Bulletin N° 1140
Grenoble
May 25, 2024
Subject: On the Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
As we approach the summer months there are many dark clouds on the horizon. The core of our problems relates directly to the gross inequalities that have been engineered in the history of our society, and which have secured the power of a small class of people ruling over the rest of us. They are organized, We are not. They have come to control –through bribes, blackmail, threats, and outright murder --institutions, technologies, and cultural outlets (such as schools, the media, law offices, and medical clinics) to the detriment of our very existence.
The 16+ items below are a selection of articles and essays taken from this week’s Anglophone social media and which reflect concerns stemming from the multiple crises we all now find ourselves embroiled in. Readers are encouraged to compare these discussions with voiced concerns in other parts of the world to better understand the multicultural nature of our existence today and the very real limits to class consciousness in our advanced technological world.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
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Professeur honoraire de
l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
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“People’s Conference for Palestine begins in Detroit”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUC7vRjLeU
(1:50:05)
The People’s Conference for Palestine begins today in Detroit, MI, and organizers expect thousands of people to attend this three-day historic gathering to discuss the ongoing global struggle for Palestinian liberation. The conference is being convened by the Palestinian Youth Movement, People’s Forum, Al-Awda Right to Return Coalition, National Students for Justice in Palestine, the Answer Coalition, amongst others and has been endorsed by a further 300 organizations. Notable speakers include world-renowned British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has operated in numerous conflict zones including in Gaza post-October 7, Palestinian scholar and activist Rabab Abdulhadi, as well as physician Mustafa Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian National Initiative, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), and president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees. The conference will be live-streamed via the Breakthrough News Youtube channel.
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We are in an unprecedented moment in history. As we bear witness to the ongoing and brutal genocide against the Palestinian people, we are also part of building a mass movement that is committed to struggling for Palestinian national liberation. The demands for an end to the genocide, lifting of the siege of Gaza, an end to all US aid for Israel, and a free Palestine echo in the streets, in classrooms and universities, disrupting the halls of government and the daily lives of all genocide-profiteers. All backers of Zionism, Israel, and US imperialism have been put on notice. The perpetrators of genocide and occupation have names and faces, and the masses of people around the world stand against them in the millions. The movement for Palestine has never been stronger: but with this strength comes a monumental responsibility. This moment calls on us to strengthen our relationships, our strategies, our tactics, and our unity for the struggle ahead. We must build a shared assessment of the moment, and chart out the next phase of our struggle. The Palestinian people have been fighting for liberation for over 100 years, and are committed to continuing this fight generation after generation, until victory. Join us as organizations, collectives, movement leaders, community members, students and intellectuals, artists and cultural workers, and activists for a three-day convening to reflect, exchange, and strengthen ourselves and our fight for a free Palestine. Keynote by Sana’ Daqqa Sana’ Daqqa is an activist, journalist, and the wife of the martyred Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa. She has been a longtime activist in struggle to free Palestinian political prisoners, and is an accomplished journalist and analyst on issues of anticolonialism and political strategy. Sana’ and Walid gave life to their daughter Milad through the smuggling of sperm, and she has become a symbol of hope and resilience for the Palestinian people facing forced separation and imprisonment by the Occupation. Sana’ is currently leading a campaign to release the body of the martyr Walid Daqqa, which continues to be held illegally in Zionist prison until today.
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“Expanding Middle East War. Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, The War on Energy, Strategic Waterways”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/planned-us-israeli-attack-on-iran-2/5615443
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
This article originally published on November 11, 2023 was revised on January 14th, 2024 with a focus on the dangers of escalation and the role of “False Flags”.
In recent developments, in response to Israel’s bombing of Iran’s Consulate in Damascus, according to media reports:
Iran has launched more than 300 cruise and ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, IDF officials said, a retaliatory attack weeks after an Israeli strike on the Iranian consular building in Syria killed two of Tehran’s top commanders.
“There were explosions visible in the air over Jerusalem as air sirens rang throughout the country.”
“Iran said that after tonight’s attack, the “matter can be deemed concluded” unless there is more violence.”
The fundamental question is whether this retaliatory attack will lead to escalation, including an Israeli counter-attack on Iran.
Video Interview
Video produced in November 2023
Expanding Middle East War.
Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran,
The War on Energy, Strategic Waterways
byMichel Chossudovsky
1. In Solidarity with Palestine
We stand in Solidarity with Palestine. But we must recognize that the United States Military and Intelligence apparatus is firmly behind Israel’s genocide directed against the People of Palestine.
And this must be part of the solidarity campaign, namely to Reveal the Truth regarding Washington’s insidious role, which is part of a carefully planned military agenda directed against Palestine and the broader Middle East. Netanyahu is a proxy, with a criminal record. He has the unbending support of Western Europe’s “Classe politique”.
The U.S. led War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal Undertaking
Israel and the Zionist lobby in the U.S. are NOT exerting undue influence AGAINST U.S. Foreign Policy as outlined by numerous analysts.
Quite the opposite. The Zionist lobby is firmly aligned with U.S. foreign policy, and Vice Versa. It targets those who are opposed to war, who call for a cease fire. It exerts influence in favour of the conduct of the U.S. military agenda in support of Israel.
The US military-intelligence establishment in coordination with powerful financial interests is calling the shots in regards to Israel’s genocidal intent to “Wipe Palestine off the Map”.
2. Triggering “False Flags”
Inciting Escalation in The Red Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean
Let us be under no illusions. Remember Pearl Harbor, The Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11. “False Flags” are part of the history of modern warfare. They are sophisticated intelligence operations often requiring infiltration into enemy ranks.
Starting in the immediate wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, US-NATO war ships –including aircraft carriers, combat planes, naval vessels have been deployed in both the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
These deployments have been described in chorus by the mainstream media as a response to “Palestine’s [alleged] Aggression against the Jewish State”.
They are tagged as humanitarian undertakings: Coming to the rescue of Israel. Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
The False Flag concept requires inciting your enemy or an armed jihadist group to confront or “attack America” thereby providing a justification to strike back in self defense: The Houthis in the Red Sea and Hezbollah in the Eastern Mediterranean both of which are allies of Iran.
