On the general idea of leading/leadership, I thought it an odd experience to consider the following questions in rapid sequence and note any sensation that results at the end :
Who speaks for France?
Who speaks for Germany?
Who speaks for Great Britain?
Who speaks for Canada?
Who speaks for India?
Who speaks for United States?
Who speaks for Russia?
Who speaks for China?

Posted by: chu teh | Nov 12 2020 15:44 utc | 4

Anyone heard from Jack Ma since CCP pulled the Ant IPO?

Posted by: Slater | Nov 12 2020 15:50 utc | 6

“Brazil says China COVID vaccine trial can resume after suspension”
Apparently suicide was not one of the side affects after all.

Posted by: arby | Nov 12 2020 16:01 utc | 8

It is funny to read stupidity from apparently or otherwise sane people : Trump denied the Pandemic and the one talking about “Coronapocalypse” probably blames the pandemic on Super-Powerful-Democratic-Black-deep-Government……who decided to incur on incredibly high loses of capital and fortune value for their supposed leaders : The Bankers and Corporate CEOs. What created the image of a Society at War was the Stupid Police killing citizens in front of cameras. It is of Repugnants to blame that Shit on Pollsters. Only Imbeciles can propose that Trump won the election or it was stolen from him……Only Imbeciles indeed.

Posted by: opereta | Nov 12 2020 16:17 utc | 10

Vaccines to avoid at all costs so far?
· Astra-Zeneca/Oxford
· Pfizer
Both seem likely to do more harm than good?
? ← those are question marks!
The following don’t need any question marks.
Medicine to be highly skeptical against:
· Whatever they jacked Trump up on
Scary if it is bs that doesn’t work.
Scary if it is something so insanely powerful that it works as portrayed.
Thus scary either way.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 12 2020 16:26 utc | 12

@ posted by: opereta
You may want to tone down a bit on the insults and read up on the economic background story. The central bank financial system requires cyclic reset, the current cycle’s end is overdue. The system was doomed long before COVID, it is a patient kept on life support by permanent injection of ever greater amounts of fiat money and by zero or negative interest. The “Great Reset” is inevitable and was planned all along. It could not be accomplished by the usual means of a great war this time. So COVID-19 is the backup cover story that allows the elites to destroy and reset the economy without taking the blame.
World Economic Forum: the Great Reset
As concerns the high losses – that refers to electronic money, not to real-world assets. It’s a price the elites are willing to pay, there is no choice anyway.

Posted by: Matthias | Nov 12 2020 16:32 utc | 14

Bourgeois Germany is imperialist.
True Germany is a fiction akin to MAGA USA.
Growth of inequality is the desired outcome of market
Economy. Putting the market in charge of resource
Investment is simply capitalism. Zip stands for the destruction
Of socialism in China even if he’s deceived himself.

Posted by: Steven Johnson | Nov 12 2020 16:45 utc | 16

no matter who wins in the u.s., the virus numbers keep going up. it’s not a hoax.it didn’t vanish after the election, and it may never vanish; eventually becoming something like the flu if/when we get a vaccine.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 12 2020 16:54 utc | 18

i’m sure both parties are largely satisfied with the result of the election, with biden apparently winning the presidency and the gop retaining control of the senate and house, that way both parties have an excuse for not doing what people want (“the other side won’t let us!”) and the looting can continue calmly.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 12 2020 17:03 utc | 20

You may want to tone down a bit on the insults and read up on the economic background story. The central bank financial system requires cyclic reset, the current cycle’s end is overdue.
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You are just adding stupid on top of stupid.
The purpose of creating central banks was to tone down the cyclic resets and if you look at the economic history of the US
you will see that the boom bust business cycles were far more frequent and of much greater magnitude before the Fed was created than it was after.
The covid pandemic has resulted in real damage to capital that will last for years and from which capitalism may never fully recover. Businesses and factories will be boarded up and never recover or be replaced due to the decrease in aggregate demand which is the life blood of capitalism.
The whole story that covid is just another scam to benefit the rich and powerful in the capitalist west just does not stand up to close scrutiny.

