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Technology once used to combat ISIS propaganda is enlisted by Democratic group to counter Trump's coronavirus messaging

Isaac Stanley-Becker
The Washington Post
Sat, 02 May 2020 01:53 UTC
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U.S. President Trump arrives to lead the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on April 23.
A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal — to combat online efforts to promote President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president's claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country — in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president.

The initiative reflects fears within the Democratic Party that Trump's unwavering digital army may help sustain him through the pandemic, as it has through past controversies, even as the economy craters, tens of thousands have died, and Trump suffers in the polls.

Comment: It is an all out information war and, as a result, you can't really believe anything you read or hear coming from either side. And the fact that the tactics are getting more and more refined should be a comfort to no one. Only someone poised to take down Trump 'by any means necessary' would take comfort in the idea that his adversaries would be employing these types of tactics.

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Snakes in Suits

Fauci knew about HCQ in 2005 -- nobody needed to die

Bryan Fischer
NE News Now
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:04 UTC
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose "expert" advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses.

How did he know this? Because of research done by the National Institutes of Health, of which he is the director. In connection with the SARS outbreak - caused by a coronavirus dubbed SARS- CoV - the NIH researched chloroquine and concluded that it was effective at stopping the SARS coronavirus in its tracks. The COVID-19 bug is likewise a coronavirus, labeled SARS-CoV-2. While not exactly the same virus as SARS-CoV-1, it is genetically related to it, and shares 79% of its genome, as the name SARS-CoV-2 implies. They both use the same host cell receptor, which is what viruses use to gain entry to the cell and infect the victim.
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Trey Gowdy slams DOJ over Flynn case: 'It's not the Department of Let's See Who We Can Get Fired'

Charles Creitz
Fox News
Sat, 02 May 2020 23:04 UTC
Trey Gowdy
Former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., joined "The Story" Friday to react to the latest developments in the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Gowdy explained to host Martha MacCallum that because Flynn initially pleaded guilty to a charge of making false statements to investigators and waived his right to a trial, the FBI did not have to turn over handwritten notes from officials that discussed their motivation for interviewing Flynn at the White House. Those notes were unsealed Wednesday.

"This is not the Department of Let's See If We Can Get Away With It," Gowdy said. "It's not the Department of Let's See Who We Can Get Fired. It's the Department of Justice."

Comment: The Department of Justice didn't apply the same standards to Killary, because it is the Department of Let's See If We Can Get Away With It.

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Bad Guys

Trump administration pushing to shut down global supply chains from China

Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal
Reuters
Mon, 04 May 2020 21:25 UTC
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The Trump administration is "turbocharging" an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials familiar with U.S. planning.

President Donald Trump, who has stepped up recent attacks on China ahead of the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, has long pledged to bring manufacturing back from overseas.

Now, economic destruction and the massive U.S. coronavirus death toll are driving a government-wide push to move U.S. production and supply chain dependency away from China, even if it goes to other more friendly nations instead, current and former senior U.S. administration officials said.

"We've been working on [reducing the reliance of our supply chains in China] over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative," Keith Krach, undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department told Reuters.

Comment: These guys are playing with fire in an already unstable global economy. It's almost as if there are certain powers that want to see a worldwide economic collapse!

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Vader

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to fine people not wearing Covid-19 masks because they could 'literally kill someone'


RT
Mon, 04 May 2020 20:35 UTC
Andrew Cuomo
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Andrew Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called people who don't wear masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus "cruel and irresponsible," adding that he supports authorities fining them over it.

Wearing masks in public has been mandatory in New York since mid-April, but enforcement of the measure falls to local governments - and is something Cuomo wants to see happening.

"Do I think local government should be enforcing it? And should there be sanctions? Yes, because it is a public health emergency," Cuomo said at a press conference on Monday when asked about fining citizens for being in public without masks.
"You could literally kill someone because you didn't want to wear a mask. How cruel and irresponsible."

Comment: The Cuomo brothers - one in the governor's mansion, and the other barking on CNN - literally think they run New York now:



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Red Pill

Biden is everything the Democrats are: Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 01 May 2020 20:27 UTC
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Joe Biden is not an "imperfect candidate" for the Democrats. He is the perfect candidate, because he's everything the party is: Demented. Decrepit. Bloodthirsty. Corrupt. Cronyistic. Authoritarian. Reactionary. Rapey. He is exactly what they deserve. He is exactly what they are.

