‘Pedophile Hunter’ Catches Child Predator, Cops Show Up, Arrest Him, Let Predator Go

UNION, NJ – Another pedophile hunter has been arrested for obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct. A sexual predator hunter who goes by the name of “Ramy” impersonates underaged boys and girls in hopes predators will expose themselves and attempt to meet the underage child for sex, which is a crime. He has plenty of videos showing this success.

Ramy, 25, engaged in chat with a man who said he and his girlfriend wanted to have a three-way with the underage teen. The founder of Predator Poachers of New Jersey, Ramy, then met the man in the parking lot of a local pharmacy.

Very politely, one might say, Ramy approached the man who’d driven to the pharmacy. He told the man he wasn’t there to hurt him and only wanted to ask him a few questions. The unnamed John who was there to have sex with a 13-year-old girl appeared to believe Ramy was the police. He put his hands on the steering wheel in the 10 and 2 position and put the keys to his vehicle on top of his car.

Ramy made sure to tell the alleged child predator that he was not a cop. The man complied anyway.

The would be perpetrator exited the vehicle when asked to do so and followed Ramy over to the sidewalk of the pharmacy to have a little chat. Ramy assured the man if he told the “truth” the police would not be called.

Slowly and reluctantly the man then began to describe and admit he was there to engage in sex with the 13-year-old. The police then showed up and began to treat the situation as a crime scene, asking Ramy to move to his patrol car. The officer then began to speak with the would-be child rapist.

Soon after, a few more backup officers arrived and instead of allowing the predator hunters to do their work as good citizens, promptly took their phones away, which was recording the police contact live, and arrested Ramy, the founder and leader of the organization. Ramy was charged with Obstruction of Justice and Disorderly Conduct, even though he assured the officers he was working as an informant for a local detective.

In a recent interview with the Bunker Fly Podcast, Ramy told the show he got started in Mixed Martial Arts at an early age, 16. He said one of his teachers was very respected and knew MMA very well. He also said he had no idea the teacher was sexually abusing kids in his Taekwondo class.

From that point forward, he knew he had to do something. He said his martial arts training keeps him physically safe but he’s on a “mission”. He insists he helps attempt to rehab the perverted predators by taking them to sexaholics group meetings and therapy sessions as needed.

Ramy says he uses a multitude of social networking apps to “create a profile…using an underage minors either boy or girl…and then I always wait for them (the predators) to initiate the conversation.”

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/underage-sexual-predator-hunter-arrested/

UK: 400 illegal boat migrants reached British shores in April

The UK Border Force last week brought dozens of Middle Eastern boat migrants to Britain after agents intercepted five boats in the English Channel.

On Friday, after intercepting 76 illegal migrants attempting to cross the Channel, the UK’s border authority transported the migrants – 55 men and 21 women claiming to nationals from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and Kuwait – to Dover, England, The Daily Mail reports.

In the month of April, some 400 illegal boat migrants managed to reach the UK, the highest monthly total ever recorded. So far, at least 831 boat migrants have landed in the UK in 2020, a number that’s quickly approaching the 1,850 boat migrants which reached British shores in 2019.

The worsening of conditions at migrant camps in Calais and Dunkirk which have resulted amid the Chinese COVID-19 virus outbreak are believed to be compelling migrants to make the journey across the Channel.

As of this report, several cases have been recorded at migrant camps at Calais and Dunkirk. Despite this fact, UK authorities did not conduct any COVID-19 tests on the newly arrived migrants.

Some British lawmakers like Dover MP Natalie Elphicke have expressed deep concern that the UK Border Force, in bringing illegal migrants from Calais and Dunkirk back to Britain, could be importing more of the virus onto the island.

Elphicke says that the migrants should either sent back to France or placed in a fourteen day quarantine upon arriving in the UK.

“France’s lockdown means people need permission just to walk the dog. So how come hundreds of migrants can still pile into small boats and illegally motor into Britain?”

“We know that the coronavirus has infected the French camps,” Elphicke continued.

“The French have been paid tens of millions of pounds to stop these dangerous journeys being made – it’s vital the Home Office make the French honour their obligations in order to stop the further spread of the virus into Britain.”

Since Britain and France imposed nationwide lockdowns in mid-March, some 550 illegal boat migrants who were previously staying in France have successfully made their way across the Channel to Britain, as Voice of Europe has reported.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/uk-400-illegal-boat-migrants-reached-british-shores-in-april/

“Imagine… Being Framed… By Political Operatives?” – Rep. Devin Nunes: General Flynn Was Framed by Our Own Government

Rep. Devin Nunes, the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Community, joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures earlier today.

During their discussion Rep. Nunes discussed the recent revelations on the Deep State assault on General Michael Flynn.

Rep. Devin Nunes: There’s a lot of new information that has come out of things that were redacted or kept classified by someone, I don’t know who, in both the Horowitz report and stuff now that is finally being declassified. And the real question here is, “Why was this stuff being classified? Why were the American people being kept in the dark and still being kept in the dark?” We finally just got to see the Fisa warrant that was used against Carter Page. There are still a lot of black marks OK in the Fisa report. We need everything declassified so that we can continue this investigation. Why is General Flynn important because on Friday night, thankfully Attorney General Barr appointed a US Attorney out of Missouri to look into what was going on in some of these investigations. And we don’t know what was submitted to the court on Friday evening but we believe that’s it’s possible exculpatory evidence that the government had on General Flynn… In reality you have the former head of the DIA (General Flynn) strung up here year after year after year in what was now likely we’re going to find out he was framed! Imagine that being framed by our own government by political operatives who don’t like you? And I think that’s what we’re going to find out.

That is a huge development!

Hopefully, justice will be served and the real criminals will see time behind bars where they belong.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/imagine-framed-government-political-operatives-rep-devin-nunes-general-flynn-framed-government-video/

We’re opening businesses on May 4, but don’t expect ‘full freedom for all’: Italy’s Conte outlines way out of lockdown

In just over a week, Italy plans to reopen some of the previously closed export-oriented businesses, but Italians should not expect any major changes in terms of freedom of movement, the prime minister said.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave an overview of how his country, the first in Europe to take a serious blow from the Covid-19 pandemic, plans to return to some level of normalcy. Starting May 4, his government will allow some of the businesses closed six weeks ago to curb the spread of the disease to reopen, he said.

Export-oriented manufacturing that risks being cut out of supply chains, construction businesses, and wholesalers are likely to be given the green light on week one, with others gradually following. Conte also described plans to support the economy through state-guaranteed loans, cutting through undue red tape, and other measures.

However, Italian citizens should not expect life to return to where it was before the outbreak, the prime minister told La Repubblica. While some social distancing restrictions may be revised as the country emerges out of the lockdown, it would be “a revision” and not “abandonment of the rules.”

“We are not yet in a position to restore full freedom of movement,” he said, adding that whatever relief is given, “it will not be full freedom for all.”

Schools will not be reopened in Italy until September, Conte said, adding that remote teaching has worked out well. He also said there will be government action to prevent shortages of masks and price gouging.

The Italian government is still discussing when to allow churches and cemeteries to hold religious services like masses and funerals. The fact that people cannot properly send off their deceased loved ones and get closure is “personally particularly painful,” Conte said.

