Reader’s Links for February 6th, 2023

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114 Replies to “Reader’s Links for February 6th, 2023”

  1. Comments on https://theaviationgeekclub.com/chinese-surveillance-balloon-flying-over-us-shot-down-by-f-22-by-means-of-one-aim-9x-in-the-first-known-air-to-air-takedown-for-a-raptor/

    Using a missile is an expensive way of taking it down. The US probably did so just as a test of the F-22 system’s ability to do such. It is also the reason why they waited until it was out over the ocean to do so.

    A somewhat simple solution is to jam the device, [to prevent radio xmission of data]

    • Doing this would have allowed the Chicoms to retrieve the payload and download the data.

    • The big problem is the Constitution says they need permission from Oregon, Congress and two thirds of the states to ba able to do this.

      • From what I understand the progressive western part of the state will be happy to see the knuckle draggers go, so there’s at least part of the equation. If they succeed I will drag my own knuckles there.

        • We can hope this will happen. Current events seem to be working to create a US where this may be possible.

          Read the article I posted about Chinese spy balloons crossing the US and the Pentagon not briefing President Trump because they thought he was too aggressive. If this is true every one involved should at the very least be tried for dereliction of duty and/or disobeying orders. Stripped of their rank and pension and sent to prison.

  2. Satanic ‘Unholy’ Grammy Performance Presented by… Pfizer?
    By Kristinn Taylor
    Published February 5, 2023 at 11:49pm
    614 Comments

    The 65th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles Sunday night and broadcast on CBS featured the Grammy’s usual tribute to the Prince of Darkness, this time apparently sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

    The Satanic performance of the 2022 hit song Unholy by Sam Smith and transgender singer Kim Petras (“Mummy don’t know Daddy’s getting hot, At the Body Shop, doing something unholy”) was followed by a promo that said the Grammy Awards show was sponsored by Pfizer.

    Jill Biden made a “surprise” appearance at the end of the show. TGP report here. (Unholy is definitely a Biden family values song

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/satanic-unholy-grammy-performance-presented-pfizer/

  3. (Richard: Parts 1, 2 and 3 of a series of articles about the corruption in New Mexico and how the Dems are trying to change the election laws so only Dems can be elected.)

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/new-mexicos-corrupt-senator-daniel-ivey-soto-hiding-backers-clients/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/nms-secretary-state-maggie-toulouse-oliver-paid-nm-senator-daniel-ivey-soto-nearly-1-million-taxpayer-money-county-clerk/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/new-mexico-senators-blessing-corrupt-sos-maggie-toulouse-oliver-pushing-legislation-fully-corrupts-nm-elections-criminalizes-investigate/

    New Mexico Senators with Blessing of Corrupt SoS Maggie Toulouse Oliver Push Legislation that Fully Corrupts NM Elections and Criminalizes Those Who Investigate
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 6, 2023 at 7:15am
    55 Comments

    Daniel Ivey-Soto, New Mexico’s most corrupt senator has destroyed the election franchise. He’s now working with the corrupt Secretary of State and other corrupt Senators to fully corrupt the state’s election process.

    Guest post by the Editor of Estancia News

    We have detailed the corruption, backroom deals, campaign contributions, and money trail of Senator Daniel Ivey-Soto in Parts 1 and 2 of this series.

    The articles could be summarized as follows: Using taxpayer money, current Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse-Oliver, made nearly $1 million dollars in payments to Ivey-Soto while she was the Bernalillo County clerk, and he was a sitting State Senator. And this continued through the concealment of Ivey-Soto’s massive conflicts of interest, paid backers, and his financial contributions/bribery to key legislative figures. As a result, he has transformed New Mexico’s election code into a fraudster’s dream.

    The beneficiaries of the election code have been Dominion Voting Systems and selected, rather than elected, candidates and incumbent politicians. The losers of the ever-changing election code are proponents of transparency, accountability, and accuracy in elections.

  4. Widespread Devastation: Powerful Quakes Hit Turkey, Thousands Dead; USGS Warns Death Toll Could Hit 10,000
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    MONDAY, FEB 06, 2023 – 06:04 AM
    A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Turkey early Monday, killing at least 1,400 people in the country and neighboring Syria. There are reports of another quake, registering 7.5-magnitude in the country’s southeast less than 12 hours from the first.

    The first quake was felt as far away as Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon — occurred in Kahramanmaras province, north of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border. Most of the damage is in southern Turkey and northern Syria.

    The first quake was so powerful that buildings hundreds of miles away swayed in Israel. The second quake, a 7.5-magnitude, struck Kahramanmaras province just moments ago.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/widespread-devastation-powerful-quakes-hit-turkey-thousands-dead-usgs-warns-death-toll

  5. Maker Of Flying Motorcycle To Go Public In SPAC Deal
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    MONDAY, FEB 06, 2023 – 05:55 AM
    The market for special purpose acquisition companies soured in 2022. But it hasn’t stopped one company with blank-check dreams.

    Bloomberg reported that blank-check firm Pono Capital Corp. announced the acquisition of Japanese flying motorbike maker ALI Technologies Inc. The deal is expected to close imminently, which means trading might start on the Nasdaq as early as tomorrow.

    People familiar with the deal said ALI Technologies would become a wholly owned unit of its US arm, Aerwins Technologies. They said the market cap is expected to be around $600 million adding the ticker will be “AWIN.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/maker-flying-motorcycle-go-public-spac-deal

    • I think this is an electric bike, if they put one of the larger motorcycle engines in this frame the bike would be awesome.

