The mad King of hasbara bullshit has spoken: both Putin and Xi are Zionists!
LMFAO.
No doubt ‘donkeytale’, the mad king’s jester extraordinaire, will soon humor the monarch of manipulation with a complementary dose of socialist dumbfuckery. Some nonsense that pretends concern for the masses but yokes them to the Empire’s wagon. We can expect a pretended “feed the people!” concern as he motions to his rear. The King will roar with knowing laughter at the jokester’s crafty and crass recommendation: “feed them indeed!”, he’ll snort, “feed (f*ck) ’em in the ‘tale’ (tail)!”
That’s all we get from the establishment and their f*cking trolls: mock concern and spinning tales of how it is in our interest to help advance their agenda.
The fact is, the establishment don’t mind a few people advocating for socialism. They even have a fake candidate for that (Bernie). But they are very threatened by anyone that advocates for democracy and transparency (Assange).
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Thankfully, b will delete the comments from these bozo trolls. And what will remain for historians is just a sense of vertigo and the malodorous scents of donkey’s ‘tale’.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 20 2020 20:36 utc | 103

Check out the headline! Tennessee teachers who have been exposed to COVID-19 allowed to return to class
“…allowed…”?
School districts are starting to require teachers who should go into isolation due to exposure to diseased virus factory children to return to the classroom. Teachers now classified as “critical infrastructure workers.” Pre-symptomatic infected teachers will now be forced to spread the disease to other students and to their peers and family.
Oh yeah, this is going to work out great… /s

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 20 2020 20:41 utc | 105

Why real communists support Lukashenko in front of the Belarusian far-right and to make some justice to Lukashenko:
https://twitter.com/ComisionOctubre/status/1296186158850899975

In this video edited by @oriolsabata some keys are shown as to why the Belarusian communists have supported the candidacy of President Lukashenko against the opposition right: defending social conquests and the public sector of the economy.
Lukashenko:
“You have come here for the first time in a quarter of a century, to defend your country, your independence, your families.
Dear friends, in the mid-1990s, when we started the campaign with you, what were you asking for?
You asked for a piece of bread, you asked for 20 dollars of salary, you asked to open, start up and save the factories.
You asked for a tractor, a combine harvester, to save the village, so that you could work in the village, so that there would be milk, meat and bread on the shelves in Minsk.
You asked not to privatize factories and plantations. You asked not to take the land from the peasants.
You asked not to introduce under payement health and education.
In short, you asked me, a very young and inexperienced person, to lead people away from the abyss.
We did it!
We have done what millions of predecessors dreamed of.
We have built an independent sovereign state for the first time in our history”.

Images of anti-Belomaidan through Belarus…
Smolevichi
https://twitter.com/gbazov/status/1296523923941711879
Vitebsk
https://twitter.com/gbazov/status/1296524849452666880
Grodno
https://twitter.com/kopamaros/status/1296175494602403842
Gomel
https://twitter.com/kopamaros/status/1295837580186066944
https://twitter.com/Herbert_Keg/status/1296361486584094720
Even in Kiev…some brave people…
https://twitter.com/kopamaros/status/1296169453563138048

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 20 2020 21:20 utc | 107

H. Schmatz @108–
You just sank what remained of your credibility by asserting “Fisk is an Us writer.”

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 20 2020 21:23 utc | 109

@Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 20 2020 21:23 utc | 111
And you chimmed in now for?

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 20 2020 21:29 utc | 111

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 20 2020 21:23 utc | 111
I sank my credibility because I do not know where are from all the writers of the Anglo world?
Why am I obliged to know this man at the least detail? I have other sources….

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 20 2020 21:32 utc | 113

Belarus didn’t play along with the Covid 19 nonsense narrative and doesn’t bow down to zionist. Thus he gets the Assad and Qadaffi treatment in western media.

Posted by: O | Aug 20 2020 21:41 utc | 115

karlof @ 24, just so you know, I am not commenting on your links, not because of disinterest but because my cranky computer has a log jam when it comes to anything from the Nation (it’s very google regimented.) I did try but the Nation doesn’t want me – puts up all kinds of steeplechase barriers, even one telling me I have now ‘read’ one of three articles — supplemented by Google strings of questions about adsthat make it impossible. I tried to read one line at a time, and it even won’t let me do that!
So it’s back to “Smiley’s People”
;(

Posted by: juliania | Aug 20 2020 22:55 utc | 117

U.S’s latest terror weapon https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/missile-barges-could-be-americas-secret-weapon-in-the-pacific/
The author was discussing all of the advantages of buying civilian cargo ships and using containerized missiles to overwhelm China’s air defense systems.
1. Actually a good idea and the Israeli’s already built it.
2. Can you say ‘lack of self-awareness’?
I loved how the author called the fact that it would be hard for China to distinguish between civilian ships and these buckets of death as a big advantage. Isn’t this what terrorists do? I know, let’s repurpose cruise liners, hospital ships, tankers, aid ships, let’s make it impossible to distinguish between military and civilian transport.
If Iran developed such a weapon Pompeo and others would be howling like Banchis.
Of course what would happen is that China would have no recourse but to target all cargo ships within range of their mainland.

