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GOP lawmakers, led by ex-White House doctor, ask Biden to take cognitive test

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Thu, 17 Jun 2021 06:34 UTC
Ronny Jackson
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Former WH physician Rep. Ronny Jackson
More than a dozen Republican House members, led by former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, asked President Biden Thursday to undergo a cognitive test and release the results "so the American people know the full mental and intellectual health of their President."

"The American people should have absolute confidence in their President," reads the letter to Biden in part. "They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties of Head of State and Commander in Chief. They deserve full transparency on the mental capabilities of their highest elected leader."

Jackson (R-Texas) told Fox News Hannity Thursday night. "We can't sit on this any longer. After this most recent embarrassing performance overseas, I thought it was time to come out [with the letter]."

The letter, which is copied to chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and current White House Physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor, claims that Biden's "mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past eighteen months."

Comment: Perhaps standard policy should include a cognitive qualifier for every presidential candidate - sufficing to reassure the public they are choosing from a field of mentally-sound hopefuls.

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The great deception

Rob Slane
The BlogMire
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
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Dr. Peter McCullough is one of the most eminent physicians and scientists in the US, and reputed to be the most published cardiologist in history. Along with a number of others, he devised a treatment protocol for Covid-19, which was shown to be effective in preventing up to 85% of deaths. Yet having spent the best part of a year seeing all discussions of these treatments suppressed, resisted and censored by the authorities, media and Big Tech, he has come to a shocking conclusion:
"I believe that we're under the application of a form of bioterrorism that's worldwide, that appears to have been many years in the planning. The first wave of the bioterrorism was a respiratory virus that spread across the world and affected relatively few people, but generated great fear. ... The entire programme as this bioterrorism Phase 1 was rolled out, was really all about keeping the population in fear and in isolation and preparing them to accept the vaccine, which appears to be Phase 2 of a bioterrorism operation."
At the end of his interview with the German lawyer, Reiner Fuellmich, he poses the following question:
"To me what was masterful is the psychological part of it. How did they pull this off from a mass psychology perspective?"
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Netanyahu 'illegally' shredded documents on the eve of Bennett takeover

Ilya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:11 UTC
Netanyahu/Cohen
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen reviewing documents in 2015
The long-serving Israeli prime minister's tenure came to an end on 13 June, after opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett put together a broad coalition government. Along with his political defeat, Netanyahu is being tried for alleged breach of trust, bribery, fraud in the wake of three separate police investigations.

Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the shredding of documents in his safe on Sunday, just before Naftali Bennett took over the job of prime minister, Haaretz reports, citing unnamed staffers. The Israeli outlet says it remains unclear how many documents were destroyed, or what information they may have contained.

A spokesman for the Likud leader forcefully denied the allegations, calling the report a "total lie" and suggesting that "no such thing ever happened". The prime minister's office, now headed by Bennett, said it was "unfamiliar with this issue" but promised to "examine the details".

If verified, the destruction of documents from the prime minister's office could be deemed a violation of Israeli law, which mandates that papers on ex-prime ministers' affairs be properly labelled and transferred to an archive for filing so that the next prime minister and his senior officials can theoretically access them.

Comment: Just one more: Perhaps the Attorney General will add destruction of evidence to Bibi's list of crimes.

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French prosecutors seek 6-month prison term for ex-President Sarkozy in campaign finance trial


RT
Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:57 UTC
Sarkozy
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy
French prosecutors have called on a Paris judge to sentence former President Nicolas Sarkozy to six months in prison in his trial over campaign finance violations, less than the year behind bars he had potentially faced.

The request was made by prosecutors to the judge overseeing the case on Thursday during the ongoing trial over claims that Sarkozy spent almost double the legal limit of $27.5 million on the 2012 presidential election. He ultimately lost that election to Francois Hollande.

Authorities claim that Sarkozy's campaign team forked out at least €43.61 million ($52 million), holding extravagant and expensive rallies, and sought to conceal the true scale of his spending. Before Thursday's action by prosecutors, Sarkozy had been facing up to one year in prison and a fine of €3,750 ($4,471.39) if convicted.
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To be eligible for prisoner swap with US, Washington would have to confirm Navalny works for American intelligence, says Kremlin


RT
Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:02 UTC
Alexei Navalny
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Alexei Navalny
Moscow has revealed that US negotiators did not request jailed Russian activist Alexey Navalny be included in a possible prisoner exchange, saying he would be ineligible if he is not a US citizen or a foreign intelligence agent.

Speaking on Thursday, a day after President Vladimir Putin met with his counterpart, Joe Biden, at a summit in Geneva, the Kremlin press secretary said the issue had not been discussed. Asked by the Echo of Moscow radio station whether Navalny was being considered for a prisoner swap, Dmitry Peskov said that the US team had not raised the issue.

"There was no such conversation and no such proposals were voiced," he said. The official added that Russia would be unable to hand over the imprisoned anti-corruption campaigner unless it emerges that he is secretly "a citizen of the US and works for the special services - or, rather, this is confirmed by the Americans."

In October last year, Navalny said that he would sue Peskov after the Kremlin spokesman implied that he had links to foreign spy agencies. Peskov claimed:
"Probably, it is not the patient [Navalny] who works for the Western special services, but the Western intelligence services who work with him. I can even be specific: these days, specialists from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America are working with [Navalny]."
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2 + 2 = 4

The devastating reality of the Arizona forensic audit

Bernard Kerik
Newsmax
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 19:01 UTC
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Early voting lasted from October 7th through the 30th in Arizona, which had a record number of early voters.
Democrats and the mainstream media have been aggressively denouncing the Maricopa County, Arizona election audit from the beginning.

