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The drive towards a cashless society was well under way even before we'd ever heard the words 'Covid-19' but it's been greatly accelerated in Britain these last few weeks. Either businesses have stopped people paying in cash, or they've said that if anyone still wants to use cash and coins, no change will be given if it's not the right amount.
In April, it was announced that passengers on Go North East buses would have to have the exact amount to pay for their fare, or else they would have to pay by card. The managing director of the company said: "This is the latest change we've made to improve safety for both our workforce and our customers."
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The plan to speed up the development and approval of vaccines was put forward by European commission representatives sitting on the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) - a public-private partnership whose function is to back cutting-edge research in Europe - but it was rejected by industry partners on the body.
The commission's argument had been that the research could "facilitate the development and regulatory approval of vaccines against priority pathogens, to the extent possible before an actual outbreak occurs". The pharmaceutical companies on the IMI, however, did not take up the idea.
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Bernie Sanders, San Antonio, Texas, US, February 22, 2020
Bernie Sanders, San Antonio, Texas, US, February 22, 2020
In the spring of 2015, when the "independent" Bernie Sanders announced that he was running for United States presidency as a Democrat, the late left Green Party activist Bruce Dixon aptly described Sanders as a "sheepdog" working in service to the corporate and imperial Democratic Party. The role of "democratic socialist" Sanders, Dixon said, would be to shepherd left-leaning voters into the fold, helping give the Wall Street Democrats a progressive, populist, and working-class veneer in the 2016 election. A related function was to help the Democrats seem to have selected a Big Business candidate - Hillary Clinton, as everyone already knew even in early 2015 - not by corporate coronation but through an open debate in which the progressive, social-democratic policies ostensibly advocated by Sanders were fairly and democratically defeated.
Faithful despite the abuse
Sanders did his best to carry out his 'sheepdog' (or "Judas Goat") task in 2016, consistent with his advance promise to support the eventual Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, in that general election. So what if the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) worked hand-in-glove with each other and the corporate media to demean and smear Sanders and his supporters and to rig the primary race and nomination process against the not-so-independent Senator from Vermont? So what if Clinton ran a shockingly vapid campaign, remarkably devoid of serious policy proposals, and based on little more than the awful character of Donald Trump? And so what if the Clintons and their allies and surrogates treated Sanders with open contempt?
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They want to meet me not because I'm Mike from Kansas, because I represent the greatest nation in the history of civilization. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 28 February 2020
I want everyone to be reminded that America remains the world's leading light of humanitarian goodness as well amidst this global pandemic. — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 7 April 2020
...no greater privilege and no greater honour than serving as the commander in chief of the greatest military in the history of the world. — Barack Obama January 2018One of the curiosities about the United States is that, on the one hand, Americans are forever boasting about how powerful, how democratic and altogether wonderful their country is while, on the other hand, they are receptive to assertions that this mightiness and excellence is on the brink of disappearing. It's a very peculiar state of affairs probably best left to psychiatrists to ponder. We laypeople are left wondering: has there ever been so frightened a superpower? So mighty and all about to be lost.
Three years of Trump have destroyed its alliances
The United States is the principal member of NATO - "the greatest alliance the world has ever known". Its flacks sang its praises on its 70th birthday: greatest ever said Poland's President, essential for world peace, stronger than ever and so on. And yet, a mere three years of President Trump has put it at the gates of death if not already killed it. "The Atlantic alliance as we know it is dead". Or perhaps not dead quite yet: "an erosion of the foundations of the political system that defines — and protects — the modern world"; "The result could be nothing less than the fracturing of the Western alliance".
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Destroyed America
Destroyed America
Economic activity across the country has collapsed, GDP is shrinking at the fastest pace on record, and the economic data is worse than anytime in history. Every sector of the economy is contracting and every economic indicator is pointing down. According to economist Nouriel Roubini, the country is headed towards a decade of "depression and debt", and that is probably an understatement.
