Yes indeed, that was the ruling. It hardly counters my argument that the “Democratic Party” is anything but democratic. Nice try though.
By the way, isn’t it an obscenity that such a private corporation conducts its “elections” at public expense?
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 4 2024 0:05 utc | 127
Yes it is obscene.
I wasn’t trying to counter your argument, I’m not sure why you thought that.
I was trying to augment it and provide the case name so anyone can look it up. Very few people realize their “primary election” result is no different than a decision from the board of Walmart.

Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 4 2024 1:30 utc | 131

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jul 4 2024 1:17 utc | 130
I grew up in Chicago and one of my grandfathers and several uncles were part of the machine that got JFK elected, buying votes for $20 a pop. My grandfather made enough on that election to put himself in business for himself. All of them were involved in throwing local, county and state elections.
If you think that somehow vote fraud has disappeared with modern voting machines and databases, you’re a fool.
The reality is the exact opposite, it has made it easier, faster, more efficient and more accurate.
Who votes doesn’t matter, who counts them does. When buying and selling is controlled by the legislature, the first thing bought and sold is not the legislature, but the vote counters.

Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 4 2024 1:45 utc | 133

Membership of the labour party soared during Corbyn’s campaign for leader and continued to increase to triple the previous membership once he won. This scared the shit outta neo-lib pretend lefties and drove the campaign by professional pols to destroy Mr Corbyn’s support. They were hugely assisted by all england’s major media outfits. After Mr Corbyn lost the 2nd time and starmer lied his way into the leader’s gig, the first move was to chase all the ‘new’ members out of the party. Then they chased out all the older leftie members particularly Mr Corbyn himself.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 4 2024 1:41 utc | 132
Yep. I was there at the time, I had rejoined Labour after about 30 years and got very involved locally. It was a very exciting time, we all thought that one more heave and we would be there. And how close we came, although I wonder how long a left Labour government and Corbyn would have been allowed to survive. We’ll never know.
Well fond memories, but I have learned a lot since about how the world works, and today we will be watching the farce of another General Election. Particularly interested to see how our side get on, particularly in Starmer’s constituency, and Galloway and Murray up north, but I fear that Galloway will be one of few opposition winners (even Corbyn himself in doubt) and the people of the UK will have voted for more of the same with the other side of the Uniparty getting a monstrous majority. But a Tory wipe out will be worth a celebration on Friday night. Cheers!

Posted by: Walt | Jul 4 2024 2:08 utc | 135

“I believe the strange mistranslations on chinese signs come about because of the very different nature chinese language operates with signs.
Posted by: persiflo | Jul 3 2024 13:09 utc | 100”
Chinese language is a normal human language. Writing a Chinese character is not different from writing a word with half a dozen alphabetic signs.

Posted by: lester | Jul 4 2024 2:59 utc | 137

Trump, Biden or whoever doesn’t matter. It’s the power behind the throne. And, from what I’ve seen, they haven’t a shred of humanity in them. So who or what is this power?

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Jul 4 2024 3:18 utc | 139

Furthermore, some say that the Jews control things. But who or what controls the Jews? Not to get metaphysical here, but it does seem to be an evil that’s behind everything.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Jul 4 2024 3:30 utc | 141