Joe Biden is the Democrat's Democrat. He is the perfect representative of the party. They should even take it a step further and replace that donkey with Joe Biden.

Biden is to the Democrats as Trump is to the Republicans. Everyone's just wearing their true face now.

If you're willing to sacrifice all principles, all sanity and all morality to get rid of Trump, what exactly is the point of getting rid of Trump?
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Bizarro Earth

Turkish endgame: Annexation of northwestern Syria


Fort Russ
Mon, 04 May 2020 19:36 UTC
Turkey army
© AFP 2019 / OZAN KOSE
It is interesting that the descendants of Ataturk competently use various informational occasions to implement their plans. So, on April 28, a terrible terrorist attack took place on the territory of Afrin occupied by Turkish militants, which claimed the lives of more than 40 civilians. Before the firefighters extinguished the fire from a fuel truck blown up during a terrorist attack, the Turkish government blamed the Kurdish underground.

Ostensibly, the Kurds are thus trying to avenge their expulsion from Afrin. The arguments that the Kurds do not need this and such actions are extremely disadvantageous for them did not convince Turkey. Instead, by the evening of May 1, pro-Turkish militants increased the grouping of more than 250 vehicles with large-caliber weapons installed on them near the borders of Kurdish settlements in northwestern Syria.

It is possible that the attack would be used by Ankara to finally resolve the "Kurdish issue" in the north of the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Five nasty things revealed by Democrats' rehabilitation of Bush

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Mon, 04 May 2020 18:54 UTC
george w bush michelle obama
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Former President George W. Bush, first lady Michelle Obama in 2016
George W Bush is in the news again today, and once again it's not for the only legitimate reason that he should ever be in the news, namely a war crimes tribunal. No, it's because his voice was used in a cutesy feel-good video about unity during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat," Bush is heard saying. "We are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God."

And, needless to say, Democrats are all over social media orgasming in their pants about it.

"This video made me ugly cry," tweeted actress-turned-McResistance pundit Alyssa Milano.

"A REAL president," tweeted the other Alyssa Milano, Debra Messing.

"In a million years I never thought I'd be crying watching this, thinking how much better we'd all feel if Bush were president today," tweeted former Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill to thunderous online applause.
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Nuke

German Social Democrats tell Trump what he can do with his US nukes

Matthew Karnitschnig
Politico
Sun, 03 May 2020 10:57 UTC
air base
© Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
A sign reads: "Military Facility, Access Prohibited" outside the perimeter to the Büchel air base on February 27, 2019 near Cochem, Germany.
Berlin's center left is reopening an old debate about whether to remain under Washington's protective nuclear umbrella. Just days before Germany is set to celebrate the anniversary of its "liberation" from Nazi rule, leading members of the governing Social Democrats are demanding that the country be freed from what they consider another scourge — American nuclear weapons.

"Nuclear weapons on German territory do not heighten our security, just the opposite," Rolf Mützenich, the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) in the German parliament said in an interview with newspaper Tagesspiegel published on Sunday. "The time has come for Germany to rule out a future stationing."

Though not everyone in the SPD's top ranks shares his views, Mützenich quickly won backing from co-SPD leader Saskia Esken.
"Whoever thinks that glasnost and perestroika were made possible by the West's nuclear deterrent missed something. Atomic weaponry on German soil, on German airplanes, is neither an end to itself nor desirable, not to mention very expensive."
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Beaker

Pompeo has it both ways: Coronavirus was 'man made' but agrees with intelligence it wasn't


RT
Sun, 03 May 2020 15:43 UTC
Pompeo
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
In his rush to accuse Beijing of unleashing the scourge of Covid-19 on an unsuspecting world, the US Secretary of State said the coronavirus was man-made, before making a U-turn without even blinking.

"The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I don't have reason to disbelieve them at this point," Mike Pompeo told ABC's This Week when asked about a statement from the US intelligence community that unequivocally said the opposite.

Host Martha Raddatz twice asked Pompeo to clarify whether his view differed from that of American intelligence, and he voiced his total support for the spies - though he stopped short of actually saying "I don't believe the virus was man-made."

Pompeo used his airtime to once again accuse China of covering up the severity of Covid-19 in the early days of the outbreak.
"The Chinese Communist Party had the opportunity to prevent all the calamity that has befallen the world. The Australians agree with that, you hear that the Europeans are beginning to say the same thing. I think the whole world is united [in its] understanding that China brought this virus to the world."
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