“Terror-Related” London Bridge Attack Leaves 5 Casualties, One Suspect In Custody

Posted by: TJ | Nov 29 2019 18:17 utc | 103

Strategic Culture editorial, “Henry Kissinger Gets It… US ‘Exceptionalism’ Is Over”:
“Speaking [Link at original] publicly in New York on November 14, the veteran diplomat urged the US and China to resolve their ongoing economic tensions cooperatively and mutually, adding: ‘It is no longer possible to think that one side can dominate the other.’
“A key remark made by Kissinger was the following: ‘So those countries that used to be exceptional and used to be unique, have to get used to the fact that they have a rival.’
“In other words, he is negating the erroneous consensus held in Washington which asserts that the US is somehow exceptional’, a ‘uni-power’ and the ‘indispensable nation’. This consensus has grown since the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the US viewed itself as the sole super-power. That morphed into a more virulent ideology of ‘full-spectrum dominance’. Thence, the past three decades of unrelenting US criminal wars and regime-change operations across the planet, throwing the whole world into chaos.” [My Emphasis]
This is the sort of editorial that needs to appear globally in the national vernacular. Yesterday, I linked to the tough spoken Global Times editorial–for those who don’t already know, GT is the Communist Party of China’s mouthpiece to the world– which is followed by another today that is just as serious as yesterday’s:
“Today’s US politics have somewhat been abducted by its extreme ideology. The US has become increasingly furious as it finds no way to improve its competitiveness. US Senator Marco Rubio, for example, is the most extreme nationalist and ideological fanatic. A person like him will not be welcomed by Chinese public opinion. However, such an extremist actually becomes a US senator, and US policy toward China is led by these people’s sentiments. Social media is exacerbating such frenzy. US mainstream elites are also becoming tougher. These may drag China-US relations into a vicious circle….
“This is no longer the world in the early days after the end of the Cold War. The US cannot cut off China’s connection with the world. Even if the US breaks relations with China, US allies will not follow it and most countries will keep developing relations with China. If the US insists on unilateralism and zero-sum game, it is choosing an irreversible decline for itself.” [My Emphasis]
I wouldn’t imply the Evil Outlaw US Empire’s “extreme ideology” is somehow merely recent, that it was somehow “abducted.” No, it’s been evolving to this point for decades as research by myself and many others proves. As the Chinese articulate, there is indeed an ideological battle ongoing between Russia, China, and the Evil Outlaw US Empire that Putin seems to have finally decided to accept as reality where before he said there was no longer any such “ideological competition” as he put it. What remains to be announced are the actual stakes in this global confrontation. The evidence increasingly points to the battle being over control of the world’s purse strings and who gets to benefit from that control.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2019 18:20 utc | 105

juliania @99–
From de Tocqueville its possible to deduce why Fredrick Jackson Turner posited the thesis that the Frontier acted as a “Safety Valve” allowing the nation’s elite to diverge from the path taken by the overall polity. Turner’s paper was delivered orally to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and was subsequently compiled with additional material into The Frontier in American History, where the initial paper is incorporated into Chapter One. My undergrad US History prof is a rebel like myself and placed great emphasis on both Turner and de Tocqueville, and for the former said it was up to me to determine if Turner’s paper/thesis was Myth being promoted as genuine History or History being Mythologized–and no taking the easy way out by saying its a mixture of both. I still thank him today for giving me that advice as it formed the basis for my investigative method regarding the study of history–the Objective Truth must be sought regardless of where it resides, no matter how uncomfortable that might prove.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2019 18:50 utc | 107

The NYT spin on the Horowitz report debunked
here
The NYT is Psyop Central, Daily Disinformation, staffed by the imps and
agents of the empire.

Posted by: evilempire | Nov 29 2019 19:05 utc | 109

Now that we have seen how in the US the workers fight each other almost to death for a way overpayed good they do not need at all, while they have not even vacations, nor health security, nor affordable home and education…and, at the same time, to debunk the carelessly made assertion by The Saker in his last “analysis” on that what existed in Russia before 1917 was a “democracy” under Nicholas II which got overthrow by a “proletariat dictatorship”…( a careless assertion not contested by any of his hypocritical regulars, usually also present here… )…. Some information about workers vacations in the USSR….with illustrative photos on how bad they were doing, how bad time they were having and how sadly and poorly they used to dress…( as Briton Colin Thubron had always told us from his “travels in the USSR”…)
Thread….( Bold in relevant debunking info is mine…)
https://twitter.com/berlinConfid/status/1200461443273019393

