Some interesting news and videos I consumed.....May 21 -31, 2025

 

https://jbilek.substack.com/p/the-trans-atlantic-gender-bridge

The “Trans” Atlantic Gender Bridge: from America to Britain 

 By Kate Deeming

The poison of trans ideology, one of the most toxic belief systems to ever take root in civilization, has built a world wide network of feeder cells to promulgate its cause. One of the most notorious bridges enabling this is between the UK and the USA.

The UK was early on in adopting the #bekind mantle on behalf of the ‘poor transvestites’ in order to lay the groundwork for the new wrong body religion. This was not done via law or warfare but rather in personal ways, which ensured loyalty in high places. The book “Trans Britain: Our Journey From the Shadows,” published in 2018, indicates landmark events which inserted gender ideology into British society. It serves as a valuable backdrop in understanding the psychological takeover that allowed wrong body ideology to infiltrate culture and governance. The book exposes the gradual massaging of personal relationships by powerful and emotive personalities, how they gained the attention of those in authority, and changed our culture.

But this is only half the story.........................

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 https://yvesengler.com/2025/05/24/when-2-deaths-in-usa-overshadow-israels-ethnic-cleansing/

When 2 deaths in USA overshadow Israel’s ethnic cleansing

 

Several prominent NDPers are running cover for holocaust Israel.

On Thursday former NDP MP and Toronto mayor Olivia Chow voted to suppress protests against Canadian complicity in genocide. The wife of deceased former NDP leader Jack Layton backed “bubble zone” legislation that’s even worse than what city staff initially proposed and probably unconstitutional. The measure restricts protests within 50 metres of any school, daycare or religious site that applies to be declared a bubble zone.

The crazy thing about the bubble zone push is there’s been far too little protest at genocidal Jewish supremacist institutions. Toronto’s TanenbaumCHAT, for instance, hosts “IDF day” fundraisers without anyone ever protesting at Canada’s largest private high school.............

................Even if Israel wasn’t starving and slaughtering Gaza in a bid to cleanse it of non-Jews, Israel has no grounds to complain about its diplomats being assassinated internationally. Its leaders have operated an international assassination machine since before the state existed. Over the past 77 years Israel has assassinated Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Germans, Lebanese, Iranians and others in a dozen countries. Mossad has also assassinated at least one Canadian, Gerald Bull, in Brussels, Belgium, in 1990.

Canada has a connection to a number of these assassinations. For many years Mossad agents used Canadian passports to carry out foreign assassinations, including a case of mistaken identity in Norway in 1973 and the botched poising of Khaled Meshaal in Jordan. As I detail here, Canadian officials turned a blind eye to the use of Canadian passports in these killings..........................

 

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 Caitlin Johnstone:

If You Don't Oppose The Gaza Holocaust, You've Been Wasting Your Life On This Planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rApdbh0ixl4

 They’re burning kids alive in Gaza. They’re burning them alive. And still people are silent, or are actively supporting Israel, or are spouting mealy-mouthed both-sides gibberish while shrugging their shoulders.

A spiritual teacher who I used to like posted the most obnoxious screed today babbling about how both Israelis and Palestinians are suffering in this “war” and that, while Israel does have a “right to defend itself”, it’s time for a ceasefire to be reached.

This is a guy who’s made a career out of presenting himself as so wise, insightful and enlightened that people should pay him money to hear what he has to say about life and spiritual attainment, finally deciding to speak out about a genocide that’s been going on for nearly 20 months now, and saying the most vapid, infantile nonsense imaginable. I know teenagers who could’ve done a much better job.

And from where I’m sitting, if this is the best you can do after a lifetime dedicated to spiritual insight and awakening, then what good was any of it? If you can’t even take a solid stance against history’s first live-streamed genocide after decades of spiritual seeking and spiritual finding, then it kinda seems like you’ve been wasting your life this whole time..........................