What prompted our leaders to follow the path of China? Were they bullied into it by Dr. Fauci and the Vaccine Gestapo or were they simply reacting to the sudden rise in Covid cases that skyrocketed overnight? Whatever the reason might be, the country is now headed for either a short-but-severe "U" shaped recession or an excruciating-and-protracted 1930s-type slump.
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US President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump
In a relatively softball interview broadcast on Sunday, the president boasted to Full Measure host Sharyl Atkinson about his response to the coronavirus pandemic, and slammed the Chinese government for its alleged role in allowing the virus to spread.
However, he saved his most characteristically Trumpian insults for Joe Biden, former Vice President and presumed Democratic candidate in this year's election. Asked what Biden's strongest feature as a competitor is, Trump didn't miss an opportunity to insult his opponent.
"Well, I would have said experience, but he doesn't really have experience because I don't think he remembers what he did yesterday," the president quipped, adding "He was never known as a smart person."
Asked about Biden's weakest points, Trump offered a lengthy reply.
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In December, I reported on digital forensics evidence relating to Guccifer 2.0 and highlighted several key points about the mysterious persona that Special Counsel Robert Mueller claims was a front for Russian intelligence to leak Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks:
- Guccifer 2.0 fabricated evidence to claim credit for hacking the DNC (using files that were really Podesta attachments).
- Guccifer 2.0's Russian breadcrumbs mostly came from deliberate processes & needless editing of documents.
- Guccifer 2.0's Russian communications signals came from the persona choosing to use a proxy server in Moscow and choosing to use a Russian VPN service as end-points (and they used an email service that forwards the sender's IP address, which made identifying that signal a relatively trivial task.)
- A considerable volume of evidence pointed at Guccifer 2.0's activities being in American timezones (twice as many types of indicators were found pointing at Guccifer 2.0's activities being in American timezones than anywhere else).
- The American timezones were incidental to other activities (eg. blogging, social media, emailing a journalist, archiving files, etc) and some of these were recorded independently by service providers.
- A couple of pieces of evidence with Russian indicators present had accompanying locale indicators that contradicted this which suggested the devices used hadn't been properly set up for use in Russia (or Romania) but may have been suitable for other countries (including America).
This article questions what Guccifer 2.0's intentions were in relation to WikiLeaks in the context of what has been discovered by independent researchers during the past three years.
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House Intel Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) • US President Donald Trump
House Intel Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) • US President Donald Trump
Comment: The Dems pinned their hopes on Schiff - the embodiment of political fever and mental chaos.
In a tweet, the outspoken provider of safe-spaces, retweeted an essay by Charles Eisenstein entitled "The Conspiracy Myth" which appears to go against everything Twitter has done.
So, we ask in all seriousness, why did Dorsey - who has shown himself, via his actions, to be an enemy of any non-establishment-sanctioned narrative with his suspension and banning of any tweets or twitter-ers that dare to offer alternate views - retweet an essay that raises doubts about the over-arching threat of "conspiracy theories" to snowflakes, promotes the idea of exploring all sides of an argument before dismissing it, and most ironically, rails against "information suppression" and centralized decisions based on someone's "trustworthiness"?
Read the essay for yourself (emphasis ours):
Comment: An interesting question, why did Dorsey tweet this article when it suggests taking a line of action and inquiry into conspiracy narratives that is the opposite of what he has done for the past several years? Is he changing his mind about the best way to 'protect' society from the 'dangerous' conspiracy theories, or is it something else?
As for the article he tweeted, it doesn't fully taken into account all of the facts that go into supporting the case for the grander conspiracy that the article takes only as a myth, and much of what the author brings up as real isn't connected or put in its proper context or perspective. The author is right when he says that the human elites aren't the puppet masters and that there is something higher than humans at work on human consciousness that is creating the appearance of conspiracy that people are seeing. However, it's not myths. The real truth of what's at work is far stranger than that.
Comment: A case of identification: It takes a 'demented party' to promote a 'demented candidate' and see him as a viable option to run the country. 'Nothing' expected; 'nothing' gained. (Note to Trump: That glass is empty!)