Re: #66 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Zambeezi]

Bernie asks if McConnell will modify his plans, and add the $2,000 checks vote to follow the NDAA override vote tomorrow.

McConnell objects to that too

And Sanders objects to holding NDAA standalone tomorrow

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 29, 2020

 
Bernie plans a filibuster tomorrow to block Senate NDAA override.

*MCCONNELL BLOCKS SCHUMER MOVE TO QUICKLY PASS $2,OOO CHECKS

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 29, 2020

meanwhile typical slimeweasel politicking...
GOP candidates are abandoning the standard 'fuck the poor' GOP stance as they try to retain Georgia senate seats...

Loeffler and Purdue are now supporting the 2k checks because they see how furious the public is and are afraid of losing if they don't. How very sweet it would be if they compromised their guiding principle of "screw the poor" and then lost anyway.

— #WarIsARacket (@For2000years) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Iraq Evicting the occupiers....
threats & bribes, bribes & threats

Since 2014 @CJTFOIR has funded $5 billion of support to equip, train and mentor over 240,000 ISF, including 55,000 Peshmerga. Both are effective combat forces and operate independently. #defeatDaesh https://t.co/J5urAyRtmu

— OIR Spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto (@OIRSpox) December 29, 2020

GTFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zambeezi]

as Ukraine freezes...

As the economic crisis in #Ukraine is accelerating and the West is doing nothing to alleviate the suffering the "Opposition Platform - For Life" Party is now the most popular in #Ukraine, it's in favour of rapprochement with #Russia, the #US advised its puppets in Kiev to ban it. pic.twitter.com/SZn0COASba

— Enrico Kremlin-affiliated (@Russ_Warrior) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Using it on Navy. That would be the game

— Dr. Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai (Drexy Baba) (@RisboLensky) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

caitlin article

'Capitalism is the problem. Not the wrong kind of capitalism. Just capitalism' - @caitoz https://t.co/7C6Agh5E1c

— RT (@RT_com) December 29, 2020

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You are only a businessman in China if: (a) It suits the military/economic strategy of the Chinese gov; (b) You toe the line at all times keeping “a” in mind; and (c) it can be withdrawn at any moment as the state sees fit. That is China’s business in the nutshell #China https://t.co/jyHztu4ffC

— Rock Solid Politics (@BradCabana) December 29, 2020

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Caitlin Johnstone on how capitalism's cheerleaders offer two dead-end solutions to humanity's impending extinction: simple denial of the climate crisis engineered by capitalism, or pinning our hopes on Elon Musk finally inventing a sustainable technology https://t.co/FG1ofFIzbM

— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) December 29, 2020

our dystopian futures...
we get to choose which authoritarian style we like best. The 'freedom' experiment is done. bend over.

[Zambeezi]

nice neighbors + Spain harbors terror provocateur

NEW: Terror plot sought destabilization in Venezuela with the objective of impeding at all cost the installation of the new National Assembly. Testimony of suspect indicates that Colombian authorities participated in what they called "Operación boicot a la Asamblea Nacional."

— Camila (@camilateleSUR) December 29, 2020

Elaborate terror plots against Venezuela are so common that no gives a shit. Terrorist Leopoldo Lopez, harbored by Spain, traveled to Colombia this month to plot a new terrorist attack w/high-level Colombian officials to prevent Venezuela's elected legislature from taking power.

— Camila (@camilateleSUR) December 29, 2020

 

Interior Minister informs of several arrests. Plotters wanted to call upon, finance and activate the same terror cells utilized during the 2014 and 2017 guarimba violence. 'Subversive elements' trained in Colombia were to planning to enter Zulia, Tachira, Apure and Bolivar.

— Camila (@camilateleSUR) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Egypt

A court ruling acquitting three men who had stripped naked and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman through the streets of an Egyptian village has sparked an outcry from the country's Christians https://t.co/ZYBkT5OFTV by @sherryamin13

— Al-Monitor (@AlMonitor) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Happy New Year lol

Today @SenMarkey and I demanded a vote on $2,000 for working people. It’s simple—no vote, no new year's break for Senators.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 29, 2020

Two-thirds of the House voted to provide $2,000 in direct payments to the working class. Now it’s the Senate’s turn to do that—no excuses.

