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Senate Democrats invite massive economic chaos by blocking proposal for extra $250 billion in small business aid

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:07 UTC
shuttered businesses
© Reuters / Jonathan ErnstShuttered businesses in Washington DC
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a Republican effort to unanimously pass legislation to add $250 billion to the government's small business loan program aimed at helping companies devastated by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempted to forward the bill by unanimous consent, but Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) opposed the move, pumping the brakes on President Donald Trump's plan to bolster the "paycheck protection" program.

In a Senate floor speech, McConnell affirmed that the proposal would not impact the "policy language" of the $2 trillion bi-partisan coronavirus relief package passed late last month.

"We need more funding and we need it fast," McConnell urged. "Do not block emergency aid you do not oppose just because you want something more."

Comment: Consider the giant conglomerates involved in the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, international trade, energy, and others involved in making up the United States' GDP, and then consider that American small businesses reach nearly the same economic output. The only thing left of the American industrious spirit and actual, real capitalism is found within small businesses. It appears this fear pandemic has provided the ideal opportunity for the creatively-dead elites to strike a death knell on the entrepreneurial spirit that provides for millions upon millions of Americans. This isn't just economic. It is a destructive psychological operation to kill hope in the average person.

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Bizarro Earth

SOTT Focus: PNAC, COVID-19 And The Age of Bioweapons: 20 Years of Psychological Terror

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Fort Detrick Maryland
Fort Detrick, Maryland, actual source of the 'Wuhan' Flu?
A little over 20 years ago, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted a military exercise that involved a "hypothetical scenario" of hijacked planes flying into both the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

One year later, on October 24-26, 2000, another "hypothetical" military exercise was played out featuring an airline crashing into the Pentagon killing 341 people followed by yet another May 2001 Department of Defense "hypothetical scenario" which saw hundreds of medical personnel training for a "guided missile in the form of a hijacked 757 airliner" crashing into the Pentagon.

What arose from the smoke and debris of September 11, 2001 was unlike anything the sleeping masses or international community expected.

The shock effect so traumatized the masses that quite suddenly, citizens found themselves willing to give up their liberties at home while acquiescing to any retaliatory action desired by their government abroad. The scale of horror was so great that the international community banded together and showed their love and solidarity towards America in the wake of the tragedy with candlelight vigils across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and South America. Humanity's natural tendency to embrace and aid our fellow man in times of crisis expressed itself like a bright light in a world of confused darkness and a hope for a durable peace awoke in the hearts of many.

Alas, as the world came soon to discover, that hope was short lived.

Comment: The evil in taking mankind down this path is unlike anything we can fathom. Most will obviate the truth for a more comfortable set of beliefs. Those who truly piece the puzzle together may be the only hope there is.

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Bullseye

Fighting the worldwide war on death, is it madness?

Israel Shamir
The Unz Review
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Poster
© WeltGerman Corona Virus Poster
The seasonal madness overtook mankind. In years to pass, it will be remembered as a new Witch Hunt, but on a global scale. The Salem affair engulfed a small town in a remote British colony, while the Corona lockdown broke the back of the global economy, pauperised millions, imprisoned three billion people, caused uncounted suicides and misery. It could be compared with World War One, when the West at the peak of its historic achievement rushed towards its self-destruction for reasons so feeble that none of the contemporary actors was able to explain them convincingly.

The madness is fuelled by fear of death. Death, this normal occurrence for our ancestors, a peaceful transformation, when the discarded body is laid to rest in the churchyard after the soul has departed to its Creator, became the worst thing to happen to man, a disaster to be avoided at all costs, because there is no hereafter, no Creator for the soul to return to, but only here and now. They embarked on the War on Death, as our colleague CJ Hopkins observed. Trying to escape death, mankind inflicted upon itself a mortal wound.

Comment: Refusing to wear the mask is refusing to bend the knee...but so many have done so without thought to the consequences or who and what is behind the order. Each of these realities sees the other 'to be avoided' at all costs.

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Federal election records: Sanders wasted $161M+ on failed presidential campaign

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Sanders
© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesFormer candidate for President Senator Bernie Sanders
The campaign finance report filed on February 29, 2020, showed that Sanders spent $160,984,978 on his campaign, according to Open Secrets.

