Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:22 a.m. No.8001754   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1771 >>1801 >>1825 >>1837 >>1969 >>1975 >>2005 >>2018 >>2097

Lindsey Graham Explains How Republicans Gladly Agreed to Hold Acquittal Vote After SOTU Address and Screw Trump

 

Senator Lindsey Graham joined Maria Bartiromo this weekend on Sunday Morning Futures.

 

During their discussion Maria Bartiromo asked Lindsey Graham explained why the Republican Senate agreed to hold the final acquittal vote on Wednesday.

 

Maria Bartiromo: Why will the vote to acquit the president be on Wednesday? Why not tomorrow?

 

Senator Lindsey Graham: Well the Democrats have the ability to drag out the trial. There was an agreement reached to do it Wednesday at 4 to allow some Democratic candidates to go to Iowa. I think that had a lot to do with it. But we’re going to turn the page on impeachment at 4 o-clock on Wednesday.

 

Once again the GOP let down President Trump.

They could not let him have his VICTORY SPEECH at the State of the Union Address.

How awful.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/lindsey-graham-explains-how-republicans-gladly-agreed-to-hold-acquittal-vote-after-sotu-address-and-screw-trump-video/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:24 a.m. No.8001767   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1780

Several people stabbed, police shoot knifeman in London ‘terrorist-related incident’

 

London police have shot a man dead in the city’s Streatham area in a “terrorist-related” incident. Several people have been stabbed, and video footage shared on social media shows armed police and ambulances on the street.

 

Armed police officers descended on the London suburb of Streatham on Sunday afternoon, and shot a knife-wielding criminal dead.

 

The Metropolitan Police said on Twitter that a “number of people have been stabbed,” and that the incident has been declared “terrorist-related.”

 

Video footage shared on social media shows a man lying on the ground outside a shuttered pharmacy, as armed police officers train their weapons on his unmoving body.

 

London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, thanked police for their swift response, and said“Terrorists seek to divide us and destroy our way of life - here in London we will never let them succeed.”

 

The incident comes two months after police in London shot a jihadist terrorist dead on London Bridge, after he stabbed two people to death. The murderer had a history of terror offenses and was described by a judge several years earlier as a “serious jihadi.” He was on parole at the time of his stabbing spree.

 

https://www.rt.com/uk/479904-police-shoot-knifeman-london-streatham/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:27 a.m. No.8001784   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1792 >>1794

Senator Tom Cotton Shreds China's Official Virus Story, Warns Of "Super Laboratory" Proximity

 

A United States senator is casting major doubt on the Chinese government’s official story on the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak, instead hinting that a biosafety laboratory working with the deadliest pathogens in the world could be the true source.

 

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas dismantled a claim from China’s communist regime Thursday that pinned the coronavirus outbreak on a market selling dead and live animals.

 

“China claimed — for almost two months — that coronavirus had originated in a Wuhan seafood market,” Cotton wrote on Twitter.

 

“That is not the case.”

 

In a video accompanying his post, Cotton explained that the Wuhan wet market (which Cotton incorrectly referred to as a seafood market) has been shown by experts to not be the source of the deadly contagion.

 

Cotton referenced a Lancet study which showed that many of the first cases of the novel coronavirus, including patient zero, had no connection to the wet market — devastatingly undermining China’s claim.

 

“As one epidemiologist said: ‘That virus went into the seafood market before it came out of the seafood market.’ We still don’t know where it originated,” Cotton said.

 

“I would note that Wuhan also has China’s only bio-safety level four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.”

 

Watch Cotton’s full comments below.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/senator-tom-cotton-shreds-chinas-official-virus-story-warns-super-laboratory-proximity

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:28 a.m. No.8001788   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1907 >>1984 >>2075

West Point Now Forces Cadets to Learn About “Gender Norms” and “Toxic Masculinity” – Forces Them to Watch Transgenderism and Gay Lifestyle Documentaries

 

America’s premiere military academy West Point is now forcing cadets to learn about “gender norms” and “toxic masculinity.” The cadets are also forced to watch documentaries on transgenderism and gay lifestyle.

 

These sessions were part of their “Honorably Living Day” that was hosted by West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams.

 

All classes were cancelled so the cadets, faculty and staff could come together for a day of discussions and reflection.

