Pentagon puts elite military police units on standby as Donald Trump prepares to deploy the Army to the streets to quash domestic unrest for the first time since LA riots in 1992

Pentagon tells active-duty military police to be ready to deploy to Minneapolis

Trump communicated orders verbally to Defense Secretary Mark Esper

Minneapolis has seen looting and unrest since death of George Floyd, 46

Cop was filmed pinning Floyd to the ground with his knee on his neck

Insurrection Act of 1807 gives Trump authority to use army for domestic unrest

Last time military was sent to put down riot was in Los Angeles in 1992

Rioting erupted in LA in wake of acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King

As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty US military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests.

Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders.

Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been told to be ready within 24 hours.

The people did not want their names used because they were not authorized to discuss the preparations.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8371717/Pentagon-puts-military-police-alert-Minneapolis.html

RUSH: Facebook fact-checks too. Facebook even has a page that explains how their fact-check system works, and Facebook exiles people they don’t like.

RUSH: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook was on Fox yesterday afternoon. He was on the Dana Perino show, and he said that he disagreed with Twitter fact-checking President Trump. He said, “We have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this. So I just believe strongly Facebook should not be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.

“I think in general private companies probably shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.” But Facebook fact-checks too. Facebook even has a page that explains how their fact-check system works, and Facebook exiles people they don’t like. They even label them as “haters.” Facebook has put mainstream conservatives like Candace Owens on a hate agent’s review list.

When Zuckerberg says this stuff, nobody points this kind of thing out to him. Now, of course, he’s taking the occasion of disagreeing with Dorsey. And, folks, I want to tell you again: A lot of people are picking up on a point that I shared with you yesterday that Marco Rubio made, and that is that Twitter may have seriously stepped in it by doing this, because they have crossed the boundary line now from simply providing a service to being a content provider.

When they do that, they open themselves up to liability. It’s one thing for Twitter to just be an empty vessel and all of its content be determined by what its users say, but not of what Twitter itself says. But if they’re gonna introduce fact-checking, that means they are going to be responsible for content on the site, and that opens them up to liability.

There’s a piece that ran at Hot Air today. “Twitter Is Digging Its Own Grave,” ’cause once they start tagging some tweets and not others with “what you need to know” or “fact checks,” then they’re gonna be staking out partisan positions — and that’s exactly what they’ve done with Trump. They are staking out a partisan position, and it’s gonna cause them big trouble because some lawyers are gonna spot this as a grand opening to go after ’em to make them liable.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/rush-facebook-fact-checks-too-facebook-even-has-a-page-that-explains-how-their-fact-check-system-works-and-facebook-exiles-people-they-dont-like/

Pope Francis Reveals Catholic Priests Used Nuns As Sex Slaves

Pope Francis' statements come after a report was released last week by a Vatican women's magazine which detailed nuns forced to abort priests' children.

In a historical first, the Roman Catholic Church has not only acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns on behalf of its own clergy, but detailed how nuns were used as sex slaves by priests and bishops alike.

Pope Francis said on Tuesday that he was devoted to ending the rampant issue: “We have been working on this for a long time. We have suspended some priests because of this.”

The unusual transparency came in response to a reporter’s questions about an article published by Women’s Church World, the Vatican’s women’s magazine, which exposed this sexual abuse by clerics — and described the abortions these nuns would have to undergo, or the difficulties of giving birth to children fathered by priests.

“It is true … there have been priests and even bishops who have done this. I think it is still going on because something does not stop just because you have become aware of it,” Pope Francis conceded.

Last week’s Vatican magazine article claimed priests operating in Africa specifically used nuns for sex because they were deemed physiologically safe in the face of the continent’s AIDS crisis. The article also gave nuns in India and Chile a chance to detail their experiences with clerical sexual abuse.

The growing spotlight on the church is twofold: the willingness to speak up in the era of the #MeToo movement, and subsequently, the extensive investigations into the church’s sex crimes.

The Associated Press published its thoroughly researched findings into these allegations last year and found that the sexual abuse of nuns by clergy was “global and pervasive.”

The BBC reported that one bishop in India, for instance, was arrested last year over allegations that he had raped a nun 13 times between 2014 and 2016. A Vatican investigation into similar reports from Chile resulted in the women removed from the order.