Trigger one or more incidents with a view to justifying a process of military escalation.
In recent developments, the “False Flag agenda” has evolved towards US-NATO air and naval attacks against Yemen.
“Sadeh, Zubaydah, Abs, Bani, Sana, Hudaydah, and Taiz have been attacked by American forces, initiating yet another war without Congressional approval, a branch of the US government emptied of power.
The New York Times, of course, blames the expansion of the conflict on the Houthis for interfering with shipping to Israel.” (Paul Craig Roberts)
The endgame is to incite Iran through various means to enter the Middle East battlefield, which would lead eventually to a process of escalation. The media is now using the term: “Iranian Proxies” in an ambivalent report by the NYT:
According to US officials, there is no direct evidence linking Iran to Red Sea attacks
There is no direct evidence to show senior Iranian commanders ordered Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch attacks on ships in the Red Sea, according to a New York Times report citing US intelligence officials.The unnamed sources said they continue to assess that Iran isn’t interested in a wider war, even though it encouraged Houthi operations in the Red Sea.
“The whole purpose of the Iranian proxies, they argue, is to find a way to punch at Israel and the United States without setting off the kind of war that Iran wants to avoid,” the news report said.
“There is no direct evidence that senior Iranian leaders, either the commander of the elite Quds Force or the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered the recent Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea.” (Quoted by Al Jazeera)
3. America’s Military Doctrine: Targeting and Killing Civilians . . . .
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“Indeed, There Is No Comparison. Israel’s Crimes Are Far Worse Than Hamas’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-crimes-worse-hamas/5856983
by Jonathan Cook
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as "absurd and false" the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides.
There is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, “absurd and false” and a “distortion of reality”.
Here’s why:
· Israeli war crimes have been ongoing for more than seven decades, long predating Hamas’ creation.
· Israel has kept the Palestinians of Gaza caged into a concentration camp for the past 17 years, denying them connection to the outside world and the essentials of life. Hamas managed to besiege a small part of Israel for one day, on October 7.
· For every Israeli killed by Hamas on October 7, Israel has slaughtered at least 35 times that number of Palestinians. Similar kill-ratios grossly skewed in Israel’s favour have been true for decades.
· Israel has killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children since October – and many tens of thousands more Palestinian children are missing under rubble, maimed or orphaned. By early April, Israel had killed a further 114 children in the West Bank and injured 725 more. Hamas killed a total of 33 Israeli children on October 7.
· Israel has laid waste to Gaza’s entire health sector. It has bombed its hospitals, and killed, beaten and kidnapped many hundreds of medical personnel. Hamas has not attacked one Israeli hospital.
· Israel has killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza and more than 250 aid workers. It has also kidnapped a further 40 journalists. Most are presumed to have been taken to a secret detention facility where torture is rife. Hamas is reported to have killed one Israeli journalist on October 7, and no known aid workers.
· Israel is actively starving Gaza’s population by denying it food, water and aid. That is a power – a genocidal one – Hamas could only ever dream of.
· Israel has been forcibly removing Palestinians from their lands for more than 76 years to build illegal Jewish settlements in their place. Hamas has not been able to ethnically cleanse a single Israeli, nor build a single Palestinian settlement on Israeli land.
· Some 750,000 Palestinians are reported to have been taken hostage and jailed by Israel since 1967 – an unwelcome rite of passage for Palestinian men and boys and one in which torture is routine and military trials ensure a near-100% conviction rate. Until October 7, Hamas had only ever managed to take hostage a handful of the Israeli soldiers whose job is to oppress Palestinians.
· And, while Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by western states, those same western states laud Israel, fund and arm it, and provide it with diplomatic cover, even as the World Court rules that a plausible case has been made it is committing a genocide in Gaza.
Yes, Netanyahu is right. There is no comparison at all.
READ MORE: Middle East: Arsonists Shout “Fire” . . . .
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“Saudi Arabia Implicated in New 9/11 Evidence”
NEW YORK (September 11, 2023) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attends the 9/11
Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony at Ground Zero in New York City, New York. This year marks
the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville,
Pennsylvania. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)
https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/21/saudi-arabia-implicated-in-new-9-11-evidence/
by Diego Ramos
A redacted publicly filed document reveals key details that undermine the entire narrative of the U.S. War on Terror.
lawsuit filed by family members of 9-11 victims reveals explosive facts in an 80-page redacted document that alleges the Saudi Arabian government provided major state support to al-Qaeda for the attacks in New York City 23 years ago. The plaintiffs’ attorneys contend that Saudi government officials established and ran a network within the U.S. and provided essential support to the first group of 9-11 hijackers who entered the country.
Screenshot from Guardian video of President Biden fist bumping the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman.
The entire narrative of the War on Terror, which included the invasion, occupation and destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, appears to be crumbling and as an Atlantic report puts it, the potential truth would prove “the costly policies that the United States has pursued for the past quarter century have been rooted in a false premise.”
Key parts of the document allege the connection between Saudi officials and the hijackers who made their way to the U.S. Specifically, Fahad al-Thumairy, a recognized diplomat at the Los Angeles Saudi consulate, and Omar al-Bayoumi, who the FBI identified as a Saudi intelligence operative, were named as central figures.
The filing states: . . . .
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“Richard Wolff on the decline of the US empire and the denial of the US”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogH0wRD0Vkw
(57:04)
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“De-Dollarization Bombshell: The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem”
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/05/23/de-dollarization-bombshell/
by Pepe Escobar
Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem.
Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working group set up by the BRICS+ Business Council and has a serious shot at becoming official BRICS+ policy as early as in 2025.
According to Alexey Subbotin, founder of Arkhangelsk Capital Management and one of the Unit’s conceptualizers, this is a new problem-solving system that addresses the key geoeconomic issue of these troubled times: a global crisis of trust.
