Reader’s Links for August 26th, 2022

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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51 Replies to “Reader’s Links for August 26th, 2022”

    • “…met people who regret taking the vaxx, but never met anyone who regrets not taking it…” (Para)

      • The World Economic Forum madmen have followed the master plan for decades. Read their site, they do not hide their ambitions.

        claiming “augmented reality” technology has the ability to transform society and individual lives. The WEF recently suggested there are “solid” “rational” and “ ETHICAL” reasons to consider implanting children with microchips.

        According to an article published this month on the WEF’s website, “implant technologies could became the norm in the future” and they “form part of a natural evolution that wearables once underwent.”

        The article’s author, Kathleen Philips, said there are compelling” arguments in favour of MICROCHIPPING humans.

        Posing another hypothetical question she asked, Should implant a tracking chip in your child? There are solid, rational, reasons why you should. ( Tracking is a world used frequently by the monsters).

        Other recent articles featured of the WEF’s site have promoted m metaverse as a merger of sorts between one’s physical and digital body, and a role artificial intelligence could play in stemming the spread of the so-called “misinformation” and conspiracy theories on the internet.

        When reading the site, one must remember this group of unelected madmen, also believe there is no God, nobody has a soul, and as Yuval Noah Harari says “Humans are hackable animals”. The little people are followers, not thinkers.

        I remember when I first read about the New World Order, many years ago, I thought they were power hungry madmen, freaks, a joke. The “Great Reset”, climate nonsense, Event 201 – – the vaccines, digital ID………

          • BUSINESS INSIDER – A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants

            A biotechnology company based in Israel wants to replicate a recent experiment that successfully created an artificial mouse embryo from stem cells — only this time with human cells.

            Scientists at Weizmann’s Molecular Genetics Department grew “synthetic mouse embryos” in a jar without the use of sperm, eggs, or a womb, according to a paper published in the journal Cell on August 1. It was the first time the process had been successfully completed, Insider’s Marianne Guenot reported.

            The replica embryos could not develop into fully-formed mice and were therefore not “real,” Jacob Hanna, who led the experiment, told the Guardian. However, scientists observed the synthetic embryos having a beating heart, blood circulation, the start of a brain, a neural tube, and an intestinal tract.

            Hanna told MIT Technology Review after the success of the mouse experiment he is working to replicate the results with human cells, including his own.

            “The embryo is the best organ-making machine and the best 3D bioprinter — we tried to emulate what it does,” Hanna said in a statement.

            Other experts say it will take significantly more research before synthetic human embryos are within reach.

            Renewal Bio, the Israel-based company founded by Hanna, wants to use this science for organ tissue transplants that could solve infertility, genetic diseases, and issues related to old age.

            For example, the MIT Technology Review reported that blood cells from the embryo could potentially be used to help boost immunocompromised systems.

            Renewal Bio believes some of the world’s most pressing problems are “declining birth rates and fast aging populations,” according to the company website.

            “To solve these complex and compounding issues, Renewal Bio aims to make humanity younger and healthier by leveraging the power of the new stem cell technology,” the website reads.

            Omri Amirav-Drory, the acting CEO of Renewal Bio, told the MIT Technology Review that the company did not want to “overpromise” or scare people with the potential technology, but that Hanna’s experiment was “amazing.”

            The use of human embryo clones for research has frequently raised ethical concerns within the scientific community, including the potential that synthetic embryos may experience pain or sentience, according to a 2017 paper published in the journal eLife.

            Hanna told the MIT Technology Review that he could potentially get around these ethical concerns by creating synthetic human embryos with “no lungs, no heart, or no brain.”

            https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-biotech-company-wants-to-take-human-dna-and-create-artificial-embryos-that-could-be-used-to-harvest-organs-for-medical-transplants/articleshow/93687772.cms

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            Business Insider – A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants

            Scientists at Weizmann’s Molecular Genetics Department grew “synthetic mouse embryos” in a jar without the use of sperm, eggs, or a womb, according to a paper published in the journal Cell on August 1. It was the first time the process had been successfully completed

            […]Renewal Bio believes some of the world’s most pressing problems are “declining birth rates and fast aging populations,” according to the company website.

