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Sunday, January 31, 2021

My tweets and retweets from Jan 15 - 31, 2021

Friday, January 29, 2021

Videos worth watching

  Pay for pardons? John Kiriakou on Trump’s final flop & Biden CIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nd6oOC4iU Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou about a recent story in the New York Times which alleges Trump allies attempted to sell presidential pardons. Kiriakou speaks about his personal experience dealing with Trump insiders, including Rudy Giuliani................ ............................................................................................................................................................ Radicalized Michigan Anarchist Seeks Unity With The Left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZMB9052rEs ............................................................................................................................................................ The Man Who Discovered The $21 Trillion At The Pentagon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jao8aQuTl4 ......................................................................................................................

Catching up on my reading about the crazy world we now live in


 Tulsi Gabbard: Domestic-Terrorism Bill Is ‘a Targeting of Almost Half of the Country’
By Brittany Bernstein

January 23, 2021 10:05 AM

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-domestic-terrorism-bill-is-a-targeting-of-almost-half-of-the-country/

Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic representative from Hawaii, on Friday expressed concern that a proposed measure to combat domestic terrorism could be used to undermine civil liberties.

Gabbard’s comments came during an appearance on Fox News Primetime when host Brian Kilmeade asked her if she was “surprised they’re pushing forward with this extra surveillance on would-be domestic terror.”

“It’s so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends,” Gabbard said.

She continued: “When you have people like former CIA Director John Brennan openly talking about how he’s spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they’ve seen overseas, that in his words, he says make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians.”..........

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Israelis Say They Will Attack Iran If US Returns to Nuclear Deal
Earlier this month, a Likud minister openly threatened to attack Iran if Biden revives the JCPOA
Dave DeCamp Posted on January 25, 2021Categories

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/25/israelis-say-they-will-attack-iran-if-us-returns-to-nuclear-deal/

Israeli officials have made their opposition to the Biden administration returning to the Iran nuclear deal known. Some have even threatened a military strike on Iran if President Biden revives the deal, known as the JCPOA.

An Israeli source affirmed this to Breaking Defense in an article published on Monday. “Israel needs to know — and fast — whether Washington plans to stop Iran’s race to the bomb or take some action to do this,” the source said, speaking on the condition of anonymity....


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The “humanitarian” left still ignores the lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to cheer on more war

by Jonathan Cook / January 23rd, 2021


https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/the-humanitarian-left-still-ignores-the-lessons-of-iraq-libya-and-syria-to-cheer-on-more-war/

The instinct among parts of the left to cheer lead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones reveals in a column today on the plight of the Uighurs at China’s hands.

The “humanitarian war” instinct persists even after two decades of the horror shows that followed the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the US and UK; the western-sponsored butchering of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi that unleashed a new regional trade in slaves and arms; and the west’s covert backing of Islamic jihadists who proceeded to tear Syria apart.

In fact, those weren’t really separate horror shows: they were instalments of one long horror show........

......The anti-war left is not just against acts of wars, though of course it is against those too. It is against the global war economy: the weapons manufacturers that fund our politicians; the arms trade lobbies that now sit in our governments; our leaders, of the right and so-called left, who divide the world into a Manichean struggle between the good guys and bad guys to justify their warmongering and weapons purchases; the arms traders that profit from human violence and suffering; the stock-piling of nuclear weapons that threaten our future as a species.....

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GameStop saga exposes deep hypocrisy from elite investors and proves US financial market is detached from reality

Bradley Blankenship

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/513839-gamestop-reddit-wallstreet-panic/

 The destruction of a short-selling hedge fund by investors on Reddit was a formidable display of people power. It exposed the US stock market’s feet of clay – and the panicked elites are sure to retaliate.

American video game retailer GameStop has made a splash in the news this week after a showdown took place between hedge funds attempting to short sell the company’s stocks and Redditors attempting to fight back. After a hard-fought battle, the folks over at r/WallStreetBets scored a victory when a heavily battered Melvin Capital closed out its short position in Gamestop, putting several things plain on display – mainly, the utter absurdity of the US financial market.

Saturday, January 23, 2021

On the pandemic, lockdowns, tech overlords and censorship, stolen elections or not, wars to continue or not, the implosion of the warlords' nation, regime changes, deep state, etc.etc. Part 3 of 3

 

 

US Files Appeal in Assange Case

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/19/us-files-appeal-in-assange-case/ 

The U.S. has filed an appeal in London against a British judge’s decision to block Julian Assange’s extradition on health grounds.

