Bulletin N° 1132

“Wag the Dog”

https://ww2.123moviesfree.net/movie/wag-the-dog-4936/

(1:36:50)

Directed by Barry Levinson, 1997

“Wag the Dog is possibly the greatest political satire Hollywood has produced. It’s just that simple. If you only take one message away from this review, it should be that.”

-- Kit Knightly

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/18/offg-recommends-wag-the-dog/

 

 

 

 

 

February 27, 2024

Grenoble, France

 

 

 

Subject: Shoot the Messenger; Obscure the Crime; Divide and Rule . . . .

 

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

The horrendous orgy of death and destruction we are experiencing today, compliments of late monopoly capitalism, brings with it enlightenment and self-knowledge for some people. We see the slow shift from facile “identity politics” to “class-conscious” perceptions that challenge the monopoly control of capitalist power centers around the world.

 

Class solidarity is an essential element in this struggle, if we are to avoid becoming “useful idiots” in our own destruction and that of society.

 

 

The 22+ items below are essays and articles selected from the critical Anglophone social media, which serve to inform us of important discussions being held around the world. We encourage CEIMSA readers to study these political critiques, which try to provide social and historical context for the shattering events we are now witnessing and to orient us as to “which side are you on?”, to cite the lyrics of Pete Seeger’s famous labor union song of the 1940s.

 

 

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

 

 

 

a.

“The Show Trial against Julian Assange

https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/26/the-show-trial-against-julian-assange/

by Fabian Scheidler

How US and British authorities are bending the law and undermining press freedom.

“Those who tell the truth need a fast horse,” says an Armenian proverb. Or they need a society that protects the truth and its messengers. But this protection, which our democracies claim to offer, is in danger. As a journalist, Julian Assange has published hundreds of thousands of files documenting war crimes committed by the USA and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere. The authenticity of the documents is beyond question. However, none of the perpetrators have been brought to justice or convicted. In contrast, the messenger has been incarcerated in a high-security prison in London for five years with life-threatening health problems, having previously spent seven years locked up in the Ecuadorian embassy. He has been charged with no crime in the UK, in any EU country or in his home country of Australia. The only reason for his grueling deprivation of liberty is that the US government has initiated extradition proceedings accusing the journalist Assange of espionage, invoking a law dating back more than a hundred years to the First World War: the Espionage Act.

Never before has a journalist been charged under this law. The extradition process therefore sets a dangerous precedent. If it is successful, every journalist on Earth who exposes US war crimes would have to fear suffering the same fate as Assange. That would be the end of freedom of the press as we know it. Because it is based on the capacity to bring to light the dark sides of power without fear of punishment. Where this freedom is extinguished, it is not only the freedom of journalists that dies, but the freedom of us all: the freedom from the arbitrariness of power.

 

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“SHOCKED Julian Assange EXPLAINED in 13 minutes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccpQA5wuhTQ&si=2O6c_ICa_PXzuFYS

by The Whitboard Explainer

(12:52)

This compelling video charts the extraordinary journey of Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks. From his early days as a computer hacker to becoming a global icon of free speech and transparency, Assange's story is one of ambition, controversy, and conflict. Witness key moments such as the groundbreaking release of classified documents, his dramatic asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy, and the ongoing legal battles that have captured the world's attention. Through interviews, archival footage, and expert analysis, this video offers an insightful look into Assange's profound impact on information activism, the complex debates on privacy versus public right to know, and the relentless pursuit of truth in the digital age.

 

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“‘Wiki-Gate’: How Julian Assange was Framed by His

Supporters”

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/23/wiki-gate-how-julian-assange-was-framed-by-his-supporters/

by Michel Chossudovsky

We must act decisively in support and in solidarity with Julian Assange. In this regard, we must understand the history: On how Assange was betrayed and misled by those who allegedly supported him.

In October 2021, the U.S. government began a legal challenge to extradite Julian Assange from the U.K. “to face charges of violating the Espionage Act”. The UK Supreme Court turned down Assange’s appeal to “prevent his extradition to the United States”.

On April 20, 2022, a UK magistrates court formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the US “on espionage charges”.

Two days ago, Assange’s final appeal hearing began in the UK’s High Court.

Julian Assange’s Relation with the Mainstream Media

Julian Assange was initially lauded and supported by the mainstream media.

In 2008  The Economist, which is partly owned by the Rothschild family granted Assange The New Media Award.

 

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“On behalf of Julian Assange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_Shacd2Iw&si=5pNk6bKYyc2E7HYK

with John J Mearsheimer

(7:47)

 

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“Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assange’s Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism”

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

with Jeniffer Robinson

(15:50)

 

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“Stella Assange speaks after the first day of extradition hearing”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHifUIhO5YQ

by AP Archive

(3:02)

 

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“Day X: Julian Assange and Press Freedom Under Attack”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/21/covertaction-bulletin-day-x-julian-assange-and-press-freedom-under-attack/?mc_cid=fc1c41a9ea&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Rachel Hu and Chris Garaff

(audio, 36:48)

It’s Day X. Hearings are happening in the United Kingdom to determine whether Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States. His lawyers are trying to convince the UK’s High Court of Justice to permit an appeal hearing. If the court declines, it’s very likely that Assange will be extradited within days and face trial here.

The long case of Julian Assange has been a travesty of justice. While Assange spent years stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy, and now over 5 years in terrible conditions in Belmarsh Prison, known as Britain’s Guantanamo Bay, those who committed the crimes he exposed still walk free. All along the way, the UK and U.S. governments have violated the rights of Assange and his supporters.

We’re joined by Kevin Gosztola, the editor of The Dissenter, the author of the book Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure and more  . . . . .

 

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“The Deep State Is the 4th Branch Of Gov’t Controlling Us All!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWSu0HKzzPw

with Jimmy Dore

(10:12)

 

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“USS Liberty – Tragic Blunder or Mass Murder?”

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/25/uss-liberty-tragic-blunder-or-mass-murder/

by Martin Hanson

“Never before in the history of the US Navy

has a Navy board of inquiry ignored the testimony

of American eyewitnesses and taken, on faith,

the word of their attackers”
Captain Dr. Richard Kiepfer, USS Liberty survivor

 

“A danger to national security exists

whenever elected officials are willing

to subordinate American interests to those

of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling

to challenge Israel’s interests

when they conflict with American interests.”
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1970-1974

 

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time,

and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain

 

 At dawn on June 14, 1967 a battered American intelligence-gathering ship, the USS Liberty limped into the Grand Harbor at Valletta, Malta.

Six days earlier it had been attacked and almost sunk by Israeli air and naval forces while in international waters 13 miles off the coast of Egypt. Fewer than a third of the ship’s complement of 294 escaped death or injury in what survivors are convinced was a deliberate attempt by the Israelis to sink the ship with all hands.

What was the ship doing there? Though a naval ship manned by naval crew, the Liberty was a state-of-the art intelligence gathering ship. Bristling with radio antennae, its National Security Agency (NSA) staff below decks could eavesdrop on radio communications in nearby countries. On board were NSA linguists able to intercept and understand communications in Russian and Arabic. In response to rising tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the Liberty had been sent to the Eastern Mediterranean from its previous location off the coast of West Africa.

The ship arrived at its destination just in time for the beginning of the ‘six-day-war’ on June 5, in which Israel inflicted devastating surprise attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, destroying hundreds of planes before they could get off the ground. Israel now occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Only Syria was still resisting; Israel had not yet taken the Golan Heights. This would have involved rushing troops and materiel north from Sinai to the Syrian border, for which secrecy was essential. The presence of the Liberty therefore posed a threat to the completion of General Dyan’s plans.

Air Reconnaissance . . . .

 

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“I tell my story not for pity but in defiance”

More than 12,000 children have been killed in Gaza since 7 October.

Naaman Omar APA images

https://electronicintifada.net/content/i-tell-my-story-not-pity-defiance/44706

by Bashaer Muammar

Mustafa Ali Hamed Muammar is my cousin.

Mustafa is director of the Jusur Alamal association for special education.

In 2006, he was arrested from his family’s home in Gaza, along with two brothers, on charges of belonging to a resistance group. His brothers were released but he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

This is his story, in his words:

In the crisp April air of 2016, I emerged from a decade-long imprisonment hopeful of a fresh start.

For years, I had clung to the promise of freedom, envisioning a future filled with the embrace of family life.

I worked to establish myself, finally ending up with the Jusur Alamal school for special education, working with, and for, children with disabilities.

It was rewarding.

And with my dear wife, Arkan, we started a family with hope and love.

I had a few years of taking my first steps into the world beyond Israeli prison walls.

But one fateful night in October last year, the night sky erupted in a cacophony of chaos and destruction.

Israeli warplanes, like dark angels of death, descended upon our neighborhood, reducing homes to rubble and lives to mere shadows of their former selves.

In the madness that ensued, I found myself fleeing for safety to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, unable to reach my home.

But there, I was met there with yet another onslaught of devastation.

Everything has now been taken from me.

Israeli missiles, in their indiscriminate fury, tore through the fabric of my existence, snatching away the lives of my beloved mother Naima, 68, Arkan, 32, and my innocent children Batoul, 7, Ali, 5, and Hani, 2.

The end of dreams . . . .


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“Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/26/why-would-anyone-kill-ones-self-in-an-attempt-to-stop-a-war/?mc_cid=fc1c41a9ea&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Anne Wright

“My name is Aaron Bushnell.

I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force

and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.

I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,

but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine,

at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all.

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal…

Free Palestine!”

Aaron Bushnell’s last words before self-immolation

Four years ago in 2018, after returning from a Veterans For Peace trip to Viet Nam, I wrote an article called “Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?

Now, four years later, in the past three months, two persons in the United States have taken their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a Ceasefire and stop U.S. funding to the State of Israel that would be used to kill in the Israeli genocide of Gaza. An yet unidentified woman, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia on December 1, 2023. Three months later authorities have yet to release the name of the woman.

This week, on Sunday, February 25, 2024, active duty U.S. Air Force Aaron Bushnell, set himself on fire at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, while he was stating “Free Palestine and Stop the Genocide.”

 

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 “Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Netanyahu says Rafah assault ‘will happen’”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/25/israels-war-on-gaza-live-rafah-strikes-further-harming-aid-efforts-un

by Tamila Varshalomidze and Usaid Siddiqui

·         Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will attack Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, but the assault “will be delayed somewhat” if a captives deal is reached.

·         The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says the last time it was able to deliver food to northern Gaza was on January 23, renewing calls for the international community to allow more aid to the Palestinian territory to avert famine.

·         The Gaza Health Ministry warns of a catastrophic situation “beyond description” as hospitals in the north of the enclave run out of fuel, putting the lives of patients at risk.

·         A two-month-old Palestinian baby has died from starvation in northern Gaza, according to media reports, as Israel is accused of using starvation as a weapon of war.

·         At least 29,692 Palestinians have been killed and 69,879 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 attacks stands at 1,139.

 

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“Starvation in Gaza: 'If we stay like this for another week, we will die en masse'”

Palestinians gather to receive food in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 19 December 2023 (Bashar Taleb/Imago Images via Reuters)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/starvation-gaza-if-we-stay-another-week-we-will-die-en-masse

by Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem at Middle East Eye

A Palestinian from northern Gaza, where over half a million live in Israeli-imposed famine, speaks about the fear of imminent death from starvation.

The famine in northern Gaza, caused by Israel's strangling siege, has reached extreme levels, Palestinian residents there have told Middle East Eye. There have been several reports of people dying from malnutrition, including infants

Life for over half a million people there now revolves around a single task every day: finding something to eat. In this following account, a resident of Gaza City, who did not wish to be named, recounts to MEE's Lubna Masarwa the struggle to survive in a war-torn city.  

