After one of the longest, bitterest negotiations ever held between President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov forced the Turks into an agreement for a Turkish military enclave inside Syrian territory between Tal Abiad and Ras Al-Ain (Sari Kani). That is less than one-quarter of the Syrian territory Erdogan was demanding at the start of the Sochi talks.

http://johnhelmer.net/the-sultan-blinked-the-tsar-agreed-to-close-his-eyes-the-ottoman-empire-expands-by-118-kilometres-of-syria/

Posted by: Zedd | Oct 23 2019 20:42 utc | 3

Putin Urges Erdogan to Keep Commitments

The Russian-Turkish Memorandum confirms the legality of the Turkish “Operation Spring Peace” within a border area of 32 kilometers with the exception of the city of Qamishli. It makes no mention of US demands to shut down the northern land corridor linking Tehran to Beirut. Moreover, it does not set a deadline for the withdrawal of the Turkish army, which is now likely to impose a military occupation, as it has done in Cyprus and Iraq.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article208063.html

Posted by: Zedd | Oct 23 2019 20:48 utc | 5

Cyber Durden @1
That’ll be the day when justice will be served to anyone from the deep state. I am not holding my breath.

Posted by: Nathan Mulcahy | Oct 23 2019 20:52 utc | 7

jayc @ 4
Agree and I don’t understand why so many don’t care.

Posted by: spudski | Oct 23 2019 21:11 utc | 9

OFAC is ending the Turkish Sanctions.
//home.treasury.gov/news/press-relief/sm801
Now will the US Comgress pass more Sanctions.

Posted by: Oz | Oct 23 2019 21:45 utc | 11

that was on the previous open thread from a couple of days ago.. doesn’t hurt to post it again @4 jayc..
@172 arby.. that is really heart breaking..craig murray has an article up on the same here…
Posted by: james | Oct 22 2019 15:59 utc | 173

Posted by: james | Oct 23 2019 22:04 utc | 13

Regarding article @ 3: It does make sense that Erdogan had the leverage in his negotiation with Putin.
Russia’s interest is in brokering peace and keeping its bases and influence in Syria/ME. It’s not to openly antagonize Turkey economically or militarily. Therefore, Putin can state his commitment to a unified Syria free from foreign occupation as an aspirational goal, but can’t demand it or force it to happen as things stand.

Posted by: s | Oct 23 2019 22:29 utc | 15

Zedd @14: … why did HRC throw Tulsi such a honkin’ big bone by calling her a Russian asset?
Yup.
I wrote that here: Deep-State has chosen: Biden-Tulsi 2020

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Oct 23 2019 22:47 utc | 17

Thanks to b for this open thread as I was bemused by BM @ 28 on the previous thread. It wouldn’t be in the Orthodox tradition at all that Jesus was in India during his lifetime, so I am not sure how to relate what you have put to my post. I wouldn’t claim ‘supreme wisdom’ for the serpent in the Garden of Eden, nor does the text I was quoting. That the serpent was the wisest of created beings doesn’t imply that, since he uses his wisdom in nefarious ways. So, sorry, BM, what I was thinking of there was my old bugaboo about mind without heart as a deficiency we do well to be wary of. Sorry I wasn’t clear on that.

Posted by: juliania | Oct 23 2019 23:09 utc | 19

if motives can signal the future, the present convulsions in the US government signal that America has been taken over by the Zionists who populate all avenues of US power structures.
It is inconceivable that Trump who has been up to now catering to AIPAC and the Israeli lobbies and actors would be subjected to ignominy because he seems to want to abandon Syria. But. let’s face it, Israel wants mayhem to engulf Syria, an ally of Iran and the Hezbollah.
American troops’ withdrawal from Syria is seen as anathema by Zionists and Israeli likewise.
The Jewish interests can pull numerous strings in America to prevent this from happening. Trump is caught between a hammer and a nail. He wants to be reelected so he has to fulfill his promises
to his bases. Bring the troops home and all this nice stuff.
But his Israeli masters will make life difficult for him as long as he is not pandering to Israel’s wishes.
There is a subtle game whereas the MSM assaults Trump but his actions are all in favor of his MSM detractors. Actor or puppet remains to be elucidated. No tax on the rich, Jerusalem, Golan Heights, the West Bank,, the Jordan Valley, all gifts to the criminal state of Israel.
And then, sanctions on China? If Trump wants to return the industrial jobs to America, he has to put tariffs on all imported goods, regardless of origin. Not only from Germany and China because they are successful exporters to America.
He would also have to put a stop on the expatriation of capital to other countries in view of reducing the ability of Wall Street to export jobs.
We do not see any of these actions from the WH so DJT is not the angel he wants to project himself to be.
For the time being, his orders of withdrawal are freeing some of the Syrian territories recently under US watch. The best thing for Syria is that it now has control over most of its territory.
much to the disgust of Israel.
I can see that Israel’s greatest wish is to see a conflagration between Iran and the USA.
There will be more false flags until one is so painful that Israel will be destroyed.
The Samson option is anti-Jewish. Will Israel bomb The City, New York and other great congregations of Zionists?
Remains to be seen.

