russia-insider--2020-03-24--Coronavirus: Responsibility for Death, Suffering in Iran to Lie with Trump Administration

Iran is witnessing a catastrophe , being the hardest hit country after China and Italy by Coronavirus .
Last Monday , Iranian officials reported another 129 fatalities , the largest one-day rise in deaths since it began battling the country , bringing the total number of infections to more than 18,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19—growing at about 1,000 per day—and more than 1,200 deaths .
This dire situation is the result of the shortage of much-needed medication and medical equipment , due to the US sanctions on the country .
This latter have devastated the economy , and blocked every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ food and pharmaceuticals .
The Trump administration reimposed sweeping penalties on Iran ’ s economy after exiting the 2015 nuclear deal .
Trump administration is being glaringly cruel and extremely unreasonable , showing callous disregard for the lives of innocent Iranians in the midst of this global coronavirus crisis , and even worse ; it went far by declaring that crippling economic sanctions will be doubled down on the Islamic Republic , despite the sheer scale of the suffering .
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif have addressed the international @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US sanctions .
For their part , China and Russia urged the U.S. to immediately lift unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic , to fight against the coronavirus pandemic as they are hindering imports of medicines and food it needs .
China , which is one of the hardest-hit countries , has sent anti-epidemic materials including test kits , as well as a team of voluntary experts to Iran .
Iran suffers severe distress and is in dire need of funds , medical supplies , and goods to help it contain the disease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US sanctions .
Respiratory masks , surgical gowns , and ventilators are out of stock and many companies and banks around the world , for their part , have been worried about engaging with Iran , fearing US sanctions .
The evidence is undeniable .
The U.S. sanctions are seriously destroying Iran ’ s health infrastructure and are leading to immediate deaths and suffering of the Iranian innocent population , especially with the secondary sanctions which choked off Iran ’ s ability to commercially buy many products .
Thus , the international community @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and react to this severe strain imposed on Iran as millions of Iranian citizens are , purposefully , cut off from purchasing necessary medical supplies .
Iranians ’ right to health and access to essential medicines must be fully guaranteed .
The United States keeps lying , claiming that it does not use sanctions to hurt people , however , its claims are , categorically , unfounded .
Trump administration is using whatever mechanisms possible to suffocate Iran as part of its hybrid humanitarian war against those innocent people .
Besides , accusing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which are dealing with the dual challenges of a deadly pandemic and U.S. sanctions , of ineptitude and incompetence is , also , baseless because it is widely acknowledged that Iran ’ s medical system is one of the most developed in the region and that the country is well known for medical tourism .
People from different countries flock to the country to receive medical treatment , ranging from heart bypass surgeries and cancer treatment to plastic surgeries .
The country offers high-level services to the patients irrespective of their nationalities , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , dealing with a pandemic hitting the globe requires access to lots of medical supplies , from test kits and face masks to oxygen tanks , alcohol and other disinfectants , and many more which are limited under debilitating U.S. sanctions .
Trump administration is devious ; technically , it claims that medical supplies are exempted from the sanctions .
But in actual practice , it imposes draconian penalties to any foreign entities that intend to trade with Iran or provide it with the necessary merchandise it needs to overcome this bone-breaking and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the transaction purely involves medical supplies , Trump administration is not trustworthy at all ; it may subject those entities to other forms of sanctions or fines .
COVID-19-Iran is mobilizing extensive resources to try to respond to the public health crisis and to cope with the shortages , it requested , for the first time in six decades , a $ 5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund , to fight the virus ’ propagation .
But the Trump administration will likely block it as part of Trump 's maximum-pressure-on-Iran policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not target the innocent Iranians , the example of tech giant Google is instructive in how far the sanctions extend to cover the humanitarian aspect .
Iran had launched an official COVID-19 downloadable app , with a view to providing people with guidance on the COVID-19 .
But the surprise is that on March 10 , Google removed the app from its Play Store without providing an explanation for its act !
…depriving Iranians of an instructive tool that might be effective in dealing with the disease and preventing death and misery .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ triggered by a propaganda campaign .
Noting that the American propaganda started much before the outbreak of the virus .
According to the Independent , President Donald Trump ’ s State Department was funding a social media propaganda campaign that maligned Iran .
This program , called “ the “ Iran Disinformation Project , ” is shouldering an ostensible mission of fighting disinformation coming from Iran , but practically , it spreads fake news and discredits respected researchers and journalists .
Imperialist-friendly propagandists , from different Western and Arabic media working under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran ’ s efforts to fight the spread of the virus , however , and in comparison to the U.S. government ’ s handling of the coronavirus pandemic , Trump administration took weeks to make test kits available , whereas Iran government has done far more .
Since the outbreak of the virus , Iran shut down kindergartens , nurseries , daycare centers , schools , Hawzets , and universities , banned large gatherings including Friday prayers , banned traveling to touristy areas of the country , disinfected buses , trains , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parks and other public places .
It ramped up the availability of hospitals and clinics to deal with the patients .
Nobody has been charged for testing or treatment .
Besides , BBC Farsi has done a great job !
It claimed that the toll death is much higher than what the Iranian government is announcing , seeking to “ sow distrust ” in the minds of the Iranian people , as highlighted by Scott Bennett , former US army psychological warfare officer , and counter-terrorism analyst .
“ Clearly the BBC Persian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspicion in the minds of the Iranian people towards their government by suggesting the Iranian government and leaders are hiding information from the people ( and ) therefore are deceiving the people in order to suppress the people from rising up , ” Scott Bennett , from San Francisco , told Tasnim in an interview .
A witness of their own flock testified .
Bennett is a US Army Special Operations Officer ( 11th Psychological Operations Battalion , Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations Command ) , and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst , formerly with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ received a Direct Commission as an Officer , held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information ( TS/SCI ) security clearance , and worked in the highest levels of international counterterrorism in Washington DC and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa , Florida .
He has developed and managed psychological warfare theories , products , and operations for US Special Operations Command , US Central Command , the State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism , and other government agencies .
The American official added that the current Coronovirus-related accusations are simply another propaganda campaign engineered and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neocon-zionist fanatics who have infiltrated the White House , stressing that they are hysterically committed to harming Iran in any way possible depending on all means , including propaganda .
According to him , the coronavirus and all of the reports and claims surrounding it should be viewed as a hostile Western propaganda campaign seeking to exploit an artificially manufactured emergency to influence the thoughts and behaviors of Iran and China .
Of course , the BBC or any other biased media outlets , whether they are Farsi , Arabic or English speaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar speculations , the accuracy of the numbers reported by other governments like ; Saudi Arabia , and other client states , as imperialist-friendly clients are never subjected to the level of “ investigative journalism ” that Iran is .
Those media outlets are , clearly , committed to sow distrust between the Iranian government and its people , claiming that the Iran leaders are not serious about fulfilling their duties and hiding information from the people , with a view to deceiving the people and pushing them to rise up , demanding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sanctions are afoot , hampering every single effort by the government .
According to their scenario , this anger would be , again , exaggerated by them , i.e imperialist media and even inflated into becoming a false national uprising , calling for the departure of the regime .
This is a standard strategy by US administrations and its agents ; on the one hand , Trump administration insists on keeping the oppressive and illegal sanctions and , on the other hand , accuses Iran ’ s government of not responding effectively .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ worsen amid US ’ Medical Terrorism and world silence .
The unilateral sanctions must be lifted before more lives are lost .
Trump ’ s administration is the only one to be blamed for restricting Iran ’ s access to crucial medicines and supplies which resulted in the propagation of the virus .
The sanctions continue to be a crime against humanity .
Thus , the international community should , proactively , ensure Iran is receiving the medical supply and relief material they need to combat this very serious health crisis .

