shoebat--2020-09-07--The Technological Elite, The Rise Of Eugenics, And How Wall Street Funded The Third Reich

Christ was not against wealth , but really was speaking of the elite of society .
And for good reason .
Anytime an evil ideology takes hold of society , you can rest assured that financing its spread is an elite circle .
We see the same thing with the industry of science and technology .
When one looks to the rise of the Third Reich , you will find that behind the rise of this frankenstein were the industrialists and financial establishments .
Today , we see a very similar phenomena of industrialists supporting the rise of today ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ idea that mankind must evolve by merging with Artificial Intelligence , and that if he refuses to do so , he will be inferior to a new race of cyborgs that will surpass man in the process of evolution .
If the Nazis of the past aspired to be ubermensch or supermen , the nazis of today want to evolve into cyborgs .
Here , we demonstrate how we are digressing to what the Book of Wisdom warned us about : Let us oppress the righteous poor man ; let us not spare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the aged .
But let our might be our law of right , for what is weak proves itself to be useless .
( Wisdom 2:10-11 ) All of this evil always starts off by elevating a type of a ubermensch ( superman ) .
In our own time , we have the transhumanist fantasy about the cyborg .
Elon Musk holds to the transhumanist vision of merging man and machine .
Speaking at the Tesla launch in Dubai , Musk stated : Musk believes that if humans can colonize Mars , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ step in human evolution .
In a 2015 video Musk explained : Musk sees space travel and the merging of man and machine as the next step of human evolution .
Hence why he believes that Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is going to be superior to humans to the point that we will be as apes in the site of machine intelligence .
In order to ‘ evolve , ’ insists Musk , humans need to have injected in their heads computer chips made by his company , Neuralink .
By having @ @ @ @ @ @ @ humans can escape their impending state of inferiority : Preaching science fiction to bedazzle the airheads of atheism , Musk then markets his company and pushes for his ideology of transhumanism , or the ideology that in order for human evolution to continue , mankind must ‘ evolve ’ by becoming a cyborg or partially machine himself .
Those who do not merge with machine will then be like apes , at least in the twisted perspective of technocrats like Musk .
So , those who do not conform , will be seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Nazis and the rest of the scientific racists of the 20th century saw their enemies as being lower in the scale of human evolution , or as being closer to primate than human ( or supermen ) .
We know that these scientists are never going to create their ‘ evolved ’ humans .
This is not the concern at hand .
The concern is that if these agents of darkness ever get full power , what depths of destruction are they willing to bring in the name of ushering in their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 18th France wanted complete equality in society — this was their fantasy that never came to existence — and they were willing to butcher hundreds of thousands to fulfill their fantasy .
The Nazis had dreams of becoming supermen , and their only result was countless dead and the world brought low to an abyss .
Transhumanism is truly the eugenics of the 21st century , and we are seeing its ideology entrenching the soul of current generations , drunk off of a dangerous fantasy .
When Herbert York , the director of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pentagon , heard these words of Eisenhower , he felt a sense of consternation .
In the mid-1960s , York visited Eisenhower at his winter home in the California desert and asked him what he meant by what he said .
“ I asked him to explain more fully what he meant by the warnings , but he declined to do so , ” recounted York .
“ I pressed this line of questions further by asking him whether he had any particular people in mind when he warned us about the ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
’ ” Eisenhower replied : “ ( Werhner ) von Braun and ( Edward ) Teller [ father of the hydrogen bomb ] .
” ( See Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip , ch .
20 , pp .
378-379 ) Wehrner von Braun was an SS scientist who had slaves working to help build his giant V-2 rocket , and yet von Braun ended up in the United State working in NASA ’ s space program .
None of this is surprising , given the fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s eugenic programs that inspired the Nazis ’ own eugenic policies .
Thus , von Braun getting employed by the US was merely the teacher hiring the student ; it was symptomatic of the convergence between eugenics and industrial elitism .
This was not only seen after the Second World War , but before , when the United States ’ s industrial and financial players backed the rise of the Third Reich .
Today , we see the technological elite supporting transhumanist eugenics , so it was in the past when America ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eugenic regime of the Nazis .
A statement that really reveals this was from William Dodd , the US Ambassador to Germany , when he wrote to President Roosevelt in 1936 ( three years after Hitler came to power ) about how the Germans were being backed by over a hundred different American corporations , including DuPont , Standard Oil , and American IG : Here we can see how multiple companies were putting in tremendous amounts of finance into Germany ’ s military industry .
Dodd put into his diary on how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany and asked him regarding the Standard Oil Company in New York sending a million dollars to Germany to help them make synthetic gasoline from coal for military use : Much of American history can be summed up as the Americans creating monsters only to later slay them .
The creation of the Nazi monster was greatly due to finance from Wall Street in the 1920s and aid from big American industry .
For example , the Reich ’ s military was reliant on synthetic oil , but how did it learn to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Standard Oil giving IG Farben ( one of the major industries in Germany ) their hydrogenation patents and technology .
It was thanks to these patents and technologies that Germany went from producing less than 300,000 tons of synthetic gasoline in 1934 to producing 6 1/2 million tons , 85 % of which ( 5 1/2 million tons ) was synthetic oil using the the Standard Oil hydrogenation process .
The Kilgore Committee reported on how Germans were sent to Detroit to learn about this process and how how IG Farben sent scientists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology : The same Kilgore Committee stated that the “ United States accidentally played an important role in the technical arming of Germany.
” But the truth is that this was no accident , and the American industrialists knew that they were helping Nazis in their war efforts .
In the words of historian Gabriel Kolko : The financing of Germany , which is what boosted the country to reindustrialization , came from the US due to the Dawes Plan and later the Young Plan , both US government programs to financially aid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Treaty of Versailles , which was the result of Germany ’ s defeat in World War One , put a financial burden on the country .
International bankers saw this as an opportunity to float profitable loans for German industrial cartels in the United States .
Both Plans were contrived by these same central bankers .
In 1924 the Allies chose a committee of bankers led by American banker Charles G. Dawes , to develop the plan ( hence the name ) .
These bankers would become the Committee of Experts , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would eventually bankroll industries that were essential to Nazi Germany , IG Farben and Vereinigte Stahlwerke , in the mid-1920s.These bankers acted as both creditors and statesmen .
When they worked as creditors they were giving away loans with the hopes of making profit ; when they donned their statesmen hats , they were working to “ solve ” the “ problem ” of reparations .
As Georgetown University Professor of International Relations Carroll Quigley put it : In 1929 , Owen Young became the chairman of the Committee of Experts , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TW Lamont , a Morgan partner , and TN Perkins , a banker with Morgan associates .
There were also German members of the Committee of Experts .
There was Hjalmar Schacht , president of the Reichsbank , who would eventually finance the National Socialist German Workers Party ( NSDAP ) , better known as the Nazi Party .
So , a Nazi was involved in these delegations , representing German interests .
The Plans to give loans to Germany was done , supposedly , to maintain peace .
But they had the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ James Martin : “ These loans for reconstruction became a vehicle for arrangements that did more to promote World War II than to establish peace after World War I.
” If you look at the details of the loans , you will see how three major corporations that would be the industrial backbone for the Third Reich were bankrolled by three Wall Street syndicates .
Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft ( AEG ) or German General Electric , got $ 35 million from National City Co. AEG was amongst the corporate powerhouses that backed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 30 million to American IG Chemical , or the American Branch for IG Farben which would be the most notorious industry for the Third Reich .
Dillon , Read & Co. gave $ 70,255,000 to Vereinigte Stahlwerke , or United Steelworks , which would also go on to support the Nazis .
Both IG Farben and Vereinigte Stahwerke would become the dominating industries in the chemical and steel markets under the Third Reich for the German military , especially for things like explosives and synthetic gasoline .
Between 1937 and 1938 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were produced by these two companies .
It was thanks to Standard Oil ’ s cooperation with IG Farben that led the latter to having a monopoly on Germany ’ s synthetic gas production .
In the words of Anthony Sutton : There was also a lot of help from American industry for Nazi Germany .
For example , the two biggest tank producers in Nazi Germany were Opel , a subsidiary of General Motors , and Ford AG , a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Detroit .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Opel in 1936 , in order to enable General Motors to expand its production plants in Germany .
It is no wonder that Henry Ford was decorated by the Nazis for his services to the Reich .
( See Sutton , Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler , ch .
1 ) The funding of the Nazi Party when it was still new also had connections to American finance .
When Fritz Thyssen , the German steel magnate who was very close to the Nazis , was interrogated in 1945 , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by General Erich Ludendorff at the time when French troops were evacuating the Ruhr .
Not too long after this meeting , Thyssen was introduced to Adolf Hitler and then financed the Nazi Party through Ludendorff .
Thyssen then arranged a loan of 250,000 marks for the Nazis at the Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV in Rotterdam .
Its not surprising as to why Thyssen would choose this particular bank , since it was a subsidiary of the August Thyssen Bank of Germany , which was ran by his grandfather , Friedrich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ father , August Thyssen ( after whom the bank was named ) .
This was Thyssen ’ s personal banking operation and it was connected with the WA Harriman financial interests in New York .
E. Roland Harriman was the director of the Union Banking Corporation in New York City , which was controlled by the Dutch Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV , the very subsidiary of the August Thyssen Bank through which Fritz Thyssen funded Hitler .
Roland Harriman ’ s fellow director at the Union Banking Corporation in New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who in the 1930s would become a director of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG , the very company that would be an industrial powerhouse for the Third Reich and which was founded thanks to Wall Street funds in the 1920s .
( See Sutton , Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler , ch .
7 , pp .
103-107 ) .
So in this history we see the financial establishment and the technological establishment being the backbone for a eugenic regime .
Today , we are seeing the cultivation of a new eugenic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the past , it is the industrialists like Elon Musk who is advancing it .
The same elites who backed the Nazis , are the same types of personalities we see supporting the new eugenics of today — people like Musk , Peter Thiel , etc.
, — and so here we are , descending down the same spiral towards chaos .

