Bad faith actor

Tweet (John Pilger):

"Today, at the Julian #Assange trial, the prosecutor James Lewis (ex SAS) stooped low. In denigrating the expert evidence of Professor Michael Kopelman, he suggested Julian was exaggerating a suicidal despair should Lewis, America's man, succeed in getting him to Trump's hell."

"US Prosecution Accuses Assange of Exaggerating Symptoms of Depression" (Gosztola).

"The US Is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life. Why Is the Paper So Silent?" (Cook) (with lots of embarrassing tweets from 'journalists'):

"The corporate media’s indifference to Assange’s trial hints at the fact that it is actually doing very little of the sort of journalism that threatens corporate and state interests and that challenges real power. It won’t suffer Assange’s fate because, as we shall see, it doesn’t attempt to do the kind of journalism Assange and his Wikileaks organisation specialise in. 

The indifference suggests rather starkly that the primary role of the corporate media – aside from its roles in selling us advertising and keeping us pacified through entertainment and consumerism – is to serve as an arena in which rival centres of power within the establishment fight for their narrow interests, settling scores with each other, reinforcing narratives that benefit them, and spreading disinformation against their competitors. On this battlefield, the public are mostly spectators, with our interests only marginally affected by the outcome."

and:

"The undeclared role of the corporate media, dependent on corporate owners and corporate advertising, is to serve as gatekeeper, deciding which truths should be revealed in the “public interest”, and which whistleblowers will be allowed to disseminate which secrets in their possession. The Wikileaks model threatened to expose that gatekeeping role, and make clearer that the criterion used by corporate media for publication was less “public interest” than “corporate interest”."

and:

"So how to explain the Guardian’s silence?

The book by Leigh and Harding, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, made a lot of money for the Guardian and its authors by hurriedly cashing in on the early notoriety around Assange and Wikileaks. But the problem today is that the Guardian has precisely no interest in drawing attention to the book outside the confines of a repressive courtroom. Indeed, were the book to be subjected to any serious scrutiny, it might now look like an embarrassing, journalistic fraud.

The two authors used the book not only to vent their personal animosity towards Assange – in part because he refused to let them write his official biography – but also to divulge a complex password entrusted to Leigh by Assange that provided access to an online cache of encrypted documents. That egregious mistake by the Guardian opened the door for every security service in the world to break into the file, as well as other files once they could crack Assange’s sophisticated formula for devising passwords.

Much of the furore about Assange’s supposed failure to protect names in the leaked documents published by Assange – now at the heart of the extradition case – stems from Leigh’s much-obscured role in sabotaging Wikileaks’ work. Assange was forced into a damage limitation operation because of Leigh’s incompetence, forcing him to hurriedly publish files so that anyone worried they had been named in the documents could know before hostile security services identified them."

In case you were wondering if ((())) are involved:  "Explosive Evidence from Trump Insider: Assange Dragged from Embassy “on the Orders of the President”" (Tiernan/Scripps) (on Schwartz):

"Fairbanks’ testimony provides insight into the criminal underworld surrounding the White House. After Trump fires National Security Adviser John Bolton and Grenell’s name is floated as a replacement, Fairbanks tweets about his involvement in Assange’s arrest, which elicits a “frantic” call from Schwartz.

“He was ranting and raving that he could go to jail and that I was tweeting ‘classified information’… Schwartz informed me that in coordinating for Assange to be removed from the embassy, Grenell had done so on ‘direct orders from the president’” and that “other persons who Schwartz said might also be affected included individuals who he described as ‘lifelong friends’.” 

These individuals included Grenell and Las Vegas Sands boss and long-time Trump ally Sheldon Adelson."

Gosztola day 12.

Max Blumenthal tweets on the conflict of interest of 'journalists' who thus show an extreme disinterest in the CIA spying on Assange.

"“Justice” Department Fighting to Hide Records of FBI’s Protection of Epstein" (Daily Stormer).

"After protest, Zoom will not host S.F. State event featuring Leila Khaled" (Greschler).  That's (((protest))).  Essentially, more Khancel Khulture.  The Lawfare mob is making it explicit:

"“[A]ll communications platforms have been put on notice: block terrorism and cancel anti-Semitism, or you will be canceled,” read a statement from the Lawfare Project, a New York-based legal fund that helped organize the protest. “Today, we see the power of minority communities standing together.” 

The main organizer, End Jew Hatred, which describes itself as “a grassroots movement centering on Jewish liberation,” brought together a number of national Jewish groups for support, including the Lawfare Project, San Diego-based antisemitism educational nonprofit Shield of David and the network of pro-Israel youth groups Club Z."

Andre Vltchek, RIP

"Turkey probes death of American journalist Andre Vltchek".  "US journalist Andre Vltchek dies suspiciously in İstanbul".

He wrote very negatively about a lot of places, so there are many potential suspects.

The weird times

"Extrajudicial Executions Portrayed as “An Instrument of Peace”. Trump Wanted to “Take Out” Syria’s President Assad…" (Chossudovsky).  The weird times are those few years in which the extrajudicial execution of the President of Syria isn't being plotted.

"Neoliberal Death Knell for Indian Agriculture" (Todhunter):

"Both ongoing and proposed ‘reforms’ are ultimately about ‘liberalising’ agriculture to further ease the entrance of foreign agribusiness interests and serve the needs of India’s home-grown billionaires. The Modi government is predictably facilitating what could eventually lead to a trillion-dollar (value of the Indian economy according to Modi’s former associates at APCO Worldwide) corporate hijack of India three steps closer with the ‘ordinances’.

By bringing the full force of liberalisation to the farm economy and in the process fundamentally restructuring Indian society (around 60% of the population still rely on agriculture for their livelihoods), any remnants of economic sovereignty and sovereign state status will be hollowed out and India will become a fully incorporated subsidiary of global capitalism and its fundamentally flawed and exploitative food regime.

Of course, many millions have already been displaced from the Indian countryside and have had to seek work in the cities. And if the coronavirus lockdown has indicated anything, it is that many of these ‘migrant workers’ have failed to gain a secure foothold and were compelled to return ‘home’ to their villages. Their lives are defined by low pay, insecurity and callous treatment by the government. 

It raises the question: what does the future hold for the hundreds of millions of others who will be victims of the dispossessive policies of neoliberal capitalism?"

Some blowback: "Treating American Empire" (Shade).

"Millennials and the Holocaust" (Atzmon):

"The Forward reports that two-thirds of young Americans didn’t know how many died in the Holocaust. For some peculiar reason it is very important to most Jewish institutions that everyone parrots the ‘six figure.’ This is peculiar, as the notion of a genocide is within the realm of the categorical rather than the numerical. But if these institutions insist upon reducing the holocaust into a materialist quantified figure I am inclined to ask how many Jews know the exact number of Ukranians who were starved to death in the Holodomor? How many Jews have even heard of the Holodomor? Which Jews know about Stalin’s Jews as Israeli leading columnist Sever Phlocker identifies them. Do contemporary Jews know about the impact of the Yiddish Speaking Spanish International Brigade on Catholic Spain in 1936? How many Iraqis died in the Neocon ‘war against terror’? I ask because Haaretz Writer Ari Shavit wrote in 2003 that “the war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish.” If Jewish institutions want everyone else to understand the holocaust in numerical terms, maybe it would be reasonable to expect Jews to know the numbers of colossal crimes against humanity perpetrated largely or partially by Jews.

