shoebat--2020-11-15--Will Biden Put A Nationwide Lockdown On The US Over COVID?

As Biden now moves to take power over the country , questions remain about what he will do regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic .
The question is , as the AP asks , will Biden restore nationwide COVID lockdowns such as existed earlier in 2020 ?
or now , it ’ s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid .
In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump , Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear a mask and view the coronavirus as a threat that has no regard for political ideology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among members of the coronavirus advisory board Biden announced this week .
One member , Dr. Michael Osterholm , suggested a four- to six-week lockdown with financial aid for Americans whose livelihoods would be affected .
He later walked back his remarks and was rebutted by two other members of the panel who said a widespread lockdown shouldn ’ t be under consideration .
That ’ s a sign of the tough dynamic Biden will face when he is inaugurated in January .
He campaigned as a more responsible steward of America ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is and has been blunt about the challenges that lie ahead for the country , warning of a “ dark winter ” as cases spike .
But talk of lockdowns are especially sensitive .
For one , they ’ re nearly impossible for a president to enact on his own , requiring bipartisan support from state and local officials .
But more broadly , they ’ re a political flashpoint that could undermine Biden ’ s efforts to unify a deeply divided country .
“ It would create a backlash , ” said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security who added that such a move could make the situation worse if people don ’ t comply with restrictions .
“ Lockdowns can have consequences that diminish the value of such an approach.
” During his first public appearance since losing the election , Trump noted on Friday that he wouldn ’ t support a lockdown .
The president , who has yet to publicly acknowledge Biden ’ s victory , would likely reinforce that message to his loyal supporters once he ’ s left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s toll continues to escalate .
( source ) The fact is that , as various studies have shown , the effect of the shutdowns are questionable .
What is known universally is that the economic effects of the lockdowns have been very serious , and it is not so much them , but that they exposed already existing systematic problems in the country that should have been dealt with decades ago .
But at this point it does not matter .
Lockdown or not , the problems have not stopped , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which is a currency crisis that will crash the US dollar .
Biden can do whatever he wants- the question is , will it speed up the crisis , or slow it down ?
For Biden ’ s sake , if it falls on his watch- of which there is a strong chance that it may -then he and the Democrats as a collective will be blamed for it , and this will have serious political consequences for them .
This is a trend far bigger than COVID- it is the culmination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are coming to view today .
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As Biden now moves to take power over the country, questions remain about what he will do regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The question is, as the AP asks, will Biden restore nationwide COVID lockdowns such as existed earlier in 2020?
or now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid. In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear a mask and view the coronavirus as a threat that has no regard for political ideology. But the debate has been livelier among members of the coronavirus advisory board Biden announced this week. One member, Dr. Michael Osterholm, suggested a four- to six-week lockdown with financial aid for Americans whose livelihoods would be affected. He later walked back his remarks and was rebutted by two other members of the panel who said a widespread lockdown shouldn’t be under consideration. That’s a sign of the tough dynamic Biden will face when he is inaugurated in January. He campaigned as a more responsible steward of America’s public health than President Donald Trump is and has been blunt about the challenges that lie ahead for the country, warning of a “dark winter” as cases spike. But talk of lockdowns are especially sensitive. For one, they’re nearly impossible for a president to enact on his own, requiring bipartisan support from state and local officials. But more broadly, they’re a political flashpoint that could undermine Biden’s efforts to unify a deeply divided country. “It would create a backlash,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security who added that such a move could make the situation worse if people don’t comply with restrictions. “Lockdowns can have consequences that diminish the value of such an approach.” During his first public appearance since losing the election, Trump noted on Friday that he wouldn’t support a lockdown. The president, who has yet to publicly acknowledge Biden’s victory, would likely reinforce that message to his loyal supporters once he’s left office. Still, the pandemic’s toll continues to escalate. (source)
The fact is that, as various studies have shown, the effect of the shutdowns are questionable. What is known universally is that the economic effects of the lockdowns have been very serious, and it is not so much them, but that they exposed already existing systematic problems in the country that should have been dealt with decades ago.
But at this point it does not matter. Lockdown or not, the problems have not stopped, and another lockdown will only expedite the inevitable, which is a currency crisis that will crash the US dollar.
Biden can do whatever he wants- the question is, will it speed up the crisis, or slow it down? For Biden’s sake, if it falls on his watch- of which there is a strong chance that it may -then he and the Democrats as a collective will be blamed for it, and this will have serious political consequences for them.
This is a trend far bigger than COVID- it is the culmination of decades of bad policies whose effects are coming to view today.
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shoebat--2020-11-15--Biden Tax Returns Show Creating Cancer “Charity,” Spending Millions On Salaries And NOTHING On Resea

Biden Tax Returns Show Creating Cancer “Charity,” Spending Millions On Salaries And NOTHING On Research

Trump ’ s tax returns revealed a lot about him .
The same can also be said about Joe Biden , for according to a story from the New York Post , Biden created a cancer research “ charity ” and then proceeded to spend millions of dollars on salaries after collecting donations but NOTHING on research .
A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research , and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries , federal filings show .
The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention , detection , diagnosis , research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes , ” according to its IRS mission statement .
But it gave out no grants in its first two years , and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired .
The charity took in $ 4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018 , and spent $ 3,070,301 on payroll in those two years .
The group ’ s president , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fiscal 2018 ( July 1 , 2018 to June 30 , 2019 ) , according to the charity ’ s most recent federal tax filings .
Simon , a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White House ’ s cancer task force in the Obama administration , saw his salary nearly double from the $ 224,539 he made in fiscal 2017 , tax filings show .
Danielle Carnival , former chief of staff for Obama ’ s cancer initiative , the Cancer Moonshot Task Force , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The charity spent $ 56,738 on conferences and $ 59,356 on travel that year .
The following year , the travel expenditure swelled to $ 97,149 , and the non-profit spent $ 742,953 on conferences , tax filings show .
( source )

Trump’s tax returns revealed a lot about him. The same can also be said about Joe Biden, for according to a story from the New York Post, Biden created a cancer research “charity” and then proceeded to spend millions of dollars on salaries after collecting donations but NOTHING on research.
A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.
The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.
The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.
Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White House’s cancer task force in the Obama administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.
Danielle Carnival, former chief of staff for Obama’s cancer initiative, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, who took home $258,207 in 2018.
The charity spent $56,738 on conferences and $59,356 on travel that year. The following year, the travel expenditure swelled to $97,149, and the non-profit spent $742,953 on conferences, tax filings show. (source)


shoebat--2020-11-15--Trump Tweets “[Biden] Won Because The Election Was Rigged”

After much tweeting , silence , and more tweeting , it appears that Trump has gone a further step by saying , as is reported by Business Insider , that “ [ Biden ] won because the election was rigged ” .
President Donald Trump on Sunday for the first time seemingly admitted that he lost the 2020 presidential election in an early morning tweetstorm , over a week after the race was formally called for President-elect Joe Biden .
In the unexpected personal revelation , Trump lambasted the election results on Twitter , saying said that Biden beat him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He won because the Election was Rigged , ” he tweeted .
“ NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed , vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company , Dominion , with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn ’ t even qualify for Texas ( which I won by a lot ! )
, the Fake & Silent Media , & more !
” A couple of hours after his indirect admission to Biden ’ s victory , Trump remained defiant in his refusal to concede the race .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FAKE NEWS MEDIA , ” Trump wrote .
“ I concede NOTHING !
We have a long way to go .
This was a RIGGED ELECTION !
” At the beginning of Trump ’ s Sunday morning tweetstorm , he linked to a segment of “ Watters ’ World , ” the Fox News show hosted by Jesse Watters , where Watters criticized Biden ’ s campaign and questioned how he could have beat the president .
“ There ’ s something that just doesn ’ t feel right about this , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Joe Biden didn ’ t earn it , he didn ’ t really even campaign .
He thought was going to lose , you could see it .
He ran a losing campaign .
So 10 days after the election , how ’ s he ahead ?
” ( source ) Now I will say that much evidence exists that suggests that Biden really did cheat .
This , however , is no different than what happened in 2000 with Bush/Gore , except instead of five counties , it was five states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election , and it doubtful that he ever will and may continue to fight the results for months , it appears to be another step towards clarifying what the press and many leaders from around the world have stated , which is that come January 2020 , barring any legal action or other unexpected changes taking place , former Vice President Biden can be officially called “ President Biden ” .
But not to worry .
Trump most likely does not see it ( for one does not know officially , as one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statements made about the matter ’ s internal affairs ) , but he likely dodged a HUGE fiscal bullet , that of the debt , on his watch .
