He refuses to change colors or take IMF bribes, 'er, loans:
"Belarus protests eclipse rally in defense of defiant leader" by Ivan Nechepurenko and Andrew Higgins New York Times, August 16, 2020
MINSK, Belarus — Minutes after President Alexander G. Lukashenko of Belarus vowed to stand firm against protesters and antigovernment demonstrators staged their biggest protest yet Sunday to oppose a fraud-tainted presidential election a week earlier.
Tens of thousands of protesters — some estimates put their number at well over 100,000 — turned out in the center of Minsk, the capital, dwarfing a rally of Lukashenko’s supporters earlier in the day.
It appeared to be the largest protest in the history of Belarus, a former Soviet republic that Lukashenko has ruled since 1994.
As the crowd gathered around a Soviet-era obelisk on Victors Avenue, many chanted for Lukashenko to leave and waved the traditional white and red flag, which became a symbol of the opposition after the president replaced it with a more Soviet-looking national flag soon after he came to power.
Now he is an adherent of the defunct and disappeared into the ash heap of history Soviet Union!
C'mon, NYT, really?
The protest had a festive air, in stark contrast to the tense mood of far smaller rallies last week that were violently suppressed by security forces, leaving at least two people dead, many injured, and more than 6,000 under arrest. Riot police officers did not intervene Sunday.
This is what awaits us if Trump triumphs, and as if it really mattered. We are f**ked either way here in America.
The protest came in response to a call for a “March for Freedom” by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main opposition candidate in the presidential election. She joined the race after the arrest of her husband, Sergey Tikhanovsky, a popular blogger who had planned to run as a candidate. Tikhanovskaya, who says she won the election, was forced to leave Belarus for neighboring Lithuania early last week.
The fact that my agenda-pu$hing pre$$ has been focused on Belarus ever since the election is proof positive of a deeper agenda and the usual shenanigans by the usual suspects.
The mass protest Sunday suggested that Lukashenko, who claimed a landslide reelection victory with 80 percent of the vote Aug. 9, had failed in his efforts to intimidate opponents through a frenzy of police violence and increasingly strident warnings that the unrest could open the way for military action by NATO.
That is what they fear the most.
Addressing his supporters, many of them state employees, at an outdoor rally in Minsk on Sunday, Lukashenko attacked his opponents with defiant and often crude bravado, insulting his critics, rejecting calls for a new election, and accusing NATO of massing on his country’s western border.
Coming from the rudest and crudest pre$$ organ known as.... well, check the byline later.
Denouncing his foes as traitors “controlled by puppeteers, by outsiders,” Lukashenko, a 65-year-old former state farm director who is often called “Europe’s last dictator.”
In other words, he is on to them and they don't like it based on the toine of the article that should be extolling a democratic vote, right?
They have not presented any evidence to the contrary!
His claims of a military buildup by the US-led military alliance followed a pledge by President Vladimir Putin of Russia that Moscow would support Belarus if it faced a military threat from outside.
In a statement issued Sunday, the Kremlin said that Russia stood ready “to provide the necessary assistance to resolve the problems that have arisen” and referred to a collective security treaty signed in the early 1990s by Russia, Belarus, and seven other former Soviet states. The treaty stipulates that aggression against one member of the alliance amounts to an attack on all of them.
It's the NATO motto as well.
Lukashenko seems to have calculated that he can best secure Russian help against his domestic opponents by ginning up a fake military crisis on the border.
OMG!
The NYT must be taking swigs of gin to put that out there given all the wars they have lied us into!
NATO’s spokesman, Oana Lungescu, said the alliance “is closely monitoring the situation in Belarus” but added that “there is no NATO buildup in the region.”
Would tell us if they were, right?
Could also be the massive force is already there.
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Related:
"Antigovernment protesters gathered in large numbers in Thailand’s capital on Sunday for a rally that suggested their movement’s strength may extend beyond the college campuses where it had blossomed. Thousands of people assembled at Bangkok’s Democracy Monument, a traditional venue for political activities, where they heard speeches, watched skits, and listened to music. Hundreds of police were also present, as well as a small contingent of royalists opposed to the protesters. There was no reliable estimate of the crowd size, though it appeared to be one of the biggest protests in several years. The rally ended with about two dozen students joining together on stage to repeat their demands and renew their commitment to democracy. They issued a call for the government to act by next month or face another major rally. The movement had already declared three core demands: holding new elections, amending the constitution, and ending the intimidation of critics of the government. At Sunday’s rally, protesters spelled out three more points: no coup d’etat, no national unity government, and upholding Thailand as a democracy with the king as head of state under the constitution."
If you go to the Land Destroyer, he is on top of both those situations while others are on top of the world (post also contains the bottom of the sea, if that comforts you).