Things are difficult. Getting anything has become a difficult task, even simple things like sugar, salt and rice. 

We go on looking for them everywhere, even in old shops and abandoned homes. If and when we find them in shops, they are sold at crazy prices. 

About four days ago, around 800 bags of wheat flour came in. There are up to 700,000 people in northern Gaza. This means one bag for around every 1,000 people or so.

 

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 “Stop this genocide!”

https://electronicintifada.net/content/stop-genocide/44711

by Nour Khalil Abu Shammala

I want to return to my home.

I want to feel like a human deserving of life. Truly deserving of the most basic human rights.

This war has stripped me of every aspect of my humanity.

I am a human. I swear I feel just like you do.

I desire a life like yours, but I am forced to choose between my country, my family, a home. I want them all.

I miss my home, the scent of it, resting in bed. The morning sun would shine on my bed, the rain would streak down my window in winter.

My siblings and I would watch TV in the living room, chatting while our mom cooked in the kitchen.

I want my father to once again enter our home and call for us all to gather. I want to tell him to remember to take off his shoes at the front door, something he always forgets to do.

Our home was a tranquil place and I long for it. Inside, you could hear the sea.

Our balcony was full of plants and flowers that grew lush.

These are the things I dream of. I want to return to this life I used to have, to mend everything the war has destroyed.

I need a home to feel like a human. A home is not a luxury, it is a fundamental need.

I no longer have a room to myself, a kitchen, a window – not even a door.

Stop this war . . . .

 

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c.

“Israel’s Colonial War on Gaza With Palestinian Historian Rashid Khalidi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYKOrPSJ5_g

with Katie Halper

 (36:35)

Katie talks to Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi about how history shapes the present moment.

Rashid Khalidi (https://history.columbia.edu/person/k...) is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).

 

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 “‘Kidnapped’ posters serve genocidal sentiment”

https://electronicintifada.net/content/kidnapped-posters-serve-genocidal-sentiment/44701

by Omar Zahzah

They are instantly recognizable: sporting a stark red, white, and black color scheme, with the word “Kidnapped” in capital letters, a series of visually arresting posters depicting Israeli captives taken during the launching of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October have been spotted all across the globe.

According to the KidnappedFromIsrael website, the posters were created by New York-based Israeli artists Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid and designed by Tal Huber (owner and designer of Israeli branding company Giraff) and Shira Gershoni.

Mintz and Bandaid insist the “Kidnapped” posters are not political. The Kidnapped website states the campaign’s goal is simply to “maximize awareness” and advises volunteers who post the posters not to “provoke or instigate conflicts with people or officials.”

Yet whatever the verity behind the campaign’s proclaimed intent, these posters have played a concerning role in the targeting of activists for Palestine across the country, who are increasingly being subjected to harassment and doxxing in a post-7 October climate of intense backlash to support for Palestinian freedom that has been described as a “new McCarthyism.”

The “Kidnapped” posters have not only been used in a confrontational fashion against pro-Palestine demonstrations. They have also become a focal point for the doxxing of individuals who choose to remove them from public spaces, a process that has been greatly enabled by media outlets such as the New York Post.

Artists 4 Israel is an organization that opposes the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) call. The organization, which claims to “prevent the spread of anti-Israel bigotry through art,” recently funded a 2,500 square foot display of the posters in Culver City in response to the posters being taken down.

Artists 4 Israel has previously teamed up with Taglit-Birthright to host hip hop tours whitewashing Israel’s colonial and apartheid violence against Palestinians.

Blacklist sites

Doxxing refers to the sharing of personal information online, often to initiate harassment campaigns and even threaten employment status. It has been a strategy of anti-Palestinian repression since at least 2015, when Canary Mission, the then newly-launched online blacklist site, urged its viewers to “ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees.”

Individuals filmed taking down the “Kidnapped” posters have faced various outcomes, including being fired from their jobs.

And anti-Palestinian blacklist sites, new and old, seem to be coalescing around the posters as a new pretext for directing harassment.

“Learn who these ‘Kidnapped poster’ rippers are,” the aforementioned Canary Mission states on a page dedicated to targeting individuals who have taken down “Kidnapped” posters.

The blacklist group StopAntisemitism, which appears to be behind much of the internet doxxing, has been offering “rewards” of $1,000 for viewers to identify anyone filmed removing posters.

JewBelong, a registered non-profit that has engaged in targeted digital harassment of pro-Palestine activists in the past, has also been getting in on the action.

 

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“Israel is a European Invention & Gaza Genocide Was Made in West”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4TbkWbEujQ&si=94t1tZfvcwlTHW5l

with MEP’s Claire Daly and Mick Wallace

(35:23)

Why does Europe support Israel so much? What does Europe gain from the occupation of Palestine and further escalation across the Middle East? How much of this is Europe following its own interests versus being subservient to US imperial designs in the region, as we’ve seen with Ukraine? Is Europe actually united on this or are there segments of the body politic that disagree with the US and Israel’s imperialist aims in Gaza? Does the EU have any awareness of its own hypocrisy? And are there consequences for those who speak out against the status quo?

 

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INTERVIEW: “How they weaponised anti-Semitism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL4lXYR0f-M&si=xnk1vL6Nf0jSe161

with George Galloway and Asa Winstanley

(17:27)

 

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“German leaders face criminal complaint over Gaza genocide”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Tel Aviv to show support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, 17 October 2023.

Michael Kappeler DPA

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/german-leaders-face-criminal-complaint-over-gaza-genocide

by Ali Abunimah

Members of two Palestinian families have filed a criminal complaint against German leaders for aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Lawyers acting on their behalf have requested that German federal prosecutors investigate Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and finance minister Christian Lindner among other officials for providing Israel with weapons and political support, and failing in their obligation to prevent Israel from committing genocidal acts.

In a historic ruling in January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Israel is plausibly accused of committing genocide in Gaza and ordered a halt to all its potentially genocidal acts – a decision Israel has ignored.

“German criminal law requires a ground for initial suspicion to start investigations on a potential crime being committed,” lawyers for the Palestinian families said Friday.

“The ICJ ruling clearly showed that there is such ground for initial suspicion when it comes to the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

The lawyers say that Germany “has shown some of the strongest political and material support to Israel in its assault on the Gaza Strip and the Palestinians, with many German officials also inciting to genocide in their statements since October 2023.”

The case is being brought by the European Legal Support Center, PIPD (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy) and Law for Palestine – three organizations that are part of the Palestinian-led Justice and Accountability for Palestine Initiative.

 

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“How Arab States Are Helping Israel Commit Genocide”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-arab-states-are-helping-israel-commit-genocide/286825/

by Mnar Adley

Palestine’s Arab neighbors seem to have taken a bold stance on Israel’s genocide of Gaza in a public show of solidarity with Palestinians. But behind those strong words, states like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE are quietly assisting Israel.

These four nations are working together to circumvent the actions of one of the few regional actors who are challenging Israel concretely: Yemen’s Ansar Allah. In a bid to alleviate pressure on Israel from the Ansar Allah (a.k.a the Houthi) blockade of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan have established land corridors, ensuring cargo destined for the apartheid state arrives safely in Israeli hands.

According to Hebrew Channel 13, Israeli-linked cargo ships arrive in the UAE to unload goods. Trucks then transport these goods through UAE and Saudi highways to Jordan. They eventually reach Israel via the Jordan River Crossing.

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd announced that it was working with Saudi Arabia and the UAE to create a land route “bypassing the Houthis,” which connects ports in the UAE and the Saudi port of Jeddah facilitating cargo movement to Israel through the Suez Canal.

Egypt has also joined the effort, operating container ships from its ports to the Israeli port of Ashdod, further supporting the land bridge initiative and assuring Israeli commerce is not interrupted amid its genocidal campaign in Gaza.

But that is just the start of their complicity.

Take Turkey, for example. Around 40% of Israel’s energy needs are met by an oil pipeline running through Turkey. President Erdoğan could simply shut the flow of oil off to Israel, which would shut down the economy and the military assault in days. But he continues not to do so, despite offering strong condemnation of Israel in words. 

Morocco, meanwhile, is building a military intelligence base for Israel near its border with Algeria. The site will be utilized for collaboration for military training, intelligence and security.

Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems also recently announced the establishment of two weapons factories in Morocco, helping to diversify Israel’s weapons production capabilities, as activists in other countries shut the factories down.

In 2021, Morocco also signed the Abraham Accords – a normalization treaty with Israel that Bahrain and the UAE had already agreed to. The Emirates has long been a hub for Israeli intelligence, and it is now well established that the two nations aid each other on intelligence matters.

Moreover, last year, Edge Group, a UAE state-owned corporation, invested $14 million in Israeli drone manufacturer Highlander Aviation. So the Israeli police employ their airspace management system, which was tested by the Israeli Air Force.

The relationship between the UAE and Israel has grown now that Elbit Systems established an entire subsidiary organization – Elbit Systems Emirates – in order to establish what it called “long term cooperation” with the UAE military.

Meanwhile, despite its rhetoric, Saudi Arabia has been quietly collaborating with Israel for some time. The Saudi-backed group Affinity Partners owns a stake in the Israeli company Shlomo Group.

During the conflict in Gaza, the Shlomo Group contributed trucks and military equipment to the Israeli military’s Shaldag and Maglan units, as well as food packages to the IDF.

Saudi Arabia is well-known to be one of the Israeli intelligence industry’s best customers. Saudi security forces have used Israeli tech provided by NSO Group and Cellebrite to spy on people and hack their phones, including for the infamous murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

These states could do so much besides empty rhetoric to help the people of Palestine and blunt the Israeli attack on Gaza, including arms embargoes, sanctions on trade and travel, and halting the military and intelligence collaborations.

The people of the Arab world are dead against the genocide in Gaza and collaborating in it. They have come out in mass across their countries protesting Israel’s war and have even vowed to march through their borders to Gaza to defend their Palestinian brethren.

 

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“What Did You Do During the Gaza Genocide? ‘They Feel entitled to Commit these Crimes’”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-did-you-do-during-gaza-genocide/5849981?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles

by Dr. Paul Larudee

We owe a debt to Elie Wiesel, Leon Uris and all the historians, writers and filmmakers who produced thousands of books and films about the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, as well as some who documented the extermination of the Roma, homosexuals, communists, mentally handicapped and others in almost equal numbers. Even the fictionalized stories helped to sensitize us all to the horrors of genocide (a word coined in 1943 by the eminent Polish Jewish lawyer Rafael Lemkin to refer to the elimination of at least a quarter of the world’s Armenians, before he or anyone else knew of the Nazi horrors).

This is a great service, because their work removed all excuse for ignorance toward genocidal acts, among both the general public and the political elite. They helped, either directly or indirectly, to indict and prosecute many who participated in the holocaust and to cast everlasting shame upon those who looked the other way.

Lemkin and other eminent, hardworking and resourceful individuals and institutions also contributed to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, a major component of international law now shared by the 153 nations that are its signatories. Among other provisions, the convention requires its signatories to take action to stop genocidal acts when they occur, partly overriding national sovereignty.

READ MORE: Gaza Genocide Will Continue

This in turn gave rise to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which espoused the duty of governments and other institutions to intervene in situations of genocidal activity. That doctrine has been abused and discredited by powerful nations, sometimes using it as a pretext to intervene for their own purposes, but it is nonetheless a testament to the pervasive awareness of genocide and the sensitivity to it, both public and official.

 

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“War on Gaza: Palestinian child starves to death in Gaza City”

Palestinian children wait to receive food in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on 5 February (Reuters)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-eight-year-old-starves-death-gaza-city

by Middle East Eye

Hanin Saleh Hassan Jumaa died due to a severe calcium deficiency amid dwindling aid deliveries to Gaza's north.

