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The secret agenda of the World Bank and IMF

Peter Koenig
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) work hand in glove - smoothly. Not only are they regularly lending huge sums of money to horror regimes around the world, but they blackmail poor nations into accepting draconian conditions imposed by the west. In other words, the WB and the IMF are guilty of the most atrocious human rights abuses.

You couldn't tell, when you read above the entrance of the World Bank the noble phrase, "Our Dream is World Free of Poverty". To this hypocrisy I can only add, "...And we make sure it will just remain a dream." This says both, the lie and the criminal nature of the two International Financial Institutions, created under the Charter of the United Nations, but instigated by the United States.

The front of these institutions is brilliant. What meets the eye, are investments in social infrastructure, in schools, health systems, basic needs like drinking water, sanitation - even environmental protection - over all "Poverty Alleviation", i.e. A World Free of Poverty. But how fake this is today and was already in the 1970's and 1980's is astounding. Gradually people are opening their eyes to an abject reality, of exploitation and coercion and outright blackmail. And that, under the auspices of the United Nations. What does it tell you about the UN system? In what hands are the UN? - The world organization was created in San Francisco, California, on 24 October 1945, just after WWII, by 51 nations, committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
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Eye 2

John Kerry says 'Great Reset' is needed to stop rise of populism

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
John Kerry
© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez
Says rejoining Paris Climate Agreement is "not enough."

Former Secretary of State John Kerry attended a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum during which he asserted that a great reset was urgently needed to stop the rise of populism.

Kerry vowed that under a Biden administration, America would rejoin the job-killing Paris Climate Agreement but that this was "not enough."

"The notion of a reset is more important than ever before," Kerry said. "I personally believe ... we're at the dawn of an extremely exciting time."

The former Senator made it clear that this "reset," which is merely a re-branding of the same new world order that has faced stiff resistance for the past two decades, is necessary to extinguish populism.

Comment: Kerry is projecting all of the lawlessness and chaos of his own party (and time working under Obama) on to Trump of course.
It was Kerry's party that supported the rioting and the looting we've seen in past months in the US. And it was under Kerry that the US-aided coup occurred in Ukraine, the US used ISIS as a proxy terror force in Iraq and Syria, and it was under Kerry that Libya was quite literally decimated by NATO's intervention Syria...

But, sure, go ahead and blame Trump for a "breach of law and order".

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Briefcase

No Kraken for you: Powell tells 'rude, demanding' Fox host to do 'own investigation' when asked for evidence of tabulation tampering - UPDATES


RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:35 UTC
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© AFP / Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla; AFP / Getty Images / Drew Angerer
Tucker Carlson and Sidney Powell (inset)
Fox host Tuck Carlson lashed out at attorney Sidney Powell, after having failed to get her on air to back her claims about vote tabulating software manipulation.

Among the many theories supported by those who think the presidential election was "stolen" from Donald Trump, there is one involving Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic voting software.

Powell, best known for representing former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, on several occasions claimed that the firms were linked to each other as well as Trump adversaries, including Venezuela, China and billionaire donor George Soros. The algorithms had been used to change votes cast during the presidential election, she said citing statistical anomalies. While talking on Fox News' Lou Dobbs Tonight show last week, the lawyer promised to 'release the Kraken' - meaning to show facts - using a catchphrase from the movie Clash of the Titans.

Comment: Sidney had more to say:
Powell shot back at Carlson during a Friday interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

Carlson claimed on Thursday evening that Powell "got angry" with her and repeatedly refused to appear on his program to lay out evidence of voter fraud, including accusations voting machines and software were manipulated to change votes from Trump to Joe Biden.

"No, I didn't get angry with the request to provide evidence," Powell said, going on to claim that she had offered the evidence Carlson was requesting.

"In fact, I sent an affidavit to Tucker that I had not even attached to a pleading yet to help him understand the situation, and I offered him another witness who could explain the mathematics and the statistical evidence far better than I can. I'm not really a numbers person," she said.

Powell accused Carlson of being "insulting, demanding, and rude" and she asked that he not contact her again "in those terms."

Carlson claimed his show had also contacted "people in positions of authority in the Trump campaign" who claimed Powell had not provided them with evidence either.

