The 2020 US Presidential Election: Joe Biden Pt.2. (draft)

To be read as a direct continuation of Part 1; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-2020-us-presidential-election-joe.html

The Democrat's Plea Bargin came together during the spring/summer of 2020. As Joe Biden's campaign was turbocharged and he was given a clear route to the nomination.

As it traditional the announcement of the plea bargin featured a reading of the charges. In May/June 2020.

Firstly came the withdrawal of charges against Michael Flynn. Which obviously highlighted the Mueller Investigation. The product of Joe Biden's corrupt practices in Ukraine.

As I've said the Mueller Investigation failed in its primary objective. Proving that there was Russian Interference in the 2016 Election. 

It should come as no surprise then that Mueller has also failed to secure a single conviction.

I know some people will point to the convictions of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. 

However those convictions were over tax evasion charges over work done in Ukraine. Back in 2008. When Barack Obama was facing Hillary Clinton in a effort to seek the Democrat Party nomination. 

The majority of them were not even brought by Mueller.

When it comes to Russia or the 2016 US Election. All Mueller has been able to do is intimidate suspects into pleading guilty. As he attempted to do with Michael Flynn.

Whenever Mueller is challenged. Asked to prove his allegations in Court he simply withdraws the indictment. As he did with Concord Management and Consulting.

Michael Flynn has only ever been accused of obstruction of justice. Lying to Mueller's investigators. This is an offence which can only occur when it is a lawful activity that is being obstructed.

The withdrawal of the allegation against Flynn was intended to send the clear message. Mueller and his investigator were not engaged in a lawful activity.

Instead they were engaged in a wholly unlawful activity. A Seditious Conspiracy to overthrow a lawfully elected President.

The fact that Judge Emmet Sullivan decided to fight the withdrawal of the allegation against Flynn. Completely failing to pick up on the clear nudges and winks from the US intelligence community.

That is just testament to the damage the Democrats have already done to America as a democracy under the rule of law.

Next came the charges the Democrats must answer over Black Lives Matter. This was raised through the cases of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor.

The Ahmaud Arbery case is remarkably similar to the Trayvon Martin case. Dating back to 2012 this really served as the prototype for the Michael Brown case and the Democrats co-opting of Black Lives Matter.

As he was walking home Trayvon Martin was accosted by George Zimmerman. A self-appointed neighbourhood watch volunteer. Which was, well. 

I'd be tempted to say simply that it was racist and wrong. However George Zimmerman is clearly a coward. He dreams of being able to rise to the level of mere racist.

However it was Trayvon Martin's actions from the point that he was stopped which really led to his death. He decided to launch a vicous physical assault on George Zimmerman

At the specific moment he was shot Trayvon Martin was attempting to murder George Zimmerman. By repeatedly smashing his head against concrete paving.

As was shown at the trial this meant the killing of Trayvon Martin was both lawful and justified. Although, as a I said at the time, I think the prosecution really should have pursued assault charges against George Zimmerman,

There is, of course, a whole world of difference between acknowledging that someone's actions are technically lawful. And saying that you suddenly want to be their friend.

The accusations in the Ahmaud Arbery case are on an even less sound legal basis than those in the Trayvon Martin case.

Unlike Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman Ahmaud Arbery and his alleged killer were known to each other. 

Specifically Gregory McMichael knew Arbery as a thief. Having previously investigated and seen him convicted of the offence of theft.

Gregory McMichael also saw Ahmaud Arbery leaving an unattended property which he did not have permission to be in.

These two facts create the reasonable suspicion that Arbery was once again engaged in theft. Allowing Gregory McMichael, or anyone else, to use reasonable force to stop him in the commission of the crime.

Again it was Ahmaud Arbery's decision to use violence to evade this citizens arrest that led to his death. 

Once you are physically attacking a person in possession of a firearm you are using lethal force. Therefore lethal force is fully legally allowed to stop you.

The Ahmaud Arbery case was not elevated to the public attention because there is any suggestion that he was unlawfully killed

The Ahmaud Arbery case was elevated as an example of how completely lacking in credibility the accusations of Black Lives Matter really are.

The Ahmaud Arbery case also took us back to the Michael Brown case. Through the CNN anchor Don Lemon.

During the Ferguson riots Don Lemon became an international figure of fun. In March 2015 a Black Lives Matter activist/terrorist opened fire on police officers protecting a police station from rioters. Using a 9mm handgun.

Don Lemon declared that the shooting couldn't possibly be the work of Black Lives Matter. As the shots had been fired from 150 metres/yards away. Far beyond the range of a 9mm handgun.

That was an utterly absurd claim to make. Particularly in a country like America where gun ownership is so widespread. 

Almost all 9mm handguns are designed to work at ranges upto 300 metres/yards. So are perfectly capable of operating at half that distance.

Don Lemon then went onto claim that a special, previously unheard of 9mm weapon must have been used. 

Don Lemon then went on to very strongly implied that this mystery weapon must have been developed in some secret government lab. As part of a False Flag operation to harm Black Lives Matter.

At which point everyone's jaws dropped. 

A supposed journalist broadcasting on an international news network. Saying something that would get you laughed out of even the wildest of Internet conspiracy theory forums.

In his coverage of the Ahmaud Arbery case Don Lemon crossed from delusional absurdity into actual criminality. 

He openly called one of the witnesses - William "Roddy" Bryan - a liar. Then urged his viewers to harass and intimidate him.

It was after this campaign of harassment and intimidation that Bryan changed his statement. Causing him to be considered a suspect rather than a witness.

So Don Lemon has very clearly committed the offence of Witness Tampering. Contrary to US Code Title 18. 1512.

Likewise the Breonna Taylor case. 

This was never intended to be viewed as a credible allegation by Black Lives Matter. It was only ever intended to as an example of how lacking in credibility Black Lives Matter's allegations are.

Breonna Taylor had been in a long term relationship with Jamarcus Glover. 

I would categorise this as an abusive relationship. Given how Jamarcus Glover is a drug dealer. While Breonna Taylor had ready access to drugs through her work as a Emergency Medical Technican (EMT).

As you may have heard the Obamacare unleashed an Opioid epidemic on America. 

So for the public good the police undertook an investigation into Jamarcus Glover. Which revealed that he was having drugs delivered through the mail to Breonna Taylor's address.

The police took this evidence to a Judge. The Judge inspected it and signed off on multiple so-called "No Knock" warrants of entry/search. Including for Breonna Taylor's address.

In executing this warrant the police had the legal right not to knock. Instead just smashing down the door. 

They though opted to use restraint and discretion. Repeatedly knocking and identifying themselves as police officers.It was only after being repeatedly ignored that they then forced entry.

It was at this point that Breonna Taylor's current partner, Kenneth Walker opened fire on the police. 

Hitting one police officer in the thigh, close to the femoral artery. An injury that I'm sure Breonna Taylor would have known would have caused him to bleed out and die within minutes.

In an effort to rescue the dying man the police officers, entirely lawfully, returned fire. At which point Breonna Taylor was shot and killed.

The subsequent months have turned into an absolute carnival of corruption by the Democrat Party. 

With some $12 million of public funds being embezzled. Then laundered through Ben Crump's law practice into Democrat Party coffers.

They also resulted in one of the officers, Brett Hankison being charged with Wanton Endangerment.

There is no legal basis to support even that minor offence.

The life of the person you can see bleeding to death always takes precedence over the lives of people you cannot see. Who may or may not even exist.

The only supportable charges in the case are against Kenneth Walker. For the attempted murder of the police officers. Along with the manslaughter of Breonna Taylor.

There is some argument that pursuing those charges would not be in the public interest. The only death as the result of Kenneth Walker's actions was that of his partner. 

So Kenneth Walker is really the only one who is left bearing the consquences of his actions. In short he's suffered enough.

Although I think the wounded police officer, Jonathon Mattingly, may dispute that. As he battles through his rehab and recovery.

Whether it is in the public interest to charge him or not does not change the simple fact. That Breonna Taylor's death was wholly and exclusively caused by the actions of Kenneth Walker

In that the Breonna Taylor case was also intended to highlight the extreme misogny of Black Lives Matter and the Democrat Party.

It is yet another story of a young Black woman being exploited in an abusive relationship with a Black man. Only to be killed in her home by the violence of a Black man.

You didn't hear about Black Lives Matter of the Democrats complain about that for even a second.

Instead they were falling over themselves in demands that those Black men be protected from ever having to face justice.

Personally I, along with COVID-19, have never felt that the Democrats were suitable candidates for a plea bargin.

Due to the Democrats complete lack of understanding that their actions were wrong. Let alone being remorseful.

The Democrats immediately set about proving me right.

I'm sure Americans have noticed. How the months after the announcement of the Demcorats plea bargin was basically just one long riot.

Initially this was triggered by the death of George Floyd. In Minneapolis. Minnesota. Where Kieth Ellison is State Attorney General.

In the death of George Floyd the claims of Black Lives Matter and the Democrats have been even more lacking in credibility than those cited in the announcement of the plea bargin.

George Floyd died for an overdose of the Opioids Fentanyl and Morphine. 

As it almost always does this caused the condition Cardiopulmonary Arrest. In which a slowed heart is unable to pump blood against the force of gravity and sphincter valves in the artries to the brain.

