>>8973888 Israel’s Largest Bank, Bank Hapoalim, Admits to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Hide Assets and Income in Offshore Accounts
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“Where’s Christopher Wray?… Why Didn’t We Learn This From Him?” – Jim Jordan Goes After FBI Director Wray for Hiding Unbelievable Crimes from Public
Newly released documents show that the FBI prepared for their call with General Flynn in January 2017 by going over questions that the General might ask on their call. This call was made to set the stage for the ambush meeting in the White House between General Flynn and corrupt FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka.
The documents included handwritten notes that reveal Obama’s FBI discussed framing General Michael Flynn — for purely political purposes!
It took over three years for these corrupt handwritten notes to see the light of day!
Unsealed FBI notes reveal the intent of the FBI’s January 24, 2017, White House interview of General Flynn:
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”
General Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell told Sean Hannity that more of these documents will be released soon.
This is damning news for the Obama deep state.
On Thursday morning Rep. Jim Jordan joined FOX and Friends to discuss these shocking documents. Jordan went off on FBI Director Chris Wray for hiding this information from the public!
We reported on Jordan’s appearance earlier but felt this information deserved its own post.
This was an incredible interview!
Rep. Jim Jordan: “And now we learn that they set up the General Mike Flynn just days into the administration! What I want to know is why didn’t Bob Mueller tell us this? Remember we were told… this is the greatest guy who ever came to Washington. This is the greatest thing since sliced bread. He’s the most honest guy since George Washington. Why didn’t he tell us this and more importantly, where’s Christopher Wray? Why didn’t we learn any of this from him? Thank goodness for Sidney Powell or Bill Barr or we would have never got this information… Again why didn’t we hear this from Chris Wray?.. Again if they can do this to a three star general, if they can do this to the President of the United States, imagine what they can do to you and me?
As reported earlier — Jordan warned the deep state — John Durham is coming!
https://youtu.be/msLLeaGNqBM
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/christopher-wray-didnt-learn-jim-jordan-goes-fbi-director-chris-wray-hiding-crimes-public-video/
Rabobank: Is It A Coincidence That The Good Virus News Came At The Same Time As The Catastrophic GDP Release
Apologies in advance, but readers who have never watched any Star Trek might find some of the analogies used today rather confusing: then again, the classic original series is out there on Netflix and we are all mostly locked-down, so…
Markets are currently accelerating in risk off mode, with USD reeling. Part of that is end-month positioning and momentum, but it’s happening even against traditionally wobbly FX like Indonesia’s IDR, and even when Indonesia is outright monetising public debt and running out of food staples in some areas. Like TV science-fiction, just press the buttons, go with the ride, and don’t ask too many questions(?)
The other major reason for the swing in sentiment is the Fed, which as Philip Marey notes, while making no major changes yesterday also underlined it is committed to using its full range of tools forcefully, proactively, and aggressively. Chair Powell said it may very well be the case that the economy needs more support from “all of us” (so monetary and fiscal policy). The engines are in in fine fettle, says Scotty.
Yes, there was the wrinkle that Powell also said that the law (Section 13-3 of the Federal Reserve Act) gives the Fed lending powers, not spending powers, so the Fed cannot lend to insolvent companies, and therefore the special lending facilities will remain (mostly) aimed at companies that can repay their loans. This suggests dangerous cracked dilithium crystals. Yet will the Fed really be asking too deeply if companies can pay their loans or not in a collapsing economy, or will it just use optimistic projections to assume that they will be able to? After all, that’s what the IMF does in many key cases, so it’s hardly changing the ‘laws’ of market ‘physics’.
And then there was virus news. First, Dr Fauci, the health expert who the world is listening to daily (the same Dr Fauci who in February said Covid-19 risks to the US were very low) announced that as far as he is concerned, the experimental new drug Remdesivir presents “quite good news” and could get emergency FDA approval in days. This is the same drug a Lancet report says failed recently in another location.
Then President Trump announced “Operation Warp Speed”. No, this is not related to Spaaaaace Foooorce (which I politely remind readers must only be said into one’s cupped hand). Rather we will see a Manhattan Project-style US effort to develop a vaccine at the fastest possible pace, uniting pharma companies, government agencies, and the military. Together this will see multiple vaccines developed at once, with the least successful dropped at each stage. Risk will be underwritten by the government not the companies to encourage them to go all in. The aim? To have 100 million doses of virus vaccine ready by year-end.
