@ blues… what is your speculative track record like??

Posted by: james | Feb 5 2020 16:51 utc | 4

Interesting media chart, showing MoA as politically balanced and distant from power/establishment (true!):
https://swprs.org/media-navigator/

Posted by: Anthony | Feb 5 2020 17:01 utc | 6

@ Blues @3:
This morning on Canadian TV: Worldwide infected 24,0000, death toll in China 450, let’s say 500
Here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w
I found:
4 February 11:00 GMT — Cases in China pass 20,000, so 25,000 seems reasonable.
Then from CNN, 17 min ago (they are hardly conservative with numbers):
What we’re covering here
The virus: The coronavirus outbreak has killed 492 people worldwide, the majority of which are in China, and infected more than 24,500 people across 25 countries over 30 days.
Some math:
fatality percent: 500/24500*100 = 2.04 % => really high mortality rate, almost as much as common flu.
populatin infected in China: 20000/16 billion = 0.002 % which proves that this is a horrible horrible unstoppable virus
In other countries a bit less, per this site https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html
Australia 14, Germany 12, India 3, Malaysia 12, Singapore 28, South Korea 19, USA 11, Vietnam 10, Canada 4, Russia 2, UK 2, in total over 25 countries.
Percent countries where at least 1 case discovered: 25/195 = 13%, => really world wide spread.
B.S.
So far chances of being infected are zilch. Why such a fuss? e had same fuss for SARS, then bird flue, nothing ever happened.
There must be agenda behind media induced panic.
🙂

Posted by: Zidar | Feb 5 2020 17:08 utc | 8

Resumen: U.S. soldiers and contractors raped at least 54 Colombian girls between 2003 and 2007 in this Latin American country, recorded most of these abuses on video and sold them as pornographic material, according to the “Report of the Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims”, prepared by the Colombian government and representatives of the FARC guerrillas in the framework during the peace negotiations.
Colombia Reports: Colombia’s contender at this year’s Miss Universe endorsed anti-government protests, abortion and peace in another painful jab at President Ivan Duque. Answering one of the questions, outgoing Miss Colombia Gabriela Tafur expressed her solidarity with the protests against Duque that have been ongoing since November 21.

Posted by: Maracatu | Feb 5 2020 17:17 utc | 10

# 9 @ TT see “On A Wing and a Prayer” @ aljazeera on YT 737 N(f)G tend to break into several nice bits…they say. With testimonials.
…………….
But to voting, why not take a chance on the worst possible fink stooge verrater?
See V. Hugo “A Fight With a Cannon”…
Loose cannon can sink ship…

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 17:23 utc | 12

Posted by: vk | Feb 5 2020 17:22 utc | 11
It is also the kind of speech that is likely to get him re-elected. It’s not enough to have a lot of nice ideas, you have to get elected. Sanders mealy-mouthed response to the latest ripoff, does not give one encouragement about him taking on Trump.

Posted by: SteveK9 | Feb 5 2020 17:31 utc | 14

Posted by: vk | Feb 5 2020 17:22 utc | @11
after murdering Soleimani, i no longer take Trump seriously, regardless of what he says or does. and regardless of a second term, which he will probs win.

