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Boris Johnson gives wide range of powers to local councils to demolish contaminated buildings, even homes, to stop second coronavirus 'wave'

Gordon Rayner
The Telegraph
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:29 UTC

Local authorities will be able to order the demolition of buildings at the centre of coronavirus outbreaks under draconian powers to contain a potential second wave.

Cars, buses, trains and aeroplanes could also be destroyed subject to the approval of magistrates.

Boris Johnson remains determined to avoid a second nationwide lockdown and has given a broad range of powers to local councils to contain outbreaks as soon as they are detected.

Councils will be able to draw on six separate Acts of Parliament to impose lightning closures of public buildings, order mass testing, ban events or shut down whole sectors of the economy.

Comment: The British govt is apparently REALLY serious about 'resetting the economy'.

German officials warn of "virtue terror" after Stuttgart mayor calls for gender-neutral vocabulary

RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:02 UTC

Stuttgart's Mayor Fritz Kuhn has been rebuffed by his state's ministers, after rolling out gender-neutral language protocols for city employees, according to German media reports.

The new guidelines would urge those who work in Stuttgart City Hall to forgo gender-identifying titles such as "Mr." when addressing colleagues. The new rules also stipulate that in written communications, "Dear Sir or Madame" should be replaced with "Dear people."

As a general rule, terms that use gender "clichés" should be avoided, Kuhn, a member of the Greens, decreed.

His decree comes amid a wave of politically correct posturing in the United States and Europe, but it appears that other politicians in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg thought the mayor had gone too far.

Comment: See also:

And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Radical political correctness, liberal ideologies and the decline of modern civilization

'We want to delete more!' Facebook must choose freedom of speech over censorship, if it still pretends to be 'a platform'

Guy Birchall
RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC

Facebook's moderators have called on advertisers to keep boycotting the site, over the way it deals with "hate speech," but they really just want to stop Trump winning again.

Keen observers of the ins and outs of Silicon Valley's complicated relationship with freedom of expression may remember that last month a host of big corporations, including Disney, Ford and Adidas, pulled their adverts from the site in the biggest boycott ever of its kind.

This was sparked by a campaign called Stop Hate for Profit set up by several US civil rights groups in the wake of George Floyd's killing. The group accuses Facebook of "profiteering from hate and misinformation" and has branded their policy on hate speech "vexing." Now, as the month-long July boycott is due to end, some of Facebook's own employees have urged companies to keep the pressure on their employer. Yes, Facebook's own employees want the company to make less money to make themselves feel better.

Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse: Inside is the Democrats' new right wing coalition

Russell Dobular
Due Dissidence
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

In spite of what you might have heard, Democrats aren't stupid. Nor are they spineless, cowardly, incapable of messaging, or any of the other things offered as explanations for their decades-long failure to win most elections in most places, or to secure meaningful policy reforms for their voters. In the now famous words of Marco Rubio, spoken during his campaign-ending broken robot moment on the 2016 debate stage, "Lets dispel with this fiction that Barrack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing."

Yes, he does. And so does the rest of the Democratic Party.

If you understand the Democrats as a party whose first priority is to win elections and then serve their voters once in office, then you have to look for far-fetched explanations for their actions, which often appear to be completely at odds with those objectives. What party eager to win over the middle of the country would repeatedly vote to make a wealthy San Francisco doyenne like Nancy Pelosi their Speaker? She's a walking advertisement for the image of Democrats as a party of out of touch elites, more concerned with arcane speech codes than labor laws. But if you understand the Democrats as a party primarily concerned with raking in big bucks from wealthy donors, while drawing enough superficial distinctions with their opponents to maintain their identity as a separate party, then everything they do is pretty frikkin' brilliant. Like forcing Joe Biden on their voters.

Comment: Like horse races, elections are on a narrow and circular track. It doesn't matter if you are Trojan or Trump. The finish line may be the decider, but the quality of the race also matters.

'You're fired!' Trump sacks federal bosses for outsourcing jobs as he clamps down on visas for foreigners

RT
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:36 UTC

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order preventing federal agencies from hiring foreign workers via H-1B visas. In addition, Trump fired two federal executives for outsourcing US jobs and "betraying" Americans.

Trump's order, signed on Monday, requires federal agencies to prioritize US citizens and Green Card holders before outsourcing labor to foreign workers - who can come to the US on H-1B visas. Use of these visas is common in the tech sector, and 180,000 of them were issued last year, according to State Department statistics. Government agencies will now be required to conduct an internal audit to make sure "only United States citizens and nationals are appointed to the competitive service," per a White House statement.

Furthermore, Trump announced the firing of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) chairman James Thompson and another board member, after it emerged that the federally-owned utilities company plans on replacing more than 200 American tech workers with foreign contractors on H-1B visas. Trump also slammed TVA CEO Jeff Lyash for taking an annual salary of $8 million amid the outsourcing push.

"Let this serve as a warning to any federally-appointed board. If you betray American workers then you will hear two simple words: 'You're fired,'" Trump said, after signing the order, in a throwback to his 'Apprentice' catchphrase.

Media campaigns create excuses to get Biden out of debates with Trump, without mentioning cognitive disintegration

Tony Cox
RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 01:26 UTC

Media outlets from the New York Times to CNN and Newsweek have offered Joe Biden various reasons over the past several days to skip debates with President Donald Trump. None mentions Biden's fading ability to speak coherently.

