London 'No New Normal' March draws thousands of weary UK citizens
Thousands march in London in fourth anti-lockdown protest.Met police say crowds will be dispersed if protesters fail to follow rules
https://theduran.com/london-no-new-normal-march-draws-thousands-of-weary-uk-citizens/
Dr. Fauci Suggests a Federal Mask Mandate May Be Necessary
Dr. Anthony Fauci says it might be necessary for Washington to impose a mask mandate on all 50 states, given the worrisome rise in coronavirus cases across the U.S. Fauci made the remarks during an interview on CNN.
Previously Fauci had opposed a federal mask mandate as unworkable and unenforceable.
CNN:
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been urging Americans to use masks for months. “I have trust in the American people that if we put a strong emphasis on the importance of wearing masks, that we will come around and do that and get that percentage up above the relatively low percentage of people that are using masks,” Fauci said on July 21 on NPR’s Morning Edition.
But he has said before that he doesn’t think a federal law would be the way to go.
Earlier this month, a poll found 92 percent of Americans believing that wearing a mask was a good idea. But only about 60 percent wear one. Changing people’s minds about wearing a mask outdoors will be difficult as long as we’re getting mixed messages from public health professionals.
“I don’t like to be authoritarian from the federal government, but at the local level, if governors and others essentially mandate the use of masks when you have an outbreak, I think that would be very important,” Fauci told Alabama Sen. Doug Jones during a Facebook live event in July.
Until now.
“Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it,” Fauci told CNN’s Erin Burnett Friday.
The obvious difficulty in issuing a federal mask mandate is how to make it enforceable. Maybe we could take a page from the Chinese secret police playbook. It worked for them.
Fauci admits difficulty in enforcement but thinks if we all join hands (virtually) and dance around the maypole as one, everybody will be eager to comply — or something.
“There’s going to be a difficulty enforcing it, but if everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and says, you know, we’re going to mandate it but let’s just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly,” he said.
Mayors and governors across the country have had mask mandates in place for months and yet we’re seeing a massive surge in positive test results. Citizens are ignoring social distancing rules and congregating in large numbers. And police officers are refusing to enforce the rules largely because they’ve got better things to do. Issuing a ticket that people are going to ignore anyway will not scare people into wearing a mask when they’re supposed to.
We locked down the country for two months, drained trillions of dollars from the economy, destroyed jobs, industry, and lives for what purpose? The coronavirus has roared back after cities and states reopened even slightly. Chicago and New York City have been essentially locked down since March. Their business and entertainment districts are ghost towns. Thousands of companies have been shuttered permanently.
All for what?
If the definition of crazy is to do the same thing over and over expecting different results each time, our public health establishment, politicians, and bureaucrats are 100 percent, certifiably nuts.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/10/24/dr-fauci-suggests-a-federal-mask-mandate-may-be-necessary-n1084251
Bidens sought to pitch Dem access, influence to investors tied to Chinese military, emails show
Joe Biden's son, brother eyed connecting Beijing billionaire with regime security ties with top elected Democrats to advance proposed Chinese investment in critical U.S.infrastructure.
Records released by a former Biden family business partner reveal that Joe Biden's brother and son proposed connecting a Chinese billionaire affiliated with Beijing's military and intelligence services with top elected Democrats to advance Chinese investments in critical U.S. infrastructure. In doing so, say China experts, the former vice president and his family endangered U.S. national security.
On Thursday, Tony Bobulinski provided the FBI with records of his business correspondence with James and Hunter Biden, the brother and son of the former vice president. Bobulinski was CEO of SinoHawk, which he describes as a joint venture partnership between the Biden family and Chinese firms connected to the government. The documents, acquired by Just The News, appear to show the Bidens' efforts to use the family's name to sell influence to Chinese individuals tied to China's military and spy services.
In July 2017, the now-bankrupt China Energy and Finance Company offered to extend the Bidens a $5 million "interest-free" loan "based on their trust on [Biden] family[.]" The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who according to the New York Times, has extensive ties to the Chinese military and its intelligence service. The 43-year-old Ye has been held in detention by the Chinese government since 2018 for "economic crimes."
Hunter Biden reportedly met Ye in a Miami hotel in May 2017. In a May 15 email, James Biden listed a number of prospective contacts for joint ventures involving SinoHawk and CEFC. The roster of elite Democratic elected officials includes Biden's running mate Kamala Harris, as well as two other former 2020 presidential hopefuls, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand.