This is undoubtedly positive given the clear logic that until we get a vaccine we cannot emerge from this crisis. Markets are right to see it as great that the US is pushing ahead with the kind of war-time all-of-government approach that so far has only been hinted at via limited flirtation with the Defence Production Act. We need the president to play Captain Kirk and shout “Warp speed!” (or Jean-Luc Picard and say “Make it so.” – but the questionable hair and hammy acting says Kirk to me). It’s certainly far preferable to the President acting like Harry Mudd and dragging us into the mud of who said what about ingesting disinfectant and why. However, two major caveats:
One - this still does not mean Operation Warp Speed is going to work. The more money thrown at a problem does not always mean the quicker a solution is found, if at all. That said, what I hear from scientists–who traditionally live on crumbs as the money usually flows into tech companies designed to destroy employment and wages while losing money–is that we can at least now give it a real try. Yet in the interim the economic damage continues to pile up.
Two - is it a coincidence that the good virus news from the White House came at the same time as Q1 US GDP was -4.8% q/q annualised, even weaker than the -4.0% expected? Indeed, given January, February, and parts of March were business as usual in much of the US, one can now start to project how horrendous Q2 damage is going to be. Let’s just say that the risks are the Fed will have to make some true science-fiction forecasts to keep lending to only solvent companies. Notably, despite the surge in stocks and sell-off in USD, 10-year US Treasury yields are not even moving on impulse engines, let alone warp speed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-it-coincidence-good-virus-news-came-same-time-catastrophic-gdp-release
Google muscles into videoconferencing with ‘secure’ Zoom competitor as 3 out of 5 Americans don’t trust Big Tech with private data
Google has released its videoconferencing app Meet for free, angling for a slice of the rapidly-expanding market even as a majority of Americans reveal they wouldn’t trust the company with their Covid-19 infection status.
Meet, which according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is adding three million users daily, will be available to anyone with an email address and a Google account in the coming weeks, the tech behemoth revealed on Wednesday in a blog post.
The videoconferencing platform allows up to 100 people to chat together and was previously available only to subscribers of Google’s premium “G Suite” software. A 60-minute time limit won’t be enforced until the end of September, the company promised.
A videoconferencing gold rush has erupted in the wake of Covid-19-related lockdowns worldwide, and Google’s Meet expansion comes less than a week after Facebook’s decision to release its own “Rooms” videoconferencing platform for Messenger ahead of schedule. Ironically, Zoom was slammed in the press and even sued earlier this month for sharing users’ data with Facebook without their consent. Perhaps with that fact in mind, Facebook reassured Rooms users that it would not be monetizing the platform – a strategy Google has echoed.
“Your Meet data is not used for advertising, and we don’t sell your data to third parties,” the company stressed, insisting “our approach to security is simple: make products safe by default.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/487296-google-meet-videoconferencing-trust-covid/
Eurostat: Roughly 300,000 migrants granted asylum in EU in 2019
Figures from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, have revealed that roughly 300,000 migrants were granted asylum in the European Union in 2019, a figure that’s down six percent from the previous year.
In its report that was published earlier this week, Eurostat noted that the 27 member states of the European Union granted the asylum requests of 295,800 migrants.
The largest group of asylum beneficiaries in the EU in 2019 remained the Syrians (26 percent of the total number). Of the 78,600 Syrians that were granted asylum, 71 percent received it in Germany. The second-largest group of asylum beneficiaries were Afghan nationals (14 percent), followed by Venezuelans (13 percent). The number of Venezuelans granted asylum in 2019 increased by nearly 4,000 percent compared to the previous year, according to Eurostat.
Iraqis comprised seven percent of the the total number of accepted asylum seekers, while those coming from Turkey, Nigerian, Somalia, Iran, and Eritrea made up three percent of the total number asylum beneficiaries. Two percent came from Pakistan.
Of the nearly 300,000 migrants who were granted some form of asylum in 2019 by the European Union, 141,00 were granted refugee status, 82,100 were granted subsidiary protection, and 72,700 were granted protection for humanitarian reasons.
More than three quarters of the positive asylum decisions made by political bloc came from Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.
Luxembourg, Germany, the UK, Greece, and Austria were the states most likely to grant some form of asylum to migrants seeking it.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/eurostat-roughly-300000-migrants-granted-asylum-in-eu-in-2019/
UK spy agency handed extra powers to access info from NHS IT systems during Covid-19 pandemic
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has bypassed parliamentary scrutiny and given new powers to the UK security and intelligence organization, GCHQ, to allow it to obtain information from public-health IT systems until the end of 2020.
