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Here's the problem: A small group is trying to seize control of the global economy but they must use force; they can get no further by peace. The resource wars are no longer about land but about human resources: the people are no longer consumers but a cost base to be exploited or solved. The Great Reset: Eliminating the points at which populations cost money and find new ways to monetize the masses.
There's a problem: it won't work. A market economy is no longer possible once the same interests control more than X% of the market. You get Dirigisme, Gosplan, the banks/corporations/interests supplant the economy. The corporation IS the government IS the corporation. All dominant interests serve the same interests.
The winners have to win so you get managed outcomes. Those interests censor information contrary to their own interests resulting in a filter bubble: the narrower the sources of information, the more they gain authority. Information is reinforced as it becomes detached from reality. Knowledge is replaced by a model of the world outside.
© George Frey/BloombergMark Zuckerberg
Shares of the social media company fell 8.3% on Friday, the most in three months, after Unilever, one of the world's largest advertisers, joined other brands in boycotting ads on the social network. Unilever said it would stop spending money with Facebook's properties this year.
The share-price drop eliminated $56 billion from Facebook's market value and pushed Zuckerberg's net worth down to $82.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That also moved the Facebook chief executive officer down one notch to fourth place, overtaken by Louis Vuitton boss Bernard Arnault, who was elevated to one of the world's three richest people along with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
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- Facebook bends the knee, agrees to censor Trump ads after mass advertiser boycott
- Far left brands - Pepsi, HP, Doritos, Paypal, Adobe, BMW - pull ads from Facebook until they ban conservative voices and President Trump's posts
- Project Veritas insider exposes anti-Republican bias among Facebook moderators: 'Gotta get Trump out of office!' - Update: Facebook HR director fired
- Facebook whistleblower Hartwig: Platform allowed users to demonize whites, men & cops
866 coronavirus cases were reported in Leicester in the last two weeks
But a parliamentary statement on the city's fate, to be made by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, was due at 5pm and has been delayed until shortly after 9pm this evening. It is not known why.
The city's mayor Sir Peter Soulsby had said he received a report by email just after 1am today detailing the suggestions which he said were unjustified and had been "hastily cobbled together".
© ny1.comNY Congressman Eliot Engel
The media deference to Engel derives from the fact that he is a protected species, possibly the leading Israel-firster in Congress. In 2003, Engel supported the invasion of Iraq and in the following year he organized a group of fellow congressmen to demand cuts in the U.S. contribution to the United Nations office that assists Palestinian refugees. He attended the infamous Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address to Congress in 2015 that many other Democratic lawmakers boycotted due to the insult to President Obama and afterwards called Netanyahu's speech "compelling."
Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo and Nancy Pelosi all had endorsed Engel, who has been in Congress for going on 32 years and currently heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Clinton explained that Engel "...is deeply committed to working with our allies to maintain American leadership on the global stage." She was, of course, referring to Israel.
© Getty Images/Chip SomodevillaSenator Tim Scott • Speaker Nancy Pelosi • Senator Chuck Schumer
The first happened Wednesday, when Democrats blocked the Senate from considering a bill on police reform by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
Scott, who is African American, has been working on the issue for years. He had the full support of the rest of the Republican caucus. He also agreed to consider whatever amendments Democrats offered.
They still used the filibuster to block the bill from even being debated.
The episode showed that Democrats do not actually care about police reform. Nor do they want to unite the nation behind any sort of bipartisan compromise. They simply want to use the issue in the elections, which they hope will give them the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Then they can get rid of the filibuster and pass whatever they want.
Comment: Another example of Democrats doing what they are not good at.
© radiozamaneh.com/New York Daily News/Reuters/Edgar Su/KJNAli Alghasi-Mehr • US President Donald Trump
The names of the suspects in the high-profile murder of Iran's elite Quds Force commander have been relayed to Interpol by Tehran's chief prosecutor Ali Alghasi-Mehr, Iranian media said on Monday. The official called the killing a "murder" and a "terrorist act."
"President Donald Trump is at the top of the list, and his prosecution will be pursued even after his term is over."
Comment: Interpol has refused, saying it can't act the on Iranian request due to 'rules and collaboration protocols'.
The Lyon-based organization [Interpol] told RIA Novosti if it receives a request to arrest Trump, its own rules will not allow it to act on it. Interpol acts as a liaison between law enforcement organizations in member states, helping them to collaborate with each other in solving crimes and arresting suspects trying to flee justice in a different jurisdiction.This is a smart ruse by the Ayatollah, assuming he colluded with the Trump administration to off a dangerous political rival.
Interpol maintains political neutrality and is barred by its charter from getting involved in activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature, a spokesperson for the organization said.
© Reuters/Pierre Albouy/KJNJulian Assange
This failure could be seen as highly prejudicial and therefore present another opportunity for the defence to lodge a challenge to the extradition request.
The indictment
On 24 June, the DoJ released a statement accusing Assange of conspiring with "Anonymous" affiliated hackers, among others. A 49-page document accompanying that statement provides further details. According to Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola, the document, one-third of which merely reiterates the original 18 charges, significantly:
"expands the [original] conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge and accuses Assange of conspiring with "hackers" affiliated with "Anonymous," "LulzSec," "AntiSec," and "Gnosis."The computer crime charge is not limited to March 2010 anymore. It covers conduct that allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2015.
Comment: We shall see if procedural irregularities and the above-mentioned flaws in the US case against Assange make a difference. Man against machine...hopefully he has a chance.
© Reuters/Leah MillsUS Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
"We need, in this coming defense bill, which we are debating this week, tough sanctions against Russia," Schumer told journalists, emphatically gesturing to drive home the point.
The reason for the "tough sanctions" is a report by the New York Times that cites "interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals," and accuses Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, of literally offering bounties to the Taliban for every US soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Comment: Same debunked arguments, same mind lock, different year.
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One more time! MSNBC asks Bolton if Trump's 'too afraid' to take on Putin because he helped him get elected
© Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via ReutersVladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
"Do you think that the president is afraid to make Putin mad because maybe Putin did help him win the election and he doesn't want to make him mad for 2020?" Chuck Todd asked of John Bolton in a Meet the Press interview on Sunday.
Comment: The last 6000 times this question was insinuated, the answer was emphatically 'NO'. Even miserable John Bolton could not answer 'yes'. We can't even say Chuck Todd was 'beating a dead horse'...there was no horse!
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