Iran is witnessing a catastrophe, being the hardest hit country after China and Italy by Coronavirus. Last Monday, Iranian officials reported another 129 fatalities, the largest one-day rise in deaths since it began battling the country, bringing the total number of infections to more than 18,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19—growing at about 1,000 per day—and more than 1,200 deaths.
This dire situation is the result of the shortage of much-needed medication and medical equipment, due to the US sanctions on the country. This latter have devastated the economy, and blocked every financial channel available to Iran for buying food and pharmaceuticals. The Trump administration reimposed sweeping penalties on Iran’s economy after exiting the 2015 nuclear deal.
Trump administration is being glaringly cruel and extremely unreasonable, showing callous disregard for the lives of innocent Iranians in the midst of this global coronavirus crisis, and even worse; it went far by declaring that crippling economic sanctions will be doubled down on the Islamic Republic, despite the sheer scale of the suffering.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif have addressed the international community, calling for ending the inhuman US sanctions.
For their part, China and Russia urged the U.S. to immediately lift unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic, to fight against the coronavirus pandemic as they are hindering imports of medicines and food it needs. China, which is one of the hardest-hit countries, has sent anti-epidemic materials including test kits, as well as a team of voluntary experts to Iran.
Iran suffers severe distress and is in dire need of funds, medical supplies, and goods to help it contain the disease. Every effort is severely hampered by US sanctions. Respiratory masks, surgical gowns, and ventilators are out of stock and many companies and banks around the world, for their part, have been worried about engaging with Iran, fearing US sanctions.
The evidence is undeniable. The U.S. sanctions are seriously destroying Iran’s health infrastructure and are leading to immediate deaths and suffering of the Iranian innocent population, especially with the secondary sanctions which choked off Iran’s ability to commercially buy many products.
Thus, the international community must assume its responsibility towards this massacre and react to this severe strain imposed on Iran as millions of Iranian citizens are, purposefully, cut off from purchasing necessary medical supplies. Iranians’ right to health and access to essential medicines must be fully guaranteed. The United States keeps lying, claiming that it does not use sanctions to hurt people, however, its claims are, categorically, unfounded. Trump administration is using whatever mechanisms possible to suffocate Iran as part of its hybrid humanitarian war against those innocent people.
Besides, accusing both the Iranian government and people, which are dealing with the dual challenges of a deadly pandemic and U.S. sanctions, of ineptitude and incompetence is, also, baseless because it is widely acknowledged that Iran’s medical system is one of the most developed in the region and that the country is well known for medical tourism. People from different countries flock to the country to receive medical treatment, ranging from heart bypass surgeries and cancer treatment to plastic surgeries. The country offers high-level services to the patients irrespective of their nationalities, races and religions or sects. However, dealing with a pandemic hitting the globe requires access to lots of medical supplies, from test kits and face masks to oxygen tanks, alcohol and other disinfectants, and many more which are limited under debilitating U.S. sanctions.
Trump administration is devious; technically, it claims that medical supplies are exempted from the sanctions. But in actual practice, it imposes draconian penalties to any foreign entities that intend to trade with Iran or provide it with the necessary merchandise it needs to overcome this bone-breaking and unprecedented crisis. Let's guess that the transaction purely involves medical supplies, Trump administration is not trustworthy at all; it may subject those entities to other forms of sanctions or fines.
COVID-19-Iran is mobilizing extensive resources to try to respond to the public health crisis and to cope with the shortages, it requested, for the first time in six decades, a $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, to fight the virus’ propagation. But the Trump administration will likely block it as part of Trump's maximum-pressure-on-Iran policy.
Despite his claims that he does not target the innocent Iranians, the example of tech giant Google is instructive in how far the sanctions extend to cover the humanitarian aspect. Iran had launched an official COVID-19 downloadable app, with a view to providing people with guidance on the COVID-19. But the surprise is that on March 10, Google removed the app from its Play Store without providing an explanation for its act! …depriving Iranians of an instructive tool that might be effective in dealing with the disease and preventing death and misery.
Another point is that this conspiracy is triggered by a propaganda campaign. Noting that the American propaganda started much before the outbreak of the virus.
According to the Independent, President Donald Trump’s State Department was funding a social media propaganda campaign that maligned Iran. This program, called “the “Iran Disinformation Project,” is shouldering an ostensible mission of fighting disinformation coming from Iran, but practically, it spreads fake news and discredits respected researchers and journalists.
Imperialist-friendly propagandists, from different Western and Arabic media working under the auspices of US, have clearly mishandled Iran’s efforts to fight the spread of the virus, however, and in comparison to the U.S. government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump administration took weeks to make test kits available, whereas Iran government has done far more. Since the outbreak of the virus, Iran shut down kindergartens, nurseries, daycare centers, schools, Hawzets, and universities, banned large gatherings including Friday prayers, banned traveling to touristy areas of the country, disinfected buses, trains, and metros and even sprayed the streets, parks and other public places. It ramped up the availability of hospitals and clinics to deal with the patients. Nobody has been charged for testing or treatment.
Besides, BBC Farsi has done a great job! It claimed that the toll death is much higher than what the Iranian government is announcing, seeking to “sow distrust” in the minds of the Iranian people, as highlighted by Scott Bennett, former US army psychological warfare officer, and counter-terrorism analyst.
“Clearly the BBC Persian news is attempting to sow distrust and suspicion in the minds of the Iranian people towards their government by suggesting the Iranian government and leaders are hiding information from the people (and) therefore are deceiving the people in order to suppress the people from rising up,” Scott Bennett, from San Francisco, told Tasnim in an interview.
A witness of their own flock testified. Bennett is a US Army Special Operations Officer (11th Psychological Operations Battalion, Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations Command), and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst, formerly with defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He received a Direct Commission as an Officer, held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance, and worked in the highest levels of international counterterrorism in Washington DC and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. He has developed and managed psychological warfare theories, products, and operations for US Special Operations Command, US Central Command, the State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, and other government agencies.
The American official added that the current Coronovirus-related accusations are simply another propaganda campaign engineered and strategically communicated by the Israeli Zionists and neocon-zionist fanatics who have infiltrated the White House, stressing that they are hysterically committed to harming Iran in any way possible depending on all means, including propaganda.
According to him, the coronavirus and all of the reports and claims surrounding it should be viewed as a hostile Western propaganda campaign seeking to exploit an artificially manufactured emergency to influence the thoughts and behaviors of Iran and China.
Of course, the BBC or any other biased media outlets, whether they are Farsi, Arabic or English speaking ones, do not investigate, in similar speculations, the accuracy of the numbers reported by other governments like; Saudi Arabia, and other client states, as imperialist-friendly clients are never subjected to the level of “investigative journalism” that Iran is. Those media outlets are, clearly, committed to sow distrust between the Iranian government and its people, claiming that the Iran leaders are not serious about fulfilling their duties and hiding information from the people, with a view to deceiving the people and pushing them to rise up, demanding speedy solutions at a time where US sanctions are afoot, hampering every single effort by the government. According to their scenario, this anger would be, again, exaggerated by them, i.e imperialist media and even inflated into becoming a false national uprising, calling for the departure of the regime. This is a standard strategy by US administrations and its agents; on the one hand, Trump administration insists on keeping the oppressive and illegal sanctions and, on the other hand, accuses Iran’s government of not responding effectively.
The situation in Iran is expected to worsen amid US’ Medical Terrorism and world silence. The unilateral sanctions must be lifted before more lives are lost. Trump’s administration is the only one to be blamed for restricting Iran’s access to crucial medicines and supplies which resulted in the propagation of the virus. The sanctions continue to be a crime against humanity. Thus, the international community should, proactively, ensure Iran is receiving the medical supply and relief material they need to combat this very serious health crisis.
End U.S. Sanctions on Iran!


russia-insider--2020-03-25--Handing Over Policy to Medical Professionals Is as Stupid as Handing It Over to Generals

Governments across Europe are declaring martial-law-like measures ( I suspect driven by the media more than anyone else ) but hiding behind medical experts as those who supposedly guided their actions .
The problem is that asking the experts for advice is nice and dandy but unreservedly signing onto whatever they come up with is bound to be the height of folly .
The problem is two-fold .
Firstly they are not a disinterested party .
It is very rarely that virologists are sought by those in power for anything whatsoever .
It is even rarer they have the opportunity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the funding they can grab now .
It would take a truly saintly virologist right now to proclaim that COVID-19 is non-exceptional even if he would have reached such a conclusion had there not been all this fuss .
Secondly , technical professionals aren ’ t responsible for , and aren ’ t fit to bear responsibility for , the big picture .
If you ask the generals how to win a war the answer is always the same : institute total war , pour as many resources into the war effort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most unrestricted way possible , and mobilize and regiment the society to the greatest extent possible .
Ask a virologist on how to win a war on a virus and the answer is ( apparently ) exactly the same .
However just as a leader isn ’ t supposed to automatically go with the proposal of the generals , but weigh it against the social , economic and human costs , so it should be done here .
Okay so locking everyone inside their house/apartment would decrease infection spread .
Okay , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what cost and for what gains ?
Would we ban cars to get rid of road accidents ?
Probably not .
Would we carpet bomb civil liberties and the division of labor on which our ability to sustain our population at the current levels rests , to limit the spread of one unremarkable virus ?
Probably we shouldn ’ t .

