Bulletin N° 1100 

 

"Hearts and Minds - Vietnam War 1974”

(Documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ov4wBozhMw

directed by Peter Davis

(1:52:05)

 

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Subject : “WAR is a Racket!” Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)

 

 

 

 

 

Grenoble

April 21, 2023

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

We seem to find ourselves in the proverbial situation of not seeing the forest for the trees. The social and political fragmentation that we are now experiencing and which is enforced by ceaseless propaganda and advertising - not to mention the various psyops we encounter – provokes a disorientation that can dehumanize us and produce an absolute dependency on formal authorities. This authority is more often than not ill-willed, given the state of extreme inequality in which we are now living and the underlying predatory nature of the political economy.

 

As readers examine the articles and essays below, they will discover that one theme in these Anglophone publications taken from independent social media sources is quite different from that found in the regimented corporate media, viz. the alternative assumption that only We the People can rescue ourselves from the pitfalls of inequality, with the help of those similarly captured in this situation. The will to defend ourselves must come from within us, and not through manipulation from behind the scenes on the part of some self-appointed elitist political hierarchy.   

 

Our skills of communication and cooperation have been greatly diminished, and we find ourselves too often silenced by clichés and received ideas. Entering an open dialogue in the midst of this confusion may appear like learning to swim in deep water – it can be a torment or a great pleasure. It sometimes involves overcoming irrational fears by focusing on the gestalt and becoming one with the whole.  We are living in a system and this system exists within us; when we see the system doing harm to some of us, we are sooner or later compelled to think, to analyze, and to act. The fundamental question remains: Who benefits from this inequality and the futile aggressions that it engenders?

 

 

The following 22 + items provide a glimpse into discourses which are circulating in the Anglophone social media this week and which reflect the vital concerns of us all in these perilous times when predators prevail.

 

 

 

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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TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

President Biden with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Wednesday, December 21, 2022, in the Oval Office. / Official White House photo.

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Seymour Hersh

Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?

 

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Sy Hersh: Zelensky's Pocketing Our Money!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhYu1cy2-Q

with Ron Paul

(36:18)

Seymour Hersh is back with another blockbuster investigative report, this time showing that not only is the Ukrainian government outrageously corrupt - right up to Zelensky himself - but that the CIA is well-aware of it and isn't at all bothered. Hundreds of millions are being stolen from American taxpayers, Hersh writes, and the Biden Administration could not care less. Also today, US sanctions Hungary - its own ally! And: DC think tanks furious that Syria is making peace with its neighbors.

 

 

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Whitney Webb: How Government Steals From Us, Bombshell Epstein Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf978q67pQs&t=153s

with Natalie Brunell and Whitney Webb

(1:46:39)

 

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Peace in Ukraine Is Too Important to Leave in the Hands of Arms Dealers

https://therealnews.com/peace-in-ukraine-is-too-important-to-leave-in-the-hands-of-arms-dealers

by Jonathan NG

Arms makers are stoking conflicts and then pitching weapons as a path to peace.

This spring, Lockheed Martin is expanding operations to meet Ukraine’s demand for arms. In recent months, its Camden, Arkansas, plant won nearly a half-billion dollars in contracts for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) — doubling production targets and prompting Lockheed officials to consider adding a night shift.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned the HIMARS rocket launcher into a lethal symbol of U.S. innovation. Last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented President Joe Biden with a military medal from the captain of a Ukrainian HIMARS unit. The Arkansas Chamber of Commerce named it the “Coolest Thing Made in Arkansas!

Camden’s brush with prosperity reflects a boom in NATO-bloc defense production. One Spanish munitions company, Expal, produced 280 tons of explosives at a single plant for Ukrainian forces last year. The German conglomerate Rheinmetall is even considering building a tank factory in Ukraine.

Since the 2022 Russian invasion, NATO leaders have advocated arming Ukraine, as images of besieged civilians and stoic soldiers confronting foreign aggression transfix observers. Industry voices argue that military aid is both a strategic necessity and moral imperative.

Yet, leading contractors — including Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall — have notorious records of promoting corruption and hawkish policies that undermine peace. Many actively violate arms embargoes, exacerbating conflicts across the world, and previously aided the Russian war effort.

Ultimately, Western military exports to Ukraine reveal dangerous industry trends and a resurgent history of militarism. As military budgets rise, power has increasingly concentrated in the hands of defense officials with an incentive to seek conflict.

Cold Blaze

Since the formation of NATO in 1949, members have relied on foreign markets to reduce weapons costs and sustain their industrial base. Historically, fierce competition encouraged governments to tolerate staggering levels of corruption and illegal sales tactics. The Cold War blazed in the Third World, where superpowers competed to transform newly independent countries into clients, inflaming regional disputes and proxy wars.

By the 1970s, the arms trade was the uncontrollable fuel propelling globalization. In 1973, U.S. military aid to Israel triggered an Arab energy embargo, increasing the price of oil fourfold and flooring the global economy. To recover the petrodollars filling Middle-Eastern treasuries, NATO members sold massive quantities of arms to the region. Increasingly, oil producers and defense contractors bartered energy for weapons, fusing the two industries.

U.S. officials championed sales, while assuring corporations that they had “no objection to the arms-for-oil idea.” President Jimmy Carter previously drummed up business for Lockheed as governor of Georgia, before selling Iran a record $5.7 billion in weapons during his first year in the Oval Office. Eventually, sales precipitated an Iranian debt crisis, accelerating the 1979 revolution.

 

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US may directly meddle in Ukraine war, Seymour Hersh warns

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-may-directly-meddle-in-ukraine-war-seymour-hersh-warns

by Al Mayadeen English

The United States might directly meddle in the Ukraine war if it sees that Kiev is losing to Russia, says US journalist Seymour Hersh.

 

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“Ukraine Is Being DESTROYED And Pentagon Papers Prove It”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDyYLh6yGaM&feature=youtu.be

with Stephen Gardner and Scott Ritter – April 12, 2023

(34:38)

Scott Ritter discusses the Ukraine Russia war with Stephen Gardner. Ritter disagrees with Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Bakhmut strategy. They also discuss the fall of Bakhmut, Kerson and more. Plus Stephen gets Scott's reaction to the senate removing war authority, money and military use in Iraq after 20+ years. Plus Scott tells about how Colin Powell lied before the UN security council in order to get into the Iraq war.

 

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 “Russia HITS Ukraine With DESTRUCTIVE FORCE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laiE01XSMes&feature=youtu.be

with Stephen Gardner and Col. Tony Shaffer – April 13, 2023

(34:29)

Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer goes over the realities of the Russia Ukraine war. Colonel Shaffer lays out how dominate the Russian army is right now, what Ukraine should do next in Bakhmut, he covers new details about events that lead up to Sept. 11 and how new pentagon lawsuits show the CIA may have been involved. We talk president Biden and his plans for Ukraine and the US. LTC Shaffer shares where he agrees and disagrees with Scott Ritter and Colonel Douglas Macgregor.

 

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“Ukraine Is Being DESTROYED And Pentagon Papers Prove It”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV5t4_EtSYY&feature=youtu.be

with Douglas Macgregor – April 12, 2023

(13:12)

 

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SCOTT RITTER: NATO Can't do Anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmYg2oiDl1Q

with Clayton Morris and Scott Ritter

(17:57)

 

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“Why the U.S. FAILED INTERNATIONALLY”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qo0j-rGKFI

with John Mearsheimer

(12:00)

 

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“Legitimate target” — Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/03/bellingcat-terror-attack-st-petersburg-cafe/

by Alexander Rubinstein

Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine’s attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a “propagandist.”

 

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Hypocrisy: Washington Says ‘Journalism Is Not A Crime’

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/08/washington-says-journalism-is-not-a-crime/

by Caitlin Johnstone

(4:45)

 

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Leaked documents expose US-NATO Ukraine war plans

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/07/leaked-documents-us-nato-ukraine-war-plan/

by Alexander Rubinstein

Classified Pentagon documents containing information about US and NATO plans for a Ukrainian offensive and key details of the ongoing war have leaked. And the Biden administration is reportedly demanding they be scrubbed from the internet. Is there a hidden agenda behind the leak?

Update: We have added a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency document at the end of this article outlining potential scenarios in which Israel would provide Ukraine with lethal weapons. 

 

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“Controlled Opposition”

“Pentagon ‘Leaks’: 5 ways to tell REAL from FAKE”

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/17/pentagon-leaks-5-ways-to-tell-real-from-fake/

by Kit Knightly

We promised a longer take on the Pentagon “leaks”, and here it goes. Regular readers will probably be familiar with my view on leaked documents in general, but if you’re not allow me to quote my own 2019 article on the (absurd) “Afghanistan papers”:

 

”An awful lot of modern ‘leaks’ are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation […] carefully making sure the ‘establishment’ and the ‘alternative’ are joined in the middle, controlled from the same source.”

 

That’s not to say ALL “leaks” are automatically and ubiquitously narrative control exercises, clearly some are real…but it’s usually pretty easy to tell them apart. In fact here’s a little checklist.

 

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide

https://www.globalresearch.ca/robert-f-kennedy-jr-heal-great-divide/5816230

by Edward Curtin

It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society.  The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President Kennedy and the soon-to-be assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Chaos reigned as Lyndon Johnson lied and Richard Nixon matched him in verbal and actual treachery.  A war between Middle America and the elites running the government was breaking out across the country.  A great divide between whites and blacks, rich and poor, the working class and the upper class was opening wide.  The Tet Offensive had just ripped the face off the official lies about the course of the war in Vietnam and the emperor, Lyndon Jonson, stood naked and would soon announce that he would not run again.

 

On March 16, 1968, Senator Kennedy declared his candidacy with these words:

 

“I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all that I can.”

 

I run to seek new policies – policies to end the bloodshed in Vietnam and in our cities, policies to close the gaps that now exist between black and white, between rich and poor, between young and old, in this country and around the rest of the world.

 

By the end of 1968, a plague year if there ever were one, Richard Nixon, together with his goon squad, prepared to occupy the White House, Vietnam raged on, and everything King and Kennedy stood for seemed lost.  Ignorance, vituperation, and the divide-and-conquer technique long practiced by the power elites set into the body politic like a deadly cancer.  Something died, all hope seemed lost, and the perilous course RFK spoke of was never stopped.  Jackals with polished faces have sat in the White House ever since.

