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Another Biden slip: Calls Kamala 'President Harris' during speech

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:47 UTC
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© AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walk along the White House colonnade as they arrive to speak in the Rose Garden in Washington.
President Biden on Thursday called his vice president, Kamala Harris, "President Harris" while celebrating the US nearing administration of 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses.

Biden said, "Now when President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that, on that tour injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope."

Harris joined Biden for his remarks at the White House, but her reaction to the slip was not recorded in the official video feed.

It's not the first time Biden has given Harris an oral promotion.

Comment: Speaking of Dr. Fauxi, Senator Rand Paul ripped a deserved strip off him in the latest hearings over vaccines and mask requirements:



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Red Flag

War erupts inside the Atlantic Council over article questioning Washington's hostile approach to Moscow

Dave DeCamp
Antiwar.com
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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Almost two dozen Atlantic Council fellows denounced a piece that said US policy towards Russia should not be focused on human rights

An article written by two Atlantic Council employees that argues Washington should consider a more realistic approach to Russia caused quite the stir within the think tank.

The article, written by Emma Ashford and Mathew Burrows, says the US should "avoid a human-rights-first approach to Russia." The authors suggest that the Biden administration should instead "seek to build a less aspirational policy toward Russia, minimize the use of sanctions, and look for incentives that might induce Moscow to take steps in line with US interests."

Ashford and Burrows make an argument grounded in reality. The US does not have the power to control what happens inside Russia through sanctions and other unilateral means. The authors are not at all sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin and don't even suggest lifting sanctions that are currently in place. But at the hyper-interventionist Atlantic Council, the idea of taking a less hostile approach to Russia is out of the question to many of its employees.

Comment: Get with the program people! You're not supposed to offer rational fact-based analysis to US-Russia relations - what you're supposed to do is find any and every way to spin the narrative to justify all attempts to bring Russia to heel and subjugation at the whims of Empire. What are you thinking?!?

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Cow Skull

5 former OPCW officials join prominent voices to call out Syria cover-up

Aaron Maté
The Grayzone
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
OPCW Syria cover-up
Prominent signatories and five former OPCW officials are calling on the chemical watchdog to address the cover-up of its chemical weapons investigation in the Syrian city of Douma, and to hear out the dissenting scientists whose findings were censored.

Five former officials from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have joined a group of prominent signatories to urge the OPCW to address the controversy surrounding its investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018.

Leaks from inside the OPCW show that key scientific findings that cast doubt on claims of Syrian government guilt were censored, and that the original investigators were removed from the probe. Since the cover-up became public, the OPCW has shunned accountability and publicly attacked the two whistleblowers who challenged it from inside.

The "Statement of Concern" is signed by five former OPCW officials, including the organization's founding leader, José Bustani, and others including Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Tulsi Gabbard, John Pilger, Lord West of Spithead, as well two former senior UN officials, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck.


Comment: A glaring example of how watchdog group OPCW has been subverted to serve the geopolitical goals of the US and its aggression towards Syria and the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syringe

WHO insiders blow the whistle on total immunity of Bill Gates Through GAVI - Global Vaccine Alliance

mattyivanovic
Rumble
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Reuters / Jason Lee
Gates, shown speaking last year at an event in Beijing, says Covid-19 vaccines must be made available globally.
WHO insiders blow the whistle total immunity of BIll Gates through GAVI - world vaccine alliance.

Lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich and lawyer Dr. Justus P. Hoffmann interviewing Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger and Dr.Silvia Behrendt on total immunity of Bill Gates through GAVI - world vaccine alliance/

A cut from Corona investigative committee Nr. 41

WHO Information Notice for IVD Users 2020/05

The entire video of Corona investigative committee Nr. 41: https://www.bitchute.com/video/HRzK56BcrKjQ/

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Pirates

ASIO boss Mike Burgess says agency is ditching 'Islamic' and 'right-wing' tags, will now refer to 'religious' or 'ideological' violence

Andrew Greene
abc.net.au
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:52 UTC
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© AFP: Tauseed Mustafa
Australia's domestic intelligence agency will avoid referring to "Islamic extremism" and "right wing extremism" and has revealed it last year disrupted a foreign "nest of spies" who were seeking access to sensitive defence secrets.

