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Unmasked: NATO's pandemic reaction is 'dog-eat-dog'

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Masked or Unmasked, NATO forces ready to fight 'the enemy'.
Despite its charter proclaiming mutual defense and security, the NATO military alliance is showing a rather unbecoming dog-eat-dog individualistic reaction in coping with the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States, the top dog in the 30-member pack of nations, is accused of "modern piracy" after it nabbed consignments of face masks which were bound for allies Canada, France and Germany to help those nations fight against soaring epidemics of the disease.

To think too that only last year, NATO celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding in 1949 with lots of fanfare and vain self-congratulations of how noble the alliance is. Skeptics, though, see the bloc as a Cold War relic whose security claims are but empty Orwellian excuses for warmongering and propping up obscenely wasteful corporate militarism.


Comment: There are a lot of things masked in this 'pandemic', don't ya think?


Red Pill

Ray McGovern: What if Covid-19 warnings had been WikiLeaked?

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The British court system continues to mock the Magna Carta. Bowing vassal-like to U.S. pressure it persists with Star Chamber proceedings against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange until he is either extradited to the U.S. or winds up dead.

The judicial pantomime under way in London, under the guise of an extradition hearing, would make the English nobles who wrested precious civil rights from King John eight centuries ago sob in anger and shame. But nary a whimper is heard from the heirs to those rights. One searches in vain for English nobles today.

Yet the process stumbles along, as awkward as it is inexorable, toward extradition and life in prison for Assange, if he lasts that long.

The banal barristers bashing Assange now seem to harbor hope that, unlike the case of Henry VIII and Thomas More, the swords of royal knights will be unneeded to "deliver the Crown from this troublesome priest" — or publisher. Those barristers may be spared the embarrassment of losing what residual self-respect they may still claim. In short, they may not need to bow and scrape much longer to surrender Assange to life in a U.S. prison. He may die first.

Comment: Truth and accuracy cannot be tolerated when the crux of the farce to 'contain and retrain' humans around the globe is based on deception, mind games, false information and deeply hidden agendas. WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are proven truth risks that the diabolical planners of this global manipulation could not afford.


Star of David

Rivlin denies Gantz's extension request to form government with Netanyahu

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Masked men: Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benny Gantz
The Middle Eastern nation has been trapped in a historically unprecedented political deadlock for over a year now, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud nor former IDF commander Benny Gantz's Blue and White managing to achieve enough support to cobble together a ruling coalition after three rounds of voting.

President Reuven Rivlin has rejected Blue and White leader Benny Gantz's request for a two week extension to try to form a grand coalition government with Likud as the deadline to do so runs out on Monday at midnight, The Times of Israel has reported, citing a statement by the president's office.

Gantz requested the extension on Saturday, saying he needed more time to try to form the coalition.
"The political, health and social crisis have brought me to the decision that even at a heavy political and personal price, I will do all I can to establish a government with the Likud."
Gantz wrote in a letter addressed to Rivlin which was published by Israeli media. Rivlin's office said Sunday that the president made the decision not to extend the deadline after speaking to both leaders, with Netanyahu reportedly telling him that Likud and Blue and White were nowhere close to an agreement.

Snakes in Suits

'F-You, Main Street!' Federal Reserve will now buy junk bonds while it bails out banks and billionaires

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In less than a month 17 million Americans have applied for unemployment, while the Federal Reserve has focused on bailing out board rooms, billionaires, bankers and builders. Let them all fail.

Last week I wrote about Wall Street corruption and fraud in the $6 trillion "rescue package". CEOs depleted assets, took home record pay and bonuses and then, months later, came hat in hand begging for bailouts.

Jerome Powell's unelected US Federal Reserve, in less than a fortnight, has elevated moral hazard to new levels of insanity with the launch of a $2.2 trillion round of bailouts for bankers, billionaires and builders. As part of this bailout, the US Treasury is providing half a trillion dollars in backstop cash in case some of the Fed's risky loans explode - which they will.

Chess

Energy insecurity: Trump is a hostage to internal politics and an illusory 'free market' in the oil price game

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Having bragged repeatedly of America's energy independence, President Trump must confront the harsh realities of a global oil market no longer able to sustain inefficient US oil producers as he prepares to negotiate with the G20.

The global economy struggles to adapt to the one-two punch of reduced oil demand brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian-Saudi Arabian price war, which has seen the oil markets flooded with cheap oil, threatening to drive the price per barrel to historical lows.

The G20 will meet today in virtual session (hello, global social distancing) to try and work out a deal for universal production cuts to stabilize oil prices and, in doing so, facilitate global economic recovery. While both Russia and Saudi Arabia have tentatively agreed to massive cuts in their production, such a deal is contingent upon the US making similar cuts. Domestic political realities, however, may tie President Trump's hands, killing the deal before it even gets started.

