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Media campaigns create excuses to get Biden out of debates with Trump, without mentioning cognitive disintegration

Tony Cox
RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 01:26 UTC
Biden
© Reuters/Kevin LamarqueDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at the 11th Democratic primary debate hosted by CNN in Washington, DC.
Media outlets from the New York Times to CNN and Newsweek have offered Joe Biden various reasons over the past several days to skip debates with President Donald Trump. None mentions Biden's fading ability to speak coherently.

A New York Times opinion piece on Monday suggested that presidential debates should be scrapped altogether because they've "never made sense as a test for presidential leadership."
We didn't need the debates to tell us that Trump had chosen to be the P.T. Barnum of American politics. For him, it was (and still is) all about the show, about distracting the public from reality.
CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart, formerly press secretary for President Bill Clinton, wrote last week that it would be "a fool's errand to enter the ring with someone who can't follow the rules or tell the truth."
Biden will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But it's worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.
Newsweek noted on Saturday that supporters are urging Biden to avoid the debates for various reasons, such as:
"Trump is not a legitimate candidate" and debates are "outdated political rituals."

Comment: Five years ago there wasn't a chance in hell we might think this sort of 'wool over the eyes of the public' argument would stand a chance. And yet, here it is and the outcome is...uncomfortably uncertain.

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Bullseye

Trump goes after Deborah Birx one day after WH staff defended her from Pelosi's attacks

Christian Datoc
Daily Caller
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:23 UTC
Debora Birx
© Doug Mils/GettyImagesWhite House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Debora Birx
President Donald Trump tweeted his displeasure with Dr. Deborah Birx on Monday after she stated over the weekend that the coronavirus pandemic has entered a new phase and is now more widespread in both rural and urban settings than in previous months.

Trump has frequently criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci's public comments on the government's pandemic response but this is the first time he publicly criticized Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator.

"So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics," the president tweeted. "In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!"

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Attention

Another mercenary battalion deployed in Belarus to destabilize country claims President Lukashenko


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:27 UTC
Lukashenko
© BelTA via Reuters/Nikolai PetrovBelarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko
Another battalion of foreign contractors has been dispatched to Belarus to destabilize the country ahead of the election, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said. Last week, 33 suspected mercenaries were arrested in Minsk.

The detained men, whom the Belarusian KGB identified as members of the Wagner Group, a shady company providing mercenary services and operating out of Russia, "have told everything," Lukashenko stated in a video address to the nation.

"They've decided to use the technologies of the 'color revolution' in Belarus, but it's not going to work out," he said.

The arrest of the mercenaries is "a very dangerous and strong signal," the president said. The fact they had tickets to Istanbul on them was just a cover-up, as going to Turkey through Belarus made no sense, he insisted. "Those people - they testified - were sent to Belarus on purpose. Their order was to wait." According to Lukashenko, an attempt "to organize a massacre in central Minsk" was clearly their intention.

"Today we received information about another group [of mercenaries], deployed in the south" of the country, Lukashenko said. "So, we must run around the woods and catch them. We'll capture them all." He didn't specify from which country the militants had arrived.

The president also addressed the opposition, which has been staging massive anti-government rallies in the capital, ordering it to "stay out of the way and let me save the country."

Comment: If Lukashenko is close to the mark on his analysis, there is foul play afoot to destabilize Belarus. This kind of provocation is not known to be part of Russia's wheelhouse.

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30+ Russian citizens detained in Belarus as part of 'foreign' private military company - state media

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Star of David

The Mossad explodes with growth while IDF shrinks claims State Comptroller report

Yonah Jeremy Bob
The Jerusalem Post
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:22 UTC
Yossi Cohen
© Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem PostHead of Mossad, Yossi Cohen
State Comptroller report is extremely rare and detailed disclosure of usually classified internal Mossad proceedings and debates regarding long-term future of the organization. It includes a debate about moving its headquarters from Glilot, north of Tel Aviv, which took place in 2011.

On Monday the report drew attention to the explosive growth of the Mossad in recent years, far beyond its approved budget, compared with the IDF's shrinking budget. In fact, Matanyahu Englman's first major security report as comptroller says the spy agency exceeded its NIS 1.5 billion budget, reaching NIS 2.6b. for recent years. This is happening at the same time that the IDF is facing cutbacks across the board and having to make hard choices about discontinuing major weapons programs or forces to maintain others.
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Info

Ice Age Farmer Report: Rockefeller's "Reset the Table" - food tyranny & transform food supply


Ice Age Farmer
Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC
food
The Rockefeller Foundation has released a new report, "Reset The Table" -- an implied part of "The Great Reset" -- describing a radical transformation of our food system in the face of the most significant disruption to our food supply in history. The report calls to provide food to all (like UBI), use schools as community nutrition distribution anchors, de-fund farms/ranches via "true cost accounting" that includes CO2, provide funds to BIPOC, collect realtime data for AI/automation, and much, much more. Christian breaks down this report, which builds upon the assault upon global food supply and your ability to feed your family. Thank you for sharing this report to help spread the word.


