Neoliberal Propaganda:
Journalism in the Service of the Powerful Few

Journalism Vacation from Truth is a direct threat to democracy. Without journalistic integrity, there is no democracy as the average voter cannot make an informed choice. Inverted totalitarism won some time ago.

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People! ~ Donald Trump

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I think journalists today — elite journalists at least — absorb the biases of the ruling neoliberal oligarchy far more readily than they used to do. The media establishment is populated by yes-men. I do not understand how any skeptical person can, in good conscience, trust a western MSM description of foreign events. You need a second source to compare coverage. The mainstream media gives us no real news. Just the regurgitation of  talking points they were given. Seeing how they treat the concept of truth these days, one might think that 1984 dystopia was an understatement. 

Truth killing is a meta-issue ( nationalinterest.org (

The problem is fundamental, and relates to a broad spectrum of policy issues both foreign and domestic, because truth — factual reality — is a necessary foundation to consider and evaluate and debate policy on any subject. 

Crushing the truth means not just our having to endure any one misdirected policy; it means losing the ability even to address policy intelligently. 

To the extent that falsehood is successfully instilled in the minds of enough people, the political system loses what would otherwise be its ability to provide a check on policy that is bad policy because it is inconsistent with factual reality.

I think it is good that people question their lying politicians and these lying, corrupt partisans pretending to be MSM pundits. If that means that MSM try to slander the people as “conspiracy theorists” you should take it with a grain of salt. As Gore Vidal quipped they are actually  "conspiracy analysts" not "conspiracy theorists".  BTW the term was invented by CIA to crush alternative versions of JFK assassination.  This label is a form of censorship, plain and simple.

I would rather be a conspiracy theorist than take anything CNN or FOX says as gospel. Or, God forbid, believe what US politicians say to justify their action or inaction. Skepticism is good. These people don’t automatically deserve our trust. As Reagan said (translating Russian proverb) "Trust but verify".  

The angle under which this page views events and MSM can be called anti-neoliberal angle (please note that the term populism is the attempt to discredit any anti-neoliberal movement). Until recently such sites were a lone  voice. In 2019 this changed. See Tucker Carlson rejection of neoliberalism

If you take in television news as truthful information, that's all a critically thinking person needs to know about you. In reality 99% of political coverage is neoliberal propaganda, sometimes refined, sometimes crude.

Propaganda can be defined as a war on reality using fake news, disinformation, projection, witch-hunts (see neo_Mccarthhyism)  and other methods. It is an attempt to create an artificial reality.  The key here is controlling the narrative.  For example, "fake news" hysteria is a perfect method of suppressing of dissent and questions about MSM ties to three-letter agencies ( see US and British media are servants of security apparatus )

Journalists manipulate us in the interest of the Powerful. Do you also have the feeling, that you are often manipulated by the media and  lied to? Then you're like the majority of Germans. Previously it was considered as a "conspiracy theory". Now it revealed by an Insider, who tells us what is really happening under the hood.

The Journalist Udo Ulfkotte ashamed today that he spent 17 years in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ...he reveals why opinion leaders produce tendentious reports and serve as the extended Arm of the NATO press office. ...the author also was admitted into the networks of American elite organizations, received in return for positive coverage in the US even a certificate of honorary citizenship.

In this book you will learn about industry lobby organisations. The author calls hundreds of names and looks behind the Scenes of those organizations, which exert bias into media, such as: Atlantic bridge, Trilateral Commission, the German Marshall Fund, American Council on Germany, American Academy, Aspen Institute, and the Institute for European politics. Also revealed are the intelligence backgrounds of those lobby groups, the methods and forms of propaganda and financing used, for example, by the US Embassy. Which funds  projects for the targeted influencing of public opinion in Germany 

...You realize how you are being manipulated - and you know from whom and why. At the end it becomes clear that diversity of opinion will now only be simulated. Because our "messages" are often pure brainwashing.

Gekaufte Journalisten - Medienwelt Enthüllungen Bücher - Kopp Verlag

Simplifying, the US MSM foreign events media coverage (and large part of domestic coverage related to the opposition to neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization, see Anti Trump Hysteria during elections and immediately after them ) has very little to do with the reality and is mostly a barometer of the paranoia of the US neoliberal elite.  It is 100% propaganda, or as CBS like to call it "fake news".

How does Fake History and Fake News in the US MSM gradually superseded their reality-based version (which never was perfect, and often quite distorted)  is a very interesting question but it is too big for this page. I would only say that this process is closely connected with the process of the neoliberalization of the US society which started in full force in late 70th (see also late Sheldon Wolin  notion of  Inverted Totalitarism) . We can take election of Reagan as a starting point although the process started immediately after WWII. From this point "fake news" were enforced on the US society as the only acceptable narrative? Which, is essence, is a neoliberal war on reality.

The process started with the creation of CIA. The key question that arise in this regard is whether  representative democracy is compatible with the existence large all-powerful and largely uncontrollable and positioned "above the law" intelligence  agencies. 

At some point any society with powerful intelligence  agencies naturally arrive to the point when "the tail wags the dog."  In other words they became political power and in institutional hierarchy are positioned above White House.  In the USA this probably happened  around 1963, with the JFK assassination.  In a way the USSR via Truman enforced its model of governance on the USA ;-). Creation of intelligence agencies by Truman was actually the act of the creation of national security state. Which could be  viewed as an official end of the US democracy with quick (less then two decades) rise to power of the Deep State (with the first major victory demonstrated to the US people in 1963).  

With it the huge apparatus of state propaganda (and by extension means of suppressing of dissent) intelligence  agencies, which gradually acquired political power including considerable (but not yet absolute, that will come much later, after 9/11) level of control of MSM  (see Church Committee - Wikipedia ).   Which is documented in the book by Dr. Udo Ulfkotte Journalists for Hire How the CIA Buys the News

After 1963, the level outrage in the society was such that there were some meek attempts to check this power, especially the power of intelligence agencies over the MSM (Church Committee - Wikipedia  was probably the most well known) but they lead to nowhere.  CIa and other inteeligence againces remain positioned above the White House.  

Color revolution against Trump (aka Russiagate) launched by CIA and FBI after election has shown who is the real master of the USA. It was accompanied by unprecedented neo-McCarthism campaign in which neoliberal MSM lost any remnants of decency and objectivity. 

The recent incident with CIA director Gina Haspel lying to President  Trump to inflict severe sanctions on Russia is just a confirmation of the level of this influence. She will never be fired for her  "transgressions"

Apr 17, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org

William Gruff , Apr 16, 2019 4:41:41 PM | link

"If Trump were not in on the schemes he would just fire his underlings!"

This sentiment indicates a failure to understand the power dynamics at play here. Haspel is not the "underling" . Trump is the underling. Sure, being that he is also an oligarch makes Trump's role in the show complicated, but Presidents are installed in order to serve the oligarchy, and the CIA are top level strategists/enforcers for the oligarchy.

In the real organization chart for the empire the CIA is above the President. This has been the case in the US since Kennedy.

Trump cannot fire Haspel or Pompeo. They can fire him, though, and with a sniper's bullet if they want.

Unfortunately for the oligarchy, that would cause additional complications at a time when they have lots of tricky and inexplicably unstable (for them) operations ongoing, which is why they are just steering Trump around instead of replacing him. And Trump is willfully cooperating, even if they are not filling him in on the plans.

Trump will not fire Haspel. He can't. He's just an actor playing a role in a show, and Haspel is one of the producers/writers of that show. If she doesn't put firing in the script then Trump cannot say those lines. I doubt he really wants to anyway.

Principles of War propaganda

 Principles are are well known since the WWI (Falsehood in War-Time):

1. We do not want war.
2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.
3. The enemy is the face of the devil.
4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interest.
5. The enemy systematically commits cruelties; our mishaps are involuntary.
6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.
7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.
8. Artists and intellectuals back our cause.
9. Our cause is sacred. "The ages-old 'God bless America' is playing once more."
10. All who doubt our propaganda, are traitors.

The blog empirestrikesblack cites Belgian investigative journalist Michel Collon who has outlined five principles driving war propaganda:

1. Obscure one’s economic interests;
2. Appear humanitarian in work and motivations;
3. Obscure history;
4. Demonize the enemy; and
5. Monopolize the flow of information.

NeoMcCarthyism

NeoMcCarthyism campaign which was launched around mid 2016 by Democratic Party operatives as tactical tool to distract attention from DNC corruption and illegal removal of Bernie Sanders from the Democratic ticket after lection of Trump turned into important component of color revolution against Trump. And was fueled not only by MSM but also powerful factions of neoliberals and neocons in US intelligence agencies concerted about their future and the level of financing of "national security parasites".  They also have skeletons in the closet to hide (especially FBI and CIA) and did not prepare well to the Trump victory as this was a huge surprise for everybody including Trump himself.  See Steele dossier and Strzok-gate

Please note that the original McCarthyism campaign lasted more then a decade. And McCarthyism was not exactly or only about Communist infiltration into the US government. It has elements of a more general framework of suppressing any "dissidents" who question "official narrative" and simultaneously served as the framework of brainwashing of population creating a stereotype of enemy, in best Bolsheviks, or, if you wish Nazi Germany, style. In other words, like in famous Orwell novel 1984, under McCarthyism questioning of official narrative has  become a "though  crime" (much like it was in the USSR, especially under Stalinism period).   And repressions were real, although far less extensive and brutal, than in the USSR in 30th.  Thousands of people lost jobs and were blacklisted. Many ostracized, especially from artistic circles, committed suicides.

While Senator McCartney has a certain gist for blackmailing people and, being an alcoholic, he probably would be a suitable candidate for high position in NKVD, he was not a pioneer. He was just a talented follower. This type of modern witch hunt was first implemented on large scale by Bolsheviks in Russia after 1917.  Actually Bolsheviks originated many modern methods of brainwashing of the population.  Which later were enhanced and further developed in Nazi Germany and than imported to the USA after WWII.

That all brings us to the concept of "deep state" and its control of MSM.  The problem with the "deep state" approach to governance is that it replicates Bolshevism on a new, more polished,  level, with high officials of intelligence agencies, Wall Street and  military industrial complex as a new Politburo.  Which is not elected but still controls that nations. So much for remnants of democracy in the USA.  That does not mean that some deviations from the "Party line" are impossible: the election of Trump is one  such event. But loop at the power of the reaction of the "deep state" on this event. Not that Trump (who can be viewed as some kind of Republican "Change we can believe in" Obama" ) was intended to follow his election promises in any case.  The level of vetting of candidates is two party system probably is higher then many of us suspect.

As currently there is no alternative to neoliberalism, the current situation will continue to exist. Notwithstanding  the fact that neoliberal ideology was discredited after 2008 financial crisis, much like Bolshevism in 60th. Bolshevism as a theocratic ideology was essentially dead after WWII (although it managed to kick the can down the road for another 45 years). After 60the Soviet people despite constant brainwashing started to have wide-ranging doubts about the communist state and communist ideology. Listening to state-sponsored propaganda radio-stations from the West such as BBC and Voice of America became national pasture of Soviet citizens, especially educated one. Despite all the jamming.  Similar situation happened with the USA after 2008, when citizen suddenly start showing some level of interest RT broadcasts and views on internal situation in the USA ;-). And, of cause, all this needs to be  stopped. In the name of the "health of the state", democracy be dumned (religious term which literally means "condemned to eternal punishment")

In this particular sense, imitating the enemy by the USA elite after WWII, which was done to fight communist  threat (which was overblown) was a very dangerous course with far reaching consequences.  The new level of this process of "imitating  the enemy" now started with the USA -- the rise of alternative press (kind of Samizdat replica from Soviet past) and clumsy attempt of the deep state to suppress it claiming that they are propagator of "fake news" with the subtext that they are Russian agents  (the campaign which spectacularly backfired: which the help of President Trump tweets this term now became the standard nickname of the "official" US MSM).  That brings us directly to revising Stalin's "Show trials" and corresponding witch-hunt in the USSR.  Appointing  Muller to investigate Trump for "Russian connection" (so called "Russiagate") replays favorite theme of accusing enemies of Stalin of being British agents.  On a new level incorporating set of political technologies of overthrowing the legitimate government commonly known  as "color revolution" technologies. But in both cases it is all about eliminating political rivals.

In broader context the current practice of manipulating population is similar to "high demand cults" style practice  -- Bolshevism actually can be best viewed as a religious cult merged with the political movement, much like political Islam today ( Belief-coercion in high demand cults ):

They use all of the techniques as "low demand" faith groups use: requiring members to accept a system of beliefs, conforming to certain behavioral norms; expecting them to involve themselves in the life of the congregation, etc. However, mind-control groups add many additional methods, and take them all to a much higher level. Some are:

• Members' access to outside information is severely restricted
• Their thoughts, beliefs and emotions are tightly controlled by:
  • stress; e.g. long hours of work; little or no free time
  • restricting sleep
  • requiring endless repetition of prayers
  • auto-hypnotic exercises
  • generation of fear and paranoia; viewing the outside world as threatening
  • restricting criticism of the leadership or group policies
• Their behavior may be controlled by:
  • public shaming and humiliation
  • requiring personal confessions
  • isolation from outside contacts, including their family of origin

Members are not physically restrained from leaving the group. They are not held prisoner. They can walk away at any time. But there are strong pressures to remain. If they left, all social and emotional support would disappear; they will often be shunned. Some groups teach that God will abandon or punish them if they leave. They may be told that they will die in the imminent war of Armageddon if they leave the protection of the group.

The main methods here always was the generation and totalitarian control of "suitable" narrative (that's why Sheldon Wolin called neoliberal society "inverted totalitarism"):

"The primary aim of official propaganda is to generate an "official narrative" that can be mindlessly repeated by the ruling classes and those who support and identify with them. This official narrative does not have to make sense, or to stand up to any sort of serious scrutiny. Its factualness is not the point. The point is to draw a Maginot line, a defensive ideological boundary, between "the truth" as defined by the ruling classes and any other "truth" that contradicts their narrative. "

Gerald Celente coined the  term "presstitutes", which is obviously politically incorrect, but still is a very precise term: presstitutes sell themselves to neoliberal establishment for access and governments to prosper financially and to keep their jobs. In the USSR journalist were called "soldiers of the Party" so in the less humiliating way we can call them "soldiers of neoliberal establishment" ;-). 

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Due to the size an introductory article was converted to a separate page Neoliberal Propaganda

• Introduction
• List of  prominent propaganda operations
• MSM as an instrument of systematic attack on truth
  • CIA-coined term "conspiracy theorist" and it's role in Western propaganda machine
  • Identity politics, noble lie, and deep state
  • On tight leash of Deep State
  • Doublespeak
• Presstitutes: Journalists as corporate shills
• Consumption of news from Western MSM is like consumption of sugar by diabetic: it should be severely limited
• Some recommendations for resistance to propaganda brainwashing
• Some principles of MSM propaganda business
• Existence of various nation states as the only real guarantee of freedom of the press
• Orwellian distortion of English Language as key element of propaganda
• Difficulties of counting the disinformation tide wave
• Andre Vltchek on How to Fight Western Propaganda
• Case studies
  • NeoMcCartyism
  • MSM Sochi Bashing Rampage
  • The Guardian Slips Beyond the Reach of Embarrassment
  • Who Shot down Malaysian flight MH17?
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• 20210606 : US Troops Die for World Domination, Not Freedom Consortiumnews ( Jun 06, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
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• 20210528 : Emily Wilder, Chris Cuomo, and Power-Worshiping Journalism ( May 23, 2021 , nymag.com )
• 20210528 : Nuances of the right to vote and Liz Cheney ( May 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210527 : Ohio sees COVID vaccination rate soar 45% since announcing Vax-A-Million lottery ( May 27, 2021 , www.msn.com )
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• 20210525 : Watch- Tucker Carlson Blasts Fauci, WHO, Media For Lying About COVID Lab Leak For A Year ( May 25, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
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• 20210522 : Progress in CDC reporting of COVID victims ( May 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
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• 20210516 : BLM co-founder blasts white supremacy in housing market after $3 million property spending spree -- RT USA News ( May 16, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210515 : Covid-19 knocked out flu out of the USA. Such a miracle... ( May 15, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
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• 20210514 : Rachel Maddow Says She Will Have To Rewire Her Brain To Not View Maskless As A -Threat- - ZeroHedge ( May 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210512 : Cadillac Marxists: woke perversion of Marxism can be very lucrative ( Apr 11, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210512 : Reds under the bed? Or forgot to take the antipsychotics today? ( May 12, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210512 : Taibbi- Reporters Once Challenged The Spy State. Now, They're Agents Of It - ZeroHedge ( May 12, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210512 : Biden achievements ( May 12, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210512 : Reporters Once Challenged The Spy State. Now, They're Agents Of It ( May 12, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210512 : Onion: IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child ( May 12, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210512 : No doubt the US/UK deep state, now more than ever, are busy trying to sow conflict and division in Eurasia ( May 12, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210511 : 11 Plunging Stocks Are Badly Burning Cathie Wood's ARK Invest ( May 11, 2021 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20210511 : Sen. Paul Shreds Fauci Over 'Gain-Of-Function' Funding ( May 11, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210511* I Hope We All Survive It -- Dave Chappelle Warns About Cancel Culture ( May 11, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
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• 20210510 : How many times can a declared "expert" be wrong before they are not an expert anymore! ( Apr 15, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210510 : Biden says 'no evidence' Russia responsible for pipeline cyberattack but Russia has 'some responsibility' ( May 10, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210510 : Service with Pride ( May 10, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210509 : As the world has become more complex, people have relied more and more on stereotypes and simplifications to help them interpret and filter events around them ( May 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210509 : Democrats en Deshabille ( May 09, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210509 : Abolish The FBI by Dinesh D'Souza ( May 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210509 : Wokism and Russiagate ( May 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210509 : Israeli exceptionalism ( May 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210509 : I've formed the opinion that the BIC (the Billionaires In Charge) want societies atomised to reduce the likelihood of an anti-neoliberal revolution involving rope, and nooses ( May 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210509 : Matt Taibbi s Hate Inc. Getting Turned Into Documentary by Vespucci ( May 09, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210509 : Empty Offices and a quote from Office Space: Looks like you've missed a lot of work lately. I wouldn't say I've missed it, Bob. ( May 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210509 : Cisgende millennial woman of color with generalized anxiety disorder is CIA as CIA Wokeness bulls*t ( May 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210509 : Silicon Valley Algorithm Manipulation Is The Only Thing Keeping Mainstream Media Alive by Caitlin Johnstone ( May 04, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210508 : Something is rotten in the state of Denmark: is Kamala like her boss yet another "pharmaceutically enhanced" human being: Kamala Harris tendency of laughing as she walked away might be a sign of pharmaceuticals, either legal or illegal ( May 08, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210508 : Fauci and gain of fuinction research: Ah, yes, the "government disease" expert Fauci...at it again ( May 08, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210508 : Demand For Ass Implants Booms During Pandemic ( May 08, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210508 : Harris ..... laughing as she walked away ( May 08, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210508 : In 1999, the Wall Street Journal had 286 articles on bubbles. Here are a few of the titles ( May 08, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210508 : Dogecoin is now valued at more than Ford ( May 08, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210507 : Crooks are selling to fools ( finance.yahoo.com )
• 20210506 : Aldous Huxley Foresaw Our Despots - Fauci, Gates, The Vaccine Crusaders ( May 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210505 : FED Powell on tough question: Not sure what the exact nature of that question is ( May 05, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210505 : Capital power is over labor, and it extracts money from labor in various ways, but most especially during debt conversions after the financial crisis like crisis of 2008 ( May 05, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210505 : Regularity of changes from "more stupid" to "more evil" in the US politics: Bush is more stupid. Obama is more evil. Trump more stupid. Creepy Joe -- more evil. ( May 05, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210505 : Institutional idiotism in full bloom: To Promote Equality, California Proposes A Ban On Advanced Math Classes ( May 05, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210505 : a "cult" is characterised by slavish reverence and obedience to the personal doctrines of an individual or collective of human beings having no particular, and certainly no substantive, claim to deity. That's especially so when the gurus have an identifiable ulterior motive (Scientology comes to mind an independently intelligent thinker might be compelled to ask how can people be so dumb?). ( May 05, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210504 : Neoliberal MSM now rank in public trust a little below emailed pleas from deposed Nigerian princes ( May 04, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210503 : Not a single resource on the Pfizer Executive team or Board of Directors has been injected with the Pfizer (experimental poison yet) vaccine yet. - C Weissman ( May 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210503 : US new Foreign Malign Influence Center is just official cover for American intelligence interference in domestic politics by Scott Ritter ( May 03, 2021 , www.rt.com )
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• 20210503 : 53 prominent German actors/actresses have become satirical too! They've simultaneously released 1-minute satirical statements. ( May 03, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
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• 20210430 : The Big Tech Oligarchy Calls Out for Trustbusters by the founders. By Josh Hawley April 30, 2021 4:53 pm ET
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  Listen to this article 6 minutes 00:00 / 06:00 1x This is the year of the woke corporation, the year the chieftains of the most powerful companies got bored with making money and decided to remake America, principally by telling Americans how bigoted and backward they are. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. This is the year of the woke corporation, the year the chieftains of the most powerful companies got bored with making money and decided to remake America, principally by telling Americans how bigoted and backward they are. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. Major League Baseball shipped the All-Star Game out of Georgia when that state's elected representatives dared enact modest election-integrity measures. Big Tech silenced a sitting president, banned books it didn't like, and threatened to install itself as censor of the nation's speech. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy.

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• 20210425 : Exactly what does the US gain by constantly smacking down Russia? better jobs, higher education, better health maybe? less debt/smaller deficits for US citizens? ( Apr 25, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210425 : Putin remarked how to "attack Russia" has become a sport, a new sport, who makes the loudest statements ( Apr 25, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210425* The danger for American elites is not that more Americans might begin to question neoliberal deindustrialization, uncontrolled immigration and the consequences of maintaining the US global hegemony at the expense of the standard of living of ordinary Americans ( Jan 07, 2021 , Another Guardian article from this week warns of "pro-Kremlin outlets" spreading "coronavirus disinformation". ( Apr 25, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210425 : Angelina Jolie s MI6 Interview Shows Just How Connected Hollywood Is To the Deep State ( Nov 30, 2020 , www.mintpressnews.com )
• 20210425 : I hate to admit it, but it sounds like Putin's got a plan ( Apr 25, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210425 : FBI Releases Documents On Investigation Into Death Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich ( Apr 25, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210425 : FBI Releases Documents On Investigation Into Death Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich by Zachary Stieber ( Apr 25, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210424* Cultural Deafness Defines the West by Alastair Crooke ( Feb 15, 2021 , www.strategic-culture.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210424 : Putin Is Keeping the West Guessing and That's Just Fine With Him ( Apr 24, 2021 , financialpost.com )
• 20210424 : When The Market Unravels There Will Be -No Place To Hide- - David Stockman - YouTube ( Apr 24, 2021 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210422 : Hilarious Viral Video Calls Out Hypocrisy In 'Woke' Movement by Jordan Davidson ( Jul 20, 2020 , thefederalist.com )
• 20210422 : Market Cap Of Money-Losing Companies Surpasses Dot Com Bubble Record ( Apr 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210422 : In two years you could easily see a wall built to keep people IN. ( Apr 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210422 : Pastors as black Bolsheviks: some black churches try to hold Home Depot hostage ( Apr 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210422 : Market Cap Of Money-Losing Companies Surpasses Dot Com Bubble Record ( Apr 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210420 : Five million people in this country die of natural causes every year. Some of them happened to have Covid when they passed. You might just as well say they died of tooth decay ( Apr 20, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210420 : Waters could prove to be the only witness that Trump needs to call to defeat her own lawsuit ( Apr 20, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210419 : Browder's grandfather is Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA. Now freely admitted that he held that post on the payroll of FBI and Office of Naval Intelligence. Bill merely continues the family business of damaging Russia by any means possible. ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419* Interesting that the CNN producer on the Veritas video said that global warming will be the next big fear-inducing corporate greenwashing campaign ( Apr 17, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210419 : I think Scott Ritter is engaging in an imaginative future if he thinks the 'hate russia' team has no successors. The academy will be full of them just itching for an interns job with a congresscritter. ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : Two decades a coordinated anti-Russia propaganda originating from the U.K. [MI-6 its former spies Khodorkovsky - The Interpreter - Henry Jackson Society] and Washington DC a nest of anti-Russia lobbyists [Atlantic Council BellingCat, etc] ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : Why Washington's Anti-Russian Policies Are Likely To Intensify ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : Two decades a coordinated anti-Russia propaganda originating from the U.K. [MI-6 its former spies Khodorkovsky - The Interpreter - Henry Jackson Society] and Washington DC a nest of anti-Russia lobbyists [Atlantic Council BellingCat, etc] ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : No one fact check's the claims made by the intelligent agencies ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : Bellingcat is in the middle of the GRU/Czech arms depot explosion story from 2014 - now being described as "defacto act of Russian state terrorism on a NATO soil." ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : One Man Stands in the Way of NATO's Run Onward to Moscow - ZeroHedge ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210419 : It's not only that USians are unaware of much of what's happening in other countries, it's the fact they are completly misinformed and misled about current events in foreign countries and deliberatly so ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : McEnany torches liberal media's 'heinous' coverage of Russia bounty story - YouTube ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210419 : Tucker- Elites pushed false narrative to get what they want - YouTube ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210419 : The current political class running the US loathes the average American, and it matters not what side of the isle you sit on. They hate us. They also have their assets squirreled away offshore. ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : Biden's Sanctions Leave Russia's Stocks and Bonds in Stalemate ( Apr 19, 2021 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20210419 : You have to be careful around them ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210419 : What Does Google Do With My Data ( Apr 19, 2021 , www.avast.com )
• 20210415 : The Financial Instability Hypothesis by Hyman P. Minsky -- SSRN ( Apr 15, 2021 , papers.ssrn.com )
• 20210415* Anatomy of a Stock Market Bubble by FRANK VENEROSO ( Apr 01, 2021 , www.levyinstitute.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210414 : Well yeah, "demos" are running all this having robbed any meaning from that traditional labor/common man viewpoint (think FDR) thus in full cahoots with the global cabal which is gates and all the other devils, which must be stopped. ( Apr 14, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210414 : Outcomes of #Metoo - BLM - Antifa - Cancel Culture by Walrus ( Apr 14, 2021 , turcopolier.com )
• 20210414 : Contrary to Nulands boasting, the West keeps Ukraine on a leash with a rather skimpy budget ( Apr 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210412 : Dark Money by Jane Mayer is about how some nominally right-wing libertarian sociopaths, (i.e. the Kochs and their coterie) seek to control American politics through various 'charitable' think tanks and stealth infiltration of top ranked universities ( Apr 12, 2021 , peakoilbarrel.com )
• 20210412 : Google's Secret 'Project Bernanke' Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case ( Apr 12, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210411 : Secretary Pete Buttigieg road to fame: from SUV to bike and then to green energy hype; he cares so much about the environment that he decided to ride a bicycle to work but only the last two blocks ( Apr 11, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210411 : Another professional outrage group wants Fox News host Tucker Carlson FIRED: This time it's the ADL ( Apr 11, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210411 : Dear God, please help me to stop spending money on Amazon and doing Google searches... ( Apr 11, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210409 : Turkey Confirms 2 US Warships To Enter Black Sea As Ukraine Posturing Grows - ZeroHedge ( Apr 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210409 : Take back? ( Apr 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210409 : A modest suggestion for semi-vacant malls ( Apr 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210408 : There is no inflation, it is just that everything costs more. ( Apr 08, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210407 : Operation Mockingbird 2: How Russia 'Weaponizes' everthing she touches ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210407 : Jamie Dimon....Friend of the Little Guy.... ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210407 : JPMorgan's Dimon criticize the current wave of populism, failing to understand that it was caused by the crisis of neoliberalism ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210407 : One good sign that allow the USA to cut "defense" 25% or more ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210407 : Alex from Clockwork Orange in modern world ( Apr 07, 2021 , allrightsocialnetwork.blogspot.com )
• 20210407 : How the neoliberal MSM weaponizing ignorance to promote neo-McCarthism ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210407 : The fate of Durham probe ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210407 : Jamie Dimon in the eyes of ZH crowd ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210407 : Jamie Dimon: "This boom could easily run into 2023 because all the spending could extend well into 2023." ( Apr 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210406 : UBS Predicts 80,000 More Retail Stores Will Close In Five Years ( Apr 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210405 : Joe Biden's American Grandstand by Lance Morrow ( Apr 04, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210404* Modern day journalists are actually lobbyists: A lobbyists who try influence public opinion through mainstream media in favor of special interest groups by Udo Ulfkotte ( Apr 04, 2021 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210404* John-Paul Leonard foreword to Dr. Udo Ulfkotte famous book ( Apr 04, 2021 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210404 : An interesting undergraduate thesis from Munich put together a list of the adjectives and adverbs used in select articles about Obama (USA) and Putin (Russia) in the Frankfurter Allgemeine between 2000 and 2012 by Udo Ulfkotte ( Apr 04, 2021 , www.amazon.com )
• 20210403* The Spy Who Loved Me- Check It Out by Ted Rall ( Apr 01, 2021 , www.wsj.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210403 : Sunlight Destroys COVID 8x Faster Than Scientists Believed ( Apr 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210403 : Is that you Bill Browder? ( Apr 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210403 : Understanding anti-Putin PSYOPs- Preparing for war by The Saker ( Apr 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210402 : Vaccines advance one funeral at a time ( Apr 02, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210402 : Our politicians are for sale to the highest bidders. It's no longer democracy, but full-fledged plutocracy with a veneer of "democracy" that's visibly cracked and flaking off to anyone but the willfully blind ( Apr 02, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210402 : Neoliberal concept of freedom vs totalitarian concept of freedom ( Apr 02, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210402 : Biden's son Hunter, the "smartest guy" his father knows, has his feet firmly in his mouth in excerpts from an interview this Sunday ( Apr 02, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210401 : Vaccination doesn't cure chronic grifters. ( Apr 01, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210331 : The "Unvaccinated" as outcasts by C.J. Hopkins ( Mar 31, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210331 : False Assertions, Misleading Quotes, Fake Sources - How The NYT Writes Anti-China Screeds ( Mar 31, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210331 : Look at the ways BBC was faking news before thrown out of China ( Mar 31, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210331 : Two questions about one fake news source ( Mar 31, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210331 : I will bring up a "human right" that rarely is discussed in the MSM ( Mar 31, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210331 : Citadel and friends have shorted the treasury bond market to oblivion using the repo market. ( Mar 31, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210330 : You are not vaccinated, don't come near me! ( Mar 30, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210330 : Another day another lie ( Mar 30, 2021 , asiatimes.com )
• 20210330 : The US army now teaches social media trolling ( Mar 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210330 : I guess that promoting the "simulatin hypothesis" is one way for Musk to avoid the guilt over those people his coup in Bolivia killed ( Mar 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210330 : Biden's press conference was a triumph. I kid you not. They will lie and lie and lie again about Biden's dementia, until the bitter end ( Mar 30, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210330 : Small but important difference between two most powerful intelligence agencies ( Mar 08, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210330 : Even before the targets in Yemen had been "legally" designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Obama used cluster bombs to shred dozens of women and children in a failed attempt to hit members of "al Qaida in Yemen (AQY)". ( Mar 30, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210328 : The revolt of the public- Martin Gurri on a world without trust - Vox ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.vox.com )
• 20210328 : The West is declining because the elite production system has failed. The worst type of mediocre grinders are pulling the levers of power. The plebes are revolting because immigration, taxes, inflation and the tenuous over-complication of society (fragility) has positioned a great deal of people in precarious positions. ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210328 : It is always helpful to remember that under neoliberalism in the words of Margaret Thatcher "There's No Such Thing as Society ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210328 : The problem with Biden outsmarting Rachel Madcow ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210328 : The "leader of the free world" has pledged to prevent China from becoming the "leading" nation on the planet. And to fulfill such an exceptional mission, his "expectation" is to run again for president in 2024. Not as a hologram. ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210328 : You know the perpetrator is a Black male and not a White male when the headline is a gun all by itself murdered a Black man! ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210328 : If underfunded means you have to use old textbooks from the 1950s through the 1970s and have no tablets or computers on class, I d choose an underfunded school for a better education. ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210328 : Steve here had a good handle on the reasons for the big uptick in violent crime half a year ago, without even hitting the taxpayers up for a lot of grant money. It s just that his was not the answer that the Establishment was looking for. Try harder, Steve. ( Mar 28, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210328 : Bubble Deniers Abound to Dismiss Valuation Metrics One by One by Vildana Hajric , Claire Ballentine , Lu Wang ( Mar 287, 2021 , www.bloomberg.com )
• 20210328 : Willful Blindness - Wash and Rinse in Metals and Stocks ( Mar 28, 2021 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20210327 : New York Times Does Public Relations Work for the Pharmaceutical Industry by DEAN BAKER ( Mar 21, 2021 , cepr.net )
• 20210327 : Google as another part of Fake News complex ( Mar 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210326 : All wars are bankers wars ( Mar 24, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : The net result of neocon policies of Biden administration ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : There's too many options available to make ignorance enjoyable ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : The origin on neo-McCarthysim is that the empire so far does not have China, Russia and Iran fully in its control ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : Blinken exercise in controlling the narrative backfired spectacular ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : The New Normal "Reality" Police by C.J. Hopkins ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : Facebook's 'community standards' ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : Goya and Sanctions: with some satirical nudity. Satire is a bellweather indicator of the sophistication and progress of a civilization. When satire and humor dies history teaches us so will that civilization. Sadly I don't expect this video to be allowed on US youtube. ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : Their freedoms vs. our freedoms ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : Stavridis "oversaw operations in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria." ( Mar 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210326 : This Bull Market Has a Troubling Reliance on Speculation - WSJ by James Mackintosh March 25, 2021 9:42 am ET
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  Listen to this article 6 minutes 00:00 / 06:06 1x Earnings, valuation and rampant speculation have all played a role in the extraordinary bull market that began a year ago this week. The latest combination of the three has a troubling reliance on the speculative element. A broad framework for thinking about stocks can be derived from the late economist Hyman Minsky's three stages of debt. In the first stage, borrowers take on only what they can afford to repay in full from their earnings by the time the debt matures; a standard mortgage works like this. Earnings, valuation and rampant speculation have all played a role in the extraordinary bull market that began a year ago this week. The latest combination of the three has a troubling reliance on the speculative element. A broad framework for thinking about stocks can be derived from the late economist Hyman Minsky's three stages of debt. In the first stage, borrowers take on only what they can afford to repay in full from their earnings by the time the debt matures; a standard mortgage works like this. A broad framework for thinking about stocks can be derived from the late economist Hyman Minsky's three stages of debt. In the first stage, borrowers take on only what they can afford to repay in full from their earnings by the time the debt matures; a standard mortgage works like this. A broad framework for thinking about stocks can be derived from the late economist Hyman Minsky's three stages of debt. In the first stage, borrowers take on only what they can afford to repay in full from their earnings by the time the debt matures; a standard mortgage works like this. U.S. 10-year Treasury yield Source: Tullett Prebon As of March 24 % Pre-pandemic peak of S&P 500 2020 '21 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 S&P 500 forward price/earnings ratio Source: Refinitiv Note: Weekly data S&P 500 peak 2020 '21 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 The parallel in the stock market is stocks going up when earnings -- or rather the expectation of earnings, since the market looks ahead -- go up. There is a risk of course, just as there is with debt: The earnings might not appear, and the stock goes back down. But earnings offer the least risky form of gains, and one that we should welcome as obviously justified. From the low in the summer, 2020 earnings forecasts jumped more than 10%, and expectations for this year rose more than 8%. Stocks responded. In Minsky's second stage, borrowers plan only to repay the interest, and refinance when the main debt is due to be repaid; much company debt works like this. It is taken out with a plan to roll it over indefinitely. Interest rates matter a lot: If they go down when the company needs to refinance, it will pay less. The equity parallel is to gains in valuation due to lower long-term rates. As with corporate debt, this is entirely justified and sustainable so long as rates stay low, because future earnings are now more appealing. The danger is that rates rise, in which case the stock might be hit no matter how earnings pan out. A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the The parallel in the stock market is stocks going up when earnings -- or rather the expectation of earnings, since the market looks ahead -- go up. There is a risk of course, just as there is with debt: The earnings might not appear, and the stock goes back down. But earnings offer the least risky form of gains, and one that we should welcome as obviously justified. From the low in the summer, 2020 earnings forecasts jumped more than 10%, and expectations for this year rose more than 8%. Stocks responded. In Minsky's second stage, borrowers plan only to repay the interest, and refinance when the main debt is due to be repaid; much company debt works like this. It is taken out with a plan to roll it over indefinitely. Interest rates matter a lot: If they go down when the company needs to refinance, it will pay less. The equity parallel is to gains in valuation due to lower long-term rates. As with corporate debt, this is entirely justified and sustainable so long as rates stay low, because future earnings are now more appealing. The danger is that rates rise, in which case the stock might be hit no matter how earnings pan out. A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the In Minsky's second stage, borrowers plan only to repay the interest, and refinance when the main debt is due to be repaid; much company debt works like this. It is taken out with a plan to roll it over indefinitely. Interest rates matter a lot: If they go down when the company needs to refinance, it will pay less. The equity parallel is to gains in valuation due to lower long-term rates. As with corporate debt, this is entirely justified and sustainable so long as rates stay low, because future earnings are now more appealing. The danger is that rates rise, in which case the stock might be hit no matter how earnings pan out. A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the In Minsky's second stage, borrowers plan only to repay the interest, and refinance when the main debt is due to be repaid; much company debt works like this. It is taken out with a plan to roll it over indefinitely. Interest rates matter a lot: If they go down when the company needs to refinance, it will pay less. The equity parallel is to gains in valuation due to lower long-term rates. As with corporate debt, this is entirely justified and sustainable so long as rates stay low, because future earnings are now more appealing. The danger is that rates rise, in which case the stock might be hit no matter how earnings pan out. A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the The equity parallel is to gains in valuation due to lower long-term rates. As with corporate debt, this is entirely justified and sustainable so long as rates stay low, because future earnings are now more appealing. The danger is that rates rise, in which case the stock might be hit no matter how earnings pan out. A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the The equity parallel is to gains in valuation due to lower long-term rates. As with corporate debt, this is entirely justified and sustainable so long as rates stay low, because future earnings are now more appealing. The danger is that rates rise, in which case the stock might be hit no matter how earnings pan out. A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the A big chunk of the gains in stocks in the past year came from the sharply lower rates in the first response to the pandemic when the Federal Reserve flooded the system with money. Price-to-forward-earnings multiples soared. From the S&P 500's low on March 23 to the end of June, the market went from 14 to more than 21 times estimated earnings 12 months ahead, even as those estimated earnings fell amid lockdown gloom. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, already down sharply from mid-February's high, fell further as stocks rebounded. In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the In Minsky's third phase, borrowers take loans where they can't afford to pay either the interest or principal from income, in the hope of capital gains big enough to make up the gap. Land speculators are a prime example. The parallel in the stock market is the The parallel in the stock market is the The parallel in the stock market is the hunt for the greater fool . Sure, GameStop < shares bear no relation to the reality < of the company, but I can make money from buying an overpriced stock if I can find someone willing to pay even more because they "like the stock." Wild bets became obvious this year, as newcomers armed with stimulus, or "stimmy," checks Wild bets became obvious this year, as newcomers armed with stimulus, or "stimmy," checks Wild bets became obvious this year, as newcomers armed with stimulus, or "stimmy," checks drove up the price of many tiny stocks, penny shares and those popular on Reddit discussion boards. Speculative bets such as the solar and ARK ETFs rallied up until mid-February, long after growth stocks peaked in August Price performance Source: FactSet *Russell 1000 indexes As of March 25, 7:02 p.m. ET % Invesco Solar Value* ARK Innovation Growth* Sept. 2020 '21 -25 0 25 50 75 100 125 The concern for investors: How much of the market's gain is thanks to this pure speculation, and how much to the justifiable gains of the improving economy and low rates? If too much comes from speculation, the danger is that we run out of greater fools and prices quickly drop back. The concern for investors: How much of the market's gain is thanks to this pure speculation, and how much to the justifiable gains of the improving economy and low rates? If too much comes from speculation, the danger is that we run out of greater fools and prices quickly drop back. me title= A look at how stocks moved through the pandemic suggests earnings and bond yields are still much more important than the gambling element for the market as a whole, but is still troubling. From the S&P peak in mid-February to the end of June, the story was of cratering earnings partly offset by higher valuations. The S&P was down 8%. Earnings forecasts for 12 months ahead fell 20%, while with 10-year yields down almost a full percentage point, valuations were up from a precrisis high of 19 times forecast earnings (itself the highest since the aftermath of the dot-com bubble) to 21 times. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%. A look at how stocks moved through the pandemic suggests earnings and bond yields are still much more important than the gambling element for the market as a whole, but is still troubling. From the S&P peak in mid-February to the end of June, the story was of cratering earnings partly offset by higher valuations. The S&P was down 8%. Earnings forecasts for 12 months ahead fell 20%, while with 10-year yields down almost a full percentage point, valuations were up from a precrisis high of 19 times forecast earnings (itself the highest since the aftermath of the dot-com bubble) to 21 times. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%. A look at how stocks moved through the pandemic suggests earnings and bond yields are still much more important than the gambling element for the market as a whole, but is still troubling. From the S&P peak in mid-February to the end of June, the story was of cratering earnings partly offset by higher valuations. The S&P was down 8%. Earnings forecasts for 12 months ahead fell 20%, while with 10-year yields down almost a full percentage point, valuations were up from a precrisis high of 19 times forecast earnings (itself the highest since the aftermath of the dot-com bubble) to 21 times. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%. From the S&P peak in mid-February to the end of June, the story was of cratering earnings partly offset by higher valuations. The S&P was down 8%. Earnings forecasts for 12 months ahead fell 20%, while with 10-year yields down almost a full percentage point, valuations were up from a precrisis high of 19 times forecast earnings (itself the highest since the aftermath of the dot-com bubble) to 21 times. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%. From the S&P peak in mid-February to the end of June, the story was of cratering earnings partly offset by higher valuations. The S&P was down 8%. Earnings forecasts for 12 months ahead fell 20%, while with 10-year yields down almost a full percentage point, valuations were up from a precrisis high of 19 times forecast earnings (itself the highest since the aftermath of the dot-com bubble) to 21 times. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%. Growth stocks -- based on the Russell 1000 index of larger companies -- were slightly up, because they benefit most from falling bond yields, having more of their earnings far in the future. Cheap value stocks, which benefit less, were down 18%.

