The significant part of the claim the virus was developed by USAMRIID is the further claim that it was planted in Wuhan by US Army athletes during the 2019 International Military Games. That would be an act of war.

Posted by: bob sykes | May 28 2021 11:49 utc | 4

@2
China’s reaction and pointing to the US labs is more a general accusation of the US bio-weapons research, not so much as the origin of the virus. No one has been able to undercut the scientific conclusion of the virus’s genetic makeup, which excludes a lab origin. This is what the Chinese are referring to. Consequently, a Detrick lab origin is just as unlikely as a Wuhan lab origin.
The CIA will dutifully produce their usual smoke and mirrors document, using words like ‘probable’, ‘likely’, ‘possibility’. Intelligent they are not; except in staying vague enough to not undercut their anti-China campaign.

Posted by: Josh | May 28 2021 12:36 utc | 6

bob sykes 5:

The significant part of the claim the virus was developed by USAMRIID is the further claim that it was planted in Wuhan by US Army athletes during the 2019 International Military Games. That would be an act of war.

Yes, it was an act of war. China doesn’t want a war. Scientists don’t want a war. As borked in the head as all imperial mass media jingoists are, they don’t really want a war either, but they cannot help themselves. The exposure of the fact that the virus is artificial is inexorable, so the only narrative left is to force the meme that ”It wasn’t US!” and hope people swallow the Chinese lab leak nonsense.
There will be more acts of war committed by the Empire of Chaos. It cannot be avoided. The only other way out of the Thucydides Trap would be for the old declining power to gracefully bow out and exit the stage by its own choice, but this is the Land of Exceptionals that we are talking about. The self-anointed “Indispensable Nation” and “World Cop” cannot even imagine the world not being under their thumb, or jackboot, or knee, as the case may be.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 28 2021 12:45 utc | 8

LAHT: New riots in Bogotá caused at least 82 people to require medical treatment for injuries and the effects of tear gas Wednesday in clashes that occurred after a mostly peaceful “national strike.”
Colombia Reports: Colombia’s far-right President Ivan Duque has made history by becoming the country’s least popular president since Gallup began polling. Critics’ claim that Duque is Colombia’s “worst president in history” was partially validated by pollster Gallup, which released its latest poll on Monday.
El Salvador Perspectives: This month relations between the United States and El Salvador have hit lows not seen in the past twenty years. The deterioration comes as the Biden administration in Washington begins to put an emphasis on combatting corruption, human rights and good governance — an emphasis lacking under Trump. This new emphasis has taken concrete form in Washington’s reaction to president Nayib Bukele’s May 1 sacking of top judges and the attorney general. The condemnations coming from Washington are vociferously rejected by Bukele who claims all the changes are justified by his party’s electoral mandate after dominating legislative elections in February.

Posted by: Maracatu | May 28 2021 13:01 utc | 10

WG @ 5 and bob sykes
Yes.  It also seems possible that there was a lab leak of the enhanced virus from USAMRIID and then the athletes planted it in Wuhan to make it look like it originated in China.  The full biological potential of the virus probably wasn’t even known.
There was strong resistance to doing any testing in the US for the virus in the early stages and the CDC fumbled in trying to develop a diagnostic test.

Posted by: financial matters | May 28 2021 13:29 utc | 12

Die Niemandsfuchs @ #1
Thanks for the Russell Brand link, he has done good work of late with his podcasts covering a variety of controversial issues; I wonder why the gatekeepers have not cancelled, demonetized, banned etc. his work while others asking the same questions suffer that fate. One perspective (among many) is that his stature as a comedian, actor, and past good will within liberal establishment protects him; the backlash and publicity from banning a popular figure would be worse than just removing his voice. Narrative managers have done a brilliant job over the last ten years converting the “left” into the Empire’s best soldiers for foreign intervention, Russiagate, and banning free speech. It’s essential to continue grooming this dynamic for US Empire to keep doing its thing; to co-opt the most natural dissenting voices is a valuable coup indeed.
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Posted by: Bob Brooksher | May 28 2021 14:04 utc | 14

