Carlson on Twitter Shows Old Line Media Companies To Be Dead Men Walking

On Fox news Tucker Carlson was big, with a following of over three million viewers. 

On Twitter Carlson's first episode had 60 million views in 24 hours. 

The old model of TV news and entertainment is dead, or soon will be.

In the very near future, you'll have no need to tune in at a particular hour to watch Tucker or whatever else you want to see. Just log on to Twitter or Natter or whatever, whenever you want and see whatever you want right then and there. 

When Musk takes Twitter public, buy it. And buy any other social media company that follows the Carlson/Musk Twitter model. Old style TV, Fox, CNN, that old lying bitch, the British Broadcorping Castration and all the rest of the liars, perverts and purveyor of propaganda are as good as dead, and good riddance.

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Michael Rivero's response to Carlson's statement about UFO's:Years ago there was reported to be a plan to stage a huge hoax. Part of the now-denied Project BLUEBEAM was to fake an extraterrestrial invasion to panic the world population into accepting global government. Now we are seeing all these stories about UFO, which in the past were confined to tabloids, but are now being shown on major media such as FOX. I am worried that the hoax is about to be carried out. That even may be where those missing trillion from the Pentagon went to!

Now, I want to be clear. I am confident there is intelligent life throughout the universe. I just can't find a reason that they would be interested in us. Travel between the stars is very expensive. What is here on Earth worth that cost? Seriously.

Polls show almost no one trusts U.S. media, after decades of war propaganda and lies

Tucker on Twitter: Episode 2 Cling to your taboos!

And here's one of the finks explaining how they are driving your culture to destruction

Shady elites launch all-out war on free speech

Living With Lies: How the Unvaxxed, Despite a Lower Covid Infection Rate, Are Supposed to be a Threat to the Double Vaxxed

Why the double-vaccinated in some places are testing positive for COVID more often than the unvaccinated is the title of a National Post article that perfectly demonstrates the uselessness of the mainstream media. 

The author of that NP article takes what is a well known and indisputable fact, namely that the vaxxed have a higher Covid infection rate than the unvaxxed, and then mulls around attempting to find some rationalization, however feeble, to justify the lies and bullying that drive the mass vaccination campaign. For example,

“experts say the trend probably stems from statistical “biases” — the nature of the people who have been getting tested and who most frequently were exposed to the virus — and definitely not some strange quirk of immunization.”

Nah, nothing quirky. The reason is straight forward and, once you ignore the misdirection, obvious: it is that the vaxxed spread Covid because they believe what is implied by the vax campaign propaganda, namely, that they are protected from Covid. So naturally the vaxxed circulate and socialize more freely than the unvaxxed who know that they are at risk of picking up a potentially lethal illness. 

So  it is not the unvaxxed who are chiefly responsible for the spread of Covid, but stupid or dishonest, people like Justin Trudeau and British Columbia's Saint Bonnie, "be kind, be calm, be safe" Henry, who push the vax by unjustly and mendaciously demonizing the unvaxxed as Covid spreaders.

The vax does not stop the spread, it hastens it, while it kills or injures a substantial, though hidden, number of those who take it. All that can be claimed by the vaxxers is that the vaccinated are less likely to need hospitalization if infected. That's a plus, if true (though see link to UK data highlighted in red below, which show negative vaccine effects on infection and mortality), but hospitals are not overwhelmed by Covid cases and never have been. And if they had been, there were, or should have been, standby beds in temporary hospitals, such as these. 

 

Trudeau: Anti-vax? Your views are unacceptable

Rex Murphy: Should Trudeau Decide What's Acceptable?

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"It's 70km Long!" - World's Largest Truck Convoy Challenges Trudeau's Vaxx-Mandate

One of the best Canadian Anthem videos ever created: #TruckersForFreedom2022

The Lies the Vaxxers Told

Trudeau's Tyrannical Vax Mandate, Based on a Lie, Evokes Global Pushback

As Brigade of Trucks Reaches Canada’s Capitol, Spineless PM Trudeau Hides in “Covid Isolation” Despite 2 Negative Tests and Guidelines Saying Fully Vaxxed “Don’t Need to Isolate”

"Ol’ blackface Trudeau is taking a page straight out of Biden’s playbook.

