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What just happened in Jordan?

Andrew Korybko
One World Press
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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Last weekend's arrest of several prominent people in Jordan, including the unofficial house arrest of former Crown Prince Hamzah, on suspicion of conspiring to destabilize the country in possible coordination with foreign intelligence agencies is more than likely a pre-emptive security operation aimed at thwarting a latent threat and not an urgent response to what some have feared was an imminent regime change attempt.

An Unexpected Conspiracy In The Heshemite Kingdom

Jordan is one of those few countries that's friends with everyone and enemies with no one, which is why the world paid attention last weekend after the arrest of several prominent people on suspicion of conspiring to destabilize the country in possible coordination with foreign intelligence agencies. This included the unofficial house arrest of former Crown Prince Hamzah, who subsequently released footage of himself condemning alleged corruption in the monarchy that he claimed was responsible for worsening his citizens' living standards, after which he pledged loyalty to King Abdullah II to de-escalate the crisis (presumably while under pressure). Former Crown Prince Hamzah had also reportedly met with some tribal leaders who've purportedly been unhappy with the stagnant - if not, according to some accounts, gradually deteriorating - socio-economic situation in the Kingdom. Amman has since banned all coverage of this palace scandal on traditional and social media in an attempt to quell the uncertainty that it provoked in this so-called "oasis of regional stability".

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Footprints

Rand Paul calls for GOP to oust two senators for lying to Republican voters

Martin Walsh
Conservative Brief
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul is sounding the alarm on two Republican senators who are, as he claims, "lying" to conservative voters. While delivering remarks at the Save America Summit in Florida, Paul called for GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins to be "ousted" because they are a "problem" for the party.
"This is our problem. Seven Republicans voted to keep Obamacare. You remember John McCain doing it. But here's the thing: this is our problem. We know the Democrats want to have socialized medicine and nationalized health care. But Republicans say they're for it, we got to keep them honest. And you got to send home the ones that lie to you."
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Austria's health minister resigns due to 'overwork' during Covid pandemic


The Guardian
Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:43 UTC
Rudolf Anschober
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Rudolf Anschober: ‘In the most serious health crisis for decades, the republic needs a health minister who is 100% fit.’
Austria's health minister has announced his resignation, saying he could not continue in the gruelling job of helping lead the country's coronavirus response because of persistent health problems caused by overwork.

Rudolf Anschober, 60, had been health minister since January 2020, when his Green party became the junior partner in a governing coalition under the conservative chancellor, Sebastian Kurz.

The soft-spoken minister has been one of the main faces of Austria's coronavirus response, which has gathered mixed reviews. Wolfgang Mückstein, a Vienna-based doctor, was named as Anschober's successor.

Anschober, who suffered from burnout nine years ago, said on Tuesday he had experienced two episodes of sudden fatigue in the past month, as well as high blood pressure and tinnitus. "My impression is that it isn't 15 months, more like 15 years," he said of his time in office.

Anschober said he had "clearly overworked" and had not felt completely fit for several weeks. His condition was not burnout, he added, but doctors advised him to take a break.
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Hawley unveils 'trust-busting' plan

Mike Allen, Scott Rosenberg
Axios
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:08 UTC
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Senator Josh Hawley • Elephant arrow
Corporate giants would be barred from acquisitions and century-old antitrust laws would get sharper teeth under a new proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) shared exclusively with Axios.

The big picture:
Hawley is among the Senate's most conservative members, but his attack on corporate power wouldn't sound out of place on Elizabeth Warren's or Bernie Sanders' agenda.
  • That's how deeply Republicans' anger at what they see as out-of-control "censorship" by Big Tech and overreaching activism by "woke corporations" has alienated some of the party from its traditional big-business base.
Details:
Hawley's "Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act" would ...
  • Ban mergers and acquisitions by firms with a market cap over $100 billion
  • Lower the threshold for prosecution under existing federal antitrust laws, replacing the prevalent "consumer harm" standard with one that emphasizes "the protection of competition"
  • Require companies that lose federal antitrust lawsuits to "forfeit all their profits resulting from monopolistic conduct"
  • Give the Federal Trade Commission new power to designate and regulate "dominant digital firms" in different online markets
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Rand Paul rips 'petty tyrant' Fauci for advising vaccinated people not to dine indoors

Michael Lee
Washington Examiner
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
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Senator Rand Paul (left) and Anthony Fauci (right)
Sen. Rand Paul slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for ignoring "100 years of vaccine science" and accused Fauci of being a "petty tyrant."

"Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science. His only real theme is 'do what I say' even when it makes no sense," Paul said on Twitter Monday. "If you've recovered or been vaccinated - go about your life. Eat, drink, work, open the schools. Enough with the petty tyrants.

Paul's comment was in response to remarks Fauci made in an interview discouraging vaccinated people from dining indoors.

Comment: Fauci's views on masks and Covid in general have had so many twists and turns that sensible people are (finally!) ignoring him.