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24)
Christ was not against wealth, but really was speaking of the elite of society. And for good reason. Anytime an evil ideology takes hold of society, you can rest assured that financing its spread is an elite circle. We see the same thing with the industry of science and technology.
“Scientists and technologists had acquired the reputation of being magicians who had access to a special source of information and wisdom out of reach of mankind.” — Herbert York, American nuclear physicist who was very close to Eisenhower.
When one looks to the rise of the Third Reich, you will find that behind the rise of this frankenstein were the industrialists and financial establishments. Today, we see a very similar phenomena of industrialists supporting the rise of today’s nazism, which is the transhumanist idea that mankind must evolve by merging with Artificial Intelligence, and that if he refuses to do so, he will be inferior to a new race of cyborgs that will surpass man in the process of evolution. If the Nazis of the past aspired to be ubermensch or supermen, the nazis of today want to evolve into cyborgs. Here, we demonstrate how we are digressing to what the Book of Wisdom warned us about:
Let us oppress the righteous poor man;
let us not spare the widow
or regard the gray hairs of the aged.
But let our might be our law of right,
for what is weak proves itself to be useless. (Wisdom 2:10-11)
All of this evil always starts off by elevating a type of a ubermensch (superman). In our own time, we have the transhumanist fantasy about the cyborg. Elon Musk holds to the transhumanist vision of merging man and machine. Speaking at the Tesla launch in Dubai, Musk stated:
“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence … “It’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.”
Musk believes that if humans can colonize Mars, that this will lead to the next step in human evolution. In a 2015 video Musk explained:
“What are the important steps in the evolution of life? Obviously there was the advent of single celled life, there was differentiation to plants and animals, there was life going from oceans to land, there was mammals, consciousness, and I would argue also on that scale, should fit life becoming multi-planetary.”
Musk sees space travel and the merging of man and machine as the next step of human evolution. Hence why he believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be superior to humans to the point that we will be as apes in the site of machine intelligence. In order to ‘evolve,’ insists Musk, humans need to have injected in their heads computer chips made by his company, Neuralink. By having this chip implanted into our heads, humans can escape their impending state of inferiority:
“I think generally people underestimate the capability of AI — they sort of think it’s a smart human … But it’s going to be much more than that. It will be much smarter than the smartest human. …Can a chimpanzee really understand humans? Not really … We just seem like strange aliens. They mostly just care about other chimpanzees. And this will be how it is, more or less. … If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em — that’s what Neuralink is about. Can we go along for the ride with AI?”
Preaching science fiction to bedazzle the airheads of atheism, Musk then markets his company and pushes for his ideology of transhumanism, or the ideology that in order for human evolution to continue, mankind must ‘evolve’ by becoming a cyborg or partially machine himself. Those who do not merge with machine will then be like apes, at least in the twisted perspective of technocrats like Musk. So, those who do not conform, will be seen as inferior apes, much like how the Nazis and the rest of the scientific racists of the 20th century saw their enemies as being lower in the scale of human evolution, or as being closer to primate than human (or supermen). We know that these scientists are never going to create their ‘evolved’ humans. This is not the concern at hand. The concern is that if these agents of darkness ever get full power, what depths of destruction are they willing to bring in the name of ushering in their fantasy into reality? The rebels of 18th France wanted complete equality in society — this was their fantasy that never came to existence — and they were willing to butcher hundreds of thousands to fulfill their fantasy. The Nazis had dreams of becoming supermen, and their only result was countless dead and the world brought low to an abyss. Transhumanism is truly the eugenics of the 21st century, and we are seeing its ideology entrenching the soul of current generations, drunk off of a dangerous fantasy.
“… In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address.
When Herbert York, the director of the Research and Engineering Department at the Pentagon, heard these words of Eisenhower, he felt a sense of consternation. In the mid-1960s, York visited Eisenhower at his winter home in the California desert and asked him what he meant by what he said. “I asked him to explain more fully what he meant by the warnings, but he declined to do so,” recounted York. “I pressed this line of questions further by asking him whether he had any particular people in mind when he warned us about the ‘the danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.’” Eisenhower replied: “(Werhner) von Braun and (Edward) Teller [father of the hydrogen bomb].” (See Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip, ch. 20, pp. 378-379)
Wehrner von Braun was an SS scientist who had slaves working to help build his giant V-2 rocket, and yet von Braun ended up in the United State working in NASA’s space program. None of this is surprising, given the fact that it was the United States’s eugenic programs that inspired the Nazis’ own eugenic policies. Thus, von Braun getting employed by the US was merely the teacher hiring the student; it was symptomatic of the convergence between eugenics and industrial elitism. This was not only seen after the Second World War, but before, when the United States’s industrial and financial players backed the rise of the Third Reich. Today, we see the technological elite supporting transhumanist eugenics, so it was in the past when America’s industrial and financial establishments supported the eugenic regime of the Nazis. A statement that really reveals this was from William Dodd, the US Ambassador to Germany, when he wrote to President Roosevelt in 1936 (three years after Hitler came to power) about how the Germans were being backed by over a hundred different American corporations, including DuPont, Standard Oil, and American IG:
“Much as I believe in peace as our best policy, I cannot avoid the fears which Wilson emphasized more than once in conversations with me, August 15, 1915 and later: the breakdown of democracy in all Europe will be a disaster to the people. But what can you do? At the present moment more than a hundred American corporations have subsidiaries here or cooperative understandings. The DuPonts have three allies in Germany that are aiding in the armament business. Their chief ally is the I.G. Farben Company, a part of the Government which gives 200,000 marks a year to one propaganda organization operating on American opinion. Standard Oil Company (New York sub-company) sent $2,000,000 here in December 1933 and has made $500,000 a year helping Germans make Ersatz gas for war purposes; but Standard Oil cannot take any of its earnings out of the country except in goods. They do little of this, report their earnings at home, but do not explain the facts. The International Harvester Company president told me their business here rose 33% a year (arms manufacture, I believe), but they could take nothing out. Even our airplanes people have secret arrangement with Krupps. General Motor Company and Ford do enormous businesses here through their subsidiaries and take no profits out. I mention these facts because they complicate things and add to war dangers.”
Here we can see how multiple companies were putting in tremendous amounts of finance into Germany’s military industry. Dodd put into his diary on how he met with an American attorney in Germany and asked him regarding the Standard Oil Company in New York sending a million dollars to Germany to help them make synthetic gasoline from coal for military use:
“These men were hardly out of the building before the lawyer came in again to report his difficulties. I could not do anything. I asked him, however: Why did the Standard Oil Company of New York send $1,000,000 here in December, 1933, to aid the Germans in making gasoline from soft coal for war emergencies? Why do the International Harvester people continue to manufacture in Germany when their company gets nothing out of the country and when it has failed to collect its war loses? He saw my point and agreed that it looked foolish and that it only means greater losses if another war breaks loose.”
Much of American history can be summed up as the Americans creating monsters only to later slay them. The creation of the Nazi monster was greatly due to finance from Wall Street in the 1920s and aid from big American industry. For example, the Reich’s military was reliant on synthetic oil, but how did it learn to produce this? It was thanks to Standard Oil giving IG Farben (one of the major industries in Germany) their hydrogenation patents and technology. It was thanks to these patents and technologies that Germany went from producing less than 300,000 tons of synthetic gasoline in 1934 to producing 6 1/2 million tons, 85% of which (5 1/2 million tons) was synthetic oil using the the Standard Oil hydrogenation process. The Kilgore Committee reported on how Germans were sent to Detroit to learn about this process and how how IG Farben sent scientists to the US to learn American arial technology:
“Germans were brought to Detroit to learn the techniques of specialized production of components, and of straight-line assembly. What they saw caused further reorganization and refitting of other key German war plants. The techniques learned in Detroit were eventually used to construct the dive-bombing Stukas. … At a later period I.G. Farben representatives in this country enabled a stream of German engineers to visit not only plane plants but others of military importance, in which they learned a great deal that was eventually used against the United States.”
The same Kilgore Committee stated that the “United States accidentally played an important role in the technical arming of Germany.” But the truth is that this was no accident, and the American industrialists knew that they were helping Nazis in their war efforts. In the words of historian Gabriel Kolko:
“The business press [in the United States] was aware, from 1935 on, that German prosperity was based on war preparations. More important, it was conscious of the fact that German industry was under the control of the Nazis and was being directed to serve German rearmament, and the first mentioned most frequently in this context was the giant chemical empire, I.G. Farben.”
The financing of Germany, which is what boosted the country to reindustrialization, came from the US due to the Dawes Plan and later the Young Plan, both US government programs to financially aid Germany after the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles, which was the result of Germany’s defeat in World War One, put a financial burden on the country. International bankers saw this as an opportunity to float profitable loans for German industrial cartels in the United States. Both Plans were contrived by these same central bankers. In 1924 the Allies chose a committee of bankers led by American banker Charles G. Dawes, to develop the plan (hence the name). These bankers would become the Committee of Experts, and It was their American funding that would eventually bankroll industries that were essential to Nazi Germany, IG Farben and Vereinigte Stahlwerke, in the mid-1920s.These bankers acted as both creditors and statesmen. When they worked as creditors they were giving away loans with the hopes of making profit; when they donned their statesmen hats, they were working to “solve” the “problem” of reparations. As Georgetown University Professor of International Relations Carroll Quigley put it:
“It is worthy of note that this system was set up by the international bankers and that the subsequent lending of other people’s money to Germany was very profitable to these bankers.”
In 1929, Owen Young became the chairman of the Committee of Experts, which consisted of J.P. Morgan himself, alongside TW Lamont, a Morgan partner, and TN Perkins, a banker with Morgan associates. There were also German members of the Committee of Experts. There was Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, who would eventually finance the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party. So, a Nazi was involved in these delegations, representing German interests. The Plans to give loans to Germany was done, supposedly, to maintain peace. But they had the opposite effect. In the words of James Martin: “These loans for reconstruction became a vehicle for arrangements that did more to promote World War II than to establish peace after World War I.”
If you look at the details of the loans, you will see how three major corporations that would be the industrial backbone for the Third Reich were bankrolled by three Wall Street syndicates. Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft (AEG) or German General Electric, got $35 million from National City Co. AEG was amongst the corporate powerhouses that backed the Nazis. National City Co. also gave $30 million to American IG Chemical, or the American Branch for IG Farben which would be the most notorious industry for the Third Reich. Dillon, Read & Co. gave $70,255,000 to Vereinigte Stahlwerke, or United Steelworks, which would also go on to support the Nazis. Both IG Farben and Vereinigte Stahwerke would become the dominating industries in the chemical and steel markets under the Third Reich for the German military, especially for things like explosives and synthetic gasoline. Between 1937 and 1938, 95% of Germany’s explosives were produced by these two companies. It was thanks to Standard Oil’s cooperation with IG Farben that led the latter to having a monopoly on Germany’s synthetic gas production. In the words of Anthony Sutton:
“In brief, in synthetic gasoline and explosives (two of the very basic elements of modern warfare), the control of German World II output was in the hands of two German combines created by Wall Street loans under the Dawes Plan.”
There was also a lot of help from American industry for Nazi Germany. For example, the two biggest tank producers in Nazi Germany were Opel, a subsidiary of General Motors, and Ford AG, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Detroit. In fact, the Nazis gave tax exempt status to Opel in 1936, in order to enable General Motors to expand its production plants in Germany. It is no wonder that Henry Ford was decorated by the Nazis for his services to the Reich. (See Sutton, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, ch. 1) The funding of the Nazi Party when it was still new also had connections to American finance. When Fritz Thyssen, the German steel magnate who was very close to the Nazis, was interrogated in 1945, he recounted how he was approached in 1923 by General Erich Ludendorff at the time when French troops were evacuating the Ruhr. Not too long after this meeting, Thyssen was introduced to Adolf Hitler and then financed the Nazi Party through Ludendorff. Thyssen then arranged a loan of 250,000 marks for the Nazis at the Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV in Rotterdam.
Its not surprising as to why Thyssen would choose this particular bank, since it was a subsidiary of the August Thyssen Bank of Germany, which was ran by his grandfather, Friedrich Thyssen, and also led by his father, August Thyssen (after whom the bank was named). This was Thyssen’s personal banking operation and it was connected with the WA Harriman financial interests in New York. E. Roland Harriman was the director of the Union Banking Corporation in New York City, which was controlled by the Dutch Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV, the very subsidiary of the August Thyssen Bank through which Fritz Thyssen funded Hitler. Roland Harriman’s fellow director at the Union Banking Corporation in New York was Nazi financier Hendrick Jozef Kouwenhoven, who in the 1930s would become a director of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, the very company that would be an industrial powerhouse for the Third Reich and which was founded thanks to Wall Street funds in the 1920s. (See Sutton, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, ch. 7, pp. 103-107).
So in this history we see the financial establishment and the technological establishment being the backbone for a eugenic regime. Today, we are seeing the cultivation of a new eugenic ideology of transhumanism, and just like in the past, it is the industrialists like Elon Musk who is advancing it. The same elites who backed the Nazis, are the same types of personalities we see supporting the new eugenics of today — people like Musk, Peter Thiel, etc., — and so here we are, descending down the same spiral towards chaos.
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shoebat--2020-09-07--We Told You So- Russia Openly Discusses Plans To Annex Belarus