The National Health Service (NHS) has been instructed by Hancock to hand over information to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), granting the spy agency powers it did not have previously, under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Officials have justified the decision, saying it was taken to bolster the NHS’s cyber defenses. It ostensibly means that GCHQ now has powers to order the NHS to disclose any information concerning “the security” of its networks and information systems.
The latest development, authorized by Hancock’s department earlier this month, is the latest sign of GCHQ gaining more influence during the Covid-19 crisis. The agency is already advising NHSX, the unit driving the digital transformation of the public healthcare system, on the creation of its new coronavirus contact-tracing app.
A spokesman for the National Cyber Security Centre, a subsidiary of GCHQ, insisted that the new directions “do not seek to authorize” access to patient data. Whether that will ease the worries of those concerned about the apparent increase in the UK government’s surveillance measures is debatable.
Earlier this week, a spokesman for British PM Boris Johnson confirmed that the controversial NHS contact-tracing app will be a “key part” of the government’s Covid-19 surveillance program going forward.
The app, which has been designed to notify people if they were in close contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus, could be available within weeks. However, privacy campaigners have warned it could see the public “coerced” into sharing personal data about their movements.
https://www.rt.com/uk/487347-spy-agency-powers-nhs/
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Court Brief: 11.6K Dead People on Virginia’s Voter Rolls
About 11,600 dead people remain on the state of Virginia’s voter rolls, according to a court brief filed in United States District Court.
A court brief filed by the Public Legal Interest Foundation (PILF) alleges grave issues with Virginia’s voter rolls just as a lawsuit in the state seeks to strip witness requirements on mail-in ballots in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
According to PILF, there are about 11,600 dead people on Virginia’s voter rolls — all of whom would receive mail-in ballots if an election were held by mail. These nearly 12,000 dead voters have corresponding published obituaries.
Another 1,772 registered voters have commercial addresses listed as their primary residence and nearly 600 voters have been flagged as having duplicated registrations.
On Wednesday, the court accepted PILF’s brief.
As Breitbart News wrote this month, PILF research shows that 28.4 million mail-in ballots have gone missing in the last four election cycles dating back to 2012. In the 2016 and 2018 elections, a total of about 16.4 million mail-in ballots went missing.
Currently, elected Democrats are lobbying for nationwide mail-in voting for the November presidential election — a move that would potentially deliver ballots to an estimated 24 million ineligible voters. The plan is being bankrolled by organizations funded by billionaire George Soros.
The brief is related to an ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The case number is 6:20-cv-00024.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/29/court-brief-11-6k-dead-people-on-virginias-voter-rolls/
Court brief
https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/Doc.-48-Proposed-Brief.pdf
UN Urges Govts to Release Illegal Migrants, ‘Provide Access to Healthcare, Housing’
The United Nations (UN) is urging countries around the world to release illegal migrants from detention in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, and highlighted steps towards giving them “access to healthcare, housing, and other services”.
Already under scrutiny over the supine posture of its health agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the UN may now be in for another wave of criticism as it uses the pandemic to push for open borders — highlighting states “responsibilities” under the contentious Global Compact for Migration as it does so.
“Yesterday, the United Nations Network on Migration released urgently needed practical recommendations with guidance for States and stakeholders on preventing and responding to COVID-19 in the context of immigration detention,” announced the UN Migration Agency, or International Organization for Migration (IOM), in an official press release.
“[T]he brief highlights steps that several governments have already taken to swiftly release migrants from detention and to provide access to healthcare, housing and other services regardless of migration status,” it continued approvingly.
“The Network’s Working Group on Alternatives to Detention – co-led by UNICEF, UNHCR and the International Detention Coalition – has developed this guidance in partnership amongst UN agencies and civil society… The Network calls on States to introduce a moratorium on the use of immigration detention; to scale up and implement non-custodial community-based alternatives [and] to release all migrants in detention into alternatives,” it added, suggesting that illegal aliens should only be detained as a “last resort”.
The UN and its subsidiary agencies, which are funded for this sort of activism through large fees and voluntary contributions from member countries — countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, disproportionately.
Like the activists and politicians pushing for the release of illegal aliens and prisoners, however, the global bureaucracy has failed to explain why it is better, in terms of controlling the coronavirus, to release criminals and migrants into the general population rather than keep them in detention — where they will be less likely to infect each other, but more likely to infect the public at large.