Bashar al-Assad overwhelmingly wins Syria’s presidential election
Not a surprising result. As a victorious head of state in war (imperator), Assad had all the legitimacy to continue governing the entire Syria. This election merely served as his triumph.
I’m just curious to know what were those 4.8% madmen that didn’t vote for him were thinking. Crazy people exist everywhere, I guess.
–//–
EC presented a plan to support “democratic Belarus” for three billion euros
This is an interesting development that may hint us the long term future of the EU.
Up until the great Balkan expansion of 2009-2014, the EU mostly adopted a pattern of expansion in the shadow of NATO, i.e. first the Eastern European country became a NATO member, then it became an EU member.
After the defeats in Ukraine and Belarus, the pattern seems to have changed: the USA tries to stage a color revolution and, after it fails, the EU takes it up and serves as a continuation of the campaign against the target government (TG). In this sense, the EC serves as regional subsidiary of the USA’s State Department or even of the CIA itself.
This, of course, will result in a significant mutation of the EU’s societal character. Before Ukraine, it was essentially an economic (neoliberal) institution that sought to operate mainly in the economic domain; this reflected in the geopolitical arena in a defensive position. Now, it is behaving more and more like a strictly political institution (the separation between politics and economics at the representative level is true for bourgeois societies, so this dichotomy is valid here), which, in the geopolitical arena, manifests itself in an aggressive position.
My guess is this didn’t happen by chance. My hypothesis goes as follows: after the collapse of Greece and the great immigration from Syria-Libya, the EU (i.e. Germany) realized the European Dream of a great and rich union capable of rivaling the USA peacefully in the Economic arena was over. It then resorted to the capitalist bread-and-butter strategy of expanding to poorer but natural resources rich Eastern European countries to extract excess profits (primitive accumulation). In this context, Belarus is a specially yummy target because it managed to keep a lot of the old Soviet legacy, so its fall will result in even more profits for Germany (in the form of shock therapy + privatizations), opening up vital space for capitalist accumulation. We know this is possible because the USA lived a somewhat mini-Golden Age in the 1990s because it opened the economic space of the USSR and ransacked most of its riches and infrastructure; Germany/EU must be thinking the same, even more because a lot of German capitalists already know Russia is the perfect complementary economy to Germany’s (the first serving as the cheap commodities exporter, the second as the expensive manufactured goods exporter). Russia is out of reach for now (at least while Putin is alive), Ukraine has revealed to be a monumental failure, Belarus is the next best target.
–//–
Ukraine accused Germany of betrayal: it was surrendered to the Kremlin
Polish Presidential Aide Dubs Nord Stream 2 ‘Gas Bomb Placed Under European Integration’
Poland wants the EU to completely decouple from Russia and aggressive – even at any cost – expansion to the East.
There are two problems with this:
1) it goes against German capitalism, therefore goes against European capitalism;
2) it would lower the quality of life of the average European citizen, therefore hurting European soft power, which rests solely upon having the highest life quality in the world and the best culture.
–//–
France Opposes Idea of More Joint Funding for NATO, Report Says
The EU loves NATO. NATO loves the EU.
There’s just one problem: the pot is getting smaller and smaller. And we know that no marriage can survive dire finances.
–//–
The end of Toyotism:
Chip crisis forces carmakers to rethink just-in-time ordering
Bad omen for capitalism. Very bad omen.
–//–
Steel traders lick wounds as Chinese govt swiftly strikes down prices hike
And just like that, the CPC ended the liberals’ hope China would fall for the old underdevelopment trap that destroyed Lula’s Brazil (2012) and Russia (2014).
No commodities bubble for ya, my little bourgeois economist.
–//–
China learns from North Korea:
China urged to increase sea-based nuclear deterrent amid US intensified strategic threat
–//–
Xi sends letter to World Symposium for Marxist Political Parties
Related:
[VIDEO] A popularizer of Marxist philosophy | Stories shared by Xi Jinping
Interview: Socialism with Chinese characteristics enriches Marxist theory, says former Sri Lankan party chief
–//–
The real motivation behind China’s digital yuan

In theory, Huang is correct. China could very well utilize the digital payments platform to evade being flagged by SWIFT and continue “business as usual” with countries sanctioned by the US, such as Iran and Venezuela.
This assessment, however, fails to appreciate that China has already found creative ways to avert US restrictions. As Reuters reported, after America imposed sanctions on Venezuela in early 2019, crude from Petróleos de Venezuela SA to China was rerouted with the help of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft.

Some psychologist here, please tell me: which stage of grief is this?
–//–
Kim wishes his subjects communism, not Chinese luck
Translation: North Korea is adopting the Chinese model of socialism and it may not collapse after all. There, spared you all from 15 minutes of reading.
–//–
Commentary: U.S. should drop “WMD” trick on virus origin tracing
For those of you who still don’t know: this is from the People’s Daily – the official CPC newspaper. This is officially endorsed opinion, so there’s no doubt the CPC has already realized the American shenanigans.
Some tactics work only once. Some tactics work with diminishing returns each time it is used beyond the first.
I’ll just repeat it here once more: the virus didn’t leak from the Wuhan lab. The WHO knows it. The Chinese know it. Everything brought up from now on is propaganda warfare, and I hope the Western journalists who are propping this up are aware they have a lot of blood in their hands. Recruiters of the Empire are what these journalists really are.
–//–
Finish this all up with a little piece of good news:
China maintains ‘artificial sun’ at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record
Probably will never get us anywhere, but, who knows.

Posted by: vk | May 28 2021 14:59 utc | 16

Moving the goalposts:
The U.S. May Never Hit the Herd Immunity Threshold. That’s OK.
Wasn’t herd immunity the whole point of touting the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines had a higher efficacy rate than the rest?
Well, as they say: never let science get in the way or ideology.

