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America the Terrified: What is making this superpower so sensitive?

Patrick Armstrong
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 22 May 2020 19:16 UTC

They want to meet me not because I'm Mike from Kansas, because I represent the greatest nation in the history of civilization. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 28 February 2020

I want everyone to be reminded that America remains the world's leading light of humanitarian goodness as well amidst this global pandemic. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 7 April 2020

...no greater privilege and no greater honour than serving as the commander in chief of the greatest military in the history of the world. — Barack Obama January 2018

One of the curiosities about the United States is that, on the one hand, Americans are forever boasting about how powerful, how democratic and altogether wonderful their country is while, on the other hand, they are receptive to assertions that this mightiness and excellence is on the brink of disappearing. It's a very peculiar state of affairs probably best left to psychiatrists to ponder. We laypeople are left wondering: has there ever been so frightened a superpower? So mighty and all about to be lost.

Three years of Trump have destroyed its alliances

The United States is the principal member of NATO - "the greatest alliance the world has ever known". Its flacks sang its praises on its 70^th birthday: greatest ever said Poland's President, essential for world peace, stronger than ever and so on. And yet, a mere three years of President Trump has put it at the gates of death if not already killed it. "The Atlantic alliance as we know it is dead". Or perhaps not dead quite yet: "an erosion of the foundations of the political system that defines — and protects — the modern world"; "The result could be nothing less than the fracturing of the Western alliance".

The 'lockdown' turned the US into a despotic, cash-strapped basket-case succumbing to 'power terror' with 'obedience'

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00 UTC

"... and when we look back on this in two years time, from the ruins of our economy and the ruins of our liberty, we will want to see some kind of justice, that the people who made this decision should pay a penalty for what they've done." Peter Hitchens

Economic activity across the country has collapsed, GDP is shrinking at the fastest pace on record, and the economic data is worse than anytime in history. Every sector of the economy is contracting and every economic indicator is pointing down. According to economist Nouriel Roubini, the country is headed towards a decade of "depression and debt", and that is probably an understatement.

What prompted our leaders to follow the path of China? Were they bullied into it by Dr. Fauci and the Vaccine Gestapo or were they simply reacting to the sudden rise in Covid cases that skyrocketed overnight? Whatever the reason might be, the country is now headed for either a short-but-severe "U" shaped recession or an excruciating-and-protracted 1930s-type slump.

'Dems could pick a glass of water as a candidate': Trump dissects Biden, talks 'Deep State' in Atkinson interview

RT
Sun, 24 May 2020 18:07 UTC

President Trump has unloaded on rival Joe Biden, who he said "doesn't know he's alive," and has also promised that his new intelligence director and Attorney General William Barr will "Break the deep state."

In a relatively softball interview broadcast on Sunday, the president boasted to Full Measure host Sharyl Atkinson about his response to the coronavirus pandemic, and slammed the Chinese government for its alleged role in allowing the virus to spread.

However, he saved his most characteristically Trumpian insults for Joe Biden, former Vice President and presumed Democratic candidate in this year's election. Asked what Biden's strongest feature as a competitor is, Trump didn't miss an opportunity to insult his opponent.

"Well, I would have said experience, but he doesn't really have experience because I don't think he remembers what he did yesterday," the president quipped, adding "He was never known as a smart person."

Asked about Biden's weakest points, Trump offered a lengthy reply.

Comment: A case of identification: It takes a 'demented party' to promote a 'demented candidate' and see him as a viable option to run the country. 'Nothing' expected; 'nothing' gained. (Note to Trump: That glass is empty!)

What was Guccifer 2.0's hidden agenda?

Tim Leonard
Consortium News
Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Why would an alleged GRU officer supposedly part of an operation to deflect Russian culpability suggest that Assange "may be connected with Russians?"