The tyrannical Canadian PM is currently holed up in his basement as tens of thousands of trucks and countless others begin arriving in the country’s Capitol of Ottawa to protest his autocratic Covid-19 mandates. ..."

So it's not just we Canucks: The World hates our low-IQ, narcissistic, Fascistic, pseudo-liberal, so-called leader. 

Canadian Freedom Convoy 2022: The Longest Truck Convoy Ever at 43 Miles Long

The Canadian Trucker Convoy

Double Vaccinated Have Double the Infection Rate, Data From Iceland Show

Latest Mortality Figures Suggest That Vaccine Effectiveness Has Been Overestimated

Hey Justin: Vaccine Effectiveness Against 

Death Falls to Zero or Below, UK Data Suggest

UK Government used 'grossly unethical' fear tactics 'like China' to scare public into following Covid rules

Canadian Trucker Convoy: Massive protest  a barometer for the state of the Covid narrative

The Lying Pro-Vax Journalism Award to "The Independent"

Truth or Covid

We’re experiencing an attack on the foundation of ordered liberty, an assault that is already in the process of submerging democracies beneath what the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called a “permanent ‘state of exception.’”

The Left-wing case against vaccine mandates

"What Have You Guys Been Right About?"

Why the Trudeau Liberals and the O'Toole Tories Are Doomed

 Two weeks ago, news came out that a new covid variant originating in South Africa, Omicron, was spreading around the world.

So far, there is no indication it causes more severe disease, the opposite seems to be the case.

Establishment politicians and the media nonetheless jumped on this story to once again fearmonger and extend authoritarian covid measures.

I’m not worried about this new variant!

I’m a lot more concerned about other diseases like cancer or mental issues.

I’m more concerned about vaccine passport and the loss of our freedoms.

I’m more concerned about censorship and the lack of rational scientific debates in our society.

I’m more concerned that the mainstream media have become the propaganda arm of the government.

I’m more concerned about the acceptance of discrimination and segregation in our society.

I’m more concerned that the government of New Brunswick is allowing grocery stores to ban the unvaccinated.

I’m more concerned that people are losing their jobs because of their personal medical choice.

I’m more concerned about governments deficits and inflation.

The LibConNDP coalition unanimously supports covid tyranny.

Nobody else in Ottawa is raising these concerning issues.

Max Bernier

People's Party of Canada

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Another Study Finds That Natural Immunity Protects Better Against Infection Than the Pfizer Vaccine

Katy Hopkins Explains the Mechanics of the Engineered Panic Over Omicron, the Latest Scary Covid Variant -- or How This Shit Works

And note that OMICRON, the name asigned to the latest scary variant is an anagram for MORONIC.

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South African Medical Association Debunks Global Hysteria – Says Omicron Variant Symptoms ‘Unusual But Mild’

The Fully Vaccinated Account for 81% of the COVID Deaths in the UK

Deadly Dangerous Omicron/Moronic Super Scary Variant Symptoms Reported to be "Mild"

U.K. Panicking Unnecessarily Over Omicron Variant, Says Doctor Who Discovered It

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Lockdown Skeptics: An anthropologist by background with no academic training in medicine, virology or immunology, Prof Devi Sridhar has nonetheless become a go-to person for the broadcast media during the pandemic, where she is allowed to pronounce unchallenged on all things to do with Covid, vaccines and lockdowns. This week, expert group HART has taken her to task for her misinformation about the safety of vaccinating children on Good Morning Britain. She told viewers categorically that “zero children have died because of the vaccine side-effects”, a claim at odds with the multiple reports on VAERS of fatal adverse events in children in the U.S.

Today, she told the BBC that vaccines give more robust and longer-lasting protection than from infection.

We’d rather people get immunity through a vaccine, as studies are showing that vaccine immunity is longer-lasting. You will have a more robust immune response from a vaccine than you do from natural infection.

She doesn’t specify which studies are showing this, but it is contradicted by the findings of researchers examining differing immune responses from infection and vaccination.

