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United States: An Obituary
The United States of America was problematic from the start. It was founded on genocide and slavery, and, while frequently congratulating itself on the rights and freedoms it granted its citizens, never managed to confront the demons in its past. The question would arise repeatedly, generation after generation: rights and freedoms for whom?
Nevertheless, the immigrants who founded a nation on a stolen continent managed to show up in the right place at the right time. The luck of geography and history insulated them from most wars in Europe, while supplying them with vast forests, navigable rivers, rich topsoils, valuable minerals, and much of the world’s most easily accessible coal, oil, and natural gas.
The result, after a century-and-a-half of wealth accumulation and industrial buildup, was global dominance. America invented and taught the world the magic formula of consumerism: cheap energy + advertising + consumer credit = ever-growing levels of commerce, employment, tax revenue, and return on investment. The transformation of nature into quantifiable wealth via energy, technology, capital investment, and labor had never before occurred so rapidly, or on so grand a scale.
The 20th century was without question the American century. After World War II, which was fought at a distance from American soil, the dollar became the world’s reserve currency, and there could be little doubt who was in charge. Even though politicians in Washington insisted that their nation led by example and shouldn’t be thought of as an empire, any other nation’s hesitance to adhere to US rules resulted in a CIA-engineered coup, an invasion, or economic sanctions.
At least since the start of the new century, it has been clear that America’s star is waning. The first signs of trouble came in the 1960s and ’70s, as the pointless Vietnam invasion divided the country, US oil production began to decline, and Richard Nixon devised the War on Drugs as a strategy to incarcerate and disempower large numbers of African Americans. Financialization started turning America into a two-tier casino in the 1980s, but the owner class never complained and the renter class had no voice. More needless, costly wars were to come under the aegis of George W. Bush, a clueless rich kid who wandered into the presidency via family connections, a winsome Texas drawl, and a little help from the Supreme Court. The end of Bush’s second term happened to coincide with the peak of world conventional oil production, the bursting of a financial bubble in the housing market, and the start of the global financial crisis. But the nation dodged these deadly bullets, just barely.
Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, was charged with cleaning up the mess. Obama was intelligent, articulate, and empathetic; moreover, in his speeches he appealed to values that united most Americans. However, despite hope from many progressives that his election would lead to substantive changes in economic, military, healthcare, and environmental policies, Obama was unable or unwilling to break with the status quo. Crucially, he failed to prevent Treasury and Federal Reserve officials from crafting a recovery that rewarded the investor class while further immiserating wage laborers.
Speculators, now flush with bailout cash, were eager to identify the Next Big Thing; many thought they found it in the fracking frenzy. Soon small, heavily hyped companies were producing millions of barrels of oil each day from shale formations in North Dakota, Texas, and Oklahoma, while yielding almost no profits for drillers and investors. It was a pyramid scheme, but one with a tangible product. Peak oil was postponed, and America was once again the world’s top petroleum producer.
Throughout the Obama years, social media began playing an expanding role in the daily lives of most Americans. These convenient, addictive, and highly profitable digital tools facilitated fun communication while also fracturing the country’s common understanding of reality. They offered users ever more fodder for whatever they already believed, even if those beliefs amounted to the looniest of conspiracy theories.
In 2008, a European acquaintance asked me how I thought the US would react to having an African-American president. I replied that, given the persistent racism rampant in my country, there would be hell to pay one way or another.
Eight years later, hell arrived in the person of Donald J. Trump, promoter of the discredited notion that Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya and was therefore ineligible for the presidency. Plenty has been written about Trump’s psychology—his narcissism, his lack of curiosity and compassion, and his tendency to be driven by personal grievance. Much reportage has also been devoted to his administration’s alarming actions—its dismantling of environmental regulations, its crippling of constitutional checks and balances, and its dramatic undermining of America’s standing worldwide. Inevitably, a growing majority of the voting public is turning against Trump; his response is not to run a competent reelection campaign (or a competent government, for that matter), but instead to divide the country further on every conceivable issue, with the evident intent of contesting the results of the November ballot, thereby throwing the nation into political turmoil of a ferocity not seen since the spate of urban uprisings and assassinations (JFK, MLK, RFK, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X) in the 1960s, and perhaps not since the Civil War.
