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Twenty Russian military cargo planes land in Armenia as first 400 peacekeepers move out to war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh region

Il-76 transport aircraft, Armenia
© Russian Defense Ministry
More than 400 Russian peacekeeping troops and their equipment have been successfully airlifted into Armenia's capital, Yerevan. They then proceeded to the armistice line with Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The armistice between Armenia and Azerbaijan went into effect at midnight Moscow time on Tuesday. So far, twenty Il-76 military transport aircraft have landed in Yerevan, carrying over 400 members of the 15th Peacekeeping Brigade and their equipment.

Comment: 'Nikol is a traitor': Armenian opposition parties lead protest in crisis-hit Yerevan, demand resignation of PM Pashinyan
Over a thousand protesters have gathered in Yerevan to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan following the Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal. They are accusing him of being a traitor for signing a truce with Baku.

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Pashinyan announced that the country had agreed to end hostilities with Azerbaijan, following a bloody conflict which began in late September. After repeatedly claiming that Armenia was winning the war, he is now coming under attack for what many locals see as a surrender.

On Wednesday afternoon, demonstrators met in the center of Yerevan, chanting "Nikol is a traitor." Led by politicians from a wide range of opposition parties, the protest has brought together Armenians who disagree with the government's decision to end the conflict. Eyewitness reports suggest that the police have arrested individual protest leaders, but the participants have continued undeterred. MP Gagik Tsarukyan, the head of Prosperous Armenia, the country's second-biggest party, was detained by law enforcement.


Earlier this week, the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia signed a joint statement agreeing to a truce in Nagorno-Karabakh. The agreement states that Azerbaijani and Armenian troops must remain in their current positions, an arrangement which is to be enforced by Russian peacekeepers. This means that Baku will keep the areas of Nagorno-Karabakh it regained control of during the conflict. According to Pashinyan, Yerevan had no choice, as the country's resources were quickly becoming depleted.

On September 27, the frozen conflict suddenly erupted once again. The dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is decades old, with both countries believing they have legitimate claims to the territory. The region is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but is primarily populated by ethnic Armenians. Baku had always considered the enclave to be illegally occupied by Yerevan.



Bad Guys

Lockdown round-up: Chicago tyrant-mayor introduces Thanksgiving restrictions, Germany still locked down, Japan stays sane for now

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© Reuters / Shannon Stapleton; Twitter / LoriLightfoot
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced stricter lockdown restrictions, telling residents to only leave their homes for essential trips and to cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans.

The stay-at-home advisory, which is similar to lockdown restrictions in major cities that occurred towards the beginning of the pandemic, will take effect on Monday, November 16 at 6:00 am.


Comment: Because the first one obviously worked so well. Hey, maybe this one will work even better?


Under the new rules, residents are not allowed to have guests over to their homes, including family members that do not live with them. People are only allowed to leave their homes for "essential reasons," and the mayor says "traditional Thanksgiving plans" must be canceled.

Any events such as weddings and funerals will be limited to attendances of 10 people or less. These new restrictions will be in place for a minimum of 30 days, according to the mayor.


Comment: Minnesota's governor descended to previously unknown depths of absurd idiocy, urging people to stop singing, lest they kill someone.
Walz attempted to draw a hard distinction between "fun" vocalizations and everyday vocal drudgery, insisting that "the louder you speak, if you're singing, if you're playing darts standing next to someone in a crowded bar... it seems like these things shouldn't be as risky or elevated, but what we've seen is that they do do that."

"It's certainly not our intention to demonize any industry or any activity," Walz said while doing exactly that. "It's simply important for us to understand...who spreads this thing." The governor announced a limit of 10 people on inside and outdoor gatherings alike during Thursday's press conference, explaining that "just because they're family and just because you know them" doesn't mean any group celebrating the winter holidays can dispense with social distancing and masks indoors. However, he has at the same time suggested enforcement will be based on voluntary compliance: "Obviously, on this issue, we're not going into someone's home and arresting them on Thanksgiving."
In contrast, Mississippi's governor has vowed to fight a six-week lockdown proposed by Biden's Covid adviser should it come to pass and Biden manages to successfully steal the election.
"We will certainly fight that if it becomes necessary," he said during the livestream. "We as a state are going to continue with our strategy," he said, insisting a strategy "targeted" at hotspots was the only way to avoid extensive collateral economic damage. "The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small businesses, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms for six weeks and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything's gonna be fine."
Japan too, despite a surge in "cases," does not plan to institute another state of emergency.

Germany's health minister says it's still "too early" to tell how long the current "lockdown light" will last. Ireland is mulling a "staggered release" of lockdown measure before Christmas, conditional on "getting the numbers way down" - no acknowledgment that they were completely useless to begin with and there's nothing alarming about the current numbers.

