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Endangering European security: Joe Biden's assertion that Russia is number one 'threat' to US flies in face of all facts & reason

Glenn Diesen
RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:38 UTC
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Joe Biden's belief that Russia is the greatest danger to the US is based on emotion and outdated ideology. It should alarm Europeans as they could find themselves on the frontline of a 'struggle' that makes little or no sense.

US presidential challenger Joe Biden recently referred to Russia as the main threat to the US. The statement perplexed some observers given how his former boss Barack Obama dismissed Russia as a weak regional power in 2014, while in 2012 Obama himself had mocked Mitt Romney for arguing that Russia was America's number one "geopolitical foe."

Biden, the erstwhile vice president of Obama, has now seemingly made a complete reversal.
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Dorsey admits to mob-driven censorship on Twitter during heated section 230 hearing

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 04:12 UTC
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Update (1412 ET): It's clear that Twitter's Jack Dorsey has perhaps unintentionally acknowledged that Twitter's unofficial moderating system is based simply on whoever shows the most outrage.

In response to questioning from Sen. Rick Scott, Dorsey replied:
"We don't have a general policy around misleading information and misinformation... We rely upon people calling that speech out."
See the discussion below...

Comment: See also: Ted Cruz rips Jack Dorsey over censorship of New York Post's Hunter Biden bombshell

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Maskless pope blames 'this lady called COVID' for distance, known to not require masks in private meetings


Associated Press
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:35 UTC
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© AP Photo/Alessandra TarantinoPope Francis shares a word with Monsignor Luis Maria Rodrigo Ewart as he arrives in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican for his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. A Vatican official who is a key member of Francis' COVID-19 response commission, the Rev. Augusto Zampini, acknowledged Tuesday that at age 83 and with part of his lung removed after an illness in his youth, Francis would be at high risk for complications if he were to become infected. Zampini said he hoped Francis would don a mask at least when he greeted people during the general audience. "We are working on that," he said.
Pope Francis has blamed "this lady called COVID" for forcing him to keep his distance again from the faithful during his general audience, which was far smaller than usual amid soaring coronavirus infections in Italy.

Francis again eschewed a protective mask Wednesday even when he greeted a few maskless clergymen at the end of his audience. While the prelates wore masks throughout the hour-long audience, they took them off when they lined up to shake Francis' hand and speak briefly with him one-on-one.

A Vatican official who is a key member of Francis' COVID-19 response commission, the Rev. Augusto Zampini, acknowledged Tuesday that at age 83 and with part of his lung removed after an illness in his youth, Francis would be at high risk for complications if he were to become infected.


Comment: Indeed. And yet there are multiple medications - some with a proven track record that some countries suddenly, inexplicably banned - that have been shown to be highly effective against coronavirus, and others are coming to the fore all the time.


Comment: And amidst the manufactured hysteria of the 'second wave' there have been small but widespread protests throughout Italy - and elsewhere in Europe - against the measures which many are saying are the death knell for small businesses and are a harbinger for harsher tyrannical measures.

See also: France and Germany prepare to impose harsher lockdown restrictions

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Snakes in Suits

Russia's most important officials will be banned from having foreign bank accounts

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:13 UTC
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© Sputnik / Alexey NikolskyValentina Matvienko, Anton Vaino and Sergey Lavrov take part in an operational meeting between Vladimir Putin and permanent members of the Russian security Council via videoconference.
Members of Russia's Security Council will be forbidden from keeping their money and valuables in banks outside of Russia, after the country's parliament passed a law restricting financial freedoms for the most powerful officials.

The bill, which passed through parliament on Tuesday, will bring the law in line with the new constitutional reforms. In July, Russian voters approved a wide-ranging package of amendments to the constitution, including a restriction on high-level officials having foreign citizenship or residency.

Once signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, members of the Security Council will be prohibited from storing cash and valuables outside the country's borders. The Security Council is chaired by the president and comprises 12 other permanent officials, plus many more non-permanent members. Included in the permanent representation are the prime minister and the ministers for defense, foreign affairs, and internal affairs, as well the director of the Federal Security Service.