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Founder of "If Americans Knew" talks to Going Underground.

https://odysee.com/$/download/‘Israel’s-Genocide-in-Gaza-is-DWARFING-the-Nazi-Holocaust’--If-Americans-Knew-Founder-Alison-Weir-5Mbps/8bd2b0acc34ef1bbdb31b1c0847f97dea358fca1

 

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Judge Napolitano talks with Max Blumenthal after his return from Iran on what he saw there and his opinions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGw8NcXa6Wc&t=2s

 

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 English translation from the original Greek of an interview with a Greek doctor on return from Gaza

https://www.efsyn.gr/politiki/synenteyxeis/473570_theloyn-na-xegrapsoyn-mellon-tis-gazas#goog_rewarded

'They want to write off the future of Gaza'

Interviews 25.05.25 15:20

 Kostas Zafeiropoulos-

 

 

Christos Georgalas is an acclaimed head and neck surgeon, a professor at the University of Nicosia and a doctor at a large private hospital in Athens. He is one of the few Greek doctors who have volunteered in Gaza in recent months. He was found at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza for a month as part of a mission by the British Medical Aid for Palestinians, from April 21, 2025 to May 21, along with a vascular surgeon and a plastic surgeon.

It was the second time he travelled to Gaza, the previous one was on a two-month Red Crescent mission in 2012. Now, in the month he was there, the hospital has been hit twice by Israeli attacks. “I can’t say I went to war. War is a very different thing. There was no war in Treblinka, there was no war in Auschwitz. The war has two armies. Here you have a population of mostly civilians and women and children, who cannot escape. And it systematically rains bombs from the sky. They're hitting hospitals, hitting journalists. The circumstances of my colleagues there were tragic. But there's still an optimistic piece, imagine we even did classes! They had tests for the interns. When I was there, we did exams with multiple choice questions for the train drivers' batch, to advance on their degree and receive the specialty title," he begins to narrate to us.

● How did you make the decision to go? Doesn't a man think that there "I'm in immediate danger"?

I think it'll be some fool not to think about it. There have been 1,400 health workers killed so far. You think about it, but you also think that in our generation it is the most important thing that has happened. The first genocide we live live in live streaming. I think it's harder to decide that this is not about him. Or it's about it, but from a distance. I don't know, it's that I'm a doctor. Medicine is about seeing people who need you. I thought it was my obligation. It is also a way for people to understand that the majority of people do not share the decisions of their governments. I thought that if I can't change my government's policy in Greece, I can at least show in practice that I don't agree with it.

One thing I didn't expect is how intensely they're watching what's going on to us, in the West. That is, the demonstrations that take place for Palestine, in which countries they are, by whom they are, how big they are. They have a very clear view of what is happening.

● Return a few hours ago. What thoughts prevail?

Two things. The first thing – which will seem a little strange – is that I am going back in a more optimistic view than I had before I went. What no one expects is in practice that Palestinians are not just casualties. It is an incredibly active, living, in solidarity, educated society, for which, if the purpose was to dissolve its social fabric, they have not succeeded. In many ways and in many ways it is stronger than what we have now in Greece.

The second thing is my feeling that this is a war mainly against children, which cannot be explained by the well-known argument "there is a large percentage of children in Gaza, so they will have statistically many child victims." I think it has largely to do with a targeted attack, an Israeli lawmaker has said that "children are their future, so it is doubly important to beat them in relation to adults." However, I did not imagine this policy that I could see it so strongly....................

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Judge Napolitano talks to Prof Jeffrey Sachs on the holocaust of our time by the Israelis  on the Palestinians, Ukraine war, Trump, Iran, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkq8rP6Qlcw&t=643s

 

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MUST WATCH testimony from Canadian doctors on what they witnessed ........... May 28, 2025

 

Interesting stuff I came across May 13 - 20, 2025

https://yvesengler.com/2025/05/13/an-odd-very-strange-canadian-nationalism-that-includes-israel/

An odd, very strange Canadian nationalism that includes Israel

 Why don’t nationalists push back on certain foreign smears against Canada? Why doesn’t the “Canada First” crowd complain when private schools have kids sing a foreign anthem? Why don’t pushers of military readiness denounce Canadians who join a foreign army? Why does our government give tax deductions for “charities” that break Canadian law and/or our foreign policy? Why isn’t a lobby group named “Centre for Israel” seen as “importing” a foreign conflict?............

