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Houston mayor orders police to punish residents who refuse to wear masks with $250 fines


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:45 UTC
travelers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
© Reuters / Adrees LatifFILE PHOTO: Travelers receive complimentary face masks as they enter the George Bush Intercontinental Airport amid the coronavirus outbreak in Houston, Texas.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is ratcheting up enforcement of a state Covid-19 mask mandate, ordering police to cite residents who refuse to wear a face covering after being warned and to penalize them with a $250 fine.

"For months, we have been focusing on education and not citations, but now I am instructing the Houston Police Department to issue the necessary warnings and citations to anyone not wearing a mask in public if they do not meet the criteria for an exemption," the mayor said Monday at a press briefing.


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Bizarro Earth

US signs deal with Kurdish-led rebels to steal Syrian oil


Reuters
Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:37 UTC
Kurds flag SDF
Syria's foreign ministry said on Sunday that an American oil company had signed an agreement with Kurdish-led rebels who control northeastern oilfields in what it described as an illegal deal aimed at "stealing" Syria's crude.

A ministry statement, published on state media, did not name the firm involved in the deal with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance that seized swathes of north and east Syria from Islamic State with U.S. help.

There was no immediate response from SDF officials to a Reuters' request for comment. There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials on Sunday.

Comment: So this is US withdrawal from Syria?

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Nuke

UK lobbies US for controversial new nuclear warheads, threatens non-proliferation treaty


The Guardian
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 16:48 UTC
Wallace
© Andy Rain/EPAJulian Borger in WashingtonBen Wallace, Britain's defence secretary, is calling on the US to back spending on the W93 warhead.
The UK has been lobbying the US Congress in support of a controversial new warhead for Trident missiles, claiming it is critical for "the future of Nato as a nuclear alliance".

A letter from Britain's defence secretary, Ben Wallace, seen by the Guardian, urged Congress to support initial spending on the warhead, the W93.

The letter, sent in April but not previously reported, draws the UK into a US political debate, pitting the Trump administration against many Democrats and arms control groups over whether the the $14bn W93 programme is necessary. The US navy already has two warheads to choose from for its submarine-launched Trident missiles.

The close cooperation on the W93 casts further doubt on the genuine independence of the UK deterrent - parliament first heard about it when US officials accidentally disclosed Britain's involvement in February - and the commitment of both countries to disarmament.

Comment: This exposes how the UK is reliant on bilking the US for its own nefarious ends as well as its place in destabalizing world peace: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Perfidious Albion: If Russia is a Rogue State, What is the UK?

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Eye 2

Fauci attacks church choirs, implies worship is less important than protests

Madeline Osburn
The Federalist
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:48 UTC
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© D. Myles Cullen
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in June said churches should consider suspending their choir if located in an area with a high infection rate. On Friday, Fauci refused to say whether large protests should also be suspended.

"My recommendation still holds that the choirs should refrain from singing. When you sing and you project your voice, the aerosols of the virus come out," he said, contradicting Centers for Disease Control recommendations on socially distanced worship.


According to Newsy, the CDC also first wrote on their website that faith communities should "consider suspending or at least decrease the use of choir/musical ensembles, congregant singing, chanting or reciting during services..." Those initial recommendations then disappeared from the website overnight without an explanation. Fauci stood by the recommendation.

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Red Flag

Best of the Web: Seattle's Bolshevik Revolution

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Bolshevik Revolution
Here's a question for you: When a young man dressed entirely in black, uses a racial justice protest to conceal himself so he can break windows, incinerate retail shops and cafes, pelt cops with bottles, rocks and fireworks, and spread mayhem across the city, what is the political message he is trying to send?
  1. He is honoring the death of George Floyd
  2. He is expressing his support for racial justice
  3. He is attacking the system that protects ordinary people from criminal violence
  4. He is a paid agitator funded by liberal organizations that seek to intensify social unrest for their own political objectives
If you chose 3 or 4, you're probably right, there are undoubtedly paid agitators operating on behalf of wealthy outsiders, just as there are many "true believers" who see the riots as a springboard for a broader revolt that will topple the existing system. In other words, there are competing agendas at play in these violent outbursts. The least likely answer is Number 1, that "He is honoring the death of George Floyd." The riots have nothing to do with George Floyd, he's merely the fig leaf that hides the true motives of the perpetrators.