Posted by: Christian J. Chuba | Aug 20 2020 23:03 utc | 119

@Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 20 2020 23:17 utc | 122
Thanks for your apparent support, but,
1) For the time being, no theory has been proved here, neither the AN+fireworks+ welder, nor the nuke/missile one. Thus, why would I go to consider myself misguided? More seasoned observers ( according to your very particular measure scale ) do not seem to me so seasoned when they never walked down their donkeys even when they knew more or leass the same as me from their armchairs.
2)As you state, my English is not that it is good, but goo enough to be aware there is a coordinated effrot since the Beirut blast thread on presenting me as “idiot”, “lacking credibility”, even, now we see, by even “more seasoned commenters” with whom i have never meddle neither for good or bad…
3)le dijo la sartén al cazo?…The same could be told to “more seasoned commenters” and even yourself, mate, I have never read you, nor anybody here for that matter, backpedaling in nothing here…May be what I am learning here most…never a step back…which could translate into Spanish as antes muerta que sencilla…
Exceptionalism exudates here from all pores of skin…even from those who allegedly fight so hard that obnoxious trait of the Outlaw US Empire…
P.S:Wondering whether you are acting the good cop with me…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 20 2020 23:51 utc | 121

to King Lear.
Iran is not a “small Muslim country”. have you even looked at the map? Iran is huge. If China and Russia are going to be given a sit at the table, why is USA/West/NATO constantly attacking them with everything, short of war?
China pulled 800 million out of poverty, while all the West/USA did is pushed 800 million into poverty. To even compare China and Russia to the evil scruples-less USA/West is beyond ridiculous, and not even worth debating.
believe what you want but facts do not support you.

Posted by: Hoyeru | Aug 21 2020 1:21 utc | 123

H.Schmatz @Aug20 23:51 @123
no theory has been proved here …
You’re right! No theory has been proven. But a missile or nuke would be much easier to prove than accident or sabatoge:

• a missile/nuke would’ve been noticed by many more people. We only see a few and that make the claim;
• Russian and possibly Syrian radar would likely have detected a missile or attack aircraft/bomb;
• The black and white video of a missile was clearly bullshit;
• The sensational missile/nuke theory got much more attention than the more realistic alternative: sabotage. That seems intentional.
• I haven’t heard of any radiation at the bomb site. None.
• The smart strategy here, if there’s a strategy in play, is to blame Hezbollah and the Hezbollah-influenced government for the explosion. If a missile were used that would create a great risk of detection and if traced back to a country then the result is WORST-CASE: the country that is responsible has committed an act of war on a peaceful nation and must accept responsibility for all damage caused (billions of dollars);

I know that there are indications that Israel wanted to strike “Lebanese infrastructure” but there’s no easy way to hide such a strike. So unless convincing evidence is forthcoming (and we aren’t seeing that) then the missile/nuke theory must be discounted.
The more that you support a theory that people see as obviously flawed the more that it will reflect on you. My advice: examine the evidence for missile/nuke carefully and the think deeply about the logic/motivation of such an attack versus other theories.
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coordinated effrot since the Beirut blast thread on presenting me as “idiot”, “lacking credibility”, even, now we see, by even “more seasoned commenters”
I think you’re taking a factual correction too hard because of past criticism about your willingness to consider the missile/nuke theory.
You’re also been reacting in a way that others commenters will see as difficult and/or disruptive (whether they agree with you or not). That is not to say that you should stop commenting, just that you should be more diplomatic. Some of the commenters that you’ve butted heads with have been here for years. If you don’t respect that, they won’t respect you.
Just to give you an example from personal experience, from time to time I have attacked obvious trolls. Many readers have get angry at me for doing so because the conflict would last for weeks across multiple threads. They were turned off by the conflict and didn’t care who was right or that driving out trolls would make moa a more valuable forum.
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I have never read you, nor anybody here for that matter, backpedaling in nothing here …
I have been wrong before and admitted it! Naturally, we all try to be right.
Example: I was right when I wrote in October 2019 that Bernie Sanders would betraying his base and endorse Joe Biden but wrong about Tulsi Gabbard as Biden’s pick for BP. The ‘set up’ was more complicated than I had thought. My bad.
acting the good cop with me…
I am neither good cop nor bad cop. My comments here going back years speak for themselves.
I’m not trying to convince you of anything or sway you from any point of view. Conflicts between commenters turn off readers and waste time.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 21 2020 3:29 utc | 125

Confirmation that the reports about Russia skipping large-scale clinical trials were fake news (as highlighted already last week in MoA):
MOSCOW. Aug 20 (Interfax) – Post-registration tests of the Russian coronavirus vaccine are planned for next week, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev said.
“Post-registration tests on 40,000 people will begin in Russia next week,” Dmitriev told a press briefing on Thursday.
https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/69619/
Did no one in the western mass media consider the possibility that the Russians would do further testing of the vaccine after registration? It should have been obvious that they were going to make use of the remaining time (several months before mass production) to test it on more people.

