Jul 032022
 


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This 4th of July: Requiem for Freedoms Long Gone? (Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt)
The Disintegration Of Western Society – Visible To The Naked Eye (Wilbert)
“High Gas Prices Necessary For ‘Future Of The Liberal World Order'” (JTN)
Saudi Arabia in Discussion to Join BRICS Coalition (CTH)
A World Food Crisis Is Coming, And US Allows CCP To Buy American Farmland (CNBC)
Nuke War Coming, Mysterious Deaths Don’t Stop, Dems Can’t Win – PCR (USAW)
Kissinger’s Gas Crisis -And Pipeline- (George Webb)
Wall Street Advocates Begin Admitting Demand Side Economy is in Free Fall (CTH)
700 Million Worldwide Will Die from CV19 Vax by 2028 – Dr. David Martin (USAW)
Washington State Governor Makes Covid Vaccines A Permanent Requirement (JTN)
We’ll Investigate Bidens’ Shady Business Dealings (NYP)
On Clarence Thomas, White Liberals and Racial Politics (Musa al-Gharbi)
The EPA’s Loss Is A Win For Democracy (Darwall)
CNN Suffers Biggest Ratings Dip In 7 Years: Viewers Plummet 13% In June (DM)

 

 


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“Established old money elites and entrenched academics have long denigrated the power and influence that came from innovation and hard work.”

This 4th of July: Requiem for Freedoms Long Gone? (Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt)

Marinate those ribs, ice the beer, and get the fireworks ready so we can revel in the red, white, and blue. Let’s raise our collective glasses today to the bold few who spoke on our behalf more than 200 years ago. Thomas Jefferson’s inspired words live on: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Can you imagine how electric the atmosphere must have been on that steamy summer day when the Founders, having agreed to the brave separation from the British Crown on July 4, 1776 – committed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to each other as 51 of the 56 signers executed the Declaration of Independence.

The American Constitution is the longest standing governing document in the history of the world. We owe the Founders not just gratitude, but a civic commitment backed by our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to protect and preserve liberty. Free people in hot pursuit of their happiness are quite an excitable and often unruly lot. Established old money elites and entrenched academics have long denigrated the power and influence that came from innovation and hard work. From Woodrow Wilson to Henry Kissinger to the Davos elites, the usurpation of liberty through the attacks on individual freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are being fired upon citizens at a rapid pace. The nefarious plot to slowly eat away at liberty has been working for more than 70 years.

Global elitist, Henry Kissinger had the playbook when he said; “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” Since Wilson’s day the elites have worked overtime imagining ways to bridle, We the People. Rather than the ho-hum predictable “good ‘ole boys (and girls) clubs,” or access to capital and opportunity based on your last name, they have leveraged eager and willing accomplices in government bureaucracy to establish what we all know as “the system.” Professional politicians beholden to big money rarely fear the people or the ballot box. Voila! — Your 40-year, double-digit term senators and representatives are born.

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“The most practical example of this is recent with the Nordics joining NATO without any referendum or popular poll within the countries’ society.”

The Disintegration Of Western Society – Visible To The Naked Eye (Wilbert)

While we notice the closest integration among emerging countries, we notice a certain disparity among the richest, first-world countries, because they may not seem like it, but they also have internal problems that cannot always be fought. And the most recent of these is inflation, with an unprecedented rise in prices. The middle class, the main target of the Great Reset enthusiasts, is beginning to feel prices rising more and more, even though they don’t fully agree with the war at the moment, which is impressive if you consider that public opinion is of little concern to the leaders who are driving the economic-military and diplomatic disaster in Europe. The most practical example of this is recent with the Nordics joining NATO without any referendum or popular poll within the countries’ society.

And the argument to be used I can already imagine: “But democracy is representative, William! If the people vote for politician x, it’s because they agree with his platform.” Yes. But that is half right. Not entirely. Democracy, especially representative democracy, has a serious flaw, precisely in terms of representation. Politicians who are not faithfully committed to the objectives of the nation, of the homeland, but, unfortunately, are rather vain, cause a distortion in the etymological sense of the term “representative democracy”, because who would it represent? Not the people! And one of the causes of the wrong votes that the people usually give (considering totally clean elections) is due to the fact that it is not invested in the political conscience of these societies, usually due to a lack of interest from part of society, but also due to the lack of incentives from the State in this matter.

But this is a very complex subject that I can deal with in another article. To try to continue the reasoning of the Western disintegration and distortion of the democratic sense, I can give a practical example of Brazil, because it is closer to home. The juristocracy ended up taking over the country after Operation Lava Jato, which was nothing more than an American collusion with the Brazilian opposition to depose the Dilma Rousseff government (which does not cancel out Dilma’s mistakes, who was a terrible supposed economist and basically destroyed the country, becoming easy prey as she fell into popular disgrace). But what is this juristocracy? Simply the country’s Supreme Court overruling any take on government that the Federal Executive Branch has. And that’s just about anyone anyway.

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He actually said it.

“High Gas Prices Necessary For ‘Future Of The Liberal World Order'” (JTN)

White House economic adviser Brian Deese on Thursday told CNN that high gas prices were a necessary inconvenience to preserve the “future of the liberal world order,” amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The average price of gas exceeded $5 per gallon for the first time in U.S. history in early June. CNN’s Victor Blackwell asked Deese to speak to comments President Joe Biden made earlier in the day suggesting Americans would pay high prices for “as long as it takes” for the war in Ukraine to end. Blackwell noted that experts have predicted the war’s end is unlikely to come in the near future before asking Deese “what do you say to those families that say ‘listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years. This is just not sustainable’?”


“What you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes,” Deese answered. “This is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.” The Biden administration has drawn considerable criticism for its handling of the economy, especially on inflation and energy policy. Amid rising energy costs and opposition demands for increased domestic production, the government on Friday announced it had yet to decide on a plan to deny or approve, in part or in full, the expansion of oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

Rutte WEF

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Biden’s there next week?!