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• 20210324 : US "intelligence" i.e the people who leak made up BS via anonymous sources to their media mouthpieces ( Mar 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210324 : 17 intelligence agencies, when we only need one ( Mar 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210324 : General Outline of the Shadow Governmen ( Mar 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210324 : On Jerome Powell pronouncements ( Mar 24, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210323 : Basically by creating a stealth bomber the USA waste a huge amount of money to do what ICBMs have been able to do for 60 years, and what Burevestnik can do with a lot more flexibility and stealth. ( Mar 23, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210323 : Starters or Main Course by Israel Shamir ( Mar 23, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210322 : US-Russia ties nosedive after Biden-Putin tit-for-tat ( Mar 18, 2021 , abcnews.go.com )
• 20210322 : Operation Mindfuck: The origins of the Illuminati conspiracy fraud and how it became popular in our times ( Mar 22, 2021 , t.co )
• 20210322 : MSM "Fact-Checkers" as Crime Scene Cleaners of the Mafia ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210322 : It seems that the next natural step should be to ban unsanctioned publishing on the internal networks and erect a border-firewall. To prevent all this malicious meddling and disinformation, y'know. ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210322 : Locked-Down Americans Fatter-Than-Ever As Krispy Kreme Unveils 'Free-Donuts-For-The-Vaxxed' Promo ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210322 : It's a FOX World why does their stupidity bother me so much? ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210322 : TRANSCRIPT- ABC News' George Stephanopoulos interviews President Joe Biden ( Mar 22, 2021 , abcnews.go.com )
• 20210322 : I don't know whether to laugh or cry ... ( Mar 22, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : Biden does seem to be keeping one promise he made from the campaign, namely that "nothing will fundamentally change" ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : "Biden slips while trying to 'walk and chew gum' at the same time" ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : On rule based World order ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : Wouldn't it be nice if the CPC starts backing the CPUSA with the kinds of resources that the US backs their regime change operations through NED and USAID ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : Ha, but the weather is cold, the hotel is shoddy, and the Chinese delegate had to have instant noodle for lunch - that sounds like a very low budget "Hongmen Banquet" by the Americans. Maybe they are still waiting for their 1.9 trillion stimulus check? ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : The big question: Will the US try to play tcechnological dominance card against China? ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : Populism and illusions of American exceptionalism ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : The narrative says that Putin's mother survived the siege of Leningrad, but it doesn't go into the details ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : The 'takes one to know one' quote is not a direct quote from Putin, it is a claim by Biden ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : The Puppet Masters: Is There Really a Deep State ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : How do we change a nation state that has so thoroughly morphed into an advertising and marketing phony, aided and abetted by so many deluded morons? ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : Going to be a lot of very confused people at Foggy Bottom. They may never have experienced this degree of contempt before. ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210321 : The Americans have completely lost the culture of negotiation. If there are no elementary human manners, then what kind of agreements can we talk about? ( Mar 21, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210319 : The USA neoliberal elite is far more Russophobic then than Sinophobic. ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210319 : I notice a lot of accusations that Washington is "stupid" but that's not true. Ig nsttstibr id contolled neocons have a complete freedom of actions in foreign policy ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210319 : Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make MAD ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210319 : I'm not a dog! ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210319 : The model of a dummy in the spotlight and the multiple string pullers in the shadow is not a stable model. ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210319 : On 17 March Russia withdraws it's US Ambassador for consultations: ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210319 : For those who have been waiting for Putin's response to Biden's "killer" slur, we now have it ( Mar 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210318 : U.S. Must Fabricate High-End Chips Again ( Mar 18, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210315 : The number of sane adult males is not insignificant in the USA ( Mar 15, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210315 : Apparently Chuck Todd is a climatologist and virologist. He doesn't ASK Fauci if climate change will cause more pandemics - or how even soon that might happen - he simply states as fact that it will happen ( Mar 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210315 : The number 1 priority for Biden admiistration is a highly misplaced priority ( Mar 15, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210314 : Professor of Government Ethics helped cover up COVID nursing home deaths ( Mar 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210314 : Mediocrity Is Now Mandatory by Andy Kessler ( Feb 07, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210314 : Plans. What plans? ( Mar 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210314 : Four recurrent themes in demonization of Vladimir Putin: Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy by Keith Gessen, ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20210314 : How Partisan Politics Rots Your Brain ( Mar 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210314 : Disposable People by Sandwichman ( Mar 04, 2021 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20210312 : The summary of RAND report is quite a stew of management-speak and Owellian prose. ( Mar 12, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210312 : H.R.1 (the "For the People" Act) Legitimizes Institutionalizes Ballot Marking Devices ( Mar 12, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210312 : Always the first, the USA can claim having the f irst reanimated POTUS ( Mar 12, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210310* Countering the Establishment's Message ( Mar 05, 2021 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210310 : What if Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epresin were Russians ( Mar 10, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210309 : The New York Times and The Washington Post have long been, and continue to be, stenographers for the State Dep't and CIA -- why is anyone surprised at these recent campaigns? ( Mar 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210309 : Repeasting State Department talking point the New York Times continues to disinform tts readers ( Mar 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210309 : Biden condition simply means that someone else is currently enjoying the highest form of power: power without responsibility. ( Mar 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210309 : Boomerang of sanctions may return and hit Google and Apple in the butt: The China hawks may be poking the wrong bear. ( Mar 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210309 : The question of priorities ( Mar 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210308 : Example of naive populism ( Mar 08, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210308 : The Prophet Of The Trump Era by Matt Taibbi ( Mar 08, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210308 : All that's really missing are the german sheppards. ( Mar 08, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210308 : Change we can believe in ( Mar 08, 2021 , www.marketwatch.com )
• 20210308 : Tesla down 31%? Not a problem I will use the dividends to offset my losses. Oh wait! ( Mar 08, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210307 : Newton, Physics, The Market Bubble by Lance Roberts ( Sep 19, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210307 : SEC Issues Devastating Risk Alert on Private Equity Abuses; Effectively Admits Failure of Last 5+ Years of Enforcement by Yves Smith ( Jun 26, 2020 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210307 : Bank Regulation Can not Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210307 : Regulatory Capture: The Banks and the System That They Have Corrupted ( Mar 14, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20210306 : Groups need uniting myths which are now called narratives ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Hong Kong vs. USA cancel campaign: I cannot believe the authors of that article think they can win sympathy from the scores of millions of Americans opposed to the establishment crackdown, "cancelling", and labeling of them as "domestic terrorists". ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : With main-in voting not only Califonia but every state can have powerful female politicians smart enough to marry investment bankers. ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : I dragged out my old DVD of a mid-1980s British comedy called "Whoops Apocalypse", about the events leading up to nuclear Armageddon. Hilarious, despite the grim plot. ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Biden just beat Trump; why could't he, or his stuffed corpse, do it again? ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : In the UK they have a government run by a buffoon surrounded by lightweights ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210306 : Better for the oligarchs to go with the guy who confessed to grabbing women by the short and curleys than to throw your lot in with morons and where you had to share 'control' with the hacker universe: ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : DJT was supposed to be thrown under the bus more than four years ago. From that perspective it was the 2016 election that was stolen... by the electorate. ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Biden is the most fitting US President in modern history. ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : If fencing around Capitol is a sign of "New Brave post-Trump World" junta, then the question of how long will remain is important ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Fun Fact: "Donors" rhymes with "Owners" and means the same thing... ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Dumbest Insurrection Theater -- Stunt-Of-The-Week ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210306 : Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out The US Dirty War On Syria ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210306 : US announces sanctions on top Ukrainian oligarch Zelensky ally Kolomoisky for 'undermining democratic processes' in country ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Demonization works both ways :-) ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.the-sun.com )
• 20210306 : The art of cover up ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : The decline of the West can be measured by the level of constant BS. ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : This proposition requires the occupied bartering away their land and amending their borders, always for the benefit of the illegal occupier. These 'negotiations' are expressly forbidden by the Geneva Conventions. Every functioning government in the world knows this. ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : If Russia and China really ever formed a bloc Europe and several countries in the Middle East and Asia would immediately switch firmly into the American camp and form a bloc, too. That`s precisely what Washington wants! ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : The US could also suffer damage.But then the US has also never been shy about losing lives in the US to maintain its hegemony ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Both major parties work according the the scheme of a pyramidal control ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : The Democratic Party civil war between the 'progressive anti-war socialist' and 'neocon Wall Street beltway' wings ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210306 : Not agreement capable ( Mar 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210306 : Value investor John Rogers sees an end to Big Tech's stock market dominance ( Mar 06, 2021 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20210305 : 75% Of All Jobs Added In February Were Waiters And Bartenders ( Mar 05, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210305 : Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version The Register ( Mar 05, 2021 , www.theregister.com )
• 20210304 : Maybe Biden isn't much better, but it can't be good for the US when the same description is perfectly valid for both rivals for power. ( Mar 04, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210304 : Putin Blasts W.E.F. Honchos at Davos Gabfest, by Mike Whitney ( Mar 04, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210303 : America descends into virtual night by Israel Shamir ( Mar 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210303 : Lysenkoism on the march in the USA: How a guy who never graduated from the college and definitely not that great in climate science can write an book about this problem: the answer -- he is rich ( Mar 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210303 : The words "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" come irresistibly to mind during the second Trump impeachment ( Mar 03, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210303 : Those pesky Russians are up to their old tricks again ( Jan 22, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210303 : Freezing Texas should commission a monument: Greta Thunberg and Bill Gates save the Texans from global warming by turning them into icicles. So much for global warming, the reddest herring ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico! ( Mar 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210303 : 4 Arrested In Texas On 150 Counts Of Voter Fraud ( Mar 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210303 : Ten percent for the big guy ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210303 : Shadow of Konstantin Chernenko over the USA ( Jan 21, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210301 : Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan may not be what Talibal wants ( Nov 12, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210228 : In this video Mate and Max Blumenthal start by explaining how Twitter inadvertently boosted the Grayzone's explosive uncovering of the BBC, Bellingcat and others' programs designed to do what Russiagaters accuse Putin of doing; the difference is that Blumenthal gives evidence in the form of emails. impressive. bottom line, "R2P""Russia bad"... the wheels are falling off. ( Feb 28, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210228 : I am amazed that some subjects that previously had hundreds of thousands of entries on internet searches now have only a few links, and they are links to elite so called 'mainstream' sites ( Feb 28, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210228 : Vladimir Putin's Very Bad Week ( Feb 28, 2021 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20210227 : The democrats identity politics push way too far for the country to stomach ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210227 : Retarget the Christian Right from abortion to usury and neoliberal Dems will be sidelined. One out of seven Americans has a debt collector after them. Everybody, even this atheist, knows the story about Jesus throwing moneylenders out of the temple. ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210227 : A good article by Martin Sieff on the West hall of mirrors delusional politic. ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210227 : Populism is a term used in neoliberal Newspeak instead of the term "mass social protest" and it is used by neoliberal propagandists and neoliberal MSM in order to smear the rejection of neoliberalism by the vast swats of the US population ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210227 : The Oil Industry Is Ready To Fight President Biden In Court ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210227 : Old style western "wanted" posters what they're getting back is to be trolled. Prigozhin, the so called Putin's Chef is trolling the FBI claiming a 250K reward for information on himself, he provided them with his personal address, Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment Number 7, St. Petersburg RF. He is waiting for them there, to cash his quarter million ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210227 : Double bombing ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210227 : Lavrov: Russia Has Information that US Plans to Stay in Syria Forever, Destroy the Country ( Feb 27, 2021 , sputniknews.com )
• 20210227 : Probably whatever Durham was investigating will receive a quiet burial ( Feb 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210226 : On Biden strikes in Syria and other neocon adventures of his administration: Every President manages to make his predecessor look good. ( Feb 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210226 : America Is Back!-- Biden Is 3rd Successive President To Bomb Syria - Estimated 22 Killed - ZeroHedge ( Feb 26, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210226 : The US bombs Syria and ridiculously claims self defense ( Feb 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210226 : Moscow Blasts -Extremely Outrageous- Strike On Syria As Biden Stays Silent - ZeroHedge ( Feb 26, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210225 : Censorship Gone Bonkers - 'Be A Good Citizen!' ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210225 : This is not a joke. Twitter has deleted dozens of account for the crime of 'undermining faith in the NATO alliance ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210225 : Twitter centorship of Russia viewpoints and Streisand effect. Is Samisdat pulishing needed in the USA for politically incorrect topics ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210225 : Not the Onion--- socially distanced High school students at band practice at Wenatchee, Washington state ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210225 : There has been a long string of these unconvincing stories aimed at Russia. The claim the supported Trump after 2016 was a watershed too, all caution to the winds after that. Skripals, Navalny, one after another that makes no sense. ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210225 : What eludes me about Russian cyber actors is that they are simultaneously demostrate utter stupid and utter genius. We are told that the Solar Winds attack was an absolutely super duper act of pure hacking genius. But on the other hand Russian hackers cannot hide a twitter bot's point of origin ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210225 : The interesting aspect of the Twitter ban on Trump is that it tends to reinforce the theory that POTUS is just a Token Figurehead with Zero Power ( Feb 25, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210224 : BBC as Bellingcat Broadcasting Corporation ( Feb 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210224 : Texas electricity troubles and local bureaucracy ( Feb 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210224 : The No Change President ( Feb 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210224 : Severity of COVID vs the severity of the neoliberal elite reaction to it: which is more dangerous? ( Feb 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210224 : Dead people voting put an almost dead person into office ( Feb 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210224 : In order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can man govern, if he is not only deprived of the opportunity of making a plan for at least some ridiculously short period--well, say, a thousand years, but cannot even vouch for his own tomorrow? ( Feb 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210221 : "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." -- Edward Bernays (1930). "Propaganda". ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : Some context to the 2016 to 2020 Trump interruption to Business as Usual ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : Those Russians might have some good missiles - but do they have solar powered tanks? ( Feb 21, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210221 : Corona virus kills two in meth lab explosion ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : The pandemic guru (a female one) who declared that, after a sufficiently widespread vaccination of the serfs, ' we would achieve herd mentality'. Dr. Freud, where art thou? ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : Trump is an 'empty suit' and a coward. But he's MY 'empty suit' and coward. ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : Trump might be a horrible President but he was great "Exposer-in-Chief" ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : "When machines count the votes, voters' votes don't count" ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : https://apnews.com/article/7f6ed0b1bda047339f22789a10f64ac4 ( Feb 21, 2021 , apnews.com )
• 20210221 : Inclusive means, don't let usurers like the IMF get you on the debt hook and immiserize your people. Sustainable means no pillage of national wealth or resources and no imposition of externalities (like Chevron did to Ecuador, for instance.) ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210221 : The Tycoon Plot: Putin noted that digital tycoons are dangerous for the world. In his own words, "Modern technological giants, especially digital companies, are de facto competing with states. In the opinion of these companies, their monopoly is optimal. Maybe so but society is wondering whether such monopolism meets public interests" ( Feb 21, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210220 : The No Change Presidency ( Feb 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210220 : Biden's campaign slogan should have been: "No Hope and No Change." ( Feb 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210220 : Two reasons ( Feb 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210220 : Americans dying like flies to a harmless cold and they still want to invade and annihilate Russia... ( Feb 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210220 : The Evolution of Alexey Navalny's Nationalism ( Feb 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210219 : McCarthyism=cancel culture: The cancel culture was pioneered by the red baiting of the capitalist elites and their shock troops in agencies such as the FBI to break, often through violence, radical movements and labor unions. Tens of thousands of people, in the name of anti-communism, were cancelled out of the culture. ( Feb 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210219 : Journalist: "Is Russia going to revisit its past control of Alaska?" Putin: "No. Russia already has enough cold." ( Feb 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210219 : You can see what happened in the United States. This is a watershed running across the world as a whole, an ideological watershed, which is absolutely obvious ( Feb 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210219 : Lots of trolls accuse Putin of promoting Neoliberalism. The above proves them liars. Putin's foremost concern has always been for the welfare of his fellow Russians. ( Feb 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210217 : The EU should not be confused with Europe. We are not leaving Europe, we have many friends and like-minded people in Europe, and we will continue to expand mutually beneficial relations with them ( Feb 17, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210216* New Documents Reveal More British Efforts To Undermine Russia ( Feb 16, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210216 : Opening The CIA's Can Of Worms by Edward Curtin ( Feb 16, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210216 : U.S. Focus On Narratives Will Let It Collide With Reality ( Feb 16, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210216 : The important difference ( Feb 16, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210214 : American enterpreneurs have hundreds of years of experience with exploiting trusting, naive people ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210214 : Yanis Varoufakis- Trumpism after Trump NEWSWEEK Magazine, Interviewed by Basit Mahmood ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210214 : Tucker Carlson Says Show Is Being Targeted for Cancelation ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.theepochtimes.com )
• 20210214 : It's called Ft. Detrick ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210214 : Dear New York Times, please stop pretending to be a newspaper. ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210214 : 'Snow apocalypse'- VIDEOS show Moscow blanketed by flurries, with collapsed roofs sliding trucks in record-breaking snowfal ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210214 : Hunt for the Great White Speech Criminal by Andrew Anglin ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210214 : Were those folks wandering around inside the Capitol Building tourists who had gotten separated from their tour guide or were they confused citizens from the Dakotas who had a couple of stamps remaining on their hunting licenses allowing them to bag a Democrat or two? ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210214 : Now you know that BLM stands for Bankers Lives Matter ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210214 : At officer level in the Navy, regular army and Air Force it will be an orgy of rent seeking from the pet minorities ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210214 : The U.S. is inept, disorganized, and dishonest. The possibility of a nuclear detonation, or nuclear war, occurring through incompetence, miscalculation, or systems error, is now significant ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210214 : Putin was saying there's no single democratic model. That was eventually conceptualized as "sovereign democracy". Democracy cannot exist without sovereignty ( Feb 14, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210211 : There are a couple of interview type programmes I watch on RT, not because I think they are particularly good, rather they often have Eastern and Non Europeans giving opinions on what they see as US foreign policy maneuvering. ( Feb 11, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210210 : Look, you paranoid, privileged, white trash, white supremacist, qtard, wignat, nazi scum ( Feb 10, 2021 , www.breitbart.com )
• 20210210 : The IMF system was designed to impoverish debtors ( Feb 10, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210210 : Despite its huge military budget it can't field an army. It has a foreign legion. ISIS, for instance, is part of its foreign legion. The European NATO is part of its foreign legion. ( Feb 10, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210207* Time admits that there WAS a color revolution in the US after all: it is not called fortifying the elections ( Feb 07, 2021 , www.rt.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210206 : Clarity In Trump's Wake - ZeroHedge ( Feb 05, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210206 : Gaslight (1944 Movie) is both timeless and timely as for the gaslighting of America in 2021 ( Feb 06, 2021 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210206 : Calling For An American Ministry Of Truth - The US Media's Dystopian 2021 ( Feb 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210206 : Censorship boomerang returns ( Feb 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210206 : Trump said if he lost this election we would never see him again. When is he going to get lost for good? ( Feb 06, 2021 , twitter.com )
• 20210206 : '#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett' trends on Twitter as AOC faces accusations of fabricating Capitol riot story ( Feb 06, 2021 , www.washingtonexaminer.com )
• 20210206 : 'Alexandria Ocasio Smollett' Trends As Critics Punch Holes In Her Dramatic Cap Hill Story - The Daily Caller ( Feb 06, 2021 , dailycaller.com )
• 20210205 : The NYT readership wasn't ever that big, the subscription base was rarely much over a million, but NYT has the power to set the agenda and it all that matters ( Feb 05, 2021 , www.ineteconomics.org )
• 20210205 : AOC compared to Jussie Smollett after her 'near-death' riot experience revealed as hiding from POLICE in office OUTSIDE Capit ( Feb 05, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210205 : Moscow court orders Kremlin foe Navalny to nearly 3 years in prison by Daria Litvinova and Vladimir Isachenkov ( Feb 05, 2021 , www.csmonitor.com )
• 20210204 : Andrew Cuomo Unveils Plan To Reduce Covid Spread At Nursing Homes By Throwing Residents Out Onto Street ( Feb 04, 2021 , www.theonion.com )
• 20210204 : The People Vs Navalny- Russia Draws Red Lines To Foreign Meddling In Its Sovereign Affairs ( Feb 04, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210203 : Come on, Bernie ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210203* Former Navy SEAL -- The Miseducation Of Antony Blinken ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210203 : How to ensure a drop in positive cases after Biden inauguration: the rumor is that the WHO quietly changed their recommendations on the cycle rate of the PcR test from 40 down to 30 ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210203 : How about installing landmines to protect the Capitol? ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210203 : Only You Can Beat Big Tech Censorship ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210203 : The Trump Administration Viewed from the Right by John Morgan ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210203 : You don't have to do this, Joe, you really don't ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.thedailybeast.com )
• 20210203 : Can a robot be the US president? ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210203 : And then they come after pranksters ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210203 : "for example, on September 28, 2018, Hunter ordered $95,000 transferred without explanation), a "business" run by Jim Biden out of a residential address. Jim regularly invoiced Hunter for office expenses and employee costs, as well as a monthly retainer cost of some $68,000, plus other fees in the tens of thousands of dollars." ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210203 : Hunter Biden's Guilty Laptop - The American Conservative ( Feb 03, 2021 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20210202 : Watching stock market moves is like watching Pulp Fiction: halfway through, the violence doesn t even bother you anymore ( Jan 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210129 : A Domestic Terrorism Law- War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead -- It could be Russiagate all over again, with a claimed foreign threat being used to conceal civil rights violations being committed by the federal government at home. ( Jan 29, 2021 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20210129 : Financioal oligarchy is shutting down and/or severely limiting free and open communications and transactions on the internet because they "threaten" TPTB's prerogatives to personally and totally control all of the real world's power and wealth ( Jan 29, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210129 : Industrial capitalism's resistance to this international pressure is necessarily nationalist, because it needs state subsidy and laws to tax and regulate the FIRE sector ( Jan 29, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210129 : Syria - The U.S. Controlled Al-Tanf Serves As 'ISIS' Base - Truth Or Propaganda- ( Jan 29, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210129 : QandA- Who The Hell Is Alexei Navalny ( Jan 29, 2021 , roycekurmelovs.substack.com )
• 20210129 : No one's above the law- FBI lawyer who altered evidence to enable spying on Trump gets PROBATION instead of jail -- RT USA New ( Jan 29, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210128 : Contraband By Walrus ( Jan 28, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210128 : Russiagate was BS to cover for Clinton being a horrible candidate. ( Jan 28, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210128 : Ukraine is become a Wild West for spies and mercenaries. Perhaps that was whole intent of coup ( Jan 28, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210128 : 'Where is the line between global business attempts to control society-' Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech ( Jan 28, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210128 : Diana Johnstones "Fools Crusade" goes into the destabilization efforts made by various EU and Nato entities to precipitate the break up. It's where the Clintons beta tested the nation breaking tools Bush/Cheney began deploying around the world. ( Jan 28, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210128 : Neoliberal fifth column ( Jan 28, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210127 : There are far more similarities between Putin-tards and Q-tards than is generally admitted. ( Jan 27, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210127 : typical ( Jan 27, 2021 , www.extremetech.com )
• 20210127 : Was there a better way for Trump to telegraph (or tweet, whatever) to the public that the establishment had no idea who was behind the hack? ( Jan 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210127 : I have no direct knowledge of SolarWinds specifically, but if Boeing hired HCL (formerly Hindu Computer Limited) to develop software for its 737 max, I'll make a wild guess and assume that SolarWinds too probably hired a bunch of Indian kids worth $10/hour each, who come and go every few months. ( Jan 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210127 : Solar Winds was an Israeli penetration- Not Russia- - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jan 27, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210127 : More Cyber Crimes, Attributed To Russia, Are Shown To Have Come From Elsewhere ( Jan 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210127 : Part of the reason the establishment ushered Trump into the race in 2016, apart from thinking that would guarantee Clinton a win, was the intention to socially/culturally marginalize the "Deplorables" and crush their morale when their "champion" was brutally humiliated by losing the election bigly ( Jan 27, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210126 : Extremes meet: Liberals can't accept that the USA is a "leading terrorist state," just as Trump supporters can't accept his election loss by Chomsky ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210126 : Show me whom you pardon and will tell you who you are ( Jan 26, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210125* Confessions of a Deprogrammed Trump Supporter by Matthew Ehret ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.strategic-culture.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210125 : Trumps other legacy: who is who in Trump's pardons ( Jan 25, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210125 : Yep, there's a real anticapitalist revolutionary firebrand, all right. ( Jan 25, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210125 : The illusion of democracy will return and the booboise will once again be permitted their panem et circenses sportsball matches, concerts, pubs, as long as GloboCap feels convinced that those things will no longer be fertile ground for spreading populism. ( Jan 25, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210125 : Again and again America commits naked aggression against distant countries while shouting "Democracy!" Totally fake, pure propaganda, making Goebbels look like a child. ( Jan 25, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210125 : I wonder how many people picked up Pres. Biden's passing reference to Russia paying bounties for American scalps (in Afghanistan). It was a 24-hr. story long ago and died quickly for lack of evidence and logic. But Biden keeps using it, as he did in one of the 'debates' with Trump. ( Jan 25, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210125 : What is particularly hard to fathom is not so much the gross dishonesty and malice of politicians like H. Clinton and Pelosi but the boneheaded stupidity and ignorance of the broad population that accepts fables like Russiagate as fact ( Jan 25, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210125 : Putin's 5 Star Hotel in Gelendzhik by Anatoly Karlin ( Jan 25, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210125 : Politically Navalny is zero. May be even less then zero. And he understands that. ( Jan 25, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210124 : Black people have since our founding been considered the internal enemy, so what it means to have a Black person as Secretary of Defense ( Jan 24, 2021 , twitter.com )
• 20210124 : This guy Bezos knows when pull the plug on fraudulent mail-in voting: Amazon Demands In-Person Union Vote After Arguing Mail-In Ballots 'Raise Risk Of Fraud' ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210124 : It became was too popular to compare the fall of the USSR with the fall of the USA. ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210124 : The Moronic Firing Of Will Wilkinson by Greenwald ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210124 : They forgot nothing and they learned nothing: In 2014, ignoring the warning of Robert F. Kennedy of the need to put yourself in the other Country's shoes, Biden supported the violent Coup which essentially included a violent takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada) by violent protesters, similar to taking over the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 ( Jan 24, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : Russiagate Ain't Over ( Jan 22, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : That the emails were indeed leaked to Wikileaks, not provided to Assange by mysterious, non-existing "Guccifer 2.0" hackers ( Jan 24, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : What is particularly hard to fathom is not so much the gross dishonesty and malice of politicians like H. Clinton and Pelosi but the boneheaded stupidity and ignorance of the broad population that accepts fables like Russiagate as fact ( Jan 24, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : I wonder how many people picked up Pres. Biden's passing reference to Russia paying bounties for American scalps (in Afghanistan). It was a 24-hr. story long ago and died quickly for lack of evidence and logic. But Biden keeps using it, as he did in one of the 'debates' with Trump. ( Jan 24, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : The 9/11 Commission Report completely mysteriously omitted the many unimpeachable accounts by eyewitnesses including rescue workers, firefighters, law enforcement officers and civilians of tremendous explosions on that day ( Jan 24, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : Greenwald- The Moronic Firing Of Will Wilkinson - ZeroHedge ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210124 : You can counter Trumpism only by ending the conditions which created it, not with authoritarian policies, by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210124 : The most idiotic thing Hillary Clinton has ever said, and she has said a great many idiotic things. ( Jan 24, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210124 : Academic Study Finds Big-Tech Elites Are In Their "Own Class", Different To Rest Of Humanity ( Jan 24, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210122 : Virtualization on march: Joe Biden is a virtual candidate elected in a virtual election, sworn-in via a virtual inauguration to preside over a virtual presidency ( Jan 22, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210122 : The US Coup - A tale in two pictures ( Jan 22, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210122 : The pot calling the cattle black again: Senate Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Cruz, Hawley For Objecting To Electoral Results ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210122 : How Biden administration will conquer pandemic ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210122 : Neoliberal international order needs Russia as enemy to galvanize West ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210122 : Strong parallels between the demonization of him and Russia and how Jews were blamed for just about everything during the Thirties by Ray McGovern ( Jan 21, 2021 , original.antiwar.com )
• 20210122 : Structural Crisis- Senate Threatens to Usurp Presidency, Constitution, and Will of the People by Leonard R. Jaffee ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210122 : Another Mega Group Spy Scandal- Samanage, Sabotage, And The SolarWinds Hack by Whitney Webb ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210122 : As usual, the narrative being chosen for the proles and plebs involves reducing us to spectators to the court intrigues of ruling class political fronts ( Jan 22, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210122 : The movement now needs leadership that's more cognizant of the political world they live in and capable of more coherent strategies that will move it forward hopefully strategies that can offer more than tweets. ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210122 : If you want to see what America's future is under Biden take a tour of Detroit ( Jan 22, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210122 : Nice beard though. ( Jan 22, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210121 : Biden inauguration was bread and circuses but without bread ( Jan 21, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210121 : Just coincidence? "Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community -- they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," Schumer told MSNBC's host Rachel Maddow ( Jan 21, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210121* Sometimes you drain the swamp sometimes the swamp drains you ( Jan 21, 2021 , off-guardian.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210120 : There was and is no great "American democracy" to be restored as the nation had for many decades become "an oligarchy" where wealthy "elites" and their corporations "rule" and "ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does ( Dec 21, 2020 , www.rt.com )
• 20210120 : Just look around at all of the mouth-breathing chin-maskers in America to see how much Americans have pitched in to defeat the Fort Detrick Flu ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210120 : The way Biden is an improvement on Trump is like falling into a cesspool and then changing your shirt ( Jan 20, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210120 : Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War by CJ Hopkins ( Jan 12, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210120 : Biden Administration's 'New' Foreign Policy Is The 'More Of The Same' Old One ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210120 : Russiagate now will be swiped under the rug ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.thegatewaypundit.com )
• 20210120 : LOL: Clinton, Pelosi ask "Was Russia/Putin involved in the riots?" ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210120 : Wikipedia- The Overlooked Monopoly - ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210120 : Why Doesn't the Republican Establishment Understand the Meaning of Betrayal by Larry Johnson ( Jan 20, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210120 : Trump the Manchurian Populist ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210120 : When German scholars use the US populist government as a scapegoat, they overlooked the real question - without addressing the growing inequality in a Western system, will there be a second Trump in the future? ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210120 : The USA and the Crisis: How and Why the Oligarchs Fight Trumpism ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210120 : Biden inaugural guest is Venezuelan coup leader charged with inciting violent assault on gov't building ( Jan 20, 2021 , thegrayzone.com )
• 20210120 : Pompeo's twitter has become full of China hysterics ( Jan 20, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210119 : How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others by Eric Zuesse ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20210119 : Trump got the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in history. Trump certainly didn't make America Great Again, but he certainly has established a notoriety for himself ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210119 : CNN airs guide to DEPROGRAM MAGA SUPPORTERS as cult expert claims ENTIRE country needs post-Trump help ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210119 : Trump's movement does not hold a monopoly on xenophobic conspiracy theories in response to election failures. Just look at Hillary and Pelosi ( Jan 19, 2021 , twitter.com )
• 20210119* So create a situation when people would be at each other's throats over the obvious differences, even while they were fabricated or were minor is the essence of age-old strategy of divide and conquer by Edward Curtin ( Jan 19, 2021 , off-guardian.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210119 : Is Trump a populist, or a populist wanna-be? ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210119 : United States and its closest allies, tried to ratchet up pressure, blackmail, ultimatums and illegitimate actions while introducing unilateral restrictions and other forms of interference in the internal affairs of many countrie ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210119 : When it is better to be a conspiracy theorist ( Jan 19, 2021 , i.postimg.cc )