Isn't it odd that - after 60 days of protests and riot - the media has never once asked what these activists want, what their actions mean or who they are?
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Snakes in Suits

'Nobody believes you': Poilievre grills Trudeau as he testifies over WE Charity controversy


The Duran
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:17 UTC
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Finance Critic Pierre Poilievre grills Justin Trudeau on how much his family has received from the WE Charity while he testifies.

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Eye 1

Going too far: Americans should start wearing face masks AT HOME, Dr. Deborah Birx says


RT
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC
birx
© Reuters / Leah Millis
Families sitting down to watch the evening news might soon have to wear face masks, if the advice of the White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Deborah Birx is turned into a rule, as America's disjointed war on Covid-19 continues.

With cases of coronavirus beginning to tick upwards across the US, Dr. Deborah Birx told CNN on Sunday that the country is entering a new phase in its fight against the disease.

"What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It's into the rural as equal urban areas," Birx, told 'State of the Union' host Dana Bash, before suggesting that Americans take even more extreme precautions against the virus.

"If you're in multi-generational households, and there's an outbreak in your rural area or in your city, you need to really consider wearing a mask at home," she said, citing the threat to the elderly and people with pre-existing health conditions.
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Eye 2

Best of the Web: 'Rogue SAS Afghanistan execution squad' exposed by email trail


The Sunday Times
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 23:05 UTC
torture
© George Arbuthnott , Jonathan Calvert and David Collins
Incendiary documentary evidence has emerged in a British court in which allegations are made about a "rogue" SAS unit accused of executing civilians in Afghanistan.

The evidence had been withheld from earlier proceedings of the legal case, prompting a judge to demand a full explanation from Ben Wallace, the defence secretary.

The cache of emails, notes and reports from inside the SAS — the like of which has never been seen before — reveal that special forces commanders were highly concerned about the killing of more than 33 people in the space of three months during night raids on their homes.

There was a particular pattern in which men were captured and then killed when the SAS sent them back into their houses at gunpoint. The Sunday Times has pieced together the disturbing evidence, which raises serious questions about whether war crimes have been covered up.

It is a trail that begins in the dead of night.

Comment: There was nothing 'rogue' about them. They were a death squad; their job was to terrorize people and keep the war going. This was 'unofficial-but-secretly-official' British (and thus NATO, American, and Western) military policy.

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Arrow Up

German and French arms manufacturers aiming to reduce reliance on US military tech


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:03 UTC
Eurofighter
© CC BY 2.0 / Eurofighter Typhoon S Germany Air Force / https://www.flickr.com/people/14035760@N03
Military-industrial enterprises of Germany and France are looking for ways to phase out dependence on US technologies in the production of military equipment, including for data protection, according to the German publication Welt am Sonntag.

According to the publication, the companies want to gain independence in the production of several weapons systems, including helicopters, a new assault rifle for the German Armed Forces and a fighter under the pan-European Future Combat Air System program.

At the same time, the enterprises are not satisfied with the fact that, in accordance with the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the United States retains the ability to control equipment produced using US technologies and, if necessary, restrict exports, Welt am Sonntag reported.

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Books

SOTT Focus: Denis Rancourt: 'The Scientific Argument Against Wearing Facemasks'


Digi Debates
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:33 UTC
facemask useless
This is a 15 minute presentation - extracted from a longer debate - by former Professor of Physics Denis Rancourt on the randomised controlled studies on masks, illustrating that masks are ineffective in preventing viral transmission.


Comment: In case YouTube nixes it, here it is on Brighteon:


Watch the full debate:


Also by Denis Rancourt:

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