 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqglvlwzx5o

Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 50, hospital says

At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza, a local hospital says.

The Indonesian hospital reported that 22 children and 15 women were among the dead after a number of homes in Jabalia town and refugee camp were hit overnight. A video shared online appeared to show at least a dozen bodies on the floor there.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports. It had warned residents of Jabalia and neighbouring areas to evacuate on Tuesday after a Palestinian armed group launched rockets into Israel.............

 ....... Local health officials said a total of 70 people were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, most of them around Jabalia.

Residents of the northern area reported hearing multiple explosions overnight, and videos shared by activists showed flames lighting up the sky.

As he clambered over the rubble of a collapsed building, Hadi Moqbel, 42, said several members of his family were killed.

"They fired two rockets, they told us the house of Moqbel [had been hit]," he told Reuters news agency.

"We came running, we saw body parts on the ground, children killed, [a] woman killed and a baby killed... He was two months old."

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Maria:  Looks like the order has come down the pipeline to start reporting on the ongoing genocide.  All of a sudden, after 100s of 1000s helpless women and children have been torn to shreds by the Israelis, the MSM is starting to report on the war crimes.  The first taking this step is the BBC.  

Canada's MSM  is still blind, deaf and mute.  The most it does will show Canadians something like the vid below.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6759872

 

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https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-war-propaganda-has-fueled-american-foreign-policy-century 

How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century

 

  05/15/2025  Mises Wire  Ryan McMaken

The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund “research” on “misinformation.” This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of misleading or false information through various media channels.

Of course, if there were any genuine interest in studying the most egregious efforts to spread misinformation, media outlets like the Times would study themselves and their friends in the regime. After all, few organizations have been more complicit than the national American media and the US foreign policy establishment when it comes to spreading much of the worst propaganda in American history. I say “worst” because this propaganda has often been used in service to the worst ends: to gin up support for a variety of wars resulting in the deaths of thousands—sometimes even hundreds of thousands—of innocents.

Relatively recent media-regime partnerships in propagandistic misinformation include the “Russiagate” hoax, various efforts to obscure US meddling in Ukraine, and the nearly nonstop drumbeat of “news” stories over the past twenty years designed to push for regime change in various countries from Venezuela to Russia to Libya and to Syria—where the Assad regime, according to US design, was recently replaced by Islamist terrorists. And then, of course, there is the nonstop stream of misinformation designed to prop up the State of Israel and obscure its many war crimes. And let’s not forget the fictional “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq which the US presented to the United Nations as established fact.

Throughout all this, the interventionist “foreign policy blob” in Washington received near universal support.......

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https://www.trtworld.com/perspectives/unmasking-trantifa-the-extremely-violent-side-of-transgender-activism-13601646

 

2 years ago

Unmasking Trantifa: The extremely violent side of transgender activism

Transgenders are at the forefront of a growing extremism movement, known as Trantifa, that combines far-left activism with intimidation, harassment, and even violence to advance their radical gender agenda....

Transgenders are the new face of extremism. Dubbed Trantifa, the term encompasses far-left activists who resort to intimidation, harassment, and even violence to advance their radical agenda surrounding gender.

We explore the convergence of trans activists and Antifa militants, shedding light on their anarcho-communist ideologies, their targeting of women, and the controversy surrounding their exclusionary tactics within feminist discourse.

Violent ideologies

Trantifa, a portmanteau of ‘trans’ and ‘Antifa’, represents a loose affiliation of trans activists within the anarchist movement.

Their anarcho-communist beliefs align with the perception of the US as systemically racist and oppressive toward trans individuals............

 

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Maria: I have not been a Liberal party voter for decades now,  but I always try to give credit where credit is due and deserved and so  I definitely like this statement from the new Liberal government under  Prime Minister, Mark Carney.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/05/19/joint-statement-leaders-canada-united-kingdom-and-france-situation

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank

Main Content

May 19, 2025

Ottawa, Ontario

“We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable. Yesterday’s announcement that Israel will allow a basic quantity of food into Gaza is wholly inadequate. We call on the Israeli Government to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. This must include engaging with the UN to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles. We call on Hamas to release immediately the remaining hostages they have so cruelly held since 7 October 2023.

