russiainsider--2020-03-09--In Crashing the Oil Price, Russia Just Told the World, 'No!'

There is real power in the word “ No.
” In fact , I ’ d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language .
In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets , Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No .
Multiple overlapping crises are happening worldwide right now and they all interlock into a fabric of chaos .
Between political instability in Europe , presidential primary shenanigans in the U.S. , coronavirus creating mass hysteria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syria , the eastern Mediterranean and Libya , markets are finally calling the bluff of central bankers who have been propping up asset prices for years .
But , at its core , the current crisis stems from the simple truth that those prices around the world are vastly overvalued .
Western government and central bank policies have used the power of the dollar to push the world to this state .
And that state is , at best , meta-stable .
But when this number of shits get this freaking real , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And all it took to push a correction into a full-scale panic was the Russians saying , “ No.
” The reality has been evident in the commodity markets for months .
Copper and other industrial metals have all been in slumps while equity markets zoomed higher .
But it was oil that was the most confounding of all .
Most of 2019 we saw oil prices behaving oddly as events occurred with regularity to push prices higher but ultimately see them fall .
Since peaking after the killing of Iranian General Qassem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade .
Down .
Our inept leaders are trying to blame coronavirus as the proximate cause for all of the market ’ s jitters .
But that masks the truth .
The problems have been there for months , pushed to the back burner by incessant Fed intervention in the dollar-funding markets .
The 2008 financial crisis was never dealt with , just papered over .
The repo crisis of last September never ended , it ’ s still there .
And it reappeared with ferocity this week as people sold dollars and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the long end of the curve to absurd levels .
Credit markets are melting down .
Stock markets are the tail , credit markets are the dog .
And this dog was run over by a bus .
The Fed intervenes to keep short term interest rates from rising to preserve the fiction it is still in control .
The market wants higher rates for short-term access to dollars .
The Fed tried to help by cutting rates by 0.5 % but all that did was tell people the Fed was as scared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and gold bounced back to it ’ s recent high near $ 1690 , only to be swatted down on the New York open this morning .
And into this mess OPEC tried to save itself by asking for a historic production cut .
OPEC needs this cut to remain relevant .
The cartel is dying .
It ’ s been dying for years , kept on life support by Russia ’ s willingness to trade favors to achieve other geostrategic goals .
I ’ ve said before that OPEC production cuts are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cuts are not inflationary during crisis periods .
But finally Russia said No .
And they didn ’ t equivocate .
They told everyone they are prepared for lower oil prices .
The panic was palpable in the reporting on the meeting .
There comes a point where negotiating with your adversaries ends , where someone finally says , “ Enough.
” Russia has been attacked mercilessly by the West for the crime of being Russia .
And I ’ ve documented nearly every twist and turn of how they have skillfully buttressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get maximum return to reverse the tables on their tormentors .
And , to me , this was that perfect moment for them to finally say “ No , ” to get maximum effect .
When dealing with a more-powerful enemy you have to target where they are most vulnerable to inflict the most damage .
For the West that place is in the financial markets .
Remember , the first basic fact of economics .
Prices are set at the margin .
The only price that matters is the last one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the next unit of that good , in this case a barrel of oil , up for sale .
In a world of cartelized markets the world over , where prices are set by external actors , it is easy to forget that in the real economy ( regardless of your political persuasion ) the world is an auction and everything is up for bid .
So , the most important geostrategic question is , “ Who produces the marginal barrel of oil ?
” For more than three years now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Energy Dominance in a Quixotic quest for the U.S. to become that supplier .
Trillions of dollars have been spent on building up domestic production to their current , unsustainable levels .
This policy pre-dates Trump , certainly , but he has been its most ardent pursuer of it , sanctioning and embargoing everyone he can to keep them off the bid .
What he could never do , however , was push Russia off that bid .
The reason U.S. production rates are unsustainable is because their costs are higher per barrel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other prices are deflating .
Simple , straightforward economics .
If they were , on balance , profitable then the industry as a whole would not have burned through a few hundred billion in free cash flow over the past decade .
That ’ s where the Russians ’ power comes from .
Russia is one of the lowest cost producers in the world .
Even after paying their taxes to the government their costs are far lower , close to $ 20 per barrel break-even point , than anyone else in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When you don ’ t owe anyone anything you are free to tell them , “ No.
” Sure , the Saudis produce at similar cash costs to the Russians but once you factor in its budgetary needs , the numbers aren ’ t even close as they need something closer to $ 85 per barrel .
They can ’ t tell their people , “ No , ” you have to do without .
Because the populous will revolt .
Russia can ride out , if not thrive , in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ruble floats to absorb price shocks in dollars .
• A majority of their oil is now sold in non-dollar currencies – rubles , yuan , euros , etc .
– to lessen their exposure to capital outflows • the major oil firms have little dollar-denominated debt • its primary governmental budget ebbs and flows with oil prices .
All of this adds up to Russia holding the whip hand over the global market for oil .
The ability to say , “ No.
” And they will have it for years to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they can and do produce the marginal barrel of oil .
That is why oil prices plunged as much as 10 % into today ’ s close on the news they would not cut production .
There is a cascade lurking beneath this market .
There is a lot of bank and pension fund exposure in the U.S. to what is now soon-to-be non-performing fracking debt .
Liquidations will begin in earnest later this year .
But the market is handicapping this now .
I can not overstate how important and far-reaching this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t make a deal here they can break OPEC .
If they do make a deal it will come with strings that ensure pressure is lifted in other areas of stress for them .
The knock-on effects of oil plunging from $ 70 per barrel to $ 45 over two months will be felt for months , if not years .
And it is no shock to me that Russia held their water here .
If they didn ’ t , I would have been surprised .
This was Putin ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia ’ s tormentors and inflict real pain for their unscrupulous behavior in places like Iran , Iraq , Syria , Ukraine , Yemen , Venezuela and Afghanistan .
He is now in a position to extract maximum concessions from the U.S. and the OPEC nations who are supporting U.S. belligerence against Russia ’ s allies in China , Iran and Syria .
We saw the beginnings of this in his dealings with Turkish President Erdogan in Moscow , extracting a ceasefire agreement that was nothing short of a Turkish surrender .
Erdogan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stupidity and Russia said , “ No.
” This condition of producing the marginal barrel of oil in a deflationary world places Russia in the driver ’ s seat to drive U.S. foreign policy behavior in an election year .
Talk about meddling in our elections !
The Achilles ’ heel of the U.S. empire is the debt .
The dollar has been its greatest weapon and it is still king .
And it is a weapon with a great deal of power but wielded only against the U.S. ’ s allies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calm down in a few days .
The panic will subside .
But it will come back soon enough in a more virulent form .
Today is a replay of 2007-08 but this time Russia is far better prepared to fight back .
And when that happens , I suspect it won ’ t be the Saudis or the Turks that come running to Russia to save them , but the U.S. and Europe .
At which point , I have to wonder if Putin will channel his inner Rorschach .