Posted by: jinn | Nov 12 2020 17:07 utc | 22

Pfizer’s vaccine likely a fraud:
Pfizer CEO sells $5.6mn of stock on record surge the day he praised Covid-19 vaccine’s 90% effectiveness, denies insider trading
Even if it has the effectiveness it claims to have, it has to be stored in -80ºC containers, which effectively kills its viability as a mass product. Posted by: vk @ 9
but I posted this earlier..
the Venezuelian Institute for Scientific Research has modified an apple peal extract that annihilates 100% of the coronavirus.. the molecule called TR-10 is a ursolic acid derivative, submitted to WHO, has been shown 100% effective at blocking virus replication.
Phytochemistry has blocked the replication that makes viral infections pathogenic..chew some gum with the modified ursolic acid derivative <=might save your life.. ? ask Maduro.. ? Posted by: snake | Nov 10 2020 11:15 utc | 70 why is no one talking about something better, safer, and mostly likely easier to stomach than a vaccine.. a replication blocker means <=no effective viral infection <= hence no disease.

Posted by: snake | Nov 12 2020 17:20 utc | 24

Of course dead people voted for the dead guy. Who else can represent their interests?

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 12 2020 17:30 utc | 26

I’m greatly relieved that the Pfizer/BioNTech mutation machine will be rolled out in Britain first. It will be far easier to isolate that island than it would a continent when the “vaccine” turns the population into undead flesh-eating ghouls. There is also the benefit that Britain is now the world’s most dispensable nation. What is the value in a former imperial hegemon that is today only a lapdog for the current imperial hegemon? What use can humanity have with the empire’s pet foufou dog?
It is good to see Britain taking it in the neck like that for the rest of us. Being the lab rats means they are not entirely useless.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 12 2020 17:47 utc | 28

i always appreciate a sense of humour – something some people at moa have…
@ 27 jackrabbit / 30 anne… i was going to ask what this ‘great reset’ is supposed to mean, but i see they have pulled it off in lebannon, so i suppose i have no need to ask the more general question…
@ Matthias | Nov 12 2020 16:32 utc | 14
“what do others think this’ great reset’ is supposed to mean?? it seems like a likeable catch phrase that can be dangled out in front of innocent people to suggest a particular conspiracy or something along those lines… is that all it is? that is what it looks like to me… or is it more like the 9-11 patriot act which was used to ramp a ton of invasion of privacy tools down the worlds throat?? the way i see it – that is all happening and will continue to happen anyway… that ain’t much of a ‘great reset’ but more of the same… kind of like a circe post – no need to read or hear about any of it..

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2020 18:11 utc | 30

Mr Gwuff @29
As a poor working class Brit (by origin) of northern English origins – ta very much. We’ve already endured at least two and half centuries of bourgeois, aristo oppression – and then Thatcher the Snatcher thereafter. We (lower working class northerners) did not want to be an empire, just able to keep bread on the table… and that was definitely not always possible… (short time/lay offs/ Enclosures – affecting much of the country’s plebeians)… And since the Snatcher – nowt but job losses, austerity and rural housing grabolas by the townie bourgeois wanting holiday homes/retirement homes (began in early 1970s). These arses also wanted NO more council housing (social housing), an end to smelly piggy wigs, moorjocks wandering into their gardens and noshing on their flowers, lying in the middle of the moorland roads….And now my sibs and their families are to be punished again??

