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We all start from personal experience. I covered the Soviet Union in its final decrepit years. The Soviet and allied regimes had already slaughtered 20 million people through things like mass executions and intentional famines. Those regimes were slave states. They enslaved whole peoples and took away the right to say what they wanted, live where they wanted and harvest the fruits of their labor.And gets hammered in the comments. Click screenshot below the fold to enlarge:
And yet every day we find more old quotes from Sanders apologizing for this sort of slave regime, whether in the Soviet Union, Cuba or Nicaragua. He excused the Nicaraguan communists when they took away the civil liberties of their citizens. He’s still making excuses for Castro.
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| From Worldometer where a lot of detail |
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| From Worldometer where many details |
ADDED: according to WHO (link above), Guangzhou, China, has tested over 300,000 and found 0.012% positive. Wuhan tests 20,000 per day. Korea tested 50,000 last week. China just sent 40,000 test kits to Japan. Experts are still uncertain as to patient zero. By contrast America has tested fewer than 600 up to this morning.
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| Home on the stoop. Cool and breezy. Safe… |
The Roger Stone sentencing farce is as fitting an end to the Russia Collusion saga as one could conjure up . . . though it might be more fitting to call it the end of Russia Collusion, Part I. No sooner did the first flick conclusively bomb than the media-Democrat complex was issuing the casting call for Russia Collusion, Part II.
In the sequel, you’re asked to believe that Putin is manipulating the chesspieces to steal a second term for President Trump – somehow preferring an incumbent who beefs up the U.S. armed forces, pressures NATO allies to beef up theirs, imposes painful sanctions on Moscow, provides lethal aid to Ukraine, ramps up U.S. energy production, and seeks to thwart the Kremlin’s coveted natural-gas partnership with Germany, over an unabashed socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and whose policies would wreck the American economy, end the resurgence of American energy production, and hollow out the American armed forces. [Andrew McCarthy in good form....]
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Why no mention in the Original Post of current admin's anti-Russia actions?
Trump armed the Ukrainians, re-invigorated NATO by insisting that members take an interest in their own defense; wounded Russia's key ally, Iran; has overseen an expansion and strengthening of American armed forces. He has encouraged fracking and development of U.S. oil and gas resources, which has kept down the global price of oil, and considered sanctions on Russia's Nordstream 2 gas pipeline.
This hurts Russia which is essentially a "heavily armed gas station." Petroleum represents more than 50% of Russia's total exports, and natural gas is its main geopolitical weapon against Western Europe
Further: he has expelled Russian diplomats. sanctioned many Russian officials and oligarchs, all to Putin's deep chagrin.
It puzzles me too that Trump slavers over the likes of Putin. But these actions have hardly been those of a Russian stooge or "conscious Russian asset".
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| Dems have drifted quite far left, with widening range of views. Reps more coherent and slightly to the right |
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Donald Trump is anathema to the rulers of Russia. Not only has he armed the Ukrainians, he has re-invigorated NATO by insisting that members take an interest in their own defense; stood up to and badly wounded Russia’s key ally, Iran; overseen an expansion and strengthening of American armed forces; and, most important, encouraged fracking and other development of U.S. oil and gas resources, which has kept down the global price of oil.
This hits Russia where it hurts the most: as one pundit has noted, Russia is essentially a “heavily armed gas station.” Petroleum represents more than 50% of Russia’s total exports, and natural gas is its main geopolitical weapon against Western Europe.[here]
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A mural in Rome’s Chinatown: “There’s an epidemic of ignorance.
We have to protect against it”. On the box “#I-am-not-a-virus”
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A monster truck named Elizabeth Warren rammed [Bloomberg] off the road. Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders raced to the wreck to spray firehoses of kerosene on the wreck.b. As a pack of predators attacking its prey:
The prey is down and the pack of predators leaps upon him: ...
Does the bloody prey want to lift up his woeful head and mutter any last words? ...
Oh! No pity for the dying beast! They booed him! And the predators converge once again on the tasty flesh: ...
And with that, the moderators, without going back to the bleeding carcass, move on to the next topic. ...c. As a NASCAR race
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| Four days of decline. Sharp fall in new cases |
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| Bloomberg, Warren, Sanders, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar |
[ADDED: Warren calls Bloomberg a “liar” and a “misogynist”. Then says she’d support him if he became the Dem candidate. Whaaaa…?]A bit later, we learn from Bernie: both Mike and Bernie have two heart stents. (I have seven...). Bernie making the point that though their old, they’re fit.
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| Harry Miller, et al outside the High Court |
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| The Joe Rosenthal photo which won a Pulitzer in 1945, probably the most famous American photo of WWII. Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23rd 1945 |
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“I find it truly really scary what I saw in Hong Kong,” said the EU Commission’s executive vice-president on digital policy, Margrethe Vestager, who will spearhead the policy.During a wave of anti-Beijing protests, she said, “People could get a message on the phone: ‘We know you’re there, maybe you should go home’. Not really supportive of the freedom to assemble, or to express yourself.” [my emphasis]Here’s the thing. I was around in the same demos at the time and know about these texts. I was in touch with an IT expert, also involved in the protests, who told me these were a False Flag operation and that they had proof of it: knowing the folks who had put them out.
Last month, fellow opposition lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching told Britain’s Sky News that police sent in undercover officers to vandalise shops during the New Year’s Day protests. Again, Mo cited news reports as support. If true, this would be the biggest scandal involving local police. Why aren’t Mo and her colleagues investigating? Mo was a journalist, by the way.The reason they aren’t is that it didn’t happen. And it didn’t matter to Mo et al that it didn’t happen. Enough for the Fake News to be out there and propagate on social media, and it becomes yet another reason to hate the police.
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| The long tail continues From Worldometer |
