theduran--2020-01-22--How Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Journalists’ Propagandize for More U.S. Aggressions

This will be exposing typical U.S.-regime propaganda .
That ’ s propaganda favoring U.S. imperialism , which actually violates the intentions of America ’ s Founders , and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution .
The U.S. regime ’ s propaganda doesn ’ t come from the Government directly , but instead from the 607 billionaires who control the regime , via their corrupt control over the successful politicians ( in both Parties ) , financing their careers , and by their owning ( and otherwise controlling ) the regime ’ s ‘ news ’ -media , which are privately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the Government ’ s ‘ publicly owned ’ ‘ news ’ -media do — all of America ’ s mainstream ‘ news ’ -media being in favor of the U.S. Government ’ s sanctioning ( economic-blockading ) and trying to overthrow by means of coup or sometimes outright invasion , countries ( such as Iraq , Iran , Syria , Venezuela , Libya , etc . )
that had never invaded , nor even threatened to invade , the United States .
U.S. imperialism is commonly called “ neoconservatism , ” but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imperialistic regimes throughout history — it is controlled by the given invading nation ’ s aristocracy , which deceives in its propaganda regarding the reasons why “ regime change ” is supposedly needed in the targeted countries .
By means of these lies , the nation ’ s public are made willing to fund these invasions in their taxes and can even think that it is their patriotic duty , instead of being a massively criminal enterprise that they ’ ve been fooled into supporting with their dollars and sometimes with their very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ historical background , in order for a reader to be able to understand typical U.S.-and-allied propaganda ; and , then , will come a typical example which displays the results of that history and which thereby exposes the crucially implicit lies in that propaganda , and which cause it to be effective propaganda — the sort of deceits that fool most of the public into favoring these invasions and other international aggressions , which aggressions routinely produce mass-murders , benefitting only the aggressor-nation ’ s aristocracy and the aristocracies that are allied with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wealth in the U.S. has come to be so extremely narrowly held , so that , for example , a January 2018 study done for Deutsche Bank , “ US Income and Wealth Inequality ” , reported ( p. 9 ) that “ US : Top 0.1 % owns as many assets as the bottom 90 % ” , and ( p. 11 ) that , out of all the 34 OECD nations , America has the most unequal incomes — the most extreme inequality , of them all .
The billionaires and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because , as the wealthy economist Lawrence Summers once put it , “ we should accept inequality of results , recognizing that those who earn more are in a better position to contribute more to support society.
” ( In other words : poor people are less worthy than rich people are .
Rich people tend to believe that , and to reward economists such as Summer for teaching that .
It ’ s essential to their propaganda — and they fool especially themselves into believing it . )
The example to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Michael Bloomberg .
Though he doesn ’ t deceive the public more than other billionaires do , he is running to become America ’ s President in order to replace another deceptive billionaire , Donald Trump , and so his ‘ news ’ -operation provides a typical example of the mendacity of America ’ s mainstream ( that ’ s to say , its billionaire-controlled ) ‘ journalism ’ ( virtually everything concerning international relations in U.S.-and-allied ‘ journalism ’ is propaganda : written so as to deceive ) .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isn ’ t merely billionaire-controlled ; it is billionaire-owned , just like Jeff Bezos ’ s Washington Post is .
Washington DC and NYC both get their ‘ news ’ from such highly compromised , billionaires-owned-and-controlled , ‘ news ’ -media , as these .
America ’ s broadcast media then spread that ‘ news ’ , nationally , and internationally .
The individuals who report ‘ news ’ at a ‘ news ’ -medium such as Bloomberg ‘ News ’ , do what the operation ’ s owners and its advertisers want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ propagandize for their aristocracy — their own and allied billionaires ’ corporations ’ expansion so as to extend their empire into more countries and push aside the local aristocracy there , and , in this way , to concentrate the world ’ s wealth into their own and allied corporations .
An expansionist or “ imperialistic ” aristocracy ’ s goals are analogous to gangland operations , except that an aristocracy writes and enforces the laws , instead of merely violates the laws ( as gangland-operations do ) .
It creates laws within @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laws also internationally via alliances and treaties , and it uses alliances and treaties against ‘ enemies ’ , such as the military alliance and treaty organization NATO , in order to pump increased sales of their own nation ’ s corporations ’ weaponry ( such as from Raytheon Corporation ) , and it also uses those international laws via sanctions and secondary sanctions , which can become the preliminary phase of an outright military invasion of the targeted country after finally declaring the nation to be an ‘ enemy ’ and thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over , for ‘ us ’ against ‘ them ’ .
( For example : Trump is outright refusing the demand by Iraq ’ s sovereign Government for all U.S. forces to leave . )
Mere gangsters can not do any such things , and so they are much more under the gun than “ banksters ” ( aristocrats and their agents ) are .
Controlling the ‘ news ’ -media is essential to any expansionist aristocracy ’ s operations .
No empire can be achieved or maintained without deceiving the nation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taxes and sometimes supply the corpses to build and increase the aristocracy ’ s empire .
This is the difference between imperialistic operations versus organized-crime operations .
Organized crime is lower-class because it doesn ’ t control the government , but , when the anti-organized-crime Kennedy brothers were briefly in power in the U.S. , organized crime did at least provide crucial assistance to eliminating the Kennedys ; and , in that sense , organized crime was itself part of America ’ s Establishment , at least at that time .
Furthermore , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documented in their classic 1998 WHITEOUT : The CIA , Drugs and the Press ( p. 134 ) , “ From the moment of its inception , the CIA held to the same policies of its progenitors in keeping gangster organizations in business .
By 1947 the Agency was backing heroin producers in Marseilles , Burma , Lebanon , and western Sicily.
” Organized crime is often essential to the CIA ’ s “ Special Operations.
” Organizations such as the Mafia are valuable assets of the CIA .
They are experts at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operations are less likely than any other to ever be exposed as having been CIA operations .
Organized crime is thus a terrific asset to international intelligence agencies — especially to America ’ s CIA , which promotes itself as representing a ‘ democracy ’ , even though it represents , instead , a fascist-imperialist regime .
Two years before the CIA got into protecting the heroin trade , U.S. President Harry S. Truman was , on 26 July 1945 , persuaded by his top general , Dwight David Eisenhower ( hypocritical inventor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Establishment — which he actually always supported — “ military-industrial complex ” ) that if the United States wouldn ’ t conquer the Soviet Union , then the Soviet Union would conquer the United States , and so the suckered-by-Eisenhower Truman launched the Cold War on that date ; and , on that basis , he turned America ’ s most essential WW II ally , the Soviet Union , into an enemy , and the Cold War secretly remains U.S. policy till this very day .
( This was exactly the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predecessor , FDR , had intended . )
The strategy , after U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush ( on 24 February 1990 ) secretly ordered America ’ s leading vassals to continue the Cold War on the U.S.-and-allied side after the Soviet Union and its communism and their Warsaw-Pact mirror to America ’ s NATO would all end the following year , has been to surround Russia with enemies ( Russia-allied countries that would be flipped to become U.S.-allied countries , by means of CIA subversion , coups , etc . )
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ go in and conquer Russia .
This plan requires a massive amount of propaganda , but it has been very successful , in ousting Russia-friendly governments such as in Yugoslavia in 1991-99 , Iraq 2003 , Libya 2011 , and Ukraine 2014 , though not yet achieving its final destination , winning World War III ( WW-III ) by grabbing control over Russia itself .
The first CIA coup ( these coups were done by their “ Special Operations ” division ) was in Thailand in the second year of the CIA ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was done in order to take over the opium-heroin trade in southeast Asia ( including Burma — now Myanmar ) and to use it for providing essential off-the-books finance to the CIA in order for the CIA to do its part of the job of conquering Russia , “ Special Operations.
” As WHITEOUT ( p. 136 ) put it : This was the modus operandi of the CIA for the next fifty years .
Though Truman was pressing for the secret operations [ Special Operations ] , his signature was on no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operations was given by the National Security Council .
There was no congressional appropriation , so funding came from private sources inside the U.S. , through a network of proprietary front organizations , millionaires , and criminal enterprises .
That was how the “ The Buck Stops Here ” President , Truman , actually functioned .
( Similarly , Hitler ’ s “ signature was on no compromising document ” about the Holocaust , but , as I documented in my own 2000 WHY the Holocaust Happened , Hitler was the individual who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ action from the very top .
It wasn ’ t any truer that Truman was a ‘ weak dictator ’ than that Hitler , whom some Hitler-supporters label with that phrase , was .
However , there were important differences between them : Truman ’ s impact turned out to shape subsequent history even more than Hitler ’ s impact did .