If George Floyd's contact with the police had any impact it was to prolong his life. Laying him on his side reducing the force of gravity meaning the blood only had to pump against the sphincter valves.

As with Eric Garner this nonsense slogan; "I Can't Breathe" doesn't even come into the equation. If you follow the science.

That George Floyd died of an Opioid overdose is something the defence found in their autopsy. It also something the family found in their independent autopsy. Most importantly is is also something the prosecution found in their autopsy.

When the prosecution, the defence and an independent expert are all in agreement that no crime has been committed. 

You would assume then that it would be completely unthinkable that anyone would even attempt to move ahead with a trial.

Showing even worse judgement Black Lives Matter and the Democrats then took up the case of Jacob Blake. In Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Jacob Blake is a known sexual predator. At the time he was shot by the police he was wanted on warrants for breaking into sleeping women's houses and sexually assaulting them.

The police were called to respond to him that day because he had forced his way into a woman's house and assaulting her. He was in the process of attempting to steal her car and kidnap her children. At knifepoint.

I'm generally quite opposed to things like sexual violence and child kidnapping. So I have no problem saying there was only one tragedy in the shooting of Jacob Blake. And that's that he lived.

Black Lives Matter and the Democrats though seem to be on a mission. To prove that sexual violence and violence against women and children are their core values.

So their first demand in the Jacob Blake case was the same as in the Breonna Taylor case. That as a Black man Jacob Blake should be protected from ever having to face justice.

It was the rioting in Atlanta, Georgia that really caught my attention though.

Firstly because it produced the absolutely hilarious spectacle. 

Of CNN trying to maintain the lie of Black Lives Matter as peaceful protesters. While Black Lives Matter were hurling petrol bombs into the foyer of CNN's own headquarters.

It also highlighted the total hypocrisy and complete lack of rational thought at the core of the Democrats and Black Lives Matter.

On May 30th (30/5/20) Black Lives Matter activist Messiah Young drove a car into a group of police officers. He was subdued with a Taser stungun and removed from the vehicle.

The Democrat Mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance-Bottoms immediately fired the police officers. Before pursuing criminal charges against them. For the use of a deadly weapon. Namely a Taser stungun.

On June 12th (12/6/20) Rayshard Brooks attacked two police officers with a Taser stungun. In an effort to evade arrest. He was shot and killed.

Mayor Lance-Bottom's attitude then suddenly changed. A Taser stungun could no longer to be considered a deadly weapon. So she fired the police officers. Before pursuing criminal charges.

It almost goes without saying that like Jacob Blake, Rayshard Brooks had outstanding arrest warrants and restraining orders. Relating to child abuse.

The Democrats deployed Black Lives Matter in the summer of 2020. For exactly the same reason they deployed them in the summer of 2014. To energise their base.

Obviously their ultimate goal was for the country to vote for their candidate in the Presidental Election. 

However they also wanted candidates from Keith Ellison's extremist wing of the party to win at the down ballot primaries.

I'm sure it didn't escape anyone's attention that the memorials and funerals for George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks etc all took place on Tuesdays. The day of voting in the Democrat primaries. Particularly in Georgia.

I think that issue of basic competence provides one of the strongest reasons not to vote Democrat.

Keith Ellison clearly wanted Joe Biden as a candidate. Thinking that Joe Biden is just a senile old man that he, Keith Ellison, can run rings around.

Not realising that Keith Ellison is the guy everybody else has been running rings around for, certainly, the last 18 months.

A nation led by the victim's victim is only ever going to be a victim.

Eventually the Democrats did wise up. Appointing Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's running mate. In an effort to hide their love of misogyny and violence.

That though will not change the fact that the Democrats are the party so extreme that they refused to pick Kamala Harris as their candidate.

For the crime of not being Black enough. While, as a woman, daring to think that there are certain Black men who deserve to be in prison.

Somehow I don't think a senile old man is going to be able to change that from within.

While the Democrats were merrily rioting away warning lights were flashing up. For all Americans to see.

First came all the talk of the Boogaloo Movement.

The Boogaloo Movement believe that America is on an inevitable path to the collapse of the government and civil war. 

Through their use of Fear as a Weapon of Social Control, especially with Black Lives Matter, the Democrats are doing everything in their power to make that a reality.

In short. A vote Democrat is a vote for Boogaloo.

Then came the decision by the US intelligence community to use coordinated inauthentic behaviour to promote the QAnon Conspiracy. 

Trolling the likes of Twitter to start censoring QAnon content. Promoting it further into the mainstream.

As clear a declaration as you're ever going to get from the US intelligence community;

Sexual violence and violence against women and children are the Democrat's core values.

You could almost go so far as to describe them as a conspiracy of Satan worshipping peadophiles.

Then there was the frankly hilarious plot against the Democrat Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer. 

This saw the formation of a new militia group. The; "Wolverine Watchman."

A name taken from the 1984 movie; "Red Dawn" In which the Soviet Union invades. Leaving America's fate in the hands of brattish teenagers.

Or perhaps the 2012 remake. In which North Korea invades. Leaving America's fate in the hands of brattish teenagers.

Mixed with the 2019 TV show; "Watchman." Set in a dystopian alternate reality. Which the Democrats and Black Lives Matter seem to consider aspirational.

The Wolverine Watchman's plan was to force Governor Whitmer to appear before a Kangaroo Court. In order to remove her from office.

Exactly as the Democrats have been doing with their multiple attempts to impeach President Trump.

Having instigated the plot the FBI did not immediately move into make arrests. 

Instead they informed Governor Whitmer and the Democrat Party of the seditious conspiracy. Moving Governor Whitman from secret location to secret locaction. For her protection.

So the FBI spent several weeks poking senior Democrats in the ribs. Whispering;

"Seditious Conspiracy."

"Seditious Conspiracy."

"Seditious Conspiracy."

Eventually the FBI got those senior Democrats to appear on TV. To finally acknowledge, in public, that seditious conspiracies are wrong.

Personally, if I had a vote, I would vote for the third candidate. Kanye West.

However only because I see that as a way of guaranteeing myself four years of favours. Or four years of extreme vengeance.

If you do have a vote though I suggest you use it.

I know we say this every four years;

"Please vote. This could be the most important election in US history."

But the fact of the matter is though;

Please vote.

If the Democrats win this could well be the last election in US history.

 

16:50 on 29/10/20 (UK date). 

The 2020 US Presidential Election: Joe Biden. (draft)

Firmly representing the Democrats there is the challenger. Joe Biden.

Or, as he's known to Keith Ellison;

"The White Devil Ya'll Gonna Be Dumb Enough To Vote For!"

The reason why Joe Biden can never become President can be summed up in a single sentence;

From 2008 to 2016 Joe Biden was Barack Obama's Vice President.

This means that Joe Biden was a central part of the Obama regime that thought the Pivot Towards The Pacific Policy was a good idea.

Joe Biden was a central part of the Obama regime that thought sanctioning Iran was a good idea.

Joe Biden was a central part of the Obama regime that thought creating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was a good idea. Helping Islamist terror inflict this current, ongoing world war on us.

Joe Biden was a central part of the Obama regime that thought that restarting the African Slave Trade was a good idea.

Joe Biden was a central part of the Obama regime that thought that it was a good idea to block the World from taking action to combat Climate Change. Through the Paris Agreement.

In the Obama regime Joe Biden had a dedicated area of speciality. 

Conducting the assault on the very concept of America as a democracy under the rule of law. Personally handling The Rigging of the 2016 Election.

The Democrats attempt to rig the 2016 Election as copied almost directly from the playbook of the South Korean Saenuri (Liberty Korea) Party's successful rigging of the Republic of Korea's (RoK/South) 2012 election.

That saw outgoing President Lee Myung-bak decide that there was going to be "Foreign Interference" in election. Specifically from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North). 

Lee Myung-bak then set up a specialist unit within the South Korean equivilent of the FBI, the National Intelligence Service (NIS). Tasked with monitoring social media during the election campaign.

This specialist NIS unit had a clear mission. 

To declare any criticism of Lee Myung-bak designated successor, Park Geun-hye, to be this "Foreign Interference" and remove it. Along with declaring any support for the opponent Moon Jae-in to also be this "Foreign Interference" and remove it.

You can see why the Obama regime decided to Lee Myung-bak's playbook. 

It was initially very successful. Park Geun-hye did manage to steal the election. Becoming President. Until the scandal was uncovered and she was deposed and jailed in 2018.

Obviously the Obama regime was going to have a tough time convincing the American public that they were under attack from their neighbour to the north. Canada.

So they had to start by inventing a new bogeyman. They obviously chose the nation which has been causing their ISIL chums so much bother. Russia.

Vice President Joe Biden was then dispatched to Ukraine. To create the lie of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

He went about this by withholding US aid to force the sacking of Ukraine's Chief Prosecutor/Attorney General Viktor Shokin. I gather you've recently been reminded of this. Through the release of genuine emails obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop.

Having removed Viktor Shokin from office Joe Biden then hand-picked Ukraine's next Chief Prosecutor/Attorney General. Yuriy Lutschenko

In debt to the man who handed him power Yuriyi Lutshenko then produced what has become known as; "The Black Ledger." This made yet to be verified claims that Paul Manafort was working with claimed Russian spy Konstantin Kilimnik to get Trump elected President.

