The U.S.A. has essentially terminated diplomatic relations with Russia. That is rather concerning.

Posted by: Doubter | Mar 18 2021 14:22 utc | 3

@1 Sakineh Bagoom
Maybe 🙂 🙂

Posted by: ptb | Mar 18 2021 14:35 utc | 5

Mercopress: Argentina’s Economy Minister Martin Guzmán traveled to New York on Wednesday night to meet investors before heading to Washington for talks with the International Monetary Fund, a government source said.
Guyana Oil Now: Given the resource development model his government intends to roll out, President of Guyana, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, confidently asserted today that Guyana will no doubt emerge as the economic and energy epicentre of the Western Hemisphere. The Head of State made this declaration during his address at the opening of the Guyana Basins Summit, a three-day event that brings together world-renowned experts to examine issues that are pertinent to Guyana and Suriname’s growing oil and gas industries.
Honduras: The origin of the accusation against JOH in his alleged links to drug trafficking became more evident when his brother Antonio Hernández was arrested in Miami, Florida, by DEA agents in November 2018, accused of his links to drug trafficking and for allegedly carrying weapons illegally in US territory. In his trial in the New York court… , he was also convicted as guilty in October 2019. Especially for his links to the so-called “Cachiros” cartel. A criminal organization that originally boasted of being one of the groups that controlled transport routes in “Catracho” territory. This association was also made up of former cattle rustlers and over time monopolized the cocaine route between Colombia and Mexico. It was originally estimated that this group of narco-entrepreneurs held capital that fluctuated in the region of around one billion dollars.
Paraguay: ASUNCIÓN — The fourth day of protests in Asunción against the government of President Mario Abdo Benitez ended on Monday in clashes in front of the headquarters of the conservative Colorado Party after several hours of peaceful demonstrations near the Congress building. Protesters signaled dissatisfaction with the Cabinet shuffle announced by Abdo Benitez over the weekend and reiterated their demands for the resignation of the entire government and an end to decades of conservative mandates.

Posted by: Maracatu | Mar 18 2021 14:38 utc | 7

@ migueljose
Thanks for the good news and website suggestions!

Posted by: oglalla | Mar 18 2021 14:52 utc | 9

“China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and More Join Forces ‘in Defense’ of U.N.”
“China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other nations have united to issue a message in support of the United Nations’ founding treaty, seeking to promote multilateralism and diplomacy over the use of force against perceived violations from other U.N. member states.
The coalition, comprised of 17 signatories calling themselves “the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations,” included Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Laos, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, Venezuela and the State of Palestine, a U.N. non-member observer state.
Their March 10 concept note, obtained by Newsweek, said the group “will strive to preserve, promote and defend the prevalence and validity of the UN Charter.”
The group said that the charter, first signed during the final months of World War II, today “has a renewed and even more important value and relevance, particularly in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, while providing a platform for, among others, promoting the prevalence of legality over the use of force and for both discussing and coordinating possible joint initiatives for fostering the respect to the purposes and principles enshrined in the UN Charter.”
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Among these principles are “non-interference in the internal affairs of States, peaceful settlement of disputes, and to refrain from the use or threat of use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, as enshrined in the UN Charter.”
The group said it will also more broadly defend “the values of dialogue, tolerance and solidarity, mindful of the fact that these are all at the core of international relations and remain vital for the peaceful coexistence among nations.”

Posted by: arby | Mar 18 2021 15:10 utc | 11

@psychohistorian | Mar 18 2021 14:53 utc | 10

Just saw this twitter quote of Putin’s response to Biden calling him a killer

Putin and Biden go to a restaurant.
Waitress: what will you have?
Putin: Steak, medium rare
Waitress: and for the vegetable?
Putin: the vegetable will have steak as well
That’s the essence of the situation.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 18 2021 15:17 utc | 13