There is real power in the word “No.”
In fact, I’d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language.
In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets, Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No.
Multiple overlapping crises are happening worldwide right now and they all interlock into a fabric of chaos.
Between political instability in Europe, presidential primary shenanigans in the U.S., coronavirus creating mass hysteria and Turkey’s military adventurism in Syria, the eastern Mediterranean and Libya, markets are finally calling the bluff of central bankers who have been propping up asset prices for years.
But, at its core, the current crisis stems from the simple truth that those prices around the world are vastly overvalued.
Western government and central bank policies have used the power of the dollar to push the world to this state.
And that state is, at best, meta-stable.
But when this number of shits get this freaking real, well… meeting the fan was inevitable.
And all it took to push a correction into a full-scale panic was the Russians saying, “No.”
The reality has been evident in the commodity markets for months. Copper and other industrial metals have all been in slumps while equity markets zoomed higher.
But it was oil that was the most confounding of all.
Most of 2019 we saw oil prices behaving oddly as events occurred with regularity to push prices higher but ultimately see them fall.
Since peaking after the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani oil prices have been a one-way trade. Down.
Our inept leaders are trying to blame coronavirus as the proximate cause for all of the market’s jitters.
But that masks the truth. The problems have been there for months, pushed to the back burner by incessant Fed intervention in the dollar-funding markets.
The 2008 financial crisis was never dealt with, just papered over.
The repo crisis of last September never ended, it’s still there.
And it reappeared with ferocity this week as people sold dollars and bought U.S. treasuries pushing U.S. yields on the long end of the curve to absurd levels.
Credit markets are melting down. Stock markets are the tail, credit markets are the dog. And this dog was run over by a bus.
The Fed intervenes to keep short term interest rates from rising to preserve the fiction it is still in control.
The market wants higher rates for short-term access to dollars.
The Fed tried to help by cutting rates by 0.5% but all that did was tell people the Fed was as scared as they were. The selling resumed and gold bounced back to it’s recent high near $1690, only to be swatted down on the New York open this morning.
That didn’t work either.
OOPS!
And into this mess OPEC tried to save itself by asking for a historic production cut.
OPEC needs this cut to remain relevant. The cartel is dying. It’s been dying for years, kept on life support by Russia’s willingness to trade favors to achieve other geostrategic goals.
I’ve said before that OPEC production cuts are not bullish for oil just like rate cuts are not inflationary during crisis periods.
But finally Russia said No. And they didn’t equivocate. They told everyone they are prepared for lower oil prices.
The panic was palpable in the reporting on the meeting.
“Regarding cuts in production, given today’s decision, from April 1, no one — neither OPEC countries nor OPEC+ countries — are obliged to lower production,” he told reporters after the meeting. OPEC’s Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said the meeting had been adjourned, although consultations would continue. “At the end of the day, it was the general, painful decision of the joint conference to adjourn the meeting,” he told reporters. Earlier, Oanda analyst Edward Moya had suggested that a failure to reach an agreement could spell the end of OPEC+. “No-deal OPEC+ means the three-year experiment is over. OPEC+ is dead. The Saudis are all-in on stabling oil prices and they may need to do something extraordinary,” he said.
There comes a point where negotiating with your adversaries ends, where someone finally says, “Enough.” Russia has been attacked mercilessly by the West for the crime of being Russia.
And I’ve documented nearly every twist and turn of how they have skillfully buttressed their position waiting for the right moment to get maximum return to reverse the tables on their tormentors.
And, to me, this was that perfect moment for them to finally say “No,” to get maximum effect.
When dealing with a more-powerful enemy you have to target where they are most vulnerable to inflict the most damage.
For the West that place is in the financial markets.
Remember, the first basic fact of economics. Prices are set at the margin. The only price that matters is the last one recorded.
That price sets the cost for the next unit of that good, in this case a barrel of oil, up for sale.
In a world of cartelized markets the world over, where prices are set by external actors, it is easy to forget that in the real economy (regardless of your political persuasion) the world is an auction and everything is up for bid.
High bid wins.
So, the most important geostrategic question is, “Who produces the marginal barrel of oil?”
For more than three years now, President Trump has supported his policy of Energy Dominance in a Quixotic quest for the U.S. to become that supplier. Trillions of dollars have been spent on building up domestic production to their current, unsustainable levels.
This policy pre-dates Trump, certainly, but he has been its most ardent pursuer of it, sanctioning and embargoing everyone he can to keep them off the bid.
What he could never do, however, was push Russia off that bid.
The reason U.S. production rates are unsustainable is because their costs are higher per barrel than the marginal price especially when all other prices are deflating. Simple, straightforward economics.
If they were, on balance, profitable then the industry as a whole would not have burned through a few hundred billion in free cash flow over the past decade.
That’s where the Russians’ power comes from. Russia is one of the lowest cost producers in the world. Even after paying their taxes to the government their costs are far lower, close to $20 per barrel break-even point, than anyone else in the world when one factors in external costs.
When you don’t owe anyone anything you are free to tell them, “No.”
Sure, the Saudis produce at similar cash costs to the Russians but once you factor in its budgetary needs, the numbers aren’t even close as they need something closer to $85 per barrel.
They can’t tell their people, “No,” you have to do without. Because the populous will revolt.
Russia can ride out, if not thrive, in this low price regime because :
the ruble floats to absorb price shocks in dollars. A majority of their oil is now sold in non-dollar currencies – rubles, yuan, euros, etc. – to lessen their exposure to capital outflows the major oil firms have little dollar-denominated debt low extraction costs. its primary governmental budget ebbs and flows with oil prices.
All of this adds up to Russia holding the whip hand over the global market for oil.
The ability to say, “No.”
And they will have it for years to come as U.S. production implodes. Because they can and do produce the marginal barrel of oil.
That is why oil prices plunged as much as 10% into today’s close on the news they would not cut production.
There is a cascade lurking beneath this market. There is a lot of bank and pension fund exposure in the U.S. to what is now soon-to-be non-performing fracking debt.
Liquidations will begin in earnest later this year.
But the market is handicapping this now.
I cannot overstate how important and far-reaching this move by Russia is. If they don’t make a deal here they can break OPEC. If they do make a deal it will come with strings that ensure pressure is lifted in other areas of stress for them.
The knock-on effects of oil plunging from $70 per barrel to $45 over two months will be felt for months, if not years.
And it is no shock to me that Russia held their water here. If they didn’t, I would have been surprised.
This was Putin’s opportunity to finally strike back at Russia’s tormentors and inflict real pain for their unscrupulous behavior in places like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Venezuela and Afghanistan.
He is now in a position to extract maximum concessions from the U.S. and the OPEC nations who are supporting U.S. belligerence against Russia’s allies in China, Iran and Syria.
We saw the beginnings of this in his dealings with Turkish President Erdogan in Moscow, extracting a ceasefire agreement that was nothing short of a Turkish surrender.
Erdogan asked to be saved from his own stupidity and Russia said, “No.”
This condition of producing the marginal barrel of oil in a deflationary world places Russia in the driver’s seat to drive U.S. foreign policy behavior in an election year.
Talk about meddling in our elections!
The Achilles’ heel of the U.S. empire is the debt. The dollar has been its greatest weapon and it is still king. And it is a weapon with a great deal of power but wielded only against the U.S.’s allies, not Russia.
Markets will adjust and calm down in a few days. The panic will subside. But it will come back soon enough in a more virulent form. Today is a replay of 2007-08 but this time Russia is far better prepared to fight back.
And when that happens, I suspect it won’t be the Saudis or the Turks that come running to Russia to save them, but the U.S. and Europe.
At which point, I have to wonder if Putin will channel his inner Rorschach.


russiainsider--2020-03-09--Russian Ruble Crashes 10% Overnight to 75 per $, Lowest in 4 Years

The Russian ruble plummeted almost 10 % overnight , falling to its lowest level in more than four years , as oil prices crashed following the breakdown of the Russia-Saudi Arabia pact to limit production .
The ruble was trading at 74 to $ 1 on Monday morning , after another wild start to the week for financial markets .
Russia ’ s rejection of a renewed round of oil production cuts in the OPEC+ format at a crunch meeting in Vienna on Friday shocked the global energy markets and has prompted analysts to talk of an “ oil price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s largest energy suppliers .
Benchmark Brent crude fell 30 % to $ 33 a barrel when trading opened on Asian markets following the weekend , the sharpest one-day loss in almost three decades .
Falling oil prices put the Russian ruble under pressure , as Moscow still relies on energy exports for a large portion of its budget .
The so-called budget breakeven rate is $ 50 , while profits on oil sold about $ 42 a barrel are funnelled into Russia ’ s swelling National Welfare Fund ( NWF ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia will either have to run into its substantial coffers to fund day-to-day government spending or borrow more .
Stable oil prices in recent years , coupled with President Vladimir Putin ’ sconservative economic management , have helped Russia amass significant international reserves and bring down its vulnerability to such kind of external shocks , analysts say .
“ Russia is in a better position to fight this one than it used to be .
Financial reserves are $ 570 billion — or almost $ 100 billion more than Saudi [ Arabia ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flexible currency policy and will allow the rouble to fall into the mid-70s versus the dollar , ” said analysts at consultancy firm Macro Advisory .
However , the economic impact of the coronavirus has tested that narrative .
And now , analysts doubt whether Russia is prepared to spend billions of dollars of reserves to support its economy through a period of low oil prices in an apparent gamble to undermine U.S. shale producers .
“ Russia ’ s problem is around its high cost production .
Its oil industry faces acute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The government ’ s budget is more resilient , but a significant drop in prices will make it more difficult for Moscow to fund its National Projects , which are the centerpiece of its economic growth strategy , ” analysts at Eurasia Group noted .
“ The most likely outcome of this crisis is entrenchment into a painful process that lasts several weeks or months , until prices are low enough to change fundamental views in Moscow and Riyadh back to some form of compromise on resumed OPEC+ production restraint , ” they @ @

The Russian ruble plummeted almost 10% overnight, falling to its lowest level in more than four years, as oil prices crashed following the breakdown of the Russia-Saudi Arabia pact to limit production.
The ruble was trading at 74 to $1 on Monday morning, after another wild start to the week for financial markets. Russia’s rejection of a renewed round of oil production cuts in the OPEC+ format at a crunch meeting in Vienna on Friday shocked the global energy markets and has prompted analysts to talk of an “oil price war” between two of the world’s largest energy suppliers.
Benchmark Brent crude fell 30% to $33 a barrel when trading opened on Asian markets following the weekend, the sharpest one-day loss in almost three decades.
Falling oil prices put the Russian ruble under pressure, as Moscow still relies on energy exports for a large portion of its budget. The so-called budget breakeven rate is $50, while profits on oil sold about $42 a barrel are funnelled into Russia’s swelling National Welfare Fund (NWF).
With prices below those levels, Russia will either have to run into its substantial coffers to fund day-to-day government spending or borrow more.
Stable oil prices in recent years, coupled with President Vladimir Putin’sconservative economic management, have helped Russia amass significant international reserves and bring down its vulnerability to such kind of external shocks, analysts say.
“Russia is in a better position to fight this one than it used to be. Financial reserves are $570 billion — or almost $100 billion more than Saudi [Arabia]’s. Russia also has the flexible currency policy and will allow the rouble to fall into the mid-70s versus the dollar,” said analysts at consultancy firm Macro Advisory.
However, the economic impact of the coronavirus has tested that narrative. And now, analysts doubt whether Russia is prepared to spend billions of dollars of reserves to support its economy through a period of low oil prices in an apparent gamble to undermine U.S. shale producers.
“Russia’s problem is around its high cost production. Its oil industry faces acute risks if oil reaches $30. The government’s budget is more resilient, but a significant drop in prices will make it more difficult for Moscow to fund its National Projects, which are the centerpiece of its economic growth strategy,” analysts at Eurasia Group noted.
“The most likely outcome of this crisis is entrenchment into a painful process that lasts several weeks or months, until prices are low enough to change fundamental views in Moscow and Riyadh back to some form of compromise on resumed OPEC+ production restraint,” they added.


