Bulletin N° 1077

“Moby Dick, or the Whale”

https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/

by Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

(24:37:50)

“This novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first ‘modern’ novel.”

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“Moby Dick” and the soul of American capitalism

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbRPkLqjPNZjRncBCKBCWzfMM

with Chris Hedges

(35:12)

"Moby Dick", by Herman Melville, is among America’s greatest novels. It is a prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a nation and perhaps a species. Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness, and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. Melville’s description of the ship’s captain, Ahab, is a description of the bankers, corporate boards, politicians, television personalities, and generals who, through the power of propaganda, fill our heads with seductive images of glory and lust for wealth and power. We are consumed with self-induced obsessions that spur us toward self-annihilation. Melville is our foremost oracle. He is to us what William Shakespeare was to Elizabethan England, or Fyodor Dostoyevsky to czarist Russia.

 

 

 

 

Subject: “Mental Constructs” and Material Constructions: The Role of Ideology.

 

 

 

Grenoble

 

December 4, 2022

 

 

 Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

By some accounts we are witnessing the precipitous fall of the capitalist system, and the ideas of the ruling class have proved to be bankrupt, which is to say the dominant ideologies now have less currency. Historically, we might observe that in times of such crises, as we are experiencing today, the ruling class debacle proceeds like a bateau ivre and pushes in every direction, abandoning any collective notion of progress. This class is a social minority, and they are playing a dangerous game, though undetectable behind the veil of pathologies that prevail. Culture now appears as heroic sound effects, but without substance; its social contribution is to distract us, producing only heat and no light. In the dark, we are bound to stumble and fall repeatedly, until we are treaded upon by the harried masses in search of an imaginary exit.

 

 

 

The 16+ items below represent the grim account of our many trials and tribulations by many brave authors of articles and essays in a long radical Anglophone tradition, offering critical views and analyses of current events.

We encourage readers to become familiar with this alternative democratic tradition and embrace the discussions it inspires, sifting and winnowing for facts that lead to true perceptions, instead of a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing....

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Francis McCollum Feeley

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Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org

 

 

 

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Ethical Parameters for Human Enhancement?

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/ethical-parameters-for-human-enhancement?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

Excluding military applications...

 

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The De-Population Bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdnlrkx-wg

by Hoover Institute

(1 :06 :23)

 

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This Is How America Ends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s47elUKUZdk&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(10:15)

 

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The Great Reset's Dark Origins & Crumbling COVID Illusion

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/richard-grove-interview-great-resets-dark-origins-crumbling-covid-illusion/

with Ryan Cristián and Richard Grove

(audio, 1:16:31)

 

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What is the Deep State? The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-doomsday-project-and-deep-events-jfk-watergate-iran-contra-and-9-11/27806

by Prof Peter Dale Scott

“I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”   — Senator Frank Church (1975)

 

I would like to discuss four major and badly understood events – the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. I will analyze these deep events as part of a deeper political process linking them, a process that has helped build up repressive power in America at the expense of democracy.

In recent years I have been talking about a dark force behind these events — a force which, for want of a better term, I have clumsily called a “deep state,” operating both within and outside the public state. Today for the first time I want to identify part of that dark force, a part which has operated for five decades or more at the edge of the public state. This part of the dark force has a name not invented by me: the Doomsday Project, the Pentagon’s name for the emergency planning “to keep the White House and Pentagon running during and after a nuclear war or some other major crisis.”1

 

My point is a simple and important one: to show that the Doomsday Project of the 1980s, and the earlier emergency planning that developed into it, have played a role in the background of all the deep events I shall discuss.

More significantly, it has been a factor behind all three of the disturbing events that now threaten American democracy. The first of these three is what has been called the conversion of our economy into a plutonomy – with the increasing separation of America into two classes, into the haves and the have-nots, the one percent and the 99 percent. The second is America’s increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, which has become more and more routine and predictable, to wage or provoke wars in remote regions of the globe. It is clear that the operations of this American war machine have served the one percent.2

The third – my subject today — is the important and increasingly deleterious impact on American history of structural deep events: mysterious events, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, which violate the American social structure, have a major impact on American society, repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force.

There are any number of analyses of America’s current breakdown in terms of income and wealth disparity, also in terms of America’s increasing militarization and belligerency. What I shall do today is I think new: to argue that both the income disparity – or what has been called our plutonomy — and the belligerency have been fostered significantly by deep events.

We must understand that the income disparity of America’s current economy was not the result of market forces working independently of political intervention. In large part it was generated by a systematic and deliberate ongoing political process dating from the anxieties of the very wealthy in the 1960s and 1970s that control of the country was slipping away from them.