In this situation now , if Trump wanted to leave Biden in the worst possible situation , he would do what I have said before- print more stimulus , and as such , compel Biden to print even more on his watch as by ringing up more debt it will devalue the currency and eventually cause a crisis that could fall on Biden- and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goes on to purchase NewsMax- which it seems he may do -not only will he NEVER let the election issue go , but he will emerge as an even stronger victor , since he will be able to capitalize on the cult of personality built around him that will probably give him more influence over the public mind than what he had while he was in office .
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After much tweeting, silence, and more tweeting, it appears that Trump has gone a further step by saying, as is reported by Business Insider, that “[Biden] won because the election was rigged”.
President Donald Trump on Sunday for the first time seemingly admitted that he lost the 2020 presidential election in an early morning tweetstorm, over a week after the race was formally called for President-elect Joe Biden. In the unexpected personal revelation, Trump lambasted the election results on Twitter, saying said that Biden beat him because the process was compromised. “He won because the Election was Rigged,” he tweeted. “NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!” A couple of hours after his indirect admission to Biden’s victory, Trump remained defiant in his refusal to concede the race. “He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA,” Trump wrote. “I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!” At the beginning of Trump’s Sunday morning tweetstorm, he linked to a segment of “Watters’ World,” the Fox News show hosted by Jesse Watters, where Watters criticized Biden’s campaign and questioned how he could have beat the president. “There’s something that just doesn’t feel right about this,” Watters said in the segment. “Joe Biden didn’t earn it, he didn’t really even campaign. He thought was going to lose, you could see it. He ran a losing campaign. So 10 days after the election, how’s he ahead?” (source)
Now I will say that much evidence exists that suggests that Biden really did cheat. This, however, is no different than what happened in 2000 with Bush/Gore, except instead of five counties, it was five states. While Trump has not conceded the election, and it doubtful that he ever will and may continue to fight the results for months, it appears to be another step towards clarifying what the press and many leaders from around the world have stated, which is that come January 2020, barring any legal action or other unexpected changes taking place, former Vice President Biden can be officially called “President Biden”.
But not to worry. Trump most likely does not see it (for one does not know officially, as one can only go by public actions and statements made about the matter’s internal affairs), but he likely dodged a HUGE fiscal bullet, that of the debt, on his watch. In this situation now, if Trump wanted to leave Biden in the worst possible situation, he would do what I have said before- print more stimulus, and as such, compel Biden to print even more on his watch as by ringing up more debt it will devalue the currency and eventually cause a crisis that could fall on Biden- and Harris’ -collective lap.
If Trump goes on to purchase NewsMax- which it seems he may do -not only will he NEVER let the election issue go, but he will emerge as an even stronger victor, since he will be able to capitalize on the cult of personality built around him that will probably give him more influence over the public mind than what he had while he was in office.
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shoebat--2020-11-17--Radicalism And Revolutionary Politics Is Becoming More Widespread In Germany

There is indeed a horrid confusion in society about who to follow .
Shall we follow the Left or the Right ?
Because of the destructive nature of the Left , many turn to the Right .
But even in the Right-wing element , there is a deception that covers up another form of rebellion .
There is open rebellion , but then there is a cloaked rebellion .
It is the rebellion that comes in the form of tradition , order and orthodoxy , pretending to want to save the world while cunningly scheming to destroy it .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ With its shrieks about law and order , it nailed the Christ on the Cross , and with its piety and facade of properness , it mocked the suffering King .
“ The rulers were themselves rebels ” writes Chesterton , and certainly in the heart of every rebel is a tyrant wishing he was the one ruling .
With this rebellion comes rage , and in our own time this is definitely manifesting , be it online or on the street .
Men are being consumed by rage , drunk off of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they can not be satiated unless they spiral into the hysterical .
The covid lockdown in Germany is exposing a growing fanaticism against the government .
In 2015 , there were huge demonstrations against the state due to the acceptance of refugees from the Middle East into Germany .
Now , there are massive demonstrations taking place against the lockdown , in just another step revealing the brewing rage against the established government .
Just in late October , demonstrators thew molotov cocktails at the front of the Robert Koch Institute , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus .
Just recently there was a huge demonstration in Leipzig in which 20,000 people attended .
The event was not peaceful as there were clashes with the police .
“ There were numerous attacks against security forces , ” police tweeted soon after they called the gathering unlawful .
There were also many neo-Nazis present .
Stephan Kramer , president of the state-level intelligence agency in the central state of Thuringia , expressed his concern : Certainly not all of the protestors were Nazis or ultra-nationalists — many of them were people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not ignore the fanaticism present and the indications of looming rage against the state which would have far darker consequences .
According to DW : “ The journalist union DJU said there were also at least 32 attacks on reporters , primarily from members of the Querdenken ( Lateral Thinking ) movement , which organized the main protest.
” Protestors cried : ” peace , freedom , no dictatorship , ” and demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel step down .
The anger is accumulating and is a reflection of the political atmosphere of rage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forming zeitgeist .
A Right-wing terrorist cell — which called itself “ Gruppe S ” — was caught in Germany trying to start a civil war to overthrow the government , by slaughtering as many people as possible .
They wanted to murder politicians , refugees and those who dissented from their fanatical ideology with the goal of establishing a Nazi government .
According to German broadcaster SWR , prosecutors have charged 12 alleged members of the terrorist network .
Prosecutors have stated that the terror network planned on “ destabilizing and ultimately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and planned to spark “ a civil-war-like situation … via as yet undefined attacks on politicians , asylum seekers and people of Muslim faith.
” The leader of the group has been identified only as Werner S. ( who went by the alias “ Giovanni Teutonico ” , after the 13th century Catholic canon law scholar ) and his right hand man as Tony E. The group consisted of the worst elements of society , one of the members having already served in prison for rape and dangerous assault .
One of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ traffic department in Hamm .
The group would fantasize about slaughtering people .
One of the leaders , Werner S. , is said to have been looking forward to many “ miserably dead bodies ” .
Another is said to have written that he was “ in the mood for a massacre ” .
They were inspired by the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand ; one of the members held onto the footage that was video streamed by the killer as he butchered dozens of people in a mosque in March of 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video footage of the shooting in a synagogue in Halle on October of 2019 that killed two people and injured two others .
According to Der Spiegel the group decided to obtain guns and also collected money to finance their operations .
One of the members , Thorsen W. , was in charge of weapons licensing for the police headquarters in Hamm , and was willing to donate 5,000 euros for the purchasing of weapons .
As Der Spiegel reports : Tapped phone calls revealed that Werner S. sought to recruit people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , quick ” and would go beyond just mere street demonstrations .
Werner S. found his recruits through years of networking amongst Right-wing operatives and had specifically approached leaders from right-wing extremist groups and so-called “ Reich citizens ” all over Germany in order to win them over to his “ powerful troops ” .
Werner wanted to execute a strategy of tensions in which his group would murder Muslims , spark a violent reaction from Muslims , and thus creating the “ conditions similar to civil war ” .
The Right-wing network @ @ @ @ @ @ @ searched more than 50 apartments and confiscated around 300 cell phones , computers or hard drives .
In total , the investigators looked through almost 18 terabytes of data , including around 60 million chat and voice messages , photos and videos .
More than 50 witnesses were interviewed .
According to the 200 page indictment , the Right-terror network was founded in Alfdorf in Baden-Wurttemberg at the end of September of 2019 where they met at an old sawmill called the “ Hummelgautsche ” where they would do paramilitary training in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The group took inspiration from the Freikorps ( German military volunteers many of whom , after WW1 , became disgruntled and would eventually be the precursors to the SA , the paramilitary organization that would back Adolf Hitler ) .
In the Whatsapp group for the care service that he worked for , Tony E. shared a photo of himself alongside Werner S. , as members of a militia-type body called “ Freikorps Homeland Security.
” On February 8th of 2020 , Werner proposed that the group convene a meeting in northern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no more excuses and that “ things are going to happen.
” The group met at the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that weekend , to the outskirts of the city of Minden .
The meeting was held in the home of a 55 year old man named Thomas N. , a member of the Reichsburger movement which believes that the current German government is not legitimate and that the country needs to return to the government of the Kingdom of Prussia and that Germany should return to pre-World War Two borders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during their prayers in several towns .
They also talked about obtaining weapons from two Right-wing groups , “ Viking Security Germania ” and “ Wotan ’ s Heirs ” .
Its very interesting , that these groups have an emphasis on Wotan or Odin , revealing their pagan character .
It is not just about mere politics and immigration , but really a political ideology seeped in religious pursuits of reviving the old dark rituals of pre-Christian times .
It is no wonder that one of the members of this gang , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Germanic warrior , with a sword and rune-covered shield .
These people were living for a fantasy , like all of these types of idealists do .