• 20210119 : What Twitter does when hashtag #1984 suddenly became popular ( Jan 19, 2021 , kononenkome.livejournal.com )
• 20210119 : Say your prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance every night and tomorrow you'll be feeling all right ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210119 : Rabid fighter for gender neutral terms Pelosi, the term "Mr. President" and poor Joe Biden ( Jan 19, 2021 , kononenko.me )
• 20210119 : A slippery slope of unsubstantiated assumptions ( Jan 19, 2021 , kononenkome.livejournal.com )
• 20210119 : I think Catherine Austin Fitts had the perfect term for Q "hope porn". ( Jan 19, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210119* Few sights in Washington are more familiar than an intellectual urging "total war" from the safety of the keyboard ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.nybooks.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210119 : Trump was a desperate "Murica must have the biggest dick" imperialist massively triggered by the US decline and trying to save the US Empire. Like a rabid dog that is wounded, he attacked anything that moves, including those who helped him get into power. ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210119 : Birth of the Digital Oligarchy- The Trump Ban and the Social Media Ruse by Raul Diego ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.mintpressnews.com )
• 20210119 : Goodbye Sheldon Adelson by Philip Giraldi ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210119 : While soldiers were trying to rest on ithe marble floors of Capitol, Pompeo tweeted "Being the greatest country on earth is not just about our incredible economy our strong military; its about the values we project out into the world. I believe in America, and American goodness." ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20210119 : Boomerang returns: within just 72 hours of ban madness starting, "Telegram" gained 25 million new users ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20210119 : "Paranoia strikes deep -- into my soul it creeps": Internet and phone lines cut off in the Russian consulate in New York ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210119 : US expands sanctions against Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, targeting ships Russian firms working on vital pan-European projec ( Jan 19, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210118 : What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are both controlled opposition? ( Jan 18, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210118 : Biden is clearly an enforcer for a faction of what we might call the permanent establishment, the hidden real government that runs on automatic imperial pilot regardless who is nominal US President. ( Jan 18, 2021 , journal-neo.org )
• 20210117 : The pot calling the kettle black: Liz Cheney forgot about Bush II administration crimes ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210117 : There is a better chance of Joe Biden remembering his own name tomorrow than the Blue Team admitting that the impeachment was bogus ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210117 : Trump finally succeeded at getting Congress to build his wall ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210117 : Guardian Smears Syria's President With Implausible Link To Beirut's Port Blast ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210117 : A lesson in cyber spying vs. cyber attack by Anatol Lieven ( Jan 17, 2021 , responsiblestatecraft.org )
• 20210117* A note about "reactionary Republicans" ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210117 : It seems political appointees have transformed Hoover's FBI into an operation engaged in the manufacture of "boogeyman" groups to sustain budgets and political narritaves. ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210117 : 'Let the purges begin' ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210117 : Democrats claim censorship necessary to stop 'fascism', but they still serve militarism and corporatism, by Glenn Greenwald ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210117* "79% of Americans think the US is falling apart" those not accounted for are possibly homeless or illiterate and don't have the opportunity of putting their view forward ( Jan 17, 2021 , www.rt.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210117 : Hollywood could teach Joseph Stalin some new tricks about erasing history amid calls to remove Trump's 'Home Alone' cameo by Robert Bridge ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210115 : Trump supporters are pushed into underground ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210115 : So now that BLM and ANTIFA have been implicated with the events of Jan 6th in DC, can we just say it was a mostly peaceful protest and everyone can go on to the next manufactured crisis? ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : The leaders of Transition Integrity Project (TIP) believe that a mass mobilization will help them to achieve what Russiagate could not, that is, the removal Donald Trump via an illicit coup conjured up by behind-the-scenes powerbrokers and their Democrat allies. by Mike Whitney ( Sep 17, 2020 , www.unz.com )
• 20210115 : What qualifications do you need to have to join the US Congress ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210115 : Replacement of the Bill of Rights, with the Bill of Don'ts ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210115 : All pure d j vu this is exactly how the color revolutions work it is the art of winning elections by fraudulent means. The US bombers arrive only if the peaceful transition of power (aka the stealing of election) fails ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210115 : Here is Jack Dorsey censorship argenda ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : What's pathetic about the Parler situation is that they had no back up plans. They fully depended on the "establishment" they bloviate so much against, even when they didn't have to. ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : Suppression by the state is expensive and it undercuts productivity ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland- - ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210115 : Students at Harvard University are petitioning to have the degrees of alumni who supported Trump revoked. Bless their little hearts! ( Jan 15, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210115 : Is Twitter CEO Jack Dorcey guilty of violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978? ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210115 : This is extremely dangerous to our democracy ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210115 : With her impeachment mania Pelosi became an epitome of America - exceptionalism, vindictiveness and total lack of self awareness. It's like looking at yourself in the mirror and hating what you see ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210115 : For example, the target tries to open the door of his own dwelling while keeping in the other hand a dangerously looking sandwich ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : Protestant evangelist Franklin Graham has taken a harsh stance against the 10 Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump, comparing the "betrayal" to that of Judas turning on Jesus Christ. ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210115 : Nuland boomerang returns: the current situation is eerily similar to Provisional Government in Ukraine in 2014. Half of the country does not view it as legitimate ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210115 : When we say "russian hacking" we mean CIA by Larry C Johnson It is illegal, or at least on paper it is, for the CIA to spy on American citizens on American soil. So why was the CIA spying on Mr. Edward Butowsky and/or Matt Couch? If you have read Joe Hoft's excellent piece ( It is illegal, or at least on paper it is, for the CIA to spy on American citizens on American soil. So why was the CIA spying on Mr. Edward Butowsky and/or Matt Couch? If you have read Joe Hoft's excellent piece ( It is illegal, or at least on paper it is, for the CIA to spy on American citizens on American soil. So why was the CIA spying on Mr. Edward Butowsky and/or Matt Couch? If you have read Joe Hoft's excellent piece ( see here ) on the latest trials and travails of Ty Clevenger, an intrepid attorney battling the Deep State, who has been fighting for more than three years to secure the release of damning documents exposing the Russia hoax and sedition by the Obama Administration, you know he is forcing the FBI to cough it up. But the latest response also contained this bombshell--the CIA was spying on his clients as well. Ty's latest account of this new info dump from the US Department of Justice is posted at But the latest response also contained this bombshell--the CIA was spying on his clients as well. Ty's latest account of this new info dump from the US Department of Justice is posted at But the latest response also contained this bombshell--the CIA was spying on his clients as well. Ty's latest account of this new info dump from the US Department of Justice is posted at LawFlog . Here are some key snippets: ( www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : Due to travel restrictions abroad, Americans have done a coup at home ( Jan 15, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210115 : Donald Trump has been deleted from the internet ( Jan 15, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210115 : It turned out that a whole class of ships, on which America had pinned great hopes a couple of decades ago, turned out to be utterly incapable of combat ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210115 : Seems to me you can always count on neoliberal Dems to overplay their hand. They lack the true artist's sense of when to quit ( Jan 15, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : Proof that Dr. Fauci Is Responsible For Every Single Covid Mistake Blamed on Trump ( Oct 21, 2020 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20210114 : Those who do not remember history are designed to repeat it ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : Appetite comes with the meal ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : Anyone complaining about "whataboutism" is always, without exception, demanding that everyone ignores their hypocrisy. ( Jan 14, 2021 , twitter.com )
• 20210114 : Outside the USA, the first things that will be done is that everyone will have to have control over their own social media and internet. NO MORE trust in the USA Big Tech to play fair - that is gone! ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : The decision by US Internet platforms to block the accounts of the head of state can be likened to a nuclear explosion in cyberspace. The aftereffects are worse than destruction. ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : Here Are The 'Alt Tech' Platforms Trump Supporters Are Flocking To After Parler Executed By Amazon - ZeroHedge ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : SolarWinds spyware attack - NSA and CIA did it? ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114* Trumpism without Trump ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210114 : 25 Organizations Say Victoria Nuland should not be nominated for undersecretary of state for political affairs, and if nominated should be rejected by the Senate. ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty. ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : 25 Organizations Say Victoria Nuland Should Be Rejected ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : Republicans who voted for Trump impeachment expect 'someone may try to KILL us,' buying body armor, says congressman ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210114 : Pelosi's 2017 tweet where she claimed "Our election was hijacked. There is no question" resurfaces ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : I accuse virtually the entire US establishment over the events leading to President Donald Trump's impeachment -- RT Op-ed ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210114 : Echo of Ukranian Maidan: expanstion of the definition of a Domestic Terrorist to the opponents of the regime, by Jared Taylor ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210114 : Trump actually self-destructed and the Republican Party again will become Bush family playground ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : The dissatisfaction with the Establishment goes way beyond the QAnon crowd ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : America-Europe began to be ignored as a boring mistress ( Jan 14, 2021 , alaff84.wordpress.com )
• 20210114 : Trump as populist ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : How to call Biden administration if we assume it is coming to power after another false flag operation similar to Reischag fire? ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : How does that work after Trump has already resigned? This is just childish idiocy, in fact much worse. ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : Fellow-Satanists, honored guests from Democratic and Republican Parties, ladies and gentlemen ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210114 : Pelosi: It is alarming that here in our nation's capital, the thousands who have turned out peacefully have been confronted with the deployment of various security officers from multiple jurisdictions, including unidentified federal law enforcement personnel. ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : Why not to make it a hat trick impeachment like in hockey! ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210114 : Looks like Pelosi still has sence of humor: she named Rep. Eric Swalwell among Trump impeachment managers ( Jan 14, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210113 : Lessons from the Trumpistan Coup, by Thomas Dalton ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : A valid question: if the attack on the Capitol was already so clumsy and ineffective, how could those same people succeed in the much more difficult task of seccession? ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : This is the very first time in recent US history that a small cabal of "deep insiders" have achieved such total control of all the real instruments of power. ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : What to do with big tech octopus ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Tucker obsession with china ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113* The Mob Did Not Win!, by The Saker ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210113 : "The world is upside down and the vertigo is making my stomach hurt." ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210113 : There is a simple way for the mob to win the long run. ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Many protesters were recorded saying that the Capitol building belonged to the people, not to the people working in it on behalf of the people. They are right. ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Those who for four year chanted (Trump) "not my president" should be surprised to hear now chants "Biden-not our President!' ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Can Americans who seem to be in a persistent, calorie-burning state of willful ignorance and stupidity self-govern? ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Looking at the old, Obama-era, names which are circulated now for future Cabinet positions, we can bet on two things: the new rulers will be as evil as they will be grossly incompetent ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Biden is a wonderful man, with a gigantic heart and the will to put this country right. Also, his spouse, Dr. Jill Biden, along with their son, Hunter (an heroic figure himself) will guide the nation forward. ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210113 : Pompeo as Trump's Condie Rice ( Jan 13, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210111 : Trump is a monster of self-centredness. ( Jan 11, 2021 , thesaker.is )
• 20210111 : It is inconceivable that any political party can survive in the US without the backing of the 'deep state' and first of all FBI and CIA. ( Jan 11, 2021 , thesaker.is )
• 20210111 : Is America's Future a Civil War, by Paul Craig Roberts - ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210111 : The level of hypocrisy that is really astounding by colonelcassad ( Jan 08, 2021 , colonelcassad.livejournal.com )
• 20210111* A note from exCIA MobBoss John "Struggle Sessions" Brennan ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20210111 : Trump's blanket ban from social media proves the information war is over and neoliberals won by suppression of opposing side of election graud debate by Helen Buyniski ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210111 : Taibbi- We Need A New Media System ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210111 : Yes, like under Bolshevism, it's a question of loyalty. ( Jan 11, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210111 : 100 Percent Fed Up: A List Of Popular Uncensored Alternative Media Options by by Patty McMurray ( Jan 11, 2021 , 100percentfedup.com )
• 20210111 : Google techno imperialism: For Google CEO Schmidt, pushing US social platform into forign countries is at one of the US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to American companies and markets. ( Jan 11, 2021 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20210111 : Tales from forbidden city ( Jan 11, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210111 : The wrath of neoliberal establishment and techno billionaires ( Jan 11, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210111 : What Trump should do after being subjected to blanket ban from the USA social media providers ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210111 : Under neoliberalsm the checks and balances have been replaced with (Bank) checks and (Bank) balances ( Jan 11, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210111 : Fake news in action: the backdoor "resembles" a tool that is only "tied to" a hacking group which "Estonian authorities" "have said" (i.e. claim without evidence) serves the FSB. ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210111 : It is still too flattering. ( Jan 11, 2021 , thesaker.is )
• 20210111 : This will be my last post online. It is not safe to do this any longer. ( Jan 11, 2021 , thesaker.is )
• 20210111 : The collapse of USSR is the worst thing that could happen to United States of America. ( Jan 11, 2021 , thesaker.is )
• 20210111 : I think the Nobel Prize for medicine should go to the Canadian scientist who just isolated Covid by discovering it's most dangerous outside from 8pm to 5am. ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210111 : "We are all Taiwanese now" stunt is Pompeo's act of petty spite for getting outfoxed in the Hong Kong colour revolution play. ( Jan 11, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210111 : This utter and reprehensible racist Pelosi ( Jan 11, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210110 : A Coup of Pelosi's Own ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.wsj.com )
• 20210110 : The Congress Has No Clothes: The "people," whom they love to claim they represent, went from being an ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and decided to take matters into their own hands by John Morgan ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210110* Trump's Last Stand, by Israel Shamir ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20210110 : The horror and outrage of the Dem politicians were as fake as neoliberal MSM ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210110 : Rep. Devin Nunes Calls for Criminal Charges Against Big Tech Over Mass Censorship, Coordinated Shutdown of Competitors ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210110 : Entrusting Silicon Valley oligarchs to police speech on the social media platforms that dominate the exchange of information is gonna turn out great for the left for sure. No concerns here ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210110 : The issue with Trump vs Twitter management is whether an elite, one of the ruling class, can be "censored." ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210110 : "It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women," former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who just might be the last Democrat in DC with a functioning brain, told Tucker Carlson ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210110 : A real voice of neoliberal America ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210110 : We've gone full Alice in Wonderland. This Congress will make impeachment as common the filibuster: Why go after Trump if they can go after Biden, who is still the president ? ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210110 : The city of Detroit gave 95 per cent of its vote to Biden/Kamala, a number that Mr Kim Jong-un would view with slight envy. How can it be done? Detroit Dems outsourced ballot harvesting to local drug lords, offering them as a prize recreational marijuana business licenses ( Jan 10, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : Referendums are really the only check on oligarchy. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : The tech oligarchs that supported the censoring and the eventual de-platforming the President on social media showed who had political power under neoliberalism ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : Denial of freedom of speech underway ( Jan 09, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210109 : The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast - ZeroHedge ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210109 : Escape for tech oligarchs clutches ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : By banning Trump and his supporters, Google and Twitter are turning the US into a facsimile of the regimes we once condemned by Scott Ritter ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210109 : Mozilla is now cowardly attacking free speech. Therefore, I just uninstalled Firefox from my computer. Using Brave instead ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : The neoliberals at Big tech really proved his point, they are a enormous threat ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : American exceptionalism hurt by violent Capitol debacle, expect Biden to push aggressive foreign policy in bid to repair damage by Fyodor Lukyanov ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210109 : Joe Biden, such a healer... ( Jan 09, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210109 : Two new terms ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : Are you aware that long before dirty commoners violated the sanctity, back on Jan 5th, Apple Maps stopped navigating to Washington DC? ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : I read that Pelosi is coming unhinged because several laptops with incriminating information are now in Trump's posession....thanks to this stunt ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210109 : And Parler now is to be deplatformed from apple phones I hear. And the techs continue to align themselves with antifa ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210109 : Now I am reading that all sorts of social media tools and sites are banning Trump and supporters......night of the long knives sort of ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : With unilateral censorship of a sitting US president, Big Tech has proven it's more powerful than any government -- RT Op-ed ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210109 : Actually Tucker Carlson is one of those people and props to the guy for telling us working class Whites what "our elite white leader trash" have always thought about us. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : Can the hysterical little girls freaking out about tourists in the Capitol building do me one little favor? I just want to see one video clip of rioting in DC back on the 6th. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : There is no saviours amigos. All the guys work for the same "master". ( Jan 09, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210109 : I'd say that's a "strong" reaction .. ( Jan 09, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210109 : Biden the unifier? President-elect likens Cruz, Hawley to Nazi propagandist Goebbels, says they share blame for inciting violence ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210109 : So we get the next two years of Biden, Schumer and Pelosi, clinging to power like it is a life raft. Should be interesting, to say the least ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210109 : Americans fall into two categories. One believes that the election was fraudulent and it is good, the other believes that the election was fraudulent and it is bad. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : Except for the Coast Guard, which is a purely defensive military, any White American who would want to join the other military branches has to be incurably stupid. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : And how can you say you're 'draining the swamp' when you just pardoned Jared Kushner's father. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : Russian ambassador handing out Borscht and Buckwheat groat kasha to Trump Protestors who are still at the Capitol. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : Why wasn't Vicky Nuland handing out cookies at this event? ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : If the establishment hates it, then I want to read it. ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : A New Coalition of The Willing ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210109 : America's Color Revolution by Paul Craig Roberts ( Jan 09, 2021 , www.unz.com )
• 20210108 : The arrival of CIA regime change events in the US is met with a perfect display of hypocracy by the likes of Pelosi and Pompeo. A beautiful sight to behold - Nancy Pelosi ( Jan 08, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210108 : Neoliberals from Dem party took care that Trump can leave in style ( Jan 08, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210108 : How do pacify 72 million voters, many of whom are convinced that they have been cheated? How do you stop them ALL from marching on the White house? Easy, you just allow them to capture Capitol building andbrand then as insurrecionalists ( Jan 08, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210108 : What is good and that is bad ( Moon of Alabama )
• 20210108 : This is a typical Capitol terrorist ( Jan 08, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210108 : A banana republic, if you can keep it ( Jan 08, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210107 : As a back payment for Russiagate, Russian govement should try to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and discuss the oppression of peaceful protesters and the repression by the American totalitarian power machine. ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210107 : A new drinking game ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210107 : Sleep well my pretties, I know I will. ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210107 : World Satanic Society 2020 Year-End Report ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210107 : Rioters aren't that organized in the US to set up a revolution. We lack a US embassy. ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210107 : This line from Biden probably provoked a guffaw from most the world: "An assault on the citadel of liberty". ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210107 : Victoria 'F--k the EU' Nuland to make a comeback in Biden's cabinet media -- RT USA News ( Jan 07, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210106 : Georgia Dems Relied Heavily on Massive Corporate War Chest to Cinch Historic Election by Alan MacLeod ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.mintpressnews.com )
• 20210106 : The one and only difference between Democrats and Republicans is that one or the other, depending on the circumstance, prefers to drive the handcart to hell we are riding on a little slower, or faster if you prefer ( Jan 06, 2021 , caitlinjohnstone.com )
• 20210106 : IMO, as far as swamps go, Trump is not against the swamp, he just wants a straight orange one ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20210106 : How Trump 'Appeased' Russia ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210106 : The whole point of US and Western MSM obsession with demonizing Russia is to divert public attention away from the crisis of neoliberalism at home ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210106 : Why the Voting Machines that handed the USA elections for so many years are so susceptible to hacking and manipulation. ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210106 : Alleged storm of the Capitol as a parody on Storming of Winter Palace: Everything looks like a false flag operation those day, even real events ( Jan 06, 2021 , off-guardian.org )
• 20210106 : MAGA crowd vs left (anti-Clinton) faction of Dems: Both side actually agree that private banking is bad. After that they disagree on almost everything ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210106 : Violent attacks on the U.S. government are absolutely unacceptable; violent attacks on Ukrainian government were a sign of democracy ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210106 : "Cookie monster" Nuland is supposed to become Deputy secretary of State under Biden. As a new of version of Pompeo she will obviously be sending tins of fresh home baking to Putin. ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210106 : Ex-AG Barr Reportedly Met With Jeffrey Epstein's Last Cellmate - Newsmax.com ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.newsmax.com )
• 20210106 : Again the 'highly likely' -- US spies accuse Russia of SolarWinds hack in repeat of Russiagate hysteria by Nebojsa Malic ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210106 : New York Times Still Stoking Alarm At 'Russian Hacking' by Ray McGovern ( Jan 06, 2021 , original.antiwar.com )
• 20210106 : 'Out of touch with reality'- Tulsi Gabbard rips fellow Democrats after Congress imposes new rules on gendered language ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210106 : Simplified Georgia election scheme ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210106 : Here are 9 things you need to know about the Georgia election ( Jan 06, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210106 : Who is who in US politics ( Jan 06, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210106 : Hallelujah! Assange Extradition Rejected By Walrus ( Jan 06, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210105 : Lesson in integrity ( Dec 17, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210105 : The Democrats Have Stolen the Presidential Election by Paul Craig Roberts ( Nov 12, 2020 , www.unz.com )
• 20210105 : Politicians, sex and litigation ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210105 : How electors votes might be counted: there will be a water main break. When everyone leaves, Mike Pence will pull a suitcase from under the desk and count those electoral votes ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210105 : What would happen with Creepy Joe if members of Congress spent 15 minutes reviewing contents of Hunter Biden laptop ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210105 : Cancel culture is like a medieval mob -- Mr. Bean blasts the woke brigade and social media ( Jan 05, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210104 : I believe that in fueling Russiagate hysteria US intelligence and MIC were motivated to pull rank/take the reins due to the threat posed by the Russia-China alliance. ( Jan 04, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210104 : That's where NSA/FBI Deep State friends are paid for. ( Jan 04, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210104 : Screw the homegrown globalists like Traitor Romney whose unquenchable love of money would turn our people into neofeudal serfs ruled over by a de facto hereditary aristocracy using a totalitarian corporate-police state that would have made Orwell blanch. ( Jan 04, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210104 : Tell me a better term than "globalist" for nationals who are titans of industry who betray their fellow nationals in the labor force by looking outside their own nation? ( Jan 04, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210104 : The big renaning game -- military bases named after Suthern generals -- your suggestions ( Jan 04, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210104 : For friends of globalist faction of neoliberal oligarchy everything, for enemies the law ( Jan 04, 2021 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20210104 : An amusing take on Covid times ( Jan 04, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210104 : Brick Lives Matter: Vandalis carefully avided speing pain on brick while vandalising Pelosi's garage door under watchful eyes of Secret service agents ( Jan 04, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210103 : Racialist campaign in Boston culminates in removal of statue of Lincoln and emancipated slave ( Jan 03, 2021 , www.wsws.org )
• 20210103 : Remember When The Democrats Challenged The Electoral Vote Count In 3 Elections Over 20 Years ( Jan 03, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210103 : Humans of the GREAT RESET- What the future MIGHT look like in 2021 if the controlling elites have their way -- RT World News ( Jan 03, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210103 : Ex-CIA congressman says disputing election results helps America's enemies STEAL ELECTIONS just what the CIA always did! ( Jan 03, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210102 : Increasing Exposure of Color Revolution Against Trump ( Sep 16, 2020 , larouchepub.com )
• 20210102 : Russiagate has dual purpose: depose Trumpvia color revolution and to initiate a new McCarthyism. Both goals were evnetually achieved ( May 10, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210102 : PATRICK LAWRENCE- Trump's Foreign Policy Explained Consortiumnews ( Jan 02, 2021 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20210102 : Orwell taught us how to understand double-speak "Most secure" translates to "rigged" ( Dec 30, 2020 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210102 : Idea of 'exceptionalism' encouraged US to quit treaties makes Americans think they can ignore rules Russian foreign minis ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.rt.com )
• 20210102 : Krystal and Rachel- Nancy Pelosi's Inequality Commission Is A Joke ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.youtube.com )
• 20210102 : Proposed House Rules Seek To Erase Gendered-Terms Such As 'Father', 'Mother', 'Son', 'Daughter' ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210102 : Reuters/Ipsos polling by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%)." ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.ipsos.com )
• 20210102 : To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210102 : Aaron Mate pushes back:- "Stephen F. Cohen on Russia's democratization and how US meddling undermines it" ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210102 : Pull My Finger- - (Afghan Edition) ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20210102 : Oh yes, THAT is important ( Jan 02, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210102 : Happy New Year with a Dinner for One ( Jan 02, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210101 : Five Times This Year The New York Times Accidentally Told The Truth ( Jan 01, 2021 , zerohedge.com )
• 20210101 : Spooky Western Journalists Regurgitate CIA and Collaborate With Spy Agencies - Antiwar.com Blog ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.antiwar.com )
• 20210101 : Something new and exiting in break neoliberal reality: well-funded Marxists ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210101 : There are times that I wonder if today's Democrats see George Orwell's 1984 not as a warning but a model of good government. ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210101 : The word missing is "chutzpah" ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210101 : The Lesson Of 2020- What's The Point Of Pointing Out The Hypocrisy- - ZeroHedge ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210101 : Verifiable election with observers and 24 x 7 camera coverage with public feed are very easy to do, but for some odd reason, the USA don't do it? Why would that be?? ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210101 : Choices the respondents of Gallup poll make about most admired person of the year. ( Jan 01, 2021 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20210101 : Biden's Brave New (Woke) World ( Dec 30, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20210101* Congratulations Joe ( Jan 01, 2021 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
• 20201230 : The Neoliberal Bumbler-in-Chief by Howard Lisnoff ( Mar 06, 2020 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20201230* The Unaccountable Nation by Danny Sjursen ( Mar 16, 2020 , www.truthdig.com ) [Recommended]
• 20201230 : The Building Blocks of a Restraint Coalition by DANIEL LARISON ( Sep 23, 2020 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20201229 : Small but important difference ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : It's no way to run a country, lying your ass off all the time, as the results show. ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : India is also very active in the disinformation game, including this massive and long term operation - mainly for anti-Pakistan, but also anti-China: ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : The unspoken premise of modern capitalism is that the world will be saved by greedy tech oligarchs ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.rt.com )
• 20201229 : Hmmm, Hunter s laptop? . . . . . Hunter s Laptop?. The words sound familiar ( Nov 16, 2020 , www.breitbart.com )
• 20201229* Surprising uniformity of opinions about Steele dossier following by surprising uniformity of actions ( Nov 28, 2020 , twitter.com ) [Recommended]
• 20201229 : Oversuppy of swamp water in Washington, DC. Swamp expansion is in play ( Dec 17, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : An lucid analogy about courts rejection of claims about 2002 Presidential election fraud ( Dec 17, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : If wishes were horses ( Dec 17, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : Same result but different methods: in china you can be jailed for many years for publishing your views. In the USA the first scapegoat you as a foreign agent. ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : Washington, DC #millennialvoters unironically spent the afternoon cruising around in their fossil fuel powered vehicles honking in joy at the apparent victory for the #GreenNewDeal today." / Twitter ( Dec 29, 2020 , twitter.com )
• 20201229 : Quick! Someone call Robert Mueller! ( Dec 17, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : Raffensperger claims 99.99% Accuracy Rate during signature match audit with no observers from both parties ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.thegatewaypundit.com )
• 20201229 : Biden and inguration: he probaly beleave that he has been President for years. It might be a surprise for him ( Dec 05, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : Now we don't need a study " that over 2/3rds of international affairs stories in major European newspapers were basically reprints of NYT articles", we can see it happening in real time on Google News. ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : The War on Fake News looks like Sovietization of the USA media: there is a huge emphasis on reputability of sources. As a result this network becomes rapidly more homogeneous and propagandized. Sources are avoided because they have gotten a formal label of disreputability. Wikipedia is the quintessential example. ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : The major media outlets all sing from the same hymn sheet and the CIA and other western intel operations ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : Denying the Holocaust threatens democracy. So does denying the election results ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : The CIA Is Running Death Squads in Afghanistan ( Dec 29, 2020 , outline.com )
• 20201229 : "Human rights" agitprop and color revolutions ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201229 : The Banality Of Bill Barr ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet by Matt Taibbi ( Dec 29, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201229 : The Demise of American Exceptionalism by David Bromwich ( Dec 29, 2020 , nationalinterest.org )
• 20201228 : Why no media circus over bombing in Nashville? ( Dec 28, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201228 : Wake me up when the MSM gives the explanation how/why the alleged 63yr old 'lone bomber' knew exactly the location to parkhis RV bomb to take out AT T internet services for big chunks of three US States... ( Dec 28, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201228 : Having the right to vote between two corporate puppets with slightly different manners/theatrics is really democratic ( Dec 28, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201228 : Once sellout, always sellout: Bernie Sanders pleads with Trump to sign the 5,600 page Bill that includes a page or two to give $600 to every USAian. ( Dec 28, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201228 : In today's political cartoon, the masked donkey was selling unmasked elephants T-Shirts emblazoned with RESIST! ( Dec 28, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201228 : The biggest shakeup to my world view came with Russiagate. ( Dec 28, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201227 : Welcome To RussiaGate 2.0, Right On Schedule - ZeroHedge ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201227 : The Bidonians at play ( Dec 27, 2020 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20201227 : Larry Summers' Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic- -Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound" ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20201227 : Who is who ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.unz.com )
• 20201227 : 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." ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.unz.com )
• 20201227 : Hundreds and thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other and we concern ourselves with a simple virus ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201227 : ALL HAIL CONSUMERISM! ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201227 : Roger Stone Announces $25M Lawsuit Against DOJ, Mueller, Comey, Barr And Brennan - ZeroHedge ( Dec 27, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201225 : With Biden's New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever - Glenn Greenwald ( Dec 25, 2020 , greenwald.substack.com )
• 20201225 : The Rise and Fall of Conservatism in Michigan, by E. Michael Jones - The Unz Review ( Dec 25, 2020 , www.unz.com )
• 20201225* The center of the country supported isolationism, high wage manufacturing, and limited representative government, and the coasts supported globalization, low wages, identity politics, gender ideology, and Jewish usury ( Dec 25, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20201225 : Biden was suprisingly popular with the over 120 folk ( Dec 25, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201225 : Think of the breakneck speed Putin's trying to get Russia's national projects underway and completed ( Dec 25, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201224 : Dominion voting systems demand letter to Sidney Powell ( Dec 23, 2020 , assets.documentcloud.org )
• 20201224 : The Revenge Agenda by Philip Giraldi ( Dec 24, 2020 , www.unz.com )
• 20201224 : Hunter Biden's Laptop and the FBI ( Dec 24, 2020 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20201223 : 2017 - Voting machines are easily hacked - CNN report. 2020 - Voting machines are totally secure -- neoliberal MSM consensus ( Dec 23, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201220 : Here is this ruse of oligarchs today just as in Venice in the 16th and 17th century where the Doges in their magnificence spy on the citizens and reward citizens for spying on each other, where social cohesion and solidarity is corroded and rots within. ( Dec 20, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201220 : Financial oligarchy contol and the role of the press ( Dec 20, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201205 : I am 100% convinced that covid is a political conspiracy based on personal knowledge and other info. Tonight Tucker Carlson reports that blood samples taken in early Jan 2020 tested positive for covid - all of the samples. ( Dec 05, 2020 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20201128 : Who need Biden what we have CFR; In 2008, Barack Obama received the names of his entire future cabinet one month prior to his election ( Nov 28, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20201118 : This is not just America. It is global. the decades old drive to convert the world's governments to "democracy" is in fact a drive to place the elite in total control of the populations. ( Nov 18, 2020 , off-guardian.org )
• 20201118 : Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed ( Nov 18, 2020 , off-guardian.org )
• 20201107 : The PNACers rely for their brainpower on the PMC ("Professional, Managerial class"), who are the middle managers, doctors, lawyers, MBAs, tenured professors, finance types and what not who are divorced from the actual hands-on labor. Which means they have much less mooring them to reality. ( Nov 07, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20201107 : A Unified Theory of the 2020 Election by David Shor ( Nov 07, 2020 , nymag.com )
• 20200920 : NYT First Reinforces, Then Silently Debunks Its False Claims About Russia's Covid-19 Vaccine ( Sep 20, 2020 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20200918 : 'Dr. Li-Meng Yan is not a quack' Tucker Carlson ( Sep 18, 2020 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20200629* The bounties could be a false flag: the Taliban doesn t need a Russian bounty to kill American soldiers ( astutenews.com ) [Recommended]
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• 20200613 : We Don't Need No Stinking Vaccine For COVID-19 ( Jun 13, 2020 , www.zerohedge.com )
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[Jul 24, 2021] Woke Nasdaq's Boardroom Diversity Push