"Telephone calls began ringing Sunday between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, marking the first concrete step of a US-brokered diplomatic deal between the nations that required Israel to halt plans to annex land sought by the Palestinians; however, anger over the deal continued, with protesters in Pakistan criticizing the UAE and Iran making new threats about the accord. Since Thursday’s announcements, Associated Press journalists have tried to make calls between the nations without success, but around 1:15 p.m. Sunday, AP journalists in Jerusalem and Dubai could call each other from both landline and cellular phones registered to Israel’s country code +972. Over an hour later, Emirati officials acknowledged that Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan had called his Israeli counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi. The Israelis later acknowledged the call as well....."
Just made a trade deal with Africa, too:
"The first commercial deal under an Africa-wide free trade zone will take place Jan. 1 as outstanding talks are set to move online, the African Union said. While the African Continental Free Trade Area took effect last year, transactions that were due to start July 1 were delayed as the coronavirus set back negotiations, including on tariff concessions. The talks will be finalized through a new African Virtual Trade-Diplomacy Platform being developed as a public-private partnership between the African Union Commission and more than 20 African multinational companies, the African Union said. The trade deal is being led by the continental body. Set to be fully operational by 2030, it could be the world’s biggest free trade zone by area, with a potential market of 1.2 billion people and a combined gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion. Fifty-four of the 55 nations recognized by the African Union have signed up to joing— Eritrea is the exception — while 28 have ratified the agreement."
That's an ominous date.
Israel is to be the conduit through which goods are shipped, with surveillance by these guys:
"Microsoft Corp. is interested in buying the popular music video app TikTok’s operations in the United Kingdom, expanding beyond the US, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand units that are already under discussion, Fox Business Network reported, citing a banker it did not identify. It’s unclear whether TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance Ltd., wants to sell the UK unit and if a formal offer will be made, the banker told the network. The UK government said in early August that it has no plans to block TikTok. President Trump on Friday ordered the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell its US assets. Microsoft has been in talks with ByteDance to buy TikTok operations in the first four countries with a Sept. 15 deadline for a deal. TikTok didn’t offer a comment on the UK report, Fox Business News said."
So the FIVE EYES DATA-GATHERING OPERATION will then be in the hands of BILL GATES!
Time to move to India (who did not have a good experience with that guy's potions), and as the genocidal globalists like WEF founder Schwab has said, the window of opportunity is narrow -- which is why the pre$$ is pushing the lies so hard:
"A window of opportunity that will soon close; Experts say there's time to tame COVID-19 before winter, if we act smarter now" by Helen Branswell STAT August 16, 2020
The good news: The United States has a window of opportunity to beat back COVID-19 before things get much, much worse.
The bad news: That window is rapidly closing, and the country seems unwilling or unable to seize the moment.
Winter is coming. Winter means cold-and-flu season, which is all but sure to complicate the task of figuring out who is sick with COVID-19 and who is suffering from a less threatening respiratory tract infection.
Then they will do what they have been doing, tag everybody with COVID so they can get the tracing and vaccinating going!
It's sickening to see this stuff in the Globe, and yet it is also enlightening.
It also means that cherished outdoor freedoms that link us to pre-COVID life — pop-up restaurant patios, picnics in parks, trips to the beach — will soon be out of reach, at least in northern parts of the country.
“I think November, December, January, February are going to be tough months in this country without a vaccine,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Damn sick bastards constantly jabbing at us with endless lies!
It is possible, of course, that some vaccines could be approved by then, thanks to historically rapid scientific work, but there is little prospect that vast numbers of Americans will be vaccinated in time to forestall the grim winter Osterholm and others foresee.
He is speaking in code, and it is going to be terrifyingly and horrifically grim, but don't worry, for Lord Fauci says those that survive will be celebrating next year!
Human coronaviruses, the distant cold-causing cousins of the virus that causes COVID-19, circulate year-round.
I'm stopping there because that is a damnable lie in furtherance of their nefarious agenda!
The COVID-19 has already muted since it was a seasonal flu to begin with.
Now is typically the low season for transmission, but in this summer of America’s failed COVID-19 response, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is widespread across the country, and pandemic-weary Americans seem more interested in resuming pre-COVID lifestyles than in suppressing the virus to the point where schools can be reopened, and stay open, and restaurants, movie theaters, and gyms can function with some restrictions.
Ooooh, the endless propaganda is failing so time for Planedemic simulation 2 with the release of a real deadly pathogen they cooked up in a lab, 'eh?
That's the window that is closing, the believability by the public of these phenomenally fantastic f***king liars (damn, I said I would swear in this post), and you know who is to blame for the failed response.
