Horowitz: Venezuela in America: CDC to confiscate property rights with new anti-eviction order

"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own." ~James Madison

Rational thought, constitutional rights, basic freedoms, and ability to breathe unmasked air have been axed at the altar of the coronavirus cult. Now, it appears that the CDC has the power to destroy the property rights of landlords and force them to house chosen classes of people on their property, contrary to contractual agreements. We fought a revolution over this issue.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that the CDC will put a moratorium on all private lease evictions in the United States until December 31. Which, in this day and age, will likely mean that a government canceling of rent or evictions to some degree will be enshrined as a permanent policy of government.

After reading various headlines reporting the announcement, you might have thought this was referring to federally run housing units or at least rentals or mortgages backed by the federal government. Nope. The federal government is suspending all private rental evictions for individuals earning less than $99,000 or families earning less than $198,000. In other words, it is confiscating the private property rights of countless American businessmen who are struggling just as much as renters.

We have heard incessant accusations from this administration and other Republicans that Joe Biden and the Democrats will transform this country into a socialist hellhole. But if this order is not socialist, than the term has no meaning. At least the eviction cancellation provision of the CARES Act in March was passed by a legislative body and only applied to federally funded housing, such as mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This is an unaccountable executive action governing strictly private contracts.

The order will formally be published in the Federal Register on Friday.

Extra shocking, this order comes at a time when government is handing out free funding to everyone. So if officials plan to keep the country afloat through servicing debt, why is there a need to harm landlords? With all the handouts going around, they should just give the tenants the money to pay the landlords. Now government is taking its redistribution scheme a step further by using citizens' private property for handouts.

"President Trump is committed to helping hardworking Americans stay in their homes and combating the spread of the coronavirus," White House deputy press secretary Brian Morgenstern said during a briefing announcing the order on Tuesday.

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/09/horowitz-venezuela-in-america-cdc-to.html

Facebook removes dozens of popular QAnon conspiracy accounts from Instagram as part of the social media giant's latest efforts to tackle misinformation online

Facebook removes dozens of popular QAnon conspiracy accounts from Instagram as part of the social media giant's latest efforts to tackle misinformation online

September 03, 2020 1 Comment

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A number of prominent pro-QAnon accounts on Instagram, which have been spreading right-wing conspiracy theories at an accelerating rate, were suspended indefinitely Tuesday in accordance with Facebook’s new policies against groups with ties to violence.

One of latest highest-profile casualties of the platform’s misinformation cull was user @little.miss.patriot, who gained nearly 300,000 followers in the space of a few months by uploading pastel-colored infographics containing false claims about President Trump and Democrats.

‘I have no idea how long my page is disabled for, it will not let me log in, I have no information,’ the account holder, whose real name is not known, wrote on her back-up account, little.miss.patriot.2.

Facebook has been under immense pressure to clamp down on hate speech and dangerous conspiracy theories, both of which are found in abundance on both Facebook and Instagram.

The move comes just two weeks after tech-giant removed 900 pages and groups and 1,500 ads tied to the pro-Trump conspiracy group, in addition to restricting the reach of more than 10,000 QAnon Instagram pages.

Another popular QAnon account, @qthewakeup, similarly announced Tuesday that they were no longer able to access their main page, writing on another account, ‘Can’t stop, won’t stop.’

A previous account belonging to @greatawakening3, who claimed to boast 117,000 followers, was deactivated too, seemingly permanently.

‘Here we go again,’ the anonymous account user said in a post.

Several smaller conspiracy theory pages, while still active, have also had their posts flagged as ‘false information’ by Instagram’s fact checkers.

When such an instance occurs, the app blocks out the user’s post with a warning message and explainer debunking the false claim. A user can still, however, view the post if they should wish.

Right-wing journalist Liz Crokin also posted in an Instagram story that her account was ‘under attack’, though she offered no further information to substantiate her claim.

Facebook confirmed to Buzzfeed Wednesday that the accounts, and numerous others, had been taken down in-line with the company’s new policy against accounts ‘tied to offline anarchist groups that support violent acts amidst protests, US-based militia organizations and QAnon.’

QAnon, which first emerged on 4chan in 2017, is the far-right conspiracy theory that a cabal of Satan-worshiping child-sex traffickers are plotting against President Trump, who is trying to expose them.

No part of the theory is based on fact, though a 4chan user by the name of ‘Q’ claimed to have access to information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the US.

The user accused a number of liberal Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and other high-ranking officials of being a part of the cabal.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/09/facebook-removes-dozens-of-popular.html

Mapping the Richest Men Around the World

The coronavirus has created a fascinating paradox in the economy. On the one hand, millions of Americans are out of work, supplemental unemployment insurance is now only $300 per week, and Congress can’t agree to pass a new relief package. And yet the stock market is at an all-time high, and some of the richest people in the world have therefore seen their fortunes surge, as our latest visualization makes clear.

This year Jeff Bezos became the first person to ever have a personal net worth of over $200B, making him by far the richest person in the world.

Only one other person, Bernard Arnault, controls over $100B. Since we are only focusing on the single wealthiest person or family per country, Bill Gates didn’t make the cut ($118B).