Posted by: CarlD | Oct 23 2019 23:37 utc | 21

William Barr is associated with the Cabal all the way back to the assassination of JFK, he is CIA, he was part of the legal team that stole PROMIS for the US from its rightful owner (Inslaw) – PROMIS was the software that provided the backdoor into all those organisations that needed to be “directed” to enable 9/11, Barr is associated with 9/11 cover-up, drug running, in fact associated with so much that has gone wrong with the US over the last 50 years that it is ridiculous to believe that he will “sort” out the swamp for Trump. Barr almost certainly was involved in “suiciding” for “disappearing” Epstein. It is ridiculous to believe that Trump is not aware of all of this.
(I’m venting because these aspects of Barr are completely ignored and it’s about time some light was shone in what are not really hard-to-find secrets about Barr.)

Posted by: ADKC | Oct 24 2019 0:27 utc | 23

At the time of the JFK assassination, William Barr was 13 years old. Now, I suppose it’s possible his father Donald Barr, the OSS veteran, was somehow connected to the assassination, but I believe at the time of the assassination he was teaching English literature at Columbia University. The next year, he became head of the Dalton School.

Posted by: Lysias | Oct 24 2019 0:54 utc | 25

Correction: From 1958 to 1964, Donald Barr headed the Columbia University Science Honors Program. CIA connection conceivable.

Posted by: lysias | Oct 24 2019 1:10 utc | 27

Military coup attempt imminent in Bolivia as Evo Morales makes a desperate call for resistance to the people:
Militares que planejaram golpe tentam consumá-lo em conjunto com oposição, afirma Evo
The argument the Bolivian right-wing is using is exactly the same the Brazilian one used after the 2014 results: election fraud. The vice-president of the Bolivian Supreme Electoral Court has already renounced in protest after the institution caved in to the pressure and suspended the publication of the results:
Vice-presidente do TSE da Bolívia renuncia e diz que resultados preliminares estão corretos
Evo Morales is much more fragile than Nicolás Maduro — even though Bolivia’s economy has been much better. The key here is that, in Latin America, every period of economic growth is destined to be followed by a period of economic crisis because it’s impelled to follow the neoliberal model of development by the USA. The left-wing presidents are then forced to overcome this through straight up government spending in order to at least alleviate extreme poverty that ravages the subcontinent.
But the hardest challenge for the socialists in Latin America are its armed forces: after the 1950s, they were turned into American subsidiaries, each one with a military doctrine that focuses on fighting the “internal enemy” (i.e. the socialists). No Latin American military is able to fight a single conventional war, they are essentially glorified militarized police forces. Maduro has the FANB; Morales doesn’t have the Bolivian Armed Forces on his side.
Let’s wait and see how it evolves.
–//–
Meanwhile, neoliberalism rots. Bolsonaro already know his fate:
Bolsonaro diz que Brasil ‘não está livre de problema do Chile’ e defende ‘endurecimento da lei’
It must be hard to realize, after years of hallucination and messianic complex, that you were just a disposable puppet of the Americans.
However, things are not so simple in Brazil: the majority of the Left is reactionary and pacifist; the Brazilian people has a high tolerance for misery, is very docile and doesn’t have a curriculum of violent uprisings or revolutions. A Brazilian prefers to suffer in silence than having to risk his life for a greater cause and, since the 1960s, has an inexplicable fascination with the USA and everything American (Bolsonaro ran his campaign openly as the “Brazilian Trump”).

Posted by: vk | Oct 24 2019 1:37 utc | 29

My post @23 should more accurately have read “Barr is associated with the Cabal which is associated with the JFK assassination”. However, Barr does have an involvement in the JFK cover-up – Barr helped frustrate the Church Committee investigation into CIA abuses (which included an investigation into JFK).
I’m no expert on Barr so I may get things a bit wrong but he clearly has questionable background and is being totally whitewashed. Anyone in a position to question a few inaccuracies on my part should be in a position to be aware of the wider more important questions about Barr.
Look into Barr and he is clearly of the swamp and another bizarre Trump appointment.