russiainsider--2020-03-09--Showdown in Idlib: Master Statesman Putin Averts War with Combative Erdogan

The media has done a poor job of explaining what ’ s actually taking place in Idlib Province in Syria .
That ’ s unfortunate , but the facts are pretty clear .
A year and a half ago , Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a deal in Sochi .
No one twisted Erdogan ’ s arm to sign the agreement or pressured him in any way .
He signed the document of his own free will .
The so called Sochi Memorandum of Understanding covers a number of important items , but we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ three crucial points : • All radical terrorist groups will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone by October 15 , 2018 • All tanks , artillery , MLRS and mortars of the conflicting parties will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone by October 10 , 2018 .
• In the interests of ensuring free movement of local residents and goods , as well as restoring trade and economic ties , transit traffic along the routes M4 and M5 will be restored before the end of 2018 These three points are the heart and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on all three points , Erdogan has failed to meet his obligations .
That ’ s the first thing readers need to understand : Erdogan has shown that he is neither trustworthy nor reliable .
Under the terms of the agreement , Turkey was allowed to establish 12 observation posts ( basically small bases ) that its troops would occupy while they separated the so called “ moderate rebels ” from the hardcore al Qaida-linked jihadists .
Then , the jihadists were to be removed from the Idlib de-escalation zone .
Once again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deal Erdogan signed in Sochi in September , 2018 .
Not only did Turkey never lift a finger to keep up its end of the bargain , it also allowed the jihadists to cluster around its observation posts in order to protect them from attack .
According to many independent reports : “ Observation posts of the Turkish forces in Syria ’ s Idlib de-escalation zone were located in the fortified areas of terrorist groups and practically merged with them even though Turkey had pledged to oust the terrorists.
” At the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shellings of the Russian air base at Hmeymim and on Syrian cities ” to the south .
These same Sunni extremists launched an offensive that ( temporarily ) allowed them to capture the strategic city of Saraqib and parts of the critical M4 and M5 highways .
All of these hostile actions originated from the zone that Turkey promised to purge of Sunni militants .
This is why Putin finally decided to take matters into his own hands and clear the area for himself .
Anyone who has watched this fiasco unfold for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will tell you the same thing , that Erdogan did not just break the Sochi deal , he stomped on it , he spat on it and he wiped his a** with it .
That ’ s the plain truth of the matter .
All the blather you might have read in the New York Times or the Washington Post about the ‘ poor refugees ’ or the ‘ moderate rebels ’ is all diversionary baloney .
It doesn ’ t mean a thing .
What ’ s important is that Erdogan has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beginning ; arming them , training them , and likely providing them with vital logistical support .
These Sunni militants are Turkey ’ s proxy-army prosecuting a war of territorial expansion .
You won ’ t read that in the NY Times either , but it ’ s true .
Turkey ’ s military operation in Idlib is a war for land .
That ’ s why Erdogan has gone hysterical now that the Syrian army and Russian airforce are rolling back his army of cutthroats and methodically blowing them to smithereens .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ dream of integrating a large slice of northern Syria into greater Turkey is going up in smoke as the Syrian Army continues its inexorable military offensive .
It ’ s worth noting that Erdogan doesn ’ t want a “ safety zone ” to protect Turkey ’ s national security .
That ’ s another lie .
He wants to annex the land that was part of the Ottoman Empire before the post-WW1 imperial carve-up .
That ’ s not only his clear objective , it ’ s also a recurrent theme in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Daily Sabah , which has published a number of op-eds justifying the flagrant theft of Syrian territory .
Case in point : Check out this clip from a recent piece titled “ Is there any hope for Idlib solution ” : “ Here ’ s what Turkey simply can not do : Ankara can not stomach the Assad regime ’ s policy of removing Sunnis from Syria…Otherwise , the repatriation of nearly 7 million Syrian refugees will become impossible .
Hence Turkey ’ s commitment to maintaining a presence in three terror-free areas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( Daily Sabah ) What the author is saying is that these al-Qaida-linked groups ( Hayat Tahrir al–Sham , National Front for Liberation , al Nusra etc ) are not vicious cutthroats who are trying to topple the legitimate government , but just ordinary working class “ Sunnis ” trying to muddle by in a tough neighborhood .
Does anyone believe this nonsense ?
The author also indicates that Turkey is planning to permanently occupy parts of Syria .
( “ maintaining a presence in three terror-free areas ” . )
Can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ propaganda media is pushing the agenda of the regime ?
?
And it gets better , too .
Here ’ s another excerpt from an article in the Daily Sabah : ” Idlib is key to continued Turkish control of …northern Syria ” ?
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Once again , you can see that Turkey is planning to permanently occupy parts of N Syria and they are invoking the “ national security ” hoax to make their case .
Here ’ s more : “ Putin must understand that Erdoğan , who values his personal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ determined to conduct a comprehensive military operation in Idlib .
Erdoğan told his party ’ s parliamentary caucus that “ the Idlib operation is a matter of time ” – as he had said before three Turkish incursions into Syria .
Indeed , the Turkish president ’ s intention was to present the Kremlin with a wake-up call and called on Moscow to recognize Turkey ’ s vital interests in the region.
” ( Daily Sabah ) So now stealing Syrian territory is in Turkey ’ s “ vital interests ” ?
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explicit declaration of territorial aggression that you ’ ll ever hear .
And there ’ s more : “ ….Ankara ’ s latest move is intended as a prelude to its comprehensive military operation .
It signals Turkey ’ s commitment to controlling the strategically important M4 and M5 highways… .
The clashes between Turkish troops and the Assad regime have not yet resulted in a direct confrontation between Turks and Russians….Before the situation spins out of control , Putin has one last chance to prevent a trainwreck that would inflict irreparable damage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ties ” with Turkey.
” ( “ The Kremlin must heed Erdoğan ’ s warning ” , Daily Sabah ) There it is in black and white .
Turkey wants to control Syria ’ s main transportation corridors in the North .
So we ’ re not just talking about permanent occupation or land theft , we ’ re also talking about pilfering critical infrastructure that will seriously impact Syria ’ s efforts at reunification .
The beauty of a government-controlled media , is that their presstitude editorial writers foolishly blurt out exactly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In this case , it ’ s all about creating a pretext for stealing Syrian land .
Here ’ s what the Turkish government is hoping to achieve : • Maintain the presence of Turkish-backed terrorists in the deescalation zone ( “ Ankara can not stomach the Assad regime ’ s policy of removing Sunnis from Syria ” ) • Occupy and control large parts of N Syria using the cover of a “ safe zone ” .
( “ continued Turkish control of the three safe zones in northern Syria.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between north to south and east to west .
( “ strategic significance as a link between Damascus , Aleppo and Latakia.
” ) • Putin must renege on his commitment to defeat terrorism in Syria in order to preserve his “ strategic ties ” with Turkey.
” Regarding Number 4 , these same Turkish propagandists have taken it upon themselves to warn Putin that he ’ d better meet Turkey ’ s demands ‘ or else.
’ Here are a few cautionary clips from Thursday ’ s Daily Sabah delivering veiled threats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ set to meet with Erdogan in Moscow : Here ’ s more : “ Disregarding Turkey ’ s national security would damage the relationship between the two countries…Does Putin want to do that ?
To be honest , Moscow seems to have no choice but to come to an agreement with Ankara and withdraw the regime behind the borders of the demilitarized zone agreed to in Sochi in September 2018 .
Otherwise , Ankara will do what is necessary for its national security and interests .
Ankara has shown that what it has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ start.
” ( The Daily Sabah ) In other words , Putin must cave in to Turkey ’ s demands or Erdogan will wage a war on Russia .
This is just blackmail disguised as diplomacy , but no one should be fooled .
So how is Putin going to respond to these threats ?
Will he give Erdogan what he wants and end his campaign to defeat terrorism in Syria ?
Will he abandon his ally Assad and forgo trying to preserve Syria ’ s territorial integrity ?
What will he do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provided air support for the Syrian army to retake the M4 and M5 highways , and he has also deployed Russian military police to Saraqib to prevent Turkey from initiating another reckless terrorist-led offensive .
So he hasn ’ t thrown in the towel and given in to Erdogan , but that doesn ’ t mean he ’ s not willing to “ cut a deal ” or try to find a compromise that will at least partially address the Turkish president ’ s demands .
In fact , he probably will , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to be in Syria forever nor does he want a war with a valued but unreliable ally like Erdogan .
That said , no one should be surprised if Putin looks the other way while Turkish troops establish a safe zone north of the M4 and M5 highways .
Putin is not an ideologue , he ’ s a pragmatist who ’ s looking for a way to end the fighting while defending Russia ’ s national interests .
He would eagerly accept an imperfect solution that gives Erdogan much of what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dramatically comprise the viability of the Syrian state or provide a safe haven for the terrorists .
Everything else is still on the table .
But here ’ s what Putin will not accept .
He won ’ t accept hotbeds of al Qaida-linked groups scattered across the country challenging the government , disrupting state security and moving willy-nilly to other countries where they create similar problems .
To clarify Putin ’ s position on terrorism , here ’ s what he said in 2015 in a speech to the UN General Assembly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian policy ?
Number 1 : Russia will remain at the forefront of the fight against global terrorism .
Nothing Erdogan can do or say will change that .
Number 2– Russia will continue its efforts to preserve the Syrian nation-state because Putin believes that the sovereign state is the cornerstone upon which international law and global security rests .
Again , there is no flexibility on this point .
Here ’ s Putin again in a speech at the Valdai Discussion Club : “ We have no doubt that sovereignty is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ international relations .
Respect for it and its consolidation will help underwrite peace and stability both at the national and international levels…First of all , there must be equal and indivisible security for all states.
” ( Valdai International Discussion Club , “ The Future in Progress : Shaping the World of Tomorrow ” , The President of Russia ) Russia ’ s approach to global terrorism , international law and state sovereignty has shaped its foreign policy and created the guidelines for making important decisions like those related to the crisis in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a face-saving way for Erdogan to claim victory even though his demands will not be entirely met .
Putin will also have to give ground if he wants to avoid a confrontation that could escalate into a full-blown war with Turkey .
Both leaders will have to focus on finding the middle ground and agree to an imperfect settlement that doesn ’ t compromise core values but at least partially satisfies each others basic requirements .
It ’ s certainly worth the effort if it brings an end to the fighting , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better than no peace deal at all .
This just in from RT News : Cease-fire to begin Friday at midnight –Putin and Erdogan agree to joint-patrols along M4 , M5 highways and de-escalation zone .
The Russian and Turkish leaders have held a press conference in Moscow , after coming to an agreement to de-escalate the Syrian-Turkish conflict in the war-torn Idlib province .
During the talks , Putin and Erdogan agreed a document detailing a ceasefire in Idlib , starting from midnight on March 6 .
A six-kilometer-wide security corridor is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the militaries of the two countries given a week to agree all the details .
Russian and Turkish troops will also be carrying out joint patrol missions along Idlib ’ s M-4 highway .
The document , signed after the negotiations , underlined that both Moscow and Ankara remained committed to maintaining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Syria.
” ( RT )