 

And this was the third time in the last year that West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams shut down classes for an Honorable Living Day.

 

The Military Times reported:

 

All classes were cancelled at the U.S. Military Academy Jan. 14 and work was set aside as the cadets, staff and faculty came together to talk about how to live honorably, build cohesive teams and combat issues related to sexual assault and harassment at the academy.

 

This marked the third Honorable Living Day hosted by the academy during the tenure of West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams.

 

The first was held last February and brought the West Point community together to discuss the results of the biennial Service Academy Gender Relations survey and begin formulating responses to eliminate sexual assault and harassment at the academy. USMA stood-down again last semester to build upon that discussion and call cadets, staff and faculty to action to combat issues at the academy and improve the culture in order to combat sexual assault.

 

Tuesday, the entire academy once again held a stand down day. This time the goal was to expand the discussion beyond sexual assault and talk about how all aspects of the community can come together and promote an atmosphere of honorable living to include diversity, inclusion and acceptance of people from differing backgrounds, races and genders.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/west-point-now-forces-cadets-to-learn-about-gender-norms-and-toxic-masculinity-forces-them-to-watch-transgenderism-and-gay-lifestyle-documentaries/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:34 a.m. No.8001834   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1850

Italy Declares State of Emergency Over Wuhan Coronavirus

 

The Italian Council of Ministers has declared a state of emergency due to the risk to public health posed by the spread of the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.

 

The council stated there was now a “declaration of the state of emergency as a consequence of the health risk associated with the onset of pathologies deriving from transmissible viral agents,” Il Giornale reports.

 

Among the measures enacted by the declaration are 5 million euros that will be allocated toward handling cases of the virus.

 

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stated earlier this week that the country had also cancelled all air travel between Italy and China.

 

“We are the first country in the European Union that adopts a precautionary measure of this kind,” he said.

 

Conte went on to add that despite the new measures, members of the public should not be alarmed, claiming “there is no reason to create panic and social alarm.”

 

The moves come after a cruise ship with 7,000 passengers on board was quarantined this week by Italian authorities after a 54-year-old woman and her partner showed possible signs of being infected with the coronavirus.

 

Italian authorities have also confirmed two cases of the virus among Chinese tourists who are currently being quarantined in one of Italy’s infectious disease hospitals.

 

Meanwhile, a bar in a tourist area of Rome has sparked controversy for putting up a sign banning all people from China from entering their premises.

 

The bar, which is just a short distance from the hotel where the Chinese couple diagnosed with the virus were staying, displayed signs in English, Mandarin, and Japanese saying: “Given the latest international security measures, all people coming from China are not allowed to have access in this place. We apologise for the inconvenience.”

 

Police were called and warned that the sign could be discriminatory but the owners of the establishment argued they were just trying to protect the health of their guests.

 

Elsewhere in Europe, members of the Chinese and Asian communities have slammed reactions to the coronavirus as racist.

 

In France, the hashtag “JeNeSuisPasUnVirus” — “I’m not a virus” — was used to highlight perceived racism.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/02/italy-declares-state-of-emergency-over-wuhan-coronavirus/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:35 a.m. No.8001849   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1882

Boris 5G Deal with Huawei Is ‘Madness’ – Hong Kong Watch Founder

 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei access to the United Kingdom’s 5G infrastructure is “madness” says the founder of Hong Kong Watch.

 

In an exclusive Breitbart London video, Benedict Rogers, the founder of Hong Kong Watch, said that allowing Huawei to help build the British 5G network is “one of the worst and most unwise decisions in recent times”.

 

“If Boris Johnson goes ahead with allowing Huawei access to our 5G infrastructure, it is going to leave all of us open, to our data, even our basic freedoms being vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party,” warned Rogers.

 

“At best it severely strains and potentially really damages our critical relationships with some of our closest friends. As we leave the European Union, we were expecting to do a really good trade deal with the United States, with the Trump administration, who made it clear that the Huawei deal could jeopardize that trade deal,” he continued.

 

“To be putting at risk our crucial friendships and our critical national security and economic relationships for the sake of this deal… seems to me madness.”

 

The Huawei decision by the United Kingdom has been widely panned in the United States, with many saying that a deal with a company tied to the Chinese Communist Party could damage trade and security agreements between Britain and America.