Posted by: ADKC | Oct 24 2019 1:39 utc | 31

If Eurasia, a large foreign holder of Oceania government bonds, were to liquidate the bulk of its holdings, would Oceania give money to its member banks to buy up all those bonds and thus prevent interest rates from rising dramatically and stawks from dropping precipitously (by sucking all the capital from no-yield unicorns to something that at least pays interest and guarantees return of principal)?

Posted by: oglalla | Oct 24 2019 1:40 utc | 33

@ c1ue who wrote
”
@p #28
Html markup language isn’t networking.
Or are you now confusing that, too?
”
I have an up-to-date Mac mini and Opera and have not been able to post a correctly formatted link on this site for a number of days, but can everywhere else.
I consider that a networking issue and as I said in my original comment that you continue to misrepresent, I believe it is entirely possible that Cloudflare or Typepad have been compromised to make that occur based on my mac address (I assume you know what that is) and the fact that MoA is a controversial site…..packets are being dropped, clobbered or who knows what for sure.
Call me a conspiracy type now as well, I really don’t care.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 24 2019 1:54 utc | 35

Google has now published in Nature what is essentially the same paper as the previously retracted paper (both are “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor”). In other news IBM is whining and handwaving about IBM not writing a similar paper 😛
What it means: all that’s left for full-on quantum (super-)computing is engineering, not science, and the engineering consists of scaling. Let’s say as much as three years (but it’s hard to imagine it isn’t already the case in secrecy).
Quantum processors aren’t made by hand which means they could crank out as many as they want if they think it is useful, feel free to look at the picture of the actual quantum processor in the actual paper (not unrelated pictures and “imaginations” elsewhere). There’s been talk about Google already having “unofficial” 72-qubit versions.
Add parallelism (externally controlled, no changes need to the quantum processor) and the fact that cooling isn’t quite as hard or difficult as it might seem and you can bet on plenty of these already being hard at work since well before this paper was submitted this last summer.
For real world applications (not academia) it is extremely simple: if the result works it works.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 24 2019 2:02 utc | 37

@ c1ue.. you aren’t doing yourself any favours making comments like that.. posters note shit like that..

Posted by: james | Oct 24 2019 2:16 utc | 39

For those interested in AG Barr, here’s some history that might shed some light on why DJT picked him for AG..
http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/02/william-barr-and-the-iran-contra-scandal/

Posted by: ben | Oct 24 2019 2:35 utc | 41

@8 Trailer Trash
Indeed Orwell’s “1984” referred to the UK as “Airstrip One” and this Brexit fiasco surely proves that Outside Influences not only run the Judiciary when necessary, but also plant poison on doorknobs when it suits them.
The ever servile Australian government to the empire du jour does nothing to honor their passport pledge. We would have to assume it qualifies as Orwell’s “Airstrip Two”
In contrast to Assange’s predicament (and Manning I assume), the main point of this post is to mention the recent Joe Rogan interview of Edward Snowden (touting his book) — http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/edward-snowden
Nearly three hours of mostly Snowden rambling on. I stayed with it to the end. A few items of interest but mostly just noise. I found him initially somewhat suspicious — by the end I was more neutral. However, what a display of American arrogance and ingratitude. The Russian government has saved his bacon and has given him refuge with great freedoms he would not have in the USA — or Airstrip One … or, HK, or any South American backyard colony. And yet he makes no attempt to thank them and even virtually panders to the American anti-Russian meme. He has even dabbled in Russian opposition politics via local newspaper comments. What an ungrateful guest! (Or still an agent @ work?) I would entirely understand the Russians putting him on a plane back to the USA tomorrow. Ungrateful little character, imo. And says a lot about the way Americans treat the external world from inside their little fishbowl. Simply a doormat for convenience.
The main take away for me came towards the end where Snowden outlines the special legal conditions and laws that the US government enforces to control presentation of evidence in these cases. These same ‘servant’ thugs who are stepping into the now 3rd-world UK court system and pulling the strings on Australia’s Assange. The same crew that Snowden worked with and blew the whistle on (apparently).
Snowden makes great bravado about being willing to go back to the USA and face the music — if only he could say in court why he did it (something the legal Act prohibits apparently). In this, and a few other matters of history, I find him less than genuine. Is/was he a plant? …. I’m still out with the jury on that.

