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'Adam Schiff is a sociopath': Tucker Carlson calls for House Intelligence chairman to resign

Spencer Neale
Washington Examiner
Fri, 08 May 2020 21:10 UTC
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© Boston HeraldHouse Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff
Fox News host Tucker Carlson thinks it's past time for Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff to step down.

Carlson refused to mince words on the Friday edition of his show, blasting Schiff for his role in advancing conspiracy theories about a hidden back channel between Russia and the Trump administration.

"Adam Schiff is a sociopath," Carlson said. "He will do or say anything to achieve power. He is unfit to hold office. He should resign."

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Was lockdown a waste of time? Study finds stay-at-home order was 'ineffective'

Harrison Jones
Metro
Thu, 07 May 2020 16:16 UTC
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© EPA/GettyScientists locked at how effective measures across Europe were – and backed school closures and banning mass gatherings.
Blanket lockdown orders had limited effect on fighting coronavirus in Europe, a bombshell experimental study has suggested.

But closing schools and banning mass gathering did slow the pandemic's spread across the continent, researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) found.

They said that relaxing stay-at-home orders and allowing some types of non-essential businesses such as shops to reopen could be the starting point towards moving the UK out of lockdown. The success of these measures, along with other social distancing policies across 30 European countries, were studied by the UAE scientists, who wanted to see which were the most effective at controlling the disease.
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Bubble-wrapped Americans: The US is obsessed with physical and emotional safety

Sam Jacobs
Ammo.com
Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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"In America we say if anyone gets hurt, we will ban it for everyone everywhere for all time. And before we know it, everything is banned." -Professor Jonathan Haidt

It's a common refrain: We have bubble-wrapped the world. Americans in particular are obsessed with "safety." The simplest way to get any law passed in America, be it a zoning law or a sweeping reform of the intelligence community, is to invoke a simple sentence: "A kid might get hurt."

Almost no one is opposed to reasonable efforts at making the world a safer place. But the operating word here is "reasonable." Banning lawn darts, for example, rather than just telling people that they can be dangerous when used by unsupervised children, is a perfect example of a craving for safety gone too far.

Beyond the realm of legislation, this has begun to infect our very culture. Think of things like "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces." These are part of broader cultural trends in search of a kind of "emotional safety" - a purported right to never be disturbed or offended by anything. This is by no means confined to the sphere of academia, but is also in our popular culture, both in "extremely online" and more mainstream variants.
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Telegram founder rants on life in Silicon Valley: US is a 'police state and bad for IT business'


RT
Fri, 08 May 2020 18:47 UTC
Durov
© Reuters/Albert GeaFounder and CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov
High taxes, bad healthcare, police repression, lack of culture, poor education... Telegram founder Pavel Durov wants you to know he really doesn't like Silicon Valley and thinks living or doing business in the US is a terrible idea.

The St. Petersburg-born Durov, 35, is best known as a cofounder of Russia's premier social network VKontakte and later Telegram, an immensely popular encrypted messaging app. As a self-professed vegetarian and libertarian, he gives many Silicon Valley tech moguls a run for their money when it comes to quirks - but outdid them all when he resigned from VKontakte in 2014 and left Russia altogether, saying it was "incompatible with internet business at the moment."

He has since bought citizenship in the tiny Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis. This week, however, he posted a rant in Russian seeking to disabuse aspiring Russian tech entrepreneurs from believing a puff piece about Silicon Valley made by opposition blogger Yury Dud.
"The US is not a good place to live or do IT business. I'm convinced that anyone who wants to leave Eastern Europe must consider other options."

Comment: Americans would rather believe 'the dream' than objectively view 'the reality.' One of these will create change. The other will not.

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Best of the Web: Covid-19 contact tracing program launched - could mean mandatory 'evacuations' (kidnapping)


The Freedom Articles
Fri, 08 May 2020 17:30 UTC
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An Orwellian contact tracing program has begun in the US, including a potential army of tracers & mandatory evacuations (kidnapping).
A community contact tracing pilot program

has been launched according to this Ventura County (California) public health official Dr. Robert Levin. In his announcement, he states that his county is beginning to go around to people's homes and test them for the COVID-19 (the fake virus that still has never been isolated, purified and 100% proven to exist). Then, if the governmental tests (some of which have been shown to have been contaminated with coronavirus itself, and to produce over 80% false positives) find that you "have the COVID infection", you will be further quarantined and isolated - including potentially being removed from your home! This guy is actually talking about mandatory evacuation of people - kidnapping or grabbing adults and seniors! This is in line with the ominous warning that WHO (World Health Organization) official Michael Ryan gave a over a month ago when he spoke of removing people from their families. It is also in line with what several US state governors have claimed they can do with their newly-invoked and tyrannical emergency powers. At what point are people going to say "Enough is enough"?
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Twitter schools White House on WWII history and bizarre Victory Day message


RT
Sat, 09 May 2020 03:42 UTC
hoisting of the Red Flagg on the Reichstag in Berlin.
© Global Look Press / dpa/ Yevgeny KhaldeiA variation of the famous picture by Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei, which shows the hoisting of the Red Flagg on the Reichstag in Berlin.
The White House has marked the victory over Nazi Germany in a tweet hailing the role of the US and the UK, while leaving out the nation that sacrificed the most - the Soviet Union. Netizens were quick to provide a history lesson.

