veteranstoday--2020-10-18--NEO – The Confrontation in the Eastern Mediterranean is not subsiding

by Vladimir Odintsov , …with New Eastern Outlook , Moscow , …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences , a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa .
[ Editor ’ s Note : Erdogan has learned from deal breaker Donald Trump that you can agree to something favoring your interests at one moment , and then simply break the agreement when you feel it no longer does .
One would think that would kill the deal breaking party from being a trustworthy partner again , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upper hand when he sees there are no real penalties for breaking a deal , even with the EU .
Turkey is playing the EU for a fool now , as it knows it is under Covid stress , and the Brexit battle showdown is coming to an end , where it might get stiffed by Boris Johnson .
No one in Europe wants to start bleeding precious budget money on Turks and Erdogan , so we are getting all talk and no action .
Even the shipping sanctions on Turkey , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have hurt Erdogan seem to have been placed into a lock box somewhere .
The EU could eject a lot of unregulated Turkish business , and that would hurt the flow of Euros flowing back to Erdogan , which he desperately needs .
For now the EU just talks , while Erdogan shows he can back the Azeris in their war against the Armenian Christians and that no one will dare stop him .
Erdogan has been right so far , which will only make him more aggressive in the future… Jim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > The standoff taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean , despite attempts on the part of the international community to reduce its intensity , is unfortunately not calming down .
In the beginning , in September , the first preconditions arose for Ankara to tone down its demonstration of intransigence in its efforts to gain access to potential gas reserves in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ curtailment of geological surveying work there .
For example , in mid-September , the Turkish survey vessel Oruc Reis , which had conducted seismic studies in an area that Greece considers to be its exclusive economic zone , was transferred by Ankara to the Port of Antalya “ for maintenance work ” .
In early October , another Turkish drilling vessel , the Yavuz , which had been located southwest off the coast of Cyprus , also left its maritime Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone .
However , many regional experts even then suggested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the part of Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean were most likely geared toward helping Ankara “ untie its hands in the Caucasus ” , where it is providing support to Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia .
Turkey is accused of using its aircraft and drones to participate in armed hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh on Baku ’ s side ; Turkey is also facing accusations that 150 of its officers are effectively leading combat operations for the Azerbaijani army .
Nonetheless , after Ankara did withdraw its warships and Turkish research vessels from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arise that the conflict there would subside .
On September 22 , the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs even announced that it had agreed to resume seismic sounding surveying contacts with Turkey , which were disrupted in 2016 , and in the near future to hold the 61st round of surveying contacts .
However , on October 10 , against the backdrop of the flagging conflict in Karabakh , in which Ankara very actively participated – and by no means with the intention of peacekeeping – Turkey issued another Navtex international notification about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hydrocarbon deposits southwest of Cyprus , now with a date of November 9 .
The Turkish exploration vessel Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa , accompanied by two other ships , is exploring for hydrocarbons in this area now , which has brought the crisis back up to the alarming state it was in before .
In these conditions , the EU , meeting the demands put forth by Greece and Cyprus halfway , began to lay out new sanctions against Turkey because of the activities it is performing in the Eastern Mediterranean exploring for energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can not be resolved through diplomacy .
During an informal recent meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Berlin , EU countries agreed to extend some of the existing sanctions against Turkey as a retaliatory measure – thereby making it clear that this kind of behavior will entail consequences .
During an interview with Le Figaro newspaper , the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades reiterated that the claims laid by Ankara in the Mediterranean are unlawful , and he called upon the EU to take more coherent , decisive action to protect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to impose EU sanctions on Turkey , whose vessels illegally enter Cypriot territorial waters .
Along with that , the President of Cyprus stressed that his country had lent its support to the intentions of UN Secretary-General António Guterres to hold a new conference on Cyprus , but that unfortunately Turkey rejected this proposal .
Along with resuming geological surveying work in the Eastern Mediterranean , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ersin Tatar , the prime minister of Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus , announced that the coastal region of Varosha will be reopened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ southern resort town of Famagusta that was abandoned by the Greeks , and then cordoned off , after the Turkish army invaded northern Cyprus following the coup d ’ état that took place in 1974 .
Along with that , Turkey promised that Varosha would allegedly become a flourishing resort , and that the Port of Famagusta would open for international trade .
However , Niyazi Kızılyürek , a Turkish Cypriot member of the European Parliament , affirms that by doing this Erdogan is trying – in violation of the UN resolution on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on October 11 and 18 and block efforts to reunite the island .
As a result , the European Commission responded by threatening new sanctions , saying that the actions taken by Ankara could complicate efforts to resume the negotiations on a settlement for Cyprus that were announced by UN Secretary-General António Guterres .
A 1984 UN resolution calls for transferring Varosha to UN control , and prohibits any attempts to resettle anyone there other than its rightful inhabitants .
The government of the Republic of Cyprus also complained to the UN Security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which further aggravate the conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean .
On top of that , on October 10 , Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified an agreement with Greece concerning the demarcation of their maritime borders and establishing an exclusive economic zone , something which caused another wave of discontent in Turkey .
That ratification process took place two months after foreign ministers from both countries had signed the corresponding agreement in Cairo , which entailed a “ partial demarcation of maritime borders.
” Defining the borders to a complete extent will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the opinion held by political observers , the agreement is focused primarily on curbing Turkey ’ s ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean , while Ankara believes that via this deal Greece and Egypt have violated the rights that Turkey and Libya have to access the continental shelf .
Along with these actions , which do nothing to mitigate the tension in the Eastern Mediterranean , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , while opening the Reyhanli Dam in Hatay Province in early October , said that the Turkish army might launch another military operation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arab Republic .
Commenting on this proclamation made by the Turkish President , experts note that Erdogan “ clearly decided to try on the battle helmet of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ” , effectively announcing his willingness to wage war on four fronts at once : in Syria , Libya , the Caucasus , and in the Eastern Mediterranean “ for offshore gas fields ” .
At the same time , Western experts note that this could end badly for Erdogan himself , since this kind of policy that emphasizes militarism ultimately may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the part of an increasing number of countries , but could also erode support from the Turkish public .