I will talk (if they let me) about vacations and leisure in the USSR to deny mental misfits (neocons, anarchs and other herbs) that deny even the simplest evidence. In the USSR, yes, people had fun and enjoyed paid vacation periods. THREAD
The Soviet Union was the first country in the world where paid annual vacations were established. Until 1917, Russian law did not provide for annual vacations. A Decree of the Council of People’s Commissaries of June 14, 1918, included vacations for the first time.
All Soviets who worked continuously for at least 6 months were entitled to vacations. The introduction of longer vacations for workers with harmful and dangerous working conditions was also allowed.
“Part-time work” paid during vacations was prohibited and unused vacation days were not paid. Compensation was allowed for vacations not enjoyed due to the WWII. The duration of the same was 12 days h. (increased to 15 in 1967).
Workers were offered cash compensation for vacations canceled at state companies and institutions as a result of World War II, money that was accumulated in savings banks until the end of the war (Decree of June 26, 1941).
Where did the Soviets spend their vacations? Gagra, Jurmala, Yevpatoriya, Sochi, Yalta, Pitsunda, Gelendzhik and Anapa were the most popular summer vacation spots in the USSR. They were cities where there were spas or beaches. ⬇️ Soviet youth in the Baltic (Lithuania).
In the mid-1970s, there were about a thousand spas in the Soviet Union. The largest number of them were in the south of the USSR, in Krasnodar, Abkhazia and Crimea. In addition, there were spas on the coast of Riga, in the Altai mountains or near Lake Baikal.
A trip to a spa used to be free or an employee paid a part of it that ranged between 10 and 30% of its cost. The minimum period of stay in the spa was set at 24 days, the maximum at 52 days. Photo: Soviets on the beach of Sochi.
During the day, Soviet vacationers bathed in the sea, sunbathing, skiing in the water, playing volleyball, hiking or visiting local attractions. In the afternoon, they walked along the boardwalk, went to the disco, to concerts or participated in chess tournaments.
For their part, the children of the USSR were offered collective trips on tourist visits. School excursions were organized during all times of the year, especially to heroic cities: Leningrad, Moscow, Kursk, Volgograd, Kiev, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, etc.
In the USSR, young people’s summer leisure was under special control. Vouchers for camps were assigned to parents in the workplace and were worth 1 cent. During the 3 months of summer, the children relaxed, learned new things and found friends.

Horrible USSR!
Happy BlackFriday!

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 29 2019 19:17 utc | 111

Thanks karlof1 @ 106
I think you’d be interested, as I was, to read the introductory remarks of Richard D. Heffner to my paperback truncated de Tocqueville. (It’s one reason I’d love to get hold of the two volume set to see what he leaves out.) Heffner wrote this in 1956 and his view of US politics was completely rosy and completely unaware of the tendencies you mention. For example he says:
“…In a singularly brilliant chapter, ‘Why Great Revolutions Will Become More Rare’ Tocqueville points out that revolutions are made to destroy blatant inequalities. And, admittedly, in democratic America enterprise and the love of wealth will produce a few massive fortunes. But the very poor will also be few in number, and the immense neither-rich-nor-poor majority of the nation will always hold the balance between them. Riches are well-distributed in America, not concentrated, and the American class structure – as the Marxist can never see or accept – is characterized by fluidity rather than by stratification. ‘Without being exactly either rich or poor,’ then, most men possess ‘sufficient property to desire the maintenance of order, yet not enough to excite envy…’ … ”
Such it seemed in the mid-fifties, when I was a teenager. I do love that ‘always’ and that ‘never’. It did seem that way then…

Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2019 19:41 utc | 113

@Posted by: Political Atheist | Nov 29 2019 19:59 utc | 114
Who would had guessed that one day others would make Kissinger and Brzezinsky good….
One would say that some people in the US have rised the stakes so that the previous stalemate is now see nas a desirable outcoem…when it was called “The Cold War”…
For this travel we did not need such saddle bags…to return to the same bad point of starting…The thing is that nobody has the guts, less the will, and least the imagination to invent something new….The least, the elites, so much accustomed to their privileges…
Ours will have to be fought to death…as always has been, and as Bolivian situation is so patently showing…Nobody from the elites will come in our help…the least those who give compliments and awards to each other…Our unique strenght will be in our unity…as Andronico was telling us yesterday from almost clandestinity in a country where some weeks ago everybody could walk free and have a voice …

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 29 2019 20:23 utc | 115

“Moscow May Stop Using Nukes as Deterrent Force, Commander of Russian Strategic Missile Forces Says” Although, “Russia’s strategic missile forces will remain the guarantor of Russia’s security until scientists come up with new type of weapons or until the situation on the political arena changes.”
Very curious statement; what prompted it? Perhaps there’s more at Krasnaya Zvezda where Sputnik picked up the statement. Nuclear powered lasers as the primary deterrent force?