 

This weekend France announced that Huawei will not have access to their 5G network, undercutting Boris Johnson’s claim that the Chinese tech giant is necessary for the United Kingdom to be competitive with the rest of the world.

 

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew to the United Kingdom to discuss the matter of Huawei involvement.

 

Although the United States’ top diplomat said that the Huawei decision will not damage the special relationship between the U.S. and Britain, he urged Boris Johnson to “relook”.

 

“We view the intrusion of the Chinese Communist Party into information technology systems as a very great risk, a national security risk as well as a core privacy risk. If your health records are on a system that belongs and is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party that is probably not something you would probably choose in the first instance”, Pompeo told LBC.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/02/exclusive-video-boris-5g-deal-with-huawei-is-madness-founder-of-hong-kong-watch/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:42 a.m. No.8001904   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1935

Mohammed Allawi appointed new Iraq PM, protesters reject him

 

Ex-minister named as Iraq prime minister-designate, but anti-government demonstrators say he is part of ruling elite.

 

Baghdad, Iraq - Anti-government protesters in Iraq have been quick to dismiss President Barham Salih's appointment of Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as prime minister-designate, as rallies took place in the capital, Baghdad, and cities in the country's southern provinces.

 

The president's move to end more than two months of political deadlock came after he issued an ultimatum to Iraq's fractious parliament, warning that if they did not appoint a new prime minister by Saturday he would do so himself.

 

But Salih's announcemnet was not welcomed by the protesters who have camped out for months calling for an overhaul of Iraq's political system, with hundreds in the capital's Tahrir Square chanting "Mohammed Allawi, rejected!", according to videos posted on social media.

 

In the southern city of Nasiriyah, demonstrators issued a statement saying they categorically rejected Allawi's selection.

 

"He is the compromised candidate that belongs to the sectarian power sharing political system (muhasasa) we are protesting against, and does not represent the aspirations of the protest sites," the statement said. "Based on this, our response will be to escalate things stronger than on previous occasions."

 

Allawi's appointment, the statement continued, was brought about "by the same criminal, corrupt class that brought us to where we are now".

 

Since October, the leaderless anti-government protest movement has demanded the removal of the country's ruling political elite and an end to corruption. The protesters' demands include the appointment of a politically independent figure as prime minister, early elections, and holding accountable those who have killed at least 500 protesters so far.

 

Despite ex-prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi formally resigning on November 30, he agreed to continue in a caretaker capacity until a successor was chosen, with the resulting deadlock leading demonstrators to accuse the establishment of deliberate stalling.

 

According to the constitution, a replacement for Abdul Mahdi should have been identified 15 days after his resignation. Instead, it has taken rival blocs more than two months of jockeying to select Allawi as their consensus candidate.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/iraq-president-appoints-mohammed-allawi-pm-state-tv-200201150554113.html

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:44 a.m. No.8001917   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Turkey president meets Hamas political chief

 

Turkey’s president received in Istanbul the political chief of Hamas on Saturday.

 

The closed-door meeting was held between Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh at the Vahdettin Pavilion, lasting one hour and 15 minutes.

 

Erdogan had held a phone call with his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, on Friday, when he reiterated Ankara’s support for Palestine in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan for the Middle East.

 

The two leaders had also discussed the latest developments and issues in the region.

 

US President Donald Trump announced last Tuesday his so-called plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with no Palestinian officials present at the event held at the White House.

 

During the event, Trump referred to Jerusalem as “Israel’s undivided capital.” The plan unilaterally annuls previous UN resolutions on the Palestinian issue and suggests giving Israel almost everything it has been demanding.

 

On Friday Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slammed Arab and Muslim leaders for accepting or remaining silent on the issue of the US “deal of the century”.

 

Erdogan reiterated his country’s strong opposition to the deal announced at the White House by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, where ambassadors of three Arab countries were in attendance.

 

“We will never recognise or accept the deal as it aims to annex occupied Palestinian lands,” he confirmed at a meeting of provincial heads of the Justice and Development Party in Ankara.

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200202-turkey-president-meets-hamas-political-chief/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:45 a.m. No.8001925   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1950

Palestine PM: ‘I will not go down in history as someone who gives up on Jerusalem’

 

The Palestinian president rejected on Saturday the US’ so-called peace plan in the Middle East, saying Palestine had cut all relations with the US and Israel.

