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As protests mount across the US, multiple sheriffs openly stand against lockdown

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On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a warning and urged governments to take action as global societal unrest is on the horizon. The IMF cautioned that "some countries remain vulnerable to new protests, particularly if policy actions to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis are perceived as insufficient or as unfairly favoring large corporates rather than people." In the ostensible land of the free, that is indeed the case as Americans were given laughable $1,200 deposits for 10 weeks (or longer) to stay home while banks and large corporations received trillions. While a new 'Occupy' movement has yet to materialize over the corporate bailouts, people tired of watching the economy turn to dust have already began to revolt.

As TFTP reported this week, on Tuesday, more than 100 protesters took the the city streets of Raleigh, North Carolina to voice their desire to reopen the state's economy. They were quickly met with police action but the well-organized protesters stood their ground through multiple threats.

According to the News and Observer, the protest was organized by ReopenNC, a private Facebook group organized last week that wants people to make their own stay-at-home decisions to avoid exposure to COVID-19 as the worldwide pandemic continues. The group surpassed 28,000 members on Tuesday afternoon.

Then, on Wednesday, Michigan followed suit. Thousands of Michigan citizens took to the streets — and literally blocked them — on Wednesday to protest the government's stay at home order and demand the state reopen the economy.

Comment: As this story progresses, it will be very interesting to see who in law enforcement, intelligence, the military and political circles - and elsewhere - comes out and says and does things - in opposition to the monumental Orwellian policies we're seeing implemented throughout society. We will know them by their fruits.


Quenelle - Golden

'We're being held hostage!' Minnesota governor eases lockdown after outraged residents take to the streets in protest

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Liberate Minnesota' calls the governor's stay-at-home order an overreaction to COVID-19.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has relaxed the state's Covid-19 containment measures, scaling back restrictions on outdoor activities with an executive order as outraged residents take to the streets to demand an end to the lockdown.

While some forms of outdoor recreation were permitted under a previous directive, an array of businesses will be allowed to reopen after Friday's executive order, including golf courses, privately managed trails and parks, marinas and docks, bait shops, showrooms and repair shops for off-road vehicles, and outdoor shooting ranges.

The new relaxed rules came on the heels of heated protest from Minnesota residents, who gathered outside of the governor's mansion in St. Paul on Friday to call on officials to repeal the stay-at-home order, in force since late March. Those who couldn't join in person did so digitally, through the #ReopenMN hashtag.

Comment: Despite the continued media hype and the CDC/WHO's falsification of data on infections and mortality, more and more people will discover that the government has destroyed their lives on the pretext of a 'plandemic' hardly more dangerous than the flu. And the elites aren't taking any chances.


Stormtrooper

50 headlines welcoming us to the "new normal"

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Our erstwhile collaborators at Consent Factory have put together a wonderful collection of all the great work being done by our Beloved Governments to keep us all safe. Always remember that these Measures are for your own good.

Doubting The Measures is a possible sign of infection. Consult your treatment diary for the required dosage of BBC programming needed to remove Doubts. Thank you for your cooperation.

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"As well as enforcing quarantine measures, the law also allows the authorities to force people to be vaccinated, even though there is currently no vaccination for the virus."

Denmark rushes through emergency coronavirus law, (The Local, 13/3/20)
"During the state of emergency, people will only be allowed out on to public streets for the following reasons: to buy food, basic or pharmaceutical items; to attend medical centres; to go to and from work ..."

Spain orders nationwide lockdown to battle coronavirus (The Guardian, 14/3/20)

NPC

Today in MSM faceplants

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I really hope I'm never raped by a future US presidential candidate, because apparently if you've made blog posts which can be taken as favorable to the Russian government you're not entitled to seek justice against your rapist.

The New York Times has published a jarringly sociopathic hit piece on Joe Biden's sexual assault accuser titled "What to Do With Tara Reade's Allegation Against Joe Biden?" The column serves no purpose other than to help liberal feminists feel good about themselves when dismissing the increasingly credible rape allegations against Biden in cool defiance of the "believe women" narrative they were all promulgating with #MeToo hashtags online during the Supreme Court confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh.

"Reade seems almost engineered in a lab to inspire skepticism in mainstream Democrats, both because her story keeps changing and because of her bizarre public worship of President Vladimir Putin of Russia," argues the column's author Michelle Goldberg. "'President Putin has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness,' she wrote in a since-deleted 2018 Medium post."

Goldberg's claim that Reade's story "keeps changing" is false. Nathan J Robinson of Current Affairs reports that Reade's story has been consistent since she first started telling it in 1993, which Goldberg could have learned and addressed with even a scintilla of research.