The Fox News host's criticism of Powell followed a Thursday press conference that included members of the president's legal team, including Powell and Rudy Giuliani. The lawyers claimed numerous witness statements provided evidence of voter fraud, including thousands of fraudulent ballots being counted in favor of Biden.

One of the more explosive claims is that voting software, primarily Dominion Voting Systems, could have been used to actually change votes. Powell cited "spikes" in the vote count following election night that suggested outside interference. Dominion has denied these allegations.

"In terms of the level of corruption we are looking at here, we have no idea how many Republican or Democratic candidates ... paid to have the system rigged to work for them," she said.

Powell encouraged media figures like Carlson "to review all the materials we have provided so far and conduct their own investigations."

Carlson's segment earned him plenty of pushback from the president's more loyal supporters, who have insisted his claims of winning the election in a landslide are true.



Is it really more about Carlson's possibly bruised ego about Powell not making a personal appearance? She did offer documentation and an expert. Why wasn't he happy with that? UPDATES 21/11/2010: In a series of interviews, Sidney Powell has not backed down on her claims regarding having massive amounts of evidence of voter fraud:

Here with Howie Carr
  • There are many smoking guns and we are going to need federal protection for many people
  • 3 million dead people voted
  • A lot of the evidence of fraud is coming out next week. We have more evidence coming in every day. It only gets worse and worse.
  • The fraud was very widespread, very deliberate and very well funded.
  • I think the fraud went much further than just President Trump. I think they did it to John James and others.
  • We have data out of California in 2016 that Hillary Clinton did it to Bernie Sanders there.
  • We have a number of smoking guns and we may have to get witness protection for them.
  • We have a lot of evidence, it's beyond impressive and absolutely terrifying.
  • Eric Coomer, Dominion VP was caught on Zoom call assuring Antifa that Trump would lose. We have an affidavit and a copy of the call.
  • These are federal court lawsuits. They're paramount to any future life of our republic.
  • We've got evidence of people being paid. We got check stubs from people being paid.
And with Larry O'Connor, of the Washington Examiner's Examining Politics,(audio only):

Larry O'Connor, host of the Washington Examiner's Examining Politics, referenced articles from the New York Times and HuffPost that alleged a backdoor in Dominion Voting Systems used in several key battleground states that could have been exploited to create vote tallies "that did not exist."

Sidney said there were "multiple people" who actually saw the fraud take place in real-time.
"Their system even admits, their own training manual admits that people can go in and do that. That people can go in and put all kinds of votes in a "trash" folder and then 'trash' them," Powell said.

"There are devices on the internet that can be used to see it and we have multiple people who actually saw it as it was happening. We essentially have some pictures of it and it is terrifying and it is a huge national security issue. Why the Department of Justice and the FBI have not done something on this immediately."...

I am staking my personal and professional reputation on this."
Tucker is still sore:
A day after Carlson sparked a ruckus on social media for taking a dig at Powell for not sharing the evidence of alleged voting fraud with his program, the Fox News star claimed "over the last 24 hours" he's "heard from a lot of people, including from people in the White House and people close to the President" about his segment, and that none of them appears to have seen the evidence firsthand.
Like us, they concluded this election was not fair. Like us they are willing to believe any explanation for what happened. Like us they have not seen a single piece of evidence showing that the software changed votes.
Carlson noted that among the president's associates his show reached out to were other members of Trump's legal team, who also were apparently unaware of the evidence.

"And by 'they' we're including other members of Donald Trump's own legal team - they haven't seen Powell's evidence either. Nor testimony from employees inside the software companies, nor damning internal documents, nor copies of the software itself," Carlson said in an "update" on his beef with Powell.

The host didn't disclose exactly who he had spoken to about the allegations, noting, however, that if Powell indeed proves them all in a court of law within the next few weeks, as she has promised, "no one would be more grateful" than himself.

The thinly-veiled swipe at Powell comes after she fired back at the hugely popular conservative stalwart for seemingly doubting that she was in possession of said evidence during his show on Thursday.
General Michael Flynn weighs in:




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Pi

In sworn statement, prominent mathematician flags up to 100,000 Pennsylvania ballots

Daniel Payne and John Solomon
Just the News
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:34 UTC
matt braynard voter fraud
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A screenshot of Matt Braynard speaking on a YouTube video on Nov. 8, 2020.
In a sworn declaration, a respected mathematician says his analysis of election data and phone interviews with Pennsylvania voters raises questions about as many as 100,000 absentee ballots requested in the key battleground state where President Trump and Joe Biden are separated by just about 82,000 votes.

