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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Interesting and informative videos I found the time to watch during these tyrannical times imposed by our overlords

Cyrus Janssen & Daniel Dumbrill Chat ... mostly on China. Both guys are connected to Canada. There should be more voices like these giving us a clear picture on China and debunking the propaganda being distributed by the Epoch Times in Canada and elsewhere and the falsehoods which are eagerly lapped up by the China-hating Canadian Conservatives. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ICC's "Landmark Decision" Could Open Door to Prosecuting Israel for War Crimes in Palestine 17,189 views •8 Feb 2021 Isn't it strange that the Canadian conservatives harp on about "genocide" of Muslims in China but never a pip comes out from their lying mouths about Israel's bombing of civilians in Gaza and Syria. Hypocrites! .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... No US Deaths In Afghanistan! Will Biden Stick To Trump's Exit Plan? Written by Daniel McAdams Tuesday February 9, 2021 This week marks the first 12 month period in two decades in which there have been no US combat deaths in Afghanistan. The Trump Administration signed an agreement for complete withdrawal by May if the Taliban ends attacks. Will Biden stick to the deal? Also today: Florida update and more. Watch the Liberty Report: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 'Do Not Trust The Medical Or The National Security Establishment!' With Guest Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Aug 14, 2020 Nephew of President John F. Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, and tireless crusader against the tyranny of the mainstream medical establishment, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joins today's Liberty Report to discuss his startling discoveries about who really killed his father and uncle...and why. Plus, Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has been among the most vocal and most successful opponents of the mainstream medical establishment, driven by big Pharma to inoculate and medicate everything that moves. He tells the Liberty Report how he very reluctantly decided to dedicate his career to fighting the mandatory vaccines that have resulted in so many documented injuries to the recipients. .... ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... This is a Must Watch video ... especially interesting is the segment where an explanation is given how circles of powerful entities can be formed in such a way that only the core of the circle (probably just a handful of manipulators) know how the end results they are seeking will be achieved whereas those in other circles created by the core might have an inkling of the plot but most will not have the slightest idea that their own actions and activities are being manipulated for ulterior reasons. How Can A Global Conspiracy Work? - Questions For Corbett SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=40083​ John writes in to ask how a global conspiracy can function and how it can be kept under wraps. Good question. Join James for this week's edition of Questions For Corbett where he tackles the most common objections of the skeptics and their fallacious counter-arguments against the global conspiracy. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Leaks expose massive Western propaganda op in Syria proxy war oct 2020 ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Important watching for Canadians fighting the Trudeau government's tyranny during this virus phase in our lives

The website address of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is: https://www.jccf.ca/

 

The Canadian government announced it was going to subject Canadian residents to mandatory quarantine, at their own expense, after returning from international travel, regardless of their negative COVID status. After public backlash and the threat of legal action, the government is now delaying those plans, but some are alleging that the government has already arrested Canadians arriving in the country by air and transported them to a secret hotel location. Joining us to discuss this developing story and what Canadians can do about it is John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Some interesting reads for political junkies

 
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2021/february/11/coronavirus-crackdown-claims-another-free-speech-victim-robert-f-kennedy-jr-kicked-off-instagram/

Coronavirus Crackdown Claims Another Free Speech Victim: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kicked off Instagram
Written by Adam Dick
Thursday February 11, 2021

The headline at Reuters today reads “Instagram bans Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.” Misinformation? Not really. What Kennedy has been providing is information different from what government, along with big money media and social media have been pushing over the last year in America — the long-time fearmongering concerning coronavirus and praising of coronavirus crackdowns, as well as the recent incessant promoting that everyone should take the experimental coronavirus vaccines.

Kennedy, and his Children’s Health Defense organization have been relentlessly countering the government, media, and social media propaganda related to both coronavirus and the extreme and dangerous government policies undertaken in the name of countering coronavirus over the last year......


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Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation waged by Western govt contractors and media
Ben Norton·September 23, 2020

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/23/syria-leaks-uk-contractors-opposition-media/


Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network.
(Puede leer este artículo en español aquí.)

