What has happened to the internet ? (Since Trump)
Where have all the thousands of activists sites gone ?
The only ones left are the ones that suit the narrative of the powers that be !
Our lives are being script written.
The sites that are not there plus the sites that are !! That tells the truth. Welcome to trumps mind control sheeple.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jun 7 2020 14:39 utc | 4

Towns from Washington state to Indiana have seen armed groups begin patrolling the streets after rumors spread on social media about an antifa invasion.
…That unsubstantiated finger pointing has coincided with viral rumors on social media — posts on Facebook and Nextdoor that buses filled with thousands of antifa and anarchists were on their way to loot suburban neighborhoods. Some seen by NBC News featured a screenshot of a tweet by a fake antifa Twitter account that Twitter said was created by a white nationalist group.
Url for article above:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/klamath-falls-oregon-victory-declared-over-antifa-which-never-showed-n1226681
An actual email from: Charlene, https://thetruthaboutcancer.com
Subject of this email was: [Breaking News] 💣Antifa targeting rural Illinois farmers
So here you go!
We’ve actually got two news bombshells for you today, both of them compliments of our good friend, Mike Adams, “the Health Ranger.”
First, we have learned that Antifa is now branching out from the cities and targeting rural farming communities across America, all in an effort to destroy farm houses, kill livestock and terrorize “white rural” Americans…
Another bombshell! The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have been caught red-handed publishing completely fabricated, fraudulent data in a study that claims hydroxychloroquine was dangerous.
The data came from a fake company that’s a front for fabricated data, run by a science fiction writer and an adult content person, none of whom have any experience in real science. The whole thing was made up!…

Posted by: Kim Sky | Jun 7 2020 15:27 utc | 6

The provinces of the Empire come out to show their support for their capital:
BTS, Big Hit donate $1 million to ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement
Protesters hit Tokyo and Osaka streets with rallies against racism and police brutality
Thousands across globe protest racism, police brutality to honor George Floyd
“across the globe”=”London, Paris and Berlin to Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul, among others”
The Empire is alive and well. No signs of secession.
–//–
When the ship begins to sink, the rats are the first to flee:
Why Japan, Korea won’t ever replace Hong Kong
This article is fantastic and I recommend reading it in full. It encapsulates the liberal (capitalist) ideology of the post-war to the beginning of the 21st Century perfectly, in all its contradictions. I won’t even post the most glaring ones because they are too much, which would result in a too big comment.
–//–
Liberals literally killing themselves:
Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen calls for reconciliation after mayoral recall vote, politician’s death
China doesn’t even have to do anything: those degenerates from Taiwan are already self-destructing.
–//–
Serious news:
Highlights from white paper on China’s fight against COVID-19
If you consider yourself an adult, you will read this in full. Don’t be lazy, exercise your brain for once.
–//–
European ultimatum to China: give up your socialist system, or else…
China’s state-owned firms remain barrier to EU investment deal
Who said social-democrats can’t play hard ball? They behave as if the likes of Friedrich Ebert never existed!
–//–
About the WHO “China censorship” story.
I read it when it first came out (in the Japan Times), and this is a nothing burger. During the first 10 days of January, some WHO officials complained they didn’t have the freewheeling they had in countries like Congo (!!!) and that China withheld the genome sequencing for one week before releasing it. If they want to blow some steam, so be it, but none of the stories even mention there were documents being censored from the WHO. The Chinese would only find out the

Posted by: vk | Jun 7 2020 15:37 utc | 8

The media, owned lock stock and two smoking barrels by the extractive wealthy elite, tells us Biden has a double digit lead in the polls at this point. What happens when and if Trump wins in November, if there even is an election, despite this significant lead in the polls? More #BlackLivesMatter protests? Hope Congress will investigate the matter? Blame it on Russia and rinse and repeat the last four years? Seriously, what would happen? I submit nothing besides outrage in the media to include social media will happen. America will get four more years of Trump because good or bad, America is addicted to Trump at this point. Some love to promote him and others live to decry him, but either way, they ALL need their Trump fix. Not that a “Blue” tsunami in November would change the trajectory. It won’t. Dems have been in power fifty percent of the time in the last several decades and yet this fascist autocratic putsch continues unabated until we wake up in a few years and realize we’re in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Posted by: 450.org | Jun 7 2020 15:58 utc | 10

The Handmaid’s Tale is a documentary currently, not fiction.
Margaret Atwood somehow attained this.

Posted by: Duncan Idaho | Jun 7 2020 16:04 utc | 12

it seems to me that on the one hand you have those wanting to maintain the status quo, and on the other you have those seeking change…. some would like a middle ground, but there are a lot that are not content with some middle ground or not sure what that would look like… so, the status quo remains in effect..

Posted by: james | Jun 7 2020 16:14 utc | 14

Could not get the Miami Herald piece to come up from this link. A Google search on the terms of above came up with nothing. Fuck Google. Using duckduckgo found the MH article, still would not display. But, I found a very good similar article – believe it or not – on Stars & Stripes. Noted there that a reporter from the MH contributed to the piece.
Reading between the lines there, here is what the WH’s “proof” amounts to: a number of protesters have been observed wearing hats and shirts, or carrying signs, that allude to Chavez, Che, Sandinistas, Cuba. Symbols or heroes of resistance always appear on some perennial protestors during protests of US policy. It is the very same thing as confederate flags, Nazi insignias, etc. do for white supremacist organizations. One, or several of such, interviewed for the article stated they had been to V recently to support Maduro supporters.
From this the WH jumps to the assertion that “we have evidence of the “illegitimate” Maduro regime instigating violence in US (domestic) protests. Just another page in the non-stop propaganda directed at Maduro. The last line of the S&S piece was a response from a Miami police official that “We have seen no evidence of foreign influence during the protests.”
related, personal observation: The last protest I attended in DC while the Iraq war crime was still progressing, the juice had already been drained from large antiwar protests. We marshalled in Lafayette Park, and it was about 5,000. There was such a hodge podge of perennial complaints and groups that it was difficult to tell just what the purpose of the march was. When we finally did start walking, in our little several block parade, I looked up at the people watching from above from their office or residential windows. They appeared no different to me than images of same watching the revelers at Mardi Gras. I had to ask myself wtf I was doing there, and if I would ever do it again.

