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America's Color Revolution
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itnnews's YouTube Videos: Oregon Wildfires: Death Toll Rises as Fires Continue to Burn

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Rescue teams with dogs in tow are searching through burnt areas in Oregon, as over 100 wildfires continue to rage across the US West Coast.

More than 30 people have been killed in the wildfires, and dozens are still missing.

In hard-hit Oregon about 500,000 people have been evacuated, with more than 900,000 acres of land scorched across the state in three days.

The wildfires have swept through 12 states, including California and Washington, for the last three weeks.

Millions of acres of land have been ravaged and thousands of homes destroyed as a consequence of the fires.

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As the nation grapples with an upcoming election, the Covid-19 pandemic and wildfires across the West coast, CNN's Brian Stelter examines the media's coverage of each crises.



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"russia ukraine" - Google News: Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin's 'Useful Idiot' - The Atlantic

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Window on Eurasia -- New Series: Putinism Most Closely Resembles Stroessners Stronismo in Paraguay, Eidman Says


Paul Goble

            Staunton, September 13 Russian analysts have long sought to find analogies to the regime Vladimir Putin has imposed in Russia not only to be in a better position to suggest its future evolution but also the ways it may end. Igor Eidman has now presented a new and unexpected one between Putinism and Stronismo under Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay.

            Stroessner imposed that system on Paraguay between 1954 and his overthrow in 1989; and the main characteristics of his rule are remarkably similar to those of Putin, the Russian commentator says (rusmonitor.com/igor-ejdman-znaete-na-chto-bolshe-vsego-pohozh-putinizm.html).

            Eidman lists nine features the two systems share:

·         A dictator ruling the state

·         The social-political dominance of the ruling party

·         A significant political for the force structures

·         Suppression of the opposition

·         Dirigisme in the economy

·         Nationalism

·         Close interaction of the state apparatus, above all its military-policy side, with the shadow economy and organized crime

·         The formal retention of a multi-party system and elections

·         Targeted repression.
            With Stroessner as with Putin, Eidman continues, the state represents a conglomerate of criminal groups who are led by senior bureaucrats and siloviki. The major differences, he concedes, are the openly imperialist, aggressive, and annexationist policy and economic stagnation.
                But there is one hopeful aspect of the Stroessner case, he suggests. Stroessner was overthrown, and the people he had ruled so badly committed themselves to never again having such a ruler in place. According to Eidman, the same thing will occur with the passing of the Putin system. Only a few of its ugly fragments will remain.

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America's Color Revolution

America's Color Revolution Tyler Durden Sun, 09/13/2020 - 21:30

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

I have provided evidence that the military/security complex, using the media and the Democrats, intends to turn the November election into a color revolution - here, here, and here.  

The CIA is very experienced at color revolutions, having pulled them off in a number of countries where the existing government did not suit the CIA.  As we have known  since CIA Director John Brennans denunciations of President Trump, Trump doesnt suit the CIA either. As far as the CIA is concerned, Trump is no different from Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Charles de Gaulle, Manuel Zelaya, Evo Morales, Viktor Yanukovych, and a large number of others.  

Russiagate was a coup that failed, followed by the failed Impeachgate coup.  Faced with Trumps reelection and the realization that upon reelection Trump will be able to deal with the treason against him, the Deep State has decided to take him out with a color revolution.

The evidence of a color revolution in the works is abundantly supplied by CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post and numerous Internet sites funded by the CIA and the foundations and corporations through which it operates, all of which are committed to Trumps ejection from the Oval Office.  The American public does not realize the extent to which the institutions of a free society have been penetrated and turned against freedom. All of these media organizations are establishing the story in the mind of Americans that Trump will not leave office when he loses or steals the election and must be driven out. 

