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Former Fed Chair, Janet Yellen, advises Biden and Harris

Tyler Pager
Bloomberg
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:12 UTC
Yellen
© Andrew Harrer/BloombergFormer Fed Reserve Chair Janet Yellen
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris received their first joint economic briefing on Thursday, which included former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen.

Two of Biden's longtime economic advisers, Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, were among those in the briefing, as well as Yellen, Raj Chetty, a Harvard University professor; and Lisa Cook, a professor at Michigan State University. Jake Sullivan, a top policy adviser to Biden, was also in the briefing.

The Biden campaign has been very secretive about the economists who have been advising the former vice president during his campaign. But in April, Bloomberg News reported that Larry Summers was advising the campaign, which drew the ire on progressives who called on Biden to promise he would not appoint him to his administration.

A Biden campaign official said only Bernstein and Boushey are official advisers to the campaign and the others, including Yellen, are experts who were briefing the candidates.
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'Muscular liberalism': WaPo columnist roasted after using strange label to describe Biden/Harris strategy


RT
Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:41 UTC
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© Reuters/Carlos BarriaPresidential candidate, Former VP Joe Biden • VP candidate Kamala Harris
A piece on how the Biden and Harris ticket sticks it to the Democrats has drawn an outpouring of mockery after describing the duo's foreign policy platform as 'muscular liberalism'.

A Washington Post column penned by political commentator Josh Rogin heaped praise on Joe Biden's Vice President pick, Kamala Harris. Together they would usher a
"return to the way world politics used to work, with a strong America leading a strong multilateral system," he argued. Once they take the White House, the centrist dream team would firmly oppose the vision of the likes of Bernie Sanders, who want "smaller defense budgets, less foreign intervention, more respect for sovereignty in other countries and the withdrawal of US troops abroad."

Comment: Rogan's comments are akin to throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks.

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Star of David

Drones and jets: Israel launches strikes on Gaza Strip for the fourth straight night


RT
Sat, 15 Aug 2020 01:49 UTC
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© Reuters/Ibraheem Abu MustafaRafah, southern Gaza Strip July 14, 2020.
The Israeli military has pummeled the Gaza Strip for a fourth consecutive night. The air raids are said to come in response to explosive and incendiary balloon attacks by Palestinian militants.

At least three locations, including the Khan Younis port, were targeted by Israeli aircraft late on Friday. Drones, as well as several fighter jets, were spotted in the area, local media reported.
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Propaganda

'Come on, don't do this': Yahoo slammed for shoddy story accusing RUSSIA of antifa.com prank of Joe Biden


RT
Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:33 UTC
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© REUTERS/Carlos Barria / Stephanie Keith
The latest chapter in the conspiracy theory blaming Russia for 'meddling' in US elections accuses Moscow of somehow redirecting the website Antifa.com to Joe Biden's website, thanks to some major internet illiteracy at work.

On Wednesday, Republican activist Matthew Foldi pointed out that typing Antifa.com in one's browser redirected to Biden's campaign page, just as the Democrat candidate and his freshly chosen running mate Kamala Harris were about to do their first joint public appearance.


Comment: Their narrative is so laughably predictable at this point it's rather stunning that it's still working. People have, quite literally, lost their minds.

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Info

Trump lays down gauntlet for Barr on Durham probe: Either 'greatest attorney general' or 'average guy'

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:38 UTC
bill barr
© Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS
President Trump on Thursday said he hopes U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is investigating the origins of the Russia probe, is "not going to be politically correct" and warned that Attorney General William Barr could go down as "the greatest attorney general" or just "an average guy" — depending on what comes out of the monthslong probe.

During an exclusive interview with FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo, the president was asked about the Durham probe, which the Justice Department has said could yield some results by next month.

"I hope he's doing a great job, and I hope they're not going to be politically correct," Trump said. "Obama knew everything. Vice President Biden, as dumb as he may be, knew everything, and everybody else knew."

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Bullseye

The CIA is behind Russiagate and still wants you to believe in 'Russian interference'


Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
William Binney
© REUTERS/Thomas Peter
William Binney is the former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency who worked at the agency for 30 years. He is a respected independent critic of how American intelligence services abuse their powers to illegally spy on private communications of U.S. citizens and around the globe. Given his expert inside knowledge, it is worth paying attention to what Binney says.

In a media interview this week, he dismissed the so-called Russiagate scandal as a "fabrication" orchestrated by the American Central Intelligence Agency. Many other observers have come to the same conclusion about allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections with the objective of helping Donald Trump get elected.