Consortium News

The United States has filed an appeal of Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s Jan. 4 decision to block WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States because of an extreme risk of suicide. 

Washington’s British lawyers’ filed papers with the High Court in London on Friday, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed to Britain’s Press Association.

The PA reported that the U.S. has been granted an additional fortnight to file details to back up its appeal. 

An administrative decision by the High Court is expected on whether to allow the appeal before any hearings could be heard.

The filing came in the final days of the Trump administration, which prosecuted Assange on 17 charges under the Espionage Act and one charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and requested his extradition.....

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  Biden’s ‘Unity’… By War?

By Finian Cunningham


 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56228.htm

January 22, 2021 "Information Clearing House" - President Joe Biden beseeched his nation this week for unity. In his inaugural address Wednesday the word “unity” was repeated over and over.

And, understandably, well he may make such an urgent appeal. Because the United States is a bitterly divided house between seemingly irreconcilable factions. Former Republican president Donald Trump didn’t even show up for his successor’s inauguration – the first time that such a snub has happened in nearly 150 years.

Many of Trump’s supporters among the 74 million who voted for him are convinced that the election was stolen by the Democrats. Biden’s  call for unity is scoffed at by these people who denounce him as a “Marxist”. (That’s a ludicrous description of Biden, an arch capitalist and imperialist, but that’s what they believe.)

For Democrats, many of those on the other side of the house are crazy white supremacists, fascists and “domestic terrorists” who need “reprogramming”. That’s a broad brush too, although the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, QAnon cult, and so on, might certainly qualify for such designation...................

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Maj. Danny Sjursen on Ethiopia, Mali, and the Chances Biden Starts a War

From the Conflicts of Interest Podcast:

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/01/15/maj-danny-sjursen-on-ethiopia-mali-and-the-chances-biden-starts-a-war/

 

On COI#58, Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) joins Kyle Anzalone to break down Ethiopia, Mali, and Biden’s foreign policy team. Danny gives a brief history of Ethiopia and explains how the country’s conflicts with its neighbors. Danny explains how the Ethiopian Prime Minister won the peace prize, then use the prize to further his war efforts. He also breaks down Ethiopia’s internal politics and the recent civil war (plus the ongoing insurgency.)

Danny and Kyle discuss the civil war in Mali and the French intervention. Post-Libyan War France has been fighting jihadists groups throughout the Sahel region. In recent weeks, five French soldiers have died. France is now looking to exit West Africa. Danny and Kyle examine the neocons and humanitarian interventionists that are coming to power in the Biden administration and how they could expand America’s War on Terror..........

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Robert Bridge

January 23, 2021

 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/01/23/disuniting-of-america-now-inevitable-under-joe-biden-and-radical-left/

 

Joe Biden will ram through warped liberal social experiments masquerading as credible, time-tested programs designed to stabilize the nation.

It was a stark image never before seen in Washington, DC, and one that bodes ill for the future prospects of the country. A locked down capital ringed in barbed wire, with 25,000 troops encompassing the Capitol building, provided a surreal backdrop to Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th POTUS.

The excuse Democrats have provided for turning the ‘citadel of democracy’ into a maximum security prison is not due to a growing distrust with the electoral process. Nor was it blamed on the spectacle of the mainstream media and Big Tech silencing the voices of exactly one half of the U.S. electorate – up to and including that of the now former president, Donald J. Trump. No, to suggest such irrational things would attract howls of ‘conspiracy theory’ from the liberal gallery...................

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Friday, January 22, 2021

On the pandemic, lockdowns, tech overlords and censorship, stolen elections or not, wars to continue or not, the implosion of the warlords' nation, regime changes, deep state, etc.etc. Part 2 of 3

 

Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True

 

 https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/raskolnikovs-dream-come-true/


Something is happening here,
But you don’t know what it is,
Do you, Mr. Jones?
— Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, 1965

It’s hard.

Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it?  Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against us.

Something.

Or a Luis Buñuel film.  The logic of the irrational. Surrealistic.  A film made to draw us into an ongoing nightmare.  Hitchcock with no resolution. Total weirdness, as Hunter Thompson said was coming before he blew his brains out.  A life movie made to hypnotize in this darkening world where reality is created on screens, as Buñuel said of watching movies:

This kind of cinematographic hypnosis is no doubt due to the darkness of the theatre and to the rapidly changing scenes, lights, and camera movements, which weaken the spectator’s critical intelligence and exercise over him a kind of fascination.

