indian punchline has a good article up today –
Russia’s homage to Nord Stream pipelines

Posted by: james | Oct 22 2022 19:54 utc | 103

@ Aleph_Null | Oct 22 2022 19:56 utc | 105
your link to (more) just brings me back to this page…
sounds like meek was working for the cia and decided he or his boss wanted a change for him..

Posted by: james | Oct 22 2022 20:15 utc | 105

Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 22 2022 11:53 utc | 98
it is amazing that anyone listens to this john campbell dickhead. like pfizer, he’s there to do ONE thing:
respond to the market. where “markets” and “healthcare” conflict, he sides with “the market”. every time.
most people on this blog cannot imagine that a virus could interrupt their lives. destroy their societies, no matter what people try to do, assuming they live in a functioning society, which we don’t. science will save us! Look, Xi promising more nuclear power and self-driving cars! what a visionary.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Oct 22 2022 20:40 utc | 107

Empire of Lies continues to spread Chaos
The US has ordered their proxy terrorists in Myanmar to outright declare civil war, yesterday. The local black market exchange rate for the Myanmar Kyat fell to half its value overnight. The official exchange rate is I suspect not affected – but access to foreign currency through the banks is limited for most people, due to balance of payments difficulties. Ordinary traders have to use the black market to get foreign currency for imports, so that means a massive hike in prices for ordinary people.
The US proxy terrorists in Myanmar – who have ISIS-like brutality – are trained by US and UK boots on the ground.

Posted by: BM | Oct 22 2022 20:51 utc | 109

@Tom Pfotzer multiple
@K 61
You may find my The six great thefts of capitalism at The Greanville Post as well as the footnoted Evaluism somewhat useful too.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 22 2022 21:13 utc | 111

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/16061

❗️🇫🇷 France admitted that sabotage at Nord Stream was of American origin
Florian Filippo, leader of the French Patriots party and former MEP, said that the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines demonstrated how far NATO can go in escalating the conflict around the Russian Federation.
In his opinion, the alliance is even ready to go for the use of nuclear weapons to give the “conflict a global character,” so that France must get out of this vicious circle.”
“Sabotage, probably of American origin, at Nord Stream showed what the NATO bloc is capable of. You need to be vigilant: this alliance is capable of the worst, up to the use of nuclear weapons under a false flag in order to give the conflict a global character, ”Reuters quotes him as saying.
-OstashkoNews

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 22 2022 22:24 utc | 113

Posted by: Et Tu | Oct 22 2022 20:46 utc | 110
I think Chinese who got too enthusiastically in bed with Uncle Sugar and Capitalism are being informed that that was a mistake.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 22 2022 23:52 utc | 115

I asked the question on another platform and someone replied that the guy who escorted Hu out, was the same one who escorted him in before.
It seems Hu’s health is poor and he needs help. Maybe he had to go to the toilet and that’s why he left before the others. At that age some people are incontinent…

Posted by: Nico | Oct 23 2022 0:47 utc | 117

#121
Obviously not, odd, my previous post got deleted.

Posted by: Nico | Oct 23 2022 0:56 utc | 119

Hu Jintao is not an important leader, he is a transitional leader. The first five years were shrouded in Jiang’s control, and Xi’s succession was confirmed for the next five-year term.

Posted by: YING | Oct 23 2022 1:23 utc | 121

Checking the links that Et Tu put up @ 111, I see that one of them says that Hu Jintao was escorted out of the Congress close to its conclusion. The timing of his early departure might be significant. He may have been escorted out early because, as others have noted, his health is frail and for him to leave as others are leaving might cause delays for him and them, especially if other politicians have further meetings to attend in tight schedules.
At his age also, some people can and do make quite a fuss over small things, like the folder Hu tried to pick up and which Xi Jinping put his hand on, almost as if he was telling Hu that it would not go lost.