re juliania | Jul 4 2024 3:12 utc | 138 who asked how often I had contact with amerikans and I’m not gonna say daily but at least a couple times a week I talk to friends the bulk of whom live on the coasts admittedly, but also in Az & whatever the abbrev is for montana.
When they are good friends I rarely go into politics nowadays because I find that no matter how sympathetic to some of what I say, they are I have yet to converse with an amerikan who doesn’t close off irrationally at some point.
marxism is a common subject where the average amerikan has been so indoctrinated that they can rarely discuss aspects of marxist philosophy rationally & factually. The intensity of the bulldust they have been told nearly always leds then to express some nonsensical assertion about marxism (NB it goes without saying that the furphy of something they call ‘cultural marxism’ which is neither marxist or cultural surfaces most often nowadays).
amerikan exceptionalism is another piece of arrant nonsense which has been ground into most amerikans. xtianity and the ridiculous certainty of of monotheism is almost 100% clung to in a way that simply doesn’t exist in other ‘western nations’.
Another is the designed to trick the masses into rule by the elites, amerikan constitution would be one more.
There are others however my point is that a far higher percentage of amerikans swallow these articles of indoctrination and cling to them as some sort of a liferaft than do people of other post-enlightenment societies.
That fact means there will be a much longer period of adjustment where people eject these false beliefs than anywhere else.
Obviously still hanging on to one or two shouldn’t be an obstruction but the fact than many amerikans fervently hold with pretty much all of ’em means that it will take a very long time before most amerikans can quit trying to put humpty back together again & get on with building a nation from what is available around them.
Many amerikans here like the comparison of their mess with the roman republic. Well after the roman empire finally gave up the ghost it wasn’t until 1861 that most (not all) of Italy united into a single nation state that is close to 1500 years after the end of empire.
That is an illustration of how long it can take for a former empire can take to rebuild into a cohesive unit after the empire collapses. IMO the reasons for that are much the same as what amerika will face. Too many self delusional beliefs mixed with outdated feelings of superiority, determination by old elites to continue as elites and outside states not allowing a recurrence.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 4 2024 4:03 utc | 143

RE:
My takeaway is that Biden must go, and a large segment of the DP agrees…………….
Posted by: Ed | Jul 3 2024 17:47 utc | 111
and similar opinions ideas – I do not get. Are you Pro-Democrat in the US? How could anyone possibly be that?
If you think Biden must go – then it helps the Democrat party and that promotes a different / better democrat candidate in the next election. Why would anyone here want to help the democrat party at the next election?
It goes without saying of course, why would anyone be Pro-GOP, or pro-Trump or want to help the Republican Party at the next election either?
I do not get this. Can someone please explain to me why anyone here would be recommending anything that might help either Candidate or either Party in November? Have they lost their minds or something? It’s just seems to irrational and self-defeating.
Thank you.
Confused

Posted by: I’m Confused | Jul 4 2024 4:12 utc | 145

Re: voting fraud in the USA (cont‘d)
4) No ID to register or vote – just fill out a form and sign it
5)local voting rolls are never updated – a voter dies or moves , He stays on the local voting roll.
As a joke I once registered my dog. Sure enough a few weeks later a card from the local voting authorities arrived in the mail addressed to
First Name – Rudy
Middle Name – The
Last Name – Dog
occupation – watchdog
That was 40 years ago, I suspect Rudy The Dog has dutifully cast a vote in every election since.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 4 2024 4:36 utc | 147

Thanks, Debsisdead | Jul 4 2024 4:03 utc | 143. That’s a very comprehensive post, and I’d be at fault on two counts: Christianity and inability to converse about Marxism. I did read some portions of his works as a senior in college and thought his arguments were sensible ones, sort of Dickensian at the time, but that’s a very shallow memory to be sure. I wasn’t fond of either the USSR or China around the time of the Cultural Revolution, though I very much admire both countries and their leadership now.
My problem would be the feeling that any in the US who are indoctrinated into feelings of superiority have to belong to the well off class of citizens, which really only comprises, if we are generous, ten percent of the population. I would grant you that there is a degree of belief in the resiliency of economic factors which isn’t really tenable — this is an election year and so the best face is being put on that element. We will only know what is really happening after the election. So yes, attempts at normality we all can presently savor, but I think everyone knows that’s now, and not what we may soon be facing.

Posted by: juliania | Jul 4 2024 4:59 utc | 149

(in case this hasn’t been brought up already.)
The explanation of Biden’s debate performance that we’ve all been waiting for:
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1807603932048544080
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1807603930601578971
(Russia used directed energy waves to fry Biden’s brain – AKA “Havana Syndrome”.)

