For me, there is no website more valuable than this one. But I would like additional sources. I’d appreciate the names of some additional websites I can add to the list of those that I frequent. Please offer a suggestion, if you have one.

Posted by: David J Valachovic | Jan 29 2020 14:43 utc | 4

This is what happens when you fall for your enemy’s propaganda and sell off your dignity:
Fury Online as US Embassy in Denmark Claims American Soldiers Freed Auschwitz During WWII
It wasn’t enough to throw the CPSU legacy in the mud. It wasn’t enough to sell off your own people to neoliberalism. It wasn’t enough to publicly condemn – on completely false arguments – the entirety of the first proletarian state experience in history. It wasn’t enough to kiss the boot of the myth of the European civilization/culture. It wasn’t enough – and never will be.
Now they are going after the few (previously believed to be) uncontestable achievements of the communists. Outright lies are fair game now.
Funny how we pressure ourselves with “facing and accepting reality” (“fact-based”), but we don’t use this argument when the hegemon side blatantly do it (e.g. the USA openly preaching for extinguishing Iraq – a sovereign nation-State, UN member – in the age of nationalism)

Posted by: vk | Jan 29 2020 14:52 utc | 6

Now that Netanyahu and Trump have made their demand for Palestinian total surrender public, now that their ultimatum has been delivered, we will see what Putin is made of. Putin’s defenders will no longer be able to hide, assuming we get the usual bootlicking for Israel from Putin, with a side of mild disapproval from Lavrov. Admittedly, Putin did have the guts to include Palestine and Abbas while visiting Israel the other day, so there is some hope that he will find a way to do the right thing. No one else visited them, according to what I read. None of the other visiting leaders did that. But the time is now for Putin to take a real stand, the one thing I know he hates to do. He is, after all, the Great Pragmatist, ie the Great Bootlicker. Let him finally show differnt. Each step Trump takes is more despicable, more inhuman than the last one. One shred of fairmindedness would turn the situation in Palestine towards real peace, away from the death strewn Pax Americana type of peace. This is Putin’s moment.

Posted by: paul | Jan 29 2020 15:34 utc | 8

Circe | Jan 29 2020 15:43 utc | 10
Just to please you I promise to vote for Bernie, ok? It can’t hurt. And it might look good to have done after he either loses of visits Dallas or turns into Hopium, as did the skillful Prez O.
But you maybe ought to check out Corbett on voting… It’s a variety of the old army game, part of creating an illusion to quiet the marks and rubes. Rock the Vote! – #PropagandaWatch 21 minutes of fun!

Posted by: Walter | Jan 29 2020 15:50 utc | 10

Looked at the Coronavirus thread, the prev. open thread, did not see this article. Maybe I missed it … ?
Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It
GreatGameIndia, Jan 25 2020
https://greatgameindia.com/coronavirus-bioweapon/
Posted for info, i’m not judging this, clearly terms like ‘infiltrated’ and ‘agent’ may be apt or not — international cooperation in these areas is practised by most and the line between science “for the good of all” and science “for nefarious purposes” is very hard, possibly impossible to draw.
I remember when Ms. Qiu and her team were thrown out of the Lab in Canada – it created a huge stir and was all quite mysterious, a big scandal. For ex, what does an MSM article like this mean?
news, CBC Manitoba, July 2019
https://bit.ly/38PcWAw

Posted by: Noirette | Jan 29 2020 15:57 utc | 12

Erdogan is in a dead end.
– He is losing the grip on Syria so he is sending the islamist mercenaries from Edlib to Libya to fight against allies of the US, the EU, the Arabs and even Russia. It is a loose loose situation but there won’t any Turkish soldiers casualties and he won’t have the burden of hosting the islamist fighters.
– Claiming everyday that Turkish economy is booming won’t hide that Turks are fed up with inflation, wars and the increased presence of Syrian refugees and Islamist terrorists fleeing Syria
– His relation with the Arabs, except for Qatar is sour. Even with Israel a long time ally, the relation is getting worse by the day. He is now the hated man of the middle east and his cozyness with Russia won’t save him.
– His only salvation is to drink the poison and recognize Bashar al Assad as the leader of Syria and accept to pay compensation to rescue Syria’s economy