by Vladimir Odintsov, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.
[ Editor’s Note: Erdogan has learned from deal breaker Donald Trump that you can agree to something favoring your interests at one moment, and then simply break the agreement when you feel it no longer does.
One would think that would kill the deal breaking party from being a trustworthy partner again, but alas Turkey’s Erdogan gains the upper hand when he sees there are no real penalties for breaking a deal, even with the EU.
Turkey is playing the EU for a fool now, as it knows it is under Covid stress, and the Brexit battle showdown is coming to an end, where it might get stiffed by Boris Johnson. No one in Europe wants to start bleeding precious budget money on Turks and Erdogan, so we are getting all talk and no action.
Even the shipping sanctions on Turkey, which would not be expensive to impose and would have hurt Erdogan seem to have been placed into a lock box somewhere. The EU could eject a lot of unregulated Turkish business, and that would hurt the flow of Euros flowing back to Erdogan, which he desperately needs.
For now the EU just talks, while Erdogan shows he can back the Azeris in their war against the Armenian Christians and that no one will dare stop him. Erdogan has been right so far, which will only make him more aggressive in the future… Jim W. Dean ]
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First published … October, 18, 2020
The standoff taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean, despite attempts on the part of the international community to reduce its intensity, is unfortunately not calming down.
In the beginning, in September, the first preconditions arose for Ankara to tone down its demonstration of intransigence in its efforts to gain access to potential gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically due to the curtailment of geological surveying work there.
For example, in mid-September, the Turkish survey vessel Oruc Reis, which had conducted seismic studies in an area that Greece considers to be its exclusive economic zone, was transferred by Ankara to the Port of Antalya “for maintenance work”. In early October, another Turkish drilling vessel, the Yavuz, which had been located southwest off the coast of Cyprus, also left its maritime Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone.
However, many regional experts even then suggested that these “geological concessions” on the part of Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean were most likely geared toward helping Ankara “untie its hands in the Caucasus”, where it is providing support to Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia.
Turkey is accused of using its aircraft and drones to participate in armed hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh on Baku’s side; Turkey is also facing accusations that 150 of its officers are effectively leading combat operations for the Azerbaijani army.
Nonetheless, after Ankara did withdraw its warships and Turkish research vessels from the Eastern Mediterranean, some hope seemed to arise that the conflict there would subside. On September 22, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs even announced that it had agreed to resume seismic sounding surveying contacts with Turkey, which were disrupted in 2016, and in the near future to hold the 61st round of surveying contacts.
However, on October 10, against the backdrop of the flagging conflict in Karabakh, in which Ankara very actively participated – and by no means with the intention of peacekeeping – Turkey issued another Navtex international notification about extending the terms for exploration work on hydrocarbon deposits southwest of Cyprus, now with a date of November 9.
The Turkish exploration vessel Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa, accompanied by two other ships, is exploring for hydrocarbons in this area now, which has brought the crisis back up to the alarming state it was in before.
In these conditions, the EU, meeting the demands put forth by Greece and Cyprus halfway, began to lay out new sanctions against Turkey because of the activities it is performing in the Eastern Mediterranean exploring for energy resources, just in case the conflict cannot be resolved through diplomacy.
During an informal recent meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Berlin, EU countries agreed to extend some of the existing sanctions against Turkey as a retaliatory measure – thereby making it clear that this kind of behavior will entail consequences.
During an interview with Le Figaro newspaper, the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades reiterated that the claims laid by Ankara in the Mediterranean are unlawful, and he called upon the EU to take more coherent, decisive action to protect European principles and international law, and to impose EU sanctions on Turkey, whose vessels illegally enter Cypriot territorial waters.
Along with that, the President of Cyprus stressed that his country had lent its support to the intentions of UN Secretary-General António Guterres to hold a new conference on Cyprus, but that unfortunately Turkey rejected this proposal.
Along with resuming geological surveying work in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ersin Tatar, the prime minister of Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, announced that the coastal region of Varosha will be reopened; this is a neighborhood in the southern resort town of Famagusta that was abandoned by the Greeks, and then cordoned off, after the Turkish army invaded northern Cyprus following the coup d’état that took place in 1974.
Along with that, Turkey promised that Varosha would allegedly become a flourishing resort, and that the Port of Famagusta would open for international trade.
However, Niyazi Kızılyürek, a Turkish Cypriot member of the European Parliament, affirms that by doing this Erdogan is trying – in violation of the UN resolution on Varosha – to influence the local elections on October 11 and 18 and block efforts to reunite the island.
As a result, the European Commission responded by threatening new sanctions, saying that the actions taken by Ankara could complicate efforts to resume the negotiations on a settlement for Cyprus that were announced by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
A 1984 UN resolution calls for transferring Varosha to UN control, and prohibits any attempts to resettle anyone there other than its rightful inhabitants. The government of the Republic of Cyprus also complained to the UN Security Council about the actions taken by Turkey, which further aggravate the conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean.
On top of that, on October 10, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified an agreement with Greece concerning the demarcation of their maritime borders and establishing an exclusive economic zone, something which caused another wave of discontent in Turkey.
That ratification process took place two months after foreign ministers from both countries had signed the corresponding agreement in Cairo, which entailed a “partial demarcation of maritime borders.” Defining the borders to a complete extent will be accomplished through further negotiations.
In the opinion held by political observers, the agreement is focused primarily on curbing Turkey’s ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean, while Ankara believes that via this deal Greece and Egypt have violated the rights that Turkey and Libya have to access the continental shelf.
Along with these actions, which do nothing to mitigate the tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while opening the Reyhanli Dam in Hatay Province in early October, said that the Turkish army might launch another military operation across the northern regions of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Commenting on this proclamation made by the Turkish President, experts note that Erdogan “clearly decided to try on the battle helmet of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent”, effectively announcing his willingness to wage war on four fronts at once: in Syria, Libya, the Caucasus, and in the Eastern Mediterranean “for offshore gas fields”.
At the same time, Western experts note that this could end badly for Erdogan himself, since this kind of policy that emphasizes militarism ultimately may not only increase outside resentment toward Turkey on the part of an increasing number of countries, but could also erode support from the Turkish public.
Vladimir Odintsov, a political observer, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.


veteranstoday--2020-10-18--Meet Joe (twitter video/worth the time)

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veteranstoday--2020-10-18--Dire Prediction for Winter Weather Patterns For Most of U.S.

Health Editor ’ s Note : Warmer winter temperatures , lack of rain , and COVID-19 pandemic….what will the U.S. be after this ?
Nearly half of the U.S. is experiencing drought and it seems that winter will bring no relief .
The majority of the continent will be warmer than usual and the winter of 2020 has a good chance of taking the 2016 record of warmest year on record for the entire planet .
Climate change deniers , what do you think about this ?
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veteranstoday--2020-10-18--Time to Retire Old Glory