The distribution of wealth across the richest men in the world starts to flatten out under $50B, with several men controlling $10 to $30B.

There’s almost nobody from the Southern Hemisphere with more than $10B in wealth. Carlos Slim Helu ($51B) and Joseph Safra ($22.8B) are the only entrants from South America.

We found the data for our visualization of the richest men at the real-time billionaire tracker from Forbes, which measures the approximate daily fluctuations in wealth across the world’s richest people. We previously analyzed the richest women in the world. We took the pictures of the richest men in the world and placed them on the map, limiting our work to just those with a fortune of $10B or more as of September 1, 2020. Then, we sized each photo to a bubble corresponding to the size of their fortune, creating an intuitive snapshot of the world’s wealthiest men in 2020.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/mapping-the-richest-men-around-the-world/

PEDOGATE UPDATE: 87 Politicos Investigated, Arrested, Prosecuted, Convicted, Sentenced and/or Incarcerated for Underage Sex Crimes

https://www.docdroid.com/Lihhvp9/combinedallegations-pdf

http://themillenniumreport.com/2020/09/pedogate-update-87-politicos-investigated-arrested-prosecuted-convicted-sentenced-and-or-incarcerated-for-underage-sex-crimes/

Maduro Regime Releases Hundreds of Political Prisoners in Venezuela in Attempt to Keep Power in the Failed Socialist State

The political environment in Venezuela continues to escalate after the release of prisoners of conscience ordered by the Maduro Socialist regime.

Exclusively from Colombia, the deputy in exile Gaby Arellano says, “Maduro’s dictatorship made specific the release of political prisoners to give a veneer to parliamentary fraud.”

Arellano indicated that after this decision by the dictator was meant to keep power in his failed Socialist nation.

In August there were reportedly 384 political prisoners. The police, the military, and half of the people on the list are exiled politicians who are not mentioned among those released.

Maduro released the prisoners as a goodwill gesture that was requested by the Spanish government.

Gaby Arellano clarified that this was not a pardon but a liberation.

The political prisoners were kidnapped by the regime for political reasons.

Those released were never sentenced and were being held in prison for having opinions contrary to the socialist dictatorship.

Let this be a warning to the Western world.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/maduro-regime-releases-hundreds-political-prisoners-venezuela-attempt-keep-power-failed-socialist-state/

Chief Rabbi Complains That Jews No Longer Have A Media Monopoly Because of the internet

Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, hosted a high-level panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference titled “Combating hate crime” where he complained that people are using their new, unregulated freedom of speech in social media to say things he and his fellow Jews don’t like:

Together with the executive vice president of the World Jewish Congress Maram Stern, the panel was chaired by Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt and focused on the dangers caused by social media, including rampant anti-Semitism, far-right extremism and Islamophobia – all of which have found new life online.

A key agenda point addressed how social media channels spread messages faster and more efficiently than ever before and that more needs to be done to regulate these channels. The speakers concluded that tech giants are failing to deal with forms of racist hatred and the dissemination of extremist views across their platforms.

Speaking to the Munich Security Conference, Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt said: “The internet has created a vast arena in which those who hold a deep hatred towards religious groups, for instance, are able to share their views with others. More worryingly, they use a variety of platforms such as instant messaging to share dangerous tactics in their attempt to attack – both verbally and physically – those who do not subscribe to their way of thinking or choice of lifestyle. The evidence is clear: Hate and prejudice is commonplace on social media. The Halle synagogue on Yom Kippur and the mosque attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, are prime examples of digitally inspired attacks.”

Goldschmidt called on governments around the globe to regulate social media to avoid its misuse. During the debate, many agreed that technology has, to a certain extent, “broken” democracy. Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London said that from a technological point of view “free speech actually is working against democracies” and that “hate speech, in particular, is a huge challenge for our democracies today.”

To combat this problem, Prof. Dr. Michel Friedman, lawyer, philosopher, and Executive Director of Center for Applied European Studies (CAES) pointed out that we first must discuss and understand when a hate crime begins and when it is necessary to respond. To counter this, the panel suggested copying the example of the digital fight against Islamic state. Here, major internet platforms joined forces to remove online jihadism from forums and accounts internationally.

https://www.area61afg.org/forums/topic/chief-rabbi-complains-that-jews-no-longer-have-a-media-monopoly-because-of-the/

Lukashenko claims Merkel’s remarks on Navalny ‘poisoning’ were fabricated, cites Berlin-Warsaw phone call 'intercepted' by Minsk

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement on the alleged poisoning of Alexey Navalny was a “falsification,” Belarus’ embattled president said on Thursday, citing an unverified supposed intercept of German-Polish communications.

“We have intercepted an interesting conversation, which… clearly indicates that this is falsification. There was no poisoning of Navalny,” the president of Belarus told Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, during his visit to Minsk.

Lukashenko claimed the motivation was to prevent Moscow from interfering in his country. “They did it to discourage [Vladimir] Putin from sticking his nose into the affairs of Belarus," he alleged. "You understand how these people act." The Belarusian President also felt it may have been some sort of "dirty trick" to influence regional elections set to be held in Russia, this month.