Posted by: Brendan | Aug 21 2020 7:37 utc | 127

Pompeo handed letter od notification of initiation of Snapback to UN yesterday and the E3 issued the following statement:
“France, Germany and the United Kingdom (“the E3”) note that the US ceased to be a participant to the JCPoA following their withdrawal from the deal on 8 May, 2018. Our position regarding the effectiveness of the US notification pursuant to resolution 2231 has consequently been very clearly expressed to the Presidency and all UNSC members. We cannot therefore support this action which is incompatible with our current efforts to support the JCPoA.”
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/iran/news/article/statement-by-the-foreign-ministers-of-france-germany-and-the-united-kingdom-20
Seems pretty clear cut.

Posted by: AtaBrit | Aug 21 2020 9:46 utc | 129

AtaBrit, thanks for the link about the E3 statement. I still find it infuriating that they ‘have concerns’ about the expiration of the arms embargo. Really, what is Iran supposed to do, disarm completely. Why don’t they have any concerns with Iran’s neighbors arming themselves to the teeth or the U.S. building and equipping bases around Iran with advanced weapons? That’s an escalation.
The night of the missile attack in Al Asad airbase the U.S. was able to make Iran’s EM spectrum useless by jamming it. We just practiced using A1’s to strafe the Persian Gulf to cut their boats to pieces, we have B2 bombers on Diego Garcia. How would any of them like to have that type of firepower parked on their doorstep by a country that has actually used it on them before?

Posted by: Christian J. Chuba | Aug 21 2020 10:17 utc | 131

In these troubled pandemic times, when Julian is still being tortured, arbitrarily detained in London(0), whilst Craig is being condemned for similarly not following the narrative(1), ‘umbrellas’ flourish everywhere…. so….To lighten the mood, in this increasingly infected moment – how about virtually attending a safe, socially distanced, VIP event, summertime in lovely Eesti? With Presidents and Sssh..probably the odd spy…
Guests include at least one of the three Baltic cuckoo-presidents(2), but he was shocking in his unfashionable COVID-19 protective personal or not choice!
I advise watching the slideshow of these smart Estonian friends, three hundred pro photos in full 2019-nCoV regalia, on the biggest device that you have, phonecast to a 55” TV, see shiny-happy-people enjoying a safe meeting with just a few friends; just a few staff (and Toomas) spoiling the mood with their apparent flouting of what passes for Eesti secure partyware nowadays….
RU https://limon.postimees.ee/7043799/smotrite-kakoy-prazdnik-prezident-kalyulayd-ustroila-dlya-imenityh-gostey-v-sadu-roz
EE https://www.elu24.ee/7043754/vaata-kuidas-tahistati-pidupaeva-kadrioru-roosiaias
open either link to the gallery in Estonian/Russian and click simply on the “+302 vaata Galeriid” or “+302 смотри галерею” icon below the main image, (that will get you out of the javascript badverts, fastest, to the highest resolution, SARS-CoV2 aware, modern-day exclusive party)
in Ru/Eesti

“See what kind of celebration [Estonian]President Kaljulaid arranged for distinguished guests in the Rose Garden”

They are the same pictures, really nice from the Estonian published Tartu tabloids “Limon”/“elu”, worth the minor effort; put on some somber Mozart requiem as background music, or Estonian choral songs?, grab a glass of zinc gluconate & tonic-water, join in the ceremonies. Smile, relax, maybe things will get better soon?
(0) United Nations WGAD independent rapporteur on “arbitrary detention” opinion
(1) https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ good luck Craig!
(2) US military intelligence & journalist for CIA Radio Free Europe, or was that the Lithuanian cuckoo? seemingly all arranged by the Clinton Presidency? The popular ex-President Toomas was even the head of broadcasting of Radio Free Europe towards Estonia from München, late 1980s)
……What was that about Sweden developing herd immunity?

Posted by: Davids | Aug 21 2020 12:19 utc | 133

Re Beirut terror attack:
According to Meyssan, Hezbollah removed the weapons in 2018 shortly after Netanjahu pointed at the site with his finger and announced to bomb it.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article210681.html
Implausible that Israel missed the removal and bombed in false belief two years later.
Some novel weapon with a nuclear component and some nano materials as Meyssan speculates? Not entirely beyond the realm of the possible I’d say. Apparently two very similar test explosions took place recently in Syria and near Iranian ships. And already back in 2001, nano thermite was able to cut through steel and pulverise concrete in unexpected locations.
The obvious point with nuclear weapons (or any really) is that residues, traces and contamination will betray them. However, if you control the site and removal of materials (9/11, Fukushima), or more elegantly control just the samples and their evaluation (Skripal, Hariri 2009 assassination), the truth can be suppressed long enough until it no longer matters.

