southfront--2020-11-26--Azerbaijanis Wear Russian Uniform To Infiltrate Armenia-Held Areas And Murder Locals ?

Azerbaijani service members have disguised in Russian military uniforms to infiltrate Armenian-held areas in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh , according to British journalist Emile Ghessen .
Ghessen shared on his Instagram account a video showing the jacket of an Azerbaijani infiltrator who was recently captured in the town of Martuni .
According to Russian sources , Azerbaijani troops are using this tactic to infiltrate into Armenian-held areas of Nagorno-Karabakh , where they are abducting or even killing residents .
However , the type of military uniform shown in the video has not been used in Russian troops for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pass through any observation point of the Russian peacekeepers or Armenian militants in such a uniform .
Persons in this form would be immediately detained .
It is also impossible to pass through the ceasefire line without attracting the attention of the military .
In addition to numerous control posts , the Russian military actively uses drones to monitor the demarcation line .
Some 2,000 peacekeepers have been deployed by Russia in Nagorno-Karabakh to oversee the implementation of the November 9 peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan .
The Russian-brokered deal ended the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ September 27 with Azerbaijani advance .
Russian peacekeepers have already deployed 23 observation posts in both the Armenian and Azerbaijani-held parts of Nagorno-Karabakh .
In case that this was a provocation planned by the Azerbaijani military or intelligence , it is obvious that the individuals sent to the Armenian territory would have been equipped in accordance with the current norms of uniforms of the Russian troops .
Two versions are possible .
According to the first version , some Azerbaijanis , rather civilians , decided to take advantage of the situation in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
it could be those who lost their relatives , homes and property during the first Nogorno-Karabakh war of 1992-1994 .
According to the second version , such a publication is an informative campaign in favor of the Armenian side , which is intended to demonstrate to Russia that Azerbaijanis have the opportunity to commit sabotage and war crimes by dressing up in Russian uniforms .
The purpose of this information campaign is most likely to destabilize the situation in the region .
The second version is supported by the fact that information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Pro-Armenian media , with the additional facts that the purpose of penetration are precisely murders in the local villages .
Moreover , old pea jackets , like the one shown in the video , are widely used by the local population as a daily outerwear .
It is highly likely that the information campaign was planned in advance , and the British journalist was deliberately shown this jacket and told about the recent detention of Azerbaijanis .
After that , an unremarkable story on the Instagram of a British journalist was intercepted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the emotional addition that Armenian fighters are making their way to the Armenian side in order to kill local residents .
Thus , the second variation seems to be more likely than the first one .
Most likely , in the coming months , there will be many more similar statements from both sides , because right now , after the situation is stabilized by Russian peacekeepers , legal investigations of war crimes committed during the conflict will begin .
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Azerbaijani service members have disguised in Russian military uniforms to infiltrate Armenian-held areas in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to British journalist Emile Ghessen.
Ghessen shared on his Instagram account a video showing the jacket of an Azerbaijani infiltrator who was recently captured in the town of Martuni.
According to different sources, Azerbaijani troops are using this tactic to infiltrate into Armenian-held areas of Nagorno-Karabakh, where they are abducting or even killing residents.
However, the type of military uniform shown in the video has not been used in Russian troops for a long time.
It is impossible to pass through any observation point of the Russian peacekeepers or Armenian militants in such a uniform. Persons in this form would be immediately detained. It is also impossible to pass through the ceasefire line without attracting the attention of the military. In addition to numerous control posts, the Russian military actively uses drones to monitor the demarcation line.
Some 2,000 peacekeepers have been deployed by Russia in Nagorno-Karabakh to oversee the implementation of the November 9 peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Russian-brokered deal ended the second war in Nagorno-Karabakh that started on September 27 with Azerbaijani advance.
Russian peacekeepers have already deployed 23 observation posts in both the Armenian and Azerbaijani-held parts of Nagorno-Karabakh.
In case that this was a provocation planned by the Azerbaijani military or intelligence, it is obvious that the individuals sent to the Armenian territory would have been equipped in accordance with the current norms of uniforms of the Russian troops.
Two versions are possible.
According to the first version, some Azerbaijanis, rather civilians, decided to take advantage of the situation in the region to commit ‘personal vendetta’. it could be those who lost their relatives, homes and property during the first Nogorno-Karabakh war of 1992-1994.
According to the second version, such a publication is an informative campaign in favor of the Armenian side, which is intended to demonstrate to Russia that Azerbaijanis have the opportunity to commit sabotage and war crimes by dressing up in Russian uniforms. The purpose of this information campaign is most likely to destabilize the situation in the region.
The second version is supported by the fact that information about alleged Azerbaijanis and Turks is distributed by Pro-Armenian media, with the additional facts that the purpose of penetration are precisely murders in the local villages.
Moreover, old pea jackets, like the one shown in the video, are widely used by the local population as a daily outerwear.
It is highly likely that the information campaign was planned in advance, and the British journalist was deliberately shown this jacket and told about the recent detention of Azerbaijanis. After that, an unremarkable story on the Instagram of a British journalist was intercepted by a number of Armenian media with the emotional addition that Armenian fighters are making their way to the Armenian side in order to kill local residents.
Thus, the second variation seems to be more likely than the first one.
Most likely, in the coming months, there will be many more similar statements from both sides, because right now, after the situation is stabilized by Russian peacekeepers, legal investigations of war crimes committed during the conflict will begin.
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southfront--2020-11-26--ISIS Claimed Killing Of Canadian Service Members In Chad

ISIS ’ news agency , Amaq , claimed on November 26 that the terrorist group killed a number of Canadian service members during the recent attack in Chad .
The agency claimed that the Canadian military personnel were supporting Chadian government forces , which were preparing to launch a large-scale attack on ISIS positions along the shores of Lake Chad .
“ Two days ago , the Chadian army transported dozens of its soldiers and Canadian soldiers into Lake Chad , as a part of preparations to launch an attack on the positions of the Islamic State ’ s fighters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” a security source in ISIS told Amaq .
According to the source , ISIS fighter attacked one of the boats which were transporting Chadian and Canadian with machine guns and an explosive charge , killing and injuring dozens .
The terrorist group ’ s recent claims are highly-questionable as no Canadian troops are known to be deployed in Chad .
No more than 50 Canadian service members are taking part in “ Operation NABERIUS ” in neighboring Niger , where they are training local forces .
Some sources claimed that ISIS deleted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in its newspaper , al-Nab ’ a .
Formerly known as Boko Haram , ISIS in West Africa has been active around Lake Chad for many years .
From there , the terrorists are launching attacks in Chad and neighboring countries , mainly Nigeria , on a regular basis .
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ISIS’ news agency, Amaq, claimed on November 26 that the terrorist group killed a number of Canadian service members during the recent attack in Chad.
The agency claimed that the Canadian military personnel were supporting Chadian government forces, which were preparing to launch a large-scale attack on ISIS positions along the shores of Lake Chad.
“Two days ago, the Chadian army transported dozens of its soldiers and Canadian soldiers into Lake Chad, as a part of preparations to launch an attack on the positions of the Islamic State’s fighters on the shores of the lake,” a security source in ISIS told Amaq.
According to the source, ISIS fighter attacked one of the boats which were transporting Chadian and Canadian with machine guns and an explosive charge, killing and injuring dozens.
“Among those who were killed there were at least four Canadian soldiers,” Amaq’s source said, claiming that the Chadian attack was delayed.
The terrorist group’s recent claims are highly-questionable as no Canadian troops are known to be deployed in Chad. No more than 50 Canadian service members are taking part in “Operation NABERIUS” in neighboring Niger, where they are training local forces.
Some sources claimed that ISIS deleted the claims of killing Canadian service members in its newspaper, al-Nab’a.
Formerly known as Boko Haram, ISIS in West Africa has been active around Lake Chad for many years. From there, the terrorists are launching attacks in Chad and neighboring countries, mainly Nigeria, on a regular basis.
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southfront--2020-11-26--Russian Service Member Found Dead In Armenia’s Gyumri

A Russian service member of the 102nd Military Base in Armenia ’ s Gyumri was found dead , the Press @ @ @ @ @ District of Russia announced on November 26 .
In an official statement , the Press @ @ @ @ @ was found by a fellow Russian service member .
The Southern District ’ s Press @ @ @ @ @ of violence were found on the corpse of the service member , adding that the @ @ @ @ @ be cleared soon .
According to Armenian sources , the deceased was a 36-year old @ @ @ @ @ the Russian 102nd Military Base in Gyumri .
The accident came as Russia is deploying @ @ @ @ @ the November 9 peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan .
The 102nd Military Base in @ @ @ @ @ military installation in Armenia .
From 3,000 to 5,000 Russian service members , including border @ @ @ @ @ the country .
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A Russian service member of the 102nd Military Base in Armenia’s Gyumri was found dead, the Press Service of the Southern Military District of Russia announced on November 26.
In an official statement, the Press Service revealed that the corpse was found by a fellow Russian service member.
“The command commission of the Russian military station of the Southern Military District of Russia and law-enforcement officers are conducting an investigation into the death of the contractual serviceman,” the statement reads.
The Southern District’s Press Service noted that no traces of violence were found on the corpse of the service member, adding that the circumstances of the accident will be cleared soon.
According to Armenian sources, the deceased was a 36-year old contractual service member deployed in the Russian 102nd Military Base in Gyumri.
