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Bizarro Earth

It takes a total system failure to spawn a new economy

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
fractal
© Fractal Illustration/AFPIs the world on a collision course with the financial and economic equivalent of a meteor impact with shock wave?
Covid-19 driven collapse of global supply chains, demand and mobility will painfully spawn next great tech-led economic models

Nobody, anywhere, could have predicted what we are now witnessing: in a matter of only a few weeks the accumulated collapse of global supply chains, aggregate demand, consumption, investment, exports, mobility.


Comment: Wait a minute! Somebody thought it up. Somebody did the homework. Somebody made the plan. Somebody gave the command to betray the past and destroy the present to lock down and control the future. It doesn't just happen.


Nobody is betting on an L-shaped recovery anymore - not to mention a V-shaped one. Any projection of global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 gets into falling-off-a-cliff territory.

In industrialized economies, where roughly 70% of the workforce is in services, countless businesses in myriad industries will fail in a rolling financial collapse that will eclipse the Great Depression.

Comment: This trial-crisis was engineered. It forebodes an inevitable, irreversible lockdown of humanity calculated to concur with earth changes, food shortages and cosmic events. 'Plan' on it.

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Star of David

Israeli High Court exposes its Palestinian playbook: Approves corona 'dystopia' measures in Bnei Brak

Eltay Mack
Mondoweiss
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Bnei Brak
© Twitter, Eli DrorLockdown in Bnei Brak ahead of Passover
On April 2, the Israeli government decided to impose an almost total closure on the Ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, because of the Coronavirus, with extreme restrictions not applied on other parts of the state. The restrictions include prohibiting the entering and exiting of the city, which is home to 185,000 people, except for limited urgent needs after getting a written approval, like medical treatment not available in its boundaries.

The closure imposed on city of Bnei Brak isn't unique in the worldwide response to the Coronavirus, and also not even close to the limitations on freedom of movement and blockades that Palestinians living in the West Bank or the Gaza are experiencing on a daily base. What is interesting in the story of of Bnei Brak, is how easily the Israeli High Court of Justice (Bagatz) approved its closure, despite the belief in many western capitals that Bagatz is a reliable institution that could be trusted to keep the Israeli government in check.

The aerial distance between Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv is only six kilometers, but these are two different planets. While Tel Aviv is a rich, secular and cosmopolitan city, Bnei Brak is an ultra-Orthodox city whose population is among the densest and poorest in the State of Israel.

Comment: A 'made to order' vehicle for Netanyahu, coronavirus lockdown has rendered all protest and petition useless - offering Israel an open season to oppress and/or eliminate undesirable populations, always Palestinians and now Orthodox Jews.

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Propaganda

New York Times remembers to be journalistically skeptical only when Biden is in the crosshairs

Graham Dockery
RT
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:20 UTC
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© Reuters/Mike Blake, Michael ReynoldsBrett Kavanaugh • Joe Biden
For anyone running for office in modern America, accusations of sexual assault are par for the course. But when it comes to weighing up these accusations, the US' mainstream paper of record applies some very uneven standards.

Take Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee. If doubts weren't already raised by his fondness for sniffing women, the emergence last month of a sexual assault allegation against the former vice president could have caused a major headache for his campaign.

Yet amid the coronavirus pandemic, and given the political leanings of most media outlets, the scandal barely registered.

Comment: See also:
Even media's loudest #MeToo champs are ignoring Biden sexual assault accuser Tara Reade

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Oil Well

Last minute deal: OPEC+ agrees to cut 9.7M barrels a day oil production


RT
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:55 UTC
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© Getty Images/Deiter Spannknebel
After four days of marathon talks, major global oil producers have finally inked an agreement to slash oil output by 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd), in a bid to boost the energy market amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil-producing states outside of the cartel, known as OPEC+, reached the deal to cut their output for May and June, Kuwait's Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel announced on Twitter.
The cuts will protect oil producers from falling prices, triggered both by de-facto OPEC head Saudi Arabia flooding global markets with oil, and by falling demand amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Comment: The art of the deal?
The agreement brings to an end a price war that had been raging between Russia and Saudi Arabia, after the latter pulled out of a previous agreement last month and ramped up production. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the Saudi kingdom of driving prices down to force competing shale oil producers, including the US and Russia, out of business.

A growth in shale oil extraction has seen the US become the world's largest crude oil producer in recent years. However, American firms need an oil price of around $40 to turn a profit. Trump repeatedly pressed his Saudi Allies to cut a deal with Russia and limit production.

The fall in prices, however, presented Trump with a convenient opportunity to top up the US' national oil reserves. As the market tumbled last month, Trump announced at a press conference that he had ordered US energy officials to buy the dip and "fill it right up to the top."


