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Monday, November 30, 2020

Some interesting reading stuff and vids .... November 30, 2020

 https://mises.org/power-market/youtube-attempts-silence-mises-institute
YouTube Attempts to Silence the Mises Institute
11/25/2020Jeff Deist

YouTube, the dominant video platform owned by Google, decided yesterday to remove a Mises Institute video. This decision apparently lasts for all eternity, cannot be appealed to an actual human, and comes with this friendly admonition: "Because it’s the first time, this is just a warning. If it happens again, your channel will get a strike and you won’t be able to do things like upload, post, or live stream for 1 week."

The video, a talk by Tom Woods titled "The Covid Cult" with more than 1.5 million views, was recorded at our live event in Texas two weeks ago. It offered challenges to the official narrative surrounding the coronavirus, particularly with respect to mask mandates. Woods's talk featured several charts showing rises in Covid "cases" across multiple cities and countries not long after imposing mask rules, demonstrating how such rules apparently have little effect on slowing transmission of the virus....



And, here's one of the videos from Tom Woods of the Mises Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy3tP-BW5do

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Caitlin Johnstone at her blog:

Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/11/26/oligarchic-imperialism-is-the-new-dominant-world-religion/


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Soo, what sort of evil goes on in one of the "five eyes" warlords' nation of Australia?


https://countercurrents.org/2020/11/not-adding-up-australia-iran-and-the-release-of-kylie-moore-gilbert/
Australia’s ambassadorial offices and political leaders have a consistent record of ignoring their citizens in tight situations.  David Hicks, Mamdouh Habib and Julian Assange are but a few names that come to mind in this inglorious record of indifference.  In such cases, Australian public figures and officials have tacitly approved the use of abduction, torture and neglect, usually outsourced and employed by allies such as the United States.

Australian diplomacy, to that end, is nastily cheap.  It comes at heavily discounted prices, when it comes at all.  To then see the extent of interest and effort in seeking the release of Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert from Iranian captivity, is as interesting as it is perplexing.  A work ethic in Canberra has come into being.  Nothing was spared securing the release of Moore-Gilbert, where she had been imprisoned for espionage charges and spent 804 days in detention.  Fears for her wellbeing spiked with her transfer to Qarchak women’s prison, not known for its salubrious facilities.  She had previously spent time at Tehran’s Evin prison.
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From Steve Brown article at the RonPaul Institute
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/november/28/biden-euphoria-already-over/

...Donald J Trump believes he was set up. Perhaps he was. And, understandably, he wants revenge for three years of harassment on Russia. After all, that’s how he is when crossed. But the bigger picture is that Trump owes Sheldon Adelson $80M+ in tribute because that’s what Adelson paid him. President Trump owes much of his political existence not just to hedge fund managers and casino billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Rebekah Mercer* -- but to Israel as well. In this article we'll explore the related mix of foreign policy scenarios that may result going forward, where the playing field has already evolved since the US election. .....

.....Now giving Israel free reign in Syria and attempting to sucker-punch Iran into war by assassinating its top nuclear scientist is somewhat reminiscent of Reagan's Iran policy at the end of his term, but with a difference. Reagan's donors were not so entrenched, nor so wealthy, nor so powerful as Trump's -- or Biden’s. And the United States was not so politically beholden to Israelas it is now... not to mention the Kingdom. .....


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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/27/america-future-is-liberal-fascism-sporting-smiley-shirt-armed-with-syringe/
 

The globalists responsible for engineering a medical tyranny across much of the Western world have something valuable to teach right-wing nationalists and would-be fascists, and that is you don’t sell your damaged product out of the barrel of a machine gun, but rather dripping from the end of a syringe that promises to end all pain and misery.

Patrick Henry, one of America’s more outspoken Founding Fathers, famously remarked “give me liberty or give me death” when the life of his nation was on the line. Today, America’s famous battle cry has been replaced by a masked and muffled gasp that advises, without hope of a second opinion, “give me lockdowns and keep me safe.” So terrified is the American public of catching a virus that comes with a 99 percent survival rate that they are willing to forego Thanksgiving, the great national holiday commemorating – with no loss of irony – their Pilgrim ancestors’ collective courage to overcome the wild, hostile conditions of their new land.............