The media has done a poor job of explaining what’s actually taking place in Idlib Province in Syria. That’s unfortunate, but the facts are pretty clear. A year and a half ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a deal in Sochi. No one twisted Erdogan’s arm to sign the agreement or pressured him in any way. He signed the document of his own free will. The so called Sochi Memorandum of Understanding covers a number of important items, but we intend to limit our focus to just three crucial points:
All radical terrorist groups will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone by October 15, 2018 All tanks, artillery, MLRS and mortars of the conflicting parties will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone by October 10, 2018. In the interests of ensuring free movement of local residents and goods, as well as restoring trade and economic ties, transit traffic along the routes M4 and M5 will be restored before the end of 2018
These three points are the heart and soul of the Sochi agreement, and on all three points, Erdogan has failed to meet his obligations. That’s the first thing readers need to understand: Erdogan has shown that he is neither trustworthy nor reliable.
Under the terms of the agreement, Turkey was allowed to establish 12 observation posts (basically small bases) that its troops would occupy while they separated the so called “moderate rebels” from the hardcore al Qaida-linked jihadists. Then, the jihadists were to be removed from the Idlib de-escalation zone. Once again, this was all part of the deal Erdogan signed in Sochi in September, 2018.
Not only did Turkey never lift a finger to keep up its end of the bargain, it also allowed the jihadists to cluster around its observation posts in order to protect them from attack. According to many independent reports: “Observation posts of the Turkish forces in Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone were located in the fortified areas of terrorist groups and practically merged with them even though Turkey had pledged to oust the terrorists.” At the same time, the terrorists conducted “daily shellings of the Russian air base at Hmeymim and on Syrian cities” to the south. These same Sunni extremists launched an offensive that (temporarily) allowed them to capture the strategic city of Saraqib and parts of the critical M4 and M5 highways. All of these hostile actions originated from the zone that Turkey promised to purge of Sunni militants. This is why Putin finally decided to take matters into his own hands and clear the area for himself.
Anyone who has watched this fiasco unfold for the last year and a half, will tell you the same thing, that Erdogan did not just break the Sochi deal, he stomped on it, he spat on it and he wiped his a** with it. That’s the plain truth of the matter. All the blather you might have read in the New York Times or the Washington Post about the ‘poor refugees’ or the ‘moderate rebels’ is all diversionary baloney. It doesn’t mean a thing. What’s important is that Erdogan has been aiding the terrorists from the very beginning; arming them, training them, and likely providing them with vital logistical support. These Sunni militants are Turkey’s proxy-army prosecuting a war of territorial expansion. You won’t read that in the NY Times either, but it’s true. Turkey’s military operation in Idlib is a war for land.
That’s why Erdogan has gone hysterical now that the Syrian army and Russian airforce are rolling back his army of cutthroats and methodically blowing them to smithereens. It’s because Erdogan’s dream of integrating a large slice of northern Syria into greater Turkey is going up in smoke as the Syrian Army continues its inexorable military offensive.
It’s worth noting that Erdogan doesn’t want a “safety zone” to protect Turkey’s national security. That’s another lie. He wants to annex the land that was part of the Ottoman Empire before the post-WW1 imperial carve-up. That’s not only his clear objective, it’s also a recurrent theme in Turkey’s pro-regime newspaper, The Daily Sabah, which has published a number of op-eds justifying the flagrant theft of Syrian territory. Case in point: Check out this clip from a recent piece titled “Is there any hope for Idlib solution”:
“Here’s what Turkey simply cannot do: Ankara cannot stomach the Assad regime’s policy of removing Sunnis from Syria…Otherwise, the repatriation of nearly 7 million Syrian refugees will become impossible. Hence Turkey’s commitment to maintaining a presence in three terror-free areas and possibly a safe zone in Idlib.” (Daily Sabah)
What the author is saying is that these al-Qaida-linked groups (Hayat Tahrir al–Sham,National Front for Liberation, al Nusra etc) are not vicious cutthroats who are trying to topple the legitimate government, but just ordinary working class “Sunnis” trying to muddle by in a tough neighborhood. Does anyone believe this nonsense? The author also indicates that Turkey is planning to permanently occupy parts of Syria. (“maintaining a presence in three terror-free areas”.) Can you see how the Turkey’s propaganda media is pushing the agenda of the regime??
And it gets better, too. Here’s another excerpt from an article in the Daily Sabah:
“For the Russians, Idlib may have strategic significance as a link between Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia. Yet, the province means much more to the Turks. For Ankara, Idlib is key to continued Turkish control of the three safe zones in northern Syria.” (Daily Sabah)
” Idlib is key to continued Turkish control of …northern Syria”??
Once again, you can see that Turkey is planning to permanently occupy parts of N Syria and they are invoking the “national security” hoax to make their case.
Here’s more: “Putin must understand that Erdoğan, who values his personal relationship with the Russian leader, is determined to conduct a comprehensive military operation in Idlib. Erdoğan told his party’s parliamentary caucus that “the Idlib operation is a matter of time” – as he had said before three Turkish incursions into Syria. Indeed, the Turkish president’s intention was to present the Kremlin with a wake-up call and called on Moscow to recognize Turkey’s vital interests in the region.” (Daily Sabah)
So now stealing Syrian territory is in Turkey’s “vital interests”? That’s about as close to an explicit declaration of territorial aggression that you’ll ever hear.
And there’s more: “….Ankara’s latest move is intended as a prelude to its comprehensive military operation. It signals Turkey’s commitment to controlling the strategically important M4 and M5 highways…. The clashes between Turkish troops and the Assad regime have not yet resulted in a direct confrontation between Turks and Russians….Before the situation spins out of control, Putin has one last chance to prevent a trainwreck that would inflict irreparable damage to his country’s “strategic ties” with Turkey.” (“The Kremlin must heed Erdoğan’s warning”, Daily Sabah)
There it is in black and white. Turkey wants to control Syria’s main transportation corridors in the North. So we’re not just talking about permanent occupation or land theft, we’re also talking about pilfering critical infrastructure that will seriously impact Syria’s efforts at reunification.
The beauty of a government-controlled media, is that their presstitude editorial writers foolishly blurt out exactly what the regime has up its sleeve. In this case, it’s all about creating a pretext for stealing Syrian land. Here’s what the Turkish government is hoping to achieve:
Maintain the presence of Turkish-backed terrorists in the deescalation zone (“Ankara cannot stomach the Assad regime’s policy of removing Sunnis from Syria”) Occupy and control large parts of N Syria using the cover of a “safe zone”. (“continued Turkish control of the three safe zones in northern Syria.”) Control the vital transportation corridors between north to south and east to west. (“strategic significance as a link between Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia.”) Putin must renege on his commitment to defeat terrorism in Syria in order to preserve his “strategic ties” with Turkey.”
Regarding Number 4, these same Turkish propagandists have taken it upon themselves to warn Putin that he’d better meet Turkey’s demands ‘or else.’ Here are a few cautionary clips from Thursday’s Daily Sabah delivering veiled threats to Putin on the day he is set to meet with Erdogan in Moscow:
“The two leaders are set to discuss the recent developments in Syria, including cease-fire violations in the Idlib de-escalation zone, a stronghold of opposition forces in the war-torn country since 2011.” (Note: “stronghold of opposition forces” actually means bastion of bloodthirsty terrorists) “The regime and its allies have consistently broken the terms of the 2018 cease-fire and a new one that started on Jan. 12, launching frequent attacks inside the territory.” (Note: More lies. Turkey continues to funnel troops and heavy military equipment into Idlib almost daily in clear violation of the Sochi agreement.)
Here’s more: “Disregarding Turkey’s national security would damage the relationship between the two countries…Does Putin want to do that?
To be honest, Moscow seems to have no choice but to come to an agreement with Ankara and withdraw the regime behind the borders of the demilitarized zone agreed to in Sochi in September 2018. Otherwise, Ankara will do what is necessary for its national security and interests. Ankara has shown that what it has done since Feb. 10 is just a start.” (The Daily Sabah)
In other words, Putin must cave in to Turkey’s demands or Erdogan will wage a war on Russia. This is just blackmail disguised as diplomacy, but no one should be fooled.
So how is Putin going to respond to these threats? Will he give Erdogan what he wants and end his campaign to defeat terrorism in Syria? Will he abandon his ally Assad and forgo trying to preserve Syria’s territorial integrity? What will he do?
Well, he’s already provided air support for the Syrian army to retake the M4 and M5 highways, and he has also deployed Russian military police to Saraqib to prevent Turkey from initiating another reckless terrorist-led offensive. So he hasn’t thrown in the towel and given in to Erdogan, but that doesn’t mean he’s not willing to “cut a deal” or try to find a compromise that will at least partially address the Turkish president’s demands. In fact, he probably will, after all, Putin doesn’t want to be in Syria forever nor does he want a war with a valued but unreliable ally like Erdogan.
That said, no one should be surprised if Putin looks the other way while Turkish troops establish a safe zone north of the M4 and M5 highways. Putin is not an ideologue, he’s a pragmatist who’s looking for a way to end the fighting while defending Russia’s national interests. He would eagerly accept an imperfect solution that gives Erdogan much of what he wants provided it doesn’t dramatically comprise the viability of the Syrian state or provide a safe haven for the terrorists. Everything else is still on the table.
But here’s what Putin will not accept. He won’t accept hotbeds of al Qaida-linked groups scattered across the country challenging the government, disrupting state security and moving willy-nilly to other countries where they create similar problems. To clarify Putin’s position on terrorism, here’s what he said in 2015 in a speech to the UN General Assembly:
“It is irresponsible to manipulate extremist groups and use them to achieve your political goals, hoping that later you’ll find a way to get rid of them or somehow eliminate them. We consider that any attempts to flirt with terrorists, let alone arm them, are short-sighted and extremely dangerous. This may make the global terrorist threat much worse, spreading it to new regions around the globe, especially since there are fighters from many different countries, including European ones, gaining combat experience with Islamic State. Unfortunately, Russia is no exception. Now that those thugs have tasted blood, we can’t allow them to return home and continue with their criminal activities. Nobody wants that, right? Russia has consistently opposed terrorism in all its forms. Today, we provide military-technical assistance to Iraq, Syria and other regional countries fighting terrorist groups. We think it’s a big mistake to refuse to cooperate with the Syrian authorities and government forces who valiantly fight terrorists on the ground.” (“Putin’s speech at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly”, The Kremlin website)
What does this tell us about Russian policy?
Number 1: Russia will remain at the forefront of the fight against global terrorism. Nothing Erdogan can do or say will change that.
Number 2– Russia will continue its efforts to preserve the Syrian nation-state because Putin believes that the sovereign state is the cornerstone upon which international law and global security rests. Again, there is no flexibility on this point. Here’s Putin again in a speech at the
Valdai Discussion Club:
“We have no doubt that sovereignty is the central notion of the entire system of international relations. Respect for it and its consolidation will help underwrite peace and stability both at the national and international levels…First of all, there must be equal and indivisible security for all states.” (Valdai International Discussion Club, “The Future in Progress: Shaping the World of Tomorrow”, The President of Russia)
Russia’s approach to global terrorism, international law and state sovereignty has shaped its foreign policy and created the guidelines for making important decisions like those related to the crisis in Idlib. Putin will undoubtedly look for a face-saving way for Erdogan to claim victory even though his demands will not be entirely met. Putin will also have to give ground if he wants to avoid a confrontation that could escalate into a full-blown war with Turkey. Both leaders will have to focus on finding the middle ground and agree to an imperfect settlement that doesn’t compromise core values but at least partially satisfies each others basic requirements. It’s certainly worth the effort if it brings an end to the fighting, after all, a half-loaf peace deal is better than no peace deal at all.
This just in from RT News: Cease-fire to begin Friday at midnight –Putin and Erdogan agree to joint-patrols along M4, M5 highways and de-escalation zone.
The Russian and Turkish leaders have held a press conference in Moscow, after coming to an agreement to de-escalate the Syrian-Turkish conflict in the war-torn Idlib province.
During the talks, Putin and Erdogan agreed a document detailing a ceasefire in Idlib, starting from midnight on March 6.
A six-kilometer-wide security corridor is to be established in the area, with the militaries of the two countries given a week to agree all the details. Russian and Turkish troops will also be carrying out joint patrol missions along Idlib’s M-4 highway. The document, signed after the negotiations, underlined that both Moscow and Ankara remained committed to maintaining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Syria.” (RT)


