veteranstoday--2020-11-03--VT Nuclear Education: Russian Leak on 9/11 and US – Israel Nuclear Proliferation

The report below is taken from an intelligence dump by Russian sources .
As the origin is from an intelligence agency in the form of a “ leak , ” there are always questions .
Thus far , we have found not only is the majority of the material confirmed but several solutions to serious problems involving 9/11 are included .
I have redacted little here .
However , this arrived with vast supporting documentation which can , in the future , be uploaded on SCRIBD for access .
One key area is that the US had supplied Israel with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s note : We are advised that some of the documentation can never be uploaded or distributed for reasons that will be obvious . ]
We have a very solid confirmation on this .
Back during the 1980s , Israel showed her inventory of Davy Crockett tactical nuclear warheads to one of our editors , who at the time was a senior NATO intelligence official .
These early “ micro-nukes ” were taken out of US inventory in 1978 and “ disappeared.
” This highly classified report is being published unaltered except for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ My personal opinion is that this is NOT a disinformation piece but rather represents a significant breakthrough .
I believe that this is a rare glimpse behind the curtain .
I am publishing this for the use of those qualified to understand how little of this is really new .
Those things that are new are groundbreaking .
For those who find this all a bit over their heads , there is little I can do other than to let you know that this is the world “ your elders ” really live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chance to look in mom and dad ’ s top dresser drawer .
According to a retired FXX agent specializing in Israeli counter intel : The type of nuclear devices used on 911 were a modified version of the W-54 nuclear artillery shells that were covertly provided to the Israelis between 1988 and 1998 from US surplus stockpiles illegally exported during the Bush/Clinton era .
Chemical analysis done by DOE Sandia was able to identify the chemical/radiation footprint or fingerprint of the warheads based on samples taken after 911 of the fallout at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ note : Nuclear weapon use at ground zero is confirmed from multiple sources ) All plutonium based warheads have a chemical fingerprint that can identify the type of design and where the PU was made and how old it is .
This was the 911 blackmail on Bush 1 and 2 , the illegal transfer of surplus US nuclear weapons to the Israelis and why the continued cover up , along with the stolen gold and stock fraud that was going on Wall Street etc .
According to file ENW57.pdf on page 66 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Document received and confirmed ) Only a 2 kiloton device was needed to drop the buildings .
A 2 kiloton device will produce a fireball of apx 150 to 200 feet in diameter at over 4000 degrees Centigrade .
Just large enough to melt the I beams of the central core of the building and drop them in place .
The light flash would last less than 1 second and primarily be in the UV light range .
Overpressure would only be at 60PSI max and directed upwards with the blast .
See @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and located to within ground zero range only .
Radiation would drop to acceptable levels within 72 hrs .
after the blast .
Most fall out was trapped in the cement dust thus causing all of the recent cancer deaths that we are now seeing in NYC amongst first responders .
( Editor ’ s note : Consistent with site data ) Melted steel and iron oxide or “ nano thermite ” is a byproduct of the very high gamma ray / Neutron flux induced into the central steel core .
The radiation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the carbon and silicone in the steel .
This explains the missing steel columns and the very important clue of the “ vaporized ’ 20 ton antenna tower atop the south tower .
The upward blast of radiation literally vaporized it .
Video evidence proves this to be true .
( Editor ’ s note : Tower issue a vital one . )
The total XXOO data file from DOE Sandia on the 911 event is well over 72 MB .
P.S .
Snowden didn ’ t have a Q clearance so he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretty good stash of documents on the subject .
( All under the transit stuff . )
The entire nuclear nonproliferation story of stolen nuclear material coming from Russia was an Israeli cover story to hide the original source of weapons material coming from the US stock piles .
( Editor ’ s note : Fully confirmed ) Illegal distribution of US nuclear material to foreign allies was not limited to Israel .
Virtually all NATO allies were in on this scam too .
Dick Cheney was the bad guy on this one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country as IOU ’ s in order to get what they wanted .
Tom Countryman a well-known Israeli operative is curiously now in charge of N.N.P .
at the State Department under Obama.
( ? )
He was put there by Ram Emanuel .
It appears that the weapon of choice for the Israelis were the W-54 and follow on series of nuclear pits taken from the Amarillo TX storage dump .
This was what Carnaberry was working on for Bush senior in Houston .
A total of over 350 pits were transferred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 20 year period of time .
The W-54 type of pit design were the most desirable due to the 2 point implosion pit design .
This is the easiest to re manufacture and modify as compared to other circular pit designs .
The pill shaped design of the W-54 type weapon contains over 1.5 times more plutonium than a standard pit .
This would allow enough Plutonium to be recovered that was still of weapons grade use even after 32 plus years of age .
Americium build up in the pit over time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapon so they have a limited shelf life based on how fast or slow the Plutonium was produce in the reactor at Stanford .
Usually it was about 150 days max .
Irradiation time in the reactor during production determines the shelf life of the pit as weapons grade material .
All of the micro nukes used by the Israelis are re-manufactured W-54 type series devices .
These devices were used in the Bali bombing and the London bombing and in Japan on their reactors .
( Editor ’ s note : Nuclear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used in Damascus , Iraq and Afghanistan by the US .
( Editor ’ s note : Multiple confirmation including site samples . )
These are stored in most Israelite embassies for ease of deployment .
The one ’ s used on 911 were kept at the Israeli consulate in NYC until put in place .
After 911 the FBI now checks all diplomatic pouches with a Geiger counter before entering or leaving the US .
The South African weapons were also surplus W-54 artillery shells acquired from Israeli and final assembly and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israel assistance .
( Editor ’ s note : This explains Pelendaba production issues . )
This was done because the Israelis needed a testing ground in order to make sure that there rebuilt weapons would work as designed .
( Editor ’ s note : Testing on Sept. 22 , 1979 multiple confirmations . )
The North Korean weapons are also of the 155 mm artillery design as provided by Israel .
The true North Korean nuclear weapons program is based on nuclear artillery use and not missiles .
The plan is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ South Korea if war breaks out this include the use of small nuclear artillery shells to counter US tanks rockets and artillery .
The Saudi ’ s also have a stash of W-54 ’ s acquired from the US under Bush2 .
( Editor ’ s note : Confirmed ) The Israelis have also provided them to India , Brazil , China , Taiwan , Japan , North and South Korea etc .
( Editor ’ s note : All but South Korea confirmed .
Canada had been believed to be the source @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a standard 75 megawatt thermal open top reactor as used in France for their plutonium weapons production program , their version of Stanford ( Editor ’ s note : Probably “ Hanford ” ) .
Due to over use as a fast breeder reactor by the Israelis , Dimona suffered a “ steam explosion ” IE a flash over indecent ( ed : ‘ incident ’ ) due to neutron criticality back in the late 1980 ’ s under Bush 1 .
This shut down its operation for many years until repairs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operates at very low power levels due to neutron absorption damage to the containment vessel .
Now mainly use for isotope production .
This forced the Israelis to turn to stolen nuclear stock piles from the US for the continuation of their nuclear program .
The Israelis knowing that the nuclear material that they had acquire only had a limited shelf life left before it was no longer usable as weapons grade then tried to dump it on the surplus market as fast as possible before it was of no use to them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nations who would only sit on it and not be able to test it .
These were the fizzle tests in North Korea .
( Editor ’ s note : Confirmed , multiple sources ) When everybody caught on to the scam such as Japan and Korea .
( IE the Korean sub sinkings etc ) they were angry because they paid big bucks for junk .
This started a mini cold war with Israel and her old clients .
However with micro nukes even as the plutonium ages it will still fissile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 kiloton in size .
So they can still be used as small dirty bombs or as very small tactical nukes such as the nuclear artillery strikes on Damascus with rocket assisted W-54 ’ s .
( Editor ’ s note : Confirmed strike , May 4 , 2013 ) On the W-54 pit design it is pill shaped and it is only about 4 inches in diameter and weighs about 24 pounds .
Most of the fuel is consumed in the plasma fire ball when detonated so there is very little plutonium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is salted with other materials the fallout can be even reduced to lower levels such as in an enhanced radiation device or the so called neutron bomb .
This is what was used on 911 .
The primary purpose of the nuclear weapon used on 911 was to produce a massive Gama ray / neutron flux that would vaporize about 150 to 300 feet of 6 inch thick steal I beams that constituted the central core of the WTC buildings .
This created a free fall event as seen on TV that day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Critical information here . )
The flash would be hidden from sight due to the underground detonation .
Most of the light was in the non-visible light spectrum any way .
Over pressure would be reduced to 6 psi due to the blast traveling up the central core and neutron radiation vaporizing the TV antenna at the top of the building as see on TV .
The fallout would be mainly vaporized concrete cement and iron oxide .
This is why after 911 they told everyone on TV that the beta radiation burns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the caustic cement dust and not due to the radiation effects from the radioactive cement fallout .
( Editor ’ s note : Fully confirmed ) The iron oxide found all over the place was what was left of the steel I beams .
This was the so called Nano Thermite that was found everywhere .
Fallout was limited to a 1 mile area around down town NYC .
See charts .
( Editor ’ s note : Received ) Radiation decay was reduced to safe low levels after 72 hrs.
, ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) outside of ground zero its self .
This is why the area was blocked off from the public for 3 days after the event , in order to let the radiation drop to safe levels