Update (September 29, 2020): A few days after this article was published, the authenticity of these leaked materials was indirectly confirmed by the British government, which reported that hundreds of Foreign Office documents detailing its Syria propaganda operations were hacked in an alleged cyber attack.

Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support in the West for Syria’s political and armed opposition.

Virtually every aspect of the Syrian opposition was cultivated and marketed by Western government-backed public relations firms, from their political narratives to their branding, from what they said to where they said it.

The leaked files reveal how Western intelligence cutouts played the media like a fiddle, carefully crafting English- and Arabic-language media coverage of the war on Syria to churn out a constant stream of pro-opposition coverage.

US and European contractors trained and advised Syrian opposition leaders at all levels, from young media activists to the heads of the parallel government-in-exile. These firms also organized interviews for Syrian opposition leaders on mainstream outlets such as BBC and the UK’s Channel 4.

More than half of the stringers used by Al Jazeera in Syria were trained in a joint US-UK government program called Basma, which produced hundreds of Syrian opposition media activists.......

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Why are Effective and Inexpensive Chinese and Russian Vaccines Unavailable in Much of the West?

by Kim Petersen / February 15th, 2021

https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/why-are-effective-and-inexpensive-chinese-and-russian-vaccines-unavailable-in-much-of-the-west/


............Would Canada refuse to consider securing vaccines from Russia to safeguard the health of Canadians to avoid granting Putin, derided by Canadian magazine Macleans as a “new Stalin,” a political victory? Why shouldn’t Russia be lauded for coming up first with a working and effective vaccine? What does it matter if the leader of that country receives recognition? Shouldn’t the national priority be obtaining the best vaccine to protect the health of citizens?

Medical data aside, western mass media has, apparently, been effective in stirring up a distrust of COVID-19 vaccines from China and Russia in comparison to western vaccines, as revealed in a YouGov poll of almost 19,000 people worldwide............

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Biden Must Keep His Promise and Rejoin the Iran Deal — Before It’s Too Late
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies    | February 17, 2021

https://fpif.org/biden-must-keep-his-promise-and-rejoin-the-iran-deal-before-its-too-late/


As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America’s new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the world and the international system.

Cautious international optimism toward Biden is very much based on his commitment to Obama’s signature diplomatic achievement: the Joint Plan of Action, or JCPOA — the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Biden and the Democrats excoriated Trump for withdrawing from the JCPOA and promised to promptly rejoin the deal if elected. But Biden now appears to be hedging his position in a way that risks turning what should be an easy win for the new administration into an avoidable and tragic diplomatic failure.

While it was the United States under Trump that withdrew from the nuclear agreement, Biden is taking the position that the U.S. will not rejoin the agreement or drop its unilateral sanctions until Iran first comes back into compliance. After withdrawing from the agreement, the United States is in no position to make such demands, and Foreign Minister Zarif has clearly and eloquently rejected them, reiterating Iran’s firm commitment that it will return to full compliance as soon as the United States does so......................




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https://www.globalresearch.ca/post-pandemic-landscapes-behaviour-modification-new-consensus-reality/5738085

Dr. Kingsley Dennis

Global Research, February 23, 2021
New Dawn 1 September 2020
 

The ‘COVID Event’ handed the unreal world its great coup over the place of the real. This perception intervention gave the final stimulus necessary to tip the twenty-first century into an awaiting technologically manipulated reality. A new landscape is emerging where, for the first time, the human mind is finding itself out-of-place within its own territory. Emerging ‘post-pandemic’ landscapes are likely to be hazardous territory for our mental, emotional and physical states. The human condition is under modification. 

New forms of power are rising, embedded within structures of health security, re-imagining our social lives, living and workspaces, and our physical and digital movements. Until now, the spider’s web of social control mainly operated below the waterline in a space where an almost intangible world existed beyond governance or accountability. Now the Kraken awakes and unashamedly rises to the surface. The beast of behaviour modification spreads its tentacles through our established social and cultural landscape without shame – all in the name of health security (the new nom de plume for social management). It is encroaching upon our media, city life, the office, and – perhaps most of all – the online digital world. The modification of these spaces is set to further desensitise, anaesthetise, and dehumanise us – the collective human mind is being groomed and prepared for a new consensus reality of “normalised dissonance.”..........