            “To solve these complex and compounding issues, Renewal Bio aims to make humanity younger and healthier by leveraging the power of the new stem cell technology,” the website reads.

            https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-human-embryos-dna-mouse-medical-transplants-2022-8

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            MIT Technology Review – Scientists have created synthetic mouse embryos with developed brains

            The stem-cell-derived embryos could shed new light on the earliest stages of human pregnancy.

            Mouse embryos recently generated from stem cells in a lab show more brain development than any synthetic mouse embryos created previously.

            While other researchers had created mouse embryos from stem cells, none had reached the point where the entire brain, including the anterior portion at the front, began to develop, according to the researchers from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.

            […]Studying how mouse stem cells interact at this point in development could also provide valuable insight into why human pregnancies fail during the earliest stages, and how to prevent that from happening.

            “This is really the first demonstration of the forebrain in any models of embryonic development, and that’s been a holy grail for the field,”

            […]The embryos were developed in an artificial incubator created by Jacob Hanna of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, who recently kept realistic-looking mouse embryos growing in a mechanical womb for several days until they developed beating hearts, flowing blood, and cranial folds. Hanna is also a coauthor of the new study.

            […]Human model embryos could play a significant role in helping scientists understand why certain gene mutations happen, and they could help in testing potential treatment for a range of disorders.

            […]Pushing past that point will be very important for developing new drugs and establishing which drugs are compatible with natural development, says Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a professor in mammalian development and stem cell biology in Cambridge’s Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, who led the research. Her research into artificial embryos was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 breakthrough technologies in 2018.

            https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/25/1058620/scientists-synthetic-mouse-embryos-developed-brains/
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            NATURE – Synthetic embryos complete gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis

            https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05246-3.epdf

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            sky news australia –

            • The movie A Brave New World: for those who haven’t seen it, now is the time and it is free online. From the author Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, the man was a visionary.

              About the movie: In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.

    • zero hedge – Moderna Sues Pfizer, BioNTech Over COVID Vaccines

      Moderna announced on Friday that it’s suing rivals Pfizer and BioNTech SE, claiming that the mRNA technology in their Covid-19 jab infringes on its patents.

      The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Massachusetts as well as in Germany, seeks unspecified monetary damages for patent infringement, and sets the stage for a massive legal battle between the three vaccine makers.

      In a Friday statement, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna accused partners Pfizer and BioNTech of violating key mRNA patents in the development of the Comirnaty vaccine. The company says it had patents from 2010 to 2016 on mRNA technology which made its Spikevax jab possible, which the other two companies copied without permission.

      More :

      https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-over-covid-19-vaccines

    • Matt Le Tissier tells Mark Steyn more and more young sportspeople are DYING and NOBODY is listening!

      … ‘nobody seems to be paying any attention’ to the number of young athletes prematurely passing away.

  2. Milos Zeman on Green maniac policies. I think the mistake is to call them insane, stupid, or any other insult. Yes, the garden-variety Green is a dupe, but those holding the strings know it’s nonsense, yet implement it for intentional destructive purposes, specifically. “Stupid” only provides plausible deniability once the day of reckoning arrives. (Just like the injections.)

    https://summit.news/2022/08/25/czech-president-blames-green-madness-for-energy-crisis/

    • The “Great Reset”: A Blueprint for Destroying Freedom, Innovation, and Prosperity
      by J.B. Shurk
      August 26, 2022 at 5:00 am

      How do nations become wealthy? Many are blessed with abundant natural resources. Others conquer foreign lands. Some specialize in unique trade skills and crafts. Timber, mining, fishing, sugar, rum, narcotics, cotton, silk, agriculture, conquest, human slavery, manufacturing, oil, industry, banking, and so on — depending on the century and the region, nations have attained tremendous wealth in myriad ways. Notice that no nation has managed merely to print money and tax its citizens on the path to prosperity. Real wealth cannot simply be conjured from thin air. There must be recognized value in what a nation and its citizens possess.