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2019 21:01 utc | 117

@118 karlof1… that bridge is amazing!! kudos to them for making that a new reality..

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2019 21:49 utc | 119

larry johnson continues to do good work at sst, covering the ongoing get trump memo..
Yes, There Were FBI Informants, But They Were Paid by the CIA

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2019 22:24 utc | 121

Political Atheist @114: Kissinger gets it.
Bullshit.
Kissinger is playing “mediator” but he is 110% on the side of NWO domination by the West. Anyone that thinks otherwise is a fool.
Kissinger’s “mediation” can be likened to USA “mediation” in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Which is to say always on Israel’s side.
Kissinger tried to “mediator” after the coup in Ukraine also. Russia ignored him and allowed the Donbas rebels to succeed. We now know how much Burisma coveted the opportunity to frack the Donbas.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 29 2019 23:12 utc | 123

You can tell I didn’t go shopping! “New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Across Political Spectrum Back Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax”:
“Sixty-three percent of Americans support the wealth tax, including 77 percent of Democrats, more than half of Independent voters, and 57 percent of Republicans.”
Yes, the way it’s proposed might cause it to be unconstitutional, but the demographic support shows public demand for action on the wealth divide. Interesting that the article has only a very brief mention of Sanders proposal, which is explained here, and would likely poll in a similar fashion. Do note the author of the Poll was the New York Times which is clearly anti-Sanders and provides a motive for framing its poll around Warren’s proposal, not Sanders.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2019 23:24 utc | 125

WJ @124
I saw a video that appeared to show the security services back away then one of them shoots the subject as he starts to get up.
It seemed that they just wanted to shoot him.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 29 2019 23:29 utc | 127

james @121: larry johnson … covering the ongoing get trump memo.
Like many Trump supporters, Larry believes there was an attempted coup.
Why is it so difficult to believe that every President is a ‘hired’ to work with the Deep State? Logic and available evidence make a strong case for this.
In which case, Russiagate wasn’t about overthrowing Trump, it was about initiating a new McCarthyism as part of a plan to meet the challenge posed by Russia and China.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 29 2019 23:41 utc | 129

james
The Deep State does make mistakes. They made a big mistake with how they treated Russia, for example.
I don’t think they make mistakes with the US Presidency, though. That position is just too important.
But in any case. Even if they DID make a mistake, I don’t believe in the Trump vs. Deep State meme.
For one thing, that’s not Trump. Trump’s nature is to be solicitous to the establishment and screw everyone else.
So, you see, it’s possible that we are both right (in different ways).
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 30 2019 1:44 utc | 131

Jackrabbit @127
Apparently they shot him because he had a vest.
It seems that the Brits refer to “having a tag” (that is pulled to detonate?) instead of vest.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 30 2019 1:54 utc | 133

My bud psychohistorian is really jazzed about Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt, which can be freely downloaded at the link. My email reply to his asking if I’d read it yet:
“Just downloaded it for no charge! I’ve been eying it for awhile. You likely saw my comment about the public v private banking issue being as old as the nation as well as the new poll related to the wealth taxes proposed by both Warren and Sanders and public receptivity to them. If ever the time was ripe to make this issue extremely noisy, combined with historical precedent, now would be that time!”
In my considered opinion, the money/wealth/finance issue is at the root of the evil besetting the world; and no, I don’t aim this only at bankers that happen to be Jewish as I think that’s been used as a massive ruse/red herring for decades by the real criminals. After watching the Keen interview and having read copious amounts of Dr. Hudson’s work, I’m convinced as to the veracity of my conviction and intend to explore it, and I hope others will heed the call.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2019 2:36 utc | 135

I am typically a lurker on this site which is my go to for geopolitics and I visit to be informed. Whilst commenting it would be remiss not to thank B for his vital journalism and the many commentators, too numerous to individually name, for the nuanced and informed discussion in the bar.

