Daily Archives: May 4, 2020

2020-05-04: News Headlines

Mandy Smithberger (2020-05-04). Beware the Pentagon's Pandemic Profiteers. zcomm.org Hasn't the Military-Industrial Complex Taken Enough of Our Money?>

Joaquin Flores (2020-05-04). China Calls for Closing All U.S. Deep-State Bioweapons Laboratories in Former USSR Countries. globalresearch.ca As countries have openly begun to utilize their military structures in fighting the coronavirus in programs intended to guard against biological warfare, Chinese authorities have come out in support the official position of Russia and considers it dangerous that there …

Nebojsa Malic (2020-05-04). US Push for "Low-yield Nukes" Makes Nuclear War More Likely as Russia Will Retaliate with Full Force, Moscow Says. globalresearch.ca The US State Department's case for tactical nuclear weapons is a case study in psychological projection not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War and its ever-present threat of world-ending atomic holocaust. | Back in February, the Pentagon announced …

RT (2020-05-03). 'Wasteful' US and China-chasing India: What 5 biggest military powers are spending more than a TRILLION DOLLARS on. rt.com Global defense spending saw its largest annual increase in a decade in 2019, proving that the trend for bloated military budgets is here to stay — but expenditure doesn't always correlate simply with power, analysts told RT. | With military budgets peaking at a colossal $1.9 trillion last year (a 3.6 percent increase on 2018), it is clear that governments are still deeply in love with throwing massive amounts of money into the production and acquisition of the latest and fanciest new weapons of war. We have now reached the "highest level of spending since the 2008 global financial crisis," according to t…

Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran (2020-05-03). Who Really Controls the World? Deadly Weapons, Concentration of Wealth, Corporate Media. globalresearch.ca (Article originally published in April 2015) | Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-05-03). Challenging the Narrative: Media Propaganda Launches Conspiracy Theories Against Covid-19 Skeptics. globalresearch.ca Following the September 11th attacks in New York City, it instantaneously changed everything, from expanding US wars abroad against Afghanistan and Iraq, the dismantling of whatever civil rights you had left to the increased use of drones for surveillance and …

RT (2020-05-02). DARPA research lab designing 'game changer' rapid coronavirus blood test repurposed from BIOWEAPONS detection project. rt.com Germ warfare researchers at the Pentagon's shadowy advanced projects unit have developed a new coronavirus test that could spot infected patients before they become contagious, originally created to diagnose victims of bioweapons. | The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the new test may be capable of identifying infections within 24 hours, some four days prior to any of the test kits currently available, the Guardian

Ashley Curtin (2020-05-02). Canadian prime minister bans assault weapons 7 days after series of shootings. nationofchange.org "There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."

teleSUR (2020-05-02). Canada's PM Bans the Use of Assault-Style Weapons Immediately. telesurenglish.net Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that the country is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately. | RELATED: | The move comes less than two weeks after Canada's deadliest rampage in modern history when a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 22 people after a 12-hour reign of terror. | Trudeau announced the ban of over 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including two weapons used by the gunman as…

Staff (2020-04-30). WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork. democracynow.org As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization. "When Congress passed that act, it certainly did not have in mind that the president has the power or the right to put workers' lives and health at risk," says Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law. Gostin also discusses why he joined 40 leading center directors in a declaration this we…

Jeff Jurgens (2020-04-30). Take Action: Keep COVID Stimulus $$ Away From the Pentagon. peaceaction.org Congress is putting together additional and much needed stimulus packages in response to COVID-19. That's the good news. The bad news is that the Pentagon is trying to weasel billions of dollars out of these stimulus bills! All just to keep the mega-profits rolling for weapons dealers and the military-industrial complex. As people here at …

Lawrence Gostin (2020-05-03). If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork. zcomm.org Source: Democracy Now! As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization. "When Congress passed that act, it certainly did not have in mind that the president has the power or the

Julia Conley, staff writer (2020-05-01). 2 Weeks After Nova Scotia Massacre, Canada Bans Assault Weapons. 7 Years After Sandy Hook in the US—And Still Nothing. commondreams.org Telling the Canadian public that they "deserve more than thoughts and prayers" less than two weeks after a series of shootings in Canada that killed 13 people, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced a ban on "assault-style" semi-automatic weapons in the country. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1210468669_1.jpg

sputniknews (2020-05-03). Iran Nuclear Deal Will 'Die Forever' If US Uses 'Sanctions Virus' to Extend Arms Embargo — Tehran. sputniknews.com The Trump administration has been searching for options to try to extend the United Nations ban on the sale of conventional weapons to Iran beyond October, proposing sanctions and even considering making the argument that the US is still effectively a party to the Iran nuclear deal, despite its decision to walk out of the agreement in 2018.