Comment: Numerous scandals in the West have exposed that it would do well to follow Russia's lead:

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War Whore

Best of the Web: Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset


winteroak.org.uk
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:59 UTC
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Born in Ravensburg in 1938, Klaus Schwab is a child of Adolf Hitler's Germany, a police-state regime built on fear and violence, on brainwashing and control, on propaganda and lies, on industrialism and eugenics, on dehumanisation and "disinfection", on a chilling and grandiose vision of a "new order" that would last a thousand years.

Schwab seems to have dedicated his life to reinventing that nightmare and to trying to turn it into a reality not just for Germany but for the whole world.

Worse still, as his own words confirm time and time again, his technocratic fascist vision is also a twisted transhumanist one, which will merge humans with machines in "curious mixes of digital-and-analog life", which will infect our bodies with "Smart Dust" and in which the police will apparently be able to read our brains.

And, as we will see, he and his accomplices are using the Covid-19 crisis to bypass democratic accountability, to override opposition, to accelerate their agenda and to impose it on the rest of humankind against our will in what he terms a "Great Reset".

Schwab is not, of course, a Nazi in the classic sense, being neither a nationalist nor an anti-semite, as testified by the $1 million Dan David Prize he was awarded by Israel in 2004.
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Light Saber

There's no going back to 'normal' after Trump. The Republican Party is changed forever

Molly McCann
The Federalist
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:48 UTC
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© Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump on the campaign stump
Donald Trump is not a Republican. He never was before, and he is not one now. As the nation speeds toward Nov. 3, members of the GOP have been all over the board with predictions about the outcome, but some prominent Republicans have been consistently negative about Trump's prospects and even hopeful for his defeat.

Peggy Noonan penned an archetypal anti-Trump article this month, titled "Biden, Pence and the Wish for Normalcy." Noonan mused almost longingly that America might be headed toward an unprecedented landslide in favor of Joe Biden. If this happens, she said, one of the primary reasons will simply be "that [Biden] is normal ... and people miss normal so much."

Noonan, like many Republicans who don't like Trump, wants to go back to normal. The reality is we are never going back to "normal." The old Republican Party is dead. Trump made a new party, and that is the party of the future.

The Old GOP Is Dead

In 2016, Trump hijacked the Republican Party. Although he was billed as Republican, the support propelling him to victory was a new configuration of the electorate. Many mainstream Republicans still don't understand this, but no other GOP candidate was going to win in 2016. Trump won because he was not actually a Republican.
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Leaked papers outline UK govt's secret training & PR op for Syrian militants projected to cost MILLIONS

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 19:55 UTC
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© Getty Images / Mairo Cinquetti / NurPhotoThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Westminster, London, England.
A swath of what appear to be secret Foreign & Commonwealth Office documents outline a multimillion-pound British effort to train rebel fighters in Syria via private companies, knowing but brushing off the risk of jihadist hijack.

The documents released by the hacktivist collective Anonymous appear to expose a variety of covert actions undertaken by the UK government against the Syrian state over many years.

The overriding objective behind them all, the papers suggest, was to destabilise the government of Bashar Assad, convince Syrians, Western citizens, foreign governments, and international bodies that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was a legitimate alternative, and flood media the world over with pro-opposition propaganda.
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Sauce for the goose: Senate panel now investigating Hunter Biden's failure to register as foreign agent

Paul Sperry
RealClearInvestigations
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:49 UTC
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© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersThe Obama-Biden administration investigated six Trump campaign advisers for suspected FARA violations, but not Hunter Biden, above, with his father.
A search of Justice Department databases reveals that Hunter Biden failed to register as a foreign agent while promoting the interests of foreign business partners in Washington, including brokering meetings with his father and other government officials, and RealClear Investigations has learned that at least one Senate committee is investigating whether Joe Biden's son violated federal laws requiring disclosure of such foreign contacts.

