Another example of what hackers *might* able to do… (PSA: I have *no* idea whether *any* of this information is correct – but wouldn’t it be great if it was?)
Anonymous and OpDeathEaters begin massive expose of powerful child rape ring, big names set to be dropped
“Hollywood, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Bitcoin, Epstein child trafficking networks exposed,” Anonymous tweeted
This is a thread about Marc Collins-Rector and the powerful child rape ring which extends from the BBS era to the cryptocurrency era with ties throughout entertainment and silicon valley, from Disney executives to crypto circles and social media. #opDeathEaters

Featuring: Bryan Singer, Gary Goddard, Jeffrey Sachs, Mitchell Blutt, David Neuman, David Geffen, Sandy Gallin, Terry Semel, Michael Huffington, Garth Ancier, Gary Gersh, John Silva, Marc Nathanson, Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, Al Seckel and more.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2020 6:51 utc | 103

France is preparing to train Saudi soldiers in a specially built camp!
http://www.rfi.fr/fr/france/20200703-france-arabie-saoudite-amnesty-d%C3%A9nonce-camp-commercy-formation-soldats
(the picture illustrates a raid of the “Saudi-led coalition” on a Houthi prison in Yemen, i.e. supposedly on their own local allies or so-called ‘freedom fighters’)
And here about the latest Saudi bombings on Saada and Sanaa
http://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20200703-yemen-represailles-arabie-saoudite-houthis

Posted by: Mina | Jul 3 2020 6:59 utc | 105

Elon Musk is apparently also an idiot…
From cryptography expert Matthew Green on Twitter:
Matthew Green
@matthew_d_green
Christ, I expect this kind of idiocy from random Reddit bot accounts.
Quote Tweet
Elon Musk @elonmusk · Jun 29
Replying to @geekwire
There are a ridiculous number of false positive C19 tests, in some cases ~50%. False positives scale linearly with # of tests. This is a big part of why C19 positive tests are going up while hospitalizations & mortality are declining. Anyone who tests positive should retest.
4:54 PM · Jul 2, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Matthew Green @matthew_d_green 7h
Watching Musk go into not-even-creative COVID denialism makes me think things must be really dire for Tesla’s actual business, stock price aside.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2020 7:04 utc | 107

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 3 2020 6:53 utc | 103
“I get that Tucker…… gives voice space where they would not otherwise get it.” That is deliberate.
“So Tucker is OK and he is reasonable and he will interview a broad spectrum. Good for him. But he smooths the pillow and caresses the establishment arse.”
G’day uncle that being said still doesn’t justify me to supports Tucker, but me more interested what his progressive guests had to said. Old stories or maybe breaking news

Posted by: JC | Jul 3 2020 7:13 utc | 109

Both Epstein and his spotter were nothing more than consumables that thought they were were players. I’m not sure what the tabloid interest in this pair of clowns is all about.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 3 2020 7:19 utc | 111

Libya’s largest oil field is in good hands and likely production will get underway soon.
Kiss your arse goodbye USA the oil price is low and staying there.
Thanks to Russian private military team

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 3 2020 8:10 utc | 113

Richard Steven Hack #109

Wouldn’t it be great if *anyone* they put forward turns up on those tapes?

Thanks RSH, that’s what I think will unfold. The Untouchables and no Elliot Ness to burnish the reputation of any law enforcement.
Then again perhaps the Ghislaine Maxwell arresting officer is being prepped for the role and will be the new clean-shaven hero. Eat ya heart out Strzok.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 3 2020 8:17 utc | 115

Sorry, that was Grieved @ 78, and yes, Grieved @ 84, truly a wondrous poem! I also have been inspired by Kierkegaard from having to do a paper on his ‘Philosophical Fragments’ way way back in the day. I loved what he said about Socrates (sorry I can’t quote it) but mainly too his expression of the entry of Christ into the world as being when eternity touches time, so it radiates both forward and back as being the ‘now’ of ‘now and ever and unto ages of ages’ so that the spiritual wisdom of the ancients also partook of the light. The college person I was hadn’t ever thought along those lines but it is something like leaving one’s mind as a signpost – Kierkegaard did that for me.
A fragment of the poem was at the blog I posted, so I went searching for the entire piece and it was worth the search.

Posted by: juliania | Jul 3 2020 8:30 utc | 117

Richard Steven Hack #115

The question now is: How do they stop Ghislaine from testifying? Having her “commit suicide” in her cell with all the cell block cameras off starts to look a little, I don’t know, “blatant”, wouldn’t one think?