Emails are arriving from readers in the UK and Europe reporting that the British and European media are at work preparing the acceptability of the CIAs color revolution against President Trump.  It is taken for granted by both media and politicians in Europe and the UK that Trump cannot win reelection because he:

(1) is a Putin agent,

(2) abuses the power of his office,

(3) represents racist Trump Deplorables,

(4) is a womanizer - grab them by the pussy,

(5) is responsible for America leading the world in Covid-19 cases and deaths,

(6) doesnt support NATO (a sinecure for many Europeans),

(7) is an outsider and not a member of The Establishment and is not like us,

(8) has orange hair (orange is considered a low class color). 

You can add your own to the list.

The scenarios for what the American, British, and European media assume to be a necessary color revolution  to drive Trump from office are:

  1. Trump loses the election, refuses to leave office and must be dislodged or democracy is lost.

  2. Trump wins the election by fraud and must be dislodged or democracy is lost.

The scenarios do not accommodate Trump actually winning the election by the vote of the people.  That outcome is outside the possibilities.

According to the media, Trump can only lose or steal the election.

With Antifa and Black Lives Matter now experienced in violent protests, they will be unleashed anew on American cities when there is news of a Trump election victory. The media will explain the violence as necessary to free us from a tyrant and egg on the violence, as will the Democrat Party.  The CIA will be certain that the violence is well funded.

Trump, isolated in his own government, which has failed to bring charges against the Obama regime officials who tried to frame the President of the United States and drive him from officeBarr and Durham represent The Establishment, not the President or lawwill be cut off from Twitter, Facebook and from the print and TV media.  All Americans and the world will hear is that Trump lost and must go or Trump won by vote fraud and must go. It will be impossible for Trump or anyone to refute the charges. The weak-minded, weak-willed Republicans will collapse. Republicans are not people capable of combat. Republicans believe that to disparage the military/security complex is unpatriotic. Thus, they are sitting ducks.

The CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy, Radio Liberty, etc., have used color revolution against others who stood in the way of the American National Security State. Only Maduro has survived them.  So far.

The Secret Service cooperated with the CIA and the Joint Chiefs in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What is a reelected President Trump going to do when the Secret Service refuses to repel Antifa and Black Lives Matter when they breach White House Security?  There is no doubt whatsoever that the Secret Service is penetrated by the CIA.  How else could President Kennedy have been assassinated?  

American Democracy is on the verge of being ended for all times, and the world media will herald the event as the successful overthrowing of a tyrant.  

How the Trump Campaigns Mobile App Is Collecting Massive Amounts of Voter Data - The New Yorker

How the The Trump Campaigns Mobile App Is Collecting Massive Amounts of Voter DataThe New Yorker
The U.S. Economy Is Becoming Less Free

Ian Vásquez

Economics, World

The report finds that global economic freedom is up slightly and has been increasing since 2000.

The Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report, copublished today in the United States by the Fraser Institute and the Cato Institute, ranks Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Australia as the freest economies in the world. The study ranks 162 countries and is based on data though 2018, the most recent year for which internationally comparable data is available.

The report finds that global economic freedom is up slightly and has been increasing since 2000. Though the pace of liberalization slowed compared to the 1990s, its continuation is good news, especially given the strong relationship between economic freedom and wellbeing. By contrast, economic freedom in the United States fell in 2018 after it only recently began to revert its notable decline since 2000.

The United States, now 6th on the index, saw declines in most areas of economic freedomincluding the soundness of money, rule of law, trade openness, and regulationcompared to the previous year when it ranked 5th.

Another source of concern is Hong Kong, according to the authors of the reportJames Gwartney, Robert Lawson, Josh Hall, and Ryan Murphy. Although Honk Kong is ranked first, they note that, The ratings in this years report are based on data for 2018. Thus, Hong Kongs rating is unaffected by the 2019 proposal to transfer certain legal cases to the mainland and the protest and sometimes brutal suppression that followed; or by the new security law imposed in 2020 by the Chinese government. They add that it will be surprising if the apparent increase in the insecurity of property rights and the weakening of the rule of law caused by the interventions of the Chinese government in 2019 and 2020 do not result in lower scores in future editions of the study.