 

Today hope is resurrected. Enter Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. center stage who will declare his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president on Wednesday, April 19, in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

The wheel of history has turned and 2023 resembles 1968 in many ways while getting worse in others.  The divide in the country remains but has greatly widened. The CIA and the intelligence agencies totally control the mainstream media now. The Pentagon’s budget has increased exponentially. The U.S. wages a savage war against Russia in Ukraine under the blatant lie of defending freedom while supporting Nazis and greatly risking nuclear war. It provokes war with China. Permanent war is government policy with military bases and CIA and special forces all over the world, waging semi-clandestine wars, or maybe just wars that people don’t want to know about. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened while the elites mock working class people as moronic deplorables. The Department of Defense controls the development, manufacturing, clinical testing, supply, production, and distribution of the mRNA vaccines, while the criminal pharmaceutical companies reap obscene profits.  Lies are piled upon lies in what amounts to an Orwellian nightmare. And while LBJ and Nixon have been replaced by Joe Biden, the warfare state roll on.

 

Some things have changed, of course. In 1968, liberals were turning against the U.S. war against Vietnam and were growing wary of the CIA. Today they support all the Democratic-led wars and love the CIA. They trust the obvious media lies and those of a proven liar such as Anthony Fauci. Nowhere is this sadly truer than with the extended Kennedy family, who in their support for Biden, Fauci, the CIA, etc. have betrayed JFK and RFK. Their smugness and support for Biden against their brother who is carrying on his uncle’s and father’s legacy is betrayal of the worst kind.

 

Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the odds makers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race. It is an act of supreme moral courage.

 

Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide.

That he is opposed by a huge array of people who will lie about him because he is a truthteller does not deter him. Those lies immediately started up again as soon as word got out that he might run. It’s an old story.

Trash will be thrown at him.  Every blemish of his nearly seventy years will be dredged up to paint him as a villain, a flawed man, a hypocrite – name all the negative terms you can think of and the real hypocrites, in their self-righteous rage, will use them against him.  They will bounce off him.  He is ready.

 

See also: The U.S. Is Leading the World Into the Abyss

 

When Bobby, Jr. was young, his father handed him a book and said with urgency, “I want you to read this.”  It was Albert Camus’s The Plague.  He read it and it has informed his life ever since.  Just as in 1968, we live in plague times, and the plague is US, it runs through all our institutions and, as in Camus’s books, the rats are running wild, devouring truth and the values that can redeem us.  As he has written in his beautiful and important book, American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family, Camus’s analysis of Sisyphus and the ancient Greeks has taught him an important lesson:

 

It is neither our position nor our circumstances that define us, according to the Stoics, but our response to those circumstance; when destiny crushes us, small heroic gestures of courage and service can bring us peace and fulfillment. In applying our shoulder to the stone, we give order to a chaotic universe. Of the many wonderful things my father left me, this philosophical truth was perhaps the most useful. In many ways, it has defined my life, and has allowed me to find serenity and purpose even in the most trying and tragic circumstances. (p.287)

 

Despite its brilliance, American Values (see this) was completely ignored by the mainstream press. Why? Because it revolves around “Chapter 9, Senator Robert F. Kennedy” and the long war between the Kennedys and the CIA that resulted in the deaths of JFK and RFK.  In this chapter, RFK, Jr. brilliantly shows that he fully grasps the CIA’s evil history.  All the other chapters, while very interesting personal and family history, pale in importance. No member of the Kennedy family since JFK or RFK has dared to say what RFK, Jr. does in this book. He indicts the CIA. This is probably not a small part of his extended family’s animosity toward him. Family taboos must be protected, as if they were state secrets.

 

But his indictment of the CIA is the fundamental reason why it and the media will at all costs try to prevent him from getting the nomination. The character assassination will be intense.

 

Kennedy knows he faces an uphill battle for the presidency, but no matter what forces are aligned against him, political and familial, he will not back down.

 

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“Never Again is Now Global” - Five-part Docuseries

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/never-again-is-now-global/

by Children’s Health Defense TV, and  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

with Vera Sharav

(5:43:18)

‘Never Again Is Now Global’ — A Five-Part Series by Vera Sharav, covering the global attempt to assert and obtain complete control over the human population.

 

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Covert Action Magazine investigation into the origins of the Ukraine War: U.S. and NATO involvement in the February 2014 Coup and Maidan Massacre, and their historical antecedents 

 

“Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy”

https://mronline.org/2022/09/14/ukraine/

by Gerald Sussman

Essential reading to those wishing to understand the history of the CIA using Ukraine as a proxy and how it relates to today. (In my opinion)

Joe Biden “is fueling the fire in the Ukraine.”

— Roger Waters of Pink Floyd

It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends.

The MSM have constructed an undiluted narrative about “Putin’s War” that disguises America’s imperialist expansion into eastern Europe. It is utterly Orwellian in its effort to project onto Russia what the U.S. and its main imperial ally, the UK (which a British journalist deemed “America’s tugboat”), have been doing non-stop since 1945—and indeed for centuries.

Looking back, the U.S. under Truman began the policy of turning enemies (Germany, Japan) into friends and friends (the important war-time alliance with the USSR) into enemies. The CIA, established in 1947, was the main clandestine instrument of this policy, working closely with the neo-Nazi Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) to carry out acts to sabotage, divide and destabilize the Soviet state.

 

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Part I

“Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/02/ukraine-2014-the-tipping-point-of-terror/?mc_cid=0635842b75&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

 

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Part II

“U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/16/u-s-nato-involvement-in-the-2014-ukraine-coup-and-maidan-massacre-the-soft-power-ecosystem-and-beyond/?mc_cid=0635842b75&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Jim Cole

[This is Part II in a four-part series analyzing the 2014 Maidan coup. Part I is here. It discusses the psycho-social aspects of color revolutions; some of the thousands of think tank/NGO change agents which received billions in U.S. and EU funding since 1989 in Ukraine; outlines some of the regime-change techniques of weaponized aid and political, diplomatic and economic methods; the novel use of tech and social media operations employed in Ukraine during the Obama years; and, lastly, the shift from soft power to dark power, the point at which violence is required to achieve regime change.—Editors]

 

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“UKRAINE ON FIRE” (2016 Documentary film)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HUIJ1riGwYt3/

by Igor Lopatonok and with Oliver Stone

(1:34:04)

 

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Putin visits frontline, prepares defense and offense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMBzzI3-0M&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(24:00)

 

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 “Russian-Hating Dream of Brzezinski Clan Nears Fulfillment as Poland Agrees to Host Permanent U.S. Base and Turn Baltic Sea into NATO Lake”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/07/16/russian-hating-dream-of-brzezinski-clan-nears-fulfillment-as-poland-agrees-to-host-permanent-u-s-base-and-turn-baltic-sea-into-nato-lake/

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, is the son of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, a descendent of Polish aristocrats and mastermind of U.S. foreign policy for decades, whose dream was to use Poland as a base to try to weaken and destroy Russia.

Mark is now at the center of the implementation of his dad’s plans.

 

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The Lies …and the Eyes …of Ukraine. Reporting from Lviv – Part III

https://www.globalresearch.ca/lies-eyes-ukraine/5777824

by Brett Redmayne-Titley

Read Part I and II:

Destination Ukraine: The Ignorance of War

By Brett Redmayne-Titley, April 07, 2022

Destination Ukraine: Will Poland Go Rogue? Warsaw’s Ulterior Motive? The Lviv Connection

By Brett Redmayne-Titley, April 21, 2022

 

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WATCH: ‘Witness to Destruction’

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/18/watch-witness-to-destruction/

with Randy Credico interviewed by Elizabeth Vos and Joe Lauria

(1:26:20)

Radio host, activist and comedian Randy Credico visited Donbass and tells CN Live! what he saw. 

 

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“Limited Hangout”

“A Twitter Files Requiem”

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/14/a-twitter-files-requiem/

by CJ Hopkins

And so the “Twitter Files” Limited Hangout has come to its inevitable, ignominious end. It is over. The Twitter-Files story is dead. It isn’t pining for the fjords. It is deceased, cadaverous, bereft of life. It has bought the farm and gone to meet its maker. It is Humpty Dumpty. It has fallen off the wall. Nothing can put it back together again.

I have to tip my hat to Elon Musk. It was quite an impressive limited hangout. The way Musk took the potential story of a global network of Intelligence agencies, corporations, NGOs, and assorted “disinformation experts” censoring, visibility-filtering, and otherwise neutralizing dissent as GloboCap executed the “shock-an-awe” phase of the roll-out of the “New Normal” over the last three years … the way Musk took that potentially game-changing story by the throat and throttled it, played around with its corpse for a while like a cat, and then finally threw it down, squatted over it, and obstreperously, definitively defecated on it, that was … well, quite impressive.

If you missed the final twists and turns in the Twitter-Files story (R.I.P), Matt Taibbi, who is currently attempting to enjoy a vacation at Disneyland with the wife and kids, published an update on Racket News, his “Twitter-killing” Substack newsletter covering the juicy bits.

Here’s the “money” paragraph, or most of it …

In doing all this Elon immolated the last remnants of any reputation he had as a free speech advocate and gave immeasurable succor to the assorted David Brocks, AOCs, and Renee DiRestas who view him as an antichrist. All can now point to his outbursts of cartoon censorship and argue individual eccentric CEOs are the real danger to free expression, not squads of executives working in oligopolistic secrecy with the FBI, DHS, and ten million Pentagon-funded Centers for Securing Whatever. It won’t be true, but Elon’s public meltdown will in the short run take a ton of pressure off these villains, while accelerating the piranha frenzy currently skeletonizing Twitter’s profits …”

What Matt can’t quite say (and I understand why) is that Elon’s meltdown will not just “give immeasurable succor” to the David Brocks, AOCs, and other functionaries and puppets who have demonized him, and “take a ton of pressure off these villains,” it will effectively kill the future of the story, and consign what has been reported so far to the “lunatic fringes” of the Internet, where no one “normal” will ever be forced to pay it any serious attention again.

