Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:45 a.m. No.11155566   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

Trump Says COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Be Mandatory, Biden Says It Should Be

 

The Facts:

 

It doesn't seem likely that a COVID vaccine will be mandatory under the Trump administration, but Joe Biden recently shared that he believes it should be.

Reflect On:

 

If the vaccine did become mandatory, would you take it? Will there be too much of a backlash if the vaccine is made mandatory, or mandatory to travel for example?

 

What Happened: US President Donald Trump told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Network’s ‘Varney &Co’ that he doesn’t plan to make the coronavirus vaccine mandatory for American citizens, because “there are some people who feel strongly about the whole situation,’ alluding to the idea that people should still have freedom of choice when it comes to what they choose to do with their own body.

 

On the other hand, presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would urge all state representatives, governors, mayors and council members to make the vaccine mandatory, just like some have done with masks. He acknowledged that such a mandate would be difficult to enforce, but stated that “we should be thinking about making it mandatory.”

 

Trump has long been promoting alternative therapies for COVID, many have come under scrutiny by mainstream media. The scientific and medical community have both promoted these therapies as well as criticized them, the only difference seems to be that those who support them don’t seem to receive much media attention, while simultaneously become subjected to a censorship campaign by media and social media outlets.

 

Scientists who share opinions that contradict the World Health Organization (WHO) have also been heavily censored. Michael Levitt, a Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University is one of many who have criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus.

 

The Great Barrington Declaration is experiencing the same thing for questioning lockdown measures, it’s now been signed by nearly 40,000 doctors and scientists.

 

A paper recently published in Global Advances in Health and Medicine titled Ascorbate as Prophylaxis and Therapy for COVID-19—Update From Shanghai and U.S. Medical Institutions points out:

 

A recent consensus statement from a group of renowned infectious disease clinicians observed that vaccine programs have proven ill-suited to the fast-changing viruses underlying these illnesses, with efficacy ranging from 19% to 54% in the past few years.

 

The paper also promotes the use of alternate therapies like intravenous vitamin C and provides evidence showing its success in COVID patients. It’s one of multiple studies to do so, but vitamin C has been heavily ridiculed and censored by mainstream media and social media for being able to provide any help when it comes to healing from COVID, or to help prevent it.

 

We are being made to believe that a vaccine is the only answer. No other suggestions seem to be acceptable. Why?

 

Why This Is Important

 

Why is there an authoritarian ‘fact-checker’ patrolling the internet and censoring information? Sure, a lot of stories may be completely false and irresponsibly written, especially ones that don’t provide any sources for their claims, but a lot of legitimate information is also being censored. Should people not have the right to examine information and opinions that go against the grain and decide for themselves what is, and what isn’t? Are we not capable of this? Can the mainstream media make the minority feel like the majority and the majority feel like the minority?

 

https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/10/18/trump-says-covid-19-vaccine-wont-be-mandatory-biden-says-it-should-be/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:45 a.m. No.11155575   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

L.A. County sheriff’s deputy charged with arranging to meet an underage girl for sex

 

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with meeting a teenage girl for sex after luring her through an online social networking service.

 

Miguel Cabrera, 38, was charged with one felony count each of meeting a minor for lewd purposes and distributing pornography to a minor.

 

He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

 

In October 2019, Cabrera allegedly met an undercover officer posing as a 17-year-old girl on a mobile dating app. Cabrera is accused of arranging to meet the girl and later appearing at the agreed upon location where he was arrested.

 

If convicted as charged, Cabrera faces a possible maximum sentence of four years, eight months in state prison.

 

https://breaking911.com/l-a-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-with-arranging-to-meet-an-underage-girl-for-sex/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:47 a.m. No.11155614   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5661 >>5798 >>5814 >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

‘The Emails Are Russian’ Will Be the Narrative, Regardless of Facts or Evidence

 

Fight it all you want, but there’s nothing you can do. “The emails are Russian” is going to be the official dominant narrative in mainstream political discourse, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Resistance is futile.

 

Like the Russian hacking narrative, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, the Russian bounties in Afghanistan narrative, and any other evidence-free framing of events that simultaneously advances pre-planned Cold War agendas, is politically convenient for the Democratic Party and generates clicks and ratings, the narrative that The New York Post publication of Hunter Biden’s emails is a Russian operation is going to be hammered and hammered and hammered until it becomes the mainstream consensus.

 

This will happen regardless of facts and evidence, up to and including rock solid evidence that Hunter Biden’s emails were not published as a result of a Russian operation.

 

This is happening. It’s following the same formula all the other fact-free Russia hysteria narratives have followed. The same media tour by pundits and political operatives saying with no evidence but very assertive voices that Russia is most certainly behind this occurrence and we should all be very upset about it.

 

“To me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work,” Russiagate founder and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is heard assuring CNN’s audience.

 

“Joe Biden — and all of us — SHOULD be furious that media outlets are spreading what is very likely Russian propaganda,” begins and eight-part thread by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who claims the emails are “Kremlin constructed anti-Biden propaganda.”