One of the points which I have noted is that as European nations are showing a desire to ‘ re-assert ’ themselves in Europe and around the world , the Russian are likewise trying to do the same by , based on a combination of statements made from President Putin as well as his actions , he believes that the way to ‘ save Russia ’ is to revive the USSR .
Part of this would necessarily mean invading and forcibly annexing nations that were once a part of the Soviet Union , let alone those nations which were under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian newspaper Pravda , it is openly discussing how Moscow is seeking to fully annex the nation of Belarus as she once did during the Soviet years .
Against the background of unrest and protests over the election results in Belarus , an active stage of negotiations between Moscow and Minsk began .
Nominally , these are negotiations on support from the Russian Federation to Belarus .
But many experts see in these processes the beginning , if not the end of the process of “ total integration ” of Belarus into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recalling that earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the elections in Belarus as valid , and also announced his readiness to support Lukashenka and Belarus within the framework of the CSTO and Union State treaties .
At the same time , Putin noted that in case of an external invasion or the protesters ’ transition to serious riots and banditry , a law enforcement reserve has been formed in Russia , which , at the request of the Belarusian side , can enter the territory of this country and help Belarusian law enforcement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minister Mikhail Mishustin paid an official visit to Belarus .
At the meeting with Alexander Lukashenko and Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko , according to the negotiators , the sides discussed ways of economic rapprochement between the two states , a number of high-profile issues , as well as Russia ’ s support for Belarus .
Lukashenka made a number of high-profile statements on the eve of this meeting and within the framework of direct negotiations For example , that “ we will preserve our common Fatherland .
Our common Fatherland , where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is the Fatherland from Brest to Vladivostok .
” And also suddenly – about the interception by the special services of Belarus of conversations between Germany and Poland that the statement about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny by “ Novichok ” , which was made by German biochemists and politicians , is a falsification .
However , from the point of view of the reliability of such a conversation , this statement seems doubtful .
However , Lukashenko ’ s turn towards Russia itself , at least at the level of public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The question is to move from rhetoric to specific programs not only for interaction , which is already established between the two states in almost all strategic directions , but also for integration .
And , according to a number of Russian experts , these are the issues that will be discussed during Lukashenka ’ s visit to Moscow .
( source ) I have been talking about this since December 2018 .
It ’ s not just a theory .
There are real plans in the works right now , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are witnesses to this , except with newer weapons and technologies .
It is going to be a very interesting future , especially as Putin ’ s desires are coming at a time when Russia is by all means weaker than she has ever been , and scrambling to consolidate herself by going north of the Arctic circle in hopes of using the cold as a weapon to stop or delay an invasion long enough to stop a conquest of Russia .
She wants as many barriers to Moscow as there are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in spite of her best efforts to stop it , may be forced to forfeit the Volga basin region .
But ultimately , in any coming conflict , the real winner will be determined by who best controls the organs that will run the machines of war , which are going to be the artificial intelligence modules and robotics .
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One of the points which I have noted is that as European nations are showing a desire to ‘re-assert’ themselves in Europe and around the world, the Russian are likewise trying to do the same by, based on a combination of statements made from President Putin as well as his actions, he believes that the way to ‘save Russia’ is to revive the USSR. Part of this would necessarily mean invading and forcibly annexing nations that were once a part of the Soviet Union, let alone those nations which were under Soviet satellite control.
According to the Russian newspaper Pravda, it is openly discussing how Moscow is seeking to fully annex the nation of Belarus as she once did during the Soviet years.
Against the background of unrest and protests over the election results in Belarus, an active stage of negotiations between Moscow and Minsk began. Nominally, these are negotiations on support from the Russian Federation to Belarus. But many experts see in these processes the beginning, if not the end of the process of “total integration” of Belarus into a single Union State. It is worth recalling that earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the elections in Belarus as valid, and also announced his readiness to support Lukashenka and Belarus within the framework of the CSTO and Union State treaties. At the same time, Putin noted that in case of an external invasion or the protesters’ transition to serious riots and banditry, a law enforcement reserve has been formed in Russia, which, at the request of the Belarusian side, can enter the territory of this country and help Belarusian law enforcement officers. And yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin paid an official visit to Belarus . At the meeting with Alexander Lukashenko and Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko , according to the negotiators, the sides discussed ways of economic rapprochement between the two states, a number of high-profile issues, as well as Russia’s support for Belarus. Lukashenka made a number of high-profile statements on the eve of this meeting and within the framework of direct negotiations
For example, that “we will preserve our common Fatherland. Our common Fatherland, where two peoples live from one root. This is the Fatherland from Brest to Vladivostok .” And also suddenly – about the interception by the special services of Belarus of conversations between Germany and Poland that the statement about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny by “Novichok”, which was made by German biochemists and politicians, is a falsification.
However, from the point of view of the reliability of such a conversation, this statement seems doubtful. However, Lukashenko’s turn towards Russia itself, at least at the level of public rhetoric, seems to have taken place. The question is to move from rhetoric to specific programs not only for interaction, which is already established between the two states in almost all strategic directions, but also for integration. And, according to a number of Russian experts, these are the issues that will be discussed during Lukashenka’s visit to Moscow. (source)
I have been talking about this since December 2018.
It’s not just a theory. There are real plans in the works right now, and history is preparing to repeat herself. We are witnesses to this, except with newer weapons and technologies.
It is going to be a very interesting future, especially as Putin’s desires are coming at a time when Russia is by all means weaker than she has ever been, and scrambling to consolidate herself by going north of the Arctic circle in hopes of using the cold as a weapon to stop or delay an invasion long enough to stop a conquest of Russia. She wants as many barriers to Moscow as there are possible, since it appears that she, in spite of her best efforts to stop it, may be forced to forfeit the Volga basin region.
But ultimately, in any coming conflict, the real winner will be determined by who best controls the organs that will run the machines of war, which are going to be the artificial intelligence modules and robotics.
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shoebat--2020-09-07--Houses Get Bigger But Apartments Get Smaller