Delivering his Annual Threat Assessment, director-general of security Mike Burgess declared ASIO will follow its Five-Eyes intelligence partners in changing the language it uses towards violent extremist threats.

Instead ASIO will now use the umbrella terms of "religiously motivated violent extremism" and "ideologically motivated violent extremism" to describe those seeking to do harm.

"We don't investigate people because of their religious views — it's violence that is relevant to our powers — but that's not always clear when we use the term 'Islamic extremism'," he said.

"Understandably, some Muslim groups — and others — see this term as damaging and misrepresentative of Islam, and consider that it stigmatises them by encouraging stereotyping and stoking division.

"Our language needs to evolve to match the evolving threat environment."
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Piggy Bank

Myanmar regime seizes bank accounts of Soros' Open Society Foundation


The Irrawaddy
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:55 UTC
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi holds talks with George Soros
© Ministry of Information
Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi holds talks with George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundation, in New York in September 2016.
The military regime has seized control of the bank accounts of billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundation (OSF) in Myanmar and announced that it will take legal action against the foundation, which is accused of violating restrictions on the activities of such organizations.

On Monday, military-controlled MRTV announced that the military had issued arrest warrants for 11 staff members of OSF Myanmar, including its head and deputy head, on suspicion of giving financial support to the civil disobedience movement against the military junta.

The regime also claimed that the world's largest private funder for justice, democratic governance and human rights had failed to obtain approval from the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM)'s Foreign Exchange Management Department for a deposit of US$5 million (7.04 billion kyats) with the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Bank (SMED) in Myanmar in 2018.

The foundation is also accused of illegally withdrawing $1.4 million from its account at SMED a week after the military takeover in Myanmar, as the civil disobedience movement was gaining momentum among civil servants across the country.

The military junta also took control of assets totaling $3.81 million and 375 million kyats in OSF bank accounts at four private banks — Kanbawza Bank (KBZ), Ayeyarwady Bank (AYA), SMED and Co-operative Bank (CB), according to MRTV.

Comment: Countries wishing to stave off foreign-backed color revolutions should take note!

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Arrow Up

Biden's progressive agenda doubles down on past policy failures with massive spending, high taxes voters did not sign up for

David Winston
Roll Call
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:00 UTC
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© Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
US President Joe Biden and Former US President Barack Obama
Let's start with one hard truth. The American people did not give Joe Biden a mandate for a progressive policy agenda when he squeaked into the Oval Office last November. He didn't win because the country woke up on Election Day and decided to take a hard-left turn, giving Democrats a green light for a historic spending spree and huge tax increases to pay for it.

In fact, exit polls show quite the opposite. The country, which already self-defined as center-right, moved further away from the progressive left, not toward it.

Biden won not because of his policies but because just enough voters had had enough tweets for a lifetime. They were flat-out tired of constant rhetorical brawls and behavior they deemed unpresidential. So Biden benefited by promising unity and a bipartisan approach to governing. So far, we've gotten neither.

Biden, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi seem to be operating under the illusion that when they last controlled the White House and Congress in 2009, they didn't go big enough. In reality, Barack Obama's mistake was to focus his attention and that of Congress on health care and put Biden, his vice president, in charge of bringing the economy back.

Comment: Utilizing the power of the lie is clearly our unelected president's strong suit. It applies to all areas of governance, especially economics.