Posted by: imo | Oct 24 2019 2:42 utc | 43

43. Whatever Latin America does to it’s ‘neoliberal rule of plunder’ I will bet you 100 pesos that whatever comes after it, out of the ‘genius’ of street protest, it will look more like Venezuela than …. you see? I can’t even come up with a good example of South American societal order. What you have there is a continent that has not even begun to understand how deeply embedded in their collective consciousness their ‘oppressed’ mentality is. And with good reason. Shit history. But no way is there the enlightened thought capable of building a nation state that can stand the test of time. 100 pesos.

Posted by: Jezabeel | Oct 24 2019 3:39 utc | 45

I second jayc’s call to MoA readers to share Craig Murray’s article on Assange as widely as possible. We should also ask Jimmy Dore, Aaron Maté, Kyle Kulinski, and Lee Camp to cover the story in their shows.

Posted by: S | Oct 24 2019 3:58 utc | 47

I am going to add another Xinhuanet short posting below about October 24th being United Nations Day and trust it won’t violate b’s posting parameters
”
BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Tuesday that the United Nations (UN) should become the main platform to practice multilateralism.
Answering a question during a joint press conference with Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis in Bern, Wang said that Oct. 24 (United Nations Day) is the annual day to mark the founding anniversary of the United Nations, adding that Switzerland is an important venue of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
He said that it is of special significance to be here to recall the original intention of the establishment of the United Nations, as well as the original ideals and aspirations related to that institution, and to adhere to peace.
The United Nations was founded after the painful lessons of World War II, and has played an indispensable role in safeguarding world security and stability, Wang said.
Noting that unilateralism and power politics are on the rise in the world, Wang said the authority and status of the United Nations are being challenged as never before.
United Nations Day offers an opportunity to review the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, Wang said, while urging countries to abide by the basic norms of international relations, unite against unilateralism and bullying, and safeguard the status and authority of the United Nations.
The United Nations should become the main platform to practice multilateralism, Wang said.
“We shall work together to meet various challenges. The United Nations should become the main channel for the peaceful settlement of hot issues, and settle disputes through dialogue and consultation. The United Nations should be the main driving force for the development of human society and actively promote the implementation of the (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda,” Wang added.
He said that the United Nations should keep pace with the times and constantly reform and improve itself. Considering that most of the member countries that joined the United Nations after World War II are developing countries, the United Nations should respect the stances of developing countries and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
”

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 24 2019 4:13 utc | 49

@23 ADKC It’s still uncommon to see details of PROMIS’s abilities posted, and a lot of out there is deliberate disinfo, clouding its mysterious method of data relay.
@45 psychohistorian It sounds as if you are awake to the fact you may well be a targeted individual, 19 million in the country and growing by means originating from the very software mentioned earlier. A telling experiment could be to create a link to something counter to your sources & viewpoints, say a MSM article pushing an accepted narrative. If you are then able to markup and use such html, it might make for some uncomfortable realities and increased paranoia. Realizing you aren’t necessarily on the list for posting here or anywhere or for any other action you’ve undertaken in your past and up to this point but rather due to future scenarios possibilities and actions based either on “their” knowledge of future events, your genetic makeup, or “them” having not created the list entirely themselves but having had it provided to them by a group seemingly with a far better understanding of our dimensional reality.

Posted by: NJH | Oct 24 2019 6:10 utc | 51

I’m currently residing in Bolivia where there is an attempted “color revolution” taking place.
Does anyone have any information that’s not being reported in the MSM in Bolivia (a lot of people here watch CNN Español)?
Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Hello | Oct 24 2019 10:21 utc | 53

South Korean growth slows to 0.4% on quarter
This was even lower than the “experts” forecast of +0.5%. To make things even worse, those +0.4% only happened because of government massive spendings.
Government spending is good for the economy when your nation has a socialist system (e.g. China) because, in the socialist system, the government is under direct popular control and is the owner of the major means of production. Therefore, government spending means investment.
But South Korea is not a socialist nation, but a capitalist one. In a capitalist nation, rising government spending is a bad symptom of general failure of the private sector to deliver. The government is not the owner of any means of production, so the only way out for its spenditures is to give the money directly to the people and/or the business owners and pray for the system to regulate itself.
The system won’t do it because profitability in South Korea is secularly declining. Profit is what drives investment in the capitalist system, not human necessity or welfare.
When I was a kid, my colleagues asked my Geography teacher why wasn’t South Korea considered a “First World nation”. After all, it looks like Japan, it walks like Japan, it sounds like Japan, it smells like Japan and it shits like Japan — therefore it must be Japan!
Well, here’s the answer to their question: a bitch is a bitch, no matter the glamour, and South Korea will serve as collateral damage in the China-USA-Japan trade war.