Maybe we can win a total victory against this one specific virus, but if the cost is everything else, is it really preferable to peace with honor?
Governments across Europe are declaring martial-law-like measures (I suspect driven by the media more than anyone else) but hiding behind medical experts as those who supposedly guided their actions.
The problem is that asking the experts for advice is nice and dandy but unreservedly signing onto whatever they come up with is bound to be the height of folly.
The problem is two-fold. Firstly they are not a disinterested party. It is very rarely that virologists are sought by those in power for anything whatsoever. It is even rarer they have the opportunity to command the attention, the prestige and the funding they can grab now. It would take a truly saintly virologist right now to proclaim that COVID-19 is non-exceptional even if he would have reached such a conclusion had there not been all this fuss.
Secondly, technical professionals aren’t responsible for, and aren’t fit to bear responsibility for, the big picture. If you ask the generals how to win a war the answer is always the same: institute total war, pour as many resources into the war effort as possible, wage war in the most unrestricted way possible, and mobilize and regiment the society to the greatest extent possible.
Ask a virologist on how to win a war on a virus and the answer is (apparently) exactly the same. However just as a leader isn’t supposed to automatically go with the proposal of the generals, but weigh it against the social, economic and human costs, so it should be done here.
Okay so locking everyone inside their house/apartment would decrease infection spread. Okay, I think everyone gets that — but at what cost and for what gains?
Would we ban cars to get rid of road accidents? Probably not. Would we carpet bomb civil liberties and the division of labor on which our ability to sustain our population at the current levels rests, to limit the spread of one unremarkable virus? Probably we shouldn’t.


russia-insider--2020-03-25--Putin Won't Blink First: Putin Rejects US 'Intervention' In Russia-Saudi Oil War

`` We do not think that anyone should intervene in these relations , '' the Russian presidency 's office stated Friday of its `` good relationship '' and `` partnership '' with the Saudis , hitting back at Trump 's comments on the emerging oil-price war .
Yesterday President Trump described the Saudi-Russia oil price war as `` very bad '' for Saudi Arabia but ultimately `` devastating '' to Russia , but with the consolation of lower prices at the pump for American consumers .
Trump assured the public that “ we have a lot of power over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will attempt mediate the dispute “ at the appropriate time.
” This after US oil prices collapsed by a staggering 24 % Wednesday to just $ 20 , before clawing back Thursday afternoon and into Friday morning to $ 25 on Trump 's comments and especially reports that the US will buy up to 30 million barrels of crude for its emergency stockpile by the end of June .
But as expected the Kremlin has remained unblinking since launching its 'war on US shale ' when it early this month ditched Riyadh and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sending crude prices crashing and leaving dozens of American producers teetering on bankruptcy .
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov downplayed the emerging crisis Friday : `` There are no price wars between Russia and Saudi Arabia .
There is a very unfavorable pricing environment for many countries , '' he said according to TASS .
So it does indeed appear Moscow and Riyadh are in for a long game of chicken , and certainly the Russians have signaled they 've long built up the reserves necessary to weather the storm of however far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On this note , Bloomberg warns `` Russian President Vladimir Putin will refuse to submit to what the Kremlin sees as oil blackmail from Saudi Arabia , signaling the price war that ’ s roiling global energy markets will continue . ''
And further , the Kremlin is bracing itself to endure through the carnage , writes Bloomberg further : `` The unprecedented clash between the two giant exporters — and former OPEC+ allies — threatens to push the price of a barrel below $ 20 , but Moscow won ’ t be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truce , said people familiar with the government ’ s position .
Russia is confident `` it can hold out longer than Riyadh , '' the report observed .
As for the White House signaling a potential near-future intervention , which reportedly involves talk of more sanctions on Russia with diplomatic pressures on Saudi Arabia to curb output as opposed to the expected flood of cheap crude to hit the market in April , the Russian presidential spokesman dismissed the scapegoating as but more “ Russo-phobia ” in Friday comments .
Peskov said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many companies are now suffering due to low oil prices , we know that the huge US oil sector is now in distress because of these prices . ''
He singled out those who produce shale oil : `` There is a serious crisis , we also understand this , '' Peskov said , per state-run TASS .
`` Certainly , this price situation is fairly unpleasant .
It is possible to agree in this respect , '' Peskov added , but then crucially referenced Russia 's safety margin in terms of reserves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far it 's willing to hold out .
`` When saying that this is a catastrophe for Russia , there is probably no way of agreeing with this in midterm , since as our president and our government reiterated that we have a solid safety margin for several years , which will support fulfilling all social commitments , development plans , and so on , '' Peskov added .
`` There were times when the price was even lower . ''
But as Bloomberg notes , `` The losses are already visible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ putting the nation on course for a recession . ''
The Russians are ready for it to sting a bit , but are resolved to make their geopolitical rivals suffer first .
`` The state budget , which is based on oil prices of just above $ 40 per barrel , may be in deficit this year , forcing the government to tap its sovereign-wealth fund just two months after Putin promised higher social spending , '' Bloomberg added .

"We do not think that anyone should intervene in these relations," the Russian presidency's office stated Friday of its "good relationship" and "partnership" with the Saudis, hitting back at Trump's comments on the emerging oil-price war. Yesterday President Trump described the Saudi-Russia oil price war as "very bad" for Saudi Arabia but ultimately "devastating" to Russia, but with the consolation of lower prices at the pump for American consumers.
Trump assured the public that “we have a lot of power over the situation,” adding that that Washington will attempt mediate the dispute “at the appropriate time.” This after US oil prices collapsed by a staggering 24% Wednesday to just $20, before clawing back Thursday afternoon and into Friday morning to $25 on Trump's comments and especially reports that the US will buy up to 30 million barrels of crude for its emergency stockpile by the end of June.
But as expected the Kremlin has remained unblinking since launching its 'war on US shale' when it early this month ditched Riyadh and OPEC+ plans to significantly cut production, sending crude prices crashing and leaving dozens of American producers teetering on bankruptcy. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov downplayed the emerging crisis Friday: "There are no price wars between Russia and Saudi Arabia. There is a very unfavorable pricing environment for many countries," he said according to TASS.
So it does indeed appear Moscow and Riyadh are in for a long game of chicken, and certainly the Russians have signaled they've long built up the reserves necessary to weather the storm of however far the Saudis want to take things. On this note, Bloomberg warns "Russian President Vladimir Putin will refuse to submit to what the Kremlin sees as oil blackmail from Saudi Arabia, signaling the price war that’s roiling global energy markets will continue."
And further, the Kremlin is bracing itself to endure through the carnage, writes Bloomberg further: "The unprecedented clash between the two giant exporters — and former OPEC+ allies — threatens to push the price of a barrel below $20, but Moscow won’t be the first to blink and seek a truce, said people familiar with the government’s position. Russia is confident "it can hold out longer than Riyadh," the report observed.
As for the White House signaling a potential near-future intervention, which reportedly involves talk of more sanctions on Russia with diplomatic pressures on Saudi Arabia to curb output as opposed to the expected flood of cheap crude to hit the market in April, the Russian presidential spokesman dismissed the scapegoating as but more “Russo-phobia” in Friday comments.
Peskov said further, "We understand that indeed many companies are now suffering due to low oil prices, we know that the huge US oil sector is now in distress because of these prices." He singled out those who produce shale oil: "There is a serious crisis, we also understand this," Peskov said, per state-run TASS.
"Certainly, this price situation is fairly unpleasant. It is possible to agree in this respect," Peskov added, but then crucially referenced Russia's safety margin in terms of reserves, tipping its cards showing just how far it's willing to hold out.
"When saying that this is a catastrophe for Russia, there is probably no way of agreeing with this in midterm, since as our president and our government reiterated that we have a solid safety margin for several years, which will support fulfilling all social commitments, development plans, and so on," Peskov added."There were times when the price was even lower."
But as Bloomberg notes, "The losses are already visible for Russia, weakening its currency and potentially putting the nation on course for a recession." The Russians are ready for it to sting a bit, but are resolved to make their geopolitical rivals suffer first. "The state budget, which is based on oil prices of just above $40 per barrel, may be in deficit this year, forcing the government to tap its sovereign-wealth fund just two months after Putin promised higher social spending," Bloomberg added.


russia-insider--2020-03-25--Russia's Position in the Oil Wars Is Much, Much Stronger than Saudi Arabia's

