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Mental Prison - You can't win. Don't even try!

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:29 UTC
Chained Elephant
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Imagine you find a prisoner in an unlocked jail cell. Confused, you ask him why he's sitting there when the door to his cell isn't even locked.

"Oh, it's unlocked? I didn't check."

You assure him it's unlocked and ask again why he doesn't leave.

"Why bother? They'll probably catch me before I get out."

You look around in confusion. You explain to him that this isn't even a prison. That he's simply been told to wear an orange jumpsuit and stay in an unlocked room, but he doesn't have to comply. All he has to do is leave.

"Even if I get away, they'll just find me and bring me back here. Might as well just stay put."

Do you think this story is ridiculous? Of course it is. But the situation it details is all too true. In fact, researchers have known for half a century the mechanism by which people can be made to effectively lock themselves up inside their own mental prison . . . and it didn't take long for the intelligence agencies to put that research to use.

Today, let's explore the startling true story of how and how the public has been conditioned into a (false) sense of helplessness, and — more important by far — what you can do to break that conditioning.
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Biden gets dismal marks on immigration amid US-Mexico border 'crisis': poll

Eileen AJ Connelly
New York Post
Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:23 UTC
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Migrants mostly form Central America wait in line to cross the border at the Gateway International Bridge into the US from Matamoros, Mexico to Brownsville, Texas.
President Biden's handling of the surge of migrants at the border is getting low marks from the majority of Americans, a new poll shows.

With at least 18,000 unaccompanied children in US custody after clambering over the border, and growing concern over the conditions at the facilities where they are being held, 57 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden's approach on the issue, according to an ABC News/Ipos poll.
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Eye 2

'So proud to have a woman justifying mass murder!' Twitter unloads on Secretary of State Blinken for calling Albright his 'role model'


RT
Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:09 UTC
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© REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Behold a pair of ancient neocon war harpies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken caught flak after he praised the legacy of Madeleine Albright, who once appeared to justify the deaths of Iraqi children, saying that she made the country "more respected globally."

Blinken took to Twitter on Friday to hail Albright, a former US ambassador to the UN and secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton, as a 'woman of courage'.

"During her diplomatic career as U.S. Ambassador to the UN & the first female Secretary of State, her tenacity & effectiveness left the U.S. stronger & more respected globally," Blinken tweeted, adding that Albright is a role model for him and "many of our diplomats."

Comment: Albright's infamous take on Iraq:



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Will a China real estate collapse trigger the global meltdown?

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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China's Projects
Prevailing financial sector "wisdom" holds that while the bond and stock markets of the US and EU are dangerously inflated following huge COVID borrowings and unprecedented central bank measures, that China is the one example of a market suitable for investment as it has managed to get beyond COVID and restart its economy.A closer look at recent official measures by Chinese financial regulators and the Bank of China suggest it is anything but safe, and that its domestic real estate sector could be a bubble whose collapse can trigger a global financial catastrophe beyond any seen in modern history.

In 1931 the world financial architecture of Versailles was bankrupt, but not yet in financial collapse. The key trigger to pull the world into the Great Depression was not the 1929 Wall Street stock crash, but rather the collapse of a relatively small Austrian bank.

In ways remarkably analogous to the unfolding global financial crisis of today, world credit had been built after 1919 on a pyramid of increasingly dubious debts, with the House of Morgan and Wall Street financial firms sitting at the peak of the pyramid. Most of Europe and a large number of developing countries from Bolivia to Poland were linked into the Wall Street credit pyramid. In 1929-1931, the domino-style failure of those Morgan-initiated credit links to Europe and beyond turned a manageable American stock market crash into the worst deflation crisis in American history, precipitating a global depression.
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Biden makes 'no apologies' for Trump border rollback

Morgan Chalfant
The Hill
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 02:21 UTC
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VP Harris • President Biden • Drawings by migrant children held in detention
President Biden said Thursday that he makes "no apologies" for rolling back former President Trump's immigration policies as he defended his administration's response to the swell of migrants at the southern border with Mexico.

"All the policies that were underway were not helping at all, did not slow up the amount of immigration and as many people coming," Biden told reporters at his first formal press conference when asked whether he moved too quickly to undo the former president's past executive actions on immigration.


Comment: Once in place, Trump's strategy was successful and validated by Mexican President AMLO. Biden has no strategy - other than 'not Trump'.

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Biden specifically mentioned his efforts to halt the "Remain in Mexico" policy and stop separations of migrant families at the border that were implemented under the Trump administration.
"I make no apology for that. I make no apologies for ending programs that did not exist before Trump became president that have an incredibly negative impact on the law, international law, as well as on human dignity. I make no apologies for that."

Comment: Biden and Harris are reactionists unable to distinguish what works and consequently maintain it. Neither have the open mindset needed to solve America's problems.

Vice President Kamala Harris admitted Wednesday on CBS This Morning that the surge of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border was a "huge problem."

Anchor Gayle King said:
"Let's look at what's happening at the border. Rightly or wrongly, people are coming in record numbers because they believe the Biden administration has encouraged certainly children to come. What are you going to do about that? It's chaotic. Some are calling it a crisis. You all, your team is under fire because both Republicans and Democrats said, look, if you're going to change the Trump policy, the previous policy, at least have a game plan. There doesn't appear right now to be a game plan."
Harris said,
"Well, OK, look, it's a huge problem. I'm not going to pretend it's not. it's a huge problem. Are we looking at overcrowding at the border in particular of these kids? Yes. Should these kids be in the custody of HHS, the Health and Human Services instead of the Border Patrol? Yes. Should we be processing these cases faster? Yes. This is, however, not going to be solved overnight. There are things that we need to do, especially since there was a system in place previously, before the last administration, to allow us to process these kids in their country of origin, that was dismantled. We've to reconstruct it. It's not going to happen overnight. But you know, we have senior administration officials now in Mexico and Guatemala also dealing with in addition to what needs to happen at the border.

