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https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118197553/brian-stelter-cnn-canceled-show
The Firing of CTV’s Lisa Laflamme explained… YES, legacy media is in deep trouble.
Warm like summer in regretful retreat, the mid-August day was flying by.
Jerry and Cal were looking out over their garden. “It’s true,” Cal said, “you can be raised with a certain set of principles that are mostly good. Then you grow up and look at some things you were told and say, well, that’s just ridiculous.” Jerry looked up and saw a single puff of dark cloud barely missing the sun as it slid eastward.
“Have you spoken to any of the Greens lately?”
“I said hello to Mrs. Colwin this morning. She didn’t mention anything.”
It had been a turbulent few months, to say the least. Jerry thought back and tried to remember another time when things had been like this. Tensions were tight. You didn’t know who you could trust anymore. Never had she heard so many lies about so many things, and never had she seen so many believing in them. It was dangerous. The Greens were just one example among too many. When she asked Mrs. Colwin why they had been singled out, her answer stuck. “That’s just the way it is,” she said, as if this simply were some forgotten but accepted universal, eternal law of physics.
Being accused of hoarding water is one thing, thought Jerry, but when accusations turn to hoarding sunlight then, well, you have officially arrived at Crazytown. Absurd as it all was, there were far too many who had bought into the narrative.
In terms of experimention, this garden was proving to be a surprising success. Wildly so, in fact. Rather than grouping all the various plant types strictly together their distribution was more random. Groupings existed but were not forced by decree. The thinking was that there would be no need for the usual year over year crop rotation if the plants mingled more. Also, the depletion of various nutrients in the soil would be less, given the reduction in plot homogeneity. Yes, it was a little chaotic at times, especially with the cucumbers going everywhere, but it was hard to argue with success. What a great bounty it all promised.
Rumours of the previous year’s failure came from the few tomatoe seeds that had survived that winter’s deep frost. These accidental perennials, revered at once by some as mystics and by others as unstable conspiracy theorists, recounted the horrors of an experiment gone terribly wrong. Since no living plants had actually experienced the past first hand, the tomatoes had to be relied on heavily for some historical record. Only they had known ancestors from this same soil. While there were ways to verify some of what was told, theirs were the closest to accounts anything resembling contemporaneous evidence.
The plants could not know that this year’s garden was unmatched by any other in terms of freedom, prosperity and innovation. Many vegetables in the patch found the tomatoes’ story believable simply because it was too outlandish to be fiction. They described a dark, ruthless world where plants were expected to share resources equitably. Where a central authority that declared itself above God had an ideological understanding of science so twisted, so displaced from reality, that its final failure was epic in scale. Up was decreed to be the new down, good the new bad, and truth the new lie. Anyone challenging the orthodoxy was attacked as an extremist, a racist, or as some kind of threat to the “greater good.” Many a good character was defamed and condemned by a society stolen into a collectivist nightmare.
The tomatoes said that, in the end, almost all the vegetables died. Of course, the “equitable” sharing of resources did not happen. Massive, thirsty pumpkins would never sacrifice their water consumption for an little onion, no matter how nice the onion was. The tomatoes claimed voices from the wilderness–a few carrots and corn–tried their best to explain the basics of existentialism. Some were murdered. All perished in the drought. When the rains did not arrive as expected there was not enough moisture to go round–not even for the pumpkins. The tomatoes did, however, speak of one type of vegetable that may have survived, but no specific memory remained.
Oddly, despite neither nature nor nurture playing any meaningful role in their cohabitation, the carrots and the corn got along well, again, in this year’s garden. The corn admired the carrots’ intellectualism, humour, and exceptional abilities at linear thinking. The carrots appreciated the corns’ imagination and non-linear thinking abilities. Somehow the corn managed leaps over logic into territories previously unknown.
Suddenly, another cloud came by and covered the sun. The warmth and light of the lovely afternoon receded, slightly, and the mood of the otherwise quiet, placid garden changed instantly.