Italy is among the nations most affected by Covid-19, with a death toll of over 26,000, which is surpassed only by that of the United States. Its healthcare system was overwhelmed by the outbreak, while other EU members dragged their feet on assisting Rome. The roadmap for lifting the lockdown will be revealed to the public early next week, the prime minister said in the interview.

https://www.rt.com/news/486927-italy-lifting-lockdown-roadmap/

Every single Democratic senator refuses to acknowledge sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden

The silence is deafening

Every single Senate Democrat is refusing to acknowledge the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

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Every single Senate Democrat is refusing to acknowledge the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

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The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to every Democratic senator — all 45 plus the two independent senators who caucus with Democrats — to ask them about Tara Reade's allegations that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 when she worked for him in his U.S. Senate office.

Not a single Democratic senator, or their office, responded to requests for comment. They were given 24 hours to respond, more than enough time in the fast-moving world of politics.

Their silence comes despite mounting evidence that lends credibility to Reade's claims.

On Friday, Reade told a journalist that her mother called into CNN's "Larry King Live" in 1993 to ask where she could report that her daughter had problems with a "prominent senator."

Hours later, the Media Research Center unearthed the old video.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/every-single-democratic-senator-refuses-to-acknowledge-sexual-assault-allegations-against-joe-biden

Pelosi: State, Local Governments Funds Coming in Next Relief Bill

April 26 (UPI) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that Congress will provide coronavirus funding for state and local governments in a forthcoming stimulus bill.

Pelosi, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, responded to criticism from state and local leaders including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who called on such funding to be included in previous legislation, including the fourth COVID-19 relief bill signed on Friday.

“Just calm down,” she said. “We will have state and local and we will have it in a very significant way.”

She also encouraged state and local to continue being vocal about their need for federal aid.

“The governors are impatient. I’m a big fan of Gov. Cuomo, my own governor, Gavin Newsom, has been so spectacular, my mayor … State and local have done their jobs magnificently. They should be impatient, their impatience will help us get an even bigger number,” said Pelosi.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday opposed providing funding for state and local government, instead suggesting that they apply for bankruptcy.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox News Sunday he was prepared to provide funding to local governments if Congress can reach an agreement.

“If we need to spend more money we will and we’ll only do it with bipartisan support,” he said.

Mnuchin also commented on how long he expects the new tranch of $310 billion added to the paycheck protection in the package signed Friday will last.

“I actually hope we run out of money quickly so we get the money into the workers’ pockets,” he said.

The first round of funding was exhausted quickly and several large companies including Ruth’s Chris Steak House and Shake Shack were awarded the loans meant for small businesses before returining the loans.

Mnuchin said that the administration would work to ensure that this round of funding would be “distributed fairly.”

“I think you’re going to see this move in the right direction and I think you’re also going to see the average loan size go down significantly,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/pelosi-state-local-governments-funds-coming-in-new-relief-bill/

Fed Cut Back on Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy

Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet rose by $205 billion during the week ending April 22, to $6.57 trillion. Since the week ending March 11, when the bailout of the Everything Bubble and its holders began, the Fed has printed $2.26 trillion.

But the $205 billion increase was the smallest increase since the mega-bailout began with its Sunday March 15 announcement. The Fed is tapering its purchases of Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Repurchase agreements (repos) are falling into disuse. Lending to Special Purposes Vehicles (SPVs) has leveled off. And foreign central bank liquidity swaps, after having spiked initially, only ticked up by a small-ish amount.

The sharply reduced increases confirm that the Fed is following its various announcements over the past two years that during the next crisis – namely now – it would front-load the bailout QE and after the initial blast would then taper it out of existence, rather than let it drag out for years.

This concept was further confirmed by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in on April 10 when he said that the Fed would pack away its emergency tools when “private markets and institutions are once again able to perform their vital functions of channeling credit and supporting economic growth.”

Overall, the Fed has cut the big QE purchases by 65% since the peak week (week ending April 1, $586 billion), to $205 billion:

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https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/fed-cut-back-on-helicopter-money-for-wall-street-the-wealthy/

The “Science” of Caging a Compliant Majority

In late February, a seven-year legal battle finally reached its conclusion, but nobody noticed. It should have been a big story, but it was eclipsed by the Chinese viral apocalypse. Which is ironic, because even though, at first glance, the legal battle in question has absolutely nothing to do with COVID, thematically, it’s surprisingly relevant.

To put it mildly, Justina Pelletier has had a rough life. A premature baby, she was born with cartilage wrapped around her colon, leading to years of stomach cramps, intestinal blockages, and an absence of bowel control. Many surgeries followed, including a cecostomy. By the time she was a teenager, Justina was being treated at Tufts Medical Center for mitochondrial disease (cellular malfunction). At age 14, her compromised body was hit with a life-threatening flu, which weakened her to the point where she couldn’t walk. Her physicians at Tufts recommended that she be taken by ambulance to Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH).

And that’s where things went south. The BCH doctors decided that Justina wasn’t sick at all! According to them, her “maladies” were psychosomatic. So, the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) was called in. Justina was declared a ward of the state, and confined to a room in the hospital’s psychiatric unit.

Why did the BCH doctors believe that Justina had to be separated from her parents? Were there suspicions the girl was being beaten? Sexually abused?

Nope. Justina’s mom and dad were “very nice, intelligent, well-intending parents.” Those are the exact words of a neurologist who helped make the case for her imprisonment. Justina needed to be isolated from her folks because her claims of being sick (and the confirmation from Tufts that she was sick) “were validated by her parents.” She needed to be thrown in a cage because her parents believed her. Dr. Jurriaan Peters, who treated Justina at BCH, claimed that the parents had created a “pathological feedback loop” wherein “anytime a person says they’re sick, it’s endorsed or validated.”

“We wanted the parents not to encourage the ‘sick role,’ but rather, encourage her about positive things and to be independent and a teenager,” Peters said.

BCH doctor Colleen Ryan agreed; Justina’s parents would “obsess over her medical problems,” whereas Ryan thought they should put “less focus on negative aspects of her health and more on her positive experiences.”

https://www.takimag.com/article/the-science-of-caging-a-compliant-majority/

EU Kowtows to China, Revises Coronavirus Disinfo Report After CCP Pressure

The European Union rewrote and softened a report that detailed the coronavirus disinformation campaign carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after receiving pressure from apparatchiks in Beijing.

The initial version of the report from the European External Action Service (EEAS) pointed to Chinese propaganda, such as blaming the United States for spreading the Wuhan virus, accusing France of responding too slowly to the pandemic, and claims that French officials had used racial slurs about the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom — claims denied by France.

“China has continued to run a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic and improve its international image,” the initial report stated, according to the New York Times.

Before the report was released, however, officials from the communist-run country began pressuring the European Union — and the bloc ultimately bowed to the pressure, removing any reference to the “global disinformation campaign” carried out by China as well as the diplomatic spat between the CCP and France.

“The Chinese are already threatening with reactions if the report comes out,” wrote EU diplomat Lutz Güllner in a leaked email.

In another email, Esther Osorio, a senior adviser to the EU’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, wrote that the report should focus less on the disinformation campaigns carried out by China “as we already see heavy pushback from CN [China]”.

A spokesman for the EU, Peter Stano, denied that the report was modified as a result of pressure from the Chinese regime, but analysts that worked on the report say otherwise.

One analyst wrote that European Union diplomats were “self-censoring to appease the Chinese Communist Party” and that “appeasement will set a terrible precedent and encourage similar coercion in the future.”

