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The MoA Week In Review – Open Thread 2020-67
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
> A necessary condition for a person like Donald Trump ever winning a major election is now back in play: No one thinks he is going to win. <
> The Press Secretary's statement quotes Trump distancing himself from We Build the Wall on July 12 this year. That's a year and a half after the private border-wall campaign launched—and the week of ex-U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman's unexpected and unexplained ouster. <
> Navalny said himself that he suffered from diabetes in 2019, giving some credence to this explanation. <
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Other issues:
Belarus color revolution / coup attempt:
Covid-19:
Syria:
Big bang:
Use as open thread …
I heard no speaker at the Democrat Convention address the concerns or complaints of any but the people of color. ? extremely interesting to watch as it looks as if the search engine giants deleted nearly every concern white Americans might have had at the Democrat convention. Does that mean
we have on the left the Democrat Multi colors and the Republican White only colors. Who cares? The problem cannot be fixed by voting.
It is clear. the Council of Soups, [<=Council on (International) Foreign Relations, in collaboration with several other such organizations, collectively the owners of the deep state], is running the Governments that controls the nation states that control Americans, that control the states, that control the counties, that control the cities, that control the schools and the flows of tax money from the governed citizens into the federal chasm, and that make the states and counties and cities beg for the return of enough of their own money to make function the bureaucracies that keep people in line with standards of thought dictated to them by the Council of soups? .
The total and absolute<=crowd to individual control=> of the behavior and understanding of the nation state governed in the world seems to be the essential goal of the Council of soups. Less and less the COS seems willing to allow the governed in America, as well as in any territory governed by a nation state, to have any say in the management of their own containment within.
Just look at how little has been said about how much the cell phone and cell tower RF generators allow SARS Covid 19 virus to disrupt the double membrane and infect the world. No one has been allowed to challenge the industry that uses {radio frequency] to opens pores (holes) in human cells no one has been allowed to discover just how much those RF induced pores allow or help a virus to murder humans.
Its not even being talked about..
So why is implementing even more powerful RF stations closer and closer to everyone so important to the Council of Soup? Because 5g was developed as a crowd control weapon.. Recent molecular biology shows clearly the virus enters humans cells because its S protein disrupt the Lipids that separate the two membranes (<=most human cells are enveloped in a double membrane). It turns out so too does 900 Hz RF; both Radio Frequency and the S protein on the surface of the virus do the same thing, they disrupt the double membrane and open holes (pores) and the virus works its way in through those holes. So does RF let the virus in? No one is allowed to dig in on that question. The fact that RF disrupts the double membrane of cells is so well known that there is a long standing European Patent claiming ownership to a Council of Soup controlled, Deep State owned that claims it has the exclusive patented monopoly control over the right to use RF to make holes in cell membranes.. u get the idea.
Don’t bother with an election you can do nothing about, (remember your vote<=the one you go to the poll to caste=>, does not decide who it is to be the President or the Vice President <=the electoral college elects the two Article II puppets) instead of voting concentrate your effort=> on the real risk, when the deep states gets its wireless delivery system in place so it can control not just the in side of your home but also the inside of your body from its high technology remotely located offices, by using its digital technology (tools and such) your freedom is less of less value to you than grass, hay, straw, or whatever.
Search engines have already proven that digital technologies can control what you are allowed to say, what you must think, and when you must get up and go to sleep and what you must do in between and how much medical service you are entitled to, and which pharmaceutical s you must take and which degrees in which college or University you must suffer in order to get a job doing this or that. and what the university fails to control license catches. The threat is control by the few in these Soup kitchens, over the digital technology and their new ability to use them from their high technology factories.
The soup kitchens are completing a distribution system that will enable them to control everything and everyone. This system allows them to make each new technology a privately owned piece of property, which gives the owner of each of new technology more and more global control over humanity. The device that is making the DEEP STATE so powerful, even more powerful than the nation state, is monopoly power over access to, and use of, all technology (copyright, patent, private land ownership, and privatization <=conversion of public domain properties and services into privately controlled profit making enterprises).
It starts at the bottom, the nation state makes laws (copyright, patent, deeds, and lower yet the states sells or franchises it public services to private enterprise and so on ). The nation states sign treaties with each other and make laws that allow the council controlled DEEP STATE to own everything that is needed to make sure there is no competition to their power, and the nation state pays the DEEP STATES to keep on developing more and more digital technology. Humanity is doomed to be controlled by a very few, unless it finds a way to terminate patents, copyrights and stop privatization.
Posted by: snake | Aug 23 2020 15:02 utc | 4
@ Posted by: ptb | Aug 23 2020 14:57 utc | 3
Yes, the comparison I make is 100% metaphorical. The Roman Empire has nothing to do with the American Empire. It’s actually an internal joke among historians, as the American Empire loves to compare itself with the Roman Empire (a cultural trait they inherited from their predecessor, the British Empire). See Adrian Goldsworthy unique witness in the introduction of his book “How Rome Fell: death of a superpower”:
Milder and less detailed criticism is even more common. At certain sorts of parties, the discovery that I am an ancient historian almost inevitably prompts someone to remark that `America is the new Rome.’ More often than not this is followed by a smug, of course, they don’t see it.’ This at least is utterly false, for Americans have been comparing their country to Rome since its foundation. In shaping the new country, the Founding Fathers consciously hoped to copy the strengths of the Roman Republic and avoid its eventual downfall. These days, it is also fair to say that the different university systems tend to make educated Americans broader in the range of their knowledge than the British. Plenty of engineers or medical doctors in America will at some point have taken a course or two in history or even the classics, something which is unimaginable on this side of the Atlantic. This is one of the reasons why Roman analogies remain exceptionally common in the USA, and are routinely made by politicians themselves as well as journalists, political commentators and the wider public. Usually it begins with the assumption that the USA as the sole superpower left in the world is dominant in a way unmatched by anyone since the height of Roman power.
