Orbán: 'It's forbidden to say so in Europe, but migration is an organized invasion'

Arthur Lyons
Voice of Europe
Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:55 UTC

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán - the only head of state in Europe who's been willing to take any real action to stop the ongoing migrant invasion of Europe - on Thursday spoke of the mounting migratory pressure on Hungary's southern border.

Following a routine inspection of Hungary's border fence with his Slovak counterpart, Peter Pellegrini, Orbán said that Hungarian authorities have started to prepare for an expected increase in the number of organized migrant caravans attempting to enter the country illegally as the weather improves, Remix News reports.

During an impromptu press conference, Prime Minister Orbán took the opportunity to express his gratitude for Slovakia's support, saying: "This is hard work which we would have a hard time doing without help and our allies.

Why is Bloomberg's long history of egregious sexism getting a pass?

Laura Bassett
GQ
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:05 UTC

In December 2015, employees at Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control organization funded by Mike Bloomberg, arrived at work to find a holiday gift on their desks from their employer: the former mayor's 1997 autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg. Flipping through the book, staffers found themselves uncomfortably reading their billionaire founder's boasts about keeping "a girlfriend in every city" and other womanizing exploits as a Wall Street up-and-comer.

"A few people started immediately going through it and sending the cringe-iest parts around on email chains," one former Everytown employee told me. "Hardly the most controversial things he's said, but it's still a bad look."

Andrew McCabe's case shows hypocrisy of Democrats claiming 'No one is above the law'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Sat, 15 Feb 2020 16:35 UTC

After months of hearing that President Donald Trump must be impeached because "no one is above the law," America found out that this talking point doesn't actually apply to Democrats such as ex-FBI deputy director Andy McCabe.

As his lawyers triumphantly announced on Friday, the Department of Justice decided not to press criminal charges against McCabe "after careful consideration" of the inspector-general's report that said he lied to investigators and leaked to the media.

"Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the Government at this time, we consider the matter closed," said the DOJ letter. It sent waves of glee through the 'Resistance' establishment, which set up and propagated for years the 'Russiagate' hysteria aimed at removing Trump from office.

Hey, China-bashers! Maybe China deserves PRAISE for the way it's handling the Coronavirus outbreak?

Polly Boiko
RT
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:42 UTC

Comment: What a wild idea.

But if we entertain it, does this mean we'll have to find a new source of schadenfreude?...

Beijing is getting major stick for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak - for example, ungrateful US officials are "disappointed" at China's alleged secrecy.

Meanwhile the mainstream media focuses on press censorship, forced quarantines and an alleged lack of transparency from the Chinese authorities.

Hold on a second! Surely some of the measures that China's put in place are worth a bit of praise?! This week, Polly makes the case for cutting China some slack!

Comment: Not only 'how about cutting them some slack'... how about considering - as Boiko herself suggests - that China's massive response to the outbreak - at huge cost to its economy - is her 'taking one for the team'?

We realize this is somewhere most Westerners can't go because they have no living experience of decent, ethics-based governance, but it is theoretically possible!

The USA's doll house: A vast tapestry of lies and illusions

Edward Curtin
OffGuardian
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 11:16 UTC

This is an updated and revised version of the full cover-story that appeared in the important publication, garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 003. Issue 004 is due out this week and I urge readers to purchase it. You will read articles there that you will find no place else, brilliant, eye-opening analyses of issues that the MSM will never touch.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."

Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 2005

While truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit inside jail cells and Edward Snowden lives in exile in Russia, the American people hole up in an illusionary dwelling constructed to reduce them to children afraid of the truth. Or is it the dark?

This is not new; it has been so for a very long time, but it has become a more sophisticated haunted doll's house, an electronic one with many bells and whistles and images that move faster than the eye can see. We now inhabit a digital technological nightmare controlled by government and corporate forces intent on dominating every aspect of people's lives.

Almost a THIRD of US workers can't live on their paychecks, spelling doom for a service economy based on discretionary spending

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:19 UTC

Almost one in three American workers can't quite make ends meet in between paydays, a new survey has revealed. This doesn't bode well for the US' service economy, where discretionary spending is the major driver of growth.

Some 32 percent of US workers are unable to stretch their salaries to cover their needs, according to a survey published on Tuesday by Salary Finance. Nor is this inability to make one's paycheck last limited to poor and working-class individuals - the poll queried over 2,700 adults working for medium- to large-sized companies about their finances and found that even among those making over $200,000 annually, 32 percent "always" or "most of the time" ran out of cash before payday.

Certainly, the insufficient-funds problem is more severe for those making under $15,000 per year - fully 40 percent, or two in five, are unable to make ends meet on that salary. But no matter how high up the pay scale one goes, the problem stubbornly refuses to vanish.

Comment: See also: Trump's greatest vulnerability is the economy - just ask poor Americans

Engdahl: Will coronavirus in China trigger worldwide depression? US economy already fragile

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:00 UTC

Comment: At this point, we don't think there's much to the 'coronavirus' outbreak. BUT China is sure behaving as if there is, tempting other countries to isolate themselves from her and bringing about the scenario outlined here...