Millions more were likely spent as Sanders continued to campaign through March and into April, despite cutting back on campaign activities as the coronavirus pandemic sent many states into lockdown.

Sanders was the most prolific fundraiser in the Democrat party, raising over $179 million from donors. Small donors contributing less than $200 represented 54 percent of his total donors, according to Open Secrets.

The self-described democratic socialist is the last Democrat candidate to leave the race, despite spending significantly less than several self-funded billionaire candidates.

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WTO chief: Covid-19 could cause deepest economic crisis 'of our lifetimes'


RT
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:03 UTC
stock market data
© Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to spark an unprecedented fall in global trade as well as an economic crisis rivaling the Great Depression, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has warned.

"We confront what may well be the deepest economic downturn of our lifetimes," the organization's Director General Roberto Azevedo said in a grim forecast. "Comparisons with the financial crisis of 2008 and even the Great Depression of the 1930s are inevitable."

The international trade regulator has estimated that the global goods trade volume could shrink by 13 percent this year because of the pandemic even in the best-case scenario. Should governments around the world fail to bring the deadly virus under control any time soon, the world will stand to lose about a third of its total trade volume this year or even more.

International trade is already seeing what Azevedo described as "enormous" shocks in supply and demand caused by governments' decision to limit trans-border movements and restrict economic activities in line with quarantine measures.

Comment: 'Coronavirus hoax' is an example of how to hit, at minimum, four essentials to the wellbeing of mankind: Health, Money, Community and Freedom - by injecting Fear, Scarcity, Isolationism and Police State in one blow.

France extends lockdown:
Coronavirus lockdown measures in France, already in place for more than three weeks, will be extended further, President Emmanuel Macron's office said. The country has filed over 110,000 confirmed cases and 10,800 deaths.

The lockdown will be extended beyond the current deadline of April 15, the French presidential palace announced on Wednesday. The timeframe for the extension was not immediately clear and is likely to be announced by Macron, who will address the nation on the epidemic situation Monday.

Earlier in the day, France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the lockdown measures have proven effective, but added that "the time to unwind the lockdown has not come. The [Covid-19] expansion is slowing so much that we might soon reach a flattening of the curve ... and that's most certainly due to the lockdown's effect."

France's coronavirus outbreak does appear to be entering a positive trend. On Wednesday, the number of people who died from Covid-19 in French hospitals grew 'only' by 8 percent.

Still, the figure might be incomplete as the authorities failed to secure data from nursing homes due to "technical problems." People who died in such institutions account for more than 30 percent of the nation's almost 11,000 fatalities.

While the lockdown measures apparently helped to slow down the spread of the disease, the battle against the outbreak has already sent France into a worst-in-decades recession. The French economy shrank around 6 percent in the first quarter of this year, showing its worst performance since 1945.

Despite the downturn, the country's financial system remains "solid," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier in the day, and one should not be too concerned about its stability.


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Even media's loudest #MeToo champs are ignoring Biden sexual assault accuser Tara Reade

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Biden
© AP/Matt RourkePresidential candidate, Former VP Joe Biden
Have you heard about the Joe Biden allegations? If you're relying on corporate media for your information, the answer is "probably not." As of April 8, there has been exactly zero coverage of the sexual assault allegations on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC or CBS News. Likewise, The New York Times and USA Today and have failed to discuss it. Meanwhile, the only mentions of Reade's name in The Washington Post appear as a paragraph buried thousands of words into a long news roundup and an unscripted question from a reader in a live Q&A session.

After Bernie Sanders pulled out of the race today, Joe Biden appears to be the Democrats' man for November. However, the former vice president's past is again coming back to bite him; in an interview with writer and podcast host Katie Halper, his former staff assistant Tara Reade accused the then-senator of sexually assaulting her in the Capitol Building in 1993. The allegations, if true, meet the legal definition of rape in the United States.