The Forward is upset by the fact that nearly half of millennial Goyim couldn’t name a single death camp. In return I ask how many Jewish millennials know about Deir Yassin or can name a single Zionist massacre in Palestine in 1948 or before? How many Jewish millennials know about the Sabra and Shatila massacre? Or the Kefar Qana Massacre? What do they know about the malnutrition in Gaza caused directly by years of blockade imposed by the Jewish State?"

This is pretty grim, as Biden either won't, or can't, take any of the steps:  "If Biden Loses, This Will be Why" (Rall).  The comments - and Unz comments are 99% Republican - don't care for this analysis at all.

Are Google employees retarded?  It is a serious question.  "Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface" (ClassicHasClass). 

Time management

"Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 14" (Murray):

"I am very concerned about the obvious collusion of the prosecution and the judge to close this case down. The extraordinary conflation of “time management” and excluding evidence which the US Government does not want heard in public is plainly illegitimate. The continual chivvying and interruption of defence counsel in examination when prosecution counsel are allowed endless repetition amounting to harassment and bullying is illegitimate. Some extraordinarily long prosecution cross-examinations, such as that of Carey Shenkman the lawyer, have every appearance of deliberate time wasting and distraction.

Tuesday’s witness is Professor Michael Kopelman, the eminent psychiatrist, and the prosecution have indicated they wish to cross-examine him for an extraordinary four hours, which Baraitser agreed against defence objections. Her obsession with time management is distinctly subjective."

Day 11, Consortium News and Gosztola.

Tweet (Glenn Greenwald):

"Some US journalists are drowning in such extreme jingoism & American exceptionalism that they believe non-US-citizens can be “traitors” to the US — as though every human being on the planet owes supreme moral and legal loyalty to the US Government."

"How do Democrats and Republicans Differ on Palestine and Israel? " (Baroud).  Not a shekel's-width of distance between them.

"Xi: No nation should act like boss of the world" (Baijie).  'Win-win', instead of the Asshole 'begger thy neighbor' strategy, is why China is destined to succeed, while Assholia, fittingly, circles the bowl.

"Silence reigns on the US-backed coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia" (Weisbrot).  Every failed regime change is an orphan which nobody wants to admit to.

"The U.S. Needs To Abandon Its Dead-End Venezuela Policy" (Larison).  Although this seems to be accepting of the concept and righteousness of Assholian regime change, just quibbling about the tactics.

"Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation" (Crichton):

"So what are we left with here in the U.S. and increasingly Europe? A narrow-minded policy of blocking external tech innovation to ensure that our sclerotic and entrenched incumbents don’t have to compete with the best in the world. If that isn’t a recipe for economic disaster, I don’t know what is."

Integrity and impartiality

How to write a screenplay:  "The War on Populism: the Final Act" (Hopkins).

You'd think imprisoning somebody for life for journalism would be of interest to journalists, but the Clintonistas think Assange is the devil and want him punished regardless of consequences, and 99.9999999% of Assholian 'journalists' have no worries that they would ever uncover anything that would garner government attention:  "Glenn Greenwald Shocks With Explanation On Why Mainstream Media Is Ignoring Assange Trial" (Durden).

"Canadian Judicial Council urged to investigate judge accused of blocking senior U of T appointment" (Fine).  The Canadian Tax Court doesn't look to be a hotbed of blood-pouring-from-the-fangers (I'm guessing Khazar tax lawyers don't want to give up the big bucks to serve somebody else's country), but there must be one.

"Leslie Green, a law professor at Queen’s University, wrote a letter of complaint to the judicial council on Thursday. He said it is irrelevant whether external influence caused the school to change course. What matters, he said in his letter to the council, is whether a judge attempted to influence a university appointment. It would be “very troubling,” he said, if the attempted influence were related to Dr. Azarova’s research on Israeli occupation.

“It would put the integrity and impartiality of the Court in jeopardy,” he wrote. “Any party or lawyer before it who is Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim could reasonably fear bias.” 

The judicial council told The Globe it cannot undertake an investigation into a complaint unless it has the name of the judge in question. Prof. Green did not name the Tax Court judge, but said in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail that it would astonish him if the CJC felt it had no obligation to investigate allegations that impugn the integrity of a judge, when the court has been named."

I'm afraid there is nothing astonishing about the depths of Khazar Evil and privilege.

David E. Spiro (just saying, it might be somebody else).

American capitalism drifts firmly into the protection racket:  "TikTok, Sing a Song of Sixpence, A pocket Full of Rye, Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in an American Pie" (Bhadrakumar).

Utterly ignored

The Young Turks/Jacobin circle are monsters.  But you knew that.

Ha ha ha!  "Pro-Women’s Rights Supreme Court Judge Ruth Ginsburg Utterly Ignored Palestinian Genocide" (Polya).  Sailer is gleefully pointing out that, for a hero of the 'Resistance', she had some definite group supremacist ideas about Shvartzers:  "Conquest's First Law And RBG: "Everyone Is Conservative About What He Knows Best"" and "Just How Black Was RBG's One Black Clerk?".

"‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary" (Blumenthal).  Everything is a 'play' these days, some kind of arbitrage opportunity, and much of the 'green' stuff is a combo of free government cheese, and an attempt to offload environmental issues from the West to places like China which have to bear the environmental burden of manufacturing the 'green' equipment.  Then there is the usual cluster of liberal grifters hanging on to whatever the PR program of the moment is today.  Also:  tweet (Ben Norton):

"An important part of @MaxBlumenthal's deep investigation into how billionaires and US intelligence-linked foundations have co-opted the environmentalist movement is his damning section on Naomi Klein, which needs to get more attention (thread below)"

Gosztola tweets. "LIVE UPDATES: ASSANGE HEARING DAY TEN—Court Is in Session".  It's Cryptome!  Murray on the previous day.  I don't think it is possible to 'get through' to this 'judge' - she's upset as her inevitable verdict will make her look even worse if some of the defence testimony lands.

Tweet (Ali AlAhmed) (and right after he passes on President Jared's 'peace' deal!):

"Breaking: I am receiving reports that #Saudi @KingSalman is in critical condition. The 85 year old despot was a life-long smoker, Parliament & red Marlboro cigarettes & consumer of P&G whisky among other things. He remains at his palace. I am waiting 4 more info as of his death"

Hiding due to illness

"Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg’s Death and Trump’s Emerging “Legal” Coup d’Etat. Unprecedented Political Crisis." (Rasmus).  Rasmus is one of the best writers out there, but this is complete nonsense.  The Republicans doing what they are constitutionally permitted to do is not a 'coup'.  On the other hand, Democrats are musing out loud about shutting the country down if the votes don't go their way.  That's a 'coup'.  The whole system is set up to be a disaster - a fixed day on which the issue is supposed to be decided,  with centuries of expectations and understandings, with a mail voting system added on which has been set up so the votes by mail can't possibly be counted on time, and a big expected discrepancy between the results of in-person voting and mail-in voting.  This is asking for trouble.  A court of any stripe might very well consider the instability caused by the uncertainty of piles of votes sitting around, uncounted.

I'm still quite taken with the growing parallels between the Clinton and Biden campaigns.  Both candidates ended up as nominees solely because it was their 'turn', but both suffer from debilitating health problems, Clinton with her neurology, and Biden with late-state Alzheimer's (no arguing, it's obvious, and what more appropriate President of Assholia than someone whose brain doesn't work!).  Both with seemingly huge, insurmountable leads over Trump - Biden's lead disturbingly less strong, particularly as Trump can probably be credited with at least 100,000 excess Asssholian deaths, and the consequent complete economic collapse, which you would think might count for something.  The big leads allow Biden and Clinton to fail to properly campaign.  In each case, the lack of campaigning is required by the illness (the main concern of campaign strategists is to hide the illness from voters), but the candidates fall back on the excuse they are going to win easily anyway.  The problems are grounded in the inability of the Democrats to pick a viable, functioning, candidate.

