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Trump says US terminating relationship with WHO, UN sets up privately funded 'independent' organization to deal with coronavirus

France24
Fri, 29 May 2020 22:28 UTC

President Donald Trump said Friday he was severing US ties with the World Health Organization, which he says failed to do enough to combat the initial spread of the novel coronavirus.

Trump first suspended funding to the UN agency a month ago, accusing it of mismanaging its handling of the global pandemic.

Then 10 days ago, he accused the Geneva-based WHO of being a "puppet" of China, and said the funding freeze would become permanent unless it made "substantive improvements".

"Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization," Trump told reporters.

Two can play the Section 230 game: Executive order uses key statute against censorship by social media

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Thu, 28 May 2020 22:23 UTC

Social media giants have long hid behind a law shielding them from litigation to censor content they did not like. President Donald Trump's executive order just reminded them that laws can also be used as a sword.

Though the First Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the government from restricting freedom of speech, social media platforms have long argued this does not apply to them as private companies. The executive order signed by Trump on Thursday points out that their status as platforms, and immunity from endless civil lawsuits, depends on their removal of controversial content being done "in good faith."

The order instructs federal agencies to focus on that qualifier when considering Section 230 (C) of 47 US Code to social media companies, noting that this clearly does not apply when their practices are "deceptive" or "pretextual," inconsistent with their own terms of service, and used to stifle viewpoints with which they disagree.

Until now, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others could have it both ways, insisting they were "platforms" and therefore not liable for user-generated content, while acting as "publishers" and actively deciding which content they would allow, using entirely arbitrary and ever-changing rules.

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Economist: Bill Gates and his 'war against cash' threaten our liberty

Mohamed Elmaazi
Sputnik
Thu, 07 May 2020 07:00 UTC

A consortium of powerful interests that include Visa and Mastercard, the International Monetary Fund, billionaire Bill Gates and the US Treasury have been slowly lobbying for cash to be abolished worldwide and replaced with digital only currencies.

Norbert Häring holds a PhD in economics and is co-founder and co-director of the World Economics Association, the second largest association of economists worldwide. Dr Häring is a financial journalist, blogger and author of popular books on economics. His two most recent books covered the campaign to abolish cash. The latest Schönes neues Geld (Brave New Money) published in German in 2018 just came out in Chinese.

Dr Häring initiated a lawsuit in 2015 for the right to pay his fees to public broadcasters in cash, which has since made its way to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). The date for the oral hearing at the CJEU is set for 15 June 2020.

The Interview:

Sputnik: Please explain - for those who know nothing about the subject - what the campaign to abolish cash is all about and who the main players are.

Norbert Häring: Starting about 2005 the "war on cash", as they were calling it, was just a declared business strategy of Visa and Mastercard to push back [against] the use of cash, because they see it as the main competitor for their credit cards. From about 2011 this kind of talk stopped completely. Instead they entered into a coalition with the US-government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Citibank and formed the Better Than Cash Alliance to pursue the elimination of cash. But now, they do it under the pretended goal of helping the poor by financially including them.

Comment: If we accept a cashless society, we must accept the mechanism that makes it so - tracking systems that completely eradicate privacy with a bonus 'population-culling' capability. There will be no u-turn if we walk through the 'Gates' from Hell. Are you ready for this scheme?

As US' battle lines are drawn, it targets China's OBOR

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Judging by US foreign policy - China is a massive global threat - and by some accounts - the "top" threat. But a threat to what?

AFP would report in its article, "Trump nominee to lead intel community sees China as top threat," that:

President Donald Trump's pick to lead the US intelligence community said Tuesday that he would focus on China as the country's greatest threat, saying Beijing was determined to supplant the United States' superpower position.

Were China doing this by using news agencies like AFP to lie to the public to justify invading Middle Eastern nations, killing tens of thousands of innocent people, installing client regimes worldwide, and using its growing power to coerce and control nations economically and politically when not outright militarily - US President Donald Trump's "pick" - John Ratcliffe - might be justified in focusing on China and its "determination" to "supplant the United States' superpower position."

However, this is not what China is doing.

Comment: The US would lack definition if there were no global adversaries lurking around the next corner...real or imagined.

Let's 'Move on' from Boris

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Boris has a new slogan, "Move on", which he deployed repeatedly today in his appearance before the House of Commons Liaison Committee. Remembering short slogans is fairly well the extent of his political skills, and he contrived to look pleased with himself for remembering this one. The public, he solemnly informed those watching, now wanted the narrative to "Move on" from the Dominic Cummings debacle.

The problem with this slogan is it does not have a good history. The aged among us will remember that after the disaster of the Iraq war, it was constantly repeated by Tony Blair. OK, millions of people were dead. But it was time to "move on" from that. Only he could not. The dead of Iraq have haunted him ever since, they enabled Brown to depose him and Blair has the look of a man who believes the dead will be waiting to speak against him in the next life. No matter how much the Guardian still tries constantly to rehabilitate him, he will always have to be protected from the British public, a stinking rich, morally bankrupt pariah.

Galloway: Blair is the last person to advise on children's safety; remember his demonic grin over dead Iraqi kids?

George Galloway
RT
Thu, 21 May 2020 15:32 UTC

Seldom far from the centre of events, newly emboldened Tony Blair returns to what he knows best - the avoidable slaughter of the innocents.

Britain's foremost expert on the deaths of children in the service of profits and politics, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has made a significant intervention in the fierce national controversy over the return of our children to school on June 1. Full disclosure: none of my four school-age children will be returning until the children of the British elites return to their expensive private schools - currently slated for September.