Posted by: retroflecks | Jul 4 2024 6:17 utc | 151

Tucker Carlson Notices Something About The Debate No One Noticed
with Russell Brand
https://youtu.be/5XRiQFouDoo?si=_HyezfmuikWxxPeE&t=395

Posted by: I’m Confused | Jul 4 2024 6:25 utc | 153

f the US *Presidents* now have immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while in office …. where does that leave Biden, who committed some of his crimes while *Vice President*?
Posted by: Cynic | Jul 2 2024 23:02 utc | 60
The immunity isn’t blanket. They are still subject to prosecution for crimes not related to performance of their duties as Prez, eg rape.
And for crimes that are related to performance of their duties, there is impeachment & removal.

Posted by: Mary | Jul 4 2024 7:45 utc | 155

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 4 2024 4:03 utc | 143
Oops, I forgot one, Debsisdead. It’s always good to have three things one has to ‘mea culpa’ about, and, rereading more carefully your post, I do see my third one. It’s a biggie: the Constitution. Yes, I have to confess: I am fond of the Constitution of the United States of America. Not just a piece of paper – GB was the one who said that, so you are in that sort of company, which I suspect you wouldn’t like.
So that makes three – 1) not good at Marxism 2) Christian 3) likes the Constitution
Yep, thoroughly indoctrinized… – ated. Whatever. (Just kidding, as my younger sons would always hastily mention after saying something they knew I didn’t like. And when little old me starts kidding, well, the world just might be coming to an end because I am famous for having the sense of humor of a porcupine… see?)

Posted by: juliania | Jul 4 2024 8:06 utc | 157

too scents | Jul 4 2024 8:08 utc | 158 “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
The msm simply parrot the narrative without question. The instant and combined media response was a dead giveaway.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 4 2024 8:18 utc | 159

The instant and combined media response
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 4 2024 8:18 utc | 159
—
I see that as an example of mass delusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

Posted by: too scents | Jul 4 2024 8:32 utc | 161

95 min documentary on ‘stakeholder communism’ – where WEF’s fusion of western capitalism and Chinese managerial communism is headed.
https://rumble.com/v51bxc6-stakeholder-communism.-wef-global-plot-for-world-domination.-documentary-4-.html
It feel a little out of date to me, albeit the documentary was only released 2-3 months ago. But it is a reasonably comprehensive overview with dozens of clips from all around the world showing the influence of the WEF’s 2030 Agenda, aka Great Reset. I ignored it for a long time out of native cynicism, but after the internationally coordinated response to Covid benefiting the worlds 1% so effectively, and then its inclusion in the 2022 and 2023 BRICS Declarations, have changed views.
Schwab quit recently but I didn’t look into why yet. But it’s such a widespread initiative he started (or fronted) that it is unlikely his exit means the entire thrust has been abandoned. That said, the ‘right wing’ upsurge in Europe is a heartening sign of resistance, albeit probably won’t change much. We the People don’t have a very good track record at engendering long-term initiatives with legs.
Also, Simplicius published an article on his Dark Futura substack which is one of his best IMO: about how the absence of virtue in modern society is dooming it to disintegration with a few ideas about how to counter this unfortunate reality. Yet another piece challenging the dominant objectivist-materialism as being overly narrow bandwidth relative to human experience, thus to the great detriment of us all. Well worth a read.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jul 4 2024 9:22 utc | 163

“Big Name Dems THROW BIDEN UNDER BUS | The Kyle Kulinski Show” ????????????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntE4fnHhzOw (lenght: 9 minutes).