Posted by: Virgile | Jan 29 2020 16:11 utc | 14

Yemeni army overrun Sana’a: Spox and
Syria is advancing , yemeni are advancing ,.. and Bolton is advancing.. the Palestinians are happy.. the French Yellow Jackets are advancing.. something is about to give somewhere..
Trump panics at Bolton’s potential testimony at Senate impeachment trial
rial without the T , witness or testimony.. Bolton’s testimony could clear trump and force impeachment to be dropped making the democraps look like they were on drugs to have indited our grand ole Trump. After all Bolton is without doubt the most honorable establishment character available. His word is law.. a gift from the gods to mankind. I would trust whatever Bolton ..____<==complete the sentence please> .
The Nasty Secret Behind Aramco, ISIS and Trump in Syria did anyone discuss this?
Not a word today about the Crash in Afghanistan? What gives?

Posted by: snake | Jan 29 2020 16:16 utc | 16

It looks like Noam Chomsky has finally jumped the shark – demanding that no one votes for Greens, but must vote for whatever corporate whore the DNC crams down our throats. Really sad. People I used to respect (like Norman Solomon), just completely sold out.
Here’s a link to the doc:

Open Letter to the Green Party for 2020, Noam Chomsky et al. A Reply to the Open Letter by Jack Rasmus
We are posting the Open Letter by the Green Party for 2020, followed by a response by Jack Rasmus.

Here are the first few paragraphs of Rasmus’s response to Chomsky, et al:

Jack Rasmus
January 28, 2020
This past weekend a group best identified as ‘left liberal’ intellectuals posted an ‘Open Letter’ to the Green Party charging that party with being responsible for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. They then declared that the Green Party’s 2020 presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins, should not run in 2020, lest the Greens become responsible for getting Trump re-elected again. Everything should be done to ensure that a Democrat Party candidate, whomever that might be, should win in 2020. That includes even Joe Biden, they say. Left liberals like themselves should simply ‘hold their noses’ and vote for Biden, if necessary, if he gets the nomination.
For someone like yours truly who has been around and seen the same strategy of ‘lesser evilism’ repeated for a half century now–with devastating consequences even when the lesser evil (aka Democrats) won the presidency–it is not surprising to read and hear the ‘left liberals’ lament once again!
The coterie signatories of the ‘open letter’ include: Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Leslie Cagan, Ron Daniels, Kathy Kelly, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters and Michael Albert.
Their main argument, calling for Hawkins and the Greens to retreat from the 2020 electoral field (and for the record I am not a Green party member or a member of any other party), is that Hillary lost the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc. to Trump in 2016 but would have won them–and thus the electoral college vote–if only those who voted for the Greens presidential candidate, Jill Stein, in the swing states had not done so but voted instead for Hillary.

Posted by: john brewster | Jan 29 2020 16:24 utc | 18

CGTN

Posted by: JC | Jan 29 2020 16:28 utc | 20

—–There are also active links to a variety of sites on the main page of this website.

Posted by: Chevrus | Jan 29 2020 16:31 utc | 22

Peter @2
My comment to Craig Murray’s post:

“Epstein belonged to intelligence”
Maybe Seth Rich did too?
Doesn’t take a genius to figure out the game here.
Unless you don’t want to see it.
Rich family strangely silent about the lack of investigation. LOL.
Also: The ONLY other person that we’ve heard about that was “disturbed” enough by Sanders (sheepdog) treatment in 2016 to take action was Tulsi Gabbard (she resigned from her senior position). But she says nothing about Rich.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 29 2020 16:38 utc | 24

That’s “the World” the U.S.A. likes to propagandise… Justice & so called Human Rights always bloody compromised… Humanism has become a swearword…. hence humanlives really don’t count on the “wrong side” of its paradigm… misery, hardship, poverty,injustice, prejudice, racism, tragedy and death all excusable for the greater greed and its evil of projected hegemony at all costs… and it’s effecting destructively millions and millions of people all around this globe.
Colombia: 27 Social Leaders Killed in 27 days of 2020
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-27-Social-Leaders-Killed-in-27-days-of-
2020-20200128-0014.html