Time to Retire Old Glory

Boogaloo is Police .
Other militias turn to them for protection .
Dozens of Michigan police , members of Boogaloo , are under investigation for planning to murder lawmakers .
The death of the flag , and it is certainly dead now , is a call for an armed revolution to overthrow the tyranny that has been imposed and the new tyranny that is threatened , or so Thomas Jefferson told us all when he turned in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence .
The American people are trying to have an election to save themselves .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foreign intelligence agencies controlled by gangsters in Israel , Russia , Ukraine and elsewhere put Trump in office and will do anything to keep him there .
We get the warning every day from our intel sources claiming Trump ’ s backers may kill Biden and even kill Trump , as they seem to believe he has gone even crazier than he was before .
This is why the FBI is investigating ties between the police mob , the Boogaloo Boys and their other nazi incarnations and the foreign money men who are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I am restricted on what I can say but , originally , VT was thought to have ‘ right wing ’ ties because of our close relationship with some groups in Russia .
Trump ’ s masters or partners , you decide , think the cops and hillbillies and their meth dealing friends with their endless supply of illegally owned AR 15 rifles can terrorize the United States much as the gangs did during the border wars that were the ‘ opener ’ for the Civil War 1861-65 .
Their gun toting truck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are planning to cruise our neighborhoods , keeping us in check .
These gangs of police thugs and morons have chosen the American flag as one of their symbols of oppression .
What Americans face if this election is stolen , is minority rule for decent Americans by a minority of ‘ white only ’ vermin .
They will use the police and the Department of Justice to enslave us all .
COVID was the beginning , they have a big one behind this one , one that will take deaths to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 40s .
Do you think they plan only to kill people of color ?
Do you really think the Kosher Nostra is in love with ‘ white folks ?
’ This is why we the people turn to the Declaration of Independence .
That document , in its entirety below , is the one America is built on , not the one it is governed from , shamefully .
Americans are now being required by Presidential command to become terrorists , racists and war criminals .
Backed by international gangsters and with an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throats , Trump and company , the Kosher Nostra , the most recent incarnation of the Moloch worshipping freaks of Europe ’ s degenerate ‘ black nobility ’ from which the Drumpf family derives power , we all live under threat .
There is no one to protect the American people with Boogaloo thugs running our police and a military bereft of leadership and honor .
This is what Jefferson said , words embraced by America ’ s Nazis who , as with everything else , get things totally opposite of reality as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be [ sacred and undeniable ] selfevident , that all men are created equal and independent ; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienables , among which are the preservation of life , and liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these ends , governments are instituted among men , deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends , it is the right of the people to alter or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form , as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness .
prudence , indeed , will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes : and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable , than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed .
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to [ subject ] reduce them to arbitrary power , it is their right , it is their duty , to throw off such government , and to provide new guards for their future security .
– ( full text below ) Words like ‘ equality ’ or terms like ‘ consent of the governed ’ are gone , we now live with engineered chaos and mob rule and oligarchy brought about by a bad constitution which bent overboard to protect the bankers and big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speculators .
The people of the United States were given the House of Representatives , and even that has been destroyed by gerrymandering .
The rich were given the Presidency , the Senate and the Supreme Court , all put into existence to protect the rich and their money and to let them make more by warring on the world using the blood of the poor .
This is the truth of it and Trump is the last straw .
When I saw the video of burning wheat fields in Syria with American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supplied by Joe Biden ) , done by orders of Donald Trump , I knew America was done , or at least the flag .
More than 5 decades ago I remember returning to a remote outpost in South Vietnam , seeing that flag waving .
It was besmirched even then but it was still revered .
Clanking along mud and clay covered rice paddy dikes , gear waving to and fro , we were the last American citizen soldiers to go to war .
I wrote about this in a recent NEO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I don ’ t really mean me .
I am not part of that ‘ we ’ .
I am a combat vet , served in Vietnam and , for the most part , give away many times what I earn .
I don ’ t take anything .
I am part of that real one percent in America , those who paid workers a decent salary , pay full health insurance and maintain decent working conditions .
If the number is higher , I haven ’ t seen it .
Why does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is simple , it has become the chosen cape and banner of thieves , bigots and racists .
None of us who supposedly fought for this piece of cloth intended it to be used the way it is now .
Truth be told , most Americans cringe when the see the flag anymore .
Comments ?
It didn ’ t survive hugs from pedophile Trump and his disease ridden kisses .
It was never meant to sit on the back of a boat or pickup truck next to the Trump banner , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a swastika .
The last thing any of us need to see is for it to be butchered with blue stripes to celebrate those who murder our citizens .
How many of you are aware the Boogaloo Boys are police ?
This is a police organization and , here in Michigan , up to 1000 police belong to this group , with their Hawaiian shirts and feelings of extremely misplaced superiority .
Are they here to fight ‘ Antifa ?
’ I checked .
Our entire state ‘ Antifa ’ organization is in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What do they do ?
They run a food bank and soup kitchen for the homeless .
One thousand armed Boogaloo paid by our tax dollars are sworn , on behalf of fascism , to wipe out the 20 member Antifa force .
None of the members own guns , ‘ Antifa.
’ The police own plenty and the head of the BG boys actually has visited us to buy them , a certain sheriff from Hastings , Michigan .
He is a Chet customer .
When we see Trumpists or watch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ we ’ are talking about is reflected in the polls , feel we are looking at people who hate America .
Trump is the symptom of a disease that started long ago when we began being overrun by Israel worshipping Molochists .
The Puritans were bigots , they came to America because there wasn ’ t enough religious oppression in Europe .
Now we have millions who worship the idea of turning America into a European society , yet none of them have been to Europe .
Many of us who work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at VT , we are still members of the UN Human Rights Council , which Jim and I have addressed several times . )
Frankly put , we are put on earth to serve , not take .
No salaries here at VT , the FBI was flabbergasted .
They spent months taking VT apart financially .
Several of our competitors have budgets up to $ 15m per year .
Breitbart gets several times that .
What is it ‘ we ’ want ?
We want to live in a world where people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their skin , this above all .
This is why I hate the GOP .
It has always been a ‘ one trick pony , ’ though it has tried to militarize abortion as well , but with little success .
Trump has one issue only , he has openly hated African Americans all his life , this above all is what his flag waving is based on , and for the rest of us , that flag is now beyond saving .
When you are driving around and see a flag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easy , of course you do .
No more pride , no more Belleau Wood and their ‘ losers and suckers.
’ No more real monuments : Want to replace that with 3 fat guys with AR ’ s and a cop with his knee on the neck of a victim ?
Why do you think all the ruckus over Confederate monuments ?
One of our ( Carol and I ) activities is visiting military cemeteries .
You might be surprised how many places around the world Americans are buried , thousands of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t even visit .
In the corner of every small cemetery in Michigan , Ohio and around what was the United States in 1861 , the stones are there , many with the markers ‘ GAR ’ for Grand Army of the Republic .
There is no laundering of the ‘ Southern Cause ’ into something it wasn ’ t .
It was about slavery and absolutely nothing else .
There were NO states rights issues , no secret oppression of the south by the London bankers who , by the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The war was brought on by a failure of governance .
It was clear that the Declaration of Independence support a slave free nation .
That a constitution was adopted that allowed slavery makes such a document ‘ null and void.
’ America is built on the declaration and the words ‘ all men.
’ It means black men , and it meant women too .