Posted by: vinnieoh | Jun 7 2020 17:46 utc | 16

Observation on George Floyd’s murder:
Most victims being throttled lose consciousness within about two minutes and cannot resist any attack. The three officers at that time would have had complete control of their prey and be able to handcuff and control without resistance. The first reports had the officers weighing down the body for about 10 minutes which as reports kept circulating went to 9, then 8, lastly 7 minutes (maybe if the bidding continues someone will report 6 minutes). Now that the time frame has been distorted to such extent, the fact that they effectively had control of George within minutes, their acts became acts of first degree murder for the officers on George and accessory to first degree for the other at the scene. Accept no substitutes. Liquidate all legal resistance to justice for George.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jun 7 2020 18:41 utc | 18

Posted by: 450.org | Jun 7 2020 15:32 utc | 7
Thanks for Grayzone… I love Anya Parampil she hosted RT Question and left now host by Manila Chan BTW Ashlee Banks is back covering LA on Trump’s riots…. she was off RT since last year.
I trust, RT, Sputnik, CGTN and XinHua. No TV in the house but laptops.

Posted by: JC | Jun 7 2020 19:23 utc | 20

Posted by: Christian J Chuba | Jun 7 2020 18:26 utc | 17
“Drug trafficking and inciting riots. These charges are conveniently made after the fact of our aggression.”
It’s not aggression by any definition. Remember we are An Exceptional Nation. We do what please us… We will continue sanctions, frozen assets and seized properties anywhere around the world from any nations. Like it or not we are god. We even tell our Coalition of the Willing and partners to detains anyone like Meng Wanzhou and Jullian Assanga.
I really love America! since I first landed in here in the 60s. This country has changed for the better that I remembered. No more bombing Vietnam, we even becomes comrades-in-arms with a commie and enemie Japan which we dropped 2 atomic bombs and now with 5eyes to destroy China, China, China…

Posted by: JC | Jun 7 2020 19:58 utc | 22

Throughout the U.K. in almost every small town or large city ther have been demonstrations against the murder of George Floyd and the following police violence!
I am proud to say my nearest city made the news on RT !
https://www.rt.com/uk/491130-bristol-slave-trader-statue/
I can report ther is a massive down playing of the extent of protest in Britain.
This is larger than eny thing seen before in Britain. I suspect the same is happening around the entire world.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jun 7 2020 20:22 utc | 24

What an embarrassment …
“James Bennet Resigns as New York Times Opinion Editor”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/business/media/james-bennet-resigns-nytimes-op-ed.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Posted by: DG | Jun 7 2020 20:42 utc | 26

I suspect the same is happening around the entire world.

@Posted by: Mark2 | Jun 7 2020 20:22 utc | 24
Indeed, it is…and most demosntrations in Europe ended in front of the local US Embassy, what totally debunks this could be in any way organized by George Soros…These are migrant people, already national second generation migrants, and the European left, who has nothing to do with the US Democratic Party or US Deep State.
Everybody is fed up of Trump and his racist palmeros, but, mainly, imo, this is a living poll on US and its methods acceptance around the world….
https://twitter.com/ActualidadRT/status/1269675487040659457

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Jun 7 2020 20:48 utc | 28

Dave #21

So depressing that nobody in the UK has the guts to ask questions about the Skripal affair.

Parliamentarians and msm are silent but there is always Rob Slane A HREF=”https://www.theblogmire.com/”>here for one of the more exacting research efforts by himself and his commenters. Its worth a detailed examination as he never bought the Govt fairytale from day one and has the most forensic analysis available given the erasing of all public data and cctv in Salisbury on the day and days that followed. Rob Slane lives in Salisbury and was swept up in the Skripal story from his quiet little social/christian blog. He is a legend.
Or Craig Murray of course but he would prefer to be known as a Scotland man not an englander.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 7 2020 21:05 utc | 30

Jef@1
There was a third exercise called Urban Outbreak in September.
How could anyone have known was also used for 9/11
a simulation of planes being flown into the Pentagon had been conducted less than a year prior to September 11, 2001 . On October 24-26, 2000, a “hypothetical” military exercise was played out featuring an airline crashing into the Pentagon killing 341 people followed by yet another May 2001 Department of Defense “hypothetical scenario” which saw hundreds of medical personnel training for a “guided missile in the form of a hijacked 757 airliner” crashing into the Pentagon.
Not to mention the Bojinka plot and novels/tv shows depicting such attacks
Anthrax? Dark Winter exercises a year before.
Riots?
2019 February 7-the US military conducted a series of urban warfare exercises in the city of Los Angeles this week. With little in the way of advanced warning, thousands of frightened Los Angeles residents awoke to the sound of low-flying helicopters, gunfire and explosions.The Los Angeles Police Department, coordinated with the military.
2018-April Training exercise by the US Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment in New York City leading panicked residents to flood 911 emergency phone lines. soldiers were observed zip-lining across city skyscrapers.
Boston Marathon Bombing?
2013- June military occupation drill of the city of Boston in which more than a million residents were told to “shelter in place” while machine gun-mounted armored vehicles patrolled the streets supported by an armada of military aircraft. Named Operation Urban Shield. This was not conducted until after the April Boston Marathon but training for the exercise which had been ongoing for months before the bombing was being done. Curiously the exercise and the Bombing and aftermath itself were eerily similar and both led to “Shelter in Place “ orders used for first time in USA.
Whats coning next? Keep an eye out for something like Operation Blackout exercise run in January
January 2020- simulations called Operation Blackout s for the U.S. 2020 election were held in January , organized by the company Cybereason, a firm led by former members of Israel’s military intelligence Unit 8200 and advised by former top and current officials in both Israeli military intelligence and the CIA, and partnered with Lockheed Martin. Those simulations were attended by federal officials from the FBI, DHS and the U.S. Secret Service, and ended with the elections ultimately canceled and martial law declared due to the chaos created by a group of hackers. The hackers targeted devices and appliances connected to the internet, often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) and which includes everything from smartphones to power grid infrastructure to city traffic lights.
May 1, 2020- President Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency over threats to the U.S. power system, taking steps to defend the grid against cyberattacks and foreign interference. 