Posted by: gringo | Nov 30 2019 3:19 utc | 137

Pepe Escobar at his Facebook page suggests reading this article relating Sistani’s warning of the impending coup. Pepe: “What Lebanon’s Al Akhbar revealed a few months ago is key.” PressTV:
“A few months ago, the Lebanese Arabic-language daily newspaper al-Akhbar reported that Iraqi security sources have uncovered a plan [Link at original] seeking to install a military strongman favored by the US by creating a power vacuum in the country.”
The attack of the “Third Party” a la Ukraine and elsewhere.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2019 6:02 utc | 139

psychohistorian @140–
Hey! Just caught your request. Title Page says: “Third Edition Revised and Expanded March 2008 ISBN 978-0-9795608-2-8”
Ellen writes:
“In the half year since this book was first published in July 2007, the banking system has been fracturing rapidly, warranting this 2008 revision and postscript. While I was at it, I refined the prose, eliminated errors, and revised and expanded the solutions section concluding the book. For future updates, see webofdebt.com/articles.”
Ellen Brown, February 2008
Yes, I prefer a hardcopy, too. But the old dog needs to learn a new trick once in awhile.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2019 7:14 utc | 141

@ karlof1 with the Web of Debt download ISBN which is the same as mine so probably not a big difference
Below is a link from Xinhuanet that I found curious
Maintaining role as RMB trading hub important to City of London, says top policymaker
To me it says that global private finance, with one of the outposts being the City of London Corp, is working hard to prove/market its ongoing relevance…..may it end soon is my hope/desire.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2019 7:28 utc | 143

@ Jackrabbit 8
bevin is one of the names here whom I always read. Yours, Jack, always causes me to skip over the post unread. That’s the difference between an always reliably-realistic commentator and a weirdly wrong-headed one. I did read your posts for a while, as one must to try to get a fair estimate who are the real McKay and who are the duds. Sorry, J: in my estimation, you’re one of the latter. ‘Byeeeee!

Posted by: Rhisiart Gwilym | Nov 30 2019 8:51 utc | 145

Soporific tomes on sleepless night alas sometimes force Walter to look up the chapter end-notes. I therefore looked up the Garrison Interview from Playboy back in those days… It’s not familiar to me, in ’67 I was preoccupied with staying alive, not reading playboy.
Withal, however, old Jim does well.. Quote>
“What worries me deeply, and I have seen it exemplified in this case, is that we in America are in great danger of slowly evolving into a proto-fascist state. It will be a different kind of fascist state from the one of the Germans evolved; theirs grew out of depression and promised bread and work, while ours, curiously enough, seems to be emerging from prosperity. But in the final analysis, it’s based on power and on the inability to put human goals and human conscience above the dictates of the state. Its origins can be traced in the tremendous war machine we’ve built since 1945, the “military-industrial complex” that Eisenhower vainly warned us about, which now dominates every asp…”
This is the interview wherein Jim speaks of David Ferrie and cancer virus stuff, according to author Edward Haslam (Dr. Mary’s Monkey)
Not that this will shock anybody. maebrussell [dot] com “garrison + playboy” give forth numerous copies.
It’s obvious overall that the program produced a weapon. Injectable cancer virus.
I can’t wait for my next flu shot…

Posted by: Walter | Nov 30 2019 11:30 utc | 147

@ 148
Me too.
It has become a vast con-job where, yes, some healing does take place, but that’s the bait for the marks to permit the skim.
I think they legalized for-profit in medicine about 1971, and prior to that it was illegal to profit from illnesses. More or less anyway. Wages, reasonable money, but not a racket.
see (YT) “Walking Tour 29: New Orleans, Dr. Mary Sherman’s Mysterious Death and Oswald/JFK Connection-” part one, two…
Fidel got a terrible soft tissue cancer, Jack Ruby too, and Brother Hugo who gave that great speech at the UN (“The devil was just here…smell the sulfur…” It’s a long series of coincidences…and seem to pass over fascists…something in the blood, no doubt.
See> “CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart Attack and Cancer
The 1975 Church Committee hearings” @ global research dot ca
and @ quora “Biological Warfare: Is it possible to weaponize cancer?”
(they say yes)
and “cancer-murder-and-new-orleans” in search @american chronicle

Posted by: Walter | Nov 30 2019 12:47 utc | 149

In “The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State”, Engels mentions saturnalia. These are drunken parties in ancient Rome on the occasion of the end of the harvest, when slaves were allowed to eat at the same table with the gentlemen once a year. Doesn’t resemble anything? These are capitalist corporate parties!