An eight-year-old Palestinian girl has died from dehydration and starvation in Gaza City, the NGO, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported on Saturday.

The organisation’s teams in northern Gaza said that Hanin Saleh Hassan Jumaa died from a severe calcium deficiency caused by starvation.

 

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“Latin America charges Israel with genocide, compares it to Nazi Germany”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Zj691F8Iw

by Geopolitical Economy Report, with Ben Norton

(23:24)

Many Latin American countries have accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, even comparing it to Nazi Germany. Ben Norton explains the responses of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

 

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“Yemen's Unending Nightmare: The Hidden Consequences of US and UK Airstrikes”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/yemen-unending-nightmare-hidden-consequences-us-uk-airstrikes/286769/

by Ahmed Abdulkareem

When confronted with international appeals for humanitarian aid due to the ongoing crises in Gaza and Yemen, the United States and the United Kingdom have chosen instead to turn Yemen’s Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden into a combat zone, initiating an ariel bombing campaign against the war-torn country already suffering immensely from nine years of deadly conflict spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and backed by the U.S.

For weeks, U.S. and British naval vessels have been perched on the outskirts of Yemen’s territorial waters in the Red Sea, not only to protect ships carrying goods to Israel but to launch a series of airstrikes against Yemen, the poorest country in the world. In recent weeks, at least 320 airstrikes have been launched by warplanes that seem never to leave the skies over Yemen’s major cities. The latest strikes hit Friday morning, targeting Al-Jabana, Al-Taif, and Al-Kathib and followed renewed calls by U.S. officials for regional actors not to escalate conflict in the Middle East.

According to Yemeni citizens who spoke to MintPress, the U.S. bombing campaign, which has struck targets in crowded residential neighborhoods, is the last thing that Yemenis expected. Twenty-seven-year-odl Ibrahim al-Nahari lives with his family near Hodeida International Airport, which was targeted by US airstrikes on Monday afternoon. He said of the bombings: “I never expected we would be attacked because of our solidarity with hungry people in Gaza. Are these America’s morals?”

Last Monday, U.S. airstrikes targeted Yemen’s Al-Katnaib Coast Park, frequented by hundreds of visitors daily, and not only caused damage to nearby homes, hotels and shops but spread panic and fear among civilians. “We need food and medicine, not the ugly American bombs that we have tasted for nine years,” Al-Nahari told MintPress, waving a Palestinian flag at a massive demonstration in support of Gaza on Friday in central Hodeida.

 

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“The Threat of All Out War: Yemen Nears the Tipping Point As US Airstrikes Intensify”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/threat-all-out-war-yemen-nears-tipping-point-us-airstrikes-intensify/286834/

by Ahmed Abdulkareem

In the courtyard of Yemen’s famous Al Shaeb Mosque, guards of honor stood at attention accompanied by the melody of military music as the funeral ceremony of Yemeni marines killed in the latest round of U.S. and UK strikes commenced. The mourners, many of whom traveled from the countryside to attend, walked alongside a long convoy carrying the bodies of 17 victims as it made its way through the streets of Sana’a. Mourners held aloft photos of the deceased or thrust their rifles into the air while chanting slogans condemning the United States. Several banners peppered the crowd, emblazoned with the label given to those who gave their lives in what many view as a struggle in defense of Palestine: “Martyrs on the road to al-Quds (Jerusalem).”

Seventeen pickup trucks ensconced in green drapes bore the bodies. They were escorted by family members alongside thousands of mourners leaving Sana’a for the hometowns of the victims who hailed from various regions of Yemen. The scene unfolded last Sunday when thousands of angry Yemenis took to the streets of Sana’a and other cities to hold a funeral for those killed by the attacks. “Retribution against American soldiers… We will not abandon our revenge,” some mourners proclaimed.

In Bani Matar, 70 kilometers west of Sanaa towards the Hodeida Road, the mothers of Ziad Ajlan and Hashem Al-Sawari watched the convoy from a rooftop as it carried along the bodies of their sons. Ziad and Hashem were not involved in the fighting; they were among a number of civilians killed in attacks launched by the U.S. Navy on the Yemeni mainland one week ago. My son was martyred on the road to al-Quds,” Ziad’s mother said proudly. “We will not be broken, and we will not abandon Gaza.”

U.S. and British officials maintain that their attacks target “Houthi” military positions – ammunition stores and missile launch sites, but the reality of the ground tells a different story. Yemeni civilians say they are blind and indiscriminate and often leave civilians maimed or killed. Assuming the U.S. and UK are acting in good faith, it is clear that their intelligence information is lacking. A truck belonging to a farmer carrying plastic pipes was targeted in an airstrike outside the city of Saada last week. It is believed that the pipes were mistaken for missiles.

This story has repeated itself ad nauseam throughout Yemen since the end of December when the multinational “Operation Prosperity Guardian” (OIR) was launched in a thus-far failed attempt to protect ships linked with Israel from Ansar Allah. This week alone, as many as 40 strikes were launched by the U.S. and the UK, most targeting the coastal city of Hodeida.

 

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Navalny's death: Views from Russian media”

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/navalnys-death-views-from-russian?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=141755775&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

Reactions from Russian politicians, commentators, and social media.

Reactions from politicians:

·         Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said Brussels and Washington are to blame for Navalny’s death. He added that Navalny’s death benefits countries that are pushing for more sanctions against Moscow.

·         LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky said that the death of one person was a disaster but he was more concerned about the conflict in Ukraine. He vowed that Russia would not allow Navalny’s death to be “used in the interests of the West”.

·         State Duma Deputy Sergei Mironov, the leader of A Just Russia — For Truth, said Navalny’s death “benefits Russia’s enemies. It is necessary to investigate the circumstances of the death and take measures to repel the information attack of the West.” He concluded that the West was to blame for the death, which came as Moscow was calling for negotiations with Washington.

·         Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Commission to Investigate Interference of Foreign States in the Internal Affairs of Russia, Mikhail Delyagin, said that Western countries will likely use Navalny’s death as a to introduce new sanctions. He also predicted that the death could be used as a pretext to seize Russian assets that were frozen at the beginning of the SMO.

·         Vladimir Dzhabarov, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, described Navalny’s death as an “accident” and insisted that the Russian government had no motive to harm Navalny while he was in prison.

 

Reactions from Telegram channels and commentators:  . . . .

 

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“The West Goes Crazy Over Navalny Hypocracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3kxZLMiGjk

by Neutrality Studies

(17:50)

The hypocrisy of the West and the utterly fake outrage over the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is breath taking. While torturing to death Julian Assange in a UK prison—an Australian citizen who had been working in the UK and whose only "crime" it is to have revealed truths about US warcrimes—and all but ignoring the death of Gonzalo Lira in Ukraine, these people swing themselves on the highest horse they can find to blame Russia for being a murderous regime of injustice. The framing of Navalny's death and the lack of options the US has to put anymore pressure on Russia is again revealing not only in terms of propaganda but also for how the Russians have really successfully decoupled their economy and fate in the world from the US and the EU—while the West of course still pretends that it has "dealt a blow" to Russia's economy. Well, good for Moscow. Let's hope it sinks in to most countries outside of the Collective West that reliance on the US empire is a ticking time-bomb.

 

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“Sometimes it takes a ‘martyr’ to ramp up a war: What Russia's media have to say about the death of Alexey Navalny

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/sometimes-it-takes-a-martyr-to-ramp?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=141779877&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Who's benefited most from his most timely passing?

Those who really know the history of totalitarian practices—unlike such bellicose pretenders as Noam Chomsky, Joe Scarborough, Naomi Klein and other “liberal” propaganda choristers—may see something all too familiar in the death of Alexey Navalny; and by that I don’t mean that it strikes them as typical of Putin’s reign. Those making that all-too-familiar case—that is, the great majority of Western “journalists” and politicians—have thereby shown that what they “know” is not the history of totalitarian tactics, but the anti-Putin propaganda that’s been pummeling hearts and minds throughout the West since Putin was elected Russia’s president well over twenty years ago. According to that narrative (as there’s no need to remind you), Putin rose out of the KGB to seize the helm as Stalin 2.0, and in that role has had his every rival whacked, along with every journalist who ever dared to criticize him.

There’s too much to be said about that propaganda to dissect it here, other than to note that its portrayal of Vladimir the Terrible is propaganda as we tend to use that word—i.e., as a synonym for simple lying. As the great Sovietologist Stephen Cohen argued, on the basis of real expertise, and solid sources (including his own many personal acquaintances in Russia), the myth of Putin as a second Stalin is just that, an image based on falsehoods, half-truths and exaggeration, whose purpose was, and is, to serve the interests of the neocons in Washington, and the military-industrial colossus that they serve (nowadays along with all too many “liberals”). Despite his scholarly credentials and exceptional lucidity—or because of them—Cohen was not allowed to make his counter-argument except in his own writings and lectures (and in certain sympathetic classrooms, such as mine), since “our free press” back then, as now, would never give a forum to so gross a heretic, or even quote him for the sake of “balance.” Thus the propaganda demonizing “Putin,” like those decrying “climate change,” school shootings, “January 6” and “anti-vaxxers” (just to name a few of the traumatic bugaboos deployed against us), has gone fatally uncontradicted by those few who’ve had the expertise, and courage, to reject the (as it were) party line.

 

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Ray McGovern: “Was Navalny an MI6 Agent?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6mkx-QcDk

with Judge Napolitano and Ray McGovern

(27:29)

In our engaging conversation with Ray McGovern, we not only delved into the question of Navalny's alleged MI6 ties but also explored the looming specter of Julian Assange's upcoming High Court hearing. McGovern's expertise sheds light on the broader implications of Assange's legal battle, touching on issues of press freedom, government accountability, and the challenges faced by whistleblowers in today's world. Join us as we navigate the complex terrain of international justice and examine the critical importance of defending individuals like Assange who dare to expose the truth.

 

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“NEWS FROM RUSSIA: February 18, 2024”

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/news-from-russia-february-18-2024?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=141600550&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

Edward's weekly Russia-related news roundup & open thread

 

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“The SMO enters its 3rd year: Views from Russia”

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-smo-enters-its-3rd-year-views?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=141840644&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

What are Russians saying about the special military operation in Ukraine?

February 24, 2024 marked two years of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. How do Russians assess the last 24 months? Your correspondent sampled a range of views from Russian media and commentators.

My hope is that this blog post will demonstrate that discussions about the SMO in Russia are far more nuanced and diverse than we are told in English-language mainstream and alternative media. . . .

 

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“We’ve Been Lied To All Along”

https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/02/20/weve-been-lied-to-all-along/

by Dr. Leroy Hulsey

(59:10)

Dr. Leroy Hulsey is a professor emeritus of structural engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the world’s preemnent expert on the collapse of World Trade Center’s Building 7 on September 11, 2001.

In this interview with Jimmy Dore Dr. Hulsey reveals the scientific basis that led him to conclude that the impact of the planes hitting the twin towers and any fires that were raging through the building could NOT have caused WTC 7 to collapse into its own footprint.

 

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“What’s So Bad About World Rule?”

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/24/whats-so-bad-about-world-rule/

by Todd Hayen

The goals of the UN’s sustainable development agenda are rather pie-in-the-sky targets. But who in their right mind would give them a thumbs down if there was reason to believe they could be achieved?