Something that tells a lot about a society is the use of space in new construction , as while renting is good , new construction is built always with contemporary values in mind , and so it can give an insight into the minds of the people at that time .
According to a story from Zero Hedge , among new construction , single-family homes are growing in size , while apartments are shrinking .
Like so many other aspects of the American housing market , an examination of the change in average size of newly built homes and newly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 2019 has yielded a story of two conflicting extremes .
In the market for single-family homes , the average unit size increased over the course of the decade , perhaps reflecting the growing economic inequality endemic to the American middle class .
Meanwhile , the average apartment constructed during this period shrunk by a staggering 90 square feet , a surprisingly large sum when one considers how many New Yorkers live in 500 square foot studio apartments .
A new study from StorageCafe examining trends in newly built homes should be of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in home construction reverberates throughout the financial markets , driving the surge in lumber prices , among other things .
The average size of a new single family home built in 2019 was 2,611 square feet , 143 more than in 2010 .
Apartments , on the other hand , averaged 1,156 square feet , 90 square feet smaller than those built in 2010 .
The average size of single family homes in the US is now 2,128 square feet , 18 % less than it was for new ones built in 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Chicago ranks first for largest homes , with new single family houses averaging 3,330 square feet in 2019 – approx .
916 more than the size of a home built in 2010 .
In Denver , however , homes are much less spacious than a decade ago at 2,056 – 197 square feet smaller than in 2010 .
Jacksonville is building the biggest apartments in the US at 987 square feet , and Seattle the smallest , with new apartments averaging 676 square feet .
During these last few months , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ probably at any other point in our lives , and the size of our residences became all-important .
The COVID-19 pandemic will probably have a long-lasting impact on how Americans – and the whole world for that matter – live and work .
As far as home sizes go , we might be witnessing a revolution regarding how people utilize their houses and the new roles a home must fulfill – more than just living quarters , many of our homes have been converted into multifunctional spaces that can accommodate our work , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The good thing is that newly built homes are offering more space , just enough to allow for comfortable living .
Apartments , however , lag behind in responding to this need for more space at home .
It looks like the US is bound to remain the land of McMansions .
With the average home size standing at around 2,128 square feet ( US Census ) , American homes are among the biggest in the world , vying with Australia for the top position .
Compared to European countries , US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even twice as big as houses in Greece or Germany .
Apartments are following an opposite trend , decreasing by almost 90 square feet over the last decade , from an average size of 1,245 square feet in 2010 to 1,156 in 2019 .
In other words , newer apartments were built with less space – and that loss is equal to a small bedroom or a kitchen .
The proportion of one-bedroom apartments in new buildings increased from 35 % in 2010 to 42 % in 2019 The proportion of one-bedroom apartments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2010 to 42 % in 2019 .
Two-bedroom apartments , on the other hand , became less popular .
In 2010 , 45 % of newly built apartments had two bedrooms , but by 2019 that number had decreased to 39 % .
Only 11 % of the apartments built in 2019 had three or more bedrooms , compared to 13 % in 2010 .
Nearly half of the single family homes built in 2019 have 4+ bedrooms .
( source )

Something that tells a lot about a society is the use of space in new construction, as while renting is good, new construction is built always with contemporary values in mind, and so it can give an insight into the minds of the people at that time. According to a story from Zero Hedge, among new construction, single-family homes are growing in size, while apartments are shrinking.
Like so many other aspects of the American housing market, an examination of the change in average size of newly built homes and newly built apartments constructed between the years 2010 and 2019 has yielded a story of two conflicting extremes.
In the market for single-family homes, the average unit size increased over the course of the decade, perhaps reflecting the growing economic inequality endemic to the American middle class.
Meanwhile, the average apartment constructed during this period shrunk by a staggering 90 square feet, a surprisingly large sum when one considers how many New Yorkers live in 500 square foot studio apartments.
A new study from StorageCafe examining trends in newly built homes should be of particular interest to investors as the boom in home construction reverberates throughout the financial markets, driving the surge in lumber prices, among other things.
The average size of a new single family home built in 2019 was 2,611 square feet, 143 more than in 2010. Apartments, on the other hand, averaged 1,156 square feet, 90 square feet smaller than those built in 2010.
The average size of single family homes in the US is now 2,128 square feet, 18% less than it was for new ones built in 2019.
Among the 20 biggest US cities, Chicago ranks first for largest homes, with new single family houses averaging 3,330 square feet in 2019 – approx. 916 more than the size of a home built in 2010. In Denver, however, homes are much less spacious than a decade ago at 2,056 – 197 square feet smaller than in 2010.
Jacksonville is building the biggest apartments in the US at 987 square feet, and Seattle the smallest, with new apartments averaging 676 square feet.
During these last few months, we spent more time inside our homes than probably at any other point in our lives, and the size of our residences became all-important. The COVID-19 pandemic will probably have a long-lasting impact on how Americans – and the whole world for that matter – live and work.
As far as home sizes go, we might be witnessing a revolution regarding how people utilize their houses and the new roles a home must fulfill – more than just living quarters, many of our homes have been converted into multifunctional spaces that can accommodate our work, recreational and educational needs, and more. The good thing is that newly built homes are offering more space, just enough to allow for comfortable living. Apartments, however, lag behind in responding to this need for more space at home.
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It looks like the US is bound to remain the land of McMansions. With the average home size standing at around 2,128 square feet (US Census), American homes are among the biggest in the world, vying with Australia for the top position. Compared to European countries, US homes are much more spacious, and even twice as big as houses in Greece or Germany.
Apartments are following an opposite trend, decreasing by almost 90 square feet over the last decade, from an average size of 1,245 square feet in 2010 to 1,156 in 2019. In other words, newer apartments were built with less space – and that loss is equal to a small bedroom or a kitchen.
The proportion of one-bedroom apartments in new buildings increased from 35% in 2010 to 42% in 2019
The proportion of one-bedroom apartments built each year grew from 35% in 2010 to 42% in 2019. Two-bedroom apartments, on the other hand, became less popular. In 2010, 45% of newly built apartments had two bedrooms, but by 2019 that number had decreased to 39%. Only 11% of the apartments built in 2019 had three or more bedrooms, compared to 13% in 2010.
Nearly half of the single family homes built in 2019 have 4+ bedrooms. (source)