https://twitter.com/ramon_merkader/status/1200684407281111041

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 30 2019 13:44 utc | 151

Funnnnny !
The Hill
has as it’s (very large) centerpiece photo on it’s front page
a photo of Adam Schiff. The photo has the following words plastered over it:
Adam Schiff’s star rises with impeachment hearings
Would that be a Titanic “star”?
Or, if his head were a bright, old-fashioned, incandescent light bulb
it is one second away from flashing it’s most brightest
just before it goes *pop* and explodes.
The one-two punch from IG Horowitz and John Durham are imminent and
the aforementioned The Hill front page is going to be a classic!
The Hill front page is preserved at web.archive.org.
Tiny URL to it here:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/s3c2bcz

Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2019 14:24 utc | 153

On US privatized health system…..
https://twitter.com/asborlaff/status/1200146310826872832

I have one of the best medical insurance in the US (covered by NASA) and I have discovered two things that Spaniards have to understand:
1) Without control, private medical insurance is incredibly expensive
2) Even if you have health insurance, you have to pay for * EVERYTHING * (thread)
Taking into account that here the free market should be regulated, the medical insurance that covers @LoonaLhya and costs me:
– 798.33 euros ** per month ** for primary care
and some extras
– 83.19 euros per month for access to dentist
– 14.45 euros per month for access to ophthalmology.
But well, paying for that pasta, should we have access to everything right? No! Paying that you have to pay for everything you do.
– $ 20 copayment for each doctor visit (consultation or specialist), $ 40 if it turns out that the one who catches you nearby does not work with your particular company.
Hold on now it gets interesting:
– Medications: $ 10 – $ 75 depending on whether they are covered or not.
– Emergency visit in health center: $ 50
– Emergency in hospital (emergency room): $ 100
– Surgery without hospitalization (e.g., a few points): $ 100
– Do you have depression and have to attend to you? $ 200 + $ 20 to stop by the office
– Does your son have autism? Oops, it’s not covered. look for other insurance!
– You’re almost fine, but do you need rehabilitation? Well, even if you pay $ 1000 a month, we only cover 20%. Bad luck!
You are pregnant?
– $ 200 / ** day ** for the room in maternity area +
– $ 200 for maternity services
+ medications, costs, additional tests ~ $ 2000- $ 3000 dollars. Remember, ** this IF you have insurance **
Hey, I just discovered that you are not charged for breastfeeding, thanks!
All this if you have good insurance. Let’s see a delivery with regular insurance:
– C-section cost: $ 3106.28
– Breastfeeding: $ 61.96
– Touch your child after birth (skin to skin): $ 39.35 !!!
Total bill plus hospitalization costs: $ 13,280.
Congratulations! You are born in debt.
Questions and answers:
+ But in Spain it will cost the same, what happens is that we all pay it.
– Error! In Spain, health does not add extra costs to increase the benefits of a company.
You can not give a better service at the same cost if you are taking pasta through.
+ But why do I have to pay if I never get bad?
– I’m glad you enjoy good health, but everyone gets bad at some point. Believe me that thinking about the bank is not what you most want when you are seeing a Powerpoint with photos of your life in front of your eyes.

Some good conclusions the guys reach at the responses below this thread…

It is well known that US health is the most expensive in the world …

https://twitter.com/palmend/status/1200484058389766145

That is another reason why they want to cut us into #Bantustanes
Liquidate Social Security and that Yankee mutuals fall like vultures upon us

https://twitter.com/GottliebErloser/status/1200712748151267330
And attention to what is probably the goal…apart from monetizing everything so as to keep tax of revenue high…( no wonder each and every right wing and far-right wing parties in the world wear full privatization of health services as manp oint in their “programs” which, btw, are all a carbon copy from each other…

If here it will cost 13,000 euros for delivery, in 20 years there would only be right-wing people because the poor would be extinguished

https://twitter.com/Migue24731857/status/1200526151749447681
Now, to reflect why you have been so brainwashed so that willingly collaborate in your own extinction program by voting right wing or far-right wing while you are working class…in the US…or anywhere….