The UN’s remark in its press release that it “reminds States of their commitment in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to prioritize alternatives to immigration detention, using detention as a measure of last resort only and working towards ending child immigration detention” may also raise eyebrows, given many governments refused to sign it.
These included the Trump administration in the United States, the government of Australia, and many populist or populist-influenced governments in countries like Austria, Hungary, and Poland, which believed the “legal framework” provided by the supposedly “non-binding” pact would result in activists using lawfare and other mechanisms to enforce open borders policies by the back door.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/30/un-urges-govts-release-illegal-migrants-provide-access-healthcare-housing/
250 Chinese Ventilators Could Kill Coronavirus Patients, UK Doctors Warn
British doctors have warned that 250 ventilators bought from China could cause “significant patient harm, including death” if there are used on Chinese coronavirus suffers in hospitals in the United Kingdom.
Senior doctors from a National Health Service (NHS) regional trust in Birmingham said that the build of the Shangrila 510 model ventilators, made by Beijing Aeonmed Co Ltd, was “basic” and that the oxygen supply was “variable and unreliable”.
It was also the wrong type as it was designed for ambulances, meaning medics had to set up make-shift stands for the mobile devices to place next to hospital beds. The cloth casing is also said to be difficult to clean, causing hygiene concerns in the high-infection environment, according to the letter seen by American network NBC News and published on Thursday.
“We believe that if used, significant patient harm, including death, is likely,” the letter said, continuing: “We look forward to the withdrawal and replacement of these ventilators with devices better able to provide intensive care ventilation for our patients.”
The letter was dated April 13th and penned by a doctor from Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust on behalf of other medics working in the region and sent to a senior NHS official. It was written eight days after senior Cabinet minister Michael Gove thanked the communist Chinese government for helping them secure an order of 300 ventilators.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/30/250-chinese-ventilators-could-kill-coronavirus-patients-uk-doctors-warn/
100 million people in cities around the world will fall into poverty because of coronavirus, World Bank warns
Crowded cities lacking water or sewage are on the front line, experts say
Cities will see a drop of 15 to 25 per cent in tax revenues because of the crisis
World Bank says cities are lacking accurate data about slum neighbourhoods
Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
Some 100 million city dwellers around the world are likely to fall into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank has warned.
Densely populated cities are on the front line of the outbreak - especially in slums where people are lacking running water, sewage systems or health care, urban experts said.
Those problems will become harder to solve because cities will see a drop of 15 to 25 per cent in tax revenues as a result of the crisis, it is feared.
'Within cities we need to focus on those who need help the most, the poor and the vulnerable have been very seriously affected,' said Sameh Wahba, a global director for the World Bank.
Our estimate is that there will be possibly upward of a 100 million so-called "new poor" on account of loses of jobs and livelihoods and income,' Wahba told reporters.
Many cities lack accurate data about slum areas, making it difficult to know where investments should be targeted, experts say.
A World Bank mapping tool using satellite imagery is helping cities find areas where people use communal toilets or where social distancing is impractical, Wahba said.
So far the tool has been used to produce such maps for Cairo, Mumbai and Kinshasa
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8271521/Cities-face-100-million-new-poor-post-pandemic-world-experts.html
yep from the bankers
CNN's Stelter Blasted Hydroxychloroquine for Virus, But Turns Out His Wife Uses It - Just Not for COVID
CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter is about the furthest thing from an unbiased journalist the establishment media has to offer — and he continues to prove it.
As President Donald Trump and many Fox News hosts — whom Stelter loves to bash — touted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19, Stelter joined his CNN colleagues and used his platform to attack the president.
It was tough to fathom why Stelter would want to pour cold water on a ray of hope for many as the drug has shown promise around the world. But he wasn’t exactly the most objective commentator on the matter.
As Stelter has mentioned multiple times on air, his wife uses the drug for her own condition (unrelated to the virus).
Stelter has also said that the president and Fox News’ promotion of hydroxychloroquine could potentially cause a rush on sales of the drug
http://www.womensystems.com/2020/04/cnns-stelter-blasted-hydroxychloroquine.html
UN Flags down all day, is it happening?