`` The long-term goal of Russia is to control directly or indirectly all of the key players in the Shia crescent of power in the Middle East , including most immediately Lebanon , Syria , Iraq , Iran , and Yemen ( via Iran ) .
All of these countries have vast oil and gas reserves and/or useful coastlines for Russian military and commercial needs ( Mediterranean access or access to the Arabian Sea ) .
To do this , Russia ’ s core foreign policy strategy is to create chaos and then project Russian solutions and therefore power into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ( MbS ) signalled that Saudi Arabia was once again going to produce oil to the maximum to crash oil prices in a full-scale oil price war , Russian President Vladimir Putin probably fell off the horse he was riding bare-chested somewhere in Siberia because he was laughing so much .
There is a phrase in Russian intelligence circles for clueless people that are ruthlessly used without their knowledge in covert operations , which is ‘ a useful idiot ’ , and it is hard to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this context to the Russians than whoever came up with Saudi ’ s latest ‘ plan ’ .
Whichever way the oil price war pans out , Russia wins .
In purely basic oil economics terms , Russia has a budget breakeven price of US $ 40 per barrel of Brent this year : Saudi ’ s is US $ 84 .
Russia can produce over 11 million barrels per day ( mbpd ) of oil without figuratively breaking sweat ; Saudi ’ s average from 1973 to right now is just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major oil producer , Rosneft , has been begging President Putin to allow it to produce and sell more oil since the OPEC+ arrangement was first agreed in December 2016 ; Saudi ’ s major oil producer , Aramco , only suffers value-destruction in such a scenario .
This includes for those people who were sufficiently trusting of MbS to buy shares in Aramco ’ s recent IPO .
Russia can cope with oil prices as low as US $ 25 per barrel from a budget and foreign asset reserves perspective for up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 years at most .
A key reason why Russia can survive for so much longer than Saudis is actually thanks to MbS himself .
Underlining this – and the fact that the Russians do have a very impish sense of humour , as they do – was that Russia ’ s Energy Minister , Alexander Novak , last week praised the co-operation of the OPEC+ grouping over the past three years , which , he added “ had earned Russia 10 trillion rubles [ US $ 140 billion ] .
” Presumably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further , Russia ’ s Finance Ministry then helpfully chipped in that the accumulated funds from the previous OPEC+ agreements will help Russia to support the ruble and will also help Russia to cope with oil prices as low as US $ 25 per barrel for up to 10 years .
The metaphorical icing on the cake , though , was Novak adding that “ we may reach new agreements [ with OPEC ] if needed ” .
In practical terms this means that if , in fact , it takes longer than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go bankrupt and it starts to have any negative impact on Russia , then Moscow will just click its fingers together and Riyadh will come running to sign a new OPEC+ output cap deal .
But surely , some may say , Saudi stands no chance of going bankrupt ?
In fact , as highlighted above , Saudi will absolutely go bankrupt if it continues this oil price war .
As Saudi Arabia ’ s own deputy economic minister , Mohamed Al Tuwaijri , stated unequivocally in October 2016 last time that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ from 2014 to 2016 : That is to say , that if Saudi kept overproducing to push oil prices down – just as it is doing right now , yet again - then it would be bankrupt within three to four years .
The timeframe has halved for a variety of reasons outlined in my recent piece on this very subject here .
But what has Russia to gain from Saudi going bankrupt ?
Economically , it means that Saudi will default on sovereign and corporate debt , will not be able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be unable to meet the requirements for its major oil and gas contracts .
Simply having less Saudi oil and gas competing in the same space as Russia and its allies – notably Iran and Iraq – would be benefit enough for Russia but there are even bigger added benefits too .
One of these is the destruction of the already strained relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that has endured since 1945 .
At that time , as analysed in depth in my new book on the global oil markets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Saudi King at the time , Abdulaziz , onboard the U.S. Navy cruiser Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake segment of the Suez Canal was that the U.S. would receive all of the oil supplies it needed for as long as Saudi had oil in place , in return for which the U.S. would guarantee the security both of the country and of the ruling House of Saud .
Support in the U.S. for the continuation of this relationship has already diminished markedly in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attitude began in earnest when it came to the U.S. public ’ s attention that 15 of the 19 hijackers who flew the aeroplanes involved in the ‘ 9/11 ’ terrorist atrocity on the U.S. were Saudi nationals .
The extent of the Saudi government ’ s involvement in funding such terrorism appeared front and centre following the overriding on 28 September 2017 by the U.S Congress of former President Barack Obama ’ s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act .
That made it possible for families of the victims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for damages .
Within a short space of time after this reversal , there were seven major lawsuits in federal courts alleging Saudi government support and funding for the ‘ 9/11 ’ attack , and more lawsuits are expected .
Subsequent events have not softened this negative view , with ongoing pressure from the U.S. Congress over the Saudi-led war in Yemen , the cosying up of Saudi to Russia in the OPEC+ grouping , and Lebanese President Michel Aoun ’ s allegation in 2017 that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kidnapped by the Saudis and forced to resign .
Matters grew worse with the murder of dissident Saudi journalist , Jamal Khashoggi , on 2 October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul , Turkey , which even the CIA concluded was personally ordered by MbS .
Such was the shift in sentiment away from Saudi over these years that the U.S. Presidential Administration has come under growing pressure to finally implement the ‘ No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act ’ ( NOPEC ) .
This bill – which can still be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that MbS has not taken into consideration ) - would make it illegal to artificially cap oil ( and gas ) production or to set prices , as OPEC and Saudi Arabia do .
The bill would also immediately remove the sovereign immunity that presently exists in U.S. courts for OPEC as a group and for its individual member states .
This would leave Saudi Arabia open to be sued under existing U.S. anti-trust legislation with its total liability being its estimated US $ 1 trillion of investments in the U.S .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ events , resulted in MbS being completely unable to find any international listing destination for the Aramco IPO .
As highlighted ahead of the IPO in previous articles published in OilPrice.com , Aramco shares are now haemorrhaging value for precisely the key reason cited : that the company would be used as an instrument of government policy - however ill-considered - regardless of the considerations of shareholders .
Moreover , at the weekend , Aramco posted figures showing a 21 per cent fall in 2019 ‘ due to a drop in oil prices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new price-crashing strategy was put in place by MbS !
After the ‘ strategy ’ announcement , the shares were trading at 15 per cent less than the offer price .
In addition , again making a lie of its previous statements , it emerged at the end of last week that , despite its proven ridiculous claims by the Kingdom to boost supplies to levels never before even vaguely attained .
Aramco rejected at least three Asian refiners ’ ( one Korean , one Taiwanese , and one Chinese ) requests for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their long-term supply deal .
So Russia , with Saudi Arabia either in the oil price war or better still bankrupt , benefits either way .
The long-term goal of Russia is to control directly or indirectly all of the key players in the Shia crescent of power in the Middle East , including most immediately Lebanon , Syria , Iraq , Iran , and Yemen ( via Iran ) .
All of these countries have vast oil and gas reserves and/or useful coastlines for Russian military and commercial needs ( Mediterranean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
To do this , Russia ’ s core foreign policy strategy is to create chaos and then project Russian solutions and therefore power into that chaos .
In this respect , again , MbS is being very ‘ useful ’ to the Russians .

