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Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
9/11
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The first draft of the civil rights-eroding USA PATRIOT Act was magically introduced one week after the 9/11 attacks. Legislators later admitted that they hadn't even had time to read through the hundreds of pages of the history-shaping bill before passing it the next month, yet somehow its authors were able to gather all the necessary information and write the whole entire thing in a week.

This was because most of the work had already been done. CNET reported the following back in 2008:
"Months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, [then-Senator Joe] Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of 'terrorism' that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode 'constitutional and statutory due process protections' and would 'authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.'
Biden's bill was never put to a vote, but after 9/11 then-Attorney General John Ashcroft reportedly credited his bill with the foundations of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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Sherlock

Joe DiGenova: FISA court ordering target list shows it 'suspects' pattern of FBI seeking political dirt

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:13 UTC
Joe DiGenova

Former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court indicated that it "suspects" there is a pattern of the FBI seeking out political information through surveillance orders, according to former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova.

DiGenova, a lawyer whose work was caught up in the Ukraine-impeachment controversy, claimed this is the reason why presiding Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to provide the court with the names of targets for the applications audited by the agency's independent watchdog. That interim report, released by Inspector General Michael Horowitz last week, found widespread problems with the FBI's preparation of FISA warrant applications dating back to at least 2014.

"Do you know why the court did that? Because the court suspects that they're all political figures or people connected to political figures and that the FISAs were done for the purpose of targeting so that they could get political information, unmask the people, and then leak the information," DiGenova told WMAL's Mornings on the Mall on Monday.

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Attention

'Mafiacracy Now' - Exposing the Fed's coronavirus lies

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 22:36 UTC
The Fed Reserve
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John Titus of Best Evidence joins us to discuss Season 2 of his "Mafiacracy Now" video series, an exploration of the crimes of the banksters and their multi-trillion dollar heist that is being perpetrated during the current crisis. Today we talk about the Fed's lies about the coronavirus and what horrifying truths about the collapsing economy are hidden behind them.

Watch this video on BitChute / LBRY / Minds.com / YouTube or Download the mp4
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Quenelle

Trump stumps reporters on HHS Inspector General report, gets dig in at pro-Obama 'journalists

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:52 UTC
Fox News Kristin Fisher
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Fox News reporter Kristin Fisher
President Donald Trump challenged reporters at the White House on Monday who were questioning him about a report issued by the Health and Human Services Inspector General office reporting shortages in coronavirus testing.

"What's his name?" Trump said to Fox News reporter Kristin Fisher, who asked him about the report.

"I don't know his name off the top of my head," the Fisher replied.

HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett Giroir noted that the inspector general survey was conducted on March 23-27 and said that he was not informed about the problem until he saw it in the media this morning.

Comment: Both moments made it to Twitter:





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Light Sabers

Greece and Turkey clash in NATO teleconference waging mini war of words

Paul Antonopoulos
Infobrics
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
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A NATO teleconference last week saw Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu engage in a mini war of words, with accusations made by both sides against each other. Çavuşoğlu took the Council of Foreign Ministers of NATO meeting as an opportunity to push accusations that Greece tortured and killed illegal immigrants as they attempted to enter the European country illegally with Turkish support.

Dendias was quick to highlight that Turkey was blatantly violating the Alliance's supposed core 'values,' prompting Çavuşoğlu to rise from his seat and demand that he be able to respond, which was quickly rejected by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The Turkish Foreign Minister even made another demand to be the final speaker of the teleconference, which was again rejected by Stoltenberg, prompting Çavuşoğlu to abruptly leave the meeting early.

In the aftermath of the meeting, Dendias went to Twitter to say "There is a very basic misunderstanding on the part of Turkey. Alliance and solidarity between allied countries is not an option. They are not separate issues. It is total." He continued to highlight that it is well known that Turkey orchestrated the migrant crisis in March, but that Athens still wants to have positive relations with Ankara.
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Red Pill

Fact Check: Trump does not own stake in a hydroxychloroquine drugmaker

John Carney
Breitbart
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:29 UTC
Donald Trump
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Claim: "Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker: Report"

That's the headline across a HuffPost story that goes on to claim that "President Donald Trump reportedly owns a stake in a company that produces hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment even though his experts say there's no strong evidence it works."

Verdict: False.

The report cited by the HuffPost is from a New York Times story that said: "Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine."

Trump's personal financial interest, however, does not include a stake in Sanofi-and the New York Times did not claim it did. Instead, Trump's financial disclosures show that his three family trusts each had investments in a $10.3 billion Dodge & Cox mutual fund that owns shares in Sanofi, the world's fifth-largest drugmaker by prescription sales. As of its latest disclosures, those holdings amount to just 3.3 percent of the fund's holdings.

Trump's most recent financial disclosure forms lists holdings in the Dodge & Cox International Fund valued between $1,001 and $15,000. That means Trump holds a maximum stake in the mutual funds of $45,000, giving him an indirect interest in Sanofi of $1,485 at the most.

His "financial interest" in Sanofi, which has a market capitalization of nearly $58 billion, could be as low as $99.10.
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Bad Guys

Trump threatens Modi over Covid-19 treatment export ban, France says lockdown will last 'as long as it needs to', and other corona-circus news


RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:49 UTC
lab coronavirus covid
© Reuters / Craig Lassig
Researchers work with coronavirus samples as a trial begins to see whether malaria treatment hydroxychloroquine can treat Covid-19, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
US President Donald Trump has warned that Washington may retaliate against New Delhi over a decision to bar exports of an experimental treatment for Covid-19, not long after asking his Indian counterpart to reverse the move.

