Puppet Masters
Released on Tuesday, the schedule of speakers for next week's convention is a veritable who's who of the Democrats - with more than a few strange choices and a few notable omissions.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), representing the democratic socialist faction, are both scheduled to speak. They will be vastly outnumbered by the establishment figures, however.
The presence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is a no-brainer. Likewise the appearance by former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, both there to support - however half-heartedly - their former VP.
Having the Clintons speak as well is more problematic. Hillary's arrogance and disdain in 2016 is how Donald Trump crushed the Democrats' expectation that they will rule forever, after all.
On behalf of the Powers That Be (PTB), World War II was orchestrated by the circles of the City of London and of Wall Street to maneuver two great obstacles — Russia and Germany — to wage a war to the death against each other, in order that those Anglo-Saxon PTB could reorganize the world geopolitical chess board to their advantage. It largely succeeded, but for the small detail that after 1945, Wall Street and the Rockefeller brothers were determined that England play the junior partner to Washington. London and Washington then entered the period of their global domination known as the Cold War.
That Anglo-American global condominium ended, by design, in 1989 with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union by 1991.
Around this time, with the onset of the Bill Clinton presidency in 1992, the next phase - financial and industrial globalization - was inaugurated. With that, began the hollowing out of the industrial base of not only the United States, but also of Germany and the EU. The cheap labor outsourcing enabled by the new WTO drove wages down and destroyed one industry after the next in the industrial West after the 1990s. It was a necessary step on the path to what G.H.W. Bush in 1990 called the New World Order. The next step would be destruction of national sovereignty everywhere. Here the USA was the major obstacle.
Comment: See also:
- China slaps sanctions on 11 US lawmakers, citizens, in retaliation against the Trump administration
- "China is not an enemy": US Cold War policy will isolate the US, not China
- Amid escalating tensions, US warships sail mere miles off coast of China
- The heart of the matter in the South China Sea
- Pompeo, in fiery speech, hammers China over international abuses
- John Pilger's documentary: 'The Coming War on China' - breaking the silence with startling facts
Harris, who served as San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2011 and California Attorney General from 2011 to 2017, describes herself as a "progressive prosecutor." Harris's prosecutorial record, however, is far from progressive. Through her apologia for egregious prosecutorial misconduct, her refusal to allow DNA testing for a probably innocent death row inmate, her opposition to legislation requiring the attorney general's office to independently investigate police shootings and more, she has made a significant contribution to the sordid history of injustice she decries.
Comment: More on Ms. Harris' distinguished career:
- Kamala Harris is an oligarch's wet dream
- Twenty things you probably didn't know about Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
- Kamala Harris dons progressive mantle in public, strips it off in private as she courts Israel lobby
- Liberal darling Kamala Harris is rapidly gaining a reputation as the most dishonest senator in Washington
Comment: Social distancing and wearing facemasks have no proven impact on the reduction of viral transmission, particularly for coronaviruses and other highly contagious viruses that cause the common cold and influenza-like illnesses.
When someone chooses not to follow public health guidelines around the coronavirus, they're defecting from the public good. It's the moral equivalent of the tragedy of the commons: If everyone shares the same pasture for their individual flocks, some people are going to graze their animals longer, or let them eat more than their fair share, ruining the commons in the process. Selfish and self-defeating behavior undermines the pursuit of something from which everyone can benefit.
Comment: Indeed, and what could be more selfish and self-defeating than trashing people's lives to pursue an aim that is impossible to achieve?
Democratically enacted enforceable rules - mandating things like mask wearing and social distancing - might work, if defectors could be coerced into adhering to them. But not all states have opted to pass them or to enforce the rules that are in place.
Comment: Not a single 'rule', 'law' or 'recommendation' on Covid-19 was democratically enacted. All of it is constitutionally illegal.
My research in bioethics focuses on questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what's best for the public good. To me, it seems the problem of coronavirus defectors could be solved by moral enhancement: like receiving a vaccine to beef up your immune system, people could take a substance to boost their cooperative, pro-social behavior. Could a psychoactive pill be the solution to the pandemic?
Comment: Ironically, that's most likely what the 'gain-of-function' SARS-Cov-2 virus was meant to be; a virus that would 'improve' the population's DNA by making people more compliant. But it apparently backfired, causing the system managers to freak out and irrationally 'lock it all down'.
It's a far-out proposal that's bound to be controversial, but one I believe is worth at least considering, given the importance of social cooperation in the struggle to get COVID-19 under control.
