Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:31 a.m. No.12882829   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2873 >>2894 >>2910 >>2958 >>3028 >>3053 >>3094 >>3101 >>3137 >>3148 >>3171 >>3173 >>3191 >>3398 >>3483 >>3508 >>3547

Hillary Clinton: If GOP Senators Don’t Convict, It Proves That the Jury ‘Includes His Co-Conspirators’

 

Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent a warning to Republican senators ahead of the first day of arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump concluding that they — the jurors — will prove that they are “his co-conspirators” if they do not ultimately side with Democrats and convict him.

 

“If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense,” Clinton said on Wednesday. “It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators”:

 

Clinton also retweeted a video of the deceptively edited video presented by lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who promised to impeach Trump before the former president formally took office and, notably, objected to the certification of the 2016 election results in 2017.

 

“As Rep. Jamie Raskin said of Donald Trump inciting an insurrection as president: ‘If that’s not an impeachable offense, there is no such thing,’” Clinton said:

 

While the footage moved Democrat lawmakers and members of the establishment media in an emotional way, the cherry-picked footage gave the false impression Trump directly incited his supporters, encouraging them to commit lawless deeds and engage in acts of violence at the U.S. Capitol — a prominent left-wing assertion not based in fact.

 

Democrats conveniently omitted a key part of Trump’s January 6 speech in the video, where he told supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

 

Former U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) posed a question on Tuesday, asking whether the selectively edited video broke House Rules focusing specifically on the “dissemination by electronic means, including by social media, of any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with the intent to mislead the public.”

 

Six GOP senators sided with Democrats on Tuesday, deeming the trial constitutional after hours of debate. Five of the votes came as no surprise, as they — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ben Sasse (D-NE), and Pat Toomey (R-PA) — also sided with Democrats after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) raised similar concerns over the constitutionality of the trial last month. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joined them on Tuesday.

 

Opening arguments begin at noon.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/10/hillary-clinton-if-gop-senators-dont-convict-it-proves-that-the-jury-includes-his-co-conspirators/

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:35 a.m. No.12882874   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2982

Stepmum found guilty of boiling two-year-old boy in bathtub

 

A woman, who took revenge on her husband’s two-year-old son in the most unimaginable way has been found guilty of murder.

 

A woman has been jailed for 20 years after she was found guilty of boiling her husband’s two-year-old son alive in Jordan, Middle East.

 

The sick act followed a brawl between the couple on October 1, 2018.

 

The woman, whose name was not disclosed, was asked by her husband to take care of his children, aged 4 and 2.

 

But after a “heated argument” the stepmother decided to “take revenge by killing the victim”, according to court files.

 

“The defendant prepared boiled water, poured it into the bathtub and placed the victim inside,” court documents said.

 

When the little boy started screaming, the woman removed him from the boiling tub when he was taken to a nearby hospital, according to court papers.

 

But he died two weeks later as a result of his first-degree burns.

 

Court documents also revealed the woman often “abused” and “mistreated” the children.

 

The woman’s legal team contested the verdict after she argued that she never confessed to the murder.

 

However, Jordan’s Supreme Court ruled that the Criminal Court proceedings had been accurate and that the defendant was given the appropriate punishment.

 

Meanwhile, a woman in the UK was last December found guilty of pouring scalding water over her 19-month-old daughter.

 

Gracie Crowder was pronounced dead shortly after being rushed to hospital with deep burns covering around 65 per cent of her body.

 

After the child went into cardiac arrest, a “panicked” Katie Crowder, 26, then took her daughter to her parents’ home in Nottinghamshire screaming, “She’s dead, she’s dead.”

 

During the trial, jurors heard how Crowder scalded her daughter with boiling water on March 6, 2020, then spent an hour “clearing up”.

 

In December, she was found guilty of the girl’s murder. She was also found with cocaine in her system the hour before Gracie died.

