[MCM] In one more propaganda master-stroke, the Times blacks out resistance to 5G in Europe

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From this NYTimes story datelined Brussels, we learn of Huawei's (i.e.,
China's)*
*"charm offensive" as it seeks to take the lead in building 5G networks
throughout*
*Europe—an "offensive" that "seems to be working," despite the
likelihood that*
*China's tight grip on those networks will threaten **"national security."
The piece*
*quotes experts fretting over Trump's inattention to that danger,
over-**focused,
as *
*he is, on his trade war with China. *

*Although the piece reads as a propaganda sally against China (and Trump),
it*
*actually suits China's mission of constructing Europe's 5G infrastructure,
since*
*it blacks out the gravest threat posed by 5G: not its facilitation of a
super-state's*
*surveillance capabilities (although that danger is quite real, whichever
super-state*
*is finally in control), but its catastrophic impact on the health of every
single*
*European living in the continent's "smart cities"—a danger very clear to
countless*
*Europeans, as the New York Times would have us all not know.*

*Is it possible that Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Times's Brussels
correspondent,*
*somehow hasn't heard that Brussels banned 5G last spring, due to health
concerns*
*—the first major **city to do so, with Geneva then doing the same? *
https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/55052/radiation-concerns-halt-brussels-5g-for-now/
*The faithful **readers of the Times, and "our free press" in general, have
no way of *
*knowing **that opposition to 5G is spreading throughout Europe—and the US,
too, *
*for that **matter—**since such grass-roots activism threatens to impede
the 5G "rollout,"*
*for which "our free press," and especially the New York Times, is serving
as **one *
*mammoth propaganda mill (and Google, naturally, is part of it as well).*

*Why has the Times blacked out that inconvenient datum about Brussels?*
*As I pointed out last May, the Times' effusive 5G coverage has, in large*
*part, been driven by the Times' business partnership with Verizon, and*
*the related financial interest of Carlos Slim, who made his billions in
the*
*cell phone racket throughout South America, and who owns more of the *
*New York Times **than any other single shareholder. While there surely
is, *
*as well, **a (what we might call) US "deep state" interest in the use of
5G *
*to variously manage all **the rest of us, the Times' commercial motivation*
*is overt, and a huge blot (one of many) on its fabled journalistic
record. *
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2019/05/what-drove-the-times-to-tell-those-whopping-lies-about-5g-and-russia-this-story-isnt-pretty/

*Some day—perhaps before, or soon after, its long-overdue collapse—that *
*"great" newspaper **will be universally perceived as having been the
worst *
*newspaper in the **world, for all the heinous damage that it's done not
merely *
*through the Big Lies that it's propagated stoutly through the years, but *
*through their deafening echoes all throughout the rest of "our free
press."*

*MCM*
Blocked in U.S., Huawei Touts ‘Shared Values’ to Compete in Europe
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/world/europe/huawei-EU-5G-Europe.html

The Chinese tech giant is spending millions of dollars on a charm offensive
in Brussels, hoping for a leading role in building 5G networks. It seems to
be working.
[image: The Huawei Cyber Security Transparency Center in Brussels.]
The Huawei Cyber Security Transparency Center in Brussels.Credit...Yves
Herman/Reuters
[image: Matina Stevis-Gridneff]


By Matina Stevis-Gridneff


   - Dec. 27, 2019
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BRUSSELS — The committee room of the European Parliament was crowded with
lawmakers and lobbyists who were facing off with executives of the
telecommunications giant Huawei. One lawmaker, eager to raise the trust
issue, got directly to the point: Could Huawei be a front for Chinese state
espionage?

Abraham Liu, the company’s top official in Europe, pushed right back.
Huawei, he said, is completely independent, with no obligation to spy for
China, and to do so “would be like committing suicide.”

Then he added a twist — and a veiled swipe at Huawei’s loudest critic,
the Trump
administration
:
It is Huawei, not America, that shares European principles.

“Europe’s values of openness, innovatio

[MCM] You need a flu shot like a hole in the head—despite the myths pumped out by NPR

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Propaganda kills.*


*MCM*

Do You Really Need a Flu Shot? Don’t Ask NPR!

by Jeremy R. Hammond
Dec 24, 2019Health
& Vaccines 8
comments


Influenza vaccines (Department of Defense

)
While purporting to debunk “myths” keeping people from getting the
influenza vaccine, NPR propagates misinformation to persuade people to get
the flu shot.
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2019/12/24/do-you-really-need-a-flu-shot-dont-ask-npr/
5 *Horrifying *Facts about the FDA *Vaccine *Approval Process

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Download the Report


On December 20, 2019, NPR published an article

by
Tara Haelle purporting to provide information to help people decide whether
they should get the influenza vaccine annually. Instead of empowering
readers with the knowledge they need to meaningfully exercise their right
to informed consent, however, the article presents misleading and outright
false information intended to persuade people to comply with the flu shot
recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The NPR article was originally titled “Do You Really Need A Flu Shot?
Here’s How To Decide” and has since been updated to read “Here’s Why You
Really Need A Flu Shot”. Its central message is that everyone should comply
with the CDC’s recommendation, which is that everyone aged six months and
up, including pregnant women, should get a flu shot every year.

The goal of advocating public vaccine policy, however, is incompatible with
the alternative goal of objectively providing people with the knowledge
they need to make their own informed choice. The transparent purpose of
this NPR article is *not* to educate but to advocate, including by
demonstrably *misinforming *readers about what science tells us about the
safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccines.

In short, as is typical for mainstream media reporting on anything related
to vaccines, this NPR article is not journalism but propaganda.

Contents

   - Misrepresenting the Science on the Flu Shot’s Effectiveness
   

   - Misrepresenting the Science on Vaccination of the Elderly
   

   - Ignoring Science Showing That Getting an Annual Flu Shot Can Increase
   the Risk of Illness
   

   - Misrepresenting the Science on the Safety of Vaccinating Pregnant Women
   

   - Feigning to Bust Myths While Propagating Misinformation
   

  - Can getting the flu shot make you sick?
  

  - Does the CDC overestimate annual flu deaths?
  

  - Is mercury safe for pregnant women and fetuses?
  

  - Does public vaccine policy profit the pharmaceutical industry?
  

   - Conclusion
   

   - Postscript
   

[MCM] Spanish diplomats now under siege at the Mexican embassy in Bolivia

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Spanish Diplomats Being Held at the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia (Siege of
the Mexican Embassy)
 December 28, 2019


https://orinocotribune.com/spanish-diplomats-being-held-at-the-mexican-embassy-in-bolivia-siege-of-the-mexican-embassy/

Spanish officials were held on Friday at the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia,
where the police and military siege continues, generating tension with the
government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The diplomatic headquarters of Mexico in Bolivia is home to nine officials
of the legitimate government of Evo Morales, who took refuge in the place
alluding political persecution after the coup d’etat consummated on
November 10.

RELATED CONTENT: Mexico Denounces Bolivia in the International Court of
Justice (Embassy Siege)


Spanish officials were visiting the embassy to check on the situation of
the isolated Bolivian asylum seekers.


Rolando Segura
✔@rolandoteleSUR



#UltimaHora : Crece
tensión en embajada #México
 en #Bolivia
, con fuerte presencia
policial armada en alrededores y al parecer impiden salir de esa sede
diplomática a funcionarios de la embajada de #España
. @teleSURtv
 busca posición oficial gob español y
versión autoridades facto.
[image: Embedded video]


At the end of the meeting, Bolivian security forces prevented them from
leaving the site and did not allow their security personnel enter.

RELATED CONTENT: Mexico Reiterates Demand that Bolivia End Its Siege on
Embassy


The event was reported by the Mexican ambassador, María Teresa Mercado,
through a tweet that was subsequently deleted.

In the post, the Mexican official explained that “heavily armed” military
cars had arrived surrounding the building.

“We will honor what our foreign policy has always meant, which has been a
worldwide example of guaranteeing the right to asylum,” President Andres
Manuel López Obrador said Friday at his morning conference.

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[MCM] These eight activists were murdered for their work to save the planet, where they lived.

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*The only problem with this piece is its misleading headline—as those eight
activists*
*were not "fighting climate change," but battling forces ravaging their
natural homes,*
*their sacred lands, fouling the air and water, and otherwise destroying
Mother Earth*
*before the very eyes of those brave people: destruction actual not
**theoretical,
and *
*not eventual, but here and now.*

*Do these names figure in the propaganda for the UN's "climate movement"? *

*MCM *
Know their Names: Eight Activists Assassinated for Fighting Climate Change
Post on: September 22, 2019
 Soumi Sarkar 

Environmental activists are being murdered with increasing frequency,
particularly in semi-colonial countries. Below are the stories of eight
people who took on powerful companies and imperialist interests and paid
with their lives.
Image by Friends of the Earth Europe

Four people are killed every week over climate and land disputes at the
hands of state forces and hired assassins who defend the interests of big
corporations, large landowners, and the government. According to the 2019
Global Witness Report
,
which tracks such harassment, enforced disappearances and murders of
activists across the world, 164 environmental activists were murdered in
2018. Although this is a drop from the previous year’s count of 207 deaths,
the report details how violence and coercion has spiked as coalitions of
private security forces, contract killers, and state forces have looked to
systematically silence those who are on the frontlines of the climate
crisis and dare to take on bourgeois governments and capitalists.

The stories of environmental fighters are often ignored, forgotten, and
silenced by the mainstream media. After all, these people are often
fighting against U.S. corporations. As we contemplate how to solve the
climate crisis, it is important to remember that the places hit by
environmental disasters have been and will be semi-colonial countries
first, and that there are people in those countries who are fighting and
dying in the struggle against climate catastrophe.

Here, we take a moment to recognize seven of the inexhaustible list of
environmental activists who’ve lost their lives in the fight against
climate change during the past decade:

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] LINK to piece on murders of eight environmental activists

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.leftvoice.org/know-their-names-eight-activists-assassinated-for-fighting-climate-change

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[MCM] Going after critics of 5G, NYTimes and Scientific American tell many toxic lies

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Open Season on Critics of 5G Cell Phone Technology: Media Censorship And
Smear Campaigns against Prominent Scientists and PhysiciansSimply saying
that more health research is needed on 5G —the latest generation of cell
phone technology— can be hazardous to your reputation.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/open-season-5g-critics-first-ny-times-now-scientific-american/5699103

By Microwave News 
Global Research, December 30, 2019
Microwave News
 6 December
2019
Region: USA 
Theme: Environment 



 6
  1  3

  10

*Last May, the New York Times tried to take down David Carpenter
, a public health physician
and the country’s most prominent 5G critic. Veteran science writer William
Broad painted Carpenter as a willing tool of a disinformation campaign
promoted by RT America, a TV network which he described as “the cat’s paw
of Russian president, Vladimir Putin.” The page-one story

ran
under the headline, “Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You But Russia Wants You To
Think Otherwise.”*

Two months later, on July 16, Broad was back for another hit on Carpenter.
This time, he was given most of the front page of the *Times*’ Tuesday
science section, to portray Carpenter as a fringe player working “hard to
revise established science.”

Much of what Broad wrote was fiction. (See “A Fact-Free Hit on a 5G Critic.”
)

Now *Scientific American *has ambushed Joel Moskowitz
, one of the few
other academics willing to state the obvious: No one knows whether 5G is
safe. Moskowitz, based at the University of California, Berkeley, School of
Public Health, runs the widely read blog ,
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety. This new attack, written by David Grimes
, an Irish physicist and science
columnist, is vicious. Grimes labels Moskowitz a scaremonger —it’s in the
headline: “Don’t Fall Prey to Scaremongering about 5G.”


But that’s just the beginning. Grimes goes on to portray Moskowitz as
falling victim to “illusory truth,” accusing him of “alarming ignorance”
and disseminating “groundless falsehoods.” Moskowitz’s outlook is “most
certainly a fringe view” which pivots on “fatally flawed conjecture,”
according to Grimes. He saves the worst for last, comparing Moskowitz and
anti-5G activists to liars and anti-vaxxers:

“One need only look to the alarming renaissance of once-conquered diseases,
driven by anti-vaccine disinformation online —the human cost when
superstition and mendacity outpace science.”

But it’s Grimes who gets the science all wrong. He claims that the cancer
findings of the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP
) are a “canard.” This is simply not so. We may
argue about the strength of the link between cell phone radiation and
cancer but not whether the NTP found one. The NTP concluded, without
qualification, that its $30 million animal study found “clear evidence”
 of an
association. Grimes calls this claim “profoundly misguided,” citing as
backup only an isolated blog post from May 2016, two-and-a-half years
before the final NTP report was released.

Grimes is also wrong about Interphone: this 13-country epidemiological
study shows a link, according to an expert panel

convened
by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC
). Grimes touts the Danish cohort study
 as a “most reliable” example
of a study showing cell phones are safe, but, in fact, it’s of dubious
quality, again according to the IARC panel, as well as just about everyone
who has read beyond the abstract. Radar radiation has not been exonerated
from cancer risks, as Grimes would have us believe —his claim is based on a
literature review  by a
group of industry consultants.

On and on it goes, one distortion after another, most taken from industry’s
propaganda playbook.

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[MCM] About that Douma "gas attack," here's what Wikileaks released about OPCW's cover-up—and what "our free press" WILL NOT report

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Yesterday I sent out Caitlin Johnstone's piece on the tomb-silence of "our
free press"*
*on Wikileaks's release of documents concerning the OPCW cover-up of the
truth about*
*the Douma "gas attack." *

*Here are the links to Wikileaks' documents themselves.*

*MCM*
All Releases

   - OPCW-DOUMA - Release Part 4
   

-
   27 December, 2019
   - OPCW-DOUMA - Release Part 3
   

-
   14 December, 2019
   - Internal OPCW E-Mail
   

-
   23 November, 2019
   - OPCW Whistleblower Panel on the Douma attack of April 2018
   

-
   23 October, 2019

OPCW-DOUMA - Release Part 4
27 December, 2019

Today WikiLeaks releases more internal documents from the OPCW regarding
the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018.

One of the documents is an e-mail exchange dated 27 and 28 February between
members of the fact finding mission (FFM) deployed to Douma and the senior
officials of the OPCW. It includes an e-mail from Sebastien Braha, Chief of
Cabinet at the OPCW, where he instructs that an engineering report from Ian
Henderson should be removed from the secure registry of the organisation:

“Please get this document out of DRA [Documents Registry Archive]... And
please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA”.

The main finding of Henderson, who inspected the sites in Douma and two
cylinders that were found on the site of the alleged attack, was that they
were more likely manually placed there than dropped from a plane or
helicopter from considerable heights. His findings were omitted from the
official final OPCW report on the Douma incident.

Another document released today is minutes from a meeting on 6 June 2018
where four staff members of the OPCW had discussions with “three
Toxicologists/Clinical pharmacologists, one bioanalytical and toxicological
chemist” (all specialists in chemical weapons, according to the minutes).

The purpose of this meeting was two-fold. The first objective was

“To solicit expert advice on the value of exhuming suspected victims of the
alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018”. According to the
minutes, the OPCW team was advised by the experts that there would be
little use in conducting exhumations. The second point was “To elicit
expert opinions from the forensic toxicologists regarding the observed and
reported symptoms of the alleged victims.”

More specifically,

“...whether the symptoms observed in victims were consistent with exposure
to chlorine or other reactive chlorine gas.”

According to the minutes leaked today: “With respect to the consistency of
the observed and reported symptoms of the alleged victims with possible
exposure to chlorine gas or similar, the experts were conclusive in their
statements that there was no correlation between symptoms and chlorine
exposure”.

The OPCW team members wrote that the key “take-away message” from the
meeting was

“that the symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and
no other obvious candidate chemical causing the symptoms could be
identified”.

The third document is a copy of OPCW e-mail exchanges from 20 to 28 August
2018 discussing the meeting with the toxicologists.

*Click on the link for the rest.*
The fourth document is an e-mail exchange from the end of July 2018 where
it is stated that the eight OPCW inspectors deployed to Douma during the
fact finding mission (except one, a paramedic) should be excluded from
discussions on the project.

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[MCM] Male runner sails to "groundbreaking victory" over female competition

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Misogyny in athletic drag.*

*MCM*

FILED UNDER:

   - AWARDS 
   - TRACK AND FIELD 
   - OLYMPICS 

Outsports Female Athlete of the Year: CeCé Telfer

CeCé Telfer. the first out transgender woman to be crowned an NCAA track
and field champion, dreams of competing in Tokyo next summer.
By Dawn Ennis   Dec 26, 2019,
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CeCé Telfer

The LGBTQ sports world was blessed in 2019 with an abundance of choices for
Female Athlete of the Year. Readers nominated several women, among them:

   - USWNT icon Megan Rapinoe, who made an indelible mark during the
   Women’s World Cup .
   - Amanda Nunes, the world champion in two UFC divisions who defended her
   titles twice this year, once with a unanimous decision and once with a TKO.
   She was a runner-up once before, in 2017.
   - The indefatigable Elena Delle Donne
   , who
   played in the WNBA  finals with three
   herniated discs and led the Washington Mystics
    to its
   first-ever title. She rightly earned the MVP award in 2019.

But in terms of making an indelible mark on sports history, CeCé Telfer of
Franklin Pierce University sprinted to the top of the list with her
groundbreaking
victory at the May 2019 NCAA Division II National Championships
.
Telfer beat her closest competitor by a second and a half, winning the 400m
hurdles at Javelina Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M University in
Kingsville, Texas.

As far as we know, she is the first track and field NCAA champion who is an
out transgender woman. That achievement brought her fame as well as made
her a target of detractors and opponents of transgender inclusion in
sports, including Donald Trump, Jr.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] As Julian Assange "slowly dies" in prison, Wikileaks still holds the powerful to account

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-publishing-state-secrets-julian-assange-slowly-dies-prison/263775


WAR ON WIKILEAKS
Wikileaks Still Holding Powerful to Account as Founder Julian Assange
“Slowly Dies” in Prison


Assange is kept in being kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day,
often sedated, in Britain’s notorious Belmarsh Prison.
by Alan Macleod 

December 27th, 2019

By Alan Macleod  

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Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own
words, relayed 
through
English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder
called him on Christmas Eve to share his greetings. Smith also divulged
that Assange told him he is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day
and is often sedated.

His treatment has elicited protests around the world, from journalists,
news organizations, human rights groups and celebrities. Last week a group
of Australian doctors asked Foreign Minister Marise Payne to evacuate
Assange to an Australian hospital, citing his inhumane treatment. In a
statement they said

:

The potentially fatal medical consequences of prolonged psychological
torture are inherently unpredictable, and could strike at any time.
Accordingly, no doctor, no matter how senior, can offer any legitimate
assurances regarding Julian Assange’s survival or medical stability while
he continues to be held in Belmarsh Prison.”

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[MCM] "How did Putin do?" A former intelligence officer (Canadian) reviews the record

[Mark Crispin Miller]

FEATURED STORY
Twenty Years Later – How Did Putin Do?
Patrick Armstrong

December 30, 2019

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/30/twenty-years-later-how-did-putin-do

Twenty years ago a not very well-known Vladimir Putin published an essay
“Russia at the turn of the millennium”. It was printed in Nezavisimaya
Gazeta and at the Russian government website. The only copy that I can find
on the Net in English now is here
 but I will be referring to
the official English translation and Russian text that I downloaded at the
time.

Putin had been Prime Minister for about five months and, when Yeltsin
resigned the day after the publication of this essay, he became Acting
President. Since that day his team has been running Russia. It is
reasonable to regard this essay as his program and, on its twenty-year
anniversary, appropriate to see how well he (and his team – it’s not a
one-man operation) have done.

I concluded that he outlined four main projects:

   - Improve the economy.
   - Re-establish central control.
   - Establish a rule of law.
   - Improve Russia’s position in the world.

Putin took power at a time when people were seriously saying Russia is
Finished
.
And, however silly this may look now when we are hysterically told every
day that “Putin’s Russia” is infiltrating

, controlling

, interfering

, attacking

, hacking

, conquering

, violating

, cheating
 it
is worth running over what the author said. Assassinations, mafiya,
corruption, kryshas, oligarchs, unpaid salaries, military collapse: “the
Russians are likely to face a long, slow, relatively peaceful decline into
obscurity – a process that is well under way”. The author acknowledged the
changing of the guard – the piece was published in May 2000 – but believed
Putin was picked only because he had the “security connections to protect”
Yeltsin’s entourage; he was just another centraliser building a personality
cult in “Zaire With Permafrost.”

The author – like almost everyone else – got Putin wrong but generally he
was describing the reality of Russia in 2000. It was a mess. In Putin’s own
words last June :

*But I must note that during that time our social sphere, industry and the
defence sector collapsed. We lost the defence industry, we practically
destroyed the Armed Forces, led the country into a civil war, to bloodshed
in the Caucasus, and brought the country to the verge of losing sovereignty
and collapse.*

As far as I know, most Western intelligence agencies (but not the one I was
involved with) would have agreed with his prediction that Russia was,
inevitably, going down to “obscurity”. The fear then was of chaos – rogue
generals, nuclear weapons gone missing (remember suitcase nukes
, “red mercury
“?): Russia’s weakness was the
threat, not its strength. We appreciated how badly off Russia was but also
knew that Russia in its thousand years has often been down but never out.
We also knew that there was more to Putin than the absurdities that were
said about him of which I especially remember this:

Psychiatry recognizes a condition known as ‘moral idiocy’. Every time he
opens his mouth in public, Putin confirms this diagnosis for himself.