Jakub Janda, the executive director of the European Values Centre for Security Policy, said that the Chinese pressure campaign was being used as “a test” for the CCP to see what level of influence it has over the bloc.

The European Union is currently trying to secure better trade arrangements for European companies in China. Trade between China and the EU was estimated to total $1.6 billion per day, making the bloc China’s top trading partner. The EU has also been heavily reliant on Chinese medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic — although much of it has been revealed to be faulty.

In response to the report, China’s top diplomat to the EU told the Financial Times: “We do better to forget the politics now,” adding: “We are in a battle, a battle between the sapiens and the virus.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/25/eu-kowtows-to-china-revises-coronavirus-disinfo-report-after-ccp-pressure/

After Brainwashing People For Decades, MSM and Governments Are Losing Control of People

The mainstream media and governments are losing control of people all over the globe. Humans are finally standing up for their rights to live not as slaves, but as free sovereign people capable of making their own decisions without rulers and elitists calling the shots.

Never before have we seen global tyranny at this scale. But, never before have we seen a mass uprising against governments and their propaganda outlets (the mainstream media) either. As more and more people get off their knees and stand up for their basic human right to live freely, governments and the elitists that control them lose power. We are at that point where power will return to the people and the elitists will be the ones living in fear. All we have to do, is be free.

The mainstream media is going to continue its smear campaign against anyone who dares to believe they have the right to live freely so long as they aren’t harming others and take life’s risk upon themselves. But as fewer people tune in to listen to their propaganda, fewer people will be brainwashed by it. A lot of people have lost everything in the tyrannical liberty-crushing demands put upon them, and now that they have nothing to lose, they are finally realizing their rights don’t come from the government or elitists. And no smear campaign by government lapdogs will stop people from waking up at this point. The media has been enslaving our minds so the government won’t have to enslave our bodies. But it’s out now and in broad daylight and people have had enough. The veil has been lifted.

People are realizing that we own ourselves. And we are finally standing together to let the “masters” know that we are not their slaves. The quote in the movie, a Bug’s Life can be applied today with a simple change of words. “It’s not about food. It’s about keeping those ants in line!” We all know at this point, “it’s not about health. It’s about keeping those people in line!”

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/after-brainwashing-people-for-decades-msm-and-governments-are-losing-control-of-people_04242020

EXCLUSIVE: Leaders Behind Mexican Border State Narco-Gang Fighting Los Zetas Cartel Unmasked

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – An independent drug distribution gang in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon continues to openly challenge Los Zetas over lucrative territories in the Monterrey metropolitan area. Breitbart Texas recently unmasked their leader and has now obtained exclusive information about the identities of the gang’s top lieutenants.

Known as Los Billys, the gang is made up of independent drug distributors who joined forces after the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas began a systemic push to take over the local meth market in Monterrey in early 2019, Breitbart Texas reported. Information from U.S. law enforcement sources working in Mexico revealed that Los Billys and the CDN are engaged in a month’s long war that led to targeted killings.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/04/25/exclusive-top-leaders-behind-border-state-independent-narco-gang-fighting-los-zetas-unmasked/

There is NO Empirical Evidence for These Lockdowns

Several weeks ago, one of the USA’s better quantitative scientists, John Ioannidis of Stanford, made a critically important point. During the coronavirus pandemic, ‘we are making decisions without reliable data’, he said.

As Ioannidis and others have pointed out, we do not even know the actual death rate for COVID-19. Terrifying and widely cited case-fatality rates like ‘three percent’ come from comparing known fatalities to the small pool of people who have officially been tested. Those test cases are mostly made up of sick and symptomatic people or those who had direct contact with someone known to have had Covid-19 – rather than to the far larger pool of people who may have had a mild version of the disease. Because of the same denominator problem, we also don’t know the true infection rate. A recent German study indicates this could be as high as 15 percent.

Finally, we do not seem to know the effectiveness of the various strategies adopted by national and regional governments to respond to the disease – ranging from the advocacy of social distancing to full-on lockdowns.

This piece tackles that question. As a professional political scientist, I have analyzed data from the Worldometers Coronavirus project, along with information about the population, population density, median income, median age and diversity of each US state, to determine whether states that have adopted lockdowns or ‘shelter in place’ orders experience fewer COVID-19 cases and deaths than those which pursue a social-distancing strategy without a formal lockdown. I then briefly extend this analysis to compare countries. In short, I do not find that lockdowns are a more effective way of handling coronavirus than well-done social-distancing measures.

The most basic way to test this thesis is by direct comparison. As of 6 April, seven US states had not adopted shelter-in-place orders, instead imposing social-distancing restrictions such as banning large gatherings and mandating six-foot spacing gaps and maximum customer limits inside all retail stores. Those seven states are Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. These states reported 1,620, 2,141, 952, 343, 1,311, 2,542 and 288 cases of COVID-19 respectively as of 3:40pm EST on 16 April – for an average of 1,321 cases. The states reported 37, 60, 21, 9, 7, 20, and 2 deaths respectively, for an average of 22.3 deaths. Throwing in South Carolina, which did not adopt a shelter-in-place order until 6 April, and still allows most religious services, does not dramatically alter these figures – these states averaged 1,613 cases and 33 deaths.

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-for-these-lockdowns_04232020

Saudi Arabia courts abolish flogging as punishment

Supreme Court stops order of controversial lashings for convicts

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a legal punishment in response to criticism of its use of corporal punishment, the Supreme Court has announced.

Hundreds of lashes could previously be ordered for a variety of offences, including murder, extramarital sex and breach of the peace.

Despite the change attributed to reforms under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Amnesty International reported last week that Saudi Arabia executed a record 184 people in 2019, accusing the kingdom of using the death penalty notably against Shia Muslim dissidents.

The Saudi supreme court said the latest reform was intended to "bring the kingdom into line with international human rights norms against corporal punishment".

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-abolish-flogging-lashes-court

In France, Amazon loses court appeal and must stop selling nonessential items to protect workers

Amazon has lost its appeal against a court ruling that prompted it to suspend deliveries in France last week.

A court in Paris on Friday upheld a ruling that Amazon must stop selling nonessential goods as it carries out a risk assessment on how best to protect employees from coronavirusin its distribution centers.

In a statement, Amazon said it was assessing the court’s decision but had no comment on whether it would reopen its warehouses.

The company shut down its French distribution centers in the wake of the original ruling, citing the stiff penalties threatened by the court and the “complexity inherent in our logistic activities.” Amazon’s top executive in France said that it wasn’t clear which products were considered essential.

Amazon said at the time that it was suspending activities “despite the huge investment that we have made to ensure and strengthen by additional measures the safety of our employees who remained mobilized during this crisis.”

The initial ruling followed a complaint by a French labor union, which accused the online delivery giant of endangering the lives of workers by not instituting enough safety precautions to protect against the virus.

Under the terms of the order, Amazon would be limited to selling goods classified as electronics, office equipment, animal care products, home improvement items, health and body care products, and groceries.

Each shipment of anunauthorized product could incur a penalty of up to €100,000 ($108,000), the court ruled.

Amazon has faced criticism in the United States over the health and safety of workers as it faces increasing demands on its services during the pandemic. Last week, the company said it may begin firing employees who “intentionally violate” its social distancing guidelines, despite complaints from workers who say the demands of their job make it impossible to comply with the policy.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/04/in-france-amazon-loses-court-appeal-and.html

Reporter Caught On Tape Inadvertently Revealing The Inaccurate Covid-19 Figures Being Reported.