This global system of abuse has reportedly become so insidious that church leaders either allow it to continue in the face of complicity or exasperation or dissolve entire congregations irrevocably affected by it. Pope Francis himself mentioned his predecessor, Benedict XVI, as a prime example of the latter.

Benedict XVI reportedly dissolved an entire religious order of nuns in 2005 “because a certain slavery of woman had crept in, slavery to the point of sexual slavery on the part of the clergy or the founder.” A Vatican spokesperson later reported that this instance referred to the Contemplative Sisters of Saint-Jean, a small group in France.

http://www.mr-mehra.com/2020/05/pope-francis-reveals-catholic-priests.html

Congress Is Poised to Pass Far-reaching Israeli Wish List

Congress is set to pass its most far-reaching bill related to Israel at the height of a national public health emergency.

With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s passage of the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2020 last week, the current Congress is now poised to enact with little transparency its most far-reaching bill related to Israel at the height of a national public health emergency.

According to Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), the committee vote took place “without even bothering with a pretense of public discussion” and was especially egregious because the committee voted on a wholly new version of the bill which “was not made public until long after the hearing ended.”

The opacity of the committee’s vote on the bill was even more shocking considering its importance.

Ostensibly the main purpose of the bill, S.3176, is to codify in law the levels of military aid and funding for missile defense agreed to by the United States and Israel in a 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

This MOU, pledging a record-breaking $38 billion for Israel between 2019 and 2028, solidified President Obama’s legacy as the president most munificent to Israel.

However, a presidential pledge of weapons to Israel does not automatically result in their delivery. According to the constitution, Congress passes spending bills, and funds first need to be authorized and then appropriated before they can be obligated and expended by the president.

If passed, S.3176 would authorize Congress to appropriate funds for the remaining budgetary years of the MOU. However, if that were the sole purpose of the bill, it merely would be an inconsequential act of grandstanding since it is inconceivable that Congress would fail to appropriate the funds as scheduled every year.

Instead, the real purpose of the bill is to potentially boost military aid to Israel even higher and further enmesh the US-Israeli relationship in various military and economic fields.

According to the MOU, $3.3 billion per year in foreign military financing (FMF) and $500 million in missile defense was supposed to have served as a very generous ceiling for US aid. Both sides committed to “respect the FMF levels specified in this MOU, and not to seek changes to the FMF levels for the duration of this understanding.”

S.3176 would authorize $3.3 billion annually in FMF not as a ceiling, as negotiated by the Obama administration, but as a floor. The bill seeks to do so surreptitiously by amending existing statutory authorization for military aid to Israel by replacing an amount “equal to” with “not less than” $3.3 billion annually.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/congress-pass-israeli-wish-list/5714295

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Pivots Back to Peace Talks With Russia’s Putin

KYIV, Ukraine—As Ukraine’s coronavirus lockdown incrementally winds down, Kyiv is pivoting its focus back to ending the war in the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian troops have held a Russian invasion force at bay since spring 2014.

At a press conference last week to mark his first year in office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made it clear that, with the pandemic under control inside Ukraine, he is open to holding direct peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There are some things you can understand only when you are one on one,” Zelenskyy said. “There are some answers to what you can do and want, and it is better to hear them when you are one on one, to draw crystal clear conclusions and proceed with another plan—plan B.”

With a population 3.4 times that of Ukraine’s, Russia has more than 16 times the number of Ukraine’s total 20,148 reported COVID-19 cases.

Russia had reported a total of 326,448 COVID-19 cases as of May 22. Putin has taken a hit in his popularity among the Russian people due to his government’s management of the coronavirus crisis.

Many in Russia believe Moscow is hiding the true toll of the pandemic, underreporting the numbers of infections and deaths.

In 2014, the United States and the European Union levied punitive economic sanctions on Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine. Now, Russia is facing an additional economic pinch as American liquefied natural gas and oil deliveries ramp up in Central and Eastern Europe, reducing Russia’s share of the market.

Thus, on top of the global drop in oil prices and fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, many say Russia’s economy is facing a crisis. And some say that economic pressure ultimately could spur Putin to the negotiating table with Zelenskyy.