shoebat--2020-09-06--Half Of US Christians Approve Of Fornication

Just because something is common does not make it good .
For example , overeating is a common practice , but it is not good .
The same can be said about fornication , for while a lot of people do or are doing it , such does not justify the practice .
However , the Christian Post reports that many Christians- at least half -are a reflection of the current state of affairs , as they accept such .
Half of Christians say sex between consenting adults who are in a committed dating relationship is sometimes or always acceptable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exception of evangelical Protestants — say casual sex is OK , according to a survey by the Pew Research Center .
Some 62 % of Catholics , 56 % of Protestants in the historically black tradition , 54 % of mainline Protestants , and 36 % of evangelical Protestants say casual sex between consenting adults is sometimes or always acceptable , according to the survey .
Among those who are religiously unaffiliated , as many as 84 % say casual sex is sometimes or always acceptable , Pew adds .
And the percentage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 95 % among agnostics .
Pew clarifies that the survey “ did not ask respondents if they themselves would engage in any of these practices .
Instead , the questions asked if they found the practices acceptable ‘ regardless of whether you would do it yourself.
’ ” The study notes that the gap between Christians and the unaffiliated is not very big when it comes to sex between unmarried adults who are in a committed relationship .
Fifty-seven percent of Christians say it ’ s sometimes or always acceptable .
“ That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 64 % of Catholics , 57 % of Protestants in the historically black tradition , and 46 % of evangelical Protestants.
” In comparison , nearly 80 % of religiously unaffiliated Americans say sex between unmarried adults in a committed relationship is sometimes or always acceptable .
However , Americans , in general , do not tend to accept a range of other sex and dating practices , for example , having sex on a first date , exchanging sexually explicit photographs with other consenting adults , and having an open relationship .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ most other Christian groups in this analysis to find these practices acceptable , Pew notes .
Just over a third of Christians say it ’ s sometimes or always acceptable .
( source ) Unfortunately , these numbers are not a surprise .
There are a lot of problems in the churches , for in spite of what people say , the churches are a reflection of society , especially given how many people still identify with Christianity .
This is in spite of the fact that such is a trend that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come .
Eventually it is probable that it will come to the fact that Christians will be a small minority in the former societies where they were once the majority , and they will be persecuted and hated .
However , because of their small numbers , they will be much stronger and more cohesive as a unite .
This issue of sexual mores is just a reflection of this issue , since it is not so much about sex , but rather sexual issues as a thorough mirror into the moral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what they believe versus what they practice .
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Just because something is common does not make it good. For example, overeating is a common practice, but it is not good. The same can be said about fornication, for while a lot of people do or are doing it, such does not justify the practice. However, the Christian Post reports that many Christians- at least half -are a reflection of the current state of affairs, as they accept such.
Half of Christians say sex between consenting adults who are in a committed dating relationship is sometimes or always acceptable, and over half — with the exception of evangelical Protestants — say casual sex is OK, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Some 62% of Catholics, 56% of Protestants in the historically black tradition, 54% of mainline Protestants, and 36% of evangelical Protestants say casual sex between consenting adults is sometimes or always acceptable, according to the survey. Among those who are religiously unaffiliated, as many as 84% say casual sex is sometimes or always acceptable, Pew adds. And the percentage increases to 94% among atheists and 95% among agnostics. Pew clarifies that the survey “did not ask respondents if they themselves would engage in any of these practices. Instead, the questions asked if they found the practices acceptable ‘regardless of whether you would do it yourself.’” The study notes that the gap between Christians and the unaffiliated is not very big when it comes to sex between unmarried adults who are in a committed relationship. Fifty-seven percent of Christians say it’s sometimes or always acceptable. “That includes 67% of mainline Protestants, 64% of Catholics, 57% of Protestants in the historically black tradition, and 46% of evangelical Protestants.” In comparison, nearly 80% of religiously unaffiliated Americans say sex between unmarried adults in a committed relationship is sometimes or always acceptable. However, Americans, in general, do not tend to accept a range of other sex and dating practices, for example, having sex on a first date, exchanging sexually explicit photographs with other consenting adults, and having an open relationship. Evangelical Protestants are significantly less likely than most other Christian groups in this analysis to find these practices acceptable, Pew notes. Just over a third of Christians say it’s sometimes or always acceptable. (source)
Unfortunately, these numbers are not a surprise.
There are a lot of problems in the churches, for in spite of what people say, the churches are a reflection of society, especially given how many people still identify with Christianity. This is in spite of the fact that such is a trend that is steadily changing and will for more years to come.
Eventually it is probable that it will come to the fact that Christians will be a small minority in the former societies where they were once the majority, and they will be persecuted and hated. However, because of their small numbers, they will be much stronger and more cohesive as a unite. This issue of sexual mores is just a reflection of this issue, since it is not so much about sex, but rather sexual issues as a thorough mirror into the moral systems of people and how they measure what they believe versus what they practice.
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shoebat--2020-09-07--Forget About Metrosexuals, It’s Now Technosexuals

Years ago there was discussion about the rise of ‘ metrosexuals ’ , or effeminate men who confused personal grooming habits with those of effeminate behavior .
Three decades later , a new trend has emerged , building off of this plus the increased isolation , reliance on technology , obsession with status and attention , declining incomes , and the depersonalization of human interactions , which according to the UK Telegraph by way of Yahoo !
News is the rise of the ‘ technosexual ’ , who equivocates personal gratification with any number of things from attention from others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same end in a more direct way .
the pandemic wasn ’ t a surreal enough experience , a recent study suggests that lockdown has amplified a disturbing trend .
Research by sex toy company WeVibe revealed that 14 per cent of men admit to being aroused by their smart-speaker Alexa , which confirms my view that we have been sleepwalking into a different kind of epidemic – one of loneliness and fear of intimacy .
I ’ ve been a practising psychotherapist for 20 years , and never have I worked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are unhappy and scared because their deepest attachments and primary source of arousal are through interacting with their tech .
I call these people ‘ technosexuals ’ .
Technosexuals are joined – as though surgically – to their favourite gadgets .
Whether it ’ s the ‘ ping ’ of a message , swiping right , or the seductive , authoritative tones of a cloud-based voice service , their tech fulfils them by mobilising the reward system in the brain and releasing dopamine – the ‘ happiness hormone ’ .
The instant activity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comments – is like a sexual turn on .
This ‘ dopamine hit ’ happens in all of us but , in technosexuals , something else is at play .
For them , the modern digital world influences all their libidinous activity .
It dictates who they fancy , and how they present and value themselves .
Technosexuals fall into the trap of mistaking connections via tech with actual intimacy .
Single technosexuals write witty messages ahead of dates which often never take place , or get set up and then cancelled at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through fears of coronavirus .
Covid is giving air-cover to their fears .
And because tech can provide the illusion of intimacy , many technosexuals convince themselves their intimate life is functioning – when it really isn ’ t .
On face-to-face dates – even socially-distanced ones – technosexuals can become overly-anxious .
The phone in the pocket or bag becomes like a child ’ s ‘ security blanket ’ , something to be touched or looked at regularly to provide comfort .
Technosexuals will go so far as to crow-bar their tech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , using phones to Google trivia , display photos , showcase apps , or tot up the bill .
“ I appear really outgoing and engaged on dates , ” admits Jess* , 39 , “ but really it ’ s my smartphone performing , not me.
” ( source ) The observations here can be easily seen in the dating market , where people are less inclined to interact with each other , and instead prefer virtual interactions through devices .
It is an extension of the continuing trend of depersonalization , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stage of the sexual revolution .
If the first stage was the separation of men from women and the conflagration of their social roles ( the feminist/women ’ s rights movements ) , and the second stage the separation of sexual behavior from reproductive purpose first ( birth control/abortion/sodomy ) , the final stage is the division of sexuality from human interaction itself , making a wholly self-oriented pursuit that does not require a person at all but is solely involved in self-absorbed behaviors .
There have been many scientists who have expressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women , at a time when sex is everywhere and easily accessible , is in decline , for while a top few of men are getting more sex than ever before , most get not a single thing , and instead are isolated .
This is , one could argue , a manifestation of this ‘ technosexuality ’ , where like what Japan already is at , there is an evisceration of man himself and his place in society that results in a hole filled with empty pursuits based on the idea that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life except trying to gratify oneself until his death .
It is also why secular marriage is in decline , because if one does not believe in a greater purpose to life , what is the act other than an unnecessarily difficult step to getting to the same end ?
In a sense it can be said that society is going back to pagan times , just as it was in the ancient world .
With that , Christians are once again going to become a hated , rejected , despised , yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a Christian will mean not fame , power , and money , but sacrifice , silence , suffering , persistence , perseverance , and hoping against all odds in God , Who surely in the fullness of time will come and make all things right .
Donate now to help support the work of this site .
When you donate , you are not donating to just any commentary group , but one that is endlessly observing the news , reading between the lines and separating hysteria and perception from reality .
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Years ago there was discussion about the rise of ‘metrosexuals’, or effeminate men who confused personal grooming habits with those of effeminate behavior. Three decades later, a new trend has emerged, building off of this plus the increased isolation, reliance on technology, obsession with status and attention, declining incomes, and the depersonalization of human interactions, which according to the UK Telegraph by way of Yahoo! News is the rise of the ‘technosexual’, who equivocates personal gratification with any number of things from attention from others online to the use of technology for the same end in a more direct way.
the pandemic wasn’t a surreal enough experience, a recent study suggests that lockdown has amplified a disturbing trend. Research by sex toy company WeVibe revealed that 14 per cent of men admit to being aroused by their smart-speaker Alexa, which confirms my view that we have been sleepwalking into a different kind of epidemic – one of loneliness and fear of intimacy. I’ve been a practising psychotherapist for 20 years, and never have I worked with so many men and women who are unhappy and scared because their deepest attachments and primary source of arousal are through interacting with their tech. I call these people ‘technosexuals’. Technosexuals are joined – as though surgically – to their favourite gadgets. Whether it’s the ‘ping’ of a message, swiping right, or the seductive, authoritative tones of a cloud-based voice service, their tech fulfils them by mobilising the reward system in the brain and releasing dopamine – the ‘happiness hormone’. The instant activity of using their tech – likes and comments – is like a sexual turn on. This ‘dopamine hit’ happens in all of us but, in technosexuals, something else is at play. For them, the modern digital world influences all their libidinous activity. It dictates who they fancy, and how they present and value themselves. … Technosexuals fall into the trap of mistaking connections via tech with actual intimacy. Single technosexuals write witty messages ahead of dates which often never take place, or get set up and then cancelled at the last minute – and not just through fears of coronavirus. Covid is giving air-cover to their fears. And because tech can provide the illusion of intimacy, many technosexuals convince themselves their intimate life is functioning – when it really isn’t. On face-to-face dates – even socially-distanced ones – technosexuals can become overly-anxious. The phone in the pocket or bag becomes like a child’s ‘security blanket’, something to be touched or looked at regularly to provide comfort. Technosexuals will go so far as to crow-bar their tech into actual dates as much as possible, using phones to Google trivia, display photos, showcase apps, or tot up the bill. “I appear really outgoing and engaged on dates,” admits Jess*, 39, “but really it’s my smartphone performing, not me.” (source)
The observations here can be easily seen in the dating market, where people are less inclined to interact with each other, and instead prefer virtual interactions through devices. It is an extension of the continuing trend of depersonalization, self-isolation, and really, the final stage of the sexual revolution. If the first stage was the separation of men from women and the conflagration of their social roles (the feminist/women’s rights movements), and the second stage the separation of sexual behavior from reproductive purpose first (birth control/abortion/sodomy), the final stage is the division of sexuality from human interaction itself, making a wholly self-oriented pursuit that does not require a person at all but is solely involved in self-absorbed behaviors.
There have been many scientists who have expressed surprise that sexual relations between men and women, at a time when sex is everywhere and easily accessible, is in decline, for while a top few of men are getting more sex than ever before, most get not a single thing, and instead are isolated. This is, one could argue, a manifestation of this ‘technosexuality’, where like what Japan already is at, there is an evisceration of man himself and his place in society that results in a hole filled with empty pursuits based on the idea that there is no meaning or purpose to life except trying to gratify oneself until his death. It is also why secular marriage is in decline, because if one does not believe in a greater purpose to life, what is the act other than an unnecessarily difficult step to getting to the same end?
In a sense it can be said that society is going back to pagan times, just as it was in the ancient world. With that, Christians are once again going to become a hated, rejected, despised, yet also strangely admired minority, for to be a Christian will mean not fame, power, and money, but sacrifice, silence, suffering, persistence, perseverance, and hoping against all odds in God, Who surely in the fullness of time will come and make all things right.
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shoebat--2020-09-07--India Now Second Worst Place On Earth For COVID-19 Cases

