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Netherlands MP compelled to delete tweets equating Covid restrictions to Holocaust


RT
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:40 UTC
Dutch MP Thierry Baudet
© REUTERS / Eva PlevierDutch MP Thierry Baudet
A Dutch MP has been forced to delete tweets comparing the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions to the Holocaust, but says he will appeal the court order, calling it a "crazy ruling."

On Wednesday, an Amsterdam judge ruled that MP Thierry Baudet, who heads the right-wing Forum for Democracy party, was "pointlessly offending Holocaust victims and their relatives," and ordered him to delete the social media posts within 48 hours or pay a fine of €25,000 ($28,000) for each day of delay. The court also banned Baudet from using Holocaust-related images in discussions over Covid-19 health restrictions.

"I've just deleted four tweets I was required to delete by a judge. Same with Instagram and Facebook messages," Baudet wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Comment: Odd, because when you compare covid requirements to the principles of the Nuremberg codes (enacted especially because of the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany), Baudet's comparison doesn't look so outlandish.
The Nuremberg Code (1947) Permissible Medical Experiments

The great weight of the evidence before us to effect that certain types of medical experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably well-defined bounds, conform to the ethics of the medical profession generally. The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts:
  1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.
  2. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.
  3. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results justify the performance of the experiment.
  4. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.
  5. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.
  6. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.
  7. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death.
  8. The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
  9. During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
  10. During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him, that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.
For more information see Nuremberg Doctor's Trial, BMJ 1996;313(7070):1445-75.


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Quenelle

Greenwald: Led by Jeremy Corbyn, the British left opposes vaccine mandates as anti-worker and repressive

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
independent MP Jeremy Corbyn
Former UK Labour Party Leader and current independent MP Jeremy Corbyn argues against vaccine mandates for health care workers and vaccine passports for all citizens, Dec. 13, 2021
The term "anti-vax" has expanded so widely that even vaccine advocates, such as Corbyn and trade unions, are now included by virtue of defending bodily autonomy.

The shorthand label "anti-vax" once had a clear and concise meaning: namely, those who reject the prevailing western scientific orthodoxy that vaccines are a safe and effective means of protecting humans against infectious diseases by training the immune system to combat a pathogen in advance. As vaccines become more prevalent against an increasingly wide range of diseases — measles, mumps, polio, chickenpox — a dissenting political and scientific movement has emerged which rejects the scientific premises of vaccines and attempts to persuade others not to vaccinate themselves or their children on the ground that they are ineffective, dangerous and/or motivated by corporate profit rather than legitimate concerns about public health.

But exactly as we have seen with so many other political labels — terrorist, racist, fascist, white nationalist, anti-Semite — this once-descriptive, precise and useful phrase has metamorphized far beyond its original meaning into something barely recognizable or cogent. That transformation has been deliberate, with a clear motive: to weaponize the term into a potent political insult designed to compel submission to decrees from institutions of authority and stigmatize dissenters, threatening them with reputation destruction. The rapid expansion of the term "anti-vax" into a coercive political weapon has been years in the making, but the COVID pandemic was the steroid it needed to blossom into one of the most reputation-crippling labels one can affix to a political target.
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Bulb

A former Fed Governor blasts Jerome Powell, says inflation is the Fed's choice

Mike Shedlock
Mish Talk
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
Jerome Powell
"Inflation is a choice for which the Fed is chiefly responsible," says Kevin Warsh.

The Fed Is the Main Inflation Culprit

In a WSJ Op-Ed, former Fed governor Kevin Warsh says The Fed Is the Main Inflation Culprit, emphasis mine.
Inflation is a choice. It's a choice for which the Fed is chiefly responsible. The risk of an inflationary spiral arises when policy makers first dismiss the problem and then cast blame elsewhere. Inflation becomes embedded in the price-formation process when the central bank acts belatedly or with insufficient conviction. To date, the Fed has acted as an enabler.

The sure sign of a problem: when a president gives voice to the scourge of inflation — and takes executive action — well before the central bank acknowledges the severity of the situation.

