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Coronavirus scandal breaking in Merkel's Germany affects the whole world

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC

The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the testing and medical advice being used to declare draconian economic shutdowns and next, de facto mandatory vaccinations. The scandals involve a professor at the heart of Merkel's corona advisory group. The implications go far beyond German borders to the very WHO itself and their global recommendations.

The entire case for WHO-mandated emergency lockdown of businesses, schools, churches and other social arenas worldwide is based on a test introduced, amazingly early on, in the Wuhan, China coronavirus saga. On January 23, 2020, in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, of the EU Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Dr. Christian Drosten, along with several colleagues from the Berlin Virology Institute at Charite Hospital, along with the head of a small Berlin biotech company, TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, published a study claiming to have developed the first effective test for detecting whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus identified first only days before in Wuhan. The Drosten article was titled, "Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR" (Eurosurveillance 25(8) 2020).

The news was greeted with immediate endorsement by the corrupt Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom, the first non-medical doctor to head WHO. Since then the Drosten-backed test for the virus, called a real-time or RT-PCR test, has spread via WHO worldwide, as the most used test protocol to determine if a person might have COVID-19, the illness.

On November 27 a highly-respected group of 23 international virologists, microbiologists and related scientists published a call for Eurosurveillance to retract the January 23, 2020 Drosten article. Their careful analysis of the original piece is damning. Theirs is a genuine "peer review." They accuse Drosten and cohorts of "fatal" scientific incompetence and flaws in promoting their test.

Comment: To read the Corman-Drosten Review Report, submitted 27th November, 2020, go here. Included are: a detailed analysis of mistakes, a list concerns and a summary of errors found in the paper.

'Follow the science' they said. What they didn't tell you is that what they want you to follow is not science.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court takes up Trump case after a dismissal by circuit court judge

Caitlin McFall
Fox News
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken on a case by President Trump's legal team, seeking to have hundreds of thousands of ballots in Democratic Dane and Milwaukee Counties thrown out, even after a circuit court judge dismissed the case Friday.

The latest suit is an attempt by the Trump campaign to stop the Electoral College vote Monday, an effort that seemed like another fruitless attempt when it was dismissed by the circuit court judge earlier in the day and after a string of cases that have been thrown out in lower and high courts throughout the country.

Oral arguments are set to begin Saturday, in an unusually quick turnaround as the state's high court races against the clock.

Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek ruled against the argument Trump's legal team made earlier in the day, alleging election officials in the two Democrat-led counties failed to follow state laws regarding absentee ballots. "The bottom line here is that the court should do everything to ensure that the will of the voters prevail," Simanek said during Friday's hearing.

Wisconsin certified its results Nov. 30, showing that Trump lost the swing state to President-elect Joe Biden by 20,600 votes.

The Trump campaign quickly appealed the ruling and asked for a decision by Jan. 6, 2021, which they claim is the "real deadline" as it is when Congress approves the Electoral College's votes - though the almost immediate oral arguments set to begin Saturday, shows that the state's Supreme Court may disagree with that line of thought and attempt to have a decision sooner.

Comment: The smothering of facts and protocol continues, deriding any suggestion of fraudulent behavior on behalf of the Democratic election machine. Nevertheless, Wisconsin SC has offered Republicans the chance to present its case.

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Trump's state lawsuit seeks to disqualify over 221K ballots:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court court previously refused to hear Trump's state case before it went through the lower courts. A majority of justices have also openly questioned whether disqualifying the ballots, as Trump wants, would be appropriate. But Trump is now getting a chance to argue the merits of the case before the court controlled 4-3 by conservatives.

Trump's attorney said in the request that the campaign is asking his electors to cast their ballots for Trump on Monday and send them to Congress so, if a court intervenes in the meantime, the Trump votes would be counted instead of Biden. Trump also has a federal lawsuit in Wisconsin where the judge could rule as soon as Friday.

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Wisconsin said Thursday that the president's lawsuit in that state was "incredible," "bizarre" and "very odd," and that overturning the results would be "the most remarkable ruling in the history of this court or the federal judiciary."

U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig promised to issue his ruling as soon as Friday.

How the media covered up the Hunter Biden story until after the election

David Harsanyl
New York Post
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:40 UTC

It's now clear that the Hunter Biden story was real, with Hunter himself acknowledging a federal probe into his taxes — one that reportedly began in 2018. Really, it was always clear. Yet when the New York Post broke the details, virtually the entire journalistic establishment and left-wing punditsphere defamed the newspaper, claiming it was passing on Russian "disinformation" or partisan fabrications.

