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2020-07-31 15:37:34+00:00

Italy's Senate strips Salvini of immunity, in effort to prevent Italexit (Video) - https://theduran.com/italys-senate-strips-salvini-of-immunity-in-effort-to-prevent-italexit-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 614.

2020-07-31 09:30:57+00:00

Which Is the Most Totalitarian Country? - https://theduran.com/which-is-the-most-totalitarian-country/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture Is it the country that has a higher percentage of its citizens in prison than any other? That’s the U.S. Is it the country that prosecutes an entity for having murdered 196 of its citizens but prohibits that entity from providing evidence of its innocence? That’s Holland. Is […]

2020-07-31 09:27:05+00:00

Cancelling another joint patrol on “Aleppo-Lattakia” highway - https://theduran.com/cancelling-another-joint-patrol-on-aleppo-lattakia-highway/

Khaled Iskef، Journalist… The joint Russian-Turkish patrol on the international “Aleppo-Lattakia” highway is cancelled for the second consecutive day, according to a field source, and the Turkish forces conducted an individual patrol from “Al-Nairab” village on the international highway to “Ain Al-Hour” area, the last point under ​​the militants’ control on the road towards Lattakia. […]

2020-07-31 09:18:05+00:00

Lockdowns at what price and at whose cost? - https://theduran.com/lockdowns-at-what-price-and-at-whose-cost/

Submitted by Mousumi Roy… Covid-19 has brought economies to their knees. The question is how long and how severe the resulting recession will be. The answer depends on the quality and quantity of global stimulus packages. Social unrest is already happening in some countries. Things are getting grim on the economic front for lower classes. […]

2020-07-31 09:11:04+00:00

Syrian Christians in Aleppo are suffering under US-EU sanctions - https://theduran.com/syrian-christians-in-aleppo-are-suffering-under-us-eu-sanctions/

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator… St. Elijah Maronite Cathedral in Aleppo re-opened after years of disuse due to the severe destruction the 18th century cathedral endured during battles in the period of 2012 to 2016. Aleppo had been Syria’s largest city and its commercial and industrial hub before the conflict which began in March 2011.  Syria […]

2020-07-30 15:26:26+00:00

Maxwell lawyers fight to keep names, images and videos hidden (Video) - https://theduran.com/maxwell-lawyers-fight-to-keep-names-images-and-videos-hidden-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 613.

2020-07-30 15:21:43+00:00

President Trump issues Executive Order barring Big Tech from online censorship [Video] - https://theduran.com/president-trump-issues-executive-order-barring-big-tech-from-online-censorship-video/

The Gateway Pundit reports this in their July 29, 2020 piece, written by Jim Hoft: On Wednesday Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook testified before Congress in the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust. Since 2016 and the election of Donald Trump the tech giants have been censoring and banning […]

2020-07-30 15:20:11+00:00

Russiagate is a 100 percent fake story, Part IV: Why sanction Russia? - [Video] - https://theduran.com/russiagate-is-a-100-percent-fake-story-part-iv-why-sanction-russia-video/

Our coverage of the William Binney testimony, given in a LaRouche PAC / Schiller Institute sponsored news conference on July 23rd continues. If you watch and listen to former NSA analyst William “Bill” Binney describe the way in which the hacker “Guccifer II” allegedly got his data from the DNC servers (a partial transcript also […]

2020-07-30 15:19:58+00:00

Lithuania buys Washington’s trust - https://theduran.com/lithuania-buys-washingtons-trust/

Submitted by The Baltic Word… Lithuania will purchase six UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and associated equipment from the United States worth than $ 380 million. This was reported by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the U.S. Department of Defense on July, 6. The U.S. Department of Defense noted that the purchase of helicopters […]

2020-07-30 15:18:18+00:00

A different story: how Russia is handling the Coronavirus pandemic [Video] - https://theduran.com/a-different-story-how-russia-is-handling-the-coronavirus-pandemic-video/

With all the crazy shifting narratives in American news about Coronvirus – the availability of treatments, the effectiveness of masks, the ineffectiveness of masks, the persecution of Christians who want to go to Church and pray and receive Holy Communion, the comparative safety of riots and attacking people, statues and buildings who are deemed “racist” […]

2020-07-30 15:17:57+00:00

George Soros revealed to have funded DA's who now oppose police in American cities - https://theduran.com/george-soros-revealed-to-have-funded-das-who-now-oppose-police-in-american-cities/

Part of the insanity of the violent demonstrations going on in the United States is the Antifa component who is radicalizing and fomenting extreme violence against police and government forces in many cities around the United States. This we knew from observation as well as for anyone who read newspieces like my own about the […]

2020-07-30 06:22:07+00:00

Chinese Banks Urged To Switch From SWIFT And Drop USD In Anticipation Of US Sanctions - https://theduran.com/chinese-banks-urged-to-switch-from-swift-and-drop-usd-in-anticipation-of-us-sanctions/

“A good punch to the enemy will save yourself from hundreds of punches from your enemies.”

Even as the market does its best to ignore the unprecedented upheavals in US-Sino relations in everything from trade, to diplomacy, to financial relations, the truth is that there are tectonic shifts tearing apart decades of established norms between the two superpowers, and one doesn’t even have to dig too deep to see it.

Consider this: one month ago, we reported that Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, delivered a strong warning on the US currency, frontrunning Goldman by about a month in cautioning that the greenback’s reserve status may be ending.

Speaking at the Lujiazhui Forum in Shanghai, Guo made four points:

The Fed is the de facto central bank of the world. When its policy targets its own economy without considering the spillover effect, the Fed is “very likely to overdraft the credit of the dollar and the U.S.”

The pandemic may persist for a long period of time, and countries keep throwing money at the problem with a diminished impact. “It is recommended that you think twice and reserve some policy space for the future.”

There is no free lunch. Watch out for inflation.

Financial markets are disconnected from the real economy, and such distortions are “unprecedented.” It’s going to be “really painful,” when the policy withdrawal starts.

“Some people say: ‘Domestic debt is not debt, but external debt is debt. For the United States, even external debt is not debt. This seems to have been the case for quite some time in the past, but can it really last for a long time in the future?”

So what will China do? “China cherishes the conventional monetary and fiscal policies very much. We will not engage in flooding the system, nor will we engage in deficit monetization and negative interest rates.”

It’s not the first time China vented frustration against the “exorbitant privilege” of the dollar. After the financial crisis, then-PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan proposed using the SDR to replace the dollar as the main reserve currency. For the most part these warnings were ignored, but one thing was clear: China is all too aware that the US is not only ready but also willing to weaponize the dollar and use it to its advantage in the recently launched cold with China.

So fast forward to today, when according to Reuters, a report from the investment banking unit of Bank of China warned that China should prepare for potential US sanctions by switching away from the Dollar-centric SWIFT system, and increasing use of its own financial messaging network for cross-border transactions in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau.

According to the BOC report, which was co-auth ...

2020-07-30 05:03:42+00:00

How Nancy Pelosi Can Really Make A Difference - https://theduran.com/how-nancy-pelosi-can-really-make-a-difference/

Although she may not be as far gone as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi is clearly not playing with a full deck. She has made all manner of ludicrous allegations against the President, and half the time she doesn’t seem to know what she is talking about. She is also eighty years old and has been […]

2020-07-30 05:03:26+00:00

Now Grammar Is Racist? - https://theduran.com/now-grammar-is-racist/

As almost everything else is, we shouldn’t be too surprised that grammar has now been declared so. The story of Rutgers University declaring grammar racist has been covered by a number of mainstream news outlets including the Washington Examiner that branded the move ‘Asinine’. The so-called fact-checking website Snopes tried to ridicule this claim with […]

2020-07-29 15:51:36+00:00

U.S. is pushing for a new provocation against Serbia over the Kosovo issue - https://theduran.com/u-s-is-pushing-for-a-new-provocation-against-serbia-over-the-kosovo-issue/

Delivery of armored vehicles to Kosovo could destabilize the Balkans

2020-07-29 15:33:41+00:00

The Baltic States and sold freedom - https://theduran.com/the-baltic-states-and-sold-freedom/

Via The Baltic Word… Military personnel from Latvia and Lithuania are participating in joint exercise with the U.S. Northern Strike2020. Northern Strike 20 is held July 19-31 at Michigan’s National All-Domain Warfighting Center, encompassing Camp Grayling Maneuver Training Center and Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. More than 2,300 personnel participate, including Army and Air National […]

2020-07-29 15:20:38+00:00

Will Crimea be recognized? - https://theduran.com/will-crimea-be-recognized/

This question can be asked when certain facts become known. In June 2020,an Internet conference “The Legacy of Kirill and Methodius at the Crossroads of Cultures: Russia, Ukraine,Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia” was held in Crimea. This event was held within the framework of the “One World of the Cyrillic”project, which has been implemented on the territory of […]

2020-07-29 15:17:53+00:00

AG Bill Barr's hearing reveals Democrat racism, hysteria and utter insanity [Video] - https://theduran.com/ag-bill-barrs-hearing-reveals-democrat-racism-hysteria-and-utter-insanity-video/

This was an interesting hearing. One of the most amazing things that happened in this hearing was that everyone in it remained alive. This is because the nature of the Democrat hit-and-run cowardice, considered by them to be “questioning” was childish, vindictive, and quite frankly, expressions of purely demonic evil. Doubtlessly, Attorney General Barr did […]

2020-07-29 08:24:13+00:00

Slavery of Fear - https://theduran.com/slavery-of-fear/

Authored by Gilbert Mercier, via News Junkie Post… Flee, fight or freeze In the natural world, there are two kinds of responses to imminent threats: either flee or fight. Most of the time, in order to maximize chances of survival, the decision has to be made by individuals or groups in less than a split second. […]

2020-07-29 08:13:54+00:00

The Syrian Army Is Appointing on “Aleppo – Lattakia” Highway - Idlib Battle Is Approaching - https://theduran.com/the-syrian-army-is-appointing-on-aleppo-lattakia-highway-idlib-battle-is-approaching/

Submitted by Khaled Iskef… The field developments return to the front of the Syrian events, after the cautious calm that lasted for several months in the north of the country coinciding with the implementation of the Russian-Turkish agreement on conducting joint patrols on the “M4” road known as “Aleppo-Lattakia” highway. The reopening of the road […]

2020-07-29 08:08:58+00:00

Ankara militants confiscate agricultural crops in Afrin, northern Syria - https://theduran.com/ankara-militants-confiscate-agricultural-crops-in-afrin-northern-syria/

Khaled Iskef, Journalist Local sources from Afrin in Aleppo northern countryside said that Turkish-backed armed groups stormed large areas of agricultural lands in the region, and stole the sumac crops in those lands during the past two days. The sources pointed out that the militants focused on storming and stealing the lands belonging to the […]

2020-07-29 08:01:21+00:00

Hong Kong Security Law - https://theduran.com/hong-kong-security-law/

Submitted by George Callaghan… In June 2020 the new ‘security’ law was passed in Hong Kong. The law is designed to suffocate free speech and subject the Hong Kongers to the same totalitarian oppression as exists in mainland China. The law flies in the face of many international human rights instruments that China has signed. […]

2020-07-29 07:57:13+00:00

Iran’s Future Will Be Prosperous: A 150-Year Fight for Sovereignty From Oil to Nuclear Energy - https://theduran.com/irans-future-will-be-prosperous-a-150-year-fight-for-sovereignty-from-oil-to-nuclear-energy/

Authored by Cynthia Chung via The Strategic Culture Foundation: This is Part 3 of the series “Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil”. Part 1 is a historical overview of Iran’s long struggle with Britain’s control over Iranian oil and the SIS-CIA overthrow of Iran’s Nationalist leader Mosaddegh in 1953. Part 2 covers the period of the Shah’s battle […]

2020-07-29 07:52:25+00:00

Is there life after Gaza? - https://theduran.com/is-there-life-after-gaza/

Via The North Belfast Journal A View from Napoleons Nose by Fra Hughes… In a report published on the 28th of August 2012 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, it quotes ‘without remedial action now Gaza’s problems in water and electricity, education and health, will only get worse over the coming […]

2020-07-29 07:43:58+00:00

How to Take Back Control of Your Mind - https://theduran.com/how-to-take-back-control-of-your-mind/

Authored by Cynthia Chung via The Strategic Culture Foundation: “Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new […]

2020-07-29 06:34:47+00:00

Lockdowns and school closures may be killing MORE children than Covid-19, warn leading UN officials citing new study - https://theduran.com/lockdowns-and-school-closures-may-be-killing-more-children-than-covid-19-warn-leading-un-officials-citing-new-study/

Advocates of reopening schools may have found a surprise ally in leaders of UN agencies – including the WHO – who cited a new study to show children may suffer more harm from lockdowns than the actual pandemic.

“The repercussions of the pandemic are causing more harm to children than the disease itself,” UNICEF director Henrietta H Fore said on Monday, seeking more funding to deal with the crisis. The agency’s nutrition program chief Victor Aguayo added that harm is caused “by having schools closed, by having primary health care services disrupted, by having nutritional programs dysfunctional.”

Fore joined World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) chief Qu Dongyu, and World Food Programme director David M Beasley in signing a call to action published in the Lancet, citing Covid-19 response strategies such as “physical distancing, school closures, trade restrictions, and country lockdowns” as  contributing to child malnutrition globally.

This could increase the number of children affected by acute malnutrition by an additional 6.7 million, on top of the 47 million the UN estimated were affected by “wasting” prior to the pandemic. It could also cause more than 10,000 additional deaths each month – or 128,000 over the span of the next 12 months, the four officials said.

These estimates are based on a study by researchers from several scientific establishments, including the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published by the Lancet this week.

After analyzing more than 118 low- and middle-income countries, the researchers warned that disruptions from Covid-19 response could endanger millions of families. Four out of five people affected live across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, with children up to five years old most at risk.

The lockdowns and other pandemic mitigation measures could result in “life-long impacts on education, chronic disease risks, and overall human capital formation,” as well as “intergenerational consequences for child growth and development.”

https://www.rt.com/news/496482-study-covid-hunger-children-lancet/

2020-07-29 05:49:12+00:00

The Case of Dred Scott - PaulCraigRoberts.org - https://theduran.com/the-case-of-dred-scott-paulcraigroberts-org/

Law can be said to be of two types:  Natural Law, which is author-less and comprised of that least set of rules best serving to prevent and where necessary peacefully resolve disputes.  Positivist Law,  a massive regulatory complex devised and deployed by the ruling political class intended and tending to ceaselessly incite conflict, the better to divide and rule a conquered people.  In his article about John Remington Graham’s   monograph, Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve,  Paul Craig Roberts explains a case in point of how positivist aw not only tends to incite conflict, but is in fact quite  deliberately used to incite it.   Dred Scott v Sanford is a famous 1857  SCOTUS case affirming slavery.   Graham takes the view that it was a contrived case funded by parties concerned to engineer the US Civil War, a war by which the free society of the US founders and framers was effectively ended and  a socialist takeover of the US begun. 

2020-07-28 16:10:36+00:00

CAUGHT!! Senator Lindsey Graham lies his tail off about Russia to Maria Bartiromo [Video] - https://theduran.com/caught-senator-lindsey-graham-lies-his-tail-off-about-russia-to-maria-bartiromo-video/

Several of my recent pieces pointed the finger at South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham for supporting Russiagate even while being the most prominent Republican voice speaking out against the use of the false narrative against the President. Watch this video, an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo: Notice all those times Lindsey Graham refers to […]

2020-07-28 16:05:03+00:00

Maxwell family stolen pension fortune, hidden away by Epstein? (Video) - https://theduran.com/maxwell-family-stolen-pension-fortune-hidden-away-by-epstein-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 611.

2020-07-28 15:22:31+00:00

Anti-government protests gain steam in Israel - https://theduran.com/anti-government-protests-gain-steam-in-israel/

Pro-government militias persecute and wound protesters in violent attacks

2020-07-28 15:22:01+00:00

China is to stay in Latin America and US has no choice but to acknowledge this - https://theduran.com/china-is-to-stay-in-latin-america-and-us-has-no-choice-but-to-acknowledge-this/

Latin America needs China whether Washington likes it or not.

2020-07-28 14:03:15+00:00

Sweden: The One Chart that Matters - https://theduran.com/sweden-the-one-chart-that-matters/

By MIKE WHITNEY 

While the Covid-19 epidemic continues to drag on in the United States, it’s largely over in Sweden where fatalities have dropped to no more than 2 deaths per day for the last week. Sweden has been harshly criticized in the media for not imposing draconian lockdowns like the United States and the other European countries. Instead, Sweden implemented a policy that was both conventional and sensible. They recommended that people maintain a safe distance between each other and they banned gatherings of 50 people or more. They also asked their elderly citizens to isolate themselves and to avoid interacting with other people as much as possible. Other than that, Swedes were encouraged to work, exercise and get on with their lives as they would normally even though the world was still in the throes of a global pandemic.

The secret of Sweden’s success is that its experts settled on a strategy that was realistic, sustainable and science-based. The intention was never to “fight” the virus which is among the most contagious infections in the last century, but to protect the old and vulnerable while allowing the young, low-risk people to circulate, contract the virus, and develop the antibodies they’d need to fight similar pathogens in the future. It’s clear now that that was the best approach. And while Sweden could still experience sporadic outbreaks that might kill another 2 to 300 people, any recurrence of the infection in the Fall or Winter will not be a dreaded “Second Wave”, but a much weaker flu-like event that will not overwhelm the public health system or kill thousands of people.

As we’ve noted before, the media has been particularly vicious in their criticism of Sweden’s approach which they’ve characterized as overly “relaxed.” Check out this sampling of recent headlines:

Sweden becomes an example of how not to handle COVID-19, CBS News

Lack of Lockdown Increased COVID-19 Deaths in Sweden, U of V Newsroom

Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale, New York Times

Sweden Stayed Open And More People Died Of Covid-19, But The Real Reason May Be Something Darker, Forbes

Sweden hoped herd immunity would curb COVID-19. Don’t do what we did. It’s not working. USA Today

Sweden’s coronavirus death toll is now approaching zero, but experts are warning others not to hail it as a success, Business Insider

Lack of COVID-19 Lockdown Increased Deaths in Sweden, Analysis Conclude, Virginia edu

Sweden COVID-19 Deaths Linked to Failure to Lockdown as Country Prepares for Second Wave, Newsweek

Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State, New York Times

As you can see, the media has taken a very hardline with Sweden. But, why? What has Sweden done that has provoked such a hostile response?

Nothing, really, they’ve just shrugged off the repressive stay-at-home orders and pursued their own independent policy. The Swedish approach stands in stark ...

2020-07-28 13:57:43+00:00

Bill Barr to slam Russiagate lie and Dem-supported riots in Tuesday appearance [Video] - https://theduran.com/bill-barr-to-slam-russiagate-lie-and-dem-supported-riots-in-tuesday-appearance-video/

William Barr, the Attorney General for the United States, is set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. He is coming in loaded for bear, as his prepared opening statement shows. That statement is available for reading in full here, as provided by Fox News in line with their own […]

2020-07-28 13:54:46+00:00

Russiagate is a 100 percent fake story, Part III: The Brookings Institution and Ukraine [Video] - https://theduran.com/russiagate-is-a-100-percent-fake-story-part-iii-the-brookings-institution-and-ukraine-video/

As our series continues, we briefly refer to the earlier parts of it: The first part of this series lays out the claim that we believe Russiagate to be a complete and total fabrication, mainly used by Democrats to damage or control President Trump, and also utilized by GOP people who wish to use it […]

2020-07-28 08:10:29+00:00

Erdogan plans to convert Europe to Radical Islam - https://theduran.com/erdogan-plans-to-convert-europe-to-radical-islam/

Saint Sophia Cathedral converted to a Mosque by force

2020-07-28 08:03:01+00:00

Forgotten Transdniestria - https://theduran.com/forgotten-transdniestria/

Submitted by George Callaghan… It is a place that is in limbo. Transdniestria is officially part of the Republic of Moldova. But the Moldovan Government has had no control over it for almost 30 years. Transdniestria lies on the east bank of the River Dniestria: hence the name. The name is clearly invented by Occidentocentric […]

2020-07-28 07:52:12+00:00

Love story from the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine - https://theduran.com/love-story-from-the-autocephalous-church-of-ukraine/

Submitted by Nadia Bazuk… As is known, there are two Autocephalous Churches in Ukraine: the one recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Church of Greece and the Patrarchate of Alexandria, namely the Holy Church of Ukraine (HCU), and the so-called Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) lead by patriarch emeritus Filaret (Denisenko), who left […]

2020-07-28 05:55:44+00:00

How A Society Unravels - https://theduran.com/how-a-society-unravels/

In an interview with Edward Griffith in 1984, former KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov outlined the playbook of the Soviet Union and the staged manner in which a communist apparatus takes over a country.

The ideal recruit for the KGB were rich filmmakers, academicians and cynically egocentric people. These people held the most potential what is required to destabilize a country are narcissistic, greedy and morally devoid people. He cites that KGB recruited Professors and civil right defenders to subvert and destabilize the country. He repeats again when these useful idiots serve their purpose they are to be killed or exiled. His disaffection with the KGB began after he understood what was to happen to the Pro Soviet Indian Journalists, but when he tried to get the message across, they did not believe him.

The ultimate objective of KGB was Ideological subversion which was supposed to be carried out by changing perception of reality, and not be bothered by what is true or false. But rather be driven by self-interest.

He lists down four phases as to how it happens:

Phase 1 – Demoralization

This is a process which can take about 15-30 years to perform . During this stage, the moral fibre and integrity of the country is put into question, thereby creating doubt in the minds of the people. To do so, manipulation of the media and academia is required to influence young people. As the younger generation embraces new values, such as Marxism and Leninism in newer and trendy Garbs , the older generation slowly loses control simply through attrition.

Phase 2 – Destabilization

The intent is to create a massive government permeating society and becoming intrusive in the lives of its citizens. This can take from two to five years to perform, again with the active support of academia pushing youth in this direction. Here, entitlements and benefits are promised to the populace to encourage their support. Basically, they are bribing the people to accept their programs.

Phase 3 – Crisis

This is a major step lasting up to six weeks and involves a revolutionary change of power. This is where an alarming event upsets and divides the country thereby creating panic among the citizens.

Phase 4 – Normalization

The final stage is where the populace finally acquiesces and begins to assimilate communism. This can take up to two decades to complete.

The List of Rules he cites for Revolution are:

Corrupt the young, get them interested in sex, take them away from religion. Make them superficial and snobbish in their understanding of the world.

Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial issues of less importance to create and compound a divide.

Destroy people’s faith in their national leaders by holding the latter up for contempt and ridicule.

Always preach democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

Encourage government extravagances, destr ...

2020-07-28 05:49:06+00:00

Seattle police chief slams city ordinance, telling citizens "you are on your own" [Video] - https://theduran.com/seattle-police-chief-slams-city-ordinance-telling-citizens-you-are-on-your-own-video/

Seatlle police chief Carmen Best has had enough. After two months of CHAZ, CHOP and nightly riots, aided and abetted by a super-liberal Mayor that only cares about using her city’s suffering to make President Trump look like the problem, the Seatlle City Council passed an ordinance forbidding officers to use “less-than-lethal” ordinance to quell […]

2020-07-28 05:47:34+00:00

The Democrats Lose The Plot — Totally - https://theduran.com/the-democrats-lose-the-plot-totally/

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any crazier, the Democrats go not one but two better. There is the incoherent Joe Biden – the man who prefers truth over facts – hiding in his basement churning out carefully selected soundbytes spoonfed to him by his handlers. There is Nancy Pelosi who doesn’t care much […]

2020-07-27 16:08:16+00:00

Riga blames Moscow for destroying Latvian transit | The Baltic Word - https://theduran.com/riga-blames-moscow-for-destroying-latvian-transit-the-baltic-word/

The Latvian Ministry of Transport has published transit industry statistics this week. These figures show the total collapse of the transit sector of the economy. It is surprising, but officials have

2020-07-27 15:58:00+00:00

Pressure for sanctions against Turkey increases as tensions with Greece grow - https://theduran.com/pressure-for-sanctions-against-turkey-increases-as-tensions-with-greece-grow/

European Union remains divided on how to deal with Turkey.

2020-07-27 15:57:10+00:00

How Global Capitalism Boosted Immunities - https://theduran.com/how-global-capitalism-boosted-immunities/

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research

From the beginning of this virus, political elites have used the language of war. The invisible enemy would be contained, suppressed, and beaten into submission. Then….it would go away. 

The tactics would be travel bans, shutdowns, closures, mandatory human separation, and restrictions on breathing. The computer models proved it would work so surely it would – liberty, human rights, and freedom of association be damned. 

We have all been used as non-player characters in a social experiment, untried in the whole history of humanity, and in ways that conflict with all values in which we previously believed as free societies. 

No one in charge asks your opinion or mine. We are here merely to play our role in an agent-based model. It’s the gamification of despotism. 

The dogma has kept unfolding in ever stranger ways, such as with utterly contemptible restrictions on bars and restaurants, and even the claim that choirs, wind instruments, and the pipe organ itself spreads disease. The American Guild of Organists has been forced to provide a long document justifying the existence of church music. The devastation in the arts community is palpable. The carnage is truly unfathomable. And getting worse: regulations on elevators will make America’s mighty skyscrapers unusable and pointless. 

What if the entire paradigm is wrong? No book on cell and molecular biology that I’ve found mentions lockdowns and hiding as ways to beat a virus.

“For most viruses that attack humans,” says Cell and Molecular Biology for Dummies, “your only defenses are prevention and your own immune systems.” 

Strange isn’t it? Nothing about the awesome power of politicians to crush a virus. It should come as no surprise that the most comprehensive and global statistical analysis yet conducted concludes that “rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people” – which to say there is no evidence that any of this ghastly destruction saved lives.

2020-07-27 15:54:43+00:00

The George Soros Script for Fomenting Revolution - https://theduran.com/the-george-soros-script-for-fomenting-revolution/

The George Soros Script for Fomenting Revolution

Yugoslavian woman issues a warning to all Americans – unfolding events are following a scripted pattern of hatred and violence to bring down America

Sunday, July 26, 2020 by: Mike Adams   (Natural News)

A Yugoslavian woman has issued a powerful warning to all Americans, eloquently describing how all the events you see unfolding in America right now are scripted, emotionally-charged events designed to turn citizens against each other to invoke a deadly civil war that will bring down the nation.

Out of the chaos, the communists will stage a revolt and attempt to seize power, turning America into a communist regime run by genocidal lunatics who are willing to see tens of millions of people killed as long as they can rise to power.

This Yugoslavian woman saw the exact same script played out in her own country of Yugoslavia: The hatred pushed by the media, the division of the people, the turning of citizens against each other, followed by shootings, violence, media hysteria and revolution.

It’s all part of the same George Soros script for fomenting revolution to take down a nation, and it’s being carried out with the full complicity of the treasonous mainstream media, which is the enemy of America. This is why George Soros and corporate America are funding Black Lives Matter… because they need BLM to invoke a violent response from Trump or patriots so that CNN can claim “peaceful protesters are being SHOT by Trump supporters!”

Do not fall for the trap. Hold your fire. Whoever shoots first LOSES. Practice trigger discipline, which is something that the NFAC can’t seem to master.

It is crucial that you listen to this woman’s warning and share this video everywhere

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2020-07-27 15:52:12+00:00

Alliance between American university and Pentagon uses app to spy on Russian military - https://theduran.com/alliance-between-american-university-and-pentagon-uses-app-to-spy-on-russian-military/

At least 48 Russian citizens were monitored by American agents through the “Location X” app.

2020-07-27 07:26:07+00:00

Turley Blasts Media's Willful Blindness To Obama's Criminal Spying - https://theduran.com/turley-blasts-medias-willful-blindness-to-obamas-criminal-spying/

It is astonishing that the media refuses to see what is one of the biggest stories in decades…

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/509002-more-willful-blindness-by-the-media-on-spying-by-obama-administration

2020-07-27 07:15:42+00:00

"The Nile Is Ours!" Ethiopia Tweet Outrages Egypt As Giant Upstream Dam Being Filled In - https://theduran.com/the-nile-is-ours-ethiopia-tweet-outrages-egypt-as-giant-upstream-dam-being-filled-in/

Foreign Minister tweets: “Ethiopia will have all the development it wants from it. In fact the Nile is ours!”

A week ago Ethiopia took the hugely controversial step of initiating filling the reservoir behind the ‘Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’, further enraging Egypt which says the project will devastate its economy, farming, and ecosystem bound up with the Nile River downstream.

Ethiopia days ago added further fuel to the fire when the country’s foreign minister tweeted in the national language, Amharic, that “The Nile is Ours”. 

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew’s tweet read as follows: “Congratulations! It was the Nile River and the river became a lake. It will no longer flow into the river. Ethiopia will have all the development it wants from it. In fact the Nile is ours!”

International reports suggest the Ethiopians plan to fill the dam’s reservoir within a period of three years. 

Once the effects of the dam are felt by the Egyptian population, which some analysts fear could lead to famine given the central importance a healthfully flowing Nile plays to to Egyptian agriculture, Cairo will be pressured to possibly take military action. Andargachew’s tweet has certainly intensified the standoff.

Needless to say, the Nile has been Egypt’s lifeline for thousands of years and the largely desert climate country’s greatest natural resource. 

It is estimated that some 85 percent of the water reaching Egypt comes via the Blue Nile tributary. But this is precisely where Ethiopia has constructed its massive dam.

The dam is an officially funded project of the Ethiopian government.

Tensions are rising due to the project’s reaching a key milestone this past week:

On Wednesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed confirmed that his country had achieved its target of filling the reservoir behind the dam with its first 4.9 billion cubic metres of water – days after its neighbours Sudan and Egypt raised objections against doing so.

“The completion of the first round of filling is a historic moment that showcases Ethiopians’ commitment to the renaissance of our country,” Ahmed said.

The Ethiopian foreign minister’s tweet was met with fierce public reaction in Egypt, where public figures have even threatened that only eventual war could solve the crisis.

Various countries influential in the region such as Russia and China have facilitated talks in recent years.

On the prospect of talks, we recent featured the following commentary from a Russian report on talks at Sochi: “The next round of negotiations is likely to end with nothing. It is no longer possible to stop Ethiopia from its chosen path, with any international pressure. And ...