The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law. We condemn the abhorrent language used recently by members of the Israeli Government, threatening that, in their despair at the destruction of Gaza, civilians will start to relocate. Permanent forced displacement is a breach of international humanitarian law. 

Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7. We have always supported Israel’s right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate.

We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.

We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank. Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians.  We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions. ........

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https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/20/israeli-opposition-leader-says-israel-is-killing-palestinian-babies-as-a-hobby/

Israeli Opposition Leader Says Israel Is Killing Palestinian Babies as a ‘Hobby’

Yair Golan, leader of Israel's Democrats party, is a retired IDF major general

 

 

by Dave DeCamp May 20, 2025 at 1:01 pm ET Categories NewsTags Gaza, Israel, Palestine

Yair Golan, the leader of Israel’s Democrats party, has said Israel is killing Palestinian babies as a “hobby,” sparking a strong backlash from other Israeli Knesset members and government officials.

“Israel is on the path to becoming a pariah state among the nations – like the South Africa of old – if it does not return to behaving like a sane country,” said Golan, a retired IDF major general.

“A sane country does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies for a hobby, and does not set goals involving the expulsion of populations,” he added.

Golan pinned the blame on the Netanyahu government, saying that it was filled with “people who have nothing whatsoever to do with Judaism – Kahanist types, lacking wisdom, morality, and the ability to manage a state during an emergency.”

In response to Golan’s comments, Netanyahu accused him of “blood libel,” and other Israeli MKs are trying to strip him of his military rank.

Following the criticism, Golan said that he was specifically criticizing the government, not the Israeli military. “The war is the realization of fantasies of [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir. And if we allow these fantasies to become real, we’ll become a pariah state,” he said.....

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Saving in blog for eternity

After pinning the below in my X account for almost 2 years, I thought it was time to remove it. No matter how much Elon Musk's X censors users' tweets, including mine each and every day, I am grateful to have a platform where my views can be expressed, even if only my eyes can see them.

 

St Musk, Patron Saint of "Free Speech" 🤣😇

Elon Musk: Freedom of Speech Not Reach https://t.co/zu0Sq1yUXC via @YouTube

— MariaS Nunes has "freedom of speech BUT not reach" (@Dodocanspell) August 12, 2023

Some interesting items: May 1 - 12, 2025

 

https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/who-is-captain-ibrahim-traore/#more-158137

Who is Captain Ibrahim Traoré?

In the footsteps of Thomas Sankara

by Kim Petersen / May 12th, 2025

 

A young, by political standards, military captain, now an acting president has captured widespread admiration in Burkina Faso and across Africa. The legend of Ibrahim Traoré appears to be growing by leaps and bounds.

But to understand from whence captain Traoré comes, one should be cognizant of the young revolutionary Marxist leader captain Thomas Sankara who served the people of Burkina Faso (Land of Upright People) before Traoré. Tragically, Sankara was assassinated in a hail of gunfire, betrayed by his close friend Blaise Compaore..................

 

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https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/5-500-000-percent-return-how-warren-buffett-became-a-wall-street-legend-20250505-p5lwje. 

Stephen Bartholomeusz

When Warren Buffett told shareholders at Saturday’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting that he would step down as chief executive by the end of the year, he was effectively announcing the end of an era. No matter how well qualified his successor Greg Abel might be, Buffett is unique and irreplaceable.

For decades an increasing number of Buffett acolytes have made the pilgrimage to Nebraska to hear pearls of investing wisdom from the “Sage of Omaha”. Some of the tens of thousands from around the world who attended on Saturday slept overnight to get prime positions at what has been described as “Woodstock for Capitalists”.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/louis-theroux-documentary-on-israeli-settlers-in-the-west-bank?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention

Louis Theroux

 

 It wasn’t something I saw coming. A film about the situation in the West Bank – an evergreen story if ever there was one – going viral. Appreciation, dismay, gratitude, outrage at what the film showed … Through the week it kept going. More retweets, more feedback, a little bit of pushback. Shock was the theme of many messages – the idea that this was going on. And a feeling of: “At last.” “At last, mainstream British TV is saying something about what is happening.”