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 30 2019 14:31 utc | 155

Couple of days after getting the Emmy for truthfull reporting,
Exposed: Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new ‘Russian spy plot’
The UK group caught manipulating data in order to slander actual investigative journalism
http://armswatch.com/

Posted by: arby | Nov 30 2019 14:40 utc | 157

Let me repeat my last line with more clarity
And I keep wanting to repeat loudly, It is all about public/private finance NOT FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY at the core…why in heck can’t we get that out in the open and “have a vote on it”?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2019 14:47 utc | 159

arby@ 160, sasha @151: Modern corporations are run precisely like feudal patronage networks, the sort of thing we look down on when it happens overseas. You don’t get into the upper reaches on mere competence. (This is obvious these days, isn’t it?)
Our entire social structure here has been radically dumbed down precisely out of fear of an educated under-class. And that is what drives all these demented right-wingers cancelling working social welfare programs too. The underclasses are supposed to stay in their place.
When it really went to hell was after the USSR fell. Our ‘elites’ thought they didn’t have to compete anymore: “the end of history”. Big mistake for them, and pretty bad for us proles too, but much worse for our victims overseas. Never give the big monkeys the idea they are not going to be accountable for what they do.
If there is any one overarching explanation for Putin’s successes aside from his own qualities, it is that he wants to build up his civil-society base, not his military, recognizing that THAT is the source from which security, stability, and all real progress flows.

Posted by: bemildred | Nov 30 2019 15:22 utc | 161

Today marks November 30th. The anniversary of the date the last imperialist British soldier was kicked out of southern Yemen lands, which were brutally occupied by the British for 128 yrs.
Yemen revolutionaries in the south went on to establish the Socialist state known as PDRY.

https://twitter.com/mosagrey/status/1200743872135077890

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 30 2019 15:37 utc | 163

Les #BlackFriday, c’est aussi ça…!

https://twitter.com/LEDOUAISIEN/status/1199983532644425729

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 30 2019 15:45 utc | 165

Things we never get to know about Russia…unless you get access to a Russian language source…and take your time and trouble to translate what is said there… and this is why what most matter is what they do, not what they say… at party speeches to be broadcast to the national or international public…or wherever….

Denis Manturov supported the introduction of private ownership of the forest. Today, the discussion of the III industry forum “LPC 360 °: from all points of view” was held: “>https://bit.ly/2QYLFWF

https://twitter.com/minpromtorg_rus/status/1200062269389979648
This is at Ministry of Industry official web page….in Russian…which most probably nobody except industrialists and big business people reads….
But, then, if you pay attention to “Echoes of Society”…

Owners have changed at one of the most famous restaurants in the capital – Cafe Pushkin on Tversky Boulevard. Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst became a co-owner of the restaurant..

https://twitter.com/ru_rbc/status/1200084446667395072

Posted by: Sasha | Nov 30 2019 16:23 utc | 167

Do you suppose that Operation Spring Peace is Turkey farmers dedicating fewer Turkeys for the fall harvest? I want my wishbone please.

Posted by: jacksson | Nov 30 2019 17:05 utc | 169

@Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2019 14:24 utc | 153
Could have mentioned that the article reads like a
trial balloon
for Adam Schiff
as President !!
[insert laugh track here]

Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2019 17:55 utc | 171

@Jackrabbit #172
You said in response to my comment that you have this view of journalists as requiring an ivory tower academic objectivity:

No, that’s not true.

Then you say:

IMO a journalist is someone that has some degree of independence such that readers trust that they are relaying events somewhat accurately.

While I agree with your sentiment – I also say that there are few, if any, journalists these days that fall under the definition you note above. Certainly almost all of the mainstream journalists.
Again, I suggest you listen to the Joe Rogan interview with Matt Taibbi to understand (at least from Taibbi’s view) why this situation has arisen.
As for your comment:

Journalists have legal protections and support from various communities because they provide truthful reporting. We don’t protect propagandists.

Sorry, but the second part of the above is patently false. Judith Miller, for example, has done quite well from her Iraq war hatchet job. The same can be said for many, many other “journalists”.
The first part is somewhat disingenuous: the First Amendment specifically reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Madison, among others, argued for what you (and I) agree is good journalistic practice, but the Constitution deliberately does not address what constitutes “journalism” – good or bad. It only prohibits the government from passing laws relating to specific areas.
The reality is that propaganda is free speech also.
Again, Rogan and Taibbi talk about the difficulty of defining free speech in order to protect it – and note that US judicial practice has been to allow anything so long as there is not demonstrable direct harm that would result.
You don’t like Blumenthal’s work or attitudes, don’t patronize it or him.
Taibbi and Rogan also go at length about how unConstitutional the social media practices are: they ban people pretty much at will and for whatever reason, yet this is not considered a violation of the First Amendment.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 30 2019 19:23 utc | 173

