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Lula slams Bolsonaro with over-the-top rhetoric over Covid deaths - worst 'genocide' in Brazil's history


RT
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:44 UTC
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Jair Bolsonaro / Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
The former president of Brazil says his incumbent successor is responsible for the "worst genocide in our history" due to a neglectful response to the epidemic. Brazil this week passed an overall tally of 300,000 Covid-19 deaths.

The scorching critique of President Jair Bolsonaro comes from Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, widely known simply as 'Lula,' on the pages of the German weekly Der Spiegel. The popular leftist politician said Bolsonaro has failed to take the pandemic seriously, and this has led to the deaths of over 300,000 people. The grim benchmark was passed by the Latin American nation on Wednesday, while, on the next day, its Ministry of Health recorded more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases in a single day.


"If he had a bit of dignity, he would have apologized to the families of the 300,000 Covid dead and millions of infected people. He is responsible for that," said Lula. "Brazil can't stand it any longer if this man continues to govern like this."

The former president added that what was going on with Covid-19 in Brazil was the "worst genocide" in country's history. He used the same term about a year ago, when he explained his concerns with the Bolsonaro government's approach to the epidemic. The death toll stood at 14,000 at the time.

Comment: Lula sounds like the American Democratic Party. Brazil isn't even in the top 15 highest per capita deaths. Belgium, Hungary, UK, Italy, US, Spain - all experienced worse death rates, and all locked down harder than Brazil. (See the graphs here to compare Brazil's excess mortality with other countries.)

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Bill Gates predicts world will be 'completely back to normal' by 2022

Joe Middleton
Independent
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:40 UTC
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the pandemic was an “incredible tragedy"
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has predicted the world will be back to normal by the end of 2022 because of Covid-19 vaccines.

The billionaire described the pandemic as an "incredible tragedy" and added that the only good news has been the access to jabs.


Comment: Not quite: Pfizer vaccine in Israel: Mortality rate 'hundreds of times greater in vaccinated young people'


"By the end of 2022 we should be basically completely back to normal," Mr Gates said, in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24.


Comment: 'Basically'? How is that possible when some governments are threatening a future controlled by vaccine passports? 'Health dictatorship': French citizens who refuse Covid-19 jab may be BANNED from public transport under 'Green Passport' plan


Comment: Governments told citizens that taking the experimental vaccines would allow them to return to their normal lives, however, with threats of masks and social distancing for years to come, even with the vaccine trials involving hundreds of millions of people and herd immunity up ahead, it would appear that those in authority have no intention of allowing citizens to return to any sense of normality, if they can help it:

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Biden's press conference was elder abuse

Kelly Sadler
Washington Times
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:38 UTC
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President Joe Biden looks at notes as he answers questions from journalists during the first formal press conference of his presidency.
It was an hour of incoherent babbling — except for when President Joseph R. Biden read directly from his talking points. The questions were polite and predictable — from preselected, approved reporters. The answers were long-winded, listless and meandering — what we've come to expect from Mr. Biden.

It's clear Mr. Biden is not up to the job, that's why his team waited 65 days — the longest of any president in 100 years — to schedule his first solo press conference.

Mr. Biden came armed with a binder full of notes, which he read directly from while responding to questions about China, North Korea and Afghanistan. It was his cheat sheet, and he needed it. No reporter asked him about it.

Former press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted he's never before seen a president bring a typed, multi-page question-and-answers document to a news conference. But this is Mr. Biden's White House, and his team knows their boss needs a study guide.

The 10 reporters who got to ask questions were preselected by Mr. Biden's team. Notably, Fox News' Peter Doocy was never called upon. Too controversial. He might have asked a pressing question that wasn't included in Mr. Biden's prewritten script.

Comment: And people thought Trump was embarrassing...



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Facebook & Amazon emerge as 2 biggest corporate lobbyists, as Big Tech breaks own spending record in 2020 election cycle - report


RT
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:05 UTC
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Big Tech's influence over government has only grown between the last two election cycles. Facebook and Amazon now outspend the largest tobacco and oil giants when it comes to buying political favor, a new report states.

Facebook and Amazon are now the two biggest corporate lobbying spenders in the country, according to a new report by Public Citizen, a progressive nonprofit group.

Comment: The big tech corporations are in fact the ones who decide who will be on the top of the country. They were the ones who meddled in the last presidential elections in the USA and are still censoring Donald Trump on social media.

In this era when almost all our activities are digitalized and online, the big tech corporations became so powerful that they are a threat to our personal rights and personal freedom. This coronavirus plandemic is showing us how powerful and fast can they be in spreading the desired misinformation agenda of the PTB when needed.

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Biden taps Harris to lead on immigration amid border crisis

Jonathan Easley
The Hill
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:25 UTC
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Vice President Kamala Harris
President Biden has tapped Vice President Harris to lead the administration's efforts to stem the flow of migrants seeking entry to the U.S. at the southern border and to form partnerships with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries aimed at addressing the root causes of the surge in immigration.

Harris will spearhead the White House's immigration portfolio so that Mexico and the Northern Triangle will know "there is one single figure dedicated to this effort," a senior administration official said.

