On Sunday (9/13), over 100,000 people flooded the streets of Minsk, Belarus’ capital, demanding “Europe’s last dictator” who has ruled them for 26 years resign.

Five weeks of peaceful (actually – not peacefully violent like the US) mass freedom demonstrations in Belarus after the falsified elections on August 9, have profoundly changed this formerly rather stable country. They have impressed its European neighbors, and set a sharp challenge for Russia.

How soon will the unquenchable protests against dictatorship be coming to Putin’s door?

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Naive observers explain this summer’s protests in terms of African-Americans’ material disadvantages. Yet they aren’t the main driver of the protests, which appear to be led mainly by well-off white people.

Their ideology goes by many names: cancel culture, social justice, critical race theory, intersectionality. For simplicity, I call it all Wokeism.

I am not about to equate Wokeism and Islamism. There are many differences. But consider the resemblances.

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It's the video that's sweeping the conservative blogosphere.  The Antifa rioting moron in Portland whose legs were engulfed in flames of his own Molotov Cocktail.  Twitter wag Steve Inman calls him Andy Tifa.

Andy’s comrades tried ineffectually to extinguish the flames which the police efficiently put out.  There are other videos of Antifa people injuring themselves or each other, but this one has legs (burning legs, if you will).

There's a reason for its popularity: that short video encompasses everything wrong with Antifa, and it's okay to laugh because no one was seriously hurt in the making of that video.  Don’t know about Andy, though

From the beginning, there's been a duality about Antifa.

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The so-called revolutionaries who were busted for rioting at a New Afrikan Black Panther Party rally took a break from their yacht club lives and modeling careers to be a part of the mayhem.

The seven “comrades” — including wealthy Upper East Sider Clara Kraebber — had their mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday (9/09), days after their arrests for smashing storefront windows in the Flatiron District.

They were cuffed during a protest organized by the Panthers and the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement groups condemning the death of Daniel Prude, who was killed while in custody of the Rochester Police Department in March. Yes, six months ago.

All come from privileged backgrounds — leading one police source to call their actions “the height of hypocrisy.”

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The effort to stop President Trump is growing comical.

One always expects the media surprise leak of a purported hidden scandal as a presidential campaign winds down.  Remember the October 7, 2016 effort of the Washington Post to publish the hoarded 11-year-old “Access Hollywood” tape, just two days before Donald Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton?

We should expect lots of these “bombshells” and “walls are closing in” pseudo-derailments. Except Trump has been the most widely investigated, probed, attacked, and smeared president in history.

And so the scandal-field has pretty well been picked over. In Jussie Smollett fashion, the demand for scandals is outrunning the supply and time grows short.

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In terms of political ethics and tactics, the Democrats have hit rock bottom.

The Atlantic has worked hard to become a third-rate New Yorker in terms both of literary quality and the vitriol of its hatred for President Trump; the magazine has probably confirmed its position with the confection of the uncorroborated and totally implausible allegation that Trump disparaged American World War I veterans who died in France as “suckers” and “losers.”

It is indicative of the fact that the Democrats are much less overconfident than they were four years ago. In this latest incident, many people, including almost everyone who would have been present, have all denied that any such utterance had been made. It is inconceivable that this president would think or say anything of the kind.

But the odium of the incident is magnified by the fact that it was clearly staged in a tight sequence coordinated between the Biden campaign and its most rabid media partisans.

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Take off the masks and remove the “social distancing” circles from the floors. Open the schools, liberate college campuses, fill the restaurants and the gyms and the churches and the salons. Enough.

In mid-March, Americans were asked to suspend their personal freedoms, business pursuits, and schooling for 15 days to “flatten the curve” of rising cases of the novel coronavirus. Americans, fearful of the unknown and willing to do what they imagined was the right thing to protect themselves and their family, acquiesced.

That was 175 days ago. What has happened since will be studied and debated for decades with one likely conclusion: Global lockdowns, particularly in the United States, were one of the costliest man-made disasters of all time.

The decision was rooted in unscientific hocus pocus that resulted in economic, educational, mental, physical, and emotional catastrophes on a scale that can never be fully quantified—not to mention the way stay-at-home orders fueled racial and civil unrest across America months before a national election.

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This is significant because someone may have retained a copy of that file or there may be other records; Biden appears to be eminently blackmailable. Now what happens if two or more different blackmailers have the goods on Biden and issue opposing incompatible demands?  If the 'Crat powers that be didn't have the goods on a candidate, I doubt whether they would be allowed to become a finalist, and that includes Harris.

Secret Service Admits To Destroying Records In Alleged Biden Breast-Grabbing Incident

How to construct a propaganda narrative:

"Infiltrated By Nazis..." - The Rise Of The New Normal 'Gleichschaltung'

Do as we say, not as we do:

San Francisco Gym Owners Irate After Learning City Government Gyms Are Open

There’s LOTS more!

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