shoebat--2020-09-18--Even Trump’s Campaign Manager Did Not Vote For Him

Trump is having a formidable challenge this 2020 election cycle , as a lot of people just do not believe in his promises because of years of betrayal .
According to Chron , it is being reported that Trump ’ s own campaign manager did not vote for him in the past election in spite of his work for Trump , as he did not vote for anybody .
President Donald Trump ’ s campaign manager didn ’ t vote for his boss in the last presidential election .
He didn ’ t vote at all .
The last time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ records , was 2015 when he lived in New Jersey and was registered there .
Stepien registered to vote in Washington , D.C. , where he ’ s been living since 2017 , at the end of July – two weeks after he was tapped to take over Trump ’ s reelection bid .
Stepien , a onetime aide to former New Jersey Gov .
Chris Christie , R , first joined Trump ’ s team in August 2016 .
A senior campaign official said Stepien requested an absentee ballot that never arrived @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2016 .
He wasn ’ t registered in either New Jersey or Washington to vote in the 2018 midterm elections .
Neither Stepien nor a campaign spokesman responded to further questions about his voting record , including whether he made additional efforts to obtain a ballot or considered voting in person to support Trump .
Trump , who this year voted by absentee ballot in Florida , repeatedly has attacked voting by mail , claiming without evidence that it is susceptible to widespread fraud and corruption .
He has encouraged people to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ensure their vote is counted , even suggesting they try to vote once by mail and once at their polling place , which is illegal .
Despite Trump ’ s antagonism to widespread voting by mail , at least 16 top Trump officials regularly vote that way , including Vice President Mike Pence , Attorney General William Barr and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany .
Stepien , however , appears to be the first high-level aide not to have voted in the 2016 GOP primary or presidential election when Trump was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2014 amid the Bridgegate scandal .
Christie had ordered most lanes closed on the George Washington Bridge , the nation ’ s busiest , to Fort Lee , N.J. , to punish the city ’ s Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie ’ s reelection bid .
The Supreme Court in May overturned the fraud convictions of two Christie aides in the scandal .
Stepien joined Trump ’ s campaign in its final months to oversee field operations and help strategize which states to target .
New Jersey , where Stepien would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of them as it reliably votes Democratic in presidential elections .
( source )

Trump is having a formidable challenge this 2020 election cycle, as a lot of people just do not believe in his promises because of years of betrayal. According to Chron, it is being reported that Trump’s own campaign manager did not vote for him in the past election in spite of his work for Trump, as he did not vote for anybody.
President Donald Trump’s campaign manager didn’t vote for his boss in the last presidential election. He didn’t vote at all.
The last time Bill Stepien voted, according to public records, was 2015 when he lived in New Jersey and was registered there.
Stepien registered to vote in Washington, D.C., where he’s been living since 2017, at the end of July – two weeks after he was tapped to take over Trump’s reelection bid.
Stepien, a onetime aide to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, R, first joined Trump’s team in August 2016. A senior campaign official said Stepien requested an absentee ballot that never arrived, so he didn’t vote in 2016.
He wasn’t registered in either New Jersey or Washington to vote in the 2018 midterm elections.
Neither Stepien nor a campaign spokesman responded to further questions about his voting record, including whether he made additional efforts to obtain a ballot or considered voting in person to support Trump.
Trump, who this year voted by absentee ballot in Florida, repeatedly has attacked voting by mail, claiming without evidence that it is susceptible to widespread fraud and corruption. He has encouraged people to vote in person amid the coronavirus pandemic to ensure their vote is counted, even suggesting they try to vote once by mail and once at their polling place, which is illegal.
Despite Trump’s antagonism to widespread voting by mail, at least 16 top Trump officials regularly vote that way, including Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General William Barr and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
Stepien, however, appears to be the first high-level aide not to have voted in the 2016 GOP primary or presidential election when Trump was on the ballot.
Christie fired Stepien in 2014 amid the Bridgegate scandal. Christie had ordered most lanes closed on the George Washington Bridge, the nation’s busiest, to Fort Lee, N.J., to punish the city’s Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie’s reelection bid. The Supreme Court in May overturned the fraud convictions of two Christie aides in the scandal.
Stepien joined Trump’s campaign in its final months to oversee field operations and help strategize which states to target.
New Jersey, where Stepien would have voted in 2016, was not one of them as it reliably votes Democratic in presidential elections. (source)


shoebat--2020-09-18--Did Putin Just Walk Into Another Afghanistan?

