Below are links from The Register and ZH that I want to share and comment on
MIT’s thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that’s by design
While this is way cool technology, what the posting title does not say is that these new speakers are also microphones if enough power used….sigh
Twitter’s $17M Per Year Censorship Czar Could Get Axe Under Musk
So the censorship just goes back undercover then, correct? And with a new boss but probably the same pay….

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 1 2022 15:17 utc | 3

orwellian is a good word for what the usa is doing here… its been going on a long time..
thanks for all your hard work b and thanks to the many thoughtful and insightful posters here at moa..

Posted by: james | May 1 2022 15:32 utc | 5

Thanks for the weekly review, b. I enjoyed reading about May Day, something which I knew very little about. By the way, the Russian MoD also has some comments about May 1st on their Telegram channel, specifically May 1, 1945. Berlin Offensive.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en
To add to the discussion on the whitewashing of neo-Nazis, I stumbled across a link to this list of shrines to Nazi collaborators (1500 in some 30 countries). While revealing, this overview perhaps understates the presence of the Nazi movement in Ukraine a little… in favour of including everybody in the same basket. I haven’t read the piece by Katchanovski that you linked to, just his 11 Tweet thread on the subject. His argument, to oversimplify it, that the war in Ukraine was caused directly by the Maidan massacre also understates the neo-Nazi presence (I.e. doesn’t mention it at all)
https://forward.com/news/500905/europe-far-right-nazi-past-marches/

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | May 1 2022 16:01 utc | 7

b, who reads Counterpunch so the rest of us don’t have to, selects three articles which are worth reading in their various ways.
Cockburn’s is a fairly trivial piece, though the poverty in Syria and Kurdistan which it incidentally documents is shocking. And wholly attributable to the malice and arrogance of the scum in Washington who daily sacrifice the lives of our fellow humans as they pursue the diabolical pipedream of turning the entire species into their serfs.
More confirmation of the dictum, dating back to 2001, that there will be no end to the horrors the Empire perpetrates until Latin American armies are patrolling the streets of Cleveland.
The article by Rubenstein is more indicative of a long overdue awakening (perhaps just a stirring in sleep) at Counterpunch’s ever more substantial offices. Where, one suspects a portrait of George Soros has pride of place.
After a deep curtsey in the Editor’s direction- the repetition of the received opinion that this is “Putin’s War” an insight that CP shares with the State Department, NATO and the more senior elements on the US Media spectrum- the author gets down to the unfamiliar business of telling Counterpunch’s readers what actually lies behind the war. Altogether an advance over the Putin is Mad, Russia is run by Nazis, Ukraine is a plucky little democracy whose valiant people are battling to defend the sacred values that Uncle Sam brought to them… pass the vomit bag.
Richard Falk gives Counterpunch more, in the way of credibility, than anything in the way of audience that it can provide him. So he is treated with respect. No editorial touches, to associate him with the NATO party line, are introduced to his writing. The result is a very thoughtful article which indicates- as the Russians probably guessed was likely, that after an initial onslaught, successful largely to its violence and cartoon like dishonesty, NATO propaganda, having quickly peaked is now rapidly declining.
NATO, as the meeting in Schleswig Holstein, yesterday, indicates is now in the process of ‘coming down’ from a quick ‘high’ on amphetamines. The prospect that seemed so marvelous a few weeks ago is now beginning to look decidedly gloomy.
For the Empire the best part of this war-the enthusiasm drummed up by the Mighty Wurlitzer- has passed. In its place there is a splitting headache. Everything is going wrong.
Now the task is to make sure that they cannot ‘solve’ the problems they have brought on themselves by kicking over the table: starting more wars or using nuclear weapons.

Posted by: bevin | May 1 2022 17:26 utc | 9

@Posted by: librul | May 1 2022 13:27 utc | 1
Is this becoming a trend?
@1 I brought the bar’s attention to Rep Lauren Underwood
who is a Black Congressperson watching out for minorities
and being sure that minorities receive their fair share of mind control.
Perhaps you thought the above Underwood was an exceptional example, I just came
across another article that suggests the newest thing, the latest trend,
is that Underwoods are multiplying.

Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech As A White Man’s “Obsession”

Posted by: librul | May 1 2022 18:59 utc | 11

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/01/paypal-cancels-cn-account-may-seize-balance/

Regarding the $9,348.14 balance in CN‘s PayPal account, the agent said that after a 180-day review PayPal would decide whether to return it. “If there was a violation,” she said “it is possible” the money could be kept as “damages” to PayPal. Violations under the Restricted Activities of the User Agreement include providing “false, inaccurate or misleading information” to PayPal, other PayPal customers “or third parties.”

Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 1 2022 19:03 utc | 13

Maybe Canadians can comment on this description of Canada:
“Canada is a police state. You can’t go out after 8PM. You can’t leave the country without a medical procedure whether you like it or not. You know it is a police state. If I were Canadian I’d be horrified and I’d be trying to figure out a way to get out of that country without complying with some of the insane laws that they have. Canada is over. Canada is a police state. They are very polite about it, but it is a police state. You don’t have any rights, there are no property rights, there is no freedom of assembly, there is no freedom of conscience, there is no privacy or bodily autonomy in Canada. It is not a democracy, it is wearing the skin-suit of democracy, but it is an authoritarian regime that is spiralling into totalitarianism.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4G7ttsNp0&t=7022s

Posted by: Norwegian | May 1 2022 19:21 utc | 15

@ Norwegian | May 1 2022 19:21 utc | 14
that is a bit of an extreme viewpoint… of course there is some truth to it too! but the part about going out after 8pm, having no rights and etc. etc. – is bullshit.. the canuck gov’t has implemented a lot of draconian bullshit since covid, and we are in lockstep with the usa and all of their foreign policy bullshit too, but the person is a bit extreme… i didn’t watch the video.. canada, australia, new zealand and the various europe puppies are much the same as i see it… we have horrible leadership at the moment and that is not going to change any time soon…. 5 or 6 eyes rule for the moment..

Posted by: james | May 1 2022 19:44 utc | 17

@jared | May 1 2022 19:39 utc | 15

But a police state by popular consent, so far.
Which is worse: Canada or Australia? And why does it seem that the anglo-sphere is taking the lead in goose stepping into the future?

By popular consent? Did the Holocough scam scare the s***t out of everybody?

Posted by: Norwegian | May 1 2022 19:49 utc | 19

i noticed something about gasoline the other day:
if you add x quantity of gas to any quantity of organic matter, you kill it.
from cell, to tissue, to organ, to organ system, to organism, to ecological niche on up to ecosystem.
good thing global warming is fake!
“I am the angel of poison” – Mephisto, T Mann’s “Dr Faust”

Posted by: rjb1.5 | May 1 2022 20:44 utc | 21

jared #15

And why does it seem that the anglo-sphere is taking the lead in goose stepping into the future?

Consider laws that enable absolute media concentration.
Consider George Soros and his activities.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | May 1 2022 21:05 utc | 23

Larry
Go back to whatever shytesite you came from

Posted by: ld | May 1 2022 21:47 utc | 25

Posted by: Paul | May 1 2022 22:00 utc | 26
Hoo-roo Paul! Carn the crows, these bloody Ukies are a pack of drongos. Couldn’t organise a piss-up at CUB. They’re all a few sheep loose in the top paddock if you get my drift. Mate, I’m over it, I mean fair suck of the saveloy and all, but this shit is crazier than a black snake with its arse on fire.
Speaking of deluded: the Rubenstein piece in Counterpunch was FoS. Putin should have kept going when he took Crimea in the first place. Bloody drongo.

