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Israel 'approves' another 7,000 new illegal settlement units in southern West Bank

Yumna Pate
Mondoweiss
Sat, 09 May 2020 16:45 UTC
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The Israeli flag flying over Israeli illegal settlements in the West Bank
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett has approved the expansion of the mega Efrat settlement in the southern occupied West Bank with 7,000 new housing units — nearly doubling the settlement in size.

With Bennett's approval, Israel's Housing Ministry can move into the planning stages for the "neighborhood", which sits on 1,100 dunams (225 acres) of Palestinian land, known to locals as al-Nahla, and to settlers as Givat Eitam.

The settlers of Efrat have been in engaged in a decades-long legal battle with Palestinians over the land, where dozens of Palestinian families from surrounding villages own land that they use for farming and agriculture.

The land in question was designated by Israel as "state land" back in 2004, a move that was vehemently opposed by Palestinians as paving the way to allocate the land for eventual settlement expansion. They petitioned to the Israeli High Court against the "state land" designation, but were rejected by the court.
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Bullseye

FBI exists to investigate crimes; in Flynn's case, it tried to manufacture one - White House

Melanie Arter
CNS News
Fri, 08 May 2020 15:34 UTC
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC
"The FBI exists to investigate crimes, but in the case of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, it appears that they might have existed to manufacture one," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday in response to the DOJ's decision to drop the case against Flynn.

"As a motion filed by the Department of Justice yesterday explained, the FBI set out to interview General Michael Flynn when they had no predicate for any investigation of any crime. Over the past week, we learned from a handwritten note the true intent behind the FBI's investigation of lieutenant Gen. Michael Flynn," McEnany said.

"The very day that then-FBI Director Jim Comey sent agents to the white house to interview Flynn, the FBI discussed what their intent was beforehand. This is what they said. 'What is our goal? Truth admission, or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?' These notes, in addition to other evidence, raised serious questions about the handling of the FBI's handling of Michael Flynn's case," the press secretary said.

Comment: Twitter user @PolishPatriotTM posted a partial clip of Ms. McEnany's press statement:



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Light Saber

Gaetz slams Miami Herald over reporter who said open beaches should 'thin the ranks' of GOP


District Herald
Mon, 04 May 2020 15:20 UTC
Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz
Rep. Gaetz tweeted a screenshot of his conversation with the Miami Herald reporter.

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has put the Miami Herald on blast after one of their reporters tweeted last month that "packed beaches should work nicely to thin the ranks of Trump/DeSantis/Gimenez supporters in Florida who value money over health."

Rep. Gaetz said that he was contacted by David Smiley, a Miami Herald reporter, who was looking for comment on Gov. Rick DeSantis's plan to reopen beaches, when he reminded them what their columnist Fabiola Santiago had said about Republicans.

Santiago has deleted the tweets, but remains employed by the Miami Herald.

Comment: And there you have it, elite lackeys parroting elite opinions. Gaetz was right to call the Herald out.

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2 + 2 = 4

The Federal Reserve is enslaving the public with infinite money

Brandon Smith
Birch Gold Group
Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00 UTC
infestation
The phrase "don't fight the Fed" is an unfortunate but popular delusion. It presupposes that the central bank has limitless power to direct the economy because it can print limitless money. I'm not sure where this idea comes from, but consider the fact that anyone today who is under 30 years old was barely old enough in 2008 to understand or care about the credit collapse. These people spent their formative years knowing only stimulus and QE. In their minds, this is the norm, and they think it always works because they haven't yet witnessed a collapse.

I would say a better phrase for the 2020s is "The Fed is not going to save you"; the Fed is not a superhero and it does not have the power nor the inclination to protect the little people from economic folly. This should be readily apparent today, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and the central bank can't seem to cure it with Quantitative Easing.

My position has always been that the Fed has no intention of saving the economy, only making it appear as if they care. This is evident in the fact that they created the Everything Bubble in the first place with years of near zero interest rates, then abruptly hiked interest rates into economic weakness, just like they did during the Great Depression. All it took was a few rate increases to cause stock markets to plunge in December 2018; liquidity was strangled and repo markets became unstable. Jerome Powell knew perfectly well that this would be the result; he openly discussed it in the minutes of the October 2012 Federal Open Market Committee.

Comment: See also:

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Vader

COVID-19: The Big Pharma Players Behind UK Government Lockdown

Vanessa Beeley
UK Column
Wed, 06 May 2020 06:17 UTC

Comment: This is Part 2 to Vanessa Beeley's first article on the powers behind 'the coronavirus pandemic', also published by the UK Column.


covid-19
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."

— Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953
In Part One of Who controls the British Government response to Covid-19?, I began an investigation into the individuals and entities that are, effectively, driving the UK Government response to Covid-19. In Part Two, I will expand upon the Big Pharma and Artificial Intelligence (AI) links already identified and will introduce new connections that appear to have considerable bearing upon the UK Government's Covid-19 strategy. I will expand upon the Bill Gates connections to the various organisations that are advocating global immunisation.