He knows all about it first-hand: a seasoned financial professional with experience in investment banking, asset management and corporate matters, Subbotin leads the Unit project under the auspices of IRIAS, an international intergovernmental organization set up in 1976 in accordance with the UN statute.
The Global Majority has had enough of the centrally controlled monetary framework put in place 80 years ago in Bretton Woods and its endemic flaws: chronic deficits fueling irresponsible military spending; speculative bubbles; politically motivated sanctions and secondary sanctions; abuse of settlement and payment infrastructure; protectionism; and the lack of fair arbitration.
In contrast, the Unit proposes a reliable, quick and economically efficient solution for cross-border payments. The – transactional – Unit is a game-changer as a new form of international currency that can be issued in a de-centralized way, and then recognized and regulated at national level.
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“WEST'S COLOSSAL MISTAKE: US Decline, Rise of BRICS, Tariffs Damage US Economy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFSFQidUiQ
with Prof. Richard Wolff
(1:00:51)
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“WHO’S What? What’s NEXT ?”
“The COVID-19 Endgame: Global Governance, “Digital Tyranny” and the Depopulation Agenda”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
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“The WHO Health Tyranny – Or Not?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-health-tyranny/5856975
by Peter Koenig
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« Psychological Manipulation »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iqa4CoMciU
with Dr. John Campbell
(1:26:26)
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“Globalist Succession Crisis”
https://corbettreport.com/nwnw555/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
with James Corbett
(25:36)
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“Midazolam deaths”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGk6_w1Bv6A
with Dr. John Campbell
(14:28)
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“Mast cell activation syndrome”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYUV5cwysM8&si=zG-NCXt8nXQRRp5T
with Dr. John Campbell
(1:17:05)
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“The Infected Blood Scandal: A Shocking Window Into the Pharmaceutical ‘Business with Disease’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/infected-blood-scandal-pharmaceutical-business-disease/5858062
by Paul Anthony Taylor
Between the 1970s and early 1990s, over 30,000 patients in the UK were treated with blood transfusions or blood-derived products contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C. This led to more than 3,000 deaths and left thousands of people with ongoing health problems. A new report has concluded that UK authorities deliberately covered up and downplayed the scandal for decades, with drug companies such as Bayer and Armour Pharmaceuticals accused of knowing treatments were infected but continuing to sell them anyway. The scandal provides a shocking window into the profit-driven nature of the pharmaceutical ‘business with disease.’
The problem began when, during the 1970s, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was unable to meet the demand for blood and blood-derived products. As a result, products were imported into the UK from the United States and other countries where paid blood donors were used. These donors included prisoners and drug addicts at high risk of being infected with HIV or hepatitis C. Routine screening for HIV in blood and blood products didn’t begin in the UK until 1985, with screening for hepatitis C starting in 1991.
People with hemophilia and other clotting disorders were significantly impacted by the scandal as they received treatments made from large batches of contaminated blood plasma. Inevitably, therefore, infected individuals sometimes unknowingly passed on HIV or hepatitis C to their partners. Despite the growing number of victims, for many years the NHS and successive British governments refused to accept that any wrong had been done. In reality, however, the UK was one of the last developed countries to start screening blood for hepatitis C. It had also delayed the introduction of heat treatment for blood products to eliminate HIV. Clearly, therefore, while UK authorities have long pretended otherwise, the scandal was not an accident.
SEE, also the Video: Vitamin D Is More Effective Than the COVID-19 Jab
“A Day of Shame for the British State” . . . .
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“The Rise of COVID 2.0? Beware the WHO’s Pandemic Industrial Complex”
by Michael Welch, Dr. Meryl Nass, and Michelle Leduc Catlin
(audio, 59:00)
“We saw the buildup of events from the swine flu of 2009,
Zika, the Ebola scare of 2014, et cetera.
Escalating throughout the 2010’s into the Covid scare of the past few years.
And now, we are on the cusp of potentially another scare
which might cause the actual political impetus and even the public to get on board
with the idea of the World Health Organization swooping in
to save the day with their brand new pandemic agreement.”
– James Corbett, November 2023[1]
“It is not a matter of if a pandemic will happen again; it is a matter of when.”
– World Health Organization (May 10, 2024)
At this point in time when the worst of the sinister Coronavirus “pandemic” is thought to be behind us, the arrival of another alert of another killer disease may be stampeding toward us. [2][3]
After over a year of seeing this moment in the distance, the monster is at the door, and we must either yield to the moment and hope it isn’t as bad as some have predicted, or fight with every fibre of our being to preserve the rights and freedoms that may well be sacrificed to the discretion of those who claim to safe-guard our public health.
From May 27th to June 1st, initiatives are being set before the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO.) These include changes to the 2005 International Health Regulation and the introduction of the WHO Pandemic Agreement. [4][5]
What are the implications of these changes? Essentially, according to critics, it would turn the WHO from an agency giving advice on healing from the next pandemic to giving orders to the world. Taking control. [6]
If you recall, the advice during COVID-19 included lock-downs, and the massive PR campaign related to what turned out to be a dangerous COVID-19 vaccine. As Professor Michel Chossudovsky explains in his 2022 book, The Worldwide Corona Crisis: Global Coup D’etat Against Humanity, these initatives have had very negative effects on people throughout the globe. [7]
Should the motions be adopted, the WHO would have even more power to command faulty decisions to the masses.
As we witnessed during the Corona scare, free speech could be gone, doctors questioning the health authorities could lose their medical license, travel could be obstructed, surveillance of medical and online records an Orwellian outcome. All in an era when it seems to be getting easier and easier to diagnose pandemics! [8]
There is even the possibility that fighting climate change through the “One Health” principle can open the door to extending the reach of the WHO, and by extension the billionaires pulling the devolved WHO’s puppet strings. [9][10]
These are issues that should be brought to the attention of the masses. But, as is consistent with that other marionette, the Mainstream (legacy) media, major television, and radio stations will not likely go down this path. But the Global Research News Hour sees it as news that IS fit for broadcast! And this week, we will inspect some of the arguments put forward by critics.