The government had been toiling in its efforts to persuade the British public of the wisdom of such an early return - not least because it applied only to the state sector - with scientists, public health authorities (and the British Medical Association) and teaching trades unions. Several Labour-controlled local authorities, including Liverpool, had outright defied 10 Downing Street and declared they would not be complying.

Comment: Galloway's take on Blair may be all too true, but he's lost the plot on the virus. The war is one of indoctrination and beliefs versus reason and facts. The current 'killing fields of the coronavirus' have a much more sinister usefulness. Its first successes were changing the global paradigm and eliminating the aged. The child's fate will not be a physical death; it is to be chipped and forever monitored like a commodity.

Leaked emails reveal Denmark's PM railroaded country's health authorities and deceived public over coronavirus to justify lockdown

TheLocal.dk
Fri, 29 May 2020 12:00 UTC

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The extent to which Søren Brostrøm, director of the Danish Health Authority, was sidelined over the lockdown, is becoming clearer.

Leaked emails between leading figures in Denmark's health authorities are raising questions over the extent to which Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen steam-rollered her own health experts at the time the country imposed its lockdown in mid-March.

In an email leaked to the Politiken newspaper, Per Okkel, the top civil servant at the health ministry, told Søren Bostrøm, the head of the Danish Health Authority to suspend his sense of professional "proportionality" as a public servant, and instead adopt a "extreme precautionary principle" when giving political advice.

At the same time, emails leaked to the Ekstrabladet newspaper showed how on March 20, new calculations showing that the reproduction number in Denmark was 2.1, considerably lower than the 2.6 previously estimated, were held back because they were "not desired politically".

Comment: If the PM isn't listening to her own advisors, who is she listening to? And to the extent that she was willing to deliberately deceive the public as well as exaggerate the figures?

RT reports that the blatantly unjustified, unscientific lockdown is partly still in force in Denmark:

Denmark will conduct random checks for Covid-19 at borders and holiday sites, PM says

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said random checks for the Covid-19 virus will be carried out at the country's borders and holiday destinations as it prepares to reopen to visitors from some European countries.

Frederiksen said Friday that Denmark will open its borders to tourists from Norway, Germany and Iceland on June 15. She said tourists who wish to visit must book in advance a hotel outside of Copenhagen for at least six nights.

"Like everyone else, we are opening Denmark again. We are doing it in a controlled and gradual manner," Frederiksen said.

Like everyone else? What about Sweden? Or Iceland?

The country is planning to reopen its borders with the rest of the EU, Schengen countries and the UK after the summer, she said.

Denmark was one of the first countries in Europe to begin the process of reopening in mid-April following a one-month lockdown during the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Due to falling infections, the country was able to accelerate the end of the lockdown and began reopening museums, cinemas, theaters and zoos last week. Experts also recently confirmed that the partial reopening of schools did not lead to increases in infections among young students.

As of May 29, Denmark has recorded around 11,700 cases of Covid-19 and 568 deaths.

Western aggression: Russian jets chase US strategic bombers away from country's borders

RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 19:24 UTC

Russian jets were scrambled to intercept US B-1B Lancer strategic bombers, which approached the country's airspace over the Black and Baltic Seas, with the high-altitude action captured on video.

The American nuclear-capable warplanes heading in the direction of Russian airspace were first tracked by radar, before the Sukhoi Su-27P and Su-30SM were sent to greet them in the skies above neutral Black Sea waters.

The jets approached the US bombers at a "safe distance," with the move resulting in the B-1Bs reversing their course, the Defense Ministry said as it released the footage.

'Behemoths who control': Barr says Trump executive order on social media companies will go further if necessary

Mica Soellner
Washington Examiner
Thu, 28 May 2020 19:21 UTC

Attorney General William Barr praised President Trump for his executive order that could allow federal regulators to take punitive action against social media giants for the way they regulate online content.

Trump's order rolls back the long-standing legal protection known as Section 230, which spares tech companies from being held liable for the content they allow online and how they decide to monitor it.

Barr said the protection, which was adopted about 25 years ago, has been stretched beyond its original intention of not holding tech companies accountable for the content created by third-party users.

France's determination to end free speech

Judith Bergman
Gates One Institute
Tue, 26 May 2020 19:12 UTC

On May 13, the French parliament adopted a law that requires online platforms such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat[1] to remove reported "hateful content" within 24 hours and "terrorist content" within one hour. Failure to do so could result in exorbitant fines of up to €1.25 million or 4% of the platform's global revenue in cases of repeated failure to remove the content.

The scope of online content deemed "hateful" under what is known as the "Avia law" (after the lawmaker who proposed it) is, as is common in European hate speech laws, very broadly demarcated and includes "incitement to hatred, or discriminatory insult, on the grounds of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability".

The French law was directly inspired by Germany's controversial NetzDG law, adopted in in October 2017, and it is explicitly mentioned in the introduction to the Avia law.

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Puppet Masters

Trump says US terminating relationship with WHO, UN sets up privately funded 'independent' organization to deal with coronavirus

Two can play the Section 230 game: Executive order uses key statute against censorship by social media

Economist: Bill Gates and his 'war against cash' threaten our liberty

As US' battle lines are drawn, it targets China's OBOR

Let's 'Move on' from Boris

Galloway: Blair is the last person to advise on children's safety; remember his demonic grin over dead Iraqi kids?

Leaked emails reveal Denmark's PM railroaded country's health authorities and deceived public over coronavirus to justify lockdown

Western aggression: Russian jets chase US strategic bombers away from country's borders

'Behemoths who control': Barr says Trump executive order on social media companies will go further if necessary

France's determination to end free speech

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