Oh, and there’s the pandemic. The emergence of something like the novel coronavirus was inevitable at some point, as public health experts had long warned, but this particular bug just happened to arrive at a moment when America was divided and distrustful. Lack of federal leadership resulted in arguably the most inept pandemic response in any industrial country, with the US leading the world in infections and deaths. While some nations were able to eliminate the virus entirely by acting early and cooperatively, America under Trump dithered and denied its way into a polarized confusion wherein even the choice of whether to wear a facemask is a tribal signal. Up to half of Americans say they won’t take a vaccine when it becomes available.
Due to the pandemic, America is now mired in an economic depression, with nearly unprecedented levels of unemployment and widespread bankruptcies. Meanwhile, the stock market—once again buoyed by unimaginably generous bailouts—is riding high.
As if the nation’s body politic weren’t already riddled with enough mortal ills, the cancer of racism has suddenly metastasized, exemplified in yet another police killing of an unarmed African American. Decades of Jim Crow laws, lynchings, criminalization, and government-backed loan programs that gave a lift to white citizens while holding blacks down have built up an unmanageable backlog of resentments and fears. As emotions reached boiling temperature, Trump responded by pouring fuel on the flames, tweeting, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”—a phrase used previously by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley.
As students of the history of authoritarian regimes have frequently noted, once a slide toward dictatorship begins within a democracy, it is difficult to halt; usually, the only force powerful enough to stop it is large numbers of people in the street.
However, days of massive street protests, most of them peaceful and featuring people of all ages and skin colors, have shifted the political calculus of the nation ahead of the November election. As students of the history of authoritarian regimes have frequently noted, once a slide toward dictatorship begins within a democracy, it is difficult to halt; usually, the only force powerful enough to stop it is large numbers of people in the street. The recent protests didn’t specifically target Trump, but they certainly drew energy from long-simmering anger and resentment against him, and his transparent support for white nationalists and institutionalized racism in all its forms. Now military leaders are openly breaking with the president. As a result of these developments, the likelihood of Trump consolidating power over the longer term is considerably diminished.
The protests were an outpouring that a majority of the nation could be proud of. Over the short term, America seems to have dodged a couple of bullets. The possibility of a Trump dictatorship is receding; so is the immediate threat of the pandemic—in most people’s minds, at least. Businesses are reopening, and concerts and sporting events are being rescheduled.
Nevertheless, expectations of a recovery to the status quo ante are not just premature; they’re fundamentally unrealistic. Even assuming that a new administration takes charge next year, the United States is entering a period of political, social, and economic dissolution. Its unconventional oil production rate has now peaked and is in steep decline, a debt bubble even larger than the one that existed in 2007 is ripe to pop, and COVID-19 threatens to wash back through the populace in repeated waves. Meanwhile, the specter of climate upheaval, for which the US is also entirely unprepared, lurks in the background, promising rising seas and worsening wildfires, droughts, floods, and storms.
In short, we are living through the fall of a great power. With it will go a unique way of organizing the world. The symbolism of president Trump cowering in an underground bunker beneath the White House in late May couldn’t be plainer.
It is reasonable to ask whether the United States will continue to exist as a unified nation for much longer. The federal government has become so incompetent as to be increasingly irrelevant to the solution of many pressing problems—and a new face in the White House may not change the situation decisively. Out of necessity, states are exploring strategies of regionalism, as governors in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, and the Northeast collaborate to respond to the pandemic. Governor Gavin Newsom has even taken to calling California a “nation state.” States do not have monetary sovereignty, and therefore cannot run up huge deficits in order to cushion the impact of economic depression. State banks, which could create and lend money for such purposes, have been proposed as the next-best thing. However, devolution of power to the states may do little to address the urban-rural economic, racial, and political disparities that are ripping the nation’s social fabric.
Whether or not they ultimately remain legally united, the country’s inhabitants and their descendants will probably still identify themselves as “Americans” of one subgroup or another. Out of necessity, they will find ways to adapt to a less consumptive, more localized way of life. For many—especially for those who take proactive steps to build personal, household, and community resilience—there could be some advantages to living in the wake of empire. But all will have some rough seas to navigate before there is much to cheer about.
Greed, consumerism, racism, and imperial ambition sealed our nation’s fate. If, as people, we wish to move forward, we must revert to the best of our early unifying values: hard work, thrift, generosity, fairness, honesty, ingenuity, and mutual respect. We’ll need to embody these values increasingly in local institutions, businesses, and other social arrangements of every conceivable kind if we are to minimize the human cost of national failure. It’s not too soon to start.