Here's just one example of the cultural collateral damage of unscientific, useless lockdowns:
Vladimir Urin of the Bolshoi Theatre has told reporters that the historic institution, known across the world for ballet and dramatic arts, has lost around 1.2 billion rubles (around $15.5 million) during the coronavirus pandemic. He told Russia's Dozhd TV channel that "these income losses... until October amounted to about 50% of all income that we have."

The director of another famous Moscow theatre, the Lenkom's Mark Varshaver, has also spoken out on the situation facing the arts. Speaking to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, he said that Moscow Deputy Mayor Natalya Sergunina had committed to helping venues meet the shortfall.

"[Sergunina] said something extremely important for theaters: the Moscow government is issuing a subsidy that will fully cover theaters' losses, especially those related to the payment of wages and other issues. She also said that the directors of Moscow theaters may, at their discretion, not play the performance or postpone it depending on the situation and conditions of the theater," he added.

On Tuesday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin brought forward a series of new measures aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus. Among them were rules limiting audiences of theaters, cinemas and ballet performances to around 25 per cent of their usual capacity, to allow for social distancing.



Better Earth

Moscow would like a US president willing to put 'at least some effort' into fixing ties with Russia

Peskov interview
Moscow is ready to work with any American president, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RT. He reiterated that Russia has never interfered in US internal affairs, but will not allow its own affairs to be meddled in either.

Speaking exclusively to RT Russian, Peskov touched upon one of the hottest topics today - the US presidential election.

While the US media has called the election for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, the official result has not arrived yet. President Donald Trump, however, has rejected his projected defeat, alleging that some of the voting was grossly manipulated, and vowed to legally challenge the outcome.

Russia, which unlike many other countries, did not rush to congratulate Biden, will accept either result of the election, Peskov told RT correspondent Anton Krasovsky.

Comment: And this is what half of the US population (and the West as a whole) doesn't seem to understand: There is an information war against Russia and Trump that simply prevents Trump from dealing with Russia in all the most normal of ways. Instead, Trump is made to be very careful about how willing he is to reasonably work with Russia lest he be harangued and demonized as a Russian stooge by the mindless hordes in war-crazy Washington, or by their proxy forces in the corporate media.


Mr. Potato

Whoopsies! Intervenors for Democrats in PA lawsuit actually proved Trump campaign claims of fraud

Kayleigh McEnany press conference voter fraud
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Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary, center, Ronna McDaniel, right, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and Matthew Morgan, President Trump's campaign general counsel, conclude a news conference on Pennsylvania litigation and to give an overview of the post-Election Day landscape, at the RNC on Capitol Hill on Monday, November 9, 2020.
In a stunning filing on Tuesday, November 10, potential intervenors in the Trump campaign's lawsuit against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, proved one of the allegations of illegality the Trump campaign brought forth in their initial complaint against the Secretary and several boards of elections.

The Trump Campaign alleges that in contravention of election law, certain precincts reached out to mail-in and absentee voters to "cure" their ballots before election day, or fix errors that would have otherwise made their votes invalid. On page 35 of the complaint, found in full here, the Trump campaign spells out election law that was recently affirmed this year in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as it pertains to mail-in ballots.

Comment: Tracey also put out a video breakdown of her findings. Excellent viewing.




Bulb

Libertarian-minded Sen. Rand Paul tells people recovered from COVID-19 to 'throw away their masks'

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul
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Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul
Republican Sen. Rand Paul says people who have recovered from the coronavirus should "throw away their masks, go to restaurants," and "live again."

The libertarian-minded senator, who months ago contracted the virus, made the proclamation Thursday, based on the assumption that those who have recovered from the illness are "now immune."

The Kentucky lawmaker also took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci saying that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "doesn't want to admit to any of that."

"Dr. Fauci is like 'Oh, woe is me' until the election occurs, but now maybe he'll be changing his attitude," Paul said on Fox News.

Comment: Senator Paul is one of the very few informed politicians in the US who is willing to speak truth to power. And in this case willing to question the incredibly deceitful statements of Dr. Anthony Fauci who is a total stooge for Big Pharma and the "Great Reset" agenda. Well done, Senator!

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Mr. Potato

Justin Trudeau says Canada will not bow to China's 'coercive diplomacy'

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© Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool via REUTERS
China's President Xi Jinping (L) and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend the session on women's workforce participation, future of work, and ageing societies, at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday that his country would not cave in to pressure from China over the case of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou who was arrested in Canada on a U.S. warrant almost two years ago.

The case has caused a diplomatic chill between Canada and China, which soon after Meng's arrest detained two Canadian citizens, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, on espionage charges.

"We don't believe in coercive diplomacy and ... we actually deeply believe that if you start giving into that kind of pressure, you'll leave yourself worse off for the long term," Trudeau said in an interview during an FT online conference.