Posted by: vk | May 28 2021 15:10 utc | 18

@svaya | May 28 2021 10:35 utc | 2
Zero Hedge
Beijing Doubles Down On Claims COVID Leaked From Maryland Military Base

But mostly, the comments focused on the “unexplained” disease in northern Virginia, and an unsubstantiated claim about a biolab at Maryland’s Fort Detrick, which has become a hot topic on China’s twitter-like Weibo. The wild claims are based on startling little evidence: the CDC issued a “cease and desist” order to halt operations at the lab over safety concerns. But that hasn’t stopped speculation (bolstered by government agents) from festering that the lab might have had something to do with the outbreak.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 28 2021 15:35 utc | 20

More on the virus.
I think discourse would be improved if people laid out the options for the epidemic:
I. Natural origin.
II. Man-made.
A. Accidental release from lab.
1.Accidental release from Wuhan lab.
2.Accidental release from another lab (such As Fort Detrick)
B. Intentional release
1. Released by the Chinese on their own population.
2. Released by another sophisticated state actor (USA).
The controversy involves people completely dismissing all the possible options but their preferred explanation without even entertaining the viability of other options.
I have no idea what happened, but options II-A-1 or II-B-2 seem to be the ones proffered by the US and Chinese governments and therefore generate the most controversy.
Knowing what I know now about the US government bio-warfare capabilities and their willingness to experiment on live human test subjects, option II-B-2 is not impossible.

Posted by: Mar man | May 28 2021 15:48 utc | 22

Posted by: vk | May 28 2021 14:59 utc | 18
One of the items in your list simplified:
The EU wants to buy Belarus for 3 billion. A sign of the times, that’s pocket change, and of course the 3B would go to Tikhanovskaya not Luka. Does not look good, for the EU I mean. The expansion to the the east was London’s work, they are out but they’ll never leave.

Posted by: Paco | May 28 2021 16:05 utc | 24

The populace is already ENSLAVED in suzerainties (U$A, UK, EU, Japan…) and on its way to …? The International Financial Oligarchy (Global Financial Syndicate) is parasitic on the value created in our world. This Financial Oligarchy strives for domination and not for freedom/sovereignty.
Most Americans are subjects of the Financial Empire and controlled by the following ENSLAVEMENT plan:
“We create all money out of thin air through your central-private banking system and lend it to you and your government & businesses, then you pay us interest on that money forever. We own your traitorous puppet politicians because they depend on us for campaign funds. We stage false flags all over the world in order to drag you into totally unnecessary wars based on lies, so you’ll have to blow huge percentage of your money and resources with the defense contractors we own, so you can fight our enemies for us and steal resources on our behalf. And finally, we control your education system and own your media outlets in order to keep you totally in the dark, as we systematically loot and destroy your country, en route to your ultimate enslavement. Those are the elements of our plan. Any questions?”
Are you living in a wealth or debt generation system? Global Financial Syndicate’s Monetary Imperialism

Posted by: Max | May 28 2021 16:14 utc | 26

Possible origin.
Wet markets and farms
Natural origin
Wuhan laboratory – accidental release
Wuhan laboratory – sabotage by foreign government
Wuhan games – sabotage by foreign government
SARS natural evolution in human populations with animal recombination event
The last one may explain why COVID appeared in so many places at nearly the same time. Once it was transmitted back to humans, it started to mutate the spike protein more aggressively as we see now.

Posted by: Les | May 28 2021 16:16 utc | 28

@Max | May 28 2021 16:14 utc | 33
That pretty much sums it all up, well said.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 28 2021 16:18 utc | 30

@ William Gruff | May 28 2021 12:45 utc | 8
@ WhoIsWho | May 28 2021 13:05 utc | 11
@ Norwegian, 37… thanks.
Name a nation that has changed its financial system significantly without a revolution.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
– John F Kennedy
The Roman Empire didn’t end, it morphed into what? The British Empire didn’t fall, it morphed into what? The Financial Empire will not morph but fall and justice will be done at the END. We’re living through an epoch in the history of humanity!

Posted by: Max | May 28 2021 16:25 utc | 32

Luka is in Sochi talking with Putin, a briefcase by his side Luka tells Putin that during de covid scare Belavia through the Minsk airport rescued a lot of europeans and US citizens stranded while most airports were closed, and that’s the way they thank our airline and their workers, Putin reminds Luka of the Evo Morales incident. The briefcase is loaded and Luka tells Putin there is a lot of stuff in it that he wants to show him.
https://t.me/pul_1/2931

Posted by: Paco | May 28 2021 16:30 utc | 34

Back in 2014 Jihadi Julian Röpcke of Bild claimed that Azov were “freedom fighters” and “heroes” and proudly boasted of having danced with them “in the liberal scene” in Kiev.
Now, in 2021, Jihadi Julian Röpcke is foaming at the mouth over Roman Protasevich, but is totally silent about his Azov connections. Wonder why. Isn’t Azov a “liberal heroic freedom fighter” outfit anymore?

