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The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and the Voltaire Network

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00 UTC
EU propaganda

According to this official website of the European Union, the Voltaire Network is a gang of traitors in the pay of Russia charged with defaming the United States army.

Comment: Sott.net has had its own run-in with the Orwellian named NewsGuard. See how we handled it:

Warning: Do NOT Read This! NewsGuard 'News Rating Agency' Gives SOTT.net Red 'Fake News' Label


The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them as traitors in the pay of a foreign power.

The European External Action Service created in 2015 the East StratCom Task Force, a unit tasked with combating disinformation from the Russian secret services. It runs a website, EUvsDisinfo.eu, and sends weekly e-mails to EU journalists to spread its good word. We have already reported that this unit is linked to the NATO Communication Centre in Riga [1].

This unit has just warned journalists of the Union and incidentally all those who subscribed to its newsletter [2] that our article of March 31, "Putchists in the Shadow of the Coronavirus" [3], is Russian disinformation [4].

First, we are outraged to appear on an official site of the Union responsible for listing Russian disinformation - and this is not the first time. We have no connection with the Russian authorities, nor with those of any other country. This is pure defamation.

Comment: See also: NewsGuard: The Neocons' New Weapon For Waging War on Independent Media

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Get ready for the next game-changer: China's digital Yuan

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Digital Yuan
A new, radical paradigm shift is in progress. The U.S. economy may shrink as much as 40% in the first semester of 2020. China, already the world's largest economy by PPP for a few years now, may soon become the world's largest economy even in exchange rate terms.

The post-Planet Lockdown world - still a hazy mirage - may well need a post-Planet Lockdown currency. And that's where a serious candidate steps into the fray: the fiat digital yuan.

Last month, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) confirmed that a group of top banks started trials in electronic payment in four different Chinese regions using the new digital yuan. Yet there's no timetable yet for the official launch of what is called the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP).

The man with the plan is PBOC governor Yi Gang. He has confirmed that apart from the trials in Suzhou, Xiong'an, Chengdu and Shenzhen, the PBOC is also testing hypothetical scenarios for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

While DCEP, according to Yi, "has made very good progress," he insists the PBOC will be "cautious in terms of risk control, especially to study anti money-laundering and 'know your customer' requirements to incorporate in the design and system of DCEP."
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New details emerging link US to latest failed coup attempt in Venezuela

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Mon, 04 May 2020 23:50 UTC
security forces venezuela port La guaira
© Matias Delacroix / AP
Security forces patrol near the shore in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, May 3, 2020.
The government of Venezuela is celebrating after thwarting another foreign-backed coup attempt Sunday, just two days after self-declared another coup attempt by "Interim President" Juan Guaidó ended in total failure. A flotilla of small speed boats filled with up to 300 paramilitary units, sailed from their training ground in Colombia heading for a port near the country's capital Caracas, from where they were aiming to kickstart an insurrection. They confidently predicted they would be in the Miraflores presidential palace within 96 hours. However, the mission went spectacularly wrong almost immediately, as they were intercepted by the Venezuelan Navy, who reportedly killed at least eight in the fighting at sea, capturing many others.

Interior Minister Nestor Reverol appeared on television to inform the public that in the early hours of Sunday,
"A maritime invasion was attempted by a group of terrorist mercenaries coming from Colombia with the intent of committing acts of terrorism in the country, assassinating leaders of the revolutionary government, increase the spiral of violence, generate chaos and confusion among the public, and from that, spark a new attempt at a coup d'etat."
Reverol praised the quick response of the armed forces and police in repelling the invasion. "It would seem that the foiled imperialists' attempts to overthrow the legitimately constituted government led by Nicolas Maduro has pushed them to formulate excessive actions that, without any doubt, deserve the forceful repudiation of our people and the international community," he concluded.