2020-05-04: Social Media Postees

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Beware the Pentagon's pandemic profiteers
Mandy Smithberger | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-04
Hasn't the military-industrial complex taken enough of our money?>…
nationofchange.org/2020/05/04/beware-the-pentagons-pandemic-profiteers/

Beware the Pentagon's Pandemic Profiteers
Mandy Smithberger | zcomm.org | 2020-05-04
Hasn't the Military-Industrial Complex Taken Enough of Our Money?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/beware-the-pentagons-pandemic-profiteers/

China Calls for Closing All U.S. Deep-State Bioweapons Laboratories in Former USSR Countries
Joaquin Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
As countries have openly begun to utilize their military structures in fighting the coronavirus in programs intended to guard against biological warfare, Chinese authorities have come out in support the official position of Russia and considers it dangerous that there …
globalresearch.ca/china-calls-closing-all-u-s-deep-state-bioweapons-laboratories-former-ussr-countries/5711641

US Push for "Low-yield Nukes" Makes Nuclear War More Likely as Russia Will Retaliate with Full Force, Moscow Says
Nebojsa Malic | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The US State Department's case for tactical nuclear weapons is a case study in psychological projection not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War and its ever-present threat of world-ending atomic holocaust. | Back in February, the Pentagon announced | …
globalresearch.ca/us-push-low-yield-nukes-makes-atomic-war-more-likely-russia-retaliate-full-force/5711644

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

'Wasteful' US and China-chasing India: What 5 biggest military powers are spending more than a TRILLION DOLLARS on
rt.com | 2020-05-03
Global defense spending saw its largest annual increase in a decade in 2019, proving that the trend for bloated military budgets is here to stay

Who Really Controls the World? Deadly Weapons, Concentration of Wealth, Corporate Media
Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
(Article originally published in April 2015) | Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. …
globalresearch.ca/who-really-controls-the-world/5445239

Challenging the Narrative: Media Propaganda Launches Conspiracy Theories Against Covid-19 Skeptics
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-03
Following the September 11th attacks in New York City, it instantaneously changed everything, from expanding US wars abroad against Afghanistan and Iraq, the dismantling of whatever civil rights you had left to the increased use of drones for surveillance and …
globalresearch.ca/media-propaganda-launches-conspiracy-theories-against-covid-19-skeptics/5711597

Canadian prime minister bans assault weapons 7 days after series of shootings
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-02
"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."
nationofchange.org/2020/05/02/canadian-prime-minister-bans-assault-weapons-7-days-after-series-of-shootings/

Canada's PM Bans the Use of Assault-Style Weapons Immediately
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-02
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that the country is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately. | RELATED: | Canada: Gunman Dressed as Police Kills 16 People | The move comes less than two weeks after Canada's deadliest rampage in modern history when a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 22 people after a 12-hour reign of terror. | Trudeau announced the ban of over 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including two weapons used by the gunman as…
telesurenglish.net/news/Canadas-PM-Bans-the-Use-Assault-Style-Weapons-Immediately-20200502-0008.html

DARPA research lab designing 'game changer' rapid coronavirus blood test repurposed from BIOWEAPONS detection project
rt.com | 2020-05-02
Germ warfare researchers at the Pentagon's shadowy advanced projects unit have developed a new coronavirus test that could spot infected patients before they become contagious, originally created to diagnose victims of bioweapons. | The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the new test may be capable of identifying infections within 24 hours, some four days prior to any of the test kits currently available, the Guardian reported on Friday.
rt.com/usa/487603-darpa-bioweapons-research-coronavirus/

Draft Dodger Trump Charts Course for War With China
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-01
China and the renowned stoicism of its leaders are not going to sit idly by as Washington dips into their sovereign coffers and begins looting trillions of dollars out of some deluded sense of victimhood. | It's a grim number. This week sees the United States' death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic exceeding the total number of American troops that were killed during the decade-long Vietnam War

If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork
Lawrence Gostin | zcomm.org | 2020-05-03
Source: Democracy Now! As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/if-were-at-war-the-weapons-we-need-are-tests-and-ppe-not-pork/