This black ledger was then used by the Obama regime as evidence of "Foreign Interference." Allowing it to task the US equivilent of the NIS - the FBI - to set up a special unit.

This specialist FBI unit had a clear mission. 

To declare any criticism of then President Obama's designated successor, Hillary Clinton, to be this "Foreign Interference" and remove it. Along with declaring any support for the opponent Donald Trump to also be this "Foreign Interference" and remove it.

As I'm sure you've all heard the Obama regime's FBI unit went much further. Placing members of the Trump campaign under surveillance to pass secrets to the Clinton campaign. While attempting to add legitimacy to the Clinton campaign's leak of DNC emails.

That is despite no-one in Ukraine thinking that the Black Ledger was anything other than an attempt to rig the 2016 US Presidential Election. A corrupt payment from Yuriy Lutshenko to Joe Biden. In return for Biden appointing him to his job.

In December 2018 Ukraine's High Court ruled the Black Ledger as such. Triggering a criminal investigation into Yuriy Lutshenko. 

A man who has previously been convicted of fraud and forgery. Back in 2012. Something Joe Biden no doubt considered a qualification when ordering his appointment.

Ironically it was only an intervention by President Trump that saw the investigation into Yuriy Lutshenko ended. In the winter of 2019. I think we can all remember the pressure the Democrats were placing on President Trump at that time.

Obviously American voters have not yet had to suffer under military dictatorship. Like their South Korean counterparts. So didn't fall for the Obama's regime's election rigging scam. Hillary Clinton was defeated and Donald Trump became President.

The Democrats though are clearly not ones to quit while they're behind. So they responded to democracy's victory by launching a Seditious Conspiracy to overthrow America's properly and lawfully elected President.

The first wave of this sedition was the Mueller investigation into "Foreign Interference." Which eventually became The Mueller Report.

Despite all that time and money the Mueller Report fails in its fundamental purpose. Demonstrating that there was Russian interference in the 2016 Election. Let alone any collusion with Russia.

All it shows is that there was Russian observation of the 2016 Election. This though is a completely normal part of international relations. Nations are allowed to observe each other's elections and political processes.

The most long established mechanism for this is the Embassy network. Under the Vienna Convention of 1963.

This is what people at Embassies do. They read all the newspapers in their host country. Along with watching all the news channels. They throw and attend parties where they talk with the main power brokers. Some even carry out their own election polling.

As I'm sure you've noticed by now I am not American. The fact I sign off by giving the date in the UK should be enough of a clue to that.

However on election night I will probably be watching CNN's live coverage. That's not because I'm assigned to the UK Embassy in Washington D.C. Nor am I a Russian troll who has somehow hacked CNN's feed.

It's because CNN have paid my satellite TV provider a lot of money to make sure people in the UK can watch their coverage. Just as CNN has paid satellite and cable providers across the World to make sure people can observe the US election.

Obviously Social Media and the Internet generally are still quite new technologies. So the unwritten rules and accepted norms of behaviour have yet to be fully established.

However the Mueller Report's assertion that a Russian reading something about the US election online represents "Russian Intereference" is impossible to defend. 

It stretches the definition of "interference" to be so broad as to be meaningless. It makes me reading an election story on CNN's website an example of; "British Interference."

All that this claim shows is that the Mueller investigation was never intended as an impartial investigation into wrongdoing. 

The Mueller investigation was only ever a partisan political exercise. Intended to support the Democrats seditious conspiracy.

As for the Mueller Report's claim that the Twitter account @Guccifer2.0 belonged to a Russia hacker. Who stole and released the DNC's emails. Well.

You may have noticed that I - @Sovereignaka - have had my Twitter account blocked.

I could get around that block. By setting up a new Twitter account, let's say; @Sovereignaka2.0.

Obviously Twitter don't like you circumventing their blocks. So I would have to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Can you see where we're going with this yet?

Well. Seven days from the deadline perhaps certain people should be able to see by now where I'm clearly not going with that.

Ukraine is not just where Joe Biden worked intensely in a effort to rig the 2016 Election.

Ukraine is also where Joe Biden worked closely with Neo-Nazis and actual World War 2 Nazis - many Muslim Tatars. First to overthrow the Ukranian government then to install themselves in its place.

This represents the single biggest boost that Nazis and Neo-Nazis have recieved since the end of the Second World War. When their ideology fell out of favour as the World began to understand the need for it to be suppressed and oppressed.

Obviously the ideology of Nazism didn't suddenly end in 1945. Then restart again in 2014. It has always been there. 

However it has always been limited to the fringes. Individuals and small groups who have never been able to exert any real power.

A prime example of this would be Anders Breivik. A Neo-Nazi who carried out a marauding combined bomb and gun attack in Norway. Killing 77 people back in 2011.

Breivik claimed that he was a soldier in a vast Christian army fighting against Islam and Cultural Marxists. The truth was though that he was only ever one guy. 

Breivik's attack primarily targeted the childen of Norway's governing Labour Party. So I cannot overstate how extensively they checked to confirm that he was only one guy and there was no wider army.

Joe Biden's actions in Ukraine changed all this. Biden gave Nazis and Neo-Nazis control of a nation state again. For the first time in nearly 70 years. Similar to what ISIL were able to create in Syria and Iraq.

This attracted Nazis and Neo-Nazis to Ukraine from across the World. 

In Ukraine they were given access to serious battlefield weapons. Along with military training and combat experience. In Ukraine's civil war against its ethnically Russian minority. "The Russian Invaders" Joe Biden and the Obama regime kept referring to.

This resurgence of Nazism has obviously caused massive security problems. Both within Europe and globally.

In early 2016 the French intelligence service attempted to call attention to it. They dispatched a guy to Ukraine to buy up as many weapons and explosives as he could. 

He then threatend to use those 5 assault rifles, 2 anti-tank rocket launchers and 125kg of TNT to attack Mosques. In the run-up to the French hosted 2016 Euros Football tournament.

Matters really came to a head though on March 15th 2019 (25/3/19).

When a Neo-Nazi, directed from Ukraine conducted a gun attack against two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Slaughtering 51 people. Which have become known as; The Christchurch Mosque Shootings.

From that point onwards it became completely impossible for the US to continue its support for Ukraine's Nazis and Neo-Nazis. While maintaining relationship with any other nation.

Under intense pressure from America's allies. Particularly the NATO and Five Eyes alliances. President Trump was forced to withhold military aid from Ukraine. In a phonecall with Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky in July 2019.

Listening in on that call was a US intelligence analyst, Eric Ciaramella. Who, along with Alexander Vindman, had been Joe Biden's main bagman in Ukraine. Doing all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Seeing the tide very firmly turning against him caused Ciaramella to squeal out in pain. Not least because there was very real talk of him being sent to prison over the Christchurch Mosque Shootings. Or worse, given his chosen profession.

So Ciaramella filed a whistleblower complaint over the phonecall. Almost exclusively in the hope of securing for himself the legal protection that comes from whistleblower status.

The Democrats though just saw another opportunity to breathe new life into their seditious conspiracy. Now that the Mueller investigation had come up empty.

In September 2019  the Democrats made their, I think, 6th - possibly 7th - attempt at the Impeachment of President Trump. This dragged on until February 5th of this year (5/2/20).

That is despite there never being even the remotest suggestion of wrongdoing on President Trump's part. 

It is entirely up to discretion of the incumbent President whether to gift weapons to a country or not. As a normal part of the function of government.

In fact if there is a risk that those weapons may be used in support of a repeat of the Christchurch Mosque Attacks there may well be a legal obligation not to supply them. Let alone gift them.

It would certainly be illegal to supply weapons to a nation or non-state actor which is openly at war with America. Such as Al Qaeda or ISIL.

So Joe Biden is not a 2020 Presidential Candidate.

Joe Biden is a Plea Bargin.

The Democrats way of announcing that they will be sitting out the 2020 Election cycle. 

As a way to avoid being formally punished. Both for the crimes committed during the Obama regime and this, President Trump's first term.

To be continued in Part 2.

16:35 on 28/10/20 (UK date).
 

The 2020 US Presidential Election: Donald Trump Pt.3. (draft)

To be read as a direct continuation of Part 2; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-2020-us-presidential-election_24.html

Democracy And Rule Of Law: The 8 years of the Obama regime represented a serious and sustained assault on the very notion of America as a democracy governed by the rule of law.

In August 2014 ISIL swept through the Kurdish town of Sinjar/Shingal in Iraq. Murdering the men and boys, raping and enslaving the women and girls. The few survivors were forced up Mount Sinjar/Shingal to face death from thirst and the elements.

Finally the entire World was appalled by ISIL's actions. 

I think we can all agree that the White House press pool leans very firmly towards the Democrats. However even they were so outraged they seemed on the verge of pinning Obama's spokesman to the wall. Demanding actions.

As one of the lead sponsors of ISIL this somewhat threatened the Democrats chances at the 2014 mid-term elections. Not to mention raising the very real possibility of many of them being dragged off to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

So the Democrats devised a distraction.

They invented an elaborate lie. Of an innocent Black man by the name of Michael Brown being murdered by racist police. In the town of Ferguson, Missouri. 

A lie fuelled directly, in no small part, by the Obama regime's Department of Justice. Until it's head, Attorney General Eric Holder, was forced to resign in disgrace.

