Day: September 2, 2020

Assange Defense and Jimmy Dore Team Up!

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2 September 2020 — Assange Defense

Currently, Julian Assange faces extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he has been indicted on 18 counts for obtaining, possessing, conspiring to publish and for publishing classified information. The indictment marks the first-ever use of the Espionage Act for the publication of truthful information in the public interest, and it represents a gravely dangerous attempt to criminalize basic journalistic activity, threatening journalists’ right to publish and your right, as a citizen, to know the truth.

New Normal Gleichschaltung, or: The Storming of the Reichstag Building on 29 August, 2020

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29 August 2020 — Consent Factory, Inc.

By C.J. Hopkins

On March 21, 1933, the Nazi-controlled Reichstag passed a law making it a crime to speak out against the government. The “Regulations of the Reich President for Defense from Treacherous Attacks against the Government of the National Uprising” made even the slightest expression of dissent from Nazi ideology a criminal offense. This new law, among other totalitarian measures, was part of a process known as Gleichschaltung … the process of achieving rigid and total ideological coordination and uniformity in politics, culture, and private communication by forcibly repressing (or eliminating) independence and freedom of thought and expression.

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Black Agenda Report 2 September 2020: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia / The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? …

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2 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report

Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home.

The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Unlike Joe Biden, Xi Jinping’s report is centered, not on personality but on the actually-existing socialist system in China.
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Former chief scientist blasts government coronavirus response

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30 August, 2020 — Novara Media

As parents ready kids for school return and the debate over ‘the science’ rages, Sir David King tells Hilary Wainwright how the government got it wrong

Prime Minister Coronavirus Press Conference

Chief Medical Officer Chris Witty, Boris Johnson, and Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance (Pippa Fowles | No 10 Downing Street)

In part one of a two-part series, Hilary Wainwright talks to Sir David King, former government chief scientific adviser (2000-2007) and founder and chair of Independent SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies). Formed in May, the group aims to improve public understanding about how to handle Covid-19, as the official SAGE works in secrecy and the government’s incompetent handling of the crisis continues.

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GMO promoter Krebs misleads the BBC and the British public on gene editing

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1 August 2020 — GMWatch

GMO promoter John Krebs and Gene Editing

Makes inflated promises and false claims for an unproven technology

Below is a transcript of what the GMO promoter and member of the UK’s House of Lords, John Krebs, told the BBC in an interview about the government’s intention to deregulate gene editing so that it’s no longer defined and regulated as a genetic modification technique.

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Poisoning of organic farmer in pesticide attack “a game-changer” in France

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25 August 2020 — GMWatch

Glyphosate poisoned organic farm

“Vast quantities of glyphosate” used to try and “finish the farm off and us along with it”. Report: Jonathan Matthews

An organic farmer’s hospitalisation after intruders doused his vegetables with glyphosate has “become a cause célèbre in France, which is facing a growing backlash against intensive agriculture”, reports Henry Samuel in The Telegraph.

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Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point

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1 September 2020 — Green Social Thought

What Can We Learn from Cuba?

by Don Fitz

As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All asa final goal. However, it is not the final goal. It should be the first step in a complete transformation of medicine which includes combining community medicine with natural medicine and health-care-for-the-world.

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