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First Corbyn, now Sanders: Why the Transatlantic democratic socialist wave is not to be

Nicholas Sheppard
RT
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:34 UTC
corbyn and bernie sanders
© Getty Images / Christopher Furlong; Getty Images / Bill Pugliano
With Keir Starmer replacing Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the UK Labour Party, and Bernie Sanders suspending his campaign in the US, the wave of democratic socialism, which seemed capable of reshaping both the US and UK, has receded.

There are four major reasons why: the limits to which such movements can broaden their base, timing and events, ideological inflexibility in the face of criticism, and attempts to weaponize PC identity politics along with their more mainstream colleagues, which were undermined in the public eye by contradictions like the scandal around anti-Semitism in the UK Labour Party, and the obnoxious behaviour of some of the 'Bernie Bros' in the US.

In late 2019, the opposition Labour Party in the UK, led by a self-identified democratic socialist, was running level with the government in the polls. A few months later in the United States, a self-identified democratic socialist leading a fervent, well-funded and well-organised grass-roots movement seemed poised to capture the Democratic nomination for president, and was performing well in hypothetical match-ups in key states against the incumbent. For a moment, it looked like both the US and UK might be transformed by socialist-influenced administrations.
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Megaphone

'Mere insinuation offends me': Italy's PM Conte blasts suggestion of ulterior motive behind Russian coronavirus aid


RT
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:46 UTC
russia aid italy
© Russian Defence Ministry / Handout via Reuters / Alexey Ereshko
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has called any suggestion that Russia had an ulterior motive in sending coronavirus aid to Italy "an insult to the Italian government," warning that the pandemic poses an existential threat to the EU.

Amid stalled EU relief efforts, aid and personnel arrived in Italy from China, Cuba and Russia to help Italian medical authorities fight back against the coronavirus outbreak in the country, which ravaged its northern regions and forced a total lockdown of society.

When asked if the Russian coronavirus aid, in the form of both manpower and medical equipment, was a ploy by the Kremlin to leverage Italian support for lifting EU-imposed sanctions on Russia, Conte did not mince words.

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Brick Wall

New Russian tax puts the kibosh on Cyprus' money laundering industry

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:57 UTC
putin Mikhail Mishustin cyprus money laundering
© Harley Schwadron/Dances with Bears
It is now a fortnight since President Vladimir Putin (lead image, left) announced a tax on Russians exporting their cash and capital to tax avoidance havens abroad; and since Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin followed to explain that Cyprus is the target. "We have started implementing the instructions on taxing dividends from foreign accounts with Cyprus", Mishustin said at a Kremlin meeting with Putin on April 1. "The Cypriot government has been notified of the changes in the agreement on avoiding dual taxation."

"For Putin to make his remark in a national address," comments a Moscow finance source, "and then for Mishustin to confirm that Cyprus was intended in the President's speech shows this is now a high priority move. It reveals how upset the Kremlin - especially Andrei Belousov [first deputy prime minister] โ€” has been with the role Cyprus plays in the outflow of Russian capital. I do not see any government allowing capital flight now during a deep and lasting recession."

"This sounds a death knell for Cyprus accountants and law firms," says a Limassol investor. "This is their biggest business. From now on only the most hardened criminals or escapees from Russia will be here."

Comment: With Putin having wrested control away from the oligarchs, he's beginning to take action against the bleeding of Russia's assets. Will other countries follow his lead?

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: How Western media colludes with tiny Navalny-linked group of doctors to weaponize Russia's Covid-19 battle

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:52 UTC
Anastasia Vasilyeva
© AFP / AFPTV / Romain COLASAnastasia Vasilyeva
If you know the country well, you will know this: There two Russias - the one 146 million people live in, and the fantasy version Western media outlets describe.

Both exist in parallel universes. This is why most English-speaking Russians usually react with a mixture of shock and horror when their language skills become proficient enough to read what the foreign press is writing about their homeland.

Now, predictably, Russia's response to Covid-19 is being weaponized as part of the mythical 'information war'. This is because Western media coverage of the country generally isn't about journalism; instead, it's about activism. This means that only Russians who fit its narrative are given agency.
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Chess

Ukraine, Donbas patriots agree on pre-Easter prisoner swap


RFE/RL
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:33 UTC
donbas
© Sputnik / Dัn Levi
Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country have agreed to another prisoner swap ahead of Orthodox Easter celebrations.

The Russian and Ukrainian sides in the so-called Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) made the announcement late on April 8 following a video conference.