Here they are if you are not familiar with them:

1.      No poverty.

2.      Zero hunger.

3.      Good health and well-being.

4.      Quality education.

5.      Gender equality.

6.      Clean water and sanitation.

7.      Affordable and clean energy.

8.      Decent work and economic growth.

9.      Industry, innovation, and infrastructure.

10.  Reduced inequalities.

11.  Sustainable cities and communities.

12.  Responsible consumption and production.

13.  Climate action.

14.  Life below water.

15.  Life on land.

16.  Peace, justice and strong institutions

17.  Partnerships for the goals.

Some of these make sense (although all are implausible.) Some of them make no sense at all, although that could be the fault of the effort to make nice, neat soundbites. If you go to the UN’s website, they attempt to explain them in a bit more detail. But, their “detail” is still ambiguous and odd, just picking a goal at random, say, “14-Life below water,” the detail they give is:

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.”

What exactly does that mean?

I am sure they have ideas. They list targets, projects, etc. in their effort to achieve the goal, but again, much of this seems, at least to me, to be “pie in the sky” stuff.

So what? Many people might ask.

“Isn’t it good to have lofty goals, if they are good goals, and work toward them?” Well, in a word, yes. But that isn’t how this is working.

First of all, the goals are too lofty and unreasonable. The target is too narrow, giving much too much possibility of missing it after firing off dozens of arrows toward it. Each of the arrows fired costs money and requires personal sacrifices.

Some might say the goals are too broad, and in a certain perspective, they are. The basic concept, for example, of “no poverty” is broad, but the specific perspective begs the question: When do you know when you’ve hit the target? What does it mean to eliminate poverty? And who defines that? After throwing billions at this goal, how do you measure the progress? And how do you know what precisely to spend the billions on?

Take goal #13, “Climate action.” What exactly does that mean? And what does action look like, and how does a particular action meet the goal?

It all sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? That’s just the problem. The goals are presented as if we are a 10-year-old kid. And we just say “yes” to whatever action is taken in attempting to achieve them. If we ever ask why, we are told, “Oh, what we have done to you (limit freedom, demand compliance, take away resources, etc.) was done to meet goal #1,” or #2, or #16, or whatever. And we nod and sheepishly say, “ok.”

Nearly anything they do can fit into one of these goals as the reason for doing it. They can limit all freedoms, reduce our quality of life in a myriad of ways, even kill us, and they will say, “Oh, that’s so we can accomplish goal #6” (fill in whatever number you like). And we will say, “Oh, ok, anything for clean water, anything for no poverty, anything for a healthier life, anything for more equality.” We do this and have been doing it, with no regard to the feasibility, the logic, the risk to benefit, or even the relevance of the action to the goal.

I think of the old Saturday Night Live bit with Jon Lovitz’s liar, ‘You can’t drive 20 miles to see your dying mother. We are insisting on this so that we can control your carbon footprint and thus have a sustainable climate,’ yeah, that’s right, that’s the ticket!” Meanwhile, the actual liar is flying his or her private jet all over the world, making a larger carbon footprint in a year than what you will even come close to making in your lifetime.

So, how do you think these goals can be accomplished?

Well, the first thing you might realize is that pretty much everyone and every country on the planet has to be on board with it. This means us rich folks (relatively speaking) as well as all the poor folks, have to say, “Yes, bring it on.” It is the poor folks who suffer the most if the goals are not achieved—food, clean water, poverty—most of these things don’t apply to most of us.

So, who then do you think will be paying for bringing the poor folks up to a higher standard, and thus bringing the rest of us down to a lower standard? Hmmm. “Hey, it’s ok! I’m down for that!” Sure, you are. Most of us lose our cookies if we have to wait in line for ten minutes at the bank, or if the grocery store runs out of peaches. No one really has a grasp on what sacrifices individually it will take to even out the playing field. This is a concept the bleeding heart liberal rarely understands.

So, if it is true that we all must be on board, then the world has to have some sort of global control, and that global control has to have a lot of power to force us, if necessary, to do what is right by the rest of the world. Obviously, that is meeting the 17 Sustainable Development goals. Therefore, a new central global government must be established, and that government must have full power over everyone and every country. That government cannot be an elected government because that would make the whole thing quite messy, and nothing would ever get done.

As Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada recently said, “There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, ‘We need to go green . . . we need to start investing in solar.’” That sounds like a reasonable comment to make if you are a wanna-be dictator yourself and want to stay in line with the UN’s agenda.

But is it reasonable for us? Sure, too many people are saying it’s worth it to go communist/dictatorship if it is to meet the Sustainable Development goals. I mean, really, if we don’t, the world will go to hell in a handbasket, and not only will we all die, the planet and all the other animals on it will die as well. So, bring on communism and dictatorship and totalitarianism. If that is what it takes, we all must buckle up and do what’s right for humanity!”

A rather ignorant statement. And maybe most people would not actually say this with words. But their actions, their compliance, and their indifference say it loud and clear. And if people actually do say this, or even think it, they are woefully uninformed. Until one lives in a totalitarian or communist country, one cannot possibly know fully what it is like. It isn’t just being “without things,” it is being forced to live without a soul. The human spirit is completely crushed, and there feels to be no way out from under such stifling oppression.

There is one other thing I am not telling you. And I hesitate to mention it, but I know most of my readers already know what it is. It is a biggie, and no sheep-like person believes it. In fact, if you believe this, you can’t be a sheep, it is that big.

Here it is: The UN Sustainable Development program is a lie. It is all a ploy to get people malleable enough that they will comply with anything, and give up everything, for what they believe is a set of goals designed for the greater good. Only the goals are not real, and no one is actually trying to achieve them. It is presented as a cheese that lures us into the trap, and once in and dedicated to the program, the spring is sprung and we are either dead or mercilessly captured.

How do I know this? Well, it doesn’t take too much brain power to see it. Just read the goals, do they sound reasonable and realistic? And look at the people attempting to attain them. Take Trudeau’s comment as one singular example. Who do you think would be the head of a Chinese-style dictatorship in Canada? Who do you think will not be sacrificing much, if anything, to accomplish that style of governance? And keep in mind that all of this is being planned by huge institutions that are self-created with no elected officials calling the shots. How is that sustainable? —by our agreement, our ignorance, and our blindness, that’s how.

Let’s make our own goals that work for all of us.

 

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“Unraveling Bill Gates’ Global Web of Influence, with Tim Schwab”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/unraveling-bill-gates-global-web-influence-tim-schwab/286859/

by Alan Macleod

There are few people on Earth richer or more influential than Bill Gates. For many years, the former Microsoft CEO was the planet’s most wealthy individual and used his power to corner and monopolize as much of the tech industry as he could. From there, Gates has moved to become perhaps the most powerful man in global health, agriculture and education.

And yet, for all of his power and prestige, Gates is rarely scrutinized in our media. The Seattle native has been careful to cultivate an image of a well-meaning nerd who uses his wealth for good. Our guest today on the “MintCast” is an exception to that rule, being one of the few investigative journalists to critically examine Gates’ power and influence. Tim Schwab is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C. His reporting has been published in outlets such as The Nation, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Baffler and Jacobin magazine. His latest book, “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire,” was published in November.

 

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“COVID Psychological Manipulation: Unpacked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iqa4CoMciU

with Dr. John Campbell with Ros Nealon-Cook

(1 :26 :26)

Ros Nealon-Cook, a psychologist from Australia, had her license suspended for sounding the alarm about the harms to children from government pandemic policy. Ros has joined forces with a number health professionals from around the world who were similarly censored and silenced. Together, they have created The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration to raise awareness about the widespread propaganda and censorship of expert scientific opinion. You can read and sign the declaration here: www.lighthousedeclaration.world – adding your signature will take less than a minute.

In the coming months, the Lighthouse Declaration team will host a series of webinars and roundtables to further expand the conversation on these critical issues.

 

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"Psychological and Cognitive Warfare on Citizens"

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/psychological-and-cognitive-warfare?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=142052984&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone, MD, MS

(25:13)

My Speech at the International Crisis Summit-5 in Washington DC.

The truth is, it's not medical freedom. It's not even the problem of the lies that we've been told about the COVIDcrisis or the gross mismanagement of the COVIDcrisis. It's the willingness of governments to deploy modern cognitive and psychological warfare tools and technologies against their own citizenry in combination and particular with the power of modern big tech.

We're all perplexed by what has happened over the last four years, and I think we've all had this gradual series of small awakenings. We have the privilege, as a friend of mine put it to me the other day, of being able right now to go down these various rabbit holes, these various journeys in fact discovery, and discuss them among ourselves. We all find these little tiny factoids of truth in a sea of lies, and we carefully gather those little bits of truth and share them with each other and talk about their deep inner meaning and the implications. We don't think that in five years we may not even be able to do that.

We may look back and say, "Good heavens, we were so free back then in 2024." Just like we look back from today at 2020 and say, "We were so naive." I know I feel that way. I'm now to the point where I look back at my whole life and all the things that I believed.

 

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“Pfizer's ‘Secret’ Report on the Covid Vaccine. Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-pfizers-secret-report-on-the-covid-vaccine-beyond-manslaughter-the-evidence-is-overwhelming-the-vaccine-should-be-immediately-withdrawn-worldwide/5780561

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Introduction and Update:

Why has the “Confidential Pfizer report” made public under Freedom of Information (FOI) in October 2021 not been quoted or referred to in parliamentary and public enquiries as a means to refuting the official narrative (which contends that the Covid-19 vaccine is “safe and effective”). Neither has it been the object of media coverage. 

We have documented numerous public enquiries. 

The evidence amply confirms that the Pfizer vaccine is a dangerous substance, resulting in deaths and adverse events. This is confirmed by the Pfizer Confidential Report released under FOI in October 2021. It come’s from the Horse’s Mouth. 

Bombshell Study: Cancer Related Excess Mortality in England and Wales 

A recent study on vaccine related excess mortality conducted by the team of Edward Dowd confirms the nature of the mRNA vaccine.

Dowd’s method was to analyze the number of deaths attributed to cancer in England and Wales between 2010 and 2022 [based on data] from the U.K. Office for National Statistics

He compared excess death rates, the difference between observed deaths and the baseline for expected deaths, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

He established a baseline of normal cancer death rates from 2010-2020 that was remarkably consistent with few deviations, he said — until the cancer death rates rose significantly in late 2021 in the U.K. following the vaccine rollout” 

The table below pertains to excess deaths related to malignant neoplasm (cancerous tumor) in England and Wales, recorded in three consecutive years: 2020, 2021, and 2022 vs. a 10 year trend (2010-2019).

The data for excess mortality in 2020 (the year prior to the vaccine) are negative with the exception of “malignant neoplasm without specification of site”.

The vaccine was launched in December 2020:  . . . .

 

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“Sputnik V is an unlawful experiment, patient advocacy group says”

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/sputnik-v-is-an-unlawful-experiment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=141708386&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

Russia's League of Patients says Covid vaccines have not been proven safe.

The science behind Russia’s flagship Covid vaccine is shrouded in secrecy. In January 2022, Russia’s Healthy Ministry refused to disclose the results of Sputnik V’s clinical studies, claiming that the vaccine’s safety and efficacy data were “confidential and contained information constituting a trade secret.”

The Russian government does not maintain a publicly accessible database for documenting post-vaccination complications. Testimonials from doctors and medical professionals, as well as grassroots campaigns to track vaccine-linked injures and deaths, suggest that Sputnik V is comparable to its foreign counterparts in terms of safety. The genetic technologies behind Sputnik V and Western big pharma shots are also similar.