The political media quickly began pumping out process stories about the alleged discord in The Post's newsroom and about the problems with the reporting. In so doing, of course, they did practically no reporting on the substantive allegations that Joe Biden's family had spent years cashing in on his influence.

Tech companies, spurred on by these censorious journalists, shut down the account of one of America's most-read newspapers to inhibit users from reading the story. It was completely unprecedented.

Comment: It is unthinkable that a story this significant to the future of US leadership would be outright suppressed and excused. It smacks of collusion:

[M]edia outlets didn't just ignore the story; they tried to suppress it. Then social media stepped in, preventing the story from being posted (Facebook) and even banning The Post (Twitter).

"The New York Post's controversial 'scoop' involves some shady behavior," huffed Slate. "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say," Politico insisted after 50 top ex-intel officers signed a letter to that effect. The letter offered no proof, and now that claim turns out to be the disinformation.

Many Americans who'd already cast ballots in early voting sought to change their votes after learning of the e-mails, but others never even found out about them, thanks to the pro-Biden censors. How many might've voted differently?

The issues involved aren't just about Hunter, they're about how he traded on his father's name to make money — raising questions about what Joe Biden knew. One e-mail even suggests Joe Biden himself might have been in line for some cash.

All of which raises serious national-security questions. A former business associate of Hunter, Tony Bobulinski, believes Joe Biden is "compromised."

"There are allegations of securities fraud, money laundering [and] a crooked hospital deal with [Joe's brother] Jim Biden," notes Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who's demanding a special prosecutor to oversee the probe. "If Joe Biden becomes president, then all those prosecutors are in line to be fired next month," he warns.

A special counsel does seem in order, given the deep politicization of the Justice Department under the last Democratic president. Anyone investigating the president's son needs some kind of shield from potential White House interference.

Also in order: a host of explanations, and apologies, to the American people from all the outlets that found this news unfit to print. As one paper's motto puts it, "Democracy dies in darkness."

Many opinions are suddenly surfacing, a situation of 'too little too late':

Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News:
"The news media helped silence a story and alter the results of an election. They are probably laughing in newsrooms all around the country."
The Hill media columnist and Fox News contributor Joe Concha said the New York Post is presumably angry that it was accused of "peddling Russian disinformation:
"This thing was not only dismissed, it was actually suppressed. It only makes you imagine... as far as Arizona, and Georgia and Pennsylvania, those races that were so close, if there was the vigor around the reporting about Hunter Biden as there was around Russian collusion, if the result could have been changed at some point."
Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News that mainstream media appears to have "snuffed out the Hunter Biden scandal" in order to help the former vice president's election chances:
"It would have seriously hurt Joe Biden's campaign enough to make a difference in key swing states. Now that the election is over, and the media mission appears to be accomplished, there are no such constraints. Rather than regretting this journalistic malfeasance, the perpetrators likely are quite proud of themselves."
Conservative strategist Chris Barron agrees that CNN and MSNBC essentially helped Biden win the election.
"Hunter Biden's business dealings would have cost Joe Biden any shot at the White House, which is exactly why outlets like CNN and MSNBC refused to cover the issue before the election.

"Any news outlet with even a shred of credibility or commitment to journalistic integrity would view the news of a federal investigation into Hunter Biden as proof that they had erred dramatically in not covering this issue sooner. Alas, CNN and MSNBC care little about credibility and even less about journalistic integrity."
As CNN honchos remain publicly silent, the network dispatched in-house media pundit Oliver Darcy to justify why it initially dismissed the news, blaming Trump and a chaotic news cycle for why it didn't cover the Hunter Biden story until after Election Day. Darcy penned a section of CNN's media newsletter labeled, "Keeping stories in proportion," that claimed the network was chasing the story while simultaneously downplaying its relevance.
"With the news cycle as chaotic as it has ever been, knowing what stories to focus on is as important as ever. Wednesday provided a great example of this, with Hunter Biden confirming he is being investigated for his taxes. CNN had been chasing this news and had asked for comment, which likely prompted the Biden camp to go public.

"Yes, the son of the president-elect being under federal investigation is a big story. There is no doubt about that. But is it a bigger story than the actual president trying to overturn the results of the US election? No, it's not. Is it more important than the pandemic surging across the country killing thousands of people each week? No, it's not. Covering the Hunter Biden story is important, but it should be in proportion."