“We should be aiming for no transmission before we open the schools and we put kids in harm’s way — kids and teachers and their caregivers, and so, if that means no gym, no movie theaters, so be it,” said Caroline Buckee, associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “We seem to be choosing leisure activities now over children’s safety in a month’s time, and I cannot understand that trade-off.”
Of course she can't. She isn't being affected and is in fact benefiting from this diabolical plan coming from the stinking elite cla$$!
Don't get me wrong. I don't want the kids anywhere near her or her ilk, either.
While many countries managed to suppress the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the United States has failed miserably.
But not the governors of New York and Massachusetts, who stuck ill patients into nursing homes, resulting in the mass-murder of our beloved elderly, according to the Globe, whom is calling the policies a success and once again blaming the President of the United States!
Countries in Europe and Asia are worrying about a second wave. Here, the first wave rages on, engulfing rural as well as urban parts of the country. Though there’s been a slight decline in cases in the past couple of weeks, more than 50,000 Americans a day are being diagnosed with COVID-19. and those are just the confirmed cases.
They keep saying it's more, but in that case we all have heard immunity.
See:
"Scientists who have been monitoring immune responses to the coronavirus are now starting to see encouraging signs of strong, lasting immunity, even in people who developed only mild symptoms of COVID-19, a flurry of new studies suggests. Disease-fighting antibodies, as well as immune cells called B cells and T cells that are capable of recognizing the virus, appear to persist months after infections have resolved — an encouraging echo of the body’s enduring response to other viruses. “Things are really working as they’re supposed to,” said Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona and an author of one of the new studies, which has not yet been peer-reviewed. Although researchers cannot forecast how long these immune responses will last, many experts consider the data a welcome indication that the body’s most studious cells are doing their job — and will have a good chance of fending off the coronavirus, faster and more fervently than before, if exposed to it again. “This is exactly what you would hope for,” said Marion Pepper, an immunologist at the University of Washington and an author of another of the new studies, which is currently under review at the journal Nature. “All the pieces are there to have a totally protective immune response.” Protection against reinfection cannot be fully confirmed until there is proof that most people who encounter the virus a second time are actually able to keep it at bay, Pepper said, but the findings could help quell recent concerns over the virus’s ability to dupe the immune system into amnesia, leaving people vulnerable to repeat bouts of disease. Researchers have yet to find unambiguous evidence that coronavirus reinfections are occurring, especially within the few months that the virus has been rippling through the human population. The prospect of immune memory “helps to explain that,” Pepper said. Considered with other recent reports, the new data reinforce the idea that, “Yes, you do develop immunity to this virus, and good immunity to this virus,” said Dr. Eun-Hyung Lee, an immunologist at Emory University who was not involved in the studies. “That’s the message we want to get out there.”
So when does their video get taken down?
The Globe, of course, will ignore this like they ignored the Swedish study for if it doesn't fit the agenda-pushing narrative it gets tossed. That the "news" bu$ine$$!
This is their perspective:
To put that in perspective, at this rate the United States is racking up more cases in a week than Britain has accumulated since the start of the pandemic.
Public health officials had hoped transmission of the virus would abate with the warm temperatures of summer and the tendency — heightened this year — of people to take their recreational activities outdoors.
Bull$hit!
They were warning us all spring it wouldn't go away like it should, and boom, it didn't!
F**king liars!
Experts do believe people are less likely to transmit the virus outside, especially if they are wearing face coverings and keeping a safe distance apart, but in some places, people have been throwing COVID cautions to the wind, flouting public health orders in the process.
They mean the ceaseless, city-destroying protests in the name of $ocial ju$tu$, right?
Kristen Ehresmann, director of infectious disease epidemiology, prevention, and control for the Minnesota Department of Health, points to a large, three-day rodeo that was held recently in her state. Organizers knew they were supposed to limit the number of attendees to 250 but refused; thousands attended. In Sturgis, S.D., an estimated quarter of a million motorcyclists were expected to descend on the city for an annual rally that spans 10 days.
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Even on smaller scales, public health authorities know some people are letting down their guard. Others have never embraced the need to try to prevent spread of the virus. Ehresmann’s father was recently invited to visit some friends; he went, she said, but wore his mask, elbow bumping instead of shaking proffered hands, “and the people kind of acted like . . . ‘Oh, you drank that Kool-Aid,’ rather than ‘We all need to be doing this.’ ”
Came out swinging, huh?
Ehresmann and others in public health are flummoxed by the phenomenon of people refusing to acknowledge the risk. “Just this idea of, ‘I just don’t want to believe it so therefore it’s not going to be true’ — honestly, I have not really dealt with that as it relates to disease before,” she said.
They can't believe we no longer believe their lying, $elf-$erving a$$e$!