Comment: Maduro: Two Americans 'on Trump's security team' were part of the failed mercenary invasion

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The Gates contraceptive microchip, 'Global warming' and depopulation

Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
contraceptive chip
Bill Gates to me is highly inconsistent. He is a huge supporter of Climate Change and has done his TED Talks on lowering CO2 to Zero. Of course, the Climate Change contingent is all about reducing the population which is now about 7.5 billion and Gates laments it will hit 9 billion. So for someone who is so concerned about Global Warming, he has three kids but has funded a microchip to implant into women as a contraceptive. That's right, a computer chip that can be controlled remotely to prevent getting pregnant.

The contraceptive chip is to be implanted under a woman's skin, releasing a small dose of levonorgestrel, a hormone. This will happen every day for 16-years and can be controlled using a wireless remote device. The project has been backed by none other than Bill Gates. The question I have is hacking. If it can be controlled remotely, then it should be also possible for it to be hacked like any computer to ensure someone never gets pregnant.

I have previously told the story about attending a White House dinner in Washington back in 1996 when I was seated with the entire Environmental groups. It was a Washington elite political dinner and because I attended with my friend Dick Fox who was Chairman of Temple University and I was an adviser to the University, whoever it was that made the seating arrangements for these tables of 10 seated us with the environmental groups. That was a serious mistake (Yes the Business School at Temple is named after Dick Fox).
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UK government 'using pandemic to transfer NHS duties to private sector'

Juliette Garside and Rupert Neate
The Guardian
Mon, 04 May 2020 20:25 UTC
NHS Nightingale
© Stefan Rousseau/PA
Matt Hancock at the opening of the NHS Nightingale hospital in London. The consultancy firm KPMG coordinated its setting up.
The government is using the coronavirus pandemic to transfer key public health duties from the NHS and other state bodies to the private sector without proper scrutiny, critics have warned.

Doctors, campaign groups, academics and MPs raised the concerns about a "power grab" after it emerged on Monday that Serco was in pole position to win a deal to supply 15,000 call-handlers for the government's tracking and tracing operation.


Comment: Nevermind how Orwellian this tracking operation is.


They said the health secretary, Matt Hancock, had "accelerated" the dismantling of state healthcare and that the duty to keep the public safe was being "outsourced" to the private sector.

Comment: The Pathocrats would never let a successfully manufactured crisis go to waste:

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German manufacturers fear economic damage of lockdown, Bavaria to open for tourism


WHBL
Tue, 05 May 2020 05:38 UTC
Soeder

FILE PHOTO: Bavarian State Prime Minister Markus Soeder chairs the cabinet in the bigger Kuppelsaal hall
The southern German state of Bavaria will partially reopen for tourism later this month, its premier Markus Soeder said on Tuesday, with superstores, beer gardens, restaurants and hotels resuming operations, albeit with restrictions.

The announcement comes as states across Germany ready plans to partially defrost an economy that went into lockdown in March to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that was then wreaking havoc in northern Italy.

The lockdown measures have slowed the spread of the virus, whose reproduction rate has been drifting down for several days, leading to growing pressure from regional governments and business groups for them to be relaxed - despite Chancellor Angela Merkel's fear that this could trigger a second wave.

Comment: See also:

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Covid-19: Occasion for the global political project

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Bush 1&2
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
A couple of Bushes pretending they have hearts...
The inept reactions of European governments to Covid-19 were dictated by former advisers to Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush. Contrary to public rhetoric, they make no medical claims. Far from responding to the reality of the epidemic, they aim to transform European societies in order to integrate them into their political and financial project.

Regardless of whether the Covid-19 epidemic is natural or has been provoked, it offers an opportunity for a transnational group to suddenly impose its political project without discussion or even exposure.

Within a few weeks we have seen so-called democratic states suspend fundamental freedoms: prohibiting people from leaving their homes, participating in meetings and demonstrations, under threat of fines or imprisonment. Compulsory schooling for under-16s has been provisionally abolished. Millions of workers have been deprived of employment and automatically placed out of work. Hundreds of thousands of businesses have been forced to close down and will no longer be able to reopen.

