shoebat--2020-08-01--Tens Of Thousands Of People Became Infected And Died Of COVID-19 In July

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread as ThompsonReuters reports that COVID-19 cases exploded during July , infecting and causing the death of tens of thousands .
U.S. coronavirus deaths rose by over 25,000 in July and cases doubled in 19 states during the month , according to a Reuters tally , dealing a crushing blow to hopes of quickly reopening the economy .
The United States recorded 1.87 million new cases in July , bringing total infections to 4.5 million , for an increase of 69 % .
Deaths in July rose 20 % to nearly 154,000 total .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with over 310,000 new cases , followed by California and Texas with about 260,000 each .
All three states saw cases double in June .
Cases also more than doubled in Alabama , Alaska , Arizona , Arkansas , Georgia , Hawaii , Idaho , Mississippi , Missouri , Montana , Nevada , Oklahoma , Oregon , South Carolina , Tennessee and West Virginia , according to the tally .
Connecticut , Massachusetts , New Jersey and New York had the lowest increases , with cases rising 8 % or less .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ when it reported over 77,000 new cases on July 16 .
During July , 33 out of the 50 U.S. states had one-day record increases in cases and 19 set records for their rise in deaths in 24 hours , according to a Reuters tally .
After a rapid acceleration in cases , the outbreak appears to be stabilizing in Arizona , Florida and Texas .
Health officials are now concerned the outbreak has migrated to the Midwest from summer travel .
The news that more states could be hard hit by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported that gross domestic product collapsed at a 32.9 % annualized rate in the second quarter , the nation ’ s worst economic performance since the Great Depression .
( source ) If the public thinks they are frustrated , imagine the health care professionals who have to deal with COVID-19 patients every day and are subject to “ extreme masking ” involving protective shields , full body suit , masks , and intermittent social distancing for twelve hours at a time .
Having been in contact with some of them , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sick of this and want it to be over .
However , this is what happens during a pandemic .
They are not common , but when they happen , it can be very frustrating , and greatly disrupts the flow of life .
Please be careful , and while it is annoying , the masks do have a purpose , and it is not just “ controlling ” people , but wearing them as people in Asia and other parts of the world do .
Perhaps the reason why there has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and rights in the US is reflected by this , for freedom involves the freedom to choose what is good and right , and that means at times to do uncomfortable things , for freedom of the will is not freedom , but libertine ideas , and that leads to chaos .
If Americans can not agree , even if they do not like it , that wearing a mask is good manners and indeed can help , but will fight it in the name of “ my rights ” , yet will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all kinds such as sodomy , the murder of the innocent , and widespread abuse in the financial systems , does one truly want freedom , or rather distraction to fight about while ignoring real problems ?
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread as ThompsonReuters reports that COVID-19 cases exploded during July, infecting and causing the death of tens of thousands.
U.S. coronavirus deaths rose by over 25,000 in July and cases doubled in 19 states during the month, according to a Reuters tally, dealing a crushing blow to hopes of quickly reopening the economy. The United States recorded 1.87 million new cases in July, bringing total infections to 4.5 million, for an increase of 69%. Deaths in July rose 20% to nearly 154,000 total. The biggest increases in July were in Florida, with over 310,000 new cases, followed by California and Texas with about 260,000 each. All three states saw cases double in June. Cases also more than doubled in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the tally. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York had the lowest increases, with cases rising 8% or less. The United States shattered single-day global records when it reported over 77,000 new cases on July 16. During July, 33 out of the 50 U.S. states had one-day record increases in cases and 19 set records for their rise in deaths in 24 hours, according to a Reuters tally. After a rapid acceleration in cases, the outbreak appears to be stabilizing in Arizona, Florida and Texas. Health officials are now concerned the outbreak has migrated to the Midwest from summer travel. The news that more states could be hard hit by the virus comes a day after the U.S. reported that gross domestic product collapsed at a 32.9% annualized rate in the second quarter, the nation’s worst economic performance since the Great Depression. (source)
If the public thinks they are frustrated, imagine the health care professionals who have to deal with COVID-19 patients every day and are subject to “extreme masking” involving protective shields, full body suit, masks, and intermittent social distancing for twelve hours at a time.
Having been in contact with some of them, there is a universal consensus that all are sick of this and want it to be over.
However, this is what happens during a pandemic. They are not common, but when they happen, it can be very frustrating, and greatly disrupts the flow of life.
Please be careful, and while it is annoying, the masks do have a purpose, and it is not just “controlling” people, but wearing them as people in Asia and other parts of the world do.
Perhaps the reason why there has been a serious decrease in “freedom” and rights in the US is reflected by this, for freedom involves the freedom to choose what is good and right, and that means at times to do uncomfortable things, for freedom of the will is not freedom, but libertine ideas, and that leads to chaos. If Americans cannot agree, even if they do not like it, that wearing a mask is good manners and indeed can help, but will fight it in the name of “my rights”, yet will allow the government to support moral evils of all kinds such as sodomy, the murder of the innocent, and widespread abuse in the financial systems, does one truly want freedom, or rather distraction to fight about while ignoring real problems?
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shoebat--2020-08-01--Protests Erupt As Governor Of Major Russian City In The Far East Arrested

According to the Associated Press , protests erupted throughout the city of Khabarovsk after the governor was arrested on charges of murder and political corruption .
Thousands of demonstrators rallied Saturday in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk to protest the arrest of their governor , keeping up a three-week wave of opposition that has challenged the Kremlin .
Smaller demonstrations took place in at least 10 other cities and 55 people were detained in those protests , according to the OVD-Info organization that monitors political arrests .
No detentions were reported at the Khabarovsk rally .
Khabarovsk Krai @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Moscow jail since his July 9 arrest on charges of involvement in murders that occurred before his political career started .
He has denied the charges .
Protesters in Khabarovsk see the charges against Furgal as unsubstantiated and are demanding that his trial take place in his home city , 6,100 kilometers ( 3,800 miles ) east of the Russian capital .
His supporters have held daily protests , with the largest turnouts on weekends .
The latest demonstration attracted about 10,000 people , according to some news reports .
Police claimed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Moscow , where police usually move quickly to disperse unsanctioned opposition protests , authorities haven ’ t interfered with the unauthorized demonstrations in Khabarovsk , apparently expecting them to fizzle out .
Authorities suspect Furgal of involvement in the slayings of several businessmen in 2004 and 2005 , when he was a businessman with interests focusing on timber and metals .
A lawmaker on the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party ticket , Furgal won the 2018 regional gubernatorial election even though he had refrained from campaigning and publicly supported his Kremlin-backed rival .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the main Kremlin party , United Russia , which also lost its control over the regional legislature .
During his time in office , Furgal earned a reputation as a “ people ’ s governor , ” cutting his own salary , ordering the sale of an expensive yacht that the previous administration had bought and offering new benefits to residents .
Russian President Vladimir Putin named Mikhail Degtyaryov , a federal lawmaker who is also a member of the Liberal Democratic Party , to replace Furgal , a choice that was apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has not yet faced the protesters .
( source ) I don ’ t want to “ take sides ” here in Russian politics , since it is notoriously corrupt and there really is no good side in almost any case .
The governor may have been involved in corruption , and possibly contract murders , but the Kremlin is notorious for this , and what corruption a single man may have done , as bad as it is , is very weak in comparison to this history of “ influence ” wielded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that operates centrally out of Moscow .
While corruption and fighting between various “ princes ” and “ kingmakers ” in Russia is not uncommon , what makes this so interesting is that Khabarovsk is a major Russian city in the Far East , and on the border of China .
As I have noted , Russia is struggling to keep control of her territories east of the Urals , and there is a serious chance that they could “ break away ” and for their own nations .
The social and geopolitical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does happen , it strips Russia of her power because Russia derives her power from Siberia as MacKinder pointed out in his theory .
Russia is going to try at all costs necessary to stop this , because if it does , it means the end of the Russian Empire , and the likely reduction of Russia to pre-1550 status , where she was a nation of warring states confined to the regions east of the Urals and the northern parts of the Volga basin .