"The long-term goal of Russia is to control directly or indirectly all of the key players in the Shia crescent of power in the Middle East, including most immediately Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen (via Iran). All of these countries have vast oil and gas reserves and/or useful coastlines for Russian military and commercial needs (Mediterranean access or access to the Arabian Sea). To do this, Russia’s core foreign policy strategy is to create chaos and then project Russian solutions and therefore power into that chaos.
One might reasonably posit that when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) signalled that Saudi Arabia was once again going to produce oil to the maximum to crash oil prices in a full-scale oil price war, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably fell off the horse he was riding bare-chested somewhere in Siberia because he was laughing so much. There is a phrase in Russian intelligence circles for clueless people that are ruthlessly used without their knowledge in covert operations, which is ‘a useful idiot’, and it is hard to think of anyone more ‘useful’ in this context to the Russians than whoever came up with Saudi’s latest ‘plan’. Whichever way the oil price war pans out, Russia wins.
In purely basic oil economics terms, Russia has a budget breakeven price of US$40 per barrel of Brent this year: Saudi’s is US$84. Russia can produce over 11 million barrels per day (mbpd) of oil without figuratively breaking sweat; Saudi’s average from 1973 to right now is just over 8 mbpd. Russia’s major oil producer, Rosneft, has been begging President Putin to allow it to produce and sell more oil since the OPEC+ arrangement was first agreed in December 2016; Saudi’s major oil producer, Aramco, only suffers value-destruction in such a scenario. This includes for those people who were sufficiently trusting of MbS to buy shares in Aramco’s recent IPO. Russia can cope with oil prices as low as US$25 per barrel from a budget and foreign asset reserves perspective for up to 10 years; Saudi can manage 2 years at most.
A key reason why Russia can survive for so much longer than Saudis is actually thanks to MbS himself. Underlining this – and the fact that the Russians do have a very impish sense of humour, as they do – was that Russia’s Energy Minister, Alexander Novak, last week praised the co-operation of the OPEC+ grouping over the past three years, which, he added “had earned Russia 10 trillion rubles [US$140 billion].” Presumably just to highlight the irony of this further, Russia’s Finance Ministry then helpfully chipped in that the accumulated funds from the previous OPEC+ agreements will help Russia to support the ruble and will also help Russia to cope with oil prices as low as US$25 per barrel for up to 10 years. The metaphorical icing on the cake, though, was Novak adding that “we may reach new agreements [with OPEC] if needed”. In practical terms this means that if, in fact, it takes longer than originally thought by Russia for Saudi to go bankrupt and it starts to have any negative impact on Russia, then Moscow will just click its fingers together and Riyadh will come running to sign a new OPEC+ output cap deal.
But surely, some may say, Saudi stands no chance of going bankrupt? In fact, as highlighted above, Saudi will absolutely go bankrupt if it continues this oil price war. As Saudi Arabia’s own deputy economic minister, Mohamed Al Tuwaijri, stated unequivocally in October 2016 last time that the Saudis tried this exact same ‘strategy’ from 2014 to 2016:
“If we [Saudi Arabia] don’t take any reform measures, and if the global economy stays the same, then we’re doomed to bankruptcy in three to four years.”
That is to say, that if Saudi kept overproducing to push oil prices down – just as it is doing right now, yet again - then it would be bankrupt within three to four years. The timeframe has halved for a variety of reasons outlined in my recent piece on this very subject here.
But what has Russia to gain from Saudi going bankrupt? Economically, it means that Saudi will default on sovereign and corporate debt, will not be able to service its key industries, and will be unable to meet the requirements for its major oil and gas contracts. Simply having less Saudi oil and gas competing in the same space as Russia and its allies – notably Iran and Iraq – would be benefit enough for Russia but there are even bigger added benefits too. One of these is the destruction of the already strained relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that has endured since 1945. At that time, as analysed in depth in my new book on the global oil markets, the deal that was struck between the then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Saudi King at the time, Abdulaziz, onboard the U.S. Navy cruiser Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake segment of the Suez Canal was that the U.S. would receive all of the oil supplies it needed for as long as Saudi had oil in place, in return for which the U.S. would guarantee the security both of the country and of the ruling House of Saud.
Support in the U.S. for the continuation of this relationship has already diminished markedly in the past few years. This change in attitude began in earnest when it came to the U.S. public’s attention that 15 of the 19 hijackers who flew the aeroplanes involved in the ‘9/11’ terrorist atrocity on the U.S. were Saudi nationals. The extent of the Saudi government’s involvement in funding such terrorism appeared front and centre following the overriding on 28 September 2017 by the U.S Congress of former President Barack Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. That made it possible for families of the victims of the ‘9/11’ terrorist attack to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for damages. Within a short space of time after this reversal, there were seven major lawsuits in federal courts alleging Saudi government support and funding for the ‘9/11’ attack, and more lawsuits are expected.
Subsequent events have not softened this negative view, with ongoing pressure from the U.S. Congress over the Saudi-led war in Yemen, the cosying up of Saudi to Russia in the OPEC+ grouping, and Lebanese President Michel Aoun’s allegation in 2017 that then-Prime Minister Saad al Hariri had been kidnapped by the Saudis and forced to resign. Matters grew worse with the murder of dissident Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, on 2 October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, which even the CIA concluded was personally ordered by MbS. Such was the shift in sentiment away from Saudi over these years that the U.S. Presidential Administration has come under growing pressure to finally implement the ‘No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act’ (NOPEC). This bill – which can still be implemented, incidentally (apparently something else that MbS has not taken into consideration) - would make it illegal to artificially cap oil (and gas) production or to set prices, as OPEC and Saudi Arabia do.
The bill would also immediately remove the sovereign immunity that presently exists in U.S. courts for OPEC as a group and for its individual member states. This would leave Saudi Arabia open to be sued under existing U.S. anti-trust legislation with its total liability being its estimated US$1 trillion of investments in the U.S. This, and all of the other aforementioned events, resulted in MbS being completely unable to find any international listing destination for the Aramco IPO. As highlighted ahead of the IPO in previous articles published in OilPrice.com, Aramco shares are now haemorrhaging value for precisely the key reason cited: that the company would be used as an instrument of government policy - however ill-considered - regardless of the considerations of shareholders.
Moreover, at the weekend, Aramco posted figures showing a 21 per cent fall in 2019 ‘due to a drop in oil prices’ – and this is before the new price-crashing strategy was put in place by MbS! After the ‘strategy’ announcement, the shares were trading at 15 per cent less than the offer price. In addition, again making a lie of its previous statements, it emerged at the end of last week that, despite its proven ridiculous claims by the Kingdom to boost supplies to levels never before even vaguely attained. Aramco rejected at least three Asian refiners’ (one Korean, one Taiwanese, and one Chinese) requests for additional crude for April, on top of their long-term supply deal.
So Russia, with Saudi Arabia either in the oil price war or better still bankrupt, benefits either way. The long-term goal of Russia is to control directly or indirectly all of the key players in the Shia crescent of power in the Middle East, including most immediately Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen (via Iran). All of these countries have vast oil and gas reserves and/or useful coastlines for Russian military and commercial needs (Mediterranean access or access to the Arabian Sea). To do this, Russia’s core foreign policy strategy is to create chaos and then project Russian solutions and therefore power into that chaos.
In this respect, again, MbS is being very ‘useful’ to the Russians.


russia-insider--2020-03-25--China Is Poised to Win Big From COVID in More Ways than One

China suffered through the H1N1 coronavirus epidemic in 2008 largely because the CDC took 6 months to identify it and , as a result , 300,000 died prematurely .
SARS ( 774 deaths ) was the clincher .
They created a hair-trigger alarm system , mandated post-mortem pneumonia DNA testing nationwide , and promoted the CDC head , Dr. George F. Gao [ 1 ] , to Demigod .
Their Covid-19 emergency has now passed and must give Dr. Gao a B+ because , though his system contained a potential epidemic it suffered from a weakness : local politicians could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the alarm sounding .
Doubtless for sound bureaucratic reasons , Wuhan officials delayed notifying Beijing for a few weeks but , after Beijing pried the information from the Wuhan Director of Public Health [ 2 ] , the system swung into action , everyone pitched in , and they literally killed it .
National cohesion and coordination were amazing , thanks to the Communist Party .
They coordinated everything and filled all the gaps , no questions asked .
Ninety percent of the frontline volunteer medical staff–of whom 18 died–were Party members sworn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ burden first and enjoy their pleasures last.
’ Zhang Wenhong , a prominent Party member and Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Shanghai ’ s Huashan Hospital , became a local hero for his pep-talk to Party members [ emphasis added ] : The first-aid team put themselves in great danger .
They are tired and need to rest .
We shouldn ’ t take advantage of good people .
From now on , I ’ ll replace all the frontline medics with Party members from different sectors .
When we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we would always prioritize people ’ s interests and press forward in the face of difficulties .
This is the moment we live up to the pledge .
All CPC members must rush to the front line .
I don ’ t care what you were actually thinking when you joined the party .
Now it ’ s time to live up to what you promised .
I don ’ t care if you personally agree or not : it ’ s non-negotiable .
Altogether , 40,000 volunteers self-organized and showed up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passed and China has become the world ’ s Santa Claus , giving out goodies and turning a potential disaster into a real triumph .
Nothing would make that triumph sweeter than the public revelation that our CDC knew about Covid-19 last September .
Like many national public health systems , the CDC ignores novel Coronaviruses every ‘ flu season and blends their effects in with the immense , fluctuating number of annual deaths .
That ’ s why , back in 2008 , the CDC took so long to detect H1N1 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old , same old until January 1 , when China identified a nasty Coronavirus and the US went ballistic and blamed them for starting a pandemic and insulted their culture and their government .
But they handled Covid-19 so competently that they won the world ’ s admiration [ 3 ] and made our attacks on them look mean , but no big deal .
People will forget about the huge fuss we made and just remember vaguely that China is filthy and its leaders are liars .
Except for two things : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policies are more compassionate than ours , as older readers will realize .
They have always placed a higher societal value on eighty year-olds than we do .
So when they were threatened with premature , painful deaths , they put their entire economy on hold for two months and cooperatively saved their parents and grandparents , to worldwide applause ( at least from my age-group ) .
Now China is competing to have the lowest per capita Covid-19 death rate of any major country .
• None The world suspected that Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they recalled this : .
August 2019 , “ Amid the lack of information , investigators scrambled to find shared links to the respiratory problems .
Officials said earlier this week that many patients , most of whom were adolescents or young adults , had described difficulty breathing , chest pain , vomiting and fatigue.
” Covid-19 symptoms .
If that ’ s too speculative , here ’ s what NPR turned up : Other Countries can Learn Important Lessons from Italy , says Dr. Giuseppe Remuzzi , co-author of a recent paper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s dire situation .
The takeaways include how to swiftly convert a general hospital into a coronavirus care unit with specially trained doctors and nurses .
“ We had dermatologists , eye doctors , pathologists , learning how to assist a person with a ventilator , ” Remuzzi says .
Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on Feb. 21 .
Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it from general practitioners .
“ They remember having seen very strange pneumonia , very severe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even November .
This means that the virus was circulating , at least in northern Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
“ The WHO has not requested the data from CDC because the US has been attacking the WHO daily and Dr. Ghebreyesus knows the US can get him fired .
But Dr. Ghebreyesus and Dr. Gao and every Health Minister on earth know the truth .
Dr. Remuzzi ’ s Italian DNA is traceable .
So is China ’ s .
The world is very good at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China has done so and now it seems the shit is about to hit the fan .
• None It is now virtually certain that COVID-19 was brought to Wuhan by American troops taking part in the city ’ s World Military Games last Oct. 18-27 .
• None The 300-strong US contingent stayed 300 meters from the Huanan Seafood Market where China ’ s outbreak began ( see map below ) at the Wuhan Oriental Hotel .
• None Five of the US troops developed a fever on Oct. 25 and were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• None 42 employees of the Oriental Hotel were diagnosed with COVID-19 , becoming the first cluster in Wuhan .
At the time only 7 people from the market had been thus diagnosed ( and treated before the hotel staff ) .
All 7 had contact with the 42 from the hotel .
From this source , the virus spread to the rest of China .
• None The American Military Games team trained at a location near Fort Detrick , the military ’ s viral lab closed down by the CDC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ None The big question now is whether the transmission was planned , or accidental .
• None Chinese authorities are awaiting an explanation from US authorities .
• None A few days ago , Mike Pompeo phoned Yang Jiechi , Chinese State Councillor for Foreign Affairs .
Pompeo ’ s counterpart is actually Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Yang is Wang ’ s boss , so Pompeo wanted to talk about something urgent and important .
• None Pompeo wanted the Chinese not to publicize what they had found .
• None Yang @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your solemn explanation , especially about Patient Zero.
” China ’ s leaders have long suspected US military involvement in the Wuhan outbreak but were determined to stop the disease before pursuing the Americans for an honest accounting .
[ 1 ] Dr. Gao has made contributions to the study of inter-species pathogen transmission .
He organized the first World Flu Day on November 1 2018 , commemorating the centenary of the Spanish flu .
It was also the 15-year commemoration of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak , SARS , which led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health system .
He is a virologist and immunologist .
He has served as Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention since 2017 and Dean of the Savaid Medical School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015 .
Gao is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences , as well as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine .
He was awarded the TWAS Prize in Medical Science in 2012 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
[ 2 ] They fired him the next day .
Henceforth local politicians will be out of the loop and everyone will have a CDC hotline number .
[ 3 ] Dr Bruce Aylward , head of the WHO International Mission said , “ In the face of a previously unknown disease , China has taken one of the most ancient approaches for infectious disease control and rolled out probably the most ambitious , and I would say , agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history .
China took old-fashioned measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the mask-wearing , the social distancing , the universal temperature monitoring .
But then very quickly , as it started to evolve , the response started to change .
.
.
So they refined the strategy as they moved forward , and this is an important aspect as we look to how we might use this going forward .
WHO has been here from the start of this crisis , an epidemic , working every single day with the government of China… WHO was here from the beginning and never left .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is it ’ s complementing a lot of other external experts .
”

