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-Great Cultural Revolution
You Can't Stop a Tidal Wave So You Might As Well Try
[TheBurningPlatform] The Omicron® virus has arrived right on schedule and, of course, quite propitiously for those promoting The Great Reset®. Fortunately, for them, each new wave has its own trademarked classification designed for maximum advertising impact within the ever-expanding COVID® brand. Accordingly, the Omicron® campaign comes just in time for kids getting jabbed and will potentially distract from the spate of gift-wrapped Faucigate books lovingly laid under living room trees this Christmas. Furthermore, Omicron®, will likely be used to conceal Covid vaccine failure and convince the Double-Jabbed to take that third swing.

As I’ve stated before, the Elite won’t turn back now. They are completely committed. This is because the Covid offensive either ends up with them lined up against walls or the We the Plebeians in digital chains.

Many reading these words were, certainly, in varying degrees, concerned at the announcement of Omicron®. But, the concern was not likely over the “virus”, per se, but regarding the reactions to the propaganda by governmental agencies and dupes alike. This is how incrementalism works: trauma and reward are the tools utilized by tyrants to train their subjects. Sadly, the fear-based lockdown and pressure-release method has most people responding like puppets to masterfully manipulated strings.

It seems Covidism has, indeed, become an international Punch and Judy Show as the puppet masters have created a new reality. But, to be completely honest, the new reality was stage-crafted years before Covid.

Now, the Big Lie has mostly prevailed. Why?a
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2021 01:15 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Der König was addled and sold,
Rumpelstilzchen rapacious and bold.
Oh, how fiercely they yearned
For your firstborn, and burned
To turn cold... into flu... into gold!

Um... how about "Columbia, the Germ, and Emotion?"
Posted by: Spats and Company8850 || 12/06/2021 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Once vaxed always vaxed. They would put people in camps as in Australia. No mellowing here. They have bolted down the bait and think nothing of it. All who refuse cause Covid deaths. They are more angry and strident than ever. This has only gotten much worse. You speak of the country being polarized. Well here is a perfect example.
Posted by: Dale || 12/06/2021 14:06 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Omicron means it's time to switch to N95 masks
[Quartz] The omicron variant is spreading fast. According to the World Health Organization, at least 38 countries, on six continents, have confirmed cases of the new variant. There is still quite a bit we don’t know about omicron—including whether it is more contagious than delta, and if it is more likely to escape vaccine protection.

So far, we have some indications that both conditions might be true, and that omicron appears to present a higher risk of reinfection for people who already had covid-19. At the moment, delta—which is more contagious than previous variants—is still the prevailing variant around the world, and with omicron increasing and winter underway in the northern hemisphere, it’s again time to mask up properly.

In other words, you might want to put away your cloth masks and turn to N95.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2021 02:56 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While supplies last.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2021 3:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Patent holder:

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Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2021 3:08 Comments || Top||

#3 
This would, be they?

Posted by: Shick McGurque1751 || 12/06/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  OR upon can tie a plastic bag over your head. Gauranteed 100% effective in stopping you from getting covid.

Better put a /SARC tag here in case any lefties are reading this.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/06/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Even left-liberal writers at The Atlantic recognize their fellow travelers are f*cking loons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Running some errands over the weekend. Was please to see many people ignoring our local mask mandate.
Posted by: Angstrom || 12/06/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#7  It is evident that the atheists and agnostics on the left have a new religion: covidism which they will live in forever
Notice how news out of Africa about this new variation is almost completely absent especially after that doctor talked about how mild its effects were
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/06/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Branch Covidians
Posted by: warthogswife || 12/06/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Extreme case of Stockholm Syndrome
Posted by: Warthog || 12/06/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Branch Covidianism was always a useful pretext for the Left to rule by diktat. "Never let a crisis," etc

Latest example: California's idiotic water policies and stupid environmentalists have caused yet another drought -- so note the COVID reference by this little Bolshevik, below:

The worsening drought is top of mind for environmental groups who have started to pressure Governor Newsom to curtail the rights of heavy industry in the state...

“It is unthinkable that serial water abusers like Big Ag and Big Oil can reap billions of dollars in profits...” said
Alexandra Nagy, Food & Water Watch’s California Director.

On Monday, Nagy’s organization, along with nearly 50 others, urged Newsom to use his executive powers to ... place a moratorium on new oil and gas operations, factory farms ....

COVID has been such an illustrative example of what’s possible in a true emergency situation,” said Nagy.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#11  Crowder made an interesting point. With each variant do we have data on hospitalizations and deaths? Any kind of sane policy planning should be using that info.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/06/2021 17:43 Comments || Top||

#12 
With each variant do we have data on hospitalizations and deaths?