“Against such a background, a new round of negotiations would make sense, as the Kremlin may be more willing to compromise under the currently increasing socio-economic pressure,” said Andreas Umland, senior expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future.

“If one assumes more or less rational calculations in the Kremlin, then ending the EU’s Donbas-related sanctions could be higher on the agenda today than before the corona crisis,” Umland told The Daily Signal.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05/29/ukraines-zelenskyy-pivots-back-to-peace-talks-with-russias-putin/

New Study Links Brain Tumors to Power Lines Exposure

It may seem like warnings have only been cited about the many health risks associated with exposure to sources of wireless radiation (i.e. 5G, Bluetooth, cell phone and WiFi radiation). However, there have been warnings about exposure risks from additional sources of Electromagnetic Radiation (aka “Electrosmog”) for many years as well. This includes power lines.

Thanks to Environmental Health Trust for reporting about a new study that determined a link between power lines and brain tumors, as well as including additional research that proves harm from exposure.

The journal Environmental Research has published a new study entitled “Residential proximity to power lines and risk of brain tumor in the general population” which found an increased risk of brain tumors was associated with living near power lines. Powerlines are a source of residential exposure to magnetic field electromagnetic radiation (EMF) and repeated research studies for decades have associated magnetic field power-line frequency ELF-EMF from power lines to a type of childhood leukemia.

In 2001 the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that exposure to power-line frequency ELF-EMF is a “possible” human carcinogen- a decision based largely evidence of an increased risk for childhood leukemias with residential exposure .

Kaiser Permanente researchers have published several studies linking pregnant women’s exposure to magnetic field electromagnetic fields to not only increased miscarriage and but also increased ADHD, obesity and asthma in the woman’s prenatally exposed children.

Two published studies by the Ramazzini Institute “Carcinogenic Synergism of S-50 Hz MF Plus Formaldehyde in Rats” (2016) and “Life-span exposure to sinusoidal-50 Hz magnetic field and acute low-dose γ radiation induce carcinogenic effects in Sprague-Dawley rats” (2016) found that ELF exposed rats had statistically significant increased incidence of several type of malignant tumors when combined with a known carcinogen.

Over a dozen countries already have some level of protective policy in place regarding this type of electromagnetic radiation. The countries of Croatia, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Belgium (Wallonia, Flanders) Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Lithuania, Poland have a magnetic field radiation limit for “sensitive areas” far far lower than ICNIRP. Sensitive areas are generally defined as areas where children live and play such as schools, kindergartens or recreation areas. Sometimes the definition includes hospitals and residential areas. These countries’ magnetic field EMF limits are 3 or 4 milligauss, the level of milligauss associated with childhood leukemia in repeated published studies. However ICNIRP recommends a residential magnetic field exposure limit of 2,000 milligauss (mG) and an occupational exposure limit of 10,000 mG.

The United States has no limit on legal levels of milligauss electromagnetic radiation. However the California Department of Education enacted a regulation to require minimum distances between new schools and the edge of a transmission line “right-of-way.”

Environmental Health Trust has resources on how to reduce magnetic field EMFs HERE.

In this study, ELF-MF exposure was estimated from power line location and exposure to power lines was assessed by a lifetime geographical index.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/05/new-study-links-brain-tumors-to-power-lines-exposure.html

PAYBACK: Dr. Judy Mikovits Comes Out Swinging; Drops NEW Bombs on Dr. Fauci & CDC During Vicious Interview

In perhaps her most vicious interview yet targeting the ‘rampant career fraud’ of Dr. Anthony Fauci, whistleblower and pioneer virologist Dr. Judy Mikovits dissected Fauci during another epic and exclusive interview on the Thomas Paine Podcast Ep. 23 on Wednesday. (Listen above)

Fauci, the White House’s so-called medical guru on coronavirus, quickly went from Capitol Hill hero to medical zero after testifying Tuesday in a sham Senate hearing that better resembled a vaccine pep rally than an impartial hearing on coronavirus. Mikovits, who originally launched her now-snowballing public relations blitz against Fauci and the DC medical establishment on the Thomas Paine Podcast weeks ago, returned on Wednesday to continue her mission to dismantle the embattled Dr. Fauci.