Biden announced the move on Wednesday from the White House after meeting with Harris, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and several other immigration advisers.

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Philippines' Duterte raises concerns with Beijing as 220 Chinese vessels moor at reef in Manila's territorial waters


RT
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:12 UTC
Whitsun
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FILE PHOTO: Vessels seen in Whitsun Reef , which Manila calls the Julian Felipe Reef, in this Maxar handout
The Presidential Palace has spoken of its leader's "concern" after hundreds of Chinese boats, reportedly manned by maritime militia, anchored in Philippine waters. Beijing says "bad weather" forced the vessels to seek refuge.

"The president said we are really concerned. Any country will be concerned with that number of ships," presidential spokesman Harry Roque told a regular news conference on Thursday.

According to Roque, President Rodrigo Duterte had raised the issue with the Chinese envoy to the Philippines and Beijing said the ships had been forced to move into the Philippines-claimed territory because of "bad weather."

Comment: See also: China says it will respond to US admiral visit to Taiwan, Washington says it 'is not leaving' the South China Sea dispute

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That time a leaked memo proved the US weaponizes 'human rights' against nations like China

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:07 UTC
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The US, UK, EU and Canada have simultaneously implemented new sanctions against Chinese officials in yet another reminder that these nations consistently function as member states of a single empire on foreign policy, and that the Biden administration is continuing right where the Trump administration left off on anti-China hawkishness.

The basis for these sanctions is listed as "human rights" violations in Xinjiang province, as US Secretary of State Tony Blinken explains:
"Amid growing international condemnation, the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. The United States reiterates its calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities."
Blinken's allegations are unfounded, as explained in this recent article from The Grayzone and in this comprehensive video by the Youtube channel Bay Area 415. While it's entirely possible that human rights violations could be happening in Xinjiang in some form and to some extent, the extremely flimsy and blatantly manipulated evidence we've seen so far for western claims of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" should draw immediate incredulity from anyone who remembers the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. The only sane response to unfounded claims by known liars is skepticism and agnosticism until we are presented with proof that rises to the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world.

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Ireland's new 'Digital Green Certificates' and why they must be immediately rejected


Wake TF Up Weekly Newsletter
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Tracey O’Mahoney

Tracey O’Mahoney
In Ireland, on the 25th of March 2021, a vote on the examination procedure for the Digital Green Certificate Regulation will take place. It aims to allow the newly jabbed persons of Europe to travel freely within the E.U, while limiting the movement of those who are unvaccinated.

Highly respected Irish barrister Tracey O'Mahoney has conducted an analysis of the proposal to reveal extremely worrying possibilities (or impossibilities) that lay in wait for those who will say no to the jab. In her YouTube presentation, she implores her audience to contact the Members of the European Parliament to demand that they refrain from giving the nod to this Orwellian law. I implore you to do the same.

A vote for this ugly apartheid system, which is currently in place in Israel and is proven to have already created a wave of discrimination and bias, is a vote for the Davos cult and a blow to the sovereignty of Irish people and of individualism. It is a vote against liberal democracy and a further step towards tyranny and oppression.

This is being addressed presently in Israel, with a law firm taking it towards the International Criminal Court, citing violations of the Nuremberg Code.

Comment: Few countries in the world are as far along in rolling out the Totalitarian policies of the virus as Israel.

But more individuals are now speaking up loud and clear about the rapid transition towards overt and covert oppression in the name of health safety:



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US Secret Service reportedly got involved in bizarre gun case involving Hunter Biden

Mark Moore
New York Post
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Hunter Biden
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The Secret Service said it has no record of agents investigating the Hunter Biden incident and said President Biden was not under protection at the time.
The Secret Service intervened in an investigation into a 2018 incident involving Hunter Biden and his girlfriend at the time — his former sister-in-law, Hallie — in which she took his gun and tossed it into the trash, thinking he was going to kill himself with it, according to a report.

When she returned to retrieve the gun, it was gone, Politico reported on Thursday.

Police in Delaware launched an investigation in case the gun, left in a trash can across from a high school, had been used in a crime, the report said.

But Secret Service agents contacted the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork recording the sale, Politico reported.

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Unable to win on battlefield, West waging 'mental war' against Russian civilization - Moscow's Ministry of Defense


RT
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:39 UTC
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FILE PHOTO. British servicemen after the opening ceremony of the joint military exercises of Ukraine and NATO countries Rapid Trident-2020 at the Yavoriv training ground in the Lviv region.
Fearing nuclear firepower and one of the world's largest armies, foreign states are keen to avoid direct conflict with Russia, a top Moscow official has said, warning that they are waging a hybrid war against its society instead.

In an interview with the Armory of the Fatherland magazine, Andrei Ilnitsky, an adviser at the country's Ministry of Defense, said that the West was acutely aware of the size of Russia's arsenal of rockets and its modern, well-equipped troops. As a result, he said, there is little to no prospect of a genuine armed conflict between rival spheres within the next decade.

However, he declared, "all this has led to the emergence of a new type of war." In the past, "the goal of wars was to destroy the enemy's manpower, then, in modern cyber wars, it became about destroying the enemy's infrastructure."

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