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Angela Merkel BACKTRACKS on Easter lockdown after uproar


DW
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
angela merkel
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of Germany's 16 states will reverse their plan to toughen virus lockdown measures over Easter.

Merkel announced the changes after an impromptu videoconference with the 16 regional leaders in which she explained the U-turn and said the mistake was ultimately hers to answer for.

What did Merkel say?

During a press conference, Merkel said the Easter lockdown was formed "with the best of intentions," but on closer analysis, the planned shutdown risked doing more harm than good.

"It was well reasoned, but was not really doable in such a short time," Merkel said of the Easter measures. "Far too many questions, from missing wages through to the loss of time in factories and facilities, could not be adequately answered in time."
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Former White House physician says 'something's not right' with Biden's health

Carly Roman
Washington Examiner
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:05 UTC
Biden
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US President Joe Biden
Ronny Jackson, a representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District who previously served as a physician to former presidents, is questioning President Biden's health after he slipped boarding Air Force One.

Jackson shared his concerns about Biden's condition in a tweet on Sunday afternoon.

"I served as White House physician under THREE Presidents. I've seen what it takes physically AND mentally to do the job. I can tell you right now that the way Biden is hiding from the public is a MAJOR red flag. Something's not right!" he wrote.


Jackson's remarks followed a series of physical and verbal gaffes from Biden in recent days. The president recently attracted scrutiny after he was captured on tape stumbling up the steps leading to Air Force One on Friday. White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield wrote on Twitter after the incident saying Biden "is fine," adding that the fall was "nothing more than a misstep on the stairs."

The president has also suffered verbal missteps, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris as "president" last week.

Comment: The emperor has no clothes. And dementia.

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Israeli High Court bars Bibi from appointing top law enforcement, justice officials


Times of Israel
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:42 UTC
netanyahu court hearing
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 8, 2021. Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust in three cases and bribery in one of them.
The High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must abide by conflict of interest rules laid out by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and cannot intervene in the appointment of senior law enforcement and justice officials.

Netanyahu has previously said he is not bound by the opinion drawn up by Mandelblit, which clips his wings on appointments of officials due to his criminal trial.

"The reality in which a prime minister is serving while an indictment is pending against him for serious offenses in the area of ​​personal integrity is an exceptional situation that requires extreme adherence to the principle of prohibiting a person in public office from being in a situation of conflict of interest," the court said in its ruling.

Comment: Is the noose finally tightening on Netanyahu?

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Reuters: Sweden had 10% lower 2020 death spike than much of Europe

Johan Ahlander
Reuters
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:30 UTC
Sweden
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FILE PHOTO: People enjoy the sun at an outdoor restaurant, despite the continuing spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Stockholm, Sweden March 26, 2020.
Sweden, which has shunned the strict lockdowns that have choked much of the global economy, emerged from 2020 with a smaller increase in its overall mortality rate than most European countries, an analysis of official data sources showed.

Infectious disease experts cautioned that the results could not be interpreted as evidence that lockdowns were unnecessary but acknowledged they may indicate Sweden's overall stance on fighting the pandemic had merits worth studying.


Comment: When supposed experts fail to see the obvious facts of a situation, it's clear that ideology is the driving force, not science.


In the past week, Germany and France have extended lockdowns amid rising coronavirus cases and high death tolls, moves that economists say will further delay economic recovery.


Comment: With the above data at hand, it begs the question just why countries continue to enforce lockdowns that clearly don't work? And worse, because it's becoming hard to deny that they actually correlate with a higher death rate whilst also destroying the economy, which will lead to an even higher mortality rate in the long term: UK's lockdown extension will have "severe" economic impact


Comment: Sweden is not the only example, there are numerous other countries that either didn't lockdown or did so only briefly and who have emerged from the coronavirus scare, by all metrics, in much, much better shape. Meanwhile the vast majority of Western nations continue to reimpose lockdowns, because apparently a year of lockdowns has failed to achieve what they claimed would only be '3 weeks to flatten the curve':

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CJ Hopkins: The New Normal "Reality" Police

C.J. Hopkins
Consent Factory Inc.
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
reality police
So, according to Facebook and the Atlantic Council, I am now a "dangerous individual," you know, like a "terrorist," or a "serial murderer," or "human trafficker," or some other kind of "criminal." Or I've been praising "dangerous individuals," or disseminating their symbols, or otherwise attempting to "sow dissension" and cause "offline harm."