Posted by: gushn | Feb 5 2020 17:36 utc | 16

I was referring to the Coronavirus in my post #17

Posted by: Perimetr | Feb 5 2020 17:41 utc | 18

Mossad playing both sides in the Ukrainian conflict: (?)
wiki source:
Lev Parnas,
Parnas was born in Odessa, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1972 to a Jewish family.[6][7] His family brought him at the age of three to the U.S., first to Detroit, and then a year later to Brooklyn. He was a student at Brooklyn College and Baruch College. He also worked at Kings Highway Realty, where he sold Trump Organization co-ops.
In 2019, Parnas served as a translator for a legal case involving Dmytro Firtash, one of Ukraine’s wealthiest oligarchs with self-admitted mob connections,[11] who is fighting extradition to the U.S. to face bribery charges. Firtash has lived in Vienna for five years.
Parnas has also been involved in Jewish charities and causes in the U.S., Ukraine and Israel.[14] Parnas is on the board of a Ukrainian-Jewish charity, “Friends of Anatevka”, founded by Ukrainian rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, to provide a refuge for Jews affected by the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[15] Parnas and Fruman visited Israel in the summer of 2018 as a part of a delegation, led by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and joined by Anthony Scaramucci, of “right-wing Jewish and evangelical supporters of Trump.” The group met with U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair Netanyahu, as well as billionaire Simon Falic, one of Netanyahu’s most generous donors.[16] Huckabee joined the two once again in March 2019 when they were awarded with the “Chovevei Zion” (Lovers of Zion) awards at a gala for the National Council of Young Israel, an event focused on supporting President Trump and Israeli West Bank settlements. Rudy Giuliani and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy were in attendance as well. While in Israel Parnas and Fruman also met with oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a wealthy Ukrainian under investigation by the Department of Justice for money laundering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Parnas
——
Dmytro Firtash
Dmytro Vasylovych Firtash (Ukrainian: born 2 May 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman who heads the board of directors of Group DF.[1] U.S. federal prosecutors described Firtash in 2017 court papers as an associate of Russian organized crime.[2] He was highly influential during the Yuschenko administration[citation needed] and the Yanukovych administration.[3] As a middleman for the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, Firtash funneled money into the campaigns of pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.
In 2010, Firtash launched an effort towards consolidation of the Ukrainian nitrogen business. From September 2010 to September 2011, Firtash acquired ownership in ‘Concern STIROL’ (Horlivka), ‘Severodonetsk Production Association Azot’ and ‘Cherkassy Azot’.[13] In just over a year, the joint marketing strategy of the four fertilizer manufacturers owned by Firtash substantially strengthened its domestic market position.
Firtash is co-owner of RosUkrEnergo and controls much of the Ukrainian titanium industry.[14] He gained control of former state-owned titanium assets across Ukraine in 2004. He also owns several chemical plants.[15][better source needed] In May 2011, Firtash took over Nadra Bank (at the time Ukraine’s 11th largest bank). Nadra Bank had gone into default in 2009, but it has since restructured its foreign debt with significant write-offs.[16]
Firtash became one of the leading investors in the power sector and chemical industry in Central and Eastern Europe.[17] His plants and companies are present in Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Tajikistan, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria and Estonia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Firtash

Posted by: Qparticle | Feb 5 2020 17:45 utc | 20

Re; Clueless Joe | Feb 5 2020 17:44 utc | 20
The virus is contagious at least 5 days before symptoms appear, I have read some reports that say 9-14 days before symptoms appear. Which is why it is out of control. Taking temperatures to screen is like pissing in the wind

Posted by: Per | Feb 5 2020 17:48 utc | 22

One reason for elections, for voting, for permitting voting, is to foster or create in the voters’ minds the belief that the vote was/is valid.
Since this belief is declining, the idea that there can be a “winner” is lessening. The cloak of “legitimacy” wears thin and thread-bare.
The fubar in Ohio (see mintpress etc) is symptomatic, and obviously deliberate. More to come? You bet!
Yes, The Clown of Orange may well be “re-elected” by the quaint methods of the diseased republic…but can he rule?
See “Fight With a Cannon”…
I imagine Comrade Texas’ ideas about a show-down in April will happen, and however that goes, so goes the rest, “PPE” (Phony Phuckin Election) an’ all. Not mind you, that I would for an instant consider advocating his enemy agenda. Enemies, like ’em or not, can be accurate in their predictions. And gee, those Are Pretty W76/2 N-Bangers, ain’t they?
What does anybody imagine these are for? April? Why not?

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 17:50 utc | 24

Meanwhile, Germany continues to degenerate back towards Nazism:
Outrage as German centre-right votes with AfD to oust Thuringia premier
At least this time the whole farce happened only with the help of the center-right, and not with also the help of the center-left – as was the case of the mass murders of 1918-1919.

Posted by: vk | Feb 5 2020 17:52 utc | 26

@ Posted by: Nick | Feb 5 2020 17:54 utc | 28
It is a long story, but neonazifascism is essentially neoliberalism in another form (specially, but not only, in the Third World, where the narrative of national or racial superiority doesn’t hold ground).