russiainsider--2020-03-09--The American Right Must Destroy the Republican Party or It Will Destroy Us

There 's no question that American bastions of power - business , courts , intelligence services , media , ivy league universities - are firmly in the grip of Jewish oligarchs and the 10-15 % of upper middle class professionals that form their second estate .
Conservatives , with the exception of a few Israel-hawks and economic libertarians , are absent in this demographic .
What they all have in common is seething animosity towards the traditional family , nation-states , white people , working people and Western civilization , which in the eyes of top billionaires are barriers to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their master plan , and for the lower tier of the new aristocracy , stains of retrograde bigotry and intolerance that must be shattered to usher in the era of the new cosmopolitan overman .
Michael Lind calls these people the `` liberaltarians , '' upper class people who adhere to extreme , activist forms of social liberalism combined with rapacious capitalism .
The convergence is stark .
`` Socialist '' left academics at the Jacobin and their libertarian right equivalents at the Cato Institute have the exact same views and rationalizations on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religion , immigration , drugs , globalism , crime and race .
Their consensus is highly unpopular even across racial lines in America and would never survive democratic scrutiny , but ordinary people are not allowed to participate in academia , non-profit foundations or media .
All we have is a few elective branches of the state .
Which is why every two and four years , America 's silenced majority expresses what they think is a veto of the abyss these unelected forces are foisting us into , usually in the form @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Republican Party .
Republicans have won 8 out of the last 13 presidential races since 1968 .
During Newt Gingrich 's 1994 `` Revolution , '' Republicans drew up a `` Contract with America '' that promised a radical overhaul in Washington to combat corruption , as well as increase popular participation and transparency in government affairs in the interest of creating a counter-balance to elitism .
This was paired with a plan to crack down on out-of-control black crime and fight abuses of `` Great Society '' programs , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uniquely American in that white working people pay almost as much in taxes as Europeans , but are often excluded from reaping the benefits of social programs due to the absurdly low means threshold for participating .
The end result was that the GOP was able to solidify a national white voting base , including for the first time ever the South , making a once competitive congressional kingmaker solidly red and giving the GOP total control of Congress for the first time since 1954 .
What did the Republicans do with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or two modest achievements , but they mostly spent two years inviting libertarian think-tanks and corporate lobbies to draw up predictable legislation : pollute the environment , cut Medicare , defund schools and give Wall Street and multi-nationals the savings through tax-cuts untethered to productive investment .
The people responded : Bill Clinton , a neo-liberal himself , batted away some of their shittier proposals and was re-elected in 1996 .
The GOP 's congressional presence was crushed in 1998 .
The Republicans have staged many dramatic comebacks since then , promising in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case , explicit terms , to fight the ever more virulent racial attacks on whites by the Democratic party .
Every time voters forgive or forget their last term , they are given the power to do something about it , and like clockwork you get the exact same legislative agenda they 've had for 40 years .
Even if we were to give the GOP the benefit of the doubt and pretend they are not just a corrupt mouthpiece for billionaires and Zionists , its core ideology makes it useless and dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Republican Party , state power is in and of itself immoral .
GOP deregulation sprees transfer more power away from the government , where we have some degree of say , and into the hands of private plutocratic interests who ca n't be voted out but have grown to exert more and more power over our every day lives .
Homosexuality , feminism , globalization , immigration and other elite impositions rapidly advance under Trump just like they did under Reagan .
The minoritarian impulse to terrorize the majority and force it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ existed - just ask the Jews - what has changed in the neoliberal era is the waning of state power and its reluctance to satisfy the will of the people when other nodes of social , economic and cultural power are captured by anti-social forces and unilaterally decide that normal people no longer have a place in America .
This obviously upsets the people , which then leads to `` anarcho-tyranny , '' an ironic combination of social disintegration protected by ideologically selective , heavily abusive intelligence services and police - knights in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a will to govern Republicans elected to government prize guarantees that their voters lose every cultural , social and economic war in the short-term , and are governed by people who hate them in the long-term .
All nine Supreme Court Justices are graduates of two `` private '' ivy leagues : Harvard , a school that is only 10 % white male Gentile ( with homosexuals overrepresented in this segment ) and forces students to take lessons on hating white people , or Yale , which is identical in all regards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberal , '' what kind of ideological principles can the public expect present and future judges to have when elite-to-power pipelines teach them to despise the values , traditions and very existence of the people they rule ?
The GOP 's worldview is a fraud to circumvent popular approval , perpetuated in the interest of replacing the white majority which would never vote for its own dispossession otherwise .
It is the hallmark of madness for America 's majority to continue expecting a party that does not believe in governing to ever do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solidified as a bloc behind them out of fear that the other party might be worse .
Trump was elected to stop immigration and deport the illegals , but in the two years the president and the GOP ran the entire government , it was Gingrich and Reagan all over again .
The GOP establishment has figured out that , just as they were about to cross the finish line , its voters have realized what they 're doing .
Already , a visible crop of future phony populists is emerging : Marco @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , etc .
These characters will arise in 2024 and imply that they are the white working man 's champion , while in fact they will just be running white people 's electoral-demographic clock for another election cycle or two .
Contrary to what paleo-conservatives believe , the GOP will be just fine in a majority-minority electorate .
They will just run candidates like Trump 's new adopted son , Charlie Kirk , an extreme social and economic libertarian Zionist whose twitter is full of attacks on `` old white men . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of what awaits us when we are old and white and no longer have the power to give them yet another mandate to tap dance for Israeli lobbyists and engage in corporate cronyism .
It 's time to boycott this criminal outfit into collapse and build a party from scratch that reflects the values of normal people and is n't afraid to govern on their behalf .
It 's a Herculean task , but continuing to fall for the GOP 's dirty election year tricks reminds one of the salient proverb : a @ @ @ @ @ @ @