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https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/25/maurice-strong-and-the-roots-of-the-great-reset-agenda/
According to such Great Reset luminaries as Bill Gates, Prince Charles, Michael Bloomberg, Mark Carney, and the World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab, humanity is expected to solve the dual threat of COVID and global warming in one revolutionary sweeping reform.

We plebeians have been told that all we have to do to restart the economy is rewire everything about our behaviour, value, finance, and ethics in order to decarbonize civilization under a new world regime of central bankers and new green digital currencies as outlined by the World Economic Forum’s Green Horizon Summit from Nov 9-10, 2020. It was at this event that keynote speaker Mark Carney announced that the total net zero transition represents “the greatest commercial opportunity of our time.”


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Sooo, what's new with German Nazis?


https://www.globalresearch.ca/towards-police-state-in-germany-police-raid-into-home-of-dr-andreas-noak/5729950

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Sunday, November 29, 2020

From the Grayzone on the provocation to start a new war from the usual suspects

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z68ikVeVtcQ

Wow!! Portugal's justice system gives verdict that PCR tests are up to 97% unreliable.

 If I posted this link on the twitter platform, its algorithms would block me as has been happening almost every day with my tweets posted there.  I am now more active at this blog with article that are of interest and should be widely read (at least by the few dozen who visit this blog) :) :) 

I loved the part of the verdict where the judges said that a DOCTOR should examine a patient to declare that the patient is infected and we know that all those who are presumed infected are NOT diagnosed by doctors but by TESTERS not qualified to be doctors.


http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/november/27/landmark-legal-ruling-finds-that-covid-tests-are-not-fit-for-purpose-so-what-do-the-msm-do-they-ignore-it/

 Four German holidaymakers who were illegally quarantined in Portugal after one was judged to be positive for Covid-19 have won their case, in a verdict that condemns the widely-used PCR test as being up to 97-percent unreliable.

Earlier this month, Portuguese judges upheld a decision from a lower court that found the forced quarantine of four holidaymakers to be unlawful. The case centred on the reliability (or lack thereof) of Covid-19 PCR tests.

The verdict, delivered on November 11, followed an appeal against a writ of habeas corpus filed by four Germans against the Azores Regional Health Authority. This body had been appealing a ruling from a lower court which had found in favour of the tourists, who claimed that they were illegally confined to a hotel without their consent. The tourists were ordered to stay in the hotel over the summer after one of them tested positive for coronavirus in a PCR test - the other three were labelled close contacts and therefore made to quarantine as well.

Unreliable, with a strong chance of false positives

The deliberation of the Lisbon Appeal Court is comprehensive and fascinating. It ruled that the Azores Regional Health Authority had violated both Portuguese and international law by confining the Germans to the hotel. The judges also said that only a doctor can “diagnose” someone with a disease, and were critical of the fact that they were apparently never assessed by one...........................

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Videos of interest ... Is Trump and Israel planning to bomb Iran? What can be expected from the Biden presidency, will he deliver or deceive? How is money created from thin air by the 1%ters with 99% of that pie for themselves,etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1WDi8jlKS8 Tucker on Obama's new book How Money is Created ... created by the few for the few. Biden presidency, according to me, will be worse than what we have seen of the Trump one. Which is all very good for those of us wanting to see the USA torn down to nothing.

Friday, November 27, 2020

Interesting opinions I have read from the alternative media ....

  which medium is far more interesting and definitely a firm  believer in mankind's freedom of speech than the authoritative MSM controlled by the 1%ters.

Below are items I would have normally posted to Twitter but as I am weaning myself from that platform by not posting more than two items per day, the rest of what I might have posted there will be here at my blog instead.  If you liked my output at Twitter, come over here to read it.

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 The shameless Obama never stops lying.

.....Barack Obama took a shot at President Trump in an interview Wednesday, blaming him for border ‘cages’ that were actually instituted and used under the former President’s administration.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-obama-blames-trump-his-own-border-cages

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 I can't mention or think of Israel without letting sparks of anger ignite inside me... so as much as possible I try not to kindle those sparks.