Posted by: WMG | Jul 4 2024 12:28 utc | 165

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jul 2 2024 15:04 utc | 5
So sorry snake [re your suggestion @ 2 to use write in candidates as a means to force a hand count of the votes]. Write in votes don’t get counted. I watched the Nader count in my precinct way back when. Votes for him were tossed. I kept count though. He got 2.7% of the vote even as a “non-candidate.” To really make a change, you must get rid of Diable-boid, aka the hackable touch screen manipulators. People have been trying for decades to get that done. Insist on paper ballots and get rid of two-party tyranny. A tall order.
<=Gee thanks I [snake] did not realize write-ins are not counted .. That probably means the only hope Americans have to get a candidate of their choice nominated and elected is to control the nomination, selection and vote of the electors in each state. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says (Each state shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal in number to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the Untied States, shall be appointed an Elector). Amendment XII, ratified June 15, 1804 replaced Article 1,2, and 3 of Art. II, which reads in part. The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
…After you read the full text of the 12th amendment [proposed by Smith] in the Wikipedia link, you can scroll down to the section called Background, read to the paragraph that starts with ” On January 6, 1797, … ” and click there on the link entitled =>William L. Smith <=and read that Smith was a federalist, an ardent supporter of the richest man in America "George Washington", and an ex-British Aristocrat who returned to Independent America from Switzerland only after the American Revolutionary war was over. IMO the constitution truncated much more than states rights; its founders claimed they had the right to impose federalism on the American people AWAE right to pick who would use that Federalism to rule the American people and they did this without adequately informing the everyday American and without offering the everyday American a chance to agree or disagree. Read Article VII in the US Constitution for understanding that the majority of the American people were not consulted in either the creation or the ratification processes that lead to the US Constitution. Then Read Article V to see that the American people are not bottom-up permitted to amend or even to call for a vote on whether or not to amend the US Constitution. I observe that Smith was an American-born British Aristocrat in America before the Revolutionary War, but quoting from Wikipedia, "His father's considerable wealth allowed him to sit out the Revolutionary War while obtaining his education [from America's enemy Great Britain and continuing it from Sweden)...[4]"" Again from the Smith link, "In 1774, Smith studied law at the Middle Temple in London, Great Britain and continued his studies in Geneva from 1774 to 1778.[5] Smith remained in Europe for the remainder of the American Revolutionary War.[3]" Seems to me the place for Americans to assert some control over who is to be elected resides in capturing popular voting control over the appointment of Electors and over the procedural process in each state that leads to the nomination of a president and a vice president to the U. S. Senate? Where are the electoral college processes in different states enumerated and compared? I picked the US State of Florida as an example, Its website https://dos.fl.gov/elections/ says [party] committees propose elector candidates and the Governor appoints electors from committee nominations.. It is not clear to me where these committees are located, who is on them or when and where they meet and whether or not their proceedings are public or even noticed to the public?
Americans wanting to make their vote count might want to find a way to change the elector selection process (which today is party committee nominated, governor appointed); because today it seems, political bureaucracies control the nomination of electors not the general public voters?
Only by changing state constitutions, it seems, can non party affiliated persons (independents) be elected or by eliminating the electoral college all together at the Federal level. In those states, with constitutions that allow citizens to place amendments on the ballet which would, if affirmed by vote, change the state constitutions, could the electoral process be made into a decision made by a democratic process?
As long as politics controls who is on the ballet, and as long as digital systems can ignore or differentiate write in candidates, general elections can be little more than a joke. As long as the electoral college election and presidential election processes are politically controlled, it is highly unlikely an independent or a third party candidate will become President or Vice President.

Posted by: snake | Jul 4 2024 14:03 utc | 167

snake, Formerly Miss Lacy —
The laws regarding the (non-)counting of write-in votes vary by state. Most states allow write-ins only for registered candidates. Eight allow and count write-ins without restriction; seven do not allow write-ins at all. There’s a nice article about this on the Ballotpedia site.

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 4 2024 14:25 utc | 169

Oops, miscounted: not seven but nine states don’t allow write-ins at all. (Presumably the ballots don’t provide blanks to write or type in such names.)
And to clarify: In the remaining 33 states, voters can write in any name they wish, but unless it’s the name of a registered candidate (presumably a candidate who qualified after the ballots were generated), the vote is not counted.

