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Hey, it's not just covid-19 that has the Dems' brains addled

Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
Stupid democrats
Whatever the Democratic Party is infected with may be worse than covid-19. The symptoms presented point to a rare illness known as kuru. By now, we all understand that diseases easily jump between continents in this era of incessant air travel. The National Institutes of Health's MedlinePlus bulletin has this to say about it:
Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped [allegedly] in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period.... Kuru causes brain and nervous system changes similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease... bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called mad cow disease. The main risk factor for kuru is eating human brain tissue, which can contain the infectious particles.
Does this account for the public's preoccupation with Zombies? Is something deeply sinister roiling in the dark interstices of American life? The public still doesn't know for sure what was going on in the congressional SCIF chamber (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) deep in the Capitol's sub-basement back in January, where Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was busy spirit-cooking impeachment testimony. Was something else bubbling away on his Coleman stove down there? Say, a fricassee of Jeffrey Epstein's frontal lobes? Did Nancy Pelosi come back for seconds? Her subsequent behavior implicates acute kuru infection, the inappropriate laughter, slurred speech, tardive dyskinesia, paranoia.

Comment: Aside from the ponerological effects of greed and lust for power, we have found another excellent descriptor for the collective madness that Washington has been displaying for the past how many ever years: Wetiko :

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Snakes in Suits

Lies, damned lies, and presidential debates: The rhetoric and reality of gun control

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC
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Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the reality and rhetoric of gun control in light of promises in the Democratic primary. The fact is that many of the ideas raised by the candidates have merit but they are likely to be marginal in their impact on real gun-related fatalities.

Here is the column:

The Democratic presidential debate down in South Carolina this week has proven once again the famous line that there are "lies, damned lies, and statistics." The line is the perfect warning to the unwary about politicians citing statistics. The quote itself is widely misrepresented as the work of Mark Twain or British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, so it seems nothing can be trusted when it comes to statistics, not even quotes on statistics.

Some false statistics, however, are so facially absurd that they are indeed harmless except to the most gullible. That was the case when former Vice President Joe Biden attacked Senator Bernie Sanders over a vote that had favored the gun industry. Biden declared that, since the vote, 150 million Americans have been killed by guns. He also said the vote happened in 2007, when it was actually in 2005. Many people immediately scratched their heads, thinking they may have missed a holocaust that had claimed roughly half the population. Later, the Biden campaign insisted it was just another one of his gaffes and the real number is 150,000 Americans.
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Radar

Are Russia and Turkey on a collision course in Syria?

The Saker
The Unz Review
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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The murder of the Iranian hero-martyr General Soleimani created a situation in which a war between Iran and the Axis of Kindness (USA/Israel/KSA) became a real possibility but, at the very last minute, Uncle Shmuel decided that he had no stomach for a full-scale war against Iran. Wise decision.

This, however, does not at all imply that the AngloZionist Empire decided to stand by idly, far from it. The need to take quick and determined action became particularly acute following the huge anti-US demonstrations in Iraq (well over one million people in the streets!) which directly put at risk the US occupation (the MSM would call it "presence") in both Iraq and Syria.

At the same time, Turkish President Erdogan's refusal to remove all the "bad terrorists" from the Idlib province eventually resulted in a joint Syrian-Russian offensive to liberate the province. That offensive, in turn, clearly infuriated the Turks who warned of a major military operation to prevent the Syrians from liberating their own country.

This begs the question: are Russia and Turkey really on a collision course?

Comment: Erdogan is playing a very dangerous and stupid game that is likely to backfire unless he stands down very soon:

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Chart Bar

Best of the Web: Bernie Sanders crowd sizes dwarf 2020 Democratic rivals, consistently drawing 10,000 to 30,000 people

Joseph Simonson
Washington Examiner
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:05 UTC

Comment: For comparison, Trump drew his largest crowd during the last US presidential election this week 4 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, when an estimated 29,000 people turned up. A month later, in April 2016, around 28,300 people showed up to one of Sanders' rallies in Brooklyn Park.

For further comparison, apart from Elizabeth Warren, who had a couple of rallies with turnouts of 10-15,000 last autumn, it is rare for establishment-approved candidates for the Democratic nomination to draw more than a thousand people to their rallies.


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Bernie Sanders fills a stadium at last week's rally in Tacoma, Washington
Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, much like President Trump, loves to boast about crowd sizes.

Having attracted tens of thousands of people to a Presidents Day event, the Vermont senator and 2020 Democrat has some bragging rights.

A press release from the Sanders campaign claimed over 50,000 cumulatively attended rallies in five states from Saturday through Friday. In addition, over 4 million viewed the livestreams of the events online, the campaign said.

"Bernie has built a multiracial, multi-generational, people-driven movement for change that has broad support across the country," Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a written statement. "This is the kind of energy and excitement that will defeat Donald Trump in November and usher in the political revolution that this country badly needs."


Comment: These crowd numbers may just reflect liberal oases in a sea of Republican Red, but if that's the case, then it should also be reflected in Sanders being the Democratic nominee.

We'll get a good idea tomorrow, 'Super-Tuesday' - when some 14 states pledge their delegates behind candidates ahead of the Democratic Convention in June - if the DNC is going to rig it against Sanders like it did in 2016.

