@vk 2
It’s an extra $600 / week. Actually not bad at all.
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other news… keeping an eye on Turkish Lira, again under pressure. With concerns over starting an avalanche of defaults in other countries, euro banks in particular are concerned. Would normally bail out via IMF etc, but Erdogan has been such an ass they might think this is the chance to get him out. Lots of geopolitical possibilities here.

Posted by: ptb | Aug 6 2020 15:51 utc | 4

@ Posted by: tagi | Aug 6 2020 15:36 utc | 1
Everybody living in Lebanon wants to leave Lebanon. The country is so corrupt that its own Central Bank was directly involved in its main corruption scheme.

Posted by: vk | Aug 6 2020 15:52 utc | 6

@ 7 ptb.. it is kinda hard to help someone who can’t help themselves…. it has been known to happen!

Posted by: james | Aug 6 2020 15:54 utc | 8

I read somewhere that lebonon imports 90% of its food and gas. Already coming out of a banking crisis, feels bad man. Also you can try to blame trump, isreal or nukes the fact is the country cant shake its massive corruption problems. That cargo should of never been stored in the docks it was prob by some asshat who thought they can sell the stuff trying to make a buck, and state institutions couldn’t do anything about it

Posted by: Bob | Aug 6 2020 16:06 utc | 10

Research from Loughborough and Sheffield Universities suggests new approach to recording COVID deaths (in UK)
A new study by academics at the Universities of Loughborough and Sheffield, and economic consultants at Economic Insight…
“…have used statistical techniques to better identify deaths due to COVID, applying the excess death framework more robustly and controlling for other factors that affect mortality. The key findings are as follows:
* Actual deaths due to COVID are some 54% or 63% lower than implied by the standard excess deaths measure, and reported excess deaths likely include a significant number of non-COVID deaths.
* While it is well known that COVID deaths are concentrated in the elderly, the study finds them to be particularly acute in the very elderly (75-84 and 85+ years old).
* Over the lockdown period as a whole Government policy has increased mortality rather than reduced it.
This final finding may be alarming to some, but the authors point out that the lockdown initiative was always intended to ‘flatten the curve’ (delaying the spread to avoid overburdening the NHS) and not necessarily to lower mortality rates. They also assert that the overall increase in mortality is a result of significant unintended consequences of the lockdown, for example, reduced A and E… (Accident & Emergency)…attendances and reduced cancer and cardiac treatments.
Speaking about the new study, Loughborough’s Professor Karligash Glass said: “In addition to providing a new way of measuring the impact of COVID-19, this study raises questions not simply about the efficacy of the blanket lockdown response, but also whether Government communications to encourage public compliance have inadvertently driven other, more harmful, behaviours.” “

Posted by: ADKC | Aug 6 2020 16:11 utc | 12

@2
Japan has 8 deaths per million (with 7000 tests per million, lol), and no bodies lying in gutters on streets.
Third world countries, are not faced with dead bodies on streets. Gaza, is not inundated with Covid corpses.
Maybe, just maybe, the direct evidence from ‘third world shitholes’, is enough to point to a fact that covid actually kills far far less – directly – than Fauci demands you piss your pants over?!