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 4 2024 14:36 utc | 171

@ KMRIA | Jul 4 2024 14:36 utc | 172
But don’t forget Cockburn (the one who isn’t dead) and Draitser!

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 4 2024 14:40 utc | 173

https://ericarnow.substack.com/p/dualistic-thinking-and-ego
Rare analysis of the difference between Eastern and Western mentalities as they play out in socio-political sphere. Lead article today on my friend’s http://www.sitrepworld.info site.

Posted by: Scorpion | Jul 4 2024 17:10 utc | 175

@Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 4 2024 0:04 utc | 126
Put perfectly!
Trump is just another corrupt oligarch with slightly different friends than the internationalist oligarchs. And he just loves the MIC, the CIA, the security state and shitting on foreign countries just as much as any other oligarch. Just not as invested in Ukraine, but full hard on for Israeli genocide and war with China, and a bit more beastly to the hoi polloi who are gaslit with Cold War style “godless commies” bullshit and the coming of the Rapture. Also, a bit rough with the table manners.
He is Tweedle Dumb to the Democrats Tweedle Dee of oligarchic divide and conquer with well-coordinated competing bullshit.

Posted by: Roger | Jul 4 2024 19:49 utc | 177

@Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 4 2024 1:45 utc | 133

Who votes doesn’t matter, who counts them does. When buying and selling is controlled by the legislature, the first thing bought and sold is not the legislature, but the vote counters.

The first stage is to only allow candidates that the ruling oligarchs approve of, which has been on the level of control of the Soviet Communist Party for at least the post-WW1 period. Trump upset this a bit by being from outside the ruling oligarch clique, but is still an oligarch. On balance, I see the 2020 election as stolen given the obvious Democrat-benefitting shenanigans that were quite widespread.
The 2000 Florida fix was a bit embarrassing and obvious, needing the SCOTUS to get directly involved. The memory of it was wiped away by 9/11. The 2004 Ohio fix was planned better and kept better under wraps by the media. With everyone hating Bush/Cheney so much by 2008, and the beautifully created and pushed “first Black” candidacy of Obama no fixes were required in 2008 and 2012. In 2016 the polls looked like Trump was going to lose, and he did in fact lose the popular vote but won the skewed electoral college, so the fix was not seen as required. In 2020 the Dems made damn sure, including the memory-holing of the politically explosive Hunter laptop.
So now we are in 2024 and it feels like part of the ruling oligarchy has decided that a Trump presidency would not be that bad, with the legal attacks on him seeming more performative than real (can so many D.A.s and judges be so obviously corrupt and inept?) and now knee-capped by the SCOTUS. All good cover for the Dems to wail that they tried to stop Trump but the bad SCOTUS (the judges of which they happily helped put in place) stopped them! The ongoing positioning of a so obviously mentally declining candidate also smells like a bit of a setup, with the recent “outing” only serving to increase Trump’s lead and create utter chaos in the Democrat election campaign.
It feels a bit like the run up to 1933 in Germany, where the German elite decided that ruling through a social democratic cultural hegemony was no longer viable so they moved onto fascism to make Germany safe for elite exploitation and external aggression. In the 1930s the US was close to doing this, after the Wilsonian fascist diversion of 1917-1921, but the internationalist and new technology wing of the capitalist class arrived at a different solution – the New Deal compromise that was perfect for the implementation of Fordism.
I have read the Project 2025 document, and it is a plan for full on completely uncontrolled oligarchic domination (or perhaps we should call it Hamiltonism, as it is close to Hamilton’s wish for a US govt of the oligarchs for the benefit of the oligarchs with an unquestionable Imperial Presidency). I am working on a piece on that document, it is a very detailed plan for the implementation of the destruction of what is left of democracy and public spiritedness within the US state, covered up with extremely sophisticated propaganda and Cold War style anti-“commie” fear mongering.