In the summer of 2001 I took part in a two-day seminar organised [Note: Goldsworthy is British] by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, which was US government-funded by the Office of Net Assessments. Six historians were brought to a nice hotel in Washington DC – as one of the older and more distinguished members of the group put it, `They obviously don’t realise what academics will put up with.’ We then gave papers and discussed the grand strategies of various great powers from history. We were just a small part of a wider series of seminars and research sessions aimed at providing insights about future relations between the USA and the emerging power of China. The talks and discussions were enjoyable and fascinating – it is quite rare in academic circles for conferences to cover such a wide range of periods, including First Empire France, Germany in the First and Second World Wars, and British naval policy in the early twentieth century. Yet it was striking that two out of the six of us had been asked to speak about different periods of Roman history.
So, yes, even if the average American doesn’t take its comparisons with Rome seriously, their masters certainly are.
By “decline of the Northeastern elite”, I mean as a collateral effect of the Christianization of the Empire, in the sense the old Protestant religious doctrine is being supplanted by the new Protestant doctrine (southern baptist, neopentecostal, other rapturist variants of Christianity, evangelicals in general and Catholics) from the Sun Belt and the Deep South. The geographical shift is also represented by the decline of the European Peninsula and thus, of the North Atlantic as the focus of international trade and thus of the capitalist geopolitical affairs. Sure, the Mediterranean (i.e. Jerusalem, i.e. Israel) will continue to serve as the “spiritual” geopolitical capital of the American Empire, but I predict the objective reality of capitalism will inevitably pull the Evangelical fundamentalism towards the complete destruction of China (socialism), thus towards the Pacific.
The fact that the West Coast is being more prosperous than the rest of the American Empire, will also probably trigger a migration process towards California and, maybe, the Oregon by the far-right, Christian fundamentalists from the Deep South (maybe even a deliberate maneuver of the GOP to take back California?).
But the main ingredient of all this process I’m betting on is economic decline. American will have to continue to decline economically for its Christianization and Westernization process to continue and take firm roots in the soul of the Empire. And it will have to do so for a long time – at least for two generations’ time. The process could be theoretically aborted through a socialist revolution inside the Empire, or by a unique surrender of the Empire to Eurasia, a la USSR to the West in 1991 (both of which I find unlikely).
As a side effect of this, I also think two other relevant processes will happen: 1) the fusion of Australia with the American Empire (Pacific strategy) and 2) the complete disintegration/destruction of Latin America, which will turn into a second Subsaaran Africa.
Posted by: vk | Aug 23 2020 16:00 utc | 7
Below is another Xinhuanet posting copied in total because of its tenor of reporting, if nothing else.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — The 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to kick off, during which U.S. President Donald Trump will formally accept the party’s presidential nomination this year.
Monday’s convention proceedings in Charlotte, North Carolina, will be attended by six delegates from each state and territory, amounting to 336 delegates in total, who will nominate Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for a second term.
Trump will make a stop in Charlotte on Monday just as delegates plan to hold roll call nomination.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Sunday that she doesn’t believe the presence of RNC attendees in Charlotte will pose public health risks.
“We tested everybody before they came to Charlotte, we tested everybody onsite,” McDaniel said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “We are doing things that allow people to live their lives, have a convention.”
Multiple protesters against the RNC were arrested on Friday and Saturday nights in Charlotte. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department tweeted that police officers used their bikes to put crowds back and pepper spray on those who advanced on them.
The four-day RNC has been largely scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump had planned to move his acceptance speech to Jacksonville, Florida but he later called it off after infections surged in “The Sunshine State.”
His speech will now take place on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday night despite criticism that the federal property should not be used as the backdrop for a campaign event. On Wednesday night, Pence will deliver his acceptance speech at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
First lady Melania Trump will speak on Tuesday night from the recently renovated Rose Garden of the White House. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will reportedly be addressing the RNC from “an undisclosed location” in Jerusalem.
Speakers for the RNC also include other members of the Trump family, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, and former New York City Mayor and Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani, according to the Trump campaign.
George W. Bush, the only living Republican former U.S. president, is not slated to speak at this year’s convention. Bush, who served between 2001 and 2009, also sat out the 2016 convention.
Besides the acceptance speech on the last night of the RNC, Trump will speak on the three other nights, also a break from traditions.
“You’ll have President Trump speaking at various parts for each of the nights,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said during an appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Miller said the RNC will focus on what he called “all the accomplishments that we’ve had over the last four years with President Trump and what the president’s second-term vision is going to look like.”
According to The New York Times, Trump will speak nightly during the 10 p.m. hour of the RNC.
Democrats are planning to use a series of ads, television appearances and briefings to counter-program the RNC. A group of Republicans, including some Trump critics, will hold a “Convention on Founding Principles” in Charlotte, also starting on Monday, which they claimed is an alternative to the RNC.
The quadrennial event will come several days after the conclusion of the virtually-held 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) that officially nominated former Vice President Joe Biden for president.
Viewership for the DNC was down about 17 percent on average this year across all four nights compared with 2016, according to Nielsen Media Research, a U.S. firm that measures media audiences.
More than 122 million people watched the DNC live across broadcast, cable and digital platforms, while the events had 128.7 million video views on social media, according to the Biden campaign.
Biden saw his favorability increase from 40 percent to 45 percent in a week, according to an ABC News-Ipsos poll released after the DNC. The poll found Trump’s favorability around 32 percent, mostly unchanged from other recent polls, but his unfavorability increased to 60 percent.
“Actually, I think I’m leading in the Polls,” Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon.
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Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 24 2020 3:55 utc | 71
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