      More than any other source for national wealth, however, one towers above the rest: innovation. The ability of the human mind to create something new and valuable provides society with endless wealth creation. Unlike central bank quantitative easing and other monetary tools (or tricks?), the brain really is a money-printing machine. Whether an innovator alters existing farming, mining, or manufacturing techniques to make production cheaper and more efficient, or an inventor designs something entirely unique, value that did not exist yesterday materializes the next. Innovation is the

      https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18825/great-reset-wef

      (Richard: Everyone should read this article.)

  3. Flashback: Kabul Airport Suicide Bomber Who Murdered 13 Americans Was Set Free from Bagram Prison After Joe Biden Abandoned the Air Base in July
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 8:35am
    57 Comments

    One year ago today Islamic terrorist Abdul Rehman killed 173 afghans and 13 Americans at the Kabul Airport.

    Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years in July by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ secret departure more than two hours after they left.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/flashback-kabul-airport-suicide-bomber-murdered-13-americans-set-free-bagram-prison-joe-biden-abandoned-air-base-july/

    NEVER FORGET: One Year Ago Today Suicide Bomber Killed 173 Afghans and 13 American Heroes — And Lloyd Austin and the Pentagon Knew Specifics of Attack in Advance
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 7:15am
    109 Comments

    Now we know.

    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chief’s Chariman Mark Milley, and CentCom Commander General Kenneth McKenzie all knew about the Kabul Airport terrorist bombing hours in advance at the Abbey Gate.

    The top US Military leaders knew that the Abbey Gate Soldiers were at the greatest risk.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/never-forget-one-year-ago-today-suicide-bomber-killed-173-afghans-13-american-heroes-lloyd-austin-pentagon-knew-specifics-attack-advance/

  4. IRS Official Nikole Flax Who Was Involved in the IRS Conservative Targeting Scandal — Is Picked to Lead the “Centralized Office” for the New 87,000 Employees
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 7:45am
    256 Comments

    in 2014 The Gateway Pundit reported —

    IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform on March 26, 2014. Koskinen told Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) during the hearing that Loise Lerner’s emails were archived and it would take a long time to retrieve them

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/irs-hack-nikole-flax-involved-irs-conservative-targeting-scandal-picked-lead-centralized-office-new-87000-employees/

  6. MAJOR UPDATE: Missouri AG Schmitt’s Lawsuit FORCES Zuckerberg to ADMIT the FBI TOLD FACEBOOK TO CENSOR THE BIDEN LAPTOP During the 2020 Election
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 8:00am
    221 Comments

    This is a MASSIVE win for Free Speech and against Big Tech Censorship.

    The Gateway Pundit previously reported in May that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) against the Biden Administration, including Biden himself, Anthony Fauci, the Department of Homeland Security, and nearly a dozen federal agencies and Secretaries.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/major-update-missouri-ag-schmitts-lawsuit-forces-zuckerberg-admit-fbi-told-facebook-censor-biden-laptop-2020-election/

  8. Texans Learn the Constitution Over Shaved Ice
    by Kelly Taylor-Holt August 26, 2022

    The summer of 2022 isn’t the hottest ever in Texas, but close. In the Lone Star State’s panhandle region, a small business owner is turning the high temps to her advantage with her seasonal shaved-ice business — a local favorite — while teaching the U.S. Constitution to customers. Those customers are learning just how little they actually know about the Constitution, and many are upset that they weren’t taught such things in school, and that their legislators apparently weren’t either.

    Pam Davis, owner of Jungle Juice in Dumas, Texas, has successfully provided summer treats in Dumas for three years. But this year, something new is on the menu.