Williams College Professor Steven Miller, a Yale and Princeton trained math expert, said he analyzed Pennsylvania ballot data collected by former Trump campaign data chief Matt Braynard as well as 2,684 voter interviews conducted by a phone bank and found two concerning patterns. One involved possible votes that were not counted, the other ballots that appeared to be requested by someone other than a registered voter.

"I estimate that the number of ballots that were either requested by someone other than the registered Republican or requested and returned but not counted range from 89,397 to 98,801," Miller said in the sworn statement provided to Just the News.

According to Pennsylvania state data for early and absentee ballot requests, there are roughly 165,000 ballots requested in the names of registered GOP voters that had not been counted as of Nov. 16.

Federal Election Commission Chairman Trey Trainor told Just the News that Miller's analysis provides fresh evidence of potential voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Comment: The latest data from Braynard's team:


Here's Jack Murphy's summary of some of the results released so far (full report coming Monday):




Here's the interview:


More on Braynard and his team's efforts:

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Bizarro Earth

The 'Great Reset' is trending: Here's why

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:28 UTC
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© Getty
Joe Biden punts the globalist propaganda for his masters
The Great Reset has been trending on Twitter. Once you're familiar with what it means for the future of our civilisation, you'll understand why...

Put simply, it is the blueprint for a complete transformation of the world economy. There will be no money, no private property, no democracy. Instead, every key decision — what you do for a living, how much stuff you consume, whether you can take a vacation — will be decided for you by a remote, unaccountable elite of 'experts'.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory — and is often dismissed as such by people who imagine they are being savvy and sophisticated. In fact, though, the people pushing for the Great Reset are perfectly open about their plan. Indeed, they can scarcely stop talking about it...

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Chart Pie

Danish mask study finally published: No statistically significant difference between wearing or not wearing mask

Vinay Prasad
Medpage Today
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:34 UTC
danish mask
I was drawn to science and medicine because of all human endeavors, ours is one where smart people can say, "I don't know." We don't stop there. We run a study or experiment that helps us know more. That is what makes what we do different than other human endeavors.

I start then with a humility as I take on the Danish Mask Study, published on Wednesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. This is a 4,800-person randomized trial that took place in the spring and early summer in Denmark. The trial was run at a time where most Danes did not wear masks when they left their house. It told participants to practice social distancing and randomly assigned them with the advice to wear a mask (and even gave them 50 surgical masks), advising them to change it after every 8 hours of use, or gave them no advice to wear mask, and followed them to see how many acquired SARS-CoV-2 by PCR or antibody testing. The answer was a nearly identical proportion -- 42 of 2,393 people (1.8%) in the mask group and 53 of 2,470 (2.1%) in the no-mask group. The difference was not statistically significant.


Comment:


Before I tell you what the study showed and didn't, we have to consider some criticism that is rapidly emerging.

Was the trial underpowered? The trial was powered to test its hypothesis of a 50% reduction in SARS-CoV-2 from mask wearing in a setting where the baseline risk was approximately 2%. The trial anticipated a 20% loss to follow-up. By these measures the trial was adequately powered to test its hypothesis, but let's be honest, the authors could not possibly have known at the outset the exact rate of COVID-19. While 2% was a terrific guess, it so easily could have been 22%. SARS-CoV-2 is a fat-tail probability event: meaning that it is possible for extremely bad scenarios to occur. Instead of California, Denmark could have been South Dakota! For this reason, I don't judge them harshly for power.

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Question

Democrat pollster: Curious how Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every city...except these four

Matt Vespa
Town Hall
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:15 UTC
joe biden surprised
© AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Until all the votes are counted and all the allegations of voter fraud are investigated, I think it's too early to declare a winner in the 2020 race. You keep fighting. For now, the legal challenges are hitting snags in the courts. Still, President Trump should keep fighting to the end. We have dead people voting. We have allegations of ballots being illegally backdated. Everything should be looked at right now.