The report below is taken from an intelligence dump by Russian sources. As the origin is from an intelligence agency in the form of a “leak,” there are always questions. Thus far, we have found not only is the majority of the material confirmed but several solutions to serious problems involving 9/11 are included.
I have redacted little here. However, this arrived with vast supporting documentation which can, in the future, be uploaded on SCRIBD for access. One key area is that the US had supplied Israel with surplus nuclear weapons. [Editor’s note: We are advised that some of the documentation can never be uploaded or distributed for reasons that will be obvious.]
We have a very solid confirmation on this. Back during the 1980s, Israel showed her inventory of Davy Crockett tactical nuclear warheads to one of our editors, who at the time was a senior NATO intelligence official. These early “micro-nukes” were taken out of US inventory in 1978 and “disappeared.”
This highly classified report is being published unaltered except for bad machine translation errors being repaired. My personal opinion is that this is NOT a disinformation piece but rather represents a significant breakthrough. I believe that this is a rare glimpse behind the curtain.
I am publishing this for the use of those qualified to understand how little of this is really new. Those things that are new are groundbreaking. For those who find this all a bit over their heads, there is little I can do other than to let you know that this is the world “your elders” really live in and that you finally have a chance to look in mom and dad’s top dresser drawer.
Too Classified to Publish
According to a retired FXX agent specializing in Israeli counter intel: The type of nuclear devices used on 911 were a modified version of the W-54 nuclear artillery shells that were covertly provided to the Israelis between 1988 and 1998 from US surplus stockpiles illegally exported during the Bush/Clinton era.
Chemical analysis done by DOE Sandia was able to identify the chemical/radiation footprint or fingerprint of the warheads based on samples taken after 911 of the fallout at ground zero. (Editor’s note: Nuclear weapon use at ground zero is confirmed from multiple sources)
All plutonium based warheads have a chemical fingerprint that can identify the type of design and where the PU was made and how old it is. This was the 911 blackmail on Bush 1 and 2, the illegal transfer of surplus US nuclear weapons to the Israelis and why the continued cover up, along with the stolen gold and stock fraud that was going on Wall Street etc. According to file ENW57.pdf on page 66. (Editor’s note: Document received and confirmed)
Only a 2 kiloton device was needed to drop the buildings. A 2 kiloton device will produce a fireball of apx 150 to 200 feet in diameter at over 4000 degrees Centigrade. Just large enough to melt the I beams of the central core of the building and drop them in place. The light flash would last less than 1 second and primarily be in the UV light range. Overpressure would only be at 60PSI max and directed upwards with the blast. See underground effect.
Fallout would be minimal and located to within ground zero range only. Radiation would drop to acceptable levels within 72 hrs. after the blast. Most fall out was trapped in the cement dust thus causing all of the recent cancer deaths that we are now seeing in NYC amongst first responders. (Editor’s note: Consistent with site data)
Melted steel and iron oxide or “nano thermite” is a byproduct of the very high gamma ray / Neutron flux induced into the central steel core. The radiation dissolves the steel into iron oxide consuming the carbon and silicone in the steel.
This explains the missing steel columns and the very important clue of the “vaporized’ 20 ton antenna tower atop the south tower. The upward blast of radiation literally vaporized it. Video evidence proves this to be true. (Editor’s note: Tower issue a vital one.)
The total XXOO data file from DOE Sandia on the 911 event is well over 72 MB. P.S. Snowden didn’t have a Q clearance so he missed this one. Carnaberry had a pretty good stash of documents on the subject. (All under the transit stuff.) The entire nuclear nonproliferation story of stolen nuclear material coming from Russia was an Israeli cover story to hide the original source of weapons material coming from the US stock piles. (Editor’s note: Fully confirmed)
Illegal distribution of US nuclear material to foreign allies was not limited to Israel. Virtually all NATO allies were in on this scam too. Dick Cheney was the bad guy on this one. Bush2/Cheney traded nuclear pits to foreign country as IOU’s in order to get what they wanted. Tom Countryman a well-known Israeli operative is curiously now in charge of N.N.P. at the State Department under Obama.(?) He was put there by Ram Emanuel.
It appears that the weapon of choice for the Israelis were the W-54 and follow on series of nuclear pits taken from the Amarillo TX storage dump. This was what Carnaberry was working on for Bush senior in Houston.
A total of over 350 pits were transferred to the Israelis over a 10 to 20 year period of time. The W-54 type of pit design were the most desirable due to the 2 point implosion pit design. This is the easiest to re manufacture and modify as compared to other circular pit designs.
The pill shaped design of the W-54 type weapon contains over 1.5 times more plutonium than a standard pit. This would allow enough Plutonium to be recovered that was still of weapons grade use even after 32 plus years of age. Americium build up in the pit over time eventually makes the Pit unusable as a weapon so they have a limited shelf life based on how fast or slow the Plutonium was produce in the reactor at Stanford.
Usually it was about 150 days max. Irradiation time in the reactor during production determines the shelf life of the pit as weapons grade material. All of the micro nukes used by the Israelis are re-manufactured W-54 type series devices.
These devices were used in the Bali bombing and the London bombing and in Japan on their reactors. (Editor’s note: Nuclear weapon use in Bali confirmed) Also used in Damascus, Iraq and Afghanistan by the US. (Editor’s note: Multiple confirmation including site samples.)
These are stored in most Israelite embassies for ease of deployment. The one’s used on 911 were kept at the Israeli consulate in NYC until put in place. After 911 the FBI now checks all diplomatic pouches with a Geiger counter before entering or leaving the US. The South African weapons were also surplus W-54 artillery shells acquired from Israeli and final assembly and testing was done in South Africa with Israel assistance. (Editor’s note: This explains Pelendaba production issues.)
This was done because the Israelis needed a testing ground in order to make sure that there rebuilt weapons would work as designed. (Editor’s note: Testing on Sept. 22, 1979 multiple confirmations.) The North Korean weapons are also of the 155 mm artillery design as provided by Israel.
The true North Korean nuclear weapons program is based on nuclear artillery use and not missiles. The plan is to use a massive artillery barge on South Korea if war breaks out this include the use of small nuclear artillery shells to counter US tanks rockets and artillery.
The Saudi’s also have a stash of W-54’s acquired from the US under Bush2. (Editor’s note: Confirmed) The Israelis have also provided them to India, Brazil, China, Taiwan, Japan, North and South Korea etc. (Editor’s note: All but South Korea confirmed. Canada had been believed to be the source of Brazilian nuclear weapons.) Dimona is a standard 75 megawatt thermal open top reactor as used in France for their plutonium weapons production program, their version of Stanford (Editor’s note: Probably “Hanford”).
Due to over use as a fast breeder reactor by the Israelis, Dimona suffered a “steam explosion” IE a flash over indecent (ed: ‘incident’) due to neutron criticality back in the late 1980’s under Bush 1. This shut down its operation for many years until repairs could be made.
It now only operates at very low power levels due to neutron absorption damage to the containment vessel. Now mainly use for isotope production. This forced the Israelis to turn to stolen nuclear stock piles from the US for the continuation of their nuclear program.
The Israelis knowing that the nuclear material that they had acquire only had a limited shelf life left before it was no longer usable as weapons grade then tried to dump it on the surplus market as fast as possible before it was of no use to them. So they dumped it on unsuspecting nations who would only sit on it and not be able to test it. These were the fizzle tests in North Korea. (Editor’s note: Confirmed, multiple sources)
When everybody caught on to the scam such as Japan and Korea. (IE the Korean sub sinkings etc) they were angry because they paid big bucks for junk. This started a mini cold war with Israel and her old clients. However with micro nukes even as the plutonium ages it will still fissile producing a smaller size detonation well under 2 kiloton in size.
So they can still be used as small dirty bombs or as very small tactical nukes such as the nuclear artillery strikes on Damascus with rocket assisted W-54’s. (Editor’s note: Confirmed strike, May 4, 2013) On the W-54 pit design it is pill shaped and it is only about 4 inches in diameter and weighs about 24 pounds.
Most of the fuel is consumed in the plasma fire ball when detonated so there is very little plutonium fallout left to escape. If it is salted with other materials the fallout can be even reduced to lower levels such as in an enhanced radiation device or the so called neutron bomb. This is what was used on 911.
The primary purpose of the nuclear weapon used on 911 was to produce a massive Gama ray / neutron flux that would vaporize about 150 to 300 feet of 6 inch thick steal I beams that constituted the central core of the WTC buildings. This created a free fall event as seen on TV that day. (Editor’s note: Critical information here.)
The flash would be hidden from sight due to the underground detonation. Most of the light was in the non-visible light spectrum any way. Over pressure would be reduced to 6 psi due to the blast traveling up the central core and neutron radiation vaporizing the TV antenna at the top of the building as see on TV.
The fallout would be mainly vaporized concrete cement and iron oxide. This is why after 911 they told everyone on TV that the beta radiation burns that people were getting were due to the caustic cement dust and not due to the radiation effects from the radioactive cement fallout. (Editor’s note: Fully confirmed)
The iron oxide found all over the place was what was left of the steel I beams. This was the so called Nano Thermite that was found everywhere. Fallout was limited to a 1 mile area around down town NYC. See charts. (Editor’s note: Received)
Radiation decay was reduced to safe low levels after 72 hrs., (Editor’s note: Fully confirmed) outside of ground zero its self. This is why the area was blocked off from the public for 3 days after the event, in order to let the radiation drop to safe levels
Editing: Jim W. Dean