China suffered through the H1N1 coronavirus epidemic in 2008 largely because the CDC took 6 months to identify it and, as a result, 300,000 died prematurely. SARS (774 deaths) was the clincher. They created a hair-trigger alarm system, mandated post-mortem pneumonia DNA testing nationwide, and promoted the CDC head, Dr. George F. Gao[1], to Demigod.
Their Covid-19 emergency has now passed and must give Dr. Gao a B+ because, though his system contained a potential epidemic it suffered from a weakness: local politicians could delay, (but not stop) the alarm sounding. Doubtless for sound bureaucratic reasons, Wuhan officials delayed notifying Beijing for a few weeks but, after Beijing pried the information from the Wuhan Director of Public Health[2], the system swung into action, everyone pitched in, and they literally killed it.
National cohesion and coordination were amazing, thanks to the Communist Party. They coordinated everything and filled all the gaps, no questions asked. Ninety percent of the frontline volunteer medical staff–of whom 18 died–were Party members sworn to ‘bear the people’s burden first and enjoy their pleasures last.’ Zhang Wenhong, a prominent Party member and Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Shanghai’s Huashan Hospital, became a local hero for his pep-talk to Party members [emphasis added]:
The first-aid team put themselves in great danger. They are tired and need to rest. We shouldn’t take advantage of good people. From now on, I’ll replace all the frontline medics with Party members from different sectors. When we joined the Party, we vowed that we would always prioritize people’s interests and press forward in the face of difficulties. This is the moment we live up to the pledge. All CPC members must rush to the front line. I don’t care what you were actually thinking when you joined the party. Now it’s time to live up to what you promised. I don’t care if you personally agree or not: it’s non-negotiable.
Altogether, 40,000 volunteers self-organized and showed up to help Wuhan.
Now the storm has passed and China has become the world’s Santa Claus, giving out goodies and turning a potential disaster into a real triumph.
Nothing would make that triumph sweeter than the public revelation that our CDC knew about Covid-19 last September. Like many national public health systems, the CDC ignores novel Coronaviruses every ‘flu season and blends their effects in with the immense, fluctuating number of annual deaths. That’s why, back in 2008, the CDC took so long to detect H1N1: they weren’t looking.
Same old, same old until January 1, when China identified a nasty Coronavirus and the US went ballistic and blamed them for starting a pandemic and insulted their culture and their government.
But they handled Covid-19 so competently that they won the world’s admiration[3]and made our attacks on them look mean, but no big deal. People will forget about the huge fuss we made and just remember vaguely that China is filthy and its leaders are liars. Except for two things:
Their society’s health policies are more compassionate than ours, as older readers will realize. They have always placed a higher societal value on eighty year-olds than we do. So when they were threatened with premature, painful deaths, they put their entire economy on hold for two months and cooperatively saved their parents and grandparents, to worldwide applause (at least from my age-group). Now China is competing to have the lowest per capita Covid-19 death rate of any major country. The world suspected that Covid-19 was circulating outside China last year when they recalled this: First Vaping Death Reported by USA Health Officials . August 2019, “Amid the lack of information, investigators scrambled to find shared links to the respiratory problems. Officials said earlier this week that many patients, most of whom were adolescents or young adults, had described difficulty breathing, chest pain, vomiting and fatigue.” Covid-19 symptoms. If that’s too speculative, here’s what NPR turned up: Other Countries can Learn Important Lessons from Italy , says Dr. Giuseppe Remuzzi, co-author of a recent paper in The Lancet about the country’s dire situation. The takeaways include how to swiftly convert a general hospital into a coronavirus care unit with specially trained doctors and nurses. “We had dermatologists, eye doctors, pathologists, learning how to assist a person with a ventilator,” Remuzzi says. Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on Feb. 21. Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it from general practitioners. “They remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November. This means that the virus was circulating, at least in northern Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.“
The WHO has not requested the data from CDC because the US has been attacking the WHO daily and Dr. Ghebreyesus knows the US can get him fired. But Dr. Ghebreyesus and Dr. Gao and every Health Minister on earth know the truth. Dr. Remuzzi’s Italian DNA is traceable. So is China’s. The world is very good at tracing Coronaviruses back through their generations and China has done so and now it seems the shit is about to hit the fan.
Here’s what happened in Chinese cyberspace today ( Thomas Hon Wing Polin, Facebook ):
WUHAN OUTBREAK: CHINA DEMANDS AN HONEST ACCOUNTING
It is now virtually certain that COVID-19 was brought to Wuhan by American troops taking part in the city’s World Military Games last Oct. 18-27.
The 300-strong US contingent stayed 300 meters from the Huanan Seafood Market where China’s outbreak began (see map below) at the Wuhan Oriental Hotel.
Five of the US troops developed a fever on Oct. 25 and were taken to an infectious-diseases hospital for treatment.
42 employees of the Oriental Hotel were diagnosed with COVID-19, becoming the first cluster in Wuhan. At the time only 7 people from the market had been thus diagnosed (and treated before the hotel staff). All 7 had contact with the 42 from the hotel. From this source, the virus spread to the rest of China.
The American Military Games team trained at a location near Fort Detrick, the military’s viral lab closed down by the CDC in July for various deficiencies.
The big question now is whether the transmission was planned, or accidental.
Chinese authorities are awaiting an explanation from US authorities.
A few days ago, Mike Pompeo phoned Yang Jiechi, Chinese State Councillor for Foreign Affairs. Pompeo’s counterpart is actually Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Yang is Wang’s boss, so Pompeo wanted to talk about something urgent and important.
Pompeo wanted the Chinese not to publicize what they had found.
Yang’s reply: “We await your solemn explanation, especially about Patient Zero.”
China’s leaders have long suspected US military involvement in the Wuhan outbreak but were determined to stop the disease before pursuing the Americans for an honest accounting.
Notes
[1] Dr. Gao has made contributions to the study of inter-species pathogen transmission. He organized the first World Flu Day on November 1 2018, commemorating the centenary of the Spanish flu. It was also the 15-year commemoration of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, SARS, which led to China prioritising investment in the public health system. He is a virologist and immunologist. He has served as Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention since 2017 and Dean of the Savaid Medical School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015. Gao is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences, as well as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine. He was awarded the TWAS Prize in Medical Science in 2012 and the Nikkei Asia Prize in 2014.
[2] They fired him the next day. Henceforth local politicians will be out of the loop and everyone will have a CDC hotline number.
[3] Dr Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO International Mission said,“In the face of a previously unknown disease, China has taken one of the most ancient approaches for infectious disease control and rolled out probably the most ambitious, and I would say, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history. China took old-fashioned measures, like the national approach to hand-washing, the mask-wearing, the social distancing, the universal temperature monitoring. But then very quickly, as it started to evolve, the response started to change . . . So they refined the strategy as they moved forward, and this is an important aspect as we look to how we might use this going forward. WHO has been here from the start of this crisis, an epidemic, working every single day with the government of China… WHO was here from the beginning and never left. What’s different about this mission is it’s complementing a lot of other external experts.”


russia-insider--2020-03-25--Jewish Billionaire Speculator Who Drove Markets Down Last Week With 'HELL Is Coming' Viral Video, Be