The film was a follow-up of sorts. In 2010, I’d made a documentary called Ultra Zionists. It was a look at the Israeli religious nationalist community that exists in the West Bank – the area across the eastern edge of Israel that has been under military occupation since the six-day war of 1967. Now, a decade and a half on, with the world’s attention on Gaza, it was being reported that the settlers were ramping up their activities. The Israeli government had given them thousands of assault rifles. Shootings of Palestinians, vandalism of their property and harassment were all on the rise.

We envisioned the film as a kind of road movie through a region under military occupation. On two trips of a little over a week each, with my director Josh Baker and producers Sara Obeidat and Matan Cohen, I drove up and down the West Bank. I made inroads in the settler community, interviewing exponents of the settler mindset. People such as Ari Abramowitz of Arugot Farm, a resort for tourists that sits deep inside the occupied West Bank. Abramowitz was born and raised in Texas but came to Israel as a young man, qualifying for Israeli citizenship due to his Jewish heritage. For our interview, he met me wearing an assault rifle and a handgun. He took me on a tour of the land and declared his view that the Palestinian people “don’t exist”........

 

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https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/07/rare-right-wing-revolt-sinks-bill-punishing-boycotts-of-israel/

Rare Right-Wing Revolt Sinks Bill Punishing Boycotts Of Israel

May 7, 2025

 

By Robert Inlakesh / MintPress News

A sweeping pro-Israel bill backed by Republican leadership and AIPAC collapsed this week after a rare revolt by right-wing lawmakers who argued it posed a direct threat to Americans’ First Amendment rights.

The bill, H.R. 867 — known as the IGO Anti-Boycott Act — would have imposed up to $1 million in fines and prison terms of up to 20 years on Americans who support international boycotts of Israel, even those led by the United Nations.

The bill had been scheduled for a vote Monday but was abruptly pulled from the House calendar following backlash from a broad coalition of critics, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and conservative firebrands like Rep. Thomas Massie, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rep. Matt Gaetz.

While pro-Israel legislation typically enjoys broad bipartisan support, this rare fracture among Republicans helped stall what would have been the most extreme escalation yet of anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) laws in the United States.

CAIR issued a public call urging Congress to reject the legislation “over the threat it poses to First Amendment free speech rights.” That pressure campaign came as social media posts expressing concern about its potential impact on free speech helped mobilize conservative voters and right-wing influencers against the bill — culminating in House leadership scrapping the scheduled vote.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stated, “I will be voting NO. It is my job to defend Americans’ rights to buy or boycott whomever they choose without the government harshly fining them or imprisoning them.”

Rep. Thomas Massie wrote on X, “Apparently HR 867 has been pulled from the schedule for this week. Thank you for your vocal opposition on this platform. It was a ridiculous bill that our leadership should have never scheduled for a vote.”.......................

 

 

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US and World news May 12 from Democracy Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp-hWQBHeGc

 

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https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/alberta-separatist-group-referendum-question

 

Alberta separatist group releases proposed referendum question, plans to push for vote this year

Once the group reaches its petition goal, they plan to push Premier Smith to hold the referendum this year

Author of the article:

By Devika Desai

Published May 12, 2025

 

An Alberta separatist group has released a proposed referendum question on sovereignty from Canada, saying they will push the premier for a vote as soon as this year.

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That is, if they can garner support from enough provincial residents.

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During a news conference Monday, Jeffrey Rath — a lawyer with the Alberta Prosperity Project — pulled a blue provincial flag off an easel, revealing the question printed in large font: “Do you agree that the province shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada?”.............