Posted by: Kay Fabe | Jun 7 2020 21:08 utc | 32

Jen #29

They will probably stay imprisoned at least until after the 2020 US elections and Creepy Uncle Joe becomes President (at least until his Alzheimer’s condition is too obvious to ignore anymore), and then they can be disposed of.

Exactly that, disposed of. From the tiny glimpses and reports since their incarceration on the fateful day, one gets the impression that they are under serious imprisonment and won’t be seeing the light of day for a long time. Perhaps they will both unfortunately get covid-19 and be cremated but “oops we lost the paperwork” so don’t bother asking.
Sometimes I surmise that if they were swapping info in exchange for a favour to return, that part ended up a success and the two “Russian lads” (the bait) or some other link (the switch) took the info home. As soon as the MI6 lads wised up it was too late so they took the Skripals out and covered their rs by inventing an Ugly Russian fairytale.
There can be no other reason to have confiscated the entire cctv from the village. Bear in mind this is one of the most high security villages in the UK with Porton Down nearby and a crowd or resident ‘foreign agents (turncoats)’ in kept houses. So the official fairy story is badly compromised by whatever was recorded on the cctv that day.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 7 2020 21:24 utc | 34

H Schmatz @ 28
Your comment is right on target, and respect to you for all your comments!
What we are witnessing is much more than a mere protest. This is a groundswell of revoltion toward the exposed
Attitude and violent culture of these US cops.
That attitude has beyond doubt been fostered by Trump him selve. This situation will not end until Trump is ‘removed’
The sooner that is done the sooner the world will return to peace.
Remember Trump and his thugs in uniform or out, are scared ! And justifiably so considering their crimes.
Trumps power is an empty illusion!

Posted by: Mark2 | Jun 7 2020 22:00 utc | 36

Credit when credit is due, Trump is completely right when he says Powell is an complete hack and fraud who helped scam the US people into the Iraq war. Years after his UN appearance Powell’s own chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson, admitted that he and Powell knew that the fix was in to attack Iraq and the information they were presenting to the UN was falsified, i.e. they knowingly lied to the UN to start a war, a war crime (was of aggression)! Rather than do the honourable thing and resign in protest and go public with the truth they stayed quite and obey their illegal orders, presumably reasoning that a competently managed crime would be less damaging then an incompetently managed crime. As it turns out though, Powell was an utterly incompetent Secretary of State who was outmaneuvered at every stage of the conflict by the mad dog crazies in the administration that he thought he was controlling. in the end, all Powell’s shameful behaviour accomplished was to destroy his honour and leave him forever known as a war criminal (even if the UN is too cowardly to charge him as such). So, seeing Powell and the lamestream media try to croon about him as some sort of moral authority is laughable and Trump is right to rub all of Powell’s crimes right in his face.

Posted by: Kadath | Jun 7 2020 22:08 utc | 38

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jun 7 2020 18:41 utc | 18 Most victims being throttled lose consciousness within about two minutes and cannot resist any attack.
A properly done blood choke puts the victim out in about ten seconds and must not be held longer than that or risk brain damage and death. Some police forces are getting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training in order to learn the proper technique, although similar techniques have been taught to cops for decades. If it takes 7-9 minutes to put someone out, that cop is either incompetent or simply trying to strangle or torture the victim.
As we’ve heard, the knee on the throat is an Israeli method and presumably causes both blood and breath choke effects. But in comparison to a properly executed martial art choke, it is presumably far more dangerous since there is little control using the knee as compared to the hands. It’s next to impossible to control the knee in the same manner as the hands and arms used in a martial art choke.
All of which establishes the technique as more a torture/murder technique than a legitimate control measure. It’s the sort of thing you’d expect from the Israeli fascists.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jun 7 2020 22:26 utc | 40

#30 Uncle Tungsten
John Helmer at Dancing with Bears has also written some fine pieces on the Skripal’s. His latest piece brings light to the Wiltshire Police report that states
“On July 4 – that is four days after Sturgess and Rowley had been admitted to hospital – the Wiltshire police published the conclusion from their investigation, their roundup of witnesses, and from the hospital evidence that the drugs Sturgess and Rowley had taken were Class A criminal and contaminated. Detective Sergeant Eirin Martin was explicit. “We believe the two patients have fallen ill after using from a contaminated batch of drugs, possibly heroin or crack cocaine.” The evidence was so strong, Martin acknowledged that publishing details of the crime was an “unusual step… we are also asking anyone who may have information about this batch of drugs… we just need to know how these people came to fall ill and where the drugs may have been bought from and who they may have been sold to.”
No wonder the bottle of Novichok wasn’t discovered during the first search of Rowley’s flat. MI6 hadn’t planted it there until some time later.
http://johnhelmer.net/british-coroner-hides-british-police-evidence-in-the-novichok-case-as-bbc-prepares-to-broadcast-new-lies/