Posted by: vk | Feb 5 2020 18:02 utc | 28

@ Posted by: Nick | Feb 5 2020 18:13 utc | 29

The NSDAP (nazi party) supported an extensive welfare state. It included free higher education, family and child support, pensions, health insurance and an array of publically supported entertainment and vacation options.

Source?

Posted by: vk | Feb 5 2020 18:20 utc | 30

@Per @22 – The virus is contagious at least 5 days before symptoms appear,
No, it is not. The Germany study which found that was wrong.
Science: Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed

Posted by: b | Feb 5 2020 18:21 utc | 32

# 30 and all. I read what I can about German politics, but am not properly able to grasp the process there. I think it is critically important though.
One source I read > “vera-lengsfeld [dot]de”
To-day I see there> A victory over the arrogance of power
“We are actually used to the fact that everything in politics is knocked out before the actual decisions are made. Now the Prime Minister election in Thuringia has shown that there is another way. Thomas Kemmerich’s choice…”
and
“Nationalbewusstsein –
Brutstätte reaktionärer Gesinnung?”
The commitment to one’s own nation is – deliberately out of focus – at the same time semantically equated with nationalism, structurally identical with chauvinism. Anyone who thinks nationally is consequently genotypically a chauvinist, a presumptuous day-past man who needs to be combated. (more or less)
………………
Frau Vera grew up, in a bit of trouble, in DDR… Which place, I believe she’s said, was better that Germany now. But she found fault with DDR too, and they with Vera.
“Moderately Commie”… yeah. Not Vera though…
……………..
Comrade Victor Grossman’s Berlin Bulletins are interesting too.
………………
Later. Chop wood/carry water time.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 18:24 utc | 34

HEY “In Turkey” HELLO there!
Are these some of your DEBKAFILE sources?????
Debkafile
MDEBKAfile: is an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, providing commentary and analyses on terrorism, intelligence, national security, military and international relations, with a particular focus on the Middle East. It is available in both English and Hebrew. The word “Debka” refers to an Arab folk dance.[1]
History
The site started in the summer of 2000, and is operated from the Jerusalem home of journalists Giora Shamis and Diane Shalem.[1] It has been awarded Forbes’ Best of the Web award.[2] Forbes identifies the archives as the best part of the website, but warns that “most of the information is attributed to unidentified sources.”
The website was suspended in October 2014, following its own report of the illness of its chief editor.[3] The website resumed coverage in December 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debkafile
It has been awarded Forbes’ Best of the Web award.
Forbes: HMS (Starship) ENTERPRISE (Lady Sally Forbes )
Name: HMS Enterprise
Ordered: 19 June 2000[1]
Builder: Appledore Shipbuilders
Launched: 2 May 2002[1]
Sponsored by: Lady Sally Forbes
Commissioned: 17 October 2003[1]
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Nickname(s): Starship
Status: in active service
Role
(OCEANOGRAPHY) Enterprise and Echo are designed to conduct survey operations in support of submarines or amphibious operations.
Manning
Enterprise’s crew consists of 72 personnel, with 48 on board at any one time, working a cycle of 70 days on, 30 days off. The ship can accommodate 81 personnel if necessary. The ship is operationally available 330 days a year.[7] In support of this high availability, all accommodation and recreational facilities are designed for an unusual (in a warship) degree of comfort.
-Enterprise’s first operational overseas deployment was to the Mediterranean in October 2004.
-Enterprise sailed in September 2005 to conduct survey operations in the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin. She also conducted a collaborative hydrographic survey with the Saudi military.
-In 2007 Enterprise deployed for 19 months to West Africa, South Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. While in the Persian Gulf she worked off the coast of Iraq in support of the UK and Iraqi governments.
-Enterprise was dispatched to Libya in August 2014 to evacuate British citizens and diplomatic staff due to the increasing violence in the country.
-In June 2015 Enterprise replaced HMS Bulwark in the mission to rescue migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.[12] By December 2015, Enterprise had been responsible for rescuing more than 2600 migrants.[13] By December 2016, this number had risen to over 9000[14] before Enterprise was finally relieved by Echo.
-On 9 January 2017 it was announced Enterprise had deployed to the South Atlantic to perform patrol tasks normally carried out by the Falkland Islands.
-Sailing from Devonport on 29 June 2017, Enterprise deployed in her secondary role as an mine counter measures command ship assuming the role of flagship of NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2 (SNMCMG2), primarily operating in the Mediterranean.[19]
-Norway in October 2018 for Exercise Trident Juncture as the mine counter measures command ship for the UK minehunter taskgroup.[22]
-In December 2019 she was reported to have sailed through the strait of Taiwan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise_(H88)
Bertie Charles Forbes (May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954) was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.
Life and careerEdit
Forbes was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, the son of Agnes (Moir) and Robert Forbes, a storekeeper and tailor. After studying at University College, Dundee (then part of the University of St Andrews), in 1897 Forbes worked as a reporter and editorial writer with a local newspaper until 1901 when he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked on the Rand Daily Mail under its first editor, Edgar Wallace.[2] He emigrated to New York City in the United States in 1904
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._C._Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson “Steve” Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947)[1] is an American publishing executive. Forbes was a candidate in the 1996[2] and 2000 Republican Presidential primaries. Forbes is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. Forbes is the son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes, and the grandson of that publication’s founder, B.C. Forbes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Forbes