 

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/stepmum-found-guilty-of-boiling-twoyearold-boy-in-bathtub/news-story/589f7e870f3e21d26d52d806c680ec81

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:37 a.m. No.12882902   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3171 >>3183 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

WA police seize millions in cash, kilos of meth in truck and van stings

 

More than 175kg of meth and $8 million in cash have been seized by WA Police in a sting targeting interstate drug smuggling.

The bust includes a truck and two vans stopped in quick succession on a highway south of Perth last week.

 

Drug and firearm squad detectives allegedly seized almost $4.5 million in cash in a truck in Fairbridge.

 

https://www.9news.com.au/national/wa-western-australian-police-drug-seizure-truck-van-fairbridge-meckering/78b12a81-ce07-45d8-a123-9b6d71e2d314

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:40 a.m. No.12882924   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3171 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

Children Need Less Formulaic Teaching or Risk Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence

 

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and new technology has already provided huge changes across traditional industries.

 

With AI becoming more commonplace in our everyday lives, arguments for teaching children skills that go beyond the capabilities of AI are becoming more frequent, with many concerned that autonomous machines will likely replace human counterparts in most future professions.

 

Dr Lucinda McKnight, a Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, Australia, has examined this story in greater detail.

 

Sputnik: Could you tell us more about your research and the impact AI is having on writing?

 

Lucinda McKnight: My research involves working with teachers, and working in schools, interviewing teachers in schools, and talking to them about how they teach writing, how they plan for writing the kinds of activities that they do, and this is in secondary schools in Victoria, which is a state in Australia. I've found in my recent research with schools that teachers are feeling very constrained in their teaching of writing, that our national testing regime means that teachers feel pressure to teach writing in very formulaic ways. Students have to write in essays of five paragraphs and no more, with an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. They're not allowed to have more than three ideas, each of those paragraphs has to be in a certain order, with a topic sentence at the beginning, and written to a formula. So, even when teachers want to do more creative things when the assessment values this kind of formulaic approach, it's very hard for them. Meanwhile, I'm also aware because I'm a writer myself, that in the world out there AI (artificial intelligence) is having this huge impact on how writing is happening, and I'm interested in my research in the gap between the way the world is moving there, and the way school writing is becoming always more traditional, and more narrow.

 

Sputnik: What practices must children and future generations adopt, in their writing and grammar, to ensure that they aren't replaced by these AI-based applications?

 

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202102101082036828-children-need-less-formulaic-teaching-or-risk-being-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence-says-expert/

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:42 a.m. No.12882947   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3092 >>3171 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

Dirty Mitch McConnell Declines to Whip GOP Senators for Acquittal of President Trump

 

On January 6th, President Donald Trump spoke to over 500,000 supporters at the Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC.

The rally was the last-ditch attempt to prevent the theft of the 2020 presidential election.

 

During his speech, President Trump told the crowd, “I know that everyone here will soon be walking over the Capitol Builing to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

 

The chaos at the US Capitol had already started before President Trump even finished his speech.

 

There was also an Antifa rally scheduled near the US Capitol at 11 AM that day.

 

The next week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporter he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses.

 

And now there are reports that McConnell is not pushing Republican Senators to acquit President Trump in the latest impeachment scam. In fact, McConnell does not know yet how he will vote!

 

Bloomberg reported:

 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is signaling to fellow Republicans that the final vote on Donald Trump’s impeachment is matter of conscience and that senators who disputed the constitutionality of the trial could still vote to convict the former president, according to three people familiar with his thinking.

 

The Kentucky Republican has also suggested that he hasn’t made up his mind how he’ll vote, two of the people said, even though he voted Tuesday to declare it unconstitutional for the Senate to hear the case against a former president.

 

That position is starkly different than McConnell’s declaration at the start of Trump’s first impeachment trial last year that he did not consider himself an impartial juror.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/dirty-mitch-mcconnell-declines-whip-gop-senators-acquittal-president-trump/

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:49 a.m. No.12883022   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Peter Dutton's office fast-tracked one-off grant proposal days after donation given to support him

 

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton'soffice fast-tracked a one-off $880,000 grant proposal to a retail association eight days after it made a $1,500 political donation to the Queensland Liberal National Party — at an event Mr Dutton attended — for the purpose of personally supporting him.