On the back of this lie the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was born. I appreciate that the phrase; "Black Lives Matter" was coined back in 2013. While the expression itself should be self-evident.

However it was only through the death of Michael Brown that Black Lives Matter was co-opted as a formal organisation of the Democrat Party.

As an arm of the Democrat Party Black Lives Matter quickly became a domestic terrorist group. 

Engaging in riots in many cities across the US. Along with terrorist killings of police officers in Ferguson, Missouri. New York City. Dallas, Texas. Baton Rogue, Louisana. To name but a few.

Black Lives Matter campaign of terror continued all the way up until the 2016 Presidential Election. With Hillary Clinton championing the case of Keith Scott. 

Despite even the Democrat local Mayor warning her off. Knowing that Keith Scott was an extremely violent man who even his own wife thought was about to gun down police officers.

The co-opting of the Black Lives Matter slogan served two important purposes for the Democrats.

Firstly it showed that it was able to mobilise a street army. To fight law enforcement at their command. 

Important with Genocide charges circling members of the Obama regime. Along with those 110 offences under the 1917 Espionage Act nipping a Hillary Clinton's heels.

Secondly it energised voters to go out and vote Democrat. At both the 2014 and 2016 elections.

This is a clear example of the use of Fear as a Weapon of Social Control. It is a hallmark of Totalitarian/Colonial regimes.

What you do is divide society into tribes. Black, White, Hispanic. Gay, Straight. Jewish, Muslim, Christian etc.You then make those different tribes afraid of each other. Presenting yourself as the only one who can protect each tribe from the other.

Once society has been so torn apart democracy becomes impossible. So only tyrants can prosper.

Sadly Black Lives Matter has been far from the only time that the Democrats have attempting to use fear as a weapon of social control.

The 2016 election campaign was marked by the June 12th (12/6/16) attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A gun attack against a predominately Hispanic, gay nightclub. 

As such it seemed to perfectly highlight the three campaign issues of gay rights, Hispanic immigration and gun control. That Hillary Clinton is hoping to use to distance herself from Donald Trump. 

It almost goes without saying that the attacker, Omar Mateen was a registered Democrat. Who voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

In the days following the Orlando attack members of Hillary Clinton's Democrat Party took to the floor of the US to stage a protest. Wielding the Rainbow placards of gay-rights bearing slogans calling for more gun control.

They seemed to treat this terror attack on US soil as just a perfectly normal part of Hillary Clinton's election campaign.

Hillary Clinton even went so far as to invite the father of the Orlando attacker - Siddique Mateen - to her campaign rally in Kissimmee, Florida on August 9th (9/8/16). Where he was given a seat in front of the cameras right behind the stage.

The 2018 election campaign was marked by the October 27th (27/10/18) shooting attack on the Tree of Life Synangouge in Pittsburgh, Penslyvania. Along with Cesar Sayoc sending hoax bombs to a number of predominately Democrat leaning targets. 

The Democrats quickly decried both these incidents as a examples of; "White Terror." Despite Sayoc being Hispanic. Once again attempting to portray President Trump as a villian and themselves as the only ones who could protect all the other tribes from each other.

Alarmingly the co-opting of Black Lives Matter went further than simply trying to protect members of the Obama regime from prosecution. It attacked the very notion of America being a nation governed by law.

To see this you only need to take an honest look at two of its early heroes.

Micheal Brown had just violently robbed a small, family owned store. He didn't think he should be punished for his crime. So attempted to beat a police officer to death in an effort to escape. It was at this point he was entirely legally and justly shot and killed. 

Eric Garner was illegally selling loose cigarattes outside a small, family run store. Both fuelling the organised crime gang who supplied him with the cigarettes. While stealing business from the store owner who was responsibly paying for all the relevent taxes and permits.

Eric Garner also didn't think he should be punished for his crime. So in an effort to escape started to fight with the police officers. Resulting in his death from a cogenital heart condition. The same congential heart condition that killed his daughter Erica Garner three years later. Without any police involvement.

This notion that nobody owns anything and people can just take what they like, when they like has got to be the fastest way to destroy a nation from within.

The prime example is Haiti. The poorest nation in the western hemisphere.

A great many of Haiti's problems stem from the fact it lacks a proper land-registry. So no-one knows who owns what piece of land. The pieces of land that people build houses and businesses on.

With no way of being able to legally posess pieces of land no-one invests the money to build proper houses, let alone businesses. It's too much of risk when someone can just come along the next day and simply take what you've invested your time and effort in.

I certainly remember the efforts to reconstruct Port-au-Prince's Iron Market. In the wake of the 2010 earthquake. Another field in which good people had to battle the Obama regime. 

In this area of democracy and rule of law President Trump has again succeeded in slowing the pace of destruction. However he has done little to reverse the damage already done by the Obama regime.

For example President Trump has repeatedly refused to fall into the Democrat's trap of condemning White Supremacists. 

Here I am also not going to fall into the trap of explaining why it is a trap. However it should be obvious that fear and destruction are the Democrat's objective. Everything they do is intended to make the situation worse.

One area in which President Trump could have made more progress is within the case of Dylann Roof.

Dylann Roof of course conducted a gun attack on June 17th 2015 (17/6/15). Against the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Pastor, Clementa Pickney and congregation were active in the co-opting of Black Lives Matter. Being personally close to then President Obama.

One of the core principles of being a nation under the rule of law is that everyone is entitled to a fair trail. A fair trial requires that a defendent is able to put forward the best defence available to them under law.

The best defence available to Dylann Roof was that of Defence of Self/Other. In short Clementa Pickney and his congregants support for the violence of Black Lives Matter posed an imminent threat. Both to Roof personally and to every American.

Therefore killing them eliminated that threat.

So what I would have done is conduct Roof's trial as both a fair trial and a national spectacle. Providing him with every assistance in mounting the defence of self/other defence.

This would have involved the Court - and, through the magic of television - the entire country taking a cold, hard look at Black Lives Matter. The lies on which it is based, it's true objectives and the terrorist tactics it uses in an attempt to achieve those objectives.

Obviously no-one can predict what the outcome of a fair trial would be. 

However I think it highly likely the Jury would find that the threat posed by the deceased was not immediate enough. Nor would their deaths have a significant enough impact on Black Lives Matter. In order to fulfill the criteria of the defence of self/other defence.

It would though be enough to see Roof acquitted of the murder charges. Instead being convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of imperfect self-defence. Resulting in him being sentenced to spend the rest ofhis life in prison.

So the destination would have been the same. However the journey would have been very different.

I think you can see though why it would take a very brave, newly elected President to undertake such a strategy. Even the Catholic Church abolished the role of; "Devil's Advocate" back in 1983.

It is this area though which shows, more than any other, why President Trump's achievement's have been so few.

President Trump often says that no President has faced as much opposition as he has since President Lincoln. 

Abraham Lincoln was, of course, President during the US Civil War. When Democrat states rose up in armed insurrection against the Federal Government. To resist the Republican idea that slavery is wrong.

President Trump may well have a point. Although there is certainly a large step down between first and second place on that list.

Even President John F. Kennedy may struggle to make third place. Yes he was assassinated. However that was just the opposition of one person. That lasted for a short, if highly effective time.

President Trump first had to endure the Democrats attempts at rigging the 2016 Election.

In doing this they simply copied the playbook of South Korea President Lee Myung-bak. Invent false claims about "Foreign Interfence." Then use those claims to attack your opponents campaign. 

A topic which is best discussed in detail on Joe Biden's charge sheet.

Obviously the Democrat's attempt to rig the 2016 Election failed. So they immediately set about trying to overthrow President Trump. Sedition as it is properly legally described.

Again this is something best discussed in detail on Joe Biden's charge sheet. 

However the Democrats first attempted to continue the "Foreign Interference" lie. With the Mueller investigation. Which ran until March 2019

With the Mueller investigation failing in its seditious aim the Democrats simply moved onto the Ukraine Scandal and Impeachment.

Again this is better discussed in detail on Joe Biden's charge sheet. 

However the accusation was only ever that the Democrats simply didn't like a policy President Trump was pursuing. As part of the normal business of government.

The Ukraine Scandal was of course only one of about six attempts the Democrats made to impeach President Trump. It finally came to an end on February 5th this year (5/2/20).

The first COVID-19 case was confirmed in New York City on February 25th (25/2/20).

I think it's a bit much to ask anyone to achieve much of anything. 

In the just three weeks between overlapping Democrat manufactured crises.

17:35 on 25/10/20 (UK date).
 

The 2020 US Presidential Election: Donald Trump Pt.2. (draft).

To be read as a direct continuation of Part 1; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-2020-us-presidential-election.html

One of the most outrageous acts of Trump's John Bolton-led Iran policy was the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani. 

At the time Gen. Soleimani was commanding Iraqi anti-ISIL forces. The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF). In coordination with US-led anti-ISIL forces. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF/QSD).

That brings me on to another major element of the World's bitter inheritence from the Obama regime.

The Current World War: Forced upon us by Islamist terror this has been dominated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Along with their associated groups - whatever names they're using today.

This really began in December 2010. When the people of Tunisia overthrew their dictorial regime in a democratic and secular revolution.

Amid the excitement of revolution. Mixed with a terror at democracy coming to the Muslim world. A sinister controlling hand saw an opportunity. To build an empire stretching across the Middle-East and North-Africa (MENA).