Well, blatant is not a concept that the oligarch class actually feel any problem with. Think $SIX TRILLION in six months. These turds do blatant for breakfast and then order seconds.
I guess a big fine and thrown out of the country would work. The englanders or the occupiers of Palestine could send a jet to pick her up. Poland looks like a nice vacation spot in the summer and they are very cooperative and I understand they have overcome their antipathy with people like Ghislaine.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 3 2020 8:46 utc | 119

Peter AU1 #110

Both Epstein and his spotter were nothing more than consumables that thought they were were players. I’m not sure what the tabloid interest in this pair of clowns is all about.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Les Wexner are the boss and Epstein was the CEO at their bidding. Wexner GAVE Epstein the Manhatten apartment. That is a five story large building and it was already fully fitted out with recording gear from the handover day. They don’t come cheap. This was one of the biggest, deliberate global entrapment rackets the world has seen. Ghislaine was the handler and Wexner the financier and front man.
But I am just an observer and if you want the gritty stuff then tune in to Whitney Webb and listen to her take on this. She has been revealing an immense amount of evidence and links since Epstein was first arrested 3? years ago. I am about to do that myself.
I don’t give a flat rock what the MSM thinks or does in this case.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jul 3 2020 8:55 utc | 121

The Maxwell trial will be a carefully choreographed nothing burger !
The delay in bringing her to justice, was so as to plan and negotiate the details. To the satisfaction of all concerned.
Letting the likes of prince Andrew and Clinton’s and Trump off the hook regarding any incriminating evedence.
So who is running the show (answer) Israel and their lobby groups.
Q. What’s on the table ? Power, money and territory! As always.
This is harvest time for Israel I’m afraid !
(Oh and) ——— In my opinion.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 3 2020 9:23 utc | 123

Jalp @ 74
Asks ——- Mark2 May I call you a green ?
Answer——- yes at heart, But although the greens have been totaly right in all respects policy wise, they have always lacked the teeth and fight to win elections. As their up against such a powerful foe. At present they seem to be devided over the ‘mask’ issue. I’m a winner not a loser !
No I’m much much more scary than a green much more powerful to !
Yes you guest it ! I’m the public, there are billions of me. And we are on the march. We are unpredictable, we fight on all platforms and in the street they can’t stop us and won’t !
At present we are the ‘demolition party’ later we will rebuild.
Thanks for asking.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 3 2020 9:48 utc | 125

Just to add to my above ———
Are the elites scared of the greens ?
Are the elites scared of the truth ?
Are the elites scared of 7 billion members of the public ?
They should be, and they’l have a job banning us as an organisation!

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 3 2020 10:38 utc | 127

From the end of the article
https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/covid-19-may-be-man-made-claims-taiwan-scholar/
“Another team at Taiwan’s Institute of Chemistry has also succeeded in synthesizing 100mg of remdesivir.
The synthesized drug cannot be used without the consent of a US pharmaceutical firm that manufactures remdesivir. It was reported that Taiwan was negotiating a technology transfer deal to start mass production of the antiviral drug.
Remdesivir is a novel drug developed by the California-based Gilead Sciences as a treatment for Ebola virus and Marburg virus infections, and it has subsequently been found to show antiviral activity against other viruses.”
Just when Ebola is “declared” over in Africa, and when the US buys all the stockpile? To select where next it is allowed to continue in Africa?