This was the time when future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, in a 1971 memorandum, warned that survival of the free enterprise system depended on “careful long-range planning and implementation” of a well-financed response to threats from the left.3 This warning was answered by a sustained right-wing offensive, coordinated by think tanks and funded lavishly by a small group of family foundations.4 We should recall that all this was in response to serious riots in Newark, Detroit, and elsewhere, and that increasing calls for a revolution were coming from the left (in Europe as well as America). I will focus today on the right’s response to that challenge, and on the role of deep events in enhancing their response.

What was important about the Powell memorandum was less the document itself than the fact that it was commissioned by the United States Chamber of Commerce, one of the most influential and least discussed lobbying groups in America. And the memorandum was only one of many signs of that developing class war in the 1970s, a larger process working both inside and outside government (including what Irving Kristol called an “intellectual counterrevolution”), which led directly to the so-called “Reagan Revolution.”5

It is clear that this larger process has been carried on for almost five decades, pumping billions of right-wing dollars into the American political process. What I wish to show today is that deep events have also been integral to this right-wing effort, from the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 to 9/11. 9/11 resulted in the implementation of “Continuity of Government” (COG) plans (which in the Oliver North Iran Contra Hearings of 1987 were called plans for “the suspension of the U.S. constitution”). These COG plans, building on earlier COG planning, had been carefully developed since 1982 in the so-called Doomsday Project, by a secret group appointed by Reagan. The group was composed of both public and private figures, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

 

I shall try to show today that in this respect 9/11 was only the culmination of a sequence of deep events reaching back to the Kennedy assassination if not earlier, and that the germs of the Doomsday Project can be detected behind all of them.

More specifically, I shall try to demonstrate about these deep events that

 

1) prior bureaucratic misbehavior by the CIA and similar agencies helped to make both the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 happen;

2) the consequences of each deep event included an increase in top-down repressive power for these same agencies, at the expense of persuasive democratic power;6

3) there are symptomatic overlaps in personnel between the perpetrators of each of these deep events and the next;

4) one sees in each event the involvement of elements of the international drug traffic – suggesting that our current plutonomy is also to some degree a narconomy;

5) in the background of each event (and playing an increasingly important role) one sees the Doomsday Project — the alternative emergency planning structure with its own communications network, operating as a shadow network outside of regular government channels.

 

Bureaucratic Misbehavior as a Factor Contributing to both the JFK Assassination and 9/11

Both the JFK assassination and 9/11 were facilitated by the way the CIA and FBI manipulated their files about alleged perpetrators of each event (Lee Harvey Oswald in the case of what I shall call JFK, and the alleged hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi in the case of 9/11). Part of this facilitation was the decision on October 9, 1963 of an FBI agent, Marvin Gheesling, to remove Oswald from the FBI watch list for surveillance. This was shortly after Oswald’s arrest in New Orleans in August and his reported travel to Mexico in September. Obviously these developments should normally have made Oswald a candidate for increased surveillance.7

This misbehavior is paradigmatic of the behavior of other agencies, especially the CIA, in both JFK and 9/11. Indeed Gheesling’s behavior fits very neatly with the CIA’s culpable withholding from the FBI, in the same month of October, information that Oswald had allegedly met in Mexico City with a suspected KGB agent, Valeriy Kostikov.8 This also helped ensure that Oswald would not be placed under surveillance. Indeed, former FBI Director Clarence Kelley in his memoir later complained that the CIA’s withholding of information was the major reason why Oswald was not put under surveillance on November 22, 1963.9

A more ominous provocation in 1963 was that of Army Intelligence, one unit of which in Dallas did not simply withhold information about Lee Harvey Oswald, but manufactured false intelligence that seemed designed to provoke retaliation against Cuba. I call such provocations phase-one stories, efforts to portray Oswald as a Communist conspirator (as opposed to the later phase-two stories, also false, portraying him as a disgruntled loner). A conspicuous example of such phase-one stories is a cable from the Fourth Army Command in Texas, reporting a tip from a Dallas policeman who was also in an Army Intelligence Reserve unit:

Assistant Chief Don Stringfellow, Intelligence Section, Dallas Police Department, notified 112th INTC [Intelligence] Group, this Headquarters, that information obtained from Oswald revealed he had defected to Cuba in 1959 and is a card-carrying member of Communist Party.”10

This cable was sent on November 22 directly to the U.S. Strike Command at Fort MacDill in Florida, the base poised for a possible retaliatory attack against Cuba.11

The cable was not an isolated aberration. It was supported by other false phase-one stories from Dallas about Oswald’s alleged rifle, and specifically by concatenated false translations of Marina Oswald’s testimony, to suggest that Oswald’s rifle in Dallas was one he had owned in Russia.12