As the fighting between the US and Russia , aspiring back to her days of the USSR increase , that more incident would happen until something “ breaks ” in so far as a series of changes add up to a larger change , and for good or ill .
Such may have recently happened as a result of the Navalny poisoning , where German officials , including Merkel herself , are expressing notable concern at Russia over the confirmed poisoning of Putin ’ s political opposition candidate Aleksy Navalny with a poison and in such a way that in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to an assassination attempt by government agents .
What Western officials call a botched attempt to kill a leading opposition figure has triggered a new downward spiral in Russia ’ s ties with Europe , and above all with German Chancellor Angela Merkel , whose patience had already been tested by President Vladimir Putin .
Her government was grappling with how to respond to a 2015 cyberattack on the Bundestag and a 2019 killing in Berlin , both of which were ordered by Russian state actors , German prosecutors say .
Even against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ malfeasance , the brazen targeting of a chief critic would be devastating to Putin ’ s already low standing in the West , a European diplomat said .
The Kremlin says it found no proof Navalny was poisoned and has rejected Merkel ’ s calls to open a criminal investigation .
Russian officials have presented a variety of conflicting accounts of what may have happened , ranging from claims Navalny was merely sick to suggestions he was poisoned after he was taken to Germany in a medically induced coma for treatment days after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claims .
Calling on Moscow to answer for the attack , the European Union and others are weighing a response that could range from expelling Russian diplomats to more painful economic sanctions .
Merkel has suggested she could even take action against the 9.5-billion-euro ( $ 11 billion ) Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry Russian gas to Germany .
Days later , the German military ’ s Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology , one of the few laboratories in the world with first-hand knowledge of the toxin , made the Novichok conclusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ six top cabinet members to inform them — and agreed that a swift response was necessary .
Police tightened security around the hospital , fearing another attempt on his life .
For Merkel , a self-described Russophile who grew up in East Germany , a deep well of patience had been emptied .
Her message to the Kremlin was blunt by her standards .
“ It ’ s clear that Alexey Navalny is the victim of a crime , ” Merkel told reporters gathered hours later .
“ The intent was to silence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Europe is going to be decided by Germany , like it or not .
Germany has always been the powerhouse of Europe , and with the USA gradually removing the post-WWII shackles imposed upon her , she is inevitably going to rise again .
This process began with German reunification at the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain , and has continued since .
Germany right now is at a crossroads , as she is being courted by both the USA and Russia .
If Germany goes with Russia , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of a European conflict and she will be forced to renegotiate her relationship with Europe as well as to largely maintain her influence in the Western Hemisphere and parts of Africa .
However , if Germany goes with the USA , Russia will be forced to fight for her survival and will likely , barring a huge miracle , be conquered by Germany simply because she does not have the ability to fight against such as large and overwhelming collection of force against her at one time .
Twice in the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany from winning , and each time with more German successes .
In the First World War , Germany walked across Ukraine but could not keep her and so was forced to retreat .
In the Second World War , she took all of Ukraine and the Volga basin but could not hold it , and not because of Russian superiority , but because a miraculous winter froze out the German military .
However , the latter came at the cost of 800,000 German soldiers and 1.1 million Russian soldiers , not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Volgograd .
Were it not for that winter , the Germans would have been able to refuel their war machine and Stalin ’ s mighty empire would have crumbled to the ground .
Thus World War II was decided in 1942 at Volgograd , since it was there that Germany lost control over her oil supply for her factories , and at which point it was only time before the German war machine would be forced to stop .
It is not a surprise , as I have pointed out , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for as I have noted , Russia is extremely weak- far weaker than she was at the time of World War II -her population is in decline for a multiplicity of reasons largely due to self-inflicted behaviors , and her actions suggest an assumption that she likely will lose the Volga region , which is why she has been fighting so hard in Ukraine and trying to divide up sub-regions in the Volga Basin and why the US has been so aggressive there also .
Her move to the Arctic is to try @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as easily accessible resources in oil and gas to fuel her war machine in the event of a ( likely by all standards ) Volga basin loss in what one may see as a last-ditch effort to retreat into autarchal solitude that Russia so often uses as a tool of survival .
However , the US is very aware of what is happening and has been aggressively militarizing all of northeastern Europe and the Arctic too in the northernmost parts of Norway , Finland , and as far away as Svalbard .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pull Germany into their sphere .
Whoever wins this version of the global “ dating game ” likely also wins the war .
During the late 1970s , the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was pressed on by the US at the direction of the military strategist Michael Vickers , who believed that the Soviets could be drawn into a prolonged conflict using proxy troops in the form of Islamic militants and terror groups ( Taliban ) to sap their resources and strength as long as the latter was provided American material and logistical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Operation Cyclone was one of the major blows that destroyed the USSR , for it was out of a miscalculated major act that Russia lost .
Now the question is , did Russia make such an error again with the poisoning of Navalny ?
Unlike Afghanistan , which required an invasion , the German situation is a dating game , and each partner wants to make him or herself look the best as possible .
It is known that the US and Russia are engaging in “ tit-for-tat ” fighting right now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took the conflict to a new level .
As I have said before , I do not like many of Navalny ’ s positions , and I do not wish to defend his views .
That said , Navalny is the only real political opposition , even if just theoretical , to Putin , whose actions at enshrining himself as a “ ruler-for-life ” in Russia , his open admiration of Stalin , his open subjugation of religion for political purposes , and his increasingly dictatorial efforts in spite of a Russian people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dying , and many who still want to migrate away from Russia does not help his image .
Rather , it makes him look like he is trying to follow in his hero of the mass-murdering , God-hating , outright evil man who was the dictator Stalin .
Regardless of one ’ s opinion of Russia , all of the evidence- from the history of the KGB using poisons as a means of assassination ( as compared to the CIA , who tended to use poisons for scientific reasons ) to the use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the patterns showing how he was poisoned and the time in which he was poisoned -all indicate a government hit .
Just like the Russian historian who discovered evidence of Stalin ’ s mass murders and when he released his finding he was suddenly “ discovered ” to have child pornography on his computer and was convicted of it , curious deaths and strange legal troubles have a consistent pattern in that they so frequently seem to befall those in Russia who criticize Putin and his cadre , and so it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or that the Kremlin most likely would be tied to it .
But this time was different .
This was not a subtle death .
This was a blatant , in-your-face poisoning so brazen , so obviously done , and so aggressive that there is no way to hide it .
The fact that it can be directly traced to Russia means that Putin is obviously confident in acting like what the USSR used to do- to deal with others in brash , aggressive , brutal ways and think it deserves respect because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the things that killed the power of the USSR .
People just got tired of the blatant , brutal aggression and rebelled .
It is the reason why so many former “ Iron Curtain ” nations , by choice or not , are running to US-German support .
It is not because they like the US or Germany , but given the choice , and how historical memory is long , who wants to be back under the Soviet yoke ?
At least the Americans and the Germans will use some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beating them up , and even after , while the Soviets would just take non-stop and then continue to press their faces into the proverbial mud , and who wants to deal with that ?
Now above , I mentioned the German invasion of Russia for oil and gas resources .
While Russia and Germany have been fighting for oil and gas since its discovery and the first industrial oil production in Baku around 1849 , Germany ’ s lack of gas has historically placed her in a place of dependence on Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to west , and if it is not coming through Turkey and the Balkans , it comes through Russia .
This situation has been made better in modern times with the advent of pipelines from sub-saharan Africa , but a pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara to France and then Germany , or even from Algeria , Libya , and points North Africa to Europe , still is at a high risk for sabotage .
After seizing the oilfields in Europe such as those in Romania and Norway , Russia is the next @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this point the issue of Nord Stream II , which Shoebat.com has discussed extensively alongside the trains and pipeline systems from Turkey .
In the case of the latter , it seems that the US and German companies are building up a “ redundant ” network in the event that if one goes down or is damages , other lines can be used to keep the flow of oil moving .
In the case of Russia , however , Germany still buys a lot of oil from Russia , and given the comparatively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it is an easily defendable pipeline .
The problem , from the American view , is that it ties Russia to Germany , which Russia wants to use both as a way of making friends as well as extorting the Germans with threats of turning off the oil lest they support her .
As the German Marshal Fund reported back in 2015 , The Americans can not provide Germany with oil , as the US needs what she can get for herself .
However , what the US can provide is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make herself the only real ally choice between Russia and herself , for while Germany has allied with and fought against both , if the US can help Germany to rise again and make herself a “ choice ” of “ frenemies ” , then she will back her over the Russians .
In such a case , no matter how many raw materials Russia can throw at Germany doesn ’ t matter , since what the US is offering is for Germany to realize a historical dream- to integrate Russia or parts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such a way as to neutralize her as a serious long-term threat , at least for now , and with that also take her resources .
This is what makes the Navalny poisoning so interesting .
Germany certainly has her interests , and as we have noted , Russia seems to have been trying to get a new Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement in the form of the Steinmeyer agreement , but this has not seemed to have been followed through with complete success so far .
With the US successfully stalling the construction of Nord @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia may be trying to do in order to “ break ” the the stalemate drawing either her or the US to Germany ’ s side .
This is not to say that the Navalny incident was done with this purpose in mind .
There are strong indications that Navalny is receiving money from the Americans or other western sources , and naturally , Putin wants him gone .
But the way that he handled it , in such a dictatorial way , rings in the minds of those living in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ East Germany under which that land was subjected to the yoke of Soviet-influenced communism and suffered gravely in comparison to her Western neighbor , who also looked on with great concern as the American , British , and French worked with the West German government to form a bulwark against the Soviet Union .
With Germany reunited , like it or not and regardless of one ’ s opinion , is there anything else that people might expect from seeing this Navalny incident and Putin ’ s response as echoes of the past @ @ @ @ @ @ @ film , coming back to haunt her ?
It does not help that Chancellor Merkel , like her or not and who has been asserting herself more aggressively in her position in the recent years , comes from a family with Prussian and East German roots , and so knows very well what life under Soviet-influenced communism is like , and thus Putin ’ s actions are not just mere politics for her , but most likely strike to her own and negative experiences in East Germany , which only adds to any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is why I refer to this moment as an “ Afghanistan ” type moment , possibly , for Putin , since in his efforts to eliminate his domestic political rivalry , he has presented , seemingly unintentionally so , an image to the world and the nation he is trying to court her assistance with as that very thing which terrorized that nation for over a half-a-century .
If this was a dating show , then it would be like a man who seems normal until he does something really disturbing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him for the other one .
Likewise , it would not be just one incident , but rather the series of incidents of a rising Russia in the Soviet sense along with Putin ’ s attitude juxtaposed against how a public sense in Germany is being inculcated that her very survival is being threatened .
This sense of being “ surrounded ” with “ no escape ” is , as Hitler has pointed out in Mein Kampf , a pattern in German history that tends to incite a sense of national identity in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence against her neighbors .
What the Americans have been attempting to do is what Putin himself may have done for him , as in his attempts to assert and grow his power , he may have cast his image in such a way as to seriously scare his potential ally into the arms of his enemy .
This is yet to be seen for its results , but the fact that Merkel seems to be frustrated enough that she would allude to interrupting Russo-German progress on Nord Stream II is a serious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affected , one could only imagine what other ventures could be affected , and given how many companies operate in Russia who are either owned by ethnic Germans born in Russia or who are directly tied to Germany , if they would feel that Putin is threatening their ventures by his actions , thus perpetuating the cycle of fear and uncertainty .
This is also nothing to say of the other Slavic nations , who while they also have troubles with Germany historically , they also have the same problems with Russia , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( at least nominally ) , one can not say the same for Russia and her past .
In such a case , given incident such as this , the other Slavic nations would be continually inclined to support Germany for the simple hope that she would not subject them to the same continual abuse that they suffered under the USSR .
Russia can dangle all of the candy in front of Germany or any nation that she wants , but what can not be so easily repaired is a bad image , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ though he is a generous benefactor giving out candy , but a man with large glasses in a white t-shirt , dirty black sweatpants , and making his calls for candy from his old white bukhanka , then no one in his proper state of mind will give his trust , for while the American may have his large belly protruding from beneath his flag T-shirt on with his “ USA ” cap and a holding an oversized weapon , any behavior that one may find irritating is compensated for by the genuine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is also not to say that Germany would not at some point turn against the US , but rather that for the time being , if Germany is going to choose an ally , that Putin ’ s actions , regardless of his intentions , may come back unintentionally to hurt him in the future .
But for Russia at the current time , the translation above is from the movie Jaws , where Brody ( played by Roy Scheider ) famously said to Captain Quint ( played by Robert Shaw ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bigger boat ” ( or to be literal above , “ We need a bigger boat ” ) , because that is the situation she is finding herself in .