168 Comments on "United States: An Obituary"
Davy on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 10:00 am
“Twitter Reinstates Zerohedge After Admitting It Made An “Error”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-reinstates-zerohedge-after-admitting-it-made-error
“133 days after Twitter “permanently” banned Zero Hedge on January 31, the social network has reinstated us after admitting it made an error. As a reminder, what happened in late January was confusing. Shortly after we asked if “This [Is] The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic”, referring to Wuhan Institute Of Virology scientist Peng Zhou (who three months later was being investigated by western spy agencies for his role in creating Covid) and some low-grade “reporter” from Buzzfeed decided to report us to Twitter for “doxxing” Zhou using publicly available information, Twitter told us that the account had been suspended for “violating Twitter rules against abuse and harassment”, which was false as we neither incited abuse nor harrassment, but merely asked questions. But the confusing part is that at the same time, Twitter fabricated an entirely different explanation for its decision when speaking to outside media, telling them the suspension was due to “platform manipulation” – whatever that means. An odd mix of conflicting explanations but in any case, neither was true as we said at the time, and as we further told Bloomberg, the suspension was “unjustified, and likely motivated by reasons other than the stated ones” adding that “we are confident that we did not violate any of the stated Twitter terms: we neither incited harassment, nor did we ‘dox’ the public official, whose contact information is as of this moment listed on the Wuhan institute’s website.” Fast forward to late Friday night, when unexpectedly we received a brief email from Twitter Support informing us that “we made an error in our enforcement action” as a result of which “we have unsuspended your account.” Speaking to Bloomberg, a Twitter spokesperson said that “we made an error in our enforcement action in this case. Based on additional context from the account holder in appeal, we have reinstated the account. We have a dedicated appeals process for all account holders.” Funny how mistakes happen when you ban first and ask questions later (and only when prompted to do so). In any case, no bad blood right – honest mistake? Well, not really: before all this happened, none other than Twitter’s CEO was following us. Not anymore. The @zerohedge account also remains highly shadow banned (try searching for the actual zerohedge account on twitter, good luck), perhaps as an innocuous consequence of the “error.” That’s OK though, we never expected an apology. We are just glad that we will be able to share facts and perspectives with our now 700K Twitter followers, a number which has spiked by more than 30K in just the past few hours since the suspension was overturned.”
SocialRevolutionComing on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 10:21 am
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/06/13/13/29564226-8416897-image-a-186_1592051872472.jpg
Globalism in one banner. Everything is there precept racism against white
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 10:29 am
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/06/13/13/29564226-8416897-image-a-186_1592051872472.jpg
Globalism in one banner. Everything is there precept racism against white
Globalist Anglostan at its finest.
We, the 640 million of continental Europe, only have to wait until the place blows up.
What French, Russian and Chinese nukes can’t accomplish, these fine BLM IEDs can: deliver a smoking Anglo pile of rubble to us on a silver platter.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 10:38 am
In North-England, BNP country, BLM is still outnumbered:
https://twitter.com/GreatAlexandor/status/1271768819279822850
REAL Green on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 11:07 am
We don’t comment on this side any more cus only lunatics post hear. Now we only comment on the other side where only the real smart folk like us post.
ZOMFG you guyes COVID-19 is code name for operation CONVICT-19 you guyes i know some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway dead giveaway on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 11:24 am
sry u guyes if my typing bad im busy checking my smart phone as i take a knee for our first muzzie catholic saint Ahmaud “muzzie” arbery
More midless lunatic shit from daVee on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 11:33 am
zero juan on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 9:55 am
The Board on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 12:15 pm
On the matter of The Board voting to Ban the lunatic and Fool.
We vote: YES
Vote ban for the goat-fucker Davy
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:06 pm
Trump has trouble lifting glass of water and walking down stairs at West Point graduation
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-trump-glass-water-west-point-20200613-dkioabuiirhz7pelj465p2j6he-story.html
These are the least of the Fat Boys problems–
Lets give him a break– other wingnuts have already died from one too many BigMacs.
JuanP on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:10 pm
Duncan, do you support Antifa? If so then you believe in terrorism.
makati1 on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:19 pm
All Amerikans believe in terrorism. That is how they have lived the high life for the last 528 years. Pillaging 3rd world countries for their cheap labor and resources starting with the native Indians and moving on to slaves, etc, and now to enslaving their own citizens. Why change now?
I support anything that takes down arrogant Amerika to the level where they cannot terrorize the rest of the world. GO TRUMP!