Del Bigtree breaks down some of the massive holes in the whole “shut it down” logic with regard to the Covid-19 false flag “epidemic”.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/reporter-caught-on-tape-inadvertently-revealing-the-inaccurate-covid-19-figures-being-reported/

Britain sends £2.5million of PPE gear 5,000 miles round the world to St Helena - even though tiny island has NO cases of coronavirus

Britain has sent £2.5million of PPE to isolated St Helena, even though no cases of coronavirus have been reported on the island.

The masks, gloves, gowns are expected to touch down in the Atlantic ocean island, which counts 4,300 inhabitants, today. It has also been reported five ventilators are on the flight.

It comes amid warnings of crippling shortages in the NHS that could leave doctors and nurses exposed to Covid-19 and patients without ventilators. More than 100 NHS workers have died since the outbreak began.

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/04/britain-sends-25million-of-ppe-gear.html

Saudi Arabia to take on billions in debt to survive the oil price crisis

Saudi Arabia may have to borrow as much as $58 billion this year to cover a budget shortfall caused by the oil price slump, Bloomberg reports, citing Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan.

Al-Jadaan told media this week that the Kingdom might issue bonds worth $26.57 billion (100 billion riyals) this year in addition to an earlier issue of $31.88 billion (120 billion riyals) worth of debt.

Saudi Aramco, for its part, is considering a $10 billion sale in part of its pipeline business, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

“The kingdom went through similar crises in its history – maybe even worse – and was able to pass through them,” Al-Jadaan said. “This is not an exception.”

Most observers note that this price crisis is like no other in history. The unique combination of excess supply and a 30 percent drop in demand weighs heavily on oil-dependent economies throughout the world, and even low-cost Saudi Arabia is not exempt.

The oil market is indeed flooded. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week, citing Saudi oil officials, that at least one in every ten VLCCs, each capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil, is used for floating storage with many holding Saudi crude. Some of that, the sources said, had yet to find buyers.

Saudi Arabia is bracing for the inevitable blow. In March, the government asked state agencies to cut their budgets by at least 20 percent, Reuters reported, citing sources in the know who declined to be named. That was before OPEC+ agreed to implement cuts of 9.7 million bpd in hopes this would help prices. It didn’t.

Now, according to an analyst with an Egypt-based investment bank, the Saudi deficit could widen to 15 percent of GDP, Bloomberg notes. That would be less than the 17 percent recorded for 2016, but it would still be quite brutal for the Kingdom that had to roll back austerity measures it implemented during the 2014-2016 crisis pretty quickly as bureaucrats rebelled.

https://www.rt.com/business/486747-saudi-arabia-oil-crisis-debt/

Discontent & Partisan Warfare Against Illegal US Occupation of East Syria Will Increase – US Veteran

On 22 April, the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey held a trilateral video-conference on the situation in Syria within the framework of the Astana format. International observers have explained why the group has succeeded in maintaining the balance of interests in the region and what is behind the growing divisions within jihadi ranks.

The Astana group, a trilateral format comprising Russia, Turkey and Iran created in 2017 to tackle the Syrian crisis, acknowledged on Wednesday that the 5 March 2020 ceasefire deal had facilitated the de-escalation of the situation in Idlib, following Turco-Syrian clashes earlier this year, despite Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's* attempts to obstruct it.

Meanwhile, divisions are growing within jihadi groups in Syria. A week ago, over two dozen militants from Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra (‘Revolutionary Commando Army’) who were previously deployed in the US-held At-Tanf area surrendered to the Syrian Arab Army. Later, on 20 April, unidentified groups reportedly attacked and destroyed a US military vehicle in Al-Hasakah governorate. At the same time, in Idlib, jihadi militants are deeply split over joint Turkish-Russian patrols on the M4 highway which started on 15 March.

Syrian Militants are Growing Disenchanted With US

"Incidences of discontent and partisan warfare against the illegal US military occupation of east Syria are inevitable and increasing likely in frequency and escalating intensity", says Mark Sleboda, a US military veteran and international affairs and security analyst. "One of the primary reasons for these uprisings is local Arab tribal unhappiness with being governed over by the US' preferred proxies of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) within the US-organised Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) brand. Another is the unwillingness of the US to provide sufficient financial and other aid to begin reconstruction of the war-ravaged territory east of the Euphrates or restart economic activity".

Nevertheless, the US has been heavily reinforcing its troops in east Syria in recent months, particularly around Syria's oil fields, the US veteran notes, adding that Washington is "unlikely to easily give away its last card for leverage in forcing regime change in Damascus via political and economic blackmail".

At the same time, the US cannot rely on any of its beaten proxies, as the Syrian Army made its advances over the entire Syrian geography including the Idlib governorate, believes Christopher Assad, a Canada-based political analyst of Syrian origin, stressing that eventually all foreign troops will have to unconditionally withdraw from all Syrian territories, especially those whose presence is illegal.

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202004251079091696-discontent–partisan-warfare-against-illegal-us-occupation-of-east-syria-will-increase–us-veteran/

Denver Health Executives Get Bonuses 1 Week After Workers Asked To Take Cuts

DENVER (CBS4)– Top executives at Denver Health Medical Center received significant bonuses this month for their performance in 2019, ranging from $50,000 up to $230,000, one week after frontline hospital workers were asked to voluntarily take leave without pay or reduce their hours as the hospital dealt with the financial downturn resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

On April 3, Denver Health CEO Robin Wittenstein emailed hospital workers noting “the current situation will stress us financially.”

She announced a hiring freeze and asked employees to voluntarily take leave without pay, use personal time off or reduce their normal work week.

“The goal is to reduce our total salary expense without the need to lay off employees or implement mandatory PTO/furloughs,” wrote Wittenstein.

She said the hospital was also considering mandating workers to use their paid time off, mandatory leave without pay and other steps.

“The goal is to avoid these extreme measures if at all possible,” she wrote.

denver.cbslocal.com/2020/04/24/coronavirus-denver-health-bonus-ceo-pay-cuts/?_gl=11285awo_ga*MHRlVDFxZ2NVejdHQlNiVFJ2MHhIVVZ1LXctX3lDeGpBVENmSmN4c1NMQ1FSWkswWVN2MnVqS2NJcGhzaFVzQw..

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/denver-health-executives-get-bonuses-1-week-after-workers-asked-to-take-cuts/

Washington state’s ‘Green River Serial Killer,’ other inmates denied coronavirus release in 5-4 vote

One Stinking Vote. That’s all that’s keeping Gary Ridgeway off the streets again. He killed between 49 and 80 women.

Corona Madness!

What the hell are they thinking???

In a 5-4 vote Thursday, the state Supreme Court of Washington rejected a lawsuit calling for the release of thousands of inmates to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports.

Those narrowly missing a shot at freedom included Gary Ridgway, the so-called “Green River Killer,” who in 2003 was sentenced to life in prison after confessing to killing as many as 49 women in the 1980s, Seattle’s KIRO radio reported.

www.foxnews.com/us/washington-states-green-river-killer-other-inmates-denied-coronavirus-release-in-5-4-vote

Washington Supreme Court denies release for serial killer and others in 5-4 vote over coronavirus

www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-supreme-court-denies-release-for-serial-killer-and-others-in-5-4-vote-over-coronavirus

WA State is majorly fucked up. 4 supreme court justices thought it would be a great idea, probably humane even, to put that monster back out on the streets.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/washington-states-green-river-serial-killer-other-inmates-denied-coronavirus-release-in-5-4-vote/

Illinois Wants $41B Bailout From US Taxpayers

The five Republicans in Illinois’ congressional delegation reject state Senate President Don Harmon’s request for more than $41 billion to stabilize state finances as part of a new coronavirus relief package, calling it an attempt to use the pandemic to cover years of mismanagement.