The accident came as Russia is deploying peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to implement the November 9 peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The 102nd Military Base in Gyumri is the largest Russian military installation in Armenia. From 3,000 to 5,000 Russian service members, including border guards, are deployed in the country. About 2,000 additional troops will be carrying out the peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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southfront--2020-11-26--17 Kurdish Fighters Were ‘Neutralized’ In Northeastern Syria: Turkish MoD

The Turkish National Defense Ministry announced on November 25 that its forces had “ neutralized ” 17 fighters of the Kurdish People ’ s Protection Units ( YPG ) and the Kurdistan Workers ’ Party ( PKK ) in northeastern Syria .
The Turkish MoD usually uses the term “ neutralize ” to imply that the fighters in question were either killed , captured or surrendered to its forces .
According to the ministry , the fighters were naturalized by commando units while attempting to infiltrate into Turkish-occupied areas in northeastern Syria .
The fighters were quickly targeted with mortars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anadolu Agency that a drone detected the fighters while they were digging tunnels before launching the attack .
The Turkish MoD ’ s claims are questionable to say the least .
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF ) , which contain elements of the YPG and the PKK , didn ’ t report any losses in their ranks .
These claims may have been a response to a recent battle near the town of Ain Issa , in which the SDF foiled an attack by Turkish forces and killed more than 30 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syria last year and managed to occupy a long strip between northern Raqqa and northern al-Hasakah within a few weeks .
The SDF showed fierce resistance .
However , it sustained heavy losses .
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The Turkish National Defense Ministry announced on November 25 that its forces had “neutralized” 17 fighters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northeastern Syria.
The Turkish MoD usually uses the term “neutralize” to imply that the fighters in question were either killed, captured or surrendered to its forces.
According to the ministry, the fighters were naturalized by commando units while attempting to infiltrate into Turkish-occupied areas in northeastern Syria. The fighters were quickly targeted with mortars and howitzers.
Security sources told the Anadolu Agency that a drone detected the fighters while they were digging tunnels before launching the attack.
“After 14 terrorists were neutralized by mortar and howitzers, three more terrorists were found hiding in the area,” the state-run agency quoted the sources as saying.
The Turkish MoD’s claims are questionable to say the least. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which contain elements of the YPG and the PKK, didn’t report any losses in their ranks.
These claims may have been a response to a recent battle near the town of Ain Issa, in which the SDF foiled an attack by Turkish forces and killed more than 30 Syrian militants.
Turkish forces invaded northeastern Syria last year and managed to occupy a long strip between northern Raqqa and northern al-Hasakah within a few weeks. The SDF showed fierce resistance. However, it sustained heavy losses.
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Hunter Biden. Redacted!

Bernays , drawing on Walter Lippmann , as Hermann and Chomsky also did in in 1988 , got it right .
Matt Taibbi got it right .
“ Almost ” , because he seems to suggest that media censorship , redaction and ews blackouts , as in the case of the Hunter Biden scandal , are events , when they are really just examples of what the Main Stream Media ( MSM ) does all the time : a time-honored tradition that has been a fixture of the Western World since before WWI .
What Bernays called “ conscious and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on behalf of a small group of people , “ the invisible government that is the true ruling power ” — is what the media was set up to do , its main job with the advent of general literacy and newspapers .
Lippmann and Bernays claimed that this kind of subtle authoritarian control is what people wanted , an idea that Adolph Hitler naturally liked , as he did most things American .
And , today ’ s mainstream media seem to agree — people don ’ t want to think for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is implicit in the redaction of the Hunter Biden story — along with the news blackout of Joe Biden ’ s past — coupled with constant repetition of Joe Biden ’ s faux virtues and the enthusiastic whitewashing of his cabinet of neocons and neoliberals .
Redaction and Repetition ” are the two , all-important R ’ s of mind control .
And “ redaction ” ?
Our prehistoric ancestors blanked out things that interfered with social harmony , like who screwed who last week .
Bygones were really bygones .
Nor they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not here and now , nor of direct import , which is , in its own way , a kind of cognitive redaction .
All indications are that Hunter Biden has substance abuse problems .
If hadn ’ t been a drunk , we wouldn ’ t know as much about his shenanigans with Joe in the Ukraine and China .
Here ’ s the story .
In 2019 , an an unkempt man , smelling of alcohol , identifying himself as Hunter Biden , dropped off a booze-soaked laptop for repair at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shopping mall in 2019 , run by John Paul Mac Isaac , a Trump supporter , not a brain-dead , rightwing reactionary but an intelligent and educated man .
Despite Op-Ed opinion , not every Trumper is a fat , white , racist , high school dropout with poor hygiene and an who doesn ’ t read because he can ’ t .
The laptop contained , among other goodies : • Joe Biden ’ s number and names of his Secret Service agents • the mobile numbers for former President Bill Clinton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hunter ’ s drug and sex issues — $ 21,000 spent on adult site Hunter never returned , nor paid the $ 85.00 repair bill .
Drunks tend tend to forget things .
Especially rich ones like Hunter Biden who get paid for doing nothing and have time on their hands to kill.The Republic owes a debt of gratitude to Jack Daniels .
Mac Isaac was able to restore the hard drive on the laptop , and subsequently offered it to the FBI — who appear to have turned it down , only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complicated .
When John Paul noticed that the evidence in the drive was not mentioned in the Ukrainegate proceedings , he offered it to Rudy Giuliani and then Senator Ron Johnson — since it provided crucial facts supporting Trump ’ s position and incriminating both Bidens .
Out of self-protection , Mac Isaac had copied the drive and its contents .
He no doubt remembered the curious case of Seth Rich who worked for the DNC when the DNC emails were mysteriously leaked and was murdered in a robbery where nothing was stolen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FBI .
Rather suspiciously , the FBI won ’ t comment : it ’ s an “ ongoing case ” .
However , someone in Senator Johnson ’ s office apparently leaked the contents of the hard drive before the first “ expose ” in the New York Post , which was promptly dismissed by the mainstream media as “ disinformation ” .
Things got messy of course — it to be those pesky Russians — trying to mislead the public , by definition , gullible and in need to Higher Authority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
It helped the MSM counter-narrative that Mac Isaac was a Trump supporter .
So they tried hard to discredit him as a proto-deplorable , which he was clearly not .
They went after Giuliani , an elite-deplorable even harder .
While Mac Isaac has faded into obscurity , Giuliani is still the object of ridicule and derision .
After the expose , Tony Bobulinski appeared .
As a business associate of Hunter Biden , he provided text messages and emails to Rupert Murdoch ’ s Wall Street Journal , and testified that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s business deals in the Ukraine , Russia , and China .
His testimony backed up the New York Post story , adding to the small mountain of evidence that was building up incrementally from various other sources , some credible , some not .
Things should have begun to look very , very bad for Hunter Biden .
Alcohol , drugs , sleazy sex !
A hint of pedophilia .
Politics aside , this is normally the kind of juicy stuff that the Media can pass up .
But they tried anyway @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his son ’ s shenanigans , if not complicit , and Joe just to win the Presidency , to offer republican policies in a more appealingly wrapped package and Save America .
Merry Christmas America — you ’ re fucked .
So the MSM did what it could to bury the scandal .
The second Presidential Debate as a good example… .
Trump also made passing reference to another China-related deal , inked after Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two with his then-veep father in 2013 on an official visit to Beijing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Chinese partners .
Ten days later , the troubled son ’ s firm inked a deal with a state-backed bank to create a $ 1.5 billion investment firm .
If you look at the transcript of the presidential debate , Biden really had reply to these accusations , which he had clearly not been drilled to expect — other than to blame the Russians , which is about as convincing as blaming little Green Men from another Galaxy .
Not that would know about this exchange at all — because the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evil ; see no evil ; even in the maw of the beast .
There are many who think so .
Here ’ s what the Branko Marcetic thinks… .
Marcetic quotes Zephyr Teachout who writes that Biden has : Anita Hill , years of racist legislation leading to the unnecessary imprisonment of thousands of black people , sexual harassment , support for war crimes , legislative “ fixing ” for Big Business , the promotion of monopolies — lies piled upon lies — a little “ corruption ” is just one more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meth , putting aside the whole question of “ crimes against humanity ” .
The facts of Biden ’ s past are carved in the stone of history .
But you won ’ t hear much about them from the MSM , or any of the mainstream media in the entire American Empire , which includes the Anglosphere and Europe .
Here ’ s the Guardian , with a comment typical of the media in the Anglosphere as a whole .
Huh ?
Clearly , if the Democrats had nominated Adolph Hitler , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an and focused on Hitler ’ s animal rights legislation and anti-smoking campaign .
Hitler may have killed millions , but Biden was complicit in the deaths of many more — although he did not get caught chortling on TV as Hillary Clinton did talking about Gaddafi ’ s murder by a bayonet .
Hitler ’ s war on the Soviet Union ?
That ’ s something the US seems itching to do , if they get the chance .
The evidence on Hunter Biden ’ s laptop is damningly hard to disprove— @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that surfaced later — but just like accusations of sexual impropriety — it can still be challenged with a little intellectual legerdemain — convoluted arguments of fakery by foreign agents and accusations of forgery and the like .
Not that it to be challenged if you just bury the story , as if none of it every happened .
The Media tried to do this .
But once out there on the Internet , the story hung on at the corners of perception , like dust you missed with the vacuum cleaner , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with that mote required what I call “ strawhorse ” journalism , where the media makes use of stories attacking clearly biased sources that seem to support some aspect of the story they wish to discredit , to discourage people from looking at the real facts of a case .
See : nutcases think Hunter Biden and Joe are corrupt , which proves they are not .