Drama

"Supreme Court Fight Exposes Bipartisan Hypocrisy" (Moon).  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death" (Welsh).  A bit unfair to Ginsberg, who is often described as 'selfish' for not standing down when a Democrat could appoint her replacement.  Remember 'demographics'?  At the time Barry summoned her, the Dems were working on the assumption that there would never be a Republican President, ever again.  As far as Ginsberg was concerned, she had lots of time, as President Clinton or some other Democrat would be picking her replacement.  Everybody knew Barry, being Barry, would pick a horrible centrist, and why settle for that when you can get somebody more to the left?  Her decision to stay was rational, based on the horribly flawed assumptions all Democrats were making (and still make).

Did you know Canada has 'conservative; and 'liberal' Supreme Court judges too, and somehow they get appointed with almost no drama?

Somebody important died

Somebody important died, a real loss:  "Stephen F. Cohen, Influential Historian of Russia, Dies at 81" (McFadden).  If Biden wins, and tries to head, as he will, directly to WWIII, this loss will prove to be even more tragic.

Popcorn time!

Popcorn time!:  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87" (Greenhouse).  It was getting to be a bit like Abe Vigoda.

Khancel Khulture

"Scandal-hit U of T law school internal emails contradict dean’s new email to staff over key hiring decision" (Paradkar).  Well, somebody is lying.  If it is the Dean, he must go, otherwise the entire law school becomes a joke.  We also need to know the name of the (((judge/'donor'))), who may also need to go.

"New Documents Reveal Secret British Efforts To Arm, Assist And Propagandize 'Moderate Rebels' In Syria" (Moon).  It is obvious that the Empire has delegated to the Brits most of the warmongering PR grunt work for the various Wars For The Jews.  The joke is that, these days, the Brits aren't much good at anything, including lying.

"French Rapper Slammed for 'F**k the Holocaust' Lyrics, Faces Probe for 'Unspeakable' Anti-Semitism" (Ekimenko).  Impunity must end, goyim.  "Miscellaneous – Justice | Anti-Semitic lyrics: rapper Freeze Corleone dropped by his label" (see also, on Khazar khancelling:  "Nick Cannon and Public Enemy’s Professor Griff were both called antisemitic. Only one recovered.").  This one is a real stretch, as the 'anti-Semitism' is buried in a few phrases scattered here and there throughout multiple songs, and seems to reflect a bigger, conspiratorial, view of the world.  ""Rien à foutre de la Shoah" : voyage dans l'antisémitisme obsessionnel du rappeur Freeze Corleone" (Didier):

"L’antisémitisme de Freeze Corleone semble prendre sa source aux mêmes eaux qui ont conduit Dieudonné à passer de l’humoriste le plus brillant de sa génération à un idéologue négationniste et plus drôle du tout : la sensation que l’accent mis sur les souffrances des Juifs dans l’histoire, et au XXe siècle en particulier, neutraliserait la reconnaissance des crimes de l’esclavage ou de la colonisation en Afrique."

If the Khazars soak up all the sympathy with forced Shoah worship, what is left for BLM?  This cuts both ways - it is why Big Jews are vehemently anti-BLM.

"How the west lost" (Lieven).  Imperial overreach.  Oddly, the author wears the same blinkers vis-à-vis China as Assholia has towards the entire world.

"Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 12" (Murray).  The CIA has apparently instructed the 'judge' to tone down her obvious bias against Assange.  Amusingly addled Clintonista spin:  "U.S. Admits Rohrabacher Offered Pardon To Cover Up Russian Hack" (RedStateRachel).

It is a bit of an issue when you continue to boast about the things you should be ashamed of:  tweet (Eli Valley):

"Portrait of @BarackObama."

Interference

"Bolivian interim President Anez withdraws from election race".  "Bolivia: Interim President Añez Withdraws from October Elections".  This is a little encouraging as it seems that the coup plotters are treating the election seriously, which isn't to say they wouldn't organize a new coup when they lose.  "Coups and Neo-Coups in Latin America" (Paz y Miño).

"Search for new director of U of T law faculty’s International Human Rights Program leads to resignations, allegations of interference" (Paradkar).  'Interference' is code for shekels!  Are there more corrupt people in the universe than university officials?  No, goyim, no there are not.  I wonder who the ((('sitting judge'/'major donor'))) is?  The Star could tell us, but presumably has (((reasons))) for omitting the key fact.  Also, what's with the ridiculous picture?

Gosztola has been doing such a good job at reporting that the CIA found a way to exclude him from the courtroom (the Brits have already done a bang-up job at establishing technical incompetence at running the court, so it is easy to fit this in as another bungle).  Somehow, Richard Medhurst got in.

"Putin Critic Navalny Releases "Evidence" Of Novichok Poisoning" (Durden).  The false-flag would have been easier with a swapped and planted bottle of water, than with a coup of tea, which raises logistical difficulties.  It might also explain why nobody else was in contact with the poison.  Still, I suspect there was no 'attack', and NATO-influenced Germans are lying.  One reason for extreme skepticism is that this supposedly deadly poison seems to have a hell of a time killing people.  Another is the conveniently shifting stories in response to criticism of implausibilities in earlier tales, which we also saw in the Skripal fiasco.

"Russia demands answers from Washington on whether the US is facilitating terrorist attacks in Crimea, after NBC report".  Bountygate backfires!

"How China is Unwinding the US’ Middle East Supremacy" (Sheikh).  No drama, just buy a lot of Iranian and Iraqi oil and let everything fall into place.

Uptick

From Strether at Naked Capitalism on the recent uptick of COVID cases:

"Pretty soon those upticks are gonna turn into a third wave. If that happens, Trump will look pretty toasty, (colorable) vaccine or no. (The savage irony would then be that the crème de la crème of America’s Professional Managerial Class — the gatekeepers of the meritocracy — failed, given months of time to prepare, to understand that their “customers” party. Or they did, and collected the tuition and housing fees anyhow. And Trump would take the hit! It’s beautiful, in its own way.)"

Not doing the 'work' of retail campaigning, which Trump and his people do and Biden doesn't, is becoming eerily similar to the Clinton campaign, and for the same reason of over-confidence based on polls.

Polish irredentism is becoming a problem:  "Covert Action Props Up U.S.-Polish Axis Against Belarus: A Deep Dive into Far-Right Regime-Change Activists and Their Backers" (FOIA Research).  "Poland and Lithuania Are Ready to ‘Take Back’ Belorussian Lands (Anna Sochina)".  Poland would also like Galicia when Ukraine breaks up.

"Michael Hudson: How an “Act of God” Pandemic Is Destroying the West: The U.S. Is Saving the Financial Sector, Not the Economy":

"A socialist government such as China’s can keep its industry going simply by simply writing down debts when they can’t be paid without forcing a closedown and bankruptcy and loss of assets and employment. The world thus has two options: a basically productive public financial system in China, or a predatory financial system in the United States.

China can recover financially and fiscally from the virus disruption because most debts ultimately are owned to the government-based banking system. Money can be created to finance the material economy, labor and industry, construction and agriculture. When a company is unable to pay its bills and rent, the government doesn’t stand by and let it be closed down and sold at a distressed price to a vulture investor.

China has an option that Western economies do not: It is in a position to do what Hammurabi and other ancient Near Eastern palatial economies did for thousands of years: write down debts so as to keep the economy resilient and functioning. It can suspend scheduled debt service, taxes, rents and public fees from having to be paid by troubled areas of its economy, because China’s government is the ultimate creditor. It need not contend with politically powerful bankers who insist that the economy at large must lose, not themselves. The government can write down the debt to keep companies in business, and also their employees. That’s what socialist governments do.