Posted by: Mina | Jul 3 2020 10:48 utc | 129

Trump pardon Lt Clint Lorance story. We all have our preferred narratives, ‘split second decision’ vs. ‘yet another war criminal’ but these cases must always be judged individually on the specific facts. by: Christian J. Chuba @ 6 <== USA, like so many governments in NATO, have become full blown criminal enterprises? 1.5 billion people transformed ... Anyone supporting/defending [Egregious, rapacious violence] is complicit. by: 450.org @ 17 and Trump has been great for everyone and everything BUT AMERICA. Covid 19 man made, satellite activated in target areas and more
Italian fascist style corporatism (corporatism as in “corpus” or “body” with the ruling class and working class “cooperating” as if a single organism – think also of the post-WW2 situation between unions and corporations in America that was tore asunder with the advent of neoliberal policy, which itself was a response to a prevailing institutional rot that was dragging down corporate profits). by fnord @ 22 thanks.
Christianity’s origins and history are steeped in violence. CitizenX @ 33.. <=I can't hear you, please say that louder.. The socioeconomic process religion represents [could produce a] - an extremely virulent, fundamentalist and nihilist (and thus very dangerous) Fascist USA empire. by: vk @ 34 <= religion power <=is vested in the destroy what is not me response. It works like an immune system. The Christian right is, however, far more organized and vocal now than in decades past, in no small part because the Republican-aligned section of the capitalist class is—hearkening back to the Sinclair Lewis quote""When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying the cross.""—relying on them as a mass base in their rearguard action. Vintage Red @ 75.. that quote should be changed to say "When the PTB tell the uSA to put fascism into play, the USA proxy will be instructed to wrap the evil, in a flag, and make those the USA governs, bear the cross." Now US 'files suit' in a district court to give their military authorization for piracy.by: Peter AU1 @ 20 like all national leaders [Trump] surrounds himself with people who have pledged to die on his behalf, make the ultimate sacrifice and all that. not from love, from duty, but no matter. by: jason @ 12 <=confirming what 6 points out..its time for the people of the world to wake up.. they have been divided the people into 256 separate nation states amd imprisoned them by rule of law enforced by monopoly of mafia power vested in the oligarchs.. thanks for your link satellite infection was not applied to mongolia
Bemildred @ 60
by: vk 67 <==WWI and WWII were fought by the western powers and Russia against Germany and the Ottoman Empire for the benefit of the privately held oil and gas companies who are whereever there is oil. The Congress of the USA was intentionally improperly informed and led to overthrow the strong prohibition which protected Americans from well understood corporate exploitation <= Article I, Section 9 paragraph [4]. It was summarily overthrown by the 16th amendment, February 3, 1913, (Also the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and the Federal Income Tax of 1913) so that the USA could act as a conduit to force its taxpayers to guarantee the central bank (the federal reserve and its member banks) against anticipated losses for lending to broke warrior nations and to corrupt providers and suppliers who would supply the European in on it nations with war materials and manpower. The oil companies were trying to deprive the people of the Ottoman empire of their land rights, so that the privately owned oil interest, who promoted the various allied nations to go to war, could take the oil from beneath the Ottoman Soil. Also since Germany was strongly positioned both economically and by entrenchment with the Ottoman, Germany was made the fall guy. suggest you acknowledge the aspirations of the oil and gas interest produced the reason for both WWI and WWII.

Posted by: snake | Jul 3 2020 11:48 utc | 131

Former New Hampshire resident here.
Bradford is much like that general area of the state, only quieter. Chances are you know all your neighbors and have an idea about everyone else in town.
The average resident is older than most of the state. They have an idea of all the doings in town.
I spent 5 years 15 minutes north of Bradford. It was filled with old money, retired people and a healthy consumption of alcohol and cocaine. The people were retired but bored.
That location is interesting as you are in the middle of nowhere, but you are minutes from lakes, quiet restaurants and a major highway (I-84) that can bring you to the Capitol of NH or Into Vermont in less than an hour. You are also very close to a semi major airport in Manchester.
Buying a large tract of land like Maxwell did would have had the whole town curious as to who acquired it. This would have been investigated. If it was a shell company the whole town would have been watching all movement in town. Any strangers would have been discussed and researched. All that said, it is still a quiet community where people will hold other’s secrets from the outside. Sounds like someone let the secret out a year ago and the government has been watching.

Posted by: Slat | Jul 3 2020 12:01 utc | 133

“The current work suggests that while the G614 variant may be more infectious, it is not more pathogenic. There is a hope that as SARS-CoV-2 infection spreads, the virus might become less pathogenic,”
i.e. that if schools had been left open, it would have spread and became less pathogenic earlier.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/coronavirus-mutation-spread-study/index.html

Posted by: Mina | Jul 3 2020 12:57 utc | 135

@450,
you have given me a morning synchronicity, just read about how Aleister Crowley did a 4 month retreat in New Hampshire:

It’s a quaint little house by a quaint little church in a quaint little town in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, and it would be impossible to know just by looking at it that it once hosted the Wickedest Man Alive and sheltered all manner of magical shenanigans. But it did.
Aleister Crowley was born in England in 1875. He was a famous occultist, media personality and libertine. But in the summer of 1916, he needed a vacation – except he called it a magical retirement, because a man like him would never do anything so mundane as vacation. He chose Hebron, New Hampshire, to get away from it all because he had an acquaintance there, a psychic by the name of Evangeline Adams.
He stayed at her cabin and read, wrote, and thought about the universe, canoed on what was then known as Lake Pasquany and is now Newfound Lake, crucified and ate a frog, performed a ritual designed to end Christianity, was visited by a phantom fireball, started to formulate his Star Sponge vision, in which he postulated that the universe is “nothingness with twinkles,” and practiced some sex magick.
It was good times there in that little cabin in the summer of 1916.
His sojourn in New Hampshire lasted about four months, after which he left refreshed and ready to transgress the social and religious mores of contemporary Western society.