Neoliberal oligarchy fight against income redistribution by pushing perverted social justice smoke screen and in effect can turn the USA in South Africa. Money quote from comments: "If I read NASDAQ's proposal for Board representation in the Onion, I would have thought that even these jokesters have exceeded the creativity threshold of ridiculousness I thought was possible." and "What about the Mentally Ill? Do they get a seat? How about the Homeless?"

Three words about famele CEO and board room members: Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos. BTW what is unclear in NASDAQ bold critical race theory support is: Can we exchange one black member for two female members? Or not.

Also why stop at the boardrooms. Why not require the same in professional sport teams?

Jul 24, 2021 | www.wsj.com

Nasdaq has, in its own words, embraced "the social justice movement." The actual job of a stock exchange, however, is to ensure that trading is orderly and its listed companies follow standard governance rules. But doing that doesn't earn the applause of the political left. Progressive approval apparently means a lot to Nasdaq, which has officially proposed to its regulator -- the Securities and Exchange Commission, newly chaired by Gary Gensler -- to increase boardroom diversity through a "regulatory approach."

This proposal would require that Nasdaq-listed companies not only disclose the diversity characteristics of their existing boards, but also retain "at least one director who self-identifies as female," and "at least one director who self-identifies as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Asian, Native American or Alaska Native, two or more races or ethnicities, or as LGBTQ+."

Noncompliant firms must publicly "explain" -- in writing -- why they don't meet Nasdaq's quotas. Nasdaq has, in its own words, embraced "the social justice movement."

The actual job of a stock exchange, however, is to ensure that trading is orderly and its listed companies follow standard governance rules. But doing that doesn't earn the applause of the political left. Progressive approval apparently means a lot to Nasdaq, which has officially proposed to its regulator -- the Securities and Exchange Commission, newly chaired by Gary Gensler -- to increase boardroom diversity through a "regulatory approach."

[Jul 24, 2021] New variation of the old saying

Apr 07, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

OldNewB

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.

Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.

[Jul 24, 2021] The Fed, BLS and al Capone: the Fed, in sync with the fiction writers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), reports consumer inflation as honestly as Al Capone reported taxable income

Jul 24, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The Fed, in sync with the fiction writers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), reports consumer inflation as honestly as Al Capone reported taxable income.

Vardaman 3 hours ago

"A basket of things no one actually buys, with prices we just pull out of our asses..."

Glock 1 hour ago

Yep, the BLS uses the CPI-W to literally avoid raising SS payments. The real rate of inflation for seniors is close to 10% as the things they spend most of their money on like medical care, medicine, food and utilities have gone through the roof

While the government claims they are entitled to 1.5% or less COLA's out of which comes a bigger deduction every year for Medicare. Scam artists.

[Jul 24, 2021] Steele Dossier Peddlers Confirm Its Substance With New Forgeries

Jul 16, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Today the Guardian published another fake 'Russiagate' story:

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin's plot to put Trump in White House

Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a "mentally unstable" Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia's national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.
...
Western intelligence agencies are understood to have been aware of the documents for some months and to have carefully examined them. The papers, seen by the Guardian, seem to represent a serious and highly unusual leak from within the Kremlin.

Yaawwwnn ...

We know, without reading it, that the story is fake because its main author is Luke Harding. Harding also authored the story which claimed that Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manaford met Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. That story was proven to be false but the Guardian , to its shame, still has it up on its website .

In 2017 Luke Harding abruptly ended an interview with Aaron Maté after Harding was challenged over false claims he had made in his book about 'Russiagate'. The last five minutes of that video are quite amusing .

The Guardian story claims that the 'leaked' nonsense paper was discussed in high level Kremlin meeting in January 2016. It was then decided, it alleges, to support Trump. But in January 2016 there was no one, not even Donald Trump himself, who thought that he would win the Republican primary or even the presidency. But the Kremlin is supposed to have discussed him at the highest level well before anyone thought he could win?

Various people make interesting remarks about the new Guardian fakery:

Tara McCormack @McCormack_Tara - 12:13 UTC · Jul 15, 2021

I am seriously coming to the conclusion that Luke Harding is a Russian operative who has been put in place as part of a long term dastardly plan to make British journalism appear ridiculous.

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Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg - 12:02 UTC · 15 Jul 2021

The next Luke Harding MI6 hoax.
Passing off forged Kremlin minutes saying things like "It is acutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his [Trump's] election to the post of US president."
Hilarious
theguardian.com/world/2021/jul"¦

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald - 12:07 UTC · 15 Jul 2021

The part of the media that feigns anger at misinformation is uncritically promoting a story today by Luke Harding that Russia was blackmailing Trump -- the same Harding who has published many false stories, championed the Steele Dossier and claimed Trump was long a Russian agent.
...
Now suddenly, Harding claims he obtained leaked, highly sensitive Kremlin documents that just so happen to prove all the lies he's been peddling for years, that not even Mueller's huge team found. Because it advances liberals' interests, journalists are uncritically spreading it.
...
I will once use this shabby behavior to against highlight 2 points:

1) The contempt and loss of trust people harbor for the corporate media is completely justified and well-earned.

2) These outlets are by far the most prolific and destructive disseminators of disinformation.

Even people who are typically inclined to promote all kinds of anti-Russian nonsense are cautious on this item.

Thomas Rid @RidT - 12:38 UTC · 15 Jul 2021

This Guardian story is likely to make big waves. I would remain somewhat cautious for now, however. For a "leak" of this magnitude, we need at least some details on the chain of custody. Also note the Guardian's own hedging ("papers appear to show") theguardian.com/world/2021/jul"¦

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Pwn All The Things @pwnallthethings - 14:40 UTC · 15 Jul 2021

Also, just putting this out there, if the US had this and thought it was real, how likely is it that it would have survived the waterfall of leaks of the past few years? And yet, here we are, with this as exclusive by the UK's Guardian, and conspicuously not, say, WaPo or NYT.

Christopher Steele, the 'former' British intelligence officer who peddle the fake dossier about alleged Russian Trump kompromat on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign, worked and still works for Orbis Intelligence, a British private outlet run by 'former' British spies.

They are still at it ...

Orbis Business Intelligence @OrbisBIOfficial - 10:48 UTC · Jul 15, 2021

Great reporting on an important story.

Luke Harding @lukeharding1968 - 10:02 UTC · Jul 15, 2021

Exclusive: Leaked Putin papers appear to show #Russia's plot to put a "mentally unstable" Donald Trump into the White House "" my story with @julianborger in Washington and @dansabbagh in London
Kremlin papers appear to show Putin's plot to put Trump in White House

"Great reporting.. " "..important story"

Yeah. Sure. Whatever.

Posted by b on July 15, 2021 at 15:20 UTC | Permalink

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Bemildred , Jul 15 2021 15:31 utc | 1

They embarass us all with this sort of stupidity. And being British, of course, they double down on it.

" REVEALED: Iran plotted to kidnap Iranian-American journalist from Brooklyn, transport her by speedboat to Venezuela and then fly her to the Islamic republic because she criticized regime, FBI say"

You just cannot get much more ludicrous than that.

Bemildred , Jul 15 2021 15:33 utc | 2

And lots of projection too, we all know who lies and indulges in all sorts of chicanery to silence critics (like Assange, say).

james , Jul 15 2021 15:50 utc | 3

damn you gottlieb! look what you started, lol...

thanks b... these intel agencies running the "free press" sure are getting boring really fast....

james , Jul 15 2021 15:52 utc | 4

@ 1 bemildred.... i knew it was a lie when i heard it on the cbc radio yesterday... if the cbc is running with it - it is an outright made up lie... accept everything on the surface and never question anything!!! be a good citizen, lol...

Bigben , Jul 15 2021 16:00 utc | 5

The articles from The Guardian and all don't prove anything about Russia's plans. The cite the January 26 meeting of the Security Council as Proof of Putin's plans. If I were in Putin's place, I would also have been happy with Trump's election and its likely socioeconomic impact on the US society.

Tuyzentfloot , Jul 15 2021 16:12 utc | 6

Harding strikes me as someone who's completely into the business of selling stories. He senses where the money is , looks at his sales numbers and concludes he's doing great because that is how he measures things. No concept of 'truth' other than financial success in the market of ideas. I suspect he makes a lot of money.

the pair , Jul 15 2021 16:18 utc | 7

damn, i wish i had it in me to be a cult leader...i'd make a beeline to the guardian office and have an army of kool-aid drinking simps at my disposal. when they aren't harrassing and firing women writers for calling out "female identifying" sex offenders in dresses or stirring up imaginary "anti-semitism" they're peddling this delusional nonsense and LARPing as MI6 spooks. truly in their own little world. i'll guess some LSD in the water cooler and a decent powerpoint presentation is all it would take to be the limey jim jones.

Ð"жММ , Jul 15 2021 16:35 utc | 8

The chunks of the supposed document that the Guardian included with its article really give it away. The text - supposedly from an internal Kremlin communication - reads as no more or less than a chunk of English passed through Google Translate. Idiomatically, it is chock full of awkwardness and simple ridiculous phrasings. There are even grammatical errors! "..во Ð²Ñ€ÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¿Ñ€ÐµÐ±Ñ‹Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÐµÐ³Ð¾..." is simply incorrect. In Russian, the last two words are reversed in order.

It recalls the recent Putin's Palace story, with the "комната грÑзи".

It's just shameful how little pride the propagandists take in their work. I understand that they hold their audience in only the lowest of regard (not without cause, to be fair), but it's not like there is any shortage of Russian-speakers in the west they could go to for proofreading, if not copy writing.

vk , Jul 15 2021 16:55 utc | 9

Kremlin's response came out:

Peskov called the article by The Guardian about the authorities of Russia and Trump a fiction

"Of course, this is such a continuation of absolutely low-quality publications. Either the newspaper is trying to somehow increase its popularity, or the newspaper continues such a frenzied Russophobic line. Of course, all this does not and cannot correspond to the truth. This, in fact, is not true ... This is a continuation of the exercises on total demonization of Russia and Putin, which The Guardian sometimes likes to do, or is it a desperate attempt to attract some new readers by publishing such tales, "Peskov said.

Stonebird , Jul 15 2021 17:18 utc | 10

"REVEALED: Iran plotted to kidnap Iranian-American journalist from Brooklyn, transport her by speedboat to Venezuela and then fly her to the Islamic republic because she criticized regime, FBI say", Bemildred | Jul 15 2021 15:31 utc | 1

I TOLD you all that the FBI needed new script writers. Either that or they have so little imagination that they have to use up all the scripts from a couple of years back, as they cannot afford new ones.

******

Don't underestimate stupidity

pnyx , Jul 15 2021 17:18 utc | 11

Luke 'Skywalker' Harding defeats the evil empire. Part 13.

Citizen621 , Jul 15 2021 17:58 utc | 12

Doesn't matter - the MSNBC watchers will never accept this. I still try to punch through the armor of confirmation bias now and then. My last jab was: "I think Russiagate is every bit as much evidence-free bullshit as Quanon!". No effect whatsoever. Willing to agree with half of what I said - just like Fox watchers.

Unfortunately, I don't think my fellow citizens here in the heart of Pindostan will pay attention until things get bad enough that they know actual hunger - and then they will serve the elites by fighting each other.

Sorry for the pessimism, the one positive thing I do think I can do is tend my vegetable garden!

jo6pac , Jul 15 2021 18:07 utc | 13

Amerikan intel agrees it fake but they will walk it back soon I'm sure

https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/trump-and-kremlin/

QA , Jul 15 2021 18:53 utc | 14

Ð"жММ:

"во Ð²Ñ€ÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¿Ñ€ÐµÐ±Ñ‹Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÐµÐ³Ð¾", maybe awkward but semikosher, many examples can be found Googling it ---like during stay of his vs. during his stay (e.g. kamchatka.mid.ru can be found to say: "ÑвÑÐ·Ð°Ð½Ð½Ñ‹Ñ Ñ Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑтвиÑми и поÑтупками пригÐ"ашаемого во Ð²Ñ€ÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¿Ñ€ÐµÐ±Ñ‹Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÐµÐ³Ð¾ в РФ, в том чиÑÐ"е, в ÑÐ"учае депортации").

Thomas , Jul 15 2021 20:22 utc | 15

Jeez, it just gets worse-as soon as I saw the name Luke harding, I knew it was a pile of trash; really, who in the hell reads this without a sense to vomit.

Well, there there is Orbis: "great reporting."

MI6 and prob cia has this clown on the payroll; I tried to watch the last 5 minutes of the video but could not get past the first minute; the guy is absolutely repulsive and they continue to double down on this garbage.

Cadence calls , Jul 15 2021 20:28 utc | 16

Headlines on Democratic Underground and Daily KOS:
"Explosive evidence that Putin supported a Trump Presidency"

Commenters: "I knew it!"

Thomas , Jul 15 2021 20:30 utc | 17

Ð"жММ-8

I think you really nailed it; we see it every day, with this latest pail of s___, that these purveyors absolutely have no shame or embarrassment, but believe their audience, the sheeple, are complete idiots or stupid. The question is who is stupid as this level of stupidity cannot be fixed or underestimated.

librul , Jul 15 2021 21:41 utc | 18

I remember the scene in the movie "The Big Short" where Steve Carell
was saying, "they knew all along!".

Goldman Sachs, et al, had over-leveraged the housing mortgages and "they knew all along"
if and when it all crumbled the government would cover Wall Street's bad bets with taxpayer debt.

They knew all along it was bs but they did it anyway.

The MSM is a different arena but has the same arrogant attitude towards average joe citizen.

The MSM knows it is selling bs but they don't care.

What I see is they are counting on the "Reiteration Effect" (look it up, it is a real thing).
"Russia bad", "Russia bad", "Russia bad", "Russia bad", "Russia bad", "Russia bad".

There have been a steady stream of "Russia bad" stories and "Russia helped Trump" stories, and over time
the fact that these stories are one by one debunked does not matter. The "Reiteration Effect" is what matters.
"Say something a million times and it becomes true" is not a mere cynical phrase, it actually works - the "Reiteration Effect".

Keep putting out these "Russia bad" stories and "Russia helped Trump" stories and over time people will accept the basic message as true.

The MSM has known all along they were selling bs, but they don't care.

vk , Jul 15 2021 22:11 utc | 19

@ Posted by: librul | Jul 15 2021 21:41 utc | 18

They definitely didn't know 2008 would happen. On the contrary: they thought they had discovered the elixir of immortality for capitalism.

The USA was caught completely off-guard in September 2008. You have to search with a magnifying glass to find the ten people who predicted the crisis would happen in its nature and more or less its timing - but even then, most of them were Marxists, i.e. outside the commanding heights of the USG.

librul , Jul 15 2021 22:23 utc | 20

@Posted by: vk | Jul 15 2021 22:11 utc | 19

Goldman Sachs began to short mortgage bonds and like instruments before the crash of 2008.

Regardless, they *knew* their bets were covered by the government.

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Were you aware that Henry Paulson began to ready a coup in 2008?

Tuyzentfloot , Jul 15 2021 22:41 utc | 21

I like the idea of the makers of this thing deciding that it's a shoddy job which only Harding will take. Also Harding gets all the attention but let's not forget the honourable mentions in this story: Julian Borger and Dan Sabbagh.

librul , Jul 15 2021 22:49 utc | 22

@Posted by: librul | Jul 15 2021 22:23 utc | 20 ....continued

I saved this from somewhere (?) years ago. Doesn't matter, you can read Paulson's coup document for yourself.
The WSJ link still works but you hit a pay wall. You can put the following url at http://web.archive.org/
and read the original WSJ publication and Paulson's coup document dated Sept 20, 2008 at the WSJ.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/09/20/treasurys-financial-bailout-proposal-to-congress/

**** "shall not be subject to judicial review" ****

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/09/20/treasurys-financial-bailout-proposal-to-congress/

"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."

Did you catch that? Paulson went further. Not just the courts are cut out but "any adminstrative agency" as well.

Paulson also was giving to Himself the authority to APPROPRIATE any funds He wished.

"Any funds expended for actions authorized by this Act, including the payment of administrative expenses, shall be deemed appropriated at the time of such expenditure."

HE could pass ANY legislation He wanted to:

"(5) issuing such regulations and other guidance as may be necessary or appropriate to define terms or carry out the authorities of this Act."

The word "term" has a duel meaning. It also refers to TIME, as in length of a term.

Give powers to anyone and hire anyone He wished to:

"(1) appointing such employees as may be required to carry out the authorities in this Act and defining their duties;"

What miscellaneous authorities did G-d Paulson give Himself? Answer: Authority over the police and the military.

"In exercising the authorities granted in this Act, the Secretary shall take into consideration means for""

(1) providing stability or preventing disruption to the financial markets or banking system; and

"providing stability OR". That OR makes for confusion (intentional confusion). Stability is a word used often in the context of economics but it is also used in the context of police action. Get it? He wants to create his own SS. See the very next word: "protecting", as in "We Serve and Protect".

(2) protecting the taxpayer."

The last one is my favorite. Who is a *taxpayer*? Hmmm, is not everyone, even candy purchasing kids liable to pay tax? Corporations are also taxpayers...

G-d Paulson covered all his bases.

Even the one about being G-d Forever:

"Sec. 9. Termination of Authority.

The authorities under this Act, with the exception of authorities granted in sections 2(b)(5), 5 and 7, shall terminate two years from the date of enactment of this Act."

Paulson wants you to believe this terminates in two years. However, 2(b)(5) does NOT terminate and that one says he can just place the crown back on His own head:

"(5) issuing such regulations and other guidance as may be necessary or appropriate to define terms or carry out the authorities of this Act."

Cheers

A coup! A massive scandal that has been totally missed.

Michael888 , Jul 15 2021 23:01 utc | 23

@Posted by: librul | Jul 15 2021 21:41 utc | 18

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."-- Joseph Goebbels (Luke Harding's Father?)

corvo , Jul 15 2021 23:16 utc | 24

@ Cadence calls | Jul 15 2021 20:28 utc | 16:

We can take some comfort in the fact that Daily Kos readership has fallen precipitously over the last few years. Nobody takes it seriously anymore.

Dim sim , Jul 15 2021 23:31 utc | 25

In 2017 Luke Harding abruptly ended an interview with Aaron Maté after Harding was challenged over false claims he had made in his book about 'Russiagate'. The last five minutes of that video are quite amusing.

I'm not normally a follower of this topic even though one of our sleazers, Downer, was involved but needing something to smile at while in our CV lockdown I watched the link.

What an understatement! It's a hilarious 28m:51s train wreck interview with a complete dick. Thanks b for sharing it.

mismatch , Jul 15 2021 23:49 utc | 26

@Vk, I'm sorry to contradict you but if you pick up a copy of the Financial Times in 2008 before the crash, everyone was predicting it. I checked recently, and sure enough, it was all over the paper.

TEP , Jul 16 2021 0:18 utc | 27

Luke Harding. Nuff said.
TEP.

Erelis , Jul 16 2021 0:22 utc | 28

Once again super duper evil genius ex-KGB spy cannot keep state secrets secret.

Christian J. Chuba , Jul 16 2021 0:24 utc | 29

Painful video to watch. Harding is using the Hitler argument.

'My evidence that Trump colluded with Putin (Saddam has WMD) is that Putin is Hitler. If you don't believe me, you are supporting Adolf Hitler'.

Harding is Satan's minion, and Jesus said, 'Satan is a liar and a murderer, when he lies, he speaks his native language'

Lies kill.

vk , Jul 16 2021 0:39 utc | 30

@ Posted by: mismatch | Jul 15 2021 23:49 utc | 26

By 2007, the financial elite already knew something would happen - but not a structural crisis. In fact, they predicted nothing: the chain of bankruptcies started at the end of 2006; September 2008 was just the date it "leaked" to the "real economy".

Not every crisis is bad for capitalism. Cyclical crisis are natural and beneficial to capitalism. The crisis of 2008 was not a cyclical crisis, but a structural one. They probably thought it was either a cyclical crisis (a la Dotcom crisis of 2000) or, if something more serious, something the free market would easily be able to "self-regulate" out of.

[Jul 21, 2021] Civilized nations' efforts to deter Russia and China are starting to add up

Jul 21, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Lysander , Jul 17 2021 11:31 utc | 2

...WaPo columnist George Will then asserts:

Henry Kissinger has said, not unreasonably, that we are in "the foothills" of a cold war with China. And Vladimir Putin, who nurses an unassuageable grudge about the way the Cold War ended, seems uninterested in Russia reconciling itself to a role as a normal nation without gratuitous resorts to mendacity. It is, therefore, well to notice how, day by day, in all of the globe's time zones, civilized nations are, in word and deed, taking small but cumulatively consequential measures that serve deterrence.

If arrogance were a deadly disease, George Will would be dead.

George Will has been an ass clown since I first had the displeasure of watching him in the 1970s. Age has not brought an ounce of wisdom. Nevertheless, this total lack of self reflection and ability to project American sins on others is unfortunately not unique to our man George. It seems a habit throughout the entire US political spectrum. The ability to view, for example, the invasion of Iraq as perfectly normal behavior, while viewing any resistance to US/Israeli dominance as beyond the pale is the character of the decaying American superpower. George Will is but one manifestation of it. It was once infuriating. But now it's simply like listening to the ravings of a schizophrenic. More pathetic than anything else.

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Dao Gen , Jul 17 2021 11:35 utc | 3

What do you expect from George Swill? He is a pathetic, disoriented refugee from his home in Victorian England, when barbarism never set for a single instant on the British Empire.

Donbass Lives Matter , Jul 17 2021 11:45 utc | 4

There's a way to get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from the mainstream news media. Just look at their propaganda and ask yourself, "Why do they want me to believe this particular lie?" If you can figure that you, you will have the truth.

alaff , Jul 17 2021 11:52 utc | 5

Well, you know, the white man's burden...
The funny thing is that they seriously consider themselves a "superior race", while behaving like wild barbarians.
Such opinions/articles of "Western civilized people" cause only a condescending smile, nothing more. So let's let George Will entertain us.

Midville , Jul 17 2021 11:57 utc | 7

I find it pretty bizzarre how western media obsessively try to portray the Defender incident as a some sort of "victory" for "civilized nations".
What exactly is the victory here? The fact that Russia only resorted to warning fire and didn't blow up the ship?

Perimetr , Jul 17 2021 12:16 utc | 11

Decades of propaganda masquerading as news has led most "educated" Americans into a Matrix of false narratives. Should you dare mention election fraud or question the safety of COVID vaccines in the presences of anyone who considers the NY Times and Wash Post as the "papers of record", they will be happy to inform you that you are "captured" by false news. Dialogue with these true believers has become almost impossible. We are the indispensable, civilized nation, don't you understand basic facts?

My sister, who is truly a good-hearted person, unfortunately keeps CNN and MSNBC on most of the day in her small apartment, and lives for The NY Times, which she pours over, especially the weekend edition. She knows that Putin is evil and Russia is a bad place to live, etc etc. I got rid of my TV ten years ago and started looking elsewhere for my information. I live in a rural area of a Red state, she lives in Manhattan. We have to stick to topics that revolve around museums, gardening, and food.

Ayatoilet , Jul 17 2021 12:50 utc | 16

This is precisely the type of arrogance that has led to US leaving Afghanistan with their pants down - having spent untold Trillions of dollars and having nothing to show for it. And soon, leaving Iraq and Syria too. It reminds me of how the US left Vietnam and Cambodia.

The 'White' establishment in Washington and across the US military industrial complex, has an air of superiority and always seem to feel that they can subjugate via throwing money at people! This in effect turns everyone they deal with into Whores (yes, prostitutes). Its fundamentally humiliating, and sews the seeds of corruption - both economic and moral. Then, they are shocked that there's a back clash!

The Taliban succeeded not with arms - but by projecting a completely different narrative of "Morality (i.e. non-corruption), honor, and even intermingled nationalism with their narrative". They projected a story that suggested that new Afghan daughters would not turn into Britney Spears or porn stars.

And, believe it or not, the Chinese see themselves as having been fundamentally humiliated by the West and couch their efforts as a struggle for their civilization (its not ideological or even economic) - they are fighting for honor and respect.

Western Civilization (and western elite) on the left and right are fundamentally materialistic. They worship money, and simply don't understand it when others don't. When they talk about superiority, they are basically saying the worship of money rules supreme. You sort of become dignified in the west if you have a lot of wealth. They want to turn the whole world into prostitutes. Policy and laws are driven by material considerations.

Now, I am not saying that spirituality or religion is good; and in fact, the Chinese are not driven by religious zeal (they are, on the whole, non-religious). What I am saying is that - no matter how its expressed - be it through religion, through culture, through rhetoric, etc. - all this back clash is really a struggle for respect, 'honor' and thus a push back to Western Arrogance, and the humiliation it has caused. The West simply doesn't understand that there are societies - especially in the east, that value honor over other things.

When Trump calls other people losers, he is basically saying he is richer, they are poorer. In his mind, winning, is all about money. When people write articles about the superiority of a civilization - they are implicitly putting other people down. That's not just arrogant, its rude and disrespectful. Its basically like a teenager judging their parents. How dare a newly formed nation (the US), judge or differentiate or even pretend to be superior to the Chinese, Persians etc.?

Our foreign policy (and rhetoric) in the West has to completely change. We have to be really careful, because, (honestly), it won't be very long before these other (inferior) civilizations actually take over global leadership. Then how will we want to be treated? Don't for a second think these folks can't build great gadgets that go to Mars! Oh, did China just do that? Does Iran have a space program? Did they just make their own vaccines? Once they start trading among themselves without using the USD greenback, we are finished.

We need them, they don't need us.

Et Tu , Jul 17 2021 13:07 utc | 18

Some notable recent achievements of 'civilised' nations include:

-Illegal invasion and bombing of multiple non-aggressor nations
-Overthrowing of democratically elected Governments
-Support of extremist and oppressive regimes
-Sponsoring of terrorism, including weapon sales to ISIS
-Corruption of once trusted institutions like the UN and OPCW

Oh, the civility...

Petri Krohn , Jul 17 2021 14:05 utc | 26

HOW DID RUSSIA BECOME THE ENEMY?

...when all she did was offer slight resistance to Western aggression? The key event was the August 2013 false-flag gas attack and massacre of hostages in Ghouta in Damascus.

What really angered the West was the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean that prevented the NATO attack on Syria. (You will not find a single word of this in Western media.) This is why Crimea needed to be captured by the West. As revenge and deterrence against the Russian agression.

I wrote about these events in 2016:

The standoff was first described by Israel Shamir in October 2013:

"The most dramatic event of September 2013 was the high-noon stand-off near the Levantine shore, with five US destroyers pointing their Tomahawks towards Damascus and facing them - the Russian flotilla of eleven ships led by the carrier-killer Missile Cruiser Moskva and supported by Chinese warships.

Apparently, two missiles were launched towards the Syrian coast, and both failed to reach their destination."

A longer description was published by Australianvoice in 2015:

"So why didn't the US and France attack Syria? It seems obvious that the Russians and Chinese simply explained that an attack on Syria by US and French forces would be met by a Russian/Chinese attack on US and French warships. Obama wisely decided not to start WW III in September 2013." Can Russia Block Regime Change In Syria Again?

In my own comments from 2013 I tried to understand the mission of the Russian fleet. This is what I believed Putin's orders to the fleet were:

1. To sink any NATO ship involved in illegal aggression against Syria.
2. You have the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons in self-defense.

I am sure NATO admirals understood the situation the same way. I am not sure of the American leadership in Washington.

Billb , Jul 17 2021 14:15 utc | 28

Insulting language aside, the narrative they are trying to create is that there is an anti-Russia, anti-China trend developing and that those sitting on the fence would be wise to join the bandwagon.

This will be particularly effective on the majority of folks who barely scan headlines and skim articles. Falun Gong/CIA mouthpiece Epoch Times is on board with this, based on recent headlines.

Petri Krohn , Jul 17 2021 14:44 utc | 33

Democracy grows in darkness

Wikipedia has a list of reliable and unreliable sources . "Reliable" are those sources that are under the direct control of the US regime. Any degree of independence from the regime makes the source "unreliable." WaPo and NYT are at the top of the list of reliable sources.

This is the diametric opposite of how Wikispooks defines reliability. Reliability of sources is directly proportional to their distance *from* power.

At A Closer Look on Syria (ACLOS) we only trust primary sources.

Andres , Jul 17 2021 14:58 utc | 35

Civilization vs Uncivilization

Makes me remember the cornerstone work from former Argentine president DF Sarmiento, who dealt with "Civilization or Barbarism" in his book "Facundo". Of course, his position was the "civilized" one.

Those "civilized" succeeded in creating a country submitted to the British rule, selling cheap crops and getting expensive manufactures, with a privileged minority living lavishly and a great majority, in misery.