Posted by: Patroklos | May 1 2022 22:19 utc | 27

A most interesting development.
The Yankees have finally created the “Ministry of Truth”. As was predicted by George Orwell in 1949……..
A former sociopathic leader of a very murky background, where money was concened. Who needs the truth anyway?
Now , proudly proclaims without providing one iota of evidence supplied. Stated ‘election 2020′ was a “fixer”. Duck and cover incoming B…….
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abe Lincoln
The times they are a-changin’ – Bob Dylan
Such is life

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | May 1 2022 23:33 utc | 29

Myocarditis and mRNA Vaccines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S9Dz6PZ1gU
Paypal seizes Consortiumnews account and funds:
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/01/paypal-cancels-cn-account-may-seize-balance/
Cancelled my account about 10 years ago. Another best option?
Not been able to access Strategic Culture for at least two weeks now.
Can circumvent using Psiphon.
Are we coming to a split in the internet? The free internet and the censored?

Posted by: Joe | May 2 2022 0:05 utc | 31

Posted by Patroklos @ 27
Them Ukis are drongos orright, Couldn’t get a F*** in a brothel. They’d get lost on the road to Gundagai:
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/jack-ohagan-sings-along-road-gundagai

Posted by: Paul | May 2 2022 0:41 utc | 33

… now we just gotta find a way to make sure Scomo and his gang of thieves are buried for good.

Posted by: Patroklos | May 2 2022 1:01 utc | 35

I’m so glad that the wildfires in the US have nothing to do with anything and so there’s nothing to be done and so can be ignored. sure let’s the pentagon off the hook. as well as the fortune 100 companies.
I’m equally relieved that the plummeting US lifespans have nothing to do with anything like the rampant denial of the severity of the virus. American sheep clearly have hoof and mouth disease when bleating on about something they know zippo about, Ukraine. but the same people who know shit about the coronavirus and believe what’s convenient.
but since the missiles make a good show and cannot be denied because they are tweeted on the twitter and the tellie and the telegram and tiktok nonstop, back to what’s more exciting to watch while shoving gmo popcorn and mr pibb down my throat. the war is both convenient and exciting, unlike boring old climate change and wearing masks. war never gets old, unlike that shit.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | May 2 2022 1:55 utc | 37

I agree with the assertion that all wars are bankers wars….but would add that historically those have been private bankers
I think that the civilization war between the China/Russia axis and the God of Mammon West is a banker war also but at a different level.
The civilization war is about different forms of social organization with the boldest difference being that the Western God of Mammon global private finance cult is not a sovereign nation. China has a sovereign Central Bank and Russia is headed in that direction and is reported to be birthing an alternative Reserve Currency with intrinsic value.
I have been watching a horse race going on between empire getting another war on and self inflicted economic implosion with the latter being my preferred outcome.
The US market indicators are highly manipulated but there have been two 900+ down days in the past week of the Dow index and similar drops in the other indexes. I haven’t read recent Treasury sale detail but skimming the reports read to me like foreign nation purchasing is below “normal” which to me a key indicator that global alliances are changing.
As soon as an alternative Reserve Currency is available, the move to that system of money will be close to immediate, IMO….it can’t happen soon enough for this old man who has been watching this shit show for over 50 years

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 2 2022 2:48 utc | 39

I see that the bubble ‘n squeak at #35 plus a couple of offsiders actually plan on wasting time & energy chasing the tory bastard outta the lodge. Why? It’s not as if it will make a jot of difference, as we have seen all over this old rock that swapping a tory for a neolib is an exercise in futility.
At least tory scum, liars as they are, are more honest about their intentions than the faux ALP that has been in place since Hawke’s reign.
You don’t hafta be a proctologist to know that the faux ALP always crawls further up amerika’s arse than the libs.
They used to make mobs of promises about all sorts of programs that they’d never get around to doin’ durin’ elections, but ‘Albo’ doesn’t even do that. He’s hoping to get home on the strength of morrison’s thoroughly unlikeable personality, which means since he’s gonna be starting off a lower base than any of those who went before, he promises to be even worse.
Plus all the blue/green wimmen, the alleged independents who will end up with too much power are gonna to stamp on anything any alp pol who still retains a smidgeon of idealism tries to get goin. Those screwed up hausfraus will sell the country down the river in return for a $10 mill bird sanctuary or koala rescue center in their electorate.
It makes more sense to save yer energy and avoid disappointment, use that energy to develop a grass roots community service that is needed & wanted and stay right away from pols of whatever ilk.