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


People 2

No, we are not "all in this together"...

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A common phrase I have heard lately all around the internet as well as all around the area I live whenever the pandemic situation is broached is that "We are all in this together, and WE will get through this together...." The sentiment is repeated like a religious mantra and I believe it is rooted in a collectivist reaction in the minds of many. The idea is that if we all comfort each other by repeating the lie that we're all in the same boat, and if everyone believes it, then the threat of the outbreak along with the economic collapse will somehow simply "disappear".

The notion that "we are going to get through this together" seems to be based in the assumption that the crisis is going to move quickly, and if we hold tight, our sacrifice will be minimal and all will go back to the way things were before. This is simply not so.

I highly respect the ideal of giving hope to others whenever possible (as Aragorn says in Return Of The King "I give hope to men. I keep none for myself"). However, hope has to come from a legitimate place. It has to be based in some reality. There are too many lies driving public psychology right now to give concrete hope to anyone. The lies have to land, they have to touch ground, and the facts have to hit people hard before we can then come to an understanding of what we have to do to survive this event. In the meantime, the majority of people are going to be trapped in fantasy land, hypnotized by delusions of magical cures and economic silver bullets that will lead to salvation "in just two more weeks".

Sherlock

Joe Rogan interviews award-winning investigative journalist Tom O'Neill about his mindblowing book on Charles Manson and the CIA

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© NY TimesTom O'Neill in his office surrounded by his Charles Manson research
Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book is available on Amazon: Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties


Black Magic

Surrendered US-backed rebels admit to receiving training to destroy Syrian oil sites

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The head of the Russian Reconciliation Center affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Defense, Oleg Goralev, announced on Wednesday that the 27 militants who surrendered to the Syrian authorities, reported that they had received training by the American military to carry out attacks on oil and gas sites as well as the infrastructure of sites under the control of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

"According to the testimonies of members of the armed groups who joined the government forces, the Americans provided them with weapons and vehicles, and they were trained by the United States to sabotage the oil and gas infrastructure, transport and organize terrorist acts in the territories under the control of the Syrian government forces," Goralev said in a briefing.

Comment: Yet more testimony to the fact that the US and its Middle Eastern allies have - through many proxy forces - been working hard to destabilize and plunder Syria.

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Stock Down

English councils need £1 billion bailout as costs of lockdown bite

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© Alicia Canter/The GuardianA man in Islington, where the council estimates it has spent an extra £5.4m since the crisis began.
Ministers are preparing a £1bn bailout to prevent a number of English councils from collapsing into insolvency as a result of huge cashflow problems caused by the coronavirus lockdown.

The move, expected on Saturday, follows warnings that councils face liabilities running into several billion pounds due to the soaring costs of dealing with the crisis, as well as a massive expected shortfall in council tax income.

Councils have been spending millions extra on providing social care and on housing rough sleepers throughout the lockdown, despite haemorrhaging even larger amounts in lost revenues from council tax, parking and leisure fees.

Heart - Black

Some US banks are keeping customers' stimulus checks if accounts are overdrawn because there is no law against it

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© Douglas Sacha/Getty ImagesThe federal act that authorized stimulus checks for Americans does not specifically prohibit banks from taking the money to cover customers’ debts.
For some struggling Americans, the arrival of a deposit from the Treasury Department to help with basic expenses like rent and groceries during the coronavirus crisis was something to count on — until their financial institutions got in the way.

Frustrated customers say banks have been seizing some, or all, of their relief payments because their accounts are overdrawn, in some cases as a result of pandemic-caused hardship.

Joseph James Davis Jr. said his bank in Mena, Ark., took more than $2,000 after he fell victim to a check-cashing scam in a moment of desperation.

"I've never been scammed before," said Mr. Davis, 41.

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'Aggression, rudeness, arrogance': UK police provoke outrage after telling journalist 'you're killing people' by not going home

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The London Metropolitan Police have come under fire after footage emerged showing officers from the Territorial Support Group (TSG) berating a journalist for filming them apprehending an individual at a park in the UK capital.

The incident, which reportedly took place in Finsbury Park, North London on April 5, was caught on camera by the journalist in question - Michael Segalov - and was posted on Twitter on Thursday. The footage shows officers hurriedly taking a woman to a TSG van with Segalov capturing the action from a distance.

The journalist's presence appears to irritate the police, and a number of officers could be seen confronting him - themselves possibly violating the two-meter social distancing rule.