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So the clowns have the dough again WTF?
Michelle Obama Releases Video, Says It’s “Morally Wrong” and “Racist” to Say Black Lives Matter Riots are Violent
Black Lives Matter-Antifa mobs have caused over one billion dollars in damages in cities across America since May. In Minneapolis alone Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings.
Despite these facts Michelle Obama cut a video on Tuesday where she insists the BLM riots were peaceful. She then says it’s “morally wrong” and “racist” to say the BLM riots were violent.
Michelle Obama just disqualified herself from any future serious conversations.
Michelle Obama: Whipping violence and intimidation? And they’re pinning it all on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity. It’s true! Research backs it up only a tiny fraction of demonstrations that had any violence at all. So what the president is doing is once again patently false. It’s morally wrong and, yes, it is racist! But that doesn’t mean it won’t work… When people hear these lies and crazy conspiracies repeated over and over and over again they don’t know what to think… And one thing this president is really, really good at is spreading confusion and lies to win.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/michelle-obama-releases-video-says-morally-wrong-racist-say-black-lives-matter-riots-violent-video/
Criminal Trial in Sicily: How George Soros is Attempting to Lock up Populist Leader Matteo Salvini for Protecting Italy’s Borders
Last Saturday, Oct. 3, former Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini went on trial in Catania, Siclily, for alleged “kidnapping“ even though the prosecutor calls the case “baseless.“
Gateway Pundit reveals how leftist NGOs backed by George Soros and the EU are trying to lock up the head of Italy’s leading opposition party.
In July 2019, the Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini refused to let 116 illegal migrants ashore off the coast guard ship “Bruno Gregoretti” in Catania until other European countries agreed to take in the illegal aliens (Italian: “Clandestini”).
For this crime, Matteo Salvini went on trial Saturday for “kidnapping”, which could earn him a sentence of 15 years in prison, even though Salvini technically enjoyed immunity from prosecution as a parliamentarian.
This July, his political enemies voted to suspend his legal immunity – a dangerous precedent for any politician in a position of power.
As Il Giornale reported, the prosecutor in Catania believes the case is “baseless”. Sending a Minister of the Interior to prison for protecting his country’s borders would certainly be unprecedented in legal history.
Salvini voiced confidence Saturday, and was supported by his political rivals Giorgia Meloni (Fratelli d’Italia) and Antonio Tajani (Forza Italia) in Catania. A majority of Italians supports Salvini’s law and order stance on illegal migration, reports Lorenzo Pregliasco on YouTrend .
What few people know however, is that the case against Salvini is not being pressed by the Sicilian DA or the “kidnapped” migrants, but by left-wing NGOs funded by the EU and George Soros Open Society Foundations, as Il Giornale reports.
The only plaintiffs to support the case out of the 116 illegal migrants is the Nigerian couple Jafra and Aishat Saha, who had to wait 20 hours in Catania harbor to go ashore in Europe while pregnant.
The case is actually being filed by NGOs which belong to the leftist Italian “community organizers” ARCI, Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana, which operates youth, culture and community centers in all of Italy, as well as its allies in the environmental NGO Legambiente. Both organizations are closely tied to the ruling leftist PD party. Legambiente president Gianfranco Zanna was a member of the Communist Youth PCI. “The only plaintiffs in this case are civil society organizations”, boasted Legambiente attorney Daniela Ciancimino.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/criminal-trial-sicily-george-soros-attempting-lock-matteo-salvini-protecting-italys-borders/
PROOF that Tech Giants Facebook, Twitter and Google Are Using Chinese-Marxist Style Social Media Censorship on US Conservatives
In 2018 Google helped the Chinese Communists develop a social credit scoring system. The scoring system, first announced in 2014, rates China’s one billion citizens based on their behavior and associations.
Already, nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights and trains.
As horrible as this sounds the Silicon Valley tech giants are using a similar system here in the United States.
It is clear these tech giants are colluding to target certain prominent conservatives.
And Facebook is using offline behavior to factor into their scoring system.
In 2019 Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari revealed that Facebook is using a similar social credit scoring system on Americans.
This is no surprise to those who have noticed the growing intolerance by big tech to conservative thought leaders and publishers.
Breitbart.com reported:
Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to determine if they should be categorized as a “Hate Agent,” according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant.
