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With Ginsburg's death cue the last stand of the Dems and American marxists

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For all of the bad things that have happened in 2020 don't for a second believe that 2021 won't be infinitely worse. It has been clear to me for months that the fight for the White House is one for the ages.

While every election is 'the most important one ever' in the minds of the politicos who see the other side for what it is, an existential threat to their power, this election is, I feel, finally one worth that moniker. But, that said, nearly every election truly is one where voters are presented a Hobson's Choice where there is no real difference between the standard bearers of both major parties.

And the animating principle of these people is the accumulation of raw power, nothing more. Power, as a concept in modern political theory, is purely an outgrowth of Marxian thinking, defining everything that happens in our lives in terms of it. There are no win/wins in this worldview, only those who benefit and those who are exploited.

Basic concepts of comparative advantage and individual talents as expressed in free trade between sovereign actors are not only nullified by this doctrine but actively disparaged and denigrated through the language of envy and the rhetoric of victimization.

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the day has come for the existent power structure where they have to reveal the final truth of their naked need to maintain their power.

Comment: Their act is indeed tiresome. The following video offers up another refreshing perspective on the Ginsburg death. Warning: very crude language:




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The American deep state revives its tired allegations of Russian interference in November's presidential elections

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© Nina Zotina via REUTERS
CIA and FBI officials, helped by MSM chums, allege the Kremlin's running a campaign to denigrate Joe Biden. But where's the evidence? The real threat to US democracy isn't Russia, but the anonymous sources behind the claims.

There have been a spate of reports recently, alleging Russian interference in the 2020 US presidential election, specifically the charge that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to "sow divisiveness and discord" to "denigrate" the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, and undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of the electoral process.

While allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election continue to be bandied about by those who believe that President Donald Trump's victory over Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton was solely due to Russian malfeasance, the new allegations arise from a separate set of facts unique to this year's race.

These are the efforts of Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the Republican chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security and Finance Committees (Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, respectively) to uncover evidence of corruption on the part of Joe Biden and his son Hunter regarding the latter's relationship with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. These efforts have led to the release of an 87-page joint report, titled 'Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns', published by Senator's Johnson and Grassley on September 22.

Comment: See also:


Bad Guys

US smuggles 35 oil tankers out of Syria by dead of night - report

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© AP Photo / Hussein Malla
Northeastern Syria, home to the vast majority of the country's oil, is also where most US troops in the country are concentrated. Damascus has repeatedly accused US forces and their Kurdish allies of stealing the nation's oil, with intelligence confirming the shipment of tens of millions of dollars of black gold out of the country every month.

A convoy of 35 tanker trucks from the Jazira region of northeastern Syria has made its way out of the country into northern Iraq, the Syrian Arab News Agency has reported, citing local sources. The convoy reportedly left Hasakah province on Wednesday evening.

In related news, residents of the village of Tal Sateeh took to the streets in the Qamishli countryside on Thursday, carrying national flags, portraits of Syria's president, and signs demanding that both Turkish and "Zionist US occupation" forces withdraw from the region immediately, and stop plundering their land, oil and wheat resources.

Comment: See also: Trump pulls a fast one on imperialist oil oligarchs by allowing Syria to regain oil fields through Russia


Bad Guys

Best of the Web: UK gives legal powers to various agencies to plan and commit CRIME, court rules

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© ReutersLawyers for the Security Service told a court that the rules were "critical" to national security
Undercover informants working for the police and MI5 are going to be explicitly permitted for the first time under British law to commit crimes.

The unprecedented legislation to authorise and oversee crimes comes after years of unclear rules over when these agents can break the law.

The law will not specify exactly which crimes can be committed.

And critics are urging MPs to amend the proposed law to rule out murder and serious violence.

Comment: It would be naive to think that MI5, the military, the police - and the plethora of agencies mentioned above - have not been committing crimes under guise of 'national security', however it's a significant and chilling development that it is now legally sanctioned by the state.

It's startling that this is only coming into effect as law now, perhaps not coincidentally at a time when the authorities have taken unprecedented measures to lockdown its population, and not in the past during times of conflict with an external enemy, and this would lead one to think that the UK's establishment and its agencies are on a more aggressive footing than during times of war. Also check out SOTT radio's:


Black Magic

Best of the Web: The Democrats' infuriating betrayal of America

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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad
Here's your political puzzler for the day: Which of these two things poses a greater threat to the country:
  1. An incompetent and boastful president who has no previous government experience and who is rash and impulsive in his dealings with the media, foreign leaders and his critics?
  2. Or a political party that collaborates with senior-level officials in the Intel agencies, the FBI, the DOJ, the media, and former members of the White House to spy on the new administration with the intention of gathering damaging information that can be used to overthrow the elected government?
The answer is "2", the greater threat to the country is a political party that engages in subversive activity aimed at toppling the government and seizing power. In fact, that's the greatest danger that any country can face, an enemy from within. Foreign adversaries can be countered by diplomatic engagement and shoring up the nation's military defenses, but traitors - who conduct their activities below the radar using a secret network of contacts and connections to inflict maximum damage on the government- are nearly unstoppable.

