Puppet Masters
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Alexey Navalny, August 2019
Alexey Navalny, August 2019
Two of them are its European Union partners France and Sweden, according to Berlin, which says it has brought in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to analyze the samples. Officials renewed their demand that Russia explain the incident. A German government statement read:
"The federal government involved the OPCW in the analysis of evidence from the Navalny case. The OPCW took samples from Navalny and took the necessary steps to study them in its laboratories. The federal government has also asked its European partners France and Sweden to conduct an independent study. The results of these tests are now available and confirm the German evidence. Independent of the ongoing OPCW investigations, three laboratories have now independently demonstrated the presence of a nerve agent from the Novichok group as the cause of Mr. Navalny's poisoning.The head of German intelligence, Bruno Kahl, said last week that the poison used was stronger than previously known. This raised eyebrows in Russia, given that previous variants of Novichok were supposed to have been devastatingly lethal, and Navalny has survived his alleged poisoning.
"We again call on Russia to explain what happened. We are in close contact with our European partners regarding further steps."
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Former Special Council Robert Mueller
Former Special Council Robert Mueller
Had his cognitive abilities declined during the probe?
The 76-year-old Mueller, members of President Trump's defense team recalled, appeared to be a figurehead investigator, a man who seldom spoke or was even seen. On those rare occasions Trump's lawyers had a chance to talk to the special counsel, Mueller's aides appeared to be covering for his lapses in memory. So who was really in charge of the Mueller probe?
There were questions about Mueller's mental condition even before he was appointed special counsel in May 2017. Chris Swecker spent 24 years in the FBI. He left the agency in 2006 with the highest respect for his old boss, with whom he had extensive daily contact for more than two years. "Mueller was super sharp," Swecker remembered.
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March of the brainwashed
March of the brainwashed
"Financial and political investments in preparedness have been insufficient, and we are all paying the price," said the report by The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB).
"It is not as if the world has lacked the opportunity to take these steps," it added. "There have been numerous calls for action ... over the last decade, yet none has generated the changes needed."
Comment: The panel is doing a fine job scaring the population in preparation for either the "second wave" or perhaps managing the PR to hide the negative fallout from a rushed vaccine.
The wildfires ravaging the entire west coast of America seem an allegory of the nation's demise. Whole towns are being evacuated in a hurry before an unstoppable wall of fire. The country is going up in smoke.
What's particularly remarkable is the dearth of consensus about the wildfires. There's no doubt that the blazes this year have reached new records of devastation compared with previous years. The entire west coast seems engulfed with fire or choking smoke.
Yet the explanations differ wildly for the phenomenal crisis. An ecological cause seems the most convincing. Detrimental climate change and years of cumulative drought have cascaded to create inferno conditions.
President Donald Trump and his supporters are deniers of climate change. So, in order to avoid a glaring contradiction between their views and the physical world, Trump's political base have come up with an alternative explanation for the wildfires - it's the work of arsonists belonging to nebulous leftist groups like "Antifa".
This is denial compounded with delusion. Firefighters and law enforcement officers have largely dismissed social media claims of arsonists as "malicious rumours" which are only undermining efforts at bringing the crisis under control by peddling confusion and diverting scarce resources.
Nevertheless, Trump-supporting conspiracy networks like QAnon have continued to promote the notion that the US west coast is being burned down by leftwing "domestic terrorists".
What's particularly remarkable is the dearth of consensus about the wildfires. There's no doubt that the blazes this year have reached new records of devastation compared with previous years. The entire west coast seems engulfed with fire or choking smoke.
Yet the explanations differ wildly for the phenomenal crisis. An ecological cause seems the most convincing. Detrimental climate change and years of cumulative drought have cascaded to create inferno conditions.
President Donald Trump and his supporters are deniers of climate change. So, in order to avoid a glaring contradiction between their views and the physical world, Trump's political base have come up with an alternative explanation for the wildfires - it's the work of arsonists belonging to nebulous leftist groups like "Antifa".
This is denial compounded with delusion. Firefighters and law enforcement officers have largely dismissed social media claims of arsonists as "malicious rumours" which are only undermining efforts at bringing the crisis under control by peddling confusion and diverting scarce resources.