Louis Bunuel, My last sigh, Knopf, 1983

Here we are in Weirdsville, USA where most people, whether of the left, right, or center, are hypnotized by the flickering screens.............

 

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Jagmeet Singh attending CJPAC event representative of Canada-wide NDP suppression of pro-Palestine foreign policy

 https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/fsedje

 

Written by: Daniel Xie

On December 17, 2020, the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee(CJPAC) reported a successful National Festival of Lights (Hanukkah) celebration hosted via Zoom by Liberal MP for Mount Royal, Anthony Housefather and Ya'ara Saks. The event involved the participation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party Leader Annamie Paul.

Three days after CJPAC reported of Paul and Singh attending the National Festival of Lights, pro-Palestinian activist Sam Hersh criticized Singh’s participation. Hersh expressed disappointment that Singh would pose for photo ops with CJPAC, which he identifies as a pro-Israel advocacy group seeking to suppress advocacy for Palestinian human rights. These efforts to suppress Palestinian human rights and advocates, Hersh notes, have led to the targeting of non-Zionist Jews such as himself as “dangerous”.

Similar criticisms regarding the participation of the NDP in an event hosted by the pro-Israeli CJPAC were also expressed by Michael Buckert, the vice president for Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East(CJPME), who found it “weird” that the NDP would participate in CJPAC hosted events.

An examination of CJPAC’s website reveals the anti-Palestinian goals of the organization. The website contains many articles and news reports painting a one-sided, pro-Israeli image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These articles include:.......

 

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How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler

In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.

 Glenn Greenwald

 https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic

 

Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to regulate them. Instead, go create your own social media platform that operates the way you think it should.

The founders of Parler heard that suggestion and tried. In August, 2018, they created a social media platform similar to Twitter but which promised far greater privacy protections, including a refusal to aggregate user data in order to monetize them to advertisers or algorithmically evaluate their interests in order to promote content or products to them. They also promised far greater free speech rights, rejecting the increasingly repressive content policing of Silicon Valley giants.......

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Your Sigh Of Relief Is Grounded In Delusion: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix


 Caitlin Johnstone  

January 20, 2021

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/20/your-sigh-of-relief-is-grounded-in-delusion-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/

 

Ahh at long last America is returning to normality: the hub of a globe-spanning empire which rings the planet with military bases and destroys any nation which disobeys it while propagandizing the entire world into supporting its murderousness, without rude tweets.

Biden’s inauguration will be a huge relief for people who aren’t actually affected by US government policy.

Americans want to believe Trump was uniquely evil among recent presidents because they want to believe their government will become significantly less evil when he leaves. This is delusional and harmful.

The only way to find Trump’s presidency remarkably awful is to (A) greatly diminish the scale of Bush and Obama’s crimes and (B) believe foreign lives don’t matter. Saying Trump was the worst president, even since the turn of this century, is saying that you’re a shitty person.........................

 

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“Q Anon” May Have Been an FBI Psyop

 https://www.globalresearch.ca/q-anon-may-have-been-an-fbi-psyop/5735016

A recent Reuters investigation may indicate that “Q Anon” was in fact an FBI cyber psyop.

The “Q Anon” phenomenon has generally been regarded as a hoax or prank, originated by online message board users in late October 2017, that got out of control. The “Q Anon” persona was preceded by similar personae, including “FBI anon”, “CIA anon” and “White House insider anon”.

“Q Anon” originally called himself “Q clearance patriot”. Former CIA counterintelligence operative Kevin M. Shipp explained that an actual “Q clearance leaker” – i.e. someone possessing the highest security clearance at the US Department of Energy, required to access top secret nuclear weapons information – would have been identified and removed within days.

However, in November 2020 Reuters reported that the very first social media accounts to promote the “Q Anon” persona were seemingly “linked to Russia” and even “backed by the Russian government”. For instance, the very first Twitter account to ever use the term “Q Anon” on social media had previously “retweeted obscure Russian officials”, according to Reuters.............

 

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On the pandemic, lockdowns, tech overlords and censorship, stolen elections or not, wars to continue or not, the implosion of the warlords' nation, regime changes, deep state, etc.etc. Part 1 of 3

 
COVID-19 & The Emergence Of The Pandemic Industrial Complex
Authored by Brian Berletic via ActivistPost.com,

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/covid-19-emergence-pandemic-industrial-complex

Authored by Brian Berletic via ActivistPost.com,

If official numbers are to be believed, the United States is one of the worst hit countries in terms of COVID-19 infections and deaths. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at the time of writing, there are supposedly 19 million COVID-19 cases with an alleged 300,000+ deaths suggesting between a 1-2% chance of dying from COVID-19 if infected by it.....

