Thursday, February 25, 2021
Interesting and informative videos I found the time to watch during these tyrannical times imposed by our overlords
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Important watching for Canadians fighting the Trudeau government's tyranny during this virus phase in our lives
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
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
This is insane. All that fresh air & brainless jobsworths fining people having fun. "Just following orders". Read "This is how it happens" for important lessons from history that unfortunately even the mask enforcers should be only too aware of:https://t.co/fzKo1zYqJC
— Rich (@DrSmartbat) February 1, 2021
Fascism is back - make no mistake about it - shocking footage here of the dangerous slide towards the 1930's... https://t.co/Ty6btmuSOV
— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) February 1, 2021
"..Covidian Logic always has an answer to this, which is that these Lockdowns weren’t real Lockdowns. They were too little, too late, too soft, too lenient, too short, too small, too purple or something like that!...#cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli #virus #Fascismhttps://t.co/0ur7ba04Nn
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 1, 2021
— Zol Neveri (@ZNeveri) January 31, 2021
IMO, Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald are the best dissectors of the Left's lamebrain hypocrisy and its numerous blindsides. #cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli #Left https://t.co/lVzsCXZfOq
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 1, 2021
"....One of the world’s great ironies is that the Nobel Peace Prize has honoured so many men of violence.....
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 2, 2021
"Let’s dump the Nobel Peace Prize. With a roll call of winners featuring terrorists and warmongers....
#cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli #NobelPeacePrize https://t.co/8lYbYD3iFR
Dr Ron Paul has a question.
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 2, 2021
"Libertarian “Domestic Terrorists”? ????????#cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli #Libertarian https://t.co/DnHpqnBgEf via @grtvnews
Ecuadorians have had enough of the US puppet govt. They want change on Feb 7th. #cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli #Ecuador https://t.co/vOSTpUyUdx
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 3, 2021
Sooo, in the 1st place, why did the mother call the police? Has she been asleep all these years while stories of police brutality is all around us?
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 3, 2021
‘They should be fired’: Mother of child pepper sprayed..#cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli https://t.co/9juOWdaUtt https://t.co/4Gvmd3AaaZ
"..post-World War Two Americans grew up in carefully crafted ignorance of the very fact of American empire, and the myths woven to disguise it provide fertile soil for today’s political divisions and..
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 4, 2021
"The Decline and Fall..#cdnpoli #USPolitics #TOpolihttps://t.co/Mo5IvakEKs
Poulgrain begins with this question:
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 4, 2021
Would Allen Dulles have resorted to assassinating the President of the United States to ensure that his ‘Indonesian strategy’ rather than Kennedy’s was achieved?
"Indonesian Slaughter..#books #cdnpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/mL6z1BhA75
Pretty explosive but Twitter will of course controlled the feed.... as usual.#spies #MI6 #cdnpoli #USPolitics #TOpoli https://t.co/IVKGmgKB3T
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 4, 2021
"Myanmar Crisis Explained... #cdnpoli #Myanmar #TOpoli https://t.co/Q9lVOkue6h
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 5, 2021
Thing to remember re groups like #BLM or #ProudBoys or #alqaida is THIS: They are all creations of either the FBI or the CIA. They are the brains behind these foot soldiers to manipulate, control n divide public opinion. #cdnpoli #uspoli #TOpolihttps://t.co/0M1kA5lZ9a
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 6, 2021
Let’s think back to better days before January 6, when AOC and Ted Cruz could come together in support of right-wing Hong Kong rioters and the imperialist US campaign against China.
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 6, 2021
Unity. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/QwRcIvQP65
Hypocrisy World Champions. Australia demands the 'immediate' and 'unconditional' release of the convicted Russian fraudster Alexei Navalny. Australia demands nothing for the Australian journalist Julian #Assange, convicted of nothing, tortured.https://t.co/jXZ8Xkjkvn
— John Pilger (@johnpilger) February 4, 2021
How Julian #Assange was stitched up by the corrupt Swedish state, Britain and the US. Read this interview with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer. It's a lesson for every journalist who challenges power and why #Assange must be freed.https://t.co/KWTFILoHKV
— John Pilger (@johnpilger) February 1, 2021
The Empire Must Die
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) February 6, 2021
"Q: What is a liberal?