 

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Fauci Forced To Answer COVID Questions By Judge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Aft4wxfac&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(31:45)

 

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Big Pharma “Knowingly Sold” HIV-Infected Products In Asia & Latin America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9bN3C3_YcA&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(5:54)

 

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Natural cross immunity confirmed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaSU2mfNrIg

with Dr. John Campbell

(20:21)

 

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The US Spends Almost as Much on Healthcare as the Rest of the World Combined and Has One of the Worst Outcomes

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/25/the-us-spends-almost-as-much-on-healthcare-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined-and-has-one-of-the-worst-outcomes/

by Robert Scheer

 

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DIED SUDDENLY: The Film They Don't Want You To See

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/died-suddenly-the-film-they-dont-want-you-to-see/

with Nicholas Stumphauzer and Matt Skow

(1:08:21)

 

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Financial Crimes, COVID + Con Artists

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/financial-crimes-covid--con-artists-with-whitney-webb--dr-jessica-rose/

with Whitney Webb and Dr. Jessica Rose

(55:18)

 

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“It’s not too late to stop being a tool of oppression”

https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/jem-bendell-its-not-too-late-to-stop-being-a-tool-of-oppression-112122

by Jem Bendell and read by Michael Dowd

(audio, 22:47)

See complete text, with Internet links @

https://jembendell.com/2022/11/21/its-not-too-late-to-stop-being-a-tool-of-oppression/

 

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Facebook (Meta) Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/facebook-meta-400x244.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/facebook-meta-confirms-it-has-ties-to-a-u-s-military-propaganda-campaign/5800633

by Mac Slavo

 

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Call of Duty is a Government Psyop: These Documents Prove It

https://www.mintpressnews.com/call-of-duty-is-a-government-psyop-these-documents-prove-it/282781/

by Alan Macleod

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has been available for less than three weeks, but it is already making waves. Breaking records, within ten days, the first-person military shooter video game earned more than $1 billion in revenue. Yet it has also been shrouded in controversy, not least because missions include assassinating an Iranian general clearly based on Qassem Soleimani, a statesman and military leader slain by the Trump administration in 2020, and a level where players must shoot “drug traffickers” attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border.

The Call of Duty franchise is an entertainment juggernaut, having sold close to half a billion games since it was launched in 2003. Its publisher, Activision Blizzard, is a giant in the industry, behind titles games as the Guitar Hero, Warcraft, Starcraft, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Candy Crush Saga series.

Yet a closer inspection of Activision Blizzard’s key staff and their connections to state power, as well as details gleaned from documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Call of Duty is not a neutral first-person shooter, but a carefully constructed piece of military propaganda, designed to advance the interests of the U.S. national security state.

 

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False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda (parts 1, 2, & 3)

https://www.corbettreport.com/alqaeda/

with James Corbett


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False Flags Q & A - Questions For Corbett
https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc-ffqanda/
with James Corbett
(51:03)
Last week James solicited your questions on False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda and you responded. In today's edition of Questions For Corbett, James answers your queries on Al CIA-da, the invasion of Iraq, the role of Cheney in 9/11, Eisenhower's awareness of the conspiracy and much more.

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A False Flag Reading List - Questions For Corbett

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/a-false-flag-reading-list-questions?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett

(49:40)

 

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Propadanda :Eye-bouncing” - #SolutionsWatch

https://www.bitchute.com/video/H9lwUAK8ccox/

with James Corbett

(23:44)

 

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The UN outlines a new campaign against “hate speech”

https://reclaimthenet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/un-hate-speech.jpg

https://reclaimthenet.org/un-campaign-hate-speech/   

by Didi Rankovic

Another vaguely-worded push for speech restrictions.

If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net.

The United Nations (UN) is dishing out tips on social media to citizens around the world on how to “say no to hate” – specifically online, declaring at the same time that “words can be weapons” which lead to violence in real life.

Instead of dedicating all its energy to policing, through peacekeeping, warzones, and making sure international law and the UN Charter are respected by all its member-states, the UN seems to have plenty of time and resources to be policing online speech.

