Re: #75 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[KneelB4Zod!]

US corporate media has run out of images from the single day of anti-government protests and is relying again on images from the much larger revolutionary ones.

Also, Ted Cruz is lying again. His father, Rafael, left Cuba 2 years before its revolution. pic.twitter.com/w6bJuGNgd3

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 18, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

"US did't lose war in Vietnam. We were just annoyed of endless stream of corpses heading back to the US"...

[刘汉]

#Iraqi activists have organized rallies in over a dozen cities across the world including in the cities of #Baghdad, #London, and #Paris, demanding an #EndImpunity for those targeting activists and journalists of the 2019 protest movement.

Footage, #Iraq, #Baghdad pic.twitter.com/JVEs6G9OzU

— Ihab AlObaidy (@Ihabalobaidy88) July 18, 2021

This "demonstration" in Baghdad against the militias seems to be manufactured and not genuine. Even the posters seem to be sent from outside. That's why the puppet government has locked-down the city and the militias are alerted.

[Abacus]

Ollie Vargas
@OVargas52 (July 18, 2021)

Leaked images of Cubans being coerced into attending a pro-govt rally,
they clearly hate it and are having a terrible time.

twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1416719128476409859

[Abacus]

Richard Medhurst
@richimedhurst (July 18, 2021)

Biden criticizing Cuba for cutting off the internet,
then the same day threatening to completely ban people from social media for “misinformation”
is pretty much everything you need to know about Uncle Sam’s hypocrisy.

twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1416666098225790978


Richard Medhurst
@richimedhurst (July 18, 2021)

How you gonna talk about “human rights abuses”
when you literally run a torture camp on their land?

twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1416666288202649600

[Abacus]

Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles)
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134

Share of Total Net Worth Held by the 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles
(America's middle-class)
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN40188

[刘汉]

Ollie Vargas
@OVargas52 (July 18, 2021)

Leaked images of Cubans being coerced into attending a pro-govt rally,
they clearly hate it and are having a terrible time.

twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1416719128476409859

Are they really having a terrible time?

Leaked images of Cubans being coerced into attending a pro-govt rally, they clearly hate it and are having a terrible time.
@HelenYaffe pic.twitter.com/xyS37NCa6z

— Ollie Vargas (@OVargas52) July 18, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Rostec New video pic.twitter.com/Q6TroZ4z9q

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) July 18, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

More and more videos like this can be seen:

Down goes another one!!!!!!



Another lab rat ! pic.twitter.com/V99hDWM43R

— MiOWNopinions - RE-FOLLOW (@MiNopinions) July 18, 2021

10 minutes after first Pfizer dose.

pic.twitter.com/la7ulvkISm

— MiOWNopinions - RE-FOLLOW (@MiNopinions) July 18, 2021

Listen & Retweet! Get this to your family members. pic.twitter.com/LLv7D1Six4

— Jarrett Porst (@JarrettPorst) July 19, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

NEW: Frito-Lay workers reveal that they’ve worked up to 5 months straight without a day off, and that multiple coworkers—driven to exhaustion—have died by suicide.

Their strike in Topeka is gaining nationwide attention. Now Frito-Lay workers in other states are speaking out. pic.twitter.com/yppQ8iPn3n

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 19, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

VACCINE THREAD— Young Lady Shares Her Experience About Adverse Vaccine Side Effects. March 18th, 2021 Is The Day That She Made a Decision That Flipped Her Entire World Upside Down… pic.twitter.com/uheAeflufV

— White Rabbit News ❼ (@WhiteRabbitNN) July 18, 2021

[khnum]

VACCINE THREAD— Young Lady Shares Her Experience About Adverse Vaccine Side Effects. March 18th, 2021 Is The Day That She Made a Decision That Flipped Her Entire World Upside Down… pic.twitter.com/uheAeflufV

— White Rabbit News ❼ (@WhiteRabbitNN) July 18, 2021

How can I press the 'like' button on that but thanks I now know with your last 5 or so posts we're in a war,well Ill be dying on my own terms

[Böhse Tante]

https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Sollen-in-Deutschland-Sozialkredite-wie-in-China-eingefuehrt-werden-6141264.html?seite=all

"Should social credits be introduced in Germany like in China?
...
Christian Grünwald is Foresight Director at Z_punkt The Foresight Company. Z_punkt and Prognos AG form the Future Office of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The task of the office and the affiliated expert panel "Zukunftskreis" is to identify topics and developments relevant to the future as well as to outline scenarios of societal development and put them up for debate."

