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USA - A nation under house arrest

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:13 UTC
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle." — James Madison
House Arrest
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We have become one nation under house arrest.

You think we're any different from the Kentucky couple fitted out with ankle monitoring bracelets and forced to quarantine at home?

We're not

Consider what happened to Elizabeth and Isaiah Linscott.

Elizabeth took a precautionary diagnostic COVID-19 test before traveling to visit her parents and grandparents in Michigan. It came back positive: Elizabeth was asymptomatic for the novel coronavirus but had no symptoms. Her husband and infant daughter tested negative for the virus.

Now in a country where freedom actually means something, the Linscotts would have the right to determine for themselves how to proceed responsibly, but in the American Police State, we've only got as much freedom as the government allows.

That's not saying much.

Indeed, it's a dangerous time for anyone who still clings to the idea that freedom means the right to think for yourself and act responsibly according to your best judgment.

In that regard, the Linscotts are a little old-school in their thinking. When Elizabeth was asked to sign a self-quarantine order agreeing to check in daily with the health department and not to travel anywhere without prior approval, she refused.

"I shouldn't have to ask for consent because I'm an adult who can make that decision. And as a citizen of the United States of America, that is my right to make that decision without having to disclose that to somebody else," said Elizabeth. "So, no, I wouldn't wear a mask. I would do everything that I could to make sure that I wouldn't come in contact with other people because of the fear that's spreading with this. But no, I would have just stayed home, take care of my child."
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Gold Seal

Best of the Web: Impressions from an informal meeting with Asma al-Assad, Syria's first lady

Eva Bartlett
ingaza.wordpress.com
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:28 UTC
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I had been sitting in a small entrance room for what seemed less than a minute when the door opened and Syria's first lady, Her Excellency Asma al-Assad, greeted me with a warm smile, welcoming me inside a slightly larger sitting room. In official meetings I had had over the years in Syria, I was accustomed to a secretary or assistant escorting me into the meeting room. Asma al-Assad, however, does things up close and personal.

Over the years in Syria, I had heard from people I encountered that she and President Assad routinely meet with their fellow Syrians in crowded venues, mixing and engaging with the people. I had also seen countless photos and videos of the Assads visiting Syrians in their homes around the country.

While I have been to Syria over a dozen times in the past seven years, it had never occurred to me to request a meeting with the first lady. But when that opportunity recently presented itself, I leapt at the chance to speak with one of the most beloved figures in Syria, and to hear her thoughts on her country, her fellow Syrians, and on the plights they are all in. And as it turned out, it was a chance to hear her poignant insights on her role as a mother, a citizen, the wife of the President and a leader in her own right.

Even before assuming the role of Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad made it a priority to focus on the development of Syria, and over the years since she's headed organizations focusing on a range of development issues, including financial, educational and vocational. To effectively work on the many issues she does, her level of awareness of Syrians' situation on the ground is crucial.
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Taliban, Afghan government declare three-day cease-fire during Eid holiday


RFE/RL
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:54 UTC
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The Taliban has instructed its fighters "not to carry out any operation against the enemy during the three days and nights of Eid."
The Taliban and Afghan government have announced a three-day cease-fire for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday starting on July 31, as the United States presses for the start of delayed intra-Afghan peace talks.

"All mujahideen (Taliban fighters) are instructed not to carry out any operation against the enemy during the three days and nights of Eid," the Taliban said in a July 28 statement, adding that if the Taliban were attacked, they should "respond strongly."

The Afghan government said it had ordered its security forces to observe the cease-fire.

Ross Wilson, charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, welcomed the announcements, saying Afghans "deserve to celebrate the holiday in peace."
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Sinclair to delay segment featuring 'Plandemic' conspiracy theory UPDATE

Aubree Eliza Weaver
Politico
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 04:31 UTC
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© Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe headquarters of the Sinclair Broadcast Group
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.

Sinclair Broadcasting on Saturday said it will delay its scheduled airing of a news segment featuring a viral conspiracy theory surrounding Anthony Fauci's role in the Covid-19 pandemic.

