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Lukashenko has no intention of leaving office yet, says change of power won't come from street protests


RT
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:48 UTC
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Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko dampened the hopes of those expecting a swift power transition in the country, saying change won't take place under pressure from street protests, but in accordance with the law.

"I would like to tell you in a manly way, so as not to leave a word unspoken. I'm often reproached: 'He will not cede power.' This is correct. That's not what the people elected me for," state news agency BelTA quoted him as saying on Tuesday.

"Power is given not to be abandoned or given away. In the mid-1990s it lay in the mud. Some wiped their feet on it. And on you, those in law enforcement. Many of you remember this period. I do not want Belarus to go back to those days," he stated at a ceremony where he introduced the country's new prosecutor general, Andrei Shved, to his subordinates. "Nobody will dare throw mud at the authorities, contrary to what they demand."

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CNN's Zucker gives advice for then-candidate Trump, offer of a weekly show

Jeff Poor
Breitbart
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC
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Tuesday, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson played a series of audio clips of CNN head Jeff Zucker interacting with convicted former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen about then-GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump on his Tuesday broadcast.

The "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host laid out the clips, which range from Zucker's reluctance to contact Trump directly to offering advice for Trump and even raising the possibility of a weekly show for Trump.

Comment: Social media lit up over the leaked audio:






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Georgia cover-up of deaths in $3.3 billion pharmaceutical project: documents

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
Arms Watch
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 06:13 UTC
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Confidential reports reveal that at least 249 patients enrolled in a Gilead-sponsored program have died in Georgia.
Confidential reports reveal that at least 249 patients enrolled in a Gilead-sponsored program have died in Georgia.

A new data leak reveals that the Georgian government and US drug giant Gilead have failed to investigate at least 249 deaths of patients enrolled in a $3.3 billion Hepatitis C elimination project.

Arms Watch has analyzed these documents allegedly originating from the Ministry of Health of Georgia and leaked anonymously on Twitter. We have already published a detailed report on US government projects at the Pentagon biolaboratory in Tbilisi - the Lugar Center.

In our current report we have analyzed data about death cases of patents enrolled in the Hepatitis C Elimination project in Georgia. This is an experimental pharmaceutical project sponsored by Gilead in cooperation with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Georgia's Ministry of health.

Georgian media and health officials have previously denied any possible link between the experimental program and these death cases. However, the cause of death of some patients has been reported as "unknown" in Gilead confidential reports. Other patients enrolled in the program have discontinued treatment due to serious adverse effects. Some of them have died.
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Joe Biden walks back his national mask mandate, admits it would probably be unconstitutional

Paul Sacca
The Blaze
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 05:57 UTC
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared on Aug. 13 that he would call for a nationwide face mask mandate. "Every single American should be wearing a mask when they're outside for the next three months, at a minimum," Biden said in August. "Let's institute a mask mandate nationwide starting immediately, and we will save lives."

Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), eagerly approved of Biden's mask mandate. "That's what real leadership looks like," Harris said on the same day. "We just witnessed real leadership. Which is Joe Biden said that as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask for the next three months, because it will save lives."

During Biden's acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, he firmly declared that he would implement a national mask mandate if elected president.

"We'll have a national mandate to wear a mask — not as a burden, but to protect each other," Biden said on Aug. 20 at the 2020 DNC. "It's a patriotic duty."

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NATO think-tank enrolls English-language journalists and activists covering Belarus - and Twitter looks the other way


RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:11 UTC
A masked opposition activist at a protest in Minsk, Belarus September 6, 2020.
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A masked opposition activist at a protest in Minsk, Belarus September 6, 2020.
Some of the top journalist-activists covering Belarus in English on Twitter are now working for organizations that defend the interests of Western arms manufacturers - with no disclaimer for their followers.

On Wednesday, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) - based in Warsaw, Poland and Washington, DC - announced it was "thrilled" to welcome Tadeusz Giczan as a fellow. He has previously worked with NEXTA, described as "Belarus's largest Telegram channel."


Comment: The Western regime-change specialists have been going full-on crazy - pulling out all the stops - in an effort to overthrow Lukashenko's government, further encircle Russia - and, try to get Belarus to comply with the Covid lockdown hysteria to boot!

See a sampling of the many stories regarding this wannabe Maidan:

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Former NSA chief General Keith Alexander is now on Amazon's board

Devin Coldewey
Tech Crunch
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:17 UTC
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General Keith Alexander, who oversaw the National Security Agency when Edward Snowden revealed the shocking extent of its illegal wiretapping and data collection programs, has joined Amazon's board as a director.

Gen. Alexander's duties on the audit committee and anywhere else he might be needed are not spelled out anywhere. He is currently co-CEO of IronNet Security, the firm he founded six years ago. Before that he was head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.


Comment: A 'revolving door' of government intelligence and the much for profit Technocracy? You betcha!


He is perhaps best remembered by the general public as having helped build and operate an enormous set of secret programs for domestic surveillance in the security-first post-9/11 era. There's a bit more to running the country's cybersecurity infrastructure than that, of course, but the Snowden leaks ended up defining the end of his career in government intelligence.

Comment: The implications of Amazon's new hire is not lost on some:
[...] Edward Snowden, [was] were less than "thrilled" about the appointment.

Snowden - who in 2013 blew the whistle on a secret NSA surveillance program, leaking a massive trove of documents proving the bulk and warrantless collection of Americans' telephone records by the government - was one of the first to call out Amazon for hiring Alexander.

"It turns out 'Hey Alexa' is short for 'Hey Keith Alexander.' Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal," tweeted the whistleblower, who remains in exile in Russia.


Snowden noted that while Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts nearly 6 percent of all websites, the figure looks even more damning "if you measure it by traffic instead of number of sites."