The list of prospective New York Democratic contacts for CEFC includes Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Sen. Charles Schumer. The California list features Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose husband's business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party have earned him millions over the last several decades. Feinstein enjoyed a long friendship with the late Chinese premier, Jiang Zemin.
Other senior California lawmakers the Bidens planned to introduce to CEFC include Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, as well as former San Francisco mayor, now California governor, Gavin Newsom — "Hunter's friend," James Biden notes in the email.
"The relationship with Joe Biden would have given the Chinese access to the highest levels of power, partly for influence and partly to embed the Chinese Communist Party into every aspect of society," says retired Gen. Robert Spalding, author of "Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept."
But the Bidens offered more than just contacts with senior U.S. political figures.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-son-brother-pitched-us-infrastructure-deals-chinese
Anti-Netanyahu protests take place throughout Israel, reports of violence
Major protests have been taking place in all of Israel largest cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa.
Hundreds of demonstrations have been taking place across Israel in continued regular anti-Netanyahu protests that have thousands of participants angered over a variety of issues, ranging from government mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic, corruption proceeding against Netanyahu and the economic situation in Israel.
Major protests have been taking place in all of Israel largest cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, as well as smaller locales. There have also been reports of violent confrontations and attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters.
At the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street, Haaretz reported that 2,000 demonstrators have gathered so far
A report from the Jerusalem Post's sister publication Maariv indicated that four were arrested by police on suspicion of threatening protesters with electric taser against in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. In addition, there have been reports of protesters being beaten with a flag pole by people sitting in a passing vehicle at the Horev junction in Haifa.
Another incident allegedly occurred at a junction between Tel Aviv and Ramat Hasharon, where demonstrators reported that their signs had been torn and eggs had been thrown at them.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/anti-netanyahu-protests-take-place-throughout-israel-reports-of-violence-646805
Bullock Cashes in on Corporate Donations
Montana Dem has taken $1.2 million from corporate-backed PACs
Montana Democratic governor Steve Bullock, whose Senate campaign regularly lambastes the political influence of "corporate special interests," has taken nearly $1.2 million in contributions from corporate executives and corporate-backed PACs.
Bullock's latest campaign finance disclosures show he has received more than $920,000 from corporate executives over the course of his campaign against Sen. Steve Daines (R.).
Top Bullock donors include Google vice president Vinton Cerf, Lockheed Martin vice president Thomas Grumbly, and ConocoPhillips board member Maury Devine, who combined have given him more than $7,500.
The trio has spent nearly $880,000 backing Democrats since 2004, Federal Election Commission records show.
Bullock has also accepted nearly $275,000 from Democratic leadership PACs funded by corporate cash, including a combined $20,000 from PACs associated with Sens. Martin Heinrich (D., N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii), and Dick Durbin (D., Ill.). The three PACs have taken nearly $930,000 in corporate special interest money in the 2020 cycle alone, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The contributions could undermine Bullock's attacks on Daines, which have centered around the "corrupting influence of money in our system." During a September debate, for example, the Democrat said his campaign was funded by "individuals," not "corporate special interests like Sen. Daines."
Despite the hundreds of thousands he has received from PACs bankrolled by corporations, Bullock regularly claims he "isn't taking a single penny from corporate PACs."
"Montana deserves a Senator who can't be bought by corporations," Bullock said in September. "We deserve an independent voice in Washington who isn't influenced by their big corporate donors."
On at least one occasion, however, Bullock directly sought campaign contributions from corporate-backed PACs. In April, he attended a Moderate Democrats PAC fundraiser during official work hours. The PAC, which went on to contribute $5,000 to Bullock's campaign, has taken more than $930,000 from corporate entities, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Top donors include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Lockheed Martin, Capital One, and Exxon Mobil.
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/bullock-cashes-in-on-corporate-donations/
FBI continuing to play the role of deep state guardian by covering for Joe and Hunter Biden in latest bid to harm Trump
Supporters of President Donald Trump who thought things would improve at the pathetically politicized FBI in the wake of dirty James Comey’s firing are beginning to see that nothing at all has changed under his replacement, Christopher Wray.