The talks led to "fundamental agreements on the lists for the mutual release of detained persons" no later than Orthodox Easter on April 19, according to a statement on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's website.

Russia's envoy to the TCG, Boris Gryzlov, said Kyiv and separatists in the Donbas region had "principally coordinated the lists of detained persons for exchange."
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Eye 2

Bill Gates crosses the digital Rubicon: 'Mass gatherings' may not return without global vaccine

Robert Bridge
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:08 UTC
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Bill Gates
A recurring theme among conspiracy theorists is that the elite are just waiting for the right moment to roll out their 'mark of the beast' technology to remotely identify and control every single human being on the planet, thus sealing their plans for a one world government. And with many people willing to do just about anything to get back to some sense of normalcy, those fears appear more justified with each passing day.

In the Book of Revelation [13:16-17], there is a passage that has attracted the imagination of believers and disbelievers throughout the ages, and perhaps never more so than right now: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark..."

Was John of Patmos history's first conspiracy theorist, or are we merely indulging ourselves today with a case of self-fulfilling prophecy? Whatever the case may be, many people would probably have serious reservations about being branded with an ID code even if it had never been mentioned in Holy Scripture. But that certainly has not stopped Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has been warning about a global pandemic for years, from pushing such controversial technologies on all of us.

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Question

Paul Craig Roberts: A new world is being born - What will it be?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
surveillance state, stasi, post-covid world
We are hearing from many that the world after Covid-19 will be different. The question is: Different in what way? Will it be better or worse?

Elites are working to make it better for them, and worse for the rest of us. About that the evidence is clear. The Big Boys are being bailed out and their debts covered. Everyone else, except those already marginalized and without a recent work record and fixed address, got a month's rent and extended unemployment benefits.

Big Pharma sees massive profits in the virus, Government sees more power to control

But the disparity in economic benefits is only a part of it. Powerful vested interests, such as Bill Gates and Big Pharma, are determined to vaccinate us all, and to control our movements with an internal passport called "vaccinated, health cleared" or other words to that effect. New tracking procedures and technologies are to be put in operation reminiscent of the "mark of the beast" to police the access of various categories of people to various areas and benefits.

Experts point out that just as we cannot be vaccinated against the common cold, except perhaps for the past year's version we cannot be vaccinated against Covid-19 and other mutating viruses, but the experts are already being shouted down. No expert opinion is to be permitted to stand in the way of vaccination profits.
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Bad Guys

Paris bans daytime outdoor exercise


BBC
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:15 UTC
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© Getty ImagesParis residents face further restrictions on exercise
Authorities in Paris have banned exercise outside during the day, as deaths from coronavirus continue to rise in France daily.

The new rules are in force between 10:00 and 19:00 local time, and come into effect on Wednesday.

The death toll in France has risen above 10,000 - the fourth-highest figure after Italy, Spain and the US.

The toll in French hospitals - not counting care homes - was 607 for the past 24 hours, health officials said.

Comment: Did anyone ever imagine seeing a headline like the above? So much has changed over the course of the past few months to make something like this acceptable.

One of the reasons the 'outbreak' is likely slowing is because the coronaviruses are remarkably vulnerable to temperature. They require cool temperatures like lungs and nasal passages to survive. By keeping people inside during a sunny day, authorities are doing nothing but inflicting anti-human policies in the false name of 'public health'.

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Bad Guys

Dr. Anthony Fauci plotted 'global vaccine action plan' with Bill Gates before pushing COVID panic and doubts about hydroxychloroquine treatments

Shane Trejo
Big League Politics
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:38 UTC
bill gates anthony fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has become a beloved doom prophet fomenting mass hysteria among the American public amidst the coronavirus pandemic, once worked with technocratic oligarch Bill Gates on his "Global Vaccine Action Plan."

Activist reporter Mike Coudrey drew attention to this fact on his Twitter account in a post from Sunday:

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Pistol

While the masses panicked over a virus, US House wrote a bill that will ban "assault weapons"

Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
gun control ahead
While the majority of the country has been laser-focused on the coronavirus, stocking up on decades worth of toilet paper, and mass purchasing Clorox wipes, the United States House of Representative wrote a bill that will ban "assault weapons."

Representative Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, introduced H.R. 5717 on January 30, which would, among other items, ban the purchasing and possession of assault weapons, according to USA Today. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced in February the Senate version of the bill, S.3254. Not long after, the coronavirus hype was all over mainstream media burying the news of this draconian legislation.

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