 

“It’s not really surprising at all, this was always the play, but still kind of head-spinning to watch all the players from 2016 run exactly the same hack-leak-smear op in 2020. Even with everyone knowing exactly what’s happening this time,” tweets MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

 

“How are you all circling the wagons instead of being embarrassed for peddling Russian ops 18 days before the election. It’s not enough that you all haven’t learned from your atrocious handling of 2016 — you are doubling down,” Democratic Party think tanker Neera Tanden tweeted in admonishment of journalists who dare to report on or ask questions about the emails.

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/19/the-emails-are-russian-will-be-the-narrative-regardless-of-facts-or-evidence/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:47 a.m. No.11155627   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

Supreme Court accepts Trump administration's request to hear two immigration cases

 

One case centers on whether the administration’s use of U.S. military funds to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border violates federal law.

 

 

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear two cases related to the Trump administration's efforts to limit illegal and some legal immigration from Mexico into the United States.

 

The Justice Department asked the high court to hear appeals in each case after suffering defeats in lower courts.

 

One case centers on whether the administration's use of U.S. military funds to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border violates federal law.

 

The other case is related to the administration's "remain in Mexico" policy for those seeking asylum in the United States.

 

Decisions in the cases are expected by the end of June, according to CNBC.

 

The "Remain in Mexico" policy, officially known as the "Migrant Protection Protocols" policy, was introduced in January 2019 in response to an unprecedented surge of asylum-seeking families at the border.

 

Lower courts found that the policy is probably illegal. But earlier this year the Supreme Court stepped in to allow the policy to remain in effect while a lawsuit challenging it plays out in the courts, according to the Associated Press.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/supreme-courts-accepts-trump-administrations-request-hear-two-immigration

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:48 a.m. No.11155649   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

The Great Coronavirus Divide: Wall Street Profits Surge as Poverty Rises

 

This has been a worrying week for most people whose livelihoods depend on the state of the U.S. economy. On Wednesday, the number of new coronavirus cases hit almost sixty thousand. The number of deaths, while much lower than at its peak, in April, is now rising in more than twenty states. Without an end in sight to the pandemic, the economic rebound that began in the late spring, after Congress passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act and some of the initial lockdowns were eased, is showing signs of faltering.

 

On Thursday, the Labor Department announced that new applications for unemployment benefits rose to almost nine hundred thousand last week, the highest level in a month and a half. The jump followed announcements by the Walt Disney Company, Regal Cinemas, and other large companies that they are planning many thousands of new layoffs. Many small businesses, too, are reducing their payrolls or turning temporary layoffs into permanent ones. “Risks to the labor market outlook are weighted heavily to the downside,” Ryan Sweet, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, told Reuters. “The increased spread of the virus across much of the country could result in an even larger pullback in business activity than expected.”

 

Read The New Yorker’s complete news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

All of this is happening at a moment when about ten million fewer Americans are employed than were in January, and when the big boost to jobless benefits that was contained in the CARES Act—six hundred dollars a week—has expired. In the past three months, according to researchers at the University of Chicago and Notre Dame, the number of Americans living in poverty has risen by about six million, and the poverty rate has jumped from 9.3 per cent, in June, to 11.1 per cent, in September. Looking at individual groups, the increase in the poverty rate has been largest among Black people (from 18.2 per cent, in June, to 22.8 per cent, in September) and people without a college education (from seventeen per cent to 21.5 per cent). “These numbers are very concerning,” Bruce D. Meyer, a University of Chicago economist, told Jason DeParle, of the Times. “They tell us people are having a lot more trouble paying their bills, paying their rent, putting food on the table.”

 

Amid all this gloomy news, at least part of the American economy is doing fine, however. Or, to put it another way, a separate American economy is doing fine: the economy of Wall Street. On Thursday, Morgan Stanley announced that, in the three months from July to September, it reaped $2.7 billion in profits, a rise of twenty-five per cent compared to a year ago. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley’s principal rival, is doing even better. On Wednesday, it announced quarterly profits of $3.62 billion, virtually double what the firm earned in the same quarter in 2019. During a conference call with financial analysts, David Solomon, Goldman’s chief financial officer, attributed the firm’s success to “the strength of our diversified business.” However, Solomon also pointed to a more immediate source of the company’s good fortune. “From a macroeconomic perspective,” he said, “the markets continue to benefit from the unprecedented monetary and fiscal support by central banks and governments globally.”

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-great-coronavirus-divide-wall-street-profits-surge-as-poverty-rises

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:52 a.m. No.11155699   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5871 >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

Convicted felon faces backlash and resigns from TX county mail-in ballot review board

 

Former Hidalgo County commissioner Sylvia Handy has faced backlash for her post on a local mail-in ballot review committee after it was reported that she’s a convicted felon and she’s since resigned from her position over the scrutiny, The McAllen, Texas Monitor is reporting.

 

Handy’s appointment to the Signature Verification Committee drew scrutiny from both the local Republican and Democrat parties. However, the leadership of the local Democratic party argued that she was appointed because there was a shortage of willing volunteers.

 

“Ms. Handy has resigned her appointment effective immediately,” Hidalgo County Democratic Party Chairwoman Norma Ramirez said during a local news Facebook livestream , according to the report.

 

Handy served time in a federal prison after she plead guilty to charges of mishandling taxpayer money, the report noted.

