Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- October 12 – Not News But A Juicy Collection Of Narratives – How The New York Times Failed Its Readers
Related:
How star reporter’s Syria podcast sent New York Times into crisis – Guardian
- October 13 – Professor Chossudovsky Is Wrong – Here Is How PCR Tests Work
Related:
Last week there was an outbreak of Covid-19 in Qingdao, a harbor city of 11 million in south China. Two dock workers had fallen ill. A CT scan room used for the Covid-19 patients was not properly disinfected and another 14 people got the virus. Alarmed about the outbreak the authorities tested all people in Qingdao. Within 5 days 10.8 million RT-PCR tests were taken and processed. Chossudovsky and others claim that these tests often produce 'false positive' results. So how many 'false positives' did they find in Qingdao?
Qingdao finishes city-wide testing, finds no new COVID-19 cases – Global Times
None. Zero. Nada. RT-PCR tests DO NOT produce false positive results.
- October 14 – U.S. Fails To Find Allies For Waging War On China
Related:
The Logic of Sino-Western Détente – Project Syndicate
- October 15 – Media Again Falsely Claim That Joe Biden's Intervention In Ukraine Was Innocent
Related:
Yes, The Hunter Biden Emails Are Authentic – Larry C Johnson / SST
‘The Emails Are Russian’ Will Be The Narrative, Regardless Of Facts Or Evidence – Caitlin Johnstone
Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard – Matt Taibbi
- October 16 – "It's a hard Brexit's a-gonna fall"
Related:
Brexit: "ready" is not an option – Richard North / EU Referendum
Take Pity on Britain Because It Is Approaching Catastrophe – Brian Cloughley / SCF
When does incompetence turn into a crime? This is the question we should be asking as government fails again – Patrick Cockburn / Independent
- October 17 – More Pressure On Russia Will Have No Effect
Related:
Another color revolution fails in Kyrgyzstan – MK Bhadrakumar / Asia Times
Moscow derails Kyrgyz color revolution – MK Bhadrakumar / Asia Times
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Other issues:
Covid-19 politics:
- The Great Barrington Declaration: A manifesto of death – WSWS
- Covid-19: The global crisis — in data – Financial Times (free access)
- No, China Didn’t ‘Stall’ Critical Covid Information at Outbreak’s Start – FAIR
- How Did China Beat Its Covid Crisis? – NY Books
Rather than viewing the Chinese government’s reaction as a sign of its love of a lockdown, I now think of it as emblematic of the bureaucratic élan that underlies much of China’s rise over the past few decades, from the largely successful economic policies that went counter to the shock treatment advocated by many Western experts to its rolling out a national highway and high-speed rail network—public engineering feats that Western countries used to accomplish quickly but that now drag on for years or decades.
Covid Europe:
- This was Europe five days ago. Denmark, Germany and Austria had little incidence. But the cultural levees sprang leaks and the yellow countries are now also turning red.
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Election:
- POTUS Punk vs. Dem Dementia – Pepe Escobar / SCF
- The Bankruptcy of ‘Bipartisan Foreign Policy’ – AmCon
- The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It – Counterpunch
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