Posted by: Leser | Aug 21 2020 14:08 utc | 135

@ H.Schmatz | Aug 20 2020 | 106,108,112,118 and indirectly (113),(115),(116),(123) All has shifted since – go figure
I agree with Jackrabbit about your generally excellent use of english (as second language); you have had good teachers obviously. Only if my second language were as good but reincarnation must happen first.
The time zone I reside is utc+2 so your responses came at the end of my day, best left after sleeping on a reply. Obviously I am a native english speaker, moderately well read which gives some advantage in this. The words first quoted were your words, not someone else’s though you were likely repeating them from elsewhere. Those words result in the libel or slander of Lebanon and its people whether intended or not. Normally I would not bother replying to most, maybe because of some level of respect – most not being the worth of the candle; but out of respect of your efforts I replied, not to berate but to enlighten of the trespass your usage made toward Lebanon. Look back and count the times in these pages that any have made the points my comment made where it was the fractured system could account for what superficially looks like corruption as cause. Let me know how many times those points are found since that tragic afternoon; I don’t recall any but may have missed them. It is your choice whether it is a fractured system failure or corruption, either is possible but one involves sophisticated, educated perception versus cartoonish simplicity, it is your decision at the end of the day so make a choice you have comfort with. Do try to broaden your horizons. P.S. thanks for the ‘osito de peluche’, the local idiom has osuco de peluche. All the best…….

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Aug 21 2020 14:43 utc | 137

Leser @Aug21 14:08 #138
IMO the whole ‘missile’ theory is simply about smearing Hezbollah as ultimately responsible for the explosion by expounding the claim that Hezbollah uses Beirut and its people as ‘human shields’.
Hezbollah has said categorically that they don’t control the port. Not only are they not responsible for any negligence in port operations but they wouldn’t put a sensitive facility in place that they don’t control. That makes sense because they risk discovery/compromise of any operation in a place that they don’t control.
Did they ever control the port? It seems doubtful. AFAICT It’s a commercial operation that is and was controlled by Lebanon’s commercial elites. And the same logic applies: they wouldn’t put sensitive operations like bomb-making or bomb storage in a place that they don’t control.
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There was a fire at the warehouse. Then there there were a slew of small explosions before the big AN explosion was triggered. That is not consistent with a missile attack.
Did Israel fire a cruise missile immediately upon learning of a fire at Beirut’s port? Very very doubtful.
Did Israel set the fire or have someone set it for them as cover for a missile attack? Well, if they did, they they (or their agents) had access to the warehouse. In that case, they wouldn’t need a missile, they could set charges. And they would almost certainly have known of the Ammonium Nitrate.
So “missile attack” just doesn’t make much sense. A missile attack isn’t easy to hide. And would have people hating Israel instead of Hezbollah. It should be clear by now that the intention is to hate Hezbollah so as to initiate an effort to expel them from Lebanon.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 21 2020 15:12 utc | 139

Following on from my prvious comment: 139
BREAKING NEWS
Georgia and Romania, Russia and Bulgaria are considering memoranda of understanding on the delimitation of maritime juristiction of the Black Sea therebycarving up and challenging “Turkish” waters and any natural resources therein.
What will Erdogan’s response be, I wonder? )))
(Joking, of course)

Posted by: AtaBrit | Aug 21 2020 15:57 utc | 141

Saudi Arabia: they’re teetering?
Simon Watkins article on OilPrice.com

So bad was Saudi Arabia’s economic and political situation back in 2016 that the country’s deputy economic minister, Mohamed Al Tuwaijri, stated unequivocally (and unprecedentedly for a senior Saudi) in October 2016 that: “If we [Saudi Arabia] don’t take any reform measures, and if the global economy stays the same, then we’re doomed to bankruptcy in three to four years.” That is to say, that if Saudi kept overproducing to push oil prices down – just as it did this year, yet again – then it would be bankrupt within three to four years.
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In terms of the actual facts that Saudi apologists overlook, in March Saudi Arabia’s central bank depleted its net foreign assets at the fastest rate since at least 2000. In that month alone, according to even the Saudis’ own figures, the Kingdom’s foreign reserves fell by just over SAR100 billion (US$27 billion). This is a full 5 per cent decrease from just the previous month, and the total reserves figure now stands at just US$464 billion, the lowest level since 2011.

As I noted many months ago – Russia is far more prepared to handle low oil prices than Saudi Arabia. The facts above underscore this: unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia has been running surpluses on its currency accounts
Reuters on Russia $23.5B, Jan-Apr 2020 currency account surplus
Low oil prices absolutely hurt Russia, but that’s nothing like the existential crisis they pose for Saudi Arabia (and much of OPEC).
From the Watkins article above

Despite this relatively positive backdrop to Saudi’s 2014-2016 oil price war against U.S. shale, OPEC member states lost a collective US$450 billion in oil revenues from the lower price environment, according to the IEA.