Posted by: Anne | Nov 12 2020 18:14 utc | 32

usps seems amazing and must be the fastest and best post service in the world.
thousands of ballots was returned b4 they got sent and 10s of thousands was returned THE DAY AFTER it was sent. I wish the Norwegian Postverket was so quick🤷‍♂️

Posted by: Per/Norway | Nov 12 2020 18:30 utc | 34

Posted by: jinn | Nov 12 2020 17:07 utc | 22
You are one of the reasons the world as we know it is f#cked.
It do not matter if you truly believe the garbage you write or get paid to write it.
I wish you all the best as i roll my eyes @ another “useful idiot” for the billionaire class and class traitor.
The corona hoax was good for one thing at least, i am off the fence on the need for an armed revolution in the entire nato sphere and pray for it to happen often.

Posted by: Per/Norway | Nov 12 2020 18:47 utc | 36

@Posted by: Anne | Nov 12 2020 18:14 utc | 32
May be not, what´s your opinion on this guy?
https://twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1326781774949650432
If we are to reset, why they are going to rebuilt only the reaction and for the rest the apolitical mass who has no say/representatives?

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Nov 12 2020 19:01 utc | 38

@ Circe | Nov 12 2020 19:01 utc | 39
Nonsense. Surprise, surprise.
It’s all to be found in the verdict against one Radovan Karadzic.

Posted by: Hmpf | Nov 12 2020 19:08 utc | 40

Snake, multiple posts
I am real sympathetic to the ursolic acid hypothesis but cannot find much info. Not surprised that information is relatively unavailable.
Simpler, more familiar, *almost* without complications is Vitamin D. Any who can be bothered to do a search will get hundreds of hits showing that having sufficient Vitamin D in bloodstream cuts the chance of catching covid by 50% using ultra conservative assumptions. D is also shown to be useful in treating covid. And is either free or very cheap. Free means going outside and getting some sun. Which raises about only possible objection to the surfeit of studies: maybe those who partake of sunshine are just more healthy. The mandates to stay inside and cower of course will limit sun exposure.
Does anybody remember the springtime meme about Rzero or retransmission rate? Get the rate under 1 and the disease will die off. Scare propaganda had covid as the most infectious disease ever, with R values of 2.5 or 5.7 or whatever today’s flavor. In the fullness of time the rate has been about 1.2. If re-transmission could be slowed even fractionally the problem would just go away. So simple stuff that cuts infection by 50% would be enough. If half the population would do the simple stuff that would be enough. We won’t do simple stuff.
To overdose on D requires massive quantities. There is a thesis that those few who have very good blood levels of D and lots of D in storage (it is stored in body for two to three months) can be harmed by long term usage of megadoses. For most, overdose means truly massive megadoses for very long terms. The fact that it is stored means most could simply take a large dose once a month. Or every other month.
Or you could go get some sun. A day in the sun is hundreds of thousands of units of D. That can be hard to arrange in northern hemisphere winter, then supplements make sense.
What makes no sense is what we have done so far. Repeating the experiment and expecting different results won’t work. We are entering the phase where the psychological trauma is going to be unbearable.

