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North Korean State Media: Kim Jong-Un resurfaces after death rumors

Phillip Nieto
Daily Caller
Fri, 01 May 2020 09:34 UTC
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Kim Jong-Un made his first public appearance on Friday during the opening of a fertilizer plant after weeks of rumors circulating about his health, North Korean media reports.

The state media outlet Korean Central News Agency broke the news Friday reporting that the "supreme leader" was pictured cutting the ribbon of a a new fertilizer plant in a town north of Pyongyang, according to a translation from South Korean Yonhap News Agency. Kim is seen pictured alongside several party officials cutting a large ribbon.

"All the participants broke into thunderous cheers of 'hurrah!' extending the greatest glory to the Supreme Leader who has brought about a new change in the development of Juche-based fertilizer industry and has led the grand revolutionary advance for strengthening self-supporting economy to a victory with his outstanding leadership," the North Korean outlet said Friday.

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Trudeau announces Canada is banning assault-style weapons

Leyland Cecco
The Guardian
Fri, 01 May 2020 19:39 UTC
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Move comes after murder of 22 people in worst mass shooting in Canada's history

Canada has banned assault-style weapons following the murder of 22 people in the worst mass shooting in the country's history, Justin Trudeau announced on Friday.

"These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada," said the prime minister. "Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country."

Comment: The most important point in the above piece is "The new ban would probably not have stopped Wortman". It is overwhelmingly not the legal gun owners who are involved in the mass shootings and this ban will do nothing to stop illegal guns from getting in the hands of those who would do harm to the public. In other words, this move is more about assuaging people's fears than taking steps that will actually reduce gun violence.

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Clinton Global Initiative gets behind the total surveillance state and the incitement of citizen-led authoritarianism

Mike Luongo
Gold, Goats N' Guns
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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Contact Tracing? Really? That's the next big government program to push for total surveillance over our lives. Now the real fallout from the Coronapocalypse comes to light.

The very people who created a fake pandemic out of faulty statistics, media fear-pimping and the rankest of propaganda are now pushing the total surveillance state to protect us (them?) from the next crisis.

James Corbett from the Corbett Report just published an excellent video discussing 'contact tracing' as promulgated by (who else?) the Clinton Global Initiative to create an army of new Brown Shirts to assist our wise and benevolent leaders in managing us like livestock.

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Macron warns that life won't return to 'normal' after lockdown ends in May Day address


France24
Fri, 01 May 2020 15:51 UTC
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© France24French President Emmanuel Macron takes part at the traditional Lily of the valley ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 1, 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Friday that the end of the national lockdown on May 11 would only be a first step as France looks to pull out of the crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic.

Traditional Labour Day protests that usually see thousands of demonstrators on streets were cancelled this year due to the virus outbreak that has killed more than 24,000 people across France.

"May 11 will not be the passage to normal life. There will be a recovery that will need to be reorganised," Macron said in a speech at the presidential palace after a meeting with horticulturists.

"There will be several phases and May 11 will be one of them," the president added.

Comment: RT reports on more of the insanity, this time the Mayor of Nice is joining what seems to be a growing call from officials for 'health passports':
Christian Estrosi posted the details of his letter on Facebook a day after PM Philippe unveiled plans to ease France's lockdown in May, including finally increasing the strict one-kilometer movement limit to 100km of a person's home. Philippe warned that people would need to "learn to live with the virus" while also starting to increase their movement and return to work if the country is to avert economic disaster.

Estrosi suggests that the health passport would operate by showing that the bearer has tested negative for Covid-19 within the 48 hours before travel. The mayor's proposal comes while France is still under severe lockdown restrictions introduced on March 17, with many residents eager to get back to a life resembling normality. Estrosi believes that a "health passport" could be the way forward for relaxing the measures even further - while limiting the negative impact on public health.

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France is not the first country where this proposal has been raised as a possible solution to reopening the economy amid a global pandemic. Other EU governments - including Italy and Greece - are also mulling over the implementation of a "health passport" system this summer in order to revive their struggling tourism industries.

The tourism sector makes up just over 10 percent of the EU's GDP, and has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic as whole nations locked down in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Airlines have been severely affected, with the UN aviation agency predicting a 1.5 billion drop in the number of air travelers this year.

It's worth noting that there is a distinction between Estrosi's "health passport" proposal and the "immunity passport" solution that Germany has been considering. The health passport would require regular testing of individuals for current infections, while the immunity passport would involve antibody tests, which are far less reliable and it's not yet clear whether antibodies are an indication of immunity against further Covid-19 infection, as recently flagged by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Both 'passport' types, however, have brought up concerns about the trade-off between individual privacy and easing nationwide lockdowns.


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SOTT Focus: Corbett Report: Who is Bill Gates?

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Fri, 01 May 2020 20:23 UTC
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Who is Bill Gates?

A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert?

This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realize that Gates' unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development. And now that we are presented with the very problem that Gates has been talking about for years, we will soon find that this software developer with no medical training is going to leverage that wealth into control over the fates of billions of people.