The document, titled “Hate Agent Policy Review” outlines a series of “signals” that Facebook uses to determine if someone ought to be categorized as a “hate agent” and banned from the platform.
Those signals include a wide range of on- and off-platform behavior. If you praise the wrong individual, interview them, or appear at events alongside them, Facebook may categorize you as a “hate agent.”
Facebook bowed to CNN’s request.
Of course, Facebook took down the information despite its accuracy.
The coronavirus is less lethal for people under 50 than the flu.
The report was on a California man who found ballots from 2018 in a trash dump. The county posted a tweet explaining they were from 2018. We updated our report to reflect this.
But you are not allowed to report on dumped ballots today.
The tech giants will not allow it.
You are not allowed to question any suspicious activity.
This is China Marxism at work in America.
In less than 6 years the tech giants have destroyed freedom of speech in America.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. are the enemy of the people.
They are the enemy to truth and freedom.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/proof-tech-giants-facebook-twitter-google-using-chinese-marxist-style-social-media-censorship-us-conservatives/
Harvard CNN Analyst Claims "Russian Agents" Were Inside Walter Reed Hospital With Trump
A Harvard professor has claimed, without providing a single shred of evidence, that Russian intelligence agents were able to gain access to Walter Reed hospital where President Trump recovered from coronavirus over the weekend.
Juliette Kayyem, who is also a regular CNN analyst, declared that it is “very likely” that Russian spies were there to gather information about Trump’s condition.
Kayyem, a senior lecturer in international security at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, tweeted out the bizarre proclamation along with “#doctorslietoo”.
It is very likely that Russian intelligence agencies through signal and human intel sources at Walter Reed, etc have more information about the President's condition than we do (though I think we all know how the president is doing.) #doctorslietoo
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) October 3, 2020
Kayyem followed up with a double down tweet, asking “What part of this don’t you believe?” as if it was a perfectly rational claim to make.
Yep.
What part of this don’t you believe: that Trump team is lax on security and vulnerable or that Russia isn’t interested in Trumps health leading to election they are interfering in.
Keep doing what you are doing. It’s working so well for America and the hospitalized Trump. https://t.co/MFaG9tVyr1
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) October 3, 2020
Other Twitter users responded to the batshit insanity:
I find calling the doctors at Walter Reed Russian intelligence assets pretty freaking insane, but that's just me I guess.
— Daniel R Burch (@BocephusCoe) October 4, 2020
Hi, since questioning science is ok again, do doctors lie about the virus and its dangers, or only info that benefits Republicans? Oh and #FactsFirst lol
— Razor (@hale_razor) October 3, 2020
Imagine how shocked I was when I saw "CNN" in your profile. I would never in a million years have imagined it.
— Gerry (@GerryDales) October 3, 2020
😂😂😂Juliette you should be writing for comedy.
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) October 4, 2020
Kayyem’s assertions on Twitter are one thing, but her sometime employer CNN has been running programming claiming that Trump’s doctors and staff are all lying and “hiding” the severity of his condition:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-cnn-analyst-claims-russian-agents-were-inside-walter-reed-hospital-trump
Goldman Sets The Stage For Climate Change Taxes Under A Biden Administration
Having already goalseeked a narrative how a Democratic sweep would be great news for markets (which, as we reported yesterday, consists of as much as $7 trillion in fiscal stimulus offsetting the net income losses from Biden's proposed corporate tax rate hike from 21% to 28%), Goldman is now moving on to the really important stuff: how much the holy crusade against climate change under the Biden administration will cost.
Now that it is conventional wisdom on Wall Street that Biden will defeat Trump (similarly to how it was a virtual certainty that Hillary would defeat Trump in 2016), big bank strategists are moving on to the key policies of a Biden presidency, where few are more important (or expensive) than Biden's targets to tackle climate change.
Here, a quick aside: while it has long been a favorite trope of Democrats to attack Republicans for destroying the earth with their evil emissions, the reality is that US CO2 emissions are near the lowest levels of the 20th century, and have been declining every year since the mid-2000s. The real culprit, as shown in light blue in the chart below, is China, whose emissions are more than double those of the US, and greater than the US and Europe combined. Which is truly hilarious, because recently President Xi Jinping announced that China is targeting carbon neutrality by 2060. We ask anyone to explain to us how China's soaring CO2 emissions will magically collapse by over 10 million KT/year from the current record level to 0 in just 40 years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-sets-stage-climate-change-taxes-under-biden-administration
No long-distance travel till 2022 for Australians – and that’s IF POPULATION-WIDE vaccine is rolled out next year, budget predicts
Australians weary of restrictions are out of luck, as the country’s new budget predicts social distancing will continue for two years and long-distance travel is to remain off-limits until everyone is able to get a Covid-19 jab.