This years report also includes a chapter by Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson on how economic freedom generates social trust and tolerance.

See more findings and the full report here.

This article first appeared at the Cato Institute.

Image: Reuters.

The Abuse of Profiling: Nixon, Ellsberg, and the CIA - Psychology Today

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The divorce of their parents was not easy for Princess Diana and her brother, Charles Spencer, when they were children.

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How Leningrad Survived the Siege

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For nearly three years, Leningrad was under attack night and day, and almost half its population, including 700,000 women and children, perished. The Germans left the city of Peter the Great, his Window to the West, in ruins. Still, they could not defeat Leningrad.

Georginas mother sat next to me at her dining room table. She and her husband were veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and back in 1996 we all sat about the table on Victory Day and talked about the siege.
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The old woman grasped my arm and talked in Russian while her husband listened. They both wore medals, one of his for extreme bravery. It was, of course, May 9, and everyone was in a jovial mood. The day was light and airy, and it reminded me of holiday dinners at home, or Fourth of July barbeques. It reminded me of any occasion where we celebrate, albeit with a certain twist. At home and in Europe we celebrate victories; on this day, citizens of St. Petersburg celebrate survival. There is a difference.

In Europe, of course, Victory Day is May 8, but because of the time difference and the surrender not being signed until nearly midnight in Germany, the defenders of Leningrad did not find out until the next day, May 9.

A Job for Everyone

The small room was crowded. This was, for all intents and purposes, the apartment of two citizens of the Soviet Union, two comrades during the war whose daughter married a Soviet naval captain who manned a ship in the Arctic with the mission of seeking out American submarines. These were the people I was raised to fear and despise. We drank wine and ate a small dish of onions. Soup would be next, and salmon.

Communism had ended a few short years earlier. Georginas mother kept hold of my arm and spoke slowly while her husband poured me more to drink. He was a big man with a wide, tender smile. And she might have been my own grandmother, whose eldest son fought in the war.

Soviet soldiers and civilians run for their lives along the Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrads main boulevard, as German shells slam into the street and surrounding buildings. Bodies lie heaped together and unburied amid the destruction of war.
Soviet soldiers and civilians run for their lives along the Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrads main boulevard, as German shells slam into the street and surrounding buildings. Bodies lie heaped together and unburied amid the destruction of war.

My job was in a munitions factory, she told me. Everyone had a job. Lt. Gen. Markian Popov was the officer in charge of Leningrad during the siege, and at the beginning of the war he made a statement for the citizens of the city: The moment has come to put your Bolshevik qualities to work, to get ready to defend Leningrad without wasting words. We have to see that nobody is just an onlooker and carry out in the least possible time the same kind of mobilization of the workers that was done in 1918 and 1919. The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

Everyone had a job to do.

The Leningrad Blokada

The Soviet involvement in the Great Patriotic War, as they refer to World War II, actually began on June 22, 1941, when the German Armys three million troops invaded the Soviet Union, almost two years after World War II started for the rest of Europe with Hitlers invasion of Poland. Soviet Premier Josef Stalin had been a willing accomplice in that invasion with the Red Army invading Poland from the east. Stalin did not believe that Hitler would turn on the Soviet Union.

Following the Nazi invasion, Hitler had unintentional help in the Soviet Union since Stalin never really cared about casualties. Early in the war Stalin ordered the Red Army to remain firm as the Germans captured nearly six million prisoners of war, most of whom died in captivity. In fact, Stalin was so adamant that troops hold their positions that he ordered the execution of frontline commanders who retreated. By 1942, more than 77,000 Soviet citizens had been executed for supposed cowardice and treachery.

Two decrees were issued: Order 270 made it a criminal offense for any soldier to surrender and Order 227 declared that any commander retreating without permission would be tried before a military tribunal. These became known as the Not a Step Backward decrees. The military overseers dug trenches behind the armies and filled them with sharpshooters. Later estimates put the total number of Soviet dead in World War II at 20 million, but the most accurate estimate in retrospect is about 32 million Soviet military and civilian deaths, roughly the present population of Canada.