2020-07-27 07:02:22+00:00

Black Helicopters and Gold - https://theduran.com/black-helicopters-and-gold/

“Where the people fear the government, you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty.” — John Basil Barnhill, 1914 ‘Debate on Socialism’, Ripsaw One year ago my article Trump’s Limited Hangout…Populism Derailed described candidate Trump as the perfect foil for powerful special interests hoping to leverage America’s large and disaffected right […]

2020-07-27 06:50:08+00:00

The Reasons for Qaddafi’s Overthrow - https://theduran.com/the-reasons-for-qaddafis-overthrow/

Steven Sahiounie، journalist and political commentator… This investigation sets forth a timeline of events Libya and examines the reasons behind the attack, overthrow, and murder of Muammar Qaddafi, the late leader of Libya. According to western mainstream media propaganda, he was deposed in a popular uprising of his people, and his brutal crackdown of those home-grown […]

2020-07-27 06:45:21+00:00

Life in the Syrian Arab Republic goes on despite foreign occupation and sanctions - https://theduran.com/life-in-the-syrian-arab-republic-goes-on-despite-foreign-occupation-and-sanctions/

Submitted by Olivia Kroth… In spite of western imposed sanctions on Syria, life goes on in the Syrian Arab Republic. People are surviving and doing their daily business. Pupils go to school, students attend universities. Trade and commerce are doing well. Agriculture is producing plenty of food, this summer of 2020. Syria is a predominantly […]

2020-07-26 19:01:02+00:00

Macron sides with Greece & Cyprus, WARNS Turkey, as Russia moves into Libya (Video) - https://theduran.com/macron-sides-with-greece-cyprus-warns-turkey-as-russia-moves-into-libya-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 610.

2020-07-26 14:20:11+00:00

Portland riots, elite run, loved by media. Yellow Vests, grassroots, hated by media (Video) - https://theduran.com/portland-riots-elite-run-loved-by-media-yellow-vests-grassroots-hated-by-media-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 608.

2020-07-26 08:11:58+00:00

Primary source for Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier identified - https://theduran.com/primary-source-for-christopher-steeles-anti-trump-dossier-identified/

The primary source in former British spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier has now been publicly identified.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/primary-source-for-christopher-steeles-anti-trump-dossier-identified

2020-07-26 07:58:47+00:00

Biden Campaign 'Mistreating Latino Field Organizers And Suppressing Latino Vote' According To Scathing Letter - https://theduran.com/biden-campaign-mistreating-latino-field-organizers-and-suppressing-latino-vote-according-to-scathing-letter/

“The way you treat your lowest ranked employees says a lot about you as an organization…”

95 field organizers for the Florida Democratic Party have accused Joe Biden’s campaign of mistreatment, and ‘suppressing the Latino vote’ among other things.

In a scathing seven-page letter obtained by the Miami Herald, field organizers levied eight allegations against the campaign surrounding the lack of a “fully accountable field plan.”

Among the claims: mistreatment of field organizers, relocating trained staff members without explanation, lack of organizing resources and taking on volunteers who are then left in limbo. –Miami Herald

We can only imagine that for nearly 100 Florida organizers to claim the Biden campaign has neglected Latinos – an accusation which could damage the former VP just 100 days out from the general election, in a battleground state – and as polls show waning enthusiasm from Latino voters, that things must be genuinely bad.

According to the letter, Biden’s campaign lacks key infrastructure and has perpetuated a “toxic” work culture that has damaged morale among staffers.

In one grievance, several organizers were recently transferred from a heavily Puerto-Rican region to another part of the state with a small percentage of Hispanics.

“Four of five Spanish-speaking organizers along the I-4 corridor who were moved to North Florida were Puerto Rican,” reads the letter, adding that input from staffers in tune with Puerto Rican residents living in Central Florida is often dismissed.

“The [Coordinated Campaign of Florida] is suppressing the Hispanic vote by removing Spanish-speaking organizers from Central Florida without explanation, which fails to confront a system of white-dominated politics we are supposed to be working against as organizers of a progressive party,” reads the letter.

A Democratic official familiar with internal discussions who asked not to be named said the letter comes amid negotiations between the Coordinated Campaign in Florida and the field organizers’ union, the IBEW Local 824.

The official said organizers have not been updated on their individual assignments due to the ongoing union negotiations, which predate the letter. –Miami Herald

“We are roughly 100 days out from the election, and there is no functional targeted field outreach and organizing of the Hispanic/Spanish-speaking, Brazilian/Portuguese-speaking, and Haitian/Creole-speaking communities in our state,” the letter continues. “There are no targets, scripts, data infrastructure, community outreach, or phonebanks established for this.”

Among the requests from t ...

2020-07-26 07:42:12+00:00

Russia and Bulgaria begin construction of Balkan Stream gas pipeline - Globuc - https://theduran.com/russia-and-bulgaria-begin-construction-of-balkan-stream-gas-pipeline-globuc/

From Globluc.com

Bulgaria begins construction of the Balkan Stream gas pipeline with Russian participation, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov reported after talks with the Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia, Denis Manturov.

According to the minister, a state company from Saudi Arabia became the executor of the project. 90% of pipes for the Balkan Stream have already been delivered to Bulgaria from Russia. Funding has been secured, 308 km of the gas pipeline will be built before the end of January 2020, Borisov said.

«After the failure of the South Stream, the Balkans are now given a new chance to implement a project to build a global gas pipeline,» the Bulgarian Prime Minister emphasized.

The Italo-Saudi consortium Arcad won the tender for the construction of a gas pipeline to Serbia through the territory of Bulgaria. The contract was signed on September 18, after a series of trials.

Arcad was ready to build the gas pipeline for € 1.29 billion in 250 days, or € 1.1 billion in 615 days. 

The forecast of investment costs is about € 1.4 billion. The funds will be invested in the construction of additional infrastructure in accordance with plans for the development of new gas flows in the region. The bulk of the funds will be spent on the construction of a 484 km gas pipeline with Serbia, two compressor stations and an 11.5 km gas pipeline from the Bulgarian-Turkish border to the Stranja compressor station. 

The annual profit of Bulgartransgaz with the successful implementation of the project will be about € 180 million.

2020-07-26 07:41:31+00:00

The American Annexation of Okinawa - https://theduran.com/the-american-annexation-of-okinawa/

The Potsdam Declaration of 1945, which set out the Allied Powers’ terms for Japan’s surrender, deprived Japan of all its overseas territories. Taiwan was a Japanese territory that was freed after World War II. The nearby Ryukyu Islands that include the large island of Okinawa were also a territory the Japanese empire had invaded in […]

2020-07-26 07:36:56+00:00

Peter Green (1946-2020) - https://theduran.com/peter-green-1946-2020/

The death has been announced of Peter Green, founder of Fleetwood Mac. Green was born at Bethnal Green, East London, just down the road from Stepney where another legendary guitarist, Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash, was born. Andy was also a great fan, and paid tribute to him: “He first came to my attention in […]

2020-07-26 07:36:51+00:00

Oxford Epidemiologists: Suppression Strategy is Not Viable • Children's Health Defense - https://theduran.com/oxford-epidemiologists-suppression-strategy-is-not-viable-%e2%80%a2-childrens-health-defense/

Originally Published on Unherd.com

Yesterday we published a short interview with Professor Carl Heneghan about his extraordinary finding that the Public Health England daily death totals included anyone who has ever tested positive for Covid-19 (even if they recovered completely).

But we wanted to learn more about the current state of the pandemic and the direction it was headed. Joining Freddie Sayers was Prof Heneghan and his Centre for Evidence Based Medicine colleague Tom Jefferson who shared their thoughts in this wide-ranging discussion. Have a watch above, key quotes below…

On masks:

Tom Jefferson (TJ): “Aside from people who are exposed on the frontlines, there is no evidence that masks make any difference, but what’s even more extraordinary is the uncertainty: we don’t know if these things make any difference…. We should have done randomised control trials in February, March and April but not anymore because viral circulation is low and we will need huge number of enrolees to show whether there was any difference”.

Carl Heneghan (CH): “By all means people can wear masks but they can’t say it’s an evidence-based decision… there is a real separation between an evidence-based decision and the opaque term that ‘we are being led by the science’, which isn’t the evidence”.

On the life cycle of the pandemic:

CH: “One of the keys of the infection is to look at who’s been infected, which shows a crucial difference when comparing the pandemic theory to seasonal theory. In a pandemic you’d expect to see young people disproportionately affected, but in the UK we’ve only had six child deaths, which is far less than we’d normally see in a pandemic. The high number of deaths with over-75s fits with the seasonal theory”.

On Covid seasonality:

CH: “The stability of the virus is far less when the temperature goes up but humidity seems to be particularly important. The lower the humidity, the more stable the virus is in the atmosphere and on surfaces… It’s now winter in the southern hemisphere, which is why places like Australia are suddenly having outbreaks.”

On lockdown:

CH: “Many people said that we should have locked down earlier, but 50% of care homes developed outbreaks during the lockdown period so there are issues within the transmission of this virus that are not clear… Lockdown is a blunt tool and there needs to be intelligent conversations about what mitigation strategies can keep society functioning while we keep the most vulnerable shielded”.

On Nightingale hospitals:

CH: “They are the wrong structure. What you need is fever hospitals which were here until around the 1980s or 90s. They were on single floors and had isolation within isolation. There were no lift shafts and staff were trained, which meant that everyone was protecte ...

2020-07-25 13:16:25+00:00

Ghislaine Maxwell's 2016 testimony comes back to haunt her (Video) - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-maxwells-2016-testimony-comes-back-to-haunt-her-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 608.

2020-07-25 09:03:38+00:00

Russiagate is a 100-percent fake story, Part I - Some Thinking Required - https://theduran.com/russiagate-is-a-100-percent-fake-story-part-i-some-thinking-required/

On July 23rd, 2020, the Schiller Institute, an international human rights organization, and Executive Intelligence Review, a magazine founded by Lyndon LaRouche in 1974, held a news conference featuring former NSA analyst William (“Bill”) Binney. The conference started with this proposition: If it were shown, using competent forensic evidence, that there is no actual proof of […]

2020-07-25 07:16:28+00:00

Stress Test of a Straining Superpower - https://theduran.com/stress-test-of-a-straining-superpower/

From the protests, riots, rampages and statue-smashing of the last two months, it is apparent that millions of Americans detest our history and heroes. Though nowhere in recorded time have 42 million people of African descent achieved the measures of freedom and prosperity they have in the USA, we are daily admonished that ours is a rotten and sick society whose every institution is shot through with “systemic racism.”

2020-07-25 06:46:18+00:00

More Fallout from Iran/China Deal: India Loses Farzad-B - https://theduran.com/more-fallout-from-iran-china-deal-india-loses-farzad-b/

Author: Tom Luongo

The carnage for following President Trump’s lead on ending the JCPOA continues for India.

From SputnikNews last week comes this note about the Farzad-B oil and gas field and Iran.

Close on the heels of breaking the Chabahar-Zahedan rail project agreement, Iran appears set to deny India’s state-run ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), exploration and production rights for the key Farzad B gas field.

The granting  of rights to OVL was already delayed with New Delhi moving slowly on the issue, but came to a complete standstill after the 2018 imposition of US sanctions on Tehran.

Now that threat looks to be a reality.

Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency quoted India’s External Affairs Ministry (EAM) as saying on Thursday Tehran would develop the Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf region “on its own” and might engage India “appropriately at a later stage”.

Translation: “Stop stalling for Trump’s sake and make good on your promises or the project goes to China.”

Because that’s where this leads in light of the announced mega-deal between Iran and China worth a reported $400 billion.

I wrote last week I thought India has lost its way on the New Silk Road. Losing the contract to build the railway it pushed for to bypass Pakistan and assert independence from China’s OBOR plans should have been a clear enough signal.

But apparently it wasn’t.

India’s involvement in the Farzad-B gas field is now more than a decade delayed because of U.S. interference through sanctions nominally over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Work was supposed to begin in 2012 but President Obama sanctioned Iran, forcing OVL, ONGC’s international arm, to stop. Work was set to begin again after ratification of the JCPOA in 2015 and Trump nixed that in 2018 when he pulled the U.S. out of the deal.

Not only did this stop India’s work on the field but it also put the kibosh on any new pipeline into India.

I reported in November of 2017 that Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced preliminary development work on a new version of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline. That talk abruptly ended with Trump’s pulling out of the JCPOA.

Some version of IPI has been opposed by the U.S. for two decades now, preferring instead to thread the TAPI pipeline through the needle of failed geopolitics.

Gazprom already operates in three major Iranian oil fields, including Farzaz-B, and IPI was supposed to be a venture tying Iran and India together with Gazprom supplying the expertise and money to get it done.

Remember, pipelines are the stitching that bind nations together. This is why the U.S. is so adamant about stopping ones that don’t serve its or its allies’ interests, in this case the Saudis.

So, while we are regaled incessantly about the dangers of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, the real reason for the pulling out of the JCPOA ...

2020-07-25 06:45:39+00:00

New CDC and WHO Study Proves "No Evidence" Face Masks Prevent Virus - https://theduran.com/new-cdc-and-who-study-proves-no-evidence-face-masks-prevent-virus/

by Ben Swann

FB’s so called “fact checkers” have struck again, claiming that my report on the science that proves that wearing facemasks, especially in non-medical settings does almost nothing to prevent the spread of a virus, is false… citing that it was based on old information.

Now, I’m reporting on a new study created in conjunction with the World Health Organization and published by the CDC from less than 60 days ago that once again proves that there is no evidence that wearing face masks in public prevents the spread of flu-like viruses.

I’m also going to show you why the Facebook fact-checking system cannot be trusted.

Link to the CDC published study. This study was conducted in preparation for the development of guidelines by the World Health Organization on the use of nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza in nonmedical settings.

This study was supported by the World Health Organization.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

2020-07-25 06:44:19+00:00

THE LANCET Praises Chinese Model for Coronavirus Policies - https://theduran.com/the-lancet-praises-chinese-model-for-coronavirus-policies/

Eric Zuesse The Lancet, which is perhaps the world’s most influential medical journal and is the one that concentrated immediately on, and has concentrated the longest on, the coronavirus-19 pandemic, headlined an editorial on July 25th, “COVID-19 and China: lessons and the way forward”, and they opened: China has largely controlled COVID-19. A country of […]

2020-07-24 18:02:05+00:00

Trump’s order to shut down Chinese consulate in Houston is for domestic consumption - https://theduran.com/trumps-order-to-shut-down-chinese-consulate-in-houston-is-for-domestic-consumption/

Closure of consulates in the U.S. and China are unlikely to devolve into serious hostilities.

2020-07-24 15:32:33+00:00

Why the Russia Report tells us more about Britain than anything else - https://theduran.com/why-the-russia-report-tells-us-more-about-britain-than-anything-else/

Russia has once again become the scapegoat in a bid to explain an unwanted election result…

2020-07-24 15:27:36+00:00

Chaos in the Blue Cities - https://theduran.com/chaos-in-the-blue-cities/

The debate over police and policing is over and the public has lost

2020-07-24 15:23:02+00:00

Brazil-Ukraine relations are on the rise - https://theduran.com/brazil-ukraine-relations-are-on-the-rise/

This could generate some tensions between Russia and Brazil.

2020-07-24 12:49:41+00:00

Libya proxy war escalates as Egypt prepares ground troops. Erdogan furious (Video) - https://theduran.com/libya-proxy-war-escalates-as-egypt-prepares-ground-troops-erdogan-furious-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 607.

2020-07-24 07:11:04+00:00

Spain increases its interest in the Middle East - https://theduran.com/spain-increases-its-interest-in-the-middle-east/

Country plans to assume more important functions in the Iraqi conflict, taking advantage of American fragility.

2020-07-24 06:07:00+00:00

Sex, Lies, And Audiotape - https://theduran.com/sex-lies-and-audiotape/

Johnny Depp may be an A List actor and wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, but fame and fortune often go hand in hand with misery. By his own admission, Depp has abused both alcohol and recreational drugs. Along with serial relationships/marriages, this is rather common among artists of all kinds, partly because of their […]

2020-07-24 06:05:48+00:00

COVID-19 is defeating the USA - https://theduran.com/covid-19-is-defeating-the-usa/

Most of the countries in the world, in which the pandemic schedule was uncontrollably moving up a month ago, have been able to reverse a catastrophic trend in recent weeks. The authorities of Spain, Italy, France and especially Germany managed to dramatically reduce the number of infected and deaths. The picture is the same in […]

2020-07-24 06:03:39+00:00

New Rock Music For The Lockdown - https://theduran.com/new-rock-music-for-the-lockdown/

If you haven’t heard of Derek Olivero, you aren’t the only one. He is the frontman for OGD, which you’ve probably guessed is an acronym. Olivero’s guitar and lead vocal are supplemented by Dave De Ranieri on bass and Bobby Gavin on drums; both also contribute vocals. Their debut album is released officially on August […]

2020-07-24 06:00:39+00:00

The COVID Panic Is A Lesson In Using Statistics To Get Your Way In Politics - https://theduran.com/the-covid-panic-is-a-lesson-in-using-statistics-to-get-your-way-in-politics/

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute

It is unlikely that pundits, politicians, and the general public have ever been so obsessed with numbers as they are right now. I speak, of course, of the numbers surrounding deaths and illnesses attributed to COVID-19.

For months now, every new day has brought new headlines about total COVID-19 infections, total deaths, and estimates put out by models claiming to predict how many deaths will soon occur.

These numbers have become the focal points of many politicians’ careers. This is especially true for state governors and other politicians in executive positions who now in this time of “emergency” essentially rule by decree. New edicts are regularly issued by policymakers, allegedly based on an assessment of the all-important numbers. These decrees may unilaterally close businesses, cut people off from important medical procedures, ban religious gatherings, or even attempt to confine people to their homes. Those who refuse to comply may have their livelihoods destroyed.

“The Number” becomes the standard by which all behavior is judged. Will Activity X increase The Number or decrease it? For those who wish to engage in Activity Z, they must first prove that it will not increase The Number. Nothing shall be allowed that doesn’t have a good effect on The Number.

But there’s a problem with this way of doing things: the number in question only tells us about the one thing being measured. If we only have a number for that one thing, then we tend to ignore all the other things that aren’t being assigned a number.

Focusing on One Number, Ignoring Others

Things get even more lopsided if one number is being continually updated in real time, while other numbers are updated only occasionally.

We can certainly see all of this this at work in the COVID-19 debate. During March 2020 much of the population suddenly became very interested in the latest COVID-19 totals. Johns Hopkins University created a web site to show the spread of the disease, and Worldometer — a site normally only useful for checking the population of, say, Bolivia — began publishing continually updated numbers on total COVID-19 cases and deaths. Models predicting the future course of the disease began to spring up. The ever-rising total deaths number then was compared against the predictions of the models — such as the Imperial College London model predicting more than 2 million deaths in the United States.

This immediately changed the terms of the debate over what measures to take in response to COVID-19. Faced with rising COVID-19 numbers at Worldometer and related sites, and accompanied by news stories asserting hospitals everywhere will soon run out of room, panicky voters began to demand action from ...

2020-07-24 05:58:43+00:00

How the Cold War, Which Never Actually Stopped, Actually Started - https://theduran.com/how-the-cold-war-which-never-actually-stopped-actually-started/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture This will be the first-ever credible, or “historical,” but brief, account of how the Cold War actually began, and of why it started, and of why it continues today (even though it started on the basis of lies which have long-since become exposed but — for reasons which […]

2020-07-23 15:13:35+00:00

Has the coronavirus pandemic weakened the U.S. dollar status as the international reserve currency? - https://theduran.com/has-the-coronavirus-pandemic-weakened-the-u-s-dollar-status-as-the-international-reserve-currency/

U.S. debt continues to explode out of control because of the coronavirus pandemic.

2020-07-23 15:06:49+00:00

EU leaders agree to debt mutualization with digital & green taxes (Video) - https://theduran.com/eu-leaders-agree-to-debt-mutualization-with-digital-green-taxes-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 606.

2020-07-23 06:56:37+00:00

Twitter’s ban of QAnon conspiracy theory for vague ‘offline harm’ link only makes them stronger, & the censorship won’t stop there - https://theduran.com/twitters-ban-of-qanon-conspiracy-theory-for-vague-offline-harm-link-only-makes-them-stronger-the-censorship-wont-stop-there/

Twitter’s threat to shadowban accounts and hashtags linked to the pro-Trump ‘QAnon’ psy-op has merely validated followers’ persecution complex and brought them attention – while putting others who buck the establishment on notice.

When the social media giant announced it was “cracking down” on QAnon on Tuesday, barring Q-related topics from trending, blocking URLs associated with the conspiracy theory (really an ecosystem of interlinked conspiracy theories, centered around the cryptic disclosures of a supposedly high-ranking government employee going by the moniker Q), and banning Q-promoting accounts that have violated other Twitter rules, it gave QAnon followers the validation they craved.

Twitter’s thread vowing to “take further action on so-called ‘QAnon’ activity across the service” induced a collective persecution-complex orgasm across the Q community, who mostly interpreted the deplatforming threat as an admission that QAnon was every bit the threat to the ruling power structure they’ve always believed they were. Some even threatened Twitter in return, their faith in “the Plan” – that Trump and a bevy of “white hats” in his administration are rounding up tens of thousands of elite pedophiles and child traffickers (basically all the powerful figures in politics, Big Tech, and Hollywood who oppose Trump, including former president Barack Obama and actor Tom Hanks) and locking them up in Guantanamo Bay – renewed.

Of course, most of these victory dances took place on Twitter, which would seem to give the lie to the platform’s claim it was offloading its sizable Q contingent (as well as Q fans’ claim that they are a persecuted group). Twitter had acknowledged it wasn’t wiping out Q followers at one go, explaining the site had removed “over 7,000 accounts…over the last few weeks” for “violations of [its] multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or…attempting to evade a previous suspension.” But these are existing Twitter regulations that are already grounds for suspension, depending on the popularity (and, too often, political ideology) of the perpetrator.

The lion’s share of the enforcement may be yet to come. The company warned some 150,000 accounts will be affected by the new rule, implying that sharing QAnon content is “behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm.” Tellingly, they didn’t cite any specific incidents, and mainstream media that have reported on the ban don’t seem to care what “harm” has in fact resulted from the fevered speculation over cryptic Q “breadcrumbs.” Indeed, most are merely complaining Twitter didn’t ban the group sooner, lamenting its content is “causing actual harm to those who use the ...

2020-07-23 06:23:23+00:00

Switzerland begins militarization process - https://theduran.com/switzerland-begins-militarization-process/

Historically neutral country begins to distrust the relevance of international organizations and to worry about its own security.

2020-07-23 06:04:01+00:00

Facebook's Neutral "Fact Checkers" Exposed As Ex-CNN Staffers And Democratic Donors - https://theduran.com/facebooks-neutral-fact-checkers-exposed-as-ex-cnn-staffers-and-democratic-donors/

Is anyone even surprised at this point?

Today in news about the radical left-wing censorship machines our social media companies have become, it was exposed this week that Facebook’s fact-checker, Lead Stories, is an outfit that is stocked to the brim with ex-CNN staffers.

The organization presents itself as neutral yet “most of its employees” have donated to the Democratic party, according to RT.  

The National Pulse reached out to Facebook’s fact checkers this week after a story they published about Black Lives Matter was flagged as “partly false” by the platform. This led TNP to “do some digging” on who was behind the smear. 

What they found was stunning: an organization “staffed almost entirely by Democratic donors, half of whom had worked for CNN in the past.”

25% of the organization’s employees were recurring Democratic donors and Lead Stories’ founder, Perry Sanders, has donated over $10,000 to Democratic political campaigns – including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s Presidential runs. 

TNP also exposed that “several other writers” had Democratic contributions on their records. For example, one writer named Gita Smith, was listed in “99 separate small-dollar donations” to various Democratic candidates – in addition to contributions to ActBlue.

The org’s editor, Alan Duke, spent nearly three decades with CNN as a reporter and editor and the org’s senior editor, Monte Plott, spent over 10 years with CNN. Five other names at the organization were also found to have worked at CNN as some point. 

Writer Jessica Ravitz spent 10 years with CNN and also spent “nearly four years with the Anti-Defamation League, a self-styled anti-‘hate’ watchdog that spends most of its considerable resources demonizing political voices that deviate from the neoliberal centrist mainstream-media line.”

TNP’s investigation followed Lead Stories taking exception with their article titled:  “Black Lives Matter Website, ‘Defund the Police’ Donations Go to ‘Act Blue’, the ‘Biden for President’ Campaign’s Top Source of Donations”.

Facebook posted the story in the “Hoax Alert” section of its website as a result of Lead Stories’ flagging. The fact checked pointed out that “BLM’s donations go through, not to ActBlue, which is a payment processor for Democratic campaigns and not the ultimate source of the Biden campaign’s cash.”

TNP corrected the word “to” to “through” but claimed Lead Stories still would not lift the “partly false” flag on its story.

And so it appears to us what we have yet again is a social media platform c ...

2020-07-22 15:51:44+00:00

UK Russia Report, a PATHETIC DEEP STATE attempt to delegitimize Brexit vote (Video) - https://theduran.com/uk-russia-report-a-pathetic-deep-state-attempt-to-delegitimize-brexit-vote-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 605.

2020-07-22 15:29:43+00:00

Lithuania’s upcoming elections will determine its future relations with Poland - https://theduran.com/lithuanias-upcoming-elections-will-determine-its-future-relations-with-poland/

Can Polish-Lithuanian hostilities begin if Nausėda’s allies are not elected?

2020-07-22 07:32:03+00:00

Why does the MSM tell Americans to fear and hate Russia? Christianity. [Video] - https://theduran.com/why-does-the-msm-tell-americans-to-fear-and-hate-russia-christianity-video/

When a previous piece, entitled “Surprise, surprise (no surprise) – Analyst says Russians did NOT hack DNC server” was published, we got a very interesting reaction. One of the readers, speaking through a social network had this comment (edited): “Maybe, but they did meet with Trump’s people and he loves Putin.This from the Lincoln Project…” […]

2020-07-22 07:30:34+00:00

How has C-list actress and A-list money-grabber Meghan Markle become the world’s most in-demand speaker? - https://theduran.com/how-has-c-list-actress-and-a-list-money-grabber-meghan-markle-become-the-worlds-most-in-demand-speaker/

The Duchess of Sussex is reported to be the world’s most sought after public speaker, but why? She knows how to make everything about herself and rake in cash, but what pearls of wisdom can she possibly offer?

2020-07-22 06:52:58+00:00

The British Government Report On “Russia” — Review (Part 2) - https://theduran.com/the-british-government-report-on-russia-review-part-2/

When Russia in the guise of the Soviet Union was a real threat to our interests, people who attempted to expose and neutralise it were accused of paranoia, seeing “reds under the bed”. Now we are told there is a very real Russian threat, including bots and trolls to influence the political process. While the […]

2020-07-22 06:51:05+00:00

The British Government Report On “Russia” — Review (Part 1) - https://theduran.com/the-british-government-report-on-russia-review-part-1/

This document which was released July 21, 2020, has no proper name, and although not technically a White Paper is as good as. It can be downloaded from the official website and also from the Internet Archive. Usually, official documents have something to say, and back this up with evidence. It isn’t clear entirely from […]

2020-07-21 15:13:32+00:00

By rejecting Huawei, Britain risks being swept up in the US' next ideological crusade - https://theduran.com/by-rejecting-huawei-britain-risks-being-swept-up-in-the-us-next-ideological-crusade/

As the US attempts to weaken its economic adversary, China, Britain has been forced to choose sides…

2020-07-21 15:12:43+00:00

Is the U.S. about to move its strategic naval base from Spain to Morocco? - https://theduran.com/is-the-u-s-about-to-move-its-strategic-naval-base-from-spain-to-morocco/

U.S. faces increasing pressure to leave Spanish naval base

2020-07-21 15:12:01+00:00

Coronavirus brings serious environmental impact - https://theduran.com/coronavirus-brings-serious-environmental-impact/

Use of disposable equipment pollutes and threatens life in the oceans

2020-07-21 13:21:07+00:00

Breitbart: The New York Times tries to authorize a hit on Tucker Carlson [Video] - https://theduran.com/breitbart-the-new-york-times-tries-to-authorize-a-hit-on-tucker-carlson-video/

Tucker Carlson has been on fire especially over the last several weeks. His Fox program, Tucker Carlson Tonight has hit time after time after time with laserlike accuracy against the radical leftism rioting and violence on display all across the United States and even outside the US. His criticism of the people and actions involved has […]

2020-07-21 13:15:06+00:00

Ghislaine's mystery marriage and Trump calls out Andrew way back in 2015 (Video) - https://theduran.com/ghislaines-mystery-marriage-and-trump-calls-out-andrew-way-back-in-2015-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 604.

2020-07-21 09:42:08+00:00

EU Frugal Four fold to Merkel & Macron's billion euro slush fund (Video) - https://theduran.com/eu-frugal-four-fold-to-merkel-macrons-billion-euro-slush-fund-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 603.

2020-07-21 09:06:00+00:00

Wirecard's Fugitive COO Has Reportedly Fled To Russia - https://theduran.com/wirecards-fugitive-coo-has-reportedly-fled-to-russia/

The FSB has reportedly been monitoring his movements for years…so now Wirecard’s collapse is Putin’s fault?

The business press has seen no shortage of alleged white collar criminals fleeing to international jurisdiction where apprehension is highly improbable. Jho Low, the financier and criminal mastermind who siphoned more than $4.5 billion from 1MDB (according to the DoJ), a sovereign wealth fund backed by Malaysian government funds, has fled to China, where he reportedly enjoys the protection of the CCP. In fact. Low is protected to such an intense degree that Chinese government spooks tried to intimidate some WSJ reporters who reported on 1MDB from Hong Kong, including surveillance.

More recently, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn escaped the clutches of Japanese law enforcement (he was being held under house arrest in Tokyo after spending months in prison with little contact with the outside world) and fled to Beirut, where he remains, while several of the operatives who purportedly helped with the “great escape” have been arrested in foreign locales.

And now, while former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun remains free on bail, his erstwhile No. 2, former Wirecard COO Jans Marsalek, has reportedly settled down in Russia, beyond the clutches of Interpol and the EU.

Marsalek’s whereabouts have been the subject of intense speculation since Wirecard’s collapse and his former boss’s arrest.

Nearly one month later, German newsmagazine Handelsblatt is reporting that not only is Marsalek in Russia, he’s also enjoying the protection of the GRU, Russia’ military intelligence agency, which has been blamed for everything from hacking the 2016 election to the Skripal poisoning.

How was Marsalek able to pull off such a daring escape while retaining so much of his wealth? Well, from the looks of it, Marsalek anticipated Wirecard’s impending collapse (as did many shortsellers) and started moving his wealth to Dubai in the form of bitcoins.

Handelsblatt learned this from the circles of entrepreneurs, judges and diplomats. Previously, Marsalek is said to have brought significant sums to Russia in the form of bitcoins from Dubai, where Wirecard had operated dubious operations.

At the weekend, had the magazine “Der Spiegel” in cooperation with the renowned investigative platform Eliot Higgins, who had revealed the launch of the Malaysian civil machine with the flight number MH17 also the real name of Russian hit man who lives in England double agent Sergei Skripal and Russian backers over Marsalek’s flight to Belarus reports.