He didn’t cite any immediate evidence to back up his audacious claim, but said, “I’ll let you read it, we will prepare and send it to the FSB [Russia's federal security service].”

The unspecified “conversation” – in Lukashenko’s words – occurred before Merkel made the headline-grabbing statement, suggesting the Russian opposition figure was poisoned by a “Novichok-class” nerve agent. The Chancellor based her comments on the findings of a German military laboratory.

“As I understand it, a group of specialists prepared for Merkel, for her administration, the facts – and maybe the statement that she made,” Lukashenko continued. The reason for the alleged set-up was to “discourage Putin from poking his head into the affairs of Belarus,” Lukashenko told Mishustin.

“We understand that it was Warsaw talking to Berlin. Two callers were on the line,” the Belarusian president said. The apparent bombshell intercept was allegedly provided by Belarus’ signals intelligence.

https://www.rt.com/russia/499771-lukashenko-navalny-falsification/

Countries that used hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 saw a 73% lower fatality rate, meaning Fauci, the CDC and the FDA have conspired to KILL tens of thousands of Americans in order to protect the lucrative vaccine industry

An ongoing study that keeps track of how the nations of the world are faring with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) contains some eye-opening revelations about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

In all areas where HCQ is used – the United States is not one of them, thanks to Anthony Fauci and the left – the official death rate from the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is a shocking 73 percent lower, on average, than in areas where HCQ is prohibited.

When HCQ is used early, the death rate from the Wuhan coronavirus is even lower, the study reveals – up to 77.3 percent lower than in places like the U.S. and Canada where HCQ is off limits, in fact.

What this all suggests, of course, is that Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and all other entities currently in the way of HCQ being made available to Americans are guilty of murder.

This is ironic when considering that the left is blaming President Donald Trump for the 180,000 reported deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) – a number that has since been reduced about 95 percent by the CDC, which recently indicated that there have actually only been a few thousand deaths in people who were diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) while having no other pre-existing conditions.

All in all, the death rate associated with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) appears to be exceptionally low, and even lower in areas of the world where HCQ is used early to treat patients.

Medical establishment STILL bashing HCQ as ineffective and dangerous

Despite having already been caught lying about the alleged dangers and ineffectiveness of HCQ in treating the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the medical deep state is still at it in bashing this simple, inexpensive generic drug.

Most recently, a paper published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection, the official journal of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), claims that taking HCQ with the antibiotic drug azithromycin does not lower mortality in Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.

Both alone and in combination with azithromycin, the study contends, HCQ is not effective and sometimes increases the risk of mortality. This stands in stark contrast to the experience of Dr. Stella Immanuel, who says she has successfully treated hundreds of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) patients with HCQ.

“I’m here because I have personally treated over 350 patients with COVID,” Dr. Immanuel stated during the America’s Frontline Doctors (AFD) event that was widely censored from social media after its initial airing.

“Patients that have diabetes, patients that have high blood pressure, patients that have asthma, all people,” she added. “We’ve not lost one patient! And on top of that, I’ve put myself, my staff, and many doctors that I know on hydroxychloroquine for prevention.”

A quick internet search for the latest news on HCQ only suggests the opposite, however. Article after article, and study after study, has absolutely nothing good to say about HCQ, likening it to a death drug for the purpose of keeping it out of the hands of patients desperately in need of a cure.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” plan to unveil new Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines at “warp speed” is moving right along, with the first marketable candidates to be ready for mass distribution in a matter of just a few more months – possibly even in time for the election, according to statements recently made by Trump to the media.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/09/countries-that-used-hydroxychloroquine.html

Report: UAE Letting Israel Send Spies Into Yemen

Tribal leader in Socotra claims island opened up to Israel

Reports originating in the Turkish state media are claiming that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are allowing Israel’s intelligence agencies growing access into Yemen, with the UAE in particular giving Israeli agents access to the strategic island of Socotra.

There is still not a lot of evidence of how far-reaching this is. One Socotra tribal elder was quoting in the media saying this is the case. Socotra’s tribes have been trying to build up opposition to the UAE’s assertion of control over the island during the ongoing Yemen War.

Socotra has regional strategic value, which is why the UAE wants a presence there, and presumably why Israel would also want a presence there. Couple this with the Israel-UAE peace, and the allegation practically writes itself.

It isn’t clear what this really is, however, whether this marks a major Israel influx into Yemen or part of a shift by the UAE. Turkey is at odds with the UAE in some countries, and this would be a good opportunity for them to push a story where the UAE is abusing its new Israel ties, but for now it’s not clear how far this really goes.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/02/report-uae-letting-israel-send-spies-into-yemen/

The Marines Are Pumping Millions into a High-Tech Wargaming Center. Here's Why

The Marine Corps is building a new state-of-the-art facility where it will run classified wargaming scenarios in preparation for a fight with a high-tech enemy.

A new Marine Corps Wargaming and Analysis Center is expected to be up and running in Quantico, Virginia, by 2024. The 100,000-square foot center, which will be built on the Marine Corps University campus, will host more than a dozen wargames every year – including two large-scale, 250-person exercises, a new announcement on the center states.