There's no question that American bastions of power - business, courts, intelligence services, media, ivy league universities - are firmly in the grip of Jewish oligarchs and the 10-15% of upper middle class professionals that form their second estate.
Conservatives, with the exception of a few Israel-hawks and economic libertarians, are absent in this demographic. What they all have in common is seething animosity towards the traditional family, nation-states, white people, working people and Western civilization, which in the eyes of top billionaires are barriers to profits and potential means of resistance to their master plan, and for the lower tier of the new aristocracy, stains of retrograde bigotry and intolerance that must be shattered to usher in the era of the new cosmopolitan overman.
Michael Lind calls these people the "liberaltarians," upper class people who adhere to extreme, activist forms of social liberalism combined with rapacious capitalism. The convergence is stark. "Socialist" left academics at the Jacobin and their libertarian right equivalents at the Cato Institute have the exact same views and rationalizations on questions of sexuality, family values, religion, immigration, drugs, globalism, crime and race. Their consensus is highly unpopular even across racial lines in America and would never survive democratic scrutiny, but ordinary people are not allowed to participate in academia, non-profit foundations or media. All we have is a few elective branches of the state.
Which is why every two and four years, America's silenced majority expresses what they think is a veto of the abyss these unelected forces are foisting us into, usually in the form of delivering Congress and/or the Executive office to the Republican Party. Republicans have won 8 out of the last 13 presidential races since 1968.
During Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Revolution," Republicans drew up a "Contract with America" that promised a radical overhaul in Washington to combat corruption, as well as increase popular participation and transparency in government affairs in the interest of creating a counter-balance to elitism. This was paired with a plan to crack down on out-of-control black crime and fight abuses of "Great Society" programs, a form of "socialism" that is uniquely American in that white working people pay almost as much in taxes as Europeans, but are often excluded from reaping the benefits of social programs due to the absurdly low means threshold for participating.
The end result was that the GOP was able to solidify a national white voting base, including for the first time ever the South, making a once competitive congressional kingmaker solidly red and giving the GOP total control of Congress for the first time since 1954.
What did the Republicans do with their mandate in '94? There were one or two modest achievements, but they mostly spent two years inviting libertarian think-tanks and corporate lobbies to draw up predictable legislation: pollute the environment, cut Medicare, defund schools and give Wall Street and multi-nationals the savings through tax-cuts untethered to productive investment. The people responded: Bill Clinton, a neo-liberal himself, batted away some of their shittier proposals and was re-elected in 1996. The GOP's congressional presence was crushed in 1998.
The Republicans have staged many dramatic comebacks since then, promising in dog whistles, or in Trump's case, explicit terms, to fight the ever more virulent racial attacks on whites by the Democratic party. Every time voters forgive or forget their last term, they are given the power to do something about it, and like clockwork you get the exact same legislative agenda they've had for 40 years.
Even if we were to give the GOP the benefit of the doubt and pretend they are not just a corrupt mouthpiece for billionaires and Zionists, its core ideology makes it useless and dangerous.
According to the institutional philosophy of the Republican Party, state power is in and of itself immoral. GOP deregulation sprees transfer more power away from the government, where we have some degree of say, and into the hands of private plutocratic interests who can't be voted out but have grown to exert more and more power over our every day lives. Homosexuality, feminism, globalization, immigration and other elite impositions rapidly advance under Trump just like they did under Reagan. The minoritarian impulse to terrorize the majority and force it to assimilate to its eccentricities has always existed - just ask the Jews - what has changed in the neoliberal era is the waning of state power and its reluctance to satisfy the will of the people when other nodes of social, economic and cultural power are captured by anti-social forces and unilaterally decide that normal people no longer have a place in America.
This obviously upsets the people, which then leads to "anarcho-tyranny," an ironic combination of social disintegration protected by ideologically selective, heavily abusive intelligence services and police - knights in the service of oligarchy.
The lack of a will to govern Republicans elected to government prize guarantees that their voters lose every cultural, social and economic war in the short-term, and are governed by people who hate them in the long-term. All nine Supreme Court Justices are graduates of two "private" ivy leagues: Harvard, a school that is only 10% white male Gentile (with homosexuals overrepresented in this segment) and forces students to take lessons on hating white people, or Yale, which is identical in all regards. Whether "conservative" or "liberal," what kind of ideological principles can the public expect present and future judges to have when elite-to-power pipelines teach them to despise the values, traditions and very existence of the people they rule? The GOP's worldview is a fraud to circumvent popular approval, perpetuated in the interest of replacing the white majority which would never vote for its own dispossession otherwise.
It is the hallmark of madness for America's majority to continue expecting a party that does not believe in governing to ever do anything to defend its desperate voters, solidified as a bloc behind them out of fear that the other party might be worse. Trump was elected to stop immigration and deport the illegals, but in the two years the president and the GOP ran the entire government, it was Gingrich and Reagan all over again.
The GOP establishment has figured out that, just as they were about to cross the finish line, its voters have realized what they're doing. Already, a visible crop of future phony populists is emerging: Marco Rubio, Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, etc. These characters will arise in 2024 and imply that they are the white working man's champion, while in fact they will just be running white people's electoral-demographic clock for another election cycle or two.
Contrary to what paleo-conservatives believe, the GOP will be just fine in a majority-minority electorate. They will just run candidates like Trump's new adopted son, Charlie Kirk, an extreme social and economic libertarian Zionist whose twitter is full of attacks on "old white men." The Republicans are giving us a glimpse of what awaits us when we are old and white and no longer have the power to give them yet another mandate to tap dance for Israeli lobbyists and engage in corporate cronyism.
It's time to boycott this criminal outfit into collapse and build a party from scratch that reflects the values of normal people and isn't afraid to govern on their behalf.
It's a Herculean task, but continuing to fall for the GOP's dirty election year tricks reminds one of the salient proverb: a lazy man does twice the work.


russiainsider--2020-03-09--Want to Help Julian Assange? Here Are Things You Can Do That Will Really Help