In our first half hour, Michelle Leduc Catlin joins us. Formerly the spokesperson for the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s Response to COVID-19, she plans to partake in the Geneva Project in the European Union next week to rally against the WHO’s plans and put forward an alternative to the new normal of pandemic fear forever. She talks about the trip and what Canadians can do to help.
In our second half hour, we are joined by Dr. Meryl Nass. An outspoken doctor and researcher, she has been concerned for months about the direction the Pandemic Agreement and IHR regulations may take us. She explains in a little under half an hour the focus of her concerns, and what can and has been done to stop politicians from signing away the rights of ‘We the People.’
What follows is a brief review by Dr. Nass of what is at stake. . . . .
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“New Study documents COVID19 Vaccine harms - Low platelets, GBS, Myocarditis - I unpack . . . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dxOzpQXYg
by Vinay Prasad MD, Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine
(18:48)
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“Pfizer is deeply sorry”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnVTj2Uy9yc
with Dr. John Campbell
(13:45)
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“Confirmed horrifying scandal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhCu3CSu3o
with Dr. John Campbell
(19:19)
Rishi Sunak “a day of shame for the British state” “Today’s report shows a decades-long moral failure at the heart of our national life – from the National Health Service to the Civil Service, to ministers in successive governments, at every level the people and institutions in which we place our trust failed in the most harrowing and devastating way. “They failed the victims and their families and they failed this country.” “moral failure at the heart of our national life” in which doctors, civil servants and ministers had put reputations above patient safety. “On behalf of this and every government stretching back to the 1970s, I am truly sorry.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024... The final report concluded Health service and governments took part in a “chilling” cover-up, as they “closed ranks” to hide the truth, even destroying documents to keep patients in the dark. Sir Brian Langstaff the “horrifying” scandal could and should have been avoided, but a “catalogue of failures” led to “calamity”. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024... “It will be astonishing to anyone who reads this report that these events could have happened in the UK …that a level of suffering which it is difficult to comprehend, still less understand, has been caused to so many”. victims of the scandal “have been forced into a decades-long battle for the truth “Successive governments claimed that patients had received the best medical treatment available at the time, and that blood screening had been introduced at the earliest opportunity. Both claims were untrue. “Standing back, and viewing the response of the NHS and of government overall, the answer to the question ‘was there a cover-up?’ is that there has been. “Not in the sense of a handful of people plotting in an orchestrated conspiracy to mislead, but in a way that was more subtle, more pervasive and more chilling in its implications. “In this way there has been a hiding of much of the truth.” tragedy “was not an accident”. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024...
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“End of life...”
https://youtu.be/YGk6_w1Bv6A?si=cmkOtWHbbZEIJ8AS
with Dr. John Campbell
(14:28)
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“Midazolam deaths …”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGk6_w1Bv6A
with Dr. John Campbell
(14:28)
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“German Lawyer Expresses Shock Over Judicial Derangement Of Fuellmich Persecution: ‘Powers Outside Our Understanding Have Taken Control’"
by CeliaFarber
Describes a "Stasi Like Entity."
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“THE COURAGEOUS LAWYER, GABRIELE CURSCHMANN-KAESINGER, HAS AN IMPORTANT REQUEST. PLEASE SHARE.”
by Elsa
Gabriele Carschmann-Kaesinger, attorney at law, has shown tremendous courage. She sent a criminal complaint against the management of Rosdorf Prison and against the deputies on duty during the period from Friday, 3 May 24 up to and including Sunday, 5 May 24.
You can see the
complaint here:
https://truthsummit.substack.com/p/charges-filed-against-illegal-treatmentof-reiner
So many of you ask: what can I do? Here is one thing many of you could do: you could write a short email to Gabriele that you support the criminal complaint.
This morning I received a message from Katja, Reiner Füllmich’s main lawyer: . . . .
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“BREAKING: Slovak Prime Minister Shot and Gravely Injured, Firmly Opposed to ‘Pandemic Treaty’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/slovak-pm-shot-gravely-injured/5857332
by Peter Koenig
PM declared Slovakia will not sign the WHO Pandemic Treaty and the revised IHR.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot today – 15 May 2024 – and gravel insured, as he was greeting and shaking hands with the crowd in the center town of Handlova, Slovakia, where he had been attending a government meeting at the Palace of Culture.
PM Fico is an ardent opponent of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and the revised WHO International Health Regulations (IHR).
PM Fico was approached by a man in the crowd, who fired close range five shot at him, severely injuring the PM, before the perpetrator was being tackled to the ground and arrested by security officers.
Defense Minister Robert Kalinak said,
“He has multiple injuries, and his condition is extremely serious. We are still praying for good news, but we don’t have that news yet. He has been in the operating room for 3 ½ hours. His condition is very complicated.” . . . .
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“Iran – A Mysterious Helicopter Crash or Martyrdom”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-mysterious-helicopter-crash-martyrdom/5857843
by Peter Koenig
Killing President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, both ardent supporters and committed defenders of Palestine and of Palestinian rights.
The Western official version goes that the Presidential Helicopter encountered strong adverse weather in the mountainous Azerbaijan – Iran region and crashed, leaving all eight chopper occupants dead.
Western media were also quick in reporting that thanks to Western sanctions, Iran was unable to import necessary parts to properly maintain her air force, that therefore the Presidential Helicopter was in bad shape.
The truth is very likely quite different.
As time goes on, new elements make the crash rather appear as a deliberate assassination. The international conspiracy – what it likely was – and the cover-up seem to have been well-prepared.
The plan was thoroughly thought out to the point – would you believe! – that ALL Weather Satellite imagery for that region on the day of the crash (19 May) was DELETED. See this.
So, there is no evidence of the much announced and repeated blizzard-like weather that downed the Presidential Helicopter.
Also, it appears that at the time of the crash, a US C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft was in the sky close to the site of the air-disaster. The C-17 is capable of rapid moves, strategic positioning and maintaining contact with major operating bases.