"Simulations will offer a realistic representation of future operating environments," the notice adds.

Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, the head of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, told Military.com earlier this year that the wargaming center will have sophisticated modeling and simulation tools.

"You can change one or two variables and run that thing hundreds of times," he said.

That will include seeing the results of adding or removing personnel on a simulated battlefield, Smith added, or testing the effect of an enemy missile traveling further than originally thought. The wargames will lead to better real-world experiments with Marines, he said.

"The wargaming center will also allow us to work at all levels of security, meaning from unclassified all the way up to the highest levels of security for specific programs that are very closely held," Smith said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/03/marines-are-pumping-millions-high-tech-wargaming-center-heres-why.html

Kushner discusses Palestinian negotiations with Saudi crown prince

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has discussed with US Senior Adviser Jared Kushner the need to resume negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported yesterday.

The two officials also discussed mutual relations and several other issues related to the stability and security of the region.

“They discussed the partnership between the two friendly countries and the importance of strengthening it in all fields, especially in order to achieve security and stability in the region,” SPA said.

“They also discussed the prospects for the peace process in the region, and the need to resume negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides to achieve a just and lasting peace,” the statement added.

Kushner’s meeting with Bin Salman came after his visit to the UAE and Bahrain, where he met senior officials from both Gulf States.

During the visit to Bahrain, Manama refused to follow in the footsteps of the UAE and insisted that it would only normalise ties with Israel when regional power-house, Saudi Arabia, strikes a deal with Tel Aviv.

On 13 August, US President Donald Trump announced a peace deal between the UAE and Israel brokered by Washington.

Abu Dhabi said the deal was an effort to stave off Tel Aviv’s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank, however, opponents believe normalisation efforts have been in the offing for many years as Israeli officials have made official visits to the UAE and attended conferences in the country which had no diplomatic or other ties with the occupation state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu however denied this saying annexation is not off the table, but has simply been delayed.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200903-kushner-discusses-palestinian-negotiations-with-saudi-crown-prince/

Operation Legend: Update on Federal Charges

On July 8, 2020, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The initiative is named in honor of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City.

Launched first in Kansas City, MO., on July 8, 2020, the operation was expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque on July 22, 2020, to Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee on July 29, 2020, to St. Louis and Memphis on August 6, 2020, and to Indianapolis on August 14, 2020.

Since the operation’s launch, through Monday, August 31, 2020, more than 2000 arrests – included 147 for homicide – have been made; more than 544 firearms have been seized; and more than seven kilos of fentanyl, 14 kilos of heroin, 12 kilos of cocaine, and 50 kilos of methamphetamine have been seized.

Of those individuals arrested, 476 have been charged with federal offenses. 249 of those defendants have been charged with firearms offenses, while 185 have been charged with drug-related crimes. The remaining defendants have been charged with various offenses. The breakdown of federal charges is below.

Kansas City, MO.

99 defendants have been charged with federal crimes outlined below.

28 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

60 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

11 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Chicago, Ill.

103 defendants have been charged with federal crimes outlined below.

27 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

72 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

4 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Albuquerque, NM.

35 defendants have been charged with federal crimes outlined below.

15 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

14 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

6 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Cleveland, OH.

54 defendants have been charged with federal crimes outlined below.

39 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

13 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

2 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Detroit, MI.

41 defendants have been charged with federal offenses outlined below.

17 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

21 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

3 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Milwaukee, WI.

15 defendants have been charged with federal crimes outlined below.

2 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

12 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

1 defendant has been charged with other violent crimes.

St. Louis, MO.

89 defendants have been charged with federal crimes.

44 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

37 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

8 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Memphis, Tenn.

14 defendants have been charged with federal offenses.

3 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

8 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

3 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

Indianapolis, Indiana

26 defendants have been charged with federal crimes outlined below.

10 defendants have been charged with narcotics-related offenses;

12 defendants have been charged with firearms-related offenses; and

4 defendants have been charged with other violent crimes.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/operation-legend-update-federal-charges

CDC’s ‘Six Percent’? IT’S EVEN LESS — CDC COVERS UP Number of COVID-19 Deaths Caused by Improper Use of Ventilators

One could say the CDC has taken over as America’s newest and biggest landlord to help distract from its refusal to release TRUE numbers of how many people in America — who only had COVID-19 and no comorbidities — were killed by improper use of ventilators. If you were cynical, like the Thomas Paine Podcast.

“That six percent the crooked CDC just admitted of sick folks who died from COVID-19 only — it’s even less than that when you break it down and it’s shocking,” said Paine. So why not release the real numbers?

https://truepundit.com/cdcs-six-percent-its-even-less-cdc-covers-up-number-of-covid-19-deaths-caused-by-improper-use-of-ventilators/

How to Save a Dying Republic Part 1: Choosing What Reality You Live In

In my last article, I discussed the new Post-COVID task force which is being spearheaded by Canada’s New Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her fellow Oxford technocrat Mark Carney in preparation for the upcoming COP26 Summit in the UK where it is hoped a Green New Deal may be unveiled as part of a Great Global Reset. In that location, it was made clear that Green Bonds play an important role in the financing of green energy grids which some technocrats hope will straddle the globe in order to reduce Carbon dioxide output to pre-industrial levels in an effort to reduce global climate by 1.5 degrees by 2050.