JuanP on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:22 pm
Mak, that means you do too
More Mindless Lunatic Davy JuanP Derangement And ID Fraud on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:29 pm
JuanP on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:10 pm
JuanP on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:22 pm
makati1 on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:38 pm
That is what those words say, Davy.
“I support anything that takes down arrogant Amerika to the level where they cannot terrorize the rest of the world. GO TRUMP!”
More Mindless Lunatic JuanP Derangement And ID Fraud on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:38 pm
JuanP on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:10 pm
JuanP on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:22 pm
REAL Green on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:49 pm
Mommy says quit bein a lunatic Davy and git your pyejammies on and git ready for bedtime. She also said she should of had a aborshun.
REAL Green on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 7:55 pm
Every one no’s were the pink poodle Davy. Were only making ourselfs look even stupider then we all ready are.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 13th Jun 2020 9:11 pm
Bill Maher in despair yesterday about Dems chances to loose the election again. Especially the proposal to defund the police won’t go well:
https://www.newswars.com/bill-maher-democrats-new-defund-the-police-effort-is-a-terrible-idea/
My hunch is that many colored voters could vote for Trump and opt for four more years of America. Let Meghan and Harry preside over CW2 in 2024.
Davy on Sun, 14th Jun 2020 4:56 am
“My hunch is that many colored voters could vote for Trump and opt for four more years of America. Let Meghan and Harry preside over CW2 in 2024.”
cloggo, life is back to normal in most places. The news is so dramatic and almost not worth watching. Most all of the problems are in the extremist liberal enclaves. The way you were panting over the last two weeks we expected an instant collapse. This is yet another example of your impotent Anglo Derangement. You are a waste of time and ridiculous. You are at least better than the lunatic, zero juan. Some of your comments are readable.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 14th Jun 2020 6:27 am
Whites being spit upon in London, for being white:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8419023/Revolting-moment-thug-SPITS-woman-enjoying-picnic-Hyde-Park.html
“Revolting moment thug SPITS on a woman enjoying a picnic in Hyde Park after far-right protesters clashed with police during Black Lives Matter rally”
Why are they living among us?
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 14th Jun 2020 11:50 am
“”It’s Over, America”: Tulsa Police Major Says Cops Across Country On Verge Of Quitting”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-over-america-tulsa-police-major-says-cops-across-country-verge-quitting
“I wouldn’t wish this job on my worst enemy,” wrote Yates. “I would never send anyone I cared about into the hell that this profession has become … I used to talk cops out of leaving the job. Now I’m encouraging them. It’s over, America. You finally did it You aren’t going to have to abolish the police, we won’t be around for it.”
You have to be a fool to volunteer to be a cop in the US these days. If you follow orders and regulations, it can get you in jail for life. Could happen to Chauvin, who has already been sentenced, before the trial happened. The Dims are ready to sacrifice you to pander to the black vote.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 14th Jun 2020 11:51 am
1928 — Argentina: Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Cuban guerrilla, lives (1928-1967). Argentine doctor, who rejected both capitalism & orthodox communism.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 14th Jun 2020 11:53 am
“Three-fourths of philosophy & literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
— Gary Snyder
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 7:26 am
Scenes of massive looting in Tampa, Florida. Note the skin color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ38ZyidZDs
Or as the Great Martin Looter King and a moral example to us all used to say: “I have a TV!”
Also note the George Floyd tears in the sad eyes of the prole-shoppers.
Just kidding.
You cannot run a first world civilization with these jungle bunnies; once a certain threshold has been arrived, the situation gets out of control and this herd-of-color will destroy everything they encounter. Eventually they will make themselves impossible, won’t be long.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/albert-schweitzer-on-africans/
SocialRevolutionComing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 7:58 am
A lot of interesting headlines coming from France this morning. Some talks about reinventing itself and not removing statues.
They seems to be ready ease lock down. They might finally get that fear destroy creative, desire to live. COVID hoax is a total disaster and a dump strategy on some many levels. It has destroy the school system, the hospitals system, destroy nations governance systems and the confidence link between people and politicians and son.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=france+news&sp=CAI%253D
We have to build a new society around an energy equation (Joule), not a monetary equation.
This is why I think the best place to create a Whites ethno-state is Canada-US. Québec has a good hydro-electrical infrastructures that is well maintained. So we could use this to make a manufacturing hub. The new Whites ethno-state could go from Nord of Québec down Florida.
Death to rich globalist.