But there comes a point where the fantasizer grows tired of residing within his delusion , and he wants his dream to be manifested before his eyes .
As Chesterton described such people : “ They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares.
” ( The Everlasting Man , ch .
8 , p. 159 ) Indeed a nightmare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the world , their dark and sinister zeitgeist .
“ Gruppe S. ” is not an isolated incident , but is part of an actual phenomena in Germany that is deeply entrenched in the governmental infrastructure of the country , especially the intelligence services .
In October of 2020 it was revealed that four members of Germany ’ s intelligence staff in North Rhine-Westphalia were involved in radical Right-wing activity online .
These intelligence staff members were ( according to DW ) “ part of an observation team that was involved in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right-wing extremism ” .
It would be difficult to speak of the dark esoteric network of fanatic rebels without inquiring into how entrenched it is in the intelligence apparatus of the country .
The year was 2006 .
German intelligence agent , Andreas Temme , walked up to the register of an internet cafe , paid his bill on a counter bespattered with blood , and left as the corpse of Halit Yozgat lied lifeless on the floor behind the register .
The son of immigrants , he was shot in cold blood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Underground as he was working behind the register for his parent ’ s internet cafe .
Temme was part of the intelligence agency — the Protection of the Constitution , or Verfassungsschutz — for the state of Hesse and it was actually his job to monitor right-wing extremists .
When police searched Temme ’ s home they found guns , Nazi regalia and quotes from Mein Kampf typed up on a piece of paper .
It is no wonder that Temme , in his own village , got the nickname of “ little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shed light on a very dark matter , the Nazi ties within Germany ’ s intelligence apparatus .
Although Temme was technically cleared as a suspect after a nine month investigation , it became clear that Verfassunsschutz was involved in a major cover up for the National Socialist Underground since 2006 .
Helmut Wetzel , the Kassel police detective who was in charge of the murder investigation , reported to a parliamentary inquiry in 2015 about how the state ’ s intelligence agency refused to permit his officers from questioning any of Temme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ One of these contacts was a paid informant who spoke with Temme by phone before he entered the cafe where the murder occurred .
In the year 2012 , the state ’ s interior minister commenced a secret investigation on why Temme and other intelligence agents who had neo-Nazi contacts failed to see that Yozgat was the ninth person to be murdered by Nazi terrorists .
The investigation was completed in 2014 and consisted of 3,500 files .
Senior intelligence officers reviewed all of them and did not want a lot of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the public nor by legislators .
The senior intelligence agents ordered that chunks of the investigation be censored from the eyes of the public for 120 years .
Local legislators were never told of the existence of this investigation and only found the redacted version later during oversight hearings .
The fact was that the intelligence apparatus was covering up the biggest murder spree done by a Nazi terrorist gang in Germany .
The country ’ s intelligence agency did not put an end to the reign of terror of the National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people of ethnic minorities ( eight of them were Turkish , one was Greek ) , detonated two bombs in two ethnic neighborhoods , murdered a police officer and committed fifteen armed robberies — all from the years 2000 to 2007 .
For years the police assumed that the murders were done by Turkish mafia .
Even relatives of the victims were held suspect .
But this theory began to fall apart in 2006 ( one week after the murder of Yozgat ) once it was realized that none of the victims had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theory really fell flat in 2011 , the year two of the three members of the National Socialist Underground — Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Bonhardt — committed suicide .
The last member to be alive was Beate Zschape and in November of 2011 she turned herself in to the police .
Authorities searched the hideout of the gang and found the Ceská 83 pistol that was used in their nine murders .
But realities of the cover up continued to be revealed .
For example , in the trial of Zschape and four @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the National Socialist Underground ) , the judge rejected any questions on weather or not German intelligence knew of the murders and failed to report them , regardless of the fact that dozens of neo-Nazis across Germany were being paid by intelligence agencies during the time of the killing spree .
It was conventionally believed that the National Socialist Underground was just three members , while German intelligence denied having informants who were part of the gang .
But according to Petra Pau , one of the authors of a Bundestag investigative committee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven that the NSU ’ s core trio was surrounded by at least 40 informants… The federal [ domestic intelligence agency ] always claimed that it had no informants with the NSU – that ’ s complete nonsense.
” She also affirmed : Irene Mihalic , who also worked in the committee investigation , talked about deliberate destruction of files by the Verfassungsschutz ( BfV ) : The report by the Bundestag investigative committee demonstrated the deliberate coverup .
As DW stated : The official who actually destroyed the files stated to federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he did in order to save the intelligence agents from the responsibility to confess to the reality that all of their Nazi informants did not report the murders done by Mundlos , Bohnhardt and Zschape .
There is even evidence that there were other members of the National Socialist Underground who acted as accomplices to the crimes but never saw justice .
According to Clemens Binninger , the chair of the Bundestag ’ s investigation , “ There is a slew of evidence that suggests that there must have been co-perpetrators at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lookouts ” .
Andreas Temme also was connected to Stephan Ernst , the Nazi operative who in June of 2019 murdered Walter Lubcke , the president of the governmental district of Kassel .
According to HNA : “ Andreas Temme , once an employee of the Hessian constitutional protection , was “ on duty ” with Stephan Ernst , the alleged murderer of regional president Walter Lübcke .
Interior Minister Peter Beuth ( CDU ) reported this at the request of the SPD.
” The connection between Nazism and German intelligence was further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revealed how Andre Schmidt , a former counterintelligence agent of Germany ’ s Special Forces Command ( KSK ) and Freemason , led a Right-wing and masonic paramilitary organization , consisting of former and active military and elite police officers , called Uniter , and tried to spark a revolution that he and his cult called “ Day X ” in which they would kill politicians and journalists .
In July of 2020 the New York Times put out an article by Katrin Bennhold in which she recounts her conversation with Schmidt .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ told her about his network : In 2019 , journalists in the German press wrote about the occult Right-wing paramilitary organization called Uniter , members of which had ties to Germany ’ s intelligence , military and police , preparing for their revolution — Day X — in which they planned on killing politicians and members of the press as part of a cleansing of Germany .
While he was in the Bundeswehr , Andre was a part of Germany ’ s Military Counterintelligence Service ( MAD ) , an indication of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apparatus .
The organization became more mysterious , and really a secret society .
The whole group became a part of the Lazarus Union , a religious order based in Austria , in which initiates are knighted , attire themselves with cloaks and get blessed with swords .
Like the Masonic Lodge , members could elevate themselves in the ranks of the cult by going through “ degrees , ” and in the words of the Taz report : “ they give lectures to each other through secret societies.
” Former members of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with hoods over their heads , are led into Masonic temples , by torchlight rituals .
Uniter also conducted workshops and invited people to participate in them , such as , for example , a knife fighting course .
These paramilitary conspirators organized themselves through chat groups that supposedly do not exist today and they consisted of not only soldiers and police officers , but government officials as well , according to a 2018 report from Taz .
These people organized themselves also through their association with the organization , Uniter .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the men within this paramilitary circle have been accused by the Federal Prosecutor for planning the killing of politicians , activists , and people from “ the Left ” .
One of the chats that Andre was a part of belonged to one “ Franco A.
” who , like Andre , was also in the Bundeswehr .
In 2016 , Franco A. was in Albstadt in Baden-Württemberg where he was preparing for “ Day X ” with two dozen others in a rifle club .
It is not surprising that Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A. terrorist charges .
Franco A. spent time with another armed group but this time with André S. aka “ Hannibal ” .
Uniter worked to find recruits through Germany ’ s Masonic lodges .
In June of 2015 Andre S. wrote an email to a member of the Lodge , in which he referred to the freedom fighters Garibaldi and Washington ( both of whom were Freemasons ) .
“ Without radical changes , you can not change the lazy crowd in order to work in the spirit of humanity ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaders ” who “ can make decisions and go their own way instead of running after the masses ” , said another email from André S. also in June 2015 .
Andre S , not surprisingly , even foresaw a possibly upcoming “ war ” with Russia and wrote : “ The only question is when and how it discharges ” .
In December of 2017 , four members of the field and military lodge ( called the “ Henning von Tresckow ” Lodge ) in Potsdam were invited to a Christmas party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fulda .
Uniter , interestingly , was apparently able to use large parts of the property for this .
Some members from the Potsdam Lodge who were present seemed startled by what they saw .
Two men were subjected to a sophisticated ceremony for the “ admission to a higher degree ” in the hierarchy of Uniter , according to a letter from several members of the military Lodge “ Henning von Tresckow ” to their club management in February 2019 .
With bags over their heads the two members were “ led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” .
There , according to the description , they had to “ kneel down in front of a table on which there was a Bible and a skull ” .