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As the fighting between the US and Russia, aspiring back to her days of the USSR increase, that more incident would happen until something “breaks” in so far as a series of changes add up to a larger change, and for good or ill. Such may have recently happened as a result of the Navalny poisoning, where German officials, including Merkel herself, are expressing notable concern at Russia over the confirmed poisoning of Putin’s political opposition candidate Aleksy Navalny with a poison and in such a way that in spite of Kremlin denials, strongly points to an assassination attempt by government agents.
What Western officials call a botched attempt to kill a leading opposition figure has triggered a new downward spiral in Russia’s ties with Europe, and above all with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose patience had already been tested by President Vladimir Putin. Her government was grappling with how to respond to a 2015 cyberattack on the Bundestag and a 2019 killing in Berlin, both of which were ordered by Russian state actors, German prosecutors say. Even against the Kremlin’s track record of malfeasance, the brazen targeting of a chief critic would be devastating to Putin’s already low standing in the West, a European diplomat said. The Kremlin says it found no proof Navalny was poisoned and has rejected Merkel’s calls to open a criminal investigation. Russian officials have presented a variety of conflicting accounts of what may have happened, ranging from claims Navalny was merely sick to suggestions he was poisoned after he was taken to Germany in a medically induced coma for treatment days after the attack. Western officials dismiss those claims. Calling on Moscow to answer for the attack, the European Union and others are weighing a response that could range from expelling Russian diplomats to more painful economic sanctions. Merkel has suggested she could even take action against the 9.5-billion-euro ($11 billion) Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry Russian gas to Germany. … Days later, the German military’s Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, one of the few laboratories in the world with first-hand knowledge of the toxin, made the Novichok conclusion. That Wednesday morning, Merkel gathered six top cabinet members to inform them — and agreed that a swift response was necessary. Police tightened security around the hospital, fearing another attempt on his life. For Merkel, a self-described Russophile who grew up in East Germany, a deep well of patience had been emptied. Her message to the Kremlin was blunt by her standards. “It’s clear that Alexey Navalny is the victim of a crime,” Merkel told reporters gathered hours later. “The intent was to silence him.” (source)
The future of Europe is going to be decided by Germany, like it or not. Germany has always been the powerhouse of Europe, and with the USA gradually removing the post-WWII shackles imposed upon her, she is inevitably going to rise again. This process began with German reunification at the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain, and has continued since.
Germany right now is at a crossroads, as she is being courted by both the USA and Russia. If Germany goes with Russia, the US will be forced to sit out of a European conflict and she will be forced to renegotiate her relationship with Europe as well as to largely maintain her influence in the Western Hemisphere and parts of Africa. However, if Germany goes with the USA, Russia will be forced to fight for her survival and will likely, barring a huge miracle, be conquered by Germany simply because she does not have the ability to fight against such as large and overwhelming collection of force against her at one time.
Twice in the last century, the Russians have barely kept Germany from winning, and each time with more German successes. In the First World War, Germany walked across Ukraine but could not keep her and so was forced to retreat. In the Second World War, she took all of Ukraine and the Volga basin but could not hold it, and not because of Russian superiority, but because a miraculous winter froze out the German military. However, the latter came at the cost of 800,000 German soldiers and 1.1 million Russian soldiers, not to mention the destruction of all 400,000 inhabitants of Volgograd. Were it not for that winter, the Germans would have been able to refuel their war machine and Stalin’s mighty empire would have crumbled to the ground. Thus World War II was decided in 1942 at Volgograd, since it was there that Germany lost control over her oil supply for her factories, and at which point it was only time before the German war machine would be forced to stop.
It is not a surprise, as I have pointed out, that Russia has been militarizing the Arctic, for as I have noted, Russia is extremely weak- far weaker than she was at the time of World War II -her population is in decline for a multiplicity of reasons largely due to self-inflicted behaviors, and her actions suggest an assumption that she likely will lose the Volga region, which is why she has been fighting so hard in Ukraine and trying to divide up sub-regions in the Volga Basin and why the US has been so aggressive there also. Her move to the Arctic is to try to capitalize on the cold climate as well as easily accessible resources in oil and gas to fuel her war machine in the event of a (likely by all standards) Volga basin loss in what one may see as a last-ditch effort to retreat into autarchal solitude that Russia so often uses as a tool of survival. However, the US is very aware of what is happening and has been aggressively militarizing all of northeastern Europe and the Arctic too in the northernmost parts of Norway, Finland, and as far away as Svalbard.
Both the US and Russia want to pull Germany into their sphere. Whoever wins this version of the global “dating game” likely also wins the war.
During the late 1970s, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was pressed on by the US at the direction of the military strategist Michael Vickers, who believed that the Soviets could be drawn into a prolonged conflict using proxy troops in the form of Islamic militants and terror groups (Taliban) to sap their resources and strength as long as the latter was provided American material and logistical support. The strategy worked, and Operation Cyclone was one of the major blows that destroyed the USSR, for it was out of a miscalculated major act that Russia lost.
Now the question is, did Russia make such an error again with the poisoning of Navalny?
Unlike Afghanistan, which required an invasion, the German situation is a dating game, and each partner wants to make him or herself look the best as possible. It is known that the US and Russia are engaging in “tit-for-tat” fighting right now, but what happened with the Navalny case took the conflict to a new level.
As I have said before, I do not like many of Navalny’s positions, and I do not wish to defend his views. That said, Navalny is the only real political opposition, even if just theoretical, to Putin, whose actions at enshrining himself as a “ruler-for-life” in Russia, his open admiration of Stalin, his open subjugation of religion for political purposes, and his increasingly dictatorial efforts in spite of a Russian people who are largely poor, suffering, dying, and many who still want to migrate away from Russia does not help his image. Rather, it makes him look like he is trying to follow in his hero of the mass-murdering, God-hating, outright evil man who was the dictator Stalin.
Regardless of one’s opinion of Russia, all of the evidence- from the history of the KGB using poisons as a means of assassination (as compared to the CIA, who tended to use poisons for scientific reasons) to the use of a poison designed by the USSR to the patterns showing how he was poisoned and the time in which he was poisoned -all indicate a government hit. Just like the Russian historian who discovered evidence of Stalin’s mass murders and when he released his finding he was suddenly “discovered” to have child pornography on his computer and was convicted of it, curious deaths and strange legal troubles have a consistent pattern in that they so frequently seem to befall those in Russia who criticize Putin and his cadre, and so it is not a surprise that Navalny had trouble or that the Kremlin most likely would be tied to it.
But this time was different. This was not a subtle death. This was a blatant, in-your-face poisoning so brazen, so obviously done, and so aggressive that there is no way to hide it. The fact that it can be directly traced to Russia means that Putin is obviously confident in acting like what the USSR used to do- to deal with others in brash, aggressive, brutal ways and think it deserves respect because of it.
This attitude is also one of the things that killed the power of the USSR. People just got tired of the blatant, brutal aggression and rebelled. It is the reason why so many former “Iron Curtain” nations, by choice or not, are running to US-German support. It is not because they like the US or Germany, but given the choice, and how historical memory is long, who wants to be back under the Soviet yoke? At least the Americans and the Germans will use some manners and give some economic freedom before beating them up, and even after, while the Soviets would just take non-stop and then continue to press their faces into the proverbial mud, and who wants to deal with that?
Now above, I mentioned the German invasion of Russia for oil and gas resources. While Russia and Germany have been fighting for oil and gas since its discovery and the first industrial oil production in Baku around 1849, Germany’s lack of gas has historically placed her in a place of dependence on Russia, for gas must flow from east to west, and if it is not coming through Turkey and the Balkans, it comes through Russia. This situation has been made better in modern times with the advent of pipelines from sub-saharan Africa, but a pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara to France and then Germany, or even from Algeria, Libya, and points North Africa to Europe, still is at a high risk for sabotage. After seizing the oilfields in Europe such as those in Romania and Norway, Russia is the next most reliable option.
We bring into this point the issue of Nord Stream II, which Shoebat.com has discussed extensively alongside the trains and pipeline systems from Turkey. In the case of the latter, it seems that the US and German companies are building up a “redundant” network in the event that if one goes down or is damages, other lines can be used to keep the flow of oil moving. In the case of Russia, however, Germany still buys a lot of oil from Russia, and given the comparatively short undersea passage from Murmansk to Germany, it is an easily defendable pipeline. The problem, from the American view, is that it ties Russia to Germany, which Russia wants to use both as a way of making friends as well as extorting the Germans with threats of turning off the oil lest they support her. As the German Marshal Fund reported back in 2015,
Frankly speaking, one should admit that Europe cannot abandon Russian gas supplies if acting purely with economic interests in mind. There is no cheap alternative both to this type of fuel and to this source. Therefore Putin is now putting forward financial incentives to seduce Europeans into cooperating with Russia in exchange for “giving up” on Ukraine. Natural gas has long been a weapon in the Kremlin’s hands, and Europe’s choice looks clear: either surrender politically to Putin while securing some financial gains (or rather not incurring additional costs), or stay firm and try (of course, with certain expenses) to repel Moscow’s attack. (source)
The Americans cannot provide Germany with oil, as the US needs what she can get for herself. However, what the US can provide is a strong military support and also, to make herself the only real ally choice between Russia and herself, for while Germany has allied with and fought against both, if the US can help Germany to rise again and make herself a “choice” of “frenemies”, then she will back her over the Russians. In such a case, no matter how many raw materials Russia can throw at Germany doesn’t matter, since what the US is offering is for Germany to realize a historical dream- to integrate Russia or parts of her into her Lebensraum and in such a way as to neutralize her as a serious long-term threat, at least for now, and with that also take her resources.
This is what makes the Navalny poisoning so interesting. Germany certainly has her interests, and as we have noted, Russia seems to have been trying to get a new Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement in the form of the Steinmeyer agreement, but this has not seemed to have been followed through with complete success so far. With the US successfully stalling the construction of Nord Stream II, one must ask what Russia may be trying to do in order to “break” the the stalemate drawing either her or the US to Germany’s side.
This is not to say that the Navalny incident was done with this purpose in mind. There are strong indications that Navalny is receiving money from the Americans or other western sources, and naturally, Putin wants him gone. But the way that he handled it, in such a dictatorial way, rings in the minds of those living in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, and Sachsen the echoes of East Germany under which that land was subjected to the yoke of Soviet-influenced communism and suffered gravely in comparison to her Western neighbor, who also looked on with great concern as the American, British, and French worked with the West German government to form a bulwark against the Soviet Union.
With Germany reunited, like it or not and regardless of one’s opinion, is there anything else that people might expect from seeing this Navalny incident and Putin’s response as echoes of the past, like a specter from a horror film, coming back to haunt her? It does not help that Chancellor Merkel, like her or not and who has been asserting herself more aggressively in her position in the recent years, comes from a family with Prussian and East German roots, and so knows very well what life under Soviet-influenced communism is like, and thus Putin’s actions are not just mere politics for her, but most likely strike to her own and negative experiences in East Germany, which only adds to any public effects or opinions about his actions.
This is why I refer to this moment as an “Afghanistan” type moment, possibly, for Putin, since in his efforts to eliminate his domestic political rivalry, he has presented, seemingly unintentionally so, an image to the world and the nation he is trying to court her assistance with as that very thing which terrorized that nation for over a half-a-century. If this was a dating show, then it would be like a man who seems normal until he does something really disturbing that scares the contestant and she dumps him for the other one.
Likewise, it would not be just one incident, but rather the series of incidents of a rising Russia in the Soviet sense along with Putin’s attitude juxtaposed against how a public sense in Germany is being inculcated that her very survival is being threatened. This sense of being “surrounded” with “no escape” is, as Hitler has pointed out in Mein Kampf, a pattern in German history that tends to incite a sense of national identity in her that translates into militarism and then violence against her neighbors.
What the Americans have been attempting to do is what Putin himself may have done for him, as in his attempts to assert and grow his power, he may have cast his image in such a way as to seriously scare his potential ally into the arms of his enemy. This is yet to be seen for its results, but the fact that Merkel seems to be frustrated enough that she would allude to interrupting Russo-German progress on Nord Stream II is a serious matter. If this was to be affected, one could only imagine what other ventures could be affected, and given how many companies operate in Russia who are either owned by ethnic Germans born in Russia or who are directly tied to Germany, if they would feel that Putin is threatening their ventures by his actions, thus perpetuating the cycle of fear and uncertainty. This is also nothing to say of the other Slavic nations, who while they also have troubles with Germany historically, they also have the same problems with Russia, and while Germany has apologized to Poland (at least nominally), one cannot say the same for Russia and her past. In such a case, given incident such as this, the other Slavic nations would be continually inclined to support Germany for the simple hope that she would not subject them to the same continual abuse that they suffered under the USSR.
Russia can dangle all of the candy in front of Germany or any nation that she wants, but what cannot be so easily repaired is a bad image, for if Putin does not seem as though he is a generous benefactor giving out candy, but a man with large glasses in a white t-shirt, dirty black sweatpants, and making his calls for candy from his old white bukhanka, then no one in his proper state of mind will give his trust, for while the American may have his large belly protruding from beneath his flag T-shirt on with his “USA” cap and a holding an oversized weapon, any behavior that one may find irritating is compensated for by the genuine conviction of his positions and actions. This is also not to say that Germany would not at some point turn against the US, but rather that for the time being, if Germany is going to choose an ally, that Putin’s actions, regardless of his intentions, may come back unintentionally to hurt him in the future.
But for Russia at the current time, the translation above is from the movie Jaws, where Brody (played by Roy Scheider) famously said to Captain Quint (played by Robert Shaw) “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” (or to be literal above, “We need a bigger boat”), because that is the situation she is finding herself in.
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shoebat--2020-09-18--After The UAE And Bahrain Normalized Relations With Israel, Now Five More Arab Countries Want Peace