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But what is certainly not considered is that in China, authorities, politicians, companies and multi-billionaires are also being rated. If they do, they should start by rating them here first ...

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

[刘汉]

Iran's largest warship, IRINS Makran and IRINS Sahand currently in the English Channel - (likely with RN escort in attendance). Believed heading to St Petersburg, Russia

via @CovertShores pic.twitter.com/IcGDkgjULx

— Navy Lookout (@NavyLookout) July 19, 2021

Right under the nose of the bloody British.

[Abacus]

@刘汉

Like this cat "terrible"

[KneelB4Zod!]

Guy Elster
@guyelster
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20m
#BREAKING Several dead in Sadr City bombing

[KneelB4Zod!]

All what we need is to stand against the covidist fascism.

Emmanuel Macron shamed into embarrassing U-turn after violence erupts on French streets

EMMANUEL MACRON has been forced into a humiliating U-turn after mass protests sparked over the introduction of the controversial 'health pass' on Saturday.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1464334/Emmanuel-Macron-France-protests-Paris-Covid-health-pass-latest-news-vn

[KneelB4Zod!]

JPM's Kolanovic: Stop Freaking Out About The Delta Case Spike https://t.co/EFtKweAp3V

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 19, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

#Taliban militants took control of Lublan base abandoned by #ANA in Dehrawud district #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/o0HZfXMR8X

— Islamic World Update (@islamicworldupd) July 19, 2021

[Abacus]

(July 19, 2021) ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Why the Crumbling Computer Conspiracy Case is So Vital to the US
Since the U.S. is on shaky constitutional ground with the espionage indictment,
the computer intrusion charge has served as a hook to try to get Assange,
by portraying him not as a journalist, but as a hacker, writes Cathy Vogan.
consortiumnews.com/2021/07/19/why-the-crumbling-computer-conspiracy-case-is-so-vital-to-the-us/

[KneelB4Zod!]

Guy Elster
@guyelster
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20m
#BREAKING Several dead in Sadr City bombing

Conflict News
@Conflicts
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5m
IRAQ: At least 18 people were killed in a bomb blast in a busy market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad - @AFP

[KneelB4Zod!]

You're Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone · You're Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government

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I still can't get over how brazen the Biden administration is being in just announcing that it's their place to determine who should be banned from social media platforms and how little backlash there is against this.

Just imagine the outrage if Trump had done this. Seriously, imagine it. The Biden administration instructing the world's largest social media platform who to censor is the biggest "Imagine if Trump had done that" moment so far.

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They said we need internet censorship because of Russia.

They said we need internet censorship because of Covid.

They said we need internet censorship because of election security.

They said we need internet censorship because of the Capitol riot.

They said we need internet censorship because of domestic extremism.

Pretty sure they just want internet censorship.

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The US government is without exception the single most corrupt and destructive force on this planet. It is the very last institution on earth who should be in charge of deciding what online content is true or false. Absolute dead last.

I trust the wisdom of the collective to sort out what's true infinitely more than I trust the wisdom of the US government and Silicon Valley plutocrats to do it for us.

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If people think their government is lying to them and trying to hurt them it is entirely the fault of the government and no one else.

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You're not supposed to trust the government, and governments aren't supposed to act in a way that requires your trust. If you find yourself ruled by a secretive power structure which demands your blind faith in its righteousness, something has gone horribly wrong.

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Perhaps the US could end domestic extremism by switching to governmental policies that don't make everyone want to light the country on fire.

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Funny how we all grew up watching movies about evil villains trying to take over the world and kill millions of people and those movies were all made in the nation that is that exact villain except the villain succeeded.

