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Bug

With economic crisis looming EU overlords legalize food made from worms & baby crickets to satiate the masses

Guy Birchall
RT
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:18 UTC
baby crickets
© Getty Images / Edwin Remsberg / VWPics / Universal Images Group
Brussels plans to drop rules preventing some countries from serving up insects and worms for human consumption. I know that getting a food delivery is tough at the moment, but are we really desperate to swap crisps for crickets?

Probably best not to read this while you're eating but, with the news being wall-to-wall Covid-19 at the moment, a little story may have passed you by. While most of the world is consumed by the fight against the pandemic, the European Union is quietly set to authorise the sale of insects for human consumption. At some point over the next few weeks, its Food Safety Authority is expected to allow mealworms, locusts, and adult crickets onto our plates.

The timing of this may seem a little odd, given that unusual eating practices involving animals in Wuhan are the most likely origin of the virus wreaking havoc on the globe, but apparently these bugs are perfectly safe. Companies won't just be doling out bags of freshly fried crickets, either: burgers, granola and even pasta have all been made out of such creepy crawlies. This is presumably because they think it will be easier for us to wolf down worms provided that they look more like normal food. And not wriggly things that just came out of the earth.
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Attention

The US is standing on the precipice of martial law

Matthew Ehret
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:28 UTC
Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy
© Customs and Border Protection photo by Jerry GlaserTucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent Rudolfo Karisch talks with General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, Commander of U.S. Northern Command while touring the Port of Nogales, Arizona on November 7, 2018.
In my recent paper Why Assume There Will Be a 2020 Election?, I took the opportunity of today's multifaceted crisis in order to revisit an important Wall Street funded coup d'état effort of 1933-34. As I explained in that location, this bankers' coup was luckily exposed by a patriotic general named Smedley Darlington Butler during one of the darkest moments of America and profoundly changed the course of history.

The Deep State Plot Against JFK

The danger of World War and a military coup arose again during the short lived administration of John F. Kennedy who found himself locked in a life or death struggle not with Russia, but with the Military Industrial Complex that had become dominated by the many Dr. Strangeloves of the Joint Chief of Staff and CIA who fanatically believed that America could win a nuclear war with Russia. Kennedy's valiant efforts to achieve dialogue with his Soviet counterparts, move towards peace in Vietnam, support of colonial liberation, promotion of space exploration and advocacy of a Nuclear Test Ban treaty made him a target of the Deep State of his time. During this period, this effort was led from the top by JFK's two most powerful American opponents: Allan Dulles (director of the CIA) and General Lyman Lemnitzer (head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), both of whom were proponents of pre-emptive nuclear war, architects of the Bay of Pigs regime change trap and advocates of Operation Northwoods (an ultimate "inside job" precursor to 9/11 which JFK subverted).

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No Entry

Boris Johnson forced to remain in self-isolation, symptoms persist - UPDATE: PM's condition worsens, admitted to hospital ICU as 'precautionary step'

Kate Proctor
The Guardian
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:44 UTC
johnson
© Reuters/Pippa FowlesBritain's PM Boris Johnson applauds in support of NHS outside 11 Downing, London
Boris Johnson is continuing his self-isolation inside Downing Street after the initial seven-day period because he is still showing symptoms of coronavirus. The UK prime minister has a temperature, and in a video clip released on his Twitter account said he would continue to stay inside his flat at No 11 until it disappears.

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, who announced last Friday that he also had the illness, is now out of isolation. Johnson said:
"Although I'm feeling better and I've done my seven days of isolation alas I still have one of the minor symptoms, I still have a temperature. So in accordance with government advice I must continue my isolation until that symptom itself goes. But we're working clearly the whole time on our programme to defeat the virus."

Comment: Update 6 April 2020

From the BBC:
He "continues to have persistent symptoms of coronavirus", a spokeswoman said - including a high temperature.

It was described as a "precautionary step" taken on the advice of his doctor.
Specifically, he's been moved to an ICU.