Related: UN is working with tech, media companies, and states to address “misinformation” and “hate speech”

 

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The West is playing Russian roulette"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiV1h7Dm5E

with Freddie Sayers and John Mearsheimer

(1:17:12)

 

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SERIOUS! Jeffrey Sachs: "The Crisis Will Wipe Out Everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcIR6a9bREo&feature=youtu.be

with Jeffrey Sachs

(8:42)

 

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Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc&feature=youtu.be

with Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff

(34 :00)

 

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Neocon takeover of EU nears completion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8TRZm_zAQ

with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen

(1:43:55)

 

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Q & A: Neocon takeover of EU nears completion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9IB8hQECb0&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(34:27)

 

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Furious With Biden, Europe Says US Is Profiting Off Ukraine War

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/28/furious-with-biden-europe-says-us-is-profiting-off-ukraine-war/

by Dave DeCamp

 

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Europe Accuses U.S. Of War Profiteering Off Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzHuOYUQ4Hw

with Jimmy Dore

(11:20)

 

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EU bad moves, oil price cap. Russia big moves, gas union

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9abYGrFjzBo

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(27:25)

 

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Alex Rubinstein on Nazism in Ukraine, NAFO and Information Warfare

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/28/video-alex-rubinstein-on-nazism-in-ukraine-nafo-and-information-warfare/

by Scheer Post Staff

(51:04)

 

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Failure of Western Allies to Destroy Nazism

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/kapp-putsch-400x267.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/failure-western-allies-destroy-nazism/5800511

by Shane Quinn

 

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Ukraine Russia War Update 11-30-22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QVDWt3OBJc&feature=youtu.be

with Judge Napolitano and Scott Ritter

(27:43)

 

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Russia Ukraine War (Live) : Putin's Forces Shell Several Towns In Donetsk To Regain Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7GS-yHKxQ&feature=youtu.be

with Times Now

(8:37:27)

Russia-Ukraine War Live : Russia launched an offensive and tried to make further advances and shelled several towns, including Bakhmut and nearby Soledar and Opytne. Other battleground activity was reported in northeastern and central Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said. Russia Ukraine War Live: Putin's Forces Shell Several Towns In Donetsk To Regain Control, World News

 

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The Russians are fully mobilizing to complete the task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeHGrvYk-Do&feature=youtu.be

with Douglas Macgregor

(39:58)

 

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Russia, massive missile strike. Macron meets Biden. Putin scolds Scholz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBw1RM0RLg&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(32 :07)

 

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German Military Preparing for Potential War with Russia, Leaked Internal Report Reveals

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/german-military-400x225.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/german-military-preparing-potential-war-russia-leaked-internal-report-reveals/5800614

by  Ben Norton

 

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The Poland Lie Exposed The Propaganda Pipeline & Israel Sent Secret “Strategic Materials” To Ukraine

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/poland-lie-exposed-propaganda-pipeline-israel-sent-secret-strategic-materials-ukraine/

with Ryan Cristián and Michael Hudson

(1:54:49)

 

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Why German-state racism is now directed at the Palestinians

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57361.htm

by Jonathan Cook

There are troubling insights to be gained into modern European racism from the German arts community’s decision to revoke a lifetime achievement award to the respected British playwright Caryl Churchill over her trenchant support for the Palestinians.

On 31 October, Churchill was stripped of the European Drama Prize she had been given in April in recognition of her life’s work. The decision was backed by Petra Olschowski, the arts minister of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, who said: “We as a country take a clear and non-negotiable stance against any form of antisemitism. This is all the more reason why a prize funded by the state cannot be awarded under the given circumstances.”

The jury - comprising eminent figures in German cultural life - said they had had their attention drawn, since making the award, to two problems. First, Churchill had backed BDS, a Palestinian grassroots movement calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions directly involved in Israel’s decades-long oppression of the Palestinians.

Back in 2019, an overwhelming majority of the German parliament designated support for BDS as “antisemitic.

And second, the panel had been reminded of a short play called Seven Jewish Children, written 13 years ago in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s savage and extended bombardment of Gaza’s besieged Palestinian population in the winter of 2008-09. In a statement, the German jury said the play could "be regarded as being antisemitic".

In Churchill’s now largely forgotten play, Jewish parents articulate their trauma generation by generation.

Palestinians are not present. They are shadows. They are the referred pain of a wound from Europe. Instead, the play contextualises the suffering in Gaza through a series of monologues as each generation of Jewish parents struggles to decide what they should tell their children and what realities they should hide - be it about the horrors of Europe, the crimes involved in the creation of Israel, or the bombardment of Gaza.

The play hints at uncomfortable truths: that the oppressed can turn into oppressor; that traumas do not necessarily heal or enlighten; and that their effects can be complex and paradoxical.

Friends to tormentors

One conclusion to draw from the revocation of Churchill’s award - the latest episode in Europe’s endless “antisemitism rows” - is that German elites, who control the public discourse, have signally failed to internalise the Holocaust’s key lesson.

It is a universal one: that we should never tolerate the demonisation of oppressed and marginalised groups, or those who stand in solidarity with them, especially when the state itself or its representatives are behind such demonisation. That way lies pogroms and gas chambers.