 

https://saraacarter.com/convicted-felon-faces-backlash-and-resigns-from-tx-county-mail-in-ballot-review-board/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:54 a.m. No.11155748   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5789 >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

Treason in America: An Overview of the FBI, CIA and Matters of ‘National Security’

 

“Treason doth never prosper; what is the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

 

– Sir John Harrington.

 

As Shakespeare would state in his play Hamlet, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” like a fish that rots from head to tail, so do corrupt government systems rot from top to bottom.

 

This is a reference to the ruling system of Denmark and not just the foul murder that King Claudius has committed against his brother, Hamlet’s father. This is showcased in the play by reference to the economy of Denmark being in a state of shambles and that the Danish people are ready to revolt since they are on the verge of starving. King Claudius has only been king for a couple of months, and thus this state of affairs, though he inflames, did not originate with him.

 

Thus, during our time of great upheaval we should ask ourselves; what constitutes the persisting “ruling system,” of the United States, and where do the injustices in its state of affairs truly originate from?

 

The tragedy of Hamlet does not just lie in the action (or lack of action) of one man, but rather, it is contained in the choices and actions of all its main characters. Each character fails to see the longer term consequences of their own actions, which leads not only to their ruin but towards the ultimate collapse of Denmark. The characters are so caught up in their antagonism against one another that they fail to foresee that their very own destruction is intertwined with the other.

 

This is a reflection of a failing system.

 

A system that, though it believes itself to be fighting tooth and nail for its very survival, is only digging a deeper grave. A system that is incapable of generating any real solutions to the problems it faces.

 

The only way out of this is to address that very fact. The most important issue that will decide the fate of the country is what sort of changes are going to occur in the political and intelligence apparatus, such that a continuation of this tyrannical treason is finally stopped in its tracks and unable to sow further discord and chaos.

 

When the Matter of “Truth” Becomes a Threat to “National Security”

 

When the matter of truth is depicted as a possible threat to those that govern a country, you no longer have a democratic state. True, not everything can be disclosed to the public in real time, but we are sitting on a mountain of classified intelligence material that goes back more than 60 years.

 

How much time needs to elapse before the American people have the right to know the truth behind what their government agencies have been doing within their own country and abroad in the name of the “free” world?

 

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/19/treason-america-overview-of-fbi-cia-matters-national-security/

 

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Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:55 a.m. No.11155789   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>11155748

 

The Washington Post reported:

 

“Asked about the lunchroom episode [where he was overheard stating his notes of the autopsy went missing] in a May 1996 deposition, Finck said he did not remember it. He was also vague about how many notes he took during the autopsy but confirmed that “after the autopsy I also wrote notes” and that he turned over whatever notes he had to the chief autopsy physician, James J. Humes.

 

It has long been known that Humes destroyed some original autopsy papers in a fireplace at his home on Nov. 24, 1963. He told the Warren Commission that what he burned was an original draft of his autopsy report. Under persistent questioning at a February 1996 deposition by the Review Board, Humes said he destroyed the draft and his “original notes.”

 

…Shown official autopsy photographs of Kennedy from the National Archives, [Saundra K.] Spencer [who worked in “the White House lab”] said they were not the ones she helped process and were printed on different paper. She said “there was no blood or opening cavities” and the wounds were much smaller in the pictures… [than what she had] worked on…

 

John T. Stringer, who said he was the only one to take photos during the autopsy itself, said some of those were missing as well. He said that pictures he took of Kennedy’s brain at a “supplementary autopsy” were different from the official set that was shown to him.” [emphasis added]

 

This not only shows that evidence tampering did indeed occur, as even the Warren Commission acknowledges, but this puts into question the reliability of the entire assassination record of John F. Kennedy and to what degree evidence tampering and forgery have occurred in these records.

 

We would also do well to remember the numerous crimes that the FBI and CIA have been guilty of committing upon the American people such as during the period of McCarthyism. That the FBI’s COINTELPRO has been implicated in covert operations against members of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. That FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made no secret of his hostility towards Dr. King and his ludicrous belief that King was influenced by communists, despite having no evidence to that effect.

 

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Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:56 a.m. No.11155810   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6342 >>6384

Israel Considers Basha Al-Assad An Enemy “Should Have Killed Him”: Israel Intelligence Official

 

Israel, unsurprisingly considers Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an enemy and that it “should have killed him” a while ago.

 

This was said by the head of the Research Division in the Israeli Military Intelligence, Dror Shalom.

 

Shalom said that Israel considers Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to be its enemy, considering that “he should have been killed when he used chemical weapons,” as he claimed.

 

Referring to accusations of Assad allegedly using chemical weapons against his own citizens while also winning the war.

 

The security official’s comments came a week after Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad commented on the prospect of peace talks with Israel.

 

The Syrian President told the Sputnik Agency that he is not interested in peace talks until Israel returns the occupied Golan Heights to the Arab Republic.

 

Assad also warned that a popular uprising will begin if US and Turkey do not leave Syria.

 

“This is an occupation. In this case, we need to do two things: First, get rid of the pretext that they use for the occupation, that is, the terrorists in this case, ISIS,” he said.

 

“Most of the world knows that ISIS was created by the Americans and they support it,” he continued, stating that “therefore, eliminating terrorists in Syria is our top priority, and if the Americans and Turks do not leave after that, then of course, popular resistance will begin and this is the only way.”