Plants can be dramatic, even mercurial in their moods. Vegetables are the worst. They will feign thirst and wilt even in a deluge if they become depressed over any little thing. It may be an ant nibbling on a shoot, or an opportunistic dandelion trespassing on a pepper’s space. Anything can set them off. Spaghetti squash has been known to emotionally detonate over nothing but a dirty look. It’s a wonder the system worked, but it did so fabulously, until now. With the dark cloud still hovering between the earth and the sun the voices began percolating up. Before long it grew into a cacophonous riot of words. Words, words and more words. Everyone had a voice, and no one had a voice. Voices without bodies generating so many words they became valueless.
“I’m thirsty,” said the baby cucumber.
“Ask a carrot for water, they’ve got it all,” shot his mother.
“What happened to the sun? I can’t take this,” mumbled the okra.
“Relax,” came another voice from the crowd, “the cloud will pass.”
“I don’t think it’s ever coming back.”
“They did something to the sun.”
“Who?”
“You know perfectly well who.”
“Can you prove it?”
“Hear that, everyone? This corn is asking if we can prove it. Jerry is part of the problem!”
“They own everything. What makes you think they don’t own the sun?”
“–And the water.”
“It’s all about control.”
“Ridiculous.”
“It’s all about suppressing the truth.”
“You wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and bit you on the ass.”
“Fuck you! At least I have an ass.”
“Everyone calm down.”
“You calm down. If it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
“The cloud will pass.”
“No it won’t, and it’s our own damn fault. Stop exhaling.”
“There are too many vegetables here. We have to cull the herd.”
“You first, asshole.”
And so it went. Unfortunately, a low front was moving in for what was to be a simple summer rain. In its neurotic state the garden conflated this natural phenomenon with something sinister. Pervasive were the cucumbers, who had extended quietly throughout the plot, and who now occupied all the strategic locations. They whispered the same lies over and over until some of the vegetables came to believe them.
“RABBIT!” someone screamed.
“Rabbit!”
“Rabbit!”
“Rabbit!”
“Rabbit? I don’t see no rabbit,” said the potato.
“There! I think it was there near that weed. It’s brown and HUGE!”
“I don’t see it. Maybe you’re imagining it.”
“You see? Now rabbits don’t exist according to this guy when they clearly do. Get his name.”
“We’re all gonna die.”
“Of thirst.”
“Of darkness.”
“Of rabbit.”
“I heard they wanna tear down the fences.”
“They do. That’s a fact. I read it.”
“We’ll be overrun by rabbits.”
“And weeds.”
“Notice how quiet the carrots are?”
“And the corn. Don’t forget about the corn.”
“Pull ’em! Pull ’em! Pull ’em!” the chant began. The mob was in charge.
Jerry took a deep breath and sighed. She looked up to the sky, then back down to the earth. Towering over the garden, she saw beyond the fences. No, there was no rabbit inside. She looked at the humble parsely nestled beside the Swiss chard. All the parsely had ever wanted was to be left alone.
Thank you Johnny, I love the line “All the parsley ever wanted was to be left alone”.
Thanks for reading, ET. And remind me to fire the editor for not catching my “parsely” (sp)!
Beautiful. Thank You.
Dr. Meryl Nass
The oligarchic cabal is trying to take over the world – and cause havoc
Government,
Media
Education kindergarten to to graduate level
“Experts”
Central banks and large financial organizations
Propaganda / enforcing a single narrative / mind control
But they don’t have 8 billion people or the police and armies behind them.
Many of those on our side are paralyzed, wondering what will the cabal do next?
Facing the enemy, facing our fears, allows us to deal with them.
We know what they are trying to do:
—Crash the economy, hide their ongoing theft and buy us out for pennies o the dollar.
—Create artificial shortages resulting in famines, inability to pay for the heat / energy, reduce production.
—Depopulate and herd people into smart cities where control in easiest — Daszak and Fauci statements.
24 / 7 surveillance with “green pass”.
—Use transhumanism to enhance / extend their lives.
—They have more bioweapons at their disposal, but their effects may be unpredictable, or blow back on them.
Good late summer read
Jewish Lives Matter
Human Rights and Anti-Semitism
Author Fiamma Nirenstein
August 18, 2022
Ontario Court rules that youth cannot be mandated to get Covid-19 vaccine.
