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Greenwald & the 'Squad' actually agree: Neoliberal thought police setting their sights on 'domestic extremists' is putting dissent at risk


RT
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:22 UTC
US capitol building fence barb wire
© Reuters / Jonathan ErnstLand of the free, home of the brave
The neoliberal centrist establishment is eager to turn the deadly machinery of the War on Terror against American citizens, journalists and even some lawmakers have observed, warning civil liberties may not survive.

Former CIA director John Brennan hinted that the Biden administration was poised to declare war on American dissidents, praising the incoming team for "moving in a laser-like fashion" to rout out what he referred to as "an unholy alliance of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians" in an MSNBC appearance on Wednesday.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald urged Americans not to take such a threat lightly, explaining that the former spy chief was "defining the insurgency as anyone who has an ideology other than neoliberalism - the ruling class view that is about to congeal and merge with the power of the state" and unleashing the full force of the American military apparatus previously leveled against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) domestically.

Comment: Past excesses have come back to haunt us all. The Deep State has been moving the pieces into place for decades.

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Bad Guys

Words of Division

Heather Mac Donald
City Journal
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:08 UTC
Joe Biden’s inaugural speech
It's an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.

Joe Biden's inaugural speech as 46th president is predictably being hailed for its "unifying" message. And just as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian Left are being swept under the rug.

According to Biden, we are a "great nation" and a "good people." But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising fervor. "Growing inequity" is among the greatest challenges facing the country, according to Biden, along with the "sting of systemic racism" and encroaching "white supremacy." Only now are we confronting "a cry for racial justice, some four hundred years in the making."
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Get ready for four years of vomit-inducing media fawning as our 'brave' journalists transform into PR agents for President Biden

Graham Dockery
RT
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:06 UTC
biden
© Reuters / Mike SegarJoe Biden speaks to reporters at New Castle Airport in New Castle, Delaware, December 15, 2020
Joe Biden is a swamp creature to his core, but to mainstream pundits, his arrival in Washington is akin to the second coming of Christ. The sycophancy is pathetic, but it'll soon get dangerous when Joe actually starts to govern.

The return of a clapped-out career politician to the White House has the mainstream media squealing with delight. Their liberal bias hasn't exactly been a secret these last four years ("fiery but mostly peaceful" Black Lives Matter protests vs. the "extremist insurrection" on Capitol Hill being the latest example), but their outpouring of emotion over Biden's inauguration would make even a North Korean news anchor blush.

"Those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial, along the reflecting pool, it's almost like extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America," CNN political director David Chalian gushed on Tuesday, describing a pre-inauguration Covid-19 remembrance ceremony attended by the incoming president.


Comment: As Glenn Greenwald put it, "Not even North Korean TV would say this. Just listen. LOL. Damn."


MSNBC commentator Eddie Glaude went a step further, comparing Biden to God himself. Quoting Psalm 147:3, Glaude declared that Biden "heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."


"Let the healing begin," CNN's Shimon Procupecz tweeted, as Biden departed Delaware for Washington, adding "we have needed this." New York Times editor Lauren Wolfe described feeling "chills" as old Joe touched down at Joint Base Andrews later that afternoon.

Comment: "If Biden really wanted unity, he'd lynch Mike Pence." So says NYT opinion writer Will Wilkinson...

Don't expect to see takes like this from the media anymore:

And expect to see more Silicon Valley 'massaging' of numbers for the Biden administration. They're already started, e.g., slashing down the dislikes on Psaki's first press briefing on YouTube. (From 10k down to 3.1k in one instance.)

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Dutch lead prosecutor on MH17 team plotted arrest & extradition of innocent man to Argentina in 2009


RT
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:48 UTC
Ferdinandusse
© (L) Piroschka van de Wouw / AFP; (R) Reuters(L) Dutch public prosecutor Ward Ferdinandusse; (R) Former pilot Julio Poch.
Dutch public prosecutor Ward Ferdinandusse has recently told a court how he concocted a plan to extradite a man to Argentina, where he spent eight years in prison before being acquitted. Ferdinandusse now co-leads the MH17 probe.

Ferdinandusse told a Rotterdam court that the Dutch had "initiated" an investigation into Julio Poch, a Dutch-Argentinian pilot with the country's Transavia airline, in 2008.

The accusations against Poch stem from the remarks he supposedly made at a dinner in Bali, Indonesia, in 2003. Several co-workers claimed the former Argentinian naval aviator defended the so-called 'death flights' - the extrajudicial killings carried out by the Argentinian military junta in the 1970s and 1980s, during which dissidents were drugged and thrown out of planes into Rio de la Plata river and the Atlantic Ocean. "We threw them into the sea," a drunk Poch was described as saying.