Comment: And there you have it. This 'top thinker' from among their 'side' or 'type' just articulated exactly what is going on here. His genius plan may not literally be in effect ('morality pills'), but elements of it certainly are, and, in toto, it is metaphorically or energetically in effect - and has been for some time, i.e. since pre-Covid-19. One thing that comes to mind is the fluoridation of the water supply, something that has been implemented globally, to varying degrees, since WW2.
How does someone in his position - someone who we have no reason to doubt ostensibly lives 'a normal life' and who 'means well' - come up with such a psychopathic, anti-human scheme?
Our best guess is that, like the scientists working for the secret consortium who took a coronavirus and genetically tweaked it to 'improve human DNA' then introduced it to the general population by using US soldiers as guinea pigs, his own DNA is 'antenna-aligned' to the same or similar 'sources of inspiration' in the Information Field. He's able to conceive 'solutions' like he proposes above because that's the sort of thing 'like-minded' people are actively conceiving and doing all the time.
At each stage, when things backfire, they double-down and intensify their efforts to 'make better people, for a better world', completely oblivious to their role in producing increasing numbers of brain-disordered and character-disturbed people.
"The gross underrepresentation of Asian American speakers in the four days of the DNC Convention is tone deaf and a slap in the face," Representative Ted Lieu said on Twitter. Lieu, a California Democrat with Taiwanese ancestry, also noted that Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group in multiple swing states.
Comment: If you're going to play the identity politics game, you darn well better play it right! The democrats can't afford to leave any group unrepresented or they risk tarnishing their uber-diversity image.
See also:
- Democrats' election plans are far more radical than the media will tell you
- Democrats are now the riot party
- Is AIPAC losing its grip on Democrats?
- Democrats have crossed the line, smearing 4th of July and Mt. Rushmore as 'glorifying white supremacy'
- Three recent signs the Democrats want a 'socialist' revolution
- In brave new America, leaders kneel and looters are saluted. What will the Democrats conjure up next?
Comment: Their slogan should be:
'Vote for Her because she's an African-American Woman! Well, Jamaican-American. Actually, she introduced herself at the outset of her political career as Indian-American, but who cares! She has a vagina and looks a bit chocolate-colored!'
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden named Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over one of the most consequential decisions of his 2020 presidential bid.
Biden called Harris, a former rival in the Democratic primary, the best equipped to help him defeat President Trump and lead the nation through the coronavirus pandemic, economic downturn and racial divide.
Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, would be the first woman to be vice president if Biden is elected.
Comment: Some big name Twitter reactions:
See also:
- Kamala Harris is an oligarch's wet dream
- Kamala Harris: A distinguished career serving injustice
- Kamala Harris was not a 'progressive prosecutor'
- Biden's notes suggest Kamala Harris may be his chosen running mate
- Kamala Harris: Trump throwing white supremacists a 'welcome home party' with Tulsa rally
- Kamala Harris prosecuted a mentally ill woman shot by SF police. The jury didn't buy it
- Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden after bashing him for 'segregationist' busing views
- Good riddance! Democrat Kamala Harris withdraws from 2020 presidential run
There's nothing in the video footage that shows that this is happening in China, nor that the person performing the abuse is a government authority figure. But many people credulously shared the video around, because anti-China sentiment has exploded over the last two years with the help of careful narrative management by the western political/media class.
Mainland-born Lai, who was smuggled into the British colony of Hong Kong on a fishing boat when he was a penniless 12-year-old, has been one of the most prominent democracy activists in the now Chinese-ruled city and an ardent critic of Beijing.
His arrest comes amid Beijing's crackdown against pro-democracy opposition in the city and further stokes concerns about media and other promised freedoms when it returned to China in 1997. China imposed the sweeping new security law on Hong Kong on June 30, drawing condemnation from Western countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was "deeply troubled" by reports of the arrest, calling it further proof that the Chinese Communist Party had "eviscerated" Hong Kong's freedoms and eroded the rights of its people.
Comment: Hong Kong Free Press reports:
Live streams showed officers lining up staff members to check their identities after entering at around 9:45am, whilst other officers went desk-to-desk.
The raid comes hours after Jimmy Lai - the founder of Next Digital, which owns the tabloid - was arrested in his home on Monday morning. He was detained for allegedly "colluding" with foreign forces - a crime under the new national security law.
Senior superintendent of the national security department Steve Li told reporters outside the building that officers had conducted an initial review to see which departments or units of the newspaper firm they were entitled to search under the warrant.
He said the force would refrain from searching departments that handle news and journalistic materials.
However, footage showed police flipping through items on staff members' desks.