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Why are Effective and Inexpensive Chinese and Russian Vaccines Unavailable in Much of the West?

by Kim Petersen / February 15th, 2021

https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/why-are-effective-and-inexpensive-chinese-and-russian-vaccines-unavailable-in-much-of-the-west/

............Would Canada refuse to consider securing vaccines from Russia to safeguard the health of Canadians to avoid granting Putin, derided by Canadian magazine Macleans as a “new Stalin,” a political victory? Why shouldn’t Russia be lauded for coming up first with a working and effective vaccine? What does it matter if the leader of that country receives recognition? Shouldn’t the national priority be obtaining the best vaccine to protect the health of citizens?

Medical data aside, western mass media has, apparently, been effective in stirring up a distrust of COVID-19 vaccines from China and Russia in comparison to western vaccines, as revealed in a YouGov poll of almost 19,000 people worldwide............

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Biden Must Keep His Promise and Rejoin the Iran Deal — Before It’s Too Late
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies    | February 17, 2021

https://fpif.org/biden-must-keep-his-promise-and-rejoin-the-iran-deal-before-its-too-late/


As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America’s new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the world and the international system.

Cautious international optimism toward Biden is very much based on his commitment to Obama’s signature diplomatic achievement: the Joint Plan of Action, or JCPOA — the nuclear agreement with Iran.

Biden and the Democrats excoriated Trump for withdrawing from the JCPOA and promised to promptly rejoin the deal if elected. But Biden now appears to be hedging his position in a way that risks turning what should be an easy win for the new administration into an avoidable and tragic diplomatic failure.

While it was the United States under Trump that withdrew from the nuclear agreement, Biden is taking the position that the U.S. will not rejoin the agreement or drop its unilateral sanctions until Iran first comes back into compliance. After withdrawing from the agreement, the United States is in no position to make such demands, and Foreign Minister Zarif has clearly and eloquently rejected them, reiterating Iran’s firm commitment that it will return to full compliance as soon as the United States does so......................

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Escobar: The Art Of Being A Spectacularly Misguided Oracle

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times,

The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded as nothing but a war criminal.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-art-being-spectacularly-misguided-oracle

Brzezinski never achieved the same notoriety. At best he claimed bragging rights for giving the USSR its own Vietnam in Afghanistan – by facilitating the internationalization of Jihad Inc., with all its dire, subsequent consequences.

Over the years, it was always amusing to follow the heights Dr. Zbig would reach with his Russophobia. But then, slowly but surely, he was forced to revise his great expectations. And finally he must have been truly horrified that his perennial Mackinder-style geopolitical fears came to pass – beyond the wildest nightmares.

Not only Washington had prevented the emergence of a “peer competitor” in Eurasia, but the competitor is now configured as a strategic partnership between Russia and China.

Dr. Zbig was not exactly versed in Chinese matters. His misreading of China may be found in his classic A Geostrategy for Eurasia published in – where else – Foreign Affairs in 1997:

Although China is emerging as a regionally dominant power, it is not likely to become a global one for a long time. The conventional wisdom that China will be the next global power is breeding paranoia outside China while fostering megalomania in China. It is far from certain that China’s explosive growth rates can be maintained for the next two decades. In fact, continued long-term growth at the current rates would require an unusually felicitous mix of national leadership, political tranquility, social discipline, high savings, massive inflows of foreign investment, and regional stability. A prolonged combination of all of these factors is unlikely.....

 

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

On the happenings in Ecuador, the farce of the impeachment of Trump, on wars on behalf of Israel, virus madness and lockdowns, firing of journalists for speaking the truth,,

designer ribeye steaks  and the global warming benefactors, etc.etc.

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How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate aids the right-wing

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/yaku-perez-pachakutik-ecuador-us-coup/

Ben Norton·  February 6, 2021


Ecuador’s third-place presidential candidate Yaku Pérez and his US-backed party Pachakutik supported coups in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. His supposedly “left-wing” environmentalist campaign is being promoted by right-wing corporate lobbyists.

Ecuador’s historic February 7 election could bring a popular revolutionary movement back from the dead and help fuel a new wave of socialist governments in Latin America.