Saudi Arabia in Discussion to Join BRICS Coalition (CTH)

It is very curious timing in this article from Newsweek, containing massive geopolitical implications, using identified Saudi Arabia sources, would come in advance of Joe Biden’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Is this strategic geopolitical pressure from Saudi leader Mohamed Bin Salman (MbS) ahead of the meeting with Biden; or is this a genuine possibility that looms as likely? If the former, then Joe Biden is being geopolitically slow roasted by Saudi Arabia for his previous disparagements and ideological hypocrisy in his visit. If it is the latter, well, then the tectonic plates of international trade, banking and economics are about to shift directly under our American feet.

We have been closely monitoring the signs of a global cleaving around the energy sector taking place. Essentially, western governments’ following the “Build Back Better” climate change agenda which stops using coal, oil and gas to power their economic engine, while the rest of the growing economic world continues using the more efficient and traditional forms of energy to power their economies. This article from Newsweek is exactly about this dynamic with Saudi Arabia now potentially joining the BRICS team. [..] Here is the money quote:

[…] “China’s invitation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to join the ‘BRICS’ confirms that the Kingdom has a major role in building the new world and became an important and essential player in global trade and economics,” Mohammed al-Hamed, president of the Saudi Elite group in Riyadh, told Newsweek. “Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is moving forward at a confident and global pace in all fields and sectors.”[…] “This accession, if Saudi joins it, will balance the world economic system, especially since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of oil in the world, and it’s in the G20,” Hamed said. “If it happens, this will support any economic movement and development in the world trade and economy, and record remarkable progress in social and economic aspects as Saudi Arabia should have partnerships with every country in the world.”

That would essentially be the end of the petrodollar, and -in even more consequential terms- the end of the United States ability to use the weight of the international trade currency to manipulate foreign government. The global economic system would have an alternative. The fracturing of the world, created as an outcome of energy development, would be guaranteed.

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Chinese Purchase Of North Dakota Farmland Raises National Security Concerns

A World Food Crisis Is Coming, And US Allows CCP To Buy American Farmland (CNBC)

At first glance, the largely barren, wind-swept tract of land just north of Grand Forks, North Dakota, seems to be an unlikely location for international espionage. There’s not much on the more than 300-acre patch of prime Dakota farmland right now other than dirt and tall grasses, bordered by highways and light industrial facilities on the outskirts of the city. The nearest neighbors include a crop production company, a truck and trailer service outfit, and Patio World, which sells landscaping supplies for suburban backyards.But when the three North Dakotans who owned the parcels of land here sold them for millions of dollars this spring, the transaction raised alarm bells as far away as Washington, D.C.

That’s because the buyer of the land was a Chinese company, the Fufeng Group, based in Shandong, China, and the property is just about 20 minutes down the road from Grand Forks Air Force Base — home to some of the nation’s most sensitive military drone technology.The base is also the home of a new space networking center, which a North Dakota senator said handles “the backbone of all U.S. military communications across the globe.”Now some security experts warn the Chinese corn milling plant should be stopped, because it could offer Chinese intelligence unprecedented access to the facility. It’s an only-in-America kind of fight — pitting the property and economic rights of a community against national security warnings from high-ranking officials in the nation’s capital.

Debate over the project has roiled the small community, with emotional city council hearings, local politicians at odds with one another, and neighborhood groups gearing up to block the project. Craig Spicer, whose trucking company borders the Chinese-held land, said he’s suspicious of the new company’s intent. “It makes me feel nervous for my grandkids,” he said. “It makes me feel nervous for my kids.” Gary Bridgeford, who sold his parcel of the farmland to the Chinese company for around $2.6 million this year, said his neighbors have vented their anger at him and planted signs opposing the project in his front yard. “I’ve been threatened,” he said. “I’ve been called every name in the book for selling property.”

Bridgeford said he believes the national security concerns are overblown. “How would they gain any knowledge of the base?” he asked. “It’s about 12 miles away. It isn’t like its next door.” “People hear the China stuff and there’s concern,” Bridgeford said. “But everyone has a phone in their pocket that was probably made in China. Where do you draw the line?”

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Paul Craig Roberts.

Nuke War Coming, Mysterious Deaths Don’t Stop, Dems Can’t Win – PCR (USAW)

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says American leaders want war with Russia. Russia is trying to avoid war, but the provocations from the U.S. and NATO keep coming. At some point, Dr. Roberts says Russia will be backed into a corner, and it won’t take long for the battle to go nuclear. This is a special interview inside the Weekly News Wrap-Up that explains how we got here and where we are going in terms of war with Russia. Dr. Roberts says it’s no longer a question of if, but when, it all hits the fan.

You cannot hide the unexplained deaths and emergency sickness. It is now happening every week. 32-year-old SNL comedian Nick Nemeroff died in his sleep this week, but before he did, he was on video complaining about being deathly sick after the two CV19 shots he already got. He pledged that he would not get the booster, and he never did–because he died a few days later. Meanwhile, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker was rushed to the hospital with some strange emergency, and the drummer for Five Seconds of Summer passed out on stage for no apparent reason. Once again, the question is, “Were they vaxed?” This trend is going to continue for some time to come no matter if you are famous or not.

A new poll for the Democrats is coming in awful. An AP poll reveals 8 out of 10 Democrats say the country is “headed in the wrong direction.” That’s 8 out of 10 DEMOCRATS. Let that sink in. Couple that with another story from the AP that reports new data showing 1 million Democrats have left the party to register with the GOP. It looks like the Democrats cannot win without massive cheating or a war that shuts down the election process this fall. It’s going to be a rough ride. Buckle up.

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George Webb races through Europe. He’s confusing at times.

Kissinger’s Gas Crisis -And Pipeline- (George Webb)

Five years ago, I speculated about seven laptops in the Senate Sergeant of Arms office – six laptops running covert actions in Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen and a seventh laptop used for the Iran Nuclear Deal. I believe the “Iran Nuclear Deal” laptop is still in use today. I based this speculation on a Senate Sergeant of Arms Blackberry I was left by a long-time Biden advisor who said the encrypted Blackberrys were given to the US Senate by the US State Department to negotiate secret energy deals like the Iran Nuclear Deal. Each country’s “deal” had separate participants, so I speculated there would be a separate laptop for each country’s covert action participants. Very similar to the Iran Nuclear Deal was the East Med Pipeline deal involving the US, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, which I called the “Southern Route” in 2017.

