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Biden's presidency will be a catalyst for secession - and perhaps civil war

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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Over the past few months I have written a handful of articles which discussed what would probably happen if Joe Biden actually entered the White House and launched his administration. My initial belief was that Trump would refuse to concede and that this would be a trigger for national chaos blamed on conservatives, but I have also noted that Biden's entry is almost just as disruptive, as it sends a signal to the political left that it is "open season" on anyone that disagrees with their ideology.

Of course, conservatives are not going to simply sit still and be purged and abused, they are going to strike back, and this sets the stage for a number of events and outcomes, some of which are completely unpredictable, even for establishment globalists.

First, though, we need to address how Biden and the globalists are going to create chaos so that they can then demand their own brand of "order".

In my article 'A Biden Presidency Will Mean A Faster US Collapse', published in October, I outlined why the ongoing economic crisis will accelerate in the wake of a Biden takeover. More specifically, I predicted that Biden would implement a federal covid lockdown, probably within the first year of his presidency, similar to the Level 4 lockdowns implemented in Europe and Australia. Biden may lure Americans into complacency with promises of "relief" and less restrictions in his first couple months, but he will then use the rather convenient news of "covid mutations" to bring in even harsher mandates.

Comment: A number of other observers have been drawing similar likelihoods:

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Conditioning: £800 lockdown fine for people having 'illegal gatherings at home' - UK Home Sec Patel

James Morris
The Guardian
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:12 UTC
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© Matt Dunham/PAPriti Patel has announced a new £800 fine for people attending house parties. )
The government is introducing a new £800 fine for people who attend house parties during the coronavirus lockdown.

The fines will apply to people at "illegal gatherings of more than 15 people in homes", home secretary Priti Patel said at a Downing Street press conference.

"The science is clear," she said.

Comment: Is this about 'house parties', or is this really about concocting new laws with no democratic mandate to program citizens into thinking that governments have the authority to continue their totalitarian power grab unchallenged? Because, as noted above, these instances are rare, and there are already laws controlling them, so why bother?

Moreover, journalists are reporting this as a law against 'house parties', but there's actually no detail in there about a 'party', it's actually any gathering of over 15 people, which is vague enough to include everything from a wake, a book club, or a meeting of people who may just happen to be discussing their dissatisfaction with the increasingly brazen totalitarian government.

One thing is clear, an Englishman's home is no longer his castle - not that it ever really was.

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Biden's US revives support for WHO, reversing Trump retreat

Jamey Keaten
Yahoo! News
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:36 UTC
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© AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FileIn this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden leaves after attending a virtual swearing in ceremony of political appointees from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.
The United States will resume funding for the World Health Organization and join its consortium aimed at sharing coronavirus vaccines fairly around the globe, President Joe Biden's top adviser on the pandemic said Thursday, renewing support for an agency that the Trump administration had pulled back from.

Dr. Anthony Fauci's quick commitment to the WHO — whose response to the pandemic has been criticized by many, but perhaps most vociferously by the Trump administration — marks a dramatic and vocal shift toward a more cooperative approach to fighting the pandemic.

"I am honored to announce that the United States will remain a member of the World Health Organization," Fauci told a virtual meeting of the WHO from the United States, where it was 4:10 a.m. in Washington. It was the first public statement by a member of Biden's administration to an international audience — and a sign of the priority that the new president has made of fighting COVID-19 both at home and with world partners.

Comment: From Fauci himself:



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Biden releases new Coronavirus strategy — Here are all the Executive Orders he will sign Thursday to achieve his goals

Christian Datoc
Daily Caller
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:32 UTC
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© Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images
President Joe Biden released his new strategy for fighting the coronavirus pandemic Thursday morning and will sign a host of new executive orders to achieve that end later in the day.

The strategy itself features seven specific goals, according to senior White House officials:
  1. Restoring America's trust in the federal government
  2. Launch a more expansive vaccination plan
  3. Expand mask use, testing and the availability of public data
  4. Invoke the Defense Production Act to surge pandemic resources
  5. "Safely" reopen businesses and schools
  6. Prioritize at risk-communities and advance "equity across racial, ethnic and rural/urban lines"
  7. Restore the United States as a global leader on pandemic preparedness

Comment: More from RT:
In addition to the "100 Days Masking Challenge" for the federal government, Biden signed an order making it the official policy of the US government to "advance racial equity." This will reportedly abolish Trump's '1776 Commission' for patriotic education, which his new domestic policy adviser Susan Rice called "harmful," and have all government agencies review their programs and action to ensure federal funds are "equitably distributed in communities of color."

Trump withdrew the US from the climate pact on his first day in office in 2017. Biden's order would see the US rejoin within 30 days, with former secretary of state John Kerry now acting as "climate czar" in charge of its implementation.