The contrast between the two main presidential candidates could hardly be more stark: On one side is a conservative banker backed by Ecuadorian elites and the United States, Guillermo Lasso; and on the other is a youthful left-wing economist, Andrés Arauz, who follows in the footsteps of socialist former President Rafael Correa and wants to return to his Citizens’ Revolution......

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Don’t Impeach Trump. Impeach the Deep State for Its Conspiracy to Kill the Constitution
Written by John W. Whitehead
Tuesday February 9, 2021

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/february/09/don-t-impeach-trump-impeach-the-deep-state-for-its-conspiracy-to-kill-the-constitution/


“All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”—George Orwell, 1984

Let’s be clear about one thing: the impeachment of Donald Trump is a waste of time and money.

Impeaching Trump will accomplish very little, and it will not in any way improve the plight of the average American. It will only reinforce the spectacle and farce that have come to be synonymous with politics today

While the nation allows itself to be distracted by yet more bread-and-circus politics, the American kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians and corporate thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of the people) continues to suck the American people into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry are powerless to defend themselves against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere............

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Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media

Philip Giraldi
February 4, 2021

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/04/why-always-israel-only-one-country-matters-to-congress-and-the-media/



...Politicians are quite aware that giving the wrong answer on Israel can be fatal for one’s career. In many congressional districts the training of lawmakers begins early, with representatives of the hundreds of Israel Lobby affiliates interviewing potential candidates on their views relating to the Jewish state. In many cases, attempts are made to get possible candidates to sign statements affirming that they hold the correct views on Israel versus its neighbors. The sensitivity towards Israeli and Jewish issues must continue after one is elected, resulting in questions in public fora like confirmation hearings. It never hurts to advertise one’s loyalty to Israel early and often.

Questions about Israel inevitably also came up in the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Blinken is Jewish, a confirmed Zionist, and now heads a State Department where his deputy and political affairs chief are both Jewish women hardliners who basically share his views. Biden, Blinken and company advocate policies in the Middle East that are definitely pleasing to the Israeli government, such as de facto continuing a hard line with Iran.......


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Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns?

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research,

People of the future will look back at these 11 months and be very confused. How could virtually the entire world have thrown out settled practices of civil, economic, and cultural liberties for a virus that resisted every attempt to control it?

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/who-wanted-pandemic-

This virus is not Ebola and it has come nowhere near approaching the death rates associated with H1N1 of 1918. By some measures, it’s not been as deadly as 1957-58, a virus that came and went without much public attention at all. New pathogens are part of life, and there was and is nothing particularly unusual about this one.

The enduring question now and for many years to come will be: why? We all asked the question a thousand times, and it has been asked of us the same number of times. It is too early to say, and the answer will likely be similar to other epic events in history such as the Great War or the Fall of Rome. ......

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By Jonathan Cook

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-02-11/guardian-sack-columnist-israel/



The Guardian revealed its true face in sacking a columnist for criticising US military aid to Israel
11 February 2021

The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise. He is only the latest in a long line of journalists, myself included, who have run foul of the Guardian’s unwritten but tightly policed constraints on what can be said about Israel.

In the tweet below, I have listed a few of the more prominent – and public – examples of journalists who have suffered at the Guardian’s hands over their coverage of Israel.

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The “Great Zero Carbon” Conspiracy

By F. William Engdahl

https://www.globalresearch.ca/great-zero-carbon-criminal-conspiracy/5736707

.....Many have forgotten the original scientific thesis put forward to justify a radical shift in our energy sources. It was not “climate change.” Earth climate is constantly changing, correlated to changes in the emission of solar flares or sunspot cycles affecting Earth climate.

Around the turn of the millennium as the previous solar-led warming cycle was no longer evident, Al Gore and others shifted the narrative in a linguistic sleight-of-hand to “Climate Change,” from Global Warming. Now the fear narrative has gotten so absurd that every freak weather event is treated as “climate crisis.” Every hurricane or winter storm is claimed as proof that the Climate Gods are punishing us sinful CO2 emitting humans.