    After a member of The John Birch Society (JBS) introduced her to the popular The Constitution Is the Solution video series, Davis got upset. She told The New American, “I thought I understood being a conservative, but I learned I don’t know anything! I

    https://thenewamerican.com/texans-learn-the-constitution-over-shaved-ice/

  9. Failed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell Sinks Markets – Promises Pain Ahead for American Households and Businesses (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 10:09am
    30 Comments

    On Friday Jerome Powell spoke to investors in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
    The markets plunged during his talk.

    Powell promised pain ahead for American households who are already struggling thanks to the Biden economic policies.

    Inflation is at 8.6 percent, gas prices are at record highs under Biden, and the economy is in recession.

    Jerome Powell: “(Our) overarching focus is to bring inflation back down to our 2% goal. While higher interest rates will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/failed-fed-chairman-jerome-powell-sinks-markets-promises-pain-ahead-american-households-businesses-video/

  10. sky news australia – ‘He’s a narcissist’: Trudeau ‘corrupted’ by power

    ( 6 min 40 )

    Jordan Peterson argues Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a “narcissist” who has been “corrupted” by the power.

    Speaking with Russian-born American computer scientist and podcast host Lex Fridman, Dr Peterson called out Mr Trudeau on what he believes are his tyrannical tendencies, narcissism and his conflict with farmers in his pursuit of green policies.

  11. MONTREAL – He wants to be called Amber

    PIC:

    https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/017ed5d1b70b3b48ad542eb76a5ae3c5.webp

    Brigitte Jobin had gathered all her courage on Thursday morning. Once again, she would face her executioner, in a courtroom at the Montreal courthouse.

    Once again she would find herself in the same room as this former mixed martial arts fighter, a muscular, manipulative and controlling man, who beat her for months, who raped her at the point of a knife, which broke her ribs, which strangled her to the point of knocking her unconscious, which forced her to tattoo her name on her skin, as if to mark her, as if she belonged to her.

    Even if this man has been languishing in prison for five years, Brigitte Jobin is still terribly afraid of him. It is understandable. And yet, when she saw him enter the courtroom, she restrained herself from…bursting out laughing. “He came to court wearing big Elton John glasses. I didn’t believe it at all! »

    It’s that, you see, Jody Matthew Burke wants to avoid having the Tribunal attach a dangerous offender label to him.

    He seems ready to do anything to avoid receiving an indeterminate sentence, one of the most severe in the Criminal Code, demanded by the Crown.

    So now he wants to be called Amber.

    Brigitte Jobin had to wait four years before her hyperviolent ex-spouse was finally convicted of eight counts, including armed sexual assault and death threats, in May 2021.

    In four years of proceedings, Burke has mastered the art of dragging things out. He hired eight lawyers, before insisting on representing himself. He paraded 20 witnesses to the bar, all less relevant than the others. When he changed his defense strategy, the court gave him the opportunity to testify again.

    Judge Jean-Jacques Gagné was patient. Very patient. In his decision, he notes all the same that all this was a “misuse of the resources” of the court…

    Unfortunately, the waste is not over.

    “The story of gender dysphoria, for real, I had not seen it coming,” says Brigitte Jobin. I had imagined a lot of scenarios that he could invent, but this one came out of nowhere, and it is the ultimate attempt “to obtain a less severe sentence, she believes.

    Before Montreal, Jody Matthew Burke had been convicted of sex crimes in Vancouver and Ontario. Brigitte Jobin hopes that Judge Gagné will side with the arguments of the Crown and declare him a dangerous offender, to prevent him from making other victims.

    For his part, Burke claims that he will not need to be controlled as much thanks to hormone therapy. It seems far-fetched like that, but a psychiatrist from the Pinel Institute testified that the risk of recidivism could actually be reduced if he became a woman.

    It’s a big “if”. So far, Burke hasn’t started any hormone therapy.

    “He says he’s going to be beaten and that he’s going to be ridiculed in prison if he feminizes,” says Brigitte Jobin, incredulous.

    Not only has Burke not started his treatments, but to “keep in shape in detention”, he takes… testosterone!