Posted by: Jen | Oct 23 2022 1:29 utc | 123

On Hu Jintao, this item “The results of the XX Congress of the CPC are a signal for the fifth column in Russia: Xi Jinping won a resounding victory over the pro-American ‘Komsomol members’ led by the former head of the PRC Hu Jintao,” was linked by a commentator at Escobar’s VK under a thread he started showing a still pic of Hu being helped from his seat. The expressions on the faces of Xi and the man seated next to him are certainly open to a variety of interpretations, one of which is contempt for Hu. The author is Elena Panina, Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute, and begins thusly:

Xi Jinping is like Lenin: he crushes opponents first ideologically, and then organizationally. What does the execution of the leader of the pro-American lobby in China say?
The completion of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of China was a blow to Ukraine and the pro-Western part of the political class of Russia. The appointment of key figures at the beginning of the congress was his main intrigue: will the balance of power between Xi Jinping’s army group and the pro-American Hu Jintao be preserved?
As a result, Xi Jinping won a resounding victory over the pro-American “Komsomol members” led by the former head of the PRC Hu Jintao. The latter was not only defeated organizationally, but also destroyed personally – they were taken out of the congress hall before its end in front of the eyes of the whole world.
What does that mean now? A lot. The collapse of his group, whose fate is now in the hands of Xi Jinping.
Despite the fact that Xi Jinping concentrated enough power in his hands, the Chinese Central Bank (People’s Bank of China) and the Ministry of Finance were guided by Hu Jintao, the main friend of the United States in China. Until recently, it was they who pursued a policy similar to that of the Central Bank of Russia: encouraging the export of capital and increasing investments in US securities. Now China’s financial bloc is waiting to be defeated.

All that and the rest is very curious for me since I have no information on the various factions within the CPC. I note that BigLie Media is speculating with negative interpretations, which may be some offhanded manner of confirmation as to his faction’s position. Here’s what Escobar wrote:

This was extremely embarassing – to say the least: former President Hu Jintao removed from the Great Hall of the People, and leaving an empty seat beside Xi Jinping, at the close of the 20th Party Congress.
NO ONE really knows the reason: kind of a state secret. Speculation in the Chinese net is at fever pitch.
It could be merely a health issue, considering how frail Hu really is.
Or it could be a graphic image promoting the shock of the new, the CPC version: Hu is now out of the Politburo, and so is his protege, Prime Minister Li Keqiang, whose two terms have ended.
Tomorrow is the Big Day. The new 205 members of the Central Committee have already been announced. They will elect the new Politburo Standing Committee – the Magnificent 7 that REALLY rule: Team Xi for the next 5 years.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 23 2022 1:40 utc | 125

Jen @126–
One of the lead lines I read from UK BigLie Media (Daily Mail) was Hu was escorted out just after foreign media were allowed to enter, the aim being to imply a purge. I just saw its lead on a follow-up item that was directly accusatory of Hu being purged. Others had similar implications. For the West’s BigLie Media to react as they have signals the veracity of my presumption @128.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 23 2022 1:53 utc | 127

According to the Chinese news agency, Hu Jintao left the CPC Congress session early due to health reasons;
This is the Ria Novosti piece (Google Translate);
BEIJING, Oct 22 – RIA Novosti. Former Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Hu Jintao left the hall early during the closing ceremony of the 20th CCP Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing due to poor health, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Twitter.
Xinhuanet correspondent Liu Jiawen found out that Hu Jintao insisted on attending the closing meeting of the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party despite taking some time to recover.
When Hu Jintao felt unwell, aides escorted him to a room near the meeting site, the agency clarified.
https://ria.ru/20221022/tszintao-1825950831.html

Posted by: JB | Oct 23 2022 2:01 utc | 129

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 23 2022 2:54 utc | 140
Cynthia Lai’s “Lai” is 賴. Jimmy Lai’s is 黎. Different surnames pronounced the same in Cantonese. Different pronunciation in Mandarin: 賴 is Lai and 黎 is Li.

Posted by: Another Brother Ma | Oct 23 2022 2:33 utc | 131

Experienced leaders lead younger subordinates, which is called “bringing the old with the new” and is a routine way to solve complex problems.