Was this election stolen? Well, millions feel that way. The turnout numbers are odd in some states, like Wisconsin, which hit 89 percent. Now, is that figure impossible? No. Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel did the math, but it's highly improbable given the turnout rates in the surrounding areas. It would require 900,000 people showing up for same-day registrations. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was blunter last Sunday, when he said,
"I think he would have to do a lot to convince Republicans that this is anything except a left-wing power grab, financed by people like George Soros, deeply laid in at the local level, and, frankly, I think that it is a corrupt, stolen election."
He was commenting on Biden's call for unity. Yet, he also gave a hat-tip to someone we have written about here: Democracy Institute's Patrick Basham.

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Briefcase

Why Trump will likely win a second term

Phoenix Capita
Zero Hedge
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:49 UTC
gavel
© Getty Images
I want to stress in advance, that I DO NOT want to be political in this briefing. I am not saying I LIKE any of the recent developments. And I'm certainly NOT saying I want a particular candidate to win. All I am saying is that the election is a mess and from what I can tell, no one in the media is actually outlining what's to come based on the law. Instead I'm seeing a lot of political opinion, being presented as fact, when it isn't.

The media wants you to believe the election is over. By law, it isn't. Unless a candidate concedes, the election remains in play until December 14th when states cast their electoral college votes.

So, unless President Trump concedes between now and then, Joe Biden hasn't won anything, no matter what the media tells you. Indeed, the media has no say in this, anymore than they can decide what color the sky is; they're simply trying to get you angry so you'll continue to watch their awful shows so they can sell your eyeballs to advertisers.

With that in mind, we need to take a step back and assess how this election is likely to play out based on the LAW, not public opinion or media propaganda. Based on the law, it is highly possible and in fact probable that Donald Trump will end up winning the 2020 Presidential election.

Why? Because the election is now in the courts. And the courts have a clear precedent for how contested elections play out.
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Mr. Potato

Justin Trudeau in UN conference call says 'pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset'

A.J. Cooke
National File
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:43 UTC
The Canadian president shocked the Internet by seeming to endorse controversial plan to "reset capitalism"
WEF agenda 2030

The above graphic was published on the WEF Twitter account on November 22, 2016
As of Monday morning, "The Great Reset" was trending on Twitter after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested the COVID-19 virus provided an "opportunity for a reset ... to re-imagine economic systems". This was taken as an endorsement of a World Economic Forum plan to concentrate most private property in the hands of Big Tech mega-corporations.

The "Great Reset" plan involves a collaboration between national governments and international bodies to "reset capitalism" with an integrated transnational technocratic welfare/surveillance state by the year 2030.

The World Economic Forum is best known for its annual Davos Summit, where thousands of members of the world's corporate and political elite meet under extreme hi-tech security to discuss global collaboration.

Full quote:
We need to work together, and not just on vaccines. Canada believes that a strong, coordinated response across the world and across sectors is essential.

This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.

Comment: The 'Great Reset' is only a 'conspiracy theory' when 'unapproved persons' talk about it.

Incidentally, Trudeau's comments about it briefly made 'Great Reset' trend on Twitter.

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Star of David

Senior Pentagon official: 'American politicians get very rich' by supporting Israel'

Alison Weir
Israel-Palestine News
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:44 UTC

Comment: The unspeakable has been spoken!


Douglas Macgregor
© US Army Command
Army Col. Douglas Macgregor
Col.Douglas Macgregor, one of several Trump loyalists recently installed at the Pentagon, says the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States is trying to drag America into war

By Amir Tibon, reposted from Ha'aretz

Senior U.S. Defense official Douglas Macgregor, who was recently installed at the Pentagon by partisan loyalists of President Donald Trump, has come under fire for saying that American politicians become "very, very rich" by supporting Israel, with pro-Israeli organizations calling his remarks "antisemitic."

In 2019, Washington was rattled after Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) virtually made the exact same remark, tweeting that support for Israel in the United States was "all about the Benjamins," referring to Benjamin Franklin, whose image appears on $100 bills.

Omar was denounced by members of Congress from both parties, and was accused of spreading antisemitism by Jewish American organizations, as well as by Trump.

However, as of Saturday morning, leading Republican senators, who denounced Omar's comments almost immediately in 2019, had all remained silent about Macgregor's comments.

Macgregor, a retired Army Col., went even further than Omar, bluntly claiming that politicians who support Israel are only driven by money, and that the pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S. is trying to drag America into war.


Comment: Best Sec. Def. adviser ever?

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