Posted by: Ashino Wolf Sushanti | Jan 29 2020 16:54 utc | 26

“Americans Keep Putting Up Roadblocks Against Russian Troops on Key Syrian Highway”
https://www.anti-empire.com/americans-keep-putting-up-roadblocks-against-russian-troops-on-key-syrian-highway/
Or, to paraphrase Adam Schiff: “The U.S. military: being petty, spoilsport pricks to the Russians over there, so we don’t have to here.”
David J Valachovic: you might find anti-empire.com to be worth a look.

Posted by: David G | Jan 29 2020 17:06 utc | 28

As if more proof was needed of Canada’s vassal state status, just traded Brit control to US control.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/29/consortium-news-strikes-back-londons-five-eyes-freelands-nazi-roots-stand-exposed-once-more/
And after Freeland’s family’s Nazi-collaborator roots became known.
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9284236-cause-of-fire-at-hamilton-s-ukrainian-hub-still-a-mystery/
“The centre was a repository of local Ukrainian history, with heritage documents dating back to the purchase of the theatre in the 1960s, a collection of paintings by artists from the eastern European country and photos of graduating Ukrainian school classes dating back nearly 50 years.”
It would be a safe bet there was more than just school photos in those archives.
makes ya go HHHHMMMM…

Posted by: A P | Jan 29 2020 17:07 utc | 30

Pretty cool use of tech plus albatrosses homing in on fishing ships tracking illegal fishing
Unfortunately, the researchers didn’t think of what the most likely outcome will be: the illegal fishing ships shooting albatrosses.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 29 2020 17:12 utc | 32

Sorry, link screwed up: albatross link

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 29 2020 17:13 utc | 34

To William Cockshutt 32: Crocodile tears, given that it was the British that occupied Palestine and it was the Brit aristocracy that gave the Zionist Movement a BIG helping hand in stealing Palestine. The Balfour Declaration, basically written by the Lord Rothschild of the day and signed by Balfour without Parliamentary approval.

Posted by: A P | Jan 29 2020 17:19 utc | 36

As reflected in numerous polls and BigLie Media attacks, Sanders campaign is really beginning to roll as seen by the following articles, “‘Absurd’: Sanders Campaign Hits Back at AP Story Equating Bernie’s Social Security Record With Biden’s.” “New Poll Shows Bernie Sanders With More Than Double the Support of Joe Biden in New Hampshire.” And many more can be found at the parent website. Sanders stance on Occupied Palestine really makes him stand out from DNC and Trump, the latter two in reality are one in the same. This article attacks Perez’s choices by telling the following truth: “Perez’s nominations clearly show that the swamp seems in it to win for itself, regardless of the electoral outcome for the nation.”
It’s easy to be cynical about this election year, but it’s hard to deny its importance. As most Presidential elections have proven during my life, they impact the global population, not just the domestic USA’s. The paradigm governing the Outlaw US Empire since WW2’s end must be overturned for the sake of all–even the evil ones like Pompeo and Clinton, Bolton and Biden. For that to be given a chance, Sanders must win the nomination outright via the primaries so the first ballot vote at the Convention cannot be infected by the DNC’s Swamp; selecting the Veep nominee might be more problematic, however.
To allow a cynical thought: Yes, there’s a chance Sanders may turn out to be Hopium a la Obama. But look at the alternatives; they are all demonstratively worse. Nor will Sanders have it easy as Congress will still contain numerous Swamp critters, although a Progressive wave is possible, except for the Senate. The Cynic says Sanders would certainly be the lesser of two evils.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 29 2020 17:29 utc | 38

I’ll be going to my local Iowa dem caucus next Monday to be counted for Andrew Yang. Tulsi Gabbard if Yang is not viable. If she is not viable either, I leave the premises early. In any case I spend time every day campaigning for a just cap on personal fortunes as that is the issue all other issues spring from. Will vote Green in fall if neither Yang or Gabbard is the dem candidate. Caucused for Sanders last time: fool me once…
Hope it’s true about the CIA guy being on that downed plane!! One down, so many to go…
A just cap on personal fortunes is the Mother of all issues. 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. 10,000 humans die each day from lack of healthcare. Perfectly preventable deaths on a planet that has never been richer. A problem everyone refuses to SEE never gets fixed.
Pity poor Humanity; so blind, so suffering, so needlessly.