This arrest is most likely a political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot more going on than what we see .
Was he working with the Americans , or perhaps even the Chinese ( for all of the talk about Russo-Chinese friendship , the two hate each other , and Russia legitimately fears that China will attempt to annex Siberia by population transfer ) powermakers ?
One does not know .
Could it be just an act of revenge between former friends turned rivals ?
That is possible too .
But with Russia increasingly isolated from her allies but seeking them , and needing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her historical method of operation as well as what she needs to try to control what territory she has centrally , it will be interesting to see if this is part of a larger trend affecting the balance of power in the Far East .
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According to the Associated Press, protests erupted throughout the city of Khabarovsk after the governor was arrested on charges of murder and political corruption.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied Saturday in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk to protest the arrest of their governor, keeping up a three-week wave of opposition that has challenged the Kremlin. Smaller demonstrations took place in at least 10 other cities and 55 people were detained in those protests, according to the OVD-Info organization that monitors political arrests. No detentions were reported at the Khabarovsk rally. Khabarovsk Krai Gov. Sergei Furgal has been in a Moscow jail since his July 9 arrest on charges of involvement in murders that occurred before his political career started. He has denied the charges. Protesters in Khabarovsk see the charges against Furgal as unsubstantiated and are demanding that his trial take place in his home city, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of the Russian capital. His supporters have held daily protests, with the largest turnouts on weekends. The latest demonstration attracted about 10,000 people, according to some news reports. Police claimed the crowd was about 3,500. Unlike in Moscow, where police usually move quickly to disperse unsanctioned opposition protests, authorities haven’t interfered with the unauthorized demonstrations in Khabarovsk, apparently expecting them to fizzle out. Authorities suspect Furgal of involvement in the slayings of several businessmen in 2004 and 2005, when he was a businessman with interests focusing on timber and metals. A lawmaker on the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party ticket, Furgal won the 2018 regional gubernatorial election even though he had refrained from campaigning and publicly supported his Kremlin-backed rival. His victory was a humiliating setback to the main Kremlin party, United Russia, which also lost its control over the regional legislature. During his time in office, Furgal earned a reputation as a “people’s governor,” cutting his own salary, ordering the sale of an expensive yacht that the previous administration had bought and offering new benefits to residents. Russian President Vladimir Putin named Mikhail Degtyaryov, a federal lawmaker who is also a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, to replace Furgal, a choice that was apparently intended to assuage local anger. Degtyaryov has not yet faced the protesters. (source)
I don’t want to “take sides” here in Russian politics, since it is notoriously corrupt and there really is no good side in almost any case. The governor may have been involved in corruption, and possibly contract murders, but the Kremlin is notorious for this, and what corruption a single man may have done, as bad as it is, is very weak in comparison to this history of “influence” wielded by the, without exaggeration, mafia that operates centrally out of Moscow.
While corruption and fighting between various “princes” and “kingmakers” in Russia is not uncommon, what makes this so interesting is that Khabarovsk is a major Russian city in the Far East, and on the border of China. As I have noted, Russia is struggling to keep control of her territories east of the Urals, and there is a serious chance that they could “break away” and for their own nations. The social and geopolitical trends support this, and if this does happen, it strips Russia of her power because Russia derives her power from Siberia as MacKinder pointed out in his theory. Russia is going to try at all costs necessary to stop this, because if it does, it means the end of the Russian Empire, and the likely reduction of Russia to pre-1550 status, where she was a nation of warring states confined to the regions east of the Urals and the northern parts of the Volga basin.
This arrest is most likely a political hit, and there is likely a lot more going on than what we see. Was he working with the Americans, or perhaps even the Chinese (for all of the talk about Russo-Chinese friendship, the two hate each other, and Russia legitimately fears that China will attempt to annex Siberia by population transfer) powermakers? One does not know. Could it be just an act of revenge between former friends turned rivals? That is possible too. But with Russia increasingly isolated from her allies but seeking them, and needing to take an authoritarian approach as it is her historical method of operation as well as what she needs to try to control what territory she has centrally, it will be interesting to see if this is part of a larger trend affecting the balance of power in the Far East.
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shoebat--2020-08-02--If Trump Actually Bans TikTok, He Deserves To Be Called A “Boomer” And A Fool

In 2016 , Trump boldly proclaimed statements such as “ Build The Wall ” and “ Lock Her Up.
” Four years later , those statement are now in the political trash heap , as Trump declares that the real threat is not the refusal to manage borders alongside a balanced and comprehensive immigration policy that serves the economic and social needs of the country , and neither is it the need to clean up the rampant corruption in the political system that threatens the balance of power and is actively bringing about the conditions for an old-world style centralization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intended to prevent extreme shifts of power .
Rather , in the year 2020 , the real threat is a phone app with 30-second or shorter videos of puppies , pranks , personal stories , women flaunting their attractive bodily characteristics , and teenagers being silly called TikTok .
As CNN reports , Trump is now declaring he is going to ban the app .
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he will ban the popular short-form video app TikTok from operating in the United States , rejecting a potential deal for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese-owned parent company .
“ As far as TikTok is concerned , we ’ re banning them from the United States , ” Trump said to reporters while aboard Air Force One .
Trump said he could use emergency economic powers or an executive order .
It was not immediately clear what such an order would look like and what legal challenges it might face .
“ Well , I have that authority , ” he said .
Critics of TikTok worry that the data it collects on its US users could end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government , though TikTok has said it stores its data outside of China and that it would resist any attempts by Beijing to seize the information .
( source ) I don ’ t use TikTok , and I have no interest in it , for it is the attention-deficit-disordered version cousin of YouTube , where short videos make for instant dopamine fixes for entertainment without purpose , focus , or adding material to edify one ’ s mind , but often only to debase it .
I could care less for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I speak of here is Trump ’ s approach to “ banning TikTok ” because “ I have the authority > .
” Trump was born in 1946 , so he legitimately can be called a “ Boomer ” .
One may remember the phrase “ OK Boomer ” is used by Millennials and Zoomers ( Generation Z ) alike to insult Boomers for being disconnected with the current times and valuing their historically abnormal possession of wealth as a weapon to be used against younger generations who are and will remain in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that transferred the wealth of the future to themselves , which they proceeded to spend all and then go into debt using credit for which they expect the future- the Millennials and Zoomers , to pay for them .
Right now , the US is economically burning , and so are some of her cities .
There is NO ECONOMIC FUTURE for at least a decade in the US , and many of the Zoomers graduating college right now , like the Millennials rom 2006- 2010 , are finding themselves with a mountain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in and , like their Millennial counterparts , are finding themselves trapped in a cycle of debt , decay , decline , and human misery at low-end and in many cases , no jobs because all of the work is evaporating .
It makes my heart heavy to think about this because it is a horrible thing to experience .
And what are the Boomers doing , including the Boomer president Trump ?
He is continuing to drive the value of the currency to nothing while enriching himself and his family , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to distract people from the horrible reality of what is taking place by “ banning TikTok ” because “ Chinese spying ” while the US spies in the same way and even more prolifically than the Chinese do .
TikTok ?
Does one really propose to argue that a bunch of teens and college women shaking their backsides in skimpy clothing in videos , all less than 30 seconds per video , is a threat to national security ?
Indeed , if the Chinese are truly spying on and “ studying ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not need to know what the people “ studying ” it are doing since one can likely surmise from the context .
Likewise , what does Trump think this is going to do ?
If people do not see through the obvious political manipulation , then why would one believe that such an app loved by millions of people would be good for his political campaign ?
Some people invest a lot of time in making videos for TikTok or watching those videos , and does one really believe they will “ support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when they can see no real reason why it makes sense , meanwhile these same people can not pay their bills and are already miserable , and now one of their few sources of entertainment is gone ?
This is not a way to win the Millennial or Zoomer vote , but to get people to hate him more than what they already do .
If Trump truly bans TikTok , the only response people should have to him is “ OK Boomer , ” because that is how Trump is acting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fantasy world even as reality is burning around him , and who does not care because he is going to be dead in a decade or two and somebody else will have to clean up the mess left behind .