    This implausible story is all the more shocking because it risks fueling the discourse of those who suggest that trans people are not to be trusted – especially not when they interfere in women’s bathrooms or locker rooms. .

    That would be distressing, but hardly surprising at a time when trans rights are under attack, sometimes fiercely, in the United States and elsewhere.

    But that’s not the point here.

    Here it’s about a predator, convicted of a series of serious crimes, who now claims to identify as a woman in hopes of winning clemency from a judge.

    For Brigitte Jobin, it’s all sewn with white thread. Burke has lied to her too much, he has manipulated her too often for her to believe him. To trap her in a toxic relationship, he hid everything from her: his violent past, his sex crimes, even his real name.

    It didn’t work out in court. “The defendant’s testimony is inherently improbable. Not only is it improbable, but it is sometimes fictional, ”said Judge Gagné in the May 2021 decision. Also: “He is absorbed in fantasies and has a completely unrealistic perception of events. And again: “He does not testify honestly and provides countless irrelevant details.” »

    In short, Jody Matthew Burke very often tells nonsense.

    Notice, maybe for a rare time he’s telling the truth. Maybe one day we’ll call her Amber. It doesn’t change the fact that he should be treated for what he is: a dangerous repeat offender.

    https://actualnewsmagazine.com/english/he-wants-to-be-called-amber/

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    Un délinquant sexuel dangereux plaide être une femme

    https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2022-08-25/un-delinquant-sexuel-dangereux-plaide-etre-une-femme.php

  12. What a difference a year makes and these numbers may represent 1%.
    Vaccine Adverse Reactions Events System Reports
    May 28, 2021
    Adverse Reaction 262,521 Serious Injuries 21,537 Deaths 4,406

    May 20,2022
    Adverse Reactions 1,277,980 Serious injuries 232,694 Deaths 28,312

    May 2023

  13. (Richard: The left in their quest to take over the West have indoctrinated the Westerners with the propaganda that all societies are the same.

    While all people have the same basic needs we are l different just as all so it’s are different. Societies like China have long desired total control of all nations. Xi is trying to further that goal even though his policies are destroying the Chinese economy. Right now he is racing to find some nation he can seize and loot to prevent China from collapsing like the Soviet Union did. Xi has stated that he isn’t going to let Communist China collapse peacefully. His stated intention is to ensure all of his rivals collapse so they can’t occupy China after it collapses.)

    China Is Weaponizing Chinese Worldwide to Support the CCP
    by Gordon G. Chang
    August 23, 2022 at 5:00 am

    Promoting the great unity of the Chinese people is the historic responsibility of China’s patriotic united front work in the new era,” said Chinese ruler Xi Jinping at the end of last month to Communist Party cadres in Beijing. “To do the job well, we must… truly unite all Chinese people in different parties, nationalities, classes, groups, and with different beliefs, and those who are living under different social systems.”

    “Different social systems” is Party lingo for “other countries.”

    Xi’s words sound benign, but the intent is not. In short, Xi, at the Party’s United Front Work Conference, said he hoped to unite—in other words, mobilize—ethnic Chinese everywhere to support the CCP, to effectively make every Chinese individual a CCP agent.

    “The Chinese Communist Party just doesn’t accept that people who adopt foreign citizenship are no longer beholden to the motherland as represented by the Chinese Communist Party,” said Charles Burton of the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute to “CBS Eye on the World” on

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18819/china-chinese-support

  14. BREAKING… Feds ARREST Gavin McGinnes During Live Broadcast Over Jan. 6 — Despite the Fact HE DID NOT GO to DC on Jan. 6
    By Alicia Powe
    Published August 26, 2022 at 10:34am
    1170 Comments

    Political commentator and former Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes was reportedly arrested during a live broadcast of his show on Censored TV on Thursday.