After The UAE And Bahrain Normalized Relations With Israel, Now Five More Arab Countries Want Peace With Israel

The Trump administration has brokered a peace agreement Israel and two Arab countries — the UAE and Bahrain – , and now , according to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows , there are five other Arab countries who are interested in normalizing relations with Israel .
As we read in a report from Reuters ( via Yahoo !
News ) : White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalization deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed accords this week .
Meadows , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the flight that carried President Donald Trump to a campaign rally in Wisconsin , would not identify the five nations .
But he said three were in the region .
He would not comment further .
Trump has spoken optimistically about more countries agreeing to a normalization of relations with Israel following the UAE and Bahrain deals .
One possibility is Oman , whose ambassador attended the White House ceremony on Tuesday .
Trump predicted on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia would eventually agree to a deal .
“ Blessed are the peacemakers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and any agreement to peace and good relations should be something accepted and praised .
What the Trump administration has brokered in the Middle East , in regards to Arab Israeli relations , is quite remarkable and very good .
The roots of this normalization is , of course , fear of Iran , since the Arabs are terrified of a rising Persia which , out of its hatred for the Sunnis and the Arabs , want to destroy the countries of the Arab Gulf .
The Arabs have absolutely no choice but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this shows is something that has never seriously been pointed in the mainstream : the source of instability in the Middle East is not Israel , but the tribal infighting between Middle Eastern countries that goes back over a millennia .
The Lebanese Maronites hate the Palestinians , and this has nothing to do with Israel ; the Arabs and Persians hate each other , and this has nothing to do with Israel ; the the Turks and Arabs hate each other , and this has nothing to do with Israel ; the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the utmost murderous rage , and this would be present even if Israel did not exist .
The root of the Middle East ’ s problems is not Israel nor Jews , but Islam and triablist hatreds .
Peace is possible , but it takes a rising regional power ( Iran ) to scare the Arabs enough to make normalize relations with Israel .
It goes to show that the ultimate enemy within the Middle East is not Israel , but tribalism .