 

“They will not be forced to leave through discussions or international law because it does not exist,” Assad said. He added that “there is no other way but resistance and this is what happened in Iraq. What drove the Americans to leave in 2007? It was the result of the Iraqi people’s resistance.”

 

Separately, shalom commented that Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was only alive because Israel didn’t want to kill the Lebanese.

 

“Tel Aviv is not interested in assassinating the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah,” stating that “if we wanted to kill him … we would have actually killed him.”

 

“Iran is the source of unrest and crises in the region directly, through its nuclear project and precision missiles, and through its arms in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Gaza,” the Israeli security official said in an interview with Elaph newspaper.

 

https://southfront.org/israel-considers-basha-al-assad-an-enemy-should-have-killed-him-israel-intelligence-official/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:57 a.m. No.11155826   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

British Airways to Pay Record Fine for Poor Data Protection

 

The U.K. data regulator has fined British Airways a record 20 million pounds (US$26 million) for failing to adequately protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 customers.

 

britishairways 21686139698860ICO fines British Airways for poor customer data protection. (Photo: British Airways)The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said Friday that the “airline was processing a significant amount of personal data without adequate security measures in place” at the time of a cyber-attack in 2018.

 

The attacker, according to ICO, “potentially accessed the personal data of approximately 429,612 customers and staff,” including the names, addresses, payment card numbers and CVV numbers of 244,000 customers.

 

An investigation also showed that the attacker potentially accessed usernames and passwords of British Airways employee and administrator accounts as well as usernames and PINs of up to 612 of the airline’s Executive Club accounts.

 

British Airways, according to the data regulator, did not detect the data breach for more than two months. The attacks occurred in late June 2018 and British Airways learned about it in early September, when the airline reported the problem to the data regulator.

 

“People entrusted their personal details to British Airways and the airline failed to take adequate measures to keep those details secure,” Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, said.

 

She added that such a failure was unacceptable, as it potentially affected hundreds of thousands of people.

 

ICO said it has considered the economic impact of COVID-19 on the British Airways’ business before settling on the final penalty, which is the largest ever levied by the regulator.

 

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13273-british-airways-to-pay-record-fine-for-poor-data-protection

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 11:59 a.m. No.11155885   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5901 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

Global Hunger, COVID-19 And Corporations Controlled World

 

In recent weeks and months, countries around the world appear to be bulking up their food stocks.

 

This is the case in Jordan, which built up record reserves.

 

It is also the same in Egypt, which is the world’s biggest buyer of grain, and began buying grain from international markets, even during its local harvest. Cairo has boosted its buying by 50% since April 2020.

 

Taiwan said it will increase strategic food stockpiles, and China has been buying to feed its growing hog herd.

 

This behavior is not an accident, it is a result of various causes. The most obvious one is COVID-19, the hysteria and lockdown brought forth by it.

 

Global shipments were disrupted due to the lockdowns, and there’s concerns that if there is a sharp increase in cases of COVID-19 there could be more restrictions incoming.

 

The pandemic has so far led to food being abandoned at ports, since there’s nobody to transport it, there were trucking delays, as well as jams at warehouses, since storage space is scarce.

 

Supply chains are vulnerable, and those that can provide the full package also do not shy away from providing it at a very high price. The situation appears to have deteriorated dramatically with either a complete lack of food supplies, or them being provided at a very high price.

 

Countries that wish to bulk up their food stocks and have the resources to do so are fortunate. However, increased purchasing also means that the price is going up, and those countries that have less resources, or too many people to cover will begin to struggle.

 

This is further exacerbated by the fall of the population’s real incomes, and this relates to almost every country – US and Western Europe included, citizens appear to be making more money, but they can actually buy less.

 

The entire global financial and economic situation is in a state of disaster, which was initiated by Saudi Arabia’s crude oil price war, the disruptions in supply chain and, virtually, every sphere of life, by COVID-19 have brought forward the accumulated structural problems of the global economic model.

 

Capitalism is struggling and it shows its biggest proponents are willing to sacrifice lives in order to keep the economy afloat.

 

This was all caused not so much by actual issues, but rather by fearmongering and widespread hysteria, which continues in the 4th quarter of the year.

 

This has led to an unconditional increase in hunger-related mortality, either due to reductions in necessary rations, or due to the forced consumption of low-quality (and as a result cheap) food which leads to various diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular issues, metabolic diseases and more.

 

One would say that there have been hungering people in Africa and Asia for decades, how is that different now?

 

It’s different because it doesn’t relate to Africa anymore. It relates to traditionally rich countries such as the United States.

 

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https://southfront.org/global-hunger-covid-19-and-corporations-controlled-world/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:02 p.m. No.11155962   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5976 >>5978 >>6121 >>6156 >>6312 >>6342 >>6384

TikTok Bans Content From Far-Right Conspiracy Movement QAnon

 

Facebook , Twitter and YouTube have also imposed bans on QAnon content

Trump himself has refused to disavow the QAnon movement or its supporters

QAnon adherent, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, is running for Congress and is expected to win

 

Three weeks ahead of the U.S. election, video sharing app TikTok said it would ban any accounts that broadcast content from QAnon, the far-right online group that promotes various conspiracy theories.

 

The measure is designed to curb the dissemination of baseless conspiracies and disinformation during the election.