The underlying problem is finance capitalism. Its roots lie at the heart of Western civilization itself, rejecting the “circular time” permitting economic renewal by Clean Slates in favor of “linear time” in which debts are permanent and irreversible, without public oversight to manage finance and credit in the economy’s overall long-term interest.

It often is easier to get rich in such times of disaster and need than in times of normal prosperity. While the U.S. economy polarizes between creditors and debtors, the stock market anticipates fortunes being made quickly from the insolvency of business with assets and property to be grabbed. Coupled with the Federal Reserve’s credit creation to support the financial and real estate markets, asset prices are soaring (as of June 2020) for companies that expect to get even richer from the widespread distress to come in autumn 2020 when evictions and foreclosures ae scheduled to begin again. 

In that respect, the coronavirus’ effect has been to help defeat the financial sector’s enemy, governments strong enough to regulate it. The fiscal squeeze resulting from widespread unemployment, business closedowns, rent and tax arrears is being seized upon as a means of dismantling and privatizing government at the federal, state and local levels, at the expense of the citizenry at large."

"Chris Selley: Universal basic income is not coming to Canada (no matter what the Liberals say)":

"What the Trudeau Liberals could and might propose is giving poorer people more money, and in a way that doesn’t punish them for moving up the economic ladder — a perfectly fine idea. University of Manitoba economists Wayne Simpson and Harvey Stevens have proposed converting some $80 billion in non-refundable tax credits, which are of no use to the lowest-income Canadians, to refundable ones. In 2015, they calculated that the income of the poorest families — those not even halfway to the poverty line — could be jacked up nearly 30 per cent at a cost of less than $7 billion."

A good outcome would be something like this, pharmacare, and something else mildly progressive (say, federal child care on the model Quebec already has).  This would barely pull Canada up to the level of its 'peers', and is doable and hardly radical (progress in Canada always sticks on the lousy example to the south, and recalcitrant conservative Premiers).

Tankies

"Myths and Lies About Poverty in America" (Jesse Jackson).

+972 is one of the slightly less horrible of the Zionist PR outlets, but they often display their true colors:  "Why are ‘anti-imperialists’ defending dictators?" (Joseph B.).  Obviously, this kind of crap sheds a true light on the lite Zionism of the rest of the site.  What really bothers them is that Israel falls on the wrong side of the righteously moral line drawn by the 'tankies':

"On domestic issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, tankies tend to take progressive positions. This makes their politics on peripheral countries all the more confusing, especially for those of us on the receiving end of our governments’ brutalities. Tankies would thus condemn American cops yet praise Hong Kong cops, or condemn the Israeli military while praising the Russian army."

Leaving out that Woodward has always been pure CIA:  "Why Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage’ is a lie built on a lie, and what Trump vs ‘Military Messiah Syndrome’ really is about" (Ritter) (my emphasis in red):

"It is Trump’s tortured relationship with the military that stands out the most, especially as told through the eyes of former Secretary of Defense Jim ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, a retired marine general. It is clear that Bob Woodward spent hours speaking with Mattis – the insights, emotions and internal voice captured in the book show a level of intimacy that could only be reached through in-depth interviews, and Woodward has a well-earned reputation for getting people to speak to him.

The book makes it clear that Mattis viewed Trump as a threat to the US’ standing as the defender of a rules-based order – built on the back of decades-old alliances – that had been in place since the end of the Second World War.

It also makes it clear that Mattis and the military officers he oversaw placed defending this order above implementing the will of the American people, as expressed through the free and fair election that elevated Donald Trump to the position of commander-in-chief. In short, Mattis and his coterie of generals knew best, and when the president dared issue an order or instruction that conflicted with their vision of how the world should work, they would do their best to undermine this order, all the while confirming to the president that it was being followed.

This trend was on display in Woodward’s telling of Trump’s efforts to forge better relations with North Korea. At every turn, Mattis and his military commanders sought to isolate the president from the reality on the ground, briefing him only on what they thought he needed to know, and keeping him in the dark about what was really going on.

In a telling passage, Woodward takes us into the mind of Jim Mattis as he contemplates the horrors of a nuclear war with North Korea, and the responsibility he believed he shouldered when it came to making the hard decision as to whether nuclear weapons should be used or not. Constitutionally, the decision was the president’s alone to make, something Mattis begrudgingly acknowledges. But in Mattis’ world, he, as secretary of defense, would be the one who influenced that decision.

Mattis, along with the other general officers described by Woodward, is clearly gripped with what can only be described as the ‘Military Messiah Syndrome’.

What defines this ‘syndrome’ is perhaps best captured in the words of Emma Sky, the female peace activist-turned adviser to General Ray Odierno, the one-time commander of US forces in Iraq. In a frank give-and-take captured by Ms. Sky in her book ‘The Unravelling’, Odierno spoke of the value he placed on the military’s willingness to defend “freedom” anywhere in the world. “There is,” he said, “no one who understands more the importance of liberty and freedom in all its forms than those who travel the world to defend it.”

Ms. Sky responded in typically direct fashion: “One day, I will have you admit that the [Iraq] war was a bad idea, that the administration was led by a radical neocon program, that the US’s standing in the world has gone down greatly, and that we are far less safe than we were before 9/11.”

Odierno would have nothing of it. “It will never happen while I’m the commander of soldiers in Iraq.”

“To lead soldiers in battle,” Ms. Sky noted, “a commander had to believe in the cause.” Left unsaid was the obvious: even if the cause was morally and intellectually unsound.

This, more than anything, is the most dangerous thing about the ‘Military Messiah Syndrome’ as captured by Bob Woodward – the fact that the military is trapped in an inherited reality divorced from the present, driven by precepts which have nothing to with what is, but rather by what the military commanders believe should be. The unyielding notion that the US military is a force for good becomes little more than meaningless drivel when juxtaposed with the reality that the mission being executed is inherently wrong. 

The ‘Military Messiah Syndrome’ lends itself to dishonesty and, worse, to self-delusion. It is one thing to lie; it is another altogether to believe the lie as truth."

and (on Trump's missile attack on Syria which was triggered by the White Helmets false flag 'chemical' attack):

". . . the President should have been outraged by the processes behind the attack, where military commanders, fully afflicted by ‘Military Messiah Syndrome’, offered up solutions that solved nothing for problems that did not exist. Not a single general (or admiral) had the courage to tell the president that the allegations against Syria were a hoax, and that a military response was not only not needed, but would be singularly counterproductive.

But that’s not how generals and admirals – or colonels and lieutenant colonels – are wired. That kind of introspective honesty cannot happen while they are in command. 

Bob Woodward knows this truth, but he chose not to give it a voice in his book, because to do so would disrupt the pre-scripted narrative that he had constructed, around which he bent and twisted the words of those he interviewed – including the president and Jim Mattis. As such, ‘Rage’ is, in effect, a lie built on a lie. It is one thing for politicians and those in power to manipulate the truth to their advantage. It’s something altogether different for journalists to report something as true that they know to be a lie."

Day Eight with Gosztola.  Today is on redaction, which the Assholes claim, unfairly, Assange didn't do, and the history of the Espionage Act.

11%

Gosztola Day Seven.  Goetz and Ellsberg.

"Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 10" (Murray).  The defence is establishing everything it wants.  Shame about the 'judge' and the fix being already in.

"US attempting to block Spanish investigation into CIA spying on Assange" (Grenfell).