Jewish Billionaire Speculator Who Drove Markets Down Last Week With 'HELL Is Coming' Viral Video, Bets $2.5 Billion That Stocks Will Go Up (Bill Ackman)

Though his silvery mane and piercing blue eyes have helped to make him an instantly recognizable figure in the financial press , most American retirees probably know Bill Ackman as that lunatic who recently inspired their terrified in-laws to liquidate their 401 ( k ) s before the market tumbled into the abyss .
Ackman 's oddly poignant `` Hell is Coming '' speech will likely be remembered during retellings of the coronavirus market rout of 2020 , if not for its surprisingly forceful impact ( which remains a subject of debate ) , but for the many bizarre claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about having had a 'vision ' of COVID-19 's destructive potential .
At the time , some accused Ackman of trying to scare mom-and-pop investors into selling so he could scoop up shares of Starbucks , RBI and several other long plays at better prices .
And during an interview with Bloomberg on Monday , the hedge fund investor sounded curiously optimistic , claiming that he had closed his shorts and was '100 % long ' , betting on a recovery , even as the market has moved lower since his `` Hell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investor said during the interview that his firm , Pershing Square Capital Management , had made a $ 2.5 billion `` recovery bet '' on the economy , investing entirely in stocks .
Though he said valuations on some of his favorite plays like Chipotle were `` crazy '' , Ackman argued that some badly beaten companies , including Hilton and Boeing , were guaranteed winners .
Of course , Ackman has been wrong about similar bets before .
Sounding suspiciously similar to his old pal ' `` uncle '' Carl Icahn , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bullish thing we 've done .
We are all long , no shorts , you know , 'betting on the country .
As the markets and the press punish the White House for dithering on the coronavirus rescue package , Ackman sounded almost naively confident in the Trump Administration and the capacity to minimize economic damage .
So far as anybody cares , the fundamentals of Hilton and other 'travel ' stocks remain `` strong '' , Ackman said .
Boeing has seen a slight bump thanks to Goldman Sachs analysts calling the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same .

Though his silvery mane and piercing blue eyes have helped to make him an instantly recognizable figure in the financial press, most American retirees probably know Bill Ackman as that lunatic who recently inspired their terrified in-laws to liquidate their 401(k)s before the market tumbled into the abyss.
Ackman's oddly poignant "Hell is Coming" speech will likely be remembered during retellings of the coronavirus market rout of 2020, if not for its surprisingly forceful impact (which remains a subject of debate), but for the many bizarre claims made by Ackman, including his comment about having had a 'vision' of COVID-19's destructive potential.
At the time, some accused Ackman of trying to scare mom-and-pop investors into selling so he could scoop up shares of Starbucks, RBI and several other long plays at better prices. And during an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, the hedge fund investor sounded curiously optimistic, claiming that he had closed his shorts and was '100% long', betting on a recovery, even as the market has moved lower since his "Hell is Coming" remark.
The activist investor said during the interview that his firm, Pershing Square Capital Management, had made a $2.5 billion "recovery bet" on the economy, investing entirely in stocks.
Though he said valuations on some of his favorite plays like Chipotle were "crazy", Ackman argued that some badly beaten companies, including Hilton and Boeing, were guaranteed winners. Of course, Ackman has been wrong about similar bets before.
Sounding suspiciously similar to his old pal' "uncle" Carl Icahn, Ackman insisted "that's the most bullish thing we've done. We are all long, no shorts, you know, 'betting on the country.
As the markets and the press punish the White House for dithering on the coronavirus rescue package, Ackman sounded almost naively confident in the Trump Administration and the capacity to minimize economic damage.
"I built a lot of confidence over the last week that the president and his team are heading in the right direction," Ackman said, adding that he had know 'inside knowledge' of any administration decision.
So far as anybody cares, the fundamentals of Hilton and other 'travel' stocks remain "strong", Ackman said.
“If you can buy Hilton at $60 when it was trading at almost $120, it’s going to be a bargain,” he said.
Boeing has seen a slight bump thanks to Goldman Sachs analysts calling the bottom. It appears Ackman feels the same.
“If Buffett will do it, I don’t think the Treasury Secretary should,” Ackman said.
Watch a clip below:


russia-insider--2020-03-25--Putin Has Been Handed a Rare Opportunity to Destroy the US Shale Industry - He Has Brilliantly Seize

Putin Has Been Handed a Rare Opportunity to Destroy the US Shale Industry - He Has Brilliantly Seized It

`` It was a brilliant play at America ’ s weakest moment perhaps since the Great Depression , perhaps ever .
A moment Putin had been waiting for since stepping into the world ’ s second most powerful position . ''
Last September the Fed was forced to acknowledge a new systemic problem surfacing in the overnight lending markets .
These are the same markets that collapsed the system in 2008 but a slightly different issue .
This time the system literally ran out of cash due to an enormous amount of leverage cheered on by US economic policy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It began with $ 75 billion in cash injections , and moved up to $ 100 billion at the end of 2019 , then $ 500 billion and now unlimited .
But the problem doesn ’ t seem to be going away , it seems to be getting worse .
With the repo market implosion accelerating in early 2020 , the Covid-19 pandemic also began creeping into our lives .
By mid-January the virus had China spiraling into the abyss and with it , the oil market due to factory shut downs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oil price from $ 60 to $ 50 during the second half of January .
By the end of February it found a bottom at $ 45 with a small rally into the first week of March on the hopes of an oil production slow down .
At this point let ’ s step back and look at the global landscape .
As the US spent the last 12 years leveraging up , Russia has been the largest buyer of gold and the biggest seller of US Treasuries .
So while Russia was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had doubled its Debt to GDP , the Fed increased its balance sheet by 95 % to $ 4 trillion , the US financial system was literally running out of cash due to over-leveraging , and the nation was succumbing to a state of mass hysteria not seen since 9/11 .
On March 6 , 2020 , OPEC called on Russia to coordinate an oil production slow down in an effort to stabilize oil prices .
All expectations were that a supply reduction would be agreed upon and the price of oil would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideas .
This was the opportunity he had been waiting patiently for in a chess match that spanned several White House Administrations .
He was ready to launch a Muzio Gambit , willing to sacrifice some assets for a strike at the heart of American strength , the US dollar .
The energy markets were always going to be the weapon of choice when the timing was right .
Russia and Saudi Arabia can produce oil at around $ 20 per barrel , while US shale production costs average around $ 46 per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia can live with sub $ 30 oil for quite some time .
Comparatively , the US energy sector will collapse very quickly with sub $ 30 oil unless banks and hedge funds are willing to lend more dollars .
But America has run out of dollars .
And so when Putin shocked the world on March 6 by denying OPEC a supply reduction and thereby baiting the Saudi ’ s into an oil price war he was sticking a pin in America ’ s decade long “ Everything Bubble ” .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s weakest moment perhaps since the Great Depression , perhaps ever .
A moment Putin had been waiting for since stepping into the world ’ s second most powerful position .
America is in an election year , and the powers the be want nothing less than their White House back .
They are willing to destroy everything to regain control .
Soros and the boys , not ones to let social chaos ( opportunity ) pass them by , are coordinating economic destruction state by state .
The lock down was initiated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always been strongholds for the Globalists - Los Angeles , New York , and Chicago .
But this election year was beginning to look like the minority voters were shifting to Trump , a populist , who had the best minority employment and business ownership numbers in America ’ s history .
If Trump were to be the first Republican to win the minority vote since the New Deal it would solidify the populist movement for the next century .
And so the virus and the financial collapse presented a perfect moment not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his band of traitors .
America doesn ’ t stand a chance and those of us not hypnotized by the hysteria are forced to soberly , watch her burn .