Posted by: Ilya G Poimandres | Aug 6 2020 16:30 utc | 14

Postcard from the New American Century:
Where have all the Mass Shootings gone? Remember them? They were like clockwork for a while. All kinds; a rainbow of mass shooting flavors; red, white & blue. We haven’t had a mass shooting in ages. Why? Well, sure, the pandemic, of course, cough-cough, duh, but why?
Not many mass shooters are fat, old diabetics. It’s true there were so many mass shootings for a while, it’s hard to keep track of all the different mass shooter demographics. But a review of the data shows there were no old, fat diabetics or women counted among the human time bomb epidemic. (A special shout out to the women out there who channel their rage into non-lethal activities.)
So, it’s not like Covid19 has taken out the mass shooter population. And it’s not like the lockdown has touched essential businesses like Walmart, Home Depot and Costco. Still plenty of crowds out there to fire into. Are all the would-be, wanna-be mass shooters being respectful of the general landscape of mass fear and loathing; a nation of headless chickens running around a barnyard from sea to shining sea beating each other up over mask compliance? Are the trigger happy human time bombs waiting it out so as not to compete with the daily Pandemic Panic on the evening news. We do know how obsessed those mass shooters are with their 15 minutes of fame. One thing we know about mass shooters; they don’t like to share.
And this is at a time that Pandemic Panic has sent gun sales to all time highs.
So just thinking out loud here, ruminating a puzzle. It’s common sense that in the locked down land of the New Normal a LOT more folks would go ‘postal’ especially at the Post Office, not less. Not zero.
So what is going on? Where have all the mass shootings gone?

Posted by: gottlieb | Aug 6 2020 16:41 utc | 16

IGP @14
dead bodies on streets

Posted by: arby | Aug 6 2020 17:01 utc | 18

Pepe Escobar (Middle/Far East Correspondant) is saying the Saudi’s tracked a drone missile incoming to Beirut. He has also posted a video which seems to show a missile impact. I have no idea about the validity of either, but note there’s a French team investigating the site.
https://www.facebook.com/okram.emil.7/videos/611795053101343/UzpfSTc3NTA1MTY3NzoxMDE1ODUzNTA3MjcxMTY3OA/

Posted by: Mark H | Aug 6 2020 17:06 utc | 20

Ben Meng, CFO of $400 Billion California Public Pension Fund (CalPERS) suddenly resigns after accusations of self-dealing, perjury and fraud
Kudos to Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism.

Posted by: groucho | Aug 6 2020 17:12 utc | 22

Posted by: Mark H | Aug 6 2020 17:06 utc | 20
Mentioned “French team investigating the site”, do you trust the French? They’re no better than the yanks, brit, and 5eyes..? Gimme a break!

Posted by: JC | Aug 6 2020 17:13 utc | 24

arby @19, ok – but ~0.2% of the population (2300 out of 11 million deaths officially) – and likely ripping through much faster than with our lockdowns.. should the policy not be containment of the high risk, elderly and preconditioned?
And for the poor nations, the economic argument is much stronger than for our wealthy nations, where we can sit on our arses for a bit longer before we starve!

Posted by: Ilya G Poimandres | Aug 6 2020 17:25 utc | 26

The video at BlueB’s–13 link is the same as the one at pepe Escobar’s FB page and clearly shows two missiles in the thermal imaging mode, or is it just one missile taken from two different vantage points by two different recorders? Is it possible to fake such images? Yes, the Zionists would make such an attack since they thought they could get away with it. IMO, Occupied Palestine will soon become a very poor place to reside within. If the images are true, then I owe the bar an apology for my snarky comment on yesterday’s thread.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 17:44 utc | 28

Oooop correction speller did not catch it…”She like most NeoLiberal walks a fine line still very much a Dem, which I really despise with passion.”

Posted by: JC | Aug 6 2020 17:50 utc | 30

This is very important information. You should all read this carefully:
WHO admits Wuhan may not be virus origin, offsetting rumor

WHO’s admission that Wuhan may not be the origin of COVID-19 may put to rest conspiracy theories that have put the central Chinese city and China in a bad light over the virus’ origin, Chinese epidemiologists said. They urged for more research on transmission channels and virus host which are vital for epidemiologic studies.
[…]
“The fact that the fire alarm was triggered doesn’t necessarily mean that was where the disease crossed from animals to humans,” [senior WHO official Mike] Ryan said at a press conference in Geneva.
His comments came as the organization’s team to China concluded its weeks-long mission, which was to lay the groundwork for further joint efforts at identifying the origin of the coronavirus.
[…]
Mounting facts and scientific evidence are emerging to support the hypothesis that the coronavirus did not originate in Wuhan, Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Global Times, citing a sample of the virus found in Barcelona waste water collected as early as March 2019, and virus spotted in a sewer in Brazil in November last year.