Snakes in Suits

What crisis? UK parliament on holiday till April 21st while some furious MPs demand recall immediately

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The House of Commons will return as planned on April 21 - but MPs are demanding more
Jacob Rees-Mogg has confirmed the Commons will return as planned on April 21 in virtual form. But MPs have gone further by demanding an 'immediate' recall

MPs from across the political divide today demanded an urgent recall of Parliament as plans to come back on April 21 were branded not enough.

Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg today insisted Parliament will return in nine days' time as planned after a month-long Easter break.

Options are "being prepared" in the next week for how to use virtual technology to keep the Commons going without MPs coming too close in person.

But Mr Rees-Mogg stressed the return will only be for parliament's "essential constitutional functions".

Comment: Considering the state of the elected government's recent appearances, one can understand why they may be reluctant to put this lot back to work and under public scrutiny:

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Attention

Meet the companies poised to build the Kushner-backed "coronavirus surveillance system"

The three companies behind the leading proposal to build a "national coronavirus surveillance system", an initiative spearheaded by Jared Kushner, boast deep ties to Google, intelligence-linked venture capital firms as well as one of last year's eerily predictive "pandemic" simulations.

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On April 7, Politico reported that the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner was spearheading an all-private sector taskforce that aims to build a "national coronavirus surveillance system" in order to "give the government a near real-time view of where patients are seeking treatment and for what."

This proposed nationwide network, according to that report, would be used to better inform government decision-making regarding which parts of the United States may "safely relax social-distancing rules" and those that may not. Politico treaded lightly in its discussion of such a system's likely effects on civil liberties, but did note that some critics have compared this proposed system "to the Patriot act enacted after the 9/11 attacks."

According to Politico, three companies collectively sent out a memo on March 22 to three administration officials - Jared Kushner, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar. The memo was "widely circulated" throughout the administration relative to other submitted proposals. Those companies - Collective Medical, PatientPing and Juvare - asserted in the memo that they could collectively "supply the government with information on where and how many patients are seeking care across 80 percent of the U.S. 'in short order.'"

Two of those companies, Collective Medical Technologies and PatientPing, declined to comment on the memo and its contents. A representative from Juvare, however, stated that the company has "spoken with officials across several federal agencies including FEMA, HHS and the CDC about its various emergency preparedness and data tools."

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Mr. Potato

Ocasio-Cortez says Trump's 'xenophobic COVID response' scaring people away from hospitals

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to media before participating in a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York City, U.S., February 22, 2020.
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Saturday's that people in her Queens constituency are "too scared to go to the hospital" because of President Donald Trump's "xenophobic COVID response."

"Corona, Queens is the most heavily COVID-impacted zip code in America," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "I can tell you 1st hand that many ppl are too scared to go to the hospital & continue to work bc of Trump's xenophobic COVID response."

Comment: So let's get this straight - because Trump called the virus "foreign" and has referred to it as the "China virus" people are afraid to go to the hospital? How fragile does AOC think her constituents are? If people really are afraid to go to the hospital, which is debatable, isn't it more likely that they've succumbed to the constant fear-mongering about the virus played 24/7 in the MSM and on social media? They really seem to be giving enormous power to Trump's innocuous words. He's not a wizard.


Pills

Choosing profits over people: Anti-coronavirus drugs could be produced for pennies

Instead, those drugs are being sold for thousands of dollars each, proving once again that the private, for-profit pharmaceutical industry is ill-equipped to handle a global public health crisis like COVID-19.
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Anew article in the Journal of Virus Eradication published yesterday explored the cost of mass producing several drugs that have shown distinct promise in the global fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The research, headed by Dr. Andrew Hill from the Department of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, found treatments like Remdesivir, a drug used to treat SARS and Ebola, could be produced for just $0.93 per daily dose, and a combination of Hepatitis C medications Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir can be made for just $0.39. This would translate to just $9 and $5 respectively for a full course of treatment.

"If favorable results are shown from these new trials, there is the potential to rapidly upscale production of the most promising drugs," the team of researchers writes. "The safety profiles of these drugs have already been established from clinical trials for other diseases, so they could be rapidly deployed to treat COVID-19 before vaccines become available. Trials of a number of different drugs are underway across the world. Should repurposed drugs demonstrate efficacy against COVID-19, they could be manufactured profitably at very low costs, for much less than current list prices," they conclude.

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Pyramid

Episode 375 of the Corbett Report: Corona World Order

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Some are suggesting that the current crisis is the end of globalization, or that it will wipe out the New World Order altogether... but they are wrong. In fact, this crisis is the globalists' dream, and what we are witnessing is the birth of a totalitarian control grid the likes of which could scarcely have been imagined before this pandemic panic kicked off. Welcome to the Corona World Order.

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