This is not making American great again .
This is distracting America hoping they will overlook four years of failure and open betrayal because he has no platform , nothing to propose to better the country , and that people can expect nothing better from him .
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In 2016, Trump boldly proclaimed statements such as “Build The Wall” and “Lock Her Up.” Four years later, those statement are now in the political trash heap, as Trump declares that the real threat is not the refusal to manage borders alongside a balanced and comprehensive immigration policy that serves the economic and social needs of the country, and neither is it the need to clean up the rampant corruption in the political system that threatens the balance of power and is actively bringing about the conditions for an old-world style centralization of power without the checks and balances intended to prevent extreme shifts of power. Rather, in the year 2020, the real threat is a phone app with 30-second or shorter videos of puppies, pranks, personal stories, women flaunting their attractive bodily characteristics, and teenagers being silly called TikTok. As CNN reports, Trump is now declaring he is going to ban the app.
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he will ban the popular short-form video app TikTok from operating in the United States, rejecting a potential deal for Microsoft to buy the app from its Chinese-owned parent company. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said to reporters while aboard Air Force One. Trump said he could use emergency economic powers or an executive order. It was not immediately clear what such an order would look like and what legal challenges it might face. “Well, I have that authority,” he said. … Critics of TikTok worry that the data it collects on its US users could end up in the hands of the Chinese government, though TikTok has said it stores its data outside of China and that it would resist any attempts by Beijing to seize the information. (source)
I don’t use TikTok, and I have no interest in it, for it is the attention-deficit-disordered version cousin of YouTube, where short videos make for instant dopamine fixes for entertainment without purpose, focus, or adding material to edify one’s mind, but often only to debase it.
I could care less for the platform if it was destroyed. What I speak of here is Trump’s approach to “banning TikTok” because “I have the authority>.”
Trump was born in 1946, so he legitimately can be called a “Boomer”. One may remember the phrase “OK Boomer” is used by Millennials and Zoomers (Generation Z) alike to insult Boomers for being disconnected with the current times and valuing their historically abnormal possession of wealth as a weapon to be used against younger generations who are and will remain in poverty due to Boomer-created or supported policies that transferred the wealth of the future to themselves, which they proceeded to spend all and then go into debt using credit for which they expect the future- the Millennials and Zoomers, to pay for them.
Right now, the US is economically burning, and so are some of her cities. There is NO ECONOMIC FUTURE for at least a decade in the US, and many of the Zoomers graduating college right now, like the Millennials rom 2006- 2010, are finding themselves with a mountain of debt and no way to pay in and, like their Millennial counterparts, are finding themselves trapped in a cycle of debt, decay, decline, and human misery at low-end and in many cases, no jobs because all of the work is evaporating.
It makes my heart heavy to think about this because it is a horrible thing to experience. And what are the Boomers doing, including the Boomer president Trump? He is continuing to drive the value of the currency to nothing while enriching himself and his family, including the arguably diabolical Jared Kushner, while trying to distract people from the horrible reality of what is taking place by “banning TikTok” because “Chinese spying” while the US spies in the same way and even more prolifically than the Chinese do.
TikTok? Does one really propose to argue that a bunch of teens and college women shaking their backsides in skimpy clothing in videos, all less than 30 seconds per video, is a threat to national security? Indeed, if the Chinese are truly spying on and “studying” this material, one most likely does not need to know what the people “studying” it are doing since one can likely surmise from the context.
Likewise, what does Trump think this is going to do? If people do not see through the obvious political manipulation, then why would one believe that such an app loved by millions of people would be good for his political campaign? Some people invest a lot of time in making videos for TikTok or watching those videos, and does one really believe they will “support Trump” if he bans this, when they can see no real reason why it makes sense, meanwhile these same people cannot pay their bills and are already miserable, and now one of their few sources of entertainment is gone? This is not a way to win the Millennial or Zoomer vote, but to get people to hate him more than what they already do.
If Trump truly bans TikTok, the only response people should have to him is “OK Boomer,” because that is how Trump is acting, like a clueless Boomer living in a fantasy world even as reality is burning around him, and who does not care because he is going to be dead in a decade or two and somebody else will have to clean up the mess left behind.
This is not making American great again. This is distracting America hoping they will overlook four years of failure and open betrayal because he has no platform, nothing to propose to better the country, and that people can expect nothing better from him.
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shoebat--2020-08-02--US Debt Rating Ranked Negative

US Debt Rating Ranked Negative

Debt is not a good thing , but it is often classified by financial corporations on the ability of the borrower to pay back his debt .
For a long time , the US was ranked as being very credit-worthy .
However , this has not been the case sine the Reagan administration , whose massive debts that he created have only continued to grow .
Now with the current state of financial affairs in the US being exposed because of COVID-19 , companies are finally being forced to admit to the general public what was always known in secret @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way of MSN News reports is that the US has a negative credit rating with a negative outlook for the future .
One of the world ’ s major credit-rating companies fired a warning shot regarding the U.S. ’ s worsening public finances on Friday , just as lawmakers in Washington contemplate spending more to combat the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic .
Fitch Ratings revised its outlook on the country ’ s credit score to negative from stable , citing a “ deterioration in the U.S. public finances and the absence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The country ’ s ranking remains AAA .
“ High fiscal deficits and debt were already on a rising medium-term path even before the onset of the huge economic shock precipitated by the coronavirus , ” Fitch said .
“ They have started to erode the traditional credit strengths of the U.S. ” Unemployment has skyrocketed and the U.S. economy just notched up its worst quarter on record , with pandemic-related shutdowns helping drive an annualized gross domestic product contraction of 32.9 % in the three-month period through June .
And with infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus ’ s damaging impact on output looks set to continue .
Support from Congress has buoyed the economy in recent months , but further action will be critical in determining the path toward recovery .
Crucial lifelines for jobless workers , like an extra $ 600 in weekly unemployment benefits , are expiring , and lawmakers have made little progress on agreeing to another stimulus package .
But while further measures — if settled on — could help support the economy , they would also likely add to the nation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deficits that caused Fitch additional concern .
There is , however , no sign yet of a deal as upcoming elections for the presidency and Congress help sharpen partisan divisions .
General government debt is expected to exceed 130 % of GDP by 2021 , Fitch said , noting that the U.S. had the highest government debt of any AAA rated sovereign heading into the current crisis .
“ Financing flexibility , assisted by Federal Reserve intervention to restore liquidity to financial markets , does not entirely dispel risks to medium-term debt sustainability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that U.S. policy makers will not consolidate public finances sufficiently to stabilize public debt after the pandemic shock has passed , ” Fitch said .
The U.S. central bank this week reiterated its promise to use all its tools to support the recovery , keeping interest rates near zero and noting that the economy ’ s path is “ extraordinarily uncertain ” in the face of virus risks .
U.S. rates are negative once inflation is factored in© Bloomberg U.S. rates are negative once inflation is factored in Fitch is not the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ view of America ’ s public finances .
S & P Global Ratings has already gone further , taking an ax to the country ’ s AAA score back in 2011 and downgrading it to AA+ .
Moody ’ s Investors Service , meanwhile , continues to rank the U.S. as Aaa — its top grade .
Fitch ’ s warning , just as the U.S. Treasury is preparing to release its quarterly financing plans next week , comes even as borrowing costs fall to unprecedented levels .
Nominal yields on Treasuries are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real rate on 10-year debt — which factors in the impact of inflation — fell to around minus 1 % on Friday .
Yet even with an assumption that real rates will remain negative and support public debt , and the credit assessor ’ s view that America ’ s debt tolerance is higher than other AAA sovereigns , Fitch has become less optimistic about the U.S. outlook .
( source ) This warning should be of great concern .
It means that because the US can not pay her debts , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan said , the US can pay any debt she wants because all she has to do is print the money to pay it .
The warning to this is that if she does this , it will destroy the dollar and drive its value to that of the paper it is printed on , which would crush people who save their money in bank accounts , and would be a move symbolic of what happened in Weimar Germany during the 1920s .