According to the report , they had to “ take an oath in front of leader André S. and drink a large glass that was filled with an unknown drink ” .
André S. explained that this Masonic unit should “ be used in the future ” if “ the state can no longer guarantee its citizens ’ security ” .
By @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to security from immigrants , since in April of 2019 he published a report on the security situation in Germany that denounced “ the violence of so-called immigrants ” .
André S. is said to have resigned from the military lodge in Potsdam .
But he apparently kept a number of his followers there .
He kept four “ brothers ” — who were members of Uniter — in the Potsdam Lodge , according to its chairman in a lodge report dated January 20th , 2019 .
According to the chairman , André @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ only occupied the ” leadership of Uniter “ known only to the innermost circle ” with Freemasons .
The Potsdam Lodge ’ s second chairman Michael H. , was , according to a 2019 report from Stern , a member of Uniter .
But , at the request of members of the Lodge , Michael H. left Uniter in February of 2019 .
“ I quit because of the fears of some friends ” , said Michael .
But , he still reveres Uniter , always speaking of “ our statutes ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So , what do we know from all of this ?
We know , for one , that there is indeed a growing Right-wing rage in the political atmosphere of Europe against the establishment ; we also know that there are indeed Nazis entrenched within Germany ’ s intelligence apparatus .
The question is , if or when will this looming Right-wing presence implode into violence and despotism ?
People will argue that the Right-wing rage is necessary ( and some will even argue that Right-wing violence is necessary ) , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Left-wing hysteria is so strong that there needs to be a ferocious reaction .
With the rise of Right-wing extremism will come the rise of Left-wing radicalism .
The two need each other to exist , and here lies the reason not to follow these factions .
The two are co-dependent on each other , and thus each one is not the result of sincere thinking , but rather are simply reactions to one another .
Both the Leftist and the Rightist militants are merely capitalizing on the base inclination of human beings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tendency to ( when we see something that upsets us ) to justify violence as the solution .
But , we must overcome this by not adopting despotic ideologies , but rather understanding the importance of truth .
There is indeed truth on the Left-wing side , but its mixed with poison ; there is indeed truth in the Right-wing , but there is also poison that lies there .
The key is to realize what is true and to eschew the poison .
In this we have a more complete paradigm .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal immigrants , and having compassion on them , but there is indeed something perverse about calling for the police to be abolished , or to praise the death of police officers , or to support abortion or homosexual marriage .
Here lies the problem with the Left .
There is nothing wrong with wanting law and order , the question is what kind of order one wants and if this order demands for tyranny , eugenics and murder .
In order to prevent ourselves from being seduced by the extremes , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the wide path that includes all evils ( some of them masqueraded as “ order ” and orthodoxy ) .
Let us not forget , that it was not liberals who murdered Christ , but those of a Right-wing , nationalist and religious order .
Evil comes in either two forms : that of chaos and that of order .
Those of a liberal persuasion will fall for open chaos , and those of the conservative type will fall for evil that is cloaked as order .
This confusion has been , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all societal disorder .

By Theodore Shoebat
“Men seek stranger sins or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense.” — GK Chesterton
There is indeed a horrid confusion in society about who to follow. Shall we follow the Left or the Right? Because of the destructive nature of the Left, many turn to the Right. But even in the Right-wing element, there is a deception that covers up another form of rebellion. There is open rebellion, but then there is a cloaked rebellion. It is the rebellion that comes in the form of tradition, order and orthodoxy, pretending to want to save the world while cunningly scheming to destroy it. It is the rebellion that murdered Christ. With its shrieks about law and order, it nailed the Christ on the Cross, and with its piety and facade of properness, it mocked the suffering King. “The rulers were themselves rebels” writes Chesterton, and certainly in the heart of every rebel is a tyrant wishing he was the one ruling. With this rebellion comes rage, and in our own time this is definitely manifesting, be it online or on the street. Men are being consumed by rage, drunk off of it, and it seems as though they cannot be satiated unless they spiral into the hysterical.
The covid lockdown in Germany is exposing a growing fanaticism against the government. In 2015, there were huge demonstrations against the state due to the acceptance of refugees from the Middle East into Germany. Now, there are massive demonstrations taking place against the lockdown, in just another step revealing the brewing rage against the established government. Just in late October, demonstrators thew molotov cocktails at the front of the Robert Koch Institute, the German federal agency responsible for controlling the virus. Just recently there was a huge demonstration in Leipzig in which 20,000 people attended. The event was not peaceful as there were clashes with the police. “There were numerous attacks against security forces,” police tweeted soon after they called the gathering unlawful. There were also many neo-Nazis present. Stephan Kramer, president of the state-level intelligence agency in the central state of Thuringia, expressed his concern:
“The escalation line is going up all the way … We see with the latest events that there is an escalation toward more violence and to more right-wing extremism among the demonstrations.”
Certainly not all of the protestors were Nazis or ultra-nationalists — many of them were people with good intentions — but we cannot ignore the fanaticism present and the indications of looming rage against the state which would have far darker consequences. According to DW: “The journalist union DJU said there were also at least 32 attacks on reporters, primarily from members of the Querdenken (Lateral Thinking) movement, which organized the main protest.” Protestors cried: ”peace, freedom, no dictatorship,” and demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel step down.
Mehr als 20‘000 Corona-Skeptiker demonstrieren in Leipzig, darunter Hunderte Rechtsextreme und Hooligans. pic.twitter.com/87yjaQxEUN #le0711 — Fabian Eberhard (@FabianEberhard) November 7, 2020
Die Corona-Demo in Leipzig eskaliert. Hooligans und vermummte Neonazis greifen die Polizei an. Diese scheint teils überfordert. pic.twitter.com/jTYkk5VB9w #le0711 — Fabian Eberhard (@FabianEberhard) November 7, 2020
The anger is accumulating and is a reflection of the political atmosphere of rage and exasperation that is cultivating in the forming zeitgeist.
A Right-wing terrorist cell — which called itself “Gruppe S” — was caught in Germany trying to start a civil war to overthrow the government, by slaughtering as many people as possible. They wanted to murder politicians, refugees and those who dissented from their fanatical ideology with the goal of establishing a Nazi government. According to German broadcaster SWR, prosecutors have charged 12 alleged members of the terrorist network. Prosecutors have stated that the terror network planned on “destabilizing and ultimately overthrowing” Germany’s democratic order and planned to spark “a civil-war-like situation … via as yet undefined attacks on politicians, asylum seekers and people of Muslim faith.” The leader of the group has been identified only as Werner S. (who went by the alias “Giovanni Teutonico”, after the 13th century Catholic canon law scholar) and his right hand man as Tony E.
The group consisted of the worst elements of society, one of the members having already served in prison for rape and dangerous assault. One of them was even a police officer in the traffic department in Hamm. The group would fantasize about slaughtering people. One of the leaders, Werner S., is said to have been looking forward to many “miserably dead bodies”. Another is said to have written that he was “in the mood for a massacre”. They were inspired by the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand; one of the members held onto the footage that was video streamed by the killer as he butchered dozens of people in a mosque in March of 2019. The same member also had the video footage of the shooting in a synagogue in Halle on October of 2019 that killed two people and injured two others. According to Der Spiegel the group decided to obtain guns and also collected money to finance their operations. One of the members, Thorsen W., was in charge of weapons licensing for the police headquarters in Hamm, and was willing to donate 5,000 euros for the purchasing of weapons. As Der Spiegel reports:
“Thorsten W.’s occupational background is problematic. Until his arrest, the 50-year-old worked as an administrative employee at the police headquarters in Hamm, most recently in the traffic commission. He reportedly said he would be willing to give the right-wing extremist group 5,000 euros, and even more if necessary. W. didn’t always have a harmless desk job. He reportedly used to work in the “weapons licenses” department of the Hamm police. Apparently, he was also involved in decision-making about who could receive a weapons permit.”
Tapped phone calls revealed that Werner S. sought to recruit people who were “intelligent, tough, brutal, quick” and would go beyond just mere street demonstrations. Werner S. found his recruits through years of networking amongst Right-wing operatives and had specifically approached leaders from right-wing extremist groups and so-called “Reich citizens” all over Germany in order to win them over to his “powerful troops”.
Werner wanted to execute a strategy of tensions in which his group would murder Muslims, spark a violent reaction from Muslims, and thus creating the “conditions similar to civil war”. The Right-wing network was heavily investigated by authorities; they searched more than 50 apartments and confiscated around 300 cell phones, computers or hard drives. In total, the investigators looked through almost 18 terabytes of data, including around 60 million chat and voice messages, photos and videos. More than 50 witnesses were interviewed.