And , whereas Truman ’ s vastly harmful impact resulted from his being the Deep State ’ s fool and thus his starting the Cold War on 26 July 1945 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from his own , very private and longstanding , personal and always secret obsession against “ blood-poisoning ” of pureblooded Christians or “ Aryans , ” by Jews , which had started obsessing him in him in 1919 , twenty years before the war to impose this exterminationist goal upon the the entire world became publicly unveiled — a war that he partly lost when WW II ended , whereas Truman ’ s war already partly won in 1991 , and continues on even now , with the U.S. regime still planning to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if and when it ever can . )
CIA officer Miles Copeland wrote twenty-five years later that had it not been for the Mafia the Communists would have been in control of Italy , so crucial had the criminal organization been in murdering labor organizers and terrorizing the political process .
The CIA ’ s financing mechanisms for these abuses of its charter came in the form of large subventions from American businessmen among whom Allen Dulles and Forrestal passed the hat at New York ’ s Brook Club , getting contributions from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had been made director of Thailand ’ s national police after the CIA-backed coup of 1948 led by Major General Phin Choohannan .
Phao ’ s 40,000-member police force , the Police Knights , immediately engaged in a campaign of assassinations of Phin and Phao ’ s political enemies .
These troops also assumed control of Thailand ’ s lucrative opium trade .
… Phao ’ s control of the opium trade was directly abetted by the CIA , which had funnelled him $ 35 million in aid .
Thailand would thereafter become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operations in the region .
In the 1950s the CIA backed General Phao in a struggle with another Thai general for monopoly of control of Thailand ’ s opium and heroin trade…Backed by squads of CIA advisers , Phao set about the task of turning Thailand into a police state .
The country ’ s leading dissidents and academics were jailed .
… Phao also cornered the country ’ s gold market , played a leading role on the top twenty corporate boards in the country , charged leading executives and businessmen protection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dens .
Phao became great friends with Bill Donovan , at that time U.S. ambassador to Thailand .
So : that was the CIA ’ s first coup , and it happened in 1948 , to Thailand : this operation was aimed at reducing the amount of off-the-books funds for U.S. intelligence “ Special Operations ” that needed to come from America ’ s aristocrats .
Such Special Operations are crucial to the illegal , treasonous ( anti-Constitutional ) , control over the U.S. Government , by the Deep State ( the aristocrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who finance the bulk of successful political campaigns for federal office ; these are the individuals who determine who will and who won ’ t be able to become a serious contender for Congress , the Presidency , and judgeships ) .
Not all of the money to fund Special Operations comes from the billionaires .
An unknown percentage of it comes also from organized criminals — violators of laws , instead of writers of laws .
America ’ s billionaires ( via their paid agents , including gangsters ) are the ones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aren ’ t that powerful , because they can only violate the laws .
And when a gangster serves a billionaire , only the billionaire is standing above the law .
This is essential historical context in order to be able to interpret accurately the 26 December 2019 Bloomberg ‘ News ’ article , “ Putin ’ s Grand Gas Project Makes Sense Now ” , by “ Opinion ” writer Leonid Bershidsky .
Here , now , in bold italics , are the especially relevant excerpts from it which indicate Bloomberg ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against Russia , and for isolating Russia by overthrowing governments which ( like Saddam Hussein ’ s , Muammar Gaddafi ’ s , Viktor Yanukovych ’ s , Bashar Assad ’ s , Nicolás Maduro ’ s , and Evo Morales ’ s ) had ( or have ) friendly relations with Russia : It ’ s been reported in Ukraine that Russia might resume direct supplies of gas for Ukraine ’ s own needs — something unthinkable under former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ’ s government , when Ukraine was buying Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the invader of Crimea .
This ignores that by no later than June of 2013 , the U.S. regime was already at the early implementation stage of its planned take-over not only of all of Ukraine but especially of Russia ’ s largest naval base , which since 1783 has been and still remains in Crimea ( which from 1954 to 2014 was part of Ukraine ) .
That was to become yet another U.S. naval base .
This coup was already in the planning stage by no later than June of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ the invader of Crimea ” belongs actually to Obama , instead of to Putin , who merely responded to that U.S. invasion of Ukraine in the way that was essential for the national security of Russia .
In doing so , Russia ’ s President Putin also was protecting the people who live in Crimea , which is why they passionately wanted this response from him .
Zelenskiy , is more pragmatic than Poroshenko was and eager to end the armed conflict Russia has instigated in Ukraine ’ s eastern regions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia has instigated in Ukraine ’ s eastern regions ” refers actually to the Obama-installed new Ukrainian regime ’ s ethnic cleansing in that region to eliminate as many of the residents there as possible , because 90+ % of them had voted for the man whom Obama had just overthrown , Viktor Yanukovych ; and , if those voters would still remain inside Ukraine , then Obama ’ s new Ukrainian regime would easily be voted out of power and would thus quickly end .
Obama ’ s regime didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be living there if and when that area , called “ Donbass , ” would finally become restored to Ukraine and they would become Ukrainian voters again , because that would surely then lead to an end of America ’ s control over Ukraine .
The civilian population in Donbass were specifically targeted .
Here ’ s a map of the election in which Yanukovych became Ukraine ’ s President , and as you can see there , the far-eastern dark purple area , where Yanukovych received at least 90 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regions ” that refused to be ruled by the Obama-installed Ukrainian regime .
The purpose of the newly installed Ukrainian Government ’ s ethnic cleansing in that area wasn ’ t only to kill as many people there as they could , but especially to force millions of them to flee across the border into Russia , so that , if and when that region would ever become restored again to Ukrainian control , as many voters as possible who had lived there would either have been killed or else become Russians and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gone by then , but Russia ’ s energy trade will be more diversified than when he came to power .
More benign Russian governments will be able to use it as a basis for good neighborly relations rather than as an instrument of pressure .
On 27 February 2006 , David McClintick headlined a now-classic 20,000-word article in Institutional Investor magazine , “ How Harvard lost Russia ” , and he detailed there the rape of Russia in the early 1990s , by Lawrence Summers and his Harvard team of corrupt and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and then Boris Yeltsin , naively brought in to guide Russia through the process of transforming from a communist to a capitalist economy .
( Those two Russian leaders didn ’ t understand fascism , and especially not its imperialistic type , such as Harvard and most of its ilk represent . )
Basically , Summers , whose entire career has been spent assisting and helping America ’ s billionaires , selected a team of advisors for this who when they weren ’ t themselves outright corrupt , were nonetheless incredibly destructive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Russia ’ s most corrupt and well-connected insiders , who became billionaires in the process and secreted their newly gained wealth in London and elsewhere , so that the Russian Government ’ s system of social-welfare benefits and of infrastructure were yanked out from under Russia ’ s public .
Those were the “ More benign Russian governments ” — the pre-Putin ones — that Bloomberg ‘ News ’ here praises and wants to replace the Putin-led Government .
If you want to see in charts and graphs what the impact upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treating as criminals the most-corrupt of those Russian billionaires and his trying to get them to pay the taxes that they had avoided and hid abroad , click here , to see those charts and graphs .
As is shown there , Russia ’ s economy approximately halved between 1990-2000 when Putin became President , who turned this around so that Russia has thrived under his leadership .
Bershidsky wants to restore the pre-Putin type of leadership — near-starvation to the Russian masses .
… multiple players — Putin the ambitious authoritarian , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Xi , his adversaries such as the U.S. , his reluctant partners such as the EU and his victims such as Ukraine — can combine efforts to build something worthwhile .
Whereas Bloomberg ‘ News ’ pumps the lie about Putin ’ s “ victims such as Ukraine , ” the clear and incontestable reality is that Barack Obama destroyed Ukraine in 2014 , and that “ The Obama Regime ’ s Plan to Seize the Russian Naval Base in Crimea ” started being implemented by the Obama Administration by no later than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The U.S. was backing an outright racist-fascist , or nazi , operation in Ukraine , as is clearly shown here and here .
No one can reasonably assert that today ’ s America isn ’ t at least fascist , if not outright nazi ( though predominantly anti-Russian instead of anti-Semitic , but any form of racist fascism is nazi ideology , and Obama ’ s was a form of that : anti-Russian ) .
So : anyone who places any trust whatsoever in American billionaires ’ ‘ news ’ -media is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the facts are conclusively the exact opposite , and those media — as is exemplified well in this article from Bloomberg ’ s Leonid Bershidsky — base their international- ‘ news ’ reporting , and analysis , on what is of benefit to America ’ s billionaires , instead of to their victims , either at home or abroad .
What type of fascists would produce such fascist propaganda ?
How is it not extreme ?
It ’ s an extremist form of capitalism , of the most dangerous type : both racist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allegedly ‘ anti-war ’ or ‘ progressive ’ ‘ news ’ -media in America are actually pro-imperialistic , and the contrary front by them is itself part of their propaganda .
Their function is to publish criticism of billionaires and of the Government , but nothing that would encourage any sort of revolution to eliminate the dictators ( including their agents ) and to replace them by a different system .
In the United States , where the existing Constitution is democratic and the Government simply violates it routinely and the corrupt judges @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these clear violations ‘ constitutional ’ , a revolution would need to eliminate the dictators but not the Constitution .
In some other dictatorships , it would need to replace both , and replacing the system would thus have to be more drastic than merely replacing the existing rulers .