Posted by: lizard | Jul 3 2020 13:18 utc | 137

@137
Sure, certainly its initial impact wasn’t as immediate as monetary principles & policy enacted and implemented today, but its significance is that it got the ball rolling toward the globalization we know today. It was a “build it and they will come” moment. They built it, laid the groundwork, and the global economy came. Did it ever. To the detriment of the living planet.
NAFTA coupled with China opening up to the West and more specifically availing its prodigious slave labor force to American vulture capitalist manufacturers, was the nitrous that kicked the whole thing into hypersonic.

Posted by: 450.org | Jul 3 2020 13:37 utc | 139

Ain’t planning to go there but Bradford New Hampshire as portrayed by various barflies involuntarily recalls to my mind the delightful Jack the devil Nicholson’s picture ” The witches of Eastwick “, doesn’t it?

Posted by: willie | Jul 3 2020 13:51 utc | 141

Lizard @ all the above
And didn’t Alister Crowley daughter go on to become Mrs George Bush !
I beleave so. In wich case (pun intended) isn’t it strange how History goes round in circles. Given Maxwell turning up there. Her farther being being well ‘ Israel !!’

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 3 2020 14:11 utc | 143

@ Posted by: Seer | Jul 3 2020 10:45 utc | 127
Yes, I agree: Christianism, as is with the other religions (Islamism, Judaism and Buddhism), thrive in poverty and misery. That’s why many Christians here are commemorating the impoverishment of the USA as a new opportunity for their religion: in order for the USA to re-Christianize, it will have to get poorer and more isolated (the death of “globalism”).
–//–
@ juliania
I don’t understand your argument: there are a lot of Christians in Wall Street, too. The Kock brothers (and their father) are also ardent Christians. Christianism has a long history of extermination and intolerance: why don’t give those atrocities the same weight as the atrocities committed in the name of something else? Or does Christianism always have the benefit of the doubt?
People nowadays still like to condemn socialism because of two famines — periodical famines, that happened every 25 years or so in Russia and China — that happened during socialist rules (“Holodomor” and the Great Leap Forward). But Christianism can always be rehabilitated for some reason, regardless of the countless genocides and schisms it caused.
As Marx once well said: religion is the “Opium des Volkes”.
–//–
Now on generic news – or, rather I say, “news”:
Is there actually ANYTHING conservative about Boris Johnson’s Tories? From culture to the economy, they’re drifting ever leftwards
I can already imagine the behind-the-scenes of the Boris Johnson government. I goes more or less like this:
“Guys! The British economy is in tatters and, to top it off, there’s a pandemic laying waste out there! We need, immediately, a relief fund, an infrastructure package and a lockdown law!”
“Wait: I know these are obvious solutions to an obvious problem. But the great problem is: are those solutions right-wing? After all, we’re a right-wing party, so we’re not enabled to do anything else than right-wing policies!”
“I’ll have to consult the Political Spectrum (TM), which is the oracle of the post-war Western Democracies! [picks up a game of fortune-like cardboard wheel]”
[spins the wheel]
“Yep, those would fall into the Left side of the Political Spectrum(TM). Sorry, we can’t do that.”
“Yeah, that’s unfortunate. Well, that’s life. Let’s do nothing and pray Herd Immunity will somehow work.”
[spins the wheel again]
“Yeah, that’s fine. Praying falls into the Right side of the Political Spectrum(TM)”
“Thank God, finally something we can do!”
“Yep, problem solved, let’s go back to our mansions”.
—
Russia’s grip on Europe is gradually tightening – we can’t wait for the next attack to do something about it
Jeez, let’s see the problem with Europe these last 20 years.
First, the European Project went to the shitter after the 2008 meltdown, which directly resulted in the 2011 meltdown. Greece was mercilessly reduced as the sacrificial lamb (Deutsche’s and Societe Generale’s dumping ground for rotten papers, with the help of Goldman Sachs).
Second, in order to make up for this fuck up, they destroyed Libya, creating a flank through which a horde of immigrants from the Middle East could traverse and reach Italy and Greece. One decade later, Russia would stabilize Libya – but at the cost of securing its main oilfields. All the destruction was for nothing to the Europeans, and the Europeans blamed the Russians.
Third, not satisfied with destroying Libya, they tried to destroy Syria. After all, why not? Russia again puts a stop to the Euro-American shithousery. Europe gets none of the oil and gas and all the refugees (which were personally welcomed by Angela Merkel herself). Europe blames Russia for raining on their parade.
So, to answer the author’s question: Russia will stop to tight its grip on Europe when Europe stops to genocide Middle Eastern peoples. It’s that simple.

