunter Biden won the election for his dad so he did good.His sex stories added the
necessary spice.It solved the problem which was the following.....Joe Biden cannot stand
because he does not stand for anything.Sex sells.especially $21000 worth.
The Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, also referred to as the Defense Policy Board
(DPBAC or DPB), is a federal advisory committee to the United States Department of Defense. . .
.
On 25 November 2020, the Trump administration removed senior defense policy experts such as
Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Jane Harman from the board, and replaced them with
Anthony Tata, Kash Patel and Ezra Cohen-Watnick.
The fifth labour was to clean the stables of King Augeas. This assignment was intended to be
both humiliating and impossible, since these divine livestock were immortal, and had produced
an enormous quantity of dung. The Augean stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and
over 1,000 cattle lived there. However, Heracles succeeded by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and
Peneus to wash out the filth.
All soon as Biden got his nominal victory magic happens: 'Russian Interference'
disappears. Four years of unsubstantiated allegations of "Russian interference" and neoliberal MSM hysteria have
disappeared overnight, it seems. Poof! Gone! As if by a magic conjuring trick. And the silence of
the neoliberal MSM over this strange metamorphose is deafening.
The New York Times has declared the recent presidential contest a "great election.. a
resounding success free of fraud". But wait a minute. All 2020 there was a fever pitch in US
media among politicians, national security chiefs, pundits and anonymous intelligence sources
that Russia was allegedly stepping up "interference efforts" to get Trump re-elected. What a bunch of sleazy hypocrites.
Christopher Krebs, the top federal cybersecurity official who was fired by President Trump
last week due to his efforts to dispel concerns on 2020 election safety, said claims of foreign
meddling this year are "farcical."
Gerontocracy is just one problem facing Washington. Collapse of neoliberal is much more
serious problem. But combination of those two problem spells trouble for the country.
In 2008, Barack Obama received the names of his entire future cabinet already one month prior
to his election by CFR Senior Fellow (and Citigroup banker) Michael Froman, as a
Wikileaks email later revealed. Consequently, the key posts in Obama's cabinet were filled
almost exclusively by CFR members, as was the case in most
cabinets since World War II. To be sure, Obama's 2008 Republican opponent, the late John
McCain, was a CFR member, too. Michael Froman later negotiated the TPP and TTIP international
trade agreements, before returning to the CFR as a Distinguished Fellow.
In 2017, CFR nightmare President Donald Trump immediately canceled these trade agreements --
because he viewed them as detrimental to US domestic industry -- which allowed China to
conclude its own, recently announced RCEP free-trade area ,
encompassing 14 countries and a third of global trade. Trump also canceled other CFR
achievements, like the multinational Iran nuclear deal and the UN climate and migration
agreements, and he tried, but largely failed, to withdraw US troops from East Asia, Central
Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, thus seriously endangering the global US empire built
over decades by the CFR and its 5000 elite members .
Unsurprisingly, most of the US media , whose owners and editors are themselves members of the CFR ,
didn't like President Trump. This was also true for most of the European media, whose owners
and editors are members of international CFR affiliates like the
Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, founded by CFR directors after the conquest of
Europe during World War II. Moreover, it was none other than the CFR which in 1996
advocated a closer cooperation between the CIA and the media, i.e. a restart of the famous
CIA Operation
Mockingbird . Historically, OSS and CIA directors since William Donovan and Allen Dulles
have always
been CFR members.
This is the case for Anthony Blinken (State), Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security), Janet
Yellen (Treasury), Michele Flournoy and Jeh Johnson (candidates for Defense), Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (Ambassador to the UN), Richard Stengel (US Agency for Global Media; Stengel
famously called propaganda "a good thing"
at a 2018 CFR session), John Kerry (Special Envoy for Climate), Nelson Cunningham (candidate
for Trade), and Thomas Donilon (candidate for CIA Director).
Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, is not (yet) a CFR member, but Sullivan
has been a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (a think tank "promoting active international engagement by the
United States") and a member of the US German Marshall Fund's
"Alliance For Securing Democracy" (a major promoter of the "Russiagate"
disinformation campaign to restrain the Trump presidency), both of which are run by senior
CFR members.
Most of Biden's CFR-vetted nominees
supported recent US wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen as well as the
2014 regime change in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, neoconservative Max Boot, the CFR Senior Fellow
in National Security Studies and one of the most vocal opponents of the Trump administration,
has called Biden's future cabinet "America's A-Team" .
Thus, after four years of "populism" and "isolationism", a Biden presidency will mean the
return of the Council on Foreign Relations and the continuation of a tradition of more than 70 years .
Indeed, the CFR was founded in 1921 in response to the "trauma of 1920" ,
when US President Warren Harding and the US Senate turned isolationist and renounced US global
leadership after World War I. In 2016, Donald Trump's "America First" campaign reactivated this
100 year old foreign policy trauma.
Was the 2020 presidential election "stolen", as some allege? There are certainly indications
of
significant statistical anomalies in key Democrat-run swing states. Whether these were
decisive for the election outcome may be up to courts to decide. At any rate, Joe Biden may
well be the first US President known to be involved
in international corruption before even entering office.
Why are most US and international media hardly interested in this? Well, why should
they?
I just had to write this, since foreign policies are not the main issue in OffG, so I took
the liberty of writing my concerns, because I know the window is closing.
And I must underline, it don't matter Trump or gang of Creepy Joe and the Crackheads, they
all bow to the NWO, its their religion, the Curch of the Full spectrum dominance, based up
holly scriptures as The New American century.
Trump the populist has been greatly disappointing. His accidental gift has been giving
reason for the swamp critters to out themselves. It has been hilarious to watch them and
their press pets talk about how things will go back to normal with Biden. Also how the good
and kind their war machine is. What I am stuck on is if the Ukraine's Maidan is any guide,
don't they need Trump to win the election thru the courts ? Or not?
vk @4: "As I've been observing since the last three years: the liberals (Democratic)
don't seem to have any plans..."
Where can you go when you have reached The End of History ?
Liberal capitalist ideology has gone as far as it can. Aside from spreading McDonalds and
Walmart to every corner of the planet and getting everyone signed up for Netflix, what is
there left to do?
Twitter is blocking users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell's lawsuit relating to
widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.
A number of users across Twitter have reported being unable to share links to lawyer Sidney
Powell's
lawsuit relating to voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election. When attempting to share
the link to the document, users receive a notification stating that the link has been
identified as "potentially harmful."
... Trump has brilliantly exposed the swamp. Even now regarding election fraud he is
exposing it. The CIA interfere all over the world even in literally fixing elections. There
are forces even in the US that will intervene and brazenly disenfranchise and marginalise
(and God knows what else) the people that they hate. Hopefully this situation is becoming
clearer to "normies"
Thanks, that's very interesting. I've read that Karl Marx came from a family of wealthy
Jews that had a long line of prominent Rabbis but his father converted and became a Lutheran
and raised Karl Marx as a Lutheran. So I assume that it would be accurate to say that Marxism
was created by a Christian or at the very least a non-practicing Christian.
Let me quote Dmitry Orlov: " Biden is as fit to lead as a pig is kosher after rubbing its
side against a corner of a synagogue." In no way borderline senile Biden appeals to the committed
Sanders base.
The man is so very charming and charismatic, so mesmerizing. He's like a Rock Star among
politicians. People line up by the tens of thousands hoping to get an autograph. He delights
and draws people better than even Bill Clinton.
Only a Deplorable unworthy 0f having any voice could doubt that, publicly.
Face it, if you live in the US, you live in a totalitarian country – a soft
military / intel agency dictatorship and that's been the case since at least Eisenhower's
time.
... What's worse is that approximately half the population seems to like it that way.
At this point, it looks like Trump is going to be a one term president –
unfortunately. With that in mind, perhaps the best metaphor for his presidency would be
– to call it – "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". The cuckoo's nest being the
country he was a president of – of course – full of cuckoos.
Beside that metaphor about the title, there are plenty of similarities between the
contents of the book and the events and the players of the last 4 years of Trump's
presidency.
Trump of course is Jack Nicholson – in a lunatic asylum – where he clearly
doesn't belong. The sadistic nurse is again of course – the deep state – a
control freak who wants to punish everybody – mainly the innocents.
The Chief – Jack Nicholson's friend, in the movie – in real life is being
played by the American people – or more precisely, the deplorables. They can continue
to play dumb until the very end, but eventually they'll have to find a titanic strength in
order to break free from the lunatic asylum run by the sadistic nurse.
The moral of this story? Trump needs his native Indian friend's help in real life –
although is probably too late for him, but at least the Chief and the rest of the deplorables
from the asylum can be saved.
Excellent movie, fantastic analogy. Didn't Nicholson at one point in the movie discover
that the patients were "willingly" there? They were perfectly capable and able-bodied, and
yet they willingly let Nurse Ratched call the shots. Great name – Nurse Ratched.
Reminds me of Dicken's school superintendent in "Hard Times" – Mr. Thomas
Gradgrind.
I wouldn't rule Trump out yet. The Saker spells out the court route, but A123 (above)
correctly spells out the other route.
I would love to see a campaign started where people put giant road facing signs in
graveyards that say "WE VOTED FOR BIDEN" "AND BOY WERE WE SURPRISED!!"
You would have to assume that it is no big deal based on the response to claims of
widespread fraud in the contest between President Trump and Joe Biden. Big Media says the
evidence just doesn't exist, and most Americans seem to be lost in a blue haze of blind
acceptance that whatever they are told by the talking heads on TV must be true.
This kind of unthinking obedience to authority is a frightening harbinger of an America that
is no longer a nation of laws, but rather a nation of edicts.
"... Hate is the only thing that holds the American Empire together. Without its Two Minutes of Hate, America will break up apart into a million pieces. ..."
America desperately needs its Two Minutes of Hate against other countries like a meth
addict needs his next hit.
For Democrats and their ilk, Hate Russia was their unifying and
mobilizing ideology. For Republicans and their ilk, Hate China is their unifying and
mobilizing ideology.
Hate is the only thing that holds the American Empire together. Without its Two
Minutes of Hate, America will break up apart into a million pieces.
On this edition of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt, Kelley, and Daniel speak to Stephen
Wertheim, deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft. He discusses his new book,
Tomorrow, the World , the rise of American global supremacy, and why that idea is now
breaking down. We also talk about the foreign policy presidential debate that wasn't and the
upcoming election.
You can't find better smarter neocons to pursue the Full Spectrum Dominance Doctrine to the
total decimation of the standard of living of ordinary Americans ;-)
Since the 1990s, Flournoy and Blinken have steadily risen through the ranks of the
military-industrial complex, shuffling back and forth between the Pentagon and hawkish
think-tanks funded by the U.S. government, weapons companies, and oil giants.
Under Bill Clinton, Flournoy was the principal author of the 1996 Quadrinellial Defense
Review, the document that outlined the U.S. military's doctrine of permanent war – what
it called "full spectrum dominance."
Flournoy called for "unilateral use of military power" to ensure "uninhibited access to key
markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources."
... During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Biden declared, "In my judgment, President
Bush is right to be concerned about Saddam Hussein's relentless pursuit of weapons of mass
destruction"
As Iraq was plunged into chaos and bloodshed, Flournoy was among the authors of a paper
titled "Progressive Internationalism" that called for a "smarter and better" style of permanent
war. The paper chastised the anti-war left and stated that "Democrats will maintain the world's
most capable and technologically advanced military, and we will not flinch from using it to
defend our interests anywhere in the world."
... In 2005, Flournoy signed onto a letter
from the neoconservative think tank Project for a New American Century, asking Congress to
"increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps (by) at least 25,000
troops each year over the next several years."
"social media is notorious for the way it creates tightly insulated echo chambers which
masturbate our confirmation bias and hide any information which might cause us cognitive
dissonance by contradicting it. Whole media careers were built on this phenomenon "
.
So-called "social" media is a cancer eating away at our humanity and our sense of community
with every passing moment. It is a devil's brew of the worst of human thought and behavior
that seeks to lower the level of human interaction with every click and toxic retort. It may
be the tool that actually does us in even more than the other big threats to our
existence.
.
"Splitting the public up into two oppositional factions who barely interact and can't even
communicate with each other because they don't share a common reality keeps the populace
impotent, ignorant, and powerless to stop the unfolding of the agendas of the powerful."
.
People today have short attention spans. They don't have any depth of thinking and they
certainly don't want shades of grey. The Dark Powers successfully exploit this weakness to
their benefit with little pushback from an easily amused public. Those who love simplicity
don't want anything more challenging and they certainly aren't the least bit concerned about
those who are actively doing them in.
.
"You should not be afraid of your government being too nice to China. What you should worry
about is the US-centralized power alliance advancing a multifront new cold war conducted
simultaneously against two nuclear-armed nations for the first time ever in human history.
"
.
We should indeed be concerned about Empires measuring the size of their manhoods against each
other but since that has nothing to do with reporting on our neighbors for not wearing masks
or the speed of our internet connections or the latest video of some fool acting the fool on
the web we won't be concerned about it. You gotta have priorities, you know.
It is a sad indictment on the state of the world if 80 million people vote for a man, who
although not as crazy as Trump, nevertheless poses a real threat to the rest of the
world.
Any way you look at it, democracy has failed us yet again.
JWK / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Gang rape is democracy in action. It's a tool of the worst tyrants, convincing their
subjects they have a say in the matter. They don't. Both of the latest POTUS candidates are
the property of the bank cartel, and we will never see one that isn't. Not as long as we have
such a huge number of people being controlled by so few. The smaller the state, the more
control the people have over it. It gives them the only votes that are effective. Their feet,
and their wallet.
JWK / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Gang rape is democracy in action. It's a tool of the worst tyrants, convincing their
subjects they have a say in the matter. They don't. Both of the latest POTUS candidates are
the property of the bank cartel, and we will never see one that isn't. Not as long as we have
such a huge number of people being controlled by so few. The smaller the state, the more
control the people have over it. It gives them the only votes that are effective. Their feet,
and their wallet.
The Klintonator missed out on getting the position of Defense Secretary and the post of US
ambassador to the UN. Never mind, whatever she needs to know what Biden, then Harris is up
to, Jake Sullivan will send the information to her through his private email server.
When I read the Janet Yellen was the Treasury pick I shuddered a bit at the thought of an
almost all female leadership cast when the ship goes down....ah, the smell of patriarchy in
the morning
Watching the demise of our current empire in what seems to be slow motion is fascinating.
How long will it take to lose faith/control of the private monetary system? Given the
incoming foreign policy team it looks like continuation of failed policies of the past.
We can only hope that the rest of the world continues to build an alternative world than
the one proscribed by the dying empire of the West.
The BBC is something, but we have NBC News giving us another lesson of professional
journalism with this headline:
Russia chases off U.S. warship in spat over territorial waters
The confrontation was the latest in a string of close contacts between Russian and
American forces across the globe.
Maybe I do not understand some hidden message, but at first sight I would imagine maybe it
is the Bering Strait or somewhere in the middle of the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans, or across
the world, but no, it is just a few miles off Vladivostok. The distance from Seattle to
Vladivostok is almost five thousand miles, so we have a US destroyer five thousand miles from
home sniffing the Russians at about 10 miles from their main city and Pacific Ocean military
base, yeah its only a spat, and it is only freedom of navigation right in the kitchen of your
main rival. Keep it on USA, maybe one of these days you're going to have the Russians or
Chinese right by the Golden Gate Bridge or by Puget Sound enforcing free navigation for all.
One more detail, the US vessel was the destroyer John McCain, a true friend of Russia and
East Asia, or maybe the navy guys are just welcoming the new Biden team.
too bad trumps a vagina because if he had balls this problem would be easy enough to
solve. but this is why trump is a one and done - when he is dealt 4 aces he folds like
origami
FreemonSandlewould , 5 hours ago
Do tell. Easy?
Go ahead. List the steps. No hand waving. List the steps.
zerofucks , 5 hours ago
step 1. recall general mattis
step 2. use the UCMJ to demote him all the way down to private
step 3. PNG anyone in his family or any known friends from any/all govt work/contracts
step 4. transfer him to coords 100 miles out of nome, AK with a 45 and 8 rounds for an
entire winter.
And that coming from Trump who put APARTHEID Israel first
and did more for that racist country than he did for America.
zerofucks , 4 hours ago
Trump knee capped himself - on purpose
Once he bombed Syria 70ish days into his term he was done with MAGA
smellmyfingers , 5 hours ago
The banksters.
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I
spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the
bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I
helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues
in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall
Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in
1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in
1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927
I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to
operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents".
The musical Biden , translated from the original Ukrainian, replaced Hamilton
on Broadway despite the controversial Obama nude scene. America's largest industry remained
Patreon accounts as Etsy devolved into a market for the wealthy to purchase human organs.
The U.S. government is currently looking for a new place for a capitol building, because
after the move out of Washington to a Brooklyn WeWork prices have really gone up. Negotiations
to invite Canada in as a roommate to share the rent are underway.
The good news is the important things are still the same. Most decisions are still made by
the heads of the intel agencies when they meet at Jeff Bezos' house. American troops are still
in Afghanistan. And the Rolling Stones have announced their for sure this time final tour. Even
after a second civil war some things don't change.
MAA @maanow · Oct 3 "It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that
mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases. Until this
occurs, our community and our students cannot reach full potential." -CMPM #MathValues http://
bit.ly/3l86j2p
Is he talking about George Soros? George Bush? Or George Washington? Quote Tweet Laura
Ingraham @IngrahamAngle · Oct 26 "Four more years of George...George"
The first thing you'd expect from the plotter of a fascist coup is a directive for the
federal government to begin the transition process to his successor. Makes total sense!
Michael Tracey @mtracey Feeding
into maximalist Trump hysteria was always a great business move for most people in the media.
Unfortunately it had nothing to do with accurately describing reality. The idea that a
fascist coup was ever held up as a real possibility is fucking lunacy
Kamala Harris received preferences in her @Hastingslaw school application due to her "adverse
background." Interesting definition of disadvantaged, given that her mom had a Ph.D. and dad
was a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. https:// at.law.com/Wxd9w6?cmp=sha re_twitter
@Mark_J_Perry
Biden isn't even sworn in and journalists are barely even pretending to do anything other
than swooning and falling all over themselves in obsequious praise. Go easy, guys: you have 4
years of resting, deference and praise: don't burn yourselves out so soon. Pace yourselves.
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his
homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in
life on the relationship between society and the individual.
In the mid-1950s, his book The Sane
Society suggested that insanity referred not simply to the failure by specific individuals
to adapt to the society they lived in. Rather, society itself could become so pathological, so
detached from a normative way of life, that it induced a deep-seated alienation and a form of
collective insanity among its members. In modern western societies, where automation and mass
consumption betray basic human needs, insanity might not be an aberration but the norm.
TTG,
yes, the Georgian foxes recounted the hens and determined that none were missing, just like
they said the first time. Hardly what one would call a true audit.
Hey, I have an idea! Ask the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA, and the FBI what
happened! They would know! They keep all of these records of electronic communications and
have insisted on back door entries into all of our technology, so they couldn't have possibly
left election software up to Venezuelans! They couldn't be that stupid!
AReply 220, were you OK with it when CIA intervened to keep Kerry out and Bush in?
First it's GOP dupes hiding behind Mommy CIA's skirts. Then it's Dem dupes hiding behind
Mommy CIA's skirts. Either way Mommy CIA takes you home and hangs you upside down and gives
you icewater enemas like you're Sybil.
@Justvisiting
"faithless" elector. Colorado, which had entered the Union that summer, did not even hold an
election. The legislature just gave their three electors to Hayes. (As they should have.)
Hayes needed every one of them to prevail.
Hayes was called "His Fraudulency", a name that fits Joe Biden even better. It's hard to
see how Tilden's side was any cleaner, though.
I think the disputed states should "compromise" and give electors to Jo Jorgensen. That
would deprive each side of a majority, sending the decision to the House. (And Senate, for
Pence and Harris.)
Another solution is to give the Vice Presidential electors to Pence. If no
presidential decision is made by Inauguration Day, he gets the nod one way or another.
The winning candidate will be issued little stickies for her computer screen including
"Russian Aggression", "Annexed Crimea" and "Poisoned the Skripals"
"Most people writing for the Times will actually not believe the above
nonsense."
Our host is much too charitable to the presstitutes. Those in the "Mockingbird"
mass media eat their own effluent like a sort of group ouroboric scatophagia. To maintain
their perverse form of "mental hygiene" they studiously avoid information sources
outside of their own circular reprocessing of yesterday's delusions into fresh steaming piles
for today's consumption. They have become so accustomed to feeding off their own delusions
that if a hint of reality were to intrude into their looped intellectual food chain their
minds would reject it like poison. They would likely exhibit physical symptoms, which
doubtless would be attributed to evil Soviet mind rays from Havana.
nice catch, b. at first I thought the ad was a frigging joke.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence
clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
Fear of russia and all hobgoblin things russian has been endemic/epidemic in the West
for well over 100 years, and I don't expect for it to change any time sooner.
to me all this fear mongering, for what else can you call it, is part and parcel of a
colonial mind-set and racism now well ingrained in the West since the European powers
became colonial powers around 1500 AD. It's xenophobia, racism and economic imperialism all
rolled into one.
Any nations who haven't been taken over yet politically, economically and culturally by
the US imperial Blob will be viciously attacked and lied about in the mainstream media
'narrative' to keep the general population fearful of those alternative systems/nations and
to make any military/economic warfare sanctions/coup d'etats/color revolutions by the Blob
against those nations justified. Psychological operations (aka through the media and social
media) will always precede the harsher measures.
And since the international Elites in the US Blob consider Russia the main threat to
their world wide hegemony, Russia gets a disproportionate number of lies, fabrications,
propaganda and disinformation thrown at it. Hence, the consistent lies by the NYT and WA
Post, etc etc
This week, photos surfaced of California Governor Gavin Newsom dining at one of the most
expensive restaurants in the world. He wasn't alone, and he wasn't in a mask.
Newsom was in a tightly packed, indoor room with a dozen other people. It was a birthday
party for longtime lobbyist Jason Kinney, and a number of California Medical Association
members attended. That's right, doctors described as "top brass" were in attendance and also
flouting the rules -- the same rules doctors and politicians have been demanding everyone else
comply with in the name of "science."
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to
fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
"So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he
won't soon forget."
"The overwhelming popularity of President
Bush , in spite of everything, finally shows us what the American people, whom we have so
sentimentalized for so long, a la Norman Rockwell, really are, thanks to TV and purposely lousy
public schools: ignorant. Count on it!"
"The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't
acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the
Democrats, instead."
"Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler."
"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the
whole planet would be named Bush , Dick , and Colon."
"The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post
'Thou shalt not steal,' 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' and 'Thou shalt not lie' in a
building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment."
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two
institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters
fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"
"These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people."
"The owners of this country know the truth: It's called the American dream because you have
to be asleep to believe it."
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I
stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people
like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but
where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and
they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You
voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who
did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible
for what these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you
created."
As Trump
again signals that he intends in the lame-duck session to withdraw troops from Afghanistan,
this same united coalition is working desperately to block it. First, Democratic Senator Tammy
Duckworth of Illinois angrily condemned the withdrawal plan with deranged reasoning: that
Generals are against withdrawal (as though we have no civilian control of the military); troops
will come home "in body bags" not by staying in Afghanistan but by leaving it; and that
withdrawing U.S. forces after a mere nineteen years of fighting will endanger "our national
security."
Anyone who will not generate a bit of effort to get to the polls in timely fashion probably should not vote anyway.
The same imbeciles who camp out in front of a store overnight waiting for Black Friday sales or spend three days on line waiting
to buy concert tickets, are often the ones who claim that getting to the voting booth is too great an inconvenience.
We ought to have accommodations for seriously disabled citizens and for citizens who are outside the country ie. our people in
military service.
Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, says a President Trump "can't happen again," so a "bipartisan
committee," rather than voters, should "vet" and approve future candidates. Figliuzzi, who worked under Robert Mueller at the FBI,
made it clear during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC he buys into conspiracy theories about Donald Trump being influenced by the Russian
government, calling him Figliuzzi, who worked under Robert Mueller at the FBI, made it clear during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC
he buys into conspiracy theories about Donald Trump being influenced by the Russian government, calling him "the most vulnerable
president in history."
Figliuzzi's suggestion of giving a vague "committee" more power over the selection of presidential candidates than actual
voters has earned criticism from both liberals and conservatives on social media, with many seeing the idea as "scary" and
a step in the direction of countries where people have little power in who is put in power.
"Reminds me of Iran's Guardian Council, which has 12 members. The Guardian Council approves candidates for president and majlis
(Congress)," Huffington Post journalist Yashar Ali tweeted, adding, "Great idea, let's become like Iran that's going to turn
out well, I'm sure."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Why are we continuing to train these Afghanis who then shoot our soldiers in the back?
Afghanistan is a complete waste. Time to come home! 4:05 PM
· Aug 21, 2012
Barack Obama @BarackObama
VP Biden on Afghanistan: "We are leaving in 2014. Period." 4:05am
· 12 Oct 2012
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I agree with Pres. Obama on Afghanistan. We should have a speedy withdrawal. Why should we keep
wasting our money -- rebuild the U.S.! 9:59 PM
· Jan 14, 2013
Barack Obama @BarackObama
President Obama: "By the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over." 3:58am
· 13 Feb 2013
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
We should leave Afghanistan immediately. No more wasted lives. If we have to go back in, we go
in hard & quick. Rebuild the US first. 8:10 PM
· Mar 1, 2013
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan
home by Christmas! 1:28
AM · Oct 8, 2020
In worst scenario, Mr Trump can move to Israel and take part in Israel president election.
After elected, he can control Washington again from Jerusalem!
I don't dare speak fir my colleagues, but I can't tell you how difficult it's been as a journalist to cover this dark part
of our history. Let's hope the attacks on journalists, journalism and EVERYONE end. Time to move into the light.
Threat inflation is like Apple pie among Washington swamp national security parasites
Notable quotes:
"... The US security state, with its huge military forces and techno-industrial base, and no diplomatic need nor capability, REQUIRES (fake) "security threats" in order to exist. ..."
"... Those appointed "threats" are currently, probably not changing soon, in some order of "threat-size" . . . ..."
Applying any logic to the "threats" against the US "national security" AKA world hegemony
becomes much simpler with recognizing two simple facts:
1. The US security state, with its huge military forces and techno-industrial base, and no
diplomatic need nor capability, REQUIRES (fake) "security threats" in order to exist.
2. Those appointed "threats" are currently, probably not changing soon, in some order of
"threat-size" . . .
China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, & African
"terrorists" -- did I miss anyone?
The Huffington Post lauded Abrams's work driving
up turnout among minorities.
"Experts say Black voter turnout in Georgia during the 2020 election likely broke records,"
read captions of a three-minute video, only for the unnamed "experts" to be shown completely
off.
According to a subsequent analysis
of updated voter data from The New York Times Tuesday, the black share of Georgia's electorate
fell to its lowest level since 2006.
The race in Georgia, the Times explained, was decided primarily by demographic changes in
the suburban ring surrounding Atlanta, where Biden outperformed former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton among wealthy and well-educated suburbanites.
... "My heart is full," Abrams wrote as Biden took the lead the week of election day.
The amount of BS propaganda levels against the American by MSM is incredible and
unprecedented ever since I have lived here for over 48 years. Do everybody notice how all
dark clouds have gone and bad news have vanished, and rosy peacefully sunny days are ahead of
us based on daily coming good news, ever since Biden was elected by all the dead voters.
We found out two very viable working vaccines, more people wearing mask and social
distance. Financial crises are over. We sent our own rocket to space station. We successfully
intercepted ICBMs, etc.etc. So we should learn, everything now is going good , we should put
our differences away, come together in a peaceful way and all help to transfer power
peacefully to Biden like good citizens our funding fathers (fogers) wanted us to be.
The recommendations of the State Department paper
listed by Axios are not practical steps but pure ideology:
The blueprint: The paper lays out "ten tasks" for the U.S. to accomplish.
Promoting constitutional government and civil society at home.
Maintaining the world's strongest military.
Fortifying the rules-based international order.
Reevaluating its alliance system.
Strengthening its alliance system and creating new international organizations to
promote democracy and human rights.
Cooperating with China when possible and constraining Beijing when appropriate.
Educating Americans about the China challenge.
Train a new generation of public servants who understand great-power competition with
China.
Reforming the U.S. education system to help students understand the responsibility of
citizenship in a complex information age.
Championing the principles of freedom in word and in deed.
Note especially the points 7 to 10.
They have nothing to do with China. They call for domestic propaganda, more domestic
propaganda and even more domestic propaganda.
Compare with Kennan characterization of Soviets in 1946:
Kennan described dealing with Soviet
Communism as "undoubtedly greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced and probably
greatest it will ever have to face". In the first two sections, he posited concepts that
became the foundation of American Cold War policy:
The Soviets perceived themselves at perpetual war with capitalism;
The Soviets viewed left-wing, but non-communist, groups in other countries as an even
worse enemy of itself than the capitalist ones;
The Soviets would use controllable Marxists in the capitalist world as
allies;
Soviet aggression was fundamentally not aligned with the views of the Russian people or with
economic reality, but rooted in historic Russian nationalism and
neurosis ;
The Soviet government 's
structure inhibited objective or accurate pictures of internal and external reality.
b's 5 bullet points covering Keenan presumptions lends itself to substitution of Soviet /
communism w/ Global Corporatist Oligarchy ... not aligned with wishes of citizenry, not
democratic, not aligned with reality, etc.
I do agree that Kennan's "long telegram" was misconstrued by the NatSec loons of the time
to justify what they wanted to do. But that is no surprise, that is how US politics works.
It's has always been a racket.
I don't know. The language Kennan used is too vague to make any specific conclusions.
The center-left certainly hated the USSR more than they hated capitalism. Indeed, it was
the intellectuals from the center-left - not the right - who created the term
"totalitarianism" as we know today.
..the New York Times -- Pravda West -- in the run-up to the election informed the nation via
Twitter that it would be the media that would call the winner of the 2020 election, even before
the votes were counted, certified, and sent to the Electoral College.
"The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the
media," the Democrat propaganda sheet masquerading as a newspaper proclaimed, falsely.
It later deleted the tweet and issued a sheepish "apology" for "referring imprecisely to the
role of the news media. [It] projects winners and reports results; it does not declare the
winner of the election."
It has been fascinating to see both Republicans and Democrats denounce Trump on this. NPR
yesterday was in full-on war propagation mode, all of it's "experts" warning how dangerous a
withdrawal would be. Nary a mention anywhere that we have been there for 19 years, more
mocking Trump for "what he calls never-ending wars."
Like I told a liberal I know, recently. when he was complaining how Republicans were
destroying Democracy - why so sour? You won, remember? Now take heart, the Democratic Party,
major media and the Intelligence Community will be in sync restoring Democracy.
I wonder if we made it illegal for weapons/security contractors to trade their stock in
the markets, if most of this full throated support for war amongst our elite would
evaporate?
The interesting part is that the condemnation of Trump is coupled with "we're on the cusp
of victory" talk. America has been on the cusp of victory in Afghanistan multiple times, it
seems.
The Obama surge was prompted by General McChrystal's representations back in 2009 that the
war was winnable with more troops. In excess of 100,000 troops by 2011 was not sufficient to
achieve victory. The war then became an exercise in Afghan self-determination and honorable
withdrawal, reminiscent of "Vietnamization." This has been going on for nine years with, by
all accounts, the Taliban increasing its control of the country. There is no doubt that a
final withdrawal of U.S. troops would be a repeat of Saigon 1975.
Interestingly, the war morphed from removing Al Qaeda, propping up the Kabul government,
and defeating the Taliban, to being a protracted counter-narcotic operation. Given the
feudalistic realities of Afghan society, creating a Taliban-free, central government
controlled Afghanistan based upon western concepts is not a reality.
There is no doubt as to Afghanistan's strategic importance based upon its location and
resources. At the very least, those who condemn Trump for wanting to withdraw U.S. troops
from Afghanistan can be honest about why we are still there, although it's not a mystery in
geopolitical terms.
So, in Rubio's worldview Saigon would be better today if it were still occupied by
American soldiers. This imperialistic gene has to be eradicated from within these
Establishment armchair warriors. Our election of Donald Trump was a first raising of the hand
to say..stop. Stop it. Your time is through.
And now, since Democrats have flipped from freedom-loving liberals to authoritarian
leftists, they are united with the neo-con Republicans to keep imperialism alive and
prospering. America will soon come to understand that they've made a huge blunder in
replacing the one that has both the power and the will to turn us around. Only by electing
more Donald J. Trumps will the fever finally be broken.
Its remarkable only for its fervent nationalistic delusion. The claim that the US Covid-19 response demonstrates that the US can "tolerate casualties"
is one of the most asinine statements I have ever read. All that it proves is that the US is
shockingly incompetent. Incompetence is not generally viewed as a strength.
it's so interesting when people pretend to be ignorant when it is useful to them. I
thought that was a specific American trait. So let's give the answer to the author asking the
question:
Once the Americans are indoctrinated into hating China, they will be willing to go to war
with China and will be willing to accept what the government will do in the name of "fighting
China".
Same how the Americans were indoctrinated into hating Soviet Union and Communism
during the 50s and 60s and 70s.
The government then can throw as much money into the military
in the name of "fighting China" and the Americans will be fine with it.
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah thinks that the U.S. needs to keep troops in Afghanistan and Iraq,
stating that even after 20 years of a military presence there, "conditions for withdrawal have
not been met."
"The decision to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, and potentially elsewhere
should not be based on a U.S. political calendar," Romney said in a statement. "The
Administration has yet to explain why reducing troops in Afghanistan -- where conditions for
withdrawal have not been met -- is a wise decision for our national security interests in the
region."
If most Zionists are 'liberal', 'anti-racist', and for equal justice, how come they don't
insist to Americans, "Hey, stop favoring Zionist Israel over Palestinians and Iran. That is
'racist' and unfair. Equal treatment for all!"
and don't look for any sanity in the incoming Administration either, especially from mass
murderers in pumps such as Michele Flournoy and Susan Rice (and where is Samantha Power these
days?)
According to The New York Times, President Trump asked his advisors if he had options to
attack Iran's main nuclear site but was talked out of pulling the trigger. Four anonymous
officials told the Times that Trump discussed the options at a meeting in the Oval Office on
Thursday......
The problem with this essay is that there is Left in the USA, only various shades of Right
:-). And "identity politics" is used as a wedge to split the working class and make is less
dangerous for financial oligarchy.
Traditional Left Ideology sets out a vision of how the world 'ought to be.' The Left's view
can be summed up as the belief that social justice is the primary requirement for improving the
world, and that this better future entails the pursuit of equality in various forms. The Left
ideologist believes that it is both ethical and moral to attempt to approach equality in terms
of civil rights and material wealth.
But if the Left focuses on 'what could be,' the Right focuses on 'what is.' If the Left
operates where people 'could be,' the Right operates where people 'are' or at least, where they
believe themselves to be. The Right does not aim to change human social reality...
Left ideology, accordingly, is shaped like a 'dream.' Aiming for what 'ought to be' rather
than 'what is' induces a level of utopian illusory detachment and depicts a phantasmal
egalitarian world often removed from our abusive, oppressive and doomed reality. In this
phantasmic future, people will just drift away from greed and gluttony, they will work less and
learn to share, even to share that which they may not possess to start with.
This imaginary 'dream' helps explain why the (Western) Left's ideology rarely appealed to
the struggling classes; the masses, consumed by the pursuit of bread and butter, were hardly
going to be interested in utopian 'dreams' or futuristic social experiments. Bitten by the
daily struggle and chased by existence, working people have never really subscribed to 'the
revolution,' usually because they were just too busy working. This perhaps explains why so
often it was the middle-class and bourgeois agitators who became revolutionary icons. It was
they who had access to that little bit extra to fund their revolutionary adventures.
The 'Left dream' is certainly appealing, perhaps a bit too appealing. Social justice,
equality and even revolution may really be nothing but the addictive rush of effecting change
and this is perhaps why hard-core Leftist agitators often find it impossible to wake from their
social fantasy of transformation. They simply refuse to admit that reality has slipped from
their grasp, preferring to remain in their cozy phantasmal and delusional universe, shielded by
ghetto walls built from archaic terminology and political correctness.
In fact, the more appealing and convincing the revolutionary fantasy is, the less its
supporters are willing to be awaken by reality....
... ... ...
... political Left has failed on so many fronts: it was daydreaming when the service economy
was introduced, and it did not awaken when production and manufacturing were eviscerated. It
yawned when it should have combated corporate culture, big money and its worship, and it dozed
when higher education became a luxury. The Left was certainly snoring noisily when, one after
the other, its institutions were conquered by 'New Left' Identitarian politics.
It is most important to point at the contemporary American so-called 'Left' that was deeply
asleep when the American working classes drifted away to the Republican party. The American
Left was so deeply consumed by its 'revolutionary fantasy' that it didn't notice the
embarrassing fact that an abrasive multi-billionaire real estate tycoon morphed into a populist
revolutionary icon for hard-working people. The American Left was so thrilled by its
self-worship that it pretended not to see that its entire operation was practically sustained
by Wall Street tycoons and globalists of the worst type. The American Left has become a
controlled opposition apparatus. It practically went to bed with the bitterest enemies of peace
and justice let alone anything that resembles 'social justice' and human harmony.
This article was obviously composed by someone on the right, while dreaming. Dreaming that
the right are realists, really? Where is the$21 trillion from the Pentagon? Where was the
right when the entire nation was under house arrest and falsely imprisoned? Were they
dreaming that people would believe that people would believe the health scare scamdemic was
responsible for a banana republic economy that uses fraud as a business model under those who
claim to be conservative, but still somehow always manage to increase the national debt even
more than the Democrats? Were they believing that living under false arrest in house arrest
is the conservative American way of life? ...
According to that link, at least part of the votes were counted using the software of a
Spanish company with servers in Germany, and based on the votes of a machine made in China
and sold by a Canadian company.
Why does anyone think that the guy who authored the 1994 Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act , which led to the mass incarceration of
Black American men"super predators" , the privatization of prisons,
and the ramping up of the "school-to-prison pipeline , is any kind of godsend for
Black Americans?
Judging by actions, Trump should be seen as a champion of racial equality in
comparison to Biden.
They should bring in all new counters and have them start right after watching all the
previous counters get beaten with baseball bats for screwing up. That would probably help
accuracy.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald 'This is endlessly amazing: Brazil, a huge country, has nationwide municipal elections
today. Voting is mandatory. *All* votes will be counted & released by tonight.'
Ah, I see the problem here. The difference is that Brazil is a Third World nation that is
kept that way by morons such as Bolsanaro. America, on the other hand, is being turned into a
Third World nation because the elite is seeing a profit in doing so.
the dims are in deep trouble in ga. the hand count can't be cheated on as much as a
dominion machine can cheat so the turnaround in votes may be astonishing. because it is so
mathematically impossible to have a count vary so much from the machine count that the
machines will definitely be blamed for the vote discrepancy and all dominion machine votes in
the usa will have to audited.
i hope i am right.
philmannwright , 3 hours ago
dont "count" on it. if there was a plan to cheat the count, there is a plan to cheat a
recount, too.
The interesting question is whether Trump (a highly flawed candidate who brought us a
bigger banker bailout than Bush/Obama by far) is going to finally wake up middle America to
the fact that elections don't matter.
The names "Biden" and "Trump" have the same number of letters, so it very difficult to
them apart!
Propaganda Phil , 2 hours ago
B and T do rhyme with one another. I mean who can blame them?
wild dog , 2 hours ago
The folks I saw counting votes in Georgia probably cant read.
Peace_and_Love , 3 hours ago
So, they need to stop the whole effing process and start over, and have every damned vote
verified by both parties, with video recording the damned process.
"Biden's call to host "a global summit for democracy".
This from a man who just stole what was supposed to be a democratic election. The
hypocrisy of Biden and his minders knows no bounds.
dustinwind , 1 hour ago
So Biden plans on bending over grabbing his ankles and leading from behind like Obama did.
I'm not surprised.
not dead yet , 1 hour ago
Obama never led from behind. He just put that out there in case things went belly up. I
believe Obomber said that during the Libya "liberation" where all the NATO "allies" ran out
of bombs after a couple of days and the US had to supply them. None of these countries were
equipped to do war so it was all on the US for intelligence and coordination plus the
ordinance.
Most Americans would rather watch America's Got Talent, Dancing With The Stars or The
Masked Singer than be informed about important issues.
With the gaslighting media and newspapers doing the informing they are better off
consuming mindless entertainment than consuming lies upon lies. Even the net these days would
be near useless if not for comments sections as far as helping you inform yourself on
important issues.
[Biden] has on more than one occasion regaled audiences with a tale about his father
telling him that "You don't need to be a Jew to be a Zionist".
His reminiscences of his father need not be taken too seriously. He also tells the story
of him and his dad seeing two homosexuals kissing each other when he was a teenager. When
asked by his son what was going on, Biden Sr explained: "It's because they love each other".
Exactly what you'd expect a middle-aged Catholic used car dealer to say to his son 60 years
ago.
Nixon's secretary of state and the arch realist of Washington has given his blessing to the
former vice president. Let the bombs fall where they may...
No matter what happens in the Supreme Court, Joe Biden will always have Henry Kissinger.
The oldest-living war
criminal – Kissinger, not Biden – has made clear his preference for the oldest
living senator (Biden claimed during the campaign he'd been in the Senate for 180 years) and
perhaps come January the oldest ever president to take the oath.
Saturday during an appearance on FNC's "Justice," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) questioned why
Democrats oppose any investigations into the integrity of the presidential election, despite
their past efforts on the 2016 presidential election.
The Ohio Republican congressman reminded Fox News viewers that Democrats dedicated for years
to the "Russia hoax" but do not want to allow four weeks for an investigation into this year's
presidential election.
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.
+ Biden surrogate John Kasich on CNN this week: "The Democrats have to make it clear to the
far-left that they almost cost him this election." Should be pointed out that with Kasich as
his political consultant, Biden lost Ohio by nearly 9 percent.
+ Of course, the Democratic elites been trying to ritually purge the party of its leftist
ranks since at least 1985, when in the aftermath of the Mondale defeat, Bill Clinton, Al Gore
and Joe Biden formed the Democratic Leadership Council. And the leftists they most wanted to
purge at the time (with the possible exception of Ralph Nader) were Jesse Jackson and his
multi-ethnic, working-class Rainbow Coalition. Instead of embracing the promise of Jackson's
remarkable movement, they moved to crush it, so that they could transform the party into a
hospitable receptacle for Wall Street money.
+ If there's anything that lends a fractal of credence to Trump's voter fraud conspiracy
it's that Biden appears to have won, while the Dems failed to take the Senate and nearly lost
the House. How bad do candidates have to be for people to vote for Biden & not them? Plenty
bad, mon, plenty bad
+ If the senate ends up in a 50/50 split after the Georgia runoffs, Joe Manchin is the most
likely Democratic senator to bolt to the Republicans. On the most important issues,
he already has : "Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I'm a proud West Virginia Democrat.
We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans' jobs & healthcare.
We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police."
+ Though he may have commanded one of his serfs to read it for him, there's no question of
Trump's tiny fingers ever flipping through the pages of Machiavelli, but he acts out his
principles of power at a gut level. Biden's probably read The Prince twice, yet shows scant
evidence of even the vaguest understanding the book's most basic political messages.
+ Isn't the only rationale for Kamala Harris that in moments like this she can play the role
of a legal hard-ass? Yet, as Trump, Barr and McConnell move on different fronts to delegitimize
the election, she's MIA. (Biden is still waiting by the phone for his old buddy Mitch to call
)
+ I can understand having your presidency undermined by the Deep State. But to have your
election overturned by Trump's Superficial State? That would take some serious incompetence
from the Biden team, which they're certainly capable of
+ If Biden gets Evo'd by the Superficial State and goes into exile in Ireland, will Bernie
run again, giving his Sandernistas the chance to prove their persistent claim that "he would've
won"?
+ The Spartans had two kings serving at once, both equally war-like. We could be headed
there
+ Speaking of the "common good," there's an open cell at Abu Ghraib with your name on it,
Condi
+ Kellyanne Conway in November 2016: "They have to decide whether they're going to interfere
with him finishing his business, interfere with a peaceful transition. They're going to be a
bunch of cry babies and sore losers about an election that they can't turn around."
+ Though he may have commanded one of his serfs to read it for him, there's no question of
Trump's tiny fingers ever flipping through the pages of Machiavelli, but he acts out his
principles of power at a gut level. Biden's probably read The Prince twice, yet shows scant
evidence of even the vaguest understanding the book's most basic political messages.
+ Isn't the only rationale for Kamala Harris that in moments like this she can play the role
of a legal hard-ass? Yet, as Trump, Barr and McConnell move on different fronts to delegitimize
the election, she's MIA. (Biden is still waiting by the phone for his old buddy Mitch to call
)
+ I can understand having your presidency undermined by the Deep State. But to have your
election overturned by Trump's Superficial State? That would take some serious incompetence
from the Biden team, which they're certainly capable of
+ If Biden gets Evo'd by the Superficial State and goes into exile in Ireland, will Bernie
run again, giving his Sandernistas the chance to prove their persistent claim that "he would've
won"?
+ The Spartans had two kings serving at once, both equally war-like. We could be headed
there
+ Speaking of the "common good," there's an open cell at Abu Ghraib with your name on it,
Condi
+ Kellyanne Conway in November 2016: "They have to decide whether they're going to interfere
with him finishing his business, interfere with a peaceful transition. They're going to be a
bunch of cry babies and sore losers about an election that they can't turn around."
From comments "Creepy Joe tries to steal the election and we're supposed to heal?", "This
Deep State bullshit has been going on for decades continually getting worse.", "Pretty much every
large city is Democrat run, even in "red" states."
I'm reminded of the scene in the (true-story) movie BOYS DON'T CRY where Brandon Teena
(played by Hilary Swank) is raped by two men she knows, and afterwards one of them puts his
arm around her and says, "We're still friends?"
"It's nothing new for political religions to produce radicals that develop their own sects
or cults. This time around, rigid devotion to enforcing mask compliance has produced runaway
fanaticism based on nothing but blind faith that more mask-wearing is always better . Even the
public health experts, whom these followers all promoted as great prophets just months ago,
can't tame their fervor.
That's a problem, because a return to normalcy will require subduing radical factions that
agitate for oppression. Restrictions such as mask mandates are like oxygen to followers of
radical fundamentalist Covidianism -- the abiding belief that only lockdowns, social
distancing, and masks can deliver us from the deadly pandemic. The longer mandates stay in
place and experts continue promoting mask use -- "My mask protects you! Your mask protects me!"
-- the stronger and more widespread the extremism will grow, and the less influence experts
will have over their behavior.
The evidence is abundant, but consider these three cases of radical Covidianism and how they
trace back to an abandonment of the scientific standards necessary to maintain public health
and a functioning society." The Federalist
-------------
Yes. IMO this has gotten very much out of hand and Covidianism is launched as a basis and
justification for government/fanatic control of our lives and very way of life. The ever
present hyper-ambitious politicos and civil servants see in this pandemic an opportunity to
impose control and often do so for the mere purpose of training and conditioning the populace
to the acceptance of government authority in all things.
They have now reached a level of ambition at which they are so bold as to forbid the
ancestral tradition of the practice of a family reunion and feast on Thanksgiving Day. The
rulers know quite well that the restrictions they wish to impose in California, New York and
other satrapies will kill the tradition, but the masses will, in the minds of the autocrats, be
better off without it, as are sheep in their fold. Baa! pl
"... Meanwhile, the GloboCap propaganda has reached some new post-Orwellian level. After four long years of "RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION!" now, suddenly, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ELECTION FRAUD IN THE USA!" ..."
And, of course, the most important thing is, racism in America is over again!
Yes, that's right, folks, no more racism kiss all those Confederate monuments goodbye! The
Democrats are back in the White House! According to sources, the domestic staff are already
down in the West Wing basement looking for that MLK bust that Trump
ordered removed and desecrated the moment he was sworn into office. College kids are
building pyres of racist and potentially racist books, and paintings, and films, and other
degenerate artworks. Jussie
Smollet can finally come out of hiding .
... No, this is a time for looking ahead to the Brave New Global-Capitalist
Normal , in which everyone will sit at home in their masks surfing the Internet on their
toasters with MSNBC playing in the background well, OK, not absolutely everyone. The affluent
will still need to fly around in their private jets and helicopters, and take vacations on
their yachts, and, you know, all the usual affluent stuff. But the rest of us won't have to go
anywhere or meet with anyone in person, because our lives will be one never-ending Zoom meeting
carefully monitored by official fact-checkers to ensure we're not being "misinformed" or
exposed to "dangerous conspiracy theories" which could potentially lead to the agonized deaths
(or the mild-to-moderate flu-like
illnesses ) of hundreds of millions of innocent people.
... Meanwhile, the GloboCap propaganda has reached some new post-Orwellian level. After
four long years of "RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION!" now, suddenly, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS
ELECTION FRAUD IN THE USA!"
... Call it the "New Normal," or whatever you want. Pretend "democracy has triumphed" if you
want. Wear your mask. Mask your children. Terrorize them with pictures of "death trucks," tales
of "Russian hackers" and "white supremacist terrorists."
After four long years of "RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION!" now, suddenly, "THERE IS NO SUCH
THING AS ELECTION FRAUD IN THE USA!"
Why this is not getting more attention I do not know. It was just the other day when
Russia, Iran, and China were influence pedaling of disinformation trying to sway election
results. Facebook was censoring/deleting on a constant basis trying to stem the flow of
fraudulent information from the evil commies.
Well... he started it after his son's death from cancer but when the millions started pouring
in he suddenly realized that none of that will bring his son back and all other cancer
patients will have to cope as best they can anyway, so he told himself: "Gosh, darn it, might
as well live well." His family agreed. Pfizer also agreed. Detractors try to make this into
something objectionable but really, it is just a very touching family story."
Again, there is something exquisitely delicious about Trump's defeat. After all, Joe Biden
has been a colossal loser, not only for his wretched foreign and domestic policy record -- for
example, his work on behalf of the credit card industry, support for the Iraq war, his Zionism,
his sponsorship of the 1994 federal crime bill, and paving the way for Clarence Thomas -- but
also in running unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination twice, once in 1988
and again in 2008.
Therein lies my euphoria. Donald Trump's nightmare, something totally unacceptable to him,
is losing. What could be any worse for him than losing to a loser?
Missy Beattie has written for National Public Radio and Nashville Life Magazine. She was
an instructor of memoirs writing at Johns Hopkins' Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in
Baltimore. Email: [email protected]
Here is a view of our Great Leader, also from an alternative media source (CP). Isn't this what the UNZ Review is all about?
Different perspectives from alternative sources?:
"His mountainous orange hairpiece askew, purse strings tightening round his tiny puckered mouth, the sad friendless, cretinous,
semi-literate, misogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic, closet racist, white supremacist and neo-Nazi, and flat-out
serial-lying flabby ignoramus who cannot laugh and can hardly smile, applauds himself as he appears on stage, a waddling catalogue
of psychotic disorders, a paranoid, delusional, self-obsessed, egotistical, schizophrenic, narcissistic, sociopathic con man,
whose miniature mouth really does resemble an asshole. I challenge you to juxtapose close-ups of the two and try to tell the
difference."
They should understand this much earlier ;-) Fake opposition to Clinton-controlled MSM like
CNN. It's a big club and you are not in it. And your interests neither.
'Fox News sucks!': Trump supporters decry channel as it declares Biden wins
In Arizona, pro-Trump demonstrators who massed outside an election facility in Phoenix chanted: "Fox News sucks!"
The rightwing network, owned by Rupert Murdoch and built up by the late Roger Ailes, was once so closely aligned with Trump that
many observers said it functioned as "state media".
As Trump has feuded with Fox, he has lavished more praise on OAN, tweeting last
year that it "is doing incredible reporting".
I believe that US are truthful when they talk about "free" elections. Theoretically, the
only way you can get something "free" in life is – if you steal it, or if somebody
gives you something as a gift.
This "election" has fulfilled both of these 2 criteria. First
the deep state stole the election from Trump and then they presented it as a gift to Biden.
So it's all good. It was a free election for Biden, Trump got robbed – but hey, you
can't please everybody.
As Joe Biden's camp continues to
try and walk back talk of another national lockdown, Democratic leaders are once again
exhibiting via their behavior that social distancing restrictions and lockdown rules are "for
thee and not for me."
Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat has denied claims there is fraud or irregularities in her
state.
It's very irregular to deny poll watchers the right to view ballots being counted you
POS
synthetically derived , 3 hours ago
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the
illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just
take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs
out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
― Frank Zappa
"... You are what's called a usefull idiot. The GOP doesn't care about anyone but Israel and the elites on Wall street. Every 4 years the GOP pretends to care about poor white people and they show some colored people to show "look we are not racist." ..."
"... The problem with Magatards like you is the inability to separate fantasy with reality. ..."
"... Let's all just stop pretending we don't live in a fucking banana republic and move on. ..."
The former ambassador to Russia under the Obama Administration, Michael McFaul, presumably
knows a lot about Color Revolutions, since his boss used him in Ukraine in 2014. McFaul, who
was also instrumental in the Russia-Gate disinformation campaign against Trump, also
authored, "7 Pillars of ColorRevolution,"
As this historic election continues, reporting and further analysis will highlight daily
events and their parallels that already warn that these seven pillars are seemingly right in
place here in America, as they were in the examples Ukraine, Bolivia and Venezuela, at
least.
The initial step in each example has been to use a national election as the reason for a
razor-thin and disputed vote result, one that the media stirs into a frenzy on both sides: A
frenzy so viscous that the result becomes massive civil unrest followed next by violence.
And then military intervention.
In this, the first seventy-two hours of news from the election battleground of America 2020,
this first step of a media fabricated victor, of which the other side detests and alleges
criminal behavior, would seem in play.
You are what's called a usefull idiot. The GOP doesn't care about anyone but
Israel and the elites on Wall street. Every 4 years the GOP pretends to care about poor white
people and they show some colored people to show "look we are not racist."
But to say the GOP really cares what everyone thinks and is inclusive to a fault is
ridiculous. How brainwashed are you?
The problem with Magatards like you is the inability to separate fantasy with reality. You
really think Trump is the god emperor who is fighting pedophiles and you will believe
anything other Trumptards throw up on YouTube.
Lol at the GOP by definition being conservative. Trump is a liberal who grew the size of
the government.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
on Thursday concluded that the Nov. 3 election "was the most secure in American history,"
saying that "election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process
prior to finalizing the result."
Mr. Bones , 5 hours ago
Nov. 3 election "was the most secure in American history
It's a disturbing thought, but this doesn't exclude the possibility that there was
pervasive fraud.
Oilwatcher , 4 hours ago
I'm thinking the DHS Cybersecurity Office may not understand how paper mail in ballots
work.
Vote fraud is as American as apple pie. Just remember how JFK and George W. Bush managed to
sneak into the White House. America has always bee a banana republic, now it has just become
more evident.
"The difference, however, is that that was all bullshit."
But, as the programmer Alberto Brandolini is reputed to have said: "The amount of energy
necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." This is the
unbearable asymmetry of bullshit .
Apparently disregarding Facebook's public-facing image as a fierce opponent of election
meddling by entities not legitimately involved in the political process, Zuckerberg dived into
the fray during a Thursday company-wide town hall, according to an audio of the meeting first
obtained by
Buzzfeed and later confirmed by
CNBC .
"I believe the outcome of the election is now clear and Joe Biden is going to be our next
president," Zuckerberg reportedly told the assembled crowd. "It's important that people
have confidence that the election was fundamentally fair, and that goes for the tens of
millions of people that voted for Trump."
The Democratic party reminds me of the Catholic church covering up child sex abusers. They
deny the crimes, but just continue doing it till they cant anymore
One more thing. Remember those US vassal states (Europeans and others US stooges) that
congratulated Juan Guaidó, as President of Venezuela (with Zilch support from the
people of Venezuela), they are congratulating Biden.
This 'election' seems to have unleashed an army of Dem Party Zombies. Of course the whole
'election' was filled with fake votes. It's plain as day. Watching these insane Dem Party
Zombies is disturbing to normal people. Both of the 'parties' obviously suck big time. I
would tell the Zombies to get real, but it's pointless.
I fought against voting 'machines' for years. I can see what is going on. Millions of
people are actually zombies.
Or Biden could simple announce that his first action as president will be a full
investigation of any alleged voter fraud and that he would - of course - immediately step
down should the investigation find that he has no majority. And then actually do an honest
investigation.
"... Thus, Trump has every right, indeed, the obligation to pursue this to the very end. If he does still lose, he must spend the next four years demonizing the Biden Administration. ..."
Back then, the vote totals were "incomplete," but the Supreme Court decided the contest
anyway.
Thus, Trump has every right, indeed, the obligation to pursue this to the very end. If
he does still lose, he must spend the next four years demonizing the Biden
Administration.
That 'new' rule is courtesy of Her Royal Highness Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Sauce for differently gendered flying fowl and all.
@KDKA look at these 200 years old
people that voted smh. This is all types of fraud, and they put it out for the public to see!
And this is only a small amount of them, the list goes on ..... how ya'll cant see this is
beside me
For perhaps the first time in American history, a coordinated effort to taint or overturn a presidential election may be
underway https:// trib.al/rMxYlDj
When democrats lose, it's the Russians. When democrats win, you must immediately accept the outcome of the election even if
it's going to court and getting contested over multiple incidents of impropriety, irregularities and fraud.
They're all about election integrity - where election integrity means election victory.
"New normal" as in: having Dominion software flip votes from Trump to Biden, corporate
media doing a witch hunt on Trump for 5 years, MSM lying about everything from George Floyd
not dying from a drug overdose, MSM literally fanning the flames to incite a race war? I
could go on.
By C. J. Hopkins , award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist
based in Berlin. His dystopian novel, ' Zone 23 ', is
published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. His essays and other works can be found at,
and he can be reached via, cjhopkins.com
or consentfactory.org . OK, so,
that was not cool. For one terrifying moment there, it actually looked like GloboCap was going
to let Russian-Asset Hitler win.
Hour after hour on election night, states on the map kept turning red, or pink, or some
distinctly non-blue color. Wisconsin Michigan Georgia Florida. It could not be happening, and
yet it was. What other explanation was there? The Russians were stealing the election
again!
But, of course, GloboCap was just playing with us. They're a bunch of practical jokers,
those GloboCap guys. Naturally, they couldn't resist the chance to wind us up just one more
time.
Seriously, though, while I enjoy a good prank, I still have a number of liberal friends,
many of whom were on the verge of suffering major heart attacks as they breathlessly waited for
the corporate media to confirm that they had successfully voted a literal
dictator out of power. (A few of them suffer from IBS or other gastrointestinal disorders,
so, in light of the current toilet-paper shortage caused by the Return of the Apocalyptic
Plague, toying with them like that was especially cruel.)
But, whatever. That's water under the bridge. The good news is, the nightmare is
over! Literal Hitler and his underground army of Russia-loving white supremacists have been
vanquished! Decency has been restored! Globalization has risen from the
dead!
... ... ..
Meanwhile, the GloboCap propaganda has reached some new post-Orwellian level. After four
long years of "RUSSIA HACKED THE ELECTION!" now, suddenly, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS
ELECTION FRAUD IN THE USA!"
That's right, once again, millions of liberals, like that scene in ' 1984' where the
Party switches official enemies right in the middle of the Hate-Week speech, have been ordered
to radically reverse their "reality," and hysterically deny the existence of the very
thing they have been hysterically alleging for four solid years and they are actually doing
it!
... ... ///
Marian1637 7 hours ago
I can not comprehend
that democrats do not blame Putin for Biden winning!
Reilly 3 hours ago
Very funny, bravo!
Nothing like a bit of slapstick, with a dose of reality also in the middle of a waking
nightmare about to happen. ;))
DeoGratias 4 hours ago
One correction : it is not GloboCap it is
GloboComs. The objective of communism is to create two classes of a society : rulers and
workers. Thus GloboCaps are GloboComs.
Winter7Mute 5 hours ago
A reliable way to make people
believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished
from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. I'm not even
sure if most journalists or reporters know what their even talking about, when writing these
articles.
Vidarr Kerr 5 hours ago
There is such a thing as Too Much Sarcasm.
EarthBotV2 Vidarr Kerr 4 hours ago
I disagree. The liberazi "thinks" with the gut -- as in "What does your gut tell you?"...
I am following the Australian media from outside Australia. I notice the familiar
repetitive propaganda technique used to sell messages in the media to the gullible and
uneducated public. It's all in a word and that word was again deployed today in federal
parliament to describe Joe Biden. The word, wait for it...is 'decent.'
I fail to understand how someone who describes himself as a zionist can also be described
as decent. The two positions are mutually self exclusive. A better word would be ugly,
obsequious or weak. I am sure barflies have a few more adjectives to throw in, In six months
there will be a flood of useful words.
In Minnesota sounds like you get to sell your blank ballot for a few hundred dollars to
the Omar campaign. They take over the rest of the task, and hand you the "I voted" sticker
along with the cash. The streets of America are paved with gold.
He voted the same as deceased former boxing champ Joe Frazier, since the party workers
filling out the ballots knew both men were deceased. May be Jack Dempsey and Jack Johnson
also voted.
Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign communications director, tweeted a photo of a mock
Washington Times newspaper from 2000 with the headline "PRESIDENT GORE" in an attempt to show
how the media can prematurely announce a winner.
But he later quietly deleted the tweet after
it was revealed the headline had been photoshopped -- the newspaper had never run such a
headline.
So neoliberal Dems gaslighted everybody with Russiagate for four years, staged Ukrainegate,
and now cry for unity. Funny, is not it
For four years, Democrats branded Donald Trump an illegitimate president and treated him as
such. Then-President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden plotted with FBI Director James Comey a
way to oust Trump's pick for national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
Now they face the results of the attempt to depose Trump via color revolution (aka
Russiagate), the result of neo-McCarthyism hysteria and cry uncle. To paraphrase Tolstoy: all
happy democracies may resemble one another, but every unhappy democracy is apparently unhappy in
its own way.
Wayne Dupree has been to the White House to talk to President Trump about race relations
and appeared at election events for him. He was named in Newsmax's top 50 Influential
African-American Republicans in 2017, and, in 2016, served as a board member of the National
Diversity Coalition for Donald Trump. Before entering politics, he served for eight years in
the US Air Force. His website is here: www.waynedupree.com . Follow him on Twitter @WayneDupreeShow
I've participated in eight elections including this one, and I've never before witnessed the
open hostility and vitriol that's been aimed at President Trump.
No president was ever abused like Trump was from day one. The Republicans didn't cooperate
with Barack Obama at all, but any thinking person can see the difference between the way Obama
was treated and the way Trump has been treated. The past four years have set a dangerous
precedent, and you know what they say about karma.
Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer refused to work with President Trump
on anything, but now the socialists want the Republicans to work with them. Interpretation: we
want the Republicans to work with us as long as they believe everything we believe and do
everything to help us, even if, in their eyes, it destroys America. No dissent will be
accepted.
You really have to wonder about this arrogance from the Democrats and their call for unity,
don't you? Joe Biden is calling for unity because he doesn't want to face the constant
scrutiny the Trump administration faced. After all, do you think the hundreds of millions he
received in campaign contributions didn't come with strings attached?
Right now, there's not enough critical thinking for unity to happen; our emotions govern too
many of us. The media have played on that for four years. They convinced millions of
Americans they would have to be insane to consider re-electing Trump, even though most
Americans are sick of the establishment politicians and their big empty promises, sick of their
endless and expensive foreign wars, sick of a sluggish economy, and tired of the outsourcing of
American jobs.
How can unity happen when the rift between liberals and conservatives is larger than ever,
and the two sides envision this country's future in vastly different ways? How will half of
the American population ever again trust their sources of news and information when nearly
every outlet has lost all pretense of objectivity? Every bit of reporting has become an opinion
piece.
In marriage, they call these irreconcilable differences. It may not happen in my lifetime,
but this country would do well to consider a peaceful separation.
Our national media have failed us. And that's all media, including social. They caught us
all hook, line, and sinker. Why? Money. We are such a gullible species. The more people hear an
idea promoted, the more it sounds true. This is why our country is divided. We rely too heavily
on our media for information, true or not. They manipulate us with their words like modern-day
bards. Journalism is indeed dead, and it's been replaced by sensationalism. But it all boils
down to who's really at fault. To find that out, look in the mirror. Yes, we all let this
happen to us.
I wouldn't blame people for believing phony news. Think about it: why do companies spend
literally billions of dollars on commercials? Companies use commercials to change our buying
habits, and they work extremely well on a subliminal level. Likewise, the mainstream and
social media use misinformation, distortions, deceptions, and omissions to change people's
voting behavior on that same subliminal level. The only way to ensure legitimate elections in
the future is to destroy mainstream and social media's hold on our country.
In the past four years, the behavior of the Democrats has been that of junior high school
bullies with no adult supervision. What all men want most is power, and the Democrats will do
anything to get it. We can't take their low road, but should stand against their further
attempts to turn this into a one-party nation. We need a broad spectrum of ideas to keep our
country strong and our citizens cared for.
One party does not have all the answers, nor can they dictate to the other parties how to
worship, think, or even eat. When I was young, I was a Bill Clinton Democrat. I walked away
before the Obama administration and never looked back. I believe more and more people are doing
that, and, by the 2022 midterms – well, watch out, Dems!
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Distinguished Russiagate disciple Michael McFaul upset that Putin hasn't congratulated Biden
for presumed election win
Former US envoy to Russia Michael McFaul is unhappy that Moscow hasn't declared Joe Biden
the election winner without official results, apparently tossing aside years of hysteria about
Kremlin "meddling" in US internal affairs.
McFaul, who became one of the most outspoken proponents of the debunked theory that Moscow
"colluded" with the Trump campaign in 2016, expressed his disappointment on Twitter that
Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to offer his congratulations to the Democratic
nominee, who declared himself president-elect on Saturday.
"Has Putin joined the chorus of world leaders in congratulating Biden yet? I haven't see
(sic) the statement. Do post if its (sic) out," he wrote. ... Earlier in the day, Fijian Prime
Minister Frank Bainimarama became the first world leader to offer his congratulations to the
former vice president, expressing hope that Biden would help the world navigate a "climate
emergency." Reditus_sum 7 hours ago No doubt that President Putin will be in touch with
Biden if and when he wants to and feels that it is warranted, I really can't imagine how Biden
would cope in any negotiations with one of the sharpest analytical and political minds in the
world today. orseface11 Reditus_sum 6 hours ago Good Lord, that would be a sad state of
affairs. RadicalGoat 8 hours ago So far, only the vassal states have acknowledged Biden's
victory.
As Pelosi recently said, " we have more arrows in our quiver". Nothing could bring
this country to its knees more than massive voter fraud, other than total nuclear
annuhilation.
Russia Hoax. Racism Hoax. Impeachment Hoax. Corona Hoax. Mail-in Ballot Hoax. Election Hoax.
All one big interconnected operation to sabotage and remove a President, against the will of
the people.
8 Nov, 2020 13:56 / Updated 8 hours ago Get short URL
...the Trump campaign has alleged that droves of dead people voted in Philadelphia, and that
staff there illegally counted late-arriving mail ballots.
Giuliani called the "Philadelphia Democrat machine" "brazen," and claimed that the
late heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier and actor Will Smith's grandfather both voted in previous
elections in the city after their deaths.
"I bet Biden dominated this group," he tweeted. "We will find out."
The infamous Steele Dossier has been discredited by Russian
journalists , while here in DC it's becoming clear that, whoever wins once all the votes
are counted, America will have to contend with the fact that very nearly half of voters still
chose Trump the second time around despite his handling of the coronavirus crisis and
without
much help from Moscow .
... And when Biden calls Trump Putin's puppy? Putin himself has said comments like these
lend Russia "some extraordinary
influence and power," without having to do hardly anything yourself.
If Trump leaves the White House, he may leave as a convenient optical illusion of Russia's
relative influence, but one that has created a lot more problems for Russia in his wake than it
has solved.
While many seem to prefer a multi-millionaire tycoon that inexplicably became a politician,
you prefer a politician that inexplicably became a multi-millionaire. That's fine, but I
don't recall hearing any consistent policy from Joe Biden other than his promises to not be
Donald Trump.
The truth is that you don't like Trump, or perhaps you don't like his policies. Don't
pretend you did an analysis and decided that Biden has better policies, as we haven't seen
any of Biden's policies.
You are fine with ignoring Biden's threats to withhold aid from the Ukraine unless they do
XYZ, but it's a "thug's approach" when Trump does it?
Are you asserting that no criminal action occurred, or that the criminal action that did
occur had no effect on the outcome?
There is substantial clear and concrete evidence of criminal action. Are you denying that?
Denying that undeniable fact makes you appear either hopelessly partisan or easily duped.
More on that later.
Did the criminal action which undeniably occurred affect the outcome of the election? That
is a logical question, the answer of which remains unknown. If the answer is "yes," then the
"election was stolen." If no, then it wasn't "stolen."
We don't yet know the answer to that question. If you want to remain credible, you should
wait until the answer is known. If the answer is never know (as now appears may be the case),
so be it. You should refrain from making bold assertions about things that aren't known.
I don't really care that much about Trump or Biden. I do care deeply about the integrity
of elections. I'd rather have President Biden than see Trump re-elected through fraud. While
my personal politics are closer to Trump's policies than the Democrats' (as Biden has no
policies), my respect for the system is far greater than my concern for the politics. I find
both men boorish and uninteresting.
This is a very dangerous point in our history. If you don't understand that, understand
this: There are two kinds of people in the world, predators and prey. Our system of checks
and balances is all we have to keep us from being nothing more than predators and prey. If
you choose not to see this, understand that you are lunch, nothing more.
"The statute is very, very clear," said retired Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael
Gableman - who served as a Milwaukee poll watcher on Election Day. "If an absentee ballot
does not have a witness address on it, it's not valid. That ballot is not valid."
"In defiance of and direct contradiction to the statute, the Wisconsin Elections
Commission gave guidance--that is, cover--to all 72 county clerks and turned the statute
on his head," Gableman added. "They said, 'Gee, we know the law says an absentee ballot
without the witness address is not valid, but county clerk, you have a duty to go ahead
and look up on your own the witness' address if there's no address on the absentee
ballot."
According to the report, the WEC informed voters that "your witness must sign and
provide their full address (street number, street name, city) in the Certification of
Witness section," adding "if any of the required information above is missing, your
ballot will not be counted."
On October 19, the WEC instructed clerks to 'simply fill in the witness address
themselves so that the ballot would not be invalidated.'
A street party erupted in front of the White House after Joe Biden declared himself the
victor in the electoral contest with Donald Trump on Saturday, with similar mass acts of
jubilation popping up in cities around the country.
Footage shows a sea of people, crammed like sardines, singing in front of the president's
Washington, DC residence. In New York City, merrymakers danced and chanted in Washington Square
Park. On the other side of the country, there was "fireworks, champagne and dancing in the
streets of LA," the Los Angeles Times reported , as people toasted
the projected president-elect.
The
crowd outside the White House celebrating Joe Biden's projected victory is blaring YMCA -- the
song President Trump closed out his latest rallies with.
"... I am amazed with American engineers. Russian ones managed only to preserve Lenin's corpse. American ones made their corpse speak. ..."
"... But listen to him describe the voter fraud. No stutter or slurring. He carefully picked his words. https://www.brighteon.com/d3c75a7b-96d3-474a-aac6-009110517901 ..."
Now that the American media have sanctified Joe Biden as President-Elect, despite ongoing
lawsuits, recounts, and no state certifications, many of the world's leaders were quick to
virtue-signal their support for the Harris administration.
"Kamala Harris is absolutely prepared to be president." Christine Pelosi, Chair of the
California Democratic Party Women's Caucus, says the vice president-elect Kamala Harris is in
a strong position to be the Democrats next presidential nominee in 2024.
While "declaring victory" was abhorrent just 24 hours ago, it is now apparently okay among
social media giants as massive super-spreader-events swarm across the nation to celebrate the
end of the virus, the end of oppression, the end of racism, the end of hitler, the end of white
supremacy, and the beginning of a new blue dawn... or something like that.
We suspect Biden's address will be full of the usual "unifying" themes , just as his earlier
statement was:
My fellow Americans - I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have
placed in me and in Vice President-elect Harris. In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a
record number of Americans voted. Proving once again, that democracy beats deep in the heart
of America. With the campaign over, it's time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind
us and come together as a nation. It's time for America to unite. And to heal . We are the
United States of America. And there's nothing we can't do, if we do it together.
The pre-victory-speech warm-up...
naughty.boy , 21 minutes ago
I am amazed with American engineers. Russian ones managed only to preserve Lenin's corpse.
American ones made their corpse speak.
Billy the Poet , 20 minutes ago
There are still a few glitches in the system.
Biden: "I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize trunalimunumaprzure."
Think November 22, 1963 minus the bullets. The Deep State employs mainstream media to get
you to believe whatever convoluted story they want to sell you. Sleepy Joe has a holster full
of magic bullets.
@Anatoly
Karlin ps would rather have more influence in governing than less, but they aren't
particularly troubled by dem victory (principled defeat forms a big part of their rhetoric
and the basis of many rep careers). Both the senior and junior members of the ruling class
would truly like to see Trump gone, the faction that Trump represents is a very small
minority in American government, without much institutional influence. And in this election
in particular they made out like bandits, flipped a lot of seats to their side, and got rid
of the primary opponent of principled cuckservatism, win-win! Seems to me when the defense
and the prosecution both want the same thing, arguments in favor of a "fair" process should
be viewed with extreme suspicion.
Well as long as there are excuses for all the horse shit, then I'm satisfied. Especially
since those excuses are coming from the same power structure that gave us weapons of mass
destruction and Trump is a Russian asset.
So how many times has Donnie said he was going to do something and then didn't follow
through? ICE raids, wall, border security, Hillbags in prison, Russiagate investigations,
etc., etc., etc.
So now Donnie is going to fight this election fraud (which BTW he created a task force in
2017 and then quickly disbanded). And you actually believe it.
LOL.
fxrxexexdxoxmx2 , 20 minutes ago
Anyone surprised the same media who protected and worked for the Biden campaign are
working with him to claim an ilegall victory?
I think calling it Harris (Biden) administration is a bit childish. Harris will have about as
much effect on policy as Pence had during last 4 four years. Certainly nothing like Cheney.
And she won't be the Dems candidate in four years.
Chris Sweeney, UK reporter, says" Britain died for me, its become a Covid-obsessed police
state."He further writes that the courageous spirit that defines Britain is disappearing. Do
you feel the same about the US. I do. The response to the lockdown and masks etc. sends brave
loggers here in the Catskill into a state of child-like fear . Who said there is a sucker
born every minute.
Lukashenko-about the US elections: It's a disgrace! This is a mockery of democracy. We will
see how the OSCE responds to this and how the German Parliament will demand a second election
in America. Because everything was corrupted there!
I can now say how they will react. They will do nothing! They will be too afraid!
@Grahamsno(G64) ries and
therefore deserves to die. So, we are justified in killing them
What good would it do any commenter to provide you with data when you've already dismissed
their claims as the kind of conspiracy theory Mr. Kaplan has rubbished? Which, as
interesting and as thought-provoking as Mr. Kaplan's article is, he has not in fact
rubbished. No. You're not interested in data. You're interested in confirmation bias. Since
that is what you start with that's what you'll get – every single time.
And now we're back to why the country's falling apart. Because that's the real heart of
the matter.
You acknowledge that there is a systematic and organized effort, a conspiracy, dare I say,
on the part of the Media, Tech giants, and Democratic Party to systematically censor,
basically, the entire Country, BUT .
The very same actors couldn't organize a massive vote fraud because they would get
caught.
You have managed a twofer, logically inconsistent, and wrong. They have been "caught " it
just doesn't matter.
On election night in Portland (3 Nov., 2020), hundreds of BLM-antifa protesters shut down the streets of a residential area of
southeast Portland, Ore. They confronted people at their homes. In one instance, they stopped outside the home of a couple with a
"Biden Harris" sign, accusing them of white supremacy. They then rob another man of his phone for recording them.
I would also add Bolton to complete the list of crazy-hawk Trump appointees.
While some credit is due to Trump not starting any wars, I have to think it was
unintentional on Trump's part, as evidenced by the same list of ultra aggressive foreign
policy advisors he appointed.
More likely, the subpar crop of new wars was the result of the foreign policy apparatus
refusing to give his administration the authority to launch any original policy of their own.
Venezuela, Iran, Yemen, Syria were continuations of existing policy, and sponsored by
"respected" interests (respectively: by the Oil Industry, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and all of
the above).
The biggest foreign policy initiative of all, cold war with China, is a long term
bipartisan project.
In 2013 he told the Ukrainian government that it can't use police force against
"demonstrators".
The police were the "bad guys" if they stopped the violent protesters. This game has boomeranged back to the USA in 2020.
Ironically we got the same guy who pushed this theme in Kiev in 2013:
In 2013 Joe Biden went to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and warned the government not to
harm the demonstrators. That act made clear to the world that the US was allied with them,
if not orchestrating the demonstrations and then the subsequent coup against the elected
government.
@another
anon Who are destroying cities despite every single broadcast of the protests showing
fires, bricks, looting and black clad maniacs rioting in the streets while holding antifa
flags and shields with the drawings of the hammer and sickle on them.
Added to this is the
high IQ people insisting that even if the rioters are burning down democratic cities while
the democratic leadership refuses to charge them and sets them free time and again, the
protests are still peaceful.
Whatever the hell makes up the left, it is not smart high IQ people. It is a loose
coalitions of insane maniacs who have gone off their medication.
"The U.S. urged leaders in Ivory Coast to stick to a "democratic" election process hours
after President Trump prematurely declared victory."
I call for a delegation from Bolivia to come and watch the elections in the USA and make
sure they go as planned because clearly no one in the USA is capable of handling this
This tweet pretty much sums up the dysfunctionality of the election:
Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
·
17h
If Latinos turned out for Trump in record numbers, Biden can be consoled by the fact that
dead people seem to have turned out for him in record numbers. Incredible turnout!
#ElectionResults2020
b
But hey, they found another bag of 'mailed in' ballots.
LOL. It's ok, Biden took the lead no need to "find" any more mail-in ballots.
Mature ballots often play around with the other ballots, between them, they produce from
one to over a thousands baby ballots, and baby ballots take longer to count; so please just
be patient.
A Pew poll indicated that roughly half of Clinton and Trump supporters were more motivated
by opposing the other side's candidate than backing their own.
In the end, the future of the United States and, in many ways, the rest of the world, will be
decided not by the American voter, but a much more nefarious form of life – the
American lawyer.
thanks for your analysis b, since it now looks certain that the Democrats stole this
election, what do you think the long term consequences of this will be for the US
I doubt
the Trump supporters will ever accept Biden/Harris what will they do over the next few years.
Will we see a impeach Biden/Harris movement in 2022, if the Republicans take the house?
Biden outperforms Senators in swing states, underperforms in VA, NH, RI
Biden underperforms Hillary/Obama in cities, except in MI, PA, GA, WI
Biden mail-in dumps with 100% margins
GOP lose ZERO House races
Something is definitely off.
JoePesci , 21 minutes ago
You don't get it, they perpetrated fraud in broad daylight. There is no secrecy. You don't
need to study it. It is a brazen seizure of power, message of intimidation, and demonstration
that the general populace is too mentally and physically weak to put up any resistance, and
that they system is so rotten no one would risk anything to defend it. This is a classic
socialist takeover. Our species repeats itself over and over. Go read about the October
Revolution, French Revolution, Red Revolution, or a dozen other Revolutions. What follows is
equally predictable. Redistribuion. Angry retributive terror. 5 year brutal civil war.
Political infighting. Power struggle. Totalitarianism. Total enslavement of 99.999% of
people. The answer....i dont know. The right wing resistance loses the civil war, not that it
shouldn't be fought, but that is what will happen. No matter how armed or well trained
militarily they are. If you have any creative ideas to resist this movement, you could save
humanity and change it forever by stopping this repetitious cycle.
ZENDOG , 18 minutes ago
That's nice.....now repeat after me.....
"Kamala is the president."
mtumba , 7 minutes ago
Then, repeat after me: "Kamala's handlers are president."
Remember, Hillary and all the Democrats (and virtually all the press) said that Trump
"stole" an election with a few Russian troll Facebook ads (that nobody saw).
Here, Trump's
supporters are saying there was an organized effort in heavy-Democratic/urban centers - just
in Swing States - to harvest illegal votes in a myriad of well-known ways.
DaBard51 , 21 minutes ago
DuckDuckGo gives this as the most relevant when search term is
Bernie Sanders: "We need a federal minimum wage of at least $15/hr."
Joe Biden: "I beat the Socialist!"
Florida: *Votes for $15 statewide minimum wage, and *not* Joe Biden*
Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is not socialism. It is an insurance policy,
brought to you by capitalism. Bernie Sanders is not a socialist. He is a capitalist and a
sheepdog for the Democrats. His only role is to corral the progressive vote for his party. He
is a complete fraud and he will hand the baton of fraudster to Ocasio Cortez at some time in
the future.
Quote; Democrat Abigail Spanberger was losing her race to a Republican challenger until
14,000 ballots were suddenly found on a flash drive. What a stroke of luck.
far_cough 2 hours ago i find it amazing that americans may elect a president who is barley
conscious. stunning... Reply 5 Roman far_cough 29 minutes ago Maybe they are in the same
condition...
Indeed, we can use beijing biden's words against him:
" Secondly, we're in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our
administration -- President Obama's administration before this -- we have put together I
think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American
politics. " Joe Biden - October 24, 2020
Confidence In Our Electoral Process
- We have met the enemy and it is us
----
The blather was everywhere, all the time, not just for months, but years:
Examples a plenty,
"Fiona Hill warns of Russia undermining confidence in U.S. democracy before elections"
October 27, 2020
'Chaos Is the Point': Russian disinfo undermining confidence in democracy
NED, National Endowment for Democracy January 10, 2020
Russia remains more potent threat of election interference despite administration focus on
Iran
WaPo Oct. 22, 2020
"The FBI said late Wednesday that Russia and Iran have taken action to undermine US
confidence in the upcoming elections."
CNet Oct. 22, 2020
------
We have met the enemy but will we learn?
And will the Deep State pundits ever shut up?
You already know the answer.
------
While searching out the above quotes I came across an amusing quote
from a CIA funded Russian dissident
now living in New York. What do you suppose the CIA would have
their paid mouthpiece say?
"Russian democracy is a farce."
Garry Kasparov 7/5/2020
"Maybe Trump and Biden could publicly draw straws to get over with it."
No way.
We need a combination of wrestling match, boxing, pistol duel, swordfight, jousting with
lances, arm-wrestling, chess, swim across the English Channel, motor rally, horse race,
tiddlywinks plus more that I haven't thought of yet.
I never engage in party politics. But the upcoming US elections is above and beyond all that. From a climate perspective it's
very far from enough and many of you of course supported other candidates. But, I mean you know damn! Just get organized and get
everyone to vote #Biden
It seems that we all will have to fill up our popcorn supplies as the rather comical and
disgraceful
process of U.S. vote counting is likely to continue until maybe December 8, the safe harbor date on
which the states will have to certify their electors.
The race is nowhere near where the Democrats and their supporting media had expected it to
go. Just last week polls claimed that Biden would lead in Wisconsin
by 17 percent . The current margin is a rather dubious
0.6 percent which upcoming recounts may well eliminate.
That the Democrats lose House seats, do not win the Senate and barely manage to drag their
demented presidential candidate towards a stalemate tells a lot about their lack of sane
policies. A donor party completely disinterested in what the people really want - medicare for
all, no fracking etc. - will have little chance to survive a future onslaught of conservatives
with a more competent figure head than Donald Trump.
There will be protests, probably violent ones, and more legal action from either side. I see
no comprise possible that would satisfy both parties. I fear that, should Trump lose this
election.
Trumpism will only grow and make the U.S. ungovernable.
Maybe Trump and Biden could publicly draw straws to get over with it.
The US election has finally taken place. During the campaign, both candidates have totally
avoided the critical issue that will bring the US down in the next four years. The election
campaign has been ugly but totally avoided the monumental problem facing the American
people.
Clearly neither of them wanted to tell the voters that he will take over the running of a
totally bankrupt country that is likely to collapse economically, financially and morally in
the next four years.
Funny thing on CNN site past hours, their headline claims there is a tight race and they
still have Biden at 224 and Trump 213 electoral votes, funny since Fox have Biden at 238
which they have had for like 5 hours already. https://edition.cnn.com/
Surely CNN realize their side have already won?
You just can't trust those cunning Russkies. They fake their Trump support thingy in 2016
just so they can get Biden and Harris in for 2020. They had this planned all along and the
USA deep state are planted with Russian commies. Podesta must have known this all along.
High time to send observers, otherwise the international community shall not recognize the
legitimacy of the results.... A US Guaidó is needed, then the MSM can tell the world
that over fifty countries call him president,
15 Reasons Trump wins. And I saw that as a Kanye voter
1. Karentocracy
2. Blue Lives Matter
3. Burn, Loot, Murder
4. Pudding brain Biden
5. Kamala Harris
6. Gun sales
7. Green New Deal
8. Suburban security Moms
9. Huntergate
10. Second Debate: Lockdowns, kids in cages, anti fracking
11. Millennial no shows in early voting
12. Lopsided Get Out the Vote game ground
13. Early vote parity instead of massive Dem lead
14. 20/40 - 20% black votes, 40% Hispanic votes for Trump
15. Trump hustles, while Biden hides - effort matters
Reminds me a Colombian( ?) movie I watched in my youth, with one memorable side theme. A
side character runs for the Senate in his country, as can be seen from the billboards with
his visage and slogan "Onofre e differente".
Campaigning is exhausting, so our candidate
relaxes in the company of a professional provider of relaxing services. He asks her "What do
people say about me?" "That you are worse than others." "Why?" "Because you are different."
That is what you get when you do not use professional political analysts. In this vein, Trump
is different and Biden is not.
Centrism is not the winning hand against right-wing populism, something parties in Europe
had better learn fast. In this case, the donkeys in America already knew that, but decided to
test Einstein's law to destruction. Trying the same thing over again and expecting a different
result is indeed a definition of madness.
All of the above is true, whatever the final result of the imbroglio.
Trump's brazen press conference in which he simultaneously claimed victory and fraud was
exactly what a right-wing populist would do. And perfectly timed – he was well ahead in
the Midwest rust-belt when inexplicable abandonment of counting for the night was the optimal
moment to cry-foul. Trump might be a moron, but he certainly ain't stupid.
The 'Karen' meme – which came to prominence earlier this year, describes an overly
interfering, obnoxious, self-entitled female who always tries to police other people's behavior
and 'complain to the manager'.
The left tried to hijack the meme by asserting that its common stereotype was a white woman,
almost always a Trump supporter, who unfairly called the police on black people because she is
racist.
Its other main trope was a mentally deficient but loudly boisterous white woman who got into
arguments with store employees and other customers by refusing to wear a face mask.
However, as the video below highlights, anecdotal evidence suggests 'Karens' are just as
likely to be vehement leftist control freaks who are righteously indignant in lecturing others
about not wearing masks or maintaining 'social distancing'.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/AA6_GuZOyAI
While 'Karen' is just a meme used to describe the behavior of people who may not actually be
called Karen, the fact that a clear majority of Karens are voting for Biden goes some way to
overturning the meme being used as a pejorative to ridicule people on the right and Trump
supporters.
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numbers for the Clintons, Secret Service officers and most of the Obama cabinet plus his sex
and drug addictions - all secured by the password Hunter02 - Daily Mail
I think my favourite one is Hunter's credit card being rejected for insufficient funds by
some webcam porn site. The son of Captain Credit Cards Joe 'Mr Delaware' Biden... oh the
irony!
If this is humor, this is very dark humor. The saddest thing of all in this is that very
little of Glenn's excellent article is new. One of Donald Trump's presidency greatest
accomplishment has been to show me how the main stream media 'plays' its dirty games... The
entire mainstream media collectively abandoned its integrity during the last decade.
It's beyond what Orwell could have ever possibly imagined. Targeted gaslighting on an
individual basis using social media to brainwash people into believing whatever they want you
to believe?
I just paid for an annual subscription out of a total frustration with the current
outrageous, unfair, evil and dishonest media situation in the US (and elsewhere also).
Totalitarism is approaching and I have decided to participate in the fight against the
threatening darkness. Good luck.
' Don't worry, though, I'll get back on the horse when the post-election rioting
begins, and Donald Trump finally goes full-Hitler, declares himself Führer, dissolves
the Congress, and orders his legions of Russia-loving white supremacists to start rounding up
the Jews, as the corporate media, the fake "left" media, the Intelligence Community, the
Democratic Party, fascism experts, Hollywood celebrities, and every hysterical liberal in
existence have been promising he would since 2016.'
What does it say that this image is starting to have its appeal?
So, according to the corporate media, this is it for Russian-backed Hitler. Game over. The
walls are closing in. It's the last days of the Trumpian Reich. Get those vuvuzelas ready!
Slappy and Kamala will immediately fly down and liberate the
concentration camps . Trump will face some sort of Nuremberg trial, where he will have to
answer for mass-murdering six million people with the Coronavirus by taking off his mask on the
White House balcony.
Hillary Clinton will be appointed something.
Exuberant liberals will pour into the streets, chanting unintelligible slogans through their
designer masks and plastic head bubbles. OK, sure, the global economy will be ruined, and
millions of people will be unemployed, and homeless, or will have needlessly died, so that
GloboCap could simulate an apocalyptic global plague, and foment racialized civil unrest, and
just generally create an atmosphere of confusion, depression, and paranoia, but the War on Populism
will finally be over and GloboCap will start to "
Build Back Better !"
Trump has been the crappiest Hitler ever. The Trump-Reich was totally fake and gay. I
think Mr. Hopkins was the one who first noted this fact in a previous article here on Unz. He
is correct that this imposter is even worse than the fake Hitler from the fake Broadway show
Springtime for Hitler . Princess Kali Hindoo-Dindoo will surely prove to be a more
accurate parallel to the fabled führer of Germany than Bad Orange Man.
Trump will chicken out, he simply does not have the personality to work from a position of
underdog, rally a real storm. in the case he is declared the loser of the election, if not,
Trump will be fine, as any other lamp-post. Any outcome will suit the agenda.
So glad our gladiator journalist helps to stir the election hype some further. It was a
long slug up to November. What's next Soccer, the Olympics, the surplus population needs a
change of heart. Christmas and Santa Claus for the kids?
Hence, the War on Populism that we have been experiencing for the last four years and
whatever new, dystopian stage of it that awaits us in the post-Trump future .
That's not for another four years, in case anyone's wondering.
Don't worry, though, I'll get back on the horse when the post-election rioting begins,
and Donald Trump finally goes full-Hitler, declares himself Führer, dissolves the
Congress, and orders his legions of Russia-loving white supremacists to start rounding up
the Jews, as the corporate media, the fake "left" media, the Intelligence Community, the
Democratic Party, fascism experts, Hollywood celebrities, and every hysterical liberal in
existence have been promising he would since 2016.
But the thing is, Trump never had to do any of those things to get leftists
triggered....
I believe that Americans' insatiable hunger for spite and spectacle can still win the day.
Even if the swamp can't be drained, at least we can vote a monkey wrench into their
machinery.
" as the corporate media, the fake "left" media, the Intelligence Community, the
Democratic Party, fascism experts, Hollywood celebrities, and every hysterical liberal in
existence have been promising he would since 2016 ."
Reminds me of how the corporate media, the fake "fair and balanced" media, the oxymoronic
Military Intelligence, the Republican Party, socialism experts, right-wing Hollywood/music
industry celebrities, and every hysterical regressive nancy in existence promised Obama was
going to take their guns! only to have Barack not change one scintilla of the
gun laws in his entire first term. No matter, the GOP trotted out the same line four years
later and once more firearm sales went through the roof. 'Cause if there's one thing the GOP
knows about their electorate, it's that they're a bunch of easily-duped fuckin' idiots.
They haven't settled on an official slogan yet. "The New Normal," "The Great Reset,"
"The Green New Deal" they're all just trial balloons at this point
I've been suggesting "The Green Leap Forward" for some time now but my genius continues to
go unrecognized.
If we start with perception management, we can propose something patently absurd: the
Artificial Creamer Party.
Recognize any familiar tactics in the following campaign strategy?
1) We shall insist on the separation of milk and state, and bar any organization affiliated
with milk from being eligible for public subsidies.
2) The rights of dairy farmers to marry, adopt children, and openly serve in the military
shall be considered morally objectionable and debated at every opportunity.
3) In the event of an election, the multiple evils of milk shall be used to distract the
public from questioning the candidates on anything.
4) Think tanks, foundations, and the political correctness police shall enforce the world's
perception of Artificial Creamer as a "bridge to the future," "the salvation of the global
village," "the right of the human family," "the key to sustainable development," and "the path
to lasting peace."
5) Artificial Creamer will win a Nobel Prize, in light of everything it might do to fill the
world with sparkle ponies.
See? Something for everyone. But that's just perception management. Here's the net
effect.
The only ones to benefit will be the 0. 13% who are lactose intolerant and the 7% who make
megabucks. It won't create U. S. jobs because it will be made in Botswana at the emancipating
wage of twenty- three cents a day so 40% of Americans can afford to buy it at Walmart. For the
50% who are destitute, the FDA will declare Artificial Creamer a food group so it can be
purchased with WIC and Food Stamps, lest there be a riot against unfairness or Artificial
Creamer should fail to cash in on its share of national social programs.
Aren't we ingenious? We might demand that great- grandpa bag groceries on an oxygen tank,
thirty years into retirement, to afford his hypertension medicine, and reduce his Social
Security if someone gives him a five dollar tip that puts him over the income limit.
But, by God, he can have Creamer -- in any flavor he wants it. This is a land of choice and
opportunity, damn it.