Posted by: Phryne’s frock | Jan 29 2020 17:32 utc | 40

The good news: there’s a way to see what activity FB is tracking when you’re not actually logged into FB: Off Facebook activity
The bad news is you need to have an FB account to use it.
All the people who don’t, can’t see what FB is tracking them for.
This “off-FB” activity comes from 3rd party apps or other data inputs.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 29 2020 17:33 utc | 42

karlof1 @39:

Yes, there’s a chance Sanders may turn out to be Hopium a la Obama. But look at the alternatives; they are all demonstratively worse…. Sanders would certainly be the lesser of two evils.

This ‘logic’ seems so reasonable – until one comes to understand the big picture.
Clearly the establishment want you to believe that you have a choice so … Democracy Works! But thus far, democracy seems to work mostly for the EMPIRE FIRST capitalist establishment.
This time it’s different? LMFAO.
If Sanders were really for socialism and the people, he would’ve created a Movement. He didn’t. All he really did was sheepdog progressives into the Democratic Party. “Enough with your damn emails!”
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<> <> <> <> <>
Reposting:
Caitlin Johnstone destroys the “Democracy Works!” propaganda that pops up in every political discussion at moa and elsewhere with this simple observation:
It doesn’t matter which establishment team carries the ball down the court for the establishment.
Whether it’s minorities that get fondled under the table (figuratively speaking) by a ‘Third-Way’ Democratic President (aka Obama) or White Nationalists that get flattered by a Republican President (Trump), the result is the same: Zionist-inspired EMPIRE FIRST polices that advance establishment interests.
Participating in the rigged electoral process does nothing but give legitimacy to that process. That’s why “Democracy Works!” propagandists try so hard to get you emotionally engaged in the farce. It’s a shell game and YOU and your friends and neighbors are the stoopid mark that just can’t bring him/herself to walk away from the table.
Until it all ends in tears.
The Answer: Form and join Movements. DEMAND democracy; Constitutional Rights; Civil Rights; Human Rights; accountability; transparency; economic fairness; peace-oriented foreign policy; environmental safeguards; etc.
There’s no pill or app or easy out. Anyone that tells you that an establishment-approved candidate will defend your interests via a simple vote is lying. The fix is in. Every. Damn. Time.
<> <> <> <> <> <>
The Establishment Doesn’t Fear Trump, And It Doesn’t Fear Bernie. It Fears You.

The disturbing fact of the matter is that if you ignore election dates and just look at the numbers and raw data of US government behavior over the years, you can’t really tell who is president or which political party is in power at any given point in time.
. . .
It is inevitable that such a permanent second government would exist in the current iteration of the United States, if you think about it. It’s impossible to have a globe-spanning empire of the sort America now has without long-term plans spanning years or decades for securing control of world resources, undermining rivals, securing more compliant allies, and ensuring military and economic hegemony.
. . .
You wouldn’t know it from reading the billionaire media, but the Yellow Vests protests in France are still going on and have remained widespread for more than a year now. This lack of coverage is partially due to the fact that establishment narrative managers are responsible for conveying the idea that the only governments whose citizens dislike them are those which haven’t been absorbed into the imperial blob like China and Iran. But it’s also because the propagandists don’t want us getting any ideas.
… If enough people decide that the status quo isn’t working for them and begin rising up to force it to change, there’s not really anything the establishment can do to stop them. Right now the only thing keeping people from rising up in this way is the fact that they’ve been successfully propagandized not to, and the propagandists intend to keep it that way.