Also, their "civilized" methods to impose their project was the bloody "Police War"

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_entre_la_Confederaci%C3%B3n_Argentina_y_el_Estado_de_Buenos_Aires#Segunda_guerra_contra_el_Chacho

Same language used now, for the same undisclosed intentions.

lysias , Jul 17 2021 15:10 utc | 36

In Russian, to be uncivilized (nekulturny) is a bad thing.

Mar man , Jul 17 2021 16:14 utc | 44

This article is fundamentally about propaganda and "soft power".

Soft power in foreign policy is usually defined when other countries defer to your judgement without threat of punishment or promise of gain.

In other words, if other countries support your country without a "carrot or stick" approach, you have soft power.

For years, the US simply assumed other "civilized" of the western world would dutifully follow along in US footsteps due to unshakeable trust in America's moral authority. The western media played a crucial role by suppressing news regarding any atrocities the western powers committed and amplifying any perceived threats or aggressions from "enemies".

Now, with the age of the internet, western audiences can read news from all over the world and that has been a catastrophe for western powers. We can now see real-time debunking of propaganda.

In the past, the British would have easily passed off the recent destroyer provocation as pure Russian aggression and could expect outrage from all western aligned countries. The EU and US populations could have easily been whipped into a frenzy and DEMANDED reprisals against Russia if not outright war. Something similar to a "Gulf of Tonkin" moment.

But, that did not happen. People all over the world now know NOTHING from the US or British press is to be trusted. People also now know NATO routinely try to stir up trouble and provoke Russia.

So, Americans and even British citizens displayed no widespread outrage because they simply did not believe their own government's and compliant media's side of the story.

US and British "soft power" are long gone. No one trusts them. No one wants to follow them into anymore disastrous wars of aggression.

Western media still do not understand this and cannot figure out why so many refuse western vaccines or support the newest color revolutions.

We simply do not believe it.

librul , Jul 17 2021 17:04 utc | 55

This site appears to be the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deceiving-the-public

They cast Germany as a victim or potential victim of foreign aggressors, as a peace-loving nation forced to take up arms to protect its populace or defend European civilization against Communism.

I remember a tv history program that had interviews with German soldiers.
I recall one who had seen/participated in going from village to village in the USSR
hanging local communist leaders. He said they had been taught that by doing this
they were "protecting civilization".

fx , Jul 17 2021 19:01 utc | 68

Arrogance is not a deadly disease or even a hindrance for mainstream presstitutes; it is a job qualification, making them all the more manipulable and manipulative. And so, as with Michael Gordon, Judith Miller, Brett Stephens and David Sanger (essentially all of them pulling double duty for the apartheid state), people will die from their propaganda, but they will advance.

Max , Jul 17 2021 19:48 utc | 72

Name a democracy that isn't a suzerainty.

Name a leader with moral courage and integrity among suzerainties (private plantations). Nations without integrity and filled with Orcs (individuals without conscience), can't be civilized. They're EVIL vassals of Saruman & Sauron, manipulated by Wormtongue.

"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers."
– J.R.R. Tolkien

Henry Kissinger, in his interview with Chatham House stated, "the United States is in a CRISIS of confidence... America has committed great moral wrongs." What are U$A's core values?

According to a CFR member :
"How lucky I am that my mother studied with JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis and WH Auden and that she passed on to me a command of language that permits me to "tell the story" of the world economy in plain English. She would have been delighted that I managed to show that the evil Gollum from Tolkien's tales lives above the doorway in the Oval Office, which he certainly does. I saw him there myself. He may have found a new perch over at The Federal Reserve Bank as well."
– Excerpt From, Signals: The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics by Dr Philippa Malmgren

The Financial Empire has ran out of LUCK. "In God We Trust"

Why Mordor Failed... Sauron's hegemonic collapse holds potent lessons

"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims but accomplices."

Tuyzentfloot , Jul 17 2021 21:08 utc | 78

I thought moral superiority was the official position of NATO. The explicit intent is to weaponize human rights and democracy . So it is not merely the mundane 'our group is better' or the somewhat nostalgic western form of moral superiority, it's weaponized moral superiority.

Erelis , Jul 17 2021 21:27 utc | 79

George Will looking good I tellya. Anybody know who does his embalming?

Doesn't Will's article reek of Nazi propaganda against the Russians as a mongrel Asiatic uncivilized people? Of course to attack the Chinese as uncivilized? China uncivilized? 5,000 years of continuous culture? The Russians and Chinese must join up with civilization. Unfortunately at least in the West race is only about skin color. It certainly wasn't the case with the original Nazis. Will's piece is blatantly racist out of the tradition of Nazism.

Rob , Jul 17 2021 22:41 utc | 83

American exceptionalism's finest spokesman -- George F. Will

circumspect , Jul 18 2021 1:38 utc | 88

Oxford and the Ivy League. The training grounds for the Anglo American deep state and the cheerleaders of the empire. Expect nothing more of these deeply under educated sudo intellectuals.

Tom_Q_Collins , Jul 18 2021 5:00 utc | 95

Posted by: Ayatoilet | Jul 17 2021 12:50 utc | 16

Plenty of people who work for the MIC and in various policy circles/think tanks have plenty "to show for it" where all these wars are concerned. Many billions of dollars were siphoned upwards and outwards into the bank accounts and expensive homes of the managerial and executive classes (even the hazard pay folks who actually went to the places "we" were bombing) not just at Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen, etc. but plenty of lesser known "socioeconomically disadvantaged" Small Businesses (proper noun in this context) companies who utilized the services of an army of consultants to glom onto the war machine. In most cases of the larger firms, Wall Street handled the IPOs long ago, and these companies have entire (much less profitable) divisions dedicated to state and local governments to "diversify" their business portfolios in case the people finally get sick of war. But that rarely happens in any real sense because the corporate establishment "legacy media" makes sure that there's always an uncivilized country to bomb or threaten....and that means the "defense" department needs loads of services, weapons, and process improvement consultants all the time. War is a racket; always has been, always will be.

Tom_Q_Collins , Jul 18 2021 5:03 utc | 96

In what ways is the USA like Darth Vader's Galactic Empire in Star Wars?

Constantine , Jul 18 2021 7:33 utc | 98

Posted by: Mar man | Jul 17 2021 16:14 utc | 44

Unfortunately, it seems that truly large segments of the population in the developed western countries and especially in the Anglo-sphere believe the propaganda emanating from the imperial mouthpieces. The US citizenry is a case study in manipulating the public.

Indeed, the DNC liberals are effectively the vanguard of the pro-war movement, espouse racist Rusophobia and conitnue Trump's hostility to China. The so-cslled conservatives follow their own tradition of imperial mobilization behind the Washington regime: Chin,Latin America, the very people who berated the 'Deep State' now paise its subversive activities against the targeted left-wing governments.

As for the moribund left - it would be better described as leftovers - it is often taken for a ride as long as the imperial messaging is promoted by the liberal media. The excuses for imperialism are a constant for many of them (even as they call themselves anti-imperialists) and the beleaguered voicesfor the truth are far and few. The latter often face silencing campaigns not just from the establishment hacks, but from their own supposed ideological comrades, who are, of course, in truth nothing of the sort.

All in all, despite the consistent record of manipulative propaganda and utter criminality the imperial regime never loses the support of the critical masss of the citizenry.

Bemildred , Jul 18 2021 7:48 utc | 99

All in all, despite the consistent record of manipulative propaganda and utter criminality the imperial regime never loses the support of the critical masss of the citizenry.

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 18 2021 7:33 utc | 98

Maybe 50% of the people here bother to vote, in IMPORTANT elections. Can be a lot less if the election is not important. The only people still engaged politically here at all are the people with good jobs. The American people have given up. And there are a lot of angry people running around, with guns. Claiming the citizenry here support the government is imperial propaganda. Why do you think they like mercenaries and proxies so much? And this is all in great contrast to when I was young 50 years ago.

[Jul 21, 2021] Wikipedia-Reliable sources-Perennial sources

Looks like the most interesting publications are marked as unreliable and "fake news" consortium of neoliberal MSM (often controlled by intelligence agencies) was labeled as reliable. Below is small initial fragment that gives pretty good understanding on neoliberal bias of the Wikipedia brass and Wikipedia controllers. .

Jul 21, 2021 | en.wikipedia.org

Perennial sources

Source	Status ( legend )	Discussions			Uses
		List	Last	Summary
112 Ukraine		2019 2020 2020 1 A B	2020	112 Ukraine was deprecated following a 2019 RfC, which showed overwhelming consensus for the deprecation of a slew of sources associated with Russian disinformation in Ukraine. It was pointed out later in a 2020 RfC that 112 Ukraine had not been explicitly discussed in that first discussion prior to its blacklisting request. Further discussion established a rough consensus that the source is generally unreliable, but did not form a consensus for deprecation or blacklisting. The prior blacklisting was reversed as out of process.	1 2
ABC News		1 2	2021	There is consensus that ABC News is generally reliable. It is not to be confused with other publications of the same name .	1 2
Ad Fontes Media		1 2 3 4	2020	There is consensus that Ad Fontes Media and their Media Bias Chart should not be used in article space in reference to sources' political leaning or reliability. Editors consider it a self-published source and have questioned its methodology.	1
Advameg ( City-Data )		2019 2019 2019 +14 [b]	2019	Advameg operates content farms , including City-Data , that use scraped or improperly licensed content. These sites frequently republish content from Gale 's encyclopedias; many editors can obtain access to Gale through The Wikipedia Library free of charge. Advameg's sites are on the Wikipedia spam blacklist , and links must be whitelisted before they can be used. WP:COPYLINK prohibits linking to copyright violations.	1 2 +43
Agence France-Presse (AFP)		1 2	2020	Agence France-Presse is a news agency . There is consensus that Agence France-Presse is generally reliable. Syndicated reports from Agence France-Presse that are published in other sources are also considered generally reliable.	1
Al Jazeera ( Al Jazeera English , Aljazeera.com )		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	2019	Al Jazeera is considered a generally reliable news organization . Editors perceive Al Jazeera English (and Aljazeera.com ) to be more reliable than Al Jazeera's Arabic-language news reporting. Some editors say that Al Jazeera, particularly its Arabic-language media, is a partisan source with respect to the Arab–Israeli conflict . Al Jazeera's news blogs should be handled with the corresponding policy.	1 2
AlterNet		1 2 3 4 5	2019	There is consensus that AlterNet is generally unreliable. Editors consider AlterNet a partisan source , and its statements should be attributed . AlterNet's syndicated content should be evaluated by the reliability of its original publisher, and the citation should preferably point to the original publisher.	1
Amazon WP:RSPAMAZON 📌		1 2 3 4 5 6 7	2021	User reviews on Amazon are anonymous, self-published , and unverifiable, and should not be used at all. Amazon is a reliable source for basic information about a work (such as release date, ISBN, etc.), although it is unnecessary to cite Amazon when the work itself may serve as a source for that information (e.g., authors' names and ISBNs). Future release dates may be unreliable.	show
The American Conservative ( TAC )		2019 2020 2021 1	2021	There is consensus that The American Conservative is a usable source for attributed opinions . As TAC is published by the American Ideas Institute, an advocacy organization, TAC is considered biased or opinionated .	1
An Phoblacht		2020 1	2020	There is consensus that An Phoblacht is generally unreliable for news reporting, as it is a publication of Sinn Féin . Under the conditions of WP:ABOUTSELF , An Phoblacht is usable for attributed statements from Sinn Féin and some editors believe that the publication may also be used for attributed statements from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).	1
Anadolu Agency (general topics) (AA)		2019	2019	The 2019 RfC established no consensus on the reliability of Anadolu Agency. Well-established news outlets are normally considered reliable for statements of fact. However, Anadolu Agency is frequently described as a mouthpiece of the Turkish government that engages in propaganda, owing to its state-run status. See also: Anadolu Agency (controversial topics, international politics) .	1 2
Anadolu Agency (controversial topics, international politics) (AA)		2019	2019	In the 2019 RfC, editors generally agreed that Anadolu Agency is generally unreliable for topics that are controversial or related to international politics. See also: Anadolu Agency (general topics) .	1 2
Ancestry.com WP:ANCESTRY.COM 📌		1 2 3 4 5 6	2021	Ancestry.com is a genealogy site that hosts a database of primary source documents including marriage and census records. Some of these sources may be usable under WP:BLPPRIMARY , but secondary sources, where available, are usually preferred. Ancestry.com also hosts user-generated content , which is unreliable.	1
Answers.com (WikiAnswers)		1 2 3 4	2010	Answers.com (previously known as WikiAnswers) is a Q&A site that incorporates user-generated content . In the past, Answers.com republished excerpts and summaries of tertiary sources , including D&B Hoovers , Gale , and HighBeam Research . Citations of republished content on Answers.com should point to the original source, with a note that the source was accessed "via Answers.com". Answers.com also previously served as a Wikipedia mirror ; using republished Wikipedia content is considered circular sourcing .	1
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)		2020 1 2 3 4 5 6	2021	There is consensus that ADL is a generally reliable source, including for topics related to hate groups and extremism in the U.S. There is no consensus that ADL must be attributed in all cases, but there is consensus that the labelling of organisations and individuals by the ADL (particularly as antisemitic) should be attributed. Some editors consider the ADL's opinion pieces not reliable, and that they should only be used with attribution. Some editors consider the ADL a biased source for Israel/Palestine related topics that should be used with caution, if at all.

[Jul 21, 2021] Big Tech- -Our Terms Have Changed

Jul 21, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, JUL 21, 2021 - 11:09 AM

Authored (satirically) by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don't be surprised if bad things start happening.

I received another "Our Terms Have Changed" email from a Big Tech quasi-monopoly, and for a change I actually read this one. It was a revelation on multiple fronts. I'm reprinting it here for your reading pleasure:

We wanted to let you know that we recently updated our Conditions of Use.

What hasn't changed:

Your use constitutes your agreement to our Conditions of Use.

We own all the content you create on our platform, devices and networks, and are free to monetize it by any means we choose.

We own all the data we collect on you, your devices, purchases, social networks, views, associations, beliefs and illicit viewing, your location data, who you are in proximity to, and whatever data the networked devices in your home, vehicles and workplaces collect.

We have the unrestricted right to ban you and all your content, shadow-ban you and all your content, i.e., generate the illusion that your content is freely, publicly available, and erase your digital presence entirely such that you cease to exist except as a corporeal body.

What has changed:

If we detect you have positive views on anti-trust enforcement, we may report you as a "person of interest / potential domestic extremist" to the National Security Agency and other federal agencies.

Rather than respond to all disputes algorithmically, we have established a Star Chamber of our most biased, fanatical employees to adjudicate customer/user disputes in which the customer/user refuses to accept the algorithmic mediation.

If a customer/user attempts to contact any enforcement agency regarding our algorithmic mediation or Star Chamber adjudication, we reserve the unrestricted rights to:

a. Prepare voodoo dolls representing the user and stick pins into the doll while chanting curses.

b. Hack the targeted user's accounts and blame it on Russian or Ukrainian hackers.

c. Rendition the user to a corrupt kleptocracy in which we retain undue influence, i.e., the United States.

Left unsaid, of course, is the potential for "accidents" to happen to anyone publicly promoting anti-trust enforcement of Big Tech quasi-monopolies. Once totalitarianism has been privatized , there are no rules that can't be ignored or broken by those behind the curtain . So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don't be surprised if bad things start happening.

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[Jul 21, 2021] Sen. Paul accused Dr. Fauci of lying that the US had never financed gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Jul 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

mikka 30 minutes ago remove link

Reminds me of Bill's definition of "I did not have sex with that woman".

Donnie Duvanie 11 minutes ago (Edited)

Fauci: "I did not have sex with that bat!"

[Jul 21, 2021] Looks like Russians have a pretty sophisticated sense of humor

Jul 21, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

spudski , Jun 17 2021 15:37 utc | 11

i liked this - "To be eligible for prisoner swap with US, Washington would have to confirm Navalny works for American intelligence, says Kremlin"..

Posted by: james | Jun 17 2021 16:05 utc | 13

On a previous thread, two readers linked to a transcript in Russian of VVP's interview on NBC. A full English transcript is now available on katehon.com. Apologies if this is old news.

[Jul 21, 2021] Neolibelal MSM want to have the monopoly on truth, much like the press in the USSR

Jul 18, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Controversial author Michael Wolff (of dubious Trump White House 'tell-all' and earpiece malarkey fame) was trotted out on CNN Sunday, where he proceeded (was allowed) to excoriate "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter for doing a "terrible job" and being "full of sanctimony."

"You become part of, one of the parts of the problem of the media. You know, you come on here, and you have a monopoly on truth - you know, you know exactly how things are supposed to be done. You know, you are why one of the reasons people can't stand the media, I'm sorry." said Wolff.

... ... ...

Were Wolff's comments truly off-the-cuff? Or as one Zero Hedge reader suggested, could CNN be resorting to a "very strategic capitulation" in order to "turn over a new leaf" and regain credibility amid dismal ratings and all-time low trust in the media?

[Jul 20, 2021] Neolibelal MSM want to have the monopoly on truth, much like the press in the USSR

Jul 18, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Controversial author Michael Wolff (of dubious Trump White House 'tell-all' and earpiece malarkey fame) was trotted out on CNN Sunday, where he proceeded (was allowed) to excoriate "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter for doing a "terrible job" and being "full of sanctimony."

"You become part of, one of the parts of the problem of the media. You know, you come on here, and you have a monopoly on truth - you know, you know exactly how things are supposed to be done. You know, you are why one of the reasons people can't stand the media, I'm sorry." said Wolff.

... ... ...

Were Wolff's comments truly off-the-cuff? Or as one Zero Hedge reader suggested, could CNN be resorting to a "very strategic capitulation" in order to "turn over a new leaf" and regain credibility amid dismal ratings and all-time low trust in the media?

[Jul 20, 2021] Sen. Paul accused Dr. Fauci of lying that the US had never financed gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Jul 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

mikka 30 minutes ago remove link

Reminds me of Bill's definition of "I did not have sex with that woman".

Donnie Duvanie 11 minutes ago (Edited)

Fauci: "I did not have sex with that bat!"

[Jul 19, 2021] Capitol 'Rioter' Sentenced To 8 Months, Not Accused Of Assaulting Anyone Or Damaging Property

Jul 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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This is no longer fight club 5 hours ago

And yet Hunter still walks free. No questions asked.

Dis-obey 5 hours ago

He paid the 10% to the big man so he was covered.

snatchpounder PREMIUM 5 hours ago

And an agent of the state executes an unarmed woman and he'll never be prosecuted for it.

Poppavein 5 hours ago

That's because we didn't burn down cities in protest.

[Jul 19, 2021] Leak Exposes Global Abuse Of Israel Made Cyber-Spying Weapon To Target Politicians, Activists, Journalists

How many people in the positions of authority are being blackmailed?

Jul 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Watt Supremacist 12 hours ago

My fellow whites...Israel is our greatest ally. We must daily remind ourselves of the 6 million **** who died at the hands of our fellow whites! And those 6 Isreali subs full of innocent sailors that were torpedoed to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea by the USS Liberty! Israel is a tiny nation of 9 million honest and industrious people that needs our support like never before. The mere $3.3 BILLION dollars we send them every year for military aid is a fine start as it keeps them safe from the millions of stone age Palestinian terrorists on their doorstep. Think of the thousands of incendiary kites our tax dollars have stopped from landing on Israeli soil! But, my fellow whites, military aid does not go nearly far enough. There are literally thousands of elderly Israeli women on the verge of starvation who will perish without our help. We must therefore open our pockets as well as the coffers of our churches across this great nation and shower the tiny nation of Israel with all the blessings our forefathers and God has bestowed upon us. As our Israeli friends are truly God's Chosen people, we all know they certainly deserve it and we will be rewarded many times over for our generosity.

UnicornTears 12 hours ago

/s

Ronaldo PREMIUM 12 hours ago (Edited)

Sounds like software that is very beneficial. It backs up all your important files, manages your contacts list, and keeps track of your calendar. All without any bother to you! /s

StaySunny3000 12 hours ago

Israel again. Are we surprised? They've got global communications cornered both literally and figuratively.

DEMIZEN 2 hours ago remove link

meanwhile the cnn news:

Ben & Jerry's will stop selling ice cream in Palestinian territories

Victory_Rossi 5 hours ago

Just 37 phones? The CIA/NSA laughs ...

[Jul 19, 2021] What was not mentioned

Jul 19, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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Filosofur 7 hours ago

I find it very odd that ZH not even mentioning the 1000 point drop in dow today...wtf??

sbin 7 hours ago

1000 points is a good start.

Pareto 7 hours ago

its only 2%

[Jul 14, 2021] Ransomware -- it is time to stop blaming Russia and tackle the real villains - cryptocurrencies

Jul 13, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Seer , Jul 11 2021 6:56 utc | 60

Hm... Could this be the new opium market? CIA has to have a means of off-the-books financing of their black ops...

[Jul 13, 2021] AstraZeneca, J J Working On 'Modifications' To Eliminate Potentially Deadly Side Effects

Jul 13, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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HonestLee 7 hours ago

Overhead in lab -

Rat 1: "Hey, have you gotten your Covid jab yet?"

Rat 2: "Nah, I'm waitin til the human trials are over"

IDESofMARCH 7 hours ago

My first vaccine shot, I started to grow a tail.

Now with my second shot I got horns coming out of my head.

My Dr. told me not to worry, it's transitory.

[Jul 12, 2021] Pfizer Sells Booster Jabs To Israel As COVID Cases Rebound despite mass vacciantion -- if booster shots are needed why people should get old Pfizer vaccine and simply wait untill "final" version eventually arrive

Jul 12, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

link

Imagine being dumb enough to fall for it, again.

In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism Full Length Documentary play_arrow 32 play_arrow

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takeaction 1 hour ago

Imagine realizing that you didn't do your research and take it...then learn the truth.

Timmay 1 hour ago

It's the subscription model.....

bigjim 58 minutes ago

MicroSoft Vaccine365

MoonWatcher 35 minutes ago

Just imagine all the mental gymnastics they are doing to convince themselves that their persuasion was medically based. And not a lie being driven by mainstream media, especially if they took the shots out of social pressure and coercion. Hilarious.

Musum 1 hour ago

I heard that if you take Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and J&J in that order. And then in reverse order. And then a booster shot in random order, the effectiveness jumps from 64% to 65%.

[Jul 09, 2021] Could Pfizer and Moderna Be in Trouble After the Latest COVID Vaccine Findings

So Motley Fool analysts advocate profiteering... Nice. there is some dark neoliberal humor in stating that the elimation of booster shots is bad..

Jul 09, 2021 | www.msn.com

Keith Speights: Some findings were recently published in Nature magazine that indicate that the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines may provide protection for years.

Many investors are and were hoping for annual recurring revenue from these companies' vaccines. Brian, how troublesome is this latest data for the prospects for Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna?

Brian Orelli: There's a bit of an extrapolation going on here. The researchers looked at memory B cells, which tend to provide more long-term protection than, let's say, antibodies. They looked at those in the lymph nodes and found the cells were there as long as 15 weeks.

Typically, they'd mostly be gone by four to six weeks. So that's the basis of this claim that it could offer protection for years. If true, that will be a big blow obviously to vaccine makers, at least for Moderna and BioNTech.

Pfizer would be fine because it's so diversified. It's really hard to make an argument for the valuations of Moderna and BioNTech right now if these vaccines are one and done over a couple of years. They really need to have ongoing sales until they can get growth from other drugs in their pipelines.

Speights: Brian, when I first saw the story, I went to check out to see how the stocks were performing, and Moderna is up, BioNTech was barely changed, Pfizer barely changed. It seems to me that investors really aren't making much of this news. Do you think that's the right take at this point?

Orelli: I think it's still too early to be able to conclude that it's definitely going to work for years. The other issue is that we're looking at, will those B cells actually protect against the variants?

If they don't protect against the variants, then it doesn't really matter if you have B cells in your lymph nodes. If they're not going to protect against the variants then we're going to have to get a booster shot anyway.

Speights: Right. Obviously, if these vaccines provide immunity for multiple years, these companies aren't going to make nearly as much money as they expect and a lot of investors expect. So this is a big story to watch, but like you said, really, really early right now and too soon to maybe go drawing any conclusions at this point.

[Jul 09, 2021] Americans' Trust in Media Hits Record Low

Jul 09, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The dinosaur legacy media is on borrowed time :

"For the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media, according to data from Edelman's annual trust barometer shared exclusively with Axios. Trust in social media has hit an all-time low of 27%."

CNN, especially, among the worst of the worst, is in a tailspin .

[Jul 08, 2021] Tucker Carlson Responds To Unmasking In Blistering Monologue, Discusses With Glenn Greenwald

Jul 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Update (2130ET): Tucker Carlson responded to today's 'unmasking' - namely an Axios report which accuses him of trying to set up an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I'm an American citizen, I can interview whoever I want - and plan to," said the Fox News host.

Presented without further comment, along with Carlson's sit-down with journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Edward Snowden revelations about domestic spying and other illicit activities conducted by the US government.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1412936005305475077

Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a bombshell broadcast that an NSA whistleblower had approached him with evidence that the National Security Agency has been spying on his communications , with the intent to leak his emails to the press and 'take this show off the air.'

Today, Carlson told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that the emails have in fact been leaked to journalists - at least one of whom has contacted him for what we presume is an upcoming article on their contents.

"I was in Washington for a funeral last week and ran into someone I know well, who said ' I have a message for you ,' and then proceeded to repeat back to me details from emails and texts that I sent, and had told no one else about. So it was verified. And the person said 'the NSA has this,' and that was proven by the person reading back the contents of the email, 'and they're going to use it against you.'

To be blunt with you, it was something I would have never said in public if it was wrong, or illegal, or immoral. They don't actually have anything on me, but they do have my emails. So I knew they were spying on me, and again, to be totally blunt with you - as a defensive move, I thought 'I better say this out loud.'"

"Then, yesterday, I learned that - and this is going to come out soon - that the NSA leaked the contents of my email to journalists in an effort to discredit me. I know, because I got a call from one of them who said 'this is what your email was about.'

So, it is not in any way a figment of my imagination. It's confirmed. It's true. They aren't allowed to spy on American citizens - they are. I think more ominously, they're using the information they gather to put leverage and to threaten opposition journalists, people who criticize the Biden administration. It's happening to me right now..."

" This is the stuff of banana republics and third-world countries ," replied Bartiromo.

[Jul 08, 2021] Who Goldman think it actually is?

Jul 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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duck_fur 9 hours ago

Note to Goldman: you're a bank. Stick to banky-stuff. Leave the fear **** and lies to the professionals in the .gov and MSM.

p3scobar 7 hours ago

Goldman is the government... sooo.....

espirit 9 hours ago

If Goldman can give medical advice, so can I.

A Lunatic 9 hours ago remove link

Turning off the TV will neutralize the Delta Variant.

rag_house 9 hours ago

Just like 'Climate Change' you know it's contrived when the bankers start doing 'science.'

liberty2day 9 hours ago

when did they not?

rag_house 8 hours ago

Bankers aren't scientists. They simply dream up fake things they want to convince people of and bribe people to try to make it seem real.

Enraged 9 hours ago remove link

Goldman Sachs Charged in Foreign Bribery Case and Agrees to Pay Over $2.9 Billion

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Goldman Sachs (Malaysia) have admitted to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with a scheme to pay over $1 billion in bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials to obtain lucrative business for Goldman Sachs, including its role in underwriting approximately $6.5 billion in three bond deals for 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB), for which the bank earned hundreds of millions in fees.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/goldman-sachs-charged-foreign-bribery-case-and-agrees-pay-over-29-billion

[Jul 08, 2021] Nothing to do...

Jul 08, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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HillaryOdor 5 hours ago remove link

bond prices have nothing to do with recovery [sic]

stock prices have nothing to do with growth, except growth of the money supply

Kreditanstalt 3 hours ago

"...the price of a beer or a McDonalds in 10-years time will be exactly the same as it is today. (Which it won't.)"

But the type who buy US government bonds don't care about the price of burgers. They only plan to flip the thing back to the next Greater Fool...or THE FED

[Jul 05, 2021] I admit to some amusement over the suspension of the female American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson by WADA

Jul 05, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Erelis , Jul 4 2021 14:53 utc | 4

I admit to some amusement over the suspension of the female American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson by WADA. Imagine if she were Russian. WADA has waged a political war against Russian Olympians ruling against the entire national team most of whom never used performance enhancing drugs according to independent testing. And now the expected cries of racism against a blood test for a banned drug. Sort of ironic I suppose, but watched a clips of several African American sports pundits and they all agreed that rules are rules and must be followed. It has been mostly white pundits who have virtue signaled that her suspension must be lifted due to racism.

[Jul 04, 2021] The most bitterly funny story of the week is that a defector from North Korea thinks that even her homeland is 'not as nuts' as the indoctrination now forced on Western students

Jul 04, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

As Peter Hitchens noted recently "the most bitterly funny story of the week is that a defector from North Korea thinks that even her homeland is 'not as nuts' as the indoctrination now forced on Western students."

One of Yeonmi Park's initial shocks upon starting classes at Colombia University was to be met with a frown after revealing to a staff member that she enjoyed reading Jane Austen. "Did you know," Ms. Park was sternly admonished, "that those writers had a colonial mind-set? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you."

But after encountering the new requirement for the use of gender-neutral pronouns, Yeonmi concluded: "Even North Korea is not this nuts North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy." Devastatingly honest, but not exactly a compliment to what once might have been the land of her dreams.

Sadly, Hitchens reports that her previous experience served Yeonmi well to adapt to her new situation: "She came to fear that making a fuss would affect her grades and her degree. Eventually, she learned to keep quiet, as people do when they try to live under intolerant regimes, and let the drivel wash over her."

Eastern European readers will unfailingly understand what it is that Hitchens meant to say.

[Jul 04, 2021] How Many Have Died From COVID Vaccines

As of July 2, 2021 out of 4456 total deaths attributed to vaccination (of them 1890 after vaccination with Pfizer), it looks like there were at least 36 death of people aged less then 30 years after vaccination with Pfizer vaccine (out of 61 total). Around 136 millions were fully vaccinated,.

Other sources list higher figure (6113) CDC- 6,113 DEAD Following COVID-19 Injections ("Besides the 6,113 deaths reported, there are 5,172 permanent disabilities, 6,435 life threatening events, and 51,558 emergency room visits." )so my method of extracting those data from VAERS database might be wrong or not all death are reported to VAERS.

Another 5 young people were crippled but survived (67 total).

Jul 03, 2021 | undercurrents723949620.wordpress.com

• Each year, more than 165 million Americans get the flu shot. There were 85 reported deaths following influenza vaccination in 2017; 119 deaths in 2018; and 203 deaths in 2019
• Between mid-December 2020 and April 23, 2021, at which point between 95 million and 100 million Americans had received their COVID-19 shots, there were 3,544 reported deaths following COVID vaccination, or about 30 per day
• In just four months, the COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people than all available vaccines combined from mid-1997 until the end of 2013 -- a period of 15.5 years
• As of April 23, 2021, VAERS had also received 12,618 reports of serious adverse events. In total, 118,902 adverse event reports had been filed
• In the European Union, the EudraVigilance system had as of April 17, 2021, received 330,218 injury reports after vaccination with one of the four available COVID vaccines, including 7,766 deaths

In a May 5, 2021, Fox News report, Tucker Carlson asked the question no one is really allowed to ask: "How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?" ¹

Mefobills says: July 4, 2021 at 1:24 am GMT • 1.8 hours ago • 300 Words ↑ @RoatanBill

Then there's not selling Syria the latest S#00 system to help keep Israel out of Syrian skies. That tells me he's using Syria for personal / State gain and that is where he's wrong. That's what makes him just another politician.

I totally get it, there are things that are puzzling to those of us in the audience, watching the moves from afar.

An advanced S-300 or S-400 system could paint every F-16 as it took off from Israel. This would be a red line for Israel and would bring in Uncle Shmuel.

Syria (and by extension Russia) has been allowing Israel to overfly her territory and bomb Hezbollah installations.

It's puzzling – why would you allow a foreign power to bomb your territory, especially if you have S-300's. The answer must be that Syria and Russia are holding back on purpose for reasons only known to them. I can speculate, in that they don't want to give away military capability unless the war goes hot.

Think about the situation now, as opposed to the 90's. Russia's military has been modernized; Military physical fitness is up by 30% (better nutrition?); Foreign exchange is in good shape; the economy is modernizing; food production is up – so Russia is no longer food insecure; oil can be extracted at prices that Saudi cannot compete with; the Artic route is opening up; national economy is more diversified thanks to the western sanctions; Yamal LNG will be fueling Asia; Nordstream will be fueling Europe.

[Jul 03, 2021] Neoliberal game with "Oppressive Language" is a pure Orwellian linguistic madness

You need to drink a lot of "woke coke" and wearing exclusively "woke Nike" to digest those recommendations without laughing.

History repeats, first as tragedy, second as farce. White Guard rebels during Russian civil War called Bolsheviks "Tovatitcshi"(Comrades) as they prohibited to say Sir to the officers.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

Jul 03, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

As George Orwell has taught us, language manipulation is at the frontline (yes, I have just broken one of the cardinal rules of his " Politics and the English Language ," but not his final injunction to "break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous") of politicised mind-bending. The sort of language we are permitted to use circumscribes the thinking that we shall be allowed to engage in. The assault on language is, therefore, an integral component of the unrelenting warfare being waged for the conquest and control of the mind. Word elimination and reassignment of meaning, as Orwell also presciently noted, are essential elements of the campaign to reformat the mind and eventually to subjugate it.

A breath-taking example of how this process works was recently unveiled by the thoroughly brain-washed students of the once prestigious Brandeis University who, this time without prompting from their faculty elders and betters, voted to ban from their campus such odious words and phrases as "picnic" and "you guys," for being "oppressive". "Picnic" is prohibited because it allegedly evokes the lynching of Blacks.