Posted by: oldhippie | Nov 12 2020 19:10 utc | 42

@Posted by: james | Nov 12 2020 18:11 utc | 30
The “Great Reset” will be about that, after the fall of the fiat dollar paper, we, average citizens will osat whatever we would have of value, our savings will be erased on the grounds of the lose of value of the dollar and curencies related in the markets, like euro. Any real state will lose as well most of its value, already happening in Toronto, btw. Some of us, if this happens quite fast, in the next months or so, could end owing more than our property is valued in the market, and that after having passed last 20 years paying a celarly inflated prcie for a simple working class apartment.
Wages will be devaluated as well.
Thus, you will end losing your capapbility to purchase, at least at the levels kown until now.
To avoid you being aware you have been plainly robbed in your very noses while the pandemic was running free, they will try to convince you that you really do not need all those things ( and really do you not need them, but they passed the last century making you believe you did…)and that after all, owning nithing now you contaminate less and thus do not have to pay so much carbon taxes as the rich who still will be bale to travel, drive theiur cars and eat as much meat as they would wishm as they will not lost neither their propierties nor their money, since having pre-warning from TPTB, like the guy at the head of Pfizer…
Greta was trying ot make you keen on wwearing the same clothes for a month and not bathing you so much so as to not waste water and consum energy which contaminates a lot, since we masses are many…If Rothschild, whose ship she traveled to MYC into, takes a bath, that is right.
Well medieval conditions for us and for them.
Also, they are davancing that some “cities” ( like the “Citu of London” do not tell me…)may advance more than other parts of the countries and that may imply they secession from the rest of the nation. Rumor has that these “privileged cities” will have a corporate CEO at the helms, unelected, if not by the board of the corporation/main stakeholders which will display an authoritarian rule with mandatory vaccines, absolute censure of information, absolute control of means of exchange by difital money, widespread suveillance even at places you now do not even imagine, to rule over those wanting to live there, and there will be ones, especially young people, who want to get out of the lands of misery and plague…
This is “Hunger Games” and “Mortal Engines” all in mix…What do you think they briadcast these films for, so as that the young go preparing/mentalizing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plA7N05y81M

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Nov 12 2020 19:19 utc | 44

Here is a thought and maybe another poster has already posited it:
There is an offer on the table from the establishment to those in power currently, excluding Trump, who still control the levers for the next 60 days.
The offer is this: we will start beating the drums that Trump is a loose-cannon and is about to “lash out” in a tantrum because he lost and for sure will start a war.
So we will scream this narrative loud and far to ready the public when you in power still, the senate and the vp, utilize the 25th amendment and get him out.
Tempting, isn’t it?
At this point you have the gop senators and congressmen, as well as the vp, trying to make the right call:
Do we play ball with the incoming admin and revert back to the Good Ol’ Party of RINOs and globalists, being thrown a bone here and there by the estab to make it seem that these GOP are working hard for their constituents?
Or…
Do we keep going on the DJT-train? Do we heed the call of the phenomenon and take the reins?
To me the answer is simple and their choice will loudly proclaim them as either cognizant of this historical force or, with the other choice, completely tone-deaf and will be purged promptly with a reckoning they were unable to see coming.
…
The table is set. The bait has been placed in the trap.
I’m picturing a Tom and Jerry cartoon where Pence is Jerry, peeking out of his hole smelling the cheese that Tom (Brennan and co.) has lured in front of the mouse’s eyes on a fishing pole.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 12 2020 19:28 utc | 46

has anyone considered issuing license to people to be eligible to be a politician?. Min requirements a Phd from Poduck high school to take the test (geography, history, spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, diplomacy and prove fluency in at least 6 foreign languages), and to be eligible for the license after passing the test, they would need to prove they have not told a lie or been involved in, or helped to plan a corrupt act in the ten years before the date on the license application.
maybe that is the revolution we are looking for.. A politician ethics board would administer the test, investigate license applicants, issue licenses issue and enforce rules of practice.

Posted by: snake | Nov 12 2020 20:00 utc | 48

@14 Matthias
The system can have a deflationary collapse, and all the fraud and nonsense that has been engendered collapses with it, but that destroys the basis for the 1%s illusory wealth, The Great Reset is to keep the fraud alive and destroy the rest of us.

Posted by: TJ | Nov 12 2020 20:27 utc | 50

jason @51
Nah, she’s just a psychologically damaged TDS victim with the emotional development of a six year old. That’s a common disability among Millennials these days.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 12 2020 20:53 utc | 52

Eight min long Alex Christoforou YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGdI0iP5wb8
‘Great Reset Architect Klaus Schwab says ‘nothing will ever return to normal’