"Abraham Accords: The War Pact Among Jim Crow States of the Middle East" (Cole).  "How a British policeman helped normalise torture in a Gulf monarchy" ('Andullah').  Perfect 'peace' partner for Khazaria.

"Trump Vs The Military-Industrial-Complex: Coup Concerns Escalate" (Ehret).  Some recent coups and coup attempts.

"Troubled Times at The Intercept" (Reichard).  Starts out well but then devolves into the usual recent CounterPunch Russiagate drivel.

Only 11% know the truth.  It's fucking outrageous:  "Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust" (Sherwood).

Did its job

"Treason" (Whitney) (also).  This is the formal teeth of Soros, part of his color revolution against the American people, and makes his otherwise seemingly counterproductive - at least, for Biden - promotion of mass rioting seem to be part of a bigger, semi-coherent plan.  It is a shame to see Wilkerson is a traitor.  Brooks is Deep, Deep Swamp (though the daughter of Barbara Ehrenreich!).  She was Counselor to Michèle Flournoy during the Barry years, and Flournoy is almost certainly going to be appointed Secretary of Wars For The Jews during the Harris Administration.

Tweet (Glenn Greenwald):

"When the pro-war Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee in July joined with Liz Cheney and her warmonger-GOP faction to block WH troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, they constantly cited the Russia bounty story to justify it. So this did its job:  

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejqYrzEX14E"

Your next leader, Assholia!: tweet (Juanita Broaddrick) (the replies point out it has been edited, but still . . . ):

"This is Biden on The View unable you form coherent sentences. Look at the ladies reaction. Priceless."

At the very least, any voter for Biden is really voting for a backroom collection of ((('donors'))) who will call all the shots.

"People worry that 'moderate' Democrats like Joe Biden are the same as Republicans. Our study suggests they may be right" (Singer/Rockenbach).

"Venezuela Arrests ‘CIA Spy’ on Oil Refinery ‘Stakeout’" (Dobson) (also).  The Fat Fuck keeps trying, and it is difficult to escape the idea that some atrocity against the people of Venezuela is part of Trump's reelection plan for Florida votes.

"One American Wrote Most of Scots Wikipedia. And They Got It All Wrong." (Mason)!  Not speaking the language did not deter him from trying!

Throw things up into the air

"The Left’s extreme behavior is solidifying support for Trump; it’s as if BLM has been invented by the Republicans" (Bruk).  "Why the US left loses: they can’t support Kyle Rittenhouse & Kenosha’s Jacob Blake" (Mazaheri).

""Liberalism's future now rests on a single question"" (interview with William Davies):

"One of the difficulties that liberals had (and still have) in understanding what happened over the period I'm discussing is that their own political assumptions and ideas about the world stopped working. It was taken for granted that people vote in favour of higher GDP growth, consensus, social peace. But what if they don't? What if they have a desire to throw things up into the air, and what if they might have good reasons for that? In many ways this is a repeat of what was seen economically in 2008, when basic explanatory principles of liberal economics stopped working."

"Intelligence Gathering at Protests, by J.D.".  Soros runs a tight, well organized, ship, including a full counter-intelligence operation.

Solid piece on the Black Dahlia murder:  "The Black Dahlia" (Corwin).

Danny Casolaro's medal

"Unipolar Spin: Why Imperial Leftists Vilify Russia’s Social Democracy" (Flores).

"Assange Trial Week 1: The Flaw at the Heart of the Prosecution Case" (Rees).

Tweet (Max Blumenthal):

"There it is. The US regime is neutralizing adversarial journalism by making an example of Assange."

"Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 9" (Murray). I hope the CIA isn't paying very much for James Lewis QC (corrected), as his skill level for his job is comically low, though, of course, as the fix is in, it doesn't matter.  Simply expressing fury and hectoring witnesses does not make for good cross examination.

Gosztola day six.

"The truth behind Netanyahu's admission that police killing was a cover-up" (Cook):

"The only reason the prime minister decided to break with Israel’s decades-old policy of dissembling to ensure its security services enjoy impunity over the deaths of Palestinians was to help himself out of a jam. It certainly was not because he cared about a glaring injustice, or about Abu al-Qiyan’s vilification and the family’s suffering - both of which he very much contributed to.

Netanyahu’s goal was not to clear Abu al-Qiyan’s name, but to tarnish the reputation of Israel’s police and prosecution service - and for all the wrong reasons. The police force and prosecutors involved in the killing of Abu al-Qiyan, and the cover-up of that crime, are the same police force and prosecution service that will be acting against Netanyahu in December, when his corruption trial begins in earnest.

Netanyahu faces a string of charges that he committed bribery, fraud and breach of trust. His political survival now depends on his ability to breathe life into a narrative that the Israeli police and legal system are themselves corrupt and waging an anti-democratic war to bring him down.  

This is the story he is trying to craft: if police and prosecutors could deceive even Israel’s prime minister for three years over the killing of an Israeli citizen, are they not also capable of deceiving the public by accusing Netanyahu himself of being corrupt?"

Well, as they say, duh!: "America’s War on Terror is the True Cause of Europe’s Refugee Crisis" (Cockburn).

"Democrats Go All-Out for Israel" (Giraldi).  Harris opened the wallets of a large number of ((('donors'))) who were sitting on the fence watching the 'good for the Jews' sweepstakes known as an Assholian Presidential election.

Danny Casolaro's medal.  "The Danny Casolaro Primer: 13 reasons to doubt the official narrative surrounding his death" (Best).

Hack narrative

"Dark Web Voter Database Report Casts New Doubts on Russian Election Hack Narrative" (Porter).  Not the Russian government, but hackers looking for data to sell.

"Maintaining Pretence Over Reality: ‘Simply Put, the Iranians Outfoxed the U.S. Defence Systems’" (Crooke).  More white elephants as targets for asymmetric warfare.  Iran remains blessed by the stupidity of its enemies.

"Reconsidering the Presidential Election" (The Saker):

"The US of 2020 in so many ways reminds me of Russia in February 1917: the ruling classes were drunk on their ideological dogmas and never realized that the revolution they so much wanted would end up killing most of them. This is exactly what the US ruling classes are doing: they are acting like a parasite who cannot understand that by killing its host it will also kill itself. The likes of Pelosi very much remind me of Kerensky, the man who first destroyed the 1000 year old Russian monarchy and who then proceeded to replace it with kind of totally dysfunctional “masonic democracy” which only lasted 8 months until the Bolsheviks finally seized power and restored law and order (albeit in a viciously ruthless manner)."

"Gullible Trump was manipulated by Netanyahu’s Deep Fake Video of Mahmoud Abbas to Cut off Palestinians" (Cole).  "Iran considering plot to assassinate US ambassador to South Africa is Bullshit" (Salam).

"The CIA Book Publishing Operations" (Price).

"Declaring Elections Illegitimate - By Rejecting To Send Observers" (Moon).  The weaponization of elections where the Fat Fuck doesn't like the winner keeps getting worse and worse.

Stress position

"High Crimes Against Journalism and Decency: Jeffrey Goldberg's Insane 'Trump Called Troops Suckers' Piece Is a New Low" (Rall).  Back with a twin:  "Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’" (concentration camp guard).  I have to say we all owe Shifty a real debt of gratitude for parading all those Russiaphobic State Department worthies spewing literally insane bullshit during the impeachment, hoping to lead to WWIII, as it demonstrated just how bad things really are.  What the people running Assholia truly believe is completely unbelievable!  If the concentration camp guard keeps up the pace of supremacist lying Americans are going to feel like Palestinian prisoners by the time the election rolls around.  Goldberg is just the latest 'stress position'.