veteranstoday--2020-11-03--Armed Attack in Vienna: 4 deaths. The claim of ISIS Jihadists. New Lethal blitz after Turkish assaul

Armed Attack in Vienna: 4 deaths. The claim of ISIS Jihadists. New Lethal blitz after Turkish assault in a church

At least one video of those circulated on the net reports the cry of Islamic terrorists ( of Sunni origin ) “ Allah Akbar ” .
This was reported by Russia Today on the simultaneous armed attack carried out by a commando in Vienna which resulted in the death of 4 people , three civilians and an attacker , and the wounding of 15 others .
The toll , however , could worsen because 7 of them , including which a policeman sustained serious injuries .
After the first two victims , a woman died from the serious injuries sustained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This was reported by the mayor of the Austrian capital Michael Ludwig , quoted by the website of the newspaper Kronen Zeitung .
In the middle of the night , another of the patients died .
Official confirmations are still lacking but about the jihadist matrix of the attack that began around 20 ( UTC ) near the synagogue in Schwedenplatz in Vienna and some offices of the Jewish community , according to the Austrian media , few doubts remain after a public claim has been made by a Muslim extremist group .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ still on the run and the police have urged people not to leave their homes .
The assault was allegedly the work of several bombers , one of whom was killed with an explosive belt .
“ It was 8 pm and gunshots were reported – said the Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer , speaking of the first moments of the attack - .
Police cars went to the scene .
Then at the same time in other points of the city there have been other attacks “ .
“ The jihadists released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attack in Vienna late on Monday , according to SITE Intelligence Group , an American company that claims to monitor the information activity of extremists , ” Sputnik International reported .
Daesh supporters , according to SITE , are “ joyful ” as they describe the authors as “ lions ” and claim that the Vienna attack is “ part of the bill ” Austria owes for its involvement in the US-led coalition fighting against the Daesh terrorist group .
The latter is also known as ISIS or ISIL ( Islamic State founded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iraq ) .
The attack came just hours before Austria imposed new national restrictions to try to stem the growing cases of coronavirus .
Many people were out enjoying the bars and restaurants which are now closed until the end of November .
It seems that the attackers , with their faces distorted , fired with semi-automatic weapons and in particular the AK 47 Kalashnikov , the favorite rifle of Islamic terrorists .
The premeditated terrorist act occurs a few days after the attack in Nice , France , in which an illegal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Italian island of Lampedusa and then arrived on the Côte d ’ Azur , killed the sacristan of the Basilica of Notre Dame and slaughtered them .
two faithful in prayer .
But it follows another event of apparent religious origin that took place in recent days , again in the Austrian capital , due to the hooligan assault on a church by about thirty young people of presumably Turkish nationality .
« The incident at the St. Anton church in Vienna ’ s Favoriten district happened on Thursday evening .
It was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newspaper , which said investigators suspect the intruders were Turkish youths who had organized via social media – wrote online newspaper KruxNow – Police said a priest called police when the youths started kicking the furniture , and that they dispersed in several directions before officers arrived .
No damage was caused and no people were hurt or threatened , according to a police statement Saturday .
The local branch of the domestic intelligence agency was looking into the matter » .
The incident came at a time of heightened tensions over attacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s vow to protect the right to caricature Muhammad , a stance the Turkish president has assailed .
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday night tweeted theKurier report with the comment : “ All Christians must be able to exercise their belief in Austria freely and safely !
We will continue the fight against political Islam with determination and will show no false tolerance.
” A few days later , there is the terrible and deadly armed attack .
MIT , the secret services of Turkey , has been repeatedly accused by the Kurdish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , training and transfer to Syria , Libya but also to Europe of Al Qaeda or ISIS jihadists , used as mercenaries in the conflict zones in the Middle East , in Afrin as in Tripoli .
Turkish counterintelligence allegedly used the same tactic as Saudi Arabia in Yemen : first arresting the jihadist extremists and then freeing them only on condition that they fight for the country ’ s interests alongside regular armies .
If the synagogue had actually been one of the chosen targets of the attack on Vienna , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over 40 years .
In April 1979 a kilogram of plastic explosives exploded in the courtyard of the Viennese synagogue and the attack was claimed by a Palestinian terrorist group .
In August 1981 , Palestinian terrorism again hit the Seitenstett synagogue , killing two people and seriously injuring 21 .
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS for VETERANS TODAY only no reproduction without authorization