At first I didn't understand why.

I thought that it was because they were afraid of what the results would be, but I now believe it's something far worse.

The Democrats aren't "just" afraid of the outcome - but they're afraid that the audit results will be irrefutable and unimpeachable. They know that their efforts to discredit the audit process in Arizona will not stand up to scrutiny and here's why.

The Arizona audit is being run impeccably, utilizing security and surveillance procedures with a longstanding track record of effectiveness.

To say that I was impressed after viewing the audit process for myself would be a massive understatement. I've spent decades working in security and law enforcement at the highest levels, and this is exactly the level of conscientiousness and attention to detail that I would demand for a sensitive or high-profile investigation.

They're not trying to reinvent the wheel; they're using the same methods casinos have used for decades to catch cheaters.

It's common knowledge that casinos are exceptionally good at catching cheaters, and if anybody tries to pull a fast one during the Arizona audit, they face the same long odds of getting away with it.

Before a person can even enter the premises, their name must be on a pre-approved list. After winding their way through a maze of corridors, they arrive at a security checkpoint where their ID is checked.
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Family

China weighs ending all limits on childbirth in 2025

Zachary Evans
Yahoo News
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:57 UTC
chinese moms
Chinese officials are considering lifting all restrictions on the number of children parents can have by 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The government may begin the process by lifting birth restrictions in provinces where the birthrate is lowest, a person familiar with the matter told the Journal. Others familiar with the deliberations said China may enact policies that explicitly encourage couples to have children.

Government researchers in China's northeast Jilin Province said in February that officials must encourage childbirth.

"Ending birth restrictions is not enough to reverse the trend of negative population growth in our province," the researchers wrote. "It is also necessary to introduce policies to encourage childbirth based on real-world conditions."

The potential move is intended to counter the effects of China's aging population. Premier Xi Jinping told Communist Party leaders that responding to the aging of China's population is a matter of national security, Chinese state-owned paper Xinhua reported last month.
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NPC

America's soup-brained President says the US never interferes in other countries elections


Caitlin Johnstone
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:00 UTC
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During an astonishingly sycophantic press conference after the Geneva summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden posited an entirely hypothetical scenario about what the world would think of the United States if it were interfering in foreign elections and everybody knew it.

When AP's Jonathan Lemire asked the president of the most powerful government in the world what "consequences" he'd threatened the Russian leader with should the Kremlin interfere in US elections going forward, Biden meandered his way through one of his signature not-quite-lucid word salads, and then said the following:

"Let's get this straight: How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engaged in activities that he is engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country that is desperately trying to make sure it maintains its standing as a major world power."

Comment: It's telling of how corrupt the US press have become that, whilst fawning over Biden's delirious claims, a simple search through their own archives shows relatively recent reports detailing the extensive nature of US coups abroad:
However, it all perhaps makes much more sense when one considers that it was only this year that the media knowingly covered up the coup that happened on US soil, that stole the Presidency from Trump and gave it to Biden: Aklso check out SOTT radio's: Newsreal #33: Strange Days in DC - Military Checkpoints as US Capital Awaits 'Virtual Inauguration'

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Eye 1

Biden-Putin meeting shows Russia-US relations are set for a return to the Cold War-era. Strangely, that might be an improvement

Fyodor Lukyanov
RT
Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:30 UTC
Putin Biden
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US President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland June 16, 2021.
The long-anticipated summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, was, a total, if modest, success. Aside from the hype, it achieved its goals of cooling tensions after years of circus antics.

While the fears were originally bigger than the hopes, the worst possible outcomes failed to materialize, and the summit served its purpose of getting Moscow and Washington to sit down and do business. Both leaders signed up to a well-polished joint statement that denounced nuclear war and signaled their determination to formulate new principles underpinning strategic stability and cybersecurity.

What's more, their respective ambassadors are finally returning to their posts - a positive sign, if even only a symbolic gesture of goodwill. In reality, no matter how hard foreign diplomatic missions work or how many people they employ, they can rarely if ever tip the scale when there is no political will at the top.

Judging by what the presidents said though, they covered a lot of ground in the brief, yet rather substantive, meeting. Now, they may well end up striking a deal or two - like the spy swaps in the good old days of the Soviet Union - but any such arrangement would be an isolated case with no lasting effect on bilateral relations.

Comment: See also:

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UK's Ministry of Defense report urges embrace of human augmentation to fully exploit drones and AI for warfighting

Chris Cole
Drone Wars
Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
military drone
The MoD's internal think-tank, the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) along with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning (BODP) has published a disturbing new report urging greater investigation of - and investment in - human augmentation for military purposes. The following is a brief summary of the 100+ page document with short comment at the end.

'Human Augmentation - The Dawn of a New Paradigm' argues that humans are the 'weakest link' in modern warfare, and that there is a need to exploit scientific advances to improve human capabilities.
"Increasing use of autonomous and unmanned systems - from the tactical to the strategic level - could significantly increase the combat effect that an individual can bring to bear, but to realise this potential, the interfaces between people and machines will need to be significantly enhanced. Human augmentation will play an important part in enabling this interface."
human augmentation
Suggested human augmentation to explore for military purposes includes the use of brain interfaces, pharmaceuticals and gene therapy. Humans, argues the report, should be seen as a 'platform' in the same way as vehicles, aircraft and ships, with three elements of 'the human platform' to be developed: the physical, the psychological and the social (see image below).
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