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© Caitlin O’Hara/Getty ImagesOCTOBER 19: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a Make America Great Again campaign rally on October 19, 2020 in Prescott, Arizona. With almost two weeks to go before the November election, President Trump is back on the campaign trail with multiple daily events as he continues to campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
NBC News' Kristin Welker, the third debate's moderator, released her selected topics for the third debate on Friday, which included national security, fighting COVID-19, race in America, leadership, American families, climate change and leadership.
The Trump campaign's letter reads, that Welker's selected topics "are serious and worthy of discussion, but only a few of them even touch on foreign policy," as is typical of the third presidential debate.
In a Monday morning interview with ABC's 'Good Morning America', Cuomo claimed the CDC and FDA "don't have any credibility" while President Donald Trump is in office and the public should be "very skeptical" of any vaccine pushed out.
"I'm not that confident, but my opinion doesn't matter. I don't believe the American people are that confident," the governor said. "I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and they should be."
When a vaccine does become available, Cuomo says states will need independent doctors to test it on their own to ensure it's "safe," which is what he plans to do in New York.
Ireland's deputy PM Leo Varadkar, who was voted out of office as PM in February, but who returned to government through a coalition of the losing Establishment parties, grins under his muzzle
Cabinet ministers today agreed to place the country under Level 5 restrictions from midnight on Wednesday for six weeks in a bid to combat the rise in cases of the virus.
The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting at Government Buildings in Dublin this evening. The restrictions will last until December 1.
Level 5 is the most stringent under the Irish system and asks citizens to 'stay at home, except to exercise within 5 kilometres of your home.'
Public gatherings, except for small numbers at funerals and weddings, are banned and only essential shops are allowed to stay open.
Ireland has recorded a total of 49,962 cases, with another 1,283 infections added to that tally in the last 24 hours.
However, fatalities remain low with just three deaths recorded on Sunday, adding to a total of 1,852.
Comment: Three 'Covid deaths'. Suicides and deaths of despair related to the lockdowns are way up. But the government isn't counting those of course.
© Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump on the campaign stump
Comment: How dare he buck the Deep State plan?
President Trump said the US would be in the throes of a "massive depression" if he had "totally" heeded advice from scientists on coronavirus-related lockdown measures.
Trump made the economic prediction at his Sunday rally in Carson City, Nevada, adding that the country would endure another Great Depression if Joe Biden is elected president.
© Getty Images / EThamPhotoFILE PHOTO.
This may come as a surprise to some, as Russia is one of very few countries with no hostility towards Pyongyang, which has very few allies on the world stage.
Speaking to Moscow daily Kommersant, experts explained that hacker group Kimsuky had attempted to collect confidential information from aerospace and defense companies through phishing attacks.
Comment: This is particularly interesting because Russia, unlike America, isn't known for accusing other countries of crimes unless there's a valid reason; are the attacks really coming from North Korean command, and, if so, why would they do something that would clearly damage their good relations?
- North Korea tests missiles before founder's birthday and parliamentary elections
- EU sanctions Russian, North Korean, Chinese firms over suspected cyberattacks
© Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump • Former VP Joe Biden • 2020 Presidential Debate
"Good morning to everyone except Presidential Debate Commission members who changed focus of final debate away from foreign policy," the Trump campaign's senior adviser Jason Miller tweeted on Monday morning.
Miller theorized the topics were steered away from foreign policy "so Joe Biden wouldn't have to answer to being compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, supporting endless wars and sending pallets of cash to Iran."
Comment: The MSM has wrapped Creepy Joe in a comfy cocoon for the entirety of his campaign. Why would they stop now?
- MSM disgrace: ABC asks Creepy Joe ZERO questions about censored NY Post scoops on son's foreign grift
- Biden campaign warns media: Don't spread 'debunked' claims of his activities in Ukraine... or else!
- New Yorker spins Hunter Biden's drug addiction as 'a plus' to boost Joe Biden's sinking polls
- A worried New York Times lays out conditions for Biden-Trump debate or loophole to save Joe from live sparring
- Washington journalist: 'I want a coronation' of Biden, not an investigation of allegations
- 'Shut him up!' Biden wants Giuliani kicked off TV news, after Trump lawyer lays out Biden's crimes
- Twitter is 'canceling' Joe Rogan again after he said MSM ignores Joe Biden's mental decline
- Biden is everything the Democrats are: Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix
© ITPhoto/Alamy Stock PhotoThe alleged incident between Chinese and Taiwanese officials took place at a Taipei Trade Office reception at Suva’s Grand Pacific hotel on 8 October.
In furious statements on Monday the rival foreign ministries accused each other's diplomats of attacking their Fiji-based staff at a reception marking Taiwan's national day on 8 October at hotel in the capital, Suva. Beijing considers Taiwan to be a part of China, and is highly sensitive to any apparent recognition of Taiwanese sovereignty by other governments, such as supporting National Day celebrations.