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What's in the archives? Panicked Biden tries to dodge search for sexual assault claims proof in bizarre Morning Joe interview

Helen Buyniski
RT
Fri, 01 May 2020 20:06 UTC
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Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden came off panicked in an interview that was supposed to put the Tara Reade sexual assault allegations to rest, raising questions about what incriminating evidence is in his archives.

An increasingly nervous Biden appeared to unravel before viewers' eyes in an interview with Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe on Friday. The former vice president became noticeably agitated as the host pushed him to allow a search for former Senate staffer Tara Reade's name in his personal archives at the University of Delaware, records the university recently ordered re-sealed until two years after Biden "retires from public life."

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'The People is a Great Beast': The inevitable coronavirus censorship is here

Matt Taibbi
taibbi.substack.com
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet

Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine - fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute type - ran an in-depth article of the problems free speech pose to American society in the coronavirus era. The headline:
Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.
Authored by a pair of law professors from Harvard and the University of Arizona, Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, the piece argued that the American and Chinese approaches to monitoring the Internet were already not that dissimilar:
Constitutional and cultural differences mean that the private sector, rather than the federal and state governments, currently takes the lead in these practices... But the trend toward greater surveillance and speech control here, and toward the growing involvement of government, is undeniable and likely inexorable.
They went on to list all the reasons that, given that we're already on an "inexorable" path to censorship, a Chinese-style system of speech control may not be such a bad thing. In fact, they argued, a benefit of the coronavirus was that it was waking us up to "how technical wizardry, data centralization, and private-public collaboration can do enormous public good."
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The dubious COVID models, tests and consequences

F. William Engdahl
Global Research
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for the coronavirus first claimed to have erupted in Wuhan China, now dubbed SARS-CoV-2. With astonishing lack of transparency or checking, one government after the other has imposed China-model lockdowns on their entire populations. It begins to look as if we are being led like sheep to slaughter for corrupted science.

The Dubious COVID Models

Two major models are being used in the West since the alleged spread of coronavirus to Europe and USA to "predict" and respond to the spread of COVID-19 illness. One was developed at Imperial College of London. The second was developed, with emphasis on USA effects, by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, near the home of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. What few know is that both groups owe their existence to generous funding by a tax exempt foundation that stands to make literally billions on purported vaccines and other drugs to treat coronavirus — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Comment: See also:
The British Corona Middle Man And The Bill Gates Connection

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Backing the wrong horseman

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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Nobody knows how many people died as a result of the UK/US Coalition of Death-led destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, by proxy, Syria and Yemen. Nobody even knows how many people western forces themselves killed directly. That is a huge number, but still under 10% of the total. To add to that you have to add those who died in subsequent conflict engendered by the forced dismantling of the state the West disapproved of. Some were killed by western proxies, some by anti-western forces, and some just by those reverting to ancient tribal hostility and battle for resources into which the country had been regressed by bombing.

You then have to add all those who died directly as a result of the destruction of national infrastructure. Iraq lost in the destruction 60% of its potable drinking water, 75% of its medical facilities and 80% of its electricity. This caused millions of deaths, as did displacement. We are only of course talking about deaths, not maiming. This very sober analysis from Salon makes a stab at 2.4 million for Iraqi deaths caused by the war.

The number of Iraqi casualties is not just a historical dispute, because the killing is still going on today. Since several major cities in Iraq and Syria fell to Islamic State in 2014, the U.S. has led the heaviest bombing campaign since the American War in Vietnam, dropping 105,000 bombs and missiles and reducing most of Mosul and other contested Iraqi and Syrian cities to rubble.

Comment: It is our circumstantial and personal context re: life-threatening danger that determines the degree of emotional response as empathy, horror or a passing interest for 'death'.

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Why V-shaped US economic recovery is a myth

Dr. Jack Rasmus
Global Research
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Yuri Gripes/ReutersTreasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
The spin is in! Trump administration economic 'message bearers', Steve Mnuchin, US Treasury Secretary, and Kevin Hasset, senior economic adviser to Trump, this past Sunday on the Washington TV talking heads circuit launched a coordinated effort to calm the growing public concern that the current economic contraction may be as bad (or worse) than the great depression of the 1930s.

Various big bank research departments predicting a GDP contraction in the first quarter (January-March 2020) anywhere from -4% to -7.5%, and for the current second quarter, a further contraction from -30% to -40%: Morgan Stanley investment bank says 30%. The bond market investment behemoth, PIMCO, estimates a 30% fall in GDP. Even Congress's Budget Office recently estimate the contraction in GDP could be as high as -40% in the 2nd quarter.

Mnuchin-Hassett's New Old Normal

Despite the flashing red lights on the state of the US economy, the Trump administration's key economic spokespersons are pushing the official line that the economy will soon quickly 'snap back'. On the near horizon is a V-shape recovery coming in the 3rd quarter (July-September) or, at the latest, the following 4th quarter. The economy may be particularly bad, they admit, but be patient folks a return to normal is on the way before year end!
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