The collapse of the Biden reign is spectacular. I honestly didn’t expect for it to deteriorate so fast. That’s the theme for my clipping today:
Fed feeds the bubble: Bond yields down, stocks up
US overall industrial production down 2.2% in February
Note: bad weather may drop industrial production, but not by 2.2%. Make no mistakes: the deindustrialization process of the USA continues unabated, collateral effect of being the financial superpower (you’re effectively exchanging low inflation for deindustrialization).
Norwegian Politicians Calling to Cut Sputnik V Vaccine Deal Amid Record-High Infections
America is incredibly divided. Superheroes can teach us how to come together again.
What Biden and F.D.R. May End Up Having in Common
UK’s imperial ambitions lack solid basis, Russian diplomat says
China shrugs off US sanctions over HK, set to insist on core stances in Alaska
Blinken presses China on North Korea denuclearization
ROK: It’s impossible to choose between China and U.S.
Seven years after Crimea rejoined Russia, Western leaders are fooling themselves if they hope peninsula can ever return to Ukraine

Posted by: vk | Mar 18 2021 15:37 utc | 15

I communicate with quite a few people in the “arms control community”, who almost universally hated Trump. They were ecstatic that Trump was removed from office and saw the reinstatement of the New START treaty as proof that a great danger had passed, that the unpredictable Trump was no longer capable of randomly starting a nuclear war.
I passed on the news stories about Biden’s demented comments made in the Stephanopoulus interview, as well as the Russian response, with the recall of the Russian Ambassador and subsequent comments in the Russian press . . .and was met with a deathly silence. Clearly there was a combination of resentment and denial . . . it doesn’t fit their narrative so it isn’t important.
This is the result of years of propaganda masquerading as “news” here in the West. The “papers of record” have long been mouthpieces for the deep state, there is no longer any effort made to provide anything more than hearsay or fabricated “evidence” in conjunction with the endless demonization of Putin and Russia and all other enemies of the state. Those who have relied upon these sources have accepted so many false narratives that they are effectively brainwashed.
The end result is that these “activists” focus upon such fund-raising-friendly initiatives as “No First Use” of nuclear weapons, while ignoring the fact that the US-Russian relationship has been destroyed by “non-agreement-capable” neocons (both Republican and Democrat) who continue on the insane policy of confrontation with Russia — and China.
New START or no New START, there is no arms control . . . Russia has far surpassed the US in what Andrea Martyanov describes as the Real Revolution in Military Affairs . . . the US is a couple generations behind in hypersonic weapons, electronic warfare, as well as missile defense systems. US Ballistic Missile Defense cannot intercept non-ballistic missiles, it cannot shoot down a swarm of hypersonic missiles that have made its Carrier Battle Groups obsolete. Only its nuclear subs carry a real threat . . . and the US has been busing arming these with “usable” nuclear weapons as of late. How long before the fools decide to use them?

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 18 2021 15:50 utc | 17

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-digital-yuan-could-global-234500066.html
This is huge. Digital Yuan is crossing national borders – and with it, US soft power and sanctions will collapse. Who needs SWIFT or US Banks or the dollar? Sanctioned nations can get whatever they want from China/Russia – if US sanctions are defeated.

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 18 2021 16:49 utc | 19

thanks everyone! i got a laugh out of @norwegians post… and i always appreciate migueljoses updates… even the first post today was fun!
wings of scotland is on it again today… The First Minister is a liar first minister being nicole sturgeon….

Posted by: james | Mar 18 2021 16:56 utc | 21

‘Independent’ report claiming Uyghur genocide brought to you by sham university, neocon ideologues lobbying to ‘punish’ China

Posted by: vk | Mar 18 2021 17:08 utc | 23

@ Eighthman | Mar 18 2021 16:49 utc | 19 with the link about Digital Yuan, thanks!
Below is a quote from that piece I think sums up the potential
”
The project will act as a cross-border corridor network for big financial institutions. It would entice more central banks to join the network by offering a more competitive foreign exchange rate than the open market, where each country has to buy other local currencies from intermediaries at a premium. It would also allow countries to borrow more other currencies in the short term to increase their liquidity to settle transactions in real time.
”

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 18 2021 17:09 utc | 25

posted above the charming tale “Putin and Biden go to a restaurant” might metamorphose, you know how stories go…
In 2022 Putin and Biden go to a restaurant in New York
Waitress: what will you have?
Putin: Steak, medium rare
Waitress: and for the vegetable?
Putin: the vegetable will have steak as well, and for me 2 beers…by the way, bring me the bill, and what’s this going to cost?
Waitress: 20 rubles.