"It was a brilliant play at America’s weakest moment perhaps since the Great Depression, perhaps ever. A moment Putin had been waiting for since stepping into the world’s second most powerful position."
The Setting.
Last September the Fed was forced to acknowledge a new systemic problem surfacing in the overnight lending markets. These are the same markets that collapsed the system in 2008 but a slightly different issue. This time the system literally ran out of cash due to an enormous amount of leverage cheered on by US economic policy. And so began the latest financial bailout. It began with $75 billion in cash injections, and moved up to $100 billion at the end of 2019, then $500 billion and now unlimited. But the problem doesn’t seem to be going away, it seems to be getting worse.
With the repo market implosion accelerating in early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic also began creeping into our lives. By mid-January the virus had China spiraling into the abyss and with it, the oil market due to factory shut downs. We saw an initial drop in oil price from $60 to $50 during the second half of January. By the end of February it found a bottom at $45 with a small rally into the first week of March on the hopes of an oil production slow down.
The Superpowers.
At this point let’s step back and look at the global landscape. As the US spent the last 12 years leveraging up, Russia has been the largest buyer of gold and the biggest seller of US Treasuries. So while Russia was strengthening its financial wherewithal, the US had doubled its Debt to GDP, the Fed increased its balance sheet by 95% to $4 trillion, the US financial system was literally running out of cash due to over-leveraging, and the nation was succumbing to a state of mass hysteria not seen since 9/11.
Enter Putin.
On March 6, 2020, OPEC called on Russia to coordinate an oil production slow down in an effort to stabilize oil prices. All expectations were that a supply reduction would be agreed upon and the price of oil would stabilize. However, Putin had other ideas. This was the opportunity he had been waiting patiently for in a chess match that spanned several White House Administrations. He was ready to launch a Muzio Gambit, willing to sacrifice some assets for a strike at the heart of American strength, the US dollar. The energy markets were always going to be the weapon of choice when the timing was right.
Russia and Saudi Arabia can produce oil at around $20 per barrel, while US shale production costs average around $46 per barrel. And so Saudi Arabia and Russia can live with sub $30 oil for quite some time. Comparatively, the US energy sector will collapse very quickly with sub $30 oil unless banks and hedge funds are willing to lend more dollars. But America has run out of dollars.
And so when Putin shocked the world on March 6 by denying OPEC a supply reduction and thereby baiting the Saudi’s into an oil price war he was sticking a pin in America’s decade long “Everything Bubble”. It was a brilliant play at America’s weakest moment perhaps since the Great Depression, perhaps ever. A moment Putin had been waiting for since stepping into the world’s second most powerful position.
The Denouement.
America is in an election year, and the powers the be want nothing less than their White House back. They are willing to destroy everything to regain control. Soros and the boys, not ones to let social chaos (opportunity) pass them by, are coordinating economic destruction state by state.
The lock down was initiated in the big three cities that had always been strongholds for the Globalists - Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. But this election year was beginning to look like the minority voters were shifting to Trump, a populist, who had the best minority employment and business ownership numbers in America’s history. If Trump were to be the first Republican to win the minority vote since the New Deal it would solidify the populist movement for the next century.
And so the virus and the financial collapse presented a perfect moment not only for Putin but for Soros and his band of traitors. America doesn’t stand a chance and those of us not hypnotized by the hysteria are forced to soberly, watch her burn.


russia-insider--2020-03-25--What an Incredibly Useful Little Virus This Has Been for the Power Elite

Instead of taking the blame for the global economic crash they get to play martial law Christmas came early for our rulers and power elite this year .
Let ’ s count up all the goodies covid hysteria pandemic nets them : • None They get to distribute hundreds of billions , even trillions in dollars , euro and pound among their friends in the name of making up for an economic slowdown amid outbreak and countermeasures .
• None They get to posture as decisive men of the moment who take drastic action when circumstances demand it .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viruses , as it does every year , they can posture as our saviors .
• None They get to push us off the streets and into our homes .
Forget Kim Jong-il , Stalin or African post-coup martial law , this is the real deal .
It ’ s a level of repression even North Korea couldn ’ t get away with .
It serves to bring relief from and possibly break the populist revolt ( gilet jaunes anyone ? )
, but more than that don ’ t forget about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power and feeling important .
• None They get to dodge the blame for the coming economic collapse .
A collapse which was due to happen soon anyway , as something or other was bound to burst the global debt bubble their central banks and monetary policies had blown up , but which will now be blamed on corona .
What a dodge !
This hysteria pandemic has been such godsend to them .
So much so that if I were in their place I would be looking to extend it for as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure everyone who died while having coronavirus would be counted as its victim .
And I would drown the land with corona test kits ( who cares just how reliable they are having been approved so quickly ) to make sure the number of infected keeps rising for as long as possible as an ever-greater proportion of your usual seasonal patients with flu-like symptoms are identified as having the dreaded covid-19 .
If Trump is smart he ’ ll put the US under an European-style martial law to extend the crisis .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fallout from anti-virus measures the more believable his claim in November that it was a great economy until the unfortunate act of nature/god .

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russia-insider--2020-03-25--Republican Candidate, SPLC and Left Extremists Plot Against W. Virginia Castle Bought by Anti-Immigr

Republican Candidate, SPLC and Left Extremists Plot Against W. Virginia Castle Bought by Anti-Immigration Site VDARE

RI reported on the castle 's acquisition on Monday : Anti-Immigration Site VDARE Buys 4000 Sq .
Ft , 1895 Castle in Iconic W. Virginia Resort ( Video ) The anti-immigration think-tank VDare 's purchase of a castle in Berkeley Springs , West Virginia last month was reported in local news without much commotion .
The Southern Poverty Law Center , a local GOP Congressional candidate , and about a dozen left-wing extremists are trying to change that .
VDare , an organization once considered mainstream , has been under attack by powerful people over its advocacy for immigration control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had trouble finding stable venues to hold academic conferences and appear to have acquired a new piece of private property to possibly change that .
Recently , Michael Edison Hayden , an anarchist with close ties to `` antifa '' paramilitary groups , went to the tourist hub to support the organized `` opposition '' to VDare and stake out their castle .
According to the report , about 12 people , mostly left-wing activists , attended a meeting against VDare .
There was one notable exception in the group , Matthew Hahn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Virginia 's 2nd District , who attended to rub shoulders with communists and anarchists .
What would Hahn 's potential constituents think of him plotting with left-wing extremists and the SPLC to do God knows what to a building owned by an organization that shares most of the typical Trump supporter 's cultural views ?
Hayden also photographed the VDare property and posted a picture of it in his report .
He described the layout of the area , and how its presence on a hill makes it difficult for `` anti-racist demonstrators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ According to Hayden , the alt-right has fractured thanks to `` antifa '' violence , which is presumably laudable in his mind .
Whatever the merits of this claim are , this SPLC agent has previously threatened to use his friends and comrades in `` antifa '' to go after individuals who have political views he does n't like .
Soon after posting his article , his large audience of `` antifa '' followers began to react .
One user using the handle @ Braingeesuss asked , `` Any idea if they have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ? ''
A more menacing reaction that should be construed as a threat was posted by @ Dedwrekka : `` Aluminum powder mixed with iron oxide .
Or Gallium if you 're trying to be sneaky . ''
The first sentence is a reference to thermite , an incendiary agent used in deadly arson attacks by terrorist groups around the world .
VDare syndicates Ann Coulter 's column , has been publicly praised by Tucker Carlson , and is read by high-level members of the Trump administration .
How far is the SPLC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from having private meetings on their newly acquired private property to discuss viewpoints held by half or more of America ?
We will see as time passes .

RI reported on the castle's acquisition on Monday: Anti-Immigration Site VDARE Buys 4000 Sq. Ft, 1895 Castle in Iconic W. Virginia Resort (Video)
The anti-immigration think-tank VDare's purchase of a castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia last month was reported in local news without much commotion. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a local GOP Congressional candidate, and about a dozen left-wing extremists are trying to change that.
VDare, an organization once considered mainstream, has been under attack by powerful people over its advocacy for immigration control. For this reason, they have had trouble finding stable venues to hold academic conferences and appear to have acquired a new piece of private property to possibly change that.
Recently, Michael Edison Hayden, an anarchist with close ties to "antifa" paramilitary groups, went to the tourist hub to support the organized "opposition" to VDare and stake out their castle.
According to the report, about 12 people, mostly left-wing activists, attended a meeting against VDare. There was one notable exception in the group, Matthew Hahn, a Republican House candidate for West Virginia's 2nd District, who attended to rub shoulders with communists and anarchists. What would Hahn's potential constituents think of him plotting with left-wing extremists and the SPLC to do God knows what to a building owned by an organization that shares most of the typical Trump supporter's cultural views?
Hayden also photographed the VDare property and posted a picture of it in his report. He described the layout of the area, and how its presence on a hill makes it difficult for "anti-racist demonstrators" to "access" it.
According to Hayden, the alt-right has fractured thanks to "antifa" violence, which is presumably laudable in his mind. Whatever the merits of this claim are, this SPLC agent has previously threatened to use his friends and comrades in "antifa" to go after individuals who have political views he doesn't like.
Soon after posting his article, his large audience of "antifa" followers began to react.
One user using the handle @Braingeesuss asked, "Any idea if they have the money for round the clock security?"
A more menacing reaction that should be construed as a threat was posted by @Dedwrekka : "Aluminum powder mixed with iron oxide.
Or Gallium if you're trying to be sneaky." The first sentence is a reference to thermite, an incendiary agent used in deadly arson attacks by terrorist groups around the world.
VDare syndicates Ann Coulter's column, has been publicly praised by Tucker Carlson, and is read by high-level members of the Trump administration. How far is the SPLC willing to go to prevent private citizens from having private meetings on their newly acquired private property to discuss viewpoints held by half or more of America? We will see as time passes.


russia-insider--2020-03-25--Putin Won't Blink First, Rejects US 'Intervention' In Russia-Saudi Oil War


russia-insider--2020-04-16--Some Funny Racist Memes - Truth to Power - Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Here 's a recap of some of the memes I saw recently and enjoyed .
For more , check out @ @ @ @ @ : //t.me/TTPMemes If you think I missed any good ones , join the channel chat @ @ @ @ @ or put them in the comments section below !