To put the above in perspective, here’s an article from 2015 (when oil was $42 to $63 per barrel) talking about the “break even” price for 10 OPEC nations and their budgets then:
10 most vulnerable OPEC members
Note Saudi Arabia was running a 20% deficit back then; they’re pricing $5 or lower than “market” price now.

Posted by: c1ue | Aug 21 2020 16:23 utc | 143

Posted by: james | Aug 21 2020 15:31 utc | 140

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba0DqPSx554&t=223
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IQc4fm150I

Many thanks, james! I have a feeling these will be purged from the internet soon (or filtered out by Google and friends …)

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 21 2020 17:56 utc | 145

Posted by: james | Aug 21 2020 18:00 utc | 146

arch – google owns youtube… it makes sense what you say.. however, they are still up!! cheers..

That’s true. My only explanation for that is that it’s a needle in a haystack of millions of videos and the YouTube automated ML systems have not yet batch processed all the terabytes of metadata required to classify this video as a likely candidate for “disappearing”.
Thanks again!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 21 2020 18:06 utc | 147

@ H.Schmatz | Aug 20 2020 22:27 utc | 116
The first time I heard of Robert Fisk was in fact here, at this blog…
Robert Fisk is one of the most renowned journalist of his generation. The two books mentioned above were his narrative of his journalistic experience. The first mentioned concerned the civil war in Lebanon and the destruction of Beirut where he still lives. A first class witness to recent history if ever there was one. Both books recommended for background to today’s events in the Mediterranean region and eastward.
In fact my interest in geopolitics dates from scarce 10 years …Still I managed to previously read Robert Kaplan, KaspuÇinski, Charles M. Doughty, Thesiger, Bowles, Chatwin, Thubron, Verghese… even Norton on Hezbollah… in English….out of my interest in travelling …
Impressive list of writers you have digested, only a few names are familiar and only Kaspuçinski has been on my reading menu – a stellar world class writer, the likes will rarely be seen again. His unequaled “Travels with Herodotus” and “The Shadow of the Sun” are both among my favourite reads with another five of his books I posses close behind; no library complete, no life knowledgable without this journalist.
As for travel writers I have read, William Dalrymple, an accomplished historian, stands high. His “From the Holy Mountain, A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium” retraces a 587 AD journey through Byzantium to the sands of Egypt. Dalrymple has a number of other books yet to be savoured but his history “The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857” brings to life one of the great crimes of the British Empire in full bloody narrative that cannot be put down until the final word. Would my eyes last, several more of Dalrymple’s books will be added to the collection.
There are fewer more pleasurable ways to cope than what you have indicated in your comment. Don’t lose the path.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Aug 21 2020 18:45 utc | 149

@ peter.. with a name like ”nexta” you know someone is trying to bullshit you… hopefully the belarus people know this too..

Posted by: james | Aug 21 2020 23:16 utc | 151

‘Iron brothers’: China, Pakistan agree to safeguard common interests, strengthen cooperation in all areas
After Saudi Arabia refused to make Kashmir a topic in the OIC. Of course neither Xinjing or Baluchistan were mentioned. Purely anti-India and pro BRI expansionism.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1575658/iron-brothers-china-pakistan-agree-to-safeguard-common-interests-strengthen-cooperation-in-all-areas

Posted by: Antonym | Aug 22 2020 1:08 utc | 153

Herd immunity is not a silver bullet. The homo sapiens may or may not develop herd immunity to a disease. And, even if it does, there’s no guarantee it’s permanent, or will even last for a significant amount of time. But Dr. Tegnell knew all of this, I don’t need to teach him the obvious.by: vk 132
Now we know for sure.. Several investigators have reported increased levels of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1), a nuclear enzyme which plays an important role in the repair of damaged DNA, in cells exposed to extremely low dose ionizing radiation which does not cause measurable DNA damage. This paper examined whether exposure of the live living cells to nonionizing radiofrequency fields (RF) is capable of increasing messenger RNA of PARP-1 and its protein levels in mouse bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs). Methods. BMSCs were exposed to 900 MHz RF at 120 μW/cm2 power intensity for 3 hours/day for 5 days. PARP-1 mRNA and its protein levels were examined at 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours after exposure using RT-PCR and Western blot analyses. Sham-exposed (SH) cells and those exposed to ionizing radiation were used as unexposed and positive control cells.
Results. Bone Marrow Stromal Cells exposed to RF showed significantly increased expression of PARP-1 mRNA and its protein levels after exposure to RF while such changes were not observed in SH-exposed cells. Conclusion. Nonionizing RF exposure is capable of inducing PARP-1.
Allow me to once again remain everyone of the EU patent and science relating to 1) Remote activation of cellular signaling 2) Electric Fields stimulate genetically modified pancreatic B cells 3. electronic energy is used to program cellular behavior(like open a channel in a membrane) see… 29 May, 2020 p. 937-39 Vol 36 Issue 6494 of Science.
Beyond recent literature a EU Patent application [EUPA] EP 0710718A1.. published 08.05.1996 Bulletin 1996/19 application number 95115195.0 filed 5.10.1988 the application number of the earlier application in accord with Art. 66 EPC:88909944.6 published 8.05.1996 bulletin 1996/19 application number 95115195.0 date of filing 05.10.1988 which paragraph 54 claims it owns a patent on a “Method of, and apparatus for, cell poration (makes holes in cells) and cell fusion using RF generated electrical pulses..” (my lab experience confirms transporting items through membranes by electral or optical means is standard practice).
Line 55 of the EUPA says the patent applied for<= is a method for the poration (make holes in cell membrane) and fusion of cells using RF electrical pulses The alternating electric field induces cell congregation... the RF porates or fuses with .. very high efficiency.. animal cells, human cells, plant cells, protoplasts, erythrocyte ghosts, lipsomes, vesicles, bacteria and yeasts. the EUPA says: the method has the unique ability to porate or fuse cells in very small or very large (like pandemic size) numbers. Further "During these prorations or fusions, ..a variety of chemical agents, including DNA, RNA, antibodies, proteins, drugs, molecular probes, hormones, growth factors, enzymes, organic and inorganic chemicals can be introduced into these cells.. and new biological species can be produced.. ”
There is bunches of literature that suggest RF is a catalyst to membrane disruption, yet, all I hear, is wear a mask and gloves. Information blackouts invite conspiracy theories because the propaganda that promotes virus in pandemic quantities is a natural risk to human survival is highly suspect in todays modern environment. Especially suspect is that at a time when Viral Pandemic is the center narrative around the globe little about infectivity is discussed? Why ..?