But wait. The entire reason for the transition to alternative energy sources such as solar or wind, and abandoning carbon energy sources, is their claim that CO2 is a greenhouse gas that somehow goes up to the atmosphere where it forms a blanket that supposedly warms the Earth below—Global Warming. Greenhouse gas emissions according to the US Environmental Protection Agency come mostly from CO2. Hence the focus on “carbon footprints.”

What is almost never said is that CO2 cannot soar up into the atmosphere from car exhaust or coal plants or other manmade origins. Carbon dioxide is not carbon or soot. It is an invisible, odorless gas essential to plant photosynthesis and all life forms on earth, including us. CO2 has a molecular weight of just over 44 while air (mainly oxygen and nitrogen) has a molecular weight of only 29. .............

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If Israelis put the almost 5 Billion $s they get annually from US taxpayers and put it into stuff like this instead of  making killing of their their neighbours a favorite hobby... that's ok with me.


'High Steaks' As Israeli Startup Prints World's First Ribeye

Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/high-steaks-israeli-startup-prints-worlds-first-ribeye

Israeli-based Aleph Farms Ltd. has created the world's first slaughter-free steak using three-dimensional "bio-printing" and real cells from a cow.

Aleph teamed up with biomedical researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to print lab-grown ribeyes intended for human consumption without slaughtering an animal.

"It incorporates muscle and fat similar to its slaughtered counterpart," the company said in a press release, adding that its steaks taste just like a "juicy ribeye steak you'd buy from the butcher." ....


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Why The UK Government Now Must, But Won't, Abandon Lockdown

https://www.aier.org/article/why-the-uk-government-now-must-but-wont-abandon-lockdown/

 
Authored by David Campbell via The American Institute for Economic Research,
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-uk-government-now-must-wont-abandon-lockdown



....When the UK Government became aware of the Covid-19 virus, it was obliged to make a decision with extremely imperfect knowledge. In part the imperfection was of knowledge of the organism itself. Though knowledge of human coronaviruses has accumulated over more than 50 years, Covid-19 was very likely only recently existent and certainly only recently known to UK and worldwide epidemiology. But much more important was the imperfection of knowledge of what sensibly could be done. A policy aimed at the entire population was from the outset bound to impose burdens on the Government’s capacity to formulate in detail and implement a policy unprecedented in the history of the modern state. All that could be said at the outset was that the costs of such a policy would be immense, certainly greater than those of any other peacetime policy ever adopted.

Such a policy was nevertheless adopted, largely on the basis of the claim that it was extremely desirable as it would avoid huge illness and loss of life. I must make it clear that I believe the predictions of these effects were speculations of a familiar, alarmist type, since given public credence by statistical reporting and other official information that is worse than worthless.

The point I wish to make here, however, is that desirability has no logical connection with possibility, and the Government’s lack of capacity to formulate and implement its policy has been amply demonstrated by the extremely undesirable results of its actions over the last year. The conclusion that because one’s knowledge of risk is extremely imperfect one therefore should undertake an extremely ambitious policy to eliminate that risk is absurd. Wanting to do something does not mean that one knows what to do, and to respond by trying to do everything means undertaking the impossible, and so inevitably encountering repeated failure. The damage having been done, the issue now is how to abandon the policy......

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Monday, February 15, 2021

My tweets and some of my retweets ... Feb 1 to 15, 2021

Monday, February 8, 2021

Some interesting videos ... mostly on the day traders' uprising against hedge fund multi-billionaires

Reddit rebellion: amateur investors hold the line against Wall Street fat cats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfIWgXi0UwE ........................................................................................................... The Gamestop Stock Situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bya-t5yhwa0 ............................................................................................................... Saagar Enjeti: Former SEC Commissioner Likens Redditors To CAPITOL RIOTERS For Destroying Hedge Fund https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57wOZpOzs9w .......................................................................................................... “This is Tulsi Gabbard” - COMING SOON! ............................................................................. https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/explosive-video-exposes-mi6-links-to-alexei-navalny/ xplosive Video Exposes MI6 Links to Alexei Navalny by RT / February 1st, 2021 RT’s Murad Gazdiev reports on new evidence of links between MI6 and Russian opposition figure and activist Alexei Navalny. Then author and professor of international human rights Dan Kovalik joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the role of the US and UK in fomenting political discord in Russia and other countries. .......................................................................................................... Ecuador's historic election explained: Inside the Citizens' Revolution 9,594 views •6 Feb 2021

