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'Medicare for all'? Trump rolls out plan for funding Covid-19 treatments in US

RT
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC

The Trump administration has said it intends to pay providers treating coronavirus patients at 'Medicare rates' and prohibit additional billing - in effect, testing a flagship progressive proposal for nationalized healthcare.

"We will send money to providers through the same mechanism used for testing," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on Friday, referring to the $100 billion in funds earmarked for healthcare providers in the CARES stimulus act.

The government will reimburse any patients with Covid-19 that lack health insurance at Medicare rates, and will ban them from "balance-billing" those patients, Azar added, noting that this will give the millions of newly unemployed - and therefore uninsured - Americans a better deal than falling back on "Obamacare" insurance exchanges.

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How BlackRock leveraged control of the US economy

Jazzhands McFeels
Fash the Nation
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC

In less than a week the Federal Reserve has been merged with the U.S. Treasury (implying it wasn't always that way) and BlackRock, the world's largest and most powerful financial services institution, has been put in charge of executing future acquisitions and trades.

Who is BlackRock? What do they own? And perhaps more importantly, what and who do they control? Jazz and James dive into BlackRock and uncover a significant portion of the apparatus by which U.S. politics are controlled and manipulated.

Jazz and James hit the big breaking topics out of the gate: urns piling up, millions of closed cell phone accounts, theater closures, reinfections, and rioting, Trump's refusal to release disaster unemployment funds, and 175K Instacart workers poised for a Monday strike. After the break, we pivot to the Fed-Treasury merger (implying) and a nnndeep-nnndive into BlackRock - who they are, what they own, and how they control just about everything. In part 3, we go snorkel depth on the Defense Production Act. If it's Sunday, it's FTN!

Comment: See also: Ground Control to Planet Lockdown: This is Only a Test

US snatches masks from Germany in act of "modern piracy" - Berlin senator

RT
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:17 UTC

© Reuters / Mike Segar
FILE PHOTO: Boxes of N95 protective masks seen at a New York State emergency center in New Rochelle, New York, March 17, 2020

With Covid-19 infections climbing, Washington has diverted shipments of vital protective masks from its allies in Germany and Canada to the US. A Berlin senator described the move as "modern piracy."

As confirmed coronavirus cases passed 250,000 in the US this week, the White House pressured safety gear manufacturer 3M to step up imports of protective masks from its Chinese factories. Trump publicly promised on Thursday that 3M would "have a big price to pay" if it didn't increase supply to the US.

But behind the scenes, American officials were acquiring these masks by more underhand means.

German FM threatens Hungary with 'financial consequences' after PM Orban gains emergency powers to fight coronavirus

RT
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:09 UTC

Germany's foreign minister has said that Hungary's PM Viktor Orban may literally pay for what his opponents called "a power grab." Orban, well used to criticism from Brussels, has brushed off the anger.

Viktor Orban secured the power to rule by decree on Monday in a bid to stem the outbreak of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The Hungarian leader - whose party holds a two-thirds majority in parliament - was cleared to rule without constraint until parliament withdraws his right to do so.

Branding the move "unacceptable," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas took a jab at Orban, saying his powers may come with a heavy cost.

Global crude production should be cut by 10 mln barrels per day, Russia ready to work with US on oil markets - Putin

RT
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:07 UTC

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country is ready to cooperate with Donald Trump's US administration to halt the freefall of oil prices, He believes global crude production should be cut by 10 million barrels daily.

Oil prices went started sinking after OPEC+ countries disagreed on production cuts, with Saudi Arabia refusing to lower their output. With an ongoing "price war" between Moscow and Riyadh driving values even lower, Trump said on Thursday that "it would be great" if the two countries could make a deal to limit production.

Putin had already spoken to Trump by phone earlier in the week, and on Friday announced that the world needs to cut production by 10 million barrels per day (BPD). The US produces around 15 million BPD, followed by Saudi Arabia with 12 million and Russia with 10 million. Putin said that moving forward, Moscow would be comfortable with a price of $42 per barrel, roughly $10-15 higher than current levels.

Netanyahu's proof of Iranian Coronavirus cover-up was clip from TV mini-series

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:31 UTC

A poster for the 2007 Hallmark Channel miniseries, "Pandemic"

Axios reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video with members of his cabinet, which he believed to be proof of an Iranian coronavirus cover-up. It turns out that it was actually a clip from the 2007 Hallmark Channel mini-series Pandemic.

Two Israeli Cabinet ministers told reporter Barak Ravid that Netanyahu had informed them that he'd personally seen proof that Iran was concealing the full extent of the COVID-19 crisis in their country. He said that national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat had shown him a video of Iranian soldiers putting dead bodies in trucks and throwing them into garbage dumps.