A New York Times opinion piece on Monday suggested that presidential debates should be scrapped altogether because they've "never made sense as a test for presidential leadership."

We didn't need the debates to tell us that Trump had chosen to be the P.T. Barnum of American politics. For him, it was (and still is) all about the show, about distracting the public from reality.

CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart, formerly press secretary for President Bill Clinton, wrote last week that it would be "a fool's errand to enter the ring with someone who can't follow the rules or tell the truth."

Biden will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But it's worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.

Newsweek noted on Saturday that supporters are urging Biden to avoid the debates for various reasons, such as:

"Trump is not a legitimate candidate" and debates are "outdated political rituals."

Comment: Five years ago there wasn't a chance in hell we might think this sort of 'wool over the eyes of the public' argument would stand a chance. And yet, here it is and the outcome is...uncomfortably uncertain.

Trump goes after Deborah Birx one day after WH staff defended her from Pelosi's attacks

Christian Datoc
Daily Caller
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:23 UTC

President Donald Trump tweeted his displeasure with Dr. Deborah Birx on Monday after she stated over the weekend that the coronavirus pandemic has entered a new phase and is now more widespread in both rural and urban settings than in previous months.

Trump has frequently criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci's public comments on the government's pandemic response but this is the first time he publicly criticized Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator.

"So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics," the president tweeted. "In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!"

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Another mercenary battalion deployed in Belarus to destabilize country claims President Lukashenko

RT
Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:27 UTC

Another battalion of foreign contractors has been dispatched to Belarus to destabilize the country ahead of the election, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said. Last week, 33 suspected mercenaries were arrested in Minsk.

The detained men, whom the Belarusian KGB identified as members of the Wagner Group, a shady company providing mercenary services and operating out of Russia, "have told everything," Lukashenko stated in a video address to the nation.

"They've decided to use the technologies of the 'color revolution' in Belarus, but it's not going to work out," he said.

The arrest of the mercenaries is "a very dangerous and strong signal," the president said. The fact they had tickets to Istanbul on them was just a cover-up, as going to Turkey through Belarus made no sense, he insisted. "Those people - they testified - were sent to Belarus on purpose. Their order was to wait." According to Lukashenko, an attempt "to organize a massacre in central Minsk" was clearly their intention.

"Today we received information about another group [of mercenaries], deployed in the south" of the country, Lukashenko said. "So, we must run around the woods and catch them. We'll capture them all." He didn't specify from which country the militants had arrived.

The president also addressed the opposition, which has been staging massive anti-government rallies in the capital, ordering it to "stay out of the way and let me save the country."

Comment: If Lukashenko is close to the mark on his analysis, there is foul play afoot to destabilize Belarus. This kind of provocation is not known to be part of Russia's wheelhouse.

See also:

30+ Russian citizens detained in Belarus as part of 'foreign' private military company - state media

The Mossad explodes with growth while IDF shrinks claims State Comptroller report

Yonah Jeremy Bob
The Jerusalem Post
Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:22 UTC

State Comptroller report is extremely rare and detailed disclosure of usually classified internal Mossad proceedings and debates regarding long-term future of the organization. It includes a debate about moving its headquarters from Glilot, north of Tel Aviv, which took place in 2011.

On Monday the report drew attention to the explosive growth of the Mossad in recent years, far beyond its approved budget, compared with the IDF's shrinking budget. In fact, Matanyahu Englman's first major security report as comptroller says the spy agency exceeded its NIS 1.5 billion budget, reaching NIS 2.6b. for recent years. This is happening at the same time that the IDF is facing cutbacks across the board and having to make hard choices about discontinuing major weapons programs or forces to maintain others.

Ice Age Farmer Report: Rockefeller's "Reset the Table" - food tyranny & transform food supply

Ice Age Farmer
Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC

The Rockefeller Foundation has released a new report, "Reset The Table" -- an implied part of "The Great Reset" -- describing a radical transformation of our food system in the face of the most significant disruption to our food supply in history. The report calls to provide food to all (like UBI), use schools as community nutrition distribution anchors, de-fund farms/ranches via "true cost accounting" that includes CO2, provide funds to BIPOC, collect realtime data for AI/automation, and much, much more. Christian breaks down this report, which builds upon the assault upon global food supply and your ability to feed your family. Thank you for sharing this report to help spread the word.

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Puppet Masters

Boris Johnson gives wide range of powers to local councils to demolish contaminated buildings, even homes, to stop second coronavirus 'wave'

German officials warn of "virtue terror" after Stuttgart mayor calls for gender-neutral vocabulary

'We want to delete more!' Facebook must choose freedom of speech over censorship, if it still pretends to be 'a platform'

Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse: Inside is the Democrats' new right wing coalition

'You're fired!' Trump sacks federal bosses for outsourcing jobs as he clamps down on visas for foreigners

Media campaigns create excuses to get Biden out of debates with Trump, without mentioning cognitive disintegration

Trump goes after Deborah Birx one day after WH staff defended her from Pelosi's attacks

Another mercenary battalion deployed in Belarus to destabilize country claims President Lukashenko

The Mossad explodes with growth while IDF shrinks claims State Comptroller report

Ice Age Farmer Report: Rockefeller's "Reset the Table" - food tyranny & transform food supply

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