If this were to be indeed the case – the C-17 Globemaster plane in the sky, in theory, it would be possible that this plane could have used a Direct Energy Weapon (DEW) to down the Presidential Helicopter, right?
Furthermore, strange was the fact that the Presidential Helicopter’s emergency transponder seems to have been disabled, and so was the “mayday” emergency call function, so that no emergency signals were sent and received that could have located the chopper and come to rescue immediately.
And is it another strange coincidence that the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, also met with the President of Azerbaijan, days before Fico was shot in an assassination attempt. See this.
Again, see this, providing a run-down of the latest emerging events.
Remember the three Usual Suspects* – and in this case, possibly one more. Could this one more be Azerbaijan?
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*Who are these elusive Usual Suspects? Mossad, CIA, and UK’s MI6. A potential downing of President Raisi’s Presidential Helicopter might bear the fingerprints of the infamous trio. If so, what more is to come?
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“Iran army finds no sign of foul play so far in Raisi helicopter crash”
by Al Jazeera
Preliminary report says no evidence of criminal activity but investigators signal the probe is not yet over.
Iranian military investigators have so far found no evidence of criminal activity in the helicopter crash that killed late President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, according to state media.
A preliminary report on the crash by the general staff of the armed forces said the craft had “caught fire after hitting an elevated area”, finding no traces of “bullet holes” on the helicopter wreckage, according to the official IRNA news agency late on Thursday.
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“Iran President Death News | 'Completely Burned'...Drone Footage Reveals Shocking Details - Moment of Crash on Cam”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEcRwadp30
by MIRROR NOW
(3:01)
Iran President Death News | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi tragically died in a helicopter crash, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollhian and other officials. The crash site, depicted in drone footage, showed the charred wreckage in a mountainous area. The cause remains unknown, but foggy conditions were reported. Iranian state media confirmed no survivors. Investigations are ongoing as Iran mourns the loss of its leader and officials.
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“Raisi's Chopper Crash: The final moments & the last phone call”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0PAlsG-J3gs&si=rdhGMxJ9o5Ay_v3s
by Gravitas
(9:46)
In an interview with Iranian media, the Chief of Staff of Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi recalled the final moments before the chopper ferrying Iran's President disappeared. The official says there was no fog that day, the weather was clear, and they were able to get in touch with one of the passengers of the ill-fated chopper after it disappeared. Gravitas brings you the details.
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“Iranian press review: Authorities face backlash for allowing Turkish drone into airspace”
by MEE Correspondent
The deployment of a Turkish high-altitude, long-endurance drone to find the wreckage of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has sparked criticism in Iran. Many questioned why a drone capable of collecting sensitive information was allowed to enter Iranian territory.
After Iranian authorities struggled to locate the wreck - which crashed on Sunday, killing the president and his foreign minister - Tehran requested assistance from Ankara, and Turkey deployed an Akinci surveillance drone belonging to its military forces.
Critics on social media noted that the drone flew over several sensitive military bases and airports in western Iran.
Teen News, under the headline "Did Turkey’s drone enter Iran’s airspace to spy?", detailed the Akinci drone’s capabilities in carrying out surveillance operations.
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“INTERVIEW: Scott Ritter on ‘the prerogative of violence’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReCVtzuFmQc
with George Galloway
(21:41)
After the death of Iran’s president what next? Scott Ritter charts the course and details how Raisi changed the future.
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“A Lawless World Driven to Brink of War and Political Assassinations. ‘Signs of Endgame Collapse’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/lawless-world-war-political-assassinations/5857846
by Joachim Hagopian
On Monday May 20th, with the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant along with three Hamas leaders for war crimes, and President Joe Biden again repeating, “What’s happening is not genocide. We reject that,” still insisting that Zionist Israel is not engaging in genocide against Palestinian people, we live in an increasingly dangerous world. This comes just days after a failed assassination attempt on an EU national leader, and then the sudden death of Iran’s president and foreign minister, today’s outrageous tempo of disturbing world events is extremely ominous.
The fact is, every single day now we are waking up to more perilously foreboding signs of endgame collapse, imminent world war between top nuclear powers, political assassinations, and yes, a polarized, seemingly out-of-control world, chaotically growing exponentially more unstable and violent by the week. This unending stream of unfolding incidents signify escalating global destabilization, the globalists’ deliberate controlled demolition of our planet gone mad. None of this is by chance nor by accident. It simply reflects the systematic breakdown by diabolical design of all life as we’ve known it. Destructive omens of accelerating upheaval and potential mass death appear near daily now, coming in large shocking doses.
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“John Mearsheimer Exposes REAL REASON Why US Don't Stop Israel INVASION”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCFatHkNM3k&feature=youtu.be
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https://x.com/Adriel1819/status/1792540444510810601
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“From Palestine to the World: Angela Davis & Dr. Gabor Maté on the global struggle for liberation”
https://www.youtube.com/live/z69vUN79CXA
by Science and Nonduality
(24:24)
This conversation is part of the release of the new documentary film "Where Olive Trees Weep" https://whereolivetreesweep.com/. The full version of the conversation will be released as part of the film premiere and the 21-day program on a donation basis.
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Drawing parallels between the oppression faced by Palestinians and the systemic injustice confronting marginalized communities around the world, Angela and Gabor will shed light on the common roots of violence, occupation, and dehumanization. They will examine how trauma, both individual and collective, perpetuates cycles of conflict and how healing these wounds is integral to achieving genuine liberation. Science and Nonduality (SAND) contemplates and reveres the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weave the infinite cycles of existence. We explore beyond ultimate truths, binary thinking, and individual awakening while acknowledging humanity as a mere part of the intricate web of life.
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“Money Laundering, War, The Financial End Game”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kSu7JIfB79I/
with David Janda
(26:16)
In this week's Dave Vs. The MSM, Dr. Dave does a brief dissection of events unfolding around the globe regarding "the cult" and their wars. He takes a look at the financial impact both home and abroad as well as the longer term impacts on the global perception of the US.