 

In an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, Mahmoud Abbas said:

 

I reject the so-called ‘Deal of Century’ and I will not go down in history as someone who vends or gives up on Jerusalem.

 

The US is “no longer a friendly country for Palestine,” Abbas said, adding: “I also refused to talk to Trump.”

 

Abbas announced during his speech that Palestine had cut all relations with the US and Israel, including security ties. In 2014, Abbas described the PA’s security coordination with Israel as “sacred”. Over the years, though, he has threatened repeatedly to end this collaboration with Israel, usually when the PA’s funding is being threatened. Despite this, he has remained true to his 2014 speech, and security coordination between the PA and Israel remained steadfast.

 

He emphasised that he rejected the plan outright once he learned it would allow Israel to annex Jerusalem.

 

Abbas said the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) recognised Israel since 1988 and that in return, Israel’s former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin accepted the PLO as the legitimate representative of Palestine. That recognition paved the way for the historic 1995 Oslo Accords, which the Palestinians have also ‘cancelled’.

 

He asserted that Trump was unaware of the plan’s contents as it was his son-in-law and consultant Jared Kushner who had prepared it, adding that the plan allowed immediate implementation by Israel, but that Palestine would have been allowed to exercise its rights under the proposed deal only four years later.

 

“We had previously accepted the establishment of a Palestinian state in the 22% of Palestine’s historical land and now they demand 30% of this remaining region,” Abbas said.

 

He noted that though he had met Trump four times and successive US delegations had visited Palestine 37 times, none of these negotiations had yielded results.

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200202-palestine-pm-i-will-not-go-down-in-history-as-someone-who-gives-up-on-jerusalem/

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:47 a.m. No.8001931   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2026

Coronavirus: An Analysis In Relation To Technocracy

 

People around the world are in near-panic over the potential pandemic emanating from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. Face masks and bottles of hand sanitizers have been flying off the shelves and trips involving air travel are plummeting.

 

Not surprisingly, there is a mountain of disinformation with attendant conspiracy theories racing around the Internet, all of which only exacerbate the fear and muddle what facts we know for certain.

ZeroHedge Banned from Twitter

 

The widely-read ZeroHedge news site was completely banned by Twitter over the weekend for “violating community policies”. The ban was apparently due to the release of a certain scientist’s email and phone number, both of which are publicly and freely available elsewhere. The scientist in question, Dr. Peng Zhou, is a prominent researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and leads the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Group. Coincidentally, his lab is only 20 miles from the epicenter of the outbreak.

 

The frenzied questions concerning motive of the outbreak are largely pointless at this time. It happened. It is what it is. Real answers might surface someday but not because governments anywhere are known for their honesty and intellectual integrity, especially China, the United States and Canada.

 

In light of this, I would direct readers of Technocracy News & Trends to think about the role played by Technocracy and its Technocrat operators.

China is a Technocracy

 

China is a full-blown Technocracy that has elevated science and engineering to god-like status. They are noted for their mastery of technology promoting Scientific Dictatorship, where every citizen is tracked, monitored and socially engineered to the satisfaction of the controllers. Furthermore, their economic system is completely engineered by Technocrats.

 

I have repeatedly noted and warned of the carelessness of Technocrats in the object of their studies. Data security in Smart Cities is always an afterthought. Massive computer systems are routinely hacked, exposing personal data of hundreds of millions of people. Amazon’s Ring Cameras are increasingly hacked to terrorize unsuspecting children and their parents. Boeing’s 737 Max was grounded because of amateurish software developers who failed to adequately test their creations. You get the idea.

 

When Technocrat engineers build complex laboratories able to handle the world’s worst killing agents like Ebola, SARS, Anthrax and even the Spanish Flu, there can be no room for error. When these labs are then staffed with human scientists who decide to experiment with genetic engineering to see what they can come up with, there can be no room for error. The obvious problem with this is that errors always creep in because error-prone Technocrats simply don’t think things through to the very end and they end up creating things they cannot control.

 

In my opinion, this new coronavirus outbreak bleakly underscores the built-in structural failures of Technocracy in general and Technocrat achievements in particular. In deference to the original father of Technocracy, French philosopher Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), science is not a god and there is no priesthood of scientists and engineers.