In my group we took note that he had been the trusted disciple of Anatoliy
Sobchak who was, in the terminology of the time, a “reformer” and therefore
a “good Russian”. We had also read the millennium paper and saw the
program. I am not pretending that, in 1999, I or my colleagues expected him
to do all this but at least we saw the possibilities. We, as it were, saw a
half full glass where others saw a glass quickly emptying.



He and his team were trying to make Russia prosperous, united, law-governed
and internationally significant. A formidable program from the perspective
of 1999 to be sure. How well 

[MCM] Paris Opera ballerinas perform in protest of Macron's plan to "reform" their pensions

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Paris Opera ballerinas perform in protest of Macron's pension reform plan




Issued on: 24/12/2019 - 21:12Modified: 24/12/2019 - 21:13
[image: Paris Opera dancers in white tutus performed scenes from
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in front of the Palais Garnier in Paris on Tuesday,
December 24 to protest the French government's pension reform plan.]
Paris Opera dancers in white tutus performed scenes from Tchaikovsky's Swan
Lake in front of the Palais Garnier in Paris on Tuesday, December 24 to
protest the French government's pension reform plan. FRANCE 24 screen grab
Text by:FRANCE 24 


https://www.france24.com/en/20191224-paris-opera-ballerinas-perform-protest-macron-pension-reform-plan-nationwide-strikes

Ballerinas in white tutus danced scenes from Swan Lake on the forecourt of
the Palais Garnier in Paris on Tuesday to protest against French President
Emmanuel Macron’s plans to scrap their special pension benefits.
ADVERTISING

Backed by musicians from the Paris Symphony Orchestra, the dancers
performed their impromptu 20-minute rendition before hundreds of onlookers.
Behind them were banners reading “Culture
 in danger”.

Paris Opera dancers have a bespoke pension plan
 dating back to the 17th
century. It includes the right to retire on a full pension at the age of
42, two decades earlier than the average worker.

They stand to lose those benefits if Macron
 pushes ahead with a
planned overhaul of a convoluted pension system that he says will be
fairer, incentivise workers to stay in the labour force until 64 and
balance the pension budget.

“We start classical dance at the age of 8. By our late teenage years, we’re
getting recurring injuries,” said ballerina Héloïse Jocqueviel. “Once you
reach the age of 42, you’re already suffering from arthritis, stress
fractures, hernias and in some cases titanium hips.

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[MCM] 76% of Europeans want friendly relations with Russia

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The Russophobic wall of the Western world is collapsing – 76% of Europeans
were for friendship with Russia
25.12.2019 15:50

   -

The overwhelming majority of European citizens are in favor of normalizing
relations with Russia, knowing perfectly well that the sanctions
confrontation only exacerbates the situation.

This is evidenced by the results of a sociological survey conducted by the
French Institute of Public Opinion in Germany, Italy, UK and France in
early October this year.

Respondents were asked to answer the question: “Sanctions and
counter-sanctions have led to the fact that relations between the European
Union and Russia continue to deteriorate. Would you like the relations
between the EU and Russia to normalize in the foreseeable future?

As it turned out, most of the supporters of friendship with Russia are in
Germany. Here, 84% of respondents answered positively and only 10% were
against it. 6% were unable to answer.

The second place was occupied by Italians, 78% of whom wanted to avoid the
sanctions confrontation for the sake of improving relations with Russia. At
the same time, 13% were in favour of continuing the current destructive
policy, while 9% found it difficult to answer.

The French are only 3% behind the Italians. Thus, 75% of respondents were
in favor of friendship with Russia against 13% of those who are in favor of
the current course. 12% – could not answer the question.

In the United Kingdom, despite the very Russophobic policy of recent years,
the rate of supporters of normalization of relations is slightly lower and
is 68%. In contrast, 16 per cent found it just as difficult to answer.

It is also worth noting that the most proponents of Russophobic policy was
among young people who were most affected by Western anti-Russian
propaganda.

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[MCM] On the sordid history of Kwaanza

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From the late Bruce Dixon, an important history lesson from two years ago.*


*MCM*

*Why I Don't Do Kwaanza*


https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-i-dont-do-kwaanza
Bruce A. Dixon ,
BAR managing editor

22 Nov 2017




http://www.blackagendareport.com/why-i-dont-do-kwaanza>
[image: Why I DOn't Do Kwaanza]


I don’t do Kwaanza, I just don’t.
 I never have, and
the very thought of it evokes some difficult memories and feelings for me.
It’s not the holiday’s religious trappings or its Afro-syncretic fusion of
Jewish menorahs, Swahili words, Kemetic, Christian and other rituals. I
understand people do have a perfect human right to adopt or make up the
cultural and religious practices that suit them. Rastafarianism
, Voudon
, Santería
 and Candomblé
all
borrow from multiple traditions, as does Islam from Judaism and
Christianity, and Christianity from Judaism, Greek and Roman sources, and
so on. So I have no quarrel whatsoever with those who celebrate and find
value in Kwaanza.

But for many of us who took part in or were simply aware of the Black
Panther Party in the late 60s and early 70s, the Kwaanza holiday is
inseparable from the career and persona of its inventor, Ron Karenga, now a
tenured professor in California. Back in the day, Karenga headed up an
organization called US. As a tool of COINTELPRO
, the federal counterintelligence
program directed at movement organizations, Karenga’s US organization
murdered 2 leading members of the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles,
Alprentice
“Bunchy” Carter
and
John Huggins, and 2 more  in San
Diego, Sylvester Bell and John Savage. To my knowledge, Mr. Karenga has
never expressed the faintest remorse or regret for these murders, or for
his part in furthering the nefarious aims of federal and local police
agencies in their assault upon the movement of those times. Karenga was
later convicted along with his wife, of kidnapping and torturing two women
in his own organization  , a
crime for which he served 4 years in prison, and one of which he still
claims to be innocent. Some of Karenga’s close and credible associates
however, like former US chair Wesley Kabaila
,
maintain Karenga was not only responsible for those women’s torture, but
that it was part of an ongoing pattern over the years.

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[MCM] Telecom cartel is LOSING in its bid to force 5G on all the rest of us (and BORIS JOHNSON is against them, too)!

[Mark Crispin Miller]

5G Cell Phone Radiation: How the Telecom Companies Are Losing the Battle to
Impose 5G Against the Will of the People
By Claire Edwards 
Global Research, December 30, 2019

https://www.globalresearch.ca/telcos-losing-battle-impose-5g/5691065

This was originally published in October 2019.

Some updates were added: December 5, December 17.

*The telecommunications companies and the mainstream media would have you
believe that the race to roll out 5G is unstoppable. That you are nothing
and no one in the face of a lethal multi-trillion-dollar agenda imposed by
some of the most powerful entities on the planet.*

They thought that if they called their new, alleged “communications
technology”, adapted from the military Active Denial Technology

, “5G” or fifth generation, the public would just assume that it was more
of the same as 4G, 3G or 2G. And if they could characterise the rollout as
a race, the public would not have enough time to find out what a killer
technology 5G is. How wrong they were! Not only has the public found out,
but now they know how lethal previous generations of wireless technology –
to be used concurrently with 5G – are as well.

Below is the evidence from a number of different countries that the
pushback is huge and growing. The telcos have lost the propaganda war,
despite their control of the mainstream media, from which not a whisper of
the dangers of 5G is heard, and of social media and Youtube, who have been
desperately deleting millions of accounts to silence the naysayers.

As this article went to press, support arrived from an unexpected source. In
an impassioned speech before the United Nations General Assembly on 24
September 2019, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

 stated that digital authoritarianism is not the stuff of dystopian fantasy
but of an emerging reality. He described the Internet of Things, “smart”
cities and AI as a giant, dark thundercloud lowering ever more oppressively
over the human race , a
gathering force reshaping the future of humanity over which the human race
has no control and from which, in future, there may be nowhere to hide.

He asked if algorithms could be trusted with our lives and hopes and
whether machines should be allowed to doom us to a cold and heartless
future in an Orwellian world designed for censorship, repression and
control. He recalled the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 and
endorsed its ideals of upholding freedom of opinion and expression, the
privacy of home and correspondence, and the right to seek and impart
information and ideas

He exhorted the academic committees, company boards and industry standards
groups who are writing the rulebooks of the future, making ethical
judgements, and choosing what will or will not be rendered possible to find
the right balance between freedom and control, between innovation and
regulation, between private enterprise and government oversight. He
insisted that the ethical judgements inherent in the design of new
technology must be made transparent to all and that joint efforts must be
made to agree a common set of global principles to shape the norms and
standards that will guide the development of emerging technology.

What follows is a citizen journalist’s list of the actions taken to halt 5G
and reports and complaints that have discredited this Machiavellian attempt
to foist a disastrous technology on the world in 2019. It is not an
exhaustive list and I extend my apologies to all those whose efforts I may
have overlooked here and much gratitude to all who have contributed to
making this pushback so successful.

However, we cannot afford to be complacent and, in particular, we must work
to stop the use of the Earth orbits and the stratosphere to beam 5G down to
Earth, for this puts the ionosphere and the entire planet at risk. We must
also work to ensure that the use of street lights with blue light for this
anti-life agenda is rapidly reversed.

The effort to stop 5G is still gathering momentum and we must continue to
work together and tirelessly to protect all life on Earth and the planet
itself until this demented plan is relegated to the history books as the
most Mephistophelian scheme in the history of humankind.

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[MCM] What's happened in Bolivia (as in Brazil) will happen throughout South America, if the US empire has its way

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Time to Cry for Bolivia
Martin Sieff

December 29, 2019

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/29/time-to-cry-for-bolivia

*“Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Bolivia* *recedes into darkness.”*

Winston Churchill’s famous ament for the betrayal of Czechoslovakia to the
Nazis by the Western democracies in 1938 applies today to the shameless
toppling of the lawful, democratically elected government of Bolivia and
the new dark age of repression, exploitation and torture that now threatens
to engulf its people.

To its eternal credit, the Strategic Culture Foundation was one of the
leading global platforms on international affairs to highlight repeatedly
the true meaning of the coup. The toppling of a four times democratically
elected president enjoying clear popular confidence and support hardly
raised a pimple of interest and zero outrage across the complacent
mainstream Media (MSM) of the United States, the rest of the English
Speaking World and even in Western Europe. To this we have sunk.

The United States and Britain and their tame pets have become George
Orwell’s Oceania – and they do not even know it.

First, Brazil, the demographic giant of the Western Hemisphere with its
limitless natural resources and offshore deep ocean oil wealth was
destabilized and its own popular, four times democratically elected
legitimate government was toppled.

A racist, unelected harsh repressive army-backed regime was immediately set
up to be met with comforting approval from the US Right and Wall Street and
with even more comforting Silence from the US Fake Center and Soft Left.

Thus, dictatorship, economic exploitation and repression were fastened on
the backs of 209 million people without as much as a hiccup.

Therefore why should anyone be surprised, shocked or outraged when an even
more explicitly repressive regime, open in its determination to crush the
culture and native religion of the majority indigenous peoples should be
nailed onto the coffin of little Bolivia with only 11 million people?

Compared with the toppling of the Social Democratic government of Brazil,
Bolivia appears small news. But it is not small news for the 11 million
people who live there.

The monstrous repression of the majority native peoples who were given hope
and dignity at last by their four times democratically elected Social
Democrat President Evo Morales has now begun. Mass rape and mass murder are
certain to follow. And so is the threat of eventual genocide.

Luis Fernando Camacho, a right-wing evangelical lawyer from Santa Cruz
especially bears close watching: He specializes in extremely violent and
xenophobic rhetoric. After President Morales was toppled, Camacho entered
the government palace in La Paz, and placed a Bible on the Bolivian flag.
The Protestant pastor by his side then pledged that the Pachamama (the
Andean Mother Earth goddess) will ‘never return to Bolivia. Bolivia belongs
to God.’”

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] How 5G will kill the planet (MUST-SEE interview with Dr. Barrie Trower)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLVIbPtNrVo&fbclid=IwAR102n5gwlfpS4I2-fJ0bbHseaJnygVEByh-lWg8Ynu5oKGDRrYwZN0ww00

*Don't get scared. Get sledge-hammers.*

*MCM*

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[MCM] George Galloway responds to Tony Blair's New Year's message with a rather hot one of his own

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QTddy7Znc

*In that spirit, let me recommend Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer for
your holiday*
*viewing pleasure. *

*MCM *

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[MCM] The impeachment farce is NOT about the Constitution or "the rule of law" but war with Russia (MUST-READ)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*This is the best thing I've read yet about "Ukrainegate" and the hoo-ha in
the House.*

*MCM *

The impeachment crisis and US war plans against Russia31 December 2019

With each passing day of the impeachment crisis, the distance between the
official reasons for the conflict in Washington and the real reasons grows
wider.

It has become increasingly clear that the central issue is not Trump’s
attempt to “solicit interference from a foreign country” by “pressuring a
foreign country to investigate one of the president’s main domestic
political rivals,” as alleged in the whistleblower complaint that triggered
the impeachment inquiry.
A Ukrainian soldier, donning U.S. made equipment, takes his front line
position at destroyed Butovka coal mine in the town of Avdiivka in the
Donetsk region, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vitali Komar)

Rather, the conflict raging within the state centers on Trump’s decision to
temporarily delay a massive weapons shipment to Ukraine.

The ferocity with which the entire US national security apparatus responded
to the delay raises the question: Is there a timetable for using these
weapons in combat to fight a war against Russia?

A *New York Times* front-page exposé published Monday, coming in at 5,000
words and bearing six bylines, makes it clear that Trump’s decision to
withhold military aid—over a month before his phone call with Ukrainian
President Zelensky—triggered the conflict that led to the president’s
impeachment.

As the *Times* reports, “Mr. Trump’s order to hold $391 million worth of
sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, night vision goggles, medical aid
and other equipment the Ukrainian military needed to fight a grinding war
against Russian-backed separatists would help pave a path to the
president’s impeachment.”

The newspaper states that Trump decided to hold up the distribution of
military aid to Ukraine on June 19 after he read a news article saying that
the “Pentagon would pay for weapons and other military equipment for
Ukraine, bringing American security aid to the country to $1.5 billion
since 2014.”

Trump’s action sparked a “fiery internal debate,” according to the *Times*,
leading to an intervention by the “national security team” arrayed in a
“united front” around National Security Advisor John Bolton, an architect
of the Iraq war.

After Trump rejected the officials’ calls for the aid to be released,
saying, “We are pissing away our money,” details of the hold on the
military assistance were leaked to the press and a high-ranking CIA
official submitted a “whistleblower” complaint accusing Trump of soliciting
“dirt” on his political rival.

The CIA spun up its “Mighty Wurlitzer.” The intelligence agencies and the
media began promoting the narrative that Trump held up the military aid to
hurt his political rival, even though Trump made his decision on the aid
package a month before he asked Zelensky to investigate former Vice
President Joe Biden.

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[MCM] Shut up, women, and just let your trans "sisters" do the talking!

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*There's no "transgender debate" because it's not allowed, as anyone who*
*raises any questions for debate gets shut down as "transphobic"—just as*
*there's no "vaccine debate," or "climate change debate," or "debate on*
*Zionism," as anyone who **questions the official line on any of those
subjects *
*gets shut down as **an "anti-vaxxer" or a "climate change denialist" or*
*"anti-Semite."*

*It's more than troubling that one has to point out that those merely
questioning*
*transgender ideology are not "transphobic," any more more than all those *
*questioning the safety, necessity and/or effectiveness of some vaccines
are*
*"anti-vaxxers" (though some are); or any more than those who question the *
*vast panic over "climate change," or who suggest that CO2 is not what's*
*mainly causing it, or causing it at all, or who investigate the high
financial *
*interests behind the Western tidal wave of climate propaganda, are *
*"climate *
*change denialists" (though some are); or any more than those who question*
*Israel's atrocious treatment of the Palestinians, and its apartheid
system, *
*and/or its dark partnerships with other lethal Western states, **are
"anti-Semites" *
*(though—yes—some are).   *

*Those epithets are sweepingly repressive by design, just as their great*
*antecedent, "conspiracy theorist"—that Mother of All Topdown Smears *
*—was **hatched and fed into the public mind so as to stigmatize **whoever *
*dared to question the official fiction of JFK's murder by state *
*agencies *
*in Dallas, and then whoever's dared to question any of the other US crimes*
*against democracy since then. *

*The point, in short, is to prevent debate on those explosive matters, as *
*such debate would lead—**yes, it will lead, eventually—to revolution.*

*Happy New Year!*

*MCM*

Silence, Woman! The death of Female Voices in the Transgender Debate
by Penny Marvel

https://medium.com/@pennymarvel/silence-woman-the-death-of-female-voices-in-the-transgender-debate-241c742799f

Dec. 30, 2019
Speak up — and lose everything…

As we edge closer to the year 2020, many people reflect upon the year
passed or even further back. As Women, we see glimmers of hope towards the
goal of true equality of Women. After all, we can vote, have access to some
forms of reproductive health care and have a voice to speak out against or
for causes that are important to us. Or do we?

2019 has been noted as the year of ‘woke culture’. For any benefit that may
have done, we’ve also seen a backlash of anger, vitriol, and deafening
silence out of fear. Most notably, we have seen a huge bump in
social-political power of the LGBT community, and even more so the
Transgender community.
Sexism Re-Defined As Inclusivity

As Women attempt to power through the adversity still faced by many, we’ve
seen a genuine hijack of the term ‘Woman’ and who gets to be defined under
that label. Society has tossed the notion that biological sex is even real,
and in its place came Gender.

Gender is an identity, a social construct that has been used to oppress
women and hold them into strict conformity for decades. The idea that Pink
is for Girls, is a perfect example of what Gender has to offer women.
However, Transwomen enjoy upholding those stereotypical versions of
Womanhood, because they cannot use biological sex to validate their
identities.

Women have long since fought the notion that they have to look, dress, or
behave a certain way to be considered Women or feminine, but this new
reversal puts Women at serious risk of losing any strides made against
that. The trans-ing of children relies heavily on sexist stereotypes as a
diagnosis,

so
little girls who don’t like long hair must be boys!

The inclusivity of the term ‘Woman’ to mean ‘whoever feels like a Woman’ is
causing serious regressive harm to Women’s Rights and our paths moving
forward. Women are forced to share our rape centers

with
people born Men or have the funding stripped. We are forced to unfairly
compete in sports

with
people born Men. We are forced to use bathrooms with people born Men. We
are even imprisoned with people
born
Men. Women have no safe spaces dedicated to us at all.

But the real damage is done with words. Without Biological Sex, there is no
real sexism. You cannot discriminate against something that does not exist.
If Woman is just a feeling, one could merely opt-out of the trouble it is
to be one. Women who are born Women know there is no real ‘opt-out process’
from being a Woman. Even Transmen are still f

[MCM] LINK to "Ukrainegate"/impeachment piece

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Apologies for omitting it.*

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/31/pers-d31.html

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[MCM] Did Mike Pompeo go rogue with this Iraq attack?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Did Pompeo Go Off Reservation in Iraq Attack?

*The entire essay is
at https://tomluongo.me/2019/12/30/pompeo-iraq-israel-iran/
*

*I have to wonder who Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is actually loyal to.
Because, the U.S. strike of Kata’ib Hizbullah forces near the Al Qaim
border crossing with Syria in Iraq is a dangerous escalation there.*

*And it’s completely at odds with Trump’s goals of wanting us out of the
Middle East. The Al Qaim border crossing is a particular red line for
Israel and their allies in the U.S. State and Defense Departments.*

*It represents the normalization of commerce between Syria, Iraq and Iran
over time. This is the so-called Shia Crescent which is the stuff of
nightmares for Benjamin Netanyahu.*

*And the U.S. has been hopping mad for months since now caretaker Iraqi
Prime Minister Adil Abdel Mahdi opened the border because it undermines
U.S. presence in Syria.*

*The entire point of U.S. occupation of the Al-Tanf border crossing into
Jordan and the oil fields in Deir Ezzor province is about starving the
Syrian government of any reliable energy and revenue.*

*When Al Qaim/Al Bukamai was opened it was only a matter of time before a
major skirmish would occur over it. Israel staged a series of air attacks
previously using U.S. assets and air bases to launch them back in
September.*

*Now, we have the convenient excuse for attacking these forces which are
part of the Popular Mobiliztion Units, PMU, which Pompeo despises by
‘retaliating’ for a rocket attack on the K1 base near Kirkuk where one U.S.
mercenary was killed and a handful of others injured.*

*The response from the U.S. Air Force was completely out of line with the
initial attack and occurred without any attempt by Pompeo and Secretary of
Defense Mark Esper to justify it.*

*They just invoked the phrase, “Iran-backed forces” and then bombed troops
over 200 miles away where they wanted to strike anyway.*

*And what’s important is what both Elijah Magnier and Moon of Alabama
pointed out
immediately,
the U.S. struck member of Shia militias who were made official part of the
Iraqi defense forces.*

*In other words the U.S. just attacked and killed dozens of Iraqi military
personnel.*


*Elijah J. Magnier**@ejmalrai*



*32 killed and 45 wounded the count of #US
 violent aggression on #Iraq
 security forces brigades 45 and
46 last night on a military position established to counter-attack and raid
#ISIS  remnant at al-Qaem, the
borders between Iraq and
Syria.https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1211373749766950913 …
*

*Elijah J. Magnier@ejmalraiReplying to @ejmalrai @AdilAbdAlMahdiThis is the
images of the #US attacks on #Iraq positions deployed against #ISIS.[image:
View image on Twitter][image: View image on Twitter]*

*253* 
*1:20 AM - Dec 30, 2019*


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[MCM] "Lesbianism is dying"

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Lesbianism is Dying
Posted byissydickinson 28th
Dec 2019 

https://issydickinson.com/2019/12/28/lesbianism-is-dying

Lesbianism is under attack like no time ever in history. We are attacked
for being same sex attracted by the heterosexual communities. We are
attacked by LGBTQ communities, because we won’t have sex willingly with
trans women.

