In answering a question from a journalist, Trump responded 'Well I feel about vaccines like I feel about tests, this is gonna go away without a vaccine' - inferring perhaps that he felt that the covid-19 tests were also unnecessary.
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In answering a question from a journalist, Trump responded 'Well I feel about vaccines like I feel about tests, this is gonna go away without a vaccine' - inferring perhaps that he felt that the covid-19 tests were also unnecessary.
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Yet the coveted ground of gender equality seemed littered with mines planted by those who held power and those who sought it. Powerful men were all too willing to exploit the women working for them. These women were betrayed not only by men, but by the most prominent voices within the "sisterhood" of the feminist movement. Women are particularly vulnerable to exploitation when they drop their guard based on professed shared ideology.
Movements such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp coalitions are now part of the institutional feminist movement and are challenged by women like Tara Reade, just as they were challenged by Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey in the 1990s. These women were or currently are supporters of Democratic politicians. Reade finds she must either sell herself in service to the feminist/progressive movement or loudly call attention to that movement's hypocrisy on her way out.
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Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn
In its coverage of the exoneration, the New York Times notes that Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying about a discussion with the Russian ambassador in December 2016 during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations. Flynn asked Russia not to overreact to sanctions the Obama administration had placed on Russia for interfering in the election; Trump would be in the White House in another three weeks.
Hmmm. The Times does not mention the other alleged lie — which involves Israel. A week before the sanctions call, Flynn called the Russian ambassador, and a "litany" of other countries, to try to get them to counter the U.S. decision to allow a resolution highly critical of Israeli settlements to pass in the U.N. Security Council. That resolution went through 14-0 with the U.S. abstaining — Obama's parting shot at Netanyahu.
Comment: The Trump administration's support for Israel is criminal, but given it was well-known going into the election, the fact that Flynn was promoting it to other countries in his capacity as a White House official, makes calling it violation of the Logan Act risible. That being said, it is also a fact that Israel holds an unconsciounable sway over U.S. foreign policy.
- 'The nation that must not be named': NYT editorial on Flynn's misdeeds has a laughable omission - Israel's role
- Collusion with Israel - not Russia: Mega-donor Haim Saban thanks Jared Kushner for working on Israel's behalf
- The biggest meddler in American democracy is not Russia, it is Israel via foreign agent AIPAC
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...have been forgotten as people worldwide have allowed themselves to be led into the depths of fear by the MSM (Mainstream Media) and governments. For some people, I'm talking real fear here: not twilight zone or midnight zone stuff, but trench zone, deep deep down where the dark creatures live who have never ever seen the light of day. These are the people who are scared of you if you don't wear a mask, who think you might be about to infect them. Just take a look at society right now. Humans are social creatures. Look at the amount of brainwashing, programming and propaganda that has been pumped out non-stop to get people to refrain from the basics of human life: touching, hugging, rubbing, congregating and gathering. Amidst this whole virus crisis, authorities have attacked 2 fundamental aspects of law and government that you may not have noticed.
Comment: We are getting an 'up close and personal' look at tyranny going viral. If this is bad, tomorrow's guarantee is worse. Our responsibility: Vigilance to our protections and steadfastness to our rights.
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The buck stops here...
The buck stops here...
So we've been swamped with charts overlaying recent stock market action over 1929, 1987, 2000 and 2008 — though the closest analogy is actually the Oil Shock of 1973, an exogenous shock to a weakening, fragile economy.
But the reality is there is no analogous situation in the past to the present, and so all the predictions based on past performance will be misleading. The chartists and analysts claim that all markets act on the same patterns, which are reflections of human nature, and so seeking correlations of volatility and valuation that "worked" in the past will work in 2020.
Does anyone really believe the correlations of the past decade or two are high-probability predictors of the future as the entire brittle construct of fictional capital and extremes of globalization and financialization all unravel at once?
Here are a few of the many consequential differences between all previous recessions and the current situation:
Comment: Reading the above list of situations within the overall economic picture is, to say the least, wincing. Fault and default are hand-in-hand at this point...and the worst is yet to come.