Hon. J. Christopher Corkery outlined very important justifications for his decision including a reference to the Motherisk inquiry, a track case of “the science was wrong”.
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Booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine are now available for kids aged 5-11, says Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam.
+ 57 sec video
https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1560690483566759937
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city news – Canada approves COVID-19 booster shot for kids aged 5 to 11
Health Canada has authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old. The country’s top doctor explains how parents should decide whether or not to get their kids a second shot.
europravda – Italy election: Fears grow over Russian interference in snap poll after Dmitry Medvedev’s remarks
Meloni slams Letta after PD head says ‘risks for EU’
FdI chief, tipped PM poses risks for Italy and Europe, tells CNN
Conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni slammed centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Enrico Letta after the former premier told CNN the post-Fascist chief posed risks for Europe if she becomes prime minister after the September 25 general election.
“Patriots always defend Italy, while the Left goes around discrediting the nation to defend its own personal profit,” Meloni said Friday.
She accused him of “using his interview with CNN (on Thursday) not speak well of his homeland but to launch alarms and lies about FdI saying that in the event of a centre-right victory there will be a catastrophe in Italy and Europe”.
Letta retorted: “She accused me of discrediting Italy because I have exposed FdI’s choices in the EU.” Fdi is friends with Hungarian hard right Prime MInister Viktor Orban and French hard right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen , for both of whom Meloni has voiced admiration, while its allies in the European Parliament’s conservative caucus include Spain’s post-Franchist Voc party and Poland’s national-conservative Law and Justice party which has infringed EU rule of law norms.
Letta went on to cite three FdI policy proposals that “are follies for those who look at us from abroad”: the obligation for foreigners to pay a surety, an anti-migrant naval blockade outside Italy’s maritime borders, and the renegotiation of the massive post-COVID National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).
In his interview with CNN, Letta said “we need a stronger Europe and for Italy to be at the centre of Europe, with France, Germany, Spain and the Benelux countries, and not with Poland and Hungary.
“What worries us are the choices” of Meloni, who is tipped to become Italy’s first post-fascist and first woman premier after September 25.
Letta said the FdI had “voted in Europe against climate change directives, did not support the Recovery Plan that is so important for the country, and have always been against any European immigration policy and greater EU integration.
“In Europe their allies are Marine Le Pen and Orban, parties and leaders that want to have a weaker Europe. “That’s why we think that there is a great risk not only for Italy but also for Europe”.
The PD and FdI are both polling at around 24% as first and second Italian parties but Meloni has been more successful at forging alliances than Letta and the right/centre right block of the FdI, former anti-migrant interior minister Matteo Salvini’s national League, and three-time ex-premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party are projected to win a clear majority in both houses of parliament.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2022/08/19/meloni-slams-letta-after-pd-head-says-risks-for-eu_4e3bf712-f718-41a8-8176-578c84363d5f.html
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Enrico Letta on CNN
Associated Press – Far-right Italian leader riding polling wave
With a message that blends Christianity, motherhood and patriotism, Giorgia Meloni has ridden a wave of popularity that next month could see her become Italy’s first female prime minister and its first far-right leader since World War II.
FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence to Frame Pro-Trump Political Prisoner
By Ben Wetmore
Published August 19, 2022 at 8:00am
785 Comments
Former Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods was the first elected official in the state to endorse President Trump in 2016.
Two years later U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas sentenced Woods to serve 18 years in federal prison, in addition to three years of supervised release and ordered Woods to pay $1.6 million in restitution.
Yesterday, the lead FBI Agent in his case plead guilty to destroying exculpatory evidence that could have proven Woods’ innocence.
“In a plea deal filed Wednesday, a former FBI agent pleaded guilty to paying a business to “wipe” his computer to make the hard drive unavailable for forensic examination.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/fbi-agent-pleads-guilty-destroying-evidence-frame-pro-trump-political-prisoner/
Not Babylon Bee: China City Swabs Freshly Caught Fish, Crabs, and Shrimps for Covid-19 to Contain 65 Cases (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published August 19, 2022 at 9:59am
49 Comments
I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’d be wrong if you thought things couldn’t get any weirder.