We are also under attack from bisexual women who are already in our
community by stealth, claiming lesbianhood on the back of radical feminism
and compulsory heterosexuality. This undermines our purity, our culture and
our heritage and takes Lesbian spaces away from us.

I have lesbian friends who’s lives and hearts have been broken by these
faux-lesbians with counterfeit identities, who then return to men’s beds,
or come out with lesophobic platitudes that injure lesbian psyche.

They are desperate to “have sex” with real lesbians, so they can cross it
off their bucket-lists and then move-on to their next item on it. They
objectify lesbians which is predatory and unhealthy and something that men
do to us. This causes untold personal damage to an already marginalised and
vulnerable group in society.

Lesbians need allies, but we don’t need allies that try to take over our
communities and colonise it by proclaiming they too are “lesbians”, when
they are clearly not. It doesn’t work like that.

I know many bisexual women who do not do this to a community they are
purporting to support. I respect and admire these women and I am proud to
call them “sisters”. They are honest and genuine and not playing identity
politics or trying to have a sexual experience to validate their new
coveted sexuality. Transwomen try to do this to us also.

Heterosexual women also don’t do this to the lesbian community. Again, I
have a lot of time for these women because they don’t have a hidden agenda.
I am proud to call them “sisters” also.

Becoming a radical feminist is a political act and a process, but one isn’t
compelled to change one’s sexuality too. I think that this is where things
have become confused for these women. I think that they feel unless they
identify AS “ lesbians”, they won’t be respected because being merely
political isn’t enough. This is so far from the truth.

I, for one am devastated and threatened by the dilution of lesbianism
recently, by these women, who look down their noses at lesbians and our
unique exclusivity to other lesbians.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Ongoing US slaughters in Somalia and Colombia (to name just two) have been BLACKED OUT by "our free press" (2)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*US Conducts Record Number of Strikes in Somalia in 2019*
AFRICOM says al-Shabaab remains a 'global menace'Jason Ditz
 Posted onDecember 30, 2019

https://news.antiwar.com/2019/12/30/us-conducts-record-number-of-strikes-in-somalia-in-2019

Three US airstrikes against Somalia on Sunday have brought the number of
attacks in that country in 2019 to 63
,
the most ever by US forces in Somalia, and a substantial increase from the
47 in 2018.

US African Command (AFRICOM) claimed four fighters were killed in the
Sunday airstrikes, all from al-Shabaab. Officials reiterated that they
consider al-Shabaab to be a “global menace” intent on attacking the US
homeland.

*Click on the link for the rest.*




Genocide: the new normal in Duque’s Colombia?
by Adriaan Alsema  December
29, 2019

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/03/02/msnbc-now-most-dangerous-warmonger-network

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While Colombia’s government is boasting a 25% reduction in the killing of
human rights defenders and community leaders, genocide has become the new
normal.

The government of President Ivan Duque
 has taken the manipulation of
statistics to a whole new level in its attempts to make the endless killing
disappear and conceal its failure to respond.


Francisco Barbosa (Image: President’s Office)

In an interview with newspaper El Espectador, the presidential adviser on
human rights, Francisco Barbosa, claimed on Thursday that 84 social leaders
were assassinated between January 1 and December 17.

This was a 25% reduction compared to last year, he said. Where the top
official got his numbers from is a mystery.
--
Duque’s lie detector test: is Colombia’s government implementing peace deal?

--
Government statistics contradict all other statistics


President Ivan Duque (L) and UN Mission chief Carlos Ruiz (Image: UN Photo)

The United Nations reported 123 assassinations of presumed social leaders
in October already.

According to independent conflict monitor Indepaz, 234 social leaders were
assassinated between January 1 and December 12.

Nine leaders were assassinated between December 19 and Christmas Day,
according to newspaper El Espectador.

Adding the homicides reported by El Espectador to the statistics of
Indepaz, 865 community leaders and human rights defenders have been
assassinated since 2016.

Genocide has become the new normal in Colombia since the FARC
 guerrilla group disarmed in August
2017, the Duque administration is simply denying reality.

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[MCM] If the US military tries to fight those BIG wars that the Democrats (and some Republicans) are pushing for, it's going to be destroyed

[Mark Crispin Miller]

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
, BOOKS
, CHINA
, COLUMN
, COMMENTARY
, FOREIGN POLICY
, RUSSIA
, U.S.

PEPE ESCOBAR: You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?
December 21, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/21/pepe-escobar-you-say-you-want-a-russian-revolution/

*Andrei Martyanov’s latest book provides unceasing evidence about the kind
of lethality waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real
armies (not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein’s).*

*By Pepe Escobar *
*in Moscow*
*Special to Consortium News*

*O*nce in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case
for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That’s the responsibility
carried by “The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs

,” by Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press), arguably the most important book of
2019.

Martyanov is the total package — and he comes with extra special attributes
as a top-flight Russian military analyst, born in Baku in those Back in the
U.S.S.R. days, living and working in the U.S., and writing and blogging
in English.

Right from the start, Martyanov wastes no time destroying not only
Fukuyama’s and Huntington’s ravings but especially Graham Allison’s
childish and meaningless Thucydides Trap argument — as if the power
equation between the U.S. and China in the 21stcentury could be easily
interpreted in parallel to Athens and Sparta slouching towards the
Peloponnesian War over 2,400 years ago. What next? Xi Jinping as the new
Genghis Khan?

(By the way, the best current essay on Thucydides is in Italian, by Luciano
Canfora (“*Tucidide: La Menzogna, La Colpa, L’Esilio”*). No Trap. Martyanov
visibly relishes defining the Trap as a “figment of the imagination” of
people who “have a very vague understanding of real warfare in the 21st
century.” No wonder Xi explicitly said the Trap does not exist.)

*Please Make Your End-of-Year  Donation

Today.*

Martyanov had already detailed in his splendid, previous book, “Losing
Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning,” how
“American lack of historic experience with continental warfare” ended up
“planting the seeds of the ultimate destruction of the American military
mythology of the 20thand 21stcenturies which is foundational to the
American decline, due to hubris and detachment of reality.” Throughout the
book, he unceasingly provides solid evidence about the kind of lethality
waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real armies (not
the Taliban or Saddam Hussein’s), air forces, air defenses and naval power.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] The top 25 censored stories of 2018-2019 (MUST-READ)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

THE TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES OF 2018-2019

https://www.projectcensored.org/category/the-top-25-censored-stories-of-2018-2019/

The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2018-2019 extends the tradition
originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University
students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to
include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America
has made the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s
cycle, Project Censored reviewed over 300 Validated Independent News
stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 283 college students
and 24 professors from 15 college and university campuses that participated
in the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program during the past year.

   - A Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
   


   How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news
   stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward
   each year are not…
   Read more
   

   - 1. Justice Department’s Secret FISA Rules for Targeting Journalists
   


   A pair of 2015 memos, from former attorney general Eric Holder to the
   Department of Justice’s National Security Division, show how the government
   could use court orders under the Foreign…
   Read more
   


   -
   - A Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
   


   How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news
   stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward
   each year are not…
   Read more
   

   - 1. Justice Department’s Secret FISA Rules for Targeting Journalists
   


   A pair of 2015 memos, from former attorney general Eric Holder to the
   Department of Justice’s National Security Division, show how the government
   could use court orders under the Foreign…
   Read more
   

   - 2. Think Tank Partnerships Establish Facebook as Tool of US Foreign
   Policy
   


   Under the guise of fighting “fake news” and protecting US democracy from
   “foreign influence,” in 2018 social media giant Facebook established
   partnerships with the Atlantic Council, a NATO-sponsored think tank,…
   Read more
   

   - 3. Indigenous Groups from Amazon Propose Creation of Largest Protected
   Area on Earth
   


   Sweeping development throughout the Amazon rainforest is an abiding
   concern for indigenous groups. The Amazon’s extraordinary biodiversity is
   being destroyed for profits and political gain. In response, an alliance of…
   Read more
   

   - 4. US Oil and Gas Industry Set to Unleash 120 Billion Tons of New
   Carbon Emissions
   


   The US oil and gas industry has the potential to “unleash the largest
   burst of new carbon emissions in the world” through 2050, according to a
   January 2019 report from…
   Read more
   

   - *Click on the link for the other 21.*
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[MCM] Someone explain Hosea 8:7 to the murderers of Qassem Soleimani (2)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."*


*Two sober assessments by Scott Ritter.*

*MCM*

The US unwittingly helped create Qassem Soleimani. Then they killed him.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/477423-us-soleimani-assassination-consequences/

[image: Scott Ritter] 
Scott Ritter
is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer. He served in the Soviet
Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s
staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.
3 Jan, 2020 20:50 / Updated 1 day ago
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The US is unprepared for the consequences of its assassination of Qassem
Soleimani, if only because it knows nothing about the reality of the man it
murdered, and can’t gauge the impact of his death on Iran or the Middle
East.

Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian military commander whose paramilitary
organization, known as the Quds Force, helped position Iran as a modern
regional power, was assassinated on January 3, 2020, on order of the
President of the United States, Donald Trump. American political leaders of
both major parties have been united in their description of Soleimani as an
evil man whose death should be celebrated, even while the consequences of
his demise remain unknown.

*Click on the link for the rest.*


Iranian Revenge Will Be A Dish Best Served Cold

But the time and place will be of their choosing, when the U.S. expects it
least.


https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/iranian-revenge-will-be-a-dish-best-served-cold/

Quds Day rally, Parade of military forces, along with photographs of Qasem
Soleimani, Iran Tehran, May 31, 2019. By Saeediex/Shutterstock


JANUARY 4, 2020
|

5:56 AM
SCOTT
RITTER 





The assassination by the United States of Qassem Suleimani, a senior
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general and commander of the Quds Force,
an Iranian paramilitary force specializing in covert operations on foreign
soil, has sent shock waves through the Middle East and around the globe.

The Trump administration has justified its action, citing unspecified
intelligence that indicated Suleimani was in the process of finalizing
plans for attacks on U.S. personnel and interests in the region, claiming
that Suleimani’s death “saved American lives.” This narrative has been
challenged by Lebanese officials familiar with Suleimani’s itinerary,
noting that the Iranian general had been in Beirut on diplomatic business,
and had travelled to Baghdad via a commercial air flight, where he had been
diplomatically cleared to enter. These officials claim Suleimani was killed
while riding in a convoy on his way from Baghdad International Airport into
the city of Baghdad.

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[MCM] Public libraries CAN have drag queens strip for little kids, but CAN'T have women's groups discuss trans ideology?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

 Guest Columns 
Sexualized
performances not for kidsBY NATASHA CHART/BOARD CHAIR, WOMEN’S LIBERATION
FRONT Monday, December 30th,
2019 at 12:02am
https://www.abqjournal.com/1405006/sexualized-performances-not-for-kids.html


Volunteer Drag Queens Bunnie Benton Cruse, left and Vanessa Patricks, read
to kids on June 15 at the Main Library in Downtown Albuquerque. (Adolphe
Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)

The Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Public Libraries, like many other
public libraries around the country, directly sponsor Drag Queen Story
Hours, where male adult entertainers put on nightclub entertainment for
children. In library drag performances in states like Washington, children
have been pictured rolling around on the performer as he lay on the floor,
and in another, a performer put on a strip act that revealed his racy
bodysuit.

Many male drag performers have social media accounts that are even more
explicit than their performances. If their younger audiences look them up,
they may well get an eyeful of age-inappropriate content, much of which
portrays women and girls as sexualized objects.

Our organization, the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), representing many
lesbian and bisexual women, takes the position that it’s wrong for public
libraries to sponsor sexualized adult entertainment as children’s
entertainment.

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[MCM] Australia is one of 47 countries with cloud-seeding capabilities, to make it rain. So why isn't it?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/australia-is-1-of-47-countries-globally-that-makes-rain-by-cloud-seeding-bbc-why-are-they-not-using-it-to-extinguish-the-fires/
*DISASTER
, NEWS
*
AUSTRALIA IS 1 OF 47 COUNTRIES GLOBALLY THAT MAKES RAIN BY CLOUD SEEDING
(BBC) … WHY ARE THEY NOT USING IT TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRES?
JANUARY 4, 2020

 PAM VERNON  5
COMMENTS


EWR (EnvirowatchRangitikei)

Cloud
seeding is a well known tech & is employed all over the world according to
a BBC documentary (see video excerpt below). This is going on in 47
countries (including Australia) involving 150 programs ‘as we speak’ says
the commentary. See below an application form used in the state of Texas to
modify the weather.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] UN called for a halt to geo-engineering in 2010

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*From over 9 years ago. How much of such poisonous manipulation has gone on
since then?*
*And how much is going on right now?*

*MCM*

OCTOBER 21, 2010
U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects
Chisa Fujioka 


5 MIN READ

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-geoengineering/u-n-urged-to-freeze-climate-geo-engineering-projects-idUSTRE69K18320101021

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - The United Nations should impose a moratorium on
“geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast
cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing
they could harm nature and mankind.

An agricultural aircraft flies over Prachuab Khirikhan in a bid to seed
clouds, about 300 km (186 miles) south of Bangkok, April 4, 2007.
REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

The risks were too great because the impacts of manipulating nature on a
vast scale were not fully known, the groups said at a major U.N. meeting in
Japan aimed at combating increasing losses of plant and animal species.

Envoys from nearly 200 countries are gathered in Nagoya, Japan, to agree
targets to fight the destruction of forests, rivers and coral reefs that
provide resources and services central to livelihoods and economies.

A major cause for the rapid losses in nature is climate change, the United
Nations says, raising the urgency for the world to do whatever it can to
curb global warming and prevent extreme droughts, floods and rising sea
levels.

Some countries regard geo-engineering projects costing billions of dollars
as a way to control climate change by cutting the amount of sunlight
hitting the earth or soaking up excess greenhouse gas emissions,
particularly carbon dioxide.

“It’s absolutely inappropriate for a handful of governments in
industrialized countries to make a decision to try geo-engineering without
the approval of all the world’s support,” Pat Mooney, from
Canada-headquartered advocacy organization ETC Group, told Reuters on the
sidelines of the October 18-29 meeting.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] A bit of imperial farce in Venezuela

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*What just happened when Juan Guaidó tried to enter Venezuela's National
Assembly by jumping a fence, *

*while Luis Parra was sworn in as the new president of parliament:*

http://bestbackgrounders.s3.amazonaws.com/guido.mp4


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[MCM] Could Trump be playing chess over Iran?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From Vladimir Golstein (on Facebook):*

*Trump's Preemptive Strike Against Neocons, or Is He Playing Chess?*

*Granted that Trump is not the most educated, sophisticated, or
knowledgeable person on the planet, he is surely very savvy, and
people-smart. Just the way he zoomed through Republican nominations and won
the 2016 campaign testifies to his tremendous skills and certain
intelligence, that his myopic critics refuse to acknowledge.*

*So in light of that, how to interpret his decision to assassinate the top
notch Iranian General Soleimani?*

*What follows is pure conjecture - -just based on my intuition and certain
patterns of Trump's past behavior.*

*We remember how he decided to bomb Syria on the basis of some fake
accusations of chemical attack. He had everyone in his family, let alone in
foreign policy establishment bugging him to strike. So he did. But after
that he did not escalate. In other words, by his aggressive action he
immediately shuts the opposition and establishment up. He sends a message
to his base that he can be tough, he sends the message to Pentagon, that he
wants them to be strong. But he does not push it further. By his instincts,
he does not want a big international confrontation. He is not a sicko like
Hillary or Albright. In other words, he wants his cake and he wants to eat
it too.*

*Why can't the same pattern apply here. The Neocons, or let call them The
Netaniahu party of the State Department and Sick Tanks establishment are
immediately disarmed. They can be gloating, or blaming the victim, or
demonizing Iranians, and doing their usual nonsense, but they are off his
back. Military can walk proud, his base is happy, since their man has shown
that he is a top dog. And last but not least, Democrats are incapacitated.
All they can do is to bleat -- in the form of Liz Warren -- that yes,
Soleimani was an awful man, but there should be procedures and
consultations. Something that most of Americans except the intelligentsia
pussy-hatters would just pooh-pooh. In other words, impeachment is
neutralized, there is no serious foreign policy challenges --since the
opposition of the war-mongering democrats has no teeth, so Trump is in the
driver seat.*

*Granted, all that was accomplished by the murder of a human being, who was
highly influential and admired in many quarters, and granted that it can
escalate into total chaos, but if it does not, then indeed, Trump has his
cake and eats it too. A gamble? Yes. Cynical murder? Yes. But that's
politics.*

*In other words, if Iran bites the bullet, if neither Netaniahu nor Pompeo
provoke further violence -- then Trump might succeed in getting what he
wanted: -- reducing army's exposure to harm's way, showing that he is a top
dog and so is his military, shutting up the opposition (from both neocons
and neoliberals) and sailing into 2020 White House.*

*As I said, this is just an attempt of non-linear, non-partisan analysis. I
prefer to understand something, rather than partaking in echo chambers or
showing off my impeccable virtues.*

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[MCM] Some scary (although unreported) news about the now-APPROVED (although untested) new Ebola vaccine

[Mark Crispin Miller]

It can’t get any worse, can it?

by
* Wayne RohdeHealth Impact News*


*https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/new-ebola-vaccine-to-be-added-to-little-known-government-countermeasures-injury-compensation-program-along-with-other-dangerous-vaccines
*

With the news of the approved Ebola vaccine by the FDA, many questions
arise. Will it shed? Is it a live virus? Will we see Ebola outbreaks on our
shores? While I can’t answer those questions conclusively, I do want to
bring to your attention something that has been brewing in the background
for several years.

It wears a black hood and cape, wants to remain anonymous and is no hero to
those who fall victim to vaccine injury or death. This is another federal
program, hardly known to the public. And one that I do not wish upon anyone.
Countermeasure

The federal program, Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) is
lurking in the darkness and hiding undercover at The Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes
the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) in 2010.

A countermeasure is a vaccination, medication, device, or other item
recommended to diagnose, prevent or treat a declared pandemic, epidemic or
security threat. The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program was
created so that in the unlikely event you experience a serious injury from
a covered countermeasure, you may be considered for benefits.


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[MCM] What's up with those fires in Australia (AND California)?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*According to the "logic" of the moment, the wildfires burning up
Australia, like those *
*that blasted some 2 million acres in California, are proof that "climate
change" has*
*now brought on the planetary emergency that we've been warned about for
decades.*

*I put "logic" in scare quotes (so to speak) because that inference isn't
really **logical *
*at all—that is, not based on any actual forensic study of the fires in *
*question**—**but *
*an emotional reaction to the terroristic spectacle of all that fire, and
its **authoritative *
*gloss by **"our free press" as "proof" that "climate change" has brought
us to the brink *
*of global **ruin. Under **pressure of **that grimly **annotated spectacle,
anyone who questions *
*whether **"climate change" **has brought **on such "unprecedented"
fires is a "denialist" *
*almost as dangerous as the fires **themselves.   *

*While the "logic" of that panicked inference is quite unrelated either to
pyrology or*
*careful climatology, it would be wrong to say it has no scientific
basis—for it does*
*reflect directly on a science that those panicking cannot even perceive,
much less*
*comprehend: the science of propaganda. The long, incessant, ever-louder
drumbeat *
*of those **climate-change assertions and predictions, culminating now in
those convenient*
*terrifying "proofs" that those assertions have been true, and those
predictions*
*accurate, comprise a global drama exemplifying propaganda at its most
sophisticated,*
*and certainly enhanced by yet another scientific coup that those
"well-educated"*
*panicked masses also can't (or won't) perceive.*

*That high technical accomplishment is geo-engineering, whereby those fires*
*would seem to have been created and prolonged. *

*An enlightening video on Australia's fires:*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxHcBDp4J84&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2WD2i4eaYNH36rm0KVR_0EL6NtztwIh4rtq-Y5AlJecwZGGoCrhVmeggw

*Relatedly, on the fact that Australia has not been unusually "dry" this
last half-century,*
*as widely advertised, but fairly wet (in a piece that blames poor forest
management for*
*the disaster):*
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/04/australia-fires-and-misses/

*Also relatedly, Australian police are claiming that the fires were caused
by "arsonists"*
*and lightning, not climate change (without suggesting that such
"arsonists" may have*
*been operating overhead):*
https://summit.news/2020/01/03/australian-police-say-arsonists-lightning-to-blame-for-bushfires-not-climate-change/

*On the apparent use of energy-directed weapons to set off the fires in
California (three*
*of many pieces on that question):*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58rYo_36JA
https://www.aircrap.org/2017/10/13/california-fires-dew-directed-energy-weapons/
https://www.aircrap.org/2017/12/14/california-fires-space-based-weather-weapons/

*All this is—or should be—food for thought.*

*MCM*

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[MCM] The urgent lesson of Albert Camus today (MUST-READ)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

‘The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/searching-life-enigmatic-
death-albert-camus/5699607
By Edward Curtin 
Global Research, January 05, 2020
Theme: History 


*“Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his
conclusions.  A thousand voices are already telling him what he has found,
and yet he knows he hasn’t found anything. Should he search on and let them
talk?  Of course.” – Albert Camus, “The Enigma” in Lyrical and Critical
Essays*

Albert Camus’ search ended sixty years ago on January 4, 1960, the day he
died. Although he had already written *The Stranger*, *The Rebel*, *The
Plague*, and *The Fall*, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he
felt his true work had barely begun. Alongside the car in which he died,
his briefcase lay in the mud.  In it was the uncompleted, hand-written
manuscript of his final quest, *The First **Man*, an autobiographical novel
written in a raw emotional and lyrical style that was liberating him from
the prison of a classical form he felt compelled to escape.  He was on his
way to a new freedom, in writing and in life, when he was cut down.  The
book was published posthumously in 1994 by his daughter and son.  It is a
beautiful peek into a reserved man’s youthful inner development, the
loneliness of a poor boy made fatherless by an absurd war, and the ways in
which the boy “had to learn by himself, to grow alone, in fortitude, in
strength, find his own morality and truth.”  It explains a lot about Camus’
later writing and why, at the end of his life, he was so isolated and
criticized by the right, left, and center for his various political
positions.