By now, most readers know about the damning contents of a laptop left at a Delaware computer repair shop by Hunter Biden last year that, if true, details stunning new revelations about the depth of corruption involving him and his father, current Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
What we’ve also learned in the days since the New York Post first reported details of the corruption contained in emails and other material found on the laptop is that it was turned over to the FBI in December 2019 by the shop owner after he discovered disturbing content involving Hunter Biden while downloading its content.
In addition to allegations of alleged corruption and videos of pornography, reports claim that there is even evidence of criminal activity — another reason why the shop owner contacted the FBI (that, and it involved a former vice president and his son).
What has the FBI done with the evidence since? Answer: Absolutely nothing. In fact, there are reports that the FBI is investigating some uncorroborated, unsubstantiated Russia disinformation connection instead.
Yes, that’s right: The FBI is investigating Russia, not the Bidens, just like this is 2016 all over again, including another allegedly corrupt Democratic presidential candidate.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is demanding to know what the FBI is doing about corroborating the information on the laptop and if so, whether or not the bureau is looking into them instead of chasing more Russian ghosts.
Fox News reports:
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/10/24/fbi-continuing-to-play-the-role-of-deep-state-guardian-by-covering-for-joe-and-hunter-biden-in-latest-bid-to-harm-trump/
The More the EU Tightens Its Grip, the More Countries Slip Through Its Fingers
It finally looks like the four-and-a-half-year saga of Brexit is coming to an ignominious end. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the final bluff of the incompetent bureaucrats in Brussels, walking away from trade talks while leaving the door open.
But that door is only open if the EU is willing to crawl in on its knees and give the UK what it wants, a minimal free trade deal, Canada-style, which was offered by then President of the European Council Donald Tusk.
The EU played hardball giving zero ground for four years while undermining the UK from within its own political and bureaucratic structures. It was as transparent as it was cynical, but it couldn’t sway the British people and that gave Johnson the political will to just say no.
And it was this hardball negotiating stance that had worked in the past finally broke like waves along the Cliffs of Dover. The reason why it failed was that arrogance was fueled by powerful forces having their back,
They believed in the power of coercion being stronger than the will of the British people.
And they were wrong. Dead wrong.
In an instant this past weekend the entire façade of he the EU’s inevitability vaporized as Johnson went on TV and told the world to prepare for a No-Deal Brexit, regardless of whether that was the optimal outcome or not.
It signaled to the rest of Europe that no longer do you have to take the diktats of a bunch of feckless, unelected technocrats if you don’t want to. And this failure to secure submission of the Brits will have immense consequences during this next election cycle in Europe.
This is why the fiction of the Second Wave of the Coronapocalypse persists all across the continent. Germany, France, Spain and other countries are implementing the worst kind of draconian lockdowns on people hanging on by a thread while the pols in Brussels scheme as to how best to continue advancing their plans for a future with the people trapped in the neo-feudalism of the EU corporatocracy.
These lockdowns have nothing to do with public health. They have everything to do with maintaining the political health of the current ruling classes. Nothing more.
And I include the UK in this as well but for different reasons. It’s my feeling that even though Johnson may have given the EU ‘two fingers up’ the EU and those behind it aren’t done with the Brits yet.
Walking away from narcissists inevitably invokes anger. There is too much at stake for the European Project for the annoying Brits to just walk away from it and give everyone else the wrong idea.
So, I feel very strongly we should be watching for more signs of the same color revolution tactics on display in the U.S. to depose Donald Trump showing up in the UK I don’t rule out an attempted coup against Johnson in the next seven weeks.
This is why I think he’s imposing similar lock downs in the UK to manage the inevitable activation of ‘ground forces’ once things get down to the wire later this year.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/24/more-eu-tightens-its-grip-more-countries-slip-through-its-fingers/
Missiles Launched From Hmeimim Air Base Hit Fuel Traffickers In Northern Aleppo
The recent strikes on fuel traffickers in Turkish-occupied northern Aleppo were launched from Hmeimim Air Base on the Syrian coast, according to several local sources.
Two fuel facilities located to the south of the town of Jarabulus were targeted late on October 23. Both facilities were being operated by traffickers.
Local sources revealed that the facilities were hit with two missiles, which were launched from Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base. The missiles were seen heading in the direction of northern Aleppo a few seconds after launch. A few minutes later, explosions were heard south of Jarabulus.
A Facebook page that shares news from the city of Jableh, located a few kilometers to the south of the Russian base, posted a photo showing one of the two missiles.
