2020-05-10: Social Media Postees

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Something about Julian Assange you should know
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-10
Anyone watching the current events surrounding Julian Assange will know that justice in Britain is not the driving motivation behind his incarceration. His treatment by the state is truly shameful, immoral and reprehensible. What you are witnessing in real-time is the abuse and oppression of a journalist all funded by the taxpayer to further the …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/something-about-julian-assange-you-should-know/

Chinese Ministry Warned President Xi Jinping of Armed Confrontation with US: Report
John Bowden | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-10
A report from China's top intelligence ministry presented to President Xi Jinping reportedly warned of growing anti-Chinese sentiment around the world and raised the possibility of military conflict with the U.S. | Reuters reported Monday that the analysis, which was supposedly …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-ministry-warned-xi-armed-confrontation-us/5712365

Colombia's military attache to Washington removed over spying scandal
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-10
One of Colombia's military attaches to Washington DC is among the 12 army officials who have been sacked over a major spying scandal, newspaper El Tiempo reported Saturday. According to…
colombiareports.com/colombias-military-attache-to-washington-removed-over-spying-scandal/

Trump Officials Ignored Company's Offer in January to Make Millions of N95 Masks
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-10
Progressives on Saturday denounced an "infuriating" report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services' refusal to take an American company up on its offer to supply millions of N95 respirators to the government early on in the coronavirus pandemic. | The Washington Post reported that federal scientist Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint last week over his demotion following his criticism of…
truthout.org/articles/trump-officials-ignored-companys-offer-in-january-to-make-millions-of-n95-masks/

We Need Urgent Answers About the Massive NHS Covid Data Deal
Mary Fitzgerald, Cori Crider | commondreams.org | 2020-05-09
AI firm Palantir is apparently assisting the NHS in tracking hospital resources and in providing a "single source of truth" about the epidemic, in order to stem its spread. Founded by Silicon Valley billionaire and close Trump ally Peter Thiel, the data-mining firm is best known for supporting the CIA's counterinsurgency and intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo: The DEMO Conference/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/15645410927_3c5f8609bf_o_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/09/we-need-urgent-answers-about-massive-nhs-covid-data-deal?cd-origin=rss

State Department's Odd Way of Commemorating WWII
Paul Robinson | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-09
Co-signed by the foreign ministers of a bunch of Eastern European states, including Hitler's one-time allies Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, the following statement of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on the website of the US State Department yesterday, to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Nazi Germany gets one brief mention. Thereafter, as you will see, it's all 'The Soviets were evil, the Soviets were evil'. To say the least it's a very odd way of commemorating…
anti-empire.com/state-departments-odd-way-of-commemorating-wwii/

The Plot to Blame China for COVID-19
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The Trump lot–Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Mike Pompeo–and their media cheerleaders are as fanatically anti-China as the Biden crew is anti-Russia. Just like George W. Bush's WMD lies in the early-2000s, there is a developing timeline of Trumpian efforts to bend intelligence on COVID to the administration's anti-China policy. TARGET: CHINA In the 1980s, the…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/the-plot-to-blame-china-for-covid-19/

Stir Crazy! Episode #31: Cancel Corporate Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
On today's show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, The Progressive Army founder Ben Dixon, and TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-31-cancel-corporate-media

Pressuring Iran Is Not the Answer to the US's Middle East Woes
Sina Toossi | commondreams.org | 2020-05-08
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the United Against Nuclear Iran Summit in New York City on September 25, 2018. (Photo: State Department photo) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-05-08_at_12.54.28_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/08/pressuring-iran-not-answer-uss-middle-east-woes?cd-origin=rss

FBI Finds Evidence Of Israeli Intervention In Trump's 2016 Campaign
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
An Israeli minister met with Roger Stone to provide information that may have benefited the Trump campaign. The discovery implicates Netanyahu in an attempt to distort the 2016 US election result.
therealnews.com/stories/fbi-evidence-israel-netanyahu-roger-stone-intelligence-meeting-2016-campaign

Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq's new PM, faces tough challenges on economy, foreign soldiers
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-07
After months of political uncertainty, Mustafa al-Kadhimi has been confirmed as the new prime minister of Iraq. However, the former intelligence chief is likely to face a number of challenges, including addressing the demands of protesters…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/07/mustafa-al-kadhimi-iraqs-new-pm-faces-tough-challenges-on-economy-foreign-soldiers/

'Never saw any direct evidence': Clapper admission torpedoes Democrat push to revive Trump-Russia conspiracy with transcript dump
rt.com | 2020-05-07
House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff has published all the transcripts of 'Russiagate' interviews he had kept secret, blaming President Donald Trump for the delay, but their content belied his conspiracy narrative. | Schiff (D-California) published on Thursday afternoon more than 50 interviews his committee had conducted over the past three years in pursuit of proof that Trump "colluded" with Russia to win the presidency in 2016. | While it will take time to sift through the thousands of pages, some of the jui…
rt.com/usa/488088-schiff-transcripts-russiagate-clapper/

Exclusive: OPCW chief made false claims to denigrate Douma whistleblower, documents reveal
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-06
The Grayzone has obtained documents exposing numerous falsehoods and misleading claims by OPCW Director General Fernando Arias to degrade the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/06/opcw-douma-whistleblower/

Muting Justice: Rescheduling Julian Assange's Hearing
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-06
When we think of the repression of journalists, we automatically evoke foreign lands. We rarely, however, evoke or remember our own dissidents.

The Great Russiagate Hoax Exposed. Geopolitical Transition to Chinagate
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-10
Hoaxes are easy to detect. When accusations lack credible supportive evidence, they baseless. | Not a shred of evidence about alleged Russian US election meddling was ever presented by Washington's intelligence community, the House, Senate, or farcical Robert Mueller probe. | Russiagate …
globalresearch.ca/russiagate-hoax-exposed/5712334

Operation Ajax: CIA Oil Coup in Iran
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2020-05-09
Via The Cold War Our series on the history of the Cold War period continues with a documentary on the Iranian Coup of 1953 against the prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh and the so-called operation Ajax conducted by the American and British in support of the oil interests and the shah regime. This coup …
iranian.com/2020/05/09/operation-ajax-cia-oil-coup-in-iran/

Afghan Forces Kill Senior Taliban Spy in Laghman Province
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-10
KABUL (Sputnik) – The Afghan forces have killed one of the Taliban's regional intelligence officers in the eastern province of Laghman, Asadullah Dawlatzai, the provincial governor's spokesman, stated on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/asia/202005101079262928-afghan-forces-kill-senior-taliban-spy-in-laghman-province/

Progressive Group Denounces Roberts' Refusal to Investigate Federal Judge's Retirement
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-09
In what the advocacy group Demand Justice called a "Friday news dump," U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said he would not direct a federal court to conduct an inquiry into the retirement of Judge Thomas Griffith from second-highest court in the country. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1198873388_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/09/progressive-group-denounces-roberts-refusal-investigate-federal-judges-retirement?cd-origin=rss

Probe by Federal Agency Finds 'Reasonable Grounds to Believe' HHS Whistleblower's Ouster Was Retaliation by Trump Officials
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-08
"This country is in an unprecedented health crisis and needs the expertise of Dr. Bright to lead the nation's efforts to combat Covid-19," said whistleblower's lawyers. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/richard_bright_special_counsel.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/08/probe-federal-agency-finds-reasonable-grounds-believe-hhs-whistleblowers-ouster-was?cd-origin=rss

China refutes 24 'lies' by US politicians over coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-10
China has issued a lengthy rebuttal of what it said were 24 "preposterous allegations" by some leading U.S. politicians over its handling of the new coronavirus outbreak.The Chinese foreign ministry has dedicated most of its press briefings over the past week to rejecting accusations by U.S. politicians, especially Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that China had withheld information about the new coronavirus and that it had originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan.A 30-page, 11,000-word article posted on the ministry website on Saturday night repeated and expanded on the refutations made during the press br…
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-refutes-24-lies-by-us-politicians-over-coronavirus-3519102