He could not be pigeonholed. This drove many crazy.  His allegiance was to
truth, not ideologies.  He was not a partisan in the Cold War between the
U.S./NATO and the U.S.S.R.  An artist compelled by conscience and history
to enter the political arena, he spoke in defense of the poor, oppressed,
and powerless.  Among his enemies were liberal imperialism and Soviet
Marxism, abstract ideologies used to murder and enslave people around the
world.  He opposed state murder, terrorism, and warfare from all quarters.
He was an artistic anarchist with a passionate spiritual hunger and an
austere and moral Don Juan.  He was a mystery to himself in many ways. He
made mistakes. But he was honest and honorable.

He is the kind of thinker we need today.  But he is still easily used and
abused by those with their own agendas, and in that way, he is emblematic
of the ways the search for truth today can be manipulated.  It is a sly
game, one that only can start to make sense when one puts concentrated
effort into unraveling the endless propaganda that is the fabric of our
lives today.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Pushback from a believer

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From my email on the fires in Australia and California:*

*"Under **pressure of **that grimly **annotated spectacle, anyone who
questions *
*whether '**climate change' **has brought **on such 'unprecedented'
fires is a 'denialist' *
*almost as dangerous as the fires **themselves."*

*Thus it is that an old friend, and NFU subscriber, just sent me the
following:*

Really not sure how or when it happened, but you have ... become a tool for
those who[m]
you used to oppose. Namely, those hoping to deceive us with industry
propaganda. Not sure
when or how or why it has happened, but it's very disappointing to see.

*Note how that response evades the several points made in the links I
shared (none*
*of which comes from the fossil fuels colossus), and **in my own prefatory
piece, *
*dismissing them with an ad hominem attack. *

*MCM*

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[MCM] Are Indonesia's floods related to Australia's fires?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From John Kirby:*

*I need to check the prevailing wind and weather pattern, but Indonesia’s
floods may be directly connected to Australia’s fires: *
*they may be raining out the clouds so that they don’t hit fires*

*A few minutes later:*

*Oddly there is no wind or precipitation data over the main island of
Indonesia itself; the maps just show the wind patterns around it.  *
*But subject to further investigation, I would say that a preliminary look
confirms the supposition:  any precipitation that might reach *
*Australia is being dumped on Indonesia.  The wind patterns below* show
Indonesia up-weather from Australia.  *

*[*I attached the screen shots that John sent me, but they made the email
too big for Googlegroups to send.—MCM]*


Indonesia tries cloud seeding as flood death toll rises to 46

By Max Walden 
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/04/death-toll-rises-in-indonesias-sinking-capital-as-flood-defences-struggle

Indonesia's air force has dropped salt flares on storm clouds in an effort
to prevent further torrential rain over the capital Jakarta, after deadly
floods ravaged the city over the New Year period.

Key points:

   - Cloud-seeding efforts aim to lessen rainfall over the Indonesian
   capital
   - Deaths have been caused by electrocution, drowning and hypothermia
   - Almost 400,000 people sought refuge in shelters across Jakarta

Two planes dropped 2.4 tonnes and 800 kilograms of salt, respectively, in
an effort to break up clouds before they reach the city, said the country's
technological agency, which has spearheaded the "weather modification"
effort.

"Please pray for the successful operation of weather modification to
mitigate further flood disasters," tweeted the agency's head Hammam Riza.

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[MCM] Far from planning any "imminent" attacks on US troops, Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission to make peace (3)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Whitney Webb's piece in Mint Press News, on the spider's web of likely
motives for the murder:*

https://www.mintpressnews.com/dubious-official-story-qassem-soleimani-assassination/263869/


*"There was nothing to suggest to the Iraqis that it was unsafe for
Soleimani to travel to Baghdad – quite the contrary. This suggests that
Trump helped lure the Iranian commander to a place where he could be
killed.*

*"Abdul-Mahdi spoke of his disappointment that while Trump was expressing
his gratitude over the mediation, he was also simultaneously planning an
attack on Soleimani. That attack took place not long after the telephone
call from the president."*
The reason Qassem Soleimani was in Baghdad shows how complex the Iran
crisis is
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/qassem-soleimani-death-iran-baghdad-middle-east-iraq-saudi-arabia-a9272901.html
  

Evidence? What evidence? Pompeo shows no proof of ‘imminent’ Soleimani
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https://www.rt.com/usa/477663-pomepo-no-evidence-soleimani/
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The US says that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was plotting “imminent
and sinister” attacks against its diplomats and military personnel. But
when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was pressed for evidence of this, he
gave none.

Soleimani, commander of the Iranian military’s Quds Force, was assassinated
in a drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday. Before the strike, President
Donald Trump implicated Iran in a fatal rocket attack on an American base
in Iraq in December, and in the storming of the American embassy in Baghdad
by protesters last week. Afterwards, he said that Soleimani was killed to
prevent *“imminent and sinister”* attacks against American officials and
troops in the Middle East.

With Washington and Tehran throwing escalatory threats at each other
following the strike, Pompeo spoke to reporters on Tuesday. Asked for
evidence of the threat posed by Soleimani, the US secretary of state
provided little in the way of information.

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[MCM] What Cambridge Analytica (not Russia) did for Trump's "election"

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*The only problem here is the presumption that Trump won because of
Cambridge Analytica's*
*machinations, when the evidence in fact suggests that his "victory" was
STOLEN in the swing*
*states, through vote suppression and electronic fraud (the same tactics
used to make Hillary*
*her party's "choice" as nominee.*

*Nevertheless, this is an enlightening interview.*

*MCM*

“The Great Hack”: Big Data Firms Helped Sway the 2016 Election. Could It
Happen Again in 2020?
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The only problem here is the presumption that Trump won because of
Cambridge Analytica's machinations, when the evidence in fact suggests that
his "victory" was STOLEN in the swing states, through vote suppression and
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[MCM] Del Bigtree gives some truth to a pro-vax "reporter" (MUST-READ)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Boom.*

*MCM*

https://thehighwire.com/del-bigtree-reveals-all-to-pro-vax-reporter

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*On New Year’s Eve, while spending time with my wife and family, I received
an email from the Canadian Broadcasting Company.  It was clear that they
were planning some sort of hit piece about me and others in the Medical
Freedom Movement on their show “Marketplace.”  There are those that would
say I should avoid inquiries like this. But I think there is no better way
to ring in 2020 than a healthy dose of the truth.  Here is my response, and
their original email is below.*

*Dear Katie,*

*Thank you for your interest in my work.  Though it is clear by your email
that you are planning on conducting a program with a strong bias against
me, your broadcast will still be seen by many intelligent people who will
be made curious by your allegations and will in turn do their own research
into me and my non-profit ICAN and our internet talk show, The HighWire.
Because of this more people will be introduced to my logical and reasonable
message about the inherent dangers in mandating vaccines, a product that is
made by a pharmaceutical industry that has paid out billions in damages for
having lied about safety, and is the only product this same industry makes
that never established safety using the scientific method of a double blind
placebo study and is protected from liability for death and injury.  This
will lead to a growth in our movement which stands for medical freedom and
scientific transparency. So, I sincerely want to thank you ahead of time
for helping to spread our important message.*

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[MCM] Iran killed "hundreds of Americans" in Iraq? Did they use those "weapons of mass destruction" to do it?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

There’s No Evidence Iran Is Responsible for the Deaths of Hundreds of
Americans

The assertions being repeated today seem based on apparently groundless
claims from twelve years ago by the same people who said Iraq possessed
weapons, weapons programs, and weapons systems that were such a grave
threat that they ignited the U.S.-Iraq war.

by Stephen Zunes 

January 7, 2020


https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/07/there-zero-actual-evidence-iran-responsible-killing-hundreds-americans

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US air force based in Qatar flies over desert, April 14, 2003.

The skepticism expressed

by
some leading Democrats and the mainstream media regarding the U.S.
assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani has been refreshing, after
decades of bipartisan support for disastrous U.S. policies in the region.

These critiques, not unreasonably, have acknowledged Suleiman’s nefarious
role in advancing Iran’s geostrategic reach in the Middle East supporting
extremist militia, exacerbating sectarianism, and suppressing progressive
democratic movements.

However, the claim

that
Soleimani and the Iranian government are somehow responsible for the deaths
of “hundreds of Americans” in Iraq—which has been repeated

by
leading Democrats and the mainstream media—appears to be groundless.

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[MCM] It pays to be a Clinton! How Chelsea reaped $9 million

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Attached is Michael Rectenwald's meditation on this subject, focusing*
*especially on Chelsea's stint as a vice provost at NYU (where Mike was*
*my colleague until recently).*


*MCM*

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Clinton.

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https://www.barrons.com/articles/chelsea-clintons-iac-stock-is-now-worth-9-million-51578227455

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[MCM] MH-17 tragedy was engineered by Kiev and MI6, claims Ukrainian whistleblower

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Ukranian Whistleblower Reveals MH-17 Tragedy Was Orchestrated by Poroshenko
and British Secret ServiceMythology That MH-17 Downing Was Done by Donbass
Volunteers Has Fallen Apart

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Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Paul
Antonopoulos, Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies…

Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH-17), that was shot down on July 17, 2014
in the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, killed all passengers onboard and
was immediately blamed on pro-Russia Donbass volunteer militias fighting
against henchmen of the Maidan civil unrest, the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

and
the Ukrainian military. The blame was assigned against the Donbass militias
with no investigation occurring and many questions remaining unanswered.
These questions were answered by Former Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Prozorov
of the Ukrainian Security Services, who fled to Russia, in a damning new
documentary titled “MH-17: In Search Of Truth
.”

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[MCM] "Operation Blackout": Mossad-connected tech firm is running doomsday drills for next Election Day (if any)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Aside from the preposterous claim that "voting machine software" is one*
*of the "key pillars of American democracy" (!), this is an important
article.*

*(When will brave and able journalists like Whitney Webb get up to speed*
*on the corruption of the US voting system? That they know nothing of *
*this urgent subject istestament to the effectiveness with which our *
*Masters *
*have erased it, through long use of the "conspiracy theory" meme.)*

*MCM *

[image: Cybereason Israel tech feature photo]

OPERATION BLACKOUT
Why a Shadowy Tech Firm With Ties to Israeli Intelligence Is
Running
Doomsday Election Simulations


A shadowy tech firm with deep ties to Israeli intelligence and newly inked
contracts to protect Pentagon computers is partnering with Lockheed Martin
to gain unprecedented access to the heart of America’s democracy.
by Whitney Webb 

January 04th, 2020

By Whitney Webb  Whitney
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Election Day 2020: 32 Americans dead, over 200 injured, martial law
declared and the election itself is canceled. While this horrific scenario
seems more like the plot of a Hollywood film, such was the end result of a
recent simulation examining the preparedness of U.S. officials from the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) and the U.S. Secret Service against “bad actors” seeking to undermine
the upcoming presidential election.

Yet, this simulation was not a government-organized exercise but was
instead orchestrated by a private company with deep ties to foreign and
domestic intelligence services, a company that is also funded by investors
with clear connections to individuals who would stand to benefit if such a
catastrophic election outcome were to become reality.

Much of the rhetoric since the last presidential election in 2016 has
focused on the issue of foreign meddling by U.S. rival states like Russia,
while China has emerged as the new “meddler” of choice in American
corporate media as the 2020 election approaches. Though time has revealed
that many of the post-2016 election meddling claims were not as significant
as initially claimed, the constant media discussion of foreign threats to
U.S. democracy and electoral processes – whether real or imagined – has
undeniably created a climate of fear.
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https://www.mintpressnews.com/cybereason-israel-tech-firm-doomsday-election-simulations/263886/

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[MCM] 250 million Indians hit Modi's government with national strike

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Largest Ever Strike in India Shakes Up Modi Govt

Besides industries, employees in banks, transport, ports, government
offices, scheme workers and farmers and rural labourers stopped work.
https://www.newsclick.in/Nationwide-Workers-General-Strike-8-Jan-Modi-Government
Subodh Varma 

08 Jan 2020
[image: General Strike]


India woke up on January 8, to witness the largest ever strike with an
estimated 25 crore (250 million) workers, employees, farmers and rural
labourers stopping work and hitting the streets to protest against the Modi
government’s economic policies and divisive politics.

Reports coming in from various states

indicate
that the strike was complete in the country’s massive public sector across
sectors, such as steel, coal, other mining, defence production, port &
dock, oil & natural gas, telecom, power generation, etc. Ancillary
industries also were mostly shut.

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[MCM] Iran was very careful with its missile strike; and maybe Trump is also looking to de-escalate... (2)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*So maybe all the screaming about Archduke Ferdinand was a trifle
premature?*


*MCM*

Iran didn’t want to kill US troops with its strike, it wanted to make point
to Trump about its missile tech & resolve. It did that
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/477759-iran-missiles-subdued-us-strike/

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Iran’s anticipated retaliation for the US assassination of Qassem Suleimani
sent a clear signal to Donald Trump that while the current round of
violence may be over, Iran stands ready to respond to any future US
provocation.

Tehran warned Iraq to spare US soldiers

On Tuesday night, the Iranian nation buried the body of Qassem Soleimani,
the charismatic senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officer
assassinated by the US this past week. In the early hours of Wednesday
morning, that task completed, Soleimani’s IRGC comrades, acting on the
orders of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, launched some 22 ballistic
missiles from Iranian territory into neighboring Iraq, targeting the huge
US air base at Al Assad, in western Iraq, and the US consulate in the city
of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan.

*Click on the link for the rest.*


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PEPE ESCOBAR: Trump to De-Escalate: Intel Source
January 8, 2020

*“It is most unlikely Trump will escalate at this point, and this could
provide him with the opportunity to leave the Middle East except for the
Gulf States. Trump wants to get out,” a U.S. intelligence source says.*


*https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/08/pepe-escobar-trump-to-de-escalate-intel-source/
*

*By *
*Pepe Escobar **Special to
Consortium News  *

* 
P*resident
Donald Trump will de-escalate the crisis with Iran when he speaks to the
nation at 11 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, a U.S. intelligence source has
told me.

Last night Iran retaliated for the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassem
Soleimani with missile strikes on two U.S. military bases in Iraq. So far
there have been no casualties reported. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad
Zarif said that the ballistic missile strikes launched from Iran completed
Tehran’s military action.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] East Vancouver's urban salmon stream sees no returning fish in 3 years. Why? (Hint: The more-than-likely reason is NOT mentioned in this article.)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Fukushima never happened.*


*MCM*

East Vancouver's urban salmon stream sees no returning fish in 3 years
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/still-creek-salmon-1.5380465
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Still Creek enjoyed a salmon resurgence in 2012, but no fish have returned
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CBC News · Posted: Dec 01, 2019 8:03 PM PT | Last Updated: December 1, 2019
Chum salmon returned to spawn in Still Creek in an industrial area of East
Vancouver in 2012, but they haven't been back in three years. (CBC)
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Biologists are sounding the alarm over the lack of fish in one of
Vancouver's few salmon-bearing streams.

Nestled in an industrial corner of East Vancouver, Still Creek is one of a
handful of places in the city where salmon come to spawn.

After 80 dormant years, the salmon returned in 2012 following a city
restoration of the creek. Hundreds of chum salmon have been through since
then.

But biologist and volunteer stream keeper David Scott says there haven't
been any salmon in three years.

"We're kind of frustrated," Scott said. "In all of the local creeks the
chum salmon returns have been really poor."

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[MCM] WHO sees your child's presence in school as "implied consent" to (mandatory) vaccination

[Mark Crispin Miller]

WHO NOW DEEMS YOUR CHILD’S PRESENCE IN SCHOOL AS INFORMED CONSENT TO
VACCINATE THEM (IT’S CALLED ‘IMPLIED CONSENT’)
NOVEMBER 23, 2019

 PAM VERNON 

https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/who-now-deems-your-childs-presence-in-school-as-informed-consent-to-vaccinate-them-its-called-implied-consent

>From Kevin Galalae at Facebook

The World Health Organization, which is the medical epicenter of the
depopulation lobby, now considers your child’s presence in school informed
consent to vaccinate that child. Depopulation by vaccination us now fully
outside the law and will sterilize, sicken and dumb down every child on
earth but the children of the depop lobby members who don’t vaccinate their
children.

[image: consent]

Read the full story in WHO’s official document, link below:

https://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/consent_note_en.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1IUKIk-EJ6GFtbkAi32QC0uDYWgRJbVpnRym_Qq3-CwciuIr9v80Xgkn8

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[MCM] US denies Iran's foreign minister a visa for Security Council visit

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*More thug "diplomacy."*


*MCM*

By denying Iran’s foreign minister visa for Security Council visit, America
has lost moral right to serve as home for UN
7 Jan, 2020 20:07 / Updated
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/477668-move-un-embassy-iran


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America has lost moral right to serve as home for UN]
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*By Dr. George Szamuely , Senior
Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute and author of Bombs for
Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia
*
US officials have long used visa rejections to humiliate political
adversaries who have to travel to New York to attend the United Nations.
Enough is enough.
Sanctioning Zarif

The US government has apparently denied Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif a visa to enter the United States in order to attend a January
9 UN Security Council meeting. The subject to be discussed wasn’t Iran but
something far more anodyne: *“Maintenance of International Peace and
Security: Upholding the UN Charter.”* Zarif had applied for a visa long
before the current turmoil in relations between Washington and Tehran.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Big Pharma spending BILLIONS on "medical marketing"—i.e, propaganda—to wipe out ALL vaccine exemptions.

[Mark Crispin Miller]

January 11, 2020
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/big-pharma-spends-30-billion-on-medical-marketing-wants-vaccine-exemptions-eliminated/
Big Pharma Spends $30 BILLION on Medical Marketing – Wants Vaccine
Exemptions Eliminated



Meryl Nass, M.D.
The Elephant in the Auditorium — Big Pharma Profiteering on the Bodies of
Children

by Vera Sharav

Alliance for Natural Health


In her meticulously referenced testimony submitted to the Massachusetts
legislature which is considering whether to eliminate religious exemptions
from the childhood vaccination schedule, Meryl Nass, MD, board member of
the *Alliance for Human Research Protection*, laid out the facts to refute
the Pharma-orchestrated propaganda about vaccines.

First: “there is no crisis (no epidemic of deaths or disabilities) from
infectious diseases caused by unvaccinated children, either in
Massachusetts or the United States.”

She pointed out that “the elephant in the auditorium today is Pharma
profits.” Merck lists on its website over 1,000 candidates for state and
federal offices to whom it “contributed” money in 2018.

Pharma money purchases the *allegiance* of our major media corporations: in
addition to its expenditure for advertising to consumers* — *$6.4 billion
— Pharma spent in 2016, Pharma spent $29.9 billion on medical marketing.

“Pharma’s latest risky strategy is trying to rid the world of vaccine
exemptions, to prevent vaccine opt-outs–before a new crop of vaccines, with
inadequate safety and efficacy testing. Vaccines for which Pharma will have
no liability once they are placed on the childhood schedule.”

Dr. Nass points out the added danger that government waivers of vaccine
liability posed for children.

“waivers discourage manufacturers from ensuring that the vaccines they sell
are as safe and effective as possible. The removal of vaccine exemptions,
combined with liability waivers for vaccine side effects and recently
loosened standards for licensing vaccines, create a highly toxic mix.”



My name is Dr. Meryl Nass.