By Theodore Shoebat
The Trump administration has brokered a peace agreement Israel and two Arab countries — the UAE and Bahrain –, and now, according to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, there are five other Arab countries who are interested in normalizing relations with Israel. As we read in a report from Reuters (via Yahoo! News):
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalization deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed accords this week. Meadows, speaking to reporters on Air Force One on the flight that carried President Donald Trump to a campaign rally in Wisconsin, would not identify the five nations. But he said three were in the region. He would not comment further. Trump has spoken optimistically about more countries agreeing to a normalization of relations with Israel following the UAE and Bahrain deals. One possibility is Oman, whose ambassador attended the White House ceremony on Tuesday. Trump predicted on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia would eventually agree to a deal.
“Blessed are the peacemakers” are the words of Christ, and any agreement to peace and good relations should be something accepted and praised. What the Trump administration has brokered in the Middle East, in regards to Arab Israeli relations, is quite remarkable and very good. The roots of this normalization is, of course, fear of Iran, since the Arabs are terrified of a rising Persia which, out of its hatred for the Sunnis and the Arabs, want to destroy the countries of the Arab Gulf. The Arabs have absolutely no choice but to make peace with Israel. What this shows is something that has never seriously been pointed in the mainstream: the source of instability in the Middle East is not Israel, but the tribal infighting between Middle Eastern countries that goes back over a millennia. The Lebanese Maronites hate the Palestinians, and this has nothing to do with Israel; the Arabs and Persians hate each other, and this has nothing to do with Israel; the the Turks and Arabs hate each other, and this has nothing to do with Israel; the Shiites and Sunnis hate each other with the utmost murderous rage, and this would be present even if Israel did not exist. The root of the Middle East’s problems is not Israel nor Jews, but Islam and triablist hatreds. Peace is possible, but it takes a rising regional power (Iran) to scare the Arabs enough to make normalize relations with Israel. It goes to show that the ultimate enemy within the Middle East is not Israel, but tribalism.
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shoebat--2020-09-18--Germany’s Top Virologist Warns Of Another Wave Of Covid-19: “The winter will not be an easy one.”

Germany ’ s top virologist , Christian Drosten , warned of another wave in coronavirus , making the moribund affirmation that “ The winter will not be an easy one.
” His statement was presented by DW : It ’ s very difficult to make global projections .
We have very different , difficult situations in countries around here in Europe .
The winter will not be an easy one .
While we will have vaccines [ available ] during the coming year , it could take until the end of the next year for significant parts of the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We won ’ t get rid of masks anytime soon .
So even when we start vaccinating , the majority [ of the population ] will still have to wear masks .
In countries like Germany and other European countries where the incidence [ of infection ] is low , there will be nothing like a population-based protection .
In other parts of the world , the situation is very hard to judge .
In Africa , we have signs of lower transmission and less severe presentation perhaps due to the lower population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeing [ data for ] now is for urban areas on the African continent , where the population composition is particularly young .
We don ’ t know what effect the virus will have as it spreads to the countryside .
It is possible that in urban centers the epidemic is already slowing down , but it ’ s equally possible that it is still to come .

By Theodore Shoebat
Germany’s top virologist, Christian Drosten, warned of another wave in coronavirus, making the moribund affirmation that “The winter will not be an easy one.” His statement was presented by DW:
It’s very difficult to make global projections. We have very different, difficult situations in countries around here in Europe. The winter will not be an easy one. While we will have vaccines [available] during the coming year, it could take until the end of the next year for significant parts of the population to be provided with a vaccine.
We won’t get rid of masks anytime soon. So even when we start vaccinating, the majority [of the population] will still have to wear masks.
In countries like Germany and other European countries where the incidence [of infection] is low, there will be nothing like a population-based protection.
In other parts of the world, the situation is very hard to judge. In Africa, we have signs of lower transmission and less severe presentation perhaps due to the lower population age. However, what we are seeing [data for] now is for urban areas on the African continent, where the population composition is particularly young. We don’t know what effect the virus will have as it spreads to the countryside. It is possible that in urban centers the epidemic is already slowing down, but it’s equally possible that it is still to come.


shoebat--2020-09-18--The UK Is Now Getting 6,000 Covid Cases A Day As New Lockdowns Get Imposed in Europe

The UK ’ s covid cases have exploded again to 6,000 cases a day , as Europe is seeing a @ @ @ @ @ a new spike in the virus .
As we read in a report from Reuters @ @ @ @ @ and Iceland in the north to Greece in the south announced new restrictions on Friday @ @ @ @ @ in some of their largest cities , and Britain was considering a new national lockdown @ @ @ @ @ Kingdom almost doubled to 6,000 per day in the latest reporting week , hospital admissions @ @ @ @ @ across parts of northern England and London .
Asked by Sky News about the possibility @ @ @ @ @ next month , British Health Minister Matt Hancock said it should be seen only as @ @ @ @ @ government would do whatever it took to tackle the virus .
“ The number of @ @ @ @ @ every eight days or so … we will do what it takes to keep people @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We keep these things under review .
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By Theodore Shoebat
The UK’s covid cases have exploded again to 6,000 cases a day, as Europe is seeing a lockdowns getting reimposed because of a new spike in the virus. As we read in a report from Reuters:
European nations from Denmark and Iceland in the north to Greece in the south announced new restrictions on Friday to curb surging coronavirus infections in some of their largest cities, and Britain was considering a new national lockdown.
Cases in the United Kingdom almost doubled to 6,000 per day in the latest reporting week, hospital admissions rose and infection rates soared across parts of northern England and London.
Asked by Sky News about the possibility of a second national lockdown next month, British Health Minister Matt Hancock said it should be seen only as a last resort but the government would do whatever it took to tackle the virus.
“The number of people in hospital is doubling every eight days or so … we will do what it takes to keep people safe,” he said. “We keep these things under review.”


