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Joe Biden confirms plan to run in 2024 & gut filibuster during 62 minute first solo presser

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:33 UTC
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Update (1430ET): After 62 minutes, having answered questions from 10 different outlets (some disgustingly ingratiating, some rather more pointed), President Biden is done.

"I got elected to solve problems," Biden said at the beginning.

Key Takeaways include:

Comment: See also:

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Macron claims Russia waging 'war' on West using vaccines for political influence as EU deliberately delays approval of Sputnik V


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:06 UTC
Macron
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French President Emmanuel Macron; (inset) a vial of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine
A new conflict is raging across Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned, claiming that Russia has weaponized its domestically made coronavirus jabs in order to boost its political power, exploiting EU supply shortages.

Speaking to journalists on Thursday, the leader said the supply of jabs was a major challenge and claimed, "We are facing a world war of a new kind altogether in the face of these attacks, with Russian and Chinese influence around the vaccines."


Comment: What kind of politician uses that kind of unbalanced and baseless rhetoric? How can he equate the atrocities of the world wars with what's happening now?


"We need sovereignty in this matter," Macron added. "We must be able to manufacture vaccines. ... The virus will continue to be here, circulating, mutating, and we need options to deal with it."


Comment: No one is stopping the West from manufacturing its own vaccines, any delays are due to blatant corruption and the nefarious leverage of unseen forces. Note also that Macron is hinting that there will be no end to the lockdowns and that the 'mutations' will be used as just one reason to enforce them.


Comment: Russia has been offering its much more rigorously tested and provably efficacious Sputnik V vaccine for many months and yet the EU deliberately delayed its approval, so who's playing political power games?

Also, it's likely that Macron is just projecting, because the West has been using all kinds of soft power tactics on the developing world for decades, and, in many cases, worsening their situation: New oral polio vaccine to BYPASS key clinical trials as vaccine caused outbreaks overtake wild polio

Further, for the vast majority NO vaccine is necessary: COVID Mass Vaccination Experiment: Prepare For The Worst With This Health Protocol

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Who is shaking the jar? Part 2


The Burning Platform
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Man walking
© Unknown
In Part 1 of this article I documented the never ending false narratives used by those shaking the jar to keep us at each other's throats. I will now show how 2020 was a turning point in history, with an accelerating decline of our empire in progress.

The numerous examples of how those holding the jar shake it to generate conflict and chaos to achieve their Machiavellian ambitions pales in comparison with what they accomplished during the fateful year of 2020. They began shaking the jar at hypersonic speed by weaponizing the annual flu, giving it a scary name and then faking data to scare the entire world into lockdowns and mandatory masking, even though "science" said neither of those "solutions" worked against viruses. And the science was right.

But that was not enough. They needed to reignite race wars by declaring the country is infected with systematic racism, even though we have spent $25 trillion on welfare programs since the War on Poverty began in 1965. The level of shaking in 2020 should make any critical thinking person pause and ask why. They really needed a huge distraction as cover for their real purpose. As usual, just follow the money. The global financial system was on life support and was in danger of flat lining, destroying the wealth of billionaire oligarchs, corporate titans, and the Wall Street cabal.

Comment: If you haven't read it - you should: Who is shaking the jar? (Part 1)

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'What did you have for breakfast, Joe?' As CNN publishes 'tough' questions for Biden, critics guess how low the bar will REALLY be


RT
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:45 UTC
Biden
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US President Joe Biden
The mainstream media cheered for Joe Biden's inauguration, but two months in, are they prepared to ask the tough questions their job demands at his first solo presser? If CNN is anything to go by, the answer is a resounding no.

President Joe Biden is holding his first solo press conference later on Thursday afternoon. Both Donald Trump and Barack Obama had held multiple conferences by this point in their presidencies, but Biden has kept the media waiting an unprecedented nine weeks. Only Calvin 'Silent Cal' Coolidge made reporters wait longer, when he took office nearly 100 years ago.

There is much to talk about. Biden has signed more than 50 executive orders, put his pen to a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, and launched missiles at Syria. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have poured over the Mexican border since Biden shredded Trump's strict immigration policies, and both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have mounted a push for gun control in the wake of two mass shootings.