   - I am an internal medicine physician in Ellsworth, Maine.
   - I graduated from MIT and the University of Mississippi School of
   Medicine.
   - I have testified to 6 Congressional committees, primarily on anthrax
   vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome, and the permanent injuries suffered by
   service-members who received military vaccines of poor quality.
   - I have also testified about the issue of vaccine exemptions to
   legislative committees in Maine, Vermont and New Brunswick.  I saw
   firsthand how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists patrolled legislative
   halls, provided talking points, schooled public servants, and helped
   constrain the terms of this debate.

*The elephant in the auditorium today is Pharma profits.  Dare I say out
loud that our children’s arms and bodies are the delivery system for
transferring money from the citizens of the Commonwealth to the
pharmaceutical industry?*

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] BC appeals court rules that dad must call his 13-year-old daughter "him"

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*... and let her undergo testosterone treatment.*

*MCM*

Appeal court rules father must refer to teen daughter as ‘him’
The British Columbia court of appeal also ruled Friday that the 13-year-old
daughter was old enough to consent to testosterone 'treatment.'
Fri Jan 10, 2020 - 9:40 pm EST


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, January 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews
) — The British Columbia court of appeal
ruled Friday that a 13-year-old girl was old enough to consent to
testosterone shots despite her father’s objections that his troubled
daughter had been influenced by transgender advocates and did not
understand the long-term consequences of her decision.

The appeal ruling released January 10
 also placed the
father under a “conduct order” effective until April that directs him to
acknowledge his now 15-year-old daughter as a male, to use male pronouns
when referring to her, and to call her by her chosen male name.

Under a publication ban on any information that could identify the names of
the parties, the father is referred to as “CD” and the daughter “AB.”

“While of course CD is fully entitled to his opinions and beliefs, he
cannot forget that AB, now a mature 15-year-old, with the support of his
[sic] mother and his [sic] medical advisors, has chosen a course of action
that includes not only hormone treatment, but a legal change of his [sic]
name and gender identity,” reads the ruling of B.C .Court of Appeal chief
justice Robert Bauman, Justice Harvey Groberman and Justice Barbara Fisher.

The court issued a further conduct order directing CD not to “directly, or
indirectly through an agent or third party, publish or share information or
documentation relating to AB’s sex, gender identity, sexual orientation,
mental or physical health, medical status or therapies” other than with
lawyers and medical personnel involved in the case.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Instagram removing posts supporting Soleimani to comply with US sanctions

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Instagram says it's removing posts supporting Soleimani to comply with US
sanctions

By Donie O'Sullivan and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Business



https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tech/instagram-iran-soleimani-posts/index.html

Updated 0017 GMT (0817 HKT) January 11, 2020
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Washington DC (CNN Business)Instagram and its parent company Facebook are
removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem
Soleimani
to
comply with US sanctions, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to
CNN Business Friday.
The Iranian government has called for nationwide legal action against
Instagram in protest, even creating a portal on a government website for
the app's users to submit examples of posts the company removed, Iranian
state media reported.
Instagram is one of the few western social media platforms that is not
blocked in Iran. Facebook and Twitter are blocked but some Iranians access
those sites using VPNs.


In a tweet ,
Iran's government spokesperson, Ali Rabiei, called Instagram's actions
"undemocratic."
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[MCM] When it comes to vaccine safety, "red" states like Arizona, Colorado are protecting rights that "liberal" states like California and NY are grossly violating (2)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Big Pharma is a vigilant co-owner of the Democratic Party—the party of
American depopulation.*


*MCM*


Arizona Bill Would Establish Parental Choice on Vaccines, Reject Federal
Narrative

By: Davis Taylor
|Published
on: Jan 3, 2020|Categories: State Bills

, Vaccines 
|

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/01/arizona-bill-would-establish-parental-choice-on-vaccines-reject-federal-narrative/

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Jan. 3, 2020) – A bill prefiled in the Arizona House would
strengthen parental rights to make vaccination decisions and push back
against any future federal vaccine mandates.

On December 11, 2019, State Rep. John Fillmore (R-Apache Junction) prefiled
House Bill 2050 (HB2050 ), which
would give parents of children who are “pupils” under Arizona law the sole
right to decide whether or not their children are vaccinated. It would also
prohibit schools from requiring that pupils receive the recommended
vaccinations and prohibit schools from refusing to admit, or from otherwise
penalizing, pupils who have not received them. However, the bill would
allow a school to exclude a pupil if he or she lacks a vaccination for a
disease for which there is an active case at the pupil’s school and the
public health department has declared an outbreak of the disease in the
area. The bill would additionally eliminate a requirement that children be
vaccinated in accordance with the recommended schedule in order for their
parents to received cash assistance from the state on their behalf.

*Click on the link for the rest.*
Colo Lawmaker Introduces Anti-Vaccination Bill in Name of Consumer
Protection
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/01/colo-lawmaker-introduces-anti-vaccination-bill-in-name-of-consumer-protection/20558
by
Noah Zucker 
posted on
January 10, 2020
0


After Tuesday’s vaccine-oriented rally

in
front of the Colorado State Capitol, a few parents and some of their
school-age children filled a committee room in the ornate building’s
basement for a town-hall meeting, organized by state Rep. Dave Williams
(R-Colorado Springs), to discuss his proposed legislation, called the
Vaccine Consumer Protection bill.
Many at Tuesday’s rally held anti-vaccine signs

“If families believe that [vaccination is] a benefit to them, then so be it
– take it on yourself,” Williams said, summarizing his bill, which has yet
to be released. “But if there are parents and families that know of vaccine
injuries that have occurred and they don’t want to have that risk, then
that’s fine, too.”

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Professor fired for joking about Trump's threat to wipe out 52 Iranian cultural sites

[Mark Crispin Miller]

College professor fired for joking about Trump's 52 cultural sites tweet

Asheen Phansey jokingly listed 52 US cultural sites for Iran to bomb,
including Mall of America and the ‘Kardashian residence.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/10/college-professor-fired-trump-52-cultural-sites-tweet-joke


[image: The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota – one of 52 US
‘cultural sites’ listed by Professor Asheen Phansey of Babson College in a
satirical Facebook post.]

 The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota – one of 52 US ‘cultural
sites’ listed by Professor Asheen Phansey of Babson College in a satirical
Facebook post. Photograph: PR handout

A professor who jokingly listed 52 cultural sites in America that Iran
should bomb has been fired from his job at a private Massachusetts
 college.

Donald Trump  claimed on 4
January that the US had earmarked 52 Iranian cultural sites for destruction
– warning the country not to strike back after a US drone killed Iran’s top
general, Qassem Suleimani, last week.

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[MCM] Israeli F-35 strike against Iranian target in Syria kills eight

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*As unreported by the New York Times.*

*MCM*
Report: Israeli F-35 Strike Against Iranian Target in Syria Kills Eight
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
 January 10,
2020 , 12:51 pm


“As eagles grow new plumes: They shall run and not grow weary” Isaiah 40:31
(The Israel Bible™)


F-35 Adir over Tehran / (Photo credit: JNS Photomontage using copyright
free images)

An airstrike on Thursday night in eastern Syria targeting two vehicles
carrying missiles on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq belonging to
Iraq’s Iran-backed Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Force) militia
killed eight.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Official ISIS newspaper "thanks God" for US whacking Soleimani

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Official ISIS Newspaper ‘Thanks God’ for Trump Killing Iran’s General
Soleimani*
JANUARY 11, 2020 BY 21WIRE 
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/01/11/official-isis-newspaper-thanks-god-for-trump-killing-irans-general-soleimani

*Patrick Henningsen*
*21st Century Wire*


*It was only a matter of time before US President Donald Trump got the
recognition he deserved for America’s military exploits these past two
weeks. Yesterday, Trump received glowing praise from the official
international ISIS newspaper, Al Naba, highlighting Washington’s
assassination of Iranian IRGC’s General Qasem Soleimani on January 3rd.*

In an ideal world, this latest endorsement by ISIS for Trump’s actions
should really put to rest the well-worn Washington and Israeli propaganda
talking point

that
Soleimani was an “evil and deadly *terrorist.” *Unfortunately, the current
American political discourse is so thoroughly coated in layers of political
fiction that this might take a while to sink in.

One only has to take a cursory look at reports over the last few years to
quickly realise exactly how valuable the Iranian military and its
celebrated general were in the global war on terror. Yet, this reality is
mostly lost on US war hawks and America’s Conservative punditry class.

In her recent reporting, *BBC Monitoring* editor *Mimi Al-Lami* described
how Islamic State terrorists are now “thanking God,” that the US and Iran
are busy targeting each other, and “indifferent to the impact it has on
their mutual fight against the Islamic State.”

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] On the myth of the US "economic draft": Who's enlisting in the military, and why? (3)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Yesterday's Times on who enlists and why:*
*https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/us/military-enlistment.html
*

*For more detail, see these two prior pieces:*
*Why do people enlist in the military? The answer might surprise you*
[image: Household income of military enlistees]

Posted June 23, 2016

Each year, more than 150,000 people enlist in the U.S. military. Why do so
many people volunteer for such a tough job?

Some argue that the military recruits poor, uneducated minorities who don’t
have many other options. This refrain is echoed with the best of
intentions; no one wants the poorest citizens to fight America’s wars so
that the privileged don’t have to.

But many people in the military take exception to this idea. Not
surprisingly, they don’t appreciate being stereotyped as poor, uneducated
or desperate. These perceptions color the public’s views of what veterans
are capable of doing when they return home.

So who really really enlists in the military and why do they do it?

*Click on the link for the rest.*


Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and
Officers
August 21, 2008 9 min read Download Report

https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/who-serves-the-us-military-the-demographics-enlisted-troops-and-officers

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[MCM] California mom wins 2nd big settlement over LA cops kidnapping her 20-month-old son for forcible injections

[Mark Crispin Miller]

January 11,
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California Mom Wins Second Big Settlement Against CPS for Seizing,
Vaccinating Son Without Warrant
https://medicalkidnap.com/2019/07/12/california-mom-wins-second-big-settlement-against-cps-for-seizing-vaccinating-son-without-warrant

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Detective Perez Deposition. Image from YouTube
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By Megan Fox

PJ Media


Excerpts:

Rachel Bruno, the mother at the center of a civil rights battle in Orange
County, California,

has
been awarded another big settlement against social services and Children’s
Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) after they took her 20-month-old son and
ran unauthorized medical tests on him and injected him with a dozen
vaccinations at the same time.

Bruno was just given a half-million-dollar settlement from the Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Department for their role in violating her Fourth
Amendment rights of due process by carrying out an unwarranted seizure of
her 20-month-old son, David.

One of the most shocking revelations in the Bruno case is the fact that the
Orange County CPS caseworkers used an outdated general warrant to order the
medical testing, which was dated 2008, *seven years before the tests were
performed.* The county offered no explanation, time travel or otherwise, to
account for how they got a warrant signed in 2008 for an incident that
occurred in 2015.

This warrant from the distant past was used to do invasive medical
procedures on a traumatized baby who had been ripped from his family just
hours before. David’s pediatrician was also not contacted by Orange County
Social Services before they vaccinated him to “catch up” to the current
schedule

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[MCM] Iran (briefly) arrests UK ambassador for stoking student protests.

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*So is the US/UK "meddling" in Iran's politics for the third time? *
*(There was the coup in '53, and then the ouster of the Shah—who*
*believed that the US was behind his displacement by the Ayatollahs.)*

*MCM*
News  > World
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Related video: Students protest outside Tehran university, chanting
anti-government slogans
British ambassador to Iran arrested at protest in Tehran

Dominic Raab brands arrest a 'flagrant violation of international law'

   - Vincent Wood 
   - 13 hours ago
   -

   


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/uk-ambassador-iran-arrested-tehran-protest-rob-macaire-a9280116.html

Britain’s ambassador to Iran  has
been arrested in Tehran during protests outside a university, the UK
Foreign office has said.

Dominic Raab , the
foreign secretary, said the arrest of Rob Macaire was a “flagrant violation
of international law’’.

He was detained for more than an hour before being released, the
Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.

He is said to have been one of a number of individuals held on suspicion of
organising, provoking and directing radical actions.

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[MCM] Facebook glitch reveals that Greta's posts are written by her dad

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunberg's Father Posting As Teenage Climate
Activist
[image: Profile picture for user Tyler Durden]

by Tyler Durden 
Sun, 01/12/2020 - 13:05

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youve-scripted-my-childhood-facebook-glitch-reveals-greta-thunburgs-father-posting

A Thursday evening software update at Facebook accidentally allowed anyone
to view exactly *who* is posting under the accounts of public figures,
businesses and other entities, according to *Wired*

.

The result? For starters, some 3 million followers of teenage climate
activist Greta Thunberg have been reading posts written  by her father,
Svante Thunberg, and a climate activist in India who serves as a delegate
at the UN's Climate Change organization, Adarsh Prathap. Thunberg, Inc.
claims Greta is still the one writing the content.

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[MCM] On all those times when Soleimani was a US ally

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*"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia."*

*(Correction to the below: Throughout the Iran/Iraq war, the US backed both
sides,*
*not just Iraq.)*

*MCM*

All the Times the US allied with Gen. Soleimani against Common Enemies,
giving him Air Support at Tikrit

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Since the US political establishment and
press has been demonizing Gen. Qasem Soleimani since he was rubbed out by
Trump, it is perhaps worth complicating the story– especially now that
Trump is accusing him of having targeted not one but four US embassies.
Trump is a notorious and compulsive liar, and there is no reason to think
that charge is true. The prime minister of Iraq says he invited Soleimani
to Baghdad for *peace* negotiations with Saudi Arabia and then Trump just
suddenly blew his guest away. Soleimani came openly on a commercial flight
and went through passport control with his diplomatic passport. His arrival
in Baghdad was not part of a covert operation to hit Americans. Nor did
Soleimani, as Wolf Blitzer breathlessly reported on CNN kill “millions”
(when? where?).

Nor was he a terrorist; terrorists are non-state actors. He was a general
in the Iranian military. Soleimani fought in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88,
which was a defensive war on Iran’s part, since Iraq aggressively invaded
under Saddam Hussein. The United States supported Saddam to the hilt in his
aggression. So you’d have to say that in the 1980s Soleimani was doing
something heroic, whereas the Reagan administration was doing something
shameful. Reagan even ran interference for Saddam at the UN when Iran
brought a complaint about the Iraqi use of chemical weapons.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Soleimani trained the Badr Corps, the Iraqi
paramilitary of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),
which is now the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

When George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, his viceroy, Paul Bremer,
appointed a Transitional Governing Council made up of Iraqis who were glad
that the US had overthrown Saddam Hussein. Bremer appointed Muhammad Baqir
al-Hakim as a member of the council, who were sort of his cabinet. Al-Hakim
led SCIRI, of which Badr was the military arm. Bush and Bremer were
indirectly hand in glove with Soleimani’s main proxy in Iraq. When al-Hakim
was killed by a bombing on Aug. 29, 2003, Bremer appointed his brother
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim as a governing council member. Abdul Aziz had been the
head of the Badr Corps, and was reporting back to Soleimani.

In Syria, Soleimani fought ISIL and al-Qaeda linked groups, making him a de
facto ally of the US, though his hard line pro-Shiite policies also did
alienate Sunni Syrians. But many Syrian opposition groups had hooked up
with al-Qaeda or ISIL well before 2015, when Soleimani began intervening
directly in Syria at the request of the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Sunni Syrians don’t forgive him for his role in the taking of, say, East
Aleppo. But it is also true that his forces helped defeat groups that
praised al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and even took orders from him.

Then there was Soleimani’s key role in helping defeat ISIL in Iraq, where,
again, he was a de facto and even tactical US ally (see below).

Soleimani was a complicated man, a man of the religious far right, an
authoritarian. Although I think it is nonsense to speak of him committing
terrorism, he did commit war crimes. I am not sure he is responsible for
nearly as many deaths as George W. Bush, though. In this essay I’m not
defending Soleimani, I’m only trying to complicate the glib story being
pushed at us by the Trump administration, which can’t speak two sentences
without telling four lies. The best antidote to black and white
authoritarian views of the world is an attention to irony and ambiguity.

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[MCM] On that time in America—not long ago—when unwed mothers had to give their babies up to strangers

[Mark Crispin Miller]

VOICES 
ESSAY: THE GIRL WHO WOULDN’T GO AWAY
JANUARY 12, 2020

 EDITOR 

https://southseattleemerald.com/2020/01/12/essay-the-girl-who-wouldnt-go-away/

*by Carolyn McConnell*

In the summer of 1971, my mother, age 24 and many months pregnant, came to
Seattle. I don’t know how she got there, but she had little money, so she
must have copped a ride or taken Greyhound. She didn’t have a place to
stay, so she went to Seward Park in southeast Seattle, where there were
other young people camping out, to sleep under a weeping willow along the
shore of Lake Washington. Sometime that night, the police swept through,
booting people out of the park. But they let my mother be.

Perhaps she was hidden by the willow’s drape, or the police saw her belly
and chose to ignore her. She liked to think it was the latter, that they
honored her pregnancy. It seems just as likely that seeing a pregnant woman
sleeping in the park horrified them, but my mother had a powerful ability
to hold her own vision of things. This made all the difference.

My mother was unmarried. If she had been like so many young single pregnant
women in 1971 and the years around it, she would have gone to one of the
many homes for unwed mothers in Seattle, to birth and then give up her
baby. She could have walked from Seward Park to the Seattle Florence
Crittenton Home, where that year more than a hundred young single women and
girls lived while they waited for the birth of their children and then,
within a few days of birth, gave them up to strangers.

Like my mother, most of the women at the Seattle Crittenton Home were from
out of town. Families wanted their unmarried pregnant daughters hidden from
sight, often sending them to homes in other towns where no one would
recognize them. A brochure from a Montana Crittenton society illustrates
this impulse; although there were unwed mothers enough in Great Falls,
Montana, to prompt Crittenton supporters to request that a home be
established there in 1903, the Crittenton society refused to establish a
new home there, on the theory that families wanted their unwed pregnant
daughters elsewhere, not in their small home town.

When Meredith Hall, in 1965, got pregnant in high school, from a first and
only sexual encounter that resembled a rape, her small town shunned her and
her mother sent her away to live with her father and his new wife. She
describes in her memoir that she was forbidden to leave their house during
daylight, for fear someone would see her in her embarrassing state. During
dinner parties, she was instructed to hide in her room and stay still, lest
her footsteps betray her presence. Eventually, she was banished altogether
to a home for unwed mothers, where she gave birth and then was made to give
up her baby.

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[MCM] How Iran has (so far) foiled the US plan to bring Hong Kong to Teheran (MUST-READ)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Via Eve Karene Bartlett:*

*Thread on Iran protests, very worth reading. **"There are videos
circulating of the protesters wearing body armour, acting in teams to draw
in riot police, shining lasers from tops of buildings, etc - in short,
Maidan/Hong Kong tactics."***


*Ibn Riad - ابن رياض@IbnRiad*

https://twitter.com/IbnRiad/status/1216217400598761474

*"A thread regarding the anti-government protests that sprung up today in
Iran, and the failed imperial plot that they point towards.*

*So as we know, Iran announced the Ukrainian airliner was accidentally shot
down by an anti-air unit. There are lots of open questions in this regard,
which I leave to another time.*

*My focus for now is on the timing of this announcement.*

*On the day of the Iranian announcement, small anti-government protests
popped up, primarily by university students (so often the empire's
favourite subjects), numbering at most in the hundreds.*

*One initial thing to note is just how organised they seemed to be. There
are videos circulating of the protesters wearing body armour, acting in
teams to draw in riot police, shining lasers from tops of buildings, etc -
in short, Maidan/Hong Kong tactics.*

*This indicates, of course, a high level of training and preparedness among
these protesters. This was not some spur-of-the-moment uprising, but rather
an organised event, with elements trained with the usual CIA textbook.*

*The highly unusual personal presence of the British ambassador at the site
also points to this, and perhaps also to the degree of importance that
these protests hold for the regime-change camp.*

*But the most interesting thing here is the slogans the protesters used.*

*There were some dumb "Khamenei resign!" chants, clearly from an auto-cue
written by Americans with no idea how Spiritual Leadership works - but the
main tagline for these protests was:*

*"Death to Liars".*

*Now, this doesn't make much sense to me.*

*For protests that took place AFTER the government had just told the truth
in the most honest & candid way any government ever has, how does "Death to
Liars" figure? In no world does delaying the truth for a few days warrant
such a chant.*

*But there *is* a context in which it would make much more sense. Given the
clearly prepared and artificial nature of these protests, it is incredibly
easy to imagine what the actual intention of this whole charade was.*

*Iran had been set up in more ways than one. In addition to being somehow
tricked into downing the plane (may do a separate thread on this - many
signs point to this, & I find it quite convincing), it is likely that the
US had evidence that would expose Iran's responsibility.*

*The US had been relying on Iran denying the allegations or at least
withholding the truth for longer, allowing it to come out with the evidence
and "outing" Iran as liars. (Either directly or via someone like Trudeau,
who seemed disappointed when Iran came out with the truth).*

*This would then be swiftly followed by the prepared and coordinated
student protests, which in context of the planned scenario, would likely
have drawn in much more support, and would have had a far more detrimental
effect on Iran's integrity both domestically and abroad.*

*Perhaps this was planned all along as an American "response" to Iran's, or
at least as an alternative to open war: trick Iran into downing the
airliner, let them keep the secret, then expose them and set trained
anti-government dogs loose in the streets, to be joined by masses.*

*It was a devious and ruthlessly effective plan- or it would have been.
Except Iran came out with the truth only days after the event, and upset
the entire plot.*

*Now, the student protesters had slogans that no longer made sense ("Death
to Liars") and no support whatsoever from the actual population at large,
who had witnessed a great show of integrity from their government on the
global stage.*

*This is the first way in which Iran scuppered the plan. Indeed, depending
on how long ago this plan had been concocted, it might even be reasonable
to say that the millions upon millions of people that came out to martyr
Soleimani's funeral also dented the plan well in advance.*

*The second (or third) way in which this plan has been foiled comes from
Fars News's report on these protests. Some slow-witted western analysts
have taken Fars reporting on the story as a sign of division within Iranian
ranks, and drew up wild fantasy stories on that basis.*


*But the reality is a lot different. This is what Fars News
reported.(Reuters):*

*"...the demonstrators on the street also ripped up pictures of Qassem
Soleimani, the prominent commander of the Guard’s Quds Force who was killed
in a U.S. drone strike.*

*The agency, widely seen as close to the Guards, carried pictures of the
gathering and a torn banner of Soleimani. It said the protesters numbered
about 700 to 1,000 people."*

*Far from a sign of division in political/military ranks, anyone with half
a br

[MCM] Dr. King's dream and our nightmare

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Reconciling Dr. King’s 1968 dream and our 2020 nightmareDebt servitude,
endless wars, and our economic turmoil was all prophesied by Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.BOB HENNELLY JANUARY
12, 2020 1:00PM (UTC)
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/12/reconciling-dr-kings-1968-dream-and-our-2020-nightmare/

This upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day promises to be an especially sad
one. As evinced by the deteriorating social circumstances both at home and
around the world, we have done a poor job living up to his legacy.