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Black Cat

Bellingcat shill Eliot Higgins in Twitter meltdown after being accused of 'STEALING' Assange's quote describing WikiLeaks for own book


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:45 UTC
bellingcat wikileaks eliot higgins
© WikiLeaks/Twitter
There's evidently only room for one "people's intelligence agency," as Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins demonstrated in a recent twitter tirade against WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, over the descriptor.

A new book by Higgins on Bellingcat bills the organization as an "intelligence agency for the people." Which 'people' he means is up for debate, given that Bellingcat is partially funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and spends a good deal of that money smearing anti-establishment candidates, accusing Russian media of stoking race riots and shooting down airplanes, and drumming up support for war in Syria.

The slogan "an intelligence agency for the people" was first coined by WikiLeaks founder Assange, whose own investigative work has seen him jailed in the UK and facing extradition to the US on espionage charges. In a tweet namechecking Bellingcat on Tuesday, WikiLeaks said that while it is "great to see others adopting 'intelligence agency of the people' to describe themselves...not all measure up."

Comment: If Eliot Higgins had a scrap of sense, he would sit down. He is up to his eyeballs in spooks and every egotistical outburst brings that fact to light even more. His psy-op organization Bellingcat has close relations with intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Alarm Clock

Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal

Greg Roumeliotis, Echo Wang and Matt Spetalnick
Yahoo Finance
Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:02 UTC
bytedance
People walk past a logo of Bytedance, which owns short video app TikTok, at its office in Beijing
President Donald Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days, three people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

The move represents an about-face for Trump and prompted the U.S. tech giant to declare its interest in the blockbuster social media deal that could further inflame U.S.-China relations. Trump said on Friday he was planning to ban TikTok amid concerns that its Chinese ownership represents a national security risk because of the personal data it handles.

The proposed acquisition of TikTok, which boasts 100 millions U.S. users, would offer Microsoft a rare opportunity to become a major competitor to social media giants such as Facebook Inc <FB.O> and Snap Inc <SNAP.N>. Microsoft also owns professional social media network LinkedIn.

Trump had dismissed the idea of a sale to Microsoft on Friday. But following a discussion between Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the Redmond, Washington-based company said in a statement on Sunday that it would continue negotiations to acquire TikTok from ByteDance, and that it aimed to reach a deal by Sept. 15.

This is a deadline that was put to ByteDance and Microsoft by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which scrutinizes deals for potential national security risks, according to the sources.

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Bad Guys

US troop size in Afghanistan will reduce to 4,000 'very soon', Trump says

Ayaz Gul
VOA News
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:36 UTC
pompeo taliban
© Taliban mediaPhoto released by the Taliban spokesman from Pompeo-Baradar video meeting.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan will be reduced to "anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000" troops by November this year.

Trump's remarks to Axios for HBO came as the Afghan Taliban has said its chief peace negotiator in a video meeting on Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the state of the Afghan peace process.

"It's already planned. We'll be down in a very short period of time to 8,000 [troops], then we're going to be down to 4,000, we're negotiating right now. We have been there for 19 years," Trump told the media outlet. The U.S. president declined to specify the exact time but said that it would happen "very soon."

When asked how many American troops will be in Afghanistan on U.S. election day in November, Trump said it would be "probably, anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000."

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the U.S. president also stressed "We're leaving Afghanistan fairly shortly."

The U.S military began a gradual drawdown soon after the Trump administration sealed a peace pact with the Taliban insurgency in February to close the 19-year-old Afghan war, America's longest.
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Vader

Houston mayor orders police to punish residents who refuse to wear masks with $250 fines


RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:45 UTC
travelers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
© Reuters / Adrees LatifFILE PHOTO: Travelers receive complimentary face masks as they enter the George Bush Intercontinental Airport amid the coronavirus outbreak in Houston, Texas.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is ratcheting up enforcement of a state Covid-19 mask mandate, ordering police to cite residents who refuse to wear a face covering after being warned and to penalize them with a $250 fine.

"For months, we have been focusing on education and not citations, but now I am instructing the Houston Police Department to issue the necessary warnings and citations to anyone not wearing a mask in public if they do not meet the criteria for an exemption," the mayor said Monday at a press briefing.


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Bizarro Earth

US signs deal with Kurdish-led rebels to steal Syrian oil


Reuters
Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:37 UTC
Kurds flag SDF
Syria's foreign ministry said on Sunday that an American oil company had signed an agreement with Kurdish-led rebels who control northeastern oilfields in what it described as an illegal deal aimed at "stealing" Syria's crude.

A ministry statement, published on state media, did not name the firm involved in the deal with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance that seized swathes of north and east Syria from Islamic State with U.S. help.

There was no immediate response from SDF officials to a Reuters' request for comment. There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials on Sunday.

Comment: So this is US withdrawal from Syria?

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