Posted by: snake | Aug 22 2020 1:38 utc | 155

for those who have been aggressively going after b regarding his views on the covid topic… caitline johnstone has a good article up that i wish these same bozos would read… i am not naming names… you know who you are… i am posting this at the next open thread as well… b has put his ass on the line and received more flak for this topic then any in the time i have been here.. it is nice he is not writing about covid, but he has said about as much as i think he can on it.. maybe i am wrong… but i will say caitlin johnstone tells it like it is too and has the ability to be honest with herself and her readers.. kudos to her and moa, even if they take a different tack…
On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses

Posted by: james | Aug 22 2020 3:19 utc | 157

Motorcade carrying Navalny to a Berlin hospital equates the ammount and “noise” of a head of state….for a guy holding a tiny 1-2% os support in elections and who is really dumb…like the others in dance, Guaido and Tikhanovskaya….
https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1297100232812122113
Then Germany alleges wanting to get along with the Russians…why this theater then?
This alleged “poisoning”, which ended being a metabolic disorder ( is this guy diabetic? )came too timely with Russia pronunciation over the Belarus ongoing coup….Most probably provoked by someone from his own entourage under command of puppeteers…like it happened with Litvynenko and Skripals…same old book…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 22 2020 11:43 utc | 159

@Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 22 2020 11:59 utc | 160
I did not know he was diabetic, but if you notice, the guy usually wears dark deep eye bags, probably out of chronic undernurturing due to the wish to keep “fit” in around his fifties….something impossible unless you almost do not eat at all or kill yourself in the gym…Choose what method Navalny, a guy who never needed to sweat a bit to make a living, has chosen….
These people live of their image…just saw a video at Ruptly where his suffering wife still managed to take a minute to lift the collar of her leather jacket to appear more “sexy”??….she…already in her fifties or so too… and thus astonishingly pendant of such trifles… pointless at her age…but moreover at such a moment…when the last thing anyone would think of is its appearance…
The thing is that this not the first time he has been “poisoned”…this starts sounding like the story of “calling wolf”…and, coincidentally, a member of Pussy Riot was also allegedly “poisoned” in the past, in an also noisy event which then ended in nothing, after an orchestrated campaign by Russophobe media…Thread…
https://twitter.com/Herbert_Keg/status/1297081470591410178

The “distinguished” Russian opponent Navalny has been given a door to Germany to see if his relatives there do better the poison theater. The poisoning was a LIE. Navalny got a pampurrio for a metabolic disorder (sudden drop in blood sugar).
The hoax of the “poison”, spread by the mass-mierda and on social networks, through Navalny’s press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, has been undone with a medical diagnosis: “it was a metabolic alteration”, he said. A. Murakhovsky, chief physician of the Omsk hospital.
However, at Falsimedia they have prepared their own conspiracy theory. In the German Der Spiegel-CIA, they say that “Russian doctors delayed the transport of Navalny to the airport so that the presumed poison could be removed from the body and is no longer detectable in Germany”.
Navalny had already been “poisoned” before. Almost exactly a year ago there were reports of this, but they quickly disappeared from the covers of Falsimedia, after the “poisoning” turned out to be an “allergic shock” that began to subside the next day.
Almost two years ago, a pseudo-singer from the Russian “opposition” group Pussy Riot was also “poisoned” in Moscow and taken to Berlin on a special medical flight. The alleged poisoning was another set up, as it was never confirmed and the media quickly forgot the issue
Instead, what fake-media Russophobes like Der Spiegel hide is that Navalny’s organization, champion of “anti-corruption” in Russia, functions as a “foreign agent” in the country and has received highly corrupt foreign funding of up to 14 € million in donations
Navalny relies on the financial trickle of “exiled” Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky and CIA-linked NGOs. To charter a medical plane that includes doctors costs a small fortune. But who pays for it is kept secret. Of course, the Russian government has not put a ruble.