On the day of his release, June 18, Marsalek is said to have flown from Klagenfurt via the Estonian capital Tallinn to the Belarusian capital Minsk in a chartered Embraer 650 Legacy. Because of the political conflict between ...

2020-07-21 08:57:59+00:00

Russian Elite Received 'Experimental' COVID-19 Vaccine As Early As April - https://theduran.com/russian-elite-received-experimental-covid-19-vaccine-as-early-as-april/

Wait, so you’re telling me the Russians stole the vaccine research from the British, traveled back in time…

Last week, we shared news of what Russia’s scientific community had touted as a major breakthrough in the development of a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2: A vaccine trial at Moscow’s Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University had yielded the first successful human trials. The American business press slavishly parrots every Moderna press release as the company regurgitates its Phase 1 trial results, despite the fact that the politically-connected biotech company’s stage 3 clinical trials won’t begin until later this month. Meanwhile, its CEO Stephane Bancel and other executives have cashed in on their Moderna shares, prompting SEC chief Jay Clayton to sheepishly caution against credibility-destroying insider selling.

Despite all of this, we didn’t hear a peep out of the western press about the Sechenov trial’s accomplishments. However, a few days later, with anxieties about Russia-backed electoral interference intensifying and ‘national polls’ hinting at a Biden landslide, the British press reported on a new ‘policy paper’ accusing those pesky Ruskies of trying to steal British research involving COVID-19 vaccines. Intel shared by Canada and the US purportedly supported this conclusion, though Russia has vehemently denied the accusations.

But that’s not all: Around the same time, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accused Russia of trying to meddle in the UK’s December election (which returned the Tories to power and ended the reign of opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn).

Were these reports about Russia’s vaccine-trial successes merely a smokescreen? The British might see it that way, but on Monday, US-based Bloomberg News published an interesting report claiming that certain Russian VIPs had been administered experimental doses of a vaccine prototype as early as April. Reportedly developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute and financed by the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund, this Russian vaccine candidate is a so-called “viral vector vaccine” based on human adenovirus – a common cold virus fused with the spike protein of SARS CoV-2 to stimulate a human immune response. 

It’s similar to a vaccine being developed by China’s CanSino Biologics, according to Bloomberg.

Scores of members of Russia’s business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against Covid-19, according to people familiar with the effort, as the country races to be among the first to develop an inoculation.

Top executives at companies including aluminum giant United Co. Rusal, as well as billionaire tycoons and government officials began get ...

2020-07-21 08:50:34+00:00

Chris Wallace accomplishes a Fake News Fail with Trump interview [Video] - https://theduran.com/chris-wallace-accomplishes-a-fake-news-fail-with-trump-interview-video/

On July 19th, 2020, Fox News’ reporter Chris Wallace was granted a no-holds-barred, nothing-is-off-the-table, and highly praised interview with President Trump. The edited video of this interview is available at the end of this piece. The interview is interesting because it highlights the main thrust of what has come to be called the “fake news […]

2020-07-21 08:49:45+00:00

Trump throws down the gauntlet at Oval Office News Conference [Video] - https://theduran.com/trump-throws-down-the-gauntlet-at-oval-office-news-conference-video/

President Trump has enormous media transparency, far more than any president in history. Love him or hate him, his talent at using a hostile media to get his own message out is formidable and apparently quite effective. Here, the President gives a short, ten-minute interview in which he states in very clear terms that the spiraling […]

2020-07-21 08:47:43+00:00

LOCKDOWN LUNACY 2.0: Second wave? Not even close. • Children's Health Defense - https://theduran.com/lockdown-lunacy-2-0-second-wave-not-even-close-%e2%80%a2-childrens-health-defense/

By J.B. Handley, CHD Contributing Write

Why did politicians ever lockdown society in the first place? Can we all agree that the stated purpose was to “flatten the curve” so our hospital system could handle the inevitable COVID-19 patients who needed care? At that point, at least, back in early March, people were behaving rationally. They accepted that you can’t eradicate a virus, so let’s postpone things enough to handle it. The fact is, we have done that, and so much more. The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave. The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs, and while I have filled this post with graphs to prove everything I just said, this is really the only graph you need to see, it’s the CDC’s data, over time, of deaths from COVID-19 here in the U.S., and the trend line is unmistakable:

 

If virologists were driving policy about COVID-19 rather than public health officials, we’d all be Sweden right now, which means life would effectively be back to normal. The only thing our lockdowns have done at this point is prolong the agony a little bit, and encouraged Governors to make up more useless rules. Sweden’s health minister understood that the only chance to beat COVID-19 was to get the Swedish population to a Herd Immunity Threshold against COVID-19, and that’s exactly what they have done, so let me start there.

2020-07-21 08:46:56+00:00

Surprise, surprise (no surprise) - Analyst says Russians did NOT hack DNC server [Video] - https://theduran.com/surprise-surprise-no-surprise-analyst-says-russians-did-not-hack-dnc-server-video/

On July 18th, Bill Binney, a former technical director with the National Security Agency (NSA) went public on a video interview, saying something that readers of The Duran have known for three years or longer: the Russians did not hack anyone. Even the around the edges hinting of Russian involvement in somehow ‘meddling’ with the American presidential […]

2020-07-20 15:50:40+00:00

Egypt and Ethiopia on the brink of war - https://theduran.com/egypt-and-ethiopia-on-the-brink-of-war/

Ethiopia fills dam reservoir that could destroy agriculture in Egypt and Sudan

2020-07-20 15:49:06+00:00

Brazil is about to become unofficial NATO member - https://theduran.com/brazil-is-about-to-become-unofficial-nato-member/

Brazil will have an increased military budget despite permeating poverty.

2020-07-20 15:37:41+00:00

COVID-19 vaccine for money and stock - https://theduran.com/covid-19-vaccine-for-money-and-stock/

This week in the US will be marked by quarterly reports on the financial condition and affairs of large companies. In particular, they are waiting for reports from pharmaceutical companies developing a vaccine against coronavirus. Here are the main companies Merck, Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson. The same companies will report to the US […]

2020-07-20 07:47:32+00:00

The Eurozone’s grappling with crisis, class war & the North-South divide – Berliner Verlag interview - https://theduran.com/the-eurozones-grappling-with-crisis-class-war-the-north-south-divide-berliner-verlag-interview/

What did you think when the Euro-group elected its new leader last week? At least this was not the outcome Frau Merkel had wished? My first thought was that it spelled the end of any possibility of…

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2020/07/16/the-eurozones-grappling-with-crisis-class-war-the-north-south-divide-berliner-verlag-interview/

2020-07-20 07:28:10+00:00

The Peoples Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk - https://theduran.com/the-peoples-republics-of-lugansk-and-donetsk/

Via The North Belfast Journal A View from Napoleons Nose by Fra Hughes… Andrei Kocetov is a member of the Federation of Trade Union Council, in the Peoples Republic of Lugansk,LPR, a newly created Republic in the Donbass region, between Russia and Ukraine, formerly a part of Ukraine until 2014. The EuroMaidan coup of 2014 was not […]

2020-07-20 05:47:14+00:00

Trump Reaps the Whirlwind With China/Iran Mega Deal - https://theduran.com/trump-reaps-the-whirlwind-with-china-iran-mega-deal/

Author: Tom Luongo

For more than three years I’ve tried to explain that President Trump’s foreign policy was having the exact opposite effect of its intended purpose.

Trump, under the advice of people like John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has pursued a maximum pressure campaign against Iran in the hopes of the regime either crumbling or suing for peace.

Trump was warned by both Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin that Iran would ‘rather eat dirt’ than submit to him on nuclear weapons, support for Hezbollah, Iraq and President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

In effect, Trump and Pompeo have argued for Iran to give up its sovereignty to appease the fears of Netanyahu in Israel, and they have steadfastly told Bibi and The Donald to go pound sand.

Every six months or so, depending on the state of domestic affairs, tensions with Iran ratchet up another notch. Over the past couple of weeks a series of explosions at key Iranian military facilities occurred with fingerprints of Israel striking deep into Iran to cripple strategic targets.

Trump, distracted by the domestic insurrection against him, has left foreign policy strictly to Pompeo who is avidly pursuing a ‘have his cake and eat it too moment,’ trying to extend the weapons embargo against Iran at the United Nations while still claiming the unilateral right to leave the JCPOA without further consequences.

In a word, Russia, China and Europe are telling him, “No.”

And now we know why. China and Iran just inked a 25-year, game-changing strategic deal covering everything from oil sales, contract bids and massive upgrades to Iran’s anti-air capabilities as well as its domestic air force.

This deal was in the air over the weekend when Iranian Foriegn Minister Javad Zarif briefed Iranian lawmakers on the pending deal.

From Simon Watkins at Oilprice.com via Zerohedge who is arguing the deal was actually inked last year:

One of the secret elements of the deal signed last year is that China will invest US$280 billion in developing Iran’s oil, gas, and petrochemicals sectors. This amount will be front-loaded into the first five-year period of the new 25-year deal, and the understanding is that further amounts will be available in each subsequent five year period, provided that both parties agree. There will be another US$120 billion of investment, which again can be front-loaded into the first five-year period, for upgrading Iran’s transport and manufacturing infrastructure, and again subject to increase in each subsequent period should both parties agree. In exchange for this, to begin with, Chinese companies will be given the first option to bid on any new – or stalled or uncompleted – oil, gas, and petrochemicals projects in Iran. China will also ...

2020-07-20 05:45:21+00:00

Railway Politics: India Gets Lost Along the New Silk Roads - https://theduran.com/railway-politics-india-gets-lost-along-the-new-silk-roads/

Author: Tom Luongo

The ground is quickly shifting in Asia and India is quickly finding itself in a difficult position.

For years India has dithered and played games over central Asian development. Since the rise of Narendra Modi as India’s leader, he has played the game of courting both the West and the East to wheedle India a better position.

Modi shifted India back towards a pro-West position immediately after taking over. He’s famously dragged his feet on major infrastructure projects in Central Asia, continuing India’s dreams of outmaneuvering China to become the central power of the Heartland.

So, color me not shocked to see just days after the $400+ billion mega-deal between China and Iran is announced to be close to completion, Iran gives India the boot over delays involving an important infrastructure project.

Four years after India and Iran signed an agreement to construct a rail line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along the border with Afghanistan, the Iranian government has decided to proceed with the construction on its own, citing delays from the Indian side in funding and starting the project.

India has played footsie with Iran for two years now over major projects like this rail line since President Trump unilaterally pulled out of the JCPOA and began his maximum pressure campaign on Iran.

This all comes down to Modi who has pulled India away from Iran as the pressure ramps up versus being one of the few countries willing to flout U.S. sanctions back in 2012/3 when President Obama put them on the first time.

Back then India and Iran traded oil for goods and/or local currency. India is still a major energy importer and they’ve purposefully strained relations with their energy-rich neighbor.

Go back to November 2017 when Gazprom announced preliminary work on a new version of the long-delayed IPI Pipeline — Iran, Pakistan, India. Since that announcement very little work has been done.

The IPI pipeline, like other major Russian pipelines, like South Stream, Nordstream 2 and Turkstream, has long been fought aggressively by the U.S. going back 20 years.

We’ve pushed for the TAPI Pipeline to come down from Turkmenistan and through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. And, indeed, the Turkmen national gas company has laid the first 200 miles of the project to the Afghan border but it cannot secure the funding to go further.

Urged on by the U.S. to begin the project, which was supposed to be finished this year, Turkmenistan is now stuck with an unfinished, uneconomical boondoggle since the U.S. could never deliver on its promises to control the ground needed in Afghanistan nor cut a deal with the Taliban to ensure its passage.

The whole thing is a mess while the IPI pipeline remains stalled, exactly as Washington wants it.

2020-07-20 05:42:44+00:00

A List of Media Where the ‘News’ Is Censored — And Where It’s Not - https://theduran.com/a-list-of-media-where-the-news-is-censored-and-where-its-not/

[updated from 17 September 2015, and restoring links that since died] [a new updated list of 50 recommended news-sites is at the end here] Eric Zuesse —— One good test of the extent to which a given news-medium censors out news that the aristocracy (especially the people who control international corporations — the people who […]

2020-07-19 14:25:42+00:00

NYT, FBI, Spy inside WH. NEW DOCS prove COUP plot to remove Trump - https://theduran.com/nyt-fbi-spy-inside-wh-new-docs-prove-coup-plot-to-remove-trump/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 602.

2020-07-19 14:23:30+00:00

The Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict - https://theduran.com/the-azerbaijan-armenia-conflict/

Why has fighting flared up now? It comes down to economics. It usually does.

2020-07-19 14:13:49+00:00

Who will lift Syrian sanctions: Trump or Biden? - https://theduran.com/who-will-lift-syrian-sanctions-trump-or-biden/

The goal of the US-NATO war on Syria, for ‘regime change’, was to break the Tehran-Baghdad-Damascus-Beirut (TBDB) highway.

2020-07-19 14:12:31+00:00

Trump Considers Afghan War Critic for Ambassador to Afghanistan - https://theduran.com/trump-considers-afghan-war-critic-for-ambassador-to-afghanistan/

Ruger nomination would underscore intention to complete pullout

2020-07-19 14:12:21+00:00

Trump Considers Afghan War Critic for Ambassador to Afghanistan - https://theduran.com/trump-considers-afghan-war-critic-for-ambassador-to-afghanistan/

Ruger nomination would underscore intention to complete pullout

2020-07-19 14:03:04+00:00

“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet - https://theduran.com/putin-hacked-our-coronavirus-vaccine-is-the-dumbest-story-yet/

OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets!

Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition.

“Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said,” reports The New York Times.

“Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Thursday,” Reuters reports.

“Russian news agency RIA cited spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying the Kremlin rejected London’s allegations, which he said were not backed by proper evidence,” adds Reuters.

I mean, there are just so many layers of stupid.

First of all, how many more completely unsubstantiated government agency allegations about Russian nefariousness are we the public going to accept from the corporate mass media? Since 2016 it’s been wall-to-wall narrative about evil things Russia is doing to the empire-like cluster of allies loosely centralized around the United States, and they all just happen to be things nobody can actually provide the public with hard verifiable evidence of.

Ever since the shady cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike admitted that it never actually saw hard proof of Russia hacking the DNC servers, the already shaky and always unsubstantiated narrative that Russian hackers interfered in the US presidential election in 2016 has been on thinner ice than ever. Yet because the mass media converged on this narrative and repeated it as fact over and over again they’ve been able to get the mainstream headline-skimming public to accept it as an established truth, priming them for an increasingly idiotic litany of completely unsubstantiated Russia scandals, culminating most recently in the entirely debunked claim that Russia paid Taliban-linked fighters to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Secondly, the news story doesn’t even claim that these supposed Russian hackers even succeeded in doing whatever they were supposed to have been doing in this supposed cyberattack.

“Officials have not commented on whether the attacks were successful but also have not ruled out that this is the case,” Wired reports.

Thirdly, this is a “vaccine” which does not even exist at this point in time, and the research which was supposedly hacked may never lead to one. Meanwhile, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University reports that it has “successfully completed tests on volunteers of the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus,” in Russia.

Fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, how obnoxious and idiotic is it that coronavirus vaccine “secrets” are a even a thing??? This is a global pandemic which is hurting a ...

2020-07-19 08:42:37+00:00

The 2003 Conquest of the Republic of Georgia - https://theduran.com/the-2003-conquest-of-the-republic-of-georgia/

The Republic of Georgia is a small undeveloped Asian nation that was once part of the Soviet Union. It plays no role in the American economy or security yet was conquered by the American empire in 2003 when the CIA covertly organized a coup to establish a puppet government. Billions of dollars in American military […]

2020-07-19 08:38:56+00:00

How NATO-Member Turkey Reverted Back to Being an Islamic Dictatorship - https://theduran.com/how-nato-member-turkey-reverted-back-to-being-an-islamic-dictatorship/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture The gradual process of Turkey’s becoming an Islamic sharia-law country, again, is no longer so gradual. It has taken a sudden and sharp rightward turn, into Islamic-nationhood. Turkey’s Hagia Sophia, which had been “the world’s largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520,” has […]

2020-07-19 08:38:01+00:00

The Great Reset Fraud - https://theduran.com/the-great-reset-fraud/

Originally Published on the Strategic Culture Foundation Like everyone, I would love to live in a pollution-free world. I would love to see human civilization strike a balance with nature and at the risk of sounding like a naïve idealist, I sincerely do believe that this is ultimately our destiny as a species. My personal […]

2020-07-18 15:44:42+00:00

US-China Cold War comes to the UK with Huawei ban (Video) - https://theduran.com/us-china-cold-war-comes-to-the-uk-with-huawei-ban-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 601.

2020-07-18 13:23:57+00:00

The most dangerous thing about Coronavirus is the news about it [Video] - https://theduran.com/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-coronavirus-is-the-news-about-it-video/

Over the last ten days, I have been watching and reading the news from the US on the coronavirus spike of late, trying to find any sensible pattern or reasoning behind it. Since I live in Moscow, where we are down to a daily reported new infection rate in the 500’s to 600’s, life has […]

2020-07-18 07:49:08+00:00

Egyptian intervention may worsen Libyan civil war situation - https://theduran.com/egyptian-intervention-may-worsen-libyan-civil-war-situation/

Cairo is powerless to negotiate peace in the region.

2020-07-18 07:21:35+00:00

France aligning with Russia better protects its security and strategic interests - https://theduran.com/france-aligning-with-russia-better-protects-its-security-and-strategic-interests/

France continues to pull away from NATO by cooperating with Russia.

2020-07-18 07:13:47+00:00

What’s in a name? Nothing, if the Woke don’t like it - https://theduran.com/whats-in-a-name-nothing-if-the-woke-dont-like-it/

The Woke Mob comes for sports

2020-07-18 07:10:42+00:00

"Ask Prince Andrew About It": Trump Warned Epstein's Island Was "Absolute Cesspool" In 2015 - https://theduran.com/ask-prince-andrew-about-it-trump-warned-epsteins-island-was-absolute-cesspool-in-2015/

“He’s been there many times…”

President Trump suggested in 2015 that reporters ask Prince Andrew about his good friend Jeffrey Epstein’s so-called ‘pedo’ island, calling it an “absolute cesspool.”

According to The Sun, Trump’s comments came around the time that accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleged that Epstein coerced her into having sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions when she was 17.

Giuffre described in detail a March 10, 2001 encounter with the prince in which she says she danced with him at a London nightclub before he had sex with her.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ask-prince-andrew-about-it-trump-warned-epsteins-island-was-absolute-cesspool-2015

2020-07-18 07:05:24+00:00

Testing Will Begin In Africa For Biometric ID, "Vaccine Records", & "Payment Systems" - https://theduran.com/testing-will-begin-in-africa-for-biometric-id-vaccine-records-payment-systems/

…this “vaccine will be voluntary,”

Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine record. The biometric digital identity platform that “evolves just as you evolve” is backed by none other than the Bill Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance, Mastercard, and the AI-powered “identity authentication” company, Trust Stamp.

The GAVI Alliance, which is largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as allied governments and the vaccine industry, is principally concerned with improving “the health of markets for vaccines and other immunization products,” rather than the health of individuals, according to its own website. Similarly, Mastercard’s GAVI partnership is directly linked to its “World Beyond Cash” effort, which mainly bolsters its business model that has long depended on a reduction in the use of physical cash.

Reducing the use of cash is needed. Cash is impossible to track, but if you use centralized digital currency, the ruling class has complete control over what you can spend.

The program, which was first launched in late 2018, will see Trust Stamp’s digital identity platform integrated into the GAVI-Mastercard “Wellness Pass,” a digital vaccination record and identity system that is also linked to Mastercard’s click-to-play system that powered by its AI and machine learning technology called NuData. Mastercard, in addition to professing its commitment to promoting “centralized record keeping of childhood immunization” also describes itself as a leader toward a “World Beyond Cash,” and its partnership with GAVI marks a novel approach towards linking a biometric digital identity system, vaccination records, and a payment system into a single cohesive platform. The effort, since its launch nearly two years ago, has been funded via $3.8 million in GAVI donor funds in addition to a matched donation of the same amount by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. –Activist Post

In early June, GAVI reported that Mastercard’s Wellness Pass program would be adapted in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Around a month later, Mastercard announced that Trust Stamp’s biometric identity platform would be integrated into Wellness Pass as Trust Stamp’s system is capable of providing biometric identity in areas of the world lacking internet access or cellular connectivity and also does not require knowledge of an individual’s legal name or identity to function. The Wellness Program involving GAVI, Mastercard, and Trust Stamp will soon be launched in West Africa and will be coupled with a COVID-19 vaccination program once a vaccine becomes available.

What is perhaps most alarming about this new “Wellness Pass” initiative, is that i ...

2020-07-18 06:57:41+00:00

Is America Up for a Naval War with China? - https://theduran.com/is-america-up-for-a-naval-war-with-china/

Does anyone in Washington think the Chinese are going to give up their claims to the entire South China Sea or retreat from reasserting those claims because the U.S. now rejects them?

2020-07-18 06:53:20+00:00

Questions Swirl Over Ghislaine Maxwell's Wealth, Suspected 'CFR Member' Husband - https://theduran.com/questions-swirl-over-ghislaine-maxwells-wealth-suspected-cfr-member-husband/

“15 different bank accounts associated with Maxwell from 2016 to the present with balances ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million..

As Ghislaine Maxwell prepares to spend a long twelve months at a New York detention center while awaiting trial on charges of sex-trafficking minors and other crimes, questions are swirling over the British socialite’s wealth and marital status after claims made by US prosecutors during a virtual court hearing this week.

According to Assistant US Attorney Alison Moe, Maxwell’s claims that she has less than $1 million in the bank and no monthly income is “implausible,” according to Bloomberg. Her lawyers have suggested that the 58-year-old is far less wealthy than people believe, despite the fact that she was an integral part of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s life – who left an estimated $630 million estate behind after he was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell last year.

At the bail hearing, prosecutors said they’d identified more than 15 different bank accounts associated with Maxwell from 2016 to the present with balances ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million. She sold a Manhattan townhouse for $15 million in 2016 and still has one in London that she offered as a bail guarantee.

It’s also unclear whether Maxwell has access to funds from an unidentified spouse mentioned by prosecutors Tuesday. She previously toured the secluded New Hampshire estate where she was arrested July 2 with a man who said he was her husband. According to prosecutors, the property was actually purchased by Maxwell for $1 million in cash using a limited liability company. After she was arrested, she told authorities she didn’t know the name of the company that owned the house and that she merely had permission to stay there. –Bloomberg

According to prosecutors, over $20 million was transferred from Epstein-linked offshore accounts to Maxwell – of which millions were later transferred back. Maxwell sued Epstein’s estate in March to cover her legal costs, asserting that the financier promised to financially provide for her.

Meanwhile, a Swiss Trust holding over $4 million may be at her disposal as well.

“It is very unclear whether the defendant is receiving proceeds from trust accounts or an inheritance or means of other kinds,” said the US prosecutor, Moe, at Tuesday’s hearing.

“I would venture to say 20 is probably what they found so far and that the net worth would be substantially more,” said Jordan Waxman, managing partner of New York-based Nucleus Advisers wealth management. “The other thing is Jeffrey Epstein allegedly was worth $570-or-so million. What was she doing as his No. 2 ...

2020-07-18 05:23:01+00:00

Judicial Watch Uncovers Explosive FBI Emails, Appearing To Reference A WH 'Confidential Informant' - Sara A. Carter - https://theduran.com/judicial-watch-uncovers-explosive-fbi-emails-appearing-to-reference-a-wh-confidential-informant-sara-a-carter/

by Sara Carter Jul 17, 2020

A top government watchdog group obtained 136 pages of never before publicized emails between former FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and one in particular appears to refer to a confidential informant inside the White House in 2017, according to a press release from Judicial Watch.

Those emails, some of which are heavily redacted, reveal that “Strzok, Page and top bureau officials in the days prior to and following President Donald Trump’s inauguration discussing a White House counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s “investigative strategy.”

Moreover, another email sent by Strzok to Bill Priestap, the Former Assistant Director for the Counterintelligence Division, refers to what appears to be a confidential informant in the White House. The email was sent the day after Trump’s inauguration.

“I heard from [redacted] about the WH CI briefing routed from [redacted],” wrote Strzok. “I am angry that Jen did not at least cc: me, as my branch has pending investigative matters there, this brief may play into our investigative strategy, and I would like the ability to have visibility and provide thoughts/counsel to you in advance of the briefing. This is one of the reasons why I raised the issue of lanes/responsibilities that I did when you asked her to handle WH detailee interaction.” 

In April, 2019 this reporter first published information that there was an alleged confidential informant for the FBI in the White House. In fact, then senior Republican Chairmen of the Senate Appropriations Committee Charles Grassley and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson submitted a letter to Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr revealing the new texts from Strzok to Page showing the pair had discussed attempts to recruit sources within the White House to allegedly spy on the Trump administration.

The Chairmen revealed the information in a three page letter. The texts had been already been obtained by SaraACarter.com and information regarding the possible attempt to recruit White House sources had been divulged by several sources to this news site last week.

At the time, texts obtained by this news site and sources stated that Strzok had one significant contact within the White House – at the time that would have been Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, as reported.

Over the past year, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, along with years of numerous Congressional investigations, has uncovered a plethora of documentation revealing the most intimate details of the FBI’s now debunked investigation into Trump’s campaign and its alleged conspiracy with Russia.

For example ...

2020-07-18 05:21:41+00:00

Will Serbia follow the Ukrainian lead? - https://theduran.com/will-serbia-follow-the-ukrainian-lead/

The massive wave of protests began on the 7th of July, and it is still happening now. The main reason is that people are not satisfied with the political way of the Serbian government and continuing quarantine around the country.

2020-07-17 15:00:42+00:00

UK, US, Canada INTEL: Russians hacking VACCINES & ELECTIONS (Video) - https://theduran.com/uk-us-canada-intel-russians-hacking-vaccines-elections-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 600.

2020-07-17 14:30:26+00:00

Twitter BITCOIN SCAM exposes crumbling activist social network (Video) - https://theduran.com/twitter-bitcoin-scam-exposes-crumbling-activist-social-network-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 599.

2020-07-17 11:34:22+00:00

Mexico takes American side in US-China trade war - https://theduran.com/mexico-takes-american-side-in-us-china-trade-war/

New free trade agreement will benefit US and Canada and damage Mexico’s relations with China

2020-07-17 11:30:28+00:00

Germany’s Presidency of the EU will determine if the bloc joins the new multipolar world order - https://theduran.com/germanys-presidency-of-the-eu-will-determine-if-the-bloc-joins-the-new-multipolar-world-order/

U.S. will defend its status, whether Trump remains in power or his Democrat rival wins the upcoming election.

2020-07-17 07:45:07+00:00

The Tech Cold War Between The US And China Will Cost $3.5 Trillion In Just The Next Five Years - https://theduran.com/the-tech-cold-war-between-the-us-and-china-will-cost-3-5-trillion-in-just-the-next-five-years/

The actual outcome will obviously be path dependent on how both countries approach the economic and geopolitical trade-offs.

How much would a Tech Cold War Cost?

That’s the question DB’s new tech strategist Apjit Walia asks in a new research report, in which he looks at the interplay between the Post Covid Tech Rally and the Tech Cold War, which have emerged as two of the most salient aspects of the current market dynamic. And with tensions between US and China continuing to rise and spread to other parts of the world, the strategist conducts a top-down analysis of the impact on the Global Information & Communications Technology sector from a full-blown cold war.

The report finds that the ensuing demand disruption, supply chain upheaval and resultant “Tech Wall” that would delineate the world into rivaling tech standards could cost the sector more than $3.5 Trillion over the next five years.

But before getting into the details, we update on the current state of the DB Tech Cold War Index. As Walia writes, a nuanced observation of the tariff and geopolitical issues between the US and China over the past few year suggest they are primarily a smaller strategy that is part of a larger Global Tech Cold War. To reduce the noise from the subjective geopolitical  commentaries, DB created a systematic measure using machine learning to quantify the intensity of the cold war at any given point of time. It quantitatively analyzes and tracks the sentiment of the Tech Cold War globally. Not surprisingly, the DB Tech Cold War Index has been trending higher since 2016 with peaks coinciding with tit-for-tat measures by US and China on technology IP protection and counter measures. It made an all-time high in April 2020 with the Covid crisis fueling tensions and has spiraled higher since then. The political headlines are matching the sentiment among the populace. Recurrent surveys from April to June show that post Covid tempers remain at elevated levels with 41%+ of Americans and 35%+ of Chinese stating they will not buy each other’s products. An election year in the US further complicates this geopolitical dynamic.

Cold War Impact on Global ICT Sector

US and China have been engaging in an increasing capacity since the 1970s and the level of integration between the two global tech regimes is unprecedented. The integration is a complex demand and labyrinthine supply chain network that has taken 40 years to develop. DB uses a top down approach to ascertain the level of revenues and supply chain links across the global ICT industries to China. To analyze and quantify this complex co-dependent Tech relationship between the two countries is a challenging task, the bank surveyed Tech managements, CTOs, Industry assoc ...

2020-07-17 07:44:13+00:00

The Tech Cold War Between The US And China Will Cost $3.5 Trillion In Just The Next Five Years - https://theduran.com/the-tech-cold-war-between-the-us-and-china-will-cost-3-5-trillion-in-just-the-next-five-years/

The actual outcome will obviously be path dependent on how both countries approach the economic and geopolitical trade-offs.

How much would a Tech Cold War Cost?

That’s the question DB’s new tech strategist Apjit Walia asks in a new research report, in which he looks at the interplay between the Post Covid Tech Rally and the Tech Cold War, which have emerged as two of the most salient aspects of the current market dynamic. And with tensions between US and China continuing to rise and spread to other parts of the world, the strategist conducts a top-down analysis of the impact on the Global Information & Communications Technology sector from a full-blown cold war.

The report finds that the ensuing demand disruption, supply chain upheaval and resultant “Tech Wall” that would delineate the world into rivaling tech standards could cost the sector more than $3.5 Trillion over the next five years.

But before getting into the details, we update on the current state of the DB Tech Cold War Index. As Walia writes, a nuanced observation of the tariff and geopolitical issues between the US and China over the past few year suggest they are primarily a smaller strategy that is part of a larger Global Tech Cold War. To reduce the noise from the subjective geopolitical  commentaries, DB created a systematic measure using machine learning to quantify the intensity of the cold war at any given point of time. It quantitatively analyzes and tracks the sentiment of the Tech Cold War globally. Not surprisingly, the DB Tech Cold War Index has been trending higher since 2016 with peaks coinciding with tit-for-tat measures by US and China on technology IP protection and counter measures. It made an all-time high in April 2020 with the Covid crisis fueling tensions and has spiraled higher since then. The political headlines are matching the sentiment among the populace. Recurrent surveys from April to June show that post Covid tempers remain at elevated levels with 41%+ of Americans and 35%+ of Chinese stating they will not buy each other’s products. An election year in the US further complicates this geopolitical dynamic.