Here is a list of things you can do to help .
Everyone can do at least one of these .
1 ) Put 18 May firmly in your diary .
The hearing stands adjourned until 18 May .
Turn up on 18 May and join the protests there all day – show the world this is a political trial , and we know it .
Woolwich Crown Court is walking distance from Plumstead Railway Station in South East London .
If you feel able to do so , bring your tent and join the Free Assange Village that sets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court – there is loads of available space .
But if you can just turn up for the day , that is just as valuable .
Protests will roll on every day throughout the hearing which will continue for a minimum of three weeks .
Make all the noise you can at the protests .
The prosecution is anxious to portray this as an “ ordinary criminal case ” .
Make sure the world , and the judge , know it is not .
There was an attempt by the judge to deflect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ locked inside a bulletproof glass cage , and blame the distant noise of protestors for that instead .
Do not be deflected by this arrant nonsense .
Make all the noise you can .
2 ) Write to your elected representatives .
This really does have an impact if done en masse .
You can do this whichever country you are in .
The key points are these : – Publishing the truth should not be a crime .
Wikileaks exposed war crimes and worldwide corruption by governments .
– The prosecution case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UK/US Extradition Treaty of 2007 is legally enforceable , but that specifically Clause 4.i of the Treaty forbidding extradition for political offences has no standing in law .
This is an absurd argument .
– Ask specifically your elected representative whether they personally believe political offences should be extraditable , and what they believe the impact might be worldwide on political dissidents in exile – Demand they act on the disgraceful conditions in which Julian is held , including entirely unnecessary strip searches and manacling , lack of access to his legal papers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Point out he has not been convicted and that these are incompatible with his status as an innocent remand prisoner .
Point out he is being treated as the most violent convicted terrorists are treated , but he is unconvicted and accused of a peaceful political offence .
3 ) Put in a freedom of information request .
I explained at great length why it is impossible that the UK could have ratified the US/UK Extradition Treaty in 2007 if it is indeed , as the prosecution claim , incompatible with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ read that again .
If you are in the UK There must be documentary evidence of all the clearance work around Whitehall that was done to ensure the 2007 Treaty is fully compatible with UK law .
I therefore need people to submit Freedom of Information Requests to : a ) Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( Specifying Consular Dept , Legal Advisers , North American Dept , Nationality & Treaty Dept , Counter Terrorism Dept or their successors if renamed and any other relevant departments ) b ) Home Office c ) Treasury @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UK Parliament Requesting “ All materials relating to the ratification and entry into force of the UK/US Extradition Treaty ( signed 2003 ratified 2007 ) , and particularly all discussion of the ability of the 2003 Extradition Act to apply all of its provisions , of the need or lack of need for any further statutory provision to incorporate it into English law , including but not exclusively any reference to extradition for political offences or to clause 4 of the UK US Extradition Treaty.
” Materials should be requested from 2002 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ USA , please similarly put in a FOIA request to the Department of Justice and State Department for all material relating to the implementation of the UK/US Extradition Treaty ( signed 2003 , ratified 2007 ) , and particularly any discussion of the political offences exclusion at Clause 4 , in particular but not exclusively with relation to the desirability of the UK implementing that clause and/or the UK ’ s ability to do so .
I realise I am asking for a bit of work here from you to work out how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have never been let down when drawing on the tenacity and perspicacity of our readers before !
4 ) Research the passing of the 2003 Extradition Act .
In Court the prosecution argued that the 2003 Extradition Act was the first such UK Act not to include an exclusion for political offences .
Parliament must therefore deliberately have removed the political offences exclusion and the 2007 Treaty could not put it back in .
The defence argued to the contrary that the 2003 Extradition Act is an Enabling Act on which extradition treaties @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Treaty are required for extradition , and the Act did nothing to limit Treaties from including a ban on extradition for political offences .
As always , Judge Baraitser ignored the defence argument .
She three times asserted as a simple matter of fact that Parliament had intended to allow extradition for political offences when passing the 2003 Extradition Act .
Twice she did this in interruption of the defence argument to the contrary .
Normally neither arguments about the intention of parliament , nor quotes from Hansard debates , are taken into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exceptions , rulings have been that the legislation must be read on its face .
But here , Baraitser has herself quoted the intention of parliament – using that very word – to justify dismissing the defence argument .
It must therefore be legitimate to introduce evidence on the intention of parliament , if the judge is going to rely on the concept .
I therefore need people to read through all the Hansards of debates on the 2003 Extradition Act , both in the Commons and the Lords , to see what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and particular if any distinction was made between terrorists and peaceful political offenders , and whether ministers gave any reassurances .
Apart from the debates , there may be parliamentary questions in Hansard on the same topic .
It is of course true that the 2003 Extradition Act was a product of the so-called “ War on Terror ” and the Iraq and Afghan invasions , passed by Blair , Straw and Blunkett , undoubtedly the most hostile to civil liberty , authoritarian government in modern British history .
But even so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get the Act through the Commons and especially the Lords , ministers will have been obliged to give some reassurance it was not intended to use it against peaceful political dissidents .
I have received quite a clamour from people wanting to know how they can help .
Off you go !
This blog will resume its daily coverage of the hearings when proceedings restart on 18 May .
On a personal note , my sincere thanks to all those who supported financially .
I am happy to report that from the afternoon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made by the Court whereby Julian was given six seats in the public gallery for family and close friends , and he kindly listed me for one of those , so I no longer had to queue at 6am , and I hope that will continue .
Finally may I say that I am always delighted when readers , and subscribers , introduce themselves personally .
I find it really heartwarming and it certainly helped keep my morale up at a very tiring and emotionally draining time .
So please do not feel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if you come along from 18 May .
There was a tremendous camaraderie at the hearing among Julian ’ s supporters , and I believe I met people from well nigh every country in Europe and the Americas .
We kept each other going , and Julian lit up every time he saw friendly faces .
It was a very intense week , and even with a wonderful and loving family to go home to , I felt a bit down after we all split up , and everyone who has been back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing .
I am haunted by the thought of how much more dreadful Julian must feel , back into the bowels of that high tech dungeon and virtual solitary confinement , with very little contact with his legal team or his papers and months to go before anything else happens .
Do think of him and pray for him if you have a faith .

Here is a list of things you can do to help. Everyone can do at least one of these.
1) Put 18 May firmly in your diary. The hearing stands adjourned until 18 May. Turn up on 18 May and join the protests there all day – show the world this is a political trial, and we know it. Woolwich Crown Court is walking distance from Plumstead Railway Station in South East London. If you feel able to do so, bring your tent and join the Free Assange Village that sets up on the grass banks around the court – there is loads of available space. But if you can just turn up for the day, that is just as valuable. Protests will roll on every day throughout the hearing which will continue for a minimum of three weeks.
Make all the noise you can at the protests. The prosecution is anxious to portray this as an “ordinary criminal case”. Make sure the world, and the judge, know it is not. There was an attempt by the judge to deflect the communication problems caused by Julian being locked inside a bulletproof glass cage, and blame the distant noise of protestors for that instead. Do not be deflected by this arrant nonsense. Make all the noise you can.
2) Write to your elected representatives. This really does have an impact if done en masse. You can do this whichever country you are in. The key points are these:
– Publishing the truth should not be a crime. Wikileaks exposed war crimes and worldwide corruption by governments.
– The prosecution case rests entirely on the argument that the UK/US Extradition Treaty of 2007 is legally enforceable, but that specifically Clause 4.i of the Treaty forbidding extradition for political offences has no standing in law. This is an absurd argument.
– Ask specifically your elected representative whether they personally believe political offences should be extraditable, and what they believe the impact might be worldwide on political dissidents in exile
– Demand they act on the disgraceful conditions in which Julian is held, including entirely unnecessary strip searches and manacling, lack of access to his legal papers and lack of access to his lawyers. Point out he has not been convicted and that these are incompatible with his status as an innocent remand prisoner. Point out he is being treated as the most violent convicted terrorists are treated, but he is unconvicted and accused of a peaceful political offence.
3) Put in a freedom of information request. I explained at great length why it is impossible that the UK could have ratified the US/UK Extradition Treaty in 2007 if it is indeed, as the prosecution claim, incompatible with the UK Extradition Act of 2003. Please read that again.
If you are in the UK
There must be documentary evidence of all the clearance work around Whitehall that was done to ensure the 2007 Treaty is fully compatible with UK law. I therefore need people to submit Freedom of Information Requests to:
a)Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Specifying Consular Dept, Legal Advisers, North American Dept, Nationality & Treaty Dept, Counter Terrorism Dept or their successors if renamed and any other relevant departments)
b)Home Office
c)Treasury Solicitors
d)Cabinet Office
e)UK Parliament
Requesting “All materials relating to the ratification and entry into force of the UK/US Extradition Treaty (signed 2003 ratified 2007), and particularly all discussion of the ability of the 2003 Extradition Act to apply all of its provisions, of the need or lack of need for any further statutory provision to incorporate it into English law, including but not exclusively any reference to extradition for political offences or to clause 4 of the UK US Extradition Treaty.” Materials should be requested from 2002 to 2007.
If you are in the USA, please similarly put in a FOIA request to the Department of Justice and State Department for all material relating to the implementation of the UK/US Extradition Treaty (signed 2003, ratified 2007), and particularly any discussion of the political offences exclusion at Clause 4, in particular but not exclusively with relation to the desirability of the UK implementing that clause and/or the UK’s ability to do so.
I realise I am asking for a bit of work here from you to work out how to do and phrase this. I have never been let down when drawing on the tenacity and perspicacity of our readers before!
4) Research the passing of the 2003 Extradition Act.
In Court the prosecution argued that the 2003 Extradition Act was the first such UK Act not to include an exclusion for political offences. Parliament must therefore deliberately have removed the political offences exclusion and the 2007 Treaty could not put it back in. The defence argued to the contrary that the 2003 Extradition Act is an Enabling Act on which extradition treaties depend. Both the Act and the Treaty are required for extradition, and the Act did nothing to limit Treaties from including a ban on extradition for political offences.
As always, Judge Baraitser ignored the defence argument. She three times asserted as a simple matter of fact that Parliament had intended to allow extradition for political offences when passing the 2003 Extradition Act. Twice she did this in interruption of the defence argument to the contrary.
Normally neither arguments about the intention of parliament, nor quotes from Hansard debates, are taken into consideration by English courts. With few exceptions, rulings have been that the legislation must be read on its face. But here, Baraitser has herself quoted the intention of parliament – using that very word – to justify dismissing the defence argument. It must therefore be legitimate to introduce evidence on the intention of parliament, if the judge is going to rely on the concept.
I therefore need people to read through all the Hansards of debates on the 2003 Extradition Act, both in the Commons and the Lords, to see what was said about extradition for political offences, and particular if any distinction was made between terrorists and peaceful political offenders, and whether ministers gave any reassurances. Apart from the debates, there may be parliamentary questions in Hansard on the same topic.
It is of course true that the 2003 Extradition Act was a product of the so-called “War on Terror” and the Iraq and Afghan invasions, passed by Blair, Straw and Blunkett, undoubtedly the most hostile to civil liberty, authoritarian government in modern British history. But even so, I feel fairly confident that to get the Act through the Commons and especially the Lords, ministers will have been obliged to give some reassurance it was not intended to use it against peaceful political dissidents.
I have received quite a clamour from people wanting to know how they can help. Off you go!
This blog will resume its daily coverage of the hearings when proceedings restart on 18 May. On a personal note, my sincere thanks to all those who supported financially. I am happy to report that from the afternoon of Day 3, an accommodation was made by the Court whereby Julian was given six seats in the public gallery for family and close friends, and he kindly listed me for one of those, so I no longer had to queue at 6am, and I hope that will continue.
Finally may I say that I am always delighted when readers, and subscribers, introduce themselves personally. I find it really heartwarming and it certainly helped keep my morale up at a very tiring and emotionally draining time. So please do not feel in the least reticent to say hello if you come along from 18 May.
There was a tremendous camaraderie at the hearing among Julian’s supporters, and I believe I met people from well nigh every country in Europe and the Americas. We kept each other going, and Julian lit up every time he saw friendly faces. It was a very intense week, and even with a wonderful and loving family to go home to, I felt a bit down after we all split up, and everyone who has been back in contact since has said the same thing. I am haunted by the thought of how much more dreadful Julian must feel, back into the bowels of that high tech dungeon and virtual solitary confinement, with very little contact with his legal team or his papers and months to go before anything else happens. Do think of him and pray for him if you have a faith.