If one believes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that in the last COVID-19 stimulus check , it was 40 % of the entire US budget for 2019 , just the previous year , and the next stimulus bill will likely generate the same result .
If she is willing to do this , then there is no reason that at some point , the US might simply print stimulus until the currency hyperinflates , but not without having a political excuse to blame it on before doing this .
This is why I warn people , get ready right now while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , purchase useful provisions , and prepare to ride out the economic story that is coming for the next five to ten years .
This is just the beginning , since economic problems lead to political problems , but for now , one must have enough money saved to service debts while also being able to position oneself to survive and thrive through the current economic climate .
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Debt is not a good thing, but it is often classified by financial corporations on the ability of the borrower to pay back his debt. For a long time, the US was ranked as being very credit-worthy. However, this has not been the case sine the Reagan administration, whose massive debts that he created have only continued to grow. Now with the current state of financial affairs in the US being exposed because of COVID-19, companies are finally being forced to admit to the general public what was always known in secret for decades, which as Bloomberg by way of MSN News reports is that the US has a negative credit rating with a negative outlook for the future.
One of the world’s major credit-rating companies fired a warning shot regarding the U.S.’s worsening public finances on Friday, just as lawmakers in Washington contemplate spending more to combat the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Fitch Ratings revised its outlook on the country’s credit score to negative from stable, citing a “deterioration in the U.S. public finances and the absence of a credible fiscal consolidation plan.” The country’s ranking remains AAA. “High fiscal deficits and debt were already on a rising medium-term path even before the onset of the huge economic shock precipitated by the coronavirus,” Fitch said. “They have started to erode the traditional credit strengths of the U.S.” Unemployment has skyrocketed and the U.S. economy just notched up its worst quarter on record, with pandemic-related shutdowns helping drive an annualized gross domestic product contraction of 32.9% in the three-month period through June. And with infections still spreading rapidly in many states, the virus’s damaging impact on output looks set to continue. Support from Congress has buoyed the economy in recent months, but further action will be critical in determining the path toward recovery. Crucial lifelines for jobless workers, like an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits, are expiring, and lawmakers have made little progress on agreeing to another stimulus package. But while further measures — if settled on — could help support the economy, they would also likely add to the nation’s debt pile and worsen the fiscal deficits that caused Fitch additional concern. There is, however, no sign yet of a deal as upcoming elections for the presidency and Congress help sharpen partisan divisions. General government debt is expected to exceed 130% of GDP by 2021, Fitch said, noting that the U.S. had the highest government debt of any AAA rated sovereign heading into the current crisis. “Financing flexibility, assisted by Federal Reserve intervention to restore liquidity to financial markets, does not entirely dispel risks to medium-term debt sustainability, and there is a growing risk that U.S. policy makers will not consolidate public finances sufficiently to stabilize public debt after the pandemic shock has passed,” Fitch said. The U.S. central bank this week reiterated its promise to use all its tools to support the recovery, keeping interest rates near zero and noting that the economy’s path is “extraordinarily uncertain” in the face of virus risks. U.S. rates are negative once inflation is factored in© Bloomberg U.S. rates are negative once inflation is factored in
Fitch is not the first major ratings company to take a less-than-stellar view of America’s public finances. S&P Global Ratings has already gone further, taking an ax to the country’s AAA score back in 2011 and downgrading it to AA+. Moody’s Investors Service, meanwhile, continues to rank the U.S. as Aaa — its top grade. Fitch’s warning, just as the U.S. Treasury is preparing to release its quarterly financing plans next week, comes even as borrowing costs fall to unprecedented levels. Nominal yields on Treasuries are close to historic lows, while the real rate on 10-year debt — which factors in the impact of inflation — fell to around minus 1% on Friday. Yet even with an assumption that real rates will remain negative and support public debt, and the credit assessor’s view that America’s debt tolerance is higher than other AAA sovereigns, Fitch has become less optimistic about the U.S. outlook. (source)
This warning should be of great concern. It means that because the US cannot pay her debts, she may default. However, as the former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan said, the US can pay any debt she wants because all she has to do is print the money to pay it.
The warning to this is that if she does this, it will destroy the dollar and drive its value to that of the paper it is printed on, which would crush people who save their money in bank accounts, and would be a move symbolic of what happened in Weimar Germany during the 1920s.
If one believes the government would not do this, consider that in the last COVID-19 stimulus check, it was 40% of the entire US budget for 2019, just the previous year, and the next stimulus bill will likely generate the same result. If she is willing to do this, then there is no reason that at some point, the US might simply print stimulus until the currency hyperinflates, but not without having a political excuse to blame it on before doing this.
This is why I warn people, get ready right now while you still can. Pay down debts, purchase useful provisions, and prepare to ride out the economic story that is coming for the next five to ten years. This is just the beginning, since economic problems lead to political problems, but for now, one must have enough money saved to service debts while also being able to position oneself to survive and thrive through the current economic climate.
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shoebat--2020-08-04--Florida Woman Has Her Boyfriend Beat Up And Execute Burger King Employee In The Parking Lot Because

Florida Woman Has Her Boyfriend Beat Up And Execute Burger King Employee In The Parking Lot Because Her Meal Was Taking Too Long

Having worked in the world of restaurants , there are some customers who are not only just impossible to please , but are actively dangerous .
However , as society continues to spiral towards the gutter with each day , the uncommon becomes too common and the bizarre , all too much a daily occurrence .
In a horrible story out of Florida , Local 10 News reports that a woman was angry because her meal was taking too long at Burger King .
In response , she had her boyfriend attack the cook , beat him up in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a gun .
A woman who was upset that her Burger King order took too long got a man to come to the restaurant and shoot one of the employees , according to Local 10 sister station WKMG .
Orange County Sheriff ’ s Office said the shooting happened Saturday around 7:30 p.m. at the Burger King on the 7000 block of E. Colonial Drive .
When they arrived , deputies said they found Desmond Armond Joshua , 22 , suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot .
He was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was pronounced dead .
As part of the investigation , video was recovered that showed Joshua in a physical altercation with a male who had him in a headlock , according to the affidavit .
A witness said the restaurant was busy that night and the drive-thru was backed up , which caused customers to have to wait longer than usual .
One woman who was in line was mad about the delay so she got out of her vehicle and began yelling that she was going to have “ her man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an employee refunded her $ 40 and asked her to leave , records show .
The woman waited in the parking lot in her black sedan for a few minutes then drove away and returned .
A man in a white truck was with her who as later identified as 37-year-old Kelvis Rodriguez-Tormes .
He demanded that Joshua “ fight him , ” deputies said .
A witness intervened to stop the fight when Rodriguez-Tormes put Joshua in a headlock and started choking him , according to the affidavit .
Deputies said after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Rodriguez-Tormes then went to his truck and got the gun , telling Joshua , “ You got two seconds before I shoot you.
” Shortly thereafter , Rodriguez-Tormes shot Joshua then he fled in the white truck while the black sedan also fled , deputies said .
According to investigators , Joshua had just started working at the Burger King a few days earlier .
Officials said he was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died .
Records show both Rodriguez-Tormes and the woman were interviewed after the shooting .
Though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report did indicate that Rodriguez-Tormes dismantled the gun used in the shooting and placed it “ in a location which can not be located.
” Rodriguez-Tormes is charged with first-degree murder with a firearm , destruction of evidence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon .
( source )

Having worked in the world of restaurants, there are some customers who are not only just impossible to please, but are actively dangerous. However, as society continues to spiral towards the gutter with each day, the uncommon becomes too common and the bizarre, all too much a daily occurrence.
In a horrible story out of Florida, Local 10 News reports that a woman was angry because her meal was taking too long at Burger King. In response, she had her boyfriend attack the cook, beat him up in the parking lot, and then execute him with a gun.
A woman who was upset that her Burger King order took too long got a man to come to the restaurant and shoot one of the employees, according to Local 10 sister station WKMG.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened Saturday around 7:30 p.m. at the Burger King on the 7000 block of E. Colonial Drive.