"Election Reporting" (Robinson).  Another incident to throw in the 'Putin/Russia is doomed' filing cabinet.

"Trump and the Gordian Knot, Year Three" (Armstrong):

"German-American relations provide an observation point. There are four demands the Trump Administration makes of its allies – Huawei, Iran, Nord Stream 2 and defence spending – and all four converge on Germany. Germany is one of the most important American allies; it is probably the second-most important NATO member; it is the economic engine of the European Union. Should it truly defy Washington on these issues, there would be fundamental damage to the U.S. imperium. (And, if George Friedman is correct in stating that preventing a Germany-Russia coalition is the “primordial interest” of the USA, the damage could be greater still.) And yet that is what we are looking at: on several issues Berlin is defying Washington."

and:

"And so we can see that the Trump Administration is stamping around the room, smashing the furniture, brusquely ordering its allies to do as they’re told or else. One could hardly find a better exponent of this in-your-face style than “we lied, we cheated, we stole” Mike Pompeo. If your object were to outrage allies so much that they quit themselves, he’s ideal. Washington’s demands, stripped of the highfalutin accompanying rhetoric of freedom, are: join its sanctions against China and Iran; buy its gas; buy its weapons; if not, risk being declared “adversaries” in a sanctions war. Germany is defiant on Huawei, Iran, Nord Stream and weaponry; much of Europe is as well and Berlin’s example will have much effect on the others."

Thread by Michael Dougan on the Brexit adventures of Boris.  Unify Ireland (some kind of loose federal state), put Eire+ in the EU, and the problem disappears.

The Fat Fuck fired the Assholian Ambassador to China for being too good at his job:  "Terry Branstad Unexpectedly Quits As US Ambassador To Beijing" (Durden).

Gosztola Day Five.  The legal perils of over-caffeination.

"PLO: Normalisation prepares for formation of military alliances led by Israel".  Bahrain isn't really a country, just a vassal of Saudi Arabia, so having Bahrain sign on to President Kushner's supremacist bandwagon is just a way for the Saudis to participate in the Khazar love-fest without being seen by the 'street' to have betrayed the Palestinians.

Burn belt

Tweets by Hamza Shaban on the vile role of The Intercept in serving as a US intelligence cut out/honey pot to entrap whistleblowers, including Reality Winner (interesting, as Shaban is in an even more intelligence-agency-compromised outlet than the JYT).

Tweet (Brittany Winner, PhD):"

"She trusted them, but the Intercept didn't protect my sister, #RealityWinner. #FreeRealityWinner"

Astonishing, very late treatment from the JYT: "The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit." (White). Astonishing because the JYT is in the same intelligence agency protecting/promoting racket as The Intercept, so usually won't rock that particular boat.  The real reason for a general attack on The Intercept is that Russiagate is back, even more important to the Never Trumpers as the election approaches, and Greenwald is a powerful opponent of The Narrative, and thus needs to be taken down.  Unfortunately, Greenwald tends to lash out furiously at any critics, and refuses to acknowledge how deeply wrong it is for a supposed whistleblower outlet to immediately effectively out whistleblowers who turn to it.

The single good thing to come out of this is that The Intercept has been displayed for what it really is, and hopefully no more whistleblowers are taken it by its trickery.  The JYT article is, of course, a basic lie, as it describes the events as a 'mistake', when The Intercept is without question an asset of the National Security State.  You won't read about it in the JYT, even where they discuss other recent stories, but this is a pattern of behavior:  "Another Whistleblower Bites the Dust as The Intercept Adds a Third Notch to Its Burn Belt" (Webb).

I wonder if Scahill and Cole have those secret CIA medals we keep hearing about, or are they just happy with the bounty.

In the same seamless mix of 'journalism' and Swamp, note that Richard Esposito is now the top spokesman for the New York Police Department.

Icy Crusade

This is easily the stupidest and most useless read of the year (so far):  "Why Hasn’t Trump Started a War?" (Cain).

"3,000 Dead on 9/11 Meant Everything. 200,000 Dead of Covid-19 Means Nothing. Here’s Why." (Schwarz).  Pure conspiracy theory!  Of course, he's forgetting the Great Reset.  They'll find a use for the dead yet.

And I already had lots of reasons to like QAnon! (also here and here):  "Qanon is basically the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (Doctorow).  If you want to find out who rules over you, check to see who you can't criticize, and if you want the truth, look for anything labeled 'anti-Semitic'.

More on Mr. Vučić Goes to Washington (and comes away with a free pen):  "“Serbia and Kosovo” Go to Washington: Aleksandar Vučić Meets Up With “The Donald”" (Karganovic).

"Outcome of a disputed US vote: a ‘Hot Fall’ or an ‘Icy Crusade’?" (Mazaheri):

". . . a “Hot Fall” scenario: Trump loses both the popular and electoral college votes yet refuses to leave office. Trump, cognisant that the past four years has not increased affection for “the Swamp”, and also that his own popularity has endured despite the spectacular and unprecedented Deep State campaigns against him, thus encourages his supporters to rally in the streets in a long-awaited re-enactment of The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral or, in modern right-wing slang, “the Boogaloo”.

It’s a plausible scenario, indeed. The “only in America” scene of 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing in the streets with an AR-15 semi-automatic looked like a harbinger to many.

The likelihood of this “Hot Fall”, with Trump eventually leaving but only with the country even more divided than it has been so far in 2020, cannot be discounted. However I don’t predict that will happen.

Being a journalist who simply must query public opinion, I have asked many Americans for their thoughts on the election and about the question of a disputed vote this November. I have been rather swayed by the conservatives point of view, which is: Republicans are simply more reasonable than Democrats, and if they lose the election they will reasonably withdraw in order to preserve the country (as they are more patriotic as well).

I find that analysis – which I am merely relating from American Republicans – very astute. It doesn’t – and cannot – fully take into account the effects of a seriously disputed election, but I think it will hold true.

What I predict to be more likely is a the reverse scenario, an “Icy Crusade” led by embittered Democrats: Whether the election is disputed or not, a Trump victory will produce massive anti-Trump demonstrations starting on November 4 and lasting until 2024.

Frankly, I am hopeful this occurs – Trump has pulled the sheet off the face of American fascism, finally, and four years has not produced enough political modernity. America, today’s imperial Rome, has so very much to learn and unlearn, after all.

It should be remembered that – because half the electorate refuses to participate – Democratic voters are a rather fanatical minority of 25%. This is the same amount of the electorate which France’s Emmanuel Macron genuinely won in 2017, and his supporters are fanatically loyal as well – what else should we term continuing to support the weekly brutality against the Yellow Vests, which only ended with the coronavirus? Indeed, we cannot even compare the recent political repression in the US to that of France.

It must be remembered that partisan Democrats are as arrogant (imperialistic) and evangelistic as any Republican in the Pentagon and always have been: just ask a Southerner after the Civil War, or an American Indian, for that matter.

The modern Democrat does not explicitly evangelise for Protestantism and the racist paternalism of taking care of “our little brown brothers” (a historical term which was applied to the conquest of the Philippines, but which is obviously indicative of the fundamentally imperialistic mentality of even “good Americans”), but they certainly rabidly evangelise for other causes: political correctness, transgender bathrooms, against Trump, etc. 

A Trump victory – disputed or not – will thus lead to more outpouring of this same evangelical, self-righteous, “Icy Crusade” which non-White Americans have been subjected to for two centuries. Crucially, the “Icy Crusade” will be just as fake-leftist as the other imperial crusades, with total intolerance of and enmity towards the “other” at its root."