Widespread adoption of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus will be a prerequisite for Australians being able to travel long distances again, according to the country’s new budget that was unveiled on Tuesday. Until that vaccine is rolled out, they can expect social distancing, intermittent lockdowns and a stagnant economy.
“It is assumed that over the forecast period material localised outbreaks of COVID19 occur but are largely contained. A populationwide Australian COVID19 vaccination program is assumed to be fully in place by late 2021. General social distancing restrictions are assumed to continue until a vaccine is fully available,” reads the part of the document titled “Key assumptions.”
The budget papers’ attempt to put a positive spin on travel-loving Australians being confined to the continent is to pour $250 million into encouraging anyone feeling wanderlust to explore “their own backyard” – i.e. the rest of Australia. State borders are expected to be open by Christmas, except for Western Australia, which is projected to remain closed until its election in March.
PM Scott Morrison hinted that while long-distance international travel will remain off-limits for the foreseeable future, “our borders will open up at some point to safe locations whether it be New Zealand or parts of the Pacific or places like South Korea or Japan or countries that have had a much higher rate of success” in containing the virus, speaking to reporters on Tuesday.
Overseas travel of any kind is currently banned until December 17, but there are tentative plans in place to create a “travel bubble” with New Zealand that would allow Aussies to visit the neighboring islands by January or February.
With one in every 13 Australian jobs relying on tourism, the collapse of the industry has hit the nation hard, plunging it into the worst recession since World War II. The budget forecasts a $213.7 billion shortfall – but is nevertheless moving up a pair of tax cuts that were set to take effect in 2022 to July.
Despite optimistic predictions that the vaccine will resurrect the moribund Australian economy, the forecast suggests debt will more than double from last financial year by 2024 – but says this level of red ink is “sustainable” and “low in comparison to most other advanced economies.”
https://www.rt.com/news/502720-australia-no-travel-vaccine-budget/
EVERY FUCKING TIME: Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg
‘Open ports (& wallets) for smugglers & illegal immigrants are back’: Salvini blasts Italian govt for loosening migration rules
Italian nationalist Matteo Salvini has lashed out at his government for rolling back on the harsh migration rules that he’d introduced as interior minister. “We will stop them,” the high-polling politician promised supporters.
A decree, approved by the government late on Monday, drastically reduced the fine applied for aid groups who violate official orders during their marine operations to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean. The penalty, which stood at up to €1 million under Salvini, has been dropped to €50,000.
Asylum seekers who “risk being subjected to torture or inhumane treatment” in their countries won’t face expulsion from Italy anymore under the new regulations. The decree also simplifies the procedure for foreigners to obtain a regular working visa with special residence permits.
Salvini, who served as interior minister between June 2018 and September 2019, posted on Facebook to share his frustration with the move. “Instead of building, they destroy,” he said of PM Giuseppe Conte’s government.
Open ports (and wallets) for smugglers and illegal migrants are back.
“We will stop them… Italy deserves better,” he wrote. Salvini’s anti-establishment Northern League (Lega Nord) currently polls higher than any other party in the country. Research by pollster Index last week showed that 24 percent of Italians were eager to vote for Lega Nord.
https://www.rt.com/news/502715-salvini-italy-migration-rules/
Rabobank: It's Easy To Call For Continued Lockdowns When One Has A Safe Job Working Comfortably From Home
Back to the Roach Motel.
President Trump indeed returned to the White House yesterday, where people seem to be going down with Covid like flies. Luckily he is probably already immune, as he noted. Trump arrived by helicopter in a Leni Riefenstahl video clip and urged Americans for the second time, the first by Tweet not to be afraid of Covid, and not to let it dominate their lives. He had, he said, fought the virus as a leader. He had to do what he done, knowing the risks, involved.