The current PCR type tests don't exactly show which variant is responsible for a positive. The genome has to be tested separately and this is not nearly as fast as the PCR test. The USA has lagged behind other countries like South Africa and the UK in doing this. Most likely the Moronic variant was worldwide by the time South Africa broke the news.
The ongoing deaths from whatever variant are usually omitted by the MSM in its hysterical hype.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/06/2021 18:08 Comments || Top||

#13  https://www.mpg.de/17916867/coronavirus-masks-risk-protection
Posted by: KBK || 12/06/2021 18:48 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
South Africa: The end of the apartheid alibi
[PoliticsWeb] During the local election campaign Ferial Haffajee wrote about the sad state of her part (and every part) of Johannesburg: litter everywhere, potholes, street lights and traffic lights that don't work, irregular water, irregular power, uncollected rubbish and all the rest of it. When she recited this lament to the ANC she was angrily accused of "nostalgia for the white city".

In today's South Africa it is, of course, politically inadmissible to say that the whites got anything right so instead Ferial recorded sadly how in the years before 1994 there had been lots of bold talk by the UDF about how much better in every respect things would be in the new, liberated South Africa. The developmental state. People's education. Reconstruction and development. The comrades gave such inspiring speeches about these matters...In this election we saw the overwhelmingly Zulu electorate of Umgeni, in KwaZulu-Natal, elect an administration headed by a young white mayor. And, of course, something similar has been happening in the Western Cape for some time. In this election a Cape Town electorate which is overwhelmingly African and Coloured chose a young white man as mayor. For the ANC this is a nightmare come true, with Black and Coloured people electing a white simply because they think he will govern better; and the ANC plummeting to under 19%...The ANC has taught young black South Africans that African government doesn’t work, that their politicians are crooks and that it’s not worth voting. The exact opposite of Mandela’s dream.

Moreover, the party was handed on a plate the richest country in Africa with the best infrastructure, the richest mining industry and the most productive agriculture. Within a generation it was an almost bankrupt country in which very little worked. What to say after that?
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In today's South Africa it is, of course, politically inadmissible to say that the whites got anything right

Happening there as well is it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/06/2021 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  South Africa: The end of the apartheid alibi

As long as the leftist incompetents are in control, there will always be plenty of wreckers, hoarders, kulaks, saboteurs, and counterrevolutionaries to blame for why the Millennium has not yet arrived. It shall ever be thus.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/06/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Mike, you left out the Trotskyite deviationists. :)
Posted by: borgboy || 12/06/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they can blame institutional racism or capitalism the way other failures do.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/06/2021 19:17 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Thirty years since the assassination of the USSR
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Alexander Savelieviev

[Regnum] December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous Bialowieza Accords and the creation of the CIS. Thirty years is a considerable period not only for human life, but also by historical standards.

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Posted by: badanov || 12/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Putin sends a signal to the USA
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RusOnline] Vladimir Putin: "The US military decision-making centers will be amazed." These centers are located off the coast. And when launching missiles from submarines after 5 minutes - "Come on by!" To begin with, I will touch upon the essence of the current "surge of confrontation."

What is it connected with and what is the ultimate goal. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand why and for what purpose everything is being done.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A sign that Jan 2022 invasion of Ukraine is highly likely.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/06/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Fuck the cowards conservatives || 12/06/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI visitors again. You can tell they're demonrats by the poo flinging and demands we fulfill /their/ stereotypes.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/06/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Putin is issuing an ultimatum. No more NATO expansion. No more broken promises. No more pointless humiliation of Russia.

"The threat on our western borders is, indeed, rising, as we have said multiple times," Putin said at a ceremony for ambassadors at the Kremlin on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. "In our dialogue with the US and its allies, we will insist on developing concrete agreements prohibiting any further eastward expansion of NATO and the placement there of weapons systems in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory."

Putin said Russia needs "legal guarantees" that Moscow's security concerns in the region will be respected.
"We need legal guarantees," Putin said. "Russia's legal concerns in the security sphere were ignored, and they now continue to be ignored."

If our leaders were even halfway intelligent and supple-minded, they'd realize it's actually a big opportunity for us and for Russia. This gives us cover to do what everyone here agrees we must do posthaste: shift our attention and our military-diplomatic focus toward the real threat, which is CHINA.

If we were to agree to make Ukraine a neutral, demilitarized, nonaligned border state -- like Finland during the Cold War, or Austria if you prefer -- and drop our foolish sanctions that only hurt ordinary Russians, we would lose nothing and gain immense goodwill from the Russian people and the Russian establishment.

Maybe even the first step into drawing Russia closer to, instead of pushing it away from, the West .... as we and Girbachev once talked of doing, in more sensible times.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 22:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe even the first step into drawing Russia closer to, instead of pushfing it away from, the West .... as we and Girbachev once talked of doing, in more sensible times.