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | May 28 2021 16:47 utc | 36

An anecdotal note related to my travels and interactions across the USA over the past two months–people, especially young people, don’t want to work for the rates of pay offered for many jobs. And this isn’t just related to the South where I spent the last several weeks, but is something we saw/heard nationally. Upon arriving back in Oregon, I saw a help wanted ad for housekeepers offering $18/hr and another offering a $1,000 signing bonus for line cooks, both located within our rural central coast county. A local restaurant icon that’s made it through the thick and thin times must close it dinner service because it cannot find kitchen staff–at any wage! None of these businesses are national operators like Amazon who’ve been in the news for abusing their workforces.
My wife and I discussed this in an attempt to find an explanation and conclude that this is blowback for the last two generations worth of crushing labor by the combination of big business and Neoliberal state governments–AND–the great lack of affordable housing in many localities, which is very true where we live. This latter aspect is fallout from the housing bubble the Fed’s been blowing since the 2008 Bankster Fraud Crisis that’s insanely inflated realty. If I could find the land and funding, I’d build 20,000 low-cost apartment units in our county, and I’d be able to rent them all out thanks to the demand. Then we’d have housing for the workforce needed to properly staff businesses. And I know our region isn’t the only one with that problem.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 28 2021 16:49 utc | 38

vk will like the closing statement by Luka before going to work with Vlad:
It is simply clear what these Western friends of ours want from us. What is there to discuss? But there are no heights that the Bolsheviks did not take. We’ll take them too.

Posted by: Paco | May 28 2021 16:59 utc | 40

Posted by: karlof1 | May 28 2021 17:02 utc | 49
That was the introductory meeting, Luka talked a lot more as usual, but the interesting part will be after the working session, what caught my attention was the briefcase by Luka’s side, and telling Vlad that he wants to show him some stuff…

Posted by: Paco | May 28 2021 17:13 utc | 42

They didn’t start testing mRNA vaccines on kids until recently. Also, excluded were those with autoimmune disorders. If herd immunity levels are reached in the rest of the population before the vaccine is approved for kids, it will be ok. It looks like it occur in July.

Posted by: Les | May 28 2021 17:22 utc | 44

Paco @50–
Thanks for your reply! I’ll continue to look for additional info as the day progresses.
/////
After Ellsberg’s recent disclosure that the Outlaw US Empire planned to nuke major Chinese cities in 1958, Strategic Culture has published its strongest Editorial yet:
“The United States is a serial nuclear aggressor whose veneer of supposed virtue is a thin and increasingly transparent disguise for moral bankruptcy.”
Here’s the meat:
“The propensity by the United States for the use of nuclear weapons can be seen as a form of blackmail and state terrorism against the rest of the world. It has used such weapons without apology, it has explicitly threatened to use such weapons on several occasions, and it continues to tacitly threaten to use these weapons at any time of its choosing. That, in short, is state terrorism.”
The editors also made this observation:
“[Ellsberg’s] details were published by the New York Times [Link at original]. But it is perturbing that the shocking revelations barely caused a ripple in the U.S. media. There were no editorials condemning the plan which indicates a complacency among the U.S. media bordering on acquiescence towards such criminal action. This complacency is deeply alarming given the present dangers of war stemming from Washington’s provocations towards China and Russia.” [My Emphasis]
The “guns” Biden ought to get rid of are those with megaton yields.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 28 2021 17:39 utc | 46

@ Posted by: vinnieoh | May 28 2021 17:25 utc | 54
No, because wages do not rise inflation. They lower profits.
That’s why capitalists get so hysterical when we talk about rising wages, but not, e.g. when we talk about universal basic income, or unemployment insurance.
Wages are the exception to the rule because they’re the direct portion of wealth the working class produces. When you raise wages of your workers, you’re merely giving them a greater ratio of the social wealth they already produced. Therefore, higher wages lower profits, not affecting inflation.

Posted by: vk | May 28 2021 18:10 utc | 48

@ #1; Thanks for the Brand link. Solid gold..
ld @ 20 said;”The more I see the Projectionists at work, the more convinced I am that the US released this contagion in an attempt to spread the disease in China to criple the economy”.
Exactly my take. The U$A has a recorded history in this regard. (remember the black airmen of Tuskegee)

Posted by: vetinLA | May 28 2021 18:21 utc | 50

@ Posted by: WhoIsWho | May 28 2021 18:31 utc | 62
Higher wages only translate in higher profits when capitalism is in a golden age. In that case, unusually high profit rates can trickle down to higher wages. But profits will always rise above wages. That’s what happened in the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1975), where reconstruction and restructuring of the world capitalist economy allowed the soon-to-be First World countries to build up their welfare states at the cost of the soon-to-be Third World countries. That’s on a macroeconomic level.
In a microeconomic level, it depends on the individual business: a particularly prosperous business may rise its workers’ wages while having record profits. But that always comes with its inverse, i.e. particularly dire businesses lower its workers’ wage (or lay off) while having record losses. Usually, the financial sector is the most profitable, and tends to gobble up the weaker sectors, and so on.