The strikes resulted in heavy losses. More than 15 fuel tankers which were parked in one of the targeted facilities were destroyed. Furthermore, seven fuel traffickers were killed. Many others were reportedly injured.
The facilities were likely targeted with Iskander missiles. At least one such missile system is deployed in Hmeimim Air Base. The system can launch a variety of cruise and ballistic missiles with ranges from 400 to 5,400 km.
Russian forces carried out several similar strikes on fuel traffickers linked to terrorist groups, like ISIS and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, in the past.
https://southfront.org/missiles-launched-from-hmeimim-air-base-hit-fuel-traffickers-in-northern-aleppo-videos-photos/
No Matter Who Wins, The War Machine Wins
The US government is pushing yet another unproven election meddling narrative about yet another disobedient government, this time targeting Iran and Russia.
This is exhausting. Do I really need to type this bullshit out?
Fine. Okay. Here we go again:
At a press conference with Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Christopher Wray it was announced that Iran and Russia have separately obtained some voter registration information, and that Iran has been using its information to send bizarre threatening emails to Democratic voters with the goal of swaying the election.
As usual, no evidence of these allegations has been provided. Democrats are saying this completely unsubstantiated claim proves the Iranians want to help Trump, Republicans are saying it proves they’re trying to help Biden. Both are ridiculous.
The Reuters write-up on the allegations cites one source who says it’s unclear who was actually behind the threatening emails, and that “the evidence remains inconclusive” that Iran had anything to do with them. Washington Post’s report notes that the allegation against Iran “was leveled without specific evidence”, and that metadata gathered from the emails points to “the use of servers in Saudi Arabia, Estonia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, according to numerous analysts.” No attempt is made to address this discrepancy.
If the US government held a press conference announcing that Iran is in the Middle East I’d have to check a map just to make sure it’s not an island in the South Pacific or something, that’s how much constant, shameless lying they’ve been doing about that nation lately. There is no reason whatsoever to believe unproven assertions by opaque government agencies who have an extensive and well-documented history of lying about governments they want to target.
This latest allegation adds to the steadily increasing pile of narratives the US intelligence cartel has been heaping onto public consciousness that no matter who wins the presidential election, a foreign enemy will have been partially responsible for it. The ODNI made an announcement in August that Russia is interfering to ensure Trump’s re-election while China and Iran are interfering in favor of Biden.
What this steadily-growing narrative means is that no matter who wins this election, America’s spies and cold warriors are going to be able to use it to advance their pre-planned agendas against the world’s few remaining nations which have resisted absorption into the US-centralized power alliance. In exactly the same way they’ve been able to use Russiagate to advance pre-planned cold war escalations against Russia during the Trump administration, they are ensuring their ability to roll out pre-planned escalations against Iran and China in the event of a Biden win.
Imagine for example if Biden gets in after the US intelligence cartel has successfully marketed the narrative to click-hungry media outlets that Iran has been meddling on his behalf. What kinds of political pressure will his administration be placed under if it wants to restore the Iran deal and begin rolling back sanctions and de-escalating tensions? Probably very similar to the pressures Trump was placed under to continually advance hawkish cold war escalations against Russia despite his stated desire for Washington and Moscow to get along.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78332/no-matter-who-wins-the-war-machine.html
The Cult of the Brave New Normal
In March, it was just a three-week lockdown, to flatten the curve so as not to overwhelm the NHS. The narrative has quickly evolved. It has progressed from what seemed a reasonable idea of keeping NHS bed space free based on the completely false Neil Fergusson prediction that hospitals would be overwhelmed by patients suffering from COVID19.
This never happened. Many weeks passed where face masks were not needed and then suddenly in July, long after the majority of supposed COVID19 deaths had occurred, face masks were made compulsory.
Indeed, the UK government advice from the likes of Chris Whitty and the World Health Organisation was that face masks were not effective in stopping the spread of COVID19 or in contracting it; science does not change that quick – anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.
The result is that we have now fallen deep into a Covidian Cult, a totalitarian psychotic narrative that has little connection to reality or to the facts.
The opposition to official government narratives regarding Covid19 are well known. I will not bother again telling you what is already known or can be readily ascertained.
Suffice to say, one just needs to type into Google “The Great Barrington Declaration” or ACU2020, where one can read about the doctors, scientists and lawyers who are opposing multi-governmental COVID19 restrictions and laws of social distancing, lockdown, mandatory/coerced consent to vaccines, and mandatory face masks, amongst other things.