Darcy's comments are pathetic. There is no justification that eliminates reporting on this story, especially when the media, en group, pre-determine the substance - in relation to their leanings - is 'irrelevant'. Quite the contrary. It proves its significance.

Everyone from former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell to former CNN contributor Steve Cortes have mocked CNN's pivot.

DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall, noting there was little scrutiny of Biden's policy plans or his
"routine gaffes, misstatements, and certainly no interest in delving into the Hunter Biden situation. This was 'thumb-on-the-scales' journalism that kept Biden out of controversy and maintained a focus on Trump chaos. It is hard to assess what impact this lack of media scrutiny might have had on the election results, but the impact was certainly not zero. Post-election polling by the Media Research Center showed that over a third of Biden voters were unaware of the Hunter matter at all.

"Gatekeepers at the big media outlets surely have no regrets for how they covered the campaign and their recent modest interest in Hunter Biden will not be a long-lasting agenda focus."
Gainor said the situation brings to mind a quote from blogger David Burge, who once said, "Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving ...but only stories that make the left look bad."

Senate overwhelmingly passes defense bill despite Trump veto threat

Ursula Perano
Axios
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC

The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by an 84-13 vote on Friday, defying President Trump's threat to veto the bill if it does not repeal liability protections for social media companies.

Why it matters: Both the House and Senate have now passed the bill by a veto-proof two-thirds majority, though it's unclear if the same number of lawmakers that voted to pass the bill would vote to overturn a Trump veto. Overriding Trump's veto would serve as a rare Republican rebuke to the president in his last weeks in office.

The NDAA, which this year authorizes a $740 billion budget for essential defense spending, will now head to Trump's desk. It has been passed by Congress every year since 1967.
The bill includes provisions that would grant a pay raise for troops, allow paid parental leave for federal employees and boost anti-discrimination protections for federal employees.

The big picture: Trump's threatened veto is centered around Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects social media from being liable for content created by its users.

The president in May signed an executive order seeking to limit the powers of Section 230, but he does not possess the unilateral authority to regulate tech and social media companies.

Trump has also expressed opposition to the 2020 NDAA for its proposal to rename 10 military installations that are named after Confederate leaders.

What they're saying: In a statement ahead of the House's vote this week, the White House said the bill "fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military's history, and contradicts efforts by this administration to put America first."

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Bhutan becomes latest country to normalize relations with Israel

Sputnik
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 18:40 UTC

Israel and Bhutan on Saturday signed an agreement on normalizing diplomatic relations between the two countries for the first time, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.

"The Kingdom of Bhutan and Israel signed tonight, 12.12.2020, the establishment of full diplomatic relations. The signing ceremony was held at the residence of the Israeli Ambassador to India, Dr. Ron Malka," the ministry said in a statement.

It added that Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and his Bhutanese counterpart, Tandi Dorji, held talks last weekend, during which the sides discussed a plan for cooperation between the countries in the field of water management, agriculture and health.

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Brexit farce continues with possible delay or no-deal proposed following Bojo's meeting with EU officials

Kate Devlin
Independent
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:34 UTC

© REUTERS/Simon Dawson
A flag is seen outside the Houses of Parliament near the statue of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London, Britain (FILE PHOTO)

Boris Johnson has said it is "very, very likely" that the UK will fail to strike a trade agreement with the European Union, raising the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of this month.

On a visit to Blyth in Northumberland, the prime minister predicted the UK would not strike a post-Brexit deal with the EU before the end of the transition period.

He said: "We are always hopeful, and as you know the negotiations are continuing and we've got our teams still out there in Brussels.

"And if there is a big offer, a big change in what they are saying then I must say that I've yet to see it."

Comment: RT reports:

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told reporters on Friday that delaying the deadline by a few extra days might be enough to get a trade deal done.

"In the end, the talks will not fail because a few days more are needed," Maas said, asserting that negotiations should continue as long as "the window is ajar."

Speaking before a meeting with Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, Maas added that an agreement is in sight, but it will be difficult to secure.

Maas's optimism was echoed by Coveney, who spoke about the need to respect Britain's desire for sovereignty and independence, adding that a compromise needed to be found on the controversial subject of fisheries.

Following a dinner meeting on Wednesday evening between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, it was decided that a post-Brexit agreement must be reached by Sunday.