Death to Klaus Schwab
https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance
Death to Chrystia Freeland
https://www.weforum.org/people/chrystia-freeland
Death to Prince Charles
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/the-great-reset-this-weeks-world-vs-virus-podcast/
Long life to Donald Trump
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 8:51 am
In contrast to Anglosphere, not even France will take down statues, as president Macron has declared yesterday, let alone the rest of continental Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGt2bEqShjQ
Anglosphere and continental Europe, a subtle difference.
Montreal-Quebec on contrast petitions to take down statue:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/james-mcgill-petition-1.5611769
Perhaps that SRC first defends his statues before he has illusions about North-America as the Last White Man Standing.
And as always our self-styled “high quality whites” SRC has not a clue about the JQ.
SocialRevolutionComing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:06 am
Europe is too closed to African and Middle-East. You will never solved the shit skin immigration problems in Europe. Bring all Whites from Europe into US. Abandon Europe. It is just a piece of land.
Hydro-electricity does not generate pollution like electricity generated by coal, see china pollution. Making it a perfect location for a small manufacturing hub.
Europe is a globalists shit hole, control by globalists and leftists.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:26 am
The IQ-hypocrisy.
Every developed nation uses IQ to distribute its tax-farm sheep over the diverse layers of its educational system.
Here for instance is the Dutch example:
https://wetenschap.infonu.nl/onderzoek/92471-iq-betekenis-iq-score.html
5 layer educational system, strictly segregated on IQ. The army does the same. No sane country is going to waste expensive academic resources on people with an IQ of 90.
In other words, “the elite” has (correctly) absolutely no problem in subdividing its majority white kids into IQ-groups.
But if you start to apply this mechanism on the entire world, the fun stops with the globalist elite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_and_intelligence#/media/File:World-iq-map-lynn-2006.svg
The general “civilized” attitude is to deny these vast differences and attribute them to “circumstances” rather than “DNA”. Because the globalist agenda of mixing everything and erasing borders should proceed unhindered, so in the end the entire world becomes one single tax farm in the pocket of billionaire oligarch globalists.
It is from a development point of view even immoral to deprive already not too bright nations of their best brains and impoverish these countries even more.
SocialRevolutionComing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:30 am
I am going to stop commenting. Do people actually read comments. I find writing comments so pointlesss and a waster of time.
I will adopt a nihilist approach to life from now on.
Richard Guenette on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:33 am
Everyone has their own way of thinking (visual learning, tactile learner, logical learning, audio learning). Education should go back to its original ways- common sense, critical thinking, logic etc.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:46 am
“Europe is too closed to African and Middle-East.”
BS. We are protected by the Mediterranean where you have only the Rio Grande and a worthless, self-defeating “nation of immigrants” attitude.
For Europeans in 2020, North-America has ZERO attraction. Europe is the most beautiful continent in the world, where North-America is a cultural void, high-rise buildings of concrete, glass and steel and a Guggenheim museum with a turd in a pot as “art”. We are deep in our hearts natural born fascists, where you are owned and destroyed by globalists, suffering from the incurable COVID-Zion bacillus.
Dream on about Europeans moving to America. North-America is on the verge of collapse. You should dream of European soldiers coming to North-America to liberate you from the George Soros tribe, because you are too weak, too clueless to do it yourself. We know from rich experience how to deal with those types:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei#/media/Bestand:Auschwitz_entrance.JPG
In the best case, white parts of a balkanized North-America will end up as the junior partner of continental Europe. If not, enjoy the Gulag and its BLM guards, led from behind by Soros types.
Here Nazis marching through the streets of my home town, who had no taste for communism:
https://www.ed.nl/eindhoven/historische-serie-nazi-s-marcheerden-in-jaren-dertig-al-door-straten-van-eindhoven~a7800dfb/
The entire multiult disaster is caused by Anglos teaming up with Soviets during WW2, the great zionist conspiracy.
Meanwhile nuclear-armed Russia and Eastern Europe are thoroughly cured from COVID-Zion and the Chinese are not susceptible for the virus to begin with, because no Christian background.
YOU are the problem, SRC!
But you are also a problem that is going to be dealt with in the upcoming “soccer match” Eurasia-Anglosphere.
But first a hard-Brexit and a nice little trade war over Nord Stream II, to initiate the breakup between Europe and North-America. And if you are lucky we will return to North-America as your new overlord, actually the old one 1492-1776 (or 1867 in the case of Canada).
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:48 am
“I will adopt a nihilist approach to life from now on.”
So much for our self-styled “high-quality whites” SRC from Quebec.
Loser.