Posted by: vk | May 28 2021 19:05 utc | 52

@ WhoIsWho | May 28 2021 18:43 utc | 63
I agree with you that it doesn’t have to be this way. I don’t think the Financial Oligarchy initially thought that the populace will figure out their fraud and rigged racket. Thanks to the Internet for the awakening! They have built a moat (hurdles) to preserve their power. However, it is unsustainable.
A reckoning with reality is on deck! How much later is a very good question. Then unraveling of fictionalization, falsification & financialization will begin.
When Titanic was built they said it’s the biggest ship in the world & it will never sink. In the end it stays at the sea bed. It will be interesting to see how change comes.

Posted by: Max | May 28 2021 19:17 utc | 54

@ vk | May 28 2021 19:05 utc | 64
The Financial Sector is at the top of the POWER HIERARCHY in the Financial Feudalism. They have the lowest cost of capital and access to lots of free money and thereby power. They can create their revenue generating securities and control corporations. Their goal is to expand their control of various sectors.
All the fortune 1000 companies are divisions of the Wall Street and most of their executive compensation comes from stocks. Profits don’t matter much in the unicorn world, just look at Tesla, Uber,… Setting the right Wall Street expectations is the key to success. The wage drivers are unique skills in this category.
The ideology of the TOP owners is just global control — it’s this quest for power, it’s pure narcissism, it’s the most destructive form of pathology that humans have. It’s narcissism, a need to dominate and control and have power over everything else.

Posted by: Max | May 28 2021 19:48 utc | 56

@ Max | May 28 2021 19:48 utc | 63
Indeed, its a deeply evil pathology. In the end they have created (part of) a world in their own image, and its butt ugly. The problem is that there are no choices before us other than kill them all and eat the rich.

Posted by: WhoIsWhoTwo | May 28 2021 20:02 utc | 58

Fort Detrick has a characteristic of failure to the extent that you would think it was run by the keystone cops. When I first read of its closure in 2019 and the published reports of gross errors of safety practice I was astounded and later could understand how the USAi has been anaesthetised by mind control propaganda over the years.
Today, with their controlled media there are limited media options for concerned citizens to be heard and to organise civil action. The minute any civil protest is formed it will be infiltrated and then bombarded by troll activity online.
I hold no hope that the USAi can rescue itself from its deadly spiral. I have slim hope that the rest of the world my get by unscathed.
On the virus history in the USAi there is a wealth of local TV news reports of deadly virus slaughtering elderly care homes in early 2019. This virus has been intensly studied in the USAi since at least 2010. One escape with human infection potential has plenty of time to build within community.
Even countries with practices of rapid isolation/lockdowns experience these escapes or outbursts of infection cases, partly through human error and partly unknown causes.
Blame game is childish and I trust clear heads can prevail.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 28 2021 20:12 utc | 60

@ Max | May 28 2021 20:21 utc | 68
Yes, external – as in the world outside of the empire or Zone B as The Saker calls it.
We are now just spectators. We are too fractured to emulate what the Palestinians have shown is possible…

Posted by: WhoIsWhoTwo | May 28 2021 20:33 utc | 62

Paco | May 28 2021 16:30 utc | 41
The meeting Putin-Lukashenko lasted four hours.
We shall see what we shall see in due time. I suspect that Putin will now confer with his Administration. (ie Lavrov and Sergui etc.). Before any real news comes out.
If it concerns a “regime change” this may not be limited to Belarus, – if I am reading correctly the unease with which Lukashenko touches that briefcase.
Would it include other NATO movements and more violent external pressures? The Potatohead and Nazi “anti-Lukashenkoists” were planning a violent uprising, before being caught, weren’t they? Would Kalingrad and it’s proximity to Belarus have anything to do with it?
******
oldhippie | May 28 2021 17:17 utc | 50.
about @208 previous thread.
I don’t know any more about it, but it does seem believable. At least the first part. That the US “lost control” of a virus was inevitable.
So; Why are they insisting on vaccinating kids? Not just for future cash clients. The thought makes me feel uneasy – to say the least,

Posted by: Stonebird | May 28 2021 20:46 utc | 64

VK @ 18:
Just because a politician is successful as a war leader does not mean s/he will be a good leader in times of peace.
British voters turfed out Winston Churchill as Prime Minister not long after WW2 ended. Were they crazy to have done that? In the late 1940s the National Health Scheme came into existence. Might Churchill have allowed the NHS to become reality if he had still been PM?
President Assad’s record in managing the Syrian economy before 2011 can hardly be called “very good” but then in those days he was relying on the advice of an economist (whose name escapes me at present – Dardari it may be) who was pushing a neoliberal privatisation agenda. A bit of scepticism on the part of Syrian voters might not be a bad thing.
It would hardly look good for Syria among Western media propaganda outlets if Assad had captured nearly 100% of the vote.