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When Treason Prospers: Why Prince Charles Should Not Be Canada's Future King

For obsessive compulsives who combine ignorance with emotionality, the fixation on Covid19 avoidance is a hysterical response to irrational fear. But for most, the fixation on avoidance is simply the consequence of media brainwashing to create what Prince Charles has described as:

a unique but rapidly shrinking window of opportunity to ... set ourselves on a more sustainable course.

And what is this more sustainable course? What we're getting obviously: a shutdown (mainly permanent) of most of the small business sector of the economy to further enrich the globalist money power, while driving real wages down as central banks print trillions in new currency to destroy the wealth of savers and bond holders.

And, no doubt as a further plus in the elite view, this engineered crisis has depressed the already below-replacement birth rate of the developed nations.

Herd immunity is the only proper public policy goal. By vaccination, certainly, if and when a vaccine becomes available, but in the meantime, through the natural process of acquired immunity following infection by a virus with a kill rate little if any greater than that of the seasonal flu for all but the elderly and a few others who have the option to self-isolate.

To pursue the alternative of indefinite avoidance at the expense of the economy, of childrens' education, and the many other ill consequences of lockdowns is treason.

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Craig Murray on Belarus, Diplomacy and Color Revolutions

There is a misperception in western media that Lukashenko is Putin’s man. That is not true; Putin views him as an exasperating and rather dim legacy. There is also a misperception in the west that Lukashenko really lost the recent election. That is not true. He almost certainly won, though the margin is much exaggerated by the official result. Minsk is not Belarus, just as London is not the UK. Most of Belarus is pretty backward and heavily influenced by the state machinery. Dictators have all kinds of means at their disposal to make themselves popular. That is why the odd election or plebiscite does not mean that somebody is not a dictator. Lukashenko is a dictator, as I have been saying for nigh on twenty years.

My analysis is that Lukashenko probably won handily, with over 60% of the vote. But it was by no means a free and fair election. The media is heavily biased (remember you can also say that of the UK), and the weak opposition candidate was only there because, one way or the other, all the important opposition figures are prevented from standing.

The West is trying to engineer popular opinion in Belarus towards a “colour revolution”, fairly obviously. But they are on a sticky wicket. Western Ukraine was genuinely enthusiastic to move towards the west and the EU, in the hope of attaining a consumer lifestyle. Outside of central Minsk, there is very little such sentiment in Belarus. Most important of all, Belarus means “White Russia”, and the White Russians very strongly identify themselves as culturally Russian. We will not see a colour revolution in Belarus. The West is trying, however.

Unlike many of my readers, I see nothing outrageous in this. Attempting to influence the political direction of another country to your favour is a key aim of diplomacy, and always has been. ...

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Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense

Employee Fired for Exposing the Fraudulence US Nuke Lab Anti-White Propaganda

It will be interesting to see how soon U-Tube takes this video down.

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Elite Destruction of the Democratic Nation State

By Patriot Rising:

How Treacherous Americans Pose the Greatest Threat to Our Nation

 The “Free Press” And Big Tech Use Propaganda To Enslave Us: Control Of Speech And Ban On Firearms.

“THE CONSCIOUS AND INTELLIGENT MANIPULATION OF THE ORGANIZED HABITS AND OPINIONS OF THE MASSES IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. THOSE WHO MANIPULATE THIS UNSEEN MECHANISM OF SOCIETY CONSTITUTE AN INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT WHICH IS THE TRUE RULING POWER OF OUR COUNTRY. WE ARE GOVERNED, OUR MINDS ARE MOLDED, OUR TASTES FORMED, OUR IDEAS SUGGESTED, LARGELY BY MEN WE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. THIS IS A LOGICAL RESULT OF THE WAY IN WHICH OUR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED. VAST NUMBERS OF HUMAN BEINGS MUST COOPERATE IN THIS MANNER IF THEY ARE TO LIVE TOGETHER AS A SMOOTHLY FUNCTIONING SOCIETY.