Key points:

 

The National Retail Association (NRA) made a $1,500 donation to the Queensland LNP, saying it was to support Peter Dutton

One week later Mr Dutton asked that an application by the NRA for a funding grant "be considered sooner"

Mr Dutton said any suggestion he would be influenced "by a lawful donation to the LNP" was "false and highly defamatory"

 

7.30 can reveal that Mr Dutton awarded a one-off "national security and criminal justice" grant to the Queensland-based National Retail Association, which represents employers in the retail and fast food industry.

 

The revelation is part of a cache of ministerial briefings obtained by 7.30 under freedom of information laws that set out Mr Dutton's awarding of grants from within a multi-million-dollar fund earmarked to support crime prevention efforts.

 

The grant was not awarded through any open or competitive grant scheme, but was awarded on a one-off basis by Mr Dutton. It appears Mr Dutton has only awarded a handful of one-off grants since he became Home Affairs Minister.

 

Legal experts have told 7.30 that Mr Dutton's consideration of the grant funding after the association donated to the Queensland LNP may give rise to a perceived conflict of interest, which could be considered a breach of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's ministerial standards.

 

Those standards require ministers to "observe relevant standards of procedural fairness" and to "ensure that official decisions made by them as ministers are unaffected by bias or irrelevant consideration, such as consideration of private advantage or disadvantage".

 

"When the minister is exercising discretion to award a very large sum of money to a party, which only one week before had made a donation for his ultimate benefit, really there's obvious room to infer a conflict," Geoffrey Watson SC, a director of the Centre for Public Integrity, told 7.30.

 

"Without knowing what Mr Dutton was thinking … it just looks on the face of it as though there was a breach of the code.

 

"But of course, he may have a good explanation for that. He should give it."

 

Mr Dutton controls the approval of these one-off grants, the amount of funding awarded and any conditions attached to the grants.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-10/peter-dutton-office-fast-tracked-grant-proposal-after-donation/13126496

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:52 a.m. No.12883048   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3171 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

Canada to fund opposition in Belarus and names Russia and China its main enemies

 

Canada is changing its geopolitical intentions. Apparently, this country, which has always been passive in the face of American decisions, wants to take more aggressive positions on the international stage. The Canadian government recently announced that it will finance opponents against Lukashenko in Belarus and now the Canadian intelligence director has made a note regarding Moscow and Beijing as “the biggest threats to Canada”. Ottawa visibly wants to take more incisive actions in the international scenario, perhaps because it doubts Washington’s ability to guarantee its interests at the moment. However, the country has no material conditions to carry out its plans and may be taking positions which are complicated to maintain in the long term.

 

Canadian positioning on the international arena has always been previously determined by its largest partner, the US. Washington has historically held a leadership role in bilateral relations, and this has always been accepted peacefully by Ottawa’s officials. Certainly, nothing will change in this regard and a rupture of interests between Americans and Canadians seems very unlikely in the near future. However, due to a number of issues, it is possible to say that Washington has become increasingly unable to maintain a foreign policy as broad as in the past, which has motivated Canada to make some decisions that in the past would have been taken first by the US.

 

Examples of this type of more aggressive attitude on the part of Canada can be seen in some recent events. Earlier this week, Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau announced in a note the donation of 2.25 million Canadian dollars to political opponents of Lukashenko in Belarus. The money will go to all organizations working to “promote democracy” in Belarus. The note also observes that the country had already sent 600,000 Canadian dollars to help opposition organizations, in particular women and representatives of the “independent media”. In fact, oppositionists receiving foreign funding tend to increase their activities, which tends to generate more violence on the streets and social instability in the country. By promoting open funding for these organizations, Ottawa creates a strong diplomatic crisis, not only with Belarus, but also with Russia, which maintains good ties with Lukashenko and condemns Western interventionism.