shoebat--2020-09-20--Study: Average Employee Burns Out By Thirty-Two Now

The idea of “ burnout ” is a phenomenon attributed to workers who are older after many years of labor and often times , abuse .
Unfortunately , there is concern that as burnout rises , it may cause problems in the work force .
A news study was just released emphasizing this fear , that the average employee does not reach this burnout phase in his fifties or sixties , which is generally the traditional range , but now in the early thirties .
They say 30 is the new 20 , but when it comes to our careers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A recent survey of 2,000 working adults finds the average worker is most like to experience career burnout by the early age of 32 !
When ’ s retirement , again ?
All in all , a full third of respondents admit they ’ ve felt like they just can ’ t go on due to either stress of exhaustion at some point during their careers .
Why are so many modern workers perpetually burnt out ?
Many ( 52 % ) say they try to do too much , while others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working hours are too long .
Other popular responses to that question include not taking enough days off ( 39 % ) and feeling like one must always be “ on ” while at work ( 47 % ) .
Nearly two in five workers ( 37 % ) feel like there ’ s pressure to constantly put in extra work .
In fact , just under half of respondents who battle job burnout have quit a job due to exhaustion .
Another 29 % would at least consider taking an unpaid leave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re feeling particularly stressed .
( source ) Now I am not saying that people should not work , or that life is not tough , but I can say there is a lot of truth in this , and the reason it is happening is because of how work has changed .
Think back forty years ago .
While there were still a lot of changes taking place and America was financializing her debt , there was a lot of opportunity for a motivated person to make a decent living , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was harder than in the 1960s and based off of debt-fueled prosperity , but the comparatively low levels of debt made such a rise possible .
Thus it was more accurate , less than two decades prior , but still more so to say that a person who was not successful was not motivated and did not care .
However , that was forty years ago , and after forty years of globalization/NAFTA in the worst economic sense , massive outsourcing ( what caused the “ productivity rise ” , one might add @ @ @ @ @ @ @ utter destruction of wages for the American worker and his being forced violently into miserable poverty , the mass printing of money , continued financialization , the forcing of debt on people to get an education so they can get a job , the continually rising qualifications for full participating in society that require the assumption of debt , and not the flooding of the labor pool with below-market applicants for wages while shrinking the pool through continued outsourcing and now the use of artificial intelligence and supercomputing , the average worker is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ product of those a half-century ago and for a third of the pay .
What is happening is that people are being worked to death for low wages and a life they can not live , especially if one is a single person or a nuclear family in the US .
This is also not to say there are not many people who are successful , but they are becoming less common and often tied to either some incredible luck , socially-favorable circumstances , or because of direct help from their families to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own households .
However , the idea of the common man “ working his way up ” , especially as a single man , is a very difficult thing today that the supermajority will most likely not be able to achieve no matter how industrious he is .
This is the reason why the average employee is burning out so young , because they are tired , have not been able to enjoy the fruits of their labor , and are stuck in a miserable cycle of debt-to-check with no hope of escape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ keeps getting lower while expenses rise even higher and the requirements of a livable standard keep rising ( it would be one thing if wages increased or stayed the same- it is another issue when they go down amid constant price rises and requirements to live ) .
However , both political parties are not doing a thing about this save the Democrats , who are not solving the problem , but using it as a political battering ram that likely in the future will be wielded against the Boomer generation , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wealth ( Millennials by comparison control about 3 % , and the Zoomers are negligible ) , in the name of trying to get equality and a “ piece ” of the social “ pie ” for themselves .
They are not solving the problem , but encouraging the though patterns common to revolutionaries and doing so for their own political benefit , seeking to harness the angry feelings for their benefit .
But this does not help the common man , just as the legitimate complaints about the Tsar did not help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It only exploits their anger to perpetuate the same cycle of misery .
This will be a trend to watch for the future as angry , burned-out , tired , and often just sad people who would be in their most productive working years have been and feel also very exploited and are ready to transfer their anger to the current classes and political system to attempt to seek justice , only to find that they are going to be exploited , and some of it done by the very people involved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the burnout of so many younger people .
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The idea of “burnout” is a phenomenon attributed to workers who are older after many years of labor and often times, abuse. Unfortunately, there is concern that as burnout rises, it may cause problems in the work force. A news study was just released emphasizing this fear, that the average employee does not reach this burnout phase in his fifties or sixties, which is generally the traditional range, but now in the early thirties.
They say 30 is the new 20, but when it comes to our careers, 30 may be the new 50. A recent survey of 2,000 working adults finds the average worker is most like to experience career burnout by the early age of 32! When’s retirement, again? All in all, a full third of respondents admit they’ve felt like they just can’t go on due to either stress of exhaustion at some point during their careers. Why are so many modern workers perpetually burnt out? Many (52%) say they try to do too much, while others (58%) believe their typical working hours are too long. Other popular responses to that question include not taking enough days off (39%) and feeling like one must always be “on” while at work (47%). Nearly two in five workers (37%) feel like there’s pressure to constantly put in extra work. In fact, just under half of respondents who battle job burnout have quit a job due to exhaustion. Another 29% would at least consider taking an unpaid leave of absence the next time they’re feeling particularly stressed. (source)
Now I am not saying that people should not work, or that life is not tough, but I can say there is a lot of truth in this, and the reason it is happening is because of how work has changed.
Think back forty years ago. While there were still a lot of changes taking place and America was financializing her debt, there was a lot of opportunity for a motivated person to make a decent living, and people with drive did this. It was harder than in the 1960s and based off of debt-fueled prosperity, but the comparatively low levels of debt made such a rise possible. Thus it was more accurate, less than two decades prior, but still more so to say that a person who was not successful was not motivated and did not care.
However, that was forty years ago, and after forty years of globalization/NAFTA in the worst economic sense, massive outsourcing (what caused the “productivity rise”, one might add, of the 1990s), the utter destruction of wages for the American worker and his being forced violently into miserable poverty, the mass printing of money, continued financialization, the forcing of debt on people to get an education so they can get a job, the continually rising qualifications for full participating in society that require the assumption of debt, and not the flooding of the labor pool with below-market applicants for wages while shrinking the pool through continued outsourcing and now the use of artificial intelligence and supercomputing, the average worker is arguably forced to produce three times the product of those a half-century ago and for a third of the pay.
What is happening is that people are being worked to death for low wages and a life they cannot live, especially if one is a single person or a nuclear family in the US.
This is also not to say there are not many people who are successful, but they are becoming less common and often tied to either some incredible luck, socially-favorable circumstances, or because of direct help from their families to carry them until they can support their own households. However, the idea of the common man “working his way up”, especially as a single man, is a very difficult thing today that the supermajority will most likely not be able to achieve no matter how industrious he is.
This is the reason why the average employee is burning out so young, because they are tired, have not been able to enjoy the fruits of their labor, and are stuck in a miserable cycle of debt-to-check with no hope of escape and a general standard of living that keeps getting lower while expenses rise even higher and the requirements of a livable standard keep rising (it would be one thing if wages increased or stayed the same- it is another issue when they go down amid constant price rises and requirements to live).
However, both political parties are not doing a thing about this save the Democrats, who are not solving the problem, but using it as a political battering ram that likely in the future will be wielded against the Boomer generation, which controls approximately 57% of the nations wealth (Millennials by comparison control about 3%, and the Zoomers are negligible), in the name of trying to get equality and a “piece” of the social “pie” for themselves. They are not solving the problem, but encouraging the though patterns common to revolutionaries and doing so for their own political benefit, seeking to harness the angry feelings for their benefit.
But this does not help the common man, just as the legitimate complaints about the Tsar did not help bring equality to the workers of Russia. It only exploits their anger to perpetuate the same cycle of misery.
This will be a trend to watch for the future as angry, burned-out, tired, and often just sad people who would be in their most productive working years have been and feel also very exploited and are ready to transfer their anger to the current classes and political system to attempt to seek justice, only to find that they are going to be exploited, and some of it done by the very people involved in creating the conditions that brought about the burnout of so many younger people.
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shoebat--2020-09-19--DARPA-Funded Company Makes Injectable Chip To Detect COVID-19