Posted by: Walter | Mar 18 2021 17:18 utc | 27

What I should have also added to the comment about the Digital Yuan posting was that Saudi Arabia is working with China on this which puts the issue of foreign exchange in the middle of a fiat Reserve Currency world center stage for resolution.
No wonder Biden is trying to start a war with any that will not stand up to the failing bully empire that has no merit to fall back on.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 18 2021 17:20 utc | 29

The wheels of history keep on turning full circle, today in Moscow of all places took place a Conference about Afganistan whith the Taliban and the US participating among others. Stallone Rocky III is watching TV in the Geriatric House.

Posted by: Paco | Mar 18 2021 17:39 utc | 31

Paco @27–
Thanks for your reply! Did you listen? If so, did Putin sound like he was lamenting, as if to say “we aren’t at all surprised by this behavior” since the entire episode must be seen as a whole–Biden and Stephanopoulos together as one projector. The still photos I’ve seen seem to convey that sort of body language.
The digital yuan news is exciting, and I’ve yet to look at the write-ups related to the Alaska meet, of which there’re several. There’s some weird proposal from Germany related to Ukraine, Nord Stream and sanctions I saw at Sputnik but I can’t find now. However, there’s this article that reports on the interview Zarif gave to Politico wherein Zarif said:
“We are ready to agree to a choreography—that is, the US taking steps, and as soon as we can confirm that those steps have been taken, we can take our steps. And the process of verification for Iran is very clear; the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] will verify that we have complied.”
But the JCPOA is only part and the interview is linked.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2021 18:02 utc | 33

CNN was forced to admit that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ refusal to impose strict lockdown measures and mask mandates is “paying off,” with the state recording fewer COVID-19 deaths per capita while the economy is booming.
Unlike states run by Democrat politicians, DeSantis consistently refused to impose harsh pandemic restrictions and has been pilloried for it by the media for the best part of a year.
However, compared to those states, which have recorded higher COVID deaths and face massive economic turmoil, Florida is in such a better position that even CNN has been forced to acknowledge it.
“A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit,” writes CNN’s Jeff Zeleny.

CNN Forced to Admit Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Refusal to Lockdown Florida is “Paying Off”

Posted by: Down South | Mar 18 2021 18:17 utc | 35

@Posted by: migueljose | Mar 18 2021 14:01 utc | 2
Thank you migueljose for your interesting litany of stories from down south. Latin America has indeed been much overlooked (except the miseries of Venezuela at the hands of the Empire) by most of us following geopolitics.
And I agree, no news from Ecuador in the next few weeks is GOOD NEWS.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Mar 18 2021 18:19 utc | 37

Dmitry Orlov on the coming hyperinflation that’s going to hit the US

Profligate money printing by the US Federal Reserve and by other Western central banks has amounted to around $10 trillion over just the last year. The amount of currency in circulation has grown to $2 trillion, breaking a record set in 1945 and showing an almost 12% increase over 2019. The US federal budget deficit stands at just about $3.5 trillion, which is over 16% of GDP—the highest it’s been since World War II. Meanwhile, the US federal debt has just topped $28 trillion. Over the past year the US has overspent its revenues by a staggering 194%.
Prices are going up everywhere even as the underlying economy remains in coronavirus-inspired doldrums, specifically because consumption has been repressed, with the coronavirus as an excuse, to delay the onset of hyperinflation. And then the Chairman of the Federal Reserve steps in and calms the troubled waters by publicly claiming that “There is no reason to be afraid of hyperinflation.” This sounds a lot like denial, which is the first of the five stages of grief, after which come anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Powell said “hyperinflation”; therefore, there shall be hyperinflation.

Getting Hyperinflation Right

Posted by: Down South | Mar 18 2021 18:24 utc | 39

Here is a good graph that shows how fast hyperinflation hit Weimar Germany

A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923.[14]
By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

Posted by: Down South | Mar 18 2021 18:30 utc | 41

@ 13; Thanks for that bit of humor, LOL!
@ 22 asked, on the rumor of a two state solution; “Is the two state fix in.. ? can anyone confirm this.. ?”
Hope so, depending on what the details would be. Can’t see the U$A or Israel doing right by the Palestinian people, but, IMO settling that long standing injustice, is the key to genuine peace in the middle east, and has been since 1948….

Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 18 2021 18:51 utc | 43

maracatu@7
thank you for the perspective on these countries. I’d be interested in your opinion and that of other barflies on Mexico legalizing marijuana. Sounds good, but I’ve also read that the current bill will benefit big money people and not the peons/normal people. It will probably pressure the U.S. to legalize weed.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article250014184.html

Posted by: migueljose | Mar 18 2021 18:52 utc | 45

Bemildred @35–
The comment by Kapusta @33 is confirmed by this report:
“‘I want to invite President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do this actually live, as they say, online. Without any delay, but directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that it would be interesting for the people of Russia, for the people of the United States, and for many other countries’, Putin said on air on the Rossiya 24 broadcaster.”
So, the audience is to be the entire world, which the Empire will never agree to. Meanwhile,
“[Putin] said that Monday was another option to launch the talks, as he intends to take the weekend off to spend some free time in the taiga.”
I wonder who will accompany him. Shoigu’s known to have joined him in such vacations in the past. As I remarked to my wife last night, all of Biden’s public “conversations” have been very well managed/manipulated; and as the cutoff congressional talk shows, he’s incapable of properly doing anything that requires spontaneity, which is why Putin requested a live one-to-one meeting. As Norwegian commented, that was an excellent judo move. Now the Empire’s backed into a very embarrassing corner it cannot easily exit. The observation made by Jisi also applies to Russia.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2021 18:55 utc | 47

@Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2021 18:55 utc | 46:
…..The observation made by Jisi also applies to Russia.
Well, Jisi’s comment does not apply to Russia in instances when Russia is dealing with China. Even in dealing with the west, Russia had been cordial until the false-flag shenanigans and white-helmet dramas came into play. Can’t blame Putin for being pissed can’t you?

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Mar 18 2021 19:07 utc | 49

And here the sequel, VVP starts by saying that the first presidential conversation took place after Biden requested it. Let us discuss openly, on line about strategic security and regional conflicts of which there are many so I won’t enumerate them. At the end answering to the journo’s question, anytime? VVP answers that since he had planned a weekend in the Taigá it could take place either Friday or Monday. But the WH keeps on digging a deeper hole, Psaki says the President is busy and not regretting what was said. What a team, the King is naked does not apply anymore, the king is skinned, packed and frozen, while VVP goes to kill some fish to Siberia. Do not worry, the US will be droning someone in the meantime.
Izvestiya 2

Posted by: Paco | Mar 18 2021 19:12 utc | 51

There will be no hyperinflation, probably. Sorry to disappoint the hysterics. Nearly all of the money being “printed” at the moment is going towards increasing the value on paper of existing assets, it is not properly brought into productive circulation.
Unless the money being printed goes to increased consumption, luxury consumption, or real capital investment, aggregate demand will not be significantly affected, and prices of consumer and capital goods do not need to rise to match.
Asset prices are going up, but that will only depress demand, not increase it. A continued long depression is more likely than hyperinflation.

Posted by: merovech | Mar 18 2021 19:18 utc | 53

merovech @53–
IMO, you’re correct about hyperinflation, but even the current 10% inflation rate is too steep. Where I live, transport fuel has increased 50% in less than 3 months while food prices rise at a slower rate. Lots of obfuscation of statistics. IMO, the USA’s actual GDP has shrunk over 20% since 2000, which is inline with the dollar’s loss of purchasing power–the lessening of which is a genuine Fed Policy Goal. Let that sink in…. The Class War is thus a Fed Policy Goal, which also makes it a policy goal of the Duopoly.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2021 19:38 utc | 55

@ migueljose | Mar 18 2021 18:52 utc | 45.. if mexico legalizes mary- jane, then it will be both borders to the south and north of usa have legalized it… not sure how usa will react… probably in some infantile way.. that is usually how they react! now if you are a canuck and you go to the usa border, they can ask you if you ever smoked pot before and if you say yes, they can refuse you entry based purely on this! it doesn’t matter that pot is legal is the state of washington and oregon.. the usa border guards are federal, not state… it is just another opportunity for the border guards to be control freaks over yet another thing… kid you not.. this is the new reality since canada legalized pot… be prepared when you get asked questions at the border! covid has shut down all of this temporarily… i suspect it will be the annual covid shot and having a paper in order to get into the usa next saying you have had the annual covid shot… i think that is coming next… fascism slow or not so slow creep is what it looks like now..