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LOL ... nice one!   You know what they say,  "when you can't beat them with logic, use illogic" ... or words to that effect. LOL !


Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War?

https://consentfactory.org/2021/01/11/are-you-ready-for-total-ideological-war/


So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores “normality” throughout the world, or at least attempts to restore “normality,” or the “New Normality,” or the “Great Normal Reset,” or “The New Normal War on Domestic Terror” … or whatever they eventually decide to call it.

In any event, whatever they call it, GloboCap is done playing grab-ass. They have had it with all this “populism” malarkey that has been going on for the last four years. Yes, that’s right, the party is over, you Russian-backed white supremacist terrorists! You Trump-loving, anti-mask grandmother killers! You anti-vax, election-fraud-conspiracy theorists! You deviants who refuse to follow orders, wear your damn masks, vote for who they tell you, and believe whatever completely nonsensical official propaganda they pour into your heads!................

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A message to anyone who feels like ‘Winston’ in Orwell’s 1984

    Simon Black
    January 13, 202

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/a-message-to-anyone-who-feels-like-winston-in-orwells-1984-30397/


“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering . . . all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting– three hundred million people all with the same face.”

That was a quote from George Orwell’s seminal work 1984— a masterpiece that describes life in a totalitarian state that demands blind obedience.

The ‘Party’ controlled everything– the economy, daily life, and even the truth. In Orwell’s 1984, “the heresy of heresies was common sense.”

“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.”..........


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More power for law enforcement would not have stopped Capitol riot, their inherent bias to the right is the REAL problem

Bradley Blankenship
 

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512622-law-enforcement-capitol-riot/


 Calls for the police to be given more powers following the Washington disturbances are misplaced. A more pressing concern is reining in their systemic reactionary tendencies and sympathies for the radical right.

In the wake of the recent Capitol riot in the US, coupled with new information from the FBI that suggests all 50 state capitals could soon be under siege, political figures across the country are calling for legislation that could greatly expand the powers of law enforcement and stifle freedom of speech and assembly.

Much of the proposed legislation in state legislatures is actually refigured versions of similar bills that were meant to silence the nationwide Black Lives Matters protests that happened in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police in May last year.

As the country begins to perform an autopsy on what actually occurred at the Capitol on January 6, it is becoming more and more apparent that law enforcement had sufficient resources and intelligence to deal with the situation – but they decided not to. Police officers, several of whom were seen livestreaming with rioters, are now under investigation, and it’s apparent there were higher-ups who, for whatever reason, didn’t want to interfere with the mob. ................

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Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It

Ryan McMaken

https://mises.org/wire/biden-can-now-launch-nukes-and-unleash-world-war-iii-whenever-he-feels-it


...........But why has there been no significant effort to develop some sort of check or veto to this process? Part of this lies in the fact the US military establishment maintains a posture very much in favor of erring on the side of aggression rather than restraint. In the early days of the nuclear-armed Cold War, there were essentially no safeguards in place. A man claiming to be the president, if he had access to the right people, could theoretically call for a nuclear strike, and there was no set way of remotely verifying his identity..............


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Introducing PanQuake: Revealing Project X (full censored event) #TalkLiberation

The above event, formerly known as Project X, revealed PanQuake; a next generation social reach and amplification tool that makes big tech social media platforms look like they are from the Dark Ages. The event, hosted by Taylor Hudak, featured a renowned panel of guests including PanQuake Co-founder Suzie Dawson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, ex NSA Technical Director Bill Binney, comedians Graham Elwood, Jimmy Dore and Lee Camp, and a special message from Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.

If you enjoy this video, please spread the word about PanQuake to your friends, family and followers, and encourage them to donate to support the project build at https://gogetfunding.com/panquake


https://vimeo.com/501631303





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Interesting video from 2012 on SARS

 

 Is James Corbett another George Orwell ???  Listen to it... really worth your time.

 

 https://www.corbettreport.com/pandemic-video/

James Corbett in 2012:  ".. Be afraid, citizens! Be very afraid! The WHO is back in town, warning of a new potential pandemic threat. If that fact brings to mind flashbacks of the 2009 swine flu pandemic hype then you’ve been paying attention. Tonight on the program James breaks down the constant low-level conditioning to accept the next big pandemic scare, where that pandemic is likely to come from, and what might happen in its wake.....

 

Friday, January 15, 2021

My tweets and retweets Jan 1 - 15, 2021