Hell, we took away Ukraine's nukes and didn't give them back when Putin didn't honor his part of the agreement. He's been taking over Ukraine since 2013 or so using the NATO excuse with no sign of Ukraine actually joining NATO at any point in the last seven years.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/06/2021 22:57 Comments || Top||

#6  ANyway, the more these sons of bitches in Washington appease the Russians the more you complain about how oppressed the Russians are.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/06/2021 22:59 Comments || Top||

#7  What is our vital interest -- VITAL, ie must-have, without-which-we're-screwed, i.e. something worth giving our own lives for -- in Ukraine?

I've never in over 30 years heard anyone articulate such a vital interest. Not articulate one clearly and thoughtfully -- I mean, it's never been articulated at all.

We humiliated the Russians and pushed them into China's arms -- for nothing.

Nothing except a few million in Biden Baksheesh.

Let Biden's corrupt crackhead grab a javelin and ship out to Luhansk.

Not one American soldier or even one more dollar should be spent supporting a shithole where every rational calculation of American interest counsels us to stay the f--k OUT.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 23:31 Comments || Top||

#8  U-krai, borderland, also translatable into American vernacular as TARBABY
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 23:36 Comments || Top||


Europe
Zemmour In The Crosshairs
[Powerline blog] Steve wrote here about the speech that French nationalist Eric Zemmour delivered to announce his candidacy for the French presidency. The post includes a translation of Zemmour’s speech, which has electrified Frenchmen. Some of them, anyway.

So of course Zemmour must be denounced by right (i.e., left) thinkers. Yesterday the New York Times warned its readers against Zemmour.

Mr. Zemmour, the far-right polemicist who this week announced his run for next year’s presidential election....

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Full-spectrum assault on Zemmour coming. NYT from the legacy media, YouTube/Google from BigTech, and no doubt Twitter and FB will follow.

Note that YouTube's little fascist censors slapped an "age-restricted," must-sign-in gateway on Zemmour's video. The better to help American Stasi to track you, my dear.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "Far right" is a term of art in European politics. It refers to anyone who has reservations about mass third world immigration.

I was wondering where I fit.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Read the speech at Powerline Blog (ignore the obligatory French-bashing throwaway comment).

This man speaks beautifully. It's an heroic, inspiring speech that recalls a time when we in the West were proud of our heritage our frat civilization -- and apologized to no one for it.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 21:10 Comments || Top||

#4  *our great civilization
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/06/2021 21:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The state versus bigots
[NATION.PK] The recent developments in Pakistain with respect to the government making unspecified deals with the TTP in Afghanistan through interim Afghan interior minister Siraj Haqqani, and with the TLP on the rampage again through an equally controversial clergy has earned the government a lot of ire from within as well as from outside. Both proscribed organizations have undoubtedly questionable conception, existence, funding, sponsorship, motives and bloody operational strategy; with the blood of law enforcers as well as that of innocent civilians on their hands, besides plundering and destroying public and private property. While the government takes solace in the erroneous argument of a belief in the non-violent mostly peaceful solution to a potentially inflammatory situation; yet, the maximum opposing views are that of capitulating to guns totting firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
bigots wearing religious cloaks who act as proxies in the hands of foreign hostile agencies as well as used by internal actors for show of power for politico-economic mileage. Both opinions hold some logic nevertheless, which shall be briefly discussed here.

There is a general consensus in the country among historians that the over assertive clergy of today was never supportive of the creation of Pakistain in the first place. However,
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Say the Name That Frightens Iran’s Rulers
[Townhall] Last week, a former Iranian judiciary official charged with war crimes in Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
testified in a Swedish court. The first person to date to face trial for the horrific 1988 massacre, Hamid Noury’s testimony offered revelations that laid bare Tehran’s vulnerabilities and revealed important insights into the regime’s domestic affairs.

Noury, who is accused of participation in the massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988, 90 percent of whom were members of a singular opposition movement — was arrested in Sweden in 2019.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "U.S. officials can close ranks with Tehran’s democratic opposition and give hope to those on the Iranian street that the future can be brighter than the past."

Boy that is the last thing they should do. Since when do situations get any better because of that? Iran is the way it is today because the US got involved with Ayatollah Khomeini and was convinced he'd be a good guy.
Posted by: Punky Elmigum9411 || 12/06/2021 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  ..another gift from Prez Carter that keeps on giving.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/06/2021 14:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "Trump"?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/06/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Gratuity?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/06/2021 17:29 Comments || Top||

#5  "U.S. officials can close ranks with Tehran’s democratic opposition and give hope to those on the Iranian street that the future can be brighter than the past."

Boy that is the last thing they should do. Since when do situations get any better because of that? Iran is the way it is today because the US got involved with Ayatollah Khomeini and was convinced he'd be a good guy.


Ever since I got defrauded, I've avoided all social contacts for fear someone else might get over.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 12/06/2021 20:51 Comments || Top||



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