Posted by: Qparticle | Feb 5 2020 18:33 utc | 36

@ Blue Dotterel | Feb 5 2020 18:23 utc | 33
Still, it broke up into three pieces, which it shouldn’t have done. Did you see the the documentary that Walter@12 mentioned? On A Wing and a Prayer.
The problems at Boeing (and the relevant official authorities in the USA) long predate the 737 MAX.
And it’s. Ot limited to the 737 either, here’s another “On A Wing and a Prayer”. Different Boeing bird, similar issues.

Posted by: Lurk | Feb 5 2020 18:35 utc | 38

Interesting to compare the state of the hulls between the recent Ural Airlines A320 incidents in Moscow (pretty much intact after landing in corn field gear up) and this 737 incident. I know which aircraft I’d rather be in if things get saucy.

Posted by: sad canuck | Feb 5 2020 18:49 utc | 40

From b’s link @32:

“There’s no doubt after reading [the NEJM] paper that asymptomatic transmission is occurring,” Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told journalists. “This study lays the question to rest.”
But now, it turns out that information was wrong.

Fauci. It figures. (He is near the top of my Contempt list, but it’s a long story.) The claim that the illness was contagious before symptomatic was based on ONE PERSON. Even better, the “researchers” involved didn’t even talk to her to find out if she had symptoms or not. It turns out she did. Methinks that making assumptions is not good scientific methodology. Maybe someone should tell Fauci.
Funny how official US claims all bend towards “The Sky Is Falling” and “China Bad, US Good”.
Fauci has been at NIH (National Institutes of Health) for decades. He had to be dragged, while kicking and screaming, to organize an effective research program for AIDS. The documentary “How to Survive a Plague” shows Fauci being burned in effigy, the best part of the film, hehe.

Posted by: Trailer Trash | Feb 5 2020 18:58 utc | 42

Can anyone explain: Was the Shadow/DNC op designed to quietly hand Iowa to Buttigeg with no one knowing but the whole op blew up because of a tech meltdown?
Or, alternatively, was the tech meltdown part of the op?

Posted by: casey | Feb 5 2020 19:27 utc | 44

casey | Feb 5 2020 19:27 utc | 44
I believe in a wider conspiracy.
There’s an eye opening (several) article in mintpressnews someone kindly shared the link with us and deals about how Mossad front groups and Lockeed Martin partnered together to basically own the cyber security of the United States Air Force, US Navy and the US Pentagon.
Operation Blackout
How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified Networks
Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/cybereason-investors-offer-israeli-spy-classified-intelligence/264095/
Since they even had “simulations” themed “US, Elections, Chaos, 2020” and almost all media reffering to the Iowa votes count clasterfack as “Chaos, Elections, Iowa” I am willing to bet most of them (news sources) might had been “advised” their choice of words…
That’s a “right in your face” message. “Diss Sanders or else”….