"Look we've been in office less than a hundred days we're addressing it, we're dealing with it, but it's going to take some time, and are we frustrated? Are you frustrated? Yes, we are."
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Bullseye

Facebook disables Press TV's page in new attack on free speech


Press TV
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 06:02 UTC
FacebookPressTV
© Facebook/PressTV/KJN
Facebook has once again shut down the page of English-language Press TV news network, this time permanently, in yet another attack by the US-based social media giant on Iranian media outlets.

Without any prior warning, Facebook informed Press TV on Friday that its account had been shut down for what it claimed to be the Iranian news channel's failure to "follow our Community Standards."

"We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed," said Facebook in a note, without specifying the so-called violations of its rules. The social media giant has on a number of occasions attacked Press TV, despite its claim of providing space for freedom of expression.

One such attack took place in mid-January, when Facebook temporarily shut down Press TV's page, which had more than four million followers. The news outlet, however, had its page restored after appealing the platform's decision to remove it.

In June 2020, Facebook labeled Iran's Press TV, Russia's Sputnik, and China's Xinhua news agency as "state-media," saying it would block them from running advertisements in the United States, which views the three countries as its arch-adversaries.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

US-NATO vs Russia-China in a hybrid war to the finish

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
US flag
The unipolar moment is six feet under, the hegemon will try to break Eurasian integration and there's no grownup in the room to counsel restraint

Let's start with comic relief: the "leader of the free world" has pledged to prevent China from becoming the "leading" nation on the planet. And to fulfill such an exceptional mission, his "expectation" is to run again for president in 2024. Not as a hologram. And fielding the same running mate.

Now that the "free world" has breathed a sigh of relief, let's return to serious matters - as in the contours of the Shocked and Awed 21st Century Geopolitics.

What happened in the past few days between Anchorage and Guilin continues to reverberate. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that Brussels "destroyed" the relationship between Russia and the EU, he focused on how the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership is getting stronger and stronger.
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Radar

Britain to intensify its activities against Russia

Paul Antonopoulos
AntiWar.com
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
UK airforce
A document released by the British Ministry of Defence, titled "Defence in a competitive age", identifies Moscow as its main threat and states that London intends to increase its presence around Russia - specifically in the Black Sea, the Arctic, the Baltic Sea and the Western Balkans. The United Kingdom also plans to invest significant funds into new military equipment so that soldiers can adapt to "the new threat." The document acknowledges Britain's awareness of multipolarity, but also its intentions to still challenge Russia while opening a path of cooperation with China.

The British Strategy for the Western Balkans is mentioned more than any other region in the document, suggesting they want more influence there. However, it is inconceivable that they will be able to bolster their forces in the region. Instead, it is more likely that Britain could be more involved in so-called cyber war. The document has a large part dedicated to cyberspace, and states "Cyberspace espionage can and will be used as part of wider influence and propaganda campaigns, as well as in support of wider hostile activity up to and including conventional warfare."

Comment: Like its larger partner, the US, the UK seems hell-bent on destabilizing Russia and revivifying its ambitions towards global hegemony.

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Matt Hancock's ominous UK Health Security Agency would be the worst April Fool's ever - he may be laughing but he isn't joking

Neil Clark
RT
Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:01 UTC
Hancock
© Reuters
Matt Hancock said his attitudes towards assisted suicide had been affected by speaking to Sir Paul Cosford, the medical director of Public Health England, who suffered from cancer and died aged 57
The UK Health Secretary confirmed this week that a new 'UK Health Security Agency' was being set up on April 1, thus marking the next stage in Britain's transformation into a repressive bio-security state.

Back in 1957, the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Panorama (well, it was then) showed a short three-minute film of a family in Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a family 'spaghetti tree.' People rang up the BBC switchboard afterwards for advice on growing their own spaghetti. They should have paid closer attention to the date of the broadcast. The first of April. Yes, it was an 'April Fool.' One of the best in history.

The first of April is also the date that the UK's new 'Health Security Agency' is being established but this time it really is no laughing matter. If only Matt Hancock was joking when he said he was setting up a "dedicated, mission-driven national institution for health security." But, unlike his namesake, the great comedian Tony Hancock, Matt isn't remotely funny. The establishment of the UKHSA should give us all sleepless nights. It's actually more terrifying than the scariest Hammer horror movie. Well, Hancock's video announcing the news was, at any rate.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

US spy agencies warn Biden of possible Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, ahead of withdrawal of troops


Reuters
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:47 UTC
US Afghanistan
© REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
U.S. troops stand guard during a handover ceremony of A-29 Super Tucano planes from U.S. to the Afghan forces, in Kabul, Afghanistan September 17, 2020.
U.S. intelligence agencies have told the Biden administration that the Taliban could overrun most of Afghanistan within two to three years if U.S. troops leave before a power-sharing deal is reached between the warring sides, a news report said on Friday.

Such a takeover potentially would allow al Qaeda to rebuild in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported, quoting anonymous U.S. officials.

President Joe Biden is deciding whether to meet a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of the last 3,500 American troops that was set in a February 2020 accord struck with the Taliban under his predecessor, Donald Trump.

Comment: It seems likely that this 'anonymous' report is intended to extend the nearly 20 year old fruitless and devastating war on Afghanistan, as well as US occupation in the Middle East, for many more years to come:

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