The “Southern Route” was being negotiated by Eric Braveman, his “husband”, Neil Brown, Avi Braverman of Israel, and one Ukrainian Billionaire named Igor Kolomoisky with lots of Cyrus bank accounts. So with all these US Senate Sergeant of Arms laptops running these top-secret negotiations, imagine my surprise when at least six of these laptops were stolen from the US Senate Sergeant of Arms office on January 6th, 2021. The “angry mob” took selfies in the US Senate Rotunda but still found time to break into the US Senate Sergeant of Arms office and steal six critical laptops. I had followed the story of the seven laptops for the seven Top Secret plans slipping through the fingers of CIA chief David Petraeus to his girlfriend, Paula Broadwell.

Petraeus somehow left seven folders with Top Secret information for overthrow operations in African and the Middle East on his desk – “Zero Footprint” for Libya and “Timber Sycamore” for Syria, for instance. I had been looking for the Blackberrys servers on Capitol Hill since I began my video series in 2016. because I knew Hillary Clinton and CIA Director David Petraeus communicated with encrypted Blackberry devices. Imagine my surprise again a few days ago when I found that Michael Stenger, the Senate Sergeant of Arms during January 6th, 2021 Capitol break-in, was suddenly dead, just before a special hearing was called on the House inquiry into the January 6th events. The timing of this death seem to correspond to getting funding at the G7 meeting of the top seven nations of the world to underwrite the East Med pipeline.

The plan appears to be 1) Have Kolomoisky provoke Russia with a series of Azov Battalian raids in the Donbas, 2) Have Russia occupy the Donbas in response, 3) Get emergency funding from the G7 to build the East Med Pipeline on behalf of the Genie Energy oil and gas energy consortium that I had been reporting on since 2016. Since some of Kolomoisky’s henchman were seen on Capitol Hill on January 6th, I supposed early on during my broadcasts of January 6th that the Ukrainians were at least going for their own “overthrow server” and for the East Med Pipeline laptop.

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” Infuriating does not adequately describe my sentiments toward these intentional liars.”

Wall Street Advocates Begin Admitting Demand Side Economy is in Free Fall (CTH)

At the exact moment that U.S. inflation began spiking in housing, energy, fuel and food, consumer demand for non-essential purchases, durable goods, started dropping. This is a natural outcome that mirrors your own experience in checkbook economics. When food, fuel and energy cost you more, you stop buying stuff and start prioritizing. Following the path of the “build back better” agenda, the U.S. version called “Green New Deal,” meant the Biden administration had to continue denying that any demand side contraction was taking place. However, it is clear from the indexes under the control of purchasing managers that orders for factory goods have been dropping.


The same is true on the services side of the PMI. Demand for services are being prioritized, and demand for non-essential services are dropping. The U.S. economy is contracting. Denial abounds. Infuriating does not adequately describe my sentiments toward these intentional liars. We are in an abusive relationship with all levels of government and their media spokespeople. Independent and honest journalism, the sharing of information that can empower people to intercede events with political liars, is quite literally the only thing that might save us from the catastrophic consequences of all this pretending. Knowledge is power, and we need to build our arsenal with an urgency unlike any before in our lifetime.

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“This is old school racketeering, and it is no different than the mob in the 1920’s. This is old school racketeering for personal gain and profit at the expense of human lives.”

700 Million Worldwide Will Die from CV19 Vax by 2028 – Dr. David Martin (USAW)

Dr. David Martin has a deep medical science and investment resume. Dr Martin also runs a company (M·CAM International) that finances cutting edge innovation worldwide. He is also one of the key people seeking justice in lawsuits suing medical companies and the federal government involved in delivering the so-called vaccines for CV19. In simple terms, according to Dr. Martin, the CV19 vaccines are “bioweapons.” Big Pharma and the government knew it and also knew it would cause massive deaths and permanent injuries. Dr. Martin says, “It’s going to get much worse. . . . It is not a Corona virus vaccine. It is a spike protein instruction to make the human body produce a toxin. . . . The fact of the matter is the injections are an act of bioweapons and bioterrorism. They are not a public health measure. The facts are very simple. This was premeditated. . . . This was a campaign of domestic terror to get the public to accept the universal vaccine platform using a known biological weapon. That is their own words and not my interpretation.”

How many will die from the CV19 bioweapons? Dr. Martin says, “By their own estimate, they are looking for 700 million people globally, and that would put the U.S. participation in that of the injected population as 75 million to 100 million people. . . . There are a lot of reasons why they hope it will be between now and 2028 because there is this tiny little glitch of the illiquidity of the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs. So, the fewer recipients of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the better. Not surprisingly, the recommendation was people over the age of 65 were the first ones to get injected.”

Dr. Martin thinks the catastrophic effects of the CV19 injections will hit the medical industry soon. Dr. Martin explains, “The dirty secret is . . . there are a lot of pilots having micro vascular and clotting problems, and that keeps them out of the cockpit, which is a good place to not have them if they are going to throw a clot for a stroke or a heart attack. The problem is we are going to see that exact same phenomenon in the healthcare industry and at a much larger scale. So, we now have, along with the actual problem . . . of people getting sick and people dying, we actually have that targeting the healthcare industry writ large. Which means we are going to have nurses and doctors who are going to be among the sick and dead. That also means the sick and the dying are also not going to get care.”

Dr. Martin and his group are suing everybody from President Biden along with the FDA, CDC, Pfizer, Moderna and many others over the deaths and injuries from the CV19 bioweapons fraudulently passed off as “vaccines.” The next big court case is July 6, 2022, in federal court in Utah. Dr. Martin contends “this is far worse” than the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after WWII and adds, “This is organized crime. . . . They have hidden behind the immunity shield that absolves them of product liability by naming the delivery of a bioweapon–a vaccination program. . . . This is actually a criminal act. This is an act of domestic terror, and it is an anti-trust violation. This is racketeering. This is old school racketeering, and it is no different than the mob in the 1920’s. This is old school racketeering for personal gain and profit at the expense of human lives. You need to call it what it is, and it’s organized crime. I would say the Nazis were better than the people who are doing this. . . . The real question is why did American citizens develop a weapon to kill Americans and get paid to do it? That is a morally outrageous question, and, unfortunately, almost no one is asking it.”