"China continues to think that they can just put enough pressure on us and we will ... give in, but that's exactly the opposite of our position," he said.

Meng has denied charges brought against her in the United States and is fighting extradition from house arrest in Vancouver.

Comment: Here is Trudeau being an obedient US toady. He let his country be put into the middle of the China-US trade war, and in the worst possible way.


Syringe

Biden's Covid taskforce 'ethicist' once argued anyone older than 75 is 'useless'

Ezekiel Emanuel

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
President-elect Joe Biden has already assembled a task force to target the most immediate crisis his new administration will face: getting the COVID-19 pandemic under control. One of the members is an oncologist and bioethicist named Ezekiel Emanuel, who once wrote an essay for The Atlantic arguing that life is not worth living after 75 years old.

"Living too long is also a loss," Emanuel wrote in the October 2014 edition of The Atlantic. "It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived." Emanuel went on to argue that "creativity, originality and productivity are pretty much gone for the vast, vast majority of us" by 75.

The argument is that modern science has gone overboard in the "valiant effort to cheat death and prolong life as long as possible," stating that "I think this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive."

Comment: Emanuel was part of the Obama administration. Looks like Biden's handlers are trying to pick up where he left off. Does Biden even remember he is 77 years old? By Emanuel's lights, he is ready for the scrap-heap.


Pirates

Gloating neocons proposing ideological genocide hint at what's really on the menu when Biden 'builds back better'

burning Trump photo
© Reuters / Mussa Issa Qawasma
The apparent victory of Democrat Joe Biden over President Donald Trump has triggered Pavlovian salivating from neoliberal centrists who've pinned every wrong on Trump - and now demand the total destruction of his supporters.

Not just Trump, but his backers in the Republican Party and the everyday "deplorables" who post favorably about him must be destroyed, the narrative managers have decreed. Demanding what sounds for all the world like a Stalinist purge, they have raised a cry of "Never Again" - as if the Trump administration's crimes were any worse than those of his predecessors. The aim of the anti-Trump #Resistance has shifted from removing him from office to ensuring all traces of the ideas he brought into mainstream discourse be destroyed forever, full stop.

Comment: There is overwhelming evidence of electoral fraud, which is why the halls of power in the US are currently abuzz with lawsuits and formal requests for recounts/audits/canvassing electoral districts.

Despite wall-to-wall MSM propaganda, it is too early to declare the overall result. And that's only because something extremely dubious happened in the wee hours of November 4th when all vote counting trends switched from pointing to Trump winning a landslide victory to Biden *just* beating him.

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Binoculars

The World Economic Forum's diabolical project: "Resetting the Future of Work Agenda"

Great reset
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just published (October 2020) a so-called White Paper, entitled "Resetting the Future of Work Agenda - in a Post-Covid World".

This 31-page document reads like a blueprint on how to "execute" - because an execution (or implementation) would be - "Covid-19 - The Great Reset" (July 2020), by Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO (since the foundation of the WEF in 1974) and his associate Thierry Malleret.

They call "Resetting the Future" a White Paper, meaning it's not quite a final version. It is a draft of sorts, a trial balloon, to measure people's reactions. It reads indeed like an executioner's tale. Many people may not read it - have no awareness of its existence. If they did, they would go up in arms and fight this latest totalitarian blueprint, offered to the world by the WEF.

It promises a horrifying future to some 80%-plus of the (surviving) population. George Orwell's "1984" reads like a benign fantasy, as compared to what the WEF has in mind for humanity.

The time frame is ten years - by 2030 - the UN agenda 2021 - 2030 should be implemented.

Biohazard

The dystopic Great Reset and the fight back: Population reduction and hope for the future

dystopia
Genesis 11:5 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
The Great Reset, the 4th Industrial Revolution, the 4th Turning, the Great Awakening, and Artificial Intelligence. These are the real themes that are shaping the socio-political, cultural, and ideological landscape of our lives in 2020.

The push for lockdown and quarantine towards a Great Reset is increasingly understood by critics as program of mass enslavement and collective punishment, population reduction, presented within the trappings of progressive talking points. In our last piece on the Great Reset, 'Whose Great Reset? The Fight for Our Future - Technocracy vs. the Republic', we confronted the Orwellian nature of the term itself, showing that the ostensibly technocratic new proposal was being made in a way that appears to short-cut the decision making processes of sovereign states as well as democratic processes within republics.

In the eternal words of the Irish author, Oscar Wilde, 'Life imitates art far more than art imitates life'.
"That we live in a time where the plans of the elite are more openly and more brazenly spelled out, in fiction, in public mythology, in culture, and are manufactured in a way entirely out of the hands of the vast majority of people whose lives will be forever changed, likely for the worse, is hands-down the real catastrophe of our time."