The flags are raised manually by UN Security officers every weekday morning at approximately 8am and lowered every weekday at around 4pm, except in the cases of bad weather. The flags are organized in English alphabetical order from north to south. On weekends, only the UN flag is raised. Further information can be found in this 1992 article from the UN Chronicle:
“So Proudly They Wave … Flags of the United Nations”, Endrst, Elsa B. UN Chronicle, Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 1992)
ask.un.org/faq/14461
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/un-flags-down-all-day-is-it-happening/
Grassley sniffed out DOJ’s corruption in the Flynn case years ago, and Rosenstein responded with the proverbial middle finger. Why? Because Rosenstein knew the FBI and DOJ, not Flynn, were the guilty parties.
And I knew Barr was corrupt when he sent off Rosenstein into retirement with songs of praise and adoration for decades of marvelous service.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/grassley-sniffed-out-dojs-corruption-in-the-flynn-case-years-ago-and-rosenstein-responded-with-the-proverbial-middle-finger-why-because-rosenstein-knew-the-fbi-and-doj-not-flynn-were-the/
Amazon, Walmart, FedEx workers plan walkout on Friday.
Workers from corporations are planning a walkout Friday, including employees from Amazon, Walmart and FedEx.
The workers are seeking better health and safety standards as well as hazard pay while working during the coronavirus pandemic.
Former Amazon employee Christian Smalls, shared a flyer on Twitter last week that included other prominent company names participating in the demonstration on May 1, such as Instacart, Target and Whole Foods, according to a report from The Intercept.
Email Chrismalls21@gmail.com it’s time to join up! Protect all workers at all cost we are not expandable or replaceable enough is enough TAKE THE POWER BACK! #techsolidarity #solidarity #ChrisSmalls pic.twitter.com/7UKyS1mgtV
— Christian Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) April 22, 2020
thehill.com/homenews/news/495061-amazon-walmart-fedex-workers-plan-walkout-on-friday-report
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/amazon-walmart-fedex-workers-plan-walkout-on-friday/
Outrageous 'Don't Defend Trump' Memo Uncovered, Was Written by Top Republican Strategist
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has sent out a 57-page memo advising GOP candidates how to address the coronavirus crisis during the 2020 campaign, Politico reported Friday.
The linchpin of the ludicrous strategy put forth in the document is to avoid mentioning President Donald Trump’s role during the national emergency.
The political consulting firm O’Donnell & Associates, headed by Brett O’Donnell, authored the memo. O’Donnell, described by Politico as a “top Republican strategist,” has advised numerous candidates, including failed GOP presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain.
The memo recommends that Senate candidates focus on bashing China as the COVID-19 culprit rather than defending the impressive leadership of Trump during one of the worst calamities in American history.
In essence, the document advises Republican Senate candidates to distance themselves from Trump.
“Don’t defend Trump, other than the China Travel Ban — attack China,” the April 17 memo says.
Candidates are encouraged to declare how they will be tough on China and contrast that with Democrats, who should be presented as too soft.
“China caused this pandemic by covering it up, lying, and hoarding the world’s supply of medical equipment,” the memo says, spurring candidates to keep the blame for the pandemic squarely on the Chinese Communist Party.
The document offers a summary of how candidates should portray their plans if elected: “I will stand up to China, bring our jobs back home, and push for sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party.”
The strategy of painting the Democrats as soft on China already has been used by the Trump campaign, which released a video earlier this month depicting presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee Joe Biden as a defender of the communist regime.
http://www.womensystems.com/2020/04/outrageous-dont-defend-trump-memo.html
I posted as it refers to an "Anon" showing our reach
thanks for your lame af post
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Turkey vows to ‘defend’ Tripoli-based govt against Haftar ‘dictatorship’ in Libya
Ankara on Wednesday accused eastern Libya’s commander Khalifa Haftar of seeking to “create a military dictatorship” and vowed to “defend” the country's Tripoli-based government.
Haftar, who controls swathes of eastern Libya, launched an offensive in April last year to seize Tripoli. He said on Monday that his self-styled army had “accepted the will of the people and its mandate.”
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said that, with this announcement, Haftar “has once again demonstrated that he does not seek a political solution to the crisis in Libya, does not support international efforts in this regard… and aims to create a military dictatorship in the country.”
The Turkish government backs Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord in the capital Tripoli, and had earlier dispatched troops and pro-Turkish Syrian fighters there, AFP said.
https://www.rt.com/newsline/487273-turkey-libya-haftar-dictatorship/
World's largest vaccine maker GSK says there will be no mass coronavirus jab until late next year - as Pfizer says its COVID-19 jab could be ready by this autumn
No coronavirus jab will be ready to manufacture on a mass scale until late next year, the boss of the world's largest vaccine maker today warned.