 

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Judge Napolitano talks to Scott Ritter on Iran, Trump, Russia, etc.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVggVcrE2A

 

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https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/12/craig-murray-uk-intels-fake-terror-plots/

 

Islamophobic propaganda is being ramped up to drive public support in the U.K. for the genocide in Gaza and a forthcoming attack on Iran.

 

 By Craig Murray

CraigMurray.org.uk

Back in the “War on Terror” days, the U.K. security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot in Manchester, taking entire front pages of newspapers.

Gordon Brown as prime minister hyped it as a “very big terror plot.” It was a total fabrication, nobody was convicted and it eventually emerged that the trumpeted “bomb-making ingredient” the police confiscated from kitchens was sugar — in normal quantities.

The Great Ricin Plot in 2003 was again kitchen obsessed, and the media that ran screaming headlines about the discovery of ricin did not bother to later report that the amounts the police announced they had discovered turned out to be the almost undetectable trace which might be found in any kitchen.

The propaganda was the purpose, all ramping up Islamophobia to justify the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

When the Manchester Arena attack eventually did happen, it turned out that MI5, the domestic intelligence service, had been the perpetrator’s sponsor and he and his father had been ferried from Libya by the British armed forces. Sponsorship of terrorism abroad is always likely to result in blowback at home.....

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Links to articles and videos I consumed ... April 19 - 30, 2025

 

https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2025/04/28/50-years-on-us-elites-learned-nothing-from-the-vietnam-defeat/

50 Years On: US Elites Learned Nothing From the Vietnam Defeat

by Ted Galen Carpenter Posted on April 29, 2025

April 30, 2025, marks the 50^th anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam.  The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon effectively captured not only the chaotic environment, but also the extent of Washington’s overall policy debacle.  The outcome of the war was a humiliating defeat for the United States in every respect.  Vietnam’s reunification under a communist government was now an indisputable reality.  Indeed, the United States finally succumbed to the pressure to establish diplomatic relations with that government in 1995.

Washington’s failed effort over more than two decades to prevent that outcome was extremely expensive financially to the United States, with more than $141 billion expended.  Measured in terms of 2025 dollars, that amount would be approximately $838 billion.  Even worse was the terrible cost in blood.  The war took the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and caused an estimated 3.8 million casualties, both civilian and military, in South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Widespread disillusionment about Washington’s armed crusade in Southeast Asia was evident in the United States, and for a few years, the disastrous experience seemed to inoculate the American public against supporting any similar adventures.  When Ronald Reagan’s administration flirted with providing military backing for corrupt client regimes in Central America, there was noticeable pushback, especially from Democrats in Congress.  “No more Vietnams” became a popular mantra throughout the country.

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Video of documentary made more than 2 years ago but in the news only now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76bBnN6s2ak

 

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The Great Palantir Reset, American’s Constitutional Decline & The Partisan End Game

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/great-palantir-reset-partisan-end-game/

Posted on April 21, 2025 Author Ryan Cristián

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Virginia Giuffre dead: Prince Andrew accuser commits suicide after 'toll of abuse' became too heavy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkzVmSAi5A

 

 

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/04/the-persecution-of-dr-reiner-fuellmich/

 

The Persecution of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

The biggest judicial scandal ever seen in Germany

by Robert Malone / April 25th, 2025

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is known and respected internationally for his work as a consumer defense lawyer and for winning major lawsuits against corporate giants such as Volkswagen, Kühne & Nagel, and Deutsche Bank. He was one of the first individuals to recognize that the COVID measures constituted crimes against humanity and decided, along with three other lawyers, to create the Corona Investigative Committee, which aimed to shed light on the actions of governments, public institutions, and the medical community in the context of the so-called “pandemic.”

Thanks to his brilliant investigative work, and after consulting more than 150 scientists and experts in all fields around the world, as well as numerous whistleblowers (from Pfizer, WHO, CDC, UN), he was able to collect an abundance of evidence of what he calls “the biggest crime ever perpetrated against humanity.”......

 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx251yyvwr3o

 

Huge blast at key Iranian port kills 28 and injures 800

Frances Mao

BBC News   April 27, 2025

At least 28 people have been killed and 800 injured in a massive explosion at one of Iran's key ports, authorities say.

