Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.
globalresearch.ca/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-the-data-to-justify-a-worldwide-public-health-emergency/14901

Déjà Vu: The WHO's Handling of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: "Deeply Marred by Secrecy and Conflict of Interest"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
The same Big Pharma actors, the Gates Foundation, Anthony Fauci et al were behind the H1N1 swine flu scam. | Members of the Expert committee of the WHO (including Director General Margaret Chan) were bribed in 2009. | The same committee …
globalresearch.ca/deja-vu-the-whos-handling-of-2009-h1n1-pandemic-deeply-marred-by-secrecy-and-conflict-of-interest/19559

Betsy DeVos Sued for Garnishing Wages of 285,000 Student Borrowers Amid Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-02
A home health aide who earns just under $13 per hour is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose department has continued garnishing the wages of hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | The CARES Act, which was signed into law in late March, pro…
truthout.org/articles/betsy-devos-sued-for-garnishing-wages-of-285000-student-borrowers-amid-pandemic/

Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-02
Over the last few weeks, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have become household words. These antiparasitic drugs normally prescribed for malaria were introduced early in the rush to find potential treatments for COVID-19. As time goes on, the public discussion has centered on who should get these particular drugs and when. Meanwhile many doctors and medical researchers …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-antimalarials-covid-19-cardiac-arrest/

US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as 'Coronavirus'
Wayne Dupree | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
First published on April 15, 2020 | Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He's also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingram where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information. | Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association …
globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-02
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease ? obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ? the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/physicians-scientists-and-physician-scientists-connect-dots-between-heart-disease-potential-for-worse-covid-19-outcomes/

[Obituary] Gita Ramjee
Andrew Green | thelancet.com | 2020-05-02
HIV researcher who specialised in HIV prevention for women. Born on April 8, 1956, in Kampala, Uganda, she died of complications from COVID-19 on March 31, 2020, outside Durban, South Africa, aged 63 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30941-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Coronavirus, Vaccines and the Gates Foundation
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
First published on March 20, 2020 | Arguably, no one has been more active in promoting and funding research on vaccines aimed at dealing with coronavirus than Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From sponsoring a simulation of …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-gates-foundation/5706842

New blood plasma coronavirus treatment set to be trialled in the UK
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-02
Doctors at London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital are set to trial a potential treatment for coronavirus (Covid-19) using blood plasma from recovered patients. | The hospital's Biomedical Research Centre said the first plasma donations have been collected, and transfusions will begin in "the coming weeks". It's hoped the potential treatment, known as convalescent plasma, will help patients whose bodies are not producing sufficient antibodies to fight the virus. | The hospital said if the trials prove the treatment to be effective, NHS Blood and Transplant will begin a national programme to deliver up to 10,000 un…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/02/new-blood-plasma-coronavirus-treatment-set-to-be-trialled-in-the-uk/

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

German Lawyer Sent to Psychiatric Ward for Organizing Protest Against COVID-19 Lockdown
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
First published on April 16, 2020 | In the Soviet Union, activists were sent to state psychiatric wards. According to the state, any and all opposition to government policy was considered a form of mental illness. | Stephanie Buck writes about the …
globalresearch.ca/german-lawyer-sent-psych-ward-organizing-protest-against-covid-19-lockdown/5709685

[Comment] Renal denervation: time to refine the focus of research
Peter J Blankestijn, Sabine C Meijvis | thelancet.com | 2020-05-02
In The Lancet, Michael Bà∂hm and colleagues report the results of their international, prospective, randomised controlled trial on the effects of renal denervation in unmedicated patients.1 They report that, in a cohort of 331 patients with hypertension assigned to either a renal denervation procedure (n=166; mean age 52 years [SD 11], 36% women) or sham procedure (n=165; 53 years [10], 32% women), treatment differences were ‚àí3 ∑9 mm Hg (Bayesian 95% credible interval ‚àí6 ∑2 to ‚àí1 ∑6) for 24 h systolic blood pressure and ‚&agr…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30853-9/fulltext?rss=yes

"America the Victim": Are "Enemies" Lining Up for Revenge in the Wake of the Coronavirus?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-02
When in trouble politically, governments have traditionally conjured up a foreign enemy to explain why things are going wrong. Whatever one chooses to believe about the coronavirus, the fact is that it has resulted in considerable political backlash against a …
globalresearch.ca/america-victim-enemies-lining-up-revenge-wake-coronavirus/5711435