c1ue @173
I’ve started watching the Rogan interviews. There are two and they are lengthy (the whole show). I haven’t yet seen the part that you mention.
There’s no question that journalism can be tainted by propaganda. But there’s still a fine line. For example, if Judith Miller had done volunteer work for an anti-Saddam organization then it’s unlikely that her reporting would’ve been respected at all.
Also, I don’t think the Left (aka “the people”) win by emulating the corrupt and immoral practices of the right. They must gain the trust of the people by being moral and holding themselves to higher standards.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Nov 30 2019 19:49 utc | 175

in craig murrays speech from the past few days, he talks about how the internet is being more and more run by those who are not interested in freedom of speech and information.. 15 minute talk.. i watched it earlier today… some might enjoy hearing what he says..
Free the Truth – A Short Speech

Posted by: james | Nov 30 2019 20:38 utc | 177

I can’t believe I am providing a link below to the American Conservative but they have an article up about Tulsi Gabbard that includes quotes from a report from Brown University that is educational, IMO
Tulsi Gabbard: Wake Up And Smell Our $6.4 Trillion Wars
Read it for some sobering figures about the rape and pillage of the world that has occurred since 9/11
Think about the good that could be done for humanity with that sort of money instead of more wars to keep global private finance in control of the Western world

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2019 21:06 utc | 179

psychohistorian @159–
I appears that the prerequisite to obtaining freedom and democracy is public ownership of the vast majority of financial levers. Without public capture of that essential domain, only some form of penury is possible for the vast majority of commonfolk, leaving only a select hierarchy free, democracy reserved only for their use. Pretty well sums up the current situation within the Evil Outlaw US Empire I’d say.

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 1 2019 2:21 utc | 181

I hope b keeps up with his deleting of OT comments on other threads as I am seeing in the latest OPCW one….GRRRR
I am here to share another quote from Web of Debt by Ellen Brown that supports one of my ongoing claims about the elite rich in our world. But before I provide the quote I want to also mention that Ellen is also a believer in the concept of financial Shock Doctrine events that she describes have occurred in various countries and in the chapter 29 I am reading about America she is suggesting the same which is another of my frequent claims….American bankruptcy because we can’t pay the interest on our debt and then subsequent pressure to sell off all public things at rock bottom prices, etc.
The quote
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Forbes Magazine reported that from 1997 to 1999, the wealth of the 400 richest Americans grew by an average of $940 million each, for a daily increase of $1.3 million per person. Note that lists of this sort do not include the world’s truly richest families, including the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, and a long list of royal families. Whether they consider it to be in bad taste or because they fear retribution from the bottom of the wealth pyramid, the super-elite do not make their fortunes public.
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Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 1 2019 3:41 utc | 183

Below is another quote from Web of Debt chapter 33 – Maintaining the Illusion which was written in 2008 but is even more applicable today.
For those of you that have been following my reportage of how the US Fed has been operating the REPO program since September, keep that in mind as you read the following Web of Debt quote that includes a quote from a Michael Bolser about the actions of the Fed’s Plunge Protection Team:
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It may sound odd. but the Fed occasionally gives money [“permanent” repos] to its primary dealers (a list of about thirty financial houses, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, etc.). They never have to pay this money back; thus the primary dealers will pretty much do whatever the Fed asks if they want to stay in the primary dealer’s “club”.
The exact mechanism of repo use to support the DOW is simple. The primary dealers get repos in the morning issuance….and then buy DOW index futures (a market that is far smaller than the DOW trading volume). These future prices then drive the DOW itself because the larger population of investors think the “insider” futures buyers have access to special information and are “ahead” of the market. Of course they don’t have special information…..only special money in the form of repos.
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The money used to manipulate the market is “Monopoly” money, funds created from nothing and given for nothing, just to prop up the market. Not only is the DOW propped up but the gold market is held down, since gold is considered a key indicator of inflation. If the gold price were to soar, the Fed would have to increase interest rates to tighten the money supply, impairing the housing market and forcing the government to raise inflation-adjusted for Social Security
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My supplement to these quotes is that the world is currently being led to believe that America is not already in a crisis, where this BS perfidy was used after the crash of 2008, but is now being used before the crash that has already started as evidenced by the above…..we all just need more FAITH that things are just peachy…..
Someone needs to pull out that first card of this house of cards……come on China/Russia, do it!!!!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 1 2019 4:52 utc | 185

Notice how suddenly there are all these uprisings, riots and revolutions (HK, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran, not to mention Venezuela and Bolivia) and strangely they’re all happening under Trump’s fascist tyranny. I call that a non coincidence coincidence.
Zionist Robbing Hood Trump, who has no problem taking from Palestinians to give to his Zionist backers is also into stealth regime change coups.
Speaking of cons and swine: You can’t turn any man into something that’s not lurking inside him already. Don’t blame Circe for showing you what’s really there: a pussy grabbing swine and con. Once a pig always a pig.

