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'Full closure': Turkey set for weeks-long lockdown, Erdogan says, amid country's stubborn Covid-19 death rate

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Kartal Dr. Lutii Kirdar Education and Research Hospital, Intensive Care Unit in Istanbul, Turkey.
Turkey will enter a nationwide lockdown later this month until May 17, which will include school closures and intercity travel curbs, in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19, President Tayyip Erdogan has announced.

The "full closure" comes into force from April 29 and will include curfews from 7 pm to 5 am, Erdogan said in a speech on Monday after a cabinet meeting.

Anyone traveling between cities will require prior permission from the authorities, while public transport will be limited to 50% capacity, he said.

Manufacturing and food businesses will be exempt from the measures, and face-to-face teaching will be suspended in all schools.

Comment: Erdogan's yet another authoritarian leader who follows the PTB script in this political Corona circus. These people will do anything and will bow to anyone just to keep their position of power. That is all they really want; unlimited power and control - even if that means the degradation of their country and the lives of millions of people. For them, the injured masses are just 'collateral damage' on their way to maintaining their tyrannical reign.

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Syria launched a missile towards Israel: payback time?

Israeli Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev
The Syria air defence system near the capital Damascus launched a missile as Israeli jets were hovering above the occupied Golan Heights and bombing Syrian army targets near the Golan Heights. The Syrian missile landed 30 kilometres away from the most protected and secret Israeli Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev. The distance between Damascus and Dimona nuclear site is 296 km, long enough that it seems astonishing that it was insufficient for the Israeli interception defence system to neutralise the missile. Was this promised Iranian retaliation for the Israeli sabotage attack on the Natanz nuclear reactor or a simple errant missile?

Israeli media and spokesperson of the Israeli army downplayed the event, describing the missile as an "errant surface-to-air S-200 (SA-5)". It is striking that Israel's most sophisticated interception system failed to down the missile. Others recalled a similar confrontation in 2019 when a stray Syrian anti-air missile hit Northern Cyprus. Former Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman took the opportunity to criticise Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, accused of "being asleep during the night shift" and failed to intercept the Syrian missile.

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Target

The Feds are coming for libertarians

Feds against Libertarians
On the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, former CIA chief John Brennan announced on television that federal intelligence agencies "are moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about" various suspect groups, specifically mentioning libertarians.

Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs. Six or seven years ago, there was a lot of prattle about how "the libertarian moment has arrived." I always knew that was hokum. Since then, there has been a huge increase in hostility to libertarians in Washington DC and elsewhere around the country.

Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently overthrow the government. But the feds will be able to find many other pretexts to target peaceful citizens with supposedly subversive ideas. Federal law already defines "domestic terrorism" far more broadly than most people realize. As the Oregonian recently noted, "Cases categorized as domestic terrorism include allegations of...knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted [government] building or grounds...civil disorders and making threatening communications." FBI chief Christopher Wray told a Senate Committee that the FBI has 2,000 ongoing domestic terrorism investigations. Wray recognizes the terrorist peril as the ticket to a bigger budget: "We need more agents; we need more analysts."

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Blue Planet

A crisis of hypocrisy: The real disaster is The Establishment

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Reactor disaster Fukushima, Japan • Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry
Having been reminded on a daily basis, the entirety of ours lives, of the litany of crises that lurk just around the corner; the endless threat to survival, the impending doom, the imminent disasters and the threats to life, we know when Earth Day comes around what to expect as the scaremongering drivel of the establishment and their media mouthpieces accelerate their efforts at frightening the living daylights out of us. It is a key date in the calendar of the alarmists and they don't waste a second of it.

Whether it be the threat of terrorism, the deadly viral outbreak, the incoming asteroids, the nuclear apocalypse, the extinction of the bees or the racist White Supremacists, we're told there's always a reason for us to be scared and therefore a reason to put more money into the pockets of parasites, more control into the hands of predators. Hence, nobody should have been surprised when the aristocrats were rolled out for the chattel on Earth Day to wag their fingers and lash their tongues, reminding the masses of what a nuisance they are as a species and condemning the untold damage they continue to inflict on the environment. The world's facing an immediate catastrophe they tell us, and it is all our fault.

Our way of life throughout the generations, we are told, has been one of selfishness and gluttony and, as a result, we are to blame for the devastation. It is up to us now to fix it. The good news, of course, is that it is not too late. Luckily we can face the challenge of climate change in the same way we have been facing the challenge of the pandemic over the past year - by giving up our liberties and freedoms and sacrificing everything we hold near and dear. This seems to be the one-size-fits-all fix for every major world issue.

As long as we place our implicit trust in the powers-that-be, doing what we are told, then we can get through it all. We are all in this together supposedly - and that even includes limousine-riding, private jet-flying, Climate Czar himself, John Kerry, who implored us all on Earth Day to put more pressure on our governments regarding climate change, declaring that we need to be more aggressive in reducing CO2 emissions.

It was remarkable to hear this when we consider that only 24 hours or so earlier he didn't appear to give a shit about the environment.

Comment: Many will agree with the slams against elitist John Kerry. They are justified. His positive contributions to 'the people' are scant compared to his obstruction and slimy diplomacy as Obama's Secretary of State (just ask Lavrov!). If that was his job description, he nailed it.


Attention

MI6 head reveals Russophrenia-stricken UK defense chiefs think Russia is both a 'declining power' and number one rival

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Richard Peter Moore • The MI6 Vauxhall Cross building in London, Britain
The head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service has said that Russia is getting weaker and weaker as a country, while simultaneously warning that it poses a significant military threat to the UK's allies in Eastern Europe.