Posted by: james | Mar 18 2021 20:38 utc | 57

Maracatu # 7
Thank you for your posts. It looks like Guyana is to be the alternate saudi centre of operations. The CIA has active there for years of course.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 18 2021 21:24 utc | 59

The problem is that none of these ‘we are tough guys’ policies achieves any purpose.
They achieve the same purpose that any war or sanctions program achieve – More money to pro-corporate-capitalist think-tanks, NATO cutout journalists like Bellingcat, and of course military/surveillance/subversion contractors to the United States government. They also achieve the greater purpose of perpetual instability or chaos in regions rich in some commodity or natural resource. It’s the one part of American globalist-corporatist capitalism where the long game is actually played. They know that eventually these governments are likely to fail in large part due to American sanctions and that the vaults will be blown open for Western private finance. Speaking of, where’s Libya’s gold? We all know where Venezuela’s is.

Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 18 2021 21:35 utc | 61

Maybe you shouldn’t read it though, certainly not if you suffer from high blood pressure
Posted by: bevin | Mar 18 2021 21:17 utc | 58
The very mention of the Graun is enough to increase my blood pressure these days. What have they to say about Mr. Julian Assange? Assholes and MI5/6 co-opted scum posing as a pwogwessive voice to power.

Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 18 2021 21:41 utc | 63

bevin
Isr’s prez was on official visit in Paris today (elections in two months..Apparently pandemics are no good reason for phone calls.Macron needs votes from any corner, and he did not raise the plight of the Palestinians. He seems ok with the idea that EU taxpayer money builds infrastructure in Palestine for the Isr to destroy them, as long as some EU companies can sign deals to reconstruct later.

Posted by: Mina | Mar 18 2021 21:56 utc | 65

Thank you, Paco @ 62 – Wonderful comments from Putin. How I would love to be along on that trip into the taiga! Well, the mind can travel, it’s a great gift. I will just add that the Native Americans haven’t been entirely exterminated, I am very glad to say. And perhaps some day we will have a Native American president; that would be wonderful as well.

Posted by: juliania | Mar 18 2021 23:00 utc | 67

Scotlands Dirty War
Sturgeon has panicked! Under fire, she ran straight to her puppets at Rape Crisis Scotland.
And they have monumentally fucked up.
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-great-burn/
Along with everything else, there is this:

The statement was in the form of a Microsoft Word document attached to the email and entitled “Response1721.docx”, and the second email left recipients perplexed, because it said this about the file:
“If you have saved it, please destroy the previous version of the word document that you received and use this instead.”

Remind you of anything. All you Iraq War veterans?
My own take:

John Cleary says:
18 March, 2021 at 10:01 pm
Rev Stu,
Another thought. The parallels with the Blair regime come more and more profound.
Do you recall the Dodgy Dossier?
That document issued in the name of the United Kingdom on the single authority of one Alastair Campbell, and nobody else?
That document was also undermined by the metadata in Microsoft Word. It was pòssible to follow the trail of edits and the plagiarised sources.
All down to Alastair Campbell, using “special powers”, and nothing to do with Prime Minister Blair.
What did Mark Twain opine?
“History never repeats; but it does rhyme”

And would you believe it. Just this evening the BBC broadcast a “documentary” on Sturgeon v Salmond.
The usual from “MI6 Sarah Smith”s outfit
Salmond was lucky he got away with it.
Nicola is a lovely wee sweetie.
And guess who was praising “Our Nicola”? None other than Alastair Campbell!!!
Honestly, it’s laughable.
And my earlier comment on the same thread:

However, special advisers should not be involved in the line management of civil servants or in matters affecting a civil servant’s career such as recruitment, promotion, reward and discipline, or have access to personnel files of civil servants.

