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Senate narrowly passes COVID relief bill after sleepless, tumultuous night

Marisa Schultz
Fox News
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
US Capitol
© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesSenate debates and passes COVID relief bill
US Capitol, March 5, 2021
The Senate on Saturday narrowly passed President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan following a marathon overnight session in a key vote that puts new stimulus checks and expanded unemployment checks one step closer to the pockets of the American public.

Following 27 hours of debate, delays and wrangling, Democrats pushed through the legislation in a party-line vote of 50-49. The legislation now heads back to the House for final approval before hitting Biden's desk for his signature on what would be his first major legislative victory.

Democrats, who have the slimmest of majorities in the Senate, were united in passing the legislation that they say will help rescue the economy and end the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 520,000 lives.

"The people are hurting, and today we respond," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said prior to the vote.

Republicans said the legislation is too big and bloated.

"The Senate has never spent $2 trillion in a more haphazard way or through a less rigorous process," GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said before the vote.

The vote capped a sleepless and drama-filled overnight session.


Comment: It isn't over. The Bill goes back to the House.



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As the insurrection narrative crumbles, Democrats cling to it more desperately than ever

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Jill Sanborn
© Shawn Thew/AFP/Getty ImagesAssistant Director of FBI Counterterrorism Division Jill Sanborn at the hearing to examine the January 6th Capitol Hill attack.
Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings ushered in severe security measures only to prove utterly baseless.

First we had the hysteria over the violence we were told was likely to occur at numerous state capitols on Inauguration Day. CNN announced:
"Law enforcement and state officials are on high alert for potentially violent protests in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, with some state capitols boarded up and others temporarily closed ahead of Wednesday's ceremony."
In an even scarier formulation, NPR intoned that
"the FBI is warning of protests and potential violence in all 50 state capitals ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration."
The resulting clampdowns were as extreme as the dire warnings. Washington, D.C. was militarized more than at any point since the 9/11 attack. The military was highly visible on the streets. And, described The Washington Post:
State capitols nationwide locked down, with windows boarded up, National Guard troops deployed and states of emergency preemptively declared as authorities braced for potential violence Sunday mimicking the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump rioters." All of this "reflected the anxious state of the country ahead of planned demonstrations.
But none of that happened — not even close.
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Ukrainian oligarch with US real estate empire hit with sanctions by Biden administration

Jerry Dunleavy
Washington Examiner
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:59 UTC
Kolomoisky
© IntellinewsIhor Kolomoyskyy
The Biden administration sanctioned a powerful Ukrainian oligarch who has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. real estate on Friday.

Ihor Kolomoyskyy, a former Ukrainian governor and billionaire oligarch, once owned PrivatBank, among the largest banks in Ukraine, and Ukrainian authorities along with U.S. investigators have accused him and his associates of embezzling and defrauding the bank of billions of dollars for nearly a decade before the scheme was unearthed and the bank was nationalized in 2016.

The State Department says his time as a top politician in Ukraine was marked by significant corruption as the Justice Department investigates the real estate empire he built in the United States, allegedly through theft and money laundering.

Comment: See also:

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New US administration stands for same grotesque, brutal policies against Venezuela, shows how little they actually care for people

Eva Bartlett
RT
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:24 UTC
Guaido
© Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez ViloriaVenezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido at a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela
March 3, 2021
Venezuelan non-president, Juan Guaido, is back in headlines after the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called him to discuss America's favorite talking points: "a return to democracy" via "free and fair elections."

I'm sure the irony will not be lost on those who question the legitimacy of the US election that saw Biden take power.

Anyway, you would have to have been offline or in a coma for the past couple of years to not be aware of some key facts about 'interim president' Guaido and US "concern" for Venezuelans.

Venezuelans didn't vote for Guaido to be president, he hasn't even stood for president. Venezuelans voted for Maduro. America can huff and puff and whine, but that won't change the reality.

Comment: Duplicitous statements from Blinken and Pompeo prove there is one unified message, and likewise trajectory, no matter the administration:
Prognosis for the Bidenites to rise above and come to a common sensibility is a snowball's chance in hell. Grooving goes deep on this one.

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NY legislature passes bill stripping Cuomo of emergency powers, sending it to his desk to sign

Breck Dumas
The Blaze
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Cuomo
© Jeenah Mook/Getty Images North AmericaNY Governor Andrew Cuomo
The New York legislature officially passed a bill revoking Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's emergency powers on Friday, sending it to his desk for a signature.

CNN reported that all Democrats in both chambers voted for the measure, but all Republican members rejected it arguing that it "does not go far enough to curtail Cuomo's power."

The outlet noted,
"Democrats have a veto-proof majority should Cuomo try to nix it, but the governor said Wednesday during a news conference that he supported the bill."
But this could be just the beginning of state lawmakers cracking down on Cuomo, who is currently embroiled in scandals over allegations of covering up nursing home fatalities during the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous claims of sexual harassment.

Comment: Cuomo is finished. He is just beginning to realize it.