 

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“What Was COVID Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. ‘Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy’?”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-capitalism-friedrich-boris/5785964

by Colin Todhunter

 

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“Latest Additions to Long COVID Recovery Protocol”

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/02/24/long-covid-recovery-protocol.aspx?ui=1a9aa5929272225005800e010374012622b4f5ada052fec393b5aa18371e3259&sd=20220707&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240224&foDate=true&mid=DM1529858&rid=2053180526

by Dr; Joseph Mercola

Story at-a-glance

·         The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance has updated its treatment protocols for long COVID and post-jab injuries, adding time-restricted eating (TRE) and photobiomodulation (PBM), using either the sun or near-infrared sauna

·         The primary benefit of TRE for these conditions is its ability to optimize your mitochondrial function, which is key for recovery from any illness or disease. As a general rule, I recommend compressing your eating window to between six and eight hours, and fasting for the remaining 16 to 18 hours each day

·         Near-infrared light triggers production of melatonin in your mitochondria. Melatonin is one of the most important antioxidant molecules in your body. Aside from having direct antioxidant effects, it also stimulates the synthesis of glutathione and other important antioxidants

·         Fifty-three percent of sunlight is near-infrared. Sauna Space also makes near-infrared sauna bulbs that mimic the sun, providing 39% near-infrared light, but no UV

·         You can further optimize your mitochondria by combining PBM with methylene blue. This combination has been shown to provide neuroprotective benefits. It can also address the chronic fatigue that is so common in long COVID and post-jab injuries

 

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“News MSM Chose to Not Report”

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/news-msm-chose-to-not-report?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=141581638&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

Vaccine injury, Congressional hearings, computer breakthroughs, plus Trump and Biden

 

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“‘Crisis of Trust’: Journalist Unravels Government’s Secret Campaign to Censor Critics on Social Media”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jay-bhattacharya-lee-fang-government-censorship-social-media/

by John-Michael Dumais, with Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., and investigative journalist Lee Fang

(59:37)

 

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“These numbers tell the awful truth about how many tens of thousands MORE "died suddenly" in 2021 than died in 2020 (an ever-rising spike that "our free press" keeps blacking out)”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/these-numbers-tell-the-awful-truth?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=141937519&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Legacy.com—the "world's largest" archive of obituaries that anyone can read—now tells us precisely what the government-and-media don't want us all, or anyone, to know.

The writing’s on the wall (if you can bear to read it), so there’s no hiding it, as this new Substack makes very clear. Click here.

Read it before or after reading this piece in OffGuardian:

“Why is the ONS suddenly changing the ‘excess deaths’ numbers?”

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/21/why-is-the-ons-suddenly-changing-the-excess-deaths-numbers/

by Off Guardian

 

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“Illegal Biomedical Experiments Conducted in Mariupol by Western Big Pharma

https://www.globalresearch.ca/illegal-experiments-conducted-mariupol-western-big-pharma/5849481

by Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

 

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“Turbo Brain Cancer Due to University COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the United States”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/turbo-brain-cancer-due-university-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-united-states/5849675

by Dr. William Makis

Three Tragic Cases.

 

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“Prime Minister of Slovakia Links COVID-19 Vaccines to Cardiovascular Deaths”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/prime-minister-slovakia-links-covid-19-vaccines-cardiovascular-deaths/5849141

by Paul Anthony Taylor

A notable feature of the post-pandemic world has been the brazen way in which global political leaders have continued promoting COVID-19 vaccines as safe. A rare exception in this respect is Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, who, in a recent parliamentary speech, admitted that deaths from various cardiovascular events in his country have risen because of the vaccinations. Describing COVID-19 vaccines as “experimental” and “unnecessary,” Fico has bravely committed his government to telling Slovak people the truth about what actually happened during the pandemic.

The Slovak Prime Minister’s speech came only weeks after announcing that his political party would not support strengthening the powers of the World Health Organization (WHO) in managing the fight against future pandemics. Explaining this decision, Fico stated that “such nonsense could only have been invented by greedy pharmaceutical companies, which began to perceive the resistance of certain governments against mandatory vaccination.” Subsequent to his announcement, the WHO admitted that the plans for its controversial global pandemic agreement are at risk of falling apart. Aided by proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations of 2005, the ratification of this agreement would essentially transform the WHO into a global health dictatorship.

READ MORE: British Prime Minister Confronted Over COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries on Live Television

Who Actually Organized the COVID-19 Circus?

Fico’s parliamentary speech addresses a number of key issues, such as how many expired vaccines Slovakia has left and how much money has been wasted on them. He also openly refers to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and secret text messages that she reportedly exchanged with Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla. A multi-billion euro vaccine deal was subsequently completed with Pfizer, the largest such purchase in the European Commission’s entire history. “We will simply never know the truth of what role the pharmaceutical companies played,” suggests Fico, “and who actually organized the whole circus around COVID-19.”

Fico believes that the Slovak people need answers to important questions such as why people were vaccinated with various experimental vaccines, and why all sorts of drugs were used on them. An Office of the Government Plenipotentiary has therefore been created to deal with these issues. This Plenipotentiary has been empowered in terms of obtaining information from various Slovak institutions.

Fico says he is “absolutely convinced” that this investigation will lead to results and that his government will ultimately be able to tell Slovak citizens what actually happened during the pandemic. Meantime he alleges that previous governments in his country are responsible for 21,000 excess deaths since 2020 and openly accuses them of making “a huge amount of money on the unnecessary purchase of various medical equipment and vaccines.”

Will the Slovak investigation uncover at least some of the truth about the COVID-19 circus? And if it does, will it succeed in making it public? Time will tell, but investigations carried out in other countries have thus far left many questions unanswered. The total cost of the ongoing UK inquiry is eventually expected to run to more than half-a-billion pounds ($630 million), for example, but is already turning into a whitewash. In his laudable attempt to find out what really happened during the pandemic, Prime Minister Fico is likely going to have a fight on his hands.

 

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“British Prime Minister Confronted Over COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries on Live Television”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-prime-minister-confronted-over-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-live-television/5849760

by Paul Anthony Taylor

 

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“Young People Are Dying At STAGGERING Rates! w/ Dr. Pierre Kory”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/0114E4nHsD1h/

with Jimmy Dore and Dr. Pierre Kory

(22:26)

 

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“White Clots Common”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAoqhTUU0g

with Dr. John Campbell and Major Tom Haviland

(49:18)

 

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“New disease”

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

with Dr. John Campbell and John 0’Looney

(32:01)

 

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“John and Neil”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1wj0JJ0yDw

with Neil Oliver and Dr. John Campbell

(7:30)

 

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“Change in death stats”

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

with Dr. John Campbell

(10:51)

Massive APPARENT reduction in excess deaths in 2023 as UK ONS change how they calculate excess deaths.

 

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“END OF CYCLE FORMULA FOR THE 'VACCINATED'”

https://www.facebook.com/groups/258274801870449/posts/563447628019830/

by Steven Fishman

I am often asked the question: "If I have taken the "vaccine," how long will I live?

I deferred this question to a friend of mine, Dr. Mylo Canderian, Ph.D. [born Milos Iskanderianos, Corfu, Greece, 1938], who developed the patent for Graphene Oxide for use as a Hematological Bioweapon in 2015.

So, I asked Mylo, "How can the "vaccinated" know with certainty how long they have to live once they have been jabbed?"

He presented me with the information, called the "End of Cycle Formula."

He explained how easy it is to calculate.  . . . .

 

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“DR.NAOMI WOLF ANALYZES THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS FACING THE VACCINATED”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/vhosrpFR37EW/

with Katy-Odin

(16:17)

 

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“Long COVID Neurological Outcomes and Anti-Idiotype Antibodies with Prof. Dr. William Murphy”

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

with Drbeen Medical Lectures

(50:30)

Let's review the latest paper by Dr. William Murphy about the anti-Idiotype antibodies and their role in neurological outcomes in long COVID. Brief bio of Dr. Murphy: My research for the past 30 years has centered on translational studies involving modeling cancer-immune system interactions starting with my earlier studies on NK cells and HSCT in mouse models and later at the National Cancer Institute on their role in cancer immunotherapy which then expanded to issues in immunotherapy in general.

 

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Watch: “Vaccine-Injured ‘Not Going to Go Away’”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/brianne-dressen-covid-vaccine-injured/

with Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. and Brianne Dressen

(1:05:44)

Brianne Dressen, who was injured by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine during a clinical trial, joined “The Defender In-Depth” podcast to discuss how she and others injured by COVID-19 vaccines are pushing public health officials for answers and support.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender …

 

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“COVID-19 Vaccines and Adverse Events of Special Interest: A Multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) Cohort Study of 99 Million Vaccinated Individuals”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccines-adverse-events-special-interest-multinational-global-vaccine-data-network-gvdn-cohort-study-99-million-vaccinated-individuals/5850484

by K. Faksova, D. Walsh, and et al.

Abstract

Background

The Global COVID Vaccine Safety (GCoVS) Project, established in 2021 under the multinational Global Vaccine Data Network™ (GVDN®), facilitates comprehensive assessment of vaccine safety. This study aimed to evaluate the risk of adverse events of special interest (AESI) following COVID-19 vaccination from 10 sites across eight countries.

Methods

Using a common protocol, this observational cohort study compared observed with expected rates of 13 selected AESI across neurological, haematological, and cardiac outcomes. Expected rates were obtained by participating sites using pre-COVID-19 vaccination healthcare data stratified by age and sex. Observed rates were reported from the same healthcare datasets since COVID-19 vaccination program rollout. AESI occurring up to 42 days following vaccination with mRNA (BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273) and adenovirus-vector (ChAdOx1) vaccines were included in the primary analysis. Risks were assessed using observed versus expected (OE) ratios with 95 % confidence intervals. Prioritised potential safety signals were those with lower bound of the 95 % confidence interval (LBCI) greater than 1.5.

Results

Participants included 99,068,901 vaccinated individuals. In total, 183,559,462 doses of BNT162b2, 36,178,442 doses of mRNA-1273, and 23,093,399 doses of ChAdOx1 were administered across participating sites in the study period. Risk periods following homologous vaccination schedules contributed 23,168,335 person-years of follow-up. OE ratios with LBCI > 1.5 were observed for Guillain-Barré syndrome (2.49, 95 % CI: 2.15, 2.87) and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (3.23, 95 % CI: 2.51, 4.09) following the first dose of ChAdOx1 vaccine. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis showed an OE ratio of 3.78 (95 % CI: 1.52, 7.78) following the first dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine. The OE ratios for myocarditis and pericarditis following BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and ChAdOx1 were significantly increased with LBCIs > 1.5.

Conclusion

This multi-country analysis confirmed pre-established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Other potential safety signals that require further investigation were identified.

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1. Introduction . . . .

 

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“French ‘Democracy’ Establishes Medical Tyranny”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/french-democracy-establishes-medical-tyranny/5850043

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Professor Michel Chossudovsky, director of Global Research, has examined the new French law that defines dissent from official medical narratives as a “sectarian aberration” and criminalizes dissent from medical narratives, such as “the mRNA vaccine is safe and effective.”  

The law also creates a new crime called “provocation to abstention from medical care.”  A French citizen is guilty of a crime if the person refuses a vaccine or medical treatment handed down by authorities. Had the law been in place during the mass vaccination campaign with the deadly mRNA “vaccine,” all who refused would have received three years imprisonment and paid a 45,000 euro fine. This ensures that next time everyone will receive the “vaccine,” because if you refuse you will be imprisoned and the prison rules will require you to be “vaccinated.”  

The new law also protects the pharmaceutical corporations from any accountability for the deaths and health damage their lies caused by criminalizing French citizens–including doctors and medical scientists–who speak against the Covid-19 “vaccines.”  This demonstrates the power of Big Pharma over democracy, which with this death blow given to free speech and medical fact no longer exists in France.

Here is Professor Chossudovsky’s account.

SEE ALSO: Video: Mothers Need to Protect Their Children from Vaccines the Way this Cougar Protects Her Cub from a Grizzly Bear

This is a very serious development.  It is an official act by an alleged “Western democracy” that criminalizes truth.  For example, French medical scientists who find that the mRNA “vaccines” result in death and health injury will be imprisoned if they report their findings.  The new French law takes the determination of medical fact out of the hands of medical scientists.  The “fact” henceforth is whatever Big Pharma’s paid shills among politicians and medical “authorities” say it is.