When they arrived, deputies said they found Desmond Armond Joshua, 22, suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
As part of the investigation, video was recovered that showed Joshua in a physical altercation with a male who had him in a headlock, according to the affidavit.
A witness said the restaurant was busy that night and the drive-thru was backed up, which caused customers to have to wait longer than usual.
One woman who was in line was mad about the delay so she got out of her vehicle and began yelling that she was going to have “her man” come to the restaurant, so an employee refunded her $40 and asked her to leave, records show.
The woman waited in the parking lot in her black sedan for a few minutes then drove away and returned. A man in a white truck was with her who as later identified as 37-year-old Kelvis Rodriguez-Tormes. He demanded that Joshua “fight him,” deputies said.
A witness intervened to stop the fight when Rodriguez-Tormes put Joshua in a headlock and started choking him, according to the affidavit.
Deputies said after the witness pulled Rodriguez-Tormes off of Joshua, Rodriguez-Tormes then went to his truck and got the gun, telling Joshua, “You got two seconds before I shoot you.”
Shortly thereafter, Rodriguez-Tormes shot Joshua then he fled in the white truck while the black sedan also fled, deputies said.
According to investigators, Joshua had just started working at the Burger King a few days earlier. Officials said he was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died.
Records show both Rodriguez-Tormes and the woman were interviewed after the shooting.
Though their statements are mostly redacted, the report did indicate that Rodriguez-Tormes dismantled the gun used in the shooting and placed it “in a location which cannot be located.”
Rodriguez-Tormes is charged with first-degree murder with a firearm, destruction of evidence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. (source)


shoebat--2020-08-03--The Head Of Social Media Marketing For The German Military Is A Fan Of The New Nazi Movement In Euro

The Head Of Social Media Marketing For The German Military Is A Fan Of The New Nazi Movement In Europe

The head of social media marketing for the German Armed Forces ( Bundeswehr ) turns out to be a fan of the new Nazi movement , the Identitarians , who are really just modernly marketed Nazis .
According to a report from Das Erste : Lieutenant Colonel Marcel B. is present on all of the Bundeswehr ’ s social media channels as a flagship for the group .
His office , which he likes to present in photos , is in the Ministry of Defense .
State secretaries and politicians keep checking in on him .
Because he is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responsible for social media and thus also a role model for military behavior on the Internet .
He plans campaigns to attract young people to the Bundeswehr .
In one web series , he shows how the KSK is fighting its way through the jungle , in another , how recruits are undergoing their training – all of which is always casual , with wit and quick clips .
Marcel B. , the lieutenant colonel responsible for social media , decides how the troupe presents itself to the outside world .
But after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publicly sympathized with a right-wing radical who is active on Instagram under the network name “ incredible bramborska ” .
There , “ incredible bramborska ” is openly committed to the “ Identitarian Movement ” , which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as “ guaranteed extreme right ” .
Marcel B ’ s acquaintance describes himself as a “ core reactionary ” and is networked with leading representatives of the “ Identitarian Movement ” .
The AfD radical Björn Höcke also gets approval from him on Instagram .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military recruitment for young people online is also a Nazi .
The Austrian Identitarian movement , while it may have a semblance of Christian “ tradition , ” has in its aspiration a push towards paganism .
One can see this in one of the manifestos of the Identitarian movement , entitled Generation Identity , by Marcus Willinger , which declares a statement of faith of paganism : “ The truth is that Christianity is dead in Europe .
For a long time it hasn ’ t been the crucial factor in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no longer their driving force ; and they no longer derive the meaning of their lives from it .
…If we Europeans are still Christians , we are pagan Christians , without any global ambitions and without a claim to rule the world .
It is a polytheistic Christianity that we believe in today .
We believe in our God , and say that others believe in their gods too .
We ’ ve lost the will to proselytise .
Today we are closer to pagan Europe than to the Europe from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ p. 76 ) Martin Sellner , the leader of the Austrian Identitarian movement , himself promotes a syncretism between paganism and Christianity , stating : “ We say that we fight against the enemies of all European cultural and religious traditions .
This is why radical neopagans wearing Thor ’ s hammer , for example , stand hand in hand with staunch Catholic and Orthodox Christians during our summer camp in France .
They have a mutual respect for each other ’ s religiosity .
Even representatives from such novel movements such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
chretiens solairs ) appeared among the French identitarians .
They are baptized Christians , faithful children of the Church , yet they are not opposed to celebrating pagan seasonal holidays as part of their North-European cultural heritage.
” Martin Sellner also worked with Jack Donovan , the American sodomite pagan who pushes for pagan tribalism and who is also an ideological terrorist who openly promotes lying to people who are not part of ‘ the tribe , ’ and pushes for violence against people who are “ not your people , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a religion revolved around bloodshed , where violence is “ sacramental.
” It is the pagan aspiration to replace the Catholic sacraments of Eucharist , Chalice and Confession , with a sacrament of human blood .
There is a video of Donovan ’ s speech which he made in February of 2017 , at a conference in Germany organized by Sezession , the magazine publication for Sellner ’ s Identitarian movement .
In this talk , Donovan declared that one can lie to one ’ s enemies , and that violence is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
We compiled a number of clips from the Austrian Identitarian conference where Donovan is promoting violence and deception : So , a German nationalist organization , the Identitarians of Germany and Austria , conducted a conference in Germany in which they had a neo-pagan sodomite come and talk about how violence for the cause of tribalism is great and how violence should be done if one can get away with it .
What we are seeing here is the conspiracy for a Germanic revolt , with a vocal push for terrorism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did this event is the same organization Tommy Robinson is enthusiastic about collaborating with .
Donovan runs a pagan cult called the Wolves in Vinland , where they stay in a compound on the outskirts of Lynchburg , Virginia , and conduct satanic rituals .
When Donovan was in Germany to give his talk for the Identitarians , he also went to an ancient pagan sacrifice site and did “ a blood ritual.
” He also took dirt from the pagan ritual site to take back with him to the Wolves of Vinland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
As Donovan wrote on his website : “ In February 2017 , my brother Afi and I performed a blood ritual at the center of the Sonnenobservatorium Goseck in Germany .
The construction of the solar observatory there has been dated to approximately 4900 BC .
We traveled home with a jar of soil from this site where ancient pagans left traces of ritual fires , animal bones and human remains , and we buried some of it inside our own altar or “ Hargu ” ( drawing from unattested Proto-Germanic ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remains ” , which means he wants human sacrifice .
One of the members of the Wolves of Vinland cult , Maurice Thompson Michaely , was in fact found guilty in 2012 of trying to burn down the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Alexandria , Virginia , an historically Black church .
So , Donovan ’ s ideology of violence has materialized .
Sellner ’ s partner , Martin Lichtmesz , spoke at an even organized by the American eugenist organization , American Renaissance ( Amren ) .
Amren did a statement on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German New Right painted a comprehensive picture of rising nationalist movements in Austria and Germany .
He noted that , just as in the United States , Europe is so divided that some say it is in a state of “ pre-Civil War.
” Amren does not make its eugenist goal a secret , as on its website it states : “ Eugenics is the obvious solution , but it is notoriously difficult to accomplish.
” The fact that the one in charge of online marketing for the Bundeswehr towards young people admires @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since it has been projected that one of the big ideological paradigms for the zoomer generation will be a vicious nationalism .
Generation Alpha ( born in the 2010s ) and Generation Z ( born in the mid-90s and mid-2010s , also called Zoomers ) are growing up into a volatile world where — unlike what we have been accustomed to for decades — the United States will not be the governing force of the world any longer .
This is at least what was observed by a report from the analytical website @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analysts Neil Howe and William Strauss , who focus on new generations and the future of societies , conducted a contest over which term would best describe zoomers .
Certain terms were suggested and then voted on .
The winner for the term that would best describe zoomers was “ Homeland Generation ” .
Zoomers were infants or elementary school students in the age of the 9/11 attacks , the War on Terror , and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security , being the first generation to answer with “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Where were you on 9/11 ?
” .