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Europe
Versione originale in Italiano
At least one video of those circulated on the net reports the cry of Islamic terrorists (of Sunni origin) “Allah Akbar”. This was reported by Russia Today on the simultaneous armed attack carried out by a commando in Vienna which resulted in the death of 4 people, three civilians and an attacker, and the wounding of 15 others.
The toll, however, could worsen because 7 of them, including which a policeman sustained serious injuries. After the first two victims, a woman died from the serious injuries sustained in the attack in Vienna tonight. This was reported by the mayor of the Austrian capital Michael Ludwig, quoted by the website of the newspaper Kronen Zeitung. In the middle of the night, another of the patients died.
Official confirmations are still lacking but about the jihadist matrix of the attack that began around 20 (UTC) near the synagogue in Schwedenplatz in Vienna and some offices of the Jewish community, according to the Austrian media, few doubts remain after a public claim has been made by a Muslim extremist group. At least one of the terrorists is still on the run and the police have urged people not to leave their homes.
The assault was allegedly the work of several bombers, one of whom was killed with an explosive belt. “It was 8 pm and gunshots were reported – said the Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, speaking of the first moments of the attack -. Police cars went to the scene. Then at the same time in other points of the city there have been other attacks “.
“The jihadists released a statement claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack in Vienna late on Monday, according to SITE Intelligence Group, an American company that claims to monitor the information activity of extremists,” Sputnik International reported.
Daesh supporters, according to SITE, are “joyful” as they describe the authors as “lions” and claim that the Vienna attack is “part of the bill” Austria owes for its involvement in the US-led coalition fighting against the Daesh terrorist group. The latter is also known as ISIS or ISIL (Islamic State founded by Caliph Al Baghdadi in Mosul in Iraq).
The attack came just hours before Austria imposed new national restrictions to try to stem the growing cases of coronavirus. Many people were out enjoying the bars and restaurants which are now closed until the end of November. It seems that the attackers, with their faces distorted, fired with semi-automatic weapons and in particular the AK 47 Kalashnikov, the favorite rifle of Islamic terrorists.
The premeditated terrorist act occurs a few days after the attack in Nice, France, in which an illegal Tunisian immigrant, who landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa and then arrived on the Côte d’Azur, killed the sacristan of the Basilica of Notre Dame and slaughtered them. two faithful in prayer.
But it follows another event of apparent religious origin that took place in recent days, again in the Austrian capital, due to the hooligan assault on a church by about thirty young people of presumably Turkish nationality.
«The incident at the St. Anton church in Vienna’s Favoriten district happened on Thursday evening. It was reported a day later by the Kurier newspaper, which said investigators suspect the intruders were Turkish youths who had organized via social media – wrote online newspaper KruxNow – Police said a priest called police when the youths started kicking the furniture, and that they dispersed in several directions before officers arrived. No damage was caused and no people were hurt or threatened, according to a police statement Saturday. The local branch of the domestic intelligence agency was looking into the matter».
The incident came at a time of heightened tensions over attacks in France and the French president’s vow to protect the right to caricature Muhammad, a stance the Turkish president has assailed. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday night tweeted theKurier report with the comment: “All Christians must be able to exercise their belief in Austria freely and safely! We will continue the fight against political Islam with determination and will show no false tolerance.” A few days later, there is the terrible and deadly armed attack.
MIT, the secret services of Turkey, has been repeatedly accused by the Kurdish and Syrian media of favoring the recruitment, training and transfer to Syria, Libya but also to Europe of Al Qaeda or ISIS jihadists, used as mercenaries in the conflict zones in the Middle East, in Afrin as in Tripoli. Turkish counterintelligence allegedly used the same tactic as Saudi Arabia in Yemen: first arresting the jihadist extremists and then freeing them only on condition that they fight for the country’s interests alongside regular armies.
If the synagogue had actually been one of the chosen targets of the attack on Vienna, it would be the third attack in just over 40 years. In April 1979 a kilogram of plastic explosives exploded in the courtyard of the Viennese synagogue and the attack was claimed by a Palestinian terrorist group. In August 1981, Palestinian terrorism again hit the Seitenstett synagogue, killing two people and seriously injuring 21.
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veteranstoday--2020-11-05--US ELECTIONS. Mistakes, Mysteries and Civil War’s Nightmare. NYT contests FOX data. AntiTrump Rioter

US ELECTIONS. Mistakes, Mysteries and Civil War’s Nightmare. NYT contests FOX data. AntiTrump Rioters arrested in Manhattan and Portland