Their essential argument, contra the multi-government policy on COVID19, is that virus is not the danger we are being told it is; the data on COVID19 is clear: we do not need to lockdown society, wreck the economy, or frighten people into death as they are scared to leave home for fear of catching COVID19 or seek medical treatment for non-COVID19 illness, which has happened.
Specifically, many doctors and scientists argue that face masks are not protective and could be very harmful. Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, which 40,000 medical, public health scientists and medical practitioners have signed, said that the use of face masks are not supported in the scientific literature. There is no randomised data to indicate if they are effective in reducing the spread of COVID19.
Indeed, face masks have no effectiveness in the spread of influenza. This is backed up by the fact that social distancing and face masks have not made a difference on yearly rate of influenza deaths in the UK.
On the 15th October 2020 the stark reality that we are being led by a psychotic Covidian cult narrative became even more evident; Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, announced with great glee that couples marrying would no longer have to wear face masks when tying the knot. Of course, the Priest, Vicar, or Registrar etc conducting the ceremonies never had to wear a mask to conduct the marriage ceremony. What kind of political leader would impose on couples, who for all intent and purposes will be living together and spending the night together after the wedding, have to wear a mask during their wedding ceremony? Would a mask be required for the happy couple to consummate their marriage on their wedding night?
This ridiculous face mask rule imposed by Nicola Sturgeon shows quite clearly the dark side of Scottish politics. It is ridiculous because Nicola Sturgeon (as well as all the other MSP’s and Holyrood staff) has met many people from other households indoors in parliament (before and after face masks were imposed), whilst at the same time continually telling the masses that they cannot meet people from other households indoors. One rule for me, one for thee.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/23/the-cult-of-the-brave-new-normal/
The Existential Crisis for Colleges: $1.64 Trillion in Student Debt and a Pandemic.
The fall season for those with teenagers exploring college options can be one filled with anxiety and uncertainty in more stable times. This is anything but a stable time. We have college tuition spiraling out of control for well over two decades while a pandemic forced students to learn online away from carefully manicured campuses. How do you decide on which college to attend if you are unable to visit the campus, explore the classes, or experience what has been so painstakingly packaged to embody the college going years? That is the question millions of families are grappling with in the middle of all the other questions the novel coronavirus has tossed at us. Colleges are having to face an existential challenge in what they truly believe in – do they want to educate our future or serve only as a finishing school for the affluent in our society?
The Student Debt Crisis
Here is a sobering number for you: $1.64 trillion. That is the amount of student debt floating in our economy. And this number continues to grow on a slow pace of unavoidable expansion. Many parents with K-12 aged kids went to college at record levels. With the world seeming so unstable, people are seeking to replicate some form of clarity. College seems to be the end work of raising “good” kids and reflecting a training ground for future success. But that is not always the case.
44 million Americans carry student debt. And many are unable to purchase homes, save for retirement, or purchase other goods because of the debt they carry once they graduate.
Is College Worth It?
This question is an important one. It should be noted that many people get into affordable state schools and go on to be highly successful. Yet there is an obsession in our society that only the elite colleges matter. Yet the truth of the matter is many of these schools do not offer anything dramatically different from other colleges aside from the elite access to their talent within the walls they conduct class. The actual knowledge and educating is largely ubiquitous today now with online content. The knowledge is out there. The campus experience and the credential seems critical to the price tag of a college degree.
Yet this messaging doesn’t really work beyond the top 100 or so elite colleges in this country. Yet the other 4,000 colleges utilize this messaging to justify their tuition. Many have built up fancy dining halls, spacious gyms, and other amenities that typically would go with resort living. But in a time of a pandemic, many students are enjoying none of this while taking classes over Zoom. The question of prices certainly comes up.
College does have a positive return on investment. But like any complicated topic, the devil is in the details. You have many Americans pursuing degrees in fields of study with little demand in the workforce. There is a reason that engineers make more than those with a history degree. So how do you assign value to a degree that can change your life?
It is important to separate cost and value. You can measure the worth of college based on cost because someone has to pay for it. The value side of the equation is more subjective and difficult to measure. But cost is clear. You have many private 4-year institutions charging $50,000 a year or more simply to attend. This is hard to comprehend when the typical American households makes a bit more than $50,000 per year to sustain all the mouths under that roof. There are more affordable options like community college and local state schools.
