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Virus crisis: 2 fundamental things to remember

Makia Freeman
The Freedom Articles
Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Virus crisis fundamentals...

...have been forgotten as people worldwide have allowed themselves to be led into the depths of fear by the MSM (Mainstream Media) and governments. For some people, I'm talking real fear here: not twilight zone or midnight zone stuff, but trench zone, deep deep down where the dark creatures live who have never ever seen the light of day. These are the people who are scared of you if you don't wear a mask, who think you might be about to infect them. Just take a look at society right now. Humans are social creatures. Look at the amount of brainwashing, programming and propaganda that has been pumped out non-stop to get people to refrain from the basics of human life: touching, hugging, rubbing, congregating and gathering. Amidst this whole virus crisis, authorities have attacked 2 fundamental aspects of law and government that you may not have noticed.

Comment: We are getting an 'up close and personal' look at tyranny going viral. If this is bad, tomorrow's guarantee is worse. Our responsibility: Vigilance to our protections and steadfastness to our rights.

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Stock Down

This is not just another crash...

Charles Hugh Smith
Daily Reckoning
Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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The buck stops here...
Like addicts who cannot control their cravings, financial analysts cannot stop themselves from seeking some analog situation in the past which will clarify the swirling chaos in their crystal balls.

So we've been swamped with charts overlaying recent stock market action over 1929, 1987, 2000 and 2008 — though the closest analogy is actually the Oil Shock of 1973, an exogenous shock to a weakening, fragile economy.

But the reality is there is no analogous situation in the past to the present, and so all the predictions based on past performance will be misleading. The chartists and analysts claim that all markets act on the same patterns, which are reflections of human nature, and so seeking correlations of volatility and valuation that "worked" in the past will work in 2020.

Does anyone really believe the correlations of the past decade or two are high-probability predictors of the future as the entire brittle construct of fictional capital and extremes of globalization and financialization all unravel at once?

Here are a few of the many consequential differences between all previous recessions and the current situation:

Comment: Reading the above list of situations within the overall economic picture is, to say the least, wincing. Fault and default are hand-in-hand at this point...and the worst is yet to come.

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Anti-Iranian boomerang policies: US celebrated the pandemic, incited an oil crisis and got stuck by both

Ivan Kesic
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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A couple wearing protective face masks walk on the street in Qom, Iran, March 24, 2020.
Two months after the coronavirus pandemic broke out in Iran, we are seeing signs of a significant improvement for the total situation. The number of daily deaths has dropped below one hundred for a week in a row, the number of new COVID-19 cases has been on a continuous decline for more than three weeks, the restrictions are gradually being lifted and the streets are again vibrant. Iran's success in combating the pandemic is the result of mobilizing all available governmental organizations and relying on its own know-how and industrial production. Alone and under the harshest sanctions seen in history, Iran has proven to be extremely effective, compared to the leading Western countries. In the face of global disasters and the vulnerability of civilians, it is traditionally common for nations to help one another, but recently we see something quite different from the U.S. regime.
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Bad Guys

From Syria to Libya: Captured mercenaries recount tales of coercion and deception, implicate Turkey


Sputnik
Fri, 08 May 2020 19:04 UTC
Terrorists
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As violence returns to Libya, Syrian foreign mercenaries get caught in the crosshairs between Tobruk and Tripoli, but instead of hardened warriors, they cut out a sorry figure.

"We were deceived, we did not come to participate in any war, we came to guard Turkish facilities for the money ... but in the end, I am left without any cash" — this phrase embodies the common denominator of the stories of the Syrians who arrived in Libya "to earn money .. not to fight".

Sputnik was able to speak to some Syrian mercenaries captured by the Libyan National Army (LNA) in recent fighting around Tripoli, getting a first-hand account of how they came to fight in the wars of others.

Comment: See also:

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Star of David

'Arab citizens are ultimate enemies of Jewish state' — 'NY Times' publishes racist neocon argument

Philip Weiss and James North
Mondoweiss
Sat, 09 May 2020 17:24 UTC
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A lot of people are passing around rightwing Zionist Daniel Pipes's op-ed in the New York Times yesterday "strongly" opposing Israel's plans to annex portions of the West Bank.

The marvel here is that the paper of record granted prestige newsprint to an explicitly racist argument. Pipes:
[A]nnexation would be likely to make more Palestinians eligible to become citizens of Israel. That would be a profound mistake, since its Arab citizens constitute what I believe is the ultimate enemy of Israel's status as a Jewish state, the one that will still be standing after the threats posed by Iran and Gaza have been dealt with. Citizens of Israel, unlike external enemies, cannot be defeated. Their allegiance must be won over, and the larger their number, the harder that becomes.
Yes you read that right: "Arab citizens constitute what I believe is the ultimate enemy of Israel's status as a Jewish state." Can you imagine such an argument being made about Muslims in the U.S., or blacks, or any other minority? Impossible, in the New York Times.

Just substitute the idea — Jews are our ultimate enemies because it is hard to win over Jewish allegiance to a Christian state - and you are inside Pipes's mental space.

