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Acting DHS Chief Chad Wolf: Law enforcement is "proactively" arresting people In Portland

Ian Schwartz
RealClearPolitics
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:19 UTC
Chad Wolf
© KVIA/ABCActing Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said the federal government "will not retreat," promising "we will continue to protect our facilities and our law enforcement" in an interview with FOX News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday. Acting Secretary Wolf defended the tactic of proactively arresting demonstrators that are attacking federal police officers and federal property.

"Anytime that you attack a federal facility such as a courthouse in Portland that is a federal crime," Wolf said. "Attacking federal police officers -- law enforcement officers -- which they have done for 52 nights in a row is a federal crime. So, the Department [of Homeland Security], because we don't have that local support, that local law enforcement support, we are having to go out and proactively arrest individuals and we need to do that because we need to hold them accountable."

"This idea that they can attack federal property and law enforcement officers and go to the other side of the street and say you can't touch me is ridiculous," Wolf continued. "We don't do that in any other type of law enforcement. We pursue a criminal, we investigate, we pull them over if we have probable cause. We arrest them, we charge them, and we prosecute them. And you need to hold individuals accountable and when we don't do that I think we get what we see in Portland today."


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Bulb

Sweden reveals new coronavirus test-and-trace strategy: Do it yourself


The Local, Sweden
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:05 UTC
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Sweden's Public Health Agency is changing its coronavirus recommendations to make it easier to make patients themselves responsible for tracking down anyone they may have infected.

If you test positive for the coronavirus you may now be given instructions to call people with whom you have been in contact and may have infected, instead of healthcare staff doing the job for you, or it not being done at all. Similar procedures apply to other infectious diseases in Sweden such as chlamydia.

"It is much better that you and I do it ourselves than having someone sitting at a contact tracing unit doing it for you," Bitte Bråstad, head of the Public Health Agency's legal department, told news agency TT.

The new guidelines come following a decision by the Public Health Agency on Monday to repeal previous rules on contact tracing, which only passed the responsibility onto the patient in exceptional circumstances.

The new rules, yet to be published, are meant to make it easier to allow the patient to carry out contact tracing.

"The healthcare sector has had to make a whole bunch of decisions to be able to delegate that responsibility and they have not had time for that. It has not been possible. It has been difficult and it need not be," said Bråstad.


Comment: It has been difficult to let people be responsible for themselves. Covid-1984 in a nutshell.

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Piggy Bank

The EU's €1.1 trillion budget and €750 billion bailout prove you can never taper a Ponzi scheme

Mitchell Feierstein
RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:43 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Jens Schicke via www.imago-image
The European Union bailout announced this week won't be enough, and it'll be the obedient EU taxpayers who have to pick up the tab for future packages. Britain should be relieved it's no longer part of this sorry mess.

This week's futile European Union 'kick-the-can-down-the-road' budget and bailout negotiations proved to be contentious, but as always, Germany won. France crumbled, and the resistance - feebly led by the Netherlands and featuring Denmark, Sweden and Austria - caved. What a shock!

Well, it shouldn't be a shock. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Will €750 billion bail out the EU's bloated sovereign balance sheets, corporations, insolvent banks, underfunded pension funds, ludicrous property valuations and busted supply chains? Absolutely no way. This is the beginning of the EU's flame-out.

The EU's endgame has always been a power grab all about globalization. Membership has no privileges, but it does require subservience - every member must surrender their sovereignty. All member states are required to give up all of their rights to create laws independent of the EU Court of Justice while pledging full and unfettered compliance and obedience to the opaquely appointed five presidents of the European Commission. Good deal? No way.

The EU could never work without a central treasury mechanism, which ensures that each of the member states is equally compliant with fiscal and budgetary constraints and the rule of law. Unfortunately, the EU's composition and structure have been skewed in Germany's favour from day one - and behind the scenes, Germany has always been the economic powerhouse driving the economic engine of the EU.
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Briefcase

Harry Dunn death: UK closes loophole that let Anne Sacoolas claim 'diplomatic immunity'

Matthew Weaver
The Guardian
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:16 UTC
pompeo raab UK
© Mark Thomas/Rex/ShutterstockDominic Raab and Mike Pompeo leaving 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, July 21, 2020.
Family's lawyer welcomes move as step towards securing US extradition of Anne Sacoolas

The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has announced the closing of secret legal loophole that allowed Harry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas to claim diplomatic immunity.

A lawyer for Dunn's family welcomed the move as a "huge step" in securing the extradition to the UK of Sacoolas to stand trial.

Sacoolas, the wife of a CIA agent who was working at the US intelligence base RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire, was allowed to return to the US days after allegedly driving her car on the wrong side of the road on 27 August and crashing into Dunn on his motorcycle.

In a written statement to parliament, Raab said he and US and UK officials had agreed new arrangements to prevent family members of staff stationed at the base from claiming immunity from prosecution in future.

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Bizarro Earth

The technocratic global elite and the Coronavirus coup d'état

Spiro Skouras
Activist Post
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Coronavirus Coup D’état
In this interview, Spiro is joined by Patrick Wood who is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and the history of Technocracy.

Spiro and Patrick Wood discuss what is technocracy, who are the technocrats and what is their agenda.

