there is much evidence that the hong kong demonstrations are more of the empire's doing as were ukraines, and the result may fly in the face of the empire's minions;


Time was when flying to Hong Kong was a really big thrill – or maybe scare would be a better term.  Its old airport, Kai Tak, was right in the middle of bustling downtown Hong Kong.  Flying into Kai Tak used up 11 of one’s 12 lives.
The wide-bodied jumbo aircraft would drop down into a long fjord that was usually shrouded in fog or mist.  The nervous passenger would see nothing but cloud.  Suddenly, the aircraft would break out of the thick cloud cover right over the airport.
To the left and right were apartment buildings festooned with drying laundry at the same height as one’s plane.  The big 747 airliner landed with a huge thud and screaming tires right in front of another bunch of apartment buildings.
Even for veteran air travelers like myself, this was a heart-stopping experience.  Amazingly, I recall only one crash at Kai Tak, which we used to call ‘Suicide Airport.’  Still, it was like landing a jumbo-jet on New York’s Park Avenue.  Not for the faint of heart.
In 1998, Kai Tak was closed and replaced by the modern, spacious Chek Lap Kok, better known as Hong Kong International.  It quickly became one of Asia’s principal aviation hubs.
This week, Hong Kong airport was besieged and shut down by thousands of young local demonstrators protesting China’s attempt to impose a new extradition law on Hong Kong that would allow Beijing to arrest Hong Kong residents for ‘anti-state’ activities.  The deal that Hong Kong’s former colonial Britain signed with China calls for ‘two-states, one nation,’ with considerable independence for the former island colony.
But anyone who thinks China’s iron-fisted rulers will allow a scrap of paper to limit their influence over Hong Kong is dead wrong.  For them, Hong Kong is as much a part of China as Shanghai.  So, too, is Taiwan.............https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/eric-margolis/china-is-getting-ready-to-crush-hong-kong/

the epstein saga at the bottom of it, and it involves bread and circuses;


https://youtu.be/f740LQaG50s

'our free press' isn't but it isn't how you may believe that situation to be manifest, and noam is here with a short description of why along with lots of other evidence and video;

The ridiculous corporate media freakout over Senator Bernie Sanders’ entirely legitimate accusations of pro-establishment bias continues today, with shrill, absurd new headlines like “Sanders campaign continues attacks on journalists” and “Bernie Sanders isn’t sorry” featuring hysterical MSM drama queens rending their garments over the suggestion that plutocrat-owned media outlets could be favorable to the plutocrat-owned establishment.

In response to this cartoonish display of billionaire-sponsored performance art, The Hill‘s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjati aired a segment on their online show Rising which is as damning an exposé on the dynamics of mass media empire propaganda as we are ever likely to witness. With startling frankness and honesty, the pair disclose their experience with the way anyone who is critical of the establishment consensus is excluded from mainstream media platforms, as well as the way access journalism, financial incentives, prestige incentives and peer pressure are used to herd mainstream reporters into toeing the establishment line once they’re in.

I strongly urge you to watch the eight-minute segment for yourself, but I’ll be transcribing parts of it as well for those who prefer reading, as well as for posterity, because it really is that historically significant. I will surely be referring back to this segment in my arguments about plutocratic media bias for years to come, because it confirms and validates everything that analysts like Noam Chomsky have been saying about mass media propaganda like nothing else I’ve ever seen. Status quo propaganda is the underlying root of all our problems, and Ball and Enjati have gifted us with an invaluable tool for understanding and attacking it............https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/08/16/former-msnbc-reporter-spills-details-on-pro-establishment-bias-in-media/

where we've come to these days;

here be found some epstein speculation surrounding the mango mussolini, bernie, rudy, and bibi in which suspicions may be raised;


Ron Unz’s strategy to begin the cleanup of America by discrediting mainstream media (MSM)  makes a lot of sense. And when the enemy collapses into confusion and fratricidal “friendly fire” you know you’re making progress.
A virtual civil war has broken out in the MSM between pro- and anti- “Epstein conspiracy theorists.” On the pro side, a great many mainstream voices are starting to admit that Epstein’s case, especially the absurdly improbable “suicide,” proves conspiracy theories may not be so crazy after all. The past two days have witnessed New York Times op-eds headlined “Why I Dabble in Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Theories” and “Jeffrey Epstein and When to Take Conspiracy Theories Seriously.” And the Washington Post, as VT Senior Editor Gordon Duff notes, recently exposed autopsy evidence suggesting that Epstein was murdered.
But even as one side of the mainstream media mouth admits the conspiracy theorists were right, the other side makes panicky noises about how terrible that is, how society needs to be protected from those terrible conspiracy mongers who are destroying public trust, how Hofstadter’s paranoid style is running amok, something needs to be done, let’s censor the internet, blah blah blah, you know the drill.
Despite these internal differences of opinion, the MSM has united to deplore the most prominent Epstein conspiracy theorist: President Donald J. Trump. Trump’s tweets suggesting Epstein’s barely-cold cadaver could add to the #ClintonBodyCount are extraordinary and unprecedented. Neocon 9/11 suspect David Frum was horrified:..........https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/08/15/rudy-bernie/

your call on this but i recommend you view it even if just to see the opening illustration which i can't get to post properly, and a hint, it speaks of how the joos control the empire;

The Trump administration should be careful about making repeated threats and warnings, particularly over Iran.

In June Trump warned Iran that it risked “obliteration” if it wouldn’t talk with the U.S.

Iran refused saying it didn’t trust the Americans.

Nothing happened.

Then, President Trump reportedly called off air strikes on Iran, after Iran downed a U.S. Global Hawk drone in its airspace. Instead of a military strike Trump imposed more “hard-hitting” sanctions on Iran’s already battered economy.

Now the U.S. has warned of “serious consequences” after an Iranian tanker that had been seized by Royal Marines off the coast of Gibraltar was released. The tanker was released despite U.S. requests that the authorities in Gibraltar continue to hold the vessel.

The thing about making threats is that you must be prepared to follow through on them. If you don’t the warnings sound hollow and eventually they are ignored............http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=193281

fred in his usual effective satirical coverage of the empire and its concerns, in this case, china;


America again wins the annual International Math Olympiad! The contest pits the brightest high-school students of countries against each other in six-member teams. The American victories continue the mastery by the European cultures that invented most of modern math. This supports the claim (I hope I do not sound racist) that European superiority is genetic. In any event, the outcome is crucial because these young prodigies will shape the future of their peoples for many decades.........http://www.unz.com/freed/u-s-supreme-over-asia-in-mathematics/