Posted by: Tom | Jun 7 2020 22:26 utc | 42

like flipping a switch
the mask came off
like pulling a trick
we forgot the cough
fever now will
burn for Floyd
against the pink
of caucasian bois
was it a dream
the Covid-19?
is the show done
until a sequel comes?
wearing us down
shifting our gears
a new set of clothes
and a new set of fears
we think we’re resisting
by playing our parts
we want some justice
while they eat our hearts

Posted by: lizard | Jun 7 2020 22:36 utc | 44

PavewayIV @ 36
Try doing a search on Kary Mullis, creator of the PCR process. He died last year so we can only go by past statements. He always stated that PCR was completely inappropriate and meaningless for diagnostics or for any other clinical purpose. CDC guidance on PCR until earlier this year was that doctors do diagnosis, not laboratories. Doctors were allowed to consider PCR results as a factor, cautioned not to rely on them. In current situation PCR results are the definition of COVID. If the test is allowed to run too many cycles any sample will test positive. And it is never entirely certain how many cycles have elapsed, clock does not tell exactly what the RNA is up to.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jun 7 2020 23:59 utc | 46

Wow I wish I had know that little tidbit back then when I watched the full uninterrupted UN broadcasts from the Security Council before the war. He pretty much managed to get the US a free pass with his testimony of lies. I believed him and so did a lot of other people. Now his whitewash of My Lai is even on his Wikipedia page. Thank you Trisha.
Several years earlier I got to know about My Lai during relatively brief military education (non-US but NATO) on the rules of the Geneva Convention, it was used as the prime example of when to resist and disobey unlawful orders (I have to wonder if it still is).
If there had been a free press they should have shouted this little fact at the top of their lungs while mocking the US, maybe someone somewhere did but I never heard any mention of it, not even from any of all the people I knew that were opposing the war and who never seemed to have anything substantive to say (a bit like BLM: who isn’t against murder and particularly murder committed by “cops”? There’s a serious communication problem going on).
I find this so strange that I’m starting to wonder if I have an extremely selective memory. Did anyone here learn about this at the time? Not counting anyone who already knew it well before that time.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jun 8 2020 2:09 utc | 48

oldhippie@45 – Thanks, but they never really planned on using PCR for COVID19 diagnostic reasons. It’s primary purpose is to separate tax cattle into one of two public safety groups: CULL NOW (FEMA quarantine camp for dissidents) or CULL LATER (shelter in place for compliant sheep). It just hasn’t been fully-deployed yet, but Kushner is all over it. The refrigerator-sized PCR ‘machines’ (at least in the U.S.) don’t do a thing with the samples. The machine just transmits your Social Security Number to the NSA, who replies with your MAIN CORE ‘likely to be a troublemaker’ score. If it’s above some secret threshhold, then you got COVID. Homeland Security is automatically notified, giving them ample time to plan the most fuel-efficient collection routes. BEEP, BEEP! The DHS bus to Camp FEMA is here. Enjoy your vacation.

Posted by: PavewayIV | Jun 8 2020 2:23 utc | 50

? to the bar.
Who is doing the policing in US? Who are these military-grade-vigilante-type-no-badge-needed-heavily-armed personnel?
“We don’t need no stinking bachess!”
Any documentation on these?

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Jun 8 2020 2:49 utc | 52

Sunny Runny Burger #47

Did anyone here learn about this at the time? Not counting anyone who already knew it well before that time.

That is news to me and I followed that event closely (I thought).
I guess that to rise as high in the US military as Powell did,
you must have hosed down a lot of blood,
have good knowledge and tight lips of a major financial scam,
never have rammed a container freighter with a mere destroyer,
never set fire to an aircraft carrier and almost sunk it right on the eve of a critical ‘war ending’ (ho f’ing ho) bombing run,
have three preceding generations of warmongers in the family,
have substantial friends in Wall street,
OR
know the whereabouts of Ghislaine Maxwell.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 8 2020 3:10 utc | 54

I watched all of the Netflix series on Epstein– “Filthy Rich” last night. I’d be interested in others’ perspectives. It focused on the victims’ stories, did a good job on revealing how young, poor girls who are psychologically scarred through family breakdowns, predatory adults and neglect are then easily exploited during their teen years by sociopaths.Very revealing.
However, there was not one mention of Israel. Whitney Webb’s work including her recent interviews with Maria Farmer are essential:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRRgaPwWeo
Watch them both– the Netflix series and Whitney Webb’s.

Posted by: migueljose | Jun 8 2020 3:27 utc | 56

migueljose #55
Thank you for that post and can you give us a spoiler or two about how Netflix framed Ghislaine Maxwell and Les Wexner. Did those two come across as the boss of the outfit or just some people vaguely connected? Was the entire blame dumped on Epstein or was it a shared criminal enterprise?

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 8 2020 3:47 utc | 58

Pretty good site for thought provoking background articles on international politics : https://unherd.com/
As usually: don’t swallow everything blindly.

Posted by: Antonym | Jun 8 2020 4:13 utc | 60

@ 52 krypton.. just random speculation on my part, but i think that happy dynamic will change next year.. i continue to believe the usa is on a downhill slope…

Posted by: james | Jun 8 2020 5:07 utc | 62

Uncle Tungsten # 31,32. Thanks for reminding MoA readers of the excellent research on the Skripal case carried out over the last 2 years by Salisbury resident Rob Slane and the relentless commenters at his blog ‘theblogmire.com’. Recent posts there have been on the subject of the Covid-19 virus, but Rob provided a detailed summary of the Skripal-Sturgess scandal in early March this year at theblogmire.com/the-salisbury-poisonings-two-years-on-a-riddle-wrapped-in-a-cover-up-inside-a-hoax/

Posted by: Coldish | Jun 8 2020 6:33 utc | 64

@A User #58:

…it does seem as though Syria … has been sacrificed in order to carve up Libya … between Russia & Turkey with amerikeuro involvement/exploitation.