Hello Roddy,
We are being lied to again.
During the Blair regime three spads were given powers to instruct and direct civil servants. They were Alastair Campbell, Jonathan Powell and Sally Morgan.
Only Queen Elizabeth can vest such powers.
I’m pretty sure that Queen Elizabeth is once again interfering in matters of government, and that she has in fact vested such powers in Liz Lloyd. That, in my view, is the real reason for the paranoia about mentioning her name. It exposes Queen Elizabeth as once more, for the thousandth time, breaching her Coronation Oath.

Posted by: John Cleary | Mar 19 2021 1:11 utc | 69

Covid 19 denying President of Tanzania dead here is something to be investigated..
Did private Oligarch and Corporate power somehow deny the government of Tanzania because its leader was a Covid 19 denier.. ? If so, it adds some credence to the theory that the political system in each nation state is nothing but a decoy’ which allows the Oligarchs and their corporate arms to watch from their hide outs and change the political system, change the leadership, or change by propaganda the circumstances so the outcome of all political system activities continues a hidden private profit purpose.
Who is in charge in the nation state named Tanzania: the political system or Private Oligarch?

Posted by: snake | Mar 19 2021 2:08 utc | 71

Ok, I go to some sites I don’t agree with just to read the contextualization of their stories
The headline and sub-headline of a posting below should tell you all you need to know about one….
”
Bill Barr Lied About China Election Interference
As it turns out, China didn’t interfere at all, unlike Russia and Iran.
”
Scapegoat much…..?
These folks couldn’t find top/bottom with a map

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 19 2021 4:47 utc | 73

Posted by: Down South | Mar 18 2021 18:17 utc | 35
LOL then why isn’t that approach working out for Brazil? Could it be that the Trump AND Biden administrations blocked the Sputnik vaccine from going there or is it just that right wing idiots like Trump, Bolsonaro and DeSantis have no fucking clue what they’re saying or doing?

Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 19 2021 6:40 utc | 75

I had this flash about the China/US talks in Alaska and see China saying, until your administration provides us with the same assurance that previous US administrations have been doing since Nixon, we have no basis to hold further discussions
Makes sense to me….what really happened today in Alaska?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 19 2021 16:40 utc | 77

uncle tungsten | Mar 18 2021 22:35 utc | 66
George Kissinassalot. It works ’cause of the syllables.
Biden will consent “when shrimps learn to whistle.” One wonders what that man would have had to say in today’s shitshow. “I want to go to Disneyland, and I’ll even wear a mask!” ?

Posted by: vinnieoh | Mar 19 2021 17:04 utc | 79

Maybe you shouldn’t read it though, certainly not if you suffer from high blood pressure Posted by: bevin | Mar 18 2021 21:17 utc | 58
Just horrific isn’t it? NP bevin, my education in ideology included 3 hrs. on a dismemberment site. That still haunts me.
Let’s skip that link shalk we. Tx.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 19 2021 17:34 utc | 81