Which is all fine and good, but when Artificial Creamer doesn't prove to be everything it
said it was, we'll go back to milk (again). And milk will get carried away in an orgy of self-
indulgence until we return to Artificial Creamer (once more). Either way, we'll have the
satisfaction and euphoria of empowerment.
Or something, anyway.
If you're confused about U. S. principles and who's supposed to benefit, you may not be to
blame. We've responded to boom and bust cycles inherent to our development choices and other
countries' criticisms with different programs and palliatives over decades of continuity.
But it doesn't take a genius to see that the tyranny of science is fighting to replace the
tyranny of royalty- teamed- with- religion we rejected in the eighteenth century. Science is
the power that buttresses democracy and capitalism, also in the name of "progress." Not that we
won't play the God card when corruption is so glaring that it requires another support system
which is conveniently available in the form of religious sanction.
It's a function of self- esteem to seek affirmation of our beliefs and share safety in
numbers, but the existence of like- minded people who hold the same fears, hopes, values and
disappointments is what makes them predictable targets and therefore most vulnerable to
strategic manipulation. It's like handing over the remote control to your decision- making
power or wearing a badge on your sleeve
The politicians are like the Intel Agencies' zoo animals.
Gerrilea , 21 minutes ago
Now that gave a good chuckle...thank you.
:)
gregga777 , 1 hour ago
The "real issue" is the elite culture that produced and supports Biden. Looking at the
family, you can tell it's just a bunch of degenerate mobster politicians. They're not even
good at what they do. Who's behind them? Who is pushing Joe forward?
Among others it's Globalist corporations like AT&T (CNN), Disney (ABC), ViacomCBS
(CBS), Comcast-Universal (NBC, MSNBC), Amazon (Washington Post). Not coincidentally those
corporations also own the B01sheviks Mainstream Media & Entertainment Oligopoly.
Cheap Chinese Crap , 3 hours ago
And, no, I don't feel bad for R. Hunter Biden, nor is he a victim.
He is a WLLLING PARTICIPANT in his father's vast corruption schemes and lived mega-large
while the living was good.
The Devil doesn't steal souls. They are sold by their owners.
He could have walked away but he didn't.
And it makes me wonder how corrupt his brother was since that was Joe's fair-haired boy
until he died from spending too much time on a cell phone.
I will take substance over style anyway. DJT is good enough for government work . He's the
one married to a super model half his age and has jets with his name on the sides btw
Recently 2018, the richest 10 percent of American households held 70 percent of total
household wealth, up from 60 percent in 1989. The lower- and middle-class saw "essentially
zero net gains in wealth" over the past 30 years. Their share of total wealth went down to
just 1 percent from 4 percent.
When will the 90% of USA households be at 0 ?
Yes, he is a blathering, bullshitting salesman who built hotels and had a reality TV show.
But he didn't start any wars. Bombed the odd airstrip, but that was about it. Who was the
last President you could say that about? If he loses, strap in for more wars, possibly even
the Big One. And as for China, before we get too awestruck about their economic 'miracle' --
which was remarkable -- note that their money supply (M2) is 2.5 times their GDP. $2.50 for
every $1 they need for their economy. Why? To prop up a banking system that is a total Ponzi
scheme. To say they have an internal debt problem doesn't begin to cover it. Sure, it allowed
them to build super fast trains and cities with no-one in them, but they can't get Chinese
people to consume because they are all desperately saving for health care. The public health
care is dreadful. It was a miracle, sure, but full of holes (which makes it no less
impressive).
Blaming Russia seems to be today's version of the dog ate my homework.
ariadnatheo, 1 day ago
I am disappointed that Russia once again interfered in the US elections without using
Novichok.
TrishArch, 1 day ago
Always Russia's Fault. Little wonder no one listens to biden.
The_Celotajs, 1 day ago
Like Russian President Vladimir Putin once said, Russia has no need to interfere in the
United States Elections when they have the Democrats doing it to themselves.
brianeg, 15 hours ago
There was of course an obvious Russian connection and that was the $3.5 million given by the
wife of the Mayor of Moscow to Hunter. Was this a birthday present or what?
Doodle_Dandy, 1 day ago
One wonders when Masha and the Bear will get the blame?
The tripartite system of government, devised by our founding "parents" 230+ years ago, has
broken down into endless partisan fighting. What's happening in today's politics is more akin
to what goes on in the parliamentary system where politicians are always at each others
throats. Bipartisanship is not natural to politics.
The presidency is an unwieldy office. It was devised as a democratically elected king with
extraordinary powers. It should be broken up into 2 parts. Neither Trump nor Biden measure up
to the job.
The USA is run by a 2 party duopoly controlled by special interests. It is a
corruption.
Many of us read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry when we were children
and remember what the main character said: "It's a question of discipline. When you've
finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. It's very tedious
work, but very easy."
I am sure that we must keep doing this "tedious work" if we want to preserve our common
home for future generations. We must tend our planet.
The subject of environmental protection has long become a fixture on the global agenda.
But I would address it more broadly to discuss also an important task of abandoning the
practice of unrestrained and unlimited consumption – overconsumption – in favour
of judicious and reasonable sufficiency, when you do not live just for today but also think
about tomorrow.
We often say that nature is extremely vulnerable to human activity. Especially when the
use of natural resources is growing to a global dimension. However, humanity is not safe from
natural disasters, many of which are the result of anthropogenic interference. By the way,
some scientists believe that the recent outbreaks of dangerous diseases are a response to
this interference. This is why it is so important to develop harmonious relations between Man
and Nature.
The expense report processor Expensify is doing its best to scare its 10 million customers
into voting for Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying anything less is "a vote
against democracy" and may lead to "civil war."
David Barrett, CEO of the San Francisco-based company, said in an email
blasted out to all of Expensify's customers on Thursday that the US is "facing an
unprecedented attack on the foundations of democracy itself." Anyone who votes for
President Donald Trump, votes for a third-party candidate, or doesn't cast a ballot is showing
that they are "comfortable standing aside and allowing our democracy to be methodically
dismantled, in plain sight," he added.
Barrett didn't detail how he thinks Trump is destroying democracy, saying only that he
believes the president is trying to suppress votes. As a provider of expense-management
software, he said, "Expensify depends on a functioning society and economy.
Ironically, his mass email may jeopardize that position more so than Trump's re-election. In
reaction, Newsmax TV host John Cardillo said he's deleting his Expensify account and will never
use the software again. The Hill TV host Saagar Enjeti called Barrett's email "completely
insane for a $100+ million financial services company and the logical end point of woke
capital."
This was a part of Lavrov interview in which he announced changed of Russia foreign policy
toward EU... For those who understand language here is the link YouTube
It's good to see you commenting here as barflies seem more inclined to listen to you than
me.
Did you watch Russian documentary on
The Wall , which I learned about from Lavrov's meeting with those doing business
within Russia on 5 Oct? I asked The Saker if his translation team would take on the task of
providing English subtitles or a voice over but never got a reply one way or the other.
...Mr. Lavrov, he surprised the radio station interviewers by citing Semyon Slepakov's song
"America Doesn't Like Us," of which barfly Paco thankfully provided a translation of the
lyrics.
Patriotic-Erotic America doesn't like us... And England doesn't like us... And Germany
doesn't like us... For centuries - it's a fact. France also doesn't like us... Japan also
doesn't like us... Quite simply: none of them like us... But each one is bursting to fuck!
But with no love we cannot, we cannot do it... And with no love we do not, we do not want
it... This feeling for us is one of the prime importance, With none of love - we'll give them
no consent! They all starve for us as for floozy - Make us drunk, and make down in an alley.
They wanna just stealthily approach While we are all inspired of Crimea. ... ... ...
"... There is no fool like an old American fool. Like Joe Biden, for instance. In the last presidential "debate" he called Xi Jinping and Putin "thugs." What does this tell you about the state of American diplomacy? ..."
I'm not even a US American but I recall deep my embarrassment when watching the vulgar
Hillary Clinton handling herself in the presence of Sergey Lavrov – around the time of
the excruciating "reset" event.
And today you guys have Pompeo for Christ sake! How can you stand the shame – where
do you get these people?
There is no fool like an old American fool. Like Joe Biden, for instance. In the last
presidential "debate" he called Xi Jinping and Putin "thugs." What does this tell you about
the state of American diplomacy?
Sure, Joe is trying to win cheap political points by catering to the abysmally ignorant
and savagely russophobic average American voters. But at what political cost to the country
he represents! And what exactly does this old American fool want to do when he says that
Russia and China will "pay a price."
What can America do to the world's supreme military power (Russia) and to the world's
supreme economic power (China)? Particularly now that these two superpowers are working
together.
How senile and stupid has Biden become! He stopped developing intellectually about 50
years ago. And now he never will.
The senility may be new but joe biden has always been stupid. One of the only people on
the planet that can stick both of his feet in his mouth at the same time.
Crowdstrike attributed emails to Iran based upon a video attachment. Try not to laugh -
DARE YOU.
"The video showed the hackers' computer screen as they typed in commands to purportedly
hack a voter registration system. Investigators noticed snippets of revealing computer
code, including file paths, file names and an internet protocol (IP) address."
Firepower is not the only way to win a war. Today, it's not Russia, but the USA that is a
vastly overstretched empire; and the Atlanticist vassals running the EU are nothing without
their master in the White House.
I wouldn't be too confident that a country that spends both an inordinate amount of money
and an inordinate amount of time to build a piece of shit like the F-35 is ahead in military
technology. The rot has become all-pervasive in the U.S. The development of any weapons
system, as every other major endeavor in the Washington swamp, is now crippled by massive
corruption, gross incompetence, lawsuits of all kinds, "minority set-asides", and
preposterous claptrap in general. What's more, it will only get worse as "diversity"
increases and as the Democrat Party acquires a monopoly on power thanks to that
"diversity".
The US has the firepower, yes, but why? We all know the military industry is all about
money, money, money. And attacking countries that can't respond.
When the US goes to war it is not to win, its to expend expensive weaponry for years as in
Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq etc.
The Russians don't claim military superiority over the US, but they have developed the
defensive capability to give the US sufficient blood noses. As has China. Somebody has to
keep the hawkes in check from dropping ever more bombs.
@Ray
Caruso ption. under bidding that inevitably leads to cost overruns combined with doctored
test results (ala the stars wars program) has cost the u.s. any advantage they ever had in
technology. both the russian and chinese have provided their citizenry with low cost or no
cost quality education in math and science giving them a pool of low cost qualified personal
for their defense programs. i dont see all this in a negative light as i see the russians and
chinese as far less dangerous than the neo-con turds running the u.s. and their e.u. vassals
(into the ground). what i worry about is the monkeys knocking over the chess board when they
realize they dont know how to play the game.
We have, for instance, Lieven focusing on the current top two, great interlocking
challenges: climate change and the fact that "350 years of Western and 250 years of
Anglo-American predominance are coming to an end."
I was under the impression this was about serious topics, not liberal claptrap. My
mistake.
Every problem [neo]liberal cockroaches claim is a calamity -- discrimination against
"transgender women of color", police brutality, systemic racism, COVID-19, the Chinese
crackdown on Uyghur militants and the Hong Kong chapter of Antifa, and, of course, "climate
change" -- is imaginary, inconsequential, or an actual positive.
Everything liberals claim to be a positive or dismiss as inconsequential -- "diversity",
mass Third World immigration, Moslem barbarity, BLM and Antifa riots, rigged elections, the
normalization of sodomy, feminism, sexual liberation -- is a calamity.
For all practical purposes Biden work as a well paid lobbyist for China.
Notable quotes:
"... So Navalny was "poisoned by Putin" and sent to a Berlin hospital so that conclusion could be defined ? USSR was so incompetent with bio-weapons it cannot create a lethal organophosphate poison yet US/Uk can develop VX which worked definitively on King Jong-Un's half-brother ! ..."
So Navalny was "poisoned by Putin" and sent to a Berlin hospital so that conclusion could
be defined ? USSR was so incompetent with bio-weapons it cannot create a lethal
organophosphate poison yet US/Uk can develop VX which worked definitively on King Jong-Un's
half-brother !
Then again China can develop effective bio-weapons which expose the E=West and especially
NATO armed forces as unprepared, incompetent, ineffectual and in Chinese terms "paper
tigers"
So more and more sanctions on Russia and more and more orders for PPE and other goodies
from China.
Russia is Post-Communist but China is VERY VERY Communist.
Putin apparently "interferes in US elections" but China simply buys up one of the parties
and owns the candidate and his family
You have the F35 program and you believe corruption to be cultural? It sure is though, 85%
of oligarchs are of a certain.. tribal persuasion after all.
youshallnotkill , 5 hours ago
No, I don't think it's cultural, I think it's funny to pretend that you are protecting
culture when in fact you are protecting corruption. Your antisemitic smear nicely rounds out
the picture.
LibertarianMenace , 5 minutes ago
Facts have that unfortunate tendency to be, "anti-semitic, as you say, not me.
Vivekwhu , 5 hours ago
Stop denigrating the US [neoliberal] Dems. Corruption is not just part of the Dems
culture.
Note to self: Don't be a criminal if you have dementia.
Note to self: Don't hire your son to commit crimes if he is a crackhead.
karzai_luver , 30 minutes ago
Back when Joe had a brain it does show a ruthless MF'er that could be a decent pres.
Now he is jello.
Automatic Choke , 22 minutes ago
Joe never had a brain. We used to make jokes about his stupidity back in 1988 for his
repeated, relentless, blatant, mindless plagarism. He has been a joke of a politician ever
since.....quietly sitting in the background at times.....occasionally rearing his head above
the crowd to be laughed back down.
Last year, Bernie had the crowds, the votes, the momentum. Then all the sudden - the baton
passed to Joe. People were saying that Joe would be the nominee even before he won any
states...the script was written.
This isn't about Joe. It is about money and party power politics. Trump may be an
arrogant, obnoxious, son-of-a-bitxh that you wouldn't want to invite over for dinner, but he
is not a player of party politics, and everybody hates him for it. God I hope he wins
re-election. Given the crowd turnout, I can't imagine why he wouldn't.
No! This is clearly the work of the criminal Genius and master Mind Putin. Don't you
realize how good Russian intelligence is? They have been working towards this point for the
last 10 years, planting evidence, sowing the seeds etc. They used their mind control device
and Forced Hunter to smoke the crack and go after the little girls and take the money from
the Ukraine and China's companies, it was mind control./s
Maltheus , 9 hours ago
Honestly, all of these e-mails did make me slightly more sympathetic to Hunter. How can
you expect him to ever do the right thing, when his own dad is shaking him down for 50%? I'd
be a crack addict too, if I came from that family. All of that money and power and none of
them are happy.
This do not have Congressmen Schiff so this version did not got traction. Yet. Because Boris
Johnson is generally very close, as his behaviour during Skripals false flag suggests. BTW why
they need to inflate "Russian threat" if their own people can be sufficient for the annihilation
of the United Kingdom. Still let's wait for the Guardian to tell us about those evil
Russians
On Monday the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed a hugely embarrassing incident involving a
security and operations lapse aboard the British nuclear submarine HMS Vigilant while it
temporarily was docked during a mission at a US naval base, specifically Naval Submarine Base
Kings Bay in Georgia.
The officer in charge of overseeing the vessel's nuclear warheads arrived to his shift
"staggering drunk" while strangely carrying a bag of barbecue chicken .
The scene immediately sparked concern that the officer, later identified as Lt. Commander
Len Louw "was not in a fit state to be in charge of nuclear weapons" as there was something
"seriously wrong" according to
UK media reports .
... ... ...
The BBC noted
that as the weapons engineering officer on the submarine he was "responsible for all weapons
and sensors on board." The sub is armed with Trident ballistic missiles and is thus subject to
stringent safety and security measures.
And more astounding, according to the Daily Mail , i
s that :
The Royal Navy officer had been preparing to start a shift during which they would offload
the 16 nuclear missiles - which each weigh 60 tons and have the combined power to kill almost
the entire population of the UK.
He reportedly clocked in for his shift after a full night of drinking aboard one of only
four submarines that make up the UK's nuclear deterrent.
A week ago the nuclear sub was in the news due to a reported COVID-19 outbreak after crew
members were caught
breaking port call rules to go to strip clubs and bars.
No doubt American military authorities at Kings Bay naval base will also have serious
questions, considering they've just witnessed a significant operations lapse aboard a foreign
allied 'top secret' nuclear submarine docked in US waters.
_arrow
No1uNo , 17 hours ago
I raced Yachts with a UK Submarine commander for over a decade, this story is so out of
sync with the character and personalities recruited into probably one of the most responsible
jobs in the world - that the narrative asks many more questions than the story.
- Either he was spiked with a narcotic behaviour cocktail or what's being asked of him is
not within his ethics code that something broke.
Freeman of the City , 17 hours ago
Well stated, Military Esprit de corps standard of officer conduct, period. No one rises to
this level of responsibility without deep long term vetting.
This 'news' story sounds more like agitprop to undermine confidence in elite UK submariner
forces. Sedition within the UK govt, from Labour or Marxists...
Propaganda Phil , 17 hours ago
It came out 6 years ago that most of everyone manning our missile silos were cheating on
testing and using drugs. 9 USAF officers fired and around 100 were caught cheating. It only
was discovered when 2 of the cheaters were caught in a drug investigation.
& Secret Service getting high and banging hookers in Colombia.
Getting guys wasted ain't new. He just got caught.
No1uNo , 17 hours ago
Missile silos are a very different thing, such people can be inspected observed or called
out as needed. Subs are gone for months at a time and decisions made on own recognisance. As
Freeman says the vetting process is lengthy and those who get through it are precise
thoughtful engineering types and committed team players. Aside of that Subs are frequently
used to pick up and drop off espionage packages in locations that would create international
incidents if caught. The recruitment process is very very careful, whatever one's views on
Nuclear subs or nation states. I feel he was 'got at'
No1uNo , 16 hours ago
I still find this story incredible, these guys are not that well paid, most take it v.
carefully before going to richer defence sector for a few years before retirement. The hammer
can drop on them when they realise who they were fighting as 'enemies' were really desperate
people pushed to the edge by geopolitical designs and greed acquisitions of Military
Industrial Intelligence Complex. More will come out: honey trap, interrogation and drugging
or possibly as Propaganda Phil says - he lost it - perhaps from a drunken epiphany that
caused him to doubt belief in what he was doing?
Doctor Faustus , 15 hours ago
Maybe there was a family connection somewhere that allowed this officer in. Remember
Hunter Biden? Got kicked out of the Navy for cocaine. Only way he got in was through his dad,
Joe Biden.
Propaganda Phil , 14 hours ago
Like wrongway McCain the disaster of a pilot and admiral's son.
indus creed , 14 hours ago
Didn't McCain cause some major damage on the deck with some deaths? The affair was all
hushed up. He reportedly was escorted away by Navy police, as the sailors onboard wanted to
kill him.
Arrow4Truth , 13 hours ago
"who they were fighting as 'enemies' were really desperate people pushed to the edge by
geopolitical designs and greed acquisitions of Military Industrial Intelligence Complex."
Well said. It's never, ever delivered in that package, but instead called "National defence"
as Freeman put it. When one determines that the scenario you described is true it blows the
national defense theory all to hell... but most never make that jump because the repetitive
indoctrination has been soooo effective. Any argument that they must be alert to the
possibility that the "nation" could be under attack at any moment loses all it's luster when
one realizes that the "national interest" is the cause.
Ex-Oligarch , 14 hours ago
Upvoted, not because this behavior is unthinkable for military officers, but because of
the idea that the officer may have been drugged, or intentionally removing himself from his
command position.
Something about this story stinks.
Let's start with this: why was a British submarine offloading its nuclear missiles in a US
port?
U4 eee aaa , 13 hours ago
Just blame Putin. They do it everywhere else.
tyberious , 17 hours ago
Damn Russians!
Helg Saracen , 17 hours ago
Was it Novichok? :)
Eyes Opened , 9 hours ago
Yeah ... he slept it off ... like the other "victims" ... 😷
aaronvta , 16 hours ago
It was later verified that he had been drinking vodka. Authorities are looking into the
possibility of Russian influence.
Peterus , 17 hours ago
Oh well, that's an unfortunate lapse. But the more important thing for continuous safety
and prosperity of UK is that army hit diversity quotas for 2022 in sex, sexual orientation
and bame categories.
land_of_the_few , 16 hours ago
Their army can have tr@nny parties with spin the bottle to decide who gets the clinic pass
to have their t1ts sliced off -to make them a small, tubby boy! for real, yeah! - and who
gets the testosterone syringe for their butt cheeks so they can be proper Barnum & Bailey
sideshow exhibits.
Maybe UK needs soldiers that are already used to elective mutilation and self-inflicted
degradation?
Dr. Bendover , 17 hours ago
Now maybe Hunter Biden has a place to look for a real job.
Eyes Opened , 9 hours ago
I bet he curses like a sailor.. and he has a pipe... sure he's halfway qualified already
!! 🧐
trysophistry , 17 hours ago
Coming to a theater near you, The Hunt for a Molson Blue October.
Westsail32 , 15 hours ago
The Royal Navy officer had been preparing to start a shift during which they would
offload the 16 nuclear missiles - which each weigh 60 tons and have the combined power to
kill almost the entire population of the UK.
Definitely a missed opportunity.
Alice-the-dog , 16 hours ago
So what? The Democratic Party is hoping you elect a senile old criminal who doesn't
remember where he is and has trouble forming a comprehensible sentence to be in charge of the
entirety of US nuclear weapons.
thunderchief , 17 hours ago
"His condition was as fitting and useful and also as waistful and reckless, at the same
time, as the UK's need for a nuclear armed submarine fleet."
My own comment.
koan , 15 hours ago
U.S.S Hunter Biden
Svastic , 16 hours ago
I am surprised he didn't turn up in full drag. It's in keeping with the British character.
Furthermore, officers are often picked for their political correctness and old-boy
connections. Many are ho-mos.
Yamaoka Tesshu , 17 hours ago
Love how the "Daily Mail" hams up the fake nuke fear by telling us each missile can kill
everyone in the UK. In truth the Vigilant can deliver less destructive power than a single
B-52. But it's far more effective at looting the taxpayer while at the same time holding him
hostage to the threat of annihilation.
Anyone seeing through the scamdemic can analyze that template and discover it fits nicely
over the nuclear weapons con job.
This is the only conspiracy theory that cheers people up. But they downvote anyway. Just
like telling gays AIDS is fake. They get mad when they should be relieved.
Mad Muppet , 8 hours ago
Let me guess: he was drinking Vodka. Russian Vodka!!!!
I just knew it was Putin's fault.
Herodotus , 15 hours ago
The Russians drugged him. DNA samples taken from the barbecue chicken places its origin in
or around the Duchy of Muscovy.
10LBS_SHIT_5LB_BAG , 15 hours ago
They also laced the BBQ bag with Novichocken.
Helg Saracen , 15 hours ago
Oy vey! :)
Smiddywesson , 13 hours ago
Drunk while returning to the ship is one thing, drunk on duty is another, a career ending
incident.
Genoves , 13 hours ago
I prefer officials drunks that officials killing people.
TheRecluse , 13 hours ago
So whats wrong with Barbecue chicken? It goes down great after getting drunk.
Captain Archer , 13 hours ago
"Big Bo" Can't be beat.
seryanhoj , 12 hours ago
He could reheat it real quick in the reactor.
oracle_man , 14 hours ago
Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of
rum Drink and the devil be done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of Rum!
If the hard drive contin sado masochism pictures with children, as some allege this is the
end of Biden run. This will the an interesting election when as Stalin put it They Are Both Worse!
-- "Back in the late 1920s, Stalin was asked by a journalist which deviation is worse, the
Rightist one (Bukharin&company) or the Leftist one (Trotsky&company), and he snapped
back: "They are both worse!" It is a sad sign of our predicament..."
Giuliani, according to the New York Post, was given the hard drive from a computer repair
shop owner in Delaware, who said he had alerted authorities to its existence.
"Adam Schiff is seriously the most pathological liar in all of American politics that I've
seen in all of my time covering politics and journalism," Greenwald said on 'Tucker Carlson
Tonight.' "He just fabricates accusations at the drop of the hat at the other people change
underwear. He's simply lying when he just asserts over and over that the Russians or the
Kremlin are behind the story. He has no idea whether or not that is true. There is no evidence
to support it."
If this is the caliber of the workforce that currently inhabits our intel agencies, someone
explain to me why they still deserve to exist.
Apparently, 50 former intel agents have run to Politico to sign a letter, a favorite tactic
during the Trump era to push non-authoritative nonsense as authoritative, claiming that the
Hunter Biden email scandal is actually Russian misinformation.
... ... ..
Oh, it has all the classic earmarks? Well, that settles it, right? I mean, who needs actual
evidence of to push a wild, partisan conspiracy theory when you are trying to counter a myriad
of evidence to the contrary, including an actual receipt that shows the laptop was dropped off
at the repair shop by Hunter Biden.
Former chief of staff at the CIA and Department of Defense, Jeremy Bash, reflects on how the
current effort by Trump allies to spread disinformation about Joe Biden has ties to Russian
intelligence and calls it "collusion in plain sight."
If the FBI is alone in the forest and it discovers a crime, did the crime really
occur?
two hoots , 9 hours ago
Depends on the class or connection of the perpetrator.
Other:
the elected, appointed, officials willfully defending, ignoring, tolerating, giving tacit
approval to this Biden scandal are on our payroll and deciding legislation, regulations,
legal and moral decisions that set the tone of our society? We accept this why?
More Other:
why Biden selected Harris (other than looking black): she is a aggressive prosecutor and
Biden will us her council as Biden uses offence for protection and he will need it. He
remains calm, lies and denies with that little smiley smirk and chuckle to belittle his
accusers while putting on that all American Ken Doll plastic image. He perfected this in the
last 43 years in DC. He is a false prophet.
When the narrative is oversold people became cynical. That's the classic "Crying
Wolf!" situation, repeated again and again. Excessive deaths stats does not support "COVID-19
as a new Black Death" narrative and that provide some funny situations alike with this
shirt.
While infection was dangerous and some suspect that it was result of "gain of
function" experiments, the level of response was disproportional to the threat. It's like they
stages "Covid-revolution" -- a drastic social change in the society, which affects the way we
work, the way we communicate with each and the way we entertain each other in a very profound
fashion.
I've been wearing a hand painted [by me] , in large bright red letters:" COVID -19 IS A
SCAM" , black tee-shirt and matching hand-painted mask, on a more or less daily basis for the
last 8 weeks. [The mask I only wear when I have to enter a store with an idiotic "masks are
mandatory" policy.]
To date, much to my surprise, 38 people have stopped me and said " I agree" or similar,
and only 4 have said "you're wrong" or similar, [one large Australian male halfwit has been
the only person threatening me with violence to date – he got really mad- I just gave
him the finger and didn't argue- eventually he fucked off.
Of the agreers, perhaps the most notable was a cop who was driving by me on a main road as
I waited for a bus. He slowed to a stop and I thought "Oh-oh, what's he going to book me for,
no mask?", then he lowered his passenger side window [he wasn't wearing a mask, as required
locally], and said "I agree". I said "Huh?". He said "your shirt, I agree with the message".
I was shocked and happy at the same time.
My conclusion: there are many out there , [perhaps a majority?]who know that the whole
thing is a scam, they just don't let everyone know. It's the silent majority phenomena all
over again, perhaps.
is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23 18 Oct, 2020 20:23
Watching the many stumbles of both President Donald Trump and Democrat challenger Joe Biden on
the campaign trail, one can't help but wonder if either really wants to win. Who'd want the
thankless job of cleaning up such a mess?
Whoever wins the 2020 election will be immediately confronted with a full plate of thorny
political issues, from impossible national debt to unwinnable (and apparently unendable)
foreign wars to artificially-amplified racial strife to metastasizing income inequality to a
pandemic that seems determined to put the last nail in the coffin of the US Empire.
No matter his actions, the winner will be blamed for everything that happens on his watch
– never mind that these catastrophes have been decades in the making, and a single man
stopping them is no more possible than halting an avalanche. In this light, Biden's
doddering-old-man persona and Trump's own bewildering missteps make perfect sense. What sane
candidate would want to be left holding the bag of crumbling American hegemony?
" President 46 " may see the long-threatened start of World War III. Thanks to
decades of overspending on unwinnable foreign wars against a vague conceptual enemy ("
terrorism ") that the mighty wurlitzer of the US propaganda establishment has tied to
countries that pose no legitimate threat to the American people, the US is has all but
bankrupted itself destroying the Middle East. Despite promising to end the devastating quagmire
in 2016, Trump poured ever more resources into the region to exert " maximum pressure "
on Iran, the one country left standing of the " seven countries in five years " General
Wesley Clark infamously claimed the Bush administration's bloodthirsty neocons had targeted for
regime change.
The US
spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined – or than 144
other countries put together, according to 2018 figures, but somehow can't keep from arming
its enemies too. Perhaps the Pentagon just feels sorry for them and wants to try to ensure
a fair fight, but this ill-thought-out policy has equipped groups like Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS/ISIL) to stage false-flag attacks that can then be blamed on governments like
Syria or Iran and used to
justify the expansion of the never-ending war.
After taking millions of dollars in donations from rabid pro-Israel ideologues like Sheldon
Adelson and Paul Singer, Trump basically owes them their war on Iran, as they've made it
clear that merely tearing up the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal wasn't enough. But his reluctance
to actually follow through beyond round after round of devastating sanctions suggests he
doesn't have the stomach for a full-on ground invasion. And Biden worked under Barack Obama,
who actually defied the US' Middle Eastern taskmaster to sign that nuclear deal in the first
place. Neither really wants that war, but it seems inevitable.
Whoever wins in 2020 will face a reckoning with a technology sector that has become in many
ways more powerful than the government itself. Twitter and Facebook have taken to poking the
president in the eye by shadowbanning or even removing his posts, rubbing their power in
Trump's face, and Google and Amazon have so much dirt on the CIA, FBI, and DHS they could take
down the whole system if some crusading president (or prosecutor) crosses them.
And what can Washington do? Government agencies have been using Big Tech as a workaround to
skirt the First and Fourth Amendments for years. Constitutionally barred from censoring
political speech themselves, they have merely leaned on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to shut
down 'conspiracy theories' and other wrongthink and used specially-built backdoors to
poke around in users' private lives without the hassle of warrants. Companies that allow
these abuses are rewarded with protection of their monopoly status and billions in profits.
Despite an executive order and a lot of bluster threatening Big Tech's Section 230
protections, Trump has not made any real efforts to halt the ongoing censorship by social media
of his most vociferous supporters – perhaps realizing these firms are de facto military
contractors whose participation in the information war propping up US empire is vital to that
empire's continued existence. And while Biden has been treated relatively well by Big Tech thus
far, he needs the support of progressive Democrats in order to beat Trump, a group that has
been subject to the same censorship as the pro-Trump conservative Right. The likelihood that he
will stand up to Big Tech to win over this group is approximately zero.
My Pet
Rioters
So much hype has come out of both parties about a stolen election or " coup " that,
whatever the result in November, violent street clashes are inevitable. If the winner tells the
rioters to sit down and shut up, he'll be seen as capitulating to the system he was supposed to
bring to heel. If he cheers them on, he risks losing the support of law enforcement and the
military - which could really hasten the collapse of the empire. Neither Trump nor Biden
– both old men a decade past traditional retirement age – want that kind of
trouble.
Record levels of income inequality, plus the economic fallout of suicidally-stupid
government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, have pushed the American public into a state of
panicked desperation. More than ever, they're wondering where their next meal will come from
and how they'll pay the rent. But thanks to decades of dumbing-down imposed in the guise of
public schooling, most lack the vocabulary to articulate these problems or trace them to their
proximate causes (namely, a rapacious ruling class that is frantically asset-stripping the
nation in the hope of getting out with the cash before the whole thing blows sky-high). Neither
party's rhetoric is helping: Biden's " team " blames white supremacy, while Trump's
blames crypto-communists.
Whoever gets elected has to follow through on the absurd fantasy they've spun to explain the
nation's problems to their followers while unwinding their opponent's reasoning – not an
enviable task. The Democrats have so amplified the " threat " of racism that a white
person declaring him- or herself " not a racist " is actually deemed racist in itself,
and Republicans have bizarrely declared anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan to be " radical
leftists " bent on turning the US into Venezuela at a time when most Americans could
desperately use some socialist-style government programs to get them back on their feet.
As November 3 looms, both candidates have seemingly been campaigning for their opponent.
Biden urged
voters who thought they were better off under Trump to reelect him earlier this week), while
Trump recently
threatened to hold cash-strapped Americans' Covid-19 aid hostage until after the election,
only reversing course in the face of public outcry. Whoever is left holding the
potentially-explosive hegemonic hot potato, their job as chief rearranger of deck chairs on the
rapidly-sinking Titanic of empire is nothing to envy.
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Geraldmu 1 day ago The mess that the US is in,
is home made. The SARS cov 2 virus is not so dangerous, when you consider that many deaths are
those of people already close to the grave and next year there will be a deficit of deaths vz a
normal year. Some countries have reacted much better than the US or the UK or most European
countries: Taiwan, South Korea, Sweden that have not torpedoed their economy and rather test
and isolate instead of lockdowns, partial or total. Reply 21 Winter7Mute 1 day ago Divided
States of America, its been this way since when i entered the world in 1970's. And its still
divided now in 2020. Americans enjoy rationalizing, instead of seeking the truth in all facets
of life. That is why they embrace that saying "the truth hurts". I like the truth, even if it
hurts emotionally. Its simple and requires very few words.
Juan_More Winter7Mute 1 day ago Stephen Colbert when he had the "Colbert Report" came up with a
word that truly typifies the American experience. He coined the word truthiness
/ˈtro͞oTHēnis/ noun - the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if
not necessarily true. fazul Winter7Mute 1 day ago It was around that time when the US
presidency lost control over the MIC and the deep state. Like it or not, around that time
America was an obstacle to the new world order, so division and a demoralization campaign was
performed. Iris15 1 day ago Great article. The fact that Biden isn't eager to win the
presidency was visible many times. Trump often appears exhausted from all the criticism lobbed
his way and close to a feeling "why should I care if this turns out right". Which means, no
matter who wins, it will be Netanyahu and the Zionists who govern US policy in accord
completely with the deep state. There is nothing to win in this election for the voter and
people know it. Iris15 Iris15 1 day ago Antifa was used to stage race riots as a distraction
from the vacuum in the Dem party: racism is all it has to offer but no solution on how to
overcome it. There are no great economic solutions in the making and short of just such an
economic miracle, misery will be long and desperate. And people know it. The election lost its
luster as neither candidate has any real agenda and solution to deal with the pandemic and the
tanking economy. Juan_More 1 day ago A well written OpEd piece. But she has left out the egos
of these two clow . . er . . . politicians. Neither of them will settle for anything less than
a scorched earth victory. We see it in themselves and in their parties. My crystal ball keeps
coming up armed insurrection in the US regardless of who wins and the imposition of martial law
in many states and possibly the entire country. As always there is an unasked question, "What
will the Generals do?" Will they mobilise the troops to restore order (martial law), under
Congress or will the restore order under a military junta? Good luck to all my American
friends, you are going to need it over the next few months if there is no clear winner.
Grognardski 1 day ago Democracy is Santa Claus for adults... we want to believe it is real. But
it isn't. Especially in the USA where a rather malevolent cabal of
banksters/war-profiteers/intelligence agencies/etc. manipulates the masses through propaganda
in such an effective way that Goebbels would blush with envy. RS Priv 14 hours ago It's not
about the most stressful and honorable act of helping the people but more primal instinct of
grabbing money and influence for personal gain. Hence the perception of election the outcome of
which does not matter in this instance. Not that money matters all that much because everyone
over there is about to become at least a billionaire sooner rather than later. The real problem
is that loaf of bread will cost a trillion. The American Dream - you have to be asleep to
believe it :) fazul 1 day ago This is way bigger than the presidency, the american hegemony or
big tech. The election is about the enactment of the new world order. Reply Iris15 fazul 1 day
ago There is likely less to this new world order than what is feared: nations have many times
tried to create a new world order and failed every time. The world is too large and diverse to
force it all under one new order. The western states are bankrupt and without an economic and
financial surplus not much of any new order can be instituted. Even the Jews failed so far.
Soros is near death. His foundation without its leader will
Here we thought this man was for the working class and came from a working class.
If you are working class average Joe, you will not be able to dispense your hospital and
bank debts in a bankruptcy court. Thank you hunter and your lobbying company.
At least Trump is not a career government parasite. The Biden Crime Family corruption is
as bad as the Clintons.
LetThemEatRand , 30 minutes ago
Burisma is now paying $50,000 to $1M per month for smoking crack and getting meetings with
Joe Biden. Or if you know a guy who speaks Chinese, you can do even better! Check it out.
https://joebiden.com
The constant pressure is supposed to break society - the government can analyze and
understand what is going on. But what about the people? They are the target for all these
provocations
The Navalny one was supposed to result in street demonstrations and anger - as far as I
see it did not have this affect. Purely because once they mentioned Novichok it was obvious
this was a lie.
Novichok became a joke due to the Skripal affair. Which never made sense. And produced so
many jokes about the cat, the poison on the door handle, in the buckwheat, people in Hazmat
suits- and policemen standing there close to a toxic door.
The west insulted the people's intelligence!!!
Russia has to keep educating and exposing their population to the methods and tactics of
the western governments to undermine and attack them.
I agree that there is a real racist tone to their treatment of Russia. Why can't they be
left alone? There is this desire to crush them that I do not understand.
@Dragonlord. - The TrumpTard that has gone completely out of his mind. The TrumpTard wants
to blame the Biden family for the corruption, perversion, the violence & destruction of
the moral fabric in the US - LOL
The TrumpTard believes that Trump is going to solve the corruption, the political and
racial divide in Yankeelandia - LOL
Trump should bring copies of Hunter's receipt for the Mac and copy of Hunter's lawyer
asking for the hard disk, and maybe a few pics for national TeeVee. Lots of snowflakes will
be watching who don't watch Fox. Honeybadger.
Calibabe , 8 hours ago
Just bring some copies of pixilated pictures from the videos. You can leave Hunter's face
free and clear. Then ask Joe "So your cool with what your son, this is his face, he is in
this horrible video, doing horrible things to very young girls, your OK with him doing this?
Joe, what does China have on you?" Better yet, have the DOJ arrest Hunter an hour and a half
before the debate starts. Let that rattle Joe for the 90 minutes he's on stage but don't have
Pres Trump say anything until right at the end. Joe will flip out right on TV.
radical-extremist , 8 hours ago
Instead of a "strongly worded letter" what's preventing Johnson and a few other Senators
from putting their big pants on and marching over to FBI headquarters tomorrow morning and
demanding a meeting with Wray? ...with cameras rolling. You know it's the kind of stunt the
Democrats would pull if the tables were turned.
The Big Fat Bastard , 8 hours ago
Bidens a pedophile?
This doesn't surprise me at all.
Buck-Rogers , 8 hours ago
There are pics floating around on the internet of Biden Jnr snorting coke off what appears
to be your gut. Do you have anything to say?
R.G. , 8 hours ago
As long as housing prices are falling....all is well.
" Meanwhile, if there is incriminating child **** on Hunter's computer, what has the FBI
done about it? "
Deleted it?
thesonandheir , 1 hour ago
Dumbass should have used Clinton Computer Cleaning Services, Inc.
Hoax Fatigue , 1 hour ago
Isn't that the FBI?
MitchRyderAndTheDetroitWheels , 1 hour ago
The FBI top dude is there to coverup for the Biden's. Maybe Crowdstrike can help them out
as well since we know the Russian's placed that info on the laptop. You can see this coming
from miles away.
Made in Occupied America , 1 hour ago
FBI = Friends of Biden Incorporated (in Delaware, of course)
Finally, the old mantra:
"investigated-and-debunked" "investigated-and-debunked" "investigated-and-debunked"
What took so long??
[If only the Republicans had known those magic words, we could have avoided so much misery,
Russia scam, Ukraine impeachment, and so on. They tell every junior marxist: "Remember,
little comrade. Always always always accuse the enemy of the crimes that you yourself are
committing. This is the way of the revolutionary. Learn it well."]
Putin and Lavrov are perhaps the two most skilled diplomats on the world stage. Putin has
a wicked sense of humor, to boot. Even when he's serious, he sometimes trolls his opponents
humorously. But never ruthlessly.
xrxs , 39 minutes ago
It's trolling if you look at it through the lens of decades of red baiting in a country
where communists are not a major party (as they are in Russia), and where Putin is reduced to
a gangster caricature. Not assuming malice, saying that he supports equality and fraternity,
solidarity for justice movements, and a safer world through arms reduction and control seems
like something a reasonable human would say.
Dragonlord , 1 hour ago
Wait for MSM to call this a Russian interference.
farflungstar , 1 hour ago
I would imagine like most normal human beings Putin is disgusted by this child groping,
hair sniffing, corrupt old fossil.
A Biden presidency would pick up where Barry's left off only on steroids.
loop , 1 hour ago
Meanwhile
TRUMP
is
a bona fide ISRAELI puppet .
Negative Interest , 38 minutes ago
He knows Trump is a tool of Israel. Nothing more.
lwilland1012 , 44 minutes ago
Well, is he wrong? Can you honestly say there is a difference between the Bolsheviks of
old and today's Democrats?
Negative Interest , 34 minutes ago
Putin probably disappointed in Trump. Knows he is a loose cannon and already dropped bombs
on Syria. Now in Israel's pocket 100%
Coronavirus can survive on certain surfaces, including banknotes and mobile phone screens,
for nearly a month in cooler climates, new research by Australian scientists suggests.
Covid-19 is able to survive in the open for a significantly longer length of time than was
previously thought, according to a study by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) published by the
Virology Journal.
"Establishing how long the virus really remains viable on surfaces enables us to more
accurately predict and mitigate its spread, and do a better job of protecting our people,"
said CSIRO's chief executive, Dr. Larry Marshall.
According to the research, the virus has proven to be "extremely stable" and able to
thrive on smooth, non-porous surfaces, including paper and plastic banknotes, glass, and steel.
Kept at around room temperature – 20C (68F) – Covid-19 stayed alive for a whopping
28 days, which is some 10 days longer than the survival time of the regular flu virus. It
should be noted that the experiment was carried out in the dark, as UV light is very effective
in killing the coronavirus.
Higher temperatures are significantly less comfortable for the virus. At 40C (104F), it was
able to survive for less than 24 hours. At 30C (86F) Covid-19 demonstrated quite mixed results,
staying alive for some seven days on stainless steel, plastic notes and glass, but only three
days on vinyl and cotton cloth. On paper cash, the contagious virus was still detected after 21
days under those conditions.
Sargon 1 day ago "The firm's multiple conflicts of
interest in the Russia investigation coincide with a series of embarrassing disclosures that
call into question its technical reliability." Then you read this: "Meanwhile, during the
several years that CrowdStrike's own uncertainty about its hacking allegation was kept from the
public, the firm has enjoyed a stratospheric rise on Wall Street." Good work, if you can get
it. Be incompetent at your job, and get rich. TheMule999 13 hours ago Crowdstrike isn't a
"cybersecurity" firm. They're a criminal services agency for when dirty members of government
want evidence destroyed and witnesses murdered.
'White Supremacist' Narrative Unravels: Whitmer Kidnap Suspect Attended BLM Rally,
Another Called Trump A 'Tyrant' by Tyler Durden Sat, 10/10/2020 - 13:40
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Last week, the FBI says it foiled a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D),
after the FBI infiltrated an anti-government militia and arrested 13 members who "talked about
murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor."
And while the FBI never suggested a race-based ideology in its criminal complaint
, the MSM - as well as Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), took the 'white supremacist'
ball and ran with it - hard .
On Friday, however, the
Washington Post profiled several members of the group. Notably absent were accusations of
'white supremacy' - perhaps after acknowledging:
" One of alleged plotters , 23-year-old Daniel Harris, attended a Black Lives Matter
protest in June , telling the Oakland County Times he was upset about the killing of George
Floyd and police violence ."
Another alleged plotter, Brandon Caserta, called President Trump a 'tyrant' - adding ' Trump
is not your friend, dude . ' Caserta notably has an anarchist flag behind him in several videos
he's recorded.
Again, there isn't a shred of evidence included in the FBI's criminal complaint, nor
subsequent reporting, that the men adhered to a white supremacist ideology - a false
narrative.
And so, it appears that the FBI busted an anarchist, anti-government militia which plotted
violence against elected officials - yet hated both sides of the aisle.
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Let's see how fast this entire affair disappears from the news cycle.
Who reads newspapers, only liberals over the age of 60. About 70 percent of the column
inches is covered with advertisements. 30 percent is news and editorials. Why mess around
with a big, unwieldy pile of paper when more news, without pages and pages of ads is
available in a computer or a tiny phone? Plus the piles of paper accumulate.
The comment that Trump only paid "$750" is bs also -- that was an addendum to the returns
and if you read even the entire NYSlimes article it really doesn't say this -- he paid a
million etc., go read it and do some research before passing on this bs -- plus all of his
taxes are under review/audit by the IRS and if the deductions are disallowed as to the Real
Estate he will pay $100 Million -- so peddling this bs is garbage and discredits you as a
writer .
Donald Trump, not surprisingly, does not do his own taxes and instead employs teams of
accountants and lawyers to do the work for him.
This is something I have been saying for 4 years. All of the TDS sufferers seem to be
stuck on the notion that Trump burns the midnight oil swilling Coca-Cola dreaming up ways to
fix his tax returns.
Never mind the editors and writers at the NY Times, I use an accountant to do my taxes,
and have for almost 40 years. The fee is worth my just dumping everything on his desk and
picking it up later.
"He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch" is what a political constituency
(such as a political party or a cultural group) says of its own tarnished politician. This
politician is better than the opponent because he or she is a member of the group.
A Harvard lecturer, who moonlights as an "analyst" on CNN, has been busy pushing a crazy conspiracy theory that Russia has spies
in Walter Reed military hospital, where US President Donald Trump received treatment for Covid-19.
Juliette Kayyem claimed on Twitter that it is "very likely" that Russian agents infiltrated the hospital and gained access
to information about Trump's medical condition.
Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem ·
Oct 3 It is very likely that Russian
intelligence agencies -- through signal and human intel sources at Walter Reed, etc -- have more information about the President's
condition than we do (though I think we all know how the president is doing.)
The title to this article has to be one of the most darkly funny ones I've ever read on
ZH: "Only Full Transparency Will Save The CIA And FBI Now"
It's not just that they will never be transparent because obfuscation and opacity are
their stock-in-trade. It's that the idea that somehow becoming the opposite of what they are
(and were born to be) would "save" them.
That's like saying that auditing The Fed would "save" them. Or that fish should get out of
the water so they can breathe better. It's ridiculous in the extreme. It would kill them.
Which is why they don't do it. And never will.
2banana , 23 minutes ago
obama wesponized the FBI, CIA, DOJ, IRS and EPA to go after political enemies and those
who just had different viewpoints.
spam filter , 8 minutes ago
Is a community organizer synonymous with organized crime boss? Obama will go down as the
most corrupt potus in history.
Michael
Hudson's newest interview on the Macro N Cheese Podcast either as a transcript or via
audio is all about the coming debt deflation and what he calls the Neofeudal Empire.
If you haven't already known, Hudson reminds you that:
Who is the dumbest economic Nobel Prize winner? [Paul Krugman?] Paul Krugman. That's right.
He was given a Nobel Prize for not understanding what money was. If he would have
understood it, that would've excluded him from getting the Nobel Prize.
"Yes, the US is such a politically-ignorant country that Trump can accuse "Corporate Joe"
Biden of being a "radical socialist" and actually find believers, but Western fake-leftist
parties are increasingly being punished by voters for their "right-wing economics and
right-wing foreign policy but with political correctness" platform."
Green Party of Canada, Environmentalists with Neocon characteristics.
A buzz-phrase I keep noticing is the use of "without evidence". For example, when Trump,
or anyone the MSM wants to target, makes an accusation and the MSM has to discuss that
accusation it is unsurprising to encounter the phrase "without evidence"
as seen
here
If only the anonymous "US intelligence sources"
(here)
that the Mouthpiece Media echo so frequently were qualified with "without evidence".
I tried combining the two phrases and instead of receiving thousands of results I
received
three .
Oh the irony!
Watched a PBS program tonight. The series is called "Hacking Your Mind", the program I
watched tonight was titled "Us vs Them". The program demonstrated the natural tendency of
human beings to divide into groups – Us vs Them, and how this human tendency presents a
danger to our nation as we fall prey to media influences that make us divide one American
group against another American group (Us vs Trump supporters, for example). Us vs Them
– divided.
Irony is seen in the program as it sounds the alarm about THEM – the Russians.
Them
THem
THEM!
Here is the PBS video. The segment of interest begins at the 21 minutes mark. https://www.pbs.org/video/us-vs-them-2t0c0s/
The segment in question discusses an anti-muslim video that had been shared on the internet
since 2014.
2014.
Apparently, after the video had been shared thousands upon thousands of time since 2014 a
Russian guy also shared this video on Facebook in 2016 and thus provided convenient fodder
for Russiagate and this PBS program.
I found the segment beginning at 21 minutes very spooky and troubling and I fear for our
nation that PBS is pushing hate. Pay attention to the distressing sound effects that
accompany this segment.
Since the largest threat facing the country is white supremacists, according to FBI Director
Chris Wray and Homeland Security acting chief
Tom Wolf , the Department of Homeland Security has agreed to provide $10 million in grants
to organizations which combat 'far-right extremism and white supremacy , ' according to the
Wall Street Journal .
The department's Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program will fund groups such as
Life After Hate - founded by reformed white supremacists, which helps people trying to do the
same. Another group, the School of Communication at American University, will develop a
strategy to combat disinformation 'circulated by the far right online,' and others. Life After
Hate was awarded nearly $750,000, while the School of Communication received a $500,000
grant.
One of the largest grants, nearly $750,000, went to Life After Hate, which was founded by
former white supremacists and neo-Nazis and works with people trying to leave violent
far-right movements. The group was first awarded funding under the Obama-era program but had
its grant rescinded soon after Mr. Trump took office. -
Wall Street Journal
Life After Hate says they will use the funding for its ExitUSA initiative. Executive
director Sammy Rangel says their work "has never been more important," adding "This project
follows years of innovation in a space that was largely uncharted."
Another group, the Counter Extremism Project, was awarded $277,755 to collaborate with
Parallel Networks, which works with inmates at a San Diego County correctional facility who
adhere to both white supremacist of jihadi ideology .
An interviewer should test this man's integrity with a simple question, such as.. "When
you retire, will promise to live off your generous pension....like Eisenhower in his rocking
chair....and not go to work for an arms manufacturer or think tank or any other paid
position?"
Rocky_Fjord 9 September, 2020 9 Sep, 2020 05:18 AM
. . .on a lighter note, this caught my eye on the web --
"Donald Trump was just one of 43,000 other Americans who tested positive for COVID
today.
While nearly all of them paid more in taxes than he did, few will have his resources to
fight the ravages of the disease and recover from its financial aftershocks . . .
Trump should have hired someone to take the COVID test for him, like he did his SAT,
then they'd have the COVID instead of him... .
Trump, a mere 10 days ago: 'It affects virtually nobody'.". . .
NEW YORK -- As the Democratic presidential nominee ramped up his in-person efforts to get
out the vote, members of the Joe Biden campaign reportedly went door-to-door Tuesday in the
JPMorgan Chase headquarters. "Door-knocking is a core part of talking to supporters and getting
our message out there, which is why we're spending the day knocking on each and every office
door in the entire building," said Biden deputy campaign manager Pete Kavanaugh, adding that
hundreds of volunteers were reaching out to every wealth manager, data analyst, and investment
associate at the 383 Madison building to seek support and donations for the Democratic nominee
before canvassing at the headquarters of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
"We explain to every potential supporter what a great candidate Biden is and how his vision
for the country will make their lives better. We hope to get a commitment to vote, of course,
but a little donation doesn't hurt either. Polls show that the 12th floor is a tossup so we're
definitely focusing on that.
A lot of these people were Hillary [Clinton] supporters in 2016, but we're not taking
anything for granted, and the Wall Street demographic represents our key supporters."
At press time, several members of the Biden campaign team expressed disappointment after
speaking with several bankers who said they didn't really see a difference between the two
candidates.
Are you ready for this week's absurdity? Here's our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous
stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity and on
occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Beethoven is a symbol of "exclusion and elitism"
The woke mob is attempting to cancel one of the most famous pieces of music in history
– Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Their aim? To thwart "wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony into
a symbol of their superiority and importance."
Come again?
Prior to Beethoven in the mid 1700s, lower class Europeans would regularly attend
symphonies. And they were apparently quite a rowdy bunch– hooting and hollering all
throughout the performance, like a modern day rock concert.
Around the time that Beethoven rose to prominence in the early 1800s, however, the lower
classes were excluded from attending symphonies because they didn't keep quiet and applaud at
the appropriate time.
So today's woke mob believes that by playing or enjoying Beethoven's Fifth, you are
glorifying the exclusion of poor people, and by extension, women and minorities.
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Billy the Poet , 5 hours ago
Jon Voight as Conrack introduces his students to Beecloven:
Movies where a white person educates poor children of color are racist, obviously.
Unknown User , 4 hours ago
War is Peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strength
Unknown User , 3 hours ago
"He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his
hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian,
the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded
to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise,
and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but
it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The *** saw them all, beat
them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no
weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive
mind. All things are mortal but the ***; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the
secret of his immortality?" - Mark Twain
yerfej , 5 hours ago
When low IQ reetaryds are manipulated to seize control they immediately attack everything
beyond their cultural status and eliminate it. The west is witnessing rich progressive elites
leveraging idiots to destroy society. What is funny is the idiots doing the manual
destruction and footwork will of course get nothing out of all their efforts. They too will
be culled, eventually, as always.
Bay Area Guy , 5 hours ago
But Beethoven was disabled (deaf at 26 or 27), so the woke crowd is prejudiced against the
hearing impaired. They better self-cancel because of that.
drjimi , 4 hours ago
People don't go to classical music concerts because of the behavioral expectations????
Seriously???
People don't go to classical music concerts because they don't like classical music.
i can just as validly argue hip hop is elitist and exclusionary because I don't care for
the chimp-like antics of its imbecilic fans.
MilwaukeeMark , 5 hours ago
Beethoven refuses to bow to the elites of his time. He demanded a place at their tables
with them. He refused to become their hired help. Of course the left is too stupid to know
that history.
Pernicious Gold Phallusy , 2 hours ago
The poem used in the last, choral, movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony was written by
Friedrich Schiller and is know as "An die Freude", translated as Ode To Joy. But Schiller
originally wrote the poem as "An die Freie" or "To the Free." Europe was in the grip of
antimonarchic sentiment. The poem was not permitted to be published in Austria by the
Emperor's censors. Schiller changed the word throughout the poem from Freie to Freude, and
the censors permitted it. But everybody in the audience would have known this story, and
realized the meaning of the poem.
Joe A , 3 hours ago
That is what communism does: it deconstructs and destroys history because it is all bad.
History is a reminder of the oppression of the poor and downtrodden, of the class struggle.
Everywhere in communist Europe they tore down churches and historical buildings and replaced
them with ugly concrete colossal monstrosities.
Communists are insane.
Savvy , 3 hours ago
Rap is the most racist violent 'music' there is and they go after Beethoven? LOL
Jethro , 4 hours ago
The left is too stupid realize that they are creating the monsters that they've been
autisticly screeching about.
Choomwagon Roof Hits , 4 hours ago
Sort of like the Old Bolsheviks back in the USSR...
Patmos , 5 hours ago
Their aim? To thwart "wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony
into a symbol of their superiority and importance."
I understand the desire of youth to shake things up when things don't seem right, to break
out of the mold. It's James Dean, Rebel Without A Cause.
The modern "woke" mob isn't that though, it's rheetards without a clue.
Nobody can even imagine of inflicting on the USA the same damage as CIA/FBI sponsored
Russiagate did.
And who authorized this CIA honcho to classify other countries as "enemy states"? He revealed
himself as yet another "national security parasite" and probably should be fired on the
spot.
US intelligence, the Pentagon, and national security officials are closely monitoring how
America's rivals and enemies "react" to Thursday night's shock news of President Trump's
coronavirus diagnosis, for which he's since said to be exhibiting mild symptoms.
"The U.S. military stands ready to defend our country and its citizens," Joint Staff
spokesperson Col. Dave Butler said Friday, according to
Politico . "There's no change to the readiness or capability of our armed forces."
"What we are anticipating is that the Russian actors and probably the Iranians will play
this up," one anonymous defense official also added. Further the countries of China and North
Korea are also being monitored, according to the report.
Specifically US intelligence will scrutinizing any "subtle increase in activity against us,
knowing we are preoccupied, and the opportunity to test us, perhaps," Marc Polymeropoulos, a
former CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer,
described to Politico.
The former CIA officer emphasized that "Our enemies will see us in a vulnerable
state."
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Thraxite , 4 hours ago
Dude forgot his paranoia medication. What a loony.
HopeToLearn , 6 hours ago
THANK GOD! for the defense industrial complex!
Is-Be , 5 hours ago
The DIC?
I like it, its got legs.
Cluster_Frak , 6 hours ago
like Biden, Pelosi, Clinton Crime Syndicate, Feinstein, etc
Dzerzhhinsky , 6 hours ago
Any adversary that giggles will get bombed, you have been warned.
Aussiestirrer , 2 hours ago
Never pass up an opportunity to run a false flag operation.
It appears the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden may have taken
precedence over watching porn for a big chunk of Americans, as Pornhub revealed its website
took a hit to its traffic during the face-off.
The US's most popular adult website revealed that visits were down 18.5 percent as Biden and
Trump traded barbs on stage in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday. "That represents a significant
change in visits during one of Pornhub's peak daily traffic periods," the website said.
Even more interestingly, Pornhub revealed that the biggest declines in traffic were seen in
critical swing states – those that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or
Republican presidential candidate by a swing in votes. Traffic to the site from Michigan and
Pennsylvania dropped by more than 20 percent, while that from Maine and Wisconsin fell by 20
and 19 percent respectively.
It appears perusers of porn were more interested in the 2020 debate than they were in
2016's, when traffic dropped by only 16 percent during the first head-to-head between Trump and
Hillary Clinton.
Wayne Smyth 1 day ago 1 Oct, 2020 03:58 PM
Equally pitiful is the competitive viewing between porn and the debate as is pitiful the
choice between Biden or Trump for president.
FelixTcat 8 hours ago 2 Oct, 2020 12:20 PM
What a sick bunch of people wasting their time watching that garbage.( I was referring to the
debates)
I keep feeling like I'm a bit player in a bad movie.
Seriously, Hope has symptoms, Trump has a positive test, Trump is likely infections right
now, and has been for a couple days. Hope for a week maybe, and all running around without
msks. This is going to be an interesting real-world experiment in how Corona spreads.
Having been jailed by the British in pre-independence India was "de rigueur" among Indian
politicians seeking office.
Seems that Bolsonaro, BoJo the Clown and now Trump are the fad setters - trendy
politicians will now all get COVID and squeeze some sympathy out of the sheep.
I am with OldHippie on this one. From a social engineering perspective this announcement
increases F.U.D. and helps to ratchet up tensions in quite a few sectors. Remember with live
in a "post truth world" -(R.Juliani)so this could be a PR ploy designed to send ripples
through the markets, both RedBlue Uniparty factions, and manipulate expectations across the
board.
Brilliant 4D chess move! BLM is largely responsible for two billion dollars in property
damage and dozens of innocent people killed or maimed since May 29th and Trump .will declare
the KKK a terrorist organization. I'd like to see how the MAGA tards are going to explain
this one.
I live in a solid red state, and I am voting third party for president. I would vote for
Trump if I lived in a swing state. I think the best outcome in the presidential election
would be a narrow EC win for Trump, and a massive popular vote loss.
Leaders are needed –someone who will be listened to and respected.
... Then the alternative is an avid Amtrak rider taking America on a spin back in
time –when USA supposedly had honest politicians and police who did a job and education
was not a get rich gimmick. No child left behind has worked wonders and perhaps now
kindergarten kids should be able to vote – the messages are aimed at their level.
I won't be voting for Trump either. There is nobody to vote for and why should we be made
fools of; like it will really matter who wins?
If Trump wins we can be sure that most of his To-Do lists will be quickly forgotten while
he continues to work closely with Israel to take Iran out and ensure the Palestinian
slow-genocide continues on as scheduled.
Trump is effectively setting up whites as "terrorists" no matter what side they are on;
left or right. By twisting what a white person says, even slightly, authorities and
"anti-racists" can label them left wing antifa or right wing "KKK".
Trump is either being used by someone very smart or he knows exactly what he's doing
(maybe both). He has a way of making many of his supporters believe he will follow through
with his promises, while simultaneously manipulating them to forget how he has done nothing
for them.
I guess at Unz we're just supposed to ignore the greatest presidential performance since
Lincoln last night. Trump took down Wallace, Biden and the entire MSM-pussyboy complex. I'd
give Trump the full power of the State to rid it of swamp creatures and reporter bitches once
and for all.
"Who is being terrorized by the Klan in 2020?" We can do better than that. Name someone
the Klan has terrorized since 1970. Has anyone seen the Klan anywhere in the last 30 years?
If someone would put on the Klan outfit in Los Angeles in 2020 would that make him a Klan
member to the organization from the deep south even if he had never met or spoken to someone
from there?
I think Trump is doing his best against the anti-white racists of the Jewish led left. If
the whites were able to get half the amount of people of a typical Trump rally and organized
rallies across the US protesting the anti-white racism that now dominates the US the whites
might have a chance of taking back some power in the USA. Jews completely dominate the US
with the whites being puppets to Jewish power and they exercise this power without
hesitation. No American white would dare criticize the Jews even when their disgusting
behavior (rapists Weinstein, Epstein, Maxwell) is on full display for the whole world to
see.
FOX news shuts down former congressman Newt Gingrich on national television when he
mentions the name George Soros.
Don't get your knickers in a twist. Trump has no intention of following through on half
the bull sh*t he promises. He just likes to hear the sound of his own voice. The stupid thing
is that blacks won't vote for him no matter what he plans to give them. Oh, and where's our
WALL?
@Zarathustra
han expected but Trump still came out slightly on top. The law and order and police support
is a big deal for Trump, a big minus for Creepy Joe.
And Trump had to deal with that POS Wallace asking loaded questions and siding with
Biden.
Covid and the riots are both jew psyops and both can be shut down anytime.
The head medical director for Los Angeles County actually said that the covid shutdown
will continue until "after the election." She totally gave it away.
Trump has fucked up in a lot of ways but Bitch Harris would have white men
slaughtered.
Once again we will have to vote for the lesser of two evils which seems to be our shitty
fate.
Trump did more for Jews in Israel than any other president before him.
Still diaspora Jews in US hate Trump unspeakably.
So Jews in US are in contradiction with Jews in Israel.
Yeah, Trump's been all show and opposite action since 2016. Just want to mention that
there is no Antifa anymore, they have rebranded as BLM during the past few months, apparently
in preparation for the fake action being announced now. The ideologies of these two groups
are in complete agreement, but Antifa's goals are only a small part BLM's extortionist
demands. In effect, Antifa has upgraded to the more radical BLM level and left an empty shell
to be used as a fake target of fake law & order activities.
Many comments here decrying Trump for pandering to non whites.
I would be willing to give good odds that not one of the people who post theses complaints
sent Trump an email asking him to pander to whites. I have sent several asking for Trump to
explicitly ask white people for our vote. Have any of you? Posting here is preaching to the
choir. Send Trump an email asking him to EXPLICITLY ask white people for our vote. I sent an
email asking for Trump to ask for the white vote the day before Trump posted the video of the
man shouting white power from the golf cart. I don't think it was because of my email but the
story that Trump did not know the man said that is a lie for sure.
Send emails to Trump telling him you will not vote for him unless he explicitly asks for
the white vote. What can it hurt?
Initially, I believed in Trump's plan to help blacks discover that they could stand on
their own two feet, determine their own income (as opposed to welfare), etc. The pre-Covid19
job numbers for black employment were amazing.
At present, though, I don't think Trump has a chance with blacks, platinum plan or not.
Take this example.
A black girl gets pregnant at 16, has a baby, starts collecting welfare, gets her own
apartment. By the time she's thirty, she has two or three kids, has no skills and no plans to
acquire any. She is completely dependent on the welfare state.
How do you think she'll vote? For a president with only four more years in office?
Ninety-some percent of blacks vote democrat for a reason.
Blacks are already pandered to in every possible way. They get preferred status for public
housing, small business loans unavailable to White males, Pell grants for tuition,
affirmative action in both the public and private sectors. If they had any honor they
wouldn't even want to be treated like permanent wards of the state, but alas, they do not.
And Trump is a scummy neocon.
Ohio's Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), the site of last night's Presidential debate
has set up dedicated 'support spaces' for students who have been triggered by the tense
exchange.
The University says "students can discuss the impact of recent national events, including
the presidential debate and upcoming election."
There are eight "presidential debate support spaces" available for students to attend,
according to the university which asks that everybody use "respectful dialogue."
The spaces will remain active from Monday through to next Friday, for 'virtual counselling
sessions'.
The university announced that the "Support Space is not a substitute for psychotherapy and
does not constitute mental health treatment."
The spaces are a throwback to 2016 when education centers offered counseling after Trump won the
election.
As Campus Reform notes, the
University of Massachusetts-Boston, sponsored a "Coping and Balance" workshop in which students
were able to interact with "Doggo, the therapy dog."
Imagine the total meltdown that will occur if Trump wins a second term.
Mills, you're. a hack. Trump had to debate not only Biden but moderator Chris Wallace too.
I've seen every Presidential debate since 1960 and without a doubt Wallace is the worst
moderator I've ever seen. Every time Biden got into trouble Wallace jumped in to rescue. him.
Critical race theory is just racial sensitivity raining.. Not only was Wallace helping Biden
old Joe was wired up to boot.
I'm not defending Trump. Just pointing out what a Hack Mills is. I've been critical of
Trump on his wasteful military spending but most of the debt is due to Covid 19. I support
Trump because the corrupt deep state and media can't be allowed to win. New revelations come
out daily about how bad the Obama administration truly was. It's amazing and all the media
outside of Fox has done is try and cover it all up. Obama should be charged with
sedition.
Glad we had an adult conversation about the additional $7 trillion in debt created in the
last 3.5 years added to the $9 trillion created under the last idiot's rule in eight years.
Americans are tax slaves in warring tribes called Republicans and Democrats, and I am just
sitting here scratching my head realizing the George Carlin was right. Garbage in. Garbage
out.
Amazing how Americans cheer their economic slavery both parties have created.
Agree, as a veteran myself I really like the fact that the Obama/Biden admin launched even
more wars and killed a lot more of us. Nothing says patriotism like endless wars, increasing
suicide rates, and young men losing their limbs and minds. (Sarcasm off)
I sacrificed for you all and watched two hours of this hearing this morning while still
suffering from the effects of too much drink needed last night to get me through the awfulness
of the debate.
Funniest debate description I've seen: "96 minutes of shouts, insults, interruptions,
stray thoughts, and loose babble. It was like witnessing an argument about an arcane
procedural rule during a senior bingo night at a nursing home in purgatory. It was vicious,
tasteless, witless, and (surprisingly, alas) painfully unfunny."
@eD
t care about diseases. They just care about control. They are evil psychopathic narcissists.
Sad thing is, most people are dumb as rocks and fall every time for the tales of these snake
oil salesmen.
These days in Montreal there was a protest for "climate action", "protection of migrants"
and "BLM" – and of course with all the people wearing masks against "Covid". A March of
Zombies if there ever was one.
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people
Henry Kissinger
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
The overlords, that the bulk of the population vote into positions of power, are now
implementing a system to turn the average person into a feudal serf. Your democracy and voting
and cheering for one dirtbag versus the other doesn't matter. The end game has been determined
and by playing their game YOU are helping make it happen.
The Covid rules already have destroyed huge amounts of food by limiting harvesting (see Ice
Age Farmer) and destroying the existing food supply chains. The result will be food scarcity
for the poorer nations and high food prices for the richer ones. Better stock up while there's
still time and before hoarding laws are initiated.
All you defenders of 'government' should be ashamed of yourselves for helping cause the
destruction already unleashed by your trusted representatives and a future that's looking ever
more likely to be dystopian.
History? You mean like Michael Mann's facile and fraudulent 'hockey-stick'? When history is
deemed either 'official' or 'conspiracy-theorist' one knows that the entire subject (along
with, it must be added, most of 'science') has been shoe-horned into a very narrow box marked
'officially approved'. Why, then, might the rational and objective person have the slightest
confidence in the various strands of 'history' that remain, once all that is regarded by
officialdom as 'inconvenient' has been sent into the 'memory hole'?
Excellent article. I believe the treachery of the so-called elites have no boundaries. Evil
is their master and control of the populace is their aim. I also believe we need mass arrests
of those that are using this virus as a cover for their agenda for the world.
The video is rubbish. Nine months of economic slowdown and this idiot thinks it proves the
planet will cool down. He couldn't possibly know that. He says no-one knew what he knows, but
the (temporary) cooling effect of air pollution has been recognised since 9/11, since Pinatubo,
since Krakatoa.
Yes, it is. So, the Great Lab Experiment of 2020 (Covid) has alot to do with population
control; thinning the herd so our exalted Davos Overlords can ensure their blue-blooded
offspring will have mild temps when they winter-over on their private islands in the
Caribbean.
Thanks again for another interesting article Mr. Whitney.
I dislike Bill Gates as much or more than the next guy, primarily because I have known
individuals screwed over by his rapacious business practices and theft of others IP, and I
dislike his public persona as some sort of brilliant scientist or doctor instead of a rapacious
business geek who made a fortune stealing the work of better men.
Be that as it may, I think Bill Gates is quite right that human overpopulation is a very
dangerous problem for our species and the health of the planet. This is particularly true given
the willingness of our elites to import the excess population of the Third World into
previously stable Western Civilization nations such as much of Europe, United States, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand.
Unless the West has a zero tolerance policy towards immigration from the unassimilable and
fertile parts of the Third World, it will be destroyed given the continued reproductive
practices of these irresponsible people once imported into the West.
So what is the solution? Tie any aid to the Third World with strict and mandatory birth
control. Prevent children from dying of starvation but prevent further reproduction of the
irresponsible mother of the starving child. We cannot continue to think that people should have
a right to have as many children as they want and at the same time support their irresponsible
behavior. This behavior affects us all and leads to great suffering. They have to grow up and
so do we.
Gates is right about the problems of human overpopulation, but he cannot be trusted to solve
the problem in an ethical manner.
Anyhow most of the Earth's CO2 got locked up in Limestone rock (coral like) rock formations
and petroleum and coal deposits since Cambrian epoch. The latter are all related to
photosynthesi (solar energy) that is now locked up in hydrocarbons. Photosynthesis is the key
life driver on the Earth's surface.
So actually humans should find increased levels of CO2, still far below the Earth history
norm, to be a blessing. Maybe the real motive for ridding a hydrocarbon based energy
sources, is the scarcity issue, which is a provable scam, but the drive to depopulate the earth
of the useless eaters as Darth Kissinger seeks.
Analysts disagree about how much emissions will go down this year, but the International
Energy Agency puts the reduction around 8 percent. In real terms, that means we will release
the equivalent of around 47 billion tons of carbon, instead of 51 billion.
Reductions around 8 percent, and quite amazingly, not a hint of any effect on atmospheric
CO2 in the data from the celebrated Keeling monitoring station at Mauna Loa. It's the data from
stations like this around the world that led us to believe that industrial emissions of CO2
were going to send the world into a runaway greenhouse effect and lead us all to burn to death
in 800 degree temperatures as are found on Venus. Or at least drown Mr. Obama's newly purchased
$14 million mansion on Martha's Vineyard. But researchers have been looking for an effect for
months now, and as I say, not even a hint of any effect.
The Michael Manns and Al Gores of the world would have us believe the shutdown just hasn't
gone on long enough -- that we have to extend it another 16 gazillion quarters or so before we
will see the effect they have been predicting. It's at least just as likely, however, that
industrial emissions are not the prime driver of rising CO2 levels. As some commenters have
noted here, it could just be the 800 year lag from warming temperatures in the Medieval Warm
Period. Or it could be other human activities such as burning tropical rainforests and
oxidizing soils through intensive farming practices. Certainly the OCO-2 satellite (Orbiting
Carbon Observatory), launched in 2014, seemed to show that the biggest emissions were coming
from the tropics and not from the big industrial centers of Europe and North America. At least
it did before they stopped giving us the results from it, and not of course because they
conflicted with the narrative./s
Meanwhile the Earth is greening substantially from all the additional CO2. We seem to have
added pretty much an entire continent's worth of growing area in the past 60 years or so. It's
also becoming clear that the earth's oceans that make us a water world are the cause of
emergent effects like thunderstorms that increase our albedo when things start to warm up, and
by negative feedback make that runaway greenhouse effect most unlikely.
The major Achilles heel of the powers-that-be is that they don't have enough cops and
soldiers to enforce their desires upon us. Sure, they may try to kill and jail as many of us as
they can to enforce their dictates, but there are limits to this, as they may end up killing or
incarcerating most of the slaves they depend on for their power and wealth. And if history
shows anything, it is that murderous dictatorships never last very long.
As proof, I give you the examples of Mussolini, Ceaucescu, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Hitler and
Stalin, all of whom met rather unfortunate ends, and whose reigns were rather short-lived.
Chris Bryant, a Labour Party MP for a former coal mining constituency in South Wales, a
former privately educated schoolboy and an Oxford graduate, a former sodomist Anglican
priest, an MP who In 2003 voted for participation in the Iraq war, a member of the "Labour
Friends of Israel", a parliamentarian who claimed over £92,000 in expenses over the
five years leading up to the 2009 scandal over MPs' expenses, during which time he "flipped"
his second-home expenses twice, claiming mortgage interest expenses that started at
£7,800 per year before rising (after flipping) to £12,000 per year; he also
claimed £6,400 in stamp duty and other fees on his most recent purchase, and
£6,000 per year in service charges, has nominate Joe Biden for the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Oxford University academics interviewed two dozen former RT employees in a bid to
reveal the inner workings of our newsroom. However, they didn't need secret interviews to
find out we're a bit skeptical of the West.
In December 2018 I received a message on LinkedIn, the world's most boring social
network. It was from Mona Elswah, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, and she and
her colleagues wanted to anonymously interview me about my experiences working at RT –
specifically how "editorial policies might influence, or not, the news content."
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Another fishing expedition on behalf of UKGov, only for academic purposes obvs If you opne
the link to the actual study, right there at the bottom of the first page 'Abstract' is:
Key Words: Russia Today, Propaganda, Disinformation, Public Diplomacy, International
Broadcasting, and Information Warfare.
--
If you go to the end of the document and look at Table 1: A Comparison Betweenthe
Sovietand RT Media Models , you can see for Oxford 'Academics' that Soviet is Russian and
Russian is Soviet! Interchangable as convenient..
With the first presidential debate now just hours away , President Trump continues to insist
that Joe Biden take a drug test. Trump's none-too-subtle insinuation is that the former vice
president is so mentally frail that he cannot hope to match the vaulting intellect of the 45th
president of the United States on the debate stage.
It's a peculiar form of Trumpian baiting - something the President has probably learned from
the world of Mixed Martial Arts - or perhaps the product of a guilty conscience. Trump himself
famously sniffed his way through his first debate with Hillary Clinton four years ago, and
there's been plenty of speculation over the years that the President consumes medicinal
substances to combat some form of attention-deficit disorder.
Cockburn won't weigh in on the specifics. But if Biden were to use drugs for tonight's
performance, which ones should he take? Because make no mistake, Biden should absolutely be
taking drugs prior to Tuesday's debate.
Pro athletes all take performance enhancing drugs, after all, and winning a presidential
election is at least as important as hitting 40 home runs or making the Pro Bowl, or
something.
Fortunately, Cockburn is a writer, which means he has countless friends who are perpetually
in one sort of drug-induced haze or another. They quickly supplied suggestions.
1.
Aricept
Aricept is used to enhance mental acuity in patients suffering from Alzheimer's or vascular
dementia. That will certainly be handy for keeping Biden from drooling on the podium. However,
Aricept also has the side effect of increasing libido, and has been found to correlate with
inappropriate sexual behaviors in those who take it.
...actually, Biden may have been taking this drug for a long time.
... ... ...
3. Ecstasy
Arriving Tuesday night amped on MDMA would offer a host of benefits to Biden. Besides
keeping him cheerful and upbeat for the cameras, if Biden is caught, he can easily pivot in a
positive direction: by taking a party drug, he will disavow one of his tough-on-crime
achievements, the 2003 RAVE
Act. Cockburn doesn't understand how contributing to the dramatic collapse of crime rates
nationwide is a bad thing, but in 2020 everybody is convinced that it is. Biden debating while
hopped upon Molly would go a long way toward showing his remorse. 'Loved-up', Biden would also
show a winning spirit of magnanimity towards Donald Trump, which might help sway
independents.
Finally, for years Biden was known as the 'senator from MBNA' due to his pro-credit card
activism in Congress. If he rebrands as the senator on MDMA, at the least everyone will be
really confused.
"When American cities have been in flames and citizen has been pitched against citizen,
Joe has been a calming influence to bear," Bryant reportedly
said Monday. "When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the
best force is the force of argument because guns can stop a heart, but well-placed words can
change many hearts, and many hearts can change the world."
The nomination came just one day before the first US presidential debate. Biden's rival,
President Donald Trump, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times this year,
most recently on Monday by Australian law professors praising the "Trump Doctrine"
against endless wars.
Trump's other nominations came from Swedish Parliament member Magnus Jacobsson for helping
to broker a peace and economic deal between Serbia and Kosovo, and Norwegian lawmaker Christian
Tybring-Gjedde for brokering a
peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The Trump administration later
followed up on that deal by getting Bahrain to join the UAE in a normalization agreement with
Israel.
While Bryant praised Biden's efforts to ease civil unrest, Biden was largely silent about
the violent nature of many Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests this summer. Even CNN host
Don Lemon warned in
late August that riots across the US – and the failures of Biden and other Democrat
politicians to condemn and quell the violence – was a "blind spot" that could cost
Biden votes in November.
The nomination also raised eyebrows among critics of Biden's record of supporting wars and
military interventions as a Senator and later as vice president under former President Barack
Obama. The Obama-Biden administration campaigned on peace – and Obama won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2009 largely on speculation that he would deliver on his promises – but the US
instead started new wars and prolonged existing ones. The administration finished its last full
year, 2016, by dropping more than 26,000 bombs around the world and expanded the presence of US
special forces to 70 percent of the world's nations, more than
doubling their reach under former President George W. Bush.
Biden not only voted for Bush's Iraq War in 2003 but also
argued for removing Saddam Hussein from power in 1998. He also voted to authorize former
President Bill Clinton's
bombing of Serbia (along with NATO) in 1999, as well as supported Obama's disastrous
intervention in Syria.
Mindful of that track record, Twitter users ridiculed Bryant for nominating Biden.
"Biden's never been anything but a rubber stamp for CIA bull***t," one commenter
tweeted. "I'm sure the people of Libya and Syria will be glad to hear that," one
observer said of the nomination, followed by another who added "Not to mention Yemen,
Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran."
Another commenter speculated that he saw a trend in Bryant's move: "I think the idea for
these warmongering Henry Jackson Society types is to undermine the Nobel Peace Prize with
absurd nominations."
Putin proposed, "exchanging guarantees of non-interference in each other's internal
affairs, including electoral processes, including using information and communication
technologies and high-tech methods."..
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That is some excellently timed next level trolling from Pootie-McPoot-Face.
Of course the USA will never agree to such a proposal, because (a) it does not regard its
meddling as 'interference' but as the bringing of the gift of freedom, (b) it stands on its
absolute right of judgment as to what is a situation that requires more democracy and what is
not, and (c) it probably knows at some level that Russia did not meddle in the US elections,
and that it would therefore in that case be constraining its own behavior in exchange for
nothing.
But then, when refused – I imagine the US will try to extract something from the
offer, such as "A-HA!! So you ADMIT to meddling in our elections!! – Russia can
obviously claim, "Well, we tried."
And the extant powers are gushing over former justice RBG who supported gay rights,
abortion rights and all the other "correct" causes–but not a word of sympathy/empathy
from the old gal on Palestinians.
Great thing is Trump doesn't have to worry about them giving Biden the questions in
advance this year... wouldn't matter if they did.
Sparehead , 1 hour ago
"Oh, wait I remember this one. I'm supposed to say..."
Stu Pedassle , 1 hour ago
End of quote
Obake158 , 1 hour ago
Biden has less than 24 hours to succumb to Coronavirus...
Dumpster Elite , 1 hour ago
First question to Biden: What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Second question: Do you like puppies or kitties more?
Third question: Why is Trump such a bad person?
BinAnunnaki , 1 hour ago
Free advice for Pres. Trump. Don't attack Biden on his dementia. A lot of people struggle
with elderly patients in "cognitive decline". It will be obvious enough to people in Creepy's
low energy gibberish.
Wait for Biden to bring up the tax returns and then kidney punch him back over Hunter's
pay for play involving human trafficking and payoffs from Russians.
China and Joe. China and Covid. China and lost American jobs.
you made your point with the Tweets about drug testing. Leave it alone and focus on your
merits.
good luck tomorrow
Dying-Of-The-Light , 35 minutes ago
Is Wallace going to have the integrity to ask Biden why his completely unqualified, Coke
head son, got a $50,000 a month seat on a Ukrainian gas company once his lying Daddy had got
the senior prosecutor of that nation sacked so as to stop any further investigation and
possible prosecution of that gas company?
Will Wallace also ask why the wife of tbe Moscow Mayor wired over $3 million to Hunter
Biden?
While CNN, the BBC etc is throwing out the Trump tax avoidance claims night and day, the
Western MSM continues to ignore the endless, and proven, corruption of one senior Demontard
after another.
Democracy in the USA, UK and all nations under the EU Politburo, will only know they have
democracy back when Assange is a free man and both Clintons are in jail, along with numerous
other USA, UK and EU politicians, banksters and big Corp maggots. When the likes of Soros and
Gates are stopped from constantly steering their agendas by using their vast personal wealth
to buy the politics and media they want, will the West ever know democracy again.
There's as much chance of any of the above happening as Elvis being alive and well.
Doesn't mean we should all just give up and let it get worse. Even refusing to wear the
Covid-1984 mask is a start. If just more people would do that and also refuse to be made to
live like locked up chickens, it would at least blunt the elite maggots Marxist, NWO
agenda.
Soloamber , 1 hour ago
Biden through JR .
$1.5 billion from China
$50,000 per month from a Ukraine natural gas company
"The director of news service for Delaware State, Carlos Holmes, said that the former vice
president was never a student, though he has made appearances on campus twice before for
commencement speeches at the university in Dover."
"Vice President Biden did not attend DSU," Holmes said earlier last week. "However he was
the Commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and [2016], and during the former he was awarded an
honorary doctoral degree."
"Biden had made the claim during an October 2019 town hall event held at the historic Wilson
High School in Florence, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen's Bureau for Black children
seeking an education.
"I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State -- now, I don't want to hear anything negative
about Delaware State," Biden told the crowd, as shown on video . "They're my
folks."
Biden went on to
win the South Carolina primary -- a turning point for the candidate -- before eventually
clinching the nomination.
Earlier this month, the Biden-Harris campaign named Delaware State University President Tony
Allen -- formerly a speechwriter in Biden's Senate office -- to its transition team
advisory council ." FN
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Well, pilgrims, the question is - Does Joe know that he was never a student at ole DSU? Was
this claim made in SC yet another of his old man's fantasies? You know, like his dreaminess on
the subject of the military glory that has been his family's history.
Or was this nonsense spouted at a historic Black high school merely a cynical ploy intended
to gain Black votes in the South Carolina Democratic primary election?
I think this must just be another elder incident.
He went to the Univ.of Delaware.
In the moment he conflated Delaware State Univ.with Univ of Delaware. And didn't correct
himself because he doesn't see the error.
Not a good omen.
CPM
"Then there are the Chinese. OK, they really are communists, but who is it that has
bought into the nonsense about them oppressing poor, innocent, religious head choppers? Who
cares even if those lies were true? Yep, that's millennial morons."
Actually it was the USG through funding of various think tanks and NGOs that started the
whole fiasco with the MSM pushing the narrative. You know people with power in established
organizations, who tend to be much older. I wouldn't blame the people at the bottom so much for
the decisions made at the top.
HaHaHa, Social Security including USPS is gonna gone for sure by next year. I'm 99%
certainty he gonna to win, one way or another and privatize S/S and USPS. Given the
choice’s American's hates the Chinese with Pompeo endless racist bashing -almost
daily.
... ... ...
@ karlof1 | Aug 8 2020 22:42 utc | 35
HaHaHa, Social Security including USPS is gonna gone for sure by next year. I'm 99%
certainty he gonna to win, one way or another and privatize S/S and USPS. Given the
choice’s American's hates the Chinese with Pompeo endless racist bashing -almost
daily.
We can both be right. Russia cockblocking Israel's ability to just roll over Assad's
Syria, their relationship with Iran, etc. are big factors. It's been pretty funny to watch
American Progressives rant and rave about Russia like warmonger rednecks in the 80's who just
watched Rocky IV.
"... The duplicitousness of exploiting misery is especially vile if a candidate knows from the start millions of his enthusiastic supporters comprised of minorities, the young, and the marginalized will ultimately be hoodwinked into supporting, Biden, a demented warmongering crook who is medically propped up to execute a seven minute campaign speech. ..."
"... And there you have it – democracy in action. This is the kind of democracy the US is promoting throughout the planet. This is the reason behind every regime change war. To put it simply–the US intelligence agencies want to control the sovereign leaders of every government. They wish every leader was as brain dead as Biden–their job would be a lot easier. ..."
"... I am afraid you've hit upon the crux of the matter. One would think after Bernie playing the role of sheepdog in 2016 rather than challenging the DNC and Hillary at the convention over the leaked emails exposing the utter corruption of the process that people would be less than trusting of Bernie in 2020. Yet here we are again. ..."
"... Tulsi is the only one who dares speak the truth regarding the war machine, thus she has been excluded. ..."
"... we may now adapt this old Chernenko joke: "Today, due to bad health and without regaining consciousness, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko took up the duties of Secretary General". ..."
"Bernie Sanders has done his best to cover up: the Democratic Party is a party of the
capitalist class. It can no more be converted to socialism than the CIA can become an
instrument of the struggle against American imperialism."
The duplicitousness of exploiting misery is especially vile if a candidate knows from
the start millions of his enthusiastic supporters comprised of minorities, the young, and the
marginalized will ultimately be hoodwinked into supporting, Biden, a demented warmongering
crook who is medically propped up to execute a seven minute campaign speech.
Large campaign rallies might not be a concern for much longer, inasmuch, as the security
state will probably end rallies saying they fear large crowds will spread the coronavirus.
Once rallies are no longer a consideration the intelligence agencies will only need to prop
up "drooling Joe" in front of a gold curtain flanked by numerous American flags. Drooling
Joe, will read a short speech rehearsed numerous times and then he'll be quickly ushered off
the stage before the public can detect Joe is mentally more dead than alive.
And there you have it – democracy in action. This is the kind of democracy the
US is promoting throughout the planet. This is the reason behind every regime change war. To
put it simply–the US intelligence agencies want to control the sovereign leaders of
every government. They wish every leader was as brain dead as Biden–their job would be
a lot easier.
Trillions of working-class tax dollars are absconded by the military/security/surveillance
corporate state to fight endless NEEDLESS wars to fatten the pockets of war profiteers and
every other ancillary grifter. Genocide is committed throughout the Middle East and Africa to
spread US democracy. A democracy where the will of the people is crushed.
Skip Scott , March 10, 2020 at 09:04
I am afraid you've hit upon the crux of the matter. One would think after Bernie
playing the role of sheepdog in 2016 rather than challenging the DNC and Hillary at the
convention over the leaked emails exposing the utter corruption of the process that people
would be less than trusting of Bernie in 2020. Yet here we are again.
Tulsi is the only one who dares speak the truth regarding the war machine, thus she
has been excluded. The only way I would ever vote for Bernie would be if he picked Tulsi
for his running mate. That would likely involve both of them leaving the democratic party and
running as Independents. In the end, only a revolution has any hope for bringing meaningful
change. The evil that controls both parties, the MIC, and the MSM will not be brought under
control willingly.
Hans Suter , March 9, 2020 at 09:52
we may now adapt this old Chernenko joke: "Today, due to bad health and without
regaining consciousness, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko took up the duties of Secretary
General".
this year large US corporate bankruptcy filings are running at a record pace and are set to
surpass levels reached during the financial crisis in 2009 (when the S&P was far from an
all time high).
According to FT calculations , as of
August 17, a record 45 companies each with more than $1 billion in assets has filed for Chapter
11 this year; this compares with 38 for the same period of 2009 during the depths of the
financial crisis and is more than double last year's figure of 18 over the comparable period
.
The Intelligence Committee report also repeats thoroughly
debunked myths about WikiLeaks and, like Mueller, the committee made no effort to interview
Julian Assange before launching its smears. Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi, who partnered
with WikiLeaks in the publication of the Podesta emails, described the report's treatment of
WikiLeaks in this Twitter thread :
2. the description of #WikiLeaks ' publishing activities by
this #SenateIntelligenceCommittee
's Report appears a true #EdgarHoover 's disinformation campaign
to make a legitimate media org completely radioactive
3. Clearly, to describe #WikiLeaks and its publishing activities the
#SenateIntelligenceCommittee's Report completely rely on #US intelligence community+
#MikePompeo's characterisation of #WikiLeaks. There is not even any pretense of an
independent approach
4. there are also unsubstantiated claims like:
– "[WikiLeaks'] disclosures have jeopardized the safety of individual Americans and
foreign allies" (p.200)
– "WikiLeaks has passed information to U.S. adversaries" (p.201)
5. it's completely false that "#WikiLeaks does not seem to weigh whether its disclosures
add any public interest value" (p.200) and any longtime media partner like me could provide
you dozens of examples on how wrong this characterisation [is].
Mouldy , 1 hour ago
So in a nutshell.. They just called half the USA too stupid to make an informed decision
for themselves.
ominous , 1 hour ago
the disagreement is over which half is the stupid half
So now maybe we will get the Gold Plan for Hispanic Americans, the Silver Plan for Asian
Americans, the Red Plan for Native Americans and then finally the Brown Plan for White
Americans who will incrementally become more brown over time because of government
"policy"..
This is not racist, it is physics and biology.
teutonicate , 3 hours ago
Trump Unveils "Platinum Plan" For Black Americans, Designates Antifa, KKK As "Terrorist
Organizations"
Just as an aside, as far as I am concerned, blacks have been on the platinum plan since
the sixties - and it hasn't helped them one bit.
A recent report from the U.S. navy stated that 22% of America's sailors suffer from
obesity. If something like that does not convince the believers in US military might, I
wonder what would do.
I was just poking a little fun at the notion of the exceptional nation getting its ass
handed to it by the natives who didn't bow down before the 'might' of Uncle Shmuel.
It goes for Russia and China just the same as the US, NAZO and the EU/UK: if they attempt
to bully little guys, I hope the little guys bust their chops.
My mother in law , born in Lithuania, has believed that the KGB has been after her for a
good part of her life. Only evidence when asked is maybe glances, or close calls when
driving. When asked why they would still be after her she says that it will be in the book
she is going to write. She is now 96, and still no book. I finally put this paranoia down to
a world view that she is the centre of.
Seems a lot like Americans view of America to me.
Egocentric, and narcissistic.
"Overview. Narcissistic personality disorder -- one of several types of personality
disorders -- is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own
importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a
lack of empathy for others."
...Finally, I will conclude with a short mention of US politicians.
First, Trump. He now declares that the Russians stole the secret of hypersonic weapons from
Obama. This reminds me of how the Brits declared that Russia stole their vaccine against the
sars-cov-2 virus. But, if the Russians stole all that, why is it that ONLY Russia has deployed
hypersonic weapons (not the US) and ONLY Russia has both two vaccines and 2 actual treatments
(and not the UK)? For a good laugh, check out Andrei Martyanov's great column " Russia
Steal Everything ".
And then there is Nancy Pelosi who, apparently, is considering, yes, you guessed it –
yet another impeachment attempt against Trump? The charge this time? Exercising this
Presidential prerogative to nominate a successor to Ruth Ginsburg. Okay, Pelosi might be
senile, but she also is in deep denial if she thinks impeaching Trump is still a viable
project. Frankly? I think that she lost it.
In fact, I think that all the Dems have gone absolutely insane: they are now considering
packing both the Supreme Court and the Senate. The fact that doing so will destroy the US
political system does not seem to bother them in the least.
Conclusion: quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat !
I know, take chess for example, where the highest rank is the title of "Master." Someone
should change this. Also note the "black" always move second, the queen serves the king and
her highest glory is to "sacrifice" herself for him. Protect the MAN! The game is so
structurally racist and sexist, is it any wonder there has never been a black or female world
champion? Sheez
Bolshevism stupidities first played as a great tragedy, which cost many scientists their life
or who were pushed into exile, now the same stupidity with the exchange of "proletarian
scientists" to "black scientist" is re-played as a farce in the USA
Some science-relevant extracts from Heather's article:
The dean of the Jacobs School of
Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, Albert ("Al") P. Pisano [ Email him ] pronounced
himself "absolutely dedicated" to turning the engineering school into an "anti-racist
organization." Doing so "crucially includes unconscious bias work we must do within ourselves,"
he added. How that work will interact with research on nanoparticles and viral transmission,
say, was unspecified.
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled a $28 billion
program to send the first woman to the moon in 2024 as part of its Artemis program.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine released a
statement Monday (Sept. 21), announcing the new mission to put a human back on the lunar
surface would be the first time since 1972.