The precocious young intellectuals took pains to produce an entire list of objectionable words and phrases, shocking award-winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates who tweeted in bewilderment: "What sort of punishment is doled out for a faculty member who utters the word 'picnic' at Brandeis? Or the phrase [also proscribed – S.K.] 'trigger warning'? Loss of tenure, public flogging, self-flagellation?"

Oppressive Language	Possible Alternatives	Explanation
Killing it	Great job!	If someone is doing well, we don't need to equate that to
Awesome!	murder!
Take a shot at	Give it a go	These expressions needlessly use imagery of hurting someone or
Take a stab at	Try	something.
Trigger warning	Content note	The word "trigger" has connections to guns for many
Drop-in	people; we can give the same head's up using language less connected to violence.
Rule of thumb	General rule	This expression comes from an old British law allowing men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.
Pknk	Outdoor eating	Tlie term picnic is often associated with lynchings of Black people in the United States, during which white spectators were said to have watched while eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving racial slurs against Black people.
Go off tlte reservation	Disagree with tlie group, defect	This phrase has a harmful
from the group	history rooted in the violent removal of indigenous people from their land and the Itorrible consequences for someone that left the reservation.

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Not Your Father's ZH 8 hours ago (Edited)

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. " ― George Orwell

Not Your Father's ZH 8 hours ago (Edited)

Like Water for Coca-Cola by Theodore Dalrymple . . . Google, the 21st Century Oracle at Delphi.

I Consume, Ergo Sum.

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late." ― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Read more quotes from Thomas Sowell Happy 91st Birthday to Thomas Sowell

Lordflin 10 hours ago

The constant reconstruction of language is a highly effective tool when employed against weak minds... as most folks have only a loose association with the words in their heads...

As meanings of words are changed the ideas associated with those words change... consequently a society can be transformed into a different society without ever answering a single argument...

Not Your Father's ZH 8 hours ago (Edited)

"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time . . . My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups." ~ War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935

A_Huxley 7 hours ago

Maoism.

zorrosgato 10 hours ago

picnic (n.)

1748 (in Chesterfield's "Letters"), but the thing itself apparently was rare before c. 1800 as an English institution [OED]; it originally meant "a fashionable social affair (not necessarily out of doors) in which every partaker contributed something to the general table;" from French piquenique (1690s), perhaps a reduplication of piquer "to pick, peck," from Old French (see pike (n.1)), or the second element may be nique "worthless thing," from a Germanic source.

As in many other riming names, the elements are used without precision, but the lit. sense is appar. 'a picking or nibbling of bits,' a snatch, snack .... [Century Dictionary]

The word also turns up 18c. in German, Danish, Swedish. Later "pleasure party the members of which carry provisions with them on an excursion, as to some place in the country." Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1886. Picnic basket is by 1857. Picnic table is by 1858, originally a folding table used for outdoor dining.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/picnic

MoonWatcher 5 hours ago

Meanwhile the top Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Indian etc. schools concentrating on STEM are laughing their asses off.

John Grady 6 hours ago

Activism is now a career path so to differentiate yourself as an activist you have to have an angle so you look busy. Endless bickering about minutia makes it look like they're doing something.

amerikan 6 hours ago

"Mission Creep" for creeps

[Jul 03, 2021] The Descent Into (Utter) Orwellian Madness

Jul 03, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Stephen Karganovic via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Little wonder that here and there sanity nostalgia is gripping the Western world, at least those isolated portions of it that are not internalising the sinister "new normal." But it is seemingly to no avail. All commanding positions are firmly in the hands of lunatics, who are determined to turn a once great and exemplary civilisation into an asylum.

As George Orwell has taught us, language manipulation is at the frontline (yes, I have just broken one of the cardinal rules of his " Politics and the English Language ," but not his final injunction to "break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous") of politicised mind-bending. The sort of language we are permitted to use circumscribes the thinking that we shall be allowed to engage in. The assault on language is, therefore, an integral component of the unrelenting warfare being waged for the conquest and control of the mind. Word elimination and reassignment of meaning, as Orwell also presciently noted, are essential elements of the campaign to reformat the mind and eventually to subjugate it.

A breath-taking example of how this process works was recently unveiled by the thoroughly brain-washed students of the once prestigious Brandeis University who, this time without prompting from their faculty elders and betters, voted to ban from their campus such odious words and phrases as "picnic" and "you guys," for being "oppressive". "Picnic" is prohibited because it allegedly evokes the lynching of Blacks.

The precocious young intellectuals took pains to produce an entire list of objectionable words and phrases, shocking award-winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates who tweeted in bewilderment: "What sort of punishment is doled out for a faculty member who utters the word 'picnic' at Brandeis? Or the phrase [also proscribed – S.K.] 'trigger warning'? Loss of tenure, public flogging, self-flagellation?"

All three punishments will probably be applied to reactionary professors who go afoul of the list's rigorous linguistic requirements.

Not to be outdone by the progressive kids on the East Coast, avant-garde California legislators have passed a law to remove the pronoun "he" from state legal texts. The momentous reform was initiated by California's new attorney general, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, who after looking up the job requirements made the shocking discovery that the law assumed that the attorney general would be a man.

Upon review, it turned out that the state code and other legal documents were enabling unacceptable concepts by using pronouns "he," "him" and "his" when referring to the attorney general and other state-wide elected officials. Appalled, Ms. Bauer-Kahan denounced these linguistic lapses for not representing "where California is and where California is going." She inarguably was right on that score at least, which has perhaps also something to do with the massive exodus of California residents to less complicated parts of the country.

When lawmakers of a state which is rapidly turning into a North American Calcutta have no concerns more pressing than to revise the use of pronouns in official documents, that sends a clear message where that state is going, exactly as the smart and thoroughly up-to-date woman said.

But as a Pakistani immigrant father in Seattle, state of Washington, discovered to his chagrin, the linguistic clowning can have very serious personal and political consequences. After checking in his 16-year-old autistic son for treatment in what he thought was a medical facility, Ahmed was shocked to receive a telephone call where a social worker explained to him that the child he had originally entrusted to the medical authorities as a son was actually transgender and must henceforth, under legal penalty of removal, be referred to and treated as a "daughter."

Coming from a traditional society still governed by tyrannical precepts of common sense and not accustomed to the ways of the asylum where in search of a better life he and his family inadvertently ended up, the father (a title that like mother, now officially "number one parent," is also on the way out ) was able to conceive his tragic predicament only by weaving a complex conspiracy theory:

"They were trying to create a customer for their gender clinic . . . and they seemed to absolutely want to push us in that direction. We had calls with counsellors and therapists in the establishment, telling us how important it is for him to change his gender, because that's the only way he's going to be better out of this suicidal depressive state."

Since in the equally looney state of Washington the age when minors can request a gender-change surgery without parental consent is 13, the Pakistani parents saw clearly the writing on the wall and, bless them, they came up with a clever stratagem to outwit their callous ideological tormentors. Ahmed "assured Seattle Children's Hospital that he would take his son to a gender clinic and commence his son's transition. Instead, he collected his son, quit his job, and moved his family of four out of Washington."

Perhaps feeling the heat from the linguistic Gestapo even in his celebrity kitchen, iconic chef Jamie Oliver has come on board. Absurdly, Jamie vowed fealty to the ascendant normal by dropping the term "Kaffir lime leaves" from his recipes , in fear that the alleged "historically racist slur" would offend South Africans. No evidence at all has been furnished or demanded of complaints from South Africa in that regard. But it speaks volumes that someone of Jamie's influence and visibility should nevertheless deem it prudent to anticipate such criticism even though, should it have materialised, it of course would not originate from South Africa but from white Western political correctness commissars.

Jamie is now busy, but not just cooking. He is going over his previously published recipes in order to expunge all offensive references to kefir leaves. Orwell aficionados will recall this precious passage from 1984 : "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered." And now every recipe as well. The dystopia fits, does it not, to a tee even something as seemingly trivial as a cooking show?

But it is not just recipes. Children's fairy tales are also fair game for 1984 revision. Hollywood actress Natalie Portman ( Star Wars , The Professional , Thor ), inspired apparently by the new cultural normal, has taken it upon herself not to write, but to re-write, several classic fairy tales to make them "gender-neutral," so "children can defy gender stereotypes." Predictably, pronouns were again a major target:

"I found myself changing the pronouns in many of their books because so many of them had overwhelmingly male characters, disproportionate to reality," quoth Natalie as she put her linguistic scalpel to such old favourites as The Tortoise and the Hare , Country Mouse and City Mouse and The Three Little Pigs .

Need we go on, or does the sharp reader already get the general drift? How about State University of New York student Owen Stevens , who was suspended and censured for pointing out on his Instagram the ascertainable biological fact that "A man is a man, a woman is a woman. A man is not a woman and a woman is not a man." (Owen was snitched on by fellow students, readers from the former Eastern bloc will be amused to learn.) Or the Nebraska university basketball coach who was suspended for using in a motivational speech the mysteriously offensive word "plantation"? Or the hip $57,000-a-year NYC school that banned students from saying "mom" and "dad" , from asking where classmates went on vacation or wishing anyone "Merry Christmas" or even "Happy Holidays"? Or female university student Lisa Keogh in Scotland who said in class "women have vaginas" (who would be better informed than she on that subject?) and are "not as strong as men", who is facing disciplinary action by the university after fellow classmates complained about her "offensive and discriminatory" comments? Or Spanish politician Francisco José Contreras whose Twitter account was blocked as a warning for 12 hours after he tweeted what some would regard as the self-evident truth that "men cannot get pregnant" because they have "no uterus or eggs"?

As Peter Hitchens noted recently "the most bitterly funny story of the week is that a defector from North Korea thinks that even her homeland is 'not as nuts' as the indoctrination now forced on Western students."

One of Yeonmi Park's initial shocks upon starting classes at Colombia University was to be met with a frown after revealing to a staff member that she enjoyed reading Jane Austen. "Did you know," Ms. Park was sternly admonished, "that those writers had a colonial mind-set? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you."

But after encountering the new requirement for the use of gender-neutral pronouns, Yeonmi concluded: "Even North Korea is not this nuts North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy." Devastatingly honest, but not exactly a compliment to what once might have been the land of her dreams.

Sadly, Hitchens reports that her previous experience served Yeonmi well to adapt to her new situation: "She came to fear that making a fuss would affect her grades and her degree. Eventually, she learned to keep quiet, as people do when they try to live under intolerant regimes, and let the drivel wash over her."

Eastern European readers will unfailingly understand what it is that Hitchens meant to say.

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Plus Size Model 9 hours ago

No worries! We're talking about two different things. You explicitly mentioned meanings of words in your initial post. Now you're also alluding to what a psyop officer would describe as manipulating the cognitive environment of a target group. Cognitive manipulation is a much larger toolbox and involves things like perception management, information management, memory retrieval, what old timers refer to as symbol manipulation, etc.

In psychological warfare literature, symbols are somewhat of a mental bookmark. You can really mess people up by altering the bookmarks slightly or changing around the files they reference in a prolonged campaign.

The Nazi swastika is probably the most successful symbol manipulation campaign ever. It means different things to different people and these meanings have evolved substantially over time. Each new generation and is indoctrinated with different presentations of the swastika. The wide latitude of interpretation and extreme views associated with it have consistently created huge social flash points over the past 90 years.

Lorenz Feedback 9 hours ago

I think somethings are being overlooked on this point, Semantic prosody concerns itself with the way unusual combinations of words can create intertextual 'resonance' and can suggest speaker/writer attitude and opinion. Consider the difference with using very powerful versus utterly compelling when presenting an argument. Some words shape narratives better than others and trigger a response well known to advertisers and propagandists...and help shape public opinion.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55272357.pdf

Lordflin 9 hours ago

Yes... changing the context of words has a huge impact...

ie the word white is now seen in the context of numerous pejoratives...

Cautiously Pessimistic 10 hours ago

I fit in here in America less and less with each passing year. I feel like a stranger in my own country at times. I am sure that is by design.

Max Power 9 hours ago

On the other hand, as soon as people encounter real problems like hunger, bankruptcy, or homelessness, all this ivy league brainwashing evaporates in an instance. Just a stupid game played by wealthy white libtards believing in fairytales.

[Jul 03, 2021] Opinion: The looming stagflationary debt crisis will deliver a one-two punch to markets and economies by Nouriel Roubini

Highly recommended!

Notable quotes:

"... For now, loose monetary and fiscal policies will continue to fuel asset and credit bubbles, propelling a slow-motion train wreck. The warning signs are already apparent in today's high price-to-earnings ratios SPX , low equity risk premiums, inflated housing and tech assets COMP , and the irrational exuberance surrounding special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), the crypto sector BTCUSD, , high-yield corporate debt , collateralized loan obligations, private equity, meme stocks AMC, and runaway retail day trading. ..."

"... But meanwhile, the same loose policies that are feeding asset bubbles will continue to drive consumer price inflation, creating the conditions for stagflation whenever the next negative supply shocks arrive. Such shocks could follow from renewed protectionism; demographic aging in advanced and emerging economies; immigration restrictions in advanced economies; the reshoring of manufacturing to high-cost regions; or the balkanization of global supply chains. ..."

"... More broadly, the Sino-American decoupling threatens to fragment the global economy at a time when climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing national governments toward deeper self-reliance. ..."

"... Making matters worse, central banks have effectively lost their independence, because they have been given little choice but to monetize massive fiscal deficits to forestall a debt crisis. With both public and private debts having soared, they are in a debt trap. Central banks will be damned if they do and damned if they don't, and many governments will be semi-insolvent and thus unable to bail out banks, corporations, and households. The doom loop of sovereigns and banks in the eurozone after the global financial crisis will be repeated world-wide ..."

"... When former Fed Chair Paul Volcker hiked rates to tackle inflation in 1980-82, the result was a severe double-dip recession in the United States and a debt crisis and lost decade for Latin America. But now that global debt ratios are almost three times higher than in the early 1970s, any anti-inflationary policy would lead to a depression, rather than a severe recession. The question is not if but when. ..."

Jun 30, 2021 | www.marketwatch.com

Roubini warns: After 'the Minsky Moment' crashes overheated speculative markets, 'the Volcker Moment' will will arrive to crash the debt-burdened global economy

( Project Syndicate ) -- In April, I warned that today's extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with a number of negative supply shocks, could result in 1970s-style stagflation (high inflation alongside a recession). In fact, the risk today is even bigger than it was then.

After all, debt ratios in advanced economies and most emerging markets were much lower in the 1970s, which is why stagflation has not been associated with debt crises historically. If anything, unexpected inflation in the 1970s wiped out the real value of nominal debts at fixed rates, thus reducing many advanced economies' public-debt burdens.

The warning signs are already apparent in today's high price-to-earnings ratios, low equity risk premiums, inflated housing and tech assets, and the irrational exuberance surrounding special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), the crypto sector, high-yield corporate debt, collateralized loan obligations, private equity, meme stocks, and runaway retail day trading.

Conversely, during the 2007-08 financial crisis, high debt ratios (private and public) caused a severe debt crisis -- as housing bubbles burst -- but the ensuing recession led to low inflation, if not outright deflation. Owing to the credit crunch, there was a macro shock to aggregate demand, whereas the risks today are on the supply side.

Worst of both worlds

We are thus left with the worst of both the stagflationary 1970s and the 2007-10 period. Debt ratios are much higher than in the 1970s, and a mix of loose economic policies and negative supply shocks threatens to fuel inflation rather than deflation, setting the stage for the mother of stagflationary debt crises over the next few years.

For now, loose monetary and fiscal policies will continue to fuel asset and credit bubbles, propelling a slow-motion train wreck. The warning signs are already apparent in today's high price-to-earnings ratios SPX , low equity risk premiums, inflated housing and tech assets COMP , and the irrational exuberance surrounding special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), the crypto sector BTCUSD, , high-yield corporate debt , collateralized loan obligations, private equity, meme stocks AMC, and runaway retail day trading.

But meanwhile, the same loose policies that are feeding asset bubbles will continue to drive consumer price inflation, creating the conditions for stagflation whenever the next negative supply shocks arrive. Such shocks could follow from renewed protectionism; demographic aging in advanced and emerging economies; immigration restrictions in advanced economies; the reshoring of manufacturing to high-cost regions; or the balkanization of global supply chains.

Recipe for macroeconomic disruption

More broadly, the Sino-American decoupling threatens to fragment the global economy at a time when climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing national governments toward deeper self-reliance. Add to this the impact on production of increasingly frequent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and the social and political backlash against inequality, and the recipe for macroeconomic disruption is complete.

Making matters worse, central banks have effectively lost their independence, because they have been given little choice but to monetize massive fiscal deficits to forestall a debt crisis. With both public and private debts having soared, they are in a debt trap. Central banks will be damned if they do and damned if they don't, and many governments will be semi-insolvent and thus unable to bail out banks, corporations, and households. The doom loop of sovereigns and banks in the eurozone after the global financial crisis will be repeated world-wide

As inflation rises over the next few years, central banks will face a dilemma. If they start phasing out unconventional policies and raising policy rates to fight inflation, they will risk triggering a massive debt crisis and severe recession; but if they maintain a loose monetary policy, they will risk double-digit inflation -- and deep stagflation when the next negative supply shocks emerge.

But even in the second scenario, policy makers would not be able to prevent a debt crisis. While nominal government fixed-rate debt in advanced economies can be partly wiped out by unexpected inflation (as happened in the 1970s), emerging-market debts denominated in foreign currency would not be. Many of these governments would need to default and restructure their debts.

At the same time, private debts in advanced economies would become unsustainable (as they did after the global financial crisis), and their spreads relative to safer government bonds would spike, triggering a chain reaction of defaults. Highly leveraged corporations and their reckless shadow-bank creditors would be the first to fall, soon followed by indebted households and the banks that financed them.

The Volcker Moment

To be sure, real long-term borrowing costs may initially fall if inflation rises unexpectedly and central banks are still behind the curve. But, over time, these costs will be pushed up by three factors. First, higher public and private debts will widen sovereign and private interest-rate spreads. Second, rising inflation and deepening uncertainty will drive up inflation risk premiums. And, third, a rising misery index -- the sum of the inflation and unemployment rate -- eventually will demand a "Volcker Moment."

When former Fed Chair Paul Volcker hiked rates to tackle inflation in 1980-82, the result was a severe double-dip recession in the United States and a debt crisis and lost decade for Latin America. But now that global debt ratios are almost three times higher than in the early 1970s, any anti-inflationary policy would lead to a depression, rather than a severe recession. The question is not if but when.

Under these conditions, central banks will be damned if they do and damned if they don't, and many governments will be semi-insolvent and thus unable to bail out banks, corporations, and households. The doom loop of sovereigns and banks in the eurozone after the global financial crisis will be repeated world-wide, sucking in households, corporations, and shadow banks as well.

As matters stand, this slow-motion train wreck looks unavoidable. The Fed's recent pivot from an ultra-dovish to a mostly dovish stance changes nothing. The Fed has been in a debt trap at least since December 2018, when a stock- and credit-market crash forced it to reverse its policy tightening a full year before COVID-19 struck. With inflation rising and stagflationary shocks looming, it is now even more ensnared.

So, too, are the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England. The stagflation of the 1970s will soon meet the debt crises of the post-2008 period. The question is not if but when.

Nouriel Roubini is CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and chief economist at Atlas Capital Team.

This commentary was published with permission of Project Syndicate -- The Looming Stagflationary Debt Crisis.

See also:

• Nouriel Roubini: Stagflationary forces are building
• Peter Morici: Stagflation will challenge the president in 2021
• Stephen Roach: The ghost of Arthur Burns haunts a complacent Federal Reserve that's pouring fuel on the fires of inflation

[Jul 03, 2021] In MSM we trust, or not: United States Ranks Last In Global Media Trust, New Report Finds - ZeroHedge

Jul 03, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

For years, we have been discussing the decline of journalism values with the rise of open bias in the media. Now, a newly released report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford has found something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The United States ranked dead last in media trust among 49 countries with just 29% saying that they trusted the media.

[Jul 03, 2021] They're not real humans. I think Rogan might be closer to the truth than he realizes on that one

The are "apparatchiks" and that means that Rogan unfortunatly is closer to the truth then one might suspect. "Ideological warriors" so to speak if we reuse Soviet term for such creatures.

Jul 03, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

snatchpounder

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6 hours ago

Stetler isn't the only CIA script reader there's thousands of those cockroaches, they're on every 'news' channel in this country. Stetler looks like a pedo, he's a fat idiot he proves that every time he opens his candyass mouth.

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I stopped at fat idiot, no proof needed

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NoDebt

6 hours ago

They're not real humans.

I think Rogan might be closer to the truth than he realizes on that one.

[Jul 02, 2021] Number Of US Truck Drivers Sidelined Due To Substance Abuse Violations Has Surpassed 60,000

Jul 02, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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Lone_Star 7 hours ago

I don't see what's wrong with truck drivers being all hopped up on amphetamines, they were doing it to bomber pilots during WWII and beyond.

rockstone 7 hours ago

The whole idea is to keep a shipping network from resembling a bombing run.

fxrxexexdxoxmx3 PREMIUM 7 hours ago

Comment of the day

ParkAveSlasher 7 hours ago (Edited)

I would think a bombing run would be the most efficient thing a delivery and offload could resemble

[Jul 02, 2021] Mom details 12-year-old daughter's extreme reactions to COVID vaccine, says she's now in wheelchair

Notable quotes:

"... De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck." ..."

"... The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and [physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back." ..."

"... De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut down. "It's just not right," she said. ..."

"... Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee included stories from five people, including De Garay ..."

"... The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums following early clinical trials ..."

"... Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, according to Johnson's letter. ..."

"... You missed the whole point! The issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID. ..."

"... anyone under 25 should not get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact from the vaccine versus the actual virus. ..."

"... With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist / Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences. ..."

"... Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known today. ..."

"... The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19. That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real. ..."

Jul 02, 2021 | www.foxnews.com

Mom details 12-year-old daughter's extreme reactions to COVID vaccine, says she's now in wheelchair Stephanie De Garay shares story with Tucker Carlson By Stephanie Giang-Paunon | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email

https://static.foxnews.com/static/orion/html/video/iframe/vod.html?v=20210701170943#uid=fnc-embed-1 Mom describes daughter's bad COVID vaccine reaction, says she's now in wheelchair

Mother Stephanie De Garay joins 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to discuss how her 12-year-old daughter volunteered for the Pfizer vaccine trial and is now in a wheelchair.

An Ohio mother is speaking out about her 12-year-old daughter suffering extreme reactions and nearly dying after volunteering for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine trial.

Stephanie De Garay told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday that after reaching out to multiple physicians they claimed her daughter, Maddie De Garay, couldn't have become gravely ill from the vaccine.

"The only diagnosis we've gotten for her is that it's conversion disorder or functional neurologic symptom disorder, and they are blaming it on anxiety," De Garay told Tucker Carlson. "Ironically, she did not have anxiety before the vaccine."

De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck."

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The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and [physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back."

Carlson asked whether any officials from the Biden administration or representatives from Pfizer company have reached out to the family. "No, they have not," she answered.

"The response with the person that's leading the vaccine trial has been atrocious," she said. "We wanted to know what symptoms were reported and we couldn't even get an answer on that. It was just that 'we report to Pfizer and they report to the FDA.' That's all we got."

After her heartbreaking experience, the Ohio mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also pro-informed consent." De Garay mentioned she's speaking out because she feels like everyone should be fully aware of this tragic incident and added the situation is being "pushed down and hidden."

De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut down. "It's just not right," she said.

"They need to do research and figure out why this happened, especially to people in the trial. I thought that was the point of it," De Garay concluded. "They need to come up with something that's going to treat these people early because all they're going to do is keep getting worse."

Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee included stories from five people, including De Garay.

The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums following early clinical trials.

Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, according to Johnson's letter.

Pfizer and Moderna did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News about Johnson's letters.

J jeff5150357 6 hours ago

My daughter had the same thing happen to her after getting a flu vaccine 9 years ago. Within days of getting it, she went from being as healthy as an ox to years of awful, unexplained illness. The short version is they concluded that she had a severe adverse reaction to the vaccine, but from the delivery chemicals, not the flu content itself. Formaldehyde was the likely major cause. Now she is getting ready to begin college and is being required to get the Covid vaccine by her university and the NCAA for athletics. It is causing her, my wife and I horrible anxiety and we feel like we are being railroaded into something that could be very dangerous for her. Any discussion or concern expressed on social media is immediately blocked. I know from years of working in the research grants office at Yale University that the big pharma industry is powerful and will go to great lengths to control the narrative. What I don't understand is why mainstream media and social media are so willing to help them these days!

jeff5150357 4 hours ago

While the college experience is great for a young adult. I would look at getting a degree online. Her future earnings will be based on her merit, not where she went to school. If someone was telling me what to do with my personal health, and I was uncomfortable with their prescription, I would follow my instincts.

LoraJane92649 jeff5150357 5 hours ago

If her flu vax is well documented she should be able to get a waiver. Hopefully you have an able bodied family physician or medical team to advocate on your behalf.

G gunvald 7 hours ago

You know when you take it that there can be adverse reactions. So, in that sense, you are informed. Any one of us could be the odd person. That said, I have a problem with any child getting these vaccines, especially when most people recover from the disease. It's one thing for me as an elderly person to make the decision to take it as covid affects the elderly person more and I wanted to avoid that ventilator. Most of my life has been lived and that's how I evaluated it. This will always come down to putting it in God's hands.

TheTruthAsItIs gunvald 6 hours ago

You missed the whole point! The issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID.

D DontDestoryUSA gunvald 4 hours ago

It's not being informed when you are forced to take a vaccination that they clearly had trouble with past vaccination sounds like a lawsuit for the university is on the horizon. With a big pay day

Tony5SFG 7 hours ago

"Ohio mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also pro-informed consent." " And as a pediatrician for over 40 yrs (retired now) and a 10 year member of my medical school's Institutional Review Board (which had to approve all human research), THAT is a problem I have been bringing up As far as requiring all young people, such as entering or in college, to get the vaccine Children are a protected class and the informed consent for research on them is much more strenuous than for adults And, requiring young people to take these new vaccines is the equivalent of doing research on them. The issue of myocarditis is quite troubling. And while it has been seen in natural infections, I have not yet seen an adequate risk - benefit evaluation regarding risking natural infection versus vaccination And people say that the myocarditis is not severe, no one can be sure of the long term effects of a young person getting it. The vaccines that we give children have been used for decades and the risks/benefits have been well established

D DallasAmEmail Tony5SFG 6 hours ago

A friends daughter who just went through internship as Physicians assistant based on the percentages in age groups believes anyone under 25 should not get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact from the vaccine versus the actual virus. Yes, older age groups the percent having negative impact from the virus is much greater than the vaccine, so yes older age groups should get the vaccine. What really is bothersome is when Youtube removes Dr. Robert Malone video who helped create the mrna vaccine express concern that normal testing has not happened and be cautious about taking it, especially for the young.

marinesfather601 Tony5SFG 5 hours ago

With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist / Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences.

Hilltopper9 7 hours ago

Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known today. The same could be said of all the chemicals we apply to our body daily through shampoos, hair dyes, body lotions, and suntan lotions. Life's a gamble. It's up to each individual to make the best decisions possible given the facts available.

A akbushrat Hilltopper9 6 hours ago

The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19. That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real.

F Fauxguy930 Hilltopper9 5 hours ago

☢️ N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine is a nitrosamine that has butyl and 4-hydroxybutyl substituents. In mice, it causes high-grade, invasive cancers in the urinary bladder, but not in any other tissues. It has a role as a carcinogenic agent. Ingredient in all shots. How did a carcinogen get FDA approved, oh it was an emergency.

R RussellRika 6 hours ago

I have a twelve year old, and not a chance I'd allow her to volunteer for any vaccine trial, and especially not this one. She very much wanted to get a vaccine, until she started reading about some of the adverse reactions. Sorry, but I'm a child, the benefit does not outweigh the risk.

MrEd50 6 hours ago

I took the vaccine because I'm 60 years old and work with special ed kids. My 18 year old child refuses to take it and I support him on this. COVID shouldn't be an issue for most of us.

[Jul 01, 2021] Putin Signs Law Forcing Foreign Social Media Giants To Open Russian Offices

Comments are mostly idiotic/uninformed/biased as typical for Slashdot on topics related to Russia

Jul 01, 2021 | tech.slashdot.org

Putin Signs Law Forcing Foreign Social Media Giants To Open Russian Offices (reuters.com) 47 Posted by msmash on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:45PM from the how-about-that dept. President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that obliges foreign social media giants to open offices in Russia , a document published by the government on Thursday showed, the latest move by Moscow to exert greater control over Big Tech. From a report: The Russian authorities are keen to strengthen their control of the internet and to reduce their dependence on foreign companies and countries. In particular, they have objected in the past to political opponents of the Kremlin using foreign social media platforms to organise what they say are illegal protests and to publicise politically-tinged investigations into alleged corruption. Moscow has fined firms for failing to delete content it says is illegal, slowing down the speed of Twitter as punishment, and on Wednesday opened a new case against Alphabet subsidiary Google for breaching personal data legislation. by Vlijmen Fileer ( 120268 ) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:47PM ( #61540686 )

Other countries do the same. But somehow get less media attention for it

[Jul 01, 2021] Fauci: There Are Now Two Americas, The Vaccinated The Unvaccinated ; ZH commenter: There are now two Americas. One that's retarded. And one that wants Fauci on a lamppost.

Authorities doe not telling truth: people who already have COVID do not need to be vaccinated. Also if Delta varient can infect vaccineted in conserable quantities how any resobale person can maintain this goal of "herg immunity". How it can be achieved if a vaccinated person can be infected and thus spread the disease both amoung vaccinated cohort and among the unvaccinated cohort. The fact the vaccinated people are infected with Delta changes the game and here Senator Paul is wrong.

Pushing vaccination on chidren in such curcumstances changes nothing is became a very questionable move both from scientific an from ethical perspective.

Jul 01, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

America's favourite Chinese lab funding coronavirus doomonger doctor Anthony Fauci announced Tuesday that there are now two Americas, a vaccinated America and an unvaccinated America.

As Senator Rand Paul noted earlier this week , there is a boat load of misinformation on the matter coming from a government that is indiscriminately pushing vaccinations:

Rand Paul TEARS Into Senate Witness for Indiscriminately Pushing Vaccines

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SexyJulian 3 hours ago

There are now two Americas. One that's retarded. And one that wants Fauci on a lamppost.

liberty2 1 hour ago (Edited)

Note that the officials said there's no such thing as "herd immunity" last year. Now this year they keep saying that we can reach "herd immunity" if we are 70% vaxxed! Terms are used if it fits their narrative.

Ride_the_kali_yuga 3 hours ago (Edited)

In the Covidian Cult, there is true believers in one side and heretics on the other side. Vaxxed and unvaxxed.

Divide and rule strategy, as always. Do not undurestimate the ratio of retarded people among the population, it has been growing like a cancer for decades. It amazes me how perfectly coordinated those MSM Covidian propaganda events appears worldwide.

In here France, 2 days ago, most MSM have all simultaneously gone full berserk (without any reason) blaming the reluctant ones. One of them on TV said something like : "if it was me, i will use police to drag those who refuse these "vaccines" from their home and force it on them"

This was priceless, this little man has morbid obesity. We now officialy all live on the twilight zone on steroids. Land whales dictate how people should consider their own health. This ride seems to never end.

We now have officialy entered the dehumanization phase of the unvaxxed. The sanitary gulag is not far from here.

NIRP-BTFD 1 hour ago

There are 2 Americas. The 0.01% (the rulers that own everything) and the serfs.

DemandSider 1 hour ago

Exactly, parasite and host. Fauci would be the former, obviously.

[Jun 30, 2021] There are two types of people today, those who still listen to media and authority figures that are proven liars, and those who remember and are immune to further lies FROM PROVEN LIARS

Jun 30, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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Son of Loki 10 hours ago (Edited)

"Recent research shows the vaxxinated group had a 18 point lower IQ score then the unvaxxinated group and a 128 point higher gullibility score."

Fact Checked : True ✔️

Cirdan PREMIUM 9 hours ago

Wow! I didn't know they had a gullibility score!

bidennotmyprez99 9 hours ago remove link

Sure that's true but in my circle, it's all the super intellectual types who are getting "vaxxed". You know, the ones who read the Guardian in the UK or the NYT in the US and sneer at we deplorables. They pride themselves on being free and critical thinkers. Yet, they are the ones getting the jab. Incredible. The other group I see all aroujnd me getting jabbed are the fundamental christians: the ones who vowed never to bow to Caesar. Yeah, right. They've been warning all their lives about the Mark of the Beast and fall at the first hurdle. In contrast, all the ordinary working class Joes I know see it for the nasty ******** that it is.

No-Go zone 6 hours ago

The ordinary working class still has a common sense.

Smiddywesson 11 hours ago

There are two types of people today, those who still listen to media and authority figures that are proven liars, and those who remember and are immune to further lies FROM PROVEN LIARS. Faucci and company are proven liars, he can't tell me the time of day with any credibility at all.

Gunston_Nutbush_Hall 7 hours ago (Edited)

h/t ZH Johnny Walker http://whale.to/vaccines.html
"If this is preventive medicine, I'll take my chances with disease." ~ Mendelsohn M.D

Dis-obey 8 hours ago

The Delta strain is weak sauce. With a mortality rate of 0.1% it's the same as H1N1. H1N1 has been with Humanity since at least 1918 and human immunology has coped to deal with it. Don't be fooled.

BendGuyhere 11 hours ago

1)The "case" number is pure JUNK SCIENCE. Meaningless. It is PCR cycles jacked up until it gives a "positive". This is for people (Idiots) who get their 'science' from the National Enquirer.

2) Corona viruses are NOTORIOUS for constantly rapidly mutating, like the Common Cold.