Emma Walmsley, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, said millions of doses would not be produced until the second half of 2021, 'if things go right'.
In another promising development, major drug giant Pfizer today announced it may have a coronavirus vaccine ready by the autumn.
The US-based company has already started mass manufacturing doses and is aiming to have 'hundred of millions of doses' ready by the end of the year.
Developing vaccinations usually takes many months or years but researchers are hurtling towards human trials.
They say the process has been made easier because the virus, scientifically known as SARS-CoV-2, is not mutating and is similar to other viruses seen in the past.
University of Oxford scientists are also confident they can get their jab for the incurable virus rolled out for millions to use by autumn.
Ms Walmsley discussed the potential of a coronavirus jab being manufactured for the masses in a media briefing after the release of GSK's first-quarter results.
She said: 'If things go right… to get to scale of manufacturing in the hundreds of millions (of doses) is going to be in the second half of next year.'
It requires swift progress in global development efforts to show an experimental vaccine is safe, effective and dosed in the right way, she added.
Ms Walmsley said: 'An 18-month time line was an ambitious one to be going after but one that everyone is [targeting].'
As many as 100 potential COVID-19 candidate vaccines are now under development by biotech and research teams around the world.
And at least five of these, including one developed by Oxford University experts, are in preliminary testing in people in what are known as Phase 1 clinical trials.
GSK and rival vaccine maker Sanofi this month teamed up for a coronavirus vaccine project.
It is the latest in a string of alliances that have seen the Brentford-based drug maker contributing its expertise on adjuvants.
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/04/worlds-largest-vaccine-maker-gsk-says.html
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca strikes deal with Oxford University to mass produce experimental COVID-19 vaccine with first results from human trials expected in June
The agreement was announced this morning, with the details set to be finalised
It will allow for rapid vaccination around the world, if the jab is proven to work
And it will provide the UK access 'as early as possible', according to Oxford Uni
Human trials of the experimental ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine began last week
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has today agreed to mass-produce a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University scientists.
Human trials of the experimental jab - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - started last week and the first results are expected in mid-June.
If proven to protect against the deadly virus, the deal will allow the UK to access 'as early as possible', the university said today.
Details of the agreement - described by Health Secretary Matt Hancock as 'hugely welcome news' - are set to be finalised in the coming weeks.
Developing vaccinations can take up to a decade and scientists have said finding an effective jab within 18 months would be 'unprecedented'.
But researchers across the world are hurtling towards the target, with more than 100 candidates in development and some already being trialled on humans.
http://www.tathasta.com/2020/04/pharmaceutical-giant-astrazeneca.html
Ted Cruz: “ YouTube & Google should NOT have the power to censor speech—partularly on critical issues of concern. The doctors’ views here aren’t fraud. If YouTube disagrees, argue ON THE MERITS. Don’t abuse monopoly power…
They shouldn’t have immunity. They’re not a platform.
They’re a publisher.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/ted-cruz-youtube-google-should-not-have-the-power-to-censor-speech-partularly-on-critical-issues-of-concern-the-doctors-views-here-arent-fraud-if-youtube-disag/
O’Keefe Strikes Again! Funeral Directors in COVID-19 Epicenter Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic (VIDEO)
Project Veritas spoke to several funeral directors in New York who are doubting the legitimacy of COVID-19 labeled death certificates.
“To be honest with you, all the death certificates, they’re writing COVID on all the death certificates whether they had a positive test, whether they didn’t, so I think, you know again this is my personal opinion, I think like the Mayor (Bill de Blasio) in our city (NYC), they’re looking for federal funding and, the more they put COVID on the death certificate the more they can ask for federal funds,” Funeral Director, Colonial Home Michael Lanza said. “So I think it’s political.”
Another funeral director in Queens, NY told Project Veritas that she had one victim autopsied because the sister was furious because she “knew” her sister didn’t die from the Coronavirus.
This victim is related to a Supreme Court Justice, but the funeral director did not disclose which justice.
The angry woman said her sister had Alzheimer’s and they didn’t suction her. “You have to suction her because they forget how to swallow. And um right away they put down COVID-19 on her death certificate and the Supreme Court Justice whoever it is contacted the hospital, they did an independent autopsy, Bingo, no COVID-19,” said President of Dimiceli & Sons Funeral Home, Josephine Dimiceli.