The press has plenty to work with, but this is Joe Biden we're talking about.

Comment: Commenters guessed how low the bar would be set:


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Israeli spy Pollard betrays America yet again

Jeff Stein
SpyTalk
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Jonathan Pollard
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Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Pollard, his grandiosity, narcissism and disingenuousness undiminished, cannot stop hurting the country that gave his Holocaust-ravaged family a life.

In the first part of an interview with an Israeli newspaper this week, Pollard claimed he had "no choice" but to steal U.S. intelligence documents because Washington was withholding information on Arab WMD threats to the Jewish nation.

What a whopper. No American citizen is forced to spy for a foreign intelligence organization — and Pollard was a very well-paid volunteer, with over a half million dollars in earnings for his perfidy. Nor could he know of what intelligence the U.S. was or wasn't sharing with Israel. So I doubt he'll come clean in the second part of his interview with the rightwing Israel Hayom, funded by the late pro-Trump casino magnate Sheldon Adelson — on how he stole more than a million documents, "enough to fill a six-by-ten-foot room stacked six feet high," according to former NCIS agent Ron Olive, a number of which he also shopped to South Africa, Pakistan, his financial advisers and his then-wife, who used them to "advance her personal business interests," Olive wrote in his 2006 book, Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice.

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US-China confrontation may only get worse under Biden as West's sanctions force Beijing into 'war mode'

Tom Fowdy
RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:01 UTC
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Joe Biden's policy on China might not be as inflammatory as Trump's, but the principle remains the same and the US will continue its attempts to contain China's rise as a perceived challenge to the international order.

During his first press conference as the US President, Joe Biden opted for what he described as the "foreign policy priorities" of both China and North Korea. Stating that he knew Chinese premier Xi Jinping well from his days as Vice President, he called him a "smart guy" but added that he "doesn't have a democratic bone in his body."

He then spoke about "stiff competition," vowing to "build alliances" that challenge Beijing and push back against China on a number of fronts. "They have an overall goal...to become the leading, wealthiest and most powerful country in the world," Biden said, adding that he's not going to let it happen on his watch. The president framed the situation as a 21st century battle of autocracies vs. democracies, vowing to "never back down from speaking out on what's happening" with the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Hong Kong.

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Snowflake Ted Lieu has melt-down at mention of Harvard Asian-discrimination case during hearing on diversity

Tobias Hoonhout
National Review
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:48 UTC
Ted Lieu
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) questions witnesses during the House impeachment inquiry hearings on Capitol Hill, December 9, 2019.
Representative Ted Lieu (D., Calif.) bristled at a witness for bringing up Harvard's alleged discrimination against Asian Americans during a House hearing on diversity on the federal courts.

"Stop bringing in irrelevant issues, there are more Asian Americans at these Ivy Leagues than in the federal judiciary — they're unrepresented. These are different issues happening," Lieu yelled at civil rights attorney Peter Kirsanow. "Don't bring in these college issues because this is not what the hearing's about."

Kirsanow said he agreed with the assessment that Asian Americans are "underrepresented" in the judiciary, but argued that his prior point was relevant "based on the fact that there's been discrimination in the pipeline."

Comment: It's not the first time Lieu has demonstrated his competence may be questionable for the office he holds:

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Netanyahu fails to win a majority as talks to break election deadlock in Israel begin

Elan Ben Zion
Independent
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:30 UTC
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Final election results yesterday showed Israel in political deadlock once again, with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents falling short of a governing majority.

Tuesday's vote, Israel's fourth parliamentary elections in two years, was widely seen as a referendum on Mr Netanyahu's fitness to rule while on trial for corruption.

He put Israel's highly successful vaccination drive at the centre of his campaign but was criticised for earlier missteps during the pandemic and for refusing to step down after being indicted.

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Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill: Parler says warned FBI, Zuck and Dorsey defend censorship and deny blame in new hearing

Mairead McArdle
The Daily Wire
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
US Capitol 'rioters'
Parler, the social media platform popular with right-wing users, worked with the FBI to target accounts suspected of encouraging violence prior to the January riot at the Capitol, making more than 50 referrals leading up to the violence, the company said Thursday.