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pic.twitter.com/RkTfN1DN0L

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) July 15, 2021

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It's fine to think all governments are bad, as long as you're also aware that one of those governments is far, far more powerful and destructive than any of the others and that the behavior of other governments is often a defensive response to the aggressions of the worst one.

If your anti-state commentary doesn't reflect this reality, then it can only ever benefit the agendas of the most powerful and murderous state on the planet. Just firing indiscriminate scattergun criticisms at all states equally only advances US imperialist propaganda agendas.

It seriously seems like half the time a black flag anarchy account shows up in my Twitter notifications it's to promote US imperialist propaganda narratives against Syria, China, Russia etc, and it's like yeah nice anarchy dude, being a pro bono propagandist for the worst government on earth.

Whenever the US empire rolls out a propaganda campaign against a disobedient government, it's impossible to circulate narratives opposing that government without facilitating the US propaganda campaign, and therefore all the deadly agendas that campaign is designed to advance.

Before they launch missiles, they launch propaganda campaigns. Before they wage siege warfare, they wage narrative warfare. You are responsible for the narratives you choose to circulate in the world. You are responsible for choosing to participate in imperialist aggressions.

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The US government is waging wars around the world, circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, ramping up nuclear standoffs and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it, so naturally the news media are urgently warning us about the horrible tyrannical government of Cuba.

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The correct answer to "What should be done about Cuba's problems?" is for the US to end the blockade. After that happens the correct answer to "What should be done about Cuba's problems?" is "None of your fucking business."

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"I oppose the embargo, but the Cuban regime-"

But-but-but-shhhh. You shush your beautiful mouth. The US government has all the billionaire media outlets in the western world conducting propaganda for it. It doesn't need your help. Just oppose the embargo.

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"The embargo isn't why Cuba is poor! It's poor because of communism!"

Okay well if it makes no difference can you please end the embargo?

"No."

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"Cuba claims it can care for all its people using socialism, yet it experiences poverty when we deliberately impoverish it. Checkmate, commies."

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"You think communism is so great? Then why are people fleeing communist countries to live in imperialist nations that became wealthy by generations of mass-scale theft and murder, huh?"

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Saying your economic model is superior to a socialist nation's because you were able to use economic warfare to impoverish that nation is like saying your moral philosophy is better than your neighbor's because you beat the shit out of him.

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There's no good reason to let the push for a US military intervention in Cuba turn into an ideological debate about socialism versus capitalism when the far stronger argument to be made is that US interventionism is literally always disastrous and literally never helpful.

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Imagine how pants-on-head fucking stupid you'd have to be to look at the history of US regime change invasions and then think that would be a wonderful thing for the people of Cuba.

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The answer is never, ever, ever, ever US military intervention. Ever. It's ALWAYS the wrong tool for solving ANY problem. You're never going to make things better using something that literally always makes things worse. Amazing this even needs to be said.

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Responding to this correctly would require more shoes than there are in the world. https://t.co/J6tfclS8Bq

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) July 14, 2021

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The empire's goal is to fracture and neuter the left and carve away class analysis and anti-imperialism from whatever remains until we're nothing but tiny groups of irrelevant assholes arguing about how hard you should punch a TERF.

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The ultimate factor in determining what will happen in our world is not control of capital, nor control of government, nor control of resources, nor control of weapons, but control of narrative. See this and you see why governments, plutocrats and media behave the way they do.

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And, in the end, it turned out that killing the ecosystem was easier than taking away rich people's rocket money.

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Political discussion forums are like a couple bickering about dishes in the sink while trapped in the bedroom of a burning house. Everything is headed for collapse — the ecosystem, capitalism, the US empire — assuming we don't all wipe ourselves out in a nuclear war first.

It's so easy to get lost in the bickering and bullshit. I know I do from time to time. But it just looks so insane when you take a step back and look at the minute nature of the arguments we're having compared to the multiple massive existential crises looming on our horizon.

