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Russia denies military convoy is heading to Belarus, Lukashenko sends drones and missiles to western border as 'response to NATO activity'


RT
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:26 UTC
Belarus Russia flag
© REUTERS/Vasily FedosenkoFILE PHOTO
Vladimir Putin's spokesman has rubbished speculation that Moscow is either conducting or is preparing to carry out some sort of military intervention in neighboring Belarus, with which it has mutual-assistance agreements.

Dmitry Peskov said that while Russia is treaty-bound to assist Minsk, the conditions for such support don't currently exist.

Both countries form a Union State, under a 1999 agreement, and are also members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Moscow-led security alliance that serves as an alternative to NATO. Peskov explained that these treaties "indeed, stipulate a number of commitments of the sides on mutual assistance." He was answering a reporter's question on the circumstances in which such assistance would be possible.

Comment: See also: Belarus 'revolution' is imperialists running the same tired old script, day after day

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Snakes in Suits

Macron says 'can't shut the country down again because damage of lockdown is considerable'


TheLocal.fr
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:26 UTC
Macron
© AFPEmmanuel Macron on the French Riviera.
In an interview that seems to signal that France will not be returning to lockdown, president Emmanuel Macron says that the country 'cannot be put on hold' by coronavirus.

While at the presidential holiday home in Brégançon on the French Riviera, Macron gave an interview to magazine Paris Match - complete with traditional 'at home' style photos of himself and his wife Brigitte in their holiday attire.

And he told the Paris Match journalist: "We can't shut the country down because the collateral damage of lockdown is considerable.

"Zero risk never exists in any society. We must respond to this anxiety without falling into the doctrine of zero risk."

Comment: No country can afford to go into lockdown and yet despite this demonstrable fact many are still threatening to do so - some have already reinforced numerous local lockdowns.

That said, Macron does not comment on the storm troopers out on Marseilles' streets enforcing face muzzles, so perhaps for the country, with all the violations of civil liberties and security state measures, it will be lockdown by another name.

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Flashlight

Trump on QAnon believing he is saving world from pedophiles: 'Is that supposed to be a bad thing?'

Anders Hagstrom
Daily Caller
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:47 UTC
trump white house press briefing
© Daily Caller
President Donald Trump questioned whether it was a bad thing that supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory believe Trump will save the United States from Satanists and pedophiles on Wednesday.

Trump's exchange with a reporter came during a press conference on Wednesday, hours before the third night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

"The crux of the [QAnon] theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this Satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Does that sound like something you are behind?" the reporter asked.

Comment: This statement by the President is unlikely to have any kind of quelling effect on rabid QAnon followers. If anything, it will bolster them more.

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Pistol

Operation Legend: More than 200 charged with federal crimes, 1,000 arrested, AG Barr announces

Danielle Wallace
Fox News
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:23 UTC
LeGend Taliferro
© Courtesy of FBILeGend Taliferro, 4, was shot and killed while he slept in the early morning of June 29 in Kansas City, Mo.
The operation is named for LeGend Taliferro, 4, who was shot and killed while he slept in June.

At least 217 people have been charged with a federal crime, and more than 1,000 arrests have been made in major metropolitan cities since the Department of Justice launched Operation Legend in July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday.

Nearly 400 firearms have been seized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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HAL9000

The Great Reset: Where Do We Go From Here?

Derrick Broze
The Conscious Resistance
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
Great Reset
As the world of 2020 faces a global pandemic, many powerful nations are also faced with economic turmoil as a result of locking society down. At the same time, nations around the world are using COVID-19 as an opportunity to grab more surveillance and police state powers, institute mask and vaccine mandates, accelerate the push towards a completely digital world, enact more corporate bailouts, and generally, extreme control and involvement in citizens lives.

The sheer magnitude of the COVID-19 response is unparalleled, with the most recent similar event being the attacks of September 11, 2001. As with the 9/11 attacks, the predator class is using COVID-19 as the excuse to push plans and agendas which predate the spread of the novel coronavirus.