Harmon’s request included $10 billion to shore up Illinois’ massively underfunded public employee state pension system and another $9.6 billion in direct federal aid to cities and villages.

But the Republicans said Democrats must reduce the state’s $138 billion public employee pension debt, the worst in the nation, “and make the system more equitable to the people of Illinois before federal money is used to support the pension system.” “This pandemic has not caused a pension crisis, it has further illuminated the one that already existed,” the Republican lawmakers said.

www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-tribune-blasts-illinois-senate-bailout-request

Coronavirus: More than one million Australians have downloaded the COVIDSafe app

More than one million Australians have downloaded the COVIDSafe app smashing fears privacy concerns will deter users.

More than one million Australians have downloaded the COVIDSafe app smashing fears privacy concerns will deter users.

Health Minister Greg Hunt confirmed the latest data on downloads on Sunday night just hours after it was launched.

Praising Australians for helping virus trackers to beat COVID-19, he urged people to download the app and allow for faster contact tracing.

“As at 10:30 PM, 1 million Australians have now downloaded and registered for the #CovidSafeapp – please join us and help protect ourselves, our families, each other but above all else our nurses and doctors,’’ Mr Hunt said.

Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brooks, the co-founder of the software company Atlassian also urged the tech community to back the app and “fight misinformation.”

Writing on the Hacker News website, he was confident the Morrison Government would also release the COVIDSafe app code as a transparency measure.

“They’re obviously operating with extreme urgency to get the app out. For you,’’ he said.

“Turn the HN angry mob mode off – it’s not helpful. We’re all in this together. They won’t get it all right – and we as a tech community can help them. Find a bug & help get them closed.

“When asked by non-technical people “Should I install this app? Is my data/privacy safe? Is it true it doesn’t track my location?” – say “Yes” and help them understand.

“Fight the misinformation. Remind them how little time they think before they download dozens of free, adware crap games that are likely far worse for their data & privacy than this ever would be. Thank you.”

https://www.news.com.au/technology/coronavirus-more-than-one-million-australians-have-downloaded-the-covidsafe-app/news-story/3cd9557232425cfab5700beb604ba7b7

Communist NWO goes live in Australia

Here, the head of the media arm of the Chinese Communist Party continues to effectively campaign against President Trump.

Here, the head of the media arm of the Chinese Communist Party continues to effectively campaign against Pres Trump. Suddenly, Dems and media unconcerned with foreign election meddling!

amgreatness.com/2020/04/21/china-meddles-in-our-election-in-favor-of-biden/

Cruz Seeks to Shut Down Chinese Propaganda Station Phoenix TV & Prevent China From Purchasing Other News Outlets

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is set to unveil legislation that would stop China’s Communist Party from exploiting loopholes in U.S. laws that critics say have enabled it to beam propaganda into America through a radio station connected to a state-controlled press organ, according to a copy of the legislation exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Cruz’s bill, the first of its kind, was sparked by the purchase of a radio station connected to Phoenix TV—an outlet owned by the Chinese government—that is now using a broadcast tower in Mexico to beam Chinese-language propaganda into the United States. The Mexican station was purchased in 2018 by an investment group with ties to China and is now running communist propaganda produced by Phoenix TV.

Phoenix TV drew the ire of Republican lawmakers and others earlier this year when one of its reporters confronted President Donald Trump during a White House briefing about the coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers such as Cruz raised objections to the White House granting access to a reporter working for an adversarial regime.

freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-seeks-to-shut-down-chinese-propaganda-station-phoenix-tv/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/here-the-head-of-the-media-arm-of-the-chinese-communist-party-continues-to-effectively-campaign-against-president-trump/

McConnell, Democrats feud over state aid amid coronavirus

A fight over funding for state and local governments is emerging as an early flashpoint in talks over another coronavirus relief bill.

The clash — which pits Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) — is raising fresh questions about the ability to keep Congress’s response to the coronavirus bipartisan.

Congress has already appropriated nearly $2.8 trillion to combat the severe economic and health impact of the coronavirus, as 26 million people have filed for unemployment and nearly 51,000 people have died in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University.

But Democrats are pledging to get more help for state and local governments in the phase four coronavirus relief bill that could pass Congress as soon as next month.

“There will not be a bill without state and local, OK?” Pelosi said when asked about the potential that it will be left out.

Pelosi has characterized it as the “centerpiece” of the next bill but declined to say how much Democrats will push for. She told reporters during a press conference that the number is probably “equivalent to what we've done for small businesses.” Congress has provided nearly $660 billion in loans to businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program.

That puts Democrats squarely at odds with McConnell, who set off alarm bells among governors and lawmakers from hard-hit states when he said this week that states should be allowed to declare bankruptcy as they seek more money from the federal government to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus.

“I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route,” McConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“My guess is their first choice would be for the federal government to borrow money from future generations to send it down to them now so they don’t have to do that. That’s not something I’m going to be in favor of,” he added.

McConnell has positioned Republicans as wary of additional funds for state and local governments, saying the idea would have to be “thoroughly evaluated” within his conference.

The issue is just the latest point of tension between McConnell and Pelosi, who clashed earlier this month over whether another coronavirus relief bill was even needed.

Pelosi, on Friday, asked reporters, “Speaking of Mitch, what’s gotten into him?”

“The president is asking people to inject Lysol into their lungs, and Mitch is saying that states should go bankrupt. It's a clear, visible within 24 hours of how the Republicans reject science and reject governance,” she said.

The two are on different timelines as they contemplate another round of federal help. Democrats want to have a bill ready to go by the time they return to the Capitol as soon as May 4, indicating that they expect to take the lead on the legislation.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/494600-mcconnell-democrats-feud-over-state-aid-amid-coronavirus

Netanyahu confident Trump will okay West Bank annexation in ‘couple of months’

PM tells Christian conference he plans to fulfill election vow to apply Israeli sovereignty over settlements and Jordan Valley, ‘celebrate historic moment in history of Zionism’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he was “confident” US President Donald Trump would let him fulfill his election promise to apply Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank “a couple of months from now.”

“For decades I have been fighting those who sought to deny the millennia-long connection of the Jewish people to our homeland,” Netanyahu said in a recorded speech broadcast at a Christian event marking the 100th anniversary of the San Remo conference. “I’m proud to say that the decades-long struggle has borne fruit.”

“Three months ago, the Trump peace plan recognized Israel’s rights in all of Judea and Samaria,” he said, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name. “And President Trump pledged to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Jewish communities there and in the Jordan Valley.

“A couple of months from now, I’m confident that that pledge will be honored. That we will be able to celebrate another historic moment in the history of Zionism. A century after San Remo, the promise of Zionism is being realized,” Netanyahu concluded at the end of the conference, organized by the European Coalition for Israel.

The San Remo conference in April 1920 confirmed decisions taken at the Paris Peace Conference by a council of European countries following World War I, including confirming the British Mandate in Palestine and the adoption of the 1917 Balfour Declaration allocating the land for a future Jewish state.