Historically the greatest economic depressions have started with unexpected events on the periphery of major financial markets. That was the case in May 1931 with the surprise collapse of the Austrian Creditanstalt Bank in Vienna which brought the entire fragile banking system of postwar Germany down with it, triggering the Great Depression in the United States as major US banks were rocked to their foundations. Will it be again an unanticipated event outside the financial markets, namely the China 2029 Novel Coronavirus and its effects on world trade and especially on US-China trade that triggers a new economic depression?

Until around January 20 when the news broke about the coronavirus exploding in China's Wuhan and surrounding cities, global financial markets and especially in the US were optimistic that the combined actions of the Federal Reserve to pump in more liquidity and of the Trump Administration to do all possible in an election year would keep the economy positive. Stocks continued their artificial climb as Fed liquidity fueled the fires of the most overvalued stock market in US history for January.

Comment: See also:

CIA used Swiss encryption firm to spy on DOZENS of nations for DECADES - Codenamed 'Rubicon', racket was 'intel coup of the century'

RT
Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:10 UTC

The CIA and German intelligence spied on the secret communications of governments around the world for decades in a covert partnership, controlling a top encryption company and installing backdoor vulnerabilities in its products.

Comment: Ah, so that's why they don't want anyone using Huawei: the US will no longer control the world.

Founded during the Second World War, the Swiss cryptography firm, Crypto AG, has provided top-of-the-line devices for encoding communications to some 120 countries. Starting in 1970, however, the CIA and then-West Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, secretly bought and controlled the company, using its devices to eavesdrop on enemies and allies alike, according to a joint investigation by the Washington Post and German public broadcaster ZDF, based on a classified internal CIA history.

Comment: Founded during WW2... Does this mean the CIA is literally a continuation of the Nazi party?

Comment: The Swiss have a lot to answer for too.

What Trump is really about

Sylvain Laforest
Oriental Review
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

The timing is right for everyone to understand what Donald Trump is doing, and try to decrypt the ambiguity of how he is doing it. The controversial President has a much clearer agenda than anyone can imagine on both foreign policy and internal affairs, but since he has to stay in power or even stay alive to achieve his objectives, his strategy is so refined and subtle that next to no one can see it. His overall objective is so ambitious that he has to follow random elliptic courses to get from point A to point B, using patterns that throw people off on their comprehension of the man. That includes most independent journalists and so-called alternative analysts, as much as Western mainstream fake-news publishers and a large majority of the population.

About his strategy, I could make a quick and accurate analogy with medication: most pills are designed to cure a problem, but come with an array of secondary after-effects. Well, Trump is using medication solely for their after-effects, while the first intent of the pill is what's keeping him in power and alive. By the end of this article, you'll see that this metaphor applies for just about every decision, move or declaration he's made. Once you understand what Trump is about, you'll be able to appreciate the extraordinary presidency he's conducting, like no predecessor ever came close to match.

Comment: In case you missed it: Revelations in the bubble: Trump's presidency brings to light 7 undeniable facts about the swamp

Strung-out population: 70% of Americans' donated blood found to contain Xanax

Rosie McCall
Newsweek
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:18 UTC

Comment: And what is Xanax? A mind-altering, highly addictive, yet commonly prescribed drug to 'induce feelings of calmness that counter feelings of anxiety and panic'.

Scientists testing a small but random sample of donated blood ready for transfusion have discovered that 70 percent contained traces of Xanax.

Writing in the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical earlier this month, researchers were surprised by the level of pharmaceuticals detected in supposedly clean blood batches — in particular, the concentrations of cough medicine and anti-anxiety medication.

The testing also revealed that all 18 batches of blood contained caffeine, suggesting America's love of coffee, tea and other caffeinated beverages runs deep.

The purpose of the exercise was to find out the purity of the blood samples before they were used to test a method for examining the effect of botanicals on drug metabolization. Botanicals are plants or plant extracts taken for medical or therapeutic reasons, such as echinacea, CBD oil and ginko.

"From a 'contamination' standpoint, caffeine is not a big worry for patients, though it may be a commentary on current society," co-author Luying Chen, a PhD student at Oregon State University (OSU), said in a statement.

Comment: Americans talk about freedom a lot, especially individual freedom.

But how free can they really be when so many of them are effectively dependent on external aids - and the pharmacological industry that produces them - to regulate, process and deal with their own emotions?

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Orbán: 'It's forbidden to say so in Europe, but migration is an organized invasion'

Why is Bloomberg's long history of egregious sexism getting a pass?

Andrew McCabe's case shows hypocrisy of Democrats claiming 'No one is above the law'

Hey, China-bashers! Maybe China deserves PRAISE for the way it's handling the Coronavirus outbreak?

The USA's doll house: A vast tapestry of lies and illusions

Almost a THIRD of US workers can't live on their paychecks, spelling doom for a service economy based on discretionary spending

Engdahl: Will coronavirus in China trigger worldwide depression? US economy already fragile

CIA used Swiss encryption firm to spy on DOZENS of nations for DECADES - Codenamed 'Rubicon', racket was 'intel coup of the century'

What Trump is really about

Strung-out population: 70% of Americans' donated blood found to contain Xanax

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