Posted by: gm | Nov 12 2020 21:01 utc | 54

snake #24

the Venezuelian Institute for Scientific Research has modified an apple peal extract that annihilates 100% of the coronavirus.. the molecule called TR-10 is a ursolic acid derivative, submitted to WHO, has been shown 100% effective at blocking virus replication.
Phytochemistry has blocked the replication that makes viral infections pathogenic..chew some gum with the modified ursolic acid derivative <=might save your life.. ? ask Maduro.. ? Posted by: snake | Nov 10 2020 11:15 utc | 70 why is no one talking about something better, safer, and mostly likely easier to stomach than a vaccine.. a replication blocker means <=no effective viral infection <= hence no disease.

snake I thank you for the alert but I DO NOT THANK YOU for the absence of a link.
Please show some consideration to us all and post links to journals etc that might be significance.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 12 2020 21:06 utc | 56

Some readers here might be interested to follow the imminent release of the long-awaited findings of an inquiry here in Australia into alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan by our Special Air Service (Australian Special Forces). It will be a case-study in laying the blame on a ‘few bad apples’ while scrutiny into systemic and widespread use of violence and summary execution against local combatants—tacitly endorsed at the highest levels—will be hamstrung. We have been told by Prime Minister to expect confronting revelations. Those of us who are historians will simply note imperial ‘business as usual’.

Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 12 2020 21:18 utc | 58

@39 Circe

Slobodon Milosovic conveniently died before the trial was over, therefore the verdict could not be rendered.

You are quite the ghoul:
Hague Tribunal Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic Again

Eleven years after his death, a second trial chamber at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has concluded that Slobodan Milosevic was not responsible for war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
…
Milosevic died in the Tribunal’s custody before the conclusion of his own trial. He was found dead in his cell after suffering a heart attack in the UN Detention Unit two weeks after the Tribunal denied his request for provisional release so that he could have heart surgery that would have saved his life.

Not surprising coming from an Iraq War white washer.

Posted by: Tobin Paz | Nov 12 2020 21:21 utc | 60

It seems that, while in the US they seem to be fighting each other, as happened with the Navalny issue, the EU makes its best to positioning itself as dign heri fo the possible dying Empire, and thus prorogates sanctions agsint Venezuela, in the middle of second wave of the pandemic…and close to Christmas too…
https://twitter.com/descifraguerra/status/1326966177487335426
To be recalled next time this people tear down their clothes on basis of respect of Human Rights anywhere in the world…
It is not only Klaus Schwab who is taking way too much advantage of this pandemic…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Nov 12 2020 21:32 utc | 62

Hey, Circe, if Julian Assange die too, locked up during his kangaroo court trial, will that be “convenient” also?

Posted by: Abe | Nov 12 2020 21:40 utc | 64

Escobar noted the Schwab declaration at his FB to which I wrote:
“Perhaps now more will realize the parasitical nature of the Neoliberals and their central bankers, look over at China and realize its rise is happening with its central bank being used as a tool by the CPC instead of the bank running the state so it can avoid regulation and working for the entire population.”
As always, it’s The Class War between Creditors and Debtors, ongoing since @2500BCE and is the genuine Roman Heritage.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 12 2020 21:50 utc | 66

james #30

“what do others think this’ great reset’ is supposed to mean?? it seems like a likeable catch phrase that can be dangled out in front of innocent people to suggest a particular conspiracy or something along those lines… is that all it is? that is what it looks like to me… or is it more like the 9-11 patriot act which was used to ramp a ton of invasion of privacy tools down the worlds throat?? the way i see it – that is all happening and will continue to happen anyway… that ain’t much of a ‘great reset’ but more of the same… kind of like a circe post – no need to read or hear about any of it..