Fortunately , that ’ s not necessary in the United States ; so , a bloodless revolution could restore America to democracy , though all post-1970 Constitutional rulings would need to be then reviewed by completely changed personnel in the U.S. Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bloodless revolution , changing all members would take decades ; so , that process would have to start only after all other stages of such a revolution are already completed .
It ’ s possible , but unlikely .
America will therefore probably remain a dictatorship by its richest .
Though America ’ s Founders sought not only to eliminate the British aristocracy here , but any subsequent aristocracy from ruling ( even an American one ) in the United States , America ’ s richest did rise , after WW-II , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called America ’ s “ Deep State ” ) , and the U.S. Constitution will probably remain , and increasingly become , a dead letter here — increasingly lied-about by America ’ s top Court as it establishes more and more fraudulent precedents , which insult the consensus-intentions of the great men who wrote and signed the Constitution and each one of its Amendments .
America ’ s Founders warred against not only the British empire but actually against any empire .
Even the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 ( which is so often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ rapes and attempted rapes by the U.S. regime against countries in the Western Hemisphere such as Bolivia and Venezuela ) was anti-imperialistic , and simply said that the United States opposed European countries ’ efforts to take over countries in the Western Hemisphere .
But this Doctrine subsequently became ‘ interpreted ’ by rising U.S. aristocrats to be instead an authorization for the U.S. government to replace European governments as imperial rulers in other countries of this Hemisphere — yet another historical lie by the aristocracy .
American fascism ( especially of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called now “ neoconservatism ” ) is not rooted in the U.S. Constitution ; it violates the U.S. Constitution .
Our current Government does not represent the United States of America ( the U.S. Constitution — “ We , the People … ” — and that ’ s all Americans ) .
But it does represent hundreds of today ’ s Americans , the Deep State , which need to be eliminated and replaced so that this country becomes , again , a democracy .
Other key sources , than the Cockburn-St.-Clair WHITEOUT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s U.S. Government , are Paul L. Williams ’ s 2018 Operation Gladio : The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican , the CIA , and the Mafia ; L. Fletcher Prouty ’ s 2008 The Secret Team : The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World ; my own 9 September 2019 “ How the U.S .
Created the Cold War ” , and the BBC ’ s 1992 documentary posted to youtube as “ Operation Gladio — Full 1992 documentary BBC ” .
All of these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s aristocrats carried out after FDR ’ s 1945 death , in order , ultimately — with the consciously planned ultimate aim being — to surround Russia by enemies ( transforming even its former allies into its enemies ) , and then to take control over both Russia and China , and thus to become dictators to the entire planet , nullifying U.S. President FDR ’ s intention , which had been instead for an international democratic federal republic of nations emerging from the U.N. — for the termination , instead of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author , most recently , of They ’ re Not Even Close : The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records , 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST ’ S VENTRILOQUISTS : The Event that Created Christianity .

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Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
This will be exposing typical U.S.-regime propaganda. That’s propaganda favoring U.S. imperialism, which actually violates the intentions of America’s Founders, and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. regime’s propaganda doesn’t come from the Government directly, but instead from the 607 billionaires who control the regime, via their corrupt control over the successful politicians (in both Parties), financing their careers, and by their owning (and otherwise controlling) the regime’s ‘news’-media, which are privately owned and which carry the same propaganda as the Government’s ‘publicly owned’ ‘news’-media do — all of America’s mainstream ‘news’-media being in favor of the U.S. Government’s sanctioning (economic-blockading) and trying to overthrow by means of coup or sometimes outright invasion, countries (such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Libya, etc.) that had never invaded, nor even threatened to invade, the United States. U.S. imperialism is commonly called “neoconservatism,” but it is basically the same as other imperialistic regimes throughout history — it is controlled by the given invading nation’s aristocracy, which deceives in its propaganda regarding the reasons why “regime change” is supposedly needed in the targeted countries. By means of these lies, the nation’s public are made willing to fund these invasions in their taxes and can even think that it is their patriotic duty, instead of being a massively criminal enterprise that they’ve been fooled into supporting with their dollars and sometimes with their very bodies.
First here will be essential historical background, in order for a reader to be able to understand typical U.S.-and-allied propaganda; and, then, will come a typical example which displays the results of that history and which thereby exposes the crucially implicit lies in that propaganda, and which cause it to be effective propaganda — the sort of deceits that fool most of the public into favoring these invasions and other international aggressions, which aggressions routinely produce mass-murders, benefitting only the aggressor-nation’s aristocracy and the aristocracies that are allied with them. This is the way that wealth in the U.S. has come to be so extremely narrowly held, so that, for example, a January 2018 study done for Deutsche Bank, “US Income and Wealth Inequality”, reported (p. 9) that “US: Top 0.1% owns as many assets as the bottom 90%”, and (p. 11) that, out of all the 34 OECD nations, America has the most unequal incomes — the most extreme inequality, of them all. The billionaires and their agents say that this is okay because, as the wealthy economist Lawrence Summers once put it, “we should accept inequality of results, recognizing that those who earn more are in a better position to contribute more to support society.” (In other words: poor people are less worthy than rich people are. Rich people tend to believe that, and to reward economists such as Summer for teaching that. It’s essential to their propaganda — and they fool especially themselves into believing it.)
The example to be dissected here will be from Wall Street’s Michael Bloomberg. Though he doesn’t deceive the public more than other billionaires do, he is running to become America’s President in order to replace another deceptive billionaire, Donald Trump, and so his ‘news’-operation provides a typical example of the mendacity of America’s mainstream (that’s to say, its billionaire-controlled) ‘journalism’ (virtually everything concerning international relations in U.S.-and-allied ‘journalism’ is propaganda: written so as to deceive). In Bloomberg’s case, the medium isn’t merely billionaire-controlled; it is billionaire-owned, just like Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is. Washington DC and NYC both get their ‘news’ from such highly compromised, billionaires-owned-and-controlled, ‘news’-media, as these. America’s broadcast media then spread that ‘news’, nationally, and internationally.
The individuals who report ‘news’ at a ‘news’-medium such as Bloomberg ‘News’, do what the operation’s owners and its advertisers want them to do, which is to propagandize for their aristocracy — their own and allied billionaires’ corporations’ expansion so as to extend their empire into more countries and push aside the local aristocracy there, and, in this way, to concentrate the world’s wealth into their own and allied corporations. An expansionist or “imperialistic” aristocracy’s goals are analogous to gangland operations, except that an aristocracy writes and enforces the laws, instead of merely violates the laws (as gangland-operations do). It creates laws within its own nation, and it creates laws also internationally via alliances and treaties, and it uses alliances and treaties against ‘enemies’, such as the military alliance and treaty organization NATO, in order to pump increased sales of their own nation’s corporations’ weaponry (such as from Raytheon Corporation), and it also uses those international laws via sanctions and secondary sanctions, which can become the preliminary phase of an outright military invasion of the targeted country after finally declaring the nation to be an ‘enemy’ and thus ‘acceptable’ to invade and take over, for ‘us’ against ‘them’. (For example: Trump is outright refusing the demand by Iraq’s sovereign Government for all U.S. forces to leave.) Mere gangsters cannot do any such things, and so they are much more under the gun than “banksters” (aristocrats and their agents) are.
Controlling the ‘news’-media is essential to any expansionist aristocracy’s operations. No empire can be achieved or maintained without deceiving the nation’s public, who must pay the taxes and sometimes supply the corpses to build and increase the aristocracy’s empire.
This is the difference between imperialistic operations versus organized-crime operations. Organized crime is lower-class because it doesn’t control the government, but, when the anti-organized-crime Kennedy brothers were briefly in power in the U.S., organized crime did at least provide crucial assistance to eliminating the Kennedys; and, in that sense, organized crime was itself part of America’s Establishment, at least at that time. Furthermore, as Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair documented in their classic 1998 WHITEOUT: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (p. 134), “From the moment of its inception, the CIA held to the same policies of its progenitors in keeping gangster organizations in business. By 1947 the Agency was backing heroin producers in Marseilles, Burma, Lebanon, and western Sicily.” Organized crime is often essential to the CIA’s “Special Operations.” Organizations such as the Mafia are valuable assets of the CIA. They are experts at getting things done secretly. And such operations are less likely than any other to ever be exposed as having been CIA operations. Organized crime is thus a terrific asset to international intelligence agencies — especially to America’s CIA, which promotes itself as representing a ‘democracy’, even though it represents, instead, a fascist-imperialist regime.