In December, I reported on digital forensics evidence relating to Guccifer 2.0 and highlighted several key points about the mysterious persona that Special Counsel Robert Mueller claims was a front for Russian intelligence to leak Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks:

Guccifer 2.0 fabricated evidence to claim credit for hacking the DNC (using files that were really Podesta attachments).
Guccifer 2.0's Russian breadcrumbs mostly came from deliberate processes & needless editing of documents.
Guccifer 2.0's Russian communications signals came from the persona choosing to use a proxy server in Moscow and choosing to use a Russian VPN service as end-points (and they used an email service that forwards the sender's IP address, which made identifying that signal a relatively trivial task.)
A considerable volume of evidence pointed at Guccifer 2.0's activities being in American timezones (twice as many types of indicators were found pointing at Guccifer 2.0's activities being in American timezones than anywhere else).
The American timezones were incidental to other activities (eg. blogging, social media, emailing a journalist, archiving files, etc) and some of these were recorded independently by service providers.
A couple of pieces of evidence with Russian indicators present had accompanying locale indicators that contradicted this which suggested the devices used hadn't been properly set up for use in Russia (or Romania) but may have been suitable for other countries (including America).

On the same day that Guccifer 2.0 was plastering Russian breadcrumbs on documents through a deliberate process, choosing to use Russian-themed end-points and fabricating evidence to claim credit for hacking the DNC, the operation attributed itself to WikiLeaks.

This article questions what Guccifer 2.0's intentions were in relation to WikiLeaks in the context of what has been discovered by independent researchers during the past three years.

Who deserves impeachment more: Trump or Schiff?

Daniel Lazare
Strategic Culture
Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Donald Trump was impeached last winter for one technical violation of the law and a host of made-up ones. The technical violation was his move to block $391 million in Ukrainian military aid. It was a violation because it interfered with Congress's exclusive spending powers. But it was purely technical because presidents traditionally have wide latitude in determining how expenditures are made. Back in 1801, Thomas Jefferson's treasury secretary, Albert Gallatin, argued that the executive branch should be allowed "a reasonable discretion" while, 160 years later, John F. Kennedy had no scruples about unilaterally moving more than $1 million - a lot of money in those days - from one budget account to another to pay for a pet project known as the Peace Corps. No one thought much of it at the time, so Trump's decision to hold up an appropriation in 2019 doesn't seem like a big deal.

Comment: The Dems pinned their hopes on Schiff - the embodiment of political fever and mental chaos.

Did Jack Dorsey just issue a 'mea culpa' to all Twitter-banned "conspiracy"-peddlers?

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 25 May 2020 17:27 UTC

Did Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey just, sheepishly, issue a 'mea culpa' to all those innocent (mostly conservative) voices he has silenced in the last few years who dared to question the "Russia, Russia, Russia" narrative, the "Biden did nothing wrong" stories, the "Comey is an American hero" facts, and, of course, the "COVID started in a wet market" orgy of lies.

In a tweet, the outspoken provider of safe-spaces, retweeted an essay by Charles Eisenstein entitled "The Conspiracy Myth" which appears to go against everything Twitter has done.

So, we ask in all seriousness, why did Dorsey - who has shown himself, via his actions, to be an enemy of any non-establishment-sanctioned narrative with his suspension and banning of any tweets or twitter-ers that dare to offer alternate views - retweet an essay that raises doubts about the over-arching threat of "conspiracy theories" to snowflakes, promotes the idea of exploring all sides of an argument before dismissing it, and most ironically, rails against "information suppression" and centralized decisions based on someone's "trustworthiness"?

Read the essay for yourself (emphasis ours):

Comment: An interesting question, why did Dorsey tweet this article when it suggests taking a line of action and inquiry into conspiracy narratives that is the opposite of what he has done for the past several years? Is he changing his mind about the best way to 'protect' society from the 'dangerous' conspiracy theories, or is it something else?

As for the article he tweeted, it doesn't fully taken into account all of the facts that go into supporting the case for the grander conspiracy that the article takes only as a myth, and much of what the author brings up as real isn't connected or put in its proper context or perspective. The author is right when he says that the human elites aren't the puppet masters and that there is something higher than humans at work on human consciousness that is creating the appearance of conspiracy that people are seeing. However, it's not myths. The real truth of what's at work is far stranger than that.

Russia demands apology from Bloomberg for misleading report on Putin ratings poll

RFE/RL
Mon, 25 May 2020 18:28 UTC

Russia has demanded an apology from the Bloomberg news agency over a report it published about President Vladimir Putin's low trust rating among Russians.

The Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., said in a post on Facebook that the article by Bloomberg, which cited a poll last month conducted by Russia's main state-funded pollster, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), was "written to promote fake graphs and create sustainable false visual images about the 'negative dynamics' in Russia."