Posted by: Jen | May 28 2021 21:36 utc | 66

re: Assad…It’s almost ten years ago . . .
AP, Dec 12, 2011
The Obama administration is predicting the downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad with a senior official likening his authoritarian regime to a “dead man walking” over its brutal crackdown on pro-reform demonstrators and increasing international isolation.
The State Department official, Frederic Hof, told Congress on Wednesday that Assad’s repression may allow him to hang on to power but only for a short time. And, he urged the Syrian opposition to prepare for the day when it takes control of the state in order to prevent chaos and sectarian conflict. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | May 28 2021 21:42 utc | 68

karlof1 #62

I very much doubt Biden’s $6 Trillion budget proposal will do much to seal the gash in the sinking ship-of-state’s hull and has a very good chance of making it worse given ongoing Fed policy.

Thank you for that extract from the Hudson / Jay interview. I have passed that on to some anonymous souls who appreciate these tidbits.
Biden will only ever transfer wealth to the elite. It is what he does. He even directed the Covid relief payments through people’s deposit accounts so the banks got to siphon most into ‘debt reduction’ before passing the pennies to the account holders. Checks were the only guaranteed way to get the full quid as it were.
The desperation of the US ruling class is at peak frantic as they try to avoid another meeting at the Capitol as in January. Distraction lunacy at full volume is the game.
The next meeting should be in Wall Street and the goal should be clear: to bring liberty, equality, fraternity to the financial class and free them from slavery. They don’t have to do much, just fill the streets with people wall to wall each day and express their discontent. Oh, + send as much video via their cell phones as possible to test out the choke point of the network. Exit Joe Biden (perhaps) 😉

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 28 2021 22:45 utc | 70

Posted by: vk | May 28 2021 15:10 utc | 21
I always understood “herd immunity” to be the argument in favor of letting COVID run roughshod over certain segments of the population from blokes like Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro, the latter of whom has basically been proven to have tried to let it kill as many poor Brazilians as possible.
No expertise claimed here, but is herd immunity even possible any pathogen that requires regular vaccinations?

Posted by: _K_C_ | May 29 2021 0:13 utc | 72

Truce, what truce? It is business as usual: making life so miserable the actual indigenous population flees:
While the Occupation is business as usual for Israel,
there should be no business with Israel
In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
(Compiled by Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign, Auckland, New Zealand)
23 May 2021 {Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG): http://www.nad.ps/ NB:The period covered by this newsletter is taken from the PMG’s 24-hour sitrep ending 8am the day after the above date.}
We shall always do our best to verify the accuracy of all items in these IOP newsletters/reports wherever possible [e.g. we often suspect that names of people and places that we see in the PMG sitreps could be typos; also frequently the translation into English seems rather odd ~ but as we do not speak Arabic, we have no alternative but to copy and paste these names from the PMG sitreps!] – please forgive us for any errors or omissions – Leslie and Marian.
Israeli Army
shoots and wounds
Palestinian worker
Israeli settlers
assault and injure
9 Palestinian farmers
Night peace disruption
and/or home invasions
in 7 villages
1 attack – 10 raids
including home invasions
1 dead – 11 injured –
9 beaten
1 abducted
2 acts of
agricultural/economic
sabotage
56 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 04:15-05:30, Azun – 02:05-03:40, Tel village.
Peace disruption raids: 04:00, Kobar – 04:00, Dura al-Qarara – 10:30, Izbit Shufa – 01:45-04:50, Qabalan – 00:40-04:35, Beit Fajjar – dawn, al-Walaja – 02:05, Beit Kahil – dawn, Beit Ummar.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Deaths: Northern Gaza – 23:30, a Beit Hanoun resident, Mahmoud Ammar Abu Jarad, has now died of injuriescaused by Israeli air strikes.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Tulkarem – 19:00, a Palestinian worker, Ziad Raafat Salim Rajab, was wounded and hospitalised by Israeli Occupation forces, near the village of Far’un, as they terrorised people who were on their way to work across the Green Line.
Economic sabotage: Gaza — the Israeli Navy continues to enforce an arbitrary fishing limit.
Home invasion and abduction: Qalqiliya – 04:15-05:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided Azun and abducted a 17-year-old youth: Mustafa Ahmed Mansour.
Home invasions – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Nablus – 02:05-03:40, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided Tel village and searched seven homes.
Israeli Army rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 08:30, Israeli Occupation forces invaded Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards and took prisoner guards and other staff: Fadi Ali Alian, Issa Arabat, Muhammad al-Dabbagh, Omar Al-Zughayer, Ali Wazouz, Anas Muhammad Abu Al-Homs, Mahmoud Al-Shakhshir, Ashwaq Abdul Wahid and Omar Fawzi Muhaisin.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:30, settler militants, escorted by Israeli police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Israeli Army – 1 wounded – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 21:10, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at protesters, near Halhul Bridge, wounded one person, Muhammad Usama Melhem, and caused a number of tear gas casualties.
Occupation settler violence – agricultural sabotage : Salfit – 15:50, Israeli Occupation settlers, in Wadi Qana, assaulted Palestinian farmers, injuring nine people.
Raids – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 04:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided Kobar and Dura al-Qarara, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 10:30, Israeli forces raided Izbit Shufa, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 01:45-04:50, the Israeli Army raided Qabalan, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 00:40-04:35, Israeli troops raided Beit Fajjar, taking prisoner three people.
Raid – 4 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided the village of al-Walaja, taking prisoner four people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided Beit Kahil, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – dawn, Israeli forces raided Beit Ummar, taking prisoner one person.
Restrictions of movement (16): 12:30, entrance to Sinjil – 15:50, entrance to Deir Abu Masha’al village – 22:30, entrance to Beitin – 10:55, Jit village road junction; one person taken prisoner – 19:50, western entrance to Azun – 20:25, Shavei Shamron settlement road junction – 21:20, entrance to Aqraba – 08:55 and again at 23:10, northern entrance to Jericho – 20:35-21:40, western entrance to Beit Fajjar – 09:40, Halhul Bridge – Beit Hanoun (Erez)crossing closed – al-Mantar-Karni crossing closed – al-Shujaiyeh crossing (Nahal Oz) closed – Sufa crossing closed – al-Awda Port closed.
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Posted by: Paul | May 29 2021 0:42 utc | 74