The Trump peace plan unveiled earlier this year — which angered the Palestinians and was rejected by much of the international community — gave Israel the green light to annex settlements and the strategic Jordan Valley area.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-confident-trump-will-okay-west-bank-annexation-in-couple-of-months/

Suddenly Media Realizes FBI Plotted to “F*ck Flynn”; True Pundit Told You That 1,145 DAYS AGO

Here we go again, the mainstream and right-wing media re-packaging ‘news’ True Pundit broke months years ago. In this case, 1,145 days ago. Wait, what?

That’s 3.1 YEARS. Yes, years. Where in the hell was everyone else in the media 3.1 years ago? Riding the fence, asleep, or hiding ther heads in the sand.

You may recall True Pundit’s story on March 7, 2017 where we were the first and only to report FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe boasted to a crowded conference room “Fuck Flynn and then we fuck Trump.”

The True Pundit piece dealt with what we were told was a FBI plot to take down Mike Flynn and President Donald Trump.

Suddenly, the media is treating these revelations as breaking news, asking: Was there a FBI plot to take down Flynn?

Wow, how bad are you people at your jobs? This from True Pundit March 2017:

https://truepundit.com/suddenly-media-realizes-fbi-plotted-to-fck-flynn-true-pundit-told-you-that-1145-days-ago/

TYRANNY: Tech Giants SUSPEND Publicly Traded BioTech Company That Created Covid-19 Treatment

The leftist media and powers that be are out of control as they try to rule Americans and keep us in a socialized lockdown society.

Tech giant Twitter just suspended the account of the publicly traded biotech company AYTU BioScience that created a novel COVID-19 treatment approach utilizing UV light in the lungs that President Trump was talking about.

On Thursday the Trump administration highlighted potential treatment for the coronavirus by blasting UV light on the lungs. The liberal media was aghast and mocked him all day Friday.

But this is not an unusual idea and one company AYTU Healight is working on a proposed prototype to treat the coronavirus.

On Saturday YouTube removed the AYTU Healight video on their COVID-19 treatment plan.

Saturday night Twitter then moved and suspended a publicly traded companies Twitter account because they’re the company the President of the United States was referring to about having a UV related cure for the coronavirus.

https://thedcpatriot.com/tyranny-tech-giants-suspend-publicly-traded-biotech-company-that-created-covid-19-treatment/

CV-1984: China Rolls Out Test Of Digital Currency In Four Cities, Western Businesses Testing

After the coronavirus caused China to shut down most of its businesses, and cities, the country is now striking back hard by releasing a digital currency and national blockchain.

China’s central bank The People’s Bank Of China, began testing its new digital Yuan’s interface on April 14th with one of its largest banks, the Agricultural Bank of China, rolling out a test UI. Two weeks later, there are reports that a pilot has been launched. Nineteen restaurants and retail establishments including popular Western restaurant chains like Starbucks, McDonald’s and Subway are participating in the test, Bitcoin.com reported. The test run is taking place in at least four cities in China—Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and Xiong’an, according to China’s central bank which confirmed the test of its new digital Yuan officially called “Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP)” to the Wall Street Journal.

That’s not all, China also launched its Blockchain Service Network (BSN) for domestic and global commercial use. China also announced a 71-person committee for its Blockchain which includes executives from China’s central bank, as well as tech giants Baidu and Tencent, according to an announcement from the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT.)

Last year, Max Keiser of the Keiser Report told Kitco News that China was backing the new digital Yuan with gold.

“[China] is rolling out a cryptocurrency, a lot of the details have not been divulged. I can tell you that the cryptocurrency that China’s rolling out will be backed by gold. It’s a two-pronged announcement. Number one, China’s got 20,000 tonnes of gold, number two, we’re rolling out a crypto coin backed by gold, and the dollar is toast,” Keiser told Kitco News.

This author also had his own source from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) saying much of the same for years, in which I wrote up two articles explaining the shift from the West as the world reserve currency. Those articles were entitled: “A Shift Of Power: Russia and China Finalize Moves To Replace U.S. Dollar As World Reserve Currency” and “China Finalizes Moves On Oil Markets To Overthrow U.S. Petro-Dollar Dominance As World Reserve Currency.”

Both articles detail numerous financial moves that China has taken in the past 10 years. One of which was buying up gold from the U.S. as a WikiLeaks cable titled “China increases its gold reserves in order to kill two birds with one stone” details.

China again began stockpiling gold in 2013, when they bought JPMorgan’s building that previously housed its gold. The IMF and United Nations have even expressed agreement that it’s time to replace the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency with what’s known as SDRs or special drawing rights . Then the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was planned between 2010-2012, and was fully operational by 2016.

“China has been pushing for the SDR to become more widely used for some time, as a way to challenge the dominance of the dollar without pushing the renminbi as a direct competitor,” Julian Evans-Pritchard, a China economist at Capital Economics in Singapore, told Reuters.

Although currently it is not known if China’s digital Yuan is backed by gold, it wouldn’t be at all surprising. China opened up its own gold market in 2016, an entirely separate system than the COMEX gold futures market in New York and the Over-the-Counter (OTC) trades cleared through the London Bullion Market. China and Russia have both been working to undermine the West and the U.S. dollar since China called for a new world reserve currency as early as 2009.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/04/cv-1984-china-rolls-out-test-of-digital-currency-in-four-cities-western-businesses-testing.html

Libya: Haftar forces continue shelling Libyan civilians

Pro-renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar militias continues to attack civilian settlements in southern Tripoli, the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

Four Nigerian workers were injured in the attack against civilians in the capital, Tripoli, the GNA-led Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) Operation said on social media.

As part of measures against the novel coronavirus, a cease-fire took effect March 21 but Haftar’s militias have continued attacks on the capital.

Libya has reported two deaths from the virus, 60 cases and 15 recoveries. The country recorded its first case March 24.

The GNA has been under attack by Haftar’s forces since last April, with more than 1,000 killed in the violence.

It launched Operation Peace Storm on March 26 to counter attacks against the capital.

The GNA announced April 13 its forces removed Haftar militias from at least eight provinces, clearing a 3,000-square-kilometer (1,158-square-mile) area from the warlord’s forces.

Since the ouster of longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, two seats of power have emerged in Libya: Haftar in eastern Libya — supported by Egypt and the UAE — and the GNA in Tripoli, which enjoys the UN and international recognition.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200426-libya-haftar-forces-continue-shelling-libyan-civilians/

Airlines Bailout: Industry Gets Billions From US Government Amid Coronavirus Fallout

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the world economy, the airline industry has received a new influx of U.S. government aid.

The Treasury Department on Saturday confirmed it would release an extra $9.5 billion in funds from its Payroll Support Program for use by the country’s airlines. The industry has so far taken $12.4 billion in relief funds.

These funds were distributed to a total of 10 major airline companies and 83 smaller ones. As a condition for receiving these funds, the companies are required not to cut staff or pay until Sept. 30. They are also restricted in terms of executive payments and are not allowed to buy back stock or pay out dividends.

“There is still much about the future and recovery that remains uncertain, and there is a very real possibility that we could be a smaller airline by the end of the year,” SkyWest CEO Chip Childs said in an email to staff obtained by Reuters. SkyWest is expected to receive $438 million in aid.