Fortunately for the media there is never a shortage of nutcases on either side of an argument .
A good example of this approach is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which appeared after Glen Greenwald left in protest of Intercept ’ s censorship of his investigation of the Hunter Biden story .
This article is pure misdirection and makes an effort to create a conspiracy theory to undermine Greenwald ’ s very solid reporting and also the September Senate report on Hunter Biden ’ s dealings which included such juicy morsels as : Questions Mount About Controversial Hunter Biden-China Dossier didn ’ t go into all that stuff .
Nary a mention .
But notice the words ’ controversial ” and “ dossier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recalls the infamous Steele Dossier , which accused Trump of soliciting golden showers from hookers .
Prior to the New York Post expose , a website called run by one Albert Marko had published a story linking the Chinese government and Hunter Biden and suggesting that Joe Biden had “ shifted his view from hawkish to dovish after HUNTER began receiving entrée into Chinese elite political and financial institutions ” .
The story relied on research done by Michael Aspen Christopher Balding , an anti-Chinese academic .
The story seemed to have the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lai , a of the Chinese government , which normally would be a plus , but not in this case .
Balding , once one of the “ Good Guys ” because of his attacks on Huawei and the Chinese government , instantly became a “ Bad Guy ” .
Added to the mix were other luminaries as Steve Bannon and the mythical “ Q ” of QAnon fame .
“ Q ” apparently liked the story .
“ Q ” who hates Biden also apparently likes Jesus — perhaps unaware that Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Now clearly someone may be biased or maybe even crazy — and still get some things right .
After all , aren ’ t we biased ?
One of the tasks of journalism in an ideal world should be to separate fact and bias .
Bloomberg , WaPo , and the rest of the MSM once thought enough of Balding that they published quite a few of his articles but suddenly he was purveying false information .
Did the article deal with the substance of the allegations against Hunter Biden , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were wrong ?
No , of course , not .
In traditional style it attacked the Messenger , or rather Messengers plural — while ignoring the Message .
Balding took fire for using a pseudonym for self-protection just as Mac Isaac was criticized for keeping a copy of Hunter ’ s laptop and sending it to Senator Johnson for self-protection .
Bad Boy !
But , if my name was “ Balding ” and I actually did lack hair , I would too .
Lest we forget , many of writers use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ balding ) Benjamin Franklin and the ( not-balding ) J.K. Rowling .
Add to that : the MSM regularly quotes “ sources who wish to remain anonymous ” , recognizing their need to protect themselves — as long as they are on the MSM ’ s side of the narrative .
So much for the evil of anonymization , which is OK if you attack Trump but not if you have it in for Joe .
Documentable financial issues can not be wished away : they require intelligent analysis .
The made no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thrown on the rack because he is a wannabe journalist , not a real one certified by the MSM— who , on the other hand , worship at the alter of an uemployed guy with no background who started blogging conspiracy stories about Syria and won the support of the Atlantic Council — Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat , now feted as a “ truthteller ” .
Marko was an easier target than Balding , who , as mentioned , to be an MSM favorite !
Oh , what a tangled web we weave… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself , even in the context of Greenwald ’ s clear , logical , well-documented and objective reporting of actual facts and documented evidence .
Greenwald published a number of revealing articles .
Here…and here… which don ’ t show the Intercept in a very good light .
But “ facts ” are the enemies of the Mainstream Media , which picked up the poorly written smear and ran with it .
The allegations that arise from Hunter ’ s laptop and Bobulinski ’ s testimony and the historical record of the Bidens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ circumstantial evidence , but , so far , more than enough to convict if it was Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning .
Certainly , these allegations are more substantial than allegations that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election , or that the DNC was “ hacked ” by the Russians or by an agent of Julian Assange with some 22nd Century secret technology allowing transfer speeds far higher than will be possible on the Internet for the next 50 years , if ever .
Or even that Trump behaved improperly in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Biden did when they oversaw a coup allowing Neo Nazis to take control of the country from a democratically elected president .
and start a civil war .
Accusations of corruption are even more convincing against the backdrop of Biden ’ s record as a time-serving , rightwing politician without principles , a matter of historical record .
His BFF friend , Mitch McConnell described him as “ ” a real friend … a trusted partner ” for a good reason .
Yet , the MSM imposed a media blackout on this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” .
Or maybe “ bygones will be bygones.
” Rather like Joe Biden ’ s sexual harassment charges which are definitely “ by ” and “ gone ” .
Shades of our evolutionary ancestors .
The narrative is simple .
Good vs Evil .
The blackout on Biden ’ s past coincided with predictions of a “ landslide ” for the Democrats .
although media like the NYT pretend objectivity , using pollsters to convey their message .
See ?
Nate Silver says so .
Everyone thinks the same .
You should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not for Son of God .
The Media got it wrong as did the pollsters .
Only a few commentators , mostly unknown , got it right .
Fox News and the New York Post demurred .
We have to have dissent , right ?
But when it seemed that Trump would lose — — Rupert Murdoch reversed gear and shut down the New York Post and Fox News inquiries .
Silence also from the Murdoch ’ s WSJ .
America rarely “ disappears ” people like they do in Latin America using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and progressives have an odd habit of dying prematurely —assassinated by crazies like JFK , RFK , and Martin Luther King or in “ accidents ” like Michael Hastings .
Many think it was Seth Rich who leaked the DNC emails to Assange , who as much as confirmed this .
Was Rich really the victim of a robbery gone wrong , shot twice in the back and left to die , still with his wallet ?
While the media pooh-poohed Mac Isaac ’ s very legitimate fears of retaliation : it happens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t have to disappear a to control a narrative — just use the power of the media and the complacency of the public to “ disappear “ ” the .
So it was that Rupert Murdoch , owner of Fox , the New York Post and WSJ stepped in to murder the Hunter Biden expose — shooting it in the back once it was clear that Biden would win , reminding us once again of that invisible government that Bernays talked of — the rich and powerful .
But are the Media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lippmann and Bernays suggest , the People themselves ?
Or both , locked in an incestuous embrace ?
No matter : the unpleasant fact is : Trump could never have been the harbinger of an American fascist state — state is already here — and has been for a very , very long time .
The media brainwashes the public .
Perhaps the public to be brainwashed .
But even if what Kevin Zuesse here so compellingly argues is true and we brainwash ourselves , the Media is still derelict in its self-described @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have replaced religion as the opiate of the masses .
Intellectual ‘ oxy .
Joseph Goebbels : which , by the way , is an salute copied from American cheerleaders .
As I said , American fascism is already here .
It has been from the beginning .
Was the 2020 presidential election “ fixed ” .
it was — just in the way people think .
It was fixed in 2016 when Trump won — but not by Trump .
It ’ s the way the System works .
In 2016 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ray McGovern calls MICIMATT the – -Congressional-Intelligence- – complex made sure that the semi-progressive Bernie Sanders was out of the running and that the people would have a choice between only two equally repugnant neoliberal candidates , neither of whom would challenge the way things are done in America .
In other words , no choice at all .
America is not a duopoly : it is a One-Party System .
Of course , the Democrats , as liberals , are the Default Political Party in America ’ s democracy .
Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and legitimacy .
After 4 years they don ’ t look quite as bad as in 2016 , when Obama ’ s long con was beginning to crack .
America ’ s 20th Century Fascism has been defeated — dead — so it can be resurrected triumphant wearing the robes of democracy — 21st Century Fascism .
Planned obsolescence applies to everything , including social control .
MICIMATT is like a gang .
The legitimacy and legality of its business depends on jurisdiction — like casinos , which are legal some places an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not legal at home , but OK abroad , especially by proxies .
Our hitmen are neonazis in the Ukraine and Al Qaeda terrorists and jihadi groups in Syria .
MICIMATT claims to support freedom and democracy — at home — but abroad , its foreign wars , support for corrupt and brutal regimes , tacit encouragement of the drug trade and exploitation of the poor point to its Mafia mentality .
Thus , the entire American socio-political system is run by a gang .
America is a neon tinsel dream like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In a casino , the House has to allow an occasional winner — a Jimmy Carter or Donald Trump — to keep the marks flocking to the tables : but the House always wins in the end .
These outliers will be one-term Presidents .
Counting cards , or anything that evens the odds , is a no-no and gets you thrown out or your knees broken .
Just as Hitler ’ s regime benefited from his hate campaign against the Jews , MICIMATT benefited from the MSM ’ s four-year hate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ egregious in history .
Trump was forced to tack right and try to buy off the military and their supporters .
That didn ’ t make a difference .
Trump was ever really the target which was left wing collectivist progressives .
The Hate campaign was /is designed not just to alienate conservative-liberal populists but to motivate them , shifting politics to the right .
It strengthens a “ big tent ” democratic party that is now solidly neoliberal .
Who do we hate now ?
The Russians and the Chinese , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen in Media censorship and control as Kevin Zuesse explains here : Censorship edits our perception of reality : it ensures that the public buys into a single , manipulated take on events .
It creates an alternative universe , in this case one in which Julian Assange is an abomination and Joe Biden is a paragon of the liberal ideal , just like St. Barack Obama .
In this make-believe universe , the only thing wrong with America is Donald Trump .
The 71 million people who voted for him ?
White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gates — beware the guillotine .
The accusations that mail-in balloting , banned in most countries , undermines the legitimacy of the electoral process ?
QAnon nonsense !
What is QAnon ?
No one knows .
Who are they ?
No one knows .