Cold War Impact on Global ICT Sector

US and China have been engaging in an increasing capacity since the 1970s and the level of integration between the two global tech regimes is unprecedented. The integration is a complex demand and labyrinthine supply chain network that has taken 40 years to develop. DB uses a top down approach to ascertain the level of revenues and supply chain links across the global ICT industries to China. To analyze and quantify this complex co-dependent Tech relationship between the two countries is a challenging task, the bank surveyed Tech managements, CTOs, Industry assoc ...

2020-07-17 07:40:58+00:00

The Social Justice Cult Really Hates Parler - Here's Why... - https://theduran.com/the-social-justice-cult-really-hates-parler-heres-why/

Alt-Market.com – supporting local economies, barter networks, farmers initiatives, and alternative currencies backed by tangible commodities.

http://www.alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4278-the-social-justice-cult-really-hates-parler-heres-why

2020-07-17 07:36:33+00:00

The Quiet Return of Feudalism | The American Conservative - https://theduran.com/the-quiet-return-of-feudalism-the-american-conservative/

Silicon Valley oligarchs are ushering in a new age of serfdom, aided by the left.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-quiet-return-of-feudalism/

2020-07-17 06:35:47+00:00

‘Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth’: Chicago mayor attacks WH press secretary over criticism for failing to curb spike in crime - https://theduran.com/hey-karen-watch-your-mouth-chicago-mayor-attacks-wh-press-secretary-over-criticism-for-failing-to-curb-spike-in-crime/

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken a dig at the White House press secretary after being labeled “derelict” in governing the city, but critics were quick to point out her failure to address a rash of crime and violence there.

2020-07-17 06:29:24+00:00

Police Men (And Women) Behaving Badly - https://theduran.com/police-men-and-women-behaving-badly/

Very few people are shot or otherwise killed by the British police, including a young lady who was asked by a police constable if he could shoot her. With his camera! In October 2018, PC Kevin Mohess and another officer attended the home of an unidentified woman who complained nude intimate photographs of her had […]

2020-07-17 06:29:04+00:00

NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID19 - https://theduran.com/nhs-consultant-says-staff-are-being-silenced-over-covid19/

First published on The Bernician, the below statement is allegedly from a senior consultant working for the NHS in a hospital in Surrey.Although we cannot verify his or her identity, we still think our readers should see it 1) because it dovetails with other verified reports, and 2) if it is what it alleges to be, it sheds concerning light on the state of things inside the healthcare system

I am a consultant at a major, regional hospital in Surrey. By major you can take that to indicate that we have an A&E department. I had agreed to give an interview to an anti lockdown activist in which I would have revealed my identity. I have since changed my mind and only feel able to give an anonymous statement.

I have changed my mind simply because that all staff, no matter what grade, at all hospitals have been warned that if they give any media interviews at all or make any statements to either the Main Stream Press or smaller, independent press/social media we may, immediately be suspended without pay. I have a family, dependents and I simply cant do it to them.

I therefore can not reveal my identity at this time but wish to state as follows:

In my opinion, and that of many of my colleagues, there has been no Covid Pandemic, certainly not in the Surrey region and I have heard from other colleagues this picture is the same throughout the country. Our hospital would normally expect to see around 350,000 out patients a year. Around 95,000 patients are admitted to hospital in a normal year and we would expect to see around a similar figure, perhaps 100,000 patients pass through our A&E department.

In the months from March to June (inclusive) we would normally expect to see 100,000 out patients, around 30,000 patients admitted to hospital and perhaps 30,000 pass through A&E. This year (and these figures are almost impossible to get hold of) we are over 95% down on all those numbers. In effect, the hospital has been pretty much empty for that entire period.

At the start, staff that questioned this were told that we were being used as ‘redundant’ capacity, kept back for the ‘deluge’ we were told would come. It never did come, and when staff began to question this, comments like, ‘for the greater good’ and to ‘protect the NHS’ came down from above. Now its just along the lines of, ‘Shut up or you don’t get paid’.

The few Covid cases that we have had get repeatedly tested, and every single test counted as a new case. Meaning the figures reported back to ONS/PHE (Office for National Statistics & Public Health England) were almost exponentially inflated. It could be that Covid cases reported by hospitals are between 5 to 10x higher than the real number of cases. There has been no pandemic and this goes a long way to explain why figures for the UK are so much higher than anywhere else in Europe.

The trust h ...

2020-07-17 06:28:59+00:00

Do you love? - https://theduran.com/do-you-love/

As much as I know, only Erich Fromm wrote a popular scientific book about love. I have studied his work entirely and may say that his book “The Art of Love” presents an excellent psychological analysis of love, which contributed significantly to its understanding. Fromm has influenced my work greatly. In this essay, I have […]

2020-07-17 06:28:34+00:00

Does Sanders Have a Secret Deal with Biden? - https://theduran.com/does-sanders-have-a-secret-deal-with-biden/

Eric Zuesse Though Bernie Sanders is less dishonest than any other of the U.S. political leaders who have contested in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential primary campaigns, no one should trust his endorsements of the DNC’s choice (which was what it was) of Joe Biden to carry the Party’s banner against Trump. Sanders knows […]

2020-07-17 06:28:01+00:00

Does Sanders Have a Secret Deal with Biden? - https://theduran.com/does-sanders-have-a-secret-deal-with-biden/

Eric Zuesse Though Bernie Sanders is less dishonest than any other of the U.S. political leaders who have contested in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential primary campaigns, no one should trust his endorsements of the DNC’s choice (which was what it was) of Joe Biden to carry the Party’s banner against Trump. Sanders knows […]

2020-07-16 12:20:43+00:00

Despite more sanction threats, Nord Stream 2 close to completion (Video) - https://theduran.com/despite-more-sanction-threats-nord-stream-2-close-to-completion-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 598.

2020-07-16 11:40:49+00:00

Latvians are not ready to see armed soldiers in Riga - https://theduran.com/latvians-are-not-ready-to-see-armed-soldiers-in-riga/

Military training in the streets is absolutely unacceptable in terms of life safety.

2020-07-16 07:49:37+00:00

Soros Foundation Announces It Is ‘Doubling Down’ On Funding “Black-led Justice Organizations” - https://theduran.com/soros-foundation-announces-it-is-doubling-down-on-funding-black-led-justice-organizations/

$220 million in grants from Open Society as it declares this is “the moment we’ve been investing in for the last 25 years”.

In an interview with the The New York Times, Open Society Foundations President Patrick Gaspard announced that the organisation, headed by billionaire George Soros, is to “double down” on funding “black-led justice organizations”.

The interview was accompanied by a press release from the Open Society declaring that “The largest share of this support—$150 million—will be through a set of five-year grants to Black-led justice organizations that helped to create and now sustain the momentum towards racial equality.”

“Open Society’s response reflects our conviction that real progress requires sustained support over many years and letting leaders accountable to impacted communities shape the path forward.” the release adds.

It also notes that another $70 million will be allocated to “more immediate efforts to advance racial justice,” which include efforts  to “reimagine” policing.

Gaspard noted that the recent uprising in the US and across the world is “the moment we’ve been investing in for the last 25 years.”

“There is this call for justice in Black and brown communities, an explosion of not just sympathy but solidarity across the board,” he claimed, adding that “it’s time to double down.”

“And we understood we can place a bet on these activists — Black and white — who see this as a moment of not just incrementalism, but whole-scale reform,” Gaspard asserted.

Gaspard directly referenced the Black Lives Matter movement, staying that “we need these moments to be sustained. If we’re going to say ‘Black lives matter,’ we need to say ‘Black organizations and structures matter.’”

The Open Society’s bold admission will raise eyebrows given that just weeks ago anyone suggesting Soros’ foundations were providing financial assistance to BLM agitators was labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’:

Indeed, Soros himself denied that his organisation was providing any funding to protests where violence occurred.

https://summit.news/2020/07/14/soros-foundation-announces-it-is-doubling-down-on-funding-black-led-justice-organizations/

2020-07-16 06:39:12+00:00

Syria isn’t only Idlib - https://theduran.com/syria-isnt-only-idlib/

The UN estimates that 9.3 million people are now “food insecure” in Syria.

2020-07-16 06:29:41+00:00

The Great COVID-19 Deception ... and What You Need to Know to SURVIVE - https://theduran.com/the-great-covid-19-deception-and-what-you-need-to-know-to-survive/

Sunday, July 12, 2020 by: Mike Adams

(Natural News) Today we feature a contributed article by Gary Heavin, who has been intimately involved in working with doctors and hospitals to document the most effective treatments that can halt covid-19 and put an end to lockdown tyranny.

Here’s his full article, which contains priceless information on a cure for covid-19 that exists today (but that the medical establishment is deliberately suppressing to maximize fatalities and create demand for high-profit vaccines).

The Great COVID-19 Deception … and What You Need to Know to SURVIVE

by Gary Heavin

I’ve been speaking with my friends who include medical doctors and other highly educated people about the treatments that they would seek if they were diagnosed with Covid 19. Most of them had no idea what course of treatment they or their families might seek. This conundrum is in part due to the massive volume of information that is being thrown at us. Much of this information is deliberately deceptive. I am writing this article to cut through the deception so that you and your physician can make informed decisions if and when the time comes.

This article has two purposes. First, it’s imperative that you understand the great deceit that Big Pharma, their minions at the FDA, CDC, NIH, the WHO, the MSM and officials in high government positions are perpetrating on you, your family and likely your doctor.

The second purpose is to assure that you are armed with the necessary information to insure that you receive the best treatment options from your health care provider. Knowledge is power.

Allow me to repeat, you need to know you are being duped and you need a plan for you and your family if you become infected with Covid 19. So let’s get to it.

Let me begin by stating that I’m not a medical doctor and I m not offering medical advice. I do have a bachelors of science degree in health, nutrition and counseling. I’ve written two NY Times bestselling books on women’s health and fitness and I have been awarded an honorary doctorate degree. However, you will need to determine your treatment options with your personal physician.

2020-07-16 06:26:32+00:00

"Get Out Now": Pompeo Prepares New Sanctions Over Nearly Complete Russia-Germany NS2 Pipeline - https://theduran.com/get-out-now-pompeo-prepares-new-sanctions-over-nearly-complete-russia-germany-ns2-pipeline/

“It’s a clear warning to companies aiding and abetting Russia’s malign-influence projects it will not be tolerated.”

While it’s the Trump administration’s new punitive measures targeting China which have been driving headlines, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also signaled new measures related to the controversial Russia-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline. 

“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said a sanctions exemption will be removed for a Russian natural-gas pipeline to Germany, paving the way for new penalties to be imposed on the contentious project,” The Wall Street Journal described of his comments.

“Mr. Pompeo said Wednesday that the State Department will lift a proviso that spared the pipeline, known as Nord Stream 2, from a 2017 sanctions measure,” the report added.

Already the major companies laying the massive NS2 pipeline and their executives have been threatened with sanction as of last year, which temporarily halted construction. From there Russia vowed to outfit pipe-laying ships and fill in the gap via its energy giant Gazprom.

The newly announced measures will allow a wider range of punishment options against companies working on the pipeline as it nears completion, which Washington has long been trying to thwart. 

“Our expectation is that those who participate in the continued project will be subject to review for potential consequences,” Pompeo announced. 

“It’s a clear warning to companies aiding and abetting Russia’s malign-influence projects it will not be tolerated,” Pompeo said.

2020-07-16 06:15:33+00:00

Is a Romanian passport better than a Ukrainian one? - https://theduran.com/is-a-romanian-passport-better-than-a-ukrainian-one/

In 2019, about 90 thousand romanian passports were issued in Ukraine! Back in October 2009, Romanian President Traian Basescu signed a law simplifying the provision of Romanian citizenship. According to him, Romanians can be all persons who lived on the territory of Romania within the borders of 1940, as well as their descendants up to […]

2020-07-16 06:05:40+00:00

CDC Reports that the China Coronavirus Mortality "Is Currently Below Pandemic Threshold" - https://theduran.com/cdc-reports-that-the-china-coronavirus-mortality-is-currently-below-pandemic-threshold/

By Joe Hoft

The CDC now is reporting that the China coronavirus mortality is below a pandemic threshold.  Will Democrats be celebrating this?  Will the MSM report it?

The CDC is currently reporting on their website that the China coronavirus is no longer a pandemic – the mortality rate has fallen below the pandemic threshold:

Of course the Deep State CDC adds a caveat that this “will likely change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks”.

TRENDING: BREAKING: Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s Twitter Accounts HACKED… Along With Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Kanye West and MORE

However, recent weeks show a declining number of deaths per the Worldometers coronavirus website:

It’s long past time to put this whole pandemic panic in check. 

2020-07-16 06:05:01+00:00

Florida Department of Health saboteurs are RIGGING coronavirus test results, wildly inflating infection numbers to hobble reopening efforts - https://theduran.com/florida-department-of-health-saboteurs-are-rigging-coronavirus-test-results-wildly-inflating-infection-numbers-to-hobble-reopening-efforts/

Tuesday, July 14, 2020 by: Mike Adams

(Natural News) A stunning investigation by Orlando Fox News affiliate Fox 35 finds that the Florida Department of Health is reporting suspiciously high “positive” rates from dozens of COVID-19 testing labs in Florida, often in contradiction to the real numbers that those labs reported to the state. This appears to indicate a massive, coordinated conspiracy by State of Florida workers in the Florida Department of Health who are attempting to sabotage the reopening efforts by wildly exaggerating the number of infections for political purposes.

To understand how this fake science scam works, observe how the State of Florida had released a list of “positivity rates” from various labs across the state, listing hundreds of labs as either 100% positive or near 100%. The corporate media is using these numbers to claim the coronavirus pandemic is spiraling out of control in a “second wave” of infection

But the numbers being reported by the Florida Department of Health are not the numbers that were reported by the labs. It appears the Florida Department of Health is taking lab numbers and multiplying them by whatever factor is necessary to achieve a “100% positive rate” across hundreds of labs. In some cases, they are multiplying the actual number of infections by a factor of ten.

2020-07-16 06:03:42+00:00

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Study Confirms, with Exception of New York and New Jersey, Overall Mortality Not Much Different Than a Bad Flu Season - https://theduran.com/exclusive-coronavirus-study-confirms-with-exception-of-new-york-and-new-jersey-overall-mortality-not-much-different-than-a-bad-flu-season/

By Joe Hoft

On March 17, 2020, we were the first to identify that the WHO and the WHO’s Director General Tedros were pushing fraudulent numbers regarding the expected mortality of the coronavirus. The WHO over-stated the mortality rate of the virus by at least 30 times.We then followed up with multiple posts on the subject. We reported on June 7, 2020, a study showed that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu.

We followed up on this study on June 18th with more current data supporting these results.

Today we have more information based on more current data that supports our initial observations – that current mortality rates from the China coronavirus are within expectations for an above-average flu season with the exception of NYC.

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Dr. Richard Cross, PhD, provided us the following information related to the China coronavirus. We have updated the following as of June 6, 2020, through week 36:

The Week 36 P-Score (0.041) for the US is could be leveling off, showing an above average flu-level mortality for the year of about 4%. – -Excess deaths have climbed by from 67.9k to 84.5k for the nation through 36 weeks. This updated level remains below the estimated 114.5k COVID-19 mortality on Worldometers (on June 06).

This study is brilliant because it takes out the CDC’s confusing directive that stated that all deaths should be counted as coronavirus deaths, even if the cause may have been another condition. By counting all deaths, no matter the cause, we can clearly see the impact of the coronavirus on the nation is ‘not much worse than a bad seasonal flu’.

The study previously reported on the New York situation:

The relative impact on total mortality of the COVID-19 event in the New York City region was in a class by itself. Figure 2 shows the increased cumulative total mortality increase as measured by the P-Score compared to previous 6-year mortality trends for each state; this is a more sensitive indicator of mortality change for each state since each state’s current mortality is based upon the previous six years mortality trend for that state. In Figure 2, New York City (NYC) mortality excess is 68% and is the highest across all locales with the current data. By week 34 in the current season, NYC is so far outside the mortality space of the other regions that it inhabited a different mortality universe altogether. It was widely reported as well that New Jersey experienced a high level of COVID-19 deaths, which translated into a seasonal excess mortality of 28 percen ...

2020-07-16 06:02:52+00:00

STOP-THE-WAR: Idealism And Ignorance — Part 1 - https://theduran.com/stop-the-war-idealism-and-ignorance-part-1/

On July 15, the Stop-The-War Coalition held a live hangout with three speakers: Emy Onoura, Salma Yaqoob, and Chris Nineham. The theme of the hangout was British Imperialism from the international slave trade to the special relationship, and as might be expected, not one of the speakers had a good word to say about Imperialism, […]

2020-07-16 06:02:38+00:00

The Historical Forces Behind the New U.S-Mexico Pro-Nation State Alliance - https://theduran.com/the-historical-forces-behind-the-new-u-s-mexico-pro-nation-state-alliance/

From the Vineyard of the Saker On July 8, Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador met with President Trump to finalize the death of NAFTA and the signing of the USMCA agreement which has thrown over the apple cart for the neoliberal priests of London and Wall Street. As both Presidents signed a ‘Joint Declaration between the USA and […]

2020-07-15 14:50:45+00:00

Ghislaine Maxwell: Bail denied! Trial set. Make a deal or will she disappear? (Video) - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-maxwell-bail-denied-trial-set-make-a-deal-or-will-she-disappear-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 597.

2020-07-15 14:02:56+00:00

China-Iran deal is a major blow to U.S. aspirations in Central Asia - https://theduran.com/china-iran-deal-is-a-major-blow-to-u-s-aspirations-in-central-asia/

China and Iran strengthens strategic partnership

2020-07-15 13:59:36+00:00

Turkey supports Azerbaijan to cause instability in the Caucasus - https://theduran.com/turkey-supports-azerbaijan-to-cause-instability-in-the-caucasus/

Territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan aggravates as Ankara intends to intervene.

2020-07-15 13:08:50+00:00

Poland elections. Duda wins. EU globalists angry (Video) - https://theduran.com/poland-elections-duda-wins-eu-globalists-angry-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 596.

2020-07-15 08:36:18+00:00

Will Prince Andrew be extradited? - https://theduran.com/will-prince-andrew-be-extradited/

The Duke of York was definitely a friend of Ghislaine Maxwell’s for decades. She is now widely suspected of being a procuress.

2020-07-15 07:10:02+00:00

Australia Needs to Decouple From China as 'Second Cold War' Looms: Expert - https://theduran.com/australia-needs-to-decouple-from-china-as-second-cold-war-looms-expert/

An international strategist has told a parliamentary inquiry that Australia will need to build stronger “resilience” and less “dependence” on China, as in the near future, the world will likely fracture into two major geopolitical blocs akin to the Cold War—one bloc centered around Washington and democratic nations, and the other around Beijing and Xi Jinping’s ambition for a new world order.

Speaking to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade on July 2, Alan Dupont, CEO of the Cognoscenti Group, said increased economic and political tensions between Washington and Beijing (particularly related to the trade war, Taiwan, and the South China Sea) would accelerate a “decoupling” of the world’s economies and see the formation of two geopolitical blocs.

Dupont, who is an expert in international affairs, said Beijing would likely lead an “authoritarian” bloc, which would include countries such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, and countries from Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.

The other bloc would include democracies from North America, Europe, and parts of Latin America and Africa. He noted that Australia would “certainly” side with the United States.

Dupont acknowledged that trading relations would be “fluid” in what he called “the second Cold War, the one we’re going into now.” There will be “a lot of movement across the divisions” compared to the original Cold War (1947–1991), which saw trade limited to within each political bloc.

However, in the event that a split does occur, Dupont noted that it was unlikely countries could “straddle” both factions; and aligning with one side was inevitable.

“The more entrenched and rigid these divisions become, the more difficult it will be for countries to have choices and to remain in both camps.

“You will get to a point at some stage where you do have to make a strategic decision about which one you are going with.

“I think most countries do not want to be in that position, and I think that would include Australia too. We don’t want to go down that track, but the risk is that we will.”

The parliamentary committee is examining the implications of COVID-19 for Australia’s foreign affairs, defense, and trade, and is looking into issues related to supply chain vulnerabilities and international trade relations.

Australia Needs to Rectify ‘Vulnerabilities’ Amid Beijing Decoupling

Dupont called on Australia to examine vulnerabilities in its supply chains, saying: “In my view, our dependence on China for a range of critical technologies and goods has become a major security liability and must be reversed.”

Since April, Australia has been locked into a Beijing-instigated trade dispute, which has seen the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) impose 80 percent tariffs on Australian barley imports, ban beef ...

2020-07-15 06:54:33+00:00

Venezuela What Next? - https://theduran.com/venezuela-what-next/

Update Venezuela. An interview with William Camacaro

2020-07-15 06:34:02+00:00

Can Trump Pull a Truman? - https://theduran.com/can-trump-pull-a-truman/

A medical crisis, an economic crisis, and a cultural and social crisis, have hit us all at once, raising some fundamental questions.

2020-07-15 06:15:39+00:00

The Media's Jihad against Sweden's No-Lockdown Policy Ignores Key Facts | Ryan McMaken - https://theduran.com/the-medias-jihad-against-swedens-no-lockdown-policy-ignores-key-facts-ryan-mcmaken/

As soon as it became clear that the Swedish state had no plans to implement harsh lockdowns, global media organizations like the New York Times have implemented what can only be described as an ideological jihad against Sweden.

2020-07-15 06:12:23+00:00

The Mind Sports Olympiad Will Be Held On-Line - https://theduran.com/the-mind-sports-olympiad-will-be-held-on-line/

The coming Mind Sports Olympiad was reported on here earlier this year. As with most other gaming and sporting events, the worldwide coronavirus lockdown has disrupted the programme significantly. The organisers have now taken a bold step: MSO 24 will be held entirely on-line, and there will be no entry fees! This is likely to […]

2020-07-15 06:10:20+00:00

Why Do All U.S. ‘News’-Media Hide that Joe Biden Is a Stealthy Bigot? - https://theduran.com/why-do-all-u-s-news-media-hide-that-joe-biden-is-a-stealthy-bigot/

Eric Zuesse On July 9th, I emailed a submission to all U.S. news organizations an article, headlined and documenting “Joe Biden as a Stealthy Bigot”, and reported there Joe Biden’s actual history on this matter, and not merely his pretty campaign words about it. None published it. Frankly, that unanimity of important news-suppression in the […]

2020-07-15 06:09:42+00:00

The Future for China - https://theduran.com/the-future-for-china/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker On July 14th, the two conjoined gangster-regimes, U.S. & UK, simultaneously started, with deadly seriousness, their aggressive economic war against China. Business Insider headlined “US Navy warship challenges China in South China Sea as US blasts Beijing’s ‘unlawful’ claims and ‘gangster tactics’” and reported that, After the US […]

2020-07-14 16:24:43+00:00

Ghislaine Maxwell Pedo Sex-Trafficking Investigation Launched In Virgin Islands - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-maxwell-pedo-sex-trafficking-investigation-launched-in-virgin-islands/

“Criminal sex trafficking and sexual abuse…”

Ghislaine Maxwell – who’s facing six charges in New York over her alleged role in Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile sex-trafficking ring, is also under investigation in the US Virgin Islands.

The revelation comes in a July 10 filing to intervene in a lawsuit Maxwell filed against Epstein’s estate seeking reimbursement for legal fees, and claiming that Epstein had repeatedly promised to support her financially, according to The Sun.

The Island’s Justice Department is “investigating Maxwell’s participation in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking and sexual abuse conduct,” read the court papers.

Epstein infamously owned Little St. James island, dubbed ‘pedo island’ over accusations that he would fly underage girls there to fulfill his sexual desires and those of his associates. Famous guests reportedly include Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Stephen Hawking, Les Wexner and others.

One accuser, Chaunte Davies, says she was raped by Epstein over the course of several years before finally parting ways with him in 2005.

Now 40, Chaunte says the ex-Wall Street banker performed a sex act on himself during their first massage session – and that she was “manipulated” into staying in their circle by Maxwell. “Within weeks she was jetting round the world on his private jet and on to his island of Little Saint James,” according to the report.

“The government’s need to intervene is further fueled by Maxwell’s inappropriate use of the Virgin Islands courts to seek payment and reimbursement from the Epstein criminal enterprise, while she circumvents the service of process of government subpoenas related to her involvement in that criminal enterprise,” reads the filing.

Island officials have also subpoenaed Maxwell to try and compel her to appear before a local court – a bid which may prove difficult considering her current status as an inmate awaiting trial at a New York detention center following her July 2 arrest in New Hampshire. Maxwell has evaded Virgin Islands officials since March.

Maxwell is set to appear for a virtual bail and arraignment hearing on Tuesday. Her legal team has requested that she be freed on $5 million bail, arguing that she’s not a flight risk and may catch coronavirus in jail. Prosecutors for the US Justice Department strongly disagreed, pointing to Maxwell’s opaque finances and global contacts that pose a significant flight risk.

“She has demonstrated her ability to evade detection, and the victims of the defendant’s crimes seek her detention,” said DOJ prosecutors in their filing. “Because there is no set of conditions short of incarceration that can reaso ...

2020-07-14 14:27:18+00:00

Converting Hagia Sophia for domestic consumption will backfire on Erdoğan - https://theduran.com/converting-hagia-sophia-for-domestic-consumption-will-backfire-on-erdogan/

Economic repercussions for converting Hagia Sophia can economically expose Turkey

2020-07-14 14:19:44+00:00

Supreme Court rulings and Trump's taxes are Much Ado About Nothing (Video) - https://theduran.com/supreme-court-rulings-and-trumps-taxes-are-much-ado-about-nothing-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 595.

2020-07-14 13:59:36+00:00

Afghanistan Bountygate is all about endless war & drug money (Video) - https://theduran.com/afghanistan-bountygate-is-all-about-endless-war-drug-money-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 594.

2020-07-14 13:05:32+00:00

Boris Johnson accused of ‘power grab’ over Scotland’s post-Brexit powers - https://theduran.com/boris-johnson-accused-of-power-grab-over-scotlands-post-brexit-powers/

Westminster, oblivious, continues to push Scots towards independence…

2020-07-14 06:41:17+00:00

New Court Filing: Ghislaine Maxwell 'Fled' Across House During Raid; FBI Found Tin Foil-Wrapped Cell Phone - https://theduran.com/new-court-filing-ghislaine-maxwell-fled-across-house-during-raid-fbi-found-tin-foil-wrapped-cell-phone/

Safe room?

According to a Monday court filing (see below), Ghislaine Maxwell bolted to another room when FBI agents showed up to her secluded New Hampshire estate to arrest the accused sex-trafficker.

When agents entered, they found a cell phone wrapped in tin-foil sitting on a desk in what prosecutors described as a “misguided effort to evade detection, not by the press or public, which of course would have no ability to trace her phone or intercept her communications, but by law enforcement.”

FBI agents were first barred from entering the property by a locked gate they had to pry open and were then confronted by one Maxwell’s private guards, according to the U.S.

When the agents approached the front door, they caught a glimpse of Maxwell through the window, trying to “flee” rather than answer them. The FBI ultimately forced to “breach” Maxwell’s door to enter and only arrested Maxwell after she was found “in an interior room in the house,” according to the government. –Bloomberg

According to the filing, one of Maxwell’s security guards told agents that that the British socialite’s brother had hired former members of the British military to guard her 24-7. As Bloomberg reports, Maxwell gave one of the guards a credit card in the name of the same LLC which bought her luxury New Hampshire bugout last year. According to the guard, Maxwell hadn’t left the property in the time he’d been working there, and had been ordered to buy things for the estate.

Federal prosecutors detailed the lengths Maxwell went to in order to evade US law enforcement in order to argue that she’s a flight risk who has access to “extraordinary financial resources” and would flee the country if allowed free on bail. A federal judge will decide on Tuesday whether to grant Maxwell’s request to post $5 million bond so she can live under house arrest until her trial.

“She has demonstrated her ability to evade detection, and the victims of the defendant’s crimes seek her detention,” said DOJ prosecutors in their filing. “Because there is no set of conditions short of incarceration that can reasonably assure the defendant’s appearance, the government urges the Court to detain her.”

Maxwell wouldn’t be extradited if she fled to France where she has citizenship, argued the prosecution, as the country does not extradite its own citizens to the US for prosecution, according to the report.

The government also argued Maxwell has been hiding from authorities, living in a secluded 156-acre estate in Bradford, New Hampshire, since late last year.

Maxwell is accused of luring girls as young as 14 for sexual encounters with Epstein and engaging in ...

2020-07-14 06:38:16+00:00

More Than Half Of COVID-19 Patients In New Study Have Heart Damage - https://theduran.com/more-than-half-of-covid-19-patients-in-new-study-have-heart-damage/

The gift that keeps on giving…

While the mortality rate from COVID-19 is far lower than initially projected, the disease can leave people with a bevy of health problems of unknown duration; from fatigue, to lingering respiratory issues, to loss of taste and smell.

Now, we can add heart damage to the list of common post-COVID complications, according to a new study. 

The long and short of it: Older individuals with pre-existing heart issues, or those with ‘sleeper’ heart conditions which have gone undiagnosed, are at the most risk.

While we’ve known since at least February that coronavirus was suspected of causing – or contributing to – cardiac problems, the extent has been largely unknown. In April, The Harvard Gazette detailed the “multiple ways” COVID-19 may spark cardiac damage;

First, people with preexisting heart disease are at a greater risk for severe cardiovascular and respiratory complications from COVID-19. Similarly, research has shown that infection with the influenza virus poses a more severe threat for people with heart disease than those without cardiac problems. Research also shows that heart attacks can actually be brought on by respiratory infections such as the flu. 

Second, people with previously undiagnosed heart disease may be presenting with previously silent cardiac symptoms unmasked by the viral infection. In people with existing heart-vessel blockages, infection, fever, and inflammation can destabilize previously asymptomatic fatty plaques inside the heart vessels. Fever and inflammation also render the blood more prone to clotting, while also interfering with the body’s ability to dissolve clots — a one-two punch akin to throwing gasoline on smoldering embers. –The Harvard Gazette

Last month the President of Burundi died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 55 after falling ill with coronavirus.

Now, a new study has found that more than half of COVID-19 patients have some type of heart damage, according to Newsweek.

A study involving 1,216 patients – 813 of whom were diagnosed with COVID-19, revealed that 55% had abnormalities when given an echocardiogram between April 3 and 20.

The paper, published in the journal European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging, had an average participant age of 62, while 70% were male.

Sixty percent of the scans were performed in a critical care setting, such as an ICU unit or emergency room, while the others were carried out in general medicine settings, cardiology, respiratory, or COVID-19 wards. Some 54 percent of the patients had severe COVID-19.

Those with abnormal scans were more likely to be older and have certain underlying heart problems. But after the team excluded patients with existing heart conditions from their ana ...