Posted by: Roger | Jul 4 2024 20:34 utc | 179

“Posted by: Scorpion | Jul 3 2024 13:27 utc | 104”
Hindus believe in an eternal personality or soul, called an atman. Buddhists deny there is an atman. It is a major distinguishing point.
Chinese tradition has multiple souls. Some live in the abdomen and give us life, motion, etc. Other’s live in the head and give us personality etc.
Chinese religions of all sorts are doing better than Westerners often think. Present day China is NOT Communist in any serious way. After all, Chinese civilization is perhaps 5, 000 years old. The nameless folk religion the Taoists, even the Buddhists, have seen political regimes and bossy foreigners come and go. The 2-3 genuine commies still alive must grind their teeth when they hear that Mao Zedong has become one of the gods, charged with helping petty bourgeois sorts like taxi drivers. A joke or a punishment by the Jade Emperor?
For those who want to read something beside GLOBAL TIMES or CHINA DAILY, why not read some fiction? Everyone reads JOURNEY TO THE WEST, OUTLAWS OF HTE MARSH, ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS, THE DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER? JOURNEY is a fantasy novel and has lots of religion.
The most popular writer of modern times is Jin Yong, whose martial arts novels have inspired many movies, manga, etc. You might think of him as the Chinee Tolkien, a very general way.
My sources? 25 years teaching English in China, reading lots of history etc.

Posted by: lester | Jul 4 2024 22:12 utc | 181

Memorizing a Chinese character is not really harder than memorizing a spelling, although it *feels* different somehow.
Posted by: lester | Jul 4 2024 22:36 utc | 182
Thank you for that observation! I really hadn’t thought of it in that way before. Maybe I should persevere again.
Not so different, truly. When we see an word in English, it contains the information on how to pronounce it, although I gather in many cases it is the way it was pronounced 400 years ago, which is why Shakespeare’s poetry often doesn’t rhyme and much of English spelling makes no sense at all.
And of course it is there in Chinese too, if you know where to look for it, on the right of the character.
(Though some of those pronunciations are similarly are out of date, I am told by up to 2,000 years.)
Here is ma, a horse: 马
Ma, mother: 妈
Ma, agate: 玛
Ma, number: 码
Ma, ant: 蚂
They can be distinguished from one another to some extent in speech by one of four tones, otherwise by context.
(Don’t imagine that I knew all those, I had to look some of them up!}
When Chinese text appears in sub-titles on screen sometime it vanishes so quickly one wonders how anybody can read it, but then the Chinese are identifying whole blocks of characters at once, just as we are.

Posted by: Walt | Jul 5 2024 0:19 utc | 183

Posted by: Roger | Jul 5 2024 0:59 utc | 184
I was watching that with some amusement, and then I sat bolt upright when I heard “Prime Minister Gordon Brown…” 7.54
I see they dug that up less than a year ago.
What a bunch of sh1ts, though. Reach for the pitchforks!
Commoner: how did you get all that land?
Aristo: my ancestors fought for it.
Commoner: OK, I’ll fight you for it.
Time to insist that all those acres are registered, because they are not.
Then time for a crippling land tax on large estates.
Are you listening, Starmer?

Posted by: Walt | Jul 5 2024 1:39 utc | 185

– Are you listening, Starmer?
What do you think?

Posted by: I’m Confused | Jul 5 2024 1:53 utc | 187

Posted by: Walt | Jul 5 2024 1:42 utc | 186
Oh, wow. Israel wins again!
Cuz fair elections and democracy and shit.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 5 2024 1:57 utc | 189

3 minutes ago
Sir Keir Starmer holds onto his seat in north London
Sir Keir Starmer has held onto his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, as he is expected to lead his party into a landslide victory.
He won 18,884 votes, a 17 per cent drop from the last election after a number of votes went to independent candidate Andrew Feinstein.