Posted by: Debsisdead | May 2 2022 3:00 utc | 41

“IMO….it can’t happen soon enough for this old [wo]man who has been watching this [bleep] show for over 50 years.”
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 2 2022 2:48 utc | 40
Do forgive me, psychohistorian – I was amazed just now in pasting your final comment, since with my amendations, on a different track entirely – the time factor is exact!
I posted on the Ukraine open thread something of the connections I was making with your post there at 16 – and I was coming here to disagree a bit with Pepe in his latest dash through history, “Clash of Christianities”. ( I love you, Pepe – don’t take it to heart!) as far as his following two paragraphs go:

“…Latin Europe, for the Orthodox, is seen as a hybrid usurper, preaching a distorted Christianity which only refers to St. Augustine, practicing absurd rites and neglecting the very important Holy Ghost. The Europe of Christian Popes invented what is considered a historical hydra – Byzantium – where Byzantines were actually Greeks living under the Roman Empire.
Western Europeans for their part see the Orthodox and the Christians from the East (see how they were abandoned by the west in Syria under ISIS and Al Qaeda) as satraps and a bunch of smugglers – while the Orthodox regard the Crusaders, the Teutonic chevaliers and the Jesuits – correctly, we must say – as barbarian usurpers bent on world conquest…

I disagree because, although it might commonly be seen as a clash between the first and the third Rome, this isn’t how the faiths see themselves, and to me the faiths are not the bishops and other clerics, but the peoples themselves.
(Maybe this distinction applies monetarily as well – I’d bow to your savvy there. Something about basing the money supply on real things might be the key connection?)
Anyway, Pepe’s above two paragraphs are perhaps Pepe pulling our legs. It’s a lot more complicated, since Eastern Orthodoxy isn’t a “Rome” at all. Christ, after all, was an Israeli. (Oops)

Posted by: juliania | May 2 2022 3:16 utc | 43

“…For the Empire the best part of this war-the enthusiasm drummed up by the Mighty Wurlitzer- has passed. In its place there is a splitting headache. Everything is going wrong.
Now the task is to make sure that they cannot ‘solve’ the problems they have brought on themselves by kicking over the table: starting more wars or using nuclear weapons.”
Posted by: bevin | May 1 2022 17:26 utc | 8
Thank you, Bevin! As a former admirer of Counterpunch, I appreciate greatly your assessment here (as I do all your assessments – not that praise from such as I is of high value, but no matter.) Somebody did say Nancy’s smile looked somewhat forced (there’s a headache there, poor thing!)
All I can say is ‘how beautiful are the feet of those who bear good news.’ Let’s hope when they promised not to go nuclear they didn’t have their fingers crossed behind their backs. It might be what saves them – Russians are softies at heart, or should I say, realists. After all, Nancy’s in charge of that table things are ‘off’ or ‘on’ at – at least for now.

Posted by: juliania | May 2 2022 4:05 utc | 45

Posted by: rjb1.5 | May 2 2022 2:14 utc | 39
there is a potential catastrophic war brewing, global warming is kicking off bigtime, and you’re concerned about people that travel more than you do. well done.

Posted by: pretzelattack | May 2 2022 4:56 utc | 47

instructive.
the result of the US’ and Madeline Albright’s hostility to a rather beloved (by the third world) Boutros-Ghali was that in November 1995, while 14 members of the UN Security Council voted to give him a second term as Secretary General, one did not. You guessed it, The US vetoed him and sent him packing. Another kick in the teeth to the Global south.
Today we are saddled with the likes of portuguese errand-boy Antonio Guterres
former UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali, and in his autobiography:
“….Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness….”
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/28/the-madeleine-albright-i-knew/

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 2 2022 6:25 utc | 49

Following a rabbit hole about satellite attitude adjustment thrusters and came across this in Wiki”>Link to Wikileaks; “Hall effect thrusters operated on Soviet satellites from 1972 until the late 1990s, mainly used for satellite stabilization in north–south and in east–west directions. Some 100–200 engines completed missions on Soviet and Russian satellites. Soviet thruster design was introduced to the West in 1992 after a team of electric propulsion specialists, under the support of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, visited Soviet laboratories. ”
IP lost during the Yelstin years.