According to the 200 page indictment, the Right-terror network was founded in Alfdorf in Baden-Wurttemberg at the end of September of 2019 where they met at an old sawmill called the “Hummelgautsche” where they would do paramilitary training in the woods, practice archery and sword fighting.
The group took inspiration from the Freikorps (German military volunteers many of whom, after WW1, became disgruntled and would eventually be the precursors to the SA, the paramilitary organization that would back Adolf Hitler). In the Whatsapp group for the care service that he worked for, Tony E. shared a photo of himself alongside Werner S., as members of a militia-type body called “Freikorps Homeland Security.” On February 8th of 2020, Werner proposed that the group convene a meeting in northern Germany, affirming that there could be no more excuses and that “things are going to happen.” The group met at the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that weekend, to the outskirts of the city of Minden. The meeting was held in the home of a 55 year old man named Thomas N., a member of the Reichsburger movement which believes that the current German government is not legitimate and that the country needs to return to the government of the Kingdom of Prussia and that Germany should return to pre-World War Two borders.
They discussed murdering Muslims in mosques during their prayers in several towns. They also talked about obtaining weapons from two Right-wing groups, “Viking Security Germania” and “Wotan’s Heirs”. Its very interesting, that these groups have an emphasis on Wotan or Odin, revealing their pagan character. It is not just about mere politics and immigration, but really a political ideology seeped in religious pursuits of reviving the old dark rituals of pre-Christian times. It is no wonder that one of the members of this gang, Thorsten W., would dress up like a Germanic warrior, with a sword and rune-covered shield.
These people were living for a fantasy, like all of these types of idealists do. But there comes a point where the fantasizer grows tired of residing within his delusion, and he wants his dream to be manifested before his eyes. As Chesterton described such people: “They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares.” (The Everlasting Man, ch. 8, p. 159) Indeed a nightmare is what these people want to impose on the world, their dark and sinister zeitgeist.
“Gruppe S.” is not an isolated incident, but is part of an actual phenomena in Germany that is deeply entrenched in the governmental infrastructure of the country, especially the intelligence services. In October of 2020 it was revealed that four members of Germany’s intelligence staff in North Rhine-Westphalia were involved in radical Right-wing activity online. These intelligence staff members were (according to DW) “part of an observation team that was involved in all areas of investigation, including monitoring right-wing extremism”. It would be difficult to speak of the dark esoteric network of fanatic rebels without inquiring into how entrenched it is in the intelligence apparatus of the country.
The year was 2006. German intelligence agent, Andreas Temme, walked up to the register of an internet cafe, paid his bill on a counter bespattered with blood, and left as the corpse of Halit Yozgat lied lifeless on the floor behind the register. The son of immigrants, he was shot in cold blood by a member of the National Socialist Underground as he was working behind the register for his parent’s internet cafe. Temme was part of the intelligence agency — the Protection of the Constitution, or Verfassungsschutz — for the state of Hesse and it was actually his job to monitor right-wing extremists. When police searched Temme’s home they found guns, Nazi regalia and quotes from Mein Kampf typed up on a piece of paper. It is no wonder that Temme, in his own village, got the nickname of “little Adolf”. Temme’s sentiments shed light on a very dark matter, the Nazi ties within Germany’s intelligence apparatus.
Although Temme was technically cleared as a suspect after a nine month investigation, it became clear that Verfassunsschutz was involved in a major cover up for the National Socialist Underground since 2006. Helmut Wetzel, the Kassel police detective who was in charge of the murder investigation, reported to a parliamentary inquiry in 2015 about how the state’s intelligence agency refused to permit his officers from questioning any of Temme’s contacts in neo-Nazi circles. One of these contacts was a paid informant who spoke with Temme by phone before he entered the cafe where the murder occurred.
In the year 2012, the state’s interior minister commenced a secret investigation on why Temme and other intelligence agents who had neo-Nazi contacts failed to see that Yozgat was the ninth person to be murdered by Nazi terrorists. The investigation was completed in 2014 and consisted of 3,500 files. Senior intelligence officers reviewed all of them and did not want a lot of the information on the investigation to be seen by the public nor by legislators. The senior intelligence agents ordered that chunks of the investigation be censored from the eyes of the public for 120 years.
Local legislators were never told of the existence of this investigation and only found the redacted version later during oversight hearings. The fact was that the intelligence apparatus was covering up the biggest murder spree done by a Nazi terrorist gang in Germany. The country’s intelligence agency did not put an end to the reign of terror of the National Socialist Underground before its members murdered nine people of ethnic minorities (eight of them were Turkish, one was Greek), detonated two bombs in two ethnic neighborhoods, murdered a police officer and committed fifteen armed robberies — all from the years 2000 to 2007. For years the police assumed that the murders were done by Turkish mafia. Even relatives of the victims were held suspect.
But this theory began to fall apart in 2006 (one week after the murder of Yozgat) once it was realized that none of the victims had any connection with each other. This theory really fell flat in 2011, the year two of the three members of the National Socialist Underground — Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Bonhardt — committed suicide. The last member to be alive was Beate Zschape and in November of 2011 she turned herself in to the police. Authorities searched the hideout of the gang and found the Ceská 83 pistol that was used in their nine murders. But realities of the cover up continued to be revealed.
For example, in the trial of Zschape and four accomplices (who were accused in aiding the National Socialist Underground), the judge rejected any questions on weather or not German intelligence knew of the murders and failed to report them, regardless of the fact that dozens of neo-Nazis across Germany were being paid by intelligence agencies during the time of the killing spree. It was conventionally believed that the National Socialist Underground was just three members, while German intelligence denied having informants who were part of the gang. But according to Petra Pau, one of the authors of a Bundestag investigative committee report: “It’s been proven that the NSU’s core trio was surrounded by at least 40 informants… The federal [domestic intelligence agency] always claimed that it had no informants with the NSU – that’s complete nonsense.” She also affirmed:
“There was knowledge of the NSU trio; there was knowledge that they acquired weapons, that they wanted to carry out attacks. All this information was available to the security services but never reached the criminal prosecution authorities.”
Irene Mihalic, who also worked in the committee investigation, talked about deliberate destruction of files by the Verfassungsschutz (BfV):
“We worked out that the destruction of files on November 11, 2011 [a week after Zschäpe’s arrest] in the federal office of the [BfV] was deliberate and specific … It was not to be publicly known that the trio had virtually been surrounded by informants in the 1990s.”
The report by the Bundestag investigative committee demonstrated the deliberate coverup. As DW stated:
“The report showed how Germany’s intelligence agency, the Verfassungsschutz, systematically blocked investigations into the murders to protect their paid informants – all neo-Nazis who not only failed to provide information on the NSU, but used the taxpayers’ money they were being paid to finance neo-Nazi activities.”
The official who actually destroyed the files stated to federal prosecutors in 2014 that he did what he did in order to save the intelligence agents from the responsibility to confess to the reality that all of their Nazi informants did not report the murders done by Mundlos, Bohnhardt and Zschape. There is even evidence that there were other members of the National Socialist Underground who acted as accomplices to the crimes but never saw justice. According to Clemens Binninger, the chair of the Bundestag’s investigation, “There is a slew of evidence that suggests that there must have been co-perpetrators at the scene, who helped or acted as lookouts”.
Andreas Temme also was connected to Stephan Ernst, the Nazi operative who in June of 2019 murdered Walter Lubcke, the president of the governmental district of Kassel. According to HNA: “Andreas Temme, once an employee of the Hessian constitutional protection, was “on duty” with Stephan Ernst, the alleged murderer of regional president Walter Lübcke. Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) reported this at the request of the SPD.”
The connection between Nazism and German intelligence was further illuminated upon in 2019 when it was revealed how Andre Schmidt, a former counterintelligence agent of Germany’s Special Forces Command (KSK) and Freemason, led a Right-wing and masonic paramilitary organization, consisting of former and active military and elite police officers, called Uniter, and tried to spark a revolution that he and his cult called “Day X” in which they would kill politicians and journalists. In July of 2020 the New York Times put out an article by Katrin Bennhold in which she recounts her conversation with Schmidt. During the interview Bennhold recounts how Schmidt told her about his network:
“He left active service last September after stolen training grenades were found at a building belonging to his parents. But, he says, he still has his network: “Special forces, intelligence, business executives, Freemasons,” he said. They meet here regularly. The house, he says, is owned by a wealthy supporter.”
In 2019, journalists in the German press wrote about the occult Right-wing paramilitary organization called Uniter, members of which had ties to Germany’s intelligence, military and police, preparing for their revolution — Day X — in which they planned on killing politicians and members of the press as part of a cleansing of Germany. While he was in the Bundeswehr, Andre was a part of Germany’s Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), an indication of the Nazi ranks within Germany’s intelligence apparatus.