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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 29 2020 18:01 utc | 44

A P@26
Quit with the Sanders is a sheepdog you Trump sheepdog! If you have no VIABLE CANDIDATE to suggest get out of the way!
@19 john brewster
FYI, Noam Chomsky endorsed Bernie Sanders, and until it’s certain whether the Dems will sabotage his nomination…NO THIRD PARTY.
This is THE most critical election of this Century! Right now, Bernie is in an optimum position to win this and if people come out in droves for him already in the primaries, then the Establishment will be in a bad position to sabotage his Nomination and crown someone else. Last time Bernie’s wins were too close to Hillary’s, so the Party got away with it. This time Bernie must run away with a majority of states. The establishment would not dare steal the nomination from him with a decisive win in the primaries!
Anyone know what the deadline is for registering a political party to qualify in 2020 election, in case they dare sabotage his nomination?

Posted by: Circe | Jan 29 2020 18:18 utc | 46

Re: candidates in the U.S. and various comments above.
Tulsi recently revealed why no anti-Establishment candidate can win. Fourteen states have solely electronic ballots with no paper trail to confirm the electronic count. As Tim Canova of Florida showed, even with paper ballots, rather than ballot-box stuffing, the Clinton wing simply “disappears” boxes filled with paper ballots.
As for Chomsky, et al calling for no Green candidate, well, that leaves Greens or disaffected voters free to vote for whatever third-party candidate is on their local ballot or not voting for anyone. Anyone brave enough to think independently enough to vote third party is not going to be shepherded into voting for Biden or some other annointed candidate.

Posted by: Zee | Jan 29 2020 18:29 utc | 48

@karlof1 #39
I believe Sanders could beat Trump – although it is much less obvious he will.
The issue is that the DNCC, HRC and most of the Democrat party oligarchy hates and fears him, as do the big money corporate and billionaire funders.
That’s why Bloomberg is there – Warren has failed, so Bloomberg has injected himself as an alternative if Biden can’t keep his primary lead.
In particular, I’m seeing more and more talk about the Democrat pick for President going down to a brokered convention. Would Sanders win in that scenario? It isn’t as locked in as the superdelegates of 2016, but I’d be shocked if the DNCC/HRC machine hasn’t bought all it can there.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 29 2020 18:39 utc | 50

Trailer Trash @49–
Then what do you call the millions who follow Sanders? Groupies? All the money he’s raised consists of small donors–real people, not PACS or corporations. Oh, and did you see the ruling on corporate donations to political campaigns that was just decided In Seattle’s favor? Since foreigners are barred from donating money to US political campaigns and corporations are partially owned by foreigners, corporations are barred from making political donations. That just needs to be spread nationwide by the movement that already exists to ban corporate influence on elections that just also happens to be part of Sanders Movement.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 29 2020 18:45 utc | 52

There are real risks of a Kessler Syndrome in the next years, and this could change the way we are accustomed to live now, specially the advanced armies
https://www.rt.com/news/479374-two-satellites-orbital-collision/
More about the Kessler Syndrome:
https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/2018/01/space-debris-poses-growing-threat-to-satellite-infrastructure/
Elon Musk’s Starlink will accelerate the process

Posted by: DFC | Jan 29 2020 18:54 utc | 54

Bernie Sanders: 10 Years Fighting Citizens United
“You can’t take on a corrupt system if you take its money.”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/bernie-sanders-10-years-fighting-citizens-united
Overturn Citizens United
“Sen. Bernie Sanders told a Senate panel that a constitutional amendment is needed to undo the Supreme Court ruling that let corporations and wealthy individu…”
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/video-audio/overturn-citizens-united
“And some Republicans said they simply don’t trust Bolton’s word. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky called Bolton “disgruntled”‘ and seeking to make money off his time at the White house.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-impeachment-qa-session-1-1.5444191
Some banter here about Sanders not starting a movement. Sanders movement might be compared to Ron Paul’s efforts in a number of ways. Ron’s movement died yesterday when his prodigy repeated the ‘Official trump propaganda line’. Written in crayon, on the back of a napkin.
Why should socialism be reserved for America’s Corporations, Wall St, the Security apparatus and the spiders web of cronies attached to the host? Even Stockman admitted ‘trickle down’ was just a slogan and trump chortled on video about how he conned the rubes with his drain the swamp schtick.