According to mainstream media outlets that have been given talking points about the executive actions, they will also include an order to count non-citizens in the US Census again - something Trump tried to stop - as well as strengthening "workplace discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity."

The Biden White House is also re-establishing the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, that was part of the National Security Council under the Obama administration, and rejoining the World Health Organization.
And from Reuters:
President Joe Biden will seek to extend the New START arms control treaty with Russia for five years, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing unidentified senior U.S. officials.

Biden's secretary of state nominee, Antony Blinken, on Tuesday told Congress the administration would seek to extend the key nuclear treaty that expired Feb. 5. The Kremlin on Wednesday said it would welcome an extension.


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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files impeachment articles on Biden


NewsMax
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:06 UTC
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga
© Troy Stolt/APRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Thursday she had filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.

Greene had vowed to do just that one day after Biden's inauguration, and followed up on her promise made on Newsmax TV. Her announcement came in response to the impeachment last week of President Donald Trump in his final days of office. The Senate is set to hear the case of the now former president in the coming weeks.

Democrats said Trump played a role in spurring rioters who invaded the Capitol as Congress was certifying the election win of Biden on Jan. 6. Ten Republicans joined every House Democrat in voting for impeachment.

Comment: As stated, it's unlikely to go anywhere, but kudos to Greene for making the attempt!

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House Oversight calls for Parler investigation

Chris Mills Rodrigo
The Hill
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:23 UTC
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney
© Bonnie CashHouse Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) is requesting that the FBI investigate Parler and the social media platform's role in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.

She also announced Thursday that her committee will look into Parler as part of a broader investigation of websites that may promote violence.

In a letter to the FBI she asked for the agency to examine Parler's connections to the protest-turned-riot "including as a potential facilitator of planning and incitement related to the violence" and "as a repository of key evidence posted by users on its site."

Comment: Notice that, even after the Washington Post threw Zuckerberg under the bus, saying the platform was used extensively to plan the January 6th protest, they're NOT calling for an investigation into Facebook. It serves the elites to have social media platforms entirely within their control, like Facebook and Twitter, not to have a 'free speech' platform throwing a spanner in the works.

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Biden's Secretary of Defense nominee says if confirmed he will "rid our ranks of racists and extremists"

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:17 UTC
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Joe Biden's Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin said if he is confirmed he will "rid our ranks of racists and extremists."

And by "racists and extremists" he is referring to white male Trump supporters.

"If confirmed, I will work hard to stamp out sexual assault and to rid our ranks of racists and extremists and create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country," Lloyd Austin said referring to transgenders at Tuesday's confirmation hearing.


Comment: And quite in lockstep with this persecution are these statements made by the DC Mayor just prior to the inauguration:
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser set a chilling standard for what might make someone a terrorist threat, saying soldiers in the US capital must vow "allegiance to their mission" of guarding President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

Bowser spoke to reporters on Tuesday regarding the thousands of National Guardsmen being brought to the District of Columbia from all across the nation to help provide beefed-up inauguration security in the wake of the January 6 US Capitol riot.

"It's prudent to make sure that they're being vetted and that anybody who cannot pledge allegiance to..." Bowser said before pausing. Rather than saying "the Constitution" or "the United States," she continued by saying, "their mission, and may be pulled by other views, needs not only to be removed from this duty; they need to be removed from the Guard."



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The Propaganda Multiplier: How global news agencies and Western media report on geopolitics

Terje Maloy, translator
Swiss Policy Research
Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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The Propaganda Multiplier: Governments, military and intelligence services using global news agencies to disseminate their messages to a worldwide audience.
It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.

The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.

A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports, yet 0% on investigative research. Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of a US and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side.
"Therefore, you always have to ask yourself: Why do I get this specific information, in this specific form, at this specific moment?
Ultimately, these are always questions about power." (*) -Dr. Konrad Hummler, Swiss banking and media executive

Comment: An excellent overview to further our understanding of the media, its dependencies and bottlenecked workings that bring us the misnomer called 'news'.

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Trump pardons Steve Bannon and others before leaving the White House

Henry Rodgers
Daily Caller
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:05 UTC
Bannon
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFormer WH chief strategist Steve Bannon
President Donald Trump pardoned former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday night after he was arrested for allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors who donated to his crowdfunded border wall project.

Trump offered a list of pardons on his last night in office which included Bannon as well as famous rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, who both were prosecuted on federal weapons offenses, Reuters reported.

Bannon was arrested after he raised more than $25 million into a nonprofit group called "We Build The Wall" under the false pretense that all money raised would be spent on the construction of a border wall on the US-Mexico border, according to the Justice Department.

Bannon was facing a trial on fraud and money laundering charges in Manhattan federal court in May, according to The New York Post. In August, Bannon was arrested on a $28 million yacht named the "Lady May," which was owned by Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.