 

Another fact worth mentioning is a recent statement by the Canadian intelligence director on Russia and China. During a conference, David Vigneault, director of the Canadian secret service (CSIS), singled out Moscow and particularly Beijing as the states most involved in “human and cyber threats” against Ottawa. The Chinese role in the alleged “cyber-attacks” suffered by Canada was emphasized, with China being considered the main threat to Canadian national security – although no evidence of the existence of such cyber-attacks has been presented. This speech, however, does not come about by chance. Previously, in November 2020, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) had previously claimed in a report that China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are Canada’s biggest threats to cybersecurity. China and Russia vehemently deny that they pose any kind of threat to Western countries, responding that such claims are devoid of any evidence, being nothing more than justifications for geopolitical maneuvers and international sanctions.

 

Biden’s election represented a resurgence of old American foreign policy, with a focus on preserving global hegemony. The Trump administration, marked by a huge geopolitical decline, had caused great discontent among Washington’s international allies because it had supposedly “decreased security” in these countries in the face of their common geopolitical rivals. However, even though the West celebrated Biden’s victory, there is still a collective distrust of the new president’s real ability to comply with his bold geopolitical plans. In other words, Biden undoubtedly wants to regain American global dominance, but it may be too hard for any American government to do so.

 

https://alethonews.com/2021/02/10/canada-to-fund-opposition-in-belarus-and-names-russia-and-china-its-main-enemies/

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:53 a.m. No.12883059   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Disney Is Closing Blue Sky Studios, Creators of Ice Age

 

The Walt Disney Company has decided to dissolve Blue Sky, one of its animation studios, starting in April. As a result, production on that studio’s 2022 release Nimona has been cancelled.

 

Disney absorbed Blue Sky, the studio behind hit films like Ice Age and Rio, in its 2019 acquisition of Fox. Though Disney already owned two animation studios, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, originally it seemed like Blue Sky would remain running. However, due to financial hardships caused by the covid-19 pandemic, Disney has now decided three’s a crowd and will close the studio as well as let go of its 450 employees.

 

“Given the current economic realities, after much consideration and evaluation, we have made the difficult decision to close filmmaking operations at Blue Sky Studios,” a Disney spokesperson told Deadline, which broke the news.

 

According to that piece, “Disney will be working with the employees at the Greenwich, CT-based animation house to explore open positions at the other internal studios.”

 

Founded in 1987, Blue Sky is best known for the Ice Age franchise, which has grossed over $3 billion, and movies like Ferdinand, which was nominated for Best Animated Oscar. Other titles include Epic, Horton Hears a Who, The Peanuts Movie, and last year’s Spies in Disguise. The studio’s latest project, an adaptation of the comic Nimona, still had almost a year of production to be completed, hence the cancellation.

 

Disney retains rights to all of these films, though, so a planned Ice Age show coming to Disney+ is still in the works. While cool stuff like this week’s WandaVision cameo might be the main thing fans think about when they think of the Fox deal, news like this reminds us of the not-so-fun side of big business in Hollywood.

 

https://io9.gizmodo.com/disney-is-closing-blue-sky-studios-creators-of-ice-age-1846231059

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:54 a.m. No.12883086   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3146 >>3171 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

Macron, other top French officials condemn “woke” theories being imported from U.S.

 

French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned “woke” social justice theories that are being “entirely imported from the United States.” His condemnation of social justice activism follows concerns raised by top French politicians, journalists and intellectuals who have warned that “woke concepts” regarding race, gender and post-colonialism pose a serious threat to France.

 

“Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture,” the New York Times reported.

 

“With its echoes of the American culture wars, the battle began inside French universities but is being played out increasingly in the media. Politicians have been weighing in more and more, especially following a turbulent year during which a series of events called into question tenets of French society."

 

According to the Times, Macron’s remarks were made in a speech in 2020, in which he warned about the threat posed by American “woke leftism.” He described social justice activism as an existential threat to French sovereignty that “fuels secessionism,” “abets Islamism,” “gnaws at national unity” and “attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.”

 

Macron warned that numerous academic topics that France used to excel in “have been undermined and we have abandoned them,” as a result of political divisions created by woke ideology.