The organization became more mysterious, and really a secret society. The whole group became a part of the Lazarus Union, a religious order based in Austria, in which initiates are knighted, attire themselves with cloaks and get blessed with swords. Like the Masonic Lodge, members could elevate themselves in the ranks of the cult by going through “degrees,” and in the words of the Taz report: “they give lectures to each other through secret societies.” Former members of Uniter have also testified that newcomers, with hoods over their heads, are led into Masonic temples, by torchlight rituals. Uniter also conducted workshops and invited people to participate in them, such as, for example, a knife fighting course.
These paramilitary conspirators organized themselves through chat groups that supposedly do not exist today and they consisted of not only soldiers and police officers, but government officials as well, according to a 2018 report from Taz. These people organized themselves also through their association with the organization, Uniter. In fact, it is reported that three of the men within this paramilitary circle have been accused by the Federal Prosecutor for planning the killing of politicians, activists, and people from “the Left”.
One of the chats that Andre was a part of belonged to one “Franco A.” who, like Andre, was also in the Bundeswehr. In 2016, Franco A. was in Albstadt in Baden-Württemberg where he was preparing for “Day X” with two dozen others in a rifle club. It is not surprising that Germany’s Attorney General has given Franco A. terrorist charges. Franco A. spent time with another armed group but this time with André S. aka “Hannibal”.
Uniter worked to find recruits through Germany’s Masonic lodges. In June of 2015 Andre S. wrote an email to a member of the Lodge, in which he referred to the freedom fighters Garibaldi and Washington (both of whom were Freemasons). “Without radical changes, you cannot change the lazy crowd in order to work in the spirit of humanity”, he wrote. It needs “radical leaders” who “can make decisions and go their own way instead of running after the masses”, said another email from André S. also in June 2015. Andre S, not surprisingly, even foresaw a possibly upcoming “war” with Russia and wrote: “The only question is when and how it discharges”.
In December of 2017, four members of the field and military lodge (called the “Henning von Tresckow” Lodge ) in Potsdam were invited to a Christmas party by Uniter in the Fasanerie Palace near Fulda. Uniter, interestingly, was apparently able to use large parts of the property for this. Some members from the Potsdam Lodge who were present seemed startled by what they saw. Two men were subjected to a sophisticated ceremony for the “admission to a higher degree” in the hierarchy of Uniter, according to a letter from several members of the military Lodge “Henning von Tresckow” to their club management in February 2019.
With bags over their heads the two members were “led into a circle of torch bearing men”. There, according to the description, they had to “kneel down in front of a table on which there was a Bible and a skull”. According to the report, they had to “take an oath in front of leader André S. and drink a large glass that was filled with an unknown drink”. André S. explained that this Masonic unit should “be used in the future” if “the state can no longer guarantee its citizens’ security”. By security, Andre S. was referring partially to security from immigrants, since in April of 2019 he published a report on the security situation in Germany that denounced “the violence of so-called immigrants”.
André S. is said to have resigned from the military lodge in Potsdam. But he apparently kept a number of his followers there. He kept four “brothers” — who were members of Uniter — in the Potsdam Lodge, according to its chairman in a lodge report dated January 20th, 2019. According to the chairman, André S. state “openly” that he “only occupied the” leadership of Uniter “known only to the innermost circle” with Freemasons.
The Potsdam Lodge’s second chairman Michael H., was, according to a 2019 report from Stern, a member of Uniter. But, at the request of members of the Lodge, Michael H. left Uniter in February of 2019. “I quit because of the fears of some friends”, said Michael. But, he still reveres Uniter, always speaking of “our statutes” when he talks about the paramilitary organization.
So, what do we know from all of this? We know, for one, that there is indeed a growing Right-wing rage in the political atmosphere of Europe against the establishment; we also know that there are indeed Nazis entrenched within Germany’s intelligence apparatus. The question is, if or when will this looming Right-wing presence implode into violence and despotism?
People will argue that the Right-wing rage is necessary (and some will even argue that Right-wing violence is necessary), and they will justify this by saying that Left-wing hysteria is so strong that there needs to be a ferocious reaction. With the rise of Right-wing extremism will come the rise of Left-wing radicalism. The two need each other to exist, and here lies the reason not to follow these factions.
The two are co-dependent on each other, and thus each one is not the result of sincere thinking, but rather are simply reactions to one another. Both the Leftist and the Rightist militants are merely capitalizing on the base inclination of human beings to overreact. We humans have a tendency to (when we see something that upsets us) to justify violence as the solution. But, we must overcome this by not adopting despotic ideologies, but rather understanding the importance of truth. There is indeed truth on the Left-wing side, but its mixed with poison; there is indeed truth in the Right-wing, but there is also poison that lies there. The key is to realize what is true and to eschew the poison.
In this we have a more complete paradigm. There is nothing wrong with sympathizing with illegal immigrants, and having compassion on them, but there is indeed something perverse about calling for the police to be abolished, or to praise the death of police officers, or to support abortion or homosexual marriage. Here lies the problem with the Left. There is nothing wrong with wanting law and order, the question is what kind of order one wants and if this order demands for tyranny, eugenics and murder. In order to prevent ourselves from being seduced by the extremes, we must follow the narrow path, not the wide path that includes all evils (some of them masqueraded as “order” and orthodoxy). Let us not forget, that it was not liberals who murdered Christ, but those of a Right-wing, nationalist and religious order. Evil comes in either two forms: that of chaos and that of order. Those of a liberal persuasion will fall for open chaos, and those of the conservative type will fall for evil that is cloaked as order. This confusion has been, is, and will be at the heart of all societal disorder.
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shoebat--2020-11-17--Saudi Minister Declares That Nuclear Action In The Name Of Self-Defense Against Iran Is Still An “Op

Saudi Minister Declares That Nuclear Action In The Name Of Self-Defense Against Iran Is Still An “Option”

Saudi Arabia and Iran have been rivals going back to the days before Islam , so their mutual dislike of each other is not something new .
What has changed are the weapons available to inflict more damage to a fuller capacity .
With the advent of the nuclear age after World War II , there has been a long fear that nuclear weapons would be employed in perhaps less controlled circumstances .
According to Al-Jazeera news , Saudi Arabia is hinting at taking nuclear action against Iran in the form of acquiring nuclear weapons in the name of ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Iran continue to arm herself with nuclear weapons .
Saudi Arabia reserves the right to arm itself with nuclear weapons if regional rival Iran can not be stopped from making one , the kingdom ’ s minister of state for foreign affairs has said .
“ It ’ s definitely an option , ” Adel al-Jubeir told the DPA news agency in a recent interview .
If Iran becomes a nuclear power , he said , more countries would follow suit .
“ And Saudi Arabia has made it very clear , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to protect its people and to protect its territories.
” Tehran has been working on the use of nuclear power for decades .
In 2015 , it signed a landmark nuclear deal with world powers to stop the development of a bomb in exchange for lifting sanctions .
But US President Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew his country from the deal and brought it to the brink of failure .
Trump ’ s administration wants a more far-reaching programme and an end to Iran ’ s regional interference – a position supported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Iranians have only responded to pressure , ” said al-Jubeir .
Asked what changes he anticipates could come once President-elect Joe Biden takes charge in January , he said : “ We will have to see.
” ( source ) For those alive during the 1950s in America , there was a concept known as “ mutually-assured destruction ” , which was that if the US and then-USSR were to find themselves in a conflict , that given the use of nuclear weapons and their inherently destructive potential , that the two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nuclear holocaust that would consume the world .
Thankfully this has not happened yet , but with the increased proliferation of nuclear weapons or other dangerous weapons , such as artificial intelligence , around the world , the chance for this continues to increase .
Even just recently , the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict saw Armenia threatening nuclear action against Azerbaijan if their Matsamor nuclear plant was attacked .
The case of Saudi Arabia and Iran is and old one , in terms of the conflict , but the trend of global conflict and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his worst tendencies has not declined .
Instead , , in the name of ‘ self-defense ’ , all it would take is even a minor misunderstanding to trigger a series of events from which it would be very difficult to turn back save for a major war .
This is why the trend for war is so critical and must be watched , as a conflict in one small region could spiral quickly out of control into something global and terrible .
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Saudi Arabia and Iran have been rivals going back to the days before Islam, so their mutual dislike of each other is not something new. What has changed are the weapons available to inflict more damage to a fuller capacity. With the advent of the nuclear age after World War II, there has been a long fear that nuclear weapons would be employed in perhaps less controlled circumstances. According to Al-Jazeera news, Saudi Arabia is hinting at taking nuclear action against Iran in the form of acquiring nuclear weapons in the name of ‘self-defense’ should, per their assessment, Iran continue to arm herself with nuclear weapons.
