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December 29, 2020
Open Thread 2020-103
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vk #200 Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2021 5:46 utc | 201 Posted by: vk | Dec 31 2020 23:29 utc | 181 Posted by: Paco | Jan 1 2021 7:57 utc | 202 Some posts on #forcethevote and the building momentum for the big day rally January 2 and 3. Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2021 8:51 utc | 203 Prof Wolff flogs the capitalist & government failures in 2020 in a great rant at Status Coup with host Jordan Chariton Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 1 2021 9:32 utc | 204 John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the shop that worked on the Hunter Biden laptops, tells the story of his and his father’s interactions with the FBI after the Mac Isaacs initiated contact at a Alburquerque FBI field office in 2019. Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 11:22 utc | 205 What is the motivation behind the Nashville explosion? Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 12:11 utc | 206 @ Crazy Uncle Posted by: Circe | Jan 1 2021 12:38 utc | 207 So Pashinian seems to have gotten the message: Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 1 2021 12:50 utc | 208 Copied link from Lambert at Naked Capitalism:
Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 1 2021 13:32 utc | 209 Party like it’s the War of Secession era (“robber barons era”): THIS is on Trump!
Biden must give Zionists the deaf ear on these priorities that are fundamental for peace and a more righteous humanity, and put actions to his words from the moment he becomes President. This is a moral imperative that supercedes all else with the exception of saving lives from the pandemic. However, one major priority should not exclude or delay another. Posted by: Circe | Jan 1 2021 15:42 utc | 211 Circe Posted by: Stonebird | Jan 1 2021 16:14 utc | 212 Posted by: james | Jan 1 2021 4:20 utc | 201
That is VERY plausible. Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 1 2021 16:45 utc | 213 More *Sad Truth* to ponder, looking ahead to what will be rushing toward the US/World in 2021 and beyond…
Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 16:57 utc | 214 Here are just two more concrete examples of the fake news as Luongo sees it :
Mockingbird media blithly ignores the fact that US alone has probably thrown $1-2 Trillion down the the “counter-intelligence/terrorism’ rat-hole since 2001, and then shoves this obscene FIB propaganda in our faces: Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 17:37 utc | 215 gm @Jan1 16:57 #216
!! Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 1 2021 17:49 utc | 216 Posted by: Circe | Jan 1 2021 15:42 utc | 213 Posted by: Paco | Jan 1 2021 18:51 utc | 217 Pretty soon we could have a lot of cases here: Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 1 2021 19:00 utc | 218 Fairly decent and intelligent [minimal BS]discussion of the constraints limiting DIY bomb-makers to certain types of devices. Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 19:14 utc | 219 @ Jackrabbit | Jan 1 2021 17:49 utc | 218 Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 19:48 utc | 220 Once again, the Global Times editor lays out the truth for the Outlaw US Empire if it’s to compete with the EU and all other nations geoeconomically. Towards his conclusion, the editor writes this phrase: “The US government needs to restore its normal mindset in the face of a rapidly growing China…,” [My Emphasis] begging what IMO is a very important question: Just what is the Outlaw US Empire’s “normal mindset”? It’s #1 policy goal of attaining Full Spectrum Domination has yet to be repudiated, but it’s clearly a crippled giant that is incapable of attaining that goal; and it hasn’t had any sort of sustained, positive, genuine GDP growth for 40 years. IMO, Hudson and others that see policy aimed at enriching the top tier at the expense of all others–Parasitic Neoliberalism–are correct in saying that’s the genuine, “normal mindset.” And if we’re correct, there’s no way the Empire can compete with the rising multilateral, multipolar world that’s based on cooperation, not tooth and talon competition–the Empire’s teeth being broken and its talons greatly dulled. @ Jackrabbit | Jan 1 2021 17:49 utc | 218 Posted by: gm | Jan 1 2021 20:28 utc | 222 @Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 1 2021 17:49 utc | 218 Posted by: H.Schmatz | Jan 1 2021 20:50 utc | 223 gm @Jan1 20:28 #224 Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 1 2021 21:06 utc | 224 gm @Jan1 19:48 #222
LOL. Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 1 2021 21:11 utc | 225 James @201 Posted by: bevin | Jan 1 2021 23:50 utc | 226 @ 227 bevin……. thanks…. that’s a nice song you shared! i am almost finished up on the alan lomax book by john szwed.. it is very good.. of course alan was friends with pete seegers parents and did a lot of work with the whole family… i was just listening to a eubie blake track.. do you know who that is?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQLn-p0w84 Posted by: james | Jan 1 2021 23:57 utc | 227 Q&A time.
This is good question. When do we know the capitalist class is conspiring or simply scrambling to save the system?
In other words, the USA’s profit rate should’ve fallen on the scale of 40% if it wasn’t for the USG’s mammoth bailouts, which made even Obama’s one in 2009 look like a tip to a gas station waiter. Instead – because it is the frickin’ USA, capitalism’s HQ – it managed to grow its profit rate by 14% thanks to the Dollar Standard. I see the NYT, an eager beaver for big Pharama has pushed out a story which appears implicitly designed to protect pfizer’s profits.