3) ALL pathogenic viruses, to the extent that there even is a pathogenic covid virus anymore, attenuate over time. That is they become LESS pathogenic and the human immune system becomes more and more competent at recognizing and neutralizing viruses within the same family.

4) Well "What about India?" What ABOUT India? Outside of the MSM, which has mutated into a vast labyrinth of lies geared towards social control, we have no way of verifying what actually happened in India.

BugMan 5 hours ago

The microorganism must be identified in all individuals affected by the disease, but not in healthy individuals.

The microorganism can be isolated from the diseased individual and grown in culture.

When introduced into a healthy individual , the cultured microorganism should cause disease.

The microorganism must then be re-isolated from the experimental host , and found to be identical to the original microorganism.

Robert Koch and Koch's Postulates | Basic Microbiology | Microbe Notes

dot_bust 7 hours ago

I'm struck by the fact that the news media constantly push the so-called Covid-19 "vaccines." Have the news media become pharmaceutical company sales reps ?

Every day, I see news articles proclaiming that the Covid-19 "vaccines" are effective against the variants. They cite new studies even though such studies take a lot more time to conduct than has been alloted for concrete conclusions.

Overall, the pimping of the Covid shots by reporters is suspect at best. These so-called journalists never mention treatments, only vaccines.

Bill of Rights 7 hours ago (Edited)

When was the last time the MEDIA was actually just that the Media? 1960s perhaps..

What you are subjected to now, or for the better term, Choose to watch now is trash where 99% of it is made up and false.

Conductor "Corn Pop" Angelo 8 hours ago

Following a citizen's petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data, reports AndreDias.net .

According to the ruling , the number of verified COVID-19 deaths from January 2020 to April 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries.

All the "others" died for various reasons, although their PCR test was positive.

"We live in a fraud of unprecedented dimensions," wrote Dias.

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/frontlinenews/lisbon-court-rules-only-0-9-of-verified-cases-died-of-covid-numbering-152-not-17000-claimed/

[Jun 30, 2021] I plan on catching the Delta Variant on Delta Airlines. Its the kind of story I want to tell my grandchildren

Jun 30, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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Sigh. 11 hours ago

Not a pandemic but a manufactured DemPanic. These snarling rabid far-left-wing dogs will seize and shake any opportunity they can get to further their RESET utopian agendas, including population reductions and striking down capitalism. So close to their goals now, they are gone wild in their attacks and without any reservations whatsoever.

Fear for this little Republic. Its time is almost up.

Kugelhagel 11 hours ago

It's like a priest in stone age: if harvest was low because weather was bad a priest said "gimme all your sheet and I'll talk to the gods" . When that doesn't work he says "of course it not worked, you not gave me enough! gimme more!" ... and some day it worked and weather was good and the priest was celebrated.
Same here ... Snakeoil sellers.

No-Go zone 7 hours ago remove link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat

The Bidet Administration Goes Haywire 11 hours ago (Edited)

I plan on catching the Delta Variant on Delta Airlines. Its the kind of story I want to tell my grandchildren.

[Jun 26, 2021] I had originally thought MH17 was a US ploy, but a lot of stuff points to Britain

Jun 25, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Peter AU1 , Jun 24 2021 2:52 utc | 99

MH17, I had originally thought was a US ploy, but a lot of stuff points to Britain. I think Britain pulled that stunt, no doubt coordinated with factions in the US, and it was enough to tip the balance in the US - to force the US into action who then put pressure on the Euro vassals.
Where the US oligarchy is a bit divided, not much of an incident is required by perfidious albion to tip the balance.

Wolle , Jun 24 2021 9:06 utc | 113

More from BBC:
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1407866212604907526

[Jun 26, 2021] 'You Were Wrong About A Lot Of Sh-t'- Maher Blasts Big Tech, CDC Over Lab-Leak Censorship - ZeroHedge

Jun 26, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Bill Maher slammed Big Tech on Friday's episode of his show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," criticizing Facebook and Google for censoring content discussing the COVID-19 lab-leak theory.

"I find this outrageous. Facebook banned any post for four months about COVID coming from a lab," said Maher, adding "Now, even the Biden administration is looking into it."

incharge1976 PREMIUM 1 hour ago (Edited)

Google and the like are not search engines, video sites, or social media sites. They are propaganda machines

The First Rule 42 minutes ago (Edited)

Yeah, Yandex.com is head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to getting around pretty much any US based web search censorship.

It will show you the things Google is trying to hide.

[Jun 26, 2021] U Of Ottawa Adjuct Professor smoked something really strong and claimed that Sex Work Is The Best Thing Young People Can Do Early In Their Careers

Too may crazies among adjunct professors were discovered recently in the ocntext of Woke ideology and Critical race theory. This is another one. What is interesting is the she is a female.

Jun 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Addison Smith via Campus Reform,

[A person the claims to be] University of Ottawa adjunct professor and Canadian Lawyer Naomi Sayers took to Twitter recently to endorse sex work for "young people," calling it "the best thing" they can do early in their careers.

"unpopular opinion: the best thing young people can do early in their careers is do #SexWork on the side because your early career prospects will be unstable, unpredictable, low pay, likely contract work and very much exploitative," Sayers wrote on Twitter Sunday.

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Campus Reform reached out to Exodus Cry , a non-profit organization committed to fighting back against sex work and human trafficking. Director of Intervention Helen Taylor replied calling Sayers' comments "deeply irresponsible."

"For Professor Sayers to flippantly encourage young vulnerable students to engage in such a harmful industry is deeply irresponsible and extremely offensive to survivors who are working hard to heal and recover from the damage prostitution inflicted on their lives," Taylor wrote

"The sex industry is a system of violence and gender inequality. It is not a 'job like any other.' It puts girls at higher risk daily of rape, theft and murder. It causes long-term PTSD comparable to torture victims"¦ We believe education leaders ought to be protecting young women, and empowering them to aim high, not echoing pimp's advertisements for the sex trade."

UPDATE: Sayers' publicist contacted Campus Reform after publication and insisted Sayers has no relation with the University of Ottawa as a professor.

When Campus Reform reached out to Sayers for an interview, she replied, "my policy is not to answer questions from media in which the answer can be found on google [sic] , which tweets are searchable on google now (aka do their research)".

Research conducted by Campus Reform found that in Sayers LinkedIn profile, she currently touts herself as "adjunct professor" at the university.

[Jun 26, 2021] Groupthink inherently discounts primary evidence in favor of social affirmation

Jun 26, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

gcjohns1971 2 hours ago

Personalities of the Left are group-thinkers, not critical-thinkers.

Group-thinkers have two giant vulnerabilities: They're easily misled by ANYONE with harisma, and psychopaths actively exploit that weakness. And inasmuch as group-think inherently discounts primary evidence in favor of social affirmation, group-think is ALWAYS wrong.

[Jun 26, 2021] The End of Faucism is Nigh as Democrats Ditch the Doctor by JD Rucker

"Objective judgement is our jugement about the people we do not like ;-)"

In view of the fact that Delta (Indian) variant can infect vaccinated with the first generation of vaccines people Fauci statement "when you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community." i obviously wrong. Delta Covid-19 Variant Can Infect Vaccinated People

See also Delta variant infected two Orange County residents who were fully vaccinated - Orlando Sentinel and Just 26 fully vaccinated people have died from Delta variant

May 16, 2021 | freedomfirstnetwork.com

Those who don't get their news from mainstream media have been aware of Anthony Fauci's connection to "gain of function" research for months. Now, mainstream media is picking it up so the White House is scrambling.

For months, there wasn't a day that went by when Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn't doing multiple interviews spreading fear of Covid-19, demanding people take the various "vaccines," and changing his talking points from moment to moment on a slew of healthcare-related issues. We saw a clear change last week when the White House's chief doc seemed to fly under the radar for the first time since Joe Biden took office.

It all comes down to "gain of function" research that is almost certainly the cause of the Wuhan Flu. Developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab, Covid-19 either escaped or was intentionally released. While many in academia still hold onto the notion that the pandemic was started by bats, they do so simply because it hasn't -- and likely cannot -- be completely ruled out as long as the Chinese Communist Party has a say in the matter. But many are now accepting the likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Lab as a result of "gain of function" research.

We also now know that Fauci has been a huge proponent of this research and he participated in funding it at the Wuhan Virology Lab. More evidence is emerging every day despite the bad doctor's protestations. And when I say "we also now know," that's to say more mainstream media watchers know. Those who turn to alternative media have known about Fauci's involvement with the Wuhan Virology Lab for a while.

They've been trying to cover their tracks. A bombshell revelation from The National Pulse yesterday showed they realized this was going to be a problem long before Rand Paul or Tucker Carlson started calling Fauci out.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology scrubbed the U.S. National Institutes of Health as one of its research partners from its website in early 2021. The revelation comes despite Dr. Anthony Fauci insisting no relationship existed between the institutions.

Archived versions of the Wuhan lab's site also reveal a research update – " Will SARS Come Back? " – appearing to describe gain-of-function research being conducted at the institute by entities funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

On March 21st, 2021, the lab's website listed six U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife Federation.

One day later, the page was revised to contain just two research partners – EcoHealth Alliance and the University of Alabama. By March 23rd, EcoHealth Alliance was the sole partner remaining .

EcoHealth Alliance is run by long-standing Chinese Communist Party-partner Dr. Peter Daszak , who National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has repeatedly claimed will be the first "fall guy" of the Wuhan lab debacle.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology's decision to wipe the NIH from its website came amidst heightened scrutiny that the lab was the source of COVID-19 – and that U.S. taxpayer dollars from the NIH may have funded the research. The unearthing of the lab's attempted coverup also follows a heated exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Fauci, who attempted to distance his organization from the Wuhan lab.

Beyond establishing a working relationship between the NIH and the Wuhan Institue of Virology, now-deleted posts from the site also detail studies bearing the hallmarks of gain-of-function research conducted with the Wuhan-based lab. Fauci, however, asserted to Senator Paul that "the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

There is still a tremendous gap between those who know the truth about Fauci and those who still think he's just a smart little guy who tells Joe Biden what to do when it comes to Covid. As we've documented multiple times in the past, there seems to be a cult of personality surrounding Fauci, or as many have called it, Faucism. He is practically worshipped as a savior by millions who believe everything he says even if he contradicts something he had said in the past.

Today, he was interviewed on CBS News during "Face the Nation." It was a softball interview, as always, and at no point was "gain of function" research discussed. Instead, John Dickerson tried to sound smart and Fauci gave him kudos in an odd back-and-forth promoting vaccines.

JOHN DICKERSON : So, if- if a person is deciding whether or not to get vaccinated, they have to keep in mind whether it's going to keep them healthy. But based on these new findings, it would suggest they also have an opportunity, if vaccinated, to knock off or block their ability to transmit it to other people. So, does it increase the public health good of getting the vaccination or make that clearer based on these new findings?

DR. FAUCI : And you know, JOHN, you said it very well. I could have said it better. It's absolutely the case. And that's the reason why we say when you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. And in other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community. And that's exactly the reason, and you said it very well, of why we encourage people and want people to get vaccinated. The more people you get vaccinated, the safer the entire community is.

JOHN DICKERSON : And do you think now that this guidance has come out on relaxing the mass mandates if you've been vaccinated, that people who might have been hesitant before will start to get vaccinated in greater numbers?

DR. FAUCI : You know, I hope so, JOHN. The underlying reason for the CDC doing this was just based on the evolution of the science that I mentioned a moment ago. But if, in fact, this serves as an incentive for people to get vaccinated, all the better. I hope it does, actually.

Don't let the presence of this interview fool you. It was almost certainly scheduled before the "gain of function" research discussion hit the mainstream. But as Revolver News reported today, we should start seeing less and less of Fauci going forward.

What happened to the almighty Dr. Fauci? Last week he was on TV telling all of us that life wouldn't get back to normal for at least another year or so, and this week he's pretty much gone. So what happened?

Well, a lot, actually. The biggest turn for Fauci involves 3 little words: Gain of Function. It was this past week when the "gain of function" dots were publicly connected to the good doctor. This is nothing new for those of us on the right. Here on Revolver, we've covered Fauci's gain of function research extensively and the evidence against him is very damning.

A couple of months ago Fox News Host Steve Hilton blew the lid off of Fauci's macabre obsession (and funding) of research involving the manipulation of highly contagious viruses. Hilton laid the groundwork, but it was Senator Rand Paul who called out Fauci and his ghoulish research face to face during a Senate hearing.

But even more notable, is that the CDC just updated their guidelines on mask-wearing and essentially ended the pandemic -- a pandemic that Fauci has been the proud face of for over a year now -- and when that announcement hit, he was nowhere to be found. And his absence didn't go unnoticed.

Yes indeed, you'd think that Fauci would have been front and center to discuss the CDC's new guidelines the moment the news hit. The "Golden Boy" taking yet another victory lap. After all, Fauci never misses a moment in the spotlight. But he was not hitting the airwaves with the typical fanfare.

It is still very possible that Fauci can make a resurgence. His fan-base is up there with Meghan Markle and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though even more devoted than the divas'. Unlike other useful idiots, the White House will not be able to detach easily from Fauci, nor do they want to. At this point, they're telling him to lay low and avoid any interviews in which they do not have complete control over the "journalist" involved. John Dickerson has been a Democrat Party pawn for decades.

Behind the scenes, they're already planning on ditching him. It will be done with all the pomp one would expect for one of their heroes and will be used to mark the end of the "emergency" in the United States. He'll still be promoting vaccines and will try to stay in his precious limelight, but Democrats are ready to move on and open up the country. It has just been too politically suicidal to persist with their lockdown mentality.

The key to seeing Fauci's narcissistic reign end is for patriots to continue to hammer him on his involvement with developing Covid-19. His beloved "gain of function research" needs to be explained to any who will listen. Then, maybe, Fauci will go away.

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[Jun 26, 2021] The Racism Of Low Expectations

Sounds like a great book for Tucker to recommend to that Army Chief of Staff!

Notable quotes:

"... I call it ROLE -- The Racism Of Low Expectations. This phenomenon has done ten times more to damage Black lives than can be attributed to CRT or institutionalized racism. ..."

"... A subset of ROLE is MVT. This is Manufactured Victimhood Theory. This comes about from influential Black "leaders" who, instead of teaching Blacks the truth about how to live good lives (work hard, develop skills, etc.), they told them to apply as their life strategy "say you are a victim." ..."

Jun 26, 2021 | www.wsj.com

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Cindy Fryman 4 hours ago

Recently the Joint Chiefs of Staff remarked that the US military should teach CTR to our military essentially because they shoild teach all theories.

That doesn't make sense to me but I would like to put another theory into the public sphere. I call it ROLE -- The Racism Of Low Expectations. This phenomenon has done ten times more to damage Black lives than can be attributed to CRT or institutionalized racism.

A subset of ROLE is MVT. This is Manufactured Victimhood Theory. This comes about from influential Black "leaders" who, instead of teaching Blacks the truth about how to live good lives (work hard, develop skills, etc.), they told them to apply as their life strategy "say you are a victim."

I am hoping that ROLE and MVT will become part of all aspects of American life -- all levels of education, the military, businesses, the media, etc.

If the goal really is to improve Black lives, ROLE and MVT should be the rage over the next few years.

Tom F

John Callahan 4 hours ago

Corporate America 'makes money critiquing itself.' The rest of us pay the price in diminished freedom.

Wokeism is fascism dressed up in new clothes- the censorship, demonization of groups and individuals and the physical violence against people and property remain the same. Corporate America has one overriding interest- making money. Paying the left (and yes, fascism is of the left) through critiquing itself and token monetary donations is a get out of jail free card for Corporate America.

"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it."
- Thomas Sowell

Dom Fried 4 hours ago

It will end the same. Almost, because there will be nobody to stop it.

Ed Baron 3 hours ago

Very well said, John. Fascism is a fundamental element or subset of Leftist or Marxist thought. It demands conformity of the individual to the new "woke" state and it punishes any who dissent. It's not incidental that American Leftists, including FDR, loved Mussolini prior to WWII. That bromance has been washed clean, and attributed instead to the Right. Such a typical transference technique used by Marxist.

Alex Guiness

I interpret your supposition 'White male global warming', as meaning White Males are particularly flatulent hence are producing Green House Gases with their diets of greasy meats (some on sticks), carnival funnel cakes, corn dogs, Philly cheese-steaks, Popeyes fried chicken, all washed down with Bud Light. Would it kill them to have a salad now and then? How can their spouses stand to be around them unless they are also consuming the same foods. Imagine what it must be like at a sermon in a Lutheran Church, the whitest church of all. They leave the doors open else a spark could set the whole place ablaze.

carol Perry

Thanks for today's chuckle Alex.

Alex Guiness

read my smurfs comment. i just posted it

Lynn Silton

Mr. Ramaswamy is right in every way! I don't belong to the Woke Church. I'll never join. America is an inspirational country as is all it's written declarations. We, the people rule. No religion can overrule it. We will not allow religious 'honor killings.' They are murder here. We will not allow Wokism here it is the murder of our hopes and dreams which belong to everybody regardless of appearance. I don't even know how appearance (of all things) became a religion. The whole thing is so sick, people of all shades are speaking out and we will put this crazy idea down. Here, we marry across all appearances. New people are often different in appearance than parents. Woke will die of that alone. That's why we have an immigration 'problem' . People love our constitution and Declaration of Independence. People love that they rule here, not the government. That's our creed and promise. Help protect it!!

[Jun 26, 2021] Take your communion with woke coke: The birth of wokeism cult was a godsend to corporations

Notable quotes:

"... It helped defang the left. "Wokeism lent a lifeline to the people who were in charge of the big banks. They thought, 'This stuff is easy!' " They applauded diversity and inclusion, appointed token female and minority directors, and "mused about the racially disparate impact of climate change." So, in Mr. Ramaswamy's narrative, "a bunch of big banks got together with a bunch of millennials, birthed woke capitalism, and then put Occupy Wall Street up for adoption." Now, in Mr. Ramaswamy's tart verdict, "big business makes money by critiquing itself." ..."

"... Davos is "the Woke Vatican," Mr. Ramaswamy says; Al Gore and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock , are "its archbishops." CEOs "further down the chain" -- he mentions James Quincey of Coca-Cola , Ed Bastian of Delta , Marc Benioff of Salesforce , John Donahoe of Nike and Alan Jope of Unilever -- are its "cardinals." ..."

Jun 26, 2021 | www.wsj.com

It helped defang the left. "Wokeism lent a lifeline to the people who were in charge of the big banks. They thought, 'This stuff is easy!' " They applauded diversity and inclusion, appointed token female and minority directors, and "mused about the racially disparate impact of climate change." So, in Mr. Ramaswamy's narrative, "a bunch of big banks got together with a bunch of millennials, birthed woke capitalism, and then put Occupy Wall Street up for adoption." Now, in Mr. Ramaswamy's tart verdict, "big business makes money by critiquing itself."

Mr. Ramaswamy regards Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as the "patron saint of wokeism" for his relentless propagation of "stakeholder capitalism" -- the view that the unspoken bargain in the grant to corporations of limited liability is that they "must do social good on the side."

Davos is "the Woke Vatican," Mr. Ramaswamy says; Al Gore and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock , are "its archbishops." CEOs "further down the chain" -- he mentions James Quincey of Coca-Cola , Ed Bastian of Delta , Marc Benioff of Salesforce , John Donahoe of Nike and Alan Jope of Unilever -- are its "cardinals."

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Ed Baron

That Leftist "wokeism" is the brainchild of a religious cult should've been obvious decades ago. The purely religious belief in anthropogenic global warming, for example, which closely mimics the spiritual rituals of ancient cultures by worshiping nature over man. The hierarchy of color and gender as fetishes through which human relative value can be determined also mimics the hierarchy of priests or shamans in other religions. Thus, a fairly vapid group like BLM is exalted based purely on the melanin content of their skin, even though their claims are ridiculously flawed (They "care" about the lives of 90 or so armed felons killed by police, but call the 7,000+ black people killed by Blacks a "distraction"). Like many religions that plagued humanity throughout history, they will torment and punish all "deniers." Four years of the Trump Presidency made this clear. He faced the Grand Inquisition because he refused to kneel.

John Harris

[Jun 26, 2021] VAERS data

Jun 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

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boyplunger7777 13 hours ago remove link

VAERS data: "5,888 deaths", "19,597 hospitalizations", "43,891 urgent care", "58,800 office visits", "1,459 anaphylaxis", "1,737 Bell's palsy", "2,190 heart attacks" and "652 miscarriages". CDC says data is "unreliable". You choose who to believe.

WarrenLiz 16 hours ago

Over 15,472 dead from Jab in 27 EU countries, about half of Europe's 50 countries.

The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:

• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH
• COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)
• COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S )

From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (753,657) are serious injuries.

ALL UNNECESSARY...

https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/15472-dead-1-5-million-injured-50-serious-reported-in-european-unions-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions-for-covid-19-shots/

Globalist Overlord 14 hours ago remove link

So between the EU and US there are a confirmed MINIMUM of 21,000 MURDERED by BigPharma and their highly-paid apparatchiks like Fauci and Walensky.

And the public does nothing.

pods 16 hours ago

Graphing VAERS numbers alongside the shot numbers should show abnormalities.

They probably saw the numbers and put the brakes on putting them in the database. So a slope change will be seen in the VAERS data.

They run it so they can do what they want. Public can submit a case, but that doesn't mean it goes into the database. Crooks.

pmc 17 hours ago (Edited)

Tucker Carlson: How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-how-many-americans-have-died-after-taking-the-covid-vaccine

The answer to Carlson's question is because.. it's a money grabbing death cult!.

Natural immun system is destroyed... just wait till next flu season or the next virus they relase and see what death numbers we see!

racing_flowers 17 hours ago

Isn't it curious that the 3 big pharma Corps (think Vacc pushers) and the big 2 MSM Corps are BOTH controlled by Blackrock Partners Hedge Fund...

Nona Yobiznes 18 hours ago remove link

Them going after the children makes me deeply suspicious. Nobody under 50, unless they're made of blubber, dies from this. In 2020, there was practically zero excess death for people younger than 70 years old in Sweden. These are their official statistics. For the vast majority of people it's basically a flu you get for a couple days and you're over it. What the **** is all this about? If the vaccine is only really good for preventing hospitalizations, and doesn't stop you from spreading or from catching variants, what in the hell are we giving kids vaccines when they are more likely to die from the regular flu? It's freaky, and it stinks.

[Jun 26, 2021] On a long enough timeline.... they want us ALL "vaccinated"

Jun 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Eyes Opened 19 hours ago

On a long enough timeline.... they want us ALL "vaccinated"... 😒

[Jun 26, 2021] Neoliberal elite hypocrisity: rule for thee but not for me

UK Lockdown Architect Apologizes For Breaking COVID Rules Over Affair With Aide, Won't Resign

Jun 25, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

JUN 25, 2021

Update (0815ET) : British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was "very sorry" after pictures of him kissing and embracing his top aide, a friend hired last year, were splashed on the front page of the Sun newspaper. However, he has said he will not resign .

As Summit News' Paul Joseph Watson detailed earlier, yet another architect of the UK's lockdown has been caught violating it as photos revealed Health Secretary Matt Hancock passionately kissing his mistress at a time when Brits were being told they shouldn't even shake hands.

[Jun 26, 2021] So Much Of What The CIA Used To Do Covertly It Now Does Overtly - ZeroHedge

Jun 22, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,

In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he'd start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was so submitted to his will by that point that I'd gaslight myself into reframing those statements in a sympathetic light. Toward the end one time he told me "I am going to rape you," and then he did, and then he talked about it to some friends trusting that I'd run perception management on it for him.

The better he got at psychologically twisting me up in knots and the more submitted I became, the more open he'd be about it. He seemed to enjoy doing this, taking a kind of exhibitionistic delight in showing off his accomplishments at crushing me as a person, both to others and to me. Like it was his art, and he wanted it to have an audience to appreciate it.

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I was reminded of this while watching a recent Fox News appearance by Glenn Greenwald where he made an observation we've discussed here previously about the way the CIA used to have to infiltrate the media, but now just openly has US intelligence veterans in mainstream media punditry positions managing public perception.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jU58mrEpPvU

"If you go and Google, and I hope your viewers do, Operation Mockingbird, what you will find is that during the Cold War these agencies used to plot how to clandestinely manipulate the news media to disseminate propaganda to the American population," Greenwald said .

"They used to try to do it secretly. They don't even do it secretly anymore. They don't need Operation Mockingbird. They literally put John Brennan who works for NBC and James Clapper who works for CNN and tons of FBI agents right on the payroll of these news organizations. They now shape the news openly to manipulate and to deceive the American population."

In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled " The CIA and the Media " reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America's most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird . It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media are meant to report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers.

Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and the public is too brainwashed and gaslit to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits . The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor , and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on US intelligence agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known CIA assets like NBC's Ken Dilanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson.

They're just rubbing it in our faces now. Like they're showing off.

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And that's just the media. We also see this flaunting behavior exhibited in the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a propaganda operation geared at sabotaging foreign governments not aligned with the US which according to its own founding officials was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The late author and commentator William Blum makes this clear :

[I]n 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to "support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". Notice the "nongovernmental"" part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (Non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.

"We should not have to do this kind of work covertly," said Carl Gershman in 1986, while he was president of the Endowment. "It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the 60's, and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created."

And Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."

In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.

We see NED's fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the western power alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Russia to Hong Kong to Xinjiang to the imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat.

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Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled " The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections ", World Socialist Website documented the many veterans of the US intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and 2020:

"In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination in 50 congressional seats" nearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably an equally significant scale."

So they're just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. They're laying more and more of their cards on the table. Soon the CIA will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like Girl Scout cookies.

Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of our relationship because those were the later years. I did eventually expand my own consciousness of my own inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had that he was using as hooks to manipulate me. Maybe, as humanity's consciousness continues to expand , the same will happen for the people and their abusive relationship with the CIA.

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[Jun 26, 2021] Secrecy is the ultimate entitlement program for the Deep State.

Jun 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by James Bovard via The Future of Freedom Foundation,

"The Trump""Deep State clash is a showdown between a presidency that is far too powerful versus federal agencies that have become fiefdoms with immunity for almost any and all abuses," I wrote in an FFF article a year ago.

Since then, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election by fewer than 50,000 votes in a handful of swing states that determined the Electoral College result. There were numerous issues that could drive that relatively small number of votes. But machinations by the Deep State probably cost Trump far more votes than it took to seal his loss.

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The first three years of Trump's presidency were haunted by constant accusations that he had colluded with Russians to win the 2016 election. The FBI launched its investigation on the basis of ludicrous allegations from a dossier financed by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. FBI officials deceived the FISA Court to authorize surveilling the Trump campaign. A FISA warrant is the nuclear bomb of searches, authorizing the FBI "to conduct simultaneous telephone, microphone, cell phone, e-mail and computer surveillance of the U.S. person target's home, workplace and vehicles," as well as "physical searches of the target's residence, office, vehicles, computer, safe deposit box and U.S. mails," as a FISA court decision noted. The FISA court is extremely deferential, approving 99 percent of all search warrant requests.

Leaks from federal officials spurred media hysteria that put Trump on the defensive even before he took his oath of office in January 2017. A 2018 Inspector General (IG) report revealed that one FBI agent labeled Trump supporters as "retarded" and declared, "I'm with her" (Clinton). Another FBI employee texted that "Trump's supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS." One FBI lawyer texted that he was "devastated" by Trump's election and declared, "Viva la Resistance!" and "I never really liked the Republic anyway." The same person became the "primary FBI attorney assigned to [the Russian election-interference] investigation beginning in early 2017," the IG noted.

FBI chief James Comey leaked official memos to friendly reporters, thereby spurring the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Trump. A 2019 Inspector General report noted that top FBI officials told the IG that they were "shocked," "stunned," and "surprised' that Comey would leak the contents of one of the memos to a reporter. The IG concluded, "The unauthorized disclosure of this information" information that Comey knew only by virtue of his position as FBI Director" violated the terms of his FBI Employment Agreement and the FBI's Prepublication Review Policy." The IG concluded that by using sensitive information "to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees" and the many thousands more former FBI employees" who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information." The IG report warned that "the civil liberties of every individual who may fall within the scope of the FBI's investigative authorities depend on FBI's ability to protect sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure."

But the only penalty that Comey suffered was to collect multimillion-dollar advances for his book deals.

The Steele dossier

In December 2019, another Inspector General report confirmed that the FBI made "fundamental errors" to justify surveilling the Trump campaign. The FBI refrained from launching a FISA warrant request until it came into possession of a dossier from Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent. The Steele dossier played "a central and essential role in the decision by FBI [Office of General Counsel] to support the request for FISA surveillance targeting Carter Page, as well as the FBI's ultimate decision to seek the FISA order," the IG report concluded. The FBI "drew almost entirely" from the Steele dossier to prove a "well-developed conspiracy" between Russians and the Trump campaign. The IG found that FBI agents were "unable to corroborate any of the specific substantive allegations against Carter Page" in the Steele dossier but the FBI relied on Steele's allegations regardless.

The FBI withheld from the FISA court key details that obliterated the dossier's credibility, including a warning from a top Justice Department official that "Steele may have been hired by someone associated with presidential candidate Clinton or the DNC [Democratic National Committee]." The CIA disdained the Steele dossier as "an internet rumor," one FBI official told IG investigators.

Many if not most of the damning details involving Russiagate have still not been disclosed. But the occasional disclosures are doing nothing to burnish the credibility of the key players. On January 12, 2017, Comey attested to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court that the Steele dossier used to hound the Trump campaign had been "verified." But on the same day, he emailed the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, "We are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting." That email was revealed this past February, thanks to a multi-year fight for disclosure by the Southeastern Legal Foundation.

If the FBI's deceit and political biases had been exposed in real time, there would have been far less national outrage when Trump fired Comey. Instead, that firing was quickly followed by the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Russian charges. In April 2019, Mueller admitted there was no evidence of collusion. Conniving by FBI officials and the veil of secrecy that hid their abuses had roiled national politics for years.

Not one FBI official has spent a single day in jail for the abuses. In January, former FBI assistant general counsel Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced after he admitted falsifying key evidence used to secure the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. A federal prosecutor declared that the "resulting harm is immeasurable" from Clinesmith's action. But a federal judge believed that a wrist slap was sufficient punishment" 400 hours of community service and 12 months of probation.

The Deep State defeated Trump in part because the president appointed agency chiefs who were more devoted to secrecy than to truth. Bureaucratic barricades were reinforced by judges who repeatedly defied common sense to perpetuate iron curtains around federal agencies.

Syria

Trump's failure to extract the United States from the Syrian civil war was one of his biggest foreign policy pratfalls. Each time he sought to exit that quagmire, the Washington establishment and Deep State agencies pushed back.

When Trump tried to end CIA assistance to Syrian terrorist groups in July 2017, a Washington Post article portrayed his reversal in apocalyptic terms. Trump responded with an angry tweet: "The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad." That disclosure spurred a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the New York Times for CIA records on payments to Syrian rebel groups. The CIA denied the request and the case ended up in court.

CIA officer Antoinette Shiner warned the court that forcing the CIA to admit that it possessed any records of aiding Syrian rebels would "confirm the existence and the focus of sensitive Agency activity that is by definition kept hidden to protect U.S. government policy objectives." Of course, "kept hidden" doesn't apply to the CIA when it was engaged in "not for attribution" bragging to reporters. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius proudly cited an estimate from a "knowledgeable official" that "CIA-backed fighters may have killed or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and their allies over the past four years."

Federal judges, unlike Syrian civilians slaughtered by U.S.-funded terrorist groups, had the luxury of pretending the program didn't exist. In a decision last July, the federal appeals court of the Second Circuit stressed that affidavits from CIA officials are "accorded a presumption of good faith" and stressed "the appropriate deference owed" to the CIA. The judges omitted quoting former CIA chief Mike Pompeo's description of his agency's modus operandi: "We lied, we cheated, we stole. It's like we had entire training courses."

Since Trump's tweet did not specifically state that the program he was seeking to terminate actually existed, the judges entitled the CIA to pretend it was still top secret. The judges concluded with another kowtow, stressing that they were "mindful of the requisite deference courts traditionally owe to the executive in the area of classification." Judge Robert Katzmann dissented, declaring that the court's decision put its "imprimatur to a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible."

On February 9, another federal appeals court shot down a FOIA request from BuzzFeed journalist Jason Leopold who had sought the same records on the basis of Trump's tweet. But the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia unanimously blocked Leopold's request: "Did President Trump's tweet officially acknowledge the existence of a program? Perhaps. Or perhaps not. And therein lies a problem." The judges proffered no evidence that Trump had tweeted about a program that didn't exist. The judges reached into an "Alice in Wonderland" bag of legal tricks and plucked out this pretext: "Even if the President's tweet revealed some program, it did not reveal the existence of Agency records about that alleged program." Since Trump failed to specify the exact room number where the records were located at CIA headquarters, the judges entitled the CIA to pretend the records didn't exist.

Only a federal judge could shovel that kind of hokum. Well, also members of Congress and editorial writers, but that's a story for another month.

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In his final months in office, Trump repeatedly promised massive declassification which never came.

Was the president stymied by persons he had unwisely appointed, such as CIA chief Gina Haspel and FBI chief Christopher Wray? Or was that simply another series of empty Twitter eruptions that Trump failed to follow up? Instead, his legacy is another grim reminder of how government secrecy can determine political history.

Have Deep State federal agencies become a Godzilla with the prerogative to undermine elections? Unfortunately, there's no chance that federal judges would permit disclosure of the answer to that question.

Former CIA and NSA boss Michael Hayden proudly proclaimed,

""Espionage is not just compatible with democracy; it's essential for democracy."

And how can we know if the Deep State's espionage is actually pro-democracy or subversive of democracy? Again, don't expect judges to permit any truths to escape on that score.

Secrecy is the ultimate entitlement program for the Deep State. The federal government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The more documents bureaucrats classify, the more lies politicians and government officials can tell. Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson warned in 2019, "If people don't have the facts, democracy doesn't work."