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Excellent question: Iran asks why Israel gets preferential treatment with IAEA despite its arsenal of nukes

Ilya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 19:17 UTC
israel nuclear weapon nukes
© CC BY-SA 3.0Shavit 3rd stage of nuclear missle
Tel Aviv adheres to a policy of "nuclear ambiguity," meaning that it neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons. At the same time, the country reserves itself the right to bomb, sabotage or otherwise act to stop activities of any Middle Eastern power it believes could lead to the development of a nuclear weapon.

Israel's suspected nuclear arsenal poses a threat to the Middle East and the world, and Tehran is concerned by the country's apparent preferential treatment with the International Atomic Energy Agency despite its status as a non-signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's ambassador to international organisations in Vienna, has said.

"Since all [countries] in the Middle East region, except the Israeli regime, are parties to the NPT and have undertaken to accept the Agency's comprehensive safeguards, development of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme by this regime poses a continuing serious threat not only to the security and stability of the region and the world, but also to the effectiveness and efficiency of the NPT and the Agency's safeguards regime," Gharibabadi said, speaking at the meeting of the IAEA border of governors meeting this week.
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Will They? YouTube says Trump ban will be lifted when risk of violence drops

Nihal Krishan
The Washington Examiner
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump
© AP Photo/John RaouxFormer United States president Donald Trump
YouTube's ban of former President Donald Trump will be lifted once the risk of political violence recedes, CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday.

"I do want to confirm that we will lift the suspension of the channel ... when we determine that the risk of violence has decreased," Wojcicki said at an event hosted by Atlantic Council, a think tank.

She added that Trump's ban won't be lifted soon due to new concerns regarding violence around the U.S. Capitol. "It's pretty clear right now," she said, "that there is still an elevated risk of violence."

Comment: See also:

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How the fight over American freedom will probably escalate

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
we will not comply
Three months ago in December I published an article titled 'Is The Globalist Reset Failing? The Elites May Have Overplayed Their Hand'. I was specifically interested in the development of the pandemic "crisis", the lockdown mandates of governments worldwide, the bizarre vaccination campaign for the new and under-tested mRNA cocktail which was rushed out to the public in the span of six months, the World Economic Forum's open statements that they hoped to exploit the pandemic as a springboard for their globalist agenda, and the public's reaction to it all.

I have to say, I continue to see a divergence in what the elites clearly wanted to happen vs. what has actually happened. If the Event 201 pandemic war game on a coronavirus outbreak, held two months before the actual outbreak occurred in China, is any indication, then the globalists greatly overestimated the fear effect of Covid.

They predicted at least 65 million deaths from a coronavirus outbreak, but over a year has passed since the pandemic went international and the official death count stands at 2.5 million, with over 40% of deaths in the US attributed to nursing home patients that were ALREADY dying from preexisting conditions. Removing suspect nursing home deaths from the equation, the death count is probably closer to 1.5 million, again, if we adhere to official estimates.
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Lockdown without end? UK's September furlough extension suggests no return to normal in June

Neil Clark
RT
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:45 UTC
Sunak
© ReutersBritain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak presents the budget box in London
Judging by what's gone on before, the announcement by UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak that the government's furlough scheme would last until at least 30 September doesn't bode well for those who want Covid restrictions to end soon.

Consider the following: When the 'Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme' (to give it its official title) was first announced by the UK government on 20 March 2020, it was supposed to last until 31 May. Why did it need to be so long, some people asked, if we were only going to lock down for three weeks to 'flatten the curve'?

Since then we've seen the same pattern, repeatedly. The extension of furlough, beyond the dates when politicians and talking heads have told us restrictions would be due to end, has been an excellent guide to what really is going to happen.

Comment: It's rather suspect that numerous countries in the West are dragging their citizens into a future that looks dreadfully totalitarian, meanwhile others, such as Russia, state that the world will have reached herd immunity by summer:

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Book banning in the Age of Amazon

Abigail Shrier
The Truth Fairy - Substack
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
LogoAmazon/book on fire
© Amazon/Substack.com/KJN
If you wanted to eliminate disfavored ideas from a society, you'd begin by aggregating most of the world's books onto a single platform. You'd hope to create a global network of gargantuan warehouses, automated to allow next-day fulfillment of customer desires. If you were wildly successful, your company might one day control five sixths of U.S. book sales and generate a market capitalization that rivals the GDP of Canada.

If you also delivered groceries, clothing, and hardware during a pandemic, and hosted businesses' websites, too — you might become so integral to people's lives, they would be hard-pressed to quit you. Customers spoiled by the miracle of having milk and toilet paper delivered same-day to their door would be disinclined to protest as you began eliminating books, especially if it was just a few at a time. You'd have become the hand that feeds them; they'd be smart enough not to bite.

Writers themselves might object. But their agents would fall silent; they'd have other clients to think of. Publishers — whose continued viability depends on this central pipeline — would be loath to offer more than token resistance. A momentary stifling of conscience would seem small sacrifice to ensure their other books were spared. Forget the "firemen" from Fahrenheit 451: You needn't burn forbidden books if people can't buy them in the first place.

Comment: The mandatory lockdown has increased Amazon's market share and further engrained its already massive distribution process to deliver goods to our door. This magnitude of clout was not accidental nor just a byproduct of the times. We have been forced into artificial dependency and now find ourselves at its mercy for what we can or cannot have.

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