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Epstein victim Maria Farmer speaks with Whitney Webb, full phone call - Part 1

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The Last American Vagabond has decided to release the entire phone conversation between Whitney Webb and Maria Farmer, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell who had reported both to the FBI in 1996 for child pornography, sex trafficking and sexual assault. Farmer, who has been interviewed by mainstream media outlets including The New York Times and CBS News, had reached out to Whitney because Maria felt that other outlets would not publish much of the information she had given them on the case, particularly information related to Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, who had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his sex trafficking/ blackmail operation.

The phone call will be released in two parts, the first part can be heard below. The decision to release this phone call was twofold: first, to show that claims Whitney has made in recent interviews were indeed accurately based on statements Maria made during the call and to provide greater context to those statements; and second, to make the information publicly available and more easily disseminated to the widest audience possible.

Sherlock

Exposing the real Epstein cover-up and how deep it goes

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Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/17/19).

As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant.


Take 2

Best of the Web: Corbett Report: Speaking Truth to Power in Covid-1984 - Kit Knightly on Off-Guardian's Corona Coverage

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Kit Knightly of Off-Guardian.org joins us to discuss the site's ongoing coverage of the corona crisis. From experts questioning the panic to death figure over-estimates to pushback against the new normal, today we highlight the work of those who are speaking truth to power on the defining event of our age . . . and point out those who are cheering on the out-of-control police state.


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Best of the Web: Genocide of the 'impure': Surge in Do Not Resuscitate orders for learning disabilities patients issued during UK lockdown

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A learning disability care provider said it has received an "unprecedented" number of do not resuscitate forms from doctors that it believes to be illegal.

Turning Point, which provides supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities, has raised concerns to HSJ that it has received 13 "unlawful" do not attempt cardio-pulmonary resuscitation or do not resuscitate orders from hospital specialists and GPs since the beginning of April, half of which came in the last week.

The provider said that, of the orders it usually receives, around 12 each year would require a legal challenge.

Turning Point, which operates facilities across the country, plans on challenging the lawfulness of the orders received this month, which it said appear to have been carried out without consultation with patients or their families.

Comment: This is just further proof that hysteria can make even those professionals entrusted with our lives act unconscionably:


Airplane Paper

It's not just civil liberties. Many other charter rights have been violated in COVID-19 pandemic

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© Tyler Anderson/ National Post/FileThe annual cherry blossom festival in Toronto's High Park is an instance of a civil liberty. But not any more.
All these possible violations of constitutional rights would be perfectly legal if they can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. But can they?

The first fundamental freedom to be violated in a pandemic is, obviously, freedom of assembly. But it is not the only freedom Canadian governments have curtailed lately.

Consider the cherry blossoms in Toronto's High Park. The annual festival to look at their fleeting colour is an instance of a civil liberty — both "civil," from the Latin for citizen, meaning for everyone in society, and a "liberty," from the Latin for freedom, because you can just walk on by, any time of day you like.

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Hammer

NJ driver wearing N95 mask passes out and crashes due to lack of oxygen, police say (Update)

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A Lincoln Park driver lacking oxygen due to hours of wearing an N95 mask passed out behind the wheel and crashed, authorities said.

The unidentified driver had been wearing the mask for several hours and had been getting too much carbon dioxide, and too little oxygen, before crashing Thursday, authorities said on Facebook.

The driver was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

Cheeseburger

Texas restaurant opens despite lockdown order

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On Friday evening, the 8731 Katy Freeway location of Federal American Grill in Houston, Texas, opened up its doors for in-dining room customers despite an ongoing order from state and local lawmakers to remain closed except for take-out.

Owner Matt Brice told the Houston Chronicle that the restaurant has "complied 100 percent until now."

"What I don't like is that the government is picking and choosing which businesses win or lose. They are sinking the economy," Brice said. "We have to stand our ground and get people back to work."

Comment: This is likely to catch on as the frustration among the populace continues to grow. The unjustified lockdown measures are hurting people more than the virus and it likely won't be long before a significant number of people are ignoring them.

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Dollar

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the ugly truth about celebrity culture

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© Action Press/Rex/ShutterstockPushing the boat out ... David Geffen’s $590m superyacht, Rising Sun.
The rich and famous are desperate to prove we are all in this together - in fact, the outbreak has highlighted just how false that is

Would you spare a thought for all the poor, suffering celebrities out there? While this is a difficult time for everyone, it has been particularly tough on the famous. They have been upstaged by a virus. No one cares what they are wearing or who they are snogging any more; the world's attention has been diverted by a headline-hogging pandemic. It seems as if some celebrities are starting to grapple with the realisation that they are not quite as important or beloved as they thought they were.

Gal Gadot was the first victim of the great celebrity backlash of 2020. "We're all in this together," the Wonder Woman star assured us in a video on Instagram a couple of weeks ago, before launching into a star-studded rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Can you imagine how little self-awareness you must have to enlist a bunch of multimillionaires to sing about a world with "no possessions" while huge numbers of people are losing their jobs? The tone-deaf performance was swiftly savaged.

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Arrow Up

Thailand: Suicide rates skyrocket among poor under coronavirus lockdowns

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Thailand's poor are killing themselves at alarming rates amid a surge in suicides related to the coronavirus pandemic across the country, Thai news outlet Coconuts Bangkok reported on Friday.

At least 22 coronavirus-related suicides have been recorded in Thailand since March 20, according to an independent study cited by Coconuts. Believed to have the world's worst wealth inequality rate, poor people in Thailand have been hard-hit by the country's recent economic slowdown, a byproduct of the lockdown imposed by Thailand last month.

On March 26, Thailand's government announced a state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Bangkok Post. This allowed for a partial lockdown in and outside of Bangkok, the capital, where the majority of businesses were closed. Unable to work for the past month, many Thai citizens living hand-to-mouth before the coronavirus pandemic have reportedly become desperate and suicidal. Most of those have failed to access government financial assistance, which Bangkok promised last month.

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Calendar

No, this is not another 1929, 1973, 1987, 2000, or 2008

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Basing one's decisions on analogs from the past is entering a fool's paradise of folly.

Like addicts who cannot control their cravings, financial analysts cannot stop themselves from seeking some analog situation in the past which will clarify the swirling chaos in their crystal balls. So we've been swamped with charts overlaying recent stock market action over 1929, 1987, 2000 and 2008 -- though the closest analogy is actually the Oil Shock of 1973, an exogenous shock to a weakening, fragile economy.

But the reality is there is no analogous situation in the past to the present, and so all the predictions based on past performance will be misleading. The chartists and analysts claim that all markets act on the same patterns, which are reflections of human nature, and so seeking correlations of volatility and valuation that "worked" in the past will work in 2020.

Does anyone really believe the correlations of the past decade or two are high-probability predictors of the future as the entire brittle construct of fictional capital and extremes of globalization and financialization all unravel at once?

Comment: And if that ain't enough: