thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-25--Who Deserves Impeachment More – Trump or Schiff?

onald Trump was impeached last winter for one technical violation of the law and a host of made-up ones .
The technical violation was his move to block $ 391 million in Ukrainian military aid .
It was a violation because it because it interfered with Congress ’ s exclusive spending powers .
But it was purely technical because presidents traditionally have wide latitude in determining how expenditures are made .
Back in 1801 , Thomas Jefferson ’ s treasury secretary , Albert Gallatin , argued that the executive branch should be allowed “ a reasonable discretion ” while , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had no scruples about unilaterally moving more than $ 1 million – a lot of money in those days – from one budget account to another to pay for a pet project known as the Peace Corps .
No one thought much of it at the time , so Trump ’ s decision to hold up an appropriation in 2019 doesn ’ t seem like a big deal .
And it wasn ’ t , as the December 18 articles of impeachment made clear .
Rather than dwelling on the blockage itself , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ question at hand , which is why it occurred .
The answer , of course , was to pressure newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into why a notorious oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky had given Joe Biden ’ s son Hunter a lucrative no-show job and why the then-vice president had then pushed for the firing of a prosecutor looking into Zlochevsky ’ s company , Burisma Holdings .
Since any such investigation would have reflected poorly on Biden , the presumptive Democratic nominee , Democrats charged that Trump was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political benefit ” by “ enlist [ ing ] a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections.
” After welcoming Russian interference in 2016 , he was now angling for Ukrainian interference in 2020 – or so they maintained .
But the charge never made sense for one all-important reason : however much Trump might benefit , the public had a legitimate interest in learning why Biden had allowed his son to enter into an obviously corrupt relationship at a time when he was supposedly serving as Obama ’ s point man in rooting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as if 1920s Chicago crime buster Eliot Ness had looked the other way while a close relative took a job with Al Capone .
So while Democrats made a big show of moral indignation , Senate Republicans were unmoved with the partial exception of notorious featherbrain Mitt Romney , and Trump was acquitted .
But now let ’ s take a look at Schiff ’ s sins and see how they compare .
Back in 2017 , he was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and therefore the man Democrats counted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had colluded with the Kremlin in order to steal the election .
He did so with gusto .
Quoting from a dossier prepared by ex-British MI6 agent Christopher Steele , he regaled a March 2017 committee hearing with tales of how Russia bribed Trump adviser Carter Page by offering him a hefty slice of a Russian natural-gas company known as Rosneft and of how Russian agents boosted Trump ’ s political fortunes by hacking Hillary Clinton ’ s emails and passing them on to WikiLeaks .
Conceivably , such acts could have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But it is also possible , ” he went on , “ maybe more than possible , that they are not coincidental , not disconnected , and not unrelated , and that the Russians used the same techniques to corrupt U.S. persons that they have employed in Europe and elsewhere .
We simply don ’ t know , not yet , and we owe it to the country to find out.
” Hours later , he assured MSNBC that the evidence of collusion was “ more than circumstantial.
” Nine months after that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the case was no longer in doubt : “ The Russians offered help , the campaign accepted help , the Russians gave help , and the president made full use of that help.
” In February 2018 , he told reporters : “ There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we ’ ve gathered in the investigation .
And I think some of that non-public evidence is evidence on the issue of collusion and some … on the issue of obstruction.
” The press lapped it up .
But now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 57 transcripts of secret testimony – transcripts , by the way , that Schiff bottled up for months – we have a better idea of what such “ non-public information ” amounts to .
The answer : nothing .
A parade of high-level witnesses told the intelligence committee that either they didn ’ t know about collusion or lacked evidence even to venture an opinion .
Not one offered the contrary view that collusion was true .
“ I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the Russians to meddle with the election , ” testified ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper .
Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the committee that no one in the FBI or CIA had informed her that collusion had taken place .
Sally Yates , acting attorney general during the Obama-Trump transition , was similarly noncommittal .
So were Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes and former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe .
David Kramer , a prominent neocon who helped spread word of the Steele dossier in top intelligence circles , was downright @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a position to really say one way or the other , sir .
I ’ m sorry.
” But rather than admit that the investigation had turned up nothing , Schiff lied that it had – not once but repeatedly .
Let that sink in for a moment .
Collusion dominated the headlines from the moment Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier on Jan. 10 , 2017 , to the release of the Muller report on Apr .
18 , 2019 .
That ’ s more than two years , a period in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia , Russia , Russia and little else .
Thanks to the uproar , acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein secretly discussed using the Twenty-fifth Amendment to force Trump out of office , while an endless parade of newscasters and commentators assured viewers that the president ’ s days were numbered because “ the walls are closing in.
” Schiff ’ s only response was to egg it on to greater and greater heights .
Even when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller issued his no-collusion verdict – “ the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities , ” his report said – Schiff insisted that there was still “ ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.
” “ I use that word very carefully , ” he said , “ because I also distinguish time and time again between collusion , that is acts of corruption that may or may not be criminal , and proof of a criminal conspiracy .
And that is a distinction that Bob Mueller made within the first few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , every act that I ’ ve pointed to as evidence of collusion has now been borne out by the report.
” So Trump colluded with the Kremlin , but in a non-criminal way ?
Even if Mueller got Schiff in a headlock and screamed in his ear , “ No collusion , no collusion , ” the committee chairman would presumably reply : “ See ?
He said it – collusion.
” The man is an unscrupulous liar , in other words , someone who will say anything to gain attention and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why contributions flowing to his re-election campaign have risen from under $ 1 million a year to $ 10.5 million since the Russia furor began .
The man talks endlessly about the Constitution , patriotism , his father ’ s heroic service in the military , and so on .
But the only thing Adam Schiff really cares about is himself .
Trump ’ s sins are manifold .
But with unerring accuracy , Schiff managed to zero in on the one sin that didn ’ t take place .
Considering that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military units whose members sport neo-Nazi regalia and SS symbols as they battle pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine , Schiff ’ s crimes are just as bad , if not worse .
Ladies and gentlemen , we give you the next candidate for impeachment , the congressman from Hollywood – Adam Schiff !