Richard Moore, the chief of London's top spy agency, world famous as the fictional home of James Bond, told an interview with the Sunday Times that "Russia is an objectively declining power economically and demographically."

According to him, the world's largest country is "an extremely challenged place," arguing that recent protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny "show that there is a deal of disaffection with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin." Rallies held last week drew smaller crowds than organizers had anticipated, and were largely peaceful.

Syringe

USA: Millions are skipping their second doses of Covid vaccines

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Pfizer vaccine-loaded syringes ready to be distributed in Dearborn, Michigan
A number of U.S. states recently warned that they were running out of people willing to take a Covid vaccine. New reports suggest that a fairly significant proportion of Americans who have received their first dose of a vaccine are unwilling - or believe there is no need - to take a second. Reasons include a fear of the side effects and the belief that one dose offers enough protection against Covid. The New York Times has the story:
Millions of Americans are not getting the second doses of their Covid vaccines, and their ranks are growing.

More than five million people, or nearly 8% of those who got a first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, have missed their second doses, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is more than double the rate among people who got inoculated in the first several weeks of the nationwide vaccine campaign.

Even as the country wrestles with the problem of millions of people who are wary about getting vaccinated at all, local health authorities are confronting an emerging challenge of ensuring that those who do get inoculated are doing so fully.

The reasons vary for why people are missing their second shots. In interviews, some said they feared the side effects, which can include flu-like symptoms. Others said they felt that they were sufficiently protected with a single shot.

Comment: Join the rat race to locate a second dose or walk away with justification? According to the NYT, those are the choices! Here are more bits and pieces from that article:
The C.D.C. says there is limited data on the vaccine's effectiveness when shots are separated by more than six weeks, although some countries, including Britain and Canada, are giving shots with a gap of up to three or four months.

College students pose a particular challenge. Many recently became eligible to be vaccinated and are getting their first shots, but they will have left campus by the time they are due for their second doses.

In many cases, vaccine providers had canceled second-dose appointments because of bad winter weather.

There are rare cases in which people are supposed to forgo the second shot, such as if they had an allergic reaction after their first shot.

The stakes are high because there is only one vaccine authorized in the United States that is given as a single shot. The use of that vaccine, made by Johnson & Johnson, was paused this month after it was linked to a very rare but serious side effect involving blood clotting. Federal health officials on Friday recommended restarting use of the vaccine, but the combination of the safety scare and ongoing production problems is likely to make that vaccine a viable option for fewer people.

The C.D.C.'s count of missed second doses is through April 9. It covers only people who got a first Moderna dose by March 7 or a first Pfizer dose by March 14.

In some cases, problems with shipments or scheduling may be playing a role in people missing their second doses. Some vaccine providers have had to cancel appointments because they did not receive expected vaccine deliveries. People have also reported having their second-dose appointments canceled or showing up only to find out that there were no doses available of the brand they needed.
It is up to each individual to decide their vaccine destiny. Shakespeare said it best: "To be or not to be."


Eye 2

New photos unearthed show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton's White House

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New photos show Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the White House as guests of then-President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were once White House guests of former President Bill Clinton, new pictures prove.

The images were published by The Sun, days after Maxwell's last court appearance on sex trafficking charges in Manhattan, related to her alleged procurement of underage rape victims for the convicted pedophile.

The disgusting duo were invited to the White House in 1993, after Epstein reportedly donated money to have the Oval Office refurbished.

They toured the East Room and the presidential residence during a reception, the paper reported.

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Iran foreign minister criticizes power of Suleimani in leaked interview

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Javad Zarif during a cabinet meeting in Tehran in March 2020, the month when the Iranian foreign ministry says he gave the interview.
Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has criticised the dominance of the assassinated Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Suleimani in Iranian diplomacy, and admitted his own influence over Iranian foreign policy was sometimes zero in a leaked audio recording.

The remarks are from an interview the Iranian foreign ministry admits Zarif gave last March, but it says has been distorted through selective quotes. The leak was claimed as an exclusive by Iran International, a Persian language network viewed by Tehran as hostile and owned by Saudi Arabians.

Suleimani was assassinated by a US drone strike in January 2020, and official criticism of the IRGC's influence on Iranian foreign policy is extremely rare.

Comment: For further insight into Suleimani's role and how this may have contributed to his assassination, check out: What War Was Trump Trying to Stop by Killing Iranian General Soleimani?


Cow

Ice Age Farmer Report: Oregon Bill to BAN Livestock - Stunning War on Farming/Ranching

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Oregon Bill IP13 would criminalize raising food animals in the state, and reclassify animal husbandry practices as "sexual assault." The bill specifies that animals can only be eaten after dying of natural causes (at which point, aged/diseased meat is not good). Oregon's 12,000 beef producers raising about 1.3 million head of cattle are slated for elimination, as traditional farming and ranching is shut down in favor of lab-grown meat and indoor farms owned by the technocrats -- a perfect way to force the population into perfect slavery. Christian breaks it down in this Ice Age Farmer broadcast.


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Ice Age Farmer Report: Biden Ends Beef? 90% Reduction in Red Meat by 2030 for Climate Plan - #AbsoluteZero

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Biden's new climate plan targets for 2030 include reducing red meat consumption by 90%, and all animal source foods & products by 50%. Christian shares the latest developments as governments around the world race to zero carbon emissions: France bans domestic flights, New Zealand stops shipping animals, Amsterdam banning wood stoves -- the race to enslave humanity is on, and we must fight back now.


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