2020-07-13 16:13:37+00:00

‘I‘m sincerely sorry’: Trudeau apologizes for not recusing himself from WE contract talks - https://theduran.com/im-sincerely-sorry-trudeau-apologizes-for-not-recusing-himself-from-we-contract-talks/

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted on Monday that he “made a mistake” in not recusing himself “immediately” from discussions about whether WE Charity should administer a federal student grant program.

Trudeau said he should have done so given his immediate family’s relationship and financial ties to the WE organization.

During a scheduled news conference in Ottawa, the prime minister apologized for not having stepped away from the decision to award the now-cancelled contract to manage the $900-million Canada Student Service Grant.

“I‘m sincerely sorry (for) not having done that,” Trudeau said.

“I’m sorry that I didn’t — particularly sorry, because not only has it created unnecessary controversy and issues, it also means that young people who are facing a difficult time right now getting summer jobs, contributing to their communities, are going to have to wait a little longer before getting those opportunities to serve. And that’s frustrating.”

Controversy over WE Charity’s contract has dominated debate on Parliament Hill for weeks. It was additionally fuelled last week with news that several of Trudeau’s close relatives have been paid large sums by a WE affiliate to speak at WE events.

The federal ethics watchdog is investigating whether the prime minister violated conflict-of-interest rules in the matter.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7170235/trudeau-apologizes-not-recusing-we-charity/?utm_source=site_banner

2020-07-13 16:13:00+00:00

Incumbent Andrzej Duda on course for 2nd term with narrow victory in Poland’s runoff presidential vote - https://theduran.com/incumbent-andrzej-duda-on-course-for-2nd-term-with-narrow-victory-in-polands-runoff-presidential-vote/

Polish President Andrzej Duda is leading the polls by a slim margin with the nationwide vote count nearly over. The election commission has said the final tally will not change significantly.

Duda, an ally of the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, got 51.2 percent of the vote, the National Electoral Commission announced after counting nearly 99.7 percent of the ballots.

Local media quoted Commission Chairman Sylwester Marciniak as saying that the official results will not change significantly as the count is being finalized. This means that Duda is likely to be re-elected for a second term in office.

Duda’s opponent, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, the candidate from the center-right Civic Platform (PO), got 48.8 percent of the vote.

Duda, 48, ran as a champion of conservative family values, promising to maintain and expand generous welfare programs introduced by the PiS-led government. Under Duda, Poland remained a strong supporter of the EU and NATO, maintaining close ties with the US.

However, relations with the European Commission have been strained in recent years as Brussels was highly critical of the Polish government’s reforms of the judiciary and state-run media. EU officials have also criticized Warsaw for its stance on LGBT rights and abortion.

https://www.rt.com/news/494558-poland-duda-presidential-election/

2020-07-13 15:07:17+00:00

'People Are Going To Be Shocked': Bannon Claims Wuhan Lab Employees Have Defected, Are Working With FBI - https://theduran.com/people-are-going-to-be-shocked-bannon-claims-wuhan-lab-employees-have-defected-are-working-with-fbi/

“The thing was built with French help, so don’t think that there aren’t some monitoring devices in there…”

One day after a report that a respected Chinese virologist fled Hong Kong to accuse Beijing of a COVID cover-up, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon told the Daily Mail that scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other labs have defected to the West and are “turning over evidence” against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for their role in the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed over 560,000 lives worldwide since last December.

“People are going to be shocked,” Bannon told the  Mail (“from a yacht off the East coast of America,” the Mail would like us to know).

The 66-year-old then said that defectors are cooperating with intelligence agencies in America, Europe and the UK, which have been assembling evidence to challenge the CCP claim that the pandemic originated in a wet market – not in a lab home to scientists who have come under fire for manipulating bat coronavirus to be more transmissible to humans.

“I think that they [spy agencies] have electronic intelligence, and that they have done a full inventory of who has provided access to that lab. I think they have very compelling evidence. And there have also been defectors,” he said. “People around these labs have been leaving China and Hong Kong since mid-February. [US intelligence] along with MI5 and MI6 are trying to build a very thorough legal case, which may take a long time. It’s not like James Bond.”

Mr Bannon even suggested that the French government, which helped to build the institute, had left behind monitoring systems after Beijing shut them out of the project before it opened in 2017. –Daily Mail

“The thing was built with French help, so don’t think that there aren’t some monitoring devices in there. I think what you are going to find out is that these guys were doing experiments which they weren’t fully authorized [for] or knew what they were doing and that somehow, either through an inadvertent mistake, or on a lab technician, one of these things got out,” Bannon continued. “It’s not that hard for these viruses to get out. That is why these labs are so dangerous.”

“You essentially had a biological Chernobyl in Wuhan, but the center of gravity, the Ground Zero, was around the Wuhan lab, in terms of the casualty rates. And like Chernobyl, you also had the cover-up – the state apparatus reports to itself and just protects itself.”

Mr Bannon, who has close links to Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire, told this newspaper: ‘Regardless of whether it came out of the market or the Wuhan lab, t ...

2020-07-13 14:59:03+00:00

Russia protects polar bears in Yakutia - https://theduran.com/russia-protects-polar-bears-in-yakutia/

The first man to record their existence was the Russian explorer Yakov Permyakov, in 1710.

2020-07-13 14:42:07+00:00

Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to let her out on $5-million bail (Video) - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-maxwell-asks-court-to-let-her-out-on-5-million-bail-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 593.

2020-07-13 14:39:07+00:00

India should not participate in Washington-led anti-China coalition - https://theduran.com/india-should-not-participate-in-washington-led-anti-china-coalition/

With Australia’s possible adherence, Malabar’s military exercises could become a four-nation siege against China. India can avoid this.

2020-07-13 14:12:53+00:00

RAND’s hope that NATO opposes Russia in the Mediterranean is divorced from reality - https://theduran.com/rands-hope-that-nato-opposes-russia-in-the-mediterranean-is-divorced-from-reality/

Mediterranean NATO members will not challenge Russia for the U.S.

2020-07-13 13:49:46+00:00

Trump to Boris Johnson, “Bring back Steele!” (Video) - https://theduran.com/trump-to-boris-johnson-bring-back-steele-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 592.

2020-07-13 10:36:40+00:00

Turks turn Cathedral into Mosque - https://theduran.com/turks-turn-cathedral-into-mosque/

The museum of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul will be turned into a functioning mosque. The initiative of the Turkish President Erdogan was supported by the Turkish State Council on July 9. This will be announced officially soon. This is largely done to raise the political rating of the Turkish president. Erdogan’s initiative aims to […]

2020-07-13 06:50:37+00:00

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda slightly ahead of his rival in tight runoff – exit polls - https://theduran.com/polands-president-andrzej-duda-slightly-ahead-of-his-rival-in-tight-runoff-exit-polls/

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda appears to have just about managed to snatch victory from his opponent, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, in an incredibly tight race, with exit polls showing he’s just one percent ahead.

Duda has gained just over 50 percent of the vote, while his opponent secured 49.6 percent, according to the first exit poll results published by the Polish media. 

In the first round, his advantage over Trzaskowski was much more noticeable and accounted for more than 10 percent. He still fell short of the overall majority that would have allowed him to win outright as he gained only 43.7 percent of the vote.

Yet, Duda already thanked his supporters and all voters for the “amazing turnout,” which he said is a “beautiful testimony to our democracy.” The president said that he would like to continue the policy he pursued during his previous term. He also congratulated Trzaskowski on his result.

The Warsaw mayor appeared in no mood to give up just yet, though. “It is close but I am absolutely convinced that we will win. All you have to do is count the votes,” he told his supporters, adding that “this night will be nervous for everyone.”

The presidential vote has certainly managed to grab the nation’s attention, with people heading to the polling stations in record numbers not seen since 1995. The voter turnout in the runoff was more than four percent higher than in the first round two weeks ago, and amounted to more than 68 percent.

Duda has built his campaign around generous social-benefit programs that have primarily benefited less well-off rural regions, and promises of large infrastructure projects he said would create jobs and boost the nation’s economy.

Yet, a conservative and an ally of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, he also portrayed himself as a defender of tradition and Catholic values, drawing accusations of homophobia and anti-Semitism. In one of his speeches, he said that what he called an LGBT “ideology” is more sinister than “Bolshevism,” drawing comparisons with the nation’s communist past, which has been a hot political topic in recent decades.

His speech even sparked a brief spat with the Western media, after he accused news outlets of taking his words out of context in their coverage.

His opponent, Rafal Trzaskowski, widely seen as a liberal candidate, is known for his pro-LGBT position. Yet he also sought to capitalize on Warsaw’s ongoing row with Brussels over what the EU sees as infringement on the rule of law, promising to block any bills he believed would undermine democratic norms.

Trzaskowski has declared that he would seek to lead a more “tolerant” Poland. He vowed to close the state news channel TVP Info, while keeping in place the benefit programs championed by PiS.

https://www.rt.com/news ...

2020-07-13 06:40:53+00:00

'Never-Trump' Neocons Target President's Allies For Cancellation - https://theduran.com/never-trump-neocons-target-presidents-allies-for-cancellation/

“Our task won’t be finished when Joe Biden takes the oath of office.”

‘Never-Trump’ neoconservatives working to get Biden elected are planning to teach the president’s most ardent supporters a lesson in cancel culture.

Two groups, the Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump – described by the Washington Post as a “rebellion that began four years ago” – has “transformed in recent weeks into a potentially disruptive force in this year’s presidential race.”

Republican Voters Against Trump have collected hundreds of first-person testimonials from people claiming to be former Trump supporters, with which the group has begun running campaign ads in North Carolina, Arizona and online – and plans to spend $10 – $15 million in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and possibly Florida according to the report.

The group also includes William Kristol, a conservative commentator; Tim Miller, a Republican operative who worked on Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign; and Mike Murphy, a longtime Republican strategist. -Washington Post

One of their ads will air on “Fox News Sunday” in North Carolina and Arizona and will spotlight 15 Republicans who cast their vote for Trump in 2016 but will now vote for Biden.

The Lincoln Project, meanwhile, is the brainchild of GOP strategists Rick “confederate cooler” Wilson, John Weaver, Steve Schmidt and former NH Republican Party Chair Jennifer Horn. The husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, George Conway, is also involved with the project.

Advisers to the Lincoln Project, which they say has about 30 employees and raised $16.8 million this quarter, will soon expand to include ground operations. They are coordinating over 2,500 volunteers in Michigan and plan to next target Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who they see as vulnerable after his challenger, Jaime Harrison (D), pulled in a staggering $13.9 million since April. -Washington Post

A White House insider anonymous told WaPo that the two endeavors, particularly the Lincoln Project, are “scam PACs” run by “beltway swamp creatures whose candidates can’t win.”

These are the same people who supported independent candidate and former (?) CIA operative Evan McMullin in 2016.

And now for the punchline – which is that the never-Trump cabal is planning to target lawmakers and media figures who support the president.

Inside the Lincoln Project, there has been a frenzy of activity as the group has gone from a small outfit with a couple million on hand to a viral-video production machine. Turning their attention to the Senate map is of particular importance, and a new ad this past week offers a ...

2020-07-13 06:29:45+00:00

How Democrats Are Deceived - https://theduran.com/how-democrats-are-deceived/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture Democrats are deceived in basically the same way that Republicans are, but by a different group of billionaires. Both of America’s political Parties try to get their dupes to donate or subscribe to their propaganda-media, but will continue operating them regardless, because their billionaires actually own and advertise […]

2020-07-13 06:29:26+00:00

The Fall of Plahotniuc and a New Hope for Moldova - https://theduran.com/the-fall-of-plahotniuc-and-a-new-hope-for-moldova/

From the Strategic Culture Foundation In June 2019, the small landlocked nation of Moldova found itself in a life or death struggle between two opposing futures: Oligarchs like the notorious Vladimir Plahotniuc had worked diligently for years to bring this nation into the hull of the collapsing NATO-EU Titanic while nationalists sought to re-align Moldova’s […]

2020-07-12 09:14:11+00:00

Palestinians will not live in peace until the Saudi royal family is gone - https://theduran.com/palestinians-will-not-live-in-peace-until-the-saudi-royal-family-is-gone/

King Abdulaziz, Ibn Saud, the founder of the Kingdom died in late 1953, and his disdain for extravagance and changes to the society died with him.  What was once a people living in tents on the sand, was morphed into lavish lifestyles in big cities.

2020-07-12 09:12:34+00:00

Nixon preferred genocide to democracy - https://theduran.com/nixon-preferred-genocide-to-democracy/

The Bangladesh Genocide is one of the largest scale genocides since 1945.

2020-07-12 09:11:26+00:00

Truth & Justice = Green’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform - https://theduran.com/truth-justice-greens-trailblazing-world-peace-platform/

As an international grassroots movement, the U.S. Greens stand proudly in solidarity with Greens in almost 100 countries.

2020-07-12 08:07:44+00:00

Arab League will not interrupt its cooperation with China - https://theduran.com/arab-league-will-not-interrupt-its-cooperation-with-china/

Arab countries declare support for Beijing and hurt US in trade war

2020-07-12 08:03:50+00:00

US provokes an arms race with China and Russia to hamper economic development - https://theduran.com/us-provokes-an-arms-race-with-china-and-russia-to-hamper-economic-development/

China is unlikely to sign an arms control treaty with the US

2020-07-12 07:48:56+00:00

Global Outrage As Erdogan Orders Historic Hagia Sophia Church To Reopen As Mosque - https://theduran.com/global-outrage-as-erdogan-orders-historic-hagia-sophia-church-to-reopen-as-mosque/

Russian church leader decries: “A threat to Hagia Sophia is a threat to the entire Christian civilization.”

On Friday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that for the first time in nearly a century the historic Hagia Sophia church would be reopened as a mosque, sparking fury and outrage from Greece, Russia, and other East European predominantly Orthodox Christian countries.

Earlier this week as multiple countries and Christian religious leaders lodged formal protest over the plans, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill warned that “A threat to Hagia Sophia is a threat to the entire Christian civilization.”

Considered an architectural marvel and the top tourist attraction in Turkey, the 6th century building constructed under Byzantine emperor Justinian has been a museum ever since a 1934 presidential decree, which a Turkish court annulled Friday. But it remains the symbolic heart for half the Christian world, namely the Eastern Orthodox Church.

According to the WSJ:

In a ruling issued Friday via the official Anadolu news agency, the Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, canceled a decades-old decision under which Hagia Sophia—originally a Byzantine cathedral then an Ottoman mosque—was transformed into a museum.

Friday’s ruling effectively returned the building to a place of Islamic worship, Turkish law experts said, the status it had after the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, as Istanbul was previously known, in the mid-15th century.

The move is broadly seen as part of Erdogan’s continuing program of reversing secularization in politics and the public sphere in favor of a more conservative Islamic face to modern Turkey.

The WSJ underscores that “By returning Hagia Sophia to a home for Muslim prayer, Mr. Erdogan moved closer to fulfilling his longtime pledge of making more room for Islam inside the secular republic, and showed that he still has control over the destiny of Istanbul, even after his ruling party suffered a stinging defeat in last year’s local elections.”

Greece slammed the move as an “open provocation to the civilized world” while Orthodox Church leaders decried it as an open attack on the world’s 300 million Orthodox adherents. “The nationalism displayed by Erdogan… takes his country back six centuries,” Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said on Friday.

Erdogan however, has interpreted it more simply as a matter of “asserting Turkey’s sovereignty” over the site. Turkey argues that it can legally do what it wants with monuments and historic places within its sovereign territory.

Mike Pompeo has even weighed in on the side of the Greek government, urging that it be kept as a museum. “We urge the gove ...

2020-07-12 07:33:48+00:00

Ex-Jewel Thief Claims Epstein And Ghislaine Maxwell 'Forced Him To Watch Pedo Videos Involving US Politicians' - https://theduran.com/ex-jewel-thief-claims-epstein-and-ghislaine-maxwell-forced-him-to-watch-pedo-videos-involving-us-politicians/

Ghislaine is a “nymphomaniac” who would try “everything and anything in bed.”

An alleged former Jewel thief who says he had group sex with Ghislaine Maxwell but ‘drew the line at under-age girls’ claims he was forced to watch pedo videos involving ‘two high-profile US politicians’ and ‘two high society figures having a threesome with an under-age girl.’

Whether one believes an anonymous ex-jewel thief’s exclusive interview with The Sun is up to the reader. That said, Epstein accuser Maria Farmer claimed there was a ‘secret media room‘ in the dead pedophile’s New York mansion which was full of recording equipment.

What’s more, former Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe – alleged “handler” of Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, told the authors of Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, that the Epstein was operating a “complex intelligence operation” at the behest of Mossad, and ‘filmed US politicians and power players having sex with underage girls to blackmail them.’

Jumping into the salacious claims by the jewel thief, who goes by the name William Steel, the story begins in the mid-1990s when Steel claims he met Epstein in the “upstairs room at a very high-end diamond dealer, the kind of place where only a few people are allowed in at a time.”

“I was there doing what I do. I was meeting my fence.

“I saw Jeff with a young girl who looked only about 13 or 14 and he had his hand in the back of her shorts.

“That’s what first got my attention.

“She was so young and he was much older. That’s when I knew that he was dirty.

“I had about 200,000 dollars worth of jewellery that I was getting rid of and later I struck up a conversation with him.

“He later said the girl he was with was his niece but I called bulls**t on that, telling him I saw what he was doing with her. –The Sun

At some point later, Steel says he met Ghislaine Maxwell – who he says he had sex with on multiple occasions – and wanted to see how she could use him to help Epstein. Steel says he was trying to do the same thing:

“I wouldn’t say it was a relationship — it was all about what she could use me for to help them. Me being a cocky young guy from New York City, seeing their arrogance and their wealth — I just looked at it as an opportunity to milk them for what I could.

I used to brag about what I was capable of to them.”

Steele added that “When I wanted to impress or scare somebody, I’d get my briefcase out and it would have police scanners in it, gloves, lock picks, guns with silencers,” adding “I even owned an ultra-thermic torch which would burn a hole int ...

2020-07-12 07:25:07+00:00

Kissinger’s Adoration of the 1815 Congress of Vienna: A Master Key into Universal History - https://theduran.com/kissingers-adoration-of-the-1815-congress-of-vienna-a-master-key-into-universal-history-2/

The incredibly shrinking Henry Kissinger is known for many things, but a revolutionary is not one of them. Over the years of service to the empire, the career geopolitician has been consistent in his unfailing commitment to 1) destroy the Westphalian system of sovereign nation states, 2) promote population control across the developing sector, 3) […]

2020-07-11 15:04:23+00:00

Protests in Serbia send clear warning to President Vucic (Video) - https://theduran.com/protests-in-serbia-send-clear-warning-to-president-vucic-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 590.

2020-07-11 14:41:17+00:00

Good Communism - https://theduran.com/good-communism/

About communist society Karl Marx formed the terms socialism and communism. Both terms present political systems in which the society owns the means of production, but there are differences. Vladimir Lenin presented them by the sentence: the goal of socialism is communism. The problem is Karl Marx and his most prominent students: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, […]

2020-07-11 14:40:57+00:00

Good Communism - https://theduran.com/good-communism/

About communist society Karl Marx formed the terms socialism and communism. Both terms present political systems in which the society owns the means of production, but there are differences. Vladimir Lenin presented them by the sentence: the goal of socialism is communism. The problem is Karl Marx and his most prominent students: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, […]

2020-07-11 13:20:11+00:00

Dark day for Christianity, dark day for Greeks. Hagia Sophia to become mosque (Video) - https://theduran.com/dark-day-for-christianity-dark-day-for-greeks-hagia-sophia-to-become-mosque-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 589.

2020-07-11 12:45:39+00:00

Chinese Virologist Flees Hong Kong, Accuses Beijing Of COVID-19 Cover-Up - https://theduran.com/chinese-virologist-flees-hong-kong-accuses-beijing-of-covid-19-cover-up/

“Don’t touch the red line… We will get in trouble and we’ll be disappeared.”

A highly respected Chinese virologist has fled Hong Kong and says that the Chinese government knew about COVID-19 long before they claim they did, and that her supervisors – some of the top experts in the field – ignored research she was conducting at the onset of the pandemic which she says could have saved lives, according to an exclusive interview with Fox News.

Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who specialized in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, fled Hong Kong on April 28 on a Cathay Pacific flight to the United States, knowing that if she were caught she could be jailed or “disappeared.”

She adds that they likely had an obligation to tell the world, given their status as a World Health Organization reference laboratory specializing in influenza viruses and pandemics, especially as the virus began spreading in the early days of 2020.

Yan, now in hiding, claims the government in the country where she was born is trying to shred her reputation and accuses government goons of choreographing a cyber-attack against her in hopes of keeping her quiet.

Yan believes her life is in danger. She fears she can never go back to her home and lives with the hard truth that she’ll likely never see her friends or family there again.

Still, she says, the risk is worth it. –Fox News

“The reason I came to the U.S. is because I deliver the message of the truth of COVID,” Yan told Fox from an undisclosed location.

Yan says she was one of the first scientists in the world to study COVID-19 (aside from Wuhan researchers, perhaps) after he supervisor, Dr. Leo Poon, asked her to look into “the odd cluster of SARS-like cases coming out of mainland China at the end of December 2019,” according to the report.

“The China government refused to let overseas experts, including ones in Hong Kong, do research in China,” she said. “So I turned to my friends to get more information.”

Yan’s mainland colleagues – one of whom worked at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, allegedly told Yan on December 31 that the virus was transmissible between humans long before the CCP or the WHO reversed course and admitted this was possible. After she told her boss of this, “he just nodded,” she says.

Days after her CCP contacts told her about human-to-human transmission, the WHO put out a statement on January 9 saying: “According to Chinese authorities, the virus in question can cause severe illness in some patients and does not transmit readily between people… There is limited information to determine the overall risk of this reported cluster.”

The c ...

2020-07-11 12:41:33+00:00

Trump Commutes Roger Stone's Prison Sentence - https://theduran.com/trump-commutes-roger-stones-prison-sentence/

“Justice was done by @realDonaldTrump tonight.”

President Trump has commuted the 40-month prison sentence of longtime adviser Roger Stone.

The move comes after a US appeals court denied an emergency request by Stone to delay the start of his sentence over concerns that he might contract coronavirus.

In a court filing earlier on Friday, Stone, 67, said his life would be put at risk in the Georgia facility because at least 20 inmates and four staff members there had contracted the deadly virus. When U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied his request for the delay, the facility with almost 1,400 inmates had no cases, he said. –Bloomberg

In a late Friday statement, the White House said “Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump presidency. There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia. Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the 2016 election.”

Stone’s clemency came as no surprise, as Trump telegraphed the move earlier Friday when he told reporters “Well, I’ll be looking at it,” adding “I think Roger Stone was very unfairly treated, as were many people.”

Earlier in the week, Stone issued a statement urging Trump to commute his sentence, while Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham tweeted on Friday that “it would be justified if President @realDonaldTrump decided to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-commutes-roger-stones-prison-sentence

2020-07-11 07:10:35+00:00

Istanbul moves towards Islamic nationalism as Hagia Sophia is redesignated a Mosque [Video] - https://theduran.com/istanbul-moves-towards-islamic-nationalism-as-hagia-sophia-is-redesignated-a-mosque-video/

Russia Today and the BBC both report that the Hagia Sophia (The Church of Holy Wisdom), the single largest Church in Byzantium, is to be repurposed as a mosque. This move ends 86 years of the building serving a “neutral purpose” as a museum, where neither Muslim nor Christian was allowed to pray in open […]

2020-07-11 07:04:33+00:00

Censored Medical Doctor Publishes Results: 100% SARS-CoV-2 Cure Rate with No Drugs or Vaccines - https://theduran.com/censored-medical-doctor-publishes-results-100-sars-cov-2-cure-rate-with-no-drugs-or-vaccines/

by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News

For many years, Health Impact News often featured the blog posts of Michigan physician Dr. David Brownstein.

When the COVID crisis broke out earlier this year, Dr. Browstein continued blogging about the natural methods he was using to treat patients who had been tested for SARS-CoV-2 or who exhibited the symptoms, and his success rate was 100%.

But in May, the FTC forced Dr. Brownstein to stop blogging about his treatments as they were not approved by the FDA.

Dear CHM Patients-I want to let you know that we have been ordered by the FTC to stop making any statements about our treatment protocols of Vitamins A, C and D as well as nutritional IV’s, iodine, ozone and nebulization to support the immune system with respect to Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19).

According to this letter:

“It is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C Sec. 41 et seq. to advertise that a product or service can prevent, treat, or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies, substantiating that the claims are true at the time they are made. For COVID-19, no such study is currently known to exist for the products or services identified above. Thus, any Coronavirus-related prevention or treatment claims regarding such products or services are not supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. You must immediately cease making all such claims.”

What this means is that I will not be able to blog, post, tweet, email, etc. for awhile.

I want you to know that CHM is NOT closing. I am still here and so are my colleagues. It is my honor to be your doctor.

To All Our Health! ~DrB

Read the full article here:

FTC Shuts Down Dr. Brownstein’s Blog for Explaining How He was Curing COVID-19 Patients

And so we have not heard from him since then, until today.

This month (July 2020) Dr. Brownstein, along with several other doctors, published his results in an independent, open source journal, Science, Public Health Policy and the Law.

The title of the study is A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies.

Here is the abstract:

Abstract

Objective: This report is a case series of consecutive patients diagnosed with COVID-19 treated with a nutritional and oxidative medical approach. We describe the treatment program and report the response of the 107 COVID-19 patients.

Study Design: Observational case series consecutive.

Setting: A family practice office in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.

Patients: All patients seen in the office from February through May 2020 diagnosed with COVID-19 were included in the study. COVID-19 was either diagnosed via PCR or antibody testing as well as those ...

2020-07-11 07:03:55+00:00

What should one do with fake news journalists? - a critical view - https://theduran.com/what-should-one-do-with-fake-news-journalists-a-critical-view/

PJ Media is one of a very few truly excellent independent news and opinion outlets. Recently they ran a piece entitled “Should Journalists Go to Jail for Spreading Russia Lies?” The writer puts forward the title question in a very straightforward way with the first instinctual answer being “no.” However, the author goes on to […]

2020-07-11 06:59:07+00:00

Stanford expert says 80-85 percent of Texas hospital patients 'have nothing to do with COVID-19' - https://theduran.com/stanford-expert-says-80-85-percent-of-texas-hospital-patients-have-nothing-to-do-with-covid-19/

By Joseph Guzman 

Scott Atlas, former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, said while cases have increased in several parts of the country the death rate has not.

Story at a glance

One doctor said the rate at which high-risk people are being affected and whether the death rate from the virus is increasing is what matters, rather than the total number of cases.

He said the infection-fatality rate for people under 70 is less than or equal to the seasonal flu.

Atlas’ comments come as more than 130,000 people have died in the U.S. from coronavirus and more than 2.9 million cases have been confirmed.

A Stanford medical expert is urging people not to panic over the surge in coronavirus cases occurring in several parts of the U.S., arguing it doesn’t matter how many cases there are but only “who gets the cases.”

Scott Atlas, former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, said Monday that for people under 70, the death rate from COVID-19 is lower than or equal to the seasonal flu. 

“When we see this focus on more cases, it doesn’t really matter how many cases — it only matters who gets the cases. We know that the infection-fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.04 percent — that’s less than or equal to the seasonal flu,” Atlas told Fox News’ “The Story.”

“The cases themselves should not be and were never the focus. It’s only the tragic consequences of the cases. When we look at the cases in every state, the overwhelming majority are younger and healthier people,” he added. 

Atlas said the rate at which high-risk people are being affected and whether the death rate from the virus is increasing is what matters. 

“I realize we have to wait to see the story play out here, but right now, the cases have been going up for three weeks and we have no increase, in fact, we have a decrease in death rates. It doesn’t matter if you get the illness if you’re going to fully recover and be fine from it — that is what people must understand. For younger healthier people, there’s not a high risk from this disease at all,” Atlas said. 

He said the median age of those infected in hotspots such as Florida and Texas varied from under 30 to about 40. 

Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), on Tuesday warned that the U.S. should not fall into “false complacency” because COVID-19 death rates have dropped, noting the virus can cause other severe health outcomes.

“It’s a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,” Fauci said Tuesday during a livestreamed press conference hosted by Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.)

“There ...

2020-07-10 14:27:07+00:00

Turkish court paves way to turn Instanbul’s Hagia Sofia into mosque after ruling conversion to museum was unlawful - https://theduran.com/turkish-court-paves-way-to-turn-instanbuls-hagia-sofia-into-mosque-after-ruling-conversion-to-museum-was-unlawful/

A Turkish court has ruled that a decades-old decision to convert the famous Hagia Sofia into a museum was unlawful, opening the door to Ankara’s stated plan of turning the ancient structure back into a mosque.

The court ruled on Friday that the 1934 decree converting the ancient Byzantine cathedral into a museum was not lawful. President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed re-purposing the building as a mosque.

Dating back to the 6th century, the Hagia Sophia is one of the most visited cultural sites in Turkey, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

UNESCO has expressed concern over Erdogan’s vision for the historic structure, noting in a statement on Friday that the building has a “strong symbolic and universal value.” It called on Turkey to “engage in dialogue” before taking any steps that might impact its universal value.

Erdogan is expected to deliver an address about the court ruling later on Friday.

The Turkish president’s intentions to turn the structure into a mosque have been condemned by leaders of the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches, who have warned that it would be seen as an affront to Christians and create a fracture between East and West. Washington has also urged Turkey to maintain the Hagia Sophia as a museum.

Moscow has also highlighted the cultural significance of the building while acknowledging that the matter was an “internal affair” for Turkey.

Erdogan spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin has said that opening the Hagia Sophia for worship will not prevent local or foreign tourists from visiting the iconic site and that a loss of the structure as a world heritage site “is not in question.”

“Turkey will still preserve the Christian icons there, just like our ancestors preserved all Christian values,” he told the Anadolu Agency on Thursday.

https://www.rt.com/news/494407-turkey-hagia-sophia-mosque/

2020-07-10 13:30:21+00:00

Good Socialism - https://theduran.com/good-socialism/

Failures of Marxism Socialism is a social system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by society. Karl Marx created the term socialism as an ideology that was supposed to solve problems with capitalism. Marx explained capitalism scientifically and stated that capitalists exploit workers. According to Marx, the exploitation of workers is […]

2020-07-10 13:24:35+00:00

Proof of life. What did the UK government do to Yulia & Sergei Skripal? (Video) - https://theduran.com/proof-of-life-what-did-the-uk-government-do-to-yulia-sergei-skripal-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 588.