In Leningrad, however, the vast majority of casualties were not soldiers, but women and children. One Victory Day I walked alone through town after the veterans parade. I passed 14 Nevsky Prospect, where residents leave flowers beneath a sign in place since the war, which reads, Citizens! During artillery shelling this side of the street is most dangerous! At the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery, too, tens of thousands of mourners leave flowers on one of the 186 mounds of mass graves or at the monument of the Motherland, a statue of a woman lamenting those who died during what the rest of the world calls the siege, but which Russians call Blokada, the blockade.

200,000 Deaths from the Cold

The siege of Leningrad is political and military history, yet it is also personal. It is the story of the general making tough decisions, his frame a sliver of what it had been before the war; it is the story of the child living on a few grams of bread, his mother making sure he only takes small bites throughout the day for fear if he eats it all at once he will surely starve to death.

The siege is one of the chapters in books about 20th-century atrocities; yet it is also the conversation over beers in a corner pub, where most veterans still hold back their emotions against the questions of the curious. Some allow others to cross the line into their world, allow them to suffer the starvation through stories and tears because they know it might be the only way these great heroes, the defenders of Leningrad, will be remembered.

One woman at Palace Square spoke to me of her worst memory. She was 15 during the siege when she had to pull a sleigh carrying the body of her sister, who had died of starvation. She made it to the graveyard and left her sister on the pile of bodies. Another there, Alexander, remembered how he would cut up a piece of bread once a day for his brothers. His parents had died of starvation some time earlier.

Nearly three million civilians, including nearly half a million children, refused to surrender despite having to deal with extreme hardships in the encircled city. Food and fuel would last only about two months after the siege began on September 8, 1941, and by winter there was no heating, no water, almost no electricity, and little sustenance. These citizens still had two more years of this to endure. Leningrad is roughly at the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska. It gets cold.

Men bring a cart filled with bodies to the Volkovo Cemetery in Leningrad. The civilian population of the city suffered greatly as the Germans and Finns tried to starve Leningrad into submission.
Men bring a cart filled with bodies to the Volkovo Cemetery in Leningrad. The civilian population of the city suffered greatly as the Germans and Finns tried to starve Leningrad into submission.

During that first January and February, 200,000 people died of cold and starvation. Because disease was a problem, the bodies were carried to various locations in the city, most notably what became the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery. Even so, people continued to work in the deplorable conditions to keep the war industries operating. When they were not working or looking for food and water, they were carrying the dead, dragging bodies on childrens sleighs or pulling them through the snow by their wrists to the cemetery.

One man said, To take someone who has died to the cemetery is an affair of so much labor that it exhausts the last strength in the survivors. The living, having fulfilled their duty to the dead, are themselves brought to the brink of death.

But the people of Leningrad would not surrender; they always heeded Popovs decree. Still, after the war, Stalin ordered the generals arrest for not communicating with Moscow often enough, and he was sent to a gulag.

Doroga Zhinzni: The Road to Life

I met a woman named Sophia in a graveyard on the north side of the city. She had been an adolescent during the reign of Czar Nicholas II and lost her husband and son during the siege. We sat on a bench, and she told me of her life, of her family, as if time had turned it into a hazy event she had heard someone tell about years earlier. Her hands were transparent, and she spoke of Leningrad as being a prisoner of war, with no rations and no electricity and little hope. The city became a concentration camp, its citizens condemned to death by Hitler.

Thousands of people were evacuated across Lake Ladoga via the famous frozen Doroga Zhinzni, the Road of Life. During warm weather, some were boated across, but in winter they were carried on trucks across the frozen lake under German fire. Heading north was pointless. The Finnish Army, allied with the Germans since the bitter Winter War with the Soviets in 1939-1940, held the line there.