Echoing this agenda, creepy population control guru once known for his software-stealing savvy named Bill Gates stated on August 4 that “Some governments and private investors are committing the funding and the policies that will help us get to zero emissions, but we need even more to join in. And we need to act with the same sense of urgency that we have for COVID-19.”

The Devil in the Details

The problem with this reset isn’t that the orchestrators of this pending reform desire a new system of value beyond the “monetarist/anything goes” standards of free markets which have dominated our world under decades of globalization. We obviously need that since worshiping money on the unregulated markets just created a massive volatile bubble underlying a $1.5 quadrillion financial weapon of mass destruction called derivatives waiting to blow up.

The problem isn’t found in moving the nexus of economic regulation and planning back to governments which the Green New Dealers wish to guide the new world economic order. We obviously need that too, and the fact that the greatest rises in wealth and living standards historically occurred during periods when this sort of dirigiste approach was active should not be lost on anyone. If you have any doubts of this claim, then I refer you to Martin Sieff’s excellent analysis of Bismarck and the Failure of the UK’s NIS.

The problem is that the standards of value which proponents of the New Green New Deal believe we must re-allign our behavior to, have the peculiar characteristic of undoing human activity entirely under the guise of “monetizing the rate of reduction” of humanity’s carbon footprints.

This may seem paradoxical at first, but I ensure you this is exactly what is being sold to the credulous masses desperately seeking something new, stable and moral to guide our society out of the oncoming storms set to befall us. In order to get a visceral image of the tragedy: imagine a sick patient being convinced by a quack doctor that they need only endeavor to a little more bloodletting in order to be healed of their ills. Or imagine that an obese patient is told that their path to health is to be found not in proper eating and exercise but rather in contracting their belt size incrementally from a 48 inches to an 8 inch waist size.

This is what a world covered in windmills, solar panels, biofuels, green financing, and decarbonization will offer us.

https://theduran.com/how-to-save-a-dying-republic-part-1-choosing-what-reality-you-live-in/

German politician questions credibility of accusations hurled at Russia over Navalny case

The German government said on Wednesday, citing the results of a toxicological analysis carried out by Bundeswehr experts, that Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent

BERLIN, September 3./TASS/. European Parliament member from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Maximilian Krah expressed doubts on Thursday about the credibility of accusations hurled at Russia over the alleged poisoning of Russian blogger Alexei Navalny.

"As for the credibility of the accusations against the Kremlin, one can at least doubt this," the DPA news agency quoted him as saying on Thursday. His fellow party member Paul Hampel, an expert on foreign policy from the AfD faction in the Bundestag, expressed the opinion that "Navalny had enemies outside the Kremlin as well." "The German government should be advised to act constructively and farsightedly," he said.

AfD co-chair Tino Chrupalla, for his part, cautioned the German government against questioning the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project and consequently "the energy security of Germany" in light of the situation around Navalny’s alleged poisoning with an assumed Novichok nerve agent. At the same time, "there is no doubt that the poisoning of Navalny must be clarified," he stressed.

The German government said on Wednesday, citing the results of a toxicological analysis carried out by Bundeswehr experts, that Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

When commenting on that statement, Kremlin Spokesman DmitryPeskov said that Moscow was ready to fully cooperate with Germany in order to establish all circumstances surrounding the Navalny case. Before the blogger was flown to Germany, medical tests had detected no traces of any toxic substances in his body, Peskov added. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in turn, said that the German Foreign Ministry had failed to provide any evidence of poisoning to the Russian ambassador.

On August 20, a plane carrying Navalny made an emergency landing in the Russian city of Omsk after the blogger had suddenly felt ill in mid-flight. Navalny was taken to the hospital in a coma and was hooked up to a ventilator. On August 22, he was flown to Germany for treatment at Berlin’s Charite hospital.

https://tass.com/world/1197097

Biden picks up endorsements from nearly 100 Republicans

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (D) was endorsed Thursday by a group representing almost 100 former Republican lawmakers and officials who have joined an effort to defeat President Trump in November.

The new group, Republicans & Independents for Biden, is led by former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R) and said that its "sole mission is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden the next President of the United States."

“More than 180,000 Americans are dead from a pandemic that, with consistent leadership, could have been contained. Instead, it has been left to spin out of control by a President who ignored it, refused to lead, and endangered American lives,” Whitman said in a statement. “In this moment of great national crisis, we need to elect a leader matched to the moment, someone who can restore competence to the oval office and unify the country. Joe Biden is that leader.”

The Republican group, which was first reported by Reuters, also includes a handful of former governors including former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld (R), who launched a bid for the GOP nomination earlier this year and previously served as the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nominee in 2016.