Posted by: Qparticle | Feb 5 2020 19:49 utc | 46

@ 44 casey.. good question…it completely destroyed any momentum saunders might have gotten and gave it all to trump.. looks like the fix is in…
when so much of what the msm gives us is some kind of jive ass marketing bs, it’s hard for people like me to not be sceptical of what is going on.. apparently another chem weapon attack is being released – same marketing bs.. it’s pretty none stop.. no wonder someone coined ‘fake’ news.. fake reality in the age of technology seems to be the new norm.. who needs to play a video game or go to a hollywood flick when reality has been manipulated so much today?

Posted by: james | Feb 5 2020 20:08 utc | 48

casey @44:

Was the Shadow/DNC op designed to quietly hand Iowa to Buttigeg … [or] was the tech meltdown part of the op?

I don’t think anyone knows for sure at this point.
However, I’ve seen a description of the Iowa foul-up that says that someone took a screen shot of what was reported and then found later that it didn’t match what was recorded. If not for the direct evidence of the app’s “mal-functioning”, MayorCheat might’ve quietly won.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Feb 5 2020 20:14 utc | 50

Perimetr | Feb 5 2020 17:40 utc | 17:
Governments always down play the situation to prevent panic among the unwashed masses. However, it would get increasingly difficult to hide the mounting deaths if we’re dealing with the worst case scenario. Authorities will get overwhelmed and you will start seeing leaked footage of it. Shit like this you can’t hide it for long.
I still think it’s a nothing-burger given the data. Don’t forget scientists around the World is paying close attention to the situation. On top of that, the reaction from nations outside of China is no where near to that of the Chinese authorities. This tells me that they hold the same opinion as me; a giant nothing-burger.
I also watched a segment of the Corbett Report where the guest mentioned that the people from WHO declaring this outbreak as a epidemic is connected to Big Pharma. Talk about conflict of interest.
And then there is Miss Lacy here @MOA that mentioned of a financial pump & dump scheme.
casey @44:
IMO, the tech “meltdown” was Plan B if Sanders lead was too great to apply “quality control measures” on the numbers.

Posted by: Ian2 | Feb 5 2020 20:24 utc | 52

Miss Lacy | Feb 5 2020 20:22 utc | 51
In the aljazeera video the experts said they saw 30 year problems at 8 years.
I got the idea that it was corrosion and corrosion fatigue cracks and loose fit from micky mouse suppliers with pencilwhipped paperwork. fake.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 20:26 utc | 54

At least 52 people injured at that Istanbul air crash.

Posted by: lysias | Feb 5 2020 20:46 utc | 56

@ 44
I suspect the whole fiasco was the op, designed to smash peoples’ faith in the democratic process if they’re not neoliberal, establishment-ites. A quiet Buttigieg victory would not have the same effect.

Posted by: Maat | Feb 5 2020 20:55 utc | 58

Any proof of life on Michael D’Andrea since the loss of the E-11A?
Time disputes his death, citing that he would have been buried at Arlington within 24 hrs (observant Muslim) and that co-workers claim he is not dead (off record).
I’ve been following this story. I have no idea. There is no transparency by either side. Iran and the Taliban have put forward no evidence, that I have come across, and the U.S. denies his death but they haven’t had a press briefing to that effect. The Cia denies the claim. That is the extent of the response.
Strange times.

Posted by: dorje | Feb 5 2020 20:58 utc | 60

casey @44
“Was the Shadow/DNC op designed to quietly hand Iowa to Buttigeg with no one knowing but the whole op blew up because of a tech meltdown?
Or, alternatively, was the tech meltdown part of the op?”
The DNC’s Shadow knows!

Posted by: Vintage Red | Feb 5 2020 21:01 utc | 62

I can’t see how Turkey can wage wars on two fronts in Syria and Libya. Erdogan is threatening to attack Syrian forces if they don’t withdraw from behind the line of Turkish outposts.