Posted by: Circe | Dec 1 2019 5:39 utc | 187

Maybe because I’m Chinese, I find turkey not only tastes tough and awful but also expensive while at it…

Posted by: JW | Dec 1 2019 6:35 utc | 189

JW | Dec 1 2019 6:35 utc | 189 Your tastes are reliable.
Maybe because I’m ethnically Scots-German I don’t like turkey either…
I used to think the modern examples of T were disagreeable due to breeding. That maybe if I were young I’d like it. Or a different breed might be better…
I then lived where wild T grazed in large groups…back in the hills. A neighbor shot a few and I tasted the wild birds. Terrible. The dog liked it though…

Posted by: Walter | Dec 1 2019 12:13 utc | 191

@ karlof1 | Nov 30 2019 1:50 utc | 132
Made a reply to yourself and juliania subsequently on the same MoA if you’re interested.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Dec 1 2019 12:32 utc | 193

The pro-American leader of the Hong Kong protests, Joshua Wong, has 48.1% of false followers on Twitter of the nearly 480 thousand who follow him.
https://twitter.com/berlinConfid/status/1200770136212459522

Posted by: Sasha | Dec 1 2019 13:07 utc | 195

It seems that the brudge attack in London is being used as electoral weapon by the Tories…what ammounts, if more was needed, to a false flag more than anything else…
Thread….
https://twitter.com/berlinConfid/status/1200703561727918080

Facts about the false flag of London: 2 dead of whom nothing is known. The knife patsy was thrown to the ground and “disarmed” by “several people”. If he was unarmed and reduced, why did the police kill him? The “alibi”: wearing a false vest with “explosives”.
The “heroes” of the movie who fought with the guy and disarmed him did not see the vest. However, the police “guessed” immediately that the “jihadist” (originally from Pakistan) was wearing a suicide vest that turned out to be “fake” (did they know it in advance?)
Also, a guy was seen walking away with the supposed knife. Why was he allowed to take the knife from the crime scene? In 2017, a similar attack occurred in the same place when “jihadists” with knives wore fake “suicidal” vests.
The useful “dejected” fool was called Usman Khan and had been formerly convicted of terrorism. That is, he was known by the police and secret services (again the same narrative) and linked to “Islamist terrorist groups”. Did they have it “controlled” to activate a false flag?
More suspicions about the attacker of the London bridge. Usman Khan was a personal friend of Anjem Choudary, a very tolerated and well-known Islamist ultra-radical preacher in the United Kingdom whom some link to the British secret service MI5.
Choudary was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison serving less than half of the penalty imposed for supporting ISIS. It is curious that there were journalists and civilian policemen near the scene of the crime. The videos prove that there was more than possible a prepared execution.
If a “Muslim terrorist” is believed to have explosives, there is no real time for the police to jump for him unless they are already by his side, as was the case, where it was safer to immobilize him, not shooting him since the terrorist could have made everyone jump through the air.
The police could observe, when approaching Usman Khan, already disarmed and on the ground, that he had no explosive in his waist and, however, decided to kill him instead of reducing him with brute force. Indeed, the dead do not speak. It is 100% checked.

Posted by: Sasha | Dec 1 2019 13:27 utc | 197

Pro-family measures in Russia…

“We have nowhere to go”: in Tyumen, a family with five children who haven’t pulled a mortgage is evicted into the street.

https://twitter.com/72ru/status/1199148663253147648
Meanwhile…in the Russian stock exchange…

The second block of quasi-treasury shares of Gazprom again went to only one investor, it follows from the Moscow Exchange. So far, an unknown investor bought 188 billion rubles worth of gas from the gas company, with a discount to the market of more than 10%.

https://twitter.com/ForbesRussia/status/1197839971895447552
Meanwhile…in St. Petersburg….

The vice-governor of St. Petersburg will be the former head of security at Putin’s residence in Valdai.

https://twitter.com/the_ins_ru/status/1199005878604771332

Posted by: Sasha | Dec 1 2019 13:50 utc | 199