Posted by: vk | Jul 3 2020 14:17 utc | 145

@139
Point taken, but it is one of the most renowned and one of the first to receive national sensational publicity.

Posted by: 450.org | Jul 3 2020 14:28 utc | 147

See? It referred to Israel in a negative way so it cannot be a propaganda orifice of the imperial establishment!

Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 3 2020 14:46 utc | 149

The mask of Western Democracy finally falls:
‘Morra quem morrer’: bares lotam no Rio na noite de reabertura
“Die whoever has to die” – so spoke the mayor of Itabuna, a decent, middle class, liberal man.
Meanwhile, at the tables of the bars in the Leblon, the good, western middle class Christian people chat about why China is a brutal dictatorship, and why Putin is the worst thing since AIDS…

Posted by: vk | Jul 3 2020 14:58 utc | 151

Seems a little off to me that Maxwell would choose to hide out in the states unless she wasn’t found out as much as negotiating a surrender.
One faction or another is making a move and Maxwell’s revelations will be selective. As if the American political landscape wasn’t dirty enough. It’ll just be another nail in people’s loss of faith in leadership.
Hopefully Hilary takes a fall too but me sniffer says she may be good pals with ms Maxwell.

Posted by: PleaseBeleafMe | Jul 3 2020 15:26 utc | 153

snake@130
The Ottoman empire did not survive the First World War. The Turkish republic was neutral between 1939-1945.

Posted by: bevin | Jul 3 2020 15:36 utc | 155

i’m starting to wonder if “offguardian” is some obscure performance art project. they’ve decided to shoot past “full retard” at ludicrous speed and declare “No One Has Died from the Coronavirus”.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/no-one-has-died-coronavirus/5717668
it’s official: they’ve gone plaid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

Posted by: the pair | Jul 3 2020 15:45 utc | 157

@ Posted by: bevin | Jul 3 2020 15:36 utc | 154
A curiosity about Turkey during WWII was its decisive, albeit indirect, role in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Turkey was neutral in WWII, but made it clear its allegiance was for sale. During the early exploits by the Afrikakorps in North Africa, the Islamic nations of the region quickly sided with the Nazis. By Stalingrad, Turkey was on the verge of being a Nazi ally, as it was more or less clear they would be soon the lords of the Caucasus. Either way, unconditional Turkish support for Germany was directly conditioned to a German absolute victory in Southwestern USSR, in which Stalingrad was the biggest and most strategic metropolis.
It is suspected that Hitler’s anxiety with taking Stalingrad had very much to do with striking an alliance with Turkey, which was waiting to see to side with the winning side (which is very typical of neutral sides). That may have been the main factor that impelled Hitler to decide to keep the 6th Army inside the city – not Göring’s alleged blunder, as many Anglo-Saxon historians like to tell us.
The necessity of Turkey to destroy the USSR is very obvious, as it was needed to cut it off from the Black Sea and consolidate the Caucasus.
–//–
@ snake
Yes, oil was one of the major factors in WWII (not WWI). But only in drawing the sides, not in causing the war itself. At the end of the day, the USA calculated that it was better to ally with the USSR to give a more comfortable victory against two oil starved empires (Germany and Japan) than risk a proto-MAD, endless war of self-destruction by allying with the Nazis and the Japanese against the USSR.
The bet paid off, as the USSR lost 35% of its GDP and one seventh of its population either way, so it always had the upper hand in the Cold War, which it also won comfortably due to that initial advantage.