Sadly this sinister controlling hand seemed able to reach right inside former President Obama's brain. Or what passes for such. 

So with US military support it was able to overthrow the regime of Muammar Qaddafi in Tunisia's neighbour Libya. Securing itself access to Libya's vast, high quality oil and gas reserves.

It then turned its attention to Mali. Ousting its government and establishing an Islamist terror state in a large swathe of the country. This provided it with a launchpad to attack Nigeria, and its oil and gas reserves.

At the same time this sinister controlling hand has being building on the existing Islamist terror problem in Somalia. 

In order to destablise neighbouring nations in the Horn of Africa. All of which sit on vitally important supply routes from highly valuable mineral mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Recently this sinister controlling hand has turned its attentions as far south as Mozambique. Shortly after Mozambique discovered it has large reserves of natural gas. 

As if this violent robbery of natural resources wasn't enough. That sinister controlling hand has also resumed the African Slave Trade. Some 200 years after we thought it had been abolished.

Slaver gangs are now once again operating across Sub-Saharan Africa. Bringing their victims to slave markets in Libya. Where liberals and progressives are more than happy to help move the 'produce.' Under the slogan; "Refugees Welcome."

Appalling as all this is. Both strategically and morally. It has been dwarfed by the Obama regime's decision to be a vessel for the sinister, controlling hand. In its efforts to seize control of Syria and Iraq. Along with their vast reserves of oil and natural gas.

The Obama's regime's decision to create ISIL is laid out in Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) report (14-L-0552/DIA/228)

On page 2 it clearly indentifies that Islamist militias are operating in the north-west of Syria in and around the city of Aleppo and that there are being led by Al Qaeda. 

Also on page 2 it identifies that a more extreme Salifi group is operating in the north-east of Syria. Centred around the city of Raqqa. At the time this group led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadid is known as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). The report makes quite clear that this group is allied to Al Qaeda.

The report then goes on to detail - on page 5 - both a Plan A and a Plan B to overthrow the Syrian government.

Plan A is essentially to repeat what was done in Libya. Falsify and then use claims of a threat to civilians as justification of a US air campaign. To back the Al Qaeda-led Islamist militias based around Aleppo City in overthrowing the Syrian government.

Plan B is simply to covertly train and equip the ISI to overthrow the Syrian government.

In August 2013 Turkey smuggled a small quanity of the Chemical Weapon Sarin to Islamist militias in the Ghouta suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. Those Islamist militias then used that Sarin against the local civilian population killing at least 281. 

In the hope it would be blamed on the Syrian government. That would then be used as an excuse for an international air campaign to support the Islamist militias.

Days later a bill was presented before the British Parliament to authorise British involvement in such an air campaign. The bill was defeated and without British, and therefore NATO, support Plan A came to an end.

This forced the Obama regime to throw its full weight behind Plan B. Covertly supporting ISI in order to build them up into ISIL.

Really on behalf of the World Russia took a stand. Supporting Syria against both Al Qaeda and ISIL.

The Obama regime's response was to overthrow the government in Russia's immediate neighbour Ukraine. Just before the 2014 Winter Olympics being held in Sochi, Russia.

In doing this the Obama regime openly sided with neo-Nazis and actual World War 2 Nazis. Many of them Muslim Tatars.

This gave the Obama regime an excuse to start imposing sanctions of Russia for daring to oppose ISIL. Something not even the Obama regime felt it could admit to openly.

International outrage forced the Obama regime to begrudingly start to tone down its support for ISIL in late-2014. However it wasn't until the Obama regime was finally ousted in January 2017 that real efforts to defeat ISIL were able to begin.

President Trump did continue that international effort to destroy ISIL and its associated groups. By the summer of 2019 he was on the verge of victory. 

Yet then President Trump decided to throw it all away. Under some, admittedly extreme pressure, Trump allowed Turkey to formally invade and annex much of northern Syria. As it has invaded and annexed parts of northern Iraq.

I hope I don't need to remind anyone of the terrible mistake President Trump made there.

A mistake so terrible that no-one in the world of politics or diplomacy has made it since about 2006.

As a result of that mistake none of this World War has gone away. President Trump has merely succeeded in keeping a lid on it.

It is still there, bubbling away beneath the surface. Poised, waiting to once again burst forth from the underworld. The moment Cerebus' back is turned.

Climate Change: Former President Obama is possibly the single worst Climate Criminal US politics has ever seen.

Global efforts to combat Climate Change really began in 1992 at the Rio Summit. Leading to the creation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

In 1997 this saw the near global adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. A legally binding treaty to cut global Greenhouse Gas (ghg) emissions.

Everybody involved knew that the Kyoto Protocol was not good enough. Simply the best that could be achieved at the time. So in 2010 work began in earnest to produce an even better agreement. To take effect when the Kyoto Protocol expired in 2020. It's life having been extended from 2012.

At the last possible moment the Obama regime introduced a rival document to the one everybody had been working on for the past five years. What has become known as the Paris Agreement.

COVID-19 seems to have forced us all to take a long hard look at the realities of the Paris Agreement. As I said in that section of my election coverage listing all the things wrong with the Paris Agreement is an exercise in itself.

For example I've pointed out that things like US/China trade relations are measured in decades. The Paris Agreement sets a 5 year rather than 10 year commitment period. Meaning the government of the DRC has to count every tree in the World's second largest forest. Every 5 years.

As the most recent Ebola outbreaked showed. The government of the DRC's writ doesn't even extend over all of the DRC's territory. There are too many valuable natural resources there for people to allow that.

The Paris Agreement's main problem is that, unlike the Kyoto Protocol, it is not legally binding. With it's 17% reduction in global ghg emissions COVID-19 has shown us how unlikely it is that the Paris Agreement will achieve the required 78% reduction.

So previous US Presidents merely refused to sign up to global action to combat Climate Change. 

Former President Obama actively blocked other nations from taking action to combat Climate Change. Setting back those global efforts by the best part of 25 years.

One of President Trump's first acts was to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

You would hope this would have triggered a succession of other nations to also dump the Paris Agreement. Creating space for the introduction of the credible agreement everyone spent five years working on.

Joe Biden, of course, has already promised to condemn America and the World to the Paris Agreement.

To be continued in Part 3.

18:40 on 24/10/20 (UK date).

The 2020 US Presidential Election: Donald Trump. (draft)

Nominally representing the Republican Party Donald Trump is the incumbent President. Elected in November 2016. Taking up office in January 2017.

I shall now list all of Donald Trump's achievements as President;

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This startling lack of achievement is particluarly unfortunate. President Trump along with America and the World inherited a dire situation for his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.

There is a correct technical term for what former President Obama left in his wake. However it would be inappropriate of me to use it here.

It would simply take to long for me to list all of Obama's failures as President. So instead I will limit myself to the areas where he has done the most damage.

US/China Relations: I appreciate that this is a broad and complex topic. So not really one that can be covered by hashtags interspersed with clapping hands emojis.

It is though an important one though. So at least try and stay with it.

This current chapter in US/China trade relations began in 1972. When then US President Richard Nixon visited China. The first sitting US President to set foot in the country since the Communist revolution of 1949.

Then President Nixon's over-riding objective was to find a way to end the Vietnam war. However the visit also marked the start of a much wider policy of engagement. Including the opening up of trade between the two nations.

The thinking being that increased trade would bring wealth to China. In turn creating a new middle-class. As the middle-class grew it would overturn the subjugation of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Forcing China to open up, allowing more political and social freedom for its citizens.

Initially this strategy worked incredibly well.

By the summer of 1989 this new middle-class had established itself to the point it had formed a pro-Democracy movement. Which held protests in over 400 cities across China. Most famously in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese Communist Party's violent crushing of the 1989 Democracy Movement ushered in a new social contract between the Chinese people and their rulers.

Rather than being the driver of democracy, economic prosperity instead became the compensation for totalitarianism. In short the Chinese Communist Party would pay the Chinese people not to demand things like democracy or justice under the rule of law.

So this is really a problem that every US President has inherited from their predecessor. Going back to at least George H Bush. 

However Obama's attempt to respond to it through his; "Pivot Towards The Pacific" policy only succeeded in making it far worse. Both for America and the World more generally.

Obama's Pivot Towards the Pacific policy was designed to include two tracks. The economic track and the security track.

The Economic Track saw the US opening up trade links with China's neighbours. The intention being to undercut Chinese manufacturers. By providing global corporations with cheaper alternatives to Chinese suppliers. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being the main mechanism for this.

The major flaw in this strategy is that it also undercut US manufacturers. Driving costs so low they have absolutely no chance of competing. Thus lowering the wages and living standards of the US' own middle-class. It did though serve to make some already extremely rich global corporations even richer.

The other major a flaw is that it saw the US force nations of the World to lift sanctions on nations that really should be under international sanctions. The most extreme example being Myanmar/Burma.

In September 2016 the US lifted sanctions on Myanmar. In August 2017 Myanmar launched a campaign of Ethnic Cleansing against its Rohingya population. With some 600,000 Rohingya still trapped in the Coxs Bazaar Refugee Camp in Bangladesh this continues as a stain on humanity to this day.

The Security Track of the Obama's Pivot Towards the Pacific saw the US build the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North) into the regional nuclear bogeyman. Conducting intelligence operations to supply it with things like misssile launch control technology. In order to allow the country to rapidly advance its nuclear program.