Meanwhile, in Leningrad, workers took all the treasures from the Hermitage Museum and the Palaces of Peterhof and Pushkin and buried them in basements and beneath St. Isaacs Cathedral. Not everything made it out, including many paintings and the mysterious amber room of the Summer Palace. On Hitlers orders most of the palaces, such as Gachina, the Summer Palace in Pushkin, and other historic landmarks located outside the citys defensive perimeter, were looted and then destroyed, with many art collections being transported to Nazi Germany.

The Leningrad airport and many factories, schools, hospitals, transport facilities, and other buildings were destroyed by air raids and long-range artillery during the 30-month siege. Still, students continued their studies and some even graduated, celebrating between bombings.

Then, composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Seventh Symphony, the Leningrad Symphony, and it was performed in this besieged city, bombs exploding in the background, but no one leaving the performance. To hear the symphony today in the cemetery while thousands of people walk about without talking is to understand how music can capture emotions more readily than words.

The Seventh played while my friend, Mike Kweder, and I walked about in the silence of the mourners, and we stopped at times to talk, to wonder. Mike asked if I thought the cemetery would continue to be a destination on Victory Day, or any day, after the veterans were all gone; he wondered when the day would be taken for granted.

We Simply Had Nothing to Eat

When I first came to St. Petersburg, the veterans numbered in the thousands. Now there are only a few thousand, and many of them are not well. Back in the early 1990s one could not wander more than a few feet without meeting a survivor of the siege. Today, we must look intently for the medals, or for old women on benches, holding flowers. Then we both saw a young couple walk by with their young son playing with a toy rifle, making mock shooting noises, and I hoped he did not point the plastic toward someone who had seen enough.

An elderly veteran of the siege of Leningrad smiles faintly during a ceremony to remember the dead of the horrific 900-day siege. This soldier wears a number of decorations, including one for extreme bravery exhibited during the siege.
An elderly veteran of the siege of Leningrad smiles faintly during a ceremony to remember the dead of the horrific 900-day siege. This soldier wears a number of decorations, including one for extreme bravery exhibited during the siege.

For the Soviets during the war, the future of their country and perhaps victory or defeat in World War II were in the balance. When the initial attack on Leningrad failed, Hitler ordered the siege to free up troops the Nazis needed elsewhere. Had the Germans taken Leningrad or destroyed it faster, they would have been able to sweep attack Moscow, the Soviet capital and their real goal, from behind.

The troops protecting the city were reliant upon its citizens to supply them with food and munitionsnot an easy task for a city with virtually nothing.

We simply had nothing to eat, one woman told me on a bench in the village of Pushkin. I had been walking about the town and stopped to buy some doilies she made by hand. She also had a plate of poppy seed buns her granddaughter had baked. The siege, she said, was a time during which one gauged success by being alive or not.

I thought about food at breakfast, I played with it at lunch, and I pretended to consume it at dinner, she said. This went on for me nearly from the start. She took a bite of one of the poppy seed rolls and looked around for other people who might buy her knitting. Really, we were hungry from the very start. People must know that.

When the Nazis took Schliesselburg east of Leningrad, the city was officially surrounded, and within three years half of the citys population would be dead. Despite the danger, factories continued to supply arms and ammunition. Old men, women, and children replaced workers who left for the battlefield.

But heres what mattered: the city tried to act like a city, Georginas mother told me as she let go of my arm and ate cake, sipping tea and pausing to recall details. A few dozen schools continued to educate, 20 movie and playhouses stayed open, the Grand Philharmonic played for at least a year.

Some survivors, however, tell of wartime NKVD activities, or encounters with people who had such severe mental illness from disease and starvation that it had became unbearable. The accounts are sometimes spurious, but too many narratives contain too many parallel events to write them off as exaggerated. Several wrote of what became known as blockade cannibalism, including the story of a boy who was enticed to enter someones apartment to eat warm cereal only to discover a room of butchered corpses behind a door.