Posted by: vk | Jul 3 2020 16:01 utc | 159

Note how the operatives avoid my inquiry as to who owned the safe house and/or how Maxwell came to own it and who aided her in that endeavor? Now why would they avoid that most important question and change the subject and surround the inquiry with distracting nonsense? I’ll let the few honest ones amongst you answer that question. It’s an easy answer, fyi. Hey Gruff, I see you.
Accused Jeffrey Epstein Sex Crimes Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested At $1 Million New Hampshire Home

Authorities said Thursday that Maxwell was caught at a 156-acre property in that town, where land records list just one lot of that size, on East Washington Road.
“The defendant appears to have been hiding on a 156-acre property acquired in an all-cash purchase in December 2019 (through a carefully anonymized LLC) in Bradford, New Hampshire, an area to which she has no other known connections,” said a court filing by Manhattan federal prosecutors. An LLC is a limited liability corporation.
Other records show the buyer was Granite Reality LLC, whose listed manager is a Boston lawyer named Jeffrey Roberts.
Roberts did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The web site of his firm, Nutter McClennen & Fish, says that Roberts ”chairs Nutter’s Private Client Department and serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.”
“His broad-based practice consists of estate planning for high net worth individuals,” among other areas, according to the web site. Nutter, whose spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment, is located at the same Boston address as the mailing address of the LLC that bought the property.

Posted by: 450.org | Jul 3 2020 16:05 utc | 161

VK, re: Russia’s grip on Europe is gradually tightening from the U.K.’s INDEPENDENT
It’s behind a paywall but I read just enough to be curious as to how someone could possibly justify a clickbait title like that. I suspect that the rest of the article is just going to recap Russia’s alleged sins in order to fan hatred but how can someone objectively say that Russia is tightening its grip on Europe?
1. FUCKUS banned Russia from the Olympics on a bogus state sponsored steroid scam, no reinstatement on horizon.
2. FUCKUS kicked Russia out of the now G7 and imposed a trade embargo that destroyed a large commercial relationship w/Germany.
What is the ‘overwhelming’ evidence that the Russians poisoned the Skripal’s, Novichok can be made by just about anyone.
Some countries like Italy (maybe Germany) are warming to Russia a little bit but Russia has a long way to go just to get back to their pre-2014 status with Europe. That is ‘tightening their grip?’. I know, this is how propagandists speak.

Posted by: Christian J. Chuba | Jul 3 2020 16:13 utc | 163

if you’re a canuck – mail this dipshit… Philippe.Champagne@parl.gc.ca

Posted by: james | Jul 3 2020 16:31 utc | 165

Great thread.. So Maxwell:
-Why did she leave France?
-Who has the tapes?
-Who has seen the tapes?
-What can be divulged?
-For what political aims?
-How will they kill the story if said aims cant be achieved?
Suicide is unlikely, too obvious..

Posted by: Lozion | Jul 3 2020 16:57 utc | 167

Posted by: Christian J. Chuba | Jul 3 2020 16:13 utc | 162
The author of that is Jack Straw, a former UK foreign secretary, he is defending himself amd his policies, more or less. Sort of like Pompeo, when out of office, defending his harassment of Iran.

Posted by: Bemildred | Jul 3 2020 17:16 utc | 169

Russia’s grip on Europe is gradually tightening from the U.K.’s INDEPENDENT
It’s behind a paywall but I read just enough to be curious as to how someone could possibly justify a clickbait title like that.
Posted by: Christian J. Chuba | Jul 3 2020 16:13 utc | 163
Without reading, checking the author etc., I would say that curiosity, rather harmless here (Christian is not a cat after all) is misguided. I expect more of the crap that accumulates at a dangerous pace, risking the lives of people located downstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster
In a nutshell, Russia has despicable plans to continue and if possible, expand trade with European countries. Any interruptions in trade cause pain on both sides, but while humans living the the west of Russia have the capacity of feeling the pain, this is not the case with subhumans in Russia. Hence the dependency goes strictly one way, and it has to be removed at all cost — preferably those costs should be born by Italy, Germany etc., and offer even a nice profit for USA.
As far as “increase of dependency goes”, some write about the terrible dependency to come and insufficient effort to prevent it, it requires some creativity to see the current symptoms. Like increasing number of pro-Russians opinions in some social media, generated by sub-humans (trolls?) manufactured by Russians.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jul 3 2020 18:06 utc | 171

#164
Canada suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong over new security law
canada as good little foot soldier for usa- pompass type shite…
The boy king got his orders from Madame Freeland.

Posted by: krypton | Jul 3 2020 18:11 utc | 173

@174 I thought there was a problem with affordable housing in Vancouver. I recall some people complaining. But I imagine real estate agents would be happy to see another influx from Hong Kong.