Posted by: vk | Oct 24 2019 11:57 utc | 55

Sometimes Spain is a mystery to me.
On “digging up” Franco it’s difficult to imagine a better way to disturb sleeping dogs and inflame fools of all kinds in all directions. My bias is that I’m not keen on any of the four main sides from back when it started all of whom were busy competing in making anyone else look better 🙁 (stupidest civil war ever? I couldn’t honestly defend any of the four main sides).
It’s also quite curios considering how the current self-proclaimed “left”-something government of Spain treats various parts of Spain somewhat similar to how Franco did (which is also stupid).

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 24 2019 13:12 utc | 57

Almasdar News has been hacked. The pages open into porn sites. Apparently the borg doesn’t like what they are reporting.

Posted by: m | Oct 24 2019 15:23 utc | 59

Never mind the lat post about Almasdar. Seems those guys are on top of it. Fixed now.

Posted by: m | Oct 24 2019 15:48 utc | 61

Assange is getting his day in kangaroo court

Posted by: Copeland | Oct 24 2019 16:21 utc | 63

I am very much on the side of the ‘free Assange’ movement, and I would recommend to everyone the following site:
cafe-babylon.net
wendyedavis is an industrious blogger. She has done a service in posting a twitter video taken of Assange as he was leaving the court hearing in a van. Bear in mind that in order to film it the photographer had to use a very bright light. I was better informed by this video than by the accounts of his appearance in court, accurate though I am sure they have been. I do think, however that this is an important adjunct to the Craig Murray piece, and I agree with comments that much attention needs to be paid to his imprisonment. Back in the day, my daughter told me that in an oppressive regime, attention being paid to those incarcerated often is what saves them. And clearly this is an unjust incarceration.

Posted by: juliania | Oct 24 2019 16:30 utc | 65

@p #35
Your issue has nothing to do with networking. More likely, something to do with Opera. Another common possibility is if you’re composing your posts in Word or some word processor, and the cut/paste to MoA is inserting extra chars.
Use wireshark or something similar to look at what actual traffic is getting sent out. Opera or possibly some other browser app or program is likely inserting funny characters where they shouldn’t be.
Another easy way to test is just install Firefox and see if you have the same problem.
As for packet interference: the notion that Cloudflare or Typepad are interfering just with the links you post, even assuming they have deployed the technology to inspect and change the packets (data in transit, Cloudflare) or are changing content (data at rest) – is extremely unlikely. Motive is conspicuously lacking.
China is able to do so with WeChat because it was architected from the ground up to do so.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 24 2019 17:08 utc | 67

Not to be forgotten is also Craig Murray’s essay/reportage on the Dawn Sturges inquest.
Inquest?
Right.
Lies and violence are a pair, it seems

Posted by: Walter | Oct 24 2019 17:23 utc | 69

Putin humor example is offered by the linked item. The expression on Lavrov’s face in the stilled video capture is excellent and one which should grace his biography! Oh, the article does convey some useful info, too.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 24 2019 17:39 utc | 71

What we don’t know won’t hurt us? . . .Once a daily occurrence in previous administrations, State Department press briefings went down to weekly under President Trump, then monthly, and now. . .the most recent press briefing was September 12, seven weeks ago here. The White House and Pentagon situations are similar.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 24 2019 17:44 utc | 73

Nice article by Thierry Meyssan:
https://astutenews.com/2019/10/24/the-new-world-is-emerging-before-us/

Posted by: Alpi | Oct 24 2019 18:26 utc | 75

There was low turnout for the Afghanistan presidential “election” held on September 28th, about twenty percent, but even with fewer ballots to count there has been no announcement of the “election” result. But that’s not surprising, we never got an account of the last “election” in 2014, after which the US decided that two candidates should share national “leadership.”
Actually Afghanistan is a mountainous tribal country full of illiterate people who can’t imagine somebody in far-off Kabul having any influence upon their lives except to collect taxes.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 24 2019 18:41 utc | 77

VP Pence has railed that “China has increased its interventions in Hong Kong” here but actuall there haven’t been any such. Hong Kong in an autonomous ex-UK colony experiencing violent protests against Hong Kong, not China. In fact China has acceded to HK autonomy and not interceded.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 24 2019 18:59 utc | 79

Noirette @59

Breivik killed and maimed 70 or so young pll and furthered the cause of the MIC.

