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The Pope-Sistani riddle

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Francis Sistani
© AFP/Ayatollah Sistani's Media Office
Religious leaders Roman Catholic Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Sistani
March 6, 2021
Francis and Sistani delivered anti-war, anti-genocide and anti-sectarian messages beyond the comprehension of most Western media.

By any historical measure, it was a game-changer: the first meeting since the 7th century between a Roman Catholic Pope and a Shiite spiritual leader regarded as a "source of emulation."

It will take a long time to assess the full implications of the immensely intriguing 50-minute face-to-face conversation, with interpreters only, between Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Sistani at his humble home in a Najaf alley near the dazzling Imam Ali shrine. An avowedly imperfect parallel is that for the Shiite community of the faithful, Najaf is as pregnant with meaning as Jerusalem is for Christianity.

The official Vatican spin is that Pope Francis went on a carefully choreographed "pilgrimage" to Iraq under the sign of "brotherhood" - not only in terms of geopolitics but as a shield against religious sectarianism, be it Sunnis against Shiites or Muslims against Christians.
Pope Francis
© Ayatollah Sistani’s Media Office/AFP/Stringer
Pope Francis arriving in the Iraqi shrine city of Najaf, on March 6, 2021.
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Bad Guys

Minnesota judge reinstates third-degree murder charge against ex-officer Chauvin in Floyd death

Joseph Weber
Just the News
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:20 UTC
George Floyd and Derek Chauvin

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin
A Minnesota judge on Thursday reinstated a charge of third-degree murder against ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, now on trial for the death last year of George Floyd while in police custody.

The trial began Tuesday with jury selection. Chauvin already faced charges of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter, according to CNN.

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Attention

Emails show Zuckerberg-funded group overruling election officials, accessing mail-in ballots BEFORE election


The National Pulse
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:23 UTC
Maricopa ballots
© Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images
Ballots are counted by Maricopa County Elections Department staff in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 31, 2020.
Emails and documents obtained by the Wisconsin Spotlight allege that individuals affiliated with Mark Zuckerberg's Center for Tech and Civic Life took control of election procedures, including giving left-wing advisers "access to boxes of absentee ballots before the election."

In new, bombshell revelations, investigations reveal the $1.6 million spent in the city of Green Bay led to the "infiltration of the November presidential elections by liberal groups and Democratic activists," according to the group.

The Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) placed Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein as the city's point man for the organization's effort in the Wisconsin city, who has previously worked for Democratic candidates and interned for a "fiercely liberal" Democrat from the New York City Council.

He attempted to assist Green Bay election officials in "curing" absentee ballots that were returned to the city clerk due to errors in inaccuracies.

"Can we help with curing absentee ballots that are missing a signature or witness signature address?" he wrote to Green Bay city clerk, Kris Teske in an Oct. 7 email.
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Bad Guys

The Great Reset: Corporate Socialism, or 'Capitalism' with Chinese Characteristics

Michael Rectenwald
CLG News
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:13 UTC
great reset
Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes.

It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.1
This is the vision of a blogger for the World Economic Forum (WEF). This report from the future to the past, our present, is not "a utopia or dream of the future," we are told. Yet the future just so happens to meet all the criteria of the Great Reset: low to no carbon emissions, nearly 100% reusable products, "sustainability," a happy, compliant population.

We shall see that our concern about the Great Reset is not, as the New York Times would have it, a baseless conspiracy theory.2 Rather, the Great Reset is not a conspiracy at all; it's an openly avowed plan.

The Great Reset is a phrase first used by Klaus Schwab and the WEF to describe a new kind of capitalism. In their book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret write that the COVID-19 crisis should be regarded as an "opportunity [that can be] seized to make the kind of institutional changes and policy choices that will put economies on the path toward a fairer, greener future."3

Thus, the Great Reset aims to use COVID-19 as an "opportunity" to reset capitalism in order to address climate change and to bring about so-called economic "fairness." We know what the COVID crisis is, although we may disagree on its dangers and our governments' responses to it. And we know what climate change is, although disagreements about its dangers and causes abound. But what is this "fairer" future, and how would the Great Reset bring it about?
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Censorship-happy Twitter suddenly concerned about 'public conversation' as Russia cracks down on illegal content

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 01:46 UTC
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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
FILE PHOTO.
Twitter's complaints about Russian regulators slowing down its traffic would be a lot more credible if the platform hadn't been so eager to turn into a partisan echo chamber and place itself above the law in its own homeland.

On Wednesday, Russia began throttling Twitter as a way of pressuring the San Francisco-based company to remove over 3,100 posts found to be in violation of Russian law. Specifically, this includes 450 instances of child pornography and more than 2,500 incitements to underage suicide.

Twitter responded by saying it was "deeply concerned by increased attempts to block and throttle online public conversation."

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Sweden vaccine passports will 'probably be required' for shopping, eating out, travel, meeting loved ones

David McLoone
LifeSiteNews
Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC

Comment: Fair play to the Swedish government for holding out as long as it did. Alas, it too has now fallen...


vaccine passport
© Shutterstock
Swedes will need a certificate with proof of vaccination to participate in everyday activities, a government official said.