How has support for the Palestinian cause of BDS - for boycotts of those directly involved in Israel’s decades-long oppression and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians - come to be reinterpreted as racism against Jews?

This, of course, is not a uniquely German failing. Most western states - including the US, France and Britain - have willingly conflated criticism of Israel over its oppression of Palestinians with antisemitism, and sought to silence or criminalise calls to punish Israel through boycotts.

But this failure ought to be all the more surprising given the enormous efforts Germany has expended over many decades in Holocaust education, supposedly to eradicate the susceptibility of Germans to state-sponsored racism. How have they switched - so easily, it seems - from one kind of state-sanctioned racism, antisemitism, to another kind, anti-Palestinian racism?

But even more paradoxically, Germany has smeared not just Palestinians and their supporters through its crackdown on BDS, but Jews too. It treats them all as inherently responsible for the actions of Israel, a state that no more represents all Jews than Saudi Arabia represents all Muslims.

 

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Palestine-Israel: The History and the Evidence

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Palestine-ONU-400x261.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/palestine-israel-evidence/5801087

by Hans Stehling

 

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“Operation Claw-Sword”: Erdogan’s Big New Game in Syria

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/erdogan-400x275.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-claw-sword-erdogan-big-new-game-syria/5800567

by Pepe Escobar

 

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Turkey delivers its terms to US, ground invasion imminent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rEdeiIpaB0

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(17:43)

 

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Made in Britain: How London Handpicks Iraqi Leaders

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/iraq-britain-400x189.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/made-britain-how-london-handpicks-iraqi-leaders/5800619

by Kit Klarenberg

 

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Turkey's Erdogan Threatens Ground Invasion Of Syria After Unclaimed Attack In Istanbul

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-ground-invasion-syria-after-unclaimed-attack-istanbul/

by Robert Inlakesh

After firing a series of strikes against Kurdish armed groups in both Syria and Iraq, Turkish President, Recep Tayip Erdogan, has threatened a ground invasion into north-eastern Syria. The strikes have been painted as a response to a terrorist attack in central Istanbul, but what else factors into this decision?

 

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Nord Stream updates Russia-Germany pipeline outage end-date to April next year

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nord-stream-updates-russia-germany-pipeline-outage-end-date-april-next-year-2022-11-28/

by Reuters

 

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Electric War

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57364.htm

by Pepe Escobar

Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage – later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII – unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American “intelligence”.

Such tawdriness was compounded by a ridiculous cover-up: the Ukrainians were firing on Russian missiles from a direction that they could not possibly be coming from. That is: Poland. And then the U.S. Secretary of Defense, weapons peddler Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin, sentenced Russia was to blame anyway, because his Kiev vassals were shooting at Russian missiles that should not have been in the air (and they were not).

Call it the Pentagon elevating bald lying into a rather shabby art.

 

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Is NATO falling apart?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/nato-countries.JPG

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57363.htm

by The Saker

Something quite amazing has just happened.  Following the terrorist attack in Ankara which killed 34 people and injured another 125, Turkish authorities first declared that they will not accept US condolences.  Then the Turks launched a military operation against “Kurdish terrorists in northern Syria“.  Turkey then claimed to have neutralized 184 terrorists.

What is not mentioned in those articles is that the target of the Turkish strike was the US-run center for the training and education of PKK militants in Rojava.  There are rumors that the Turks gave the US enough warning time to evacuate most of its personnel.

Does that sound familiar?

If it does, it is because it is very similar to what the Iranians did when they hit US bases in Iraq following the murder of General Solemani in a US drone strike.

If the above is true, and rumors are very much “if” and cannot be considered as proven fact, then that means that a NATO member state (Turkey) just attacked a US base and, like Iran, got away with it: the “The Finest Fighting Force in the History of the World” just got whacked hard and humiliated for a second time and could do absolutely nothing to defend itself or even save face.

How big a slap in the face did Uncle Shmuel get this time?  According to the Turkish defense minister, Hulusi Akar,

Terrorists’ shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, and warehouses were successfully destroyed,” Akar said, adding that “the so-called headquarters of the terrorist organization were also hit and destroyed.” Overall, the Defense Ministry claimed that the strikes hit nearly 90 targets, which it said were connected to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG).

Even allowing for some “patriotic exaggeration”, it is pretty clear that Ergodan’s revenge strike was both quite substantial and, apparently, rather effective.

So, what do we have here?  A NATO member state all but accused the US of a major terrorist attack against its capital city, and then that NATO member state openly attacked a US-run facility (let’s not call it a base, that would be inaccurate).