The Maxwells: Mossad's first family of spies

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:20 UTC

© Andanson James
Elisabeth and Robert Maxwell with their children Kevin, Philip, Ian, Anne, Christine, Isabel and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The story of the deceased pedophile and presumed Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein continues to enthrall because so little of the truth regarding it has been revealed in spite of claims by the government that a thorough follow-up investigation has been initiated. The case is reportedly still open and it is to be presumed that Justice Department investigators have been able to examine certain aspects of what occurred more intensively. A major part of the investigation has been a review of actions taken by the four government prosecutors who were most directly involved with the negotiations with Epstein and his lawyers in 2007-8. The 22 month-long review, carried out by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), finally produced a 350 page report which was released on November 12^th.

The DOJ has now picked out a scapegoat for what many now think was gross prosecutorial negligence, possibly including corruption of senior government officials. He is not surprisingly Alexander Acosta, who was the U.S. Attorney for Miami when the Epstein case came up. Relying substantially on internal government emails as well as communications between the prosecutors and Epstein's team of high-profile lawyers to reach its conclusion, the OPR review concluded that Acosta exhibited "poor judgment" in his handling of the Epstein deal. He did not inform the victims or their attorneys of developments in the case, as required by law, and overruled the lead prosecutor and FBI agents who argued that Epstein should face serious jail time. He even cut a deal with Epstein before the investigation into his crimes was completed. The OPR investigators also determined that many emails that would have materially aided the plaintiffs were not made available to their attorneys, a shortcoming that the report attributed to a "technological error."

Comment: Read Whitney Webb's excellent reports:

FBI subpoenas Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton amid whistleblower allegations

Tony Plohetski
KVUE
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:33 UTC

FBI agents have issued at least one federal subpoena for records from the Texas attorney general's office in an ongoing investigation into allegations against Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Sources confirmed to KVUE the requests for information were issued on Wednesday at the agency's headquarters on West 14th Street. It was not immediately clear how many subpoenas were issued or what information federal agents sought.

The investigation started after top Paxton aides alleged to the FBI in early October they believe Paxton may be committing crimes that include abuse of office and bribery in his dealings with Austin investor Nate Paul.

Oh yeah? You're SHORT! Liz Cheney reacts to Rand Paul criticizing her 'perpetual war' NDAA amendment

RT
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:52 UTC

© Pool via REUTERS / Alex Edelman; REUTERS / Mark Makela
(L) Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky); (R) Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming).

After Senator Rand Paul objected to her amendment to the military funding bill that would block the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Congresswoman Liz Cheney questioned his patriotism and took a potshot at his height.

Paul (R-Kentucky) is holding up the National Defense Authorization Act, "blaming America, and delaying hazardous duty pay to hundreds of thousands of our service members and their families. Inexcusable," Cheney (R-Wyoming) tweeted on Thursday above a video of Paul's speech in the Senate.

"Rand and I do have one thing in common, though. We're both 5'2" tall," she added.

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Joe Biden & Kamala Harris named TIME's 'Person of the Year' as a predictable finger in Trump's eye

Helen Buynisk
RT
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:58 UTC

Time magazine has named presumed president-elect Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris as "person of the year," an uninspiring choice celebrated more as a dig at President Donald Trump than real appreciation for the pair.

The selection seemed calculated more to twist the knife in President Trump than anything else - avowedly anti-Trump musician Bruce Springsteen was selected to deliver the news, and the addition of the "Guardians of the Year" category allowed Time to essentially hand out prizes to all of the short-listers except the president.

Corona czar Anthony Fauci, the "movement for racial justice," and frontline health workers all got the 'guardian' nod - leaving Trump the odd one out.

Comment: Not that Time's Person of the Year means anything beyond celebrity gossip, but this is an insipid and uninspired choice. Biden essentially hid in his basement for the entire campaign and Kamala has always been deemed completely unlikable. On the other hand, maybe these two do encapsulate the complete sh*t show that was 2020 rather effectively.

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Puppet Masters

Coronavirus scandal breaking in Merkel's Germany affects the whole world

Wisconsin Supreme Court takes up Trump case after a dismissal by circuit court judge

How the media covered up the Hunter Biden story until after the election

Senate overwhelmingly passes defense bill despite Trump veto threat

Bhutan becomes latest country to normalize relations with Israel

Brexit farce continues with possible delay or no-deal proposed following Bojo's meeting with EU officials

The Maxwells: Mossad's first family of spies

FBI subpoenas Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton amid whistleblower allegations

Oh yeah? You're SHORT! Liz Cheney reacts to Rand Paul criticizing her 'perpetual war' NDAA amendment

Joe Biden & Kamala Harris named TIME's 'Person of the Year' as a predictable finger in Trump's eye

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