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onald Trump was impeached last winter for one technical violation of the law and a host of made-up ones. The technical violation was his move to block $391 million in Ukrainian military aid.
It was a violation because it because it interfered with Congress’s exclusive spending powers. But it was purely technical because presidents traditionally have wide latitude in determining how expenditures are made. Back in 1801, Thomas Jefferson’s treasury secretary, Albert Gallatin, argued that the executive branch should be allowed “a reasonable discretion” while, 160 years later, John F. Kennedy had no scruples about unilaterally moving more than $1 million – a lot of money in those days – from one budget account to another to pay for a pet project known as the Peace Corps. No one thought much of it at the time, so Trump’s decision to hold up an appropriation in 2019 doesn’t seem like a big deal.
And it wasn’t, as the December 18 articles of impeachment made clear. Rather than dwelling on the blockage itself, they quickly moved on to the real question at hand, which is why it occurred. The answer, of course, was to pressure newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into why a notorious oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky had given Joe Biden’s son Hunter a lucrative no-show job and why the then-vice president had then pushed for the firing of a prosecutor looking into Zlochevsky’s company, Burisma Holdings.
Since any such investigation would have reflected poorly on Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Democrats charged that Trump was seeking to “obtain an improper personal political benefit” by “enlist[ing] a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections.” After welcoming Russian interference in 2016, he was now angling for Ukrainian interference in 2020 – or so they maintained. But the charge never made sense for one all-important reason: however much Trump might benefit, the public had a legitimate interest in learning why Biden had allowed his son to enter into an obviously corrupt relationship at a time when he was supposedly serving as Obama’s point man in rooting out Ukrainian corruption.
It’s as if 1920s Chicago crime buster Eliot Ness had looked the other way while a close relative took a job with Al Capone. So while Democrats made a big show of moral indignation, Senate Republicans were unmoved with the partial exception of notorious featherbrain Mitt Romney, and Trump was acquitted.
But now let’s take a look at Schiff’s sins and see how they compare. Back in 2017, he was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and therefore the man Democrats counted on to lead the charge that Trump had colluded with the Kremlin in order to steal the election. He did so with gusto. Quoting from a dossier prepared by ex-British MI6 agent Christopher Steele, he regaled a March 2017 committee hearing with tales of how Russia bribed Trump adviser Carter Page by offering him a hefty slice of a Russian natural-gas company known as Rosneft and of how Russian agents boosted Trump’s political fortunes by hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails and passing them on to WikiLeaks. Conceivably, such acts could have been purely coincidental, Schiff acknowledged.
“But it is also possible,” he went on, “maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected, and not unrelated, and that the Russians used the same techniques to corrupt U.S. persons that they have employed in Europe and elsewhere. We simply don’t know, not yet, and we owe it to the country to find out.”
Hours later, he assured MSNBC that the evidence of collusion was “more than circumstantial.” Nine months after that, he informedCNN’s Jake Tapper that the case was no longer in doubt: “The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help.” In February 2018, he told reporters: “There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we’ve gathered in the investigation. And I think some of that non-public evidence is evidence on the issue of collusion and some … on the issue of obstruction.”
The press lapped it up. But now, thanks to the May 7 release of 57 transcripts of secret testimony – transcripts, by the way, that Schiff bottled up for months – we have a better idea of what such “non-public information” amounts to. The answer: nothing. A parade of high-level witnesses told the intelligence committee that either they didn’t know about collusion or lacked evidence even to venture an opinion. Not one offered the contrary view that collusion was true.
“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting [or] conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” testified ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the committee that no one in the FBI or CIA had informed her that collusion had taken place. Sally Yates, acting attorney general during the Obama-Trump transition, was similarly noncommittal. So were Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes and former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. David Kramer, a prominent neocon who helped spread word of the Steele dossier in top intelligence circles, was downright apologetic: “I’m not in a position to really say one way or the other, sir. I’m sorry.”
But rather than admit that the investigation had turned up nothing, Schiff lied that it had – not once but repeatedly.
Let that sink in for a moment. Collusion dominated the headlines from the moment Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier on Jan. 10, 2017, to the release of the Muller report on Apr. 18, 2019. That’s more than two years, a period in which newspapers and TV were filled with Russia, Russia, Russia and little else. Thanks to the uproar, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein secretly discussed using the Twenty-fifth Amendment to force Trump out of office, while an endless parade of newscasters and commentators assured viewers that the president’s days were numbered because “the walls are closing in.”
Schiff’s only response was to egg it on to greater and greater heights. Even when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller issued his no-collusion verdict – “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” his report said – Schiff insisted that there was still “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”
“I use that word very carefully,” he said, “because I also distinguish time and time again between collusion, that is acts of corruption that may or may not be criminal, and proof of a criminal conspiracy. And that is a distinction that Bob Mueller made within the first few pages of his report. In fact, every act that I’ve pointed to as evidence of collusion has now been borne out by the report.”
So Trump colluded with the Kremlin, but in a non-criminal way? Even if Mueller got Schiff in a headlock and screamed in his ear, “No collusion, no collusion,” the committee chairman would presumably reply: “See? He said it – collusion.”
The man is an unscrupulous liar, in other words, someone who will say anything to gain attention and fatten his war chest, which is why contributions flowing to his re-election campaign have risen from under $1 million a year to $10.5 million since the Russia furor began. The man talks endlessly about the Constitution, patriotism, his father’s heroic service in the military, and so on. But the only thing Adam Schiff really cares about is himself.
Trump’s sins are manifold. But with unerring accuracy, Schiff managed to zero in on the one sin that didn’t take place. Considering that the $391 million was destined for ultra-right military units whose members sport neo-Nazi regalia and SS symbols as they battle pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine, Schiff’s crimes are just as bad, if not worse. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the next candidate for impeachment, the congressman from Hollywood – Adam Schiff!


Schrödinger’s President

ight-wing pundit Ann Coulter went on a surprisingly vitriolic anti-Trump rant the other day , calling the president a “ complete blithering idiot ” , an “ actual retard ” , and “ the most disloyal human God ever created ” for his treatment of Jeff Sessions and his failure to build the border wall per his campaign promise .
“ Coulter is right , ” comedian Tim Dillon tweeted in response .
“ Trump doesn ’ t really care about immigration or the wall , it was just the way to win .
He likes winning .
You don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Hollywood star who hangs with the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and then decide you actually like people from Ohio.
” Which is true .
Trump and his handlers understood that rising anti-immigration sentiment in America was a key to winning the presidency , but he never cared about immigration and never had any intention of going out of his way to do anything about it ( which is why even his deportation numbers are still below Obama ’ s ) .
Just one of the many ways where the popular narrative about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him–differs wildly from the reality .
It is normal to have multiple contradictory mainstream narratives running about a president at the same time , and for none of those narratives to be accurate .
Obama was simultaneously a progressive champion of sanity and a socialist Muslim from Kenya hell bent on America ’ s destruction , none of which was true but both of which were believed with equal fervor by either side of the illusory partisan divide .
What ’ s unusual about Trump is that there are multiple contradictory narratives running @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within the same political factions .
His own base is able to hold the belief that Trump is a brilliant strategic mastermind who is commanding a covert counter-coup to overthrow the Deep State , for example , while simultaneously excusing all the many , many establishment capitulations that he makes as being beyond his control .
Much like Schrödinger ’ s proverbial pet Trump exists for them in two mutually contradictory states at once : a skillful hero who is taking down the Deep State , and a hapless victim who can ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration because it ’ s all being controlled by the Deep State .
On the other side of the imaginary partisan divide , Democrats spent years advancing the mutually contradictory narratives that Trump is at once ( A ) idiotic , ( B ) mentally ill , and ( C ) running a covert operation to sabotage America in the interests of Russia–but cleverly evading detection under intense scrutiny .
They also hold him as simultaneously presenting an unprecedented threat to American democracy and also perfectly safe to keep voting in support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powers .
None of these narratives have anything to do with reality , yet they consume an immense amount of oxygen in US political discourse while Trump continues and expands the many depraved agendas of his predecessors .
Trump is not a populist champion of the little guy , nor a closet Nazi working to establish a white ethnostate , nor a Kremlin asset , but is in fact nothing other than a miserable rich man from a miserable rich family who did what it takes to get elected to the presidency of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and remain there for a full term .
Everything else is narrative which is wholly divorced from reality .
The reason we can have wildly popular narratives dominating mainstream political discourse for years on end without their containing a shred of actual reality is because human experience is dictated by mental stories far more than most people realize .
Establishment power structures , who have their hands in both parties of America ’ s two-handed political sock puppet show , stand everything to gain and nothing to lose by using narrative control to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the actual horrible things this administration is doing like imprisoning Julian Assange for journalism , vetoing attempts to save Yemen , inflicting starvation sanctions on Iran and Venezuela , and initiating cold war escalations against two nuclear-armed nations .
If people truly understood the extent to which mental narrative dominates their experience of life , propaganda , advertising and all other forms of psychological manipulation would be regarded by our society similarly to physical assault or property theft .
For anyone who is interested in the pernicious ways narrative manipulation is used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powerful people roll out toxic agendas , Trump is a very interesting case study indeed .
If humanity is to survive , people are going to have to evolve beyond the sticky relationship with mental narrative which enables establishment spinmeisters to keep an entire nation transfixed by fake stories about a very conventionally evil president instead of pushing for the real changes we ’ ll need to make if we ’ re to overcome the existential hurdles looming on our horizon .
Learning to distinguish reality from narrative will send the whole prison @ @ @

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ight-wing pundit Ann Coulter went on a surprisingly vitriolic anti-Trump rant the other day, calling the president a “complete blithering idiot”, an “actual retard”, and “the most disloyal human God ever created” for his treatment of Jeff Sessions and his failure to build the border wall per his campaign promise.
“Coulter is right,” comedian Tim Dillon tweeted in response. “Trump doesn’t really care about immigration or the wall, it was just the way to win. He likes winning. You don’t live your entire life being a Hollywood star who hangs with the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and then decide you actually like people from Ohio.”
Which is true. Trump and his handlers understood that rising anti-immigration sentiment in America was a key to winning the presidency, but he never cared about immigration and never had any intention of going out of his way to do anything about it (which is why even his deportation numbers are still below Obama’s). Just one of the many ways where the popular narrative about Trump–the story everyone’s telling about him–differs wildly from the reality.
Coulter is right. Trump doesn’t really care about immigration or the wall, it was just the way to win. He likes winning. You don’t live your entire life being a Hollywood star who hangs with the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein and then decide you actually like people from Ohio. — Tim Dillon (@TimJDillon) May 25, 2020
It is normal to have multiple contradictory mainstream narratives running about a president at the same time, and for none of those narratives to be accurate. Obama was simultaneously a progressive champion of sanity and a socialist Muslim from Kenya hell bent on America’s destruction, none of which was true but both of which were believed with equal fervor by either side of the illusory partisan divide.
What’s unusual about Trump is that there are multiple contradictory narratives running about him at the same time, within the same political factions. His own base is able to hold the belief that Trump is a brilliant strategic mastermind who is commanding a covert counter-coup to overthrow the Deep State, for example, while simultaneously excusing all the many, many establishment capitulations that he makes as being beyond his control. Much like Schrödinger’s proverbial pet Trump exists for them in two mutually contradictory states at once: a skillful hero who is taking down the Deep State, and a hapless victim who can’t control what happens in his own administration because it’s all being controlled by the Deep State.
On the other side of the imaginary partisan divide, Democrats spent years advancing the mutually contradictory narratives that Trump is at once (A) idiotic, (B) mentally ill, and (C) running a covert operation to sabotage America in the interests of Russia–but cleverly evading detection under intense scrutiny. They also hold him as simultaneously presenting an unprecedented threat to American democracy and also perfectly safe to keep voting in support of continuing and expanding his military and surveillance powers.
None of these narratives have anything to do with reality, yet they consume an immense amount of oxygen in US political discourse while Trump continues and expands the many depraved agendas of his predecessors.
Biden Can’t Return US to Normal, Because Trump is a Normal President https://t.co/goYKeqFNmS — Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) May 22, 2020
Trump is not a populist champion of the little guy, nor a closet Nazi working to establish a white ethnostate, nor a Kremlin asset, but is in fact nothing other than a miserable rich man from a miserable rich family who did what it takes to get elected to the presidency of a racist, corrupt, bloodthirsty empire and remain there for a full term. Everything else is narrative which is wholly divorced from reality.
The reason we can have wildly popular narratives dominating mainstream political discourse for years on end without their containing a shred of actual reality is because human experience is dictated by mental stories far more than most people realize. Establishment power structures, who have their hands in both parties of America’s two-handed political sock puppet show, stand everything to gain and nothing to lose by using narrative control to keep the public debating fake nonsense instead of the actual horrible things this administration is doing like imprisoning Julian Assange for journalism, vetoing attempts to save Yemen, inflicting starvation sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, and initiating cold war escalations against two nuclear-armed nations.
If people truly understood the extent to which mental narrative dominates their experience of life, propaganda, advertising and all other forms of psychological manipulation would be regarded by our society similarly to physical assault or property theft. For anyone who is interested in the pernicious ways narrative manipulation is used to keep people confused and conflicted while powerful people roll out toxic agendas, Trump is a very interesting case study indeed.
If humanity is to survive, people are going to have to evolve beyond the sticky relationship with mental narrative which enables establishment spinmeisters to keep an entire nation transfixed by fake stories about a very conventionally evil president instead of pushing for the real changes we’ll need to make if we’re to overcome the existential hurdles looming on our horizon. Learning to distinguish reality from narrative will send the whole prison crashing down.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-28--Political pawn or guilty as charged? Extradition trial of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou gets underway in V

Political pawn or guilty as charged? Extradition trial of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou gets underway in Vancouver

Adding weight to the argument that Meng is being used as a political pawn is the fact that Donald Trump himself publicly suggested he would intervene in the case if it helped him secure a good trade deal with China .
Multiple former Canadian government officials have come out in support of the prisoner swap option in recent weeks .
In an article for the Globe and Mail , Eddie Goldenberg — a chief of staff to former PM Jean Chrétien — accused the US of painting Canada into a corner .
He argued that Trudeau 's government must understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hostage that Canada is holding '' for Donald Trump , and that Beijing will never release the Canadian prisoners unless Meng is returned .
Former deputy PM John Manley has also advocated a prisoner exchange .
Canada is now faced with two unappealing options : anger China by caving to Washington ’ s demands and extradite Meng over charges which look suspiciously political ; or anger the US by keeping her in Canada and trying to work out an exchange deal with Beijing that would see its own citizens brought home .
Meng @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a tricky position .
While it will not want to irk its powerful next-door neighbor , Ottawa will also be concerned for Canadian citizens who were arrested in China on spy charges — seen by many as a tit-for-tat retaliation by Beijing following Meng 's detainment.Indeed , Meng ’ s case would seem to fit that profile .
While US authorities have framed her arrest and charges as being simply about Iran sanctions and fraud , to consider this case as purely about business with Tehran would be to ignore the US government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself , which has been playing out in tandem to the wider US-China tariff and trade war .
Washington has urged the rest of the world to shun Huawei and its 5G technology , which it claims is a threat to national security and will be used for spying — accusations China has denied .
Critics of Canada ’ s handling of the case — including the father of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — have framed it as just another example of the US abusing the legal systems of foreign countries to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ team has argued that , since the sanctions she is accused of violating are not Canadian sanctions , the 'double criminality ' standard does not apply .
The prosecution insists , however , that the case is primarily about the alleged fraud , not sanctions .
Meng has accused US and Canadian authorities of unlawful detainment , searches and interrogations .
If her attorneys can convince the court that the standard for 'double criminality ' is not met , she could be released from house arrest.Decisions this week will hang on the Canadian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of ‘ double criminality ’ .
That essentially means the crime the person is accused of by the country requesting extradition must also be a crime in Canada .
The Huawei executive — who was forced to surrender her passports , abide by a curfew and wear a GPS tracker — has been living under house arrest in Vancouver since she was released on a $ 10-million bail .
Formal hearings begin on Monday and are expected to continue until Thursday , though this is only phase one in what is expected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trial .
With so many moving parts to the case and potential for multiple appeals , it could still take months or even years for it to really come to an end .
Meng was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 at the bidding of the United States , just as tensions were mounting between Washington and Beijing over trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration .
US authorities accused her of defrauding financial institutions and lying in an attempt to circumvent US sanctions impeding other countries ’ abilities to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is set to hear a much-anticipated case at the centre of the tech and trade war between the US and China , as Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou will fight a US extradition request based on charges her team say have no merit .
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , 47 , is famous for his good looks and quick smile , but unfortunately being photogenic does not guarantee political instincts , which he seems to be sorely lacking .
Last February , for example , during a visit to India , Trudeau ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Jaspal Atwal , an attempted murderer from a Sikh organization that India ranks as a terrorist group .
Although the invite was eventually rescinded , it certainly made a lasting impression on his Indian counterpart , Narendra Modi .
On another cringe-worthy occasion , the self-proclaimed “ proud feminist ” interrupted a young woman at a political event for using the term “ mankind , ” explaining pedantically that the correct nomenclature was “ peoplekind.
” This may have been the first town hall meeting in history where airsickness bags were needed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insufferable desire-to-please-everyone phoniness that helps explain why Canada ’ s most powerful Liberal is suffering precipitous drops on the popularity front .
And now Justin Trudeau has managed to outdo even Justin Trudeau .
In early December , amid a major blow-up between the US and China over tariffs , Trudeau ’ s government arrested Meng Wanzhou , the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei .
Meng is not your typical office worker .
She is the daughter of Ren Zhengfei , the founder and CEO of Huawei .
Needless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tremendous offense at her incarceration , which has since been ‘ upgraded ’ to house-arrest status as she awaits extradition to God ’ s Country .
Trudeau seems to have underestimated the consequences of offending a nation of over one billion people , who just happen to make up Canada ’ s largest export market .
Yet he went ahead anyways to appease the Trump administration , which requested Meng ’ s arrest and extradition purportedly on the grounds that her company violated a US sanction regime against Iran .
Here , Trudeau @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he would not risk a major international scandal – and especially one that would have no small impact on Canada – over the arrest of one person .
Here ’ s where things get funny in a gallows humor sort of way .
Although the United States certainly played no small role in Meng ’ s arrest , not a single American has been accosted , molested or arrested by China in the wake of the high-profile scandal .
That pleasure has been reserved for Canadian citizens living abroad , specifically in China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vancouver arrested Meng , China security agents apprehended Michael Kovrig , a former diplomat now living in Hong Kong , and Michael Spavor , a businessman .
Beijing would only say the two Canadian nationals were being investigated for carrying out activities “ harmful to the national security ” of China .
But that seems like small fries compared to the possible fate that hangs over their compatriot , Robert Lloyd Schellenberg , who has been sitting in a Chinese prison since 2014 for drug smuggling .
In December 2018 he was sentenced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , just weeks after Meng ’ s arrest , the case was reopened by Chinese prosecutors who called the original verdict “ too lenient.
” At the new trial , Schellenberg was found guilty and handed a death sentence .
Trudeau , who does not strike me as a chess player , expressed his “ extreme concern ” at the decision , which really should have come as no surprise .
The Schellenberg case was clearly a show trial to give Beijing some leverage in freeing Meng Wanzhou , and now it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responds .
Will he cave in to US demands and extradite Meng , or will he hold onto the Chinese national in a possible exchange agreement for the three Canadians ?
The Canadian prime minister has proven his credentials as a second-rate politician in that he allowed himself to be placed in check no matter where he moves .
On the one hand , if he decides to return Meng to Beijing in a swap deal , he will be condemned both at home and abroad for “ going weak ” on China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will likely prevent him from taking such action .
On the other hand , should he extradite Meng to the US , aside from showing disdain for three jailed Canadian citizens , he would set into motion a major diplomatic fallout with Beijing that would have far-reaching implications on the political and economic front for many years .
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At this point , the question is : why did the US demand Meng ’ s arrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trudeau to commit a major political blunder ?
Initially , I was convinced the reason was solely based on Washington ’ s desire to rally its allies to inflict yet more economic pain on Tehran , suffering as it is under a US sanctions regime .
However , there is another consideration at play that greatly overshadows Washington ’ s strange obsession with Iran , and that is the huge strides that China has made in the development of 5G communication networks .
This technology , and despite health concerns regarding its usage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the much-hyped ‘ Internet of things ’ where practically every single electronic appliance – from toasters to automobiles – will be monitored by the all-encompassing matrix .
Huawei , thanks to massive investment by the Chinese government , is a global pioneer with regards to 5G , and now many Western countries fear China ’ s dominance in this field presents a real security threat .
After all , only the Western governments should be allowed to spy on their own citizens !
All jokes aside , a report by Deloitte shows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this technology .
“ Since 2015 , China outspent the United States by approximately $ 24 billion in wireless communications infrastructure and built 350,000 new sites , while the United States built fewer than 30,000 .
Looking forward , China ’ s five-year economic plan specifies $ 400 billion in 5G-related investment .
Consequently , China and other countries may be creating a 5G tsunami , making it near impossible to catch up.
” China , meanwhile , in an effort to stem the panic , has said there are ways of safeguarding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to spying .
Those assurances , however , have done little to console Western countries over the alleged risks in allowing their 5G networks to be Chinese built .
Germany , for example [ an American colony—Ed ] , is now debating whether to follow the US lead and restrict Huawei from accessing its next-generation cellular networks on national-security grounds .
Whatever the case may be , Justin Trudeau allowed himself , as well as Canadian citizens , to be played as a pawn in a high-stakes game between Washington and Beijing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the fireworks , which would have given him far more room for political maneuvering as the debate over 5G ( and Iran ) promises to continue .
Now Justin Trudeau is stuck between a rock and a hard place , between his ego and his vanity , and his prospects look grim indeed .

Adding weight to the argument that Meng is being used as a political pawn is the fact that Donald Trump himself publicly suggested he would intervene in the case if it helped him secure a good trade deal with China.
Multiple former Canadian government officials have come out in support of the prisoner swap option in recent weeks. In an article for the Globe and Mail, Eddie Goldenberg — a chief of staff to former PM Jean Chrétien — accused the US of painting Canada into a corner. He argued that Trudeau's government must understand that China regards Meng as "a hostage that Canada is holding" for Donald Trump, and that Beijing will never release the Canadian prisoners unless Meng is returned. Former deputy PM John Manley has also advocated a prisoner exchange.
Canada is now faced with two unappealing options: anger China by caving to Washington’s demands and extradite Meng over charges which look suspiciously political; or anger the US by keeping her in Canada and trying to work out an exchange deal with Beijing that would see its own citizens brought home.
Meng’s case also places Canada in a tricky position. While it will not want to irk its powerful next-door neighbor, Ottawa will also be concerned for Canadian citizens who were arrested in China on spy charges — seen by many as a tit-for-tat retaliation by Beijing following Meng's detainment.Indeed, Meng’s case would seem to fit that profile. While US authorities have framed her arrest and charges as being simply about Iran sanctions and fraud, to consider this case as purely about business with Tehran would be to ignore the US government’s massive pressure campaign against Huawei itself, which has been playing out in tandem to the wider US-China tariff and trade war. Washington has urged the rest of the world to shun Huawei and its 5G technology, which it claims is a threat to national security and will be used for spying — accusations China has denied.
Critics of Canada’s handling of the case — including the father of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — have framed it as just another example of the US abusing the legal systems of foreign countries to target their geopolitical enemies.
Meng's team has argued that, since the sanctions she is accused of violating are not Canadian sanctions, the 'double criminality' standard does not apply. The prosecution insists, however, that the case is primarily about the alleged fraud, not sanctions. Meng has accused US and Canadian authorities of unlawful detainment, searches and interrogations. If her attorneys can convince the court that the standard for 'double criminality' is not met, she could be released from house arrest.Decisions this week will hang on the Canadian law principle, necessary for extradition, of ‘double criminality’. That essentially means the crime the person is accused of by the country requesting extradition must also be a crime in Canada.
The Huawei executive — who was forced to surrender her passports, abide by a curfew and wear a GPS tracker — has been living under house arrest in Vancouver since she was released on a $10-million bail. Formal hearings begin on Monday and are expected to continue until Thursday, though this is only phase one in what is expected to be a long and drawn out extradition trial. With so many moving parts to the case and potential for multiple appeals, it could still take months or even years for it to really come to an end.
Meng was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 at the bidding of the United States, just as tensions were mounting between Washington and Beijing over trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. US authorities accused her of defrauding financial institutions and lying in an attempt to circumvent US sanctions impeding other countries’ abilities to do business with Iran.
A Canadian court is set to hear a much-anticipated case at the centre of the tech and trade war between the US and China, as Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou will fight a US extradition request based on charges her team say have no merit.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 47, is famous for his good looks and quick smile, but unfortunately being photogenic does not guarantee political instincts, which he seems to be sorely lacking.
Last February, for example, during a visit to India, Trudeau’s cabinet sent a formal dinner invitation to Jaspal Atwal, an attempted murderer from a Sikh organization that India ranks as a terrorist group. Although the invite was eventually rescinded, it certainly made a lasting impression on his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi.
On another cringe-worthy occasion, the self-proclaimed “proud feminist” interrupted a young woman at a political event for using the term “mankind,” explaining pedantically that the correct nomenclature was “peoplekind.” This may have been the first town hall meeting in history where airsickness bags were needed.
It’s this sort of insufferable desire-to-please-everyone phoniness that helps explain why Canada’s most powerful Liberal is suffering precipitous drops on the popularity front. And now Justin Trudeau has managed to outdo even Justin Trudeau.
In early December, amid a major blow-up between the US and China over tariffs, Trudeau’s government arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Meng is not your typical office worker. She is the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the founder and CEO of Huawei. Needless to say, the officious Chinese took tremendous offense at her incarceration, which has since been ‘upgraded’ to house-arrest status as she awaits extradition to God’s Country.
Trudeau seems to have underestimated the consequences of offending a nation of over one billion people, who just happen to make up Canada’s largest export market. Yet he went ahead anyways to appease the Trump administration, which requested Meng’s arrest and extradition purportedly on the grounds that her company violated a US sanction regime against Iran. Here, Trudeau would have been wise to tell Washington he would not risk a major international scandal – and especially one that would have no small impact on Canada – over the arrest of one person.
Here’s where things get funny in a gallows humor sort of way. Although the United States certainly played no small role in Meng’s arrest, not a single American has been accosted, molested or arrested by China in the wake of the high-profile scandal. That pleasure has been reserved for Canadian citizens living abroad, specifically in China.
Just days after Canadian authorities in Vancouver arrested Meng, China security agents apprehended Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat now living in Hong Kong, and Michael Spavor, a businessman. Beijing would only say the two Canadian nationals were being investigated for carrying out activities “harmful to the national security” of China.
But that seems like small fries compared to the possible fate that hangs over their compatriot, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who has been sitting in a Chinese prison since 2014 for drug smuggling. In December 2018 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Now, just weeks after Meng’s arrest, the case was reopened by Chinese prosecutors who called the original verdict “too lenient.” At the new trial, Schellenberg was found guilty and handed a death sentence.
Trudeau, who does not strike me as a chess player, expressed his “extreme concern” at the decision, which really should have come as no surprise. The Schellenberg case was clearly a show trial to give Beijing some leverage in freeing Meng Wanzhou, and now it will be very interesting to see how Trudeau responds. Will he cave in to US demands and extradite Meng, or will he hold onto the Chinese national in a possible exchange agreement for the three Canadians?
The Canadian prime minister has proven his credentials as a second-rate politician in that he allowed himself to be placed in check no matter where he moves. On the one hand, if he decides to return Meng to Beijing in a swap deal, he will be condemned both at home and abroad for “going weak” on China. Trudeau’s vanity and ego will likely prevent him from taking such action. On the other hand, should he extradite Meng to the US, aside from showing disdain for three jailed Canadian citizens, he would set into motion a major diplomatic fallout with Beijing that would have far-reaching implications on the political and economic front for many years.
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At this point, the question is: why did the US demand Meng’s arrest from Canada, a move that prompted Trudeau to commit a major political blunder? Initially, I was convinced the reason was solely based on Washington’s desire to rally its allies to inflict yet more economic pain on Tehran, suffering as it is under a US sanctions regime.
However, there is another consideration at play that greatly overshadows Washington’s strange obsession with Iran, and that is the huge strides that China has made in the development of 5G communication networks. This technology, and despite health concerns regarding its usage, seems destined to be the backbone for the much-hyped ‘Internet of things’ where practically every single electronic appliance – from toasters to automobiles – will be monitored by the all-encompassing matrix.
Huawei, thanks to massive investment by the Chinese government, is a global pioneer with regards to 5G, and now many Western countries fear China’s dominance in this field presents a real security threat. After all, only the Western governments should be allowed to spy on their own citizens!
All jokes aside, a report by Deloitte shows how far China leads the world in this technology. “Since 2015, China outspent the United States by approximately $24 billion in wireless communications infrastructure and built 350,000 new sites, while the United States built fewer than 30,000. Looking forward, China’s five-year economic plan specifies $400 billion in 5G-related investment. Consequently, China and other countries may be creating a 5G tsunami, making it near impossible to catch up.”
China, meanwhile, in an effort to stem the panic, has said there are ways of safeguarding the communication grid to make it impervious to spying. Those assurances, however, have done little to console Western countries over the alleged risks in allowing their 5G networks to be Chinese built.
Germany, for example [an American colony—Ed], is now debating whether to follow the US lead and restrict Huawei from accessing its next-generation cellular networks on national-security grounds.
Whatever the case may be, Justin Trudeau allowed himself, as well as Canadian citizens, to be played as a pawn in a high-stakes game between Washington and Beijing. He should have remained a neutral observer to the fireworks, which would have given him far more room for political maneuvering as the debate over 5G (and Iran) promises to continue. Now Justin Trudeau is stuck between a rock and a hard place, between his ego and his vanity, and his prospects look grim indeed.
@Robert_Bridge


