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Capitol police chief and her Democratic bosses are lying to you all to hold our capital hostage

Christopher Bedford
The Federalist
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
National Guard Capitol
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National Guard on patrol at the US Capitol
My city has been occupied for more than eight weeks. Major thoroughfares blocked, thousands of armed soldiers, armored vehicles, seven-foot fencing, concertina wire.

What's it all for? An invading army across the Potomac? Rising far-right militias, ready to strike at any moment?

Nope. It's because when angry rioters and protesters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, a Capitol Police force hobbled by its leadership's poor training regimens, nearly non-existent fitness standards, and fecklessness in the face of crisis was incapable of protecting the building or even shutting the big doors on time.

It's because those idiot rioters had — after months and years of left-wing riots here and across the country — finally given Democratic lawmakers and the corporate media the right-wing riot they always claimed was around the corner.

It's because panic porn and agitprop are useful tools when you're working as hard as you can to spread fear and distrust against the half of the country that disagrees with your policies. And it's because acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman is perfectly content to use her own men and women as political pawns and scapegoats to please her new Democratic bosses.

Comment: Update on troop deployment - at best a political optic based on no real threats:
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has approved a request to extend the presence of National Guard troops at the Capitol grounds for an additional two months, according to the Pentagon press secretary, John Kirby.
"Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has approved a request by the US Capitol Police for continued National Guard support through May 23, 2021."
Kirby said nearly 2,300 National Guard troops will continue their deployment in the nation's capital, a 50 percent reduction of the current presence.

During this extended deployment, US defense officials will work with Capitol police to incrementally reduce the National Guard presence, if conditions allow, Kirby said.

The US Capitol Police last week asked the Defense Department to extend the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington DC due to potential threats from US domestic terror groups attacking lawmakers at the Capitol.


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Fukushima radiation did not damage health of local people, UN says

Justin McCurry
The Guardian
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:07 UTC
Fukushima power station
© Ho New/Reuters
Fukushima power station after Japan’s 2011 triple disaster. A spike in thyroid cancer among local children has been attributed to screening by ultrasound equipment.
Radiation caused by the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima a decade ago has not damaged the health of local people, according to a UN report.

Gillian Hirth, chairwoman of the UN's scientific committee on the effects of atomic radiation (Unscear), said that "no adverse health effects among Fukushima residents have been documented that could be directly attributed to radiation exposure from the accident" in March 2011.

Unscear said the latest findings supported a 2013 report on the health impact of radiation released after three reactors suffered meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The latest report was released as Japan prepared to mark 10 years since a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and triggered the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl a quarter of a century earlier. The incident forced the evacuation of about 160,000 people, many of whom have not returned to their homes 10 years later.

Concern over the potential health effects of the accident rose after reports of a high incidence of thyroid cancer in children living in Fukushima prefecture at the time of the disaster.

Comment: The Greenpeace report Fukushima Daiichi 2011-2021, Section 11, states:
As in previous years, the results of our November 2020 survey in the lifted evacuation areas of Iitate and Namie, radiation levels in areas determined by the Japanese government to be safe for return, remain too high for normal life to be considered possible without increased health risks to returning citizens. The forests of Fukushima remain long term sources of contamination and in our latest survey we measured variation in levels of radiation in zones around houses in both Iitate and Namie that cannot be explained by radioactive decay of Cs-137...

One decade after March 2011, we are in the early stages of the impact of this disaster...

The communication to the people of Japan and the wider world is that decontamination has been effective, completed and that radiation levels are safe. This is clearly false...

716 square kilometers of the seven municipalities that make up the Special Decontamination Area (SDA) have not had any decontamination efforts applied...only 123 square kilometers, or 15%, of the SDA was actually subject to any decontamination...

Where decontamination has been applied it has reduced radiation levels, but not consistently, and with wide variations.

The government of Japan is on a mission to erase from public memory the triple reactor meltdown and radioactive contamination of a large part of Japan.


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Ice Age Farmer Report: Stalin would be Proud - USDA's Transformation of Food System & Racial Equity


Ice Age Farmer
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:16 UTC
stalin
Stalin would be proud: USDA calls for a "transformation of our food system" (echoing Rockefeller words) and forgives loans ONLY to black farmers. The grain crisis will justify this transformation of the world food supply as a global communist superstate is unveiled. Christian breaks it down in this Ice Age Farmer broadcast.


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Where's Biden hidin'? Even CNN begins asking questions, as President goes record time without press conference with Q&A


RT
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:03 UTC
wheres biden hidin
© Reuters / Tom Brenner
Joe Biden speaks to reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, November 19, 2020.
Joe Biden has gone longer without giving a press conference with questions and answers than any US president in modern history. Now the elation of his inauguration's worn off, even his allied media are beginning to wonder why.

Monday marked Joe Biden's 47th day in office, and also his 47th without appearing before the press to take questions. The president has sat down to several taped interviews, and has given brief soundbites to reporters at events, but not a single proper Q&A session has materialized.

He has gone longer without holding a press conference than any of his 15 most recent predecessors, all of whom faced the media within their first 33 days in office. Donald Trump waited 27 days, while Barack Obama - Biden's old boss - held his first after just 20 days.