 

TikTok previously targeted accounts that featured specific hashtags related to QAnon – now it is prohibiting any and all content deemed to have originated in the far-right movement.

 

"Content and accounts that promote QAnon violate our disinformation policy and we remove them from our platform," a TikTok spokesperson told NPR. "We've also taken significant steps to make this content harder to find across search and hashtags by redirecting associated terms to our community guidelines."

 

TikTok told Forbes magazine that its policy on QAnon had been in place “for a while.”

 

Other social media giants, including Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and YouTube, which is owned by Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet (GOOG), have also imposed bans on QAnon content.

 

QAnon, which began in October 2017, has attracted enormous interest largely due to the power and reach of social media.

 

Among other conspiracies, QAnon has claimed that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the granddaughter of Adolph Hitler, and that Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and George Soros have been planning a coup to topple President Donald Trump.

 

Trump himself has refused to disavow the QAnon movement or its supporters.

 

One prominent QAnon adherent, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, is running for Congress and is expected to win.

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/tiktok-bans-content-far-right-conspiracy-movement-qanon-3064691

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:05 p.m. No.11156004   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

Alibaba Spending $3.6 Billion To Compete With JD In Online Grocery Industry

 

Alibaba (BABA) is taking a controlling stake in one of China's leading supermarket chains as it tries to fend off rivals JD.com (JD) and Walmart (WMT) in the fast-growing online grocery industry.

 

Alibaba planned to spend $3.6 billion to increase its stake in Sun Art Retail Group (SURRY) from 36% to 72% and then make a general offer to shareholders to buy out the rest of the company.

 

Alibaba is in a fierce battle with JD.com for China's online food market. In June, JD reported online grocery sales doubled over last year's haul.

 

The e-commerce giants are both using a mixture of physical supermarkets and online platforms to win shoppers. Most notably JD partnered with Walmart and local grocery chain Yonghui, which helped create an extensive network across the country of stores that double as warehouses and fulfillment centers. Alibaba has a similar operation, using its Freshippo grocery store chain and Sun Art shops to store and deliver online groceries.

 

Upping its stake in Sun Art signals that Alibaba is looking to compete with its rivals post-pandemic. Sun Art operates nearly 500 hypermarkets and supermarkets across China.China's online grocery sector is "set for explosive growth," according to analytics company GlobalData.

 

As China emerged from lockdown restrictions earlier this year, 56% of shoppers were buying food and groceries online more frequently than before, GlobalData said in a June report. In the United States, about 30% of shoppers were buying food and groceries online more often than before, GlobalData reported.

 

The news pushed Sun Art shares to $12.63, up $2.54 ir 24.17% or $2.54, and Alibaba shares to $308.22, up 91 cents or 0.3% at 11:19 a.m. EDT

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/alibaba-spending-36-billion-compete-jd-online-grocery-industry-3064671

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:06 p.m. No.11156038   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6062 >>6083 >>6110 >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

Silence Trump: WaPo Op-Ed by Ex-Twitter, Google Exec Calls for Banning President Trump from Social Media Until After Election Winner Declared

 

The Washington Post published an op-ed Monday by a former political advertising executive for Twitter and Google that calls for President Trump to be banned by social media companies from posting until after a winner is declared in the November presidential election.

 

Peter D. Greenbergerwants to silence Trump because he doesn’t like what the President says: “In just the past week, President Trump has retweeted a QAnon conspiracy theory alleging that Joe Biden and Barack Obama had SEAL Team 6 killed, called on supporters to form an army of poll watchers, asserted repeatedly that mailing in your ballot will result in a rigged election and tweeted four times in 11 minutes falsely tying unrest in Portland, Ore., to Biden.”

 

Greenberger is blunt in his demand: “With millions of votes already cast and Election Day less than three weeks away, it is time for Twitter and Facebook to take away the digital bullhorn and mute the president. Trump should be silenced on both platforms until the winner of the election is determined.”

 

Greenberger blames Trump and his supporters for ‘damage’ on social media: “I launched and led the first political advertising team at Google in 2007 before joining Twitter to do the same in 2011. My team at Twitter met with political leaders and issue advocacy organizations to introduce them to the power of this platform. Twitter, for the first time, enabled politicians to cultivate an authentic persona, maintain a direct dialogue with supporters without the filter of news media and drive the news narrative of the day. Few political leaders embraced the medium as successfully as Trump. But now, Twitter, Google and Facebook each have implemented escalating policies seeking to contain the damage largely caused by Trump and his supporters. It’s clear they haven’t yet solved the problem.”

 

After saying Trump should be silenced for spreading conspiracy theories, Greenberger flips out and spreads his own conspiracy theory that Trump will call out an army of armed “tiki torch” bearers to set the country aflame in a disputed election.

 

What will he tweet as we get closer to Election Day? Or as the returns start coming in? Is there any doubt he will question results, claim victory unilaterally or inflame his supporters to take to the streets? The stakes are too high to wait to find out.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/silence-trump-wapo-op-ed-ex-twitter-google-exec-calls-banning-president-trump-social-media-election-winner-declared/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:08 p.m. No.11156057   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6121 >>6342 >>6384

The Morning Briefing: Big Tech Needs to Get Its Filthy, Biased Thumbs Off the Scale of This Election

 

Big Tech Bullies Gotta Go

 

Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Only 4,678 days until 2021!