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-27--The Blue Plague and Black Death

The Blue Plague and Black Death

eorge Floyd ’ s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion .
The pathogen that kills Black people at two and a half times the rate of whites took the life of 46 year-old George Floyd , this week in Minneapolis .
Floyd ’ s last words were , “ I can ’ t breathe , ” much like the desperate utterances of plague victim Eric Garner , struck down in 2014 in New York City .
Unlike the still raging Covid-19 virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both sexes , the Blue Plague is especially lethal to Black males of all ages .
According to researchers at Rutgers University and the University of Michigan , 1 in every 1,000 black boys and men will be fatally stricken by the Blue Plague at some point in their lifetimes – at ages ranging from 12 year-old Tamir Rice , snuffed out in Cleveland in 2014 , to 50 year-old Walter Scott , who fell victim to the pestilence in North Charleston , South Carolina in 2015 .
Covid-19 is categorized as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus , having mutated recently from wild animals .
But the Blue Plague is a serial killer that dates back to the slave patrols of the pre-Civil War South .
Indeed , the first vector of the Blue Plague has been traced back to Charleston , South Carolina , which established a paramilitary force called the City Guard in 1783 , primarily to “ police ” Black slaves – although the term police had not yet been invented .
The City Guard helped suppress the Denmark Vesey slave rebellion in 1822 – a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the mutation of slave patrols into full-fledged vectors of Black death in cities across the nation , not just the South .
“ The Blue Plague is especially lethal to Black males of all ages.
” Researchers are hoping to find a vaccine for Covid-19 , possibly within the year , but the Blue Plague only grows more deadly over time and enjoys a host of immunities .
Although Black people had hoped that the historic expansion in the number of Black elected officials would create political antibodies to limit the spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has happened .
In 2014 , just months before Michael Brown ’ s life was cut short by the Blue Plague , in Ferguson , Missouri , 80 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to continue funneling billions of dollars in military weapons , gear and training to local infestations of the plague , despite ample evidence that such infusions have made the scourge even more toxic to Black life .
Four years later , 75 percent of the Black Caucus voted to classify the Blue Plague as a “ protected class @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the possibility of cure .
The Protect and Serve Act of 2018 was “ superfluous , since cops are already the most protected ‘ class ’ in the nation.
” More radical thinkers , steeped in the struggle against social pathogens , argue that the virulence of the Blue Plague can be weakened , at least among concentrated Black populations , through Black Community Control of the disease .
A number of plague control formulas have been put forward , but the Black Misleadership Class , deeply embedded in the Democratic Party , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contagion , and actively encourages the spread of the disease among the federal secret police .
In March of this year , two thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus joined with a large majority of Democrats in support of the wildly misnamed USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act , which has since passed the Senate , as well .
Only 17 of the 50 full-voting Black members of the House voted against the law , which was supposed to expire this year along with other provisions of the infamous Patriot Act .
As reported in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FBI “ to collect ‘ tangible things ’ related to national security investigations without a warrant , requiring only approval from a secret court that has reportedly rubber-stamped many requests.
” These tangible things include spying on targeted peoples ’ web browsing “ without having to demonstrate that those Americans have done anything wrong , ” in the words of Oregon Sen. Wyden .
“ The Black Misleadership Class , deeply embedded in the Democratic Party , fiercely resists any curb on the blue contagion.
” The Blue contagion has spread around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vast military as a kind of global police force , backed up by killer drones that carry out White House authorized executions in the far reaches of the planet .
President Barack Obama authorized a regular schedule of snuff jobs on “ Kill Tuesdays , ” but President Trump ’ s timetable is probably more erratic .
This being an election year , George Floyd ’ s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four cops involved in crushing Floyd ’ s neck , and Joe Biden , the presidential candidate who brags that he “ wrote ” the Plague-proliferating 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act , tweeted that “ George Floyd deserved better and his family deserves justice .
His life mattered.
” But Biden and his party ’ s history as vectors of mass death say otherwise .
In the absence of an immediate cure , it is certain that some endangered Black males – and sisters , who are not immune to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will resort to home remedies to ward off the pestilence , as did Denmark Vesey , Nat Turner and , more recently , some brothers in Dallas and Baton Rouge .
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford @ BlackAgendaReport.com .
Please join the conversation on Black Agenda Report 's Facebook page at http : //facebook.com/blackagendareport Or , you can comment by emailing us at comments @ blackagendareport.com

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eorge Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion.
The pathogen that kills Black people at two and a half times the rate of whites took the life of 46 year-old George Floyd , this week in Minneapolis. Floyd’s last words were, “I can’t breathe,” much like the desperate utterances of plague victim Eric Garner , struck down in 2014 in New York City. Unlike the still raging Covid-19 virus, which is virulent among Blacks of both sexes, the Blue Plague is especially lethal to Black males of all ages. According to researchers at Rutgers University and the University of Michigan, 1 in every 1,000 black boys and men will be fatally stricken by the Blue Plague at some point in their lifetimes – at ages ranging from 12 year-old Tamir Rice , snuffed out in Cleveland in 2014, to 50 year-old Walter Scott , who fell victim to the pestilence in North Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.
Covid-19 is categorized as a “novel,” or new, virus, having mutated recently from wild animals. But the Blue Plague is a serial killer that dates back to the slave patrols of the pre-Civil War South. Indeed, the first vector of the Blue Plague has been traced back to Charleston, South Carolina, which established a paramilitary force called the City Guard in 1783, primarily to “police” Black slaves – although the term police had not yet been invented. The City Guard helped suppress the Denmark Vesey slave rebellion in 1822 – a success that is believed to have led to the mutation of slave patrols into full-fledged vectors of Black death in cities across the nation, not just the South.
“The Blue Plague is especially lethal to Black males of all ages.”
Researchers are hoping to find a vaccine for Covid-19, possibly within the year, but the Blue Plague only grows more deadly over time and enjoys a host of immunities. Although Black people had hoped that the historic expansion in the number of Black elected officials would create political antibodies to limit the spread of the Blue Plague, the opposite has happened. In 2014, just months before Michael Brown’s life was cut short by the Blue Plague, in Ferguson, Missouri, 80 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to continue funneling billions of dollars in military weapons, gear and training to local infestations of the plague, despite ample evidence that such infusions have made the scourge even more toxic to Black life. Four years later, 75 percent of the Black Caucus voted to classify the Blue Plague as a “protected class,” further immunizing the disease from the possibility of cure. The Protect and Serve Act of 2018 was “superfluous, since cops are already the most protected ‘class’ in the nation.”
More radical thinkers, steeped in the struggle against social pathogens, argue that the virulence of the Blue Plague can be weakened, at least among concentrated Black populations, through Black Community Control of the disease. A number of plague control formulas have been put forward , but the Black Misleadership Class, deeply embedded in the Democratic Party, fiercely resists any curb on the blue contagion, and actively encourages the spread of the disease among the federal secret police. In March of this year, two thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus joined with a large majority of Democrats in support of the wildly misnamed USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, which has since passed the Senate , as well. Only 17 of the 50 full-voting Black members of the House voted against the law, which was supposed to expire this year along with other provisions of the infamous Patriot Act. As reported in The Verge , the Act allows the FBI “to collect ‘tangible things’ related to national security investigations without a warrant, requiring only approval from a secret court that has reportedly rubber-stamped many requests.” These tangible things include spying on targeted peoples’ web browsing “without having to demonstrate that those Americans have done anything wrong,” in the words of Oregon Sen. Wyden.
“The Black Misleadership Class, deeply embedded in the Democratic Party, fiercely resists any curb on the blue contagion.”
The Blue contagion has spread around the world as the United States deploys its vast military as a kind of global police force, backed up by killer drones that carry out White House authorized executions in the far reaches of the planet. President Barack Obama authorized a regular schedule of snuff jobs on “Kill Tuesdays ,” but President Trump’s timetable is probably more erratic.
This being an election year, George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion. The Democratic mayor of the city fired the four cops involved in crushing Floyd’s neck, and Joe Biden, the presidential candidate who brags that he “wrote” the Plague-proliferating 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, tweeted that “George Floyd deserved better and his family deserves justice. His life mattered.” But Biden and his party’s history as vectors of mass death say otherwise.
In the absence of an immediate cure, it is certain that some endangered Black males – and sisters, who are not immune to the ravages of the Blue Plague – will resort to home remedies to ward off the pestilence, as did Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner and, more recently, some brothers in Dallas and Baton Rouge .
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com .
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-27--From Open Skies to Open Season for Nukes