Why are Palestinians hard to win over to the Jewish state? There is not an ounce of concern on the part of this American writer for Palestinians as human beings with human rights in the land they have long lived in. No, they "lost" the conflict, so they must accept that, and having no rights under occupation is no concern to Pipes. "I am not someone who frets over the Israeli 'occupation' of the West Bank."


Comment: That's because he doesn't have a soul.

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Black Cat

Political telenova: Guaido denies any connection to failed infiltration attempt into Venezuela


SouthFront
Sat, 09 May 2020 17:10 UTC
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L), Colombian President Ivan Duque (C) and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido walk together in Bogota at a regional summit on terrorism
On May 8th, US-Proclaimed Venezuelan President Juan Guaido's office denied any link between him and the Silvercorp-led failed infiltration attempt into Venezuela.
"We reiterate once again that the interim government has no link, commitment or responsibility to Silvercorp or its actions, as well as deny that President Guaido has signed an assumption contract with [the company]," Guaido's office said in a statement.
Just a day earlier, the Washington Post published a "General Services Agreement" between Juan Guaido and Silvercorp USA.

The 41-page document can be read and downloaded in its entirety. It can be found both in Spanish and English.

The document has numerous signatures on it, but doesn't contain Guaido's signature.

Comment:

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Bomb

US does not seek to leave region, has to be forcibly expelled by resistance: Senior Iraqi cleric


PressTV
Fri, 08 May 2020 17:08 UTC
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US army soldiers around at the K1 Air Base northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on March 29, 2020.
A senior Iraqi cleric has said that American forces do not intend to leave the Middle East region and have to be consequentially expelled forcibly by means of resistance.

"The Americans have to be ousted because they do not intend to leave by themselves. Only resistance can expel them," Baghdad Friday prayers leader Sayed Yasin al-Mousavi said.

"One who seeks the continuation of US presence in the region, and for no resistance to take place against it, is actually seeking to delay the end of injustice over the world," he said.

Citing certain Muslim prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, al-Mousavi added that it was necessary to pray for the expulsion of US forces.

The Iraqi parliament voted in January to expel foreign forces led by Washington from the country.

The decision came in response to the US assassination of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, alongside Iran's top anti-terror Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, in the capital city Baghdad earlier in January.

Iraqi resistance groups have vowed to take up arms against US forces if Washington fails to comply with the parliamentary order.
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Star of David

Israel 'approves' another 7,000 new illegal settlement units in southern West Bank

Yumna Pate
Mondoweiss
Sat, 09 May 2020 16:45 UTC
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The Israeli flag flying over Israeli illegal settlements in the West Bank
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett has approved the expansion of the mega Efrat settlement in the southern occupied West Bank with 7,000 new housing units — nearly doubling the settlement in size.

With Bennett's approval, Israel's Housing Ministry can move into the planning stages for the "neighborhood", which sits on 1,100 dunams (225 acres) of Palestinian land, known to locals as al-Nahla, and to settlers as Givat Eitam.

The settlers of Efrat have been in engaged in a decades-long legal battle with Palestinians over the land, where dozens of Palestinian families from surrounding villages own land that they use for farming and agriculture.

The land in question was designated by Israel as "state land" back in 2004, a move that was vehemently opposed by Palestinians as paving the way to allocate the land for eventual settlement expansion. They petitioned to the Israeli High Court against the "state land" designation, but were rejected by the court.
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Bullseye

FBI exists to investigate crimes; in Flynn's case, it tried to manufacture one - White House

Melanie Arter
CNS News
Fri, 08 May 2020 15:34 UTC
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC
"The FBI exists to investigate crimes, but in the case of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, it appears that they might have existed to manufacture one," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday in response to the DOJ's decision to drop the case against Flynn.

"As a motion filed by the Department of Justice yesterday explained, the FBI set out to interview General Michael Flynn when they had no predicate for any investigation of any crime. Over the past week, we learned from a handwritten note the true intent behind the FBI's investigation of lieutenant Gen. Michael Flynn," McEnany said.

"The very day that then-FBI Director Jim Comey sent agents to the white house to interview Flynn, the FBI discussed what their intent was beforehand. This is what they said. 'What is our goal? Truth admission, or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?' These notes, in addition to other evidence, raised serious questions about the handling of the FBI's handling of Michael Flynn's case," the press secretary said.

Comment: Twitter user @PolishPatriotTM posted a partial clip of Ms. McEnany's press statement:



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Gaetz slams Miami Herald over reporter who said open beaches should 'thin the ranks' of GOP


District Herald
Mon, 04 May 2020 15:20 UTC
Matt Gaetz

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
Rep. Gaetz tweeted a screenshot of his conversation with the Miami Herald reporter.

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has put the Miami Herald on blast after one of their reporters tweeted last month that "packed beaches should work nicely to thin the ranks of Trump/DeSantis/Gimenez supporters in Florida who value money over health."

Rep. Gaetz said that he was contacted by David Smiley, a Miami Herald reporter, who was looking for comment on Gov. Rick DeSantis's plan to reopen beaches, when he reminded them what their columnist Fabiola Santiago had said about Republicans.

Santiago has deleted the tweets, but remains employed by the Miami Herald.

Comment: And there you have it, elite lackeys parroting elite opinions. Gaetz was right to call the Herald out.

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