That was a false flag in my opinion, complete with crisis actors outside the government building that was bombed to pieces. 22/7 (22. July) was our 9/11. There were reports of multiple shooters at Utøya (labour party youth summer camp). The day before the young labour aspiring politicians demonstrated with a big banner in favour of boycotting Israel, the next day the bombing and shooting happened. Obviously there was a police terror exercise training for the exact scenario nearby on the same day, but of course the training didn’t help.
Stoltenberg promised “more democracy” the following day and soon after became the NATO general secretary.
The word quisling comes to mind. After all Quisling was a norwegian politician.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 24 2019 19:39 utc | 81

Jackrabbit #36 and AKDC
Trump is the new swamp. He is only draining the critters he hates and adding critters he likes. Out go the toads and in go pirahna.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 24 2019 20:27 utc | 83

@ ut 84
Trump is the new swamp
Let’s see, the last time I saw perfection was . . .I can’t remember.
So I’ll settle for no new wars, no ground combat. That’s a real improvement.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 24 2019 20:32 utc | 85

Anybody know what gives with OffGuardian.org? Has been offline for several days, undergoing “maintenance”. Have they been hit again?

Posted by: Red | Oct 24 2019 21:06 utc | 87

@70 karlof1.. of course understanding history with regard to world events, is very important.. i happened to read margaret macmillans book – paris 1919..
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26348.Paris_1919
it set the stage for what came later during the 40’s as you note in your post.. what is generally not recognized in the west is the antagonism that was already in place with regard to russia, thanks the bolshevik movement that was happening during that time in russia.. reading macmillans account of how the west botched this dynamic with russia while simultaneously wanting to contain russia is well worth learning about in so far as one can see this pattern repeated from that time onward.. thanks for your post..

Posted by: james | Oct 24 2019 21:16 utc | 89

Stever @91: Yeah, cookies, I never keep cookies, I’d try cleaning the Moon cookie(s) and see if that helps.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 24 2019 21:50 utc | 91

James @90–
Thanks for your reply! You may recall the scandal that erupted not too long ago when it was revealed that NSA eavesdropped on all UN diplomat telephone conversations. Well, turns out that during the conferences leading to the UN’s formation that those diplomat’s calls were monitored too. Such behavior would be considered interfering in the affairs of a sovereign nation in contravention of the UN Charter and thus International and Constitutional Law. The contradictions between realities is at time stupendous. For example, I’m currently keenly following a US Supreme Court case since I have a personal interest in its outcome that relates to the very basics of the Common Law that both you and I inherited via our former British overlords. The argument is very detailed and specific and relies on the accumulation of 600+ years of common law application and juris prudence. Yet when it comes to obeying the same, the Outlaw US Empire often tramples over it like a herd of galloping hippos by ignoring its own Supreme Law of the Land by instituting Red Queen justice. In the UK, we have the Assange case as another graphic example of the 100% miscarriage of law.
Perhaps at some future moment in time, the Rule of Law will finally prevail and no nation or individual will be allowed to deviate from its provisions. And perhaps from that moment on, peace will finally prevail and humanity will rejoice.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 24 2019 23:58 utc | 93

Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy:
Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy
A light at the end of the tunnel for the USA against China?

Posted by: vk | Oct 25 2019 1:11 utc | 95

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 25 2019 0:02 utc | 95
Bizarre… Let’s see, this is a test link posted with Opera. If you see this comment, posting was successful, obviously 🙂
Do you ad-blocking / tracker blocking enabled in Opera ? The build in one – Preferences > advanced (Settings) > Privacy Protection, or a third party extension. If so, it might be worth trying to add an exception for MoA.
(Boy, I do hate to use those Chromium based browsers for commenting or any other similar form task)

Posted by: Philippe | Oct 25 2019 1:36 utc | 97

@ Petri Krohn # 67 with the : Joe Rogan Experience #1368 – Edward Snowden video link
Thank You!!!!
I took the time to watch the whole 2 hour 49 minute thing and encourage others to do the same. Edward Snowden is a human patriot who is amazingly articulate throughout the interview in which he speaks for 99% of the time.
We are all challenged by him to add bricks to the society we want to live comfortably in…and it is definitely not the one we are under the jackboot of. He added a very important brick to a pile that is necessary for us to add to if we are ever going to live free and control the government we agree to be under.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 25 2019 3:36 utc | 99