A total of $25 billion in payroll relief funds were approved by Congress for passenger airlines, one of the business sectors hit the hardest by the outbreak of COVID-19. Any company taking in more than $100 million from these funds will be required to pay 30% of the amount borrowed over 10 years through low-interest loans.

Even with sizeable relief efforts underway, the airline industry is expected to have a slow road to financial recovery. Once the presence of coronavirus sufficiently subsides, industry leaders worry that customers will be slow to regain confidence in flying and slow to reach the level of financial stability necessary to indulge in recreational travel.

“We don’t know when it will happen, but we do know that Delta will be a smaller airline for some time, and we should be prepared for a choppy, sluggish recovery even after the virus is contained,” Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian said in a letter to employees recently. “I estimate the recovery period could take two to three years. I hope it’s sooner, but we need to be realistic in our planning.”

https://www.ibtimes.com/airlines-bailout-industry-gets-billions-us-government-amid-coronavirus-fallout-2965317

Trump, Pentagon Offer Contradictory Statements on Attacking Iranian Boats

Pentagon says Trump's tweet was just a warning

When President Trump announces on Twitter that he has ordered a government body to do something, it’s often not clear for days if he ever told them about it. This is latest exemplified in Wednesday’s Tweet to “shoot down” Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf.

After Trump’s statement, the White House refusal to comment, and multiple statements from Defense officials, it’s not clear at all if the US is actually planning to attack Iranian boats, with officials at the Pentagon suggesting it was “an important warning” as opposed to a literal order to attack.

Pentagon officials were notable in their refusal to say how Trump’s comments would impact a hypothetical situation in the future. They seem to be interpreting this as a threat/warning for its own sake, and not ordered military policy.

This happens fairly often with President Trump’s Tweets, which are presented as the word of the president but often never go beyond the Twitterverse into actionable policy, and which other officials feign befuddlement about when asked on the matter.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/04/23/trump-pentagon-offer-contradicting-statements-on-attacking-iranian-boats/

Federal Reserve Eliminates Savings Account Transfer Limits

In yet another example of how the pandemic is transforming the way people conduct business, U.S. bank customers are no longer limited to the number of withdrawals and transfers they can make to and from their savings accounts. On Friday, the Federal Reserve announced it was scrapping such constraints entirely, with its decision being effective immediately.

Previously, the Fed capped the number of these transactions at six per month. This threshold was enshrined in Regulation D, a federal law. Although customers could exceed this number, they were subject to penalties – at times onerous – from their banks.

The announcement follows the Fed's abandonment of reserve requirements for bank accounts. It was mandated that banks hold a fraction of the amounts in so-called "transaction accounts" like checking (but not savings), to guard against potential losses.

"The regulatory limit in Regulation D was the basis for distinguishing between reservable 'transaction accounts' and non-reservable 'savings deposits'," the Fed said in a press release heralding its latest move. "The [Federal Reserve] Board's recent action reducing all reserve requirement ratios to zero has rendered this regulatory distinction unnecessary."

The big U.S. banks typically don't break out precise figures for savings accounts. However, since the largest of them have vast amounts of deposits – Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) , for instance, held almost $1.6 trillion at the end of its first quarter – it's clear that Americans collectively have vast amounts in savings accounts alone.

This will affect the results of Bank of America and its banking peers; however, since most clients tend to use checking accounts as their main everyday funding source, this impact will likely be limited.

On Friday, Bank of America shares inched up by 1.4%, a gain that was broadly in line with the wider stock market on that day.

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-economy-federal-reserve-eliminates-savings-account-transfer-limits-2965044

“Dr. Fauci Gave $3.7 Million to Wuhan Laboratory… Something Is Going On” – Rudy Giuliani Drops a Bomb on NIAID Director Dr. Tony Fauci

Back in 2015 the NIH under the direction of Dr. Tony Fauci gave a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is now the main suspect in leaking the coronavirus that has killed more than 50,000 Americans and, thanks to Dr. Fauci again, destroyed the US economy.

As early as 2018 US State Department officials warned about safety risks at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab on scientists conducting risky tests with the bat coronavirus.

US officials made several trips to the Wuhan laboratory.

Despite the warnings the US National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan lab studying the bat virus. This was after State Department warned about the risky tests going on in the lab.

This is unbelievable!

The deadly China coronavirus that started in China sometime in late 2019 has now circled the globe. Evidence suggests that the coronavirus didn’t come naturally. We still don’t know whether the deadly virus was leaked intentionally or if it was an accident.

But we do know that the Chinese did attempt to market a cure for the coronavirus to the world in January after the virus began to spread.

According to the report from Wuhan the coronavirus came from either the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention or Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.

These reports linking bats to the coronavirus started making the rounds back in January. A research paper published in the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention determined the source of the coronavirus is a laboratory near the Seafood Market in Wuhan.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/dr-fauci-gave-3-7-million-wuhan-laboratory-something-going-rudy-giuliani-drops-bomb-niaid-director-dr-tony-fauci/

Trump, French President Macron Agree on 'Need to Reform WHO' in Phone Call - White House

Earlier, US President Donald Trump cut the funding for the World Health Organization, accusing the agency of "being China-biased" and saying "thousands of lives could be saved, had the WHO done its job".

US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Makron agreed on the need to reform the World Health Organization, White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said after the phone call of the presidents.

The two leaders expressed hopes to convene the five permanent members of the UN Security Council soon to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Besides, Trump and Makron talked about "critical regional and bilateral issues", Deer noted.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump cut the funding for the World Health Organization, accusing the agency of "being China-biased" and saying "thousands of lives could be saved, had the WHO done its job".

US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Makron agreed on the need to reform the World Health Organization, White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said after the phone call of the presidents.

The two leaders expressed hopes to convene the five permanent members of the UN Security Council soon to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Besides, Trump and Makron talked about "critical regional and bilateral issues", Deer noted.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202004261079102695-trump-french-president-macron-agree-on-need-to-reform-who-in-phone-call—white-house/

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Ex-CIA Korea Chief: N. Korea to be nuke threat even after Kim Jong Un

Questions started swirling about Kim's health after he skipped an April 15 ceremony for the 108th birthday of his late grandfather, North Korea founder Kim Il-sung.

North Korea will likely be a nuclear threat even if its leader, Kim Jong Un, dies from his current potential health crisis, a former CIA Korea Branch chief has told The Jerusalem Post.

Pyongyang represents one of the world’s greatest security threats since it is viewed as a rogue regime with nuclear weapons and because it has shared nuclear technology with Iran and Syria.

Bruce Klinger, who was chief and deputy chief of the CIA’s Korea Branch with 20 years overall in the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, discussed his views of the global security implications with the Post following reports since April 12 that Kim’s health situation may be critical.

Klinger, who is also a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, said: “The regime has long emphasized the centrality of nuclear weapons to its national security and its resistance to negotiating them away.”

“A successor may be more deft in reaching out to foreign countries, as Kim Jong Un was [as opposed to his predecessors],” he said. “But the underlying objectives and policies would remain constant. Even a stable North Korea will remain a threat.”

Kim, who is only 36 but has had health problems for a long time, has ruled as its unchallenged dictator since inheriting power from his father in 2011.

His death would raise deep questions about what kind of North Korea the world would be facing the day after.

Questions started swirling about Kim's health after he skipped an April 15 ceremony for the 108th birthday of his late grandfather, North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung.

Kim had not missed the ceremony throughout his nine-year reign.