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“Western fighters in Ukraine are getting killed because they assumed the war would be easy, says a US veteran who fought there”
https://www.businessinsider.com/western-fighters-die-in-ukraine-assume-be-easy-us-veteran-2024-5
by Sinéad Baker
- A US veteran who fought in Ukraine said many Western fighters assumed it would be easy.
- He said some "treat it almost like it's a vacation, and they're not really expecting to die."
- Many foreigners won't accept that their training hasn't prepared them for this war, he said.
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“The Conflict in Ukraine: How Do Matters Stand?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/conflict-ukraine-matters-stand/5857967
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
I have tried to provide accurate analysis of the conflict in Ukraine. This is not a simple task as there is little publicly available information about how the Kremlin sees the widening of the conflict. France has sent troops. The US Secretary of Defense said that eventually NATO troops will be deployed to Ukraine, and European governments are preparing for war with Russia in 4 or 5 years.
Putin’s original goals were the liberation of the Donbas region, and denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine. How denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine were to be accomplished without the conquest of Ukraine was never clear.
The appearance of long-range missiles, that is, missiles whose reach extends beyond the battlefield into Russia, resulted in statements from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Russia would have to compensate for the missiles reach by taking more of Ukraine in order to create a buffer zone. As the missiles the West sends keep lengthening in range, the consequence is that the buffer zone keeps enlarging and the entirety of Ukraine will have to be conquered and occupied and a Russian-friendly government installed in Ukraine. Already there are reports of Ukrainian drone attacks on Tatarstan in central Russia one thousand kilometers from the front line in Ukraine. Clearly the conflict is not a limited military operation. See this.
Whether Putin understands that his “limited military operation” is no longer practical is unclear.
The Ukrainian Army has been defeated. More mobilization will only result in a higher Ukrainian death toll. So where does the conflict go from here?
I suspect the Russian military will bypass Kharkov and leave it surrounded and cut off. The remains of the Ukrainian military is likely to reposition on the west bank of the Dnieper River. Russia, if the Kremlin ever becomes serious about the conflict, will take Odessa unless US/NATO occupy Odessa first.
The question is whether this would bring an end to the conflict or would Western Ukraine fill up with NATO forces in order to maintain a hostile regime toward Russia. If the latter, the conflict ceases to be between Ukraine and Russia and becomes one of the West and Russia. Putin would have rescued the Russian territories, but Ukraine would remain militarized. This time with US/NATO.
The Kremlin’s failure to act decisively in the beginning will have left Russia with a festering problem.
Washington will further stress Putin with attempted color revolution in Georgia, like Ukraine a former Russian province. A successful color revolution would allow Washington to open a second front against Russia.
A color revolution in Georgia is Washington’s intent. The Georgian legislature recently passed the Transparency of Foreign Influence Act. The legislation would require Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) engaged in promoting the interests of a foreign power to disclose their donors.
Apparently, the legislature waited too long to face up to the threat. The foreign financed entities were able to put protesters in the streets of the capital for weeks and succeeded in pressuring the Georgian president into vetoing the bill. The government backed away from an earlier attempt in 2023 to pass the bill when confronted by street protests. See this.
The Biden regime said the legislation “undermines democracy,” and the EU said it would block Georgia’s entrance into the European Union. Of course, Georgia is not in Europe and has no business in the EU. Clearly, Washington and Brussels’ interest in a bill pertaining to Georgia’s internal affairs indicates that the legislation is understood as prevention against a color revolution and that the West intends such a revolution. Washington is offering preferential trade treatment if Georgia will leave itself open to overthrow. See this.
The prime minister of Georgia says the country needs the foreign agents law in order to protect Georgia from external forces that want to launch a “Georgian Maidan.” See this. One wonders if Putin again will stand aside and allow Washington to bring him more troubles.
Washington used Georgia against Russia in 2008 when Georgian troops invaded South Ossetia resulting in intervention by the Russian military. A successful color revolution would open a second front, or a replacement front, against Russia. There is no indication that the West intends to cease its provocations of Russia.
Gilbert Doctorow recently explained that the provocations have reached such a reckless and dangerous level that Russia is undergoing military exercises practicing the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe against NATO. See this.
Putin was forced to intervene in Donbas. He attempted to limit the intervention to Donbas, but the West insisted on widening the war. The war has now widened to the point that Russia is preparing, should the need arise, to wipe out US/NATO military capability in Europe.
Doctorow is not confident that the West will come to its senses. Neither am I.
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“Yes, but they’re our bastards”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTD5esNc2yM
by The Gray Zone
(1:27:16)
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the British parliament's hosting of actual neo-Nazis from Ukraine, the push in Washington for Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia, the new ICJ ruling on Rafah, the Biden admin's pathetic withdrawal of another red line on Israeli violence, and Trump's disturbing Veepstakes.
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“Inside one Israeli death and torture camp”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/inside-one-israeli-death-and-torture-camp
by Tamara Nassar
Torture, amputations and the fetid smell of untreated wounds hang heavy in the air at the Sde Teiman facility.
An army base situated between Beersheba and Gaza in the southern Negev region, it was turned into a detention center for Palestinians, including abductees from Gaza, before they are transferred to other prisons.
Three Israelis who worked at the facility, and possibly participated in abuses against Palestinians, gave testimonies and pictures to CNN of what they witnessed.
The whistleblowers painted a grim picture of what amounts to a torture camp, where Palestinians are held without charge, interrogated and filtered through to detention centers or sent back to Gaza.
The facility is segregated into two areas: one designated for the detention of 70 Palestinians from Gaza, where they are subjected to severe physical restraint, CNN reported.
The other section serves as a so-called field hospital, where injured detainees are immobilized and strapped to their beds, forced to defecate in their diapers and fed through straws.
At least three army bases have been transformed into detention facilities since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began on 7 October, at least so far as the Israeli military has admitted to: Sde Teiman in Israel, and the Anatot and Ofer military bases in the occupied West Bank.
The number of Palestinians detained at those facilities is unknown.