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A couple wearing protective face masks walk on the street in Qom, Iran, March 24, 2020.
A couple wearing protective face masks walk on the street in Qom, Iran, March 24, 2020.
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"We were deceived, we did not come to participate in any war, we came to guard Turkish facilities for the money ... but in the end, I am left without any cash" — this phrase embodies the common denominator of the stories of the Syrians who arrived in Libya "to earn money .. not to fight".
Sputnik was able to speak to some Syrian mercenaries captured by the Libyan National Army (LNA) in recent fighting around Tripoli, getting a first-hand account of how they came to fight in the wars of others.
Comment: See also:
- HUGE cache of weapons made in US, Israel, Turkey & Gulf states abandoned by terrorists in recently liberated area of Syria
- Turkey's migrant busses, tear gas attacks and fake news stunts at the Greek border
- Turkey starting troop deployment to Libya, will start granting drilling licenses in region - Erdogan
The marvel here is that the paper of record granted prestige newsprint to an explicitly racist argument. Pipes:
[A]nnexation would be likely to make more Palestinians eligible to become citizens of Israel. That would be a profound mistake, since its Arab citizens constitute what I believe is the ultimate enemy of Israel's status as a Jewish state, the one that will still be standing after the threats posed by Iran and Gaza have been dealt with. Citizens of Israel, unlike external enemies, cannot be defeated. Their allegiance must be won over, and the larger their number, the harder that becomes.Yes you read that right: "Arab citizens constitute what I believe is the ultimate enemy of Israel's status as a Jewish state." Can you imagine such an argument being made about Muslims in the U.S., or blacks, or any other minority? Impossible, in the New York Times.
Just substitute the idea — Jews are our ultimate enemies because it is hard to win over Jewish allegiance to a Christian state - and you are inside Pipes's mental space.
Why are Palestinians hard to win over to the Jewish state? There is not an ounce of concern on the part of this American writer for Palestinians as human beings with human rights in the land they have long lived in. No, they "lost" the conflict, so they must accept that, and having no rights under occupation is no concern to Pipes. "I am not someone who frets over the Israeli 'occupation' of the West Bank."
Comment: That's because he doesn't have a soul.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L), Colombian President Ivan Duque (C) and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido walk together in Bogota at a regional summit on terrorism
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L), Colombian President Ivan Duque (C) and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido walk together in Bogota at a regional summit on terrorism
"We reiterate once again that the interim government has no link, commitment or responsibility to Silvercorp or its actions, as well as deny that President Guaido has signed an assumption contract with [the company]," Guaido's office said in a statement.Just a day earlier, the Washington Post published a "General Services Agreement" between Juan Guaido and Silvercorp USA.
The 41-page document can be read and downloaded in its entirety. It can be found both in Spanish and English.
The document has numerous signatures on it, but doesn't contain Guaido's signature.
Comment:
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US army soldiers around at the K1 Air Base northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on March 29, 2020.
US army soldiers around at the K1 Air Base northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on March 29, 2020.
"The Americans have to be ousted because they do not intend to leave by themselves. Only resistance can expel them," Baghdad Friday prayers leader Sayed Yasin al-Mousavi said.
"One who seeks the continuation of US presence in the region, and for no resistance to take place against it, is actually seeking to delay the end of injustice over the world," he said.
Citing certain Muslim prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, al-Mousavi added that it was necessary to pray for the expulsion of US forces.
The Iraqi parliament voted in January to expel foreign forces led by Washington from the country.
The decision came in response to the US assassination of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, alongside Iran's top anti-terror Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, in the capital city Baghdad earlier in January.
Iraqi resistance groups have vowed to take up arms against US forces if Washington fails to comply with the parliamentary order.
Comment: Common sense prevails in Washington. A little bit. But it's too little too late because the lockdown hysteria has already taken a great toll on the psychological and economic health of many Americans. And now that many authoritarian leaders at the State level have gotten a better taste of pathological power, this is causing - in many areas across the US - a great dissatisfaction with those who are exercising a sick and sickening control over their lives.