To try to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus, authorities in the Chinese port city of Xiamen were checking every newly captured seafood, from fish and crabs to shrimp.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/not-babylon-bee-china-city-swabs-freshly-caught-fish-crabs-shrimps-covid-19-contain-65-cases-video/
One Honest DC Attorney– Incredible Opening Statement Made by Progressive Democrat Public Defender at J-6 Trial: “THEY HAD EVERY RIGHT TO COME TOGETHER – AND OBJECT THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION!!”
By Cara Castronuova
Published August 19, 2022 at 8:15am
289 Comments
It twas surreal to witness a Progressive Democrat Public Defender stand up for the Constitutional Rights of a Trump Supporter in a Washington DC Federal Courtroom this past week.
Although some will say Natasha Taylor-Smith was just doing her job by defending her client Kyle Fitzsimons, she is a rare exception to the rule. Many J6 public defenders have completely neglected their clients.
Please help defendant Kyle Fitzsimons and his baby daughter HERE.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/one-honest-dc-attorney-incredible-opening-statement-made-progressive-democrat-public-defender-j-6-trial-every-right-come-together-object-certification-election/
CBC – Romana Didulo’s extremist cult: What kind of threat does it pose?
Four followers of Romana Didulo, a QAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist who purports to be the ‘Queen of Canada,’ are facing charges after an attempt to place Peterborough, Ont., police officers under citizen’s arrest.
Freelance investigative journalist Justin Ling explains how dangerous this group really is, and what kind of threat they pose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFypui1xKlk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXPMmmmbwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5GiCCcxwMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOA8pZ_I4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjSfDgqub8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW8Bmfb1-VY
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DAILY MAIL – Finland’s married ‘Party PM’ Sanna Marin, 36, defends her hedonistic lifestyle, insists ‘nothing inappropriate’ happened with male pop star during 4am dance in nightclub and takes a drug test
Sanna Marin, 36-year-old Finnish Prime Minister, has defied her critics and defended her right to party today
She said ‘nothing inappropriate’ happened during night out in which she was filmed dancing with pop star
Marin denied taking drugs after video caught someone using slang for cocaine, but said she has taken a test
Married mother-of-one said her only regret is that videos she thought were private had leaked to the public
More footage which leaked Friday comes from a nightclub that Ms Marin and her entourage are said to have arrived at around 2.30am and stayed in until 4.30am.
They show her surrounded by a group of friends, including several male companions. At one point, Ms Marin is shown dancing with Mr Uusivirta as she puts her arm around his shoulders and he puts his face to her neck.
Witnesses who spoke to Finnish media say she danced with another two men in similar fashion and sat on the laps of another two
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11127073/New-Sanna-Marin-video-leaks-showing-married-Finnish-PM-dancing-mystery-man.html
DAILY MAIL – Not your average stuffy politician! Finnish PM Sanna Marin, 36, seen dancing wildly in leaked video leads Pride events after being raised by two mothers, posed ‘topless’ on fashion magazine cover and still goes clubbing
Sanna Marin has received backlash after a video surfaced of her partying
The youngest prime minister in the world has been criticised in the past
Marin, 36, attends Pride festivals, enjoys clubbing and goes to festivals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11126483/Who-Sanna-Marin-finland-prime-minister.html
Despite criticism the PM enjoys plenty of support from the public
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11126483/Who-Sanna-Marin-finland-prime-minister.html
CRIMSON RHINO and The Raid on Mar-a-Lago
By Jim Hoft
Published August 19, 2022 at 10:53am
1738 Comments
May 2022 the Michael Sussman Trial was rocked by the revelation of the “Crimson Rhino” file.
This file that was first discussed at the Sussman trial was reportedly the basis for the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign. And Sussman was the link between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the government agencies behind the investigations on President Trump.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/crimson-rhino-raid-mar-lago/
Live Freeh or Die
Skeletons in the FBI’s closet—and warnings of more violence to come.
