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January 25, 2020 The "Million Man March" convened by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr exceeded expectations. According to estimates of the Iraqi police commander Jaafar Al-Batat, over 1 million people Thursday demanded the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq with a march in Baghdad, which was convened by cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr three weeks after the murder of Iran's General Qasem Soleimani. RELATED: Trump Downplays US Casualties from Iranian Attack At the country's capital, streets were filled with an endless column of people who paraded to express their repudiation of the U.S. military presence. Banners showed slogans such as "No, No to the U.S. and Yes to Iraqi sovereignty," "The willingness of free nations is stronger than the U.S. aggression," and "Global terrorism is made in the U.S." While some protesters burned images of Donald Trump, others marched raising photos of the U.S. president's face crossed out wi

26 deaths is NOT a “global health emergency”, so why is everyone pretending otherwise? China is shutting down, or so we’re being told. Cities are on lockdown. Disney land is closed. New Year is cancelled. Every day, China closes down more theatres or other more public spaces in their desperate attempts to thwart the spread of this terrible coronavirus. The headlines tell this virus is “mutated”, and that China’s  “lockdown” is affecting 33 million people . The Telegraph is morbidly warns that is  “highly likely” coronavirus is already in the UK , whilst CNET tells us the  deathtoll is spiking . It all sounds very scary. The reality is that 26 people have died. For comparison’s sake, 80,000 people died of flu in 2018 in the United States alone. (at least,  according to the CDC ). Coronavirus – or rather, this particular strain of coronavirus, as they are very common and mostly harmless – has had 800 reported cases to go along with those 26 reported deaths. That’s a m

Saint Jimmy posted this link on another thread.  Looks like the Canadian government has become the dopey little brother of the American government.    Consortium News Sends Libel Notices to Canadian Signals Intelligence Agency and Major Television Network Consortium News has sent libel notices to a Canadian spy agency and major broadcaster after their reports said CN is part of a Russian-directed propaganda campaign targeting Canadian leaders. Canada’s NSA and Global News Said CN Leads ‘ Cyber-Influence Campaign’ Directed by Moscow By  Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News C onsortium News  has sent libel notices to the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s version of the U.S. National Security Agency, and to a major Canadian television network, Global News, for a report that said  Consortium News  was “part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia.” Based on a CSE leak of a secret document, Global News’ website  said   in a Dec. 10, 2019  arti