And while we still have Dr. King’s prophetic voice as a beacon, it feels
like we somehow went into reverse, deep into a dystopian wilderness since
he died. By my calculation, we are about as far from the clearing of his
“promised land” as we have been at any point in my 64 years.

“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are
considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism,
materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered,” wrote Dr,
King in his last book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”

He
continued: “A civilization can flounder as readily in the face of moral and
spiritual bankruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy.”

As the billionaires train the firehoses

of
their vast wealth

on
the Democratic presidential primary process to "save" capitalism as we know
it, progressives should keep in mind that Dr. King was a principled critic
of capitalism.

As Vincent Harding recounts in his introduction to Dr. King’s seminal book,
the civil rights leader famously said “something is wrong with capitalism …
there must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move
toward a democratic socialism

…

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[MCM] This year more states will be protecting children from the horrors of experimental "trans medicine"

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Expect More States to Protect Kids From Experimental Transgender Drugs in
2020

BY TYLER O'NEIL  NOVEMBER 21,
2019
CHAT COMMENTS

https://pjmedia.com/trending/expect-more-states-to-protect-kids-from-experimental-transgender-drugs-in-2020
[image: a boy holds up cut outs of a man and a woman, looking confused as
he chooses between them.]
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When a jury awarded custody of the 7-year-old Texas boy James Younger to
his mother, who treats him like a girl and wants him to undergo
experimental drugs and genital mutilation
,
it shocked America. Protests outside the courtroom snowballed. Attorney
General Ken Paxton (R-Texas) opened an investigation

. More than 200,000 people

signed
a petition to save the boy from chemical castration.

Perhaps most consequentially, Republican state representatives in Georgia

, Kentucky, Texas
,
and — most recently — South Carolina

proposed
laws to prohibit the use of experimental drugs like so-called "puberty
blockers" and cross-sex hormones on minors. While major medical
associations have embraced the transgender ideology and insist these
experimental drugs will help gender-confused children, others have warned
that the "treatments" actually *cause* a disease

.

For these reasons, pro-family groups have predicted that laws banning
experimental transgender "treatments" for children are likely to pop up
across the states in 2020, as more state legislatures re-convene.

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[MCM] On the vaccine war in New Jersey

[Mark Crispin Miller]

THE FINAL STRETCH IN NEW JERSEY’S RACE TO ELIMINATE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS TO
CHILDHOOD VACCINATION
 January 12, 2020

 Richard Jaffe 

https://rickjaffeesq.com/2020/01/12/the-final-stretch-in-new-jerseys-race-to-eliminate-religious-exemptions-to-childhood-vaccination/

Like many, I have been following the battle by the vaccine concerned
against New Jersey Legislature’s attempt to remove the religious exemption
to childhood vaccination. Last year, New York removed religious exemptions
by strong-arming one legislator to change his previously cast vote in
opposition. In New Jersey, it’s coming down to a last-ditch compromise to
carve out or preserve religious exemptions for families who can afford to
send their children to private schools where the schools will allow/honor
religious exemptions. I have to say, that’s a new one to me.

*Here is the way one news story describes it:*

“The compromise would end religious exemptions for vaccines in public
schools and day care centers — but allow private institutions to admit
children whose parents declined to have them vaccinated, according to Sens.
Joe Vitale, the bill’s sponsor, and Declan J. O’Scanlon.
Private schools would be required to post outside the building the number
of unvaccinated children at each facility.”
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2020/01/09/nj-bill-limiting-religious-exemptions-vaccines-may-pass-after-deal/4423562002/

My guess is that the posting of the number of unvaccinated on a school’s
building is a way to not so subtly pressure private schools to reject
accepting the religiously vaccine exempt. It’s like a giant scarlet letter
or a sign saying “Caution: this is a leper colony. Enter at your own risk!”
I find this requirement fairly appalling. It may work for schools which do
not have a significant percentage of religious exempt students, but I know
from my dealings with similar issues in California, that some schools are
not financially viable if they lose all their vaccine exempt students to
home schooling or departure from the state. So, I believe that if the bill
passes, some schools will become safe-havens for the religiously exempt.

*What about families who don’t have the money to send their children to
private schools?*

Well they are out of luck under the bill. Whatever rights the richer among
us have to exercise our religious rights/freedoms do not apply to the poor,
as many in the community have lamented.

I guess that is just tough luck for them. Sucks to be poor. It’s too bad
there is no law against that kind of blatant discrimination.

Oh wait, there is. It’s called the Constitution, and specifically the parts
that talk about religious freedom and the equal protection under the law.
As many of you might know from past posts, I am not a big fan of lawsuits
challenging the removal of the personal belief or religious exemptions to
vaccination. All past constitutional challenges have failed, and I have
repeatedly predicted that future challenges will also fail, so long as we
are talking about the complete removal of that right.

*However, I am equally certain that a law which only removes the right for
those too poor to send their kids to a private school will be struck down
on constitutional grounds.*

I think what happened is that in a desperate attempt to pass the bill
through the Senate, they came up with this ill thought out, idiotic idea.
That fact that the Dems are proposing a bill which so obviously
discriminates against the poor, shows how that the irrationality of the
issue has caused politicians to lose sight of their core values. But as
indicated, the New Jersey courts will not let this stand.

To all you braving the cold tomorrow, (including my Cali. Latinas friends,
the New Yorkers and Oregonian health freedom fighters) keep up the fight!
If it doesn’t work out, a slew of lawyers will soon be joining you for the
next phase.

Rick Jaffe, Esq.

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[MCM] "Anti-war" Democrats were perfectly OK with all the wars Obama waged

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Sheep-Dogging on Steroids: America’s New Democratic Party Anti-War
Activists By Ajamu Baraka

https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-democratic-party-anti-war-activists/5700074
Global Research, January 09, 2020
Region: USA 
Theme: Intelligence 


*The rhetoric of the Democratic “progressives” only gives cover to the
ongoing criminality of the U.S. state and its commitment to permanent war –
with congressional approval.*

In the cynical spectacle that is called politics in the United States, the
latest insult to the intelligence of the people is the Democrats who are
posturing as anti-war champions in reaction to the Trump Administration’s
assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the possibility of further attacks on
Iran.

We are supposed to buy that the Democrats are concerned about war with
Iran. The same Democrats who opposed de-escalation with North Korea; who
blocked any attempt to remove U.S. occupation forces from South Korea; who
continue to champion the NATO white supremacist structure; who were silent
on Obama’s war on Yemen; who supported the assault on Libya; who were
unmoved by the over 40,000 people who reportedly have died from
U.S.-imposed sanctions on Venezuela; and who gave the Trump Administration
another obscene increase in military spending.

It is common knowledge that there has always been a bipartisan antipathy to
Iran, not because of anything that Iran has done to the U.S., but because
of the geopolitics of the so-called Middle East in which the U.S. has
sought to dominate. The Democrats had some of the loudest voices supporting
confrontation with Iran up until the Obama-Rohani nuclear deal known as the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Trump abrogated. That is what makes
the Anti-war posture of the Democrats – even the progressive ones – so
incredible.

Therefore, since it is clear that the Democrats didn’t have any less of an
appetite for war and global U.S. dominance than the Republicans, how should
we understand this newly discovered “anti-warism”?

The Opposition is anti-Trump, not Anti-war!

Nancy Pelosi correctly understood that the politics of impeachment was a
dead-end that would only result in satisfying the Democratic base but held
out very little prospects for the longer-term strategy of defeating Trump
in November 2020. She understood that politically the Democrats had gotten
all they could from the Russiagate silliness when they reclaimed the
majority in the House of Representatives.  But an essential element of the
Democratic party messaging leading up to the mid-term vote in 2018 was the
implication that with a Democratic majority in the House the primary item
on the party’s agenda would be the impeachment of Donald Trump.  When that
majority was achieved, Pelosi and the party establishment found themselves
under tremendous pressure to find a way to impeachment. All their eggs for
impeachment were in the Mueller report basket that had been held until
after the mid-term election.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, the report, like Mueller himself, was a
flop.  The report failed to ignite a groundswell of impeachment fever
beyond the increasingly irrational demands from the liberal base of the
party.  However, one of the unforeseen results of the 2018 mid-term for
Pelosi and centrist Democrats was the emergence of a group of
“progressives” who wouldn’t let the impeachment ploy fade away.

Consequently, Ukraine-gate became the issue for the foregone conclusion
that there would be an impeachment. Pelosi and House leadership delivered
on impeachment knowing that there would be no removal by the Senate. They
could, however, claim that they met their supposed Constitutional duty, but
importantly, their political imperative to impeach.  The second act of this
diversionary drama was scheduled to begin when the Congress came back into
session in January – that is, before the current crisis with the
possibility of war with Iran.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Big Pharma's "free press" gnashes teeth over the great news from New Jersey

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Note the caption: "Loss for public health"*

*MCM*

LOSS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH —
Anti-vaxxers celebrate victory in NJ as pro-vaccine bill falls apartThe
bill’s sponsors vow to immediately try again.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/anti-vaxxers-celebrate-victory-in-nj-as-pro-vaccine-bill-falls-apart/

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Amid raucous protest from hundreds of anti-vaccination advocates, state
lawmakers in New Jersey have abandoned legislation to ban vaccination
exemptions based on religious beliefs.

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FURTHER READINGFrenzied anti-vaxxers deter NJ lawmakers from voting on
religious exemptions

The bill, S2173 ,
collapsed in the state Senate Monday as lawmakers realized it was a single
vote shy of passage, according to The New York Times
. The
defeat came after a last-ditch effort to amend the beleaguered legislation
,
which ultimately generated new opposition.

S2173 would have prohibited parents from using religious beliefs as an
excuse to get out of providing standard, life-saving immunizations for
their children. Instead, only children with medical conditions that
preclude a child from being vaccinated—as outlined by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
—would
be granted an exemption.

As originally written, S2173’s ban on religious exemptions would have
applied to children attending all schools in the state—preschool through
college, public and private—as well as those attending childcare centers.

But the bill met with intense protest from anti-vaccine advocates in the
state, who gathered at the State House and disrupted legislative sessions.
Last month, lawmakers postponed a vote on the measure amid deafening chants
from protesters and waning support from Senators.

In an effort to revive the bill, its sponsors amended it to apply only to
public schools. But, while gaining support from some Senators, they lost
others.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] How Democrats "oppose" America's wars

[Mark Crispin Miller]

We Tentatively Oppose War on Strictly Procedural GroundsJanuary 13, 2020
https://rall.com/comic/we-tenatively-oppose-war-on-strictly-procedural-grounds

You can always count on the Democratic Party to oppose war, until the
Republicans ask them to approve of them.

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[MCM] Some oddities about the "human error" that caused the crash of that Ukrainian airliner

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.globalresearch.ca/according-to-russian-experts-the-us-bears-partial-responsibility-for-the-human-error-which-caused-the-ukrainian-plane-crash/5700373

According to Russian Experts: The US Bears “Partial Responsibility” for the
“Human Error” Which Caused the Ukrainian plane crash
By Corriere PT 
Global Research, January 12, 2020
Corriere PT


https://www.globalresearch.ca/according-to-russian-experts-the-us-bears-partial-responsibility-for-the-human-error-which-caused-the-ukrainian-plane-crash/5700373


*A Russian military site Avia.pro

has
addressed the issue of “human error” relating to the crash of Ukraine’s
Boeing 737 [departing from Tehran] on January 8, minutes after takeoff,
which resulted in the death of 179 passengers and members of the crew.*

Relying on military experts, the report intimates that the incident bears a
canny (point by point) resemblance to the destruction of a Russian IL-20 in
Latakia, Syria in September 2018.

Israeli fighters, followed by Syrian missiles, used the Russian plane as a
shield, even if it meant its destruction and the death of 15 passengers.

The Russian military website refers to an independent investigation that
concluded  the US is “at least partial US responsibility” in the January 8
tragedy:
Putin Accuses Obama of Leaking Flight Details to Turkey after Russia
Releases Video of S-400 SAM Deployment in Syria


“According to experts, the US military had deliberately changed the
information on the Ukrainian Boeing 737 flight, making it a real target for
the Iranian air defense systems.”

According to data from Pentagon-related sources, several U.S. military
planes were observed in the sky in the vicinity of Iran’s airspace, just at
the time of the Boeing’s flight departure.

Anomalies were observed on Iran’s radar system, probably due to a cyber
attack.

The civilian plane was therefore confused with a fighter plane heading
directly for a military target.

“Since the pilot made a U-turn, it is very likely that the US cyber attack
had also focused on the navigation system of the Ukrainian Boeing. This is
not the first time that Americans have done this type of action, ” said
Avia.pro.

In addition, a member of the Security and Defense Committee of the Russian
Duma accused the provocative US measures against Iran of having been the
cause of the Ukrainian plane crash.

Original article Corriere PL

(Italian) Translation by Global Research

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[MCM] NY private school fires Jewish teacher for anti-Zionist statements

[Mark Crispin Miller]

NY private school fires Jewish teacher for anti-Zionist statementsNews

Philip Weiss  on January 10, 2020
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/ny-private-school-fires-jewish-teacher-for-anti-zionist-statements/

Fieldston School, from its website.

Today the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports
that
the Fieldston School fired a Jewish history teacher, J.B. Brager, after
Brager published anti-Zionist comments.

It is the second time in two years that a Jewish history teacher has been
forced out of a private New York high school due to anti-Zionist
statements. In 2018 longtime history teacher Joel Doerfler left the
Riverdale Country School after administrators canceled his class on the
history of the conflict because of his questioning of the official
narrative.

In both cases, outraged Jewish donors to the schools
 are said to
have pushed the school administrations to take a stand against anti-Zionism.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

JB Brager portrait, from their twitter feed.

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[MCM] California moving toward forced vaccination of ADULTS, on pain of criminal penalties

[Mark Crispin Miller]

January 14, 2020

https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/california-now-wants-to-be-first-state-to-mandate-adult-vaccines-criminal-penalties-for-those-who-refuse/
California Now Wants to be First State to Mandate Adult Vaccines – Criminal
Penalties for those Who Refuse

Is California becoming a medical police state?

*Health Impact News Editor Comments*

In a brazen act of medical tyranny, California recently became the first
state in the U.S. where lawmakers removed religious exemptions to those
opposing vaccines for their children
.
The bill now signed into law, SB277, faces legal hurdles in court next.

Now, legislators in California want to pass the “first US adult vaccine
mandate with NO personal exemptions and CRIMINAL penalties for failure to
comply.” SB 792, would eliminate an adult’s right to exempt themselves from
one, some, or all vaccines, a risk-laden medical procedure.

Will California soon become a medical police state?
URGENT ACTION ALERT Monday July 13, 2015

SB792- The first US adult vaccine mandate with NO personal exemptions (only
medical exemptions approved by a doctor and defined by the bill) and
CRIMINAL penalties for failure to comply will be heard in the California
Assembly Human Services Committee this Tuesday July 14th at 1:30 in Room
437.

SB 792 would eliminate an adult’s right to exempt themselves from one,
some, or all vaccines, a risk-laden medical procedure. This bill would make
California the first state to require mandated vaccinations for all
childcare workers, including all private and public school early childhood
education programs (Headstart, Private preK and preschools), family
daycares, and daycare centers.

Commencing September 1, 2016, a person shall not be employed at a family
day care home if he or she has not been immunized against influenza,
pertussis, and measles. An employee shall receive an influenza vaccination
between August 1 and December 1 of each year.

This bill eliminates medical autonomy, crushes religious freedom,
undermines personal freedom, and burdens quality providers with a
non-optional series of medical interventions in the form of mandated
vaccines that are not even 100% effective.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] Greta's not the author of "her" posts. So who is?

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From Cory Morningstar (on Facebook):*

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%22mark%20crispin%20miller%22%20Twitter&epa=SEARCH_BOX

*"The We Mean Business - United Nations (now partnered with the World
Economic Forum) - GCCA - Greta Thunberg campaign is unraveling.*

*"A Thursday evening software update at Facebook accidentally allowed
anyone to view exactly who is posting under the accounts of public figures,
businesses and other entities, according to Wired.*

*"The result? For starters, some 3 million followers of teenage climate
activist Greta Thunberg have been reading posts written by her father,
Svante Thunberg, and a climate activist in India who serves as a delegate
at the UN's Climate Change organization, Adarsh Prathap. Thunberg, Inc.
claims Greta is still the one writing the content." [Links below]*

*Response from the Greta Thunberg FB account, Jan 11, 2019:*


*"Some people have been asking who manages this page. First of all, since
last spring I only use Facebook to repost what I write on my Twitter and
Instagram accounts.**"Since I have chosen not to be on Facebook personally
( I tried early on but decided it wasn’t for me) I use my father Svantes
account to repost content, because you need an account to moderate a
Facebook page. The rest that is shared on Facebook is reposted from Twitter
and Instagram by the guy who founded the Greta Thunberg Facebook page long
before I knew it existed. His name is Adarsh Prathap and he lives in India.
Since a lot of people thought it was my official page in the beginning I
asked if I could co-manage it and he said yes.*

*All texts posted on my Facebook page has of course been written by me,
just like everything else."*

*Again.*

*This: "The rest that is shared on Facebook is reposted from Twitter and
Instagram by the guy who founded the Greta Thunberg Facebook page long
before I knew it existed."*

*The Greta Thunberg Facebook page was created on December 7, 2018.*

*On Dec 8 2018 the first mobile upload appears - Greta with António,
Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is a mobile upload. If Adarsh
Prathap created the page - long before Greta Thunberg knew it is existed -
perhaps he found the image on Instagram & uploaded it via his mobile. Fair
enough.*

*But here is where the story falls apart. Six days later, on Dec 13 2018. A
mobile upload of Greta with the accompanying text:*

*"Now I’m on my way home from Katowice and COP24. Thank you UNFCCC for
inviting me. Now we travel through the night, so I’ll hopefully be in time
for the climate strike in Malmö tomorrow morning at 8 am."*

*Dec 19 2018: A mobile upload of Greta with the accompanying text:*

*"A few days before I went to Katowice and COP24. I made a TEDx talk in
Stockholm. Here it is!"*

*Dec 23 2018: A mobile upload. A family photo of the Thunberg family. with
the accompanying text:*

*"Happy holidays from me and my family! 😊"*

*GT Comment: "Thank you all. Merry Christmas"*

*Again - "long before I knew it existed"*

*So there is that. Posts that are clearly to be interpreted as written by
Greta - 6 days after the account was created.*

*If Adarsh Prathap was writing posts as Greta - as early as Dec 13 2018,
long before she knew it existed, therefore, without her permission - we
would call this a fake account.*

*Yet, Thunberg maintains she has written all the posts. ["All texts posted
on my Facebook page has of course been written by me, just like everything
else."]*

*Further there is the blue badge verification which required application
and verification of identity. I do not know what day it was verified - but
I think it is worth asking what day the application was made. The
application would have had to be done using Thunberg's own name, with
official documents to verify her identity.*

*Prathap calls Greta his friend. Greta calls Prathap "the guy".*

*Top this off with the fact that Prathap has been taken under the wing of
the United Nations, World Bank, and Wetlands Convention. And he - out of
approx. 8 billion people just happens to create this page - "long before"
Greta Thunberg "knew it existed".*

*A recent article by Swiss industrialist André Hoffmann is part of the
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 (theme: "Redefining Capitalism").
Hoffman writes:*

*"Above all, we need to forge a #NewDealforNature

and
People..."*

*Who is André Hoffmann? In addition to his family's elite/direct ties to
the WWF (gross violator of Indigenous Rights), he is president of the MAVA
Foundation (a key funder of the Natural Capital Coalition) and vice-
chairman of the board for Roche, the pharmaceutical and chemical giant
founded by his family. He also serves as senior adviser at Chatham House
and numerous other boards, including the World Economic Forum, the Center
for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and SYSTEMIQ. André Hoffmann’s father,
Luc Hoffmann, served on the first international board of the WWF

[MCM] US pressures Twitter/FB/Instagram to block anti-war content, kill Venezuelan, Syrian, Iranian accounts

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*"State-controlled media." *
*MCM*
BIG TECH , IRAN
, SYRIA
, VENEZUELA
*January 12, 2020*

Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and
suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/12/us-pressure-social-media-censoring-suspending-venezuela-iran-syria
As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are
suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s
pro-war narrative. The Grayzone spoke to several people silenced in these
social media purges.By Ben Norton

The Donald Trump administration is ramping up its information war against
Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. And it has enlisted social media platforms as
weapons in its assault on these top regime-change targets.