Bridenstine said, "with bipartisan support from Congress, our 21st-century push to the Moon
is well within America's reach."
"As we've solidified more of our exploration plans in recent months, we've continued to
refine our budget and architecture. We're going back to the moon for scientific discovery,
economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers," he said.
Bridenstine added that "a sustainable presence" on the moon will eventually pave the way for
astronauts to take their "first steps on the Red Planet," referring to NASA's future mission to
Mars.
NASA's lunar missions are part of its Artemis plan, including the first mission –
known as Artemis I – will launch the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft
around the moon for a series of tests this fall to check performance, life support, and
communication capabilities. Astronauts will be apart of the Artemis II mission in 2023. Artemis
III allows the first woman and the next man back onto the lunar surface in 2024.
"In 2024, Artemis III will be humanity's return to the surface of the moon - landing the
first astronauts on the lunar South Pole. After launching on SLS, astronauts will travel
about 240,000 miles to lunar orbit aboard Orion, at which point they will directly board one
of the new commercial human landing systems, or dock to the Gateway to inspect it and gather
supplies before boarding the landing system for their expedition to the surface," NASA's
statement read.
Whilst Russia and China are creating a truly new, unique and creative alliance and a
market of everything, in Australia the "authorities" are sicking their police dogs on poor
grannies sitting on park benches.
This image of five brainless armed state goons in a show of force over two quiet little
grannies really puts things into perspective. It must be that New World Order that Soros and
puppets always talked about.
Psssst, learning Russian is easier than Chinese and we already know a few Russian words,
such as novichok .
After the dissolution of the USSR the US elite lost the traction with reality and became mad
in a very literate sense of this word. A gang of exceptional idiots. Like in Mad Hatter in Alice
in Wonderland. For Mad Hatter that was toxic substances (mercury) used in the hat industry, for
the US elite it was toxic doze of exeptionalism and adoption of "Full spectrum dominance
doctrine" promoted by crazy neocons like Wolfowitz and Libby. The best way to destroy the empire
is to adopt "full spectrum Dominance Doctrine" which guarantee overextension and subsequent
demise. The dominance disappears like The Cheshire Cat disappearance leaving only his grin,
prompting Alice to remark that "she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without
a cat".
US officials like Pompeo now often sound like some podunk UN official from a podunk country trying to impress a waitress in a
NYC bar.
But at the end of the cold war the 'west' began to ignore the actual international law and
to replace it with its own rules which others were then supposed to follow. That hubris has
come back to bite the 'west'.
Thanks b, and I will add that we here in the US also are expected to be okay with a financial
rules based order that favors the rich over the not well off and seeks the same sort of
hegemony in terms of its own citizens.
Recently I loved reading that President Roosevelt sent thousands of bankers to prison.
Wish we still had him.
Much more recently than FDR, many bankers were sent to jail during the savings and loan
crisis of the late 1980s. The difference now is that Wall Street has taken over the
Democratic Party.
It is naive to assume that Russian would waste money when there is absolutely no need for
that ;-) They probably laugh at seeing repetition of Soviet Politburo leader succession situation
after Brezhnev's death in the USA. As in famous joke that Chernenko assumed the position of the
General Secretary of the CPSU "without regaining consciousness."
In no way they do not understand that a semi-senile neocon warmonger would not be much
different for them than the current bully-in-chief, as foreign policy is not controlled by the
President, but by the "deep state"?
It is also unclear why Wray pushed this silly "denigration" narrative: how you can denigrate
a person, who is denigrating himself by participating in Presidential election, while clearly
entered a stage of cognitive decline ? Is laughing at him a denigration, or just a natural
reaction on such a situation? Or Christopher Wray thinks that White House is an assisted living
facility and all major decisions are done in CIA and FBI headquarters anyway? And that paying due
respect to any contender of the Presidential race is a duty of any foreign power?
And why Kremlin should like Biden who visited Moscow in 2011 and told both Putin and
opposition leaders the Obama oadministration think that Vladimir Putin shouldn't run for
president once more.
Notable quotes:
"... ... The Treasury Department, in the meantime, sanctioned a Ukrainian politician it known as a Russian agent for efforts to tar Biden for alleged corruption associated to his son's enterprise dealings in Ukraine. ..."
U.S. politics have become so polarized that there's little need for Russia to step in and
invent new controversies, according to a senior British intelligence official.
Russia is nonetheless conducting a "very active" campaign to denigrate Biden and sow
divisions in the U.S. political scene, FBI Director Christopher Wray said last week.
... ... ...
Russian officers deny meddling, both now or in the 2016 elections. On Friday, Putin proposed
that the US and Russia alternate ensures of non-interference in elections, in keeping with a
assertion on the Kremlin web site. He additionally known as for talks on info safety and
restoring cybersecurity cooperation, reviving a proposal he floated after the 2016
election.
Since that vote, Moscow's infatuation with Trump has dimmed. Russian officers say
"Russophobia" in the US institution received't change regardless of who's in the White House.
But the distinction between the two candidates is putting. While Trump mentioned final week
that China and mail-in voting have been higher threats than Russia, Biden has mentioned he'd
make Moscow pay for meddling, calling Russia an opponent.
... The Treasury Department, in the meantime, sanctioned a Ukrainian politician it known as
a Russian agent for efforts to tar Biden for alleged corruption associated to his son's
enterprise dealings in Ukraine.
Great clip of "Trump" in Moscow, the end scene in front of Tsoy's wall in the Arbat has a
message, a reference to the well known in the former USSR song Peremen, Changes, by the group
Kino. Trump would do fine in Moscow were he to lose the election, there is a kitsch side to
the megalopolis too, but it is such a huge and varied city, an imperial capital, that it had
to have it.
Putins apprentice is perfect for RT and I propose that Trump would need a regular foil with a
standard 30 second discussion with Joe Biden in every show. Joe could have his name board or
US flag upside down. With only 6 weeks to go to election day this show would drive the entire
dopey establishment crazy.
"" President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to
stop funding to federal government contractors who hold critical race theory training
sessions."
YES!! "Silence is complicity" as leftarded sheep often bleat, and silence in the face of
this ultra-racist bullsh!t has gone on far too long. Never should've been allowed to begin
with.
A satirical video using "deepfake" technology to show US President Donald Trump as coming to
work for RT after the November election was taken very seriously by 'Russiagate' peddlers at
the Daily Beast and the Lincoln Project.
Augury Unhappy Bird Watcher, State of Grave Doubt
Sept. 20
Oregon's racial demographics White alone, percent 86.7% Black or African American alone,
percent 2.2% Alabama's racial demographics White alone, percent 69.1% Black or African American
alone, percent26.8%
Those sneaky Russians are well aware Biden is doing a good enough job of subverting his
own campaign.
They know he, like his opponent, offers no relief from the constant militarism and forever
wars that the American public is fed up with.
They know he, like his opponent, is corrupt and represents corporate interests and that
the American public sees him as out of touch and incapable of offering anything in terms of
substantive change.
They know that so long as Biden doesn't offer any kind of viable alternative to the status
quo his candidacy is going to be weak and ineffectual and that there isn't much of anything
they could do that could possibly enhance that effect.
So, they're content to sit back and let nature take its course. In other words, they
realize the best way to interfere in the American elections... is by NOT interfering with
them.
And how could the Americans possibly counter such a strategy? The deviousness is off the charts. Damn those Russians!
Overage Cold War hawks and salesmen for the arms makers like to say that China is
"totalitarian," which sounds appropriately terrible without meaning anything specific. How many
people have been in a genuinely totalitarian and Communist country?
I was in the Soviet Union when it still was the Soviet Union, and it closely matched John
Bolton's onanistic fantasies: grim, poor, intimidated, no stores or consumer goods, empty
streets with cars only for the government, people sullen and dispirited.
As we flew out on Aeroflot, people spontaneously broke into applause as we passed the
Russian frontier.
... ... ...
Conservatives of formidable economic illiteracy speak of China as a communist dictatorship.
The government, perhaps not wanting to admit a mistake, calls itself communist. Geriatric hawks
make themselves foolish by referring to "Chicoms," but China is in fact a pragmatic
authoritarian oligarchy, not a dictatorship, and communist countries do not have hundreds of
thousands of private businesses. You cannot criticize the government and the Great Firewall of
China blocks the international internet. Not good, but totalitarian? Try North Korea.
... ... ...
Americans also grouse that fentanyl, which they usually pronounce "fentanol," comes from
China, just as Mexicans complain that the weaponry of the drug cartels comes from the US. True
in both cases, but it is a bit of a leap to attribute either to governmental hostility rather
than freelance criminality.
... ... ...
People in the US speak of China's brazen aggressiveness. Chinese aggressiveness? Did
China invade Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands? Has China spent almost twenty years
butchering Afghans, militarily seized Syria's oil, supported Saudi Arabia in a murderous war
against Yemen, supervised the destruction of Libya, bombed Somalia? Does China try to starve
Iran and Venezuela into giving Washington control of their oil? Does China push its
(nonexistent) NATO vassals ever closer to Russian border? Yes, China is an international
menace. No one can doubt it.
So, it appears the War on Populism is building
toward an exciting climax. All the proper pieces are in place for a Class-A GloboCap color
revolution, and maybe even civil war. You got your unauthorized Putin-Nazi president, your
imaginary apocalyptic pandemic, your violent identitarian civil unrest, your heavily-armed
politically-polarized populace, your ominous rumblings from military quarters you couldn't
really ask for much more.
OK, the plot is pretty obvious by now (as it is in all big-budget action spectacles, which
is essentially what color revolutions are), but that won't spoil our viewing experience. The
fun isn't in guessing what is going to happen. Everybody knows what's going to happen. The fun
is in watching Bruce, or Sigourney, or "the moderate rebels," or the GloboCap "Resistance,"
take down the monster, or the terrorists, or Hitler, and save the world, or democracy, or
whatever.
The show-runners at GloboCap understand this, and they are sticking to the classic Act III
formula (i.e., the one they teach in all those scriptwriting seminars, which, full disclosure,
I teach a few of those). They've been running the War on Populism by the numbers since the very
beginning. I'm going to break that down in just a moment, act by act, plot point by plot point,
but, first, let's quickly cover the basics.
The first thing every big Hollywood action picture (or GloboCap color revolution) needs is a
solid logline to build the plot around. The logline shows us: (1) our protagonist, (2) what our
protagonist is trying to do, and (3) our antagonist or antagonistic force.
For example, here's one everyone will recognize:
"A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and
his role in the war against its controllers."
In our case, the logline writes itself:
"After America is taken over by a Russian-backed Hitlerian dictator, the forces of
democracy unite to depose the tyrant and save the free world."
Donald Trump is our antagonist, of course. And what an antagonist he has been! As the
deep-state spooks and the corporate media have been relentlessly repeating for the last four
years, the man is both a Russian-backed traitor and literally the resurrection of Hitler! In
terms of baddies, it doesn't get any better.
It goes without saying that our protagonist is GloboCap (i.e., the global capitalist
empire), or "democracy," as it is known in the entertainment business.
Now, we're in the middle of Act III already, and, as in every big-budget action movie, our
protagonist suffered a series of mounting losses all throughout Act II, and the baddie was
mostly driving the action. Now it's time for the Final Push, but, before all the action gets
underway, here's a quick recap of those previous acts. Ready? All right, here we go
Act I
(status quo/inciting incident)
There democracy (i.e., GloboCap) was, peacefully operating its de facto global capitalist
empire like a normal global hegemon (i.e., destabilizing, restructuring, and privatizing
everything it hadn't already destabilized and privatized, and OK, occasionally murdering,
torturing, and otherwise mercilessly oppressing people), when out of nowhere it was viciously
attacked by Donald Trump and his Putin-Nazi "populists," who stole the 2016 election from
Clinton with those insidious Facebook ads. (For you writers, this was the Inciting
Incident.)
As is traditional at the opening of Act II, things were looking promising for GloboCap. The
"Resistance" staged those pink pussyhat protests, and the corporate media were pumping out
Russia and Hitler propaganda like a Goebbelsian piano. Yes, there were obstacles, but the
"Resistance" was growing . And then, in May of 2017, special counsel Robert Mueller was
appointed, and "Russiagate" was officially launched. It appeared that Donald Trump's days were
numbered!
(rising action/first culmination)
But, no, it was never going to be that easy. (If it was, feature films would be less than an
hour long, not to mention incredibly boring.) There was plenty of action (and an endless series
of "bombshells") throughout the ensuing two years, but by the end of March 2019, "Russiagate" had blown
up in GloboCap's face . "Populism" was still on the rise! It was time for GloboCap to get
serious. (This was the classic first culmination, sometimes known as The Point of No
Return.)
Act II (b)
(complications/subplots/higher stakes)
In the aftermath of the "Russiagate" fiasco, the GloboCap "Resistance" flailed around for a
while. An assortment of
ridiculous subplots unfolded Obstructiongate, Ukrainegate, Pornstargate (and I'm probably
forgetting some "gates"), white-supremacist non-terrorist terrorism, brain-devouring
Russian-Cubano crickets, Russian spy whales, and other such nonsense. Meanwhile, the forces of
"populism" were running amok all across the planet. The gilets jaunes were on the verge of
taking down Macron in France, and gangs of neo-nationalist boneheads had launched a series of
frontal assaults on Portlandia, GloboCap Anti-Fascist HQ, which Antifa was barely holding
off.
(second culmination/major setback)
All wasn't totally lost, however. GloboCap sprang back into action, successfully Hitlerizing
Jeremy Corbyn , the leader of leftist "populism," and thus preventing the mass exodus of
Jews from Great Britain. And the US elections were on the horizon. Trump was still
Russian-agent Hitler, after all, so he wasn't going to be too hard to beat. All that GloboCap
had to do was put forth a viable Democratic candidate, then let the corporate media do their
thing. OK, first, they had to do Bernie
Sanders (because he was another "populist" figurehead, and the point of the entire War on
Populism has been to crush the "populist" resistance to global capitalism from both the Left
and the Right), but the DNC made short work of that.
So, everything was looking hunky-dory until -- and you screenwriters saw this coming, didn't
you? -- the pivotal plot-point at the end of Act II, The Major Setback, or The Dark Night of
the Soul, when all seems lost for our protagonist.
... ... ...
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based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing,
Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23 , is
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"If at any time the United States believes Iran has failed to meet its commitments, no
other state can block our ability to snap back those multilateral sanctions," Pompeo
declared in a statement posted on his official Twitter account on Sunday evening.
The top US diplomat was referring to the avalanche of sanctions Washington has been hellbent
on slapping on Tehran after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) overwhelmingly rejected
the US resolution to extend a 13-year arms embargo against the Islamic Republic past October
earlier this week.
The humiliating defeat , which saw only one member
of the 15-nation body (the Dominican Republic) siding with the US, while China and Russia
opposed the resolution, and all other nations, including France and the UK, abstained, did not
discourage Washington, which doubled down on its threat to hit Iran with biting sanctions.
... ... ...
"Of course other states can block America's ability to impose multilateral sanctions. The
US can impose sanctions by itself, but can't force others to do it," Nicholas Grossman,
teaching assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois,
tweeted.
"That's what 'multilateral' means. Is our SecState really this dumb?" Grossman asked.
Daniel Larison, senior editor at the American Conservative, suggested that Pompeo might
be having a hard time grasping the meaning of the word 'multilateral'.
Some argued that Pompeo could not be unaware of the contradictory nature of his statement.
Dan Murphy, former Middle East and South Asia correspondent for the Christian Science
Monitor, called it "one of the most diplomatically illiterate sentences of all time."
"I guess the end game here is [to] alienate the rest of the world even further to feed his
persecution complex?" Murphy wrote.
John Twomey, 16 August, 2020
Explanation. What Pompeo understands and what many others can't grasp is that the US
decides if their sanctions are "multilateral" because the USA speaks for all other countries
whether they like it or not.
My Opinion, 17 August, 2020
Reminiscing of his shady past as a new CIA recruit he said. "We lied, we cheated and we stole". Apparently, Mikey didn't
do all too well in his literature classes, either and that's why the most suitable candidate from zionists perspective.
So, it appears the War on Populism is building
toward an exciting climax. All the proper pieces are in place for a Class-A GloboCap color
revolution , and maybe even civil war. You got your unauthorized Putin-Nazi president, your
imaginary apocalyptic pandemic, your violent identitarian civil unrest, your heavily-armed
politically-polarized populace, your ominous rumblings from military quarters you couldn't
really ask for much more.
OK, the plot is pretty obvious by now (as it is in all big-budget action spectacles, which
is essentially what color revolutions are), but that won't spoil our viewing experience. The
fun isn't in guessing what is going to happen. Everybody knows what's going to happen. The fun
is in watching Bruce, or Sigourney, or "the moderate rebels," or the GloboCap "Resistance,"
take down the monster, or the terrorists, or Hitler, and save the world, or democracy, or
whatever.
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden issued a stark warning to Americans, saying that "200 million
people will die" of Covid-19 by the end of his short speech. Biden's wacky math once again
raised concern over his mental fitness.
Speaking in Philadelphia on Sunday, Biden hammered President Donald Trump's handling of the
coronavirus pandemic, but one of his statements stood out from the rest of the speech.
"It's estimated that 200 million people will die, probably by the time I finish this
talk," he announced, waving his arms for emphasis.
Biden has fumbled his figures before, claiming earlier this
summer that more than 120 million Americans had died of Covid-19, overstating the true death
toll by a factor of 1,000. Back in February, he claimed during a primary debate that "150
million" Americans had died of gun violence since 2007 – nearly half the country's
population.
President Trump has made attacking Biden's mental health a key tactic in his reelection
campaign. With Biden floundering through
speeches, and relying increasingly on a teleprompter to stay on
message, Trump joked during a rally on Saturday night that his Democratic opponent is
"shot," and has "half his head left."
On Monday, Democratic nominee Joe Biden condemned President Donald Trump as a "climate
arsonist," predicting that if the president wins reelection in November, America will witness
more "hellish" events like fires in the West, flooding in the Midwest, and hurricanes on the
East Coast. He effectively promised that if he wins, America will suffer from fewer fires,
fewer floods, and fewer hurricanes.
Although Biden excoriated Trump for "ignoring the facts" and "denying reality," he focused
his remarks on the wildfires ravaging California, Oregon, and Washington State -- fires
exacerbated by bad forest management more than any sort of climate change.
"If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be
surprised if we have more of America ablaze? If you give a climate denier four more years in
the White House, why would anyone be surprised when more of America is under water?" Biden
asked.
The particular corner of capitalism featured in this story is the fine old
financial-services firm of Goldman Sachs. You may recall Goldman Sachs signaling their virtue
to the world
back in in January when they announced that they'd only do business with firms that had at
least one diverse board member, which I think means not a straight
white male.
Well, a friend of mine is employed at Goldman Sachs, and he's
been passing stuff on to me: stuff like this, which I reproduce with my friend's permission,
some names redacted
It's a memo that was prominently featured on the main page of the internal Goldman Sachs web
site August 27th, for the edification of all employees. The title of the memo is: Why
Language Can Be One of Our Biggest Allies at Goldman Sachs. The main text is over seven
hundred words, too long for me to read out in its entirety, so I'll just cherry-pick a few
representative quotes, with links added.
I guess you could say that at least the competitive spirit of capitalism is visible there.
Gotta be better than the next guy; gotta stay ahead of the market; hey, look -- we did the
capital-"B"
thing two weeks before AP!
... ... ...
So there's a glimpse into the heart of Woke Capitalism. It makes the point that this
poisonous gibberish is now universal among our ruling elites. I mean, it makes the point
because if a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs doesn't
belong
to the ruling elite,
nobody does.
It's like this throughout the Establishment: Wall Street, Big Tech, Hollywood, the
universities this is the reigning ideology. White Supremacy and Systemic Racism are in the air
we breathe, tormenting the soul even of a Wall Street MD on a high six-figure salary and a
seven-figure annual bonus.
And no, I didn't make those numbers up. In the matter of executive compensation, there is
nothing niggardly (so
to speak ) about Goldman Sachs.
This is the reigning ideology. Yes, it's crazy and stupid and bears no relation to any
actual facts in the world. You'd better pretend to believe it, though. Bend the knee and bow
the head, or you'll get nowhere in life.
Goldman Sachs doesn't even really exist. It is a galaxy of semi-independent Conflicts of
Interest, Capital-Banditism, living off "financial stimuli" and government-mandated "forced
investment" in what is now essentially the trashcan economy, influencing government decisions
and living high off other people's piggy banks. Don't they have about 2 billion USD to pay to
Malaysia (in cash!) for fraud? Where's that money coming from? Your pocket? Gee
I will take the "wokeness" of Goldman Sachs seriously if they start holding seminars about
"Jewish privilege" and "systemic anti-Gentilism". And while they are at it, why not a course
in "Jewish predatory banking"? At the end of it, if they are consistent, they should abolish
themselves.
Language, especially ideology is important, but its things like this where the rubber
meets the road.
"he [the] Indian project manager and his legacy-American subordinate who's being kept on for
three months to train his replacement, [is] an H-1B also from India -- in fact the project
manager's nephew." [my emphasis].
And don't let anyone tell you it must be this way.
These guys aren't capitalists. They are thieves looting the nation. How much hard work and
innovation is involved in importing H1-B labor? Banning the terms master and slave doesn't
change the reality that managers appropriating an ever greater share of profits for
themselves reduces labor to a status even lower than a slave. A master at least had to make
sure his slave could eat. Not so a modern CEO. He can just make an employee redundant and let
that worker figure out where his next meal will come from.
If the US keeps this up, the Chinese are going to eat us for lunch. It's all fun and
games, who gets to teach at Dutchess County Community College, but these morons are
starting to spread their religion to all aspects of life. Will not end well.
You don't have to visualize the future.
Years of black management and anti-white recruitment policies bankrupted South African
Airways. Members of staff were even using the national carrier to traffic cocaine from Latin
America.
The temper of a mob is fickle, as a group of Antifa protesters have demonstrated in
Philadelphia. In an apparent case of mistaken identity, the mob chased one of their own with
hammers, smashed his car, and terrorized his dog.
The leftist protesters gathered in Philadelphia's Clark Park on Saturday to protest a rally
organized by the right-wing Proud Boys. As conservative commentator James Klug was talking on
camera to the leftists, one masked man approached him with a baseball bat and slammed it into
the ground beside him.
According to Blaze TV's Elijah Schaffer, the mob mistook the bat-wielding man for one of the
right-wingers, and chased him out of the park, to his car.
The leftist protesters gathered in Philadelphia's Clark Park on Saturday to protest a rally
organized by the right-wing Proud Boys. As conservative commentator James Klug was talking on
camera to the leftists, one masked man approached him with a baseball bat and slammed it into
the ground beside him.
According to Blaze TV's Elijah Schaffer, the mob mistook the bat-wielding man for one of the
right-wingers, and chased him out of the park, to his car.
Surrounding the vehicle, the masked mob smashed its windows with hammers and kicked in its
panels. Though the man can't be seen inside the car, Schaffer claimed he was the same man who
was chased out of the park, as did journalist Kalen D'Almeida.
As the rioters pounded on the car, a dog inside began barking, lunging for the smashed rear
window and snarling at the mob. "F**k you and your dog," one man shouted as the driver
pulled away.
According to D'Almeida, who filmed the smash-up, none of the Proud Boys actually showed up
to the park as planned. D'Almeida wrote on Twitter that "Antifa was waiting ready to attack
anyone for any reason today," while Schaffer shared a video of the masked
miscreants physically assaulting right-wing reporter Lisa Reynolds Barbounis.
The issue surely must be why media like The New York Times (Russia paying Taliban to target
US forces in Afghanistan) and Politico (Iran planning to assassinate US ambassador to South
Africa) continue to repeat the lie over and over even when they have been found out and
everyone around the world is dying of laughter at the continued stupidity. Are the NYT and
Politico stenographers so dense and wrapped up in their own tiny worlds that they are
tone-deaf?
Are the NYT and Politico stenographers so dense and wrapped up in their own tiny
worlds that they are tone-deaf?"
Denial is a BIG river. And we've been living in a make believe world for a long time
here. And finally, it's all they've got left. It's like Vietnam all over again, same bunch
of morons, same mistakes, same wall-to-wall lying. Even a lot of the same players.
That "Black Lives Matter" picture up above, the one with the flag....WHERE ARE THE BLACK
PEOPLE???
Malcolm stated, "The white liberal differs from the white conservative in one way. The
liberal is more deceitful and hypocritical than the conservatives. Both want power. But,
the white liberal has perfected the art of posing as the [Blacks] friend and benefactor."
He accused the liberals of using the black Americans as 'political pawns' in their
political struggle against the conservatives.
"The American [Black] is nothing but a political football and the white liberals control
this ball. Through tricks, tokenism, and false promises of integration and civil rights ,"
he remarked. He blamed the Black civil rights leaders for selling the black community to
the liberals for tokenism. - Malcom X - Dec 4, 1963
The level of political correctness demonstrated by Vampire squid actually exceed the level
achieved by CPSU in the USSR, which probably contributed to the USSR dissolution as everybody was
tired of this level of primitive hypocrisy and enforced speech standard; including the CPSU
leadership.
Woke racism is a new form of financial oligarchy division and control of prols...
Notable quotes:
"... In Engineering, our colleagues [have] collaborated with others in the financial services industry to address racially insensitive terminology in computer security terms. This work included eliminating the use of "blacklist" and "whitelist," as well as of "master" and "slave," when describing the relationship between hardware components. ..."
In Engineering, our colleagues [have] collaborated with others in the financial
services industry to address racially insensitive terminology in computer security terms.
This work included eliminating the use of "blacklist"
and "whitelist," as well as of "master" and "slave," when describing the relationship
between hardware components.
Another example of a phrase that can have harmful impact is "All Lives Matter." The death
of George Floyd, and, as recently as this week, the shooting of
Jacob Blake multiple times in the back, demonstrate that until the deadly violent acts
against unarmed Black people subside, all lives will not matter until Black Lives Matter.
You didn't think we were going to get through this without a reference to the Holy Blessed
Martyr Floyd, did you?
Although I'll give a smidgen of credit here to Goldman Sachs: They merely wrote "the death of
George Floyd." It's routine in Mainstream media outlets now to see "
the killing of George Floyd ," or even "the murder of George
Floyd." The Economist , for example, has used both in straight reportage. It has of
course not yet been established to any good evidentiary standard that Floyd was killed, let alone
murdered.
It's not accurate to refer to someone's "sexual preference," which would imply a choice
that can be changed, instead we refer to an individual's "sexual orientation."
That's a bit hair-splitty, isn't it? A bit dubious, actually. An orientation may be voluntary,
mayn't it? I can orient myself to the north, south, east, or west, according to my
preference.
Goldman Sachs doesn't just rely on
memos to keep its workforce up-to-date on the Party line. Conversations! -- gotta have
conversations . To give employees the right idea, the firm records the kind of
conversations it wants them to have and puts them on YouTube so they can watch at home.
I'm not sure what the rule is for watching in office hours, but I'd guess it's OK ah, heck,
probably compulsory.
If the US keeps this up, the Chinese are going to eat us for lunch. It's all fun and games,
who gets to teach at Dutchess County Community College, but these morons are starting to spread
their religion to all aspects of life. Will not end well.
Mind-boggling. Diversity zealots have infiltrated practically every elite institution in
America. How long before the counter-revolution? At least Trump got the ball rolling by
exposing Critical Race Theory to the light of day. Maybe some more philosophical types might
have a go at "deconstructing" Cultural Relativism, the Big Mama of all this poisonous
nonsense.
The greatest goyim fought for all of this. As good goyim spawn, you should celebrate the
defeat of the Axis everyday in the name of anal (((democracy))).
Alice's "curiouser and curiouser" remark in Lewis Carroll's Adventures in Wonderland applies
to dubious twists in the Navalny novichok poisoning hoax.
No evidence or motive links Russia to what happened to him.
Was the August 20 Tomsk, Russia incident made-in-the-USA?
Was Germany pressured, bullied or bribed to go along -- at the expense of its own
self-interest?
Clearly Angela Merkel, other German officials, their Western counterparts, and establishment
media know the claim about Navalny's novichok poisoning is a colossal hoax.
They know that anyone exposed to the toxin, the world's deadliest, would be dead in
minutes.
The same goes for others in close proximity to the exposed individual.
Navalny is very much alive and recovering nearly a month after falling ill.
No one he came in contact with developed novichok poisoning symptoms.
Russian doctors treating him with state-of-the-art equipment and tests found no toxins of
any kind in his system.
They saved his life and stabilized his condition, enabling him to travel to Berlin for
further treatment.
If the Kremlin wanted him dead, he'd have been left untreated in Russia to die.
He's recovering because of heroic treatment by Russian doctors.
On Thursday, elements close to Navalny shifted the fake news novichok poisoning narrative
from tea he drank in the Tomsk, Russia airline terminal to the deadly nerve agent in his hotel
room water bottle.
Are other versions of what happened to him coming ahead?
Claiming novichok traces were found in a hotel water bottle he drank from doesn't pass the
smell test.
The deadly substance in an opened hotel room bottle would likely contaminate and kill anyone
near it.
If, in fact, Navalny was poisoned by novichok in his hotel room overnight, he'd have died in
minutes, clearly not what happened.
The novichok in a hotel room bottle scenario is implausible on its face.
Claiming members of his team entered his hotel room after learning of his illness, found it
uncleaned, and examined everything potentially useful for an investigation -- "recording,
describing, and packing" everything would have exposed them to novichok if it existed by
touching the alleged bottle with the toxin.
Whatever happened to Navalny wasn't from novichok poisoning in a bottle or from any other
source.
On Thursday, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow's
representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin requested copies of files the organization
received from Germany on Navalny's condition, but got no response, adding:
"According to our data Germany and a whole number of (other Western) countries (are)
cultivating the OPCW" with regard to the Navalny incident.
Since he arrived in Berlin for treatment over three weeks ago, Merkel's government
stonewalled Russia by refusing to provide evidence it claims to have about novichok poisoning
because there is none.
On Thursday, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said "(t)here is too much absurdity about this
whole situation to take anyone's word on trust, so we are not going to take anyone's word,"
adding:
"(T)he situation is as follows: the OPCW Technical Secretariat says 'we know nothing. Talk
to the Germans,' and the Germans say 'we know nothing. Talk to the OPCW."
Russian lower house State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested foreign intelligence
responsibility for what happened to Navalny.
On Thursday, majority Russophobic European Parliament (EP) MPs adopted a resolution that
calls for an "immediate launch of an impartial international investigation (sic)" on the
Navalny incident by the EU, its allies, the UN, Council of Europe, and OPCW -- to frame Russia
for what happened to Navalny.
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The resolution also calls for (unjustifiably and unlawfully) sanctioning Russia and
suspending Nord Stream 2 construction.
EP resolutions are non-binding. The EP, Council of the European Union, European Council, and
European Commission operate separately from individual member states.
Time and again earlier, they irresponsibly bashed Russia in cahoots with the US, adopting
non-binding resolutions.
According to Zakharova earlier, anti-Russia propaganda is based on "paranoia phobias,
fictitious messages (and) myths."
Interviewed by Radio Sputnik in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov said Western governments want Russia
"punished both for what is happening in Belarus and for the incident with Navalny," adding:
They refuse to fulfill mandated obligations under the European Convention on Legal Aid by
not responding to official requests by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for documented
information on Navalny's condition.
"Germany says that it cannot tell us anything. They say, go to the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)."
"We went there several times. They say go to Berlin."
"They loudly declare that the fact of poisoning has been established. Except for Russia
nobody could have done it. Admit it."
"All this has already happened with the" fake news Skripals novichok poisoning
incident.
Russia is a valued ally of all world community countries.
Instead of fostering cooperative relations with Moscow, actions by Germany and other EU
countries risk rupturing them.
"Lukashenko is not the legitimate president of Ukraine," Borell proclaimed, while
addressing the European Parliament on Monday. 'For us,' he added. Well, not only for them,
since Lukashenko never claimed to be the leader of that particular country.
"Sorry, Belarus," Borell apologized, with a wide smile, when he realized his mistake.
"We don't recognize Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus," he clarified, to
avoid any further confusion..
####
The EU is also looking at 'naming and shaming' Russia over human rights while some of the
EU's own member states are supporting genocide in Yemen. There's certainly plenty of quid pro
quo going back decades if Russia wants to blacklist EU ex/politicians
Protests potentially nullified all potential positive effects from lookdown in large cities
like NYC, if such exist. So all economic damage was in vain and lockdown was just a capricious
and arbitrary move by ambitious and power hungry Dem politicians. And that fact alone make the
major on NYC and the governor on NY state look like completely politicized idiots.
If the crowd is dense, as often is the case in riots at places of confrontation with the
police cordon, it does not matter much if people are indoor or outdoor, what matters if the
length of the contact. Add to this that looting happens indoors.
...On Wednesday, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh called out CNN's
hypocrisy on this matter, noting that "if people can protest in the streets by the tens of
thousands, if people can riot, if people can gamble in casinos, then certainly they can gather
peaceably under the First Amendment to hear from the president of the United States."
Butthurt from this exchange, CNN Newsroom drafted in "medical analyst" Leana Wen , who
happens to be a former Planned Parenthood president, to explain why science means COVID doesn't
affect BLM protests as much as Trump rallies.
"It does not care why it is that people are gathering but it does care about the conditions
under which they're gathering," Wen argued, adding "outdoors much safer than indoors and
wearing masks obviously much safer than not wearing masks."
"I would also in this case would distinguish between the behavior of the participants while
at protests versus rallies," she continued, arguing that BLM protesters are more "aware" of the
risks than Trump supporters.
"At protests many people are aware of the risks and doing everything they can to reduce that
risk versus at many of the rallies we are seeing people going in defiance," Wen claimed.
Those clever and evil Russians are at the top of their game
again. For less then 20 millions dollars they dispose Hillary in 2016
and now intend to dispose Creepy Joe. Wait, is that this a valuable service to the
nation?
The collapse of neoliberalism forces the US neoliberal elite to deploy desperate measures to preserve the unity of the nation
and the US-controlled world neoliberal empire. Neo-McCarthyism in one of those dirty tricks. The pioneer in this dirty game was
Hillary, but now it is shared by both parties.
According to FBI director Christopher Wray you need to be Russian to
understand that Biden as a Presidential Candidate is DOA. And that decision of DNC to prop him
instead of Sanders or Warren was pretty idiotic, and was based on the power the neoliberal wing
(aka Clinton mafia) still holds within the Party. You have to be pretty delusional to believe
Biden has all his marbles.
And by "interference" he means reporting in the news and expressing
own opinion. Like in 2016 looks like FBI again crossed the line and had become the third
political party, which intends to be the kingmaker of the Presidential elections. So here's a
suggestion: call in UN observers to the elections.
Russian media influence is actually very easy to prove -- just ask yourself, do you trust
RT more than CNN? But if a person laugh every time Joe Biden talks and it has nothing to do
with Russia.
And if this nonsense again comes from the FBI Director, the legitimate question is "What
next?" The claim that Putin ordered the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Look at all those hapless intelligence agencies, helplessly watching Russian hackers
stealing election. But, wait a minute, we are talking about arguably the largest, best
equipped, best financed and most devious intelligence agencies on the Earth. So it is natural
to assume that people who want to steal the election are those who cry most loudly about the
Russian influence.
Actually If Russia really wanted to "sink" Biden all that it would need to do is noisily
support him openly. The rabid Russophobia would do the rest: Unfortunately most of of Americans
are spoon fed neoliberal propaganda and don't care much about if it's real or not. That reminds
me the USSR where the life of people was difficult enough not to pay attention to Communist
Party slogans and propaganda.
Notable quotes:
"... According to the FBI director, the Russians' primary goal seems to be not only to " sow divisiveness and discord ," but to trash Democratic nominee Joe Biden – along with " what the Russians see as a kind of anti-Russian establishment " – through social media, " use of proxies ," state-run media, and " online journals ." ..."
"... Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats even suggested Congress create another election integrity body to supervise the vote in November, apparently concerned the existing authorities – all 54 of them, one for each state plus four federal entities tasked with keeping meddlers, foreign and domestic, shut out – weren't enough. ..."
"... "Crowd pleasing claims" is spot on the money. Sounds like the FBI has been tasked to lay some groundwork for the "after party". He knows what he is doing. ..."
"... Nothing new from the man who was Comey's assistant AG when Comey was Deputy Attorney General. ..."
Russia is reprising its still-unproven 2016 election meddling efforts, this time targeting
Democratic challenger Joe Biden, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, who gave no
evidence to support his crowd-pleasing claims.
Wray told the House of Representatives that Russia is taking a " very active " role
in the 2020 US election, claiming Moscow " continues to try to influence our elections,
primarily through what we call malign foreign influence " during a Thursday hearing on
national security threats.
According to the FBI director, the Russians' primary goal seems to be not only to " sow
divisiveness and discord ," but to trash Democratic nominee Joe Biden – along with
" what the Russians see as a kind of anti-Russian establishment " – through
social media, " use of proxies ," state-run media, and " online journals ."
Wray contrasted 2020's alleged meddling with that of 2016, which he claimed involved "
an effort to target election infrastructure ," presenting no evidence to back up
either current or past claims – other than that the FBI or other intelligence agencies
had made the same claims in the past. There is no actual evidence that Russia interfered with
election infrastructure in 2016.
While four years of similarly flavored conspiracy theories blaming Russia for Donald
Trump's 2016 win have come up empty-handed, the paucity of real-world evidence for 'Russian
meddling' has not stopped Wray and other US intel officials from hyping it up as a major
threat to the integrity of the democratic process.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center suggested last month that, while
Russia would interfere in the election in favor of Trump, China and Iran would meddle on
behalf of Biden – implying Americans couldn't vote at all without doing the bidding of
a foreign nation.
Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats even suggested Congress create another
election integrity body to supervise the vote in November, apparently concerned the existing
authorities – all 54 of them, one for each state plus four federal entities tasked with
keeping meddlers, foreign and domestic, shut out – weren't enough.
TWOhand 5 hours ago 17 Sep, 2020 03:49 PM
"Crowd pleasing claims" is spot on the money. Sounds like the FBI has been tasked to lay
some groundwork for the "after party". He knows what he is doing.
danko79 4 hours ago 17 Sep, 2020 04:22 PM
Can't feel anything but sympathy for those that are so easily influenced. If/when Biden
loses, perhaps blaming his lack of ability to string a few words together might be more
relevant than any kind of imaginary foreign interference.
Terry Ross 4 hours ago 17 Sep, 2020 04:43 PM
Nothing new from the man who was Comey's assistant AG when Comey was Deputy Attorney General. Wray made it clear
when sworn in for position of FBI head that he believed Russia had interfered to help Trump win 2016 election. The only
question that remains is why Trump picked him for the job.
Katyusha rockets are normally fired in salvos of dozens. Two of them being launched against
the American fortress in Baghdad is just gentle prodding.
Another interesting point is that Katyusha rockets (BM-21 Grad) are dirt cheap. Whatever
was used to intercept them was several orders of magnitude more expensive. I'm sure the Iraqi
militias can keep lobbing Katyushas at the Green Zone for much longer than America can afford
to try to shoot them down.
Retired Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel, a Junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, Ladda
Tammy Duckworth is apparently still berating Trump for not taking Russia to task for the now
utterly disproved story of the 'Russian bounties ' being discussed in this thread.
It would appear that merely being stupid isn't a quintisential requirement to enter U.S.
politics. A person obviously needs to be either an imbicile, a cretin, mentally deluded,
disturbed or disabled on top of deteminedly corrupt and dishonest.
I don't find it sad, I find it hilarious that people vote for such incompetence.
They say a country gets the government it deserves.
"Oregon's chief information security officer, Lisa Vasa, told the Washington Post in
September 2017 that her team blocks 'upwards of 14 million attempts to access our network
every day."'
This is the usual ridiculous claim from almost every organization. They treat every
Internet packet that hits their firewall as being an "attempt to access" the network (or
worse, a "breach" - which it is not.) Which is technically true, but would only be relevant
if they had *no* firewall - a setup which no organization runs these days. By definition,
99.99999% of those attempts are random mass scans of a block of IP addresses by either a
hacker or some malware on someone else's machine - or even a computer security researcher
attempting to find out how many sites are vulnerable.
The scam just gets bigger and more absurd every week.
Wait until cold and flu season when people freak out over every little case of the
sniffles. Many will have forgotten completely that one year ago it was normal for people to
catch cold, and nobody worried about it.
Patrick Bateman Jr. , 3 hours ago
In the states where the womanly instinct has prevailed over gelded men, I expect that
phone calls will be made to police when someone is coughing (even inside their mask) in
public.
So many normal things that no one ever noticed before will become criminalized. They are
playing people's minds like fiddles. Stanford Prison Experiment now looks like Utopia.
Give Me Some Truth , 3 hours ago
Where's the story of grocery check-out girls? Shouldn't these people have contracted the
virus at levels a million-fold above the general population? Or at least one-fold higher?
Who has NOT gotten the virus in statistically significant numbers? That's your intriguing
study.
Choomwagon Roof Hits , 3 hours ago
My first thought is they (and other customer-facing jobs like, say, waiters and waitresses
) have had significant exposure to the other coronaviruses that cause the common cold over
time and have substantial immunity to this virus or at the very lease enough of an immune
response to prevent any real infection.
Obamanism666 , 3 hours ago
It is an intelligent Virus. It knows when the person is an essential worker and when there
is a BLM peaceful protest and an Antifa riot.
It asks your politics before affecting you and knows that the more it affects the bigger
the mail in Voting to help the dems will be.
Choomwagon Roof Hits , 2 hours ago
Very intelligent, it's able to target schools, churches and gyms with deadly precision but
is inactivated for the benefit of essential workers (not all heroes wear capes!) once the
virus is inside of liquor stores, fast food restaurants and lottery dealers.
It spreads only when standing inside a restaurant but not when seated. It also spreads
only when alcohol is served after 10pm.
Remarkably, it's also capable of time dilation, turning "two weeks to slow the spread"
into six months and counting.
GunnerySgtHartman , 3 hours ago
I'm waiting for this headline ...
"STUDY: 100% of people who breathe air will die"
Can you imagine the meltdown that would cause among the snowflake crowd? HAHAHA
gatorengineer , 4 hours ago
Restaurants are a symbol of white privelidge and must be destroyed.
I have tried to explain this to two people I know who are insanely paranoid.
Both are men (no offense) 60+ both have high blood pressure as their only co-morbidity.
Both are convinced that if they leave the house Covid will kill them.
One lives in PA One lives in Florida.
The PA one apparently thinks that Covid can be spread by a single person for months. I
have tried, repeatedly, to explain that you are only contagious right before you develop
symptoms like Chicken pox but he believes in super spreaders and other Media BS
The other is my friend's partner he hasn't left their house since March. He won't go out,
go to a restaurant or anything. She does leave the house and when she returns he treats her
like Typhoid Mary. And says she is trying to kill him.
Both watch the news all the time. One watched the daily pressers and is on twitter
24/7
TQRock , 1 hour ago
I know people who actually sanitize their groceries that they have delivered.
TQRock , 54 minutes ago
Ontario's PM, Ford, had his power to implement emergency edicts extended indefinitely.
Funny thing about Canadians is they tend to over comply. I wear a homemade face shield when
necessary (library's the only place that refused entry), but everyone else wears soggy
germ-soaked face diaper. Even alone in cars or riding a bicycle, some do. I suspect that even
when/if the rules are lifted, we'll just keep wearing them. Like who wants any cold or
flu?
Dr. Acula , 4 hours ago
The cure for coronavirus is on the top right of your remote
In the days, weeks, and months immediately following the 9/11 attacks, Arab-Americans,
South Asian-Americans, Muslim-Americans, and Sikh-Americans were the targets of widespread
hate violence. Many of the perpetrators of these acts of hate violence claimed they were
acting patriotically by retaliating against those responsible for 9/11.
...
Just after September 11, numerous Arabs, Muslims, and individuals perceived to be Arab or
Muslim were assaulted, and some killed, by individuals who believed they were responsible
for or connected to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The first backlash
killing occurred four days after September 11.
Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot to death on September 15 as he was planting flowers outside
his Chevron gas station. The man who shot Sodhi, Frank Roque, had told an employee of an
Applebee's restaurant that he was "going to go out and shoot some towel heads." Roque
mistakenly thought Sodhi was Arab because Sodhi, an immigrant from India, had a beard and
wore a turban as part of his Sikh faith. After shooting Sodhi, Roque drove to a Mobil gas
station a few miles away and shot at a Lebanese-American clerk. He then drove to a home he
once owned and shot and almost hit an Afghani man who was coming out the front door. When
he was arrested two hours later, Roque shouted, "I stand for America all the way."
The next two killings were committed by a man named Mark Stroman. On September 15, 2001,
Stroman shot and killed Waquar Hassan, an immigrant from Pakistan, at Hassan's grocery
store in Dallas, Texas. On October 4, 2001, Stroman shot and killed Vasudev Patel, an
immigrant from India and a naturalized U.S. citizen, while Patel was working at his Shell
station convenience store. A store video camera recorded the killing, helping police to
identify Stroman as the killer. Stroman later told a Dallas television station that he shot
Hassan and Patel because, "We're at war. I did what I had to do. I did it to retaliate
against those who retaliated against us."
Beyond these killings, there were more than a thousand other anti-Muslim or anti-Arab
acts of hate which took the form of physical assaults, verbal harassment and intimidation,
arson, attacks on mosques, vandalism, and other property damage.
Instead of "calming prejudice" the GB Bush administration institutionalized hate
crimes:
First, in the weeks immediately following the September 11 attacks, the government began
secretly arresting and detaining Arab, Muslim, and South Asian men. Within the first two
months after the attacks, the government had detained at least 1,200 men.
...
Second, in November 2001, the Department of Justice began efforts to "interview"
approximately 5,000 men between the ages of 18 and 33 from Middle Eastern or Muslim nations
who had arrived in the United States within the previous two years on a temporary student,
tourist, or business visa and were lawful residents of the United States. Four months
later, the government announced it would seek to interview an additional 3,000 men from
countries with an Al Qaeda presence.
...
Third, in September 2002, the government implemented a "Special Registration" program also
known as NSEERS (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System), requiring immigrant men
from 26 mostly Muslim countries to register their name, address, telephone number, place of
birth, date of arrival in the United States, height, weight, hair and eye color, financial
information and the addresses, birth dates and phone numbers of parents and any foreign
friends with the government.
Besides all that a rather useless security theater was installed at U.S. airports which
has costs many billions in lost time and productivity ever since. The Patriot Act was
introduced which allowed for unlimited spying on private citizens. Wars were launched that
were claimed to be justified by 9/11. These were "mass outbreaks of anti-Muslim sentiment and
violence. Many were killed and maimed in them. People were tortured and vanished. All of this
happened largely to applause of a majority of the U.S. people which were glued to 24 and dreamed of being "terrorist
hunters".
Anyone with a functional memory knows that the U.S. reaction to 9/11 was anything but
"pretty calm". It is ridiculous that Krugman is claiming that.
I find it a bit humorous b that you are critical of Krugman for his 911 dementia when for
years many of us finance types have railed about how morally corrupt the logic and thinking
of Paul Krugman is.
Paul Krugman is to economics what Bernie Sanders has become for the purported "left" side
of the "right wing" uni-party....a sheep dog for the easily led.
Paul Krugman is an acolyte for the God of Mammon/global private finance elite.
b " Anyone with a functional memory knows that the U.S. reaction to 9/11 was anything
but "pretty calm". It is ridiculous that Krugman is claiming that. "
Careful with that axe b, you are talking about Biden's chief economic adviser and likely
appointee as Chair of the Fed. How does this look?
Volker
Greenspan
Bernanke
Yellen
Powell
Krugman
Those cunning, ruthless bastards in the Kremlin have developed a foolproof strategy for
interference in the USA's electoral process by, er, not interfering.
When I talk to people about that lack of closure for the victims of 911, I merely get a moment of silence and then I notice
the deer in the headlights look. A few have said I'm crazy for questioning the official story, others say that nothing will ever
change and the rest don't care enough to even think about it. Smh! Thanks to the minority who still want justice!
WHITE SUPREMACY: Replace the term "white" with the term "Financial oligarchy" and let truth
prevail. The predatory capitalist class is perfectly happy with Trump. (or Biden). Those election
dirty games with active BLM participation are really minor squabbles
If "racism" is part of the DNA of white people, shouldn't they embrace it? We're just
embracing our essential natures by being racist. How can anybody complain about us being true
to ourselves?
BLM is all about anti-white activism, black supremacy and the forcible transfer of white
wealth to blacks but Tucker Carlson keeps insisting that BLM is a smokescreen for class
struggle.
The way that BLM are acting now they could almost be called pro-White activists. They
certainly don't make diversity look like a strength or something that would be in any way
shape or form desirable.
I am sorry no! Trying to solve practical problem with theoretical solution will not bring
any positive result. It is only spinning the wheels.
All incidents did happen during when police was trying to arrest the suspect. Resisting
arrest brought out excessive response of police resulting in injuries and deaths. And Black
leaders using thee injuries and deaths for demonstrations. Some brainstorming is needed here.
Police must find some safe method to arrest people who resist arrest without causing them
injuries or deaths. I know! It is easy to say but difficult to come up with solution. But
there must be a solution out there. (Maybe some spray temporary blinding of suspect ?)
(Anything is better than just shoot him dead!)
Oh, look, no masks! And you thought that got covered up by the investigation done by the
Mueller team? Let's go over this one more time:
The document declassified by DNI Grenell shows that there were 14 unique days when the NSA
received requests to "unmask"--the first was on 30 November 2016 by UN Ambassador Samantha
Power and the last came on 12 January from Joe Biden. There were two separate requests on the
14th of December by Samantha Power, which indicates two separate NSA reports. Samantha Power
would not have to submit two requests for the same document.
Whether or not the hero salon owner in San Francisco lured Nancy Pelosi into her shop for a
hair "blow out" (whatever that is) is irrelevant. The political damage done to Pelosi is here to
stay. She is exposed as a hypocrite who preaches submission to the commandments of the God Fauci,
but then surreptitiously violates them when in her private world. Even more compelling is the
implication that her sins are caused by a lack of belief in CODIV-19 as the return of a scourge
with Black Death levels of effectiveness as a civilization buster. IOW her moaning and bitching
about COVID-19 is just political noise.
In six or twelve months a majority of people will start to get that they were had. It will
be too late.
afronaut , 15 hours ago
Doubt it. Unless the media or government says it
palmereldritch , 14 hours ago
There will be mask wearing long before then for totally different reasons.
mstyle , 11 hours ago
There's a rather large percentage of the US population that's going to die with a mask on
their face, a BLM sign in their yard, and a Lemon on their screen.
Sad :-(
_wayfarer , 9 hours ago
They were had with 9/11, never got it.
Salisarsims , 5 hours ago
Most of the United States where had by 9/11, and still are.
BlueGreen , 15 hours ago
End lockdowns around the world now! Lockdowns kill. Never again. Sweden's death rate is
lower than US, and many other countries.
Gaedamfukn democrap virus. Botox face carcinogenic hair dyed fossilized demented nasty
wicked witch of the west ... and her army of flying monkey stooge guvners and mayors keeping
their states shut down to oust Orange Julius and they could give two diarrhea schitz about
you and your family All these terds care about is power
NoDebt , 15 hours ago
It's not just that the (government) response to this virus has ****** a lot of people
royally, it's the absolute certainty that they will do it again in exactly the same manner,
pretty much every damned year moving forward forever.
MaF , 15 hours ago
In many blue states they can do it until 2022 when they are voted out...unless the people
rise up.
drendebe10 , 15 hours ago
Sheeple rise up? Phat phukn chance
PaulDF , 15 hours ago
Hey, some people think that as long as Trump is gone ~ it doesn't matter what it takes.
Nothing is too extreme.
palmereldritch , 14 hours ago
The MS-DOS virus subscription model.
Sound familiar? lay_arrow
Implied Violins , 15 hours ago
The Nobel Prize winner, Kary Mullis, who developed the PCR test called out Fraudci for his
******** during the AIDS crisis on Nightline back in 1994:
Even then that ******* was practicing fraud in order to garner more tax dollars. His
"test" ruined hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives.
Fraudci deserves to be EXECUTED for his BS.
EuroPox , 16 hours ago
Who cares how many 'cases' there are? The virus is not lethal except for a tiny number of
people, who already have other problems. Quarantine them and let the rest of us get on with
it.
SARS-CoV2 and the Rise of Medical Technocracy. Lee Merritt, M.D.
Robert De Zero , 14 hours ago
SCAM-DEMIC
PLANDEMIC
False positives
False reporting
false stories like athletes getting heart damage.
false claims of death rates.
THIS entire thing is an OPERATION .
bazboognish , 14 hours ago
The RT PCR test cannot be used to diagnose disease/infection.
It has no reference no way to get any idea on the accuracy as it is meaningless in that it
can't do what it is being used for and it is without a reference.
Imagine, if you will, people on ZioHedge telling you since January all of this.
Rat, Emmanuel/Arthur, Monty42, Empire's Frontiers, ADR, GatorEngineer, Slayer, Vasilivech,
and several more saw through this charade back in January.
Yet they were all maligned as flu bros, and where are we now?
Still trembling in fear?
naro , 15 hours ago
It is important to note that detecting viral material by PCR does not indicate that the
virus is fully intact and infectious, i.e. able to cause infection in other people. The
isolation of infectious virus from positive individuals requires virus culture methods. These
methods can only be conducted in laboratories with specialist containment facilities and are
time consuming and complex.
PCR is 90% false positive as far as detection of live infectious virus. IT IS A FRAUD
I Write Code , 15 hours ago
The "PCR" tests are only testing for fragments anyhow, if they did a full sequence it
would be much more reliable - but much more slow and expensive, too.
naro , 15 hours ago
It is important to note that detecting viral material by PCR does not indicate that the
virus is fully intact and infectious, i.e. able to cause infection in other people. The
isolation of infectious virus from positive individuals requires virus culture methods. These
methods can only be conducted in laboratories with specialist containment facilities and are
time consuming and complex.
PCR is 90% false positive as far as detection of live infectious virus. IT IS A FRAUD
I Write Code , 15 hours ago
The "PCR" tests are only testing for fragments anyhow, if they did a full sequence it
would be much more reliable - but much more slow and expensive, too.
Why didn't you mention that nearly all labs are running 35-40 cycles which guarantees a
positive test, simply from noise.
The inventor of the test said if you don't find anything after 15 cycles, it probably
isn't there. After 20 cycles the noise starts to be greater than any real information. By 30,
the test is mostly noise. More than 35, the test is completely worthless.
Of course I've been saying this for five months, but most people didn't listen. After the
NYT article came out, people I know started saying, "How did you know?"
I said, "Because I have critical thinking skills. Why didn't you believe me? Name a time
I've steered you wrong."
Identify as Ferengi , 15 hours ago
See above, Born2Bwired.
The PCR test is not useful for what they are using it for apparently. This has been
known since the beginning. Here is quote regarding AIDS:
"Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in Science for inventing the PCR, is thoroughly
convinced that HIV is not the cause of "AIDS". With regard to the viral load tests, which
attempt to use PCR for counting viruses, Mullis has stated: "Quantitative PCR is an
oxymoron." PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is
unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral
load tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect
free, infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some
cases wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but
not viruses themselves.
What PCR does is to select a genetic sequence and then amplify it enormously. It can
accomplish the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack; it can amplify that needle
into a haystack. Like an electronically amplified antenna, PCR greatly amplifies the
signal, but it also greatly amplifies the noise. Since the amplification is exponential,
the slightest error in measurement, the slightest contamination, can result in errors of
many orders of magnitude."
NYTimes article last week suggested that only 10% of Covid positive PCR tests are
clinically significant and infectious.
karzai_luver , 15 hours ago
"Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I
don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it." –Kary Mullis,
Inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction
This has been known forever. I don't understand the belief in the test.
I guess when your religion is threatened you will ignore any evidence.
For the cases that are real , this is the only disease I have ever heard of where the
advice was only show up to get treated(hospital) if you are really sick. The exact opposite
of "science".
Other motives seem at play on this covid_idiot pararde.
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Born2Bwired , 15 hours ago
The PCR test is not useful for what they are using it for apparently. This has been known
since the beginning. Here is quote regarding AIDS:
"Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in Science for inventing the PCR, is thoroughly
convinced that HIV is not the cause of "AIDS". With regard to the viral load tests, which
attempt to use PCR for counting viruses, Mullis has stated: "Quantitative PCR is an
oxymoron." PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is
unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral load
tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free,
infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases
wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not
viruses themselves.
What PCR does is to select a genetic sequence and then amplify it enormously. It can
accomplish the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack; it can amplify that needle into
a haystack. Like an electronically amplified antenna, PCR greatly amplifies the signal, but
it also greatly amplifies the noise. Since the amplification is exponential, the slightest
error in measurement, the slightest contamination, can result in errors of many orders of
magnitude."
If after reading the headline you thought that is is one of the Russian universities got
financing from NED and is preparing to teach our grant-eaters "the science of color
revolutions", then you are mistaken.
It is the USA Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, which now offers 101 of
color revolution preparation in a course called "Overthrow the State" for its American students
and the subject of the course is the USA, not the xUSSR space.
According to the course description, it "puts every student at the head of a popular
revolutionary movement that seeks to overthrow the current government and create a better
society." Among questions discussed:
How will you gain power?"
How will you communicate with the masses?
How do you plan to improve people's lives?
How will you deal with the past?
These are the questions that the University course answers. To get a diploma in the course
"how to overthrow the state" you will need to pass 3 tests. It will be necessary to write your
"Manifesto" after studying historical examples and revolutionary thought from Franz Fanon to
Che Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi and representatives of the revolutionary movement. You will also
have to "write a compelling essay about rewriting history" and a "white paper" (white paper is
a kind of business plan, but it is written for an audience that is not related to
business).
Univrsity of Washington and Lee is so
progressive, that in July the faculty voted to remove the name of Robert Li from the name of
the University.
"so basically, any legitimate grievance or concern of citizens is a Russian plot ."
Other commenters tweeted that they didn't need any help from Moscow to clearly see that Biden's
mind
is failing .
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went on CNN to accuse Russia of
interfering in US affairs including the Covid-19 pandemic, Portland and Kenosha protests, and
election meddling while giving no real evidence.
Clapper, who has previously said Russians are "typically, almost genetically driven to
co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever," was more than happy to push more xenophobic Russia
conspiracy theories during a Monday CNN interview when prompted by anchor Alisyn
Camerota.
Just one of hundreds of nuggets of 24K solid comedy gold:
"We just spent years speculating Trump was a literal agent of the Russian state, "wholly
in the pocket of Putin," as that former CIA director and ubiquitous driver of bogus
narratives, Brennan, put it. Yet according to Mueller, Russian officials couldn't even reach
Trump until after he was elected. Forget about blackmail, they didn't even have his phone
number!"
Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral
pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of
cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.
-- Thomas Sowell
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all
those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of
economics.
-- Thomas Sowell
Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about
what they imagine they can design.
-- Friedrich von Hayek
I can't imagine economists admitting how little they actually know. If they admitted to
themselves, it would hurt their ego. If they admitted to others, it would hurt their job
prospects.
-- Joseph Mattes, Vienna (The Economist, letters December 04, 2010)
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also
brought mortis .
-- Attributed to Robert Heilbroner
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
-- Marty Allen
Economic statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is important, what they conceal is
vital
-- Attributed to Professor Sir Frank Holmes, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand,
1967.
Doing econometrics is like trying to learn the laws of electricity by playing the radio.
-- Guy Orcutt
Economists
The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite
economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.
-- David Wildasin
"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they
know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the
least and disagree most vehemently.
-- Alan S. Blinder
An economist is someone who, when he finds something that works in practice, tries to make
it work in theory.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic
questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
-- Joan Violet Robinson
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday
didn't happen today.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Having a[n in] house economist became for many business people something like havinga
resident astrologer for the royal court: I don't quite understand what this fellow is saying
but there must be something to it.
-- Linden. (Jan. 11, 1993). Dreary Days in the Dismal Science. Forbes. Pp. 68-70.
Economics is the only field in which two people can get a Nobel Prize for saying exactly the
opposite thing.
Economists do it with models.
-- Heard at the LSE
Bentley's second Law of Economics: The only thing more dangerous than an economist is an
amateur economist!
Berta's Fundamental Law of Economic Rents.. "The only thing more dangerous than an amateur
economist is a professional economist."
Definition: Policy Analyst is someone unethical enough to be a lawyer, impractical enough to
be a theologian, and pedantic enough to be an economist.
Q: Why did God create economists ?
A: In order to make weather forecasters look good.
Q: Why has astrology been invented?
A: So that economy could be an accurate science.
Economists have forecasted 9 out of the last 5 recessions.
An econometrician and an astrologer are arguing about their subjects. The astrologer says,
"Astrology is more scientific. My predictions come out right half the time. Yours can't even
reach that proportion". The econometrician replies, "That's because of external shocks. Stars
don't have those".
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing
and data says the opposite.
-- Attributed to Richard Thaler, now at the Univ of Chicago
The last severe depression and banking crisis could not have been achieved by normal civil
servants and politicians, it required economists involvement.
Taxes
State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent.
-- Evan Leibovitch
Inflation
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
-- Milton Friedman
Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant–inflation feeds on itself
and quickly passes the "little" mark.
-- Dian Cohen
Trade and Trade Barriers
Tariffs, quotas and other import restrictions protect the business of the rich at the
expense of high cost of living for the poor. Their intent is to deprive you of the right to
choose, and to force you to buy the high-priced inferior products of politically favored
companies.
-- Alan Burris, A Liberty Primer
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause
of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.
-- Frank Chodorov
When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will.
-- Fredric Bastiat, early French economist
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer
by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
-- Albert Jay Nock
Regulation
Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business
dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of
construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements,
gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated
economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he
could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with
him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
-- Alan Greenspan
You fucking academic eggheads! You don't know shit. You can't deregulate this industry.
You're going to wreck it. You don't know a goddamn thing!
-- Robert Crandall, boss of American Airlines, to an unnamed Senate lawyer in 1971
Government
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources
that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
-- David Friedman
Government Spending
See, when the Government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in
the hands of Taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably.
Anything to avoid creating jobs.
-- Dave Barry
I don't think you can spend yourself rich.
-- George Humphrey
Capitalism and Free Markets
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they
want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments
against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
-- Milton Friedman
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place
unless both parties benefit.
-- Milton Friedman
The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by
capitalism.
-- Joan Violet Robinson
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a
capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and
laissez faire.
-- Ludwig Mises, "Socialism"
If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe
they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple
insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can only gain at
the expense of another.
-- Milton Friedman
States with central-planning regimes [ ] do tend to consume much less energy (and much less
of everything else) [ ] than do Americans. There is a word for that: poverty.
-- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
Central Banks
Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes
– excusable or not – can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a
bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any
effective check by the body politic – this is the key political argument against an
independent central bank To paraphrase Clemenceau: money is much too serious a matter to be
left to the Central Bankers.
-- Milton Friedman
A central banker walks into a pizzeria to order a pizza.
When the pizza is done, he goes up to the counter get it. There a clerk asks him: "Should I
cut it into six pieces or eight pieces?"
The central banker replies: "I'm feeling rather hungry right now. You'd better cut it into
eight pieces."
Intellectual Property
For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the
supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen for which he could not
charge them. Insofar as the same kind of ability is required for the one kind of invention as
for the other, the existence of patents tends to divert activity to patentable inventions.
-- Milton Friedman
Slavery
From the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes
cheaper in the end than the work performed by slaves.
The work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the
dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property can have no other interest but to eat as
much and to labour as little as possible.
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be
squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
-- Adam Smith
Prohibition
It is because it's prohibited. See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point
of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.
-- Milton Friedman
In the Long Run
John Maynard Keynes: "In the long run we are all dead."
Joan Robinson: "Yes, but not all at the same time."
Minimum Wage and Unemployment
The real minimum wage is zero: unemployment.
-- Thomas Sowell
All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from
unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers,
thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through
permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one
area to another.
-- Milton Friedman
Misc
Talk is cheap. Supply exceeds Demand.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not
understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
-- Milton Friedman
of course the country could never listen to this guy .it just makes too much damn sense.
-- ryanx0 about Milton Friedman [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se_TJzB9-z0]
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he
can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is
promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by
an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.
-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
SOCIALISM: You have two cows. State takes one and give it to someone else.
COMMUNISM: You have two cows. State takes both of them and gives you milk.
FASCISM: You have two cows. State takes both of them and sell you milk.
NAZISM: You have two cows. State takes both of them and shoot you.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. State takes both of them, kill one and spill the milk in
system of sewage.
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Back during the Solidarity days, I heard that the following joke was being told in
Poland:
A man goes into the Bank of Gdansk to make a deposit. Since he has never kept money in a bank before, he is a little nervous.
"What happens if the Bank of Gdansk should fail?" he asks.
"Well, in that case your money would be insured by the Bank of Warsaw."
"But, what if the Bank of Warsaw fails?"
"Well, there'd be no problem, because the Bank of Warsaw is insured by the National Bank of Poland."
"And if the National Bank of Poland fails?"
"Then your money would be insured by the Bank of Moscow."
"And what if the Bank of Moscow fails?"
"Then your money would be insured by the Great Bank of the Soviet Union."
"And if that bank fails?"
"Well, in that case, you'd lose all your money. But, wouldn't it be worth it?"
All models are wrong but some are useful.
-- George Box
I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
-- J.M.Keynes; Found in Forbes magazine 01/25/1999 issue. In the Numbers Game column by
Bernard Cohen
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact
answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
-- J. Tukey
There is an entirely leisure class located at both ends of the economic spectrum
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the latest Western leader to wildly jump on the
bandwagon claiming that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned, and by
implication insinuating the Kremlin had a sinister hand in it.
NuYawkFrankie , 2 hours ago
I have to give credit where it's due:
Nobody - absolutely NOBODY! - can recycle a Silly Schoolboy Script - with a straight face!
-as well as the THICK BRITS... even as the rest of Planet Earth laughs its a$$ off!
Roger Casement , 3 hours ago
The 1% need a diversion in case the 99% sheep stop hating on each and notice them looting
the place.
Joiningupthedots , 2 hours ago
...Even the the thickest halfwit that reads The Sun, The Mirror, The Star....the comic
strips et al understands that the monkeys in control are actually nothing more than better
read versions of themselves.
Vladimirovich , 2 hours ago
Dear Readers,
Sadly the British people are every bit a dopey as others in the western world and will
always vote for the worst possible person to 'do the job'. Please be patient.
In the UK Boris Johnson is colloquially known as "The village idiot", and he does his best
to match up to that title.
Roger Casement , 2 hours ago
Gangsters always play dumb. So do all politicians.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what
had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and
from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was
which.
deplorableX , 3 hours ago
Bojo appears to be struggling with alcoholism which would explain his sticking to a saga
which was pretty much fabricated from the get go. Delirium tremens.
bh2 , 3 hours ago
After the absurd plot described by British authorities in the Skripal case, nobody
believes these concocted political dramas.
Until both Skripals can be interviewed in public and without an official UK "keeper"
hovering about, nobody is going to believe them, either.
aspnaz , 2 hours ago
The Johnson is talking to the "neoliberalized" British retards, that's about 80% of the
population. If you work for the Telegraph and want to know what he really thinks, you will
have to pop round to his house for a G+T.
NuYawkFrankie , 1 hour ago
Only 80% retards???
I'd say AT LEAST 95%... and that's being charitable!
Yamaoka Tesshu , 4 hours ago
Navalny simply asked (was ordered by his Western handlers) to go to Germany. It's a free
country, ya know.
The only "victim" of these crimes is the Skripals cat (name unknown, I thought martyrs got
names). I don't know why people aren't more indignant over the cruel fate of the kitty. Ever
see Putin with a cat? Always a dog. He hates kittys, along with water (Mandrake!), freedom,
mom and Apple Pie.
...A group ... purporting to be former Amazon employees constructed a guillotine - yes, an
actual working guillotine - outside of Bezos' home in Chicago.
Gun sales were up 72% compared to this time last year, with first-time buyers leading the
pack. Americans are likely sensing that something is horribly wrong with the rigged system we
are forced to live under.
... ... ...
J S Bach , 3 hours ago
"Americans Sense Something Is Wrong: Gun Sales Up 72%"
It would be much more encouraging with this headline:
"Americans Sense Something Is Wrong: Guillotine & Noose Sales Up 72%"
Jazzyg , 3 hours ago
my little family expanded over the early summer
twin .38's
3 midget Derry's.....38...9mm...357/38 sp
muh boy's...xoxoxo
Meat Hammer , 2 hours ago
Congrats. You must be very proud. Family is everything.
Logic behind what you linked can easily be reversed with those very same stats (remember
Twain's third lie type). Sudan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan or Rwanda are safer places than the
USofA, if we use that logical scheme.
A relevant comparison should be done w/ other developed countries (Intentional homicides
rate /100,000 people):
Bemildred @215: "We go from "defund the police" to "stronger police state" in what, a
week? Two?"
That is faster than I was expecting, but it was entirely predicted. When the masses do not
find a solution in one direction, they will reverse course. The rioters are not offering a
solution, so the masses turned...
Bemildred @176: "...what happens here is going to depend a lot on what people who are
not here decide to do about us..."
You think there might be international intervention in the US? I am more worried it will
most likely be the kind Germany experienced in 1945. No modern day equivalent of the Peace
Corps handing out boxes of powdered milk and teaching us Chinese so we can integrate with the
new world economy for quite some time, I'm afraid.
^ г /conspiracy • Posted by u/MakeltRainSheckels 1 day ago
Your daily reminder that Gilead is charging $3,000 for a COVID drug that was developed with
$70,000,000 of taxpayer dollars and costs them less than $10 to
produce.
"We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and
domestic. And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring of the
Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in the Congress of the
United States".
Amazing that Pelosi is suddenly aware of her duty.
Thank you karlof1 - LMFAO - coffee all over the keyboard.
Perhaps Pelosi should take her own advice and discuss this belief of hers with Debbie
Wasserman Schultz. After all Schultz promoted the Awan family spy and blackmail ring to other
members of the Democrat caucus in Congress.
Another swamp pond yet to drain, take note Barr, there is still a lot of work ahead ha ha
ha.
The way Merkel and other politicians immediately jumped on the poisoning thesis is
reminiscent of May's reaction in the Skripal case. It is difficult not to become suspicious.
Looks like they like to reuse the same propaganda memes over and over. Russian bounties to the
Taliban become Iranian bounties to the Taliban, Novichok becomes cholinesterase inhibitor, rinse
and repeat.
Russia did it. Evil Putin ordered it. Horrible China sponsored it. Iran backed it.
Hezbollah played a hand as well.
Thank Glorious God for the Indispensable Nation of American Exceptionalism. Rescuing the
world from evil dictators and conspiring theorists plots. Evil doers who hate OUR way of
life stand no chance against the Glorious Christians and their Honorable Zionist
gatekeepers.
Thanks and Glory to American Gods that Juan Guaido is now the President of Venezuela.
Soon the Zionist will offer their Chosen Ones to replace Evil Dictators.
Thanks and praise to MOA for shining Gods Light and dancing on Western narratives giving
them validity against the Evil doers of Poison and injustice.
Trump and Pence are "Men of the Bible" seeking out injustice and filling the world with
Christian values of Bro Love and world Peace. May all you Christians take a knee and pray
for these Mens souls and the Soul of America for leading the way to righteousness. Oh yeah-
and pray for whatever the fuck his name is Nirvany Nalvinny poisoned guy.
If the Russians are really trying to assassinate, why do it in so theatrical a manner?
Just shoot him twice in the back of the head and call it suicide like the Americans do.
For some TAC writers and Trump cultists, Trump could fart into a microphone and they'd
think an angel just spoke. So why did Trump diddle around for three years if all he had to do
was sign a E.O.?
The same could be said about Biden and certain Team D groupies. They insist that Biden is
going to "fight for the little guy" even though he spent decades faithfully servicing the
financial services industry, when he was not cheerleading for stupid wars.
Commenting on the spotlight that U.S. intelligence officials have placed on both countries'
interference efforts (along with Iran's), Pelosi and Schiff declared that the analysis
"provided a false sense of equivalence to the actions of foreign adversaries by listing three
countries of unequal operational intent, actions, and capabilities together."
In particular, they charged, the actions of Kremlin-linked actors seeking to undermine Vice
President Biden, and seeking to help President Trump" were glossed over.
Pelosi stated subsequently, "The Chinese, they said, prefer (presumptive Democratic nominee
Joe) Biden -- we don't know that, but that's what they're saying, but they're not really
getting involved in the presidential election."
... ... ...
Also alleging that Chinese agents are increasingly active on major social media platforms --
a study from research institute Freedom House,
which reported that :
"[C]hinese state-affiliated trolls are apparently operating on [Twitter] in large numbers.
In the hours and days after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of
Hong Kong protesters in October 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported, nearly 170,000
tweets were directed at Morey by users who seemed to be based in China as part of a
coordinated intimidation campaign. Meanwhile, there have been multiple suspected efforts by
pro-Beijing trolls to manipulate the ranking of content on popular sources of information
outside China, including Google's search engine Reddit,and YouTube."
Last year, a major
Hoover Institution report issued especially disturbing findings about Beijing's efforts to
influence the views (and therefore the votes) of Chinese Americans, including exploiting the
potential hostage status of their relatives in China. According to the Hoover researchers:
"Among the Chinese American community, China has long sought to influence -- even silence
-- voices critical of the PRC or supportive of Taiwan by dispatching personnel to the United
States to pressure these individuals and while also pressuring their relatives in China.
Beijing also views Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that presumes
them to retain not only an interest in the welfare of China but also a loosely defined
cultural, and even political, allegiance to the so-called Motherland."
In addition: "In the American media, China has all but eliminated the plethora of
independent Chinese-language media outlets that once served Chinese American communities. It
has co-opted existing Chinese language outlets and established its own new outlets."
Operations aimed at Chinese Americans are anything but trivial politically. As of 2018, they
represented nearly 2.6 million eligible U.S. voters, and they belonged to an Asian-American
super-category that reflects the fastest growing racial and ethnic population of eligible
voters in the country.
Most live in heavily Democratic states, like California, New York, and Massachusetts, but
significant concentrations are also found in the battleground states where many of the 2016
presidential election margins were razor thin, and many of which look up for grabs this year,
like Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
More broadly, according to the Hoover study:
"In American federal and state politics, China seeks to identify and cultivate rising
politicians. Like many other countries, Chinese entities employ prominent lobbying and public
relations firms and cooperate with influential civil society groups. These activities
complement China's long-standing support of visits to China by members of Congress and their
staffs. In some rare instances Beijing has used private citizens and companies to exploit
loopholes in US regulations that prohibit direct foreign contributions to elections."
But even more thoroughly overlooked than these narrower forms of Chinese political
interference is a broader, much more dangerous type of Chinese meddling that leaves Moscow's
efforts in the dust. For example, U.S.-owned multinational companies, which have long profited
at the expense of the domestic economy by offshoring production and jobs to China, have just as
long carried Beijing's water in American politics through their massive contributions to U.S.
political campaigns. The same goes for Wall Street, which hasn't sent many U.S. operations
overseas, but which has long hungered for permission to do more business in the Chinese
market.
These same big businesses continually and surreptitiously inject their views into American
political debates by heavily financing leading think tanks -- which garb their special interest
agendas in the raiment of objective scholarship.
Hollywood and the rest of the U.S. entertainment industry has become so determined to brown
nose China in search of profits that it's made nearly routine rewriting and censoring material
deemed offensive to China.
... ... ...
Alan Tonelson is the founder of RealityChek, a public policy blog focusing on
economics and national security, and the author of The Race to the Bottom.
As I reached below the conveyor belt to the checkout shelf for a bottle of water this
morning, the masked woman in front started "creating" about distancing. With some difficulty
I resisted giving her a proper response. She gave off a police vibe.
Oddly enough, I couldn't see the black helicopters outside.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he
won't notice you're picking his pocket . Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and
he'll empty his pockets for you." – Lyndon B Johnson
While the virus is perfectly real, its severity has been intentionally and systematically
exaggerated, and that is clearly is provable. So the working hypoethisi is that somebody badly
needed Coronavirus reset, iether for political or financial purposes or both.
"Welcome to America, the Land of Freedom" , read the signs at Washington, DC's
international airport as you line up to have your fingerprints taken and your body cavities
searched for mini nuclear devices.
... ... ...
The following bulleted list is for your ease in reading.
Look at the comments. These bozos don't care about inequality. They don't care if the rich
are eating their lunch. They don't care about the poverty rate, and think that blacks make up
all the poor, when their are actually more poor whites than poor blacks. They think the
majority of homeless are black when the majority of homeless are white. (The cross-eyed
retards.) They don't care about the wars. NIMBY is the farthest they can see. Horizons are
foreshortened for them. They actually think that, say, Nigeria or North Korea is more corrupt
than the US....
What makes US truly exceptional are its elites. Obviously this exceptionalism doesn't
extend all the way down to more than half of the population – the so called
deplorables...
If this article really does reflect the current social, political and economic state of
North America (and it seems, generally speaking it dies, possible minor exaggerations
notwithstanding)) it may give the rest of us a certain sense of smug superiority, went what
we really ought to feel is a sense of trepidation, because right now America is litterally
the Leader of the Western world. Dumb, corrupt, racist, indebted Americans lead and
we follow !
American Culture is, arguably, by far its biggest export.
Corporatism. Militarism. Racism? (Maybe the Brits or Jews invented this one and exported it
along with bygone colonialism.) Litigiousness. High level corruption and criminality within
government. Indebtedness of the peasantry. Indoctrination for education. Violent crime.
Homelessness. Poverty. U emoyment. Worstening health care. Media bias And on and on and
on
Every single westernised nation, I would suggest, is witnessing raising levels of all of the
above as global cabalists work their dark magic against us all.
Their masterstroke, "multicruralism", is new speak for mono-culturalism. And though right
now the worst excesses of that monoculture can be witnessed in North America, none of us is
immune, and none of us is in a possition to gloat!
So, what's the solution? Blame the blacks. Blame white? Blame "the jews". Blame China,
Russia, North Korea? Blame Trump? Blame Tom, Dick, Harry. Blame this, that or the other
mono-god religion, depending which mono-god cult you favour
Yeah, we can go on blaming whoever we like, even as "they" (read our own people!)
come to haul us off to FEMA camps to save the world from "covid19-20-21-22-"
It's been a while since I looked, so I can't say off the top of my head how many unique
visitors this website attracts every month, but I know it's a high number enough to light a
hot fire under the seats of power in the US and keep it burning for a good long time.
But then what? How might you organise and administer the "functions of state" (let's face
it, the overwhelming majority of people don'the even know what time of day it is without some
authority figure to tell them) when the current regime has been deposed?
Might I suggest that the time for a Pow Wow of the indigenous tribes is at hand. (I'll
give you a moment to stop laughing before I continue )
Yes, I am being serious! It's time for whitey, blacky, jewy, to shut the fuck up, stop
imagining ourselves as in any way superiour, more deserving, better, wiser, smarter, kinder,
and just shut up and listen for a change!
This world is a seriously fucked-up place because, somehow, by degrees, over generations
of mongod-worship, we have handed our individual power/life-force over for others to
weild against us, against our own best interests.
It's time we admitted that we and our ancestors have been wrong , and that we stood
aside to give Pagans, Hethans and Savages a chance to reshape society in ways that may,
might, possibly prove more beneficial for all!
Let's face it, they can't do any worse than the mono-god cultists have done in our name,
by our power!
Anyone one who wishes to argue against this notion, I suggest you read the article again
before commencing.
Wall Street is very story driven. They wasted a decade throwing money at tight oil and
lost billions. It's hard to see how this tight oil story gets resuscitated. The '10s saw free
debt, low regulatory regime, no effective alternatives to oil, skilled work force, entrenched
globalized oil markets, no pandemics, etc, and they STILL lost hundreds of billions. Wall
Street wants to lose their money in new ways. At least they get some novelty out of it.
Some Americans continue to believe that when they go to the internet they will get a
free flow of useful information that will guide them in making decisions or coming to
conclusions about the state of the world... Google, for example, ranks the information that
it displays so it can favor certain points of view and dismiss others. Generally speaking,
progressive sites are favored and conservative sites are relegated to the bottom of the
search with the expectation that they will not be visited.
The tactics are simple -- act like China (while effectively confiscating some of their
tech firms, not that I'm too sympathetic), blame Russia, and continue to tell everyone they
have "more information at their fingertips" than ever before. Most folks don't even realize
that Google frames their entire online experience. Ergo, censoring the internet will go
relatively unnoticed by the bulk of 'Mericans as long as the special trifle (web comics,
minions, gifs, Amazon, and Netflix) stays intact.
johnny two shoes , 12 minutes ago
"Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem is the collection of official, proxy,
and unattributed communication channels and platforms that Russia uses to create and amplify
false narratives."
It is really funny when Biden talks about torture... It is difficult to teach an old neocon
dog new tricks.
Notable quotes:
"... "The brave citizens of Belarus are showing their voices will not be silenced by terror or torture," ..."
"... "The U.S. should support Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's call for fair elections. Russia must be told not to interfere -- this is not about geopolitics but the right to choose one's leaders." ..."
Joe Biden may be an uncertain election away from becoming president, but he's already
tweeting like one. Following an entirely predictable script, Biden demanded that Russia "be
told not to interfere" in Belarus' affairs.
"The brave citizens of Belarus are showing their voices will not be silenced by terror
or torture," Biden tweeted on Wednesday. "The U.S. should support Sviatlana
Tsikhanouskaya's call for fair elections. Russia must be told not to interfere -- this is not
about geopolitics but the right to choose one's leaders."
Hey there! It's me, the stock market. I know it's weird to write you like this, but I felt
like I needed to drop a quick thank-you note for everything you've done for me this year. I
mean, your big ol' balance sheet is almost $3 trillion larger since early March! You're backing
up the truck and loading it with Treasuries and corporate bonds and bond ETFs, all to keep the
competition to stocks from fixed-income yields as limited as Jim Cramer's understanding of me.
It's been a dream come true, honestly. I mean, fess up: Have you been reading my diary?!
... ... ...
So please do me a solid and keep this thank-you note in mind when you host your virtual
Jackson Hole summit. No cowboy stuff, OK? If I hear anybody mutter something about "irrational
exuberance," I swear I'm gonna blow my top and hurt a few of these Robinhood types, you got
that? The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. It's what I do -- and I'm good at it! But
right now, this is still a lot of fun for me...
I hope I live to see the day when the "New York Times" is deemed the same caliber of
"journalism" as the "National Inquirer". Of course, those with two brain cells to rub
together already know that this is the case. However, by "deemed", I mean by the
one-brain-celled masses.
homeskillet , 23 minutes ago
The National Enquirer actually has many more believable articles.
Pernicious Gold Phallusy , 20 minutes ago
The National Enquirer broke the story of Presidential candidate John Edwards cheating on
his wife, who was undergoing breast cancer treatment at the time. Other media organizations,
including the NYT, knew about it and refused to cover it.
Stu Pedassle , 1 hour ago
Glad to see Operation Mockingbird is still going strong after 60 years
From comments: " One thing that is definitely Not Happening is the psychopaths in both
parties, the media, the medical mafia, Wall Street, and corporations taking responsibility for
their crime spree and fraud."
There are there are "disturbances," rioting, looting, etc., EVERY summer in the US. Bet
you didn't know that. It IS being reported this summer. Because it's in their interest this
summer.
So you see I agree with your conclusion, but not with your analysis. What they are not
reporting is strikes, united working class actions, all across the country.
They don't want to report the strikes, and neither do you.
Hmm. Ever hear of the term "limited hangout." You ought to. It applies to you.
The editor-in-chief of a major Chinese tabloid slammed Mike Pompeo for
comparing his country to Nazi Germany, likening his words to those of Hitler's propaganda chief
and reminding the secretary of state of America's endless wars.
Hu Xijin took to Twitter on Sunday venting his anger about Mike Pompeo's remarks.
"You are inciting radical hostility and ripping the world apart. You aren't like a top
diplomat, instead, you talk like Goebbels of Nazi Germany. I'm worried that world peace will
eventually be destroyed by extreme politicians like you," he wrote.
Needless to say, the SJW extremist groups went bonkers. (1)
the most frantic, and funniest, reaction Thursday came from City University of New York
journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, who demanded apologies and other forms of satisfaction
from the Washington Post for allowing Trump campaign ads to appear on its website.
"No, [Washington Post], no, no NO. How dare you?" he asked in a lengthy tirade posted
to social media. "Were these pieces of silver worth the price of your soul? The Post not
only sold its front page but also sold a takeover. Who the f -- decided this? I am so
ashamed of you, [Washington Post]."
Trump is causing Democrats to attack WaPo. Delightful.
"... Now, what I think is, charging blacks and injuns and all for every white invention they use, one at a time would be a motimgator long job and use more paper than eating a McDonald's hamburger. It could lead to enough of what that Wall Street newspaper calls cross licensing ..."
"... I mean, you could charge a nickel every time Lateesha or Deewan or Lasagna read a book, which might bring in twelve dollars a year, or used a Smith and Wesson, for whole boxcars of dollars. Probably the easy thing would be to rent the whole damn civilization with only one license, like driving a car. ..."
"... I reckon we'd haul in enough money to buy enough rockets to blow up a thousand weddings and little children in Afghanistan and Eye-ran and maybe some kindergartner kids in Venezuela, wherever that is. Then they'd all have American values and love us. ..."
"... I figure when she's yowling into a microphone that probably Abraham Lincoln or Moses or somebody invented, it's that Cultural Appropriation again and she owes money. I mean, without that microphone shed have to go back to smoke signals or drums. ..."
"... Anyway, women are taking over everything, most of them crazy. Along with Rachel Tension and Oprah, we've got that Clinton woman ..."
"... And now we've got Joe Biden, who ain't nothing but a titless Hillary on days when he can remember who he is, and pretty much nothing at all the rest of the time. ..."
If some people can't go as Bugs Bunny, then nobody can't go as anything. Fair is fair. So if
you little sister goes as Aunt Jemima that makes pancakes, the BLM bandits will try to lynch
her.
I reckon black folks ought to be a little quieter. Since they didn't invent writing, or
reading, or 'rithmetic or electricity or clothes or pretty much anything, then any time they
use them things they're doing Cultural Appropriation. It's just common sense. Of course, I
guess a Chinaman could say whites do it too when they use paper and gunpowder, without the
which we couldn't have bombs and rockets and federal forms nine pages long that no one since
Adam can figure out.
Now, what I think is, charging blacks and injuns and all for every white invention they use,
one at a time would be a motimgator long job and use more paper than eating a McDonald's
hamburger. It could lead to enough of what that Wall Street newspaper calls cross licensing,
Mr. McWilliams said, and he knows everything, to keep a whole rat pack of lawyers in business
forever instead of drowning them, that would be better.
I mean, you could charge a nickel every
time Lateesha or Deewan or Lasagna read a book, which might bring in twelve dollars a year, or
used a Smith and Wesson, for whole boxcars of dollars. Probably the easy thing would be to rent
the whole damn civilization with only one license, like driving a car.
I reckon we'd haul in enough money to buy enough rockets to blow up a thousand weddings and
little children in Afghanistan and Eye-ran and maybe some kindergartner kids in Venezuela,
wherever that is. Then they'd all have American values and love us.
But we got other news to gnaw on. I keep reading about this gal Rachel Tension and how she's
causing all kinds of bile along with Oprah. I don't know about Rachel but Oprah's gone all
skinny on us and I reckon it makes her want to make more fuss about whatever she's thinking
about. Oprah used to be all porked up and looked like three hundred pounds of fatback with legs
and if you'd had a oil well you wanted to shut down you could have used her for a plug. I hear
there's less Oprah now, though. Which is about how much I can use.
Anyhow, she's running on these days about how white people is criminals and brutes and they
need to get in touch with what they're feeling, that might mean their girlfriend or I don't
know what, but she don't like them. White people, I mean. Well, I guess. But I figure when
she's yowling into a microphone that probably Abraham Lincoln or Moses or somebody invented,
it's that Cultural Appropriation again and she owes money. I mean, without that microphone shed
have to go back to smoke signals or drums.
Anyway, women are taking over everything, most of them crazy. Along with Rachel Tension and
Oprah, we've got that Clinton woman that's even older than Ann Coulter and probably sleeps all
day in some cave, hanging by her toes, and Elizabeth Warren, that used to be a Injun but cured
it with a shot of DNA. And now we've got Joe Biden, who ain't nothing but a titless Hillary on
days when he can remember who he is, and pretty much nothing at all the rest of the time. Which
might be a good reason to vote for him. We've had a long string of Presidents who did know who
they were, and it ain't been real satisfactory.
Finally the world' s gone soft in the head, like Aunt Minnie that granddad used to keep in the attic. I just saw where Walt
Disney, that I thought was dead but anyway, he's going to make a movie about Peter Pan and he want's Mike Tyson to be Tinker
Belle. She´s kind of like a lightening bug in a little green dress and throws sparks everywhere. Now if I remember right, Tyson
weighs about two-forty buck nekkid and holding a helium balloon so it's hard to imagine him twinkling around in the air and
flashing like a fifty cent flashlight with a loose switch, but I don't know much about movies. Anyway there was this woman, I
think her name was Lupita Marimacha or anyway some Meskin thing, that talked for Mr. Disney, that I thought was dead. She said
these times are progressive, which I think means soft in the head, and we can't be heteronormative or chromapejorative and we
had to be gender fluid. I saw it in the newspaper or I couldn't spell it. I wasn't sure what kind of gender fluid she meant but
I knew I didn't want to think about it. I guess it means we´ll have to watch Mike Tyson flying around in some kind of girly
clothes, which is all right on a girl but I worry about them on Mike, and maybe it worries him too.
... ... ...
Write Fred at [email protected] . Put the letters pdq anywhere in the subject line so
Google don't disappear your letter.
Consider the classic m.o. back in the day when Marxists wanted to overthrow a legitimate
government in Latin America, Asia or Africa. They'd do everything in their power to wreck
the nation's economy, foment insurrection in the streets, and compromise the safety and
security of the middle classes.
Would that be like the CIA "death squads" in Central America?
Wake up! Marxism and finance capitalism are two sides of the same (((coin))). It's all about
defining the commune.
The print edition of the Wall Street Journal yesterday had a photo of Biden, his wife and
others on the front page. Balloons were hanging in the background.
In the photo, Joe looked just like the nursing home resident who was dressed up and taken
down to the community room so he could celebrate his birthday with family and friends.
Branco cartoon today says it all. Democrats pushing a Trojan horse over the moat with the
face of Biden, but inside the Trojan horse is the real prize: Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez, Harris,
Warren,......Clinton, Sanders, Schumer, Nadler, Schift, ...etc. etc must also be lurking inside
there ready to come out of the horse's rear end.
We'll get socialism with Kamala & Biden. But it will be socialism for the Party of
Davos, not for the working class. And both Mitch and Schumer will support it
enthusiastically.
Very telling that ZH editors don't consider this newsworthy: key findings of the
Republican led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding Russia's 2016 election
interference.
Manafort and Kilimnik talked almost daily during the campaign. They communicated through
encrypted technologies set to automatically erase their correspondence; they spoke using code
words and shared access to an email account. It's worth pausing on these facts: The chairman
of the Trump campaign was in daily contact with a Russian agent, constantly sharing
confidential information with him.
It did not find evidence that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 election, as
Trump alleged. "The Committee's efforts focused on investigating Russian interference in
the 2016 election. However, during the course of the investigation, the Committee
identified no reliable evidence that the Ukrainian government interfered in the 2016 U.S.
election."
"Taken as a whole, Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with
individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly
[Konstantin] Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave
counterintelligence threat," the report said.
Kilimnik "almost certainly helped arrange some of the first public messaging that
Ukraine had interfered in the U.S. election."
Roger Stone was in communications with both WikiLeaks and the Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0
during the election; according to the Mueller report, Guccifer 2.0 was a conduit set up by
Russian military intelligence to anonymously funnel stolen information to WikiLeaks.
The Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation found "significant evidence to suggest
that, in the summer of 2016, WikiLeaks was knowingly collaborating with Russian government
officials," the report said.
The FBI gave "unjustified credence" to the so-called Steele dossier, an explosive
collections of uncorroborated memos alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian
government officials, the report said. The FBI did not take the "necessary steps to validate
assumptions about Steele's credibility" before relying on the dossier to seek renewals of a
surveillance warrant targeting the former Trump campaign aide, the report said.
Demeter55 , 47 minutes ago
It's the latest in 5 years of "Get Trump!", a sitcom featuring the Roadrunner (Trump) and
the Wiley Coyote (Deep State/Never Trumpers / etc, etc.)
This classic scenario never fails to please those who realize that the roadrunner rules,
and the coyote invariably ends up destroyed.
Democrats are in bed with the deep state, take billions from the largest corporations, and
conduct the most undemocratic nominating process ever seen in the US, but thank god they are
not fascists!
Trezrek500 , 2 hours ago
It is amazing, Bezos becomes the richest guy in the world and the delivery of his packages
is subsidized by tax payers. The USPS should triple their rates to AMZN. Problem solved.
Are y'all sure that the DNC doesn't represent the more effective evil, being alligned with
big tech, our traitorous IC, warmongering military brass, political identitarians?
DNC last night really hit on those "resistance boomer erogenous zones." What a perfectly apt
description for the DNC's messaging. Still would infinitely rather have current POTUS. And it
looks like I will get my wish.
So Youtube(=Google) allows the Democrats free campaign publicity (through CNN) but not the
Republicans? Important in 2020 because Covid-19 limits conventions to virtual mainly.
There has never been a real choice in the American elections. Whatever one can say against
the DNC line-ups, one can say much more against the other side as well. Of course the whole
show, on both sides, is a cringfest. By the way have you heard that the couple pointing guns
at protesters are scheduled to speak at RNC? Now that is a true cringfest. Happy day to
everyone!