COVID-19 has been spreading all around the world , and according to a recent report from NPR , India is now the second worst place on Earth after the USA for COVID-19 cases .
India ’ s recorded coronavirus case total has surpassed that of Brazil , making India the second worst-affected country in the world after the United States .
India overtook Brazil on Monday after registering 90,802 fresh cases — the highest single-day increase any country has recorded so far during the pandemic .
India ’ s total cases are now more than 4.2 million .
The caseload @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by about 2 million but India is where the virus is spreading at the fastest pace .
For about a month , India has been recording the largest number of new cases of any country .
About 1,000 people are dying every day in India after testing positive for the coronavirus .
The country ’ s total COVID-19 death toll is 71,642 — the third highest in the world after the U.S. and Brazil .
India ’ s coronavirus mortality rate of 1.7 % is among the lowest of the worst-hit countries .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in India is medically certified so COVID-19 deaths could be substantially under-counted .
India continues to reopen public places to revive the economy , despite the sharp increase in cases .
Between April and June , when India was under a strict coronavirus lockdown , its GDP shrank by 23.9 % compared to the same period last year .
It is the biggest economic contraction since India started keeping records in 1996 .
In late March , when India had only about 500 confirmed cases , Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered all 1.3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions lost their jobs and poor day laborers were hit particularly hard , prompting the government to lift the lockdown in June .
The virus has been surging ever since and has now reached India ’ s rural villages where medical facilities are scarce .
( source )

COVID-19 has been spreading all around the world, and according to a recent report from NPR, India is now the second worst place on Earth after the USA for COVID-19 cases.
India’s recorded coronavirus case total has surpassed that of Brazil, making India the second worst-affected country in the world after the United States.
India overtook Brazil on Monday after registering 90,802 fresh cases — the highest single-day increase any country has recorded so far during the pandemic. India’s total cases are now more than 4.2 million.
The caseload is lower than that of the U.S. by about 2 million but India is where the virus is spreading at the fastest pace. For about a month, India has been recording the largest number of new cases of any country.
About 1,000 people are dying every day in India after testing positive for the coronavirus. The country’s total COVID-19 death toll is 71,642 — the third highest in the world after the U.S. and Brazil. India’s coronavirus mortality rate of 1.7% is among the lowest of the worst-hit countries. But only about one in five deaths in India is medically certified so COVID-19 deaths could be substantially under-counted.
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India continues to reopen public places to revive the economy, despite the sharp increase in cases. Between April and June, when India was under a strict coronavirus lockdown, its GDP shrank by 23.9% compared to the same period last year. It is the biggest economic contraction since India started keeping records in 1996.
In late March, when India had only about 500 confirmed cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered all 1.3 billion Indians to stay home. But millions lost their jobs and poor day laborers were hit particularly hard, prompting the government to lift the lockdown in June. The virus has been surging ever since and has now reached India’s rural villages where medical facilities are scarce. (source)


shoebat--2020-09-07--The Atlantic Doubles Down On Trump Veteran Insults, Promises More Revelations

The Atlantic recently generated controversy by claiming that Trump made disparaging statements about veterans .
In response to criticism , The Atlantic is doubling down , saying that it told the truth and that it has more to expose on Trump of a similar theme .
Jeffrey Goldberg , editor-in-chief of The Atlantic , said his magazine ’ s story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle “ losers ” and “ suckers , ” was just the tip of the iceberg .
“ I would fully expect more reporting to come out about this and more confirmation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days and weeks , ” Goldberg told CNN ’ s Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on “ Reliable Sources ” Sunday .
“ We have a responsibility and we ’ re going to do it regardless of what he says.
” The magazine received backlash — from Trump and many others — for attributing the information to four anonymous sources .
CNN has confirmed several aspects of The Atlantic ’ s reporting , also with sources who chose to remain anonymous .
But Goldberg said that ’ s how the media is able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that take place behind closed doors .
“ We all have to use anonymous sources , especially in a climate where the president of the United States tries to actively intimidate , ” Goldberg said of his editorial decision to cite nameless people .
“ These are not people who are anonymous to me.
” Carl Bernstein , the investigate reporter known for breaking the Watergate story that took down President Richard Nixon , told Stelter on Reliable Sources Sunday that anonymous sourcing is often a crucial tool for reporters .
“ Almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were based on anonymous sourcing , ” he said .
Bernstein added that during the Trump era , “ reporting is almost uniformly based on anonymous sourcing in part because that ’ s the only way we can get to the truth.
” When it comes to the current presidency , Bernstein said , “ We have to recognize that almost everything we know about the truth of Donald Trump and his presidency comes from reporting , ” adding , “ The fake news is the president ’ s news , ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” On Sunday , Trump fired back at The Atlantic , directly attacking its majority owner , Laurene Powell Jobs .
“ Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man ( Goldberg ) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE , ” Trump tweeted .
“ Call her , write her , let her know how you feel !
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” Goldberg shot back at Trump , saying that the magazine will continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We ’ re not going to be intimidated by the President of the United States .
We ’ re going to do our jobs , ” Goldberg said .
( source )

The Atlantic recently generated controversy by claiming that Trump made disparaging statements about veterans. In response to criticism, The Atlantic is doubling down, saying that it told the truth and that it has more to expose on Trump of a similar theme.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said his magazine’s story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle “losers” and “suckers,” was just the tip of the iceberg.
“I would fully expect more reporting to come out about this and more confirmation and new pieces of information in the coming days and weeks,” Goldberg told CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “We have a responsibility and we’re going to do it regardless of what he says.”
The magazine received backlash — from Trump and many others — for attributing the information to four anonymous sources. CNN has confirmed several aspects of The Atlantic’s reporting, also with sources who chose to remain anonymous.
But Goldberg said that’s how the media is able to do its job of uncovering stories that take place behind closed doors.
“We all have to use anonymous sources, especially in a climate where the president of the United States tries to actively intimidate,” Goldberg said of his editorial decision to cite nameless people. “These are not people who are anonymous to me.”
Carl Bernstein, the investigate reporter known for breaking the Watergate story that took down President Richard Nixon, told Stelter on Reliable Sources Sunday that anonymous sourcing is often a crucial tool for reporters.
“Almost all 200 of our stories about Watergate were based on anonymous sourcing,” he said. Bernstein added that during the Trump era, “reporting is almost uniformly based on anonymous sourcing in part because that’s the only way we can get to the truth.”
When it comes to the current presidency, Bernstein said, “We have to recognize that almost everything we know about the truth of Donald Trump and his presidency comes from reporting,” adding, “The fake news is the president’s news,” and journalists are “doing the real reporting.”
On Sunday, Trump fired back at The Atlantic, directly attacking its majority owner, Laurene Powell Jobs.
“Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE,” Trump tweeted. “Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!”
Goldberg shot back at Trump, saying that the magazine will continue to report on his administration.
“We’re not going to be intimidated by the President of the United States. We’re going to do our jobs,” Goldberg said. (source)


shoebat--2020-09-07--Scientists Unable To Explain Lack Of COVID-19 Outbreaks In Africa