Lockdown Wars: Debating Pandemic Measures in a Failed State
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-02
If you thought COVID-19 wouldn't get political, think again. | Peter VAN BUREN | If America has a fast forward button on it, someone should push it ahead to November. We won't be done with the virus until we're done with the election. Between prudence and overreaction lies politics. | We bleat about wanting decisions to be based on science, then we do the same dumb red-blue thing, even counting the corona dead differently (nothing left certain but taxes now) to make the numbers seem better or worse depending on shifty politics. Something that should not be about Trump at all is All About Trump. | It's killing us.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/02/lockdown-wars-debating-pandemic-measures-in-failed-state/

May Day Caravan in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz News | indybay.org | 2020-05-02
#COLA4ALL activists in Santa Cruz organized a May Day Caravan to support those "striking and fighting for their right to live in this city". Beginning on the UC Santa Cruz campus to support the striking COLA graduate students, the caravan traveled downtown to the Santa Cruz Main Jail, and then on to support Food Not Bombs at Front and Laurel Streets. (Photos taken downtown by Keith McHenry of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/02/18832785.php

[Perspectives] Society and the slow burn of inequality
Michael Marmot | thelancet.com | 2020-05-02
On June 14, 2017, Grenfell Tower, a high-rise housing block in the Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, UK, went up in flames. 72 people died, among the poorest and most marginalised in society. A dramatic conflagration such as this could teach us two kinds of lessons, if we were but open to receiving them. This event exposed underlying problems in society and it showed us that we have to do things differently. In the case of Grenfell, the underlying societal problem was deep-seated and enduring social inequalities and resultant health inequalities.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30940-5/fulltext?rss=yes

We've Seen the End of the US-China Relationship. The Rift Is Now Total
Stephen S. Roach | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-02
It didn't have to end this way, but the die is now cast. After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of the US-China relationship is at hand. This is a tragic outcome for both sides

Iran able to export medical equipment in field of treating coronavirus: VP Sattari
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-02
TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA)

Iran's drug production exceeds 23% growth last year
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-02
TEHRAN, May 02 (MNA)

UK: Indian Students Starving and Unable to Return Home
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-01
The closure of borders in India left thousands of students stranded in the United Kingdom. Now they depend on food donations from charity institutions to survive. | RELATED: | Thousands of Migrants Workers Demand Indian Govt Trains to Go Back Home | According to local media, most Indian college students work part-time in low-paying jobs to support their studies in this European country. | "The confinement forced by COVID-19 has caused many of them to lose their jobs,"
telesurenglish.net/news/uk-indian-students-starving-and-unable-to-return-home-20200501-0004.html

Harvard Postpones Commencement Indefinitely? Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Founded in 1636, Harvard commencements began in 1642, a handful of graduates alone in its early years, nine in 1642. | There were few college entrants at that time. In the 17th century after the school's founding, there were no graduates …
globalresearch.ca/harvard-postpones-commencement-indefinitely-tele-education-tele-medicine/5711501

Pompeo Demands Countries Block Airspace to Iran's 'Terrorist Airline' After Venezuela Deliveries
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The US is going on the offensive once again against Venezuela, this time attempting to break up growing Iranian cooperation and assistance to Caracas. The two so-called 'rogue states' recently targeted for US-imposed regime change are helping each other fight …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-demands-countries-block-airspace-iran-terrorist-airline-after-venezuela-deliveries/5711461

Podcast: Dan Kovalik on How Sanctions and Humanitarian Interventions are Used to Plunder Nations
Mnar Muhawesh | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-01
Dan Kovalik discusses the history of Washington's policy of sanctions and humanitarian intervention, a policy that provides the framework for the mass pillaging of foreign nations on behalf of the U.S. establishment. | Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence. | In this episode, we are joined by human right…

Podcast: Dan Kovalik on How Sanctions and Humanitarian Interventions are Used to Plunder Nations

It's Crucial to Distinguish Between Can't and Won't–With a Million Lives at Stake
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-05-01
CNN ( 5/1/20) fails to note that its expert is predicting a seven-figure death toll for the United States. | In a story predicting two more years for the coronavirus pandemic, CNN ( 5/1/20) quotes Michael Osterholm, who directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota: "This thing's not going to stop until it infects 60 to 70% of people," he said. "The idea that this is going to be done soon defies micr…
fair.org/home/its-crucial-to-distinguish-between-cant-and-wont-with-a-million-lives-at-stake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-crucial-to-distinguish-between-cant-and-wont-with-a-million-lives-at-stake