To the fake constitution , it meant white men with money and power ; and we are now paying , centuries later , for the tools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ London banks choking the life out of us , the Senate and Supreme Court , neither of which have anything to do with real voting or elections .
States with as few as 400,000 people have two senators while California with 49 million people…it has two senators as well .
Those fake senators pick the court , and it exists to defend the banks .
Over my many years at VT and its precursor , now 27 years in total , there has been one policy above all , respect for human rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to exist but to protect the vulnerable from David Icke ’ s ‘ reptilians.
’ I don ’ t know that such things exist , but I see enough of them around with their hands out .
They are the ones who have hijacked what was once ‘ our ’ flag , the one that talked about ‘ life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
’ Want to talk about that one ?
A Declaration by the Representatives of United States of America , in General Congress Assembled When , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained , and to assume among the powers of the earth , the equal and independent station to which the laws of nature and of nature ’ s god entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change We hold these truths to be [ sacred and undeniable ] selfevident , that all men are created equal and independent ; that from that equal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inalienables , among which are the preservation of life , and liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these ends , governments are instituted among men , deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends , it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it , and to institute new government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it ’ s powers in such form , as to them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety and happiness .
prudence , indeed , will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes : and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable , than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed .
but when a long train of abuses and usurpations , begun at a distinguished period , and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to [ subject ] reduce them to arbitrary power , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to throw off such government , and to provide new guards for their future security .
— Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government .
the history of his present majesty is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations , among which no fact stands single or solitary to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest , all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be submitted to a candid world , for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood .
He has refused his assent to laws , the most wholesome and necessary for the public good : He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance , unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended , he has neglected utterly to attend to them .
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right of representation [ in the legislature ] , a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only : He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly , for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people .
[ he has dissolved ] he has refused for a long space of time , to cause others to be elected , whereby the legislative powers , incapable of annihilation , have returned to the people at large for their exercise , the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convulsions within : he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither , and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands : he has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these colonies , refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers : he has made our judges dependent on his will alone , for the tenure of their offices , and the amount of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power , and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people , and eat out their substance .
he has kept among us , in times of peace , standing armies and ships of war : he has affected to render the military , independent of and superior to civil power : he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us ; for protecting them , by mock trial , from punishment for any murders [ which ] they should commit on the inhabitants of these states ; for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world ; for imposing taxes on us without our consent ; for depriving us of the benefits of trial by jury ; for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses ; for taking away our charters , and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments ; for suspending our own legislatures , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legislate for us in all cases whatsoever ; he has abdicated government here , withdrawing his governors , and declaring us out of his alegiance and protection ; he has plundered our seas , ravaged our coasts , burnt our towns , and destroyed the lives of our people : he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death , desolation and tyranny , already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation : he has endeavored to bring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ merciless Indian savages , whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages , sexes and conditions of existence : he has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow citizens with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property : he has waged cruel war against human nature itself , violating it ’ s most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him , captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemispere , or to incure miserable death in their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the opprobium of infidel powers , is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain .
[ determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold , ] he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce [ determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold ] : and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die , he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of which he had deprived them , by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people , with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another .
in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury .
a prince , whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant , is unfit to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mean to be free .
future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man , adventured within the short compass of twelve years only , on so many acts of tyranny without a mask , over a people fostered and fixed in principles of liberty .
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren .
we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over these our states .
we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which could warrant so strange a pretension : that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure , unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain : that in constituing indeed our several forms of government , we had adopted one common king , thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them : but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution , nor ever in idea , if history may be credited : and we appealed to their native justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations , which were likely to interrupt our correspondence and connections .
they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity , and when occasions have been given them , by the regular course of their laws , of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony , they have by their free election re-established them in power .
at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to invade and deluge us in blood .
these facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection , and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren .
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them , and hold them , as we hold the rest of mankind , enemies in war , in peace friends .
we might have been a free and a great people together ; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom it seems is below their dignity .
be it so , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ road to [ glory and ] happiness [ and to glory ] is open to us too ; we will climb it apart from them [ in a seperate state ] and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces [ pronounces ] [ our [ everlasting Adieu ! ]
eternal separation !
We , therefore , the representatives of the United States of America , in General Congress , assembled do , in the name , and by the authority of the good people of these states , reject and renounce the allegiance and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and all others whe may herafter claim by , through , or under them ; we utterly dissolve and break off all political connection which may have heretofore subsisted between us and the people or parliament of Great Britain ; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states , and that as free and independent states they shall herafter have [ full ] power to levy war , conclude peace , contract alliances , establish commerce , and to do all other acts and things which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And for the support of this declaration we mutually pledge to each other our lives , our fortunes and our sacred honor .
Okay , we don ’ t get past a paragraph and find ourselves in a conundrum .
We have sunk into tyranny and dictatorship , government by thieves and corporations supported by a bigoted minority who , backed by the moneymen , have enslaved ‘ the righteous.
’ Worse still , it isn ’ t enough , they want to go further .