New CDC guidelines on COVID-19 are allowing hospitals to list Coronavirus on the death certificates without a lab test.
Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, previously told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus.
Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.
State and local government officials are using the padded COVID-19 death count to shut down small businesses with unconstitutional lockdown orders.
Where is Bill Barr??
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/okeefe-strikes-funeral-directors-covid-19-epicenter-doubt-legitimacy-deaths-attributed-pandemic-video/
AG who indicted Netanyahu says no legal impediment to him forming next coalition
Charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust against PM do not constitute grounds for judicial intervention, says Avichai Mandelblit ahead of High Court hearing next week
There is no legal obstacle to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming and leading the next government despite the criminal charges against him, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit wrote Thursday in an opinion submitted to the High Court of Justice.
The opinion was a response to a petition filed to the High Court that will be heard Sunday in front of an expanded panel of 11 judges.
“Despite the significant difficulties that arise in this matter, they do not constitute grounds for judicial intervention,” Mandelblit wrote with regard to the bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges that he himself in January filed against Netanyahu in three cases.
“All this, without detracting from the severity of the indictment filed against Netanyahu, and without undermining the consistent judgment of the honorable court regarding the need for strict adherence to incorruptibility among elected officials,” he added.
“The fact that the legislature did not make an explicit provision regarding the situation in which an indictment is filed against a prime minister indicates a conscious choice that a prime minister may continue to hold office up until his conviction by a final verdict with regard to an offense where there is moral turpitude,” Mandelblit continued.
Under the terms of the coalition deal between Netanyahu’s Likud and the Blue and White party, if the court disqualifies Netanyahu as prime minister in the first six months of the new coalition’s lifespan, there will be new elections.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/attorney-general-says-no-legal-impediment-to-netanyahu-forming-next-government/
Pelosi floats almost $1T for states in next relief package
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats will push for including almost $1 trillion in the next coronavirus relief package to help states and local governments hit hard by the pandemic.
That figure, Pelosi said, would likely be the single largest line-item of the Democrats' next emergency package, known as CARES 2, which is also expected to include hundreds of billions of dollars more to help workers, businesses and families weather the crisis.
"We're not going to be able to cover all of it, but to the extent that we can keep the states and localities sustainable, that's our goal," Pelosi told reporters in the basement of the near-deserted Capitol.
It means the Democrats' next emergency relief proposal is likely to approximate the massive size of the initial CARES Act, adopted March 27, which provided $2.2 trillion in emergency help largely for major industries and small businesses left devastated by the economic fallout of the global pandemic.
It also foreshadows a fierce fight with Republicans in the Senate, where GOP leaders had rejected any new funding for state and local governments in the last "interim" coronavirus bill, enacted last week, and are wary that any new help for states going forward would simply bail out governors for fiscal mismanagement preceding the health crisis.
"That strikes me as a pretty outrageous number, just for state and local support," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters in the Capitol, shortly after Pelosi floated the $1 trillion figure. "We've already provided 150 billion dollars" in CARES 1."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he'd prefer to see the states declare bankruptcy than grant them more federal help.
Senate Republicans, he warned last week, won't support "revenue replacement for state governments" or "solving their pension problems."
McConnell's critics have been quick to point out that Kentucky, where the Senate leader is seeking reelection this year, receives many billions of dollars more from Washington than its residents pay in federal taxes.
And Pelosi on Thursday dismissed McConnell's opposition, saying Democrats are prepared to go to the mat to ensure that medical workers and other first responders are not laid off as a result of the economic crunch facing states around the country, which have seen tax revenues plummet amid the crisis.
"They're risking their lives to save lives, and now they're going to lose their jobs? It's just stunning, and we have to address it," Pelosi said. "This isn't about any other budget issues for states; it's about the coronavirus outlays [and] revenue lost."
Pelosi said that assistance could arrive in as many as three separate "tranches" — providing aid to hard-hit states, counties and municipalities — and could extend for three or four years, providing long-term help as the economy stabilizes.
"It's not just for one year," she said. "It's over time."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/495497-pelosi-floats-almost-1t-for-states-in-next-relief-package
Bank Hapoalim Agrees to Pay More Than $30 Million for Its Role in FIFA Money Laundering Conspiracy
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-hapoalim-agrees-pay-more-30-million-its-role-fifa-money-laundering-conspiracy
Interesting.