Re Ellsberg disclosures
It has recently become fashionable to acknowledge Ellsberg’s four-year old disclosure, probably due to (a repeated) insanity of power politics (military economic powers) wishing to go wild on us all — for they are Glory Bound $$$ with righteousness.
Ellsberg first disclosed this info in 2017 when he published “Doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner” wherein he cited a link to his website which contained the relevant documents. He says he wanted to reveal this information earlier but lost the original documents on nuclear war planning against China and ussr which he lifted at Rand where he worked at the time when copying these documents on nuclear war and the pentagon papers due to unfortunate environmental circumstances. He chose to disclose only the latter at the time, the pentagon papers, to place focus on ending the imperialist war on Vietnam.
One can read these rarely read documents at Ellsberg’s website, which is dedicated to said disclosures. They have been there for years for all to read.
Who rules the empire? Certainly not ordinary people, not working people, nor brainiards who attempt to track what’s going on, and if they speak up, R usually silenced or imprisoned or exiled, socially or pooticallu. At 90 years old, Ellsberg gambles on being better by speaking out loud, again, although belatedly.

Posted by: suzan | May 29 2021 1:18 utc | 76

@82 psychohistorian
Thank you – I don’t need to know. It’s enough that you do. And it was enough anyway, without it. As you say, the words are more important than the man. The words are everything.
And I see he’s here some more, very good.

Posted by: Grieved | May 29 2021 2:04 utc | 78

RJPJR #84
Thank you. I note that Harvard to the Big House gets a citation once again. Salut comrade.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 29 2021 2:42 utc | 80

@denk #88 CIA planted the ‘evidence’…
Fabricating “evidence” is an American institution, at every level….
Gerry Spence, the famous trial lawyer:
— “I found that the minions of the law–the special agents of the FBI–to be men who proved themselves not only fully capable, but also utterly willing to manufacture evidence, to conceal crucial evidence and even to change the rules that governed life and death if, in the prosecution of the accused, it seemed expedient to do so.”
–From Freedom to Slavery, p. 27

Posted by: Don Bacon | May 29 2021 3:42 utc | 82

I have just been following a somewhat depressing argument at NC’s Watercooler on the future perils that countries which have successfully barricaded against the covid virus face as those barricades are breached.[Forgive me for not bringing the actual wording – it’s late and I’m off to bed shortly.] Commentor there, Rev Kev, gave a good comparison to the ‘Spanish flu’ scenario in Australia: that the three waves then had been first moderately severe, then very severe, then mild. Australia being late to the party benefited by experiencing for the most part the third wave.
If covid follows suit, we have the second wave scenario presently in play. It then behooves us all not to let down our guards, such as they may be, wherever we may be, because it is likely that we have a better future prospect ahead. Hang in there, folk.

Posted by: juliania | May 29 2021 4:20 utc | 84

@50 oldhippie
@78 Grieved
The comments of RJPJR are indeed an intriguing read. They unfortunately contradict the known facts in a couple of points.
SARS-CoV-1 for instance had been conclusively proven to be of natural origin. It had been traced back to corona viruses endemic in a colony of bats in South China. (The role of intermediate hosts is still debated.)
He also doesn`t provide evidence for most of his claims.