Errors , mysteries , suspicions , appeals for the recount of votes and finally threats to call into question the Supreme Court to clarify .
The climate of the elections in the US for the race for the White House is increasingly heated , which is played on the wool thread of the difference contained in a handful of votes of the Great Electors ( below in the full post the voting mechanism for the American presidential elections ) .
This has further inflamed the souls of the anti-Trump rioters , exponents of Black Lives Matter and Antifa , trained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , raising the specter of an urban guerrilla and a civil war should the polls prove favorable to the outgoing president Donald Trump , now at a disadvantage to challenger Joe Biden Uncertainty reigns supreme over the name of the future president who could remain in a limbo of nervousness and accusations of electoral fraud until Thursday 12 November , the deadline in which one of the decisive states , North Carolina , will accept the arrival of the votes by mail .
The case and the tensions are well evidenced by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between two of the main American media : the Fox News network which followed the ballots in real time but allegedly committed a macroscopic mistake as reported by the New York Times newspaper and remarked with emphasis by the Russian media Sputnik International .
« The Trump campaign has denounced the counting of votes in the presidential election , claiming “ massive cheating ” , and has initiated lawsuits to stop ballot counts in Michigan and Pennsylvania .
A Trump campaign senior advisor , Jason Miller , asserted that Donald Trump would win @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uncounted early ballots in the state .
He urged The Associated Press and Fox News to retract their election calls that predict a Biden win in Arizona » wrote Daria Bedenko on Sputnik .
According to the Russian network , In a Wednesday tweet , Miller claimed that “ this is big ” , referring to reports suggesting that Adrian Fontes , a recorder for Arizona ’ s Maricopa County , said that there were some 180,000 early ballots returned in the county .
According to Miller , referring to overall numbers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be counted .
Regarding Arizona results , observers of the NYT spotted an error in the Edison Research data feed , noting a “ glitch ” in Biden ’ s favour claiming that 98 per cent of the ballots had been counted – with the real figures of 86 per cent .
The New York Times also wondered why Fox News , the media of tycoon Rupert Murdoch famously supporter of President Trump , did not rectify the assignment of the pivotal state .
ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTS AND ARRESTS IN MANHATTAN AND PORTLAND As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the vote are already creating social unrest .
The black rights movement Black Lives Matter had occupied the square in front of the White House since the evening of Election Day , Tuesday 3 November , forcing the police to carry out a massive intervention .
New York Police Department tightened security measures around Trump Tower and made 60 arrests of violent anti-Trump protesters on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday .
But the most massive protests were recorded in Portland , a hotbed of dangerous thugs trained in urban warfare ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks ) , where the National Guard had to intervene to quell a demonstration that could degenerate if the recount Trump .
Wisconsin is among the most sensational cases of the disputes over the polling of votes by the electoral committee of the outgoing president .
In that state , in fact , within a few minutes , as evidenced by an ABC News chart , there was a sudden leap in Biden ’ s favor of 500,000 preferences .
“ We are winning , ” Biden said strong of the 253 votes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him by the NYT while Fox , for the mistake on Arizona , recognizes 264 , one step away from the 270 necessary for victory .
“ They steal our vote , ” Trump thundered , threatening to appeal to the Supreme Court where his trusty judge Amy Barrett took office .
The head of an international observer mission to the US elections has accused US President Donald Trump of “ gross abuse of office , ” after he called for an end to vote counting in key swing states .
“ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fanfare of the White House , that is , with all the insignia of power , the American commander-in-chief called for an end to the count because of his purported victory , ” Michael Link , head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) , told Germany ’ s Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper on Thursday .
But here is the situation state by state radiographed by the New York Times .
Here is the state of play in battleground states as of 9:55 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : 11 Biden leads Trump , 51.0 percent to 47.6 percent , with 86 percent of the estimated vote in .
To keep in mind : Trump needs to win nearly two-thirds of the remaining votes to capture the state .
Officials in Maricopa County , the state ’ s most populous county and home to Phoenix , say they will release a results update after 1 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday .
Electoral votes : 16 Trump leads Biden , 49.8 percent to 49.0 percent , with 95 percent of the estimated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Many of the votes still coming in are in suburbs of Atlanta and other populous counties that have been breaking for Biden .
Mr. Biden must win around 60 percent of the remaining votes to pull ahead .
Georgia ’ s secretary of state said that he was expecting workers to continue tallying votes until late Wednesday or Thursday .
Electoral votes : 6 Biden leads Trump , 49.3 percent to 48.7 percent , with 86 percent of the estimated vote in .
Keep in mind : Mr. Biden leads by fewer than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Election Day vote has been counted , leaving only Democratic-leaning late mail and provisional ballots to be tabulated .
Officials said results would be released around noon Eastern time on Thursday .
Electoral votes : 15 Trump leads Biden , 50.1 percent to 48.7 percent , with 95 percent of the estimated vote in .
Keep in mind : With most votes now tabulated , Biden would need to win about two-thirds of the remainder to pull ahead .
Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day will be accepted until next Thursday , Nov. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leads Biden , 50.9 percent to 47.8 percent , with 88 percent of the estimated vote in .
Keep in mind : Most of the votes yet to be counted are in counties where Biden is ahead , including Philadelphia , the state ’ s most populous county , where Biden leads by about 60 percentage points , and Allegheny , which Biden leads by over 10 points and which includes Pittsburgh .
But plenty of votes are outstanding in dozens of smaller Trump-leaning counties .
Biden needs to win about two-thirds of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Officials have said they expect most votes to be counted by Friday .
Electoral votes : 16 Biden was declared the winner , 50.3 percent to 48.1 percent , a margin of 1.8 percentage points , with more than 98 percent of votes counted .
Keep in mind : Before the Michigan race was called , the Trump campaign had announced that it was suing to halt the counting of mail-in ballots there because of what it called insufficient transparency in the process .
Electoral votes : 10 Biden was declared the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a margin of 0.6 percentage points , with more than 98 percent of votes counted .
Keep in mind : Wisconsin law allows a recount when the leading candidate ’ s margin is less than one percent , and the Trump campaign said it would request one .

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT
Editor’s note: Not wanting to be critical of my good friend Fabio, but his may well be one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Doing research using only agenda driven drivel should always be avoided. Do read it. Keep a barf bag near.
Versione originale in Italiano
UPDATE 7.35 ITALIAN TIME (UTC + 1) – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 5
Errors, mysteries, suspicions, appeals for the recount of votes and finally threats to call into question the Supreme Court to clarify. The climate of the elections in the US for the race for the White House is increasingly heated, which is played on the wool thread of the difference contained in a handful of votes of the Great Electors (below in the full post the voting mechanism for the American presidential elections).
This has further inflamed the souls of the anti-Trump rioters, exponents of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, trained anti-fascist groups and close to terrorist organizations, raising the specter of an urban guerrilla and a civil war should the polls prove favorable to the outgoing president Donald Trump, now at a disadvantage to challenger Joe Biden
Uncertainty reigns supreme over the name of the future president who could remain in a limbo of nervousness and accusations of electoral fraud until Thursday 12 November, the deadline in which one of the decisive states, North Carolina, will accept the arrival of the votes by mail .
The case and the tensions are well evidenced by the fact that there was even a clash between two of the main American media: the Fox News network which followed the ballots in real time but allegedly committed a macroscopic mistake as reported by the New York Times newspaper and remarked with emphasis by the Russian media Sputnik International.
«The Trump campaign has denounced the counting of votes in the presidential election, claiming “massive cheating”, and has initiated lawsuits to stop ballot counts in Michigan and Pennsylvania. A Trump campaign senior advisor, Jason Miller, asserted that Donald Trump would win Arizona, citing over a half million uncounted early ballots in the state. He urged The Associated Press and Fox News to retract their election calls that predict a Biden win in Arizona» wrote Daria Bedenko on Sputnik.
According to the Russian network, In a Wednesday tweet, Miller claimed that “this is big”, referring to reports suggesting that Adrian Fontes, a recorder for Arizona’s Maricopa County, said that there were some 180,000 early ballots returned in the county. According to Miller, referring to overall numbers, Arizona has over 600,000 ballots yet to be counted.
Regarding Arizona results, observers of the NYT spotted an error in the Edison Research data feed, noting a “glitch” in Biden’s favour claiming that 98 per cent of the ballots had been counted – with the real figures of 86 per cent. The New York Times also wondered why Fox News, the media of tycoon Rupert Murdoch famously supporter of President Trump, did not rectify the assignment of the pivotal state.
ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTS AND ARRESTS IN MANHATTAN AND PORTLAND
As highlighted in previous updates, the results of the vote are already creating social unrest. The black rights movement Black Lives Matter had occupied the square in front of the White House since the evening of Election Day, Tuesday 3 November, forcing the police to carry out a massive intervention. New York Police Department tightened security measures around Trump Tower and made 60 arrests of violent anti-Trump protesters on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.
But the most massive protests were recorded in Portland, a hotbed of dangerous thugs trained in urban warfare (in black overalls, helmets and gas masks), where the National Guard had to intervene to quell a demonstration that could degenerate if the recount Trump.
SUSPICIOUS CASE IN WISCONSIN
Wisconsin is among the most sensational cases of the disputes over the polling of votes by the electoral committee of the outgoing president. In that state, in fact, within a few minutes, as evidenced by an ABC News chart, there was a sudden leap in Biden’s favor of 500,000 preferences.
“We are winning,” Biden said strong of the 253 votes of the electors so far attributed to him by the NYT while Fox, for the mistake on Arizona, recognizes 264, one step away from the 270 necessary for victory. “They steal our vote,” Trump thundered, threatening to appeal to the Supreme Court where his trusty judge Amy Barrett took office.
The head of an international observer mission to the US elections has accused US President Donald Trump of “gross abuse of office,” after he called for an end to vote counting in key swing states.
“The most disturbing thing was that with presidential fanfare of the White House, that is, with all the insignia of power, the American commander-in-chief called for an end to the count because of his purported victory,” Michael Link, head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told Germany’s Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper on Thursday.
“That was a gross abuse of office,” he added, calling Trump’s claims of foul play by Democrats “baseless.”
But here is the situation state by state radiographed by the New York Times. Here is the state of play in battleground states as of 9:55 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday (UTC – 5).
ARIZONA
Electoral votes: 11 Biden leads Trump, 51.0 percent to 47.6 percent, with 86 percent of the estimated vote in. To keep in mind: Trump needs to win nearly two-thirds of the remaining votes to capture the state. Officials in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county and home to Phoenix, say they will release a results update after 1 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday.
GEORGIA
Electoral votes: 16 Trump leads Biden, 49.8 percent to 49.0 percent, with 95 percent of the estimated vote in. Keep in mind: Many of the votes still coming in are in suburbs of Atlanta and other populous counties that have been breaking for Biden. Mr. Biden must win around 60 percent of the remaining votes to pull ahead. Georgia’s secretary of state said that he was expecting workers to continue tallying votes until late Wednesday or Thursday.
NEVADA
Electoral votes: 6 Biden leads Trump, 49.3 percent to 48.7 percent, with 86 percent of the estimated vote in. Keep in mind: Mr. Biden leads by fewer than 8,000 votes, but all of the Election Day vote has been counted, leaving only Democratic-leaning late mail and provisional ballots to be tabulated. Officials said results would be released around noon Eastern time on Thursday.
NORTH CAROLINA
Electoral votes: 15 Trump leads Biden, 50.1 percent to 48.7 percent, with 95 percent of the estimated vote in. Keep in mind: With most votes now tabulated, Biden would need to win about two-thirds of the remainder to pull ahead. Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day will be accepted until next Thursday, Nov. 12.
PENNSYLVANIA
Electoral votes: 20 Trump leads Biden, 50.9 percent to 47.8 percent, with 88 percent of the estimated vote in. Keep in mind: Most of the votes yet to be counted are in counties where Biden is ahead, including Philadelphia, the state’s most populous county, where Biden leads by about 60 percentage points, and Allegheny, which Biden leads by over 10 points and which includes Pittsburgh. But plenty of votes are outstanding in dozens of smaller Trump-leaning counties. Biden needs to win about two-thirds of the remaining votes to win the state. Officials have said they expect most votes to be counted by Friday.
MICHIGAN
Electoral votes: 16 Biden was declared the winner, 50.3 percent to 48.1 percent, a margin of 1.8 percentage points, with more than 98 percent of votes counted. Keep in mind: Before the Michigan race was called, the Trump campaign had announced that it was suing to halt the counting of mail-in ballots there because of what it called insufficient transparency in the process.
WISCONSIN
Electoral votes: 10 Biden was declared the winner, 49.4 percent to 48.8 percent, a margin of 0.6 percentage points, with more than 98 percent of votes counted. Keep in mind: Wisconsin law allows a recount when the leading candidate’s margin is less than one percent, and the Trump campaign said it would request one.
FULL POST IN ITALIAN VERSION WITH MACHINE TRANSLATING