That, my friends, is called a limited hangout. As I explained in my column in January

 

“The way a limited hangout works is, if you’re an intelligence agency, or a global corporation, or a government, or a non-governmental organization, and you have been doing things you need to hide from the public, and those things are starting to come to light such that you can’t just deny that you are doing them anymore, what you do is, you release a limited part of the story (i.e., the story of whatever it is you’re doing) to distract people’s attention from the rest of the story. The part you release is the ‘limited hangout.’ It’s not a lie. It’s just not the whole story. You ‘hang it out’ so that it will become the whole story, and thus stop people from pursuing the whole story.”

 

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Your Guide to 5th-Generation Warfare

https://www.corbettreport.com/5thgen/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett

(30:39)

We are in the middle of a world-changing war right now.

Oh, I don't mean the war in Ukraine, the one that all the media are asking you to focus your attention on. Yes, that conflict continues to escalate, and every day there are new stories about provocations and threats that could lead to a nuclear exchange . . . but that's not the war I'm referring to.

No, the war I'm talking about is an even broader war. A war that is taking place everywhere on the globe, even as I speak, and that involves virtually everyone on the planet, young and old, male and female, military and civilian. It is the war of every government against its own population and every international institution against free humanity.

This is no ordinary war, however. Most of the victims of this warfare aren't even able to identify it as war, nor do they understand that they are combatants in it.

It's called fifth-generation warfare, and I'm here to tell you all about it.

 

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“Fifth Gen Warfare”, Part 3

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/fifth-gen-warfare-part-3?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

PsyWar tactics; Cyberstalking and Gang Stalking are against the law, and the CDC funds groups that are doing this to US licensed physicians

by Katie Spence

What a bizarre world we are living in. The Epoch Times has recently published an article based on whistleblower evidence that the United States Government, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has used it’s congressionally-approved non-profit (called the CDC Foundation) to contract with at least one company to perform cyberstalking and gang stalking attacks on licensed physicians accused of spreading misinformation about COVID public health policies including genetic vaccines.

You can read the full Epoch times article here.

Frankly, I think that the editors of the Epoch Times buried the lede on this one. This is a far larger story of government malfeasance than the relatively benign headline seems to indicate. Of course corporate media has completely overlooked <eg. buried> the story. This is yet more evidence of the US Government deploying Fifth Generation (cyber)Warfare/PsyOps/Propaganda technologies on its citizens, in this specific case against US Licensed physicians that contradicted officially promoted false narratives concerning the COVIDcrisis and the abysmal public health policies which were promoted by the WHO, US HHS, and specifically the CDC.

As I have said many times before, how can a democratic society exist when the government is willing and able to deploy fifth generation PsyOps/PsyWar technologies against its own citizens? The concept of personal sovereignty and autonomy becomes obsolete, an anachronism, when this becomes accepted practice.

 

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On Human Understanding

FLASHBACK: Our Leaders Are Psychopaths (2009)

https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-psychopathy/

with James Corbett

(57:23)

 

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They Must Have a Good Reason

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/15/they-must-have-a-good-reason/

by Todd Hayen

There is a strange idea hovering about that if you don’t know something then it doesn’t exist. Kind of like the image of the proverbial ostrich with his head in the sand. But it goes beyond denial. Ignorance is when you don’t know something at all, denial is when you know it, but you ignore it.

What I am talking about here is when you know something and do not deny it, but simply rationalize it away with a statement like “they must have a good reason for doing that,” or similarly, “maybe we don’t know all that there is to know about that.” Which is often followed with, “and I don’t have the time, (inclination, care, interest, curiosity, ability, intelligence, etc.) to look into it further.”

This has always bugged me to some extent, but I must admit I have been marginally guilty of this sort of thinking myself. I mean, do we really have the time to check everything? Well, now I think we have to make the time, and, of course, not everything is important enough to require vetting it for truth. That is an awful thing to say, but I am afraid it is the truth.

Part of this “gullibility” that causes many people to just brush things off assuming that all is ok comes from indoctrination from an early age. I grew up in a culture that seemed to be really obsessed with people’s safety—particularly the safety of children. Think of all the recalls of toys and such. If some toy comes out that has the slightest bit of uncertainty about how it might harm your child, it is pulled.

I should not say I “grew up” with this because most of the crap I played with as a kid would be considered a lethal weapon today—Lawn Darts, BB and pellet guns, Vac-U-Forms, chemistry sets, Easy Bake ovens (this was my sister’s toy, she was a little girl, I was a little boy—I tell you this for clarity). The “safety craze” didn’t really start until a decade or so later. I even remember some kid I knew got an “Atomic Energy Lab” toy that had actual uranium ore in the kit.

I would have died (literally) to get my hands on one of these.

Those were the days.

So over the decades, due to these recalls and safety concerns, we have developed a false sense of security. What regulation agency would bother to recall Lawn Darts but at the same time allow an unsafe vaccine to reach the unwilling arms of children? Well, toys are toys, vaccines are medicine. There ‘ya go.

The government, and other regulatory agencies, know what’s right, right?

Being born into a culture (US) that was known for its integrity, truthfulness, righteousness, and a penchant for character and goodness (ha, ha), no one would ever think that the CIA would have been actively trying to assassinate Fidel Castro, among others, for decades.

I remember first hearing a rumor about this when I was about 15. “No way,” I thought to myself. “Assassinations are illegal! My country would never be involved in such a thing!” Especially attempting to murder a leader of a country that really was just minding their own business. At least so it seemed. (Today, when we hear of such things, we shrug our shoulders and say, “They must know what they are doing.”)

And what about Iran’s Mosaddegh? He was minding his own business overseeing the affairs of Iran as Prime Minister from 1951 to 1953. The US wasn’t happy with him for a number of reasons (primarily economic, like, for example, Mosaddegh wanted Iran to get a bigger share of oil profits that the US and UK were sucking out of his nation’s oil fields, imagine that! What audacity!). The CIA bopped him off as well—indirectly with a CIA created insurrection, which led to Mosaddegh’s imprisonment and more than likely contributed to his health issues, then he died). Sure there is detail here I am not presenting, but you get the picture.

The US Government must have had a good reason.

 

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Dissent Into Madness: Escaping the Madhouse

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/dissent-into-madness-escaping-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by James Corbett

 

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How Can We End Mass Formation Psychosis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0eIkdLAbA

with Aubrey Marcus

(8:35)

 

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When RFK Jr. Details Finding 20 Plus CIA Led Simulations Like Event 201 In Hillsdale Talk and COUNTLESS Interviews . . .

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/when-rfk-jr-details-finding-20-plus?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

(5:36 @ https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ur9cqRzx4kFj/)

How Does An Argument STILL Linger that he "promotes" the idea that "the pandemic was mismanaged." This is an experiment to see if anybody ever admits they are mistaken.

 

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reflects On The Assassination Of JFK & RFK

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

with Aubrey Marcus

(10:27)

 

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How Assassination Became Policy at the CIA

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/09/how-assassination-became-policy-at-the-cia/

by Jeffrey St. Clair

 

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Covid-19 Vaccines Lead to New Infections and Mortality: The Evidence is Overwhelming

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccines-lead-to-new-infections-and-mortality-the-evidence/5746393

by Gérard Delépine

Country Case Studies. Mortality and Morbidity

First published by Global Research on May 27, 2021

This article by Dr Gérard Delépine was first published in French on our French language  website mondialisation.ca 

The English text below is an AI Translation with some minor edits by Global Research.

This article demonstrates unequivocally that mortality and morbidity has increased dramatically as a result of the vaccine. The incidence of Covid positive cases has also increased.

“And everywhere they have been followed by a dramatic rise in new infections and mortality for several weeks or months”

Dr Delépine carefully analyses the pre and post vaccine trends for 14 countries in major regions of the World.

The latest official figures (September 15, 2021) point to approximately: 

 40,666 mRNA vaccine reported and registered deaths in the EU, UK and US (combined) and

6.6 Million reported “adverse events”.

But only a small fraction of the victims or families of the deceased will go through the tedious process of reporting vaccine related deaths and adverse events to the national health authorities.

Those death and injury figures (EU, UK, US) SOFAR are at least ten times higher than the official reported cases. 

410,000 deaths, 66 million injuries out of a population of  approximately 850 million. 

Moreover, the health authorities are actively involved in obfuscating the deaths and injuries resulting from the mRNA “vaccine”, while inflating the number of Covid-19 related deaths. (“autopsies not required”). 

Ironically, not only does Pfizer have a criminal record with the US Department of Justice for “fraudulent marketing”, the EU Commission has chosen Pfizer BioNTech as its “Reliable Partner” for the production of 1.8 billion doses over the next 3-4 years, in a  contract which is currently under negotiation.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, September 28, 2021,

 

 

 

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What’s in the Pfizer Documents?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Y_W_30hsM

with Naomi Wolf

(15:48)

 

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“German Pathology”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEE5OfiVS7o

with Dr. John Campbell

(17:32)

German pathology, John's text book on pathophysiology and more, free download on this link, https://drjohncampbell.co.uk

 

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“Boston research”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TaIsCX37vI

with Dr. John Campbell

(18:30)

 

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Clot-shots for kids & other exciting news

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/clot-shots-for-kids-and-other-exciting?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

 

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In the United States, Covid jabs have led to more than 6,113 deaths, 5,172 permanent disabilities, 6,435 life-threatening events, and 51,558 emergency room visits.

 

All the while the government continues pushing mass vaccination… It is interesting that approximately half of the employees at NIH and the CDC had been reported to not have received the injection.

 

This may sound outlandish, but give it a chance…

 

Utah State University's 2018 study from their Biological Engineering department, they have a study titled "Synthetic Snake Venom from the Coralotid Snake Phospholipase A2 by Genetic Engineering".


"Genetic engineering is the term. All they did was instruct E-coli bacteria how to make synthetic phospholipase A2 — snake venom — in bacteria!" 

 

This is how they did it - V Factor Bio Weapon Genetic Engineering

 

In COVID-19 patients, they found multiple venom components that cause blood clotting and are called "pro coagulation activators" or Factor V Self-Clotters". 