“IF WE UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS AND MOTIVES OF THE GROUP MIND, IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO CONTROL AND REGIMENT THE MASSES ACCORDING TO OUR WILL WITHOUT THEIR KNOWING IT. IN ALMOST EVERY ACT OF OUR DAILY LIVES, WHETHER IN THE SPHERE OF POLITICS OR BUSINESS, IN OUR SOCIAL CONDUCT OR OUR ETHICAL THINKING, WE ARE DOMINATED BY THE RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF PERSONS WHO UNDERSTAND THE MENTAL PROCESSES AND SOCIAL PATTERNS OF THE MASSES. IT IS THEY WHO PULL THE WIRES WHICH CONTROL THE PUBLIC MIND.”

~ two quotations from the book, “Propaganda,” by Edward Bernays, Early 20th Century proponent of Propaganda and “Father of Public Relations”

Government, the mainstream media, transnational corporations and global technology companies are all avid users of psychological warfare and have been using it to their advantage and to great effect to control and to direct the public’s thought processes and behavior.

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COVID Deaths in Canada: A Questionable Statistic

By The Right Honorable John C.A. Manley
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Before Canadians surrender anymore of their freedoms to COVID-19 propaganda, can we stop and ask some critical questions?

“COVID is unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season,” says Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, in an interview with the CBC.

McGeer cites government statistics (as of June 17) showing a COVID mortality rate of 22 deaths per 100,000 Canadians.

“By comparison, the death rate for influenza in Canada on an annual basis is usually between nine and 13 deaths per 100,000 people…”

Does this one statistic really make COVID “unquestionably” worse than the flu?

Are not questions a fundamental part of the scientific process, whereby a theory is tested over the fires of inquiry?

Is not the act of questioning at the heart of true journalism?

Would you not agree that our ability to question the decisions, motives and actions of our government protects our democracy from descending into tyranny?

I‘m sorry Dr. McGeer, but I do have a few critical questions. Especially considering what is at risk.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, our seventh Prime Minister, had a vision of Canada as a land of individual liberty and decentralized federalism. “Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,” he most famously said. “Nothing will prevent me from continuing my task of preserving at all cost our civil liberty.”

Today, being the 153rd anniversary of Confederation, I would like to follow Laurier’s example, exercising my freedom to question and my duty to preserve our civil liberties.

Let’s start with…

WHAT IS THE ACTUAL INFECTION-TO-FATALITY RATE FOR COVID-19 IN CANADA?

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The Blogmire: The Lockdown Stockholm Syndrome

Here's a Weird Thing About the Unz Review and Google Search

Here's the title of a post I made yesterday here on Google's Blogger:

Covid-19, and the Weird World of Ron Unz

Now you might think, if only because Google is the publisher of that post, that Google's search engine would have been able to locate the post right away in response to a search on the exact title.

But if you were inclined to think that, you'd be wrong.

Here's the search query:

Covid-19, and the Weird World of Ron Unz

And wadderyer get?

Two and a half pages of contents of Ron Unz's Unz Review.

The only slightly relevant link is on the third page of results:

The curious case of Ron Unz

The former publisher of The American Conservative is a case study in contrarianism gone haywire

That's an interesting result, but it's not the the post I published on Google's blogger with the exact title as the search string.

And you cannot read the American Conservative article unless you're a subscriber to the American Conservative magazine (though they may allow you a month's access for free. Try it and see. Essentially, the article on Unz paints him, not as a devious propagandist for some unacceptable cause but merely a nutter. I'm not so sure. What the Am. Con. article does make clear is that although Unz is so vehemently anti-Semitic (though himself of Jewish origin), he firmly supports the Jewish plan for the European majority nations: extinction of the European peoples of traditional Christian faith and their replacement by people from elsewhere. That's pretty much Google's plan too.)

Odd though, innit -- the difficulty of finding content hosted by Google in a Google search. Maybe even worth thinking about.

Britain's Holy National Heath Service Lying About Universal House Arrest and How Epidemics End

Here's a video put out by Britain's most wonderful institution, the National Health Service.

With one and a half million employees available to assemble the facts clearly and honestly, here's the NHS's explanation of how the Covid-19 epidemic is spreading and will die.



The explanation offered is that curbing the spread of the virus depends entirely on the social distancing and quarantine measures implemented by the government.

That is a lie.

The virus spreads readily at first BECAUSE NO ONE HAS IMMUNITY TO IT. 