Since zoomers were either too young or not even born yet to remember 9/11 ( Alphas were not born at all ) terrorism is not a major topic for them ( unlike with boomers or millennials ) .
According to polling done by the Harvard Public Opinion Project , out of a list of eight possible foreign policy priorities , only 17.1 percent of zoomers surveyed ( ages 18 to 24 ) listed terrorism as the most important .
Comparatively , Millennials aged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to put terrorism first .
They are a generation raised on the internet and the biggest generation of homebodies .
Thus , they are giant reciprocators to the dark politics of the internet , where racism , nationalism and socialism are argued for by sophists .
Howe concluded : Moreover , the Cold War narrative that made Americans so concerned about communism is fading away in the minds of zoomers , with many seeing socialism in a positive way , a far cry from their boomer predecessors .
As the Atlantic reported back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to be intensified by the isolation that coronavirus has triggered and also by mass migration that could erupt once the coronavirus crises has been abated .
A recent report states that “ COVID-19 may be the latest global event which could trigger millions of people relocating around the world.
” Violence is going to simultaneously spark mass migrations of poor populations and the animosity towards those migrants by host countries who will see the migrants as spreading disease .
For example , Syria is still greatly suffering through its civil war and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ migrants could happen again .
As a very recent report from the BBC tells us : With the coming of another wave of migrants , there will also be the fear of the host populations that such migrants will bring violence and disease ( especially considering we would be just getting through the covid crises ) .
Just as in the migrant crisis of 2015 , the next migrant crises will see migrants trying to enter Greece from Turkey .
In fact , the Greek government reported that it has received intelligence that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of migrants into Greece .
As VOA reports : The fear of migrants spreading disease is already becoming violent in Yemen where Shiite Houthi militias do not want migrants from Ethiopia and in fact have murdered people .
As one report from the New York Times tells us : Numerous migrants were forced out of Yemen and to the border of Saudi Arabia where border patrol officers have detained migrants , beaten them and deprived them of sufficient food .
This type of horror could be seen in Europe being done under a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world that we are entering .
The zoomers and alphas are growing into this world where nationalism is yet again at the forefront , socialism is becoming trendy , America is beginning to lose its position as the world ’ s leading hegemony , and other powerhouse countries — Germany , Turkey , Japan , etc .
— are rising in their own nationalist goals of becoming major hegemonies .
We are quickly being acclimated into a stage of global capriciousness and instability , unlike Gen. Xers , millennials and boomers who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America is number one and the idea of the revival of a nationalist phenomena or of socialism or fascism becoming popular is laughed at .
But this world is disintegrating and we are entering a new zeitgeist .
There is a common misconception that the younger generations can not go to the Right , but are engulfed into Left-wing ideology .
While Leftism is extremely popular amongst the young , this does not mean that they can not become Right-wing reactionaries .
In the 2015 French election , the Right-wing candidate , Marine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voters under the age of 35 , taking 30 % of their votes .
So , it is definitely possible that a substantial amount of zoomers will turn to the Right .
In fact , this is already happening .
Europe ’ s younger people are more antagonistic towards the economic welfare systems that their parents are so accustomed to .
The reason for this is that it was the young who got the heaviest burdens of the post-2008 economic crisis .
While the older people were protected by a social safety net @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very high unemployment rates , unstable employment and low wages .
It is such generations of youths , disillusioned with the “ good old days ” of their parents and grandparents , that eventually see hope — not in some dream of economic prosperity — but in joining the military and following some regime .
To reference the observation made by George Friedman back in 2013 : Elections in recent years have shown that young people are susceptible to accepting the anti-migrant narratives of the Right .
This is the reason why when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ began to adopt Right-wing populous rhetoric against immigration , their popularity shot up amongst both older and younger voters .
These center parties even supported the infamous “ jewelry law , ” whereby — in the words of a report from the Atlantic — “ the state can seize assets from refugees to cover the costs of their stay.
” Denmark ’ s shift towards Right-wing policy rhetoric had made her the leader towards this path upon which Europe is treading .
To quote Morten Stinus Kristensen : “ Denmark has been the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Islamophobia acceptable foundations of immigration and integration policies.
” What makes this story even more fascinating is how Denmark was seen as the experimental lab to observe the effectiveness of Right-wing rhetoric on immigration .
And for the purpose of analyzing the possible future that zoomers and alphas are growing up to , let us inquire a little into European Right-wing movement that helped bring about this nationalist phenomena and its evolution .
Looking at the life of the revival of Right-wing hysteria within our recent years , one will see in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ birthed soon after 9/11 and was officialized in 2007 in the Counterjihad Summit in the EU Parliament building in Brussels , which was organized by a Flemish neo-Nazi , Filip DeWinter .
DeWinter posed himself , not as a racist , but simply as a patriot who wanted to stop the Islamization of Europe .
But looking at his history , his goal behind the Summit was quite conspicuous .
There is a video of Filip DeWinter in which he is screaming out : “ Yes , Vlaams Blok [ his party ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yes , Vlaams Blok will have a Flemish Flanders and YES , the Vlaams Blok will have a white Europe !
” .
In 1988 , Filip DeWinter joined a demonstration of a hundred or so Nazi sympathizers ( himself included ) .
The plan of these neo-Nazis was to enter the Lommel German war cemetery where 40,000 Nazi German Wehrmacht soldiers were buried , and put flowers on their graves .
With Filip DeWinter was the Nazi , Bert Eriksson .
Eriksson was a member of the Hitler Youth during the Second @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who received media attention in 1978 when he travelled to Austria and dug up the remains of the Nazi collaborator , Cyriel Verschaeve , and brought them back to Alveringem .
The purpose of DeWinter ’ s Summit was obvious : use Islamic terrorism as part of a strategy of tension to raise up the Right and make fascism fashionable .
The movement of the Counterjihad was eventually spearheaded by an organization called Stop the Islamization Of Europe ( or SCION .
We wrote extensively about this group back in 2016 ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ named Anders Gravers Pederson .
He saw Denmark as the perfect place to commence the Counterjihad movement because , in such a small country , one could see the effects of Right-wing rhetoric immediately , and from Denmark the spark could percolate to the rest of Europe .
In the words of Pederson : Just as Denmark was seen as the experimental ground for a Right-wing revival , Denmark is now leading northern Europe in Right-wing policy .
In the years of the 1990s and 2000s ( and before this ) , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or not — moving towards fascism and socialism .
We are under the spell of thinking that the Second World War solved such a problem .
But it simply made this human virus go dormant , waiting for the right moment to attack a weakened immune system .
That immune system of global security is definitely weakening , with the US moving towards isolationism , and allowing other powerful countries more freedom to do what they want — allowing and encouraging Turkey to invade Syria and encroach on the eastern Mediterranean , facilitating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Japan to become more militarily independent — all of these things are taking place as we speak .
But the events leading to where we are now were ongoing for decades .
By the time militarism shows itself fully , the denouement of the incremental steps of prior decades finally unfolds and manifests , the zoomers will already be established in politics and the alphas will be of perfect military recruitment age .
The world that we are entering in this next coming decade will be one of the thickest darkness , wherein @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where the creed of the people will be : “ let our might be our law of right , for what is weak proves itself to be useless.
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By Theodore Shoebat
The head of social media marketing for the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) turns out to be a fan of the new Nazi movement, the Identitarians, who are really just modernly marketed Nazis. According to a report from Das Erste:
Lieutenant Colonel Marcel B. is present on all of the Bundeswehr’s social media channels as a flagship for the group. His office, which he likes to present in photos, is in the Ministry of Defense. State secretaries and politicians keep checking in on him. Because he is a consultant in the Ministry of Defense, responsible for social media and thus also a role model for military behavior on the Internet.