From the article at MiddleEastMonitor

.....Under Israel's regime there, Palestinians have no right to speak out against the military dictatorship that controls every facet of their lives. They can be thrown into prison on the say-so of an army officer, with no charges or any semblance of due process. Protests are routinely banned; journalism, poetry and literature speaking out against the occupation are slapped with the label "incitement" and stamped out; and unarmed Palestinian activists and campaigners are routinely thrown into prison.

Khalida Jarrar is just one example; she's a leading women's rights activist and socialist Palestinian lawmaker. On 1 November last year, she was abducted by Israeli army thugs and thrown in jail. More than a year later, she continues to be detained without charge or trial....

 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201127-israels-growing-strategic-threat-to-our-freedom-of-speech/

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 https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/11/senior-doc-says-alberta-politicians-playing-medicine-media-driving-hysteria/

 Dr. Roger Hodkinson says the virus is no worse than a “bad flu, that masks are “useless”, and that lockdowns are driving suicides. ......

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This James Corbett episode deals with False Flags and the Dawn of Bioterrorism. 

https://www.corbettreport.com/bioterror/ 

 ....As the world begins to lose its collective mind over the threat of viruses, the idea that biological agents and infectious pathogens will be the weapon of choice of the terrorists is being seeded in the public imagination. As in every such false flag event, the coming bioterrorist attack will be blamed on a convenient scapegoat: the “invisible enemy” of a deadly new pathogen and the shadowy terror groups who, we will be told, are responsible for releasing it. But, as history shows, it is the people who are claiming to “predict” this attack in advance, and who are in positions to dictate the world’s response to it, who should be considered the prime suspects in the wake of any such event........ 

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  The German blogger running the Moon of Alabama website, a political anti-war blog I often visit, has converted to the religion of Covid like so many other herebefore sane and sober bloggers. Oh well! Just like religion, any religion, brainwashes followers, many intelligent folks are fervently believing that this virus is far more dangerous than it actually happens to be and that whatever draconian measures the government decrees, is in the best interest of the population. Sad... but there you have it. There are those of us who think freedom is more important than dying of this disease and then there are those who think it's okay to live a life under dictatorship and tyranny, as long as we are able to breathe, no matter how foul the air emitting from those who want to control us body and soul.

  https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/11/pandemic-freedom.html#comments 78045 

 

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 C.J. Hopkins below gives us all the dirt spewing out from the "once were Nazis" but we now gotta wonder if they had really left at all.... from his links-heavy article "The Germans are Back"

 https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-germans-are-back/

 

......As the Protection Act was being legitimized (i.e., the current one, not the one in 1933), tens of thousands of anti-totalitarian protesters gathered in the streets, many of them carrying copies of the Grundgesetz (i.e., the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany), which the parliament had just abrogated. They were met by thousands of riot police, who declared the demonstration “illegal” (because many of the protesters were not wearing masks), beat up and arrested hundreds of them, and then hosed down the rest with water cannons.

The German media — which are totally objective, and not at all like Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda in the Nazi era — dutifully reminded the German public that these protesters were all “Corona Deniers,” “far-right extremists,” “conspiracy theorists,” “anti-vaxxers,” “neo-Nazis,” and so on, so they probably got what they deserved. Also, a spokesperson for the Berlin police (who bear absolutely no resemblance to the Gestapo, or the Stasi, or any other notorious official-ideology-enforcing goons) pointed out that their water cannons were only being used to “irrigate” the protesters (i.e., not being aimed directly at them) because there were so many “Corona Denier” children in their ranks..............

 

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I don't like the https://www.newsmax.com/  Newsmax website which has plenty of news on the 2020 election and Trump and that's coz that website is full of propaganda and fake stories about socialist nations.  That's the major issue I have with the American right-wing....its non-acceptance of socialism.  The other party too uses these propaganda tricks on the same socialist countries, as and when convenient... so it's by no means only a right-wing default.

Below a couple of  examples of their propaganda aimed at socialist nations.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/astrazeneca-hack-northkorea-vaccine/2020/11/27/id/999009/

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nicolasmaduro-charity-socialism-food/2020/11/26/id/998953/


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Don't call the cops if you don't want your loved ones killed because you did.  John Whitehead tells us why.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/dont_call_the_cops_if_your_loved_ones_are_autistic_deaf_mentally_ill_disabled_or_old


 

 

Monday, November 23, 2020

My tweets and retweets from Nov 9 to Nov 22

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Some of the stuff I have read from November 10 to 18, 2020 ... mostly on the USA and the strange world of today

Please go to links provided to read the articles in full. There are some sad pics of Armenians giving up their land to the aggressor who defeated them with Turkish power at one of the articles below.

