Puppet Masters
I would say a better phrase for the 2020s is "The Fed is not going to save you"; the Fed is not a superhero and it does not have the power nor the inclination to protect the little people from economic folly. This should be readily apparent today, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and the central bank can't seem to cure it with Quantitative Easing.
My position has always been that the Fed has no intention of saving the economy, only making it appear as if they care. This is evident in the fact that they created the Everything Bubble in the first place with years of near zero interest rates, then abruptly hiked interest rates into economic weakness, just like they did during the Great Depression. All it took was a few rate increases to cause stock markets to plunge in December 2018; liquidity was strangled and repo markets became unstable. Jerome Powell knew perfectly well that this would be the result; he openly discussed it in the minutes of the October 2012 Federal Open Market Committee.
Comment: This is Part 2 to Vanessa Beeley's first article on the powers behind 'the coronavirus pandemic', also published by the UK Column.
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."In Part One of Who controls the British Government response to Covid-19?, I began an investigation into the individuals and entities that are, effectively, driving the UK Government response to Covid-19. In Part Two, I will expand upon the Big Pharma and Artificial Intelligence (AI) links already identified and will introduce new connections that appear to have considerable bearing upon the UK Government's Covid-19 strategy. I will expand upon the Bill Gates connections to the various organisations that are advocating global immunisation.
— Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953
The UK Government chief medical adviser and Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, is saying that a return to "normal" in the short-term is "wholly unrealistic". Whitty is telling us that the "highly disruptive" social distancing policy will be in place "for really quite a long period of time". "Highly disruptive" is a euphemism for the devastation of the world economy and the horrifying knock-on effect — an estimated 50% of the world workforce are at risk of losing their livelihood.
April 16th headline in Business Insider. Chris Whitty with UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock.
This hunger pandemic will be under-reported or not reported at all in the mainstream media. In fact, it has started already. In the west the attention focuses on the chaos created by the privatized for-profit mismanagement of the health system. It slowly brings to light the gross manipulation in the US of COVID-19 infections and death rates - how hospitals are encouraged to declare deaths as COVID19-deaths - for every COVID19 death-certificate the hospital receives a US$13,000 "subsidy", and if the patient dies on a ventilator, the "bonus" amounts to US$ 39,000.
In real life, poor people cannot live under confinement, under lockdown. Not only have many or most already lost their meager living quarters because they can no longer pay the rent - but they need to scrape together in the outside world whatever they can find to feed their families and themselves. They have to go out and work for food and if there is no work, no income - they may resort to ransacking supermarkets in the city or farms in the country side. Food to sustain life is essential. Taking the opportunity to buy food away from people is sheer and outright murder.
"Every child who dies from famine in the world - is a murder" - Jean Ziegler, former UN-Rapporteur on Food in Africa.
The former president's knowledge and role in his administration's investigations of the Trump campaign have long been an open question. The revelation puts the former president right in the center of the last administration's efforts to investigate and target Flynn, whom the Justice Department just dropped their case against on Thursday. Obama had appointed Flynn as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency but had fired him in 2014, and he had reportedly warned Trump not to hire Flynn.
Aesop's fables never grow old. This one is a mirror to the US and China as they recklessly fight for global supremacy and trade advantages, while an underrated fox, India, may yet have the last laugh.
The US has in recent weeks attempted to pin the entire blame for the Covid-19 pandemic, and its disastrous impact on the world's health and economy, squarely on China. In the latest salvo, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo claimed, without offering proof, that Washington has enough evidence to prove that the novel coronavirus was created in a Wuhan lab.
Hu Xijin, editor in chief of Chinese state-run media house - Global Times (GT) writes that China needs to expand the number of its nuclear warheads to 1,000 in a relatively short time and needs to have at least 100 Dongfeng-41 strategic missiles (DF-41 is the fourth and the latest generation of the Dongfeng series of strategic missiles developed by the PRC).
He further said that even though China is a peace-loving nation, there is a need for a larger nuclear arsenal to curb US strategic ambitions and aggression toward China.
In a phone call on Friday, Putin and Johnson expressed a mutual desire for improved relations and for renewed "dialogue and cooperation" between London and Moscow, the Kremlin said.
"Both sides expressed readiness to establish dialogue and cooperation on issues on the agenda of Russian-British relations, as well as in solving pressing international problems," the Kremlin said in a readout.
During the conversation, the two leaders also congratulated one another on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the allied victory in the Second World War. The pair agreed that international efforts must be consolidated to deal with "modern challenges and threats," including the Covid-19 pandemic.
For more than two decades the government has been touting its UN-recognized status as a neutral country to close itself off from the rest of the world and preserve the harmony Turkmen authorities say exists there.
For example, the Turkmen government continues to claim there are no cases of the coronavirus in Turkmenistan.
That claim is interesting to many parties, among them the World Health Organization (WHO) that had planned to send a delegation to Turkmenistan to discuss combating the coronavirus.

Lawmakers voted 84-7 to make William Evanina the first Senate-confirmed director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
William Evanina, a former FBI special agent, has led the National Counterintelligence and Security Center since 2014 and in February 2018 was nominated by President Trump to be the first Senate-confirmed director of the center. But since June of that year, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has blocked the nomination as a form of protest against Department of Justice leadership and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for not providing Congress documents related to the government's investigation into Russian election interference and Trump's presidential campaign.
That impasse ended on Monday with Grassley withdrawing his objection, citing "recent actions" by Attorney General William Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to "finally respond to my very longstanding oversight requests."
In an interview with Uruguayan reporter Jorge Gestoso on Thursday evening, Maduro said the freshly-appointed Ambassador James Story - the first formal US envoy to the country in some 10 years - and other senior American officials were to blame for last weekend's attempted raid, in which two US security contractors were arrested and eight local fighters killed.
"James Story has his feet, his hands and his whole body in this armed incursion," the socialist leader said, adding that declassified documents would soon provide proof, while implicating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliot Abrams.
Comment: Has the Trump administration 'gone silent' to ignore and demean Maduro's accusations? Is it not responding because it is distancing from the 'quasi-independent' actions of a private company? Has Guido been the impetus behind the foiled attempt all along? Maduro may choose all three and chances are he would be right, right, right.
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See also:
- Maduro: Two Americans 'on Trump's security team' were part of the failed mercenary invasion UPDATES
- Maduro says US plotting to invade Venezuela, country 'not afraid of combat'
- Venezuela foils incursion of a Colombian maritime assassin squad
- Venezuela foils staged attack by right-wing opposition at Colombian border















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