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Ex-Pres of European Council Tusk returns to Polish politics denouncing 'evil' ruling conservative party

Zosia Wanat
Politico
Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:54 UTC
Tusk
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Donald Tusk speaks at a Civic Platform congress on July 3, 2021
The battered opposition Civic Platform party sees Tusk as a potential political savior.

After seven years in Brussels, Donald Tusk is back in Polish politics and he's got one goal — to defeat the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party.

"I'm back in 100 percent," the former Polish prime minister and ex-president of the European Council told a Saturday congress of Civic Platform (PO), the troubled liberal party he founded in 2001.

He's now the head of the European People's Party, the EU's largest grouping of center-right parties, but he made clear that he's diving back into national politics to lead the charge against PiS — which has seen relations with Brussels sour thanks to accusations that it is backsliding on democracy, undermining the rule of law, curbing media freedom and unleashing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.


Comment: Protecting children from highly sexualized propaganda materials is not an attack: EU declares itself 'LGBTIQ freedom zone' in response to towns in Poland & Hungary declaring themselves 'LGBTIQ propaganda free-zones'


Comment: See also: Donald Tusk accuses Poland of being Putin's puppet. WW2 photos say Tusk may also be a puppet of his past

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Burka

Taliban seize key Kandahar district after fierce fighting as US forces continue withdrawal


Yahoo! News
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:37 UTC
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Afghan soldiers stand guard at a road checkpoint outside Bagram Air Base, after all US and NATO troops left
The Taliban have captured a key district in their former bastion of Kandahar after fierce night-time fighting with Afghan government forces, officials said Sunday, the latest area to be seized since US troops began their final withdrawal.

The insurgents have pressed on with their campaign to capture territory across Afghanistan's rural areas since early May when the US military began the pullout.

The fall of Panjwai district in the southern province of Kandahar comes just two days after US and NATO forces vacated their main Bagram Air Base near Kabul, from where they led operations for two decades against the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda allies.

Comment: The borders of the Empire continue to crumble.

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Fauci: 'Go the extra mile' and wear mask in places with low vaccination rate

Caroline Vakil
The Hill
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:44 UTC
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The nation's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday that people should "go the extra mile" and wear a mask in areas with low vaccination rates even if they're fully vaccinated.

"If you put yourself in an environment in which you have a high level of viral dynamics and a very low level of vaccine, you might want to go the extra step and say 'When I'm in that area where there's a considerable degree of viral circulation, I might want to go the extra mile to be cautious enough to make sure that I get the extra added level of protection, even though the vaccines themselves are highly effective,'" Fauci told anchor Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet The Press."

Localities such as Los Angeles county and St. Louis, Mo., have reinstated a mask advisory for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals indoors amid the delta variant's spread.

Fauci said that even though the vaccines are highly effective, they cannot be 100 percent guaranteed to prevent someone from getting infected with COVID-19.

The comments from Fauci come amid a spread of the highly infectious delta variant of the coronavirus first discovered in India in the United States.

Comment: "Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in [keeping] out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you." -Fauci

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Biggest US teachers' union adopts measures to promote & defend critical race theory, controversial 1619 Project


RT
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:38 UTC
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the National Education Association's Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Washington, U.S., July 2, 2021.
The National Education Association (NEA), the largest union representing school teachers, has committed itself to spreading critical race theory (CRT), including in K-12 schools, drawing conservative outcry.

A series of measures aimed at promoting the concept was adopted at the NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly, taking place virtually this year from June 30 to July 3. First reported by Christopher Rufo, who has been at the center of Republican-driven push to banish CRT from public schools, the plan will see the NEA "share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT)," as well as resisting attempts to "ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project."


Comment: Funny. For the last several months, CRT ideologues have been screaming on Twitter that CRT isn't taught in schools. Dr. "Ibram X. Kendi" even went so far as to say that it was impossible for him to be a critical race theorist, because CRT is only taught in law schools. These people are pathological liars.


Another measure will see the NEA backing and leading campaigns that "result in increasing the implementation" of critical race theory and other ethnic-centered studies "in pre- K-12 and higher education"

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Psaki lies about Biden snapping when he was asked questions on Afghanistan


The Daily Wire
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
© Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki falsely claimed during Friday's press briefing that President Joe Biden not wanting to answer questions about Afghanistan had nothing to do with Afghanistan when, in fact, Biden explicitly said that he didn't want to talk about Afghanistan.

Biden snapped at reporters earlier in the day when they asked him questions about Afghanistan, complaining that their questions were "negative" and that he wanted to "talk about happy things."

After being asked only two questions on Afghanistan, Biden exclaimed, "I'm not going to answer any more quick questions on Afghanistan. Look, it's Fourth of July."
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Biden bloat: West Wing payroll near $50 million, highest on record

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:26 UTC
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The Biden administration’s staggering $49.6 million payroll topples both Obama and Trump’s administrations.
The Biden administration's Executive Office of the President (EOP) has 560 employees and a payroll of close to $50 million — the highest of any administration in at least 12 years, according to data released Thursday.