Some things in life are difficult to explain .
The New York Post reports on this , where scientists are at a loss to explain the lack of the spread of COVID-19 in the continent of Africa .
The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people , with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases .
They are America , Brazil , India , and Russia — the same four that have been at the top for months .
The US surprised the world when it rose to the top spot in multiple COVID-19 statistics , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases and the number of deaths .
Since then , no other country has surpassed America .
But scientists who are studying the pandemic have also identified another surprise of the pandemic .
Some expected the African continent to be affected most heavily by the virus , but that wasn ’ t the case .
South Africa stands out when it comes to the number of total cases , with nearly 631,000 infections .
But fewer than 15,000 people have died of COVID-19 .
These figures are puzzling scientists looking to understand how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be beaten .
The hypothesis that poverty should have a significant impact on the spread of the virus doesn ’ t stand when it comes to the entire African continent .
Developing countries like Brazil and India showed that the virus couldn ’ t be contained once it reached densely populated , but poor , neighborhoods .
Experts expected the same thing to happen in Africa , but it didn ’ t .
If anything , Africa is doing better than any other continent , both when it comes to cases and casualties @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if those numbers are significantly underreported , Africa still has it much better than other continents right now .
“ I thought we were heading towards a disaster , a complete meltdown , ” Professor Shabir Madhi told BBC News .
The nation ’ s top virologist echoed what others must have thought about the African coronavirus outbreak .
But South Africa ’ s death rate is almost seven times lower than in the UK .
Salim Abdool Karim , the head of the country ’ s COVID-19 response team , told BBC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t have a peak , ” which is surprising .
“ I don ’ t understand why .
I ’ m completely at sea , ” he added .
He explained that factors like population density would be a critical factor that would favor the rapid spread of the illness inside the African continent .
Crowding in poverty-stricken areas makes social distancing all but impossible , and that increases the risk of COVID-19 spreading .
“ I can ’ t think of anything else that would explain the numbers of completely asymptomatic people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are completely unbelievable , ” he said .
But if that hypothesis is true , why have Brazil and India seen massive COVID-19 surges in the past few months ?
Karim warned that even considering the evolution of the pandemic on the continent so far , Africa isn ’ t out of the woods .
“ I ’ m not sure whether one day the epidemic is going to spread like crazy here , ” he said .
( source ) Now one can say any number of reasons .
Perhaps there simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people ( not true , there are a lot of people and a lot of interactions that could easily spread the virus .
Perhaps it is because of sunlight exposure ( it is true that Vitamin D seems to reduce the effects of COVID-19 , but it would not account for the lack of the disease spread ) .
Perhaps it is because Africans are more resilient to the disease than other races ( not true- it is not only a racist theory , but does not explain the spread among people of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Perhaps it is because African nations can not keep track of who has what and where ( not true- they are perfectly capable of knowing basic medical data like all people are ) .
Perhaps it is for another unknown reason .
However , there is another reason why , perhaps , there is a lack of spread in Africa .
I am NOT saying that COVID-19 is not a threat .
I am not saying that people ahve not died from it .
I am not saying that it should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying that COVID-19 , while dangerous as an illness , is even more dangerous as a weapon for political causes , for by politicizing the virus , there have been many economic and social consequences that have followed which arguably have done more damage , namely in forcing the global financial system down the road it was already traveling on of decline and downfall .
Notice too how COVID-19 came up in an election year- 2019/2020 .
Just like how ISIS appeared in time for the 2016 elections .
Co-incidence ?
You be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of events can happen naturally , men are also known to take said natural incidents and exacerbate them for political gain .
I am not saying this is or this is not happening .
I am saying that such should not be ruled out as a real possibility .
Indeed , it was awfully strange that in spite of all the threats against the USA and Israel , and in spite of clear geographic proximity to the latter , ISIS has somehow managed to work their way all into the Philippines and Mozambique @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that US geopolitical interests are also located .
Likewise , it is strange that such a virus is so heavily affecting the USA at a time when tensions are building with China and the virus has been traced to her .
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Some things in life are difficult to explain. The New York Post reports on this, where scientists are at a loss to explain the lack of the spread of COVID-19 in the continent of Africa.
The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people, with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases. They are America, Brazil, India, and Russia — the same four that have been at the top for months. The US surprised the world when it rose to the top spot in multiple COVID-19 statistics, both for the total number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths. Since then, no other country has surpassed America. But scientists who are studying the pandemic have also identified another surprise of the pandemic. Some expected the African continent to be affected most heavily by the virus, but that wasn’t the case. South Africa stands out when it comes to the number of total cases, with nearly 631,000 infections. But fewer than 15,000 people have died of COVID-19. These figures are puzzling scientists looking to understand how the virus behaves and how it can be beaten. The hypothesis that poverty should have a significant impact on the spread of the virus doesn’t stand when it comes to the entire African continent. Developing countries like Brazil and India showed that the virus couldn’t be contained once it reached densely populated, but poor, neighborhoods. Experts expected the same thing to happen in Africa, but it didn’t. If anything, Africa is doing better than any other continent, both when it comes to cases and casualties. As BBC News explains, even if those numbers are significantly underreported, Africa still has it much better than other continents right now. “I thought we were heading towards a disaster, a complete meltdown,” Professor Shabir Madhi told BBC News. The nation’s top virologist echoed what others must have thought about the African coronavirus outbreak. But South Africa’s death rate is almost seven times lower than in the UK. Salim Abdool Karim, the head of the country’s COVID-19 response team, told BBC that “most African countries don’t have a peak,” which is surprising. “I don’t understand why. I’m completely at sea,” he added. He explained that factors like population density would be a critical factor that would favor the rapid spread of the illness inside the African continent. Crowding in poverty-stricken areas makes social distancing all but impossible, and that increases the risk of COVID-19 spreading. … “I can’t think of anything else that would explain the numbers of completely asymptomatic people we’re seeing. The numbers are completely unbelievable,” he said. But if that hypothesis is true, why have Brazil and India seen massive COVID-19 surges in the past few months? Karim warned that even considering the evolution of the pandemic on the continent so far, Africa isn’t out of the woods. “I’m not sure whether one day the epidemic is going to spread like crazy here,” he said. (source)
Now one can say any number of reasons. Perhaps there simply is not as much social interaction between people (not true, there are a lot of people and a lot of interactions that could easily spread the virus. Perhaps it is because of sunlight exposure (it is true that Vitamin D seems to reduce the effects of COVID-19, but it would not account for the lack of the disease spread). Perhaps it is because Africans are more resilient to the disease than other races (not true- it is not only a racist theory, but does not explain the spread among people of African descent in America and Brazil). Perhaps it is because African nations cannot keep track of who has what and where (not true- they are perfectly capable of knowing basic medical data like all people are). Perhaps it is for another unknown reason.
However, there is another reason why, perhaps, there is a lack of spread in Africa.
Politics.
I am NOT saying that COVID-19 is not a threat. I am not saying that people ahve not died from it. I am not saying that it should be brushed off or ignored.
I am saying that COVID-19, while dangerous as an illness, is even more dangerous as a weapon for political causes, for by politicizing the virus, there have been many economic and social consequences that have followed which arguably have done more damage, namely in forcing the global financial system down the road it was already traveling on of decline and downfall.
Notice too how COVID-19 came up in an election year- 2019/2020. Just like how ISIS appeared in time for the 2016 elections.
Co-incidence? You be the judge, and whil interesting convergences of events can happen naturally, men are also known to take said natural incidents and exacerbate them for political gain.
I am not saying this is or this is not happening. I am saying that such should not be ruled out as a real possibility. Indeed, it was awfully strange that in spite of all the threats against the USA and Israel, and in spite of clear geographic proximity to the latter, ISIS has somehow managed to work their way all into the Philippines and Mozambique, where it also just so happens that US geopolitical interests are also located. Likewise, it is strange that such a virus is so heavily affecting the USA at a time when tensions are building with China and the virus has been traced to her.
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shoebat--2020-09-09--We Are Returning to WW1 Conditions

We Are Returning to WW1 Conditions

We are returning to history :