Richard Guenette on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 9:55 am
Anyone studying history knows that empires come and go.
Davy on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 10:01 am
Chinese Scientist, Escorted Out Of Canadian Biolab, Sent Deadly Viruses To Wuhan
Mon, 06/15/2020 – 08:42
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-scientist-escorted-out-canadian-biolab-sent-deadlhy-viruses-wuhan
“We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military.” -Amir Attaran
A Chinese scientist who was escorted out of Canada’s only level-4 biolab over a possible “policy breach” shipped dealdy Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to the CBC, citing newly-released documents. The shipment is not related to COVID-19 or the pandemic.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and her Chinese students were removed from the Canadian lab after the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) asked the RCMP to investigate several months earlier. According to PHAC, Qiu’s eviction from the lab is not connected to the shipment.
Richard Guenette on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 10:08 am
The “war games” that NATO and the US military conduct are a huge waste of taxpayers dollars/euros.
Davy on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 10:08 am
“Nassim Taleb: Masks Matter – Here’s The Model!”
Mon, 06/15/2020 – 10:28
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nassim-taleb-masks-matter-heres-model
Authored by Nassim Nicholas Taleb via Medium.com,
https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
“Incompetence and Errors in Reasoning Around Face Covering
SIX ERRORS:
1) missing the compounding effects of masks,
2) missing the nonlinearity of the probability of infection to viral exposures,
3) missing absence of evidence (of benefits of mask wearing) for evidence of absence (of benefits of mask wearing),
4) missing the point that people do not need governments to produce facial covering: they can make their own,
5) missing the compounding effects of statistical signals,
6) ignoring the Non-Aggression Principle by pseudolibertarians (masks are also to protect others from you; it’s a multiplicative process: every person you infect will infect others).
In fact masks (and faceshields) supplemented with constraints of superspreader events can save us trillions of dollars in future lockdowns (and lawsuits) and be potentially sufficient (under adequate compliance) to stem the pandemic. Bureaucrats do not like simple solutions.”
Davy on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 11:33 am
Fuck, I keep fergetting to tinyurl my ZEROHEDGES. It must be the dermnentia making me ferget portant things like that.
Sorry everyone.
Olaf the village fucking idiot on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 11:37 am
Why cant we just use potatoes? that will make us all happy and then there are no more wars
Farmer Bobe on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 11:39 am
now you listen to me Olaf!, you steal my potatoes again and you are gonna get it!
you hear me you dumb sonofabitch?
Olaf the village fucking idiot on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 12:12 pm
I am so sorry. My goats and my donkey were hungry and I did not know what else to do. I dont have much money and the goats and donkey havent eaten for days, or it is weeks.
Explain yourself zero juan on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 12:24 pm
Fucking liar POS
juanPee, explain this part of your comment you claim to be true now. I love when you take the bait. BTW, that comment was from the moderated side so there is none of this “maybe 1% by me” crap. Explain this fuck:
“Re: The Green New Deal and the Growth of Renewables by JuanP » Sat 02 May 2020, 17:50:52”
“I had the pleasure of working with hundreds of young Japanese, mostly women, when I helped train Yoga teachers. I helped train thousands of teachers from all over the world over a handful of years. I would interact with them 6 days a week from sunrise to sunset for 8 consecutive weeks. I found the experience absolutely fascinating.”
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 12:38 pm
I love how some of the very same people who go bat shit crazy at the mere suggestion they should wear a pandemic mask find it perfectly normal to send their kids to school wearing body armor.
Bulletproof backpacks see 300% spike in sales in the week after mass shootings
This article is more than 9 months old
Companies that make the armored packs said they saw ‘a significant uptick’, similar to what followed shootings in previous years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/12/bulletproof-backpacks-mass-shootings-sales-spike
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 12:42 pm
Van hellzing, this one’s for you buddy.
Happy Nihilists
https://youtu.be/eCzRWslxvKQ
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 15th Jun 2020 12:48 pm
Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
“Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and mainstream media are falling all over themselves with censorship and spin jobs to get the narrative back under control as mass protests continue to sweep across America.
In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts. “America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”
“Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced—silence the guns and the barrage will end,” Watts added.
Those words rattle around in the memory now as America burns with nationwide protests demanding an end to the police state, and as narrative control operations ramp up with frantic urgency.”
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/06/13/narrative-control-operations-escalate-as-america-burns/
Censorship – there’s your one true non partisan ‘issue’. Last week it was Zerohedge, this week The Greyzone.
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