Is Erdogan’s claim even credible?  Absolutely!  Not only has the US already attempted to overthrow and kill Erdogan, who was saved in extremis by Russian special forces (same with Ianukovich), but we also know that the US overthrew General de Gaulle in 1968-1969 and that NATO covert forces were used to stage false flag attacks against NATO allies (especially Italy) in the so-called GLADIO operation.

NATO is not a defensive alliance – it never was –  but it is a tool of US colonial domination.

 

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Michael Hudson: The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57366.htm

by Real Progressives

(1:09:02)

 

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Economic Update: Nomi Prins on the Distorted US Financial System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii3TEen_LP4&feature=youtu.be

with Nomi Prins and Richard Wolff

(29:55)

 

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Economic Update: The Terminal Crises of Global Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXNhS0bMv9I

with Richard Wolff and Prof. William I. Robinson 

(29:10)

 

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Russia, China and the “Multipolar World”. The Kremlin’s Evolving Relations with Africa

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Russia-Africa-400x189.png

https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-self-isolation-multipolar-world-perspectives-challenges-africa/5800940

by Kester Kenn Klomegah

 

 

 

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Ukraine: Winter offensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6DUVEi5gos

with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris,Patrick Lancaster and Alex at Reporterfy

(1:29:02)

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Watch "Q & A: Winter offensive"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXZjyl1fPk
with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris
(22:16)  

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700.000 Russian troops are now devouring Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WL1_2qCxEI&feature=youtu.be

with Aaron Maté and Douglas Macgregor

(39:02)

 

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Back from the front: a British volunteer in Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbD4WBqPg4

by Lindybeige

(57:51)

 

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Chris Hedges Report: Soldiers speak out against America's misguided wars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwhW8avrCng&feature=youtu.be

with Chris Hedges, Andrew Bacevich, and Danny Sjursen

(32:41)

 

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New Documentary Offers Grunt’s View of War in Afghanistan During Its Last Nine Months

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/29/new-documentary-offers-grunts-view-of-war-in-afghanistan-during-its-last-nine-months/?mc_cid=3a8d08a588&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Ed Rampell

 

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“The New McCarthyism: Angela Davis Speaks in New York After Critics Shut Down Two Events”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5_sNrNV6s&feature=youtu.be

with Amy Goodman

(14:56)

When high school students in Rockland County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over protests that she was "too radical." But the students persevered, and Angela Davis addressed a packed church Thursday night. "I talked about the importance of recognizing that through struggle, through organized struggle, through the efforts of people who come together and join hands and join their voices together, we've made changes in this country," says Davis. We also speak with community activist Nikki Hines, who supported students at Rockland County High School when they invited Davis to speak and who says "misinformation" drove the protests.

 

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How Terror Came Home and What to Make of It

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/24/how-terror-came-home-and-what-to-make-of-it/

by Andrea Mazzarino

 

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Steven Donziger & Lee Camp: Big Oil Owns the US Justice System

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/23/steven-donziger-lee-camp-big-oil-owns-the-us-justice-system/

with Steven Donziger and Lee Camp

(55:35)

 

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The Corporate Media Deference That Endangers Us All

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/26/the-corporate-media-deference-that-endangers-us-all/

by Caitlin Johnstone

 

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Ralph Nader Explains Why Democrats Lost the House

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/28/the-chris-hedges-report-ralph-nader-explains-why-democrats-lost-the-house/

by Chris Hedges

 

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2022 Midterm Election Analysis

https://www.blackagendareport.com/2022-midterm-election-analysis

with Dr. Anthony Monteiro 

(audio, 27:40)

 

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African and Indigenous Peoples: An Alliance for Defense, Survival and Revolution

https://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/african-and-indigenous-peoples-alliance-defense-survival-and-revolution

with Mark P. Fancher

 

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San Francisco Police Department Proposes Letting Robots Kill Suspects

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20-d-400x225.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/san-francisco-pd-proposes-letting-robots-kill-suspects/5801085

by Zero Hedge

 

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From Xinjiang to Shanghai, Protests Grow in China over COVID Restrictions After Fatal Apartment Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzKlUMupkzw&feature=youtu.be

with Amy Goodman

(15:52)

Unprecedented protests have erupted in multiple Chinese cities over President Xi Jinping's strict zero-COVID policies, which have resulted in extended strict lockdowns across the country. The protests were triggered by a deadly fire Thursday at an apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, where local COVID restrictions reportedly prevented firefighters from reaching the trapped residents. This comes as hundreds of workers at the world's largest iPhone factory, Foxconn, clashed last week with police over restrictions that have forced many workers to live at the factory. "China now for three years has seen a level of lockdown that is simply inconceivable," says Cornell labor scholar Eli Friedman, who calls the cross-class, cross-ethnic protests a "movement against surveillance." Friedman says although China enforces the country's COVID restrictions, top U.S. corporations like Apple and Tesla are implicated in upholding the closed-loop management system at Foxconn and other Chinese manufacturers.