The report on Bloomberg noted that only 27 percent of respondents in the poll, published on April 27, named Putin when asked to name a politician they they most trust.

Comment: The implication, by Bloomberg, being that only 27% of Russians trust Putin.

The embassy, however, said that "the editors of Bloomberg continue to show complete disrespect for its readers" since the "real level of trust" is 67.9 percent, a number that refers to a second part of the poll that asked specifically whether the respondent trusted Putin.

Comment: Which is true, but RFE/RL will never frame it that way. Imagine a poll asking to list your favorite composer. 27% of people respond "Bach". Does that mean that only 27% of respondents like Bach. Obviously not. Some just prefer Beethoven, or Prokofiev.

Bloomberg has not commented publicly on the issue.

Central Banks are destroying what was left of free markets and the value of fiat currencies

Alasdair Macleod
Mises Institute
Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00 UTC

President Reagan memorably said that the nine words you don't want to hear are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Governments in all the major jurisdictions are now making good on that unwanted promise and are taking responsibility for everything from our shoulders.

Those receiving subsidies and loan guarantees are no doubt grateful, though they probably see it as the government's duty and their right. But someone has to pay for it. In the past, the redistribution of wealth through taxes meant that the haves were taxed to give financial support to the have-nots, at least that was the story. Today, through monetary debasement nearly everyone benefits from monetary redistribution.

This is not a costless exercise. Governments are no longer robbing Peter to pay Paul. They are robbing Peter to pay Peter as well. You would think this is widely understood, but the Peters are so distracted by the apparent benefits they might or might not get that they don't see the cost. They fail to appreciate that printing money is not just the marginal source of financing for excess government spending, but that it has now become mainstream.

Comment: See also:

The conman elites that want to "save us" from the Coronavirus

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Last week the Federal Reserve released a report predicting that the next print on GDP numbers will likely show a loss 34.9% in the second quarter. This is the biggest GDP plunge since the Great Depression; even the crash of 2008 doesn't compare. And when we take into account the fact that the Fed artificially boosts GDP calculations by adding in many non-productive government programs, we have to ask, what are the REAL losses above and beyond what the Fed admits to?

With the supply chain in disarray, many companies (like Apple) are trying to shift their manufacturing base to dodge the pandemic. Of course, none of them want to bring factories back to the US; there's simply no incentive to do so. And, the small business sector has been crushed by the shutdowns, with the vast majority of those seeking bailout loans still waiting for aid and over 20.5 million employees laid off in April alone.

Needless to say, the economy has been severely affected. The problem is that many people are being led to believe that this event has been triggered by the virus outbreak alone. This is a lie. As I noted back in February in my article 'Global Centralization Is The Cause Of The Crisis - Not The Cure', the collapse of the Everything Bubble was well underway long before the pandemic. The crash was started by the Federal Reserve hiking rates into economic weakness at the end of 2018, puncturing the bubble and setting the liquidity crisis in motion.

Belarus' President Lukashenko intends to discuss missile construction with China's Xi following alleged rejection from Russia

Sputnik
Mon, 25 May 2020 01:35 UTC

In September 2019, the president of Belarus stated that he would take steps towards cooperating with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky in order for Minsk to create its own rocket.

The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, expressed his desire to discuss possible cooperation in rocket construction with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Having previously suggested the possibility of building Chinese missiles in Belarus, Lukashenko insisted that there should be "no dependence" on foreign actors.

"Let me then negotiate that on my level, I'm ready to negotiate that with Xi Jinping, I don't think that will be a problem", the president said.

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Puppet Masters

America the Terrified: What is making this superpower so sensitive?

The 'lockdown' turned the US into a despotic, cash-strapped basket-case succumbing to 'power terror' with 'obedience'

'Dems could pick a glass of water as a candidate': Trump dissects Biden, talks 'Deep State' in Atkinson interview

What was Guccifer 2.0's hidden agenda?

Who deserves impeachment more: Trump or Schiff?

Did Jack Dorsey just issue a 'mea culpa' to all Twitter-banned "conspiracy"-peddlers?

Russia demands apology from Bloomberg for misleading report on Putin ratings poll

Central Banks are destroying what was left of free markets and the value of fiat currencies

The conman elites that want to "save us" from the Coronavirus

Belarus' President Lukashenko intends to discuss missile construction with China's Xi following alleged rejection from Russia

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