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Washington State Governor Makes Covid Vaccines A Permanent Requirement (JTN)

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has issued a directive making COVID-19 vaccines a permanent condition of employment for state workers in executive and small cabinet agencies, including boosters. The new vaccination standards for state employees are, according to the directive, meant to head off any possibility of going back to more severe actions implemented during the height of the pandemic, including stay-at-home orders and the closure of schools and businesses. “Widespread vaccination is also the primary means we have as a state to protect our health care system and to avoid the return of stringent public health measures,” the directive states.

All new state employees are required to be vaccinated with the most up-to-date vaccines, including any additional doses or boosters as recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Current exempt state employees – executive or professional workers paid a salary rather than by the hour – are required to be fully vaccinated as of July 1, 2023. The directive calls for the State Human Resources Division of the Office of Financial Management to take steps necessary to continue the requirement that state employees not represented by a union be fully vaccinated, including that they have the most up-to-date vaccinations by July 1, 2023.

[..] Elizabeth Hovde, director of the Center for Health Care and Center for Worker Rights at the free market Washington Policy Center, indicated she didn’t understand where Inslee is coming from with this new directive. “COVID-19 is serious, but it is no longer a public-health crisis,” she told The Center Square in an email. “It has become like other viruses that we have to deal with in a reasonable and voluntary way. This is not reasonable or appropriate. And it doesn’t serve the public or the state workforce.” According to the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard, there are 228 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, and 10% of hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients.

“People of working ages – and they are who this would apply to – have never been the ones dying from COVID-19 in a way that depletes hospital resources or state workforces,” Hovde continued. “Staffing shortages in the public sector and among health care workers are exacerbated by the governor’s vaccine mandate, on the other hand. “From ferries and highway workers to hospitals and first responders, Inslee’s vaccine mandate has ruined careers and family finances, and it has decreased expected service levels, for no demonstrable health benefit.

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By Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan and James Comer. Kevin McCarthy is House Republican leader, Jim Jordan is House Judiciary ranking member, and James Comer is House Oversight ranking member.

We’ll Investigate Bidens’ Shady Business Dealings (NYP)

We’ve pursued these threads despite Democrats’ refusal to cooperate. We’ve made almost 100 requests for information relating to Biden family schemes. Many, including every request made to the Biden administration, have been ignored. But with the help of witnesses who have documentation of their dealings with the Biden family, some answers are becoming clear. First, Joe Biden’s family members profited in foreign regions where he had influence as vice president. Hunter Biden sat on the board of a Ukrainian company in an industry in which he had no experience. His only qualification was that his father ran point on US Ukraine policy. Second, Bidens have used their connections with Joe to promise access to the highest levels of government.

While Joe was vice president, Hunter promised Mexican business partners access to his father, and Joe Biden obliged by hosting them at the vice-presidential residence and the White House. Third, these practices continued during Joe Biden’s four-year government hiatus. In 2018, in the 2020 campaign’s run-up, Hunter Biden boasted privately, “If I say it’s important to me, then he [Joe] will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform.” Biden family members increasingly targeted foreign ventures, including multiple deals with the Chinese Communist Party. Fourth, Bidens were paid hundreds of thousands — if not millions — despite performing no discernible work.

Joe’s brother James boasted to foreign and domestic business partners that Joe would become president and they would reap the rewards in profits and US government endorsements. American banks flagged questionable transactions involving James and Hunter Biden and filed more than 150 Suspicious Activity Reports with the Treasury Department. Finally, contrary to Joe Biden’s statement that he never spoke to Hunter about his foreign business dealings, associates state that he was fully aware of his family’s business dealings and influence peddling. There is evidence of a direct sum of money set aside for “the Big Guy” — who witnesses have identified as Joe Biden — from foreign nationals. This raises significant questions about our national security and the role foreign nationals were allowed to play when he was vice president.

We have uncovered some answers, but many questions remain. In November, the American people will decide whether they accept being told what information they are allowed to know by a colluding media, including who is making policy decisions for this country and for whose interests. A Republican majority will be committed to uncovering the facts the Democrats, Big Tech and the legacy media have suppressed.

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“Thomas first encountered the work of Malcolm X while pursuing his undergraduate degree. He had a poster of the man in his dorm room.”

On Clarence Thomas, White Liberals and Racial Politics (Musa al-Gharbi)

Many assume that Thomas’ rulings flow out of a commitment to conservative orthodoxy, fervent Christianity, or partisan politics. The truth is much more interesting than that, albeit perhaps more unsettling. Thomas’ alignment with the Republican Party seems to be driven first and foremost by a deep mistrust of white liberals, the institutions they control, and the policies they try to advance in the name of ‘social justice.’ This mistrust was widely shared among black activists of his generation. Malcolm X, for instance, famously declared:

“In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negros (i.e. the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power… the white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a tool in this political ‘football game’ that is constantly raging between white liberals and white conservatives. Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football.”

Thomas first encountered the work of Malcolm X while pursuing his undergraduate degree. He had a poster of the man in his dorm room. He memorized many of Malcom’s speeches by heart and continues to evoke him frequently to this day. But it wasn’t just Malcolm who was skeptical of white liberals. Not by a longshot. In 1966, for instance, the influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) issued a position paper arguing: “More and more we see black people in this country being used as a tool of the white liberal establishment. Liberal whites have not begun to address themselves to the real problem of black people in this country… previous solutions to black problems in this country have been made in the interests of those whites dealing with these problems and not in the best interests of black people in the country. Whites can only subvert our true search and struggles for self-determination, self-identification, and liberation in this country.”

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Now take on the CDC and FDA.

The EPA’s Loss Is A Win For Democracy (Darwall)

Thursday’s decision by the Supreme Court that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to proceed with President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is much more significant than the narrow grounds on which it was decided. The Clean Power Plan was already dead. It had been repealed and replaced by the Trump administration, decisions that were later struck down by a court of appeals. Moreover, there is history between the EPA and the Supreme Court. In 2014, the Court ruled against the EPA’s rewriting of the Clean Air Act to facilitate its use as a tool of climate policy, which was already seen as “poor and probably unworkable” by officials in the Obama administration.

