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As US' battle lines are drawn, it targets China's OBOR

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Judging by US foreign policy - China is a massive global threat - and by some accounts - the "top" threat. But a threat to what?

AFP would report in its article, "Trump nominee to lead intel community sees China as top threat," that:
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the US intelligence community said Tuesday that he would focus on China as the country's greatest threat, saying Beijing was determined to supplant the United States' superpower position.
Were China doing this by using news agencies like AFP to lie to the public to justify invading Middle Eastern nations, killing tens of thousands of innocent people, installing client regimes worldwide, and using its growing power to coerce and control nations economically and politically when not outright militarily - US President Donald Trump's "pick" - John Ratcliffe - might be justified in focusing on China and its "determination" to "supplant the United States' superpower position."

However, this is not what China is doing.

Comment: The US would lack definition if there were no global adversaries lurking around the next corner...real or imagined.

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Let's 'Move on' from Boris

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Boris has a new slogan, "Move on", which he deployed repeatedly today in his appearance before the House of Commons Liaison Committee. Remembering short slogans is fairly well the extent of his political skills, and he contrived to look pleased with himself for remembering this one. The public, he solemnly informed those watching, now wanted the narrative to "Move on" from the Dominic Cummings debacle.

The problem with this slogan is it does not have a good history. The aged among us will remember that after the disaster of the Iraq war, it was constantly repeated by Tony Blair. OK, millions of people were dead. But it was time to "move on" from that. Only he could not. The dead of Iraq have haunted him ever since, they enabled Brown to depose him and Blair has the look of a man who believes the dead will be waiting to speak against him in the next life. No matter how much the Guardian still tries constantly to rehabilitate him, he will always have to be protected from the British public, a stinking rich, morally bankrupt pariah.
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Galloway: Blair is the last person to advise on children's safety; remember his demonic grin over dead Iraqi kids?

George Galloway
RT
Thu, 21 May 2020 15:32 UTC
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© Getty Images/Carl CourtFormer British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Seldom far from the centre of events, newly emboldened Tony Blair returns to what he knows best - the avoidable slaughter of the innocents.

Britain's foremost expert on the deaths of children in the service of profits and politics, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has made a significant intervention in the fierce national controversy over the return of our children to school on June 1. Full disclosure: none of my four school-age children will be returning until the children of the British elites return to their expensive private schools - currently slated for September.

The government had been toiling in its efforts to persuade the British public of the wisdom of such an early return - not least because it applied only to the state sector - with scientists, public health authorities (and the British Medical Association) and teaching trades unions. Several Labour-controlled local authorities, including Liverpool, had outright defied 10 Downing Street and declared they would not be complying.

Comment: Galloway's take on Blair may be all too true, but he's lost the plot on the virus. The war is one of indoctrination and beliefs versus reason and facts. The current 'killing fields of the coronavirus' have a much more sinister usefulness. Its first successes were changing the global paradigm and eliminating the aged. The child's fate will not be a physical death; it is to be chipped and forever monitored like a commodity.

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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: Leaked emails reveal Denmark's PM railroaded country's health authorities and deceived public over coronavirus to justify lockdown


TheLocal.dk
Fri, 29 May 2020 12:00 UTC
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© Ida Guldbæk Arentsen/Ritzau ScanpixThe extent to which Søren Brostrøm, director of the Danish Health Authority, was sidelined over the lockdown, is becoming clearer.
Leaked emails between leading figures in Denmark's health authorities are raising questions over the extent to which Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen steam-rollered her own health experts at the time the country imposed its lockdown in mid-March.

In an email leaked to the Politiken newspaper, Per Okkel, the top civil servant at the health ministry, told Søren Bostrøm, the head of the Danish Health Authority to suspend his sense of professional "proportionality" as a public servant, and instead adopt a "extreme precautionary principle" when giving political advice.

At the same time, emails leaked to the Ekstrabladet newspaper showed how on March 20, new calculations showing that the reproduction number in Denmark was 2.1, considerably lower than the 2.6 previously estimated, were held back because they were "not desired politically".

Comment: If the PM isn't listening to her own advisors, who is she listening to? And to the extent that she was willing to deliberately deceive the public as well as exaggerate the figures?

RT reports that the blatantly unjustified, unscientific lockdown is partly still in force in Denmark:
Denmark will conduct random checks for Covid-19 at borders and holiday sites, PM says

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said random checks for the Covid-19 virus will be carried out at the country's borders and holiday destinations as it prepares to reopen to visitors from some European countries.

Frederiksen said Friday that Denmark will open its borders to tourists from Norway, Germany and Iceland on June 15. She said tourists who wish to visit must book in advance a hotel outside of Copenhagen for at least six nights.

"Like everyone else, we are opening Denmark again. We are doing it in a controlled and gradual manner," Frederiksen said.


Like everyone else? What about Sweden? Or Iceland?


The country is planning to reopen its borders with the rest of the EU, Schengen countries and the UK after the summer, she said.

Denmark was one of the first countries in Europe to begin the process of reopening in mid-April following a one-month lockdown during the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Due to falling infections, the country was able to accelerate the end of the lockdown and began reopening museums, cinemas, theaters and zoos last week. Experts also recently confirmed that the partial reopening of schools did not lead to increases in infections among young students.