Posted by: vk | Aug 6 2020 17:59 utc | 32

vk: “Western intellectual degeneration begun right after Marx”
I’m not part of a “team” like you, vk /g, and happen to think that Marx is not “the end” of englightenment, but rather the “the beginning” of the Renaissance of Ideology. So, yes, a definite landmark in the decline of Western intellect.
Prior to “prophet” Marx, the West was enjoying the fruits of its hard won victory over the “prophets” of Bible. Interestingly enough, all these “prophets” are not really “Westerners”.
After Marx, the “religious mindset” re-asserted itself in guise of “scientific” socio-political speculations operating on a base of (frankly) fairly rudimentry understanding of human psyche in terms of individual and collectives. Unsurprisingly, “prophet” Marx is from the same era that gave us Snake Oil a bit further in the “West”.

Posted by: conspiracy-theorist | Aug 6 2020 18:20 utc | 34

I mentioned SCMP is a Trojan Horse for Taiwan’s KMT and HK (group) secession movement Joe (Joseph) Tsai of Alibaba and Gary Liu CEO SCMP. Here headlines SCMP to their website: Deleted

Posted by: JC | Aug 6 2020 18:28 utc | 36

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 17:44 utc | 28

Is it possible to fake such images? Yes, the Zionists would make such an attack since they thought they could get away with it.

There is a disingenuous (if obvious) attempt in social networks to further the missile narrative, nuclear or not nuclear is “unclear”, anyway understanding what is the immediate consequence of these allegations naturally reveal those behind it.
How respected analysts are falling for it with nothing else to show for it than these videos and witty reasoning I honestly can’t fathom. Is this world so much in despair for war? I certainly know who is!

Posted by: Vasco da Gama | Aug 6 2020 18:35 utc | 38

I completely agree with this“The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled“:
“The fire raids are completely obscured by the A-bombs in American and Japanese memory. Historian Mark Selden called these, somewhat provocatively, a forgotten Holocaust. The comparison with the Holocaust is problematic for contemporary Americans. Even obscene. But, this was not always so. Already in August 1945, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Felix Morley, not exactly a Marxist firebrand, wrote “At Nazi concentration camps, we have paraded horrified German civilians before the piled bodies of tortured Nazi victims…It would be equally salutary to send groups of representative Americans to Hiroshima. There, as at Buchenwald, there are plenty of unburied dead.” We still have not heeded Morley’s advice. We are still refusing to look at the crimes we committed during our last good war. If Morley could say this in 1945, right after the liberation of the camps, American patriotism at its highest point, we should be able to think about the implications of the comparison now.
“But we rarely do. The American narrative of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—which are by definition, war crimes—focuses entirely on the perpetrators. When it is being recounted by experts, it often obsesses over them. Who said what to whom on what day? What materials were moved from place A to place B on what day? How were the weapons of mass destruction assembled? Who did what? The American narrative of the nuclear attacks is an obsession with the killers, and with their weapon. To the degree that the war crime itself is discussed, the focus is on the physical effects and dynamics of the weapon. The presence beneath this process of thousands of schoolchildren is unnoted.” [My Emphasis]
At least the Truth is being more widely circulated nowadays, although not nearly wide enough. John Pilger’s fine essay is getting a wider than usual distribution, but still remains absent from major media within the Outlaw US Empire where it needs to be read the most.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 18:47 utc | 40

Couldn’t help noticing that Micron was in Lebanon Thursday apparently offering to shoulder the White Man’s Burden by declaring Lebanon a French Protectorate for 10 years. Is there is anything worth stealing left in Lebanon, apart from its planned role as a transit hub in China’s Belt & Road Initiative?
Christian Colonial offers of aid to Lebanon are notable as much for the intrinsic offer of creative interference as for the underwhelming parsimony.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 6 2020 18:51 utc | 42