And this theory of yours is based on what, exactly? You never provide any evidence for your claims that Russia is “betraying Syria”, “sacrificing Syria”, etc.

Syria is rendered energy impotent … while Turkey controls (with Russian aid & assistance) Syria’s Northern border.

Wow, really? Turkey controls Syria’s northern border with Russian aid? You will have to come up with better lies.

Russia, whose mercenary soldiers have been pulled…

The soldiers are either “Russia’s” or mercenaries. Can’t be both. Look up what the word “mercenary” means.

We know that russian mercenaries, MIG 29s and Su-24s have were relocated to Bani Walid…

No, we don’t know that MiG-29s and Su-24s are Russian. Soviet-/Russian-made? Yes. Russian? No evidence of that.

To ensure Russians & Turks aren’t publically seen to be killing each other, which would have unfortunate consequences vis a vis the Syria sell out.

There is no “Syria sell out”. You are pulling things out of your ass and trying to pass them as “facts”, hoping that no one will notice.

WTF are Russia doing in Libya at all? They’re allegedly there for the same reason as Egypt, aren’t they – to back Haftar?

Russia has repeatedly stated that its main goal in Libya is ending the conflict as soon as possible and returning to doing business with it. There are many Libyan–Russian contracts that were suspended because of the war (not just in the energy industry). Russia is talking to both sides, GNA and LNA. Russia recognizes GNA as the legitimate government of Libya (Putin greets Fayez al-Sarraj and his wife at the 2019 Russia–Africa Summit). The main backers of Haftar are Egypt, UAE and France.

…oil & gas is the Russian family business…

“Family business” is a term used to describe the main line of economic activities of a criminal organization. You are using it to paint Russia as a criminal enterprise (typical Western propaganda trope).
You can’t deny that the West is evil, but since your “prime directive” is idolizing the West/hating Russia, your only recourse is to attempt to prove that Russia is “just as bad”. It’s not. The West blocks medical supplies to Syria—China and Russia send aid. The West sabotages Syrian economy—Russia sends 75,000 tonnes of wheat. Etc.

Posted by: S | Jun 8 2020 6:44 utc | 66

Posted by: S | Jun 8 2020 6:44 utc | 65
So you would deny the easily available evidence that Russian mercenaries, MIGs and air transport were fighting on Haftar’s side in Libya right up until Turkey sent its soldiers to fight on behalf of the GNA.
Pitiful. Considering the world with one eye does nothing for those who labour under the yoke of imperialism. evidence for a deal between Russia & Turkey is that swap combined with the weak arse attitude Russia is demonstrating in relation to ridding Syria of Turks & headchoppers up around Idlib. All advances to reclaim Idlib have ceased despite the fact it is summer. In fact no advances have been made since Russia & Turkey sat down late last year. AFAIK big chunks of the jointly patrolled (Russia & Turkey) the M4 highway remain closed to Syrian troops.
But don’t mind me, stick to the lie that Russia is a white hat not just another greedy opportunist like amerika, england & israel. I cannot be bothered arguing the toss with blind fools any longer, not when the truth will reveal itself over the next few months.
Although I must say your claim that Russia has been supporting the GNA, not Haftar’s LNA is quite the whopper.

Posted by: A User | Jun 8 2020 8:11 utc | 68

De Quincey @ 68
Nice try !
https://newspunch.com/propornot-cia-ukrainian-operation/
Are you CIA
Are you scared now

Posted by: Mark2 | Jun 8 2020 8:40 utc | 70

@67
A user : russia is a quasi villain for not doing what A user wants.
Russia isn’t USA to go into countries and kill people to fulfill an agenda

Posted by: Brian | Jun 8 2020 8:57 utc | 72

Hoarsewhisperer #66

However, Duck Duck Go also made connections between the article and remarks I had made about it in an MoA thread several tears ago – despite the fact that I didn’t request that sort of info.

Best typo award to Hoarsewhisperer: several tears ago :)) weeping over g..gle is futile comrade.
Startpage is not a bad search engine and I meander between that and DDG.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 8 2020 9:27 utc | 74

A Cult Of Deat – Il Pedante
“To try and understand how and why the general public has been so willing to pay such a high price to address a single risk, we can make use of an analytical tool introduced by philosopher Vladimir Giacchè in La fabbrica del falso (“The factory of the false”). In this work, he coined the expression “false synecdoche” to describe an expedient technique of manipulation of public opinion that utilizes the delivery not of false information exactly, but rather of selected details, which in the absence of all the rest come to represent the entirety of the matter at hand in the perception of the receivers. In this way, it is possible, for example, to unleash hate towards a hostile government by exposing its few misdeeds and omitting its many merits, or to delegitimize a peaceful demonstration of thousands of people by reporting only the violent actions of a few. Since reality is always contradictory and multifaceted, the risk of “false synecdoche” is inherent in any selected narrative. However frequently it is used maliciously, its mechanism finds support in the objective limit of human cognition, and the technique becomes dangerous insofar as the abundance of information creates in its targets the illusion of genuinely grasping the truth in its totality. In effect, a scarcity of neuronal resources permits only a finite elaboration of the facts, so this partial reality is extrapolated to fill in the gaps in the surrounding information, in a process of analogy and synthesis conditioned by prejudices and desires.”