 

“And in so doing, we have left the intellectual debate to others, to those outside of the Republic by ideologizing it, sometimes yielding to other academic traditions,” Macron said.

 

“I am thinking of Anglo-Saxon traditions based on a different history, which is not ours,” he continued. “And when I see certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States, with their problems, which I respect and which exist, but which are just added to ours, I say to myself that it is reasonable to make this choice. And so we must, very clearly, re-invest, on a massive scale, in the field of social sciences, history, understanding of civilizations by creating posts, by stepping up dialogue, academic and scientific debate in order not to allow the knowledge, the understanding of Islam as a religion, of the civilization it underpins and its contribution to our country and our continent to become ideological and exclusively political debates.”

 

Jean-Michel Blanquer, France’s National Education Minister, echoed Macron’s remarks, according to the Daily Wire. He described “Islamo-leftism” as a destructive force that was “wreaking havoc on the university.”

 

https://www.rebelnews.com/macron_other_top_french_officials_condemn_woke_theories_being_imported_from_us

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:56 a.m. No.12883119   🗄️.is 🔗kun

United States drops in global corruption index on election aftermath

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - "Serious departures" from democratic norms were a core factor in driving the United States to its lowest in eight years on a global corruption index in 2020, watchdog Transparency International said on Thursday.

 

The group's annual report on business leaders' perceptions of corruption - which gave the United States a score of 67 out of 100, down from 69 in 2019 - also cited weak oversight of the country's $1 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

 

That put the United States behind Bhutan and Uruguay in 25th place, down from 23rd in 2019.

 

Referring to alleged conflicts of interest and abuse of office at the highest level, it described what it called the U.S. president's attempts to pressure election officials and incite violence in order to change certified vote counts as "among the most serious departures from ethical democratic practice."

 

Denmark and New Zealand continued to top the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), both with 88 points, while Syria, Somalia and South Sudan are still at the bottom.

 

Delia Ferreira Rubio, who chairs the global civil society group, said the COVID-19 pandemic was also a corruption crisis.

 

"The past year has tested governments like no other in memory, and those with higher levels of corruption have been less able to meet the challenge," she said in a statement.

 

Transparency International noted that Uruguay, with the highest score in Latin America, invests heavily in health care, which has helped its response to COVID-19, while low-ranked Bangladesh has seen corruption flourish during the pandemic.

 

It also said that countries with more corruption had shown the worst record on the rule of law during the crisis, including the Philippines, where it said the response to COVID-19 had brought major attacks on human rights and media freedom.

 

The group said that 26 countries had significantly improved their scores since 2012, including Ecuador, Greece, Guyana, Myanmar and South Korea.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/united-states-drops-global-corruption-083611382.html

 

up is down left is right

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:57 a.m. No.12883128   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3171 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

The UN Admits That The Paris Climate Deal Was A Fraud

 

Global Hot Air: Here's a United Nations climate report that environmentalists probably don't want anybody to read. It says that even if every country abides by the grand promises they made last year in Paris to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet would still be "doomed."

 

When President Obama hitched America to the Paris accords in 2016, he declared that it was "the moment that we finally decided to save our planet." And when Trump pulled out of the deal this year, he was berated by legions of environmentalists for killing it.

 

But it turns out that the Paris accord was little more than a sham that will do nothing to "save the planet."

 

According to the latest annual UN report on the "emissions gap," the Paris agreement will provide only a third of the cuts in greenhouse gas that environmentalists claim is needed to prevent catastrophic warming. If every country involved in those accords abides by their pledges between now and 2030 — which is a dubious proposition — temperatures will still rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2100. The goal of the Paris agreement was to keep the global temperature increase to under 2 degrees.

 

Eric Solheim, head of the U.N. Environment Program, which produces the annual report, said this week that "One year after the Paris Agreement entered into force, we still find ourselves in a situation where we are not doing nearly enough to save hundreds of millions of people from a miserable future. Governments, the private sector and civil society must bridge this catastrophic climate gap."