In the first two weeks of January, Twitter suspended dozens of accounts run
by real, live people — not bots — in Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. Those
erased from the website included heads of state, numerous state
institutions, media outlets, and many average people who do not work for
their governments.

The supreme leader of Iran, president of Syria, and leader of Venezuela’s
National Assembly have all had their Twitter accounts temporarily suspended
or restricted in recent days. Numerous alternative media outlets have
suffered the same fate.

At the same time, Facebook, and its subsidiary Instagram, has announced
that it will be censoring content that it deems to be supportive of Iran’s
top General Qassem Soleimani
, who
was assassinated in a US act of war on January 3.

*Click on the link for the rest.*

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[MCM] The Oligarchy makes itself obscenely rich and nearly everybody else dirt-poor

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*The numbers here don't lie, though "our free press" sure does.*

*MCM *

Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind
http://thesaker.is/capitalism-in-america-how-a-dismal-decimal-is-robbing-americans-blind/

January 16, 2020



*by Jon Hellevig for The Saker Blog*

There is no hiding anymore, the United States has become an oligarch owned
banana republic with nukes, and with a monopoly currency which has allowed
it to rig the markets for half a century. But now we are only a couple of
hours from curtain – Midnight in America.

With the stock market at all-time highs, virtually no unemployment (or so
they say), and brisk GDP growth (supposedly) in the last decade, economic
analysts would declare that the US economy is in excellent shape. But, it
isn’t. The stock market is a central bank inflated asset bubble, and what
GDP growth there has been, is an illusion brought about by the very same
financial bubble and by pumping the economy up with record federal
borrowings to finance the deficits that America cannot afford. Rigged
statistics showing artificially low inflation serve to hold together the
Trumped-up American economic narrative. (About the rigged inflation
statistics, see this report
https://www.awaragroup.com/blog/the-inflation-measurement-scam/?fbclid=IwAR0qmpe4i0sp5Uce9UlyEDt0_NkIv-aiDTSgvzHh5EMfZn5WQboZz_mB-XU).
And the low unemployment figure is nothing but a chimera based on
misleading statistics.

In reality, the US economy is failing – and the country with it. At least
two-thirds of the population has seen dramatic declines in living standards
and half are back to levels of developing nations – without the development.

The big story covered up by all the happy macroeconomic figures repeated by
rote by the US establishment – everybody from the president to cable
television pundits and Trump fanboys – is the gradual impoverishment of the
American worker. That’s an inconvenient truth increasingly difficult to
hide as the American dream has turned into a nightmare for huge swathes of
the population. As the figures we present below show, the rich are really
getting richer, the middle class has been decimated, and half of Americans
are poor and destitute of any financial wealth. The super-rich are gobbling
up an ever-increasing slice of the American pie at the cost of all the rest
who get nothing but table scraps on one side and leftover crumbs on the
other, if anything. The resulting stratification of society has brought
back a medieval servant economy, where the have-nots are doing odd jobs,
cleaning houses, fetching groceries, running errands and deliveries for the
feudal rich and the remaining shrinking middle class.

Thanks to the Fed (the American oligarch owned central bank) pushing easy
money into the hands of the privileged elite, the super-rich Dismal Decimal
– the top 0.1% – have by now amassed as much wealth as they had just before
the Great Depression that started with the stock market crash in 1929. A
lesson not learned. Back to square one. How will it end this time?

*This article is based on an Awara Accounting
*https://www.awaragroup.com/ *study
titled* “*Widening Income and Wealth Gap and Stagnating Wages in America*.”
https://www.awaragroup.com/blog/widening-income-and-wealth-gap-and-stagnating-wages-in-america/
 *Links and source references to all the facts presented here can be found
in said study.*

BTW all the data in this report is derived from official US government
sources and American experts analyzing them.

During the last decades, the financial rewards from the rigged markets
first flew exclusively into the pockets of Top 10%, but later it was
increasingly Top 1%, which pocketed most, perfectly illustrated by below
charts.

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[MCM] A (partial) list of news and information sources you CAN trust

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*To this list I'd add Children's Health Defense, and Del Bigtree's The
Highwire.*

*Please feel free to send suggestions.*

*MCM*



<https://www.facebook.com/notes/alice-campbell/news-and-information-sources/10157890886816100/#>
<https://www.facebook.com/notes/alice-campbell/news-and-information-sources/10157890886816100/#>
News and Information Sources
ALICE CAMPBELL <https://www.facebook.com/alice.thornton3>·TUESDAY, JANUARY
14, 2020
<https://www.facebook.com/notes/alice-campbell/news-and-information-sources/10157890886816100/>
·2 MINUTES
<https://www.facebook.com/notes/alice-campbell/news-and-information-sources/10157890886816100/#>
https://www.facebook.com/notes/alice-campbell/news-and-information-sources/10157890886816100/
This is far from a complete list, still working on it, if a person’s name
is in blue that is their FB link which you can usually ‘follow’ or their
Youtube page. I will also try to add twitter links. Please feel free to
post any suggestions in the comments. If anyone in my list wants something
changed or removed please pm me.

The Electronic Intifada https://electronicintifada.net/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR32zWj4TgI_TV6pniktSfCh8e68u3ewfNUF0P7RN0xBiSdKS1aJJoQvhH4&h=AT37KC4zC2r8pNOt5nH5AqoMeXfnXCwhxSgNahqu_Jj9tTPKHbt78euyOuXCvvo5IIuWGaUxl4IavFos8_3RXQZ85aG0cFHJzl23PhBS34XnAnsxmvGikngUzouhH7Du9SDxaQsA>

Mark Crispin Miller
<https://www.facebook.com/mark.c.miller.50?eid=ARDjBg3668loeC096ZmSMvt3zhuKDkHhozSCDyxY9m7Go8JuOpZqhdMaaN7XTyASeJ9zJigmApDRG3Zc>
https://markcrispinmiller.com/
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Caleb Maupin
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FClevelandFIST%2Ffeatured%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2dpoLhKXsy1EX0ClIaLw2Hd85LwLlaQlklzR5qfecYqtdSt2qFbfQrEmY&h=AT0toIxYlnYWzg0FSDD7dCMZpp33VZxuHEHfM-4H9Rr_NVzlR6zBko2v_4vr9tXRMsKJWKgVyHvqSoEZJVFo4U8s3CIwiFamVlex7PwL6gDuZCox_n_7nrt3gQCzsKyhjTcpIyhn>
https://calebmaupin.com/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcalebmaupin.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2_ohLwqSk5MjqJd3XPTNm_SF-VXRGp2-t0cxIPEl9T2l5kHRJgvvM-J4o&h=AT0GlbS0g9xfGVIKsvqiYUIB-dhZIEmNrj4unf51JgQhpwoXYCVANPfLDG3PTEqmW8gi-jic8B2s3xOu6vbok46f6H6vSe7eo10o4960eqIC0a0Ar1FUGR_rkCViK7I3mEG3UB-VKsxWJRlXtA2KbA>

Information Clearing House http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3BrXzx6NSdbZQq2KRDuLtTFPDZ6Al5uka4Yh-Ga4OXq2aVUjd3rNo_KGw&h=AT3DxgvxjS6IPxdr-DFFWuwMGP9S5_JLd416TNsKrwxfi7OUA23mMpXMpxaYuTk4sEsRKktQt4JwfaeSRvxWi8rZRA6f9v4ysLD9VuD7G_bKjW5MEg5jDRTlzFOdxYS6Yhq9XE3A>

The Greanville Post <https://www.facebook.com/groups/greanvillepost/>
https://www.greanvillepost.com/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greanvillepost.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3iRv2rAwYns6tRzV9vJcketmZP4OK-hRUOR3weVTAe1G-rJLLXaN2OYk4&h=AT1jRFmBiarpPSJ0RHxoK-E7To5HwHQ8_mOOv6EjqIfSn_pzeu1acjcWPL5g3FzZpiGl038PslNWnib87IELYzQaVSqwFFXMFGk2KrSQQJVvBRFwLkeWM_a3HN3a_dHVDWO5dfjI>

Wikileaks wikileaks.org
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwikileaks.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3ApgzVD9PhBTeLeT6i90kuPrnJm4VSUxMriV4RL1CKww5e6_DVDU_EKWU&h=AT3mjZLBkaxbn8RwZhhqb47xsmm6TrmFssT1HgCt6FMi0YnB_6L8cxXB3pdfZz6Jj9f7RS5glVq_4GcCVHzNi0QH1QV-7YSlGuOxeCmYDllHNwN9NbU4N6t5gfb9FMNwM5b9WQ2L>

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
https://www.bdsmovement.net/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bdsmovement.net%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0BTs2gGAdSKPC65RYd3nj66hKUfNSpk00WC1qbpsnwGGKD4l_Vc0HkjdI&h=AT36Ui2Ra9CA6fibzYYy2_WV5T6hvu223go0pyZbFxih3zOslXu5NDuQToadAXeitq_lInx4LVPj7cU960i_u3g4HCGzwvSpt4qYWEZowb3dkGPBXWwMLUolTpcmqk-e7TsrQ5CZ>

Jewish Voice for Peace
<https://www.facebook.com/JewishVoiceforPeace/?eid=ARC7n4_9OjQaCOBk_Zz0Fp4FmZLY9Ias7zsJiAMAapS5z1iFtONU3KbGMTtgZxOB0T1Ywgw1_WtH9J81>
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjewishvoiceforpeace.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3rUXxSFIuKal4u9tZX4sn3-kPZJcEHhDmbNFtTBJL2ClB0e8G2cI1FWG4&h=AT0QAq-Y0NtfuHtzeZlRyrIRvu_GWNqbPqGzNeE8wPLH4KbUWM4y8qrLrLnCYTb2BcEnPZzHDMpWEjbrDisGvH8WvO-WEhjlDHALC3Etji9dwTiU_Zfya2hBrSCm-nA-vo-cSq1s>

Veterans For Peace
<https://www.facebook.com/veteransforpeace/?eid=ARAf31nZMQ06w-Prbx1luA9NymOU660tmABIZX4QEmkhT7IbS4CJsSx559PucOdAkqc_6R3UoHSG27qx>
veteransforpeace.org
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteransforpeace.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1vBRGoUodRtMMrP6Dn1_zphKEFnkzCZuuOpVxAe72jSrnjmPjn1HQvLN8&h=AT2HpRkfnZzwszT1bcezKGbkTg6iJE-bcmbHfZHkT6cKYnQf-dQ4SJR4CA8IWHC6t11Ln8ItkxpUyZTCFsc4xlDBJWq2yia2

[MCM] Physicians group sues Adam "Mad Dog" Schiff for censoring vaccine debate

[Mark Crispin Miller]

U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff Sued by Physicians Group for Censoring Vaccine
Debate
January 16, 2020 5:49 pm
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/u-s-congressman-adam-schiff-sued-by-physicians-group-for-censoring-vaccine-debate/

On Jan 15, 2020, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, along
with Katarina Verrelli, on behalf of herself and others who seek access to
vaccine information, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia. Plaintiffs allege that Defendant Adam Schiff has abused
government power and infringed on their free-speech rights. “Who appointed
Congressman Adam Schiff as Censor-in-Chief?” asks AAPS General Counsel.
“No one did, and he should not be misusing his position to censor speech on
the internet.” In February and March 2019, Rep. Schiff contacted Google,
Facebook, and Amazon, to encourage them to de-platform or discredit what
Schiff asserted to be inaccurate information on vaccines. He then posted
the letters and press release on the House.gov website. Within 24 hours of
Schiff’s letter to Amazon dated Mar 1, 2019, Amazon removed the popular
videos Vaxxed and Shoot ’Em Up: the Truth About Vaccines from its platform
for streaming videos, depriving members of the public of convenient access.

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[MCM] Bernie was unhurt by Warren's smear, according to new Reuters/Ipsos poll (which the NYTimes will probably ignore)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Published on
Friday, January 17, 2020
by
Common Dreams 
Amid Raft of State-Level Endorsements, Sanders Leads Democrats in New
National Poll

"It's just one poll, but it looks like Bernie is unhurt and Warren unhelped
by the brouhaha."
by
Jon Queally, staff writer

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/17/amid-raft-state-level-endorsements-sanders-leads-democrats-new-national-poll
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[image: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks
at a New Year's Eve campaign event on December 31, 2019 in Des Moines,
Iowa. The focus of many democratic presidential campaigns will be on Iowa
in the coming weeks before the caucus on February 3, 2020. (Photo: Stephen
Maturen/Getty Images)]

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a
New Year's Eve campaign event on December 31, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. The
focus of many democratic presidential campaigns will be on Iowa in the
coming weeks before the caucus on February 3, 2020. (Photo: Stephen
Maturen/Getty Images)

Amid a series of endorsements from key groups and allies in crucial primary
states this week—and despite the "brouhaha"

with
Sen. Elizabeth Warren—a new national poll shows Sen. Bernie Sanders now in
the lead over former Vice President Joe Biden and the rest of the
Democratic primary field.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll released

late
Thursday, Sanders received support from 20% of registered Democratic
primary voters surveyed. That figure was enough to edge out Biden who
received 19% and the 12% of voters who say they back Warren. Rounding out
the top five finishers in the nationwide poll—conducted this week between
Jan. 15-16—were former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (9%) and former
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (6%).

While the poll has a 5-point margin of error that puts Biden and Sanders in
a statistical tie, the results show Sanders gaining steam and Biden
remaining flat compared to a similar poll taken last week. In addition,
*Reuters* noted in its reporting, "The poll shows that standing does not
appear to have been hurt by his recent confrontation with Warren" that
captured political headlines throughout the week.

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[MCM] Warren says male criminals claiming to be women—even if they're violent criminals—should be housed in women's prisons (MUST-WATCH interview with Megan Murphy)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Here Warren speaks the party line (which could ensure Trump's
"re-election").*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAQ5K2YySLw&fbclid=IwAR07rAXA5ugBEHOtbqbaMrP9lqphn___RymK0UwwLLS5MMfDZb0iZcS9_X0&app=desktop

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[MCM] Less than 1% of vaccine harms are noted by the US government's vaccine injury reporting system (VAERS)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*What this means is that the government/Big Pharma have been covering up an
epidemic*
*of astonishing proportions.*

*MCM*

Only One Percent of Vaccine Reactions Reported to VAERS

by The Vaccine Reaction Staff


https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/less-than-1-of-vaccine-injuries-reported-in-the-government-national-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was created by Congress
under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and became
operational in 1990 in response to growing public concern about the safety
of vaccines, particularly the DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) vaccine.1

VAERS is jointly operated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Since VAERS began collecting reports in 1990, as of Nov. 14, 2019 there
have been 8,087 vaccine-related deaths reported and about 47 percent of
those death reports were for children under the age of three.2 There have
been 17,394 reports of permanent disability following vaccinations, with
about 30 percent occurring in children under age 17, while about 40 percent
are in adults between 17 and 65 years old.3
Significant Under-Reporting to VAERS

A 2011 report by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. for the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated that fewer than one percent of
all vaccine adverse events are reported to the government:4

Although 25% of ambulatory patients experience an adverse drug event, less
than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are
reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). *Likewise, fewer than
1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.* Low reporting rates preclude or
slow the identification of “problem” drugs and vaccines that endanger
public health. New surveillance methods for drug and vaccine adverse
effects are needed.

There have been 8,087 vaccine-related deaths reported to VAERS, but that
number likely represents only one percent of the total number of deaths
that have actually occurred and the real number may be 808,700
vaccine–related deaths. Similarly, 17,394 reports of permanent disabilities
have been reported to VAERS, but that number likely is closer to 1,739,400
vaccine-related disabilities.

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[MCM] By 2025, the autism epidemic will be costing the US a TRILLION DOLLARS

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Del Bigtree's MUST-SEE interview with economist Toby Rogers.*

https://www.facebook.com/HighWireTalk/videos/2538961569559130/

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[MCM] Israel detains Anna Kontula, Finnish lawmaker, for over 10 hours; but look how they treat Palestinian women (2)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Anna Kontula, a Finnish left-wing lawmaker, held for over 10 hours in Israel

FINLAND

  15 JANUARY 2020
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/17212-anna-kontula-a-finnish-left-wing-lawmaker-held-for-over-10-hours-in-israel.html

[image: Anna Kontula (Left Alliance) says she was taken into custody in
Israel on Monday and held for over 10 hours for attempting to organise a
protest to draw attention to the humanitarian situation in Gaza. (Martti
Kainulainen – Lehtikuva)]


Anna Kontula (Left Alliance) says she was taken into custody in Israel on
Monday and held for over 10 hours for attempting to organise a protest to
draw attention to the humanitarian situation in Gaza. (Martti Kainulainen –
Lehtikuva)

   -
   


*ANNA KONTULA* (Left Alliance), a 42-year-old third-term Member of the
Finnish Parliament from Tampere, was taken into custody alongside other
members of an international group of human rights activists close to the
Gaza Strip in Israel on Monday.

She told  Helsingin
Sanomat that the objective of the five-person group was to call attention
to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by crossing the barrier separating
Israel and Gaza.

Taneli Hämäläinen, a parliamentary assistant to Kontula, on Tuesday
revealed that Kontula was released after more than 10 hours in custody and
that authorities attempted to pressure her into signing a statement
admitting to the accusations made against her, such as obstructing an
investigation and endangering public safety.

“Kontula refused to sign the statement, which she regarded as inaccurate,”
he wrote in a press release.

The press release indicates that her objective was also to call attention
to arms trade between Finland and Israel. Finland, she underlined, should
halt arms purchases from companies in the country in order to stop
supporting human rights violations in Gaza and the illegal barrier in and
around the West Bank.

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https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-no-metoo-for-these-palestinian-women-imprisoned-in-israel-1.8405041
No #MeToo for These Palestinian Women Imprisoned in Israel


Gideon Levy 
Jan 16, 2020 6:20 PM



[image: Khalida Jarrar in the courtroom of the Ofer detention facility,
2019.]Khalida Jarrar in the courtroom of the Ofer detention facility,
2019. Alex
Levac

They’re not women, they’re “terrorists,” so no one cares when they suffer
abuse. At a time when any sexist remark to a woman can lead to a riot, the
torture during interrogation or false imprisonment of women infuriate no
one. When careers and lives are ruined because of an improper kiss or a
hug, the restraint of women for days and nights in contorted positions,
sleep deprivation and false imprisonment are acceptable because they are
“terrorists.” The #MeToo movement has gone far, sometimes too far and
sometimes not far enough: It stops at the gate of Camp Ofer and the
interrogation facilities of the Shin Bet security service. There, it
doesn’t exist. There women can be abused to the heart’s content of the
occupation authorities. No one will protest.

One day last week the detainee Khalida Jarrar, a member of the nonexistent
Palestinian parliament, was brought into the depressing military court in
Ofer. She was not tortured during her interrogations, but signs of hardship
were clearly visible. Handcuffed, in a scruffy Israel Prison Services coat,
her face showing the fatigue of three and a half months of detention and
interrogations, a veteran of past detentions, most of them without charges
being brought, she has been charged with “holding a position in an illegal
association.” The mountain of Shin Bet briefings to members of the media,
in which she was accused of responsibility for the August murder of Rina
Shnerb in the West Bank
,
turned into a molehill in the form of a political arrest for “holding a
position.”

Israel doesn’t even bother to hide the fact that it holds political
detainees, as in despotic regimes.

Jarrar was charged with stands accused of responsibility for “the national
and political activity” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, a secular, left-wing party, whose right to exist the occupier
does not recognize, just a

[MCM] Green apartheid: Israel to establish nature reserves by seizing Palestinian land

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Somewhat like our national parks.*

*MCM*

Israel to seize private Palestinian land for establishing nature reserves
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/16/616349/Israel-to-seize-private-Palestinian-land-for-establishing-nature-reserves
Thursday, 16 January 2020 4:34 PM



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*Mona KandilPress TV, Occupied Ramallah*

Israel is pressing ahead with its land grab policy many believe is
partially aimed at annexing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

On Wednesday, Israeli minister of military affairs Naftali Bennett approved
the creation of seven new nature reserves in the occupied territories.

Palestinians have slammed the decision, saying the move is another excuse
to confiscate more Palestinian land to serve the settlers, and make the
establishment of an independent Palestinian state on conjoined land
impossible.