 

Tests confirmed that this Factor V can make blood clots all on its own!

 

Yes, you read that right. 

 

When a person gets the jab, it damages red blood cells and makes them stick together, this is called "sticky blood".

 

It's just crazy to see this study result…

 

In an Italy study, scientists confirmed 36 different venoms were present in those that had PCR tested positive for COVID. 

 

PCR tests have been used for 20 years in venom research mRNA of snake venoms. They used PCR tests to identify all the different venoms that we're now finding in COVID-19 patients that are positive with a PCR test.

 

FACT: The PCR-negative test groups had NO VENOMS! 


“Why are they using a PCR test which is 100% accurate in identifying the DNA, RNA, and mRNA of snake venoms if SARS-CoV-2 did not originate from venom?” 

 

Venoms both natural or man-made (synthetic) are toxic and dangerous. 

 

That's why, we’d like to share with you this timely new ebook from Jonathan Otto:

 

CLOT SHOT: Sticky Blood & Chronic Diseases Caused by Deadly Spike Glycoproteins.

 

Download your FREE copy of CLOT SHOT: Sticky Blood & Chronic Diseases Caused by Deadly Spike Glycoproteins

 

Inside Jonathan’s latest eBook…

You'll read the rest of the personal interviews from Dr. Henry Ealy, and Dr. Bryan Ardis, as they discuss solutions you'll want to know for yourself.


Read the research on glycosylation, where red blood cells - form micro-clots.

 

Get answers directly from Dr. Henry Ealy and Dr. Bryan Ardis. 

 

It's time you found out the truth about spike glycoproteins shedding, so you can avoid getting LONG C0V!D.
 

Click the link below to download the eBook and you can be reading the book in just minutes from now. 

 

And best of all, you’ll receive complimentary access to Jonathan’s brand new 9-episode docuseries, New Hope.

 

>>> FREE copy of CLOT SHOT: Sticky Blood & Chronic Diseases Caused by Deadly Spike Glycoproteins

 

With appreciation,

The Real Anthony Fauci Movie Team

 

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“CLOT SHOT: Treating Sticky Blood & Chronic Diseases

Caused by Deadly Spike Glycoproteins

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tOI1Ihl5o5KAjScikoZkV68oA7Wf1H2x/view?_kx=jqO-_kO-jnyIRpe-tHm5FeGm7lwmAiEUvDtQQI2UoO4%3D.RVRkwc

Copyright © 2023 · Jonathan Otto and Health Secret, LLC

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction......................................................................................................................1

Understanding Spike Glycoproteins ...............................................................................2

Problems That Spike Glycoproteins Create at a Cellular Level ................................... 2

The Cell ........................................................................................................................ 2

Fertility ......................................................................................................................... 3

Disruption of T Cells .................................................................................................... 3

Venoms: The Origin of Spike Glycoproteins ............................................................... 4

SARS-CoV-2: A Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Disease ....................................... 5

An Expert’s Insight – Dr. Bryan Ardis ......................................................................... 5

Understanding Sticky Blood ....................................................................................... 11

An Expert’s Insight – Dr. Henry Ealy ........................................................................ 11

Tests That You Can Do .............................................................................................. 16

Troponin Levels ......................................................................................................... 16

D-Dimer ..................................................................................................................... 16

Hemoglobin A1c......................................................................................................... 17

Recovery Protocols & Treatments ............................................................................. 18

Dr. Henry Ealy – The Body has to be Hungry ........................................................... 19

Dr. Henry Ealy – Focus on the Mitochondria ............................................................ 20

Dr. Bryan Ardis – Protect the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (nAChR) ............. 21

EDTA ......................................................................................................................... 22

Vitamins C, D & E ...................................................................................................... 23

Zinc .............................................................................................................................. 25

Glutathione .................................................................................................................. 26

NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) ........................................................................................... 27

Bifidobacterium ........................................................................................................... 28

Zinc Ionophores ........................................................................................................... 29

Quercetin ...................................................................................................................... 30

Hydroxychloroquine .......................................................................................................31

Recovery Protocols & Treatments ................................................................................ 31

A Final Note: Avoid Proton Pump Inhibitors................................................................ 32

Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 32

References...................................................................................................................... 33

About Jonathan Otto ..................................................................................................... 34

 

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Book Review

Thank You Heather Heying And Brett Weinstein at “Dark Horse Podcast”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/thank-you-heather-heying-and-brett?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber, Truth Barrier

(1:37:07)

Heather Heying Read Portions Of My Book In This Episode Of Dark Horse Podcast . . . .

 

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Why I don’t believe there ever was a Covid virus

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/06/why-i-dont-believe-there-ever-was-a-covid-virus/

by Dr Mike Yeadon

 

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“COVID Likely Emerged From Wuhan Lab — and Earlier Than Previously Believed, Senate Report Concludes”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-wuhan-lab-leak-senate-report/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230418

by Suzanne Brudick

COVID-19 likely resulted from an accidental leak at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and triggered the start of the pandemic earlier in 2019 than Chinese government officials claimed, according to a Senate report released today.

 

 

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“The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/dark-origins-davos-great-reset/5797113

by F. William Engdahl

 

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“The RESTRICT Act is The Patriot Act 2.0”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ArTGgomwQ

by Reclaim The Net

(7:51)

 

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“Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/abp-vigano-covid-pandemic-farce-served-trial-balloon-new-world-order/5800281

by His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganò

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International): 'There can be no neutrality, because when there is a clash between two armies, those who choose not to fight are also making a choice that affects the outcome of the battle.'

Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International) is grateful to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, for speaking to us and sharing his thoughts on the current global crisis, which began with the fraudulent concocted Covid-19 pandemic emergency, supported by and maintained by an evil military grade psychological operation, complete with the unashamed use of fear and shame propaganda, which was unleashed in a coordinated manner on the unsuspecting people of the entire world by their own governments in early 2020, with predictably cataclysmic results.

MD4CE International is an international group of medical doctors, scientists, lawyers, journalists, economists, historians, politicians, philosophers, data analysts, bankers, military/intelligence experts and others from all over the world, working determinedly together to expose the terrible truth of what has happened during the past three years to the people of the world, their families, their communities, their countries, and to hold those responsible for the great crimes committed properly to account.

 

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Dr. Michael Yeadon on the Covid Crisis: “The Most Important Single Message I’ve Ever Written”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-michael-yeadon-most-important-single-message-ive-ever-written/5792100

by Dr. Mike Yeadon

First published on Global Research on September 1, 2022.

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Dear everyone, who is nervously looking around and is asking “What the hell is going on?”

I hope this isn’t too controversial. It’s certainly frightening, but I believe we are still on the right side of disaster & if enough of us become aware of what is happening here & everywhere in the democratic world, we can recover the situation. We really don’t have long. I believe it’s likely things will change irretrievably over this coming winter. Hence this urgent and unusual request.

Everything that’s happened and is happening becomes much simpler and it all makes sense, only when you force yourself to think the impossible.

If you experimentally adopt the position that OUR GOVERNMENT IS ACTIVELY WORKING TO HARM US, TO DISMANTLE MODERN SOCIETY & ENSLAVE ALL PEOPLE IN A DIGITALLY CONTROLLED TOTALITARIAN WORLD, it all fits. Nothing is surplus.

Even if your immediate response is that this is absurd, please try it for a day or so.

I ask you further to adopt the experimental position that the media, controlled by just six global corporations, all allied to a single global organization you’ve all heard of, is relentlessly lying to you and has been doing so for over 2.5 years. Same for the internet, controlled by fewer global corporations, also all allied to that same global organization.

Because I am certain it’s true. I am certain because this all started with a scientific fraud relating to a virus, augmented it with a relentless campaign of fear, imposed measures known to be useless, which wrecked the economy and smashed civil society, then coerced most to accept useless, unnecessary, ineffective and deliberately dangerous injections. Obviously, this is an odious crime. Nothing like it has ever happened.

I’ve been 41 years in life sciences from training to successful biotech CEO and was worldwide research head and Vice President of Pfizer’s respiratory unit (1995-2011).

I have absolutely no incentive to say any of this if I wasn’t certain.

I am certain. This all took place “in my wheelhouse”, my domain of expertise.

Please consider what I’ve said.

’’I’ve given over 70 interviews, all censored. I’ve been foully smeared. It’s propaganda. It tells you what they’re capable of.

Here’s what Pfizer’s former board member wrote about my accomplishments: Turning Pfizer Discards Into Novartis Gold: The Story Of Ziarco

Do I sound like a fool?

Many have asked why people didn’t resist tyrants in the past. Partly it is fear. But it’s more than that. It’s that normal people, like you and me, simply cannot imagine being so evil. We trust in humanity. And so we should. Most people are good. Few are truly terrifyingly horrible. But some are. It’s the inability to believe it’s happening that really stopped people objecting when they should, when the evidence was unmistakable but had not yet quite reached their door, their family.

They are coming for you and your children. It is happening again. There’s ample evidence emerging of long-term, patient planning. I’m so sorry.

It’s now up to you. I genuinely don’t see what else I can do.

Best wishes & sincere thanks,

Dr. Michael Yeadon

 

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The Covid “Killer Vaccine”. People Are Dying All Over the World. It’s A Criminal Undertaking

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-covid-killer-vaccine-people-are-dying-all-over-the-world-its-a-criminal-undertaking/5800358

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

We are being accused of “spreading disinformation” regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. 

The Reuters and AP media “trackers” and “fact checkers” will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their children.  

“Once the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no moving backwards. Insanity prevails. The world is turned upside down.”

Let us be under no illusions, the Covid Jab is not only “experimental”, it’s a Big Pharma “killer vaccine” which modifies the human genome. The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from vaccine inoculation both present (official data) and future (e.g. undetected microscopic blood clots) is overwhelming. 

The official data (mortality and morbidity) as well as numerous scientific studies confirm the nature of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine which is being imposed on all humanity. 

Peer reviewed reports confirm the causes  of vaccine related deaths and “adverse events” (injuries) including among others blood clots, thrombosis, myocarditis, cardiac arrests.

The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 8 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized “vaccine passport”. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma. It’s a crime against humanity.