That must be Chinese interference. The US propaganda operation that is called intelligence
says China is backing sleepy Joe.
But don't worry, the Russians are backing Trump so they'll get him on youtube ... so as long
as the Iranians don't take youtube down so no one becomes pres.
That'd be a pain. Everyone standing around waiting for the Iranians to put youtube back on
so they could have an election.
"The United States its also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance,
they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere (1922-1999), President of Tanzania
It's true. Knowledge of evidence based reality is a threat to US National Security.
Those who value US National Security are right to fear general access to evidence based
reality.
Their suggestion that Russia is the sole source of knowledge of evidence based reality,
though flattering to Russia, merely illustrates an entertaining cartoon mindset.
CBC radio today had a sound bite from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, saying
something like "I grew up in the South Bronx and Joseph Biden grew up in Scranton, where his
parents gave him the same values."
So Powell is all in for Biden, not surprising since they are both members of the Democratic
Party.
Great picture too, I remember all too well the absolute absurdity of the stunts and media
events following the September 11, 2001 thing. People I know were there in downtown NYC,
unfortunately my friend and colleague was in one of the towers and did not make it out, leaving
her husband and two children behind.
The following years were only made tolerable by David Rees's comics as he lampooned, amongst
many other horrors, the dropping of aid packages, yellow, and cluster bombs, also yellow, on
Afghanistan. Here's a link to Get Your War On , his
compilation of those comics.
Those 2 years in New York and I suppose the rest of the world opened our eyes to the reality
of what the United States of America was capable of.
Powell with his vial of "anthrax" at the United Nations was but one example of the avalanche
of propaganda that ensued.
To keep this post short I'll simply state that the current mediated world did not create
itself.
Mass media throughout the western world are uncritically passing along a press release from
the US intelligence community, because that's what passes for journalism in a world where God
is dead and everything is stupid.
If wokeness is going to survive, the scourge of actors portraying characters that are in any
way different from themselves must end now.
I consider myself a devout crusader for the Church of Wokeness, a brave Knight of the Woke
Table if you will.
... The newest and most heinous of injustices that I unearthed occurred the other day, and
was so horrifying it literally left me shaking.
... The injustice of which I speak is that Netflix just announced that on its hit show
The Crown , Princess Diana – the most iconic of British Royals, will be played
by Elizabeth Debicki who is gasp Australian!
...
I wish there was a woke time machine so we could see who Octavia Spencer would cast instead
of Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and Oscar-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio
in What's Eating Gilbert Grape .
Those able-bodied bastards are acting abominations. Their crimes are almost as bad as
cis-gendered actors playing trans characters.
... Of course, even if an actor is the same race or ethnicity as a character, they aren't
safe from the righteous sword of wokeness. ... To avoid this woke backlash and the cancel
culture mob, white actresses Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell quit their roles voicing black
characters on cartoons.
... we could be one step closer to eradicating the art of acting and finally living in the
glorious utopia of talentlessness we woke are obviously so desperate to manifest.
Rudi Rat 48 minutes ago
What ... the new Diana actress is not black? That is pretty unwoke!
Smythe_Mogg 7 minutes ago
A very amusing piece. Of course, in many of the examples offered nobody but the 'woke' would
consider watching finished films based on 'trans' nonsense and militant lesbianism. Thus
'woke' speaks unto 'woke' and everyone else just gets on with life.
rnsglobal 1 hour ago
Writers like you who subscribe to the idea of "woke" are destroying our society. We don't
want or need opinions like yours that only serve to destroy careers, reputations, or the
normals of society. You are not doing the world a favor, rather you and your woke mobs are
trying to destroy history and re-write it the way you see fit instead of keeping our history
and learning from it. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Vargus_A_MS rnsglobal 43 minutes ago
Do you understand sarcasm? Or is this sarcasm for sarcasm.
InnocentJekyll 1 hour ago
I am like seriously literally actually offended on behalf of all people of color and
minorities right now. #NotMyArticle
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has voiced his opposition to a proposed Russian rule that
would require labeling of propaganda content, saying it would burden "independent" information
work by outlets such as Voice of America.
far_cough 11 August, 2020
pompeo better learn the phrase, 'the chickens are coming home to roost'...
Larry C Johnson over at Pat Lang's SST has a current article up about the recent
scarcity of firearms and ammo in AmeriKKKan gun shops. The examples he cites are 9mm
handguns, but also the ammo for same which has quadrupled in price since early 2020 - if
you can find any.
Look at how many words -- including these -- it has generated. All, over something that in
the end, is irrelevant to any US citizen, since their vote does not count.
The show must go on. Keep entertaining yourselves with, he said, she said. Grand ole show
it is too, where everybody gets paid.
The show, the circus, is a running jobs program. Everybody gets paid. The talking heads on
the TV, get paid. Photographers, get paid. The bus drivers, get paid. The carpenters setting
up the podiums, get paid. The electricians, get paid. The political consultants, get
paid.
If something evil is happening somewhere in the world, rest assured the CIA is involved
somehow.
Xena fobe , 16 hours ago
If BLM and Antifa had an IQ above room temperature, they would be calling for defunding
the alphabet agencies. Never mind, the rest of the population will do it when the time is
right.
Lyman54 , 16 hours ago
The alphabet agencies are funding and controlling them.
George Soros had some tough words for Donald Trump, calling him "dangerous" and willing to
do "anything to stay in power." But what about the financier himself, who operates across the
globe outside of democratic due process?
The Coca-Cola Company has always been involved in espionage for the US military and the
State Department. [1]
Oddly, neither the Coca-Cola company website nor Google have any knowledge of this, and the
State Department had no one available to discuss this with me. Since at least the 1940s, when
the company established bottling plants in a new country, OSS or CIA spies were automatically
sent in as part of the staff. It wasn't even much of a secret: when the US Senate held their
famous Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, the link between the CIA and Coca-Cola was fully
exposed.
Clever! Thus the Americans harm their designated "adversaries" in two different ways at
once.
1. Systematic spying;
2. Poisoning with water saturated with more sugar than anyone would believe physically
possible; or, instead of sugar, with insidious chemical sweeteners that may play just as much
havoc with metabolism.
Kamala is the Finnish word for terrible. ' nuff said.
Sana4va 11 hours ago
I'm just trying to understand America's race categorizing. Her father is black; her mother is
of South Asian descent. what makes her more black than Asian. Her skin tone and hair are more
like Asians. Shouldn't she be classified as Asian? I'm all confused.
Maonao 15 hours ago
Wow! I thought we had neared the bottom with 2 old loonies. This should keep zion happy as
now both sides have running mates who support the occupation and the occupying administration
currently led by nuttyahoo.
The Army's new priority was to show off how woke they are, and to make new recruits feel
safe and happy as opposed to building a lethal, highly effective fighting force.
FISA court knew they were being lied to. They are nothing but a rubber stamp. Been that
way for years.
Roberts is a sick joke.
TheFQ , 4 hours ago
So Roger Stone was arrested by a massive number of federal agents for a process crime,
Paul Manafort was arrested, General Flynn found guilty...but this federal government and DOJ
can't get it's act together to indict the REAL CRIMINALS?
So sorry, Lindsey.
I think our Constitutional Republic is probably a goner.
Gotta admit, if you're going to have a Zionist stooge then you are better off having a
clumsy and transparent one.
Pliskin , 9 hours ago
You'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!
Bokkenrijder , 10 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!
Oldwood , 14 hours ago
The 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.
Element , 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.
Jkweb007 , 10 hours ago
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?
Makes 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.
Ms No , 6 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
NuYawkFrankie , 9 hours ago
There's a BIG difference between Bolton and Abrams: Bolton is just a fcking
imbecile...
"... Like George Carlin once said "political correctness is fascism disguised as politeness" ..."
"... "Almost nobody has any idea what they are talking about." That's the problem with this internet age giving every moron a voice. ..."
"... Social Justice Warriors = political correctness on steroids. ..."
"... "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 ..."
"... Take any ethical position to its extreme and if it holds together it's good. - Kant. Liberalism taken to an extreme fails. Get a clue. ..."
"... 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. ..."
"... John Cleese outclasses Bill Maher by an absolutely massive margin ..."
"... 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" ..."
"... Political 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. ..."
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!
"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.
"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
I 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.
For 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.
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.
"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".
John 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.
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
Cleese'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.
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"
Cleese 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.)
Political 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.
''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.
Radicals have never had a sense of humor. They are unbalanced. "In jest, there is truth". --
Roman proverb. Radicals has problems with truth. Therefore, they don't like humor.
"... Monty Python was the pinnacle of contemporary comedy precisely because it drew attention to the absurdity of modern society and it pompous hypocrisy ..."
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"
MartinG , 3 hours ago
How 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.
tardpill , 3 hours ago
the 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
DaBard51 , 2 hours ago
You 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...
Roger Casement , 3 hours ago
They are the joke.
philipat , 2 hours ago
Yes, 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!
45North1 , 2 hours ago
An Antifa member, a BLM'er and a Proud Boy go into a Bar.....
EvlTheCat , 2 hours ago
"Woke" in itself is a joke and a oxymoron, which if you know the definition makes it
ironic also. Touches all bases John.
@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.
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."
"... 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. ..."
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.
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.
Personally, 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:
Usually it was the US foreign policy where the art of the deal was undistinguishable from the art of shakedown.
here BTL borrowed neocon method for internal market consumption.
He took to Facebook to accuse them of 'mafia tactics'
Neoconservatism is BLM with Jewish face.
"Mafica tactics" is how we conduct ourselves on the geopolitical stage.
Welcome to America.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN , 49 minutes ago
Exactly, this is just a "lite" version of Trump threatening to ban Tik-Tok, then
encouraging Microsoft to buy it for a reduced price. Or demanding that Germany pay more
tribute to their troops occupying the country for 70+ years.
Leading by example, or the Art of the Deal (shakedown).
Yes the stupidity of Daniel Heintz
is obvious. Neoliberal Dems use Antifa and BLM as tool acting as a ram, similar to Ukrainian oligarchs,
expecting no repercussion. But than Crimea and Donbass happened all at once.
Just change the name Maidan in CHAZ :-) CHAZ did not last that long, though. But Portland might be another story.
Notable quotes:
"... 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. ..."
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.
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.
"... They'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. ..."
"... ...but it's good that he's able to ask a question without the threat of being pushed out of a 5th floor window ..."
They'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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
"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
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!"
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."
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.
Rearranging chairs of Democratic Titanic or old wine in a new bottle... I wonder how the
organization "Well versed in de-escalation skills and mental health support" will deal with an
armed bank robber?
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
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
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.
Yeah, 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...
theory , 12 hours ago
AND........
Who was running the FBI at the time........???????
Good old Bob Mueller.......!!!!!!!!!!!!
El Chapo Read , 11 hours ago
That was "out of his purview"
MongoStraight , 12 hours ago
It's hard to believe that Marvin Minsky would have to pay for it.
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.
Carlson, 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.
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.
Vitam Regit Fortuna, Non Sapientia
Fortune rules the world, not Wisdom
Cicero
Caeca 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
Its 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.
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.
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.
Actually the fact that Ford foundation and Soros Open Society finance this cult makes the
picture below much less funny.
The picture also say something about the myth of high IQ of Asian students. Or, more
correctly, that high IQ persons can be a obscure cult members too. This girl probably understand
that at the foundation of inequalities of blacks in moden society lies neoliberalism, and
outsourcing of jobs which deprive many black so menaningful way to earn their living.
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."
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.
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.
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.
What do you call 435 lawyers and/or Congress critters on the bottom of the ocean floor? A
good start. nadler can't win the party against Barr. If this were chess Barr is a grossmeister
and Wander is a wanna-be.
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.
Nadler looks like an arrogant narcissist of Schiff vintage. Remember politicians were the
same obnoxious kids in high school who never got over the thrill of being class secretary.
The lack of decorum create a very strong impression of a accomplished conversion to the banana republic. From comment
"Congressional porch apes flinging their feces during the Barr “hearing”.
Notable quotes:
"... Democrats don't have a shred of decency to run on in 2020. ..."
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.
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...
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.
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."
BTW t he US death rate per capita is below that of Belgium, the UK, Spain, Italy, Sweden,
Peru (which is surprising), Chile (another surprise), and France.
I remember signs on businesses that said "No shirts, no shoes: no service". I don't recall
morons screaming at underpaid clerks about their constitutional right not to wear a shirt or
shoes.
Population density has at least something to do with it. Big cities are the hardest hit, as
would be expected and they shoud insist of people wearnign masks in closed spaces. No
exception. .
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...
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."
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
This 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.
zipit , 19 minutes ago
Ebonics, yo.
Ajax_USB_Port_Repair_Service_ , 19 minutes ago
The 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.
"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."
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.
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.
Closing consulates is far from the best foreign policy and fat Pompeo known it. It just
starts the unnecessary and counter productive spiral of retaliation and Chinese have more
leverage over the USA as more the USA diplomatic personnel woks in China than the china
diplomatic personnel in the USA. They were always burned in Russia and now they stepped on the
same rake again.
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.
QABubba , 8 hours ago
Quit stealing Russian consulates, Chinese consulates, etc.
It serves no purpose.
Haboob , 7 hours ago
Closing diplomacy with nations as USA shrinks on the world stage shows America's juvenile
behavior.
Salisarsims , 7 hours ago
We are a young twenty something nation what do you expect but drama.
Haboob , 7 hours ago
It 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.
me or you , 9 hours ago
He 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 , 9 hours ago
I 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.
To Hell In A Handbasket , 8 hours ago
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.
If 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.
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?
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.
The 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.
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.)
... ... ...
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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:
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.
"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."
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.
Neocon presstitutes like Appelbaum (actually a well paid MIC lobbyist in disguise) and MI6
connected criminals like like Browder are the feature of the US political landscape, not a bug. I
actually did laugh at Browder's piece on the BBC though, were a money launderer and tax evader
who left his book keeper to die in a Russian prison telling us we shouldn't trust the
Russians.
US economic problems are greatly enhanced by the tremendous amount of defense expenditures
(outspending the combined next seven leading countries in arms expenditures) and tax payer's
money being wasted on paranoid obsessions likes what's mentioned here: http://markcrispinmiller.com/2020/07/a-visit-from-the-fbi/
The 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.
The 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.
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?
Move comes as Libya gov't and Turkey demand an end of foreign intervention in support of
commander Khalifa Haftar.
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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.
Rainsford 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.
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
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DonEstif -> russellremmert 1 day ago
Almost, he's an expert pundit used by CNN
Ban-me Fagggot 1 day ago
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...
The the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was actually on sidelines and
did not yet contribute anything signigicat in understadning this coronavirus
The level of subservience of Fauci to Big Pharma is open for review
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.
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.
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;
Maybe 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.
"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.
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.
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.
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' ...
... ... ...
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 .
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 .
And this Big Pharma stooge was right: in open spaces unless you are inthe dence coud there is no reason to wear any mask
Notable quotes:
"... 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. ..."
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.
... 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.
...
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."
Look 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.
JoJo Kracko , 4 hours ago
Well Trump would know first hand if it was a cesspool right?
Stonewall Jackson , 4 hours ago
Second 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.
d_7878 , 3 hours ago
Trump's secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta, cut a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 with
Epstein allowing him to continue on his spree.
disagreeableness , 3 hours ago
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?
I'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.
Johny Galt , 3 hours ago
I always enjoy quality sarcasm!
Lucius Quinctius , 58 minutes ago
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.
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.
alex kalish , 1 hour ago
Oh 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....
Encroaching Darkness , 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!
DaBard51 , 1 hour ago
The source is... Yahoo News? Yahoo News is the new "Paper of Record"?
The same Yahoo News that "corroborated" the Steele dossier?
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...
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.
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.
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."
"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...
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.
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.
Or did he? Yet another evil rumor designed to poison relations with Russia. This time from
Yahoo
Still Trump has not only appointed the aggressive Michael D'Andrea, the 'Prince of Darkness',
to head the
CIA's Iran Mission Center but he
gave the CIA wide ranging new powers to run cyber attacks against the country:
Notable quotes:
"... When has the CIA ever had oversight? ..."
"... Pretty sure oversight jumped out the 84th floor window very early on. Voluntarily of course. ..."
I'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.
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m0ckingbird , 6 minutes ago
are you sure trump thinks? like AT ALL? you give your grown man-child way too much
credit
ExposeThem511 , 1 hour ago
When has the CIA ever had oversight?
metanoic , 54 minutes ago
Pretty sure oversight jumped out the 84th floor window very early on. Voluntarily of
course.
Sarc. 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.
Soviet joke: TASS communicated that "Today, being in dangerous state of health and without
regaining consciousness Konstantin Ustonivich Chernenko took up the duties of Secretary General"
(the first part of the sentence is the common beginning of state leaders' obituaries)
Although only medical evaluation can tell the truth, the inability to hold on to his own
train of thought, slurring of his speech, forgetting where he is and who he's with, grossly incorrect use of language,
and inappropriate behavior are typical early symptoms of dementia. Excessive irritability and paranoia is also a symptom.
Over time though, I began to pity Joe as I realized the untenable situation Democrats had
placed him in. What is wrong with his family, allowing him to be humiliated on a daily basis?
Some think he is being "set up"
Elite rotation clearly is not working in the USA. Just look at Pelosi.
On the other hand Reagan was clearly senile, and that was no hindrance to him becoming
President -- so why should it be any different in the case of Biden?
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.
Today, 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.
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."
...
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.
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.
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 cohorts
Side 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.
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.
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.
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.
One 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.
"It is unusual for countries to publicly talk about cyberwarfare tactics" Is not the USA
position itself to consider such an attack to be a declaration of war?
I think "Russian toll factory" was shut down much earlier then 2018. So whom he did
attack?
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 .
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.
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 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 2003
Jack 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.
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.
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.
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".
Why 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?
Of 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.
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.
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?
This DNC supported and financed movement is a joke. While it managed to channel some
resentment against the system into riots and iconoclasm, it is in its core (and leaders) a
neoliberals attempt to depose Trump and it will harm blacks fight for equlity in a long run,
creating real racial animosities in the country. This process of polarization already
started.
@ 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!
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.
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.
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 ."
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'.
This is about a new generation of Red Guards, not so much about watching Bruce Springsteen
And Dionne Warwick Be Pelted With Dogshit For Singing We Are the World
Notable quotes:
"... 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. ..."
"... 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? ..."
"... Mao and his Red Guard invented cancel culture. This is the Chinese cultural revolution American style. Same ****, just round eyes instead of slant eyes. ..."
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?
How 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.
Jackprong , 7 minutes ago
They're even throwing Orwell to the dogs! They have no shame!
Secret Weapon , 10 minutes ago
Mao and his Red Guard invented cancel culture. This is the Chinese cultural revolution
American style. Same ****, just round eyes instead of slant eyes.
Justus_Americans , 13 minutes ago
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
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."
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.
The 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.
It 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.
I 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.
Did CIA launched this provocation on its own or this is another Ciaramella from NSC in play?
This psy-op was a stunning success. But reaction of the part of the US audience was very damaging
for the NYT credibility, if such was left.
NYT is not journalism. It's good only to wipe your ***.
Salsa Verde , 1 hour ago
Doesn't matter what gets proven or disproven; rumors and baseless allegations ARE the new
"facts" of the woke left.
naro , 2 hours ago
NYSlimes has lost all credibility. When I see "anonymouse" source I just see a lazy,
lying, affirmative action hired reporter. ay_arrow
WTFUD , 2 hours ago
The only way you can stop this diarrhea is to publicly hang the perpetrators.
fackbankz , 2 hours ago
I 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.
scaleindependent , 2 hours ago
Now they tells us, right after the fake story was used to cancel the end of the
Afghanistan war.
JedClampIt , 3 hours ago
I'm surprised Tyler hasn't yet ripped apart today's NYT editorial, which proves that when
you're wrong, just keep repeating it louder.
Stable-Genius , 3 hours ago
I would trust a Russian far more than I would trust any democrat
zerohedgeguy , 3 hours ago
Here's another theory : the democrats placed these bounties
Thordoom , 3 hours ago
It 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.
consider me gone , 3 hours ago
Like 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.
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.
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.
"... I 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? ..."
"... 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. ..."
We're under attack so we must stay to get killed??
...
@Caliman | Jul 7 2020 17:25 utc | 1
I 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:
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.
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.
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.
..
"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.
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?
@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..
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.
For 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.
Destruction 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
"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"
Now only complete idiot agrees with Albright "We stand tall and we see further than other
countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us"
"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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
We 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.
"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."
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 !!!
"... 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 ..."
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!
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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GentlemanJim , just now
So much for freedom and free speach
porco rosso , 1 minute ago
US has become a marxist hell hole. I hope that woman sues the hell out of this despicable
university.
"... 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,'" ..."
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.
...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
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.
Several 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
By 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
Once 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
"... "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." ..."
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.
...
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.
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.
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.
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?
"... Lord, the chattering classes love them some symbolic gestures, probably precisely because those gestures do nothing to affect the way the pie is sliced. ..."
I 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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
"... 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. ..."
'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?
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
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.
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.
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.
[...]commissioned by the Berlin-based European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
thinktank
According 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.
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.
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?
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
By 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
According 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
The 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
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
Several 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 .
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.
Be 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.
Statement 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)
"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.
Rumors presented as fact: "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,
Notable quotes:
"... "Intelligence" is not evidence. ..."
"... A war was started based on "Intelligence" that was never supported by evidence. ..."
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.
"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!"
Shut-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.
This Latino-Hispanic for Trump. section data-role="main" data-tracking-area="main"
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".
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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".
"... Taking 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. ..."
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.
Taking 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!
' 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.
@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.
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
Notable quotes:
"... 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. ..."
"... 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. ..."
"... "The Slime" also seems to fit quite nicely. ..."
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.
> 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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :-).
"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."
People who post of Twitter are stupid by definition, but people who fire employees for
posting on Twitter are trying to replicate excesses of Stalinism (and, in way, McCarthysm) on a
farce level. As in Marx "history repeats: first as tragedy, the second as farce"
By classifying the (somewhat incorrect; Obama was elected not only because he was half black,
but also because he was half--CIA ;-) Twit below as the cry "fire" in crowded theater, we really
try to replay the atmosphere of Stalinist Russia on a new level.
Notable quotes:
"... Austin Symphony Trombonist Fired Over Racist Comments , The Violin Channel, June 1, 2020 ..."
Have you checked out the 1/2 black president swine flu H1N1, and EBOLA?
What has your 1/2 black president done for you??
The ONLY REASON he was elected was because he is 1/2 black.
People voted on racist principles, not on the real issues . The BLACKS are looting and
destroying their environment. They deserve what
they get. Playing the RACE CARD IS RACIST.
Symphony orchestra spokes-critter Anthony Corroa [ Email him
]announced the firing of Ms. Salas in the dreary schoolmarmish jargon of corporate wokeness:
This language is not reflective of who we are as an organization." And "there is no
place for hate within our organization."
I have been reading your work for almost a year but subscribed right away after reading
this articele.
What is frightening to me is that people who are supposed to be a smart do not understand
that they are not only destroying the press, they are destroying the country. What is even
more frightening is that their hate of Trump makes them blind to anything else. He will be
gone on less then one year, OK maybe in 5 years but the destruction of federal institutions,
and the death of credible media will define America.
I am an immigrant from a communist country and I believe that Soviet style communism
was worse it terms of its brutality, but not as morally damaging as this voluntary march to
serfdom that I see in modern America.
And the enablers, like Jeff Bezos for example, who thinks that if he get to his knees fast
enough nobody will ask him about the work conditions in Amazon warehouses, these people make
me really sick.
I agree with most of what you have written here, but it's sort of like having a food
fight on the upper decks of the Titanic. The American ruling class has deteriorated to the
point where it cannot keep itself afloat, and is thrashing around as it sinks, while other
actors are maneuvering to take its place. The Cotton thing -- which I have read was
solicited by the NYT -- regardless of what it literally said, was certain to be read as a
call for the military to attack people exercising their rights of assembly and expression,
and could have been reasonably interpreted as fighting words, except I guess hardly anyone
reads any more.
The podcast Reply-All investigated
the phenomenon on Thursday, concluding " the world's weirdest form of reparations: Venmo
payments from white people " had its roots in a 2016 routine by standup comedian Milly
Tamarez. Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi spoke to Tamarez, who recalled being somewhat surprised when
her satirical " White Forgiveness " campaign began taking in real money, with real live
white people apparently donating in exchange for being " publicly acknowledged " as "
one of the 'good' white people ."
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.
Moral cowardice is another of the driving forces fueling the proliferation of public
apologies. Apology has become weaponized to the point that very few politicians possess the
strength of character to stand by their words.
Knee-jerk knee-bending
Since the outbreak of the present wave of Black Lives Matter protests, the issuing of a
public apology has become almost a routine response to the mere hint that you should take the
knee and grovel.
Typically, whenever an individual is called out and denounced for their language, an apology swiftly follows. But in the
current climate, there can be no ‘mistakes’, because your words will come back to bite you. Just about any gesture or statement
can be branded as not just insensitive but racist.
...Back in 1976, Elton John released a song titled 'Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word'. A song
titled 'The Hardest Word Not to Say is Sorry' would be altogether more fitting for the
2020s.
I find it interesting how cutting hair somehow became one of those things that requires
state approval.
Another area where gate keepers establish themselves and push laws through requiring state
licensure. Once some state board decides if you can make money or not, you're just a
slave.
Barbers are not applying leeches anymore. And how many are still shaving men?
That's not entirely true, we just do not believe in fraudulent agenda driven traitors like
you!
Fauci's estimates were so off that the only 2 conclusions can be formed, gross negligence
or intentional deception, either way he has zero credibility left!
Locker up , 1 hour ago
I remember when the pandemic started Fauci said "Masks don't protect you and the front
line health workers need the masks for their protection". I think that statement caused him
to lose all credibility with the public. Fauci still sounds like he's drowning in mucus. They
should get a healthy honest scientist to talk to the public.
MsCreant , 1 hour ago
This guy should just step down.
He is now saying masks are good. They were not good when there was a shortage of them.
If he can't see the logic of why he is not trusted, he is incompetent. lay_arrow
Dumpster Elite , 1 hour ago
"How DARE you serfs and peasants question the authority and wisdom of your masters!!!
INSOLENCE!!!!"
Max UK , 1 hour ago
Yeah Fauci, nobody has done as much to destroy trust actually, as YOU!
NumberNone , 1 hour ago
There are 57 genders...is that the science we don't believe in? Asking for a friend.
Lt. Frank Drebin , 1 hour ago
What a jerk. This dude has Napoleon syndrome, i.e. only he is right, everyone else is
stupid.
Tarzan , 38 minutes ago
Fauci TEST ified that, although they are TEST ing more, there has been more positive TEST
s then before they were TEST ing more, and We're all crazy science deniers for recognizing
his inconsistent TEST imony.
...for President Trump, it was yet another morning of bitter recriminations -- in the face
of mounting legal defeats: "Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn't like
me?"
While celebrities and wealthy virtue signallers are all too eager to rally behind leftist
mobs with support and donations, they will be assuredly safe in their gated mansions as the
city of Beverly Hills issued an emergency order to ban all protests in the area, ensuring there
will be no lawless 'autonomous zones' springing up on their doorstep. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Autonomous Zone @TheCHAZAZ
Replying to @CityofBevHills
America's wealth rests on this mutual competition between workers -- some nominally "free,"
others basically indentured -- whether it be through unjust visa schemes or other unfair
managerial practices.
Remember that the next time you read a public announcement by the Amazons of this world
that they remain committed to "Black Lives Matter" and similar identitarian causes.
One of the CHAZ occupiers took to Reddit over the weekend to complain that their tent had
been looted and their laptop stolen, along with $400 in cash.
The CHAZ community quickly stepped in to reassure the victim that "a disadvantaged
resident was in greater need of the items than you," and to think of the theft as an
"unplanned donation."
Aunt Jemima survived 130 years: the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Civil Rights
movement, Vietnam and 9/11. But the brand has finally been cast aside by Quaker Oats - which is
owned by Pepsi - due to its "racist past" at the hands of today's relentless cancel
culture.
Where are statues of Martin Luther King, Jr. located? Inquiring minds want to know. Also,
what about Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and Frederick Douglass? Where are
their statues? I bet dat dey soon be comin' down.
Money quote about Rice despicable attempt to implicate Russians: "For Susan Rice to make a statement like that without looking
at any intelligence is completely irresponsible and disgusting. She lied about Flynn and she's making shit up again" George Soros.
is actually Hungarian Jew and there is some difference between CIA and GNU (or ehatwver it is now called in Russia).
Notable quotes:
"... I've seen a lot of black Russians in those riots, lol. ..."
When a guy from Slovakia enters the USA, the moment his airplane lands, he is automatically
classified as "evil white your ancestors enslaved blacks".
Although his "ancestors" not only never enslaved any blacks, but actually helped
aggressively the blacks to achieve independence all across Africa, back when his country was
part of the communist half of the world.
Seriousness is an elusive quality in this era of fake news. The author is apparently
serious although neglecting to mention that a miraculously preserved alt-right
communiqué written on Putin's letterhead (discovered yesterday by CNN in a shoe among
old ashes near the WTC) reveals that CHAZ's name was changed to CHOP as part of a Russian
plot to disrupt America society by placing permanent Chimp Out Plazas, or CHOPs (formerly
known as CHAZ) in every major city's downtown district. Based on the paradigm established in
Seattle, permanent CHOPs will be catered by Whole Foods and funded as the "Summer of Love" by
Pepsi, Papa Johns, etc.
There is Russian joke:
– Why color revolution cannot happen in the US?
– Because there is no American Embassy there.
Looks like Deep State can do its dirty work even w/o US Embassy.
It’s futile to speculate, but surely makes the point – is morality really so plastic that we must be forever fearful of
what others may or may not think of us? Are we to conduct ourselves in accordance with “anything-but-the standards-of-today”
in the certain knowledge that out successors will damn us in the future no matter how conventionally virtuous we may appear
today?
I don’t think I am either homophobic or racist, and I am certainly not a smoker; however, when I attended Reading Rock
Festival in 1978 the joint themes were “Glad to be Gay” and “Rock against Racism”, and as this article points out, both
homophobia and racism were rife back in the 70’s. And a lot of people smoked like chimneys. Nowadays, less so, and things
have changed
However, nowadays we abhor paedophilia, cannibalism and incest, whilst revelling in Twitter feeds and inane Facebook
posts; will the former have become mainstream, and the latter morally and socially abhorrent 40 years from now? To be honest,
even if I knew with certainty that they would, there is no way I am going to indulge in them just to be “on the right side of
history”.
Slavery and colonialism are WRONG, and always have been; so let’s sue the Italian government for the Roman invasion of 43
AD and the brutality wrought on Boudicca and her daughters. Let’s sue Germany for the Anglo-Saxons invasions, the Danes for
the Vikings, and the French for 1066 and all that.
Or rather, let’s not. Let’s just get on with our lives as best we can, living by the moral compass we have inherited from
our families, our current societies and our consciences. And let’s stop judging – either our contemporaries, or our
ancestors. They, like us, were just trying to make the best of the circumstances which life cast upon them – some were good
people, some bad, most a bit of both. Just like us. And I, for one, am in no position whatsoever to assert that my principles
and moral values are superior to – or more enduring than – theirs.
Colston and Columbus have already fallen, and Rhodes doesn't look to be far behind, but why stop
there? For the revolution to succeed, we must erase all problematic history – that way we can be
certain never to repeat it again.
A cultural revolution appears to be gathering pace across the West. Government mandated lockdowns,
mass hysteria and now race riots seem to be par for the course in daily life, as civilisation
collectively takes leave of its senses. Masked mobs are now marauding unmolested, vandalising and
looting towns as police officers, terrified of being accused of being racist, stand idly by allowing
cities across America and Europe to descend into anarchy. Collectively we appear to have sided with
Bane rather than Batman in The Dark Knight Rises.
To paraphrase Tom Hardy's masked villain we must
"free (Britain/America) from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept
you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you... the people. (The West) is yours.
None shall interfere. Do as you please."
So, with a view to helping this exciting new wave of iconoclasm continue on its way, here's a handy
list of things we aren't allowed to enjoy anymore. Be warned: dissenters will be cancelled.
These ancient monuments are nothing but a constant reminder to the children of Israel that their
ancestors were enslaved. Even if the Jews didn't necessarily build these gigantic
tetrahedrons
of oppression
for Pharaoh, they are a hideous symbol Egyptian supremacy. The only solution to this
problem is for the government of Egypt to pay reparations with several millennia worth of interest to
the descendants of those they enslaved, and destroy these disgusting symbols of subjugation. It's
either that or they can finally admit the aliens did it.
2. The White House and Washington DC
Its very name is a not so thinly veiled statement of white supremacy. Not only was it
built by people
in bondage
, but 11 of its occupants actually owned slaves and even they were better than Donald
Trump who is literally Hitler or worse. In fact, why stop just at the White House? All of Washington
DC should be razed to the ground, we Brits gave it a bloody good go in the War of 1812 but surely the
righteous indignation of BLM rioters will see them finish the job. Not only was the land stolen from
Native Americans, but it is named after that wooden toothed, racist rabble-rouser George Washington
and Christopher Columbus, who obviously should never have gone to the New World.
3. William Shakespeare
The Bard's plays show a
woeful lack
of diversity
with the only BAME character in his entire canon being Othello, who is portrayed as
an easily manipulated suicidal woman murderer. He was also almost certainly portrayed by an actor in
blackface for centuries. There is also the hideous transphobia displayed in the Taming of The Shrew,
the vile anti-Semitism of The Merchant of Venice, and the contemptible disregard of the feelings of
otherkin and furries shown in A Midsummer Nights Dream. The only solution to this is to erase the
Stratford scribbler from history and disband the Royal Shakespeare Company. If "To be or not to be?"
is the question, then kindly chose the latter Bill.
4. Robert Burns
Oh, did Scotland think they were going to get away unscathed because of Braveheart or something?
Bad luck my Caledonian cousins, it turns out your national poet was a bit of a wrongun too. Old Rabbie
was
a bit
loose with the ladies
, cheated on his wife multiple times, knocked up a servant girl and another
woman during his numerous flings, and even somehow managed to paint himself as a victim of his own
misogyny in his poem "
The
Fornicator
". How can we possibly venerate this monster in the age of #MeToo? I'm afraid Burns
Night is going to have to go on the bonfire, so you'll have to choose a new hero. Perhaps the
Proclaimers will prove less problematic?
5. George Bernard Shaw
Sorry Ireland, your man's for it too. George Bernard Shaw may be one of the most beloved
playwrights published in the English language but he was also a huge fan of eugenics. Even the rise of
the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust didn't put him off. He actively praised Hitler and
Mussolini, he even
openly advocated genocide as a method to forward this evil ideology.
No more Pygmalion, Saint Joan
or Androcles and the Lion then. His statue on Clare Street in Dublin had better go on the toppling
list too.
6. David Lloyd George
Wales, you didn't think you were going to get off scot-free did you? Well I'm afraid your boyo may
have helped Britain win the First World War and created the modern welfare state, but I'm afraid he
was a vocal defender of Britain's right to
"bomb n*ggers"
. Not exactly the language one would expect from the last Liberal Prime Minister of
the UK, perhaps the Lib Dems should think about cancelling themselves in view of the hideous views of
one of their most famous members. I mean if Churchill is up for cancellation despite beating Hitler,
Lloyd George's victory over the Kaiser almost certainly won't save him.
7. Australia
The whole country has to go really doesn't it? Not only was it found by that vile racist
Captain Cook
, but then after the colony was founded, Britain filled it with convicts so clearly
all those who live there today must be rotten to the core. I mean if we're all collectively
responsible for the sins of our forefathers then surely if nearly an entire nation is literally
descended from criminals then they must be beyond help. Before the criminals arrived the early
settlers also engaged in slavery and attacked the Aboriginal population. It's basically America but
worse and further away so it's time it was simply cancelled as a country.
8. The Guardian
What's that I hear you say? Surely not the Guardian? Not the woke, liberal, lefty, luvvie paper of
choice? Not the paper of Owen Jones, George Monbiot and Marina Hyde? What sins could they possibly
have committed? Well it turns out quite a lot.
Back in the 1860s
the Manchester
Guardian, as it was then called, gave its unequivocal support to the slavery-defending south in the
American Civil War, described the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln as "abhorrent" and took particular
umbrage with the "Emancipation Proclamation" that freed the slaves. This might have something to do
with the fact that it was founded by John Edward Taylor, a Manchester cotton merchant whose trade was
not exactly negatively affected by the use of slave labour in the cotton fields of Old Dixie. But of
course they have changed their tune now and would obviously never, for example,
print obviously racist cartoons of BAME cabinet ministers for example
oh, wait.
9. The Blue Mosque
One of the most extraordinary structures of the Islamic world, the Blue Mosque towers imperiously
over Istanbul. It is spectacular, vast, a truly astonishing architectural achievement. There is
however the small problem that slavery was rife across the Ottoman Empire, and forced labour played a
huge part in the construction of this gigantic building. The Ottomans collected
slaves from Africa, Asia and
Europe (yes, white people)
to help build their buildings, work in their palaces and fight in their
armies. Sexual slavery was also a key part of Imperial life with the sultan having numerous concubines
in his harem. There is also the thorny issue that the Sultan who commanded the structure of the Blue
Mosque, Ahmed I, fathered a child with is consort Mahfiruz Hatun when she was just 13 or 14. But
perhaps it's best not to probe too deeply into the attitudes of prominent Islamic figures towards
slavery and child marriage
It is clearly an allegory for racial violence, and the fact the whites always get to move first is
an obvious indication of white supremacy.
11. Sugar
Our love of sweet things has only been made possible thanks to slavery and the suggestion that the
best of it is "white" and "refined" is a dog-whistle to the alt-Right.
12. Jersey Shore
We all know fake tanning is just blackface for cowards.
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Well, you guys (US) are killing people all over the world, so that's why the world hates
you. Stop killing people all over the world and then people might stop hating you.
If this was a Chinese admiral or diplomat, the tone of the comments here would be completely
different: "whistleblower", "Chinese totalitarianism collapsing", "we should support him", "the
Chinese should reform", "Xi Jinping should be removed from power" etc. etc.
...In general, USG is very happy if an ambassador is in blatant insubordination, e.g.
supporting a FAILED coup against his own government. Could it misled some ambassadors that it
is OK?
In short, there are good and bad types of hypocrisy, and USG should have some (online?)
courses, so passing quizzes in Hypocrisy.1, Hypocrisy.2 and Hypocrisy.3 would be a
prerequisite before granting a post (the higher the post, the more quizzes may be
needed).
This an indication that BLM has been co-opted by the "Foreign Policy Establishment" and
the Democratic Party.
The oppressed include not only Blacks (with only those who are killed by police officers
lives that matter; all "black on black" crimes ignored) but all other minorities and the poor
white working class.
just another wingnut from the usa seeking a hollywood type ending to his short diplomatic
career....
@ 11 vk... i sort of agree with you... as long as they can find more personalities who
can see a commie popping up everywhere, the usa will be a okay, lol.. maybe pat lang is up
for the gig? i heard he is retiring from blogging, lol...
You are well past being thought of as a banana Republic. You are a banana republic well
on its way to becoming a peanut Republic. The ambassador is a nasty clown acting for a
disreputable nation with a ridiculous political class.
U.S. -- A team of political experts released its latest prediction on the Black Lives Matter
movement today, saying the group's current surge will likely only last until early November.
The experts say after votes are cast in the 2020 election, politicians will no longer have a
need for the black community, and everything will go back to normal.
The team of experts out of UCLA has been following Black Lives Matter since it emerged back
in 2014 when an unarmed black man was killed by police in St. Louis. The popular civil rights
group also made headlines in 2016 and 2018.
"We have to pander to them to see if they will matter," said Nancy Pelosi. "We stand
committed to elevating black voices when we need their votes and not a moment after."
"It's a strange phenomenon," said UCLA professor Azad Khanna. "Every few years Black Lives
Matter comes onto the scene for a couple of months and then just sort of disappears in
November. I've never seen anything like it." Khanna paused for a moment, noticing a young white
woman who had kneeled before him. The woman asked his forgiveness for her white privilege and
her years of racism toward African Americans and then started kissing his feet. Khanna kindly
informed her that he is from India.
Experts believe the Black Lives Matter movement will re-emerge sometime in 2022.
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Enraged protesters were marching through D.C. toppling racist statues
when they came upon one standing on a street corner. The archaic, racist statue looked very,
very old. It even had some kind of obsolete soundbite-playing device in it, probably an early
phonograph from how old the statue looked. It kept saying things about black people being clean
and articulate and how poor kids are just as bright as white kids.
The rioters threw a lasso around the top of the statue after googling "How to tie a lasso"
and arguing for a while about how lassos are racist. They then brought it tumbling down after
graffitiing all over it.
Unfortunately, the old, racist statue turned out to be former vice president and current
presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"Classic pranksters," Biden said, chuckling, as he dusted himself off. "You know, this
happens from time to time. Back in my day, we were out at the community pool, hanging out and
throwing rocks at each other, as was the fashion at the time. CornPop and I were dishing it out
and running our fingers through our leg hairs when..." As he continued to drone on, though,
another racist group came up and toppled him the other way.
Eventually the rioters had had their fun and moved on, knocking over Nancy Pelosi and Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, mistaking both of them for ancient statues.
The former New York senator published her
thoughts on her on Medium blog , where she appeared to endorse the Black
Lives Matter movement, something she has previously stayed well clear of doing. "George Floyd's
life mattered. Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor's lives mattered. Black lives matter," she
began by stating.
"I promise to keep fighting alongside all of you to make the United States a place where all
men and all women are treated as equals, just as we are and just as we deserve to be," she
added, positioning herself on the same side as the protestors, many of whom are demanding the
abolition of the police. Clinton commended the amazing "power of solidarity" she had seen and
promised to "speak out against white supremacy in all its forms," declaring that America is
long overdue for "an honest reckoning" with its racism problem.
However, an honest reckoning with Clinton's past unearths a myriad of troubling incidents
and positions that are difficult to square with her newfound radical antiracist stance. She
supported her husband and Joe Biden's
1994 Crime Bill that led to an explosion in mass incarceration across the country.
Feature photo: Pelosi and other members of Congress, kneel at the Capitol's Emancipation Hall, June 8,
2020, on Capitol Hill. Manuel Balce Ceneta | AP
...The scoundrels giving lip service to change but are committed to business as usual and they co-opt the language and imagery
of the movement to do it.
Seattle's so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) has begun reparations, as white
members of the fledgling sovereignty were asked on Friday night to give at least one black
person $10 before leaving the area.
"I want you to find, by the time you leave this autonomous zone, I want you to give ten
dollars to one African American person from this autonomous zone . And if you find that's
difficult - if you find it's hard for you to give ten dollars to people of color, to black
people expecially [sic], you have to think really critically about - in the future, are you
going to actually give up power and land and capital when you have it?
If you have a hard time giving up ten dollars, you have to think about: are you really
down with this struggle? Are you really down with the movement? Because if that is a
challenge for you, I'm not sure if you're in the right place.
So find an African American person. White people, I see you. I see every one of you, and I
remember your faces. You find that African American person and you give them ten dollars.
Cash up, venmo, ten dollars in your pocket. That's my challenge to you. Do it. "
I wonder how many just sent a text: "Hey mom & dad, can I borrow $10?"
It happened late Saturday following the deadly Friday night shooting of a 27-year-old black
man, Rayshard Brooks, at a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta. As
we reported , Brooks, who had fallen asleep at the wheel at the Wendy's drive-thru, was shot
by an officer after he grabbed one of their Tasers and pointed it at them as he was running away.
He died later that evening at Grady Memorial Hospital.
So, the GloboCap-Resistance Minneapolis Putsch appears
to have not gone exactly to plan. Once again, Trump failed to go full-Hitler, despite their
best efforts to goad him into doing so. They gave it quite a good shot, however...
We already has something similar when in Soviet Russia chilred of of "non-proleatlian" and
"non-peasant" origin were distiminated against. History represts; firs as tragedy than as
farce.
Reproduced below is the illuminating and alarming letter, revealing
the lengths colleges are willing to go to satisfy the PC mob at a moment their very financial
survival is at stake.
* * *
"I received this poignant letter from a reader, who signed it with their real name, and
institutional affiliation,"
introduced columnist Rod Dreher .
The hour is later than you think.
I teach at a small liberal arts college in the southern Appalachian mountains. We serve
primarily poor black, white, and brown kids. 65% of them are first generation college
students (like me) and hail from some of the worst poverty anywhere in the country. We are
enrollment driven, funding is always an issue, but I think we make a difference.
Instead of figuring out how we are going to deal with a second wave of coronavirus , or
how to replace international students who shore up enrollment while getting to play sports
they love (and enriching a fairly cornbread corner of America) and may not come back after
the pandemic, or the myriad other problems big and small that plague us, we are putting
together a "social justice initiative" whose purpose as yet remains vague .
A general call went out to everyone. If you join, you'll be expected to trumpet a
hard-Left reading of woke ideology. If you refuse well "silence is violence." One proposal,
made without irony, was to invite the community to campus to tell them how their whiteness
makes them privileged and also racist. Mercifully, sanity reigned and the proposal foundered
on the rocks of "we don't think poor white people from Appalachia will be persuaded, and will
likely resent being told their lives are somehow privileged ." But it won't stop.
If you just want to teach, scratch out a living and make a difference, hoping the furies
will forget about you: you are wrong. I took this job on purpose, praying to bring something
of the liberal arts to my own people. And just be left alone, and yet here we are.
Feel free to share my story, if you like, but please do keep my name off the web. I still
have to figure out how to stay true to my beliefs and pay my mortgage.
It seems that a day has indeed come when the courage of men failed, and we have forsaken
our friends and broke all bonds of fellowship. You know what comes next? "An hour of wolves
and shattered shields " It is here.
@Ashino Wolf Sushanti As far as I know BLM is also dead silent on the black slave markets
care of Obama and the EU in Libya.
There are also stories that money contributed to BLM will end up going to the DNC.
This is looking like another 1960's type insurrection that will end up the same way: it
will be used by the rich and powerful elites (notice how the corporate controlled media has
gone on one knee for BLM and has gone outright anti-white?), there will be a back lash that
will crush it (right after the election), and its leaders will be either absorbed into the
establishment or offed.
America looks like a hybrid of Stephen King, Brave New World, and 1984, and the rich and
powerful US elites and intel agencies stroke it and love it. Notice that the US super rich
have been raking it in since January 2020? While at the same time Trump is busy making the US
a vassal state of Israel and accelerating the roll-out of Cold War v2 which is just fine with
US elites that will not change with the election of moron Biden (if the people elect Biden
they are electing his VP as Biden will not last long; he is a lot like Yeltsin that was
pumped up on mental stimulants and nutriments to perform for short periods until the next
treatment). What a country, what a ship of fools.
You Don't Wanna Vote for Me? Tough Luck, Kiddo. I Don't Need Your Freaking Vote. Go Ahead,
Make My Day. Vote for Trump. Are You Out of Your Friggin' Melon? So, No, I'm Not Perfect. But
Neither Are You. Now There's a Friggin' Pandemic, and If You Haven't Heard, It's Coming for the
Olds. My Friend Carl and I Will Take the Pandemic Out Back Behind the Schoolyard and Give It a
Little Boom Boom Boom and That'll Be the Last You Hear of That. They Didn't Call Me Joe Steel
Hands for Freaking Nothing. It's Because I Beat Up All the Little Chumps! How's That for a
Slogan? Joe Biden: Beats Up Chumps. I Love It. Now Get Outta My House, I Gotta Take a Whiz. So,
Yeah, Vote for Joe. You're So Friggin' Welcome.
A Return to Slightly Less Bad. Endorsed by Obama -- Remember Him? Actually, Let's Not Talk
About Policies
...It's Been My Turn for a While Now ...Not Racist Recently
Shoot from the Hip, Aim for the Leg. Tired of New Things
Not Me Too, Us. Old, but Also, White. Actually, Let's Not Talk About Me at All
... Putting the "er" in "America" Written by The New Yorker Staff
I really love reading about who the next US president will be. Such a grand horse(shit) race.
Who is ahead? Who is bee-hind? Percentages, percentages. Polls, polls. Oh, will they ever --
fill in the blank here? And, then, she said, he said.
You're just pissed that it's NOT YOU whom S(elects) the next president. As if it ever
was.
Get over the presidential elections. It's a running jobs program. Everybody gets paid.
The talking heads on the TV, get paid. Photographers, get paid. The bus drivers, get paid.
The carpenters setting up the podiums, get paid. The electricians, get paid. The political
consultants, get paid. See where I'm going with this?
People really have a wrong idea about democracy. I won't be the one to define it for
them.
Could someone tell me what BLM is? At their website, twitter account, Instagram, local
chapter it looks like pure corporatespeak. Language of cubicle rats. Have always assumed it
was all about white people and making white people feel good while relieving them of some
coin. Yet everyone seems to speak about them as if there was some there there. When speaker X
and speaker Y say "BLM" it is never clear to me they are talking about same thing.
As the month of May winds down, many parts of the US are in varying degrees of relaxation from lockdown, compared
with a month ago. Once again, I'd like to highlight some unusual or quirky consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic,
along the lines of my earlier piece, "
11
Bizarre Consequences Of The COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
."
Again, I don't wish to minimize the serious impact the pandemic has caused for many people around the world.
On May 12, 2020, New York City announced they had
set a new record
of 58 consecutive days with no pedestrian deaths due to fatal collisions with motor vehicles.
On the other hand, some health experts also noted that fewer traffic-related deaths has also resulted in
fewer organ transplant surgeries
, because of fewer donors. (For the record, all other things being equal, I'm
glad when there are fewer traffic fatalities.)
The pandemic has also created new jobs that didn't exist before. Reporter Megan Moltini explains the training
she received at a
coronavirus contact tracing academy
.
Similarly, Hershey has noticed a drastic
drop in sales of breath mints and gum
, as people no longer worry about bad breath with fewer in-person social
gatherings.
Sports venues are trying to find creative ways to recreate the feel of a live audience without risking spread
of virus, for example:
The article wryly notes, "The app does not, as yet, allow fans to question the referee's eyesight, or the
eating habits of players who struggled to stay match-fit during the league's virus-enforced break."
A well-known restaurant, The Inn at Little Washington in Virginia, will
seat mannequins at empty table
to help make the restaurant feel more lively while still allowing patrons to
dine-in at mandated social distances. (I'd like to humbly suggest they consider occasional theme nights, such as
Star Wars
or
Star Trek
costumed mannequins.)
We're not out of the woods yet with respect to Covid-19. But I am encouraged by some early partial returns to
pre-pandemic life. Stay safe, everyone!
Check out my
website
.
signed
by President Donald Trump in March established the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) with $349
billion in funding for forgivable loans. After the initial capital ran
out in just 13 days , lawmakers approved $310 billion more -- though over $130 billion of
that amount was still left
as of Tuesday.
Although, as the Washington Post
reported , the Small Business Administration (SBA) "typically discloses names of borrowers
from the loan program" on which the PPP is based, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified
to the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship that he won't be following that
model for the Covid-19 program, despite
concerns about which companies are benefiting from it.
I wonder where Mnuchin would be if Kamala Harris had followed the unanimous advice of her
staff when she was California's Attorney General and pursued One West Bank and Stevie boy for
illegally foreclosing on 30,000 California Home Owners?
Surprise, surprise. The Trump/Kim Jong-un love affair was about as long as one of Elizabeth
Taylor's romances. Kim Jong-un wrote him beautiful letters and they fell in love, yet just as
quickly they fell out of love. That's the way it is with Trump. He's a male version of
Elizabeth Taylor. Melania was smart to renegotiate her prenup. It appears Kim Jong-un
neglected to insist on a prenup.
Since this nothing-burger appears to have kicked off with an article in the NYT, it looks to
me as though someone reminded The Swamp that Iran hasn't been disarmed and is thus not the
kind of soft target that can be pushed around with impunity by AmeriKKKa. Imo, Iran is a lot
closer to the top of the Military Genius pecking order than AmeriKKKa. i.e. Iran has made it
quite clear that "Israel" will cop the blowback if Iran is attacked, and has also
demonstrated its ability to conduct high-precision strikes on US bases & bunkers in the
region. Iran is also quite good at swapping insults with AmeriKKKa and Iran's insults are
usually funnier than AmeriKKKa's...
Threatening North Korea probably seemed like a better/safer idea than threatening Iran but
only until China's diplomatic comedians start ripping into AmeriKKKa's loud-mouthed dorks and
daydreamers.
Using bigoted sheeple as a ram was successfully tried many times in history. Nothing new here. That only lesson from history
is that the main victim are not necessary defeated oligarchic group, which lost power, but always the sheeple.
And the net affect is not necessary in favor of neoliberal Demc (Clinton wing of Dem party represented by Creepy Joe in
forthcoming elections). Those guys who initiated this mess did not predict how many votes they now gave to
Trump...
Notable quotes:
"... Idiocracy is perhaps the best movie ever made... ..."
As with allmost everything that occurs as a university, the purpose of the commencement
speech is not to provide a service to the students, but to make the institution's faculty and
staff feel important...
...It should be noted that most students who attend commencement ceremonies couldn't care
less who the celebrity speaker is. Most of them are there because they like the ritualistic
aspects of it, and virtually no one remembers what is said at commencement speeches in any
case.
The fact that most students (i.e., paying customers) just want to "feel graduated" by going
to these ceremonies should be a tip to the faculty that speakers should be non-controversial.
But, because these administrators want attention and influence, they often insist on bringing
in controversial political figures and causing even more grief for their customers, as if four
years of over-priced classes and social conditioning wasn't enough.
The fact colleges and universities couldn't care less about the people who pay the bills was
reinforced all the more this year when most universities shut down as a result of the COVID-19
panic. Most higher education institutions insisted on charging students full price even though
"college" was reduced to series of Zoom meetings and online assignments. Obviously, that's not
what most students paid for. College administrators, of course, were adamant that the students
keep paying through the nose for services not rendered
...
Fortunately, some of the more intelligent university trustees have already done away
with it altogether. Cep notes:
As Jason Song of The Los Angeles Times noticed, current Washington and Lee President
Kenneth Ruscio explained in 2009: "The wise and fiscally prudent Board determined that in
future years our graduates and families should rest easy knowing that if they had to endure a
worthless Commencement address, it would at least be inexpensive," meaning the president
gives the only speech.
Tennessee Patriot , 4 minutes ago
Best example I ever heard of describing a graduation ceremony:
Imagine you are sitting there in the hot sun, wrapped in a shower curtain, listening to
someone read a NYC Phone book for 3 hours.
I had to do that for HS, two Bachelor's Degrees, a Masters, two daughters & two out of
7 Grandbabies.
No thanks. Highly overrated ********. If it was up to me, they can mail it to me and lets
go straight to the party afterwards.
Handful of Dust , 1 hour ago
" I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and
clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
Joe Biden, referring to the Kenyan at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary
campaign, Jan. 31, 2007.
"He's like magic. Some day they'll be calling him The Magic *****!"
Yen Cross , 1 hour ago
The longer these kids are away from their indoctrination camps, the better.
Bear , 1 hour ago
"As many colleges struggle with tight budgets" ... what a crook, they have so much money
they can pay their professors 250,000 to toe the line and they a support staff of thousands
... America's most corrup institution (after the FED)
General Flynn needs to sue for all the money he spent defending himself for this scam. Yet
we had liar Adam Schiff lie daily nothing happens to that loser.
This is another reason I dislike Obama so much; he has deceived the American public with
his alleged good intentions to only want to take more rights away from us citizens!
Too bad, but # blacklivesmatter per
its core organization @ Blklivesmatter just torpedoed itself,
with its full-fledged support of # defundthepolice
: "We call for a national defunding of police." Suuuure. They knew this is non-starter, and tried a sensible Orwell 1984
of saying,
Uhlig now faces a social media campaign, led by a prominent University of Michigan economist, to get him booted as editor of the
Journal of Political Economy . Here is another leader of the professional lynch mob:
I am calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig ( @ haralduhlig
) as the editor of the Journal of Political Economy. If you would like to add your name to this call, it is posted at
https:// forms.gle/9uiJVqCAXBDBg6 8N9 . It will be delivered by end of
day 6/10 (tomorrow).
To: The editors of the Journal of Political Economy and President of The University of Chicago Press We, the undersigned,
call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara...
There has been a rash of firings of editors this week. One interesting thing - judging by the publications listed and by the
cringing, groveling apologies given by these editors, they are liberals who are being eaten by up-and-coming radicals. It's like
the liberals had no idea what hit them.
I used to worry the future would be like "1984". Then the Soviet Union fell, things seemed OK tor awhile. After 9/11, I worried
the future would be like "Khartoum". But now, it looks like it is going to be a weird combination of "Invasion of the Body-Snatchers"
and "Planet of the Apes".
Now seeing reports on Twitter that the Seattle Autonomous Zone now has its first warlord. America truly is a diverse place.
You have hippie communes, religious sects, semi-autonomous Indian reservations, a gerontocracy in Washington, and now your very
own Africa style fiefdom complete with warlord.
I really am sorry. This must be so depressing to watch as an American.
Arizona State journalism school retracts offer to new dean because of an "insensitive" tweets and comments - by insensitive
we mean, not sufficiently zealous and not hip to the full-spectrum wokeness. Online student petitions follow, and you know the
rest of the story.
This is madness. The true late stages of a revolution where they start eating their own.
Those tweets above (and countless others like them) just demonstrate the absolute intellectual and moral rot that now reigns
in academia. I saw one yesterday by an attorney for a prominent activist organization who said he couldn't understand why the
Constitution isn't interpreted as "requiring" the demolition of the Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia, and others like it. I'm
having a harder time understanding how he ever graduated from an accredited law school.
Forget "defund the police," perhaps "defund universities" would be the best place to start healing what ails contemporary culture.
The rot started there, not only with the "anti-racist" (as opposed to "mere" non-racism) cant, it with gender ideology (Judith
Butler), Cultural Marxism, etc. When "pc" first became a common term in the early '90s I thought it passing fad. We now see the
result of the decades long radical march through the institutions bearing fruit, and it's more strange and rotten fruit than ever.
Woke leftists are the people who believe in the myth of aggregate Black intellectual parity with Whites and Asians the least.
That's why they constantly do absolutely everything in their power to juke the statistics, like allowing Black students to not
have to take exams, which is really just an extension of this same principle at work in "affirmative action."
The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the Khmer Rouge--100,000,000 people were murdered
in the name of extreme egalitarianism across the 20th century. When leftism gets out of control, tragedy happens.
I have no idea why you believe hard totalitarian methods aren't coming. I'm not sure what the answer is. We can expect no help
from the Republican party. That much is certain. A disturbing number of people have not yet awoken from their dogmatic slumber.
Who is Amy Siskind going to call to arrest Tucker Carlson and bring him to a tribunal? The defunded police?
It seems to me that the left has gone about this bassackwards. First you ashcan the Second Amendment, THEN you take away their
First Amendment Rights. You most certainly do not go around silencing people with political correctness, then go around announcing
your intention to kulak an entire group of very well-armed people. But that's just my opinion...
Rod, I disagree that a "soft totalitarianism" is what awaits us if these barbarians are allowed to run around unopposed. The
notion of human rights is a product of the religion they despise, so I see no reason why they would respect this ideal when dealing
with vile white wreckers of the multi-cultural utopia they have envisioned.
"... As for what happens in the CHAZ without police, it seems – judging from videos posted on social media and Reddit threads at least – that a certain Seattle native by the name of Raz Simone and his "crew" have made themselves arbiters of order. Apparently, they don't seem to believe in nonviolence or freedom of artistic expression, either. ..."
Activists who established a commune around an abandoned police precinct in Seattle are
finding out the hard way it's not easy to run a revolution, dealing with food supply issues,
internal squabbling and even a wannabe strongman.
...One particular activist – who has since made her tweets private – allegedly
lamented that "homeless people took away all the food" and appealed to sympathizers to
bring "vegan meat substitutes, fruits, oats, soy" to replenish the CHAZ pantry.
...As for what happens in the CHAZ without police, it seems – judging from videos
posted on social media and Reddit threads at least –
that a certain Seattle native by the name of Raz Simone and his "crew" have made
themselves arbiters of order. Apparently, they don't seem to believe in nonviolence or freedom
of artistic expression, either.
...One major thing the "Zoners" have managed to accomplish so far is to de-legitimize
the current city and even state government, both run by Democrats, which have done absolutely
nothing to reassert their authority over the occupied area.
Major Travis Yates of Tulsa, Oklahoma is refusing to apologize and rejects accusations of
racism, saying he was quoting research and not his personal opinion in a radio show
appearance.
The anti-Trump Utah congressman was spotted at a protest march in Washington DC on Sunday. Romney later tweeted a protest selfie
with the caption "
Black
Lives Matter.
"
Some merely rolled their eyes at the short memories of those currently embracing the newly-minted anti-racism campaigner.
Mitt Romney, who was labelled a Nazi when he ran for POTUS in 2012, posted a Tweet and took a short walk in
2020. He is now receiving fawning media coverage.
From this evolution we are told to conclude that it's BRAVE to join the protesters.
A friendly reminder that everyone who loves Mitt Romney today called him racist when he ran for President, and will do so
again if and when he runs again.
It funny how a wolf in a sheep clothing blend in with the flock of brain washed protesters.
Inyourear
8 June, 2020
The Empire/Oligarchy tells its pawns/puppets/shills/slaves to do what it needs them to do; so no wonder they can all be
together no matter what was previously said.
The mask problem in the USA has a much simpler origin: the USA simply don't have the means to
give masks for everyone anymore. It is heavily deindustrialized.
The CDC actually advised against wearing masks until April 6, even though there were studies
showing that some types of home-made masks were 70% effective against molecules the size of
Corona. N95 were found to be 95% effective.
If journalists are worried about Covid-19 all over again, why don't they ask their beloved
Fauci why he didn't tell the rioters and looters to wear a face mask or "social distance"
during last week when they were all outside running amok and spreading Covid-19?
But he suddenly pops up this week and the fear mongering starts again... and the feeble
fall in line again lol
Anyway. Maybe Dr Fauci will give a press conference next week dressed in Kente
clothing....
I swear 2020 is like we are living in a simulation lol
Did the Anglo-Saxon era really exist? Expert claims Germans never 'invaded' Britain and
the Romans continued to influence English language, religion and culture long after the fall
of the Empire in 410AD
"... It is true that there's a difference between Democrats and Republicans, in the same sense that there's a difference between the jab and the cross in boxing. The jab is often used to keep an opponent at bay and set up the more damaging cross, but they're both wielded by the same boxer, and they're both punching you in the face. ..."
It is true that there's a difference between Democrats and Republicans, in the same
sense that there's a difference between the jab and the cross in boxing. The jab is often used
to keep an opponent at bay and set up the more damaging cross, but they're both wielded by the
same boxer, and they're both punching you in the face.
Here we go again -- another round in which a mob of mostly white
Antifa young people take it upon themselves to "purge" any and all historical statues and
monuments they deem "offensive" to their extremist ideology.
The "riots" and "protests" have been hi-jacked by neoliberal MSM to suit the next US
elections outcome. Probably to "purge" the public face of D. Trump, as it was deemed not
representative to the elite cause, and some embedded authors and actors that are not blindly
trusting and executing the policy directives of the one party elites.
" .a white president and a black president both signed off on drone attacks "
Who was this "black president"? I'm only aware of Nobel Peace Prize "winner", destroyer of
Libya, sponsor of jihadis in Syria and Nazis in Ukraine, genocidaire of Yemenis, and mass
murderer extraordinaire Barack Hussein Obama, who, if being the child of a black father makes
him "half-black", is, from being the child of a white mother, equally "half-white".
@Realist
@Corona, all towed the line. They(elites de facto, and globally) succeeded admiringly, and
globally in suppressing to a dumb-down of the surplus populations. When the loot was safe for
Deep State, the infighting could resume.
To consider though as for the long-term significance and quality of Deep State policies.
They mise quite low as to the public (pro-wrestling), communication. Makes them look as
clowns to some of the outer US(Russia, China, Europe). This might also loose the credibility
of part of the middle class that is now depressed into the outer remuneration and opportunity
circle of oligarchic off-spring. It could birth a second and third Assange
Problem here that the George Floyd protestors/rioters are a happy counter-cultural mix
of SJW, young blacks and young whites – impossible to portray them as the white power
KKK.
Same way that the Polish communist government couldn't effectively attack the Solidarity
worker's uprising. Government propaganda was designed to attack capitalists, exploiters of
the working class etc. which didn't make any sense against shipyard workers.
Odds are that 90% of those crying to defund the police are not tax payers. Mostly college
aged kids and thugs. The other 10% are kooks and politicians pandering for votes.
@PetrOldSack
I do think that a key demand of BlackLives Matter, which is to "defund" the police, is
eminently sane and doable. It can be accomplished very easily by police not entering black
neighborhoods at all, and the money saved could used to bolster policing in non-black
neighborhoods.
On the same broad issue, how appropriate that Mr. George Floyd was given a state-level
funeral. What better poster person for black folks than a convicted drug abuser and former
felon.
Isn't one of the "Rules for Radicals" to make your enemy live up to his own standards?
If the right was thinking strategically they would be demanding that any Karen or white or
(((white))) man in any important position be replaced, immediately, by a black. And not just
any black, but a Stacy Abrams type. And why isn't there Section 8 housing in Beverly
Hills?
@Ris_Eruwaedhiel I
know they're hypocrites and secretly think the same things about blacks that most people here
do, but that's not the point.
Why not publicly force them to accept these things, so that any refusal would come
across as racist? We've seen this in Minneapolis where the SJW mayor was booed out of a rally
for refusing to disband the police. In Toronto, a feminist activist was nearly torn to pieces
by a howling mob for saying that trans women aren't real women.
Force them to accept and implement the ideas of their most radical allies.
But we got a problem. The insurrection, so far purely emotional, has yielded no
political structure and no credible leader to articulate myriad, complex grievances.
That's where you are oh-so-wrong, sir! This time, we've got Nike and Target to lead the
revolution. (Revo-loot-ion?) :-)
Sinclair Lewis (who did not say that, "when fascism comes to America, it will come
wrapped in the flag and waving the cross") actually wrote, in It Can't Happen Here (1935),
that American fascists would be those "who disowned the word 'fascism' and preached
enslavement to capitalism under the style of constitutional and traditional native American
liberty."
Personally, I prefer Huey Long's version: 'When fascism comes to America, it'll be called
anti-fascism.'
Instinctively at least, although in an inchoate manner, millions of Americans clearly
see how, since Reaganism, the whole game is about an oligarchy/plutocracy weaponizing white
supremacism for political power goals, with the extra bonus of a steady, massive, upwards
transfer of wealth.
So when cops, mayors and guardsmen kneel before Black rioters, how exactly is that "White
supremacy"? And by the way, where are all these "Boogaloo Bois" that liberals keep talking
about? The only White people I see participating in these riots are cops and Antifa. Am I
looking in the wrong place? Help me.
Every protest group is infiltrated, ~1/6 with snitches and provocateurs. The protests are
managed. And have been since before the Chicago riots of 1968. The American experiment
continues, it's all controlled and managed.
When one political party completely, publicly, capitulates to a microcephalic mob
financed and guided by a Jewish financier, well, that's semi-shocking.
[What is shocking is that] ...Every dollar lost to small and medium businesses can be found
in Amazon's coffers, and that's an unimaginable amount of mazuma.
@Malla I have lived
in Africa. I could be wrong but I doubt any African country (except the Congo, Liberia and
Sierra Leone) want any American blacks low, middle or upper class.
On the other side of the coin no ghetto black is going to leave the comfort of the
projects to live in a slum 14 to a shack with an outdoor toilet and community water if that
even exists.
The middle class and upper class blacks also are not going to venture into the dark
continent. My experience is that African blacks have no use for Afro Americans. Further in
any of the African countries what with such intense tribal affiliation which tribe will the
Afro American belong to ?
What my experience has been is that a few, notice I said a FEW, will visit, never visit a
slum area where they are liable to be robbed by their Bros, put on T-shirts that say Ghana/
South Africa or whatever and fly back to the States. "Hey Bro, I was there in Africa, bonding
with my roots and my ancestral brothers" they bray to the applause of their bored listeners
in the US.
These folks, from whatever class, talk up the Africa roots thing but go back there ? Give
up their subsidized housing, food stamps, welfare and so on here ? I dont think so.
The Council is management, and the police are the workers. So the author is siding with
management. When is that ever the right thing to do?
Ironically, this whole 'defund the police' meme is a stalking horse for the privatization of
law enforcement, which has been a libertarian dream for decades.
"We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. And when we're done, we're not
simply gonna glue it back together. We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public
safety and emergency response. It's really past due."
City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, shares Bender's views on defunding the police
department and issued the following incendiary statement on Sunday: "We are going to dismantle
the Minneapolis Police Department. And when we're done, we're not simply gonna glue it back
together. We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency
response. It's really past due."
... In other words, the Minneapolis city council is conducting a controlled experiment in
which public safety is the designated lab-rat.
The anecdote that captured the psychic angst of the present moment: "I am panicking because
other people are panicking". When asked why his shopping cart was stacked with toilet paper.
Let's not forget the evil Russians in our bathrooms hysteria.
It seems that hysteria is the business model of our media enterprises who have now been
successfully consolidated into a handful. Add in social media and any rumor can be
amplified.
As an octogenarian too, I have noticed that Americans have become progressively much more
easily frightened. Of course I remember the fear that led to the left's god FDR interning
Japanese-Americans just because of their ethnic heritage. I knew some of them as they went to
school with me. They knew very little about Japan except what we all learned at school. I
recall both my Dad and my grandpa saying one day it would be any of us. My grandpa was
labeled a traitor for publicly speaking out against that. We're there now with the
surveillance state. I would recommend this interview and her book.
We should not forget that market consolidation and the growth in mass surveillance by both
mega-corporations and the state is a bi-partisan affair. Both the left & right want it to
serve their own purposes. It is only an ever shrinking minority remaining that wants sound
money, a truly competitive market economy, limited government that acts as a referee and
liberty over safety.
Anybody somewhere somehow does realize this absurdity? ... criminal dies during executing
his usual criminal activities.
Than MSM makes from this criminal the holiest of holy martyr. To whom we should all fall
on our knees. Did the all people of the earth suddenly become totally insane?
The contemporary geographical West bears almost nothing of classical Western culture.
Another good example is that classical Greco-Roman beauty standards opposes almost all kinds
of body modification and mutilations, like tattoos, piercings, scarification, circumcision,
etc. Many of these, especially the first two, became predominant in the last 3 decades.
Very true. Tattoos, piercings and scarification were deemed the sign of a criminal or a
barbarian in the Greco-Roman world. They valued the athletic body as it was and saw no need
to disfigure it. That is why they had such a hard time accepting circumcision.
nothing prevents mass deportations. if whites can be forced out of South Africa for
historical reasons, then by the same logic blacks can be forced out of European countries,
Russia and China. this thing cuts both ways
In subtractive colour mixing, the combination of all colour revolutions that came before
it results in black. In additive colour mixing, you get white.
BLM does not matter one bit. What you're witnessing here is a classic by-the-book Color
Revolution. Look at the analogies with Ukrainian EuroMaydan: is used Western Ukrainians as a ram;
here Afro Americans and assorted groups of anarchists/Maoists like antifa are used.
What is interesting is young whites are probably the majority is many protests. Are they all
unemployed or what? Or are they social media addicts and view this as the latest viral event that
they want to participate in
The latest "saint" in this religion was a highly flawed human
being , to put it charitably. Career criminal, drug dealer, someone who threatened a
pregnant woman with a gun during a robbery and then testified against his "colleagues" in
exchange for a lighter sentence
We resent a little the protesters in our town, mostly young women in the local teacher
training University who marched and held several noisy demonstrations with their ONE token
Black person, the only one they could find, I assume.
"... How much of this is virtue signalling by Mitt Romney and others of the elite? Is he willing to disgorge himself of the the hundreds of millions he took from Americans through his company Bain? ..."
These far right social conservatives lost yesterday and they don't even realize it. Mitt
Romney marched with BLM. Mitt is no radical on social issues (he certainly is on. Taxes on
the rich) you won't convince a single one of these hard right wing people that systemic
racism is real, even when you give examples like the North Carolina Republican Party
disenfranchising blacks "with surgical precision" or the direct evidence of the commenter
Dukeboy who states he is a retired police officer and is obviously a white supremacists. But
you don't need to convince them of anything. This is the same group who would have been
against the civil rights protests in the '60's. They aren't needed to create a massive
change.
The hubris to think that your feelings of guilt would be meaningful to black people is off
the charts.
"My local school has been underfunded for generations due to the property tax funding system
and redlining but Karen feels bad about it so all is right with the world!"-Said no black
person ever.
How much of this is virtue signalling by Mitt Romney and others of the elite? Is he
willing to disgorge himself of the the hundreds of millions he took from Americans through
his company Bain?
How much? 100% of it. Romney is a vicious corporate raider who has destroyed countless
jobs and by extension, lives. How many suicides have followed in the wake of Bain's corporate
takeovers? When Romney lived in Belmont, MA, he and his wife petitioned the town to not allow
ambulances to go down their street with sirens on. Seriously.
Digging behind that statistic has shown that blacks break traffic laws much more than
other races, thus making the likelihood of being pulled over higher. Traffic cameras have
supported this disparity. Do you consider traffic cameras to be racist?
What a stupid argument. If cops don't ticket you, your traffic law breaking isn't counted
even if you did break a law. You people are beyond ridiculous.
It's a stupid comment because the data isn't complete by definition. Cops use discretion
on charging people with crimes. This "data" isn't being collected for research purposes. Cops
let all kinds of people off the hook for breaking the law and they are more likely to let
white people off for these kinds of crimes. Anyone who has been to a wealthy white high
school knows that under age drinking and drug use happens along with high school parties
being broken up by cops.
A UCLA
professor has been placed on leave after refusing to give black students preferential grades in
the aftermath of George Floyd's killing. The college said his Martin Luther King-inspired
attitude to race was "troubling."
"When the Trump administration simultaneously picks a fight with all its potential
adversaries while also telling all of its potential allies to go to hell..."
Another bombshell! The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have been caught
red-handed publishing completely fabricated, fraudulent data in a study that claims
hydroxychloroquine was dangerous.
The data came from a fake company that's a front for fabricated data, run by a science
fiction writer and an adult content person, none of whom have any experience in real science.
The whole thing was made up!...
@another fred "A Napoleon (or Putin?) will arise and be supported. I would not be
surprised if a fair amount of dying occurs in the transition."
If you are into historical analogies, I would propose that Trump is America's Kerensky (a
complete traitor who poses as moderate). Things will get ugly when America's Trotsky arises
(perhaps Ocasio-Cortez). The stabilizing figure would then be a Stalin-like figure (to be
named in the future). This course will draw out over a decade or so. And white genocide is
clearly on the political agenda.
But historical analogies have only a limited value, of course. And technological progress
and widespread dysgenic demographic change and cultural degeneracy have changed the political
landscape too much to make good predictions.
Dont give up on our Elites Saker. If Biden wins, we will take out Assad, stir up Ukraine for
real, have 5 carrier groups around Hong Kong, have Myanmar, Vietnam, and Tibet riled up
against China, be arming the Uyghurs, be making ridulous promises to India, the Baltics,
Poland, and Finland in exchange for "places to put nuclear bases" and taking out Maduro in
Venuzeula. That will be in his first two years before the midterms. Gotta act fast Saker, his
alzheimers will really be making the window small by then. After Biden is elected, Antifa
will be told to quit it, and all the embarrasing stuff about George Floyd (the felonies, the
porn actor stuff, the assault on women, the fentanyl and meth intoxication) will come out to
make BLM self conscious for an election cycle. This latest studf is just to topple Drumpf
like that Lee statue in Virginia. They'll muffle it.
As far as I can tell American Foreign Policy is pretty well mirrored by its domestic policy.
How many countries have the US Knee on their neck. And usually with zero evidence of any
wrongdoing by the suffocating country except trumped up lies and allegations.
But for Donald Trump's enemies, there is nothing else. Everything is about Trump.
Everything.
Donald Trump defines their friendships, their careers, their marriages. Donald Trump affects
how they raise their children. Trump occupies the very center of their lives. As long as Donald
Trump remains in the White House. They feel powerless and diminished and panicked. So they
cannot be happy.
In everything they do, their overriding goal is to remove Donald Trump from office. And
that's exactly what they're trying to do now. That's what these riots are about. The most
privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize power from
everyone else.
Got that? That's the nub of it. The most privileged are using the most desperate to seize
power from the rest of us. They are not seeking racial justice. If they were seeking racial
justice, they wouldn't be denouncing their fellow Americans for their race, which they are. It
has nothing to do with it.
What they are seeking is total control of the country. And it goes without saying that none
of this has anything to do with George Floyd . Shame on those who
pretended that it did -- those who fell for the lie and those who knew better but played along
because they are cowards. There are many of those. You know who they are, and someday we will
look back on all of them with contempt.
American libs mocked evangelicals for keeping their churches open, then tossed aside all their social distancing dogmas as soon as
they threatened
their
religion
of #BlackLivesMatters.
In fairness, one can still find the occasional
true
atheist
– perhaps surprisingly, New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern, who heads one of the few Western polities to have successfully suppressed the
coronavirus epidemics, is one of them.
American libs mocked evangelicals for keeping their churches open, then tossed aside all their social distancing
dogmas as soon as they threatened THEIR religion - the Cult of the Magical Negro.
Lisa Page, the former FBI lawyer who resigned in the midst of the Russian investigation
scandal, has been hired a NBC and MSNBC as a legal analyst.
The move continues a trend started
by CNN in hiring Trump critics, including officials terminated for misconduct, to offer legal
analysis on the Trump Administration.
We have previously discussed the use by CNN of figures like Andrew McCabe to give legal
analysis despite his being referred for possible criminal charges by the Inspector General for
repeatedly lying to federal investigators.
The media appears intent on fulfilling the narrative
of President Trump that it is overly biased and hostile in its analysis. Indeed, it now appears
a marketing plan that has subsumed the journalistic mission.
Patmos, 4 minutes ago
Lisa Page Hired By NBC And MSNBC As Legal Analyst
What next? CNBC hires Bernie Madoff as a financial analyst?
Come on man.swarmy prose. Someone else called it doggerel
Swarmy doggerel sounds like the name of someone's aunty from Lahore. Surely you cannot be
that stupid to not realize that the Floyd tragedy is a direct reflection of a broken
system.
"When President Reagan imposed limited economic sanctions this week against South Africa, he
was responding in part to a broad anti-apartheid protest movement in this country that barely
existed 10 months ago.
The protest movement was inspired by a group of black activists whose focus is foreign
policy rather than the traditional black civil rights agenda. The movement has also been
embraced by a new generation of students often branded too apathetic to be stirred by social
causes and it has won support from a band of young Republican conservatives who see the
apartheid issue as an important opportunity to strike a new tone for their party."
Young Republican conservatives
Oh man the karma,oh man the irony.
Old Jewish saying. Son,if you make a deal with the devil make sure you get 20% off
retail.
Well it sure did in Contra Costa County, CA. Maybe it's something in the true blue Bay
Area air, but the mere act of protesting (presumably specific to Trump) is a whole 8 times
safer than just socializing in a group. They don't say how many people can safely riot
together.
"We do not need to militarize our response to protests," Mattis says. "We need to
unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal
before the law." - Gen Mattis
WTF? Over
Call sign should be altered from "Mad Dog" to "Senile Dog" or "stupid dog", maybe
"crooked dog"?
Sir, seriously, what is wrong with Mattis, Kelly, Esper, Miller, et al. Do they really
want Washington DC in flames? The White House and other of our monuments and institutions
destroyed.? Do they not understand what the response would be from the millions of gun
owning patriots, many former and current military? Are they jockeying for a presidential
run and thus become squishy politicians? Part of a coup d'etat? Just plain stupid?
I truly don't get why they don't understand what the mob wants and that they cannot be
appeased by anything sensible. Maybe in there is an explanation of why we haven't won a
real war for a long time. Is this all wounded big egos on their part? What?
IMO, the radicals think they win either way. They march and destroy and are allowed to
do so, or they are gunned down and a "bad optic" is created, there are martyrs and their
cause grows. What the defenders need to know is that the radicals won't stop despite
appeasement and a civil war is in the making regardless. The defenders must do their duty
regardless of political consequences because the consequences they might fear are going to
occur anyhow.
Many of us are waiting in our communities and ready to do what we can if called
upon.
Read an interesting observation the other day on a different website:
"I asked a co-woker who grew up in a communist country the difference between here and
there. He says "Growing up in my country if you spoke bad of the government, one morning no
one sees you again. Over here you have every right to protest and speak bad of the
government but no one listens to you."
(A play on the great Soviet era joke, 'we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us'. I
wonder if there are going to be any consequences to the people outside the U.S. seeing us for
who we actually are vs the delusional self-image that we in the U.S. cling to.
Maybe we are a strong enough bully that we can forever coerce countries like Liberia into
doing our bidding. I understand that the French have an adage that states: The more things
change, the more they remain the same.
"D.C. Mayor Bowser has 'Black Lives Matter' painted on street leading to White House: The
act was intended to honor protesters who had peacefully assembled earlier this week."
No U.S. ambassador can now express concerns about police violence in a foreign country
without being laughed at.
Well, the massive movement of Yellow Vests and the French police atrocities against the
protesters did not stop the French authorities in all seriousness from expressing(!) concern
over the modest actions of the Russian police to pacify clownish and deliberately unrest in
the Russian capital during the local elections to the Moscow City Duma last year.
Many Western politicians have long had serious brain problems. It's the same as a pocket
thief who put his hand for money in a neighbor's cloak will advise you (or even demand) to
never steal. So I have no doubt that the US ambassadors will continue to express concern and
even demand(!) something from the authorities of other countries.
These ambassadors (and other officials) will not even understand how pathetic and funny
they look at the same time.
Tucker: "Is our nation being ripped apart by a total and complete lie, a provable lie? A lie
used by cynical media manipulators and unscrupulous politicians who understand that racial strife
-- race hatred -- is their path to power, even if it destroys the country."
Bakari Sellers, CNN political commentator: People worry about the protesters and the
looters. And it is just people who are frustrated.
Don Lemon, CNN anchor: They are frustrated, and they are angry, and they are out
there. And they're upset. You shouldn't be taking televisions, but I can't tell people how to
react to this.
Sen.
Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y.: I'm proud of the protests, and I think it is part of the
tradition of New York. The violence is bad, reprehensible, and it should be condemned, but it
is not the overwhelming picture in New York.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times: Destroying property which can be replaced is
not violence.
Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor Too many see the protests as the problem. Please, show me
where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
But for Donald Trump's enemies, there is nothing else. Everything is about Trump.
Everything.
Donald Trump defines their friendships, their careers, their marriages. Donald Trump affects
how they raise their children. Trump occupies the very center of their lives. As long as Donald
Trump remains in the White House. They feel powerless and diminished and panicked. So they
cannot be happy.
In everything they do, their overriding goal is to remove Donald Trump from office. And
that's exactly what they're trying to do now. That's what these riots are about. The most
privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize power from
everyone else.
Got that? That's the nub of it. The most privileged are using the most desperate to seize
power from the rest of us. They are not seeking racial justice. If they were seeking racial
justice, they wouldn't be denouncing their fellow Americans for their race, which they are. It
has nothing to do with it.
US President Donald Trump's first defense secretary, General Jim Mattis, is the new hero of
the Democrats, after he denounced Trump as a threat to the Constitution and compared him to the
Nazis.
Looks like the third stage of the Purple revolution against Trump, with Russiagate and
Ukrainegate and two initial stages.
Notable quotes:
"... Things couldn't be going better for the Resistance if they had scripted it themselves. Actually, they did kind of script it themselves. Not the murder of poor George Floyd, of course. Racist police have been murdering Black people for as long as there have been racist police. No, the Resistance didn't manufacture racism. They just spent the majority of the last four years creating and promoting an official narrative which casts most Americans as "white supremacists" who literally elected Hitler president, and who want to turn the country into a racist dictatorship. ..."
"... According to this official narrative, which has been relentlessly disseminated by the corporate media, the neoliberal intelligentsia, the culture industry, and countless hysterical, Trump-hating loonies, the Russians put Donald Trump in office with those DNC emails they never hacked and some division-sowing Facebook ads that supposedly hypnotized Black Americans into refusing to come out and vote for Clinton. Putin purportedly ordered this personally, as part of his plot to "destroy democracy." ..."
"... The protesting and rioting that typically follows the murder of an unarmed Black person by the cops has mushroomed into " an international uprising " cheered on by the corporate media, corporations, and the liberal establishment, who don't normally tend to support such uprisings, but they've all had a sudden change of heart, or spiritual or political awakening, and are down for some serious property damage, and looting, and preventative self-defense, if that's what it takes to bring about justice, and to restore America to the peaceful, prosperous, non-white-supremacist paradise it was until the Russians put Donald Trump in office. ..."
"... America is still a racist country, but America is no more racist today than it was when Barack Obama was president. A lot of American police are brutal, but no more brutal than when Obama was president. America didn't radically change the day Donald Trump was sworn into office. All that has changed is the official narrative. And it will change back as soon as Trump is gone and the ruling classes have no further use for it. ..."
underground
bunker ." Opportunist social media pundits on both sides of the political spectrum are
whipping people up into white-eyed frenzies. Americans are at each other's throats, divided by
identity politics, consumed by rage, hatred, and fear.
Things couldn't be going better for the Resistance if they had scripted it themselves.
Actually, they did kind of script it themselves. Not the murder of poor George Floyd, of
course. Racist police have been murdering Black people for as long as there have been racist
police. No, the Resistance didn't manufacture racism. They just spent the majority of the last
four years creating and promoting an official narrative which casts most Americans as "white
supremacists" who literally elected Hitler president, and who want to turn the country into a
racist dictatorship.
According to this official narrative, which has been relentlessly disseminated by the
corporate media, the neoliberal intelligentsia, the culture industry, and countless hysterical,
Trump-hating loonies, the Russians put Donald Trump in office with those DNC emails they never
hacked and some division-sowing Facebook ads that supposedly hypnotized Black Americans into
refusing to come out and vote for Clinton. Putin purportedly ordered this personally, as part
of his plot to "destroy democracy." The plan was always for President Hitler to embolden
his white-supremacist followers into launching the "RaHoWa," or the "Boogaloo," after which
Trump would declare martial law, dissolve the legislature, and pronounce himself Führer.
Then they would start rounding up and murdering the Jews, and the Blacks, and Mexicans, and
other minorities, according to this twisted liberal fantasy.
I've been covering the roll-out and dissemination of this official narrative since 2016, and
have documented much of it in my essays
, so I won't reiterate all that here. Let's just say, I'm not exaggerating, much. After four
years of more or less constant conditioning, millions of Americans believe this fairy tale,
despite the fact that there is absolutely zero evidence whatsoever to support it. Which is not
exactly a mystery or anything. It would be rather surprising if they didn't believe it. We're
talking about the most formidable official propaganda machine in the history of official
propaganda machines.
And now the propaganda is paying off. The protesting and rioting that typically follows
the murder of an unarmed Black person by the cops has mushroomed into "
an international uprising " cheered on by the corporate media, corporations, and the
liberal establishment, who don't normally tend to support such uprisings, but they've all had a
sudden change of heart, or spiritual or political awakening, and are down for some serious
property damage, and looting, and preventative self-defense, if that's what it takes to bring
about justice, and to restore America to the peaceful, prosperous, non-white-supremacist
paradise it was until the Russians put Donald Trump in office.
In any event, the Resistance media have now dropped their breathless coverage of the
non-existent Corona-Holocaust to breathlessly cover the "revolution." The American police, who
just last week were national heroes for risking their lives to beat up, arrest, and generally
intimidate mask-less "lockdown violators" are now the fascist foot soldiers of the Trumpian
Reich. The Nike corporation produced
a commercial urging people to smash the windows of their Nike stores and steal their
sneakers. Liberal journalists took to Twitter, calling on rioters to "
burn that shit down! " until the rioters reached their gated community and started burning
down their local Starbucks. Hollywood celebrities are masking up and going full-black bloc, and
doing legal support . Chelsea Clinton is teaching children about David and the Racist
Goliath . John Cusack's bicycle was
attacked by the pigs . I haven't checked on Rob Reiner yet, but I assume he is assembling
Molotov cocktails in the basement of a Resistance safe house somewhere in Hollywood Hills.
Look, I'm not saying the neoliberal Resistance orchestrated or staged these riots, or
"denying the agency" of the folks in the streets. Whatever else is happening out there, a lot
of very angry Black people are taking their frustration out on the cops, and on anyone and
anything else that represents racism and injustice to them.
This happens in America from time to time. America is still a racist society. Most
African-Americans are descended from slaves. Legal racial discrimination was not abolished
until the 1960s, which isn't that long ago in historical terms. I was born in the segregated
American South, with the segregated schools, and all the rest of it. I don't remember it -- I
was born in 1961 -- but I do remember the years right after it. The South didn't magically
change overnight in July of 1964. Nor did the North's variety of racism, which, yes, is
subtler, but no less racist.
So I have no illusions about racism in America. But I'm not really talking about racism in
America. I'm talking about how racism in America has been cynically instrumentalized, not by
the Russians, but by the so-called Resistance, in order to delegitimize Trump and, more
importantly, everyone who voted for him, as a bunch of white supremacists and racists.
Fomenting racial division has been the Resistance's strategy from the beginning. A quote
attributed to Joseph Goebbels, "accuse the other side of that which you are guilty," is
particularly apropos in this case. From the moment Trump won the Republican nomination, the
corporate media and the rest of the Resistance have been telling us the man is literally
Hitler, and that his plan is to foment racial hatred among his "white supremacist base," and
eventually stage some "Reichstag" event, declare martial law and pronounce himself dictator.
They've been telling us this story over and over, on television, in the liberal press, on
social media, in books, movies, and everywhere else they could possibly tell it.
So, before you go out and join the "uprising," take a look at the headlines today, turn on
CNN or MSNBC, and think about that for just a minute. I don't mean to spoil the party, but
they've preparing you for this for the last four years.
Not you Black folks. I'm not talking to you. I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do. I'm
talking to white folks like myself, who are cheering on the rioting and looting, and are coming
out to "help" you with it, but who will be back home in their gated communities when the ashes
have cooled, and the corporate media are gone, and the cops return to "police" your
neighborhoods.
OK, and this is where I have to restate (for the benefit of my partisan readers) that I'm
not a fan of Donald Trump, and that I think he's a narcissistic ass clown, and a glorified con
man, and blah blah blah, because so many people have been so polarized by insane propaganda and
mass hysteria that they can't even read or think anymore, and so just scan whatever articles
they encounter to see whose "side" the author is on and then mindlessly celebrate or excoriate
it.
If you're doing that, let me help you out whichever side you're on, I'm not on it.
I realize that's extremely difficult for a lot of folks to comprehend these days, which is
part of the point I've been trying to make. I'll try again, as plainly as I can.
America is still a racist country, but America is no more racist today than it was when
Barack Obama was president. A lot of American police are brutal, but no more brutal than when
Obama was president. America didn't radically change the day Donald Trump was sworn into
office. All that has changed is the official narrative. And it will change back as soon as
Trump is gone and the ruling classes have no further use for it.
And that will be the end of the War on Populism , and we will
switch back to the War on Terror, or maybe the Brave New Pathologized Normal or
whatever Orwellian official narrative the folks at GloboCap have in store for us.
#
CJ Hopkins
June 1, 2020
Photo: Nike (George Floyd commercial)
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" Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I
were going to be hanged." Oliver Cromwell English Statesman - uttered some 400+ years.
Trump looks like he just discovered The Bible for the first time, and isn't quite sure what
this strange black book that he picked up is. Seriously, he looks like a caveman who has just
been handed an iPad.
What I am afraid iof is that Trump will demand that protesters be gassed again so he can
re-shoot his photo-op, you know, to get it right this time. And his cultists will cheer
#MAGA.
In any event, the publication of the Mueller report has cleared things up for me. I get it now. The investigation was never about
Trump colluding with Russia. It was always about Trump obstructing the investigation of the collusion with Russia that the investigation
was not about. Mueller was never looking for collusion. It was not his job to look for collusion.
His job was to look for obstruction of his investigation of alleged obstruction of his investigation of non-collusion, which he
found, and detailed at length in his report, and which qualifies as an impeachable offense.
... ... ...
In other words, his investigation was launched in order to investigate the obstruction of his investigation. And, on those terms,
it was a huge success. The fact that it didn't prove "collusion" means nothing -- that's just a straw man argument that Trump and
his Russian handlers make. The goal all along was to prove that Trump obstructed an investigation of his obstruction of that investigation,
not that he was "colluding" with Putin, or any of the other paranoid nonsense that the corporate media were forced to report on,
once an investigation into his obstruction of the investigation was launched.
"The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which is cited by the U.S. Department of Education, defines
literacy as "the ability to understand, evaluate, use and engage with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one's
goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential." It divides the population into five levels -- with levels 2 and above being
considered literate.
According to PIAAC , one in five U.S. adults has "low
literacy" skills, which includes those classified as being either level 1 or below.
There are an estimated 26.5 million adults at level 1 according to PIAAC -- those who can read and write at the most basic
level but couldn't read a newspaper or would have trouble filling out forms at a doctor's office. Another estimated 8.4 million
people are below level 1 and considered "functionally illiterate." There are also 8.2 million others who were unable to participate
in the survey because of either a language barrier or a cognitive or physical inability, and the PIAAC data classifies them as
also having low literacy abilities."
"... The Democrats are fielding as candidates a roster of middle-school clowns and unflavored tapioca. Are they secretly in Trump's pay? Like Clinton with her "Deplorables" suicide line? ..."
