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Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: Mar 23 – Coronavirus – How To Lift Lockdowns And Why We Should All Wear Masks Mar 26 – More Bits On The Corona Crisis Related: Instruction for making masks (pdf, in German…

The Trump administration is reacting to the pandemic stress by lashing out at perceived internal and external enemies. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is leading the external onslaught. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an “immediate global ceasefire”…

The post I worked on today didn’t pan out. Please use yesterday’s thread for further discussion of the pandemic. Other stuff can go here …

Donald Trump’s MAGA is successful. The U.S. is providing the world with another example of its great exceptionalism. In a few days it will have the greatest number of Covid-19 cases and the greatest number of casualties of the disease….

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahoo has used the corona crisis to launch a coup. Netanyahoo has served as caretaker prime minister since December 2018. Three parliament elections have since ended in stalemate. The first two, in April and September 2019,…

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While the U.S. president continues to blame China there are more signs that the outbreak started elsewhere: Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on Feb. 21. Remuzzi says he is now hearing…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: Mar 16 – The Pandemic Will Cause A Global Depression – We Need Demand Side Measures To Counter It Mar 17 – Coronavirus – A Lockdown Is Not Enough Mar 19 – False…

The U.S. intelligence services fear to come under questioning for not raising enough warning about the novel coronavirus pandemic. To prevent any criticism they asked their favored stenographers to write an exculpating piece. Thus the Washington Post headlines: U.S. intelligence…

Grifter know well that every crisis is also a chance to make money. The U.S. Congress is, like most parliaments, full of grifter. Its is therefore not astonishing to learn that some Congress members used the early information about the…

At about 13:00 UTC/GMT today traffic to this blog crossed the line of 50,000,000 pageviews. Moon of Alabama was created on June 30 2004 after Billmon’s legendary Whiskey Bar closed its public comments sections. This site was not supposed to…

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Today China reported zero new domestic cases of novel coronavirus infections. It has beaten the epidemic just as we predicted early on. Other countries with still expanding epidemics will have to adopt all the measures China has taken to also…

The Justice Department dropped its case against a Russian company which was alleged of influencing the 2016 elections. But as one false claim about Russian influence campaigns is now thoroughly debunked new nonsensical claims about alleged Russian influence campaigns arise….

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Dr. Carl Juaneau, who is specialized in epidemiology, has pointed me to a page where he collects useful information about the novel Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 and the current pandemic it causes. COVID-19: Why America May Be Hit Hard for 3-4 Months…

Last week’s post on Boeing ended with this line: The pandemic, and the global depression it will cause, now make it certain that Boeing will have to ask for a gigantic government bailout or go into bankruptcy. With most flights…

There is some debate tonight. Matt Taibbi has some thoughts about it: Bernie’s Last Chance Heading into a one-on-one debate with Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders should not go gentle into that good night Please keep anything related to the election…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: Mar 9 – Is The Coronavirus Really More Dangerous Than The Flu? Mar 11 – Coronavirus – The Hidden Cases – Why We Must Shut Everything Down And Do It Now Mar 13…

Several decades ago I was tank soldier and my unit went to a training area at the coast of Wales, Great Britain. There were several tank shooting ranges and the Brits had built some very simple outhouses for those who…

Yesterday the U.S. attacked five sites in Iraq and killed 3 Iraqi soldiers of the 19th Division, two policeman and a civilian. The strikes came after some 10+ rockets, fired by unknown people, had hit the joint base Camp Tali…

Excerpts from three current pieces about the novel coronavirus pandemic. NPR: White House Knew Coronavirus Would Be A ‘Major Threat’ — But Response Fell Short In the case of Alex Azar, [the head of Health and Human Services], he did…

On January 3 the U.S. assassinated the Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani and the deputy chairman of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Abu Mahdi al Muhandis near the airport of Baghdad. In response to the infraction of Iraq’s sovereignty…