Two years before the CIA got into protecting the heroin trade, U.S. President Harry S. Truman was, on 26 July 1945, persuaded by his top general, Dwight David Eisenhower (hypocritical inventor of the PR phrase he used against the Establishment — which he actually always supported — “military-industrial complex”) that if the United States wouldn’t conquer the Soviet Union, then the Soviet Union would conquer the United States, and so the suckered-by-Eisenhower Truman launched the Cold War on that date; and, on that basis, he turned America’s most essential WW II ally, the Soviet Union, into an enemy, and the Cold War secretly remains U.S. policy till this very day. (This was exactly the opposite of what Truman’s immediate predecessor, FDR, had intended.) The strategy, after U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush (on 24 February 1990) secretly ordered America’s leading vassals to continue the Cold War on the U.S.-and-allied side after the Soviet Union and its communism and their Warsaw-Pact mirror to America’s NATO would all end the following year, has been to surround Russia with enemies (Russia-allied countries that would be flipped to become U.S.-allied countries, by means of CIA subversion, coups, etc.), with the aim being ultimately to go in and conquer Russia. This plan requires a massive amount of propaganda, but it has been very successful, in ousting Russia-friendly governments such as in Yugoslavia in 1991-99, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, and Ukraine 2014, though not yet achieving its final destination, winning World War III (WW-III) by grabbing control over Russia itself.
The first CIA coup (these coups were done by their “Special Operations” division) was in Thailand in the second year of the CIA’s existence, 1948, and it was done in order to take over the opium-heroin trade in southeast Asia (including Burma — now Myanmar) and to use it for providing essential off-the-books finance to the CIA in order for the CIA to do its part of the job of conquering Russia, “Special Operations.” As WHITEOUT (p. 136) put it:
This was the modus operandi of the CIA for the next fifty years. Though Truman was pressing for the secret operations [Special Operations], his signature was on no compromising document. The authority for the operations was given by the National Security Council. There was no congressional appropriation, so funding came from private sources inside the U.S., through a network of proprietary front organizations, millionaires, and criminal enterprises.
That was how the “The Buck Stops Here” President, Truman, actually functioned. (Similarly, Hitler’s “signature was on no compromising document” about the Holocaust, but, as I documented in my own 2000 WHY the Holocaust Happened, Hitler was the individual who ordered it — that was an executive action from the very top. It wasn’t any truer that Truman was a ‘weak dictator’ than that Hitler, whom some Hitler-supporters label with that phrase, was. However, there were important differences between them: Truman’s impact turned out to shape subsequent history even more than Hitler’s impact did. And, whereas Truman’s vastly harmful impact resulted from his being the Deep State’s fool and thus his starting the Cold War on 26 July 1945, Hitler’s vastly harmful impact was from his own, very private and longstanding, personal and always secret obsession against “blood-poisoning” of pureblooded Christians or “Aryans,” by Jews, which had started obsessing him in him in 1919, twenty years before the war to impose this exterminationist goal upon the the entire world became publicly unveiled — a war that he partly lost when WW II ended, whereas Truman’s war already partly won in 1991, and continues on even now, with the U.S. regime still planning to go in for the final kill, if and when it ever can.)
WHITEOUT also noted (p. 138) that,
CIA officer Miles Copeland wrote twenty-five years later that had it not been for the Mafia the Communists would have been in control of Italy, so crucial had the criminal organization been in murdering labor organizers and terrorizing the political process.
Furthermore,
The CIA’s financing mechanisms for these abuses of its charter came in the form of large subventions from American businessmen among whom Allen Dulles and Forrestal passed the hat at New York’s Brook Club, getting contributions from fearful millionaires such as …
And (p. 225),
General Phao had been made director of Thailand’s national police after the CIA-backed coup of 1948 led by Major General Phin Choohannan. Phao’s 40,000-member police force, the Police Knights, immediately engaged in a campaign of assassinations of Phin and Phao’s political enemies. These troops also assumed control of Thailand’s lucrative opium trade. … Phao’s control of the opium trade was directly abetted by the CIA, which had funnelled him $35 million in aid. Thailand would thereafter become the CIA’s main base of operations in the region.
In the 1950s the CIA backed General Phao in a struggle with another Thai general for monopoly of control of Thailand’s opium and heroin trade…Backed by squads of CIA advisers, Phao set about the task of turning Thailand into a police state. The country’s leading dissidents and academics were jailed. … Phao also cornered the country’s gold market, played a leading role on the top twenty corporate boards in the country, charged leading executives and businessmen protection fees and ran prostitution houses and gambling dens. Phao became great friends with Bill Donovan, at that time U.S. ambassador to Thailand.
So: that was the CIA’s first coup, and it happened in 1948, to Thailand: this operation was aimed at reducing the amount of off-the-books funds for U.S. intelligence “Special Operations” that needed to come from America’s aristocrats. Such Special Operations are crucial to the illegal, treasonous (anti-Constitutional), control over the U.S. Government, by the Deep State (the aristocrats — America’s hundreds of billionaires who finance the bulk of successful political campaigns for federal office; these are the individuals who determine who will and who won’t be able to become a serious contender for Congress, the Presidency, and judgeships). Not all of the money to fund Special Operations comes from the billionaires. An unknown percentage of it comes also from organized criminals — violators of laws, instead of writers of laws. America’s billionaires (via their paid agents, including gangsters) are the ones who write the laws. Organized criminals aren’t that powerful, because they can only violate the laws. And when a gangster serves a billionaire, only the billionaire is standing above the law.
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This is essential historical context in order to be able to interpret accurately the 26 December 2019 Bloomberg ‘News’ article, “Putin’s Grand Gas Project Makes Sense Now”, by “Opinion” writer Leonid Bershidsky.
Here, now, in bold italics, are the especially relevant excerpts from it which indicate Bloomberg’s publication of propaganda that’s against Russia, and for isolating Russia by overthrowing governments which (like Saddam Hussein’s, Muammar Gaddafi’s, Viktor Yanukovych’s, Bashar Assad’s, Nicolás Maduro’s, and Evo Morales’s) had (or have) friendly relations with Russia:
It’s been reported in Ukraine that Russia might resume direct supplies of gas for Ukraine’s own needs — something unthinkable under former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s government, when Ukraine was buying Russian gas in the EU rather than deal with the invader of Crimea.
This ignores that by no later than June of 2013, the U.S. regime was already at the early implementation stage of its planned take-over not only of all of Ukraine but especially of Russia’s largest naval base, which since 1783 has been and still remains in Crimea (which from 1954 to 2014 was part of Ukraine). That was to become yet another U.S. naval base. This coup was already in the planning stage by no later than June of 2011. So: that Bloomberg-published phrase “the invader of Crimea” belongs actually to Obama, instead of to Putin, who merely responded to that U.S. invasion of Ukraine in the way that was essential for the national security of Russia. In doing so, Russia’s President Putin also was protecting the people who live in Crimea, which is why they passionately wanted this response from him.
Zelenskiy, is more pragmatic than Poroshenko was and eager to end the armed conflict Russia has instigated in Ukraine’s eastern regions.
The Bloomberg-published phrase “the armed conflict Russia has instigated in Ukraine’s eastern regions” refers actually to the Obama-installed new Ukrainian regime’s ethnic cleansing in that region to eliminate as many of the residents there as possible, because 90+% of them had voted for the man whom Obama had just overthrown, Viktor Yanukovych; and, if those voters would still remain inside Ukraine, then Obama’s new Ukrainian regime would easily be voted out of power and would thus quickly end. Obama’s regime didn’t want too many of those voters still to be living there if and when that area, called “Donbass,” would finally become restored to Ukraine and they would become Ukrainian voters again, because that would surely then lead to an end of America’s control over Ukraine. The civilian population in Donbass were specifically targeted. Here’s a map of the election in which Yanukovych became Ukraine’s President, and as you can see there, the far-eastern dark purple area, where Yanukovych received at least 90% of the vote, is the “eastern regions” that refused to be ruled by the Obama-installed Ukrainian regime. The purpose of the newly installed Ukrainian Government’s ethnic cleansing in that area wasn’t only to kill as many people there as they could, but especially to force millions of them to flee across the border into Russia, so that, if and when that region would ever become restored again to Ukrainian control, as many voters as possible who had lived there would either have been killed or else become Russians and resettled in Russia.
Putin will be gone by then, but Russia’s energy trade will be more diversified than when he came to power. More benign Russian governments will be able to use it as a basis for good neighborly relations rather than as an instrument of pressure.
On 27 February 2006, David McClintick headlined a now-classic 20,000-word article in Institutional Investor magazine, “How Harvard lost Russia”, and he detailed there the rape of Russia in the early 1990s, by Lawrence Summers and his Harvard team of corrupt and deceiving economists, whom first Mikhail Gorbachev, and then Boris Yeltsin, naively brought in to guide Russia through the process of transforming from a communist to a capitalist economy. (Those two Russian leaders didn’t understand fascism, and especially not its imperialistic type, such as Harvard and most of its ilk represent.) Basically, Summers, whose entire career has been spent assisting and helping America’s billionaires, selected a team of advisors for this who when they weren’t themselves outright corrupt, were nonetheless incredibly destructive in privatizing Russia’s state-owned assets to Russia’s most corrupt and well-connected insiders, who became billionaires in the process and secreted their newly gained wealth in London and elsewhere, so that the Russian Government’s system of social-welfare benefits and of infrastructure were yanked out from under Russia’s public. Those were the “More benign Russian governments” — the pre-Putin ones — that Bloomberg ‘News’ here praises and wants to replace the Putin-led Government. If you want to see in charts and graphs what the impact upon Russia has been from Putin’s treating as criminals the most-corrupt of those Russian billionaires and his trying to get them to pay the taxes that they had avoided and hid abroad, click here, to see those charts and graphs. As is shown there, Russia’s economy approximately halved between 1990-2000 when Putin became President, who turned this around so that Russia has thrived under his leadership. Bershidsky wants to restore the pre-Putin type of leadership — near-starvation to the Russian masses.