People on the Left — those who are nominally “ progressives ” and see the Democratic Party as the Plutocratic Party and are motivated to dissent from the MSM point of view — are acceptable only if they also bow to the “ System ” , as Bernie Sanders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to mention Naomi Klein .
But , if they take that knee , they are no longer what they purport to be : they are political cowards and can not be relied upon to defend what they say are their principles .
Most people live in in alternative universe .
The Media ’ s constant repetition of falsehoods provides a background against which the truth can not be seen .
Twisting minor facts or details can enable much larger deceptions .
Even the excellent Matt Taibbi , who criticized the shallow knee-jerk group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response to Glen Greenwald ’ s schism with the Intercept as supporting Trump , managed to parrot an MSM trope — that the DNC was “ hacked ” , when as I have indicated all evidence suggests that the transfer speeds for the content were far too high for the Internet and a “ hack ” would have had to alter the laws of physics.Someone had to have used a flash drive to gain access which makes the “ hack ” a changing everything .
Assange ’ s insinuation that it was Seth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is most likely correct .
Mad Matt ’ s mistake is small .
But details are important .
Changing a single detail can change a story .
Making that “ leak ” a “ hack ” was the cornerstone of the whole Russiagate conspiracy theory , not to mention the allegations that Assange was a Russian agent , partially providing legal justification for his persecution .
Russian “ interference ” in the election through a Russian troll farm of Slavic Nerds would have been a non-starter , considering the small scale of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you believed that the immense capabilities of the Russian government was behind them and those ( probably ) pimply teenagers had hidden and dangerous cyber capabilities .
This theory also perpetuates the myth that non-MSM websites offer only “ fake news ” and need to controlled .
The Russkie Boogeymen are lurking — — so Twitter and Facebook are justified in banning dissenting websites such as Unz , New Eastern Outlook and Strategic Culture .
We also need Google to keep order by making sure that “ alternative ” sources of information are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s list .
The “ hack ” didn ’ t enable all this stuff — but it empowered it .
Russiagate was a farce but a dangerous one — an effort by elements by the “ Intelligence Community ” and the media to undermine a sitting President , to return the system to its default .
Trump fucked up : he didn ’ t start any real wars .
As Caitlin Johnstone says , the murder machine is now under competent management .
As I have said , the “ progressive ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as long as they advocate compromise and incrementalism and “ lesser evilism ” Why did Naomi Klein break with Greenwald rather than with the Intercept ?
Was it because Klein gets paid “ bigly ” by the Intercept and is loathe to leave a cash cow ?
I think not .
Rather , it is an uncritical acceptance of the MSM line — the tropes peddled by the NYT , WaPo , CNN and all the rest — that “ if you ’ re not with us , you ’ re against us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump Biden .
Matt Taibbi is right .
This is “ herd journalism ” and Klein moos .
As are good , rational , moral Americans .
Democrats and Republican allies , God ’ s Chosen — — threatened by the 71 million Americans who voted for Trump , those UnAmerican “ others ” who serve the Great Satan .
There were never any witches , but we burned women anyone .
We need We need the “ others ” — witches , the Russians , the Chinese , “ deplorables ” — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inequality , athlete ’ s foot , the in-laws , and the dog pooping on the sofa .
In any case , Trump and the Trumpsters must burn in Hell , along with Vlad and Xi .
For there to be Good Guys , we have Bad Guys .
If they are not “ bad ” , we must make them bad .
Hannah Arendt has been criticized for her book because it disagrees with this Good Guy/Bad Guy thesis .
What is usually missed , however , is that the Nazis subscribed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were the “ good guys ” and that the Jews and Russians were the guys .
Is it possible that by dividing the world into Good Guys and Bad Guys , we become that which we hate ?
The history of the American Empire tends to support this idea .
The “ Good Guys ” — Americans and their allies — have the blood of millions on their hands .
Bernays thought the Public , in his day known as the “ masses ” , were driven by the dark forces of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cigars which he gifted Edward were symbolic Id-ish penises .
Bernays went on to make a fortune selling tiny white dicks known as cigarettes to women .
Perhaps , the Public “ irrational ” .
But I believe that its “ Unconscious ” is driven by quotidien forces and a cigar is just a cigar and nicotine , a drug even if Bill Clinton did use his stogie on Monica ’ s vagina .
Bernay ’ s cigarette campaign was just lucky , piggybacking on the feminist movement of the 20s , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women were forced to take over a lot nominally male responsibilities .
The dark forces of the “ Id ” turn more on banal contingency and social expedience—which the media can capitalize on and direct by controlling information and our view of the world .
Capitalize “ ” ?
Maybe just “ capitalize ” for the media serve predatory , neoliberal capitalism .
If there a Freudian “ Id ” it is Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch .
Evil is banal .
Mad Matt Taibbi therefore was right to call out “ herd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ journalism ” in the true sense of hat word— just propaganda .
Lippmann and Bernays — and more recently Kevin Zuesse — are also all correct — although in slightly different ways .
In the end the responsibility is ours : it is the who are fault — you and me .
All we have to do is to think .
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized.” Edward Bernays (1928) “With the Hunter Biden Expose, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than The Actual Story “ (Article Title) Matt Taibbi (2020)
Bernays, drawing on Walter Lippmann, as Hermann and Chomsky also did in Manufacturing Consent in 1988, got it right.
Matt Taibbi got it almost right.
“Almost”, because he seems to suggest that media censorship, redaction and news blackouts, as in the case of the Hunter Biden scandal, are exceptional events, when they are really just examples of what the Main Stream Media (MSM) does all the time: a time-honored tradition that has been a fixture of the Western World since before WWI. What Bernays called “conscious and intelligent manipulation” — molding your mind on behalf of a small group of people, “ the invisible government that is the true ruling power” — is what the media was set up to do, its main job with the advent of general literacy and newspapers.
Lippmann and Bernays claimed that this kind of subtle authoritarian control is what people wanted, an idea that Adolph Hitler naturally liked, as he did most things American. And, today’s mainstream media seem to agree — people don’t want to think for themselves.
At least, that belief is implicit in the redaction of the Hunter Biden story — along with the news blackout of Joe Biden’s past — coupled with constant repetition of Joe Biden’s faux virtues and the enthusiastic whitewashing of his cabinet of neocons and neoliberals. Redaction and Repetition” are the two, all-important R’s of mind control.
As Stephen Smith says in his blog (Picture from his site):
In the early days of the brain, before social media and even before civilization, this made sense. Repeated bad experiences, for instance what areas flood when it rains, was good information to retain. This simple approach tended to work quite well with mother nature allowing human beings to survive and thrive.
And “redaction”? Our prehistoric ancestors blanked out things that interfered with social harmony, like who screwed who last week. Bygones were really bygones. Nor they did not worry about things that were not here and now, nor of direct import, which is, in its own way, a kind of cognitive redaction.
What happened? Hunter’s Itty-Bitty Nitty Gritty
All indications are that Hunter Biden has substance abuse problems. If hadn’t been a drunk, we wouldn’t know as much about his shenanigans with Joe in the Ukraine and China. Here’s the story.
In 2019, an an unkempt man, smelling of alcohol, identifying himself as Hunter Biden, dropped off a booze-soaked laptop for repair at a well-known computer shop in a Delaware shopping mall in 2019, run by John Paul Mac Isaac, a Trump supporter, not a brain-dead, rightwing reactionary but an intelligent and educated man. Despite Op-Ed opinion, not every Trumper is a fat, white, racist, high school dropout with poor hygiene and an who doesn’t read because he can’t. The laptop contained, among other goodies:
Joe Biden’s number and names of his Secret Service agents
the mobile numbers for former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary
personal documents including Hunter’s passport and driver’s licence
details of Hunter’s drug and sex issues — $21,000 spent on adult site
Hunter never returned, nor paid the $85.00 repair bill. Drunks tend do tend to forget things. Especially rich ones like Hunter Biden who get paid for doing nothing and have time on their hands to kill.The Republic owes a debt of gratitude to Jack Daniels.
Mac Isaac was able to restore the hard drive on the laptop, and subsequently offered it to the FBI — who appear to have turned it down, only to request it later when Ukrainegate got complicated. When John Paul noticed that the evidence in the drive was not mentioned in the Ukrainegate proceedings, he offered it to Rudy Giuliani and then Senator Ron Johnson — since it provided crucial facts supporting Trump’s position and incriminating both Bidens.
Out of self-protection, Mac Isaac had copied the drive and its contents. He no doubt remembered the curious case of Seth Rich who worked for the DNC when the DNC emails were mysteriously leaked and was murdered in a robbery where nothing was stolen.
The laptop is still held by the FBI. Rather suspiciously, the FBI won’t comment: it’s an “ongoing case”.
However, someone in Senator Johnson’s office apparently leaked the contents of the hard drive before the first “expose” in the New York Post, which was promptly dismissed by the mainstream media as “disinformation”. Things got messy fast: of course — it had to be those pesky Russians — trying to mislead the public, by definition, gullible and in need to Higher Authority to tell them what to think. ! It helped the MSM counter-narrative that Mac Isaac was a Trump supporter. So they tried hard to discredit him as a proto-deplorable, which he was clearly not. They went after Giuliani, an elite-deplorable even harder. While Mac Isaac has faded into obscurity, Giuliani is still the object of ridicule and derision.
After the expose, Tony Bobulinski appeared. As a business associate of Hunter Biden, he provided text messages and emails to Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, and testified that Joe Biden knew about Hunter Biden’s business deals in the Ukraine, Russia, and China. His testimony backed up the New York Post story, adding to the small mountain of evidence that was building up incrementally from various other sources, some credible, some not.