They're going to do it, I tell you: The whole touchy-feely do-gooding ratpack of Microaggression worriers, reparations freaks,
weird sexual curiosities, race hustlers, bat.-Antifa psychos, and egalitarian enstupidators of universities. They are going to elect
Trump. Again.
Washington, where I shortly will be for a bit, is crazy. It has not the slightest, wan, etiolated idea of what is going on in
America. The Democrats are fielding as candidates a roster of middle-school clowns and unflavored tapioca. Are they secretly in Trump's
pay? Like Clinton with her "Deplorables" suicide line?
2016 a Russia-Trump campaign collusion conspiracy was afoot and unfolding right before our eyes, we were told, as during his roll-out
foreign
policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., then candidate Trump said [ gasp! ]:
" Common sense says this cycle, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries.
Some say the Russians won't be reasonable. I intend to find out."
NPR and others had breathlessly
reported at the time, "Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador to the U.S., was sitting in the front row" [ more gasps! ].
This 'suspicious'
"coincidence or something more?" event and of course the infamous
Steele 'Dodgy Dossier' were
followed by over two more years of the following connect-the-dots mere tiny sampling of unrestrained theorizing and avalanche of
accusations...
2019, Wired: Trump Must Be
A Russian Agent... (where we were told...ahem: " It would be rather embarrassing ... if Robert Mueller were to declare that
the president isn't an agent of Russian intelligence." )
It's especially worth noting that a
July 2018 New York Times
op-ed argued that President Trump -- dubbed a "treasonous traitor" for meeting with Putin in Helsinki -- should "be directing
all resources at his disposal to punish Russia."
Fast-forward to a July 2019 NY Times Editorial Board piece entitled
"What's America's Winning Hand if Russia
Plays the China Card?" How dizzying fast all of the above has been wiped from America's collective memory! Or at least the Times
is engaged in hastily pushing it all down the memory hole Orwell-style in order to cover its own dastardly tracks which contributed
in no small measure to non-stop national Russiagate hype and hysteria, with this astounding line:
That's right, The Times' pundits have already pivoted to the new bogeyman while stating they agree with Trump
on Russian relations :
"Given its economic, military and technological trajectory, together with its authoritarian model, China, not Russia , represents
by far the greater challenge to American objectives over the long term . That means President Trump is correct to try to establish
a sounder relationship with Russia and peel it away from China ."
It's 2019, and we've now come full circle . This is The New York Times editorial board continuing their call for Trump to establish
"sounder" ties and "cooperation" with
Russia :
"Even during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union often made progress in one facet of their relationship while
they remained in conflict over other aspects. The United States and Russia could expand their cooperation in space . They could
also continue to work closely in the Arctic And they could revive cooperation on arms control."
Could we imagine if a mere six months ago Trump himself had uttered these same words? Now the mainstream media apparently agrees
that peace is better than war with Russia.
With 'Russiagate' now effectively dead, the NY Times' new criticism appears to be that Trump-Kremlin relations are not close enough
, as Trump's "approach has been ham-handed " - the 'paper of record' now tells us.
Or imagine if Trump had called for peaceful existence with Russia almost four years ago? Oh wait...
" Common sense says this cycle, this horrible cycle of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries."
-- Then candidate Trump on
April 27, 2016
...If you bomb Syria, do not admit you did it to install your puppet regime or to lay a
pipeline. Say you did it to save the Aleppo kids gassed by Assad the Butcher. If you occupy
Afghanistan, do not admit you make a handsome profit smuggling heroin; say you came to protect
the women. If you want to put your people under total surveillance, say you did it to prevent
hate groups target the powerless and diverse.
Remember: you do not need to ask children, women or immigrants whether they want your
protection. If pushed, you can always find a few suitable profiles to look at the cameras and
repeat a short text. With all my dislike for R2P (Responsibility to Protect) hypocrisy, I can't
possibly blame the allegedly protected for the disaster caused by the unwanted protectors.
"... People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the foreign war they wanted to happen so badly. ..."
U.S. -- A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction
with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a
foreign war if you post your support for attacking another country.
People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East
or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the
military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the
foreign war they wanted to happen so badly.
"Frankly, recruitment numbers are down, and we needed some way to find people who are
really enthusiastic about fighting wars," said a DOD official. "Then it hit us like a drone
strike: there are plenty of people who argue vehemently for foreign intervention. It doesn't
matter what war we're trying to create: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea,
China---these people are always reliable supporters of any invasion abroad. So why not get
them there on the frontlines?"
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands, not grunts
who are just there for the paycheck," he added.
Strangely, as soon as the policy was implemented, 99% of saber-rattling suddenly
ceased.
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A way to capture this change was thinking in terms of the traditional task of journalists to
interview or consult a variety of sources to determine was is truth or true. The shift
gradually became one of now interviewing or consulting various sources and reporting those
opinions.
Old-school journalism was like being assigned the task of finding out what "1+1 =?" and the
task was to report the answer was "1."
Now the task would be to report that "Some say it is 1, some say it is 2, some say it is
3."
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Agent Smith, you testified that the Russians hacked the DNC computers, is that correct?
FBI AGENT JOHN SMITH: That is correct.
DEF ATT: Upon what information did you base your testimony?
AGENT: Information found in reports analyzing the breach of the computers.
DEF ATT: So, the FBI prepared these reports?
AGENT: (cough) . (shift in seat) No, a cyber security contractor with the FBI.
DEF ATT: Pardon me, why would a contractor be preparing these reports? Do these contractors run the FBI laboratories where
the server was examined?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: No? No what? These contractors don't run the FBI Laboratories?
AGENT: No. The laboratories are staffed by FBI personnel.
DEF ATT: Well I don't understand. Why would contractors be writing reports about computers that are forensically examined in
FBI laboratories?
AGENT: Well, the servers were not examined in the FBI laboratory.
(silence)
DEF ATT: Oh, so the FBI examined the servers on site to determine who had hacked them and what was taken?
AGENT: Uh .. no.
DEF ATT: They didn't examine them on site?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: Well, where did they examine them?
AGENT: Well, uh .. the FBI did not examine them.
DEF ATT: What?
AGENT: The FBI did not directly examine the servers.
DEF ATT: Agent Smith, the FBI has presented to the Grand Jury and to this court and SWORN AS FACT that the Russians hacked
the DNC computers. You are basing your SWORN testimony on a report given to you by a contractor, while the FBI has NEVER actually
examined the computer hardware?
AGENT: That is correct.
DEF ATT: Agent Smith, who prepared the analysis reports that the FBI relied on to give this sworn testimony?
AGENT: Crowdstrike, Inc.
DEF ATT: So, which Crowdstrike employee gave you the report?
AGENT: We didn't receive the report directly from Crowdstrike.
DEF ATT: What?
AGENT: We did not receive the report directly from Crowdstrike.
DEF ATT: Well, where did you find this report?
AGENT: It was given to us by the people who hired Crowdstrike to examine and secure their computer network and hardware.
DEF ATT: Oh, so the report was given to you by the technical employees for the company that hired Crowdstrike to examine their
servers?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: Well, who gave you the report?
AGENT: Legal counsel for the company that hired Crowdstrike.
DEF ATT: Why would legal counsel be the ones giving you the report?
AGENT: I don't know.
DEF ATT: Well, what company hired Crowdstrike?
AGENT: The Democratic National Committee.
DEF ATT: Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You are giving SWORN testimony to this court that Russia hacked the servers
of the Democratic National Committee. And you are basing that testimony on a report given to you by the LAWYERS for the Democratic
National Committee. And you, the FBI, never actually saw or examined the computer servers?
AGENT: That is correct.
DEF ATT: Well, can you provide a copy of the technical report produced by Crowdstrike for the Democratic National Committee?
AGENT: No, I cannot.
DEF ATT: Well, can you go back to your office and get a copy of the report?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: Why? Are you locked out of your office?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: I don't understand. Why can you not provide a copy of this report?
AGENT: Because I do not have a copy of the report.
DEF ATT: Did you lose it?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: Why do you not have a copy of the report?
AGENT: Because we were never given a final copy of the report.
DEF ATT: Agent Smith, if you didn't get a copy of the report, upon what information are you basing your testimony?
AGENT: On a draft copy of the report.
DEF ATT: A draft copy?
AGENT: Yes.
DEF ATT: Was a final report ever delivered to the FBI?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: Agent Smith, did you get to read the entire report?
AGENT: No.
DEF ATT: Why not?
AGENT: Because large portions were redacted.
DEF ATT: Agent Smith, let me get this straight. The FBI is claiming that the Russians hacked the DNC servers. But the FBI never
actually saw the computer hardware, nor examined it? Is that correct?
AGENT: That is correct.
DEF ATT: And the FBI never actually examined the log files or computer email or any aspect of the data from the servers? Is
that correct?
AGENT: That is correct.
DEF ATT: And you are basing your testimony on the word of Counsel for the Democratic National Committee, the people who provided
you with a REDACTED copy of a DRAFT report, not on the actual technical personnel who supposedly examined the servers?
AGENT: That is correct.
DEF ATT: Your honor, I have a few motions I would like to make at this time.
PRESIDING JUDGE: I'm sure you do, Counselor. (as he turns toward the prosecutors) And I feel like I am in a mood to grant them.
Brilliant! that sums it up nicely. of course, if the servers were not hacked and were instead "thumbnailed" that leads to a
whole pile of other questions (including asking wiileaks for their source and about the murder of seth rich).
Former Vice President Joe Biden has released
a video statement telling the American people that the
accusations he is now facing
of touching women in inappropriate ways without their consent is the product of changing "social norms", assuring everyone that
he will indeed be adjusting to those changes.
And thank goodness. For a minute there, I was worried Biden might cave under the pressure of a looming scandal and decline to
run for president on the grounds that it could cripple his campaign and leave America facing another four years of Donald Trump.
Here are nine good reasons why I hope Joe Biden runs for president, and why you should support him too:
1. It's his turn.
It's Biden's turn to be president. He's spent years playing second fiddle while other leading Democrats hogged all the limelight,
and that's not fair. He's been waiting very patiently. Come on.
2. Most Qualified Candidate Ever.
If Joe Biden secures the Democratic Party nomination for president, he would be the Most Qualified Candidate Ever to run for
office. His service as a US Senator and a Vice President has given him unparalleled experience priming him for the most powerful
elected office in the world. Everything Biden has done throughout his entire career proves that he'd make a great Commander-in-Chief.
3. He's closely associated with a popular Democratic president.
You think Biden, you think Obama. You think Obama, you think greatness. You can't spend that much time with a great Democratic
president without absorbing his greatness yourself. It's called osmosis.
4. You liked Obama, didn't you?
Biden was part of the Obama administration. Remember the Obama administration? It was magical, right? If you want more of that,
vote Biden.
5. But Trump!
Do you want Trump to win the next election? You know he'll shatter all our norms and literally end the world if he does, right?
You should be terrified of the possibility of Trump winning in 2020, and if you are, you should want him running against Joe Biden.
What's the alternative? Nominating some crazy unelectable socialist like Bernie Sanders? Might as well just hand Trump the victory
now, then. Anyone who wants to beat Trump must fall in line behind the Most Qualified Candidate Ever.
6. Iraq wasn't so bad.
Okay, maybe some of his past foreign policy positions look bad in hindsight, but come on. Pushing for the Iraq war was what
everyone was doing back in those days. It was all the rage. We all made it through, right? I mean, most of us?
7. This is happening whether you like it or not.
We're doing this. We're going to push Joe Biden through whether you like it or not, and we can do it the easy way or the hard
way. Just relax, take deep breaths, and think about a nice place far away from here. Don't struggle. This will be over before
you know it. We'll use plenty of lube.
8. Just vote for him.
Just vote for him, you insolent little shits. Who the fuck do you think you are, anyway? You think you're entitled to a bunch
of ponies and unicorns like healthcare and drinkable water? You only think that because you're a bunch of racist, sexist homophobes.
You will vote for who we tell you to or we'll spend the next four years calling you all Russian agents and screaming about Susan
Sarandon.
9. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Honestly, what could possibly go wrong? It's not like the Most Qualified Candidate Ever could manage to lose an election to
some oafish reality TV star. Hell, Biden could beat Trump in his sleep. He could even skip campaigning in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Pennsylvania and still win by a landslide, because those states are in the bag. There's no way he could fail, barring some
unprecedented and completely unforeseeable freak occurrences from way out of left field that nobody could possibly have anticipated.
Neoliberal MSM just “got it wrong,” again … exactly like was the case
with those Iraqi WMDs ;-).
So many neocons and neolibs seem so disappointed to find out that the President is not a
Russian asset that it looks they’d secretly wish be ruled by Putin :-).
But in reality there well might be a credible "Trump copllition with the foreign power". Only
with a different foreign power. Looks like Trump traded American foreign policy for Zionist
money, not Russian money. That means that "the best-Congress-that-AIPAC-money-can-buy" will never
impeach him for that.
And BTW as long as Schiff remains the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee the witch
hunt is not over. So the leash remains strong.
Notable quotes:
"... it appears that hundreds of millions of Americans have, once again, been woefully bamboozled . Weird, how this just keeps on happening. At this point, Americans have to be the most frequently woefully bamboozled people in the entire history of woeful bamboozlement. ..."
"... That's right, as I'm sure you're aware by now, it turns out President Donald Trump, a pompous former reality TV star who can barely string three sentences together without totally losing his train of thought and barking like an elephant seal, is not, in fact, a secret agent conspiring with the Russian intelligence services to destroy the fabric of Western democracy. ..."
"... Paranoid collusion-obsessives will continue to obsess about redactions and cover-ups , but the long and short of the matter is, there will be no perp walks for any of the Trumps. No treason tribunals. No televised hangings. No detachment of Secret Service agents marching Hillary into the White House. ..."
So the Mueller report is finally in, and it appears that hundreds of millions of
Americans have, once again, been woefully bamboozled . Weird, how this just keeps on happening.
At this point, Americans have to be the most frequently woefully bamboozled people in the
entire history of woeful bamboozlement.
If you didn't know better, you'd think we were all a bunch of hopelessly credulous imbeciles
that you could con into believing almost anything, or that our brains had been bombarded with
so much propaganda from the time we were born that we couldn't really even think anymore.
That's right, as I'm sure you're aware by now, it turns out President Donald Trump, a
pompous former reality TV star who can barely string three sentences together without totally
losing his train of thought and barking like an elephant seal, is not, in fact, a secret agent
conspiring with the Russian intelligence services to destroy the fabric of Western
democracy.
After two long years of bug-eyed hysteria, Inspector Mueller came up with squat. Zip. Zero.
Nichts. Nada. Or, all right, he indicted a bunch of Russians that will never see the inside of
a courtroom, and a few of Trump's professional sleazebags for lying and assorted other
sleazebag activities (so I guess that was worth the $25 million of taxpayers' money that was
spent on this circus).
Notwithstanding those historic accomplishments, the entire Mueller investigation now appears
to have been another wild goose chase (like the "search" for those non-existent WMDs that we
invaded and destabilized the Middle East and murdered hundreds of thousands of people
pretending to conduct in 2003). Paranoid collusion-obsessives will continue to obsess about
redactions and
cover-ups , but the long and short of the matter is, there will be no perp walks for any of
the Trumps. No treason tribunals. No televised hangings. No detachment of Secret Service agents
marching Hillary into the White House.
The jig, as they say, is up.
But let's try to look on the bright side, shall we?
"... Russiagate became a convenient replacement explanation absolving an incompetent political establishment for its complicity in what happened in 2016, and not just the failure to see it coming. ..."
"... Because of the immediate arrival of the collusion theory, neither Wolf Blitzer nor any politician ever had to look into the camera and say, "I guess people hated us so much they were even willing to vote for Donald Trump ..."
" Russiagate became a convenient replacement explanation absolving an incompetent political establishment for its complicity
in what happened in 2016, and not just the failure to see it coming.
Because of the immediate arrival of the collusion theory, neither Wolf Blitzer nor any politician ever had to look into
the camera and say, "I guess people hated us so much they were even willing to vote for Donald Trump ."
As a peedupon all I can see is that the elite seem to be fighting amongst themselves or (IMO) providing cover for ongoing elite
power/control efforts. It might not be about private/public finance in a bigger picture but I can't see anything else that makes
sense
' in order to delegitimize Trump and, more importantly, everyone who voted for him, as a
bunch of white supremacists and racists.'
Although they were not before, the 'resistance' could very well turn many of Trump's
supporters into white supremacists and racists. They may in fact, get their wish.
When some people claim that my country is stealing their jobs... I think they should look
more to the capitalists and neoliberals. They perpetuate the injustice of capitalism. We
"stole" their jobs, but we're getting paid much less than they would have. We're getting paid
around $1-$2 per hour. We're just getting the scraps we could get.
There's a good discussion to be had in how right-liberalism/conservatism/neoliberalism
relate to aristocratic ideology. The obsession with "meritocracy" and genetics in particular,
common to these three related ideologies(and how often its used to justify their
flaws&failings), seems to be an important bridge(or political line, to be more cynical)
for this connection.
And now the propaganda is paying off. The protesting and rioting that typically follows
the murder of an unarmed Black person by the cops has mushroomed into "
an international uprising " cheered on by the corporate media, corporations, and the
liberal establishment, who don't normally tend to support such uprisings, but they've all had a
sudden change of heart, or spiritual or political awakening, and are down for some serious
property damage, and looting, and preventative self-defense, if that's what it takes to bring
about justice, and to restore America to the peaceful, prosperous, non-white-supremacist
paradise it was until the Russians put Donald Trump in office.
In any event, the Resistance media have now dropped their breathless coverage of the
non-existent Corona-Holocaust to breathlessly cover the "revolution." The American police, who
just last week were national heroes for risking their lives to beat up, arrest, and generally
intimidate mask-less "lockdown violators" are now the fascist foot soldiers of the Trumpian
Reich. The Nike corporation produced
a commercial urging people to smash the windows of their Nike stores and steal their
sneakers. Liberal journalists took to Twitter, calling on rioters to "
burn that shit down! " until the rioters reached their gated community and started burning
down their local Starbucks. Hollywood celebrities are masking up and going full-black bloc, and
doing legal support . Chelsea Clinton is teaching children about David and the Racist
Goliath . John Cusack's bicycle was
attacked by the pigs . I haven't checked on Rob Reiner yet, but I assume he is assembling
Molotov cocktails in the basement of a Resistance safe house somewhere in Hollywood Hills.
"... Just look at all the productive work now being done by the rioters. They have a vision for America. It is easier to rebuild when whole areas are turned to rubble than it is to clear them with heavy equipment. ..."
@Katrinka Katrinka, you dont understand. Diversity and multiculturalism is our strength !
I mean in which other country in the entire world can you go into a coffee shop at 10 am on a
workday and hear 40 different languages being bawled into $1500 cell phones.
Also, Just look at all the productive work now being done by the rioters. They have a
vision for America. It is easier to rebuild when whole areas are turned to rubble than it is
to clear them with heavy equipment.
Look on the bright side. A new slum area, oops I meant a new high end area will arise from
the ashes, a shining example of a brand new Utopia for all the world to see !
Funny how none of the media have yet to use the term Martial Law to describe the situation
when that's what it is.
Funny too that none of the media have marked the stark hypocrisy of the Washington's
criticism of China's crackdown in Hong Kong as we do the very same thing here.
Trump's threat to deploy the military here
is an excessive and dangerous one. Mark Perry reports on the reaction from military officers to
the president's threat:
Senior military officer on Trump statement: "So we're going to tell our soldiers that we're
redeploying them from the Middle East to the midwest? What do we think they're going to say,
'yeah, sure, no problem?' Guess again."
According to the standards set by the Trump administration when the Guaido coup first launched,
the video footage of these protests is full justification for a foreign nation to directly
intervene and remove Trump from office by force right now.
We were told for months we'd never gather in public again 'because Covid-19.'
...Media, politicians and celebrities who spent the past three months lecturing Americans
about the importance of staying home and keeping at least six feet away from all other humans
lest they catch or spread the deadly coronavirus have suddenly pivoted on a dime –
seemingly as one – to cheering on those Americans defying their advice to pour into the
streets and join nationwide protests...
It would hardly surprise me if the regime change obsession has come home and now the US is
"enjoying" all of the democracy building color revolutions they love so much. No matter how
this end it will not end well for 99% of Americans
@Pft Even all this arson may be of benefit the business community. Weren't we reading
endless comments how the lockdown has badly affected small businesses, many of which would go
bankrupt due to lack of customers? Perhaps the best thing for them is to get burnt down so
they can claim the insurance as many of them would probably have had to close shop anyway.
...Another "researcher " has even claimed to have uncovered a connection between the
bricks sprouting from sidewalks in Frisco, Texas and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates. The
bricks were said to be delivered by a corporation called AcmeBrick, owned by Berkshire
Hathaway, a massive holding company on whose board Gates sat until recently.
Brick Pallets in Frisco, TX for rioters/AntifaDelivered by AcmeBrick, Ft Worth, TX.
Company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, (Gates recently left the board) and Marmon Group,
Chicago. Owned by? Jay and Robert Pritzger and Berkshire HathawayVery deep, YUGE rabbit
hole...
But the Frisco Police Department declared the offending bricks were part of a "planned
HOA construction project," explaining they'd been removed "with permission" to be
"returned at a later time."
Update: City is picking up bricks and are property of the city.
And the Kansas City Police Department alerted citizens on Sunday to be on the lookout for
rogue brick stashes, warning they were lurking all over the city to be "used during a
riot."
We have learned of & discovered stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza
and Westport to be used during a riot. If you see anything like this, you can text 911 and
let us know so we can remove them. This keeps everyone safe and allows your voice to continue
to be heard.
New York City had its own mysterious brick eruptions in the East Village neighborhood on
Saturday night, a vanishingly rare event in a city under constant construction in which
unattended building materials tend to vanish in seconds.
"Yo, we got bricks. We got bricks!" -- #Rioters in
Manhattan chanced upon a cache in the street equipped with bricks and a shovel at 10:01 p.m.
on Second Ave between St. Marks Pl. and Seventh St. pic.twitter.com/dYB7vHdYqL
Other images appeared to show police vehicles maneuvering the bricks into place.
Uh-oh...Those random ass bricks showing up, guess who's bringing them in to a place where
there's no construction? pic.twitter.com/QAITwOLQOF
-- A Black Socialist
🌹🏴☠️ (@SonOfAssata) June 1,
2020
The building this guy is standing next to is the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown
Dallas. There are surveillance cameras all over the place and there is zero chance they can't
see who dropped of the bricks and when. pic.twitter.com/38jjbgDLym
Certainly, the sudden appearance of heavy piles of masonry takes logistics most protesters
are incapable of organizing on the fly. It would seem to be a simple matter for cities –
especially in places like New York where every inch of space is watched over by surveillance
cameras – to catch the brick bandits in the act. Of course, leaving piles of bricks
around in case a riot happens to occur is hardly a crime yet.
I think this relevant to how fractured the discourse is. it's a repost from my litter
watering hole.
I know it's going to be difficult to accept what I'm about to say because people get very
invested in their chosen narratives, but it's important that you at least be exposed to the
notion that it's all true.
It's true that people engaged in peaceful protests.
It's true that people engaged in lawless looting.
It's true that provocateurs have committed acts of vandalism and sometimes carry
umbrellas.
It's true that Antifa exists and that they don't advocate gently placing flowers in the
gaping hole of a long gun.
It's true that some very messed up militia minded people call themselves Boogaloo Bois, wear
Hawaiian shirts, and are showing up to add their brand of crazy to the mix.
It's true looters come in all shades and sizes.
It's true some desperate people are taking things they need.
It's true some opportunistic people are taking things they want.
It's true opportunistic government thugs suddenly shifted the Covid-19 rationale for using
contract tracing to a catch-them-rioters rationale for using contract tracing.
It's true the policy infrastructure for enacting martial law has been a long-term,
bi-partisan project.
It's true that now is the time to realize what's at stake, but instead of acting
collectively for our mutual benefit, the cognitive challenge of accepting that all these things
can be true at the same time will keep us tied to one of these things to the exclusion of all
the others.
It's hard work, I know. But I have faith in you.
Posted by b on June 1, 2020 at 16:08 UTC | Permalink
"... US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once called the violent protests in Hong Kong "a beautiful sight to behold." Now, the "beautiful sight" is extending from Hong Kong to over a dozen US states. US politicians now can enjoy this sight from their own windows. Quite a few places across the US are witnessing protesters setting police stations on fire, smashing shops, blocking roads, attacking places and destroying various public facilities, as if the radical rioters in Hong Kong somehow snuck into the US and created a mess like they did last year in Hong Kong. ..."
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once called the violent protests in Hong Kong "a beautiful
sight to behold." Now, the "beautiful sight" is extending from Hong Kong to over a dozen US
states. US politicians now can enjoy this sight from their own windows. Quite a few places
across the US are witnessing protesters setting police stations on fire, smashing shops,
blocking roads, attacking places and destroying various public facilities, as if the radical
rioters in Hong Kong somehow snuck into the US and created a mess like they did last year in
Hong Kong.
A quick question for Pelosi and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Should the Chinese
government and National People's Congress issue a statement to support the protests by
African-Americans and the grassroots of US society? It seems to be what Beijing should do
according to the logic of Washington cheering for the rioters in Hong Kong. Otherwise, if
China does not support the protests in the US, how could the latter keep playing its Hong
Kong card? After all, US President Donald Trump just announced Friday to impose sanctions
against China over Hong Kong affairs.
Boy these Russians are geniuses of the highest order ...
First they put Donald Trump in power and now they're trying to tear the country apart under
him by supporting both black lives matter, and white supremacists at the same time.
I don't know how these stupid Journos can even imagine this stuff up out of their arses.
The sad irony is that these journalists will be the ones when future generations look back
who most contributed to the downfall of America ....
A hundred years ago in response to the horror of WWI, the great Randolph Bourne famously
pronounced the truth that "War is the Health of the State."
War Is The Health of the State (WITH).
It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for
uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the
minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government
sets and enforces the drastic penalties, the minorities are either intimidated into silence
or brought slowly around by a subtle process of persuasion which may seem to them to really
converting them
Other values such artistic creation, knowledge, reason, beauty, the enhancement of
life, are instantly and almost unanimously sacrificed and the significant classes who have
constituted themselves the amateur agents of the State are engaged not only in
sacrificing these values for themselves but in coercing all other persons into sacrificing
them.
In a nation at war, every citizen identifies himself with the whole, and feels
immensely strengthened in that identification. The purpose and desire of the collective
community live in each person who throws himself whole-heartedly into the cause of war. The
impeding distinction between society and the individual is almost blotted out.
A century later it appears that Randolph Bourne needs an update: Apparently, Sickness is the
Health of the State, as well.
Are you ready for this week's absurdity? Here's our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous
stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity and on
occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Church burnt down for ignoring lockdown rules
"Bet you stay home now you hypokrits [sic]," read the misspelled graffiti outside of a burnt
down church in Mississippi.
That graffiti, of course, is suspected to have come from the unidentified arsonist. The
motive: the church ignored the city's lockdown rules, and continued holding services.
@Morton's toes True. Since it's Ron's idea, it's called a hypothesis. When anyone else
has an idea, Ron calls it a conspiracy theory.
It's entirely likely that those behind this whole Doomsday Plague Virus Panic wanted to
release a killer virus, but they didn't have one, so they released the IDEA of a killer
virus.
@anon said:
"The deepstate wanted to harm their own interests and end American global dominance by
hurting a guy who was going to lose anyway. Makes sense."
– " by hurting a guy who was going to lose anyway "?
Say what?
– Heard that before.
Trump: Knock Knock!
Hillary: Who's there?
Trump: Not you!
The guy lost the popular vote by millions and barely squeaked by in a few battleground
states, mostly due to the presence of Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. He got incredibly lucky.
It won't happen again. The demographics are even worse now and Covid-19 is making seniors
turn against him. He's going down in flames. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to save this
comment and come back and rub it in my face after election day. Absent Biden croaking from
Covid or having an Alzheimer's meltdown, he's a shoe in.
@anon "Absent Biden croaking from Covid or having an Alzheimer's meltdown, he's a shoe
in."
Heck, even if he does croak from Covid during an Alzheimer's meltdown, they could just
prop up the demented corpse in front of a camera in his basement and who would know the
difference.
If a dead man could beat John Ashcroft, Biden's corpse can beat Trump.
From comments: "It's a mess. The Dems have painted themselves into a corner so tiny that they
can barely stand on tip-toes. The entire edifice of lies is liable to topple over by November as
they succumb to an overwhelming cascade of poor choices." and "Today Dr. Cornel West called Trump
a Neofascist and called the Biden side the Neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party and America a
failed social experiment, and Obama and other black politicians, black faces in high places
losing legitimacy..."
Welcome to the "I'd vote for Biden even if he ate babies" wing of the party. I hope there
aren't enough of you to get to 50% but I doubt very much it matters which village idiot wins.
Same policies. Different faces.
The Clinton wing will vote for whoever their management chain tells them to vote for, as
we saw on Stupor Tuesday. Whether or not Abrams or Warren give woke affluent white women what
they want , they'll swallow a bit and vote for what they need .
A woman went to a beach in Miami, and sat down in the sand with a sign that read: "We Are
Free."
Three police officers promptly responded to show the woman, no, you are not.
Miami police arrested the protester because it is currently illegal to sit on the beach in
Miami.
Just think about this. Three police officers woke up that morning and went to work in the
"Land of the Free."
At work these officers ripped a "We Are Free," sign out of a peaceful citizen's hands,
physically restrained her, and brought her to jail, because she was sitting on a beach .
These officers' will enforce any arbitrary lockdown rule, however absurd or
unconstitutional.
"Many believe that U.S. soldiers brought the epidemic to Wuhan.
Others believe that the U.S. has hidden key information, which led to the global health crisis.
Why can't Chinese citizens and companies sue the U.S. government?"
They need soms funding and weapons for the armed moderate opposition.
The rest of the world should impose draconian primary and secondary sanctions on the US,
US government and law enforcement personnel, their known and unknown accomplices and family
members.
Since the US dollar is used as a weapon of war, its use in international trade should be
regulated like the trade in arms and dual-use goods.
The euro, ruble, yen and yuan will serve the world just fine. The US should be excluded
from SWIFT. No weapons import/export. All US ships on a sanctions list, a maritime blockade.
The EU should use the blocking statute to maximum effect to ensure democracy and human rights
or total economic collapse, whichever comes first.
"... "I understand that people are angry, but they shouldn't just endanger businesses without even a thought to enriching themselves through leveraged buyouts and across-the-board terminations..." ..."
"I understand that people are angry, but they shouldn't just endanger businesses without
even a thought to enriching themselves through leveraged buyouts and across-the-board
terminations..."
"Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn't mean you can just rush in and
destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a
severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death," said Facebook commenter Amy Mulrain,
echoing the sentiments of detractors nationwide who blasted the demonstrators for not hiring
a consultant group to take stock of a struggling company's assets before plundering.
" I understand that people are angry, but they shouldn't just endanger businesses without
even a thought to enriching themselves through leveraged buyouts and across-the-board
terminations.
It's disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their
health benefits and eventually laying them off. There's a right way and wrong way to do this.
"
At press time, critics recommended that protestors hold law enforcement accountable by
simply purchasing the Minneapolis police department from taxpayers.
...to keep own delegates in line for Biden – which was his role all along
Bernie Sanders has warned his delegates against speaking ill of Joe Biden, the embodiment of
the Democratic party's corporate core. Beneath the progressive exterior, herding the voters to
the establishment is his real function.
In the spring of 2015, when the
"independent" Bernie Sanders announced that he was running for United States
presidency as a Democrat, the late left Green Party activist Bruce Dixon aptly described
Sanders as a "sheepdog"
working in service to the corporate and imperial Democratic Party. The role of "democratic
socialist" Sanders, Dixon said, would be to shepherd left-leaning voters into the
fold, helping give the Wall Street Democrats a progressive, populist, and working-class veneer
in the 2016 election.
As I pointed out in my 29 above about the front page noting the names and occupations of
1,000 of the 100,000 that have needlessly died due to Trump's Treasonous Do Nothing COVID-19
Policy, today
RT reports about a Memorial Day op/ed that disses the Military: "Why Does the U.S.
Military Celebrate White Supremacy?"
That made the Pentagon's Spin Master angry, puff out his chest to fume and moan.
There's not much to the RT report, but I can't recall any similar display done
before by the NY Times . IMO, something's happened within the Top Office and it seems
to be aimed at Trump.
Of course, I'd never have known about any such happening if it hadn't been for the
reporting by RT & Global Times .
I've previously said that the US empire looks like the Soviet Union of the mid-1980s but I
think you could also argue it's becoming more like Czarist Russia at the turn of the century
or pre-revolutionary France, none of these comparison suggests this will ends well for the
US.
US arms control negotiator Marshall Billingslea, far from focusing on avoiding an arms race,
saying that the US "sure would like to avoid it" but is also willing to
spend Russia and China "into oblivion" to win a nuclear arms race.
"The president has made clear that we have a tried and truce practice here. We know how to
win these races and we know how to spend the adversary into oblivion." This was the go-to US
strategy in the Cold War, where the US vastly outpsent the Soviet Union.
President Trump has unloaded on rival Joe Biden, who he said "doesn't know he's alive," and
has also promised that his new intelligence director and Attorney General William Barr will
"Break the deep state." In a relatively softball interview broadcast on Sunday, the president
boasted to 'Full Measure' host Sharyl Atkinson about his response to the coronavirus pandemic,
and slammed the Chinese government for its alleged role in allowing the virus to spread.
However, he saved his most characteristically Trumpian insults for Joe Biden, former Vice
President and presumed Democratic candidate in this year's election. Asked what Biden's
strongest feature as a competitor is, Trump didn't miss an opportunity to insult his
opponent.
"Well, I would have said experience, but he doesn't really have experience because I
don't think he remembers what he did yesterday," the president quipped, adding "He was
never known as a smart person."
Asked about Biden's weakest points, Trump offered a lengthy reply.
-- Full Measure News (@FullMeasureNews) May
23, 2020
"I can talk about weak points all day long," Trump said. "First of all, he's not
mentally sharp enough to be president...he doesn't know he's alive...he's got China and he's
got all these countries...Sleepy Joe Biden said [the China travel ban was] xenophobic."
"I'm against a very powerful party, the Democrats," he said, "and they can take
this glass of water and say 'that's your candidate'. I'm against a very powerful and very
corrupt party."
Trump is not the only commenter to question Biden's mental acuity. From forgetting what state he's in,
to telling a
black radio host that he "ain't black," to boasting how he's going to
"beat Joe Biden," conservatives have seized on Biden's ever-expanding collection of
campaign-trail gaffes to portray the Democratic candidate as out of his depth and losing his
mind.
v> Thus in this case the propaganda has been largely monolithic:
1. Stay indoors. Don't breathe the air.
2. If you must venture into the hostile outdoors*, wear a mask**. Especially now that the
air is the cleanest it's been our whole live s, do all you can to avoid breathing it.
"Covid-19 has forced modern medicine to broaden its outlook and look for new solutions,
even in the wisdom of the past."
Indeed, it's clear where the establishment's propaganda has found wisdom.
Thus in this case the propaganda has been largely monolithic:
1. Stay indoors. Don't breathe the air.
2. If you must venture into the hostile outdoors*, wear a mask**. Especially now that
the air is the cleanest it's been our whole live s, do all you can to avoid breathing
it.
"Covid-19 has forced modern medicine to broaden its outlook and look for new solutions,
even in the wisdom of the past."
Indeed, it's clear where the establishment's propaganda has found wisdom. /div
anecdotally, an American friend recently told me : "I have lived here for 17 years, I have
heard, "everything between ' I love America' and 'I hate America.'" Yesterday I heard
something different: " I feel sorry for America."
"We've seen the US populous from Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump, all of whom were
sold as being radical departures from the predecessors. But in terms of policies I think it's
undeniable that Obama was effectively the 3rd and 4th term of Bush and for all of his bombast
Trump has basically been the 5th term."
I think you could say that for most countries, the UK for instance had previous PMs Major,
Blair, Brown, Cameron/Clegg, Cameron and May. While their rhetoric was different their
applied policies were basically the same. To me this simply says that our democracies are
false, a mirage, while the political class are effectively unimportant, mere window dressing,
while our true Masters sit silent and hidden in the shadows, directing our lives as they
desire in pursuit of their interests.
CHARLES M. BLOW
Biden Can Beat Trump if He Doesn't Blow It
-----------------
From the little I have read on Biden's activity nowadays, there are negatives and positives.
He stays at home and posts videos -- rather sensible. In the videos, the sounds of geese are
very audible -- that is rather negative. But, on a positive side, hardly anyone watched them.
Typically, "generic Democratic candidate" gets higher poll number than a "generic Republican
candidate", but once we ask about concrete people, the results can be quite different.
Thus Biden plays his strongest card: being indistinguishable from "generic Democratic
candidate".
Most of the public can faintly recollect his name and not much more, and with luck, it
will stay that way.
But really: should Charles M. Blow comment about blowing?
Gangster politicians like to think that they are slick. They talk slang and curse a lot,
grab a girl's ass (or worse), insist that they never read a book, thumb their noses at
intellectual elites, boast about their high IQs, and proclaim their "street smarts." They also
view themselves both as victims of their critics' malice and "great men" alone capable of
curing the nation's ills.
They make their base feel the same: they are despised and yet the real Americans!
Their belief in the boss is unwavering. Only he can make America great again.
Those who oppose his policies are traitors and the threats they pose are serious -- and, if
they are not serious, then they must be made serious. History teaches what might become
necessary in order to teach them a lesson. The Reichstag Fire of 1933 and the (staged)
assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934 were the dramatic events that led Hitler and Stalin to
justify attacks on enemies, renegades, and supposed traitors to the state. Gangster politicians
under internal pressure pray for a crisis, or what Trump once forecast as a "major event," in
order to rally the troops and clean house.
Gangster politics requires no ideology. Lack of principle itself becomes a principle.
The great man must do what must be done: if that means lying, reneging on deals, shifting
gears, rejecting transparency, and whatever else, then so be it. That he can employ the double
standard is a given.
Big talk takes the place of diplomacy and, if the bluster doesn't work then America alone --
or, better, the boss alone -- can rely on "fire and fury" whenever and wherever he likes.
Traditionalists employed jingoistic rhetoric and wrapped themselves in the flag. The
gangster politician talks like a schoolyard bully and salutes himself.
Gangster politicians of times past had subordinates swear an oath of loyalty not to the
state but to them. Yesterday's "America! Love it or leave it!" has today turned into: "Trump!
Love him -- or shut up!"
Have they nothing better to do than peddle their Russophobia?
Wouldn't it be more useful to allocate $ 250,000 to save someone's lives, @StateDept ? Instead
of "Exposing Russian Health Disinformation"
➡️ https://t.co/Hv3CydUgBX
Fully applicable to Clapper ;-)
Clapper is, by the way, a proven perjurer, he having claimed claimed, during a congressional testimony in March 2013, that NSA does not “wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans.
Why do only rich countries suffer? Why is it only the countries with a powerful liberal
press, with a positive connection to the WHO, with developed hi-tech infrastructure and their
own digital lords? Could it be simply that they have something to loot? It makes sense to
loot Belgium, and Belgians have a lot of Covid. But it makes no sense to loot Mongolia or
Cambodia. If you follow me thus far, you will also see that such things can't happen by
themselves. GAFAM is the prime mover and the beneficiary, while Gates is the link between them
and the WHO.
James Bond, the most iconic fictional hero of the current generation and the one before, is
a psychopathic serial killer and tool of the deep state. So why wouldn't he be a womanizer
too? He has a license to kill; he doesn't need a license to fornicate.
That's understood.
Women want to have sex with him because he's a bad boy; men fantasize about being the bad
boy that women want. It's bizarrely appropriate that spies and assassins are the heroes and
often heroines of our age.
Ladies and Gentlemen and all of you other bisexual transsexual creatures that were formally
Human Beings. It is way past time to restart our Nuclear Test Program. While you may think I
am joking, the reality is that we no longer know whether or not any of these weapons actually
work. Think about it. Does the latest Multi-use platform military Aircraft work? No!. Does
the latest version of the US Navy's Littoral Combat ship work? No! Does the most recently
built and technologically wonderful US Navy Aircraft Carrier work? No!
So why do you think the Nuclear Weapons should work? These are new and high tech weapons
that are cool and cost a phucking fem-nominal amount of money but they might not be any
better than any of the other garbage designed by our Technological Engineering Geniuses that
designed and built the latest Aircraft and Ships. How can I sleep at night, guarding my and
other American's vital bodily fluids with weapons that might not work. I don't want to go to
a gun fight with only a knife. Those Rooskies and Chinks play for keeps and they have not
pissed away gargantuan amounts of money to buy useless non-working $hit. Besides, Vegas is
closed down due to the Korona $hit so Nevada needs to get back to basics and start Nuclear
testing again.
Just better do the first ones in Top Top Top Secrete in case they are duds.
From MoA comment
57: "Warmongering shit bags endlessly flatulent about their moral superiority while threatening to nuke nations on the other
side of the globe daily. ... the greatness of the US consists of how gullible its hyper-exploited populace has been to a long
series of Donald Trumps who use the resources of the land and people for competitive violence against other nations. the world
heaves a collective hallelujah that this bullshit is about to end. "
Notable quotes:
"... Lets reverse that point, shall we. There is a US spy base in Australia at a place called Pine Gap. Without it being operational the USA would lose its 3 dimensional vision across the planet. ..."
"... This Bannon/Trump bluster is weak as p!ss as 'sharing intelligence' is the cornerstone of the five eyes perversion that gives the USA some superiority in intelligence matters. So if sharing intelligence were withdrawn by the USA with Australia it would have meaningless consequences. ..."
"... Pompeo is blathering bullsh!t and he knows it and we all know it ..."
Pompeo Warns US May Stop Sharing Intelligence With Australia Over Victoria Inking Deal With
China's BRI
The battle for Australia's soul has begun.
Lets reverse that point, shall we. There is a US spy base in Australia at a place called
Pine Gap. Without it being operational the USA would lose its 3 dimensional vision across the
planet.
This Bannon/Trump bluster is weak as p!ss as 'sharing intelligence' is the cornerstone of
the five eyes perversion that gives the USA some superiority in intelligence matters. So if
sharing intelligence were withdrawn by the USA with Australia it would have meaningless
consequences.
On the other hand if Australia ceased its intelligence sharing and shut down all the data
traffic out of Australia - the USA would go ballistic. Not that the Oz government would ever
do such a thing being a craven water carrier for the new world order etc...
Pompeo is blathering bullsh!t and he knows it and we all know it.
Odd that you would reiterate his brainless threat vk.
Bolsheviks put ideology above and before the people needs; Neoliberals put capital above
people. Neoliberals are the next-worst thing after Boslheviks (although nobody can match
Bolsheviks as for excesses including Stalin terror) .
That's why both now in the USA and in
the USSR before the dissolution we have a lot of "death of despair" That said, why would
anybody trust neolibral pols ?
Coronavirus had shown Brezhnev socialism and the US neoliberalism were never as far apart as
people imagined. Two sides of a coin. A theological dispute.
Trump cultists: Trump didn't say that, and if he did, that's not what he meant, and if he
did mean it, you don't understand it, and if you do, it's no big deal, and if it is a big
deal, you're a liberal who wishes Hillary had won.
Times of crisis bring people together under a common cause – says the
propaganda of the blind optimist. What we've actually seen during the
coronavirus pandemic is society divide into different tribes; here are five
of them.
The Remain-at-Homers
This group will not leave their homes no matter what, as a matter of
principle. By pure coincidence they also tend to have the biggest houses
and largest gardens, and jobs they can do comfortably from their
well-equipped studies. It's not self-discipline getting them through
lockdown, but pure smugness – which you can see on their face when they
gleefully tell you, via Zoom, how long it's been since they left the house
in much the same manner a veteran might describe landing on Omaha Beach or
defending Stalingrad.
The Anti-Lockdowners
This lot can be heard saying things like,
"it's just a nasty cold,"
or
"grandad was
going to die anyway."
However they justify it, they're just not interested in being forced to
stay at home. You'll see them angrily protesting for their right to get a beer and a haircut... or
perhaps you'll see them in the hospital on a ventilator recovering from a nasty cold.
The Hypocrites are a strange mix of Remain-at-Homer and Anti-Lockdowner. These virtue signallers
will keep up the smug facade of those who are following all the rules by staying at home to watch
Netflix. However, don't be fooled because they're also going shopping for essential supplies three
times a day and exercising twice a day, despite the fact that they hadn't even run for a bus in two
decades before all this started. Yep, they spend more time outside than they used to!
The Snitches
And then there are the Snitches. These are your neighbours who spend the whole day longingly
staring out the window dreaming of freedom, but as soon as they see you walk out the front door to buy
bread and booze, they call the police to get you properly locked down. Solidarity has its limits.
The Conspiracists
These are the people who think Covid-19 is a Bill Gates plan to force you to buy Windows 27. Or
that the government is just trying to wipe out pensioners. Or that 5G is downloading the virus
straight into your brain in an impressive two seconds as long as your cell plan is up to date.
Whatever the theory, as long as there is no proof, they'll tell you all about it. Via Zoom.
My god, the cringe-inducing arrogance of the Washington regime is something else! Imagine
after Hurricane Maria and the subsequently dismal aid effort that devastated Puerto Rico, the
Chinese issued a statement lambasting the US response and saying "we stand with the people of
Puerto Rico".
The US "decoupling" from China is like the terminal patient in ICU "decoupling"
from the machinery keeping his body alive. It is not working out quite the way the Republican
and Democrat MAGA types imagined.
Jen @ 32, I had a thought that maybe the US is starting this sea challenge because they need
to use up the excess oil that's making domestic prices stay so low - not much profit in it
these days though the 'little people are enjoying very low prices at the pump. And of course
the virus and business shuttered is all not helping. So, let's have some big ships charging
around, shall we?
If Nigerian hackers can steal that much money, Israel, Chinese, and Russian, intel agencies
probably are in the most Fed information systems doing what they want ;-)
Notable quotes:
"... officials in Washington State may have lost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to fraudsters filing bogus unemployment claim ..."
officials
in Washington State may have lost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to fraudsters filing bogus
unemployment claim s – all the way from Nigeria.
Trump *may* not want another international crisis right now, but Elliott Abrams' entire
career is based around causing international crisis and Mike "The Pompous" Pompeo was the one
pushing for the Soleimani assassination.
So if Trump decides to surround himself with a bunch of madmen he shouldn't be surprised
if he ends up living in a madhouse.
Looking at my own reaction to the 2016 candidates, I knew Hillary was the the most corrupt
politician since Hermann Goering. I also knew Trump was a freak show. However, Trump did
claim to be against new wars and getting along with Russia. Not that I believed him, but in a
choice between the two, Trump was obviously better. And that's what the Trump supporters
believed and that's why he was elected (with some help from the Electoral College setup.)
Today, it's a choice between a President who has been an *utter circus* and has *proven*
to be a freak show, and a "garden-variety" corrupt politician who also has dementia. People
elect corrupt politicians all the time. Is there any other kind? How likely is it that the
electorate will take the time to fully understand the depth of corruption of Biden vs the
*obvious* lunacy of Trump? How many people are going to believe Biden has dementia,
especially if the mainstream media (outside of Fox) refuses to even mention it (you know
that's what they will do)?
I don't know the answer to that and neither does anyone else.
The real questions are: how will the economy question play out before November? Does Trump
get blamed? Does he get rewarded for reopening the economy even though the death toll from
the virus spikes? If the virus slows in the summer, does he get rewarded for that? If a
second virus wave roars in before election dat, what impact will that have? What happens with
Venezuela, Iran and China over the next five months? There's plenty of time for SHTF on any
of those fronts - does any of it reward or downgrade Trump's chances?
Like I said before, it is *way too soon* to be estimating the outcome of this
election.
Posted by: Laguerre | May 20 2020 21:44 utc | 34 I'm not sure that Trump wants another crisis
at the moment.
Politicians use one crisis to deflect another. Trump is desperate to deflect from his
failed virus response and the resulting economic collapse. Starting a war somewhere is
perfect, since he'll get the support of his idiots, the neocons around him will tell him he's
a genius, and most people won't be directly affected (until the gas price crisis hits, of
course, but since not many people are driving due to the slowed economy, that might be
survivable for him.)
In any event, Trump doesn't "think" - he reacts. And *how* he reacts is mostly
unpredictable.
Attacking Venezuela would probably be a bit easier than attacking Iran directly since
Venezuela has one-third the population of Iran, is 1/8th the size of Iran, and its military
is probably vastly less capable. Getting a (comparatively) easy military win would boost
Trump's chances in November. If it did turn into a "quagmire", that could be spun and
possibly stretched out to past Election Day.
And the icing on the cake is that Trump and the neocons get to aggravate Iran some more,
possibly stimulating Iran to retaliate, thus increasing the odds for a direct war with Iran -
but *after* the election. A lot of Trump supporters keep saying that Trump doesn't want a new
war - which is bullcrap since Trump doesn't know what he "wants" at any given time (he's a
lot like Batman's Joker in that respect.) But the supporters say he wouldn't risk the
election by starting a war. I keep asking them: "What about *after* the election, assuming he
wins?" I get crickets in response.
Here are the 10 steps you should employ, if you want to turn an unthreatening virus into a
global power grab.
Start with an inaccurate
test for it Report predominantly the number of positive tests and the death rates and get
vague about whether these people died OF
the virus or simply WITH it . Create a 'response' to the 'crisis' that rolls out a vast
network of authoritarian measures , some of which have been in planning for a long while
Shut down your hospitals to all but 'covid cases'. Cancel elective surgeries, kidney dialysis,
cancer treatments, normal GP consultations and all "non-emergency healthcare". Change your laws
in numerous ways to allow almost all of these new deaths to bypass
normal checks and balances and be easily diagnosed as 'covid-19 related' , either with the
inaccurate test or simply by 'clinical presentation'. In case some attending medics are
reluctant to go along with this, change the law to allow a single MD, who may never even have
seen the patient in question, to diagnose covid19 at his/her own discretion. Report how
essential the new authoritarian measures are for 'saving lives'. Make sure the media calls
anyone who questions any part of this a
'conspiracy theorist' .
My father, for many years a professor at Fordham Law School, used to speak jocularly of
another all-too-familiar syndrome he nonetheless took seriously: he called it "the age of
statutory senility." As Chancellor of the Board of Regents, he resigned well before he reached
that age, offering his own example to superannuated Board colleagues (to no avail).
These days, I think he would probably consider 70 the age of "statutory senility",
especially were he able to read the blather of once respected journalists -- like Frank Rich,
whose work he used to enjoy. Let's make sure someone is working on a vaccine for the Trump
Syndrome.
Dozens of states are already in the process of reopening their crashed economies. Now the
first strip club in the country, located in Wyoming, has resumed pole dancing operations and
threw a grand reopening party last Friday called "masks on, clothes off."
Was it Crowdstrike that had shown her the forensics data? This McCarthyist dog just keeps lying and keeps digging. The Obama administration
was as shameless as they were crooked.
"They all sound like kids that got caught raiding the cookie jar making up wild tales of innocence with cookie crumbs all over their
faces."
Notable quotes:
"... Opening your eyes wider while speaking doesn't make you look more intense, credible, and believable... ..."
"... (((They))) are taught from birth to "lie to, cheat, rob, enslave, and kill, with impunity" all Americans they call "Goyim, a mindless herd of cattle, sub-human animals." ..."
"... Ah Evelyn, Evelyn! You're just an exposed resistance tool HRC campaign hack doubling downer unemployed TDS afflicted congress woman wannabe who has no shame no principals and no alibi. Lots of love and kisses to Bezos/WaPo for letting them share your pain with us. Here at the disinfo clearinghouse you couldn't get elected dog catcher. ..."
...Meanwhile, Poor Evelyn's campaign staff has become " emotionally exhausted " after her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts
have been "overwhelmed with a stream of vile, vulgar and sometimes violent messages" in response to the plethora of conservative
outlets which have called her out for Russia malarkey.
There is evidence that Russian actors are contributing to these attacks. The same day that right-wing pundits began pumping
accusations, newly created Russian Twitter accounts picked them up.
Within a day, Russian "
disinformation clearinghouses " posted versions of the story . Many of the Twitter accounts boosting attacks have posted in
unison, a sign of inauthentic social media behavior.
She closes by defiantly claiming "I wasn't silenced in 2017, and I won't be silenced now."
No Evelyn, nobody is silencing you. You're being called out for your role in the perhaps the largest, most divisive hoax in US
history - which was based on faulty intelligence that includes CrowdStrike admitting they had
no proof of that Russia exfiltrated DNC emails, and Christopher Steele's absurd dossier based on his 'Russian sources.'
MrAToZ, 1 minute ago
What's with the bug eyes on these crooks?
Kurpak, 27 seconds ago
Opening your eyes wider while speaking doesn't make you look more intense, credible, and believable...
It makes you look ******* insane.
iAmerican10, 8 minutes ago (Edited)
(((They))) are taught from birth to "lie to, cheat, rob, enslave, and kill, with impunity" all Americans they call "Goyim, a mindless
herd of cattle, sub-human animals."
... ... ...
otschelnik, 35 minutes ago
Ah Evelyn, Evelyn! You're just an exposed resistance tool HRC campaign hack doubling downer unemployed TDS afflicted congress woman wannabe who
has no shame no principals and no alibi. Lots of love and kisses to Bezos/WaPo for letting them share your pain with us.
Here at the disinfo clearinghouse you couldn't get elected dog catcher.
@450.org Yes, that's absolutely weird Trump wearing goggles but not a mask while visiting
a mask factory. He's not that stupid. Was he trying to convey a secret message to the QAnons
that we haven't been able to decipher yet?
[[[uncle sham]]] wanna 'investigate' Wuhan labs ! The serial arsonist , now donned in
firemen's garb, helping investigation at the crime scene ? What could go wrong, ?
Who's goING to check how many of thsoe pre Wuhan 'flu deaths' in US for CV traces ?
Who's going to verify how many of the current 'CV deaths' are genuine ?
What's so odd or unusual about that? The Ukraine was part of the joint investigation into
the downing of the Malaysian plane (with veto power!), yet it was, by any impartial observer,
suspect No. 1.
But if the Russians were coming, really, wouldn't most Americans rush to Putin's
assistance? And wouldn't that make America a vastly better place?
Not unique either! The Russians did that in the X Century when, as tradition and legend
has it, they invited the Varangians (Vikings) to come to rule over them because the
squabbling parties (presumably the local variety of Reps and Dems) made the place (Kiev-Rus)
ungovernable. About time they (the Russians) return the favour!
"..all of these tin pot dictatorship oil rich countries are really a sick bunch.... i guess it is the byproduct off having too
much money and not enough brains..
@james@ 3
karlofi beat me to it james - or were you referring to Alberta?
odd that they're betting on nicotine patches working as (seemingly) well as the inhaled form.
it seems more logical that direct exposure to the lungs would make a difference but maybe
it's as effective in the bloodstream? i wonder where (flavorless) vaping would fit in the
picture as it delivers a lung dose without the harmful combustion (and ammonia and burn
accelerators and etc.)
reminds me of a joke from the usually unfunny "married...with children". they're watching
TV and see that a fitness guru they knew had dropped dead. the husband remarks that he
"lacked our protective layer of tar and pollution in his lungs".
On another note, ponder that: (1) Russia has relatively low mortality among the cases, ca.
1%, (2) a Russian folk medication for common cold is a generous application of ethanol, taken
orally, without waiting for symptoms to become severe (3) this is pretty close to Trumpian
musing if antiseptic could help if introduced to the body of the patient. I would stress that
40% (80 proof) is the minimum, and a higher concentration may be better, BUT a triple
overdose can be fatal (and equivalent of 100 ml of pure ethanol should be safe, 300 ml --
that is very, very risky).
it's odd that the "disinformation clearing house" stuff still gets traction. I mean the
people saying it told us - FOR YEARS - that they had proof "Trump is a Russian Agent".....then
launched a special prosecutor when they KNEW he wasn't. Then hired 17 lawyers and 40 FBI agents
to look into his background when they KNEW he had not committed the crime they SAID they were
investigating (read witch hunt).
these people should be sent to GITMO, not invited to cocktail parties in DC and treated as
heroes.
Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir
Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."
Meanwhile the rest of the MSM altogether: Russia=bad. Obama=***** Jesus. Bashar
al-Assad=eeevil dictator. John Kerry=seasoned diplomat. Vladimir Putin=the 2nd coming of Hitler
(after the Trump-Saddam-Gaddafi 2nd comings of Hitler)
Just a thought: what if people like Gordon Guthrie Chang, Jennifer Zeng, Peter Navarro or
even Maria Bartiromo suggest to the two dude Trump and Pompeo sending FBI, CIA agents
or even national guard to American's rural areas, small isolate farming communities in
Pennsylvania, Oregon ripping off every Huawei and ZTE hardwares 2G, 3G, 4G and maybe 5G if
any, cell towers and replaced it with Ericsson and Nokia. Would it make America great again
?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Just think of when, in the debates with Bernie Sanders during the spring,
Biden and Klobuchar kept saying, 'What we're paying for Medicare-for-All will be $1 trillion
over 10 years.' Well, here the Fed can create $1.5 trillion in one week just to buy stocks.
Why is it okay for the Fed to create $1.5 trillion to buy stocks to prevent rich people from
losing on their stocks, when it's not okay to print only $1 trillion to pay for free Medicare
for the entire population? This is crazy!
who cares. One idiot or another does not seem to make a difference.
We are circling back to the same situation as in 2016 - a really bad option versus
a worse option. Biden is, himself, not really an option. Like Reagan, he is a face for what
lurks unseen behind him.
The real power of this virus is not its ability to infect or kill (and I don't know who to
believe about the "science" anymore) - it is its ability to serve as cover for so many other
agendas. You have States locked down, or not, along party lines. For some, people aren't
visibly dying in sufficient quantities to justify such an extreme (by Western standards)
lockdown. For others, we'll never be locked down enough to be fully safe and, of course, it's
"better to be safe than sorry." But in life none of us are ever truly safe. It pays not to be a
fool, of course, but it's hard to tell who the real fools are in this.
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins has been accused of Covid-19 theatrics, as she was caught
hastily removing her face mask after a White House briefing. Collins has criticized Donald
Trump for not wearing masks in public.
Her ... behavior caught the eye of conservative commentators. "She thought cameras were
off, so mask goes off," joked Mike Cernovich.
Incidentally, Collins grilled Trump over
why he wasn't wearing personal protection equipment (PPE) during a briefing on a Covid-19
vaccine in the Rose Garden on the same day.
"We've all been tested. I've been tested," Trump replied, adding that he told
administration officials that masks were optional for the event.
Stoltenberg is like Trump, in the sense that both are idiots, but the world will just have to
wait them out because there is no medium for removing them.
al-Beeb s'Allah live news feed on their website Summary: Russia now has the third-highest
number of confirmed cases in the world, overtaking UK and Italy .
Three pages further on the live feed you can read:* Russia has confirmed 2,009 deaths
in total. You have to go to page four for the actual story @13:07 that links to the
summary to actual story details (there are no links in the summary at all!) to read taking
the total death toll to 2,009, which is far lower than the numbers reported in many other
countries. (my emphasis) *** So well below the UK's own tally of 32,000 heroic
deaths. That's good to know.
As others have pointed out, Russia has carried out the highest number of tests in u-Rope,
now greater than 4.5 million, which is only behind the US globally
Thank God there is the BBC to put things in to proper perspective in such a professional
way / sarc.
According to television channel CT1, Czech intelligence received a tip about Konchakov from
a foreign agency. However, when he arrived in Prague on March 14 supposedly carrying the toxin in
his briefcase, they did not try to intercept the package. They were concerned that the tip may be
wrong, misinformation planted by Russian security services to make their counterparts look like
fools, the channel's '168 Hours' program said on Sunday
Yes, the old we-let-him-commit-little-crimes-so-he-would-lead-us-to-Mr.-Big technique. They
seem not to have noticed how justice is done in the USA, where you pick someone who would be
ideal as a suspect, and then threaten and coerce him into a confession. What's hard about that?
You can even pick Mr. Big, too!
I feel like doing what one joker did several weeks ago at the very
beginning of these phoneydemic safety measures, just to cock a snook at the hysteric sheeple and
these "its for your own safety" orders:
Levada has done a survey of Russian youth and
that's pretty hard to find; in general they're not far off their parents: a bit more liberal
but also a bit more nationalist. Perhaps the most interesting result was that a solid majority
thought Russia was not European.
Robinson discusses. He wonders why so few show much support for "'classical' civil and
political liberties".
My guess is that 20 years of observation of Western practice of these
noble ideals has soured them.
I see the current situation more like the sinking of the Titanic (whether caused by the
virus or shady financial dealing, it doesn't matter). The rich passengers get the lifeboats
and the rest of the passengers get the ice water. A few survived in the water, so it's time
to look to the future. Crony capitalism in a nutshell.
"The New York Times has been accused for a second time of stealing major scoops from Russian
journalists. One of those stories won the Times a Pulitzer Prize this May.
The journalists who have accused the Times of taking their work without credit also
happen to be the same liberal media crusaders against Vladimir Putin [my emphasis] that
Western correspondents at the Times and other mainstream outlets have cast as persecuted
heroes
As Yasha Levine further down the page says, the NYT takes whatever it wants from whomever has
got it, without giving anything back or acknowledging any help or assistance, if it thinks it can
get away with it because it believes that, like the Empire it serves, it is Exceptional.
@Freda
Lipshitz Good grief! LBJ opened the floodgates for the third world to make the US third
world, food and all.
Nixon made commie China respectable and a trading partner. Reagan began the American fire
sale for his beloved GDP and international bankers.
Both Bushes, and their beloved neocons, made the US military the globalist police force
that invades the world in order invite the world here.
Clinton free traded us into Walmart Nation, and demolished free speech and association
with hate laws.
Finally the liberal black Jesus turned truth into fiction and fakery into truth, imported
more third world, neoconning for more senseless war and death, and all the while free trading
us into Amazon nation. Trump is merely Ivanka's daddy, Jared's pussy, and America's nothing
burger.
Pity the paid lefties have found us. Probably get their very existence from the recent
stimulus.
Lots of truth to this piece, but for the most part it's seductive bullshit. There are indeed
a great many ways Americans fool themselves into thinking they live in a "free " society
unlike those poor oppressed slobs in China. But the fact is, in the USA you have hundreds of
thousands of enraged assholes on Twitter and the like openly calling the president a lying
sack of shit. Now just how long do you think any Chinese citizen would last doing that before
their Ministry of State Security arranged to have a bullet put in his head? Three hours? That
alone is proof you're fooling yourself if you think these parallels are absolute, or that
China is any place you'd want to belch out whatever anti-government thoughts that come a
rumblin' into your head. Yes yes, it makes for amusing conversation and all, but hardly to be
taken that seriously. And what's with this site and all the communist party blowjobs the
contributors are dishing out these days?
I am old enough to remember America's pre-Idiocracy days, when I was growing-up, which was
during the 50's and 60's. The U.S. then reverse-assimilated, adopting a relaxed level of
intelligence, education, proficiency, culture, society, and conscientiousness. This
unraveling was contagious across institutions, daily life, and geography. This is what
enabled the pillars. So, no more first-world country. Our bad. Signing-off from California,
where the lockdown-enforcing police boat chases the solitary paddle-boarder.
Ask which countries maintain and practice their humor and you will be naming the countries
with the greatest stability of law and institutions with little need for a Human Rights
Commission. Sadly the reverse is also true. Monty Python, Faulty towers, Yes Minister and The
Office were conceived during a golden period in English humor which mostly began during
Harold Wilson's time or the 60s era up till the 90s. Suddenly politicians became very careful
to avoid policies or material that could lead to satire.
Today look to a humorless USA and imagine what Monty Python, Yes Minister or the Goons
would make of one of Trump's briefings or Joe Biden's sentences.
Joe and Donald, both would 'sentence' you but one cannot finish a sentence and the other
cannot make one complete without using 'fantastic', 'amazing', 'incredible' or 'greatest'
attached to the first person singular.
Such a fertile garden full of radishes and turnips yet sadly there is no comedy on any of
the major US networks. Is it true that a diet of carrots and drinking only white turnip maliu
float has the side effect of hormonal imbalance as well as an increased desire for light
bulbs and cameras, which as we all know is a persistent danger to all politicians in the
US.
What does that say about the 'greatest, fantastic, most incredible' country 'ever' as Mr.
Trump would have everyone believe? Perhaps that in itself is the humor as it is intrinsically
without subtlety or intelligence. Something a clown might say when referring to his
circus.
A Google query shows "Searches related to Mike Pompeo Achievements" include "Mike Pompeo
weight," "Mike Pompeo net worth." One can easily imagine Pompeo, even pre-COVID, slipping out
the side door at Foggy Bottom shouting as one long syllable "I'll be working from home, check
with my deputy if anything comes up" while his wife is waiting in the car for him, Ferris
Bueller-style.
CNN's latest installment of its 'Facts and Fears' town hall on the coronavirus
pandemic will feature teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as one of its experts. What
expertise Thunberg can offer on the virus is a mystery.
Just over a third of Americans trust President Donald Trump's information about the Covid-19
pandemic, according to a new poll. But given decades of crises mishandled by the government,
the only surprise is that it isn't lower. A CNN poll showing that just 36 percent of Americans
trust Trump for reliable information about the coronavirus was held up triumphantly by the
president's critics on Tuesday as proof his credibility is circling the drain. But it's more
likely to be the fallout not just from Trump, but from the two preceding presidential
administrations' misrepresentation of crises, that has created epidemic levels of distrust
among the people.
This piece from The Onion could well be talking about this website lately:
In response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, top U.S. health experts warned the nation
Thursday to hold onto their fucking seats, because this bitch hasn't even thought about
starting yet.
"We've been getting a lot of questions surrounding Covid-19, and, well, you all better
buckle the fuck up, because this shit is about to kick into high gear," said Stanford
professor of health research and policy Richard Mason, throwing all his papers in the air and
warning the nation that they better strap in tight, because this motherfucker will knock you
on your goddamn ass.
"If you think it's bad now, just fucking wait, because this son of a bitch is gonna go
into full-fledged annihilation mode. Seriously, wash your hands, cut off your hands -- it
doesn't fucking matter. You poor bastards are going to get absolutely fucking destroyed."
At press time, Mason knocked over his podium, curled up in a ball on the floor, and
started screaming, "Steel yourselves!"
UK govt gives film & TV industry green light to restart WITH social distancing
rules
Workplaces that do reopen – including screen productions – should "ensure
employees can maintain a two-meter distance from others, and wash their hands regularly,"
according to the new Covid-19 guidelines published by the UK government on Monday.
The practicality of film and TV production companies trying to enforce social distancing
measures in and around sets has sparked an array of humorous responses on social media –
particularly in relation to shooting intimate scenes.
One commenter tweeted: "Gonna be fun to watch movies where all protagonists are 2m
apart...sex scenes will be interesting too." Another joked that 'romance' movies won't be
able to provide the genre's usual 'will they or won't they' tension, tweeting : "spoiler
alert... they won't."
Human DNA has 50% in common with bananas and fruit flies. All the 'science' talk is just more
pissing in the wind, it doesn't even matter where the virus came from ffs are you going to
try and blame herpes on a country?!
By 1500 syphilis had reached the Scandinavian countries, Britain, Hungary, Greece, Poland
and Russia. Explorers took the disease to Calcutta in 1498, and by 1520 it had reached
Africa, the near East, China, Japan and Oceania.
Since there was no official name for the disease people usually named it after an enemy
or a country they thought responsible for it.
The French called it the "Neapolitan disease", or the "Spanish disease", and also the
"great pox", the English and Italians called it the "French disease", or the "French pox",
Germans called it the "French evil", the Russians called it the "Polish disease", the
Polish and the Persians called it the "Turkish disease".
The Turkish called it the "Christian disease", the Tahitians called it the "British
disease", in India it was called the "Portuguese disease", in Japan it was called the
"Chinese pox."
Over the past three years Donald J. Trump has delivered on his promise to be the "best
friend in Washington that Israel has ever had."
...That Trump was willing to highlight and promote a major pander to the Israel Lobby on the
very day he was inaugurated is more than just telling, it is bizarre.
You may also want to use a little curiosity to figure out why a society based on
the rule of law as opposed to authoritarian topdown tyranny allows for higher levels of
personal achievements whereas the dullard in the collectivist system can merely commiserate
with his fellow slaves under the thumb of the stultifying nanny-state
I'm curious as to what the fellow slaves are thinking when they see Americans standing in
long lines for food and toilet paper?
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases explodes across Africa, the creeping
involvement of the WHO has made some leaders suspicious of the NGO. Tanzanian President John
Magufuli was growing suspicious of the organization, so he reportedly decided to investigate
whether the organization was as trustworthy and reliable as it claimed to be.
He played what the local press described as "a trick" on the organization: He sent the WHO
samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing.
All three samples reportedly tested positive. When the president heard the news, he
reportedly confronted the WHO, then kicked the organization out of the country. Though, to be
sure, the WHO has yet to comment on the situation.
And you have to ask yourself one question. They all stuck with the same exact propaganda,
the same exact his information, that the Trump administration, that the Trump campaign
conspired with Russia, even though they had no evidence whatsoever, and they manufactured that
evidence against the president."
"And this is why all of them need to be investigated" explained Carter.
uncle t @ 31
Thank you for the shoutout and additional input on topic. Some commenters are adhere the
"we're exceptional" -
How many are aware?
Flint, Michigan and Hanford, Washington. Hanford nuclear waste 1987-2020 an area of 580
square miles [1,500 square kms]. In 2020,
the Cleanup plan still not a priority."During the Cold War, Hanford produced about
two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation's nuclear arsenal, resulting in the nation's
largest collection of highly toxic radioactive waste."
Russia, China, Iran, Russia, China. Sadly there will not be a cease-fire anytime soon. In
the midst of a global health crisis -
"I'm displaying it [lede cartoon] not because I approve of its racist depiction of Americans"
Wow, I didn't know Americans were a race. You learn something new every day. I know they
are Truly Exceptional (TM)(Pat Pend) - exceptional at delivering freedom and democracy to
brown-colored folks who just happen to have built their countries on top of oilfields given
by God to the US.
"The level of corruption inherent in the current setup (first adopted in Soviet NEP -- New
Economic Policy) is tremendous, as the party has absolute political power and controls the
major economic and financial areas while the entrepreneurs try to bribe state officials to
get the leverage and/or enrich themselves at the state expense or bypass the bureaucratic
limitations/inefficiencies imposed by the state, or offload some costs. So mafia style
relationship between party officials and entrepreneurs is not an aberration, it is a norm.
And periodic "purges" of corrupt Party officials do not solve the problem. Ecological
problems in China are just one side effect of this."
As many noted, corruption in USA is in some sense smaller, because a lot of corrupted
activities are legalized. ... A quarter of American GDP goes for defense and health care.
Both areas are a veritable swamp of greed, rapacious overpricing, peddling unneeded products
etc. And it is not like the remaining 75% is an oasis of honesty. An average terminal cancer
patient has a better percentage of healthy cells.
Meanwhile, Pelosi
has been talking about what she'll add to the next bill, and it's relatively unconstrained
by wish lists. One of the elements is changing the eligibility standards for PPP small business
loans to include 501(c)(4) and (c)(6) nonprofit organizations. You might know (c)(6)
organizations by another name: lobbyists. Unbelievably, K Street has asked for a bailout
and is on the road to getting it. I mean lobbyists are good at lobbying, I guess. ...
Tara Reade says Joe Biden once grabbed her privates and demanded sex. Will that change the
election in November?
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings were a turning point, when the presumption of
innocence was thrown out in favor of a new standard, "credible accusation." Evidence was
replaced by #BelieveAllWomen. Praised by Dems and the media as fierce justice then, it's
Biden's turn now.
Imagine the same type of proceedings directed at him. Amy Klobuchar repeats her accusation
that Kavanaugh, er, Biden, is a drunk, with about as little evidence now as then. Senator Dick
Durbin demands Biden demand an FBI investigation into himself. Durbin says of Biden, as he did
of Kavanaugh, that if he has nothing to hide then he has nothing to fear, a line often
attributed to Joseph Goebbels. Kamala Harris goes in as bad cop, righteously shouting down
whatever is said to her by Biden. The truth? You can't handle the truth.
After that show, imagine a second one where Elizabeth Warren, long-shot Biden VP pick
Florida Representative Val Demings, Kirsten Gillibrand, Stacey Abrams, and Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer all show up to stand by Biden, not believe Reade, and/or remain silent when
asked. Watching people force themselves to support Biden under these conditions is what I
imagine the Beach Boys looked like backstage trying to mix Viagra and meth so they could get
through "Surfin' USA" one more time.
To flesh things out, voters could call in to ask those Democratic leaders how the very
serious business of #MeToo got turned into just another political tool by the "party of women."
Alyssa Milano, whose take on the Kavanaugh hearings was that she believed all women without the
need for due process, could be brought out to explain how now "the notion that this should be
disqualifying to Biden in a race against Trump is patently ridiculous. Anybody who claims
otherwise is using sexual assault as a political football."
@Znzn The irony is that smokers and even smokers who quit are less likely to get Covid 19
according to statistics published recently. There's no justice in this world but I'm not
complaining, I quit 4 years ago.
"... "Actually, wearing masks on the street is stupid. First, in the open air, it is absolutely useless, only makes it difficult for people with disabilities to breathe. But, of course, in public places, shops, probably, wearing a mask should be left. Secondly, if you do not provide the entire population with masks, it will end in the fact that a person will buy a single mask and wear it forever, which will cause much more harm to health," Zverev says. ..."
The virologist also spoke about the possible introduction of a mandatory "mask regime"
throughout Russia, which is written about by the media.
"Actually, wearing masks on the street is stupid. First, in the open air, it is
absolutely useless, only makes it difficult for people with disabilities to breathe. But, of
course, in public places, shops, probably, wearing a mask should be left. Secondly, if you do
not provide the entire population with masks, it will end in the fact that a person will buy
a single mask and wear it forever, which will cause much more harm to health," Zverev
says.
He explains that after two hours of continuous wearing of the mask, it becomes wet, which
turns it from a means of protection to a means of infection with viruses and bacteria. Zverev
reminds that in addition to the coronavirus in the world, there are still a huge number of
infections that can also cause severe harm to a person, so it is not necessary to resort to
such measures yet.
Earlier, a mandatory "mask regime" was introduced in the Moscow region in order to prevent a
new coronavirus. For going out on the street without this means of protection, citizens of the
region face a fine of 4 thousand rubles.
Why would a medically competent country be investigated by a medically incompetent
one?
To play out classical imperial scenario. A team of foxes investigates a break-in into
chicken coup. The verdict is predictable: Xi/Putin/Maduro/whoever did it, whereas the fox
with feathers on its muzzle is absolutely innocent. That's the rule of law, imperial
style.
Everybody I know who was sick and/or had similar symptoms did so way before it was even
heard of in Wuhan.
That's an un-American fact. You have to remember that spreading the truth that undermines
the imperial propaganda line is punishable by indefinite incarceration w/o due process.
A commenter on a different thread noted this piece from The Onion, which does an excellent
job of explaining America's justifiable anger at China:
WASHINGTON -- Lambasting the rival superpower for what he called "reckless" and
"irresponsible" behavior, President Donald Trump publicly blamed China Monday for acting too
late in coordinating the U.S. Covid-19 response. "China knew our nation was facing a deadly
threat as early as January, and yet they did nothing to develop a plan we could use to slow
the spread of the virus," said Trump, noting thousands of American lives could have been
saved if Chinese president Xi Jinping had only taken the threat seriously from the start and
implemented a strategy to reduce the negative impact on the U.S. economy. "The Chinese
government just kept waiting and waiting, sitting on their hands as the outbreak spread
through the U.S. rather than leading our nation in the way it so desperately needed.
States shouldn't be left out to dry, putting together piecemeal pandemic responses. What
else is a strong Communist Party for? And now they're trying to cover it up, claiming the
U.S. isn't their responsibility."
At press time, Trump added the administration had obtained new intelligence suggesting the
Chinese government had engineered coronavirus in a lab in Washington.
@Adrian E. That's not how China flu spread from Wuhan to the entire planet. According to
all the LOL experts on UNZ the virus was created in a lab at Fort Derrick MD. Then all the
Americans who went to the Wuhan military games spread the virus around the bat soup and
butcher stands of Wuhan and went home cackling in glee at what they did.
Being American morons working for the eeeeevvvvviiiiiilll Trump administration they didn't
realize the virus would spread all over the world killing half the world's population in a
month.
6 months into the 2019-20 flu season and America still hasn't reached the deaths of the
2017/19 flu seasons. That may be true, but according to the Wise MEN OF UNZ, the bizarro
quintuple exponent math will soon arrive and we'll all die.
Coronavirus is one of the most common viruses around. They even vaccinate dogs and
domestic herds against it.
@onebornfree An old expression: "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," updated for the here
and now, boys: 'Video is the lowest form of information' [huge bandwidth, wastes much time to
watch in 'real' time, can't copy'n paste even the tiniest detail.]
Professor Neil Ferguson - whose dire coronavirus predictions prompted worldwide lockdown
measures still in place - broke his own advice on the need for strict social distancing to hook
up with his married lover , according to the
Telegraph .
On at least two occasions, Antonia Staats, 38, travelled across London from her home in
the south of the capital to spend time with the Government scientist, nicknamed Professor
Lockdown.
The 51-year-old had only just finished a two-week spell self-isolating after testing
positive for coronavirus.
Prof Ferguson told the Telegraph: " I accept I made an error of judgment and took the
wrong course of action. I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage [the
government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] . -
Telegraph
... ... ...
Ferguson, who resigned from his Government advisory position on Tuesday , predicted that
up to 500,000 Britons and 2.2 million in the US would die without measures. Somehow, Sweden -
which enacted virtually no measures to mitigate the virus. has a lower
per-capita mortality rate than the UK,
Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands - all of which enacted lockdown
measures.
And while his computer models were flat-wrong, Ferguson - who leads the team at
Imperial College London, has frequently appeared on media to support the lockdown and "very
intensive social distancing" measures.
Of note, Ferguson and Staats hooked up on March 30 - the same day he gave a public warning
that the one-week-old lockdown measures would need to remain in place until June.
I've always been fascinated by bicycle gear shifters based on deceptively simple 'chain
derailleurs'. The action is so smooth. I say the coronavirus crisis will not go to waste. The
'First World' will be smoothly 'down-shifted' to a 'Second World' (but not the communist
version). We will find ourselves eating small bowls of rice, with maybe a small fish. Doggy
bagging will not be cool anymore -- we will not be bringing the cultural left-overs from our
now-finished First World Feast back home 'for the doggy'. The hypercrafted implements of the
technosphere will be a stripped-down a bit, and some level of primitivism will cease to be be
held in contempt. Some of us will freak out, however.
The dems are incapable of finding a credible stand in for Biden.
Some flunky might come to the fore but thet will most likely be the result of a 'committee'
decision as the dems have cancelled democracy and decency.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 5 2020 18:31 utc |
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Seeing everyone get worked up over Biden is funny. Do you think you'll get a better
candidate? Bernie dropped out for a reason. He was never a real candidate. There will not be
any real candidate for change.
Killary's pretended "health problems" in 2016 seem like a fore-shadowing of Biden's. May
be she really is the ultimately "the one" in 2020.
It doesn't matter who the nominee is, and that's true for both parties. As I believe we all
know, Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and, to some extent, the bureaucracy, are
what drives the agenda. The goons heading up the parade are simply an odd form of bread and
circus.
Cthulhu couldn't destroy the US any more than its politicians and other leaders in its
other institutions (in education, in the entertainment and media industries, in the financial
sector, in the defence industry) have already done so perhaps his time has come.
RADDATZ: Do you believe it was manmade or genetically modified?
POMPEO: Look, the best experts so far seem to think it was manmade. I have no reason to
disbelieve that at this point.
RADDATZ: Your -- your Office of the DNI says the consensus, the scientific consensus
was not manmade or genetically modified.
POMPEO: That's right. I -- I -- I agree with that. Yes. I've -- I've seen their analysis.
I've seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly. I have no reason to doubt
that that is accurate at this point.
To summarize: Pompeo does not doubt that the virus has been genetically modified, but he
also does not doubt that is has not been genetically modified.
Could there be a more obvious demonstration that the man is FULL OF SHIT??
Those incompetent neo-confederates leading america into oblivion will jumble strategic
defeats with winning. So much for accountability, hard work and personal responsability...
Seems they can't compete fairly without superior military variable of adjustment and threat
of violence against adversaries. Orange springs eternal and their great white hope has now
adopted a paralizing rhetoric of victimization - republican lawmakers follow suit and are
going so far as invoking a western bid for monetary reparations from Chinese depredations. #
the art of winnig for maggots, derp.
"... These facts did not matter, not in the slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally immersed in the official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective reality. Herd mentality had taken over. It's difficult to describe how this works; it's a state of functional dissociation. It wasn't that people didn't know the facts, or that they didn't understand the facts. They knew the Iraqis weren't "terrorists." At the same time, they knew they were definitely "terrorists," despite the fact that they knew that they weren't. They knew there were no WMDs, that there had never been any WMDs, and still they were certain there were WMDs, which would be found, although they clearly did not exist. ..."
There comes a point in the introduction of every new official narrative when people no
longer remember how it started. Or, rather, they remember how it started, but not the
propaganda that started it. Or, rather, they remember all that (or are able to, if you press
them on it), but it doesn't make any difference anymore, because the official narrative has
supplanted reality.
You'll remember this point from the War on Terror, and specifically the occupation of Iraq.
By the latter half of 2004, most Westerners had completely forgotten the propaganda that
launched the invasion, and thus regarded the Iraqi resistance as "terrorists," despite the fact
that the United States had invaded and was occupying their country for no legitimate reason
whatsoever. By that time, it was abundantly clear that there were no "weapons of mass
destruction," and that the U.S.A. had invaded a nation that had not attacked it, and posed no
threat to it, and so was perpetrating a textbook war of aggression.
These facts did not matter, not in the slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally
immersed in the official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective reality. Herd
mentality had taken over. It's difficult to describe how this works; it's a state of functional
dissociation. It wasn't that people didn't know the facts, or that they didn't understand the
facts. They knew the Iraqis weren't "terrorists." At the same time, they knew they were
definitely "terrorists," despite the fact that they knew that they weren't. They knew there
were no WMDs, that there had never been any WMDs, and still they were certain there were WMDs,
which would be found, although they clearly did not exist.
The same thing happened in Nazi Germany. The majority of the German people were never
fanatical anti-Semites like the hardcore N.S.D.A.P. members. If they had been, there would have
been no need for Goebbels and his monstrous propaganda machine. No, the Germans during the Nazi
period, like the Americans during the War on Terror, knew that their victims posed no threat to
them, and at the same time they believed exactly the opposite, and thus did not protest as
their neighbors were hauled out of their homes and sent off to death camps, camps which, in
their dissociative state, simultaneously did and did not exist.
What I'm describing probably sounds like psychosis, but, technically speaking, it isn't not
quite. It is not an absolute break from reality. People functioning in this state know that
what they believe is not real. Nonetheless, they are forced to believe it (and do, actually,
literally, believe it, as impossible as I know that sounds), because the consequences of not
believing it are even more frightening than the cognitive dissonance of believing a narrative
they know is a fiction. Disbelieving the official narrative means excommunication from
"normality," the loss of friends, income, status, and in many cases far worse punishments.
Herd animals, in a state of panic, instinctively run towards the center of the herd.
Separation from the herd makes them easy prey for pursuing predators. It is the same primal
instinct operating here.
It is the goal of every official narrative to generate this type of herd mentality, not in
order to deceive or dupe the public, but, rather, to confuse and terrorize them to the point
where they revert to their primal instincts, and are being driven purely by existential fear,
and facts and truth no longer matter. Once an official narrative reaches this point, it is
unassailable by facts and reason. It no longer needs facts to justify it. It justifies itself
with its own existence. Reason cannot penetrate it. Arguing with its adherents is pointless.
They know it is irrational. They simply do not care.
We are reaching this point with the coronavirus narrative. It is possible that we have
already reached it. Despite the fact that what we are dealing with is a virus that, yes, is
clearly deadly to the old and those with medical conditions, but that is just as clearly
not a deadly threat to the
majority of the human species , people are cowering inside their homes as if the Zombie
Apocalpyse had finally begun. Many appear to believe that this virus is some sort of
Alien-Terrorist Death Flu (or weaponized Virus of Mass Destruction) that will kill you the
second you breathe it in.
This is not surprising at all, because, according to the official narrative, its destructive
powers are nearly unlimited. Not only will it obliterate your lungs, and
liquidate all your other major organs , and kill you with blood clots, and intestinal
damage, now it causes " sudden
strokes in young adults ," and possibly spontaneous prostate cancer, and God knows what
other medical horrors!
According to all the "scientists" and "medical experts" (i.e., those that conform to the
official narrative, not all the other scientists
and medical
experts ), it is unlike any other virus that has ever existed in the history of
viruses.
It certainly doesn't follow the typical pattern of spreading extensively for a limited
period, and then rapidly dying down on its own, regardless of what measures are taken to thwart
it, as
this Israeli study would seem to indicate.
Also, " we have no
immunity against it ," which is why we all have to remain "locked down" like unruly inmates
in a penitentiary until a vaccine can be concocted and forced onto every living person on
earth.
Apparently, this mandatory wonder vaccine will magically render us immune to this virus
against which we have no immunity (and are totally unable to develop immunity), which immunity
will be certified on our mandatory "immunity papers," which we will need to travel, get a job,
send our kids to school , and, you know, to show the police when they stop us on the street
because we look like maybe we might be "infected."
Germany (where I live) is way out in front of this. According to the Süddeutsche
Zeitung , the federal government plans to introduce a coronavirus "immunity card" as part
of its "Infection Protection Law," which will grant the authorities the power to round up
anyone "suspected to be contagious" and force them into uh "quarantine," and "forbid them from
entering certain public places." The Malaysian authorities have dispensed with such niceties,
and are
arresting migrant workers and refugees in so-called "Covid-19 red zones" and marching them
off to God knows where.
Oh, yeah, and I almost forgot the
germ and chemical warfare researchers at DARPA (i.e., the U.S. military's Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency) have developed some new type of fancy blood test that will identify
"asymptomatic carriers" (i.e., people who display no symptoms whatsoever).
And these are just the latest additions to a list of rather dystopian examples of the "
brave new
normal " official narrative that GloboCap is rolling out, right before our very eyes (which
the OffGuardian editors have
streamlined here and
here ,
and which continues on Twitter ). It's all right
there in black and white. They aren't hiding the totalitarianism they don't have to. Because
people are begging for it. They are demanding to be "locked down" inside their homes, forced to
wear masks, and stand two meters apart, for reasons that most of them no longer remember.
Plastic barriers are going up everywhere. Arrows on the floor show you which way to walk.
Boxes show you where to stand. Paranoid Blockwarts are putting up signs threatening anyone not
wearing a mask . Hysterical little fascist creeps are
reporting their neighbors to the police for letting their children play with other children
. Millions of people are voluntarily downloading "
contact tracing applications " so that governments and global corporations can monitor
their every movement. In Spain, they bleached an entire beach , killing
everything, down to the insects, in order to protect the public from "infection." The Internet
has become an Orwellian chorus of shrieking, sanctimonious voices bullying everyone into
conformity with charts, graphs, and desperate guilt-trips, few of which have much connection to
reality.
Corporations and governments are censoring dissent . We're
approaching a level of manufactured mass hysteria and herd mentality that not even Goebbels
could have imagined.
In his rush to accuse Beijing of unleashing the scourge of Covid-19 on an unsuspecting
world, the US Secretary of State said the coronavirus was man-made, before making a U-turn
without even blinking. "The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I don't have
reason to disbelieve them at this point," Mike Pompeo told ABC's 'This Week' when
asked about a statement from the US intelligence community that unequivocally said the
opposite.
Host Martha Raddatz twice asked Pompeo to clarify whether his view differed from that of
American intelligence, and he voiced his total support for the spies – though he stopped
short of actually saying "I don't believe the virus was man-made."
It will be very difficult admitting that humanity itself is the main problem for the
planet. Efforts will be made to find positive narrative for the coming cognitive dissonance.
Humans as the cancer in the organism is simply the best metaphor for this.
If you are a cancer cell, cancer is great. Growth, expansion, more resource use, sky's the
limit
It may not be difficult at all for 90+ percent of us. But it won't make any difference. We
have had Stockholm Syndrome, but if that does pass – well the underlying thing about
Stockholm Syndrome is with or without it you are still a prisoner.
I'm imagining dark smoky rooms where the cancer cell executive officers (CCEOs) meet and
go over the figures for YOY growth, look at lagging sectors, examine district fundamentals,
and then set the expansion goals for the next quarter. Probably going to need to implement
some means-testing and infrastructure spending to keep growth on track, maybe some targeted
resource allocation and redistribution to their biggest supporters.
Meanwhile there are some rebellious cancer cells that are starting to get the sense that
it's possible infinite growth models can't work if the world they inhabit is finite. You can
even hear the arguments if you strain: "We can't keep growing forever, we're going to kill
the host."
The CCEOs have large organizations to manage and can't be bothered with the naysayers.
"This is the way we've always done it, and this is the way we're going to keep doing it."
And as Larry Summers told Elizabeth Warren, who clearly took the lesson to heart, if you
want to be in the room where the decisions are made, you must never publicly critique or
dissent.
"... Is anyone else a bit concerned that AR15 wielding gunmen marched into Michigan's State House demanding they Reopen℠ the schools, as part of their "get back to work" protest? ..."
Yes, I am well aware that audible birdsong, dancing dolphins, and cleaner air and water have
come at tremendous economic cost. Which has not only been endured so far, but which will
continue to cause future suffering.
One other benefit has been the lack of school shootings in the US.
Is anyone else a bit concerned that AR15 wielding gunmen marched into Michigan's State
House demanding they Reopen℠ the schools, as part of their "get back to work"
protest?
The rednecks are inheriting the world, while the yuppies are too scared to come out of their
condo, unless uncle Bill blesses them with his magical vaccine. What a wonderful world to live
in.
Well, walking your dog around the home for 5 minutes with no other people around, will not
spread anything and will keep a better mental health. Italians have gone from total ignorance
to total isolation - another extreme. Unfortunately, many people are undisciplined and
careless, so there's no other choice. By the way, stop running: you may already have the
virus, making any physical effort will only waste your body energy to fight the virus
Its not the people in the open countryside or walking in the streets or relaxing in the
park spreading the virus its when people travel together in buses, trains or any crowded
environment.
The Camorra are scared of the Black Axe , Maybe if the mayors stopped turning a blind eye
to the growing threat of criminal gangs on there streets instead of bullying there citizens
Italy would be a safer place to live .
They've censored all the funny bits. Like how the mayor with the glasses says the f word a
lot and the one talking about hairdressing says the casket is closed, noones going to see
your new haircut when yo dead' 😂
i love their dark humour. viva italia! what a tremendous loss of the country's elderly
population, I love italian elderly, they have so much wisdom and charisma. what a loss.
I suppose that once in a while vital documentation (Apollo Moon missions, anyone?) goes
astray, slipping down the back of the couch or misfiled on the wrong shelf in the library
annexe. And occasionally the dog really did eat the homework.
Cretins like Steele openly flout the law, and are let away with it. There must be a law that
directs government personnel – and he was government – to take such steps as are
reasonable to preserve records they know or should know would constitute evidence, whether
condemnatory or exculpatory. Steele had to be well aware there was intense interest in this
material, and it is not difficult to imagine what the western reaction would be if some
pivotal Russian figure deleted all his records and then did the smiling palms-up thing in
court, so sorry, all gone.
It is likewise easy to imagine the information in the records was damning, because nobody
willfully wipes evidence they know will put them in the clear. And he will be allowed to get
away with it without any punishment because the people who would have to punish him are
likely the same people who told him to get rid of it.
Just like Hillary, and her self-appointed deletion of tens of thousands of emails she
deemed 'personal', although they were government property. No ordinary mook would be allowed
to get away with that. And they wonder – or pretend to – why the people are sick
to death of western corruption.
Nothing but overt hostility is acceptable – the USA never forgives its enemies. Oh;
unless they're Nazis. Oops, or Japanese. Hey; I'm starting to notice a pattern – the
USA is quite willing to forgive enemies it has conquered and bent to its own use.
Patterson had me until he said "The American people have never tolerated incompetence in
their public officials; you are going to crash and burn, my fatheaded friend". The poor fool.
Not only do Americans tolerate incompetence in their public officials, they expect it.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they welcome it, but their disappointment at learning yet
another public official is incompetent never seems to inspire a revolution such as America
constantly urges on other countries when their public officials are incompetent, or even when
America portrays their public officials as incompetents.
You have to watch the whole episode "Trash of the Titans" to appreciate the sarcasm behind
Patterson's statement; as it turns out, Springfield (as a microcosm of the US public) does
tolerate what Homer does next as the new Sanitation Commissioner.
In a bizarre real-life near-repeat of this episode, though Matt Groening and his fellow
creators would never have dreamed of it at the time, is that in the year 2000, Toronto City Council almost
went ahead with a proposal that was the same as what Homer Simpson does in the cartoon.
This is useless (most politicians are sexual predators; that comes with the territory) but
pitch perfect interpretation of Biden's Tara Reade story from Onion
"We'll be honest -- this isn't going to be cheap. It's not just going away like we thought
it would. We know it seems like we can coast off the media suppressing the story, but there's a
lot of important work to be done behind the scenes to ensure these accusations never see the
light of day.
These sexual assault allegations have already broken through to The Washington Post, and if
we don't meet our fundraising goal by midnight tonight, it could be front page news
tomorrow."
This is such a great thread: Top 10 Coronavirus clusters in the US? Prisons, meat packing
plants, a Navy battleship. Next 10? Prisons, meat packing plants, nursing homes. Next 10? And
the 10 after that? Prisons, meat packing plants and nursing homes .
Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence today issued
the following Intelligence Community (IC) statement:
"The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to
U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The
Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19
virus was not manmade or genetically modified.
"As we do in all crises, the Community's experts respond by surging resources and
producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security. The IC will
continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the
outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident
at a laboratory in Wuhan."
###
Satanists Playing
Us Like a Fiddle by Mike Stone. " Are we all being played? Played on a scale beyond our
wildest dreams? Let me take you on a journey, beginning with the 2012 Olympics. The opening
ceremony was designed and coordinated by Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting and
Slumdog Millionaire .
One of the segments, ostensibly a tribute to the National Health Service (NHS), featured a
stage filled with sick kids and hospital beds (hmm) and opened with the theme music from the
movie The Exorcist . (What does satanic possession have to do with sick kids and
hospital beds?) We see a Greta Thunberg lookalike hiding under the covers of her bed and
reading Peter Pan with a flashlight...
We see demons and ghouls and one girl's bed hovering off the floor, just like the levitation
scene in The Exorcist . Then we see - I kid you not - dancing nurses! Yes, dozens of
dancing nurses."
Blobsters are simply prostitute to the military industrial complex. No honesty, no courage required (Courage is replaced with
arrogance in most cases.) Pompeo is a vivid example of this creatures of Washington swamp.
Notable quotes:
"... historically courtiers themselves led their troops on the battlefield and considered it a question of honor for one or both of their oldest sons pursuing a military career, while Renaissance courtesans were among the most intellectual and educated women of their epoch. Neither is true for blobsters and blobstresses. ..."
"... In French and (I think) most other romance languages, the words for courtier and courtesan are the same. Something to think about. ..."
On the other hand, though, historically courtiers themselves led their troops on the
battlefield and considered it a question of honor for one or both of their oldest sons
pursuing a military career, while Renaissance courtesans were among the most intellectual
and educated women of their epoch. Neither is true for blobsters and blobstresses.
When the US reported the first case of #COVID19, President Trump said it's totally under
control. The number is surging, while he and his administration keep deflecting the blame on
China. Now, the infections in US surpasses 1 million. What will Trump say?
"What to do about it? There may be no cure for those invested in this way of thinking
since it involves deliberate but disavowed states of mind that are impenetrable. If cure is
elusive, next best is a set of remedies. Effective communications to counter the appeal of
pseudostupidity matter. Questioning an 'official view' and demonstrating its consequences are
crucial . 'Help me understand how you could have remained ignorant about asymptomatic
community spread when the rest of the world knew it and you had CDC experts literally within
a stone's throw of your office? Same for your decision now to reopen businesses without
following even minimal guidelines or consulting with the mayor of your largest city?
Undoubtedly, you are concerned about your citizens and your health care workers. What gives?'
Though such messaging is unlikely to get through to Kemp, it is important for it to reach
the public widely . [My Emphasis]
China is going to have to pay some form of massive compensation to Western nations or we are
going to have to go to war to take the money they owe us.
And yes, I'd rather risk a nuclear holocaust than surrender the future of our planet to the
ChiComs.
xxx Target Practice, 4/27/2020, 2:12:11 PM
When do we start bombing Chinese caves?
xxx 4/27/2020, 2:27:32 PM
Trump was very successful at laying blame on China – just as the lethal 1918 flu
epidemic that began in US Army camps and killed millions of people was successfully marketed to
the public as the 'Spanish flu.'
Unpredictable, extremely contagious, difficult to treat, difficult to prevent via vaccine,
dangerous enough to shut down economic activity but not to cause excess deaths, instability,
and perhaps all-out war. Considering how insane, nihilistic, and stupid the US's leaders are,
it wouldn't surprise me if they deployed this virus in China without assuming, or caring
about, blowback in the US. As with most big deep state actions, this theoretical bioweapon
provides multiple goods to the deep state:
Massive pharma profits
An excuse to reorder the economy to the benefit of the oligarchy
Make workers even more insecure and desperate
Install more surveillance
Work to get rid of physical money
Further devastate enemies under economic sanction
Safely deflate banking/corporate debt bubbles
Shift trillions to the donor 0.1% and corporations
Egyptian lawyer demands China pay $10 trillion in coronavirus damages
CAIRO: Social media users in Egypt have shared an injunction issued by an Egyptian lawyer to
Chinese President Xi Jinping calling on China to pay $10 trillion due to the damages caused by
the coronavirus in Egypt.
ZH reader "Doge" demands China pay $75 trillion in damages. Doge will share the compensation
with other ZH posters. Those that blame Jews for raining today will not get compensation. Those
that blame 5G on the earth being round will not get compensation.
xxx 3 hours ago (Edited)
Leave it to ZH. Post a conspiracy theory as to the origin of the virus, but apparently its
not 'deep state' enough for the Oracles of Zero Hedge who all know better and post
counter-conspiracies, one more improbable than the last. Occams Razor it seems has been sealed
in a safe stored in an underground vault inside of a volcano, never to see the light of
day.
Meanwhile the salaried government propaganda staff of the nefarious parties to this all
battle each other here in a desparate war to win the public hearts and minds of the public in
order to claim some sort of PR victory for their bosses. PS are there any 'regular' commenters
left here form 10 years ago? They all seem to have been elbowed out of the way by the nuts
occupying the fringe and uniformed apparchniks.
Time for another bag of quarantine popcorn.
xxx Son of Loki, 3 hours ago (Edited)
Nigeria just filed a lawsuit against China claiming over $200 Billion in damages.
Nigerian lawyers sue China for $200 billion over coronavirus damage
Recent reports said that the lawyers demand $200 billion in damages for the "loss of lives,
economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption
of the normal, daily existence of people in Nigeria," according to a statement by the lead
counsel, professor Epiphany Azinge (SAN), whose firm, Azinge and Azinge, is championing the
action.
The worldometer-coronavirus data for Netherlands and UK is hilarious: number of recovered is
not reported (N/A) but can be computed from cases, deaths and active-cases as
recovered = cases - active_cases - dead
When you do this you find out that almost no one is recovering in the UK or Netherlands, the
estimated CFR will be on the order of 0.95. Apparently they can't collect statistics. I'll give
you exact numbers later in the day, when more countries have reported the latest
developments.
If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a
few days. Permanently. I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured
and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then
I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global
interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of
the USA but now -- oddly enough -- a foreign country. I would then reduce the military
budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would
be more than enough money. One year's military budget of 330 billion dollars is equal to
more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born. That's what I'd do on
my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated .
PS: having lived in third world countries I can give you a warning if you’re thinking of moving to Costa Rica or similar
places. The people there don’t like loaded-freeloaders. Most of your retirement will be spent on security.
And just wait ’til you get your first emergency. Seriously, you’re going to be waiting a good while.
America still has the best GOVERNMENTAL services in the WORLD. Ouch I said the “G” word.
Little known secret: Libertarians don’t turn down fast rides to the hospital.
The dramatic range of effects generated is what I see as most troubling--they're all over the
anatomy and demographically, likely due to its numerous mutations. Personally, I'm rather
pleased I'm able to remain mostly isolated and watch daily events pass along while observing
behaviors of assorted actors. I'm finding Chinese media to be the most accurate about the
virus itself with Russian media best at political-economic analysis. Trump and Pompeo have
done an excellent job of isolating the Outlaw US Empire further by their alienation of allies
and attempts to deflect their dereliction of duty. Now emerging from the swamp is a creature
capable of taking votes from both Biden & Trump--Justin Amash.
This is a rehash of previously available information, with some fearmongering
andchina-bashing added as a spice.
But it provides a good overview of fact and suspicions around Wuhan biolab.
The range of opinions in comments reproduced below is very interesting overview of the
reaction of different strata of the US society on the coronavirus.
Western intelligence agencies are "looking closely at the work of a
senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Peng Zhou, " as part of a joint
international investigation into the origins of COVID-19, according to the
Daily Telegraph .
In a
stunning expose , the Australian newspaper reports that " the Five Eyes intelligence
agencies of Australia, Canada, NZ, UK and US, are understood to be looking closely at the work
of a senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Peng Zhou , as they examine whether
COVID-19 originated from a wet market or whether the naturally-occurring virus may have
been released from the level four laboratory in Wuhan that was studying deadly coronavirus
pathogens from bats."
Of course, the name of Peng has been long familiar to our readers, and would have been
familiar to far more people had Twitter not decided to arbitrarily suspend the Zero Hedge
account over a report exposing Mr. Zhou
.
As we reported in
January - posting publicly available professional contact information and suggesting people
ask him about the outbreak near his lab - Peng, head of the Bat Virus Infection and
Immunization Group , sought to hire two post-doc fellows last November, who would be tasked
with using bats "to research the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated
coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases."
One press release from his lab was titled: " How bats carry viruses without getting sick. "
Via the
Telegraph :
It can be revealed that Zhou -- the head of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunity Project
at the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- spent three years at the bio-containment facility,
Australian Animal Health Laboratory between 2011 and 2014 , where he was sent by China to
complete his doctorate.
During this time, Zhou arranged for wild-caught bats to be transported alive by air from
Queensland to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Victoria where they were euthanised
for dissection and studied for deadly viruses .
His work was funded jointly by the CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It examined bat immunology and the role of interferons and how "bats are rich reservoirs
for emerging viruses, including many that are highly pathogenic to humans and other mammals"
and "many of which cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and other mammals.
"
Western intelligence is also looking into the work of the original "Bat Woman" Shi Zhengli,
a colleague of Zhou who is the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As we
reported in February , Shi notably co-authored a controversial paper in 2015 which
described the creation of a new virus by combining a coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe
bats with another that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice .
This research sparked a huge debate at the time over whether engineering lab variants of
viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.
As
Nature.com reported in 2015 , the findings reinforce suspicions that bat coronaviruses
capable of directly infecting humans (rather than first needing to evolve in an intermediate
animal host) may be more common than previously thought, the researchers say.
Zhengli also spent time in Australia as a visiting scientist for three months from
February 22 to May 21, 2006 where she worked at the CSIRO's top-level Australian Animal
Health Laboratory.
She used faecal samples of horseshoe bats to identify that they were the natural host for
SARS-like coronaviruses . -Daily Telegraph
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that researchers at the WIV
had collected bats in a cave over 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which carried
COVID-19 .
Also disturbing is that the lab had been operating in part on a $3.7 million grant from the
US government.
The Mail on Sunday has learned that scientists there experimented on bats as part of a
project funded by the US National Institutes of Health , which continues to licence the Wuhan
laboratory to receive American money for experiments. -
Daily Mail
In mid-April, the
Washington Post reported that the US State Department received two cables from US Embassy
officials in 2018 warning of
inadequate safety at Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was conducting 'risky studies' on
bat coronaviruses
, according to the report - which notes that the cables have " fueled discussions inside the
U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus ."
According to the Telegraph , the revelation comes as Australian politicians are ramping up
pressure on China to cooperate with the international investigation into the origins of the
novel coronavirus. According to Andrew Hastie, Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on
Intelligence and Security, " The Chinese Communist Party must take responsibility for the virus
that began inside their borders and work with the rest of the world to prevent it from
happening again. We are simply asking for transparency and co-operation."
Australia's official position is that the virus likely originated in the Wuhan wet market,
however they are now considering whether the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
due to human error - a theory which US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo endorsed last week when
he told Fox News: " Look, we know it began at one [lab], but we need to figure this out ."
Jainbanksers , 31 minutes ago
And I thought the USA just paid Hundreds of Billions to these Spy Agencies just so they
can get their Intel from ZNN.
kanoli, 37 minutes ago (Edited)
When the "five eyes" tell you who they are studying, they are lying or misdirecting your
attention to the wrong suspect.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian colonel is correct . It was
deliberately released by US military at the Wuhan military competition in October. By
releasing it outside a lab the US was paying to research Coronaviruaes, the Wuhan Lab is the
perfectly believable patsy.
I wonder how this guy (Peng Zhou) and this woman ( Shi Zhengli) feels and how they can go
on with their lives, knowing they have literally killed over 200000 people around the world ,
causing 3 millions to be sick and destroying the entire world economy. I know their heads is
possible filled with all kind of things, being so smart and that kind of thing, but there
should still be some room for bad conscience
Shemp 4 Victory, 23 minutes ago
I wonder how this guy (Peng Zhou) and this woman ( Shi Zhengli) feels and how they can
go on with their lives, knowing they have literally killed over 200000 people around the
world , causing 3 millions to be sick and destroying the entire world economy.
How do you feel pushing vengeance, retribution, and war over something which thus far is
based purely on speculation and propaganda?
I know their heads is possible filled with all kind of things, being so smart and that
kind of thing, but there should still be some room for bad conscience
Maybe you should apply some of that to yourself, unless you have a way to unkill the
victims of America's next war of aggression.
xxx 1 hour ago
That's an awful lot of words to say that virologists in China were studying viruses. Oh
the horror.
xxx 48 minutes ago
In a lab 200 yards from the Wuhan Market...where no bats were being sold...and 1000 miles
away from horseshoe bats...who were in hybernation.
xxx 47 minutes ago
Studying chimera viruses combining SARS, coronavirus, and HIV components.
xxx 22 minutes ago
Yes, your TV is omniscient.
xxx 1 hour ago
The Wuhan Laboratory of Virology was engaged in production of novel gain-of-function
chimera viruses based upon SARS and bat corona viruses.
A 'novel' virus is a virus previously unknown to science.
'Gain-of-function' means a virus increases in virulence as a result of an experimental
procedure.
A 'chimera' virus is a novel virus created by simultaneously infecting an animal with
multiple viruses, and the animal's immune system results in the creation of a 'novel chimera'
virus. With luck, the novel GMO exhibits gain-of-function characteristics over the original
viruses. You then run the virus through human tissue cultures... say of human lung
tissue.
The rationale for such work is to create virulent pathogens.
For 'study'. People like to study virulent pathogens and write papers about it.
Paid for with American tax dollars, signed off by the Obama appointee running the US
NIH.
The above described work was banned by DHS as too risky, so the US NIH simply out-sourced
it to China.
Where it blew up in their face and they hid the fact until it was too late.
There, I made the 'investigators' jobs a lot easier. Not that it will do any good.
xxx, 1 hour ago
Great article.
"Also disturbing is that the lab had been operating in part on a $3.7 million grant from
the US government."
Who approved the $3.7 million US grant? Did the Deep State's Dr. Fauci approve the grant?
Did this occur under Barry Sotoro's Deep State regime or Donald Trump's Presidency? Someone
in power needs to start asking some very serious questions about the Chinavirus.
xxx, 1 hour ago
The US NIH outsourced risky research banned by DHS to China. Which was illegal. So why do
these people still have jobs?
xxx, 1 hour ago
Yes, Fauci is reported to be the one who approved the money for the project.
Shemp 4 Victory
xxx 16 minutes ago
The US is pretty sloppy and careless too when it comes to their own bioweapons labs in
other countries.
Well now, I wonder how the Russian and Chi-Comm relationship is going about now? How about
Iran and the Chi-Comms? OPEC+? Africa? How about Singapore? Maybe Venezuela? How about any
oil producing Country that has been blown up by the Wuhan Flu?
The entire globe is furious with China and their Wuhan CCP Flu.
Wait what? Nobody? Maybe Creepy China Joe can dial Wuhan Flu on the Bat Phone?
China is the *** Hole of the World.
xxx 1 hour ago (Edited)
Anglo Zionists bark and bitch but the caravan moves on.
Your colonialist thinking needs to die, then we don't have to listen to all these temper
tantrums.
Deal with the pandemic.....there will be more to come. People have become too complacent,
greedy and numerous....when that happens, it becomes a breeding ground for viruses to snack
on all the abundance of hosts running around thinking they are god's chosen.
Its a good wake up call for humans.....humans are NOT always in control, and powerful as
they think they are. Maybe it had to take a few Chinks mingling with bats to drive the point
home.
In the end, excess always gets corrected. This is an opportunity to become more
sustainable.
But all these boomer assholes in power, they don't instill much confidence.
xxx 1 hour ago (Edited)
Dem anglo americunt bitchez already pissed off the entire Muslim world and Russia, but
that isn't enough. No, no....now they want to piss off China.
LOL
Western "intelligence".....the same one that brought us fake false flag attacks and
W.M.Dees....are now investigating stories on the grapevine.
If they had true intelligence, they would have blown the whistle about this in advance.
But they don't. They are talking **** right out of their asses as usual.
The Five Eyes racket is worried that they have been infiltrated and beaten at their own
game, without any bloodshed even needed. So they need a good old psyop to wiggle outta this
one.
China didn't close your economy, and didn't force western firms to do business in
China.
xxx beemasters, 1 hour ago
A “strange pneumonia” was circulating in northern Italy as long ago as
November, weeks before doctors were made aware of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China,
one of the European country’s leading medical experts said this week.
Coronavirus: ‘strange pneumonia’ seen in Lombardy in November, leading
Italian doctor says
How many people died because Pelosi and deBlasio told them to go into crowds? It's as bad
as those Italian mayors telling their people to go up and hug an infected Chinese
tourist.
xxx 3 hours ago
Question?
Are the "Western Intelligience Agencies", also going to question: Bill/Melinda Gates,
Anthony Fauci and the (((NWO))), since they are the ones actually behind this?
xxx 2 hours ago
"intelligence" agencies? Those people???
xxx 3 hours ago (Edited)
ZH scooped everybody on this one.
Didn't Fauci send $3.4 million of NIH money to Wuhan back in 2014, effectively outsourcing
the development of these things to China after we stopped doing that kind of stuff here?
Lots of blame to go around here.
Good thing the virus is a total dud.
xxx 3 hours ago
Empires in decline are in decline for a reason. Americans ain’t gonna learn jack
from this. Back to business as usual with China as soon as this is over.
xxx 3 hours ago
Americans have to fight not only China, but their own oppressive and traitorous political
class.
xxx 3 hours ago
The thing is, is people need to learn again what was once common knowledge. Buying cheap
junk because it's cheap costs you much more in the long run than buying quality the first
time around. When you buy something of quality, you buy it once. Well made items such as
furniture and electronics will outlive you. Even some forms of clothing will last a lifetime
or at least decades--well made shoes and boots can be resoled--Chinese junk cannot be. Tools
that are well made will last a lifetime and then some. Even certain cars will last decades
rather than 5-10 years.
My dad's bother's stereo--all hand made tube gear and giant, beautiful JBL speakers easily
outlived him and were worth far more when he died than when he bought them--even adjusting
for inflation.
The most expensive stereo gear that sells on Ebay are vintage JBL speakers and handmade
Marantz tube gear. Easily surpassing anything made that is new. Craftsmanship never goes out
of style and never really wears out--it can always be rehabbed. Even some of the hand made
discrete, SS gear that Marantz made now sells for thousands of dollars.
Spend your money wisely and you only spend it once.
xxx 3 hours ago
Question?
Who's going to investigate the "Western Intelligience Agencies" and their (((NWO)))
Masters and Bill Gates...Since they are the ones Really behind the Corona virus False
Flag?
xxx 3 hours ago
You know, I was reading through this article, and all the while thinking "yeah, OK, no
smoking gun but well worth looking into".
Until the very end where some land-whale smirks this out: " Look, we know it began at one
[lab], but we need to figure this out . "
Oh, well, that settles it.
If Mr "When's-lunch?" Pompeo says that this is a known-fact then it has to be a flat-out
lie.
I mean, his lips are moving, and not just because he is licking them.
xxx 3 hours ago
A known liar, telling the truth, can deflect it and create a very lovely lie.
xxx 3 hours ago
People say we can't trust the numbers from China. Like the US government is to be
trusted?
The government that hasn't told us the truth about anything for over 100 years. The entire
20th Century was nothing but lies.
In terms of Covid-19, I'd actually believe the Chinese over the USA being run by Fauchi
and Gates. After a month and a half, China found that Covid-19 wasn't what they thought it
was. They found that their own tests were faulty.
China overreacted and shut everything down, as we did. But when they figured out the
mistake, they opened back up. By the middle of March when my business was being shut down,
all the factories I worked with in China were back at 100% capacity.
China counted real cases. Which is why the numbers were so low.
Unless you've been to China, you are not qualified to criticize the country. I have been
there many times and I'll tell you that you see a far more robust economy than anywhere in
the USA. Do they copy everything? Yes. Is that right? No. But there is FAR more freedom of
enterprise in China than the USA. At least in China, you can start a business of
manufacturing something and stand a chance. In the USA unless you are a tribe member, you
aren't getting off the ground.
In the USA, Italy, UK, etc. They are counting anyone with a cold as Covid. Every death is
caused by Covid. If we counted dead because of Covid, instead of dead WITH COVID, our numbers
would be under 1000, perhaps even lower.
You count dead by something if it kills you. Since 99% of those who get the infection
across the population live, Covid doesn't kill. If you died with the infection, but were
already dying from kidney failure or sepsis, YOU DIDN'T DIE FROM COVID!!!!
It can not be proven that Covid caused the death in those cases.
If you died from an autoimmune reaction to Covid, you died from autoimmune disease. Not
the coronavirus.
Falsifying a medical record is a felony, punishable by a $250k fine and/or five years in
prison.
We really need to bring up some people on charges. Starting with the CDC and the governors
who allowed it.
xxx 3 hours ago (Edited)
Fauci knows...what... and ...when...
Decode it here for you.
Conceal Operation Virus In Detrick- 1st September.
Hehe.
xxx 3 hours ago
Why are we going after low level folks that work for a communist government.....
Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute (virologist) created SARS2 novel Corona Virus and
published multiple papers on it before the CCP removed and did a cleanup of all evidence of a
active bio-weapons program. Shi transferred proteins to the Corona cells to create a
transmutable virus that is otherwise inert to humans. Wuhan Institute is ground zero.
Little Princess Shi, Bat Women who flipped the SARs into a man eater.......
xxx 4 hours ago
Take a look at the largest Virus bank in Asia. Wuhan Institute of Virology in central
China’s Hubei Province preserves more than 1500 strains of virus.
Oh, now you wanna attack the same religion the CCP loves to oppress, torture and murder
for their body parts?
Thats interesting, are you looking for a new liver or maybe a heart transplant? Have you
ID’d a good match from those evil practitioners who won’t bow to Xi as god and
above all?
Funny you should mention that. Do you want to know the story behind the whole organ
harvesting mythology? Want to know a little more about the poor, oppressed "religion" that's
been pushing that narrative? Probably not, but for those who aren't afraid to look into it,
here you go:
Wow, for the reincarnated 4thStooging, you sure got born again hard for some China,
huh?
At the time, the Obama regime wasn't pushing us to the brink of war with China, Russia,
Iran, Venezuela, or North Korea. They tried, but failed, with Syria. So it was lots of fun
and games back then.
It's a little different when the current US regime is picking fights, for no reason other
than to cover up the corruption in our whole economic and political system, with opponents
which can put a serious hurt on this country.
Long ago are the days of akak tag teams and tales of roadside shitting in super modern
perfect China with AnAnonomous.
Yeah, AnAnonymous was fun to taunt, especially with the whole "Chinese citizenism" thing
because it was plain as day he wasn't Chinese, but Eastern European, perhaps Russian or
Ukrainian. Funny thing about AnAnonymous was that, although a lot of his theorizing was
amusingly farfetched, some of the things he said made sense and, in the six years he's been
gone from ZH, have proven to be correct.
Really gonna play running dog for the CCP knowing....knowing they were concealing and
feeding the planet ********.
If you're referring to the coronavirus, none of us, neither you nor I, know what happened,
and nobody is likely to know for quite awhile. What seems highly suspicious, though, is the
desperation exhibited by the State Department and the whole deep state apparatus as they
frantically try to blame China for something about which we don't know the nature or
origins.
Seriously, we don't know a damned thing about it. It's probably a naturally occuring
virus, but we don't yet know for sure. It might have been accidentally released from a lab in
Wuhan, and it might have been brought to Wuhan by some peasant from the countryside who
didn't wash his hands after crapping on the roadside, not realizing he was squatting atop a
virus-laden dollop of bat guano.
Yet look at the hysteria fanning the flames of hatred and war. It reminds me of July 17th,
2014, when MH-17 was shot down. Within half an hour, every CIA-controlled Western MSM outlet,
which would be all of them, was screeching about evil murderer Putin personally directing the
famous invisible Russian brigade in the Ukraine to shoot it down. Again, very suspicious
considering that nobody had any idea what happened.
The US government knows very well who shot down MH-17. They have radar recordings and
satellite imagery and could have made quick work of the investigation which has dragged on
for nearly six years now, yet the best "evidence" they can produce is the Bellingcrap clown
show. It's pretty clear that the US government is trying to protect whoever murdered the
MH-17 passengers and crew, and the immediate full-volume hysterics of "Russia Russia Russia"
look very much like the full-volume "China China China" hysterics being promoted today.
The big difference is that, with MH-17, there was clearly a crime committed and somebody
is responsible. With the coronavirus, we still don't know if anyone did anything to cause
this outbreak. We don't even know if an accident happened, let alone a crime. Yet you see
plenty of people here calling for China to be "held accountable" for something which at this
point is still in the realm of speculation and propaganda.
Do you really think another war of aggression based on lies is something which will
benefit this country? That's what we've been doing since the end of WW2 and all it has done
is made those in power wealthier, established corruption as a core American value, bankrupted
the country, and left a wake of millions of people murdered. People get so wrapped up in
labels and ideology that, while they are busy hating some phantom they call "communism", they
don't realize that the corrupt and dying system that America has become is worse than
communism.
Then you come here prepared to pwn the trolls with....single source Sputnik.
You wanna know why? Because when a group of trolls made a concerted effort to claim that
international flights were still leaving Wuhan after the city had been locked down, it seemed
a little suspicious to me, especially how they all seemed to be pushing a virtually identical
narrative. I decided to do some quick research to determine the actual timeline of events
regarding the lockdown in Wuhan, and selected the Sputnik site because they have made it easy
to navigate their archives by date. This made it the logical choice since I was looking for
the sequence of events.
And guess what? The trolls like Teamtc321 and his cohorts were lying, deliberately pushing
a narrative that they knew to be false in order to stir up war fever. No matter your opinion
of the Sputnik News spin, they do get the times, places, and dates correct, which is all I
was looking for.
The timeline presented by Sputnik, if false, would be easy to debunk, yet nobody has done
so. The only response by the troll squad is to claim I'm a "*****" (except for the times when
I'm an Iranian or a Russian or a Syrian or a Venezuelan). So if you think the sequence of
events presented by Sputnik is wrong, throw some links here that show that it's wrong. I
would very much like to read them.
Now, I have no issue with Russia really, but Sputnik....a....I can see it now.
Da, you make is a funny, gives much the good laughings. Makes me momentarily forget that
our empire of lies is unraveling, and that rightfully angry Americans will be hoodwinked
again into blaming the coming misery on anyone but those who are responsible.
xxx 4 hours ago (Edited)
If You want to get to the bottom of what went on with the virus once it left UNC you will
find--hold on-- midget Fauci arranged a 3.7 million grant for Wuhan. UNC wanted to get rid of
it fast since it was becoming obvious they were dealing with a bio-weapon that was in the
process of achieving "gain" and was mutating like mad. But evidently it's OK for Fauci to be
a traitor since 700 k of the money was OKed by the Trump adm. This is a huge smoking gun to
take out Fauci but no one will report it.
Shi- Zhengli, a colleague of Zhou who is the director of the Center for Emerging
Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the key player in this sordid
tale.This woman is the bottom of the food chain she's were it all begins and ends. She
literally hung out in bat caves forever studying these nasty creatures and few know as much
about them as she does. The whole game was to introduce gain into the virus.They not only
wanted it to contain hiv and sars virus' but as many as possible so it would be so wicked it
could kill of millions instead of thousands. Almost worked too.
There are probably more than one strain of the virus could be five. Some think the strain
that the Wuhan and Iranians got was a lot deadlier than others like spread in the US with the
possible exception of NYC. It's all conjecture at this point its hard to say. All we know is
the chicoms lied their asses off about everything and killed anyone who could tell tales.
Supposedly shi zhengli "accidentally" released the virus at the Wuhan labs not once but
three times. Could be a new world record for Bevis and Butthead handling of deadly
bio-weapons.We may never know what actually happened.
xxx 4 hours ago
“But evidently it's OK for Fauci to be a traitor since 700 k of the money was
OKed by the Trump adm. This is a huge smoking gun to take out Fauci but no one will report
it.”
Report it on social media.....
xxx 4 hours ago (Edited)
I’ve said it before - I’ll say it again:
THANKS SCIENTISTS FOR CREATING A SAFER WORLD!
Look who’s paying a dear price for your science experiment run amok now... The price
of playing god...
The public one is our state leader, Daniel Andrews, who under cover of Coronavirus, has
banned hunting, fishing, golf and the use of recreational boats.
Funny that, left wing inner city types who vote for him don't do any of those things.
Instead they clog up the roads with their bicycles (permitted).
Bret Stephens is one of the super dumb columnists of the New York Times . In
today's column he argues for lifting the lockdowns and writes :
Right now, there's a lot of commentary coming from talking heads (many of them in New
York) about the danger of lifting lockdowns in places like Tennessee.
Perhaps the commentary needs to move in the opposite direction. Tennesseeans are
within their rights to return to a semblance of normal life while demanding longer
restrictions on New Yorkers.
I write this from New York, so it's an argument against my personal interest. But I
don't see why people living in a Nashville suburb should not be allowed to return to
their jobs because people like me choose to live, travel and work in urban sardine
cans.
I sincerity doubt that Bernie supporter would vote for Neoliberal Dems (Clinton wing of Democratic Party) at all.
Most probably will vote for the third party, or not vote at all. Few will vote for Trump -- much less then in 2018 as it is
not clear what Trump represents and it has nothing to do with bernie program.
What? After appointing Summers as an economics advisor!? I don't get that as a progressive
move, especially after (Biden ally) Pelosi appoints Shalala to oversee CARE. In fact I see no
explicit concessions to progressives by the D's or Biden and would welcome the chance to be
wrong.
Meanwhile, in my neighborhood, one car with a "Bernie" sticker now has a (home-made) "F*ck
Biden" sticker. So there's at least one person Status Quo Joe hasn't convinced.
Yep. The Southern firewall is such an absurd phenomenon. Use a bunch of states that will
not influence the general election to winnow the candidates in the primary election.
Same
thing in reverse with California -- IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT SANDERS WON CALIFORNIA because
California is going to vote blue in the fall.
If the Democrats want to win (which is not a foregone conclusion), then they need to
structure the primaries around the swing states.
"... Booker played a character (they all do, but some are polished versions of themselves) for so long, I'm not sure he is real. He played Obama, the servant of the men in suits, before Obama but less cool. ..."
Booker played a character (they all do, but some are polished versions of themselves) for
so long, I'm not sure he is real. He played Obama, the servant of the men in suits, before
Obama but less cool. I haven't watched "Streetfight" in ages, but he had the vibe of a Booker
T Washington follower if there was more than a character there.
Adolph Reed was clearly referring to Obama way back in 1997, but Booker fit most of the
description of a "new black" politician.
"All patients with Lupus (an autoimmune illness) get hydroxychloroquine as a preventive
medical treatment and take it all the time. There is no single case known yet that such a
person got covid-19."
Only some 0.05% of people have Lupus. There is NO statistic available that shows that
Lupus cases do not acquire Covid-19. None!
"HCQ has to be given as early as possible. And it works in different and important
ways:
prevents the virus from replicating (in conjunction with Zinc); and
protects hemoglobin."
None of those alleged protections has a scientifically explained causation chain nor have
there been any serious studies that prove what you claim.
May I suggest you try drinking bleach to defeat the virus?
If 99% of cases of infection happen in closed spaces and/or in open spaces with very close
and long contact (stadiums, parties, festivals, concenrts, atc) is it really wise to limit
activities in which social distancing can be maintained, such as jogging, fishing, biking,
etc
Also the policy on mitigation (complete suppression is impossible now) should vary by
locality. What is good for NYC is idiotic for rural Pennsylvania.
As the jogger struggled with police, screaming for help, she was filmed by residents who had
absolutely zero sympathy for her plight. 'What's not fair is that you go out running, you
bloody idiot!', shouted the woman apparently filming the encounter."
Now we have Covid-19. Unlike 9/11 we have seen no evidence so far that China deliberately
unleashed this virus on the world. There is certainly evidence, however, that it resulted from
the policies of the Chinese Communist Party and that Beijing's habitually duplicitous and
criminally irresponsible actions allowed it to spread around the globe, leading to tens of
thousands of deaths that could have been avoided.
My bank now has traffic pylons outside the door. They ask the following questions if you
want to enter:
-Have you been out of the country ? Answer; How am I going to be out of the country when the
airport is closed?
-Do you have any symptoms ? Answer: If I had I would be at the hospital
-Have you associated with anyone who has the symptoms? Answer: If I thought they did I would
ask them to go to the hospital and so would I.
-Sir! There is no need to be rude. Answer: Far from it. You are asking questions parrot
fashion. Questions that do not make any sense.
After getting MY money out of THEIR pockets I proceeded to the auto mechanic for front
brakes.
Joker: Am I allowed to come inside ?
70 Year old Mechanic Unmasked : Sure, you are the only customer today. You can keep me
company while I do the work. I cannot afford to lose customers.
Anyway, China will always be second rate compared to any large White country.
A tale of two white countries: large white countries: It really is ironic that Russians are now watching Americans stand in line for food and
toilet paper.
It really doesn't matter if the virus was created by man or by the nature! The bottom line is
that this virus is very smart and knew in advance in what country it should spread the most!
There's place on earth which is governed by an incompetent, narcissistic sycophant, and a tv
reality-show-star who should be brought down! Now due to the incompetency of its leader
millions of innocent people have, still are, and will continue to paying the price by the
loss of their livelihood and their own and their family security! Unfortunately since 1980
it's been proven that the self serving groups have been pushing the incompetents forward in
order to achieve their own agenda! Finally they've been caught with their pants down and
their asses in the grind! Let's see if these groups can survive for another day!
I love the lawsuit meme: When one thinks about it, even pre-lockdown USA had millions of
ambulance-chasing lawyers, more in fact than the ranks of the PLA, and undoubtedly with fewer
ethics and compassion than their Chinese foes. China doesn't stand a chance.
Only an idiot attacks the guy who loans them money.
China is the biggest taker of US treasuries, once they are gone who will provide the money
to offset all that debt the US keeps building up year after year after year.
"... Darwin already seems to have worked the entire neoliberalism which the useless rags mentioned in the article represent out of the future geopolitical landscape of the Earth ..."
Darwin already seems to have worked the entire neoliberalism which the useless rags mentioned
in the article represent out of the future geopolitical landscape of the Earth.
And the
progressive bearers of fake college degrees like "grievance studies" out of the ability of
doing anything but filthiest menial work in the new economic reality.
Ted Arison, the Israeli-American founder of Carnival [Covid] Cruise Line is among those
appointed to advise president Trump on how to open up the US economy. Perhaps, as music to
the ears of a seasoned New York real estate shark, he will advise Trump to blame China and
then default on the China debt mountain. Litigation pays as Arison is about to find out.
Pompeo is widely known for "brazenly inserting his evangelical Christian beliefs into
discussions of foreign policy," as The New York Times reported in earlier editions of this 2019
article . But it was not known until now that he has been ignoring the Constitution's
critical tenet of separation of church and state to preach the gospel to foreign leaders while
on the taxpayers' dime.
The New York Times has become one of the registers of the "Mighty Wurlitzer", which after
having played the popular hit piece "Russiagate" for a few years has a new tune,
"Chinagate".
I now appreciate even more my decision to cancel my NYT subscription a few years ago,
around the time I became a regular reader of Consortium News.
What Did U.S. Intel Really Know
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -
If our intelligence outfits are anything like when I served in a combat unit, they knew
nothing about the virus.
Why do you keep insisting that China should have contained a virus of which they had no prior
knowledge? When they had more information they locked down the city. A move which your
government cried "authoritarian!" What has your government done since learning about it?
That's really strange: where is the danger here? Virus outside does not spread well and die
on surface really fast, especially under the sun radiation. It is mostly closed space game. And
as long as people maintain "social distance" there is no reason to restrict activities. Whom they
hurt?
That's really strange: where is the danger here? Virus outside does not spread well and die
on surface really fast, especially under the sun radiation. It is mostly closed space game. And
as long as people maintain "social distance" there is no reason to restrict activities. Whom they
hurt?
Joe Biden's louche son Hunter -- known for his hearty indulgence in drugs and his sexual
adventures with strippers -- is a perfect specimen of humanity under this system. If he gets
more stimulation than others, everyone else should get enough. And if they don't, they mustn't
complain, they should ask for a program.
He is though [candidate of fear]. The absolute driving impulse behind Joe Biden is fear of
Trump. Who is electing Biden because of his ideas and policies? There are articles that
literally say - "Joe, just have a pulse by the time of the election, that's enough for us."
I think that one was in Atlantic.
I mean what is Russiagate, that's pure scaremongering - those Red Russkies are back with
vengeance. The idea of return to safe, secure "normalcy", the good old days of calm and
peace, if only Trump can be removed.
One could say there are generally 2 honest standpoints on what is happening (ignoring the
dishonest ones). On the surface these 2 groups appear to have diverging opinions based on
essentially the same fear: What happens to the economy.
One group fears the extreme actions taken by governments and institutions are causing far
more damage to society and individuals in terms of economic damage, unemployment, eradication of
democratic and personal rights and ultimately also deaths. These actions are seen as real and
deliberate attacks on individuals and modern society.
The other group senses the same fear, but the fear is so strong that cognitive dissonance
kicks in to deny reality. One is simply not able to accept the implication of governments and
institutions willingly crushing society. So the official virus doomsday line is internalized as
the truth, instead of causing a revision of one's world view, even though the numbers show that
it is an irrational standpoint.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
If displaced, you're either a tourist, immigrant, refugee or occupier.
A decade or so ago, an American in Europe asked me when I planned to move back to the USA.
My reply, "When the Republic is restored," was met with nervous laughter.
Not really a turning point, certainly not in the sense of a reversal. And there’s no war, because for a war you need two
sides. The dumb hicks may rail against shadowy “globalists”, but are too stupid to realize that they themselves are
globalists. The hicks want their cheap computers, and the thousands of other things manufactured by slave labor in China, and
the globalists are happy to provide them. Yet the same dopes chanting USA! USA! (the forces of nationalism, at least in
America) don’t understand that empire has downsides as well as advantages.
The coronavirus pandemic is an example of the cost of empire, the ... technological empire that has come to cover
the whole world.
In that way, it resembles previous plagues, such as the plague of Justinian in the sixth century, and the Black Death in
the fourteenth...
Problem: ZUS Stimulus checks, arrival Thursday, April 16, into direct deposit accounts.
An old friend and colleague Scranton school bus driver, Bill Hopkins, called late afternoon
and with great cheer, he hollared, "Merry Christmas, Chuck!" Later I checked my FNB debit
account, and yes, was "Merry Christmas" for me too.
As the Federal Reserve has accomplished a "hostile takeover" of Santa's money production
factory, the necessity to liberate our home turf has become a greater challenge.
Voila, the US Moneychangers "bank" on the Garden of Eden truism, Eat from the vine and you
are mine.
Joe Biden says he'll bring dignity back to the Presidency. Nothing is more dignified than
a confused, bungling, old man bumping into walls with a long history of groping and hair
sniffing and dozens of money scandals in his family.
At the grocery. Wearing my mask. Lady behind me, snarky & loud enough to make sure I
heard, "don't guess she realizes that stupid mask won't do any good." Me: "Honey, I'm an off
duty nurse, I'm wearing it to protect YOU. But, I can take it off if you'd like." She
practically ran.
The reality of the #COVID19 pandemic
is that my patients have lost all faith in our healthcare system so even when they are very
short of breath or have low oxygen levels they refuse to go to the ER bc they're afraid they
will die in a corner and they would rather die at home.
The last guy you want to listen to about stopping a virus is Bill Gates. He couldn't even
keep viruses off of Windows. It's one reason many of us switched to Macs and we never saw a
virus ever again.
"... "No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative, even in a time of crisis," ..."
"... "rude and nasty" ..."
"... "He gave them everything that they would have wanted to hear in terms of gaining ground on the CoronaVirus, but nothing that anyone could have said, including 'it's over,' could have made them happy," ..."
"... "They were RUDE and NASTY. This is their political playbook, and they will use it right up to the election on November 3rd," ..."
Donald Trump slammed Democrats for a "rude and nasty" phone call with the vice president
over the Covid-19 pandemic, and theorized nothing will satisfy them as they try to "fool"
America in November's election.
"No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are
doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative,
even in a time of crisis," Trump tweeted on Saturday.
He added that his working relationship with Democrats during the Covid-19 pandemic has been
"even worse" than before and revealed senators held a "rude and nasty"
conference call with Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task
Force, on Friday where little progress was made.
"He gave them everything that they would have wanted to hear in terms of gaining ground
on the CoronaVirus, but nothing that anyone could have said, including 'it's over,' could have
made them happy," the president vented.
"They were RUDE and NASTY. This is their political playbook, and they will use it right
up to the election on November 3rd," he continued, adding that "America will not be
fooled!!!"
Pepsi is acting in solidarity with grocery workers by offering them 20 oz. sodas for only
$1 (Dr. Pepper not included). Just about makes me tear up, I tell ya.
The first rule of human thought is that everything is somebody else's fault. American whites
note that violent crime is mostly committed by blacks or Hispanics, who see all their problems
as due to whites. Terrorism is the domain of Muslems. Democrats blame everything on Republicans
and vice versa.
Most of the world points out that America causes most of avoidable destruction and suffering
on the planet. The Americans believe themselves virtuous, indispensable, exceptional, and
entirely dedicated to promulgating democracy. No group is itself guilty of anything.
@Pricknick
We will need some pitchforks to go with the torches before we get to use the guillotine.
to imagine the return, global wide, of the guillotine.
I have excellent wood craftsman skills.
Of course my forge could produce an all steel unit for the high usage required.
What more is being priced in by further economic misery? To the increasingly depressed it
smacks dangerously of depression alongside a Marie Antoinette-esque "Let them eat stocks" from
Wall Street...
Here come the depression-level data. US jobless claims soared a further 5.2
million in the past week, meaning that around
22 million jobs have now been shed in the past four weeks . That undoes all the jobs
created since the end of the Global Financial Crisis, which is seen as unprecedented in the
structural economic damage that it wrought. Yet we are still only four weeks in to this: does
anyone think the sudden slump in demand from 22 million newly unemployed, let alone the broader
impact of ongoing lockdowns, won't see a further massive initial claims print next week, and
the week after, and the one after that, and so on?
I have written about economics and markets for over 20 years and try (and often fail) to
detach myself from some of the wilder, more unusual, or more illogical and/or unsustainable
movements one sees. However, US equities rallying for a fourth successive week on the back of a
fourth successive print showing millions of US citizens losing their jobs is a real splinter in
the mind's eye : maybe if everyone loses their job equities could double?
A German team under Prof Streeck argues that workplaces don't spread the coronavirus as much
as play spaces: singing in a choir produces an aerosol and spray cloud, dancing together in a
room or bar, or nightclub apres-ski, also creates infective clouds, as would any confined space
where lots of people are in close contact breathing heavily. Although public health guidance
has been coy on this matter, orgies are probably best avoided.
On that theme, there are settings in which you are likely to get a big dose, a large viral
load, and others where the globules will be few and far between. As one caustic virologist
observed, getting out into the open air is a good defense against respiratory transmitted
infections: avoiding infection is a walk in the park.
Face masks, including ones that actually provide protection, are readily available
throughout East Asia – and elsewhere. A personal anecdote: relatives in Tunisia are
mailing me N95 masks which they purchased in their neighborhood pharmacies. Indeed, as of April
8, Tunisia had produced by their own resources, and distributed 30 million masks to a
population of 11 million. The equivalent here would be 1 billion masks! (Minus the 1 million
sent express to Israel by the Pentagon as a ritual gift of fealty.)
In America, we are offered instructions on how to sew a (probably useless) mask out of
discarded T-shirts. MAGA!!
Hospital directors fire nurses who buy their own equipment out of concern that they will be
upstaged and exposed as the callous, profit obsessed bozos they are.
Yet, we blind ourselves to the realities of other nations – because to do so is
embarrassing, because our so-called leaders are protecting their behinds, and because we
compulsively retain our dogmatic faith in American superiority.*
To me, Donald Trump is the American Gorbatchov. The man who wants to reform the system to
keep it running. What you've seen is a willingness to question the status quo. And the corona
virus is America's Chernobyl, where everyone sees what used to be mighty, but now is weak.
Remain calm, Bernie Sanders good friend creepy Joe Biden will set things right again. Come on
Bernie, tell us once again how 'solid' your good friend is. We are all waiting to hear you
endorse his good pick for vice president. That should be a blast.
@ 52 james...how will my view change over time? Too early to tell :-) But it would really
surprise me
if it didn't change over time.
One post-script, if I were John Durham I would stock up on hydroxychloroquine and Z-pac
and
make sure no one has switched out the Tylenol in my Tylenol bottle with ibuprofen.
*Consider this. During WW II, the Kaiser shipyard in Richmond, CA -- along with its 17
counterparts - were able to construct 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of
three ships every two days), In other words, it took each yard just twelve days to put a ship
in the water. That was the work of Rosie the Riveter and her colleagues. Today, we struggle to
produce a few thousand $1 face masks - much less reliable COVID-19 test kits. Of course, back
then the country was led by responsible adults -- not the bunch of clods and delinquents
we're stuck with nowadays."
The Air Force quietly announced that Boeing's manuals for Trump's new $5.3 billion
presidential jets are a bit pricier than your average automobile-repair guides.
President Donald Trump's much-touted $4 billion deal with Boeing for two new Air Force
One aircraft didn't include a key item: the instruction manuals.
The cost of these flight and maintenance manuals: $84 million, according to a U.S. Air
Force contract announcement posted Wednesday evening.
"This contract modification is to modify commercial manuals, update with VC-25B-specific
information and deliver integrated manuals for the VC-25B system," the announcement says,
referring to the next Air Force One aircraft by its military designation. "This includes
manuals developed by both Boeing and their subcontractors."
It's Boeing, they need it. Beats the $640 toilet seat.
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent
response:
"A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally
esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no
wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility,
no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama
was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly
sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said
anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don't say that rhetorically, I
mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the
British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of
a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And
like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them.
His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface. Some
Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally
side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick
Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a
spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of
privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling
sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic
decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could
never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the
vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he
does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter
of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other
people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two,
without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso
of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so
on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too.
But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to
make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful
Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God what
have I created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
This is from aged out of touch with reality politician who run Ukrainegate and impeachment
trial in December and January (Trump was acquitted on Feb 6) and stole the time and efforts for
the reaction to coronavirus.
Trump responded to the remarks Monday, calling the House speaker a "
sick puppy."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released to the public a letter to her Democratic colleagues
Tuesday in which she charged President Trump with missteps in handling the coronavirus pandemic
that "caused unnecessary death and economic disaster" in the United States.
Pelosi's letter
contained a bullet-pointed list of what she said was "the truth of what has put us in this
position." It included the following items: The truth is that Donald Trump dismantled the
infrastructure handed to him which was meant to plan for and overcome a pandemic, resulting in
unnecessary deaths and economic disaster. The truth is that in January Donald Trump was warned
about this pandemic, ignored those warnings, took insufficient action and caused unnecessary
death and economic disaster. The truth is that Donald Trump told his most loyal followers that
the pandemic was a hoax and that it would magically disappear, thus endangering lives and
paving the way for economic disaster. The truth is that we did not have proper testing
available in March despite Trump repeatedly claiming that we did; and even now, we do not have
adequate tests, masks, PPE, and necessary equipment, which creates unnecessary death and
suffering. The truth is because of an incompetent reaction to this health crisis, the strong
economy handed to Donald Trump is now a disaster, causing the suffering of countless Americans
and endangering lives. The truth is a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A
weak person blames others.
Pelosi's letter came as Trump presided over a Rose Garden briefing of his coronavirus task
force, at which he announced a halt to U.S. funding for the World Health Organization,
asserting the U.S. pays more than its fair share to support the body, which he said failed to
provide adequate warning about the coronavirus.
Clara 1 hour ago
But it's all Trump's fault.
Nancy, Nancy Nancy - when will people realize it is her and Schiff's goal to bring down Trump
regardless.
THIS IS A COPY AND PASTE
Jan. 20: The first human-to-human transmission was reported by a Chinese expert
Jan 22 Trump "we have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we
have it under control. It's going to be just fine."
Jan 23, Chinese authorities implemented a strict nationwide travel ban, but allowed
International flights.
Jan 24 Bill de Blasio "We urge all New Yorkers to continue to pursue their everyday activities and
routines"
Jan 25 Good Morning America "People should be more concerned right now with the flu in this country."
Jan 26: New York City's health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot "We are encouraging New
Yorkers to go about their everyday lives... those "who had recently traveled from Wuhan were
not being urged to self-quarantine or avoid large public gatherings."
Jan. 30: The WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern
Feb 1: President Trump instilled China travel ban. New York City had its first suspected
case of coronavirus
Feb 2 NYC health commissioner Bardot "As we gear up to celebrate the Lunar New Year in NYC,
I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans,
avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of coronavirus."
Feb 4 China's consul general in New York, Huang Ping, thanked the Chinese-American community and
other concerned Americans on Tuesday for their aid in battling the coronavirus outbreak, and
criticized what he described as "an overreaction by the American government in severely
restricting travel to and from China."
Feb 5: New York Times "Who says it's not safe to travel to China? The coronavirus travel ban
is unjust and doesn't work anyway." NYC Health Commissioner Barbot on Twitter, "Today our city
is celebrating the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown... I want to remind everyone to enjoy the
parade and not change any plans due to misinformation spreading about coronavirus."
Feb 6 Bardot: "The important thing for New Yorkers to know is that in the city currently,
their risk is low and our city preparedness is high...We're telling New Yorkers, go about your
lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life. . . If it were likely that it could be transmitted
casually, we would be seeing a lot more cases."
Feb 9: Chinatown in New York City held its annual Lunar New Year parade. Surgical masks were
nearly absent from this parade. Councilman Mark D. Levine on Twitter, "In powerful show of
defiance of coronavirus scare, huge crowds gathering in NYC's Chinatown for ceremony ahead of
annual Lunar New Year parade. Chants of 'Be Strong Wuhan!' If you are staying away, you are
missing out."
Feb 12 The House Judiciary Committee on voted, 22-10, to terminate President Trump's
expanded travel ban and rein in presidential authority to issue such travel restrictions.
Feb 13: New York City Council speaker Corey Johnson "It is important to support the Chinese
community in New York City...There is no need to avoid public spaces. I urge everyone to dine
and shop as usual." Bill de Blasio "This should not stop you from going about your life. It should not stop you from going to
Chinatown and going out to eat. I am going to do that today myself."
Feb 25: Dr. Anthony Fauci "You need to do nothing different than you're already doing"
Feb. 26: In a press conference, President Trump said the risk to Americans remains low.
Feb 28 A German team of doctors in Wuhan, China, "we discovered that shedding of potentially
infectious virus may occur in persons who have no fever and no signs or only minor signs of
infection."
Feb 29:The Food and Drug Administration declared that other labs besides their own could
develop their own coronavirus tests.
March 1 Health officials announced the first confirmed case in New York
March 2 Governor Andrew Cuomo "In this situation, the facts defeat fear, because the reality
is reassuring...The woman who has now tested positive, she's at home, she's not even in a
hospital, so the perspective here is important. And the facts, once you know the facts, once
you know the reality, it is reassuring, and we should relax, because that's what's dictated by
the reality of the situation. I get the emotion, I understand; I understand the anxiety. I'm a
native-born New Yorker, we live with anxiety. But the facts don't back it up here. . . .
March 10. NYC Mayor DeBlasio encourages NYC to go out and enjoy the city More Reply Replies
(53) 299 119 M Michael 2 hours ago THE TRUTH: Jan 27 - Vox - "The House will soon vote on a bill to repeal Trump's travel ban -- as he gears
up to expand it. Nancy Pelosi says she will bring the NO BAN Act, filed by Democrat Rep. Judy
Chu [CA-27], to the floor in the coming weeks."
Jan 28 - Business Insider - "flu is a far bigger threat to most people in the US than the
Wuhan coronavirus" LA Times - "The new coronavirus isn't a threat to people in the United States - but the flu
is"
Jan 30 - CDC - confirmed the 6th coronavirus infection, also the first "known"
human-to-human transmission within the U.S. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield let us know that
"the immediate risk to the American public is low." WHO - urged countries not to restrict travel or trade in response to COVID-19
Jan 31 - CDC - confirmed the seventh coronavirus infection, a male who traveled to Wuhan.
"We are preparing as if this were the next pandemic, but we are hopeful still that this is not
and will not be the case," the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory
Diseases, Dr. Nancy Messonnier said after this news came out.
Jan 31 - President Trump announced that all foreign nationals who had traveled to China
except the immediate family members of US citizens or permanent residents won't be allowed into
the U.S. effective February 2nd, 5 pm (EST). Which was immediately ridiculed by the media and
the Democrats.
Feb 1 - Joe Biden sent the following tweet: "We are in the midst of a crisis with the
coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science -- not Donald Trump's record of hysteria,
xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a
global health emergency." So, if Biden were the POTUS, would he have listened to the clowns at
the WHO, CDC, and NCIRD and have done nothing? Washington Post - "Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for
now." New York Times "Beware the Pandemic Panic - (used to justify unnecessarily severe limits on
movement and civil liberties)"
Feb 4 - Politico - "Coronavirus quarantine, travel ban could backfire, experts fear"
cry me
2 hours ago
What the media doesn't want you to know:
January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel
to and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump's decision "hysterical
xenophobia and fear-mongering."
January 11: Chinese state media report the first known death from an illness originating in
the Wuhan market. January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of
impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the "solemn" occasion with a
signing ceremony, using commemorative pens. That same day, the first person with coronavirus in
the United States arrives from China, where he had been in Wuhan. January 21: The first American case of coronavirus is confirmed at a clinic in Snohomish
County, Washington. January 23: The House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President
Trump. January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to
the rest of China. January 27: The White House convenes a special task force to deal with the emerging threat of
coronavirus. January 29: The president chairs a meeting of the White House coronavirus task force for the
first time. January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president's
impeachment trial. January 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency as coronavirus
continues to spread. January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the
impeachment trial. January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel to
and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump's decision "hysterical xenophobia
and fear-mongering." February 2: The first death from coronavirus outside China is reported in the Philippines. February 3: House impeachment managers begin closing arguments, calling Trump a threat to
national security. February 4: President Trump talks about coronavirus in his State of the Union address; Pelosi
rips up every page. February 5: The Senate votes to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, 52-48
and 53-47. February 5: House Democrats finally take up coronavirus in the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Asia.
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed
is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness.
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my
brothers.
And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
Do I believe that Iraq had weapons of mass distruction -- no
Do I beleave that Russia used novachoc on the Skripals -- - no
Do I beleave the Syrian army used chlorine on the rebels -- -- no
Do I beleave Trump and U.K. Tory's would press the bio- button -- -yes
Do I beleave that US @UK lie about Russia, Iran, China and the Middle East -- - yes
Do I beleave the US @ U.K. want to reduce the world population by 50% -- -yes
Ditto their own populations -- -- -yes
We're dealing with three viruses here -- - coronavirus, internet/MSM misinformation and worse
of all psychological denial.
The last of those is what is destroying society.
Two things spread this virus -- -- -- -
(1) How dense the population is.
And
(2) How dense the population is.
The coronavirus epidemic had scarcely arrived on US shores when the Trump administration
declared "war" on it, in the grand tradition of the 'War on Cancer' or the 'War on Drugs'. But
these invisible wars don't end well. President Donald Trump declared war on the " invisible
enemy " – Covid-19 – last month, pivoting on a dime from downplaying the
pandemic to doing his best Churchill impression. The surgeon general and other officials have
referred to the coronavirus outbreak as another Pearl Harbor. The struggle against the
coronavirus, Americans have been told in no uncertain terms, is a war – but on whom?
For anyone running for office in modern
America, accusations of sexual assault are par for the course. But when it comes to weighing up these accusations, the US’
mainstream paper of record applies some very uneven standards.
Take Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. If doubts weren’t already raised by his fondness for
sniffing women,
the emergence last month of a sexual assault allegation against the former vice president could have caused a major headache for
his campaign.
Yet amid the coronavirus pandemic, and given the political leanings of most media outlets, the scandal barely registered.
The
Intercept ran a story in March on how Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer, claimed that in 1993 Biden pushed her against a
wall, groped her, and penetrated her with his fingers. Reade had spoken up about the alleged incident a year earlier, but was
met with accusations that she was doing Russia’s bidding. The US media was still doing ‘Russiagate’ back then, remember?
Two months ago 2 out of every 100 YouTube users were actual medical professionals. Today,
we have 97 pseudo medical professionals for every 100 users... especially the wacko group
that thinks 5G causes COVID-19.
Cuomo begged for makeshift hospitals including a Naval hospital ship that has 1000 beds
and only 20 patients are being treated as of yesterday. Yet 1200 employees sit idle as the
ship remains empty.
during the same Easter Walk, Faust has a few reflections on his previous work as a doctor
during the pestilence that fit the current times better than ever:
There was the medicine: the patient died.
And who recovered? No one asked.
So we roamed, with our hellish pills,
Among the valleys and the hills,
Worse than the pestilence itself we were.
I've poisoned a thousand: that's quite clear:
And now from the withered old must hear
How men praise a shameless murderer.
thanks b... the most significant outbreak in india is also associated with a religious
gathering in delhi.. they went ahead with the meeting and ignored what the gov't was saying..
in the case of kansas state, perhaps pompeo doesn't want to miss a chance to pray to his god
on a sunday and maybe it will work out for him and us here..
Gen. Jack Keane> - Our enemies , Russia, China, and Iran are using this
opportunity to spread misinformation claiming that we were unprepared.
But wait, isn't that exactly what Karl Rove said 60 seconds ago when he blamed Obama? Come
on Brian, you can do it, say something, let's at least see an uncomfortable look on your
face. No, the lights are off.
The country whose economy was supposed to be "in tatters" (Obama) delivers humanitarian aid
to the "indispensable nation" (Obama again). Not only was this aid delivered from a country
under US sanctions, the gear delivered was produced by a Russian company also under US
sanctions. The "grateful" US media immediately declared that this was a Russian PR action,
especially since 50% of the cargo was paid for by the US (the rest, including transportation
costs, were paid by Russia).
Things have never looked worse for the Democratic Party, which just lost the last semblance
of mental competence as Bernie Sanders drops out of the race. With Joe Biden withering by the
day, will Gov. Andrew Cuomo get the call?
What with the worldwide PPE shortages and Trump ordering seizures of Canada-destined
shipments from 3M, what's a poor vassal to do? This days after Canada officially declares the
NAFTA 'free-trade' deal ratified...
Ottawa Looks to Kushner, Other US Trade Officials to Resolve Medical Equipment Dispute
What I like best about George Galloway is his sly way of putting things, as in:
"Like the Grand Old Duke of York, though with far more than 10,000 men, he [Sanders] has
marched his army of young and blue-collar activists – which once looked likely to sweep
him to power – up to the top of the hill only to march them down again. Twice."
This guy is really a fearmonger who after sleeting for two months greatly contributed with
his idiotic interviews to the botched reaction of the US government to this crisis. He should
go
Notable quotes:
"... And now, after the Trump Administration scrambled to ramp up testing capacity and the states worked with the Feds, private entities, and others (including in some cases foreign nations) to distribute ventilators as Gov. Andrew Cuomo painted a horrifying portrait of sickened New Yorkers suffocating to death in hospital hallways because there were no ventilators available. ..."
"... Well, yesterday, NYC Mayor de Blasio said that, after a few days of near capacity numbers, hospitalizations have dropped by such a steep degree that the city believes it has enough ventilators on hand, and won't need any more. ..."
And now, after the Trump Administration scrambled to ramp up testing capacity and the states
worked with the Feds, private entities, and others (including in some cases foreign nations) to
distribute ventilators as Gov. Andrew Cuomo painted a horrifying portrait of sickened New
Yorkers suffocating to death in hospital hallways because there were no ventilators
available.
Well, yesterday, NYC Mayor de Blasio said that, after a few days of near capacity numbers,
hospitalizations have dropped by such a steep degree that the city believes it has enough
ventilators on hand, and won't need any more.
Now on Thursday, Dr. Fauci is taking to cable news to spread the message of optimism that
has lifted US stocks over the past few days: Instead of the 240k figure used by President Trump
as recently as two weeks ago, Dr. Fauci told NBC News that if the public continued to stick to
the "mitigation efforts", that the death toll might be as low as 60k.
Pentagon sends 1mn masks to Israeli military An Israeli press report claiming the US
Department of Defense had shipped one million face masks to Israel to help protect Israeli
soldiers has angered Americans, causing some to question the Trump administration's
priorities amid the coronavirus pandemic amid reports of shortages of protective equipment
for US health workers.
The Pentagon's alleged shipment was initially reported by the Jerusalem Post, however
mention of American involvement was later scrubbed, raising suspicions that US public anger
may have forced Israeli military censors to act.
"Anyone on Department of Defense property, installations or facilities must wear a
cloth face covering when they cannot maintain 6 feet of social distance in public area or
work centers, according to a new directive released Sunday afternoon.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper had said the guidance was coming in an appearance on
ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning. "
Encounters Of An Average American Nobody With The 'Curious' COVID New World by
Tyler Durden Wed,
04/08/2020 - 16:20 Authored by Doug "Uncola" Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com,
Last week, I read an online article in my local paper telling of a 68-year-old gentleman who
died from COVID-19. In the article, it described how the man had retired in the last year
because of cancer. Then, two days later, my wife asked me if I had read the article. When I
said that I had, she responded:
" Scary, huh? He was healthy ."
I replied:
" What do you mean? He had underlying issues ".
And when we logged-on to read the article again, it was tagged as "updated 7 hours ago" and
many of the words I'd read two nights before were . gone.
In the paragraph where it said he retired, it mentioned nothing of his cancer and
instead described how the man was "active and enjoyed riding his bike".
Of course, even a tin-foil-hat-wearing blogger like me would have a hard time
believing that any conspiratorial pressure could be applied to my local paper. Perhaps the
family requested the change or the original article was in error. It's hard to say.
But I do know what I read. And, the internet archive "Way Back Machine" showed the URL as being updated on
March 31, 2020 and again on April 2, 2020, but the initial article was not archived. Now I wish
I'd have taken a screenshot of, or printed, the original post.
Why?
Because of, as delineated in my last six Coronavirus articles , the dubious
origins and timing of the outbreak, the coinciding events , how
COVID-19 has been reported , and the questionable responses of governments
and organizations around the world.
"... " T he operational dilemmas faced by Indo-Pacific Command demand urgent attention. In order to make American investments in advanced fighters, attack submarines, or breakthroughs in military technology meaningful (in other words, to deter or win a conflict), there must be urgent investment in runways, fuel and munitions storage, theater missile defenses, and command and control architecture to enable U.S. forces in a fight across the Pacific's vast exterior lines. " ..."
'Number one priority' is a $1.5 billion, 360-degree persistent and integrated air defense
ring around Guam.
... ... ...
Arguing in favor of the PDI i n a recent
op-ed , former Pacific policy official for the DoD Randall Schriver
and Eric Sayers, former special assistant to the commander of INDOPACOM,
wrote:
" T he operational dilemmas faced by Indo-Pacific Command demand urgent
attention. In order to make American investments in advanced fighters, attack submarines, or
breakthroughs in military technology meaningful (in other words, to deter or win a conflict),
there must be urgent investment in runways, fuel and munitions storage, theater missile
defenses, and command and control architecture to enable U.S. forces in a fight across the
Pacific's vast exterior lines. "
Well the Pentagon sees that the checkbooks are open, Look if those pencil necked doctors
can get 2trillion for a case of the sniffles, we ought to be able to get 2 billion to face
down the Chicoms!
The coming general election will feature the two least qualified candidates in U.S. history.
Trump is a malignant narcissist and very stupid, while Biden is a corporatist and a hawk in
addition to being senile. As president, Biden would be less likely to abuse the Constitution
and to appoint far right ideologues to the federal bench. Clearly, he is a lesser of two
evils choice, and I say that as someone who regards him as an absolute evil. My fear is that
a second Trump administration will make the first one look like a kindergarten singalong.
I've taken to creeping ever closer to people at the supermarket check-out just to see them
'twitch'; simply can't resist it!
sabelmouse ,
There are so many good videos and articles etc, and no censorship is even needed because they
are difficult to find
NowhereOH ,
I'm laughing so I don't cry. Spot on, sabelmouse.
I actually got into it with a total stranger about this today. Not something I'm prone to,
but I was out on my walk and saw a middle-aged guy coming towards me on the path. I stepped
off into the grass to let him pass (which I would probably do anyway), when he saw me and
actually sprinted on the grassy hill opposite. He proceeded to eye me suspiciously even with
twenty feet between us, and I just lost my temper. I snapped that I wasn't that worried about
it and made the mistake of engaging when he asked me why. I rattled off some numbers (many of
which we have discussed here on OG) and pointed out we don't shut down the country for any of
exponentially deadlier diseases out there, including SARS and MERS.
"Well," he said, as though I was being unreasonable. "Where do you want to go that you
can't? mmm, work?"
The monumental importance of the measures taken around the world in the fight for control of the
current COVID-19 pandemic during the past few weeks motivated us to express through this text a few considerations
and comments on this hugely important topic.
Dr. Joel Kettner [
1
],
professor of Community Health Science at Manitoba University and Medical Director of the International Centre for
Infectious Diseases declared recently:
I have never seen anything like this I am not talking about the pandemic, because I have seen 30 of them, one
every year But I have never seen this reaction, and I am trying to understand why "
We do too, and wish to share our thoughts through these lines. Dr. David Jones[
2
]
declared recently, concerning the corona crisis, in the New England Journal of Medicine:
History suggests that we are actually at much greater risk of exaggerated fears and misplaced priorities"
Besides falsificating death numbers Trump and his administration of neo-confederates are now
stealing ventilators paid for by Barbados. Degenerate and incompetent Murikkkans making
america great and showing the world why they're #1. When the dust settles after Covid-19, the
pilgrims will stand alone on a shining pile of exceptional sh*t !
link
Dear @SECNAV Modly: You called Capt Crozier "too
naive or too stupid" for not knowing his private letter would be leaked. Now we learn your private speech was leaked.
A sound banker, alas! is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when
he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no
one can really blame him. Keynes via Yves
The problem is that the payment system, besides grubby coins and paper Central Bank notes
(e.g. Federal Reserve Notes), must work through private depository institutions or not at
all.
How then can we have a sound economy when it is held hostage by "sound" bankers?
And are not the banks a form of rentier – who rent the Nation its money supply?
Then where are the proposals of the MMT School to euthanize those rentiers?
@Dreadilk By
wearing a mask you reduce the probability of getting infected by x while a mask on an
infected person reduces the probability of infecting another person by y and
y>x (I can't formally prove this inequality at this point but it is intuitively
obvious to me.). Since you do not know whether you are infected or not by wearing a mask you
are protecting other more than yourself on average. This is a rare case when a selfish motive
to save your own life produce a greater good. Not wearing a mask would be an inverse-altruism
where you are willing to sacrifice yourself for an idea of killing others , i.e., doing what
a suicide bombers do who are aware of y>x calculus.
Mr. Trump surely has enough problems attempting to manage this crisis, not the least of
which is his own unfortunate habit of jumbled impromptu speech that often sounds like sheer
blather.
Some observers like to call it "plain speech," but in my experience even the common folk of
America, the plumbers, truck drivers, and waitresses, express themselves more coherently.
It's just not very reassuring. Believe me, I don't want to see the president fail, but I
would advise him to stick to the teleprompter.
Rogan has previously mocked Biden's verbal slip-ups and apparent confusion, describing the
former vice president's speech as "not a normal way to communicate unless he's high as
f**k."
Dr. Deborah Birx , the White House "coronavirus response coordinator," said on Saturday all
plebs must stay out of grocery stores. She didn't offer an alternative. Instead, she repeated
the hand washing and 6-foot "social distancing" mantra.
"... There will always be alleged proof since the placebo effect works about 8% of the time, but nothing can possibly be considered a proven cure until it has been put through that tiresome and allegedly 'far too slow" comprehensive testing. ..."
"... This nonsense too many are spouting round here is dangerous and if there is to be censorship at MoA, that is what I would like to see curtailed. ..."
See the bunny's hysteria about cures has now reached the point of favouring that old
snake-oil homeopathy
. The amount of quinine in tonic water is about the same strength as the 'fixes ' found in
homeopathic scams.
Perhaps like such well worn scams as 'rescue remedy, a cure depends on how many thousand
times my schweppes has been 'knocked' (diluted with water).
I don't care I've found my cure, while rooting around in the cupboard under the bathroom
sink a found a few packets of decades past their use-by date worming tablets. When the kids
were infants we were living in tropical Northern Australia and it was common to 'worm' the
young 'uns whenever they seemed listless. You sure knew if the kids had picked up worms
because if they had, they would be running around & hooting like mad things after their
dose.
They must have traveled to Aotearoa in one of the too many first aid kits I packed before
we left. Anyway the active ingredient in the tablets is an anti-parasitical called
ivermectin which it is claimed (most likely by some dodgy vet who isn't copping his
regular earn pretending to swab the horses at the local racetrack) will destroy that pesky
corona virus.
As I die I can rest easy knowing that at least I was scammed by an ocker .
Honestly this senseless and repetitive "I'm smarter than any virologist/epidemiologist"
game has gotten very fucking boring - aside from the fact some idiot may be stupid enough to
put their faith in some unproven remedy.
There will always be alleged proof since the placebo effect works about 8% of the time,
but nothing can possibly be considered a proven cure until it has been put through that
tiresome and allegedly 'far too slow" comprehensive testing.
This nonsense too many are spouting round here is dangerous and if there is to be
censorship at MoA, that is what I would like to see curtailed.
"... will know exactly which professor, non-profit boss, esteemed expert, talks sense outta a brain that absorbs information & devises answers, and which ones are little more than industry shills who got lucky once early in their career, who are the notorious plagiarists, who are better at politicking than doctoring etc. ..."
Out in the land of 'distinguished epidemiologists' the types who are charged with doing
the hands on work of developing counters to this virus, will know exactly which professor,
non-profit boss, esteemed expert, talks sense outta a brain that absorbs information &
devises answers, and which ones are little more than industry shills who got lucky once early
in their career, who are the notorious plagiarists, who are better at politicking than
doctoring etc.
WASHINGTON – Nearly a week after invoking his powers under a Korean War-era law to
compel
General Motors to manufacture ventilators for coronavirus , President Donald Trump's
administration has not formally ordered any of the machines, USA TODAY has learned.
As governors warn of severe shortages of ventilators, Trump has been hesitant to use his
wartime powers to force companies to ramp up production
under the Defense Production Act , arguing that such an order amounts to a takeover of
private industry.
But Trump said Friday he would use the act to require General Motors to make ventilators
after what he described as a dispute with the company over supply and pricing. Three
administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity told USA TODAY that the
government is still exploring its options and has not yet placed an order under the Defense
Production Act for any of the machines.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency "continues to work within its authorities to
coordinate with the private sector," an agency spokesperson who declined to be identified said
when asked about the lack of an order to GM. Federal agencies are "in the process of reviewing
these delegated authorities," the person said.
General Motors declined to answer questions about Trump's use of the DPA but said in a
statement it was "moving forward to build as many ventilators as we can as fast as we can."
For most of the past two months, Russian disinformation agents
respectable Western Establishment voices such as the Surgeon-General of the US, the CDC, and
the MSM (e.g. CNN , Vox ) have churned out propaganda that masks are ineffective
against containing the spread of the coronavirus. In perhaps the most "powerful" take, Forbes
even claimed that they
INCREASE infection risk.
"... Earlier this week, a delivery of 200,000 masks left a 3M factory in China for the German capital – only to be confiscated en route and diverted to the US, according to Berlin's Senator for the Interior Andreas Geisel, who shamed the supposed "transatlantic partners" for this "act of modern piracy." ..."
Dismissing accusations of 'modern piracy' for banning exports and seizing shipments of vital
protective masks from its allies in Germany and France, US President Donald Trump claimed the
situation was somehow the exact 'opposite.'
Asked about the controversy over the White House pressuring safety gear manufacturer 3M to
step up imports of protective masks from its Chinese factories to the US – often at the
expense of other customers, including America's closest allies – Trump dismissed
accusations of "modern piracy."
There's been no act of piracy. It was the opposite.
"We are very disappointed in 3M... they can sell to others, but they should be taking
care of our country," Trump added in the true spirit of the 'America First' policy. Trump
did not clarify exactly what he meant by the 'opposite of piracy,' apparently suggesting that
there were some perfectly legal grounds for seizing international shipments.
Earlier this week, a delivery of 200,000 masks left a 3M factory in China for the German
capital – only to be confiscated en route and diverted to the US, according to Berlin's
Senator for the Interior Andreas Geisel, who shamed the supposed "transatlantic
partners" for this "act of modern piracy."
Several days later, Geisel abruptly walked back his accusation, claiming that the masks had
been ordered from a German firm, and not from 3M. However, the masks are still unaccounted
for.
Disturbing reports that US buyers have snatched up medical masks that France ordered from
China raise questions about the practical value of alliances and solidarity previously preached
by the West in the face of a pandemic. As the coronavirus spread across the West, borders were
slammed shut, followed by businesses and finally private homes, all in the hope of slowing the
spread of the deadly pathogen. Facing the prospect of lengthy lockdowns, governments that until
recently dismissed the need for medical masks have now started scouring the globe for millions
of them.
Apparently, in that pursuit, Western governments are acting much like their quarantined
residents who are hoarding household goods like toilet paper. One French official told RT this
week that a planeload of 60 million masks they bought from China was hijacked, after a fashion,
by Americans.
"A French order was bought out with cash by Americans on the tarmac, and the plane that
was to fly to France took off for the US instead," Renaud Muselier told RT France on
Wednesday.
"The world has turned upside down when drug gangs and ISIS are more solicitous of the health
of the people than the elected officials in the US."
Peter VE@3
Has it though? Few institutions on earth have been less solicitous of popular health than
the elected officials of the United States- sponsored as most of them are by the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Big Pharma; the MIC; chemicalised agriculture/ food processing;
Silicon Valley and the mainstream media.
On the same day the British Labour party
announced the election of a center-rightt new party leader to replace the much denigrated
socialist Jeremy Corbyn, the Financial Times (!) calls for the socialist policies Corbyn
had planned to implement.
If there is a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that it has injected a sense of
togetherness into polarised societies. But the virus, and the economic lockdowns needed to
combat it, also shine a glaring light on existing inequalities -- and even create new ones.
Beyond defeating the disease, the great test all countries will soon face is whether current
feelings of common purpose will shape society after the crisis. As western leaders learnt in
the Great Depression, and after the second world war, to demand collective sacrifice you must
offer a social contract that benefits everyone .
...
Radical reforms - reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades - will
need to put on the table . Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy.
They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities, and look for ways to
make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda ; the
privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered
eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes , will have to be in the mix.
Homo sapiens is certainly the second most stupid creation, after the Ebola virus. The Ebola
virus is killing everybody and thus removes its basis for reproduction. Imagine how smart
rhinoviruses are! They do not kill but have managed, during evolution, to make their hosts
sneeze and get running noses, so can spread and flourish. They can also mutate to ever
increasing variants, so no vaccine made by homo stupidus could ever limit their reproduction,
season after season. Sars-CoV-2 is a different story. It doesn't kill like Ebola but is much
more contagious. It leads to overwhelmed health care systems, so people indirectly die of
lack of care.
Seems so as if Corona is quite smart. It will stop unhinged capitalism. Global warming
will come to an end, at least for some time. Homo stupidus may become part of the evolution
again. The old and unfit, wealthy and spoiled, will die and die quickly.
it's a joke to say no one saw this coming... Posted by: lizard | Apr 2 2020 23:05 utc | 125
That reminds me of Condoleezza Rice saying after 9/11 that no one expected terrorists to
fly planes into buildings.
The pilot episode of the TV show "Lone Gunmen" - the spinoff from the "X Files" show -
featured a faction of the US government remote controlling an airliner to fly into the World
Trade Center in order to stimulate arms sales by blaming it on foreign dictators.
That episode aired in March, 2001 - six months before 9/11.
I cannot say that I like Carlin much, but this one is very good. I can associate myself
with him, because I also never feared dirt or excrements, always hugged people who said:
'stay away from me, otherwise I will infect you with my disease', and survived in rather good
health and shape. And yeah, I also don't shower every day, but keep those spots clean that
are important.
Dunning-Kruger effect. Never heard of it, but I also observed that people who talk much,
have very high esteem, post from morning to evening, are often the not so bright ones. Those
who speak calmly, and rarely, who often underestimate themselves, are mostly the bright ones.
Also worth watching, now that we all have become experts in microbiology (after having become
experts in climatology):
My Sociology professor, an American lecturing overseas, always referred to his homeland as
"the only Christian Fundamentalist country on earth".
I often laugh at comparing Christian conservatives paradoxically being very similar to
Muslims, even though they may hate them and join the military to fight them. Maybe that is
why their leaders like Pompeo and Bush love Saudi Arabia so much.
But the funniest irony of it all is that while Iran may have exacerbated CV19 spread due
to religious ignorance, so will the USA, and in the end, who cares what brand that ignorance
wears, it is always ignorance and a sad place for human intellects to die in.
/div>
Extremes meet: Christian conservatives behaviour patterns paradoxically being very
similar to Muslims: the funniest irony of it all is that while Iran may have exacerbated CV19
spread due to religious ignorance, so will the USA
Extremes meet: Christian conservatives behaviour patterns paradoxically being very
similar to Muslims: the funniest irony of it all is that while Iran may have exacerbated CV19
spread due to religious ignorance, so will the USA
Sounds good, but "nationwide unrest" has been successfully ignored for many decades in the
UK and as far as I know, no city has burned since WW2.
People are generally far too comfortable to want to risk that comfort by protesting
conspicuously, yet only VERY conspicuous protest has a hope of changing anything at
all.
The Gilets Jaunes were doing pretty well, but just consider that all it took was a standard
mutation of a well-known type of virus to shut down the entire planet and the Gilets Jaunes
too
Our mindset, like that of our exploiters, is obsolete. Hardly anybody makes pitch forks any
longer, and torches are impossible to obtain
Under his cohorts neoliberal agenda, every country in the world is a third world
country.
Invisible Man ,
Some things I'd love to see a journalist bluntly ask Mr. Gates in the near future:
"Why are you, Mr. Gates, with no formal training in medicine or biology, no special
knowledge of virology or epidemiology, suddenly the foremost expert on Covid in the world?
What makes you the decider of policy? Is it just that we live in a world dominated by the
golden rule, where he who has the gold makes the rules?"
"Why do you ignore the statistical evidence that Covid19 has yet to impact Europe's
overall mortality rate?"
"Why do you wilfully ignore the two dozen or so experts who have come forward to
vehemently criticize and refute the narrative being pushed that we're in the midst of a
deadly pandemic? Their assertions are consistent with the statistical evidence. Yours are
not."
"Israel's ultra-Orthodox endanger the public" was the headline of yesterday's Jerusalem
Post opinion piece. The article points to the ultra orthodox community as a menace both to
the general society and itself.
This Anti-Semitic newspaper should be banned. When are the ADL and Antifa going to get on
this?
It's easy to see the lure those masks have on the Western nations: they are cheap and can
be used - once massified - as a science-backed political excuse to send people back to work.
Also, the alleged great results in South Korea and Japan (two fellow capitalist nations)
serve as an extra political incentive to stimulate widespread use of them by their western
counterparts.
Crowds of US university students flocked to Florida for their spring break, defying
recommendations from the federal government and Center for Disease Control (CDC) over the
coronavirus outbreak.
National health officials are advising against gatherings of 10 or more people.
Two weeks ago, amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 70 students from the University of
Texas at Austin partied in Mexico on spring break. The students, all in their 20s, flew on
a chartered plane to Cabo San Lucas, and some returned on separate commercial flights to
Texas.
Now, 44 of them have tested positive for the virus and are self-isolating. More students
were monitored and tested on Wednesday, university officials said, after 28 initial
positive tests.
...
Students at the University of Tampa, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other colleges
have tested positive after returning from spring break trips to Florida, Alabama, Tennessee
and elsewhere.
biggest surprise to me in that article is that American kids charter planes for
their holidays... what the actual fuck? such an orgy of excess, the bubble they must live in
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Apr 2 2020 22:01 utc | 101
Actually the reason is human nature: No individual human gives a damn about any other human
- unless that other human is personally important for reasons of money, power or sex.
Speak for yourself.
Majority of people are not fucking psychopaths.
>masks is a bad idea because people will feel protected and stop washing their hands!
The US Surgeon General Nitwit said the same thing on national TV. Plus if regular people
buy masks there won't be enough for medical people. Maybe if regular people buy and wear
masks the medical people wouldn't need as many, but that idea doesn't occur to brain-dead
leaders.
Why are they working so hard to discourage masks? Because it wasn't their idea?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a stay-at-home order after weeks of rejecting calls
for such a measure. But like other mandates ranging from New York to New Mexico, it ensures
that Floridians can still attend religious services.
...
The order comes after similar steps Tuesday in Texas, another late mover that made an
exception for religious worship. Michigan imposed a stay-at-home order with a religious
carve-out effective March 24.
Religious gatherings were also exempted from Ohio's stay-at-home order, issued Sunday by
Republican Governor Mike DeWine. Solid Rock, an Ohio megachurch whose Cincinnati location
hosted an event for evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump last month, held an
in-person service Sunday and said on its website that it would exert a constitutional right
to continue meeting.
Other states that allow some exemption for religious services include Delaware, Kansas,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
according to the Center for American Progress.
The reasons include ill discipline, ignorance and incompetence, nutty religiousness and
racism.
There are slobs and nerds in any country. In Russia, after warnings and requests from the
authorities to stay at home, some citizens went with their children to the park to fry
kebabs!
An amazing degree of frivolity and stupidity was demonstrated also by those who, it would
seem, on duty should be the most responsible. Thus, the main infectious disease specialist of
the Stavropol Territory, Irina Sannikova, after returning from Spain, went to work,
hiding her trip.
She led a week at a department at the Stavropol Medical University, where she, being a
professor, taught classes for students, held meetings with epidemiologists at hospitals in
the region, and consulted patients. According to preliminary estimates, about 1 thousand
people were in contact with her. Only after March 17th, when Sannikova showed symptoms of
coronavirus, did she admit that she was visiting Spain. Test for coronavirus gave a positive
result. Some of those who contacted her also confirmed coronavirus. As soon as Sannikova is
discharged from hospital, she will be charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of the
Russian Federation - "Negligence" and "Concealment of information about circumstances that
endanger the life or health of people". A doctor may face up to 2 years in prison...
I note that this stupid woman is
not the only such irresponsible in Russia. Frivolity,
incompetence and irresponsibility are common to all countries.
There is no conspiracy, they didn't make up false documents to start a Russian investigation,
oh wait they did.. I just read that Bloomberg spent north of $500,000,000.00 to become
president and you want me to believe the Russians spent 1% of that and got better results..
You have to be a special kind of stupid.
It's been said that Donald Drumpf and his Russian mob boss, Putin, had this virus cooked up
in a lab.
They then had it distributed to China and around the world.....
to locations where these reprehensible fckrs don't like the population.......
Make no mistake about it!
Or maybe the Chinese did it, or maybe space alien disguised as bats did, or 3M, who making
masks, did, or fifteen different drug companies with vaccines waiting for the situation to
get bad enough for a big price did, and or of course oil companies have a treatment locked
away with the car engine that runs on water and a simple universal unlimited energy source
that use no fuel and runs continuously
The United States Surgeon General used twitter to tell the public to NOT use face masks to
protect against the coronavirus because they don't work, they only work for health care
workers. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering a recommendation
that people wear masks when in public.
@Uradel666 Agree agree agree. Most of us were in our early teens to middle age during the
1980s media hoax about heterosexual AIDS. Remember? Everybody who's ever had sex will get it?
A total lie. Even the druggies who use needles, it's mostly sodomy men who get it.
There was anorexia, hundreds of thousands of good student obedient middle class White
girls starving themselves. Another lie.
Early 1970s vegetarian diet, no white sugar but an over load of natural fruit vegetable
and carb sugar was the cure for everything.
Here's what my extended family and friends are doing. They're taking all the precautions
and obeying the rules. Some believe it's a return of the Black Plague Others are as cynical
as I am.
Population of 320 million according to a 9 year old census. 165K infected 37K deaths and
mass hysteria ensues.
Bigotry: the character or mode of thought of a bigot; obstinate and unreasonable attachment to a particular creed, opinion,
practice, ritual, or party organization; excessive zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion; intolerance of the
opinions of others.
Notable quotes:
"... If the sheriff arrests Tony Spell tomorrow and holds him without bond, don't you believe for a second that he's any kind of victim. ..."
"... And so, for that matter, will some ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Greater New York area , who by their selfish actions are showing the same kind of contempt for the wider community that these Baton Rouge Pentecostals are doing. ..."
"He will be held responsible for his reckless and irresponsible decisions that endangered
the health of his congregation and our community," Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran said.
"We are facing a public health crisis and expect our community's leaders to set a positive
example and follow the law."
Despite being accused of the misdemeanor offenses, which carry a maximum punishment of
$500 and up to six months in parish jail, Spell said he plans to continue holding services,
including on Tuesday night.
"This is an attack on religion. This an attack on our constitutional rights. We have a
constitutional right to assemble and to gather and there are no laws that I am breaking." he
said, as his wife, Shaye, hugged him inside the church's main worship area.
Spell has held large public religious services with his flock despite multiple officials
warning of danger to his congregation and the broader community. Medical experts have said
that, to blunt the sharp increase in coronavirus cases and related COVID-19 illnesses that
could strain the medical system, people should avoid large crowds as much as possible and
reduce the spread of disease.
More:
Spell asserted that he is operating under his constitutional rights and under a mandate
given to him by Jesus Christ, "who said do not forsake to assemble together."
... ... ...
If the sheriff arrests Tony Spell tomorrow and holds him without bond, don't
you believe for a second that he's any kind of victim. Don't you believe for a second that his
arrest is any kind of persecution. I believe that persecution is coming in this country, and
when it does, Tony Spell and his congregation's demand for privileges in a time of
unprecedented public health crisis will bear some of the blame.
And so, for that matter,
will some ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Greater New York area , who by their selfish actions
are showing the same kind of contempt for the wider community that these Baton Rouge
Pentecostals are doing. There is never any excuse for anti-Semitism or anti-Christian
bigotry, but in a time of mass death from a contagious plague, observant Christians and
Orthodox Jews are fools to behave this way. They are going to make life much, much harder for
the rest of us religious believers.
Associated Press, April 1, 2020 – President Trump last night signed the Pure Air
Regulation bill demanded by the president and hastily passed by Congress late yesterday
evening. All congressional Republicans and most Democrats voted in favor of the bill, which
was passed without debate.
Sweeping provisions of the bill will eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, and
repeal all legal protections against air pollution in the US.
Under the new law, all citizens will be issued lightweight, backpack units which cam be
connected to so-called "air stations." The stations will provide oxygen-rich, partially
purified air. Users will connect to the stations by inserting quarters (or any combination of
small coins adding up to 25 cents) into them. The backpack unit will then be filled with 24
hours' worth of partially cleaned air that will be enriched with an additional five percent
of oxygen above the 21 percent found naturally in atmospheric air.
The additional oxygen, the bill's sponsors claim, will offset whatever air pollution
remains in the air going into the backpack unit. The oxygen will be supplied by a
newly-formed joint subsidiary of Amazon.com and Walmart.
A strong objection to forcing citizens to pay for what he termed "the right to breathe,"
was raised by Oregon senator Jeff Merkley, one of the few Democrats to vote against the bill,
but was brushed off by the president. "Someone has to pay for it," Trump said, adding "oxygen
doesn't grow on trees, you know."
Given some time and currency, I guess Morocco would offer more value for money if you want
some exotic customs and landscapes. If you have more money, you could spend them on a
carbon-free cruise with stunning vistas and off-the-beaten route: North Pole on board of
nuclear-powered ice breaker! It is wise to have swimming costume (a pool is on board, heated,
I presume) and sensible apparel -- enough for normal winter (in Moscow). The number of places
is below 150, with a little hospital on board too. In the latest ads I read about discounts,
but the deal was that you can pay in rubbles with prices below the rubble plunged by 25%,
still, for 27 k USD you can see John Bolton's relatives in natural environment (like mommy
walrus taking care of youngsters), polar bears, seals, and landscapes of Franz Josef Land.
Helicopter rides included. You can also take a plunge into the arctic water -- with safety
precautions .
"Yesterday, one of the first deaths of a Virginia resident from COVID-19 was a Christian
musical evangelist who, believing the pandemic response to be anti-Trump "mass hysteria,"
took his family to New Orleans to "wash it from its Sin and debauchery."
A Gretna man who had double pneumonia and tested positive for COVID-19 in Concord North
Carolina died around 4 a.m. Wednesday, the family reports.
Landon Spradlin, 66, was an accomplished blues musician who pastored several different
churches over the years."
So, a Christian Evangelist who says that covid-19 ist anti-Trump hysteria goes and dies of
– allegedly – covid-19. This is then portrayed as – what irony, poetic
justice?
James-
It is the Financial Times, which as of yesterday afternoon suddenly dropped showing Iran on
it's daily comparison graphs of number of death and number of infected on major infected
countries. Up to yesterday morning Iran progress was shown in Green on number of dead and
number of infected graphs. If you check even on individual smaller disease progress graphs,
Iran' graphs is no longer shown, mentioned or included. I suspect Iran was dropped because
Iran' under sanction current death and infection is lower than most leading western countries
including US, and that has been becoming a embarrassment for US and Brian Hook. Coronavirus
tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads | Free to read for propagandist at FT
Iran doesn't exist especially if there is any relatively good news
In this sense, COVID-19 behaves a lot like seasonal flu. Common rooms often mean common
pathogens and higher dose of virus then from strangers. There are some indications that the
doze of virus that you get affects the severity of the disease.
Families are great places for socialization and provide a means to stay active and engaged,
but can serve as pathogenic petri dishes
Based on current research, it takes about 2 weeks between the onset of symptoms to the
clinical recovery of patients with a mild form of the disease
The chief infectious disease specialist of Stavropol region on the same day came under
investigation and lost her position. However, this is not the only problem for her as Irina
Sannikova has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
While some colleagues save her life, others argue about whether Sannikova committed a
misdemeanor or a crime when she flew to Spain and did not go into quarantine on her return:
should the state forgive her or punish her?
Sannikova is suspected of hiding from colleagues her trip to epidemic-stricken Spain. She
did not take a vacation, just flew to Madrid for the March holidays, and then returned to go to
work. Moreover, the last week she attended a conference at the Stavropol medical University
with about three hundred participants.
At the end of last week, Sannikova was admitted to the intensive care unit of the regional
clinical infectious diseases hospital with a diagnosis of "bilateral pneumonia". KP reported
that it tested positive for COVID-19. As the result 11 more people who were in close contact
with Sannikova were quarantined. But the range of possible infected people is much wider - the
staff of the clinic, participants of events where the chief infectious disease specialist
spoke: in total, about a thousand people.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin supported the request of the head of
Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova to increase responsibility for violating the quarantine regime.
Increased attention to the observance of self-quarantine in Russia is noted after the case of
Sannikova.
According to the UK, the actions of the former infectious diseases doctor have signs of two
criminal articles – "negligence" and "concealment of information about circumstances that
create a danger to life or health of people." Under the second article, the doctor may face a
term of up to five years.
A conspiracy-minded man might think Trump was hired to demolish any illusions about the
decency and competence of the US and to leave it isolated and despised around the world. I'm
not that man.
Is anyone in charge in the US?
Anyone with any analytical ability?
There's nothing you can say beyond.
"Those the God's wish to destroy.
First they make mad,"
Morris Berman in 2008 book "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" notes than when
empires are going down, they choose leaders that accelerate the decline.
By a clever move of the US intelligence agencies they are left without a choice as to support Trump in 2020 election is as idiotic
as to support Biden.
U.S. intelligence community, through its preferred propaganda sheet the New York Times, is
now reporting that
Russia is taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to spread disinformation through Europe and also in the U.S.
In particular, Putin has escalated a campaign-by-innuendo to reduce confidence in the outcome of the upcoming 2020 presidential
election.
In any event, the Russians are too late as the Democratic and Republican parties' behavior has already convinced many Americans
that voting in November will be a waste of time.
As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up
The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator
Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
Dear socially inferior person reading this article. My name is Cyril Waugh-Monger (I'm called 'Mr Terribly Pompous Neo-Con' by
my friends) and I'm here to tell you why on no account should you watch RT and why you should be making complaints to Ofcom (a British
bureacracy which regulates TV) about this dreadful channel so that in the interests of 'free speech' and 'democracy' we can get it
off air.
1. RT doesn't peddle Russophobia
Outrageously, RT doesn't compare Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler. It doesn't join in with the demonization of Russia and its leader.
How can we have a channel which is watched by people in Britain, which doesn't do that? We neocons say that demonization of Russia
and its leader is compulsory. How dare RT not do as we say!
RT is more vocally in support of Russia than western media
2. RT is sometimes rude to bankers
There's a man on RT called Max Keiser and he is often very rude to bankers. Why, he has even called for them to face the death
penalty. Such disrespect to our financial elites is shocking and should not be allowed in a free society.
3. Its coverage of the MH17 crash
Shockingly, RT commentators didn't rush to blame Vladimir Putin for the air disaster within seconds of the news breaking. Some
even said that we should wait for the forensic evidence before any statements apportioning guilt were made. Others said that we couldn't
rule out that the plane was downed by an another aircraft. This failure to come and say loud and clear "Putin personally shot down
the plane with a missile he made and fired with his own hands" within minutes of the crash is clear evidence of RT's bias and why
it must be taken off the air.
