Day: September 13, 2020

Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Roger Stone to Donald Trump: bring in martial law if you lose election

In his interview with Fox News, Trump discussed an incident in the city in which US Marshals shot dead a suspect in the killing of a member of a rightwing group.

“There has to be retribution when you have crime like this,” Trump said.

He also said protests such as those in Portland would lead to “a backlash” from the political right, “the likes of which you haven’t seen in many, many years”.

The Brooks Brother riot comes to mind!

‘It’s insanity!’: How the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ killed the 2000 recount in Miami

‘China exit’ limited to some American sectors — and not for home

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

‘China exit’ limited to some American sectors — and not for home

Even for companies moving out of China, “rising labor costs are most usually the trigger,” according to Goldman’s research — a trend long predating the trade war.

Although China is no longer as competitive as many other emerging economies for labor-intensive industries, its overall advantage in manufacturing remains intact, according to Goldman.

The common perception is that “the huge domestic market, complete industrial supply chains, and good infrastructure are most attractive to foreign manufacturing investments,” the report said, echoing Musk’s sentiments.

“When asked about top locations for moving out of mainland China, Vietnam and India are the most mentioned destinations,” according to the investment bank.

American companies’ reluctance to reshore shows how Trump’s aggressive stance on trade with China has done little to fulfill his pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

Cherry-picking COVID stats

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Cherry-picking COVID stats

Instead of honest and unbiased reporting, the mainstream media has twisted and distorted the numbers to scare the public into believing that their lives are at risk every time they leave their homes to shop, to go to work, or to exercise and that President Donald Trump is responsible for the more than 5 million reported cases of COVID-19 and the 175,000 deaths that have been attributed to it.

The distortions take many forms. At first, the media exclusively pushed death counts alone – guaranteed to stoke fear.

Once death counts began to fall, they lost their scare factor – but by then, testing had become more widespread. So the media began to publish positive test numbers and deaths — both daily and cumulative numbers — without context as to how many tests were conducted in a given day, the positivity rate of the tests, and how many of those who died had underlying conditions.

Trump initially had doubts about Netanyahu

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump initially had doubts about Netanyahu

Tillerson, according to the book, believed that “Netanyahu had manufactured the tape to counter any pro-Palestinian sentiments that were surfacing.”

Related:

Netanyahu showed Trump likely doctored clip of Abbas backing child murder

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017 showed US President Donald Trump a potentially doctored video in which Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas seemed to call for the murder of children, in order to sway the American leader to the Israeli side, according journalist Bob Woodward’s explosive new book on the administration, “Rage.”

Civil Disobedience Is More Than Just “Getting Arrested”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Rivera Sun

Civil Disobedience Is More Than Just “Getting Arrested”

More specifically, civil disobedience has been used in relation to deliberately disobeying laws that are perceived as unjust. Gandhi upped the ante on the concept, organizing mass civil disobedience to specific British laws, whereby making them completely unenforceable. In this way, Gandhi not only achieved the repeal of many laws, but also undermined the authority and control of the British colonial government.

In latest US move vs. China, Pompeo stirs up division in Southeast Asia

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In latest US move vs. China, Pompeo stirs up division in Southeast Asia

Despite its noble-sounding proclamations, the true goal of the U.S. government is to prevent a resolution to the disputes among neighbors in Southeast Asia. Noh highlighted the fact that, “China and all the other ASEAN nations were in the process of negotiating and resolving their disputes amicably, until the US, weaponizing lawfare, concocted with the Philippines in 2015 a fraudulent case about the South China Sea in a paid-for farce of a private tribunal that was later marketed as a UN ruling (it wasn’t).”

Mike Pompeo’s speech to the ASEAN summit was a textbook example of the oldest imperialist trick in the book: divide and conquer. But the reality is clear — the U.S. government is a friend to no one other than Wall Street and the ultra-rich, and causes chaos wherever it intervenes.