'Craven and repugnant': Dem Feinstein roasted for attack on Biden accuser Reade after backing Blasey Ford during Kavanaugh fiasco
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is being lambasted for apparent double standards after attacking Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges the Democrat presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. | The Californian politician unequivocally supported Christine Blasey Ford when she accused then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018. However, now that it's a Democrat facing the charges, Feinstein's singing an entirely different tune. | Discussing Reade's claims, which date back to 1993, Feinstein questioned why she waited 27 years to make them public. | Also on rt.com…
rt.com/usa/488176-feinstein-roasted-tara-reade-attack/

Will the Supreme Court return eastern Oklahoma to the Five Tribes?
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-08
The case of McGirt v. Oklahoma sits at the top of the Supreme Court docket as the Indian law case that will decide the issue of whether eastern Oklahoma will be returned to reservation status. Oral arguments in this matter had been scheduled for April 21, but the Supreme Court delayed the hearing to June due to COVID-19, but has now …
peoplesworld.org/article/will-the-supreme-court-return-eastern-oklahoma-to-the-five-tribes/

Republicans Say They'd Break Rule They Invented to Derail Obama's SCOTUS Pick
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-08
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital on Wednesday evening after having been treated for an infection in her gallbladder. | Ginsburg is "doing well and glad to be home," according to a spokeswoman for the Court, but that hasn't stopped some Republicans in the Senate from considering what they might do if her seat (or even somebody else's) were suddenly to become vacant…
truthout.org/articles/republicans-say-theyd-break-rule-they-invented-to-derail-obamas-scotus-pick/

UK Supreme Court Reverses BDS Ban
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest British Palestinian solidarity group, successfully petitioned to reverse a 2016 ban preventing local governments divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation.
therealnews.com/stories/uk-supreme-court-reverses-bds-ban-palestine-solidarity-campaign

No One, Not Even Trump, is Above the Law
David Cole | aclu.org | 2020-05-07
Next week, on May 12, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in three cases about whether President Trump can block subpoenas issued to his banks and accountant to hand over his personal financial documents in connection with investigations of potential crimes. We argue that Trump, no less than anyone else, has no right to block such subpoenas. No one, not even the president, is above the law. , , Our amicus curiae briefs for the cases, Trump v. Mazars/Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG and…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/no-one-not-even-trump-is-above-the-law

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Asks if Safer at Home Order Is 'Tyranny'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
The state's conservative justices raise issue of Japanese internment camps while discussing Governor Tony Evers's order.
progressive.org/dispatches/wi-supreme-court-safer-at-home-tyranny-conniff-200506/

Amazon VP Quits In Support Of Fired Whistleblowers
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
Senior Amazon engineer Tim Bray said the firings were evidence of "a vein of toxicity running through the company culture." We get a response from Chris Smalls, one of those fired workers.
therealnews.com/stories/amazon-vp-engineer-tim-bray-quits-over-firing-whistleblowers-worker-safety

US refuses to extradite CIA agent who killed UK teen Harry Dunn
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-05
As the US government hunts Julian Assange, it refuses to extradite a CIA agent who killed UK teen Harry Dunn…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/05/us-refuses-to-extradite-cia-agent-who-killed-uk-teen-harry-dunn/

Wisconsin Protesters Target 'Tony the Tyrant'
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-04
GOP temper tantrum escalates as state Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on restrictions.
progressive.org/dispatches/wisconsin-protesters-target-tony-the-tyrant-conniff-200504/

"Artificial Intelligence Plan" That Became "Coronavirus Plan" & "China Did It" Narrative Is WMDs 2.0
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-22
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/21/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/artificial-intelligence-plan-that-became-coronavirus-plan-china-did-it-narrative-wmds-2-0/

Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision
Whitney Webb | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-20
Last year, a government commission called for the US to adopt an AI-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country in order to ensure American hegemony in artificial intelligence. Now, many of the "obstacles" they had cited as preventing its implementation are rapidly being removed under the guise of combating the …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/techno-tyranny-how-us-national-security-state-using-coronavirus-fulfill-orwellian-vision/

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