… multiple players — Putin the ambitious authoritarian, his situational allies such as Erdogan and Xi, his adversaries such as the U.S., his reluctant partners such as the EU and his victims such as Ukraine — can combine efforts to build something worthwhile.
Whereas Bloomberg ‘News’ pumps the lie about Putin’s “victims such as Ukraine,” the clear and incontestable reality is that Barack Obama destroyed Ukraine in 2014, and that “The Obama Regime’s Plan to Seize the Russian Naval Base in Crimea” started being implemented by the Obama Administration by no later than June 2013 — well before his coup.
The U.S. was backing an outright racist-fascist, or nazi, operation in Ukraine, as is clearly shown here and here. No one can reasonably assert that today’s America isn’t at least fascist, if not outright nazi (though predominantly anti-Russian instead of anti-Semitic, but any form of racist fascism is nazi ideology, and Obama’s was a form of that: anti-Russian).
So: anyone who places any trust whatsoever in American billionaires’ ‘news’-media is either ignorant or else stupid, because the facts are conclusively the exact opposite, and those media — as is exemplified well in this article from Bloomberg’s Leonid Bershidsky — base their international-‘news’ reporting, and analysis, on what is of benefit to America’s billionaires, instead of to their victims, either at home or abroad. What type of fascists would produce such fascist propaganda? How is it not extreme? It’s an extremist form of capitalism, of the most dangerous type: both racist and imperialist.
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Even most of the allegedly ‘anti-war’ or ‘progressive’ ‘news’-media in America are actually pro-imperialistic, and the contrary front by them is itself part of their propaganda. Their function is to publish criticism of billionaires and of the Government, but nothing that would encourage any sort of revolution to eliminate the dictators (including their agents) and to replace them by a different system. In the United States, where the existing Constitution is democratic and the Government simply violates it routinely and the corrupt judges after 1970 have employed lies to label these clear violations ‘constitutional’, a revolution would need to eliminate the dictators but not the Constitution. In some other dictatorships, it would need to replace both, and replacing the system would thus have to be more drastic than merely replacing the existing rulers. Fortunately, that’s not necessary in the United States; so, a bloodless revolution could restore America to democracy, though all post-1970 Constitutional rulings would need to be then reviewed by completely changed personnel in the U.S. Supreme Court, for possible reversal. In a bloodless revolution, changing all members would take decades; so, that process would have to start only after all other stages of such a revolution are already completed. It’s possible, but unlikely. America will therefore probably remain a dictatorship by its richest. Though America’s Founders sought not only to eliminate the British aristocracy here, but any subsequent aristocracy from ruling (even an American one) in the United States, America’s richest did rise, after WW-II, to become America’s aristocracy (now called America’s “Deep State”), and the U.S. Constitution will probably remain, and increasingly become, a dead letter here — increasingly lied-about by America’s top Court as it establishes more and more fraudulent precedents, which insult the consensus-intentions of the great men who wrote and signed the Constitution and each one of its Amendments.
America’s Founders warred against not only the British empire but actually against any empire. Even the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 (which is so often cited by American imperialists to ‘justify’ rapes and attempted rapes by the U.S. regime against countries in the Western Hemisphere such as Bolivia and Venezuela) was anti-imperialistic, and simply said that the United States opposed European countries’ efforts to take over countries in the Western Hemisphere. But this Doctrine subsequently became ‘interpreted’ by rising U.S. aristocrats to be instead an authorization for the U.S. government to replace European governments as imperial rulers in other countries of this Hemisphere — yet another historical lie by the aristocracy. American fascism (especially of the imperialistic sort, which is commonly called now “neoconservatism”) is not rooted in the U.S. Constitution; it violates the U.S. Constitution. Our current Government does not represent the United States of America (the U.S. Constitution — “We, the People …” — and that’s all Americans). But it does represent hundreds of today’s Americans, the Deep State, which need to be eliminated and replaced so that this country becomes, again, a democracy.
Other key sources, than the Cockburn-St.-Clair WHITEOUT, in order to understand today’s U.S. Government, are Paul L. Williams’s 2018 Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia; L. Fletcher Prouty’s 2008 The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World; my own 9 September 2019 “How the U.S. Created the Cold War”, and the BBC’s 1992 documentary posted to youtube as “Operation Gladio — Full 1992 documentary BBC”. All of these describe the operation that agents of America’s aristocrats carried out after FDR’s 1945 death, in order, ultimately — with the consciously planned ultimate aim being — to surround Russia by enemies (transforming even its former allies into its enemies), and then to take control over both Russia and China, and thus to become dictators to the entire planet, nullifying U.S. President FDR’s intention, which had been instead for an international democratic federal republic of nations emerging from the U.N. — for the termination, instead of for the culmination, of all imperialisms.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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theduran--2020-01-22--Feminism Is Perverting The Rule Of Law In Britain (Part 2)

If convicting innocent men of rape is not bad enough , exculpating women convicted of murder on compelling evidence is no better if not worse , yet that is the mission of the misnamed Centre For Women ’ s Justice .
Although this pernicious organisation has had charitable status only since 2016 , it has been around a lot longer than that as Justice For Women , with which it is synonymous .
Set up by the lawyer Harriet Wistrich and her lover Julie Bindel , its first big win came in 1995 when it secured the release of Emma @ @ @ @ @ @ @ delinquent and a teenage prostitute , graduating to murderess when she stabbed her lover Trevor Armitage through the heart as he lay in a drunken stupor .
She had previously trashed his home , but foolishly he took her back .
Humphreys was convicted of murder in December 1985 , and because of her age was ordered to be detained during Her Majesty ’ s Pleasure .
Her first appeal failed , but after contacting Bindel and Wistrich , new grounds of appeal were invented , psychological so-called evidence on which the defence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the victim .
Her murder conviction reduced to manslaughter , Humphreys was released in 1995 to the cheers of feminist activists , but three years later , by now a drug addict as well as a serial false rape accuser , she was dead by her own hand .
Humphreys being a quite despicable woman did not deter her supporters from initiating an annual prize in her name ; one of them even wrote a song about her .
Wistrich and Bindel used similar tactics in their campaign to free Jane Andrews @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case because Andrews had previously been employed as a royal dresser .
In September 2000 , she stabbed and battered her lover Thomas Cressman to death as he slept , but this time the Court Of Appeal would have none of it .
Even so , Andrews was parolled in 2015 , but in July 2018 it was reported she had been recalled to prison for allegedly harassing a former lover .
Another high profile case was Sally Challen .
In August 2010 , Challen battered her estranged husband to death at his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hammer secreted in her handbag , which clearly shows premeditation .
In 2015 , the imbeciles known as mental health professionals added a new affliction to the ever increasing list of mental disorders : dependent personality disorder .
Once again , Bindel and Wistrich used an imaginary mental condition to take a case back to the Court Of Appeal .
( A mental disorder is not an illness , it is simply a description of behaviour ) .
The Court Of Appeal allowed itself to be duped , but ordered a retrial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead of a retrial though , after her plea of guilty to manslaughter she was permitted to walk free time served .
In the run up to the appeal , her victim was subjected to the same kind of abuse as Trevor Armitage and Thomas Cressman before him .
He was said to have raped her and to have controlled her life throughout their thirty year marriage .
Challen was supported by her two sons , who curiously had nothing to say at her trial .
Now , Bindel and Wistrich have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women including Fariessia Martin ( pictured above with her victim ) .
Martin stabbed her on-off lover Kyle Farrell through the heart in November 2014 , and like Jane Andrews claimed initially that some unidentified person was responsible .
She was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court the following June , and was given the mandatory life sentence with the somewhat lenient tariff of 13 years .
Now , surprise , surprise , we are told she was the victim , that she had been raped by Farrell on several occasions , and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manslaughter .
Normally , the Court Of Appeal will allow fresh evidence only if it is genuinely fresh and if it is worthy of belief , two broad criteria .
Evidence of any abuse she claims to have suffered would not fall into that category because she could have made those claims at the time , but again supposedly fresh psychological evidence is being used to open the door to these new claims .
It has also been claimed that Martin was raped by someone else when she was 15 , although the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of legal abuse needs to be stopped now .
In the wake of the 1995 Humphreys appeal , S.W .
Greaves wrote to the London “ Times ” pointing out that its danger was that from then on , any woman who murdered a spouse ( read any man ) need only claim to have been provoked in order to avoid the full force of the law .
We have long since passed that point .
Feminist agitators and liars need to be reined in .