"Joe Biden is a man of deep faith and commitment to family, decency and integrity, which will serve us all well when he is in the White House," Snyder said. “We must elect Joe Biden in November so that we can begin the arduous but essential process of healing America and putting society back on a positive path where civility and working together help us achieve great things as a nation once again.”

Others such as former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), who endorsed Biden in a CNN op-ed last month, were also on the list of officials signed on to the effort. In a news release, the group says it plans to target GOP-leaning and independent voters in battleground states where the president is within single digits of the former vice president in many cases.

A Monmouth University poll released Wednesday found the two candidates virtually tied in Pennsylvania, one of Trump's key pickups over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514919-biden-picking-up-endorsements-from-nearly-100-republicans

TikTok Sale Talks Stalled Over Who Gets Control Of The App's Algorithm

The clock is ticking as the search for TikTok’s U.S. buyer as the deal’s Sept. 15 deadline gets closer and closer. It seemed like a deal might have gained serious momentum when Walmart and Microsoft teamed up to pursue the massively popular video app, but a new wrinkle in the potential transfer of assets has left negotiations at an uncertain stalemate.

On Friday, the Chinese government added algorithms that display personalized content to its list of “export-controlled” items, meaning that they need government approval before being sold off to a foreign company.

That put a big question mark over TikTok’s "For You" feature, a personalization algorithm that can curate new content for users for hours on end and arguably the most valuable part of TikTok as a product.

While it has not been confirmed, it is understood by many that the Chinese government is now liable to block the inclusion of the For You page in any potential deal, effectively giving whatever U.S. company acquires TikTok a shell of a service. The new wrinkle will likely result in a significant delay in the sale with less than two weeks left. At that point, without a U.S. buyer, TikTok will be banned in the U.S., per an executive order from President Donald Trump.

According to some reports, one of the solutions being considered by the various suitors for TikTok is a sort of transitional period of three years, at which point the eventual buyer will reconvene with the Chinese government on the matter. Another idea on the table is for the algorithm to be licensed from TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, instead of buying it, but this path would leave the national security issues at the heart of the matter unresolved.

https://www.ibtimes.com/tiktok-sale-talks-stalled-over-who-gets-control-apps-algorithm-3039810

San Francisco Officials Make Huge Salaries but Can’t Keep Human Waste, Drug Needles Off the Streets

San Francisco’s London Breed is America’s highest paid mayor — being paid a $342,974 salary, plus $109,447 in perks, for a grand total of $452,421 — but her city set an all-time record last year with nearly 31,000 reports of human waste on the streets and sidewalks.

Breed is far from the exception among the City by the Bay’s workforce, as nearly 19,000 of her colleagues get total compensation of $150,000 or more annually, according to public records compiled by Open the Books.

Open the Books is a Burr Ridge, Illinois, non-profit government watchdog that has compiled and posted on the Internet compensation data for 64 million public employees in America.

San Francisco is home to Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. City voters have not elected a Republican mayor since the last one, George Christopher, left office in 1964.

Other notables among San Francisco’s highly paid city workforce, according to Open the Books, include:

Former city public works director Mohammed Nuru — the self-proclaimed “Mr. Clean” of city politics — received $380,000 annually before resigning in February following his arrest by the FBI on fraud charges linked to a porta-potty contract. His former department is responsible for removing human feces and used hypodermic needles from city streets and sidewalks.

31 members of Breed’s mayoral staff receive at least $200,000 annually.

Police Chief William Scott was paid $434,613, while four of his assistant chiefs received between $346,528 and $445,539 annually (one gets more than Scott due to greater seniority).

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto received $357,570. (San Francisco is both a city and a county and thus has police and sheriffs’ departments.)

Homeless Services & Supportive Housing Director Jeff Kosinsky is paid $238,182 annually.

Those figures come at a time when San Francisco’s city government has a $1.5 billion deficit. Even so, Open the Books President Adam Andrzejewski said Sept. 1 in announcing the data, that the deficit “isn’t stopping 18,759 highly compensated employees from each bringing home pay packages worth $150,000 (or more) annually.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/san-francisco-officials-make-huge-salaries-but-cant-keep-human-waste-drug-needles-off-the-streets_3487185.html

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U.S. Pulls $62 Million in Funding From World Health Organization

Trump admin formalizes exit from health org it accuses of working for China

The Trump administration pulled $62 million in funding from the World Health Organization on Wednesday and is taking further steps to withdraw from the body, which the United States accuses of helping China obfuscate information about the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States is on track to cut its funding and personnel from the agency before July 2021, when President Donald Trump's order earlier this year ending the U.S. relationship with WHO is set to begin, according to senior administration officials working on the matter. The United States will not consider rejoining the organization until it "gets its act together," according to Nerissa Cook, deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.

U.S. officials informed the WHO of the administration's decision Wednesday and reiterated demands that the organization implement a series of widespread reforms to limit China's interference in the body. American diplomats have been pressuring the organization for months over its efforts to help China hide evidence of the coronavirus's origins. The Trump administration maintains the WHO was complicit in Beijing's efforts to promulgate lies about the virus in the early days of its spread. The WHO went along with China's claim that it was the first country to publicly report the virus. U.S. pressure on the WHO has irritated China and European powers that continue to maintain the organization is an effective oversight body.

