Daily Archives: April 20, 2020

2020-04-20: News Headlines

RT (2020-04-19). Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators in Israel stage unique protest, keeping social distance (PHOTOS, VIDEOS). rt.com Israeli demonstrators turned out in droves to protest the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Mindful of the need for social distancing, they stood two meters apart from each other in a visually spectacular gathering. | Tel Aviv's Rabin Square is often a staging ground for rallies. Tens of thousands flocked to the plaza to protest police restrictions on music festivals last year, while the year before saw gay rights activists turn up to shout down a controversial surrogacy law. | | Protesters assemble in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, April 19, 2020 © AFP / Jack Guez | Sunday, however, saw a gathering unlike an…

Amy Merrill (2020-04-19). Lessons From COVID-19 to Address the Climate Crisis. commondreams.org Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles, California on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-04-18). The anatomy of a crackdown: How activists are being targeted in India. peoplesdispatch.org The arrest of Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde is the latest in a series of steps aimed at cracking down on dissent in India…

Alan Macleod (2020-04-17). ICE is Deporting COVID-19 Positive Detainees from Private Immigration Prisons. mintpressnews.com By continuing deportations of quarantined detainees during a pandemic, ICE is greatly increasing the risk of spreading the deadly virus to other countries officials and activists warn.

Max Blumenthal (2020-04-16). Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria. thegrayzone.com A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be very hazardous to your health….

Medea Benjamin (2020-04-04). Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS. zcomm.org The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul's immediate and unconditional release…

Venezuela Analysis (2020-02-06). Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law" theantimedia.com In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.

Suzanne O'Keeffe (2019-07-24). MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with XR. peoplesparty.org with Extinction Rebellion climate activists | MPP National Director Nick Brana arrested with Extinction Rebellion climate activists after supergluing themselves to Congress in mass civil disobedience: | Washington, D.C. — Movement for a People's Party National Director Nick Brana was arrested during a protest to block Congress and demand that they join the countries of the UK and Canada and declare a climate emergency. | Brana and 15 people affiliated with the climate action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) glued themselves to three underground tunnel entrances leading to the Capitol, blocking access…

2020-04-20: Social Media Postees

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All the True and Tried Tactics in Support of War on Syria Are Being Rolled Out in Support of the COVID Hysteria
Tobias Riegel | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20
Even elements that are known mainly from the Syria-campaign have arrived here: for example, the instrumentalization of children to exploit emotions to distract from factual questions. For example, Bavaria's Minister President Markus Sà∂der recently read out an appeal allegedly from a ten-year-old: ´Could you extend the movement restrictions? ª Many media outlets did not criticize this instrumentalization of children for political use, but continued it themselves: &…
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White Helmet Tactics Come to the US to Prop Up the Covid Rouge
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20
Supposed nurses in Denver staring down anti-lockdown protesters supposedly to prevent gridlock that would block ambulances: | twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1251988… | twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1251990… | However, judging by the photos there is no gridlock, except perhaps the one being created by the "nurses": | twitter.com/dcwoodruff/status/1251967877… | twitter.com/MarcZenn/status/125197516292… | How come "nurses" have time to "counter-protest"? Aren't we in some kind of a pan…
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Why Is There an Enormous Global Dollar Shortage Despite the Fed's Massive Injections?
Daniel Lacalle | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20
In response to the economic collapse caused by the general confinement imposed by state governments as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve (the American Central Bank) announced an injection of more than $ 2 trillion into the American economy . | But the dollar remains strong against other currencies in the world – as can be seen from the high value of the DXY index , which compares the US…
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Stanford's Antibodies Study Wraps Up, Shows Covid-19 Is 50x More Prevalent and 50x Less Deadly than Believed
John P.A. Ioannidis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
The heavily anticipated ( at least by Anti-Empire) Stanford University antibodies test of a representative population has now concluded. | Background | Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have …
globalresearch.ca/stanford-antibodies-study-wraps-up-shows-covid-19-50x-more-prevalent-50x-less-deadly/5710147

England's Office for National Statistics: The Average Covid-Positive Fatality Has Three Other Health Conditions
Nick Triggle | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20

Some "apocalypse"

| More than nine in 10 people dying with coronavirus have an underlying health condition, figures from the Office for National Statistics show. | The ONS looked at nearly 4,000 deaths during March in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate. | In 91% of cases the individuals had other health problems. | The most common was heart disease, followed by dementia and respiratory illness. | On average, people dying also had roughly three other health conditions. | It comes amid signs the coronavirus outbreak is deterring people from going to A&E.
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If a Vaccine for COVID-19 Is Found It Will Be the First Time Ever for a Coronavirus
Candace Sutton | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20
One of Australia's most eminent vaccine developers says there may never be a vaccine against COVID-19 for some very good reasons. | Professor Ian Frazer, the immunologist who co-invented the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine which prevents cervical cancer, said a coronavirus vaccine was "tricky". | He told news.com.au that although 100 different teams around the world were testing for vaccines, medical scientists did not have a model of how to attack the virus. | The professor of medicine at Queensland University, which is testing for its own COVID-19 vaccine, said immunisation against coronavirus was simila…
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You Will Be Relieved to Know Bill and Melinda Gates Have Been Building a Food Stockpile in Their Basement for Years
Dominic-Madori Davis | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20
Related: Emperor of the World, Bill Gates, Says There Won't Be Any Public Gatherings for Next 18 Months. Who Died and Made Him King? | | Melinda Gates said in an interview with BBC Radio on Thursday that she and her husband, Bill, had been storing food in their…
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The COVID Rouge Are Polishing Their Iron Boots: Speak Out While You Still Can
Edward Slavsquat | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-19
We hate to be alarmist but the writing is on the wall. If you sense the profound darkness sweeping over much of the world, it's time to make your concerns loudly heard. This will greatly offend your acquaintances on Facebook

Lessons From COVID-19 to Address the Climate Crisis
Amy Merrill | commondreams.org | 2020-04-19
Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles, California on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators in Israel stage unique protest, keeping social distance (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-04-19
Israeli demonstrators turned out in droves to protest the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Mindful of the need for social distancing, they stood two meters apart from each other in a visually spectacular gathering. | Tel Aviv's Rabin Square is often a staging ground for rallies. Tens of thousands flocked to the plaza to protest police restrictions on music festivals last year, while the year before saw gay rights activists turn up to shout down a controversial surrogacy law. | | Protesters assemble in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, April 19, 2020 © AFP / Jack Guez | Sunday, however, saw a gathering unlike an…
rt.com/news/486269-israel-protest-social…

The anatomy of a crackdown: How activists are being targeted in India
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-18
The arrest of Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde is the latest in a series of steps aimed at cracking down on dissent in India…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/18/the-anato…

ICE is Deporting COVID-19 Positive Detainees from Private Immigration Prisons
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-17
By continuing deportations of quarantined detainees during a pandemic, ICE is greatly increasing the risk of spreading the deadly virus to other countries officials and activists warn,…
mintpressnews.com/ice-deporting-covid-19…

ICE is Deporting COVID-19 Positive Detainees from Private Immigration Prisons
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-17
By continuing deportations of quarantined detainees during a pandemic, ICE is greatly increasing the risk of spreading the deadly virus to other countries officials and activists warn.
mintpressnews.com/ice-deporting-covid-19…

Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-16
A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be very hazardous to your health….
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-s…

Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul's immediate and unconditional release…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/saudis-brave-women-p…