A: A liberal is a violent white supremacist extremist who supports and participates in the mass slaughter of brown-skinned human beings overseas while tweeting that white supremacist extremists are bad."https://t.co/jLPzKlu38z
.@BenjaminNorton traveled to Ecuador to report on the historic February 7 election, which pits a rich US-backed right-wing banker against a leftist economist who wants to advance the socialist Citizens' Revolution started by @MashiRafael
— The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) February 6, 2021
Full documentary: https://t.co/dxVqe2oP1h pic.twitter.com/uNfl185sFk
Watch @StateDeptSPOX Ned Price rattle off a regime change rant revamping Trump's policy on Venezuela
— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) February 4, 2021
When @APDiploWriter noted the collapsing international support for US recognition of coup leader Juan Guaidó, Price became visibly flustered and struggled for a coherent answer pic.twitter.com/zKbqZB4Pby
Supporters of Ecuador's leftist Correista movement are celebrating the landslide victory of presidential candidate Andrés Arauz in the first round of today's election, with revolutionary speeches and fireworks outside of the campaign headquarters in the capital Quito pic.twitter.com/BtruNgUz14
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 8, 2021
HAH!! Knew there was something too organized about @XRebellionUK. Another creation of the PTB eh? Too many "fake" lefts all around.
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 8, 2021
"How Ecuador's US-backed, coup-supporting 'ecosocialist' candidate aids the right-wing#Ecuador #cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpolihttps://t.co/FkNia3ECzU
LOL ! Good one!
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 8, 2021
"Pentagon goes rooting for ‘extremists’ among its 3.6mn trained killers — RT Op-ed#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli #USArmy
https://t.co/8cZNkNoR29
Wise words from Micheal Parenti in 1999 that are especially worth remembering today. https://t.co/PCOZzeSF8I pic.twitter.com/2O1UdIjZJY
— Daniel Dumbrill (@DanielDumbrill) September 13, 2020
"..Sinan’s mother was one of at least six women killed in the raid, the first counterterrorism operation of the Trump administration, which also left 10 children under the age of 13 dead.....#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli #Yemen https://t.co/sAgAUVcukc
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 9, 2021
Biden's Israeli stooge Antony Blinken is planning more wars on Israel's enemies which will off course benefit his well-wishers... the weapons makers and ultimately enrich him.
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 9, 2021
Nothing's changed in blood thirsty USA... NOTHING !!!#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/Xnm98hyPIC
A foodbank queue in Glasgow yesterday. pic.twitter.com/GqUlRIesCr
— Joe Skeaping (@JSkeaping) February 10, 2021
Solidarity with my colleagues at @newsclickin!
— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) February 9, 2021
Their offices have been raided & editors detained in “a clear attempt to suppress journalism critical of the (Modi) gov’t”
Newsclick has provided daily coverage of the farmers strike currently sweeping Indiahttps://t.co/Z59A6pauqZ https://t.co/htqhIPvcv8
Too bad all the children her husband bombed won’t be able to watch. https://t.co/Hh1rWYuNQW
— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) February 9, 2021
Biden is Trump with a facelift. Literally. https://t.co/Q0jTtlFxvV
— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) February 9, 2021
NEW // Startling new data reveals that Trump actually INCREASED the US occupation of Afghanistan to around 20,000 by supplementing private mercenary forces—handing Biden about 10 TIMES the occupation size we're told Trump "withdrew" down to.
— The Empire Files (@EmpireFiles) February 6, 2021
Full episode: https://t.co/Ykutju1j2Y pic.twitter.com/MLUhDpGBJt
NEW // Startling new data reveals that Trump actually INCREASED the US occupation of Afghanistan to around 20,000 by supplementing private mercenary forces—handing Biden about 10 TIMES the occupation size we're told Trump "withdrew" down to.
— The Empire Files (@EmpireFiles) February 6, 2021
Full episode: https://t.co/Ykutju1j2Y pic.twitter.com/MLUhDpGBJt
Unbearable stink of "deep state" in my nostrils. Ugh!