I have been saying before that COVID-19 is indeed an issue , but what concerns me more than COVID-19 is what COVID-19 is going to be used to justify .
Most of the things I have been discussing are related to economic or politics , but a story from Mint Press News and republished by Zero Hedge caught my eye , where in the world of science and technology , a new chip has been invented that can be implanted into the body to detect COVID-19 .
The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it , financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and HHS ’ BARDA .
As early as 2006 , DARPA was already researching how to identify viral , upper respiratory pathogens through its Predicting Health and Disease ( PHD ) program , which led to the creation of the agency ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as reported by Whitney Webb in a May article for The Last American Vagabond .
In 2014 , DARPA ’ s BTO launched its “ In Vivo Nanoplatforms ” ( IVN ) program , which researches implantable nanotechnologies , leading to the development of ‘ hydrogel ’ .
Hydrogel is a nanotechnology whose inventor early on boasted that “ If [ it ] pans out , with approval from FDA , then consumers could get the sensors implanted in their core to measure their levels of glucose , oxygen , and lactate.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ special injector to be introduced under the skin where it can transmit light-based digital signals through a wireless network like 5G .
Once firmly implanted inside the body , human cells are at the mercy of any mRNA program delivered via this substrate , unleashing a nightmare of possibilities .
It is , perhaps , the first true step towards full-on transhumanism ; a “ philosophy ” that is in vogue with many powerful and influential people , such as Google ’ s Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt and whose proponents see the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inevitable consequence of human progress .
The private company created to market this technology , that allows for biological processes to be controlled remotely and opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses and , ultimately , our entire existence , is called Profusa Inc and its operations are funded with millions from NIH and DARPA .
In March , the company was quietly inserted into the crowded COVID-19 bazaar in March 2020 , when it announced an injectable biochip for the detection of viral respiratory diseases , including COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a preliminary report funded by Fauci ’ s NIAID and the NIH on an mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 was published in The New England Journal of Medicine , concluding that mRNA-1273 vaccine .
provided by Moderna for the study , “ induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants , and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified , ” and supported “ further development of this vaccine.
” A month earlier , the NIH had claimed a joint stake in Moderna ’ s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine , citing a contract signed in December , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus vaccine candidates [ are ] developed and jointly owned ” by both parties .
Moderna disputes the federal government ’ s position , stating that the company “ has a broad owned and licensed IP estate ” and is “ not aware of any IP that would prevent us from commercializing our product candidates , including mRNA-1273.
” ( source ) Ultimately , this is not about COVID-19 , but about the integration of technology into biology with the purpose of controlling people ’ s own bodies .
Technology is good .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ there will be many good uses for integrating technology with one ’ s body is a positive sense .
But as always , the tools that man develops to help himself often are turned against him by those who lust for power and control because they want to reproduce the sin of Eden is real and is a part of life because of Original Sin .
The idea of implanting a chip into one ’ s body that can control its functions in some way , like Elon Musk ’ s “ brain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tale by HG Wells of The Island of Dr. Moreau .
Forget about the movie- read the book and see for yourself , for while written over a century ago , it is about a mad doctor who essentially implants “ chips ” into genetic creations of his in order to control them an play a human god over them , until his creation rebels , pulls out the chips , has a rebellion , and kills the mad doctor .
Likewise , to refer to HG Wells , we are moving towards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Time Machine , where there are but two races left- normal humans , and humanoid-machine-monster hybrids that are the product of mad men trying to become divine and instead become beasts .
I am not saying “ this is the future ” , but I speak of this as a general concept as it is the most logical way to explain the pursuit of the sin of Eden combined with the obsession in using technology , genetics , artificial intelligence , computers , and other of such things to try to bring about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ next evolutionary step ’ among them while leaving the rest of humanity behind .
What we may be seeing is COVID-19 used to justify a new class of technology that is going to have a major impact on the future and may even have the ability to control people down to their physical being , in which one might say that science fiction is coming to life .
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I have been saying before that COVID-19 is indeed an issue, but what concerns me more than COVID-19 is what COVID-19 is going to be used to justify. Most of the things I have been discussing are related to economic or politics, but a story from Mint Press News and republished by Zero Hedge caught my eye, where in the world of science and technology, a new chip has been invented that can be implanted into the body to detect COVID-19.
The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it, financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and HHS’ BARDA. … As early as 2006, DARPA was already researching how to identify viral, upper respiratory pathogens through its Predicting Health and Disease (PHD) program, which led to the creation of the agency’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), as reported by Whitney Webb in a May article for The Last American Vagabond. In 2014, DARPA’s BTO launched its “In Vivo Nanoplatforms” (IVN) program, which researches implantable nanotechnologies, leading to the development of ‘hydrogel’. Hydrogel is a nanotechnology whose inventor early on boasted that “If [it] pans out, with approval from FDA, then consumers could get the sensors implanted in their core to measure their levels of glucose, oxygen, and lactate.” This contact lens-like material requires a special injector to be introduced under the skin where it can transmit light-based digital signals through a wireless network like 5G. Once firmly implanted inside the body, human cells are at the mercy of any mRNA program delivered via this substrate, unleashing a nightmare of possibilities. It is, perhaps, the first true step towards full-on transhumanism; a “philosophy” that is in vogue with many powerful and influential people, such as Google’s Ray Kurzweil and Eric Schmidt and whose proponents see the fusion of technology and biology as an inevitable consequence of human progress. The private company created to market this technology, that allows for biological processes to be controlled remotely and opens the door to the potential manipulation of our biological responses and, ultimately, our entire existence, is called Profusa Inc and its operations are funded with millions from NIH and DARPA. In March, the company was quietly inserted into the crowded COVID-19 bazaar in March 2020, when it announced an injectable biochip for the detection of viral respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. A wholly-owned subsidiary
In July, a preliminary report funded by Fauci’s NIAID and the NIH on an mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, concluding that mRNA-1273 vaccine. provided by Moderna for the study, “induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants, and no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified,” and supported “further development of this vaccine.” A month earlier, the NIH had claimed a joint stake in Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, citing a contract signed in December, 2019, stipulating that the “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates [are] developed and jointly owned” by both parties. Moderna disputes the federal government’s position, stating that the company “has a broad owned and licensed IP estate” and is “not aware of any IP that would prevent us from commercializing our product candidates, including mRNA-1273.” (source)
Ultimately, this is not about COVID-19, but about the integration of technology into biology with the purpose of controlling people’s own bodies.
Technology is good. It has many uses, and surely there will be many good uses for integrating technology with one’s body is a positive sense. But as always, the tools that man develops to help himself often are turned against him by those who lust for power and control because they want to reproduce the sin of Eden is real and is a part of life because of Original Sin.
The idea of implanting a chip into one’s body that can control its functions in some way, like Elon Musk’s “brain chip” is eerily reminiscent of the tale by HG Wells of The Island of Dr. Moreau. Forget about the movie- read the book and see for yourself, for while written over a century ago, it is about a mad doctor who essentially implants “chips” into genetic creations of his in order to control them an play a human god over them, until his creation rebels, pulls out the chips, has a rebellion, and kills the mad doctor.
Likewise, to refer to HG Wells, we are moving towards a scenario like in the story The Time Machine, where there are but two races left- normal humans, and humanoid-machine-monster hybrids that are the product of mad men trying to become divine and instead become beasts. I am not saying “this is the future”, but I speak of this as a general concept as it is the most logical way to explain the pursuit of the sin of Eden combined with the obsession in using technology, genetics, artificial intelligence, computers, and other of such things to try to bring about what many have referred to as a ‘next evolutionary step’ among them while leaving the rest of humanity behind.
What we may be seeing is COVID-19 used to justify a new class of technology that is going to have a major impact on the future and may even have the ability to control people down to their physical being, in which one might say that science fiction is coming to life.
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Afro-American NFL Player And Christian Tells US Racial Justice Warriors To Stand Up For Persecuted Christians In Nigeria

With all of the talk about ‘ racial inequality ’ in the US that while it does exist and happen , often is much better than in the rest of the world .
Africa is one such area where African Christians are routinely murdered , raped , and even sold as slaves by Muslims or government-backed militia for political power .
Sadly , there are few who discuss this , and rarely ever from those calling for ‘ racial justice ’ in the Us .
But an NFL player , who is also Christian and an Afro-American , has recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Post reports , saying that in recent statements , he told ‘ racial justice advocates ’ that they if they cared about the good will of African people , they would talk about the genocide of Christians taking place in Nigeria .
Former NFL tight end and outspoken Christian , Benjamin Watson , is calling on Americans fighting for racial justice in the U.S. to also call for an end to violence against Christians in Nigeria , as activists warn the world might be ignoring a possible genocide .
Watson , 39 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after 16 seasons in the NFL , participated in a press conference Wednesday in Washington , D.C. , where he sat next to former Democratic presidential candidate and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard , D-Hawaii , to speak out against the violence perpetrated by Fulani radicals and extremist groups like Boko Haram .
Hosted by the International Committee on Nigeria , the event was designed to raise awareness of the violence experienced by Christian communities in Nigeria as estimates suggest that millions of people have been displaced and thousands have been killed in recent years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the northeast and violence carried out by herding radicals against predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria ’ s Middle Belt region .
“ I am here for many of the same reasons that everyone else is , ” Watson explained .
“ I can remember several years ago it being impressed upon me that the Body of Christ here in the United States is dealing with our own issues .
But compared to what is going on around the world in many respects , we need people that stand up for those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it may be us.
” The event , which also featured remarks from other human rights advocates , comes after thousands across the U.S. took to the streets nationwide this summer to demonstrate against police brutality after the death of African American George Floyd who died in Minneapolis police custody and other African Americans this year .
More than 20 people have been killed during Black Lives Matter protests , some of which have turned into violent riots and arson attacks that have caused $ 2 billion in damage to local businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are in a time of racial reckoning in our county , ” Watson stressed .
“ The term racial justice is thrown around a lot .
But if we are sincerely concerned about justice , we must understand that justice must be advocated for at home , yes , but also abroad.
” Watson , who has been vocal about racial issues in the U.S. and even authored the 2015 book Under Our Skin , challenged those “ who care about racial and social justice ” issues and are “ fighting for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. to “ remember and advocate for justice in the homeland.
” “ This time of reckoning , as important as it is for all of us here in the United States , shouldn ’ t be limited to our shores as injustice persists , ” Watson urged .
“ Every little bit helps.
” The football player , who has spoken out about many injustices over the years , including abortion and sex trafficking , explained that he was first made aware of what was happening in northeast Nigeria with Boko Haram @ @ @ @ @ @ @ female Christian students from a school in Chibok , Borno state , in 2014 .
( source )

With all of the talk about ‘racial inequality’ in the US that while it does exist and happen, often is much better than in the rest of the world. Africa is one such area where African Christians are routinely murdered, raped, and even sold as slaves by Muslims or government-backed militia for political power. Sadly, there are few who discuss this, and rarely ever from those calling for ‘racial justice’ in the Us.
But an NFL player, who is also Christian and an Afro-American, has recently called them out, as the Christian Post reports, saying that in recent statements, he told ‘racial justice advocates’ that they if they cared about the good will of African people, they would talk about the genocide of Christians taking place in Nigeria.
Former NFL tight end and outspoken Christian, Benjamin Watson, is calling on Americans fighting for racial justice in the U.S. to also call for an end to violence against Christians in Nigeria, as activists warn the world might be ignoring a possible genocide.
Watson, 39, who announced his retirement earlier this year after 16 seasons in the NFL, participated in a press conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C., where he sat next to former Democratic presidential candidate and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, to speak out against the violence perpetrated by Fulani radicals and extremist groups like Boko Haram.
Hosted by the International Committee on Nigeria, the event was designed to raise awareness of the violence experienced by Christian communities in Nigeria as estimates suggest that millions of people have been displaced and thousands have been killed in recent years due to extremist violence taking place in the northeast and violence carried out by herding radicals against predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region.
“I am here for many of the same reasons that everyone else is,” Watson explained. “I can remember several years ago it being impressed upon me that the Body of Christ here in the United States is dealing with our own issues. But compared to what is going on around the world in many respects, we need people that stand up for those who are being persecuted. At some time, it may be us.”
The event, which also featured remarks from other human rights advocates, comes after thousands across the U.S. took to the streets nationwide this summer to demonstrate against police brutality after the death of African American George Floyd who died in Minneapolis police custody and other African Americans this year. More than 20 people have been killed during Black Lives Matter protests, some of which have turned into violent riots and arson attacks that have caused $2 billion in damage to local businesses in cities across the U.S.
“We are in a time of racial reckoning in our county,” Watson stressed. “The term racial justice is thrown around a lot. But if we are sincerely concerned about justice, we must understand that justice must be advocated for at home, yes, but also abroad.”
Watson, who has been vocal about racial issues in the U.S. and even authored the 2015 book Under Our Skin, challenged those “who care about racial and social justice” issues and are “fighting for the equality of black citizens” in the U.S. to “remember and advocate for justice in the homeland.”
“This time of reckoning, as important as it is for all of us here in the United States, shouldn’t be limited to our shores as injustice persists,” Watson urged. “Every little bit helps.”
The football player, who has spoken out about many injustices over the years, including abortion and sex trafficking, explained that he was first made aware of what was happening in northeast Nigeria with Boko Haram’s insurgency when militants abducted 276 female Christian students from a school in Chibok, Borno state, in 2014. (source)


shoebat--2020-09-19--Forget About October Surprise, It Has Already Begun With A September Surprise Following Justice Gins