You'd think this would bring us all together, but instead we're being driven further apart than ever before. Truly, if ever there was an adapt-or-die moment for a species, this is it. We are being asked if we want to wake up and become conscious, or go extinct. That is the issue we should all be looking at, and we should be looking at it together.

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/youre-not-supposed-to-trust-the-government?fbclid=IwAR3xBqojvvZ9PzJjJBbO17MHmT8E9wMiq7w3HFkVpe2ySR34zLGgwBckFCw

[Abacus]

Whitney Webb
@_whitneywebb (July 19, 2021)

Since NSO Group is in the news, people should start taking a look at the venture capital firm their founders created.
One of the companies they fund is the "cybersecurity" company Sepio Systems,
whose chairman of the board is a former Mossad director.

twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1417036570180431873

[Abacus]

Whitney Webb
@_whitneywebb (July 19, 2021)

The excessive abuse of the Pegasus software by numerous govts (& w the consent of the Israeli govt) has been known for several years.
Why don't we talk about the Israeli spyware firm whose software is running on highly classified US military databases?

twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1417175323855278084

[Abacus]

(July 19, 2021) George Soros & Bill Gates lead buyout of UK Covid testing company
A group of investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
have financed the buyout of UK diagnostic technologies firm Mologic, which has developed a 10-minute coronavirus test.
To make the acquisition, the group has launched Global Access Health (GAH),
a social enterprise aiming to expand access to affordable medical technology.
The members of the GAH are reportedly set on investing over $41 billion in the acquisition deal.
The transaction will include the buyout of all Mologic’s existing shares,
including those held by two private investment managers, Foresight Group LLP and Calculus Capital.
rt.com/business/529602-gates-soros-covid-testing-company/

[Böhse Tante]

Whitney Webb
@_whitneywebb (July 19, 2021)

The excessive abuse of the Pegasus software by numerous govts (& w the consent of the Israeli govt) has been known for several years.
Why don't we talk about the Israeli spyware firm whose software is running on highly classified US military databases?

twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1417175323855278084

It was only a few minutes ago on the TV news that it was reported quite extensively. But immediately afterwards there was a very urgent and forceful warning about the danger posed by Chinese hackers.

If you don't feel like you're being fooled by this, you won't notice anything.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Protest against covidist fascism in Paris - drone footage:

Vidéo accélérée des deux manifestations à Paris contre le #PassSanitaire. Une estimation du nombre de manifestants ?#Manif17juillet #DictatureSanitaire #PassDeLaHonte #VaccinObligatoire #GiletsJaunes #DefileHistorique#COVID_19 #HealthPass #VaccinePass #VaccinePassport pic.twitter.com/cVnID2Dp5s

— TV YÉ ! (@tvyefr) July 19, 2021

[khnum]

Protest against covidist fascism in Paris - drone footage:

Vidéo accélérée des deux manifestations à Paris contre le #PassSanitaire. Une estimation du nombre de manifestants ?#Manif17juillet #DictatureSanitaire #PassDeLaHonte #VaccinObligatoire #GiletsJaunes #DefileHistorique#COVID_19 #HealthPass #VaccinePass #VaccinePassport pic.twitter.com/cVnID2Dp5s

— TV YÉ ! (@tvyefr) July 19, 2021

They've forgotten 1799 when you put that many on the street you should be taking the palace

[KneelB4Zod!]

A large group of migrants is trying to break into the United States through the Mexican border. pic.twitter.com/pBWnpAfUKF

— Ali Özkök (@Ozkok_A) July 19, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Protest against covidist fascism in Paris - drone footage:

Vidéo accélérée des deux manifestations à Paris contre le #PassSanitaire. Une estimation du nombre de manifestants ?#Manif17juillet #DictatureSanitaire #PassDeLaHonte #VaccinObligatoire #GiletsJaunes #DefileHistorique#COVID_19 #HealthPass #VaccinePass #VaccinePassport pic.twitter.com/cVnID2Dp5s

— TV YÉ ! (@tvyefr) July 19, 2021

They've forgotten 1799 when you put that many on the street you should be taking the palace