“We expect Congress to speak clearly if it wishes to assign to an agency decisions of vast ‘economic and political significance,’” Justice Antonin Scalia famously wrote. The Court also ruled that the agency had acted unreasonably with its mercury emissions rules, though the EPA boasted that despite this decision, investments meant that most power plants were already well on the way to compliance. Perhaps that attitude was a factor in the Supreme Court’s shock decision in February 2016 to stay the Clean Power Plan to prevent a repeat of the EPA’s workaround. As Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court’s liberal minority, put it, “This Court has obstructed EPA’s effort from the beginning.” Formally, the Court’s decision revolves around rival interpretations of Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act and what Congress meant by “best system of emission reduction.”

Around 20 pages of Chief Justice John Roberts’s 31-page opinion for the court is taken up analyzing what he calls this “previously little-used backwater.” By “system,” did Congress mean a system modifying an existing plant’s emission performance? Or can “system” refer to the whole electrical grid or even a cap-and-trade scheme, as Kagan contends? Kagan’s brisk arguments demonstrate how a differently composed Court would have decided the matter. Important as these rival arguments might be, they function as kabuki theater for the underlying disagreement between the justices on the role and legitimacy of the administrative state. Although Roberts refers only once to the administrative state, it is never far from the surface. But the battle lines are made explicit in Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence and in the Kagan dissent.

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They hope Trump will win.

CNN Suffers Biggest Ratings Dip In 7 Years: Viewers Plummet 13% In June (DM)

CNN’s ratings continue to slip in primetime to their lowest numbers in seven years, despite a public about face on sensationalism and opinion shows under new boss Chris Licht. The network, promised by Licht to ‘go a different way’ during a time ‘where extremes are dominating cable news’, appear to still be in the tank even during a month that saw the blockbuster January 6 hearings. Despite the hearings, which drew tens of millions of viewers across multiple networks, CNN had fewer viewers in June than it did in May, which continued a months-long downward slope for the network since the invasion of Ukraine lifted them in March. While the three major cable news outlets – CNN, Fox News and MSNBC – have all seem some declines since former President Trump left office, the numbers for CNN continue to disintegrate at an alarming rate.


CNN, which moved under Warner Discovery leadership in April, drew an average of just 654,000 viewers in primetime in June and 487,000 for one entire newsday, down one and three percent respectively. During the committee hearings week of June 13-19, the network averaged just 480,000 viewers, the network’s worst ratings week since November 2015 and down 13 percent from those May averages. Overall, June 2022 was the lowest-rated month for 24-hour viewership on CNN since July 2015, according to The Daily Beast. By contrast, MSNBC – which had the highest ratings for the hearings on cable – averaged 1.28 million viewers in primetime, up 26 percent from May. Fox News also had a better second quarter than they did in 2021.

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    #110853
    Germ
    Participant

    OK folks – we have a winner BA.2.75

    https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-711033

    TWICE as infectious as measles. It’s on like Donkey Kong!

    🤡☠️☠️☠️🤡

    #110854
    Germ
    Participant

    VAIDS – the vaxxed have fucked their immune systems

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/monkeypox-virus-uk-cases-mutating-b2111814.html

    🤡☠️☠️☠️🤡

    #110855
    Germ
    Participant

    Effective?
    Italian study on vaccine effectiveness (VE) in kids reports effectiveness dropping to 21% after 43 days.

    Just 21% !!!

    And this is after applying the 14 days miscategorisation trick where the vaccinated are counted as unvaccinated. So in reality VE is much much lower.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01185-0/fulltext

    All risk, no reward.
    The worst shit vaxx EVER.
    🤡☠️☠️☠️🤡

    #110856
    Germ
    Participant

    🤡☠️☠️☠️🤡

    #110857
    Germ
    Participant
    #110858
    Germ
    Participant
    #110859
    Germ
    Participant

    Some hard Death-Vaxx truth right here –

    https://rumble.com/v1auo3e-2022-07-02-the-corona-brace-for-impact.html 🤡☠️☠️☠️🤡

    #110860
    Germ
    Participant

    Dr. Shay Fleishon, with the Central Virology Laboratory at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, called the new subvariant “alarming,”

    #110862
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Clash of the Titans – Malcolm X Vs White Karens

    #110863
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Covid Laughs – this guy was pro the unvaccinated so worth at least 5 minutes. I pissed yself laughing

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bItcoUb5xsw

    #110865
    zerosum
    Participant

    Winning is not loosing

    Over $8.5 trillion has been wiped out of the US stock market this year.

    ————
    “representative democracy” is achieved by enforcing “election promises”
    ——————
    Stability requires population control and population reduction.
    ———-
    Improvement does not equate with growth.
    ——–
    Inflation only occurs when you exchange “money” for something. (Loss of purchasing power.)
    ———–
    Wisdom
    I leave the explanations to your critical thinking.

    #110866
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Chinese Purchase Of North Dakota Farmland Raises National Security Concerns

    • A World Food Crisis Is Coming, And US Allows CCP To Buy American Farmland (CNBC)

    I misread the headline thinking it was the Babylon Bee

    Chinese Purchase North Dakota for it’s Farmland

    Hunter Xiden Takes 7% Real Estate Commission

    #110867
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030”

    2030 again. That’s practically tomorrow. Who sends the memo “2030” and not “2035”? And Saudi already left the U.S. and joined Russia. But they’re moving slow enough not to break things: it’s a big machine.

    USAW: We see a run from the DNC, all they need to do is wreck things and muddy the waters. That’s easy. Biden says it’s legal for illegals to vote, they do, and the entire midterms are in doubt. It gets sent to Supreme Court. Yeah, but who cares? You can’t undo an election. They will just say they won, so make me. And you’re going to go up there with rifles? Then they win again: Civil War is their GOAL, it’s nirvana, it’s the reason all this is happening. Since the 90s they’ve taken every move imaginable to cause it. You need to cut them out of your life, work together, then throw a general strike.