    “We are shooting a show. Can we do this another time,” McInnes told law enforcement officials as his show was live streaming.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/breaking-feds-arrest-gavin-mcginnes-live-broadcast-jan-6-despite-fact-not-go-dc-jan-6/

  16. Biden ‘Rally’ in Small High School Gym Looks Produced Based on His Prior Rallies, Participants Likely Bused in or Paid to Be There
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 11:15am
    240 Comments

    Biden held a rally last night in Maryland in a small high school gymnasium. This out-of-no-where event was likely produced based on his prior rallies.

    The Democrats will lie, cheat and steal, so it’s not unimaginable that they would put together a production to make it look like someone in America is behind Biden’s stolen election, Afghanistan surrender, record inflation, and recession.

    Joe Biden held a rally last night in Maryland in a small high school gymnasium. This out-of-no-where event was likely produced based on his prior rallies.

    The Democrats will lie, cheat and steal, so it’s not unimaginable that they would put together a production to make it look like someone in America is behind Biden’s stolen election, Afghanistan surrender, record inflation, and recession.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/biden-rally-small-high-school-gym-looks-produced-based-prior-rallies-participants-likely-bused/

  17. Driver arrested after van plows into Brussels cafe terrace

    BRUSSELS: A van driver plowed through a crowded cafe terrace in Brussels’ city center shopping and tourism district on Friday, lightly wounding six people before escaping the scene.

    Belgium’s terrorism tracking Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAM) briefly raised the threat level in the capital from “medium” to “serious” — from two to three on a scale of four.

    But the level was dropped back to medium a few hours later after officials found “reassuring elements in their investigation,” an OCAM spokesman told AFP.

    Initially, police had said it was too soon to speculate on whether the driver had deliberately targeted the diners, but that investigators had found the van and were hunting for the suspect.

    “Shortly before 1:00 p.m. a van drove into a terrace on Saint Michel street. The driver fled in his vehicle, the emergency services were very quickly on the spot,” a spokeswoman told AFP.

    “There were six minor injuries that were treated at the scene,” she said.

    Brussels mayor Philippe Close told the daily Le Soir there had been a mixture of tourists and local shoppers on the terrace and that some of the witnesses were in a state of shock.

    “What is certain is that the vehicle was traveling at an extremely high speed,” he said.
    Brussels prosecutors were to hold a news conference later on Friday to provide an update in their investigation.

    https://www.arabnews.com/node/2150921/world
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    reuters – Van strikes Brussels cafe, unclear if attack or accident

    – A van strucka cafe terrace in central Brussels on Friday, leaving six people needing treatment for light injuries and shock and investigators trying to determine whether it was an attack or an accident.

    The driver fled in the vehicle after the incident shortly before 1 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) and was arrested in the northern city of Antwerp later in the afternoon , Brussels prosecutors told a news conference. His van had earlier been found abandoned in a nearby Brussels district.

    “The facts of course make you think of attacks as have happened in the past, but this is not the only possibility we are considering. It is also possible that it was just an accident,” a Brussels prosecution spokesperson said.

    None of the injured people needed to be taken to hospital.

    One witnesses told Belgian media that the van entered Rue Saint-Michel, which leads into a busy shopping area, with tyres screeching and headed away at high speed.

    Video footage of the incident on social media showed the white van indeed travelling quickly and veering wildly, but only brushing the side of the cafe terrace and not obviously targeting people.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/van-drives-into-brussels-cafe-terrace-no-serious-injuries-2022-08-26/
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    DAILY MAIL – Terrifying moment van drives into cafe terrace in Brussels ‘at extremely high speed’, injuring six people before driver flees the scene

    The male suspect drove a van into the seating area outside a cafe in Brussels
    Six people were injured in the incident and the driver fled the scene in his van
    Police have arrested suspect in the city of Antwerp, 28 miles north of Brussels
    The British embassy in Belgium urged Brits in area to follow ‘official guidance’

    […]Police arrested the suspect, 48, in the city of Antwerp, 28 miles north of Brussels, around two hours later, local media reported. Prosecutors said the man, who is yet to be named, is being questioned by the police.