The Obama administration did not prosecute Hunter Biden for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite its much more aggressive pursuit of FARA cases relative to other administrations — including its opening of criminal investigations on no fewer than six Trump campaign advisers in 2016.

Comment: GOP senators are calling for a special counsel investigation. From The Daily Caller:
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn all told the Washington Examiner that Attorney General William Barr should appoint a special counsel to look into any allegations of wrongdoing.

"I certainly think it should be investigated, and I think a special counsel may well be warranted," Hawley told the Examiner. "My bottom line is I think the investigation needs to continue uninterrupted. So if it takes a special counsel to do that, then I'd be for it."

"Well, I think I'm not a big fan of special counsels, but I'm worried if Trump loses the election, then that will all be just swept under the rug," Cornyn told the Examiner.

Johnson agreed with Cornyn's assessment of special counsels, but argued that this situation could be different.

"In this case, it might be the only solution to make sure that we finally get to the bottom of this," said Johnson. "Again, it all depends on the election result, but that might be appropriate in this situation."

Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley and Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called for a Justice Department investigation instead of a special counsel, according to the Examiner.

"I've studied this thing long enough. You don't need a special counsel. Just go with the normal process," said Grassley.


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Amy Coney Barrett sworn in as Supreme Court justice at White House

Sam Dorman
Fox News
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Ken Cedeno/UPIAmy Coney Barrett swearing in ceremony
South Lawn of the White House • October 26, 2020
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, fresh off her confirmation to serve as an associate justice on the nation's highest court, took her constitutional oath on Monday at the White House.

The Supreme Court said in a press release that Barrett will be able to start her new role after Chief Justice John Roberts administers her judicial oath on Tuesday. Justice Clarence Thomas administered the constitutional oath at Monday's ceremony.

Thomas has long been considered one of the more conservative justices on the court, along with Barrett's mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Echoing her mentor, Barrett underscored the need for a separation of powers between the judicial and legislative branches.

"It is the job of a senator to pursue her policy preferences," Barrett said to an audience on the South Lawn of the White House.
"In fact, it would be a dereliction of duty for her to put policy goals aside. By contrast, it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences. It would be a dereliction of duty for her to give into them. Federal judges don't stand for election. Thus, they have no basis for claiming that their preferences reflect those of the people."

Comment: Not satisfied with the outcome, AOC and Ilhan Omar had this to say:
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for more seats to be added to the Supreme Court — shortly after Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the newest justice on the bench Monday evening.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted:
"Republicans do this because they don't believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they've been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn't. There is a legal process for expansion."

It is believed Barrett — President Trump's third appointment to the court — will cement a conservative majority for decades, infuriating Democrats. Senate Republicans pushed through Barrett's nomination on a near party-line vote, with unanimous opposition from Dems.


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Justice Barrett's baptism by fire: Protecting the integrity of elections

Andrew C. McCarthy
The Hill
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:30 UTC
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© Greg NashJustice Amy Coney Barrett
As the U.S. Supreme Court's newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett immediately became enmeshed in a controversy that the high court, for its own sake and that of the country, must decide this week.

In an indefensible act of partisan muscle-flexing and judicial usurpation of legislative power, Pennsylvania's Democratic-controlled state Supreme Court overturned a perfectly valid statute, enacted by the state General Assembly, that required all mail-in and absentee ballots to be delivered to the appropriate county board of elections no later than 8 p.m. on Election Day. Unlike the federal judiciary, which is insulated from electoral politics, Pennsylvania judges are elected. As is the custom of partisans driven by politics, as opposed to detached magistrates guided by law, the Democratic majority ruled 4-3 to modify the statute for purposes of the upcoming election.

The ostensible rationale was the coronavirus pandemic. That is yet another indicator of judicial imperiousness: Like the rules governing elections, health care regulation is principally a public policy area to be addressed legislatively, not determined by litigation. In their wisdom, although the four-judge Democratic majority admitted that the statute at issue was validly enacted and substantively sound, they nevertheless amended it, dictating that the counting of ballots must continue through Nov. 6 - three days after Election Day.
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