veteranstoday--2020-11-05--VT Calls Pennsylvania for Biden

VT Calls Pennsylvania for Biden

Trump lead dwindles from 11 points to 4 points as count continues More than 58 percent of mail-in votes have been counted , and they continue to boost Democrat Joe Biden ’ s totals as expected .
As of 6:45 p.m. Wednesday , Republican President Donald Trump ’ s lead in Pennsylvania had fallen from 11 points on election night to 4 points less than 24 hours later .
The president came out of Election Day with a 618,000-vote advantage .
But once the heavily Democratic mail-in votes started to be counted , he had about 265,000 more votes than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million votes to count .
Biden said during a news conference Wednesday that he felt good about Pennsylvania , where he is winning 78 percent of mail-in votes .
The most populated counties have counted more than half of their mail-in votes .
Here are the number of mail-in ballots that still need to be counted in Pittsburgh , Philadelphia and its suburban counties : Numerous other counties also have thousands of mail-in ballots to count .
More than 1 million mail-in votes still need to be counted Pennsylvania has counted another 400,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ votes have favored Democrat Joe Biden .

More than 58 percent of mail-in votes have been counted, and they continue to boost Democrat Joe Biden’s totals as expected.
As of 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, Republican President Donald Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania had fallen from 11 points on election night to 4 points less than 24 hours later.
The president came out of Election Day with a 618,000-vote advantage. But once the heavily Democratic mail-in votes started to be counted, he had about 265,000 more votes than Biden.
There are still about 1 million votes to count.
Biden said during a news conference Wednesday that he felt good about Pennsylvania, where he is winning 78 percent of mail-in votes.
The most populated counties have counted more than half of their mail-in votes.
Here are the number of mail-in ballots that still need to be counted in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and its suburban counties:
Philadelphia: 167,225
Allegheny: 155,803
Montgomery: 61,943
Bucks: 68,328
Chester: 52,175
Delaware: 29,443
Lancaster: 19,480
Lehigh: 47,674
Westmoreland: 32,593
Luzerne: 20,185
Erie: 30,633
Numerous other counties also have thousands of mail-in ballots to count.
— Candy Woodall
More than 1 million mail-in votes still need to be counted
Pennsylvania has counted another 400,000 mail-in votes, and two-thirds of those votes have favored Democrat Joe Biden.


veteranstoday--2020-11-05--Aftermath: Why Trump fans enthusiastically back a confessed sexual assailant and obvious sociopath