Women are entitled to equality under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most heinous of crimes .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
If convicting innocent men of rape is not bad enough, exculpating women convicted of murder on compelling evidence is no better if not worse, yet that is the mission of the misnamed Centre For Women’s Justice. Although this pernicious organisation has had charitable status since only 2016, it has been around a lot longer than that as Justice For Women, with which it is synonymous. Set up by the lawyer Harriet Wistrich and her lover Julie Bindel, its first big win came in 1995 when it secured the release of Emma Humphreys. Humphreys had been a juvenile delinquent and a teenage prostitute, graduating to murderess when she stabbed her lover Trevor Armitage through the heart as he lay in a drunken stupor. She had previously trashed his home which landed her behind bars, but foolishly he took her back.
Humphreys was convicted of murder in December 1985, and because of her age was ordered to be detained during Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Her first appeal failed, but after contacting Bindel and Wistrich, new grounds of appeal were invented, psychological so-called evidence on which the defence was permitted to piggyback claims of abuse against the victim. Her murder conviction reduced to manslaughter, Humphreys was released in 1995 to the cheers of feminist activists, but three years later, by now a drug addict as well as a serial false rape accuser, she was dead by her own hand. Humphreys being a quite despicable woman did not deter her supporters from initiating an annual prize in her name; one of them even wrote a song about her.
Wistrich and Bindel used similar tactics in their campaign to free Jane Andrews; this was a very high profile case because Andrews had previously been employed as a royal dresser. In September 2000, she stabbed and battered her lover Thomas Cressman to death as he slept, but this time the Court Of Appeal would have none of it. Even so, Andrews was parolled in 2015, but in July 2018 it was reported she had been recalled to prison for allegedly harassing a former lover.
Another high profile case was Sally Challen. In August 2010, Challen battered her estranged husband to death at his Claygate home. The murder weapon was a hammer secreted in her handbag, which clearly showed premeditation. In 2015, the imbeciles known as mental health professionals added a new affliction to the ever increasing list of mental disorders: dependent personality disorder. Once again, Bindel and Wistrich used an imaginary mental condition to take a case back to the Court Of Appeal. (A mental disorder is not an illness, it is simply a description of behaviour).
The Court Of Appeal allowed itself to be duped, but ordered a retrial after quashing Challen’s murder conviction. Instead of a retrial though, after her plea of guilty to manslaughter she was permitted to walk free time served. In the run up to the appeal, her victim was subjected to the same kind of abuse as Trevor Armitage and Thomas Cressman before him. He was said to have raped her and to have controlled her life throughout their thirty year marriage. Challen was supported by her two sons, who curiously had nothing to say at her trial.
Now, Bindel and Wistrich have set their sights on freeing two more women including Fariessia Martin (pictured above with her victim). Martin stabbed her on-off lover Kyle Farrell through the heart in November 2014, and like Jane Andrews claimed initially that some unidentified person was responsible. She was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court the following June, and was given the mandatory life sentence with the somewhat lenient tariff of 13 years. Now, surprise, surprise, we are told she was the victim, that she had been raped by Farrell on several occasions, and that she should have been convicted only of manslaughter.
Normally, the Court Of Appeal will allow fresh evidence only if it is genuinely fresh and if it is worthy of belief, two broad criteria. Evidence of any abuse she claims to have suffered would not fall into that category because she could have made those claims at the time, but again supposedly fresh psychological evidence is being used to open the door to these new claims. It has also been claimed that Martin was raped by someone else when she was 15, although even if true the relevance of that is…?
This sort of legal abuse needs to be stopped now. In the wake of the 1995 Humphreys appeal, S.W. Greaves wrote to the London Times pointing out that its danger was that from then on, any woman who murdered a spouse (read any man) need only claim to have been provoked in order to avoid the full force of the law. We have long since passed that point. Feminist agitators and liars need to be reined in. Women are entitled to equality under the law, not a free pass for the most heinous of crimes.
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theduran--2020-01-22--Trump at Davos Challenges Malthusian Agenda

If there is one thing you are not allowed to do while mingling with the technocrats in Switzerland during the annual Davos Economic Summit is criticism Malthusianism ( the cynical belief that mankind must adapt to nature ’ s limits rather than make creative discoveries ) .
If one truly wishes to be seen as a complete pariah when in the company of Davos oligarchs , simply add a defense of sovereign nation states , protective tariffs and human creative reason to your speech and you are sure to receive about as much hate as any statesman could ever expect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ either didn ’ t get the list of “ things not to say when in the presence of the world ’ s financial elite ” or just didn ’ t care .
My guess is the latter .
After speaking of the success of new trade deals with China , and the overthrow NAFTA with the new US-Mexico-Canada Deal which permits nation states to play a role in the economy after 25 years of outsourcing , Trump distanced himself from the neocons swarming his administration pushing for war with China ( and everyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China has never been better ” and that while Xi is “ for China and I ’ m for the U.S. , but other than that we love each other.
” Suddenly , around the 24 minute mark , President Trump shifted gears and took full aim at the Malthusian Agenda which has sat atop the technocratic priesthood running the Davos Forum since it ’ s founding in 1971 .
Here Trump raised eyebrows saying : “ This is not a time for pessimism .
This is a time for optimism .
Fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process , because this is a time for tremendous hope , and joy , and optimism and action .
But to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow , we must reject the perennial prophets of doom , and their predictions of the apocalypse .
They are the heirs of yesterday ’ s foolish fortunetellers , and I have them , and you have them , and we all have them , and they want to see us do badly , but we don ’ t let that happen .
“ They predicted an overpopulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the 70s , and an end of oil in the 1990s .
These alarmists always demand the same thing : absolute power to dominate , transform and control every aspect of our lives .
We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy , wreck our country , or eradicate our liberty .
America will always be the proud , strong , and unyielding bastion of freedom .
In America , we understand what the pessimists refuse to see—that a growing and vibrant market economy , focused on the future , lifts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strong enough to overcome any challenge , any challenge by far.
” Tackling the issue of creativity ’ s essential role in raising human population potential by the introduction of new technologies , new resources and new forms of inspiration Trump stated : “ The great scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century , from penicillin , to high-yield wheat , to modern transportation and breakthrough vaccines , have lifted living standards and saved billions of lives around the world , and we ’ re continuing to work on things that you ’ ll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that even today , sitting here right now , you wouldn ’ t believe it ’ s possible that we have found the answers : you ’ ll be hearing about it .
But we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible—certainly not in a very short period of time .
But the wonders of the last century will pale in comparison to what today ’ s young innovators will achieve , because they are doing things that nobody thought even feasible to begin !
We continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
When people are free to innovate , millions will live longer , happier , healthier lives For three years now , America has shown the world that the path to a prosperous future begins with putting workers first : choosing growth , and freeing entrepreneurs to bring their dreams to life.
” The President then did something unheard of , by introducing the great discoveries of the Golden Renaissance which ALL Malthusians from Prince Philip to Paul Ehrlich , David Suzuki and Al Gore point to as the moment humanity “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ skyrocketing at rates never before seen .
In the eyes of such Malthusians the dark age is a much more sustainable period of human society , as the masses stayed ignorant , diseased and depopulated while the royals and their entourage lounged gloriously in their castles .
While the oligarchy tries to use these measurements to “ prove ” that humanity is just another malignant cancer killing Gaia unless human population can be driven down to “ sustainable levels ” which most computer models agree vary between 500 million to 2 billion , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to their morality don ’ t quite see it that way .
What Trump did next was firmly distinguish himself as a member of the human species by describing the Renaissance project which some have called “ the Apollo Project of the 15th century ” : the Duome of the Santa Maria del Fioro in Florence and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris .
He did this to emphasize something fundamental about human nature which is rarely permitted in Davos Forums : “ For anyone who doubts what is possible in the future we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the past .
Only a few hundred miles from here are some of the great cities of Europe—teeming centers of commerce and culture .
Each of them is full of reminders of what human drive and imagination can achieve .
“ Centuries ago , at the time of the Renaissance , skilled craftsmen and laborers looked upwards and built the structures that still touch the human heart .
To this day some of the greatest structures in the world have been built hundreds of years ago .
In Italy the citizens once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 140-year project , the Duomo of Florence , incredible , incredible place .
While the technology did not yet exist to complete their design , city fathers forged ahead anyway , certain that they would figure it out someday .
These citizens of Florence did not except limits to their high aspirations , and so the great dome was finally built….
” Describing the reconstruction of the Notre Dame Cathedral that was lit afire last year , Trump ended his speech with the important insight that true creativity , morality and freedom which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact which Malthusians refuse to admit ) , is located in our connection to the future and the past which transcend our mortal lives : Years of pessimism may prevent many readers from allowing themselves to believe the truth of those statements enunciated by Trump , and many cynics may wish to ignore their validity simply because they come from Trump whom they are committed to hating… others perhaps may defend Trump yet their own cynicism and Malthusian sympathies may blind them to the validity of the points developed in this speech and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drawn .