Comment: The pardon power, which comes from the U.S. Constitution, is one of the broadest available to a president. While pardons are typically given to people who have been prosecuted, pardons can cover conduct that has not yet resulted in legal proceedings. A pardon is not reviewable by other branches of government and the president does not have to give a reason for issuing one. But the pardon power is not absolute; it only applies to federal crimes.


Comment: Others chided President Trump for not 'draining the swamp' as he promised and bit back hard:
Many social media users, including some who were once supporters, tore into outgoing President Donald Trump during his final hours in office. Trump received backlash for failing to "Drain the Swamp" as promised, by revoking a lobbying ban and pardoning a list of US establishment figures.

"Forget about draining the swamp...President Trump just filled it up,"reacted journalist Yashar Ali - a sentiment echoed by many others, including conservative journalist Eduardo Neret, who called out Trump for performing "another total one-eighty."


"Trump went to Washington to 'drain the swamp.' Then he hired the swamp. Then his final act as President was to bow to the swamp,"tweeted conservative commenter and assistant director of The Plot Against the President, Daniel Bostic. Another user compared Trump's slogan to former President Barack Obama's own "Hope and Change" slogan, which disappointed liberals due to the lack of any meaningful change by the end of Obama's two terms in office.


New Zealand-based entrepreneur Kim Dotcom accused Trump of becoming "his own swamp paralyzed by fear and selfishness," while journalist Cassandra Fairbanks questioned, "What did we even get? No wall. DACA still exists. He hired tons of neocons and got people who would otherwise oppose them to cheerlead them. Julian is in prison. Was it even worth it?"
Those who think Trump didn't make strides on this endeavor can't see the forest for the trees. While the swamp was not drained, its network was most definitely exposed - a service to humanity on personal, national and global levels heretofore unthinkable. Given untold constraints on Trump, he did manage to poke the beast. Four years of intense and unrelenting head-on attack tells us so.

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Covid Winner! Goldman Sachs' trading revenue hits 10-year high

John Carney
Breitbart
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters/KJN
The 'black box' of trading that drives profits at Goldman Sachs hit a 10-year high, boosting earnings in the final months of 2020 and pushing full-year revenue to its highest since 2009.

The Wall Street firm said Tuesday that its profits more than doubled from a year earlier thanks to a surge in both trading and advising revenue.

The New York-based investment bank said it earned a profit of $4.36 billion, up from a profit of $1.72 billion in the same period a year earlier. That works out to earnings of $12.08 per share, a 157 percent increase. Revenue of $11.74 billion was 18 percent above 2019's fourth-quarter level.

The earnings and re revenue easily topped forecasts and shares rose in early trading Tuesday. Analysts had forecast $7.45-per-share profit on revenue of $9.99 billion.

Full-year revenue rose to $44.56 billion, the best since 2009 and up nearly 22 percent from 2019's level. Annual trading revenue reached a 10-year high.

Goldman's results reflect that Wall Street had a strong year even while the pandemic churned chaotically across the U.S. economy and businesses big and small laid off millions of Americans. After plunging sharply in March and April, the stock market went basically straight up for seven months as investors tried to look beyond the near-term death and pain and focus on where the U.S. economy will be in a year or two years' time.

Comment: Not to be outdone, Morgan Stanley was also a happy pandemic profiteer:
Morgan Stanley managed to substantially capitalize in 2020. The US investment bank beat fourth-quarter earnings forecasts to round off the lender's best year on record.

Earnings jumped 51 percent in the final three months of the year. The Wall Street bank's net income applicable to common shareholders surged to $3.39 billion, or $1.81 per share, in the fourth quarter against $2.09 billion, or $1.30 per share, a year earlier. Analysts had forecasted a profit of $1.27 per share, according to Refinitiv IBES data.

Morgan Stanley confirmed plans to buy back $10 billion worth of its shares this year. The bank's shares rose 2.5 percent to $76.88 in premarket trading, the highest since late 2000. Chief financial officer Jon Pruzan said:
"We saw exceptional support from central banks and strong fiscal policy supports during the health crisis. We supported our clients and were extraordinarily active, and very disciplined around our risk, and that led to record results."
Revenue from the institutional securities business, its largest source of income, rose to $7 billion from $5.05 billion recorded a year ago.

Morgan Stanley's trading unit, which is housed within the institutional securities business, benefitted from the US elections and the release of coronavirus vaccines across the world, which boosted high trading volumes during the last quarter of 2020.

Net revenue grew to $13.64 billion versus $10.86 billion last year. Revenue from the company's investment banking division advanced to $2.30 billion from $1.58 billion in 2019, while revenue from sales and trading rose to $4.22 billion from $3.19 billion.
The bloat and gloat may downturn in record speed. Financial poverty. Physical poverty. Mental poverty. Social poverty. Health poverty. Freedom poverty. The only questions are: How fast? How far? How steep?

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