    “This is old school racketeering, and it is no different than the mob in the 1920’s.”

    Actually it’s just murder for money. Far worse than general racketeering. Mass murder for mass money, industrial scale. Cattle car, shower-class.

    “Washington State Governor Makes Covid Vaccines a Permanent Requirement (JTN)”

    Ideological loyalty test. Like the police. If they’re not corrupt, complicit, and slavishly obedient, they must be purged. Works like a charm, every time.

    P.S. what are they vaccinating against? Delta’s been gone for a year and everyone got Omicron.

    “one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives,” –Malcolm X

    Ouch. Totally correct. So the Conservative Justice Quotes Malcolm X. The Liberal Justices quote Hillary Clinton. The Black Panthers are pro-black-gun. The DNC are anti-black people owning guns. Any questions?

    “Liberal whites have not begun to address themselves to the real problem of black people in this country”

    That might be fair then. But now 60 years later, we look for the worst conditions in all America for Blacks, and they’re exclusively in Liberal Blue zones: cities, states, locals. I don’t know what to say about that. Perhaps no one notices this is near-universal fact because nobody cares? Black Or White? Like Malcolm said? But to get anywhere, you have to at least admit and recognize it and imitate stuff that works instead of repeating what hasn’t worked in lifetimes. Still waiting.

    “appear to still be in the tank even during a month that saw the blockbuster January 6 hearings.”

    Huh? The Jan 6 ratings were a stunning failure. That’s the opposite of “Blockbuster”. Perhaps they mean, “expected blockbuster”? Daily Mail then goes on to say how awesome the ratings were, which is the opposite of everything I’ve read. But, Daily Mail: no facts, evidence, or checking. They get their facts from MI6 with a monthly cheque, like Reuters does. …Which is what happens when you have no circulation and no ratings. It’s the alternate plan. We’re now an organ of state government. Government owns the means of production, or a merger of Corporation and State with an emphasis on propaganda and war: i.e. fascists. THe opposite would be free speech without State Repression of competition, aka “Capitalism”.

    More men are seeking vasectomies now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe” — MSNBC

    So clearly a large number of men were using Abortion as birth control. More, since only a fraction of states have acted on it, so only a minority of citizen have any impact.

    “Black men feel ‘helpless and hopeless’ as Black women brace for post-Roe America” –MSNBC

    As Malcolm said: always selling hopelessness and helplessness to da black man. Nice! Thanks, White Liberals! Glad to see you think so much of us. Clearly this headline could only be the case if Black men and women were using it as primary birth control. And again, where? In NY and CA where they now have MORE abortion rights?

    “11 people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas. But the sheriff says no one lives there.” So MSNBC is saying there is extensive voter fraud. Huh. Sounds familiar somehow. We have all the voter fraud except we also have none and we know it’s the most secure election ever because we haven’t looked.

    “Russian strike hits shopping center with more than 1,000 people inside, Ukraine says” MSNBC

    1,000 people were for some reason in this shopping mall that has been closed for over a year. (says their Yelp page) And all walked there since the pictures show no cars in the parking lot. So many lies, so little time. But NBC finds the time. MSNBC: All Stupid, All the Time.

    Meanwhile, in the real world:
    Bebe
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWJV-NzUcAA2GpL.jpg

    You know what no birth rate means? MASSIVE Deflation. MASSIVE. Unprecedented, perhaps never before seen since the Black Plague. Demographics is Destiny.

    DowdList
    https://totalityofevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ed-Dowd-the-evidence.jpg

    MASSIVE Deflation means what to them? …This is nuts, but it means they can continue to hyperinflate their golfing pals without the system melting. That’s crazy? They’ve literally just been doing that for 15-22 years and it’s working great. They think they have it all under control, they own the levers, and if they run into trouble about it, they’ll just kill another million people.

    Inflate or Die. So how do you forestall the blow off top? Use the Inflation-power to drop Deflation nukes. This also wipes out the Global South’s leverage, so I can’t think of a single reason why not to.

    This goes with Vax/lockdown/CBDC Central Bank Digital Currency. You can only spend from our account WHEN, in what AMOUNT, and in the LOCATION of our choosing. Then we can always inflate and always shut off the consequences of our inflation. (By killing you with shortages) All the same thing.

    Since Inflation must always compound or crash though, doesn’t that mean fascist repression must ALSO go vertical? Into a totalitarian police state without escape?

    Yes. The entire human race is at stake. Forever.

    #110868
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kamacho Harris first address to the nation as pretend President

    .

    #110869
    Neal
    Participant

    So the jabbed are getting the bug multiple times and the bug is continuing to evolve. Would it be fair to say that the large pool of immune compromised jabbed will mean there will never be herd immunity and eventually with such a large susceptible population there will arise strains so different from the existing strains that we purebloods will have minimal immunity to and those jabbed still alive after their 20th infection will go for blackjack 21 infection?

    #110870
    Kassandra
    Participant

    So we survived our drive to the SF Bay Area to pick up the rest of our things, and say a final goodbye to friends and family that remain. Other than my wealthy retired FIL that lives in an high-end area, everyone is miserable. Now that we are gone it’s hard to believe we lived there so many decades. The people, the noise, the horrible roads, the miserable “energy” of the place. To be fair I was trying to leave from the time I arrived in 1996, it took a long time to get my native SF born husband to see how bad it was. Thank God we are gone. What a shithole.

    btw, 80% of people are masked again.

    On covid and the vaxxs, I still don’t know anyone who has died from covid. But, several more people we know personally or worked with have died suddenly. 2 weeks ago one of my husband’s favorite ex-co workers, another uber healthy person in his 50s, simply didn’t wake up. Now we know at least 10 people personally that have died unexpectedly this past year. And a friend of mine here who never really recovered from her 3rd covid shot a few weeks ago just let me know she’s having gallbladder surgery next week. Super healthy (before this past year) 60 year old woman. Her husband, an obsessive health nut with no history of high blood pressure or any heart problems discovered his heart is coated with plaque a few weeks ago as well.