The global vaccine project entitled COVAX is coordinated Worldwide by the WHO, GAVI, CEPI, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in liaison with the World Economic Forum (WEF),  the Wellcome Trust, DARPA and Big Pharma which is increasingly dominated by the Pfizer-GSK partnership established barely four months before the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in early January 2020.  

The Covid 19 “Vaccine” from the very outset in January 2021 has been conducive to a Worldwide Upward Movement in Mortality 

 

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“COVID-19 isn't ‘over’—but your Medicaid might be”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQ6bhyL7ms

with Chris Hedges and Dr. Margaret Flowers

(32:03)

 

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The COVID Pandemic and the mRNA Vaccine: What Is the Truth?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-update-what-truth/5779037

by Dr. Russell Blaylock, Surgical Neurology International 22 April 2022

 

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Is the BBC Responsible for mRNA Vaccine-related Deaths?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/widow-bbc-presenter-who-died-after-covid-jab-says-no-alternative-but-sue-astrazeneca/5815540

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Tara Cobham

 

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US Maternal Death Rates Up Sharply

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-maternal-death-rates-up-sharply/5815691

by Dr. Peter McCullough

 

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Politicians Around the World Demand US Drop Charges Against Assange

Protest in solidarity with Julian Assange outside the walls of Belmarsh Prison. Alisdare Hickson, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/13/politicians-around-the-world-demand-us-drop-charges-against-assange/

by Kevin Gosztola

Elected politicians in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and the United Kingdom signed on to letters to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the Justice Department drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
A letter of opposition signed by four members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Representative Rashida Tlaib, who initiated the letter, was prepared. However, it had not yet been sent to Garland at the time of publication.
The letters were timed to mark the fourth anniversary of Assange’s arrest and detention.
On April 11, 2019, Ecuador President Lenin Moreno expelled Assange from the country’s London embassy. British police dragged him out of the embassy and took him in a van to Belmarsh high-security prison, where he has been detained without bail ever since.
That same day the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment from December 2017 that charged Assange with conspiracy to commit a computer intrusion. In May 2019, prosecutors followed that charge with an indictment that contained 17 charges under the Espionage Act.

 

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The Espionage Act & the 4th Year of Assange’s Arrest

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/11/the-espionage-act-the-4th-year-of-assanges-arrest/

by Joe Lauria

From its earliest years the United States has found ways to deny the rights of a free press when it was politically expedient to do so.

One of the latest ways was to arrest WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange four years ago today and to indict him — the first time a publisher and journalist has ever been charged under the 1917 Espionage Act for possessing and publishing state secrets.

Though two U.S. administrations came close to punishing journalists for revealing defense information, they both failed, until Assange.

A major hurdle for the government is overcoming the conflict between the Espionage Act and the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from passing any law, including the Act, that abridges press freedom.

Until that legal conflict is resolved in court, resulting in parts of the Espionage Act being found unconstitutional, the language of the Act threatening press freedom remains.

Bolstered by 1950 amendments to the Act, the Donald Trump administration crossed a redline to arrest a journalist. A 1961 amendment made it possible to indict a non-U.S. citizen, acting outside U.S. territory.

The Trump administration’s first indictment of a publisher opened an alarming precedent for the future of journalism.

 

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Assange Arrest a ‘Propaganda Exercise

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/13/craig-murray-assange-arrest-a-propaganda-exercise/

by Craig Murray

Ecuador wouldn’t let Julian Assange leave its London embassy in order to stage an arrest for propaganda purposes, said former U.K. ambassador Craig Murray on 4th anniversary of the arrest.

 

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Daniel Ellsberg’s Ongoing Courage

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/12/daniel-ellsbergs-ongoing-courage/

by Norman Solomon

 

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Watch: “Operation Choke Point 2.0”

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/10/watch-operation-choke-point-2-0/

with James Corbett

(41:33)

 

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Digitalization without representation

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/digitalization-without-representation?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

 

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Russia is still complicit in the Great Reset

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/11/russia-is-still-complicit-in-the-great-reset/

by Riley Waggaman

Twelve months ago (plus a few days) we participated in a roundtable discussion moderated by Whitney Webb and Kit Knightly, “Russia & the Great Reset – Resistance or Complicity?”

A short summary of our position (“Yes, Russia is complicit in the Great Reset”; April 3, 2022) quickly became the second most-read article on this blog.

In July we revisited this hot-button issue (Resetting Without Schwab: Russia & the Fourth Industrial Revolution), using Klaus Schwab’s Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2018) to guide us through Moscow’s technocratic hijinks.

Anyway. We thought it would be appropriate and educational to use the one-year anniversary of the Zoom Debate to update our prognosis.

What follows is an addendum to the July article using the same Great Reset categories: digital currencies, safe (and smart) cities, genetic “vaccines”, and sustainable development.

Digital currencies

A package of bills on the digital ruble is currently making its way through the State Duma. Originally slated to be passed by April 1, the legislation is now expected to be adopted by early May.

Thirteen Russian banks are participating in a pilot project of the digital token. If the test run is successful, within 3-5 years the Bank of Russia’s CBDC could be used for social payments, including pensions, Izvestia reported at the end of March.

The traceable, programmable currency has been marketed to the public as a tool to bypass sanctions and reduce corruption.

As we’ve recently pointed out (on January 29 and March 28), Russian activists and commentators, particularly in the patriotic/conservative media sphere, are not buying it.

 

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WATCH: “Beyond the Reset” (an animated short film)

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/12/watch-beyond-the-reset/

by Oleg Kuznetsov

(24:08)

This excellent short film is a darkly humorous journey into one possible near-future. We all hope it never happens this way, but of course the best way to guard against it is to be aware of the danger.

I hope you all watch and share – especially with any fence-sitters or ostriches of your acquaintance.

I should add a thank-you to the commenter who posted a link to this today. Much appreciated.

 

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DISCUSS: Arcturus – The latest “Covid variant”

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/13/discuss-arcturus-the-latest-covid-variant/

by Off-Guardian

Late last night, the world was rocked – ROCKED – by the announcement of yet another variant of “covid”.

XBB.1.16 – codenamed Arcturus for as yet obscure reasons – is actually just a sub-variant of Omicron, and is “fuelling a rise of infections in India” amid concerns it:

it could be one 1.2 times more infectious than the last major sub-variant.

The supposed “surge” of cases has already meant mask mandates are returning in certain parts of India.

You’ll notice it’s only ever sub-variants of Omicron these days, never full variants. This is doubtless for very complicated taxonomic reasons and has absolutely nothing to do with the next Greek letter being Pi, which would make the “Pi variant” sound very silly.

Back to Arcturus, which has apparently been in circulation since late March and is only hitting the headlines now for unknown reasons. According to the media, it’s one of over 600 sub-variants of Omicron, and is no more deadly than the others, although it might take over from “Kraken” as the dominant form in the UK.

Apparently, they’ve started naming variants on the “that sounds kinda cool” basis. It’s becoming impossible to satirise, to be honest.

Time Out magazine is keen to update us all with the latest info, including the “symptoms to watch out for” with Artcuturus, which are:

·         Runny nose

·         Headache

·         Fatigue (mild or severe)

·         Sneezing

·         Sore throat

…or, you know, the same as every other strain of “Covid”, and every other endemic (and mostly harmless) respiratory infection. Except with one interesting new tweak, according to the Metro:

However itchy eyes or conjunctivitis has also been flagged as a possible new symptom of the variant – particularly in cases involving children.

Which is a very sneaky thing to say as we round into hay fever season, don’t you think?

Oh well, at least the NHS’s Spring Booster campaign just started. That’s a lucky piece of timing.

All in all, whenever a new “Covid” story hits the headlines, it feels like the final season of a long-running TV show. The format is tired, all the best actors have moved on to new things, the directors and writers are no longer invested in the story, and the whole thing is just an exercise in going through the motions. But what do you think?

·         Will there be a new “wave” of Covid?

·         Will they try to bring back masks in the UK? Or is it just a holding exercise?

·         How many kids with hay fever are about to get “Covid”?

·         How are they choosing the names of these variants?

·         Will we EVER get to the long-awaited Pi Variant?

 

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Covid-19 - Mass Formation or Mass Atrocity?

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/11/investigative-reports/covid-19-mass-formation-or-mass-atrocity/

by David Hughes, Valerie Kyrie and Daniel Broudy.

Mattias Desmet’s theory of Mass Formation attracted a great deal of attention in 2022. In this review of Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, we argue that it manifests the psychology of atrocity – and that “Mass Formation” paradoxically serves to legitimize the mass atrocity perpetrated during the Covid-19 era.

 

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Palestine in Pictures: March 2023

https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-march-2023/37461

by Electronic Intifada

 

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“Israeli leadership breaking with US for first time”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5YD2USp1oo

with Noam Chomsky

(1:21)

Israel’s government is openly breaking with the US for the first time, Noam Chomsky told Al Jazeera, adding that far-right officials like Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich “are simply telling the United States, get lost.”

 

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Is The US-Israel Relationship Really Falling Apart?

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/failing-us-israel-relationship/

by Robert Inlakesh

After the mysterious leaking of Pentagon documents and months of instability for Tel Aviv, the Israel-US relationship is being called into question in a significant way. What seems to be a clash between the extremist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden White House, has sparked interest in where the special relationship is headed.

 

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Democracy or Apartheid

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/10/democracy-or-apartheid/

by Nour

This is a fight to maintain and protect the status quo for Israelis, not Palestinians who have been denied all basic democratic rights under Israel since 1948, writes Nour. 

For two consecutive nights last week, during the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli military stormed Al-Aqsa mosque. They entered the mosque before prayer was over, firing rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian worshipers.

These events left at least 12 Palestinians injured, and over 400 worshipers were arrested on the first night.

Following the raid, Israeli violence spread across the West Bank. Dozens have been hurt by inhaling poisonous gas fired by Israeli forces, and a settler in occupied East Jerusalem shot a Palestinian child.