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Light Saber

Iran and Hezbollah warn Turkey 'all your forces are in our line of fire'


Resistance News
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 12:00 UTC
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The Iranian Advisory Center in Syria, which takes part in the fighting in northern Syria, issued a press release through the news agency U-News in reaction to the recent confrontation between the Syrian army and the Turkish army. It should be noted that the Iranian Advisory Center is made up of the group of Iranian experts who advise the Syrian State and its armed forces, and that this is the first statement it has issued since the beginning of the war in Syria.

Full text of the statement
In reaction to the latest confrontation between the Syrian Arab Army and the Turkish Army, it is important for us to inform the public of the following:

First: We fought alongside the Syrian Arab army and supported it, at the request of the Syrian State, to open the M5 highway, with a Syrian force led by elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and of Hezbollah, and with the participation of factions of the Resistance within the force; and we have helped civilians and residents of the liberated villages.

Comment: See also:

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Black Magic

Best of the Web: 'They hate everything... and we whip up that hatred. Hate is what unites our camp' - Netanyahu's aide exposed in leaked recording


Times of Israel
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:17 UTC
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© Amit Shabi/pool/Flash90/FilePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his then-aide Natan Eshel, on August 28, 2011.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior aide Natan Eshel said that "hate is what unites" the right-wing camp led by the Likud party and that negative campaigning works well on "non-Ashkenazi voters" in a leaked recording revealed by Channel 12 on Saturday.

Eshel, a former Netanyahu chief of staff who resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, continues to work with the premier, leading the previous two coalition negotiations over the past year.

In the newly revealed recording, he can be heard discussing the party's campaign strategy with an unnamed person whom he is trying to recruit as a political adviser, according to the report. In the tape, Eshel says that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's decision to indict Netanyahu in three corruption cases actually helped the premier in his campaign. "He went up by 20 percent" Eshel recalls, though it was unclear what numbers he was referring to.

Comment: Numerous leaks, scandals as well as Israel's government policy over many years show that sentiments like this and similar are shared both by a significant proportion of the voting public and the Israeli establishment. It's also notable that this leak comes just before yet another election for Israel, following a year or more of the leading parties failure to form a government:

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Gold Bar

Sanctions for thee, treasure for me! Britain bought a record amount of Russian gold last year, spending over $5 billion


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:45 UTC

Comment: While they sanction everyone else for 'trading with the enemy', they swoop in and get the best deals...


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© Reuters / Ilya Naymushin
Sales of Russian gold abroad jumped eight-fold last year to $5.7 billion, with almost all of that volume purchased by the United Kingdom.

According to customs data seen by RBC business news outlet, gold exports to Britain have grown more than 12 times in terms of value, to $5.33 billion.

Supplies to the UK accounted for 93 percent of all Russian gold exports. Twelve other countries, including Kazakhstan and Switzerland, bought only $409 million-worth of Russian gold.

In physical terms, gold exports from Russia to the United Kingdom in 2019 increased 11 times, from 10.4 tons to 113.5 tons.

Comment: And it's not just gold: Anglo-American hypocrisy: US & Britain are buying more and more oil from Russia

See also:

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Bizarro Earth

SOTT Focus: Syria is a Sovereign Nation - Turkey Should Get Out

Tommy Sheridan
Sputnik
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:57 UTC
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© REUTERS / Khalil Ashawi
Last week the surreal nature of the Syrian war reached a new level of absurdity. Turkey lost soldiers in an air strike targeted at the terrorists in Idlib who were trying to recover the last stronghold of Daesh*.

Apparently 33 Turkish soldiers who happened to be there died. In response the spokesman of the ruling AKP party, Omer Celik, sought NATO support and protection and allegedly floated the idea of invoking Article 5 of the NATO Charter which classifies an attack on one NATO Member as an attack on all NATO Members.
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Megaphone

'Apartheid-like conditions': Former UNGA president slams Trump-Netanyahu 'deal of the century' plan for Palestine


RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:53 UTC
Palestinians argue with Israeli forces during a protest in Hebron
© Reuters / Mussa QawasmaPalestinians argue with Israeli forces during a protest in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on February 28, 2020
Trump's plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will bring anything but peace to the region, former Danish FM and UNGA President Mogens Lykketoft told RT, as it only cements apartheid-like conditions for the Palestinians.

Lykketoft is among a large group of former high-ranking European officials who published an open letter warning about the dangers of the Trump plan and urging the EU to firmly reject any US attempts to somehow implement it.

The plan was pompously unveiled by US President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu last month, but it was immediately condemned by Palestinians and many countries worldwide.
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Real election meddling: Israel's UN ambassador calls Bernie Sanders an 'ignorant fool': 'We don't want him in Israel'

Justin Wise
The Hill
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:50 UTC
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© Getty Images
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday lambasted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) over the critical comments he recently made about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing the presidential candidate as "a liar, an ignorant fool or both."

Speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, Danny Danon offered a searing rebuke to Sanders for calling Netanyahu a "reactionary racist," according to The Times of Israel.

"Whoever calls the prime minister of Israel a 'racist' is either a liar, an ignorant fool or both," Danon said as he spoke on the first day of the pro-Israel lobbying group's annual conference. "We don't want Sanders at AIPAC. We don't want him in Israel."
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