 

Whether we like to admit it or not, a good many Americans get most of their news from social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook. Until recently, that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Twitter in particular has been a great source for news for a long time. I still use it as my primary news feed when researching and writing during the day.

 

As Twitter and Facebook grew, the leftist biases of the companies’ respective leaders began to emerge. It’s no big secret that most of the major players in Big Tech are Democrats and progressives, but biased activism hasn’t been part of the business model until very recently.

 

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is the worst of the bunch. His intense, personal dislike of all things conservative bleeds into Twitter’s rules and regulations, making them whimsical and arbitrary. He also surrounds himself with employees who are unhinged haters of conservatives.

 

Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Co. have now taken an active role in deciding what information people should and should not have in these critical days leading up to the election.

 

Not everyone is thrilled.

 

Their attempts to cover up the Hunter Biden emails story last week backfired on them. They’re now getting all kinds of scrutiny. I wrote last Friday that the Senate Commerce Committee is going to have a hearing next week with Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. They’re going to be exploring whether the protections granted tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act enable “big tech bad behavior.”

 

Many think Section 230 should no longer apply to Big Tech, including Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn:

 

“Why not just take Section 230 [of the Communications Decency Act] away? Why not let these companies be liable to suits for what they may or may not publish?” host Will Cain asked.

 

“That’s right. And the reason that, as we’ve worked on this over the last several years, the reason you do not take it away is because you want a competitive marketplace, and Section 230 was put in place for new start businesses,” she explained. “This is something that was put there in the ’90s as the internet and these platforms were growing. They areo longer in their infancy.”

 

“So, it would still apply to small companies, but no longer to these massive tech companies?” Cain followed up.

 

“That’s right,” Blackburn said.

 

Even with the government’s attention, Twitter is still being awful.

 

Victoria wrote yesterday that Twitter is censoring White House Coronavirus Task Force physician Dr. Scott Atlas:

 

Twitter removed a tweet by the medical expert because it violated its policy against misleading information about the pandemic. Says who? And compared to what? What happened to that whole “listen to the science” meme we’ve been constantly browbeaten with? Isn’t the expert on the coronavirus task force someone who knows, I don’t know, something about the coronavirus pandemic?

 

This is indirect advocacy for the Democrats. The centerpiece of Joe Biden’s campaign is creating COVID panic porn and repeating that President Trump isn’t handling it well. Now Twitter is saying that a physician whom Trump has confidence in on the matter doesn’t know what he’s talking about. That’s right, Twitter’s “experts” know better than an MD.

 

This heavy-handed, biased censorship by Twitter and Facebook is far more egregious and dangerous than any of the alleged “interference” by Russia or China. The bitter irony is that it was the Russia nonsense that both platforms used as justification for their thought policing.

 

There probably isn’t time to do anything to curb any of this before the election, but something will have to be done eventually. They’re so bad that they have people like me rooting for federal intervention.

 

I never root for federal intervention.

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/10/19/the-morning-briefing-big-tech-needs-to-get-its-filthy-biased-thumbs-off-the-scale-of-this-election-n1066274

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:09 p.m. No.11156089   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6121 >>6342 >>6384 >>6490

NC Gov. Roy Cooper Caught on Hot Mic Talking to Biden About Dem Sen. Candidate and Philanderer Cal Cunningham, “I Know That’s Frustrating, But We’ll Get Him Across”

 

The swamp is deep.

 

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) was caught on a hot mic talking to Joe Biden about Democrat Senate candidate and disgraced philanderer Cal Cunningham.

 

“I know that’s frustrating, but we’ll get him across,” Cooper said to Biden.

 

Democrat senate candidate Cal Cunningham recently admitted to exchanging sexually charged text messages with a California based PR strategist, and wife of a Veteran.

 

The married father of two is running against incumbent Thom Tillis in North Carolina, on his ‘religious’ and ‘family man’ record.

 

Cal Cunningham, who is a married father of two, has focused his U.S. Senate campaign against Republican Thom Tillis on Cunningham’s service as a veteran in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Cunningham is evidently engaged in extramarital activity with the wife of a fellow veteran.

 

Cunningham refers to Guzman Todd in the text messages below as “historically sexy,” imagines kissing her, says he has been dreaming “of our time together,” and the two plan for Cunningham to make up an excuse for his family and ditch a staffer so the two can meet and, in Guzman Todd’s words, “kiss a lot.” Guzman Todd says she wants “a night with you” and Cunningham agrees that he wants that too. Guzman Todd says that “the only thing I want on my to do list is you” and Cunningham says that “Sounds so hot and so fun!”

 

Cal Cunningham’s campaign actually had the gall to lecture Thom Tillis on social distancing as Cunningham was flying his mistress across the country for sexual trysts during a pandemic.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/nc-gov-roy-cooper-caught-hot-mic-talking-biden-dem-sen-candidate-philanderer-cal-cunningham-know-frustrating-get-across-video/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:10 p.m. No.11156114   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6121 >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

Early Voting Is the Devil and Has Completely Corrupted the Election Process

 

Do Your Voting on Election Day

 

In this most annoying of election seasons, I am being inundated with requests to do something that I would never do: vote early. There are ads everywhere. It seems that every site I visit is imploring me to vote early in some visually offensive font and color combination. I’ve been trying to watch sports on television again and the ads are there too. I’m waiting for my cat to walk across my living room with “VOTE EARLY” shaved on his side.

