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Former Trump aide Stephen Miller launches group targeting Biden's policies

Mark Moore
New York Post
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:06 UTC

Former President Donald Trump's senior aide Stephen Miller has launched a new organization that aims to challenge the Biden administration's policies in courts — and is being billed as a conservative American Civil Liberties Union.

Miller, the architect of the Trump White House's immigration policies, launched America First Legal this week, which will work with Republican attorneys general around the country to push back against President Biden's rollback of Trump's policies.

Trump put out a statement Wednesday promoting the project, and urging his supporters to get behind it:

"Stephen Miller is a fearless, principled fighter for the America First movement. He has backbone, integrity, and never gives up. As we know, the Radical Left has been relentless in waging their battles in court. Conservatives and America First supporters badly need to catch up and turn the tables, which is why I applaud Stephen and Mark Meadows for rushing to fill this critical void. The era of unilateral legal surrender must end — and I hope all America First patriots will get behind America First Legal."

Jason Miller, Trump's senior adviser, tweeted about the organization Wednesday morning and linked to a report in the Wall Street Journal about it.

The report said Stephen Miller would enlist lawyers from the Trump administration, GOP attorneys general and other attorneys around the country to help them in their cases against Biden. "Anything the president does that we believe to be illegal is fair game," Stephen Miller told the newspaper.

Unfortunate: Tanzania's new leader signals U-turn on Coronavirus policy

Fumbuka Ng'Wanakilala
Bloomberg
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 05:41 UTC

Tanzania's new president announced plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise her on how best to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reversing her predecessor's denialism of the pandemic.

"We cannot isolate ourself as an island," President Samia Suluhu Hassan told senior government officials in an address televised on state broadcaster TBC1. "We cannot accept everything from abroad, but we also cannot reject everything."

Hassan's predecessor John Magufuli, who died last month, eschewed the use of face masks and advised his countrymen to resort to prayer, steam baths and traditional remedies to safeguard their health. His administration said it wouldn't buy vaccines and stopped publishing Covid-19 infection data in May last year, making it impossible to gauge the severity of the disease.

However, a deluge of patients displaying coronavirus symptoms seeking treatment at public hospitals and daily funeral masses indicated that Magufuli downplayed the severity of the disease. The World Health Organization joined international calls for the nation to change course.

Comment: One would be correct in wondering if Magufuli knew those numbers would be skewed to make the virus out to be much more than it is (as has been done in the West) - and therefore made the right call.

Comment: The new president of Tanzania should read the parable about the camel and the tent - because now that the neoliberal medical tyranny has been allowed a foot in the door, they won't stop trying to implement their policies until they have gone full bore. See also:

Key Putin aide Kozak issues warning: If Zelensky launches a full-scale war in Donbass, Russia will intervene & it will mean the 'end of Ukraine'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:55 UTC

© RIA; Reuters / Sergey Dolzhenko
A house on Stratonautov Street in the village of Veseloye, Donetsk region, which was damaged during the fighting in the DPR. (inset) Ukrainian President Zelenskiy

Russia will be forced to protect the residents of Donbass if Ukraine launches full-scale hostilities against the region. That's according to Dmitry Kozak, President Vladimir Putin's deputy chief of staff, who is himself Ukrainian.

Speaking on Thursday, Kozak claimed that a ramping-up of the conflict would lead to the end of Ukraine, with the Kremlin forced to stand up for its citizens living in the territory of Donbass. In recent years, Moscow has made it much simpler for those living in Ukraine to get a Russian passport, and many have taken up the offer.

Comment:

War, Russophobia and Pipelineistan

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:54 UTC

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A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a fortified position at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far away, in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, on April 5, 2021.

Ukraine and Russia may be on the brink of war - with dire consequences for the whole of Eurasia. Let's cut to the chase, and plunge head-on into the fog of war.

On March 24, Ukrainian President Zelensky, for all practical purposes, signed a declaration of war against Russia, via decree No. 117/2021.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with European Council President in Kiev on March 3, 2021.

The decree establishes that retaking Crimea from Russia is now Kiev's official policy. That's exactly what prompted an array of Ukrainian battle tanks to be shipped east on flatbed rail cars, following the saturation of the Ukrainian army by the US with military equipment including unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems, anti-tank systems and man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).

More crucially, the Zelensky decree is the proof any subsequent war will have been prompted by Kiev, debunking the proverbial claims of "Russian aggression." Crimea, since the referendum of March 2014, is part of the Russian Federation.

It was this (italics mine) de facto declaration of war, which Moscow took very seriously, that prompted the deployment of extra Russian forces to Crimea and closer to the Russian border with Donbass. Significantly, these include the crack 76th Guards Air Assault Brigade, known as the Pskov paratroopers and, according to an intel report quoted to me, capable of taking Ukraine in only six hours.

It certainly does not help that in early April US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, fresh from his former position as a board member of missile manufacturer Raytheon, called Zelensky to promise "unwavering US support for Ukraine's sovereignty." That ties in with Moscow's interpretation that Zelensky would never have signed his decree without a green light from Washington.

© AFP / Mandel Ngan
On March 8, 2021, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during observance of International Women’s Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

Israeli spies arrested in Iran indicate further threats of regime change

Robert Inlakesh
The Last American Vagabond
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC

This Monday, Iran announced the arrest of an "Israeli spy", amongst others working for foreign intelligence agencies, in the country's East Azerbaijan Province, leading to speculation, on what Israel had planned against the Islamic Republic.

According to Iran's media, which quoted an Iranian intelligence minister, the unnamed "Israeli spy" arrested this Monday was operating in East Azerbaijan Province, amongst others in contact with "several foreign intelligence agencies" that were not named. This comes following continuous threats from Israel that assert their willingness to combat "Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon", a claim disputed by all the authoritative organisations on the subject.