Critics will point out that the man who just fought the virus is not yet out of the woods medically, and was caught puffing after climbing the stairs: true, but have they ever seen what Trump looks like after climbing any set of stairs at any time? The same critics point out Trump just benefitted from experimental, world class healthcare at public expense even as he has nominated a justice to the Supreme Court who may vote to repeal existing conditions protections offered by Obamacare.
However, one has to also consider that 2020 is likely a base election, and Leni Riefenstahl and Trump know how to fire up a base. It is very easy to call for continued lockdowns when one has a safe job paying full salary to work comfortably from home – which includes most Trump critics (and, full disclosure, this writer too). It’s far less attractive an option for a small business owner facing ruin, or for the self-employed, facing ruin, and even for the ‘always one rule for them and another for us’ blue collar voters who have had to keep working through Covid regardless, for example, delivering food to those working from home. Those are all Trump voters.
In short, objective analysis in partisan times would suggest there is going to be a flood of justified criticism of Trump’s actions (again), but likely also a lot of base support. Unless Trump has a health lapse, as his critics warn – but that is where we have been since Friday anyway.
Stocks certainly perked up on the Trump news, and 10-year Treasury yields rose too in a Lazarus effect….although earlier in the day we were told this was because Biden was far ahead in the polls. Or perhaps this was due to hopes for more US stimulus, which Trump has tweeted he very much wants done, and which appears to be edging closer?
On which, we must enter another Roach Motel. Yesterday, the Financial Times published an article from Stephen Roach formerly of Morgan Stanley, and now a senior lecturer at Yale in which he calls for the imminent collapse of the US dollar (which will decline by a third by the end of 2021, apparently) and its loss of global reserve currency status. Such pieces from Roach, always with the same theme, seem to appear once or twice a year now, and always get coverage in the financial press, regardless of the fact that they are nonsense. Two colleagues contacted me last night about the piece, which shows how much consternation it caused: one to double check that Roach’s arguments were indeed as silly as they looked and he wasn’t going mad.
Anyway, Roach is roaching that the USD will collapse because the US is running a vast fiscal deficit, and that will cause a vast current account deficit, and then foreigners won’t want to fund it, and then the USD will plunge, and then something else will emerge to replace it globally. This is what they teach at Yale today, apparently.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-its-easy-call-continued-lockdowns-when-one-has-safe-job-working-comfortably-home
‘He was setting me up’: Project Veritas accused of offering $10,000 for activist to say Ilhan Omar involved in voter fraud scheme
A ballot collector featured heavily in a Project Veritas ‘exposé’ that alleges Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was involved in voter fraud has claimed he was offered $10,000 to say he was illegally ‘harvesting’ ballots for her.
Liban Osman was at the center of the conservative group’s recent investigation claiming that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was linked to a cash-for-ballots scheme in Minnesota.
The 17-minute video released by Project Veritas (PV) last month showed Osman in snapchat videos appearing to admit to the scheme. He told Fox 9 KMSP, however, that the clips were maliciously edited and claims he was offered $10,000 to say he was illegally collecting ballots for the Democrat.
Speaking to Fox 9, Osman alleged that he’d been approached by local community activist Omar Jamal and offered a lump sum of $10,000 on behalf of Project Veritas. In exchange, Osman would have to say he was offering to give people money to vote for the congresswoman.
“I told him it was insane and I walked away,” Osman told the channel. “He was setting me up.”
Osman insists he never paid anyone for votes, never told anyone who to cast their vote for and said he was legally gathering ballots from mostly elderly voters, and delivering them to election officials.
He claims Project Veritas used two of his Snapchat videos out of context and edited them together to appear nefarious. In the first, Osman is heard saying “Money is the king in this world … and a campaign is driven by money,” referencing his brother’s run for city council, and comparing his funds with his opponents’ coffers.
In the second video, Osman can be heard bragging about a large number of absentee ballots he had collected, with some envelopes appearing to have been opened. Ballot collecting was legal over a five-week period in Minnesota this year and Osman claimed some voters, afraid of identity theft, had given him their ballots inside of an extra envelope, according to Fox 9.
In an ironic twist, Omar Jamal, the Minneapolis community activist cited as the “insider” by Project Veritas – and who Osman claims had offered him the alleged bribe – was arrested on immigration fraud charges in 2013, according to the Daily Dot.