 

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/coronavirus-an-analysis-in-relation-to-technocracy.html

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:49 a.m. No.8001958   🗄️.is 🔗kun

At least 200 pieces of Turkish military equipment cross border with Syria - TV

 

This military convoy has been sent to Syria since early Sunday

 

TASS, February 2. At least 200 pieces of the Turkish army’s military equipment, including armored vehicles and tanks, crossed the border with Syria on Sunday, Al Arabiya TV channel reported.

 

According to the report, this military convoy has been sent to Syria since early Sunday. The convoys are heading towards the Idlib and Aleppo governorates. The Turkish command has reportedly declared an area around the highway linking Aleppo and Latakia as a combat operations zone.

 

The Asharq Al-Aswat newspaper reported several hours ago that "at least 40 armored vehicles and tanks of the Turkish army" had crossed the border via the Kafr Lusein checkpoint in the north of the Idlib governorate.

 

A convoy of 30 military transport vehicles crossed into Syria via the same checkpoint on January 28. According to Al Arabiya, the convoy headed for Idlib’s southern areas.

 

Al Mayadeen TV reported earlier that Syrian government army units encircled a Turkish observation point in the settlement of Maar Hattat located south of a Jabhat al-Nusra (a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) stronghold in Maarret al-Nuuman in the south of Idlib. Another Turkish observation point in Sarman in the same governorate was blocked on December 23.

 

https://tass.com/world/1115483

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 9:57 a.m. No.8002009   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2025 >>2061

Kushner: Palestinians welcome to propose alternative to borders set out in plan

 

In apparent contradiction, White House adviser also says US moving to recognize annexation of settlements within months, but adds plan aims to ultimately stop settlement expansion

 

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Saturday that the borders envisioned by the Trump peace plan for Israel and the future state of Palestine are not set in stone and that the Palestinian Authority is welcome to provide input that Washington will take into consideration.

 

“If there are things they want to change, if they don’t like where we drew the lines, they should come and tell us,” Kushner told Egyptian journalist Amr Adeeb during an interview on the El-Hekaya news show.

 

But in an apparent contradiction, the senior White House adviser also made clear that the US was moving forward with plans to recognize an Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements, which would limit the amount of land that will be up for negotiation. Moreover, he declared that if the PA did not agree to work with the Trump administration’s peace proposal, Israeli settlements would continue to expand, thereby making it impossible to establish a Palestinian state.

 

“What’s been happening for many years is that Israel has been expanding as they’ve been negotiating and negotiating, and there has not been a resolution to the conflict,” he said.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/kushner-palestinians-welcome-to-propose-alternative-to-borders-set-out-in-plan/

 

History will view Kushner as the starter of WW3 for-filling Albert Pike's plan

Anonymous ID: 539e13 Feb. 2, 2020, 10:01 a.m. No.8002030   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Drones Downed Near Russia's Hmeimim Launched From Idlib Zone - Russian Military

 

Drones downed on Sunday near Russia's Hmeimim airbase in Syria were launched from the Idlib de-escalation zone, Maj. Gen. Yuri Borenkov, the commander of the Russian Centre for Syrian Reconciliation, said.

 

"On 1 February, at about 11 p.m. Moscow time [20:00 GMT], Russian Hmeimim airbase airspace control means discovered unmanned aerial vehicles launched from an area of the Idlib de-escalation zone under the control of illegal armed units. Means of electronic warfare of the airbase intercepting and disabled all UAVs by disrupting their control systems", the message read.

 

No casualties and damage have been registered at the base after the attack, and the base is currently operating in a normal mode.

 

In January, the Syrian army started an offensive in the west of Aleppo over militants' daily shelling of the city's residential areas.

 

Syria has been in the state of civil war for over six years, with government forces fighting against both Syrian opposition groups and terrorist organisations. The country's civilian population is in dire need of assistance amid continuing fighting and subsequent humanitarian crisis. Multiple international organisations and individual states provide aid for the residents of the war-affected areas.

 

Moscow started its counterterrorism operation in Syria on 30 September 2015 at the request of Damascus. Russia is also a guarantor of the Syrian ceasefire along with Turkey and Iran.

 

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002021078207158-drones-downed-near-russias-hmeimim-launched-from-idlib-zone/