Something similar has occurred in Germany.  The distinguished German attorney Reiner Fuellmich was about to file a lawsuit supported by thousands of medical doctors and attorneys against the mRNA manufacturers when he was kidnapped by the German state and imprisoned in Germany where he is currently standing trial on trumped up charges brought by what appears to be paid “witnesses.”

This is not the way democracies operate. As I have written on many occasions, Western countries have ceased to be democracies.  The people have no voice.  The countries are governed by the agendas of the elites and powerful corporations with the money to purchase the laws that serve their agendas and interests.  The people who run for office are the people approved by these elites.  Trump was the exception, and look at what has happened to him.  The ruling elite have made their point: “Cross us and we will destroy you.”

Western governments serve at the expense of the people the material interests of the powerful and ideologies such as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset.”  Dutch and Irish governments are dispossessing under the rubric of “global warming” farmers of their flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, thereby driving up food prices by curtailing the supplies of meat, milk, butter, and cheese, while simultaneously allowing entry to hordes of immigrant-invaders whose support the people are forced to undertake.  Today a “Western democracy” is an institution that forces citizens to support interests that are not their own.

We are now witnessing, with the new French law, with the German government’s kidnapping of Reiner Fuellmich, with the American persecution of medical scientists who truthfully reported the mRNA danger, the Stalinist indictments of President Trump, and with media that no longer serve as watchdogs over the government but as propaganda ministries for government lies, the legalization and institutionalization of the tyranny that has displaced democracy in the Western world.

A large percentage of Western peoples are so indoctrinated and brainwashed that they do not see what is happening.  Moreover, Western countries having been turned into towers of babel means there is no social unity, which makes it impossible to oppose the tyranny as some of the diverse elements see tyranny useful in suppressing political and ideological opponents.  In the US the Democrats’ policy of wide-open borders for “people of color” but not for whites is dispossessing Americans of their own country.  Despite public opposition to the policy, it has moved into high gear with, according to official numbers, entry each year of immigrant-invaders in numbers equivalent to 12 cities the size of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  There is no doubt whatsoever that the goal is to replace the white American population who are powerless to do anything about it.

Meanwhile the Western governments foment wars with Russia, China, and Iran and expect the demoralized citizens they are dispossessing to supply the army.

 

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“Article 4, France's Senate: Up to 3 Years Prison Sentence for ‘Speaking Out against the Toxic Jabs’: ‘With this Bill we Defend Science’”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/article-4-prison-criticising-toxic-jabs-french-collectivist-authoritarians-bill-defend-science/5849719

by Mathew Aldred

 

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“France's Draft Law: Citizens Who Speak out against the Covid-19 Vaccine. ‘3 Years Prison and €45,000 Fine’”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/frances-draft-law-citizens-who-speak-out-against-the-covid-19-vaccine-3-years-prison-and-e45000-fine/5849818

by  Prof Michel Chossudovsky

(2:36:17)

 

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“France Could Make It a Crime to Criticize Government-Approved Medical Treatments”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/france-criminalize-criticism-government-approved-medical-treatments-vaccines/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20240222

by Michael Nevradakis

A controversial French bill that passed its first legislative hurdle would punish, with fines and jail time, any “provocation” to abstain from medical treatments like vaccines. Experts warn the “vague” law threatens free speech and the patient-doctor relationship.

A controversial proposed bill in France that seeks to outlaw criticism of medical interventions such as mRNA vaccines has passed its first legislative hurdle.

The French Assembly passed Bill 2157, “Aimed at strengthening the fight against sectarian abuses and improving support for victims,” on Feb. 14 in an 182-137 vote, according to a Feb. 15 report by FranceInfo. The legislation was first introduced on Nov. 15, 2023, and was subsequently fast-tracked.

Article 4 of the bill has garnered the most controversy. It states:

“Provocation to abandon or abstain from following therapeutic or prophylactic medical treatment is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros [$16,216], when this abandonment or abstention is presented as beneficial for the health of the persons … [but may result in] serious consequences for their physical or psychological health …

“… When the provocation provided for in the first two paragraphs has been followed by effects, the penalties are increased to three years of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros [$48,647].

“When these offenses are committed through the written or audiovisual press, the specific provisions of the laws which govern these matters are applicable with regard to the determination of the persons responsible.”

 

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“New French Law Could Criminalize Jab Resistance”

https://corbettreport.com/nwnw545/

with James Corbett and James Evens Pilato

(21:25)

See also : « Lutte contre les dérives sectaires »
https://www.senat.fr/leg/pjl23-111.html

 

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“Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/defusing-derivatives-time-bomb-some-proposed-solutions/5849888

by Ellen Brown

The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?

This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled “Casino Capitalism and the \ Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?”, discussing the threat of a 2024 “black swan” event that could pop the derivatives bubble.

That bubble is now over ten times the GDP of the world and is so interconnected and fragile that an unanticipated crisis could trigger the collapse not just of the bubble but of the economy. To avoid that result, in the event of the bankruptcy of a major financial institution, derivative claimants are put first in line to grab the assets — not just the deposits of customers but their stocks and bonds. This is made possible by the Uniform Commercial Code, under which all assets held by brokers, banks and “central clearing parties” have been “dematerialized” into fungible pools and are held in “street name.”

This article will consider several proposed alternatives for diffusing what Warren Buffett called a time bomb waiting to go off. That sort of bomb just detonated in the Chinese stock market, contributing to its fall; and the result could be much worse in the U.S., where the stock market plays a much larger role in the economy.

The Chinese Derivative Crisis

A Jan. 30 article on Bloomberg News notes that “Chinese stocks’ brutal start to the year is being at least partly blamed on the impact of a relatively new financial derivative known as a snowball. The products are tied to indexes, and a key feature is that when the gauges fall below built-in levels, brokerages will sell their related futures positions.” 

Further details are in a Jan. 23rd article titled “’Snowball’ Derivatives Feed China’s Stock Market Avalanche.” It states, “China’s plunging stock market is leading to losses on billions of dollars worth of derivatives linked to the country’s equity indexes, fuelling further selling as retail investors offload their positions…. Snowball products are similar to the index-linked products sold in the 2008 financial crisis, with investors betting that U.S. equities would not fall more than 25% or 30%,” which they did. 

Chinese shares rose on Feb. 6, as officials took measures to prop up the ailing market, including imposing new “zero tolerance” curbs for malicious short selling

The Greater U.S. Threat 

The Chinese stock market is much younger and smaller than that in the U.S., with a much smaller role in the economy. Thus China’s economy remains relatively protected from disruptive ups and downs in the stock market. Not so in the U.S., where speculating in the derivatives casino brought down international insurer AIG and investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, triggering the global financial crisis of 2008-09. AIG had to be bailed out by the taxpayers to prevent collapse of the too-big-to-fail derivative banks, and Lehman Brothers went through a messy bankruptcy that took years to resolve. 

In a December 2010 article on Seeking Alpha titled “Derivatives: The Big Banks’ Quadrillion-Dollar Financial Casino,” attorney Michael Snyder wrote,

derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and whenever the next financial crisis happens, derivatives will undoubtedly play a huge role once again…. Today, the world financial system has been turned into a giant casino where bets are made on just about anything you can possibly imagine, and the major Wall Street banks make a ton of money from it. The system … is totally dominated by the big international banks.”  

The Speculators Dominate the Regulators  . . . .

 

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“JUDGMENT DAY”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lusU5NsNKXQ

with George Galloway, Laro Elborno, Arab Barchouthi, and Joe Lauria

(2:07:05)

 

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“A Brief History of Ukraine”

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-ukraine?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=725827&post_id=141837161&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by James Corbett

The full-on hysteria that surrounded the announcement of Tucker Carlson's arrival in Moscow and his subsequent interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin—including Hillary Clinton branding Carlson a "useful idiot" and Bill Kristol's call to bar him from re-entering the US—was, upon release of the interview itself, quickly overtaken by a different (but equally misguided) reaction: "Why on earth did Putin spend so much time talking about ancient history?"

That reaction says a lot about our historical ignorance. Not just our ignorance of history itself, but our ignorance of the role history plays in understanding what is happening in the world today.

We tend to think of arguments among historians as purely academic affairs: a bunch of stuffy, grey-templed, pipe-smoking, tweed jacket-wearing professors debating over tea and crumpets the colour of Alexander the Great's hair or Frederick the Great's talent as a flutist.

But we are wrong.

Far from a boring, scholarly pursuit, the study of history has high-stakes, real-world consequences. Just ask the Ukrainians.

For centuries, the subject of Ukrainian history—including the origins of the Ukrainian state, the struggle for Ukrainian independence, and even the nature of Ukrainian identity itself—has been weaponized by various forces as part of a broader political conflict. As journalist Christian Esch has observed of this ongoing battle over Ukraine's past: "As always, war is fought in the symbolic field as well as on the battlefield[.] [. . .] History, it seems, has itself become the battlefield."

The fact that Putin spent a significant portion of his time with American deep state operative Tucker Carlson expounding on medieval history, then, is baffling only to those who continue to labour under the impression that history isn't important.

So, what do we know about Ukraine's history? What is up for debate? And what does the controversy tell us about the conflicts raging in that part of the world today? Let's find out.

Ancient History . . . .

 

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“I Can't Keep Quiet Anymore.. The TRUTH MUST BE TOLD..” (LAST WARNING 2024)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQUjiou8oeU

with Tucker Carson

(17:35)

 

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“I don't agree with Scott Ritter, and I will explain why”

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/i-dont-agree-with-scott-ritter?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=140872268&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

Tomorrow marks two years of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. My own assessment of what has been accomplished over the past 24 months differs a great deal from what we’ve been told by both mainstream and alternative media.

To put it simply, I contend that everyone is losing this war. Except for the space lizard oligarchs, of course. They are winning bigly.

I’ve been saying this since the first week of the SMO. And each time I make this argument, I receive messages (some more constructive and thoughtful than others) telling me that I am horribly mistaken and that I should listen to Scott Ritter.

I would like to take this opportunity to explain why I don’t agree with Scott Ritter’s assessment of the SMO.

You are welcome to agree with Mr. Ritter—that’s A-OK. I just want to explain why I do not agree with him.

 

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“Is World War III About to Start or Has It Already?”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-about-start-has-already/5850305

by Richard C. Cook

Let me start by pointing out that the above was the topic of a three-part article I wrote that was published on the VT Foreign Policy website on December 31, 2023, entitled: “Is World War III About to Start?”

In this article I did not postulate a definitive answer. Of course, some would say that WWIII has already begun. But let’s explore further.

We know that the U.S. has been in a continuous state of some level of war mobilization since at least 1940. That’s coming up on a century ago. Of course, some would say that when WWII began, it was really just a continuation of WWI, when the U.S. had troops fighting in Europe from 1917-1918. So that takes us to well over a century ago.

But why another world war now? Let’s explore some history.

When Germany invaded Poland at the start of WWII in September, 1939, it was more than a year before the U.S. was formally at war, after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

But well before, in 1940, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration began to use Lend-Lease to supply military assistance to the Western Allies, acquisitions that they were allowed to purchase on credit.

To this day, however, few are aware of how much by way of armaments was also provided to the Soviet Union via Lend-Lease. This included tanks, artillery, and whole factories to help build the Soviet war machine. It also included equipment needed to eventually build atomic weapons.

All of these transfers to the Soviets were concealed from Congress and the public but originated with actions by actors/agents within the Roosevelt government. U.S./Soviet collaboration was also concealed from Hitler, who said he would not have invaded the Soviet Union had he known of its vast hidden stores of war materiel. This was part of the U.S./British plan to trap Hitler into action that would complete the destruction of Germany begun during World War I.

