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Trump slams the 'radical left': They are 'in total command and control of' social media and vows administration is 'working to remedy this illegal situation'

Matthew Wright and Frances Mulraney
Daily Mail
Sat, 16 May 2020 18:48 UTC
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A picture shared by Donald Trump on Twitter when he met with tech chiefs including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, pictured to the far right. He slammed the social media platforms on Saturday
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to slam popular social media platforms for being controlled by 'the radical left.'

Trump launched into his tirade on Saturday morning while sharing a video of a speech given by Michelle Malkin - a right-wing conspiracy theorist who has previously questioned the number of people who have died in the Holocaust.

'The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google,' Trump said in his tweet. 'The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned, and send names & events. Thank you Michelle!'

Trump's tweet came after it emerged that federal and state regulators in the U.S. are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits alleging Google has abused its dominance of online search and advertising to stifle competition and and boost its profits.
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Bullseye

Trump needs to recruit a medical 'Red Team' to challenge lockdown-crazed governors

Stephen C. Meyer
The Federalist
Thu, 14 May 2020 18:05 UTC
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© Joyce N. Boghosian
President Trump and 50 governors now face a critical choice. Since March 16, 33 million Americans have filed for unemployment, and more than 83,000 American deaths have been attributed to the COVID-19 virus.

So what to do? How many more weeks, months, or even years should current sheltering-in-place orders continue? When can or should they be lifted?

The administration's virus taskforce has recommended only a gradual lifting of stay-at-home orders and has established criteria for full re-opening that could take months to satisfy in many states. Yet Trump also insisted that even though "some people [will] be affected badly. . . and there will be more death," "we have to get our country open and we have to get it open soon."

Many in the media condemned this statement as "risking more death to save the economy" and a dangerous repudiation of "the science." Blue-state governors who have refused to reopen have similarly cited "the science" to justify their decisions to extend stay-at-home orders.

"Health outcomes and science — not politics — will guide these decisions," three West Coast governors insisted in a recent joint statement. "Any plan to reopen society MUST be driven by data and experts, not opinion and politics," echoed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). But which experts?
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War Whore

Poland would gladly host American nukes if Germany refuses, US envoy claims, fanning 'Cuban missile crisis 2.0'


RT
Sat, 16 May 2020 17:44 UTC
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© US DoD / SSGT Phil Schmitten
As the US ambassador to Germany - and acting spy chief - tried persuading Berlin to keep hosting US nuclear weapons, his colleague in Warsaw suggested Poland would be willing to take them instead, an act sure to provoke Moscow.

"If Germany wants to diminish nuclear capability and weaken NATO, perhaps Poland - which pays its fair share, understands the risks, and is on NATO's eastern flank - could house the capabilities here," Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher tweeted on Friday.

She was commenting on the statement by Rick Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany who is also the acting director of National Intelligence, issued on Thursday, urging the authorities in Berlin not to weaken NATO by seeking the removal of US nuclear weapons from their soil.

"The purpose of NATO's nuclear share is to keep non-nuclear member states involved in the planning of NATO's deterrence policy. Germany's participation in nuclear share ensures that its voice matters," Grenell wrote. "Will Germany bear this responsibility, or will it sit back and simply enjoy the economic benefits of security provided by its other allies?"
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Black Magic

Pompeo gives Israel green light to annex land in West Bank


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 14 May 2020 20:47 UTC
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© Haim Zach/Anadolu Agency
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in Tel Aviv, Israel on 29 April 2018
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has given Israel a green light to annex land in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports.

"The Israeli government will decide on the matter, on exactly when and how to do it," Pompeo said in an interview with Israel's Kan Radio late on Wednesday.

"I hope the Palestinians understand that peace is good for them," he added in the interview cited by Israeli daily Jerusalem Post.


Comment: Spoken like a true mafioso! As if 'The Deal of the Century' has any semblance of a true and equitable peace plan.


Pompeo was referring to the so-called Deal of the Century, the US' proposed peace plan which has been rejected by Palestinians, including President Mahmoud Abbas.

Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Trump's 'warp speed' vaccine czar oversaw an infamously botched vaccination. Wonder why a THIRD of Americans want to dodge this one?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Sat, 16 May 2020 17:08 UTC
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© Reuters / Matthew Childs; Reuters / Carl Recine
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US President Donald Trump's bid to rush a coronavirus jab to market by the end of 2020 has worried some Americans, even before he named it "Operation Warp Speed" and appointed the developer of a failed swine flu vaccine to run it.

Nearly a third of Americans might refuse a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, according to a poll conducted earlier this month by Civic Science. The percentage has likely gone up since then, as the 2,900 respondents to that survey gave their answers before Trump announced on Friday that the 12-to-18-month timeline for vaccine development - already unheard-of in the pharmaceutical industry - would be stepped up with an eye toward rolling out a shot by the end of the year.