Interesting reads for those political junkies still insisting on reading sober articles

 It's hard to tear myself away from my new addiction ...online games.  Every time I see some madness spouted on the "news" either on TV or online ... I make a hasty retreat to my new world of games.  There are plenty of interesting games all over the net and almost all of them are free.  Some might be just plain dumb and mindless but then what choice do you have between the madness of the Covid virus, the warmongering politics of the dying empire, the hatred of the other all around us, etc.etc. ... and another avenue for dulling your brain cells, huh???  Give me the dumb games... at least they don't raise my blood pressure... unless I am losing.  Or give me the only good thing printed at The Guardian UK ... the cryptic puzzles.

However, I do spend an hour or two every day reading some meaningful stuff from my old and trusted bloggers or websites that carry an aggregate of articles from writers who are still holding it together in this crazy world of ours.

Below some of those writings that will keep you in the same boat as the rest of us trying to wade through the madness imposed on us by the 1%ters.

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Jungle Gyms and Grenades: Chemical Warfare in Portland and the Lasting Impacts at a Nearby School
Alissa Azar   Jan 27

https://alissa-azar.medium.com/jungle-gyms-and-grenades-chemical-warfare-in-portland-and-the-lasting-impacts-at-a-nearby-school-76edf33fc5f1


......... The chemical weapons deployed on citizens practicing their first amendment rights cause immediate side effects and health problems, and these symptoms have only been intensifying for many people.

In the days to follow Fed War, there has been a continued use of these chemical weapons as these tactics have been consistently used by federal agents such as DHS, as well as US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ICE Special Response Team (SRT), The Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), as well as replicated by the Portland Police Bureau as they continue to escalate. For the majority of the summer, demonstrations were pretty centralized to downtown as everything was taking place at the (In)Justice Center and the Federal Courthouse. As soon as activists started holding demonstrations at different precincts, federal agents and the police were still unleashing chemical warfare, only then they had began doing it in residential neighborhoods, gassing children that were asleep in their own homes- and at the ICE building, fumigating an entire school..............


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"Everyone Is Afraid Ahead Of The Open" - Reddit-Raiders Spark Nationwide Physical Silver Shortage

Tyler Durden   Jan 31

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/reddit-preparing-unleash-worlds-biggest-short-squeeze-silver



..... Reddit user 'TheHappyHawaiian' posted the following thesis on buying silver noting that "the worlds biggest short squeeze is possible and we can make history."

'TheHappyHawaiian' cites two reasons to buy - The Short Squeeze and Fundamentals.

    The short squeeze:

    Buy SLV shares (or PSLV shares) and SLV call options to force physical delivery of silver to the SLV vaults.

    The silver futures market has oscillated between having roughly 100-1 and 500-1 ratio of paper traded silver to physical silver, but lets call it 250-1 for now. This means that for every 250 ounces in open interest in the futures market, only 1 actually gets delivered. Most traders would rather settle with cash rather than take delivery of thousands of ounces of silver and have to figure out to store and transport it in the future.

    The people naked shorting silver via the futures markets are a couple of large banks and making them pay dearly for their over leveraged naked shorts would be incredible. It's not Melvin capital on the other side of this trade, its JP Morgan. Time to get some payback for the bailouts and manipulation they've done for decades (look up silver manipulation fines that JPM has paid over the years).....

.... The futures market is kind of the wild west of the financial world. Real commodities are being traded, and if you are short, you literally have to deliver thousands of ounces of silver per contract if the holder on the other side demands it. If you remember oil going negative back in May, that was possible because futures are allowed to trade to their true value. They aren't halted and that's what will make this so fun when the true squeeze happens.....

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On the Myammar coup .... two different views. One from Pepe Escobar....

Pepe Escobar
February 5, 2021

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/05/burmese-days-revisited/

It will be fascinating to watch how the (Dis)United States will deal with post-coup Myanmar as part of their 24/7 “containment of China” frenzy.