"The position of the White House is that the WHO needs to reform, and that is starting with demonstrating its independence from the Chinese Communist Party," Cook said. "And it needs to make improvements in its ability to prepare for, to prevent, to detect, and to respond to outbreaks of dangerous pathogens."

The United States paid around 22 percent of the WHO's regular budget, more than $100 million a year. In 2020, the United States sent more than $120 million to the organization, $58 million of which had been disbursed prior to Trump's decision to freeze funding to the organization in April. The remaining money "will be reprogrammed to the U.N." for other programs and organizations the United States still supports, according to Cook.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-pulls-62-million-in-funding-from-world-health-organization/

NYC Mayor de Blasio responds to Trump defunding threat: 'We will see you in court'

'We are faced with new attacks that are unlawful, unconstitutional,' four mayors say

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told President Trump "we will see you in court" on Thursday after the president threatened the federal funding for Seattle, Portland, New York City and Washington, D.C. as part of an effort to target “anarchist jurisdictions” that he claims have “permitted violence and the destruction of property” during recent protests.

"I want to speak directly to the president," de Blasio said during a press conference Thursday morning. "If you persist in trying to deny the funding that's keeping New York City going in the middle of this crisis, we will see you in court and once again we will beat you in court.

"Your words don't carry much weight on this topic because the Supreme Court has spoken," de Blasio said. "The president of the United States can't interfere with funding for cities and states just because he feels like it."

In addition to de Blasio's remarks, the Democratic mayors of the four cities issued a statement on Thursday.

"Our cities, and the millions of Americans who we represent, are not President Trump’s political pawns," they said in a statement. "We are confronting unprecedented challenges—fighting back a pandemic and economic devastation without another stimulus. Now, instead of leadership from the White House, we are faced with new attacks that are unlawful, unconstitutional and will be undoubtedly defeated in court.

"President Trump needs to wake up to the reality facing our cities — and our entire country — and realize he is not above the law," the statement continued.

In a memo to the attorney general and the White House budget director, the president called for a review of all federal funds provided to the four cities, saying, “it is imperative that the federal government review the use of federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction in America's cities.”

All four cities have experienced varying amounts of violence and destruction of property amid the summer-long protests against police brutality, systemic racism and Trump himself.

“My administration will not allow federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones,” Trump wrote in the memo.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-de-blasio-new-york-city-federal-funding-anarchism

Kamala Harris Ditched Tough Sex Offender Law

Then-AG Harris halted enforcement that barred sex offenders from living near parks, schools

Kamala Harris stopped enforcing a widely supported sex offender law during her tenure as California's attorney general, allowing sex predators to live near children.

In a confidential legal opinion, Harris ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2015 to stop enforcing residency restrictions that prohibited sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of parks and schools. In doing so, Harris upended a key provision of Jessica's Law, an anti-sex offender law that 70 percent of California voters approved in a 2006 statewide referendum.

Harris lifted the residency restriction for sex offenders after a 2015 state supreme court ruling that relaxed the restriction in San Diego due to the area's high population density. While the ruling applied only to San Diego parolees, Harris stopped enforcing the residency restriction throughout the Golden State, ignoring claims by criminal justice advocates that the residency restrictions could still be enforced in the vast majority of counties. George Runner, one of the sponsors for the ballot initiative for Jessica's Law, said that Harris's decision jeopardized the safety of California kids.

"The head law enforcement officer in California was more concerned about protecting the rights of sex offenders than she was of parents and children," Runner, a former state senator, said.

Harris's leniency toward sex offenders stands in contrast to her reputation as a tough prosecutor who cracked down on criminals, especially sexual offenders. The vice presidential candidate touted on the campaign trail that she pushed to shut down popular website Backpage.com for facilitating sex trafficking—a claim that is receiving renewed scrutiny after revelations that the website actually served as an invaluable tool for law enforcement to catch predators. Harris also defended Jessica's Law when she was running for election as California's attorney general in 2010, smearing her Republican opponent as a "sexist coddler of child molesters" for making dismissive comments about the law.

Neither the Biden campaign nor Harris's office responded to requests for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/kamala-harris-ditched-tough-sex-offender-law/

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Secret Service Inadvertently Confirms Gateway Pundit Story About Biden Sexually Assaulting Agent’s Girlfriend

In 2017, the Gateway Pundit exclusively reported that a Secret Service agent was suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving then-Vice President Joe Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him.

The situation got so heated, a source who was a Secret Service agent at the time told TGP, that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the agent asserted that, “We had to cancel the VP Christmas get together at the Vice President’s house because Biden would grope all of our wives and girlfriend’s asses.” The annual party was for agents and Navy personnel who were tasked with protecting the Biden family.

The Secret Service has now inadvertently confirmed our report to Judicial Watch, who have filed a lawsuit after the Secret Service failed to respond to a July 14, 2020 administrative appeal challenging its claim that all files related to the 2009 altercation, “ha[d] been destroyed,” due to “retention standards.”