4. RT's 'pundits' include people who aren't neocons and 'liberal interventionists'
This is truly scandalous: RT gives airtime to people who don't support the West's policy of endless war and who opposed airstrikes
on Syria last year. Why, it's even broadcast interviews with the convener of the Stop the War coalition – and has a regular weekly
show fronted by George Galloway! This is unconscionable. Only people who support Western foreign policy should be allowed to express
their views on international affairs on television, not 'cranks' and 'fanatics' who oppose attacking a sovereign state in the Middle
East on deceitful grounds every couple of years. Why, if RT had been around in 2003, it would no doubt have given airtime to anti-war
'conspiracy theorists' who would have told viewers that Iraq had no WMDs – and claimed, fantastically – that Bush and Blair were
making it all up.
5. RT provides airtime to genuine socialists and genuine conservatives
This is really terrible: RT interviews people who oppose neo-liberalism and globalization, from both the left and the right. It's
given the microphone to socialists, communists, greens, and 'extremists' on the right, like Ron Paul. These people should not be
allowed to express their views on television; they are 'cranks' and should be totally marginalized. Only those who support the hegemonic
consensus should be allowed on TV. It's very important that in order to protect free speech and democracy, alternative opinions are
not heard.
6. RT pundits have 'extremist' links
I monitor the people who appear on RT very, very closely and I can tell you that there was once a case of an RT interviewee who
had a link on his website to another website which had a link to another website which had a link to another website – which denied
the Holocaust and said that little green men from Mars were ruling the US.
After considerable research, I also found that another RT pundit once attended a conference where a fellow invitee had once sat
at a restaurant table, a few days after another person who had actually praised Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, and Josef Stalin in a
magazine article published in North Korea in 1962.
7. RT is anti-semitic
Ok, I've got no evidence of this, but I'll bung it in anyway as it sounds good.
8. RT has broadcast documentaries on the wars in Yugoslavia which don't blame the Serbs for everything
This is totally unacceptable.
9. RT has had 'experts' on its programs who have made some very strong criticisms of Israel
This too is totally unacceptable. Anyone with a theory or definition that differs from Western minded politicians is demonized
for voicing their opinion.
10. RT pundits have often ridiculed leading American policymakers
For instance, when the US Secretary of State John Kerry said that "you just don't in the 21st century" invade another country
on "completely trumped up pretext," some people on RT had the audacity to say "What about Iraq?" This lack of respect towards a leading
American politician is appalling, and in a free society ought not to be allowed. The correct procedure whenever a leading US political
figure speaks is to tug one's forelock.
11. RT's coverage of the conflict in Syria
In 2011-13, we had so-called 'experts' on Syria telling us on RT that some of the freedom-fighting pro-democracy rebels were actually
fanatical terrorists who were guilty of committing atrocities. This was obviously a clear lie. Islamist terrorists like ISIS have
only been active in Syria since 2014 and of course, it's all the fault of President Assad and Russia.
12. RT interviews lots of people whose views I do not share
It ought not to be allowed! Aren't we supposed to live in a democracy?
13. The most important reason: RT is a threat
More and more people are watching it – which is why me and my little group of neocons and 'liberal interventionists' are so worried
and stepping up our attacks on the station and denigrating those people who appear on it.
The next big war is going to be much harder for us to 'sell' to the plebs, because we are no longer in control of the narrative
as we were in 2003, before the Iraq war. Oh, what happy days those were!
Don't watch RT because we really don't want you to 'question more.' We want you to question less. It's much easier for us that
way.
Baltimore's mayor has called on the city's inhabitants to refrain
from killing one another for the time being, asking them not to "clog up" hospital beds as the
coronavirus pandemic spreads far and wide across the country.
@niteranger
"For example, New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof on Sunday reported the disheartening analysis of Dr. Neil Ferguson of
Britain, one of the world's leading epidemiologists."
Nicholas Kristoff has the bad habit of falling for falling for frauds and making them famous. "Three cups of tea" for starters.
He's got a long track record of peddling fake stuff.
"... DONALD TRUMP: Nobody knew there'd be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. ..."
"... Trump is like the kid who played video games when he should have been doing his homework, then failed miserably on the test and tried to bullshit his way through the essay questions. ..."
"... As you are probably aware, a handful of elected leaders were selling their stock while assuaging the public about the dangers of the pandemic. We've gone from incompetence, to negligence, to outright profiteering. ..."
Last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Services ran a 7 month long exercise code named "Crimson Contagion," a dry run response
to a global pandemic which started in China and expected more than 100 million Americans to become ill.
Trump is like the kid who played video games when he should have been doing his homework, then failed miserably on the test
and tried to bullshit his way through the essay questions.
As you are probably aware, a handful of elected leaders were selling their stock while assuaging the public about the dangers
of the pandemic. We've gone from incompetence, to negligence, to outright profiteering.
dropping bombs and sanctioning free commerce in other countries is the American way of protecting the proceeds of the sociopaths
not such a good way to stop pandemics. Not in my name congress
@QMS
Fifty-six years dumping an untold number of dollars into "keeping us safe" from a foreign invader and the one time it happened,
not any of the resources were worth a damn.
The problem isn't so much that the real threats are unknown, at least not in broad outline form, but they're not "sexy." Not
amenable to what the military and cloak and dagger spy guys are into. And the perpetual USG budgets for the sexy stuff is far
more profitable. And is better suited to hiding all the graft and corruption (and employing the surplus and unskilled labor that
elite universities crank out) that upset ordinary people fearful that some undeserving person would get something for free from
the USG.
supplies, either. Well, given how the govt likely views our soldiers, I guess that's not surprising.
pandemic war games but no money to implement the most basic stockpiles (thermometers, face masks, gloves) that would be
very helpful in containing a virus. The larger serious shortcomings in the US are mostly intractable due to the "best" health
care system that money can buy.
There is also a tendency to think newer=better. I've heard doctors and pharmacists complain
that patients will get offended when prescribed a cheaper, older drug. They want the best and
newest, they need and deserve it!
@Redneck farmer That is because advertising works. Drug companies being allowed to
advertise guaranteed that predators, such as the Sacklers, would want to own drug companies.
More activity on the dark, unethical side of capitalism. There's an entire history of it,
opium wars, Atlantic slave trade, pornography, control of political agents through
pedophilia. The list does go on and strangely enough it's usually the same actors.
"... Those who have regrets after realizing that COVID-19 isn't a 'pooping disease' were met with signs at various Costco locations informing them that they won't be able to return all that toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, water, rice and lysol they bought in anticipation of a societal collapse, ..."
Those who have regrets after realizing that COVID-19 isn't a 'pooping disease' were met with
signs at various Costco locations informing them that they won't be able to return all that
toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizing wipes, water, rice and lysol they bought in anticipation
of a societal collapse, according to brobible
.
lmao Costco basically saying y'all wanted to be extra, y'all gonna deal with your millions
of toilet paper all over your house #sorrytammy
pic.twitter.com/eCFhoiDp33
Enjoy your lifetime supply of toilet paper and wipes you crazy #hoarders !
#Costco is not
taking any more returns. Better start figuring out what you are gonna do with 10 bags of rice
you bought! pic.twitter.com/z2U7tN7ru3
Costco, meanwhile, may have over-bought in anticipation of sustained demand which has
petered out. It looks like "the whole toilet-paper craze has calmed down," tweeted one shopper.
Yesterday I ventured into Wal-Mart to shop with the other local deplorable people that the elite child molesters, sexual perverts,
and sociopaths out in Hollyweird, NYC and Washington like to look down on.
Wasn't that crowded and I probably noticed about 10 customers "suited and booted" wearing various masks of different shapes
and styles and latex gloves.
Speaking of "suited and booted", shouldn't these people be wearing one of those full body suits and booties over their
shoes as well?
Looks like Boris decided to lead his nation as for acquiring herd immunity. Video of Johnson statements about coronavirus
in this as they "evolved" over time is absolutely hilarious. What a chameleon. Must watch.
BTW on March 3, 2020 Boris Johnson has assured people he won't stop shaking people's hands during the coronavirus
outbreak. Just out of principle.
Notable quotes:
"... Here you're saying you were shaking hands with a few Covid-19 patients on the 3rd March! How many people did you infect since? Will you publicly apologise for the herd immunity strategy now? ..."
"... Tested positive for being an irresponsible dickhead ..."
Here you're saying you were shaking hands with a few Covid-19 patients on the 3rd
March! How many people did you infect since? Will you publicly apologise for the herd immunity
strategy now?
"... ...The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community. The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus! Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies? ..."
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for
abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of
fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
...The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community.
The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to
pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus! Are they going to send in
tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus "pandemic" could be a big hoax, with
the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit –
financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.
That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from
coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of
exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to
grab more of our freedoms. When the "threat" is over, however, they never give us our freedoms
back.
johnbrewster@77
Here's a story from today's Toronto Star. It's a neoliberalism story and goes well with Pepe
Escobar's piece in Asia Times (see above for link)
Basically the Province of Ontario stockpiled everything need for the pandemic that SARs
warned them was bound to come.
Then, a couple of years ago, they destroyed the stockpiles including 55 million
facemasks.
Now there are no face masks to be found and medical staff, inter alia, are having to take
totally unnecessary risks.
Why did this happen? Because neo-liberalism is all about profits and fiscal austerity: as
soon as the masks got beyond their 'best before' date they were destroyed - so the
manufacturers could have another bite at the cherry and sell another 55 million masks. But
then, austerity, the need to finance tax cuts for the wealthy, stepped in so the orders were
not renewed. And people will die, horrible deaths, as a result.
PS to vk # 1. Please think again. Trump has been in a trade war with China for what? a couple
of years? AND, he specifically banned imports of medical supplies from China. Other posters
wave supplied links for this idiocy.
Trump's about as innocent as jack the ripper. You may just be seeing things relatively, as
ghouls like Elliot Abrahms and disgusting Pomposity make Trump seen like an amateur.
"... This Covid-19 may well have been in the US since the latter part of 2019 just not diagnosed. It may be that the Chinese were the first to test for Covid-19, therefore it appears to have started there. ..."
All of this apart from the issue, of how long this virus has been in the wild. It seems
my mother caught this disease in early February, in a small Midwestern isolated community
– she had what are given at the symptoms, but nobody was looking for it at the time,
so there is no diagnosis of her illness.
This Covid-19 may well have been in the US since the latter part of 2019 just not
diagnosed. It may be that the Chinese were the first to test for Covid-19, therefore it
appears to have started there.
At this point the death rate is unknown but most likely overstated.
MAN WITH CORONA VIRUS SEEKS WOMAN WITH LIME DISEASE
As a fellow expat in Mexico, I'm surprised that you, nor anyone else, is talking about how
the pandemic will hit Mexico. Twice the population of Italy, and with similar cultures, I
suspect Covid-19 will sweep Mexico like a prairie fire. God save us.
I might be naïve, but I think I know why there are so few Corona cases in Russia. I
think that the reason is because the virus has extreme dislike for non-democracies. After
all, we are talking about the 21st century virus, who has seen the world, not some backward
14 century stupid European plague virus.
This virus knows that it will receive better treatment by the "democracies" – that's
why it's headed their way. I mean look at the treatment it got in China. Is that a way to
treat a modern virus? It was totally disrespectful and brutal.
I don't blame the virus for wanting to migrate to the west, if I was a virus – I
would have similar urges. I think that the virus should definitely expect a better treatment
in the west – they probably have already set up a multicultural milieu so the poor
virus won't feel isolated, but rather establish instant camaraderie with the other
multicultural viruses in the west.
@AP
People like you also took a decisively collective view of events. Majority of Chinese hardly
ever eaten a bat. Can you see? Besides, the evidence so far does not tell that it was a bat
virus jumped to humans in the food market.
One joke I read on Chinese web was like this: an alien space force comes to earth and
blames earthlings for spreading the virus, and Trump, being president of the most powerful
nation, says to the alien commander that it is the Chinese, but, you know.
This is someone who is dumb. If Robert Jeffress is the standard for being a faithful
Christian or being a legit evangelical I want nothing to do with it. Completely vomitous.
People like him put my family and community in further peril. And despite it all he still
gets the ear of the president...
It's people like this that tempers my hopes.
"Thousands of people streamed through the church lobby and into the pews. Ushers at
First Baptist Dallas invited members to the front rows, gesturing to the prime seats still
available. Trumpets blared, bright blue and purple lights illuminated the stage, and behind
the orchestra pit the 100 or so members of choir -- ranging from late teens to late 60s --
stood inches apart, ready to sing for the next 30 minutes."
"When Robert Jeffress, the senior pastor, walked onto the stage, wearing a dark suit
and shiny teal tie, he thanked the musicians."
"Isn't it great to see so many of them here today?" he asked the audience.
"Jeffress' sermon that morning, presented in his usual stoic-but-chipper demeanor,
was titled "The Road to Armageddon," and focused largely on biblical stories of God's
punishments. "God's judgment is not always immediate," he told his congregation, and the
tens of thousands of people watching online. "But it's always inevitable."
"Aside from a few empty pews in the back of the sanctuary, this seemed like any other
Sunday. Except it wasn't. This was Sunday, March 15. Most of the country was already being
reminded to stay at home, to practice social distancing, to flatten the curve of the
coronavirus outbreak, which President Donald Trump, the man Jeffress supports at every
turn, had just declared a national emergency."
Next time the governor should send the National Guard to escort everyone home. Jeffress
should be arrested. Incidentally, I believe that continued socializing in small groups is
healthy, under 10 of course, but what Jeffers is doing borders on criminal homicide.
Thanks for publishing this, Rod. I somehow neglected to mention the new test developed by
Thermo Fisher, which may result in as many new tests completed as Roche and Abbott
combined. It will run on over 200 machines currently in labs across the country, and they
are manufacturing two million test kits per week.
Altogether, test manufacturers have pledged to make over 10 million tests in the next
two weeks, and I cannot see any way that all the newly approved testing systems add less
than 85,000 tests per day. And that's without Roche, Cepheid, Thermo Fisher, and Abbott
selling any new machines, and I feel quite sure that they are going to sell some more
machines. And, of course, all of the current test providers are increasing production as
well. And the FDA will likely approve more Emergency Use Applications for other testing
systems in the next few days -- I think that I read that they are working through 80
applications. That's why I have complete confidence that, in less than two weeks, we'll be
able to test 150,000 people per day.
Cepheid's test, which I mentioned in the article, seems even more important in the wake
of the report from Italy that hospitals are themselves becoming major vectors in the
transmission of the virus, as it is spread from infected to uninfected patients. Because
Cepheid's test can be done in 45 minutes on machines that hospitals already have, it will
allow hospitals to test every admitted patient and quickly segregate those who have the
virus.
Lack of testing ability is what has kept Italy and Spain "behind the curve." Two days
ago, Italy tested just 17,000 people and had over 6,000 positive results. It's not all that
helpful to test people that you are already confident have the virus (they have already
spread it); it's much more valuable to test those who first come down with a fever and you
can isolate early if they are positive.
Spain announced (I think on Friday) that the 20,000 tests per day that they were doing
were completely insufficient, and they were purchasing enough machines to add an additional
80,000 tests per day (though it will take time to get those systems operational).
Read this article if you're unconvinced that mass testing has the ability to stop
transmission. It about an Italian town that some of the first cases in Italy, and how they
basically eliminated the virus from their town.
Also, I missed FDA approvals in the past week for new tests from: DiaSorin Molecular,
Hologic, and GenMark -- all of which operate on their own machines. This is a key
distinction, as these tests increase our total testing capacity, although I don't believe
that any of these will add as much as Roche or Thermo Fisher or Abbott.
There are also companies getting approval for tests that can run on machines that are
already being used, which is good because it creates price competition and enhances test
kit supplies, but doesn't fundamentally add to our national processing capability.
In that latter category, Novacyt got FDA approval for their test kit this morning, which
will run on a number of machines. Not all of these companies say how many test kits they
are going to distribute in the US, but I did see that Novacyt currently is supplying orders
of 8 billion euros for their tests in Europe (where they had gotten approval earlier), and
yet their stock still went up 45% today on the news of the FDA approval (which means that
they expect to distribute a lot of kits).
The massive testing increase largely in the New York and California, so there is that.
Also the numbers are horrible now, the US is on track to have more cases than Italy,
massive testing are going to make them much worse.
Outcomes are going to be much worse depending on where you live. States that have seen
large numbers of rural hospitals close, states with large numbers of uninsured, states that
were late to shut things down and states that can't compete for needed equipment on the
open market are going to have worse infection and mortality rates.
Oh and a 38 year old women was found dead in her home waiting for her test results.
I'm not sure an "end" is in sight. Perhaps a respite and a new phase of the battle. I too
look forward to spring but I think we will not even know the full extent of our problem
until the end of April. Warm weather might give us a break in the action, but we would be
foolish not to anticipate another wave in the fall, winter or spring of next year. As with
the flu, it's always winter someplace in the world, and viruses mutate. We wont fully be
out of this until we have a vaccine or a readily accessible drug paired with testing.
It's great that testing is growing in availability, but we still have a lot of sick
people who cannot access it while every politician, professional athlete and celebrity
seems to be getting tested just for "peace of mind."
Their ability to control the spread probably has more to do with their social and
hygiene habits than widespread testing. Japan, which has barely tested anyone, has been
able to control its outbreak even better than South Korea.
But again, closing schools has been an important piece in both countries. This
correspondent is pushing a false image of a society magically controlling this disease
without massive social disruptions.
Also, it's important to keep in mind that while Indonesia hasn't seen an outbreak yet,
they have also tested almost no one. They currently have one of the highest death rates in
the world, suggesting massive undercounting of cases. There's reason to believe they do
actually have a major outbreak, so reduced spread in warm weather does not mean it's
controlled without any restrictions. Malaysia, as a counter example, has instituted strict
controls because of a growing outbreak.
Expanded rapid testing and chloroquine are reasons to be hopeful, but get the basic
facts right.
The Joint Mission learned that infected children have largely been identified through
contact tracing in households of adults. Of note, people interviewed by the Joint Mission
Team could not recall episodes in which transmission occurred from a child to an
adult.
I can't find the quote right now, but another WHO representative said recently that, in
places that schools are open, they aren't seeing much transmission that way.
And if coughing is indeed the main method of transmission, it would make sense that
schools would not be large transmission vectors, since the virus usually has very little
impact on them and doesn't cause them to cough.
Great rundown on some of what's going on. I was going to post the following comment in
response to your post "The Present Apocalypse".
Our current state of knowledge does not justify predictions of mass death, societal
collapse, etc. If anything, what we now know leans toward a range of outcomes centered on
somewhat worse than the flu. I hope it's no worse than that, and if so, it's a good wake up
call after we hit snooze on SARS, MERS, and swineflu, and maybe this will even tamp down on
stupid like not vaccinating children against measles. It's also a great reminder to get
adequate data before acting, when action includes the evil of impoverishing and
immiserating millions of people.
Worldwide, 60,000,000 people die each year. In an ordinary year in the US, about
1,500,000 people 75 and up die from heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's related disease,
suicide, diabetes, and a host of other causes, including even generic lower respiratory
infection. Another 500,00 of those between 65 to 75. So far (AM 23 March), COVID-19 has
accounted for less than 0.03% of those deaths.
Now, it could get a lot worse. It's still very early, this train is in motion, and we
are going to see where it carries us, willing or not. The range of possible destinations
still includes a nasty pandemic. It also includes the possibility that COVID-19 is the Iraq
war of public health. We do not know the destination. See Ioannidis (Stanford) last week,
"A fiasco in the making? we are making decisions without reliable information":
Just a note here:
". . . in the US, about 1,500,000 people 75 and up die from heart disease,
cancer, Alzheimer's related disease, suicide, diabetes, and a host of
other causes . . . "
Do these people all die within 60 to 90 days of one another? Because I am assuming
that's what's making the difference.
I am also surprised that no one is taking the idea of war style triage in hospital
emergency rooms all over the country seriously.
Basically you are okay with leaving anyone that's too sick to die of viral pneumonia.
Which is like drowning FYI.
If the anti-malaria drugs don't prove to be safe and effective treatment for covid-19, it
looks like a treatment made of synthetic antibodies is right around the corner. Regeneron
appears to be at the cutting edge in this field, assisted in this endeavor by some
specialized mice:
"Regeneron scientists have now isolated hundreds of virus-neutralizing, fully human
antibodies from the company's VelocImmune mice, which have been genetically-modified to
have a human immune system. Regeneron has also isolated antibodies from humans who have
recovered from COVID-19, in order to maximize the pool of potentially potent antibodies.
From this large pool of candidates, Regeneron will select the top two antibodies for a
'cocktail' treatment based on potency and binding ability to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein,
as well as other desirable qualities."
In my lay opinion this is potentially good news, especially IF this virus proves to be
seasonal, or more accurately, adversely affected by higher temperatures and humidity;
However, this research needs to be duplicated and peer reviewed, and even if this
hypothesis is confirmed, this current property of the virus most likely only buys us time
till the fall;
Also, to reap the full benefits of its suspected high temperature/high humidity
vulnerability, it stands to reason that travel restrictions must stay in place. The
potentially higher number of infected people from the cooler and dryer areas should not mix
with people from hot and humid places;
Also, it is in the nature of viruses to "seek" better reproduction techniques, so what
if a high temperature/high humidity loving mutation pops up?
Anyway, I feel that I've piled a hypothetical upon a hypothetical, and I don't want to
be a party pooper, so it's a good place to stop.
Yes, there's hope. The seasonality effect is finally finding legs in proper research
papers. There's also weak evidence that zinc lozenges taken early help reduce lung
invasion. The evidence is weak, but the treatment has very little downside.
The biggest threat to economy now is Senator McConnel. We need massive fiscal stimulus,
a.k.a. "Helicopter Money", now. This is not the time for ideological purity, means testing,
inflation worries, whatever other Republican pet causes are. Federal government with its
ability to create unlimited money supply is the only force that can prevent economic
collapse right now.
Given McConnel's performance to date, I despair...
"High temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of
COVID-19, respectively, even after controlling for population density and GDP per capita
of cities This result is consistent with the fact that the high temperature and high
humidity significantly reduce the transmission of influenza. It indicates that the
arrival of summer and rainy season in the northern hemisphere can effectively reduce the
transmission of the COVID-19."
The factual content is not in dispute, because of how the statement is worded. It cites
statistical analysis and describes the controls used to arrive at the conclusion. This will
seem almost trivial to most people, especially those who've not had detailed exposure to
the disciplines used in data collection and statistical analysis, but it is the critical
aspect.
When mention of controls is missing, every aspect of the statement, from factual
content to conclusion, is suspect.
Modern journalism is all about the sound bite. It wants to get your attention -- and
your exposure to advertising, and including you in its ratings -- as quickly and
efficiently as possible. Quick and efficient is anathema to conveying the data and analysis
in statistical approaches. If you don't have those, if you don't know what the controls
were, you don't know even half the picture.
Agree with above, if some one in your home becomes sick, create a negative pressure room
with: box fan exhausting to the outside, HEPA purifier circulating 15 air exchanges per
hour, and a Humidifier raising to 55- 60% RH, in order to both kill and remove the virus
from the room and home, and therein the sick do not pull the virus in deeper.
Scientific studies show: for people under 64, fatality rate range is 0.05% to 1%, not
close to the 3.4% official rate that WHO has been reporting (seasonal influenza is 0.1%-
0.2%); although this rate is expected to narrow as more accurate data becomes available and
as the virus evolves. Warm, humid conditions greatly diminish the survival, -- 27 hours at
30% relative humidity, while only 3 hours at 80%. Each case of the new Covid-19 coronavirus
is estimated to cause 2 to 3 others, in line with seasonal influenza. (This means, as
writer stated, we should see a seasonal drop as temperatures warm and humidity
increases.)
Thank you to this reader, Rod - and a hat tip to him for using 'Boudreaux' as his example.
Hopefully when all this passes, Boudreaux and I could toast the occasion with an Abita.
The Phoenix-area man and his wife – who survived – ingested a form of
chloroquine used as a fish tank cleaner on Monday, reportedly after hearing President Trump
mention the chemical on TV.
"Lots of people seen doing something Americans never do. Walking."
So true. It is the same here. The little kids are the most cheerful, adults are all over the
place in their reaction. Lady with a dog walked a 25 foot circle around me while crossing the
street the other day, felt like a leper right then. Ah well. I find that getting far enough
to get out of sight of buildings (lucky enough to have that option here) is just amazing now.
The woods/parks never looked so nice.
@TG "I think we should all wear bandannas. Like desperadoes in the old wild west."
Love it! I'm in. Part of me wants to try this while making a deposit at a bank...
Scientists at Michael Bloomberg School of Multiplication at Johns Hopkins University have
discovered a new and highly dangerous and contagious source of death. It is called life.
The discovery was long in the making, with some great sages of Ancient world expounding it,
but, it could not be scientifically proven, until the scientists zeroed in on a small
mountainous region in Nepal, where people (average age 90) all of the sudden began to die. They
were healthy before and then they began to drop like flies, reported local newspaper.
The team of American researchers from aforementioned university began to eliminate all the
possible causes of death: these guys don't drive, they don't drink, they practice peaceful
coexistence, and they eat solely vegan food.
Amazing that the elites who go on so about population reduction are precisely the ones have
five or six children. Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Toby Young (at only four he has seriously been
priest-like), Trump, Andrew Roberts, Tony Blair (again only four, scandalous): it should be a
capital crime for any Agenda 21 supporters to have more than one child.
...As of this writing an update from the Kentucky Department of Health says there are now at
least 99 cases of COVID-19 in the state. Coincidentally that's the same as the number of beers
on the wall of Buddy's Man Bear Cave. But thanks to Mitch we do know that Kentucky has
4,500,000 residents and 9,000,000 barrels of Bourbon.
...Thanks to the governor the distillerys are still open, 'cept for tourists
...I know, those were better'n anything in NYC, and cheaper too; but remember what happened
last time you took your old girlfriend there and they had to drive her home? That didn't work
out too well.
...Now Buddy, you know our 3 letter agencies are full of career professionals who
would love nothing more than to penetrate to the heart of darkness that is the Office of the
President. Why look at what Comrade Brennan manged in his efforts. No, I haven't seen him or
Chairman Schiff anywhere lately, I wonder where all that evidence of his went? Anybody know if
he's in quarantine? He's even scarcer than RBG. I wonder why?
The Corona Waltz (sung to the tune of Tom Lehrer's "Alma")
The first one to drop out was Butti
found out voters don't vote for snooty
then stealing his thunder came Amy
who knew she'd get more press on Monday
and joining hands, speaking of unity
Tom's hammer came down with impunity
the blowout for Biden was certain
even better 'cause the commies are hurtin'!
Then came corona
Dems stuck with Joe, now it's ovah
now that we need a new biz
where are Butti and Amy and Liz?
But I will say this, cause I'm very much into karmic irony. Rand Paul the weasel Senator
responsible for holding up the Coronavirus tax relief Bill has just tested positive for the
Covid-19. Gawd, I really hope he didn't come anywhere in close contact to Bernie this past
week.
Anyway, looks like Rand Paul won't be an obstacle for a while.
"... 1) Pompeo and Grenell reportedly arguing that coronavirus has created window of opportunity for a direct strike on a weak and divided Iran. ..."
"... Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisian has criticized the #UK for not delivering millions of masks #Iran bought in preparations ahead of #Covid19 outbreak. The London govt. refused to deliver them citing US sanctions! Note that Germany took supplies meant for Switzerland, The US via the Italian Mafia (I suppose) gets masks from Bergamo. etc. ..."
I just think that the US "Intelligence" and most of the US Administration just haven't got it. I suppose when you are waiting
for the "rapture" anything that can add to the chaos is to be included.
1) Pompeo and Grenell reportedly arguing that coronavirus has created window of opportunity for a direct strike on a weak
and divided Iran. They were arguing about the severity of the strike.
2) Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisian has criticized the #UK for not delivering millions of masks #Iran bought in preparations
ahead of #Covid19 outbreak. The London govt. refused to deliver them citing US sanctions! Note that Germany took supplies
meant for Switzerland, The US via the Italian Mafia (I suppose) gets masks from Bergamo. etc. Wonderful show of
world-wide solidarity.
Pompeo should hold his "rapture" in his hot little hand and .....
Tulsi on mask shortage-"It's hard to imagine how this could be
happening in America." Really? You're surprised the corrupt two-party that you insist we choose between got us here?
Andrew Yang just
admitted that he endorsed Biden cause he got offered a position in his cabinet should Biden become president. Tulsi of
course would never do that XD .
I wonder how
strong the Progressive movement would've been if careerists like Gabbard and Warren stayed away and the front was
unified from the beginning.
When Jimmy started his live video the day she announced
supporting Biden, I said to myself "I bet anything he blames Bernie for her dropping out and supporting Biden." Low
and behold, he did.
6:56
"which is something I always said I would do btw,
that I would support the eventual democratic nominee" Am I living in a parallel dimension? The primary is not
finished yet, you can still endorse Biden when it will be over if he wins the primary but endorse Bernie for the
moment. Is it that hard? Ho right, I forgot, the primary is rigged and we all know that Biden the senile kid diddler
and liar will be the nominee one way or another. Fucked up, but she's not helping. She probably knows she'll be
kicked out of politics if she does not endorse biden and cares more about her career than doing the right thing.
War is ingrained into US society, "Thankyou for your
service" says it all. Heroes in America are obviously those who go to war at the behest of the zionists and the
corporations.
"The scope of
the effects of this are difficult to comprehend at this time..." This is truly amazing that someone in the government
has the audacity to blame a virus for people's inability to "make rent" when it was them that created the current
hysteria and panic. There is a pandemic. I agree. But so far counting all of the cases that we know about, it is no
where even close to the season flue that we see every year! And the government is shutting down businesses! It is a
shame that they are using the current situation to further the idea that people are dependent on the government to
survive! How far we as a nation and a people have fallen from the ideals that created this nation in the first place! I
am disgusted!
Like Bernie,
Tulsi is just another TWO FACED Globalist Presstitute. Tulsi says her platform is to stop regime change and bring are
troops home! Why does she then endorse Biden who supports regime change and keeping troops in the middle east? Tulsi
says she does this to defeat Trump but Trump campaigned to stop regime change and bring are troops home!
Like watching a hostage video where both the questioner and subject are being held hostage - one to his heart, the other to the
DNC.
Maybe I missed it, but did Jimmy ever get around to asking about the timing and why Tusli felt the need to endorse Biden right
away?
Also was she threatened or coerced in any way? Because earlier in the vid she certainly implies there was no way she could fight
the DNC's version of City Hall.
When Tulsi
endorsed Biden by saying he is a fine man and will make a good President she has discredited herself by showing us that she
is either dishonest or has very poor judgement.
Tulsi says she's
proud to serve her country yet she admits that regime change wars and invading people's countries under fabricated
pretext isn't serving the country. She's not making a whole lot of sense.
Sshe says: "Now
is not the time for playing politics", "not the time for half measures." & right she is, I think. What a pity she is doing
just that. It is revealing ... but very disappointing.
I understand her dropping out, she has other roles to fulfil. I
can't understand her endorsing Biden, rendering everything she stands for null and void. The corporate Dems will never adjust
their policies to win votes if progressives and free clear thinkers just fall in line regardless.
Yeah, Tulsi, I
see Biden putting a stop to all the regime-change wars. Time for you to go back to doing AIPAC's bidding. Wondering now
what they have on you.
I trusted you
Tulsi. I spent hours fighting groups for you. This hurts. I'm out of the Democratic party. I seriously can't handle
this. My heart my stomach hurts
I wish Jimmy
would've pushed back on her statement that the voters have chosen. She's ignoring the coordinated effort of the establishment
and she's ignoring the primary is not over.
Andrew Yang just
admitted that he endorsed Biden cause he got offered a position in his cabinet should Biden become president. Tulsi of course
would never do that XD .
Jimmy Dore -
Tulsi is your another vanilla politician. Thank you for this session with her today, it helped clear up the air about her for
many of us. She is just another opportunist.
Will there be a pulling fingernails off of children handout or do I have to go to School
of Americas for that?
John Ewen 11:01 AM - 20 Mar 2020
Not forgetting the old classic playground game "Regime Change War for Oil." Aaah, back
when I was a wee young neoliberal child warmonger. Those were the days. pic.twitter.com/BUcF8gjU9e
+ The Senate won't take up House coronavirus bill until after its recess. "The Senate will
act when we come back and we have a clearer idea of what extra steps we need to take," Sen.
Lamar Alexander told reporters What if they never come back? One can hope
+ I guess Mitch McConnell, who vowed to kill the House Coronavirus bill, was serious when he
called himself
The Grim Reaper .
div
Putin just realized that he is at the start of his career Of course there may be a
simpler answer: looking across the pond, Putin sees an election between Biden (b Nov 1942)
and Trump (b June 1946) and realises that he (b Oct 1952) is just at the start of his career.
Gabbard is angling for the VP position as Biden mentioned he's looking for a woman as a
running mate. She better hope Biden remember what he said. I wonder what Biden's criteria for
his candidates?
Hmm...
Trump is like the kid who played video games when he should have been doing his homework,
then failed miserably on the test and tried to bullshit his way through the essay
questions.
As you are probably aware, a handful of elected leaders were selling their stock while
assuaging the public about the dangers of the pandemic. We've gone from incompetence, to
negligence, to outright profiteering.
Last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Services ran a 7 month long exercise code named
"Crimson Contagion," a dry run response to a global pandemic which started in China and
expected more than 100 million Americans to become ill.
...Heck, if Trump can "recognized" Juan Guaido as the "legitimate" president of Venezuela,
why the fuck can't we "recognize" Bernie Sanders as our legitimate president? I mean, if all we
have to do is just say it is so, like Trump and others did, why the fuck not? (yeah I know,
but...I think you get my point)
@SBaker "It's beyond dispute that the novel coronavirus officially known as
COVID-19originated in Wuhan, China."
No, it's being disputed every day. That "beyond dispute" phrase is what retards like Mike
Pompeo use to try to shut down a discussion in which he's getting his fat ass kicked.
Suppose it did turn out that this was all unintended blowback from some "clever ploy" by
the Deep State Neocons to take China (and Iran) down a notch or two. Can anyone imagine
what people would do to them?
If the NeoConDemocrats did this in an attempt to overthrow the Constitution, it would
guarantee GOP majority until the end of time.
The Globalist Left is certainly unhinged However risking a total forces CHINA-US nuclear
war?
Hillary prefers the (im)plausible deniability of eliminating individuals a defenseless
ambassador or prisoner or lawyer or reporter.
Suppose it did turn out that this was all unintended blowback from some "clever ploy" by
the Deep State Neocons to take China (and Iran) down a notch or two. Can anyone imagine
what people would do to them?
I would hope that people would treat such individuals with compassion. Recognize that we
all make mistakes. Their plans for these microbes never involved the suffering and death of
millions of innocent people and simply got out of control. Certainly a stern letter of
admonishment should be added to their files. But their names should not be made public.
@Old and
Grumpy ... Maybe if this coronavirus turns out to be one-tenth as bad as the yearly
outbreak of flu, we'll be getting monthly checks forever. No more work, just spend, spend,
spend ourselves into prosperity at restaurants, on vacations, on air travel, and on
giant-screen TVs for every kid's room so we stay competitive with the Israelis and Chinese.
Right now I've got Fox business on and the gaslighting is no longer in the least bit subtle.
It's straightforward fear mongering.
Ft. Detrick egghead:"Who are you? This is a secure area! I'm calling
security!" Langley frat boy:"I'm from Langley. If I tell you more than that then I will have
to kill you." Egghead:"You guys are jerks, you know that?" Frat Boy:"Yeah, I love you too. So what you got in this bottle?" [picks up
ampule from shelf] Egghead:"That's a novel coronavirus." Frat Boy:"Deadly?" Egghead:"Not particularly. So far our testing suggests that it would just be a
nuisance. Maybe one or two percent fatality. It won't make a very good weapon." Frat Boy:"Only one or two percent, huh? That's what the taxpayers are shelling out
billions for?" [palms ampule while pretending to return it to a rack of dozens of
identical little glass vials] Egghead:"Hey, it's more productive than assassinating people like you guys
do!" Frat Boy:"Watch it, Giant Forehead, or I'll rendition you to Saudi Arabia."
[saunters out the door]
[two days later]
CDC inspector:"OK, your records say you have 250 vials of lot BCV-731. I only
count 249. Where is the missing vial?" Egghead:"Wait, wut? One's missing? Maybe that Langley fellow took one..." CDC inspector:"You cannot keep track of your deadly pathogens here? We're shutting
this place down." Egghead:"But it's just a novel coronavirus! It would suck as a weapon! Why would
that Langley guy want it? Why are you making such a big deal about it? Waa! My life
sucks!"
[two weeks later]
Frat Boy:"You guys are heading to China for the military games? You won't be
seeing real American food for a while so I brought you some pizzas!" Grunts:"Gee, you Langley fellows sure are swell!" Frat Boy:"Hey, I'm just a patriot! Kick some slant-eyed asses for me, OK?" Grunts:"You betcha!"
The most troubling aspect about the corona virus for me has been the naming convention. At
the beginning I thought that it deserved the name "Chinese influenza" – kind of paying
homage to the Spanish influenza that killed 70 million people. I thought that the reason why
they didn't do it – is because there are many illiterates in the west (read US), who
might misunderstand it and read it as Chinese influence – and we know that US doesn't
want any kind of Chinese influence at all. Now that the virus is moving to North America, I
thought that they might come out clean and name it Budweiser virus instead of Corona, but I
guess that would require way too much honesty.
Social distancing is good, washing hands is awesome, drinking plenty of fresh pure water is
great, walking and sunlight is incredible, bathing, washing and laundering clothes desired and
needed, eating spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, and adding onion, and garlic to
stews and soups and taking homeopathics tinctures, and digesting foods and getting pro-tease
enzymes will greatly help the host to raise their immune system
Incidentally, I really don't like the term 'lockdown' being applied to everyday life. Its a
term that originated in US prisons that use centralized cell locking mechanisms as a way of
controlling inmates. Its not, and should never become, a facet of ordinary life. Locking down
implies that there's a control element, something is managing the population like a group of
inmates. Its the wrong relationship between a government and a people.
Democrats: Trump is an unprecedented threat to our democracy because he's a vulgar racist
jingoistic authoritarian reactionary wingnut with dementia who lies constantly.
Those same Democrats: Here vote for for Hillary light a jingoistic neocon/neolib with health
problems.
"... The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. ..."
The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by
the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!
Liberal critics will undoubtedly take umbrage at the phrasing "Chinese virus", despite the fact that it's 100% true, because not
only is it 'racist', but it runs counter to their narrative that the outbreak is somehow Trump's fault.
Being a celebrity is a risk factor. That is what you get with 'actors'
Willem ,
'It's cool to be nCoV-positive now. Maybe that's why such inordinate numbers of famous people
are staking their claim to it.'
The way I see it, is that such people take precious time of already overburdened health
care workers. These celebrities are a bunch of attention seeking wankers.
The Rich Folks who own the West's politicians remind me of crocodiles.
Never smile at a crocodile.
No you can't get friendly with a crocodile.
When he looks at you with his welcome grin,
He's imagining how well you'd fit within his skin.
The Coronavirus Conundrum as interpreted by Average Joe.
Reporter: "Excuse me sir, have you been tested for coronavirus yet?"
Average Joe: "No, I haven't."
Reporter: "Aren't you worried?"
Average Joe: "No."
Reporter: "Why not?"
Average Joe: "I don't have any symptoms."
Reporter: "But you could be a carrier and not know it."
Average Joe: "Uh huh. Say, can I ask you a question?"
Reporter: "Sure, go ahead."
Average Joe: "What are the symptoms of coronavirus?"
Reporter: "Well, that would be coughing, sneezing, chills, intestinal disorder and
fever."
Average Joe: "And what are the symptoms of influenza?"
Reporter: " I think they are the same."
Average Joe: "Aren't there millions of cases of influenza compared to coronavirus?"
Reporter: "Well yes, that's true."
Average Joe: "And people could have influenza and not know it and spread it, too?"
Reporter: "Yes, I guess so."
Average Joe: "So why aren't you asking me if I should be tested for influenza, instead?"
Reporter: "Because coronavirus has killed about 50 people in the U.S. so far"
Average Joe: "Influenza has killed over 4,500 Americans so far."
Here we witness Average Joe thinks logically. Since there are more people infected with
influenza than coronavirus and the symptoms are the same and more people have died, he should
be tested for influenza before coronavirus. But the media isn't focused on influenza, they
want people to be afraid of coronavirus because of the huge amount of attention it is getting
in the press around the world. And that's the truth.
It is notorious for champagne-swilling, restaurant-trashing, "pleb"-taunting elitism. Now
new light has been shed on the outrageous antics of the Bullingdon Club – the Oxford
University group that may be about to produce its second British prime minister – by
someone intimately connected to it during Boris Johnson's membership.
A woman who acted as a scout for potential members of the Bullingdon Club in the
mid-1980s has said that female prostitutes performed sex acts at its lavish dinners, women
were routinely belittled, and that intimidation and vandalism were its hallmarks.
This is a really brilliant satire !!! Another outstanding work. "Spread the message, not the virus" and "...when they threaten the
Stock Market." Priceless
What makes a nation civilized is not how it acts in times of peace but how it chooses to conduct itself in moments of crisis. Hoarding
stuff for months selfishly and fighting people in markets like animals is not how civilized societies deal with crisis.
Notable quotes:
"... Toilet paper is such a weird thing to be panic-buying... ..."
"... "Global emergencies- when they threaten the stock market" So sad but true ..."
"... "When they threaten the stock market." Boom. ..."
"... I love the term "local government franchise". sounds pretty synonymous to a government run by crooks and impotent political dynasties. ..."
"... I like how this started off completely taking the mick, but then turned, depressingly, into one of the most sensible summaries of our current situation. (I mean it's depressing that comedians seem to be better at communicating than our glorious leaders). ..."
"... "Italians are freaking out the Chinese are hiding out" That was just so freaking hilarious oh my God I love this channel ..."
I like how this started off completely taking the mick, but then turned, depressingly, into one of the most sensible summaries
of our current situation. (I mean it's depressing that comedians seem to be better at communicating than our glorious leaders).
Lucy's heavenly voice and impeccable pronunciation – which transform the coarse language into music to our ears – perfectly
convey the urgent educational message.
Thank you for the "flatten the curve" message. To be honest, I had wondered whether delaying the inevitable was the way to
go - especially in view of the fact that there are going to be, indeed, already have been deaths that are due to knock-on effects
from the corona virus.
Johnthan Pie as expected sharp insightful with a wicked cutting edge, but most importantly
so on point with home truths. Well done good man, please keep them coming we need you more
than ever 😁
-text" role="article"> Well done JP, a brilliant summation as always :) Particularly
poignant: "The only people we can look to for help are our leaders, who we would hope, are
looking to scientists & experts to guide them."
Civilizations depend on toilet paper it seems. Toilet paper is the bellwether commodity of
our age. Capacity production is called for, especially neoclassic econ 101 foolishness.
Nevertheless, overtime at the paper mills is in order.
If all the food was stripped off supermarket shelves as well as the bathroom tissue then that
would make some sense ;-), but these clowns are just taking the paper.
For anyone who cannot exist without buffing their arsehole to a satin sheen every morning,
yet is unable to lay in the 157 rolls of toilet paper most contemporary bourgeoisie now
regard as de rigeur may I suggest this this for a mere $47.99 . You should
probably get in fast as the exact same thing was $27.99 5 days ago.
Or do as I used to when living in the tropics where the 'littlest room in the house' (in
bourgeois speak) was like a sauna, the fix for that was to hop into the shower straight after
yer daily dump.
Honestly humans in the developed word are past saving. The world has suddenly accelerated
in the race to get to hell in a handbasket, and what is the first thing they do? Why try to
corner the market in watchamacallit, toilet 'tissue'. Fucking crazy doesn't begin to cover
it.
CentralScrutinizer Okay I've analysed this for days now. Nothing makes any sense from any
angle. It looks like they deliberately crashing the economy but no one is dying. If you going
to reset the global economy you need to lose about 70% of the world population or your
situation is just worse. So either the NWO set a plan in motion and someone forgot to tell them
virus is actually a joke or (as I am beginning to suspect) the entire world has become an
Idiocracy led by the chief idiots. 5 -1 Reply Mar 14, 2020 8:09 PM
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to
be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Recently, I was watching the old Looney Tunes Cartoons with my Grandchild and we were
watching, "Duck Dodges in the 21st and a Half Century"
I don't know if you've watched this cartoon starring Daffy Duck. You can view it here https://vimeo.com/76668594
This cartoon was made in 1953 and like many Looney Tune cartoon's, they are an extreme
parody of life. But while watching this cartoon, it dawned on me that this cartoon is an
almost perfect description of US Military policy and action.
I could write an article on this but I think we'll leave it as a note with a snide laugh to
be had by all.
Fun fact: the European Union actually has no authority over health issues whatsoever. This
is a strict Member State prerogative. The countries can coordinate voluntarily (which is what
is currently arranged by the European Commission, but since there is no precedence it takes
time) - but there was no way to make any decision about that in Brussels.
Greetings from Europe. In these hard times I'd like to thank Trump for providing such gold
comedy material from just being a moron and reminding us all that it could always be
worse.
@sudden
death Looks like Bolsonaro beat him to the punch.
Bolsonaro is 64, that's ~4% risk of death; survived a stabbing, will be fine. Trump is
73, that's ~8% risk of death. Morbidly obese, but I don't think he has any major
preexisting conditions? Will almost certainly pull through as well. Both will ofc get great
medical care.
Cyrano says: Show Comment
March 13,
2020 at 1:39 am GMT 100 Words ... Everybody is talking about the negative sides of this
corona virus outbreak. I would like to focus on one possible positive influence this virus
might have.
The robbery industry can definitely benefit from this outbreak. With everybody wearing
masks, the robbery employees – after conducting their operations in local corner stores,
gas stations and even banks – can very successfully mingle with the general population
upon exiting from the venues they like to do their business in, and avoid risky situations
associated with their profession – such as being caught and/or being shot or subjected to
lengthy prison sentences.
After sober analysis, extensive reading, and careful assessment of each and every fact either
directly or indirectly related to COVID19, I am now fully convinced of the following:
– The virus was deliberately created by aliens from the Betelgeuse solar system, who
have been secretly spying on our planet for the last 200 years.
– The Betelgeusians have developed a supremely accurate quantum computer model ("It's
Quantum!") of our species, which predicts what various factions of humanity will do given any
set of specific circumstances and inputs.
– The Betelgeusians, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to re-balance various
factions of humanity here on earth, depending on their projected threat to other populations
and the planet in general.
– After running various scenarios through their quantum computer ("It's Quantum!"), the
results for advancing an optimal future became obvious.
– The COVID19 was created specifically to attack Italians, Iranians, and Han
Chinese.
– In their computer simulation ("It's Quantum!"), those three groups were considered
most egregiously able to perpetrate negative effects on the rest of humanity in the
future.
– Therefore, the Betelgeusians made the onerous decision to create and release the
virus.
– Various intended consequences were also the result of the simulation ("It's
Quantum!"); these include vituperation and blowback on the US Deep State embedded for lo!
these many years.
– A popular mass uprising will take effect against the Derp State, and
leftism/progressivism will finally be tossed out on its collective ear all over Western
Civilization. It will be so thoroughly maligned, that it will finally end up on the ash heap
of history, never to return.
– The Betelgeusians will surreptitiously introduce an antidote into the ecosphere,
thereby eradicating all further related susceptibility and deaths.
– The Betelgeusians will look down on their handiwork with benign satisfaction.
– Western Civilization will again have a chance to flourish like never before, entering
a new Renaissance, and everybody will live happily ever after.
There don't you like my story much better than all the other nonsense you've been pummeled
with lately? (You can thank me later.)
Oh, they have. This is from the email I got from the White House listserv:
"Some 150,000 illegal immigrants from 72 nations with cases of the coronavirus have been
apprehended or deemed inadmissible from entering the United States since November," according
to officials. These apprehensions underscore the need for border security and proper vetting.
Read more from Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner.
How did the Democrats end up with Joe Biden as their presumptive nominee?
After three years of preparatory media fire about diversity and change, and chumming the
electorate with promises of free college alongside all the health care-they-care-to-eat,
Democrats started with six women, a couple of black people, the gay guy, and progressive ideas
ranging from the necessary to the kooky. The full list
included 30 players.
They ended up choosing a candidate left over from 1958. Joe Biden is old, he's tired, he
lost the race for president twice already (once for plagiarism and once for lying
about his education), and he appears to be in some state of cognitive decline. Between the hair
plugs and the botox, he looks waxy, like grandpa putting himself out there for one last fling
after Grandma Obama passed away, God rest her soul.
... Biden is a 1998 democrat - says the wokey stuff in public when necessary to
differentiate from Team R while equally slavish towards the MIC, banks and Wall Street at
all times and in all places.
WORTH REPEATING: In 2018, Trump fired the entire US pandemic response team.
These were the experts with decades of experience dealing with precisely the kind of
situation we are in today.
Michael Grunwald @MikeGrunwald
I had forgotten my own reporting that @SenatorCollins
stripped $870M for pandemic preparations out of the 2009 stimulus.
[page image from Grunwald's book, The New New Deal ]
There was some discussion here the other day about who's responsible for the sorry state
of the CDC
and pandemic preparation in particular. Now, the Dems controlled all the WH, Senate and House
in 2009,
so obviously they share some of the blame, but if Collins hadn't demanded this,
it probably wouldn't have happened.
From Wikipedia: A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by
leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population. Our neoliberal
gerontocracy is hopeless ( "There are wicked people who would be much less dangerous if they were
wholly without goodness") There are neoliberal fanatics without ability, and then they are really
dangerous people.
Joe the Biden was just on tv spouting off about Coronavirus. I didn't watch or listen.
Does anyone know if he said anything sane, remembered his own name or anything like that? He
looked decrepit.
Speaking of which, Trump seemed out of breath a lot during his spiel last night, almost
wheezing at times. Couple that with the fact that he's been in close contact with people who
have already tested positive led me towards an obvious conclusion
He, Bernie, Joe, Hilary, Nancy, et al are all in the high-risk group. We could easily lose
one or more, not that I'm trying to get anyone's hopes up.
He's reading verbatim from a teleprompter, no surprise that it's another skill he's
completely incompetent performing. Political skills 101 class, day 1 – learn how to
read from a teleprompter without it looking obvious. Christ he even squints.
Back when Trump made a speech a year or so ago, he did the same sniffing and wheezing.
Someone made a recording and deleted the words so the only sounds were the sniffing and
wheezing. It was hilarious and got something like 100K likes on Twitter.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to
be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Looks like Ronald Reagan was a pioneer of the trend.
Notable quotes:
"... One should draw a distinction between demented and dementia. Joe Biden has been demented for a long time. His dementia is something new. ..."
"... Either condition should disqualify him from the Presidency. But, for decades now, those characteristics seem to have become job requirements. ..."
"... Demented Trump and then demented Biden? Something to look forward to, eh? ..."
"... we may now adapt this old Chernenko joke: "Today, due to bad health and without regaining consciousness, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko took up the duties of Secretary General". ..."
"... The DNC honchos and the parasitic elite who are embedded within it know fully well the degree of Biden's cognitive decline. They'd rather lose with Biden than possibly win with Bernie for obvious self-interest of course. ..."
One should draw a distinction between demented and dementia. Joe Biden has been demented for a long time. His dementia is something new.
Either condition should disqualify him from the Presidency. But, for decades now, those characteristics seem to have become job requirements.
T , March 10, 2020 at 11:45
Reagan was clearly senile, and that was no hindrance to him becoming President -- so why
should it be any different in the case of Biden?
Vera Gottlieb , March 9, 2020 at 15:28
Demented Trump and then demented Biden? Something to look forward to, eh?
Hans Suter , March 9, 2020 at 09:52
we may now adapt this old Chernenko joke: "Today, due to bad health and without regaining
consciousness, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko took up the duties of Secretary General".
Joe Biden many decades ago, Joe Biden already had a problem with saying what he should
only be thinking.
Joe Biden: I Tried to 'Prostitute Myself'
see: youtube.com/watch?v=oysFCNPg0DA
Drew Hunkins , March 6, 2020 at 21:03
The DNC honchos and the parasitic elite who are embedded within it know fully well the
degree of Biden's cognitive decline. They'd rather lose with Biden than possibly win with
Bernie for obvious self-interest of course.
. @DanaPerino I'm not quite sure why
you're telling FOX viewers that Elizabeth Warren is the last female candidate in the Dem
primary. Is it because you believe a fake indigenous woman of color is "real" and the real
indigenous woman of color in this race is fake? pic.twitter.com/VKCxy2JzFe
The U.K. was exempted, which makes the targeting of the ban seem driven by political bias
more than anything else. That was
not lost on European leaders :
Trump also botched his explanation of the details of his own policy, which created panic
among Americans still in Europe who thought that they might be cut off from coming home. That
isn't the case, but that didn't stop a run on last-minute airline tickets because Americans
thought that they had just a couple days to get out:
Just to clarify, I didn't spend $20,000 on tickets (what I DID spend was bad enough). A
Delta ticket agent at CDG told me that's how much one American passenger spent online in the
hours after President Trump's announcement.
The Council on Foreign Relations has nixed a conference on "Doing Business Under
Coronavirus," apparently not wanting to risk actually doing its business under the coronavirus
epidemic laying siege to New York City.
...an unknown number of attendees at both the Conservative Political Action Conference and
the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee were exposed to the coronavirus during both
gatherings last weekend in Washington DC
The Age of Enlightenment had a pretty good run from the 17th to 19th centuries. It led to
the Industrial Age and, in concurrence, the Space and Information Ages. These historical
epochs advanced humanity to crowning breakthroughs in science, medicine, information
exchange, and quality of life. Today, all of humankind's advancements are being threatened
by those who would have society return to an age marked by superstition, belief in magic
and miracles, ignorance, racial and religious intolerance, and abject sexism.
The Democratic Party candidate selection process continues to roll along providing all the tension and suspense of an
impending colonoscopy – sans anesthetic.
Seamus Padraig ,
...I think our only hope now is that the Corona Virus kills all other politicians in the
US, leaving only Tulsi alive. Of course, the DNC would probably still find some way to deny
her the nomination somehow
Seamus Padraig ,
You can have a dogshit sandwich or a catshit sandwich, just so long as its kosher.
As coronavirus tensions rise amid panic buying, event cancellations and self-isolation and
quarantine, it is unsurprising that some have sought to weaponize the outbreak by deliberately
coughing at others.
...Video purports to show cabin crew wrestling a frustrated but unruly airline passenger
after she was filmed deliberately coughing on staff so that she would be kicked off a Thai
Airways flight.
"... The weight of the establishment has thrown itself – for some reason – behind Joe Biden. Since his "miraculous" wins on Super Tuesday we've been treated to dozens of stories praising his "decency", happy that "angry politics" lost, and calling for the party to "unite behind" Biden . And that's just The Guardian . ..."
"... Jonathan Freedland, in his special brand of smug establishment boot-licking, suggested that Biden being a long-term establishment democrat is his strength in these times of crisis. You have to wonder if that crisis wasn't awful convenient for Joe, in that instance. ..."
The toilet-paper maddened crowds will be braving coronavirus to vote in the latest round of
Democratic primaries today.
There's several more rounds of voting before the convention in July, but this is the last
before the next debate on March 15th.
The process is kinda moot at this point.
The weight of the establishment has thrown itself – for some reason – behind Joe
Biden. Since his "miraculous"
wins on Super Tuesday we've been treated to dozens of stories praising his "decency", happy
that "angry politics" lost, and calling for the party to "unite
behind" Biden . And that's just The Guardian .
Jonathan Freedland, in his special brand of smug establishment boot-licking, suggested that
Biden being a long-term establishment democrat is his strength in these times of crisis.
You have to wonder if that crisis wasn't awful convenient for Joe, in that instance.
... ... ...
Whatever the plan turns out to be, progressives and leftists all over America will likely be
disappointed in Bernie. If last time is anything to go by, no matter how obviously he (and more
importantly his voters) get screwed over, Sanders will just let it happen.
The other Great White Hope of American leftists – or should that be "Great Native
American hope"? – Elizabeth Warren, dropped out last week but is yet to endorse her
fellow "progressive", Bernie Sanders. This could mean she's spiteful, or it could mean she's
angling to be Biden's VP nominee. Either way, no real surprise and no real loss. Warren always
talked a better game than she played and she didn't talk all that well.
Oh, and the DNC changed their debate eligibility rules to exclude
Tulsi Gabbard . Something both the other candidates and the vast majority of the mainstream
media have been quiet about.
Questions arise Are the democrats really rallying behind Joe
Biden? why?! Are they planning to throw the race? Is Joe Biden going senile? Who will each
candidate pick as a running mate? Will the DNC ever acknowledge Tulsi Gabbard exists?
For some reason I am reminded of the Jon Rappoport-Ellis Medavoy (pseudonym) interview.
"You make up something complicated. Then
you insert it into the bloodstream of
the society, and you watch it bloom.
You make it complex enough that it
will take armies of people to sort
it out and argue about it, and then
you have them. The other thing is,
what you make up has to cost money.
A lot of money."
"Why?" I said.
"Because people want their lies to have
value, and that is judged by how
expensive they are."
"Suppose the citizenry ends up paying for
these lies," I said.
"SUPPOSE?" he said. "SUPPOSE? Of
COURSE they're going to pay. They're
going to pay until it hurts. You
know the old expression, " Seeing Is
Believing?" That's bunch of crap.
PAYING IS BELIEVING."
I guess another mixed positive is that it shows you don't need Bernie Sanders to crash the
stock markets. The thing is quite unstable on its own thank you very much.
"... Nothing speaks more loudly of the dumbed down, idiotic, Fakebook groupthink of the age than the current rush to buy toilet roll as a response to the Coronavirus crisis. ..."
No need to worry about the corona virus - it'll all be okay as long as you buy enough toilet
roll...
Nothing speaks more loudly of the dumbed down, idiotic, Fakebook groupthink of the age
than the current rush to buy toilet roll as a response to the Coronavirus crisis.
You've seen it on the tele and (un)social media – supermarket shelves denuded of bog
roll and fat birds beating seven shades of sh*t out of each other over the last bag of ass
wipe.
I mean, what the hell!? Is this how stupid and pathetic we've become? Someone sees a post
on Fakebook that says its a good idea to respond to a potentially fatal virus by buying lots
of bog roll and within 5 minutes there's a massive rush on the stuff – after all, you
gotta buy it, right, COS IT SAYS SO ON FAKEBOOK...
DNC installing a man with obvious cognitive impairment is a staggering display of arrogance.
While Bush and Obama were empty suits this is completly another level.
In way I think Stupor Tuesday was a huge win for Trump.
The oldest organized political party on the planet is advancing a senile globalist meatpuppet
(with a son known to be a philandering crackhead) to handle nuclear launch codes.
Choosing Biden hands the election to Trump and that's a deal that has already been made. The
DNC don't like Sanders because they are adraid he might win, not because they are afraid he
might loose.
I agree with you that it is not going to be a slam dunk for Trump. Just like Trump wasn't
damaged by the Access Hollywood tapes, Biden's not going to be damaged by his senility,
gaffes and his prior plagiarism, Wall St cronyism and corruption. The vote for the "lesser
evil" mindset will consolidate along traditional lines. The Obama machine will run Biden's
campaign and consolidate the Democrat support. The election will hinge on a few states in
particular Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Or, I don't know, maybe it is the Bat Flu. The more I read the
corporate press, the more I'm beginning to suspect it is. My suspicion isn't based on facts. I
don't have any of the Bat Flu symptoms. It's just a feeling like the feelings people had that
Saddam had secret WMDs, and that Trump was a Russian intelligence asset, and that the world was
going to end in the year 2012.
OK, those feelings turned out to be wrong, but this one feels like an accurate feeling, and
not like just the result of being relentlessly bombarded with hysterical headlines, pictures of
people in hazmat suits, and obsessively researching ever-changing, wildly-varying statistics on
the Internet, which I really need to stop doing that.
... ... ...
Plus, even if I just have the flu (i.e., the regular flu, not the Chinese Bat
Flu), the statistics on that are pretty scary. I don't know the numbers here in Germany, but,
according to the
CDC , since 2010, in the United States, the regular old garden variety flu has resulted in
the following, annually:
9 million – 45 million cases
140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations
12,000 – 61,000 deaths
When you multiply all those numbers by 10 (because it's been 10 years since 2010), you
get:
90 million – 450 million cases
1,400,000 – 8,100,000 hospitalizations
120,000 – 610,000 deaths
That's 450 million possible cases and over half a million deaths, and that's just in the
United States! To make it concrete, if you stood all those dead people on top of each other,
head to toe, so that everyone was standing on everyone's head, and used them as an enormous
ladder, you could climb to the moon and back four times or once or twice at the very least.
And that's nothing compared to this Covid-19!
No, according to The Guardian , Covid-19 is "about ten times more deadly than the seasonal flu," so
that's 610,000 deaths just this year, and if the CDC tracks it for a full 10 years, that's
pretty close to 6 million dead people, which will make it just as bad as the Holocaust
(although the Holocaust only lasted four years, so I'll have to adjust my math for that).
And, remember, that's just in the United States, which is only 4.25 percent of the total
global population. So you multiply the Holocaust by 95 percent (you can round the numbers to
make this easier) and you end up with 7 billion dead people, which is nearly every last person
on Earth, except for 700 million people! Which, OK, that sounds like a lot of people (i.e., the
700 million, not the 7 billion), but it's fewer than there were in the 14th Century; i.e.,
before the "Black Death" plague killed everybody!
... ... ...
Or, I don't know, maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe I just have the flu. I mean, what if this
whole Corona thing is just nature doing what nature does and not the end of civilization? Look,
I don't want to sound paranoid, but I can't help wondering whether this virus warrants all the
mass hysteria that the corporate media have been pumping out at us, relentlessly, for the last
two months, and the states of emergency that are being declared, and the quarantines that are
going into effect, and the curfews, and banning of public gatherings, and whatever other
"emergency measures" are going to be imposed in the coming weeks and months.
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I suppose the politically correct thing is to pretend that Joe
Biden winning the Black vote isn't like the late Jeffrey Epstein being hailed as a mentor
of teenage girls.
Trump
recently mocked Biden over a mistake when Biden said he was looking forward to Super Thursday
instead of Super Tuesday. any chance of medical intervention here? Hillary got some shots.
Notable quotes:
"... We cannot get reelected, we cannot win this reelection, excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump. ..."
"Joe Biden mistakenly endorsed President Donald Trump during a speech in St. Louis, and
Donald Trump responded with 'I agree with Joe!' on Twitter. In his speech, former vice
president Joe Biden said, ' We cannot get reelected, we cannot win this reelection,
excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump. ' "
To be honest, staff at my local Sainsburys were under the assumption that I've been panic
buying alcohol for the last four and a half years. #coronavirusUK
#toiletpaperpanic
"If the White House failed to recognise a major health crisis already simmering on its own
doorstep, what hope can be held for when the coronavirus epidemic starts sweeping through the
inland US, taking out the elderly, the poor and the homeless?"
I doubt that our glorious leaders in the US or UK will find much they don't like in that
scenario.
Speaking of CNBC, Rick Santelli who "launched the Tea Party" years ago though it prudent to
"After a volatile day of trading on Wall Street Thursday precipitated by ongoing fears
of the economic effects of the global coronavirus outbreak, CNBC analyst Rick Santelli
suggested it would be better to infect the world population with the disease all at once to
help stock prices. "
My best friends brother is a physician working in the midwest town in which I live. I asked
him about all of these stories of people stealing things like hand sanitizer from clinics and
he said nothing is any different from what it was 2-3 months month ago. Maybe this is a bad
thing, but It seems that outside of the few areas right now that we are reading about in the
media, most people in this country are treating it like Baton Rouge or the city in which I
live. People in general just are not that worked up by it. I work in an urban school district
in medium size, midwestern city and so far other than a general notice to wash our hands and
not touch our face, nothing has been even talked about in regards to handling a massive
outbreak. Again, in hind sight this could be a huge mistake, but until people see this
touching places across the heartland and reaching into every corner of society it looks like
they will assume its a mostly big city, densely populated area problem. Of course if it
reaches these places it will be too late to do anything, but I guess that is how these things
always work.
I live in Houston and cannot find a single bottle of hand sanitizer or Clorox wipes on a
store shelf. I have been to grocery stores, Walmart, Target, dollar stores, office supply
stores, Home Depot, drug stores. Everyone is out and nobody who works there has any idea
when their stock will be replenished. Meanwhile prices for the stuff on Amazon have spiked
into the hundreds of dollars.
Funny, I thought conservatives told us that empty shelves and sky-high black market
prices only happen when socialists are in charge.
"They said they would not test me because if I were wearing the recommended protective
equipment, then I wouldn't have the coronavirus."
The CDC is blaming human error - BASED ON CDC GUIDELINES - for the contraction of the
virus? Or is it more like the novel Catch 22 - if you were too mentally unwell to
fly then you were excused from missions, but if you said you were too unwell to fly then
you were clearly well enough to assess your mental health.
Some of my darker thoughts on CV have noted that if this spreads through the country,
Social Security and pension funds will be able to relax, homes will come on the market and
prices will go down, and we could even be looking at generational political turnover.
I'm not wishing for it in the slightest, but the potential is there.
I call BS Corona is going to kill a few thousands at most . Every time someone catches a cold
the media says the sky is falling . SARS OMG a catastrophe and what ? A thousand deaths . And
what if Corona does kill millions ? With 7,000,000,000 people what are millions ? 10,000,000
<1% . Corona is clickbait that the Americans will use to advance their program of
advancing chaos to make it dangerous to disobey . Personally I hope Corona kills A billion+ .
Shit I'll volunteer to be one .
I call BS Corona is going to kill a few thousands at most . Every time someone catches a cold
the media says the sky is falling . SARS OMG a catastrophe and what ? A thousand deaths . And
what if Corona does kill millions ? With 7,000,000,000 people what are millions ? 10,000,000
<1% . Corona is clickbait that the Americans will use to advance their program of
advancing chaos to make it dangerous to disobey . Personally I hope Corona kills A billion+ .
Shit I'll volunteer to be one .
. In the spirit of charity, we should give credit where it's due: Warren really did become
the "
unity candidate " that she always proclaimed herself to be. She displayed an astounding
capacity to bring together a polarized country around their shared distaste for her
candidacy.
Compiling a complete discography of Warren's detractors would be an impossible feat, but for
the sake of partisan schadenfreude, we should briefly revisit the greatest hits. These include
the Native American tribal leaders who weren't particularly fond of a wealthy white Harvard
professor claiming their ethnicity for personal gain (even co-authoring a cooking guide titled
The Pow Wow Chow Native American Cookbook ), the Bernie Sanders supporters infuriated
by Warren's cynical attempts to paint their candidate as a woman-hating misogynist,
police unions offended by Warren's
open dishonesty about violence in law enforcement, religious conservatives who found her
contemptuous dismissal of anyone with traditionalist views of sexual morality to be in
profoundly bad taste, and pro-lifers (who still comprise
34 percent of the Democratic electorate ) for whom Warren's
radically pro-abortion policy objectives were unconscionable.
It's worth noting, of course, that this is just a small slice of the groups that found
Warren enormously unlikeable. The senator's casual-at-best relationship with the truth (
listing herself as as "woman of color" in Harvard's faculty listing,
claiming that she was fired from a teaching position for being pregnant,
refusing to admit that her various spending plans would require raising taxes on the middle
class, and so on) probably didn't help. And shockingly, her painfully contrived attempts at
catering to the woke activist base (vocal
support for reparations,
pledging to let a transgender child pick her secretary of education,
endorsing affirmative action for non-binary people) paired with her technocratically
manicured professorial wonkiness -- she's got a plan for that! -- never caught fire in the
blue-collar neighborhoods in the Midwest and South.
... ... ...
Senator Warren, we hardly knew ye.
Nate Hochman is an undergraduate student at Colorado College and a Young Voices
contributor. You can follow him at Twitter
@njhochman .
Former DNC chairman who gave Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance during the 2016
election, exclaimed on Fox News that Biden's victory was "the most impressive 72 hours
I've ever seen in U.S. politics," and told another analyst to "
go to hell " for suggesting that the Democratic establishment was once again working to
manipulate a nominee into frontrunner status.
The Democrats are in chaos and melting down on live TV.
Donna Brazile just told the @GOPChairwoman to "go to hell"
when asked about the chaos.
Update (1050ET): President Trump was quick to react to Bloomberg's exit:
Mini Mike Bloomberg just "quit" the race for President. I could have told him long ago that
he didn't have what it takes, and he would have saved himself a billion dollars, the real cost.
Now he will pour money into Sleepy Joe's campaign, hoping to save face. It won't work!
TRUTHOUT's latest article on super Tuesday is entitled; "Centrists Will Still Be Split on
Super Tuesday, Thanks to Mike Bloomberg." That strikes me as precisely the wrong lesson.
The correct one can be stated just as easily, namely: "Progressives Still Split on Super
Tuesday, and thus Losing, Thanks to Elisabeth Warren."
The quadrennial political game of least worst, or how to scare the public to vote for
presidential candidates who serve corporate power, comes this season with a new twist. Donald
Trump, if he faces Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar or Michael Bloomberg, will
continue to be an amalgamation of Adolf Hitler, Al Capone and the Antichrist.
But should Bernie Sanders manage to evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him by
the Democratic Party elites, should he miraculously become the party's nominee, the game of
least worst will radically change. All the terrifying demons that inhabit Trump will be
instantly exorcised. But unlike in the biblical story of Jesus driving the demons into a herd
of swine, they will be driven into the senator from Vermont.
Trump will become the establishment's reluctant least worse option. Sanders will become a
leper. The Democratic and Republican party elites, joining forces as they did in the 1972
presidential election, will do to Sanders what they did to George McGovern, who lost in 49 of
the 50 states.
"If Dems go on to nominate Sanders, the Russians will have to reconsider who to work for
to best screw up the US. Sanders is just as polarizing as Trump AND he'll ruin our economy
and doesn't care about our military," former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (net worth
$1.1 billion) tweeted. "If I'm Russian, I go with Sanders this time around."
Last election I voted for American Pharoah. I felt that a horse would do a better job that's
Hillary and Trump, and I still feel that way and will vote for American Pharoah again this
cycle. But if Trump dumps Sus-Pence and takes Haley as VP, I'm voting for the other guy.
Coronavirus mutated again infecting computers that execute trading programs while also
affecting human traders. Stock exchanges closed after unprecedented losses. Federal Reserve
lacks quorum to change interest rates or to enact other measures. Investors run away from
cities to their most reclusive second homes, including Mayor Bloomberg who terminated his run
for Congress.
Later: As all Democratic contenders below age of 40 withdrew due their health worries and
Pete B. withdrew already, Congresswomen from Hawaii became the only candidate running. DNC
lacks quorum to decide what to do about it.
Coronavirus mutated again infecting computers that execute trading programs while also
affecting human traders. Stock exchanges closed after unprecedented losses. Federal Reserve
lacks quorum to change interest rates or to enact other measures. Investors run away from
cities to their most reclusive second homes, including Mayor Bloomberg who terminated his run
for Congress.
Later: As all Democratic contenders below age of 40 withdrew due their health worries and
Pete B. withdrew already, Congresswomen from Hawaii became the only candidate running. DNC
lacks quorum to decide what to do about it.
Is there any other nation state that has 50 separate official elections, mostly run and paid
for by the public, just so a private club masquerading as a political party can select its
leader? To the rest of the world, this must look completely insane, but few people anywhere
even seem to notice how ridiculous it all looks.
Another example of "American Exceptionalism." China doesn't charge its coronavirus
patients, neither does South Korea. I guess they are simply backward countries.
However, we do need to raise questions about election anomalies. Journalists should be
focused on the DNC is cheating Bernie and, by extension, the American people. It must be
recorded. It should be investigated. The first 4 primary contests account for only 4% of all
allocated delegates, yet have a hugely disproportionate influence on the race. Of those 4 states,
only NV is roughly in synch with the national demographic profile.
The whole primary system needs a major overhaul. It takes too long and costs too much (e.g.,
all the wasted $$ Steyer and Tulsi spent in SC). It's an embarrassing wasteful spectacle which
only enriches the MSM and hired political consultant hacks. Most voters don't bother to tune in
until 10-12 months into the marathon campaign. I would blow it all up and start over from
scratch.
"They're fearful because Bernie Sanders, his political revolution, morally based, ethically
based, is a fundamental challenge to their interest and their status." -- Dr. Cornel West
The quadrennial political game of least worst, or how to scare the public to vote for
presidential candidates who serve corporate power, comes this season with a new twist. Donald
Trump, if he faces Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar or Michael Bloomberg, will continue
to be an amalgamation of Adolf Hitler, Al Capone and the Antichrist.
But should Bernie Sanders manage to evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him by
the Democratic Party elites, should he miraculously become the party's nominee, the game of
least worst will radically change. All the terrifying demons that inhabit Trump will be
instantly exorcised. But unlike in the biblical story of Jesus driving the demons into a herd
of swine, they will be driven into the senator from Vermont.
Trump will become the establishment's reluctant least worse option. Sanders will become a
leper. The Democratic and Republican party elites, joining forces as they did in the 1972
presidential election, will do to Sanders what they did to George McGovern, who lost in 49 of
the 50 states.
"If Dems go on to nominate Sanders, the Russians will have to reconsider who to work for to
best screw up the US. Sanders is just as polarizing as Trump AND he'll ruin our economy and
doesn't care about our military," former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (net worth $1.1
billion) tweeted. "If I'm Russian, I go with Sanders this time around."
However, we do need to raise questions about election anomalies. Journalists should be
focused on the DNC is cheating Bernie and, by extension, the American people. It must be
recorded. It should be investigated. The first 4 primary contests account for only 4% of all
allocated delegates, yet have a hugely disproportionate influence on the race. Of those 4 states,
only NV is roughly in synch with the national demographic profile.
The whole primary system needs a major overhaul. It takes too long and costs too much (e.g.,
all the wasted $$ Steyer and Tulsi spent in SC). It's an embarrassing wasteful spectacle which
only enriches the MSM and hired political consultant hacks. Most voters don't bother to tune in
until 10-12 months into the marathon campaign. I would blow it all up and start over from
scratch.
It has been suggested that part of Pence's job function may be to persuade the Evangelical
mega-churches to suspend large meetings for a while. That IMO is going to be a bit of a hard
sell because of the economics of those enterprises.
Pence is one of them and may have more credibility with them than the President, who is
basically (IMO) a sympathetic pagan (think "king Cyrus"), would.
If that's right, it's a smart move by the Administration.
I must admit, I was skeptical of her at first, but now that she has moved to the
economically depressed part of Martha's Vineyard I have come around. Only a true woman of the
people would make such a move.
I just went to his rally here in Winston-Salem. Incredible energy and it built as the
rally went on; with students loving the local Black Panther party founder's comment "Trump
and Bloomberg are two cheeks on the same ass" as well as minimum wage and marijuana. As a
student at a relatively politically inactive college, it is great to be a part of other
schools and students fighting to give themselves a future we can confide in and he and Nina
Turner are great at providing incentive to vote. I hope he begins to tie Medicare for all to
COVID for it is the only sensible way to combat it and would leave everyone in the dust on
the issue.
"... I would suggest amending this to: Official D policy: "no candidate who intends to govern in the interest of the entirety of the citizenry should seek the nomination of this Party" ..."
I would suggest amending this to: Official D policy: "no candidate who intends to govern
in the interest of the entirety of the citizenry should seek the nomination of this
Party"
"The World Bank did launch Pandemic Bonds they pay out to poorer nations in the event of a
pandemic of any one of 6 virus types (including coronavirus). In fact, the World Bank is
holding around $425 million dollars of Pandemic Bonds investments.
Pandemic Bonds only release finds to poorer nations if the World Health Organisation
declares a pandemic (defined as a highly infectious disease simultaneously affecting more
than two regions of the world).
If no pandemic is declared by the WHO before July 2020 investors get their money back plus
interest plus a bonus."
And if it is for real hmmm will WHO declare a "pandemic" before 7/20?
Alexandra Petri has caught this dilemma perfectly in a satirical piece for the Washington
Post. Petri imagines herself a candidate (she could be one, after all; the field contains
at least one person who has yet to campaign and has amassed no delegates).
Now is the time to act! It is imperative that we concentrate our efforts to stop Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and that is why I see no path forward for my campaign but for my
opponents to drop out of the race.
I am calling on all of my moderate, semi-moderate and wealthy opponents to gracefully exit
the nomination contest. They are wrong when they say, "I am the only one who has a chance
against him and everyone else needs to drop out." I am the only one who has a chance
against him, and everyone else needs to drop out.
I call on them to stop calling on me to drop out on the grounds that I lack some
combination of popular support, a staff, pledged delegates, cash on hand or a path forward.
In fact, I am the only one with a path, assuming that several of them drop out, in which case
I will be the clear front-runner to stop Sanders. The only reason I have not yet demonstrated
my ability to beat him is because everyone else is still here.
I don't know what they think their paths are! I guess they assume I will drop out, and
they will get my support, which will never happen! No, never, not while there is breath in my
body or dollar in my bank account.
...US peons are about to find out just what it means to live in a crumbling, hollowed-out
empire-shell made of corruption and incompetence. Hint: it's gonna suck.
The Revenge of the Intelligent. That is what this is. Too bad it has backfired and seems to
kill the Elderly at a much higher rate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn't yet ready to detect whether the
coronavirus is spreading across the country.
Just 12 of more than 100 public health labs in the U.S. are currently able to diagnose the
coronavirus because of problems with a test developed by the CDC, potentially slowing the
response if the virus starts taking hold here. The faulty test has also delayed a plan to
widely screen people with symptoms of respiratory illness who have tested negative for
influenza to detect whether the coronavirus may be stealthily spreading.
...
Only six states -- California, Nebraska, Illinois, Nevada, Tennessee, and Idaho -- are now
testing for the virus, the Association of Public Health Laboratories told POLITICO.
...
Under current rules, each positive test must be confirmed by a second round of testing at the
CDC. [Director Robert Redfield] told lawmakers that the agency can now screen 350-500 samples
per day.
...
"I understand very much the FDA is focused on quality control, but there's also a need to
have a system that can respond to their needs," [Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiology professor at
the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,] said. "China tested 320,000 people in
Guangdong over a three-week period. This is the scale we need to be thinking on."
Stupid is as Stupid does. Totally inexcusable for the lack of a test, but exactly what
would be the most certain outcome with the pseudo education in the US for the last 30
years.
B said, in part;"The Trump administration seems to be far behind them."
Gee imagine that. For DJT and his merry band of grifters, this virus is just a liberal plot
to hinder their ability to make money, and disparage DJT's admin.
When asked if, and when, a counter measure is produced, would the vaccine be affordable to
everyone, they replied; We'll let the "market" decide that.
Incredible, but, consistently mercenary in today's " if you can't afford die" mentality,
here in the U$A..
And, last December, they cut the budget for the CDC (center for disease
control)...
At a news conference Wednesday, the president announced that the president was doing a
wonderful job handling the coronavirus, a statement that filled me with confidence, as it came
from the president himself. The vice president and HHS head also announced that the president
was doing a great job, and the president, at that point, officially put the vice president in
charge of coordinating the outbreak response.
...What's best is that even if he gets overwhelmed, Jared Kushner is there, a man who can be
counted upon to provide
a solution to any issue , no matter how complicated.
... ... ...
"I want you to understand something that shocked me when I saw it," the
president said at Wednesday's news conference. " I think most people are amazed to hear it.
The flu in our country kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year. That was shocking to
me." This is just a sign of how the president is working carefully to understand the issue!
Once his great brain is applied to it, we need fear nothing.
Also, we do not need to worry
about the cuts to health programs his budget was asking for; we can always hire more doctors!
Once we hire them, it will turn out that they have been working on the virus for months and
developing expertise in combating it. Passionately, in their spare time, the same way the
response was being coordinated.
... attacks on Sanders may simply expose his opponents' own political desperation.
"Buchanan," Richard Nixon once instructed me after I went to work for him in 1966, "Whenever
you hear of a coalition forming up to 'Stop X,' be sure to put your money on X."
I suspect his open-borders advocacy and Russia-bashing too are lies; these are lines of
defence against internal forces. It makes sense for him to take those positions while he
seeks the nomination. If he gets it, he can betray those positions. A serious politician has
to demonstrate a large capacity for betrayal. At the end of the day, he is a hardened
politician like the rest.
It's easy: Nothing says more about the "party of the people" like $1,750 to $3,200
tickets.
Asked about the crowd's behavior in an interview following the
debate, Sanders said "to get a ticket to the debate, you had to be fairly wealthy."
The Bloomberg campaign denied that it stacked the
audience with paid supporters amid rampant social media speculation that the billionaire "
purchased " a portion of the
crowd to create the appearance of a strong performance following his poor showing in Las Vegas
last week.
Victory_Rossi , 2 minutes ago
Fairly wealthy? I refuse to believe that anyone would pay a couple of grand to go to a
******* debate.
Musum , 4 minutes ago
In America, $1750-$3200 per seat is democracy.
And oligarchs on Wall St. and industry is capitalism.
You don't have to go far to figure out why Sanders is popular. And voting doesn't
matter.
XXX , 15 minutes ago
If it was serious, there wouldn't be a "studio audience", ala Jerry Springer, just
reasoned arguments, courtesy and professionalism, all kept under tight control by an unbiased
moderator. But it's not serious. It's just political carnival time, clowns only.
XXX , 1
minute ago
Yes. True. It's a shitshow for sure.
XXX, 16
minutes ago
Disgusting hypocrisy. Most of the U.S. citizenry Rep&Dem don't even have that kind of
$ available for an emergency let alone some worthless, useless, meaningless debate for an
election that will never be happen regardless of whether 100% of the information is presented
that it did happen.
These 70+ year old politicians have a hard time telling a lie on a dime. That's why the
dems like the young ones like Buttigieg, Obama, McGreevey and their other gay candidates.
They are natural actors.
Yannis , 5 hours ago
Dude this circus is amazing
LOL123 , 5 hours ago
If Bloomberg bought 21 seats to get Pelosi in.... He's not a very good investor. He buys
damaged goods. 🔨Lol
venturen , 5 hours ago
He is buying people that DO WHAT HE SAYS. Smarter people want to think for
themselves.
In the brokered convention, The Body Double Pantsuit will get all of the bought and paid
for super delegates, and Big Mike will pop out of the giant cake on stage for an Oprah-like
orgy of identity politics madness. Little Mike is just buying his way into their cabinet.
If they manage to rig a win in November, half the country will wish they had the Wuhan
Flu.
Washington
Post commentary and the rare attention of the mainstream in a moment underscoring how the
elites view their role in America's two-party system.
While he was touting his $100 million in donations to House Democrats, he essentially
bragged that he "bought" 21 congressional Democrats their seats in 2018 midterms .
Bloomberg came within a hair's breadth of saying he *bought* the Democratic majority in
the House and caught himself as it came out of his mouth pic.twitter.com/DG0keVMo2J
"Let's just go on the record, they talk about 40 Democrats," Bloomberg said, referring to
former Vice President Joe Biden.
"Twenty-one of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect," he continued.
"All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in charge and gave the Congress
the ability to control this president, I bough-... I got them ."
Incredible. In the #DemDebate ,
billionaire Bloomberg boasted that he "bought" right-wing neoliberal Democrats like Nancy
Pelosi
Then after saying "bought," he quickly corrected himself and said "I bought, uh got them"
pic.twitter.com/2mcDgPPhIJ
"Wow!!! He's admitting he BOUGHT those seats! OMG!" -- Donald Trump Jr.
had also chimed in.
The billionaire founder of Bloomberg LP has faced deep criticism for leapfrogging other
Democratic primary contenders in the national polls, despite being a latecomer.
He's faced labels of being an "oligarch" and essentially muscling, or rather buying
, his way into debates based on his limitless campaign self-funding.
Comment__commentAvatar___xgVA3 talk-stream-comment-avatar talk-slot-comment-avatar"
data-slot-name="commentAvatar"> Angry Panda , 1 hour ago
An oligarch buying politicians? I am shocked just shocked.
Democratic megadonor Bernard Schwartz has started reaching out to party leaders to
encourage them to coalesce around a candidate for president in order to stop the surge of
Sen. Bernie Sanders.
"This discussion is frankly irrelevant. Trump is assured of re-selection because he's
appeased the only two constituencies that matter: the military industrial complex and the
zionist lobby. "
No you forgot the other constituencies that will vote for him. Namely the dumb ass stupid
rednecks , and the as stupid evangelist.
Why oh why would I waste my vote on these Democratic/Republican pseudo-fascists when I can
vote for the only candidate promising me a free pony !!...I present the next President of the
United States:
How's he going to pay for the ponies when most taxes will go to time traveling studies and
zombie apocalypse defense? But brushing your teeth certainly will appeal to the middle
class;)
Darn Russians made people pay $1750 to $3200 to attend the debates last night and clap for
Bloomberg. The Russians also aired a long Bloomberg informercial and an anti-Medicare for All
commercial during the ad breaks - to divide us. Putin will stop at nothing.
Many people are speculating that this coronavirus malarky is all about the coming global
financial meltdown.
The way coronavirus is being mega fear hyped, along with unprecedented 'lock-downs' and
enforced quarantine for huge numbers of people, does seem to suggest that the psychopaths who
rule us know that when the global financial meltdown comes there'll be mega civil unrest, and
what better way to control this unrest than a Frankenstein bug?
Sanders: ideas
Warren: Sanders ideas, but I'd do it better.
hizzoner: Sanders is a Russian agent.
Butte: cliche, cliche, cliche
klobe: rhetoric, name drop, cliche, rhetroic, name drop a 3rd way SC pol.
Surprising lack on intelligence in intelligence community. But after Brennan and "ruptured"
Pompeo as CIA chiefs who would be surprised?" Or more correctly utter despise of ordinary
Americans: 'nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people' ~ H L
Mencken.
But seriously, if Putin does now have the power to decide US elections, he simply makes his
preferred choice one day before the election. There is no reason to open cards right now. You
could not make this up. What we have now is Government by Gossip and Innuendo with intelligence
crooks on the frontline of spreading the disinformation.
Notable quotes:
"... The PUTIN's aim is to sow distrust among the US population. The USA, a peaceful civilized society with apparently no internal conflicts maintains a similar peaceful empire for the benefit of all humanity. ..."
"... The impersonate evil of the PUTIN has of course every intention to destroy the present state of tranquility and therefore aims to destruct the undisputed peaceful leader of this empire by sowing internal conflict. ..."
"... The concept of democracy was invented by the Kremlin, to sow discord ..."
"... The concept of democracy was invented by the Kremlin, to sow discord ..."
Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working
to get Americans to repeat disinformation , the officials said. That strategy gets around
social media companies' rules that prohibit "inauthentic speech."
It is Bloomberg, working as a Russian operative, who pays the trolls that repeat
disinformation.
The temporary employees recruited by Bloomberg's camp are given the title "deputy field
organizer" and make $2,500 a month to promote his White House bid among their followers .
The employees can choose to use campaign-approved language in their posts.
Twitter said the practice violated its "Platform Manipulation and Spam Policy," which
was established in 2019 to respond to Russia's expansive troll network that was tapped in
2016 to meddle in the U.S. elections.
In that closed hearing for the House Intelligence Committee, lawmakers were also told
that Sanders had been informed about Russia's interference. The prospect of two rival
campaigns both receiving help from Moscow appears to reflect what intelligence
officials have previously described as Russia's broader interest in sowing division in
the United States and uncertainty about the validity of American elections.
Here are Bloomberg's behind the scene machinations which are sowing division and
uncertainty about the validity of American elections. This is exactly what Russia
wants.
Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors allied with
his moderate opponents to flip their allegiance to him -- and block Bernie Sanders --
in the event of a brokered national convention.
...
It's a presumptuous play for a candidate who hasn't yet won a delegate or even appeared
on a ballot. And it could also bring havoc to the convention , raising the prospect of
party insiders delivering the nomination to a billionaire over a progressive populist.
The PUTIN's aim is to sow distrust among the US population. The USA, a peaceful
civilized society with apparently no internal conflicts maintains a similar peaceful
empire for the benefit of all humanity.
The impersonate evil of the PUTIN has of course every intention to destroy the present
state of tranquility and therefore aims to destruct the undisputed peaceful leader of
this empire by sowing internal conflict.
This is why from Sanders to Warren to Gabbard to Bloomberg to Trump everyone is on the
PUTIN payroll or subconsciously exposed to some mind controlling rays he sends via
satellite to the USA.
The PUTIN is the invention by the Russian Federation after their successful evil
attempt to evade the good intentions of the EMPIRE to embrace Russia in its sphere of
peaceful tranquility.
"The prospect of two rival campaigns both receiving help from Moscow appears to
reflect what intelligence officials have previously described as Russia's broader interest
in sowing division in the United States and uncertainty about the validity of American
elections" WaPo, 2/21/20.
This level if clinical delusion is reminiscent of the Führer's last days in the
bunker.
I know, I know, it's a waste of time trying to ridicule the media when they're already
doing that to themselves. Satire is definitely dead when the Washington Post reports about
"two rival campaigns both receiving help from Moscow". WaPo's attempts to explain that the
purpose of this bizarre behavior is "sowing division" makes it look even more incredible.
/div> The concept of democracy was invented by the Kremlin, to sow
discord .
We are saving the world from socialism and communism.
We are energy independent, with innate exceptionalism and #MAGA# will usher in a new era
of American prosperity.
Any and all accusations of USSA imperialism, are made by the "woke" and those jealous of
the greatest Capitalist system in the world.
The swamp is being drained as I speak, and therefore will continue with unwavering
support for my 5x draft dodging, Zionist supporting, multiple times bankrupt, keeper of
broken promises POTUS.
Smedley Butler's book is not worthy of reading once you have the seminal work known as
"The Art Of The Deal"
Since Foxconn is getting into mask development, we're surprised Apple hasn't released plans
for an iMask, or scheming Elon Musk hasn't touted a Cybermask.
To sum up, we could all be wearing masks one day – if you think that's crazy just look
at what's happening across Asia. Mask wearing is coming to America – it's only a matter
of time.
If you fire 70% of the admirals and generals
you will increase the military capabilities of the US military by 40%.
They are incompetent hacks who are better on their knees in front of the MIC and Congress
then they are on any battlefield.
At least during WWII we had less of them and no one was hesitant to fire at least some of
them for incompetence. I say sum of them because many of the war hero generals needed to be
removed including Bradly, Eisenhower, Halsey, Nimitz, and even MacArthur.
But today, no one gets fired for anything.
Literally they have a special class of MBA's being generals and and strategic thinkers and
it has turned out to be a disaster for the military and the US.
An example by way of analogy is look at Boeing. How much better would Boeing be if they
fired all the MBA's and replaced them with engineers who loved air planes. Boeing would make a
lot less profit but its planes would be the best in the world.
I used to think Bloomberg was smarter than what's been revealed recently. I'm truly shocked
at the ease with which he's publicly stated such ignorant, elitist opinions.
Notable quotes:
"... It would be so much easier if Bloomberg was russian... but he's a capitalist.. Oh well... ..."
Michael Bloomberg really did disparage farmers and metalworkers by saying that these are
just "processes" that can be taught to anyone and then stating that information technology
work requires a higher order of brainpower, implying that farmers and metalworkers are
inferior to information technology professionals. I heard it myself.
It would be so much easier if Bloomberg was russian... but he's a capitalist.. Oh
well...
With the help of intelligence (or should we say semi-intelligence) agencies (with the second job as a shadow force that
navigates American people to the proper choice ) the best money can buy democracy always ends as a comedy.
Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working
to get Americans to repeat disinformation , the officials said. That strategy gets
around social media companies' rules that prohibit "inauthentic speech."
John Clark : "Reciprocity." That's a clever name for it. Revenge is a very, very, very
dangerous motivation.
Robert Ritter : Are you able to handle this operation or not? What I'm looking for here is a
simple yes or no.
John Clark : What you're looking for is a political mess.
Robert Ritter : Yes or no?
John Clark : Is that what they want? Because that's what this is.
Robert Ritter : They want what every first-term administration wants - a second term.
"... He is making the USA a laughing stock, very threatening for sure, but he is a laughing stock and he perfectly sets up the scenario to ridicule his mongrel stupid president. ..."
On the big issue though I cant help seeing Pontious Pompeo as hurling himself about the globe
tilting at windmills. He is making the USA a laughing stock, very threatening for sure,
but he is a laughing stock and he perfectly sets up the scenario to ridicule his mongrel
stupid president.
uncle tungsten | Feb 11 2020 22:52 utc | 30
Isn't it a good method? This way, the vassals can comply with a smile.
I am for Bloomberg. Why? Because the Russians have taken over the White House. Just ask
Hillary.
I errorously believed that billionaires, banksters, generals, rotten CEOs from
pharma, MIC, energy, lobbyists with cash, controlled the White House and Trump.
But somehow
the Russians pushed all of them out.
It is about time that AMERICAN billionaires, AMERICAN
banksters, AMERICAN generals, AMERICAN rotten CEOs from pharma, MIC, energy, and AMERICAN
lobbyists with cash, reassert and regain gosh darn control of the White House like in the
good ole patriotic days. Down with borsch!
It is especially galling to see how the Hollywood Community has embraced the era of red-baiting Joseph McCarthy as the new
standard for what is acceptable. There was a time that a few brave souls in Hollywood (I am thinking Lucille Ball, Kirk Douglas and
Gregory Peck), spoke out against the blacklisting of actors, writers and directors for their past political ties to the Soviet Union.