The ‘Somali Watchdog Group’ which Jamal heads, according to Project Veritas, was only set up in August 2020, seemingly after PV began filming for their investigation. Jamal also claimed to be part of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department, though the Daily Dot said that department’s phone line operator could not confirm if he was an employee there.
Project Veritas’ attorney responded to Osman’s claims, calling them a “baseless accusation” and insisting they have never offered him any money.
https://www.rt.com/usa/502716-project-veritas-accused-of-offering/
In Blow To Democrats, Supreme Court Reinstates South Carolina Witness Rule For Absentee Ballots
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a GOP-backed law in South Carolina which required a witness sign each absentee ballot, blocking a federal judge's order which had lifted the signature requirement due to the pandemic.
Without any dissent, the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts should defer to pandemic-related decisions made by state elections officials, according to Bloomberg.
"A state legislature’s decision either to keep or to make changes to election rules to address Covid–19 ordinarily should not be subject to second-guessing by an unelected federal judiciary," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The Supreme Court order is a blow to Democrats in a state where they are trying to unseat a high-profile senator – Republican Lindsey Graham. Polls show Democrat Jaime Harrison in a close race with Graham in the Republican-leaning state.
The Supreme Court said its order and the witness requirement wouldn’t apply to ballots that have already been cast and arrive within two days. Officials have already received more than 8,000 ballots. -Bloomberg.
And while the order won't apply to ballots which have already been cast, conservative justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch said they would have applied the witness requirement even to those which had been.
According to angry Democrats, the Supreme Court intervention could inject confusion so close to election day - potentially disenfranchising thousands of voters in a state which is letting every voter request a mail-in-ballot for the first time. Over 150,000 ballots have already been sent out.
"Any voter who, to date, has returned their absentee ballot without a witness signature has done so lawfully," wrote the South Carolina Democratic Party and its allies in court papers, adding that voters would "face certain disenfranchisement through no fault of their own."
The state has had a witness requirement for absentee ballots since 1953, which was suspended for the June primary.
Republicans, meanwhile, told the Supreme Court that Democrats are trying to enact a last-minute rule change to usurp the power of the state's elected leaders, adding that the state legislature made a conscious decision to leave the witness rule intact.
"Courts are not equipped to second guess the health and safety determinations of South Carolina’s elected representatives, including the determination that the witness requirement can be satisfied safely," argued a group which includes the South Carolina Republican Party.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blow-democrats-supreme-court-reinstates-south-carolina-witness-rule-absentee-ballots
Church of England forgave pedophiles en masse, allowed them to continue working with children, inquiry finds
A shocking new inquiry has found that, not only did the Church of England forgive some 400 pedophiles, but it allowed them to continue working with children.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found that between 1940 and 2018, some 390 people employed by the church, as clergymen or in trusted positions, were convicted of child sex abuse.
They were ‘forgiven’ for their crimes by the church and allowed to continue their duties, often in close proximity to children, the IICSA found.
“The culture of the Church of England facilitated it becoming a place where abusers could hide,” the report reads.
The inquiry found the church repeatedly failed to respond in a consistent manner to victims and survivors of abuse, compounding their trauma over a period of decades.
In 2018 alone, there were some 2,504 concerns raised about possible abuse of children or vulnerable adults, including 449 allegations of recent sexual abuse.
“Over many decades, the Church of England failed to protect children and young people from sexual abusers, instead facilitating a culture where perpetrators could hide and victims faced barriers to disclosure that many could not overcome,” chair of the inquiry, professor Alexis Jay said.
The IICSA lambasted the church for regarding forgiveness “as the appropriate response to any admission of wrongdoing.”
One such case highlighted is that of Timothy Storey, a man who was permitted to continue working with children after apologising “for everything he had done wrong.” Storey is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for multiple offences against young girls, including rape.
https://www.rt.com/uk/502690-church-of-england-pedophiles-inquiry/
FDA Outlines Requirements For "Emergency Use Authorization" Of COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Reports Of WH Interference
Last night, both the NYT, Associated Press and Politico published "scoops" detailing an alleged effort from within the West Wing to improperly shape the FDA's protocols and policies surrounding granting emergency-use authorization (EUA) to COVID-19 vaccines, with the goal of eliminating a provision that would effectively preclude a vaccine before election day.
Politico's report claimed that the White House was interfering at the behest of the big drug makers hoping for more lax restrictions.