JFK drive in Dallas was a great reset, Mahatma Gandhi assassination likewise, Jeremy Corbyn dumped out of UK Labor – similar.
Harris/Biden psuedo presidency elect could be a great reset to war as usual and direct predatory practices on all but the 1%. But then Trump is carrying out a great reset as we speak – perhaps the only reset that counts in the USA just now. Biden being caught out with his and family hands in the till is a great reset in slow motion. No surprise for others (circe excepted) but those grubby little fingers are everywhere – just like Les Wexner and Ghislain Maxwell. Perhaps the Epstein great reset is a precedent here.
Whitney Webb reports on the weavers of a great reset here.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 12 2020 21:56 utc | 68

Slobodan Milosevic was not cleared, or exonerated by the the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavija). He died just before the end of his trial. That is unfortunate, because he would have certainly been convicted. The relevant decision in his case is the Decision on motion of acquittal, delivered after the prosecution case. The judges decided, based on the presented evidence, that all charges, including the genocide charge, can proceed. Legally, that is the relevant decision.
The assertion that the ICTY exonerated Milosevic was launched by someone who is not versed in the law and is also biased. The assertion was embraced by all those who have chosen what they want to believe, as opposed to facts, that is the literally enormous amount of evidence, including contemporaneous documents of the highest level state organs of Milosevic’s Yugosllavia/Serbia. The evidence against Milosevic is rock solid, and it is available for everyone to see on the ICTY website. Feel free to dig in!
I am from the former Yugoslavia. Milosevic destroyed my beautiful country which did not have problems that could not be resolved. It is an unspeakable tragedy that should never have happened. All the states that came out of the former Yugoslavia are actually big, black holes with no bright future in sight. Thanks to the ICTY, in which I worked for 13 years, I know what happened to my country, and why.
Please do not throw around unsupported assertions about the destruction of my country, or any country. The truth has been established in a credible judicial process according to the highest standards today. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an amazing country which offered a model for a better world. It just needed more time. Milosevic wanted to make Serbia Great again, and Yugoslavia had to be destroyed, but Serbia is smaller than it was when Milosevic embarked on his project of expanding it into Croatia and Bosnia. Lots of lessons for interested learners.

Posted by: JB | Nov 12 2020 22:15 utc | 70

You are probably right JB@70, that Milosevic would have been convicted- the entire process at The Hague was clearly unjust, the sort of court that gives kangaroos a bad name.
But as to his being guilty of ‘genocide’ or wrecking Yugoslavia, of that there is no evidence at all. Yugoslavia was wrecked by NATO led in this instance by Germany anxious to recreate the relationship it had forged with the Croat and Muslim fascists in the World War.
Diane Johnstone’s book Fools Crusade is an excellent introduction for anyone who still believes the NATO narrative, which I gather is one that you spent 13 years feasting off.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 12 2020 22:33 utc | 72

Global Times lays down the Law to those nations who still think they can separate Hong Kong from China:
“[I]it is necessary to get to the point clearly that all parties need to know the logic of what will happen next and the possible consequences. Hong Kong is part of China – no institution or political or legal practice in Hong Kong can challenge this ultimate constitutional principle, and all parties should comply with it. The opposition in Hong Kong should understand that the high degree of autonomy in Hong Kong is granted by the central government and the practice of autonomy cannot become a confrontation with the central government. No external force can become a lever to help the opposition to challenge the central government constitutionally. [My Emphasis]
“Neither the election of a chief executive who confront the central government, nor the formation of a legislature that is capable of paralyzing the SAR government in its Basic Law duties, will be allowed. These are far from the initial intentions of the ‘one country, two systems’ principle, and these contents cannot possibly be contained in the Basic Law.
“If the Hong Kong opposition has such misreading, they should correct themselves immediately. Those who persist in wrong understanding and practice so-called ‘democracy’ according to their own perception are bound to be restrained, and the obstinate ones are bound to pay the price. Some of the Hong Kong opposition brazenly colluded with the US and UK forces to demand Washington and others take action against Hong Kong, which will be defined as a betrayal of the country as well as Hong Kong by both China’s value system and legal system. People with such delusion still wish to participate in the establishment of Hong Kong, become an influential member of legislative council and enjoy high remuneration – how could that happen?
“One question for the US is: If American taxpayer-funded politicians openly ally with China or Russia, asking them to interfere in US elections and sanction US government officials, can their own moral and legal system allow and encourage it?
“We also want to ask, if there is a group of people in the US Congress who openly break the rules of procedure to block the functioning of the Congress and paralyze the government’s operation ability, will the US society applaud and label it as ‘just’?” [Actually, such tactics are used often usually with little damage done to the offenders.]
English language Chinese media can’t make it more clear to the Outlaw West as they’ve used up almost the entire bucket of rhetorical means to make the Outlaws understand and really only have “Fuck Off and Die” remaining. Maybe China ought to stop sending those container laden trains to Germany daily and let them sit idle for a few weeks for that seems to be the only language that particular Outlaw understands.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 12 2020 22:41 utc | 74