Whether you like it or not , those battle lines dividing the two views of mankind as a cancer on the one side vs a creature of divine reason on the other do exist .
It is up to each of us to decide which side we wish to represent .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , BRI expert correspondent on Tactical Talk and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
His works appear regularly on The Duran , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Zero Hedge , L.A. Review of Books , LeSaker.fr , Vigile Quebec , and South Front .
In 2019 Matthew co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation .
He can be reached at [ email protected ]

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If there is one thing you are not allowed to do while mingling with the technocrats in Switzerland during the annual Davos Economic Summit is criticism Malthusianism (the cynical belief that mankind must adapt to nature’s limits rather than make creative discoveries). If one truly wishes to be seen as a complete pariah when in the company of Davos oligarchs, simply add a defense of sovereign nation states, protective tariffs and human creative reason to your speech and you are sure to receive about as much hate as any statesman could ever expect in a lifetime.
President Trump obviously either didn’t get the list of “things not to say when in the presence of the world’s financial elite” or just didn’t care. My guess is the latter.
After speaking of the success of new trade deals with China, and the overthrow NAFTA with the new US-Mexico-Canada Deal which permits nation states to play a role in the economy after 25 years of outsourcing, Trump distanced himself from the neocons swarming his administration pushing for war with China (and everyone else) saying “our relationship with China has never been better” and that while Xi is “for China and I’m for the U.S., but other than that we love each other.”
Suddenly, around the 24 minute mark, President Trump shifted gears and took full aim at the Malthusian Agenda which has sat atop the technocratic priesthood running the Davos Forum since it’s founding in 1971. Here Trump raised eyebrows saying:
“This is not a time for pessimism. This is a time for optimism. Fear and doubt is not a good thought process, because this is a time for tremendous hope, and joy, and optimism and action. But to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom, and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortunetellers, and I have them, and you have them, and we all have them, and they want to see us do badly, but we don’t let that happen. “They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing:absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong, and unyielding bastion of freedom. In America, we understand what the pessimists refuse to see—that a growing and vibrant market economy, focused on the future, lifts the human spirit and excites creativity, strong enough to overcome any challenge, any challenge by far.”
Tackling the issue of creativity’s essential role in raising human population potential by the introduction of new technologies, new resources and new forms of inspiration Trump stated:
“The great scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, from penicillin, to high-yield wheat, to modern transportation and breakthrough vaccines, have lifted living standards and saved billions of lives around the world, and we’re continuing to work on things that you’ll be hearing about in the near future, that even today, sitting here right now, you wouldn’t believe it’s possible that we have found the answers: you’ll be hearing about it. But we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible—certainly not in a very short period of time. But the wonders of the last century will pale in comparison to what today’s young innovators will achieve, because they are doing things that nobody thought even feasible to begin! We continue to embrace technology, not to shun it. When people are free to innovate, millions will live longer, happier, healthier lives For three years now, America has shown the world that the path to a prosperous future begins with putting workers first: choosing growth, and freeing entrepreneurs to bring their dreams to life.”
The President then did something unheard of, by introducing the great discoveries of the Golden Renaissance which ALL Malthusians from Prince Philip to Paul Ehrlich, David Suzuki and Al Gore point to as the moment humanity “went wrong” and population growth began skyrocketing at rates never before seen. In the eyes of such Malthusians the dark age is a much more sustainable period of human society, as the masses stayed ignorant, diseased and depopulated while the royals and their entourage lounged gloriously in their castles.
While the oligarchy tries to use these measurements to “prove” that humanity is just another malignant cancer killing Gaia unless human population can be driven down to “sustainable levels” which most computer models agree vary between 500 million to 2 billion, actual human beings who still have access to their morality don’t quite see it that way. What Trump did next was firmly distinguish himself as a member of the human species by describing the Renaissance project which some have called “the Apollo Project of the 15th century”: the Duome of the Santa Maria del Fioro in Florence and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He did this to emphasize something fundamental about human nature which is rarely permitted in Davos Forums:
“For anyone who doubts what is possible in the future we need only look at the towering achievements of the past. Only a few hundred miles from here are some of the great cities of Europe—teeming centers of commerce and culture. Each of them is full of reminders of what human drive and imagination can achieve. “Centuries ago, at the time of the Renaissance, skilled craftsmen and laborers looked upwards and built the structures that still touch the human heart. To this day some of the greatest structures in the world have been built hundreds of years ago. In Italy the citizens once started construction on what would be a 140-year project, the Duomo of Florence, incredible, incredible place. While the technology did not yet exist to complete their design, city fathers forged ahead anyway, certain that they would figure it out someday. These citizens of Florence did not except limits to their high aspirations, and so the great dome was finally built….”
Describing the reconstruction of the Notre Dame Cathedral that was lit afire last year, Trump ended his speech with the important insight that true creativity, morality and freedom which distinguishes humanity from other animals (a fact which Malthusians refuse to admit), is located in our connection to the future and the past which transcend our mortal lives:
“The great bells will once again ring out for all to hear giving glory to god and filling millions with wonder and awe. The cathedrals of Europe teach us to pursue big dreams, daring adventures and unbridled ambitions. They urge us to consider not only what we build today but what will endure long after we are gone. They testify to the power of ordinary people to realize extraordinary achievements when united by a grand and noble purpose.”
Years of pessimism may prevent many readers from allowing themselves to believe the truth of those statements enunciated by Trump, and many cynics may wish to ignore their validity simply because they come from Trump whom they are committed to hating… others perhaps may defend Trump yet their own cynicism and Malthusian sympathies may blind them to the validity of the points developed in this speech and the battle lines which have actually been drawn. Whether you like it or not, those battle lines dividing the two views of mankind as a cancer on the one side vs a creature of divine reason on the other do exist. It is up to each of us to decide which side we wish to represent.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review, BRI expert correspondent on Tactical Talk and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. His works appear regularly on The Duran, Strategic Culture, Sott, Fort Russ, Zero Hedge, L.A. Review of Books, LeSaker.fr, Vigile Quebec, and South Front. In 2019 Matthew co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
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theduran--2020-01-22--Feminism Is Perverting The Rule Of Law In Britain (Part 1)

Almost all Western politicians pay at least lip service to feminist ideology because few if any recognise its toxicity .
In Britain especially , the insane dogma of feminism has had a pernicious influence on both social policy and the law .
And it continues to do so .
An in-depth discussion of this matter would take us far afield , so three examples in the public eye will suffice : the contrived gender pay gap , dishonesty about rape , and ongoing attempts to exculpate women convicted of murdering men on the clearest evidence .
The gender pay gap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ month when an employment tribunal ruled that TV presenter Samira Ahmed ( pictured ) had faced workplace discrimination because the BBC had paid her far less than the male presenter Jeremy Vine .
In the United States , the claim is often parroted that women are paid only 85 cents on the dollar for men , and similar contrived statistics are trotted out here by the likes of the Fawcett Society .
In fact , it has been illegal to pay women less than men – for the same work – in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the UK since 1970 .
Leaving that aside , if women were indeed paid less than men for the same work , no private sector employer with half a brain would employ a man when he could employ a woman instead .
As might be suspected , the realities of these apparent pay disparities are not that simple .
To begin with , many women have babies , which necessitates time out .
Many mothers take several years out of the workforce or return part-time .
Most married women earn less than their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two full time incomes do not bring any appreciable improvement in their quality of life , certainly not after nurseries or nannies are paid .
Many occupations are exclusively or almost exclusively male .
If a woman works on a building site it is usually handling the paperwork in a portacabin .
How many women bricklayers are there , refuse collectors , sewage maintenance workers… ?
These are essential but unromantic jobs , so feminist activists conveniently ignore them and whine about there being “ too few ” women in boardrooms and government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at work here .
Almost all really big companies from time immemorial to date were started by men .
Even so , there are plenty of big earning women , especially in the arts : novelist J.K. Rowling and singer-songwriter Adele Adkins are two stellar examples .
Even more spectacular than these two ultra-talented women is Denise Coates , founder of Bet365 who is Britain ’ s top paid chief executive by far .
As for Samira Ahmed and Jeremy Vine , as with most top earners in the media they are not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supermarket workers , rather they have agents who negotiate on their behalf , which is one reason there is much apparent disparity not only between the sexes but from person to person .
Ignoring all this , feminist pressure on the Government led to legislation requiring companies employing 250 or more staff to publish details of this imaginary gap .
There has even been pressure for smaller firms to report likewise .
This does absolutely nothing to help women who actually need help ; it also increases the costs for companies , leading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while increasing Government expenditure , which is paid by whom ?
The subject of rape is never far from the mind of any third wave feminist .
The sisterhood never tires of spouting vacuous statistics about the failure of the CPS to prosecute rape , the supposedly so low conviction rate , and the vast number of unreported rapes .
The reality is that no one knows how many rapes go unreported ; obviously some do , and undoubtedly some go undetected , but the claim that women don ’ t report rape @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t be believed or some such is arrant nonsense .