The two also analyze how the social engineers have positioned themselves to capitalize upon this manufactured crisis to implement their technocratic agenda.

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Propaganda

Best of the Web: 'Russia Report': Once-mighty British intelligence has been reduced to regurgitating sensationalist Buzzfeed stories

Paul Robinson
RT
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:49 UTC
Copies of the London Evening Standard newspaper
© Getty Images / Richard Baker / In PicturesCopies of the London Evening Standard newspaper lead with a headline about government ministers' controversial decision to hold back until after the current general election on 12th November 2019, in the City of London, England
The 'Russia Report' gives us an insight into the dearth of genuine expertise available to British officials on Russia. It also introduces a new style of investigation: Seeking evidence to support predetermined judgements

On Tuesday, the British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee issued a 50-page report detailing its views on the danger Russia poses to British security. "The security threat posed by Russia," the report says, "appears fundamentally nihilistic... It is clear that Russia poses a significant threat to the UK on a number of fronts - from espionage to interference in democratic processes, and to serious crime."

The report further argues that the British intelligence community "took their eyes off the ball" and the government "badly underestimated the Russian threat." In particular, the government and its intelligence agencies failed to investigate claims that the Russian state had interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. The government, however, has rejected the committee's demand that such an investigation now take place.

Comment: This phenomenon is not isolated to the UK. The US intelligence community - 17 agencies we were told! - initially supported the Russian collusion narrative, and we know what happened there. At the same time, and on the whole, it seems that the UK's anti-Russia narratives come quite close in their level of deceptiveness to the US!

A small sampling:

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Attention

US orders China to shut down its Houston, Texas consulate in 72 hours


Sputnik
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:19 UTC
chinese consulate houston
The Global Times' editor-in-chief had claimed earlier that Washington asked Beijing to close down one of its five consulates in the country, specifically, the one located in Houston, Texas. The Chinese Foreign Ministry later confirmed this report.

The United States has asked China to close its Passport and Visa Office at the China Consulate General in Houston, Texas, according to the Global Times editor-in-chief, as cited by Reuters.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed the development, saying that Washington had "abruptly" informed Beijing to close down its Texas consulate on 21 July.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Best of the Web: Arkansas National Guard begins relocating 'positive Covid-19 cases' to 'quarantine isolation facility'

Vanessa Paige
msn.com
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC
Via thv11.com


Comment: This was quietly reported in local US media last week. Together with the story about the Arkansas couple who were raided by S.W.A.T. and placed in ankle monitors and enforced house arrest, there appear to be 'trial attempts' afoot to see how far they can go with physically putting people into camps...


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And this is being done by a REPUBLICAN-controlled state...
Arkansas National Guard medics are gearing up to help staff a quarantine isolation facility.

Thursday, the Arkansas Department of Health shared more info about its run and its purpose.

"We signed up to do this job and it's just everything that we've wanted to do," Arkansas National Guard Private First-Class Bailey Hile said.

Starting next week, 14 Arkansas National Guardsman will be assisting with the only quarantine isolation facility in the state.

"We have come in basically to assist the staff that is already there. We are providing patient care, we are providing meals to patients," Hile said.

They'll help with everything from supplying clothing and doing laundry to providing three meals a day and monitoring patients' health.

Comment: Years ago - decades, even - many Americans braced themselves for 'FEMA camps' and 'black helicopters' sent by a faceless N.W.O. under the pretext of 'disaster management'. This was of course held up as an example of 'paranoid conspiracy theory'...

Well, a phony pandemic (insofar as it's not a mortal threat to the general population) later, 'camps' are indeed in the works.

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Snakes in Suits

Tories accused of £3.6bn funding bias, favoring marginal seats over England's most deprived towns

Rajeev Syal
The Guardian
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
Jenrick
© Stefan Rousseau/PARajeev SyalLabour has called on the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, to give a full explanation on how the money was distributed.
Some of the most deprived towns in England were left out of a £3.6bn scheme to boost funding, fuelling suspicions in Labour that the money was diverted to Conservative marginal seats instead.

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that hundreds of towns were ruled out of a competition to share in the Towns Fund without explanation.

Out of 101 places selected for the funds, ministers had a hand in choosing at least 60, according to Labour research - and many were either Tory target seats or Conservative-held seats with slim majorities.

Comment: When political parties are redrawing constituency lines to favor their party in future elections, is it so surprising that they would allocate funds in such a way as to leverage elections? Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Introducing Political Ponerology, plus some odds and ends

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Snakes in Suits

'Turkey will remain in Syria until Syrian people are free' - Erdogan


Jerusalem Post
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:17 UTC
russia turkey syria
© AP
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkish forces, which have carried out several incursions into northern Syria since 2016, would remain in the country until Syrians can live in freedom and safety."

Nowadays they are holding an election, a so-called election," Erdogan said of a parliamentary election on Sunday in Syria's government-controlled regions, after nearly a decade of civil war.

"Until the Syrian people are free, peaceful and safe, we will remain in this country," he said in a speech in Ankara.

Comment: It seems Erdogan is taking a leaf from the American playbook, claiming to be a protective rather than invading force, because it's highly unlikely that Erdogan has the Syrian people's best interests at heart:

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