Chairman Jerome Powell called low inflation — which averaged 1.7% in the prior decade, a mere 0.3 point below the Fed's target — the pre-eminent economic challenge of our time. So the Fed bet on a new policy regime to get inflation higher. It worked. It's not the first time a central bank wanted a little more inflation and got a lot more.

Last year, in another break with precedent, the Fed loudly and explicitly endorsed a blowout in federal spending. Congress swiftly agreed. Federal spending increased from an average of about 21% of gross domestic product in the prior decade to more than 30% in fiscal 2020 and 2021. National debt relative to GDP increased from 79% in 2019 to more than 100% today. Most troubling, the Fed bankrolled the fiscal profligacy, purchasing more than half of the new Treasury debt issued this year. Call it monetary dominance.

Achieving a soft economic landing at this late stage is difficult. If the sole task were to drive inflation down, the Fed would immediately taper its asset purchases and start raising rates. But a significant tightening cycle would likely cause market volatility to surge and assets to reprice. The authorities have expressed little concern about financial excesses, bubbles or financial imbalances. Hope they're right. I expect tension between the Fed's goals of price stability and financial stability to be in sharper relief in the new year.

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Light Sabers

Moscow hands binding security-guarantee proposal to US - Kremlin


RFE/RL
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:45 UTC
Karen Donfried
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried (front-right) arrives at the offices of the Russian Foreign Ministry on December 15.
Russia has presented the United States with a set of proposals for binding Western security guarantees during a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried in Moscow on December 15, the Kremlin said.

Donfried, who traveled to Moscow after holding talks with officials in Kyiv on a major Russian troop buildup near Ukraine, said in a video posted on Twitter that the United States will share Russia's proposals with its allies and partners.


Comment: Russian troops indeed were positioned over a hundred miles from its border with Ukraine, ostensibly for a training exercise, but it's also likely that this served as a response and a warning to NATOs recent maneuvers on Russia's border.


Ukraine and its Western backers have raised concerns that Russia may be preparing an invasion of its neighbor, something Moscow has denied.


Comment: The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has been entirely manufactured by the West.


Comment: In response to the escalating belligerence of the West and its lackeys in Ukraine, Russia has increased its attempts to deescalate and resolve the contrived crisis through diplomatic means, whilst also making clear what malfeasance it will not tolerate: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: COVID And Mind Control - Do People Fear The Virus, Or Their Government?



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Windsock

Iran releases map of Israel with multiple targets marked


RT
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:58 UTC
Iran missile
© Iranian Army / WANA (West Asia News Agency) / Handout via REUTERSA missile is launched during an Iranian Army exercise dubbed 'Zulfiqar 1400', in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman, Iran, in this picture obtained on November 7, 2021.
Iran has decided to bolster its traditional threats against archrival Israel with visual materials, publishing a map of the Jewish state marked with numerous possible targets Tehran could hit in response to its foe's aggression.

An article with the attention-grabbing headline "Just one wrong move!" appeared in state-run English-language newspaper the Tehran Times on Tuesday.

"An intensification of the Israeli military threats against Iran seems to suggest that the Zionist regime has forgotten that Iran is more than capable of hitting them from anywhere," the authors of the piece suggested.

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Star of David

US lawmakers call on Biden administration to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group


The Times of Israel
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:04 UTC
NSO logo
© AP/Sebastian SchreinerLogo on wall of Israeli NSO Group company
18 Democrats ask Treasury and State Department to freeze bank accounts of company executives amid claims they helped authoritarian regimes commit human rights abuses.

A group of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to impose financial sanctions on controversial Israel spyware firm NSO Group and a number of other surveillance companies.

A letter sent by 18 Senate and House members, including Senate Finance Committee chairman Ron Wyden and House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, asks the Treasury Department and State Department to sanction NSO, along with the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter and European online bulk surveillance companies Nexa Technologies and Trovicor, Reuters reported Wednesday.

The letter says the companies facilitated the "disappearance, torture and murder of human rights activists and journalists" and asks for the application of "Global Magnitsky" sanctions, which would freeze bank accounts of company executives and ban travel to the United States. The group of Democrats wrote:
"To meaningfully punish them and send a clear signal to the surveillance technology industry, the US government should deploy financial sanctions."