America This Week host Eric Bolling was scheduled to air an interview with Judy Mikovits, a medical researcher featured in the "Plandemic" video that claims Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus, Media Matters reported.

The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on platforms including Facebook and YouTube. "I recognize that this segment does need to be reworked to provide better context, and as such we are delaying the airing of the episode for one week," Bolling said in a statement posted to his Twitter feed on Saturday afternoon.

Comment: Hard to believe Bolling didn't do his homework as Dr. Mikovits has been forthcoming with her viewpoints for months. There may be more to this media threat than he is willing to reveal, given CNN is openly forcing censorship while the public puppets, on cue, buttress their mind wall:
CNN has whipped up an army of outraged Twitter liberals after it slammed a network of local news stations for airing an interview with a disgraced scientist who blamed Dr Anthony Fauci for the coronavirus.

Her appearance alone rubbed CNN the wrong way. In an article slamming Sinclair for airing such a "baseless conspiracy theory," CNN hammered Bolling for allowing Mikovits to "continue to make her case" without pushing back enough. CNN even texted both Bolling and Mikovits' fellow guest Larry Klayman, a lawyer who backed up her claims, to ask them about the segment.

Taking a page from the Media Matters playbook, CNN asked Bolling if he had any "second thoughts" about airing the segment. Bolling simply replied "I don't second guess my producers and bookers."

Online, CNN's liberal viewership clamored for a boycott of Sinclair. Some even demanded that anyone spreading such "dangerously false propaganda" be imprisoned.




CNN's gripe with Bolling seemed to stem from the fact that he didn't appropriately ridicule Mikovits. Bolling did call her claim "hefty," and afterwards interviewed Dr Nicole Saphier, a medical contributor for Fox News. Both Bolling and Saphier agreed on air that it was "highly unlikely" that Dr Fauci created the coronavirus, calling the allegation a "conspiracy theory."

Whatever its standing in the information war, CNN is losing the ratings war against Sinclair and its affiliates. Local broadcasters like the 294 owned or operated by Sinclair and its subsidiaries draw in five times as many primetime viewers as cable networks like CNN. Among these local broadcasters, Sinclair is king, reaching 40 percent of American households.


Proponents of the boycott celebrated their victory on Twitter:


Amid a recent upsurge in 'cancel culture,' few campaigns have brought a company to its knees as fast as Saturday's blitz by CNN. For Bolling and his colleagues at Sinclair it's back to the studio to reshoot their offending segment at CNN's behest.
See also: UPDATE, 28/7/2020:
Change of plans for The Sinclair Broadcast Group as they opt out of airing the entire interview. By acquiescing to threats and demands, SBG has reinforced the message that Covid is indeed a shut case and we should just accept the going narrative to our mental, physical and societal detriment. Sinclair was gagged and CNN's suspect 'viewer response' shows the workings and extent of MSM indoctrination:
The Sinclair Broadcast Group will not air a controversial interview with a Covid-19 'conspiracy' researcher, opting to toss the segment altogether.

CNN and other mainstream outlets lead the charge to denounce the conspiracy-laden segment.

In the now-scrapped interview, Mikovits reportedly told host Eric Bolling that Fauci had helped to manufacture and transport coronavirus samples to a research lab in Wuhan, where the Covid-19 pandemic is thought to have originated - one among several questionable claims to also feature in the 'Plandemic' film, which has been widely censored online.

Though it's unclear what prompted Monday's decision, CNN reported that local TV stations around the US had received complaints from viewers, who requested that they not air the segment.


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Dollars

Best of the Web: How LGBT nonprofits and their billionaire patrons are reshaping the world

Jennifer Bilek
The American Conservative
Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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Transgender ideology is being pushed on us by corporate interests through their philanthropic arms.

In an August 2018 New Yorker article, Elizabeth Kolbert asks, "Are today's donor classes solving problems or creating new ones?" Kolbert describes a form of charity that aims to not just help people but to improve them. This "improvement" aligns with the giver's particular vision of what constitutes improvement, of course. And the people who need to be improved are treated as children — for whom the donor, naturally, gets to decide what is best.