Posted by: Ian2 | Feb 5 2020 21:03 utc | 64

A line from ‘the book’ has: ‘a child shall lead them’ somewhere in it. Came close but in error, ‘led by children’ sums up the SOTU. Who will put these preschoolers into different corners until they start behaving, or are there any adults in charge anymore.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Feb 5 2020 21:20 utc | 66

=/ An asymptomatic carrier (healthy carrier or just carrier) is a person or other organism that has become infected with a pathogen, but that displays no signs or symptoms.[1]
Although unaffected by the pathogen, carriers can transmit it to others or develop symptoms in later stages of the disease. Asymptomatic carriers play a critical role in the transmission of common infectious diseases such as typhoid, C. difficile, influenzas, and HIV. While the mechanism of disease-carrying is still unknown, researchers have made progress towards understanding how certain pathogens can remain dormant in a human for a period of time.[2] /= — From the politically challenged Wikipedia:
Asymptomatic carrier
=/ People with hepatitis A are most contagious during the 2 weeks before they exhibit symptoms, and they can continue to infect others for 3 weeks after developing symptoms. /= — From:
Who’s on the Move
Of course the ‘asymptomatic carrier’ phenomenon is not the only factor that could make this coronavirus extremely dangerous. Therefore, the Wu flu could turn out to be a ‘nothingburger’, or it could result in an Apocalyptic event.
Microbiology has made astounding advances in the last 100 years. But still, when something new appears, it can take years to pin down the basic relevant facts. This happened with HIV, for example. This Wu flu has me on edge a bit.

Posted by: blues | Feb 5 2020 21:35 utc | 68

I find it interesting that it is almost 48 hours since the Iowa Caucus “voting” happened and 25% of the vote is still not available for inclusion/reporting.
The old Pony Express US Post Office could have the records delivered anywhere in the state by now. What the heck are they hiding? Does Buttfuck’s current small lead go away if the final 25% of the vote is counted?
I hope the younger generations are getting an education about how the world works……socialism or barbarism (public or private control of sovereign and global finance)

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 5 2020 21:42 utc | 70

All the chanting last night about how America is #1 . . . yeah but maybe most dumbed-down Americans have to use their cell phone to count higher than 1? Try getting a store clerk to figure out change without a calculator these days. Clearly you need an app to count votes or figure out where you are going (what’s a map?)

Posted by: Perimetr | Feb 5 2020 21:48 utc | 72

@ Perimetr | Feb 5 2020 21:48 utc | 72
I have been fighting ‘tooth and nail’ against computer voting for at least 16 years.
The voting computers are always controlled by election managers. Hand counted paper gives them much, much less control.

Posted by: blues | Feb 5 2020 21:55 utc | 74

@ Perimetr | Feb 5 2020 21:48 utc | 72
You need an app to be able to communicate with today’s iZombies and their phones smarter than they.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Feb 5 2020 21:56 utc | 76

Trailer Trash @ 9, 13, Blue Dotterel @ 33:
Latest news is that one person is dead and up to 157 people have been injured in the Boeing 737 crash in Istanbul. (The BBC headline says 150 people but buried in the report the Turkish Health Minister confirms one dead and 157 injured, though not critically.)
The plane was attempting to land while being buffeted by strong winds and heavy rain, skidded off the runway and crashed into a ditch after falling 30 – 40 metres. The fuselage split into three parts.
Almost a month before this accident, another Boeing 737 owned by the same airline (Pegasus Airlines) also skidded on the same runway.
That the fuselage split into three should have us worried. Apparently a stress test that Boeing performed on a 777X jet in September last year blew off a door. The details were kept secret until The Seattle Times reported the story in November.

Posted by: Jen | Feb 5 2020 22:06 utc | 78

This is an astonishing article on what to expect in the 2020 election. Deep Fakes 24/7.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-israel-intelligence-2020-elections-cyber-security/264361/

Posted by: Pft | Feb 5 2020 22:22 utc | 80

I don’t suppose anyone here will be watching Hollywood’s annual self-congratulatory smugfest but two propaganda films “The Cave” (directed by Firas Fayyad as a companion piece to “Last Men in Aleppo”) and “For Sama” claiming to profile individuals trying to survive the Syrian War are competing for the Best [Fake] Documentary Oscar along with three other films.
“The Cave” is about a doctor working in a makeshift hospital in a cave (where have we heard that one before?) beneath Ghouta and “For Sama” is about a couple trying to raise a baby daughter in east Aleppo when the husband decides to stay and continue working in “Al Quds Hospital”. (The hospital has never existed; the building claimed to be the hospital was something else entirely and still stands.)
Not holding my breath in the hope that one of the other films might win an increasingly worthless award.