 

Dave DeCamp at Antiwar

 https://news.antiwar.com/2020/11/17/us-bombers-enter-chinas-air-defense-zone-in-east-china-sea/

US Bombers Enter China’s Air Defense Zone in East China Sea

Two US B-1B Lancer bombers entered China's ADIZ after taking off from Guam

On Tuesday, the US sent two long-range bombers into China’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to the flight monitor Aircraft Spots. The provocative flights took place while China was holding large naval exercises in the region.

According to Aircraft Spots, two US B-1B Lancer bombers took off from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam and entered China’s ADIZ over the East China Sea. The US regularly conducts surveillance flights in the region using military spy planes. Sending B-1B bombers close to China’s coast is likely a show of force meant to send a message to Beijing............

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 Alastair Crooke at StrategicCulture

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/16/america-struggle-towards-new-civilizational-paradigm/

The American body politic is shuddering in the wake of this U.S. election. The discontents at our hyper-monetized, inequitable modernity are exploding. People feel crushed, with their humanity amputated:

I was born at the end of Gen X … and grew up in a middle class town. Life was good … Our home was modest, but we went on vacations, had 2 cars … I grew up thinking that being an American was the greatest gift … As an adult, I have witnessed the world I grew up in fall to ruin. I have watched as our currency and our economy have been shamelessly corrupted beyond redemption.

I have watched my blue collar husband get up at an ungodly hour every day and come home with an aching back that we pray will hold out long enough to get him to old age in one piece. Outside of shoes, socks and underwear, almost everything my family wears was bought used. We’ve been on one vacation in 12 years … We don’t have cell phones … We hardly ever eat out. What I just described is life on 60K a year without going into debt. We working stiffs are on our own. We will be working until we die, because the Social Security we’ve been forced to pay into, has also been robbed from under us.

I watched as my family’s health insurance was gutted and destroyed. I have watched as education, which was already sketchy when I was a kid, became an all-out joke of wholly unmathematical math, gold stars for all, and self-loathing anti-Americanism. My family has taken an enormous financial hit as I stay home to home school our child.

I’ve sat by and held my tongue as I was called deplorable and I’ve been called a racist and a xenophobe and a chump and even an “ugly folk.” I’ve been told that I have privilege, and that I have inherent bias because of my skin colour, and that my beloved husband and father are part of a horrible patriarchy. Not one goddamn bit of that is true, but if I dare say anything about it, it will be used as evidence of my racism and white fragility. And now I have watched as people who hate me and mine – and call for our destruction blatantly and openly stole the election and then gaslighted us – and told us that it was honest and fair.

I am done. Don’t ask me to pledge to the flag, or salute the troops, or shoot fireworks on the 4th. It’s a sick, twisted, heart-breaking joke, this bloated, unrecognizable corpse of a republic that once was ours.

I am not alone. Not sure how things continue to function when millions of citizens no longer feel any loyalty to, or from, the society they live in. I was raised to be a lady, and ladies don’t curse, but fu*k these mother**kers to hell and back, for what they’ve done to me, and mine, and my country. All we Joe Blow Americans ever wanted was a little patch of land to raise a family, a job to pay the bills, and at least some illusion of freedom, and even that was too much for these human parasites. They want it all, mind, body and soul. Damn them. Damn them all.

America shudders. This is not just ‘politics as usual’. This is not even about President Trump (albeit that most Blue supporters believe so). This is not even just about America. There are moments when – collectively, as well as individually – civilisations reach to a fork in the road. American and West European civilisation is at such a point. Two poles, the coastal élites and the American central heartland, are colliding and the sparks and twisted metal resulting from this head-on crash will be the heat that will forge Red American civilisation into a step-shift (whatever that may lead). The after-effects will shape America, and Europe too, where Euro-élites are often little more than simulacra of those U.S. ‘coastal élites’.......