@ Vasco da Gama #38 who wrote
”
How respected analysts are falling for it with nothing else to show for it than these videos and witty reasoning I honestly can’t fathom. Is this world so much in despair for war? I certainly know who is!
”
I see our world not so much in despair for war but for justice for the dead. War for profit and control has been going on for centuries now and the dead in the wake of perfidy by the monied elite want justice.
I do not believe that the horror in Beirut was an accident or coincidence, even though they may have been contributing factors.
Humanity is in a civilization war about whether global finance is a public utility or stays the jackboot of social control that it has been for centuries. We are blessed that China is taking the fight to the global financial elite for humanity with Russia’s backing.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 6 2020 18:54 utc | 44

The postmodern are also in the revisionist business:
The Real Reason the American Economy Boomed After World War II
It’s is not enough to make truth relative anymore, they now have to falsify history.

Posted by: vk | Aug 6 2020 19:03 utc | 46

This fascinating essay deserved its own comment box, “How the Fascists Won World War II.” The essay examines this issue: “How the IG Farben HQ survived World War II, however, is a mystery whose dark depths hold secret links between the past and the present.” It initially describes the structure thusly:
“Before construction of the Pentagon during World War II, the two largest and most famous office buildings on planet Earth were the Empire State Building and the headquarters of German industrial behemoth IG Farben. Building these palaces of capitalism was a frantic race run in 1930-1931, at the opening of the Great Depression. Both edifices were designed to inspire awe, by “skyscraper” height in New York, by overwhelming grandiosity in Frankfurt.”
That such a key building in Frankfurt was untargeted while two civilian cities in Japan 75 years ago were roasted in a mini Holocaust does make one wonder:
“How could this building not have been—for military reasons alone, not to mention moral reasons–the prime target of U.S. and British bombing? But for other reasons, no Allied forces were ever permitted to attack the citadel of Nazi power and command center of Germany’s greatest war crimes. This was not because the ancient city of Frankfurt, where German kings and emperors had been crowned as early as 855AD, was spared. The cloak-and-dagger action of Berlin Express takes us on a nightmare scenic tour of the bombed-out remains of Frankfurt. Lucien Ballard’s superb black-and-white photography captures endless miles of skeletal buildings, vast piles of rubble, mutilated beggars, and the homeless. Some of the main action takes place inside the ruins, including key scenes in a clandestine pro-Nazi night club hollowed out behind the rubble. The IG Farben building stood unscathed, amid a city bombed into a modern form of the stone age….
“The IG Farben headquarters thus combined those prime targets of the 9/11 bombers: the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the two most famous office buildings in the 21st century world.”
Lots of leads to books and films, some that are new to me pepper the prose. IMO, the article ought to promote outrage, and it begs for much wider circulation. Henry Wallace warned us about American Fascists and their danger, but few listened and thought the danger died with the war. This article proves such hopes were totally unjustified.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 19:22 utc | 48

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 18:22 utc | 35
(Sovereign Citizens in Oz)
It’s true that the cops smashed the windows of cars which were stopped for being farther than 5km from home without a permit or good excuse. But cops anywhere can smash the window of a car they’ve stopped to establish direct communication with the driver…
ALL of the Sovereign Citizens in Vic have been cranks and there’s zero public sympathy for them.
The Vic lockdown IS Draconian but until I can dream up a better way to beat COVID, AND persuade Vic.gov to adopt it, I intend to abide by their rules.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 6 2020 19:32 utc | 50

Thermal imaging video? In the day time? I guess there could have been somebody doing that. But two – taken from different places and both have a ‘missile’ diving in – lots and lots of question marks there …. and then those two videos are put together for the one video clip????