I grew up in right-wing America , but I got out as soon as I could .
No one was surprised .
From an early age , it was clear my inclinations were what you might call “ Weimar American ” or what a lot of people around me called “ weird ” : More interested in reading than watching TV , invested in pop music trends , and intrigued rather than repulsed by the idea of meeting people who were different than me , or eating foods I hadn ’ t heard of before .
“ You ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ snarled at me in class one day in , I kid you not , 1993 .
I didn ’ t have the heart to tell him that term was going out of style when he was a toddler .
Now , as an adult , I shop at the farmer ’ s market .
I ’ m middle-aged , but I know what “ trap music ” is .
I have opinions on the newest seasons of “ The Great British Baking Show , ” versus the older ones .
I lament the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actual books online .
I read mainstream newspapers and eat Vietnamese takeout .
I ’ ve been to same-sex weddings and the Women ’ s March .
I ’ ve uttered the phrase “ the Golden Age of Television.
” I say these things not to congratulate myself for being hip , but quite the opposite .
I ’ m not hip at all — I ’ m an extremely normal American .
Sure , I ’ ve lived in liberal cities — first Austin , then Brooklyn and now Philadelphia — my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America I know , where the movie “ Get Out ” was a huge hit and the Dixie Chicks did nothing wrong — is mainstream America .
Americans like me populate the small towns and suburbs too , as the summer of Black Lives Matter protests and Biden/Harris signs demonstrated .
There are many flavors of us and many races , but the general values — appreciation for diversity , acceptance of social change , cultural curiosity and empathy towards others — are the mainstream values of America .
Some of us are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some as a matter of circumstance , marginalized by immutable characteristics like race or gender identity or sexual orientation .
Still , the fact that Democrats tend to win the popular vote in presidential elections over and over and over — with the 2020 result , that makes seven of the last eight — is evidence that the America that Donald Trump and his fans hate , the America they don ’ t even want to admit is American , is mainstream America .
And frankly , Trump and his minions know it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mainstream nature of this more liberal , cosmopolitan strain of American culture that explains why we ’ re seeing such fierce , outsized anger from Trump voters .
It ’ s the reason for the flag-festooned truck caravans , video tantrums about having to wear face masks in public places , lurid conspiracy theories painting Democrats as blood-drinking pedophiles and the “ MAGA ” slogan .
It ’ s why they are willing to back a confessed sexual assailant who is obviously a sociopath , eagerly and enthusiastically .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ take back ” an American culture that they believe is being stolen by the rest of us , that is , the actual American majority .
Win or lose in 2020 , Trump has done remarkably well for a president who let 232,000 Americans die and is abandoning millions more to sickness or poverty .
That may seem inexplicable to many people who despise him , but it ’ s ultimately because his voters see themselves locked in an existential battle with the rest of us over who gets to define @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truly “ American.
” There ’ s a lot of resistance on the left to the idea that our national crisis is over identity and culture , and not over something that ’ s a little easier to get a handle on , like economics or ideology .
It ’ s often noted in progressive circles that if you poll Americans on policy issues like universal health care or free college , broad majorities of Americans — including a plurality of Republicans — support many left-leaning and often “ radical ” policies .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrats are losing because they ’ re too timid , and that if they embraced a bolder , more progressive agenda , they would win .
As much as my heart wants to believe that , however , it isn ’ t true .
We know that because both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden shifted toward the left — certainly in terms of recent Democratic politics — and it did nothing to improve their vote share .
Which isn ’ t to say Democrats shouldn ’ t embrace progressive economic policies .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right thing to do .
But there ’ s no reason to believe it will either help or hurt their electoral chances , because there ’ s no way to win over votes from Trump America .
That 45 % of the country , which has outsized power due to the Electoral College and the unfair Senate system , is simply more worried about culture-war issues than about policy .
As Paul Campos at Lawyers , Guns , and Money wrote Wednesday morning , “ the lesson of this election is it doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Republican president does or doesn ’ t do — the people who vote for him literally don ’ t care , as long as he gives them enough of what they want , and what they want is authoritarian ethno-nationalism and Owning the Libs.
” There ’ s been some good protest music in the Trump years .
What is striking about a lot of it — such as Childish Gambino ’ s “ This Is America , ” Janelle Monae ’ s “ Americans ” and RuPaul ’ s “ American ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ focused on this notion of what it means to be an American “ I am American , American , just like you too , ” are the blunt lyrics of the RuPaul song , which plays at the end of every episode of RuPaul ’ s show in recent seasons .
I ’ d argue that RuPaul is , if anything , even more American .
He ’ s a house musician , a drag queen and a game show host , all of which are American-born artistic traditions .
That ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the things that make this country ’ s culture interesting and unique and so beloved around the world come from the very people and subcultures that our authoritarian 45 % resents so much : Queer subcultures , nonwhite communities , urban neighborhoods full of immigrants .
Even right wing America has a parasitic cultural relationship to the innovations of the same Americans they resent so much .
From Trump fans dancing feebly to the Village People at his red-hat rallies to the way hip-hop beats are watered down and injected into crappy “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Florida-Georgia Line to whatever the hell Kid Rock is doing : The spirit of Pat Boone stays strong in this country , kept alive by people who want to steal artistic and cultural innovation from other Americans before they kick them in the face .
I wish I had more answers to our problems .
I wish our elections could be about boring but important issues like health care and tax policy , instead of being used as a clumsy weapon in the culture wars .
I wish that the 45 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or don ’ t like the slightly hipper and definitely more diverse majority would just chill out and leave us alone .
I wish there was no Fox News and no Rush Limbaugh and no white dudes with bad tattoos who channel their masculine insecurities into buying guns and longing for “ tradwives ” on social media .
But I don ’ t .
It feels like an intractable problem , being held hostage by a resentful minority who only grow more toxic and bitter because they have way too much power over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s the problem we have , and we won ’ t even start to think of solutions until we look our problem directly in the face .

Amanda Marcotte/Salon via Alternet
I grew up in right-wing America, but I got out as soon as I could. No one was surprised. From an early age, it was clear my inclinations were what you might call “Weimar American” or what a lot of people around me called “weird”: More interested in reading than watching TV, invested in pop music trends, and intrigued rather than repulsed by the idea of meeting people who were different than me, or eating foods I hadn’t heard of before.
“You’re a New Waver,” some kid snarled at me in class one day in, I kid you not, 1993. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that term was going out of style when he was a toddler.
Now, as an adult, I shop at the farmer’s market. I’m middle-aged, but I know what “trap music” is. I have opinions on the newest seasons of “The Great British Baking Show,” versus the older ones. I lament the decline of bookstores, but still buy actual books online. I read mainstream newspapers and eat Vietnamese takeout. I’ve been to same-sex weddings and the Women’s March. I’ve uttered the phrase “the Golden Age of Television.”
I say these things not to congratulate myself for being hip, but quite the opposite. I’m not hip at all — I’m an extremely normal American. Sure, I’ve lived in liberal cities — first Austin, then Brooklyn and now Philadelphia — my whole adult life. Still, the America I know, where the movie “Get Out” was a huge hit and the Dixie Chicks did nothing wrong — is mainstream America.
Americans like me populate the small towns and suburbs too, as the summer of Black Lives Matter protests and Biden/Harris signs demonstrated. There are many flavors of us and many races, but the general values — appreciation for diversity, acceptance of social change, cultural curiosity and empathy towards others — are the mainstream values of America.
Some of us are here as a matter of choice and some as a matter of circumstance, marginalized by immutable characteristics like race or gender identity or sexual orientation. Still, the fact that Democrats tend to win the popular vote in presidential elections over and over and over — with the 2020 result, that makes seven of the last eight — is evidence that the America that Donald Trump and his fans hate, the America they don’t even want to admit is American, is mainstream America.
And frankly, Trump and his minions know it. Indeed, it’s exactly the mainstream nature of this more liberal, cosmopolitan strain of American culture that explains why we’re seeing such fierce, outsized anger from Trump voters. It’s the reason for the flag-festooned truck caravans, video tantrums about having to wear face masks in public places, lurid conspiracy theories painting Democrats as blood-drinking pedophiles and the “MAGA” slogan. It’s why they are willing to back a confessed sexual assailant who is obviously a sociopath, eagerly and enthusiastically.
It’s because they see Trump as the vehicle to “take back” an American culture that they believe is being stolen by the rest of us, that is, the actual American majority.
Win or lose in 2020, Trump has done remarkably well for a president who let 232,000 Americans die and is abandoning millions more to sickness or poverty. That may seem inexplicable to many people who despise him, but it’s ultimately because his voters see themselves locked in an existential battle with the rest of us over who gets to define what kinds of people and things are truly “American.”
There’s a lot of resistance on the left to the idea that our national crisis is over identity and culture, and not over something that’s a little easier to get a handle on, like economics or ideology.
It’s often noted in progressive circles that if you poll Americans on policy issues like universal health care or free college, broad majorities of Americans — including a plurality of Republicans — support many left-leaning and often “radical” policies. This is often taken as evidence that Democrats are losing because they’re too timid, and that if they embraced a bolder, more progressive agenda, they would win.
As much as my heart wants to believe that, however, it isn’t true. We know that because both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden shifted toward the left — certainly in terms of recent Democratic politics — and it did nothing to improve their vote share.
Which isn’t to say Democrats shouldn’t embrace progressive economic policies. They should, because it’s the right thing to do. But there’s no reason to believe it will either help or hurt their electoral chances, because there’s no way to win over votes from Trump America. That 45% of the country, which has outsized power due to the Electoral College and the unfair Senate system, is simply more worried about culture-war issues than about policy.
As Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money wrote Wednesday morning, “the lesson of this election is it doesn’t matter at all what a Republican president does or doesn’t do — the people who vote for him literally don’t care, as long as he gives them enough of what they want, and what they want is authoritarian ethno-nationalism and Owning the Libs.”
There’s been some good protest music in the Trump years. What is striking about a lot of it — such as Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” Janelle Monae’s “Americans” and RuPaul’s “American” — is how much it’s focused on this notion of what it means to be an American
“I am American, American, just like you too,” are the blunt lyrics of the RuPaul song, which plays at the end of every episode of RuPaul’s show in recent seasons.
I’d argue that RuPaul is, if anything, even more American. He’s a house musician, a drag queen and a game show host, all of which are American-born artistic traditions. That’s no surprise, since so many of the things that make this country’s culture interesting and unique and so beloved around the world come from the very people and subcultures that our authoritarian 45% resents so much: Queer subcultures, nonwhite communities, urban neighborhoods full of immigrants.
Even right wing America has a parasitic cultural relationship to the innovations of the same Americans they resent so much. From Trump fans dancing feebly to the Village People at his red-hat rallies to the way hip-hop beats are watered down and injected into crappy “bro country” songs by groups like the Florida-Georgia Line to whatever the hell Kid Rock is doing: The spirit of Pat Boone stays strong in this country, kept alive by people who want to steal artistic and cultural innovation from other Americans before they kick them in the face.
I wish I had more answers to our problems. I wish our elections could be about boring but important issues like health care and tax policy, instead of being used as a clumsy weapon in the culture wars. I wish that the 45% of Americans who don’t get or don’t like the slightly hipper and definitely more diverse majority would just chill out and leave us alone. I wish there was no Fox News and no Rush Limbaugh and no white dudes with bad tattoos who channel their masculine insecurities into buying guns and longing for “tradwives” on social media.
But I don’t. It feels like an intractable problem, being held hostage by a resentful minority who only grow more toxic and bitter because they have way too much power over our electoral system. But it’s the problem we have, and we won’t even start to think of solutions until we look our problem directly in the face.