But what is particularly valuable about Binney's judgment is that he cites technical analysis disproving the Russiagate narrative. That narrative remains dominant among U.S. intelligence officials, politicians and pundits, especially those affiliated with the Democrat party, as well as large sections of Western media. The premise of the narrative is the allegation that a Russian state-backed cyber operation hacked into the database and emails of the Democrat party back in 2016. The information perceived as damaging to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was subsequently disseminated to the Wikileaks whistleblower site and other U.S. media outlets.

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Star of David

The politics of war: What is Israel's endgame in Lebanon and Syria?

Ramzy Baroud
Mint Press News
Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Israeli soldiers drive military vehicles
© Ariel Schalit | APIsraeli soldiers drive military vehicles during an exercise in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, Aug. 4, 2020.
On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued an ominous warning to Lebanon.

"We hit a cell and now we hit the dispatchers. I suggest to all of them, including Hezbollah, to consider this," Netanyahu said during an official tour of a military facility in central Israel.

Netanyahu's warning did not bode well for Israel when, hours later, a Hiroshima-like blast devastated entire sectors of Beirut. Those who suspected Israeli involvement in the deadly explosion had one more reason to point fingers at Tel Aviv.

In politics and in war, truth is the first casualty. We may never know precisely what transpired in the moments preceding the Beirut blast. Somehow, it may not matter at all, because the narrative regarding Lebanon's many tragedies is as splintered as the country's political landscape.

Judging by statements and positions adopted by the country's various parties and factions, many seem to be more concerned with exploiting the tragedy for trivial political gain than in the tragedy itself. Even if the explosion was the unfortunate outcome of an accident resulting from bureaucratic negligence, sadly, it is still inconsequential. In Lebanon, as in much of the Middle East, everything is political.

Comment: And, ultimately, Israel's 'end game' is well summed up here: 'Greater Israel': The Zionist plan for the Middle East

Though it is not likely to turn out how the Israelis planning.

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Bad Guys

Three French secret agents arrested for 'private' murder plot

Martin Bureau
Euronews
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:00 UTC
headquarters
© AFPThree men speak in a corridor at the headquarters of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE)
French authorities have arrested three members of the country's external intelligence service for planning a murder outside the exercise of their functions.

Two of the men from France's General Directorate for External Security were arrested in the night between July 23 and July 24 in Créteil, a southeastern suburb of Paris, because it looked like they were "about to carry out a criminal act on a 54-year-old woman," the prosecutor's office revealed in a statement on Wednesday.

Police, alerted by a local resident, found them in a stolen car with a fake licence plate. Both were wearing gloves and had army-issue knives. Officers also retrieved a 9 mm-calibre handgun.

Police also identified and arrested a third person — a private security agent — believed to have assisted in the organisation of the murder plot.

Comment: A 'private murder' plot as opposed to...?

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Eye 1

UK economy heading for the rocks unless life returns to the 'old' normal

Neil Clark
Sputnik
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:48 UTC
bank of england
© CC BY-SA 4.0 / Txllxt TxllxT/Wikimedia Commons
The UK's economic output shrunk by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, plunging the country into its deepest recession since records began. But as bad as that was, things will only get much worse, unless there's a complete change of course from the government and the Coronavirus Act is repealed.

It's official. Britain's GDP fell by more than any other G7 nation in the three months to June. Most of that time the economy was in some form of lockdown. Those of us who warned of the dire consequences of shutting down the economy for such a long period were attacked at the time, but too many it seems were lulled into a false sense of security by Chancellor Rishi 'Sunny, Smiley' Sunak's furlough schemes. What was so bad about staying at home for a few weeks (originally it was supposed to be only three but then of course it became much longer), and getting paid by The State to do it? That was the prevailing view.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - The Ultimate Insanity of the Covid Lockdown - Interview with Sott.net Editor Joe Quinn

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Eye 2

Kamala Harris failed to prosecute priest sex abuse cases despite victims' pleas

Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart
Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:50 UTC
kamala
© AP Photo/Eric Risberg
Joe Biden announced Tuesday he has chosen Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate, a person the presumptive Democrat nominee described as a "fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public servants."

During Harris's tenure as San Francisco's chief prosecutor, however, she showed no signs of fighting for "the little guy" when she failed to prosecute any of the sexual abuse claims brought against Catholic priests in the city, despite outcries from victim groups.

In fact, as Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, observed in his book titled Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite, during her 13-year tenure as district attorney and then attorney general, Harris failed to prosecute even one case of priest sexual abuse, though during that same period at least 50 major cities had brought charges against priests.
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