…by Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor
A war is coming.
Boogaloo is Police. Other militias turn to them for protection. Dozens of Michigan police, members of Boogaloo, are under investigation for planning to murder lawmakers.
A war is coming.
The death of the flag, and it is certainly dead now, is a call for an armed revolution to overthrow the tyranny that has been imposed and the new tyranny that is threatened, or so Thomas Jefferson told us all when he turned in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
The American people are trying to have an election to save themselves. However, every intelligent American is aware that foreign intelligence agencies controlled by gangsters in Israel, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere put Trump in office and will do anything to keep him there.
We get the warning every day from our intel sources claiming Trump’s backers may kill Biden and even kill Trump, as they seem to believe he has gone even crazier than he was before.
This is why the FBI is investigating ties between the police mob, the Boogaloo Boys and their other nazi incarnations and the foreign money men who are trying to organize another stolen election.
I am restricted on what I can say but, originally, VT was thought to have ‘right wing’ ties because of our close relationship with some groups in Russia.
Trump’s masters or partners, you decide, think the cops and hillbillies and their meth dealing friends with their endless supply of illegally owned AR 15 rifles can terrorize the United States much as the gangs did during the border wars that were the ‘opener’ for the Civil War 1861-65.
Their gun toting truck convoys, filled with off duty police, are planning to cruise our neighborhoods, keeping us in check.
These gangs of police thugs and morons have chosen the American flag as one of their symbols of oppression.
What Americans face if this election is stolen, is minority rule for decent Americans by a minority of ‘white only’ vermin. They will use the police and the Department of Justice to enslave us all.
COVID was the beginning, they have a big one behind this one, one that will take deaths to 35% and ages down into the 40s. Do you think they plan only to kill people of color?
Do you really think the Kosher Nostra is in love with ‘white folks?’
This is why we the people turn to the Declaration of Independence. That document, in its entirety below, is the one America is built on, not the one it is governed from, shamefully. Americans are now being required by Presidential command to become terrorists, racists and war criminals.
Backed by international gangsters and with an army of radicalized neo-nazi thugs at our throats, Trump and company, the Kosher Nostra, the most recent incarnation of the Moloch worshipping freaks of Europe’s degenerate ‘black nobility’ from which the Drumpf family derives power, we all live under threat.
There is no one to protect the American people with Boogaloo thugs running our police and a military bereft of leadership and honor.
This is what Jefferson said, words embraced by America’s Nazis who, as with everything else, get things totally opposite of reality as with Qanon:
We hold these truths to be [sacred and undeniable] selfevident, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienables, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to [subject] reduce them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –(full text below)
Words like ‘equality’ or terms like ‘consent of the governed’ are gone, we now live with engineered chaos and mob rule and oligarchy brought about by a bad constitution which bent overboard to protect the bankers and big land owners, the bond thieves and speculators.
The people of the United States were given the House of Representatives, and even that has been destroyed by gerrymandering.
The rich were given the Presidency, the Senate and the Supreme Court, all put into existence to protect the rich and their money and to let them make more by warring on the world using the blood of the poor.
This is the truth of it and Trump is the last straw.
When I saw the video of burning wheat fields in Syria with American flags flying high on MRP vehicles (supplied by Joe Biden), done by orders of Donald Trump, I knew America was done, or at least the flag.
More than 5 decades ago I remember returning to a remote outpost in South Vietnam, seeing that flag waving. It was besmirched even then but it was still revered. Clanking along mud and clay covered rice paddy dikes, gear waving to and fro, we were the last American citizen soldiers to go to war. I wrote about this in a recent NEO.
We’ve done it. I don’t really mean me. I am not part of that ‘we’. I am a combat vet, served in Vietnam and, for the most part, give away many times what I earn. I don’t take anything.
I am part of that real one percent in America, those who paid workers a decent salary, pay full health insurance and maintain decent working conditions.
If the number is higher, I haven’t seen it.
Why does OG need to go? The answer is simple, it has become the chosen cape and banner of thieves, bigots and racists. None of us who supposedly fought for this piece of cloth intended it to be used the way it is now.
Truth be told, most Americans cringe when the see the flag anymore. Comments?
It didn’t survive hugs from pedophile Trump and his disease ridden kisses.
It was never meant to sit on the back of a boat or pickup truck next to the Trump banner, a confederate flag or to be besmirched with a swastika.
The last thing any of us need to see is for it to be butchered with blue stripes to celebrate those who murder our citizens.
How many of you are aware the Boogaloo Boys are police? This is a police organization and, here in Michigan, up to 1000 police belong to this group, with their Hawaiian shirts and feelings of extremely misplaced superiority.
Are they here to fight ‘Antifa?’
I checked. Our entire state ‘Antifa’ organization is in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti. It has 20 members. What do they do? They run a food bank and soup kitchen for the homeless.
One thousand armed Boogaloo paid by our tax dollars are sworn, on behalf of fascism, to wipe out the 20 member Antifa force. None of the members own guns, ‘Antifa.’ The police own plenty and the head of the BG boys actually has visited us to buy them, a certain sheriff from Hastings, Michigan. He is a Chet customer.
When we see Trumpists or watch him, all we, and the ‘we’ are talking about is reflected in the polls, feel we are looking at people who hate America. Trump is the symptom of a disease that started long ago when we began being overrun by Israel worshipping Molochists.
The Puritans were bigots, they came to America because there wasn’t enough religious oppression in Europe.
Now we have millions who worship the idea of turning America into a European society, yet none of them have been to Europe. Many of us who work in diplomacy (for several of us at VT, we are still members of the UN Human Rights Council, which Jim and I have addressed several times.)
Frankly put, we are put on earth to serve, not take. No salaries here at VT, the FBI was flabbergasted. They spent months taking VT apart financially. Several of our competitors have budgets up to $15m per year. Breitbart gets several times that.
Trace that money, Mr FBI man!
What is it ‘we’ want? We want to live in a world where people aren’t judged by the color of their skin, this above all.
This is why I hate the GOP. It has always been a ‘one trick pony,’ though it has tried to militarize abortion as well, but with little success. Trump has one issue only, he has openly hated African Americans all his life, this above all is what his flag waving is based on, and for the rest of us, that flag is now beyond saving.
When you are driving around and see a flag do you cringe? That answer is easy, of course you do. No more pride, no more Belleau Wood and their ‘losers and suckers.’ No more real monuments:
Want to replace that with 3 fat guys with AR’s and a cop with his knee on the neck of a victim?
Why do you think all the ruckus over Confederate monuments? One of our (Carol and I) activities is visiting military cemeteries. You might be surprised how many places around the world Americans are buried, thousands of them. No Trumps. They won’t even visit.
We do.
In the corner of every small cemetery in Michigan, Ohio and around what was the United States in 1861, the stones are there, many with the markers ‘GAR’ for Grand Army of the Republic. There is no laundering of the ‘Southern Cause’ into something it wasn’t. It was about slavery and absolutely nothing else.
There were NO states rights issues, no secret oppression of the south by the London bankers who, by the way, backed the south in the war.
The war was brought on by a failure of governance. It was clear that the Declaration of Independence support a slave free nation. That a constitution was adopted that allowed slavery makes such a document ‘null and void.’ America is built on the declaration and the words ‘all men.’ It means black men, and it meant women too.
To the fake constitution, it meant white men with money and power; and we are now paying, centuries later, for the tools planted in our government to keep the London banks choking the life out of us, the Senate and Supreme Court, neither of which have anything to do with real voting or elections.
States with as few as 400,000 people have two senators while California with 49 million people…it has two senators as well. Those fake senators pick the court, and it exists to defend the banks.
This is real history.
Over my many years at VT and its precursor, now 27 years in total, there has been one policy above all, respect for human rights. There is no reason for government to exist but to protect the vulnerable from David Icke’s ‘reptilians.’
I don’t know that such things exist, but I see enough of them around with their hands out.
They are the ones who have hijacked what was once ‘our’ flag, the one that talked about ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ Want to talk about that one?
This is Jefferson’s draft, dated June 28, 1776:
A Declaration by the Representatives of United States of America, in General Congress Assembled
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the equal and independent station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change
We hold these truths to be [sacred and undeniable] selfevident, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienables, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to [subject] reduce them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. —
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government. the history of his present majesty is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations, among which no fact stands single or solitary to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good:
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has neglected utterly to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation [in the legislature], a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only:
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
[he has dissolved]he has refused for a long space of time, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within:
he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands:
he has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these colonies, refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers:
he has made our judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount of their salaries.
he has erected a multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
he has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies and ships of war:
he has affected to render the military, independent of and superior to civil power:
he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders [which] they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
for imposing taxes on us without our consent;
for depriving us of the benefits of trial by jury;
for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
for taking away our charters, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
for suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever;
he has abdicated government here, withdrawing his governors, and declaring us out of his alegiance and protection;
he has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people:
he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation:
he has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions of existence:
he has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow citizens with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property:
he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemispere, or to incure miserable death in their transportation hither. this piratical warfare, the opprobium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. [determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold,] he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce [determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold]: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. a prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man, adventured within the short compass of twelve years only, on so many acts of tyranny without a mask, over a people fostered and fixed in principles of liberty.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over these our states. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the expence of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituing indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited: and we appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, as well as to the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which were likely to interrupt our correspondence and connections. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election re-established them in power. at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and deluge us in blood. these facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. we might have been a free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom it seems is below their dignity. be it so, since they will have it: the road to [glory and] happiness [and to glory] is open to us too; we will climb it apart from them [in a seperate state] and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces [pronounces][ our [everlasting Adieu!] eternal separation!
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled do , in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce the allegiance and subjection to the kinds of Great Britain and all others whe may herafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve and break off all political connection which may have heretofore subsisted between us and the people or parliament of Great Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states, and that as free and independent states they shall herafter have [full] power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Okay, we don’t get past a paragraph and find ourselves in a conundrum. We have sunk into tyranny and dictatorship, government by thieves and corporations supported by a bigoted minority who, backed by the moneymen, have enslaved ‘the righteous.’
Worse still, it isn’t enough, they want to go further.