Posted by: guidoamm | Jun 8 2020 10:06 utc | 76

re Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 8 2020 6:46 utc | 66
I’m pleased that you and uncle tungsten are also noticing that there is something very wrong with duck duck go.
I noticed this last week when those browsers I use which feature duck duck go as their start page prevented that particular browser from accessing a vpn which had installed a ‘plugin’ on that browser. (yeah I know, convoluted but that is what occurred).
In the last few days, maybe week & a bit duck duck go has taken to installing a firefox addon called “privacy for firefox’ which is anything but private as it claims to utilise an encryption scheme which unfortunately’ just happens to negate whatever encryption a user may have chosen to install themselves. We have only duck duck go’s word that their encryption is impenetrable, a claim that is fatuous when considering that as an amerikan based corporation ddg is required to grant access to any amerikan government entity which requests access.
Too few people comprehend that duck duck go is just a google piece on the side which tries to convince us all it strips all indications of who we are when we make a DDG request.
Lack of privacy is only one issue about google. DDG which gives exactly the same fascist weighted results as google had only one plus. That is its entirely unproven claims to protect our privacy.
The introduction of ‘privacy search engine’, ‘privacy for firefox’ and ‘Privacy Browser App’ – for android & IOS, addons IMO gives lie to that claim.
‘privacy for firefox’ the app which negated my vpn encryption tunnel installed itself with no affirmation from myself.
As suspected ddg is just another cheap-arse silcon valley scam this is what I am currently using, but that is not a recommendation, just an acknowledgement I have yet to uncover their scam.

Posted by: A User | Jun 8 2020 10:10 utc | 78

uncle tungsten I just checked out qwant, google, DDG and startpage which was a fav of mine on my last box b4 I built this current one which until recently featured DDG.
In light of my concerns this evening I entered “Libya news’ in all 4 search engines.
DDG, google & startpage were close to identical while qwant only shared about 50% of the same links as the other 3 which ran at about 90% the same.
What does this mean? I dunno, but I do know that it is often very difficult to find interesting links on the first coupla pages if one uses something other than qwant,
Yeah the attempt to force code is aggravating for me but not as much as DDG is when it delivers the same links as google does.
I’m pretty sure that none of them are truly private, so IMO it comes down to results.
However I’m an old man who hasn’t shot an amerikan imperialist for many decades, so my priorities are somewhat skewiff, if I was still properly fighting the fuckers I would not trust any of the accessible sites, especially not any which happen to be amerikan based since amerika was so unashamed of its stickybeak carryon that when this inexcusable act was made law, headlines spelling out the fed’s ability to grab any data on a server that had any amerikan ties could be issued with an ex parte warrant to seize all data, along with an addendum that if the company concerned notifies their customer of this warrant, the officers plus board would be liable for prosecution would be more than enough motivation to use none of them.
Now I reckon that was an oblamblam law, but it could have been George ‘the shrub’ Bush, FWIW who can tell which fibber is sometimes truthful in a world chocka with lying politicians.
I accept I won’t see the day when the fork tongued pols all cop their comeuppance, but I have zero doubt that day is coming.

Posted by: A User | Jun 8 2020 11:14 utc | 80

Has anyone got a view on yandex ?
I’ve used Yandex for political stuff for some time now, but for
commercial stuff I still use Google, Yandex seems to have a lot of scammers you must watch out for if money is involved.

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Jun 8 2020 11:50 utc | 82

tungsten @57
The Netflix series on Epstein was definitely focused on Epstein and Maxwell. There’s so much detail and depth to reveal in how they functioned– their manipulative and predatory behavior along with how they basically evolved a sex pyramid which allegedly (according to the women)included “thousands”, the vast majority of whom have not gone public. There were good interviews of people who knew him, hired him in the 80s. They painted him more as a whacko sociopathic manipulator than a team player. Netflix, to me, is a part of the liberal entertainment complex. I don’t think they will connect Epstein and Maxwell with the British/US/Zionist gang.
Webb does. She drills deep and is spot on every time. That’s why it’s important to view both: The Netflix series is valuable in how they show the psychological aspect of a predator which includes sex. Webb has featured Maria Farmer lately, one of the victims, and they are connecting lots of dots.