Pakistani Government Signs Law That Would Put People In Prison For Life For "Blaspheming" Muhammad The government of Pakistan just signed a law that could...


shoebat--2020-09-09--Jailed Mexican Drug Trafficker And Butcher El Chapo Complains That Life In Prison Is “Torture” Becau

Jailed Mexican Drug Trafficker And Butcher El Chapo Complains That Life In Prison Is “Torture” Because He Has To Sit In A Cell All Day And He Feels Depressed, Says The Treatment Is “Unfair” And Is Demanding A Retrial

Joaquin Guzman , known as El Chapo , was an infamous drug traffickers who reign of horror has come to an end in an American prison cell .
El Chapo became famous for having people tortured to death in horrible ways , and he even paid a doctor on staff to keep his victims alive so they could be tortured longer .
El Chapo also was known to personally torture people to death .
However , now behind bars for the rest of his life , El Chapo is preparing to try and get his case tried again , saying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of that and the conditions of his imprisonment in a Supermax prison , he is being tortured at El Blog Del Narco reports .
María Colón , one of Joaquín “ El Chapo ” Guzmán ’ s lawyers , spoke about the reasons why the Mexican drug trafficker appealed the life sentence on Friday .
“ They were conditions of torture ” , the 2 key arguments for Chapo to present his appeal To which he was sentenced in July 2019 , in a legal movement with which they hope to reverse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mexican drug lord ’ s defense team assured that irregularities had been committed since the extradition process , since “ he should have been taken to the Western District of Texas or the Southern District of California ” and not to the Eastern District of New York .
“ We are also appealing the conditions that Mr. Guzman was in when he was still detained under a presumption of innocence and they were conditions of complete torture , ” Colón said in an interview with the Narco Blog .
The lawyer explained that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communications with “ El Chapo ” have been limited and that the head of the Sinaloa Cartel is depressed .
“ I notice him a little depressed , I can see how the effects of solitary confinement for more than three years have begun to affect him , ” said Colón .
“ It has been torture 24 hours a day , ” Guzmán himself indicated on the day of his sentence .
According to the lawyer , Guzmán has not seen his twin daughters since December 2019 and maintains limited communication with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She ) is also pending the appeal process and from time to time she also asks us and we keep her informed.
” El Chapo has lived in the Maximum Security Administrative Penitentiary ( ADX ) or known as “ Alcatraz of the Rockies ” , in Colorado , since July 2019 .
Just over a year after being imprisoned in a cell where he eats and cleans himself , the Coronavirus pandemic has caused some changes in the life of this Mexican prisoner who will have to spend his entire life and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States for 10 crimes .
Prior to the arrival of the coronavirus in the United States , the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel had a routine that consisted of spending 23 hours in his cell and then going out for an hour to sunbathe and some fresh air , according to the Univision network .
The exit was a kind of cage .
According to the report , El Chapo does not speak to practically anyone since the guards do not speak Spanish and he does not speak English .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drug trafficker was sentenced a year ago to life imprisonment ; he has one last trick up his sleeve .
This Friday , the capo ’ s lawyer , Marc Fernich , filed a 245-page appeal of his federal conviction in Brooklyn ( USA ) , most of it under seal .
New York Times journalist Alan Feuer , who has closely followed the criminal leader ’ s trajectory , released the ten arguments for the retrial .
The first deals with the extradition of Chapo to the United States , in 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drug trafficker , the delivery of the latter to the United States government was made based on false , misleading statements and omissions .
El Chapo , before being processed , would have an agreement with the Mexican authorities to be tried in California or Texas .
His harsh preventive detention prevented him from collaborating in his defense before and during the trial .
Prosecutors were allowed to present too much evidence of graphic violence that would prejudge the jury .
At this point , the lawyer states that the testimonies of former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ negative judgment in the jury , before having sufficient data .
4-5 .
US investigators violated Guzmán ’ s rights by spying on him and secretly collecting his text messages and phone calls .
The trial judge issued a series of erroneous evidentiary rulings .
The judge did not fully investigate media reports that Jeffrey Lichtman , the lead attorney for the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel , was involved in “ criminal activity.
” According to Feuer , this point could refer to statements that Lichtman had an affair with one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allowed Guzmán to argue that the government was biased in persecuting him .
It challenges the integrity of the jurors , some of whom showed up after the trial to say they didn ’ t follow the rules .
The American journalist clarifies that the last point is the most interesting in the appeal process : The attorney asked that another judge investigate whether the prosecutors and the trial judge engaged in inappropriate secret communications and whether there was “ an undisclosed shadow attorney arrangement .
” It may interest you : Violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the execution of a 60-year-old woman Mariel Colón Miró assured the AFP news agency that the trial must be annulled , since one of the jurors told the Vice News news site that he and other judges learned about the case in the press and social networks during the process .
, something that was prohibited .
( source )

Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo, was an infamous drug traffickers whose reign of horror has come to an end in an American prison cell. El Chapo became famous for having people tortured to death in horrible ways, and he even paid a doctor on staff to keep his victims alive so they could be tortured longer. El Chapo also was known to personally torture people to death.
However, now behind bars for the rest of his life, El Chapo is preparing to try and get his case tried again, saying that he was convicted unfairly, and because of that and the conditions of his imprisonment in a Supermax prison, he is being tortured at El Blog Del Narco reports.
María Colón, one of Joaquín “El Chapo ” Guzmán’s lawyers , spoke about the reasons why the Mexican drug trafficker appealed the life sentence on Friday .
“They were conditions of torture”, the 2 key arguments for Chapo to present his appeal
To which he was sentenced in July 2019, in a legal movement with which they hope to reverse his sentence. The member of the Mexican drug lord’s defense team assured that irregularities had been committed since the extradition process, since “he should have been taken to the Western District of Texas or the Southern District of California” and not to the Eastern District of New York.
“We are also appealing the conditions that Mr. Guzman was in when he was still detained under a presumption of innocence and they were conditions of complete torture,” Colón said in an interview with the Narco Blog. The lawyer explained that due to the pandemic, visits and communications with “El Chapo ” have been limited and that the head of the Sinaloa Cartel is depressed.
“I notice him a little depressed, I can see how the effects of solitary confinement for more than three years have begun to affect him,” said Colón.
“It has been torture 24 hours a day,” Guzmán himself indicated on the day of his sentence.
According to the lawyer, Guzmán has not seen his twin daughters since December 2019 and maintains limited communication with his wife Emma Coronel. “(She) is also pending the appeal process and from time to time she also asks us and we keep her informed.”
El Chapo has lived in the Maximum Security Administrative Penitentiary (ADX) or known as “Alcatraz of the Rockies”, in Colorado , since July 2019.
Just over a year after being imprisoned in a cell where he eats and cleans himself, the Coronavirus pandemic has caused some changes in the life of this Mexican prisoner who will have to spend his entire life and 30 more years after being sentenced in the United States for 10 crimes.
Prior to the arrival of the coronavirus in the United States, the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel had a routine that consisted of spending 23 hours in his cell and then going out for an hour to sunbathe and some fresh air , according to the Univision network . The exit was a kind of cage.
According to the report, El Chapo does not speak to practically anyone since the guards do not speak Spanish and he does not speak English.
However, despite the fact that the Mexican drug trafficker was sentenced a year ago to life imprisonment ; he has one last trick up his sleeve.
This Friday, the capo’s lawyer, Marc Fernich, filed a 245-page appeal of his federal conviction in Brooklyn (USA), most of it under seal. New York Times journalist Alan Feuer, who has closely followed the criminal leader’s trajectory, released the ten arguments for the retrial.
The first deals with the extradition of Chapo to the United States, in 2017. According to the defense of the drug trafficker , the delivery of the latter to the United States government was made based on false, misleading statements and omissions. El Chapo , before being processed, would have an agreement with the Mexican authorities to be tried in California or Texas.
His harsh preventive detention prevented him from collaborating in his defense before and during the trial.
Prosecutors were allowed to present too much evidence of graphic violence that would prejudge the jury. At this point, the lawyer states that the testimonies of former partners of ” Chapo ” created a negative judgment in the jury, before having sufficient data.
4-5. US investigators violated Guzmán’s rights by spying on him and secretly collecting his text messages and phone calls.
The trial judge issued a series of erroneous evidentiary rulings.
The judge did not fully investigate media reports that Jeffrey Lichtman, the lead attorney for the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was involved in “criminal activity.” According to Feuer, this point could refer to statements that Lichtman had an affair with one of his other clients.
The court never allowed Guzmán to argue that the government was biased in persecuting him.
It challenges the integrity of the jurors, some of whom showed up after the trial to say they didn’t follow the rules.
The American journalist clarifies that the last point is the most interesting in the appeal process:
The attorney asked that another judge investigate whether the prosecutors and the trial judge engaged in inappropriate secret communications and whether there was “an undisclosed shadow attorney arrangement .”
It may interest you: Violence in Celaya, the CJNG was attributed the execution of a 60-year-old woman
Mariel Colón Miró assured the AFP news agency that the trial must be annulled, since one of the jurors told the Vice News news site that he and other judges learned about the case in the press and social networks during the process. , something that was prohibited. (source)