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The MoA Week In Review – Open Thread 2020-37
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
> At least 26 people who contracted COVID-19 started showing symptoms in late December or January — and at least eight of them both had not traveled and did not have contact with another person infected by the virus. The trend continued into February.
“That’s community spread,” said Eric Toner of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “It’s invisible, it’s invisible, it’s invisible, until it’s suddenly obvious.” <
Unknown source:
"We won the war against Coronavirus the same way we won the war against Vietnam. It got to expensive so we pretended that it was over."
Other issues:
The Elliot Abrams clown show in Venezuela:
The Macutazo: Timeline of an Absurd Military Adventure – Caracas Chronicle
US policy on Venezuela lacks meaningful direction – American mercenaries’ involvement in failed coup against Maduro is more proof – ScottRitter/RT
Silvercorp co-founder speaks with The Grayzone: What did State Department know about failed Venezuela invasion? – Grayzone
Russigate falls apart:
Flynn and the Anatomy of a Political Narrative – National Review
Obama officials and FBI collaborated to invent the ‘Russian collusion’ narrative
RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC – Consortium News
Aaron Maté
I want to stress what a pretty big revelation this is. Crowdstrike, the firm behind the accusation that Russia hacked & stole DNC emails, admitted to Congress that it has no direct evidence Russia actually stole/exfiltrated the emails. More from Crowdstrike president Shaun Henry:
Bruno Maçães
I am now taking a look at the released transcripts. This might be lost in the middle of Covid, but the whole thing is stunning. No one in the intelligence community believed there was any collusion.
The question is: when dozens of people are sticking to a certain story they don’t believe in, is this a kind of spontaneous coordination? Could be…
Two pillars of modern music recently died.
Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 – Rolling Stone
Michael Beschloss
Little Richard (1932-2020) consenting to pose with obscure opening act in Hamburg, 1962:
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At 33:00 min Richard talks about meeting the Beatles: Little Richard – Southbank Show – March 1985 (vid)
Human After All: Remembering Kraftwerk's Florian Schenider – Billboard
How Florian Schneider And Kraftwerk Created Pop's Future – NPR
Use as open thread …
@ 106 ted01… well it won’t be me! mind, you i don’t own a cell phone either.. so what do i know? lets take a moa poll, lol… read the link @58 adkc linked to for more insight into this vaccine bullshit…
@ 108 lizard… i am a bit cranky given all the bullshit tossed b’s way…if it isn’t the troll brigade, it is regulars that are pissed off at the direction b and / or the world is taking… but to think b is hercules and is going to fix all the wrongs of the world is extremely naive… it is like the other day people freaking out over helena cobbans article because she had the nerve to quote some imf spokesperson… ask china and russia why they are a part of the imf?? oh, but people are supposed to get up on their high horse over this that and the other thing and regularly be pissed at b – when it isn’t the troll brigade – over the fact he just isn’t doing enough to save the fucking world for this that or the other disease….
i don’t know if you have read any charles eisenstein.. i was reading this morning one of his articles.. i have read 3 or 4 of his books.. i find his commentary insightful… it is a long article and i believe it has been updated since he posted it in march… let me quote a small part of his article on covid here..
“The Conspiracy Narrative
Because Covid-19 seems to justify so many items on the totalitarian wish list, there are those who believe it to be a deliberate power play. It is not my purpose to advance that theory nor to debunk it, although I will offer some meta-level comments. First a brief overview.
The theories (there are many variants) talk about Event 201 (sponsored by the Gates Foundation, CIA, etc. last October), and a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation white paper detailing a scenario called “Lockstep,” both of which lay out the authoritarian response to a hypothetical pandemic. They observe that the infrastructure, technology, and legislative framework for martial law has been in preparation for many years. All that was needed, they say, was a way to make the public embrace it, and now that has come. Whether or not current controls are permanent, a precedent is being set for:
The tracking of people’s movements at all times (because coronavirus)
The suspension of freedom of assembly (because coronavirus)
The military policing of civilians (because coronavirus)
Extrajudicial, indefinite detention (quarantine, because coronavirus)
The banning of cash (because coronavirus)
Censorship of the Internet (to combat disinformation, because coronavirus)
Compulsory vaccination and other medical treatment, establishing the state’s sovereignty over our bodies (because coronavirus)
The classification of all activities and destinations into the expressly permitted and the expressly forbidden (you can leave your house for this, but not that), eliminating the un-policed, non-juridical gray zone. That totality is the very essence of totalitarianism. Necessary now though, because, well, coronavirus.
This is juicy material for conspiracy theories. For all I know, one of those theories could be true; however, the same progression of events could unfold from an unconscious systemic tilt toward ever-increasing control. Where does this tilt come from? It is woven into civilization’s DNA. For millennia, civilization (as opposed to small-scale traditional cultures) has understood progress as a matter of extending control onto the world: domesticating the wild, conquering the barbarians, mastering the forces of nature, and ordering society according to law and reason. The ascent of control accelerated with the Scientific Revolution, which launched “progress” to new heights: the ordering of reality into objective categories and quantities, and the mastering of materiality with technology. Finally, the social sciences promised to use the same means and methods to fulfill the ambition (which goes back to Plato and Confucius) to engineer a perfect society.
Those who administer civilization will therefore welcome any opportunity to strengthen their control, for after all, it is in service to a grand vision of human destiny: the perfectly ordered world, in which disease, crime, poverty, and perhaps suffering itself can be engineered out of existence. No nefarious motives are necessary. Of course they would like to keep track of everyone – all the better to ensure the common good. For them, Covid-19 shows how necessary that is. “Can we afford democratic freedoms in light of the coronavirus?” they ask. “Must we now, out of necessity, sacrifice those for our own safety?” It is a familiar refrain, for it has accompanied other crises in the past, like 9/11.”
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/
maybe we should be expressing what we think b should or shouldn’t be writing about, or maybe we are independent minded enough to recognize b will do posts as he sees fit and posters will write poems as they see fit and we could just leave it at that.. maybe not! it appears not!!
Posted by: james | May 11 2020 17:14 utc | 110
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