 

I loathe voting that doesn’t happen on Election Day, with a few exceptions, of course. Absentee voting for deployed military and Americans who are expatriated for work and a few other exceptions is perfectly acceptable.

 

Voting by mail just because you’re too lazy to pull yourself away from your cheesy fries and get your fat you-know-what to a polling place is not.

 

We can explore the unmitigated evil of vote-by-mail at another time. Today I’m here to rail against early voting.

 

Early voting is being embraced by the Republicans and fetishized by the Democrats. In fact, the central premise of Joe Biden’s rant about the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett is that the Senate shouldn’t be holding confirmation hearings because “people are already voting.”

 

Yeah, well, it’s the middle of October. People shouldn’t be voting in an election scheduled for November 3rd.

 

Part of my aversion to early voting is that I’m a traditionalist. I like the Election Day ritual. When I was traveling full-time I always arranged my schedule to be home for Election Day, even though I would have been perfectly justified in voting absentee.

 

Sentiment and a love of tradition may be why I love voting on Election Day, but it’s not really enough to make me despise early voting as much as I do. No, that has to do with the way early voting completely bastardizes the election process.

 

From City Journal:

 

Voting early is akin to boxing referees declaring one fighter the winner on points halfway through the bout—not knowing that a knockout punch was on its way. It may be hard to imagine what revelation about the candidates, at this point, would make much of a difference. But history has demonstrated such possibilities.

 

That was written before the Hunter Biden emails news hit, which certainly qualifies as a revelation that might make a difference, especially as we learn more and more.

 

Unfortunately, record numbers of Americans are voting early this year.

 

The Democrats have been exhorting people to vote early because they’ve known all along that Grandpa Gropes is a problematic candidate. The potential for him to screw this up has always loomed large. They wanted to get as many votes as possible in before they had to let him off-leash and out of the basement. Little did any of us know that the Biden family would turn out to be the Corleones of the Ukraine.

 

The idea of making Election Day a national holiday has some appeal. The polls could be opened even longer and if most people had the day off there wouldn’t be the pre-work and post-work crushes. It’s not a perfect solution but it’s a lot better than the early and mail-in voting messes.

 

We’re still having presidential debates this late in the cycle for a reason. The presumption is that everyone hasn’t made up their minds. One might argue that in the highly polarized political environment that we’re dealing with this year everyone has made up their minds already. That won’t always be the case, hopefully. We can’t use these anomalous times as a reason to get sloppy.

 

Candidates should have until the very last minute to make their cases to the electorate. A presidential election is far too important to cheapen with a diluted process that lets impatient people get their votes out of the way early as if it were a major inconvenience. Too many Americans already take voting for granted. Early voting exacerbates that.

 

It really bothers me that so many Republicans are fans of early voting. In theory, Republicans are in favor of more election integrity. It’s difficult to believe that when the GOP is on the early voting bandwagon, encouraging people to participate in the erosion of what little integrity is left in modern voting.

 

If the Democrats get more control after November they will no do push for a host of things that will render elections almost completely untrustworthy. A toxic cocktail of no voter ID requirements, universal vote-by-mail, and perhaps even earlier voting will open up the process to more potential for fraud.

 

Voting is a sacred right that we should all appreciate more.

 

Maybe we would if everyone had to put a little effort into it.

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/10/19/early-voting-is-the-devil-and-has-completely-corrupted-the-election-process-n1063549

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:12 p.m. No.11156137   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6342 >>6384

GMO Technocrat Scientists Are Redesigning The Entire Food Chain

 

Beef, pork, chicken, fish and now shrimp will be cultivated in a lab along with genetic manipulation. Add to that dairy, corn, soybeans, rice, canola, etc. For Technocrats, nature isn’t good enough and needs their help in providing better food for the human race. Side effects are unknown, testing is scant and data is protected like the gold in Fort Knox. ⁃ Technocracy News & Trends Editor Patrick Wood

 

In an industrial corner of Singapore, multiplying steadily in bioreactors heated precisely to 82 degrees, real shrimp meat is being grown from samples of the crustacean’s microscopic cells.

 

Fed a nutrient-rich soup meant to mimic its diet in the wild, a single cell can reproduce over a trillion times into a mound of gray translucent flesh. Think of it as meat growing without all the other parts of the animal, including that chalky black vein.

 

The venture is being led by Sandhya Sriram and a team of scientists, who are attempting to upend one of the cornerstones of dim sum. Sriram’s company, Shiok Meats, is named after Singaporean slang used to declare something delicious.

 

Similar work is being done across the world at other startups and research labs to grow beef, pork, chicken and high-end specialty products such as bluefin tuna and foie gras, but Sriram’s company is the only one known to be focused on re-creating shrimp, a staple in many Asian dishes.

 

Shiok’s finished product — this reporter was unable to try it because no outsiders are allowed to visit its headquarters during the pandemic — possesses the texture of ground shrimp and has already been tested to make shumai, the Cantonese dim sum mainstay with the yellow dumpling wrapper. But its applications are potentially manifold in Chinese-centric cuisine.

