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UN warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe

Michelle Nichols
Reuters
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:16 UTC
Diplomats UN
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FILE PHOTO: Diplomats arrive through the delegates entrance at the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, which is being held mostly virtually due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York, U.S., September 22, 2020.
Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Friday.


Comment: If the statistics are anything to go by, a significant number of citizens in Western nations do not want the vaccine and it's only due to government coercion that they will be forced to suffer it. Let's also not forget that Russia and China currently have vaccines with the best track record, and they're already in production, and yet the West tries to deny that they even exist.


World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley and World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a special meeting on COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year and has so far infected 65 million globally.


Comment: The coronavirus did not originate in China: Lombardy Doctors Have Been Dealing With 'Strange Pneumonia' Since at Least NOVEMBER


The pandemic, measures taken by countries to try to stop its spread and the economic impact have fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian help, the United Nations said earlier this week. It has appealed for $35 billion in aid funding.

Comment: The coronavirus is turning out to be the ideal 'shock doctrine' event for those working towards a dystopian future:

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Nancy Pelosi admits she blocked COVID relief bill for months

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:03 UTC
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference in Washington on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said today that the reason she's been holding up COVID relief since May because she just really doesn't like President Donald Trump.

"Don't characterize what we did before as a mistake as a preface to your question if you want an answer," Pelosi said. "That was not a mistake it was a decision and it has taken us to a place where we can the right thing without other shall we say, considerations in the legislation that we don't want. I'm very proud of where we are."

The HEROES Act, costing some $2.2 trillion, would have been the second round of coronavirus stimulus for the American people, but it was held up in Congress because Pelosi would not negotiate the terms of that bill with the White House. She repeatedly blamed Trump for not stooping to her terms, and now, it turns out, that her reasons were primarily that she was never willing to capitulate anything.

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Video of alleged killing of 'Mossad Commander' in Tel-Aviv goes viral

Daria Bedenko
Sputnik
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:45 UTC
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According to unconfirmed reports, the killing of a man who was reportedly identified as a 45-year-old Israeli and a senior Mossad official, occurred in the Israeli capital city of Tel Aviv on Thursday evening.

The video allegedly showing the moment of the killing of a man described in Iranian media as a senior Mossad official named Fahmi Hinavi, went viral as netizens speculate that the reported assassination might have been Tehran's retaliation for the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

According to the unconfirmed report by Iranian state-controlled Press TV, the deceased is said to be a Mossad officer, shot in Tel Aviv after 15 bullets were fired at a car he was driving when he stopped at a red light.

Comment: The alleged assassination also brings to mind the old motto of the Mossad which has been translated as "By way of deception thou shalt make war.":

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US ends cultural exchange programs with China, calling them 'soft power propaganda'

Raphael Satter
Reuters
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 05:44 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019.
The U.S. State Department said on Friday it has ended five cultural exchange programs with China, calling them "soft power propaganda tools."

The Department said on its website it had "terminated" the Policymakers Educational China Trip Program, the U.S.-China Friendship Program, the U.S.-China Leadership Exchange Program, the U.S.-China Transpacific Exchange Program and the Hong Kong Educational and Cultural Program.

It said that the programs had been set up under the auspices of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act - a 1961 law signed by President John F. Kennedy and aimed at boosting academic and cultural exchanges with foreign countries.

Comment: One would hope that they will be replaced with something that both parties believe puts them on an equal footing. However, if the US is cancelling them in the hope that it will somehow stop the 'influence' of China, they'll be sadly disappointed.

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And so, the smearing of the victim begins: Prince Andrew's accuser LIED about her age & was 'prostitute' paid off by Epstein, court papers show - report


RT
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 10:49 UTC
Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew
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Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew, pictured separately.
Prince Andrew's chief accuser was a prostitute who lied about her age and was paid "half a million" by disgraced businessman Jeffrey Epstein, new court papers allege, according to the Telegraph.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who is now an advocate for victims of sex trafficking, has claimed she had sex with the royal at least three times in 2001, when she was 17.