    Perhaps this is just what happens now that we are in our 50s? Then again, I really don’t remember ever hearing of so many healthy people dropping dead or having mystery illnesses just happen, other than the random shocking cancer diagnosis every few years.

    On the Washington State new law..I had an offer from Washington State for a job in February 2020. Dodged that bullet!

    I still can’t believe we are living in this insanity.

    #110871
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    A hospital In Schleswig-Holstein (far north of Germany next to Denmark) which had a jab mandate, has to manage without 70 doctors and 200 nurses due to chronic corona. Firefighters have been asked to fill in where possible.

    https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/klinik-97-prozent-impfquote-alarm-corona-bedingte-personalausfaelle/ (in German).

    Meanwhile Germany’s Fauci, Karl Lauterbach, missing a toothbrush moustache but with a definite stiff-arm problem, continues to push the jabs and a possible nationwide mandate in the autumn.

    Karl Lauterbach

    #110872
    zerosum
    Participant

    Kassandra
    Its sad to hear about people that are pass reproduction age and that are getting sick and dying.
    The younger generations need to inherit those estate to survive.
    The med. establishment is accumulating the info to be able to confirm that its because of “long covid” and are ignoring the common denominator. (90%+ have been vaccinated.)
    Remember, the pie is not getting bigger, therefore, the pie must be shared with fewer people who want more.

    #110873
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    What have I been doing for the last hour? I followed oxymoron’s YouTube link to the Jim Breuer comedy special and laughed my ass off.

    #110874
    Germ
    Participant

    I think you will be interested in this.

    Spartacus says the virus was not zoonosis, nor a lab leak, but a deliberate bioweapon attack by the biodefense mafia. He names names. He goes into the shots too.

    https://iceni.substack.com/p/spartacast-01#details

    #110875
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I expect to finish the last 20 pages of Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism today. The last two days spent mostly traveling gave me time to read.

    I highly recommend the book. Fair warning — Arendt’s writing is pointed and highly organized, but is also full of sentences with many commentary clauses. I sometimes found myself skipping clauses while re-reading a sentence to keep the sentence meaning clear. I found that when people around me started talking to me while I was reading that I either couldn’t follow what the person said or couldn’t follow what I was reading — the writing is “thick” enough that I could not multitask and retain understanding. The edition I have contains 480 pages — it is not a light read. For brevity, the first two sections can be skipped, for while they are relevant, and provide a rich historical setting and background of the two major totalitarian regimes (Hitler, Stalin,) of the 20th century, it is the third section, on totalitarianism specifically, that is most directly relevant to what we are currently experiencing.

    However, what we currently have *is not* totalitarianism as defined by Arendt. There is one MAJOR difference: lack of a “supreme leader.” This major difference is not irrelevant — it is highly relevant if we are to understand what is going on and how to combat it. I realized that this is why Sheldon Wolin called our current system “inverted totalitarianism” in Democracy, Inc.

    #110876
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D:
    “Washington State Governor Makes Covid Vaccines a Permanent Requirement (JTN)”

    Ideological loyalty test.

    Bingo.
    Totalitarian systems are akin to secret societies and have initiation rites. Covid vaccination is an initiation rite and endless boosters are loyalty tests.

    #110877
    Germ
    Participant

    It’s enough to make a grown man cry.

    🤡😪😪😪🤡

    #110878
    Germ
    Participant

    Why are people dying suddenly in their sleep?

    You can’t make this shit up. Just can’t.

    https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1634158/blood-clots-symptoms-sleeping-upright-risk

    🤡😂☠️😂🤡

    #110879
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Germ, much appreciated.

    Saudi Arabia and Iran will both join BRICS +++ ?
    That’s interesting.
    Russia and China and Saudi Arabia and Iran will all be BRICS+++
    Will Israel apply, too?

    Gotta go install window trim now.

    #110880
    citizenx
    Participant

    Elmo Noooooo ! Word on the streets in Seattle is Elmo abducted. Snuffleupagus hints to an unknown location in the belly of the Beast.

    Russia is not the kind of Country that expels fighters for human rights.

    Vlad

    Choo- Choo ? No War reports lately regarding UKR/Nato advancing backwards while East Ukr/ RF attacking in retreat ? Run out of Props?

    Deflatulance? Booster get ya ? Sleep well…

    Team America Patriots Celebration – Recent War Criminals

    Bush/ Cheney x2
    Obama/ Biden x2
    Trump/ Pence
    Biden/ Harris (cough cough blow job)

    Looky look at the only one who’s been at the Helm for three terms. The slimiest of scums Bidet.

    #110881
    Red
    Participant

    “Monkeypox is mutating up to 12 times faster than expected, a study says, amid warnings the UK could see as many as 60,000 new cases a day by the end of the year.”

    Just more AI nonsense. Garbage in garbage out.

    #110882
    Red
    Participant

    “There was always something Marie Antoinetteish about the UK government’s decision to appoint a tech millionaire as its “cost-of-living Tsar,” but then critics have renamed SW1 “Versailles on Thames” for good reason. Anyway, no sooner had Mr Buttress got his feet under his new desk than he has sparked controversy. The answer – which, apparently, no economist or policymaker in the realm had spotted – to the cost-of-living crisis is for businesses to cut their prices… if only someone had thought of it earlier!”

    A predicament in three parts

    This is the “original thinking” that comes from those who have yet to build anything.

    #110883
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I think that the vaxed dying from the vax finally makes a modicum of sense. I have tried to figure this out for over a year — why seemingly kill off and injure those who are supporting the movement, supporting those who have given us covid and steered the pandemic and its response?

    The only idea I could come up with was that the crafters of the pandemic and the spike protein injections didn’t have a problem with the injections being deadly, but didn’t realize just how deadly they were, and overplayed their hand. However, taking into consideration Arendt’s analysis, I think that is not correct.

    Arendt states that the internal logic of totalitarianism is so different from normal modes of human governing that it defies “common sense.” She says that this is why the countries dealing with Nazi Germany as it began conquering neighboring nations tended to make so many blunders.