 

You could layer a dollop of it over a raft of tofu, steam it and douse it with a slightly sweeter soy sauce. It could be squeezed out of a piping bag into a simmering hot pot broth. And it might be the kind of thing you’d want to roll into balls, bread and deep-fry.

 

Eventually Sriram, who cofounded the company two years ago, would like to move beyond ground shrimp meat to produce crab, lobster and a structured deshelled shrimp, one convincing enough to hang off the edge of a glass filled with cocktail sauce.

 

“We can 3-D print the tail if you want,” she said.

 

Singapore has emerged as a leading player in the budding technology once derided as “Frankenmeat” after Dutch researcher Mark Post unveiled the first “test-tube burger” to a panel of food critics at a news conference in London seven years ago.

 

Researchers have been able to drive down the price of the meat, which is called cell cultured meat or clean meat, from the nearly $300,000 it cost to produce Post’s debut patty — though not enough to actually sell it to the public yet. Shiok’s shumai, for example, cost $300 apiece.

 

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/10/gmo-technocrat-scientists-are-redesigning-the-entire-food-chain.html

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:13 p.m. No.11156167   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6191 >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

More Than 5,000 Baby Seals Wash up on Namibia Beach in Unprecedented Die-off

 

Thousands of dead seal pups have washed ashore on the coast of Namibia, raising grave concerns from conservationist groups.

 

Locals were in shock after an estimated 5,000 premature cape fur seal pups washed up along the coast of Pelican Point peninsula, turning the popular tourist destination known for its thriving schools of dolphins and seal colonies into a pup graveyard.

 

Cape fur seals are often referred to as the “dogs of the ocean,” owing to their playful nature and abundant energy. However, the seals are known to desert their young or suffer miscarriages when food supplies are scarce.

 

The unprecedented die-off of the 5,000 Cape fur seals is now being probed by the country’s fisheries ministry, reports Bloomberg.

 

Nearly all were born prematurely before quickly dying, according to marine biologist Naude Dreyer of Ocean Conservation Namibia.

 

“When the pregnant female feels she does not have enough reserves, she can abort,” he explained. “A few premature deaths is a natural event, but thousands of premature dead pups is extremely rare.”

 

Dreyer noticed the masses of dead seal pups while flying his drone over the Pelican Point seal colony on Oct. 5.

 

“This is the situation at Pelican Point, Namibia,” his non-profit group wrote in a Facebook post. “All the little red circles mark dead seal pups. A rough estimate brings the numbers to more than 5,000 at our seal colony alone. This is tragic, as it makes up a large portion of the new pup arrivals expected in late November.”

 

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/10/more-than-5000-baby-seals-wash-up-on-namibia-beach-in-unprecedented-die-off.html

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:16 p.m. No.11156202   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6342 >>6384 >>6474

6 money laundering reforms that experts say need to happen right now

 

Failures exposed by the FinCEN Files investigation require urgent intervention, regulators, experts and politicians say.

 

The biggest banks in the world are moving vast amounts of money for drug cartels, corrupt regimes, arms traffickers and other international criminals after having pledged repeatedly to do more to staunch the flow of dirty money.

 

The system-wide failures exposed by the FinCEN Files, a 16-month investigation by more than 400 journalists, have led to calls for reform from prominent politicians and government bodies. The reporting even prompted the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. agency known as FinCEN tasked with overseeing bank compliance with money laundering laws, to ask for ideas about how to “enhance the effectiveness” of its operations.

 

So what’s to be done? A more robust enforcement system is within reach, say finance, legal and offshore experts interviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Here’s where to begin.

End ‘too big to jail’ for U.S. banks and bankers

 

The deferred prosecution agreement, or DPA, has become the go-to tool in the U.S. government’s efforts to force banks to crack down on criminal payments moving through their accounts. A financial institution in the cross-hairs of law enforcement agrees to something like probation: criminal charges are tabled, and in return, the bank pays a fine and agrees to reforms overseen by a monitor.

 

But critics say overuse and underenforcement of the DPA has let banks off the hook for egregious violations of money-laundering statutes with few long-term consequences. “They’ve become in effect the cost of doing business rather than a real punishment,” Jed Rakoff, a senior federal judge in Manhattan, told ICIJ.

 

Over the last decade at least 18 financial institutions signed DPAs for anti-money laundering or sanctions violations, an analysis by BuzzFeed News found. Four were fined a second time for violating the law — twice, the U.S. government responded to the repeat offense by simply renewing the same agreement that failed the first time.

 

ICIJ’s examination found that five global banks — JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players after paying fines as part of DPAs.

 

How to convince financial institutions to take money laundering more seriously? Go after culpable leaders, Rakoff said. “To my mind the single greatest objection is that the ultimately responsible executives never get prosecuted at all,” he said. “I was a criminal defense lawyer for 15 years doing mostly white collar defense and the only thing that ever scared my client was prison, and boy that scared them.”

 

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/6-money-laundering-reforms-that-experts-say-need-to-happen-right-now/

Anonymous ID: 05f90e Oct. 19, 2020, 12:27 p.m. No.11156372   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Under these circumstances, any politician calling for “compulsory mask wearing and social distancing,” “wait for the vaccine to end the pandemic,” and “more lockdowns are necessary,” etc. has self-identified as a Khazarian Mafia Slave (KMS).