Covid has become so rampant throughout england, everyone pols especially seem to be on the verge of hysteria, so are ‘dosing’ as many as possible as soon as possible with the first dose. That may well mean up to 40 million first doses of Pfizer (although if you know england, you know that at least a few million will be held so that the usual suspects (aristos etc.) will be given a pfizer second dose at the correct date for it. Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 2 2021 2:32 utc | 229 sad but true debs… thanks…. well said.. the whole thing smells fishy.. Posted by: james | Jan 2 2021 2:59 utc | 230 Any opinions on whether Iran has successfully spoilt the current/latest US false flag attempt? Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 2 2021 4:18 utc | 231 Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 2 2021 4:18 utc | 233 Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 2 2021 10:33 utc | 232 Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 1 2021 20:18 utc | 223 Posted by: Paco | Jan 2 2021 10:38 utc | 233 Sorry,this is the correct link: Posted by: Paco | Jan 2 2021 10:41 utc | 234 And this photo published by Rozhin, dedicated to tovarisch VK: Posted by: Paco | Jan 2 2021 10:52 utc | 235 @219 Paco Posted by: Circe | Jan 2 2021 11:17 utc | 236 Posted by: Circe | Jan 2 2021 11:17 utc | 239 Posted by: Paco | Jan 2 2021 12:22 utc | 237 Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 2 2021 4:18 utc | 233
To begin with, I struggle to see this as a classic false flag, particularly one in the American or Israeli style. Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 2 2021 13:23 utc | 238 US postpones production of F-35 fighter aircraft indefinitely
@240 Paco Posted by: Circe | Jan 2 2021 14:21 utc | 240 Posted by: vk | Jan 2 2021 14:01 utc | 242
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 2 2021 14:25 utc | 241 Sunny Runny Burger @Jan2 4:18 #233
I’m not sure that anything has been spoiled. If anything the limpet mine discovery is very suspicious as I imagine that it’s very difficult to find them unless one is told where to look.
Well, in earlier discussions moa commenters have said that a carrier would be a sitting duck in the Persian Gulf so the exit of the carrier group may not be the positive signal that some think it is.
Even so, it’s being tied to previous attacks so that this incident is elevated to campaign of sabotage. And that will be further expanded into Iran as a terrorist nation that can’t be allowed to have a nuclear bomb. Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 2 2021 14:36 utc | 242 Posted by: Circe | Jan 2 2021 14:21 utc | 243 Posted by: Paco | Jan 2 2021 14:46 utc | 243 This is hilarious: We can assume that there will be inspections of other tankers in the Gulf. What if limpet mines are found on multiple tankers?
!! Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 2 2021 14:53 utc | 245 @JackRabbit: Posted by: Bemildred | Jan 2 2021 15:35 utc | 246 Re: “Wasserman’s forecast right one” Posted by: gm | Jan 2 2021 15:50 utc | 247 @vk | Jan 2 2021 14:01 utc | 242 Posted by: gm | Jan 2 2021 16:49 utc | 248 Posted by: Circe | Jan 2 2021 14:21 utc | 243 Posted by: Paco | Jan 2 2021 19:31 utc | 249 @ Paco | Jan 2 2021 19:31 utc | 252 & 246 Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jan 2 2021 22:23 utc | 250 It seems that the FBI evidence “sifters” and narrative writers in the Nashville Christmas explosion case have another tough job on there plate to explain, in addition to the alleged bomber’s lack of plausible motive and the still MIA forensic composition analysis results [based on combing the crime scene for the past week] of the “homemade IED that was powerful enough to take out a Homeland Security-hardened AT&T/NSA communications backbone node *AND* destabilize/destroyed 10 buildings *AND* 1200 employees out of work and 400 residents out of their housing along 2nd Ave N.
Posted by: gm | Jan 2 2021 23:55 utc | 251 @ Paco – Oralé guey! Soy aqui en Califas. No pierda su tiempo con esa circe. Los Russos son buenagente. Esa “c” sufre de TDR y no sé lo que mas. Es mejor ignorarla. También quiero yo ir de Lisboa a Vladivostok. Es un gran sueño mío. Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 2 2021 23:57 utc | 252 Paco @237– Happy New Year @all. Posted by: Lozion | Jan 3 2021 0:59 utc | 254 Never mind, found this: Posted by: Lozion | Jan 3 2021 1:21 utc | 255
Oh please! It’s crackers as in wacky …Russian crackers. Posted by: Circe | Jan 3 2021 6:58 utc | 256 Circe @259– This made me chuckle: https://www.stalkerzone.org/my-letter-to-the-cia/ Posted by: Idiocrates | Jan 3 2021 9:06 utc | 258 Jimmy Dore does a masterful job of showing AOC be total fake lip service politician on M4A. Posted by: gm | Jan 3 2021 9:32 utc | 259 @Robert Lindsay | Jan 3 2021 7:27 utc | 260 Posted by: gm | Jan 3 2021 10:20 utc | 260 Posted by: Circe | Jan 3 2021 6:58 utc | 259 Posted by: Paco | Jan 3 2021 11:12 utc | 261 @261 karlof1 Posted by: Circe | Jan 3 2021 14:34 utc | 262 Another Devastating Jimmy Dore takedown/exposure: Posted by: gm | Jan 3 2021 16:21 utc | 263 @ Circe | Jan 3 2021 14:34 utc | 267 Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Jan 3 2021 16:38 utc | 264 YES 1 Formerly T-Bear Posted by: Circe | Jan 3 2021 17:51 utc | 265 A late reply but thank you to all for sharing your thoughts, all of them sensible. I don’t really have much to add except that not much more is known (to me) so it’s safe to assume any removal of explosives was successful. Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 7 2021 8:12 utc | 266 |
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