Giuffre claims this happened after she met with American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with procuring underage and young women for powerful clients, together with his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Survey of congressional Republicans finds little acknowledgement of Biden's win: report

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 10:21 UTC
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A survey conducted by The Washington Post found that only 25 congressional Republicans acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election, amounting to about 1 in 10 GOP lawmakers.

The Post reached out to all 249 GOP members of Congress and asked three questions: Who won the election, do you support President Trump's efforts to claim victory and will you accept Biden as the "legitimately elected president" if he wins a majority in the Electoral College?


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Joe Biden now says he won't mandate getting COVID-19 vaccine, wearing masks

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 22:57 UTC
Joe Biden
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President-elect Joe Biden on Friday said that he won't impose national mandates to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or to wear a mask.

But Biden said that he will encourage people to voluntarily do both.

"No, I don't think it should be mandatory. I wouldn't demand it be mandatory," Biden said of vaccines at a press conference in Delaware.


Comment: He did during his election campaign: Biden promises to pressure states into issuing mask mandates nationwide


"But I would do everything in my power — just like I don't think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide — I will do everything in my power as president of the United States to encourage people to do the right thing. And when they do it, demonstrate that it matters."

Biden said in September that his legal advisers believe a national mask mandate would be constitutional. On Thursday, he said he wanted Americans to voluntarily wear a mask for 100 days after he takes office on Jan. 20.

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Priorities? US House passes marijuana decriminalization while clock runs out on Covid19 relief


RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 05:47 UTC
Decriminalization of pot
© Reuters/Steve DiPaola
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has finally passed a bill to decriminalize marijuana - but even supporters of the move are rolling their eyes as the country languishes without a second pandemic stimulus plan.

The historic legislation passed by the House on Friday would not only see possession of marijuana decriminalized, but requires federal marijuana convictions to be re-assessed. It passed mostly along party lines, though six Democrats voted against it and five Republicans voted in favor.

Despite the popularity of marijuana decriminalization among the American populace, however, many on social media were bewildered by the legislators' priorities. With most Covid-19 aid programs due to expire at the end of the month and the country nowhere near recovered economically, they asked, why is Congress wasting its time on the pot issue?

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James Corbett: Bretton Woods 2.0 - Your guide to the great monetary reset

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Bretton Woods 2.0
Do you know what it means when the Managing Director of the IMF warns of a "new Bretton Woods moment?" How about when the head of the BIS revels in the total surveillance power that digital currencies will afford the central bankers? Well, you're about to. Don't miss this info-packed edition of The Corbett Report podcast where James peels back the layers of the great currency reset onion and uncovers the New World (Monetary) Order.


Comment: Corbett isn't alone in seeing the massive economic and political sham that the 'Great Reset' represents.

Listen to what Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has to say about it:



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'In Defense of Our Vote': General Flynn calls for suspension of the Constitution to prevent Civil War

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Flynn's Ohio ad
General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, is believed to be the mastermind behind the 1 December 2020 full page ad in the Washington Times.

It consists of a petition by an Ohio-based group, We the People Convention, urging President Donald Trump to act as his most illustrious predecessor, Abraham Lincoln.

During the American Civil War, the latter suspended the U.S. Constitution, proclaimed martial law, shut down opposition newspapers, ordered the arrest of lawmakers and members of the Supreme Court.

As a Northern state, Ohio played a key role in the Civil War. Democrats look on Abraham Lincoln as the best president in history.

Comment: One can say that drastic times call for drastic measures, and given the incredibly corrupt and networked forces arrayed against Trump and the rule of law, one can see how a true draining of the swamp (as suggested above) may be the only legal remedy for what he, and most of the US, is up against. But is the cost of going into martial law and taking the steps outlined above worth the clamor and the conflict that is likely to ensue by taking such steps? Is a Civil War of some kind inevitable either way?

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