7 May 2021 — Mint Press News
Much of the online anger at the Human Rights Watch report was actually manufactured by an Israeli government-sponsored app, Act.IL, which organized supporters of the Jewish state to act in sync to create an artificial groundswell of opposition to it.
7 May 2021 — CovertAction Magazine
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Jeremy Kuzmarov
Daniel Ellsberg, co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, talks to the media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on April 28, 1973. [Source: nbcnews.com]
Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age.
7 May 2021 — Off Guardian
It is very important that people understand what is happening here. The intention is to introduce vaccine passports everywhere. But this is a disguise. It’s a world’s first digital common-format, globally-interoperable ID system with an editable health flag (vaccinated Y or N).
7 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse
7 May 2021 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Hakha Town in Myanmar’s Chin State bordering Mizoram was the scene of attacks on the military by rebel fighters on May 5, 2021
How some animals get to sense when earthquakes are imminent remains a mystery. Just before the great Asian tsunami on December 26, 2004, elephants in Sri Lanka moved to high ground before the giant waves struck; at Galle, dogs refused to take morning walk with their masters on the beach.
7 May 2021 — Good Law Project
On 22 February, in the aftermath of the High Court finding that Matt Hancock had broken the law by failing to publish PPE contracts, Boris Johnson told Parliament this:
“the contracts are there on the record for everybody to see” and “all the details are on the record”
You can see both references in Hansard here.
But what he told Parliament was just not true. A large number of contracts – and details of those contracts – were neither “there for everybody to see” or “on the record”. Unlawfully their publication had been delayed.
7 May 2021 — Moon of Alabama
If you wonder what is happening in Myanmar there is no need to look further than these maps.
China needs oil but its sea main supply route through the Strait of Malacca is vulnerable.
Pipelines through Pakistan and Myanmar provide for alternative routes.
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7 May 2021 — Caitlin Johnson
The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion US government contract to return to the moon. I gleaned this annoying piece of information by way of an obnoxiously sycophantic Atlantic puff piece titled “Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing”, subtitled “From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality—whatever the cost.”
7 May 2021 — The Electronic Intifada
Human rights activists in the UK are facing the suggestion by police that their actions against an Israeli weapons manufacturer could be considered as “terrorism.”
7 May 2021 — Swiss Policy Research
All-cause deaths 65+, previous 7 days (Source: Israeli CBS)
Preface
SPR carefully distinguishes between short-term and long-term safety, short-term and long-term effectiveness, age- and sex-specific aspects, and medical and political questions. Some people might prefer a simpler, more black-and-white assessment, but this would not reflect complex reality.
The New Dark Age 