Forget About October Surprise, It Has Already Begun With A September Surprise Following Justice Ginsburg’s Death

It is making news around the country as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead .
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal , cultural and feminist icon , died Friday .
The Supreme Court announced her death , saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas .
The court , in a statement , said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington , D.C. , surrounded by family .
She was 87 .
“ Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature , ” Chief Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague .
Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her , a tireless and resolute champion of justice.
” Architect of the legal fight for women ’ s rights in the 1970s , Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation ’ s highest court , becoming its most prominent member .
Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the spotlight of the presidential campaign .
( source ) Now I do not want to speak ill of the dead .
I strongly do not like her politics and have equally strong ideas on many other things related to her , and while there are many things that one can say about her life , I say for the matter “ Requiescat in pace ” ( Rest in peace ) and encourage others to pray for her soul , and that will be all .
Returning to the core matter , her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Supreme Court which given the contentious , cantankerous , and partisan nature at such an election year , makes it all the more interesting .
Some people may argue if her death now was intentional or not .
Personally , I have yet to see any solid evidence indicating foul play , although given how this year has proceeded , and the political nature of opening up a Supreme Court spot , it should not be ruled out as a possibility ( although one yet to have any evidence provided to it in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ substantiated ) .
But I ’ m going to give an opinion on this , and it may not be popular : I don ’ t care about any of it .
I see no reason to care that this point .
“ But this is the most important election in history ” You mean , like 2016 ?
“ This is a war between Marxism and Christianity.
” The US government has been socialist since 1935 with the creation of the Social Security program and the establishment of the National Labor Relations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in full support of National Socialism since 1945 ( Operation Paperclip and Gladio ) and has been ever since , and her opposition the USSR and “ Marxism ” is just the opposition of international socialism .
“ Black Lives Matter is burning cities down.
” Until November 4th , 2020 , and if it continues after , it will be for political expediency until it is determined that it is no longer necessary .
Just ask ISIS .
“ If we don ’ t get the right justice in , Liberals are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Justice Roberts , who was said to be Conservative but just so happens to vote liberal consistently on many major issues ?
Forget about Neil Gorsuch , for he openly supports all things of the LGBT and sodom .
At least if it was a liberal one would know what one is getting , instead of expecting gold and getting only lead .
“ Christianity is under attack we have to do something ” .
The time for that was decades ago .
Previous generation and the current one made their choices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bear the consequences for good or ill .
It may be the “ first time ” for America in the sense of a serious social disenfranchisement ( except for the Catholics , who have even now never been fully accepted ) , but Christianity and America are not dependent on each other .
Christianity will suffer , and be forced either into orthodox beliefs rooted in true faith and sound theology as well as philosophy or it will merely revert to the national religion that for many is what the practice of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political solution ” .
Now is not the time for this because the “ shark has been jumped ” for all thing political .
The best thing that Christians can do is to do a tactical retreat , focus on consolidation and cleaning up internal problems , and to prepare for persecution because that is what the future holds .
So many Evangelical types love to opine about the “ early Church ” as opposed to Catholics and even mainline Protestants or Eastern and Oriental Orthodox who they call “ unbiblical ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about to get their wish because a lot of Christian practice is going to be forced into secrecy .
It has already started with the arguable corporate enforcement of sodomitic practices at work in at least verbal agreement with them lest one find oneself in a visit with the “ HR lady ” , and there is going to be a lot more things to come .
The problems are going to be very serious .
But that does not change Christian teaching or truth .
Instead , it means that , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rebelling , and it is for those who are wise to prepare .
2020 will likely go to Trump for political reasons .
There is a chance it may not , but for now , sit back and enjoy the free entertainment while making better decisions in preparing today for the future that will come and be serious .
Ginsburg is dead , a hole is created , and the people are in a frenzy .
Be smarter and don ’ t follow the masses , for there are a lot bigger events @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now is the time to get ready .
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It is making news around the country as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas. The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., surrounded by family. She was 87. “Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice.” Architect of the legal fight for women’s rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation’s highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign. (source)
Now I do not want to speak ill of the dead. I strongly do not like her politics and have equally strong ideas on many other things related to her, and while there are many things that one can say about her life, I say for the matter “Requiescat in pace” (Rest in peace) and encourage others to pray for her soul, and that will be all.
Returning to the core matter, her death opens up a hole in the Supreme Court which given the contentious, cantankerous, and partisan nature at such an election year, makes it all the more interesting.
Some people may argue if her death now was intentional or not. Personally, I have yet to see any solid evidence indicating foul play, although given how this year has proceeded, and the political nature of opening up a Supreme Court spot, it should not be ruled out as a possibility (although one yet to have any evidence provided to it in order that such a claim may be substantiated).
But I’m going to give an opinion on this, and it may not be popular:
I don’t care about any of it.
I see no reason to care that this point.
“But this is the most important election in history”
You mean, like 2016?
“This is a war between Marxism and Christianity.”
The US government has been socialist since 1935 with the creation of the Social Security program and the establishment of the National Labor Relations Board. Technically, she has been in full support of National Socialism since 1945 (Operation Paperclip and Gladio) and has been ever since, and her opposition the USSR and “Marxism” is just the opposition of international socialism.
“Black Lives Matter is burning cities down.”
Until November 4th, 2020, and if it continues after, it will be for political expediency until it is determined that it is no longer necessary. Just ask ISIS.
“If we don’t get the right justice in, Liberals are going to destroy America.”
You mean like Justice Roberts, who was said to be Conservative but just so happens to vote liberal consistently on many major issues? Forget about Neil Gorsuch, for he openly supports all things of the LGBT and sodom. At least if it was a liberal one would know what one is getting, instead of expecting gold and getting only lead.
“Christianity is under attack we have to do something”.
The time for that was decades ago. Previous generation and the current one made their choices and now we will be forced to bear the consequences for good or ill. It may be the “first time” for America in the sense of a serious social disenfranchisement (except for the Catholics, who have even now never been fully accepted), but Christianity and America are not dependent on each other. Christianity will suffer, and be forced either into orthodox beliefs rooted in true faith and sound theology as well as philosophy or it will merely revert to the national religion that for many is what the practice of the faith represents.
“We need a political solution”.
Now is not the time for this because the “shark has been jumped” for all thing political. The best thing that Christians can do is to do a tactical retreat, focus on consolidation and cleaning up internal problems, and to prepare for persecution because that is what the future holds. So many Evangelical types love to opine about the “early Church” as opposed to Catholics and even mainline Protestants or Eastern and Oriental Orthodox who they call “unbiblical”, and one might say that they are about to get their wish because a lot of Christian practice is going to be forced into secrecy. It has already started with the arguable corporate enforcement of sodomitic practices at work in at least verbal agreement with them lest one find oneself in a visit with the “HR lady”, and there is going to be a lot more things to come.
The problems are going to be very serious. But that does not change Christian teaching or truth. Instead, it means that, like with societies throughout history, people are rebelling, and it is for those who are wise to prepare.
2020 will likely go to Trump for political reasons. There is a chance it may not, but for now, sit back and enjoy the free entertainment while making better decisions in preparing today for the future that will come and be serious.
Ginsburg is dead, a hole is created, and the people are in a frenzy. Be smarter and don’t follow the masses, for there are a lot bigger events coming than the 2020 elections, and now is the time to get ready.
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