 

The report says unless global greenhouse gas emissions peak before 2020, the CO2 levels will be way above the goal set for 2030, which, it goes on, will make it "extremely unlikely that the goal of holding global warming to well below 2 degrees C can still be reached."

 

Not to worry. The UN claims that closing this gap will be easy enough, if nations set their collective minds to it.

 

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-un-admits-that-the-paris-climate-deal-was-a-fraud/

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 11:59 a.m. No.12883167   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis”

 

Haiti’s president’s term has come to an end, but he refuses to step down. Solidarity is urgent.

 

As per usual, news on Haiti in the United States remains limited, except for during periods of “crisis.” As if on cue, U.S. media began reporting on Haiti’s “constitutional crisis” this week.

 

Sunday, February 7 is the end of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s term, according to the constitution. He refuses to step down. This week, the opposition called for a two-day general strike, uniting around a transition with the head of Haiti’s Supreme Court stepping in.

 

Most reporting failed to note the international role, and particularly that of the United States, in creating this “crisis.” And nearly all focused only on one segment of the opposition: leaders of Haiti’s political parties.

 

Predictably, foreign media led their stories with violence. True, the security situation is deteriorating: Nou Pap Dòmi denounced 944 killings in the first eight months of 2020. But leaving the discussion at “gang violence” whitewashes its political dimensions: on January 22, leaders of the so-called “G9” (the group of 9), a federation of gangs led by former police officer Jimmy Chérisier, alias “Barbecue,” held a march in defense of the Haitian president. National Network for the Defence of Human Rights (RNDDH) reported in August 2020 that the government federated the gangs in the first place.

 

This “gangsterization” occurred without parliamentary sanction. On January 13, 2020—a day after the 10th anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake—parliament’s terms ended, leaving President Moïse to rule by decree. One such decree came in November as the wave of kidnapping increased: the president outlawed some forms of protest, calling it “terrorism.”

 

Readers in the United States should not need to be reminded of white supremacists’ violent attack on Congress and the U.S. Constitution on January 6 that killed at least six people, on the heels of coup attempts in Michigan and other vigilante attacks. In the United States, police killed 226 Black people last year. The irony of U.S. officials opining on violence, democracy, or the rule of law is apparently invisible to some readers.

 

In addition to parallels of state violence against Black people in the United States and Haiti, missing from most stories is context about the specific roles played by previous U.S. administrations—from both parties—in fomenting and increasing that violence.

 

Haiti’s ruling Tèt Kale party got its start in 2011, when bawdy carnival singer Michel Martelly was muscled into the election’s second round by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the United Nations Special Envoy and co-chair of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC) Bill Clinton.

 

This support from the Clintons, the United States, and the so-called Core Group (including France, Canada, Brazil, the European Union, and the Organization of American States), never wavered, despite the increasingly clear slide toward authoritarianism. In 2012, Martelly installed allied mayors in all but a handful of towns. Then parliament’s terms expired in 2015, the five-year anniversary of the earthquake, with promises of holding elections never materializing. The vote that did finally lead to the election of Martelly’s hand-picked successor, Jovenel Moïse, was fraudulent. Yet the United States and the Core Group continued to play along—and offer financial support—until finally the electoral commission formally called for its annulment. Because of international pressure, the final round was held weeks after Hurricane Matthew ravaged large segments of the country. It was the lowest voter turnout in the country’s history.

 

Why would so-called “democratic” countries continue to support the Tèt Kale state? What was in it for Empire?

 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56300.htm

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, noon No.12883179   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Twilight Zone Of The “Brand-New Global Narrative”

 

The “Civilized World”, led by the US, hand in hand with Big Tech and MSM, is reaping the fruits of the ‘new normality’ it has created.

 

On February 8th, UK media reported that a nuclear submarine wartime officer – Lieutenant Claire Jenkins had been shooting pornographic videos with her lover. She goes by the online handle of Curry Taylor.