"On May 8, 1945, America and Great Britain had victory over the Nazis!" the White House said in a message posted on its official Twitter handle late Friday, complete with footage of a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the occasion.

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According to a shocking new survey, 52% of small businesses "expect to be out of business within six months"

Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Anyone that was hoping for a "quick recovery" for the U.S. economy can forget about that right now. Yes, many states are attempting to "reopen", but in most cases it will be a multi-stage process that takes many months to complete. Meanwhile, fear of COVID-19 is going to keep many Americans from conducting business as usual even after all of the restrictions have been finally lifted. Even now, many of the stores, restaurants and movie theaters that have reopened are seeing very, very few customers. Unfortunately, millions of small businesses are not going to be able to survive in such a depressed economic environment for very long.

In America today, the rules of the game are slanted very heavily in favor of huge corporations and are slanted very heavily against small businesses.

It has been this way for years, but millions of small business owners just kept soldiering on because they wanted to work for themselves and not some corporate behemoth.

But for most small businesses things have never been easy. For most of them, it is usually such a struggle to try to eke out a very meager profit at the end of the month after covering expenses and payroll. But now COVID-19 has come along, and many small businesses haven't had any revenue for weeks.
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Best of the Web: 'Liberty Rally' protestors swarm Massachusetts State House calling for end to lockdown


District Herald
Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Monday calling for an end to the stay-at-home orders that are devastating local businesses while major corporations like Target, Amazon and Walmart thrive.

The demonstrators at the "Liberty Rally" chanted "freedom" and "USA" as they demanded an end to the closures.


Comment: The frustration is growing worldwide as people realize the true effect of the lockdown:

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The fatal danger which is spiking due to coronavirus pandemic

Josh Dutton
Yahoo News Australia
Thu, 07 May 2020 14:11 UTC
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The federal health minister has spoken of the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on mental health with suicides expected to jump by as much as 25 per cent.

Greg Hunt told reporters on Thursday coronavirus can have an "indirect impact" on mental health as he announced $500 million in additional funding.

"Coronavirus can have direct impacts, obviously. We've seen that around the world," he said.

"But the indirect impact can also be mental health."

Mr Hunt has studied modelling presented by Sydney University's Brain and Mind Centre along with the Australian Medical Association.
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Best of the Web: Italian MP Vittorio Sgarbi in parliament: 'Covid-19 death numbers are false, designed to terrorize citizens, establish dictatorship'

Amy Mek
RAIR Foundation USA
Mon, 04 May 2020 22:01 UTC
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Vittorio Sgarbi
On Friday, April 24, 2020, Vittorio Sgarbi, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, denounced what he claims are false coronavirus death statistics. Sgarbi feels that fake statistics are being propagated by the government and the media to terrorize the citizens of Italy and establish a dictatorship.

The member of the Forza Italia party slammed the closure of 60% of Italian businesses for 25,000 Chinese-Coronavirus deaths from the floor of the legislature. "It's not true," he said. "Don't use the deaths for rhetoric and terrorism." According to the National Institute of Health, 96.3% did not die of coronavirus, but of other pathologies stated Sgarbi - which means that only 925 have died from the virus and 24,075 have died of other things claimed Sgarbi, "...the virus was little more than an influenza. Don't lie! Tell the truth!"

Sgarbi's controversial speech was delivered during 'Cura Italia' decree law discussions. The proposal intends to develop measures to strengthen the national health service based on what he claims is false data. Sgarbi challenged his colleagues to investigate the real numbers themselves and be united in the reporting the truth:
Let us be united in liberation against hypocrisy and lies, against falsifications, against the false numbers that are given to terrorize Italians. The 25,000 dead, as Professor Bassetti said, died of heart attacks, cancer and other [comorbidities]... Let's not use them to humiliate Italy. Let's not use them to give citizens false news. Give the numbers, check them out, and I challenge you before a jury of honor, Trizzino, to look at the numbers...
Watch the exclusively translated RAIR Foundation USA video of Vittorio Sgarbi's speech:

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