The objective being that nations in the region would turn to the US to protect themselves from this threat. As a direct neighbour China cannot afford to be as aggressive in its rhetoric towards the DPRK. Due to the risk of the nation's collapse triggering a massive refugee crisis. Amongst other problems.

I really hope I don't need to actually state the major flaw in turning any country into a nuclear power. Then encouraging it to threaten its neighbours. Although with Obama seeming to think it was a good idea clearly someone needs to explain it to him.

Not only was the security track of Obama's Pivot Towards the Pacific policy almost suicidally dangerous. It also didn't work. Rather than having nations turn towards the US for protection it saw existing regional allies distance themselves from the US.

For example Japan responded by announcing plans to amend its pacifist constitution. To allow it to pre-emptively strike the DPRK. With or without US support. Likewise the Republic of Korea (RoK/South) was forced to announce it was drawing up its own unilateral plans to attack the DPRK. Killing its leader Kim Jong-un before he could launch an attack of his own.

As I've said President Trump has not succeeded in completely resetting America's relationship with China. That though is something which is measured in decades. Rather than President's four year terms of office.

What President Trump has done though is make great strides in undoing the huge damage done by former President Obam'a Pivot Towards the Pacific.

On the economic track one of President Trump's first acts was to end the US' involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. 

Unfortunately that didn't kill it entirely. The TPP has continued in the form of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). However without America's economic might that is currently of little significance.

Post-Brexit Britain is pursuing an interest in joining CPTPP. President Trump's opponent, Joe Biden, has declared that he would sign the US up to CPTPP as one of his first acts as President. Adding the American economic might it needs to become significant.

This would be extremely bad news.

One of the major sticking points in TPP negotiations were over the chapters on "Rule of Law." Things like intellectual property and copyright. 

The US wanted the TPP to adopt its standards of Rule of Law. Essentially the current, accepted global standards. China wanted it to adopt its standards of Rule of Law. A sentence which is somewhat hard to say while keeping a straight face.

In becoming the CPTPP China won the argument. The agreement is now based around Chinese principles of Rule of Law.

Joe Biden's urgent desire to join the CPTPP will see America sign up to Chinese standards of Rule of Law.  

Well, actually Joe Biden has declared that he will sign up to the TPP. Apparently competely oblivious to the fact the TPP no longer exists. Having being replaced by the CPTPP.

Which I think tells you all you need to know about Joe Biden's grasp of the policy area.

Rather than a grand, regional free trade agreement President Trump has instead tackled China head on. Using the tried and tested methods of tariffs and quotas.

How effective that has been has been hard to judge. Due to COVID-19 essentially shutting down the global economy this past year. It is pretty much impossible for tariffs and quotas to have any impact on trade discussions. When there isn't actually any trade going on.

As I said in my election coverage of COVID-19. A powerful force seems to have tried to hand America a huge advantage in its trade war with China. 

Forcing what should have been a China only lockdown. Unfortunately Progressives the World over seem so enamoured with China's model of Totalitarian Capitalism they were falling over themselves to follow suit and lockdown their own economies.

Obviously global corporations and their mouthpieces have been furious about President Trump's approach to China. As you can see through their faux fury at China's current solution to its Uighur problem.

However it is the job of global corporations to be concerned with boosting private profits. It is a politician's job to be concerned with boosting public good.

On the security track President Trump has stopped trying to build the DPRK into a regional nuclear bogeyman. Instead he has pursued a policy of engagement. Not only to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons but also to address the reasons why North Korea feels it needs nuclear weapons.

This has had the immediate effect of calming the situation. The DPRK has not conducted any nuclear tests. Limiting itself to missle tests which experts in the field would describe as amusing rather than threatening.

Likewise South Korea is no longer openly declaring the urgent need to launch a pre-emptive strike against the DPRK. Japan has dropped its plans to amend its pacifist constitution.

President Trump has also been able to establish a solid working relationship between the US and the DPRK. An essential basis for any form of diplomacy. 

In June 2019 Trump became the first sitting US President to ever set foot in the country. A deliberate and intelligent reference to then President Nixon's 1972 visit to China.

Unfortunately President Trump then made an absolutely terrible mistake. A mistake so terrible that no-one in the world of politics or diplomacy has made it since about 2006.

President Trump listened to John Bolton.

It's often said that, rather like his report card, John Bolton's middle inital is; "F." I'll leave you to guess what it stands for.

US/Iran Relations: Iran is really the main supporter of the Palestinian people. So this particular Obama disaster really feeds into the Israel/Palestine Conflict.

Suffering from possibly the worst case of; "Jerusalem Syndrome" the World has ever seen former President Obama came to power. Thinking he alone was going to solve the Israel/Palestine Conflict.

Unfortunately the Israel/Palestine Conflict is extraordinarily complicated. While former President Obama is extraordinarily lazy.

One example of the complexity of the Israel/Palestine Conflict is the talk surrounding; "Iran's Nuclear Program." 

Amongst diplomats and military types very few of these discussions are actually about Iran's nuclear program. Instead they serve as a useful, coded metaphor for the convential weapons threat Iran poses to Israel. Through its support for Hamas and Hezbollah.

Former President Obama was too lazy to learn about any of this. In his messianic quest to solve the Israel/Palestine Conflict. 

So instead Obama decided to sweep it all away. By actually putting a stop to Iran's actual nuclear program. Imposing sanctions of Iran which were unprecedented in their severity.

This brought immediate a serious damage to America and its interests.

Even before COVID-19 the US was running one of the largest budget deficits in the World. The reason why the US is able to run a budget defict that would drive most nations into bankruptcy is because it's currency - the US Dollar - is the global reserve currency. 

That means that if any nation were to call in the US' debts driving it to bankruptcy the first thing that would happen is that the value of the dollar would collapse. Driving all the nations that hold dollar reserves into bankruptcy. A sort of economic Mutally Assured Destruction.

The reason why the US Dollar is the global reserve currency is because back at the end of the Second World War the US did a deal with the World's largest oil producer. Saudi Arabia. 

In return for the US guaranteeing the security of the Saudi Royal Family Saudi Arabia agreed to only sell its oil in US Dollars. That meant that anybody wanting to buy oil had to have a reserve of US Dollars.

Obviously much like the rest of the western world the US has not purchased oil from Iran since the 1979 Revolution. 

However other nations - most notably China - have been perfectly happy to buy oil from Iran over the past 30 odd years. Being global the sanctions the Obama regime imposed prevented those nations from buying oil from Iran. Forcing them to buy oil from Saudi Arabia instead.

Due to their huge demand for oil and therefore purchasing power China has not been happy about buying oil in the currency of their great economic rival. Saudi Arabia has been more than happy to oblige them and welched on its deal with the US by selling China oil in its own currency - the Rimimbi (Yuan).

The increased volume of oil sales in the currency have led to the Rimimbi being included in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies. These are the types of currency that the IMF accepts and makes payments in. The Rimimbi's inclusion in the SDR basket is a significant step towards eliminating the US Dollar as the global reserve currency.

As with other aspects of US/China relations this is quite a technical and not particularly headline grabbing topic. However it is a very important one. 

Really one of the structural pillars of the US economy and American power. It is not something any US President should be taking a sledgehammer to. Certainly not with the glee that the Obama regime went about it.

In sweeping away Iran's actual nuclear program Obama also swept away one of the main devices that international community has been using to discuss the Israel/Palestine Conflict.

This one act forced the other four Permenant Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) - Britain, France, Russia, China - along with Germany into a complex task. To find a way for the US to back out of the idiotic decision of the Obama regime. While allowing the US to save face.

The solution they found was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The so-called; "Iran Nuclear Deal."

In this area President Trump seems to have made absolutely no attempt to reverse the damage done by Obama. Instead he seems to have taken on the seemingly impossible task. Of making an even bigger mess of things than Obama did.

President Trump scrapped the Iran Nuclear Deal. Once again forcing China to buy oil from Saudi Arabia. Swinging that sledgehammer at a core pillar of the US economy.

If that wasn't bad enough President Trump went even further. Imposing additional sanctions of Iran. With the clear intention of forcing regime change in the country. A strategy which has all the chances of success as America's attempt to force regime on Iran's neighbour Iraq. Back in 2003.

In doing this President Trump clearly made an absolutely terrible mistake. A mistake so terrible that no-one in the world of politics or diplomacy has made it since about 2006.

President Trump listened to John Bolton.

Former President Obama's hostility towards Iran was born out of laziness and naivety. Sadly John Bolton and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's hostility towards Iran is borne out of pure, unadulatrated delusion and insanity.

In 1953 the US and the UK overthrew Iran's democratic government. In order to impose the rule of the King/Shah. Who would never do something as insulting as ask the US and UK to pay a fair price for Iran's oil. By 1979 the Iranian people had had enough of this so overthrew the Shah.

Heaping more embarasment on the US intelligence community Iran's revolutionaries took 52 Americans hostage, holding them for 444 days. It was then President Carter's failure to free those hostages which helped Republican Party hero Ronald Reagen to defeat him in the 1980 Presidential election.

One of then President Reagan's first acts was to release Iranian funds that the US had frozen. Resulting in the hostages being freed. Throughout his two terms President Reagan dealt and cooperated extensively with Iran. Most notably selling them missiles through the Iran Contra program.