Radio broadcasts continued. The survivors of the siege declare that efforts to maintain morale were as significant as the troops on the front lines in saving the city.

Exterminator Squads

A few years ago at Rasputins, a pub just outside the Nevksy Monastery, I met an elderly man. I immediately recognized him from earlier in the week at Trinity Cathedral, where we both lit candles at the tomb of Saint Alexander Nevsky, patron to soldiers and young men. I knew the man from his long gray hair and worn boots. I was drinking wine and waiting for soup when he asked me if he had seen me earlier in the week.

We talked, and I asked if he was a veteran. He smiled and said yes, and eventually he told me of his covert operations behind enemy lines, deep in the German-occupied sections of the city. He was on food detail, he told me, pointing to his own meal. He and his comrades were in charge of transporting as much food as possible into the city. He had no reason to fabricate the story, yet I had never heard of such maneuvers. We drank together, and I told him of Americans I had known who fought in the war.

I have met many Russians in pubs who love to fabricate stories of heroism, but this man was not among them. According to the curator at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, for a few months in the summer of 1941 Soviet guerrilla detachments called exterminator squads set up camp behind enemy lines to assist regular troops and volunteers defending the city. They annoyed the Nazi commanders to no end.

One guerrilla province was formed in Nazi-controlled areas of Leningradsomething unheard of in much of military historya vast area behind enemy lines under its own political and economic rule. Thirty-five thousand troops operated there, harassing the Nazis. They also managed to transport more than 500 tons of food to the city in March 1942. The old man showed me the medal he was awarded for extreme bravery.

I Shaved Every Day

I met another nearly 90-year-old man on the steps near the Motherland statue. A young girl of about eight reached up to hand him a flower. and he cried. I said how beautiful it was that parents still teach their children to respect him and his comrades 60 years or more later. He smiled and added that what touched him was when he was a young man leaving for the front lines, a young girl had run to him and handed him a flower. This young girl reminded him of that moment.

It happens every time a child gives me a flower, he said. He laid the flower at the foot of the statue. I asked what had gotten him through the worst of the days, when, truly, it seemed there was no hope of continuing. He stroked his beard.

I shaved every day, he said. No matter how weak we were, and no matter how long we might spend doing nothing but waking, resting, sleeping, and waking again, every day we were encouraged to shave, and did. It made me feel like I was ready for what was next.

Leningrads Astoria Hotel did not resemble a hotel at all during the siege. It was a hospital with bodies in the hallways and on the stairs. The manager at the time, Anna Andreievna, spoke of how the ground was too frozen to bury the dead, so the bodies accumulated in the streets. But the survivors never lost faith in the Red Army, in the workers, in themselves, and in God.

I used canes to walk to and from the hotel, Anna remembered. I was so weak, dropping from 160 pounds to about 90. But the ones who stopped, died. Sometimes I would pass someone breathing heavily in the morning sitting on a step, and in the afternoon pass again and that person would be dead.

The Eternal Memory of the Siege of Leningrad

Leningrads population of dogs, cats, horses, rats, and crows disappeared as they became the main courses on many dinner tables. Nothing was off limits, and stories circulate about eating dirt, paper, and wood. One void with stories of the siege lies in the details left out or destroyed. Stalin censored much of the news of anything except heroism.

The people of Leningrad ate wood glue, the paste from the back of wallpaper, and boiled leather belts. People ate the buds on the low branches in spring; everyone who survived the siege can recall pigweed. One woman used one of her dead children to feed the others.

For nearly three years, Leningrad was under attack night and day, and almost half its population, including 700,000 women and children, perished. The Germans left the city of Peter the Great, his Window to the West, in ruins. Still, they could not defeat Leningrad.

The great siege and the sacrifice of the people who suffered and died will always be rememberedeven as the number of survivors continues to dwindle.

This article first appeared on the Warfare History Network.

Image: Wikimedia Commons.

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