nother one bites the dust .
In less two years , President Donald Trump has now binned three major arms-control treaties – quite a record for undermining decades of international security architecture .
First there was the nuclear accord with Iran ( 2018 ) , then the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty ( 2019 ) , and now the Open Skies Treaty .
There is growing concern that the Trump administration will let the last-remaining arms-control treaty fall – the New START ( 2010 ) which limits strategic nuclear missiles held by the U.S. and Russia .
If it goes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ race not seen since the Cold War .
It will be open season for nukes .
Into the malign mix are the current heightened tensions between the U.S. , NATO , Russia and China .
Confrontation could spin out of control with catastrophic consequences for the planet .
There is a grim sense that risk of nuclear conflagration is greater than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis more than half a century ago .
There is strong suspicion that the Trump administration is deliberately playing the mad man as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unconscionable and extremely dangerous gamble with world security , but this would seem to be Trump ’ s diabolical art of the deal .
What the U.S. president wants is to tie China into arms-control treaties along with Russia .
China ’ s nuclear arsenal is a mere fraction of either the U.S. ’ s or Russia ’ s – reckoned at one-twentieth of their combined stockpile .
Beijing has stated over and over that it will not enter into arms limitations with the U.S. or Russia until the two nuclear superpowers first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warheads .
That seems reasonable .
The onus is on Washington and Moscow to first demonstrate progress on disarmament , as they are obliged to do under the 1970-founded Non-Proliferation Treaty .
Trump has repeatedly indicated possible extension of the New START with Russia , but only if China is brought into a trilateral deal .
He therefore seems to be using the threat of an arms race as a way to lever Russia and China into a trilateral accord .
But New START is a bilateral treaty between Washington and Moscow .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ China , Trump is trying to rewrite the deal with Russia out of Washington ’ s desire to control Beijing .
Trump is affecting to show that he is prepared to throw away America ’ s signature – and jeopardize global security – in order to force China to the negotiating table on Washington ’ s terms .
When the Trump administration walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces ( INF ) treaty last year , it accused Russia of breaching that accord .
Moscow denied those claims as unfounded .
It later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rescinding the 1987 treaty was its desire to deploy short and medium-range missiles against China in its rivalry over Asia-Pacific .
In ditching the INF , the Trump administration is destabilizing European security and putting pressure on Moscow over potential threats from the return of U.S. short and medium-range missiles to European territory .
The ratcheting up of insecurity and the specter of an arms race is Trump ’ s calculated tactic for bringing China into arms limitations along with Russia .
The scrapping of the INF and the threatened abandonment of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same negotiating ploy .
This is not just serial loosening of arms controls for its own sake , but rather as a way to lever both Russia and China .
Perhaps , the Trump administration is calculating that it can unnerve Moscow so that the latter will in turn put pressure on Beijing to accept Trump ’ s “ grand bargain ” .
The announcement on quitting the Open Skies Treaty ( OST ) appears to fit into this game plan .
The treaty was signed in 1992 and became effective in 2002 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , most of them European states .
The treaty allows for reconnaissance flights over territories to build trust .
Like the INF treaty , the Trump administration is using alleged violations of the OST by Russia as a pretext to jettison another arms-control accord .
Again , the real objective is to create insecurity and latent threats in order to apply pressure on Moscow for concessions .
The ultimate prize for the Trump administration and Washington state planners is to maneuver China into trilateral arms control .
When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was done with noticeable ambiguity .
“ Russia didn ’ t adhere to the treaty .
So until they adhere , we will pull out , but there ’ s a very good chance we ’ ll make a new agreement or do something to put that agreement back together , ” said Trump said at a press briefing last week .
His Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also dropped hints at deal-making with Russia while declaring an end to U.S. participation in the OST .
It seems more than coincidence that in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ envoy on arms control , Marshall Billingslea , made a pointed offer to Moscow of extending the New START – but only if China were brought into a trilateral nuclear limitation treaty .
“ We intend to establish a new arms-control regime now precisely to prevent a full-blown arms race .
It ’ s for all of these reasons that President Trump has expressed his strong desire to see China included in future nuclear arms-control agreements , ” Billingslea is quoted as saying during a virtual conference at the Hudson Institute .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best way to avoid an unpredictable three-way arms race.
” It might be asked : what is wrong with seeking a trilateral accord on nuclear weapons involving the U.S. , Russia and China ?
Surely , a grand bargain like that might be deemed as making progress towards general nuclear disarmament .
But such rationale is putting the horse before the cart .
The U.S. and Russia must first significantly reduce their arsenals as they are obligated to do .
Moreover , arms controls and disarmament is all about trust and integrity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ deliberately creating insecurity in order to achieve its geopolitical objective of controlling China .
How can Trump build trust and do a genuine deal when he is doing all he can to kill any trust in a genuine commitment to obtaining international security and peace ?

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nother one bites the dust. In less two years, President Donald Trump has now binned three major arms-control treaties – quite a record for undermining decades of international security architecture. First there was the nuclear accord with Iran (2018), then the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (2019), and now the Open Skies Treaty.
There is growing concern that the Trump administration will let the last-remaining arms-control treaty fall – the New START (2010) which limits strategic nuclear missiles held by the U.S. and Russia. If it goes, then the world is facing an arms race not seen since the Cold War. It will be open season for nukes.
Into the malign mix are the current heightened tensions between the U.S., NATO, Russia and China. Confrontation could spin out of control with catastrophic consequences for the planet. There is a grim sense that risk of nuclear conflagration is greater than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis more than half a century ago.
There is strong suspicion that the Trump administration is deliberately playing the mad man as a negotiating tactic. It’s an unconscionable and extremely dangerous gamble with world security, but this would seem to be Trump’s diabolical art of the deal.
What the U.S. president wants is to tie China into arms-control treaties along with Russia. China’s nuclear arsenal is a mere fraction of either the U.S.’s or Russia’s – reckoned at one-twentieth of their combined stockpile. Beijing has stated over and over that it will not enter into arms limitations with the U.S. or Russia until the two nuclear superpowers first make drastic reductions in their number of warheads. That seems reasonable. The onus is on Washington and Moscow to first demonstrate progress on disarmament, as they are obliged to do under the 1970-founded Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Trump has repeatedly indicated possible extension of the New START with Russia, but only if China is brought into a trilateral deal. He therefore seems to be using the threat of an arms race as a way to lever Russia and China into a trilateral accord. But New START is a bilateral treaty between Washington and Moscow. By pushing the trilateral idea to include China, Trump is trying to rewrite the deal with Russia out of Washington’s desire to control Beijing.
Trump is affecting to show that he is prepared to throw away America’s signature – and jeopardize global security – in order to force China to the negotiating table on Washington’s terms.
When the Trump administration walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty last year, it accused Russia of breaching that accord. Moscow denied those claims as unfounded. It later emerged that the real reason for Washington rescinding the 1987 treaty was its desire to deploy short and medium-range missiles against China in its rivalry over Asia-Pacific.
In ditching the INF, the Trump administration is destabilizing European security and putting pressure on Moscow over potential threats from the return of U.S. short and medium-range missiles to European territory.
The ratcheting up of insecurity and the specter of an arms race is Trump’s calculated tactic for bringing China into arms limitations along with Russia. The scrapping of the INF and the threatened abandonment of the New START are all part of the same negotiating ploy. This is not just serial loosening of arms controls for its own sake, but rather as a way to lever both Russia and China. Perhaps, the Trump administration is calculating that it can unnerve Moscow so that the latter will in turn put pressure on Beijing to accept Trump’s “grand bargain”.
The announcement on quitting the Open Skies Treaty (OST) appears to fit into this game plan. The treaty was signed in 1992 and became effective in 2002 with some 35 member nations as signatories, most of them European states. The treaty allows for reconnaissance flights over territories to build trust.
Like the INF treaty, the Trump administration is using alleged violations of the OST by Russia as a pretext to jettison another arms-control accord. Again, the real objective is to create insecurity and latent threats in order to apply pressure on Moscow for concessions. The ultimate prize for the Trump administration and Washington state planners is to maneuver China into trilateral arms control.
When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal of the Open Skies Treaty, it was done with noticeable ambiguity.
“Russia didn’t adhere to the treaty. So until they adhere, we will pull out, but there’s a very good chance we’ll make a new agreement or do something to put that agreement back together,” said Trump said at a press briefing last week.
His Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also dropped hints at deal-making with Russia while declaring an end to U.S. participation in the OST.
It seems more than coincidence that in the same week, Trump’s envoy on arms control, Marshall Billingslea, made a pointed offer to Moscow of extending the New START – but only if China were brought into a trilateral nuclear limitation treaty.
“We intend to establish a new arms-control regime now precisely to prevent a full-blown arms race. It’s for all of these reasons that President Trump has expressed his strong desire to see China included in future nuclear arms-control agreements,” Billingslea is quoted as saying during a virtual conference at the Hudson Institute. “A three-way arms-control agreement will provide the best way to avoid an unpredictable three-way arms race.”
It might be asked: what is wrong with seeking a trilateral accord on nuclear weapons involving the U.S., Russia and China? Surely, a grand bargain like that might be deemed as making progress towards general nuclear disarmament.
But such rationale is putting the horse before the cart. The U.S. and Russia must first significantly reduce their arsenals as they are obligated to do. Moreover, arms controls and disarmament is all about trust and integrity. Washington is destroying trust and integrity by deliberately creating insecurity in order to achieve its geopolitical objective of controlling China. How can Trump build trust and do a genuine deal when he is doing all he can to kill any trust in a genuine commitment to obtaining international security and peace?