The (jade) elephant in the elaborate room housing the military coup in Myanmar had to be – what else – China. And the Tatmadaw – the Myanmar Armed Forces – knows it better than anyone.

There’s no smoking gun, of course, but it’s virtually impossible that Beijing had not been at least informed, or “consulted”, by the Tatmadaw on the new dispensation.

China, Myanmar’s top trade partner, is guided by three crucial strategic imperatives in the relationship with its southern neighbor: trade/connectivity via a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) corridor; full access to energy and minerals; and the necessity of cultivating a key ally within the 10-member ASEAN.

 

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.... and another one from LandDestroyer's Brian Berletic who used to write earlier as Tony Cartalucci

https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2021/02/myanmar-crisis-explained.html

 

Myanmar Crisis Explained...

February 2, 2021 (Brian Berletic - LD) - Myanmar’s military has seized power, detained Aung San Suu Kyi and has begun rounding up members of her National League for Democracy political party. 

I explain how the US has spent decades building ASSK’s political network and installing her into power and how US-backed groups - including those in Thailand - are already mobilizing to undermine not only Myanmar’s political stability - but also that of the entire region.

For a much more in-depth explanation, please view the video below. ..........



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The Largest Experiment on Humans Ever Seen
January 30, 2021 

Rob Slane

http://www.theblogmire.com/the-largest-experiment-on-humans-ever-seen/


Which is the more reasonable approach a society might take in the outbreak of epidemic:

    To quarantine the sick, and take reasonable precautions to stop those who are identified as vulnerable from contracting the illness.

    To attempt to “control the virus” by preventing millions of healthy people from having contact with other healthy people.

To any society prior to 2020, it would have been obvious that the first approach is not only logical and proportionate, but the one least likely to have other unintended and highly destructive consequences. However, to my continued astonishment, many in our society not only believe that the answer is the second, but they somehow believe it to be based on established science......


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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize countries and wreck their economies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56283.htm

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies

February 03, 2021 "Information Clearing House" -  In 2004, journalist Ron Suskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Suskind’s assumption that public policy must be rooted in “the reality-based community.” “We’re history’s actors,” the advisor told him, “…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Sixteen years later, the American wars and war crimes launched by the Bush administration have only spread chaos and violence far and wide, and this historic conjunction of criminality and failure has predictably undermined America’s international power and authority. Back in the imperial heartland, the political marketing industry that Rove and his colleagues were part of has had more success dividing and ruling the hearts and minds of Americans than of Iraqis, Russians or Chinese......

.....China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, while America’s poverty rate has barely budged in 50 years and child poverty has increased. America still has the weakest social safety net of any developed country and no universal healthcare system, and the inequalities of wealth and power caused by extreme neoliberalism have left half of Americans with little or no savings to live on in retirement or to weather any disruption in their lives....


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Creeping Corporate Statism, aka Fascism

By Ann Garrison

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56282.htm

February 03, 2021 "Information Clearing House" -  Despite depending on separate news media that purvey different realities, the two corporate parties both serve a corporate dictatorship.

When I look back to the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency, four light years ago, the first image that comes to mind is that of Jimmy Dore’s conversation  with Glenn Greenwald about Congressmember Adam Schiff’s appearance on The Tucker Carlson show. Schiff is a Democrat representing Orange County, California’s 28th District, and the military industrial complex . Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon are among his most generous campaign contributors. He voted against  banning armed forces in Libya without congressional approval, voted against  removing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, voted in favor  of the Iraq War, voted in favor  of arming moderate Syrian opposition rebels, and pushed  for the US to arm Ukrainian rebels.

Greenwald told Dore that Kyle Kulinski had recommended Dore’s video  “Tucker Carlson SHREDS Adam Schiff on Russian Election Hack,” and it was one of the funniest things he’d ever seen, so he’d be happy to appear on the Jimmy Dore Show any time. It was the beginning of a collaboration that keeps getting better, and the video that started it all is aging like a fine wine. .........