Actually, I'm not really clear what I'm guilty of, but I'm definitely some sort of horrible person you want absolutely nothing to do with, whose columns you do not want to read, whose books you do not want to purchase, and the sharing of whose Facebook posts might get your account immediately suspended. Or, at the very least, you'll be issued this warning:

reality police2

Comment: See also:

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Cruz refuses to wear mask when asked by reporter at press event, citing immunization, press badgers him anyway

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:50 UTC
ted cruz no mask press conference
© CSPAN
Senator Ted Cruz (right) rebuffed a reporter's request that he wear a mask while giving a Senate presser on Wednesday
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday refused to wear a mask during a press conference on Capitol Hill after a reporter repeatedly asked him to put one on as a courtesy to others in the room.

"Would you mind putting a mask on for us?" a reporter asked Cruz as he stepped up to a bank of microphones.

"Uh, yeah, when I'm talking in front of the TV cameras I'm not going to wear a mask," Cruz responded. "And all of us have been immunized, so..."

Comment: Senator Cruz is in the right: Good on him for not being cowed by the yapping presstitutes. The twitterati has even awarded him a meme:



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Evil Rays

Is Joe Biden enabling Russiagate 2?

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Putin
The old expression that "lightning never strikes the same place twice" is frequently used in the aftermath of a truly awful experience, meaning that the odds are that something exactly like that will never occur again. Unfortunately, however, we Americans will now have to endure lightning striking twice due to the emergence of President Joe Biden and whoever is telling him what to say. I am referring specifically to Russiagate, which is possibly the single most discredited bit of politically motivated chicanery that this country has seen in the past twenty years. Joe is relying on the "evidence" provided by a conveniently timed new declassified "Intelligence Community Assessment" entitled "Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Election." The document was dated March 10th but released by Director Avril Haines of the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) on March 16th.

The new report consists of eleven pages of text and charts. It specifically discounts any direct evidence to alter votes electronically, but asserts that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally directed his spies and proxies to turn the US election in favor of Donald Trump. Based in part on the report, Joe Biden subsequently labeled Putin a "killer" and vowed that both Russia and its president would "pay a price" which we will be "seeing shortly" for their claimed meddling in American politics. The Bidenesque grotesque overreach has led to the Kremlin recalling its ambassador in Washington home for "consultations" and will at a minimum put US forces in the Middle East at risk.

Comment: How pathetic that Biden and his intelligence agency handlers and cronies would still try and trot out the Russia Bogeyman after the Mueller Report - and so much other information that has come out effectively debunking it.

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Seriously? Psaki says she never heard claim Hunter Biden got $3.5M from wife of ex-Moscow mayor

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:23 UTC
Jen Psaki hunter press conference white house
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Jen Psaki speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday said that she's "not familiar" with a widely reported claim that a company associated with first son Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from the wife of Moscow's former mayor, after being asked by The Post what the payment was for.

"I'm not familiar with that claim. It doesn't sound like it's backed up by a lot of evidence. If you have evidence or specifics, I'm happy to discuss it further," Psaki said at her daily press briefing in response to a question from The Post.

Psaki said, referring to a report from the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees that made the claim, "I'm not familiar with the report at all."

Comment: Psaki must have been living under a rock since her stint with the Obama admin, emerging into the light of day at the behest of Biden's "advisers".

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Arrow Up

The US Intel community, flouting laws, is increasingly involving itself in Domestic Politics

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Biden Panetta
© Alex Wong/Getty Images
VP Joe Biden with former CIA Dir. Leon Panetta
A report declassified last Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security is raising serious concerns about the possibly illegal involvement by the intelligence community in U.S. domestic political affairs.

Entitled "Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021," the March 1 Report from the Director of National Intelligence states that it was prepared "in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security — and was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with contributions from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)."

Its primary point is this:
"The IC [intelligence community] assesses that domestic violent extremists (DVEs) who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021."
While asserting that "the most lethal" of these threats is posed by "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and militia violent extremists (MVEs)," it makes clear that its target encompasses a wide range of groups from the left (Antifa, animal rights and environmental activists, pro-choice extremists and anarchists: "those who oppose capitalism and all forms of globalization") to the right (sovereign citizen movements, anti-abortion activists and those deemed motivated by racial or ethnic hatreds).
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Snakes in Suits

Biden's new deal: Re-engineering America, quickly

Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei
Axios
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Biden
© Stefani Reynolds/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images
US President Joe Biden
President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.

Why it matters ... The historians' views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.

Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount to a $5 trillion-plus overhaul of America, and vast changes to voting, immigration and inequality.
  1. He has full party control of Congress, and a short window to go big.
  2. He has party activists egging him on.
  3. He has strong gathering economic winds at his back.
  4. And he's popular in polls.

Comment: 5. He is completely manipulable.


Comment: An unholy train wreck's coming via the government to the people. The track is laid, the wheels are greased, the engine is revving and the Commander-in-Chief has left the platform.

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