Posted by: Jen | Feb 5 2020 22:42 utc | 82

@ Posted by: Pft | Feb 5 2020 22:22 utc | 80
The USSA Ministry of Truth is saying the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, et al. are planning to ‘hack’ our sacred fake ‘elections’. In their conspiracy theory, they are very careful to express in a weaselish way that the elections will merely be trolled via ‘social control media’, etc. Not actually a ‘hack the voting computers’. But this latter conspiracy is really what all the dog whistling is covertly referring to.
And people wonder why I demand hand counted paper ballots. I always knew this sort of thing would be perpetrated.

Posted by: blues | Feb 5 2020 22:51 utc | 84

With all in their favor, money and the press, why the billionaires needed even to rig the Iowa Caucus?

Trump and other billionaire Michael Bloomberg launched their campaign videos during the Super Bowl broadcast last Sunday. For whom does not know, 30 seconds of advertising when broadcasting the Super Bowl cost $5.5 million.
“Everyone is equal, anyone can become president,” yeah….

https://twitter.com/ramon_merkader/status/1224727690634317826

Posted by: Sasha | Feb 5 2020 22:55 utc | 86

Operation Blackout How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified Networks Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks. https://www.mintpressnews.com/cybereason-investors-offer-israeli-spy-classified-intelligence/264095/by: Qparticle @ 46 Better call HS right away.. so they can cover it up.
48 hrs post Iowa Caucus “voting” 25% vote not available for inclusion/reporting.
What the heck are they hiding? Psychoistorian @ 70 <= Is vote miscount a tort? who would have standing to sue? tech "meltdown" Plan B if Sanders lead was too great to by: Ian2 52 @ 44 vote count vs democratic process by: Maat @ 58 <= votes for President and VP dn count [electoral college determines Pres and VP] .. 25% Jockeying for convention delegate position>
Turkey supported by Israel, USA and Saudi Arabia.. two fronts is no problem. by: Ian2 @ 52 and 64

Posted by: snake | Feb 5 2020 23:07 utc | 88

blues | Feb 5 2020 22:51 utc | 84 (paper b)
I learned just today, and I think the thing is true, that our little riverain province, which is led by ladies I am told, had decided that hence-forth there will be paper ballots and nothing else. I have asked for more about it.
This is nice, and fair, and all that stuff. But think about what it means…
It means they don’t believe electronic “results”…from anywhere. This means they’re going to have grave doubts about the 2020 “election” – which is to say they’re not going to accept it. They already don’t accept the dictates they receive, especially the gun stuff. Their decision to reject the con is a signal event in a political perception control realm. There’s already a nascent movement to flat refuse to enforce some laws. Now they don’t buy the ‘lection con. Geewhiz.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 23:15 utc | 90

@ 44 casey.. good question…it completely destroyed any momentum saunders might have gotten and gave it all to trump.. looks like the fix is in…”
james@48
What this means-and it could hardly be clearer- is that whatever role Sanders fulfills it is not that of a Sheepdog.
If he were a sheepdog, leading a growing flock of followers from one Primary to the next, their numbers and momentum constantly growing, this is the very last thing that those hoping to shear his flock of followers would have wanted. Or worked-as clearly all the DNC approved candidates have in the past few days- to bring about.
It confirms what any logical analysis of the 2016 Bernie campaign has already shown. Had Bernie’s been a sheepdog campaign he would have delivered a new infusion of young idealistic supporters to the Clinton campaign, representing a net gain for the DNC. But that is far from what happened: a significant number of his supporters were so disgusted by the treatment accorded him/them by the DNC, not only before the Convention but in its refusal to make any compromises in the platform or ticket, that they sat out the election. Rather than being-as the sheepdog’s dupes are meant to- drawn into the campaign for Hillary, as organisers and donors, they did less for the Democratic candidate than most of them had done in previous elections.
And that was the response of the more moderate ‘sheep.’ Another significant proportion of Bernie’s people actually voted for Trump, if not the Green Party candidate.
And, since 2016, a portion of the naturally left electorate has been conflicted in its critiques of Trump (and this week’s impeachment is in an indication of this) by its continued revulsion against Clinton, the DNC and the widespread Establishment support for the utter nonsense of the ‘Putin done it!’ agitation.