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https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/explosive-video-exposes-mi6-links-to-alexei-navalny/

explosive Video Exposes MI6 Links to Alexei Navalny

by RT / February 1st, 2021

RT’s Murad Gazdiev reports on new evidence of links between MI6 and Russian opposition figure and activist Alexei Navalny. Then author and professor of international human rights Dan Kovalik joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the role of the US and UK in fomenting political discord in Russia and other countries.

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Implanted “Vaccine Package” ID: Germany’s Parliament Has Ratified GAVI’s Digital “Agenda ID2020”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/implanted-vaccine-package-id-germanys-parliament-has-ratified-gavis-digital-agenda-id2020/5736277

Alarming News. In Germany the Parliament (Bundestag) ratified on 29 January 2021, the implementation of Agenda ID2020.

This is a centralized general electronic data collection of every citizen to which every government agency, police – and possibly also the private sector would have access.

It covers all that is known about an individual citizen, now up to 200 points of in formation and possibly more as time goes on, from your bank account to your shopping habits, health records (vaccination records, of course), your political inclinations, and probably even your dating habits and other entries into your private sphere. 

Agenda ID2020 was designed by Bill Gates as part of the “vaccination package”. It is backed by the Rockefeller Foundation, Accenture, the WEF and GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, now simply called the Vaccine Alliance), also a Gates creation (2001), with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

GAVI is located next door to the WHO. GAVI is called a public private partnership,

The public part being WHO, plus a number of developing countries;

The private partners are, of course a series of pharmaceutical companies, i. e. Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co. … and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The German extra-governmental Corona Commission, consisting of hundreds of medical doctors, virologists, immunologists, university professors – and lawyers, including Dr. Reiner Füllmich, co-founder of the Commission, has special concerns that the current Corona-Vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna), may include nano-particles that could be accessible to electro-magnetic radiation, i. e. 5G and the subsequent 6G. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................


Ottawa Should Apologize for Role in Agent Orange Use in Vietnam

https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/02/ottawa-should-apologize-for-role-in-agent-orange-use-in-vietnam/


A French legal battle offers an opportunity to revisit Canada’s role in chemical weapons use and whether Ottawa owes something to its Vietnamese victims.

On the weekend activists gathered in Paris to support a court case launched by a woman exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. The group Collectif Vietnam Dioxine is supporting French-Vietnamese woman, Tran To Nga, who is suing 14 companies that sold the powerful defoliant dioxin to the US military.

As a member of the Vietnamese Communists (Viet Cong) Nga breathed Agent Orange in 1966. She told the Associated Press “because of that, I lost one child due to heart defects. I have two other daughters who were born with malformations. And my grandchildren, too.” Spread between generations through breast milk, food and the water supply, Agent Orange victims’ children and grandchildren are often born with serious disabilities.........

 

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YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath Of Indie Media Accounts

 

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/02/03/youtube-financially-deplatforms-swath-of-indie-media-accounts/

The Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has demonetized numerous independent media accounts, a jarring escalation in the steadily intensifying campaign against alternative news outlets online.

Progressive commentators Graham Elwood, The Progressive Soapbox, The Convo CouchFranc Analysis, Hannah Reloaded and Cyberdemon531 have all received notifications from YouTube that their videos are no longer permitted to earn money through the platform’s various monetization features, as has Ford Fischer, a respected freelancer who films US political demonstrations. No explanation has been offered for this decision beyond the vague claim that “your channel is not in line with our YouTube Partner Program policies” due to “harmful content”......

 

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'The EU is an unreliable partner' Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov:

Bashing Russia When One Needs It Doesn't Work Well

By Moon Of Alabama

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56293.htm

February 07, 2021 "Information Clearing House" - Russia had recently said that it would take a more assertive stand against the sanctions and Navalny nonsense the 'west' is throwing at it.

Today the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visited Moscow. He had a talk with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

It was showtime:.................

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Citizens for Free Speech – #SolutionsWatch

02/02/2021

https://www.corbettreport.com/citizens-for-free-speech-solutionswatch/

 Patrick Wood joins us to discuss a new non-profit organization he has founded to help combat the threat to free speech: Citizens for Free Speech. With 26,000 members, the CFFS seeks to activate people at the local level and teach them how to better communicate their ideas and combat the threats to fundamental freedoms that are facing us during this generated crisis........