Though India on Saturday imposed a blanket ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine - an antimalarial drug under clinical trial as a treatment for the coronavirus - Trump told reporters on Monday that New Delhi could face consequences if Prime Minister Narendra Modi fails to drop the restriction, insisting he wasn't aware that a final decision had been made.

"I don't like that decision. I didn't hear if that was his decision. I know he stopped it for other countries," Trump said, referring to the Indian PM. "I would be surprised if he would, because India does very well with the United States, for many years they've been taking advantage of the United States on trade."
If [Modi] doesn't allow it, that would be OK. But of course there may be retaliation. Why wouldn't there be?
Indian producers provide the US with nearly half of its supply of the drug, according to Bloomberg News. It has been repeatedly touted by President Trump as a potential treatment for the deadly virus gripping all 50 states and much of the world. While concrete evidence for its effectiveness against Covid-19 remains thin, testing is already underway in states like New York and Michigan, while US Surgeon General Jerome Adams acknowledged on Sunday that there were early signs the drug was "helping."

Comment: India responded quickly:
New Delhi has agreed to ship Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to the nations most impacted by Covid-19 and urged not to "politicize" the issue after US President Donald Trump threatened "retaliation" for its drug export ban.

"In view of the humanitarian aspects of the pandemic, it has been decided that India would license paracetamol and hydroxychloroquine in appropriate quantities to all our neighboring countries... dependent on our capabilities," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said on Tuesday.
We will also be supplying these essential drugs to some nations who have been particularly badly affected by the pandemic.
Srivastava warned against "any speculation in this regard or any attempts to politicize the matter."
France's health minister said this regarding when the country may see the end of its lockdown:
"We are not at the peak of the epidemic yet... We are still at the aggravation phase," Health Minister Olivier Veran said in an interview with BFM TV on Tuesday.

"It is too early to talk about ending the isolation," Veran said. "The isolation [regime] will last as long as it needs to... It's up to each of us in our daily behavior to understand that by staying inside we are saving lives. We have to be patient. Our patience saves lives."
And kills others...

For the first time, China reported no new deaths. Italy's deputy health minister says the corona "tsunami" is "gradually receding" in the country, "but hugs and kisses can only return to Italian life after a vaccine is found." Trump blasted the WHO on Twitter for being pro-China:


The acting US Navy secretary has resigned over the USS Theodore Roosevelt scandal (less than an hour after Pelosi demanded his removal). Rand Paul, who had tested positive for the virus 2 weeks ago, was retested as negative, and is now volunteering at a hospital in Kentucky.


Also on a lighter note, here's a rhino enforcing lockdown in Nepal:

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Eye 1

For your 'protection': WhatsApp tightens message forwarding restrictions to combat 'coronavirus misinformation'

Ryan Browne
CNBC
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:01 UTC
whatsapp coronavirus
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The WhatsApp logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a computer model of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the background.
WhatsApp is tightening its limits on message forwarding even further, in a bid to stem the spread of misinformation amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Facebook-owned messaging app is expanding on global measures it put in place last year which restricted the number of times people could pass on frequently forwarded messages to five chats at once.

The company has now reduced the amount of chats to which users can share frequently forwarded content to just one at a time. It announced the new changes in a blog post Tuesday.

Comment: There are better messaging programs out there than a misbegotten child of Facebook and Israel

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Attention

5G and the COVID connection?

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport's Blog
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:01 UTC
Covid19 and 5G
© ZME Science
— No blanket assertions here. No claims that 5G technology "activates the virus." No across-the-board answers. Instead, several key questions, and a few possible clues.

I have to set the context. As I've been emphasizing, what is being called COVID-19 is not one disease with one cause. It's not one thing.

Instead, people with VARIOUS traditional diseases are being corralled, clustered, and counted by public health officials under ONE fake umbrella term, "COVID-19."

I've also emphasized that in these fake-cluster situations, some people may be suffering from new conditions. For example, the effects of a vaccination campaign — which, by the way, was apparently carried out in a region of northern Italy prior to "the emergence of COVID."

In this article, I have comments on 5G wireless technology — not as an all-inclusive explanation for "COVID" — but as a possible explanation for what several doctors are observing in some patients in New York and Italy.

What are they observing? Extreme shortness of breath, life threatening, but without the usual indicators of respiratory failure or failure of the lungs to operate. The lungs can operate. The patients are apparently suffering from straight oxygen deprivation. Lack of oxygen. As if they were suddenly thrust into high altitude.

Several doctors are saying these patients must be given oxygen through breathing ventilators — but not at high pressure, because that could damage the lungs and even cause death. Instead, the increase in oxygen must be gently accomplished.
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Bad Guys

Judicial Watch: FBI uses COVID-19 panic as barrier for obtaining anti-Trump dossier records


Judicial Watch
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:45 UTC
Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch today released a joint status report in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records about top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr, in which the DOJ states it has suspended electronic FOIA operations. The Ohrs were involved in the anti-Trump dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele.

The Justice Department claims it is currently unable to continue searching for documents because the employees who would conduct the search in the FBI Records / Information Dissemination Section (RIDS) are, "non-mission critical" during the COVID-19 pandemic and were ordered to stay at home beginning March 17, 2020.
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