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-27--Dan Kovalik’s No More War an indispensable book

BOOK REVIEW … No More War : How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘ Humanitarian ’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests by Daniel Kovalik : How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian Intervention' In an era where a man like Julian Assange can be mercilessly persecuted for just doing honest journalism , it takes a great deal of courage to expose the lies and misdeeds of America ’ s imperial ambitions .
Yet they must be exposed and condemned for exactly what they have been and continue to be .
No More War : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Using ‘ Humanitarian ’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests is a book that goes the extra mile in doing just that .
As with all of his excellent books , Dan Kovalik has packed this readable and well-researched work with an abundance of invaluable information and insight into the imperial war machine , the imperial diplomatic and PR juggernaut , the extensive predatory machinations reducing the rest of the world to rubble so that America ’ s corporations and its ravenous banking system can subjugate and exploit their populations and extract @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the spell of the Western propaganda machine , slog through the malaise of censored news , disinformation and deceptions with our eyes wide shut , preferring to avoid at all costs acknowledging the nefarious role our “ exceptional ” nation plays in perpetrating some of the most sordid war crimes in history , thereby propagating unfathomable misery across the planet .
Though we might prefer to immerse ourselves in the bliss of this willful ignorance , as the folks who fund such misadventures with our tax dollars , and who implicitly support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much less mounting actual resistance , we are ourselves responsible .
We are culpable .
We share the guilt of those actively engineering and promoting this tsunami of death and destruction , a reign of terror inflicted on any nation who would dare stand in our path of full-spectrum dominance and self-serving plunder .
How is it “ we the people ” are rendered so indifferent to these acts of aggression ?
Not an excuse , but an incriminating explanation , provides the required insight : We are told — and gullibly believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the bloodbaths and rubble which result from our military interventions , are in pursuit of a better world , one where democracy and freedom and justice for all reigns supreme .
That it is the U.S. ’ s responsibility to stand up for and protect the citizens of other nations who are being deprived of the rights and privileges due to all of us as humans .
But as Kovalik proves beyond any doubt , for seven decades , our wars of aggression and fostering regime change around the globe have had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ cover story ” that the U.S. is spreading democracy and protecting human rights , but rather are the direct , predictable , and inevitable product of America ’ s obsessive fixation on world conquest and unchallengeable global domination .
No More War covers a lot of ground , looking in detail at Congo , Rwanda , Uganda , Afghanistan , Syria , Libya , Bolivia , Venezuela , Cuba , Nicaragua , the NATO aggression against former Yugoslavia , the Vietnam War .
We see 1 ) how disruptive and counterproductive U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) how such interference in the affairs of sovereign nations contravenes both currently accepted norms and international law , 3 ) how this abuse of military prowess is rapidly overextending U.S. projection of power , 4 ) how it is making America a pariah in the world community , and 5 ) how this will ultimately result in a major confrontation with countries like Russia and China , two nuclear-armed nations which genuinely have assumed the higher moral ground in the world of geopolitics .
Dan Kovalik also eloquently exposes the profound hypocrisy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up for human and political rights in other countries , as it ignores and violates within its own borders many of those same rights for its own citizens .
No More War is a powerful , informative book .
While the well-crafted prose reads comfortably , conferring it with NYT best seller potential , its erudition demands that it be taken seriously .
This invaluable volume begs to be used as a textbook for university peace study courses .
For we can ’ t very well chart the right course without fully understanding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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so very very wrong .

BOOK REVIEW … No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests by Daniel Kovalik
Alternative Title
: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian Intervention'
In an era where a man like Julian Assange can be mercilessly persecuted for just doing honest journalism, it takes a great deal of courage to expose the lies and misdeeds of America’s imperial ambitions. Yet they must be exposed and condemned for exactly what they have been and continue to be. No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests is a book that goes the extra mile in doing just that.
As with all of his excellent books, Dan Kovalik has packed this readable and well-researched work with an abundance of invaluable information and insight into the imperial war machine, the imperial diplomatic and PR juggernaut, the extensive predatory machinations reducing the rest of the world to rubble so that America’s corporations and its ravenous banking system can subjugate and exploit their populations and extract their material wealth.
We citizens, under the spell of the Western propaganda machine, slog through the malaise of censored news, disinformation and deceptions with our eyes wide shut, preferring to avoid at all costs acknowledging the nefarious role our “exceptional” nation plays in perpetrating some of the most sordid war crimes in history, thereby propagating unfathomable misery across the planet.
Though we might prefer to immerse ourselves in the bliss of this willful ignorance, as the folks who fund such misadventures with our tax dollars, and who implicitly support it by raising no serious objections, much less mounting actual resistance, we are ourselves responsible. We are culpable. We share the guilt of those actively engineering and promoting this tsunami of death and destruction, a reign of terror inflicted on any nation who would dare stand in our path of full-spectrum dominance and self-serving plunder.
How is it “we the people” are rendered so indifferent to these acts of aggression?
Not an excuse, but an incriminating explanation, provides the required insight: We are told — and gullibly believe — that somehow this orgy of violence, the bloodbaths and rubble which result from our military interventions, are in pursuit of a better world, one where democracy and freedom and justice for all reigns supreme. That it is the U.S.’s responsibility to stand up for and protect the citizens of other nations who are being deprived of the rights and privileges due to all of us as humans.
But as Kovalik proves beyond any doubt, for seven decades, our wars of aggression and fostering regime change around the globe have had nothing to do with the tragically laughable “cover story” that the U.S. is spreading democracy and protecting human rights, but rather are the direct, predictable, and inevitable product of America’s obsessive fixation on world conquest and unchallengeable global domination.
No More War covers a lot of ground, looking in detail at Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, the NATO aggression against former Yugoslavia, the Vietnam War. We see 1) how disruptive and counterproductive U.S. meddling in such countries is, 2) how such interference in the affairs of sovereign nations contravenes both currently accepted norms and international law, 3) how this abuse of military prowess is rapidly overextending U.S. projection of power, 4) how it is making America a pariah in the world community, and 5) how this will ultimately result in a major confrontation with countries like Russia and China, two nuclear-armed nations which genuinely have assumed the higher moral ground in the world of geopolitics. Dan Kovalik also eloquently exposes the profound hypocrisy of the U.S. claiming to be standing up for human and political rights in other countries, as it ignores and violates within its own borders many of those same rights for its own citizens.
No More War is a powerful, informative book. While the well-crafted prose reads comfortably, conferring it with NYT best seller potential, its erudition demands that it be taken seriously. This invaluable volume begs to be used as a textbook for university peace study courses. For we can’t very well chart the right course without fully understanding where we’ve gone wrong . . . so very very wrong.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-27--Is N.Y.’s Andrew Cuomo the Worst Governor in America?