 

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Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West

https://www.mintpressnews.com/xi-trudeau-china-rewriting-competition-with-west/282824/

by Ramzy Baroud

 

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China: The World’s First Technate – Part 1

https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/25/china-the-worlds-first-technate-part-1/

by Iain Davis

 

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Chinese Defiance - #NewWorldNextWeek

https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw503/

with James Corbett and James Even Pilato

(23:26)

 

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Accept to Lockdown, Be Arrested, Queuing for Covid Tests: China’s Changing Social and Economic Landscape

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/China-Hazmat-400x208.png

https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-changing-social-economic-landscape/5800593

by Tom Clifford

It was a tiny incident, not captured by TV cameras, nor did it make headlines across the world. But it suggested a seismic shift in attitudes. The men in white hazmat suits, (the Big Whites as they are known as or da bai in Mandarin) had come to lock down a building of about 100 residents in northern Beijing.

It was close to 5pm on Sunday. The Big Whites erected steel barriers and were about to cordon off the 26-floor structure with a large metal fence. Then the women came out. They were a group of mothers of small children and residents of the building. They berated the officials, shouting at them.

Security guards hurriedly arrived and menacingly took up position. Everyone expected the women to back down, accept the lockdown, be arrested or at least cautioned. Those who challenge authority in China normally pay a heavy price. But the women stood their ground. Shouts and insults were exchanged. And then incredibly the men in white suits took down the barriers and left.

The security guards also left. People on the street who were queuing for Covid tests witnessed the incident and applauded the outcome. China is changing socially as well as economically.

The miracle that has transformed the country’s fortunes over the past four decades was due in large part to local-level policy innovation and experimentation.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Holds Its Annual Strategic Private Meeting: “Shaping the Future of China”. Deep-seated Political Divisions within Chinese Leadership?

Beijing unleashed the hounds of capitalism and let the provinces get on with the job. Growth was the priority. President Xi Jinping changed that. His priority and the party’s since he came to office in 2012 was enhancing the party’s position. He believed that great prosperity gave people greater choice and the party position would, consequently, be undermined. People with financial security do not need to follow party manifestos or doff their caps to officials.

Even before COVID broke in early 2020 Xi had implemented measures to curtail GDP growth that was then about 6 per cent. Then Covid hit and Xi shut down Wuhan city, the scene of the first mass outbreak, with 11 million people.

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This it must be stressed met with initial public acclaim. But Xi’s zero-covid policy was political and not health based.

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People quickly tired of it. Shunning the introduction of more effective Western vaccines, Xi allowed the elderly to avoid vaccination and claims, wrongly, that the Omicron variant is as lethal as the initial outbreak. It isn’t.

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The health sector in China has been ravished by corruption. Exposing it to the harsh spotlight of extensive media coverage would raise questions about its financing or more pertinent, lack of investment even though billions of dollars have been allocated to the sector. Even a cursory visit to any state hospital would show the chronic lack of investment in what is, after all, still a communist country.

It is worth bearing in mind that Covid cases in China, a country of 1.4 billion people, barely record a blip on the radar.  According to official figures 5,200 have died since the pandemic began.

That works out at about three Covid deaths in every million. It is 3,000 per million in the US and 2,400 per million in the UK. It must also be pointed out that not all Covid-positive fatalities were caused by Covid but it still gives an indication of the likely numbers.

Beijing is not threatened by sporadic unrest. It has immense firepower and other measures to deal with protest. Covid restrictions will remain as the loss of face in reducing them would carry a heavy political price.

But something has changed. Xi is no longer considered beyond reproach. His policies are facing higher scrutiny in the public arena. Since Mao’s death China has been on a journey.

During those tumultuous decades the party has broadly enjoyed public support under the promise of a better and wealthier tomorrow. The Chinese now fear they are being short changed.

The women who protested on Sunday gave voice to frustrations shared by millions.