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 22 2020 12:31 utc | 161

Dismantling the “liquidators” of Belarus industry under West payment….

Opposition Maria Kolesnikova is booed at a metal factory in Zhlobin by pro-Lukashenko workers.

https://twitter.com/descifraguerra/status/1297135756230656000
This people can only fool lazy people, because they are unable to put soul in the issue, nor play their very lives, as he does Lukashenko…Their speeches sound always learnt by heart…the same US elections style… Notice how she runs to her “limousine” once troubles start…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 22 2020 13:11 utc | 163

@157 james
Thanks. Excellent from Caitlin. And very useful, to help clear one’s own mind from all the daze.

Posted by: Grieved | Aug 22 2020 16:40 utc | 165

@ Grieved with the Covert Action Magazine link…thanks.
I read the piece and the quote I want to share from it is one that points out the war criminal behavior behind the Hillary Clinton cackle “We came, we saw, he died.”
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Lukashenko futher condemned the U.S. aggression in Libya in 2011, saying that the manner in which Muammar Qaddafi was humiliated and tortured to death was “worse than what the Nazis once did.”[29]
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I unfortunately live in the US and know quite a few people, family included, who still think Hillary was robbed. And those same folks now are calling me a Trump lover because I point out how morally corrupt the Biden/Harris team is.
If there is such a thing as hysterical delusion, American are embracing it in droves…..sigh

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 22 2020 20:01 utc | 167

Below is an outstanding article by Ellen Brown about what I refer to as the Shock Doctrine event that the West is undergoing.
From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 22 2020 20:14 utc | 169

Grieved @166–
From your Stalker Zone link is this one sentence that tells volumes:
“Everything is primitive and according to the methodology of Gene Sharp.”
The entire Outlaw US Empire Color Revolution playbook is now essentially public and can easily be countered by those with that knowledge and proper abilities. Soon IMO, an operation will occur that reverses what happened in 2014 Ukraine. As for elsewhere, Neoliberalism will do the job for the Russians by impoverishing most of the population in the Baltics and elsewhere in the former near-abroad while developmental advances via BRI enhance other nations–Yes, it’s a Long Game, and one Neoliberals have no patience for, or ability.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 22 2020 21:41 utc | 171

I must correct a mistake I made @171. At the very end of his essay, Zueese links to this article in MotherJones by Madison Pauly published on 5 August 2020, something he ought to have done in his intro.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 22 2020 22:34 utc | 173

psychohistorian | Aug 22 2020 20:01 utc | 167 (L quote> worse than nazis…)
An old pal that I had not heard or seen in many years stopped by the digs here @ Anoxia. First thing outta his mouth (after let’s walk in the orchard) was “these people are simply nazis…” Fella’s a university lecturer in the hard sciences, with PhD and more. Still young too.
I don’t want to put too much on that, but it does look as if the proverbial cat is outta da bag…the nazi animal was beaten down by the Red Army, but key people (many not Germans but US persons) escaped justice and gained power…and at this point it is obvious enough that it has become an opening remark.
It bodes badly for the stability of the criminal operation when people see the gang as nazis, I think. I suppose it scares them. It ought to.
@ DR K, Marjorie Cohn – I read that essay. She’s a sound voice. But perhaps we ought to understand her as telling us what we already know, telling us that the US has already collapsed, as there is no United States except by law – no serious historical or national binding save by agreed constitutional law.

Posted by: Walter | Aug 23 2020 0:49 utc | 175

@ Jackrabbit | Aug 23 2020 1:05 utc | 175… thanks for chiming in on this… i am glad you did…
covid is the number 1 story of the year.. of that there is no question.. as i see it, it will continue to be the biggest story of 2020.. that caitlin is withholding comment on it is a good thing, but it does strike me as odd to a degree… most pundits have been pushed into taking a side… i received an e mail from a friend tonight – a member of the anti-covid, its a plandemic crowd… Plandemic
INDOCTORNATION released aug 18th and already 2 1/2 million views…. starring Dr. Judy Mikovits and etc. etc.. you know the drill…
apparently one has to identify with some form of conspiracy, or one is not with it… recall all the posters who attacked b for having the audacity to suggest covid is a pandemic, people need to wear masks, social distance and etc etc?? b had been had and was not the same b and etc etc?? jackrabbit, i am sure caitlin johnstone reads moa and has high regard for bernard… the dilemma is in how one responds to a topic that is so controversial for some…
i look forward to caitlin commenting on covid and stating her views.. in the meantime, i appreciate her candidacy even if it means she has nothing to say! i don’t believe it is an issue of guts with her, but perhaps she doesn’t want to stir a hornets nest either after seeing what moa had to go thru… i don’t know…

