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Kayleigh McEnany Rips the FBI for 'Manufacturing a Crime'
Against Flynn
Cortney O'Brien
May 08, 2020 1:25 PM
"White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany spent the first few minutes of Friday's press briefing blasting the FBI for "manufacturing a crime" against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. In the past two weeks we learned that the agency all along had planned to try and catch the lieutenant general in a lie when they were investigating his contact with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. In light of the FBI's true intent, the Department of Justice had no choice but to drop the criminal charges against him.
"The FBI exists to investigate crimes, but in the case of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, it appears that they might have existed to manufacture one," McEnany observed on Friday."
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Why do people believe crazy COVID-19 conspiracy theories? How our brains are wired plays a part
By Christine Sismondo Special to the Star
Fri., May 8, 2020
"Even before Canada had its first documented case of COVID-19 in late January, the conspiracy theories were already flying.
The first one I noticed was that story about how the virus was stolen from a lab in Canada by a Chinese spy team who then proceeded to weaponize it.
Then there are the QAnon believers, a far-right conspiracy cult that also promotes drinking Miracle Mineral Supplement (active ingredient: industrial bleach) to cure COVID-19, and thinks the virus is a population control scheme orchestrated by Bill Gates. Ironies abound.
One coronavirus conspiracy theory that’s gained a lot of traction is the one that blames COVID-19 on 5G mobile phone technology, possibly because it got a celebrity bump when folks like Woody Harrelson, M.I.A. and John Cusack helped promote the theory on social media. Last week, that theory inspired arsonists to attack four cellphone towers in Quebec, the first such attacks in Canada. (There have been incidents in Europe and the United Kingdom.)
Surely, though, people with science credentials as impressive as these celebs wouldn’t retweet misinformation, right? To find out, we turned to an expert on the matter, Jonathan Jarry, science communicator at McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, who recently wrote about this issue, to ask if there was any truth to the idea that 5G was causing COVID-19?"
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