veteranstoday--2020-11-05--Parting Gift: Gullible White Male Voters (and helping hand for those who feel hurt)

VT : The war is over .
Anyone who recognizes a cheater , and every American man should , feels deep inside that supporting Trump was so very wrong .
Try the video .
It may help .
Those of us who aren ’ t gullible , and you only get that way by being gullible and wising up… A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath America will have to contend with that fact .
The Atlantic : The moment every Donald Trump opponent has been waiting for is at hand : Joe Biden seems to be taking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not happy ?
I am certainly relieved .
A Biden victory would be an infinitely better result than a Trump win .
If Trump were to maintain power , our child-king would be unfettered by bothersome laws and institutions .
The United States would begin its last days as a democracy , finally stepping over the ledge into authoritarianism .
A win for Biden would forestall that terrible possibility .
But no matter how this election concludes , America is now a different country .
Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , his disastrous and lethal policies , his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it .
His voters can no longer hide behind excuses about the corruption of Hillary Clinton or their willingness to take a chance on an unproven political novice .
They can not feign ignorance about how Trump would rule .
They know , and they have embraced him .
Sadly , the voters who said in 2016 that they chose Trump because they thought he was “ just like them ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by picking him again , those voters are showing that they are just like him : angry , spoiled , racially resentful , aggrieved , and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong .
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VT: The war is over. Anyone who recognizes a cheater, and every American man should, feels deep inside that supporting Trump was so very wrong. Try the video. It may help. Those of us who aren’t gullible, and you only get that way by being gullible and wising up…
NEW VIDEO! #GullibleWhiteMaleTrumpVoters This is my second to last video before signing off. This video exposes the Trump base from top to bottom. HELP ME GET 15,000 **QUOTE RETWEETS** and RETWEETS on the eve of the most important election in history. I NEED YOUR HELP! pic.twitter.com/pnFK8xiX8G — Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 2, 2020
A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath
America will have to contend with that fact.
The Atlantic: The moment every Donald Trump opponent has been waiting for is at hand: Joe Biden seems to be taking the lead. So why am I not happy? I am certainly relieved. A Biden victory would be an infinitely better result than a Trump win. If Trump were to maintain power, our child-king would be unfettered by bothersome laws and institutions. The United States would begin its last days as a democracy, finally stepping over the ledge into authoritarianism. A win for Biden would forestall that terrible possibility. But no matter how this election concludes, America is now a different country. Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it. His voters can no longer hide behind excuses about the corruption of Hillary Clinton or their willingness to take a chance on an unproven political novice. They cannot feign ignorance about how Trump would rule. They know, and they have embraced him. David Frum: The American system is broken Sadly, the voters who said in 2016 that they chose Trump because they thought he was “just like them” turned out to be right. Now, by picking him again, those voters are showing that they are just like him: angry, spoiled, racially resentful, aggrieved, and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong. read more… https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/large-portion-electorate-chose-sociopath/616994/


veteranstoday--2020-11-05--Why Europe is Celebrating Trump’s Apparent Loss (video)

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veteranstoday--2020-11-04--U.S. Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement

Trump Takes U.S. Out of Paris Climate Accord Health Editor ’ s Note : The Paris Climate Agreement was made in 2015 as the pledge among nearly 200 countries to reduce emissions and halt the effects of climate change before this change was irreversible .
President Obama committed the U.S. to the agreement with a goal to reduce emissions by 30 % .
Trump has halted that process by allowing high carbon emitting industries , power plants , cars , and coal , to avoid tethering emissions in order to please his cronies who make their money in those businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emitter of greenhouse gases and has no business in stopping the process of helping to clean up this mess .
For Trump , it is more important to please his cronies than to take part in the effort to stop high carbon emissions that are destroying the earth .
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Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
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veteranstoday--2020-11-04--Belgium Has Europe’s Worst COVID-19 Infection Rate

Belgium Has One of Highest Mortality Rates in Europe Health Editor ’ s Note : Currently , Belgium is experiencing more than half if its ICU bed spaces filled with COVID-19 patients .
Between one-fifth and one-quarter of Belgium ’ s medical staff is sick of quarantining with positive cases being asked to go back to work as soon as they are asymptomatic and we all know that being asymptomatic does not mean you are not spreading coronavirus .
ICU beds are not evenly dispersed across the country to one can imagine the panic when someone needs to be admitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. , Belgium has been facing both political and administrative crises as well as other road blocks to taking care of its load of COVID-19 patients .
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veteranstoday--2020-11-04--61,000 New Cases of COVID-19 in Children During Last Week of October

Cases of COVID-19 Have Reached a Record Breaking High in Children Health Editor ’ s Note : Despite Trump ’ s comments that children ‘ almost never get sick with COVID-19 ’ and “ are almost immune to it ” , there have been 853,000 children who have tested positive for coronavirus , with 200,000 of those cases arriving during the month of October .
The numbers mentioned here may even be low as children often are not tested or diagnosed with COVID-19 because they may have little to none of the symptoms such as fever , cough , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were found in just over half of the children in one study and shortness of breath was found in only 13 % .
Other common symptoms reported by adults are not seen in children at all .
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We can not be surprised at the large increases in numbers of children becoming sick with coronavirus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ especially those age groups who will find mask wearing troublesome , placed into real time scenarios where they can be easily infected by any child that has an active case of COVID-19 would not be out of order .
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Cases of COVID-19 Have Reached a Record Breaking High in Children
There were 61,000 new cases in children during the last week of October, “which is larger than any previous week in the pandemic,” the AAP said in a statement. https://t.co/bKt6mK7hUn — ABC 17 News (@ABC17News) November 3, 2020
Health Editor’s Note: Despite Trump’s comments that children ‘almost never get sick with COVID-19’ and “are almost immune to it”, there have been 853,000 children who have tested positive for coronavirus, with 200,000 of those cases arriving during the month of October. The numbers mentioned here may even be low as children often are not tested or diagnosed with COVID-19 because they may have little to none of the symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Fever and cough were found in just over half of the children in one study and shortness of breath was found in only 13%. Other common symptoms reported by adults are not seen in children at all.
In many states children are back in school and we all know that when someone in a classroom has the flu, strep throat, common cold or even head lice others will easily pick it up. We cannot be surprised at the large increases in numbers of children becoming sick with coronavirus, Rethinking the act of having children, especially those age groups who will find mask wearing troublesome, placed into real time scenarios where they can be easily infected by any child that has an active case of COVID-19 would not be out of order. Clearly, children do get coronavirus and can spread it to others, including their teachers and fellow students….Carol
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013