Since they were published during President Trump's return to the White House, the reports didn't get much oxygen on cable news. But on Tuesday morning, the FDA surprised observes by releasing the new guidance.
Also, Bloomberg reported last night that the FDA had communicated its new standards directly to the drug makers, eliminating the need to release the new guidance, which was still under White House review.
A spokesman for the FDA told the press that the agency has already reviewed the requirements with individual manufacturers, and any interference with the guidance is really more of a PR issue.
"This does not change how the FDA would evaluate an emergency use authorization request for a Covid-19 vaccine," said Michael Felberbaum, an agency spokesman. "The FDA has already communicated with individual manufacturers about its expectations, data the agency intends to consider, and what we expect to see in a request for an emergency use authorization to demonstrate safety and efficacy."
But as the public backlash intensified, the FDA decided to release a document on its website Tuesday morning making clear that the requirement for two months' of safety data would remain, as would a requirement for an independent panel of experts to weigh in on each candidate before a final decision can be made.
Here's more from Bloomberg:
The document is the agency’s most detailed public statement yet on what it will take to get a vaccine cleared under a fast-track emergency use authorization, or EUA. The agency has been working on a separate "guidance” document that details the requirements, but it remains under review by the White House and it’s not clear when or if it will be released.
While the exact contents of that guidance document haven’t been released, the FDA has said that it’s already communicated the requirements to drugmakers. Publishing those requirements in the document released Tuesday essentially makes them public, even if the official document is lodged at the White House. It also makes clear that the FDA will add an extra step to the review.
In Tuesday’s document, the FDA said it will require an additional, follow-up meeting of its Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee to look at specific applications by drugmakers. "This discussion will be specific to the particular vaccine that is the subject of the EUA request and will be separate from, and in addition to, any general discussion by the VRBPAC regarding the development, authorization and/or licensure of vaccines to prevent Covid-19,” the FDA said in the document.
Then again, whether the agency requires 8 weeks or 6 weeks of safety data may not make much of a difference. Vaccine approval is a tedious process that typically takes years. The speedy approval process virtually guarantees there will be no study of long term ramifications and side effects.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fda-outlines-requirements-emergency-use-authorization-covid-19-vaccine-amid-reports-wh
Watch Fed Chair Powell Ask Congress For More Fiscal Stimulus
Fed chair Powell is holding a virtual conference with National Association for Business Economics. As previewed earlier, there were no notable surprises in his prepared remarks in which he emphasizes that the outlook remains highly uncertain, the expansion is far from complete, and in keeping with the Fed's recent appeals to Congress, Powell asks Congress to quickly vote through more fiscal stimulus, assuring lawmakers that providing too much stimulus wouldn’t be a problem.
Powell’s remarks come amid continued gridlock in Congress and Republican opposition to a larger relief package that’s kept talks with Democrats at a stalemate in Congress since aid to jobless Americans and small businesses expired in July and August.
“Too little support would lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship for households and businesses,” Powell said in the text of a speech for a virtual conference hosted by the National Association for Business Economics. “By contrast, the risks of overdoing it seem, for now, to be smaller. Even if policy actions ultimately prove to be greater than needed, they will not go to waste.”
While Powell didn’t explicitly reference either party’s position in his prepared remarks, he said that the "recovery will be stronger and move faster if monetary policy and fiscal policy continue to work side by side to provide support to the economy until it is clearly out of the woods."
Meanwhile, the Fed chair confirmed what we said last week, namely that US consumer are rapidly burning through their savings, something which has so far allowed US consumption to remain stable, however at the current rate of spending, savings would will likely return to pre-covid levels in 2-3 months:
"Consumption held up well through August after the expiration of expanded unemployment insurance benefits, indicating that savings from transfer payments continue to support economic activity,” Powell said. “Still, since it appears that many will undergo extended periods of unemployment, there is likely to be a need for further support."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-fed-chair-powell-ask-congress-more-fiscal-stimulus
Asia ‘best positioned’ for recovery from coronavirus crisis – Goldman Sachs
Fast containment of the Covid-19 outbreak has given Asian countries an advantage over other economies, paving the way for a faster recovery, analysts at Goldman Sachs believe.
“We think Asia’s really the best positioned of the major regions right now, given the good control of the virus in most of the region outside of India and some parts of Southeast Asia,” Andrew Tilton, chief Asia economist at the investment bank, said as cited by CNBC on Monday.