Israel: Coronavirus death toll up to 227
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-02
Israel confirmed two more fatalities from the coronavirus on Saturday, taking the death toll to 277.The Health Ministry said 51 new cases were reported in the country over the past 24 hours, raising the total to 16,152.It said 107 patients remain in critical condition, while at least 9,400 have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far.Israel started taking measures to stem the spread of coronavirus in late February, initially barring non-residents arriving from virus hotspots and gradually imposing a near-total air travel ban.It also closed all educational institutions and prohibited citizens from leav…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-coronavirus-death-toll-up-to-227-3518458

Turkey sends Somalia domestic ventilators to tackle virus
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-02
Turkey on Saturday sent a shipment of medical supplies, including new Turkish-made ventilators, to Somalia to help the Horn of Africa country combat the coronavirus outbreak.The ventilators, made through recent technological advances, will be "breath of life for our Somali brothers," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Twitter.Sending the aid is not a matter of civilization but of conscience, he added, stressing how the capability and conscience of the Turkish nation stands with the oppressed and the needy.After Turkey's all-out effort to develop its own ventilators, which bore fruit last month, Somali…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-sends-somalia-domestic-ventilators-to-tackle-virus-3518466

US Air Force 'Interested in Accelerating' Hypersonic Cruise Missile Programme
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-02
In March, Michael White, the Assistant Director for Hypersonics in the Office of the US Under Secretary of Defence for Research and Engineering, signaled the Pentagon's readiness to catch up with Russia and China in hypersonic arms development.
sputniknews.com/military/202005021079169723-us-air-force-interested-in-accelerating-hypersonic-cruise-missile-programme/

Huawei Rolls Out World's Highest 5G Station in Mount Everest Area
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-02
Despite the ongoing US crackdown on Huawei, in place since May 2019, the Chinese tech giant continues to stay afloat, vowing to find replacements for American technologies in the near future to become independent of them.
sputniknews.com/science/202005021079171234-huawei-rolls-out-worlds-highest-5g-station-in-mount-everest-area/

COVID-19: When schools reopen, it needs to be on a radically different basis
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-01
Education Fred FuentesIssue 1263 Australia COVID-19 schools teachers parentsMay 1, 2020R…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-when-schools-reopen-it-needs-be-radically-different-basis

'A New Low': Betsy DeVos Sued for Garnishing Wages of Nearly 300,000 Student Loan Borrowers During Pandemic
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-01
A home health aide who earns just under $13 per hour is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose department has continued collecting garnished wages from hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers during the coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/01/new-low-betsy-devos-sued-garnishing-wages-nearly-300000-student-loan-borrowers?cd-origin=rss

Dr. Anthony Fauci: COVID-19 "May Turn Out to be Like a Bad Flu Season". His Peer Reviewed Article Versus His Public Statements
Ana Laura Palomino García | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Dr. Anthony Fauci and two co-authors published an article on March 26, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine. | Anthony Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the article, linked below, he states …
globalresearch.ca/dr-fauci-covid-19-may-turn-out-like-bad-flu-season/5708222

For World's Rarest Great Ape, COVID-19 Is Latest in a Litany of Threats
Ayat S. Karokaro | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest threat to the Tapanuli orangutan in Indonesia, the rarest great ape species of all and one already under severe pressure from a range of human threats. | The critically endangered species, Pongo tapanuliensis…
globalresearch.ca/world-rarest-great-ape-covid-19-latest-threats/5711467

Video: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered HIV Says Coronavirus Was Created in Laboratory
Paul Anthony Taylor | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
In a highly significant development, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has added his voice to those who believe the new coronavirus was …
globalresearch.ca/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-who-discovered-hiv-says-coronavirus-created-laboratory/5711463

Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Rent Strike in NYC
Natasha Lennard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Want a grim picture of the state of American dissent during the coronavirus pandemic? Take an overview of media coverage from the last week. The press focused disproportionate attention on a few hundred white reactionaries, in a small number …
globalresearch.ca/millions-unable-pay-housing-next-month-organizers-plan-largest-rent-strike-nearly-century/5711443