Posted by: Bubbles | Jan 29 2020 19:04 utc | 56

Cynthia @ 53
Starategic-culture.org is in no way a pro-Russian site. It is the property of Phil Giraldi. His bio is well known and there is no possible construction of the man or a lifetime of work that would make him a Russophile. I don’t even like the guy but will defend him from that nonsense. You saw through part of the scam, now go back through the steps and begin from assumption that every piece of the story is entirely false until proven otherwise.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 29 2020 19:13 utc | 58

@57 Mao
Over here in the UK it is nearly as bad with the BBC claiming on TV that the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz. Of course the Soviet Army was formed in 1946 after the war from the Red Army. So either the BBC are claiming that the Soviet Union had time travel technology or are as illustrated on the BBCs own website they are just flat out lying and are too stupid to be able to Memory Hole their own reporting to the contrary.

Posted by: TJ | Jan 29 2020 19:16 utc | 60

Time for that non-existent edit button. Just checked original at Naked Capitalism, where I’d not normally go, and there are two organizations using the Stategic Culture name. Oh well. Still all sounds fishy.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 29 2020 19:20 utc | 62

TJ @62:
You really think that’s nearly as bad? On a list of the BBC’s many sins, I’d place that at the end, or possibly later.

Posted by: David G | Jan 29 2020 19:26 utc | 64

The idea that there will be a voting solution to what ails the US is just laughable. Citizens United assured that will never happen. Campaign finance was an issue that should have been nailed down in the 80’s via Constitutional Amendment. Didn’t happen.
Now the status quo is criminals like Adelson, Singer, Marcuse et al buy specific influence from candidates. That explains Bolton and the tag-team of Pomparse and his bottom, Esper.
Clearly, Trump calculated he couldn’t rule without the support of right-wing Jews and neocons. Considering the impeachment begin before Trump took office, I’m guessing he made a wise decision; the left-wing Jews in the D party have viciously attacked everything he’s tried to do.
Until an honest discussion begins about what really ails America, I don’t expect to see much of anything that resembles reality in any media.
Fact: America has a hostile elite.
No country can sustain treason from within. Policies that favor Israel are isolating America from all other powers.
The idea that electing Sanders would solve anything is just laughable. The man has a campaign staffed by violent revolutionaries who want gulags. The last thing America needs right now is a revolution. It needs thoughtful reform, particularly in foreign policy where it is incurring a debt burden that will enslave our great-grandchildren or will have to be repudiated.

Posted by: dorje | Jan 29 2020 19:33 utc | 66

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jan 29 2020 19:16 utc | 61
The split may have occurred simply due to the personalities involved and both Stalin and Mao were known for their mistrust bordering on crippling paranoia.
The US neo brain trust, (ugly arrogant Americans and dual citizens with an agenda) drove Russia and China into each other’s arms with their putsch in Ukraine. On that particular aspect of the Great Game I would quote a wise old Swahili Chief; “When Elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers most.”
Americans, or rather it’s dual citizen cabal are a house divided even on which group gets the most plunder from the poor Ukrainian people. They were better off with the Russian mob from an income and expenses pov.

Posted by: Bubbles | Jan 29 2020 19:39 utc | 68

Bussines Insider, Apr 28, 2018:
If there’s one thing that we know from history, it’s that a deadly new disease will arise and spread around the globe.
That could happen easily within the next decade. And as Bill Gates told listeners on Friday at a discussion about epidemics hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine, we’re not ready.
Gates acknowledged that he’s usually the optimist in the room, reminding people that we’re lifting children out of poverty around the globe and getting better at eliminating diseases like polio and malaria.
But “there’s one area though where the world isn’t making much progress,” Gates said, “and that’s pandemic preparedness.”
The likelihood that such a disease will appear continues to rise. New pathogens emerge all the time as the world population increases and humanity encroaches on wild environments. It’s becoming easier and easier for individual people or small groups to create weaponized diseases that could spread like wildfire around the globe.
Simulation: Global Flu Pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9afTl9z5JHQ
In the meantime:
Influenza spreads around the world in yearly outbreaks, resulting in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p1213-flu-death-estimate.html