    […]Police said it was too soon to speculate on whether the driver had deliberately targeted the diners.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11149443/Van-drives-cafe-terrace-Belgium-injuring-six-people-driver-flees-foot.html

  18. TWho’s in Charge? – “I Took Control. I Shouldn’t Do That. I’m Not Allowed to Do That.” – Biden Before Handlers Kick Out Press (VIDEO)
    By Cristina Laila
    Published August 26, 2022 at 1:45pm
    20 Comments

    Who is really in charge?

    Joe Biden on Friday ‘dropped by’ a meeting with state and local officials on Women’s Equality Day to discuss ‘abortion access’ for women following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

    I’m sorry, I took control. I shouldn’t do that. I’m not allowed to do that,” said Biden as his handlers kicked out the press.

    Biden stared blankly as his staffers booted out the press.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/charge-took-control-shouldnt-not-allowed-biden-handlers-kick-press-video/

  19. global news – Canadian military faced ‘”exceptional” situation in determining role amid convoy protest, docs show

    Global News has obtained documents revealing top military officials sought legal advice on what role troops could play in clearing trucker convoy protesters in Ottawa in February after the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act.

    In the midst of the occupied streets, the honking, the parties, and the security threats, the Canadian military was trying to figure out what it could or should do if the government came calling for help.

    Mercedes Stephenson reports on how they scrambled to figure out the rules in uncharted waters.

  20. EXCLUSIVE: Recently Uncovered Information Indicates Maricopa Audit Omitted the Biggest Issue Proving the 2020 Results Never Should Have Been Certified
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 2:30pm
    117 Comments

    The Maricopa Audit went on for months before the final reports and presentations were shared with the public in late September 2021. There was enough there to demand that the 2020 Election be decertified in the state. This was the case even with the largest issue missing from the reports.

    America waited patiently for the results of the 2020 Election Audit in Maricopa County, Arizona. Then in late September, those involved in the audit released their reports. There was enough in these reports to demand that the 2020 Election results be decertified. The 2020 Election never should have been certified in the first place in multiple states.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/exclusive-recently-uncovered-information-indicates-maricopa-audit-omitted-biggest-issue-proving-2020-results-never-certified/

  21. It’s an Election Year! Joe Biden Also Admitted He Doesn’t Have the Authority to Forgive Student Loan Debt…But He’s Doing It Anyways
    By Brian Lupo
    Published August 26, 2022 at 2:20pm
    Comment

    Earlier this week, The Gateway Pundit reported that Nancy Pelosi went on the record stating that the President doesn’t have the authority to forgive student loan debt. Joe Biden has proposed the Department of Education forgive up to $20,000 in Student Loan debt anyways, despite once agreeing with Pelosi’s position.

    Back on February 17, 2021, Joe Biden told a member of the audience in a Town Hall that he will not increase the proposed $10,000 student loan forgiveness to $50,000 as she suggested. Now, however, he has doubled that number for many students from $10,000 to $20,000.

    The question is whether or not he has that authority to unilaterally forgive any debt. According to his own response in that very same Town Hall to the very same question

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/its-an-election-year-joe-biden-also-admitted-he-doesnt-have-the-authority-to-forgive-student-loan-debt-but-hes-doing-it-anyways/

  22. I’ve gone through the redacted affidavit a couple of times now. Including Attachments. I’m not impressed. There are so many concerning issues it is hard to know where to start. I’ll try.

    SEE IT: DOJ’s Redacted Affidavit for FBI’s Trump Raid – Todd Starnes toddstarnes.com/politics/see-i…
    1–it does not appear to include any exculpatory evidence or mitigating facts.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1563212486093942784.html

  25. A Review of the Big Picture and Stakeholder Interests Within FBI Affidavit Justifying Raid on Trump

    The specific level of GOPe misinformation; a constructed narrative currently advocated by Karl Rove; surrounding the release of the FBI affidavit justifying the raid on President Trump’s home, is very telling.