However, North Korea is blocked off from most of the world, so it is hard to know the truth.

Explaining why even a “Kim-less” North Korea would not represent a reduced threat, Klinger said: “It is unlikely that Pyongyang would trade away its nuclear weapons when it feels weakened by leadership transition. The next leader would have less of a power base and would be more reliant on support from senior party and military leaders who are overwhelmingly nationalist and resistant to change.”

https://www.jpost.com/international/ex-cia-korea-chief-n-korea-to-be-nuke-threat-even-after-kim-jong-un-626007

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For First Time Ever Turkish Armed Forces Strike Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Positions In Greater Idlib

For the first time ever, Turkish combat drones targeted two positions of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.

“A Turkish drone targeted [on April 26 afternoon] a fortified position and a mortar post of HTS near [the town of] San in the eastern Idlib countryside, as a result, two personnel [of the group] were killed and others were injured,” the Step News Agency said in a short report.

Opposition activists said the strike was a response to a mortar attack which targeted a Turkish “observation” post near the town of al-Nerab south of Idlib city.

Earlier, Turkish forces clashed with radical militants blocking the M4 highway near al-Nerab. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), at least four militants of HTS and employees of the group’s government were killed in the clashes.

Turkish forces managed to push the radicals away, thus securing the highway that links the coastal city of Lattakia with Aleppo city in the northern region.

According to opposition activists, the vicinity of al-Nerab is now witnessing clashes between the Turkish military and HTS. These claims are yet to be confirmed.

The tensions between HTS-led forces and the Turkish Army are growing.

https://southfront.org/for-first-time-ever-turkish-armed-forces-strike-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-positions-in-greater-idlib/

Maybe Karl Marx Was Right After All

Before Marx socialism was a sort of voluntary wish thing, no doubt growing out of Protestant fantasies of life in early Christianity when everything was supposedly shared. There were a few attempts at building Christian socialist communities and most of them had unhappy endings – the Munster Anabaptists’ ending especially so. Secular socialist communities – Robert Owens’ attempts for example – also came to little, albeit more peacefully.

Marx’s claim was that he made socialism scientific by which he meant that he believed he had discovered the mechanism that had driven society through history: he concluded that socialism was the inevitable next stage of evolution. He and his collaborator Engels laid out the theory in The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Marx spent the rest of his life working out the details. Class struggle – the means of production – the triumph of the bourgeoisie in modern times – labour theory of value – surplus value – the more the bourgeoisie succeeds, the more it creates its destruction: “What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” It’s a complete theory of history and society. The driving force of the coming socialist period is the immiseration of the proletariat – as the owners of the means of production squeeze more surplus value out of the workers, they become more powerful and richer while the condition of the workers becomes worse:

The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.

By the same process, more and more formerly rich capitalists are ruined and pushed into the ranks of the miserable workers (“One capitalist always kills many“) until – and the details are never really described – there are so few rich and so many poor that:

Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

The final stage doesn’t need to be especially violent: at the end point, there are so few super rich that whether they’re hanged from lampposts or pensioned off like the last emperor of China doesn’t make much difference in the great scheme of things.

Marx believed that he had discovered the laws, the processes, the machinery, that drove history and society: the way things are and will be, that must be: scientific. After Marx, socialism is no longer something to be wished for, something some rich benevolent owner might create if we asked him politely, an appeal to Christian conscience, but something that is the very mechanism of the way things are and the way they must develop. Socialism is hard-wired into history.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/26/maybe-karl-marx-was-right-after-all/

Schiff Blocks Release Of Declassified Russia Probe Transcripts, Keeping Americans In The Dark

The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff is keeping the truth from the American people. He doesn’t want anyone – beyond those in Congress and the Intelligence Community – to have access to the closed door transcripts of witnesses that have been already been declassified regarding the FBI’s Russia probe.

Frustration is mounting against Schiff, D-CA, and so is patience among those in the administration, Congressional lawmakers and intelligence community who believe the American people have a right to see for themselves the testimony given by 53 witnesses behind closed doors during Congressional investigations into the FBI’s questionable actions and malfeasance during its investigation.

Schiff obviously wants to control what people see in a desperate bid to keep the discredited Russia collusion narrative alive

There’s a reason Schiff is fighting back, despite the unanimous bipartisan vote to release the transcripts in the fall of 2018. Schiff doesn’t want you to know the truth. The truth will destroy his credibility and the deceitful disinformation campaign he worked so hard to spread against President Donald Trump and his administration for years. This is the major reason why he has fought so diligently against his own committee’s vote and why he has scrambled behind the scenes on Capitol Hill to keep the documents, which should have been made public within weeks or months of the vote, from every seeing the light of day.

Many sources in the administration, who are familiar with the process, have said the same.

“It’s really concerning Adam Schiff is negating the bipartisan vote to release these transcripts to the public,” said an administration official, with knowledge of the declassification process. “He’s even going against his own prior statements about transparency. Schiff obviously wants to control what people see in a desperate bid to keep the discredited Russia collusion narrative alive.”

https://saraacarter.com/schiff-blocks-release-of-declassified-russia-probe-transcripts-keeping-americans-in-the-dark/

Libyan Army Shells Airport Hosting Turkish Troops Near Tripoli

On April 26, the Libyan National Army (LNA) shelled the Mitiga International Airport, according to forces loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA).

The airport, which is located east of the country’s capital, Tripoli, is known to be hosting Turkish troops that support GNA operations.

“Haftar’s [LNA Commander in Chief] terrorist militia continue to repeatedly shell the airport and the residential neighborhoods around it with Grad rockets,” the GNA’s operations room, Volcano of Anger, said in a statment.

The Libyan Cloud News Agency released a video showing thick smoke rising from the airport after the LNA’s shelling. No human losses were reported.

Earlier this year, the Turkish military deployed air-defense systems in the Mitiga International Airport. Turkish combat drones are also known to be operating from the airport.

Several months ago, Turkey stepped up its support for GNA forces. Thousands of Turkish-backed Syrian militants were deployed there, which allowed GNA forces to conduct more offensive operations. As a result, the LNA sustained notable losses, mainly on the frontlines east and southeast of Tripoli.

https://southfront.org/libyan-army-shells-airport-hosting-turkish-troops-near-tripoli/

COVID-19 is A Carefully Choreographed PLANDEMIC And The Government Is The REAL VIRUS!!!

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." - Edward Bernays: Propaganda (1928).

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth explains how the techniques outlined in the book Propaganda (for how to manipulate an entire population into going along with their own enslavement), are now being used by the current invisible government with Covid-19 in order to trick the entire world into willingly going along with serfdom.

https://pressfortruth.ca/top-stories/covid-19-carefully-choreographed-plandemic-and-government-real-virus/

Pelosi Suffers Brain Freeze, Stutters, Forgets California Governor’s Name, Calls GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy “Mitchell” (VIDEO)

What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suffered a bad brain freeze on Sunday during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The look on Jake Tapper’s face says it all.

80-year-old Nancy Antoinette stuttered and forgot her own Governor’s name on Sunday.

“My own Governor, um – uh-uh-um Gavin Newsom’s been so spectacular,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi then forgot House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s name and referred to him as “Mitchell.”

“…I want it to be bipartisan. The Republican leader Mitchell McCarthy as assured me that he will consider this, he’s not there yet.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/pelosi-suffers-brain-freeze-stutters-forgets-california-governors-name-calls-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-mitchell-video/