Posted by: james | Aug 23 2020 3:40 utc | 177

james @Aug23 3:40 #176
I like Caitlin’s writing when she rails against media narrative control but she’s weak in other areas. She comes from a media background so maybe that should not be surprising.
I also believe that her blog is her primary source of income. That creates a bit of a conflict when you might say something that angers some of your readers.
As you may recall, I was critical of her unquestioning support of Max B.’s claim to be “persecuted” when he was arrested late last year. But that was probably financial smart for her as she probably gained Patreon subscribers/supporters.
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Any close observer of media, politics, and international affairs should be able to understand the hows and whys of this astro-turfed libertarian mob.
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Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 23 2020 5:12 utc | 179

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 23 2020 5:19 utc | 179
Sorry for the duplication, but I have less time for reading comments on holiday than when I am working 🙂
Another “conspiracy article from the same site, by a Tony Hall who I am not familiar with:
https://www.unz.com/article/lockdowns-coronavirus-and-banks-following-the-money-2/
I read your comments regularly and generally agree with your public finance comments and Ellen Brown, Michael Hudson’s positions.

Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Aug 23 2020 6:10 utc | 181

@Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 23 2020 11:04 utc | 182
For an unknown reason this sentence got crippled from its most important word…
the median rate of doctors per capita is 40.7 per 10,000 inhabitants (The figure is 26.7 in Romania, 32 in Finland and 41.9 in Sweden )

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 23 2020 11:08 utc | 183

james @ 177
apparently one has to identify with some form of conspiracy, or one is not with it…
apparently

Posted by: john | Aug 23 2020 11:19 utc | 185

Collateral damage…of the coup intends in Belarus…
People who till now never worried about Belarus, nor even thought such a place would still exist, all of a sudden would find interesting in searching information to discover they lived a peaceful, healthy, highly educated, egalitarian life, although without strident or unnecessary luxury or excessive purchasing of things, and start asking themselves several things about their own nonsensical empty lives…in the unfairly idolized West…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 23 2020 11:32 utc | 187

They are obviously testing to which extend the population will cope with all this shit…without rebelling…for when the skies are falling…that will be around fall…

Maine Governor requires restaurant staff to wear Elizabethan collars or cones similar to those worn by dogs “>https://maine.gov/decd/checklist

https://twitter.com/malatestando3/status/1296801124821938178

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 23 2020 11:59 utc | 189

Reading with care TASS (“US plan to restore anti-Iranian sanctions can erode Security Council’s authority) — Lavrov
“We will try our best to dissuade our US partners from such reckless moves,” the minister said”
You perhaps ought to read the article word for word…
Taken thoughtfully and recalling the League of Nations/USSR expulsion (illegal) the general shape of a October Crises begins to materialize.
It seems that the US designs to stop more ships at sea and possibly arrest both ships and also key political persons and so forth. Withal, designs to create a big crises in the pre-‘lection period. Of course a jolly round of bombs and rockets would add seasoning for TV viewers in Murka.
Brother Lavrov may, I think, then retire and be replaced with a war-time diplomat. My recollection is that something along such lines with Litvinov being replaced with Molotov – but that’s just my hunch. The main thing is the building crises. Of course the rodeo in Belarus and with Navalny dovetails – all one big fubar.

Posted by: Walter | Aug 23 2020 12:24 utc | 191

HYPOCRISY: The President of Latvia, a country that has subjected its Russian-speaking citizens to apartheid since the end of the USSR by banning them from voting, says that in Belarus “the people must be able to express themselves in elections”

https://twitter.com/Amor_y_Rabia/status/1296656157612871680

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 23 2020 12:54 utc | 193

@ Blue Dotterel | Aug 23 2020 4:47 utc | 178.. thanks bd…. i don’t doubt as i have stated many times, that there will be groups who will find a way to profit or position themselves to benefit from any type of crisis… i do believe this was the basis for naomi kleins idea behind disaster capitalism…. i am not sure where it is all headed and i don’t have a problem with others questioning it all either… cheers..
@ Jackrabbit | Aug 23 2020 5:12 utc | 179.. i do remember and i do believe your viewpoint is good and relevant… thanks for stating it here again…
@ john | Aug 23 2020 11:19 utc | 185.. lol! thanks john!

Posted by: james | Aug 23 2020 17:12 utc | 195

Good one Constantine. Right on.
Same with Caitlyn. She is not trying to get more subscribers or donations. Definitely not her act.
She even says on her stuff that it is free to everybody. I see outlets like RT, and ZH often print her writings and I doubt that they pay her anything.
Not everyone has a sneaky agenda up their sleeve.

Posted by: arby | Aug 24 2020 13:45 utc | 197