Swedish Health Minister Lena Hallengren announced at a recent press conference the government's intention to provide a "digital vaccination certificate" to residents who receive a COVID-19 vaccine, allowing them to "travel abroad on holiday or to meet a loved one."

The minister said she is convinced that a "vaccination certificate is probably as desirable as getting vaccinated," raising speculation that the digital identifier could become necessary for accessing international travel, as well as going about everyday activities such as shopping and eating out.

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Attention

Cuomo ordered group homes for disabled to accept COVID-19 patients, at least 552 have died

Chris Pandolfo
Blaze Media
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC
Andrew Cuomo governor NY
© Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images
The executive order, which remains in effect, mirrors Cuomo's controversial nursing home order.

As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) faces articles of impeachment over covering up COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes and multiple allegations of sexual harassment, there is renewed scrutiny of his administration's mishandling of the pandemic, including focus on an executive order that required homes for people with developmental disabilities to accept coronavirus patients.

Cuomo's nursing home scandal, in which the governor issued an executive order to move COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes and then manipulated data to hide how many senior citizens contracted the coronavirus and died, is well documented. But another directive issued by the governor has until now received little attention.

Comment: Meanwhile, in Cuomo's other scandal (from New York Post):
Another Cuomo sex harass complaint as aide becomes sixth woman to accuse governor
By Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding

A female member of Gov. Cuomo's staff on Tuesday become the sixth woman to accuse him of inappropriate conduct, according to a report — as the state's embattled leader claimed to be unaware of the latest bombshell threatening his political life.

The woman told associates that Cuomo touched her inappropriately late last year inside the governor's mansion after she was summoned there on official business, the Albany Times Union said.

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On Monday, James announced the hiring of outside lawyers — including former acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim — to investigate the mushrooming allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by Cuomo.

In a statement to the Times Union, Cuomo's acting counsel, Beth Garvey, said, "All allegations that we learn of directly or indirectly are going promptly to the investigators appointed by the attorney general."

More than an hour after the report was published, Cuomo held a conference call with reporters during which he said, "I'm not aware of any other claim" — even though Garvey also took part in the news conference.

The three-term Democratic governor then repeated the talking points he first trotted out on March 3 in a feeble effort to answer repeated questions about the spiraling scandal that has led fellow Democrats to call for his resignation and Republicans to introduce a resolution seeking his impeachment.
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Pirates

UK's £37 BILLION Test and Trace system provided 'NO clear impact' on coronavirus, damning new report reveals

Nick Triggle
BBC
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:00 UTC
UK test and trace
The impact of NHS Test and Trace is still unclear - despite the UK government setting aside £37bn for it over two years, MPs are warning.

The Public Accounts Committee said it was set up on the basis it would help prevent future lockdowns - but since its creation there had been two more.

It said the spending was "unimaginable" and warned the taxpayer could not be treated like an "ATM machine".

But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the MPs' report "defies logic".

Comment: See also: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

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Bad Guys

James Delingpole on the Great Reset: A coup by the globalist oligarch and big tech monopolists


21st Century Wire
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
great reset klaus schwab extinctin rebellion
What exactly is The Great Reset, and its sister slogan "Build Back Better," both of which we keep hearing our politicians parroting in the West?

According to globalist luminaries at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, "There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis."

Their intentions are clear: to use the perception of a 'global pandemic' in order to fast-track their own new economic world order and global governance system of people management, and restructuring of monetary and commercial rules for 'green' financial markets - all to suit their own preordained power structure. Their vision is that of an elite-driven, blunt technocracy and globalist feudal system masquerading as a 'green' utopia.

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Texas Leads to Freedom

Israel Shamir
The Unz Review
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Gates and world
The spider discovered a wasp escaping his gossamer web. He is furious. How dare she? The wasp had been caught, bonded, poisoned. She is ready to be killed and eaten. And all of a sudden she wakes up and tears the spider web. You are a Neanderthal, the enraged spider exclaims, and you will end like the Neanderthals did, dead as a dodo and extinct.

This is what Biden said to the people of Texas who dared to break free from his mask regime. Biden, the King of the Dead and his team were sure the world was under their control; they planned to lead mankind to the Great Reset, to the grim end of Homo Sapiens, to the cruel dystopia of masked slaves ruled by Google algorithms. But the Texans had changed the course of history. They were immediately followed by Mississippi, Iowa, Montana and North Dakota; the states that voted for Trump and freedom.

The populace met this wise and brave decision with elation, the Daily Mail reported:
"Oxford, home of Ole Miss, saw people out in full force, eating at restaurants and shopping at stores... In Florida, Spring Breakers were also abandoning masks as bikini-clad college students flooded onto beaches and crammed into bars in Miami and Fort Lauderdale to kick of their vacation. And in Idaho, a group gathered to burn their masks outside of the statehouse in protest of COVID-19 restrictions after other states this week made the decision to ditch mandates and open back up. A group of children joined their parents, several of whom were armed, as they burned pictures of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi in the flames, before egged into disposing of their surgical masks into the fire"



Comment: More states too: 16 States are now following the (real) science: Governors scramble to end lockdowns, mask mandates

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