Taiwan's ministry of foreign affairs said two Chinese embassy officials arrived at the Grand Pacific hotel uninvited and began "harassing" and trying to photograph the guests which included Fijian ministers, foreign diplomats, NGO representatives and members of Fiji's ethnic Chinese community.
Taiwanese staff confronted the officials and a fight broke out, with one Taiwanese official injured severely enough that he required treatment at hospital for head injuries, Taiwan's ministry and multiple sources at the scene said. Police were called to the hotel but sources have told the Guardian the Chinese officials claimed diplomatic immunity.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX)
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Monday said that Hunter Biden's laptop "is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign," amid claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff suggesting otherwise.
Ratcliffe, during an exclusive interview on FOX Business' Mornings with Maria, was asked about the allegations from Schiff, D-Calif., who over the weekend said that the Hunter Biden emails suggesting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had knowledge of, and was allegedly involved in, his son's foreign business dealings.
"It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence," Ratcliffe said. "Unfortunately, it is Adam Schiff who said the intelligence community believes the Hunter Biden laptop and emails on it are part of a Russian disinformation campaign."
Comment: ZeroHedge brings us some Twitter highlights:
Donald Trump Jr. asked a good question - one that will be ignore by the mainstream media's reporters...Caitlin Johnstone outlines the dismal reasons we will be beaten over the head with this fake talking point right up to the election and beyond:
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has gone full tin-foil, suggesting that Giuliani was a 'key target' of 'Kremlin constructed anti-Biden propaganda.'
Fight it all you want, but there's nothing you can do. "The emails are Russian" is going to be the official dominant narrative in mainstream political discourse, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Resistance is futile.
Like the Russian hacking narrative, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, the Russian bounties in Afghanistan narrative, and any other evidence-free framing of events that simultaneously advances pre-planned cold war agendas, is politically convenient for the Democratic party and generates clicks and ratings, the narrative that the New York Post publication of Hunter Biden's emails is a Russian operation is going to be hammered and hammered and hammered until it becomes the mainstream consensus. This will happen regardless of facts and evidence, up to and including rock solid evidence that Hunter Biden's emails were not published as a result of a Russian operation.
This is happening. It's following the same formula all the other fact-free Russia hysteria narratives have followed. The same media tour by pundits and political operatives saying with no evidence but very assertive voices that Russia is most certainly behind this occurrence and we should all be very upset about it.
[...]So "the emails are Russian" narrative serves the interests of political convenience, partisan media ratings, and the national security state's pre-planned agenda to continue escalating against Russia as part of its slow motion third world war against nations which refuse to bow to US dictates, and you've got essentially no critical mainstream news coverage putting the brakes on any of it. This means this narrative is going to become mainstream orthodoxy and treated as an established fact, despite the fact that there is no actual, tangible evidence for it.
Joe Biden could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and the mainstream press would crucify any journalist who so much as tweeted about it. Very little journalism is going into vetting and challenging him, and a great deal of the energy that would normally be doing so is going into ensuring that he slides right into the White House.
If the mainstream news really existed to tell you the truth about what's going on, everyone would know about every questionable decision that Joe Biden has ever made, Russiagate would never have happened, we'd all be acutely aware of the fact that powerful forces are pushing us into increasingly aggressive confrontations with two nuclear-armed nations, and Trump would be grilled about Yemen in every press conference.
But the mainstream news does not exist to tell you the truth about the world. The mainstream news exists to advance the interests of its wealthy owners and the status quo upon which they have built their kingdoms. That's why it's so very, very important that we find ways to break away from it and share information with each other that isn't tainted by corrupt and powerful interests.
Best of the Web: Navalny loses the plot, changes story once again, campaigns for Biden against Trump
In Navalny's fresh plot, he now says he was poisoned when he was putting on clothes in his hotel room in Tomsk, and then touched a water bottle. "We know that I was poisoned in the hotel because I — well, again, it's just a pure speculation because no one knows what happened exactly — but I think that when I was, er, maybe put some clothes with this poison on me, I touched it with the hand [left hand], and then I sipped from the bottle [right hand]. So this nerve agent was not inside of the bottle but on the bottle."
The evidence for the poisoning, Navalny insisted to CBS, can be found in the reports of the French and Swedish military laboratories. According to a partial release of the official report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), "two blood samples were collected from the patient [Navalny] on the 5th of September 2020".
Litigation in a Stockholm court by Mats Nilsson is under way to compel publication of the full FOI report. The laboratory confirms it did not test Navalny's urine, skin samples, clothing, or the water bottle.
Navalny now claims to the New Yorker that the evidence of his poisoning can be found in the classified report of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), although it too has announced that it did not test the water bottle and did not identify Novichok. "I was poisoned with a different kind of Novichok. Even the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons classifies its reports, because no one wants to publish the formula."
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