    Under conditions of total terror not even fear can any longer serve as an advisor of how to behave, because terror chooses its victims without reference to individual actions or thoughts, exclusively in accordance with the objective necessity of the natural or historical process. [She has just spent the last few paragraphs talking about how totalitarianism follows a “natural” or “historical” process.] Under totalitarian conditions, fear probably is more widespread than ever before; but fear has lost its practical usefulness when actions guided by it can no longer help to avoid the dangers man fears. The same is true for sympathy or support of the regime; for total terror not only selects it victims according to objective standards; it chooses its executioners with as complete a disregard as possible for the candidate’s convictions and sympathies.

    For sympathizers of the WEF, they are under the spell, and living inside the fiction created by the lackeys of the WEF. They live in terror. The anti-covid inoculations create a situation where anyone could suddenly become the next victim of health issues — disability or death. Because the anti-covid inoculations are initiatory and loyalty tests, even people who generally have social and political status have taken the shots. The loyal are not “rewarded.” The loyal are simply a part of the movement, and will become either its next victims or its next executioners, in a process that is not dependent upon their own convictions or actions.

    That is why the family with the young children going for the kids’ anti-covid inoculations completely ignores the activists trying to save the children. The family is part of the movement, part of the secret society, part of the cult. The family is going to participate in all of the necessary rituals, hate all of the designated people, support all of the designated causes.

    I don’t know how this is happening with no visible “supreme leader” at the center, actively creating the weave. This is both similar and different to what has gone on before.

    #110884
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Perhaps Phoenix – the supreme leader is just a stoic belief in technology over God?

    #110885
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #110886
    Neal
    Participant

    @phoenixvoice. What you describe is no different than the Soviet Union under Stalin. Party loyalists were more likely to be executed than the common folk and the more that were purged and killed made the remaining members even more loyal.
    So will the WEF crowd end up purging themselves Jim Jones style with endless boosters. Those that don’t die might just die out as they love the lgbtq+ crap, have abortions if they do get pregnant ( and any kids they do have are multiple jabbed and maybe put on hormone blockers) and think the DINK lifestyle is great. Less than 1 kid per woman equals them more than halving themselves per generation.

    #110887
    Raena
    Participant

    Dr. Robert J. Lifton – Eight Criteria for Thought Reform
    1 – Milieu Control
    2 – Mystical Manipulation (Planned Spontaneity)
    3 – The Demand For Purity
    4 – Confession
    5 – Sacred Science
    6 – Loading the Language
    7 – Doctrine Over Person
    8 – Dispensing of Existence

    https://www.cultrecover.com/lifton8

    Robert Jay Lifton’s Eight Criteria of Thought Reform (Brainwashing, Mind Control)

    The Assault on Reality

    #110888
    Redneck
    Participant

    Bandera
    I think is understandable that Bandera and co fought with the nazis against the Soviets, I would have too if my country had suffered as much as Ukraine did under the USSR. The Ukranians had 6,000,000 of their folk starved to death by the Soviets so the Ukranian grain could be sold for hard currency to continue the industrialisation of the USSR.
    So when the Germans appeared to liberate the Ukranians from such horror, people today believe and expect that they should have fought against them? That they should have fought alongside those that had committed a genocide against them? Fight with their oppressors against their liberators , fight with those that were mass murdering them?
    Communism and Bolshevism was a Jewish inspired phenomenon , Karl Marx was a Jew , Jews were involved in the starving to death of six million Ukranians , the event known as the Holodomor .
    Is it surprising that the Ukranians allied with the Germans and took their revenge on the Jewish population in Eastern Europe?
    The true circumstances and context of those times is always left out of the discussion and analysis because every body is afraid of being accused of anti-semetism.
    (This is where you all get to accuse me of being an antisemite.)
    That part of the world has had some extreme events of mass murder , unbelievable violence and hatred, the mass murder of the Polish officers in the Katyin forest for example ,where twenty thousand were shot down into pits by the Soviets. They conveniently blamed Germany and the rest of the world wanted to believe it too, It was not until after the dissolution of the USSR and the records were opened that the truth was discovered. So is it any wonder that Poland is baying for Russian blood right now?
    Without forgiveness for past actions by all parties these old hatreds will continue to fester for centuries and violence and suffering will continue.

    #110889
    zerosum
    Participant

    @Redneck
    A good reminder
    John 8:7
    – So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

    The Holodomor , also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.

    The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (“People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs”, the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940.

    #110890
    willem
    Participant

    @Redneck: Back when I was in my 30s half a lifetime ago, I got friendly with an old man at my local chess club, and we ended up getting together off and on for chess and conversation. He was a Latvian immigrant to the US, and I remember one time we talked about his life in Latvia during WW II. Although they did not suffer through the same horrors as the Ukrainians, the Bolsheviks were very harsh on them as well. He told me that when the Germans arrived, the entire country viewed them as liberators.

    I also heard a lot of stories about the Russians from my high school Russian teacher, who was Lithuanian. This was back in the late 60s, and he used to go back to Lithuania every year or two to visit relatives, and he had lots of interesting (and mostly negative) things to say about how they lived there under the Soviets.

    #110891
    Redneck
    Participant

    Willem
    The Soviet times were extremely brutal , the Soviet forces that pushed the Germans back to Berlin were illiterate or semiliterate peasants who themselves had been hardened by the brutality of the revolution and the the Gulags.There is no comparison between the Russians of today and the former soviets. That is something the West does not want the world to understand. They want to continue the narrative of the Soviet brutes. Vision of the treatment of Ukranian prisoners by Russians illustrates that. The Ukraine is now displaying the traits of the old Soviets with their Bandera cult. Bandera was appropriate for his time but the world has moved on , the Banderies are living in the past ,big mistake as they are finding out. A reading of the Gulag Archipelago and Two Hundred Years Amongst Us , if you can find any bits of it lays out the state of things back in the day.The USSR was the first country to recognise Israel and when Gold Myeir the first Israeli ambassador arrived in Moscow she was met at the synagogue by fifty thousand cheering Soviet Jews , Stalin nearly swallowed his cigar when he heard about it .History is so interesting and important , not knowing the past means not understanding the present.

    #110892
    Redneck
    Participant

    Zerosum
    Thanks for posting the descriptions of these two events.

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