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Trump calls Pelosi a 'sick puppy' over coronavirus criticism

Morgan Chalfant
The Hill
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:03 UTC

Donald Trump blasted Nancy Pelosi for being a 'sick puppy' and 'fool'

President Trump on Monday lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for criticizing his response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling her a "sick puppy."

"It's a sad thing," Trump said during a call-in interview on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning after he was asked to respond to Pelosi's criticism a day prior. "She's a sick puppy in my opinion. She's got a lot of problems."

Pelosi on Sunday accused Trump of downplaying the public health crisis in a way that cost American lives, saying that "his denial at the beginning was deadly" on CNN's "State of the Union."

"When he made the other day when he was signing the bill, he said just think 20 days ago everything was great. No, everything wasn't great," Pelosi said, referring to the $2 trillion bipartisan relief bill the president signed on Friday.

FAKE NEWS: Media fear-mongering reaches new low as CBS uses footage from ITALIAN hospital to describe conditions in New York City

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:04 UTC

Emergency Room Footage on CBS Matches Footage from Italian Hospital!

This is footage from SKY News on March 22 from Italy.

And here is footage from CBS News during their New York City report on March 25.

CBS News painted a dire picture from New York City this week in their coronavirus coverage.

On Wednesday morning CBS aired this footage from a New York hospital.

The footage matches SKY News video from inside an Italian hospital from Sunday March 22.

UPDATE: ALX posted the video comparison from the two news outlets.

Coronavirus 'Pandemic' - Question Everything

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:40 UTC

Crises, like pandemics, don't break things in and of themselves; they show you what's already broken.

- Patrick Wyman

Big macro crises in any form are scary, massively disruptive, and in some cases, literally deadly. This is why governments and entrenched institutions always see such events as opportunities to further consolidate wealth and power.

The current global pandemic is no exception, as I detailed in last week's piece: Power Grab. While it's necessary to be aware of this reality — and to push back against it wherever possible — it's equally important to recognize there's a silver lining to all of this.

The paradigm we live under depends on us not thinking too hard about how power functions. It relies on us being so busy with the basics of survival, or distracted by superficial consumerism and endless entertainment, to contemplate how the system actually works. This method of social control has been wildly successful throughout my lifetime, but what's interesting about moments of global crises is the mask is forced off for a period. In a desperate scramble to marshal all of the corporate-imperial state's resources to save the interests of the oligarchy, we're shown in full color who really matters and who doesn't.

UK's coronavirus advisor has damning history of flawed predictions with devastating consequences

Katherine Rushton
Anti-Empire
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:44 UTC

Neil Ferguson

The scientist whose calculations about the potentially devastating impact of the coronavirus directly led to the countrywide lockdown has been criticised in the past for flawed research.

Professor Neil Ferguson, of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College in London, produced a paper predicting that Britain was on course to lose 250,000 people during the coronavirus epidemic unless stringent measures were taken. His research is said to have convinced Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his advisors to introduce the lockdown.

However, it has now emerged that Ferguson has been criticised in the past for making predictions based on allegedly faulty assumptions which nevertheless shaped government strategies and impacted the UK economy.

Comment: See also:

Coronavirus - Creating the illusion of a pandemic through diagnostic tests

Jon Rappoport
Blog No More Fake News
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:50 UTC

In this article, I'll present quotes from official sources about their own diagnostic test for the coronavirus. I'm talking about fatal flaws in the test.

Because case numbers are based on those tests (or no tests at all), the whole "pandemic effect" has been created out of fake science.

In a moment of truth, a propaganda pro might murmur to a colleague, "You know, we've got a great diagnostic test for the virus. The test turns out all sorts of results that say this person is diseased and that person is diseased. Millions of diseased people. But the test doesn't really measure that. The test is ridiculous, but ridiculous in our favor. It builds the picture of a global pandemic. An excuse to lock down the planet and wreck economies and lives..."

The widespread test for the COVID-19 virus is called the PCR. I have written much about it in past articles.

Now let's go to published official literature, and see what it reveals. Spoiler alert: the admitted holes and shortcomings of the test are devastating.

From "CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel" [1]:

"Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms."

Translation: A positive test doesn't guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. And, ahem, reading between the lines, maybe the COVID virus might not be in the patient's body at all, either.

"This is what a police state is like": UK's ex-supreme court judge lambasts policing, 'collective hysteria' and the lockdown

Lisa O'Carroll
The Guardian
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:33 UTC

© Supreme Court/PA
Lord Sumption said Derbyshire police had 'shamed our policing traditions' and had turned themselves into 'glorified school prefects'.

A former supreme court justice has heavily criticised Derbyshire police for stopping people exercising in the Peak District saying that such behaviour risks plunging Britain into a "police state".

Lord Sumption warned that police had no legal power to enforce "ministers' wishes" and that the public should not be "resigning their liberty" to over-zealous citizens in uniform.

"The behaviour of the Derbyshire police in trying to shame people in using their undoubted right to take exercise in the country and wrecking beauty spots in the fells so people don't want to go there is frankly disgraceful," he said.

Comment: And here is a warning police have been leaving on the cars of those who were enjoying their countryside walk, possibly while being tracked and filmed on one of the police's drones:

Do not let this coronavirus lead to a 9/11-style erosion of civil liberties

Samuel Miller McDonald
The Guardian
Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:23 UTC

We must reject such authoritarian measures wholly, no matter who says they're 'necessary'!

As a millennial, much of my adulthood has been punctuated by severe national emergencies. The first my generation experienced was the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. We all watched in horror as the months-long media spectacle replayed footage of the towers swallowing airplanes and crumbling into fire and dust. The moment of national solidarity and everyday heroism was brief.

The government quickly responded by attempting to achieve two things: one, expanding executive power, and two, transferring public wealth into private corporations.