In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Parler accused "Big Tech" of waging a "coordinated and widespread disinformation campaign" against the platform intended to "scapegoat" it for the deadly riot.

"Far from being the far-right instigator and rogue company that Big Tech has portrayed Parler to be, the facts conclusively demonstrate that Parler has been a responsible and law-abiding company focused on ensuring that only free and lawful speech exists on its platform," Parler's attorneys Michael S. Dry and Ephraim "Fry" Wernick wrote in the letter.

From December to the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot, Parler fostered a working relationship with the FBI and alerted the agency to many posts that appeared to encourage or plan violence, according to emails and other documents obtained by The Daily Wire.

Some of the posts called for killing government officials and their families, including one from a user who said he would kill President Biden. Another user called for "not just a peaceful march" on January 6 in Washington, saying "I want to start eliminating people." Yet another lengthier post called for an "armed force" of 150,000 "American Patriots" to be "prepared to react to the congressional events of January 6th."

Comment: Facebook did nothing wrong, according to Facebook. In a statement government, Zuckerberg continued to blame Trump.
"How is it possible for you not to at least admit that Facebook played a leading role in the recruitment, planning and execution of the attack on the capitol?" Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) asked.

Pressed again, Zuckerberg passed the buck.

"I think the responsibility lies with the people who took the actions to break the law and do the insurrection," he said. "Secondarily, also with the people who spread that content, including the president but others as well, with repeated rhetoric over time, saying that the election was rigged and encouraging people to organize, I think that those people bear the primary responsibility as well."

Doyle wasn't having it, arguing that Facebook "supercharged" the dangerous rhetoric, which spread like wildfire on the platform before the January 6 attack. As Doyle pointed out, the FBI showed that insurrectionists used Facebook during the "recruitment, planning and execution" stages of the attack.
At the hearing, Dorsey defended Twitter's current anti-'disinformation' practices.

Here's Greenwald's take on the hearing:


The Capitol Hill "insurrection" was a tempest in a teapot. Trump is right, again, mostly:


But Democrats want to milk it for all it's worth.
Top House Democrats pressed federal agencies, including the Justice Department, the FBI, and the White House, for documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, asking Biden officials to hand over records from the waning weeks of the Trump administration.

Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, and the leaders of the Armed Services, House Administration, and Homeland Security committees signed the letters.

"In today's letters, the Chairs requested documents and communications from three key time periods — before, during, and after the attack — which relate to the counting of the Electoral College vote, or the potential for demonstrations, violence, or attacks in the National Capital Region on or around January 6, 2021," Democrats said Thursday.


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Lula slams Bolsonaro with over-the-top rhetoric over Covid deaths - worst 'genocide' in Brazil's history


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:44 UTC
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Jair Bolsonaro / Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The former president of Brazil says his incumbent successor is responsible for the "worst genocide in our history" due to a neglectful response to the epidemic. Brazil this week passed an overall tally of 300,000 Covid-19 deaths.

The scorching critique of President Jair Bolsonaro comes from Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, widely known simply as 'Lula,' on the pages of the German weekly Der Spiegel. The popular leftist politician said Bolsonaro has failed to take the pandemic seriously, and this has led to the deaths of over 300,000 people. The grim benchmark was passed by the Latin American nation on Wednesday, while, on the next day, its Ministry of Health recorded more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases in a single day.


"If he had a bit of dignity, he would have apologized to the families of the 300,000 Covid dead and millions of infected people. He is responsible for that," said Lula. "Brazil can't stand it any longer if this man continues to govern like this."

The former president added that what was going on with Covid-19 in Brazil was the "worst genocide" in country's history. He used the same term about a year ago, when he explained his concerns with the Bolsonaro government's approach to the epidemic. The death toll stood at 14,000 at the time.

Comment: Lula sounds like the American Democratic Party. Brazil isn't even in the top 15 highest per capita deaths. Belgium, Hungary, UK, Italy, US, Spain - all experienced worse death rates, and all locked down harder than Brazil. (See the graphs here to compare Brazil's excess mortality with other countries.)

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