Things should have begun to look very, very bad for Hunter Biden. Alcohol, drugs, sleazy sex! A hint of pedophilia. Politics aside, this is normally the kind of juicy stuff that the Media can never pass up. But they tried anyway — because Joe was apparently knowledgeable about his son’s shenanigans, if not complicit, and Joe just had to win the Presidency, to offer republican policies in a more appealingly wrapped package and Save America. Merry Christmas America — you’re fucked. So the MSM did what it could to bury the scandal.
The second Presidential Debate as a good example….
Trump: “I don’t get money from China, you do. I don’t make money from Ukraine, you do. I don’t make money from Russia. You made $3.5 million,” Trump said.
Trump also made passing reference to another China-related deal, inked after Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two with his then-veep father in 2013 on an official visit to Beijing where Joe Biden reportedly met with Hunter’s Chinese partners. Ten days later, the troubled son’s firm inked a deal with a state-backed bank to create a $1.5 billion investment firm.
“He is the vice president of the United States, and his son, his brother and his other brother are getting rich,”
If you look at the transcript of the presidential debate, Biden really had no reply to these accusations, which he had clearly not been drilled to expect — other than to blame the Russians, which is about as convincing as blaming little Green Men from another Galaxy.
Not that you would know about this exchange at all — because the MSM mostly redacted it. Hear no evil; see no evil; even in the maw of the beast.
So, is Biden corrupt?
There are many who think so. Here’s what the Branko Marcetic thinks….
The Biden family’s propensity for engaging in money-making ventures that — gee whiz, just somehow seem to constantly overlap with Biden’s political career — will make him a perfect foil to Trump. Whether it’s Biden’s son, Hunter, being hired as a lobbyist for a Delaware credit card company whose favored legislation Biden was voting for; Biden’s brother mysteriously getting hired by a mid-size construction firm shortly before it received a $1.5 billion government contract; or Hunter, again, joining the board of a corruption-tainted Ukrainian gas producer while Biden spearheaded US policy on Ukraine.
Marcetic quotes Zephyr Teachout who writes that Biden has:
…perfected the art of taking big contributions, then representing his corporate donors at the cost of middle- and working-class Americans. Converting campaign contributions into legislative favors and policy positions isn’t being “moderate”. It is the kind of transactional politics Americans have come to loathe.
Anita Hill, years of racist legislation leading to the unnecessary imprisonment of thousands of black people, sexual harassment, support for war crimes, legislative “fixing” for Big Business, the promotion of monopolies — lies piled upon lies — a little “corruption” is just one more element for a mix as unhealthy as meth, putting aside the whole question of “crimes against humanity”.
The facts of Biden’s past are carved in the stone of history. But you won’t hear much about them from the MSM, or any of the mainstream media in the entire American Empire, which includes the Anglosphere and Europe. Here’s the Guardian, with a comment typical of the media in the Anglosphere as a whole.
Biden, whose life has been scarred by tragedy, made empathy, decency and democracy central to his candidacy in an election he characterized as a battle for the soul of America.
Huh? Clearly, if the Democrats had nominated Adolph Hitler, the Media would have skipped over Buchenwald an and focused on Hitler’s animal rights legislation and anti-smoking campaign.
Hitler may have killed millions, but Biden was complicit in the deaths of many more — although he did not get caught chortling on TV as Hillary Clinton did talking about Gaddafi’s murder by a bayonet. Hitler’s war on the Soviet Union? That’s something the US seems itching to do, if they get the chance.
The evidence on Hunter Biden’s laptop is damningly hard to disprove— as is much of the other evidence that surfaced later — but just like accusations of sexual impropriety — it can still be challenged with a little intellectual legerdemain — convoluted arguments of fakery by foreign agents and accusations of forgery and the like. Not that it needs to be challenged if you just bury the story, as if none of it every happened.
The Media tried to do this. But once out there on the Internet, the story hung on at the corners of perception, like dust you missed with the vacuum cleaner, a mote in the eye.
Dealing with that mote required what I call “strawhorse” journalism, where the media makes use of stories attacking clearly biased sources that seem to support some aspect of the story they wish to discredit, to discourage people from looking at the real facts of a case.
See: some nutcases think Hunter Biden and Joe are corrupt, which proves they are not. Fortunately for the media there is never a shortage of nutcases on either side of an argument.
A good example of this approach is the recent article in the Intercept, Questions Mount About Controversial Hunter Biden-China Dossier, which appeared after Glen Greenwald left in protest of Intercept’s censorship of his investigation of the Hunter Biden story. This article is pure misdirection and makes an effort to create a conspiracy theory to undermine Greenwald’s very solid reporting and also the September Senate report on Hunter Biden’s dealings which included such juicy morsels as:
Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and People’s Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in questionable transactions.
Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong that financed a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.
Hunter Biden also moved millions of dollars from his law firm to James Biden’s and Sara Biden’s firm. Upon being questioned about the transaction, Sara Biden refused to provide supporting documentation and information to more clearly explain the activity. The bank subsequently closed the account.
Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an “Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”
Media Distraction
Questions Mount About Controversial Hunter Biden-China Dossier didn’t go into all that stuff. Nary a mention. But notice the words’ controversial” and “dossier”. “Dossier” of course recalls the infamous Steele Dossier, which accused Trump of soliciting golden showers from hookers.
The Intercept chose easier targets.
Prior to the New York Post expose, a website called Typhoon Investigations run by one Albert Marko had published a story linking the Chinese government and Hunter Biden and suggesting that Joe Biden had “shifted his view from hawkish to dovish after HUNTER began receiving entrée into Chinese elite political and financial institutions”. The story relied on research done by Michael Aspen aka Christopher Balding, an anti-Chinese academic. The story seemed to have the support of Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai, a bete noir of the Chinese government, which normally would be a plus, but not in this case. Balding, once one of the “Good Guys” because of his attacks on Huawei and the Chinese government, instantly became a “Bad Guy”.
Added to the mix were other luminaries as Steve Bannon and the mythical “Q” of QAnon fame. “Q” apparently liked the story. “Q” who hates Biden also apparently likes Jesus — perhaps unaware that Biden is Jesus — so we can ignore him.
Now clearly someone may be biased or maybe even crazy — and still get some things right. After all, aren’t we all biased? One of the tasks of journalism in an ideal world should be to separate fact and bias. Bloomberg, WaPo, and the rest of the MSM once thought enough of Balding that they published quite a few of his articles but suddenly he was purveying false information.
Did the Intercept article deal with the substance of the allegations against Hunter Biden, the evidence on hand, and show us why they were wrong? No, of course, not. In traditional style it attacked the Messenger, or rather Messengers plural — while ignoring the Message.
Balding took fire for using a pseudonym for self-protection just as Mac Isaac was criticized for keeping a copy of Hunter’s laptop and sending it to Senator Johnson for self-protection. Bad Boy! But, if my name was “Balding” and I actually did lack hair, I would too. Lest we forget, many of writers use or have used pseudonyms including the (balding) Benjamin Franklin and the (not-balding) J.K. Rowling. Add to that: the MSM regularly quotes “sources who wish to remain anonymous”, recognizing their need to protect themselves — as long as they are on the MSM’s side of the narrative. So much for the evil of anonymization, which is OK if you attack Trump but not if you have it in for Joe.
Is Balding a Trumper? No.
I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016 and have significant concerns about his policies in areas like immigration. Having lived in China for nine years throughout the Xi regimes construction of concentration camps and having witnessed first hand their use of influence and intelligence operations, the Biden links worry me profoundly.
Whether Joe Biden personally knew the details, a very untenable position, it is simply political malpractice to not be aware of the details of these financial arrangements.
Documentable financial issues cannot be wished away: they require intelligent analysis. The Intercept made no attempt to do that.
Marko was thrown on the rack because he is a wannabe journalist, not a real one certified by the MSM— who, on the other hand, worship at the alter of an uemployed guy with no background who started blogging conspiracy stories about Syria and won the support of the Atlantic Council — Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, now feted as a “truthteller”.
Marko was an easier target than Balding, who , as mentioned, used to be an MSM favorite! Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
Poor Marko.
Steven Bannon? Well, everyone hates Bannon. ‘Nuff said.
No need to look at the story itself, even in the context of Greenwald’s clear, logical, well-documented and objective reporting of actual facts and documented evidence.
Greenwald published a number of revealing articles. Here…and here… which don’t show the Intercept in a very good light.
But “facts” are the enemies of the Mainstream Media, which picked up the poorly written Intercept smear and ran with it.
The allegations that arise from Hunter’s laptop and Bobulinski’s testimony and the historical record of the Bidens’ activities in the Ukraine are based on circumstantial evidence, but, so far, more than enough to convict if it was Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning.
Certainly, these allegations are more substantial than allegations that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election, or that the DNC was “hacked” by the Russians or by an agent of Julian Assange with some 22nd Century secret technology allowing transfer speeds far higher than will be possible on the Internet for the next 50 years, if ever. Or even that Trump behaved improperly in his dealings with the Ukrainians compared to Obama and Biden did when they oversaw a coup allowing Neo Nazis to take control of the country from a democratically elected president. and start a civil war.
Accusations of corruption are even more convincing against the backdrop of Biden’s record as a time-serving, rightwing politician without principles, a matter of historical record. His BFF friend, Mitch McConnell described him as “”a real friend … a trusted partner” for a good reason.