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
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This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse n May 15th , ProPublica bannered n May 15th , ProPublica bannered “ Two Coasts .
One Virus .
How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California ” and reported that N.Y. ’ s Governor Andrew Cuomo stopped NYC ’ s Mayor Bill DeBlasio from imposing extreme social distancing measures for a while , and , “ .
In April , two prominent experts said in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their research showed that had New York imposed its extreme social distancing measures a week or two earlier , the death toll might have been cut by half or more an estimated 90 percent of the cumulative deaths in the United States from Covid-19 , at least from the first wave of the epidemic , might have been prevented by putting social distancing policies into effect two weeks earlier , on March 2 , when there were only 11 deaths in the entire country .
The effect would have been substantial had the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , on March 9 , resulting in approximately a 60 percent reduction in deaths . ''
So : if Andrew Cuomo is responsible for N.Y. ’ s having more coronavirus cases ( 360,000 ) than all nations but the U.S. ( 1,700,000 ) and Brazil ( 377,000 ) , and Russia ( 362,000 ) , then is that because all of these places are especially corrupt ?
Could be .
But the percentages per population are , of course , far more significant a measure , and here those are , expressed as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does NYC compare to , for example , Tokyo ?
Tokyo has 5,170 cases and 9,300,000 population .
That ’ s 560 cases per million .
NYC has 200,000 cases , and 8,400,000 population .
That ’ s 23,809 cases per million .
( It ’ s only slightly worse than the rest of New York State . )
Hong Kong has 1,066 cases , and 7,450,000 population .
That ’ s 143 cases per million .
America isn ’ t the worst country in the world , but it ’ s pretty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what it claims to be : it ’ s “ the empire state.
” And maybe Andrew Cuomo is merely an ordinary N.Y .
Governor .
But , clearly , he is horrid .
Maybe America has some that are worse , and maybe America ’ s President , Donald Trump is even worse , and maybe Joe Biden also is , but , clearly , they ’ re all very bad .
But what can be expected in such a corrupt country ?

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post. Be sure to share it widely.
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
So: if Andrew Cuomo is responsible for N.Y.’s having more coronavirus cases (360,000) than all nations but the U.S. (1,700,000) and Brazil (377,000), and Russia (362,000), then is that because all of these places are especially corrupt?
Could be. But the percentages per population are, of course, far more significant a measure, and here those are, expressed as cases per million population: U.S.=5,211; Brazil=1,779; Russia=2,483; N.Y.=19,202.
But how does NYC compare to, for example, Tokyo? Tokyo has 5,170 cases and 9,300,000 population. That’s 560 cases per million. NYC has 200,000 cases, and 8,400,000 population. That’s 23,809 cases per million. (It’s only slightly worse than the rest of New York State.)
Hong Kong has 1,066 cases, and 7,450,000 population. That’s 143 cases per million.
America isn’t the worst country in the world, but it’s pretty bad, and N.Y. State is simply what it claims to be: it’s “the empire state.” And maybe Andrew Cuomo is merely an ordinary N.Y. Governor. But, clearly, he is horrid. Maybe America has some that are worse, and maybe America’s President, Donald Trump is even worse, and maybe Joe Biden also is, but, clearly, they’re all very bad.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-30--Chilean people ready to return to the struggle: ” Let’s Make Chile Stand Up Against Hunger and Miser

Chilean people ready to return to the struggle: ” Let’s Make Chile Stand Up Against Hunger and Misery”

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Let 's get the whole country up against hunger and misery !
The famous `` stay home '' order had only one intention ; To stun and silence us through fear so that the government and the political class could bring more misery to our already precarious lives .
Enough of continuing to allow us to be subdued using the pandemic as an excuse to steal the last thing we had left .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the rage of a people that has not gone to sleep rises once more against this criminal government .
In all the neighborhoods , on each block , we will show the government , the parliament , the corrupt political parties , that we will defeat neoliberalism with mobilization and organization , and that the last word is the struggle of a people who are rising up in the streets .
Let 's rise across Chile against theft , against hunger and repression !
End the neoliberal dictatorship !
Provisional Government now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all the territories !
Let 's go men and women of Chile , let 's definitively eradicate the virus of this evil government and the complicit and corrupt political class that enables it !
This revolt is more alive than ever !

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"Levantemos Chile contra el Hambre y la Miseria!"
A call by Radio Plaza de La Dignidad Oficial (Radio Official Dignity Square)
Let's get the whole country up against hunger and misery!
The famous "stay home" order had only one intention; To stun and silence us through fear so that the government and the political class could bring more misery to our already precarious lives.
Enough of continuing to allow us to be subdued using the pandemic as an excuse to steal the last thing we had left.
On the 7th anniversary of the Popular Revolt, the rage of a people that has not gone to sleep rises once more against this criminal government. In all the neighborhoods, on each block, we will show the government, the parliament, the corrupt political parties, that we will defeat neoliberalism with mobilization and organization, and that the last word is the struggle of a people who are rising up in the streets.
Let's rise across Chile against theft, against hunger and repression! End the neoliberal dictatorship! Provisional Government now! Free and sovereign Constituent Assembly for all the territories! Let's go men and women of Chile, let's definitively eradicate the virus of this evil government and the complicit and corrupt political class that enables it!
This revolt is more alive than ever!
Levantemos Chile contra el Hambre y la Miseria Radio Plaza de la Dignidad Oficial
¡A levantar los territorios contra el hambre y la miseria! El famoso “quédate en casa” tenía una sola intención; aturdirnos y silenciarnos a través del miedo para que el gobierno y la clase política trajeran más miseria a nuestras ya precarizadas vidas. Ya basta de seguir permitiendo que nos sometan usando la pandemia como excusa para robarnos lo último que nos quedaba. Al cumplirse 7 meses de la Revuelta Popular, la rabia de un pueblo que no se ha dormido se alza contra este gobierno criminal. En todos los barrios, en cada cuadra, le mostraremos al gobierno, al parlamento, a los corruptos partidos políticos, que derrotaremos el neoliberalismo con movilización y organización y que la última palabra la tiene la lucha de un pueblo que se alza en las calles. ¡Alcemos Chile contra el robo, contra el hambre y la represión! ¡Fin a la dictadura neoliberal! ¡Gobierno Provisional ahora! ¡Asamblea Constituyente libre y soberana desde los territorios! ¡Vamos chilenas y chilenos, erradiquemos definitivamente el virus de este mal gobierno y de la corrupta clase política! ¡Esta revuelta está más viva que nunca!


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-30--Chile’s COVID-19 Cases Surpass 90,000

Chile’s COVID-19 Cases Surpass 90,000

The Minister of Health Jaime Manalich said that `` all those who do not comply with the quarantine can be transferred , using public force , to a health residence . ''
The Chilean Ministry of Health announced on Friday that the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the country had risen to 90,638 , with 944 deaths .
The ministry reported that 1,143 coronavirus patients are currently on ventilators , with 306 in critical condition .
Authorities stated that there are another 345 ventilators available to the nation 's private and public health networks .
Health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ performed in the last 24 hours for a total of 546,506 tests administered since screening for the disease first began in March .
Minister of Health Jaime Manalich said that the government has arranged for the construction of 85 healthcare facilities equipped with 4,157 beds so that those diagnosed with the disease can be easily isolated .
Manalich added that `` all those who do not comply with the quarantine can be transferred , using public force , to a health residence . ''
Additionally , the Chilean government announced that it has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 38 nearby towns until June 5 due to an increase in cases in recent weeks .

The Minister of Health Jaime Manalich said that "all those who do not comply with the quarantine can be transferred, using public force, to a health residence."
The Chilean Ministry of Health announced on Friday that the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the country had risen to 90,638, with 944 deaths.
The ministry reported that 1,143 coronavirus patients are currently on ventilators, with 306 in critical condition. Authorities stated that there are another 345 ventilators available to the nation's private and public health networks.
Health authorities said that 16,333 PCR tests were performed in the last 24 hours for a total of 546,506 tests administered since screening for the disease first began in March.
Minister of Health Jaime Manalich said that the government has arranged for the construction of 85 healthcare facilities equipped with 4,157 beds so that those diagnosed with the disease can be easily isolated.
Manalich added that "all those who do not comply with the quarantine can be transferred, using public force, to a health residence."
Additionally, the Chilean government announced that it has decided to extend the quarantine in Santiago and 38 nearby towns until June 5 due to an increase in cases in recent weeks.