If you are a film buff (and I consider myself one) you should be familiar with these great movies that remind the viewer of the
horrors visited upon actors, writers and directors during the Hollywood Blacklist:
The Front -- a 1976 comedy-drama film set against the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. It was written by Walter Bernstein,
directed by Martin Ritt, and stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel.
Good Night, and Good Luck -- a 2005 historical drama film directed by George Clooney, tells the story of Edward R.
Murrow fighting back against the hysterical red-baiting of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Trumbo -- a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach that follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted but continued to write award winning movies in alias (e.g. Spartacus).
My prediction - which is based on nothing, to be sure:
Neither Sanders nor Gabbard have any chance of getting the nomination, whatever the DNC
establishment and Democratic elites have to do to prevent it, as they did in 2016.
If either are nominated - or any other of the current crop of losers - the Democrats will
lose against Trump, despite Trump making all kinds of incredibly stupid statements during the
campaign. Because, let's face it, Trump will do stupid stuff all during the election race -
and his supporters will no doubt ignore them or praise him for them.
In other words, US "democracy" is a joke and a sham, and I don't expect to pay much
attention to the election as the end result will be the same for the rest of us.
The dog and pony show conducted by corporate news has adult political aspirants panting like sixth graders for teachers
attention. Demeaning to all involved.
Notable quotes:
"... Bloomberg knows the price of everyone, but the value of nothing. ..."
Future historians, when conducting the messy autopsy on Clown Nation, will point to the
first week of February 2020 as the moment when the greatest experiment in popular democracy
entered into an inescapable death spiral. This implosion will probably puzzle many people
because, as the Commander-in-Chief Donald J. Trump reminded throughout his SOTU address,
times are good – indeed, as they so often are before an epic crash.
Don't know how you got all these lucrative primary election contracts for a
sub-standard app that a drunk college student computer science major could have designed
better. But there should be an investigation into that.
Just below the surface of the scorching U.S. economy, however, lies a bubbling
volcanic lake of political passions – personified by Nancy Pelosi's unhinged behavior
at the SOTU that was so outrageous it needs no further comment – will eventually blow
its lid, freeze-drying the nation in its treacherous tracks like a modern day Pompeii.
In the week that foretold of impending disaster, the establishment suffered two major
setbacks, first by failing to drive out the swamp killer, Donald Trump, and second by failing
to name, in transparent and time-honored fashion, the winner of the Iowa state caucus. These
tandem events are connected since there is no way the 'deep state' would have accepted two
major defeats at the same time. Thus it was forced to derail an enemy potentially more
dangerous to the Democratic Party than Donald Trump, and that is the 'democratic socialist'
Bernie Sanders.
Here is where America's democratic mask slipped, revealing the true nature of the beast.
As the results from the Iowa caucus were being tallied live, Mayor Pete Buttigieg enjoyed an
early lead. Eventually, however, the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders started to close the
gap before surging ahead of the pack. It was at this precise moment that the results fizzled
out, purportedly due to a bad app. Not until the next day were the results made public as
Buttigieg was declared the narrow victor, although the small-town mayor had been boasting
that he had won the contest before any results were posted. Now to many observers, it looked
as though the Democratic Party, sensing the winds of political change in the air, took their
ball and stormed home in the middle of the game. Sound familiar?
At this point, a person could either choose to buy the story that a new app for reporting
the results simply went kaput, or they could register as a 'conspiracy theorist' by arguing
that the dirty Democrats rigged the game when it became apparent that Sanders was heading for
victory. There are many reasons for supporting the latter theory, namely because the
Democrats had conspired against Sanders before, as WikiLeaks revealed in 2016 with the
release of some 20,000
Democratic National Committee emails.
The apps "failure": Des Moines Precinct 80:
Bernie's group had 101 people
Pete's group had 66 people
Bernie & Pete end up tied at 4 delegates following a coin toss.
And then there is the company behind the app, happily named Shadow Inc, which has a very
shadowy lineage indeed. First off, Buttigieg, who certainly profited politically from
Shadow's inconceivable incompetence, or expertise, depending on how you look at it, had
paid the company tens of thousands of dollars ahead of the Iowa caucus. Second, many of
the top executives at Shadow
worked in the past for Hillary Clinton's campaign, no small footnote considering that
particular campaign's notorious commitment to 'fair play.' Third,
efforts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to "vet" the Shadow app were rejected
out of hand by the Iowa Democratic Party. Now with all of the talk over the past several
years about 'Russian meddling' in the U.S. elections, wouldn't allowing the DHS a peek at the
new technology seem like the smart thing to do? Maybe Iowans, like
so many other Democrats , never really believed the Russian "nothing burger" after
all.
This story claims that it had five (5!) people criminally leaking alleged content from a
classified briefing. And why not, since no one gets prosecuted for these crimes. Still, we
have a serious problem with our supposedly professional "intelligence" and "oversight"
communities. https://t.co/zuAdwXpU2L
Until heads roll and hoaxers are sent to prison, the seditious Russian collusion hoaxers
will never stop. They will lie and leak and fabricate evidence, whatever it takes, to
prevent the American people from taking charge of their own government. https://t.co/wijJ07QKOO
Bloomberg is revealed as having said in public that all the disposable income of the poor
should be taxed away so that they will not have funds with which to do mischief like buying
fast food or sugary drinks.
Bloomberg described Sanders as a Communist who cannot be elected. In this he was
correct.
Bloomberg was described by Warren as a cold-hearted and insulting man who openly scorns
women, gays and minorities.
Mayor Pete mocked Klobuchar for her inability to remember the name of the president of
Mexico. She asked if he was calling her "stupid."
These six dwarves will probably persist in their quest for the brass ring all the way to the
convention. In the mayhem there, the "winner" will probably have to choose one of the "losers"
to be his VP running mate.
I have been a working full time in Emergency Medicine for over 20 years. I was a "Flight
Surgeon" in the Army. Soldiers are notorious for playing up any combat related injury in order
to qualify for disability and the financial benefits that flow from being categorized as being
disabled. As far as we know, the most serious claimed injuries were "concussions." As a
practicing specialist in Emergency Medicine, I can explain that the diagnosis of "concussion"
means, by definition, that no abnormality is seen on CT scanning of the brain. The diagnosis is
made based on the injured person's purely subjective complaints, i.e. whatever the allegedly
injured person says. If the allegedly injured person says the right things, then a physician
may call the symptoms that of a concussion.
So, ultimately, a soldier would be diagnosed with a concussion because the soldier (who has
financial benefits to gain) says so, and a physician does not dispute it.
I have seen hundreds if not thousands of diagnoses of "concussion". That diagnosis does not
have to be supported by any specific findings or even a proper understanding of the diagnosis.
It simply has to be entered in the record by a licensed physician. Once that diagnosis is on
the medical record, it is up to subsequent providers to refute that diagnosis if they desire to
do so.
This is something subsequent providers are very unlikely to want to dedicate the time and
effort required to accomplish. There is usually no financial or professional incentive to do so
– often the opposite. There is no specific test to definitively say one way or the other
if a person had a "concussion". Like PTSD it is a "functional" diagnosis based mainly on
subjective symptoms and not objective test results. This is not to say such things do not
exist. They do exist. It is only to say that they can be faked or misinterpreted and that will
happen if there is a financial incentive to do so. Buck Ransom says: Show
Comment
February 16, 2020 at 3:36 pm GMT @The Scalpel Are you suggesting that The Greatest Fighting
Force in the Galaxy in All of History, the military of the world's Exceptional Nation, is
riddled with grifters?
How ironic! "Billionaire" Bloomberg and his identical twin: "Tons of Money Tom Steyer" are
now the favorites of the so called "Party of the People" to win the White House in 2016!
Moveover, Bloomberg supported Iraq was and covered-up 9/11
From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic
establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and
Bernie Sanders.
Today, that same establishment wants Joe out of the race.
At the end of this essay, you may find a song which reasonably applies to Donald Trump
directed to Democrats.
How does one say Adam Schiff without laughing? It's hard to continue typing while
contemplating the Burbank Buffoon. Yet AS is making obscene flatus-like noises about
impeachment 2.0. He and Nervous Nancy will conspire with chief strategist Gerald Nadler about
extending the charges of 1.0 to 2.0.
Second verse
Same as the first
Obstructing leaking by firing leakers. That's one of the pending charges. Leutnant Oberst
Vindman will be help up as the innocent victim of political retaliation. As I understand the
military code of conduct, it says that the underling, Herr Oberst Vindman, went outside the
chain of command and released classified information. In the military this is called
insubordination, perhaps gross insubordination in view of the classified nature of the
information.
Another charge to be filed on behalf of former Ambassador Yovanovich, is that her God-given
Female rights were brutally violated as retaliation of advising Ukrainian officials to
disregard Commander Cheeto.
There is no telling what additional non-crimes may be thrown at the feet at El Trumpo. All
too horrible to contemplate--like someone throwing feces-contaminated dope needles onto Nervous
Nancy's front lawn in Pacific Heights.
If this Shampeachment 2.0 (S2) occurs before November's election, Democrats will become as
rare as dodo birds. If such proponents of S2 persist after the general election, they better
have secure transportation to an extradition-free country.
If it gets bad enough, considering the Clinton Mafia's body count, would it be unreasonable
to expect some untimely heart attacks and suicides with red scarves? On Clintonites? Soros et
al.?
When the first shot and you don't kill the king, flee. But the DNC is going to attempt shot
number 2. Trump WILL NEVER ALLOW A SECOND IMPEACHMENT TO OCCUR, no matter how patently
worthless? Will the most powerful narcissist in the world allow the DNC / coup perpetrators to
escaping Trumpian retribution?
Those doubting the Wrath of Q be prepared to be disabused of the impression that Q is pure
fantasy. Fantasy--like GPS targeting a single small sniper drone to shoot someone from 3000
feet.
Sorry folks. I live in a swamp. I've stepped in shit with my eyes open. Many of you have
too. Some of the excrement was of my own making.
Think about the singularly most effective and complex plot the world has ever seen, called
9/11. Think of the thousands of lives purposefully snuffed in then name of power and money.
Call yourselves serfs--that's a euphemism. You--including me-- are nothing but ants. Goddam
little ants that only Janes respect. There are no ascetic Janes in the penthouses of the
elites.
But I digressed to the mysterious existence of morality in politics as a whole. Today's
topic is more confined to the Democratic nomination.
Statement of Bias: Go Tulsi. Bravo Andy. The rest of you to the elsewhere--yeah, BS too.
The Dems are determined to grasp Defeat from the jaws of Defeat. Quite a trick. Like trying
to borrow money from the Judge during a Bankruptcy trial.
I talked today with a freshman college student majoring in political science about her
thought about the Shampeachment. She hadn't been paying attention. Not that I blame her. Her
college freshman friend watched C-Span; wasn't impressed. We political aficionados know all
about this political debauchery. If AS and NN attempt S2, expect many defections from the
supporting vote.
Democrat respect has dwindled in the Independent sector. This is not to say the Repugnants
are thereby more popular. They aren't. Trump is. Trump need that NH clown to challenge him in
the Repugnant primary to prove exactly how powerful he is. Anybody notice who were in the
audience, sitting nearby during Trump's post acquittal speech. Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham.
The lamb and the lion laying together. They are both on the Trump Train. Even Richard Burr
voted Trump in the impeachment. Mittens feared both his cojones would be excised if he voted
against Trump on both counts. What a chickenheart.
But where are the Dems? Why, they are Here. Yes. Yes. And they are There. Yes. Yes. And they
are Near. Yes. Yes. But....they are Far. Whither thou goest?
I refrain from pointed comments about AOC in further comments. The Squad is the iceberg
floating away from the glacier which spawned it. Unsuitable to warm weather produced by
political combat, the Squad faction will woke themselves up to dubious futures.
Establishment versus Bernie:
Not a contest. Spineless Bernie pretzelizes during first heated combat (which the Dem Debate
Debacles were not). Won't take a second punch--the first during night 3 of the '16 DNC
convention. Fist-shy now. Open Borders? WTF? Are you so nuts? If one offered a person the
choice personal safety in their own homes and streets and free medical care for all--including
the criminal aliens that A New Path Forward proposes--what do you think 85% of the public would
choose?
Pandering.
The Left is also pushing strenuous avoidance of discussing issues in a platitude-depleted
fashion. Yeah, Bernie's giving the same speech, with suitable modification, over 40 years.
Consistency is a good thing, yeh? How about persistently beating your head with a hammer (while
you still can)? Sounds like something Sun Tzu might not recommend.
Now, speaking of Las Vegas and the Nevada Primary. The culinary workers union will not
endorse Bernie due to well-deserved or ill-deserved claims that M4A will abolish hard won union
health benefits. And don't worry, the Shadow will be there, although Buttjiggle has now
disavowed any further connection, along with David Plouffe.
Keeping the Bern off the campaign trail is going to infuriate the Woke Generation / Antifa.
When--not if--the DNC cheats Bernie out of the nomination, if such proves necessary* will
literally result in blood on the streets along with broken windows and flaming tires. Associate
with that lot, eh? Given the choice of going into a biker bar, where brawls are always on the
menu, or a discreet wine bar, which would one rather choose? Sorry, those are your only
choices.
Nancy Pelosi, impressed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's former physical prowess, tears up her
copy of the state of the union address. How decorous. How courteous. How polite. Seen around
the world. Nigel Farage must be laughing his butt off, thinking about the shallow anti-Brexit
campaigns against his were compared to our Coup. Nigel won. Trump . is. winning. Getting tired
of winning yet?
I could go on for pages more of Dem stupidity, but why bother? Stupidity surrounds us.
Betting odds: DNC 1,999,999 to Bernie 1.
Place your bets.
For all the good it will do and I am sincere about this, I will vote Tulsi in the Dem
primary.
Here is the song Dems need to heed. This is Donald Trump telling' y'all I'M NOT YOUR MAN
... Steve Bannon predicted that something
like this would happen.
REGAN: Let me turn to 2020. Let me turn to the Democrats. Bloomberg's now in on the mix.
By the way, just to remind the viewers, this is the guy that broke the news here. Watch.
BANNON: They will throw Biden away. They'll throw Biden away to get to Trump and hope
Elizabeth Warren or I even think Hillary Clinton or Bloomberg or some centrist comes in here.
All these other people that could have been the centrist candidate for whatever reason
haven't materialize. And that leaves a huge opportunity for two people, I believe, Michael
Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton.
There's a lot to read here, and I read all of it. If the virus is engineered to affect only
Chinese people, I feel better and feel no need to worry about it. Though, sorry for the
Chinese people, sad indeed.
"Except China is Communist in name only, just like America is a Republic in name
only."
Is the American deep state that good in being a perfectly timed evil? Wasn't the deep state
designed to assist multinational corporations in stealing foreign resources? Yet the
corporate supply chain is being interrupted in what will be devastating for the bottom line.
The stock market is about all Trump has. The scenario outlined above just quite doesn't add
up, despite its plausibility. Unless it is not about China, but purging Trump .maybe?
Regarding Bloomberg+Clinton:
Everyone on ZH and Drudge's Tweet discussing the Pairing are joking that if they Win 2020,
Bloomberg will Die somewhen btwn the Post-Election Victory Lap and a Month after the
Inauguration.
Hillary as VP?
Why not Netanyahu? He's a dual citizen and I hear he may be looking for a job soon. He brings international experience to the ticket that Bloomberg lacks.
Here's another view: Zionist Bloomberg and Zionist Biden and Zionist Buttigieg and Zionist
Klubachar and Zionist Warren and Zionist Sanders competing to race against Zionist Trump. I
think I know who the winners and losers are already.
"... Lead paragraph: "Former Vice President Joe Biden outpolled six challengers in yesterday's New Hampshire Democrat presidential primary election. All seven candidates are tied for count of delegates won in the state." ..."
Lead paragraph: "Former Vice President Joe Biden outpolled six challengers in yesterday's
New Hampshire Democrat presidential primary election. All seven candidates are tied for count
of delegates won in the state."
The Washington Post must have some reason to dig up this old story but it has nothing to do
with the Chinese. Crypto AG and Huawei have so little in common that nobody will think of
any connection between them.
Crypto AG was a maker of encryption/decryption devices from tiny Switzerland and it
spied for the US and its allies, mainly between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Huawei is known mainly as a producer of consumer products in China in the 21st
century.
My guess is that something about Crypto AG is about to be revealed, and this is a way of
slowly feeding the story in a way that it does not make headlines. When the story comes
out, people will think 'Oh, we know most of that already, it's old news'. Classic news
management.
Crypto AG was involved in all sorts of criminal acts. The most notable was when one of
its devices was used by UN chief Dag Hammarskjold before he died in a plane crash in
1961.
it seems cia and bnd started their work with crypto ag just in that moment, when became
known, that the enigma coding machine was already hacked while wwII. this was a big
surprise for the germans, because they still had this thing in use at their embassies
worldwide. you have to be a worm in this world.
During the research for a book, I discovered that the UK gave Australia a coding machine
(basically a revised Lorenz from WW2). This was in the early 1950s or just before and with
the cipher they were assured to read all Australian secret messages. We, South Africa, to
this day, never use computer storage for reports, etc. but paper that can be protected more
easily. Quite amusing the above. Note also that Chinese internet devices control 80-90% of
the internet in Africa. Okay, why is this important? Simply because sub-Saharan Africa is
where the terrorists fled and flee to from the Middle East and other places. See Code Name
Wednesday 7 how we picked them up via their new mosques. Regards, GMJ
You would not ever have seen this on Fox at the last election. Best high voltage spit by
Jimmy Dore I have seen.
Tucker shows a great smirk especially when Jimmy dumps on Guaido.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 12 2020 5:15 utc | 39
(Artificial Intelligence)
The trouble with Artificial Intelligence is that it's not intelligent.
And it's not intelligent because it's got no experience, no imagination and no
self-control.
> five minutes of mirth
>Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 13 2020 4:10 utc | 114
Definitely worth five minutes to watch Jimmy Dore on FOX plainly stating the US is a
one-party system. ON FOX NEWS TV! Never thought to see the day when I had anything good to
say about FOX.
Buttigieg is an empty vessel. He poses no threat to entrenched wealth in this country or to
the neocon foreign policy establishment. He won't do anything to curb the excesses of
American militarism. The only powerful group he offends is the religious right - a group
deeply offended by his homosexuality. They won't want a gay couple in the White House.
Biden performed surprisingly well all year in polls, but he headed into Iowa like a
passenger jet trying to land with one burning engine, hitting trees, cows, cars, sides of
mountains, everything. The poking incidents were bad, but then one of his chief surrogates,
John Kerry, was overheard by NBC talking about the possibility of jumping in to keep Bernie
from "taking down" the party.
"Maybe I'm fucking deluding myself here," Kerry reportedly said -- mainstream Democrats may
not have changed their policies or strategies much since Trump, but they sure are swearing more
-- then noted he would have to raise a "couple of million" from people like venture capitalist
Doug Hickey.
His "closing arguments" speeches last week were respectively two-and-a-half hours and ninety
minutes long and were inevitably praised by the mainstream media as "magisterial," "powerful,"
and "impressive."
... He and his supporters have insisted that he is the "most electable" candidate, but for
some reason he is the candidate that very few actual voters want to elect.
...The embarrassment was lessened by the chaos and incompetence of the Iowa Democratic
Party's handling of the caucus results, but not by much.
[T]oday her model tells her the Democrats are a near lock for the presidency in 2020, and
are likely to gain House seats and have a decent shot at retaking the Senate.
Can someone please tell me where I can bet against her. The PMCs will be enthralled.
I wouldn't be that quick. But in any case, you're missing the biggest tree in her forest
(reversing the old axiom):
The parties don't win elections for the reasons the cognoscenti, which includes at least
pretty much everyone important in the Democratic Party – and a lot of the Republican
Party too if you recall all the gnashing of teeth about Trump in 2016 – believe.
I know Trump didn't win because of "racism, period" for example. The Dems somehow do (hey,
your candidate was white, morons) and weirdly enough, sifting thru Trump's recent verbal
diarrhea (ewww), I think the Republicans think so too.
It's comical in a horrifying way how the people voted to be "representatives" in this
"representative democracy" actually have no idea what the people they are supposedly
representing actually think. That has pretty much brought us to this "voting against" stage,
b/c nobody says anything anybody really wants to vote for.
I predict that someday in the not-so-distant future, the entire world will be shocked to
learn that Andrew Yang is actually the mutated clone splice of Elon Musk and Bob Barker.
Amy Klobuchar says she's a 'fresh face', yet everything about Klobuchar is as stale as a
twenty-year-old Twinkie. If 59 is the new 38, then in Amy's world we're all still living in
1999.
Early on in the debate, ABC briefly showed a split screen with Pete Buttigieg in both
frames, which leads to the inevitable question: technical glitch or wishful thinking?
Tom Steyer is like the high school basketball coach in that old TV show ' The White Shadow '. Tom gave a rousing pep
talk to all the players about the need to beat Donald Trump, although I kept waiting for him to
yell over at Pete, "Watch those elbows, Salami!"
Desperate to revive her flagging campaign, Elizabeth Warren now argues that the way
Democrats win elections is by calling out corruption. Liz then proved her brave commitment to
this bold new strategy by spending the entire evening not uttering a single word about
the Iowa Caucuses.
When Joe Biden yells, clouds tremble.
Joe did have a nice moment when he gave Bernie Sanders a hug in response to a question about
Hillary Clinton's claim that nobody likes Bernie. A very classy gesture. Even so, in the
interests of party unity I think we should ALL be extremely grateful that Bernie does not have
a lot of hair.
BTW Vindman quit his job so why was it bad for Trump to remove him early? Games
lol, Joe demands a standing ovation for Lt. Col. Vindman, a security state apparatchik
who was offended that Trump didn't read from the talking points he prepared. Beyond
parody
"Is anybody else on the stage concerned about having a democratic socialist at the head of
the democratic ticket?" - 10 minutes in and we've had one question asked three different
ways. #DemDebate
A computer glitch unfortunately wiped all the data with bleach bit, the surveillance
cameras had all malfunctioned, and the person tallying the votes hung himself behind the
voter curtain.
Trump is in many ways a narcissistic scumbag...but given the alternative of any of these
degenerate limp wristed faggots and gun grabbing communists who want to pay reparations for
slavery to people who were never slaves, transgender 7 year olds and have their mental
illness rammed down our throats, open borders, and whatever assorted lunacy is in vogue with
their purple haired minions ?
Allow me a moment to thank -- and this may be a bit of a surprise -- Adam Schiff. Were it
not for his crack investigation skills, @realDonaldTrump might have had a
tougher time unearthing who all needed to be fired. Thanks, Adam! 🤣 #FullOfSchiff
" Heterosexual couple relationships are really violent . In addition, the vast majority are
relationships based on religion. It may be time to have a conversation about their ban and
abolition ."
Well, the runners up in most beauty pageants usually react to
their loses better than Nancy did last night.
Recent politics in the House have taken a toll on her. Having to deal with the
out-of-control Democratic "kids" in the House and having to give control to The Republicans in
the Senate has taken its toll.
Her reputation for being so masterfully in control and in charge has, with her actions last
night, totally disappeared into history.
Yes pft, the favored candidate of the DNC is clearly Trump.
Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 6 2020 19:25 utc | 58
Only if the ungrateful commoners who identify as Democrats or moderates can't be brought to
heel and give their full throated support for the DNC's favoured Cookie Cutter candidate who
might as well be one of those dolls with a string and a recording you hear when you pull the
string.
Then yes, they would prefer 'fore moar years!!' of the Ugliest American ever to be
installed as President of the United States.
One of things I respect about Tulsi Gabbard is she ain't no Doll with a string attached.
When she made the comment about cleaning out the rot in the Democratic Party, she left no
doubt her intent and goals. And to take on hillary, the Red Queen to boot, why that was
simply delicious.
Alas, the View, the DNC, it's web of evil rich and the media will never forgive her for
Soldiering for her Country.
I would like to see Trump defeated if for no other reason than to have a new administration
look under the hood of the all the economic government data that has been produced over the
last four years. I bet, just like Trump's tax returns he doesn't want us to see, his
miraculous creation of prosperity will be far less than advertised.
"... Adam Schiff: If Trump isn't removed he "could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared Kushner to run the country, delegating to him the decision whether they go to war." pic.twitter.com/VBzkonqpmH ..."
Impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued on Monday during closing remarks that if
President Trump isn't removed from office, he " could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange
for support in the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared
Kushner to run the country , delegating to him the decision whether they go to war."
Adam Schiff: If Trump isn't removed he "could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in
the next election or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and leave Jared Kushner to run
the country, delegating to him the decision whether they go to war." pic.twitter.com/VBzkonqpmH
He [Boris Johnson] is clearly delusional, or he doesn't have a mirror by the door. Anyone
who thinks his unique synthesis of geriatric skateboarder and everyone's last choice as a
babysitter is a good look, needs someone to have a word with them.
Hardly matters in these heady moments. He figures the enforcer/eminence gris role will
protect him. Which it will (given his extraordinarily indolent 'boss') for now.
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020
election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of
companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Friday afternoon that the criteria for
making the debate stage will no longer include a requirement about individual donors --
allowing Bloomberg, whose campaign is largely self-funded, to join the candidates if his
polling numbers reach the new threshold.
Comedian and writer Jack Allison took a wry look at
the changes and what they mean about the party. "Remember when they wouldn't even think of
changing them for like Cory Booker," Allison tweeted . "This is what we
mean when we talk about the DNC cheating, obviously and out in the open."
"Thankfully seeing Bloomberg speak can only hurt his standing," Allison added,
"but still."
But it was outspoken filmmaker Michael Moore that really went off on the DNC's decision.
Speaking Friday night at a Sanders rally in Clive, Iowa, Moore went on an expletive-filled rant
against the party.
Gosh Bernie, haven't you read about yourself in Profiles of Corruption . If you can
be corrupt why can't the DNC be corrupt? It's only fair. How do you expect the people running
the DNC to become millionaires like you? Shouldn't they be able to pocket a little of Mike
Bloomberg's $325,000? Don't be a poor loser. Maintain dignity.
How easy is it to switch parties to run for Presidential Campaign? Bloomberg was a
Republican, Biden was both, Warren used to be a Republican, and Trump was a lifelong
Democrat!
Do you guys still believe in the two part duopoly? What happened to integrity and values?
None! Both parties are the same ****!
"We can't beat him so we have to impeach him" no truer words were ever spoken. Too bad
they couldn't come up with a reason. I think November will be a Democrat Slaughter.
I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm a little worried about Donald Trump. I'm
worried he may be on the verge of a sudden, major heart attack, or a stroke, or a fatal golfing
accident.
Food poisoning is another possibility. Or he could overdose on prescription medication. A
tanning bed mishap is not out of the question.
He could accidentally hang himself during autoerotic asphyxiation, or get shot by a
lone-wolf white supremacist terrorist trying to start the RaHoWa. The Russians could spray him
with that Novichok perfume.
There are any number of ways he could snuff it.
I don't mean to sound alarmist, but the Resistance is running out of non-lethal options for
removing Donald Trump from office. Here they are, in no particular order
Cute, but seriously: Trump has been pretty much hammered into toeing the party line. The
oligarchy still doesn't like him, and it has taken a lot of effort to reign in him, but
rhetoric aside he's currently governing a lot like Hilary Clinton would have. The borders are
still open to illegal immigrants and the rich have their cheap labor, we're still wasting
trillions on pointless winless foreign wars, our manufacturing base is pretty much hollowed
out, we're still shoveling trillions of dollars in direct and indirect subsidies to Wall
Street, big medicine is still busy with organized looting ('surprise medical billing',
anyone?), you get the idea.
Trump fought the swamp, and the swamp won. The 2020 election looks to be yet another heads
they win/tails we lose circus. Trump is in no danger, IMHO.
Unless Bernie gets the nomination. Now there's a politician that needs to worry about his
health
You're overlooking the obvious contingency plan for the Dems: Biden will recruit Terry Crews
or Tiny Lister for his VP candidate. Of course the Veep will have to dress transgender and
change their name to Cornpop, but that's a small price to pay. The future of the country is
at stake.
It has become clear to Bernie's supporters that they and the Deplorables have the same
enemies. The more the media demonize Bernie in the same way they demonize Trump the stronger
Bernie will become. Bernie doesn't need to be in Iowa. CNN and the NYT are working for him.
Fake news is also stupid news.
CJ Hopkins has to be one of the best political commentators alive today. His writing is
both hilarious and profound. No easy fete.
Yes, absolutely exquisite use of the language to ridicule the ridiculous "resistance."
Clearly, Andy Kaufmann (aka Latka Gravis) did not die: he slinked away to politics and
took on the mantle of Schifty the Popeyed Crackpot California Congressman.
Hopkins entertainingly finds the black humor in all of this -- but none of it is funny, even
darkly so -- the reason it isn't funny is that millions of decent, hard-working Americans are
chained to this amoral freak show via the coercive tax system.
Well nothing of value would be lost Trump hasn't drained the swamp, locked her up, or built
the wall. In fact the only people that have been arrested are Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
I was going to add a string of "lols" tied together, but this place is classier than that.
Honestly it might be a good thing, because then Pence would be president. Think about it,
then the Evangelicals who the GoP relies on their vote, but have also been strung along for
decades getting none of the social issues addressed while, and then also being blamed for
everything from war in the Middle East to every social problem. I think it would be good for
them to see the righteous avatar Pence ascend to the throne, and then completely shun and
ignore them. Maybe that will finally wake them up.
Although Bernie Sanders talks a big game about social equality, redistributing the wealth
and all that, he is in fact the epitome of the so-called " limousine liberal ." In 2016,
perhaps as a consolation prize for his campaign loss, he forked out over $575,000 on a
lake-front home in Vermont. He also owns a row house in Washington DC, and another in his home
state. His personal wealth is estimated in the millions. Thus far, his extravagant lifestyle
has not hurt his socialist message, but Trump will certainly not waste the opportunity to mock
it.
How many yachts do billionaires need? How many cars do they need? Give us a break. You
can't have it all.
Boris wants Britain to be "Singapore on the Thames". A one party,authoritarian state.
Instead,one generation from now, England will be America's European Puerto Rico.
Britain has finally made the Orwellian Pivot. Brazil is Bolsonaro-fied, Mexico and Canada are
USMCA-ed, Venezuela will be MAGA-cized. The Monroe Doctrine is growing carnivorous incisors.
Oceania is born!
"Boris Johnson has renounced his US citizenship, ending years of ambiguous loyalties and
probably ridding himself of a hefty tax bill.
A list released by the US Treasury department showed the UK foreign secretary was one of
5,411 individuals to renounce his American citizenship in 2016.
Johnson was born in New York when his parents worked there, but has not lived there since
he was five years old. His decision does not appear to be an attempt to distance himself from
the politics of Donald Trump, but may instead be a move to ensure he is out of reach of
America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
In 2014 he publicly said that the US was trying to hit him for tax on the sale of his home
in Islington, north London, something he said he regarded as "absolutely outrageous",
although he later reportedly paid the demand. The US tax authorities have been mounting a
campaign to crack down on the earnings of dual nationals."
@Longfisher Vote
for Bernie. Bernie's got guts and he says what he means and does what he says. I think also:
Bernie's old and he knows it. He might consider a sniper's bullet more humane than
American old-age care even for the relatively wealthy.
That will make whoever he elects as vice president important. I like to think that will be
Bloomberg. Jewish, yeah, but actually not a crook, and sane. He's about all that's left who
can pass that very low bar. It may be Warren which I hope does not happen, because I consider
her a sell-out and much worse than Bloomberg. Same goes for pretty much every else, with the
possible exception of AOC, but she needs more experience.
"nice" Americans: .. Here is a sample of nice Americans who want to control our breath:
Pompeo , Fri 24 Jan 2020: "You Think Americans Really Give A F**k About Ukraine?"
Michael Richard Pompeo (57 y.o.) is the United States secretary of state. He is a former
United States Army officer and was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January
2017 until April 2018
Nuland , earlier than Feb 2014: "Fuck the EU."
Victoria Jane Nuland (59 y.o) is the former Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State. She held the rank of Career
Ambassador, the highest diplomatic rank in the United States Foreign Service. She is the
former CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), and is also a Member of the
Board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
It is similar to this Lebanese 'Vision for Peace' for a brighter future for the people in
North America which foresees some split of territory between natives and colonial settlers.
Haha.. I had a good laugh seeing the diagram.
Thank you 'b' for keeping us in good spirits!
i always thought it a shame that the war of 1812 ended in a (more or less) draw. the brits
had ideas for cutting up the US that would have been similar to that fake map (which was
kinda amusing until i saw the "derpa derp russia" bit) and kept the settler trash from moving
west and genociding everything that wasn't nailed down.
oh well...at least it's comforting to think ahead a few decades when most of the southwest
will be "little mexico".
I see Alaska and Hawaii have presumably gone back to the original owners, but it's not
shown.
I assume Alaska went to Russia (which is what a pal who fishes there expects!) (there is a
plan, I am told, to run a rail tunnel under Bering Strait, Canada, America, and further South
all the way as part of the OBOR project.). But that can happen if the natives wish
association with Ru and Chin...
(I'm not terribly serious about this, but Times do change and stuff does happen)
I assume the Monarchy is re-established in Hawaii.
In all seriousness, the DoD plans for Alaska if nukewar with USSR went against the US, was
to use Gladio teams to control the natives, who were regarded as unloyal and sympathetic to
the "commies"... no url, but I read this in FOIA stuff years ago.
Jackrabbit | Jan 30 2020 17:14 utc | 55
I assume that American Indians have already agreed to the North American Peace Plan (NAPP)so they can now go ahead and
take 30% of the land that the NAPP grants them - just as with the Trump-Jared Plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict.
Will homes of White Americans that disagree be bulldozed like the Israelis do to Palestinians?
Good map 'b'
I would love to see a political map of the US White House showing percentage of Israeli
influence on American policy! Duel nationals, lobby groups etcetera plus maybe one showing
which states are biased toward Israel as opposed to Palestine.
It's known as 'declaring an interest' those people should be barred from decision making
re Israel.
R.I.P. Uri Avnery: ... reminded of the classic Jewish joke about the Jewish mother in Russia taking leave of
her son, who has been called up to serve the Czar in the war against Turkey. "Don't overexert
yourself'" she implores him, "Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again
"
"But mother," the son interrupts, "What if the Turk kills me?"
"You?" exclaims the mother, "But why? What have you done to him?"
In a move that is sure to please President Trump, a State Representative in Tennessee has
introduced legislation that would officially designate CNN, as well as The Washington Post, as
fake news.
"... Yet the U.S. has little real insight into what happens in hostile regimes like Maduro's, and "Pompeo is probably the least reliable person in the world when it comes to information about Iran or its proxies," said Abrahms. "He has a terrible track record; he is an ideologue. He is the opposite of an impartial empiricist. I would never accept anything he says without corroborating sources." ..."
"... According to what we know, a Hezbollah agent conducted years of surveillance on potential targets , and alleged sleeper agents within U.S. cities have so far not been activated, even in the wake of Iranian Quds force General Soleimani's death and the series of crippling sanctions the Trump administration has put on Iran. ..."
Why is Pompeo suddenly directing increasingly heated rhetoric towards Iran and its proxies
in South America?
"Anti-Iran hawks like Pompeo like to emphasize that Iran is not a defensively-minded
international actor, but rather that it is offensively-minded and poses a direct threat to the
United States," said Max Abrahms, associate professor of political science at Northeastern and
fellow of the Quincy Institute said in an interview with The American Conservative. "And
so for obvious reasons, underscoring Hezbollah's international tentacles helps to sell their
argument that Iran needs to be dealt with in a military way, and that the key to dealing with
Iran is through confrontation and pressure."
Stories highlighting the role of Hezbollah in America's backyard "are almost always peddled
by anti-Iran hawks," he said.
Like Clare Lopez, vice president for research and analysis at the Center for Security
Policy, who aligns with the argument that Hezbollah has been populating South America since the
days of the Islamic revolution.
"From at least the 1980s, many Lebanese fled to South America, and among that flow Hezbollah
embedded themselves," she told The American Conservative in a recent interview. Their
activity "really expanded throughout the continent" during the presidencies of Iran's Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
During that time, Lopez added, "there was a really strong relationship that developed
Iranians established diplomatic facilities, enormous embassies and consulates, embedded IRGC
cover positions and MOIS (intelligence services) within commercial companies and mosques and
Islamic centers. This took place in Brazil in particular but Venezuela also."
Iran and Hezbollah intensified their involvement throughout the region in technical services
like tunneling, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Venezuela offered Iran an international
banking work-around during the period of sanctions, said Lopez.
Obviously security analysts like Lopez and even Pompeo, have been following this for years.
But the timing here, as the Senate impeachment inquiry heats up, looks suspicious.
Last week, just as it looks increasingly likely that former national security advisor John
Bolton and Pompeo himself will be hauled before the Senate as witnesses about the foreign aid
hold-up to Ukraine, Pompeo praised Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala for designating
"Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization," and slammed Venezuelan President Nicolas
Maduro for embracing the terrorist group.
Hezbollah "has found a home in Venezuela under Maduro. This is unacceptable," Pompeo said
when he met with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido last week.
Asked by Bloomberg News how significant a role Hezbollah plays in the region, Pompeo
responded, "too much."
From the interview:
Pompeo : " I mentioned it in Venezuela, but in the Tri-Border Area as well. This
is again an area where Iranian influence – we talk about them as the world's largest
state sponsor of terror. We do that intentionally. It's the world's largest; it's not just a
Middle East phenomenon. So while – when folks think of Hezbollah, they typically think
of Syria and Lebanon, but Hezbollah has now put down roots throughout the globe and in South
America, and it's great to see now multiple countries now having designated Hezbollah as a
terrorist organization. It means we can work together to stamp out the security threat in the
region."
Question: "I'm struck by this, because even hearing you – what you're
saying, right, now – I mean, to take a step back, an Iranian-backed terrorist
organization has found a home in America's backyard."
Pompeo: "It's – it's something that we've been talking about for some
time. When you see the scope and reach of what the Islamic Republic of Iran's regime has
done, you can't forget they tried to kill someone in the United States of America. They've
conducted assassination campaigns in Europe. This is a global phenomenon. When we say that
Iran is the leading destabilizing force in the Middle East and throughout the world, it's
because of this terror activity that they have now spread as a cancer all across the globe.
"
Pompeo has also been publicly floating increasing sanctions on Venezuela. He called the
behavior of Maduro's government "cartel-like" and "terror-like," intensifying the sense that
there is a real security "threat" in our hemisphere.
Yet the U.S. has little real insight into what happens in hostile regimes like Maduro's, and
"Pompeo is probably the least reliable person in the world when it comes to information about
Iran or its proxies," said Abrahms. "He has a terrible track record; he is an ideologue. He is
the opposite of an impartial empiricist. I would never accept anything he says without
corroborating sources."
There's no question that Hezbollah has a presence in South America, said Abrahms, "but the
nature of its presence has been politicized."
"What this underscores is that Iran could pull the trigger, it could bloody
the U.S., including the U.S. homeland, but tends to avoid such violence. I think the question
that needs to be asked isn't just, 'where in the world could Iran commit an attack?' but
whether Iran is a rational actor that can be deterred," said Abrahms. "Interestingly, this
administration as well as its hawkish supporters tend to emphasize their belief that Iran can
in fact be deterred," since that is the logic behind "maximum pressure" against Iran, after
all. "The main causal mechanism according to advocates of maximum pressure, is that it will
force Iran as a rational actor to reconsider whether it wants to irritate the U.S By applying
economic pressure through sanctions, [they hope to] succeed in coaxing Iran to restructure the
nuclear deal and making additional concessions to the west and reigning in its activities in
the Persian Gulf and the Levant. At least on a rhetorical level, the hawks say they believe
Iran can be deterred," he said.
It would not be the first time that a president reacted to an intensifying impeachment
inquiry by redirecting national focus to threats abroad. In December 1998, as the impeachment
inquiry into then-President Bill Clinton heated up, Clinton launched airstrikes against Iraq.
We should therefore apply some caution when we see decades-old threats amplified by
administration officials.
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Funny that the locals are not happy with our gift-bearing. human pyramid-building saviors.
How so utterly ungrateful. We brought them democracy, human rights and genocide, and they now
want us out. Shame!
We should immediately send them Madeleine Albright to explain to them that the deaths of
600,000 Iraqi babies was actually a good thing and "God's work". That'll do!
Looking at this map I am reminded of what Albert Einstein said about insanity, which he
described as "doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result each
time." The US of A never seems to ever learn anything from its' mistakes. The US is truly the
United States of Amnesia.
Come on Ant-everybody knows that it was the MOSSAD, allied to US sayanim and rogue elements
of the US elite who did 9/11. The Saudis were just the patsies, Oswalds one and all.
Antonym ,
Did you know that even Hamas and Iran are run by the Mossad? And Xi Jinping too! Me too, you
too. No more need for an Off Guardian site, all riddles solved.
paul ,
No, they don't run Hamas any more. They did create it and gave it money and guns. To
undermine Yasser Arafat and his organisation. Standard dirty colonial gam of divide and rule.
When Trump beats Creepy Joe, or Crazy Anti Semitic Bernie, or Pocahontas, or Whoever this
November, and threatens us with another 4 years of merciless, deranged Twittering, you have
to expect an outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome that will make the Black Death look like
a 3 day cold.
What I'd like to see out of this "Impeachment" baloney is this. Trump is impeached and thrown
out of office and runs for reelection anyway and wins. Of course, if that happened, I think
he'd be eligible to run for reelection of course. There'd be mass suicides as well, which
would suit me just fine.
"... It would be highly ironic if these American military aircraft were shot down with the (in)famous US Stinger missiles that America gave to Afghan jihadists against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. ..."
"... Uncle Sam has declared War on the World, thinking it is just a bunching bag. Now he is finding out that sometimes punching bags can punch back... ..."
If the $1.6 trillion cost of the US military being in Afghanistan is correct, then the loss
of 4 helicopters and even the E11 won't significantly increase US overall spend there. $1.6
trillion over 18 years is a tad under $250 million per day
...I recall a quotation from that good man, Winston C, who wrote long ago about
Afghanistan...{populated by} "poverty-stricken illiterate tribesmen possessed of the finest
Martini-Henry Rifles..."
That was over 100 years ago...
Now, it seem, "possessed of the finest surface to air missiles."
It would be highly ironic if these American military aircraft were shot down with the
(in)famous US Stinger missiles that America gave to Afghan jihadists against the Soviet Union
in the 1980s.
I watched the Washington Posts stream of the impeachment today. The spin began immediately
at the dinner break. There was barely a word about anything the President's team presented.
All they talked about was Bolton. These weasels are completely without shame or ethics. It's
news for spongeheads with no ability to think.
Protestant televangelists have forgotten their own heritage and the selling of indulgences
for salvation which Luther attacked to start off the Reformation.
3:00
Dude is bragging about buying 2 private jets with 'cash' to an audience who can't even afford
to turn their heaters on in the winter time in Minnesota. Ironically, he used their money to
pay for it. They will still continue to send more.
'When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds.' -- Meet Paula White,
spiritual adviser to President Trump and the latest addition to the White House staff.
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why is it that the media never refer to Soros, Bezos or the Rockefellers as 'oligarchs'?
Why only Russians?
Because the West is the home of love, milk, honey, puppies, apple pie. There's simply no
room for oligarchs in utopia – and if you disagree, you're an anti-Semite, a Nazi
even.
"... They look so great only because the Empire and its sidekicks have morons at the helm (I don't mean disposable figureheads, "presidents", "chancellors", and "PMs", but real powers behind the throne). ..."
I think President Putin is a great leader and the greatest in the world today.
Putin is just a man with normal quite ordinary intelligence, like Xi. They look so great
only because the Empire and its sidekicks have morons at the helm (I don't mean disposable
figureheads, "presidents", "chancellors", and "PMs", but real powers behind the throne).
Should we start an anti Putin hashtag campaign? #bankerslivesmattermore That'll show him,
since there is not much more we can sanction except for maybe Russian baby mama tourism and
Russian hockey players. Doubt Capital fans (aka swamp dwellers) would tolerate the latter.
At close of Cold War, George H W Bush exhibited every symptom of a wasp-infected cockroach
(as has every US president since FDR). It may be that some categories of Americans have a
greater Cockroach Coefficient than others...
T he administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all routinely lied to
the American people about the success of the 18-year war in Afghanistan. They exaggerated
progress and inflated statistics to create an illusion that that the war was winnable. But
after the deaths of 157,000 people at a cost of $2 trillion, corruption is rampant and the
carnage continues.
On Saturday, before his defense team took the Senate
floor, Trump used Twitter to deliver a broadside against Democrats "& the entire Radical
Left."
Notable quotes:
"... Our case against lyin', cheatin', liddle' Adam "Shifty" Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, Nervous Nancy Pelosi, their leader, dumb as a rock AOC, & the entire Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrat Party, starts today at 10:00 A.M. on @FoxNews ..."
On Saturday, before his defense team took the Senate floor, Trump
used Twitter to deliver a broadside against Democrats "& the entire Radical Left."
Our case against lyin', cheatin', liddle' Adam "Shifty" Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer,
Nervous Nancy Pelosi, their leader, dumb as a rock AOC, & the entire Radical Left, Do
Nothing Democrat Party, starts today at 10:00 A.M. on
@FoxNews
One need not be
Pontius Pilate to understand the false changes against Trump
When this Brennan CIA faction stooge Schiff insists that the US anti-tank missiles
and sniper rifles with help Ukraine and its people to fight nuclear armed Russia (if and when Russian decided to put the end to
the rule of US supported Western Ukrainian far right nationalists in Kiev ) it is over the
top even for completely brainwashed part of the US audience. This is not even funny. They can
help to kill some Donetsk insurgents, but that's about it. If Russia decided to compesate insurgent with supplies of similar
weapons the war simply became more deadly for both sides. Which might be the USA plan.
The neoliberal MSM were crucial in the creation of this farce. "These swine care nothing about truth--their only object is to
create a "narrative" (which used to be known as a "line of ********") to brainwash what few followers can still stomach it and
cover their moral bankruptcy and crimes."
It's amazing all the money in the State Department and other intelligence agencies should be
attracting the best minds. Yet a bunch of us sitting here watching this from our boring
office jobs realize how genuinely stupid US foreign policy has been.
A separate Sunni state in West Iraq would be doomed. We need to leave these people alone,
we've made enough foolish mistakes and this will get a lot of people killed. That's along
with US troops being put in harms way for ridiculous reasons like stealing Syrian oil and now
occupying Iraq against their parliaments wishes.
Back in the day you told someone you were American and they wanted to shake your hand and
ask you about this place or that. Now they want to spit in our faces
It has now been over a year since the DOJ "re-opened" its "investigation" into Epstein.
Any prosecutor who has just passed his bar exam would need only a few weeks to compile a
mountain of evidence against Ghislaine Maxwell. Enough to charge her with scores of
crimes.
Because the Federal Bureau of (non) Investigation and the Department of (non) Justice
conducting a (non) investigation probably won't turn up much in my (non) opinion.
A lot of people getting hacked lately. When this all comes to a head (If it does) we know
what their defense is going to be. Too bad. It's not gonna work.
There are key indicators that the Trump Impeachment saga is not
going as Democrats hoped:
Opthamologists across the United States have been flooded with patients who had attempted to
claw out their eyes after being forced to watch just one hour of the proceedings.
Radical Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, who were strapped into their chairs with their
eyes taped open and forced to watch the Impeachment hearings, are demanding to be water boarded
instead.
The UN Commission on Human Rights has weighed in and decreed that compelling prisoners to
watch the hearing is a most dastardly, evil form of torture.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis has filed suit against the Democrat National
Committee for copyright infringement alleging that the hearings are interfering with the sale
of Ambien.
On Wednesday, Jan 22 Donald Trump wrote his name in the Guinness records books setting Presidential record in Twits.
According @FactbaseFeed, an account which tracks Trump's Twitter habits, Trump sent 142 tweets and retweets on Wednesday --
eclipsing his previous single-day presidential record of 123.
According to the US diplomat, President Trump has made it very "clear that any attack on Americans or American interests will
be met with a decisive response, which the president demonstrated on January 2".
And American interests are defined very flexibly, sometimes in conflicting tweets.
Pelosi gang is too afraid to point to actual crimes (like Douma false flag, Yemen war, etc),
so they invented this Kabuki theater, as if they can fool already suspicious population.
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you
can't fool all the people all the time. So said Abraham Lincoln – maybe. But whoever it
was forgot to mention an important corollary: fun as it may be to pull the wool over people's
eyes, you'll writhe in agony for an equal period once the truth emerges and the fraud is
exposed.
...the agony of those responsible for the Russiagate fiasco can only intensify while, for
the rest of us, the fun has just begun. So lean back and enjoy the show. It going to be a
doozy.
Ron Paul" "It's always been said that impeachment is a political process. Well that's an understatement when you look
at what's going on now."
This time this is a Kabuki theater in which both size are frantically afraid to touch real issues and to discuss
real crimes. This is completely artificial reality trial.
"We used to stand up to Putin and Russia – I know the party of Ronald Reagan used to," declared Adam Schiff, the Democratic point
man on impeachment, his voice quivering with emotion. The fight to defend the Ukraine is "about more than Ukraine. It's about us.
It's about our national security. Their fight is our fight. Their defense is our defense . And when the President sacrifices our
interests, our national security for his election, he is sacrificing our country for his personal gain."
...This was the Democratic line in a nutshell. In order to safeguard the ancient republic at home, the U.S. must pay foreign satraps
to defend its imperial interests abroad. Since no patriotic American could possibly disagree, any and all problems must stem from
meddling by the evil dictator Vladimir Putin and his traitorous puppet in the Oval Office.
Americans must therefore fulfill the ancient law by impeaching him just as the "founding fathers" would have wanted. Only then
will peace and freedom return to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
One of two things is wrong with America: Either the entire system is broken or is on the
verge of breaking, and we need someone to bring about radical, structural change, or -- we
don't need that at all! Which is it? Who can say? Certainly not me, and that is why I am
telling you now which candidate to vote for.
Maybe we should put sanctions on Pompeo. He could use the diet. Maybe raiding his pantry
would feed Iraqi for a couple months. He is truly perfect spokesman American empire.
Sadistic, bloated, and corrupt.
Definition of cynicism: that the Colombian State, world-renowned for killing social
leaders, financing narco and paramilitarism, is the organizer of a summit against terrorism
where Mike Pompeo, intellectual author of the murder of Soleimani, is the star.
Pompeo reminds me of the pigs in Animal Farm. He is a grotesque figure, steely-eyed,
cold-blooded, fanatical, and hateful. "We lied, cheated, and stole" Pompous Maximus will get
his comeuppance one of these days. I hope he plans more overseas trips for himself. He is a
vile person, a psychopath proud of his psychopathy. He alone would make anyone considering
conversion to Christianity, his brand of it, run screaming into the night. Repulsive man.
The Raytheon Institute, a bipartisan think tank that specializes in starting Middle Eastern
wars, has released a report that estimates the imminent Iran War will be approximately one
letter different from the ongoing Iraq War.
"We based our analysis primarily on the words themselves," explained Richard Cheney, the
institute's Bonelli Fellow. "If you look closely, you'll see that both countries' names start
'IRA,' but 'IRAN' ends with an 'N' while 'IRAQ' ends with a 'Q.'"
The report spelled out further similarities , including America's total lack of
justification for initiating hostilities, a draft dodging Republican president who was born
with a silver spoon in his mouth, spinelessness on the left during the buildup despite virtue
signaling of being antiwar, simmering sectarian tensions in the country to be invaded, the
prospective enemy's large standing military that won't be able to face down America's initial
assault but could become deadly in a drawn out guerilla campaign, a complete lack of support
from the rest of the world, large amounts of oil at stake, media reports that have inflamed
overwrought concerns about weapons of mass destruction, and relief from service members in
Kuwait that they finally have something to do
Putin “needs to keep his commie hands” off of the sovereign Independent Baptist church’s affairs
According to sources, local man Clarence Williams has urged his church’s lead pastor as well as local law enforcement to move
forward with an investigation into Russian hacking, claiming that there was ample evidence to support the theory that malicious
foreign agents infiltrated and influenced the outcome of a vote on the date for next month’s potluck at Second Baptist Church.
Again, I don't want to be cruel. But in the Trump Era, we must be prepared to face a certain
amount of callousness in politics. Just imagine all the terrible shots Mr. Trump could take at
Mrs. Warren:
"Liz, I like you a lot. I think you're a nice person. But you need to calm down. I don't
know if you take any medication -- your blood pressure must be very high. I'm worried about
you. I really am. Relax. Put on a nice sweater, have a cup of tea, grade some papers."
"I went to Wharton, okay? A much better school than Harvard, by the way. Harvard used
to be a very good school. Now it's failing, because of people like you. And I did very well at
Wharton. Very well. I don't need any more lectures. Save it for your students,
professor."
"Professor Pocahontas, I call her. Iron Eyes Cody had more Indian blood than Liz! Remember
him? 'Keep America Beautiful.' That was his thing. I like that. He would vote for Trump. But
maybe he'd vote for his fellow Native American. I don't know."
"I'm doing very well with the Latino community, even the Latina community. Not so much with
the Lateen-ex community. But that's okay. Liz can have them. All seven of them. What do
you do with a Lateen-ex ? Blow your nose with it?"
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Turkish Airlines. The airline of choice for Jihadis.
Yes, with Soleimani assassination and subsequent crisis Trump crossed the red line. But the
House is afraid to tell he whole truth... Obama was probably even bigger threat to the US
national security, especially with Hillary as the Secretary of State and hi Libyan and Syrian
adventures.
The 111-page summons urges the Senate to "eliminate the threat that the President poses to
America's national security" as it lays out the case against President Trump.
Hilarious. What other president would've tolerated this?
**** Cheney would've had the homes of these people "visited" by faceless-looking men long
ago, evidence gathered, and a second visit made a few weeks later to protect himself and
Bush. Just to pluck one recent administration out of thin air.
Trump doesn't seem all that worried. Maybe that's for a reason most of us can't possibly
comprehend.
Financialization killed Boeing. All those MBA's who dreamed up outsourced supply-chains
for the Dreamliner. Thought they were going to make a lot of money through savings.
Silly rabbit MBA's... if you don't spend money? You don't make money.
MBA graduates are f*cking useless retards trained in only one system: FAILURE.
What sank McDonald Douglas - bought out by Boeing? Is the same bullsh*t that is ruining
Boeing. Boeing kept a lot of board member & management failures around from McDonald
Douglas. Poisoned the Boeing culture.
How many of you remember all the McDonald Douglas passenger jet success stories? There
wasnt any - the whole mgmt of MD was to to strip out every possible cost and maximize very
profit at the expense of the end customer and the government - and these are the guys who
bought Boeing - and then made the first step of moving the headquarters to chicago. Guess
which party gave lots and lots of government boondoggles to MD?
I had a Polish executive tell me how proud they were as they were about to hire an
American executive who graduated with an MBA.
That is, until I asked him... "Have you checked what happened to the previous companies
that he worked at?"
So the Polish executive did just that. This led to a ban on hiring any American MBA. Turns
out, the American MBA worked at companies, all of which FAILED.
Though, somehow, despite a track record of working at failed companies? The American was
still quite well off.
The ******* alternative you stupid ******* americunt is already in the air. They are
labelled Airbus A220 and A230, otherwise known as Bombardier CS200 and CS300 and they are
sold out 15 years in advance.
That was part of the problem. The parts from Boeing's foreign suppliers MET
SPECIFICATIONS.
That is, until they went to assemble the Dreamliner. Where parts did not fit together.
You see, Boeing found out LONG, LONG AGO... that it was necessary to have manufacturing
close to design. That way, when parts that "met specifications" did not fit? The engineers
and machinists were there to correct deficiencies. Thus leading to reliable planes that were
fit together very well. Only THEN could Boeing could assemble parts in other locations and
mate them together.
This never happened with the Dreamliner. Quadrupled costs. The Dreamliner only exists
thanks to taxpayer subsidies through the ExIm Bank. The Dreamliner WILL NEVER BE PROFITABLE.
Accounting gimmicks make it appear as if Boeing makes money on the Dreamliner.
Amazing that in less than a generation, we go from "if it's not Boeing, I'm not going" to
wondering what the next Boeing screw-up will be and how many will be killed as a result.
The existing 777 is a fantastic plane and, other than pilot error (Asiana at SFO), a
missile attack (Malaysia 17) and some unknown (but apparently not mechanical) issue (Malaysia
370), the 777 has been the safest plane around.
American executives are incentivized to manipulate their company's stock. So they squeeze
the workforce and cut everything to the bone. That's why Boeing, GM, and other household
names are crashing.
According to economist William Lazonick, Boeing spent $43.1 billion on stock buybacks
from 2013 to 2019, raising the company's stock price to a record high just 10 days before
the second crash of its 737 MAX. Boeing CEO Muilenburg collects most of his pay through
stock or compensation based on financial metrics. Yet the company reportedly avoided
spending the estimated $7 billion it would have needed to engineer a safer plane. Less than
10 years after a public sector bailout, GM has spent $10.6 billion on stock buybacks, while
engaging in layoffs and plant closures. That amounts to $221,308 for each of the 47,897
active UAW members currently on strike at GM. Walmart spent $9.2 billion on stock buybacks
from August 2018 to July 2019, which, by my calculations, could have been used to give a
raise of roughly $5/ hour to each of its 1 million hourly workers instead.
Boeing should have been spending all its supposed profits on R&D. The other problem is
the military side of the business is grossly corrupt. Remember the blowup over Air Force
1?
This is what happens when the Federal Reserve lets the financial cat out the bag, and pump
up the stock market to the tune of 35-60 billion every 3 days, because some hedge funds
"could" fail and topple the financial system.
If multiple entities are now too important and could topple the financial system if they
failed, the Fed has massively screwed up.
In 1991 a Boeing purchaser told me that he would give us a contract if we transferred 51%
of the shares to a minority.
This is God's truth
He added that when he could not find minority businesses that would make components
according to specifications, he would buy stuff from minority owned businesses and not use it
but store it in warehouses around the country indefinitely. this in order to meet a quota of
20% purchases from minority owned businesses mandated by the Feds for all government
suppliers.
I can just imagine how bad the discrimination is now.
These are politically connected animals who feed from the trough of government pork barrel
a.k.a taxpayer money. Exactly what has Nikki Haley achieved in her life, except for being a
pathological liar?
These animals were responsible for our reckless fiscal deficits and looming debt bombs
which will soon come crashing down. Kinda good metaphor for Boeing.
All former CFOs and politicians ( civilian and military - only political types in the
military get stars ). No evidence of any engineering expertise. Sad for a once-proud global
leader.
In the "investor economy", there is no morality. EVERYTHING is "commoditized". Even you ..
your DNA. A pricetag hovers over your head like a dialog bubble. Bean counters can
incorporate your morbidity and mortality into mathematical equations showing investors why
cutting costs and saving 0.01% is worthy of investment. While 911 was the paradigm shift for
Rights ... the Lehman "crisis" was its own "911" -- the death of the labor economy ... and
rise of the "investor economy". Nobody works, trading time for dollars. They "invest" Why
work? Investors can kill without being held personally responsible. They only risk their fiat
capital. You die.
America can be a force for good in the Middle East. The day is coming when Iran and Israel
will, with US help, partner Israel to lift the ME out of its ignorance and poverty, and
Saudi Arabia will, in the absence of the Shia revolution, be able to ditch its Wahhabist
extremism.
Is Warren Warren the Jussie Smollet of politics. I wonder if she claims Bernie attacked her
while wearing a red hat and screaming, "A woman can't win! This is MAGA country!"
Being one of Liz' constituents and familiar with her career and her base (consisting of
people like me,) I think she faces so little consequence for her "embellishments" at least in
part because "we" (her base) inhabit an environment in which, with ease, we adjust facts and
perceptions to conform to whatever our self-serving narrative of the moment may be.
We know that Liz will say anything she imagines will be to her advantage and it's okay
with "us" that she does. In a way, she's our ideal candidate and media darling because she
reflects and affirms our plastic values.
You wanna know who Trump really is? Trump is the dark soul of America. He's everything ugly
that Amerikkka is: greedy, immoral, corrupt, an uncouth bully...more than that, he's a
lawless tyrant, a pretentious hypocrite that sends the dumb masses kids to kill, die and
occupy sovereign property while he, the privileged spends hundreds of millions revelling in
superficial distraction, playing golf, comfortably numb, filthy rich and repulsed at the
sight of tent cities, vets sleeping under bridges and by the migrant help that clean the
toilets, pluck chickens all day and are bent over for hours picking crops at slave wages so
he, his trophy wife and the well-off he favors, can eat.
Trump is America's depraved soul that Republicans and Zionists want to nurture and
protect, because he's the Chosen one delivering everything they dreamed of; that Democrats
are powerless to remove because Trump's the price you pay when your own hands are stained
with the blood of those you killed with those you sent to war, stained with the betrayal of
your principles and your own on behalf of AIPAC and corporate bribery to gain power.
Everything Trump is, Amerikkka is, and that's why he's in power. He's in the White House
because he IS Amerikkka and who Amerikkka desires and deserves. Trump is the irresistable,
uncensored charlatan; the rasputin Amerikkkans lusted after to free their lawless, depraved
nature and latent immorality from the mask of shame, fake decorum and respectability.
He's reassured Amerikkkans that selling your soul to the devil to do God's work is okay, as
long as the end always justifes the means, and they love it!
There are 2 beasts, the first is either America or NATO, or basically "The Empire" or
The Neocon Oligarchy--all work well but America is a bit too broad since there are many
good people in America. The second beast whose number is 666, is Trump. Search: Trump 666
and be amazed.
In another sense, however, the passing of the cold war could not have been more
disorienting. In 1987, Georgi Arbatov, a senior adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , had warned:
"We are going to do a terrible thing to you – we are going to deprive you of an
enemy."
...Winning the cold war brought Americans face-to-face with a predicament comparable to that
confronting the lucky person who wins the lottery: hidden within a windfall is the potential
for monumental disaster.
I don't think it will be long before we see Congress in the US calling for invasion of Russia
on the grounds of a lack of diversity, lack of respect for LGBTP and so forth.
"
"I wouldn't go to war with you people," Trump told the assembled brass.
Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, "You're a bunch of dopes and babies."
"
This is Trump's idiotic tweet earlier today:
"The noble people of Iran -- who love America -- deserve a government that's more interested
in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect. Instead of
leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!"
And here's Sharmine Narwani's response:
"I'm in Iran right now. These "noble" people find you disgusting, just like most Americans.
Iranians laugh at you and mock you and really, really want their government to bring you to
your knees."
"At this stage in the game anyone who still thinks Trump is an honest man with noble
intentions is a complete fool"
That only needs to be changed to: At this stage in the game anyone who still thinks any
system politician is honest and has noble intentions is a complete fool.
But then religious fundamentalists, such as the cultists of electoralism, cannot be
reached by evidence or rational argument.
I hear tell that Emperor Trump is also grooming his potential successor/s
It's a neck and neck race between Kim Kardashian, who Trump is giving personal 'hands on'
assistance, and Montgomery Burns, who is one of Trump's role models.
'He might be a son-of-a-bitch, but he's OUR son-of-a-bitch'. Surely a 'Yeltsin' must replace
or join 'Quisling' in the popular lexicon as a title for a traitor, in future.
"... Why then were all eight House members chosen as managers to prosecute the case against Trump, who ceremoniously escorted the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why did the articles of impeachment receive not a single Republican vote on the House floor? ..."
Why then were all eight House members chosen as managers to prosecute the case against
Trump, who ceremoniously escorted the articles across the Capitol, all Democrats? Why did the
articles of impeachment receive not a single Republican vote on the House floor?
Ban PMs, Ministers, governors, some mayors and judges, from having second citizenships of
foreign residencies; moreover, Presidential candidates should have been resident in Russia
for 25 years (previously 10 years) and never had a foreign citizenship.
I knew that if you kept it up, Putler would get around to targeting you.
"U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to
undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president
still the front-runner in the race to challenge President Donald Trump, according to two
officials familiar with the matter
Part of the inquiry is to determine whether Russia is trying to weaken Biden by promoting
controversy over his past involvement in U.S. policy toward Ukraine while his son worked for
an energy company there."
... ... ...
Yes, somehow those dastardly Russians have outsmarted the brightest and best-paid political
strategists in Washington, D.C. by brandishing what amounts to some really persuasive memes
over social media, and for just rubles on the dollar. The techies at Wired went so far as to
call this epic assault on the fragile American cranium, "meme warfare to divide America." By
way of evidence, it cited a very creative meme that screamed, "F*CK THE ELECTIONS," which was
intended, as the ironclad argument goes, to cause a number of impressionable Americans to throw
up their hands in a fit of collective exasperation and say, 'Ok, that's it. I'm staying at home
on Election Day.'
Yes, it's really that easy! Imagine all the money the Russians and their radical new
political technologies could have saved guys like casino tycoon, Sheldon Adelson, who
showered the Trump campaign with $100 million dollars.
I think they are using an old version of BASIC from the cold war era, called BASIC Russia
Hate.
10 Print "Russia bad!"
20 Goto 10
Run
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
Russia bad!
BREAK IN 10
READY.
10 Print "Russia good!"
20 Goto 10
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SYNTAX ERROR!!!!!!!
In March 2016, the DOJ found that "the FBI had been employing outside contractors who had access to raw Section 702 Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data, and retained that access after their work for the FBI was completed," as Jeff Carlson reported in
The Epoch Times.
Also In each episode when Adam Schiff makes announcement about Trump with the USA flag at the background Trump
re-election chances increase one percent.
You have it right. The rhetoric "this is a free country" is only true to an extent now
with the constant chipping away at our freedoms on a daily basis.
In March 2016, the DOJ found that "the FBI had been employing outside contractors who had access to raw Section 702 Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data, and retained that access after their work for the FBI was completed," as Jeff Carlson reported in
The Epoch Times.
Donald Trump rode to victory in 2016 on a promise to end the useless wars in the Middle East, but he has now demonstrated
very clearly that he is a liar
He also promised a wall. Maybe he meant the Israeli wall?
Also In each episode when Adam Schiff makes announcement about Trump with the USA flag at the background Trump
re-election chances increase one percent.
Trump is such a douchebag. He claims there were no lives lost due to their "early warning system" -- no mention that the "early
warning system" was a phone call!
Now he's once again justifying assassination, etc.
there was no "better choice" between trump and clinton. i still think clinton represented a greater danger than trump of getting
into a war with russia, but they are both warmongers first class. for our next election, we may have a choice between ebola and
flesh eating bacteria, or brain cancer and leprosy. if the game is rigged there's no winning it playing by the game's "rules".
"... Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this. ..."
Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long
as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this.
I always learn some thing here. For example imagine my surprise to learn the EU had a
reputation worth protecting. All you need to know about the EU is bitches will do what
bitches are told. This is just one more step on the road to war with China, is that really
what the citizens of the EU want? Are the people of the EU ready to die for the Trump and the
Republican party?
"... Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this. ..."
Deal finishes October 2020 if I remember correctly. All sanctions will be lifted so long
as Iran is in compliance at that time. This is a move to prevent this.
I always learn some thing here. For example imagine my surprise to learn the EU had a
reputation worth protecting. All you need to know about the EU is bitches will do what
bitches are told. This is just one more step on the road to war with China, is that really
what the citizens of the EU want? Are the people of the EU ready to die for the Trump and the
Republican party?
Secretary of State Pompeo claimed that Soleimani was responsible for hundreds of thousands
of deaths in Syria. Basically blaming Iran for all deaths in the Syrian war.
Donald J. Trump: "To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I've stood with you since
the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We
are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage."
Is it possible to imagine that such a trump will write to the brave people of France:
Shocking Boeing Emails Reveal Contempt For Management, FAA
"Would you put your family on
a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee said to a colleague in another
exchange from 2018, before the first crash. "No," the colleague responded.
"Nancy Pelosi, pressing the Senate to comply with her demands"...Hey, Nancy, this isn't how it works. You, yourself, are in
"contempt of Senate" by not proceeding with the article of impeachment for a vote.
Is there such a thing as "contempt of Senate?" Probably not. Just like there's no such thing as "contempt of Congress." Hey
the Dems used it, so I used it as an example. Ha, ha, ha...stooges!
Most people are familiar with at least the outlines of the biblical Samson story: a mighty
warrior who slays the enemies of the Israelites in great numbers using the jawbone of an ass
among other weapons.
Sadly, after the captivating Delilah seduces Samson into revealing the secret of his
extraordinary strength -- his unshorn hair -- he ends up blind, in chains, and held captive in
the temple of the Philistines.
Samson asks the Lord to restore his strength. The King James Bible explains what happens
next: "And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all
the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which
he slew in his life." It was a huge bloodletting, and among the victims was the hero
himself.
It's a dramatic story, made for the movies. The 1949 Technicolor version, directed by Cecil
B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, remains a camp classic of the
sandal-and-togas genre. But whether in the original text or on celluloid, the denouement does
not qualify as a happy one. Samson was a fool and his own worst enemy. Something of the same
can be said of the United States in recent decades.
Probably in the medium term the situation for the US in ME will be worse, but in the short term (in an electoral year) the people
I talked, with some knowledge of the recent history of the ME, and me, we think:
a) Trump dares to do what at least 3 former administration did not dare to do: kill the first "terrorist" on the list (as ex-admiral
William J. Fallon has said, Suleimani was the Nº 1 in his list for 12 years), so for the American people is the more resolute
and brave POTUS of at least 10 administration (somebody says from Lincoln times). Obama was a coward.
b) The fact that Suleimani was a national hero for a nation of 82 million people and also for 150 million of shia around the
world, mourned by millions in the streets, make a bigger Trump "victory" over the Iranian "regime", and it is a powerful advice
to the others leaders and commanders in the world that try to fight or oppose to USA.
c) People say that after killing Al-Bagdadi, Suleimani, Muhandis, the next in the list is Nasralah (pure wishful thinking but
right now, why not thinking that?)
d) The USA did no use their AA system to shut-down the incoming missiles to not give a clue to the Iranians of their real effectiveness
in combat situation and because the Russians have many SIGINT platforms following the events to capture the signals, methods,
tactics and technology of the US anti-ballistic missiles systems. So now the Iranians are blind of the real effectiveness of their
missiles in a real combat situation and the Russians do not have a clue also. For sure USA can take down at least some modified
SCUD C missiles, simply it was not worth to do.
e) The fact that Trump did not retaliate is not a symptom of weakness, simply no American was hurt after killing Suleimani
(an act of war), only some holes in the sand.
f) In the speech of today Trump is defiant with the killing of Suleimani and with more economic sanctions to Iran, that will
be more crippling than now. He does not want to escalate (more). There will be a deal in the future, but much less good for the
Iranians than the Obama's JCPOA (it was an electoral promise).
g) The retaliation of the PMU, they say, "will be similar than that of Iran", translating it : "lob some katyusha rockets in
the backyard of few US bases giving advice to the Americans do not go out". No risks at all, the se-escalation is complete.
h) Trump is defiant about not leaving Iraq, I think at the end they will go but after they have a very good deal. Of course
it is all about the Iraqi oil, in exchange for the American blood and money wasted in Iraq. Iraq has the biggest oil reserves
in the world and USA want a good chunk of them, they never ever leave "giving" all of them to the Chinese or Iranians or anybody
else. Trump does not want US soldiers in Iraq, but he wants the oil above anything else (it is condition "sine qua non" to maintain
the Empire)
i) Trump has now the full enthusiastic support of the AIPAC and all the others powerful Israeli lobby he will have more money
than required for the election. He has demonstrated he is the best possible POTUS for Israel
j) In the short term USA will leave Syria and in the medium term Iraq, OK, but they never ever leave "all the region", they
need to be there to maintain the "American Way of Live" (US $ as reserve currency)
If nothing dramatically change, I expect a crushing victory of Trump in the coming US election, he has all the cards now in
his hand, and he will not waste them.
The 5 lightweight hangars at the Ain al-Asad airbase that were destroyed in the Iranian bullseye hit
housed US drones. Possibly the very one
used to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani.
See this tweet by Babak Taghvaee
from yesterday with photos:
#BREAKING: It is now confirmed that the #IRGC backed Kataib Hezbollah (45th Brigade of #PMU) launched 40 unguided rockets at
Ain Al Asad Air Base where the #USArmy's MQ-1Cs are based. At-least one of them participated in the operation for elimination
of #Soleimani in #Baghdad!
1. "Being Santa Claus to Netanyahu, the far right and the very rich (Generous donors)"
2. "Doing the impossible, making Hillary look like the better of 2 terrible choices"
3. " Proving 42% of the American public aren't too swift."
The folks who hatched that particular impeachment plan and pitched it to Nancy Pelosi must have been the same idiots in the DNC
who dreamt up the Russiagate scandal and also pursued Paul Manafort to get him off DJT's election campaign team. Dmitri Alperovich /
Crowdstrike, Alexandra Chalupa: we're looking at you.
The real Trump move would be to hit the twitter right before the house impeachment vote and announce that he has
instructed the House Republicans to vote for impeachment.
Notable quotes:
"... At least this mess made it patently clear the Dem obsession with Russia has been all about preserving their Ukraine pickpocketing operation. ..."
I ordered a truckload of pop corn to snack on during the trial in the Senate. Just imagine Joe Biden under cross examination as
he flips 'n flops! "Was that me in the Video, I can't recall."
I can see a Trump marketing consultant designing a campaign centered on the impeachment hearings called "The Swamp Strikes
Back". It might be most effective as a comic strip.
Maybe the Russians would be willing to drop a handful of anti-left, baitclick ads on Facebook -- you know? Those weird ads that magically swayed our entire
nation into electing Donald Trump for President. I bet Robert Mueller still has their phone
number. The Dems could mention a quid pro quo and offer to lift some of our
sanctions.
That letter is no mistake. It shows that there are 2 opposing sides in the US Military,
the dark hats and the white hats. One side wants to end wars, the other side do not. Just
like what Q has been saying all along.
Good old USA. Invade illegally by lying, killing, build an airbase and tell everyone that
they'll leave if Iraq will pay for the airbase and if not they'll sanction Iraq into
oblivion.
Is it any wonder why most of the world is disgusted with their behaviour.
"... "There ain't room in this internet for the both of us," growled one CNN anchor on the air Monday evening. "There simply aren't enough people out there for us to fool with our fake news stories and The Babylon Bee to fool with their satire. There isn't enough clickbait and outrage traffic to go around. " ..."
CNN has slammed the world's best satire site, The Babylon Bee, after CNN executives
realized that "fake news" articles on the website were getting at least as much social media
traction as their own.
"There ain't room in this internet for the both of us," growled one CNN anchor on the air
Monday evening. "There simply aren't enough people out there for us to fool with our fake
news stories and The Babylon Bee to fool with their satire. There isn't enough clickbait and
outrage traffic to go around. "
"They're obviously amateurs over there at The Bee," said Brian Stelter.
"A lot of times, their reporting comes true. If you're gonna do fake news, do it right --
100% fake, guaranteed, 24/7. They really should learn from the pros over here at CNN."
As thousands of American service members prepare for the
worst in the Middle East following an American drone strike that killed Iran's second-most
powerful man, just 23% of registered voters can identify the Islamic republic on an unlabeled
map of the globe, according to a Morning
Consult/Politico survey.
When shown an unlabeled map of just the Middle East, the number rose to a still-abysmal 28%
. Eight percent of those thought Iran was Iraq on the second map - just like Joe Biden
.
Of those surveyed, men were around twice as likely as women to identify Iran on both
maps...
Is there a chorus of politicians singing in there about how lazy they are, and how they
never bothered to verify Browder' story? The story is indeed remarkable, but not in the way
that first appears.
Stephen Fry / @stephenfry
You may or may not know the remarkable story of @Billbrowder and the #MagnitskyAct - find
out the startling truth by listening to
#MagnitskytheMusical by the wondrous @JohnnyFlynnHQ & @roberthudson - @BBCRadio3 7.30 Sun
12th Jan
Book and lyrics by Robert Hudson
Music and lyrics by Johnny Flynn
12 January 2020
О 1 hour, 34 minutes
Johnny Flynn and Robert Hudson bring us a musical based on the
incredible story of an American venture capitalist, a Russian tax
advisor, a crazy heist, the Trump Tower meeting and the very rule of
law.
Blending music and satire, the story explores the truths and fictions
surrounding the origins and aftershocks of the Magnitsky Act; global
legislation which allows governments to sanction those who they see
as offenders of human rights.
It tells the story of a tax adviser's struggle to uncover a huge tax
fraud, his imprisonment by the very authorities he is investigating,
and the American financier's crusade for justice.
Johnny Flynn, Paul Chahidi and members of the cast perform songs in
a epic story that explores democracy, corruption, and how we
undervalue the law at our peril.
Bill Paul Chahidi Sergei Johnny Flynn Jamie Fenella
Woolgar Natalia Ellie Kendrick Kuznetsov Gus Brown Guard Clive Hayward Silchenko Ian
Conningham Jared Will Kirk Fisherman Neil McCaul Judge Jessica Turner
Additional singing by Sinead Maclnnes, Laura Christy, Scarlett
Courtney and Lucy Reynolds.
The cellist is Joe Zeitlin. Sound is by Peter Ringrose.
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the
biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American,
we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way...and without
hesitation!
shoe 9:18 PM - 4 Jan 2020
fuck healthcare, fuck our veterans, fuck our crumbling infrastructure, fuck the homless
MOMMY MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX NEEDS MORE MONEY HELL YEAH
no money for healthcare or education or infrastructure but we have 2 trillion dollars for
bombs so that a pathetic old draft-dodging coward who deep down inside knows he's a weak
piece of shit can try to pretend he's the man his tyrant father told him he never will be
Stonekettle 8:30 AM - 27 Dec 2019
Is the best part where the market implodes and we lose our homes, jobs, savings while the
rich fucks who got huge tax breaks blame us for the disaster as they bail out in golden
parachutes and we get to pay to save the country yet again while being lectured about
responsibility?
One day after 9/11, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that "we are all Americans, now."
And, on the Sunday following 9/11--at an international soccer match in Tehran, Iran--our
flag was raised as 60,000 Iranian spectators sang our national anthem.
Leave it to George W. Bush to turn GOLD into LEAD.
The unique, really exceptional feature of the USA is that it does not try to hide idiocy of
its leaders and lack of education and interest in knowing the truth of the majority of
population
A new poll has found that Americans doubt Donald Trump has a clear Iran policy, but
nonetheless they support the decision to kill Qassem Soleimani – who, remarkably, had
been an unknown entity for the majority of respondents.
Forty-three percent of Americans said they approved of the US drone strike that killed the
Iranian commander last week in Baghdad, while 38% disapproved and 19% said they were unsure,
according to the results
of a HuffPost/YouGov survey.
And while almost half the country backs Soleimani's assassination, 60% of Americans conceded
that they had never heard of the Quds Force commander before last week. An additional 14% said
they weren't sure if they had known about him before the strike.
My favorite line in this article: "I suspect ... like all too many Americans, Trump has a
hard time grasping the fact that other countries are real." So very dismal, but that gave me
a good laugh.
Because he's just a bully with delusions of grandeur.
Steve, LHR|2h ago
Times Pick
It's finally abundantly clear that the great deal maker is nothing more than an emperor with no
clothes. The real shame is the inability of a large part of America to see this for what it is:
a failure of leadership from voter on up. Unfortunately, America has lost its moral ability to
lead, and more's the pity as the ascendancy of others, like China, will not be as progressive
as America was in the past. You'd think that the great deal maker would understand that leaders
are not bullies. Sad.
The danger posed by that ignorance is matched daily by the crises created by Trump's own
erraticism. His performance as commander in chief has been shaped by a collection of scattered
grievances, emotional impulses and random tweets. As the Financial Times's Philip Stephens
has
said of Trump's foreign policy, "Looking for a framework is like searching for symmetrical
patterns in a bowl of spaghetti."
1. Being Santa Claus to Netanyahu, the far right and the very rich (Generous donors)
2. Doing the impossible, making Hillary look like the better of 2 terrible choices
3. Proving 42% of the American public aren't too swift.
Cemi | Jan 6 2020 22:15 utc | 97: "The point is: Trump is loose cannon. We can analyse back
and forth but no-one knows what the narcissistic jackass decides next."
Shame on you for using such language with regard to the current President of the United
States of America!
"Soleimani did 9/11!" - Pence helpfully yet insanely chimed in.
"You're not a wimp like Obama, who refused to assassinate this terrorist," he was probably
told. "You're decisive, a real leader. This one blow will change the entire calculus of the
Middle East," they likely told him. "If you take out Soleimani, I guarantee you that it will
have enormous positive reverberations on the region."
Eminent threat from Soleimani is a close equivalent to Bush "WDM in Iraq" hoax. And Compo
looks like a better fed version of Gondoliza with her "mushroom cloud" evil war propaganda.
As There was implicit agreement that Iran officials can travel safely in Iraq, which was
breached, the natural result might expulsion of the US forces from Iraq. Which also means the
collapse of US forces in Syrian bases and the Trump's idea of stealing oil.
Like Bush II Trump exceeded his authority and ordered illegal assassination. He needs to be
impeached. Pompeo and Ester need to be fired and tried.
n
2008, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he thought George W. Bush should have been impeached for
lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We are still feeling the
blowback from that fatally flawed Iraq war. One can only shudder at the gale force of another
one.
Mr. Dueck of Seminole is breathing a sigh of relief this morning after it was revealed that
some guy he'd never heard of before was now dead.
"Finally I can sleep at night!" said Dueck, quickly Googling 'General Qasem Solemaini' so he
can look smart at the coffee shop this afternoon. "I'm glad we finally have a President who
looks after our interests instead of just being concerned about his own reelection!"
After skimming the Wikipedia article about Solemaini, Dueck now believes that the
assassination was definitely justified.
"I don't know how we survived and thrived as a country all these years with that guy I just
heard of his morning around," said Dueck. "Good thing that guy from out over there somewhere is
gone!"
Dueck spent the rest of the afternoon arguing with people on the Internet and informing them
about some group he recently learned about, but cannot pronounce, called Quds Force.
"You don't have to be scared of them anymore," said Dueck to his buddies who informed him
they weren't actually afraid to begin with. "Having watched more than three YouTube videos on
the topic, I can tell you that the world is a lot safer now that what's his name is dead!"
After a full day's worth of reading Internet comments, Dueck is now the nation's
self-proclaimed foremost expert on foreign policy and is looking forward to his work as a
pundit on Fox News in the very near future.
Keyser Söze
Alexander Mahone •
2 days ago • edited Israel will fight against Iran to the last American soldier
😂😂😂
15 million Jews in the whole world against 90 million Iranians in Iran, I think they will need
to fill their ranks with poor, hungry, uneducated teenagers from Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia
(74% of US army recruits) 😂😂😂
Is Mar-a-Lago a US cultural site? Wait, just looked it up -- it's a national historic
landmark. Since Iran obeys international law, it can't be on their list of 35 Best Places to
Attack. Trump Tower on the other hand....
"We have learned today from #Iraq Prime Minister AdilAbdl Mahdi how @realDonaldTrump uses
diplomacy:
#US asked #Iraq to mediate with #Iran. Iraq PM asks #QassemSoleimani to come and talk to him
and give him the answer of his mediation, Trump &co assassinate an envoy at the airport."
Amusingly, if Trump is indeed serious that Iraq will have to reimburse the US for its
countless military bases, camps and other installations, the US will be able to repay its $23
trillion in debt (and have money leftover), when all is said and done: here is a partial list
of the US camps in iraq:
Camp Abu Naji / FOB Garry Owen (Al Amarah)
Camp Adder also known as Tallil Air Base and Ali Air Base located in Nasiriyah
British comedian Ricky Gervais is dropping red pills at the Golden Globes, joking about
"Epstein didn't kill himself" while telling 'woke' virtue signaling celebrities to stop talking
about politics.
... If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent,"
"You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than
Greta Thunberg. " as usual David Brett nails it , the british office was one of funniest tv
shows ever
@gotmituns I
think we all know the Orange One who is in the pockets of Jews and Israel First nationalists*
will not actually pull out troops. I have also heard someone on this comments board says the
agreement between the US and Iraq stipulates that the US has 1 year to withdraw if requested
to do so by Iraq, so he will no doubt cite that reason for staying there as long as possible
– which leaves ample time for more Jewish tricks and swindles à la USS Liberty
or Lavon Affair.
The real question is whether or not his room-temperature IQ support base will pick up on
the fact that their man in the White House is only increasing troop presence despite being
told to piss off by the Iraqis, thus laying waste to the myth that Iraqis are begging the US
to stay there. Will this be the broken promise that will finally deprogram the hordes of
MAGAtards and awaken them from their slumber?
Not only Mossad but probably many others would like to see a suicide bomber blow himself
up somewhere in the US killing alot of people. That makes it difficult to figure out who
did it and maybe impossible to figure it out. It would be a mess.
But they could always find an un-scorched Iranian passport in mint condition among the
debris of the explosion.
Trump just managed to tweet support for US members of IS and AQ, thus supporting enemies of
the US and committing Treason as per the US Constitution-
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that
should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully
strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required,
but is given nevertheless!
Trump-Kushner is no different than Hillary, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Epstein, Maxwell,
Weinstein, Wasserman-Schultz, Bibi. Trump is no friend to American citizens just like all of
Congress.
There will be no draining of any swamps. Trump-Kushner just another Bibi lackey.
Pelosi hailed the killing just after news broke of Gaddafi's October 2011 death.
She released the following
statement
on her
Congressional website:
Today's news marks the next phase of Libya's march toward democracy. After decades of tyrannical rule in Libya,
the world is hopeful that the next generation of Libyan leaders will bring their country out of this dark chapter.
The strong action taken by the United States, led by President Obama, and NATO, the United Nations and the Arab
League proves the power of the world community working together.
The actions of the US was a war crime. Those that are responsible should be arrested and
handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. This would obviously
include Trump, Pompeo and Esper (as well as a number of others).
The US should then negotiate reparations with Iran.
If the US/West will not do so, if the people of the US/West democracies do not insist, if
we do nothing then we are all guilty of this War Crime. I don't really think we can have this
any other way.
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands,
not grunts who are just there for the paycheck"
The Babylon Bee 11 hours ago <S> 554 *10
A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online
platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if
you post your support for attacking another country.
People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East
or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the
military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the
foreign war they wanted to happen so badly.
"Frankly, recruitment numbers are down, and we needed some way to find people who are really
enthusiastic about fighting wars," said a DOD official. "Then it hit us like a drone strike:
there are plenty of people who argue vehemently for foreign intervention. It doesn't matter
what war we're trying to create: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China -- these
people are always reliable supporters of any invasion abroad. So why not get them there on the
frontlines?"
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands, not grunts who
are just there for the paycheck," he added.
Strangely, as soon as the policy was implemented, 99% of saber-rattling suddenly ceased.
Just a wild *** guess but what if Maj. Gen. Soleimani was close to kicking the bucket
anyways and wanted to poke America one last time and did so by causing an issue at the
American embassy in Iraq.
If the General was such an asset why be in Iraq? Normally you would send your aide to the
area. If it was really important to meet someone then they would come to Iran.
I don't think Iran is necessarily that careless. I can believe ego can play a big part in
making bad decisions but if he was such an asset for so long why risk it unless you were a
dead man walking already.
The other Iranian leaders could of said to the already dying general if that is the way
you want to go out then by all means do so. It doesn't cost Iran anything if he does.
Just a different look at it. It may also be the reason why Iran won't do anything for
awhile if at all. He might of been a good general in Iran's eyes but still replaceable.
Later.
If our entire dollar racket fueled country were slightly more honestly governed, the Dept.
of Offense would bill Israel for at least 1/2 of its budget.
This will end great, a fucked up circus called congress who hasn't had the balls to do their
job and legally declare war for nearly three decades, and a president who can't even defend
himself from a gang of thugs staging a direct coup against him in his own government. What
could possibly go wrong?
Some comments reminded me of two sayings at opposite ends of phase space.
The first I learnt from an article of Uri Avnery almost a decade ago. It is the classic
Jewish joke about the Jewish mother in Russia taking leave of her son, who has been called up
to serve the Czar in the war against Turkey. "Don't overexert yourself'" she implores him,
"Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again "
"But mother," the son interrupts, "What if the Turk kills me?"
"You?" exclaims the mother, "But why? What have you done to him?"
The second are the immortal words of Thucydides: "the strong do what they will, the weak
suffer what they must."
Yeah, I heard Thucydides had some issues with resolution of uncertainties for targeting,
especially for stand-off precision guided weapons. Plus there were some issues with long
range air-defense systems in Greece in times of Plato and Socrates. You know, GLONASS wasn't
fully operational, plus EW was a little bit scratchy.
So, surely, it all fully applies today, especially in choke points. Plus those Athenians
they were not exactly good with RPGs and anti-Armour operations. Other than that, Thucydides
nailed it.
Interesting to note that it was the party professing those words - Athens - who started
the Peloponnesian War, driven in large part by that haughty attitude. It was Athens that also ended that war, of course. They did so when they surrendered to the Spartans.
For weeks, it was Iranian consulates and facilities that bore the brunt of Iraqi
popular unrest. Iran reacted with restraint. With our lethal attacks on the Kata'ib
Hezbollah, we changed that. Pompeo, Esper and Trump are keeping up the trash talking.
Threatening Iran by killing Iraqis whose ass was that brilliant diplomatic strategy pulled
from?
####
January
2, 2020 at 6:56 am GMT 200 Words Intelligence agencies recruit pornographers to lead their
disinformation operations, apparently because porn purveyors are so lacking in ethics they will
tell public lies about anything
The alleged 'founder' of Wikipedia is the arch-Zionist Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales, who attends
intimate birthday parties of Presidents of Israel
Wales was 'selected' for this role after being in the pornography-selling business
Ironically, the Hollywood film 'Wag the Dog,' which tells the story of a US president caught
in a similar situation as Clinton's, and the lengths he goes to distract public attention from
his plight, was released just months before Clinton ordered the attack on Yugoslvia.
Maybe: but in the short term at least, it will provide Trump and his creatures with exactly
the jingoistic deflection they need to draw attention away from his and his Administration's
criminality and incompetence.
Even at this early date we're seeing an orgy of bellicose gloating from all the usual
suspects: and it will probably not be too long into tomorrow's news cycle before the full
fury of the RW Machine is turned on their REAL targets: not Iran, but any Americans who might
question Glorious Leader's "tough" actions....
Bombing a civilian airport in another country in order to assassinate Iranian and Iraq
leaders is a very bad diplomacy ;-)
It might well be that today this idiot blow up his chances fro reelection because revenge is
dish that should be served cold and Iran can postpone it for 11 months or so.
What is interesting is that neoliberal MSM are glad and still talking about Zelensky and
impeachment. What a country ! It looks like the decade of the twenties can be the decade of
another World War. "In every war the first casualty is truth."
Bombing a civilian airport in another country in order to assassinate Iranian and Iraq
leaders is a very bad diplomacy ;-)
It might well be that today this idiot blow up his chances fro reelection because revenge is
dish that should be served cold and Iran can postpone it for 11 months or so.
What is interesting is that neoliberal MSM are glad and still talking about Zelensky and
impeachment. What a country ! It looks like the decade of the twenties can be the decade of
another World War. "In every war the first casualty is truth."
US Congresswoman Maxine Waters has allegedly fallen for a prank call in which she thought
activist Greta Thunberg was offering her a tape of Donald Trump confessing to pressuring
Ukraine into investigating his political rivals. YouTube pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and
Alexey Stolyarov, who go by the names Vovan and Lexus, are claiming they tricked Waters
(Dem-Calif.) into thinking she was speaking to teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
Vovan and Lexus made names for themselves by previously pranking Congressman Adam Schiff
(Dem-Calif.) into thinking there were nude photos of US President Donald Trump that Schiff
could get his hands on. They also claim to have pranked Waters two years
ago, in a phone call where one posed as Ukraine's prime minister.
Though Waters herself has not responded to the new video, the woman at the other end of the
phone identifies herself as the congresswoman and sounds an awful lot like her.
In the call, the pranksters pretend to be Thunberg and her father, with help from a female
colleague, and claim to have proof that Trump pressured the Ukrainian government into
investigating his political rivals, something Democrats have claimed, for months now, is
true.
Talleyrand remarked that Napoleon's assassination of the Duke of Enghien was worse than a
crime. It was a mistake. Donald Trump's decision to target Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head
of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for destruction brings to mind the French diplomat's
lapidary verdict. Iran is likely to unleash its fearsome Shia proxy militias, wherever and
whenever it can. Nor is support from Europe, which is on the frontlines of Iranian blowback,
likely to be forthcoming. Quite the contrary.
Plain English Foundation has voted freedom gas as the worst word or phrase of 2019.
The term comes from the United States Department of Energy, which rebranded natural gas as
"freedom gas" and boasted about bringing molecules of US freedom to the world.
"When a simple product like natural gas starts being named through partisan politics, we
are entering dangerous terrain," said the Foundation's Executive Director, Dr Neil James.
"Why can't natural gas just remain natural gas?"
Each year, Plain English Foundation gathers dozens of examples of the worst words to
highlight the importance of clear and ethical public language.
The full list of 2019's worst words and phrases follows.
The central claim is also addressed to white Christian women, particularly married women,
who are assumed to identify their interests with those of their families.
None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash.
Understandable, but cash as a gift, while practical, always feels impersonal, so I made
special packaging. Went over well pic.twitter.com/urXVCHtDyW
— Donnachaidha O'Chionnaigh (@TwoClawsMedia) December
26, 2019
Tech companies take your privacy seriously, and also use data from inside your home for
cutesy press releases about visits from carolers and people seeking cookie recipes.
https://t.co/o5Lk0G47QL
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...Michael Tracey offered this apt summary of Washington's bizarre
priorities: "This last week teaches us that temporarily freezing and then unfreezing future
military aid to one of our many far-flung client states is [a] huge national emergency but the
government systematically lying about every aspect of the longest war in U.S. history is a
forgettable non-issue."
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