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Greensill scandal: government orders inquiry into Cameron lobbying

Jessica Elgot
The Guardian
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:23 UTC
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David Cameron has come under pressure from Labour to answer questions from MPs.
Independent investigation launched into former PM's lobbying for now-collapsed firm.

No 10 is to a launch an independent investigation into former prime minister David Cameron's lobbying for the now-collapsed Greensill and the role of the scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill in government.

The independent review, commissioned by Boris Johnson, will be led by the legal expert Nigel Boardman, a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Comment: See also: UK's Greensill lobbying scandal and former PM Cameron's involvement

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Control Panel

From "Event 201" to "Cyber Polygon": The WEF's Simulation of a Coming "Cyber Pandemic"

Johnny Vedmore and Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
BI.ZONE CEO Dmitry Samartsev
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BI.ZONE CEO Dmitry Samartsev presents at the first Cyber Polygon session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, January 2020.
Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a "reset" of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis.

On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF), along with Russia's Sberbank and its cybersecurity subsidiary BI.ZONE announced that a new global cyberattack simulation would take place this coming July to instruct participants in "developing secure ecosystems" by simulating a supply-chain cyberattack similar to the recent SolarWinds hack that would "assess the cyber resilience" of the exercise's participants. On the newly updated event website, the simulation, called Cyber Polygon 2021, ominously warns that, given the digitalization trends largely spurred by the COVID-19 crisis, "a single vulnerable link is enough to bring down the entire system, just like the domino effect," adding that "a secure approach to digital development today will determine the future of humanity for decades to come."

Comment: Only a few months ago, President Putin personally gave Schwab and the whole WEF a major tongue-lashing (however diplomatically) for their short-sighted neoliberal ways. Putin will also be making another major speech about the direction Russia is moving towards in coming days.

It's possible that part of the reason for Russia's participation in Cyber Polygon 2020 was to gather intelligence not only about how its tech industry may position itself to respond to such an attack - but to get a sense of how an attack of this nature is likely to go down from those likely affilated with the WEF Great Reset agenda itself.

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Pirates

Ukraine claims Russia ignoring call for crunch talks to avert all-out war in Donbass, but Moscow says it never received an invite


RT
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:55 UTC
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© Sputnik / Sergey Averin; (inset) Volodymyr Zelensky REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque; Vladimir Putin Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Kremlin via REUTERS
House in the village of Veseloe, Donetsk region, damaged during the hostilities in the DPR.
The Kremlin has denied ignoring requests from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hold a crisis summit after days of bloody escalations in the war-torn Donbass region, insisting it hasn't actually been invited to take part.

On Monday morning, a government spokeswoman in Kiev claimed that an appeal for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin had gone unacknowledged. Yulia Mendel told journalists from Reuters that "we have not received an answer yet and we very much hope that this is not a refusal of dialogue."

However, later that day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he was unaware of the request, and had not seen any such contact from Ukrainian officials in recent days.

Comment: Clearly the situation is heating up and it would seem that it is Ukraine, with the full backing of the West, that is fanning the flames:

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Bad Guys

Pelosi 'unloads' on The Squad, mocks AOC in new biography - does anyone care?

Tim Pearce
The Daily Wire
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:24 UTC
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly bashes members of "the Squad" in a new biography by USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page.

Pelosi spoke ten separate times with Page for the book, scheduled for release April 20. During the interviews, Pelosi took shots at several prominent members of her own party including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. She mocks Ocasio-Cortez specifically for her youth and apparent ignorance, according to Axios:
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Republican house judiciary members witness border crisis: This is 'Biden's mess; America has become 'Sanctuary Nation'

Ashley Oliver
Breitbart
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
GOP podium
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House Judiciary Committee reports to the public
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) led several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee on a two-day visit to McAllen this week where they witnessed the ongoing border crisis, and all the members — as they recapped their visit — said the Biden administration was at fault for surging numbers of illegal migrants.

Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 170,000 migrants crossing the southern border illegally in March, a 72 percent increase from February. As Breitbart News reported, in the first two full months of President Joe Biden's time in office, February and March, apprehensions were at a combined total of nearly 210,000, while in the last four months of former President Donald Trump's tenure, apprehensions were at a combined total of just over 280,000.

Jordan, the ranking Republican member on the Judiciary Committee, gathered from speaking with Border Patrol agents that the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as Remain in Mexico — which Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suspended on his first day as president — is imperative to reinstate as a first step in controlling the migrant influx.



Comment: Pulling no punches, quite a damning bunch of observations are presented by the House Judiciary Committee - worth a viewing. It's scathing!


Comment: Stowaways run high risks to illegally enter the US:
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of migrants packed into three grain-hopper railcars near Uvalde, Texas. Migrants attempting to sneak past Border Patrol agents frequently risk injury or death by utilizing railcars for transportation into the U.S. interior after illegally crossing the border from Mexico.

About a month ago, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of 16 migrants locked inside a conex box loaded on a railcar near Hebbronville, Texas, approximately 50 miles inland from the U.S.-Mexico Border.


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