Posted by: m | May 29 2021 6:34 utc | 86

Marman @ 29 More on the virus.
I think discourse would be improved if people laid out the options for the epidemic:
I. Natural origin.
II. Man-made.
A. Accidental release from lab.
1.Accidental release from Wuhan lab.
2.Accidental release from another lab (such As Fort Detrick)
B. Intentional release
1. Released by the Chinese on their own population.
2. Released by another sophisticated state actor (USA).
The controversy involves people completely dismissing all the possible options but their preferred explanation without even entertaining the viability of other options.end of by: Mar man 29
<==who ran the labs? was it 1) a government or 2) a private party contractor? If the same contractor does experiments in more than one labs? maybe government is not where the investigation should be focused? the genetics should tell the story. https://indianpunchline.com/covid-19-has-a-grandma-grandpa-and-great-grandpa-where-are-they/
from this link, “The research has shown that the Covid-19’s earliest “ancestor” is a virus known as mv1, in plain terms, Covid-19’s “father” is H3; its “grandparents” are H13 and H38; and, its “great grandfather” is mv1.
Now, although the virus that was discovered in the Wuhan seafood market (Covid-19) was of the H1 variety alright, only its “father” H3 has been spotted in Wuhan — and that too, NOT in the seafood market.
Importantly, the Covid-19’s “grandparents” — H13 and H38 — have never been spotted in Wuhan. ”

Posted by: snake | May 29 2021 7:31 utc | 88

m #93
I did see a number of evidenced papers that were posted throughout the presentation as support for the line of evidence he was revealing.
Perhaps you might elaborate on what was intended here: “SARS-CoV-1 for instance had been conclusively proven to be of natural origin. It had been traced back to corona viruses endemic in a colony of bats in South China. (The role of intermediate hosts is still debated.)
Perhaps the intermediate host might have been via a lab to human to dissemination?
One thing for sure from the citations in this presentation is that gain of function activities have been ongoing in the west for near two decades.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 29 2021 7:47 utc | 90

The first man in the world to be given the Covid vaccine has died.
Tributes have been paid to 81-year-old William Shakespeare who hit global headlines on December 8 last year when he became the first man to have the jab at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.
Bill, as he was fondly known, passed away last Thursday after suffering a stroke – at the same hospital where he famously received his vaccine.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-william-shakespeare-dies-81-24182185

Posted by: Mao | May 29 2021 11:08 utc | 92

Canadian pop-up Covid vaccine clinic. Kids get free ice-cream. Cuck Police outside to prevent parents interfering.
https://odysee.com/@jamesabergas:f/canadian-cuck-cops:7

Posted by: Mao | May 29 2021 11:27 utc | 94

Below is a link to a decent ZH posting and after reading it think about what this posting says about the groundswell happening around the world…..grin
Is Ivermectin The New Penicillin?
How are the American public going to react when this info gets broader understanding in the bigger picture of the Covid debacle?

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 29 2021 14:47 utc | 96

to psychohistorian – a couple of questions/comments for you sir. First, I am very happy to see that the word is getting out about treatments, especially ivermectin.
Second, I too wonder what will happen if/when the – well I hesitate to call them sheeple, so perhaps we can say – the brainwashed – find out that there has been an effective treatment all along; that their grannies and dear friends did not need to die; that the long long months of suffering were unnecessary;
that the Con=gress and Big Pharma have been cashing in on their misery and don’t give a rat’s patoot about the cost to “the little people” ???
What does the “psycho” part of your moniker think? At the moment, what I see is that many who have bought into the pfitzer Great Savior narrative are very very reluctant to let go.
Finally – you say you have accessed ZeroHedge: I have been reading ZH since it was a blogspot. Remember the brilliant Marla? Anyway, as of yesterday, for me, ZH is locked up behind a paywall.
The graffitti for membership signup specifically states that one’s personal info is not privacy protected – and can be sold to whomever. Did ZH get bought? One notes that Bezos sold 3% of his holdings, ie $3billion in A-stock..Your thoughts sir?
Best wishes

Posted by: Miss Lacy | May 29 2021 15:36 utc | 98

@ WhoIsWhoTwo | May 28 2021 20:33 utc | (62)
Thanks, for sharing The Saker’s Zone B article. It defines one of the elements of the world outside of the Financial Empire.
What was the reason for this Empire’s existence? Would it have been better to take down the Empire before today, or after now? It is easy to take it down, as its structure will fall with one mega earthquake. However, the benefits of such a fall won’t be great. It is better to disclose, dismantle and duplicate its pillars of power. What are those PILLARS? It could have been brought down in 2010. However, it would have re-emerged. Why?
As @ psychohistorian (May 29 2021 15:05 utc | 97), says its well, “contrived of lies and deceit seems to be unraveling around the world…..this is how empires crumble.” The Empire is pure EVIL. It is out of luck, and its deceits are being exposed and it is falling apart! Deceivers decay… All things have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
What are the prior epochs in the history of humanity? What FRACTAL emerges from those epochs? It is great that the Empire and its Orcs use, “In God We Trust.”

Posted by: Max | May 29 2021 16:02 utc | 100