Despite this it's become a shibboleth of the Republican Party that you must be tough on Iran. Even though all the evidence and the actions of their hero Reagan show that the opposite is true.

So if you ever want to give yourself a headache. Try and have a rational discussion with John Bolton.

As for Jared Kushner. Idiots like that come and go. The region seems perfectly capable of quickly forgetting they ever existed.

To be continued in Part 2.

14:45 on 23/10/20 (UK Date).

The 2020 US Presidential Election: COVID-19 Pt.1.

On Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 (3/11/20) Americans will go to the polls.

To elect all new members of the national House of Representatives and a third of the members of the national Senate. Along with a host of State and municipal positions. 

The top of the ticket race, that everybody will be looking at, though it that for US President.

However the Democrats did not do at all well at the 2016 election. Losing control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Presidency they were almost completely wiped out.

The Democrats have since identified the problem; The US Voter.

So this time they will be attempting to eliminate that problem entirely from the process. Encouraging the use of early, Postal Voting.

In order to allow time for any errors to be corrected this means voting has already begun.

So closer to election day I will take my traditional look at the two candidates for President. I feel now though is the time for me to address the issue which has rather dominated this election cycle. COVID-19.

COVID-19 came into being in late-November/early-December 2019.

If I had to pick an exact date I would say November 14th 2019 (14/11/19). 

Just as police were raiding the Hong Kong University in Hong Kong, China. While I sat in a Salisbury, UK restaurant, pondering a Star of David engraving and thinking about the Eurovision Song Contest.

I say this knowing full well that there is no way anyone can even begin to disprove me. Rather like former US President Barack Obama's 2013 claim that Rihanna's mood swings cause Climate Change.

Regardless of the exact date you may remember that late-November/early December 2019 was an extremely intense time in global politics.

The main event was the 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The COP 25 Summit. Where all the nations of the World gather together. To at least pretend to focus intently on the natural environment.

COP 25 marked the final, dying days of the Kyoto Protocol. As of January 1st 2020 (1/1/20) this was replaced by the much vaunted Paris Agreement. An absolutely huge moment in Climate Change circles.

Under the Kyoto Protocol nations were divided into two camps; Developed nations (Annex I) and Developing nations (Annex II).

The US never signed up to the Kyoto Protocol. For some, actually quite legitimate reasons. However the US is really seen as the leader of the Annex I faction. While China is really seen as the leader of the Annex II faction.

This means that everyone in UNFCCC negotiations is long used to seeing them descend. Into nothing more than yet another front in the trade war between the US and China.

As a result everyone in UNFCCC circles is expected to at least have a working knowledge of President Trump's Trade War with China. Particularly how it would be affected by the Democrats attempt to impeach President Trump. Part of a campaign that's been running since, probably, early 2016.

Speaking just for myself I would say that President Trump's approach has been much more effective than a succession of his predecessors. At least it has actually focused on trade. Rather than ineffective metaphors for trade. Such as the UNFCCC.

The UK in particular went to great lengths to muscle in on the US/China Trade War. Instigating and directing the Hong Kong Protests. As a way to force China to talk to them.

Apart from my "Weapons of Mass Construction" costume ©2004 the defining image of the Hong Kong Protests was that of the surgical face mask. 

As within 2004 these were worn by the, frankly, rioters to hide their identities. However the excuse they used was that they were medical devices. Essential to guard against the spread of germs and pollen particals.

Britain's reckless actions in Hong Kong unleashed a wave of copycat protests across the globe. Foolishly bringing down the governments of both Iraq and Lebanon. 

Perhaps most notably though they nearly brought down the government of Chile. Causing COP 25 to be cancelled. Then, at the last minute, moved to Spain.

In his astonishing arrogance UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called a General Election for December 12th 2019 (12/12/19). Both the midpoint for COP 25 and the 4th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement. 

Essentially a second referendum this UK Election would decide whether Britain would finally go ahead with leaving the European Union (EU).

Within UNFCCC negotiations the EU is seen as a sort of third bloc. Attempting to bridge the gap between the US and China. Particularly when it comes to shortfalls in funding.

So whether the UK would remain a member of the EU. Bound by its Climate Change commitments and continuing to contribute to its budget. Or strike out on its own. That was also something people in UNFCCC circles needed to keep an eye on.

This was doubly important due to the fact Britain was scheduled to host the 2020 COP Summit. COP 26. The first under the Paris Agreement.

Britain's genuine commitment to action on Climate Change can really be summed up by its choice of date for COP 26. The first two weeks in November 2020.

Which would coincide with this US Election. Along with its fallout. Just in the final six weeks before the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement expires. The forum they chose was Scotland. Which itself may soon be voting to become an independent nation.

Like everything else COP 25 was occuring amid the ongoing World War. Against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and their associated groups.

One of the worst, single ISIL attacks was the November 13th 2015 (13/11/15) Paris Massacres. These occured just 17 days before the COP 21 Summit. At which the Paris Agreement was signed.

The Paris Massacres seemed a very deliberate attempt to intimidate UNFCCC delegations. Particularly the poorer African ones. Designed to scare them into signing up to the new, rival text that then US President Obama had introduced at the last minute.

Hardly the only time that the interests of the US Democrat Party and ISIL have mysteriously converged.

Late-November/early-December is also when relevent nations start preparing their entries for the following year's Eurovision Song Contest. Even I think this sounds a bit crazy. 

However things really do happen in European politics because of the Song Contest. For example the Czech Republic's 2019 entry addressed the EU directive on digital copyright. "The Meme Law." To use its correct, short-form name.

The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest was, of course, held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Meaning that it attracted a much wider audience than it is used to. Essentially every UN nation that has ever been forced to form an opinion on the Israel/Palestine Conflict. So everyone.

This meant there was a lot more than usual tidying up to be done. Ahead of and at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.

It very much seems as though all these tensions and frustrations have gone up into the sky. The Wu Xing. The Tree of Life. The Quantum Field. The Universe. Whatever you want to call it. 

They have then come back to us. In the form of COVID-19.

Particularly in the western world everything now seems to live under the long shadow of the so-called; "Cancel Culture." Attempting to silence debate by labelling any differing opinion; "Offensive" or "Triggering" and having them banned.

This totalitarian attitude is particularly prevalent in the world of academia. On which Climate science rather relies.

So I should probably begin by addressing; The Naming Issue.

COVID-19 is an Acute Respiratory Syndrome (ARS). It first emerged in China. Which is in the Far East (FE).

So it seems the virus has named itself; "Far Eastern Acute Respiratory Syndrome (FEARS)." That would certainly be keeping with a common practice within science.

For example a Respiratory Syndrome emerged in the Middle-East in 2012. Amid debate whether it was Acute or Chronic this was named; "Middle-Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)."

Then you have the Ebola virus. Named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where it first emerged.

Also you could look at the Zika virus. Named after Zika Forest in Uganda where it first emerged. Making; "Could Zika Spread to Africa?!" one of the stranger health-scare stories of 2016.

However, since the emergence of MERS Cancel Culture has decided that this practice is racist. A mircoagression so triggering for people with distant ancestors from those areas it makes it impossible for them to continue their studies.

So instead of; "FEARS" we're left with; "COVID-19." Which I don't think means anything to anyone.

This is no small issue. In choosing the name FEARS the virus seems to be trying to give us an insight into how it functions.

On the individual level COVID-19 is not a particularly serious illness.

At it's most severe it causes Severe, Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Pneumonia, in layman's terms. This can be a very serious and sometimes fatal condition. However it is one that the medical profession is extremely experienced in treating and seeing people recover from.

The difference is that COVID-19 also triggers a sort of fear response within the body. Causing the immune system to overreact. Attacking not just virus cells but all cells. Particularly vital red blood cells.

So the virus attacks cells in the lungs. This reduces the amount of oxygen entering the blood stream. As with Puemonia. However the immune response then attacks the blood cells preventing them from effectively carrying what little oxygen is still entering through the lungs.

Likewise on a society-wide level COVID-19 is hardly a serious illness. 

It really only presents a threat to life to around 10% of the population. An easily indentifiable 10% of the population. Whose lives were probably going to be at risk anyway. For reasons that I'll get into in more detail later COVID-19 also seems to come with its own, in-built, self-destruct mechanism.

However it triggers this sort of primal fear. The fear of the unknown. The fear of not being in control. 

This plunges a certain type of political leader into some sort of existential crisis. Causing them to panic, over-react and start launching damaging attacks on society. Such as ordering it to be entirely shut-down.

The official name given to the COVID-19 virus is; "Severe, Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus - 2 (SARS-CoV-2). 

I'm going to assume that this was intended as a deliberate mistake. Designed to immediately shake the intellectual chaff from the wheat.

In medicine a Syndrome is defined as the presence of a set of symptoms. 

In this case; Laboured breathing (Dyspnea); A breathing rate greater than 30 breaths per minute; Low blood oxygen saturation (Hypomexia); Fluid in the lungs growing at a rate above 50% per 24-48 hours. Even if the worried well still seem fixated on their sense of smell.

A virus is a living organism. Like all other living organisms it is defined by its unique genetic code. DNA, or in this case, RNA. Essentially the same thing in laymen's terms.