Posted by: Walt | Jul 5 2024 2:09 utc | 191

1 minute ago
Jeremy Corbyn holds Islington North as Independent candidate
Jeremy Corbyn has held onto his seat in Islington North, winning 24,120 votes compared to 16,873 won by Labour.
The former Labour leader has been the MP for over 40 years but was barred from standing for Sir Keir Starmer’s party and therefore announced his intention to run as an Independent.

Posted by: Walt | Jul 5 2024 2:30 utc | 193

These past few years, lots of westerners visited China and upload their travel log to social media.
This phenomenon exploded after China offered 14 days visa free tour package .
These eye witness accounts mostly enthused about the food, scenery.
OH yeah, they also mocked the west’s fabricated ‘Chinese police state’ myth.
BUt what they marvel most is the [relatively] crime free environment. ‘Even women feel safe to go out at night’ etc.
Just when so many foreigners are agreeing that China is one of the safest country for tourists…
hey presto !
Western MSM scream…

four gringo teachers, a jp woman and her son were knifed in China !

As if on cue, Snide comments immediately appear in China travel log,

‘yeah China is so safe, tell that to those gringo and jp !’

Im very cynical, actually, one couldnt be too cynical when it comes to CIA/MI6 scumbags.
Ian Fleming’s law of prob

Once is happenstance, .twice……

Posted by: denk | Jul 5 2024 2:47 utc | 195

Who is Pottinger, the man on stage audience member Vargas is decrying before he is choked by suits?
“Speak the truth and get choked”
https://x.com/NuryVittachi/status/1808699568638546272?

Just how far the New Cold War discourse in the United States, increasingly centered on the Indo-Pacific, has now gone can be seen in an article entitled “No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition with China Must Be Won Not Managed” for the May/June 2024 issue of Foreign Affairs, written by Matt Pottinger and Mike Gallagher.40 Pottinger was the former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser in the Trump White House from 2019–2021. Gallagher was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin from 2017–2024, and former chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He is now working for the corporation Palantir Technologies, a CIA-backed U.S. surveillance and data mining multinational with strong connections to the deep state and Israel.41 Pottinger and Gallagher strongly support the hawkish position of the Joe Biden administration toward China, but argue that it is still not hawkish enough, because it has not officially declared a “New Cold War” with China.

https://monthlyreview.org/2024/07/01/imperialism-in-the-indo-pacific-an-introduction/

Posted by: Suzan | Jul 5 2024 2:48 utc | 197

Adam Curtis 2022 – Deja vu @ 9 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663vLIYBcpI

” I think there’s a feeling here that it it doesn’t really work and that whatever way you try and find out of it it’s like a strange computer game you somehow come back to the room that you left a few years ago I mean like for example as we talk now you have just seen the collapse of a government that was sort of borne out of the Brexit whatever we want to call it Revolt revolution of 2015 now in 2022 that government tries to put forward an extreme economic project which was just to most people were completely mad.
That yesterday fell it’s been replaced Now by another conservative government which in response is going to bring back the very kind of policy of austerity which you could argue is what gave you Brexit in the first place so it’s like some strange drug dream you’ve you’ve gone through Brexit through all the contortions through all the violence the anger the fury to end up with Liz Truss with an extreme version of capitalist experiment within days it fails and you find yourself back with George Osborne and David Cameron’s policies which failed and gave you that Revolt that gave you Brexit yet what happened if you notice the press and all journalism today is they’re all celebrating this as a return to stability and a return to calm and that’s not just on the traditional right – it’s also the left and the Liberals are celebrating a return to calm that’s mad.
and not only is it mad it actually shows that those people don’t have any idea of any alternative they’re celebrating a return to the very thing that was they saw as horrific eight years ago in 2015. “

– They are doing the same thing again right now with the landslide Labour party win – everything is well again – it’s not – everything is totally fucked everywhere – everyone has gone mad, the voters included.

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