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Briefcase

21 states sue Biden over Keystone XL pipeline cancellation


The Washington Times
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Biden/pipes
© Evan Vucci/AP/Alex Panetta/CBC
US President Joe Biden • Keystone pipe supplies
Attorneys general from 21 states on Wednesday sued to overturn President Biden's cancellation of the contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Led by Ken Paxton of Texas and Austin Knudsen of Montana, the states said Biden had overstepped his authority when he revoked the permit for the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office. Some moderate Democratic lawmakers also have urged Biden to reverse his decision, including Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.

Because the line would run through multiple U.S. states, Congress should have the final say over whether it's built, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Texas.

Construction on the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) pipeline began last year when former President Donald Trump revived the long-delayed project after it had stalled under the Obama administration. It would move up to 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of crude daily from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would connect to other pipelines that feed oil refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Biden canceled its permit over longstanding concerns that burning oil sands crude would make climate change worse.

Comment: Lawsuits for Biden's clueless policies are ramping up. Ohio is suing Biden administration over his tax mandate in coronavirus aid:
Ohio's top lawyer on Wednesday sued the Biden administration over its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, saying a last-minute change in the legislation unlawfully blocks state lawmakers from managing their budgets as they see fit.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, asked a federal judge in the state to halt implementation of a part of the relief bill, known as the "tax mandate," that prohibits coronavirus relief money from being used to subsidize tax cuts:
"Slipping last-minute conditions into a plan meant to help people that instead handcuffs Ohio is why people don't trust government. And it almost always leads to constitutional mischief."
Yost filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Democrats added new language into the legislation after several senators from the party's moderate wing said they worried Republican-led states would use the relief money to subsidize tax cuts, rather than funding public services. The tax mandate prohibits states that take money under the relief bill from using that funding to "directly or indirectly" offset revenue loss. Yost's lawsuit alleges that "Congress lacks constitutional authority to limit the States' taxing power in this manner."

Separately, 21 Republican state attorneys general on Tuesday sent a letter threatening to sue the Biden administration over the tax mandate, saying it imposed "unprecedented and unconstitutional" limits on their states' ability to lower taxes.

Biden signed the popular relief program into law on March 11, promising that it would aid the recovery from a recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The bill provides $400 billion for direct payments of $1,400 to most Americans, aid of $350 billion to state and local governments, an expansion of the child tax credit and more funds to distribute vaccines.
Biden's 'unfounded concerns' have become the bedrock of his policies, which happens to include the pipeline 'to nowhere'.

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Attention

EU sets out plan for coronavirus passport

Samuel Petrequin
Independent
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:40 UTC
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The European Union's executive body has proposed the introduction of coronavirus passes to let its 450 million residents travel freely across the 27-nation bloc by the summer.

The plan, which will be discussed next week during a summit of EU leaders, foresees the creation of vaccine certificates aimed at facilitating travel from one member state to the other.

"We all want the tourist season to start. We can't afford to lose another season," European Commission vice president Vera Jourova told Czech public radio.

"Tourism, and also culture and other sectors that are dependent on tourism, terribly suffer. We're talking about tens of millions of jobs."

The topic has been discussed for weeks and has been a divisive topic. The travel industry and southern European countries dependent on tourism, like Greece and Spain, have been pushing for the quick introduction of the measure, which could help avoid quarantine and testing requirements.
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Eye 1

Ice Age Farmer Report: They're Coming for your Animals - UK confirms gassing chickens


Ice Age Farmer
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:36 UTC
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Governments are moving rapidly to remove your right to raise animals completely. The UK has confirmed via FOIA the gassing of people's backyard chickens around a poultry facility in Kent.

Colorado's PAUSE act will destroy their meat industry. And livestock registration is rolling out around the world. There is a war on Animal Agriculture. Yes, factory farms are abhorrent, and we must rapidly move to a decentralized, regenerative food system--but rather than support this, governments are pointing at disgusting CAFOs and saying, "We must END ALL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE." They are precluding the solution, so that they take total control of food production.

Christian breaks it down AND explains why we cannot allow this to happen.


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