Actually, it is working very well for the FBI, CIA, and other Deep State agencies.

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capsrule 8 minutes ago

Not much of a clash. Trump had his *** handed to him because he was a moron who handicapped himself by filling his cabinet with horrible people that sabotaged him and his agenda at every turn - including his incompetent son in law and daughter. Not once did he go on offense. He was reduced to pathetic Twitter rantings begging DOJ to "Do something!"

No_Pretzel_Logic 16 minutes ago

The USA is a captured nation and has been for quite awhile.

Little is as it seems to be. Good luck...

Wise Limit 18 minutes ago (Edited)

Donald Trump was a jester. A reality TV actor to give the masses the appearance they got what they wanted while they pacified conservatives and spent four years to plan and strategize the next steps in the infiltration, takeover and destruction of the country. Voting is a sham.

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Wise Limit 11 minutes ago (Edited) remove link

Remember all those promises from Trump and the GOP if they "just got the majority" in 2016?

1. Dreamers will be gone.

2. Obamacare will be gone.

3. Hillary will be gone.

4. Mexico will pay for the wall.

Politicians are the greatest actors. Politics is done. Time to fight for secession of Southern conservative states.

No_Pretzel_Logic 12 minutes ago remove link

It seems that there is merit to what you say but, I cannot square all the overblown attempts to nail him and to impeach him on bogus grounds. Then to try again a second time.

The Dems and Deep Staters (incl media) could have just kept-up the usual partisan fighting, sniping, etc.

Trump was obviously a true threat to many. I'll bet Ric Grenell and John Radcliffe acquired ALOT of valuable info about important people.

Wise Limit 5 minutes ago (Edited)

This is all that needs to be squared right here. This was after the election, after the "she would be in jail" rhetoric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEHNF1TsjV8

I got played too. I just didn't figure it out until 2018 when I saw Trump and the GOP lied again, the Democrats took the House and suddenly "Q" appeared to distract the masses from the fact they didn't fulfill any of their promises.

Gospel According To Me 6 minutes ago (Edited)

The Deep State is a threat to our very existence as a mostly peaceful oligarchy. They will stop at NOTHING to destroy anyone who attempts to stop them. Trump could never defeat them alone and everyone he hired was quickly cotrrupted by those Deep State actors. They became close allies with our own communists and the CCP. These sick individuals probably had a role in the plandemic and were happy to see all the business failures, etc, as a path to keeping power. If Trump wins in 2024 he must get rid of thousands of government SES employees in every agency or they will destroy his presidency again.

Unfortunatley, the best hope to turn things around is complete economic collapse, which is likley. The leftists will continue to buy votes, but when the cities burn it won't be enough. Trump's team better understand it takes money to fight the globalists and a real dirty campaign like the Dems run. No holds barred...tell Americans what a s***hole the leftists have made America into. Wide open borders with millions pouring across and jobs drying up. Rampant crime and soaring inflation.

Allow legal voters only with ID! It will work! Pray for a leader to get us out of this perverse woke mess.

zod 6 minutes ago

trump was the most entertaining, in a long line of the same, 'illusion of choice' we've always had.

2pac 12 minutes ago

Don't worry - Durham investigation should be done any day now.

[Jun 26, 2021] Then it's just CHINA

Jun 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Jim in MN 15 hours ago

Once again, with feeling: None of the 'control measures' does anything. End it all now. They just want us all in their databases anyway. They don't care about death tolls, or even vaccines. It's not about that.

The vaccine passports in the UK already link to your entire medical history, biometric, genetic and ethnic data, criminal history, vehicle registration and employer data.

All they need is your bank account and internet/social media.

Then it's just................................CHINA.

And THAT is what they want, and what they are doing.

Jim in MN 15 hours ago remove link

https://theconversation.com/nhs-vaccine-passports-are-here-but-will-they-be-used-beyond-international-travel-161122

[Jun 26, 2021] Late Stage Globalism- When Anything That Is Not Censored Is A Lie

Money quote: " Zerohedge has more traffic than Huffington Post, Vox, Vice, The Atlantic and pretty well any of the other bluecheck day camps for aspiring establishment shills."

Jun 23, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,

Late Stage Globalism Is A Tale of Narratives vs Networks

Over the past few weeks in my weekly #AxisOfEasy newsletter I've been covering how Big Tech and the corporate media tried, unsuccessfully, to keep a lid on the Wuhan Lab origin narrative. At one point I half-joked "I'll shut up about this when it's safe to talk about Ivermectin" . This week, I did end up writing a piece about Ivermectin, namely how doctors can't even mention it in their videos or podcast appearances without being penalized by social media platforms.

Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist who has studied bats (from which COVID-19 purportedly originated) was recently on Triggernometry , the UK based podcast that my company, easyDNS , has been sponsoring since mid-2020. It turns out that neither Weinstein nor Triggernometry can say the word "Ivermectin" in their shows. If they do they'll get an automatic takedown by YouTube and a strike on Facebook for violating community standards.

Matt Taibbi recently posed the question " Why has "˜Ivermectin' become a dirty word? " He cites Dr. Pierre Kory in his testimony to a US Senate Committee hearing on medical responses to COVID-19 in December 2020. Kory was referring to an existing medicine that was already FDA approved that he was describing as a "wonder drug" in treating COVID-19, that drug was Ivermectin.

This Senate testimony was televised and viewed by approximately 8 million people. YouTube removed the video of this exchange. They later suspended the account of the United States senator who invited Dr. Kory to speak. (Kory also appeared on Brett Weinstein's show and they took down that as well).

Associated Press for their part "fact checked" the senate testimony, and because, in their words "there is no evidence that Ivermectin is a "˜miracle drug' against COVID", they labeled it as false:

CLAIM: The antiparasitic drug ivermectin "has a miraculous effectiveness that obliterates" the transmission of COVID-19 and will prevent people from getting sick.

AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. There's no evidence ivermectin has been proven a safe or effective treatment against COVID-19.

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But I'm looking beyond that, outside of network TV. The hottest news outlets are fast becoming independent journalists like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald , self-publishing via their Substack. That's mainly email.

Joe Rogan has a larger audience than Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon combined. So too does Steve Bannon, btw. The few times I've been on his Warroom I was astounded at the reach of his audience. According to company sources he's doing between 2.5 and 3.5 million downloads per day. The last people I would ever expect to be tuning into Bannon are telling me "I saw you on Warroom". (It's mind-blowing).

Zerohedge has more traffic than Huffington Post, Vox, Vice, The Atlantic and pretty well any of the other bluecheck day camps for aspiring establishment shills.

It's because of independent, renegade journalists and people writing outside of major outlets that these stories are starting go mainstream despite the best efforts of Big Tech, enforcing whatever canon the corporate press deems to be truth, or the establishment anointed "fact checkers" who try to step in whenever something looks to gain traction:

The Wuhan lab origin was suspected for over a year (and the Fauci emails prove it). Zerohedge was on it almost immediately and got deplatformed for their troubles. It was finally pushed over the line in a Medium post by Nicholas Wade over a year later.

Ivermectin may be next round and it looks like if it gets anywhere it will be thanks to people like Matt Taibbi and Bret Weinstein.

What is the common thread here? It's the power of decentralized networks and open source protocols vs narrative control that is promulgated from global governments, amplified by the corporate media, and enforced by technocratic platforms.

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It may seem like the censorship is absolute and that the narrative and the spin is overwhelming. But take solace that it only appears that way because the facade is breaking.

As more people realize that the centralized technocratic system is failing, those who's privilege and position are premised on it have to double down, triple down. They have to burn the boats.

They're fully committed now and because they have no other choice they have to overstep and overreach. Too much, too soon. Too late.

[Jun 24, 2021] Rabobank- Current Reality Can Only Be Described As Anarchic Surrealism

Jun 24, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

By Michael Every of Rabobank

The Dove From Above

Back in the mid-1990s when irony was still a thing, British TV had a popular celebrity gameshow called Shooting Stars hosted by comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. It was filled with slapstick, surreal, anarchic humor, and while it appeared to stick to standard gameshow conventions, everything was actually arbitrary: rules could be made up or ignored as and when Vic and Bob felt like it

[Jun 22, 2021] When John Steward said the scientists (especially financed by government) often push things too far to the detriment of mere mortals

As he said "curiosity killed the cat and now scietista want to kill ten thousand cats to study why"

Jun 22, 2021 | www.unz.com

Schuetze , says: June 16, 2021 at 7:54 pm GMT • 6.1 days ago

When John Stewart and Stephan Colbert finally cover it, then it is officially a limited hangout

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sSfejgwbDQ8?feature=oembed&rel=0&autoplay=1

[Jun 22, 2021] What is democracy?

Jun 22, 2021 | www.moonofalabama.org

Peter AU1 , Jun 22 2021 20:31 utc | 23

Weaver "China seems to have defined "communism" as a rejection of democracy."

What is democracy? In the west, it has become apparent that whoever controls the media controls democracy. We elect rulers. We do not get any say in formulating many laws as in each new law being put to a referendum. China voted with its feet during the revolution. Many culture elect or otherwise have local leaders who everyone in the community knows and the community leaders decide on or elect who has positions at the next level of governance and so forth. In that way, China is very democratic beginning at the grass roots level.
The Chinese government have done a huge amount in bringing millions of people out of poverty, creating better living conditions for its people. When there is constantly and increase in prosperity at all levels, even if some prosper more than others, the people have an optimistic outlook.
Democracy at a national level where voters do not personal know the candidate requires accurate information to enable an informed vote. In that way, democracy in the west is non existent - it is an illusion but the sheeple cling to it.
Compared to the so called west, China government is very much of the people for the people.

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Max , Jun 22 2021 21:06 utc | 30

@ Peter AU1 (# 23), name a democracy that isn't a suzerainty. We don't elect rulers. We elect puppets that have been selected by the rulers. Who owns the media? Who creates majority of money in your nation?

"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers."
– J.R.R. Tolkien

"Democracy" is a temporary phase of history which allows the Global Financial Syndicate to take control from the earlier generation of dominant power players: the monarchies.

Long ago and far away, a group of very clever paleo-banksters figured out a way to stop those annoying periodic slave revolts... eventually it came to be known as "the two party system" (democracy/Republic) and it's working like a charm...Rulers make the slaves fight each other.

World Financiers & Banksters ENSLAVEMENT plan using democracy:
– Create a REVOLUTION & steal a region
– Create a Private CENTRAL BANK (First Bank of the USA, BoE-1694)
– Fund & control new rich individuals (Kleptocrats)
– Fund & control political PARTIES & MEDIA
– Nationalize the central bank (the Fed, BoE-1946)

Enslave & control people by DOMINANCE over economic & political powers & call it a DEMOCRACY. An interesting FRACTAL emerges when one analysis the formation of democracies.

What we have is "representative" democracies designed by the economically powerful solely for their interests and in this sense would always be functioning anti-democratically. In a money democracy (where the fundamental element of influence is the unit of money), the political and legal system is influenced and shaped by systems of power to protect and enhance those systems of power.

"There are none so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
– Goethe

William Gruff , Jun 22 2021 21:09 utc | 31

Weaver @17

Your understanding of democracy and the prevalent Chinese understanding of democracy are divergent.

It is true that all of the political decisions in China are made by the communists; the CPC. But do note that the CPC has almost 100 million members . These are not simply voters like political parties have in the US, who just align themselves with a party and vote for it every couple years. These 100 million members of the CPC are actual decision-makers.

Of course, that is a lot of work and responsibility and not everyone in China wants to commit that much of their life to politics. With that said, how much of your life do you commit to politics? Does your biennial vote actually carry any weight, and do you take full responsibility for the consequences of it? Of course not on both points.

Those Chinese people who choose to do so live democracy. You, on the other hand, just play a shallow democracy game that is little more than a reality TV show like Survivor . Does Trump get voted off the island? Clinton? Sanders? That is your choice. Does America slaughter some more dark skinned people in the Global South? Do the banks get bailed out with your wealth? These things you get no say in.

Communists don't oppose democracy. They oppose the crappy reality TV "The Democracy Show!™" sham that westerners love to hate.

Peter AU1 , Jun 22 2021 21:16 utc | 33

Max

I look on it as somewhat of a mixed group. Fellow travelers do the same thing but for different reasons. Finance, anglo supremacy ect. Amongst the vassal states in same cases straight out corruption as in selling their service es to the highest bidder, amongst the five-eyes, the elite in particular, in the current events of trying to bring down Russia and China, continued anglo dominance of the world is a very big driver. The anglosphere has been a dominant force in the world for close to 500 years and many are truly afraid of this ending. The cant envisage a world that is dominated by cultures other than anglo or anglo/europe.

[Jun 22, 2021] The Imperial Pottery Barn rule: "What cannot be owned must be broken"

Highly recommended!

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robin , Jun 22 2021 19:33 utc | 14

Posted by: Down South | Jun 22 2021 18:01 utc |

They say madness is doing the same thing over and over again and each time expecting a different result.

There's nothing mad about this strategy. If it doesn't make sense, your premise is probably wrong.

Think of it as the Imperial Pottery Barn rule :

"What cannot be owned must be broken"

Weaver , Jun 22 2021 19:50 utc | 18

Robin, "the Imperial Pottery Barn rule" is an extremely good analogy. I'm going to have a hard time citing you if I ever use that. I've also seen US foreign policy described as "rubblization," with regard to Syria especially.

[Jun 21, 2021] Woke Coca-Cola faces some headwinds and not only with US customers. Woka Cola can kiss my *** movement is emerging

I wonder who is still buying this brown high-fructose corn syrup carbonated water. Only people completely obvious to their health do so. Boycotting Coca-cola is probably the easiest and healthiest boycott possible. From commnets: " Woka Cola can kiss my ***. "

In a letter dated June 11, the American Civil Rights Project (ACRP) noted that on Jan. 28, the general counsel of Coca-Cola demanded law firms seeking to keep the company as a client must commit that at least 30 percent of billed time would be from "diverse attorneys," and at least half of that time would be from black attorneys.

Jun 21, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

The ACRP, speaking on behalf of "a set of concerned Coca-Cola Company shareholders," demanded that the soft drink company either "publicly retract the discriminatory outside-counsel policies" or otherwise "provide access to the corporate records related to the decision of Coca-Cola's officers and directors to adopt and retain those illegal policies."

Coca-Cola's race-specific contracting policy , according to the ACRP, has exposed the corporation and its shareholders to "material risk of liability" for potentially violating anti-discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

The letter further alleged that all of Coca-Cola's decision makers knew, or should have known, that the policy was potentially illegal. It said those who were not so aware of the legal risks either have failed their responsibility or "relied on the inexcusably flawed advice of counsel."

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Coca-Cola, one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, came under fire in February, when its employees were allegedly instructed to be "less white" as part of a "Confronting Racism" training course featuring interviews with sociologist Robin DiAngelo, the author of a 2018 book called "White Fragility."

"In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white," reads one of the slides, allegedly sent from an "internal whistleblower" and posted on Twitter by YouTube commentator Karlyn Borysenko. The post went viral.

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Coca Cola is brown high-fructose corn syrup carbonated water that makes one fat through empty calories. It's perhaps the easiest and healthiest boycott possible. Do it, white man... do it. play_arrow 51 play_arrow

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Ghost of SilverIsMoney 59 minutes ago

I got off my sugary soda addiction 6years ago by switching to Seltzers.

They still have the soda bite without any garbage attached.

TacoNasty 50 minutes ago

I unfortunately got addicted to diet soda because my parents gave it to me since I was a young toddler.

Coke's anti-White racism finally got me to quit.

I feel so much healthier... especially, my sleep is so much better!

ted41776 1 hour ago

yelp, a publicly traded company, has a category named "black-owned businesses" that they regularly promote

discrimination laws?

crickets

overbet 1 hour ago

I regret that I already dont drink that **** so I cant boycott it any further. Avoiding anything processed got me from a flabby 250lb desk jockey to a lean 190lb heavy lifting gym rat after a few years.

Automatic Choke PREMIUM 49 minutes ago

you can short the stock.

TacoNasty 50 minutes ago

Good job!!! Props to you. I dropped from 220 to 180 during quarantine due to watching my diet much more closely and lifting.

MaskTard 53 minutes ago

Woka Cola can kiss my ***. All Coke products in this household were poured down the drain long ago.

sleepyhollow 51 minutes ago

Same here. Stopped drinking Coke, buying woke products and watching woke sports such as the NFL, NBA, etc.

Virgil Krenshaw PREMIUM 31 minutes ago (Edited)

Sue. Them. Silly. Go on the offensive against wokeness. It's discrimination. It's race-based harassment. And it's against the law. Document any HR sessions that are woke. Build evidence of a pattern of behavior. Then go for the throat.

Very interesting to see shareholders threatening to sue. Courts recognize management's fiduciary duty to shareholders, but overwhelmingly defer to executives' "business judgment" on what's best for a company. But these woketards are now so obviously undermining company value that I think courts will probably intervene.

How could A&E ever justify its decision to cancel "Cops," AKA the source of half its revenue, as a sound business judgment that would add shareholder value?

William Dorritt 44 minutes ago

The following list presents notable Coca-Cola subsidiaries, brands and products:

• Coca-Cola (Coke)

• Diet Coke

• Coca-Cola Zero

• Sprite

• Fanta

• Dasani

• Ciel

• Smartwater

• Minute Maid

• Simply Orange

• Del Valle

• Powerade

• Vitaminwater

• Odwalla

• Fuze Beverage

• Honest Tea

Chimesickle007 17 minutes ago

Thank god none of them are on my shopping list

tyberious 52 minutes ago (Edited)

Started out as a poison, got rid of Cocaine and added an even more addictive and far deadlier substance, GMO high fructose corn syrup with a healthy dose of glyphosate!

Lt. Shicekopf 42 minutes ago

I do not drink Coke, watch the NFL, use Gillette products, I eschew Starbucks, shun the airlines, avoid the NBA like the plague...and I feel much better about myself.

Automatic Choke PREMIUM 59 minutes ago

Stop "woke"
dump Coke.

MoneyMonkey 50 minutes ago

Incidence of diabetes (aka "the sugars") is highest amongst jogger Americans, so it seems fair they get to be scum sucking lawyers for a company slowly killing their own kind.

Southern_Boy 9 minutes ago (Edited)

Drank Coke daily (3 to 6 cans or bottles) for almost 60 years. They've lost my business thanks to this "Woke Business". As I understood it, they hired an activist lawyer who basically has cost them billions in sales.

[Jun 21, 2021] All War is for economic reasons

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VetinLA , Jun 21 2021 19:25 utc | 6

Red Rider @ 2 said; "All War is for economic reasons."

Always has been, always will be. No matter the reasons given to the peons.

Max , Jun 21 2021 20:11 utc | 13

What is the fastest way to create lots of DEBT (money)? Wars, civil war, technological waves, credit bubbles (speculative, housing,...), infrastructures...

What is the real purpose of war? To capture & control more areas for EXPLOITATION? War is the fastest way to create lots of debt for all parties.

"the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt it creates. You control the debt, you control everything."

Money Power = Land x Lives x Loans

Putting Afghanistan in further debt, enables it to be exploited... What are its revenue sources? Who pays for its security and infrastructure? Will NATO leave by September?

Who wants to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt?

[Jun 21, 2021] The War On Afghanistan Is Lost But The U.S. Still Tries To Keep A Foot In Its Door

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Jen , Jun 21 2021 20:17 utc | 17

Those Uyghur jihadists stuck in Idlib province in Syria and in refugee camps in Turkey are bound to get a warm welcome from the Taliban when Ankara finally ships them off to Kabul as part of this proposed "security force" to protect the airport so the CIA can continue to ship out its heroin.

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Don Bacon , Jun 21 2021 20:28 utc | 20

The US MSM is ablaze with "Taliban against Afghan forces" headlines, conveniently forgetting that the Taliban are Afghan forces too, in fact they preceded the current "Afghan forces" in government until the US intervention.
So why do their guys always beat our guys? Because their guys fight for their country and our guys fight for us.

Max , Jun 21 2021 20:33 utc | 21

@ ToivoS, why did the U$A withdraw from Vietnam? There was conscription in the U$A, thereby the rich were at risk. Also, the U$A was being constrained by money creation due to the gold standard. Both of these issues have been addressed.

Name a nation that the U$A has WITHDRAWN its military after occupying it, other than Vietnam. Aren't we still in Germany, Japan, South Korea, ...?

It ain't over 'til it's over.

How much DEBT has the Afghanistan conflict created so far? In trillions? Who got that money?

Don Bacon , Jun 21 2021 20:34 utc | 22

@ CJC #10
re: . . . Turkey to retain control of airport after NATO withdraws
It's more than NATO.
The US-Taliban agreement:
The United States is committed to withdraw from Afghanistan all military forces of the United States, its allies, and Coalition partners, including all non-diplomatic civilian personnel, private security contractors, trainers, advisors, and supporting services personnel within fourteen (14) months following announcement of this agreement. . . here

Don Bacon , Jun 21 2021 20:39 utc | 24

@ Max
re: . . . why did the U$A withdraw from Vietnam?
The US had no choice because the conscription-based US Army was broken, with troops refusing to obey orders and fragging their superiors etc. . .So Washington pulled out the troops and ended the draft.

Don Bacon , Jun 21 2021 20:49 utc | 25

The US "experts" who are crying about a possible, or inevitable, return to Talban government haven't read the agreement.
The US-Taliban Agreement of Feb 29, 2020 called for all foreign forces to leave Afghanistan by May 2021, and recognized that the outcome would be a return to a Taliban government. For example one agreement condition, II-5:: "The Taliban will not provide visas, passports, travel permits, or other legal documents to those who pose a threat to the security of the United States and its allies to enter Afghanistan." . . here

Don Bacon , Jun 21 2021 22:23 utc | 35

re: Why is the US in Afghanistan?
Decades ago Washington had its own "Silk Road" strategy, to move into the -Stans in Central Asia after the uSSR breakup. There was a large interest in Kazakhstan up north, as well as the other -Stands including Afghanistan. It was of course a road to nowhere but as we know the creeps in Washington ain't too bright. There were no seaports to accommodate this road, for one thing. There were some other considerations, like an energy pipeline, but it was all just going nowhere until 9-11 came along, giving the US to do what it does worst, employ its military.

Don Bacon , Jun 21 2021 22:33 utc | 36

@ Abe 32
re: This simplistic "views" are as inaccurate as insulting.
You need to get out more.
. . .from Fragging: Why U.S. Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam

During its long withdrawal from South Vietnam, the U.S. military experienced a serious crisis in morale. Chronic indiscipline, illegal drug use, and racial militancy all contributed to trouble within the ranks. But most chilling of all was the advent of a new phenomenon: large numbers of young enlisted men turning their weapons on their superiors. The practice was known as "fragging," a reference to the fragmentation hand grenades often used in these assaults. . . here

Canadian Cents , Jun 21 2021 23:03 utc | 40

Glad to hear that Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is not letting the US use Pakistan as a base for its continued machinations, in spite of heavy US pressure, and that Pakistan as a whole was saying #AbsolutelyNot. Kudos Pakistan.

According to M. K. Bhadrakumar:

"Washington is now considering the hiring of Pentagon contractors (mercenaries) to secure Kabul airport. But that will be a hugely controversial step with grave consequences, as apparent from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's brusque rejection of the very idea of American military presence on Pakistani soil in relation to the Afghan situation."

MKB also places all this into the context of "the US' grand project to create rings of instability in [Russia and China's] adjacent regions -- Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Afghanistan."

https://www.indianpunchline.com/fizz-is-gone-from-biden-putin-summit/

Biswapriya Purkayast , Jun 21 2021 23:27 utc | 41

*Mi 9 or Mi 17 helicopters. There is no Mi 19.

You forget the ISIS group that magically appeared in Afghanistan a few years ago. The same group that immediately attacked the Taliban, forcing the Taliban to dedicate its best forces to countering the threat instead of fighting the puppet child sex slaver Quisling warlord regime. What's more likely than continuing the occupation in the name of "fighting ISIS"? Just like Iraq was reinvaded and reoccupied in the name of "fighting ISIS" and continues to be occupied to this day?

[Jun 21, 2021] Today democracy and human rights are just fig leaves of the hegemony, war cry for the [colonization of] expendables.

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A.L. , Jun 21 2021 22:33 utc | 37

dh | Jun 21 2021 20:56 utc | 26

The US has fairly good relations with Vietnam

This "fairly good" relationship is mainly done in spite to China and to gain another pawn on the SCS theatre.

It's being wined and dined by the school jock after China gave him the finger like a back-up shag. But Vietnam knows the score, it works for them for now and it would be stupid not to play along as long as it is aligned to its interests.

A large number of its businesses exporting to the west are, you guessed it, are founded and operated by the Chinese for the lower wages and to skirt quotas, tariffs etc.

Vietnam is still a communist state, how is this fact not lost in the face of full spectrum demonisation of China for being communists in the minds of the 5 eyes populace is a most interesting question indeed.

It's as moronic as "China is authoritarian!" but Saudi Arabia is A-OK!

Today democracy and human rights are just fig leaves of the hegemony, war cry for the [colonization of] expendables.

[Jun 21, 2021] Do you remember when a trillion was a big number? Well, it still is especially if we are talking about possible stock market losses even with "accommodative" FED

Jun 21, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

Traders are addicted to trading, much like murderers fixate on murdering. The traders noticed a slight change in the Fed's tone and sold anything tied to inflation. They whacked gold good. Then they went after the other commodities. When they were done there, they went after value stocks, before finishing the week by blasting a bunch of cyclical names.

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ted41776 5 hours ago

the only kind of ism that has exist is sociopathism

they always end up at the top of any power pyramid and make the rules that apply to all others but not them

same as it always was and same as it always will be

NoDebt 4 hours ago

Traders are addicted to trading, much like murderers fixate on murdering

A line I wish I had come up with.

lambda PREMIUM 4 hours ago

This was already modeled and formalized: The Gambler Fallacy.

[Jun 20, 2021] Bovard Blasts Biden's Buffoonish War On Extremism

Notable quotes:

"... ...the prerogative to define extremism includes the power to attempt to banish certain ideas from acceptable discourse. The report warns that "narratives of fraud in the recent general election"¦ will almost certainly spur some [Domestic Violent Extremists] to try to engage in violence this year." ..."

"... If accusations of 2020 electoral shenanigans are formally labeled as extremist threats, that could result in far more repression (aided by Facebook and Twitter) of dissenting voices. ..."

Jun 20, 2021 | www.zerohedge.com

...the prerogative to define extremism includes the power to attempt to banish certain ideas from acceptable discourse. The report warns that "narratives of fraud in the recent general election"¦ will almost certainly spur some [Domestic Violent Extremists] to try to engage in violence this year."

If accusations of 2020 electoral shenanigans are formally labeled as extremist threats, that could result in far more repression (aided by Facebook and Twitter) of dissenting voices.

How will this work out any better than the concerted campaign by the media and Big Tech last fall to suppress all information about Hunter Biden's laptop before the election?

The Biden administration is revving up for a war against an enemy which the feds have chosen to never explicitly define . According to a March report by Biden's Office of the Director of National Intelligence, "domestic violent extremists" include individuals who "take overt steps to violently resist or facilitate the overthrow of the U.S. government in support of their belief that the U.S. government is purposely exceeding its Constitutional authority." But that was the same belief that many Biden voters had regarding the Trump administration. Does the definition of extremism depend solely on which party captured the White House?

The report notes that the "Department of Defense is reviewing and updating its definition of prohibited extremist activities among uniformed military personnel." Bishop Garrison, the chief of the Pentagon's new Countering Extremism Working Group, is Exhibit A for the follies of extremist crackdowns on extremism. In a series of 2019 tweets, Garrison, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, denounced all Trump supporters as "racists." Garrison's working group will "specifically define what constitutes extremist behavior" for American soldiers. If Garrison purges Trump supporters from the military, the Pentagon would be unable to conquer the island of Grenada. Biden policymakers also intend to create an "anti-radicalization" program for individuals departing the military service. This initiative will likely produce plenty of leaks and embarrassing disclosures in the coming months and years.

The Biden report is spooked by the existence of militia groups and flirts with the fantasy of outlawing them across the land. The report promises to explore "how to make better use of laws that already exist in all fifty states prohibiting certain private "˜militia' activity, including"¦state statutes prohibiting groups of people from organizing as private military units without the authorization of the state government, and state statutes that criminalize certain paramilitary activity." Most of the private militia groups are guilty of nothing more than bluster and braggadocio. Besides, many of them are already overstocked with government informants who are counting on Uncle Sam for regular paychecks.

As part of its anti-extremism arsenal, DHS is financing programs for "enhancing media literacy and critical thinking skills" and helping internet users avoid "vulnerability to"¦harmful content deliberately disseminated by malicious actors online." Do the feds have inside information about another Hunter Biden laptop turning up, or what? The Biden administration intends to bolster Americans' defenses against extremism by developing "interactive online resources such as skills-enhancing online games." If the games are as stupefying as this report, nobody will play them.

The Biden report stresses that federal law enforcement agencies "play a critical role in responding to reports of criminal and otherwise concerning activity." "Otherwise concerning activity"? This is the same standard that turned prior anti-terrorist efforts into laughingstocks.

Fusion Centers are not mentioned in the Biden report but they are a federal-state-local law enforcement partnership launched after 9/11 to vacuum up reports of suspicious activity. Seventy Fusion Centers rely on the same standard""" If you see something, say something """that a senior administration official invoked in a background call on Monday for the new Biden initiative. The Los Angeles Police Department encouraged citizens to snitch on "individuals who stay at bus or train stops for extended periods while buses and trains come and go," "individuals who carry on long conversations on pay or cellular telephones," and "joggers who stand and stretch for an inordinate amount of time." The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security recommended the reporting of "people avoiding eye contact," "people in places they don't belong," or homes or apartments that have numerous visitors "arriving and leaving at unusual hours," PBS's Frontline reported. Colorado's Fusion Center "produced a fear-mongering public service announcement asking the public to report innocuous behaviors such as photography, note-taking, drawing and collecting money for charity as "˜warning signs' of terrorism," the ACLU complained.

Various other Fusion Centers have attached warning labels to gun-rights activists, anti-immigration zealots, and individuals and groups "rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority." A 2012 Homeland Security report stated that being "reverent of individual liberty" is one of the traits of potential right-wing terrorists. The Constitution Project concluded in a 2012 report that DHS Fusion Centers "pose serious risks to civil liberties, including rights of free speech, free assembly, freedom of religion, racial and religious equality, privacy, and the right to be free from unnecessary government intrusion." Fusion Centers continue to be bankrolled by DHS despite their dismal record.

The Biden report promises that the FBI and DHS will soon be releasing "a new edition of the Federal Government's Mobilization Indicators booklet that will include for the first time potential indicators of domestic terrorism""related mobilization." Will this latest publication be as boneheaded as the similar 2014 report by the National Counterterrorism Center entitled "Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts"?

As the Intercept summarized , that report "suggests that police, social workers and educators rate individuals on a scale of one to five in categories such as "˜Expressions of Hopelessness, Futility,' "¦ and "˜Connection to Group Identity (Race, Nationality, Religion, Ethnicity)' "¦ to alert government officials to individuals at risk of turning to radical violence, and to families or communities at risk of incubating extremist ideologies." The report recommended judging families by their level of "Parent-Child Bonding" and rating localities on the basis in part of the "presence of ideologues or recruiters." Former FBI agent Mike German commented, "The idea that the federal government would encourage local police, teachers, medical, and social-service employees to rate the communities, individuals, and families they serve for their potential to become terrorists is abhorrent on its face."

The Biden administration presumes that bloating the definition of extremists is the surest way to achieve domestic tranquility. In this area, as in so many others, Biden's team learned nothing from the follies of the Obama administration. No one in D.C. apparently recalls that President Obama perennially denounced extremism and summoned the United Nations in 2014 to join his "campaign against extremism." Under Obama, the National Security Agency presumed that "someone searching the Web for suspicious stuff" was a suspected extremist who forfeited all constitutional rights to privacy. Obama's Transportation Security Administration relied on ludicrous terrorist profiles that targeted American travelers who were yawning, hand wringing, gazing down, swallowing suspiciously, sweating, or making "excessive complaints about the [TSA] screening process."

Will the Biden crackdown on extremists end as ignominiously as Nixon's crackdown almost 50 years earlier? Nixon White House aide Tom Charles Huston explained that the FBI's COINTELPRO program continually stretched its target list "from the kid with a bomb to the kid with a picket sign, and from the kid with the picket sign to the kid with the bumper sticker of the opposing candidate. And you just keep going down the line." At some point, surveillance became more intent on spurring fear than on gathering information. FBI agents were encouraged to conduct interviews with anti-war protesters to "enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and further serve to get the point across that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox," as a 1970 FBI memo noted. Is the Biden castigation campaign an attempt to make its opponents fear that the feds are tracking their every email and website click?

Biden's new terrorism policy has evoked plenty of cheers from his Fourth Estate lapdogs. But a Washington Post article fretted that the administration's report did not endorse enacting "new legal authority to successfully hunt down, prosecute, and imprison homegrown extremists." Does the D.C. media elite want to see every anti-Biden scoffer in the land put behind bars? This is typical of the switcheroo that politicians and the media play with the terms "terrorists" and "extremists." Regardless of paranoia inside the Beltway, MAGA hats are not as dangerous as pipe bombs.

The Biden report concludes that "enhancing faith in American democracy" requires "finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories." Bu t permitting politicians to blacklist any ideas they disapprove won't "restore faith in democracy." Extremism has always been a flag of political convenience, and the Biden team, the FBI, and their media allies will fan fears to sanctify any and every government crackdown. But what if government is the most dangerous extremist of them all?

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James Bovard is the author of Lost Rights , Attention Deficit Democracy , and Public Policy Hooligan . He is also a USA Today columnist. Follow him on Twitter @JimBovard .