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 6 2020 19:39 utc | 52

karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 19:22 utc | 48
Think about what you wrote and consider that the FDR policy set (As He Saw It et sec) did not permit the US collaborators and their nazi associates and co-conspirators, to escape, nor did it include using the bomb on anybody, or using it to intimidate USSR/Russia. Most US collaborators did just fine, and so did most of the nazis – except for the ones they shot in the Eastern block, and the many, nominally “nazi” POW’s who were made into convict labor in the USSR – those guys suffered….but ah! In the West! Most did just fine.
The coincidences seem endlessly favorable to the dark side.
It seems to me that the coincidental factors of Groves’ statement of bomb policy – “for Russia”, the Wallace/Truman swap, and the timely death of FDR – that these and related serendipitous events exude the foul odor of treason and betrayal…and that lines up with project paperclip and all the immigration into Canada and the US and Argentina and so forth…and even also with Gladio etc…and Ukraine today…that great US project… what does this say?

Posted by: Walter | Aug 6 2020 20:02 utc | 54

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 18:47 utc | 40
I was reading this early this morning ZeroHedge John Pilger excellent essay:
“Atomic Bombings At 75: John Pilger – “Another Hiroshima Is Coming Unless We Stop It Now”
Many commenters were against Pilger calling him a commie, discounted what the Jap. did, not only to ASEAN but China, Nanking Massacre, also called Rape of Nanjing. The debates dwell on the Japs and Americans. But, but, but the Chinese suffered in ASEAN and in China. I have more opinions but poor writing skill and spelling discourage me to continue….
(BTW karlof1 I still own you one, the last open thread on Taiwan and PRC (Mainland) China civil war). 🙂
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/atomic-bombings-75-john-pilger-another-hiroshima-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now

Posted by: JC | Aug 6 2020 20:08 utc | 56

gepay | Aug 6 2020 20:11 utc | 57 Von Luckner, the WW One figure, describes in one of his early autobiographies being a saboteur and planting incendiary bombs. He makes it clear that the saboteur plants his infernal gadgets where they will have an effect – not out on the prairie, but in a dynamite factory or the hold of a ship, etc.
An interesting book for casual reading is “The Detonators” (Chad Millman) Includes stuff on Black Tom and even pictures or diagrams of the nifty little incendiaries, and even spells out the chemistry a bit… Also says that the Imperial German and US collaborators cultured anthrax – with efforts to inoculate horses and cattle as these animals were on-loaded for transport to Europe.
I agree with you that a saboteur would obviously make the “best” of all that AN…
But in the world, where people do stupid stuff with machines and chemicals and so forth, real accidents really happen. The Halifax (1917) explosion being a point in that direction

Posted by: Walter | Aug 6 2020 20:31 utc | 58

Hoarsewhisperer @50–
Thanks for your reply! I’d welcome that sort of lockdown, too, since it appears to be the only rational way to deal with the bug. Unfortunately, here in the states it looks like we’ll still be dealing with it well into next year as mask wearing becomes the norm.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 20:48 utc | 60

vk @2 makes very good points about where things when wrong with scientific inquiry, but I would like to clarify one point concerning the line “The so-called “hard sciences”, however, continued to flourish for more than half-century…”
In fact all sciences are “hard sciences”. The reason that some of the sciences are thought to be limp and squishy and lacking in rigor, testability, or predictive power is because those are precisely the sciences that depend upon the foundation that Marx provided. Efforts to develop those branches of inquiry in such a way that they repudiate Marx’s work results in something that isn’t science at all. Efforts to harden up economics and all other social sciences invariably leads back to Marx’s studies, whereupon the liberal academician shies away from that line of thinking and embraces nonsense, reassuring himself by arguing that his field of study is inherently formless and malleable anyway.
The sciences are actually all intimately interrelated at very fundamental levels. The same fundamental principles underlie all of the sciences. While this is obvious where physics and chemistry are concerned, and it is becoming more obvious that biology is bound to those two in the same way, the liberal worldview prevents academics from integrating economics and psychology and the other social sciences as has been done with biology. The whole of science is like an interrelated circle or wheel, but fully a third of that wheel remains mushy nonsense even after many generations of effort to complete that circle. This failure damages the integrity of the entire wheel. For example, those who pay attention to such things might have noticed in recent years that strange identity politics toxins have been creeping into theoretical physics, which is a field of inquiry that should be the very hardest of sciences. The rot that infects the social sciences spreads because the sciences are all connected. It cannot be the social sciences that yield because that would mean starting over with where Marx left off, so it is the other sciences that begin to develop soft spots instead.