It's time to step past the 24 hour fear porn news cycle and ask where we are headed. IT's time to Understand The Great Reset.

The path we are being led down is known as "The Great Reset" and was announced in early June by the World Economic Forum. The launch of The Great Reset was supported by Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum; England's Prince Charles; Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN; and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund. The launch of The Great Reset was also supported by the CEOs of BP, Mastercard, and the president of Microsoft.


Comment: James Corbett discusses the coming centralization and decentralization of money in this elucidating video:



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Quenelle

Local Arab uprisings in northeast Syria may wipe US forces & their SDF proxies out of the region

Ekaterina Blinov
Sputnik
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:56 UTC
us convoy syria
© AP Photo / Baderkhan AhmadAn American military convoy stops near the town of Tel Tamr, north Syria, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019
US bases and personnel have been increasingly attacked by unidentified actors in Syria over the past several months. Political analyst Christopher Assad and US military veteran Mark Sleboda have shed light on the trouble brewing for US occupation forces in the northeastern Syrian provinces of Al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor.

In early August, the US base in the town of Ash Shaddadi, in Al-Hasakah province, was shelled by unknown militants, according to Al-Watan newspaper. At the end of May, a military convoy of US troops and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were reportedly attacked by unidentified fighters in Deir ez-Zor province. A month earlier, on 20 April, a US military vehicle was destroyed in Al-Hasakah governorate.
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Snakes in Suits

Narcissistic tool: Cuomo set to release book on his Covid 'leadership'


RT
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:37 UTC
Andrew Cuomo
© REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with a lack of self-awareness seldom seen outside hereditary dictatorships, is writing a book on managing the Covid-19 outbreak - after leading the state to the US' highest coronavirus death toll.


Comment: Extra points to RT for the above, accurate characterization.


Crown Publishing announced the book, titled 'American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic', on Twitter on Tuesday, and said it will be released on October 13, three weeks before the US presidential election. The book will include leadership advice and a look at Cuomo's relationship with President Donald Trump.


Its release was announced the day after Cuomo gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention, praising his state's success in dealing with the virus and blaming the Trump administration for allowing New York to be "ambushed" by the pandemic. "We went through hell, but we have learned so much," Cuomo said.


Comment: "I'm a total failure, but it's not my fault, therefore I count it as a win."


The book likely won't dwell on the fact that New York, the fourth-largest US state by population, has had nearly 33,000 Covid-19 deaths, over double the nation's second-worst death toll. Nor will it emphasize that Cuomo's own actions contributed to many of those deaths.
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Bulb

Senate Intel Panel found 'absolutely no evidence' of collusion, faced roadblocks in probe of Steele Dossier

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:08 UTC
Senate intel panel
The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a long-awaited report released Tuesday that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016, affirming the findings of other investigations into a possible Trump-Kremlin conspiracy.

The report, which clocks in at 966 pages, also offered a scathing assessment of the FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, which was a key document in the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory.

"The FBI gave the Steele Dossier unjustified credence, based on an incomplete understanding of Steele's past reporting record," the report says.

"The Committee found that, within the FBI, the dossier was given a veneer of credibility by lax procedures and layered misunderstandings."

The report, crafted by both Republicans and Democrats, describes a series of roadblocks and hurdles that the Senate committee faced in investigating information from Steele, a former MI6 officer hired to investigate Donald Trump on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign.
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Syringe

Best of the Web: March to fascism: Morrison says Covid vaccine likely to be mandatory in Australia, suggests that those who refuse it will starve

Brett Worthington
ABC.net.au
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:17 UTC

Comment: Again we note that it's the anglophone countries - the 'Five Eyes' plus Ireland, though Spain and France are up there with them - proving the most fascist and authoritarian of the bunch...


scott morrison
© ABC News: Adam KennedyScott Morrison says he expects criticism from anti-vaccination campaigners.
Australians are likely to face mandatory coronavirus vaccinations if Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets his wish.

The nation is a step closer to gaining access to a vaccine, with the Federal Government securing an international deal to produce a vaccine frontrunner locally if trials succeed.