Saudi Arabia reserves the right to arm itself with nuclear weapons if regional rival Iran cannot be stopped from making one, the kingdom’s minister of state for foreign affairs has said. “It’s definitely an option,” Adel al-Jubeir told the DPA news agency in a recent interview. If Iran becomes a nuclear power, he said, more countries would follow suit. “And Saudi Arabia has made it very clear, that it will do everything it can to protect its people and to protect its territories.” Tehran has been working on the use of nuclear power for decades. In 2015, it signed a landmark nuclear deal with world powers to stop the development of a bomb in exchange for lifting sanctions. But US President Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew his country from the deal and brought it to the brink of failure. Trump’s administration wants a more far-reaching programme and an end to Iran’s regional interference – a position supported by Saudi Arabia. “We believe the Iranians have only responded to pressure,” said al-Jubeir. Asked what changes he anticipates could come once President-elect Joe Biden takes charge in January, he said: “We will have to see.” (source)
For those alive during the 1950s in America, there was a concept known as “mutually-assured destruction”, which was that if the US and then-USSR were to find themselves in a conflict, that given the use of nuclear weapons and their inherently destructive potential, that the two nations would annihilate each other in a nuclear holocaust that would consume the world.
Thankfully this has not happened yet, but with the increased proliferation of nuclear weapons or other dangerous weapons, such as artificial intelligence, around the world, the chance for this continues to increase. Even just recently, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict saw Armenia threatening nuclear action against Azerbaijan if their Matsamor nuclear plant was attacked.
The case of Saudi Arabia and Iran is and old one, in terms of the conflict, but the trend of global conflict and the nature of man that tends toward embracing his worst tendencies has not declined. Instead, ,in the name of ‘self-defense’, all it would take is even a minor misunderstanding to trigger a series of events from which it would be very difficult to turn back save for a major war.
This is why the trend for war is so critical and must be watched, as a conflict in one small region could spiral quickly out of control into something global and terrible.
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shoebat--2020-11-17--Obama Declares That The Internet “The Single Biggest Threat To Our Democracy”

Like Trump , Obama is no stranger to controversy .
During his famous rise to power in 2008 , he was arguably the first President who made mass use of social media to propel his campaign .
Now twelve years later , VOX reports that Obama has now changed his position , noting from the that the Internet has created a “ malevolent information architecture ” and as such Obama responds by saying that this is “ the single biggest threat to our democracy.
” Back in 2008 , Barack Obama famously harnessed the internet and social media to help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up the embrace once he got there .
Now he worries that the internet and social media have helped create “ the single biggest threat to our democracy.
” Obama has been saying a version of this for four years — since he left the White House — but his words are getting steadily more pointed .
He ’ s clearly sounding an alarm , but it ’ s not exactly clear what he thinks we should do about it .
His latest critique comes in a new interview between Obama and Atlantic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go any further we should put it in full context : Obama was discussing a media landscape dominated not just by Facebook but by Fox News that allows Americans to choose their own distorted reality .
Which means , he says , we no longer have a shared set of facts .
That assessment is now conventional wisdom among many critics of the TV and internet ecosystem .
There ’ s almost no practical , constructive argument about how we should respond to that problem .
Obama doesn ’ t offer one in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it ’ s incorrect to say that Obama is laying the problems of our broken information landscape solely at the feet of Facebook or any other particular tech company .
But he is certainly lacing into them now in a way he didn ’ t do prior to leaving the White House .
Obama : Now you have a situation in which large swaths of the country genuinely believe that the Democratic Party is a front for a pedophile ring…I was talking to a volunteer who was going door-to-door in Philadelphia in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ getting questions about QAnon conspiracy theories .
Goldberg : Is this new malevolent information architecture bending the moral arc away from justice ?
Obama : I think it is the single biggest threat to our democracy .
( source ) It is true that there is a lot of misinformation on the Internet , but who is responsible for this ?
Indeed , the greatest propagators of misinformation are not average people , but arguably government intelligence agencies , who promote misinformation in order to create a parallel reality so they can manipulate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ echoes the quote not proven but attributed to CIA Director William Casey by way of George McGovern spoken in 1981 at President Reagan ’ s first cabinet meeting , which is “ We ’ ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
” One can also cite the notorious “ Russian troll farms ” that have proliferated on the Internet in a modern version of Cold War propaganda dissemination .
The Internet , for all of the misinformation and outright bad information on it , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people the ability to consider alternative viewpoints and interact with others they would not normally have been given the opportunity to do .
As a result , while errors will always persist in a world affected by original sin , there is a hope that people can learn more than what is just presented to them .
Now one can only estimate what Obama ’ s intentions may be , and to his credit , there is something to be said about malicious statements being made that affect public perception .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is in the name of ‘ public good ’ to stifle the flow of information , that while not without precedent , given the current structure of society would likely allow for the propagation of even more lies but in an official context , thus not solving any problem , but making more under an “ official ” cover and creating a black market in illegal or ‘ forbidden ’ ideas that will endure and eventually cause a backlash .
Yet with the trends moving in what seems to be control for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the genuine good-will opinion of many at stake , Obama ’ s words may want to be taken as a caution , a look into a possible future of the Internet where opinions and ideas are much more controlled and the ability to speak freely is only for those who dare- at potential legal risk -to venture into the dark corners of the Internet .
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Like Trump, Obama is no stranger to controversy. During his famous rise to power in 2008, he was arguably the first President who made mass use of social media to propel his campaign. Now twelve years later, VOX reports that Obama has now changed his position, noting from the that the Internet has created a “malevolent information architecture” and as such Obama responds by saying that this is “the single biggest threat to our democracy.”
Back in 2008, Barack Obama famously harnessed the internet and social media to help win the White House. He kept up the embrace once he got there. Now he worries that the internet and social media have helped create “the single biggest threat to our democracy.” Obama has been saying a version of this for four years — since he left the White House — but his words are getting steadily more pointed. He’s clearly sounding an alarm, but it’s not exactly clear what he thinks we should do about it. His latest critique comes in a new interview between Obama and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, and before we go any further we should put it in full context: Obama was discussing a media landscape dominated not just by Facebook but by Fox News that allows Americans to choose their own distorted reality. Which means, he says, we no longer have a shared set of facts. That assessment is now conventional wisdom among many critics of the TV and internet ecosystem. There’s almost no practical, constructive argument about how we should respond to that problem. Obama doesn’t offer one in his interview, either. And again, it’s incorrect to say that Obama is laying the problems of our broken information landscape solely at the feet of Facebook or any other particular tech company. But he is certainly lacing into them now in a way he didn’t do prior to leaving the White House. Obama: Now you have a situation in which large swaths of the country genuinely believe that the Democratic Party is a front for a pedophile ring…I was talking to a volunteer who was going door-to-door in Philadelphia in low-income African American communities, and was getting questions about QAnon conspiracy theories. Goldberg: Is this new malevolent information architecture bending the moral arc away from justice? Obama: I think it is the single biggest threat to our democracy. (source)
It is true that there is a lot of misinformation on the Internet, but who is responsible for this? Indeed, the greatest propagators of misinformation are not average people, but arguably government intelligence agencies, who promote misinformation in order to create a parallel reality so they can manipulate it for their own ends. This echoes the quote not proven but attributed to CIA Director William Casey by way of George McGovern spoken in 1981 at President Reagan’s first cabinet meeting, which is “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” One can also cite the notorious “Russian troll farms” that have proliferated on the Internet in a modern version of Cold War propaganda dissemination.
The Internet, for all of the misinformation and outright bad information on it, is a very good thing because it gives people the ability to consider alternative viewpoints and interact with others they would not normally have been given the opportunity to do. As a result, while errors will always persist in a world affected by original sin, there is a hope that people can learn more than what is just presented to them.
Now one can only estimate what Obama’s intentions may be, and to his credit, there is something to be said about malicious statements being made that affect public perception. However, the other alternative is even worse, which is in the name of ‘public good’ to stifle the flow of information, that while not without precedent, given the current structure of society would likely allow for the propagation of even more lies but in an official context, thus not solving any problem, but making more under an “official” cover and creating a black market in illegal or ‘forbidden’ ideas that will endure and eventually cause a backlash. Yet with the trends moving in what seems to be control for the sake of control, and with the genuine good-will opinion of many at stake, Obama’s words may want to be taken as a caution, a look into a possible future of the Internet where opinions and ideas are much more controlled and the ability to speak freely is only for those who dare- at potential legal risk -to venture into the dark corners of the Internet.
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shoebat--2020-11-17--Could Trump Still Win The Election?

Could Trump Still Win The Election?

So far , things are not looking good for President Trump .