Europe is currently facing a new wave of coronavirus infections, with more and more cities enforcing tougher restrictions, which may hamper their recovery after previous lockdowns. The US is also seeing an increase in average daily cases.
Meanwhile official data from China, one of the main economic drivers of the Asia region, shows the worst impact of coronavirus appears to be over. The country has been reporting only a dozen to two dozen newly confirmed cases every day for the past few weeks, compared to the thousands of daily infections still being reported in the US.
“I think, given the good control of domestic transmission of the virus in China, we are [going to be] seeing services activity come back there as well,” Tilton told CNBC.
That said, consumer spending in the world’s second-largest economy is recovering less quickly than the government had expected. Tourist expenditure in the first half of the “golden week” national holiday plunged by nearly a third from that during the same period in 2019. This could pose a challenge to Beijing’s attempts at boosting domestic spending. Statistics show that, in August, retail sales finally increased by 0.5 percent compared to the previous year, but they were still down over eight percent for the first half of 2020.
https://www.rt.com/business/502657-asia-recovery-goldman-sachs/
W.H.O.: Over 765 Million People Worldwide Contract Coronavirus, More than 20 Times the Estimated Number
A high-ranking official at the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) reportedly declared Monday the agency’s “best estimates” indicate about ten percent of the globe, or over 765 million people, have contracted the Chinese coronavirus. This figure overshadows the number of confirmed infections by over 20 times.
Referring to the worldwide infection rate of one in ten, Dr. Mike Ryan, the head of emergencies at W.H.O., described ten percent as “our best guess” to date based on those who now have antibodies to the deadly and highly contagious COVID-19 (coronavirus disease).
“The disease continues to spread. It is on the rise in many parts of the world,” Ryan declared Monday, several news outlets reported. “Our current best estimates tell us that about ten percent of the global population may have been infected by this virus.”
He cautioned that the globe is in “for a hell of a ride for the next eight or nine months” as it awaits a vaccine, but he warned that a vaccine would “not be a silver bullet, but an additional tool that should be added to a comprehensive strategy to fight this disease.”
There is a global race towards discovering a vaccine involving the United States and many other countries. However, currently, there are no immunizations against any coronaviruses in humans.
Officials reached the ten percent estimate using an average of antibody studies conducted worldwide, Dr. Margaret Harris, a W.H.O. spokeswoman, explained.
Breitbart News gleaned the over 765 million (ten percent from the global population) estimate from the U.S. Census’s constantly changing world population projection, which stood at 7.687 billion as of Tuesday morning.
Sen. Thom Tillis contracted the Chinese coronavirus following last week's Rose Garden event despite wearing a mask at the gathering. https://t.co/PGUeAS4RFF
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 5, 2020
The 7.6 billion infections exceed the number of confirmed cases tallied by the W.H.O. and Johns Hopkins University — standing at over 35.5 million as of Tuesday morning — by over 20.
Health analysts have long noted that the number of confirmed cases is only a snapshot of the real number of infections that include mild cases and asymptomatic that do not require medical attention.
Ryan said his concerns lie with those who have not caught the virus.
“The problem is there is more than six billion left. Therein lies our problem,” Ryan told webinar hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (R.I.A.) entitled Learning from Pandemics: a Century of Experience and attended by governments who make up the executive board and provide much of the WHO’s funding, the Irish Times revealed.
According to Johns Hopkins, COVID-19 has infected over 35.5 million people and killed more than one million others.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/10/06/w-h-o-over-765-million-people-worldwide-contract-coronavirus-more-than-20-times-the-estimated-number/
Cop Arrested for Filming His Soon-to-be 10yo Step Daughter Nude to Make Child Porn
Columbus, OH — Another police officer has been arrested for child porn. While this happens so often that it is depressingly not surprising, this time, it was the cop’s own soon-to-be 10-year-old step daughter who was the victim.
Columbus police officer Raymond Rose, 29, was arrested last week by an officer with the Franklin County Internet Crimes Against Children task force after being accused of filming a young child in a “state of nudity,” according to Franklin County Municipal Court records.
Rose has been charged in Municipal Court with one count each of pandering obscenity involving a minor and illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material. Both of the charges are second degree felonies.