During its ground invasion, the Israeli army converted schools within the Gaza Strip into military bases and detention centers, according to the group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
One notable example is the Salah al-Din preparatory school in Gaza City. That school was transformed by Israeli occupation forces into a detention and interrogation center for hundreds of Palestinians in February.
Recent legal amendments have paved the way for such facilities, notably the “unlawful combatant law,” which expands Israeli authorities’ powers to detain Palestinians without charge, trial, seeing a judge or legal oversight for up to 75 days after arrest.
Detainees may also be deprived of legal counsel for up to six months.
“Unlawful combatants” have previously included individuals such as an elderly Palestinian woman with Alzheimer’s.
Formerly detained Palestinians at Sde Teiman have also described the harrowing conditions inflicted by Israeli authorities.
Pictures leaked to CNN depict rows of prisoners handcuffed, blindfolded and held behind a fence under floodlights.
“The prisoners are subjected to collective beatings and abuse by soldiers, using profanities that prisoners are unable to repeat,” prisoners rights group Addameer reported.
“They are also forced to kneel on gravel or asphalt, spending their days with their hands bound and blindfolded, unable to speak to each other.”
Addameer said Israeli interrogators torture detainees and subject them to “dignity-stripping treatment,” including stress positions for hours as well as sleep deprivation.
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“Australian Doctor REVEALS Experience INSIDE Gaza”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pynvwAli_yo
(28:12)
Australian Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr Aziz Bhimani recounts his first-hand experiences inside Gaza after participating in a United Nations humanitarian medical convoy.
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“Israel's national murder-suicide pact”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-national-murder-suicide-pact/46006
by Asa Winstanley
(3:38)
An Israeli father gave a frightening TV interview back in February.
Thomas Hand grasped the small palm of his 9-year-old daughter Emily. The girl had been released in a prisoner exchange with Hamas only a few months prior.
As she watched on, her father told Israeli interviewer Tali Moreno he had been willing to sacrifice her, in order to further Israel’s genocidal war effort against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Speaking of her short time in Palestinian captivity, he said that the Israeli military “had to do everything in its powers to destroy Hamas,” even if that meant killing his own daughter.
“I realized that she could be bombed, could be shot by friendly fire,” he said. And yet: “That was a price that in my head, I could say: ‘Yeah okay.’ So long as we destroy Hamas.”
You can watch the relevant clip in the video above.
The interview was with Israel’s Kan, a state-funded channel. Although conducted mostly in English, there are a few exchanges in Hebrew with Emily herself. You can watch a subtitled version of the full interview here.
But Hand’s cold-blooded attitude towards his own child is only one example of a wider phenomenon in Israeli society.
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“Why Israel is in deep trouble”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kAfIYtpcBxo&si=pvwT1uWODIbUNkMn
with John Mearsheimer with Tom Switzer
(1:35:00)
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on 29 September 2023 that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” That all changed on October 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, which unsurprisingly invaded Gaza to destroy Hamas. After more than six months, it appears to many that Israel is losing its war in Gaza. At the same time, Israel is fighting Hezbollah on its northern border, relations between Jerusalem and Washington are strained, and the International Court of Justice has ruled that a plausible case can be made that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, there is great danger of escalation across the region, as the fighting between Israel and Iran makes clear. Indeed, there is a possibility the United States, which is already fighting the Houthis, might end up in a war with Iran, which neither country wants. What might be the lasting consequences of these conflicts? Who will emerge weaker and who stronger? And what does this crisis mean for U.S. foreign policy in the region, Ukraine and East Asia?
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“TENSIONS ESCALATED Like Never Before! The West Has ...”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=spEWkQumkZU&si=-2wOjkXEursvL7I1
with John Mearsheimer
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“Why Israel Kidnaps Children (Jewish Ones Too)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thWFCrl6ZiU
(10:53)
You might have heard about children in Gaza going missing, kidnapped by Israeli soldiers. Israel’s done this kind of thing before. Between 1948 and the early 1950s, Israel kidnapped thousands of children - Jewish children. It's known as the Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair, and it's one example of the core philosophy that binds Israel to every other settler-colony in the world.
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“John Mearsheimer Reveals: Jerusalem In CHAOS! Israel’s Next Move After B….”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JYKTt56siEY&si=DMCKbbtrAUSi9LOg
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“Assange Wins Right to Appeal”
https://off-guardian.org/2024/05/20/discuss-assange-wins-right-to-appeal/
by The Off Guardian
The UK High Court has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange does have the right to an appeal following his extradition hearing late last year.
Assange was once again absent from the court for health reasons, but speaking outside the court following the news his wife Stella Assange said:
“Now is the moment to drop this case…this case is shameful and it is taking an enormous toll on Julian”
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“Follow the Money: How Israel-Linked Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests”
by ALAN MACLEOD
America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept the nation, with encampments on college campuses in 45 of America’s 50 states. The crackdown has been swift; thousands of students have been arrested, charged, fined, lost their degrees, or even deported. Amid corporate media demanding a “Kent State 2.0”, riot police, armored vehicles and snipers have been deployed across the country to terrify those campaigning for justice into silence.
Why have overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations against a foreign power’s actions been met with such a heavy-handed response? A MintPress News investigation finds that those same elite institutions have deep financial and ideological ties to the state of Israel, are funded by pro-Israel billionaires who have demanded they take action to crush the student movement, are partially funded by the Israeli government, and exist in a climate where Washington has made it clear that the protests should not be tolerated.
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“Students Trigger to Stop Wars? Top Universities Pro-Palestine Encampments – A Shift Towards Justice or Just Illusion?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/top-universities-pro-palestine-encampments/5856022
by Peter Koenig
“The whole world thinks that Gaza is occupied by Israel. The truth is that the whole world is occupied by Israel except Gaza.” (Anonymous)
This makes sense as the whole world – or its Western “leaders” (sic) – is cheering for Zionist-Israel. But Gaza and Palestine are defending their turf. Not to be occupied by Israel.