Probably the most well know examples of this division is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In almost all cases this causes Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). So on an extremely technical level no-one has ever died of HIV. Although tens of millions have died of the syndrome that particular virus causes.

What you cannot do is include the word; "Syndrome" in the name of a virus.

Well, obviously you can. Language being a human construct after all.

It's just that if you do. Then you immediately start looking like a complete idiot.

Particularly if you're the sort of person who has built their entire reputation upon being a supposed expert on HIV/AIDS.

Whatever you call it COVID-19 certainly seems to hold some very strong views on this claim that; "Black Lives Matter."

Although, curiously, not all black lives. Just the fat, lazy and self-indulgent black lives who are constantly looking for a payout from the city. To go along with their free; "Obama Phones."

COVID-19 has also provided us with a clear answer to the question which seems to have been pondered a lot at late;

Q. How would this "Generation Snowflake" cope in anything like a crisis?

A. Not. At. All.

Most of COVID-19's fury though seems to be directed at global efforts to combat climate change. Particularly the Paris Agreement.

There are so many things just completely wrong with the Paris Agreement. Listing them would be a seperate exercise in itself. However the main one is that unlike the Kyoto Protocol it has absolutely no legal force. Instead nations are simply going to promise to try.

At the height of the global lockdown - May 2020 - global Greenhouse Gas (ghg) emissions fell by 17%. So substantial was this sudden cessation of much of human activity it also caused the vibrations on the Earth's surface to fall by 50%.  

The Paris Agreement does not aim to eliminate Climate Change. Instead it aims to limit the rise in temperature to 2C. This will require a reduction of ghg emissions by 78% from the baseline established in the agreement.

The Paris Agreement aspires to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5C. This will require a reduction of ghg emissions by 99% of the established baseline.

COVID-19  has clearly shown us how much of human activity will simply have to stop. In order to achieve just a 17% reduction in ghg emissions from the established baseline.

It has also clearly shown us how completely unrealistic it is to think that governments, politicans and just each of us as people are going to do that voluntarily. Based on nothing more than a pinky promise. Made between people, many of whom, are already out of office.

Not only is it completely unrealistic to think the Paris Agreement will achieve its aims. The aims of the Paris Agreement also just completely ignore large sources of ghg emissions. Chiefly from Shipping and Aviation.

The shipping sector has been extremely hard hit by the lockdowns associated with COVID-19. While the aviation sector has been almost completely destroyed.

Assesments and estimates are still ongoing. However it seems that it will take until 2024 for the aviation sector to return to its 2019 levels of operation. This almost exactly mirrors the first, five year commitment period of the Paris Agreement.

It's as if the environment has taken one look at the Paris Agreement and gone;

"Not counting aviation in the first commitment period. Well, then you can't have any aviation during the first commitment period."

Speaking for many within the UNFCCC process the objective is not to eliminate human, economic activity. Instead it is to combine human, economic development with a reduction in ghg emissions. Ultimately making economic development a tool for emissions reduction.

One of the main challenges people with that attitude face is what's known as; "John Locke's Labour Theory of Property."

Dating back to the 17th Century this is still considered one of the cornerstones of economics. It states that the natural environment is a gift from God to all. So the only way that humans can take ownership of anything and profit from it is by altering it through their labour.

In life we have these wonderful machines. Which scrub ghg's from the air. Turning them into oxygen for us to breathe along with food and fuel for us to use. They are called trees.

However Locke's Labour Theory of Property dictates that no-one can be paid simply for not cutting a down tree.

So we're forced to cut down all these trees. Then spend the profits on trying to invent machines that are even fractionally as good at scrubbing ghg's from the air. While turning them into things which are useful to us.

The way we've responded to COVID-19 has really highlighted just this issue.

There are two ways in which virus' are eliminated;

Firstly they are so aggressive that they rapidly kill anyone they infect. This prevents them from spreading to new hosts and without hosts they die. Fortunately most virus' of this type wiped themselves out thousands of years ago.

Alternatively a virus eliminates itself by not being aggressive enough. The people it infects survive and develop immunity to the virus. Eventually everybody is immune so the virus has no hosts to spread to. Meaning that it dies.

This second scenario is know as; "Herd Immunity." It is the principle behind every vaccination program there has ever been.

COVID-19 seems to come with its own built-in vaccine. It's self-destruct mechanism.

Herd Immunity is normally achieved when 60-70% of the population has been infected and become immune. Either by catching the virus or being injected with it in the form of a vaccine.

COVID-19 only has a serious effect on an easily identifiable 10% of the population. A further 45% of the population will only experience mild symptoms. Similar to that of a Common Cold. A further 45% still will experience absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.

Meaning that COVID-19 puts you over halfway to herd immunity without anyone ever even noticing that they were ill. Including people who experience only mild symptoms puts you at 90% immunity. Well over the 70% upper threshold required for herd immunity and elimination of the virus.

Furthermore COVID-19 is a droplet-borne disease. These means that to survive the virus cells need to be enveloped in a sack of moisture. Otherwise they will dehydrate and die.

COVID-19 really struck globally in March of 2020. Which for the northern hemisphere is the start of spring. Inevitibly leading to summer this is the start of a period where ambient moisture is low. Meaning that these virus cells will dehydrate faster and die faster. Making the spread of the disease much easier to predict and manage.

I am well aware of the global-north/global-south debate within UNFCCC circles. However the majority of the planet's human population live in the northern hemisphere. What we're talking about here is humidity rather than heat per se. Around the equator that doesn't change much with the seasons. At least for now. 

Also humans are, to an extent, solar powered. In summer temperatures they need to use less energy to maintain things like body heat. In winter temperatures they need to use more. Not all of us will be able to muster the energy to fight off COVID-19 and the winter weather.

Unfortunately Locke's Labour Theory of Property dictates that no-one can profit from simply letting nature take its course.

So instead we've had to endure all these onerous restrictions imposed upon us. Simply to buy time to allow a drug company to profit from selling us a vaccine which was ours all along.

All infections are fought by the body's immune system. HIV/AIDS is an infection which destroys the immune system. So the discussion of any infection rapidly starts sounding like a discussion about HIV/AIDS.

T-cells, B-cells, White Blood Cells etc. The difference being that with HIV/AIDS you have too few T-cells. With COVID-19 the issue, if anything, seems that you end up with too many T-cells.

HIV/AIDS is endemic across Sub-Saharan Africa. I think some 30% of all deaths in South Africa each year are HIV/AIDS related. 

How HIV/AIDS kills is particularly cruel and damaging on an economic, systemic level. Essentially people infected as babies die in their 30's and 40's. Just when they would be at their economic and social peak. Having babies of their own etc.

So it is impossible to have a serious discussion about economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa without also having a complete, working knowledge of HIV/AIDS.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to the second largest concentration of these magical, ghg scrubbing machines. The Rain Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

So to say that UNFCCC discussions often overlap with HIV/AIDS discussions is an understatement. One of the leading HIV/AIDS charities is; (RED). The UNFCCC's main fund to protect Rain Forests is; REDD+.

There is an episode of the US TV Show; "The Big Bang Theory" in which the characters are playing a card game. Similar to; "The Sims" computer game.

The Sheldon character announces that he has wood. Now he just needs sheep. He continues like this, oblivious to the obvious sexual innuendo. While all the other characters fall about laughing.

Everybody in UNFCCC circles have been in meetings like that.

Particularly the way that Britain has reacted to the COVID-19 seems to have highlighted a very specific flaw in the Paris Agreement.

Like I've said the Paris Agreement is not the comprehensive agreement to combat climate change that I, and the UNFCCC spent five years negotiating. 

Instead it is an alternative text introduced by former US President Obama, at the last minute. Which we all then signed up to under the barrel of ISIL's guns.

Well, I say; "All." Rather like America under President Trump my name is very firmly not on the Paris Agreement.

In those five years of negotiations a significant issue was identified. The Annex I nations have actually gone to great lengths to reduce their ghg emissions. Any further reductions will now be small and hugely expensive.

In contrast the Annex II parties can make huge ghg reductions for what are, to some, very small amounts of money. It's just that the Annex II parties don't have even those small amounts of money needed to make those large ghg reductions.

The Obama-free negotiations solved this problem. With what's known as; "The New Zealand Text. Or; "The Hybrid Falcon Text." Although I think; "Chimera Text" is perhaps more appropriate. Given how every brilliant brain was able to tack on their own little bit. As it bounced around the room.

The Chimera Text would see Annex I parties basically pay Annex II parties to make those large ghg emission reductions. Those emission reductions would then be counted partly as a reduction made by the nation where it happened. Partly as a reduction made by the nation which paid for it.

Although I can't over-emphasise how much I'm using the word; "Basically" here.

Obama's last minute draft very aggressively removed any concept of the Chimera Text from the Paris Agreement.

Britain reacted to COVID-19 by going into a full lockdown, very early on. They also introduced this hugely expensive Job Retention (Furlough) scheme. To pay everyone not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the spring and summer months.

As with Climate Change those huge, early efforts, did not solve the problem. Now autumn is here Britain is left, near broke, once again having to spend huge amounts of money. Simply to try and shave small reductions off the looming death toll.

So COVID-19 seems to have identified that weakness in the Paris Agreement. 

Then attacked it. Hard.

Continued in Part 2; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-2020-us-presidential-election-covid_33.html

 

17:00 on 11/10/20 (UK date).