Video: Prospects of Turkish-Russian Military Conflict in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The region of Greater Idlib remains the main source of tensions in Syria. | The March 5th ceasefire deal reached by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow allowed an end to be made to the …
globalresearch.ca/video-prospects-turkish-russian-military-conflict-syria/5711491

Video: Planet of the Humans. Michael Moore's Documentary
Michael Moore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day

As US Unemployment Reaches Great Depression Levels, Millions Still Unable to Obtain Assistance
Shannon Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
More than 3.8 million workers in the US filed for unemployment benefits last week as the country faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 30 million American workers have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of …
globalresearch.ca/us-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-levels-millions-still-unable-obtain-assistance/5711499

Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
"Meat Improves Mental Health" mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the "study," published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, was funded by an "unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen's Beef Association." Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat. Whereas only…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/meat-mental-health-story-latest-in-fake-nutritional-science/

A Protest From France. The Great Danger of Ill-Conceived Lockdowns
Jà∂rg Guido Hàºlsmann | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
After WWI, the distinguished British economist Edwin Cannan was asked, somewhat reproachfully, what he did during the terrible war years. He replied: "I protested." The present article is a similar protest against the current lockdown policies put into place in | …
globalresearch.ca/protest-france/5711469

Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. | Claiming that they do not wish to …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-cannot-get-swiss-respirators-due-us-inhuman-blockade/5711453

International May Day 2020. Workers of the World Unite!
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
In order to survive the plague of global capitalism and prosper, working people must join hands nationally and internationally. | As the indisputable producers, they must become the new owners of the means of production. | There is no other solution. | ….
globalresearch.ca/international-may-day-2020-workers-of-the-world-unite/5711429

"They're Writing COVID On All the Death Certificates": NYC Funeral Directors Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic
Project Veritas Action | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. | *** | Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with …
globalresearch.ca/funeral-directors-covid-19-epicenter-doubt-legitimacy-deaths-attributed-pandemic-fear-numbers-padded/5711447

Surveillance System and Privacy: Britain's NHS Ordered to Hand Over Security Keys of NHS Data to UK Intel and Security Authority GCHQ
Rob Woodward | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Britain's NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, …
globalresearch.ca/nhs-ordered-hand-over-security-keys-nhs-data-gchq/5711458

Blaming the Victim Is the West's Latest Infowar Tactic Against China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Fewer and fewer people believe Western officials and their media, which is the West's own fault for confusing their targeted audience with the mixed messages that they disseminated about COVID-19 over the past couple of months. It was an epic …
globalresearch.ca/blaming-the-victim-is-the-wests-latest-infowar-tactic-against-china/5711478

The Defeat of Bernie Sanders and the Perfidy of the Democrats
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The sudden collapse of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency comes amidst what official sources are calling the worst influenza pandemic to hit the United States and much of the world since the misnamed 'Spanish Flu' in 1918. Sensational …
globalresearch.ca/defeat-bernie-sanders-perfidy-democrats/5711493

All of the Coronavirus Models Were Wrong
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
How is it possible that all of the coronavirus models could have been so completely and utterly wrong about what was going to happen? Very early in this pandemic, some models that were predicting millions of deaths caused quite a …
globalresearch.ca/all-coronavirus-models-were-wrong/5711454

"Food Supply Chain Is Breaking": Tyson Foods
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
News feeds in April have been inundated with food supply chain disruption stories due to coronavirus-related shutdowns. At least a third of US meatpacking facilities handling hogs have shifted offline this month, other plants that process cows and chickens …
globalresearch.ca/tyson-foods-warns-food-supply-chain-is-breaking/5711445

The Yemeni Quagmire
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
A Saudi-led coalition has rejected the enforcement of a "self-administration rule" by the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen and called on all the parties to honor the Riyadh Agreement that includes the formation of a technocrat government with equal …
globalresearch.ca/yemeni-quagmire/5711486

France Says COVID Was Already 'Silently Circulating' & DARPA's "Implantable Nanoplatform" Vaccines
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-01
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/30/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/france-says-covid-was-already-silently-circulating-darpas-implantable-nanoplatform-vaccines/

Trump Regime Threatens Escalated War on China by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Hegemons aren't like other nations. They operate extrajudicially on the world stage by their own rules