Posted by: migueljose | Jun 8 2020 12:04 utc | 84

Re: Covid19 – leaked German report on ‘global false alarm’
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/29/german-official-leaks-report-denouncing-corona-as-global-false-alarm/
Posted by: Nancy | Jun 4 2020 15:30 utc | 2 (previous open thread)
@vk re Nancy’s comment.
Here is the leaked report in German. I don’t know if this is fake or not but here it is
https://www.ichbinanderermeinung.de/Dokument93.pdf
Posted by: DG | Jun 4 2020 16:15 utc | 14
Thanks for the lead on that Nancy, and the link to the leaked report DG, which has since been confirmed to be genuine by the Interior Ministry.
This is a real *** HOTTIE ***
You have to go to the German texts to see what it is all about though – the strategic culture article unfortunately is just a damp squid compared to what comes out of the German texts.
Really worthwhile is this (in German)
If you go through the leaked report, it is a highly professional, thoroughly researched cost-to-benefit analysis of the German government’s policies against Covid-19. I haven’t read the whole report, but as far as I have seen it doesn’t deal with the financial costs at all, but only the costs the fabric of society, concentrating mainly on deaths caused as collateral damage by the anti-Covid measures, effects on health of cancelled/postponed non-Covid interventions, long term effects on health of the economic fallout, effects on health of resultant unemployment, future decline in life expectancy, dramatic future drop in quality of health care, etc, all as collateral damage from the anti-Covid measures (not from the virus itself). As the report emphasises, you don’t apply a treatment when the treatment is worse than the disease itself.
The report is an official Interior Ministry report by a department created some years ago by former Minister de Mazière specifically to address a lack of capability to form risk assessment for threats to key structures in society (such as health infrastructure, which is addressed in this report), resulting from diverse and difficult to predict threats such as pandemics, terrorist threats etc. The department was specifically instructed to produce reports either on request or on the department’s own initiative. This report was compiled by the head of department Stephan Kohn, who was subsequently the leaker after he was sacked for doing his job. The research and analysis was supported by an external team of top level scientists, doctors and virologists.
The report estimates that collateral deaths from untreated cancer, heart disease and other major causes of death directly resulting from the anti-Covid measures would be many orders of magnetude higher than the total deaths from Covid-19. In addition, millions of people’s life expectancy would be substantially reduced by the catastrophic fall in quality of life and quality of medical care, for decades to come, and many other substantial costs to society. This is exactly what I have said many times in relation to the UK’s Office of National Statistics figures, but it is far far worse than I had imagined – and this is Germany not the UK, where the consequences are certainly far worse than Germany.
This is a really massive scandal.
What is extremely telling is that straight after Kohn leaked the report to the alternative media (after he was sacked), the Interior Ministry outright lied that the report was the personal opinion of a single rogue official, acting outside his competence, and without authorisation. The Minister’s spokesman, questioned by parliamentarians, said nobody in the ministry would even read the report, dismissing it as tin-hat conspiracies.
They evidently were not expecting the result of their response: the team of 10 highly respected scientists, doctors, virologists and epidemiologists immediately held a press conference in which they demanded that the Minister respond to the report with data and sources supporting the policies chosen by the government and showing any evidence contradicting the report. This forced the scandal into the mainstream in Germany.
Since then the Ministry have been absolutely and utterly silent, and have refused to comment every single time they have been approached by the mainstream media. They have not produced one single iota of evidence or argument against the report.
The Interior Ministry and the German government including Merkel are absolutely terrified to death of that report because it was an official and properly authorised internal report, backed up by top level external experts, which shows that Merkel, the Interior Minister, and all the top level officials involved are criminally responsible for many tens of thousands of collateral deaths directly caused by their actions. Deaths from the virus itself are trivial in comparison.
Furthermore, that is Germany, with one of the best medical infrastructures in Europe, one of the highest standards of living and longest life expectancies, one of the lowest death rates from Covid, and not particularly restrictive Covid policies compared to several other EU countries. The collateral damage in many other EU countries will be massively worse than Germany, for certain.
Furthermore, it is not just this report, which came out early March – Kohn was already knocking his head against the wall ever since March. It is clear that there was very deliberate policy to carry out policies in clear defiance of rational risk analysis, and clear policy to suppress such risk analysis. What has happened in Germany is a clear indicator of what has happened in all other major western countries.
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If this was 2 years ago during the Skripal fantasy – or even last year during the Boeing saga, MoA would have had a whole string of incisive articles on this scandal by now, starting from immediately after the press conference on 11th May. Unfortunately that won’t happen now.

Posted by: BM | Jun 8 2020 12:16 utc | 86

@83, I watched it last week and your sentiment is my sentiment. Another aspect of this is the follow-the-money aspect. Epstein was allegedly in command of billions and yet no one has been able to provide an investigative analysis of the source of this billions and what’s come of it now that Epstein has been properly eliminated.
It’s so obvious Epstein was Mossad, it’s laughable. The surveillance system in the Manhattan mansion was a state of the art intelligence operation. It was constructed and implemented to procure blackmail material on every easily-blackmailed VIP Epstein could lure into his web, and obviously there was no shortage.
Here’s a pic of Epstein’s “control room.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvnPgkRX0AEu6rT.jpg
Remember, Barr’s father Donald, a Jew before bizarrely converting to Catholicism, hired Epstein, a college dropout, before leaving the Dalton School. Is it coincidence that Epstein nearly forty years later is murdered in an institution that is under the purview of Donald Barr’s son, Bill Barr?

Posted by: 450.org | Jun 8 2020 12:21 utc | 88

To Chris Swanson, meet Malcolm X, a black man who spoke truth to power, and truth period, like no other. Malcolm X would have said to you, “get out of my face, this is not a parade, and you are not my friend or our friend. You are a provocateur and the enemy.” What do you think, if he were alive today and in his prime, Malcolm X would say about Chris Swanson’s publicity ploy? I know what he would say. What would he say about Barack Obama? I know what he would say. About Al Sharpton? I know what he would say. About most “negro leaders?” I know what he would say.
This is the kind of stuff that makes Pat Lang blow his top and froth at the mouth like a rabid fucking fascist dog.
Malcolm X’s Fiery Speech Addressing Police Brutality
Malcolm X On Liberals

Posted by: 450.org | Jun 8 2020 12:39 utc | 90

@87 totally agree. I didn’t know that about Barr’s dad converting. I first read about Barr in Terry Reed’s book about Mena, Ark. titled “Compromised, Clinton, Bush and the CIA”. I got it from my local library in 1998, doubt it’s there now. Reed ties Barr into Iran Contra and nails him as a top level “fixer” for HW Bush. Webb and Maria Farmer maintain that Epstein was “middle management”, and that Wexner was/is much higher Mossaad.

Posted by: migueljose | Jun 8 2020 12:50 utc | 92

Five ways New Zealand can keep Covid-19 cases at zero
Funny how nobody is contesting New Zealand’s claim it zeroed its Covid-19 cases. Completely opposite reaction to when China announced the same thing, even though New Zealand effectively copied China.
Lockdowns work. Absolute lockdowns work wonderfully. But that hurts the petite-bourgeoisie profits, so “it can’t work” – hence they stick with fake treatments like hydroxycloroquine: plausible deniability when the working class beings to die en masse.