Israel has also just unveiled a new "spy aircraft", dubbed the 'Oron', which is allegedly developed to identify targets for attack in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. If true, this indicates Israel is developing its capabilities with the objective of striking Iran or assets belonging to Iran, representing a genuine threat to Iranian national security.

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If Democrats will cry 'racist' no matter what, Republicans should pass much stronger laws

Joy Pullmann
The Federalist
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 05:56 UTC

In March, Georgia Republicans amended their state's election laws in a weak attempt to assuage voters disgusted with their enabling of the 2020 election circus. To punish their political opponents for requiring voter ID and creating an election season of a month long or more Democrats called up their character assassination squads.

Democrats have been throwing every bit of pressure they can at Georgia elected officials to get their way without winning power legitimately through elections. This has included pressure from Democrats' current and last U.S. presidents, Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Biden called on companies to push his political goals outside of the legitimate political system by boycotting Georgia. He is the first president to openly push private companies to boycott a U.S. state over fully legal political outcomes he dislikes.

Biden also explicitly voiced support for Major League Baseball economically punishing Americans represented by members of his political opposition by withdrawing MLB's All-Star game from Atlanta. MLB quickly complied.

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Kim says North Korea facing its 'worst-ever situation' due to lockdown and continued US sanctions

Independent
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:02 UTC

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has acknowledged his country was facing the "worst-ever situation" as he addressed thousands of grassroots members of his ruling party during a major political conference in Pyongyang

Experts say Kim is facing perhaps his toughest moment as he approaches a decade in rule, with North Korea's coronavirus lockdown unleashing further shock on an economy devastated by decades of mismanagement and crippling U.S.-led sanctions over his nuclear weapons program.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim made the comments during an opening speech at a meeting of the Workers' Party's cell secretaries on Tuesday.

"Improving the people's living standards ... even in the worst-ever situation in which we have to overcome unprecedentedly numerous challenges depends on the role played by the cells, the grassroots organizations of the party," Kim said.

Putin to deliver speech on April 21 that will be 'most important political event' and 'message for a new age'

RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:23 UTC

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly preparing to give a major address in which he will fire the starting pistol on a "new era" and set out a different vision for the future of his country as the Covid-19 pandemic wanes.

The chairwoman of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matvienko, told reporters on Tuesday that the speech would set out answers to a number of challenges facing the world.

"This will be a message for a new age," she said. "But at the same time, as always, current issues will be addressed, focuses will be defined and direct instructions will be given." Matvienko added that "in the current difficult environment facing the world, which comes with many obstacles for countries including Russia," the address would become "the most important political and public event."

Putin is due to speak to the national parliament, encompassing both the Senate and its lower house, the State Duma, on April 21. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed on Monday that the annual message would be delivered in person, amid a relaxing of social distancing rules governing workplaces across the country. "The rest of the details are being worked out," he added.

Russia & China won't create Eastern military bloc to rival NATO because exclusive clubs are 'counter-productive' - FM Lavrov

RT
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:29 UTC

Despite Moscow and Beijing forging an increasingly close partnership, the two see no potential benefits in establishing a formal alliance to face off against the US-led NATO military bloc, Russia's top diplomat has announced.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday with his Indian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters that "Russian-Chinese relations have reached the best level in history." However, he said, "these relations will not lead us to pursue the goal of creating an armed forces alliance."

He criticized "talk of projects to create a 'Middle Eastern NATO,'" noting, "recently people are even discussing whether an 'Asian NATO' could be formed."

Comment: See also: The harmony between Tianxia and Westphalia

The coming antibiotic-resistance pandemic that could make COVID look like the flu

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:01 UTC

Big pharmaceutical companies have not come out of COVID-19 looking like model global citizens. Pfizer has been accused of bullying South American governments after demanding they put up military bases as collateral in exchange for vaccines. Meanwhile, Bill Gates persuaded Oxford University to sign an exclusive deal with AstraZeneca for its new offering, rather than allow it to be copied freely by all. The British/Swedish multinational quickly announced it would fall 50 million vaccines short on its first shipment to the European Union.

But what if there were a looming health crisis that could make COVID look almost minor in comparison? The World Health Organization (WHO) has been warning of just such a case for some time now, predicting that antimicrobial resistance will kill up to 10 million people every year by 2050 — almost four times as many as the coronavirus has killed in the past 12 months.

"Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today," they write, noting that without effective antibiotics all manner of conditions — including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis — could become far more deadly. Drug companies are making this situation worse by encouraging the overuse of our precious stores of antibiotics, particularly in the Global South and also by refusing to invest enough resources into creating new ones.

Comment: Without a thought to future implications - thus complications, the vaccination gravy train enhances our individual vulnerabilities and accelerates our collective demise.

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Puppet Masters

Former Trump aide Stephen Miller launches group targeting Biden's policies

Unfortunate: Tanzania's new leader signals U-turn on Coronavirus policy

Key Putin aide Kozak issues warning: If Zelensky launches a full-scale war in Donbass, Russia will intervene & it will mean the 'end of Ukraine'

War, Russophobia and Pipelineistan

Israeli spies arrested in Iran indicate further threats of regime change

If Democrats will cry 'racist' no matter what, Republicans should pass much stronger laws

Kim says North Korea facing its 'worst-ever situation' due to lockdown and continued US sanctions

Putin to deliver speech on April 21 that will be 'most important political event' and 'message for a new age'

Russia & China won't create Eastern military bloc to rival NATO because exclusive clubs are 'counter-productive' - FM Lavrov

The coming antibiotic-resistance pandemic that could make COVID look like the flu

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