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Arrow Up

'It's just crazy': 12 major cities hit all-time homicide records

Bill Hutchinson
ABC News
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:08 UTC
Philadelphia street
© Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesPhiladelphia police crime scene blockade
At least 12 major U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021 -- and there's still three weeks to go in the year. Of the dozen cities that have already surpassed the grim milestones for killings, five topped records that were set or tied just last year.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said after his city surpassed its annual homicide record of 500, which stood since 1990.
"It's terrible to every morning get up and have to go look at the numbers and then look at the news and see the stories. It's just crazy. It's just crazy and this needs to stop."
Philadelphia, a city of roughly 1.5 million people, has had more homicides this year (521 as of Dec. 6) than the nation's two largest cities, New York (443 as of Dec. 5) and Los Angeles (352 as of Nov. 27). That's an increase of 13% from 2020, a year that nearly broke the 1990 record.
US map homicides

Comment: Chaos is the threat; compliance is the carrot; submission is NOT the answer.

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Footprints

First US soldiers get the boot for refusing Covid vax


RT
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:07 UTC
Getting the boot
© Unknown
Over two dozen US Air Force service members have been discharged for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 - the first in the US military to be punished over President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.

The 27 airmen who had been discharged from the force for missing the vaccination deadline were "younger, lower-ranking personnel" and were serving their first term of enlistment, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told the media on Monday.

Unlike others in the US military who have sought religious and medical exemptions from the mandate, the dismissed airmen did not seek any exemptions, she claimed.

Their reason for discharge was officially disobeying an order, however it is not clear whether they received honorable discharges.

Reports indicate that as many as 40,000 US military personnel have refused vaccination against Covid-19 or sought an exemption - roughly 3% of troops.

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Family

NYT: Secret anti-ISIS strike cell showed reckless disregard for civilian casualties

Grayson Quay
Yahoo News
Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:47 UTC
drone strike
© ronib 1979/iStock
A classified U.S. Special Operations cell that coordinated strikes against Islamic State targets showed reckless disregard for civilian casualties by regularly circumventing safeguard procedures and engaging in deceptive practices, according to a report published Sunday by The New York Times.

The cell, known as Talon Anvil, reportedly worked around the clock in three shifts out of nondescript offices in Iraq and Syria, sorting through drone footage and on-the-ground intelligence from Kurdish and Syrian allies. Authority to order airstrikes, either by Talon Anvil's own armed drones or by manned aircraft, was delegated to the highest-ranking enlisted U.S. Army Delta Force operator then on duty, often a sergeant first class.

Talon Anvil helped increase the volume of strikes against ISIS at a time when U.S. forces were struggling to engage at an effective pace, but high-ranking CIA and Air Force intelligence officers became skeptical of the cell's methods as civilian casualties mounted. Cell members reportedly misclassified almost all strikes as defensive in order to sidestep the rigorous vetting process imposed on offensive strikes and even apparently took to averting the drones' cameras after launch in order to hide evidence of civilian deaths.
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Russian Flag

Assessing the outcome of the Biden Putin summmit

The Saker
thesaker.is
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:03 UTC
US President Joe Biden has spelled out his approach to Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin
© AFP / Jim Watson and Grigory DukorUS President Joe Biden has spelled out his approach to Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin
Let's begin by stating the obvious: those who now claim that the Biden Putin summit did not produce anything tangible and was, at best, a waste of time are plainly wrong, mainly because they misunderstood what was really at stake (and what still remains at stake following the Summit).

What is the evidence for this?

The first and most obvious sign that something very real took place is the absolutely hysterical reaction of the War Party (which I define as follows: the entire US media, the Neocons, the MAGA-GOP gang in Congress, the "non-Biden gang" inside the Democratic Party, the US energy sector, the US MIC, the entire US "deep state", the Israel lobby, the Ukie lobby, the UK lobby, the Polish lobby, etc.) The Biden administration is coming under HUGE pressure from the War Party to continue to threaten Russia will all sorts of sanctions and "consequences" unless Russia stands down from her current "threatening" stance and give up Putin's "dream" to invade the Ukraine and "restore the Soviet Union". The fact that none of that verbiage has any connections to reality is not an impediment for the War Party. You could say that the War Party is a choir which only knows how to sing one song.
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