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 6 2020 21:20 utc | 62

karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 20:48 utc | @60
you’re a pensioner or .gov employee, right? a productive person does not think like this.

Posted by: tonk | Aug 6 2020 21:30 utc | 64

Walter @54–
Nice to get a reply from you! In Dave Lindorff’s essay I linked to yesterday which I suggest reading if you haven’t yet is this interesting bit:
“Some important scientists involved in the creation of the bomb urged the sharing of its construction secrets with America’s ally in the war against the Axis powers, the Soviet Union. These scientists, many of them Nobel-winning physicists, said negotiations should begin immediately at that point to eliminate nuclear weapons for all time, just as germ and chemical weapons had already been banned (successfully as the history of WWII showed).
“But military and civilian leaders in Washington balked at the idea of sharing the bombs’ secrets. In fact, after Bohr’s visit, President Roosevelt reportedly had the FBI monitor Nobelist Nils Bohr, one of the Los Alamos scientists who directly pleaded with him to bring the Russians into the bomb project, and even considered barring him from leaving the US. The Truman administration considered deporting Leo Szilard, and after Robert Oppenheimer proposed to Truman the sharing of the bomb with the Russians, his top-secret security clearance was revoked.” [My Emphasis]
FDR may not be as innocent appearing in the entire affair as it might seem. Very few got busted for dealing with the Nazis before or during the War, including some very big Big Shots. The trend also seems that ever more evidence harmful to US/UK War Narrative continues to emerge from the archives as they’re further opened. Remember, behavior provides evidence of beliefs/values, and the smell I’m getting isn’t that from rotting crab remains after 7 days in the sun. I just wish I had the time and resources to examine the archives for the needles events suggest are lurking there. Being introduced to books and films I didn’t know of is helpful and expose some secrets, but what I’m looking for happened before the War began. In his essay, Franklin provides the following post-war example which begs investigation of the actors pre-war activities:
“Leading the charge against the prosecutors of IG Farben’s chieftains was Congressman George Dondero of Michigan, who asserted on the floor of Congress, that Josiah DuBois, the prosecution’s lead attorney, as well as five other members of the team, were all ‘Communist sympathizers’ ‘who are trying to blacken the name of IG Farben.’ Dondero’s Congressional district happened to include the Midland, Michigan, international headquarters of Dow Chemical, whose links to IG Farben were already being exposed in U.S. newspapers. On the same House floor, Congressman John Rankin of Mississippi branded the trial a ‘disgrace’ where members of a ‘racial minority’ are ‘trying German businessmen in the name of the United States.'”
Another question’s begged: Who/what got the anti-Jewish bigots to change their minds and become Zionists?
Franklin mentions the 1948 film Berlin Express; did you ever view it? IMO, Franklin agrees with us that the answers to the questions that still matter are to be found prior to USA’s entrance into WW2–and after as we see who gets brought into the government.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 21:35 utc | 66

There was a discussion yesterday about a bird seen flying into the smoke of the fire and phone video shots. Could this have been the drone/rocket? I’ve seen two different comments/clips on twitter of people hearing jets flying just before the explosions. Also, I’ve read other comments about the flight paths of two US spy planes happening at the same time as the Beirut explosions. What were they monitoring?