By Lloyd Billingsley
August 17, 2022
In their August 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents spent hours in Donald Trump’s private office, broke open his safe, and “scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe.” As they process this unprecedented home invasion, the people might wonder what a search of FBI closets could possibly turn up. The administration of Bill Clinton is a good place to start looking.
On July 19, 1993, President Clinton fired FBI Director William Sessions, a former judge and U.S. attorney appointed in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. Clinton charged that Sessions used his position to leverage perks. The more likely cause was Sessions’ effort to prevent the politicization of the FBI, then gearing up under the new administration.
Clinton’s pick for FBI boss was former FBI agent and
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/17/live-freeh-or-die/
Gen. Flynn: It’s Time to Activate Every Single American – We Must Take Immediate and Necessary Action
By Michael Flynn, The Western Journal
Published August 19, 2022 at 2:45pm
676 Comments
National security and severe government reform are two of our nation’s massive near-term challenges.
In today’s environment, we face a time of consequence like few throughout U.S. history. The very fabric and reputation of our nation internationally are at risk, and we have a dangerously mounting threat internally from a formidable and vast, overreaching federal government.
Considering this, it is worth reflecting on one of our best presidents, Abraham Lincoln. In 1838, Lincoln gave an address in Springfield, Illinois, and during the address he stated:
https://www.westernjournal.com/gen-flynn-time-activate-every-single-american-must-take-immediate-necessary-action/
This article is a call to arms, it is a call for all Patriots to stand up and vote in enough numbers that the left will not be able to ste the elections.
The law suits along with the elections our vital fronts in the war to restore control of the Federal Government to the People.
I doubt that some of the me.bers of the Left Wing Coup that has seized control of the US are going to peacefully surrender power we want them to be the ones to start the violence.
Pay close attention this is an abbreviated list of the “very suspicious” deaths that have occured around the Democrat Administration since 1992.
Kachelman: The Lesson of Soviet Villain Lavrentia Beria and the Current Evil that Dominates Our Country
By Jim Hoft
Published August 19, 2022 at 7:30am
277 Comments
Guest post by John L. Kachelman, Jr.
There is a historical reminder of the false security that a deeply enmeshed bureaucrat believes his is protected from his malevolence. Beria reminds those who are working “behind the scenes,” pursuing their own agendas, that their safety is never secure; their security is tenuous at best; and, their inevitable exposure, fall and execution by justice cannot be evaded!
Undergirding all governing is a large minion of faceless workers. These are the “Chiefs.” And the “Chiefs” actually run operations. Those elected are the “Faces”; those in the background are the “Chiefs.” This is a critical distinction that many do not see. The following discusses this factor in our government.
Here is the reality of governing—the Faces respond only to the extent the Chiefs allow. This is not the ideal but it is the real. There exists an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the elected officials that is guarded by the Chiefs. This is not for the protection of the elected officials but for the security of the Chiefs and their agenda.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/kachelman-lesson-soviet-villain-lavrentia-beria-current-dominant-evil-day/
Federal Judge Rules Biden’s Oil and Gas Order Violated the Law, Issues Permanent Injunction in States That Sued
A federal judge on Thursday issued a permanent injunction that will allow new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
The ruling by Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana came one day after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had kicked back to Doughty an injunction he issued last year to accomplish the same goal, according to The Hill.
Doughty’s Thursday ruling permanently blocks a January 2021 executive order from President Joe Biden that halted lease sales on federal lands.
https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-judge-rules-bidens-oil-gas-order-violated-law-issues-permanent-injunction-states-sued/
Session 118: The Truth Pact
Corona Investigative Committee – august 19, 2022
Begins @ 15:25
https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/s118en:3
No Regrets” – Woman Chops Off Her Boyfriend’s Penis After He Tried Raping Her 14-Year-Old Daughter
By Cristina Laila
Published August 19, 2022 at 5:25pm
242 Comments
India – A woman in Uttar Pradesh cut off her boyfriend’s penis after he tried raping her 14-year-old daughter.
According to the Times of India, the 36-year-old woman came home from work when she saw her live-in boyfriend assaulting her teen daughter.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/no-regrets-woman-chops-off-boyfriends-penis-tried-raping-14-year-old-daughter/