veteranstoday--2020-10-18--‘Jet Fighter’ Bird Flies Nonstop for 7,500 Miles: Wow!

Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus , Ohio and received her diploma as a registered @ @ @ @ @ Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature @ @ @ @ @ of Toledo , College of Nursing , and received a Master ’ s of Nursing @ @ @ @ @ has traveled extensively , is a photographer , and writes on medical issues .
Carol @ @ @ @ @ Katherine , and Stephen – two daughters-in-law ; Suzy and Katie – two granddaughters ; @ @ @ @ @ – and one grandson , Alexander Paul .
She also shares her life with husband @ @ @ @ @ , and two rescue pups .


veteranstoday--2020-10-18--A ‘presence of evil’ pervading the Assange trial

This morning I was catching up as usual on the ever-reliable Craig Murray ’ s day-to-day reports of what passes for a trial at the Old Bailey under the shabby standards now governing British justice .
I ’ m talking of course about the trial to extradite Julian Assange which is nearing its nauseating climax .
Craig has been extraordinarily dedicated in bringing out the truth from a cruelly ‘ fixed ’ process to which public access has been suppressed .
Here is an extract from his piece ‘ Where Is My Final Assange Report ?
’ which for me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to appease the American administration in their lust for revenge for having their vile secrets exposed .
Murray ’ s words are a chilling indictment .
“ ….In that courtroom , you were in the presence of evil .
With a civilised veneer , a pretence at process , and even displays of bonhommie , the entire destruction of a human being was in process .
Julian was being destroyed as a person before my eyes .
For the crime of publishing the truth .
He had to sit there listening to days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ torture that would await him in a US supermax prison , deprived of all meaningful human contact for years on end , in solitary in a cell just fifty square feet .
“ Fifty square feet .
Mark that out yourself now .
Three paces by two .
Of all the terrible things I heard , Warden Baird explaining that the single hour a day allowed out of the cell is alone in another , absolutely identical cell called the “ recreation cell ” was perhaps the most chilling .
That and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ describing how Julian might be sufficiently medicated and physically deprived of the means of suicide to keep him alive for years of this .
“ I encountered evil in Uzbekistan when the mother brought me the photos of her son tortured to death by immersion in boiling liquid .
The US government was also implicated in that , through the CIA cooperation with the Uzbek Security Services ; it happened just outside the US military base at Karshi-Khanabad .
Here was that same evil paraded in the centre of London , under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the Justice Secretary responsible for this nasty charade ?
Robert Buckland .
If anyone deserves a good smacking he surely does .
And so does the journalism profession if they still have the nerve to call themselves that .
The Assange case is about journalism – real journalism ; why weren ’ t the mainstream insisting on access and covering it ?

…by Stuart Littlewood, Britain
This morning I was catching up as usual on the ever-reliable Craig Murray’s day-to-day reports of what passes for a trial at the Old Bailey under the shabby standards now governing British justice. I’m talking of course about the trial to extradite Julian Assange which is nearing its nauseating climax.
Craig has been extraordinarily dedicated in bringing out the truth from a cruelly ‘fixed’ process to which public access has been suppressed.
Here is an extract from his piece ‘Where Is My Final Assange Report?’ which for me sums up the disgraceful performance put on to appease the American administration in their lust for revenge for having their vile secrets exposed. Murray’s words are a chilling indictment.
“….In that courtroom, you were in the presence of evil. With a civilised veneer, a pretence at process, and even displays of bonhommie, the entire destruction of a human being was in process. Julian was being destroyed as a person before my eyes. For the crime of publishing the truth. He had to sit there listening to days of calm discussion as to the incredible torture that would await him in a US supermax prison, deprived of all meaningful human contact for years on end, in solitary in a cell just fifty square feet.
“Fifty square feet. Mark that out yourself now. Three paces by two. Of all the terrible things I heard, Warden Baird explaining that the single hour a day allowed out of the cell is alone in another, absolutely identical cell called the “recreation cell” was perhaps the most chilling. That and the foul government “expert” Dr Blackwood describing how Julian might be sufficiently medicated and physically deprived of the means of suicide to keep him alive for years of this.
“I encountered evil in Uzbekistan when the mother brought me the photos of her son tortured to death by immersion in boiling liquid. The US government was also implicated in that, through the CIA cooperation with the Uzbek Security Services; it happened just outside the US military base at Karshi-Khanabad. Here was that same evil paraded in the centre of London, under the panoply of Crown justice.”
And who is the Justice Secretary responsible for this nasty charade? Robert Buckland. If anyone deserves a good smacking he surely does.
And so does the journalism profession if they still have the nerve to call themselves that. The Assange case is about journalism – real journalism; why weren’t the mainstream insisting on access and covering it?
Stuart Littlewood
12 October 2020


veteranstoday--2020-10-18--New Poll shows Jamie Harrison over Lindsay Graham by 2 percent

COLUMBIA , S.C. ( WCIV ) — On Friday , a new poll by Cornell Belcher and his firm , @ @ @ @ @ Jaime Harrison leading Senator Lindsey Graham by 2 % .
The survey shows Harrison currently @ @ @ @ @ ’ s 45 % .
It also revealed 88 % of African Americans polled prefer @ @ @ @ @ ’ s 4 % , with brilliant corners claiming “ South Carolina is experiencing Obama @ @ @ @ @ .
Just 11 days into early voting more than 14 % of Black registered voters @ @ @ @ @ poll of 525 likely voters was conducted by landline and cell phone from October 11 @ @ @ @ @ margin of error of +/- 4.6 % .