Posted by: Dadda | May 2 2022 7:54 utc | 51

Norman Finkelstein nails it again, eloquently:
” [On 13 May 2014, the Anti-Defamation League released The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, a survey of 53,100 adults in 102 countries and territories. According to the ADL: “The survey found that anti-Semitic attitudes are persistent and pervasive around the world. More than one-in-four adults, 26 percent of those surveyed, are deeply infected with anti-Semitic attitudes. This figure represents an estimated 1.09 billion people around the world.” The poll has come in for substantial criticism on both methodological and political grounds, from commentators as diverse as Noah Feldman of Harvard University and Amira Hass of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Jadaliyya asked forensic scholar and noted author Norman Finkelstein for his views on the ADL survey and criticism of its methods, and whether he found the poll results alarming.]I would find it alarming if anyone except [Anti-Defamation League National Director] Abe Foxman (and perhaps the New York Times editorial board) took this survey seriously…..”
“Quick Thoughts: Norman Finkelstein on ‘The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism…”
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30695/Quick-Thoughts-Norman-Finkelstein-on-%60The-ADL-Global-100-An-Index-of-Anti-Semitism%60

Posted by: Paul | May 2 2022 9:14 utc | 53

Addendum to my post :
Posted by: Paul | May 2 2022 7:51 utc | 53
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IKl5GSRs5uz9/
Barflies, some local knowledge: the statue at the 9 Second mark of the above video depicts a Kiwi ANZAC. This complimented the earlier statue of the Australian ANZAC at the other end of the ANZAC bridge. The Kiwi statue was a tack on afterthought, long after the bridge opened.

Posted by: Paul | May 2 2022 10:17 utc | 55

Oops, Correction, should have been ‘Melissa Parke’.

Posted by: Paul | May 2 2022 11:23 utc | 57

Posted by: Paul May 2 2022 7:51 utc | 53
Hello Paul, lots of topics raised in The Aussie Cossack video you shared. Obviously many pandemic/lockdown/vaccine references, especially freedom of movement. I think I can guess where he stands on those topics, & I like the fact he combined a “doctors” appointment with his campaign message, he is the future prime minister after all. I know you said he was a Putin supporter, the photo in the front seat, hilarious 🙂
On a more serious note, the belated addition of the Kiwi ANZAC statue is not unique to Australia. It took the 100th anniversary of WW1 to finally gain traction in the campaign for recognition of the participation of men & women from the Caribbean & Africa, who responded to the call from the King.
The participants in WW2 haven’t fared that much better, but some were fortunate enough to still be alive in 2017 to witness the unveiling of a memorial in Windrush Square, Brixton, London.https://brixtonblog.com/2017/06/the-forgotten-are-finally-remembered-in-brixton/
Also many thanks for the didgeridoo piece you shared on a previous thread. How I wish I could have been there! Lastly, many thanks for your recommendation of “Balfour In The Dock”, I’m not disappointed.

Posted by: boon | May 2 2022 14:56 utc | 59

Re Twitter.
This might be important. I am not an important person. Yet magically my account is no longer suspended after a many months.
So I wonder if this is in response to the Musk takeover?
Also, should I threaten to kill god again? I mean come on! She has it coming.