And Mikovits, whose new bestselling book details how Fauci had her illegally imprisoned, pulls no punches while dropping bombshells on the corrupt U.S. government medical and research cartel and how Americans are being lied to about the coronavirus.

https://truepundit.com/payback-dr-judy-mikovits-comes-out-swinging-drops-new-bombs-on-dr-fauci-cdc-during-vicious-interview/

Snowden’s residence permit automatically extended until June 15

Later, a decision will be made about whether it should be extended by three more years

MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. The residence permit of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is staying in Russia, has been automatically extended until July 15 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s measures to curb the infection, a law enforcement source told TASS.

Snowden’s residence permit expired on April 30. He submitted all documents for its extension in mid-March. In late March, the Russian Interior Ministry decided to automatically extend residence permits for all holders.

"Due to anti-coronavirus measures, Snowden, just like all other residence permit holders, had this document automatically extended until June 15. Therefore, his residence permit remains valid. Later, a decision will be made about whether it should be extended by three more years upon Snowden’s request and in line with the current legislation," the source said.

Meanwhile, Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told TASS that his client stays in home and observes the self-isolation regime.

"There is nothing we can say as long as self-isolation remains in place. We are all staying home," he said.

In 2013, Snowden leaked information on the methods of electronic surveillance by US intelligence services, including illegally wiretapping foreign leaders. Fleeing from prosecution, Snowden sent requests for asylum to some countries, including Russia. On August 1, 2014, he received a Russian residence permit valid for three years, which was later extended for another three years. In February, Kucherena announced that Snowden’s residence permit in Russia would expire in April and the paperwork was underway to extend it. On April 16, he said the request had been filed.

In the United States, Snowden is charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act. He may face up to ten years in prison on each of the counts. The US authorities have repeatedly stated that they consider Snowden a traitor who caused grave damage to national security.

https://tass.com/russia/1162085

The Memo: Trump ratchets up Twitter turmoil

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President Trump’s battle with Twitter intensified on Friday, sparking new debates around the combustible themes of race, policing and protest.

Trump has been accused of inciting violence. The president has suggested that he would like to shut Twitter down if he could.

The question is where the row might go next, given the conflicting dynamics at play.

Twitter enables Trump to go around the traditional media and communicate directly with his 80 million followers — even as he fulminates about alleged bias in Silicon Valley.

Twitter benefits from the news Trump makes on its platform and the engagement he drives — even as it has come under increasing pressure to police his misstatements more forcefully.

The most explosive moment yet came in the early hours of Friday, as unrest flared in Minneapolis following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of police earlier in the week.

Shortly before 1 a.m. — with a police precinct evacuated and ablaze —Trump tweeted that protesters were “THUGS,” a term that has come to be seen as racially loaded. Trump said that the federal government was willing to help restore order and then added, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”

Those words sparked immediate backlash and were widely seen as a threat of violence against protesters. The phrase appears to have its provenance in comments made by a hardline Miami police chief in the late 1960s in reference to upheaval in black neighborhoods.

Trump has since insisted that this is not what he meant. In a Friday afternoon tweet, he said “looting leads to shooting…and that’s what the expression put out last night means.”

By then, however, Twitter had appended a warning to the original tweet, stating that it violated the platform’s rules against “glorifying violence.”

This followed on from an earlier fracas, when Twitter added a fact-check to a Trump tweet alleging that voting by mail would lead to widespread fraud.

The action — the first of its kind, despite the many previous Trump Twitter controversies — sparked a furious counterblast from the president, including the release of a new executive order on Thursday. Unveiling that order at the White House, Trump said of Twitter that he would like to “shut it down” if he deemed the company to have behaved dishonorably.

Virtually no-one believes a president has the power to shut down a company over the kind of issue that is the focus of Trump’s complaints. But his actions — and Twitter’s reactions — have created a deepening maelstrom.

Even some right-of-center voices worry that Trump’s proposed actions could be counterproductive.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/500210-the-memo-trump-ratchets-up-twitter-turmoil

The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media?

Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19.

The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26 percent. Officials estimate a 0.4 percent fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35 percent rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26 percent — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.

https://theduran.com/the-cdc-confirms-remarkably-low-coronavirus-death-rate-where-is-the-media/