2020-07-10 13:01:50+00:00

US plans to invade Venezuela through Colombia - https://theduran.com/us-plans-to-invade-venezuela-through-colombia/

Left-wing parliamentarians want to investigate the arrival of American soldiers in the country

2020-07-10 06:40:24+00:00

Remember the Red Guards Before You Cheer the Woke Mobs | The American Conservative - https://theduran.com/remember-the-red-guards-before-you-cheer-the-woke-mobs-the-american-conservative/

Today statues, tomorrow mass firings—or even worse. There’s a history here.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/remember-the-red-guards-before-you-cheer-the-woke-mobs/

2020-07-10 06:23:20+00:00

Greece: Violence erupts at rally in Athens against new protest law - https://theduran.com/greece-violence-erupts-at-rally-in-athens-against-new-protest-law/

Six police officers were injured and there were several arrests, as violence broke out at a demonstration against a new law to curb public protests.

2020-07-10 06:19:28+00:00

California investigating Google for potential antitrust violations - https://theduran.com/california-investigating-google-for-potential-antitrust-violations/

Google’s home state had been a holdout as other state attorneys general and the Justice Department went forward with probes

2020-07-10 06:18:33+00:00

Kanye West DECLARES WAR on the Democrats as Trump Set to DESTROY Them in November!!! - https://theduran.com/kanye-west-declares-war-on-the-democrats-as-trump-set-to-destroy-them-in-november/

Stony Brook Professor Helmut Norpoth  says his primary driven algorithm ALREADY gives Trump a 91% chance of winning the 2020 presidential election.  Add to that  Kanye West is poised to run his own presidential campaign which will  siphon off  massive numbers of Black voters  virtually guaranteeing Trump’s re-election.  And as if that wasnt enough, new polls show American’s have had their fill of BLM looting, rioting, desecration of monuments, and militant denunciation of American civic nationalism, tradition, and values.    Just as the riots of the 1960s propelled Nixon to office so the riots of 2020 are propelling Trump. 

2020-07-10 06:16:40+00:00

Good Capitalism - https://theduran.com/good-capitalism/

Capitalism is a social system in which private owners control the means of production. The main problem with capitalism is it has established capital as the only value, and then, of course, people and nature suffer. It must be regulated. I have offered here a much simpler and more efficient regulation than we have today […]

2020-07-10 06:13:50+00:00

Joe Biden as a Stealthy Bigot - https://theduran.com/joe-biden-as-a-stealthy-bigot/

originally posted at Strategic Culture The New York Times Sunday Magazine on July 5th headlined its cover-story “America’s Enduring Caste System” and presented Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful, even profound, 12,000-word history of America’s racial caste system. She also presented it in the broader historical context. She said: “Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. […]

2020-07-10 06:13:03+00:00

Symposium: The Renaissance Principle Across the Ages - https://theduran.com/symposium-the-renaissance-principle-across-the-ages/

From the Rising Tide Foundation While all living beings are mortal, only human kind has access to the self-awareness of its own mortality. With this knowledge of our own finiteness, we may become cynical and fearful pessimists wallowing in despair and nihilism or we may choose to embrace a higher set of goals and principles […]

2020-07-10 06:12:42+00:00

Plenty of Coronaviruses but no SARS-CoV2: Study Still Holds True - https://theduran.com/plenty-of-coronaviruses-but-no-sars-cov2-study-still-holds-true/

By Makia Freeman

There are plenty of coronaviruses in our body

at any one time. In fact, pulmonologist Wolfgang Wodarg says in his experience it’s around 7-15% of the viruses in our body, and as I covered in previous articles on the human virome, that 7-15% translates into a very very large number given that the virome is estimated to contain 380 trillion viruses. So, there are plenty of coronaviruses around, but guess what? There’s no SARS-CoV2, the virus said to be causing COVID. The answers have been in front of our face all along throughout this scripted pandemic. A European study from February 2020 earlier this year entitled Plenty of Coronaviruses but no SARS-CoV-2 illustrates the point I have been making for several months now: there is zero concrete proof of the existence of a novel coronavirus or a new virus. The conclusions of that study still stand today. If anyone thinks they have the gold standard proof of a new virus, please contact us. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at what this study was telling us way back when this ‘pandemic’ was taking off in Europe and the West.

February 2020 Study Finds Plenty of Coronaviruses but No SARS-CoV2

This study is eye-opening. I am going to quote a large section of it. Notice how the authors specifically mention that a similar situation happened with earlier ‘pandemics’ such as MERS that never lived up to the hype. Notice also how they state that while everyone is obsessing over the non-existent SARS-CoV2, there are other known viruses in the body which are being ignored.

“At the time of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-coronavirus epidemic in 2012, we had highlighted the absence of diagnosis of this virus among travellers returning from the Hajj pilgrimage, which contrasted with the considerable anxiety relating to this emerging infection and its risk of importation and spread in mainland France. Instead of MERS-CoV, influenza A and B viruses had been detected. This illustrated the major disconnect between the fear of a hypothetical spread in France of a virus emerging in the Middle East and the reality of the absence of diagnosed cases, while concomitantly the very real and high incidence of respiratory viruses common worldwide and in our country and their associated mortality appeared largely neglected. Seven years later, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019 reproduced this pattern of disproportionate fear of importation and spread of infections in mainland France …”

It must be stated that these tests were done using the PCR test, which I have criticized heavily for being misused for diagnosis instead of manufacturing (as it was intended), however even when the Medical Establishment uses their own testing and methods, they still can’t find evidence of SARS-CoV2. Every single test was negative!

“In total, we have test ...

2020-07-09 13:42:20+00:00

Bolsonaro will politicize his coronavirus infection to regain lost popularity - https://theduran.com/bolsonaro-will-politicize-his-coronavirus-infection-to-regain-lost-popularity/

Why is Brazilian President openly admitting to having coronavirus when previously defending his privacy?

2020-07-09 13:41:45+00:00

UK commits 'highway robbery' of Venezuelan gold, says academic - https://theduran.com/uk-commits-highway-robbery-of-venezuelan-gold-says-academic/

The High Court ruling in favour of Juan Guaido is just the latest part of a US plot to overthrow the Venezuelan leader…

2020-07-09 13:35:04+00:00

UK court TRASHES Steele, says former spy clearly worked for Hillary Clinton (Video) - https://theduran.com/uk-court-trashes-steele-says-former-spy-clearly-worked-for-hillary-clinton-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 587.

2020-07-09 12:06:16+00:00

Europe Is Ready For Its Own Army - https://theduran.com/europe-is-ready-for-its-own-army/

On the 7th of November, 2019 in a blunt interview with The Economist the French president Emmanuel Macron warns Europe: “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO.” This statement was one of his most remembered one’s last year. Now, in 2020, after Donald Trump decided to cut military contingent in Germany […]

2020-07-09 07:32:22+00:00

Toronto Greek Orthodox Communion ban instigated by LAITY - https://theduran.com/toronto-greek-orthodox-holy-communion-ban-instigated-by-laity/

Two days ago, we reported that the Greek Orthodox parishes in Toronto were barred by city authorities from distributing Holy Communion to the faithful in accordance with city guidelines regarding COVID-19. The article featured a priest saying this comment: My brethren, today, I have a great sadness. Last night, we were told from our Archdiocese […]

2020-07-09 06:09:21+00:00

Information war behind unfounded accusations by the New York Times - https://theduran.com/information-war-behind-unfounded-accusations-by-the-new-york-times/

American media wants to create tensions with Russia to favor the Deep State in election year

2020-07-09 06:08:03+00:00

Trump will ignore demands by senators to end Turkey’s involvement in the F-35 program - https://theduran.com/trump-will-ignore-demands-by-senators-to-end-turkeys-involvement-in-the-f-35-program/

Turkey’s defiance of Washington’s wishes will continue to go unpunished

2020-07-09 05:50:21+00:00

San Francisco Lawmaker Unveils 'CAREN Act' To Stop "Racist, Sexist, Transphobic" 9-1-1 Calls - https://theduran.com/san-francisco-lawmaker-unveils-caren-act-to-stop-racist-sexist-transphobic-9-1-1-calls/

The Act “will make it unlawful for an individual to contact law enforcement solely to discriminate on the basis of a person’s race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity,”

24 hours after Amy Cooper, the Central Park ‘Karen’ in New York City, was charged with a misdemeanor for making a false report when she called the police to accuse a Black man who was bird watching of harassing her, the always-righteous city of San Francisco is taking a stand against Karens (well mostly racist Karens).

The Mercury News reports that Supervisor Shamann Walton introduced on Tuesday the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (or CAREN) Act, which would make it illegal to “fabricate false racially biased emergency reports.”

“Racist 911 calls are unacceptable,” Shamann Walton, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, tweeted Tuesday.

One example given by Walton, according to The Mercury News, was “a woman [calling] the police on a Filipino man stenciling ‘Black Lives Matter’ in chalk in front of his home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood.”

“That’s why I’m introducing the CAREN Act at today’s SF Board of Supervisors meeting.”

The Act “will make it unlawful for an individual to contact law enforcement solely to discriminate on the basis of a person’s race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing the draft law.

It would appear the main aim of this law in practice, since it is already illegal to make false 911 calls in California, would be to  designate the act as a racial hate crime.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-francisco-lawmaker-unveils-caren-act-stop-racist-sexist-transphobic-9-1-1-calls

2020-07-09 05:47:16+00:00

Is Strzok Memo The Rosetta Stone Of Obamagate? - https://theduran.com/is-strzok-memo-the-rosetta-stone-of-obamagate/

If there were even one Republican senator who had the curiosity of a 3-year-old, it is likely we could actually get to the bottom of the shenanigans that nearly toppled a president and finally pin the “tale” on the Democratic donkey…

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/strzok-memo-rosetta-stone-obamagate

2020-07-09 05:28:30+00:00

Cover-up: Dr. Anthony Fauci helped approve an effective treatment for coronavirus infections 15 years ago, but is suppressing it today in favor of new high-profit vaccines - https://theduran.com/cover-up-dr-anthony-fauci-helped-approve-an-effective-treatment-for-coronavirus-infections-15-years-ago-but-is-suppressing-it-today-in-favor-of-new-high-profit-vaccines/

by: Lance D Johnson

(Natural News) The expert advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci has been all about controlling human behavior, threatening individual liberty, and manipulating economic activity, while instructing on new ways to encourage human separation. These methods have proven destructive in a multitude of ways and have failed to contain human sickness and disease.

The only way to stop a virus from attaching to human cells and multiplying is to confront it with a healthy, replete immune system. The problem with covid-19 is that it has been engineered to avoid detection by the immune system to more readily infect the body. This can lead the immune system to overreact or underreact, especially in people with underlying health conditions and immune deficiencies, causing blood oxygen levels to fall, breathing difficulties, and the onset of sepsis-like reactions. This is why antiviral medicines are so important, for use in the home at the onset of symptoms and for use in hospital settings to speed up recovery and prevent death.

Fauci green lights RNA therapy vaccine but downplays HCQ, even though he knew about its effectiveness for coronaviruses 15 years ago

Compounds that combat coronaviruses are well studied and well documented in scientific literature. In fact, during the SARS coronavirus outbreak of 2003, a plethora of antiviral compounds were put to the test. At the National Institutes of Health, fifteen years ago, back when Fauci was still a director, researchers used chloroquine effectively to stop the replication of SARS-CoV-1. The official publication of the NIH, The Virology Journal, published the research in straightforward manner on August 22, 2005. The research was titled, “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.”

Chloroquine proved to be both a prophylactic and a therapeutic, stopping viral replication before and after exposure to the virus. This basic compound exhibited strong antiviral effects, inhibiting the infection. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a less toxic derivative of this antiviral molecule, and it can help deliver zinc into the cells, stopping viral multiplication and speeding up recovery.

The NIH concluded that “concentrations of 10 ?M completely abolished SARS-CoV infection.” Furthermore, “chloroquine can effectively reduce the establishment of infection and spread of SARS-CoV.”

Because the new SARS-CoV-2 is genetically related to the 2003 SARS outbreak, the NIH should have jumped at the opportunity to promote and distribute what they already knew worked for coronavirus infection. Both viruses infect human cells the same way ...

2020-07-09 05:28:16+00:00

Second wave? Not even close. - https://theduran.com/second-wave-not-even-close/

by JB Handley

hy did politicians ever lockdown society in the first place? Can we all agree that the stated purpose was to “flatten the curve” so our hospital system could handle the inevitable COVID-19 patients who needed care? At that point, at least, back in early March, people were behaving rationally. They accepted that you can’t eradicate a virus, so let’s postpone things enough to handle it.

The fact is, we have done that, and so much more.

The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave.

The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs, and while I have filled this post with graphs to prove everything I just said, this is really the only graph you need to see, it’s the CDC’s data, over time, of deaths from COVID-19 here in the U.S., and the trend line is unmistakable:

If virologists were driving policy about COVID-19 rather than public health officials, we’d all be Sweden right now, which means life would effectively be back to normal. The only thing our lockdowns have done at this point is prolong the agony a little bit, and encouraged Governors to make up more useless rules.

Sweden’s health minister understood that the only chance to beat COVID-19 was to get the Swedish population to a Herd Immunity Threshold against COVID-19, and that’s exactly what they have done, so let me start there.

THE HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD (“HIT”) FOR COVID-19 IS BETWEEN 10-20%

This fact gets less press than any other. Most people understand the basic concept of herd immunity and the math behind it. In the early days, some public health officials speculated that COVID-19’s HIT was 70%. Obviously, the difference between a HIT of 70% and a HIT of 10-20% is dramatic, and the lower the HIT, the quicker a virus will burn out as it loses the ability to infect more people, which is exactly what COVID-19 is doing everywhere, including the U.S, which is why the death curve above looks the way it looks.

Scientists from Oxford, Virginia Tech, and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, all recently explained the HIT of COVID-19 in this paper:

We searched the literature for estimates of individual variation in propensity to acquire or transmit COVID-19 or other infectious diseases and overlaid the findings as vertical lines in Figure 3. Most CV estimates are comprised between 2 and 4, a range where naturally acquired immunity to SARS-CoV-2 may place populations over the herd immunity threshold once as few as 10-20% of its individuals are immune.

Calculations from this study of data in Stockholm showed a HIT of 17%, and if you really love data check out this great essay by Brown Professor Dr. Andrew Bostom titled, COVID-19 ‘herd immunity’ without vaccination? Teaching modern vaccine dogm ...

2020-07-09 05:25:03+00:00

Why Freedom Is Ending - https://theduran.com/why-freedom-is-ending/

Eric Zuesse First, the force that is ending freedom will be identified and described; and, then, the force that they fear and hate the most (and are trying to destroy) will be identified and described. THE FORCE THAT IS ENDING FREEDOM The force that is ending freedom is empire. Every empire is a dictatorship. No […]

2020-07-09 05:24:29+00:00

Putin’s Vision for an Anti-Fascist/Open System Future and You - https://theduran.com/putins-vision-for-an-anti-fascist-open-system-future-and-you/

Originally published on Strategic Culture During the course of President Putin’s June 24 opening speech during the Moscow Parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of WWII, the following call to action was made: “We understand how important it is to strengthen friendship and trust between nations, and are open to dialogue and cooperation on the most pressing issues on […]

2020-07-08 13:24:52+00:00

Full Employment is a Turning Point for Capitalism - https://theduran.com/full-employment-is-a-turning-point-for-capitalism-2/

Unemployment creates exploitation of workers Employers favour unemployment because unemployed workers have to accept poorly paid jobs to be able to feed their families. A higher unemployment rate produces cheaper labour. Unemployment is not difficult to maintain because employers most often do not necessarily need to hire employees. Big employers support political parties that keep unemployment through […]

2020-07-08 13:12:46+00:00

Ghislaine has thumb drives. "She knows where all the bodies are buried" (Video) - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-has-thumb-drives-she-knows-where-all-the-bodies-are-buried-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 586.

2020-07-08 08:42:20+00:00

Judd Gregg: The coming Biden coup - https://theduran.com/judd-gregg-the-coming-biden-coup/

This is about power. All major elections are.

2020-07-08 08:40:15+00:00

Russia’s Political Stability Ensured While the West Sinks - https://theduran.com/russias-political-stability-ensured-while-the-west-sinks/

The people crying the most today are the neoliberal/neocons and their intelligence agents who Putin has consistently outmaneuvered over the past thirty years who planned on waiting him out.

2020-07-08 07:44:34+00:00

Will the United States ban the social network TiKTok - https://theduran.com/will-the-united-states-ban-the-social-network-tiktok/

TikTok takes over the world. While virtual. In terms of the number of downloads, this network, which appeared just a few years ago, is already ahead of Instagram. Washington really dislikes this. The United States has made various efforts to limit the impact of this network. This application was forbidden to be installed on service […]

2020-07-08 05:46:43+00:00

Hydroxychloroquine and fake news - https://theduran.com/hydroxychloroquine-and-fake-news/

The anti-hydroxychloroquine media has been full of the supposed dangers of hydroxychloroquine and its failure as a treatment for the virus. Does hydroxychloroquine work or does it not, is it safe or dangerous, and should we be using it as a treatment for the virus? Here we examine the evidence for and against it. A […]

2020-07-08 05:44:30+00:00

Were the Skripals Secretly Executed by Britain’s Government? - https://theduran.com/were-the-skripals-secretly-executed-by-britains-government/

Eric Zuesse Where are Sergei and Yulia Skripal? Are they still alive? Their having been poisoned in England on 4 March 2018 didn’t kill them. Sergei Skripal is (or was) the Russian and British double agent (Russian spy who defected to UK), who had become imprisoned for six years in Russia, and then became spy-swapped […]

2020-07-07 13:35:27+00:00

The Second American Civil War, Part III: Cities versus Farmers [Video] - https://theduran.com/the-second-american-civil-war-part-iii-cities-versus-farmers-video/

The Second American Civil War has a geographical dividing line rather different than the first Civil War did. The Mason-Dixon Line was a figurative reference for a long geographical border separating the Slave States from the Union States (a.k.a. “Free States” even though they were not exactly free). The boundary is show on maps and […]

2020-07-07 13:33:13+00:00

Presumption of guilt: why did the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia fail? - https://theduran.com/presumption-of-guilt-why-did-the-tribunal-for-the-former-yugoslavia-fail/

The war with the criminal regime, a squadron of combat aircraft, bombing, victory of the good guys and the trial of the bad. That’s what the situation around the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia looked like. At least at the end of the last century. It looks completely different now. The International Tribunal for […]

2020-07-07 13:32:29+00:00

City of Toronto bans Holy Communion in Churches [Video] - https://theduran.com/city-of-toronto-bans-holy-communion-in-churches-video/

There are two things that the priest in this video said that were correct. One was, “we are not worthy to receive Holy Communion.” That is a statement every single Orthodox Christian can agree with. But it is different when we say it and hopefully mean what we say, that we may be grateful to […]

2020-07-07 13:29:31+00:00

Arrest of Shi’ite militias in Iraq is part of Iranian-US proxy struggle - https://theduran.com/arrest-of-shiite-militias-in-iraq-is-part-of-iranian-us-proxy-struggle/

Iranian-US rivalry in Iraq intensifies.

2020-07-07 12:46:44+00:00

Bad news for the Lithuanian army - https://theduran.com/bad-news-for-the-lithuanian-army/

Bad examples are absorbed by the Lithuanian military much faster than good ones.

2020-07-07 12:41:40+00:00

Denmark may ask Syrians to go home: will more EU countries follow? - https://theduran.com/denmark-may-ask-syrians-to-go-home-will-more-eu-countries-follow/

Danish Integration Minister, Mattias Tesfaye, said that refugees asked to return would receive travel money while adding “Last year, there were almost 100,000 refugees returning to Syria from the surrounding areas.

2020-07-07 06:48:59+00:00

Ex-Reddit CEO Claims She Knew About Ghislaine Maxwell "Supplying Underage Girls For Sex" In 2011 - Then Locks Twitter Account - https://theduran.com/ex-reddit-ceo-claims-she-knew-about-ghislaine-maxwell-supplying-underage-girls-for-sex-in-2011-then-locks-twitter-account/

“Very brave of her to say this in 2020…”

Former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao admitted in a Sunday night tweet that she knew about Jeffrey Epstein ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell procuring underage girls as far back as 2011.

In response to a tweet in expressing relief at never having been photographed with Maxwell, Pao replied:

“She was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011, but I had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her. We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the “cool” people who managed the tightly controlled guest list”

Shortly after sending the tweet, Pao locked her Twitter account.

Perhaps Pao got a tap on the shoulder to let her know she just revealed herself as a potential witness in Maxwell’s upcoming case – after she was charged with four criminal counts related to transporting and procuring minors for illegal sex acts, along with two counts of perjury (via Reuters).

Maxwell has been accused by three women of procuring and training young girls to perform massage and sexual acts on Epstein and his associates, as well as participating in some of the alleged acts.

2020-07-07 06:41:36+00:00

British government encourages mass emigration from Hong Kong to affect China - https://theduran.com/british-government-encourages-mass-emigration-from-hong-kong-to-affect-china/

Chinese Embassy compares British attitudes to a new colonialism

2020-07-07 06:38:06+00:00

A Historical Reminder of What Defines the United States, As Told by a Former Slave - https://theduran.com/a-historical-reminder-of-what-defines-the-united-states-as-told-by-a-former-slave/

It is clear that there is a storm coming, however, the question is will it be the sort of storm that provides sustenance and relief to drought-stricken and barren lands, or will it be the sort of storm that destroys indiscriminately and leaves nothing recognizable in its wake?

2020-07-07 06:24:37+00:00

Research Institutions After The Lockdown - https://theduran.com/research-institutions-after-the-lockdown/

As the worldwide coronavirus lockdown comes to an end, in Britain at least, libraries and archives are opening again. The British Library will see limited opening from July 22, and the National Archives from the day before. Things will be slightly different from before though. The National Archives was originally known as the Public Record […]

2020-07-07 06:17:11+00:00

Leftists PANIC as Kanye West Presidential Run Would DESTROY the Democrat Party!!! - https://theduran.com/leftists-panic-as-kanye-west-presidential-run-would-destroy-the-democrat-party/

Dr.  Steve explains how the democratic party came to be a grab bag of ‘oppressed’ minorities and how the inherent conflict between these minorities MUST and WILL lead to the disintegration of the democratic party.   In the 1920s the so called Frankfurt School arose arguing that history was not a question of how the West civilized minorities but rather of how minorities came to be oppressed by the West. As a strategy of resisting such oppression the Frankfurt School, embodied in the figure of Herbert Marcuse, put forth the concept of ‘repressive tolerance’ All the different minorities ‘oppressed’ by the West were to be ‘tolerated’ – while Western societies themselves were to be resisted.  Turley explains that where we are today is the cumulative result of that hundred years war against Western society.  The democratic party has sought to ally itself with this ‘repressive tolerance’ – which explains why it is comprised of so many disparate subgroups many of which are hostile to each other e.g. LGBTQs are fearful of radical Muslims who are in turn hostile toward LGBTQs.  At the same time the more radical elements of BLM now openly denounce ‘repressive tolerance’, pointing out that it is itself the project of White Western Liberals.  A figure like Kanye West – especially if he ran as the Libertarian party candidate – a party which already has all the political machinery in place – would likely strip off a huge percentage of the Black vote – more than enough to now guarantee Biden’s already highly likely defeat. 

2020-07-07 06:16:42+00:00

NEW MONEY: The Greatest Wealth Creating Event In History — Review - https://theduran.com/new-money-the-greatest-wealth-creating-event-in-history-review/

This is a propaganda film that might have been made at the behest of the Chinese Government on account of the glowing portrait it paints of the mega-city Shenzhen. Having said that, most of this propaganda is justified. Since the death of Mao in 1988, successive Chinese administrations have lifted literally hundreds of millions of […]

2020-07-07 06:15:05+00:00

Kayleigh McEnany SHAMES press pool after no one asks about riots [Video] - https://theduran.com/kayleigh-mcenany-shames-press-pool-after-no-one-asks-about-riots-video/

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is a superb and strong lady. After President Trump spoke repeatedly about the importance of preserving national history as it happened, after he signed an Executive Order for the creation of the Garden of Heroes museum, and after he unequivocally denounced the radical leftists who have been attacking innocent […]

2020-07-07 06:13:16+00:00

Notorious Fourth: Independence Day in the Land of the Captive, the Home of the Cowed - https://theduran.com/notorious-fourth-independence-day-in-the-land-of-the-captive-the-home-of-the-cowed/

by Michael Lesher

COVID19, that ersatz apocalypse, has never come anywhere close to killing the two million Americans we were solemnly assured might succumb to it a few months ago. But, judging from the state of things on this year’s Independence Day, I’m afraid its propagandists in government and mass media may have actually done worse than that: they may have succeeded in killing America itself.

True, you’d never have guessed that from watching the display of fireworks that festooned my urban horizon after dark on the Fourth of July – American’s annual orgy of self-congratulation intended to commemorate the colonies’ declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776. I suppose you can always count on the American public to explode things with relish – it’s just a pity they haven’t taken a similar pleasure in exploding the deceptions of their ruling class.

Watching those futile bursts of sound and color (produced by a population that has effectively been living under dictatorship since early March), I found myself wishing for a genuine eruption, like the one that poured out of Frederick Douglass in 1852 as that former slave lambasted the hypocrisy of celebrating the Declaration of Independence’s pronouncement “all men are created equal” in a land that tolerated – in fact, demanded – the subjugation of a huge proportion of its inhabitants:

I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! […] America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future […] I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery – the great sin and shame of America!”

2020-07-07 06:12:00+00:00

U.S. Now Past 3,000,000 Covid-19 Cases; World Nears 12,000,000 Cases - https://theduran.com/u-s-now-past-3000000-covid-19-cases-world-nears-12000000-cases/

Eric Zuesse The most-authoritative site presenting, in real time, the number of coronavirus-19 (Covid-19) cases and data, country-by-country, throughout the world, is https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ and they now show America having soared past three million cases, and the entire world likely, by July 8th, to cross the threshold past twelve million cases. They show the daily number […]

2020-07-07 06:11:08+00:00

The Groupthink Pandemic - https://theduran.com/the-groupthink-pandemic/

by Kevin Smith

Groupthink is all around us. Decision-making in government, in the media and at work. It’s slowly killing the world.

In the background of the most important events, the Covid-19 response and increasing tension and conflict in the world, it might be worth looking through some of this in a bit more detail.

I’ve experienced groupthink working for large organisations, most notably in my last job. We were tasked with investigating and solving complex problems. Some technical expertise helped but was not crucial to the role.

Critical thinking and balancing evidence and differing viewpoints was key.

Yet the organisation decided that this was no longer required and changed the whole operating model to a one-size fits all type of call-centre. This new high-risk approach was recommended to us by the outside consultants Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) who were clueless about our business.

Those of us who were experienced in the role argued that the model wouldn’t work. But the organisation ploughed on regardless. It was obvious from day one that the financials didn’t stack up which they tried to deny and later concealed.

The executive largely ignored our concerns to start but then paid limited lip-service when the wheels started to come off. Anyway, in the end they offered us redundancy while employing fresh university graduates to replace us. As far as I know the place is still in denial and heading down the pan.

Groupthink is described as follows:

Groupthink is a term first used in 1972 by social psychologist Irving L. Janis that refers to a psychological phenomenon in which people strive for consensus within a group. In many cases, people will set aside their own personal beliefs or adopt the opinion of the rest of the group.

2020-07-06 12:49:01+00:00

Epstein - Andrew - Ghislaine love triangle. Maxwell plays victim card (Video) - https://theduran.com/epstein-andrew-ghislaine-love-triangle-maxwell-plays-victim-card-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 585.

2020-07-06 12:36:13+00:00

Is Taiwan creating a “Coalition of Unrecognized States” by recognizing Somaliland? - https://theduran.com/is-taiwan-creating-a-coalition-of-unrecognized-states-by-recognizing-somaliland/

Taiwan’s presence in Somaliland would antagonize China

2020-07-06 12:24:17+00:00

The alumni strike back - https://theduran.com/the-alumni-strike-back/

Twenty years, George W. Bush is back in the news          

2020-07-06 07:23:54+00:00

How Deutsche Bank Helped Con The Public Into Believing In Wirecard - https://theduran.com/how-deutsche-bank-helped-con-the-public-into-believing-in-wirecard/

And now DB is set to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of its collapse.

More reporting on the Wirecard situation has emerged over the long weekend in the US, and none of it is flattering.

As a court-appointed administrator begins the process of managing what’s left of Wirecard through the insolvency process, while doing the best the government can to compensate shareholders who were deceived by the onetime fintech darling, WSJ reports that the (now former) COO, Jan Marsalek, has disappeared, with many suspecting that the longtime COO – who probably knows where many of the bodies are buried – has gone on the run as German prosecutors seek to question him.

His motives aren’t too difficult to discern: With CEO Markus Braun out on bail, it’s likely that Marsalek, who’s suspected of playing a critical role in maintaining the company’s complex shell game with the “Asian third-parties” which helped Wirecard conceal its accounting fraud, even from the auditors who apparently never bothered to actually check these accounts.

When the FT reported last year that most of Wirecard’s actual profits were generated by its opaque Asian businesses, the company denied it, with CEO Markus Braun insisting this was “simply not true”.  But once again, it appears the FT reporters were spot-on, as an appendix to to KPMG’s damning third-party report obtained exclusively by the FT purports to show.

Per the FT, Wirecard’s core business in Europe and the Americas has been lossmaking for years, which means the only Wirecard subsidiaries worth any money are those tied to the company’s most opaque operations, which might make it more difficult to sell the business lines that aren’t impacted by the fraud, and which still have value (theoretically, at least).

Some background: German payments group collapsed into insolvency last month after revealing that €1.9 billion ($2.1 billion) in cash in its accounts actually “didn’t exist”, exposing the “highly profitable” payments company and lender as a fraud.

According to its EY-audited financial reports, between 2016 and 2018 Wirecard generated operating margins of around 22% and almost doubled annual earnings before interest and taxes to €439 million. However, these profits appear to have existed largely on paper, according to the section of the KMPG report (which has already been made public, though the appendix has not) obtained by the FT. The businesses in question are WC’s payments business in Europe and Asia, and its credit card business in Europe and North America. Not only were these businesses lossmaking, but they’ve become increasingly money-losing in recent years.

During this time, Wirecard contended that its opaque Asian busi ...

2020-07-06 06:07:43+00:00

The Empire Bombed Serbia to Seize Kosovo in 1999 - https://theduran.com/the-empire-bombed-serbia-to-seize-kosovo-in-1999/

The American Empire faced downsizing in the 1990s after the Warsaw Pact disbanded and Soviet troops withdrew home. American politicians demanded a reduction in military spending and the closure of most military bases in Europe. The solution was to start a war in Europe. Serbia (which was called Yugoslavia before 2006) openly resisted demands to […]

2020-07-06 06:07:01+00:00

Maxwell Didn't Kill Herself By Getting Arrested - Gold Goats 'n Guns - https://theduran.com/maxwell-didnt-kill-herself-by-getting-arrested-gold-goats-n-guns/

Author: Tom Luongo

Ghislaine Maxwell was caught in New Hampshire. Jeffrey Epstein’s partner-in-crime is now in U.S. custody in the darkest of all places, the Southern District of New York (SDNY).