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 12 2020 19:28 utc | 46
Yes, I have also noticed a slew of stories, many from “unnamed officials”, of how President Trump is planning a Götterdämmerung, a Twilight of the God(s) with fire and brimstone reigning down on Iran and others? Is he though? We have had heard or read many lies from these same sources (bounty on US troops being one) that our first reaction should be one of skepticism. His firing of Esper and the advancement of Christopher Miller who has just brought on as his senior adviser Ret. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor are a team that want troops withdrawn from Syria, South Korea and Afghanistan. This seems to have set all those warmongers hair on fire. How dare the President “rush” to pull troops out of Afghanistan. No wonder all those Satraps rushed to prematurely anoint Biden as Emperor. NATO rushes to embrace Biden as he will deal with the “Russian” threat. Out with the brashness and vulgar Trump, and in with the soft soothing words of VP Harris will bring more peace and democracy to the world.
Donald Trump may be late in bringing the troops home, but better late than never. Is it a legacy for his run for President in 2024 if justice doesn’t prevail with the Election fraud committed by Biden’s team (that’s if the cheese burgers and fries don’t kill him before then). Or is it a “Plan B”. Rumors have it he is trying to get more classified documents released such as those to do with Russiagate. No wonder Brennan and Haspel are squirming. Anyone out there still wondering who would is the “Peace Candidate”? Anyone still wondering why the Deep State would turn the latest Presidential election into the gold standard of corruption if it is mere Kabuki theater? The PTB sure seem to want to get rid of Trump. That point alone should have us praying for President Trump in his fight against this coup. And who knows, if he prevails he may actually move on the social media giants that have been censoring anything they don’t like, because they have attacked him personally. We certainly can’t expect a Biden administration to do anything about it because they have gained from it.

Posted by: Tom | Nov 12 2020 22:47 utc | 76

Jen @ 71
Ha ! Talking of foot in mouth ——-
Perhaps you should re-read Circe’s comment.
I think you owe her an apology.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 12 2020 22:54 utc | 78

I have always wanted to travel to Ethiopia, but went postponing the travel, as gave me a pain passing the whole summer working so as to save all my holidays to travel there in October, when rains season stops. Along these past years, as I became immersed more into researching geopolitics, I have been chosing countries to visit as they were entering, to my hunch, in the path of war, or, at least, regional instability. It is this way that still managed to know, before it was too late, astounding places like Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Georgia…all worth the title of world heritage, holding great unforgetable remains of ancient culture and human civilization…
Ethiopia, it is obvious, I postponed it way too much, after all i can not afford but one travel abroad a year… May be it is that I am already getting old, i mean for my laziness, as it was obvious it was urgent to do it after the assassination of the engineer of the Great Renaissance Dam…
Thus, it is possible that I must finally stay without travelling there, except through literature ( which may well be the last resort for travelling for those of us who will get placed at the bottom of the food chain…)
As some guys here use to recommend books, in case you know nothing of the history of Ethiopia, there is novel well worth the time, in which perennial unresolved health problems of the African continent, colonialism and the people´s liberation movements happen in the middle of a very human tragedy that is life…
Hijos del Ancho Mundo by Abraham Verguese, not sure if it exist in English version, could not find it…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Nov 12 2020 23:15 utc | 80