Yet, the MSM imposed a media blackout on this record, “Those were different times”. Or maybe “bygones will be bygones.” Rather like Joe Biden’s sexual harassment charges which are definitely “by” and “gone”. Shades of our evolutionary ancestors.
The narrative is simple. Good vs Evil.
Biden, Good vs Trump, Evil. Now, change the channel. Oh goody…Dangerous HouseHusbands!
The blackout on Biden’s past coincided with predictions of a “landslide” for the Democrats. although media like the NYT pretend objectivity, using pollsters to convey their message. See? Nate Silver says so. Everyone thinks the same. You should too. Biden for President, if not for Son of God. The Media got it wrong as did the pollsters. Only a few commentators, mostly unknown, got it right.
Fox News and the New York Post demurred. We have to have some dissent, right? But when it seemed that Trump would lose — barely — Rupert Murdoch reversed gear and shut down the New York Post and Fox News inquiries. Silence also from the Murdoch’s WSJ.
America rarely “disappears” people like they do in Latin America using sinister men in uniforms — but dissidents and progressives have an odd habit of dying prematurely —assassinated by crazies like JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King or in “accidents” like Michael Hastings. Many think it was Seth Rich who leaked the DNC emails to Assange, who as much as confirmed this. Was Rich really the victim of a robbery gone wrong, shot twice in the back and left to die, still with his wallet? While the media pooh-poohed Mac Isaac’s very legitimate fears of retaliation: it happens.
But in America, you don’t have to disappear a person to control a narrative — just use the power of the media and the complacency of the public to “disappear“ ”the story.
So it was that Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, the New York Post and WSJ stepped in to murder the Hunter Biden expose — shooting it in the back once it was clear that Biden would win, reminding us once again of that invisible government that Bernays talked of — the rich and powerful.
But are the Media really at fault. Or, as Lippmann and Bernays suggest, the People themselves? Or both, locked in an incestuous embrace ?
No matter: the unpleasant fact is : Trump could never have been the harbinger of an American fascist state — that state is already here — and has been for a very, very long time. The media brainwashes the public. Perhaps the public wants to be brainwashed.
….in a rational world, the public would restrict itself only to online news-articles that take advantage of this unique new technological ability, which only the internet has — the ability to link to each source wherever there is a questionable allegation being made by the reporter. However, the vast majority of people are instead irrational, and the public therefore trust traditional print-and-broadcast ‘news’-media more than internet media — even more than the internet media which DO provide links to their sources (in other words: which empower their readers to check their sources). The widespread distrust of information that’s obtained over the internet is the reason why polls show that the public consistently trust broadcast and printed news (billionaires-controlled news) more than news which is available only over the internet.
But even if what Kevin Zuesse here so compellingly argues is true and we brainwash ourselves, the Media is still derelict in its self-described duty to the truth.
The MSM have replaced religion as the opiate of the masses. Intellectual ‘oxy.
Joseph Goebbels: sig heil! — which, by the way, is an salute copied from American cheerleaders. As I said, American fascism is already here. It has been from the beginning.
The American “System”— Fixing Elections
Was the 2020 presidential election “fixed”. Of course, it was — just not in the way people think.
It was fixed in 2016 when Trump won — but not by Trump. It’s the way the System works.
In 2016, the System — what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern calls MICIMATT — the Military–Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media–Academia-Think-Tank complex — made sure that the semi-progressive Bernie Sanders was out of the running and that the people would have a choice between only two equally repugnant neoliberal candidates, neither of whom would challenge the way things are done in America. In other words, no choice at all. America is not a duopoly: it is a One-Party System.
Of course, the Democrats, as faux liberals, are the Default Political Party in America’s faux democracy. Trump’s four year rule re-established their credibility and legitimacy. After 4 years they don’t look quite as bad as in 2016, when Obama’s long con was beginning to crack. America’s 20th Century Fascism has been defeated — dead — so it can be resurrected triumphant wearing the robes of democracy — 21st Century New Fascism. Planned obsolescence applies to everything, including social control.
MICIMATT is like a Cosa Nostra gang. The legitimacy and legality of its business depends on jurisdiction — like casinos, which are legal some places an not others. Killing millions of people is not legal at home, but OK abroad, especially by proxies. Our hitmen are neonazis in the Ukraine and Al Qaeda terrorists and jihadi groups in Syria. MICIMATT claims to support freedom and democracy — at home — but abroad, its foreign wars, support for corrupt and brutal regimes , tacit encouragement of the drug trade and exploitation of the poor point to its Mafia mentality.
Thus, the entire American socio-political system is run by a gang. America is a neon tinsel dream like Las Vegas — bright lights and casinos.
In a casino, the House has to allow an occasional winner — a Jimmy Carter or Donald Trump — to keep the marks flocking to the tables: but the House always wins in the end. These outliers will be one-term Presidents. Counting cards,or anything that evens the odds, is a no-no and gets you thrown out or your knees broken.
Just as Hitler’s regime benefited from his hate campaign against the Jews, MICIMATT benefited from the MSM’s four-year hate campaign against Trump, probably the most egregious in history. Trump was forced to tack right and try to buy off the military and their supporters. That didn’t make a difference. Trump was ever really the target which was left wing collectivist progressives. The Hate campaign was /is designed not just to alienate conservative-liberal populists but to motivate them, shifting politics to the right. It strengthens a “big tent” democratic party that is now solidly neoliberal.
Who do we hate now? The Russians and the Chinese, of course.
MSM Censorship and Alternative Reality
This rightward shift can be seen in Media censorship and control as Kevin Zuesse explains here:
Censorship is the core of any dictatorship, even of ones that pretend to be democratic. The only way around censorship is intelligent usage of the internet. This article has explained basically how that is done. If there aren’t many people who care about getting beyond the propaganda, then how can democracy even become possible? A population that votes only its existing prejudices cannot even conceivably be the citizenry of an authentic democracy. And, so, they aren’t. Censorship isn’t done only by (for example) destroying Julian Assange for his having made essential truths available to the public. But billionaires-controlled ‘news’-media encourage that — and other types of — censorship, so as to maintain their control over the Government. As long as that control continues, the dictatorship will continue.
Censorship edits our perception of reality: it ensures that the public buys into a single, manipulated take on events. It creates an alternative universe, in this case one in which Julian Assange is an abomination and Joe Biden is a paragon of the liberal ideal, just like St. Barack Obama. In this make-believe universe, the only thing wrong with America is Donald Trump. The 71 million people who voted for him? White racist trailer trash. Deplorables? Sans Culottes. Bill Gates — beware the guillotine.
The accusations that mail-in balloting, banned in most countries, undermines the legitimacy of the electoral process? QAnon nonsense!
What is QAnon? No one knows. Who are they? No one knows.
People on the Left — those who are nominally “ progressives” and see the Democratic Party as the Plutocratic Party and are motivated to dissent from the MSM point of view — are acceptable only if they also bow to the “System”, as Bernie Sanders did, and even AOC — not to mention Naomi Klein. But, if they take that knee, they are no longer what they purport to be: they are political cowards and cannot be relied upon to defend what they say are their principles.
Most people live in in alternative universe. The Media’s constant repetition of falsehoods provides a background against which the truth cannot be seen. Twisting minor facts or details can enable much larger deceptions.
Even the excellent Matt Taibbi, who criticized the shallow knee-jerk group think that characterized the Left’s response to Glen Greenwald’s schism with the Intercept as supporting Trump, managed to parrot an MSM trope — that the DNC was “hacked”, when as I have indicated all evidence suggests that the transfer speeds for the content were far too high for the Internet and a “hack” would have had to alter the laws of physics.Someone had to have used a flash drive to gain access which makes the “hack” a leak , changing everything. Assange’s insinuation that it was Seth Rich, or someone like him, is most likely correct.
Mad Matt’s mistake is small. But details are important. Changing a single detail can change a story.
Making that “leak” a “hack” was the cornerstone of the whole Russiagate conspiracy theory, not to mention the allegations that Assange was a Russian agent, partially providing legal justification for his persecution. Russian “interference” in the election through a Russian troll farm of Slavic Nerds would have been a non-starter, considering the small scale of the farm’s clumsy activities — unless you believed that the immense capabilities of the Russian government was behind them and those (probably) pimply teenagers had hidden and dangerous cyber capabilities. This theory also perpetuates the myth that non-MSM websites offer only “fake news” and need to controlled. The Russkie Boogeymen are lurking — everywhere — so Twitter and Facebook are justified in banning dissenting websites such as Unz, New Eastern Outlook and Strategic Culture. We also need Google to keep order by making sure that “alternative” sources of information are at the bottom of a Search Engine’s list.
The “hack” didn’t enable all this stuff — but it empowered it.
Russiagate was a farce but a dangerous one — an effort by elements by the “Intelligence Community” and the media to undermine a sitting President, to return the system to its default. Trump fucked up: he didn’t start any real wars.
Now?
As Caitlin Johnstone says, the murder machine is now under competent management.
Brainwashing for Dummies
As I have said, the “progressive” left will not save you, not as long as they advocate compromise and incrementalism and “lesser evilism”
Why did Naomi Klein break with Greenwald rather than with the Intercept?
Was it because Klein gets paid “bigly” by the Intercept and is loathe to leave a cash cow? I think not. Rather, it is an uncritical acceptance of the MSM line — the tropes peddled by the NYT, WaPo, CNN and all the rest — that “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” stuff which precludes being against both Trump and Biden.
Matt Taibbi is right. This is “herd journalism” and Klein moos.
MSM ‘r Us.