But those who have been infected by the virus and have then recovered continue to have antibodies to the virus, which protect them from subsequent infection. Thus, as the number of those who have been infected and then recovered increases, the number of susceptible people that each infected person comes into contact with, and thus can infect, decreases.

Yes, it's true that changing the social dynamics by lock-downs, quarantines, and social distancing slows the spread of the disease, but it won't stop it, and it won't reduce the number eventually infected once such measures are abandoned.

So all that wrecking the economy through lock-downs has achieved is to prevent the possibility that hospitals will be overwhelmed by severe cases.

That this small benefit, which could have been achieved much more cheaply in other ways, for example by setting up temporary Covid-19 treatment centers, is not mentioned in this NHS video.

Which means that the video is propaganda.

The video is intended to fool the public into thinking that government did the right thing when it clearly did the wrong thing in responding to the Covid-19 epidemic.

But in shutting down the economy, were governments dealing with something quite different from Covid19?

That's a question for another post.

Time to Bring F-Words and Urinating on the BBC

The Daily Mail reports:

The BBC brings F-words and urinating on graves to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the first major adaptation of the festive classic to be considered unsuitable for children.

The people at the BBC are so depraved they are unable to understand why decent people see them as depraved, disgusting, and dishonest.

Which means it is time for the Johnson Government to bring "F-words and urinating" on the BBC. 

Time, in fact, to abolish the television license fee on which the BBC feeds and let the pervs at Broadcasting House live on voluntary payments -- in the improbable event that they can get voluntary payments.

And happily, the Progs who live by the BBC ideology are the least likely to volunteer their own funds in support of what in their phantasmagoric vision they take to be the public interest. No, Progs expect to receive by extortion, not give, while using what they receive to insult those from whom the funds have been extorted. 

Skripal Tripal Part 2: The Coroner's Inquest Into the Death of Dawn Sturgess Has Been Adjourned indefinitely

This month the Coroners' Court announced the indefinite suspension of the inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess. Ms. Sturgess was allegedly poisoned by deadly "developed-in-Russia" Novichok nerve agent carelessly discarded by Russian assassins intent on murdering Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the quiet English cathedral city of Salisbury.

Sergei Skripal was a Russian double agent, convicted of treason and jailed in Russia before being pardoned and released under a spy swap agreement.

Skripal's daughter, Yulia, was so far as the public has been informed, an innocent Russian citizen who happened to be visiting with her father when evil Putin's assassins arrived in England to dispatch him with Russian trade-marked nerve toxin.

Dawn Sturgess was the live-in friend of Charley Rowley, a scavenger who fished a perfume spray bottle containing Novichok that had been discarded in a public waste bin by Putin's assassins (so it is claimed by the ever trustworthy British authorities). Charley gave the deadly spray bottle to Ms. Sturgess who promptly sprayed herself to death, albeit unintentionally.

The official story of the death of Ms. Sturgess has always seemed questionable as we have discussed at length in a number of earlier posts. The indefinite suspension of the inquest into her death, raises the question of whether, in fact, Dawn Sturgess actually died.

Rather, it seems that the official account of the Skripal poisonings was a farrago of nonsense intended to smear Russia at the time that Russia was hosting the World Cup soccer tournament. In that case, Dawn Sturgess was most likely an actor in a idiotically badly planned false-flag event.

And if that were so, Dawn Sturgess was not a sad victim of Russian villainy, but a participant in a fraud on the public and a gratuitous assault on the reputation of the Russian Government. Further, it would mean that Dawn Sturgess is almost certainly now living under a different name, with the benefit of a face-lift and a new hair-do, all at the expense of a deceived British public.

Project Veritas: Insider On CNN's Top-Down Drive to Destroy the Trump Presidency

Belgian officials lobby for BBC move to Brussels after Brexit

Wanting to adopt the BBC, those Euros must be even more stupid that we thought.

But Good riddance to the Beeb: let those delusional Euros pay for their own lies.

But the Brits would need to jam all signals from Brussels.

Best, really, though, to euthanize Auntie before she poisons more minds.