 

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Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s “Back Door” Into Silicon Valley

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/07/investigative-reports/isabel-maxwell-israels-back-door-into-silicon-valley/

by Whitney Webb

By moving in “the same circles as her father” and vowing to “work only on things involving Israel,” Isabel Maxwell became a pivotal liaison for the entry of Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms into Silicon Valley with the help of Microsoft’s two co-founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

 

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Israeli Spyware Firm QuaDream Linked to Hacks on Journalists and Politicians

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-spyware-firm-quadream-linked-hacks-journalists-politicians/5815773

by Middle East Eye

An Israeli-made spyware resembling the controversial Pegasus programme has been used to target journalists and opposition politicians in at least ten countries around the world, researchers have found.

The little-known Israeli vendor named QuaDream, which markets spyware under the name “Reign”, was established by a former Israeli military official and veterans of the NSO Group, the creator of Pegasus, cybersecurity researchers from Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said on Tuesday.

According to the researchers, QuaDream prefers to keep a low profile and has largely avoided the limelight, in contrast with its competitor, Israel’s NSO Group. 

Unlike the NSO Group, which was blacklisted by the US in 2021 for its ties to illegal surveillance programmes, QuaDream has escaped scrutiny, until now. 

Reign’s “Premium Collection” capabilities included “real-time call recordings, camera activation – front and back,” and “microphone activation,” according to a company brochure uncovered by Citizen Lab.

QuaDream has sold its products to a range of government clients including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Ghana, and has pitched its services to Indonesia and Morocco

See also: Rogues and Spyware: Pegasus Strikes in Spain

 

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Why we're laying siege to an Israeli weapons plant

Protesters wear masks depicting Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Britain’s Rishi Sunak as the two prime ministers met recently in London.  Vuk Valcic ZUMA Press

https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-were-laying-siege-israeli-weapons-plant/37506

by Huda Ammori

The British government has rolled out the red carpet for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again in recent weeks.

His visit was to initiate a new partnership deal – one which promises $25 million worth of funding to strengthen “tech industry” ties between the two countries.

While Netanyahu was wined and dined by British politicians, Palestinians were mourning yet another death. Almost 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis this year alone.

While the struggle for liberation has never wavered in the 75 years of Israeli occupation – all of historic Palestine is under Israeli occupation – the cost for the Palestinian people has been tragically high.

The sight of an Israeli war criminal like Netanyahu being welcomed with open arms on British soil is enough to make any decent citizen recoil in disgust. But it isn’t the first such “welcoming,” as this relationship goes back more than a century.

The signing of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was a fateful moment in Britain’s sullied history.

This letter, containing just 67 words, issued by our then own foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, casually signed away Palestine to build the all-new Jewish homeland – dismissing a most crucial issue. The land was already inhabited by a thriving indigenous population, the Palestinians.

In order to make this “homeland” a reality, British soldiers laid the ground red: butchered, terrorized, chased out, arrested and even committed sexual violence against the Palestinian people. Soldiers demolished parts of Palestinian towns and suppressed local uprisings.

The British paved the way for the Nakba – the catastrophe, which saw Zionist militias, armed and trained by the British army, ethnically cleanse up to 800,000 Palestinians.

Communities were massacred. Over 500 civilian towns and villages were brutally wiped off the map.

 

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How Israel blackmails Palestinians into treason

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-blackmails-palestinians-treason

by Ali Abunimah

On Saturday, the Lions Den, a Palestinian armed resistance group, announced that it had executed a man it accuses of collaboration with Israel.

It is a horrific and disturbing instance of Israel’s longstanding practice of blackmailing Palestinians in desperate circumstances into betraying their own people, and the terrible consequences that follow.

In a brief statement on the messaging app Telegram, the Nablus-based guerilla group addressed the “struggling Palestinian masses.”

Lions Den provided little detail, not even the name of the deceased, but asserted that it would “clarify to the public everything that is necessary at the appropriate time with precise and complete proof, following our completion of certain security measures.”

“And now we address every traitor who sells their religion, their conscience, their honor and their nation,” the group said. “Your activities and your evil have been exposed and we are following you wherever you are. No one can protect you no matter where you hide.”

Separately, video appeared on social networks purporting to be of the collaborator confessing to his cooperation with Israeli occupation forces prior to his execution.

The man, who identifies himself as Zuhair Ghalith, explains that he was blackmailed using a video showing him in a sexual relationship with another Palestinian man, who Ghalith says was an agent of Israel – implying that he was set up.

Under threat of exposure, Ghalith says he agreed to spy on resistance fighters for the Israeli army.

As summarized by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Ghalith explains that the first time he cooperated with Israel, he met with an Israeli officer in the occupied West Bank town of Huwwara who ordered him to follow Adham Mabrouka, an operative of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, and his comrades.

Mabrouka, reportedly a founder of the Lions Den, was extrajudicially executed by an Israeli death squad in Nablus in February 2022, along with two other resistance fighters, Ashraf Mbaslat and Muhammad Dakheel.

Ghalith also claims that information he provided to Israel helped occupation forces kill at least two more resistance fighters last July.

In that instance, he describes being taken by the army to a military base near Huwwara, being dressed in an Israeli military uniform and told to identify the men before an Israeli death squad went out and assassinated them.

Ghalith says the Israelis rewarded him with packets of cigarettes and cash – about $140.

Condemnation

Palestinian human rights organizations were quick to condemn both Ghalith’s alleged treason and his execution.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said its investigations confirmed that the 23-year-old was executed in the Old City of Nablus by five men who shot him multiple times from close range.

PCHR affirmed that “collaboration with the Israeli occupation constitutes a crime” and that collaborators are Israel’s partners “in war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), as they betray their country, people and families.”

But PCHR also rejected the execution of Ghalith as violating “the right to life and the right to a fair trial, as well as a serious breach of the rule of law.”

PCHR stated that “the proper way” to prosecute suspected collaborators “is through legal procedures and a fair trial” followed by “the appropriate punishment after being convicted before the court in accordance with the law.”

 

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Another Ramadan, Another Brutal Israeli Raids Into Al Aqsa

https://www.globalresearch.ca/another-ramadan-another-brutal-israeli-raids-into-al-aqsa/5815767

by Michaem Jansen

Once again, Haram Al Sharif, Al Aqsa Mosque, and the sublimely beautiful Dome of the Rock have become Ramadan flashpoints in the escalating conflict over possession of Palestine between Palestinians and Israelis. Brutal Israeli raids into the compound and Al Aqsa have soared tensions after more than a year of near constant Israeli military operations in occupied cities, towns and villages which killed 146 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2022 and at least 90 so far this year. As the overall figure stands at 222, the UN called last year the deadliest for Palestinians since 2005.

For Palestinians who cannot envisage an end to Israel’s occupation, repression and imposition of apartheid, resistance by any and all means seems to be their only way to respond. They face death by desperation.

 

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Israel attacks Al-Aqsa two nights in a row, beating worshipers at holy site

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/04/israel-attacks-al-aqsa-two-nights-in-a-row-beating-worshipers-at-holy-site/

by Mariam Barghouti

On Wednesday evening , the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was full of Muslim worshippers praying into the night during the holy month of Ramadan. Earlier that morning, worshipers were beaten, and forced out of the holy mosque’s prayer halls.

In the midst of night prayers Wednesday, Israeli forces stormed the compound again with weapons and riot gear, unleashing a coordinated and organized attack against worshippers for the second time in less than 24 hours.

 

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The Crackdown Cometh

https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/14/matt-taibbi-the-crackdown-cometh/

by Matt Taibbi

Leaks for me, not for thee.

 

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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/16/fiscal-insanity-the-government-borrows-6-billion-a-day-and-were-stuck-with-the-bill/

by John Whitehead

We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The US government is funding its existence with a credit card.

The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones being forced to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity.

According to the number crunchers with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the government is borrowing roughly $6 billion a day.

As the Editorial Board for the Washington Post warns:

“The nation has reached a hazardous moment where what it owes, as a percentage of the total size of the economy, is the highest since World War II. If nothing changes, the United States will soon be in an uncharted scenario that weakens its national security, imperils its ability to invest in the future, unfairly burdens generations to come, and will require cuts to critical programs such as Social Security and Medicare. It is not a future anyone wants.

Let’s talk numbers, shall we?

The national debt (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and must pay back) is $31 trillion and will grow another $19 trillion by 2033. That translates to roughly $246,000 per taxpayer or $94,000 for every single person in the country.

The bulk of that debt has been amassed over the past two decades, thanks in large part to the fiscal shenanigans of four presidents, 10 sessions of Congress and two wars.

It’s estimated that the amount this country owes is now 130% greater than its gross domestic product (all the products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the citizens).

In other words, the government is spending more than it brings in.

The U.S. ranks as the 12th most indebted nation in the world, with much of that debt owed to the Federal Reserve, large investment funds and foreign governments, namely, Japan and China.

 

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“Joe Biden Is A Criminal” Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family “Kickback Scheme”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/joe-biden-criminal-says-ex-obama-whistleblower-alleging-family-kickback-scheme

by Tyler Durden

Mike McCormick, a stenographer in the White House for 15 years who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, told Fox & Friends First that the FBI has completely ignored him despite his willingness to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating Hunter.

 

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BOMBSHELL! French President Says France Is Done “Following” The United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyiS0sZh9Mo

with Jimmy Dore and Kurt Metzger

(15:41)

Since the end of World War II the United States has had a near stranglehold on Western European policymakers — compelling countries like the U.K., Germany and France to go along with American imperialist efforts in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Now those virtual vassal states may be reconsidering their adherence to U.S. foreign policy as the U.S. empire begins to disintegrate while China merely gains in stature and influece on the global stage.

 

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Scottish MP BLASTS U.S. Senate For Lying Us Into War!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyiS0sZh9Mo

with Jimmy Dore and Kurt Metzger

(21:59)

It’s been more than 20 years since the US and its allies invaded Iraq in what is now widely acknowledged was a war crime based on lies. And yet many of the same perpetrators who pushed those lies and the Iraq invasion remain prominent and respected members of the foreign policy establishment as they today push the Ukraine War.

 

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Why the Media Don’t Want to Know the Truth About the Nord Stream Blasts

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-investigation-ignore-truth-nord-stream/284341/

by Jonathan Cook

No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie – and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations that either violate domestic or international law or that would be near-universally rejected by their own populations.