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Snakes in Suits

Soros-backed orgs behind Democrat push for 'vote-by-mail' system in upcoming presidential election

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:06 UTC
soros
© AP Photo/Ronald Zak
Progressive organizations, many backed by billionaire activist George Soros, are at the front lines of a campaign advocating for a "vote by mail" system in the upcoming presidential election, citing fears that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic makes it too dangerous to vote in person.

President Donald Trump warned that voting by mail would hurt the Republican Party, lambasting Democrat proposals for more money in the coronavirus stimulus bill to fund absentee and vote-by-mail options.

"The things they had in there were crazy," Trump said. "They had things - levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
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Bad Guys

The pandemic and politics of survival: Horizons of a new kind of dictatorship

Alexander Dugan
geopolitica.ru
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Globe city
© Screen shot/Ms Tech/Getty/KJNThe World
The breakdown of the global liberal world order and its foundations

What is happening now is a global breakdown of the world order. It does not matter at all whether the nature of the coronavirus is artificial or not, nor is it even of principal importance whether, if it is artificial, it was deliberately released by the "world government" or not. The epidemic has begun - it is a fact. Now the main thing is to trace how the "world government" has reacted to it.

To clarify, the "world government" is the totality of global political and economic elites and the intellectuals and media (mediacrats) that serve them. Such a "world government" necessarily exists, because on a global scale there are strictly-defined, fundamental norms that determine the basic parameters of politics, economics and ideology.
  • In the economy, the only recognized norm is capitalism, the market economy (which is disputed only by North Korea - not, and this is very important, by China, which presents its own version of national state capitalism under the management of the Communist Party).
  • In politics the only recognized norm is parliamentary liberal democracy, based on civil society being the subject and source of legality and legitimacy (besides North Korea, almost everyone is in agreement with this, although China interprets "civil society" in a special socialist and partly national-cultural optic and carries out mediacratic screening by means other than direct parliamentary elections; and some Islamic states - for example, Iran and the Gulf monarchies - have a number of special features.)
  • In ideology, everyone agrees with the arrangement that any individual has a number of inalienable rights (to life, freedom of conscience, freedom of movement, etc.) which all states and societies are obliged to guarantee.
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Star of David

Unlikely nemesis, a maverick lawyer sues Israel supporters over human rights

Steve France
Mondoweiss
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC
Martin McMahon
© Screenshot/YoutubeMartin McMahon, from an appearance hosted by the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, March 2019.
Maybe it figures that the people who successfully sold otherwise-intelligent Americans on the notion that their army (the Israeli Defense Force) was "the most moral army in history" could in the end be brought down by a maverick lawyer such as Martin McMahon. McMahon is an iconoclastic character you might meet in the pages of Tom Wolfe's catastrophic comedy, The Bonfire of the Vanities. Although very old to play the role, he is the boy who piped up to say — albeit in Martin's case in legalese acceptable to federal judges — "but the Emperor has no clothes!"

Specifically, he just sued Benjamin Netanyahu, Miriam Adelson, AIPAC (and assorted AIPAC operatives), David Friedman, Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Cuomo, Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell and a few other adherents of Zionism in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging they are "war criminals" or aiders and abettors of war criminals.

Before you note that it's easy to file a piece of paper in court, you need to know a couple more things:

Comment: The legal system under Israeli influence will be 'hard-pressed to rule in favor' where justice has 'been forbidden' for decades. So...hopefully McMahon will 'press harder' and justice, for once, will not look the other way.

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Attention

Best of the Web: Beware the creeps who enjoy a new pandemic power

Kurt Schlichter
Townhall
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:01 UTC
Pence/Fauci
© Official White House photoUS VP Mike Pence • Dr. Anthony Fauci
The problem with people referring to this bizarre pandemic life limbo as "the new normal" is that there are people out there, both in and out of positions of responsibility, who are digging this opportunity to boss us around. And it is troubling to see that there are a number of prominent folks who are in no hurry to curtail their ability to boss us around. We need to note carefully who these people are and ensure that they never get a chance to control anything again.