Unless McConnell agrees to a vote on $2,000 relief checks, Congress will be spending New Year’s Eve in the Capitol. https://t.co/YYNYub2xFE

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 29, 2020

We are able to afford spending nearly a trillion dollars on a defense budget but we can’t give hungry and suffering Americans $2,000?

That is a moral failure.

— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

"We have not seen such things before."

And this is their own paper reporting pic.twitter.com/DONhzCpmpc

— Sara_Haj (@Sara_Haj) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

The virus is real, the vaccine is not.

— Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Spoiler alert: ISIS is a State. (it's Turkey you fool.) this is a 'welcome home' party.

Israel's ambassador to Turkey says Erdogan wants to fully normalize relations with Israel pic.twitter.com/BaolEparVX

— spriters (@neccamc1) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Remove all 650 UK MPs, all 435 US Congress and all 100 Senators.

Next, replace them all with random people you find on the street, and I put it to you that not only will they do a far better job, they'd do it for half the price.

Prove me wrong.

— Gordon Dimmack (@GordonDimmack) December 23, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Russia To Aid Iran In Major Lucrative Energy Megaprojects.
https://t.co/MXuyXuv1ZR #oilprice

— Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

To get gas ... Large queues in the Qamishli neighborhoods in eastern Syria pic.twitter.com/XlQd0a9Iir

— spriters (@neccamc1) December 29, 2020

[KneelB4Zod!]

[KneelB4Zod!]

And then I said, "Here's 2k after taking away your rights, destroying your businesses, giving billions to foreign nations, robbing trillions from your treasury, all while destroying the planet with never-ending wars and pollution." #StimulusCheck pic.twitter.com/9YLMjIuGlT

— Angelo John Gage (@AngeloJohnGage) December 29, 2020

[KneelB4Zod!]

ASB News / WORLD
@ASB_Breaking
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The #UK has signed a free trade agreement with #Vietnam

#brexit

[KneelB4Zod!]

Al-Masdar News
@TheArabSource
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Russian military comes under attack in northwestern #Syria, casualties reported https://aml.ink/moV8r #Idlib #Russia

[Böhse Tante]

Hello, important to know!
(@Zambeezi, this should be of particular interest to you or do you already know this?) Article is from 2016, so still quite new for this science. It gave me the idea of whether too much vaccination, especially against all kinds of things, is counterproductive in the end:

https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-viren-unseren-darm-beherrschen/1426006

"...
The group of animal viruses such as noro, measles or herpes viruses, which also occur in the digestive tract, is different. These do not only seem to make people ill. Elisabeth Kernbauer, a microbiologist at New York University, infected mice with noroviruses, viruses that trigger gastrointestinal infections. The rodents had an altered intestinal mucosa due to various manipulations and suffered from immunodeficiencies. But amazingly, the noroviruses did not make them sicker, but healed the damaged tissue and immune cells.
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Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[KneelB4Zod!]

ASB News / WORLD
@ASB_Breaking
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BREAKING: Southern California’s 'stay-at-home' order has been extended indefinitely. #lockdown

[刘汉]

You are only a businessman in China if: (a) It suits the military/economic strategy of the Chinese gov; (b) You toe the line at all times keeping “a” in mind; and (c) it can be withdrawn at any moment as the state sees fit. That is China’s business in the nutshell #China https://t.co/jyHztu4ffC

— Rock Solid Politics (@BradCabana) December 29, 2020

This is, why I love China! Ma always got his way with the party. Now his days might be over.

[Böhse Tante]

@auntie fyi 'reports say' hmmmmmm

Poland sees highest death rate in 70 years, reports say https://t.co/jH8VoFCaAh

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) December 29, 2020

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If you are constantly afraid, you will get sick and die sooner. For 20 years they have been afraid of Russia ...