Family members of the reported victim contacted the police department’s Internal Affairs Bureau with the allegations, ABC 6 reports. The IAB then contacted the department’s Special Victims Bureau. Due to the nature of the allegations, the Special Victims Bureau brought in the Franklin County Internet Crimes Against Children unit.
According to police, Rose went into his soon-to-be step daughter’s bedroom and filmed the private areas of a 10-year-old girl on July 20 inside a private residence. When police investigated Rose’s phone, they reportedly found the video on it.
Police say more charges could follow as they search the remainder of his devices and residence.
#BREAKING: @prosronob says the ICAC unit advises him a CPD Officer was arrested today for child pornography. @wsyx6 @fox28columbus
— Mary Eliza Smith (@MarySmithNews) October 1, 2020
The pandering obscenity charge allegedly stems from the accusation that Rose also made the little girl watch pornography on top of making her strip naked so he could film her.
On Saturday, this child predator was arraigned on his charges and his bond was set at $150,000. It is unclear weather or not he posted the bail.
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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-arrested-for-filming-his-soon-to-be-10yo-step-daughter-nude-to-make-child-porn/
Reporters Claim Facebook is Censoring Information on Julian Assange Case
Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and longtime confidant of Julian Assange, has been fastidiously reporting on the Australian publisher’s extradition hearing to the United States. Yet few people have been reading it. This, according to Murray, is because of a deliberate decision by online media giants to downplay or suppress discussion of the case. On his blog, Murray wrote that he usually receives around 50 percent of his readers from Twitter and 40 percent from Facebook links, but that has dropped to 3 percent and 9 percent, respectively during the hearing. While the February hearings sent around 200,000 readers to his site daily, now that figure is only 3,000.
To be plain that is very much less than my normal daily traffic from them just in ordinary times. It is the insidious nature of this censorship that is especially sinister – people believe they have successfully shared my articles on Twitter and Facebook, while those corporations hide from them that in fact it went into nobody’s timeline,” he added.
Asked about the situation by former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges, Murray explained that
Anybody who is at all radical or takes any view of anything that is outwith the official establishment view gets used to occasional shadow banning, but I have never seen anything on this scale before.”
“90% of my traffic has just been cut off by what seems to be a general algorithm command of some kind to downplay Assange,” he added. “I think it is as simple as that.”
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/facebook-traffic-censored-assange/
Maryland School Board Member To Resign After Reportedly Wishing For Trump’s Death Following COVID-19 Diagnosis
Washington County, Maryland, school board member Jacqueline Fischer will resign after she reportedly made several posts on social media wishing death to President Donald Trump following his positive coronavirus test.
“The Washington County Board of Education (WCBOE) will formally accept the resignation of Board member Jacqueline Fischer at the Board of Education’s public business meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, at 6:00 p.m,” a message on the school board’s website read. The post was noted by LocalDVM.com in a piece published Monday.
“Mrs. Fischer’s resignation comes after posting comments regarding the President of the United States on her personal social media account,” the message added. “The comments do not reflect the views, positions, or opinions of the WCPS or the WCBOE.”
The resignation comes after Fisher reportedly wrote comments on her personal Facebook page following Trump’s announcement that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19.
“Since he [Trump] has tested positive for COVID19, maybe the country will get lucky and he will die,” Fisher’s since-deleted post reportedly read. “Wouldn’t that be an act of karma.”
“He [Trump] could care less how many Americans die from this even if he is the one who exposed them,” a second since-deleted post, reportedly read. “I hope he dies from it. That would solve a lot of America’s problems,” per WFMD.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/05/maryland-school-board-member-resign-wishing-donald-trump-death-covid-19/
fuck off this was discredited last night
California GP Readers Send in Photos of Flawed Mail-In Ballots — Is Anyone Else Seeing This?
From a reader in Woodland Hills, California:
I live in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles. Our family just received our California mail-in ballots and there were two major misprints. Propositions 21 and 22 were duplicated on two different pages. And, more importantly, there was no place on the ballot to vote for US President.
We asked for photos of the ballots.
Sure enough. From what we see Propositions 21 and 22 are listed twice on two different pages.
And there is no question on the 2020 election.
Maybe the county is going to fill that in for you?
Is anyone else seeing this?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/california-gp-readers-send-photos-flawed-mail-ballots-anyone-else-seeing/