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Another 'worst deal ever'? US withdrawal from crucial Open Skies treaty is done deal, Russian FM believes

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Moscow thinks Washington is on the brink of pulling out from a crucial arms-control treaty it once helped develop. Reports about the move have circulated for weeks, with top US lawmakers warning of its dire ramifications.

The decision to depart from the Treaty on Open Skies "has already been taken in Washington," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the media, citing experts "watching how the situation is developing."

"We believe that these assessments have a significant element of truth," the chief diplomat offered.
We draw nearly the same conclusions based on our contacts with the Americans and with NATO members, as well as other parties to the Open Skies Treaty.

Bad Guys

Architect of legal abortion in UK resigns after child abuse cover-up accusations surface

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© Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty ImagesLord David Steel attends the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster on October 14, 2019 in London, England.
This month is the 52nd anniversary of UK's Abortion Act, sponsored by David Steel in 1967. Steel has now been accused of child abuse cover-up.

Next Monday, April 27th is the 52nd anniversary of the coming into effect of the UK's Abortion Act (1967), the key legislation which opened up abortion on a mass scale in England, Wales, and Scotland.

The government has been celebrating early, first by imposing abortion on Northern Ireland, to which the Act never applied, and then by loosening the rules on 'do it yourself', home abortions, in the context of the Coronavirus epidemic.

A lot of things have happened since 1967 in the UK, as in other jurisdictions, which have clarified the issues at stake. The Member of Parliament who sponsored the passage of this law — it was not a government bill — later admitted that he had grossly underestimated the number of abortions that would be performed under the Act.

Comment: This shows quite clearly the failures of 'the law' when it comes to human conscience. There are many, many issues that continually degrade human beings into accepting twisted aspects of reality. The failure of nuance and the allowance of incremental injustice to compensate for the harsh realities people would rather deny are apparent among these issues.


Bad Guys

EU disburses 'Covid-19 emergency funds' - Hungary (199 deaths) gets €5.6bn, Italy (23,000 deaths) gets €2.3bn


Comment: By the official numbers, this is bonkers.

Unless... the 'Covid-19 death numbers' are completely arbitrary and in fact have little to do with this virus?


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Just when you thought its handling of the pandemic couldn't get any worse, Brussels plunges to new depths by giving countries with far fewer cases much more than those who've seen thousands die. Do they WANT Italy to break away?

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued a grovelling "heartfelt apology" to Italy on behalf of Europe last week for its lack of help at the onset of the country's Covid-19 pandemic, the gesture was accepted at face value.

But this week, as the EU announced a Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative of €37 billion that it would apparently dole out to countries hit hardest by the pandemic, there was another bodyblow for the Italians when, frankly, the nation is already on the ropes.

With a population of 60 million, more than 178,972 Covid-19 cases and 23,660 deaths so far, and an economy in crisis, Italy has been handed €2.3 billion from the fund to help it battle its economic ills.

Vader

Declassified Horowitz footnotes show Obama officials knew Steele dossier was 'Russian' disinformation designed to target Trump

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© AP/Victoria Jones/PAChristopher Steele



Comment: In reading Carter's otherwise excellent article, keep in mind that the "Russian disinformation" was actually concocted by the intelligence services of the UK and US , which the Australians helped to disseminate.


Newly declassified footnotes from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's December FBI report reveals that senior Obama officials, including members of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane team knew the dossier compiled by a former British spy during the 2016 election was Russian disinformation to target President Donald Trump.

Further, the partially declassified footnotes reveal that those senior intelligence officials were aware of the disinformation when they included the dossier in the Obama administration's Intelligence Communities Assessment (ICA).

As important, the footnotes reveal that there had been a request to validate information collected by British spy Christopher Steele as far back as 2015, and that there was concern among members of the FBI and intelligence community about his reliability. Those concerns were brushed aside by members of the Crossfire Hurricane team in their pursuit against the Trump campaign officials, according to sources who spoke to this reporter and the footnotes.

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Bad Guys

Robert F Kennedy Jr. warns of WHO genocide - DTP vaccine kills at TEN TIMES the unvaxxed rate

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Prior to 2017, neither HHS nor WHO performed the kind of vaccinated/unvaxxed (or placebo) study necessary to ascertain if the DTP vaccine actually yields beneficial health outcomes. The US and western nations discontinued the DTP in the 1980s following thousands of deaths and brain injuries.

But Bill Gates and his surrogates, GAVI & WHO, made DTP a priority for their African vaccine program. Scandinavian governments, a vaccine manufacturer (SSI) and other international funders commissioned this study by the world's leading experts on African vaccines.

The two most prominent names Drs Soren Morgensen & Peter Aaby are both vocal vaccine supporters. They were shocked when they examined years of data from a so-called "natural experiment" in Guinea Bissau where 50% of children die before age 5. In that nation half the children were vaccinated with the DTP vaccine at 3 months & the other half at 6 mos.

Comment: Western nations discontinued use of the use of DTP vaccines because of the damage it caused. How can Gates and WHO supporters continue to rely on this man and organization as humanitarian when their own scientific establishment has shown them as destroyers of life?


Question

100 days after the assassination of Soleimani: Did the US achieve its objectives?

A breach in the Israeli fence on the Lebanese-Syrian borders
© Photo @alishoeib1970A breach in the Israeli fence on the Lebanese-Syrian borders and a portrait of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandes, Qasem Soleimani and Imad Moughnniyeh left behind
On the 3rd January 2020, a US drone assassinated Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - Quds Brigade at Baghdad airport. Soleimani had come to Iraq at the request of Prime Minister Adil Abdel Mahdi following ongoing mediation between Iran and Saudi Arabia- plus a request from President Donald Trump for Iraq to convince Iran to de-escalate the high tension dominating the Middle East. Soleimani had been also appointed by the Iraqi government as a military advisor for the war on ISIS. Destiny waited for the Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes to be present welcoming Soleimani and be assassinated as well by the US. Over 100 days have now gone by. What were the US's objectives- and what did they really achieve? Sardar (Commander) Soleimani was also leading the "Axis of the Resistance" that expands from Gaza, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, to Sanaa.