Kolbert describes how this form of giving becomes exploitation. We might add: not just exploitation, but elite-driven, highly self-interested social engineering. We see these characteristics on brilliant display in the philanthropy behind the modern LGBT movement.

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Arrow Up

Russian finance ministry plans to seize unexplained bank funds & transfer them to pension pot

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:24 UTC
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It's not quite Robin Hood, but it's close. Russia's Ministry of Finance is planning to transfer the confiscated suspicious savings of Russian citizens to the country's pension fund, according to newly proposed amendments.

So, if you can't prove where your money came from, it's going to the old folks.

As things stand, illegally held assets can be seized by the state. If the proposed new amendments pass through parliament, any money taken because the owner can't prove the source of the moolah will be sent to the Russian Pension Fund (PFR), which is responsible for payments to pensioners and other forms of social security.

Comment: This is a program that would likely be popular with a significant majority of citizens in the West, too: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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USA

United Nations official suggests Trump administration is violating "protesters'" rights

Max McGuire
Conservative Daily
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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This is what we have been warning about.

For over a month, the United Nations has been carrying out a 'human rights investigation' against the United States. First, they were investigating the US over "systemic racism." They ordered the United States to crack down on police officers, otherwise the UN would mount an intervention. Yes, this is really what the UN Human Rights Council said last month...

When they learned that only 9 unarmed black people were shot by police last year, and of them, only two were not in the process of attacking a police officer or bystander, the UN shifted their strategy. They realized that they cannot launch a blue-helmet intervention on such a flimsy basis.

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Bizarro Earth

Iran fires missile at mock US aircraft carrier during Strait of Hormuz war games


RT
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC
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© Ruptly/Twitter / @FarsNews_AgencyScreenshot from a video published by Fars News.
Amid Iran-US tensions, Tehran's troops have practiced overpowering an aircraft carrier - using a mock-up in lieu of the real thing - during a massive exercise. The fake warship was attacked from the air and circled by speedboats.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched the final leg of The Great Prophet joint exercise on Tuesday, deploying troops from several of its branches. The drill was held in the southern province of Hormozgan as well as the western part of the Strait of Hormuz.

One of the highlights of the exercise was the assault on a mock aircraft carrier, made to resemble the Nimitz-class ships of the US Navy, complete with models of warplanes parked on its deck. Iranian paramilitary forces fired a missile from an attack helicopter and rappelled a commando unit onto the ship, while speed boats were circling around it, footage of the drill released to Iranian media shows.

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Bad Guys

SOTT Focus: COVID Advances New World Order — The Empire of Billionaires

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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The COVID-19 pandemic is being used to facilitate the efforts of a select few to create a one-world government with power concentrated in the hands of an elitist group of billionaires.

In March 2020, the United Nations New World Order (UNNWO) announced their annual International Day of Happiness global campaign, along with a call for solidarity and unity in the global fight against COVID-19.1 The campaign theme, according to UNNWO, was:2
... a call on all 7.8 billion members of the global human family, and all 206 nations and territories of planet earth, to unite in solidarity, and steadfast resolve, in fighting back against the COVID 19 Coronavirus ...

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Biohazard

Best of the Web: Eco-genocide, genetically engineered mosquito armies and subduing populations

Whitney Webb & Raul Diego
The Last Vagabond
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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The enemies of life are breeding their own agents of ecological destruction aided and abetted by an incompetent EPA and a rubber-stamp government in Florida, which just gave unanimous approval for the release of hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes by a company with deep ties to Bill Gates, the US military, and Big Ag.

In a move sure to stun future generations — should we survive long enough to have any — seven Florida government agencies, including those charged with protecting its health, agriculture and environment, made a complete mockery of the trust afforded to them by the people of the state to oversee these vital matters and may have just pulled the trigger on a catastrophic environmental collapse.

The unanimous approval to allow the deployment starting this summer of over 1.2 billion genetically modified mosquitoes in Key Haven, Monroe County, Florida over a period of two years could very well decimate a substantial part of Florida's natural flora and fauna, taking dozens of endangered species to the brink of extinction and irrevocably changing the habitat of the thousands of local birds, plants, amphibians and insects that make up Florida's ecology.
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