As of May 29, Denmark has recorded around 11,700 cases of Covid-19 and 568 deaths.
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Western aggression: Russian jets chase US strategic bombers away from country's borders


RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 19:24 UTC
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© Russia’s Defense Ministry
Russian jets were scrambled to intercept US B-1B Lancer strategic bombers, which approached the country's airspace over the Black and Baltic Seas, with the high-altitude action captured on video.

The American nuclear-capable warplanes heading in the direction of Russian airspace were first tracked by radar, before the Sukhoi Su-27P and Su-30SM were sent to greet them in the skies above neutral Black Sea waters.

The jets approached the US bombers at a "safe distance," with the move resulting in the B-1Bs reversing their course, the Defense Ministry said as it released the footage.
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Chess

'Behemoths who control': Barr says Trump executive order on social media companies will go further if necessary

Mica Soellner
Washington Examiner
Thu, 28 May 2020 19:21 UTC
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Attorney General William Barr praised President Trump for his executive order that could allow federal regulators to take punitive action against social media giants for the way they regulate online content.

Trump's order rolls back the long-standing legal protection known as Section 230, which spares tech companies from being held liable for the content they allow online and how they decide to monitor it.

Barr said the protection, which was adopted about 25 years ago, has been stretched beyond its original intention of not holding tech companies accountable for the content created by third-party users.
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France's determination to end free speech

Judith Bergman
Gates One Institute
Tue, 26 May 2020 19:12 UTC
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On May 13, the French parliament adopted a law that requires online platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat[1] to remove reported "hateful content" within 24 hours and "terrorist content" within one hour. Failure to do so could result in exorbitant fines of up to €1.25 million or 4% of the platform's global revenue in cases of repeated failure to remove the content.

The scope of online content deemed "hateful" under what is known as the "Avia law" (after the lawmaker who proposed it) is, as is common in European hate speech laws, very broadly demarcated and includes "incitement to hatred, or discriminatory insult, on the grounds of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability".

The French law was directly inspired by Germany's controversial NetzDG law, adopted in in October 2017, and it is explicitly mentioned in the introduction to the Avia law.
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Pirates

Poroshenko ducks questioning over Biden relations at Ukraine's State Bureau Of Investigations - AGAIN


RFE/RL
Fri, 29 May 2020 17:46 UTC
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© Serhly Dolzhenko/EPA- EFEFormer Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (center)
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has failed for the second time this week to show up at the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) for questioning.

The DBR planned to question Poroshenko on May 29 as a witness in two cases -- the alleged illegal transfer of cultural objects across the border and in connection with audio recording of individuals with voices thought to possibly be of Poroshenko and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Last week, lawmaker Andriy Derkach said the audio records prove "high treason" by Poroshenko.

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Bad Guys

The female UK scholar who was falsely accused as Flynn's Russian spy recruiter

Neil W. McCabe
The Tennessee Star
Fri, 29 May 2020 16:44 UTC
Svetlana Lokhova
© The Tennessee StarSvetlana Lokhova
The Cambridge University academic portrayed in the mainstream media as retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn's Russian mistress and spy recruiter told the Star Newspapers about her ordeal — caught in the web of fake news and the Russian Collusion Hoax.

"In April 2016, the Obama administration renewed General Flynn's security clearance — it was a top secret/sci, sensitive compartmentalized information, it is the highest clearance there is — so all is fine but, then suddenly in August 2016, the FBI start secretly investigating him for being a Russian spy — that is why they needed me to be his recruiter,' said Svetlana Lokhova, a former By-Fellow of Cambridge's Churchill College.

Margot Cleveland wrote for The Federalist:
"This honey pot storyline originated with Lokhova's mentor at Cambridge, the official MI5 historian, Professor Christopher Andrew, when on February 19, 2017, Andrew penned an article for the London Sunday Times, "Impulsive General Misha Shoots Himself in the Foot."
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Snakes in Suits

Who are the secret puppet-masters behind Washington's war on Iran?

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Dissident Voice
Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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On May 6th, President Trump vetoed a war powers bill specifying that he must ask Congress for authorization to use military force against Iran. Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign of deadly sanctions and threats of war against Iran has seen no let-up, even as the U.S., Iran and the whole world desperately need to set aside our conflicts to face down the common danger of the Covid-19 pandemic.

So what is it about Iran that makes it such a target of hostility for Trump and the neocons? There are many repressive regimes in the world, and many of them are close U.S. allies, so this policy is clearly not based on an objective assessment that Iran is more repressive than Egypt, Saudi Arabia or other monarchies in the Persian Gulf.

The Trump administration claims that its "maximum pressure" sanctions and threats of war against Iran are based on the danger that Iran will develop nuclear weapons. But after decades of inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and despite the U.S.'s politicization of the IAEA, the Agency has repeatedly confirmed that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program.

If Iran ever did any preliminary research on nuclear weapons, it was probably during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, when the U.S. and its allies helped Iraq to make and use chemical weapons that killed up to 100,000 Iranians. A 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, the IAEA's 2015 "Final Assessment on Past and Present Outstanding Issues" and decades of IAEA inspections have examined and resolved every scrap of false evidence of a nuclear weapons program presented or fabricated by the CIA and its allies.
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