Comment: See also:

#MeToo, but not this time? Hashtag champion actress Alyssa Milano slammed for hypocrisy on Biden assault claims

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Oil prices surge as Russia, OPEC, et al., agree to historic output cuts


RT
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:35 UTC
Oil tanker
© Reuters/ Jean-Paul PelissierDawn of a new oil deal?
Crude prices jumped 12 percent on Thursday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and major producers led by Russia agreed to cut output by 20 million barrels a day, according to Reuters sources.

US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) surged 12 percent on the report of collective cuts to $28.36 per barrel, while international benchmark Brent crude gained 8.5 percent to $35.79 a barrel.

Oil prices have collapsed after OPEC+ countries disagreed on production cuts last month, with Russia refusing to lower output. In response, Saudi Arabia ramped up its production to a record high of more than 12 million barrels per day, after previous OPEC+ production cuts expired at the end of March.

US President Donald Trump said last week Russia and Saudi Arabia could agree to cuts of 10 million to 15 million barrels per day (bpd), or 10 to 15 percent of global supplies. Moscow has insisted that it would only accept cuts to its output if other players, including the United States, joined in. However, the US Department of Energy said the country's output was already falling without government intervention.
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Appeals Court: Censorship lawsuit against tech giants put on hold 'because coronavirus'

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Big 4
© Reuters/The Stream
Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter must face a lawsuit brought in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals accusing the companies of deliberately censoring conservative viewpoints and violating the First Amendment.

The $1.5 billion lawsuit, brought by Republican congressional primary candidate Laura Loomer (R) and conservative organization Freedom Watch, accuses the tech companies of being quasi-state actors, and thus in violation of the First Amendment when they suppress protected speech.

The case argues:
Many of the principles set forth by the Supreme Court in Packingham lead to what appellants believe is the natural progression of the law to hold that social media companies are liable for First Amendment violations, given the progression of technology and its infiltration into the daily lives of nearly every single person," the pair said in their final brief.
The lawsuit cites Loomer's bans from multiple social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and Facebook-owned Instagram as an example of tech giants suppressing protected speech.

Comment: See also:

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Venezuelan Su-30 intercepts US military aircraft approaching its airspace


AMN
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:22 UTC
Sukhoi Su-30SM
© unknownSukhoi Su-30SM
A Venezuelan Su-30 fighter jet reportedly intercepted two U.S. military aircraft that approached their national airspace. Russian publication Avia.Pro reported:
"A few hours ago, the Su-30MK2 fighter was urgently raised into the air on combat alert, the reason for which was the approach of two American military aircraft to the borders of Venezuela. A Russian-made fighting vehicle successfully dealt with two potential intruders at once."
Citing unnamed sources, the publication said two U.S. aircraft took off from a military base in Puerto Rico and approached the territorial borders of Venezuela, which prompted the Venezuelan Air Force to get involved.
"TheSu-30MK2 fighter was raised to intercept them, which not only intercepted potential violators, but also successfully cracked down on two planes at once, forcing the latter to retreat."
A video circulating on social media shows the alleged footage of the Venezuelan Su-30 flying over the Barcelona region of Venezuela.

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Bad Guys

Eric Eggers: You don't have to take Trump's word to see mail-in voting is rife with fraud

Eric Eddgers
Breitbart
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:05 UTC
election
© Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel/AP
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continues to call for another round of stimulus to help mitigate COVID-19 related damage to the US economy. But as her previous efforts demonstrate, Pelosi's prescription to "save" the country might do irreparable harm to American democracy.

In addition to giveaways for climate change, labor unions and student loan forgiveness advocates, the bill contained several election-related measures that would fundamentally change the methods and security of the way our country votes.

Buried on page 643 of the original bill was the "American Coronavirus/COVID-19 Election Safety and Security" or ACCESS Act. It included funds for states to conduct elections via mail-in ballots during a declared national emergency, and would permit voters to return absentee ballots by designating another person to return the ballot to the post office or other ballot drop-off location, including an election office.

Given public warnings to avoid public places and gatherings such as traditional polling stations, the push to expand mail-in balloting makes sense. But it is also true that mail-in ballots are highly susceptible to fraudulent interference and tampering. In fact, Donald Trump closed his press conference last Friday by stating his opposition to national mail-in balloting because "I think a lot of people cheat."
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