https://twitter.com/TheRealAndrew_/status/1315019740683948033?s=20
The survey shows Harrison currently earning 47% to Graham’s 45%.
Lindsey Graham called segregation the “good ol’ days”
DON'T TELL ME RACISM & SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION DOESN'T EXIST WHEN IT HAS BEEN PEOPLE LIKE THIS RUNNING THE GOV.
A Black Man is running to replace him in the U.S Senate
HIS NAME IS JAMIE HARRISON.pic.twitter.com/E55KcurTgS
— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) October 14, 2020


veteranstoday--2020-10-19--Guardian: ‘Traitor’ review, American perfidy from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump

Guardian : David Rothkopf has all a good Trump reporter requires .
Sixteen days out from the election , his book is a bracing read It 's happening again .
It 's just as bad .
There are even more Republicans working to enable the Russians to help Trump this time .
It remains one of the great scandals in our history .
And America remains asleep , apathetic to treachery .
https : //t.co/1NnKUrctTq One of the most important qualities a good reporter can have is a very low threshold for outrage .
Useful , critical coverage of your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has inured you to scandal .
This has become a huge problem during Donald Trump ’ s presidency .
Inside the souls of far too many Washington reporters , a never-ending wave of scandals , crimes , indictments and assorted obstructions of justice has washed away this essential capacity for indignation – just when the republic needs it most .
David Rothkopf ’ s Traitor still serves a vital purpose , even after dozens of other books and thousands of articles about the president ’ s felonious behavior .
A former senior official @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Foreign Policy who has taught at Columbia and Georgetown , Rothkopf still has all of the anger a good chronicler of the Trump administration requires .
“ Trump is despicable , ” he writes .
“ But beyond his defective or perhaps even non-existent character , there are the near-term and lasting consequences of his actions .
We must understand these to reverse them , and we must understand how easily Russia achieved its objectives in order to prevent such catastrophes in the future.
” Russia ’ s success in putting Trump in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be seen as perhaps the most successful international intelligence operation of modern times ” .
Rothkopf is implying that our president is the literal Manchurian Candidate , without the denouement which made the movie feel more like a caution than a foreshadowing .

One of the most important qualities a good reporter can have is a very low threshold for outrage. Useful, critical coverage of your subject becomes impossible once nonchalance or indifference has inured you to scandal.
Donald Trump Has At Least $1 Billion In Debt, More Than Twice The Amount He Suggested https://t.co/7mGvelvEXr — Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) October 17, 2020
This has become a huge problem during Donald Trump’s presidency. Inside the souls of far too many Washington reporters, a never-ending wave of scandals, crimes, indictments and assorted obstructions of justice has washed away this essential capacity for indignation – just when the republic needs it most.
“It’s the racism. But it’s not just the racism. It’s sex crimes. But it’s not just the sex crimes. It’s the concentration camps along our southern border. But it’s not just the concentration camps. It’s the corruption. But it’s not just the corruption..https://t.co/HYuIyjLRvm pic.twitter.com/eDmViWakIe — Stephen Syputa (@stezyp) October 18, 2020
David Rothkopf’s Traitor still serves a vital purpose, even after dozens of other books and thousands of articles about the president’s felonious behavior. A former senior official in the Clinton administration and editor of Foreign Policy who has taught at Columbia and Georgetown, Rothkopf still has all of the anger a good chronicler of the Trump administration requires.
"“Trump is despicable,” Rothkopf writes. “But beyond @realDonaldTrump defective or perhaps even non-existent character, there are the near-term and lasting consequences of his actions. Russia’s success in putting Trump in office… read it herehttps://t.co/bUIKZeskeW — atk (@atkjarv) October 18, 2020
“Trump is despicable,” he writes. “But beyond his defective or perhaps even non-existent character, there are the near-term and lasting consequences of his actions. We must understand these to reverse them, and we must understand how easily Russia achieved its objectives in order to prevent such catastrophes in the future.”
Our president is the literal Manchurian Candidate, without the denouement which made the movie feel more like a caution
Russia’s success in putting Trump in office, he writes, “has to be seen as perhaps the most successful international intelligence operation of modern times”. Rothkopf is implying that our president is the literal Manchurian Candidate, without the denouement which made the movie feel more like a caution than a foreshadowing.
I just received for review an advance copy of "Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump." I don't know how anyone could vote to re-elect this Kremlin asset. Book to be published on 27 October. Author is David Rothkopf. — Comet the CI Specialist (@CometsComentary) October 17, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/18/traitor-review-benedict-arnold-donald-trump-david-rothkopf


veteranstoday--2020-10-19--How one moderate Republican Congressional district could doom Trump

Nebraska gives us a peek into middle America politics Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > Nebraska is one of only two states to apportion its electoral votes by Congressional district .
Maine is the other .
If the Biden-Trump battle swings by one vote , then the Omaha , Nebraska district could make political history .
The district is not an outlier , but a clear representation of Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ folks that bought Trump ’ s promise to ‘ drain the swamp ’ .
But then after a year of having qualified people in his administration , all of whom knew more than he did , Trump started firing them one by one , so he could keep all of the media focus on him and drown out competing voices .
As VT wrote many times , Trump ’ s overkill was going to be his undoing .
His attempts to regain control of the narrative have failed because more people were on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look at the struggle that Trump has going on in the suburbs , it ’ s just super consistent , ” said Ryan Horn , a Republican media strategist based in Omaha .
“ What you see in Nebraska 2 you ’ ll see in Dallas , Texas , you ’ ll see in Charlotte , North Carolina , you ’ ll see in Sioux Falls , South Dakota , you ’ ll see in Orange County , California … It ’ s super , super consistent.
” [ from Politico ] The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ motivated by hearing talk from Chamber of Commerce people that it would be hard to vote for Trump this time .
“ Trump ’ s departure from the White House , ” the paper opined , “ would benefit not only the country but also the Republican Party , by unshackling GOP officeholders from the slavish deference they ’ ve felt obligated to display to the president ’ s years-long series of eccentricities and embarrassments.
” Ouch !
No Trump rally can turn this kind of damage around .
That is why Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ win .
He is being outspent in Nebraska 6 to 1 for one electoral vote .
He looks to be going out in a blaze of glory via his non-stop tour in regions where his supporters see no wrong in one of the most corrupt Americans ever to rise to the highest office .
Even Omaha ’ s current Republican Congressman , a moderate , was willing to state the obvious , and he might win reelection even if Trump goes down .
In his own words… “ We ’ re also Nebraska @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and decency , and I think that ’ s what hurts the president.
” Nebraskans on the other hand are not extremist territory…but just the opposite .
They don ’ t view having a Biden presidency as the end of their ideological identity .
… “ Nebraskans are fairly moderate on the one hand , but also are super independent and progressive on the other , ” said Jane Kleeb , chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party .
And Biden is a less polarizing nominee than Clinton was .
Clinton , Kleeb said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with folks , ” while Biden is someone people see as “ having their backs.
” Something not well covered in the Democrats ’ turnaround is that their current standing is , to a large degree , due to Trump ’ s destroying himself like that was his goal in life , and in addition , the foundation that the Democrats laid when they took the House in 2018 .
The bridgeheads built then were ready to be expanded by Trump impaling himself on his ‘ fake virus ’ , the one he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away some day .
And last , the Democrats dug up their rainy day money , deciding this was the time to use it .
Small donors have established financial political muscle with the huge success of the online platforms where their donation data was saved , and when Trump said something that pissed them off , they could fire a donation bullet at him with one click .
That is not a power the Democrats are going to forget they had .
Jamie Harrison ’ s huge Senate race fundraising against Lindsey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the top ten most hated Republicans , has been one of the historical highlights of the election .
Even if he loses , he will not disappear into political oblivion as many do .
But the issue is still in doubt until the fat lady sings .
This election has seen registration computer glitches in a half dozen states that had plenty of time to get prepared for the expected surges .
VT smells a rat there , and sadly no one seems to have the time to investigate possible hacking .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ too big to rig , and too huge to lose , as Glenn Kirschner says .
I think Biden knows that , as was shown when the Democratic Senatorial effort got cranked from its initial two seat goal to seven , and outspending Trump by multiples in races where the Republicans never expected serious competition .
We have 15 days till the voting battle is over , and the counting battle begins .
Trump lawyers have already prepared attacks claiming that the mail in ballots were fraudulent .
To turn the country around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic voting as a lesson to the Republican Party , which should have impeached their own president and saved some honor for their Party .