Posted by: cirsium | Aug 6 2020 21:51 utc | 68

cirsium @Aug6 21:51 #68
Your questions have already been discussed in prior comments over the last two days.
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Could this have been the drone/rocket?
No, it wasn’t a drone or rocket. Just a bird.
=
flight paths of two US spy planes
Just normal monitoring of Russian bases to the north.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 6 2020 23:03 utc | 70

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 22:27 utc | 69
Thanks brother, appreciate and understands my dilemma. These are not normal time, and McCarthysim is well and alive today. You learn about China’s civil war from books, vids and/or maybe Wilkpedia… I lived and witness from own eyes and from my mother, aunt and loved ones told me. Dad kept pretty quiet. He paid a high price being a KMT and a pro Westerner. I’m the generation lived during and after Japanese occupation, refugees, god save the queen, independence and more..
I wish to spend more time on SCMP more or less a Trojan horse for the USA and secessionists HongKong and Democratic Progressive Party

Posted by: JC | Aug 6 2020 23:32 utc | 72

Tucenz @ 59:
Li (李) is one of the most common surnames in China and overseas. Over 100 million people have this surname. Ai (艾) is rated 168 out of the 400 most common surnames in China.
Many Chinese surnames were adopted by different groups and communities throughout the territories ruled by Chinese empires as these peoples were assimilated into the Chinese ethnos. That many people happen to share a surname is not by itself any indication of a common or shared ancestry.
Jewish people who settled in China ended up adopting Chinese surnames just as Jewish people who settled in the Iberian peninsula often adopted Portuguese and Spanish surnames, and Jewish people living in other parts of the world adopted the surnames of their close neighbours.
Please grow up.

Posted by: Jen | Aug 7 2020 0:49 utc | 74

@ 67 juliania……. that link @ 25 which you shared is quite chilling.. thanks for sharing it.. others – americans in particular, would benefit reading it…

Posted by: james | Aug 7 2020 1:19 utc | 76

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Posted by: Mao | Aug 7 2020 1:45 utc | 78

As expected the cries for revolution in the steets grow louder:
https://youtu.be/hiqIFAzPzZM

Posted by: Traiano Welcome | Aug 7 2020 2:00 utc | 80

@ Ilya G Poimandres
Similarly, the diligent authorities in Jordan enforced a strict lock down of a very narrow enclave, located in the West part of the capital city Amman. This is the same area where all the wealthy Jordanians and the expatriate community live.
Let’s say they locked down 1 million out of a population of 8 million.
There are no bodies in the streets of any of the villages and towns throughout the country.

Posted by: guido | Aug 7 2020 4:43 utc | 82

Is the US at war with China yet?……..
Below in another link to The Register posting about the Pompeo latest China = Bad Bullshit
USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan
The comments to this posting are interesting as well…..such as this from Mike137 “Since practically every piece of IT kit, regardless of where it’s designed, is manufactured in China these days the task of “purging” will prove difficult unless it’s merely a political token gesture.”
Maybe just Fake war like Fake news

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 7 2020 5:36 utc | 84

Update on W93/MK7:
FOIA 20-00203-EW. A thank you to Joseph Durso for taking the initiative.
– – –
Two sputniknews.com stories:
1. 2018 Nicaragua “Unearthed USAID Nicaragua Regime Change Doc Puts 2018 Protests in Context”. This has some external links that might also interest (not the two that only push other sputnik stories).
2. Auto-mistranslation “Iranian FM Zarif Snaps at Google for ‘Glitch’ When Translating Condolences to Lebanese People”.

“The diplomat retweeted a video showing that Google Translate turns the phrase “condolences to the Lebanese people” in Persian into “congratulations” in Arabic and in English, while the translation is accurate when someone wants to write “condolences to the Israeli/American people”.”