As are all good, rational, moral Americans. Democrats and Republican allies, God’s Chosen — exceptional — threatened by the 71 million Americans who voted for Trump , those UnAmerican “others” who serve the Great Satan. There were never any witches, but we burned women anyone. We need We need the “others” — witches, the Russians, the Chinese, “deplorables” — to focus our hatred at taxes, inequality, athlete’s foot, the in-laws, and the dog pooping on the sofa. In any case, Trump and the Trumpsters must burn in Hell, along with Vlad and Xi. For there to be Good Guys, we must have Bad Guys. If they are not “bad”, we must make them bad.
Hannah Arendt has been criticized for her book The Banality of Evil because it disagrees with this Good Guy/Bad Guy thesis. What is usually missed, however, is that the Nazis subscribed to the same dichotomy— only they thought they were the “good guys” and that the Jews and Russians were the bad guys.
Is it possible that by dividing the world into Good Guys and Bad Guys, we become that which we hate? The history of the American Empire tends to support this idea. The “Good Guys” — Americans and their allies — have the blood of millions on their hands.
Bernays thought the Public, in his day known as the “masses”, were driven by the dark forces of the Id and that Uncle Sigmund’s cigars which he gifted Edward were symbolic Id-ish penises. Bernays went on to make a fortune selling tiny white dicks known as cigarettes to women.
Perhaps, the Public is “irrational”. But I believe that its “Unconscious” is driven by quotidien forces and a cigar is just a cigar and nicotine, a drug even if Bill Clinton did use his stogie on Monica’s vagina. Bernay’s cigarette campaign was just lucky, piggybacking on the feminist movement of the 20s, which was set in motion by WWI when women were forced to take over a lot nominally male responsibilities.
The dark forces of the “Id” turn more on banal contingency and social expedience—which the media can capitalize on and direct by controlling information and our view of the world. Capitalize “on”? Maybe just “capitalize” for the media serve predatory, neoliberal capitalism. If there is a Freudian“Id” it is Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch. Evil is banal.
Mad Matt Taibbi therefore was right to call out“herd’ journalism but there is no mainstream “journalism” in the true sense of hat word— just propaganda.
Lippmann and Bernays — and more recently Kevin Zuesse — are also all correct — although in slightly different ways. In the end the responsibility is ours: it is the we the people who are fault — you and me. All we have to do is to think.
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southfront--2020-11-26--Recent Israeli Strikes Wiped Out Two Warehouses Near Syria’s Damascus

The recent Israeli strikes on Syria have destroyed two warehouses of the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) , satellite images shared on November 26 revealed .
The strikes , which took place early on November 26 , targeted the warehouses , which are located near the al-Mani ’ Munt in southern Damascus , as well as other positions near the town of Rwihinah in the countryside of al-Quneitra .
The newly-released satellite images , which were provided by Planet Labs , confirmed that both warehouses were wiped out as a result of Israeli strikes .
The Israeli attack inflicting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , no human losses were reported by the Syrian Arab news Agency or any other official source .
Early on November 18 , the Israeli military launched similar strikes on the outskirts of Damascus as well as the southern region .
A number of Syrian and alleged Iranian positions as well as air-defense systems were reportedly struck .
Israel hopes that its repeated strikes on Syria will force Iran out of the country , at least from the southern region .
This is yet to happen , however .
Tel Aviv ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure .
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The recent Israeli strikes on Syria have destroyed two warehouses of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), satellite images shared on November 26 revealed.
The strikes, which took place early on November 26, targeted the warehouses, which are located near the al-Mani’ Munt in southern Damascus, as well as other positions near the town of Rwihinah in the countryside of al-Quneitra.
The newly-released satellite images, which were provided by Planet Labs, confirmed that both warehouses were wiped out as a result of Israeli strikes.
Imagery courtesy of @planetlabs today shows two warehouses reportedly belonging to #SAA, near Um Elawamid, South of #Damascus, #Syria which appears to show damage sustained by the reported #IDF airstrikes last night. This area is just south of Jabal al-Mana (1/2) pic.twitter.com/1JtnvwbpDO — Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) November 25, 2020
The Israeli attack inflicting heavy material damage on the SAA. However, no human losses were reported by the Syrian Arab news Agency or any other official source.
Early on November 18, the Israeli military launched similar strikes on the outskirts of Damascus as well as the southern region. A number of Syrian and alleged Iranian positions as well as air-defense systems were reportedly struck.
Israel hopes that its repeated strikes on Syria will force Iran out of the country, at least from the southern region. This is yet to happen, however. Tel Aviv’s military pressure appears to be a failure.
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southfront--2020-11-26--Saudi Arabia Fells Victim To Exchange Of Asymmetrical Strikes Between Iran And Israel

In the Middle East the Houthi-Iranian alliance continues to harass forces of the Saudi-Israeli-US bloc with renewed vigour .
On November 25 , a Greek-managed oil tanker was damaged in an attack on a Saudi petroleum terminal located near the Red Sea city of Jeddah .
Col. Turki Al-Malki , a spokesman for the coalition , said the tanker was hit by shrapnel resulting from an attack by the Yemeni Houthis using a water-born improvised explosive device .
The spokesman claimed that the WBIED was intercepted .
Nevertheless , the tanker ’ s operator , the Athens-based TMS Tankers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hit .
“ The Agrari was struck about one meter above the waterline and has suffered a breach , ” the company said in a statement .
“ It has been confirmed that the crew are safe and there have been no injuries .
No pollution has been reported .
The vessel is in ballast condition and stable.
” The Saudi Ministry of Energy said firefighters had extinguished a fire that had erupted after the attack .
A spokesman for the ministry stressed that Aramco ’ s fuel supplies to its customers were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same time , satellite images show a large oil spill off the shores of Jeddah ’ s terminal .
The Houthis ( also known as Ansar Allah ) have not claimed responsibility for the attack .
However , the usage of WBIEDs by the movement was widely documented in the previous years of war .
Just a few days ago , on November 23 , the Houthis struck a Saudi Aramco oil company distribution station near Jeddah with a Quds-2 cruise missile .
According to the Yemeni movement , the missile was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nonetheless , the Houthi successes in missile and drone development during a total naval and air blockade would hardly be possible without Iranian help .
In these conditions , it is interesting to look at the timeframe of the Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia .
The movement says that its strikes on Saudi military and oil infrastructure are retaliatory actions to regular acts of Saudi aggression against Yemen , including airstrikes on civilian targets .
Years after the ‘ victorious ’ Saudi intervention in Yemen , the Saudi-led coalition has still not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s capital .
So , the Kingdom uses its air dominance to punish the Yemenis for their own setbacks on the battleground .
However , it seems that there is one more factor motivating the Houthis .
Both recent attacks on Saudi Arabia took place after Israeli strikes on Iranian-affiliated targets in Syria .
Here is the timeframe : On November 18 , the Israeli Air Force struck the countryside of Damascus and the south of Syria .
On November 23 , a cruise missile hit the Saudi Aramco distribution station near @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Israeli military once again launched missiles at Iranian targets near Damascus and in the south .
Later on the same day , a WBIED targeted a Saudi terminal off the Red Sea .
The slightly delayed response to the November 18 strike could be explained by the fact that the Houthi-Iranian alliance needed a few days to prepare for the resumption of actions against Saudi targets , which were on a relative decrease in the preceding months due to the Houthi focus on the ground offensive in the Yemeni province of Marib @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sources , they are as expected denying any links between Israeli strikes on Syria and missiles , drones and WBIEDs targetting Saudi Arabia .
At the same time , the Kingdom ’ s role as lamb to the slaughter in the ongoing regional standoff between Iranian-led forces and the Israeli-US bloc is not news to independent observers .
Saudi Arabia predetermined its current position with its own launching of the failed military intervention in Yemen and by actively aligning itself with Israel in both public and clandestine dimensions .

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In the Middle East the Houthi-Iranian alliance continues to harass forces of the Saudi-Israeli-US bloc with renewed vigour.
On November 25, a Greek-managed oil tanker was damaged in an attack on a Saudi petroleum terminal located near the Red Sea city of Jeddah. Col. Turki Al-Malki, a spokesman for the coalition, said the tanker was hit by shrapnel resulting from an attack by the Yemeni Houthis using a water-born improvised explosive device. The spokesman claimed that the WBIED was intercepted. Nevertheless, the tanker’s operator, the Athens-based TMS Tankers, said the Maltese-flagged Agrari received a direct hit.
“The Agrari was struck about one meter above the waterline and has suffered a breach,” the company said in a statement. “It has been confirmed that the crew are safe and there have been no injuries. No pollution has been reported. The vessel is in ballast condition and stable.”
The Saudi Ministry of Energy said firefighters had extinguished a fire that had erupted after the attack. A spokesman for the ministry stressed that Aramco’s fuel supplies to its customers were not affected by the incident. At the same time, satellite images show a large oil spill off the shores of Jeddah’s terminal.
The Houthis (also known as Ansar Allah) have not claimed responsibility for the attack. However, the usage of WBIEDs by the movement was widely documented in the previous years of war.
Just a few days ago, on November 23, the Houthis struck a Saudi Aramco oil company distribution station near Jeddah with a Quds-2 cruise missile. According to the Yemeni movement, the missile was developed and produced by its Missile Forces. Nonetheless, the Houthi successes in missile and drone development during a total naval and air blockade would hardly be possible without Iranian help.