Nebraska gives us a peek into middle America politics
…by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor
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First published … October 19, 2020
Nebraska is one of only two states to apportion its electoral votes by Congressional district. Maine is the other. If the Biden-Trump battle swings by one vote, then the Omaha, Nebraska district could make political history.
The district is not an outlier, but a clear representation of Trump’s slippage in middle America, the folks that bought Trump’s promise to ‘drain the swamp’. But then after a year of having qualified people in his administration, all of whom knew more than he did, Trump started firing them one by one, so he could keep all of the media focus on him and drown out competing voices.
As VT wrote many times, Trump’s overkill was going to be his undoing. His attempts to regain control of the narrative have failed because more people were on to his con.
“If you look at the struggle that Trump has going on in the suburbs, it’s just super consistent,” said Ryan Horn, a Republican media strategist based in Omaha. “What you see in Nebraska 2 you’ll see in Dallas, Texas, you’ll see in Charlotte, North Carolina, you’ll see in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, you’ll see in Orange County, California … It’s super, super consistent.” [from Politico]
The Omaha World Herald has endorsed Biden, motivated by hearing talk from Chamber of Commerce people that it would be hard to vote for Trump this time.
“Trump’s departure from the White House,” the paper opined, “would benefit not only the country but also the Republican Party, by unshackling GOP officeholders from the slavish deference they’ve felt obligated to display to the president’s years-long series of eccentricities and embarrassments.”
Ouch! No Trump rally can turn this kind of damage around. That is why Trump seems to have given up trying to win. He is being outspent in Nebraska 6 to 1 for one electoral vote. He looks to be going out in a blaze of glory via his non-stop tour in regions where his supporters see no wrong in one of the most corrupt Americans ever to rise to the highest office.
Even Omaha’s current Republican Congressman, a moderate, was willing to state the obvious, and he might win reelection even if Trump goes down. In his own words…
“We’re also Nebraska nice … and we want more diplomacy and decency, and I think that’s what hurts the president.”
Nebraskans on the other hand are not extremist territory…but just the opposite. They don’t view having a Biden presidency as the end of their ideological identity.
…“Nebraskans are fairly moderate on the one hand, but also are super independent and progressive on the other,” said Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party. And Biden is a less polarizing nominee than Clinton was. Clinton, Kleeb said, “just didn’t connect with folks,” while Biden is someone people see as “having their backs.”
Something not well covered in the Democrats’ turnaround is that their current standing is, to a large degree, due to Trump’s destroying himself like that was his goal in life, and in addition, the foundation that the Democrats laid when they took the House in 2018.
The bridgeheads built then were ready to be expanded by Trump impaling himself on his ‘fake virus’, the one he later claimed was just going to go away some day.
And last, the Democrats dug up their rainy day money, deciding this was the time to use it. Small donors have established financial political muscle with the huge success of the online platforms where their donation data was saved, and when Trump said something that pissed them off, they could fire a donation bullet at him with one click.
That is not a power the Democrats are going to forget they had. Jamie Harrison’s huge Senate race fundraising against Lindsey Graham, who is right up there in the top ten most hated Republicans, has been one of the historical highlights of the election. Even if he loses, he will not disappear into political oblivion as many do.
But the issue is still in doubt until the fat lady sings. This election has seen registration computer glitches in a half dozen states that had plenty of time to get prepared for the expected surges. VT smells a rat there, and sadly no one seems to have the time to investigate possible hacking.
Biden has to win by an amount too big to rig, and too huge to lose, as Glenn Kirschner says. I think Biden knows that, as was shown when the Democratic Senatorial effort got cranked from its initial two seat goal to seven, and outspending Trump by multiples in races where the Republicans never expected serious competition.
We have 15 days till the voting battle is over, and the counting battle begins. Trump lawyers have already prepared attacks claiming that the mail in ballots were fraudulent.
To turn the country around, we need masses of straight ticket Democratic voting as a lesson to the Republican Party, which should have impeached their own president and saved some honor for their Party.


veteranstoday--2020-10-20--Fear and Scapegoating During a Pandemic

Fear and Scapegoating During a Pandemic

The Long History of Blaming Immigrants in Times of Sickness Health Editor ’ s Note : The xenophobia that has come from the COVID-19 pandemic was here long before we experienced the the current pandemic .
How many times can Trump be quoted as using the term , ‘ Chinese Flu ’ ?
Trump is often heard blaming the Democrats for COVID-19 .
He of course blames everyone but himself and his criminal mishandling of the pandemic from its beginning and even now he has no plan to get us out of this viral morass .
Fact is that The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that described citizenship for only free white persons of good moral character .
America was founded on stolen land , stolen from the indigenous peoples who were here long before Columbus and the white men that followed .
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“Fear and Scapegoating during a Pandemic” kicked off "Pandemic Perspectives: Stories Through Collections," a twice-monthly online panel discussion organized by the curators and historians @amhistorymuseum. https://t.co/OosRSeBnda — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) October 19, 2020
Health Editor’s Note: The xenophobia that has come from the COVID-19 pandemic was here long before we experienced the the current pandemic. How many times can Trump be quoted as using the term, ‘Chinese Flu’? Trump is often heard blaming the Democrats for COVID-19. He of course blames everyone but himself and his criminal mishandling of the pandemic from its beginning and even now he has no plan to get us out of this viral morass.
Fact is that The Naturalization Act in 1790 was a law that described citizenship for only free white persons of good moral character. America was founded on stolen land, stolen from the indigenous peoples who were here long before Columbus and the white men that followed.
We have to be better than this……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