Posted by: Mao | Jan 29 2020 19:43 utc | 70

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 29 2020 17:33 utc | 43
Thanks for that… sadly the “off_facebook_activity” page no longer exists, or I’m blocked from accessing it
> “The page you requested was not found”
Well, that didn’t last long…

Posted by: xLemming | Jan 29 2020 19:43 utc | 72

dorje #68: “The idea that there will be a voting solution to what ails the US is just laughable.”
The most salient symptom of America’s political dysfunction is the lack of discussion surrounding political reform. That the debates are controlled by the commercial networks and not a public organization; gerrymandering; campaign finance donations and Citizen’s United; the electoral college — none of these part of the national conversation or even brought up by even the most fringe candidates.
Internally there is no will or capacity to change. It will take something catastrophic like another financial crisis, for any possibility of overhauling things. As it is, we are just lying to ourselves to think that voting changes anything.

Posted by: occupatio | Jan 29 2020 19:47 utc | 74

There are massive strikes in France today against the Macron regime. Here are yesterday’s street battles between the French military police/CRS (created by the Vichy regime in 1943) and thousands of professional firefighters. The firefighters are highly respected by the French people suggesting that the regime is collapsing.
https://www.rt.com/news/479409-france-police-firefighters-strike-paris/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Tmh_QrhB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1DHDhEOAq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=6Si_dH1_–o&feature=emb_logo

Posted by: Krollchem | Jan 29 2020 19:49 utc | 76

@ 43 c1ue /@74 xlemming… regarding that link, my friend says this – “yeah, if you don’t log out of facebook as soon as you’re finished using it then it basically watches everything else you do on your browser.” so there you have it.. creepy marketing is becoming industry standard..

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2020 20:00 utc | 78

@Posted by: john brewster | Jan 29 2020 16:24 utc | 19
Noam Chumpsky is a “lesser eviler” and Dems and Greens are to even support Joe Biden……!
What a laugh.
(I am a Green voter, by the way.)
I remember when Noam C. came out in support of the official version of 9/11, that was
way over the top. After this episode I won’t even bother getting perturbed with him.
Lesser Evilers have told the DNC that they will get their support no matter what.
The Democratic Party can pull any nonsense they want and people will still vote
for them. Why should the Democratic Party listen to the voters when it doesn’t matter
what they do? Guess what? They don’t.
And where did it all lead? Down and down until it finally reached WWIII Hillary. Lesser Eviler
Dems finally found themselves voting for WWIII. I mean wtf.
Keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result, Noam.

Posted by: librul | Jan 29 2020 20:11 utc | 80

james @77: i asked larry johnson over at sst … he says ‘very unlikely …
LOL. Should we consider that answer to be confirming?
Larry didn’t say “maybe”, or “that’s an interesting theory”, or simply “I don’t know”. He said, essentially, “drop it” – but in a nice and respectful way.
Well …
1) … it’s designed to look “very unlikely”, isn’t it?
Larry hasn’t even tried to address:

– the strange behavior of the Rich family;
– how neatly the “hack”/”leak” dovetailed into Russiagate’s McCarthyism;
– the nonsensical anger of politically-savvy Jewish guy – BOTH Parties are Zionist, and the progressive community was well aware of the claim that Sanders was merely a sheepdog – why would anyone risk their career over a slight to Sanders?

2) … Larry’s being somewhat truthful in that Rich is “very unlikely” to be a USA intelligence asset for the simple reason that CIA can’t operate in USA.
For domestic ops CIA outsources to MI6 and Mossad.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 29 2020 20:16 utc | 82

@4 David J Valachovic
A few websites that I would recommend –
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://twitter.com/zerohedge
Posted by: TJ | Jan 29 2020 20:05 utc | 81
You won’t find that site in B’s recommended reading list, and for good reasons.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/links.html
If you are a supporter of everything trump, the scams, the shams, the propaganda, the lies, the distortions, the cultism, the on staff troll brigade, and the naked aggression of the foremost ugly American, by all means visit the Bulgarians site to fill your belly with …garbage.