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, a Snowden ally who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the US intelligence machine's global mass surveillance program, tweeted that Alexander's appointment only revealed Amazon's true colors.

"Gen. Keith Alexander was head of NSA when it secretly built a massive domestic surveillance system aimed at Americans - the one an appellate court just ruled likely illegal. Amazon just appointed him to its Board of Directors, again showing who they are," Greenwald said.




Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that the "bulk collection" of data used by the NSA was illegal, with Snowden hailing the decision as a milestone in the fight against government-sanctioned snooping.

Even without an ex-spy chief with a less-than-stellar reputation in terms of privacy protection on its board, Amazon has faced growing pushback over its intrusive high-tech devices. Its virtual assistant Alexa was caught red-handed passively recording intimate conversations of unsuspecting family members, while its new fitness tracker 'Halo' promises to scan users' bodies and track emotions in their voice.

It has been suggested that Alexander's addition to the board may raise Amazon's chances to win government contracts, as it is still reeling after losing out on the $10 billion JEDI 'war cloud' contract with the Pentagon, which was awarded to Microsoft last October. Amazon has attempted to stall the deal, filing a lawsuit alleging that US President Trump's bias against the company robbed it of the lucrative deal.



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WHO admits Gates-backed vaccine caused recent polio outbreak in Africa

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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In a major development, the World Health Organization (WHO) is finally admitting that the vaccines pushed by the likes of oligarch Bill Gates and similar globalist technocrats have caused a polio outbreak in Sudan.

As a result, this polio outbreak is now spreading outside of Sudan to neighboring countries.

In the confession, they say that several children - one from South Darfur and another from Gedarif - had already been paralyzed as a result of being administered the oral polio vaccine. The outbreak reportedly is spreading to Chad and Cameroon now.

"Sequencing of viruses isolated in Sudan so far reflects that the viruses are related with viruses reported earlier in neighboring Chad from where there were multiple separate introductions into Sudan from Chad. There is local circulation in Sudan and continued sharing of transmission with Chad," the WHO wrote in their official statement.

It was the same WHO which just last week was boasting about eradicating the wild polio virus from the African continent. But in their latest confession, they concluded that their own vaccines are responsible for the rapid spread of the virus throughout Africa.
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Trump's diplomatic coup with Serbia and Kosovo curdles quickly

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC
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Serbian President Aleksander Vucic was further embarrassed when this photo of his meeting with Donald Trump circulated with commentary that he looked like a school boy.
Just six days after US President Trump proudly announced another diplomatic breakthrough with Serbia and Kosovo, saying both will be opening embassies in Jerusalem, there came a spoiler: Serbia is apparently backing out of the deal, because Israel is to recognize the breakaway republic of Kosovo in reciprocity.

The Times of Israel reported yesterday:

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Woodward says Trump consciously 'downplayed coronavirus', Fauci didn't see it that way, Trump says his goal was to reduce panic

Virginia Kruta
Daily Caller
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:17 UTC
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Dr. Anthony Fauci responded Wednesday to claims that President Donald Trump had downplayed the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, saying that he "didn't get any sense" that was happening.

Fauci spoke with Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts about audio recorded by Rage author Bob Woodward that appeared to reveal Trump intentionally downplaying the seriousness of the virus.

Fauci began by saying that it as very common for him and other members of the Coronavirus Task Force to meet with Trump prior to press conferences, and he did not recall instances when the president said things publicly that they had not discussed in the private meetings.

"I may not be tuned in to the right thing they're talking about, but I didn't see any discrepancies what he told us and what we told him and what he ultimately came out publicly and said," Fauci added.

"So did you get a sense that he was or wasn't playing this down?" Roberts asked directly.

"No. No, no, I didn't. I didn't get any sense that he was distorting anything," Fauci replied. "In my discussions with him, they were always straightforward about the concerns that we had. We related that to him. And when he would go out, I'd hear him discussing the same sort of things."

Comment: The funny thing is, in retrospect people will look back and see that Trump was right. In fact, he could have gone even further and still have been right... The amount of cheap propaganda and blatant lies being spread and believed worldwide about this 'pandemic' is staggering.

Trump dealt with the new controversy of the day during a press conference:


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Democrats, Republicans agree: Politicians and corporations should be spared from prosecution over killer Covid-19 care homes


RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:14 UTC
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Californian healthcare workers protesting for safer working conditions
Republican and Democrat politicians have both embraced legislation to immunize themselves and their deep-pocketed corporate donors from legal liability for ill-thought-out pandemic policies blamed for the deaths of thousands.

Republicans in the Senate have all but plagiarized a controversial provision from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that will offer legal immunity to corporations that ran the care homes in which hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans died with the coronavirus over the last six months, according to a trio of progressive journalists who compared the texts and interviewed some of the lobbyists who wrote the polarizing passages for the politicians in their pockets.

When Cuomo's corporate immunity provisions first resurfaced in Senate Republicans' Covid-19 stimulus package in July, some thought it was a fluke. The legislative package protected elder care homes from lawsuits over "resource or staffing shortage" and classed hospital administrators as caregivers for the purpose of that immunity. Cuomo himself criticized the bill, even as journalists noted the similarity of its language to his own legislation.

The bill in question was actually written by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), a lobbying group that paid Cuomo over $1 million for the privilege of walling its members off from legal action in the midst of a pandemic that has seen tens of thousands of Americans die in nursing homes across the nation. Careful to cover all its bases, the GNYHA also spread over a quarter of a million dollars among Democratic legislative committees, ensuring the provision would be passed.

Comment: Immunity for Senate Democrats was worth $2M in payoff irrespective of the consequences to care facilities, human tally or sworn duty to the charge it de-serves.

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