In these conditions, it is interesting to look at the timeframe of the Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia. The movement says that its strikes on Saudi military and oil infrastructure are retaliatory actions to regular acts of Saudi aggression against Yemen, including airstrikes on civilian targets. Years after the ‘victorious’ Saudi intervention in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has still not been able to even reach the country’s capital. So, the Kingdom uses its air dominance to punish the Yemenis for their own setbacks on the battleground. However, it seems that there is one more factor motivating the Houthis. Both recent attacks on Saudi Arabia took place after Israeli strikes on Iranian-affiliated targets in Syria.
Here is the timeframe: On November 18, the Israeli Air Force struck the countryside of Damascus and the south of Syria. On November 23, a cruise missile hit the Saudi Aramco distribution station near Jeddah. Early on November 25, the Israeli military once again launched missiles at Iranian targets near Damascus and in the south. Later on the same day, a WBIED targeted a Saudi terminal off the Red Sea. The slightly delayed response to the November 18 strike could be explained by the fact that the Houthi-Iranian alliance needed a few days to prepare for the resumption of actions against Saudi targets, which were on a relative decrease in the preceding months due to the Houthi focus on the ground offensive in the Yemeni province of Marib and nearby areas. As to Iranian sources, they are as expected denying any links between Israeli strikes on Syria and missiles, drones and WBIEDs targetting Saudi Arabia.
At the same time, the Kingdom’s role as lamb to the slaughter in the ongoing regional standoff between Iranian-led forces and the Israeli-US bloc is not news to independent observers. Saudi Arabia predetermined its current position with its own launching of the failed military intervention in Yemen and by actively aligning itself with Israel in both public and clandestine dimensions.
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southfront--2020-11-26--Turkish Forces Abandoned Another ‘Observation Post’ In Syria’s Idlib (Photos)

The Turkish Armed Forces have abandoned another “ observation post ” in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib .
On November 26 , Turkish troops completed their withdrawal from the post which is located near the town of Saraqib in southern Idlib .
The town overlooks the M5 highway that links Hama and Aleppo , and the M4 highway between Aleppo and Lattakia .
Turkish troops were deployed earlier this year in the post in a desperate attempt to stop the Syrian Arab Army advance along the M5 highway .
The post was eventually besieged by government forces .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ evacuated by Turkish troops this month .
Similar posts in northern , northwestern Hama and western Aleppo were abandoned over the last few weeks .
While Turkey is withdrawing its troops from the besieged posts , it is working to establish several military positions in the al-Zawiya Mount , south of the M4 .
Turkish military presence in Grater Idlib was supposedly meant to counter the growing influence of terrorist groups there .
Nevertheless , Ankara ’ s forces are doing nothing whatsoever to confront these groups and prevent them from violating the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ON THIS TOPIC : • Syrian Army Supported By Russian Aerospace Forces Chases After ISIS In Central Syria

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The Turkish Armed Forces have abandoned another “observation post” in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.
On November 26, Turkish troops completed their withdrawal from the post which is located near the town of Saraqib in southern Idlib. The town overlooks the M5 highway that links Hama and Aleppo, and the M4 highway between Aleppo and Lattakia.
Turkish troops were deployed earlier this year in the post in a desperate attempt to stop the Syrian Arab Army advance along the M5 highway. The post was eventually besieged by government forces.
صور من القاعدة التركية شرق #سراقب التي اخلتها القوات التركية اليوم pic.twitter.com/87HKlV7pX7 — Rabea Kalawandy (@RabeaKalawandy) November 26, 2020
This was the fourth post to be evacuated by Turkish troops this month. Similar posts in northern, northwestern Hama and western Aleppo were abandoned over the last few weeks.
While Turkey is withdrawing its troops from the besieged posts, it is working to establish several military positions in the al-Zawiya Mount, south of the M4.
Turkish military presence in Grater Idlib was supposedly meant to counter the growing influence of terrorist groups there. Nevertheless, Ankara’s forces are doing nothing whatsoever to confront these groups and prevent them from violating the fragile ceasefire in the region.
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southfront--2020-11-26--US Army Fires Rockets Capable Of Striking Crimea Into Black Sea

A US Army rocket test in Eastern Europe connected to NATO exercises in Romania has ratcheted tensions with Russia given the close proximity to its border .
The US this week conducted rocket-launch tests of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket ( HIMARS ) vehicles , which had been transferred from Germany .
The rocket test was close enough to Russia for its Defense Ministry to deploy what Russian media described as “ advanced hardware ” on the Crimean peninsula should it be needed to neutralize any “ surprise missile attack.
” It was also provocative enough for to introduce the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. Army sneaked a pair of long-range rocket launchers near Russia ’ s Black Sea outpost on Thursday , fired off a few rockets then hurried the launchers back to the safety of their base in Germany .
All within a few hours .
The one-day mission by the Army ’ s new Europe-based artillery brigade was practice for high-tech warfare .
It clearly also was a message for Moscow .
The U.S. Army in Europe has restored its long-range firepower .
And it wants the Russians to know .
According to Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 30 units of military equipment were involved .
The missile salvos were reportedly fired into the Black Sea .
And further according to , “ The [ US ] brigade ’ s rapid deployment to Romania last week could prove even more provocative .
Especially considering the new munitions the Army is developing for the HIMARS and MLRS .
These include an anti-ship missile and a replacement for ATACMS that can travel as far as 310 miles.
” “ It ’ s just 250 miles across the Black Sea from the Romanian coast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and out of Romania pose a serious , and unpredictable , threat to Russian forces in the region , ” the report underscores further .
All of this suggests the standoff over both Ukraine and Russia ’ s 2014 annexation of Crimea ( which was done after a popular referendum ) is far from over .
Further , Russia has long slammed NATO for encroaching right up to its border , violating key agreements from the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed .
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A US Army rocket test in Eastern Europe connected to NATO exercises in Romania has ratcheted tensions with Russia given the close proximity to its border.
The US this week conducted rocket-launch tests of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket (HIMARS) vehicles, which had been transferred from Germany.
The rocket test was close enough to Russia for its Defense Ministry to deploy what Russian media described as “advanced hardware” on the Crimean peninsula should it be needed to neutralize any “surprise missile attack.”
M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket (HIMARS) launchers previously in exercises in Poland, via US Army.
It was also provocative enough for Forbes to introduce the maneuvers in the following way:
The U.S. Army sneaked a pair of long-range rocket launchers near Russia’s Black Sea outpost on Thursday, fired off a few rockets then hurried the launchers back to the safety of their base in Germany. All within a few hours. The one-day mission by the Army’s new Europe-based artillery brigade was practice for high-tech warfare. It clearly also was a message for Moscow. The U.S. Army in Europe has restored its long-range firepower. And it wants the Russians to know.
According to Russian media reports over 130 NATO soldiers and 30 units of military equipment were involved. The missile salvos were reportedly fired into the Black Sea.
And further according to Forbes, “The [US] brigade’s rapid deployment to Romania last week could prove even more provocative. Especially considering the new munitions the Army is developing for the HIMARS and MLRS. These include an anti-ship missile and a replacement for ATACMS that can travel as far as 310 miles.”
Via NPR
“It’s just 250 miles across the Black Sea from the Romanian coast to Crimea. Army HIMARS flying in and out of Romania pose a serious, and unpredictable, threat to Russian forces in the region,” the report underscores further.
All of this suggests the standoff over both Ukraine and Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea (which was done after a popular referendum) is far from over. Further, Russia has long slammed NATO for encroaching right up to its border, violating key agreements from the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed.
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southfront--2020-11-26--Azerbaijani Troops Entered Largest Armenian Gold Mine On Nagorno-Karabakh Border (Videos)

On November 26 , Azerbaijani troops entered the Armenian Sotk gold mine that is located in Gegharkunik region right on the border with the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh .
According to local sources , 80 Azerbaijani service members entered the gold mine and the nearby town , claiming that the area should be handed over to them .
No clashes were reported near the gold mine .
The residents of Sotk and the gold mine workers didn ’ t leave .
Avetyan noted that the issue can ’ t be resolved without the mediation by Russian peacekeepers , who were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ implement the November 9 peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan .
Earlier , the Ministry of Defense of Armenia denied that Azerbaijani troops had approached Sotk , in an attempt to calm the residents .
Representatives of the Armenian MoD and the Azerbaijani military are currently on the ground in Stok , working to demarcate the border line in town and the nearby gold mine .
The situation in Sotk is one of the many failures of Armenia ’ s leadership , which doesn ’ t seem does not seem to care about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its resources .
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On November 26, Azerbaijani troops entered the Armenian Sotk gold mine that is located in Gegharkunik region right on the border with the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to local sources, 80 Azerbaijani service members entered the gold mine and the nearby town, claiming that the area should be handed over to them. No clashes were reported near the gold mine. The residents of Sotk and the gold mine workers didn’t leave.
“There was no shooting or attack,” Hakob Avetyan, head of Sotk community, told Aysor.am. “ Negotiations are underway now.”
Avetyan noted that the issue can’t be resolved without the mediation by Russian peacekeepers, who were deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh earlier this month to implement the November 9 peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia denied that Azerbaijani troops had approached Sotk, in an attempt to calm the residents.
Representatives of the Armenian MoD and the Azerbaijani military are currently on the ground in Stok, working to demarcate the border line in town and the nearby gold mine.
“I don’t know how much of the mine will remain for us and what part will be passed on to them [Azerbaijanis],” Hakob Avetyan told Hetq.am.
The situation in Sotk is one of the many failures of Armenia’s leadership, which doesn’t seem does not seem to care about the country’s territorial integrity and its resources.
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