While President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are making their legally specified annual salaries of $400,000 and $235,100, respectively, more than 250 other officials are making at least six figures this year.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki, for example, is one of 22 West Wing employees pulling in a taxpayer-funded salary of $180,000.

Comment: So Bribem is spending nearly 50 million, employing 524 "public servants" (plus 36 serfs), accomplishing nothing less than the complete upheaval of the country. Trump had 147 less staff and spent almost 10 million less, with many solid achievements.

What better contrast of Trump the business man versus Biden the political hack.

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The next shake-down: Israel slams Poland for 30-year limit on Jewish property recovery - oblivious to Palestinian parallels

Gilad Atzmon
english.almayadeen.net
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:59 UTC
Poland limit jewish property recovery Parliament
© Salwomir Kaminski/Agencia Gazeta/Reuters
Israel heavily criticized the measure after it was passed by Poland's lower house of parliament
In 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by the newly born Jewish 'State'. This catastrophic racially driven crime is called the Nakba.

"Israel" seems upset by a new Polish law that sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property. The legislation is yet to be approved by Poland's senate, yet Israeli officials already refer to it as the "Holocaust law." They insist that it is 'immoral' and 'a disgrace.'

Last week Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid insisted that the bill "is a disgrace that will not erase the horrors or the memory of the Holocaust."

Comment:

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Wolf

Warmonger Samantha Powers roasted after suggesting 'only woman can deliver peace'


RT
Sat, 03 Jul 2021 21:53 UTC
samantha powers
© Reuters / Jose Cabezas
FILE PHOTO
USAID administrator Samantha Power was mocked on Friday after she suggested that world peace could only be delivered by a woman - with social media users pointing out Power's history of promoting military intervention.

"Good afternoon. I come bearing a simple message: if you want peace in this world, trust women to deliver it," said Power during a speech on Friday, which quickly inspired ridicule online.

"Samantha Power is proof that this is not true," reacted one Twitter user, with many people pointing out that Power, who was also a US ambassador to the UN under Barack Obama, is credited with having persuaded the then-president to back military intervention against Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The move resulted in a rise in terrorism, open-air slave markets, and the deaths of many civilians.

Comment: See also: Why Victoria Nuland is dangerous and should not be confirmed as Biden's Under Secretary

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IAEA mission hails security of Belarus' 1st nuclear power plant, while Baltic neighbors claim it's a 'threat'


RT
Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:16 UTC
Ostrovets
© REUTERS / Vasily Fedosenko
FILE PHOTO. The Ostrovets nuclear power plant.
An inspection from the UN's nuclear watchdog is set to approve security measures taken by Belarus to protect its first nuclear power plant. The facility has been blasted by Baltic states as a major threat to their safety.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is currently inspecting the Ostrovets (Astravets) nuclear power plant, which is being constructed by Russian nuclear monopoly Rosatom. The monitors from the IAEA's International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) were invited to check the safety of the materials and installations. According to the Belarusian Energy Ministry, delegation members liked what they saw.

"I have been impressed with the seriousness with which the government of Belarus is taking the issues of security and safety of the nuclear power plant," chief inspector Joseph Sandoval was cited as saying.

Comment: See also: China refutes US claims of radiation leak at Taishan nuclear plant

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Attention

Robber barons and human guinea pigs

Colin Todhunter
Off-Guardian
Sat, 03 Jul 2021 19:23 UTC
Money and Medicine
© Off-Guardian
How do you make a potentially dangerous and ineffective drug appear like a miracle of modern science? You could, for instance, enrol only certain people in clinical trials and exclude others or bring the study to a close as soon as you see a spike in the data that implies evidence of effectiveness.

There are many ways to do it.

According to health practitioner and writer Craig Stellpflug in his article 'Big Pharma: Getting away with murder'(2012), the strategy is to get in quick, design the study to get the result you want, get out fast and make lots of money.

Stellpflug says:
If a study comes up negative for your favorite drug, just don't publish it! 68 per cent of all drug studies are swept under the carpet to keep those pesky side effects from being reported. Only 32 per cent of studies come up positive and a lot of those studies are 'shortened' to limit the long-term findings. Studies cut short were found to overestimate the study drug's effectiveness and miss dangerous side effects and complications by an average of 30 per cent. This would explain the amazing 85 per cent drug study success rate in the hands of Big Pharma according to the Annals of Internal Medicine."
Of course, it helps to get the regulatory agencies on board and to convince the media and health officials of the need for your wonder product and its efficacy and safety. In the process, well-paid career scientists and 'science' effectively become shaped and led by corporate profit margins and political processes.

And what better way to make a financial killing than by making a mountain out of a molehill and calling it a 'pandemic'?
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