Following the assassination of Soleimani, the leader of the revolution Sayyed Ali Khamenei replaced him with his deputy, General Ismail Qaani. Soleimani had nominated Qaani as his substitute in case of martyrdom, a martyrdom Soleimani had aspired to for many years.

The first visit of the Iranian general Qaani was to Syria, where he met President Bashar al-Assad (on several occasions). He also visited the front line in Aleppo and Idlib (the city hosting "the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11"), and met with field commanders to have a sense of the terrain where his officers and allies are deployed, ready to re-take the M4 linking Aleppo to Latakia if Turkey failed to remove jihadists along the road.

Comment: Don't miss the following perspective on this story: What War Was Trump Trying to Stop by Killing Iranian General Soleimani?


Black Magic

Best of the Web: Sabotage: Labour's own senior staff acted to keep Corbyn out of power, leaked internal report reveals

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© Press AssociationJeremy Corbyn speaking to another overflow crowd, this time in Gateshead, northeast England, on 5 June 2017
In the June 2017 UK general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of power. If just 2,227 votes had gone the other way, seven Tory knife-edge constituencies would have been won by Labour, putting Corbyn in a strong position to lead a coalition government.

Labour achieved 40 per cent in the election, increasing its share of the vote by more than any other of the party's election leaders since 1945. As we noted at the time, it was one of the most astonishing results in UK political history.

A leaked internal Labour report now reveals that senior Labour figures were actively trying to stop Labour winning the general election in order to oust Corbyn as party leader. The 860-page document, 'The work of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019', first leaked to Sky News, was the product of an extensive internal investigation into the way Labour handled antisemitism complaints.

The report includes copious damning examples of email and WhatsApp exchanges among Labour officials expressing contempt for Jeremy Corbyn and anyone who supported him, including other Labour staff, Labour MPs and even the public.

Comment: Destroyed from within, aided by factions without: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Introducing Political Ponerology, plus some odds and ends


Bad Guys

Turkish-backed Libyan forces approach strategic city in northwest Libya

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© AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIALibyan pro-government forces walk next to their vehicle mounted with a machine gun on May 18, 2016 in Abu Grein, south of Libya's third city Misrata, a day after Libya's unity government recaptured the area from the Islamic State (IS) group. four of the Bodies of The organization of the Islamic State (Daash) in a truck in Abu Qurayn About 300 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli , on May 18, 2016. The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces said on Facebook that they recaptured Abu Grein strategic crossroads, where the coastal highway meets the main road south into the desert interior on May 17, 2016.
Mustafa al-Mujai, a spokesman for the forces affiliated with the Government of National Accord (GNA), said on Saturday that their forces are advancing towards the city of Tarhuna from 5 axes.

Al-Majei said that their forces have extended control of several areas on the outskirts of Tarhuna city, which is located in the northwestern region of Libya.

He explained that their forces captured dozens of soldiers from the army of Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, and caused many deaths during the fighting throughout the day.

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Syringe

The Gates Foundation's vaccination activism

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The foundation of former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" (BMGF), is controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates and hedge fund manager Warren Buffett. The foundation holds assets worth about $50 billion - about half of which originates from Buffett - and finances a large number of charitable projects.

Second only to the USA, the BMGF is one of the largest donors to the World Health Organization (WHO) and paid it more than $200 million in 2018 - more than Germany, France and Sweden combined in the same period. But this is not the only way in which the WHO is financed by Gates. GAVI, formerly known as the "Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation", provided the WHO with an additional $150 million in 2018. One of GAVI's main donors is again the BMGF, with $1.5 billion in 2016, for example.

It can therefore be said that the BMGF and thus the Gates family and Warren Buffett are the main source of income for the WHO through direct and indirect channels, which raises questions about its independence from these sources of finance. In addition, the BMGF also provided funding for the establishment of the "Coalition for Epidemic Prevention Innovation" (CEPI), which is concerned with the research and development of vaccines, amounting to around $100 million in 2017. In addition, the Foundation regularly supports non-governmental organisations such as PATH, which are involved in the development of vaccination technologies, with millions of dollars in funding. The list of BMGF's beneficiaries also includes the largest global pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Aventis. The comprehensive influence of the BMGF in the vaccination sector is therefore obvious.

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Passport

Best of the Web: Corona World Order: Chileans granted permission to leave their homes IF they sign up for 'immunity passports' to prove they're not infected

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© AP Photo/Esteban FelixA flight passenger is screened with a thermal imaging camera at the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, on April 20.
Chile announced plans Monday to issue the world's first "immunity passports" for recovered coronavirus patients that would make residents exempt from quarantines and other restrictions, according to a report on Monday.

The cards, which will be rolled out later this week, will allow those who have recovered from the virus to return to work.

"It's precisely they who can help the community enormously, because they don't present a risk," Health Minister Jaime Mañalich said last week, according to the Washington Post.

More than 4,600 people who have recovered from COVID-19 in the country will be eligible, according to Paula Daza, an undersecretary of public health in Chile.

Residents can also apply for the cards, which will be issued to people with a "very high probability" of being noncontagious. Others who apply may be tested for antibodies to determine if they are eligible.


Comment: And how exactly will they determine that? Flip a coin?


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