How MYOPIC!
Buckee, the Harvard expert, wonders if the magical thinking that seems to have infected swaths of the country is due to the fact many of the people who have died were elderly. For many Americans, she said, the disease has not yet touched their lives — but the movement restrictions and other response measures have. “I think if children were dying, this would be . . . a different situation, quite honestly,” she said.
OMG, what a MONSTER is SHE!
She is up their with giggling Billy in that she IS ALMOST WISHING FOR IT TO HAPPEN with her TERRORIST THREATS!
WHAT EVIL DO YOU HAVE PLANNED, and PARENTS KEEP YOUR KIDS HOME!
Btw, speaking of dictators.....
Epidemiologist Michael Mina despairs that an important chance to wrestle the virus under control is being lost, as Americans ignore the realities of the pandemic in favor of trying to resume pre-COVID life.
“We just continue to squander every bit of opportunity we get with this epidemic to get it under control,’' said Mina, an assistant professor in Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and associate medical director of clinical microbiology at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
“The best time to squash a pandemic is when the environmental characteristics slow transmission. It’s your one opportunity in the year, really, to leverage that extra assistance and get transmission under control,” he said, his frustration audible.
What a pathetic piece of $elf-$erving $hit, and have you talked to Liz lately?
Driving back transmission would require people to continue to make sacrifices, to accept the fact that life post-COVID cannot proceed as normal, not while so many people remain vulnerable to the virus. Instead, people are giddily throwing off the shackles of coronavirus suppression efforts, seemingly convinced that a few weeks of sacrifice during the spring was a one-time solution.
Why I am I continuing to read evil liars like Branswell(!) every day?
Osterholm has for months warned that people were being misled about how long the restrictions would need to be in place. He now thinks the time has come for another lockdown. “What we did before and more,” he said.
What a complete (expletives deleted) with more THREATS of TERROR!
The country has fallen into a dangerous pattern, Osterholm said, where a spike in cases in a location leads to some temporary restraint from people who eventually become alarmed enough to start to take precautions, but as soon as cases start to plateau or decline a little, victory over the virus is declared and people think it’s safe to resume normal life.
“It’s like an all-or-nothing phenomenon, right?” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “You all locked down or you get so discouraged with being locked down that you decide you’re going to be in crowded bars . . . you can have indoor parties with no masks. You can do all the things that are going to get you in trouble.”
He was spouting a different damn tune yesterday in Rhode Island, the lying, four-flushing $ack of $hit!
Osterholm said that with the K-12 school year resuming in some parts of the country or set to start — along with universities — in a few weeks, transmission will take off and cases will start to climb again. He predicted the next peaks will “exceed by far the peak we have just experienced. Winter is only going to reinforce that. Indoor air,” he said.
Buckee thinks that if the country doesn’t alter the trajectory it is on, more shutdowns are inevitable. “I can’t see a way that we’re going to have restaurants and bars open in the winter, frankly. We’ll have resurgence. Everything will get shut down again.”
Umm, we never opened back up!
Look at the DICTATORS in OUR MIDST!
Well, then that is the END of the MIDDLE CLA$$, folks!
It WAS NOT COVID that killed your dreams and destroyed your life, it was the $ICKENING $CUM you $EE before you!
Fauci favors a reset of the reopening measures, with a strong messaging component aimed at explaining to people why driving down transmission now will pay off later. Young people, in particular, need to understand that even if they are less likely to die from COVID-19, statistically speaking, transmission among twentysomethings will eventually lead to infections among their parents and grandparents, for whom the risk of severe infections and fatal outcomes is higher. (Young people can also develop long-term health problems.)
FUCK YOU and your GUILT TRIP, you mass-murdering $CUM!!
“It’s not them alone in a vacuum,” Fauci said. “They are spreading it to the people who are going to wind up in the hospital.”
That is why you never want to go there, as he spews from his elite vacuum of an existence, completely divorced and devoid from the tremendous suffering he has caused!
PURE F**KING EVIL!!!!
Everyone has to work together to get cases down to more manageable levels if the country hopes to avoid “a disastrous winter,” Fauci said.
“I think we can get it under much better control, between now and the mid-to-late fall when we get influenza or we get whatever it is we get in the fall and the winter. I’m not giving up,” he said, but without an all-in effort “the cases are not going to come down,” he warned. “They’re not. They’re just not.”
What do you mean INFLUENZA or WHATEVER WE GET, doctor?!!
Why the LACK of PRECISION!?
You can't say they didn't earn us, as he desperately tries to convince us he is not a f**king liar!
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I wish I could believe Trump will put a stop to this after November, but I doubt it.
I'm screwed either way. It's a re-ejookhazion camp in one form or another.
Lord, I'm coming home soon.