Note that the push for voting by mail, rather than accepting a short delay to be sure of the results, is intended to lead to the Icy Crusade.

A concept that doesn’t exist

"Julian Assange, political prisoner by Mumia Abu-Jamal".

"NYT: America's 180 Most Powerful Persons of Color Include A Lot Of White Spaniards" (Sailer) (on the vagarities of being a PoC in Assholia, and the Invisible People in power):

"On the other hand, while being obsessive about tracking down Hispanic ethnicity among the 922 Most Powerful Americans, the Times has no interest — zero, nada — in counting Jewish ethnicity among the most powerful. Counting powerful white people is proof of the concept of White Privilege, but since Jewish Privilege is not a concept, why would anyone want to look for or against evidence for a concept that doesn’t exist?"

Those who like/light fires in cities might like/light fires in the countryside: "Biggest Fires in American History: Is It Antifa Arson? Is the Media Covering It Up?" (Anglin).

Plan B Kh:  "Rep. Brad Sherman calls on pro-Israel groups to help him take control of the House Foreign Affairs Committee" (Arria).

In another example of our lyin' eyes, the Dems are explicitly calling Biden's obviously advanced dementia a 'conspiracy theory':  "Voters can’t see if Biden is senile until the debates in US-style democracy" (Mazaheri).

Bunch of crooks:  "Mueller's 'Angry Democrats' Scrubbed Cell Phones After Russia Investigation" (Durden).  Note all the steps required to commit these 'accidents'.

"The Current Impasse in Belarus and the Peace Alternative" (Harris).  In many ways similar to Libya under Gaddafi.  Do the people of Belarus want a fate like that of Libya?

Curdles

"How Can the Deep State’s Antifa Organization Be Stopped?" (Flores).  Very woke.  Except there is no will to do anything about it.

"Trump’s diplomatic coup with Serbia and Kosovo curdles quickly" (Ofir) (forensic analysis explaining how Serbia was tricked into this ridiculous position, a Trick For The Jews) (my emphasis in red):

"It turns out, that although the three parties at the White House signing ceremony appeared to be signing a mutual agreement, they were actually signing three different documents.

The difference between the documents signed by Serbia and Kosovo are in the last point in the agreement document (which fills less than two A4 pages), and it relates to Israel. On the Serbian version, it says:

“Serbia (Belgrade) agrees to open a commercial office, and a ministry of state offices, in Jerusalem on September 20, 2020 and move its embassy to Jerusalem by July 1st 2021”.

On the Kosovo version it says:

“Kosovo [Pristina] and Israel agree to mutually recognize each other”.

And what was Trump signing? Pressed by journalists to reveal this point, Trump’s Serbia-Kosovo envoy Rick Grenell said at a press conference:

“He signed a… how would you describe it? a… basically a letter acknowledging that they are going to work together and do this… agreement.”

Grenell tried to downplay the discrepancy between the Serbian and Kosovar documents, saying that they are “99.9%” identical. But the documents contain only 16 points. To be precise, the documents are 6.25% different. And that difference is not a minor difference – it relates to diplomatic relations with a foreign country, and even implies explicit breach of international law and UNSC resolutions in the Serbian case (although the embassy move to Jerusalem was not written in in the Kosovo case, it was immediately confirmed by both Israel and Kosovo as meaning that).

This is outrageous. It’s not as if both parties could not have gotten the same text mentioning what was agreed with the other party. The point right before the last makes such a distinctive dual description, to wit: “Kosovo [Pristina] will agree to implement a one-year moratorium seeking new membership into International Organizations”, and “Serbia [Belgrade] will agree to a one-year moratorium of its de-recognition campaign”.

One is thus led to believe, that there was an underhanded move by the US – that the US knew that there would be a bone of contention concerning that last point on Israel and thus it blindsided both parties to it, so the signing would not be delayed and the mess could be worked out later. 

This basically suggests that this was primarily a photo-op for Donald Trump, once again. The document is very vague, and even contains silly mistakes at the very top, where point 1 repeats itself in point 2. It’s clearly an amateurish document prepared in haste. And the devil is in the details. The last point is not a mere 0.1% discrepancy – it appears to be the point of it all – Israel. We must remember that for Trump’s main donor, Sheldon Adelson, Israel is the issue."

and:

"It bears mentioning that there was even some doubt as to whether Vučić was actually aware of the final pont in the document. When Trump said that Serbia has agreed to move its embassy to Jerusalem in July, Vučić’s reaction, which has widely circulated on social media, appears to be puzzled and alarmed: he looks through the document at that point, as if seeking more pages, turns back towards an aide, then face-palms himself, quickly turning that movement into a smoothing of his hair. 

Vučić vehemently denied that he was unaware of the content of the document. He stressed that he reviewed every letter of it (a 3-minute read). I doubt that Vučić was unaware of it. Was he just trying to catch attention? We may never know."

I wonder which of the ritual foods of Rosh Hashanah symbolizes the joyous celebration of the Khazars at the collapse of the twin towers:  tweet (Whitney Webb):

"Reason #467 why you should never believe anything Paul Krugman says"

Tweet (Karras):

"Just a friendly reminder so far we've had 63.3 9/11s worth of people killed by covid in the US so far and I guarantee you no one is gonna build those people a memorial."

Overconfident idiots

"Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 8" (Murray) (see also).  Two strong witnesses for Assange.  Of course, the fix is in, so it doesn't matter.  Lewis isn't really up to par as a barrister (he allows his emotions to get the better of him on cross, which lead to horrible technique, closer to crazed hectoring rather than finding weaknesses), and the CIA may decide to kill him after the proceedings, though their inevitable 'win' handed to them on a silver platter by the 'judge' and appeal courts may make them less salty.

China-Iran, now Russia-Syria, the rest of the world continues to react to the collapse of the Empire:  "Russia defies US Sanctions, presses Syria on Long Term Trade, Investment deal for Energy" (Cole).

I believe Assholia is completely doomed to turn into a complete shithole dystopia, or rather, more of a complete shithole dystopia.  Nevertheless, there is an election coming up, and a chance to slow the rate of acceleration into the abyss.  The only possible sane voting strategy is Trump for President, and control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats.  Biden is not a possible option, not even close, and full control of Congress should be able to assist with the worst aspects of Trump (assuming you can get the Democrats to actually do their jobs, admittedly an unlikely prospect).  Then hope that Soros doesn't pay one of his goons to kill Tucker before 2024.

Biden is, and has always been, a jerk, but he has significantly polished off the rough edges.  These old speeches are very enlightening.  I actually find it surprising that he didn't know enough to tone it down back in the day, but he was really speaking to the biggest assholes in Assholia (come to think about it, that's still the plan).

"Projection: MIT Technology Journal Thinks The Problem Is "Riot Porn"" (Sailer).

Tweet (Jarrett Blanc):

"Well this is one hell of a line: "Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, is quoted by Woodward as saying, 'The most dangerous people around the president are overconfident idiots.'”"

Amplification units

"Israel Funds America’s Israel Lobby, While U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Endless Fraud Against Themselves" (Giraldi):

"A leading recipient of the Israeli government’s largesse has been the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF), which has a presence in 43 countries worldwide, though it is registered in the U.S. as a non-profit. It received a grant of $100,000 from Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry in 2019, part of the $6.6 million that was doled out to eleven American organizations in 2018-9. Israel Allies particularly uses Lawfare to target the non-violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), which has a large and growing presence on university campuses. Effective lobbying by IAF in the U.S. has resulted in more than half of all states passing legislation that bans or limits the BDS activity while legislation that would criminalize organizations working against Israel has also been moving through congress. IAF has been directly involved in drafting such legislation and has more recently been pushing for new laws that would legally define criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism.

The Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs initially, in 2015-7, tried to give money openly to diaspora organizations but found that many American Jewish groups, to their credit, would not take it due to concerns over FARA and being accused of “dual loyalty.” So, the Ministry created an ostensibly non-government “public benefit company” cut-out to distribute the cash in a more secretive fashion. The mechanism was given the operational name Concert.

Concert’s sole purpose was to provide money to diaspora advocacy groups that would work primarily against BDS and other efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state. Concert had an independent board, but its activity of directed by the Strategic Affairs Ministry’s director-general.

Concert’s internal documents are predictably vague in describing the activities that it was funding, and one might assume that they are purposely misleading. They refer to “defensive and offensive” actions, on “corporate responsibility,” “the digital battlefield,” and regarding “amplification units” that would provide “support for organizations in a pro-Israeli network.” The intention was to improve Israel’s image due to the widespread and completely accurate perception that its human rights record is among the worst in the world. Concert was created to serve as a mechanism to be exploited where situations prevailed that “require an ‘outside the government’ discussion with the different target audiences… [and] provide a rapid and coordinated response against the attempts to tarnish the image of Israel around the world.” 

Interestingly, one of the most recognizable recipients of Concert funds was Christians United for Israel (CUFI), America’s largest pro-Israel group, which received nearly $1.3 million in February 2019 to pay for several 10 week-long “pilgrimages” to the Holy Land. Each pilgrimage involved thirty “influential Christian clerics from the U.S.” who were clearly propagandized while they were in the Middle East. Other large disbursements went to predominantly Jewish student groups, presumably to provide them with both resources and necessary training to oppose campus critics of Israel."

"Vanderbilt Quiz On Constitution Marked Students Wrong Who Said It Was Not Designed To Perpetuate White Supremacy" (Turley).  They are getting all the microaggressions out before they all collapse due to lack of students, and in particular the lucrative foreign students.  People should be having discussions about how to re-purpose all these nice buildings.

"‘Nothing nefarious at all’: Backlash as ex-NSA chief, involved in mass surveillance revealed by Snowden, joins Amazon board".  'Third-world' level of corruption.  If Assholia were even slightly properly run, Alexander would serve as director from a jail cell.

Now this makes sense:  "Serbia will not move embassy to Jerusalem if Israel recognises Kosovo’s independence".

"QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey".  Fredrick Brennan has been tweeting a lot about Watkins and QAnon.

My God, that’s illegal.

Still righteously correct, and all by herself!:  tweet (Tulsi Gabbard):

"Charges against @Snowden should be dropped or he should be pardoned. Likewise the Trump Admin should drop its efforts to charge & extradite Julian Assange. Failure to do so is a threat to the freedom & civil liberties of every American (especially journalists and publishers)."

Speaking of Barry and the Nobel Peace Prize: "The Plot Against Libya" (Draitser).

"Trump and Israel are only Winners of Serbia-Kosovo “Historic” Deal, As EU warns over Jerusalem" (Micovik).  Except for, I have to assume, the ubiquitous shekel bribes for its politicians, I can't for the life of me figure out what Serbia gets out of this 'deal'.

"John Brennan’s CIA Trump Task Force by Larry C Johnson":

"While chatting in late October 2019 with a retired CIA colleague, he dropped a bombshell–he had learned that John Brennan set up a Trump Task Force at CIA in early 2016. One of my retired buddy’s friends, who was still on duty with the CIA in 2016, recounted how he was approached discreetly and invited to work on a Task Force focused on then Presidential candidate Donald Trump. The Task Force members were handpicked instead of following the normal procedure of posting the job. Instead of opening the job to all eligible CIA personnel, only a select group of people were invited specifically to join up. Not everyone accepted the invitation, and that could be a problem for John Brennan

A “Task Force” normally is a short term creation comprised of operations officers (i.e., guys and gals who carry out espionage activities overseas) and intelligence analysts. The purpose of such a group is to ensure all relevant intelligence capabilities are brought to bear on the problem at hand. I am not talking about an informal group of disgruntled Democrats working at the CIA who got together like a book club to grouse and complain about the brash real estate guy from New York. It was a specially designed covert action to try to destroy Donald Trump."

and:

"So what did John Brennan do? My friends said that a Trump Task Force was running in early 2016 and may have started as early as the summer of 2015. Recruitment to Task Force included case officers (i.e., men and women who recruit and handle spies overseas), analysts and admin personnel were recruited. Not everyone invited accepted the offer. But many did.

But this was not a CIA only operation. Personnel from the FBI also were assigned to the Task Force. We have some clues that Christopher Steele’s FBi handler, Michael Gaeta, may have been detailed to the Trump Task Force (see here).

So what kind of things would this Task Force do? The case officers would work with foreign intelligence services such as MI-6, the Italians, the Ukrainians and the Australians on identifying intelligence collection priorities. Task Force members could task NSA to do targeted collection. They also would have the ability to engage in covert action, such as targeting George Papadopoulos. Joseph Mifsud may be able to shed light on the CIA officers who met with him, briefed on operational objectives regarding Papadopoulos and helped arrange monitored meetings. Was the honey pot (i.e., the attractive woman) named Azra Turk, who met with George Papadopoulos, part of the CIA Trump Task Force?

The Task Force also could carry out other covert actions, such as information operations. A nice sounding euphemism for propaganda, and computer network operations. There has been some informed speculation that Guccifer 2.0 was a creation of this Task Force.

In light of what we have learned about the alleged CIA whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, there should be a serious investigation to determine if he was a part of this Task Force or, at minimum, reporting to them. 

When I described this development last November to one friend, a retired CIA Chief of Station, his first response was, “My God, that’s illegal.” We then reminisced about another illegal operation carried out under the auspices of the CIA Central American Task Force back in the 1980s. That became known to Americans as the Iran Contra scandal."

"Israel is cited often in Senate report as link to Russian interference (but our media ignore connection)" (Weiss): 

"Quick show of hands. How many of you have heard of Guccifer 2.0? Good– all of you. Guccifer was of course the on-line identity of the hackers allegedly connected to Russian intelligence who shared emails from the Democratic National Committee with Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign, embarrassing Hillary Clinton.

Now, how many of you know that Guccifer 2.0’s phone was registered in Israel? Wait– I don’t see any hands!"

A hint that this was a pro-NATO intelligence agency coup in Germany: "The Navalny Case: Merkel vs. German Deep State" (South Front):

"The Russian government clearly miscalculated in allowing Navalny to go to Germany, expecting that Angela Merkel still had sufficient political pull to override her hawkish entourage and force a transparent investigation that would reveal the nature of Navalny’s illness. The more appropriate course of action would have been to keep Navalny in Omsk and invite German doctors to perform analyses of Navalny’s blood samples right there in Omsk, where there was no danger of chain-of-custody violation by third parties determined to plant evidence pointing at Npvichok. 

But what is even more worrisome is that Western intelligence services, apparently after being burned by the inept staging of the Douma false flag, have found an almost surefire way to stage “Novichok” false flags. From now on literally every loss of consciousness by a prominent figure can be transformed into an international scandal, as long as there is a compliant NATO biochemical warfare laboratory willing to deliver the required diagnosis, without ever having to reveal how it reached that conclusion. We should expect this tactic will be used many times in the future."

Literally everything in Assholia has been crapified: "ACLU Official Attacks University For Admitting Nick Sandmann While Professor Promises To Monitor His Conduct" (Turley).  What possible argument could the ACLU have for throwing its weight around here?  "Matriculated Sandmann" (Ratburger).