Nevertheless, Trump-supporting conspiracy networks like QAnon have continued to promote the notion that the US west coast is being burned down by leftwing "domestic terrorists".
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A rock and a hard place: Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Donald Trump
A rock and a hard place: Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Donald Trump
"There is a large group of people who are dissatisfied with the incumbent president and are ready to join the coup d'état in government agencies, law enforcement agencies, security agencies, including the army," Kuzmin said on the Zik TV channel.
Kuzmin, also the former Deputy Prosecutor-General known for his investigation against the Burisma firm and its corruption, has been made aware of this plot. This strongly indicates that this is connected to the Burisma concern, chiefly US presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
Comment:
- Pam Bondi lays out explosive case against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Burisma
- Creepy Joe Biden steered $1.8bln to Ukraine while his son bagged 'sweetheart deal'
- New 'Biden-Poroshenko' tapes reveal Hunter Biden was paid 'protection money' by Burisma
- Latvian government says it flagged 'suspicious' Hunter Biden payments in 2016
- Steve Bannon: 'Joe Biden is the hand grenade, Hunter Biden is the pin' to blow up the Democratic establishment
- Will 'Ukraine-gate' foil Biden's bid?
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Vice President Joe Biden leans in to say something to Maggie Coons, next to her father Sen. Coons
Vice President Joe Biden leans in to say something to Maggie Coons, next to her father Sen. Coons
The dispute on social media saw Texan progressive activist Johnny Graz seeking to make a case that the Democratic presidential nominee should be investigated for sexual assault.
Another commenter, who goes by the name 'Jake Koenig,' sought to support Graz's argument by posting a video compilation of Biden touching various young girls during photo ops at their parents' congressional swear-in ceremonies in 2015.
Comment: More evidence on pervert Biden:
- NY Times reporter calls for censorship of creepy videos of Joe Biden inappropriately touching kids
- Crash and burn: Biden on 'Good Morning America' says to believe all women, but not Tara Reade
- Creepy Joe Biden forcefully grabs young co-ed who asks how many genders there are
- 'Biden Loves Kids': Trump attacks Creepy Joe with meme of his swimming pool gaffe
- Joe Biden is Probably a Pedophile
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Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga acknowledges his election as new head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga acknowledges his election as new head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday.
In a vote at a meeting of LDP lawmakers of both chambers of the Diet, Suga secured a comfortable victory over his two rivals -- Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister, and Fumio Kishida, a former foreign minister. A majority of the LDP's factions gave the top government spokesman their backing after Abe said last month he would step down for health reasons.
Suga won 377 votes, Kishida 89, and Ishiba 68.
Suga's election as prime minister at an extraordinary Diet session on Wednesday is almost certain as the governing party controls the House of Representatives, the more powerful lower chamber, and holds a majority in the House of Councillors with its coalition partner Komeito.
The LDP election became a mere formality for endorsing the party factions' decisions to back Suga, 71.
Ballots were cast by 394 LDP lawmakers and 141 delegates of local chapters, with the party's rank-and-file members excluded this time to speed up the process amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Most local chapters held primaries, although it was up to each chapter to decide whether to give all three allotted ballots to a single candidate or to multiple candidates in proportion to primary results.
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"We must have someone smart in the presidency. This person is not smart. President Xi is smart, President Putin is smart, Erdogan is smart. Among those with whom we have to deal, there are no not smart ones. Joe is not suitable for the post, " Trump said on Fox News.
Trump also recalled that last year he "passed perfectly" a test to determine cognitive health.
"Biden has to pass this test. You have to show the people in this country that the person being elected to lead is smart. Because we are dealing with people who will do very bad things for our country if they get the chance. And you must be smarter than them. Therefore, Biden has an obligation to pass this or some similar test, " added President Trump.
If elected, Biden will become the oldest US president, he will turn 78 (he is 4 years older than Trump).
The president took to Twitter to celebrate the order, saying it would provide U.S. patients with "the same low price Big Pharma gives to other countries."
"Just signed a new Executive Order to LOWER DRUG PRICES!" he posted on Twitter. "My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low price Big Pharma gives to other countries."
"The days of global freeriding at America's expense are over and prices are coming down FAST!" he said, adding that he ended "all rebates to middlemen."
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