Posted by: Bubbles | Jan 29 2020 20:23 utc | 84

Posted by: paul | Jan 29 2020 15:34 utc | 8
Putin did have the guts to include Palestine and Abbas while visiting Israel the other day, so there is some hope that he will find a way to do the right thing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin replaces the dropped cap of a Palestinian honor guardsman while entering a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, Thursday, January 23, in the West Bank’s Bethlehem to discuss bilateral relations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stKQDcL3Q9E
https://www.rt.com/news/479112-putin-palestine-honor-guard/

Posted by: Mao | Jan 29 2020 20:33 utc | 86

chuteh | Jan 29 2020 20:29 utc | 87
Glad to hear it, Friend. You are welcome.

Posted by: Walter | Jan 29 2020 20:36 utc | 88

Comments on the latest CBO estimations of US Debt?

Posted by: Passer by | Jan 29 2020 20:42 utc | 90

pat lang in an act of benevolence seems to be letting me post at ssr… those intp folks are tricky!

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2020 20:47 utc | 92

Walter @79–
The modernized version was The Sting, which in its own unique way also points the finger at the ultimate Snake Oil repository–Hollywood–and also New York-based media & entertainment, which is where Hollywood sprang from. Recall that great tune Madison Avenue Man and the entire corporate propaganda industry known as advertising. They’re determined to reduce the world to a pop-up ad.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 29 2020 21:01 utc | 94

The value of Sanders’ campaigning for president lies not in his being a savior for all us little folks if he gets elected. That certainly is not why I support him anyway.
The United States has a long way to go to climb down from being hysterically psychotic, and even after we get the hysteria under control we still have a long way to go before we can even begin to get this train wreck sorted out. There are many, many steps we must take to avoid the coming Dark Ages, and getting Sanders (or someone like Sanders) elected in the US is just one of those steps, and not nearly even the biggest one.
It doesn’t much matter if Sanders is sheepdogging for the establishment, or if he plans to sandbag efforts at change. What matters is that Sanders’ campaign is opening up a whole range of discourse for the American public that has been verboten for generations. This is the true value of Sanders presidential campaign.
Once a sufficiently large portion of the US population gets past the mental blocks installed by corporate mass media that prevent them from even contemplating the one course of action that can save them, then we can start getting stuff done. Sanders’ campaign is getting us there.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 29 2020 21:04 utc | 96

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2020 19:48 utc | 77
Well James, based on several factors, I think that Victor Ostrovsky on this issue is a credible source. That includes a private consideration.
He describes in detail the Israeli setting up and deployment of the Trojan transmitter, and points out that other countries, notably the French and Spaniards, were not as gullible as the Americans, and considered the sudden burst of ‘Libyan’ terrorism plans highly suspicious, taking into account that the Libyans had previously been extremely careful about anything of that sort. The French and Spanish reasoned that the Libyans didn’t do it. Ostrovsky does state that it is a mystery to him who actually carried out the bombing in Berlin. Many other details are in his book The Other Side of Deception.
But I also think that Reagan and the Americans would have salivated eagerly over any mildly plausible excuse to do harm to Libya, and given the short supply of normal sane reticence and common sense and common decency, at the top in the US, the Americans ‘leapt into revenge mode’ via the phony evidence. It’s possible some Americans involved pointed out that the evidence was fishy. But that’s just me speculating, and kindof hoping, that sometimes there might be the odd adult in the room….

Posted by: Robert Snefjella | Jan 29 2020 21:07 utc | 98

Saraqib may fall by morning! The tweet’s already an hour old and had SAA just 4k from its current objective. Some terrorist tweets advocate retreating in the face of the very rapid advance by the renamed yet still renowned Tiger Forces. It’s entirely possible Idlib town could be reached by the end of tomorrow. This map depicts the massive cauldron being formed based on the rapid advance.
It will be quite the spectacle when the terrorists reach the Turkish border but are denied entry and then try to fight there way through.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 29 2020 21:22 utc | 100