It wasn’t until after World War II had ended when, under President Harry Truman, the U.S. broke away from its Soviet wartime ally, which now became our enemy when the “Cold War” was engineered into existence.

Few are aware that the impetus for U.S. policy during and after WWII came from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Always the most prominent American “think tank” since its inception at the end of WWI, the CFR was/is a U.S.-situated creation of the London/New York-based “Money Power.” The leading U.S. figure in the CFR’s scheming is believed to have been Bernard Baruch. Members of the Rockefeller family and their associates have also been heavily involved in the CFR and have provided funding for much of its program.

Before the CFR came into existence, the U.S. branch of the Money Power had been headed by J.P. Morgan and was concentrated then, as now, in New York City. Allied with Morgan was the newly-minted fortune of John D. Rockefeller. Under the stage-managing of the European Rothschilds, both Morgan and Rockefeller connived in setting up the Federal Reserve in 1913. Col. House was tasked with getting U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to go along and sign the legislation.

 

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“NCRI Exposed: Israel Lobby-Linked Group Tied to Illegal Settlements and Campus Censorship”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/ncri-exposed-israel-lobby-group-illegal-settlements-campus-censorship/286845/

by Alan Macleod

Even as Israel pounds Gaza into rubble, carrying out what has been described as a genocide in the process, many of its supporters are attempting to change the subject, instead decrying a supposedly new wave of dangerous antisemitism across American universities.

Their evidence for this is a new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI). Entitled “The Corruption of the American Mind,” the study alleges that Middle Eastern funding of U.S. universities has helped unleash a torrent of anti-Jewish hatred. Yet, as we shall see, not only does the report contain numerous methodological issues, but the NCRI itself is deeply connected to the Israel lobby, as well as the U.S. national security state, and regularly publishes thinly sourced reports in service of Israeli interests and U.S. imperialism.

 Campus Propaganda Wars

The NCRI report claims that American universities have accepted billions of dollars from authoritarian countries and that those institutions that accepted Middle Eastern cash saw 300% more antisemitic incidents than those that did not. U.S. universities, they conclude, are hotbeds of Jew-hatred. The report bemoans a:

“[M]assive influx of foreign, concealed donations to American institutions of higher learning, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from Middle Eastern sources, reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression.”

The study was widely cited in the media, particularly by pro-Israel partisans eager to change the subject from Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Bari Weiss, for example, wrote that “the explosion of antisemitic hate” on campuses had been “fueled by Middle Eastern money.” As she explained:

“[F]or several decades a toxic worldview—morally relativist, anti-Israel, and anti-American—has been incubating in ‘area studies’ departments and social theory programs at elite universities. Whole narratives have been constructed to dehumanize Israelis and brand Israel as a ‘white, colonial project’ to be ‘resisted.’”

The clear implication in both the NCRI study and Weiss’ report is that domestic opposition to Israeli (or other Western nations’) actions cannot be organic. Instead, it must be funded by nefarious foreign actors – a notion that, as we shall see – is a central recurring theme in the NCRI’s work.

Shady Connections . . . .

 

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“Deconstructing H.R. 3202: The Israel Lobby's Persistent Role in Sanctioning Syria”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/caesar-act-h-r-3202-israel-lobby-persistent-role-syria-sanctions/286880/

by Hekmat Aboukhater

On February 13, the U.S. House of Representatives deliberated on Resolution 3202, the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act of 2023.” The following day, the House passed the bill with a 389 to 32 bipartisan majority. Now, the bill moves on to the Senate, where it will most likely pass with similar bipartisan support and a ringing endorsement from President Biden once it reaches his desk.

The bill was pushed with a veneer of Syrian support represented by the advocacy of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) and the Syrian American Council (SAC) – Syrian opposition groups in the U.S. While its aims seem, at face value, to focus on humanitarian issues and a quest for accountability, the reality is much more complicated.

 

The Bill’s Stated Aims

The bill was presented to the public as a tool for accountability purely targeting the Assad-led government of Syria and any of its in-country partners. The bill purports to achieve this by “Prohibiting any U.S. official action to normalize relations with any Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad, “Strengthening the human rights sanctions levied on Syria,” and” Examining the Assad government’s manipulation of the United Nations.”

In keeping with the polite presentation of the bill, Moaz Moustafa, SETF Executive Director, said: “We are proud to see legislation that holds the Assad regime and those normalizing with war criminals accountable” as a response to the passage of the bill.

Similarly, on the House floor, House Foreign Relations Committee chairman Mike McCaul announced that “Congress is sending a message that it remains committed to justice for the Syrian people.”

 

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“From Courtroom to Conspiracy: Alan Dershowitz's Ties to Epstein's Blackmail Network”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/alan-dershowitz-part-epsteins-blackmail-conspiracy/286870/

by Kit Klarenberg

On January 9, MintPress News probed a newly unsealed tranche of documentation on official police investigations into and civil lawsuits leveled against Jeffrey Epstein – specifically, papers mentioning Alan Dershowitz. At that time, the veteran Zionist legal activist had been mooted as Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s top pick to defend Tel Aviv at the International Court of Justice in a case brought by South Africa over the Gaza genocide before almost immediately being dumped due to wide-ranging public backlash.

That Netanyahu considered Dershowitz a viable candidate for the role at all spoke volumes. Both about Tel Aviv’s total lack of self-awareness and qualms over negative publicity, but also Dershowitz’s intimate connections to Israel’s darkest recesses. His role in defending notorious serial rapist Harvey Weinstein in court, and negotiating Epstein’s extraordinary 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement, are well-known. Yet, obvious questions about whether and how these activities centrally placed him in a web of intelligence-connected blackmail intrigue have never been asked.

When the fresh batch of Epstein files dropped last month, Dershowitz – about whom allegations of pedophilia have abounded for many years – was quick to boast of how his name appeared 137 times in the material while claiming the contents fully exonerated him of any wrongdoing. Even if true – and, as MintPress News’ previous investigation outlined, that is far from certain – certain documents could point to Dershowitz’s complicity in and knowledge of a very different sexual criminality.

 

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“Where is Middle East headed after OCT 7 & US role?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO8ROnCvR0M&si=kdQNS_jmYhUkXjjL

with VijayPrashad, Norman Finkelstein, and Jeffrey Sachs

(21:58)

 

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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller

“We are on the brink of martial law; and the ONLY way to STOP it is to STOP attacking one another

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/we-are-on-the-brink-of-martial-law?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=141841741&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

All that propaganda linking Trump to Hitler is a huge distraction from the real crackdown to come (and if you think HE would stop it, should they let him serve as president again, you're tripping)

 

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“In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide, February 13-February 19, 2024”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-155?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=141907530&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Athletes: US (3), Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Italy (2), Pakistan, Australia; politicians: US (4), UK, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Spain (2), Italy (3), Russia, India (2); & more

 

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“Pilot Incapacitations Inflight in 2023-2024, Pilot Deaths”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/lufthansa-flight-seville-first-officer-incapacitated-plane-turned-around-back-madrid/5850579

by Dr. William Makis

 

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“We are on the brink of martial law; and the ONLY way to STOP it is to STOP attacking one another”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/we-are-on-the-brink-of-martial-law?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=141841741&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

All that propaganda linking Trump to Hitler is a huge distraction from the real crackdown to come (and if you think HE would stop it, should they let him serve as president again, you're tripping)

 

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“Ontario Woman Paralyzed From Neck Down After Moderna Booster Is Twice Offered To Euthanize Herself By Medical Staff: One MD Recorded Saying Vaccines Caused It”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/ontario-woman-paralyzed-from-neck?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=257742&post_id=142089457&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Another Suggested She Get Psychological Evaluation; Her Bowels Are Even Paralyzed And She Can't Even Turn Herself, And Is Helpless If No Helper Arrives

What an unbelievably stoic, brave woman.

What has happened, and is happening, is by far the worst crime ever committed.

Story here . . . .

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“Kansas' Phil Ehart has major heart attack; Bears' Steve McMichael needs blood transfusion; Jay McInerney has brain surgery; Toni Braxton's near-fatal health scare; Amy Schumer's ‘puffy, swollen face’”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/kansas-phil-ehart-has-major-heart?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=142085377&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Sutton Stracke suffers terrifying medical emergency while filming ‘RHOBH’ reunion; triathlete Lesley Patterson's husband has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer; soap star Lana Clay's ‘rare disorder’; more . . . .

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“CA trucker, MN driver crash into homes; PA cop, OH driver crash into apartment buildings; CO driver crashes into Safeway produce section; IL school bus leaves the road and hits a tree”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/ca-trucker-mn-driver-crash-into-homes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=142086068&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Car crashes into gas pumps at Kroger in Hot Springs; Woman, 50's, hospitalized after hitting guardrail near Pearl Harbor; Ft. Wayne cop has ‘medical emergency’ while on duty; & more . . . .

 

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“Huge truck veers into bike lane, plows through busy intersection, crushes a bus kiosk, comes to rest beside a house [VIDEO]”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/huge-truck-veers-into-bike-lane-plows?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=142089529&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

9 News Australia aired the footage, reporting that no one was hurt; and (of course) they neglected to ask WHY the 31-year-old driver lost control (or to note the global spike in such freak mishaps)

 

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“By forcing us to feed & house those ‘migrants,’ the (seeming) government of the United States is doing as the British Empire did in quartering its soldiers in colonial homes”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/by-forcing-us-to-feed-and-house-those?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=141779388&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

The biggest difference is that Americans back then were not (of course) called "xenophobes" for their resistance to that foreign presence, or to the Hessian soldiers later used by George III.

The Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago chief executives are arguing about how much money each should allocate to house and feed the new migrant population, those people who jumped the border’s natural and constructed barriers and entered the country ahead of many who were patiently waiting for visas. They are the celebrated, instant “dreamers” demanding our sympathy and support on pain of being labeled a narrow-minded, bigoted xenophobe. Hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds are being drafted for their care (in Illinois alone). What decent human being, we are asked, would suggest otherwise when families with babies and small children are begging for help?

 

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“The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer”

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/19/the-global-deep-state-a-fascist-world-order-funded-by-the-american-taxpayer/

by John & Nisha Whitehead

The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction.

That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United States still spends more on foreign aid than any other nation.

The latest foreign aid spending bill includes $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Since World War II, the U.S. has given more foreign aid to Israel than any other country ($318 billion), with the bulk of those funds designated for Israel’s military efforts.

Even so, more than 150 countries around the world receive U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance.

As Forbes reports, “US foreign aid dwarfs the federal funds spent by 48 out of 50 state governments annually. Only the state governments of California and New York spent more federal funds than what the U.S. sent abroad each year to foreign countries.”

Whether or not that some of that foreign aid is used for legitimate purposes, the global welfare system itself is riddled with corruption and waste. As Adam Andrzejewski rightly asks, “Do taxpayers instinctively know that they are funding choir directors in Turkmenistan, filmmakers in Peru, aid for poultry farmers Tanzania, and sex education workshops for prostitutes in Ethiopia?”

The problem is not so much that taxpayers are unaware of how their hard-earned dollars are being spent. Rather, “we the people” continue to be told that we have no say in the matter.

We have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used, but that doesn’t prevent the government from fleecing us at every turn and forcing us to pay for endless wars that do more to fund the military industrial complex than protect us, pork barrel projects that produce little to nothing, and a police state that serves only to imprison us within its walls.

This financial tyranny persists whether it’s a Democrat or Republican at the helm.

At a time when the government is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, the national debt continues to grow, our infrastructure continues to deteriorate, and our borders continue to be breached.

What is going on?