He has not conceded the election ( and it is likely he never will ) , but according to Trump ’ s tweets , the attitudes of fellow Republicans , and the words of many world leaders , it looks like Biden is going to be President .
However , as the saying goes , “ it isn ’ t over until it is over ” , should never be forgotten .
Again , I can not say it enough , Trump currently seems likely to lose the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conclusive proof to sufficiently challenge , in a legal sense , the vote margins that explain Biden ’ s presumed victory , the courts are therefore likely to reject Trump ’ s current challenges .
As noted , it does not help that media organs on both the right and the left as well as the social media giants have firmly declared a Biden victory and are thereby of no help for Trump .
But there is still time , as uncertainty and doubt can remain alive at least until January 5th when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decided , which is another hotly-contested election that may invite a contest .
Likewise it is also possible that Trump may actually try to stay in office by manipulating the Electoral College process not through taking the 270 electoral votes to win , but denying them to Biden and therefore forcing a runoff .
Consider how there are several more steps and deadlines in the elaborate election process for the presidency .
In December , there are three : the 8th for when states determine their electors for the Electoral College , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states to cast their votes for the new President and Vice President , and the 23rd for when the certificates of the electoral vote results get delivered to the president of the Senate , who is Vice President Mike Pence .
In January , we have the 3rd which is when members of Congress are sworn in , and the 6th , which is when Congress meets to count the electoral votes and declare the results .
So , as noted above , with options running out to “ win ” the 270 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he can try to block or delay certifications in certain states , or he can push Republican state legislators to appoint Trump electors who vote for him in spite of the results from the states , and possibly even both , with all of this spoken as theoretical options .
Doing such would not be without precedent either , such as from the 1876 election , following how Samuel Tilden had amassed all but one electoral vote needed to defeat Governor Rutherford B. Hayes , his Republican competitor .
The result was , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that a bipartisan commission of five representatives , five senators and five Supreme Court justices was created , and on what became a party-line vote gave Hayes all three contested states in March of 1877 and thus the winner by a single electoral vote .
Likewise , consider that in the electoral college system , the normal practice in a state where Biden won the popular-vote total would be for state election officials to certify the results and send a slate of electors to Congress .
However , it is also true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to conclude that a popular vote has been corrupted , thus allowing them , theoretically speaking , to send a competing slate of electors on behalf of their state to vote instead .
When one adds into this how the 12th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that the “ President of the Senate shall , in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives , open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted , ” it means that should disputes about competing electoral slates arise , the authority for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Senate- who is Vice President Pence .
In this case , it is most probable that he would choose Trump as opposed to Biden , leaving Democrats with their only option of appeal to the Supreme Court .
Following also from the 12th amendment cited above , “ the House of Representatives shall choose immediately , by ballot , the President .
But in choosing the President , the votes shall be taken by states , the representation from each state having one vote.
” Currently , Republicans have a state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states , and they will likely keep that majority in the upcoming Congress forming .
Thus a simple vote of the states could then elect President Trump for a second term , which Democrats again would appeal to the Supreme Court .
But the Supreme Court option in any case may not work , for remember , six of its nine judges were nominated by Republicans , and because of this , will be likely to find favor with Trump .
There are also other variants of things that could happen .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could theoretically stop certification of election results , especially if it could be argued that the process for counting late ballots prevents an accurate result from being calculated .
Likewise , a state or federal court could prevent secretaries of state from certifying election results .
In fact , theoretically speaking , the ghost of 1876 could come back to haunt this recount because it may force the first real application of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 , which has never been applied and was put in should another 1876 election type @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are more possible scenarios that could happen .
However , these are just a few that one can think of .
I mention them because while the signs point to Biden , in fairness to Trump , the election results are not over , and there are a lot of things that could , theoretically speaking , still happen that could change the results unexpectedly .
Consider the unique circumstances under which Trump was elected in 2016 , and the incredible controversy surrounding his tenure in office .
Trump is not one to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he is NOT going to concede because , even if only in theory , he still has a chance , but not without potentially a lot of sacrifice , compromise , and political games taking place before the public or behind the scenes .
Right now , as I have said before , who knows what is going to happen ?
Until the election is over , it technically is not over .
As such , until January , get a bucket of popcorn and a soda , because not only is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenario would repeat all over again -but that we may go back into the 19th century .
After all , politics at large with populism an nationalism is heading as a general trend in this direction , so why not the elections too ?
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So far, things are not looking good for President Trump. He has not conceded the election (and it is likely he never will), but according to Trump’s tweets, the attitudes of fellow Republicans, and the words of many world leaders, it looks like Biden is going to be President.
However, as the saying goes, “it isn’t over until it is over”, should never be forgotten.
Again, I cannot say it enough, Trump currently seems likely to lose the fight over the election. Lacking enough conclusive proof to sufficiently challenge, in a legal sense, the vote margins that explain Biden’s presumed victory, the courts are therefore likely to reject Trump’s current challenges. As noted, it does not help that media organs on both the right and the left as well as the social media giants have firmly declared a Biden victory and are thereby of no help for Trump.
But there is still time, as uncertainty and doubt can remain alive at least until January 5th when the two Senate run-offs in Georgia are decided, which is another hotly-contested election that may invite a contest. Likewise it is also possible that Trump may actually try to stay in office by manipulating the Electoral College process not through taking the 270 electoral votes to win, but denying them to Biden and therefore forcing a runoff.
Consider how there are several more steps and deadlines in the elaborate election process for the presidency. In December, there are three: the 8th for when states determine their electors for the Electoral College, the 14th for when electors meet in their states to cast their votes for the new President and Vice President, and the 23rd for when the certificates of the electoral vote results get delivered to the president of the Senate, who is Vice President Mike Pence. In January, we have the 3rd which is when members of Congress are sworn in, and the 6th, which is when Congress meets to count the electoral votes and declare the results.
So, as noted above, with options running out to “win” the 270 required or strip them from Biden, he can try to block or delay certifications in certain states, or he can push Republican state legislators to appoint Trump electors who vote for him in spite of the results from the states, and possibly even both, with all of this spoken as theoretical options. Doing such would not be without precedent either, such as from the 1876 election, following how Samuel Tilden had amassed all but one electoral vote needed to defeat Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, his Republican competitor. The result was, in addition to the Compromise of 1877, that a bipartisan commission of five representatives, five senators and five Supreme Court justices was created, and on what became a party-line vote gave Hayes all three contested states in March of 1877 and thus the winner by a single electoral vote.
Likewise, consider that in the electoral college system, the normal practice in a state where Biden won the popular-vote total would be for state election officials to certify the results and send a slate of electors to Congress. However, it is also true that state legislatures have the constitutional authority to conclude that a popular vote has been corrupted, thus allowing them, theoretically speaking, to send a competing slate of electors on behalf of their state to vote instead. When one adds into this how the 12th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that the “President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted,” it means that should disputes about competing electoral slates arise, the authority for settling them would pass to the President of the Senate- who is Vice President Pence. In this case, it is most probable that he would choose Trump as opposed to Biden, leaving Democrats with their only option of appeal to the Supreme Court.
Following also from the 12th amendment cited above, “the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote.” Currently, Republicans have a state delegation majority with 26 of the 50 states, and they will likely keep that majority in the upcoming Congress forming. Thus a simple vote of the states could then elect President Trump for a second term, which Democrats again would appeal to the Supreme Court.
But the Supreme Court option in any case may not work, for remember, six of its nine judges were nominated by Republicans, and because of this, will be likely to find favor with Trump.
There are also other variants of things that could happen. For example, a successful lawsuit or lawsuits could theoretically stop certification of election results, especially if it could be argued that the process for counting late ballots prevents an accurate result from being calculated. Likewise, a state or federal court could prevent secretaries of state from certifying election results. In fact, theoretically speaking, the ghost of 1876 could come back to haunt this recount because it may force the first real application of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which has never been applied and was put in should another 1876 election type scenario happen.
I am sure there are more possible scenarios that could happen. However, these are just a few that one can think of. I mention them because while the signs point to Biden, in fairness to Trump, the election results are not over, and there are a lot of things that could, theoretically speaking, still happen that could change the results unexpectedly. Consider the unique circumstances under which Trump was elected in 2016, and the incredible controversy surrounding his tenure in office. Trump is not one to give up, and as I noted, he is NOT going to concede because, even if only in theory, he still has a chance, but not without potentially a lot of sacrifice, compromise, and political games taking place before the public or behind the scenes.
Right now, as I have said before, who knows what is going to happen? Until the election is over, it technically is not over. As such, until January, get a bucket of popcorn and a soda, because not only is what I feared- that a 2000 type scenario would repeat all over again -but that we may go back into the 19th century. After all, politics at large with populism an nationalism is heading as a general trend in this direction, so why not the elections too?
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