On top of the damage that misguided shareholder value policy caused to Boeing’s will now come the effects of an unprecedented pandemic. Together they may well signal the end of a once great company. On March 10 2019 Ethiopian Airlines…

The powers that be in our ‘western’ societies have decided to do nothing significant against the onslaught the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 is now causing. There will not even be an attempt to do like China or South Korea which have…

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Today the financial markets finally recognized the economic damage the novel Coronavirus will cause. The price war in the crude oil markets which Russia initiated did not cause today’s stock market fall but it also did not help. While cheap…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: Mar 3 – Syria – Another Short Note On The Recent Developments Mar 5 – Syria – Another Ceasefire In Idleb – Erdogan Loses On All Points Mar 4 – U.S. Breaks Its…

The Saudi Clown Prince Mohammed bin Salman removed his competition within the royal family: Saudi Arabia has detained three senior Saudi princes including Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s…

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The current public reaction to the coronavirus pandemic confuses even propaganda specialists: Blake News @blakehounshell – 1:19 UTC · 6 Mar 2020 I was looking at this timeline of the H1N1 pandemic put out by the CDC, and it’s way…

Our last post on Syria concluded: Erdogan wants Idleb but neither Syria nor Iran nor Russia will let him have it. President Putin will meet Erdogan during the coming days and will make sure that the point is understood. President…

Two years ago, on March 4 2018, Sergei Skripal a British-Russian double agent and his daughter Julia were poisoned in the streets of Salisbury, England. The British government accused Russia of an attempt to kill the Skripals with a nerve…

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Today a U.S. fighter jet bombed a Taliban unit which was fighting with an Afghan government checkpoint. The air attack came just a day after U.S. President Trump had a telephone call with the Taliban leaders in Doha. The Taliban…

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After the confusion caused by the sudden stand down of Russian forces in Syria and the following Turkish drone attacks everything seems to be back to normal. Russian planes are again bombing Jihadis and Turkey has been told by Russia…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: Feb 25 – Syria – Army Moves To Liberate M4 Highway – Turkish Russian Standoff Continues Feb 28 – Syria – Deadly Bomb Strike Warns Turkey To End Its Escapades Mar 1 -…

The current situation in Syria is confusing. The Russian airforce and air defense went quiet after the bombing of the Turkish infantry battalion. Putin presumably wants a deal over Idleb but neither Damascus nor Ankara are willing to agree to…

The New York Times abuses the coronavirus pandemic to push more of its anti-China propaganda: The New York Times @nytimes – 10:40 UTC · Feb 28, 2020 The Chinese government silenced whistle-blowers, withheld information and played down the threat of…

The last three days of the Idleb campaign were quite eventful. The Turkey supported Jihadis threw everything they had against Saraqib where the M4 and M5 highways join. This enabled the Syrian army to take some 40 towns and cities…

After a uneven first response China did its very best to limit the spread of the nCov-19 virus and the Covid-19 disease the virus causes. The extreme quarantine, which began in mid January, has come at a great economic cost…

Britain is currently holding an obscene show trial against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The hearing is designed to end with the extradition of Assange to the United States or with his death. In the U.S. he would be accused of…

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The Syrian Arab Army continues its campaign to liberate Idleb governorate. The current main area of operation is in the southeast of the terrorist held area where the SAA attacks in a northern and western direction. The aim of the…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: February 17 – Syria – Aleppo Is Fully Liberated But The War Will Continue February 19 – Syria – Turkey’s Bluff Is Called – Media Opposition Sources Run By British Intelligence Related: Putin…

A careful reading of the news provides that Mike Bloomberg is Putin’s agent. He is the Russian operative who pays trolls that repeat disinformation. His behind the scene machinations are sowing uncertainty about the validity of American elections. New York…

China is making more progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus while other countries see increased problems. Meanwhile the global economic damage that the epidemic causes is slowly coming into view. In our last discussion of the Coronavirus epidemic…