They will succeed. At a high cost. Yes. But Palestine will prevail. They will not be defeated, and the Zionist atrocities, the endless horrifying torture, the indiscriminate killing, bombing, shooting, destruction of vital infrastructure, hospitals, schools – more than 40,000 Palestinians killed, most of them in Gaza, of whom more than 70% women and children – MUST not go unpunished.
The Nuremberg Code on War Crimes and Human Rights MUST be revived.
In the last few days, mainstream and non-mainstream media reported of massive student encampments, protesting for Gaza, for Palestine against Zionist-Israel. It is almost reminiscent of anti-Vietnam War movements of the late 60s and early 70s.
According to Resistance News Network (@RNN_Messaging_Bot), this appears to be happening at more than 45 top universities around the world, including dozens in the US. Many of them Ivy League learning institutes, such as MIT, Harvard, Yale, Berkley, UCLA, Brown, Columbia, Emery, City University NYC, and many more.
They are joined by universities in Australia and France.
How real is this? A unilateral defense cry for Palestine, not only by Palestinian and Arab students but by students of all colors and creeds in solidarity.
Gaza: Zionist Israel Atrocities — Limitless and No End
Knowing that these largely Zionist-funded universities are likely going to crack down on these encampments – what has already started – students may be suspended.
Then, all of a sudden appears a more sobering set of news – namely that Soros’s Open Society Foundation is funding most of the student anti-Israel protests, as reported three days ago by RT.
Why would Soros, the Woke Master, suddenly fund anti-Israel cum Zionist protests around the globe, of course, with focus on the US?
“Divide to conquer”?
Creating “false flags”?
Making believe that there is a huge pro-Palestine movement taking place at US universities?
It may give universities’ administrators the opportunity to officially – with much fanfare – crack down on student camps on university grounds, demonstrating concerned universities pro-Zionist-Israel stand (naturally, supporting their funders), letting future students know what they may be up to, in case they decide to apply to these universities.
The emerging bigger picture might be that student protests can be wiped out by the Powers-that-be, easily supported by the system’s forces of order, police, and military, if needed.
In which case Soros’s agenda is pro-Israel, pro-WEF, similarly as the Woke Movement supports the objectives of the WEF’s Great Reset and the UN Agenda 2030 – massive population reduction and control of every corner of human existence.
Almost simultaneously appear new speculations. RT reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top officials with war crimes and issue warrants for their arrest as early as this week. This is based on an NBC News report of 29 April 2024. Also included in warrants issued may be Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, army chief Herzl Halevi, and other unnamed senior military officers.
However, another sobering note, in NBC’s own words,
“Israel is working through diplomatic channels to try to stop the warrants being issued.”
Does anybody believe Israel may fail in her attempt to stop the warrants?
Who controls the ICC? Or asked differently, who dares going against the Zionist’s and Zionist-Washington’s “wishes”?
The ICC simply told NBC that it “has an ongoing independent investigation in relation to the situation in the State of Palestine” and has “no further comment to make at this stage.” See this.
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What if the so-called student movement, the ICC “attempt” to arrest top Israeli officials including the Prime Minister, other apparently increasing protests around the globe against Israel, is but a new propaganda sting, demonstrating that despite all opposition to Zionist-Israel wiping Palestine off the map – stopping Zionism is not going to happen.
In the words of an “anonymous” above:
“The truth is that the whole world is occupied by Israel except Gaza.”
Once this lesson sinks in, the world may wake up and have a chance to free itself from Zionism’s evil claws.
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“The Rise of Pro-Palestine Encampments in Calgary, ‘The Police Went into Full War Mode in Riot Gear’”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/robert-inlakesh-on-the-rise-of-pro-palestine-encampments/5857508
with Robert Inlakesh and Michael Welch
This interview was recorded for the Global Research News Hour. Published May 18, 2024. Find a link here:
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“A Brutal Suppression of Speech”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/24/michael-brenner-a-brutal-suppression-of-speech/
by Michael Brenner
The increasingly common resort to diktats by U.S. authorities is a notable feature of contemporary American society — in all spheres, writes
Denial of civil liberties, accompanied by punishment for anybody who exposes those violations, has become commonplace in contemporary America.
Yet, nothing that the nation has experienced — and that the more discerning protest — prepared us for the grotesque spectacle on display in the brutal suppression of free speech on university campuses.
What we witness is the iron fist of autocracy employed to intimidate, to hurt, to deter those who would question — however peaceably — the right of the powers-that-be to impose their confected version of the truth on the public. Moreover, it is grounded on an arbitrary assumption of power having no basis in law or customary practice.
Two singular features of this situation focus our attention. First, there is the stunning near unanimity of agreement by all segments of society’s elites on the rightness of the ruling narrative — and on the actions they take to enforce it.
That is to say:
1) casting the issue as the dangerous radicalization of students by nefarious forces;
2) smearing demonstrators as “anti-Semites” — despite the large numbers of Jewish participants;
3) blanking out any reference to the cause and motivations of the protest: Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians; and
4) the need to crack down hard on these seditious students — physically by rioting police, and administratively by summary expulsions and suspensions without a semblance of due process.
These assertions emanate from the mouths of elected officials, police commissioners, media personalities, pundits and — most distressing — university presidents as well as boards of regents and trustees.
Faculty Backing Students . . . .
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“Police Make First Arrest for Assault on Pro-Palestine Protesters at UCLA”
by Edward Carver
The arrest followed a CNN investigation that documented the hourslong attack and identified key perpetrators from the pro-Israel mob.
University of California, Los Angeles police on Thursday made their first arrest in the case of a violent mob attack on protestors at a peaceful pro-Palestine encampment at the university on April 30 and May 1.
The police charged Edan On, an 18-year-old high school senior, with felony assault for attacking at least one person with a wooden pole. He was remanded to a Los Angeles jail, where he’s being held on a $30,000 bond, according toThe Guardian. On was first identified for his role in the mob attack, led by so-called counterprotestors, in a CNNinvestigation published May 16. . . . .
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“2020 Documentary: Who Is Bill Gates? How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/full-documentary-bill-gates/5857856
with James Corbett
(2:05:57)
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