Posted by: YING | Oct 23 2022 2:39 utc | 133

@ Aleph_Null | Oct 23 2022 2:45 utc | 136
not sure what to say in response… some things don’t make sense on the surface… excessive rationality has its problems..

Posted by: james | Oct 23 2022 2:49 utc | 135

@ james
“some things don’t make sense on the surface”?
What about Occam’s Razor? Don’t folks have some technique for sifting wheat from chaff?

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Oct 23 2022 2:52 utc | 137

@ Aleph_Null | Oct 23 2022 2:52 utc | 138
you’re trying.. i will give you that! consider some non logical alternatives, especially when the msm is talking to you..

Posted by: james | Oct 23 2022 3:03 utc | 139

I think we will have to wait to see what the story is on Hu Jintao, right now all is feverish speculation, the westerm MSM is worthless as a source.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 23 2022 3:15 utc | 141

ing @123 & Oriental Voice @142–
You both make good points, and I certainly understand the issues of frail elders. There are factors raised in the Russian think tank item that don’t make sense. I haven’t seen any video, only the one still pic. Xi Jinping at 69 isn’t exactly young, but neither is Putin. Given the circumstances, I find it wise to retain Xi. We’ll need to wait and see what if any changes occur in critical policy.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 23 2022 3:22 utc | 144
I took a closer look, I see that Xi looks relaxed, and Hu is not upset. He does look (perhaps) confused a bit at first, but its nothing at our age. I think Oriental Voice has a good take on it.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 23 2022 3:29 utc | 143

@ Posted by: theomimesis | Oct 22 2022 20:23 utc | 109
Ah, the usual anti-vaxxer clickbait denial trash with cherry-picked samples of much ado about that which is not related to the subject in hand. Just the usual air of “Garbage In equals Garbage Out!” sold to gullible airheads. One that would probably buy a bridge in Brooklyn. Since all anti-vaxxers have absolutely zero common sense. A complete waste of time.
The sins of this retired nurse teacher only! Are well documented. Need one say more?
Say, did you hear of a great tale of an unemployed anti-vaxxer with $2-00 in the bank? A young 19-year-old lassie by the name of Ciena. Down under in OZ. She got what she asked for and asked for what she got. A large legal bill from the Oz high court of $214K. Now that is truly poetic justice at work!

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 23 2022 4:00 utc | 145

Re: Hu Jintao
The narrative seems to start shifting to “China is censoring the video”. It doesn’t make much sense to make a show at such a meeting only to censor it later, the timing also suggests that he didn’t feel well at the wrong time (just when the press entered), at most that he was a bit stubborn about leaving. Apart from humiliating not being “chinese”, other more or less trustworthy reports on the congress suggests Xi is consolidating his power in more concrete ways, guess the closing ceremony was more symbolic than decisional. Even as a signal intended for foreign audiencies it doesn’t make much sense. Guess MSM can still push both narratives of Xi humiliating Hu and censoring the video. As for censorship, if it was a heath issue, in this case not showing the video seems quite close to basic respect and decency.

Posted by: Proteiros | Oct 23 2022 4:33 utc | 147

NO CRAP GUIDE TO THE 20TH CCP CONGRESS*
6days ago…. So nothing on Hu Lintao removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkKzSVH2Kas
“”This morning marked the opening of the most important meeting of the CPC’s five-year cycle.
So, what exactly is the 20th National Congress?
Why is this year’s meeting so important? Who is involved and what do they do?
And what is the Western media getting wrong? Welcome to my Simple Guide to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, let’s get started!
“”**purposefully used the incorrect spelling of “CCP” since that is what majority of Westerners call the CPC (the Communist Party of China).
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or more, you will have heard about the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, or the 20th National Congress for short.
Actually, let’s go with the popular Chinese term, which is even easier: 20大，which literally translates as 20, ershi, Big, da: shorthand for the 20th Big Meeting. “”