I'm not going to look up the figures for Poland now, my old equipment is so lame that my toenails fall off when I call up new pages. In general, with a life expectancy in a country of ~80 years, one can assume a mortality rate of ~ 1.15 % per year. Per million, that's ~11,500 deaths/year. Then there would be the mortality of the age cohorts to consider, which is (hopefully) highest for those 80 years and older. If mortality is very high for those <20 that would really suck. In DE, for example, there is currently a "belly" in the age pyramid for the ~80 year olds. So there is no point in giving everything in absolute numbers. Mortality by age cohort and then still per capita only gives a reasonably useful statement.

And don't forget, the counting must not go beyond 12 months. Otherwise, after a few years we will have cumulatively overtaken the Spanish flu ...

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[刘汉]

ASB News / WORLD
@ASB_Breaking
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The #UK has signed a free trade agreement with #Vietnam

#brexit

No surprise. UK has lost Hongkong and takes Vietnam, former Chinese province, brainwashed by the French, having cut all ties to Chinese culture, quitted Chinese characters, tortured by US and now in bed with the West.... How deep can a country fall down?

[Böhse Tante]

The world’s number one grain exporter, #Russia, has boosted year-on-year sales of its wheat abroad by as much as 20 percent, according to the latest report by the country’s agricultural watchdoghttps://t.co/YDgLEhIxPT

— peter pobjecky - #FreeAssange (@peterpobjecky) December 29, 2020

 

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I hope there will be enough food next year. A friend from Bangladesh told me that it was difficult to spread the rice seed and look after the fields because of "Corona". The situation is similar in many other countries where rice is the main crop. Then there were plagues of locusts and the usual droughts, floods, etc.

Does anyone know more details about this?

[刘汉]

The world’s number one grain exporter, #Russia, has boosted year-on-year sales of its wheat abroad by as much as 20 percent, according to the latest report by the country’s agricultural watchdoghttps://t.co/YDgLEhIxPT

— peter pobjecky - #FreeAssange (@peterpobjecky) December 29, 2020

 

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I hope there will be enough food next year. A friend from Bangladesh told me that it was difficult to spread the rice seed and look after the fields because of "Corona". The situation is similar in many other countries where rice is the main crop. Then there were plagues of locusts and the usual droughts, floods, etc.

Does anyone know more details about this?

I was in Laos during the rainy season in a village and the farmers were complaining, that the Mekong river did not have enough water this year. There will be a shortage of rice next year.

The Brahmaputra in Bangladesh and the Mekong in Laos, both rivers come from the Tibetan plateau. I will have a look next year, what's going on up there....

[Zambeezi]

You are only a businessman in China if: (a) It suits the military/economic strategy of the Chinese gov; (b) You toe the line at all times keeping “a” in mind; and (c) it can be withdrawn at any moment as the state sees fit. That is China’s business in the nutshell #China https://t.co/jyHztu4ffC

— Rock Solid Politics (@BradCabana) December 29, 2020

This is, why I love China! Ma always got his way with the party. Now his days might be over.

"I need water."

Better go find some then.

"All the water's right there. You're standing on the hose."

You're just jealous of my success.

"No I'm dying of thirst and you control all the water."

Better pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make some water then.

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) December 29, 2020

[Zambeezi]

Good night Transatlantic Bridge
Good morning Belt and Road https://t.co/BXhtEf7Cb6

— -- GEROMAN -- (@GeromanAT) December 29, 2020

[刘汉]

Meanwhile 3 B-52s out of Minot AFB heading for the cross-Atlantic jaunt, supported by 3 KC-135 tankers out of Pease ANGB, NH. https://t.co/TfgczdaaFm

— Evergreen Intel (@vcdgf555) December 29, 2020

[刘汉]

Good night Transatlantic Bridge
Good morning Belt and Road https://t.co/BXhtEf7Cb6

— -- GEROMAN -- (@GeromanAT) December 29, 2020

 

This is the natural tide of history: the sea powers are declining and the continental powers are rising again.

[Zambeezi]

more kurd treachery/duplicity

Riad al-Khalaf, head of the SDF Tal Abyad Military Council (known to the Kurds as Gire Spi) denied that the SDF have reached an agreement with Russia on Ayn Issa.

If anyone told you an agreement had been made, they have no idea what is going on here https://t.co/3nOFtbcICv

— @syria_map (@syria_map) December 29, 2020