Grieved | Mar 19 2021 1:47 utc | 70
When I start on about the royals I metaphorically see shutters going up and blank, thousand-yard stares. It’s the conditioning, of course. Some become hostile, as though I’ve insulted a close relative. Getting past the brainwashing we are subjected to all our lives takes real effort, and I’m very grateful to you for making the effort. Be warned, though. Once you see past the hypnosis and can perceive the grubby little woman at the heart of it all there is no going back.
james | Mar 19 2021 4:54 utc | 74
Thank you. You go on to say
didn’t know much about liz lloyd prior to you mentioning here
Not surprised at all.
There is a cast of characters in what is Iraq Invasion redux. Amongst them are:
Nicola Sturgeon is Tony Blair with tits
Liz Lloyd is Alastair Campbell with tits
Sarah Smith is Comical Ali with tits
For the Iraq Invasion it was Alastair Campbell who was the prime mover. For the Salmond assassination it is Liz Lloyd who is the prime mover. Here is some of her involvement. In January or February 2018 she was involved in the coralling of fresh meat into the Scot Gov complaints “procedure”. In March 2018 she lured Alex Salmond back into the web using Geoff Aberdein. On April 2 2018 she sprung the trap and sought, with Nicola Sturgeon, to blackmail Alex Salmond. When he resisted, and appeared to win the judicial review, Liz Lloyd recruited and suborned five other women to make claims for the criminal trial of Alex Salmond. Then Ms Lloyd made an accusation herself, became an alpha Betty, and was rewarded with lifetime anonimity (she is Ms A in the criminal pleadings).
Now here is the kicker.
Liz Lloyd has not appeared before the Fabiani committee!
Now it just might be that SOMEBODY is protecting Ms Lloyd.
I know who is that somebody. But I don’t want to upset people by naming her.
Just ponder this.
The Fabiani Committee has been told that it is unlawful to call Liz Lloyd to answer for her actions in the attempted gang rape of Alex Salmond. She was there, she dunnit and she’s as guilty as hell. But she cannot be interrogated because Queen Elizabeth, using the powers she has assumed under the Treason Felony Act, says no.
That’s the same old woman who swore, nearly sixty-nine years ago, to uphold the law.
She annoints her accolytes, arms them with special powers, and sends them forth to do their evil. They are ghosts, leaving no fingerprints. Afterwards, when looking back, it seems they never existed at all. Honest civil servants are left scrambling trying to explain what happened, and why though they look guilty, it is not their fault.
Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth, in the words of Karl Rove, moves on to create another nightmare reality for us to study – judiciously.

Posted by: John Cleary | Mar 19 2021 18:27 utc | 83

I want to be a fly on the wall in the conference room in Alaska.
I want to hear China’s response to the Freedumb and Dumbocracy lies of the West and see there reaction when it is explained to them that they have no Freedumb and Dumbocracy with global private finance owning the social contract…..what can they say in response?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 19 2021 18:54 utc | 85

Sorry to be a spoilsport but Donbas hasn’t gone away. Where they are still playing cat and mouse.
There are now 18 NATO ships in the Med.
Ticonderoga (Major Missile cruiser) passed Istanbul today to get into the Black Sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4qUAUjbcs
The six Russian submarine have put to sea and one kilo class (ultra silent) has been “lost” by US spy planes off Syria/Lebanon. Planes circling offshore.
At least 200 hundred tanks have been moved to the front by the Ukes since the 1st March. (7+ train loads). Lots of Turkish drones have been supplied. A big build-up. The Uke army is much more capable than before, but then they will come up against the Russian forces. So the “West” must be egging them on. The US is to give them $300 million more worth of “lethal” aid.
Regular shelling of Donbas civilians at the moment.
Much more, but the real question is, why now?
OK it is the 10th. “Anniversary” of NATO bombing Libyia.
The US and UK are trying to start a civil war in Lebanon. They have also blocked an overland supply of Iranian Oil to Lenbanon.
Conference with afghanistan reps. in Moscow.
***
This must have a connection with keeping “Biden incapable but active” (Biba). If the US wants world domination and all the nasty side effects of the loss of the dollar supremacy to go away, then one way is “world-wide regime change”. Cause chaos or war and then propose a puppet as new overall alternative. NOT only for the US but to include the EU and UK. All those countries need to eliminate the post-lockdown reaction against how far reaching the Covid scam was. (Theft on a massive scale) Introduce Non-national, Crypto-Banking, an authoritarian sect, and “Policed” against any type of dissent plus all the other controls about opening commerces, voyaging, etc.etc.
Any guesses?
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PS. John. Cleary, the Queen doesn’t make it as too old ! Although I think your placing the resposibility for many actions on her is incorrect. More likely is the FCO and various “trilateral commisssions”, Bilderbergers and other societies have grouped themselves with selected Oligarchs.
The basis of a Fascist state.
But who would be the nominative symbol after her?

Posted by: Stonebird | Mar 19 2021 20:25 utc | 87

Where’s the best place to delve into the history of the Russo-Ukrainian/Donbas conflict with regular updates?

Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 20 2021 5:37 utc | 89

Scotland’s Dirty War

She annoints her accolytes, arms them with special powers, and sends them forth to do their evil. They are ghosts, leaving no fingerprints. Afterwards, when looking back, it seems they never existed at all. Honest civil servants are left scrambling trying to explain what happened, and why though they look guilty, it is not their fault.
Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth, in the words of Karl Rove, moves on to create another nightmare reality for us to study – judiciously.

Exceptional claims require exceptional proof, I hear you say, and I agree.
I was taught under the case study system, so allow me to put forward a case study of my own, on how Queen Elizabeth destroyed the Labour Party. This study is intended to provide evidence by association for the guilt of that woman, and also to act as fair warning to the Scots as to what you can expect if you do not throw off the Windsor yoke.
Rochdale grooming: ‘Shocking’ failure over sex abuse
Published20 December 2013
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-25450512
The whole thing is eye-popping and needs to be read, but I’d like to focus on this:
A serious case review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect the children.
Across the board failures by SEVENTEEN agencies.
That does not happen by chance. That happens because it is caused to happen.
By a team of little Liz Lloyds, all armed with royal prerogative powers, spreading evil on behalf of Queen Elizabeth.
That’s the first hallmark of her intervention: widespread, inexplicable failure.
Here is the second hallmark of her intervention. And can I just say, all of you advocating a “Judge-led inquiry” as the solution to Scotland’s malaise should pay special attention.
That report was from 2013.
Here is the situation in 2016:

The inquiry into child sexual abuse will continue “without delay” the Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said, following the resignation of its chair Dame Lowell Goddard.
Justice Goddard became the third chair of the inquiry to resign after controversy over holidays and comments she made about not understanding English law.
The New Zealand high court judge was appointed as chair of the inquiry by then-Home Secretary Theresa May after the two previous charis were forced to stand down over their links to establishment figures.

Sabotage. Three leaders in three years. No progress at all.
Then everybody “moves on”.
That’s the second hallmark. Systematic failure of the inquiry process.
Now consider this:

At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, a report has found.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
First, I paraphrase our old friend Joe Stalin:
“A hair ping to a civil servant is a tragedy, but the appalling sexual exploitation of at least 1400 children is a statistic.”
But I emphasise the dates. “between 1997 and 2013”.
Blair’s gang started this shit as soon as they got into power. Literally, as soon as they got into power.
There is another case that history rhymes here.
Do you remember Gordon Jackson QC, the man who defended Alex Salmond against the criminal charges, and who was recorded making disparaging comments about his client on the train home to Glasgow? You could say that Jackson was smearing his own client.
Well, this child sex abuse took place in Rotherham.
Home of Mrs Gillian Duffy. Salt of the earth Labour activist.
Famously called “that bigoted woman” by Gordon Brown. Who was “accidentally recorded” when saying those words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUeLic0asQ
Really, can it be any surprise that the so called Red Wall fell to Boris Johnson in 2019?
Was it really by chance that the Labour Party coalition was rent asunder?
Can it be any surprise that so many honest working class people vowed they would never again vote for Labour?
Just as so many honest working class Scots are saying the same thing today about the Scottish National Party?
Job done for Queen Elizabeth, I’d say.

Posted by: John Cleary | Mar 20 2021 11:01 utc | 91

My visible blunder was “visble” (92)

Posted by: Stonebird | Mar 20 2021 13:02 utc | 93

Stonebird @Mar19 20:25 #87
There are now 18 NATO ships in the Med.
How many are usually in the med?
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… but the real question is, why now?
A last-ditch effort to stop Nord Stream II.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Mar 20 2021 13:24 utc | 95

@ Jackrabbit
Little addition about the Black sea buildup. (“Ticonderoga” is a class of ships, see below Monterey).
Spanish Frigates Méndez Núñez & Cristobal Colon, destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, transport ship,USNS Watson, cruiser USS Monterey

Posted by: Stonebird | Mar 20 2021 15:56 utc | 97

Erdogan Slams Biden Over “Killer” Putin Comment: “Not Fitting Of A President”
On the lighter side, check out the 3rd clip on the Twitter page that article links to.

Posted by: Canadian Cents | Mar 20 2021 18:21 utc | 99