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2022 4:47 utc | 149

someone said:
Chinese abhors humiliating someone in public.
this forum is attractive because of the intelligent if obviously slanted look at events. comments like this are so insulting to the forum readership. ‘
— insert picture of Chinese man in paper fool’s hat being beating in public —
this same party that had Red Guards?
Hu was humiliated because Xi is making a statement. It is not circulated in China because it was for Western consumption. Now they know that Xi has absolute power.
“he didn’t look upset”.
no, he is clutching at papers which Xi makes sure he can’t get, a man next to him rises to help him but another guy from behind pulls him back! and then he wipes the sweat off his head. “a medical emergency”.
i must say, Xi’s demeanor throughout was el supremo boss. others’ have discussed at length about the youth league and corruption and Xi’s very critical opening statements earlier.
but yes, Chinese never humiliate people in public like the barbaric West! :))))
“Red Gaurds public humiliation”
google it. and spare us the comedy in the future.

Posted by: funnythat | Oct 23 2022 4:48 utc | 151

@ Melaleuca | Oct 23 2022 9:39 utc | 194 who wrote
”
The key players keep digging to hide their corruption…
”
The key players behind the ones we see are guilty of even bigger crimes against humanity. They have a substantial incentive to try and keep the game going and I wonder if the elite will attempt to negotiate some sort of forgiveness in exchange for not nuking us all?
I am still happy that humanity is facing this civilization war about public/private finance.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2022 4:51 utc | 153

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 23 2022 3:52 utc | 146
Well, if you’re going to go by stroke, that’s the way to do it, massive.
I think people will think what they want to. “A man hears what he want to hear, and disregards the rest.”
Thank you for your comment, in any case.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 23 2022 5:21 utc | 155

Below is a Xinhuanet posting about the 7 at the top of the political structure in China. Any barflys know if this represents change and if so , what sort>

BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, presented the Party’s new central leadership when meeting the press Sunday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
He presented the other six newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee: Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2022 5:44 utc | 157

karlof1 | Oct 23 2022 3:22 utc | 144
> haven’t seen any video, only the one still pic.
You should watch vid. It’s a lot different to what you describe.
[I don’t know what the incident implies. But Hu did not want to leave]

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2022 5:47 utc | 159

Below is a story at Xinhuanet that I am not seeing elsewhere

TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — Iranian Foreign Minister on Saturday said his country has received a U.S. message expressing American hastiness to reach the nuclear deal with Iran, official IRNA news agency reported.
“Three days ago, we received a message from the United States, and told them that the (International Atomic Energy) Agency (IAEA)’s accusations against Iran’s nuclear program should be resolved” before any agreement, said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
Asked about U.S. officials’ comments about the nuclear negotiations being off the U.S. agenda, he said “Americans are contradictory in their words and behavior, as they are in a hurry to reach the agreement in their (recent) message.”
While the United States continues to exchange messages with Iran, they “are seeking to exert political and psychological pressure (on Iran) and want to gain concessions in the negotiations,” he said.
“We do not give any concessions to the American side, and we move within the framework of logic and the framework of an agreement that respects the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but at the same time we never leave the negotiating table,” he stressed.
Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with world powers in July 2015, agreeing to curb its nuclear program in return for removing sanctions on the country. However, Washington quit the agreement and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to drop some of its commitments under the pact.
The talks on the JCPOA’s revival began in April 2021 in Vienna, Austria. No breakthrough was achieved after the latest round of Vienna talks held in early August.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2022 5:53 utc | 161

Posted by: funnythat | Oct 23 2022 4:48 utc | 151
I agree that “Chinese don’t humiliate”, as any similar generalisation, is much more willfull thinking than a solid argument.
The matter with the papers looks like Hu was confused and tried to get Xi’s folder thinking it was his. Xi has much spreaded papers, but only one red folder, the “other guy” has two folders and seems a bit nervous about keeping one, as if it wasn’t his, and passes it to the main “rescuer”. The video is conveniently cutted, but this “other guy” taking Hu’s folder to help him looks plausible (he is the one sitting on the left of Hu, right on screen, stood up, putted down and made the sweat move, he also exchanged a quite long look with Xi, so it would be interesting/telling to know who he is).
Some moves look harsh, but also consistent with confusion and/or trying to hurry up to start the show.
As a message to foreign elites it makes more sense than as a message to foreign public opinion.