 

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What System Governs the People’s Republic of China? “Socialism With Chinese Characteristics”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/China-Xi-Jinping-MIng-Dynasty-Jiayu-Pass-e1589196313744-400x240.jpg

https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-system-governs-the-peoples-republic-of-china-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics/5801070

by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson

 

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The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State

https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/24/the-road-to-fascism-for-a-critique-of-the-global-biosecurity-state/

A New Book by Simon Elmer

 

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COP27 and the Climate Crisis

https://www.blackagendareport.com/cop27-and-climate-crisis

with Margaret Kimberley and Kali Akuno

(audio, 26:18)

 

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US Foreign Policy, COVID-19 & The Great Reset - All The Unseen Tabs

The Daily Wrap Up

https://www.bitchute.com/video/8yxtoQbzqKwN/

with Ryan Cristián

(3:58:30)

 

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How to Defeat the Billionaire Class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCCD_g1XYac&t=651s

with Chris Hedges and Kshama Sawant

(34:39)

Since being elected to office in 2013, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and her socialist party have been locked in a bitter battle against the city’s moneyed elites, who have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a corporate PAC called “A Better Seattle” and saturated television and digital platforms with negative advertising. Sawant is hated because she is effective. Following a three-year struggle against the richest man in the world—Jeff Bezos—and his political establishment, she and her allies pushed through a tax on big business that increased city revenues by an estimated $210 to 240 million a year.

 

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BBC Accused of 'Whitewashing' Autocratic Azerbaijan in BP-Sponsored Film

https://i0.wp.com/scheerpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/7486831348_d6f3567827_c.width-2050.jpg?resize=780%2C447&ssl=1

https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/24/bbc-accused-of-whitewashing-autocratic-azerbaijan-in-bp-sponsored-film/

by James Dowsett

‘Wonders of Azerbaijan’ film was made with BP funding and the help of the country’s controversial ruling Aliyev family.

 

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Doctors who are accused of spreading “misleading information” could be jailed under new British Columbia law

https://reclaimthenet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/canada-bc-medical-censor.jpg

https://reclaimthenet.org/british-columbia-canada-medical-censorship-bill-36/

by Tom Parker

Jail terms, huge fines, and more for doctors who don't tow the line.

 

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In memory of those who "died suddenly" in Canada, November 21-November 28, 2022

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-fd3?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

by Mark Crispin Miller

 

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Actors who got fired for saying NO to the needle

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/actors-who-got-fired-for-saying-no?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Along with athletes like Novak Djokovic, Aaron Rogers and Kyrie Irving, and musicians like Van Morrison, M.I.A. and Toni Braxton, these actors are among the all-too-few who WON'T get jabbed

 

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The Defender – November 15, 2022

Children’s Health Defense – News and Views

“Australia Rejects 3rd Booster + Sperm Counts Plummet Worldwide + More”

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRZgLpRLhPRJmzZqXCghWFljx

 

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Global Research – November 28, 2022

Selected Articles: “Don’t Get Jabbed: Powerful Video on “Killer Vaccine” that Needs to be Watched by Everyone”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-dont-get-jabbed-powerful-video-killer-vaccine-that-needs-watched-everyone/5800576

 

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CHD. TV – November 14, 2022

Children’s Health Defense – Live, Video, Audio

“What's Making Our Children Sick? Disaster Preparedness + More on CHD.TV”

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRZfCSwvPnfPQHsJdDjSxXPDw

 

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The Defender – November 29, 2022

Children’s Health Defense – News and Views

“Joe Rogan and Will Harris: Don’t Miss This Interview + Twitter Ditches COVID Misinformation Policy + More”

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbHxvkBXsNSsQtkrpmXhhrwpl

 

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The Defender – December 1, 2022

Children’s Health Defense – News and Views

“Landmark Deal: Fracking Firm Pays Up for Pollution + The Eyes of Amazon + More”

https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/12-1-22defender?wvpId=f0b6826b-15ae-4c2a-9662-3001033b9406


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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
“Doctors/nurses in US (5), Canada (3), UK, Germany, Austria (2) & Italy; musicians in US (5), Argentina, Finland, Italy & Nigeria; actors in US (2), Germany, Denmark, Pakistan (2) & Russia; & many more”- November 21-28, 2022
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-e63?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Mark Crispin Miller


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Doctors and Scientists with Brian Hooker Ph.D.
‘Sickness Behavior’ + the Effect of Spike Proteins on the Body
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/doctors-and-scientists-with-brian-hooker-phd/sickness-behavior--the-effect-of-spike-proteins-on-the-body/?utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=chdtv&utm_term=chdtv&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=58c70feb-3750-46a0-b696-ce1b3fe2c94b
with Drs. Brian Hooker and Russell Blaylock

(55:47)

Russell Blaylock, M.D. appears on this week’s ‘Doctors and Scientists’ for an in-depth conversation about the effects of spike proteins on the body. He shares shocking discoveries about the neurological damage, cancer rates, cardiac arrest and other exacerbating health issues as well as their connection to mRNA technology.  

 

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Friday Funnies - Trust The Government

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-trust-the-government?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

they are here to help you. And cats.

 

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Sunday Strip - The More Things Change

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/sunday-strip-the-more-things-change?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

The More They Stay the Same...