Posted by: David G Horsman | May 2 2022 20:42 utc | 61

DNA Tests Reveal Hitler’s Jewish and African Roots
Aug 24, 2010 11:03 AM
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1.5104559

Posted by: The Memory Hole | May 3 2022 11:03 utc | 63

It looks like it’s a return to sprouting hasbara psycho babble and back room deals for sleazy President Macron.
“Emmanuel Macron’s war against campaigners for Palestinian rights suffered another big setback on Friday.
The Conseil d’Etat, which acts as France’s supreme court ruling on government actions, suspended the president’s order banning two Palestine solidarity groups.
The court upheld the right to call for a boycott of Israeli goods and found the government’s accusations of “anti-Semitism” against the two groups to be unfounded.
In February, on Macron’s instructions, interior minister Gérald Darmanin ordered the dissolution of Collectif Palestine Vaincra (Palestine Will Win Collective) and Comité Palestine Action (Palestine Action Committee)”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/court-overturns-french-ban-palestine-solidarity-groups

Posted by: Paul | May 4 2022 1:47 utc | 65

In case you thought that the Macron-Le Pen vote was “fair”, here are some Le Pen votes that should have been counted. I can’t quite see what the point is of throwing them out of the lorry just when the police arrive?
Corruption is not ONLY in the US.
https://twitter.com/AndyDevil666/status/1521569991476273152

Posted by: Stonebird | May 4 2022 9:45 utc | 67

fyi
https://t.me/intelslava/27845
Intel Slava Z
🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria opposed the imposition of an oil embargo on Russia
It is for this reason that the permanent representatives of the EU countries failed to reach an agreement on an embargo on the import of Russian oil. The talks were rescheduled for May 5.
t.me/intelslava/27845
116.2K views May 4 at 11:31

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 5 2022 2:06 utc | 69

More sundry.
In that previous post I referred to a couple pieces from Toronto-based media; lots of opinions come out of the Big Smoke, like this one:
“ “Harry’s relationship with his family is intersecting with this larger scrutiny of the monarchy in transition,” Carolyn Harris, a Toronto-based author and royal historian, said in an interview.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/prince-harry-charles-camilla-visit-1.6435665
The Netherlands’ Princess Margriet and Pieter will visit Canada May 12-16 (Prince of Wales and Camilla arriving May 17).
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/princess-margriets-five-day-visit-to-honour-netherlands-canada-bond
No meetings with Ukrainians, just those part of the Dutch-Canada connection. Princess Margriet was born here, by the way. In some creative parliamentary procedure (which I’m sure could never be challenged), the maternity ward was declared non-Canadian, Dutch territory, temporarily, which prevented her from being born a Canadian citizen. And a subject of the British monarchy.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | May 6 2022 17:24 utc | 71

And – to top it all off – Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre made a brazen appeal for more defence spending in an interview on CBC’s Power and Politics yesterday. Suggested that with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Canada’s security is threatened. Shameless, I mean really.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | May 6 2022 17:47 utc | 73

Terror in Pak,
The Usual Suspects….

.Many have charged that the US exerts direct and/or indirect control over a number of these terrorist organizations through the CIA. Though Washington, and its mainstream media organs, have dismissed these allegations as “conspiracy theories” countless times, such denials have become more difficult to accept, especially in the wake of the Raymond Davis case. Davis, a CIA operative in Pakistan, was arrested after murdering two Pakistanis. However, the New York Times revealed that Davis was:
Working from a safe house in the eastern city of Lahore…a retired Special Forces soldier, carried out scouting and other reconnaissance missions as a security officer for the Central Intelligence Agency… Mr. Davis has worked for years as a C.I.A. contractor, including time at Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm (now called Xe) that Pakistanis have long viewed as symbolizing a culture of American gun-slinging overseas… Several American and Pakistani officials said that the C.I.A. team with which Mr. Davis worked in Lahore was tasked with tracking the movements of various Pakistani militant groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba.
So, Davis was at the very least in contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba, which lends credence to many of the allegations from a variety of sources that Davis, like a number of his CIA colleagues, acted as a “handler” for terrorist groups, providing them with the contacts necessary to carry out their attacks.

https://journal-neo.org/2014/07/08/the-politics-of-terrorism-in-pakistan/

Posted by: denk | May 7 2022 6:04 utc | 75

After killing two Pak policemen, Raymond Davis was arrested and jailed, waiting for trial.
But Pak eventually capitulated under FUS pressure, Davis was released and flew the next flight home.
But u aint seen nuthin yet….
In 2002, a gringo Michael Meiring was messing with explosive in Ph hotel when he blown off both legs and was rushed to hospital.