Which is reason enough why anyone following the fallout from explosions last September that ripped holes in three of the four Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea supplying Russian gas to Europe should be wary of accepting anything Western agencies have to say on the matter.

In fact, the only thing that Western publics should trust is the consensus among “investigators” that the three simultaneous blasts deep underwater on the pipelines – a fourth charge apparently failed to detonate – were sabotage, not some freak coincidental accident.

Someone blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, creating an untold environmental catastrophe as the pipes leaked huge quantities of methane, a supremely active global-warming gas. It was an act of unrivaled industrial and environmental terrorism.

If Washington had been able to pin the explosions on Russia, as it initially hoped, it would have done so with full vigor. There is nothing Western states would like more than to intensify world fury against Moscow, especially in the context of NATO’s express efforts to “weaken” Russia through a proxy war waged in Ukraine.

 

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Criminal Investigations Still Needed for Architects of US Invasion of Iraq

https://www.globalresearch.ca/criminal-investigations-still-needed-architects-us-invasion-iraq/5815763

by Dennis Fritz, Matthew Hoh, and et al.

The U.S. Senate repealing the 2002 Authorization for Military Force in Iraq was necessary and just. Still, that action should be viewed only as a first step in a national process of reckoning with and accounting for the consequences of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Often identified as the worst foreign policy decision in United States history, the Iraq War was catastrophic for millions of Americans and Iraqis and cataclysmic for Iraqi society, regional stability and international law. The invasion and occupation are correctly acknowledged as a crime: a war commissioned on lies and a violation of the Nuremberg Principles. As men and women in military or federal government service at the time of the invasion, we’re compelled to remind others of the devastation this war has wrought to ensure that the US does not re-commit this sin.

The costs of the Iraq War are staggering. As veterans we know this all too well. Over 4,500 US servicemembers were killed and more than 30,000 wounded. At least 3,600 contractors lost their lives, all men and women who would have been wearing military uniforms in previous wars. Hundreds of thousands of veterans returned from Iraq and Afghanistan (for those who fought the war it is difficult to untie the two, as so many of us participated in both) physically and mentally destroyed. Suicide, as in all wars, looms large. Limited data by the Veterans Administration states that the suicide rates for Iraq veterans are four to 10 times higher than that of their civilian peers. This grim figure supports the age-old adage that only the dead have seen the end of war.

In the U.S., many Iraq veterans will tell you that they know more dead from suicide now than from combat.

The horrific cost to the Iraqi people is as hard to grasp as it is shameful to face. Credible estimates of the number of Iraqis killed since 2003 total one million. There is no known number of wounded; it must also total in the millions. The psychological scars run deep: More than half of the Iraqi population is believed to be living with PTSD and depression, while in 2021, nearly one in four Iraqis were refugees. For those of us who were there, these are some of the hardest memories to face.

See, also: What Is Asymmetric Warfare?

 

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Sam Seder DISMANTLES John Bolton's Iraq War Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYHyF1cwfg

with Sam Seder

(8:57)

 

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Bad faith UN report on Nicaragua whitewashes violent US-backed coup

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/27/un-report-nicaragua-us-coup/

by Stephen Sefton

A new, anonymously-produced UN report denouncing Nicaragua’s government whitewashes the brutal US-backed 2018 coup against it while refusing to interview victims of sadistic opposition violence.

 

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Lula Goes to China

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/13/lula-goes-to-china/

by Brasil de Fato 

Brazil’s President President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week is in the People’s Republic of China for one of the most important state visits of his third presidential term.

The diplomatic mission, which will take place on Thursday and Friday, will be joined by ministers and governors — a reflection of the size of the existing and future possibilities in the relationship between Brazil and the Asian power.

It is expected that over 20 agreements will be signed in Beijing, intensifying the already huge trade between the two countries. China has been Brazil’s biggest trading partner since 2009. Last year, the commercial balance between them surpassed $150 billion and represented the major source of investment in all Latin American countries. 

The visit, initially scheduled for March, was delayed due to Lula being diagnosed with pneumonia at the time.

On Thursday, Lula will attend the inauguration of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as president of the New Development Bank (NDB), the BRICS bank, in Shanghai.

Rousseff replaces Marcos Troyjo, a name linked to former Bolsonaro minister Paulo Guedes. On Friday, Lula will meet in Beijing with union leaders, the president of the National People’s Assembly Zhao Leji, Prime Minister Li Qiang and President Xi Jinping.

Lula’s fourth foreign mission after his third presidential inauguration, the trip comes two months after his visit to Washington. Since taking the presidency in January this year, Lula has landed in Argentina, Uruguay and the United States. Now, he will head to China and the United Arab Emirates, marking the country’s comeback to the international arena after the period of isolation under Jair Bolsonaro’s government (Liberal Party).

 

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"The West’s Long Plan to Crush China"

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/11/caitlin-johnstone-the-wests-long-plan-to-crush-china/

by Caitlin Johnstone

“China is preparing to kill Americans and we’ve got to prepare to defend ourselves,” empire propagandist Gordon Chang told Fox Business recently.

Chang, who has famously spent more than two decades incorrectly predicting the imminent collapse of China, bizarrely made these comments while discussing a future attack on Taiwan.

Taiwan is of course not the United States and any potential war between Taiwan and the mainland would be an inter-Chinese conflict that needn’t involve a single American, and Chang is most assuredly not part of any “we” who will ever be engaged in combat with the Chinese military under any circumstances.

Chang frames his narrative as though China is menacing Americans in their homes, when in reality only the exact opposite is true: the U.S. has been militarily encircling China for many years and is rapidly accelerating its efforts to do so.

 

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China Brokered Peace Agreement Between Saudi Arabia and Iran Marks End of Era of American Unipolar Power

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/14/china-brokered-peace-agreement-between-saudi-arabia-and-iran-marks-end-of-era-of-american-unipolar-power/?mc_cid=0635842b75&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Morrigan Johnson

 

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Policing Does Not Have Problems — It Is the Problem

https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/09/policing-does-not-have-problems-it-is-the-problem/

by George Yancy

Policing is neither reformable nor redeemable.

Watching the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols for me drove home a deeper understanding that policing as an institution can never be reformed, and that policing itself is structurally tied to inherent forms of repressive control, “legitimate” violence and surveillance.

The activity of policing has embedded within it a normative construction of the social world that identifies what must be subdued. Hence, the police are (by definition) those who are on the side of “law and order,” the side of the status quo, which thereby means that others (you, me, us) are rendered immediately vulnerable to their draconian judgments and their militarized proclivities, ones that are implicitly backed by the state and its police. It is this understanding of policing that forces us to think critically about policing as a mechanism, an instrument, for those in power vis-à-vis those who are not. The state constantly seeks as many devotees as possible, and it demands broad latitude in arbitrarily defining those who need to be brutalized as well as how it can actually carry out that brutalization.

Flooded with all these thoughts in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols, I reached out to Laurence Ralph, who is professor of anthropology at Princeton University and the director of the Center on Transnational Policing. Ralph’s voice is indispensable in a world of violence: His work powerfully helps us to understand the various social forces that produce variegated forms of social injustice. He is the author of two books. His most recent book is entitled The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence. In this exclusive interview, Ralph discusses the violence that cops perpetrated against Tyre Nichols, how the perpetuation of fear props up policing and why policing itself is not redeemable.

 

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Atlanta’s “Cop City” is a blueprint for America’s future

https://therealnews.com/atlantas-cop-city-is-a-blueprint-for-americas-future

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis

Weeks since the police killing of Manuel “Tortuguita” Tehran, residents continue to fight the planned construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Center. But the future they’re fighting to prevent concerns us all, not just the city of Atlanta.

 

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“The 21-year-old secrets leaker should get a Pulitzer prize, not a cell”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EjIAAAqJT8

with George Galloway and Jimmy Dore

(19:25)

INTERVIEW: It’s a mask-off moment. How come a junior part-time serviceman has access to shocking US documents? And how come no one is talking about the $400m the Zelensky government skimmed off aid? Asks Jimmy Dore

 

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"BOMBSHELL! Jamie Dimon Is Part Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Web Of Corruption!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSd4RcRk0GA

with Jimmy Dore

(27:43)

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is being forced to testify in a civil suit about his connection to late financier/sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. As journalist Whitney Webb explains, the sordid ties between not only Epstein and Dimon, but also many of the biggest names in the growth of the financial service sector over the past 40 years, along with the government and organized crime reveal an unprecedented web of corruption and sleaze.

 

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Whitney Webb: EXPOSES Jamie Dimon's Shady Epstein Connections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnF2Qfx4pOg

with Clayton Morris

(18:44)

Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase, will be deposed under oath in a case related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to new reports. Lawyers for the bank had fought like hell to prevent this from happening. What does Dimon know? What did the bank do for Epstein? What dirty secrets lay behind this deposition? We speak to journalist Whitney Webb who has been following this case closely.

 

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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller

“How Team Fauci FORGED the ‘HIV/AIDS’ theory, and ‘our free press’ helped force it on the world (foretelling ‘COVID’)

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/how-team-fauci-forged-the-hivaids?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Celia Farber's "Fatal Distraction," a journalistic gem from 1992, is well worth reading now that the terrorists in charge are bringing "HIV/AIDS" back, to promote MORE terror (and "vaccines")

 

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In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide, April 10-April 16, 2023

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-b73?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Musicians in Trinidad, UK, Eire, Germany, Norway, Russia, India, Thailand; journos in US, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Kazakh.; pols in Germany, Denmark, S. Africa, Russia, India, Italy; more

 

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45 Times as Many Deaths After COVID Shots in Just 2 Years Compared With All Flu Vaccine-Related Deaths Since 1990, Data Show

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/deaths-covid-shots-versus-flu-vaccines-vaers-dmed/

by Suzanne Burdick

The authors of a peer-reviewed meta-analysis of national and international COVID-19 vaccine adverse events during the first two years of the rollout said their findings highlight the importance of reevaluating public health policies that promote universal mass injection and multiple boosters for all demographic groups.