…as it was obvious it was urgent to do it after the assassination of the engineer of the Great Renaissance Dam…

Related to this, it has been my observation that fater the first triggering event, it is a matter of no more than two or three years that may be all the hell breaks loose and you will not be able to get there without incurring in too much risk, as an average tourist, which is like I go…
The triggering event totally planned by the strategists behind to unkeash the desired outcome, which they need developing a couple of years or so, during which enough grudges and nonsensical violence is created out of nothing and enough agents ae being placed in the critical points …

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Nov 12 2020 23:40 utc | 82

hi everyone, especially new (relatively) people, i am not Anne, i am annie (always lower case), annie robbins from california, on staff and a writer for mondoweiss [as well as commenter/moderator there] for almost 10 years. i am no longer on staff nor do i comment here nor there, much. but pre (as well as during and after) mondoweiss i was here, always & every day, from before the transition from billmon (2003 or thereabouts). this is my original and always will be my internet home. i’m just annie, always lowercase, always with an *i*, not anne or Anne. i’m always here, i just don’t comment very much anymore. thank you. peace, and FUCKING YES REVOLUTION. ❤️

Posted by: annie | Nov 13 2020 0:07 utc | 84

@76 Tom
Interesting! Been too busy for reviewing the new military appointees until I read your post. It looks like this is a last ditch attempt by Trump to get troops out of Afghanistan and Syria…

Posted by: Haassaan | Nov 13 2020 0:16 utc | 86

“”withdrawing troops from Afghanistan may well be exactly what TPTB want.”
Posted by: jinn | Nov 12 2020 23:34 utc | 81″
You have got to be kidding. lol

Posted by: arby | Nov 13 2020 0:28 utc | 88

hi, annie.

Posted by: beq | Nov 13 2020 0:36 utc | 90

China has a border with Afghanistan, as does Iran…were Afghanistan to free itself from USA occupation, it would make a great conduit for the BRI.
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At this point TPTB are thinking about freeing themselves from Afghanistan. You don’t know what is happening there if you think Afghanistan is trying to free itself from USA occupation. As I said the Afghans control all the country that they want to control. The US can have Kabul and Khandihar and the Bagram airbase.

Posted by: jinn | Nov 13 2020 0:52 utc | 92

“As I said the Afghans control all the country that they want to control. The US can have Kabul and Khandihar and the Bagram airbase.”
That is not true. What the USA occupies is enough to prevent Afghanistan from functioning. East to West or even North to South traffic/trade is impossible. Under current conditions Afghanistan cannot normalize relations with Iran or China. The USA holds unto what they hold onto because it allows them to control the country with minimal investment….TPTB NEVER LEAVE on their own accord…
Thinking tangentially, Trump might want to leave Afghanistan so a war against Iran is possible…currently Bagram would be hammered by Iranian missiles, and American Troops would be isolated and destroyed by Iranian proxies…or the Iranians themselves…looking at the glass with Anti-Trump eyes one could conclude that the removal of troops from Afghanistan and Syria is prepping for war with Iran.

Posted by: Haassaan | Nov 13 2020 1:04 utc | 94

Venezuelan Scientists Develop ‘Effective’ Anti-COVID-19 Medicine: Maduro – Tasnim News Agency (Iran) – 10/26/20

Posted by: blues | Nov 13 2020 1:14 utc | 96

From Automaticearth to go with my post at 76. Autoearth says it better than I did, with more depth and sardonic humour.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2020/11/bring-them-home-for-christmas/

Posted by: Tom | Nov 13 2020 1:26 utc | 98

Posted by: Tom | Nov 13 2020 1:26 utc | 99
Gracias! Good article…nice find!

Posted by: ArthurDent | Nov 13 2020 1:39 utc | 100