Without preparation, governments encouraged companies to telework. All communications via the Internet were immediately recorded by the Echelon system. This means that the "Five Eyes" (Australia/Canada/New Zealand/United Kingdom/USA) have in their archives the means to unlock the secrets of almost all European manufacturers. For that, it is already too late.

Comment: There is still time to react? Reaction at this point - without a 20-year, unified, head start - may become a global purge. Worth trying? Up to you, and you, and you...

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Heroic failure? Nine Covid-19 emergency hospitals were built with no clear need for them

Rob Lyons
RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 13:57 UTC
NHS Nightingale
© AFP/POOL/Stefan Rousseau
NHS Nightingale Hospital, an ExCel center field hospital, London, March 30, 2020.
The Nightingale Hospital in London is being mothballed after treating fewer than 60 patients, and the others around the country are likely to follow suit. It's all been a typically badly planned, costly cock-up.

It was announced on Monday that the Nightingale Hospital in London is to stop admitting new patients, probably from next week. In truth, patients have been thin on the ground from the start. Despite the claims of NHS bosses and politicians, the whole exercise has been an heroic failure - and a misguided waste of money.

The hospital was announced with great fanfare by the secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, on March 24. The field hospital, housed at the ExCeL London exhibition centre, was planned to have 500 beds, with the capacity for 4,000-5,000 beds across its two wards if necessary. Working with the British Armed Forces and architects BDP, the hospital was formally opened on April 3 and accepted its first patients on April 7. Everyone seemed to agree it was an astonishing logistical feat.

However, it soon became apparent that the hospital wasn't really needed. Before the UK epidemic took off, London had around 770 intensive care beds across all its hospitals. This increased by the Easter weekend to 1,555, with around 80 percent of them occupied. Wards in other hospitals had been cleared of other patients, so there was plenty of capacity for those suffering from Covid-19.
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Technofascism: Digital book-burning and censorship in a totalitarian age

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 05 May 2020 19:41 UTC
"Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices — taking advantage of our freedom of speech — who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do." — Nat Hentoff
Digital Book Burning
© Writers Weekly
We are fast becoming a nation — nay, a world — of book burners.

While on paper, we are technically free to speak — at least according to the U.S. Constitution — in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow.

That's not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you're inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous.

Take David Icke, for example.

Icke, a popular commentator and author often labeled a conspiracy theorist by his detractors, recently had his Facebook page and YouTube channel (owned by Google) deleted for violating site policies by "spreading coronavirus disinformation."

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which has been vocal about calling for Icke's de-platforming, is also pushing for the removal of all other sites and individuals who promote Icke's content in an effort to supposedly "save lives."

Translation: the CCDH evidently believes the public is too dumb to think for itself and must be protected from dangerous ideas.

This is the goosestepping Nanny State trying to protect us from ourselves.

In the long run, this "safety" control (the censorship and shadowbanning of anyone who challenges a mainstream narrative) will be far worse than merely allowing people to think for themselves.

Journalist Matt Taibbi gets its: "The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant."

Don't fall for the propaganda.
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Watch alleged footage of US choppers swooping down on Syrian town, picking up unknown persons


Sputnik
Tue, 05 May 2020 19:20 UTC
black hawk helicopters
© AFP 2020 / JOSEPH EID
The US established a military presence in oil-rich northeastern Syria in 2017 after Syrian Kurdish militias backed by US airpower drove the Daesh (ISIS)* terrorists from the region. Damascus has repeatedly demanded that Washington relinquish its presence and return control over the area to Syria's internationally recognized government.

US troops in two helicopters, flanked by six vehicles and Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces militia forces carried out an operation in northeast Hasakah governorate on Monday, kidnapping two civilians and leaving the area, the Syrian Arab News Agency has reported, citing local civilian sources.
US and SDF forces were said to have targeted a house in Quraish, a village about 1 km from the Iraqi border, on Monday night. One of the persons kidnapped is thought to be an Iraqi national.
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