 

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Watch "Live from Paris - Jeremy Loffredo at anti-Macron protests"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5V1JwC1gAY

with Jeremy Loffredo – April 17, 2023

(2:56:27)

Jeremy Loffredo is in the streets of Paris covering incendiary anti-austerity protests triggered by French President Emmanuel Macron's passage of deeply unpopular pension reforms

 

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If Our Senior Leaders in the Military will not Fight Against Unlawful Mandates, Who Will?

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/if-our-senior-leaders-in-the-military?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with Robert W Malone MD, MS

(transcript of video only)

The Biden Administration's egregious destruction of military personnel's constitutional rights.

 

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Sudan, power struggle or coup d'état

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOdT367UTU

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(15 :27)

 

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Struggle for Power and Control in Sudan May Lead to Civil War

https://www.globalresearch.ca/struggle-power-control-sudan-may-lead-civil-war/5816242

by Steven Sahiounie

Sudan’s capital Khartoum has turned into a war zone with a split in the military forces.  The Sudanese army is battling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which is a paramilitary force, and the 10 million residents are taking cover to avoid the artillery exchanges, and air force operations against the RSF. Hospitals are reporting 80 injured, and three civilian deaths.

Al Sharek TV, based in the UAE, reporting from Sudan, claimed that an Eqyptian soldier was killed in Murwey military airbase in Khartoum today, with raging battles continuing from yesterday. 

A large contingent from the army swooped into the RSF camps and took control on Saturday after the RSF had attacked army bases previously, according to Brigadier-General Nabil Abdallah, who characterized the army as performing their duty to safeguard the country.

The RSF claimed to have taken control of the capital airport, two other regional airports, and the presidential palace, while Sudan’s General Intelligence Service refuted the RSF claims as untrue.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the ruling Sovereign Council, was reportedly safe.  Sudan has struggled to return to civilian rule following a military takeover when the army and the RSF ousted the former president in 2019.  A transition period, with elections to follow was planned, but never initiated.

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, the commander of the RSF, called Burhan a ‘criminal’ and accused the army of carrying out a coup. Hemedti has been deputy leader of the ruling Sovereign Council headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since 2019, and his RSF are 100,000 strong.
See also:
Sudan’s “Deep State” War Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences If It Continues

 

 

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Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/turkey-syria-earthquake-act-terror/5807763

by  Peter Koenig

First published on February 9, 2023, in the immediate wake of the earthquake. Update on February 22, 2023

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Author’s Update

The conclusion of “No Evidence So Far” in the title referred to the strong suspicion that this horrendous quake was the result of an ENMOD engineered disaster. (Environmental Modification Techniques). Up to this day it killed more than 48,000 people, injured more than half a million, and still tens of thousands are missing.  

Will there ever be justice?

Will the presumed perpetrators be brought to trial?  

The “no evidence” statement is wearing thinner and thinner, especially, when listening to Serdar Hussein, the Head of the Turkish Space Agency talking on Russian TV.

He uses hyperbolic emblematic speech, when talking about the hard titanium alloy material being launched to the Earth. It refers to using the titanium alloy rods to send these deadly, super-power beams of energy to earth, deep into the ground to cause the earthquake:  

Transcript (Translation)

The head of the Turkish Space Agency, Serdar Hussein Yildirim, on weapons capable of causing earthquakes:

You know those power poles on the streets. They are similar to these pillars, about 8-10 meters high. Metal rods.

There is nothing inside the rod, no explosives, nothing, but it’s a metal rod made of a hard titanium alloy material.

They put them in a satellite. A certain amount of. And then they aim and launch them to Earth. It’s like a stick with a sharp point. For example, God forbid, it falls somewhere, we will not name the disaster scenario now, but as soon as it falls to the ground, it penetrates up to 5 km deep into the earth.  

This happens very quickly and creates an earthquake of magnitude 7-8.

As a result of the impact, everything that is there will be destroyed. Look, there are no weapons here, no explosives, no bombs, nothing like that. Simple sticks [rods]. But there is such a force that comes from outer space, and you have no chance to see it, stop it, or defend yourself.”  

See video here

Serdar Hussein’s statement remains to be verified.

 

According to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating earthquake in Turkey.” (quoted by Tass, February 7, 2023)

“The earthquake has caused colossal damage. It was the biggest-ever calamity not only in our country’s history but in the history of the entire world,” Erdogan was quoted telling local television channels.

“We are living through the most painful days in our history. Two powerful earthquakes, with the epicenters in Pazarcik and Elbistan in Kahramanmaras, [close to the city of Gaziantep] have caused large-scale damage in ten provinces. Around 13.5 million [out of 85 million Turkish population] of our citizens have been affected on these territories,” he said.

Early Monday morning at around 4 AM on February 6, 2023, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeast Turkey and Syria. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake’s epicenter hit an area about 30 km from Gaziantep (2.1 million population), a major city and provincial capital 100 km from the Syrian border. The quake was centered about 18 km deep.

It was followed by a strong 6.7 magnitude aftershock about 10 minutes later. Read more here. See also NY Post drone video below of some of the devastated areas.

 

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Faust Walks Out on Easter Morning

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/09/faust-walks-out-on-easter-morning/

by Edward Curtin

“All things transient are but a parable”
-- Goethe, Faust

 

These books are killing me he thought.
The sun has risen, the bells toll eight.
I’ve tried to learn before it’s late.
I woke to feel I could not breathe
So took both dog and my leave.

Been talking loud for hours now
To no one but the clanging sound
Of whether I should go or stay
To hear the lightning have its say.

“Where,” it asks, “was I before
I flashed across the coming day?”

Now that the sun has risen,
The lightning calls me on a mission
To shout at authors close to me
That living is a message riven
Far beyond your reach, my friends,
Neatly stretched beside my pens,
Sitting shelved and self-assured,
Giving off a stately sense, a hint
That he who probed your print
Is wise, has learned from you.
We both know it isn’t true.

“Where,” the lightning asked again, “was I
Before I flashed across the darkening blue?”

So I came to the place
Where the lady lay waiting
Under the weeping sky.
Who are you looking for?
The gardener asked the lady at the tomb.
But she too could not recognize the living
Man, the fierce voice speaking
Those breathtakingly lovely words:
Do not cling to me.
Do not cling. Let go
And tell the others
That you will not find your truth
Living among the dead,
Images and words
Woven subtly down the page.
For you, dead letters.

So on and on I walked, asking,
Where was I before that room
Where answers were my tomb
And where I wondered day and night
Before I wandered lost in fright?

“Where was I,” the lightning sighed,
Before I flashed across the sky?”

Do not cling to me was his reply.

 

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The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/pirate-stream-episode-12/

with Ryan Cristián

(58:27)

Join us on today’s episode of The Pirate Stream – Dialectical Dissidents. Pirate Stream Media is a new platform of dedicated content creators focused on circumventing the tightly controlled, manipulated, and outright censored media space of today (both corporate and independent media) with a commitment to objectivity, integrity, and a stark awareness of the two party illusion. The Pirate Stream, is our flagship podcast.

 

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Green party success, Germany shuts down nuclear power plants

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

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(14:26)

 

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 “Green Tyranny”, with Rupert Darwall

Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/green-tyranny-by-rupert-darwall?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

(27:04)

 

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On China, Artificial Intelligence, & The 2024 Presidential Election

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av_0PhJdw9M

with Noam Chomsky

(1:03:23)

 

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If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/13/if-the-u-s-cant-boss-the-world-it-will-spitefully-destroy-it/?mc_cid=0635842b75&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.

In May 2022, Henry Kissinger gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged the Biden administration to seek a peace agreement in Ukraine that satisfies the Russians because “pursuing the war beyond this point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine but a new war against Russia itself.”

Kissinger in his speech further reflected back on his experience negotiating détente with Beijing in the 1970s, noting that the potentially adversarial aspect of the U.S.-China relationship should be mitigated and common interests should be pursued and upheld. “The U.S.,” he says, “must realize that China’s strategic and technical competence has evolved. Diplomatic negotiations must be sensitive, informed and unilaterally strive for peace.”

 

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“The SUN is SETTING on the U.S.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87p_LbZd-lE

with Richard Wolff

(54:59)

 

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“Something Strange is Happening in Chicago”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb3N10ht2SQ&feature=youtu.be

with realygraceful

(11:45)

 

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“THE SINS OF GUANTANAMO ARE STILL WITH US”

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-original-sins-of-guantanamo-bay?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Seymour Hersh

America's federal courts are not playing fair with the innocents who remain wrongly imprisoned at the US detention camp in Cuba

 

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Global Research – April 13, 2023

Selected Articles: “Strokes Are Skyrocketing in Young People, Pfizer & Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Showed Safety Signals for Strokes as Early as November 2021, But These Were Ignored.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-strokes-are-skyrocketing-in-young-people-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-showed-safety-signals-for-strokes-as-early-as-november-2021-but-these-were-ignored/5815735

 

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The Defender -– April 16, 2023

Children’s Health Defense, News and Views

http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=6021&em_id=3121.0

 

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CDH TV – April 14, 2023

Children’s Health Defense, Live, Vido, Audio

 “45 Times as Many Deaths After COVID Shots in Just 2 Years Compared With All Flu Vaccine-Related Deaths Since 1990, Data Show”

http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=6081&em_id=3202.0

 

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CDH TV – April 15, 2023

Children’s Health Defense, Live, Vido, Audio

“Inside the Belly of the Beast”

http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=6082&em_id=3222.0

 

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BitChute Archives

https://www.bitchute.com/

 

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“Breaking The Veil Of The Real Conspirators”

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/never-again-is-now-global/Never-Again-Is-Now-Global-Part-3/

with Vera Sharav

Part 3: revealing the people behind the eugenics agenda. How have evil players disguised themselves as saints, convincing countless individuals to follow their dark cause? ‘Breaking The Veil Of The Real Conspirators’ breaks down the perpetuation of the Nazi ‘mindset’ in societies, across the world.

 

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CDH TV – April 17, 2023

Children’s Health Defense, Live, Vido, Audio

“Monumental Win Against One World Government Control + Congressional Hearing to Investigate COVID Origins Part 2 + More on CHD.TV”

http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=6101&em_id=3241.0