The Bush administration achieved the first by passing the Patriot Act, which built the foundation for what is probably the world's most expansive surveillance state, but also by setting legal precedents that violated basic constitutional rights and by creating the Department for Homeland Security, with its aggressive constituent agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The second goal was achieved with the "war on terror", which involved unilateral occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and subsequent military forays into many African countries. In Iraq, private security, logistics and reconstruction contractors swallowed up $138bn alone. Since 2001, $5.9tn in taxpayer dollars have gone toward wars (not to mention resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and a foreign policy blackhole that still haunts the Middle East). Neither of these goals addressed the root cause of the crisis, and arguably exacerbated the conditions that led to 9/11.

Comment: Civil liberties always take the hit during times of crisis (especially those manmade) and yes, 9/11 was the perfect example. Covid-19 has all the earmarks to be another. The author then reveals his list of fantasy fixits, proving he is merely a wishful thinking 'politics' guy - certainly not a financial genius nor the rights activist he claims to be.

Israel pummels Gaza Strip with aerial assault as it struggles to battle pandemic

Steve Sweeney
Morning Star
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC

Israel pummeled the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, its bombs targeting a number of locations in the Palestinian territory, which is struggling to deal with a deadly outbreak of coronavirus.

Warplanes fired missiles which struck areas north-west of Gaza City and east of the town of Jabalya. Artillery shells also hit a spot east of the city, causing damage to infrastructure. No injuries were reported.

The Israeli armed forces claimed that the aerial assault was a response for missiles being fired into the south of the country, the stock response used to justify such an attack. None of the Palestinian resistance factions claimed responsibility for the alleged rocket attack on Israel.

In a further operation, the Israeli navy opened fire on a Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Gaza City. The Palestinian fishing industry has suffered huge losses as fishermen are frequently targeted by Israeli gunboats and are denied access to the sea.

Comment: Israel vs Palestine: The Facts and Stats on air attacks

© If Americans Knew
US news reports on Israel-Palestine virtually always mention 'thousands of rockets have been fired from Gaza.' However, the media virtually never report how many Israelis these rockets have killed, when the rocket launches began, and what the rockets look like. US media reports also fail to compare these Palestinian weapons to the weapons Israel uses in its airstrikes.

For that reason, If Americans Knew has compiled thorough information on this topic, including a list of those killed, the dates of their deaths, and details on some of the weaponry involved.

According to the Israeli military, the first rocket launched by a Gazan resistance group was fired on April 16, 2001. This came AFTER Israeli forces had shelled and invaded Gaza (photos here), killing 570+ Palestinians. The production of rockets began in September 2001 . In 2001 Palestinian groups fired a total of 4 rockets. (According to the Jewish Policy Center and Jewish Virtual Library. The first rocket to land in Israel was in 2002. (Jewish Policy Center)

Click here for full information on Palestinian rockets and air attacks by both sides. For all deaths among both populations from all types of attacks, go here. For additional statistics, go here.

Rosneft outmaneuvers US sanctions, sells its Venezuelan assets to the Russian government

Dina Khrennikova, Olga Tanas
Bloomberg
Sat, 28 Mar 2020 01:56 UTC

Russian oil giant Rosneft PJSC sold its assets in Venezuela to the Russian government, in what may be a maneuver to avoid any U.S. sanctions in an escalating fight between Caracas, Washington and Moscow.

Rosneft is selling local production, service and trading assets to a state-owned company, it said in a statement. The move is to protect shareholders' interests, according to company spokesman Mikhail Leontyev.

The U.S. slapped sanctions on two units of Rosneft earlier this year for operating in Venezuela, stopping short of sanctioning the listed parent company. President Donald Trump is trying to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is clinging to power in the oil-rich but increasingly impoverished nation.

Comment: There are always ways to beat a bully and turn an advantage. Bets are the US didn't see this one coming.

Iraq: US-led coalition leaves northern Iraq headquarters, exits from several bases

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:18 UTC

© AFP
Iraqi security forces watch US Troops leave after a handoff ceremony for K-1 airbase in Kirkuk governorate, Iraq, March 29, 2020.

On Sunday, the US-led coalition officially handed over the K1 Air Base in northern Iraq's Kirkuk province to the Iraqi Army in a pre-planned move that they said was unrelated to recent attacks by Shiite militias against Iraqi bases hosting foreign troops.

The US-led international coalition's headquarters in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh near the Syrian border has been transferred to Iraq's army, the country's Baghdad Al Youm news outlet reports.

According to Baghdad Al Youm, the coalition forces transferred the Nineveh headquarters on Monday as part of the process of withdrawing foreign troops from some Iraqi provinces. At the same time, the news outlet says, the US forces are rapidly completing the construction of a base near the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, which may become one of the largest military bases in the Middle East.

Comment: See also: US-led coalition leaves K1 Air Base, Kirkuk, Iraq

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Puppet Masters

Trump calls Pelosi a 'sick puppy' over coronavirus criticism

FAKE NEWS: Media fear-mongering reaches new low as CBS uses footage from ITALIAN hospital to describe conditions in New York City

Coronavirus 'Pandemic' - Question Everything

UK's coronavirus advisor has damning history of flawed predictions with devastating consequences

Coronavirus - Creating the illusion of a pandemic through diagnostic tests

"This is what a police state is like": UK's ex-supreme court judge lambasts policing, 'collective hysteria' and the lockdown

Do not let this coronavirus lead to a 9/11-style erosion of civil liberties

Israel pummels Gaza Strip with aerial assault as it struggles to battle pandemic

Rosneft outmaneuvers US sanctions, sells its Venezuelan assets to the Russian government

Iraq: US-led coalition leaves northern Iraq headquarters, exits from several bases

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