Posted by: dh | Jul 3 2020 18:40 utc | 175

“Russia will stop to tight its grip on Europe when Europe stops to genocide Middle Eastern peoples. It’s that simple.”
Posted by: vk | Jul 3 2020 14:17 utc | 145
…
It’s laughably pathetic (albeit tragic as well) That the Govt.s most demonized by the West are actually the adults in the room- politically speaking anyway.
Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Syria come to mind. The U.S. Regime Empire and its minions behave like raving psychotic infantile murderous brats…
America has no big boy pants to put on, certainly not with the like of Trump/Biden. Ice Cream Pelosi and Feinstein share tampons with Hilary and Albright all cackling with delight about bayonet sodomized men and 500k dead Iraqi children. What an Indispensable Nation they have built.
There is no redemption for America, it will burn in the worst of ways fit for its murdering rampage unleashed on the world. Realizing how many of us will be sacrificial lambs to its demise brings no comfort, but the deserved trajectory is clear.

Posted by: CitizenX | Jul 3 2020 18:50 utc | 177

There is no true, organic revolt in America and there never will be. The recent “protests” and CHOP and #BlackLivesMatter are a sick joke designed to fracture and fragment America even more than it is already. 450.org at 18.
Yes… Public avowal, front stage: Pelosi and other Dem bigwigs kneel with African cloths (link 1) around their neck, a most curious spectacle. As they all loathe and despise blacks, particularly, as well as other ‘deplorables’…
Statues are taken down; Amazon, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, Gilead, for ex., don’t care about statues. All theatre to keep kiddos amused and ‘afford them an outlet for aggro impulses’, like 6-yr-olds dashing around in an enclosed small park and going Bam Bam. Oh how cute, what a wonderful time.
Movie stars, famous ppl pledged millions of dollaris to BLM (talk is cheap and where the money if given goes is another story.) The Mega Corps, the hypocritical rich and the Dem Party are in fact the Enemies of blacks, of all ‘minorities’, overall – the poor and screwed-over – which should be framed in class terms.
The recent BLM – antifa – flap is due to the exploding fear of the PTB (which includes the 20%, in influence, sitting on nodes, the hangers-on) that the lower portions of society might actually band together and act as one.
Cov19 has created major maelstoms, has made many differences starker, so insecurity has infected the upper classes who now make purely symbolic moves to appease while simultaneously dividing to ensure disunity, etc. Not difficult, when one considers that for ex. BLM is a ‘fakelorum’ org. set up by cynics to earn money to drain off oppo, bring the sheeples into a tent.
idk about the symbols, guessing it was just to ‘drape’ something Afro?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/16/fact-check-kente-cloths-have-ties-west-african-slave-trade/5345941002/

Posted by: Noirette | Jul 3 2020 19:15 utc | 179

#176
Still old farms plus few acres available in Cape Breton for under 100K:
https://www.point2homes.com/CA/Home-For-Sale/NS/Cape-Breton-Island/803-Westside-Loch-Lomond-Rd/78920217.html

Posted by: krypton | Jul 3 2020 19:32 utc | 181

#164
Canada suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong over new security law
canada as good little foot soldier for usa- pompass type shite…
The boy king got his orders from Madame Freeland.
Posted by: krypton | Jul 3 2020 18:11 utc | 173
I thought that opposition to extradition treaties caused disturbances in Hong Kong, so now one of the demands there is fulfilled. Canada made a good first step, revoking extradition agreement with USA is logical next step (no extradition to super-powers, Russia does not have such a treaty so only USA is left).

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jul 3 2020 19:47 utc | 183

@Cyril | Jul 3 2020 4:25 utc | 93
Adding to my earlier comment …
Sinopharm is not the only candidate vaccine for Covid-19. Three American candidates will enter Phase III trials this month:

Over the course of the summer, the federal government plans to fund three phase III clinical trials for experimental coronavirus vaccines.

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“There’s a lot of optimism in our community that a vaccine should be possible, but we are very focused on the fact that that has to be proven in clinical trials,” John Mascola, vaccine research director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a recent conference attended by the WSJ.
There are multiple phases of clinical research necessary before a medication or vaccine is granted regulatory approval. Phase 0 studies how the human body processes a drug. Phase I identifies dangerous side effects and other safety concerns, and phase II trials measure whether the drug actually treats the condition it’s supposed to.
Finally, there’s phase III: large-scale tests that compare the drug or vaccine against a placebo. Many drugs don’t ever reach this final stage of the process, so the fact that three COVID-19 vaccines are already there is a promising sign for the fight to end this pandemic.