– – –
I wish this site didn’t insist on Google… but I know the world is far from perfect.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Aug 7 2020 9:13 utc | 86

Can we arrange for Georgia to be seceded from the Union?
Jamie Ford @JamieFord
A family member teaches at this high school in Georgia (North Paulding High) that’s made the news. Teachers and students were told they could be suspended if they posted photos of the school in a bad light. The student who took this photo for the yearbook has been suspended.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Aug 7 2020 11:01 utc | 88

Don’t know what the hell happened there…
“I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again”…
The Viral Loads of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Carriers Are Surprisingly High, Study Reveals

A team of researchers led by Seungjae Lee at Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine analyzed swabs taken between March 6 and March 26 from 303 people isolated at a center in Cheonan, following an outbreak among a religious group in another city.
The group ranged in age from 22 to 36 and two-thirds were women. Of the total, 193 were symptomatic and 110 were asymptomatic.
Among those who were initially asymptomatic, 89 never developed symptoms at all – about 30 percent of the total.
This finding itself helps gives a sense of what portion of infected people are truly asymptomatic rather than merely “presymptomatic,” a subject of confusion.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Aug 7 2020 11:07 utc | 90

Americans beginning to beg for their annona (grain dole), like imperial Roman citizens they are:
Coming Next: The Greater Recession
After all, they’re Americans: they’re entitled to live well just for being born within the pomerium, no matter what they do or what they contribute to society.
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China to form new development pattern centered on “internal circulation”
This is interesting. I don’t know if it will work, but looks, let’s put it that way, “creative”.
Who told you Central Committees of Communist parties can’t be innovative?
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July Jobs Report Is Likely to Reflect Lost Momentum
What the fuck is this language? “Momentum”? What is this? Witchcraft?
Someone must tell the journalists from the NYT that things happen for a reason, not because of “momentum”.

Posted by: vk | Aug 7 2020 12:09 utc | 92

@ karlof1 | Aug 6 2020 21:35 utc | 66
Thanks. We are pretty close in our observations and “takes” on what the implications are. I heartily agree that the interesting stuff is pre-war…and then follow that along through into, well, now. The leads are in the first war, or even the war of 1812…as I smell the City of London and the bankers and their “Atlantisist” agencies –
But I got lost when you spoke of “Franklin”… Who’s he?
It may well be that we, or I, miss-estimate the degree to which FDR was limited in scope of Policy…and he must have been aware of the continuing plot to remove him…that would, I expect, limit his options.
Nevertheless the facts, so far as we can prise them out, seem to strongly imply that he stood in the way of the policy mooted by Groves, since the funny business with the DNC at the convention and the timely death.
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You did a nice job of explaining yourself in response to the ad hominem.
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About Black Tom…I have difficulty believing that MI6 was not aware of the Imperial German sabotage activities…and stood back and let it happen. This seems to tie into the theme of leads traced back.
Later…

Posted by: Walter | Aug 7 2020 12:55 utc | 94

uncle tungsten 93
Magnier goes into it a bit here.
https://ejmagnier.com/2020/08/07/the-beirut-explosion-who-is-responsible/

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 7 2020 13:31 utc | 96

So George Floyd died. So Fucking what, a no good flotsam scum is made a saint?
Please FO, this piece of shit had it coming to him, I would with no hesitation shot him in the neck. Fortunately for the police officer he was so loaded with “crap” he died. Good. He should have done that 15 years earlier.
Niggers are getting pretty entitled these days, they need a culling, as the degenerate, criminal beasts they are.
And I am not right wing, I see what is happening in Europe. But do not despair, we will get rid of the Arabs too. Filthy cheating scum.

Posted by: Den lille abe | Aug 7 2020 14:09 utc | 98

Some may perceive my rants as racist.. Ok your choice, but I am not. I live in Malmoe in Sweden, in a very nice affluent neighborhood, close to the city. One day going shopping I was held up under a train over carriage, a tunnel and robbed at knife point. Well the y did not get that much, my phone, a little cash, but I felt like squashed. So I went home, deflated and contemplated on things to come.
I decided then I would be armed at all times, luckily my father left me a perfect 08 pistols from the war and 2000 rounds. This included a nice leather shoulder holster, which I have lovingly greased. This has gained me an absolute will to stand down al the sand niggers I have met, 3 times coming home late, But a shot at their feet made the cowards scramble. Sandniggars all of them.

Posted by: Den lille abe | Aug 7 2020 14:53 utc | 100