The first thing on everyone’s mind should be, “Which faction actually has her and how long will she survive?”

I can’t answer those questions but it doesn’t hurt to run out a few scenarios, all of which, at this point, are pure speculation. When Epstein was arrested the same questions hung in the air.

Was this the Deep State getting a hold of him to shut him up? Was this Donald Trump trying to tie up a ‘loose end?’ Or was Trump and new Attorney General William Barr putting operational tempo on their opponents forcing Epstein into a potentially explosive situation?

The raid on Epstein’s home was conducted under the auspice of an indictment filed in the SDNY, a place “where the worst crimes in the world…go unpunished,” as I noted recently in a piece about Trump and Barr going after U.S. Attorney there Geoffrey Berman.

Trump and Barr took another shot at getting someone less controlled by the Deep State in charge of the SDNY and it looks like, for now, that they missed the mark.

With Berman gone, but in such a way as to allow his hand-picked assistant, Audrey Strauss, to take over, rather than anyone picked by Barr and Trump, this arrest seems way out of place.

Now, Strauss, a woman who prosecuted legendary mobster and one of Trump’s mentors, Roy Cohn, has to be considered suspect. Because the furor over Berman’s removal died down immediately after she was put in place.

And she’s in charge of the fate of the most important person in the world at the moment, Ghislaine Maxwell. Because Maxwell knows everything. If Epstein was the CEO of their international blackmail operation, Maxwell was the COO, in charge of the day-to-day operations.

Strauss’s indictment dog and pony show announcing Maxwell’s arrest focused on all the salacious bits pertaining to the indictment which only covers the period from 1995 to 1997.

It neatly avoided any of the real implications of Maxwell’s apprehension, the systematic entrapment and blackmailing of major political and economic figures the world over.

2020-07-06 06:00:53+00:00

Final Comment on Humor - https://theduran.com/final-comment-on-humor/

Rising to full height, which wasn’t much more that a tall midget and facing the august panel Cok Scumer read from his brief. “I should like to first point out to the panel that Cycel , born male, overcame great setbacks in life. Cycel being a transgendered individual and taking into account our Democratic Party’s […]

2020-07-06 05:59:51+00:00

The 4th EU-UN conference on Syria funds Al Qaeda in Idlib - https://theduran.com/the-4th-eu-un-conference-on-syria-funds-al-qaeda-in-idlib/

The only solution for the future of Syria must include for the rebuilding of homes, factories, hospitals, and schools, both private and public. 

2020-07-05 07:23:12+00:00

Michigan Passes Controversial Bill To Microchip Humans Voluntarily "To Protect Their Privacy" - https://theduran.com/michigan-passes-controversial-bill-to-microchip-humans-voluntarily-to-protect-their-privacy/

The chips, roughly the size of a grain of rice, are implanted into the hands of employees and act as a replacement for I.D. badges, timecards, usernames and passwords…

The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a controversial bill to microchip humans voluntarily in the state under the guise of protecting their privacy. The Microchip Protection Act would allow Michigan employers to use microchipping of their workers with their consent. However, research has shown that RFID transponders causes cancer.

The plan to microchip humans is sponsored by Rep. Bronna Kahle under the guise of protecting the privacy of workers. The stated objective of the bill is that it will protect the privacy rights of Michigan workers and promote further growth for job providers as it relates to microchipping – a cutting-edge technology on the rise that increases workplace efficiency.

“With the way technology has increased over the years and as it continues to grow, it’s important Michigan job providers balance the interests of the company with their employees’ expectations of privacy.”

“Microchipping has been brought up in many conversations as companies across the country are exploring cost-effective ways to increase workplace efficiency. While these miniature devices are on the rise, so are the calls of workers to have their privacy protected.”

– Rep. Bronna Kahle, the Republican who sponsored the bill, said in a press statement.

Radio-frequency identification tags, commonly referred to as microchips, are beginning to seep into the marketplace as new technological devices to help streamline everyday business practices. The chips, roughly the size of a grain of rice, are implanted into the hands of employees and act as a replacement for I.D. badges, timecards, usernames and passwords for security clearance, and even credit cards.

“Despite this type of technology not quite making its way into our state yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes a standard business practice statewide within the next few years,” Kahle said.

“We should absolutely take every step possible to get ahead of these devices.”

Under Kahle’s plan, Michigan employers would be able utilize microchipping, but could not mandate employees to have such devices implanted. Kahle said the measure strikes a good balance between protecting workers’ rights and providing businesses with flexibility to increase efficiency and further grow.

However, research has shown that RFID transponders causes cancer. Research has suggested 90 percent of Americans are uncomfortable with microchipping mostly due to studies that suggested a link between RFID transponders and cancer in lab animals.

In May, the plan to chip humans globally through a digital ID was exposed in the Italian Parliament. ...

2020-07-05 07:18:27+00:00

Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech SET A TRAP for the Far Left and They TOOK THE BAIT!!! - https://theduran.com/trumps-mount-rushmore-speech-set-a-trap-for-the-far-left-and-they-took-the-bait/

Steve Turley explains that the MOST ACCURATE POLL now calculates there is a 91% chance Trump gets re-elected !  As well he explains the brilliance of Trump’s strategy to hold a campaign rally AT Mt Rushmore  ON July 4th:   So far the Marxist mobs have waged their wanton destruction locally targeting monuments in cities and towns.  Yes Americans take umbrage to this but when its far away from ones’ own frame of reference its not such a major deal.   By holding a campaign rally at the monument with perhaps the greatest National Civic significance on the date of the most historical significant moment,  Trump dared the Marxist mob to condemn each – which they  foolishly did.  By getting the Marxist mob to condemn BOTH these most momentous symbols of American Civic Nationalism Trump resolved the matter at its  macro limit:  Do you want an America of great Civic Nationalism,  tradition, Christian values, freedom,  free market prosperity and the free society – or do you want a militant nihilism at war with such Civic Nationalism and ultimately at war with itself ?   Turley points out that there is fundamental internal contradiction within the BLM movement.  On the one hand it is pushing a modernist Marxism which implies a one size fits all, common man, shared ‘worker’ identity.  On the other hand it is pushing a post-modern, racial tribalist identity COMPLETELY ANTITHETICAL to Marxism’s universal man.  That is why the more radical factions of BLM have already turned against White Liberals which it now tars with the brush of ‘White Liberal Supremacism’.  Turely I find provides an excellent philosophico-religious counterpoint and supplement to the Duran’s own excellent politico-legal journalism and analysis. 

2020-07-05 07:18:05+00:00

What If Vladimir Putin Had Said...? - https://theduran.com/what-if-vladimir-putin-had-said/

It started with the statues of Confederate soldiers in the United States and spread quickly to non-Confederates even anti-Confederates not only in the US but the UK and Down Under. The statues of slave owners and anti-slavers have been vandalised or destroyed. Perhaps inspired by this madness of crowds or more likely seeking to take […]

2020-07-05 07:13:02+00:00

The Strategies Of Dementia Politics - https://theduran.com/the-strategies-of-dementia-politics/

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review,

Stoke chaos, obstruct economic recovery, and hide Biden in the basement till Election Day.

Joe Biden is tragically suffering a mental eclipse and sliding away at a geometric rate. Understandably, his handlers have kept him out of sight. He stays off the campaign trail on the pretext of the virus and his age-related susceptibility to COVID-19 morbidity.

I say “pretext” without apology. Quarantine should not have otherwise stopped Biden over the past three months from doing daily interviews, speeches, and meetings. But each occasion, however scripted, rehearsed, and canned, would only have offered further daily proof that Biden is cognitively unable to be president or indeed to hold any office.

Often Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness. He is in a far more dire mental state than a physically failing FDR was in his 1944 campaign for a fourth term.

The earlier career of a healthy Biden illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in control of most of his faculties. We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama, and the sane/insane Corn Pop stories. All are the trademark of a once fool Joe Biden, who was at least alert when compared with his current catalepsy. If Donald Trump can be ungrammatical, Biden is agrammatical — he simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely.

If Trump repeats vocabulary, Biden increasingly searches for words, any noun, whatever its irrelevance to the point he is making. Biden seems to suffer dyscognitive seizures, in which for moments he has no idea what he is doing or saying or where he is — a tragic, nearly epileptic condition. In scary episodes, the pale, scaly, and frozen visage of Biden appears almost reptilian, like a lizard freezing and remaining stationary as it struggles to process signals of perceived danger.

Inserting memorized answers into rehearsed questions, as if the entire con was spontaneous, only reveals how his once episodic dementia has become chronic as he loses his prompt and place. It was understandable that his handlers saw opportunity in secluding Biden during Trump’s tweeting, alongside the contagion, the lockdown, the recession, and the rioting that in voters’ minds had equated fear of chaos with the culpability of the current commander in chief.

But there were always problems with placing Biden in suspended animation in his basement, even as he seemingly surged ahead of Trump in the early-summer polls.

One, seclusion, quiet, and the absence of intellectual stimuli often only enhance dementia, while travel, conversation, and new imagery and experiences tend to unclog for a bit the congested neuron pathwa ...

2020-07-05 07:10:49+00:00

Dr. Fauci Is No Nostradamus: How COVID-19 Ran Amok Under His Watch - https://theduran.com/dr-fauci-is-no-nostradamus-how-covid-19-ran-amok-under-his-watch/

Authored by James Grundvig via Vaxxter.com

Michel de Nostradamus was born in Saint-Remy, South of France, in 1503. Beyond the gifts he would one day explore in astrology, he pursued an education to become a physician. After his first year at the University of Avignon, an outbreak of the plague swept through France, forcing the University to close.

Undaunted, Nostradamus opened an apothecary before attending the University of Montpellier in pursuit of a doctorate. But a second plague struck disrupting his plan; the plague also killed his first wife and two children. During the outbreak, he joined city doctors to fight against and contain the plague. They succeeded.

Nostradamus remarried, engendered six children, and wrote an almanac. Well received, he developed his ability as a seer, with a mix of astrology and biblical end-times visions, to become the world’s most famous prognosticator of the last one thousand years. He captured his dark revelations in The Prophecies, writing a collection of 942 quatrains.

Knowing more about his life, pursuits, interests, and experiences—a survivor of two plagues, fighting on the frontline of one outbreak—many will now see Nostradamus in a new light. It’s no wonder that his visions leaned toward doom and gloom.

By contrast, Dr. Anthony Fauci, born on Christmas Eve in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, has lived a vastly different life. Yet, there are parallels between the two men. Both pursued a career as a physician. Both experienced two plagues during their lifetimes. In Fauci’s case, he was thrust into the epicenter of the 1980s AIDS/HIV epidemic when he became director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID). In spring 2020, he roamed center stage of the COVID19 pandemic, featured as one of the “experts” on the White House Task Force.

The big delta between Dr. Fauci and Nostradamus boils down to the ability to predict the future. Beyond Nostradamus’ uncanny ability to predict the first two World Wars, two of the three “antichrists” in Napoleon and Hitler, the assassinations of U.S. presidents, and the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers centuries before the events happened, Fauci predicted a pandemic in 2017, a measly three years before it took place.

Dr. Fauci shared his foresight with medical peers at a Georgetown forum when he stated, “There will be a surprise outbreak during Trump’s first term.”

Fauci’s prediction wasn’t conjured from the alignment of the stars and planets, or a passage lifted out of the Bible. No. He didn’t develop any such gift. Instead, he arrived at his foresight by steering the financing of zoonotic viruses “gain-of-function” research. In 2018, he joined the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new unit, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) to be hands-on with pandemic planning, a full year after his ...

2020-07-05 07:10:13+00:00

The Conspiracy of the World Exposed - https://theduran.com/the-conspiracy-of-the-world-exposed/

Above is the famous cartoon portraying Rockefeller controlling the government originally published in The Verdict on January 22, 1900. *** Many people do not believe that this conspiracy exists. My interest in conspiracies arose when I concluded they must exist in the case of the destruction of my homeland Yugoslavia. The western media unanimously lied […]

2020-07-05 06:55:55+00:00

Is the Deep State Attempting a Hybrid War in Mexico? - https://theduran.com/is-the-deep-state-attempting-a-hybrid-war-in-mexico/

by Nino Pagliccia

n important article by journalist Ben Norton appeared on the online outlet The Grayzone describing the content of a leaked document that consists “of an executive summary of ‘Project BOA,’ outlining what it calls a ‘plan of action’ – a blueprint of concrete steps the opposition alliance will take to unseat AMLO.” AMLO is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and BOA stands for Bloque Opositor Amplio (Broad Opposition Bloc).

The document was presented by AMLO himself at a press conference in early June and the source of the leak remains unknown. Some of the alleged members of this “alliance” have denied the existence of such a document. However, its content is quite credible within the geopolitical context of the region.

2020-07-05 06:52:25+00:00

The International Dimensions of 1776 and How an Age of Reason Was Subverted - https://theduran.com/the-international-dimensions-of-1776-and-how-an-age-of-reason-was-subverted/

From the Strategic Culture Foundation This July 4th, a larger-than-usual shadow is cast upon America which has come face-to-face with some serious historic reckonings. While the existence of an oligarchy and international “deep state” should not be ignored as a political force of history- arranging wars, assassinations and promoting economic enslavement of people and nations […]

2020-07-05 06:50:18+00:00

Netherlands ‘Justice’ Is Totally Corrupt: MH17 Case as Example - https://theduran.com/netherlands-justice-is-totally-corrupt-mh17-case-as-example/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker On Friday, July 3rd, the judge in the Netherlands court case against Russia as having fired a Buk missile that brought down the Malaysian Airlines plane that Ukrainian Air Traffic Control had instructed to fly over Ukraine’s civil-war zone on 17 July 2014 ruled out any consideration of […]

2020-07-04 14:03:03+00:00

78% of Russians vote to break away from western neoliberal dogma (Video) - https://theduran.com/78-of-russians-vote-to-break-away-from-western-neoliberal-dogma-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 584.

2020-07-04 13:13:31+00:00

Australia is sending spies to China - https://theduran.com/australia-is-sending-spies-to-china/

Canberra integrates data sharing alliance with Western countries and probably provides collected information to them.

2020-07-04 13:12:27+00:00

Scotland could place English in quarantine as independence debate heats up - https://theduran.com/scotland-could-place-english-in-quarantine-as-independence-debate-heats-up/

The nation is on track for independence as it discusses closing its border with England to deter threat of Covid-19

2020-07-04 12:52:55+00:00

Russiagate II bounty claim attempt began with Shifty Adam Schiff [Video] - https://theduran.com/russiagate-ii-bounty-claim-attempt-began-with-shifty-adam-schiff-video/

We would like to congratulate The Western Journal and its writers and editorial staff for creating an excellent news source that appears to have extremely insightful reporting and a nose for fact-finding that is among the best in the business. We refer to their piece dated July 2, by Elise Ehrhard, showing how a report […]

2020-07-04 06:43:48+00:00

Brooklyn U.S. attorney heads to top DOJ role - https://theduran.com/brooklyn-u-s-attorney-heads-to-top-doj-role/

Richard Donoghue, who heads the Eastern District of New York, is taking over as the top deputy to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.

2020-07-04 06:42:15+00:00

British socialite charged with 'facilitating' Epstein's alleged abuse - https://theduran.com/british-socialite-charged-with-facilitating-epsteins-alleged-abuse/

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime friend of Jeffrey Epstein, has been charged in the US in relation to the sex abuse scandal involving the disgraced financier.

2020-07-04 06:39:37+00:00

The Art of Burganov: A Lasting Reminder of U.S.- Russia Friendship - https://theduran.com/the-art-of-burganov-a-lasting-reminder-of-u-s-russia-friendship/

By Edward Lozansky For many open-minded Americans and Russians it has become a tradition to congratulate each other on their independence days, which are June 12 for Russia and July 4 for America. This year we decided to note some Russian artistic works, which in the current political atmosphere might speak better than words when […]

2020-07-04 06:38:06+00:00

Black Lives Matter Goes After ‘LIBERAL WHITE SUPREMACISTS’ as the Left Begins Eating Its Own!!! - https://theduran.com/black-lives-matter-goes-after-liberal-white-supremacists-as-the-left-begins-eating-its-own/

The Duran has expressed disappoint of late in what it sees as President Trump’s failure to seize the moment and speak out forcefully against the BLM agitators and protesters and their violent disruptive exploits.   Steve Turley offers something of a dissenting argument.  For Turley the BLM protests are quickly imploding, beginning to openly devolve into an outright racism in reverse.   The militant Black left is turning against and denouncing the White liberal establishment.   What if Trump’s strategy is to let this fissure develop into a full fledged chasm ?  If the White liberals understand they are equally the target of BLM violence as White conservatives, where else is there for them to turn, albeit secretly, than to Trump ?   What if Trump’s strategy is to sit by quietly and let BLM do the heavy lifting of converting liberal establishment Whites into Trumpers ? 

2020-07-04 06:37:40+00:00

Black Lives Matter Goes After ‘LIBERAL WHITE SUPREMACISTS’ as the Left Begins Eating Its Own!!! - https://theduran.com/black-lives-matter-goes-after-liberal-white-supremacists-as-the-left-begins-eating-its-own/

The Duran has expressed disappoint of late in what it sees as President Trump’s failure to seize the moment and speak out forcefully against the BLM agitators and protesters and their violent disruptive exploits.   Steve Turley offers something of a dissenting argument.  For Turley the BLM protests are quickly imploding, beginning to openly devolve into an outright racism in reverse.   The militant Black left is turning against and denouncing the White liberal establishment.   What if Trump’s strategy is to let this fissure develop into a full fledged chasm ?  If the White liberals understand they are equally the target of BLM violence as White conservatives, where else is there for them to turn, albeit secretly, than to Trump ?   What if Trump’s strategy is to sit by quietly and let BLM do the heavy lifting of converting liberal establishment Whites into Trumpers ? 

2020-07-04 06:31:49+00:00

The Dark side of Joe Biden - https://theduran.com/the-dark-side-of-joe-biden/

Before you watch this video, I want to say that I don’t under any circumstances support Joe Biden. Joe Biden is going to be the main man to stand against Donald Trump in oncoming presidential elections in the U.S. But his figure now is too strange. He has already been blamed for harassment and now […]

2020-07-04 06:30:49+00:00

“No one has died from the coronavirus” - https://theduran.com/no-one-has-died-from-the-coronavirus/

by Rosemary Frei and Patrick Corbett

Important revelations shared by Dr Stoian Alexov, President of the Bulgarian Pathology Association

A high-profile European pathologist is reporting that he and his colleagues across Europe have not found any evidence of any deaths from the novel coronavirus on that continent.

Dr. Stoian Alexov called the World Health Organization (WHO) a “criminal medical organization” for creating worldwide fear and chaos without providing objectively verifiable proof of a pandemic.

Another stunning revelation from Bulgarian Pathology Association (BPA) president Dr. Alexov is that he believes it’s currently “impossible” to create a vaccine against the virus.

He also revealed that European pathologists haven’t identified any antibodies that are specific for SARS-CoV-2.

These stunning statements raise major questions, including about officials’ and scientists’ claims regarding the many vaccines they’re rushing into clinical trials around the world.

They also raise doubt about the veracity of claims of discovery of anti-novel-coronavirus antibodies (which are beginning to be used to treat patients).

Novel-coronavirus-specific antibodies are supposedly the basis for the expensive serology test kits being used in many countries (some of which have been found to be unacceptably inaccurate).

And they’re purportedly key to the immunity certificates coveted by Bill Gates that are about to go into widespread use — in the form of the COVI-PASS — in 15 countries including the UK, US, and Canada.

Dr. Alexov made his jaw-dropping observations in a video interview summarizing the consensus of participants in a May 8, 2020, European Society of Pathology (ESP) webinar on COVID-19.

2020-07-04 06:24:31+00:00

Why Canada Failed the ‘Ben Franklin Challenge’ in 1776 - https://theduran.com/why-canada-failed-the-ben-franklin-challenge-in-1776/

Originally posted on the Strategic Culture Foundation “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin July 4th is around the corner and you may be wondering why Canada is not a part of this celebration. If you were living in the time […]

2020-07-04 06:24:03+00:00

Judge Orders ‘Destruction’ of Evidence Against Jeffrey Epstein - https://theduran.com/judge-orders-destruction-of-evidence-against-jeffrey-epstein/

Eric Zuesse U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska, who was appointed by George Herbert Walker Bush, and whom his son had considered promoting maybe to the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in a case on July 1st, ordering the attorneys for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia (Roberts) Guiffre, to “destroy” a list of men […]

2020-07-03 18:33:15+00:00

Ghislaine Maxwell was hiding out in New England all this time (Video) - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-maxwell-was-hiding-out-in-new-england-all-this-time-video/

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 583.

2020-07-03 13:34:59+00:00

US imposes additional economic sanctions against Venezuela and Iran - https://theduran.com/us-imposes-additional-economic-sanctions-against-venezuela-and-iran/

The US Attorney’s Office requested to embargo Iranian fuel that is being exported to Venezuela.

2020-07-03 13:28:03+00:00

Ukrainian Beauty - https://theduran.com/ukrainian-beauty/

For centuries “Ukrainian” was a political enterprise exploiting the country’s natural resources, Ukrainian people and Ukrainian diaspora, in order to pit the Slavic fraternity, in a quest for an Anglo-Saxon one-world government. But in 2020, Ukrainian babas saved the day. Because in their wisdom they knew that beauty and truth are both timeless and there is great strength in love.

2020-07-03 13:21:00+00:00

The color revolution is finally home - https://theduran.com/the-color-revolution-is-finally-home/

It is obvious that there is a deep and serious rift in American society and that the two opposing sides are entering into a growing conflict, using all possible means at their disposal.

2020-07-03 11:56:17+00:00

Russian Constitutional reform handled in surprisingly poor way [Video] - https://theduran.com/russian-constitutional-reform-handled-in-surprisingly-poor-way-video/

The July 1st referendum, or election, regarding the approval of the Russian Constitutional reform, has come and gone. It yielded interesting results, though, thank God, it yielded the right ones for the nation. Overall, a very strong majority, 77.92% of the voters approved the changes, and 21.27 opposed them. The voter turnout is understood to […]

2020-07-03 07:59:23+00:00

Judge Orders Jeffrey Epstein Accuser To Destroy Files - https://theduran.com/judge-orders-jeffrey-epstein-accuser-to-destroy-files/

“Improperly obtained”

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has been ordered by a US District Judge to destroy files believed to contain the names of Epstein’s associates – because they were “improperly obtained.’

Senior US District Judge Loretta Preska said on Wednesday that Giuffre’s attorneys would need to provide proof that the documents had been destroyed, adding that “Counsel shall submit an affidavit detailing the steps taken to do so,” according to Newsweek.

Preska noted that a protective order governing the ‘improperly obtained’ documents only applied during a civil lawsuit proceeding which has been settled.

Preska’s ruling came after a request by attorney Alan Dershowitz to gain access to the documents. Giuffre has claimed that Dershowitz was one of the men Epstein forced her to have sex with. In response, Dershowitz sued Giuffre for defamation in 2019. Dershowitz claimed that obtaining the Epstein files would be an asset to his defense.

Preska said in her ruling that Dershowitz’s desire to see all of the files “with over a thousand docket entries” was not a “targeted strike” but a “carpet bombing.” –Newsweek

In September 2019, an attorney for Epstein’s alleged ‘madam,’ Ghislaine Maxwell – who was arrested on Thursday, told Preska that that there are “hundreds” of people named in some 2,000 pages of documents.

The lawyer, Jeffrey Pagliuca, told U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska Wednesday that the materials also include an address book with about 1,000 names. Preska is considering how to carry out a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that she must consider unsealing some of the documents. There was no detail at the hearing as to the identity of the people are named in the documents, and they may include women who say they are victims of Epstein, his friends and others. –Bloomberg

Epstein died after being taken into custody in July, 2019 on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking. Since his rampant pedophilia became public, his associates – including Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Ehud Barak, and Victoria’s Secret boss Les Wexner have sought to distance themselves from Epstein and his activities.

Other famous names associated with Epstein include LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who Musk introduced to the registered sex-offender. Zuckerberg spokesman told Vanity Fair “Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein,” adding “Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner.”

Musk told the magazine “I don’t recall introducing E ...

2020-07-03 06:54:47+00:00

Indian boycott of Chinese goods would be against their own national interests - https://theduran.com/indian-boycott-of-chinese-goods-would-be-against-their-own-national-interests/

Chinese products cannot be replaced by Indian industries

2020-07-03 06:44:58+00:00

The Elite Prevent the Bright Future of Humankind - https://theduran.com/the-elite-prevent-the-bright-future-of-humankind/

The elite oppress people The elite has emerged from the industrial revolution in the last three centuries. They dominate countries and people with the financial power they acquired. The elite have learned through history that suppressing people may initiate rebellion, which could take power from them and even their lives. They found it convenient to hide […]

2020-07-03 06:42:20+00:00

The Dastardly Plot to Destroy American Democracy (Part 1) - https://theduran.com/the-dastardly-plot-to-destroy-american-democracy-part-1/

Rising to full height, which wasn’t much more that a tall midget and facing the august panel Cok Scumer read from his brief. “I should like to first point out to the panel that Cycel , born male, overcame great setbacks in life. Cycel being a transgendered individual and taking into account our Democratic Party’s […]

2020-07-03 06:41:59+00:00

Is Nasal Irrigation More Important Than Hand-Washing? - https://theduran.com/is-nasal-irrigation-more-important-than-hand-washing/

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

Flushing your sinuses may be an effective way to inhibit the progression of a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 by lowering the viral load in your sinuses

Research has demonstrated that nasal irrigation reduces the symptoms and duration of viral illnesses such as the seasonal flu and common cold

Nasal irrigation and gargling with hypertonic saline has been shown to reduce the duration of the common cold by 1.9 days and reduce transmission within the household by 35% by reducing viral shedding when done within 48 hours of symptom onset

You may also be able to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 migrating into your lungs by gargling a saline solution or using a povidone-iodine solution such as Betadine Sore Throat Gargle

Nebulizing hydrogen peroxide or colloidal silver may be even more effective. A recent review found 0.5% hydrogen peroxide effectively inactivated a range of human coronaviruses, including those responsible for SARS and MERS, within one minute of exposure

By now, you probably understand the importance of hand-washing to prevent the spread of infectious illness. But did you know flushing your sinuses might be an even better way to inhibit the progression of a viral illness such as COVID-19? In an April 20, 2020, article,1 MSN’s Best Life features the recommendations of Dr. Amy Baxter, a pediatric emergency medicine physician in Atlanta, Georgia.

Nasal irrigation, she says, is a rarely discussed strategy that can help reduce the progression of illness in those who have tested positive for COVID-19 infection. In an April 2, 2020, response2 to a BMJ paper about the lack of personal protection equipment on COVID-19 frontlines, professor Robert Matthews also brought up the importance and potential usefulness of oropharyngeal washing to protect health care workers from infection. As reported by MSN Best Life:3

“Nasal irrigation, or a nasal wash, has long been considered an effective way to remove viruses or bacteria from sinus cavities. Baxter has multiple reasons for believing that this approach can be effective in preventing the spread of coronavirus from worsening in a sick patient.”

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2020-07-03 06:37:44+00:00

Will China Forming Oil Buying Cartel End the Petrodollar? - https://theduran.com/will-china-forming-oil-buying-cartel-end-the-petrodollar-2/

by Tom Luongo

China is building a buyer’s group (or cartel) comprised of its major state oil companies. I’m frankly surprised that this wasn’t already the case, since everything else is tightly controlled in China.

A report from Bloomberg (via Investing.com) states that:

Senior executives from China Petroleum (NYSE:SNP) & Chemical Corp., PetroChina Co., Cnooc Ltd. and Sinochem Group Co. are in advanced talks to iron out details of the plan, said people familiar with the initiative, who asked not to be identified as discussions are private and ongoing. The proposal has won the support of the Chinese central government and relevant industry watchdogs, the people said.

Since China is now the world’s largest importer of oil it only makes sense they would flip the switch and act as price makers rather than be price takers.

This makes perfect sense, economically, in the current environment as troubled oil exporters like Saudi Arabia continue to try and exert influence over the oil market.

The Saudis refuse to admit to themselves that their era of dominance over oil prices is, itself, over. As I noted in my blog from last week their attempt to gain market share through price slashing did nothing more than slash their own revenue to the bone, while making no new friends.

They shipped out 50% more oil and revenues plunged by 65%. They practically gave the stuff away in April. They had to. With the Riyal tied to the dollar they had to undercut Russian oil which trades in freely-floated rubles.

Because while China is certainly happy to pay less for oil, the knock-on effects of undermining its capital markets were and are far greater than the savings per barrel.

And that made them no new friends in the Poliburo.

That Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) acted to rashly in March I’m sure did not sit well with Chinese leadership. They clearly have no use for such an unreliable partner who refuses to take anything other than the U.S. dollar for its product.

To remind everyone, MBS threw his tantrum which locked up global markets after Russia’s refusal to agree to further OPEC+ production cuts in March. That precipitated the massive drop in oil prices which started the financial crisis.

So, it’s pretty obvious to me now that China seeks to further marginalize Saudi Arabia and the U.S. in the oil space.

The proof? Back to the Bloomberg article:

For a start, the group is set to collectively issue bids for certain Russian and African grades in the spot market, they said. While it’s unclear how the cooperation will evolve, the group represents refiners that import more than 5 million barrels of oil a day. That’s nearly a fifth of OPEC’s total output, which would make it the world’s largest crude buyer in theory. 

Because here’s the rub, as always, China is looking for ways to deepen international ...

2020-07-03 06:37:06+00:00

Children Have 0.00% Chance of Dying from COVID but are Harmed for Life by Social Distancing, Which has its Roots in CIA Torture Techniques - https://theduran.com/children-have-0-00-chance-of-dying-from-covid-but-are-harmed-for-life-by-social-distancing-which-has-its-roots-in-cia-torture-techniques/

Comments by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News

California Civil Rights Attorney Leigh Dundas published a video on Facebook this week to show the devastating consequences of isolating children and forcing them to practice “social distancing” at places like school.

Here are some lesser known facts about social distancing and isolation:

• It was developed 70 years ago by the CIA to break down enemies of state.

• It is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day AND being an alcoholic.

• It doubles the risk of death, and destroys the part of the brain responsible for learning.

She pointed out that according to the statistics and the CDC:

• A child’s risk of dying from COVID is 0.0%, per the CDC.

• No child has passed on COVID to a family member or third party (they do not transmit).

She goes on to explain the historical origins of practicing Social Distancing, and how the technique was developed by the CIA to torture “enemies of the state.”