Canadian Economics: Lies by the Government Paid for by the Public

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is an agency for the deception of the public at public expense. Almost any snatch of a CBC news broadcast or public policy discussion will, on examination, be found to encapsulate a lie.

A meme currently being foisted on the public by the CBC is that trade protectionism hurts the public by raising prices. The inference being that higher prices due to trade protectionism hurt every Canadian.

That is the lie.

The purpose of trade protectionism is to raise wages of people who will produce the goods that would otherwise be imported from collapsible factories in Bangladesh, Chinese electronics assembly plants with anti-suicide nets, etc. So yes, tariffs raise prices but they also raise incomes of working people. So trade protectionism makes many working people better off at the expense mainly of those in the FIRE and globalized sectors of the economy. Protectionism would also allow Canada to rebuild some of its battered manufacturing sector that was undermined by NAFTA and devastated by free trade with the sweat-shop economies.

Yes protectionism results in retaliatory measures, but what do low-wage economies buy from Canada? Not much. Seventy-seven point four percent of Canadian exports go to the US and Mexico which are largely free of protectionist tariffs against Canadian goods. The rest consists in those incredibly cheap  shoes and shirts, and omputers and car parts that Canadians used to make for one another but now buy in large quantities from exploiters of sweated Asian labor.

In fact, a protected US Market to which Canadians have free access by virtue of the NAFTA agreement would provide huge opportunities for Canadian manufacturing.

Frans de Waal: An Ethologist's Confusion About Ethics — Part I

Ethology is the study of animal behavior. Franz de Waal is a distinguished ethologist and author of several best-selling accounts of primate behavior. As de Waal reports at length in the Atheist and the Bonobo, and other works, a key feature of the behavior of apes and to a greater or lesser degree other social animals, is sharing, helping, commiserating, comforting and demanding fairness. 

From this reality of animal social existence, de Waal concludes that morality is neither unique to humans nor dependent on religion, but is inherent in mammalian biology. Furthermore, he contends, that religion is, though difficult and perhaps impossible to eradicate, superfluous to the good society.

Thus, de Waal writes:

This brings me back to my bottom-up view of morality. The moral law is not imposed from above or derived from well-reasoned principles; rather it arises from ingrained values that have been there from the beginning of time.

In this, however, de Waal is sadly confused. The constructive, cooperative, fairness-demanding and mutually beneficial behavior of social animals is not evidence of morality, natural or otherwise. It is merely the rational, self-serving behavior of the small business owner who refrains from swindling his customers in the hope that they will return for more. It is the principle of you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. By helping one another, social animals achieve a level of well-being beyond that attainable were they to live independent, uncooperative lives.

Why Won't Those Goddam Ukrainian Moskals Just Die, Instead of Holding Fake Stinkin' Elections

The Brainwashing of the West

CTV:
Pro-Russian rebels hold rogue elections in eastern Ukraine ...

CBC:
Ukraine rebels hold election despite international outcry

(Outcry by CBC, Foreign Policy, Reuters, etc. etc. LOL)

Wall Street Journal:
Pro-Russia Rebels Open Polls Across East Ukraine in Renegade Elections

Foreign Policy:
Eastern Ukraine's Fake State Is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister

Reuters:

Europe won't recognize vote in eastern Ukraine, Merkel tells Putin 

(Merkel tells Putin! Why doesn't she tell the East Ukrainians that Germany doesn't give a damn about their right not to live under a Nazi-backed government that has just killed thousands of them, including hundreds of women who were raped before they were murdered.)

The PuffHo:
Ukraine Breakaway Regions Hold Criticized Elections

Oh, and here's a good one:

The Interpreter:
Fake Monitors “Observe” Fake Elections in the Donbass

The “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) and “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LNR), which are officially considered terrorist organisations by the Ukrainian authorities, will hold “parliamentary elections” on Sunday, November 2, on the territories occupied by them with the help of the Russian army.

These “elections” are widely considered illegal and illegitimate ...

Yes these are clearly "terrorist" organizations, since they have been fighting punitive battalions in Nazi regalia sent by the US/UK/Canada/Austrialia/EU-backed Kiev government to "kill those damn Russians."

Meantime:

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USAma Bin Laden died in December, 2001 of Marfan Syndrome