It's not just the shockingly abbreviated timetable that has Americans worried about their safety regarding the proposed vaccine - the head of the initiative already has one botched jab under his belt, and he's invested (literally) in several of the vaccine candidates under development.
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Corona

It's all a show: CNN reporter who blasted Trump for not wearing mask removes own mask seconds after WH press briefing


RT
Sat, 16 May 2020 16:55 UTC
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© REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Reporters in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Us, May 11, 2020.
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins has been accused of Covid-19 theatrics, as she was caught hastily removing her face mask after a White House briefing. Collins has criticized Donald Trump for not wearing masks in public.

Despite the president's 'masks are optional' policy at White House briefings, the CNN journalist, like most of her colleagues, wore one during the press event on Friday.

However, when Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany walked off the podium, Collins wasted no time in taking off the protective item as she brushed past other people in the room - a social distancing faux pas in the age of coronavirus.

Her seemingly contradictory behavior caught the eye of conservative commentators. "She thought cameras were off, so mask goes off," joked Mike Cernovich.


The media use masks to "perpetuate fear," argued one observer. "It's a feature not a bug."

Comment: Total hypocrisy. One rule for them, another rule for everyone else. Mask-wearing is a fad, but worse than just that. It's not just a fashion statement - it's a constant signal to be afraid, and the media are feeding that fear with these ridiculous performances for the camera.

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V

Jeremy Corbyn's brother arrested at London lockdown protest: Government measures are a 'pack of lies'


Sputnik
Sat, 16 May 2020 16:21 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse/Justin Tallis
Piers Corbyn (C), brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, is arrested by police officers at an anti-coronavirus lockdown demonstration in Hyde Park in London on May 16, 2020, following an easing of lockdown rules in England during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
The UK has been on lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus since 23rd March, with people urged to stay at home as much as possible and many businesses and services shut down temporarily.

The brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been arrested at an anti-lockdown protest in London's Hyde Park.

Photos and videos from the park showed around 40 protesters gathered the morning of 16th May, near world-famous Speaker's Corner at the north-eastern end of the park. Some held banners bearing the slogans "this is not about a virus, this is about control" and "no to the new abnormal".

Comment: Piers is giving voice to the conclusion many are coming to regarding the lockdown. Protecting the public is not the real goal. The death toll bears that out.

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Biohazard

How 'biosecurity' is enabling digital neo-feudalism

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Italian master thinker Giorgio Agamben has been on the - controversial - forefront examining what new paradigm may be emerging out of our current pandemic distress.

He recently called attention to an extraordinary book published seven years ago that already laid it all out.

In Tempetes Microbiennes, Patrick Zylberman, a professor of History of Health in Paris, detailed the complex process through which health security, so far at the margins of political strategies, was sneaking into center stage in the early 2000s. The WHO had already set the precedent in 2005, warning about "50 million deaths" around the world caused by the incoming swine flu. In the worst-case scenario projected for a pandemic, Zylberman predicted that "sanitary terror" would be used as an instrument of governance.

That worst-case scenario has been revamped as we speak. The notion of a generalized obligatory confinement is not warranted by any medical justification, or leading epidemiological research, when it comes to fighting a pandemic. Still, that was enshrined as the hegemonic policy - with the inevitable corollary of countless masses plunged into unemployment. All that based on failed, delirious mathematical models of the Imperial College kind, imposed by powerful pressure groups ranging from the World Economic Forum (WEF) to the Munich Security Conference.

Comment: Well, we're noticing it. See also:

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Bad Guys

In major gaffe, US ambassador MISTAKES Holocaust victims for Crimean Tatars... and he is NOT the first to do it


RT
Sat, 16 May 2020 15:16 UTC
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© @USAmbOSCE/Twitter
US Representative to OSCE James S. Gilmore III
A top US diplomat was left red-faced after using a picture of a Jewish ghetto in Poland as part of his post on the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars, a blunder described as "disgusting" and which also drew ridicule on him.

James S. Gilmore III, the United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) decried the Soviet displacement of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula at the height of the Second World War, in a recent Twitter publication.

"On May 18, 1944, [Joseph] Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Tatars from Crimea, and we recall the victims of this act of brutality," he wrote. The tweet also pulled no punches on modern Russia, claiming "thousands of Crimeans" were forced to flee because of "severe repression of opponents of its occupation."

The publication might have looked very convincing, although, in his attempt to poke Moscow, the diplomat got his visuals wrong.

The illustration to the tweet depicted no Tatars but the eviction of Jews by the Nazis from a ghetto in Lodz.

Comment: Indeed, Putin has made a real effort to re-integrate the Tatar population into the Russian Federation's family

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Phoenix

Flynn's lawyer excoriates Obama in open letter

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 15 May 2020 05:55 UTC
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Attorney Sidney Powell
Last week, former President Barack Obama reacted to the DOJ's move to end its case against Michael Flynn by declaring in a leaked private phone call that the "rule of law is at risk," and that "there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free."

"That's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we've seen in other places," said the former President.

On Wednesday, Flynn's lawyer Sidney Powell punched back - correcting Obama's inaccurate diatribe, while managing to drop MOABs on his "wingman" - former Attorney General Eric Holder, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch and others. It's quite the read.

Comment: Go get 'em, Sidney! Maybe we'll get to see a little justice served to Obama et al.

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