Posted by: bevin | Feb 5 2020 23:38 utc | 92

@ # 1 I brought up the W76-2 that’s gone to sea in Atlantic. This nifty gadget (they say they’ve two all polished up n’ ready) is “only” 5 kilotons of bang. Cute. One does imagine that fatboy Pompo sees this as enhanced “diplomacy” or, what was the term…”deterrence”…so easy to lose.
But about the “nuclear deterrent”…well, maybe that’s imaginary… Geewhiz, yatink? Sorta buggers the ideas behind the old NPT and the JCPOA too…
But who’s remembering the Belgrano, and Falklands and how close Maggie came to murdering the rest of us? And who remembers Commander Robert Green? Who explains that there is no deterrence.
Bummer. I knew that…jus call me Johnathan Hoag.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 5 2020 23:40 utc | 94

Putin doing research for the upcoming “joint meeting of the State Council and the Presidential Council for Science and Education” and empowered by this:
“Frankly speaking, today I have heard something new for myself and, I think, it was very interesting and promising. A flexible system connecting the school, college, university and production.”
An educational system from its beginnings that emphasizes science (I sure wish the transcript was complete!!) in a way that advances all aspects of Russian society all grounded in a fundamental principle of Socialism–total support for the nation’s Human Capital. Indeed, I was thinking about how such a system differs from Nationalism and concluded that pure Nationalism must incorporate the same ideals as pure Socialism, which of course yields National Socialism. In my analyses of China and Russia, I see them both evolving toward such a system, although their expressions of democracy differ: China relies on Democratic Centralism while Putin relies on citizen input though such for a as the one cited above. The difference between Russia and China and the Neoliberal afflicted nations is acute–the latter only gain input from lobbyists, rich individuals and Think Tanks, while completely ignoring public opinion.
Today saw the specter of Trump extolling the great accomplishments of the nation and his administration–a command Orwellian Performance–while the truth reveals a massive homeless problem, shrinking economy, 50 Million children in poverty, and rapidly widening economic polarization where the current generation is already predicted to encounter Hard Times unless the status quo’s drastically altered.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 5 2020 23:42 utc | 96

Yetanotheranon @91–
When the plane crashed, there was lots of info being relayed via Twitter. One item I caught mentioned survivors being taken from the plane so they could be treated for their injuries, while leaving the dead in place. Those rescuers presumably were the Taliban that attempted to ambush the rescue mission. Also of note was a photo I saw of the two bodies removed from the plane and covered with blankets of local origin, which allows the assumption that whatever salvageable equipment there was became Taliban property. What purpose would be served by CIA/State to allow the rumored death to continue? It won’t effect Iranian strategy in any way, nor that of the Taliban. I wrote that if we don’t see a healthy A-Mike within a week, then he’s either dead or a POW. And recall the tweet mentioned survivors in the plural.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 5 2020 23:57 utc | 98

Today saw the specter of Trump extolling the great accomplishments of the nation and his administration–a command Orwellian Performance–while the truth reveals a massive homeless problem, shrinking economy, 50 Million children in poverty, and rapidly widening economic polarization where the current generation is already predicted to encounter Hard Times unless the status quo’s drastically altered.
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 5 2020 23:42 utc | 96
Hmm, not sure about your political reflections,
but don’t you agree it was a masterful speech? Made even better by the political theater?
2. The SOU speech – masterful and enhanced in its effectiveness by Pelosi’s interpretation of how a teen-ager would react petulantly to another teen-aged kid whom she hates. IMO a lot of people will remember the behavior of the Democrats last night.
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Laura Rozen reports this on Al Monitor: US envoy presses Russia to halt Syrian offensive on Idlib, February 5, 2020
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/02/us-envoy-russia-halt-syria-offensive-idlib.html

Posted by: Vig | Feb 6 2020 0:06 utc | 100