2020-07-02 13:51:00+00:00

Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested In New Hampshire - https://theduran.com/ghislaine-maxwell-arrested-in-new-hampshire/

…the British socialite and heiress was arrested in New Hampshire on Epstein-related charges and is expected to appear in a federal court later today.

Having been decidedly off-the-radar for months since the controversial ‘suicide’ of Jeffrey Epstein, NBC New York reports that Ghislaine Maxwell, has been arrested by the FBI and charged by federal prosecutors.

Multiple senior law enforcement officials reportedly said the British socialite and heiress was arrested in New Hampshire on Epstein-related charges and is expected to appear in a federal court later today.

The long-time friend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein was alleged to have helped Epstein groom teen girls for sex with the rich and powerful.

Ghislaine has been accused by three women of procuring and training young girls to perform massage and sexual acts on Epstein and his associates. 

Virginia Giuffre (previously named Virginia Roberts), one of Epstein’s alleged victims, claimed in a civil lawsuit that Maxwell “recruited” her into Epstein’s orbit, where she was forced to have sex with Epstein and his powerful friends, including Prince Andrew.

Giuffre asserts in her complaint that Maxwell, the sole defendant in the suit and the daughter of late publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, routinely recruited underaged girls for Epstein and was doing so when she approached the $9-an-hour locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 1999 about giving massages to the wealthy investment banker.

Giuffre alleges that Maxwell ultimately trained her in how to give “massages” to Epstein that involved sex acts and, essentially, prostitution. When Maxwell publicly denied the allegations and called Giuffre a liar in 2015, that gave her the opening to head to federal court and file the defamation suit now headed for trial. –Politico

In May we noted that the accused ‘madam’ was reportedly holed up in a luxury apartment on Paris’s Avenue Matignon – just a five minute drive from the dead pedophile’s $8.6 million flat.

Maxwell “is moving locations every month to keep private investigators off her tail and is ­staying at the residences of trusted colleagues and contacts,” according to a source.

“She wants to remain in France for as long as she can to take advantage of extradition laws and has a huge network of contacts willing to keep her hidden,” they added. “Under French law anyone born on French soil is safe from extradition to another country, regardless of the alleged crime.“

As Esquire’s Gabrielle Bruney explained in May, Maxwell is the youngest of Elisabeth and Robert Maxwell’s nine children, and was born in France in 1961. The family lived in an English mansion, and her father was the founder of a media empire and served in Parliament. Maxwell attended one of the UK’s most excl ...

2020-07-02 13:22:32+00:00

COVID, BLM, Identity Politics and the Global Ruling Elite - https://theduran.com/covid-blm-identity-politics-and-the-global-ruling-elite/

By Kurt Nimmo

COVID, BLM, Identity Politics and the Global Ruling Elite.

The following is my opinion based on more than a decade and a half of research into ruling elites. Please be aware this sort of commentary is now considered domestic terrorism by the FBI, the national security state, and its propaganda media.

I have decided to post my thoughts on the destruction of America (and Europe) before the election. If current polling is any indication, Donald Trump will not be re-elected. Joe Biden will be the establishment’s teleprompter reader. The Senate will swing over to Democrat control. Democrats and their “progressive” (corporate-financed) allies will go after anyone to the right or left of the establishment, with the exception of groups like Black Lives Matter, which now receive millions of dollars from the likes of Citibank and the Ford Foundation, the latter long known to be a front operation controlled by the CIA.

“The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition,” reports The Washington Times.

The COVID virus is a biological weapon deliberately released in China and from there spread to much of the rest of the world. It did not escape from the Wuhan lab. It was released by the US military while participating in an athletic event in Wuhan. However, it is believed the virus was circulating in November of 2019, possibly earlier. In April, a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Antiviral Research (Vol. 16, April 2020) concluded the COVID virus contains features not present in other viruses. Moreover, the paper argued the virus has no known ancestry and contains elements present in MERS, which the authors say “was not observed in the lineage b of betacoronaviruses.” In other words, the virus is an engineered bioweapon and not a freak of nature. [This is assuming the virus actually exists – see my article here – Ed.]

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However, this military-industrial lab-created disease was not designed to kill millions and become the 21st century’s version of the Black Death. It is far more useful as a fear-inducing mechanism.

Here is the game plan as I see it:   

1) bring down teetering fiat money and toxic asset driven economy and blame it on the virus.

2) destroy Main Street business in competition with corporate behemoths (recall John D. Rockefeller—his operating maxim was that competition is a sin).

3) create massive and sustained unemployment.

4) normalize the idea of house arrest and the negation of core constitutional rights.

5) enhance already intrusive and unconstitutional surveillance with “contact tracing” via smartphone and Bluetooth technology (check out this article which details how Michigan au ...

2020-07-02 13:13:45+00:00

Neoliberal Color Revolution in America: BLM, M4BL and the CIA - https://theduran.com/neoliberal-color-revolution-in-america-blm-m4bl-and-the-cia/

By Kurt Nimmo

BLM is part of the Neoliberal Color Revolutionin America. “The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we understand the CIA’s Color Revolution playbook,” writes economic researcher, historian, and freelance journalist F. William Engdahl.Engdahl then breaks down the connections between Black Lives Matter, socialist organizations, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation (as previously noted, a CIA front organization), the Foundation to Promote Open Society, Borealis Philanthropy, the Kellogg Foundation, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, and the Heinz Foundation (John Kerry).“Following the murder of George Floyd, “major corporations such as Apple, Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a Democrat President Biden.””

#BlackLivesMatter (1/3) pic.twitter.com/k4sIcUiPwP— Sony (@Sony) May 31, 2020BLM is part of the Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL), a cutout created by the Ford Foundation, in other words, the CIA. It has called for “defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a universal basic income, and free college for blacks,” according to its website.“The initiative of the Movement for Black Lives needs to be picked up by others…. A coalition of movements that joins a future whirlwind moment to win the struggle can at last make racial justice a reality.”—Quaker activist @GeorgeLakey_ at @wagingnv https://t.co/ITwFBv4q5g— Friends Journal (@friendsjournal) June 16, 2020As Engdahl points out, M4BL and BLM are Democrat-dominated operations. They receive money from ActBlue Charities, a “progressive” organization in support of the Joe Biden campaign. “ActBlue is a pass-through organization and service for donations to left-of-center nonprofits and PACs,” notes InfluenceWatch. B4BL takes money from Google (also linked to the CIA)  and a host of labor unions, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education.An article posted back in 2009 by Human Events states that despite “its stripped-down appearance, ActBlue is frothing with the elitist pretension characteristic of the modern Left. The hip tenets of ‘grassroots’ campaigning, highbrow blathering and self-possessed pseudo-coolness seep through the slogans, descriptions and thematics of the [ActBlue] website.”As Engdahl points out, the “role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as ...

2020-07-02 13:13:17+00:00

The Trump Administration’s Success in Kosovo Is a Historic Disaster for Serbs - https://theduran.com/the-trump-administrations-success-in-kosovo-is-a-historic-disaster-for-serbs/

Via StalkerZone… No one expected that the meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and separatist Kosovo leader Hashim Thaçi scheduled for June 27th in Washington would be canceled. Moreover, the significance of this meeting in official circles, both in Belgrade and in Pristina, was discussed with great optimism. Thus, on June 18th, Thaçi told the […]

2020-07-02 07:43:31+00:00

Israeli Leaders Say West Bank Annexation Must Wait Due To COVID-19 - https://theduran.com/israeli-leaders-say-west-bank-annexation-must-wait-due-to-covid-19/

In reality Washington has not yet fully approved the controversial move sure to trigger bloodshed.

What was surely supposed be the most controversial and provocative move in all recent Israeli-Palestine conflict history was supposed to be initiated yesterday, July 1st, according to prior target date statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex up to one-third of West Bank territory, including the Jordan Valley.

Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials claimed to have a ‘green light’ from the Trump administration, but at this point it’s anything but certain. “We are in discreet talks with US officials here,” Netanyahu told a Likud party meeting on Monday. “We are doing it discreetly. The matter is not up to Blue and White, they are not a factor either way,” he said in reference to the power sharing coalition with ‘Alternate Prime Minister’ and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Gantz told his party at the start of this week that annexation “will have to wait” due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the country.

“Anything unrelated to the battle against the coronavirus will wait,” Gantz said.

This as the country’s health ministry is urging authorities to impose a second locking down of cities while cases soar again both inside Israel and the Palestinian territories. 

In reality citing the coronavirus crisis also appears a well-timed excuse to temporarily delay a plan that will surely set the region on fire, given the unforeseen consequences for both Palestinians and Israel. Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have said such a move would be a declaration of war. Hamas has openly stated it will attack Israeli towns and settlements if Palestinian territory is seized. 

Israel is looking to seize up to 30% of West Bank territory, bringing it under permanent Israeli control, as part of Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ Mideast peace plan. Theoretically according to the plan the remainder of the territory will be used to establish an autonomous Palestinian state. 

Meanwhile The Jerusalem Post has confirmed that annexation will not happen this week, largely because Washington has not yet fully approved the plan.

For now, Israeli politicians will blame coronavirus while still claiming a US green light, despite US and Israeli officials still in high level meetings to hash things out, and contingency plans for what could unleash a next Palestinian intifada. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-leaders-say-west-bank-annexation-must-wait-due-covid-19

2020-07-02 07:35:45+00:00

Overwhelming support for Putin's constitution changes a wake-up call for Westerners who claim Russian system is bound to collapse - https://theduran.com/overwhelming-support-for-putins-constitution-changes-a-wake-up-call-for-westerners-who-claim-russian-system-is-bound-to-collapse/

Even liberal political organizers in Moscow conceded that their own exit polls showed the capital had supported Vladimir Putin’s proposals.

2020-07-02 07:20:47+00:00

France Suspends Role In NATO Naval Mission, Outraged Over "Turkish Aggression" - https://theduran.com/france-suspends-role-in-nato-naval-mission-outraged-over-turkish-aggression/

Paris outraged that Turkish warships nearly fired on French frigate tracking gun-runners into Libya…

France has notified NATO command that its military is suspending involvement in an ongoing Mediterranean operation called Sea Guardian in protest of a June 10 incident wherein Turkish warships off Libya’s coast “engaged” a French frigate via radar. This means the Turkish ship essentially had missile lock on the NATO allied ship.

The AP detailed in the days after the hostile encounter between two NATO members that “the frigate Courbet was ‘lit up’ three times by Turkish naval targeting radar when it tried to approach a Turkish civilian ship suspected of involvement in arms trafficking.” The Turkish military ships were allegedly escorting the smaller civilian ship, suspected by the French of illegal gun-running.

The French vessel was then forced to back off as it tracked a civilian Turkish vessel suspected of smuggling arms into Tripoli amid a blanket UN arms embargo. The two sides have since blamed the other for the act of “aggression”.

Paris had declared it a “hostile act” – something which Ankara has rejected. The French Foreign Ministry further accused the Turkish ships of “extremely aggressive” intervention against a NATO ally.

Ironically, Operation Sea Guardian is meant to enforce the arms embargo on Libya — but Turkey allegedly intervened against the French ship to thwart inspecting and seizing weapons in transit. Needless to say the incident highlights severe cracks in the NATO alliance.

The incident came also amid worsening relations between Turkey and France over Turkey’s increased “adventurism” of late in defending Tripoli against Haftar forces, which has involved drones, aircraft, and even sending Turkish national troops to the region along with mercenaries from Syria.

On Wednesday France reportedly sent a formal letter to NATO command in Brussels informing the alliance that it is effectively suspending support for the Mediterranean operation until necessary “clarifications” are made as a result on the NATO investigation into the incident. 

Specifically, the letter addressed to NATO’s Secretary-General makes “four demands to clarify the role of the Sea Guardian operation, including its cooperation with an EU mission that is enforcing a UN arms embargo to Libya.”

Though an arms embargo has been in effect on Libya since last year, the multiple players supporting opposing sides in the proxy war have essentially treated in as a joke. Since the UN declaration, more arms than ever have poured into the conflict, as well as m ...

2020-07-02 07:17:47+00:00

President For Life? Russian Voters Grant Putin Ability To Rule Until 2036 - https://theduran.com/president-for-life-russian-voters-grant-putin-ability-to-rule-until-2036/

Russians voted on Putin-approved constitutional changes meant to enshrine “traditional values”…

Update: As expected, Russian voters have approved drastic constitutional changes which could keep Putin in power all the way through 2036.

A majority of voters approved changes to Russia’s constitution that would allow President Vladimir Putin to hold power until 2036, but the weeklong plebiscite that ended Wednesday was tarnished by widespread reports of pressure on voters and other irregularities.

With most of the nation’s polls closed and 20% of precincts counted, 72% voted for the constitutional amendments, according to election officials.

* * * 

67-year old Russian President Vladimir Putin will have already been in power for over two decades when his current term runs out in 2024, but now as Russia is in the midst of a crucial vote on a significantly revised constitution, his rule theoretically could extend further all the way up to 2036, or a whopping 12 more years.

Bloomberg reports after voting began last week, despite raging coronavirus fears, that the latest exit poll by state-run Vtsiom puts support for the amendments, which includes the term limit exemption, at 76%.

Under the old or rather current constitution, Putin is barred from running for president again when his term expires in 2024, given consecutive term limits, but the new law would reset this. A single presidential term is six years. Among other constitutional changes authorized by Putin are a permanent constitutional outlawing of same-sex marriage, as well as inclusion in “a belief in God” named as one of Russia’s traditional values.

Putin emphasized this appeal to “traditional values” in a Tuesday television address, saying “We’re voting for the country that we’re working for and that we want to hand down to our children and grandchildren.”

He urged Russians to support what he described as a constitution ensuring—

“stability, security and prosperity.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stability-security-prosperity-exit-poll-shows-landslide-yes-vote-paving-way-putins

2020-07-02 06:48:07+00:00

Hundreds of Former George W. Bush Staffers Launch Pro-Biden Super PAC - Sara A. Carter - https://theduran.com/hundreds-of-former-george-w-bush-staffers-launch-pro-biden-super-pac-sara-a-carter/

A new super PAC formed by hundreds of former campaign, administration, and political staffers from George W. Bush’s administration will work to get Joe Biden elected, saying they are “dismayed and disappointed” by the Trump presidency. The new group, 43 Alumni for Biden, announced their formation on Wednesday, saying their purpose is to “unite and mobilize a community of historically Republican voters who are dismayed and disappointed by the damage done to our nation.”

https://saraacarter.com/hundreds-of-former-george-w-bush-staffers-launch-pro-biden-super-pac/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

2020-07-02 05:08:20+00:00

America's Lying Press Will Now Lie Even When the Government Won't - https://theduran.com/americas-lying-press-will-now-lie-even-when-the-government-wont/

Eric Zuesse Right now, the New York Times and Washington Post still are not acknowledging that they have no real evidence for their ‘news’ that Russia has been paying, to Afghanistan’s Taliban, bounties for corpses of U.S. troops they’ve killed in Afghanistan. Until recently, America’s press was simply spouting the lies of the U.S. Government, […]

2020-07-02 05:07:16+00:00

Former German Chancellor Says U.S.-EU Alliance Could Now End - https://theduran.com/former-german-chancellor-says-u-s-eu-alliance-could-now-end/

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker A German equivalent to UK’s Financial Times and America’s Wall Street Journal is the Dusseldorf Handelsblatt or “Commerce Sheet,” which headlined on June 30th, “Former Chancellor Schröder: USA Ending Transatlantic Partnership”. They reported: Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has condemned possible new US sanctions against the Nord Stream […]

2020-07-01 15:14:31+00:00

How twisted competition will help the Russian Nord Stream-2 - https://theduran.com/how-twisted-competition-will-help-the-russian-nord-stream-2/

When two companies work on two similar projects, they have to improve their product. This is an example of the right approach. It stimulates development. Now let’s move on to the example of the wrong approach. In early May, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced the start of construction of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline. The […]

2020-07-01 15:13:15+00:00

Dr. Vernon Coleman: Your Government Wants You Dead – BANNED from YouTube - https://theduran.com/dr-vernon-coleman-your-government-wants-you-dead-banned-from-youtube/

by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News

Dr. Vernon Coleman is a general practitioner medical doctor in the U.K. He is a Sunday Times bestselling author, and has written over 100 books which have sold over two million copies in the U.K. alone.

His U.K. publishers include: PAN, Penguin, Corgi, Arrow, Star, Mandarin, Macmillan, Century, Thames and Hudson, and Sidgwick and Jackson. His books have been translated into 25 languages and sell in over 50 countries.

Dr. Coleman has been exposing the fraud in the COVID Plandemic since the beginning of the “outbreak,” and many of his videos on YouTube have now been banned and are hard to find.

That includes one he just published a few days ago: Your Government Wants You Dead.

In this video, he correctly labels what has just happened to hundreds of thousands of seniors worldwide who have just died during the COVID Plandemic as a “holocaust.”

It is time to stop sanitizing this, and start using the correct terminology, even if the corporate media labels us as “conspiracy theorists,” or even worse, as having a “mental illness” for not believing the Government narrative on the Coronavirus.

I don’t know about you, but I much prefer to be among the minority standing up for the truth, no matter what the cost, than be among the majority who are being complicit to mass murder.

Corrie ten Boom and other noble Germans who sacrificed everything to expose the tyranny in Nazi Germany, rather than comply and go along with the crowd, are our examples to follow during these dark, evil days.

Even though YouTube has deleted this recent video from his YouTube channel, we found some copies of it still remaining, and added one to Bitchute, which is fast becoming one of the main alternatives to hosting videos banned on YouTube, and thus far has not succumbed to censorship and government pressure.

The Health Impact News Bitchute channel can be found here.

We have also republished the transcript to this video from Dr. Coleman’s website. This one is still up on YouTube. If it disappears, we will replace it.

2020-07-01 08:16:04+00:00

NATO’s appeasement to Turkey is pushing France out of the Alliance - https://theduran.com/natos-appeasement-to-turkey-is-pushing-france-out-of-the-alliance/

Macron wants to become France’s 21st century Charles de Gaulle

2020-07-01 08:10:27+00:00

Think the ‘Cancel’ Mobs Can’t Get Any Worse? Think Again | RealClearPolitics - https://theduran.com/think-the-cancel-mobs-cant-get-any-worse-think-again-realclearpolitics/

America is in the midst of one of the great moral panics in our nation’s history. If we don’t stand up for our nation’s core values, the situation could get even worse – and soon. If you’ve spent any time on social media in the last three weeks, you’ve probably noticed the organized campaigns to get college and even high school students expelled or denied admission based on their political views. You’ve also seen gleeful mobs celebrating as Americans lose their jobs for running afoul of someone’s momentary political obsessions.

In every sector of American society, people are having their careers destroyed to the pitiless baying of the “woke” masses. It’s happening in business. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman spent 20 years building the fitness brand into a multi-billion dollar company, only to be thrown out of the empire he built for declining to go along with the “racism is a public health crisis”  dogma.

It’s happening in journalism. New York Times editor James Bennet, a liberal, was fired for publishing an op-ed by a sitting Republican senator advocating for a military response to nationwide rioting — a position the majority of Americans agreed with. The same fate befell Philadelphia Inquirer editor Stan Wischowski, who was terminated for approving an article that condemned looting and arson.

It’s happening in entertainment, in academia, and pretty much anywhere someone can be found who is not sufficiently supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement.

It’s even happening to people who didn’t do anything at all. An L.A. Galaxy soccer player was forced to resign because his wife tweeted that rioters should be shot. A lawyer in San Francisco was fired because his wife was rude to a man she thought was spray-painting BLM propaganda on a building that wasn’t his (it was). On Thursday, this Stasi-esque trend reached another level when a company called Equity Prime Mortgage fired the stepmother of the officer charged in the controversial shooting of drunk driver Rashad Brooks after he fought with and fired a taser at police. The stepmother was apparently fired for no reason other than family loyalty.

On Monday, the panic reached what one can only hope will be its peak when a San Diego Gas and Electric employee lost his job for “making a white supremacist hand gesture.” We’ve long since debunked the notion that the OK sign is somehow racist — that was just a fiction perpetrated by internet trolls — but in this case, this man lost his livelihood despite the fact he wasn’t even making an OK sign. He was apparently cracking his knuckles as he drove.

What America is going through right now is not merely another, more intense round of “cancel culture.” We’re now in the midst of a full-force, totalitarian remolding of our society, one that se ...

2020-07-01 07:46:57+00:00

Kosovo Indictment Proves Bill Clinton's Serbian War Atrocities | The Libertarian Institute - https://theduran.com/kosovo-indictment-proves-bill-clintons-serbian-war-atrocities-the-libertarian-institute/

President Bill Clinton’s favorite freedom fighter just got indicted for mass murder, torture, kidnapping, and other crimes against humanity. In 1999, the Clinton administration launched a 78-day bombing campaign that killed up to 1500 civilians in Serbia and Kosovo in what the American media proudly portrayed as a crusade against ethnic bias. That war, like most of the pretenses of U.S. foreign policy, was always a sham.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was charged with ten counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by an international tribunal in The Hague in the Netherlands. It charged Thaci and nine other men with “war crimes, including murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution, and torture.” Thaci and the other charged suspects were accused of being “criminally responsible for nearly 100 murders” and the indictment involved “hundreds of known victims of Kosovo Albanian, Serb, Roma, and other ethnicities and include political opponents.”

Hashim Thaci’s tawdry career illustrates how anti-terrorism is a flag of convenience for Washington policymakers. Prior to becoming Kosovo’s president, Thaci was the head of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), fighting to force Serbs out of Kosovo. In 1999, the Clinton administration designated the KLA as “freedom fighters” despite their horrific past and gave them massive aid. The previous year, the State Department condemned “terrorist action by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.” The KLA was heavily involved in drug trafficking and had close to ties to Osama bin Laden.

But arming the KLA and bombing Serbia helped Clinton portray himself as a crusader against injustice and shift public attention after his impeachment trial. Clinton was aided by many shameless members of Congress anxious to sanctify U.S. killing. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CN) whooped that the United States and the KLA “stand for the same values and principles. Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values.” And since Clinton administration officials publicly compared Serb leader Slobodan Milošević to Hitler, every decent person was obliged to applaud the bombing campaign.

Both the Serbs and ethnic Albanians committed atrocities in the bitter strife in Kosovo. But to sanctify its bombing campaign, the Clinton administration waved a magic wand and made the KLA’s atrocities disappear. British professor Philip Hammond noted that the 78-day bombing campaign “was not a purely military operation: NATO also destroyed what it called ‘dual-use’ targets, such as factories, city bridges, and even the main television building in downtown Belgrade, in an attempt to terrorize the country into surrender.”

NATO repeatedly dropped cluster bombs into marketplaces, hospitals, and other civilian areas. Cluster bombs ar ...

2020-07-01 07:37:17+00:00

Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: If We Don't Act, 2% of the People Are About To Control the Other 98% - https://theduran.com/exclusive-from-gen-flynn-if-we-dont-act-2-of-the-people-are-about-to-control-the-other-98/

‘The trials of our current times, like warfare, are immense and consequences severe and these seem inconquerable.’

I was once told if we’re not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time.

The more I’ve thought about this phrase, the more I believe it. There is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of life. Treason and treachery are rampant and our rule of law and those law enforcement professionals who uphold our laws are under the gun more than at any time in our nation’s history. These passionate 2 percent appear to be winning.

Despite there being countless good people trying to come to grips with everything else on their plates, our silent majority (the indifferent) can no longer be silent.

If the United States wants to survive the onslaught of socialism, if we are to continue to enjoy self-government and the liberty of our hard-fought freedoms, we have to understand there are two opposing forces: One is the “children of light” and the other is the “children of darkness.”

As I recently wrote, the art and exercise of self-governance require active participation by every American. I wasn’t kidding! And voting is only part of that active participation. Time and again, the silent majority have been overwhelmed by the “audacity and resolve” of small, well-organized, passionate groups. It’s now time for us, the silent majority (the indifferent), to demonstrate both….

https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-gen-flynn-dont-act-2-people-control-98/

2020-07-01 07:36:23+00:00

WaPo Does Damage Control After "Far More Damaging" Biden-Ukraine Tapes Disclosed - https://theduran.com/wapo-does-damage-control-after-far-more-damaging-biden-ukraine-tapes-disclosed/

“This summer there will be more release of conversations, with full transcripts…”

The Washington Post is trying to get ahead of what Rudy Giuliani says are “far more damaging” tapes of 2016 phone calls between former Vice President Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which are set for release over the summer by a former Ukrainian diplomat.

To review, Biden conditioned a $1 billion US loan guarantee on the firing of Ukraine’s chief prosecutor, who was leading a wide-ranging investigation into Burisma – a Ukrainian energy company which hired Hunter Biden to sit on its board.

In May, Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach released recordings of Biden and Poroshenko which explicitly detail the quid-pro-quo arrangement to fire the prosecutor, Victor Shokin (which Biden already admitted to).

Biden’s campaign says the tapes are part of a ‘conspiracy theory to smear him’ – while Poroshenko claims they are fabricated.

In one of the May tapes, Poroshenko reports back with “positive news” that Shokin – “despite of the fact that we didn’t have any corruption charges” – had been fired.

Last week, more recordings of Biden and Poroshenko were published to the YouTube channel, “NABU Leaks,” where the two can be heard discussing ongoing efforts by the United States to help Ukraine with various matters.

And according to a Tuesday report in the Washington Post, more tapes are coming.

Both Giuliani and Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American businessman who served as his fixer in Ukraine, confirmed that they sought tapes of Biden last year. Giuliani said he received assistance in his pursuit from a source within the State Department, who he claimed pointed him to the dates of certain conversations between Biden and Poroshenko by accessing an official U.S. government archive.

Giuliani told The Washington Post that he did not know the recently released recordings were coming before they were posted online last month. But in a recent interview with OAN, the former New York mayor claimed to be aware of other tapes that were “far more damaging,” saying, “I would hope that those tapes are put out also.” –Washington Post

The Post calls the clips “heavily edited” and paints Derkach, the Ukrainian MP, as essentially a proxy for Vladimir Putin. They also suggest that “the efforts to promote the recordings in Ukraine and the United States — and pledges by other Trump allies to release more in the coming months — suggest a new push by foreign forces to sway American voters in the run-up to the 2020 election,” and claim that the NABU leaks “further illustrate Trump’s willingness to benefit from foreign intervention in U.S. ...

2020-07-01 07:28:28+00:00

The Purge: The Natural Progression Of “Woke” Censorship Is Tyranny - https://theduran.com/the-purge-the-natural-progression-of-woke-censorship-is-tyranny/

Google and Facebook, for example rake in billions in state and federal subsidies over the course of a few years.   Google doesn’t even pay for the massive bandwidth it uses.

2020-07-01 07:13:12+00:00

Politicians hide behind civilians - https://theduran.com/politicians-hide-behind-civilians/

Via The Baltic Word… The United States plans to transfer the command of the 5th Corps of the U.S. Army from Kentucky to Poland and 30 American F-16 fighters from Germany to the eastern borders of NATO. In addition, the United States is redeploying to Poland not one thousand, as mentioned earlier, but two thousand […]

2020-07-01 07:11:24+00:00

Lithuanian generals in shock: American tanks return home - https://theduran.com/lithuanian-generals-in-shock-american-tanks-return-home/

Via The Baltic Word… The American mechanized battalion left Lithuania. Tanks and soldiers went to Germany and then to Texas. The U.S. battalion left Lithuania without waiting for Defender Europe 2020 military exercises. The battalion has been in the country since last fall and took part in some exercises. It was planned that the battalion […]

2020-07-01 07:10:24+00:00

COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless - https://theduran.com/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/

by Torsten Engelbrecht and Konstantin Demeter

Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose.

Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby “positive” is usually equated with “infected.”

But looking closely at the facts, the conclusion is that these PCR tests are meaningless as a diagnostic tool to determine an alleged infection by a supposedly new virus called SARS-CoV-2.

2020-07-01 07:07:29+00:00

Was a False Hydroxychloroquine Narrative Created to Destroy the Competition for Gilead's Remdesivir? - https://theduran.com/was-a-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative-created-to-destroy-the-competition-for-gileads-remdesivir/

by Vera SharavAlliance for Human Research Protection

Below, Dr. Meryl Nass reviews long a list of corrupt practices. The practices undermine the integrity of medical practice during the current  medical crisis; a crisis significantly made worse  by stakeholders who are focused on projected future profits from not-yet-developed “countermeasures” against  COVID-19.

The stakeholders include public health officials, global public health institutions,  government advisory committees, clinical trialists who design trials to provide commercially beneficial results, and editors of prestigious high impact, medical journals.

These collaborators engaged in an orchestrated effort to prevent physicians from utilizing an existing, off-patent, cheap and affordable drug, that thousands of clinicians attest to its therapeutic benefit.

The problem with Hydroxychloroquine is that there is no profit to be made from this off-patent drug!

2020-07-01 07:02:15+00:00

The North remembers the feat of Soviet soldiers and sets an example for the whole Europe - https://theduran.com/the-north-remembers-the-feat-of-soviet-soldiers-and-sets-an-example-for-the-whole-europe/

Relations between Norway and Russia do not seem too good-neighborly. At least, this impression develops if you look at the Norwegian media. Experts talk about the threat posed by the Northern Fleet of Russia with its new independent status. Last fall, information about Russian special forces allegedly spotted on Svalbard was actively circulated. Agree, in […]

2020-07-01 06:59:14+00:00

The remarkable story of 'Pascuum of Satanas'. - https://theduran.com/the-remarkable-story-of-pascuum-of-satanas/

This case concerns the disappearance of the right panel of the diptych ‘Pascuum of Satanas’, more commonly referred to today as ‘Fields of Hell’ (1703 oil on wooden panels 56″ x 128″). It was by the Dutch artist Hans Van Vfeete (Leyden 1654 – St Louis 1738/9). Van Vfeete was known to have studied in […]

2020-07-01 06:51:29+00:00

The Mythical North Korean Threat - https://theduran.com/the-mythical-north-korean-threat/

American troops arrived in Korea in 1945 and never left. South Korea eventually prospered and became a major economic and military power, but American Generals plan to occupy Korea forever. They exaggerate the North Korean threat, ignoring that South Korea has twice its population, 53 times its economic power measured by GDP, and a modern military that is roughly five times stronger than the decrepit North Korean Army. American occupation troops should have left four decades ago, but President Jimmy Carter’s effort to withdraw was thwarted by Generals. The US military remains to deter peace and block unification in order to retain South Korea as a vassal state.

2020-07-01 06:49:35+00:00

How 'News'-Media Lie and Get Away With It - https://theduran.com/how-news-media-lie-and-get-away-with-it/

Eric Zuesse Lots of U.S. invasions are based on blatant lies by the U.S. Government and its stenographic ‘free press’ (which is just as controlled by America’s 600 billionaires as the Soviet Union’s press was controlled by its Communist Party), but this will discuss only one instance, which is especially well-documented: On 26 May 2004, […]