The seven Israeli-run reserves would be under control of Israel's Nature
and Parks Authority. In addition to the new reserves, Bennett also approved
the expansion of 12 existing sites also in the occupied West Bank. The
move, experts say, would be the first of its kind since the signing of the
Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in
1993. Experts say large parts of the land allocated for the nature reserves
belong to Palestinians.

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[MCM] "Check your thinking," UK cops warn man over his tweets about transgenderism

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*A must-watch video on the Orwell/Kafka turn the West has taken.*

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[MCM] This year, 15 community leaders in Colombia have been assassinated

[Mark Crispin Miller]

15 community leaders assassinated in Colombia in 2020
by Adriaan Alsema  January 13,
2020

https://colombiareports.com/15-community-leaders-assassinated-in-colombia-in-2020

At least 15 community leaders  reportedly have been assassinated in the
first 12 days of Colombia in an exceptional wave of violence.

The vast majority of the killings took place under confusing circumstances
in former territory of demobilized guerrilla group FARC
 in the south of the country where the
state is virtually absent.

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[MCM] Voter suppression is alive and well, says MLK's daughter (in a whopping understatement)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*What she describes—purgation of voters' names from the electronic voter
rolls—is just one piece*
*of the gigantic disenfranchisement machine whereby Americans "elect"
"their" presidents and others.*

*MCM*

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter says U.S. voter suppression is alive and
well
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZG18O
Rich McKay

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[image: Photo]
The Reverend Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr speaks at the
National Bar Association's 60th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
in Montgomery, December 1, 2015.
REUTERS/MARVIN GENTRY

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The center that honors slain U.S. civil rights icon
Martin Luther King Jr. will devote the holiday celebrating his legacy on
Monday to voter education and registration, his youngest daughter said in a
recent interview.

Bernice King, 56, said she believes her father would have been disappointed
with efforts playing out in some U.S. states to purge voter rolls of people
who have not recently cast ballots or to impose strict ID requirements.

"You can't take away someone's right to vote just because they haven't
decided to exercise it," said King, who serves as chief executive of the
King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. "When you take people
off the voter rolls because they haven't chosen to exercise their rights,
to me, is suppression."

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[MCM] Abby Martin banned from speaking at Georgia State for refusing to sign anti-BDS pledge

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Abby-Martin-Banned-From-Speaking-at-US-University--20200117-0007.html
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Abby Martin Banned From Speaking at US University For Refusing to Sign
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[MCM] Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world

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Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-found-be-most-sustainably-developed-country-world

Matt Trinder 
 January 10, 2020



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Organic agriculture in Cuba.

Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world, according to a
new report launched on November 29.

The socialist island outperforms advanced capitalist countries including
Britain and the United States, which has subjected Cuba to a punitive
six-decades-long economic blockade.

The Sustainable Development Index (SDI)
, designed by anthropologist
and author Dr Jason Hickel, calculates its results by dividing a nation’s
“human development” score, obtained by looking at statistics on life
expectancy, health and education, by its “ecological overshoot”, the extent
to which the *per capita* carbon footprint exceeds Earth’s natural limits.

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[MCM] Tokyo Olympic torch relay to add a second Fukushima reactor town

[Mark Crispin Miller]

2020 Tokyo Olympics Tokyo
Olympic torch relay to add another Fukushima reactor town
Jan. 18  06:09 am JST

https://japantoday.com/category/2020-tokyo-olympics/olympics-tokyo-torch-relay-to-add-another-fukushima-reactor-town
TOKYO

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games torch relay is likely to pass through the town
of Futaba, which hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in
northeastern Japan, as the government plans to lift the mandatory
evacuation order for the town on March 4, sources familiar with the matter
said Friday.

The town of Okuma, a co-host of the nuclear plant, was already included in
the first day of the torch relay. Fukushima Prefecture aims to highlight on
the global stage its reconstruction from the world's worst nuclear accident
since Chernobyl in 1986.

Organizers announced in July 2018 that Fukushima would be the starting
point for the torch relay in the country. Last March, Yoshiro Mori, the
organizing committee's president, revealed that the relay would begin some
20 kilometers from the Fukushima plant at the J-Village national soccer
training center, which was used as an operational base for handling the
nuclear crisis.

The Olympic torch will arrive in Japan on March 20 and the flame will be
taken to Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park in
Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

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[MCM] Air Force announces health study at Air National Guard base in New Hampshire, amid concerns about cancer

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Air Force announces health study at Pease Air National Guard Base amid
concerns about cancer
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/01/15/air-force-announces-health-study-at-pease-air-national-guard-base-amid-concerns-about-cancer/

The Associated Press

3 days ago
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A retired Air Force chief master sergeant wears his N.H. Air Guard hat at
the annual retiree day event on June 21, 2017, at Pease Air National Guard
Base, N.H. (Staff Sgt. Kayla Rorick/Air National Guard)

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Officials at an Air National Guard base in New Hampshire
announced that the Air Force will conduct a study amid concerns about
exposure to carcinogens at the base.

The occupation health study

will
take place at the Pease Air National Guard Base and will be conducted with
assistance from the Air National Guard surgeon general, the Portsmouth
Herald
reported
Sunday.

The study will examine personnel records

of
service members that were assigned to the base between January 1970 and
December 2019 in order to determine if there was a higher incidence of
cancer among those who were assigned to the guard base and the former Pease
Air Force base.

The announcement of the study comes after concerns were raised by a group
of widows of men who served at the bases.

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[MCM] Crystal Geyser admits dumping arsenic in California's water

[Mark Crispin Miller]

MARKETS 
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waterLocal authorities who sampled local water quality found arsenic
concentrations above hazardous waste limit
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future.

The California company that produces Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring bottled
water  pleaded
 guilty to illegally dumping
water that contained arsenic. Parent company CG Roxane LLC and two
contracted firms were previously charged in 2018 with failing to disclose
information relating to the presence of arsenic in wastewater that was
being transported from the bottling plant in Olancha, California.

A court case last week led to the firm agreeing to a $5 million fine for
the transportation and storing of hazardous waste, federal prosecutors said.

According to authorities, the waste was created by the filtration of
arsenic from Sierra Nevada spring water at CG Roxane LLC'S facility in
Owens Valley.

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[MCM] US cops kill citizens at over 70 times the rate of other first-world nations

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From five years ago. What is the rate today?*

*If "our free press," and/or our liberal Democrats, cared at all about this
routine carnage, *
*they would be pushing some reforms that might curtail it, if not end it. *

*> They would demand a thorough purge of all US police departments, to rid
them of the*
*white supremacists who have been **signing up for years—as the FBI
reported in 2006 *
*(a report that was declassified a few **years later, at which point "our
free press" largely*
*ignored it). *

*> **They would demand that all US police departments train their officers
in **martial arts, *
*so they need not use guns (and tasers) as their first means to defend
themselves. *

*> They would demand a crackdown on the widespread abuse of anabolic
steroids, which *
*turn **cops (and troops) into rock-hard killing machines. (On this lethal
epidemic, see*
*John Hoberman's Dopers in Uniform, published by the University of Texas
Press.)*
*This "war on drugs" would also benefit cops' wives and children, since
steroid abuse*
*also contributes heavily to domestic violence.*

*> They would demand that the recruitment of police officers take place
largely in the*
*neighborhoods policed, as opposed to having them commute to work in areas
whose*
*people they don't know or like. *

*> They would raise the standards for recruitment, instead of lowering
them, and pay*
*the cops accordingly, treating them as elite public servants, not as
grunts in place to*
*keep rich people protected and their property intact.*

*Why is there no discussion of American policing, and how best to improve
it—as*
*opposed to ritually playing up the most egregious killings in our streets,
and leaving*
*it at that? Why is there so much more press emphasis on gun
control—control of*
*guns used not by the police, but only those used by the citizens—than on
the policies*
*that make our cops so dangerous to all America's have-nots? Why has no
presidential*
*candidate said anything about this grievous problem, ever? How many
mayoral*
*candidates from coast to coast have ever said a word about it? Any?*

*The subject isn't raised by "our free press" or liberal Democrats because
they don't *
*care enough about it—that is, about us—**even to discuss the issue, much
less take *
*the necessary steps **to make us safer from **those officers who ought
to be protecting *
*us, instead of blowing **some of us **away, to **keep the rest of us in
line.*

*MCM *

Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other
First-World Nations

Matt Agorist  January 8,
2015
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-citizens-70-times-rate-first-world-nations

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In case you’ve been under a rock lately, it is becoming quite clear that
police in the US can and will kill people, even unarmed people, even on
video, and do so with impunity.

The tallying methods, or rather lack thereof, used by both the FBI and
individual police departments to count the amount of people killed by
police, have been shown to be staggeringly inaccurate.


However, this inability of the government to count the number of people it
kills, has been met with multiple alternative means of calculating just how
deadly the state actually is.

One of these citizen run databases, is the website www.killedbypolice.com
. The site is basically a spreadsheet that
lists every person killed by cops in the years 2013 and 2014. In addition
to naming those killed, it also provides a link to media reports for each
of the killings, age, sex and race if available.
*The tally for 2014? 1,100 people killed by those sworn to protect. That is
an average of three people a day.*

Do not mistake this as saying that those who were killed were innocent.
However, when we look at violent crime in this country,
we can see that it is
at an all time low.

While violence among citizens has dropped, violence against citizens
carried out by police has been rising sharply.

When we look at citizens killed by police over the last two years, deaths
have increased 44 percent in this short time; 763 people were killing by
police in 2013. 

As a comparison, the total number of US troops killed in Afghanistan and
Iraq, in 2014 was 58. 

Fewer soldiers were killed in war than citizens back home in “the land of
the free” in 2014, by a large margin.

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[MCM] What today's "black leaders" don't get (or want to get) about Martin Luther King

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*MLK and the Black Misleadership Class*


https://www.blackagendareport.com/mlk-and-black-misleadership-class
Glen Ford , BAR
executive editor

16 Jan 2020




http://www.blackagendareport.com/mlk-and-black-misleadership-class>
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MLK and the Black Misleadership Class

Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is the greatest sheer spectacle of
hypocrisy and historical duplicity of the year, as Black misleaders take
center stage to claim his mandate and mission on behalf of a corporate
party.

*“While Dr. King rejected an alliance with the ‘triple evils,’ Black
Democratic misleaders describe their deal with the Devil as smart,
‘strategic’ politics.”*

The birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is commemorated each year at
thousands of events in literally every U.S. city, yet the martyred human
rights leader’s political philosophy is totally absent from the agenda of
today’s Black Misleadership Class, a grasping cabal of hustlers and
opportunists that have grown fat and infinitely corrupt through their
collaboration with “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and
militarism.” Their “freedom train” was the Democratic Party, the half of
the corporate electoral duopoly that allowed colored folks to ride as first
class passengers – as long as they didn’t question the schedule or the
destination. The budding Black misleaders hopped on board the Democratic
Party express to the boardrooms of corporate power at about the same time
that Dr. King was making his definitive break with the evil “triplets’”
infernal machinery, including both corporate parties.

In his April 4, 1967 “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” speech
 at
New York City’s Riverside Church, Dr. King burned his bridges with the
nation’s top Democrat, despite President Lyndon Johnson’s indispensable
role in pushing civil and voting rights and anti-poverty bills through
Congress and championing an affirmative action rationale that -- as spelled
out in his 1965 speech

at
Howard University -- was a principled endorsement of reparations for crimes
committed against Black people by the U.S. society and State. Johnson went
farther than any previous U.S. president in acknowledging Black American
citizenship rights and grievances, even as the Republican half of the
electoral duopoly was preparing to assume the role of White Man’s Party
through Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy.” Yet, Dr. King, a proponent of
peace and democratic socialism, understood that the way to the “Promised
Land” was not through Black collaboration with the evils inherent in
capitalism and its ceaseless, predatory wars. “I have come to believe that
we are integrating into a burning house,” King told his friend
,
Harry Belafonte.

*“Dr. king **understood that the way to the ‘Promised Land’ was not through
Black collaboration with the evils inherent in capitalism and its
ceaseless, predatory wars.”*

By 1967, the War in Vietnam was consuming the promises of Johnson’s Great
Society. America was undeniably the “greatest purveyor of violence in the
world today,” King declared. The U.S. had already killed a million
Vietnamese, “mostly children,” but it was also a war on America’s poor. “I
knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in
rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to
draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube,”
King told the crowd at Riverside. “So, I was increasingly compelled to see
the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.” That meant
breaking with the Democrats and their president. More importantly, in his
Riverside speech Dr. King framed the Vietnamese as engaged in a righteous
struggle to complete their long quest for sovereignty and independence.
King broke with imperialism, the consummate expression of the all three
“triple evils.” So they killed him, the next year.

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[MCM] Here's how the world will move to STOP 5G on January 25th! (Rally in NYC at 2:30 p.m.)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*From Les Jamieson:*


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> *(The FCC recently granted permits to 8 companies, including Amazon,
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> **If
> activated, these satellites would blanket the entire planet with harmful
> pulsed, data-modulated microwave radiation. The constant exposure to this
> radiation could drastically alter the Earth’s natural magnetic Schumann
> resonances upon which all life depends. Thousands of 5G satellites
> requiring massive amounts of rocket fuel would further disrupt our climate,
> and generate tons of space debris. Add to this the deployment of millions
> of terrestrial close-proximity antennas, in other words two or more per
> city block, and we could be threatening irreparable harm to the earth’s
> biosphere.*
>
>
> * We must not allow this to happen. It’s time for us to stop 5G on Earth
> and in space. We must demand safe technology! Let us envision living in a
> world in peace and harmony with nature.) *
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[MCM] US moving ISIS leaders back into Iraq to nullify Iraqi parliament's pull-out decision

[Mark Crispin Miller]

https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/01/security-expert-us-relocating-isis-terrorists-to-iraq-in-an-attempt-to-nullify-iraqi-parliaments-pull-out-decision/

Security Expert: US Relocating ISIS Terrorists To Iraq In An Attempt To
Nullify Iraqi Parliament’s Pull-Out Decision
By Drago Bosnic  On Jan 19,
2020
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BAGHDAD – The US forces in western Iraq are relocating ISIS ringleaders
from Syria to the Wadi Houran region in western al-Anbar Province after the
area was cleansed by Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi popular forces), an official
revealed.

“After the US forces prevented Iraqi forces from approaching Wadi Houran
and the western desert of al-Anbar, finally, Hashd al-Shaabi could remove
the existing obstacles and defeat the ISIS terrorists in the region and
cleanse Wadi Houran completely,” Head of Badr Organization’s Office in
al-Anbar Qusai al-Anbari told the Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news
website on Sunday.

“But after the cleansing operations, the US forces stationed near the
region facilitated the trafficking of the ISIS terrorists and their
transfer to Wadi Houran and the western desert by reopening a number of
roads and heliborne operations,” he added.

Al-Anbari said that the US forces have in the first stage transferred a
number of ISIs ringleaders with foreign nationalities to Wadi Houran and
the Western desert of al-Anbar to revive the ISIS under a new name to
foment insecurity in Iraq.

In relevant remarks in February, Iraq’s security experts disclosed that the
US Army was training ISIS terrorists in Al-Anbar province after relocating
them from Syria to Iraq to prepare them for creating insecurity in the
country.

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[MCM] MSNBC hosts "body language expert" claiming Bernie is a liar

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*What next? A phrenologist interpreting the bumps on Bernie's head?*

*When Bernie "loses" in the primaries, "analysts" will invoke all this
crapola*
*to "explain" it. (And will he then raise any questions as to whether he
was*

*actually defeated, or just clam up about it yet again?)*

*MCM*

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/18/why-no-one-trusts-media-msnbc-slammed-featuring-body-language-expert-who-calls

Published on
Saturday, January 18, 2020
by
Common Dreams 
'This Is Why No One Trusts the Media': MSNBC Slammed for Featuring 'Body
Language Expert' Who Calls Sanders a Liar

While the Sanders campaign demanded an apology from the network, critics of
Joy Ann Reid's morning show said the segment was "fraudulent garbage" and a
"disgrace."
by
Jon Queally, staff writer


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[image: MSNBC weekend anchor Joy Ann Reid host invited Janine Driver on her
show Saturday morning. Driver, who bills herself as a "body language
expert," accused Sen. Bernie Sanders of being a liar on national television
because he "turtles" his shoulders and lowers his "eye level" when he says
certain things. (Photo: MSNBC/Screenshot)]

MSNBC weekend anchor Joy Ann Reid host invited Janine Driver on her show
Saturday morning. Driver, who bills herself as a "body language expert,"
accused Sen. Bernie Sanders of being a liar on national television because
he "turtles" his shoulders and lowers his "eye level" when he says certain
things. (Photo: MSNBC/Screenshot)

*MSNBC* and weekend anchor Joy Ann Reid came under fire from progressives
and members of the Bernie Sanders campaign Saturday after airing a segment
with a "body language expert" who—citing "eye level" and the turtling of
the 2020 candidate's shoulders—accused Sanders of lying earlier this week
when he denied ever telling Sen. Elizabeth Warren that a woman could not be
president.

"This is unhinged," tweeted
 Meagan Day, a
staff writer for *Jacobin* magazine, in response to the segment
.
"Genuinely divorced from reality."

The guest on Reid's show "AM Joy" was Janine Driver, who promotes herself
 as an "international communications expert" and
the owner and president of the Body Language Institute. The segment sparked
howls of criticism aimed at Driver, Reid, and the network.

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[MCM] Twitter/Facebook/Instagram going full Chinese since the US whacked Soleimani

[Mark Crispin Miller]

After US killing of Iran’s Soleimani, narrative control on social media is
getting worse
[image: Eva Bartlett] 
Eva Bartlett
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has
spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East,
especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
17 Jan, 2020 08:14
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/478241-narrative-control-social-media-soleimani-twitter/


[image: After US killing of Iran’s Soleimani, narrative control on social
media is getting worse]
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Twitter has been on a narrative-control rampage, removing or censoring
legitimate accounts that are critical of US-led wars, propaganda and lies.
Facebook and Instagram have increased their Big Brother policing, too.

Attempts by American-based social media behemoths to silence or censor
voices critical of the establishment-approved narrative is nothing new, but
this trend seems to have intensified lately.

Just in the past several days, following the criminal US assassination of
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Instagram and Facebook have been removing
posts supportive of Soleimani, even profile photos honouring the general,
allegedly to comply with US sanctions, a truly absurd
explanation for
the narrative control.

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[MCM] Gay drag queen Kitty Demure rips "drag queen story hours," and the parents who subject their kids to them

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*Drag queens offer entertainment for adults—just like female pole dancers,
who should*
*also not be entertaining children. Hats off to Kitty Demure for calling
out those parents*
*who subject their kids to such displays so as to show off their own
tolerance. *

*MCM *

Gay drag queen slams Drag Queen Story Hour, calls parents “extremely
irresponsible” for exposing children to adult entertainers

   - Caldron Pool  On
   January 19, 2020
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https://caldronpool.com/gay-drag-queen-slams-drag-queen-story-hour-calls-parents-extremely-irresponsible-for-exposing-children-to-adult-entertainers/amp


A “gay drag queen” from California has slammed the Drag Queen Story Hour
phenomenon, saying parents who allow their children to participate in such
events are “extremely irresponsible.”

The San Bernardino-based performer known as Kitty Demure posted a short
video to social media on Sunday, warning parents that their attempts to
appear “woke” and “non-homophobic” are hurting the gay community, which
“already has a reputation for being pedophiles.”

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[MCM] Homeopathy is under FDA attack—and you have just four days to TELL THEM NO.

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*This is just one front in the ongoing war against all health practitioners
whose practice *
*hurts **the interests of Big Pharma and the Medical-Industrial Complex.*

*MCM*


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>
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> January 19, 2020
> Dear Miriana,
> We emailed you in December about our alliance with *Americans for
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[MCM] Emmanuel Macron hustled out of Paris theater as protesters try to find him

[Mark Crispin Miller]

*The tumbrils were coming?*

*And note what happened to Taha Bouhafs, the journalist who tweeted
jokingly*
*about whether he should throw a shoe at Macron's head.*

*MCM*
Emmanuel Macron evacuated from theatre as protesters try to find him

Journalist watching play arrested after joke about hurling his shoes at
president

   - Maya Oppenheim 
   @mayaoppenheim 
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[image: Some of the protesters overrode police efforts to block them going
into the building and managed to get inside the theatre]
Some of the protesters overrode police efforts to block them going into the
building and managed to get inside the theatre ( REUTERS )

Emmanuel Macron  was
evacuated from a Parisian  theatre
as dozens of demonstrators tried to get inside the building to find him.

Critics of the French president’s pension reforms assembled at the Bouffes
du Nord theatre on Friday evening where Mr Macron was seeing a play with
his wife Brigitte Macron
.

Protesters overrode police efforts to block them going into the building
and managed to storm inside as they chanted “Macron, resign!” and “We are
here, even if Macron does not want us, we are here”.

The president and his wife were watching a play called *La Mouche*, which
translates as *The Fly* in English, when Taha Bouhafs, an activist
journalist who was sitting several rows behind, shared pictures on Twitter.

Mr Bouhafs jokingly asked his social media followers if he should hurl his
shoes at the president – a reference to the Iraqi journalist who made
headlines worldwide for throwing his shoes at former US president George W
Bush  back in 2008.

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[MCM] The forgotten King (MUST-READ by John Kirby)

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