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Ryan Christian  at TheLastAmericanVagabond 

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/wef-admits-covid-was-around-in-mid-2019-its-admitted-the-vaccine-will-not-return-us-to-normal/

 WEF Admits COVID Was Around In Mid-2019 & It’s Admitted The Vaccine Will NOT Return Us To Normal

 

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 Blog of Moon Of Alabama

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/11/the-huge-new-trade-deal-western-media-do-not-like-to-talk-about.html 

 

The Huge New Trade Deal 'Western' Media Do Not Like To Talk About

Tomorrow a new trade agreement between 15 Asian states will be signed. It will soon be seen as a milestone in the global economic history. But only very few 'western' media have taken note of it or of the huge consequences the new agreement will have.

The agreement is also a huge victory for China over U.S. hegemony in Asia:

Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations including China and Japan plan to sign the world’s biggest free trade deal this weekend. The FTA will cut tariffs, strengthen supply chains with common rules of origin, and codify new e-commerce rules.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is expected to be announced at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which Vietnam is hosting virtually. It will involve the ten member states of the ASEAN bloc – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – as well as their trade partners Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.

The new economic bloc will thus represent around a third of the world’s gross domestic product and population.

It will become the first-ever free trade agreement to include China, Japan, and South Korea – Asia’s first, second and fourth-largest economies.

The economies of the RCEP members are growing faster than the rest of the world. The agreement is likely to accelerate their growth......

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F William Engdahl at GlobalResearch

 https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-not-said-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine/5729461

What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”?

 The financial world went ballistic on November 9 when the pharma giant Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, announced in a company press release that it had developed a vaccine for Covid19 that was “90%” effective.

The controversial US head of NIAID, Tony Fauci (rightrushed to greet the news and the EU announced it had purchased 300 million doses of the costly new vaccine. If you believe financial markets, the pandemic is all but past history.

Suspicious events

However it seems Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, doesn’t share the confidence of his own claims. On the day his company issued its press release on the proposed vaccine trials, he sold 62% of his stock in Pfizer, making millions profit in the deal. He made the sell order in a special option in August so it would not appear as “insider selling”, however he also timed it just after the US elections and the mainstream media illegitimately declared Joe Biden President-elect. It seems from appearances that Bourla had a pretty clear conflict of interest in the timing of his press release on the same day.

Bourla lied and denied to the Press that his company had received any funds from the Trump Administration to develop the vaccine when it came out they contracted in summer to deliver 100 million doses to the US Government. Further adding to the suspect actions of Pfizer was the fact the company first informed the team of Joe biden rather than the relevant US government agencies.

But this is far from the only thing alarming about the much-hyped Pfizer announcement.....

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Hiroyuki Hamad at Global Research

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-global-capitalist-cage-and-the-corona-crisis-solutions-by-those-who-have-created-the-problems/5727349 

 

The Global Capitalist Cage and the Corona Crisis: “Solutions” by Those Who Have Created “The Problems”

.........In the vastness of space and unimaginable span of geological time, our presence is small: smaller than a spec of dust on a whole planet.  As conscious beings, we have created narratives and theories to explain what it means to be in this mysterious sea of matter and time.  Such ideas are central to our social organization as well as how we relate ourselves to it.  They very much affect how we perceive things as individuals and as collectives.  Those ideas can take the shape of religion, history, ideology, tradition, myth and so on, constituting parts of the individual psyche as well as the collective psyche.

Those ideas are supposed to be promoted and perpetuated by the community members because they serve them by validating the given social order which serves their best interests. They are supposed to give us ways to reconcile with the unknown in collective manners, by which we find ways to accept the mystery of life with reverence and awe.

But do they?

As we are born into the social order, where those ideas are reinforced and physically manifest as social framework, we internalize those ideas, we become a part of the social mechanism and the ideas become “reality”.

But strictly speaking this “reality” is somewhat different from what is inherently real in a material sense.  What we perceive as “reality” is our interpretation of matter which has been shaped by the imperatives of the social order.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SoJI_KNV0Q&feature=emb_title 

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https://www.rferl.org/a/scorched-earth-as-ethnic-armenians-burn-homes-before-handover-of-territory-to-azerbaijan-control/30952511.html

 Scorched Earth: Ethnic Armenians Destroy Homes, Infrastructure Before Fleeing Azerbaijani Regions 

Many ethnic Armenians who are fleeing the regions around Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh have opted to destroy their homes after removing as much as they can carry. The destruction comes ahead of a scheduled handover to Azerbaijan of territory seized by Armenians during a war in the early 1990s...............