He plans campaigns to attract young people to the Bundeswehr. In one web series, he shows how the KSK is fighting its way through the jungle, in another, how recruits are undergoing their training – all of which is always casual, with wit and quick clips. Marcel B., the lieutenant colonel responsible for social media, decides how the troupe presents itself to the outside world. But after panorama research, Lieutenant Colonel Marcel B. publicly sympathized with a right-wing radical who is active on Instagram under the network name “incredible bramborska”. There, “incredible bramborska” is openly committed to the “Identitarian Movement”, which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as “guaranteed extreme right”. Marcel B’s acquaintance describes himself as a “core reactionary” and is networked with leading representatives of the “Identitarian Movement”. The AfD radical Björn Höcke also gets approval from him on Instagram. The one who is in charge of marketing military recruitment for young people online is also a Nazi. The Austrian Identitarian movement, while it may have a semblance of Christian “tradition,” has in its aspiration a push towards paganism. One can see this in one of the manifestos of the Identitarian movement, entitled Generation Identity, by Marcus Willinger, which declares a statement of faith of paganism: “The truth is that Christianity is dead in Europe. For a long time it hasn’t been the crucial factor in the lives of the European peoples; it is no longer their driving force; and they no longer derive the meaning of their lives from it. …If we Europeans are still Christians, we are pagan Christians, without any global ambitions and without a claim to rule the world. It is a polytheistic Christianity that we believe in today. We believe in our God, and say that others believe in their gods too. We’ve lost the will to proselytise. Today we are closer to pagan Europe than to the Europe from of a thousand years ago.” (p. 76) Martin Sellner, the leader of the Austrian Identitarian movement, himself promotes a syncretism between paganism and Christianity, stating: “We say that we fight against the enemies of all European cultural and religious traditions. This is why radical neopagans wearing Thor’s hammer, for example, stand hand in hand with staunch Catholic and Orthodox Christians during our summer camp in France. They have a mutual respect for each other’s religiosity. Even representatives from such novel movements such as the “solar Christians” (fr. chretiens solairs) appeared among the French identitarians. They are baptized Christians, faithful children of the Church, yet they are not opposed to celebrating pagan seasonal holidays as part of their North-European cultural heritage.” Martin Sellner also worked with Jack Donovan, the American sodomite pagan who pushes for pagan tribalism and who is also an ideological terrorist who openly promotes lying to people who are not part of ‘the tribe,’ and pushes for violence against people who are “not your people,” meaning not white. He also pushes for a religion revolved around bloodshed, where violence is “sacramental.” It is the pagan aspiration to replace the Catholic sacraments of Eucharist, Chalice and Confession, with a sacrament of human blood. There is a video of Donovan’s speech which he made in February of 2017, at a conference in Germany organized by Sezession, the magazine publication for Sellner’s Identitarian movement. In this talk, Donovan declared that one can lie to one’s enemies, and that violence is good if one can get away with it. We compiled a number of clips from the Austrian Identitarian conference where Donovan is promoting violence and deception: So, a German nationalist organization, the Identitarians of Germany and Austria, conducted a conference in Germany in which they had a neo-pagan sodomite come and talk about how violence for the cause of tribalism is great and how violence should be done if one can get away with it. What we are seeing here is the conspiracy for a Germanic revolt, with a vocal push for terrorism and tribalism. And the organization who did this event is the same organization Tommy Robinson is enthusiastic about collaborating with. Donovan runs a pagan cult called the Wolves in Vinland, where they stay in a compound on the outskirts of Lynchburg, Virginia, and conduct satanic rituals. When Donovan was in Germany to give his talk for the Identitarians, he also went to an ancient pagan sacrifice site and did “a blood ritual.” He also took dirt from the pagan ritual site to take back with him to the Wolves of Vinland compound to use for an abysmal ritual. As Donovan wrote on his website: “In February 2017, my brother Afi and I performed a blood ritual at the center of the Sonnenobservatorium Goseck in Germany. The construction of the solar observatory there has been dated to approximately 4900 BC. We traveled home with a jar of soil from this site where ancient pagans left traces of ritual fires, animal bones and human remains, and we buried some of it inside our own altar or “Hargu” (drawing from unattested Proto-Germanic). Notice, he mentions “human remains”, which means he wants human sacrifice. One of the members of the Wolves of Vinland cult, Maurice Thompson Michaely, was in fact found guilty in 2012 of trying to burn down the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, an historically Black church. So, Donovan’s ideology of violence has materialized. Sellner’s partner, Martin Lichtmesz, spoke at an even organized by the American eugenist organization, American Renaissance (Amren). Amren did a statement on the event saying “Martin Lichtmesz of the German New Right painted a comprehensive picture of rising nationalist movements in Austria and Germany. He noted that, just as in the United States, Europe is so divided that some say it is in a state of “pre-Civil War.” Amren does not make its eugenist goal a secret, as on its website it states: “Eugenics is the obvious solution, but it is notoriously difficult to accomplish.”
The fact that the one in charge of online marketing for the Bundeswehr towards young people admires this movement does not surprise me, since it has been projected that one of the big ideological paradigms for the zoomer generation will be a vicious nationalism.
Generation Alpha (born in the 2010s) and Generation Z (born in the mid-90s and mid-2010s, also called Zoomers) are growing up into a volatile world where — unlike what we have been accustomed to for decades — the United States will not be the governing force of the world any longer. This is at least what was observed by a report from the analytical website, Freedom Lab:
“From a geopolitical perspective, Gen Alpha is growing up in a world where the U.S. is no longer the undisputed global (political, military and cultural) hegemon. This means that they (in the West at least) are growing up in more insecure times, in which the outcomes of international conflicts are quite uncertain and new (proxy) wars may be looming.”
In 2006, analysts Neil Howe and William Strauss, who focus on new generations and the future of societies, conducted a contest over which term would best describe zoomers. Certain terms were suggested and then voted on. The winner for the term that would best describe zoomers was “Homeland Generation”. Zoomers were infants or elementary school students in the age of the 9/11 attacks, the War on Terror, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, being the first generation to answer with “I don’t know” when asked, “Where were you on 9/11?”. Since zoomers were either too young or not even born yet to remember 9/11 (Alphas were not born at all) terrorism is not a major topic for them (unlike with boomers or millennials). According to polling done by the Harvard Public Opinion Project, out of a list of eight possible foreign policy priorities, only 17.1 percent of zoomers surveyed (ages 18 to 24) listed terrorism as the most important. Comparatively, Millennials aged 25-29 were nearly 30 percent more likely to put terrorism first.
They are a generation raised on the internet and the biggest generation of homebodies. Thus, they are giant reciprocators to the dark politics of the internet, where racism, nationalism and socialism are argued for by sophists. Howe concluded:
“Readers also sensed a worldwide cultural movement towards nationalism, localism, and an increased identification with one’s roots. The word [Homeland Generation] also fits since this generation of children is literally kept more at “home” than any earlier generation of kids, thanks to the protective, hands-on child-raising style of Gen-X parents.”
Moreover, the Cold War narrative that made Americans so concerned about communism is fading away in the minds of zoomers, with many seeing socialism in a positive way, a far cry from their boomer predecessors. As the Atlantic reported back in September of 2019:
“In the U.S., Millennials and Gen Zers are losing their belief in the American dream, with its individualistic promise that your destiny is in your own hands. Some surveys even put socialism ahead of capitalism with very young voters.”
Nationalism is going to be intensified by the isolation that coronavirus has triggered and also by mass migration that could erupt once the coronavirus crises has been abated. A recent report states that “COVID-19 may be the latest global event which could trigger millions of people relocating around the world.” Violence is going to simultaneously spark mass migrations of poor populations and the animosity towards those migrants by host countries who will see the migrants as spreading disease. For example, Syria is still greatly suffering through its civil war and it appears that another wave of Syrian migrants could happen again. As a very recent report from the BBC tells us:
“Syria faces the risk of mass starvation or another mass exodus unless more aid money is made available, the head of the UN World Food Programme has said. Ahead of a donor conference in Brussels on Tuesday, David Beasley told the BBC a million Syrians were severely food insecure and some were already dying. The war-torn country’s currency has collapsed and food prices have soared. In desperation, many Syrians might have no choice but to try to flee to Europe as they did in 2015, Mr Beasley said.”