The blast took place at Shahid Rajaee, the country's largest commercial port, near the southern city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday morning.

It blew out windows and roofs of nearby buildings and destroyed cars. Residents reported feeling the impact of the blast up to 50km (31 miles) away. Six people remain unaccounted for, state media reports.

Videos verified by the BBC show a fire growing in intensity before a huge explosion, with people subsequently fleeing the blast and others lying wounded on roads surrounded by smoking debris.........

 

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https://www.unz.com/imercer/genocides-back/

Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal

Ilana Mercer • April 23, 2025

WHAT has Israel been up to since March 18, 2025, which was when the “genocidal entity” formally broke the nominal ceasefire agreement in Gaza? Oracular insight here is unnecessary.

Israel has been trampling underfoot everything decent and good.

Genocide is back. This time with President Trump in fawning agreement, playing procurer and pimp for the Israeli State, and subjecting ingrate Bibi Netanyahu to no more than a curt jerk of the leash: During a press conference with the US president, on April 7, the Israeli prime minister’s face, nevertheless, grew as dark as a thundercloud on mention of possible diplomacy with Iran.

Under such favorable circumstances, Israelis are louder and prouder about killing and destroying with monomaniacal diligence. Indifferently, and for the first time, Israel openly admitted to targeting journalist Hussam Shabat for “elimination,” in December of 2024, and executing the him on March 24. The sadistic serial killer stalked its prey, then pounced.

The predator has so far singled out and assassinated 232 other Palestinian journalists..........

 

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https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/06/20/v-i-releases-new-exhibits-detailing-jpmorgans-epstein-ties/

V.I. Releases New Exhibits Detailing JPMorgan’s Epstein Ties

By Sian Cobb

June 20, 2023

 

New exhibits filed Tuesday in the V.I. government’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase reveal how the bank’s top brass continued to court Jeffrey Epstein for his ties to some of the world’s wealthiest individuals even as its compliance arm warned that he was a growing liability as a felon under investigation for sex crimes.

The exhibits include a June 7 letter to Judge Jed Rakoff of Manhattan federal court that was previously filed under seal, seeking to allow the V.I. Attorney General’s Office to reopen depositions in light of information it received after questioning key witnesses in the case, including JPMorgan’s billionaire CEO Jamie Dimon.

Rakoff on Friday denied that motion, and on Tuesday the government unsealed 10 exhibits offering a closer look at JPMorgan’s relationship with Epstein, the wealthy financier who died by apparent suicide in August 2019 while in custody in New York on federal child sex trafficking charges. His primary residence was Little St. James, his private island estate of St. Thomas.

The government’s complaint, filed Dec. 27 in Manhattan federal court, claims JPMorgan violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act in its services to Epstein, whom it kept as a client even after his 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution in Florida. The case is scheduled for trial on Oct. 23....

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https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/why-pro-palestine-protesters-are-being-sent-to-a-for-profit-ice-prison-in-rural-louisiana/

 

Why Pro-Palestine protesters are being sent to a for-profit ICE prison in rural Louisiana

Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Alireza Doroudi are all being held in ICE detention in Jena, Louisiana. Jena represents the nexus of white supremacy, prison profiteering, and state repression. But its history also shows us the path of resistance.

By Stephanie Guilloud and Desiree S. Evans April 28, 2025

 

“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.”

In recent weeks, students Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Alireza Doroudi were abducted by ICE and are being held in ICE detention centers in rural Louisiana. Khalil’s powerful statement connects multiple realities that demonstrate how state repression is activated to support the rise of authoritarianism. 

That Khalil and others are being sent to detention centers in remote towns across Louisiana is not an accident. Rising authoritarianism requires a police state, and the expansion of prisons, police, and detention centers is extremely profitable. As the current U.S. government disappears people to a brutal prison camp in El Salvador, they are also moving people to rural Louisiana in attempts to disappear people within the United States borders. ..............

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Zionists Attack Pro-Peace Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K52rwm8XQog

 

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