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Russell Brand viral video slams MSM & Silicon Valley for hiding "troubling" Hunter Biden news

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 25 May 2021 17:47 UTC
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Russell Brand (L) Joe and Hunter Biden (R)
In a rare and refreshing interview which on YouTube has garnered 100,000 views in less than 24 hours, British comedian and actor Russell Brand and former Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald teamed up to explain last year's scandalous coordination by the mainstream media and social media companies to ensure the Hunter Biden laptop story and accompanying revelations over the Hunter-Ukrainian Burisma energy company scandal never reached broader public view.

"I'm not a pro-Republican person," Brand introduced while talking to Greenwald on his YouTube channel. "I don't see myself that way. I don't see myself as conservative, or that I'm in a Trump, or Giuliani, or the kind of media establishments that were reporting on these revelations [about Biden's family]. They are not my cultural, social, or political allies. That's certainly not how I see myself." And then he blasted away: "However, it seems to me — what reason is Hunter Biden sat on the board of an energy company in... Ukraine?" he questioned. "What reason is James Biden sat on the board, or receiving payments from an energy company, in China?"
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Sanctions against Russia just aren't working, says French President Macron, calling for dialogue & review of EU's stance on Moscow


RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 17:46 UTC
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France's President Emmanuel Macron has called on the EU to re-evaluate its foreign policy approach to Russia, arguing that the bloc's current strategy isn't helping to restore constructive relations between Moscow and the West.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Macron said that "with Russia, the policy of progressive sanctions on frozen situations is no longer an effective policy."

"I think that we are at a moment of truth in our relationship with Russia, which should lead us to rethink the terms of the tension that we decide to put in place," the leader added.

Asked by reporters as to how the EU can put forward its political objectives in cases like that of the jailing of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, Macron pushed back, asking. "What would you like us to do? Do we start an armed conflict? Do we completely cut off relations? Do we go further with sanctions - but where to?"
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Bizarro Earth

The Great Reset's comprehensive plan for food

Blake Lovewell
21st Century Wire
Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00 UTC
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The oft-overlooked 'Food Security' pillar of the Davos mafia's 'Great Reset' agenda.

Imagine with me: a plate of food that fulfills all your nutritional needs, that is provided to you for free, that has a whole host of fancy labels declaring it, for example, carbon neutral and 'fair trade.' It is produced by a handful of global companies, who through thousands of experiments have produced this optimal super-food. There is genetically modified cauliflower that is rammed with extra vitamins, meat-free soya alternatives that provides protein and a 'secret-sauce' that makes everything taste amazing. It doesn't sound too bad does it?

If somebody told you that there was a plan to revolutionise the global food system from the top down, would you believe them? Well perhaps after reading this article you will see that we are rapidly approaching that point today.

Food security is something that we in the West, for the most part, take for granted. There is affordable food in plentiful stock in shops in every town. The difficulty often is choosing from the plethora of worldly foods, which to eat for dinner - though it wasn't ever thus. We humans have gone through periods of intense famine and great struggle for sustenance. Our bodies still have coping mechanisms for starvation and we are still driven by base urges for those sweet and fatty foods which would see us through Winters yore. It doesn't seem like we will be returning to that hungerous state any time soon, surely not in this world of plenty.
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Fed charges against former Trump advisor Steve Bannon officially dismissed

Marta Dhani
Fox News
Tue, 25 May 2021 16:08 UTC
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A federal judge granted Stephen Bannon's motion to dismiss the case against him on Tuesday following then-President Donald Trump's pardon.
A federal judge granted Stephen Bannon's motion to dismiss the case against him on Tuesday following then-President Donald Trump's pardon.

"For the reasons stated above, Bannon's motion is GRANTED and the Indictment is DISMISSED as to him, pursuant to paragraph one of the Pardon," Judge Analisa Torres declared in a filing.

But Torres also pointed out that a pardon implies guilt.

"If there be no guilt, there is no ground for forgiveness," she wrote. "It is an appeal to executive clemency. It is asked as a matter of favor to the guilty. It is granted not of right but of grace. A party is acquitted on the ground of innocence; he is pardoned through favor."

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Bullseye

Ireland recognises Israel's 'de facto annexation' of Palestine, will vote on expelling Israeli ambassador


Al Jazeera
Wed, 26 May 2021 15:50 UTC
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Pro-Palestinian protesters seen on O'Connell Street, Dublin, during a Rally for Palestine on Saturday, May 22, 2021, in Dublin, Ireland
Gov't now set to vote on amendment that, if passed, would expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and impose sanctions against Israel.

The Irish government has supported a parliamentary motion condemning the "de facto annexation" of Palestinian land by Israeli authorities, in what it said was the first use of the phrase by a European Union country in relation to Israel.

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Tuesday that the motion, brought forward by opposition party Sinn Fein, "is a clear signal of the depth of feeling across Ireland".

Comment: Ireland's own troubled history of conquest, occupation, and divide-and-rule government makes it easy for it to recognize another peoples' suffering. They have long been supporters of Palestine's struggle for freedom. From 2014:



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Snowflake

AOC on Jan. 6 riot: I'm 'doing therapy' because of Trump, members of Congress 'served in war'

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Tue, 25 May 2021 00:01 UTC
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed during a recent interview that she was "doing therapy" because of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, adding that former President Donald Trump had her in a "very reactive mode."

Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during an interview late last week with Latino USA, saying that the events of January 6 were "extraordinarily traumatizing."

Business Insider highlighted one specific claim that AOC made:
...Ocasio-Cortez said that the insurrection was deeply traumatizing for many members of Congress, who effectively "served in war."

Comment: See also:

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Treasure Chest

Fed to Treasury dealers and Congress: 'We can't count on you, we're taking charge'

Charles Hugh Smith
oftwominds.com
Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00 UTC
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The Fed sees itself as trapped by the incompetence and greed of the other players and by its own policy extremes that were little more than expedient "saves" of a system that is unraveling due to its fragility and brittleness. . .

There are two standard-issue narratives about the Federal Reserve's agenda: the Fed's official narrative is that the Fed's mandate is to keep inflation under control while promoting full employment. The unofficial mandate that's obvious to all is to prop up assets, especially the stock market, which has become the Fed's preferred signifier of prosperity and the rightness/goodness of Fed policies.

The other narrative results from "following the money": the Fed is owned by private-sector banks, and so behind the curtain of happy-talk (full employment, blah-blah-blah), the Fed's only real agenda is to further enrich banks and too big to fail/jail financiers -- something it has managed to do with remarkable success.

That the Fed inflated the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble and the 2005-2008 housing bubble is undeniable, as is the Fed's 2008-09 bailout of the global financial system and too big to fail/jail mortgage originators and a vast array of other profiteering, embezzler-scoundrels.
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Pirates

Future pandemic will be 'more deadly' than Covid-19, WHO chief warns


RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 18:16 UTC
Tedros
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World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2021
A virus even more transmissible and fatal than Covid-19 will lead the world into the next pandemic, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, noting the "evolutionary certainty" of such an occurrence.

"Make no mistake, this will not be the last time the world faces the threat of pandemic," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the UN agency's annual assembly of health ministers from its 194 member states on Monday. "It's an evolutionary certainty that there will be another virus with the potential to be more transmittable and more deadly than this one."

On a more positive note, Ghebreyesus said the global number of Covid-19 cases and deaths reported has been decreasing for three consecutive weeks.

Comment: It's obvious to anyone paying attention that governments in league with organizations like the WHO are creating a scenario that is just ripe for an actual plague.

There's an experimental mass vaccination program that seems to not only be causing new variants, but is implicated in countless severe side effects, that likely include a compromised immune system, as well as deaths; there's lockdowns reducing natural immune defenses through stress, isolation, lack of exercise and fresh air, they're also preventing the natural circulation of more harmless viruses - in turn forcing them to mutate to become even more virulent; then there's enforced mask wearing that harms health and creates a breeding ground for potentially worse bacteria and viruses. Taken together, none of the above bode well for a healthy future:


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Newspaper

Iran approves hardliner for presidential polls, bars several hopefuls


Reuters
Tue, 25 May 2021 12:46 UTC
Raisi
© Majid Asgaripour/ WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Ebrahim Raisi, Chief Justice of Iran, shows his identification document as he registers as a candidate for the presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in Tehran, Iran May 15, 2021.
Iran's election watchdog has approved the candidacy of hardline judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi in next month's presidential election, state TV said on Tuesday, while disqualifying some of his main rivals including former parliament speaker Ali Larijani.

The move is likely to boost the prospects of Raisi, a close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But it may further dent the clerical rulers' hopes of a high turnout in the June 18 vote, amid rising discontent over an economy crippled by U.S. sanctions.

As well as Larijani, a moderate conservative, the hardline-led Guardian Council barred populist former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and pragmatist First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, an ally of the outgoing president, Hassan Rouhani.

Comment: See also: Iran's Ahmadinejad registers candidacy for Presidential race

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Cowards: Israel's air strikes targeted entire families in Gaza — but U.S. media won't pursue the story

James North
Mondoweiss
Tue, 25 May 2021 18:10 UTC
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Palestinians mourn over bodies of Salha family who were killed after Israeli air strike in Deir al-Balah in the center of Gaza Strip, on 19 May 2021.
Amira Hass is one of the most impressive and experienced journalists in Israel/Palestine. She writes for the respected daily Haaretz, where on May 19 she made an extraordinary charge — that the Israeli military, as part of its air assault on Gaza, "is wiping out entire Palestinian families on purpose."

So far, no mainstream U.S. media outlet has followed up on her report. Their failure is journalistic malpractice.

Hass, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, actually lived in Gaza from 1993-97, and afterward published the valuable Drinking the Sea in Gaza (1999). She obviously still has excellent contacts there. This latest report starts by observing that 15 Palestinian families in Gaza lost multiple family members during the Israeli bombardment:

Comment: There are many attested instances where the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) has indeed at certain times, warned Gazans away from dangerous areas such as the fence. Inasmuch as the IDF has the mobile phone numbers of every household in Gaza (disturbing as that is), one can only assume that withholding a warning was deliberate. That would be pre-meditated murder.





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