Posted by: Proteiros | Oct 23 2022 5:54 utc | 163

As for the 24*7 monsterisation of BRI…
The FUKUSA aka AUKUS led west have no way to compete with China fair and square.
Their only tricks left are demonisation, sabotage, regime change and terrorism.
Exhibit A
Case of Zambia.

With their current stategy the IMF weazles are conducting a new kind of masked economic war against Africa. They have a new weazly term for withholding aid! Is the debt sustainable, they ask in their myopic weazly way.
Predictably it is being taken up on by civil society groups in the name of human rights.Somehow it is now an abuse of human rights for African governments to get their countries into debt. Debt with the IMF is OK but debt to China is very ,very bad.
These critics from opposition political parties and civil society groups are repeating the IMF myopic mantra and saying debt payments are unsustainable, and that China could take over businesses and public assets.Does this say anything about George Soros funding to such groups and political opposition?
Xenophobic attacks on Chinese nationals are also on the increase. It would appear that the resentment felt by a few is being fuelled by the same anti-China critics. In other words the xenophobia is opposition run as is evident in a recent article from Xinhuanet which reported a demonstration held by Zambian miners in Kitwe City, Copperbelt Province to protest against opposition politicians who have been inciting xenophobic attacks on Chinese investors.

http://africanagenda.net/big-bad-china-in-africa-or-western-jealousy/

Posted by: denk | Oct 23 2022 6:02 utc | 165

gawd damn !
my post bumped to no 168 !

Posted by: denk | Oct 23 2022 6:10 utc | 167

@ Tom Pfotzer | Oct 23 2022 5:57 utc | 157 asking
”
Have you designed your economy today?
”
I have been redesigning the Western political economy for 50+ years. It always comes back to the core incentives that the society is organized around.
In the West, unfortunately, the core incentives are set by the global financial elite instead of the masses. While it might seem a bit simplistic, the original US motto was E Pluribus Unum (Out Of Many, One) and it was changed in the 1950’s to In God We Trust…..the media was used at that time to justify the change because of the threat of godless communism in Russia…..not godless communism now but a sovereign Central Bank, like China’s.
Society needs to decide what segments of the political economy they want socialized and to what degree…health care, housing, FOOD, education are examples that come to mind.Regulation of private portions of the political economy need to be regulated in an evolving manner just like the structure of government….maybe in an evolved multipolar world the MIC budgets are smaller and the cultural interchanges budgets grow.
Change global private finance into a network of sovereign nations public owned/oriented systems of financial tools and you change the core incentives of life in the West and social cooperation is given more moral cred than competition for private profit.
Take all the Stink Tanks where private profit driven planning is grown and open their “social planning” process to the public.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2022 6:51 utc | 169

@151 funnythat
Classic “someone said” strawman argument. Since “face” is an important concept in East Asian culture, public shaming is an effective tool used not only in China, but also in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore to name a few. Especially now with posting anything and everything on social media, public shaming has taken on a life of its own. So to say Chinese never humiliate anyone in public is ridiculous.

Posted by: Jun | Oct 23 2022 7:05 utc | 171

Elan Musk has not amused the Biden mafia.
See anti-spiegel.ru for the report

US President Joe Biden’s administration is considering an audit of entrepreneur Elon Musk to determine whether his activities are in the interests of national security. The Bloomberg agency reported on Friday.
The agency reports that Washington is “concerned about threats” by Musk to stop providing the Starlink satellite communications system in Ukraine, as well as the intentions of a group of international investors to buy the Twitter social network. The government is also concerned about the businessman’s political views, which are said to be becoming “increasingly pro-Russian”. According to the agency’s sources, the US government claims that Musk’s proposals for a peace settlement in Ukraine “benefit the Russian leadership.”
In this regard, the US government, together with representatives of the secret services, has begun to work out ways of checking the businessman’s business activities. Those talks “are still in the early stages,” but the most obvious solution would be to launch an investigation before the US Committee on Foreign Investments into the national security risks that Musk’s transactions and operations may pose Agency. The fact that the entrepreneur intends to acquire Twitter alongside investors from Saudi Arabia, China and Qatar could be used as a formal reason for the body’s involvement, the agency sources said.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 23 2022 7:07 utc | 173

“Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, a recognized expert on Russia and Russian politics, has – at least to my knowledge – made public statements about the current escalation in Ukraine for the first time. The lecture she gave is highly recommended. In contrast to me, who is quite frustrated because of Western politics and expresses this in my articles with clear and sometimes downright polemical and sarcastic formulations, she has mastered the art of remaining more objective. Apparently she shares most of my theses, but she formulates it more “relaxedly”, which is why I expressly recommend her lecture.”

So writes Thomas Röper of anti-spiegel.ru but do take time and the utoob translate to hear this lecture.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 23 2022 7:19 utc | 175

On all mainland China’s (=government) media nothing can be found about Hu Jintao health problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_zVtrFpzs
If he was unhealthy why was he there?
Did Xi Jinping physically help up his ‘unhealthy’ predecessor right next to him?
The official cameras followed this in close up all the way.

Posted by: Antonym | Oct 23 2022 7:21 utc | 177

Grieved | Oct 23 2022 7:16 utc | 164
The turn around since the days of Erdogan feeding terrorist into Syria and his family shipping out the ISIS oil. Apart from Israel, Putin is bringing peace to the middle east.
Retribution is a continuance of the past whereas peace makes the future better.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 23 2022 7:31 utc | 179

Melaleuca | Oct 23 2022 7:07 utc | 164
Thanks for linking those two videos.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 23 2022 7:47 utc | 181

There is a posting on a web site that shall not be named with the title

New Study Blames COVID on NIH, University of North Carolina – Finds Fauci and Baric’s Fingerprints on Pandemic Bug

The link to the study behind the posting is https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1.full.pdf

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 23 2022 7:52 utc | 183

Interesting times.
In this year’s 2022 midterms. An unprecedented 40% plus of the cast votes. Will come from postal ballots!
The electronic polling machines in spite of numerous lies told by denialati like AJ(the billionaire lawsuit guy). Are in reality very reliable.
The other missing aspect is large numbers of new female voters have enrolled to vote. Thus the election results will be determined by the will of the female swing voter. So one should never count ones chickens, before the day. Less you seek to be Sunday’s roast dinner!
To date, the GOP has not produced any evidence of the mystery tens of millions of fake votes in 2020. Yet DJT “Save America” continues to tell his audience the same old, same old! If you broadcast a lie that often. Is it still a lie or the faux truth?

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 23 2022 7:58 utc | 185

Check who of these hundreds (thousands?) of people were NOT wearing a mask? Only those around Xi Jinping.
Some animals are more equal than others!

Posted by: Antonym | Oct 23 2022 8:03 utc | 187

Antonym | Oct 23 2022 7:29 utc | 168
I’d love to imagine anyone removing Joe Biden and every single member of the PMC and political classes into an open pit mine and leaving them there. That image is quite comforting to me. If Democrats would have frogmarched GWB out of dos instead of feeding the guy cough drops, they would be far more respectable.
In fact, it ought to be perfectly accepted that we discipline our “leaders” as we see fit including corporally, rather than letting them design Sunday School games with constrained outcomes like some kind of secular priesthood, on account of the hardships they’ve imposed upon us or allowed us to experience over these thousands of years. Why wouldn’t you? Doesn’t that sound like a just world to you, where power and property are held at the pleasure of all others, so you’d better use it wisely and generously and not disturb others with it, or have your status of trust ripped out of your hands in front of all and fastened onto someone who will? Why shouldn’t you be publicly humiliated and abused for failing with OUR power? What kind of childish need for self-abasement makes you want to raise people up over yourself? Seek help for your own authoritarian tendencies. CBT might work for you. Don’t tell us what kind you choose.
Besides, we all know you’re only butthurt because YOUR guy got purged, so basically fuck yourself with your policy-scheduled crocodile emoting until you bleed and cry some more.

Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 23 2022 8:17 utc | 189

The good man’s PhD is not issued by a school of medicine!
Ph.D. in nursing education from the University of Bolton. The doctorate was awarded in 2013 for work on developing teaching methods using digital media such as online videos.
Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 22 2022 11:53 utc | 98
If you ever took the time.
You would know he never claimed to be an MD.
And furthermore what does it have to do with the information (accurate) that he discusses on his channel?

Posted by: jpc | Oct 23 2022 8:31 utc | 191

How the self anointed sheriff performed
‘peace keeping’ duty in Haiti the last time….

U.S. military spokesman Colonel Willey “said the troops were positioned to form `a cordon so Haitian police could work on the inner perimeter’.” And work they did. Haitian police joined with the paramilitary (FRAPH) gangs attacking the demonstrators, using their trucks for “loading up the armed men in civilian clothes by the Fraph headquarters” and then helping to scatter the demonstrators, “exchanging high-fives with the gunmen or giving them rides in their pickup trucks.”
…….
FRAPH members interviewed by Wall Street Journal correspondents Helene Cooper and Jose de Cordoba said they had no problems with the Americans troops. While the attacks on the demonstrators are underway, one said, “U.S. soldiers riding by on their `Humvee’ armored vehicles wave cheerfully to FRAPH members, who wave back.”

https://tinyurl.com/nhd8ae7x
—————-
How the self annoited deputy performed
‘peace keeping ‘ duty in Solomon last time, during the FUKUSA supported pogrom in Chinatown…

Prime Minister Sogavare delivered a defiant speech to the parliament in Honiara yesterday. He raised rioting in 2006, which occurred during the neo-colonial, Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), and the three days of destruction that followed last November’s failed coup attempt by US-backed forces from the province of Malaita. “Obviously, the security agreement with Australia is inadequate to deal with our hard internal threats,” he stated, adding that for the wellbeing “of our people and the economy of our country we had look elsewhere.”
Sogavare insisted that Canberra had informed his government that Australian police and military would not protect Chinese assets and infrastructure during their deployment to the Solomons last year. This allegation has been met with angry denials by Australian officials.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/30/iovt-a30.html
—————

Posted by: denk | Oct 23 2022 8:38 utc | 193

Posted by: Grieved | Oct 23 2022 7:16 utc | 165

In geopolitical terms, Moscow is comfortable with Turkiye’s NATO membership.

What Putin has done is essentially weaken the NATO alliance by sticking a spoke in any future unified effort by NATO to act militarily against Russia.
The next invocation of Article-5, should it ever happen, would probably see Turkiye abstain due to it’s heavy ties with Russia.
To weaken the alliance further, all Putin needs to do is repeat the same cooperative win-win kind of approach with Greece, Italy, Hungary, Serbia. Poland and the other are of course lost causes …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 23 2022 8:56 utc | 195

sippy the shot glass | Oct 23 2022 8:17 utc | 176
To understand the resident hindutva’s perspective, you need to look up some hindutva websites then with the waybackmachine go back a few years, perhaps 2014. Go past the lovey dovey bullshit and find the fine print.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 23 2022 9:00 utc | 197

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 23 2022 7:07 utc | 164
The Danson Cheong twitter link seems pretty clear about when Hu was let out.

See some questions about when Hu left, we were only let into the hall after voting on the Central Committee was completed, meaning Hu was led out before votes were taken on the work report, CCDI report and the party constitution amendments

Posted by: Proteiros | Oct 23 2022 5:54 utc | 157 (yes, numbers of posts keep shifting, time looks the same)
I found a tweet naming our heroes (don’t know how good otherwise, but likely got the names right and an image search confims them).
Li Zhanshu is the guy with two folder, staring Xi, etc, next to him was Wang Huning keeping him from standing up (hope this means something to someone).
https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1583684062254092289

Posted by: Proteiros | Oct 23 2022 9:11 utc | 199