Judicial Watch’s FOIA request, made on May 12, 2020, sought:

All records related to a reported incident in 2009 in which a United States Secret Service Agent reportedly was involved in an altercation with, or attempted to strike, then Vice President Joe Biden” during a photo opportunity.

The records sought shall include, but not be limited to, witness statements, the Agent’s statement, victim’s statement, alleged perpetrator’s statement, incident reports, investigative reports, communications among USSS personnel regarding the incident, and disciplinary records related to the incident for the Agent in question.

In a July 13, 2020 response to Judicial Watch’s request, the Secret Service appeared to confirm that a file on the alleged incident existed at some point, asserting, “[T]here are no responsive records or documents pertaining to your request in our files,” because “the above mentioned file(s) has been destroyed” due to “retention standards.” The Secret Service added that, “[n]o additional information is available.” It did not deny the incident had occurred. In its lawsuit, Judicial Watch intends to test the Secret Service’s assertion that it destroyed all records about the incident.

“We had not been able to confirm whether the report about the alleged altercation might be true until the Secret Service itself suggested it destroyed records about the incident,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/secret-service-inadvertently-confirms-gateway-pundit-story-biden-sexually-assaulting-agents-girlfriend/

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Judicial Watch Files Suit after Secret Service Admits to Destroying Records Related to Alleged Biden Altercation with Secret Service Agent

Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for records that the Secret Service claims to have destroyed related to a reported physical altercation between a Secret Service Agent and Joe Biden at a photo op in 2009 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:20-cv-02457)).

The lawsuit was filed after the Secret Service failed to respond to a July 14, 2020 administrative appeal challenging its claim that all files related to the 2009 altercation, “ha[d] been destroyed,” due to “retention standards.”

On March 29, 2020, the Gateway Pundit republished a 2017 report alleging that an unidentified Secret Service agent was suspended for a week in 2009 for “shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him.” “The situation got so heated … that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President,” according to the report.

Judicial Watch’s FOIA request, made on May 12, 2020, sought:

All records related to a reported incident in 2009 in which a United States Secret Service Agent reportedly was involved in an altercation with, or attempted to strike, then Vice President Joe Biden” during a photo opportunity.

The records sought shall include, but not be limited to, witness statements, the Agent’s statement, victim’s statement, alleged perpetrator’s statement, incident reports, investigative reports, communications among USSS personnel regarding the incident, and disciplinary records related to the incident for the Agent in question.

In a July 13, 2020 response to Judicial Watch’s request, the Secret Service appeared to confirm that a file on the alleged incident existed at some point, asserting, “[T]here are no responsive records or documents pertaining to your request in our files,” because “the above mentioned file(s) has been destroyed” due to “retention standards.” The Secret Service added that, “[n]o additional information is available.” It did not deny the incident had occurred. In its lawsuit, Judicial Watch intends to test the Secret Service’s assertion that it destroyed all records about the incident.

“We had not been able to confirm whether the report about the alleged altercation might be true until the Secret Service itself suggested it destroyed records about the incident,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/destroyed-biden-records/

US Divorce Rates, Depression Soar Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

It’s not just the loss of jobs, the end of school for children or the nonstop panic the mainstream is stirring up in an effort to knock out President Trump.

The COVID-19 panic is having even more profound effects on the American society.

“The number of people looking for divorces was 34 percent higher from March through June compared to 2019, according to new data collected Legal Templates, a company that provides legal documents,” Fox News reported.

The combination of stress, unemployment, financial strain, death of loved ones, illness, homeschooling children, mental illnesses, and more has put a significant strain on relationships. The data showed that 31 percent of the couples admitted lockdown has caused irreparable damage to their relationships. Interest in separation during quarantine peaked on April 13 — just about 15-20 days into when the vast majority of states began lockdowns.

“This uptick could coincide with what health and human services professionals refer to as the ‘disillusionment phase’ of the Phases of Disaster– the time when optimism turns to discouragement, stress heightens, and negative reactions often occur,” the group wrote.

The stress also affected couples who have not been married long. “In fact, 20 percent of couples who sought divorce who were married within the past five months or less, compared to the just 11 percent in 2019 – doubling the rate,” Fox wrote.

Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic is now hitting most American across the country. Locked down since March — prisoners in their own homes — mental health is now a serious concern.

“The prevalence of sleep troubles, lethargy, feelings of hopelessness and other depression symptoms in adults across the country has more than tripled since the pandemic began, according to a new study,” Yahoo reports. “In the weeks after the outbreak prompted quarantines and stay-at-home orders, 27.8% of those surveyed had at least one symptom of depression. That compares to just 8.5% of people in 2017 and 2018.”

“These findings serve to alert our attention to yet another impending public health crisis as a result of this pandemic — the increase in cases of major depression,” Dr. Ruth Shim, an expert on cultural psychology at UC Davis, wrote in a commentary that accompanies the report.

Across the board, symptoms of depression were more common in the COVID-19 era than in 2017 and 2018. For instance:

• The percentage of men who reported at least one such symptom rose from 6.9% to 21.9%, and for women it increased from 10.1% to 33.3%.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/us-divorce-rates-depression-soar-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

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