You are starting to see more of that as this drags out. You have got Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and others thinking this is a great time to get our socialism on. You also have functionaries - all of whom are still getting paychecks - who are way too eager to start issuing orders instead of relying on citizens to behave rationally. We don't need to be ordered around, but they can't resist the ordering. The moron mayor of LA is offering rewards to freedom narcs, and government hacks making stores refuse to sell "non-essential" items - what the hell they are thinking telling us what is and is not "essential" anyway? They are thinking, "Hey, this power stuff is fun!" Which is why you should never give power to someone who enjoys it.

Comment: Power has made its choices. It's time for the people to make theirs.

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Arrow Down

Rejected! Taliban claims US is violating Doha peace deal


RFE/RL
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:45 UTC
Taliban
© ReutersMembers of the Taliban delegation in Doha, Qatar
The U.S. military has rejected a claim by the Afghan Taliban that the United States is violating the terms of a peace deal signed by the two sides in late February. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan "upheld and continues to uphold the military terms of the U.S.-[Taliban] agreement; any assertion otherwise is baseless," spokesman Colonel Sonny Leggett tweeted on April 5.

Leggett also wrote that the militant group "must reduce violence" and warned that the U.S. military will continue to defend Afghanistan's security forces if attacked, in line with the terms of the agreement.
In a statement issued earlier in the day, the Taliban accused U.S. and Afghan forces of conducting raids and air strikes against the group in noncombat zones and of launching operations on civilian areas.

Comment: Meanwhile the chaos and killing continue, but reports wildly differ:
An airstrike in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan left at least eight civilians killed and two others critically injured in the early hours of Sunday, a source in the regional government said, adding that it was unclear if the attack was carried out by the government forces or the US-led international troops. They said the injured civilians had been taken to the Mirwais hospital in the southern city of Kandahar.

At the same time, the Uruzgan governor's spokesman, Zargai Abadi, denied there were civilian casualties in the attack. Speaking to local media, he said that the airstrike had been carried out by the Afghan government forces, adding that six militants were killed in the ambush.

The Taliban, in turn, have attributed the airstrike to the US-led international forces and condemned the attack, describing it as a breach of the recently negotiated peace deal. They also claimed a different number of casualties.

"Continuing the intrusive offensive of US occupants, last night, in the Garam Ab area of the ​​Khas Uruzgan district of the Uruzgan province [a residential house] was attacked, resulting in five women and two children killed and eight others injured," the radical group said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Afghan Ministry of Defense has reported a separate incident that took place earlier on Sunday between the Taliban and the Afghan forces at the army checkpoints in the Arghandab district of the southern Zabul province. "As a result of the mutual assault and airstrikes by the Afghan forces, 21 Taliban militants were killed and eight motorcycles destroyed," the ministry said.

According to the Taliban, however, the attack was carried out by the army during a funeral and resulted in the death of two civilians.


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Flashlight

Durham investigation puts spotlight on John Brennan

Jerry Dunleavy
Washington Examiner
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 01:56 UTC
John Brennan
© The Moscow TimesFormer CIA Director John Brennan
U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the Russia investigation is putting increased scrutiny on former CIA Director John Brennan, searching for any undue influence he may have had during 2017's intelligence community assessment of Russian interference.

Durham, selected by Attorney General William Barr last year to lead this inquiry, drove to Washington, D.C., in March to ensure the investigation stayed on track during the coronavirus outbreak. The top Connecticut federal prosecutor is looking into highly sensitive issues, including whether Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin's motivations, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.

Officials said Durham has been interviewing CIA officials this year, zeroing in on those at the National Intelligence Council, a center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence which oversaw the collaboration between the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency in putting together the 2017 assessment, and looking at how the work product was finalized.
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Target

Zarif: 'Iran has FRIENDS, not proxies' in response to Trump's 'sneak attack' warning


RT
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:38 UTC
Zarif
© AFP/Atta KenareIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit back at the US after President Trump accused Iran of planning a "sneak attack" on US troops and assets in Iraq.

Zarif took to Twitter to warn his followers not to "be [misled] by usual warmongers, AGAIN," then tagging US president Donald Trump. "Iran has FRIENDS. No one can have MILLIONS of 'proxies'," he continued.
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