 

She was doing so at the Faslane nuclear submarine HQ, HMNB Clyde, near Glasgow. Even after the news had broken and she had come under investigation, she still released a video and photos on her OnlyFans website. The most recent one had the caption “He really used me.” Her partner in crime is Leading Seaman Liam Doddington, also based at HMNB Clyde.

 

It turns out that the British high command was not overly concerned about pornography being produced by a wartime officer of a $1 billion nuclear submarine – the HMS Artful.

 

It was more concerned over the possibility that Jenkins and Doddington could potentially be blackmailed for information by foreign entities and spies. The porn part was fine, apparently.

 

Then, on February 9th, the Royal Navy launched another investigation into a second female sailor. The second sailor’s identity is unknown, but she is also uploading explicit videos online, together with sultry photographs. She goes by the alter-ego of Izzy Bell, a 5ft, 21-year-old “submissive princess”, and has gathered more than 10,000 likes on OnlyFans.

 

And while this is largely harmless, another part of the new normal is more concerning.

 

The Biden Administration, formally less supportive of Israel than its predecessor, is going to provide Israel with $9bn worth of weapons. And because Tel Aviv needs to provide an upfront payment to fund some Biden project in the US, they could actually receive the money from a US bank as a loan.

 

Meanwhile, former US President Donald Trump is having the impeachment trial against him retroactively moving forward. The Democrats and some Republicans are attempting to “rectify” the tragedy that was the Capitol Building storming.

 

If this had taken place in another country, it would have been called a “democratic action” by its citizens. In the US however it ran counter to the mainstream narrative.

 

The new normal is in – hypocrisy, absurdities, lies and going to extreme lengths for profit and for justification of one’s own questionable actions. It’s rather reminiscent of the old normal, but don’t tell anybody.

 

https://southfront.org/the-twilight-zone-of-the-brand-new-global-narrative/

Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 12:10 p.m. No.12883291   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3357 >>3398 >>3483 >>3547

https://t.me/s/linwoodspeakstruth

 

Lin Wood

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Anonymous ID: afca89 Feb. 10, 2021, 12:18 p.m. No.12883404   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3483 >>3547

Tony Blair’s Take on Global Vaccine Strategy Leaves Online Users Fuming

 

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair published an article on vaccine production and equitable distribution. He used his NGO, Institute for Global Change, as a platform to argue that unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines is both unfair and unsustainable.

 

Blair argued that given the emerging Covid-19 strains in different countries, the "whole world is in peril if we allow this situation to persist."

 

“We need to create a globally co-ordinated vaccine strategy now, bringing together representatives from science, medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, manufacturing, financiers, distribution and logistics to consider how to accelerate vaccine production and oversee allocation and procurement processes with governments,” Blair wrote.

 

His article was met with a bulk of scepticism and a myriad of reminders of his controversial political past. Users on social media were fast to point out that in contrast to his decisions as prime minister, Blair was “about saving lives now.”

 

Other users also brought up Blair’s 2003 decision to commit Britain to war in Iraq.

 

Meanwhile, in his article, Blair called to “expand Africa’s vaccine manufacturing capacity in particular, as the only continent without this capability, and enable it to make its own biologics, such as antivirals and antibodies.”

 

He argued that as the pandemic exposed “the lack of resilience in global vaccine manufacture”, the need to empower every continent to produce Covid-19 jabs is ever more important.

 

“This will require significantly scaling up support for local pharmaceutical industries,” former UK PM added.

 

Recently Blair has criticised the actions of the EU to briefly override the Brexit deal by triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in an attempt to restrict shipments of Covid-19 vaccines.

 

He called EU’s actions foolish and unacceptable, adding that fortunately Brussels withdrew its threat.

 

Some users have not been appreciative of Blair’s “interventions” in current affairs. Others added that in his statements Blair was a “war criminal” crawling out “from under his rock.”

 

The Chilcot Report into Britain’s role in the 2003 Iraq war has presented a range of evidence that demonstrated that Parliament and the country were misled by Tony Blair in the run up to the conflict.

 

https://sputniknews.com/uk/202102101082034611-tony-blairs-take-on-global-vaccine-strategy-leaves-online-users-fuming/