The “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has been overtaken by a shadow government—a corporatized, militarized, entrenched global bureaucracy—that is fully operational and running the country.

This powerful international cabal made up of international government agencies and corporations—let’s call it the Global Deep State—is just as real as the corporatized, militarized, industrialized American Deep State, and it poses just as great a threat to our rights as individuals under the U.S. Constitution, if not greater.

Clearly, we have entered into a new world order: fascism on a global scale.

It remains unclear whether the American Deep State (“a national-security apparatus that holds sway even over the elected leaders notionally in charge of it”) answers to the Global Deep State, or whether the Global Deep State merely empowers the American Deep State. However, there is no denying the extent to which they are intricately and symbiotically enmeshed and interlocked.

Consider the extent to which our lives and liberties are impacted by this international convergence of governmental and profit-driven corporate interests in the surveillance state, the military industrial complex, the private prison industry, the intelligence sector, the security sector, the technology sector, the telecommunications sector, the transportation sector, and in recent years, the pharmaceutical-health sector.

All of these sectors are dominated by mega-corporations operating on a global scale and working through government channels to increase their profit margins. The profit-driven policies of these global corporate giants influence everything from legislative policies to economics to environmental issues to medical care.

Global Disease . . . .

 

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“‘Who Owns the World?’” A Small Group of Big Money”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-world-small-group-big-money/5850681

by Peter Koenig

“Who Owns the World” is the title of an extraordinary documentary, describing how Big-Big Money controls not only every aspect of your life, but has a stranglehold on every government, the political UN body, as well as every UN agency, and all industries and services of this globe.

These largest investors are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.

These same investment groups also control over 90% of the world’s major media.  

Even Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is majority owned by BlackRock / Vanguard. It is therefore no miracle that hardly any news penetrates the walls of secrecy about these major shareholders of every aspect of human life and life-related activities and businesses.

They control politicians,  geopolitics and military deployments.

It is a monopoly that can literally not be opposed by traditional means. They have also invented the “rules-based order” — overruling every international and national law at their will. They know no limits, no ethics and adhere to no human or human rights standard. POWER is them.

 

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“US's Failure And Its Next Moves”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE7uO5Ho6CM&si=hgZsenSxmW2s5O7q

by Daily Vlog, with Judge Napolitano and Professor John Mearsheimer

(45:31)

 

 

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“Welcome to Mixed Reality: A Fake Place Where Fake People Are Trapped Forever”

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/welcome-to-mixed-reality-a-fake-place?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=725827&post_id=142021110&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by James Corbett

 

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“Two years of Not-War: Not good”

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/two-years-of-not-war-not-good?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=520963&post_id=140687360&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ceedo&open=false&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

But the YouTube Algorithm says it is good.

Today marks two years since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Edward Slavsquat is an outcome-focused blog and according to my calculations, the outcome of the Not-War is leaning towards “unfavorable” for all not-oligarch Russians, Ukrainians, Americans, Germans, Brits, Frenchies, Canadians, Poles, Eskimos, and all the rest of you weirdos.

If you want to know how I came to this conclusion, you can read a very long blog post that I typed up in June. Actually, I was warning about the Not-Good Outcome of the Not-War before it even began:

All freedom will be lost when the war is won . . . .

 

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“Ukraine Losing, Russia Winning, Neocons Endless Defeats - Tucker's interview”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWhVQ6S5k0w

with Nima R. Alkhorshid and Richard D. Wolff

(57:48)

 

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“Satire is Dead (2018)”

 

https://corbettreport.com/satire-is-dead/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett

(18:05)

 

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“Bill Gates Praises India’s Sweeping Digital ID System as a Model for Other Nations”

https://reclaimthenet.org/bill-gates-praises-indias-sweeping-digital-id-system-as-a-model-for-other-nations

by Didi Rankovic

Gates praises India's DPI - a buzzword pushed by the UN that encourages digital ID rollouts.

India’s digital ID system may have its critics among those opposed to digitization of people’s identities, but it has received praise from Bill Gates as one of the country’s innovations that are “changing the world.”

Gates, as well as EU and UN officials, refers to such systems as digital public infrastructure (DPI) – a buzzword for introduction of digital ID and payments by 2030.

Gates announced on his blog that he is visiting India, and made sure to note that the Gates Foundation is involved in what he calls “efforts that are saving millions of lives.”

This is a reference to India’s production of another of Gates’ “passions” – vaccines. As for DPI, Gates expressed his “admiration” for the country’s massive biometric identity DPI component, Aadhaar, and the fact that over 12 billion transactions are processed by it.

Related: IMF praises India’s controversial digital ID system, Aadhaar

And, the Microsoft founder has another “passion” – agriculture. He made sure to note that he would be visiting a monitoring center where agriculture meets Aadhaar. More whopping numbers: the government uses the center in Odisha that has a registry of 7.5 million farmers to give them “real-time guidance,” Gates said.

It sounds like a surveillance state dream, at least as far as the “right” infrastructure is concerned: “Officials can keep track of who is growing what,” Gates continued, but he says this is done for the sake of providing those farmers with “advice.”

It has almost become a rule that projects like DPI effectively get tested in developing countries, orchestrated by globalist financial institutions like the World Bank.

Gates mentions that the developments around the implementation of DPI in Odisha are monitored by the World Bank, as well as Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, ostensibly in order for the example to be replicated there.

Last fall, the United National Development Program (UNDP) unveiled a campaign called “50-in-5” that aims to “help” 50 countries “design, launch, and scale components of their digital public infrastructure.”

This effort is one of those where the Gates Foundation shows up as a partner, while the program is supposed to promote “safe, inclusive and interoperable DPI” introduction in those countries.

When the campaign was announced, India was mentioned as a “success story” in the world of DPIs, while Africa was singled out as a particular target for “greater development of DPI.”

 

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“Warning: This Website May Harm Your Preconceptions”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/warning-this-website-may-harm-your-preconceptions/5850370

by Walter Gelles

According to Wikipedia and other CIA-controlled Establishment media, you are currently visiting:

an extremist website
a far-right website
a conspiracy theory website
a misinformation website
a far-left conspiracy website
or something of that nature.

In other words, you are visiting an independent website that searches for the truth, wherever the trail of evidence may lead.

The Powers-that-be do not like websites that question or contradict the Official Narratives, whether those narratives pertain to the Covid plandemic, the “safe and effective” Covid clot-shots that are actually quite harmful, climate change alarmism, the US/NATO war against Russia via proxy Ukraine, the subservience of the US Democrat/RINO Uniparty to globalist forces, or the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people,

Silicon Valley traitors like Google and Facebook do NOT want you to share any such information, facts, opinions, reports, interviews, or documents.

Visiting any truth-telling independent website could disorient persons who have been brainwashed by the Mainstream Media (MSM) into believing the MSM’s lies and propaganda.  As former CIA Director William Casey said,

“We shall know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American people believes is false.” 

And CIA ex-Director William Colby observed: “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” 

So scrap everything you think you’ve learned from the New York Times, the Washington Post, your city newspaper, and the major TV networks.

Important Takeaways

·         President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all assassinated by US Government-orchestrated plots.  These murders laid the groundwork for today’s belligerent US Empire run by a power-hungry, corrupt Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-

Academia-Think-Tank complex.

·         The three aforementioned murders were all the result of conspiracies.  The CIA popularized the term “conspiracy theory” to discredit anyone who questions the nonsensical official explanation for JFK’s murder.  Today the CIA-controlled Mainstream Media uses the term reflexively to smear and marginalize anyone who questions the Official Narratives regarding the Covid scamdemic, the lethal Covid genetic “vaccines,” the stolen elections of 2020 and 2022, the demonization of Vladimir Putin, or any other issue.

·         The three World Trade Center towers in New York were destroyed on September 11, 2001 by carefully planned controlled demolition and other technologies, NOT by 19 Muslim terrorists in planes.  Was it an inside job or an Israeli job?  You decide. See here.

·         Joseph Biden stole the 2020 Presidential election.  Trump won by a big margin.  Biden, though senile, confused, and mentally unfit for the job, knows he is an illegitimate usurper.

·         The Covid “vaccines” are NOT “safe and effective.”  They’re not effective—they don’t stop infection or prevent transmission.  And they most definitely are NOT safe.  These dangerous, untested genetic cocktails have already killed and severely injured millions of people in the US and around the world.  They should all be taken off the market immediately.

·         The “Covid-19 pandemic” was a globally orchestrated scam based on:

o    fraudulent PCR diagnostic tests designed to yield false-positives up to 97% of the time

o    mountains of junk data of nonexistent “Covid cases”

o    wholly unscientific and counterproductive lockdowns, mask mandates, and absurd social-distancing rituals

o    24/7 fear-porn propaganda generated by the Pharma-controlled Mainstream Media, the government, and the World Health Organization which is largely owned by billionaire vaccine fanatic Bill Gates, a college dropout with no medical training

o    an alleged virus that has been shown to exist ONLY as a computer simulation supplied to the US by a Chinese Communist Party-directed bioweapons lab

o    There was no apocalyptic killer virus.  If any “novel” coronavirus does exist, it was milder than the seasonal flu according to the heavily padded official data

·         There is no climate emergency.  “Climate change,” formerly known as man-made “global warming,” is a hoax designed to advance a globalist cabal’s agenda. (See References below.)  The same globalist cabal was behind the Covid scamdemic.

In conclusion, do NOT believe anything you read or hear in the corporate-controlled, CIA-massaged establishment media.  Be skeptical of everything in the self-styled “liberal” and “progressive” media as well, since most of them support censorship, self-censorship, and the globalist cabal’s agenda on many key issues.

Question everything.  You should also question what you read and hear in the online independent news media, which may be the only place these days where the truth can emerge.

The truth will out.

This has been a Public Service Announcement.

 

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The Electronic Intifada

“Israel wages war on reproductive rights in Gaza”

https://electronicintifada.net/

 

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Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/

 

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Global Reach: Selected Articles – February 22, 2024

“COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing”Top of Form

Bottom of Form

https://www.globalresearch.ca/

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

 

 

 

Three years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which gave world governments (including our own) a convenient excuse for expanding their powers, abusing their authority, and further oppressing their constituents, there’s something being concocted in the dens of power.

 

 

 

 

The Kiev regime’s deep-rooted connection with Ukrainian WWII-era Neo-Nazi movements is an axiom. Denying this is futile, as many of the junta’s soldiers unashamedly display Nazi insignia, while the state-sponsored promotion of the cult of Nazi collaborators such as Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko, Roman Shukhevych and others of their ilk is a clear proof that this isn’t some spontaneous reaction of an extremist minority, but a carefully orchestrated policy.

 

 

 

 

I’ve had the impression that the covidian onslaught has been purposefully benumbing us and inuring us to a strange new world of earlier death. We’re meant to believe it’s normal for kids to have heart attacks, for athletes to drop dead on the playing field in unaccustomed numbers, for aggressive and untreatable cancers to emerge of a sudden.

 

 

 

 

Palestinians voted for Hamas—not because they thought the group was a perfect match with their own values—but because they appeared to be less corrupt than the disreputable puppets in Fatah.

 

 

 

 

There have been several interesting developments relating to Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza and its people, but one might well question the motives of at least one of the principal players in the drama, namely Joe Biden’s United States government.

 

 

 

 

In the aftermath of the First Imperialist War, African Americans and people of African descent around the world escalated their movements to end colonial domination, legalized segregation and the super-exploitation of their land, resources and labor.

 

 

 

 

Today we know the facts. The mRNA jabs did not protect, did not prevent transmission, did not reduce the severity of the disease, but actually made the “vaccinated” more likely to catch Covid and to die or be injured from it. We also know that few of the deaths were from the virus.

 

 

 

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