Li did not present the warrant to reporters but said it was placed inside the company's building for legal representatives to check: "I can say our search process has been smooth so far. We hope to complete it as soon as possible and not disturb the operation of this media company."
'Attack on press freedom'
The Democratic Party criticised the raid, saying the government is tightening freedom of the press on a large scale: "It is the first time the government arrested members of the press under the national security law. They raided offices of a news outlet and created a deterrent effect among the industry. Press freedom and freedom of speech promised in the Basic Law is precarious."
The head of the University of Hong Kong's journalism department also said the raid was an "outrageous, shameful attack on press freedom."
"With police raiding a newsroom and a handcuffed editor doing a perp walk, I would say HK as we knew it is already unrecognizable. These scenes are shocking. And shameful," he tweeted.
In June, Beijing enacted laws to prevent, stop and punish behaviours in Hong Kong that it deemed a threat to national security. The legislation was inserted into the city's mini-constitution, bypassing the local legislature, in order to criminalise subversion, secession, foreign interference and terrorism. The move - which gives police sweeping new powers - alarmed democrats, civil society groups and trade partners, as such laws have been used broadly to silence and punish dissidents in China.
See also:
- How Neocon money is funding the Hong Kong protests
- Reuters poll: Hong Kongers 'support protester demands' but only a minority wants independence from China
Now the events in Belarus force me to address this very unpleasant topic: Belarus is facing a complex and dangerous situation which might well result in a major crisis inside Belarus and even a loss of sovereignty. But first, before we look into what just happened, let me begin with a quick "mini-primer" about Belarus. Here is what I think everybody ought to know about this country:
Comment:
- Another mercenary battalion deployed in Belarus to destabilize country claims President Lukashenko
- Belarus on the brink? Unloved in Moscow, a pariah again in the West & facing protests at home, Lukashenko is running out of road
- Is Belarus the West's next target for illegal regime change?
Alexandr Lukashenko, a president with scruples
While Russian deaths started rising to US, UK elevations, its near neighbour Belarus was containing COVID-19 in the way I was expecting Russia to have done, the way South Korea was still doing. The most likely reason for the Russian policy change has only come to light within the last week or two. Tyler Durden posted an article in GreatGameIndia.com which showed that the Belarus president, Alexandr Lukashenko, had been offered a bribe to adopt the same measures Italy had adopted - that is lockdown, curfews, masks and other severe restrictions.
In an act of integrity rarely found in world leaders Lukashenko refused the bribe.
Africa, which has had a very low infection and death-rate from COVID-19, has likewise had several of its countries targeted by multi-billion cash-cows - WHO and Bill Gates - which pretty well amounts to Bill Gates since he is one of the biggest donors to WHO. African countries which have been offered bribes include Tanzania, Burundi and Madagascar. It can hardly be assumed they are alone.
Meanwhile in Belarus life has gone on as normal. Football spectators have continued to go to matches and the season is in full swing with cup matches currently being played. According to the United Nations Human Rights Council a few companies have encouraged employees to work from home.
Night two of the debates was just as vapid and ridiculous as night one. Candidates interrupted and talked over each other a lot, questions about foreign policy were avoided like the plague to prevent NBC viewers from thinking critically about the mechanics of empire, and Eric Swalwell kept talking despite everyone in the universe desperately wanting him not to. Buttigieg and Gillibrand did alright, Bernie played the same note he's been playing for decades, and everyone was reminded how bad Joe Biden is at talking and thinking.
Biden has been treated kindly by polls and regarded as a "frontrunner" in this race exclusively because for the last decade he hasn't had to do anything other than be associated with Barack Obama. Now that he's had to step out of that insulated role and interact with reality again, everyone's seeing the same old garbage right-wing Democrat who sucks at making himself look appealing just as badly as he did in his last two presidential campaigns. By the end of the night, even Michael Bennet was slapping him around.
Comment: See also:
- Kamala Harris' own father slams her 'identity politics' after she mocks 'pot-smoking Jamaicans' on radio show
- Democratic darling Kamala Harris packed California prisons with people for selling pot
- Fmr attorney Kamala Harris' record on criminal justice is appalling
- Kamala Harris dons progressive mantle in public, strips it off in private as she courts Israel lobby
















Comment: But last we heard Biden himself will not attend 'cause Covid. Imagine that, all these doofuses show up as a lead in to the big entrance of Biden as the Democratic nominee for president - and he won't even be there! What a joke.
Gaffe-smothered Biden laughs off the idea he should take a cognitive test, backs out of attending Democratic convention on Covid-19 fears