russiainsider--2020-03-10--Russia Aggressively Stopped Asians from Entering Early On, Seems to Have Less Coronavirus Than Other

Russia Aggressively Stopped Asians from Entering Early On, Seems to Have Less Coronavirus Than Others

Russia , which closed most of its border ports back in January , has registered just 20 coronavirus cases , many of them Russians returning from Italy , and zero deaths .
At the end of January , Russia announced it had closed the entirety of its 2,600-mile border with China .
Moscow also asked all returning citizens to self-quarantine and banned Chinese citizens from entering the country .
The result is that Russia has avoided the kind of panic that has gripped numerous other European countries with porous borders , most notably Italy ( ruled by a left-wing open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus cases and has recorded 463 deaths .
The entire nation of Italy has also now been placed under de facto quarantine , with all public gatherings banned and at least 16 million people prevented from leaving the north of the country .
Contrast that with Russia , which thanks to its strong border measures has recorded just 20 coronavirus cases , most of whom were Russians returning from Italy and some of whom have already fully recovered .
Zero people have died .
Unlike other European countries , most of which allow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing them , Russia has also enforced strict quarantine procedures , threatening anyone who violates their self-quarantine with 5 years in prison .
Despite the escalating infection and death toll , European Union leaders have repeatedly insisted that no border controls will be implemented .
Russia has also firmly ignored the World Health Organization ’ s demands that profiling be avoided in order to reduce “ stigmatization.
” As we highlighted last month , Moscow police and subway workers were checking passengers believed to be Chinese for signs of coronavirus , leading Beijing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other major European countries such as Italy , Germany and France , whatever Russia is doing appears to be working and Moscow certainly won ’ t be making any apologies .

Russia, which closed most of its border ports back in January, has registered just 20 coronavirus cases, many of them Russians returning from Italy, and zero deaths.
It’s almost like border controls work.
At the end of January, Russia announced it had closed the entirety of its 2,600-mile border with China. Moscow also asked all returning citizens to self-quarantine and banned Chinese citizens from entering the country.
The result is that Russia has avoided the kind of panic that has gripped numerous other European countries with porous borders, most notably Italy (ruled by a left-wing open borders government) which now has 9,172 coronavirus cases and has recorded 463 deaths.
The entire nation of Italy has also now been placed under de facto quarantine, with all public gatherings banned and at least 16 million people prevented from leaving the north of the country.
Contrast that with Russia, which thanks to its strong border measures has recorded just 20 coronavirus cases, most of whom were Russians returning from Italy and some of whom have already fully recovered. Zero people have died.
Unlike other European countries, most of which allow people to enter from Italy without even testing them, Russia has also enforced strict quarantine procedures, threatening anyone who violates their self-quarantine with 5 years in prison.
Despite the escalating infection and death toll, European Union leaders have repeatedly insisted that no border controls will be implemented.
Russia has also firmly ignored the World Health Organization’s demands that profiling be avoided in order to reduce “stigmatization.”
As we highlighted last month, Moscow police and subway workers were checking passengers believed to be Chinese for signs of coronavirus, leading Beijing to file an official complaint.
Unlike other major European countries such as Italy, Germany and France, whatever Russia is doing appears to be working and Moscow certainly won’t be making any apologies.


russiainsider--2020-03-10--The Powerful Moscow Rabbi Who Wants Draconian Censorship of Any Criticism of Jews

Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt , president of the Conference of European Rabbis , hosted a high-level debate at the Munich Security Conference titled ‘ Combating Hate Crime ’ .
During the debate , he protested that people use their unregulated freedom of speech in social media to say things he and his fellow Jews don ’ t like : The panel focused on the dangers caused by social media , including rampant anti-Semitism ( exposing Jewish malpractice ) , far-right extremism ( ethnic nationalism as practiced by Jews ) and Islamophobia ( opposition to Jewish fuelled migration ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ online .
A key agenda point addressed how social media channels spread messages faster and more efficiently than ever before and that more needs to be done to regulate these channels .
The speakers concluded that tech giants are unable to deal with forms of racist hatred ( White preference for their own kind ) and the dissemination of extremist ( spreading truth ) views across their platforms .
Goldschmidt called on governments around the globe to regulate social media to avoid what he calls ‘ its misuse ’ .
This would make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fraud and Zionist atrocities committed against Palestinians and other non-Jews .
During the debate , many agreed that technology has , to a certain extent , broken democracy .
As a great writer once observed , ‘ Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘ country controlled by Jews.
’ Alex Samos , former Chief Security Officer at Facebook argued that , ‘ there is no broad alliance of states against right-wing extremism ( ethnic-European nationhood ) .
’ Why the fuss ?
Undeniably , Jews have enjoyed a virtual monopoly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last 100 years , but the free internet changed all that .
The last thing Jews involved in malpractice want is an open , level playing field of public opinion because they know they will lose .
An observer says , ‘ they have it completely backwards : that so-called hate speech is still allowed in social media is proof that democracy is still alive and well .
If all criticism of Jewish malpractice is removed , there is no democracy , there is only totalitarianism .
But we are dealing with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a Jewish form of democracy , any criticism of Jews is strictly forbidden , outlawed , and preferably a jailable offense .

Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, hosted a high-level debate at the Munich Security Conference titled ‘Combating Hate Crime’. During the debate, he protested that people use their unregulated freedom of speech in social media to say things he and his fellow Jews don’t like:
The panel focused on the dangers caused by social media, including rampant anti-Semitism (exposing Jewish malpractice), far-right extremism (ethnic nationalism as practiced by Jews) and Islamophobia (opposition to Jewish fuelled migration), all of which have found new life online. A key agenda point addressed how social media channels spread messages faster and more efficiently than ever before and that more needs to be done to regulate these channels. The speakers concluded that tech giants are unable to deal with forms of racist hatred (White preference for their own kind) and the dissemination of extremist (spreading truth) views across their platforms.
Goldschmidt called on governments around the globe to regulate social media to avoid what he calls ‘its misuse’. This would make it a crime to expose holocaust related fraud and Zionist atrocities committed against Palestinians and other non-Jews.
During the debate, many agreed that technology has, to a certain extent, broken democracy. As a great writer once observed, ‘Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country controlled by Jews.’
Alex Samos, former Chief Security Officer at Facebook argued that, ‘there is no broad alliance of states against right-wing extremism (ethnic-European nationhood).’
Why the fuss? Undeniably, Jews have enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the press and media for the last 100 years, but the free internet changed all that. The last thing Jews involved in malpractice want is an open, level playing field of public opinion because they know they will lose.
An observer says, ‘they have it completely backwards: that so-called hate speech is still allowed in social media is proof that democracy is still alive and well. If all criticism of Jewish malpractice is removed, there is no democracy, there is only totalitarianism.
But we are dealing with a Jewish definition of democracy here. And in a Jewish form of democracy, any criticism of Jews is strictly forbidden, outlawed, and preferably a jailable offense.