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 10, 2021
Everything in the US is like a -C grade movie.#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/5JOs7Aqdtf
Comedy time to brighten your day!#IndianScammers #Modi #comedy #cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/kEY7IFcBNv
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 10, 2021
#COVID19 #Covid19Ireland #COVIDIOTS #COVIDー19 #Covid19Millionaires #CovidUK #covidbriefing #COVIDIOT #COVID19Vaccine #CovidVaccine #GreatReset @EvaKBartlett
— Gary McKinnon (@DoubleOhNever) February 9, 2021
"Canadians fume after Ontario govt says NHL teams will be exempt from indoor dining ban"https://t.co/IZLgtBpbFy
My latest: In sacking a columnist over a tweet criticising US military aid to Israel, the Guardian wasn't stopping 'antisemitism'. It was policing speech to stop the left drawing attention to the continuing colonial nature of western societies https://t.co/E2gORnn5x8
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) February 11, 2021
Nathan J. Robinson, ex-journalist at The Guardian:
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 11, 2021
"I was fired as a newspaper columnist after I joked about U.S. military aid to Israel on social media."#cdnpoli #UKpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/msL9tQxvPC
Millions of Americans stand in bread lines while their elected lawmakers shovel $$$$ to a warmongering Israel on the other side of the world.
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 11, 2021
And, while rest of Africa is mostly ignored, Egypt gets a large dinosaur-sized bone.#Israel #warmongers #cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli #UKpoli pic.twitter.com/OnvuRYrBkj
I'm betting @Twitter will shadow-block this tweet, eh Twitter...you free speech destroyer, you!! #cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli #Israel #ICC https://t.co/guVr5ZKTef
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 11, 2021
Israel settlers have forced a Palestinian family on a picnic to leave because they are Arab.
— Tom Story 7 (@TomStory71) February 9, 2021
🇮🇱 Israel is a racist apartheid state.
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/0awuhDCcdS
I had no idea who #GinaCarano was and why
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 12, 2021
the PTB were displeased with her. Now I know. She can think for herself ... that's a big NO NO in the PTB's slave masters world.
#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/NzPonxoZHR via @Deadline
Hmmm ...so the Pedro guy thought the pics of Palestinian kids in Israeli prison cages were actually migrant kids kept in cages by #Trump at the border??
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 12, 2021
Really telling how Americans ignore Israel's cruelty to kids#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli #KidsInCages https://t.co/LNHsXtppxg
Coz we have spineless, bribed and bought politicians. Is that too simple an answer? #cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/lR6hi5ngwT
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 13, 2021
Ah ... yes! Irish politicians seem to have more guts than the other run-of-the-mill loudmouths at the EU, USA, UK or Canada...... because they speak the TRUTH.#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli https://t.co/zjE4f0qWlY
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 13, 2021
This is not emphasized enough: Yemen's amazing resistance against nearly 6 years of genocidal US-UK-Saudi-UAE war is one of the most important victories against US imperialism since Vietnam
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) February 13, 2021
The people in the poorest country in West Asia have defeated the richest imperial nations
I didn't watch even a minute of the #Trump farce put on by the neocons. The moment any of our Canadian networks brought up the trial, I switched elsewhere.
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 13, 2021
This circus is now over with acquittal of the most hated man in US history. Dead empire walking!#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli
Grayzone's Aaron Maté speaks to Norman Finkelstein on the powerless ICC and the gymnastics of the Israelis.#cdnpoli #USpoli #TOpoli #IsraeliApartheid https://t.co/PhyeZV0i6A
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 14, 2021
On this day in 1991, the U.S. bombed the Amiriya civilian air raid shelter in Iraq, which was sheltering a thousand sleeping civilians, massacring 408 Iraqi civilians (261 women and 52 children). pic.twitter.com/QsBsRoLyQs
— American Values (@Americas_Crimes) February 13, 2021
Last night, on one of the @rogerstv channels or maybe it was on one of @ShawTVSSM, I watched Office Space with an ending that was heavily cut.
— MariaS Nunes (shadow-banned every other day) (@Dodocanspell) February 15, 2021
Why are the 1%ters doing this? What r they afraid of? Afraid of employees? Who decided to cut scenes from the movie? #movies #TOpoli
Canada hoisted its new flag for the first time on this day in 1965. But that came after a heated national debate. What was all the flapping about? Parli runs this one up the flagpole to find out. https://t.co/7Gtr9lVHwV #flagday
— Parli (@parlidotca) February 15, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021
Some interesting videos ... mostly on the day traders' uprising against hedge fund multi-billionaires
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....
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”
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
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Ottawa Should Apologize for Role in Agent Orange Use in Vietnam
by Yves Engler / February 3rd, 2021
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
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 Couch, Franc 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
Corbett • 02/02/2021https://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........