Genuine rape victims have bruises , not credibility issues .
This does not mean that the police and CPS do not at times fail to bring charges when they should , the grooming gang scandal is clear evidence of that , but by the same token they charge and even prosecute cases that are not only weak but ridiculous .
One of the most outrageous such cases was that of Mark Pearson who was supposed to have digitally penetrated a woman at Waterloo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eye .
Although he was acquitted , this was a case that should never have got anywhere near a courtroom .
His accuser , a TV actress , was probably not lying in the conventional sense , but suffered some bizarre tactile hallucination .
This is a lot more common than is generally realised as is the influence of alcohol on a woman ’ s memory .
Many purportedly delayed reports of sexual assault are consensual if at time sordid encounters which women have rewritten in their tiny minds as rape .
Women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and sometimes this inhibits the transition from short term to long term memory .
A woman may have the appearance of being totally sober , but will wake up the next morning having no memory of actually having sex or having consented to it .
This is where many allegations of drug-facilitated rape come from .
In November 2006 , ACPO published a report , the result of “ Operation Matisse ” , which debunked such claims comprehensively .
To the above , we can add many , many reports of women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy a man ’ s reputation , or in rare cases purely for criminal compensation .
In order to boost the conviction rate for rape , Rape Crisis Scotland launched a campaign in 2017 to brainwash the public , the police and prosecutors into believing many women “ freeze ” when attacked by sexual predators , something they rarely do when attacked by non-sexual predators or subjected to other trauma like serious accidents , earthquakes , or explosions .
The madness goes on , and clearly the feminist movement will not be satisfied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rape literally at the drop of a hat when any investigation of a complainant ’ s claims is interpreted as victim blaming .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Almost all Western politicians pay at least lip service to feminist ideology because few if any recognise its toxicity. In Britain especially, the insane dogma of feminism has had a pernicious influence on both social policy and the law. And it continues to do so.
An in-depth discussion of this matter would take us far afield, so three examples in the public eye will suffice: the contrived gender pay gap, dishonesty about rape, and ongoing attempts to exculpate women convicted of murdering men on the clearest evidence.
The gender pay gap was in the news big time this month when an employment tribunal ruled that TV presenter Samira Ahmed (pictured) had faced workplace discrimination because the BBC had paid her far less than the male presenter Jeremy Vine.
In the United States, the claim is often parroted that women are paid only 85 cents on the dollar for men, and similar contrived statistics are trotted out here by the likes of the Fawcett Society. In fact, it has been illegal to pay women less than men – for the same work – in the United States since 1963, and in the UK since 1970. Leaving that aside, if women were indeed paid less than men for the same work, no private sector employer with half a brain would employ a man when he could employ a woman instead.
As might be suspected, the realities of these apparent pay disparities are not that simple. To begin with, many women have babies, which necessitates time out. Many mothers take several years out of the workforce or return part-time. Most married women earn less than their husbands, and for big earners, two full time incomes do not bring any appreciable improvement in their quality of life, certainly not after nurseries or nannies are paid.
Many occupations are exclusively or almost exclusively male. If a woman works on a building site it is usually handling the paperwork in a portacabin. How many women bricklayers are there, refuse collectors, sewage maintenance workers…? These are essential but unromantic jobs, so feminist activists conveniently ignore them and whine about there being “too few” women in boardrooms and government.
Again, there are many factors at work here. Almost all really big companies from time immemorial to date were started by men. Even so, there are plenty of big earning women, especially in the arts: novelist J.K. Rowling and singer-songwriter Adele Adkins are two stellar examples. Even more spectacular than these two ultra-talented women is Denise Coates, founder of Bet365 who is Britain’s top paid chief executive by far.
As for Samira Ahmed and Jeremy Vine, as with most top earners in the media they are not paid regular salaries like civil servants or supermarket workers, rather they have agents who negotiate on their behalf, which is one reason there is much apparent disparity not only between the sexes but from person to person.
Ignoring all this, feminist pressure on the Government led to legislation requiring companies employing 250 or more staff to publish details of this imaginary gap. There has even been pressure for smaller firms to report likewise. This does absolutely nothing to help women who actually need help; also, it increases costs for companies, leading to higher prices and lower investment, while increasing Government expenditure, which is paid by whom?
The subject of rape is never far from the mind of any third wave feminist. The sisterhood never tires of spouting vacuous statistics about the failure of the CPS to prosecute rape, the supposedly so low conviction rate, and the vast number of unreported rapes. The reality is that no one knows how many rapes go unreported; obviously some do, and undoubtedly some go undetected, but the claim that women don’t report rape because they are terrified they won’t be believed or some such is arrant nonsense. Genuine rape victims have bruises, not credibility issues. This does not mean that the police and CPS do not at times fail to bring charges when they should, the grooming gang scandal is clear evidence of that, but by the same token they charge and even prosecute cases that are not only weak but ridiculous. One of the most outrageous such cases was that of Mark Pearson who was supposed to have digitally penetrated a woman at Waterloo Station in literally the blink of an eye. Although he was acquitted, this was a case that should never have got anywhere near a courtroom. His accuser, a TV actress, was probably not lying in the conventional sense, but suffered some bizarre tactile hallucination.
This is a lot more common than is generally realised as is the influence of alcohol on a woman’s memory. Many purportedly delayed reports of sexual assault are consensual if at time sordid encounters which women have rewritten in their tiny minds as rape. Women have less capacity for alcohol than men, and sometimes this inhibits the transition from short term to long term memory. A woman may have the appearance of being totally sober, but will wake up the next morning having no memory of actually having sex or having consented to it. This is where many allegations of drug-facilitated rape come from. In November 2006, ACPO published a report, the result of Operation Matisse, which debunked such claims comprehensively.
To the above, we can add many, many reports of women simply lying to seek attention, to destroy a man’s reputation, or in rare cases purely for criminal compensation.
In order to boost the conviction rate for rape, Rape Crisis Scotland launched a campaign in 2017 to brainwash the public, the police and prosecutors into believing many women “freeze” when attacked by sexual predators, something they rarely do when attacked by non-sexual predators or subjected to other trauma like serious accidents, earthquakes, or explosions. The madness goes on, and clearly the feminist movement will not be satisfied until a man can be convicted of rape literally at the drop of a hat when any investigation of a complainant’s claims is interpreted as victim blaming.
Click here for part 2.
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theduran--2020-01-23--Aliens? The Cannabis culture? No, just Democrats [Video]

A picture is worth a thousand words .
That ought to be really good for all the readers who do not like reading my longer articles .
However a video is worth a thousand pictures .
That being said , let ’ s have a look at what the Democrats are doing this week , and do a sanity evaluation .
We have two tasty treats .
The first one is straight from the Compleat Fake Impeachment Trial , which we probably ought to rename Romper Room on Acid .
See for yourself : And for our second act , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ receiving end of a $ 50 million lawsuit , brought by Democrat ( yes , fellow Democrat ) presidential candidate , Hawai ’ i Representative Tulsi Gabbard .
Why ?
Because Hillary Clinton is still angry that she is not the President , and she decided that Tulsi was a threat because she has a better grip on reality , at least as regards foreign policy .
Tulsi is strangely insane also , trying to hold her line as a Democrat when her whole party seems to have left her in the lurch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ style politician than a liberal Democrat , in my view , and I suspect her adherence to the party platform is contrived . )
So , let ’ s look at this piece of insanity now .
But lest we lose our sense of humor , you know it is bad when even lesbian and fellow uber liberal Kate McKinnon lampoons Hillary , as happened some years back .
So which is Life , and which is Art ?
Too many people smoking pot on the Hill , I think…

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
A picture is worth a thousand words. That ought to be really good for all the readers who do not like reading my longer articles. However a video is worth a thousand pictures. That being said, let’s have a look at what the Democrats are doing this week, and do a sanity evaluation.
We have two tasty treats. The first one is straight from the Compleat Fake Impeachment Trial, which we probably ought to rename Romper Room on Acid. See for yourself:
And for our second act, Hillary Clinton just got herself on the receiving end of a $50 million lawsuit, brought by Democrat (yes, fellow Democrat) presidential candidate, Hawai’i Representative Tulsi Gabbard. Why? Because Hillary Clinton is still angry that she is not the President, and she decided that Tulsi was a threat because she has a better grip on reality, at least as regards foreign policy. Tulsi is strangely insane also, trying to hold her line as a Democrat when her whole party seems to have left her in the lurch (she is more like a Trumpian style politician than a liberal Democrat, in my view, and I suspect her adherence to the party platform is contrived.) So, let’s look at this piece of insanity now.
But lest we lose our sense of humor, you know it is bad when even lesbian and fellow uber liberal Kate McKinnon lampoons Hillary, as happened some years back.
So which is Life, and which is Art?
Too many people smoking pot on the Hill, I think…
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theduran--2020-01-23--What Trump’s speech at Davos is likely about

An interesting point of view from an Indian journalist about Trump and what his speech at Davos is about .
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