China may be ahead in Phase III, but only by a few weeks.

Posted by: Cyril | Jul 3 2020 19:59 utc | 185

pat lang must be going bonkers over the removal of the statues of his heroes. almost worth visiting the site to see

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jul 3 2020 20:52 utc | 187

Posted by: 450.org | Jul 3 2020 20:02 utc | 186
I see a case of arrested development here. Ancient methods of providing aid have antique principles like
give someone a fish
teach someone how to catch fish
That stuff was good before the birth of Christ, but after more than two millennia we know better:
teach someone how to write the budget of the fishing office and issue regulations
An NGO with deep expertise will send puppy-faced fresh graduates (of matching sexes so they would not get hopelessly bored in some rat shit country where they do not even know how to organize and run a fishing department) will come, organize seminars, include locals in their social interactions (with luck, avoiding major complaints) and generously donated money will be spend.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jul 3 2020 20:58 utc | 189

@ the pair 157
If I were you, I would listen very carefully to what those pathologists have to say in that article. They are backing up their claims with evidence. The evidence that is either lacking or flimsy at best, in the opposing camp i.e. the WHO, western governments, Gates foundation and the big pharma. When you put these groups together, you should be very scared of the outcome.
Being a physician, we have a funny saying in our world: “……pathologist know everything, but its too late to do anything…..” When a pathologist talks, we normally listen very intently and pay close attention to what they have to say. In this case, it is not too late to act.
The alternative to the claims in that article, is to jump both feet in the narrative put forth by the aforementioned group and swallow their upcoming vaccine whole. You are welcome to get your vaccine and your Covi-Pass and follow the rest of the lemmings to the cliff. But I would advise you against it and ask you to do more research. This water has been muddied enough to give the whole world a pause and rethink.

Posted by: Alpi | Jul 3 2020 22:01 utc | 191

@karlof1
Want to give a sincere thank you and shout out for the referral to https://archive.org/details/TheDisruptionOfAmericanDemocracy
I am currently working my way through it. Comprehensive, authoritative, and with fascinating parallels to the situation in today’s USA political parties
Thanks again.

Posted by: lone plateau | Jul 3 2020 23:53 utc | 193

Thanks Vintage Red.

Posted by: spudski | Jul 4 2020 0:33 utc | 195

Posted by: lizard | Jul 3 2020 13:58 utc | 142 I’m not interested in Crowly’s words, I’m interested in the perceived and/or actual impacts of his occult belief system on other people…
Damien Echols is the only name I’m not familiar with in that list.
The rest of the named turned out to be losers, with little influence on anything subsequently except more losers. Gottlieb and the CIA are the only real threats because they’re still at it and have the power of the government behind them.
You may wish to read, if you haven’t already, the following:
Satanism: A Social History By Massimo Introvigne
Children of Lucifer – The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism by Ruben van Luijk
These two are written by historians and bring a historian’s rigor to the question of who influenced who and who did what. There are detailed analyses of most of the people on your list (except Echols) and the social influence on right-wing and occult groups worldwide. The first one, in particular, discusses “The Great Satanism Scare”, which occurred from 1980–1994, and debunks most of it.
It’s important for perspective to not only read stuff that is buried in conspiracy theories but also stuff that looks at them from outside (preferably not with a pure skeptic’s viewpoint.)

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 4 2020 0:51 utc | 197

@194 pbm…. actually grace mccarthy and vanderzalm were happy to give away the expo 86 land to a chinese billionaire rather then toigo for the simple reason they wanted to curry favour for political reasons… and that was in the late 80’s… we continued on downhill in b.c. with corrupt leadership.. the bc gov’t gave the hong kong rich an option for a canadian citizenship if they invested 250,000 into a business which at the time might have seemed like a lot, but it wasn’t… would be good if we had invited a good cross section of the chinese people, but this was for the rich only – another example of our politicians malfeasance… it was nothing to do with r/e excess.. if you come to vancouver now – and this joke has been around for some time – the quickest distance from china to india is over the fraser bridge… vancouver has just as a big a population from punjab as china – well, i don’t know the numbers but together they outnumber anglo saxon numbers.. the suburb richmond is where many of the new hong kong are located, as opposed to surrey where the folks from mostly punjab are centered… the rest of the vancouver area is a mismash..
@ 196 dh.. i agree with your conclusion..

Posted by: james | Jul 4 2020 1:01 utc | 199