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Mark Almond at RonPaul Institute

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/november/18/israel-armenia-and-the-death-of-middle-east-christianity/

Israel, Armenia and the Death of Middle East Christianity

An ancient pre-Islamic nation suddenly overwhelmed on its ancestral lands during Yom Kippur by an oil-rich Muslim regime deploying state-of-the-art technology sounds like the stuff of Israeli nightmares. Combine the kamikaze drones with swarms of jihadi fundamentalist warriors scrawling swastikas on the abandoned vehicles of their defeated enemies while graffitiing the names of past pogroms on the burnt out ruins of the defeated people’s buildings as they liberate the “occupied territories” and it looks like a Zionist Armageddon.

What sounds like a prequel for a future apocalypse of the Jewish state is in fact what has just happened to the three million Armenians of the Caucasus at the hands of much bigger, richer and better armed Azerbaijan.

But Israelis ought to have qualms about what has just happened over the last six weeks in the Caucasus mountains between Mount Ararat and Iran. This is not so much because of the obvious analogies between Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands and the Syrian Golan Heights and the Christian Armenians’ position in the mountainous Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, nor because of the possibility that despite President Trump’s much-trumpeted peace deals between Israel and certain oil-rich Arab states could yet dissolve if the military balance between Jews and Muslims was shifted as suddenly and decisively as between Christians and Muslims in the Caucasus when oil wealth bought the Azeris’ attack-drones and skilled advisers to render obsolete overnight the much-vaunted Armenian military advantage.

It was Israel’s willingness to sell Halop drones, both kamikaze and loitering versions, to Azerbaijan which put the Armenians on the ground at such a disadvantage. Azerbaijan spent 60% by value of its defence procurement budget on Israeli weaponry. In return the regime in Baku is the major oil supplier to Israel which is still boycotted by most other Muslim producers.....

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

On the censorship from the corporate overlords on users of social media platforms which paves the way for an exodus from those platforms to the alternative media

 I am weaning myself off from Twitter.  The censorship experienced on that platform has made me question myself why I even bother to post there when only a few of my tweets get  even a few dozen views and I am shadow-blocked almost every day and hardly anyone even bothers to click on the links.

 

I will still be posting at Twitter but very infrequently.  Everything I might have posted and linked to on that platform will now be found on this site.

 

I will be still keeping this blog active with stuff I read and find interesting as this blog is like a diary to help me remember and also to log for future readers, the events happening in this world of ours and how far and for how long the madness we have learned to accept from our demented rulers will go on without a world revolution by the 99%ters on the 1%ters.

 

https://mises.org/wire/heres-what-donald-trump-should-do-inauguration-day

Here’s What Donald Trump Should Do before Inauguration Day

11/09/2020

States won’t have to formally certify their electoral college votes until December. But, assuming Joe Biden’s supporters do manage to push through the necessary 270 electoral votes, Donald Trump still has until January 20 to change military policy, pardon allies, unseat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and throw a wrench in the deep state apparatus that has so long antagonized him.

But time is running out. What Trump does now could nonetheless strike a blow for the cause of restrained foreign policy, while reining in the intelligence state and placing barriers in front of Washington technocrats seeking to reassert their power in Washington.

But what exactly should Trump be doing?

Fortunately, Lew Rockwell has recently compiled a list of the essentials, noting that Trump should of course continue his legal challenges to the ballot counters in various states. But there are also concrete policy changes he can make right now, and speaking to Trump, Rockwell concludes: “In the time until [January 20], you should act decisively against the deep state and the enemies of the American people.”....

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Frank Miele at RealClearPolitics

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/11/06/the_kafka_election_finding_a_way_out_of_the_maze__144618.html

The Kafka Election

The 2020 election is a nightmare from which I — along with millions of others — am trying to awake.