    I’ll have more on that later; suffice to say, it’s clear now the republican wing of the DC UniParty knew the plan all along, and yes, the downstream consequences align with the instructions to the created Trump alternative, Ron DeSantis. This is all organized.

    Review Techno Fog article for the legal perspective on the affidavit [SEE HERE]. From my perspective it becomes important to talk about the bigger picture of what lies behind this entire operation.

    First, as to the documents themselves, the general public is clueless about how classified documents exist. Some even believe classified documents are never copied, which is stunningly false. All source material is held at the originating agency in its original form. All versions of documents that are provided to stakeholders in government, including the

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/26/a-review-of-the-big-picture-and-stakeholder-interests-within-fbi-affidavit-justifying-raid-on-trump/#more-236979

  26. DISGUSTING… One Year Later – Biden Regime Still REFUSES to Identify Abdul Rehman al Logari as Killer of 13 US Service Members at Kabul Airport
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 5:08pm
    Comment

    Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years in July by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ secret departure more than two hours after they left.

    The Taliban quickly took control of Bagram Air Base, which is only 30 miles north of Kabul, on August 15th and released thousands of terrorists held at its prison. The Americans and Afghans left the Taliban military equipment, uniforms, rations and even sports drinks.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/disgusting-one-year-later-biden-regime-still-refuses-identify-abdul-rehman-al-logari-killer-13-us-service-members-kabul-airport/

  28. (Richard: If this article is correct the economic impact is going to deepen and lengthen the crash. The good effect will be for ing the west to reindustralise our nations.)

    Disaster for Everyone: China Cuts Itself off From the World | Opinion

    GORDON G. CHANG

    On the 12th of this month, five of China’s largest state-owned enterprises announced their intention to delist shares from the New York Stock Exchange. The announcements came amid the deadlock between American and Chinese regulators over the right of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to inspect audit work papers of Chinese firms listed on American exchanges

    The enterprises cited a low volume of trades for the voluntary delistings, but Beijing apparently forced the companies to leave the U.S. Chinese officials are determined to prevent foreign parties from gaining access to corporate data. Instead, Beijing is promoting offerings on domestic Chinese exchanges.

    Why is this development significant? Not because China wants to hoard information, which of course it does

    https://www.newsweek.com/disaster-everyone-china-cuts-itself-off-world-opinion-1736656

  29. China’s Strategic Incoherence on Taiwan Shows Ominous Mindset | Opinion
    GORDON G. CHANG , AUTHOR, COMMENTATOR
    ON 8/16/22 AT 6:30 AM EDT

    This week, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) led a five-member bipartisan delegation to Taipei for a two-day trip. The Communist Party’s Global Times published a dire threat to the members of the delegation

    Actually, “unification” would be far more precise because the People’s Republic of China has never ruled Taiwan—formally, the Republic of China. In fact, no Chinese regime has ever held indisputable sovereignty over the island.

    The current Chinese regime, as can be gleaned from the white paper, stakes its case to Taiwan on a mangled reading of the historical record. Gerrit van der Wees, who teaches the island’s history at

    https://www.newsweek.com/chinas-strategic-incoherence-taiwan-shows-ominous-mindset-opinion-1733525

    (Richard: The article begs the question, “how much control of the military does Xi have?” It also points out how weak and poor the Chinese economy is.

    Is Xi going to try to crash the entire world or will his enemies succeed in kicking him out?)

  30. EXCELLENT: Former Law Clerk for Justice Gorsuch Lays Out Why the Mar-a-Lago Raid Based on Today’s Affidavit Was “Unprecedented…Unnecessary, and…Unlawful”
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 26, 2022 at 7:40pm

    Attorney and former Constitutional Law Clerk for Justice Gorsuch, Mike Davis, lays out three reasons why the DOJ’s actions in raiding President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago were unprecedented, not necessary, and not lawful.

    Davis shared on FOX News today:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/excellent-former-law-clerk-justice-gorsuch-lays-mar-lago-raid-based-todays-affidavit-unprecedented-unnecessary-unlawful/