The UK Government chief medical adviser and Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, is saying that a return to "normal" in the short-term is "wholly unrealistic". Whitty is telling us that the "highly disruptive" social distancing policy will be in place "for really quite a long period of time". "Highly disruptive" is a euphemism for the devastation of the world economy and the horrifying knock-on effect — an estimated 50% of the world workforce are at risk of losing their livelihood.

Chris Whitty Matt Hancock.
April 16th headline in Business Insider. Chris Whitty with UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock.

Comment: See here for part 1: Who Controls The British Government Response to COVID-19?

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Corona Tyranny - And Death by Famine

Peter Koenig
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Africa famine
By the end of 2020 more people will have died from hunger, despair and suicide than from the corona disease. We, the world, is facing a famine-pandemic of biblical proportions. This real pandemic will overtake the COVID19 pandemic by a long shot. The hunger pandemic reminds of the movie the Hunger Games, as it is premised on similar circumstances of a dominant few commanding who can eat and who will die - by competition.

This hunger pandemic will be under-reported or not reported at all in the mainstream media. In fact, it has started already. In the west the attention focuses on the chaos created by the privatized for-profit mismanagement of the health system. It slowly brings to light the gross manipulation in the US of COVID-19 infections and death rates - how hospitals are encouraged to declare deaths as COVID19-deaths - for every COVID19 death-certificate the hospital receives a US$13,000 "subsidy", and if the patient dies on a ventilator, the "bonus" amounts to US$ 39,000.

In real life, poor people cannot live under confinement, under lockdown. Not only have many or most already lost their meager living quarters because they can no longer pay the rent - but they need to scrape together in the outside world whatever they can find to feed their families and themselves. They have to go out and work for food and if there is no work, no income - they may resort to ransacking supermarkets in the city or farms in the country side. Food to sustain life is essential. Taking the opportunity to buy food away from people is sheer and outright murder.
"Every child who dies from famine in the world - is a murder" - Jean Ziegler, former UN-Rapporteur on Food in Africa.
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Snakes in Suits

Documents: Obama knew details of Michael Flynn's call with Russian Ambassador

Kristina Wong
Breitbart
Fri, 08 May 2020 12:56 UTC
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Then-President Barack Obama was intimately aware of the details of December 2016 intercepted phone calls between President-elect Donald Trump's incoming National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, and then-Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, according to court documents released Thursday.

The former president's knowledge and role in his administration's investigations of the Trump campaign have long been an open question. The revelation puts the former president right in the center of the last administration's efforts to investigate and target Flynn, whom the Justice Department just dropped their case against on Thursday. Obama had appointed Flynn as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency but had fired him in 2014, and he had reportedly warned Trump not to hire Flynn.
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Chess

As the US and China fight over Covid-19 and prepare for a new trade war, India swoops in for the last laugh

Abhijit Majumder
RT
Fri, 08 May 2020 21:48 UTC
India
© Reuters / Amit Dave
A lion and a bear pounce on a fawn. Unwilling to share the prey, they begin to fight. Eventually, both are too weak and wounded to move. A fox which has been watching this from a distance sneaks up and makes away with the fawn.

Aesop's fables never grow old. This one is a mirror to the US and China as they recklessly fight for global supremacy and trade advantages, while an underrated fox, India, may yet have the last laugh.

The US has in recent weeks attempted to pin the entire blame for the Covid-19 pandemic, and its disastrous impact on the world's health and economy, squarely on China. In the latest salvo, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo claimed, without offering proof, that Washington has enough evidence to prove that the novel coronavirus was created in a Wuhan lab.
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Nuke

China looks to expand nuclear arsenal, ballistic missiles to counter aggressive US


The EurAsian Times
Fri, 08 May 2020 21:39 UTC
China nuclear
China is far behind the US and Russia in terms of nuclear warheads. While China's warheads lie in the low hundreds, US and Russia stand at more than 6000 each (1750 and 1600 deployed by USA and Russia respectively).

Hu Xijin, editor in chief of Chinese state-run media house - Global Times (GT) writes that China needs to expand the number of its nuclear warheads to 1,000 in a relatively short time and needs to have at least 100 Dongfeng-41 strategic missiles (DF-41 is the fourth and the latest generation of the Dongfeng series of strategic missiles developed by the PRC).

He further said that even though China is a peace-loving nation, there is a need for a larger nuclear arsenal to curb US strategic ambitions and aggression toward China.
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Positive sign? On VE Day, Putin and Johnson agree need to improve British-Russian relationship


RT
Fri, 08 May 2020 21:33 UTC
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© AFP / Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky
Victory Day brought a rare positive moment between Russia and the UK, as President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed on the need to improve the badly soured relations between the two countries.

In a phone call on Friday, Putin and Johnson expressed a mutual desire for improved relations and for renewed "dialogue and cooperation" between London and Moscow, the Kremlin said.

"Both sides expressed readiness to establish dialogue and cooperation on issues on the agenda of Russian-British relations, as well as in solving pressing international problems," the Kremlin said in a readout.

During the conversation, the two leaders also congratulated one another on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the allied victory in the Second World War. The pair agreed that international efforts must be consolidated to deal with "modern challenges and threats," including the Covid-19 pandemic.
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