Comment: See also:

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Democrat Logic: Joe Biden says military will focus on making "maternity flight suits" — So pregnant women can drop into enemy territory during wartime?

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 08:17 UTC
biden announces maternity flight suits
Happy International Women's Day!

The Biden White House announced on Monday, which happened to be International Women's Day, that the US military is focusing on "maternity flight suits" for pregant women.

Because it's important that pregnant women are able to drop into enemy territory during wartime.
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Light Sabers

Twitter tries to stop investigation into its Trump ban by suing Texas Attorney General

Rebecca Falconer
Yahoo
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:55 UTC
Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
Twitter on Monday filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), saying that his office launched an investigation into the social media giant because it banned former President Trump from its platform.

Driving the news

Twitter is seeking to halt an investigation launched by Paxton into moderation practices by Big Tech firms including Twitter for what he called "the seemingly coordinated de-platforming of the President," days after they banned him following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Comment: See also:

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Meghan Markle's half-sister says estranged sibling has 'narcissistic personality disorder'

Kate Sheehy
Page Six
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:25 UTC
samantha meghan markle
© Getty Images
Meghan Markle's half-sister Samantha says the Duchess has "narcissistic personality disorder."
Meghan Markle's half-sister said Monday that her estranged sibling suffers from "narcissistic personality disorder" — while Markle's hubby, Prince Harry, is the victim of Stockholm syndrome.

"I definitely see a narcissistic personality disorder. I'm not diagnosing her. She needs to see a counselor,'' Samantha Markle told the Australian radio show "Fifi, Fev and Nick'' the day after Meghan and Harry's bombshell TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.

"I feel sorry for Harry,'' Samantha said. "She pulled him away from his family, all of his friends, the life that he knew.

Comment: See also:

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Snakes in Suits

'Coronavirus to surge in autumn and winter', UK's chief medical officer pushes to delay lifting lockdown

Samuel Lovett
Independent
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:00 UTC
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© Pippa Fowles / No 10 Downing Street
Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance give a Coronavirus Data Briefing in 10 Downing Street on September 21st.
Another surge in coronavirus cases is inevitable and could be recorded as soon as late summer, despite the success of the UK's ongoing vaccine rollout, MPs have been told.

Professor Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, said that even under the most optimistic set of assumptions, a further 30,000 lives could be lost to Covid-19, as he warned against the dangers of lifting restrictions too quickly.


Comment: None of the government's models have been accurate, and we can expect this fearmongering prediction to be wrong too: Pandemic pushers, economy destroyers and sold out science: Imperial College are still open for business


He told the Science and Technology Committee that the modelling suggests "that at some point we will get a surge in virus".


Comment: The government claims that it has vaccinated most of the vulnerable and for everyone else, the vast majority of people, the coronavirus is relatively harmless, with a great many not even realising they have it, so does it really matter whether there's a "surge" in harmless infections?


Comment: As has been noted elsewhere, if they delay lifting lockdown till mid summer the chances are that the UK will be entering an autumn lockdown without ever fully lifting the restrictions. That would mean nearly 2 years of lockdown.

But, if the situation over the past year has been so dire, why are the emergency Nightingale hospitals closing due to a lack of patients? UK 500-bed Nightingale Hospital to close without treating a single Covid-19 patient

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Eagle

The Federal Reserve is enabling Biden and Congress' destructive agenda

Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Jerome Powell
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 2021 will be the second year in a row in which the federal debt exceeds Gross Domestic Product (GDP). CBO also projected that this year's federal deficit will be 2.3 trillion dollars, which is 900 billion dollars less than last year. However, CBO's projections do not include the 1.9 trillion dollars "stimulus" bill Congress is likely to pass.

The CBO's report was largely ignored by Congress and the media. One reason the report did not get the attention it deserves is Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's continued commitment to making sure Fed policies enable Congress to spend as much as Congress deems necessary to address the economic fallout from the coronavirus panic.

As financial analyst Peter Schiff points out, the Fed's commitment to ensuring the government can run up massive debt means the Fed will not allow interest rates to increase to anywhere near what they would be in a free market. This is because increasing interest rates would cause the federal government's debt payments to rise to unsustainable levels. Yet, the Fed cannot admit it is going to keep rates near, or even below, zero indefinitely without unsettling the markets. So, the Fed continues to promise interest rate hikes in the future and the markets pretend to believe the Fed. When (or if) the lockdowns end, the Fed will find a new crisis justifying "temporarily" keeping interest rates low.

Comment: And about that coming "increased price inflation":

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Bad Guys

Totalitarian China rolls out international travel health certificate


CGTN
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
virus checkpoints temperature China travel
© AP Photo/Ng Han Guan/File Photo/MANILA BULLETIN
In this Jan. 13, 2020, photo, travelers pass by a health checkpoint before entering immigration at the international airport in Beijing.
The Chinese version of an international travel health certificate was officially launched on Monday by the Department of Consular Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The certificate, showing one's nucleic acid test and serum antibody results, vaccine inoculation and other information, is available for Chinese citizens via a WeChat mini program.

A QR code is encrypted to allow authorities to verify the holder's personal information, according to the Ministry.

The health certificate is to "facilitate safe and orderly flow of personnel," the country's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a virtual press conference on Sunday.
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