With the coming of another wave of migrants, there will also be the fear of the host populations that such migrants will bring violence and disease (especially considering we would be just getting through the covid crises). Just as in the migrant crisis of 2015, the next migrant crises will see migrants trying to enter Greece from Turkey. In fact, the Greek government reported that it has received intelligence that Turkey is planning on sending another wave of migrants into Greece. As VOA reports:
“Greek forces are on heightened alert as reports have surfaced that Turkey is preparing to push through a fresh wave of migrants to Europe. Officials in Athens say, they fear that refugees infected with the coronavirus may be among the new wave of asylum seekers. Greek government officials contacted by VOA say the heightened alert follows intelligence reports showing Turkish authorities moving refugee groups from remote inland areas to Turkey’s western shores, where smugglers could secretly ferry them to Greek islands less than a few kilometers away.”
The fear of migrants spreading disease is already becoming violent in Yemen where Shiite Houthi militias do not want migrants from Ethiopia and in fact have murdered people. As one report from the New York Times tells us:
“The Yemeni militiamen rumbled up to the settlement of Al Ghar in the morning, firing their machine guns at the Ethiopian migrants caught in the middle of somebody else’s war. They shouted at the migrants: Take your coronavirus and leave the country, or face death. Fatima Mohammed’s baby, Naa’if, was screaming. She grabbed him and ran behind her husband as bullets streaked overhead. “The sound of the bullets was like thunder that wouldn’t stop,” said Kedir Jenni, 30, an Ethiopian waiter who also fled Al Ghar, near the Saudi border in northern Yemen, on that morning in early April. “Men and women get shot next to you, you see them die and move on.” This scene and others were recounted in phone interviews with a half-dozen migrants now in Saudi prisons. Their accounts could not be independently verified, but human rights groups have corroborated similar episodes.”
Numerous migrants were forced out of Yemen and to the border of Saudi Arabia where border patrol officers have detained migrants, beaten them and deprived them of sufficient food. This type of horror could be seen in Europe being done under a nationalistic, reactionary government. This is the world that we are entering.
The zoomers and alphas are growing into this world where nationalism is yet again at the forefront, socialism is becoming trendy, America is beginning to lose its position as the world’s leading hegemony, and other powerhouse countries — Germany, Turkey, Japan, etc. — are rising in their own nationalist goals of becoming major hegemonies. We are quickly being acclimated into a stage of global capriciousness and instability, unlike Gen. Xers, millennials and boomers who have been accustomed to a world where America is number one and the idea of the revival of a nationalist phenomena or of socialism or fascism becoming popular is laughed at. But this world is disintegrating and we are entering a new zeitgeist.
There is a common misconception that the younger generations cannot go to the Right, but are engulfed into Left-wing ideology. While Leftism is extremely popular amongst the young, this does not mean that they cannot become Right-wing reactionaries. In the 2015 French election, the Right-wing candidate, Marine Le Pen, won first place amongst voters under the age of 35, taking 30% of their votes. So, it is definitely possible that a substantial amount of zoomers will turn to the Right. In fact, this is already happening.
Europe’s younger people are more antagonistic towards the economic welfare systems that their parents are so accustomed to. The reason for this is that it was the young who got the heaviest burdens of the post-2008 economic crisis. While the older people were protected by a social safety net, the young had to endure through very high unemployment rates, unstable employment and low wages. It is such generations of youths, disillusioned with the “good old days” of their parents and grandparents, that eventually see hope — not in some dream of economic prosperity — but in joining the military and following some regime. To reference the observation made by George Friedman back in 2013:
“In Europe, it was a generation that felt betrayed by World War I, then an older generation crushed by unemployment and inflation and finally a younger generation with nothing left to lose. Then came World War II and the stunned realization that there were indeed things left to lose. Driving in Spain, things look quiet, neat and empty. But in that emptiness there is something ominous, perhaps not so much post-apocalyptic as pre-apocalyptic.”
Elections in recent years have shown that young people are susceptible to accepting the anti-migrant narratives of the Right. This is the reason why when the center-Left and center-Right parties in Denmark began to adopt Right-wing populous rhetoric against immigration, their popularity shot up amongst both older and younger voters. These center parties even supported the infamous “jewelry law,” whereby — in the words of a report from the Atlantic — “the state can seize assets from refugees to cover the costs of their stay.” Denmark’s shift towards Right-wing policy rhetoric had made her the leader towards this path upon which Europe is treading. To quote Morten Stinus Kristensen: “Denmark has been the leader of the pack in making xenophobia and Islamophobia acceptable foundations of immigration and integration policies.”
What makes this story even more fascinating is how Denmark was seen as the experimental lab to observe the effectiveness of Right-wing rhetoric on immigration. And for the purpose of analyzing the possible future that zoomers and alphas are growing up to, let us inquire a little into European Right-wing movement that helped bring about this nationalist phenomena and its evolution. Looking at the life of the revival of Right-wing hysteria within our recent years, one will see in its provenance the Counterjihad movement that was birthed soon after 9/11 and was officialized in 2007 in the Counterjihad Summit in the EU Parliament building in Brussels, which was organized by a Flemish neo-Nazi, Filip DeWinter. DeWinter posed himself, not as a racist, but simply as a patriot who wanted to stop the Islamization of Europe. But looking at his history, his goal behind the Summit was quite conspicuous. There is a video of Filip DeWinter in which he is screaming out: “Yes, Vlaams Blok [his party] will put our own people first and yes, Vlaams Blok will have a Flemish Flanders and YES, the Vlaams Blok will have a white Europe!”.
In 1988, Filip DeWinter joined a demonstration of a hundred or so Nazi sympathizers (himself included). The plan of these neo-Nazis was to enter the Lommel German war cemetery where 40,000 Nazi German Wehrmacht soldiers were buried, and put flowers on their graves. With Filip DeWinter was the Nazi, Bert Eriksson. Eriksson was a member of the Hitler Youth during the Second World War, and a Nazi fanatic who received media attention in 1978 when he travelled to Austria and dug up the remains of the Nazi collaborator, Cyriel Verschaeve, and brought them back to Alveringem.
The purpose of DeWinter’s Summit was obvious: use Islamic terrorism as part of a strategy of tension to raise up the Right and make fascism fashionable. The movement of the Counterjihad was eventually spearheaded by an organization called Stop the Islamization Of Europe (or SCION. We wrote extensively about this group back in 2016), which was led by a Danish activist named Anders Gravers Pederson. He saw Denmark as the perfect place to commence the Counterjihad movement because, in such a small country, one could see the effects of Right-wing rhetoric immediately, and from Denmark the spark could percolate to the rest of Europe. In the words of Pederson:
“We know that Denmark is such a small homogenious country, where the effects are felt quickly, much quicker than in bigger countries. Because of that we believe that Denmark is the perfect place to practice the anti-jihad actions and thereby affect the population, because we get a response right away. Then we can discover which actions will have the greatest affect on the people, and which actions can be copied to other places, USA, Canada, Australia and the rest of Europe”
Just as Denmark was seen as the experimental ground for a Right-wing revival, Denmark is now leading northern Europe in Right-wing policy. In the years of the 1990s and 2000s (and before this), the world was — whether we knew it or not — moving towards fascism and socialism. We are under the spell of thinking that the Second World War solved such a problem. But it simply made this human virus go dormant, waiting for the right moment to attack a weakened immune system. That immune system of global security is definitely weakening, with the US moving towards isolationism, and allowing other powerful countries more freedom to do what they want — allowing and encouraging Turkey to invade Syria and encroach on the eastern Mediterranean, facilitating Germany becoming more militaristic, allowing for Japan to become more militarily independent — all of these things are taking place as we speak. But the events leading to where we are now were ongoing for decades. By the time militarism shows itself fully, the denouement of the incremental steps of prior decades finally unfolds and manifests, the zoomers will already be established in politics and the alphas will be of perfect military recruitment age. The world that we are entering in this next coming decade will be one of the thickest darkness, wherein death will be celebrated and cruelty paraded, where the creed of the people will be: “let our might be our law of right, for what is weak proves itself to be useless.” (Wisdom 2:11)