If that happens, Mr Morrison said Australia would have a target of 95 per cent vaccination, which would account for people with health conditions that prevented them being vaccinated.

"I would expect it to be as mandatory as you could possibly make it," he told Melbourne radio station 3AW.

"There are always exemptions for any vaccine on medical grounds, but that should be the only basis.

"We are talking about a pandemic that has destroyed the global economy and taken the lives of hundreds of thousands all around the world, and over 430 Australians here."


Comment: What an idiot. The global economy need not have been wrecked. And even if governments and media hadn't reacted like hysterical children and the economy was STILL wrecked, that wouldn't entail the necessity of mass vaccination. Recent numbers and studies suggest only 20% of the population need get the virus in order to reach herd immunity, and the vast majority of those people either experience no symptoms or recover. Remember, the virus has a 99.9% survival rate. What is Morrison smoking? Probably the same insanity all the other world leaders are smoking.

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Bad Guys

Circling the prey: EU to sanction Belarus, doesn't recognize Lukashenko as president

Amée Zoutberg
The Brussels Times
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:47 UTC
minsk belarus protest
© REUTERS/Vasily FedosenkoHistorical white-red-white flags of Belarus are seen as people attend an opposition demonstration to protest against presidential election results, in Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus August 18, 2020.
The European Union no longer recognises the presidency of Alexander Lukashenko, the recently re-elected leader of Belarus, as of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Lukashenko has taken steps to actively suppress the ongoing protests that have been calling for his resignation since 24 May, at the start of Lukashenko's election campaign.

The decision came following a special video conference gathering all of the EU's state leaders. According to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the EU delegitimised Lukashenko because it finds that the presidential elections of 14 August were unfair.


Comment: And yet they recognize and do business with countries whose leaders are not even elected. The EU just smells weakness and is circling for the kill. They have no actual values.


"The European Union stands in solidarity with the people of Belarus. And we don't accept impunity," Michel said. "This is about the right of the people to freely elect their leadership."


Comment: No, it's not. It's strictly opportunistic weaponizing of humanitarianism, same as it was in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, etc. The EU doesn't care about Belarusians any more than they cared about Libyans.


"We stand with you in your desire for justice and a peaceful, democratic future."

The Commission's council announced that top figures in the Belarus regime that were involved in violence against protestors and election fraud will be sanctioned in the near future. Currently, Belarus as a whole is already under a series of EU sanctions, including the export of goods that can be used for oppression.

Comment: The EU's Commissioner for Internal Markets, Thierry Breton, said that sanctions will "no doubt" be reinforced, but that Russia will be taken into account - acknowledging that Belarus isn't European, but intimately tied to Russia. Foreign policy chief Borrell says Lukashenko "lacks democratic legitimacy". (The EU is comprised of unelected bureaucrats.) The sanctions will reportedly target all those "responsible for violence, repression & falsification of election results", a "substantial number" of penalties, according to Michel.

Russian FM Lavrov's response is on point:
"We are concerned about [foreign] attempts to use the internal difficulties that Belarus, the Belarusian people, and the Belarusian leadership are currently facing," said the foreign minister, highlighting that outside forces are attempting to interfere with the country in order to impose a situation that could be profitable for them, but not for Belarusians.

Focusing on statements from EU members, Lavrov suggested that Western countries want to impose their own rules across the continent and in other parts of the world too.

"What we are now hearing from European capitals - first from the Baltics, and then from Poland, and the European Parliament - is not about [Belarusian President] Alexander Lukashenko, human rights and democracy, but all about geopolitics," Lavrov explained.

Russia's chief diplomat called on Belarusians to sort out their issues independently and to reject the idea that the country has to choose between partnering with Russia and partnering with Europe. He expressed the hope that the country's citizens will not be led by those who need Belarus for purely selfish reasons.

The Russian official noted that the Belarusian elections were not "perfect," but clarified that the Belarusian leadership was well aware of that and its authorities are "trying to enter into dialogue with citizens protesting against what they consider an infringement of their rights."
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