Posted by: vk | Jun 8 2020 12:57 utc | 94

WHO story is a nothing burger.
Posted by: vk | Jun 7 2020 15:37 utc
If you ask me, “burger” is a tasteless patty with nutritional values to match, some people like it because they got used to it. Now there is research to reproduce the taste (!?) of this crap without meat. Thus WHO story is pretty much like actual, “genuine”, burger.
China delayed some information for a whopping week! And what would other countries do with it?
As we know, neighboring countries took many measures probably watching what China is doing. You do not need full RNA sequence of the bug to figure out that it is as virulent as SARS and MERS, so you quarantine all travel and impose a bunch of measures (selected locally, but judging on results, better than nothing). In the meantime, in the land of free and the home of the brave…
There was a story that an American producer of protective masks had four production lines that they could open if they were given funds from the agency that could do it. The problem is (I am reconstructing) that this is unprofitable business. At ordinary times, whatever price you offer to hospitals (main customer), Chinese producers can make it a bit cheaper, and because of that whopping one cent on a mask, American buying organizations go for that. Hence closed production lines. Temporarily, China (back in January) stopped export, and were ordering from abroad — during an epidemic the demand may increase by a billion. The American producer started to ship to China. Opening production lines only to close them once the epidemic is over could be a big loss (remember, in January nobody knew how long it will take, few weeks? a year?). But the head of the agency had to get a permission from the head of Department of Health (and something else), a political appointee who clearly detested cheeky underling, so nope.
As a result, the mass use of proper masks by residents of USA was delayed by “precious several weeks”.
This is one of many examples how USA and other countries could waste extra week if they got some “precious information” earlier.
One must also know how open USA is. USA never agreed to inspections of their laboratories related to defense, be them chemical, biological or designing fabled toilet seats for military planes.
My recommendation for discussing the issue of COVID-19 response is to bring Iran. Iran was hit hard and earlier than the West. The dire consequences gave basis to articles how mediaeval theocracy is unable to handle modern challenges. On the other hand, the percentage of people over 70 in Iran is three times smaller than in USA. So if the number of victims in USA (per million of people) is less than three times the number in Iran, one could argue that USA did better. However, the numbers of victim per million are 340 for USA and 100 for Iran. In short, USA is doing “almost as well” as a mediaeval theocracy.
More seriously, in Middle Ages Persia was one of the most “developed countries”, and as Iran emulates mediaeval ideals, they stress the role of science, technology and arts. But surely they faced the epidemic in the midst of a deep economic crisis engineered by Trump administration, while USA boasted minute unemployment rate and other indicators of prosperity. And yet, USA is doing “almost as well, but not quite”.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jun 8 2020 13:06 utc | 96

I agree that Ixquick/Startpage etc are only google clones, and totally implausible in their pathetic claims of alleged privacy. There might be some advantage compared to direct Google in limiting Google’s interference with your computer, but the search itself is a pure Google search anyway.
I am surprised A User claims to get Google search results from a DDG search – I have never had much success with DDG, i.e. absolute crap searching ability. I don’t know where the difference lies – maybe DDG uses cookie information to tie in with hooks on Google? I’ve no idea. I have very strict browser security and cookie policies, maybe that’s why I can’t get searches on DDG that find anything. Do you allow cookies A User? I’d be interested on other peoples’ thoughts on this question. I find Yandex absolutely crippling also, maybe for the same reasons. With Yandex I get pretty poor searches, better than DDG but very hard to find anything useful, and the searches seem pretty much based on Google but much more restrictive, plus masses of Russian language stuff mixed in. Then the killer – the very second search, every single time, brings an anti-Robot-questionaire claiming there have been a suspiciously large number of searches from my IP address! At which I usually immediately close Yandex in disgust. I tried installing Quant one time, immediately had software problems and suspicions of a trojan, and de-installed it.
I’ve been banging my head against the wall on search engines ever since about 2003 or so (after 2000 anyway, before 2004) I don’t know of an adequate solution. In China I found it even worse, unless you can read and write Chinese, because western search engines are blocked and Baidu only works in English. Even Yandex is scarcely functional in China, surprisingly (perhaps because of links to Google?)
I did find a Firefox addin recently called Google Search Link Fix – it is supposed to disable the Google conversion of real links to Google-controlled links through which Google does its mischief. I haven’t tried it yet, I don’t know if it works.
@Mark
The issue is not about hiding from the authorities – you can’t. Firstly and foremost it is about trying to be free from censorship and active manipulation. Secondly it is about personal safety – that should matter to you Mark. Thirdly it is about privacy from commercial trade in private information – if that doesn’t matter to you then you are a nutter, but that’s your problem. Fourthly it is about basic level protection from scammers and hackers (including and especially state-sponsored ones). If you really have something to hide from the authorities, then you’ll probably be alright, they will help you, as long as you do what you are told.

Posted by: BM | Jun 8 2020 13:17 utc | 98

Piotr Berman@95
Surely the point is that society cannot rely on capitalist production which is for profit rather than need.
The pandemic has reminded us that the real job of the economy-of work, socially organised- is to satisfy the demand for necessities. For food, energy, shelter, clothing and the means to maintain our physical health. But capitalism regards such production to be no more than a by-product of the search for profit. It will not invest in the production of masks, ventilators, medicines unless it can make more money than it can get by producing dildos and haute couture.
So society is left with the decision as to whether to preserve capitalism-at the annual cost of millions dying of preventable diseases and malnutrition, in a world awash with waste- or to organise the satisfaction of its needs, and the allocation of economic duties, rationally, fairly and consistent with the impact our activities have upon the environment in which we live.
Coming up with an answer to this question ought not to be beyond the capacity of the combined brainpower of seven billion people, or even the few hundred who discuss matters on this blog.

Posted by: bevin | Jun 8 2020 13:27 utc | 100