What is unusual about the case, The Manila Times reported, is that Meiring was: whisked out of Davao, past the Philippine National Police guarding him at the hospital, and on to a chartered plane, accompanied by what Immigration officials described as agents of the US National Security Agency and agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/site/gladio/nws30duterte.html

Posted by: denk | May 7 2022 13:59 utc | 77

shortened link.//
https://tinyurl.com/mrdahywd

Posted by: denk | May 7 2022 15:00 utc | 79

There’s a discussion of Noam Chomsky and other left luminaries in the Ukraine thread, which might be getting a little OT from world-war-three-proper (pretty much the subject matter over there). The most tenable defense urges us to cut Chomsky some slack on account of his age — but that doesn’t cut the mustard with a fellow duffer such as myself. We always have the option of calling it quits after we lose our marbles (someone tell Diane Feinstein).
Something more profound than mere senescence or selling out is going on in USA, with leaders such as the Rev. William Barber. One by one, my heros drop by the wayside — not to assassination or intimidation, apparently to mere conformist idiocy. Piece by piece, my heart breaks over tragedies such as Rev. Barber. Out at the other BAR, both Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka have written agonized complaints. Kimberley seems more angry, Baraka more deferential:

Rev. Barber and the Poor Peoples’ Campaign have already created a moral and political contradiction for themselves with their sloppy and dubious moral reasoning on Ukraine. That is, if the bipartisan decision to provide more weapons of war to Ukraine represents a morally uncontested position, how will the Campaign counter the argument that it is equally moral to continue to vote for the ever-increasing military budgets of the Pentagon in light of the supposed security threats from Russia and China?

https://www.blackagendareport.com/poor-peoples-campaign-and-moral-dilemma-liberalism

Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 8 2022 0:10 utc | 81

Can the real terrorists please stand up ?
While CIA/MI6/ASIO are globe trottling terrorists, in South Asia they often partner with RAW.
MOSSAD might also has interest in Pak , the only Muslim country with nukes .

The US and Indian Embassies in Islamabad as well as consulates have become dens of espionage within Pakistan and safe houses for Raymond Davis like terrorists. The so-called diplomats and staff posted in US and Indian Embassies and consulates are mostly involved in espionage. US media has disclosed that Davis was part of a covert intelligence network involving hundreds of spies operating in Pakistan without the knowledge of security agencies. Death of three US Special Forces trainers in Lower Dir as a result of suicide attack, arrest of Davis in Lahore, and Aaron Mark De-Haven from Peshawar and identification of Jonathan Banks as chief supervisor of drone attacks and detection of Blackwater activities gives an idea about the scale of organized CIA network in Pakistan.

https://sabrinabaloch.blogspot.com/2011/03/real-axis-of-evil-blackwaterxe-cia.html

Posted by: denk | May 8 2022 3:01 utc | 83

ISIS Easter massacre , Sri Lanka, 2020
Chinese targets in Easter attacks: fundamental questions unanswered in PCoI Report and other investigations
Four Chinese marine scientists in Sri Lanka for joint marine exploration lost their lives in the attack on the Kingsbury Hotel. Remarkably, the US and Indian owned, Hilton and Taj Hotels that are next to Shangri-La were untouched
The economic and geopolitical targets of the attacks seemed designed to send a coded message to China – hands off Sri Lanka’s maritime domain.
https://www.elanka.com.au/facing-religious-zealots-easter-sunday-21-4-placed-in-a-global-conetxt/
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Explosives! US Embassy Plot in Colombo sniffed out by Police Dogs?
Police dogs render US diplomats speechless
https://thuppahis.com/2019/05/03/explosives-us-embassy-plot-in-colombo-sniffed-out-by-police-dogs/

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