Comment: Sputnik reports:

He showed it to illustrate his "assertions that Iran was being untruthful about the real consequences of coronavirus," Raz Zimmit, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told Ynet.
Netanyahu's office later realised, however, that the clip was taken from Pandemic, a mini-series about an unknown virus infecting Los Angeles, which aired on the Hallmark Channel in 2007.

The prime minister allegedly said that he had been shown the clip by the chief of the National Security Council. It appears to have been shared by users with Arab-language nicknames on social media in the days before Monday's briefing, which could explain how it came to the attention of Israeli security officials.

Notably, Netanyahu's office did not deny the story, but said that it showed the footage only to three ministers and made it clear that the clip was found on social media and its authenticity was unclear.

Iran has reported 47,593 coronavirus cases and 3,036 deaths as of Wednesday, although some officials within the country have accused the government of underreporting the real death count. Tehran has denied covering up the full extent of the outbreak.

We cannot allow Facebook and Twitter to use Covid-19 to launch their own coup d'état

RT
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:01 UTC

World leaders are having their social media posts deleted under the guise of the pandemic, but is this just the beginning of socially destructive subterfuge?

A few days ago, Facebook and Twitter decided to delete contributions from two world leaders. The first was Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who shared a video and aired his view that "hydroxychloroquine is working in all places" to treat Covid-19. Facebook decided it was against what the World Health Organization had decreed and trashed the video. Twitter followed up by removing two of Bolsonaro's tweets.

They also deleted a tweet by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in which he spoke of a "brew" that would eliminate any infectious genes.

Even former New York Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani got his knuckles rapped. His tweet quoting someone else stating that hydroxychloroquine is 100 percent effective had the vanishing spray applied too.

How to Create a Fake Pandemic

Mandatory Intellectomy
Sott.net
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:17 UTC

Greetings, fellow manipulators and deceivers, and welcome to our course on how to create a fake pandemic! As you know from our previous courses, the first thing you need for an undertaking of this kind is to own some mainstream media. As experienced mass manipulators, we're sure you own a medium outlet or two, so let's get right into it!

Manufacturing a pandemic when there isn't any is much easier than you might think. As usual, we will need the right focus, repetition, some misdirection, semi-made-up numbers and your regular psychological tricks.

To start a fake pandemic, we need an appropriate virus. It should be something new that people know little to nothing about - that way you can tell them just about anything, and they'll know nothing to contradict your claims. Something with a scary or cool-sounding name is best. The media will love talking about it.

The only way to avoid a depression is a debt jubilee

Professor Michael Hudson
Global Research
Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC

Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America's debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis was inevitable eventually, but covid-19 has made it immediate.

Massive social distancing, with its accompanying job losses, stock dives and huge bailouts to corporations, raises the threat of a depression. But it doesn't have to be this way. History offers us another alternative in such situations: a debt jubilee. This slate-cleaning, balance-restoring step recognizes the fundamental truth that when debts grow too large to be paid without reducing debtors to poverty, the way to hold society together and restore balance is simply to cancel the bad debts.

Comment: As a mechanism that reboots the economy, 'Jubilee' is one tried-true method - yet, over time resulted in a repetition of economic polarity that has increased poverty to alarming levels. Without a permanent solution the problem of debt accumulation is always just down the road.

How the coronavirus is destroying the plan to take down Trump

David Siders
Politico
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:30 UTC

Donald Trump's reelection is likely to rise or fall on his handling of the pandemic. And there isn't much Democrats can do about it.

For many Democrats, it's the election of a lifetime. Yet the question preoccupying the party for several days this month was whether their presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, could get the webcast working in his rec room.

It was a telling obsession, one that revealed the extent of the party's anxiety as it comes to a nail-biting conclusion: Despite all the arguments Democrats have crafted and all the evidence they have amassed against Donald Trump, his reelection is likely to rise or fall on his handling of the coronavirus crisis and its fallout alone.

New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good...

parzival

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

parzival

The more we hear about adverse affects the more we will merely shrug. It's a catch 22. Is that an asteroid trail in the photo?

sass

Welcome to the new normal. The more sensory exposure we have about such things, the less it is an issue.

sass

more misbehaving phuqqin' jewzskies starring on the sott; speaks for itself

Jibrish

Puppet Masters

'Medicare for all'? Trump rolls out plan for funding Covid-19 treatments in US

How BlackRock leveraged control of the US economy

US snatches masks from Germany in act of "modern piracy" - Berlin senator

German FM threatens Hungary with 'financial consequences' after PM Orban gains emergency powers to fight coronavirus

Global crude production should be cut by 10 mln barrels per day, Russia ready to work with US on oil markets - Putin

Netanyahu's proof of Iranian Coronavirus cover-up was clip from TV mini-series

We cannot allow Facebook and Twitter to use Covid-19 to launch their own coup d'état

How to Create a Fake Pandemic

The only way to avoid a depression is a debt jubilee

How the coronavirus is destroying the plan to take down Trump

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