Dollar

In unprecedented monetary overhaul, The Fed is preparing to deposit "digital dollars" directly to "each American"

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Over the past decade, the one common theme despite the political upheaval and growing social and geopolitical instability, was that the market would keep marching higher and the Fed would continue injecting liquidity into the system. The second common theme is that despite sparking unprecedented asset price inflation, prices as measured across the broader economy - using the flawed CPI metric and certainly stagnant worker wages - would remain subdued (as a reminder, the Fed is desperate to ignite broad inflation as that is the only way the countless trillions of excess debt can be eliminated and has so far failed to do so).

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Bloomberg raises millions to fight Florida voting law, helps pay former felons legal fees UPDATES

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© CHESNOT/Getty ImagesFormer New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg
Former Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Mike Bloomberg helped raise millions to fight a Florida law that prohibits former felons from voting until all legal fees are paid.

Bloomberg's nearly $17 million contribution to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition gives the group over $20 million to restore the franchise of 32,000 felons before the Nov. 3 election, according to the Associated Press. Bloomberg had already dumped nearly $100 million into the Florida race.

"Working together with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, we are determined to end disenfranchisement and the discrimination that has always driven it," Bloomberg's spokesperson said.

The news comes after a 6-4 ruling from the panel of 10 judges on a federal appeals court reversed a lower-court ruling that granted voting eligibility to Florida felons despite any remaining expenses.

Comment: Bloomberg funds a 'bucked up' system - where anything and everything can be bought for a price.

Update 22/9/2020 Question is: Will any Republican have the guts to press charges?
Legal analyst J. Christian Adams argued that Michael Bloomberg is breaking federal and likely Florida state law by buying votes from felons.


Update 23/9/2020: Rep. Matt Gaetz called out this illegal vote buying scam:
J. Christian Adams also argued that Bloomberg is putting the felons in legal and financial jeopardy by paying off their debts for votes.





Red Flag

Best of the Web: The coming social credit system

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© ABC News In Depth screengrabIn China, artificial intelligence uses facial recognition to monitor citizens for the social credit system
We are just over one week away from the release of Live Not By Lies, and I'm gearing up for swatting down the "Dreher's just being alarmist" accusations. Fortunately โ€” or, to be honest, unfortunately for us all โ€” 2020 is making my job a lot easier. A reader forwarded some information to me this morning that made my jaw drop. I'll tell you about it in a second, but first, I want to share with you a passage from the book.

Eye 2

Bill Clinton reportedly met secretly with Ghislaine Maxwell for 'intimate dinner'

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© The Mega AgencyBill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell pose at the door of Epstein's private jet
Bill Clinton secretly met socialite-turned-accused sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell for an "intimate" dinner in 2014 โ€” well after allegations that she and perv pal Jeffrey Epstein had abused at least one teen, a report said Tuesday.

The former president joined Maxwell โ€” who is now cooling her heels in a Brooklyn jail cell on charges involving the alleged sex abuse of young women โ€” and a small group of friends for the meal in Los Angeles after a celebrity gala that February, sources told the Daily Beast.

"This is an intimate dinner with Clinton in LA," an aghast source told the website. "Think of all the people [Clinton] knows in LA โ€” and Ghislaine gets to attend."

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Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump

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© Carolyn Kaster/AP1 Trump supporters at a union training center in Hermantown, Minnesota Sept. 18, 2020.
In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise.

Joe Biden has pitched himself to voters as a "union man," a son of Scranton, Pa., who respects the dignity of work and will defend organized labor if he wins the White House. To rank-and-file members in some unions, especially the building trades, it doesn't matter. They're still firmly in Donald Trump's camp.

Labor leaders have worked for months to sell their members on Biden, hoping to avoid a repeat of 2016 when Donald Trump outperformed among union members and won the White House. But despite a bevy of national union endorsements for Biden and years of what leaders call attacks on organized labor from the Trump administration, local officials in critical battleground states said support for Trump remains solid.

"We haven't moved the needle here," said Mike Knisley, executive secretary-treasurer with the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, who estimated that about half of his members voted for Trump in 2016 and will do so again.
"Even if given all the information that's been put out there, all the facts โ€” just pick an issue that the president has had his hands in โ€” it doesn't make a difference."
Among members of North America's Building Trades Unions, there is a dead heat in six swing states, with Biden receiving 48 percent of the vote and Trump 47 percent, according to an internal poll shared with POLITICO.

Comment: In this political season who is up and who is down can change in an instant. The vote churners are out there working overtime spouting what they want you to hear and believe. It is up to the voter to decipher the truth and vote (or not) accordingly.