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Syringe

Robert F Kennedy Jr. exposes Bill Gates' vaccine agenda in scathing report

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 23:00 UTC
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Authored by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman, Children's Health Defense,

Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft's ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy.

Gates' obsession with vaccines seems to be fueled by a conviction to save the world with technology.

Promising his share of $450 million of $1.2 billion to eradicate Polio, Gates took control of India's National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) which mandated up to 50 doses (Table 1) of polio vaccines through overlapping immunization programs to children before the age of five. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) epidemic that paralyzed 490,000 children beyond expected rates between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian government dialed back Gates' vaccine regimen and asked Gates and his vaccine policies to leave India. NPAFP rates dropped precipitously.

In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) reluctantly admitted that the global explosion in polio is predominantly vaccine strain. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, Afghanistan, and the Philippines, are all linked to vaccines. In fact, by 2018, 70% of global polio cases were vaccine strain.
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Pirates

Clinton Foundation CFO to financial investigators: "I know where all the bodies are buried"


True Pundit
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:16 UTC
Hillary Clinton Clinton Foundation
The two key financial investigators who testified in Congress, detailing billions of dollars and decades of illicit activities by the Clinton Foundation, dropped a Twitter bomb on Friday morning.

Larry Doyle, who testified alongside former DOJ boss and partner John Moynihan, said the CFO of the Clinton Foundation admitted to the duo during a Nov. 30, 2016 meeting: "I know where all the bodies are buried."

Comment: Things have been bubbling quietly under the surface with respect to the corrupt Clinton Foundation since 2017. It seems this part of the Clinton crime spree is about to come to prominence again. Some background on CFO for the Clinton Foundation, Andrew Kessel

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Yoda

Kentucky reps Rand Paul and Thomas Massie blast their own governor for tracking license plates of Easter church attendees

Andrew Mark Miller
Washington Examiner
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:30 UTC
Rep. Thomas Massie and Senator Rand Paul
© official photosRep. Thomas Massie and Senator Rand Paul
Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie openly criticized the governor of their home state of Kentucky after he announced a plan to impose a mandatory quarantine of people attending Easter church services and recording their license plate numbers.

"Taking license plates at church?" Paul tweeted late Friday following reports that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear would be monitoring who goes to church on Easter. "Quarantining someone for being Christian on Easter Sunday? Someone needs to take a step back here."

Comment: Kentucky is Bible Belt country. Predictably, Bashear's order did not go over well with his constituency.





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Fire

Trump shares call for Fauci to be fired

Caitlin Yilek
Washington Examiner
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:01 UTC
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President Trump may be souring on Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Trump retweeted a Republican who called for the country's top infectious disease expert to be fired after he said lives could have been saved if the government acted more quickly to stop the threat of the coronavirus.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN on Sunday the Trump administration could have saved more lives if social-distancing restrictions were implemented sooner.

Comment: Adopted social distancing sooner? Does it even work? See:

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Dominoes

Turkey's Erdogan rejects popular interior minister's resignation after last-minute curfew announcement triggers chaos


RT
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:52 UTC
istanbul
© REUTERS//Umit Bektas
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected resignation of his interior minister after the latter took responsibility for mass panic that saw thousands swarming shops across Turkey ahead of a 48-hour curfew.

"The minister submitted his resignation to the President and the President has informed him that he did not approve that request.The interior minister's resignation has not been accepted. He shall continue to perform his duties," the Turkish President's office said in a statement late Sunday - two days after an eleventh-hour decision by interior minister Suleyman Soylu to impose a 2-day curfew caused an estimated 250,000 people across the nation to flood stores and bakeries in a last-ditch effort to stock up on food and other essential supplies.

In his statement, Erdogan praised Soylu - a hugely popular figure in the country - for his response to the coronavirus pandemic as well as for leading the fight against domestic terrorism.
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Megaphone

'Driven by hatred & envy': Czech president slams tearing down of monument to Soviet marshal who liberated Prague


RT
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:45 UTC
prague soviet statue
© Sputnik / Eduard Erben
The removal of a monument to Marshal Ivan Konev, who headed Soviet troops fighting to free Prague from the Nazis in 1945, was a dumb move by people who have achieved nothing in their lives, Czech President Milos Zeman has said

"Marshal Konev, who liberated not only Prague but also [Nazi death camp] Auschwitz, fully deserved his place in Prague," Zeman pointed out in an interview with local broadcaster iPrima.

Speaking from behind a medical face mask, he branded the dismantling of the monument to the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front army group, one of the most celebrated Red Army generals of World War II, "a laughable and dumb" decision.

Comment: Previously:

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