Like many dark dreams, it is uncertain exactly what is happening. Phantasmic ballots come and go. Seemingly insurmountable Republican victories disappear into the mouth of a vote-munching machine and come out the other side as excremental — oops, I mean incremental — Democratic leads just beyond the reach of a recount. And as in any nightmare worth its salt, just when you think it’s about to end, a new trap door opens and you fall into yet one more level of confusion and chaos in a maze with no exit in sight...........

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From RT

https://www.rt.com/news/506179-austrian-islamists-meeting-vienna/

Vienna shooter

 he Austrian Interior Ministry has confirmed earlier reports that the gunman behind the deadly Vienna attack met with a group of fellow jihadists from Germany and Switzerland in the country’s capital several months ago.

“A meeting took place in Vienna among the people … from Germany and Switzerland, but there were also people present at the meeting with the later assailant who were arrested in the context of the investigation,” Interior Ministry’s Director General for Public Security Franz Ruf said at a news conference.

Austrian media reported earlier that more than a dozen of “young jihadists” from Austria, Germany and Switzerland gathered for what was described as “a three-country Islamist summit” in Vienna in mid-July. The meeting was said to have been organized by Kujtim Fejzullai, a 20-year-old Austrian native of Albanian origin who killed four people and wounded 23 more in the country’s capital on November 2.....

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Kit Knightly at Off-Guardian

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/08/censoring-donald-trump-is-more-dangerous-to-democracy-than-anything-he-could-ever-say/ 

Censoring Donald Trump is more “dangerous to democracy” than anything he could ever say

Oligarchs and social media giants are now claiming a monopoly on “the truth”, that should worry everyone

The media have called the election for Biden, but the counting goes on and there is a legal case in the offing. But whoever emerges from this deluge of sludge, fraud and propaganda to become president of the United States, there has undoubtedly already been one big loser – freedom of speech.

Late on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump – the elected President of the United States – emerged from the White House to make a speech.

He accused the Democratic party, the political establishment, the media and tech giants/social media companies of working together to steal the election and put Biden in the Whitehouse.....

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 Janine Jackson at Fair.org

https://fair.org/home/these-lawsuits-are-incredibly-rinky-dink/

These Lawsuits are Incredibly RInky-Dink

 

Janine Jackson interviewed Voting Booth’s Steven Rosenfeld about vote counting for the November 6, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

 Janine Jackson: It is November 5, and the New York Times front page tells me that Joe Biden sees a “path to victory.” The reason it’s just a path, I’m to understand, is that Donald Trump is still mounting “challenges” to vote counts. Trump, of course, announced in advance that, “As soon as that election is over, we’re going in with our lawyers.”

But Republicans didn’t just start going in with their lawyers. In particular, since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, they’ve used the courts to provide cover for the kind of voter suppression they feel favors them. They’ve played these cards face up for so long, it’s hard to see why anyone would credit Trump’s current legal maneuvers as anything other than what they are—frank attempts to hold on to power, no matter what.

 

But here we are, and where we need a press corps that defends democratic functions unflinchingly—even, or especially, if it’s the president attacking them—what we’ve got is, along with some strong and useful reporting, a lot of normalizing inanity, like CNN‘s John Avlon telling viewers to “keep cool” and “remember that the right to vote is really the fight to vote.” Come again?

Things are changing as we speak, but joining us to talk about where we’re at is journalist Steven Rosenfeld. He’s the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He joins us now by phone from San Francisco. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Steven Rosenfeld..................

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  From TheAnalysis.News

<a href= " https://theanalysis.news/interviews/biden-will-be-president-the-institutions-will-assert-themselves-larry-wilkerson 

 A Judicial Coup Unlikely...................

While it’s likely Biden will take office, the Republicans will try to make governing impossible. Biden must be pushed to force effective climate change policy through executive order and not cave to the GOP Senate, says Larry Wilkerson on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.

Transcript

Paul Jay
Hi, I’m Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast, and please don’t forget the donate button.
A razor-thin majority for Biden, relying on the mail-in vote. This is the election result Trump and people
like Steve Bannon expected. They were right and the polling was wrong. Again. Bannon declared a few
weeks ago that the war would begin on November 3rd, and here we are. Trump has already declared
victory and is saying the Democrats plan to steal the election........

 

 

 

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Some of my tweets and retweets from Nov 1 - 8, 2020