Comment: One can't expect a fair trial with those kinds of people leading the investigation:

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Right on cue for Biden, WHO admits high-cycle PCR tests produce COVID false positives


Zerohedge
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:30 UTC
casedemic
Were the 'conspiracy theorists' just proven right about the "fake rescue plan" for COVID?

Did the 'science-deniers' just get confirmation that it was political after all?

The short answer to both of these questions regarding the COVID-19 'casedemic' and the fallacy of asymptomatic PCR testing is YES and YES!

We have detailed the controversy surrounding America's COVID "casedemic" and the misleading results of the PCR test and its amplification procedure in great detail over the past few months.

As a reminder, "cycle thresholds" (Ct) are the level at which widely used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test can detect a sample of the COVID-19 virus. The higher the number of cycles, the lower the amount of viral load in the sample; the lower the cycles, the more prevalent the virus was in the original sample.

Comment: See also:

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Ice Age Farmer Report: End of the Grocery Store: Major Changes in Food Retail (and WHY)


Ice Age Farmer
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:12 UTC
ice age
Claims that COVID is spread at grocery stores are driving major retailers to move to online ordering and curbside pickup. These claims are laughable, but the agenda behind them is not: the elimination of farmers markets and smaller grocers, and the separation of consumers from the food supply in advance of food shortages. Christian breaks it down in this quick update.


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Stormtrooper

Biden's secretary of state nominee mulls new sanctions against Turkey over Russia's S-400 deal: 'Not acting as an ally should'


RT
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:00 UTC
Antony Blinken
© REUTERS / Alex EdelmanAntony Blinken
New US President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has lashed out at Ankara over its purchase of the Russian S-400 defense system, saying Washington could consider additional sanctions against Turkey.

"The idea that a strategic - so-called strategic - partner of ours would actually be in line with one of our biggest strategic competitors in Russia is not acceptable," Blinken told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing.

The man chosen by Biden as America's next top diplomat said Washington would need to "take a look to see the impact that the existing sanctions have had" on Turkey to determine if any additional measures needed to be taken.

Comment: It's doubtful Biden's administration will be able to influence Turkey's defense decisions any more than Trump's could, as they have been threatened over the purchases for years. Geopolitically, Erdogan knows he's in the catbird seat.

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Black Cat

Dear Leader gets to 'work': Biden signs orders on pandemic, climate, immigration


Washington Times
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:27 UTC
Biden
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty ImagesJoe Biden
In his first official acts as president, Joe Biden is signing executives orders on a broad range of issues, from the coronavirus pandemic to climate change and immigration, to fulfill campaign promises.

Highlights of actions Biden is taking Wednesday:

The coronavirus pandemic

Mask requirement:

Biden is requiring the use of masks and social distancing in all federal buildings, on federal lands and by federal employees and contractors. Consistently masking up is a practice that science has shown to be effective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus, particularly when social distancing is difficult to maintain.

He is challenging all Americans to wear a mask for the first 100 days of his administration. That's a critical period, since communities will still be vulnerable to the virus even as the pace of vaccination increases in pursuit of Biden's goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.

Comment: As to student debt, and housing issues, there is what his woke base wants, and there is what his billionaire handlers want. Any bets on who will prevail?

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Biden to block Trump's plan to lift COVID-19 European travel restrictions


NewsMax/ Reuters
Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:20 UTC
joe hunter biden air force 2 two china plane
© Ng Han Guan-Pool/Getty ImagesHunter Biden accompanied his father on several trips to China while Joe was vice-president
President-elect Joe Biden plans to quickly extend travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in much of Europe and Brazil soon after President Donald Trump lifted those requirements effective Jan. 26, a spokeswoman for Biden said.

Trump signed an order Monday lifting the restrictions he imposed early last year in response to the pandemic - a decision first reported Monday by Reuters - after winning support from coronavirus task force members and public health officials.

Soon after Trump's order was made public, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki tweeted "on the advice of our medical team, the Administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 1/26."

She added that "With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel."
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Biden or Bush? Democrats and neocons clamor to bring the 'war on terror' home, targeting Trump supporters as 'domestic terrorists'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:01 UTC
TrumpRally teargassed
© Reuters/Shannon StapletonTear gas released into the crowd contesting the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results by US Congress.
January 8, 2020
Just like that, the Democrats became the party of George W. Bush. You're either with them, or with Trump supporters who need to be treated just like Al-Qaeda, the media and political paladins of Our Democracy are now declaring.

"The pro-Trump fanatics stormed and trashed the citadel of American democracy, nearly executing what al-Qaeda had failed to do: destroy the US Capitol," Jeff Stein of the Daily Beast argued on Monday, gushing over a Democrat proposal to empower law enforcement to "prevent violent acts of domestic terrorism."

Wait, you might say. Al-Qaeda was accused of killing nearly 3,000 Americans at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. How can five deaths that happened during the Capitol unrest compare? Silence, bigot! What are you, a terrorist?
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