People need to explore deeper here because many colleges will offer a good education at a good price but if you go chasing a school simply because of a shiny title, you may be in deep debt before you know it.
http://www.mybudget360.com/the-existential-crisis-for-colleges-1-64-trillion-in-student-debt-and-a-pandemic/
GSA Gave FBI, Mueller 'Secret Access' To Trump Records
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the General Services Administration (GSA) undermined the Trump transition team by violating a memorandum of understanding between the Trump transition team and the GSA - when they complied with requests from the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller's office to provide private records on members of Trump's team, according to a Senate report released on Friday.
As Just the News notes:
The majority staff report from both the Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs claims that officials from both the FBI and Mueller's office "secretly sought and received access to the private records of Donald J. Trump’s presidential transition team, Trump for America, Inc."
"They did so," the report continues, "despite the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the Trump transition team and the General Services Administration…—the executive agency responsible for providing services to both candidates’ transition teams—that those records were the transition team’s private property that would not be retained at the conclusion of the transition."
According to the report, the GSA - without notifying the White House - reached out to the FBI following Michael Flynn's resignation as national security adviser and offered to retain records from the Trump transition team in early 2017. The records compiled eventually made their way into Mueller's office, according to the report.
"At bottom," continues the report, "the GSA and the FBI undermined the transition process by preserving Trump transition team records contrary to the terms of the memorandum of understanding, hiding that fact from the Trump transition team, and refusing to provide the team with copies of its own records."
"These actions have called into question the GSA’s role as a neutral service provider, and those doubts have consequences," the report reads. "Future presidential transition teams must have confidence that their use of government resources and facilities for internal communications and deliberations—including key decisions such as nominations, staffing, and significant policy changes—will not expose them to exploitation by third parties, including political opponents."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-and-gsa-gave-mueller-secret-access-trump-records
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>>11255994 London 'No New Normal' March draws thousands of weary UK citizens
>>11256015, >>11256381 Operation Dark Winter is also the basis of the storyline in a Tom Clancy's bood "The Division
>>11256042 Bidens sought to pitch Dem access, influence to investors tied to Chinese military, emails show
>>11256054 Anti-Netanyahu protests take place throughout Israel, reports of violence
>>11256076 Bullock Cashes in on Corporate Donations
>>11256139 FBI continuing to play the role of deep state guardian by covering for Joe and Hunter Biden in latest bid to harm Trump
>>11256212 Missiles Launched From Hmeimim Air Base Hit Fuel Traffickers In Northern Aleppo
>>11256268, >>11256276, >>11256334, >>11256400, >>11256409 Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K.was assassinated, John A McCone.
>>11256278 The Existential Crisis for Colleges: $1.64 Trillion in Student Debt and a Pandemic.
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>>11256394 Archbishop Pizzaballa appointed Jerusalem Patriarch
>>11256395 2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics
>>11256447 Hearings to examine Section 230 immunity; focusing on big tech.
>>11256468 GSA Gave FBI, Mueller 'Secret Access' To Trump Records
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>>11256578 Lisa Murkowski announces support for Amy Coney Barrett during rare Saturday Senate session
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This Baker is a gatekeeper.
Compare his bun to this
This Is How A State Goes Bankrupt, Illinois Edition
Somewhere back in the depths of the 20th century, a bunch of governors, mayors, and public sector union leaders got together and cooked up one of history’s greatest financial scams. They would offer teachers, cops, and firefighters extremely generous pensions but would avoid raising taxes to fund the resulting future obligations. Grateful workers would vote to re-elect their benefactors, while taxpayers would appreciate the combination of excellent public services and low taxes.
The beauty of the scheme flowed from its demographics: Most of the original public sector workers were young and therefore decades away from retirement, so the crime wouldn’t be discovered until long after the architects retired rich and revered.
Now, however, those baby boomer workers are retiring and the scam is revealed for all to see. Even in the absence of a pandemic lockdown, mass defaults on state and city obligations would be inevitable in the coming decade. But with the lockdown, they’re coming next year.
So what do the worst offenders do? What they’ve always done, of course, which is to look for ways to paper over the mess for one more election cycle. Illinois is the poster child for state financial mismanagement, with unfunded liabilities that have grown from virtually nothing to $137 billion in just the past two decades.
https://www.dollarcollapse.com/state-bankrupt-illinois/