  6. CV19 bioweapon vax truth warrior Dr. Betsy Eads has been warning of a “Tsunami of ‘vaccine’ deaths coming in the next two years.” The number of people dying and getting permanent disabilities is increasing. That is no surprise with 600 million CV19 injections being administered in America alone. There have been about 13 billion CV19 injections given worldwide. The estimation of dead and permanently disabled is stunning and criminal. Dr. Eads explains, “In my personal opinion that a billion people will either die or be permanently disabled. A new “Expose” article shows 5,162% increase in deaths (in Australia) from this bioweapon shot since 2020. . . . Those are just stunning numbers, and we are seeing it all over the world. From the UK that is on shot number 6, to Israel that is on shot 7 with complete medical chipping. . . . The entire country of Israel is now medically chipped with portable medical records and vaccine records. . . . We are seeing death and permanent disability in huge numbers. It is causing huge increases in all-cause mortality. Just look at Ed Dowd’s numbers. They are as high as 40% (increase of all-cause mortality) in that young working category. We have never seen this many death and disability numbers. There are over 7,000 a day, in America, with death and disability – a day. This is incredible. The CV19 injections are a true bioweapon. . . . this was never a vaccine, it has always been a bioweapon.”

    Another ominous fact is the vaxed can shed some of the CV19 bioweapon poison onto people who are unvaxed. This is called “shedding” or “transmission.” Eads explains, “It’s really not shedding. It’s really transmission, or transfection of spike proteins. The spike protein is made up of virus inside it. It has HIV and the Glyco-spike protein . . . .It can be shed from the nose or the mouth . . . and by skin on skin contact, and that’s been well documented by Dr. Ryan Cole and Dr. Peter McCullough. . . It is documented that there is no end point right now to stop the creation of the spike protein (in the vaxed).”

    In other words, spike protein cannot be turned off, and this poison can be transmitted from the vaxed to the unvaxed. People suffering from the effects of shedding can suffer some of the same illnesses as the vaccinated.

    Here’s the good news. Dr. Eads and other top doctors have developed treatments that can remove the spike proteins and dramatically lessen the effects of the CV19 bioweapon. There is no cure, but the top three treatments Dr. Eads recommends are Ivermectin (IVM), Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Chlorine Dioxide (CD). Eads and other doctors have several other very helpful treatments, as well, with more being developed all the time. Dr. Eads talks about them in this 1-hour and 2-minute in-depth interview.

    Dr. Eads says, “Absolutely, there is hope. These products are working. We are coming out with new products, and we are studying and coming out with new products every day. . . . God made your body so it can heal. Pray for forgiveness to God for taking the jab, and you need to be getting on these products to give your body a chance to heal.”

    Join Greg Hunter as he talks to 25-year veteran Dr. Elizabeth Eads, DO, as she continues to highlight the unstoppable deaths and permanent injuries and offers hope and treatments to for the CV19 bioweapon vax.

    https://usawatchdog.com/at-least-1-billion-dead-or-disabled-from-cv19-bioweapon-dr-betsy-eads/

    • Fear porn is fear porn.

      You’re terrified, you’ll listen to him. He’s got the answer, he’s on G-d’s wavelength.
      Attract the vulnerable, popularity is profitable. Maybe they’ll buy his overpriced supplements, boost sales of books, assorted junk.

  7. Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin ‘discovered after’ he left office: senior Biden official
    Trump and his top defense and national security officials told Fox News Digital it never happened and that they were never briefed on any Chinese spy balloons

    Information suggesting that Chinese spy balloons traveled over the continental United States during the Trump administration was “discovered after” former President Donald Trump left office, a senior administration official told Fox News.

    defense official on Saturday said Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the Trump administration.

    TRUMP, TOP

    Trump and a number of his top national security and defense officials refuted the claim, telling Fox News Digital that it “never happened

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chinese-spy-balloons-over-us-during-trump-admin-discovered-after-he-left-office-senior-biden-official

    • If the balloons did fly over during Trump’s administration and the military didn’t inform him ever person who knew but didn’t tell him should be Court Martialed kicked out in disgrace and sent to military prisons for dereliction of duty. I wish worse charges could be brought but I don’t think they can the way the laws are worded.

  8. Dr. Corsi: Why Obama, the FBI, and the CIA Orchestrated the Takedown of General Michael Flynn – Part 2

    Why Obama, the FBI, and the CIA Orchestrated the Takedown of General Michael Flynn – Part 2

    This article is the concluding Part 2 of a two-part series investigating why President Obama, the FBI, and the CIA masterminded a plot to destroy the career of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn. Part 1 covered the period up to and including Obama’s decision to fire General Flynn as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on April 30, 2014. Part 2 covers Obama’s continued determination to ruin General Flynn’s career. This Part 2 resumes the analysis, beginning with January 4, 2017, the day the FBI cleared Flynn of “Russian collusion” in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Part 2 concludes on December 1, 2017, when Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI concerning his telephone conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the Trump transition months following the 2016 presidential election.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/dr-corsi-obama-fbi-cia-orchestrated-takedown-general-michael-flynn-part-2/

    (Richard: I can’t find the URL for part 1 at the gateway pundit. Here it is from Survival magazine)

    https://survivalmagazine.org/news/dr-corsi-why-obama-the-fbi-and-the-cia-orchestrated-the-takedown-of-general-michael-flynn-part-1/

  9. Inside the mind of a female in matters of the social justice crowd and all its derivatives.

    Rose is a lesbian. She links up with what she thinks is another female that turns out to be a male. They have two children.

    Rose’s 3-year-old boy thinks he is a girl. So, she proceeds to his transitioning, One year later, she realized she made a mistake.

    Here’s her story: you’ll shake your head in bewilderment.

  10. EXCLUSIVE: The Same Person Who Slipped Up that Obama Was Spying on Trump Is the Same Person Who Oversaw DoD Unit that Sent $23 Million to Hunter’s Metabiota
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 6, 2023 at 8:00am
    35 Comments

    You just can’t make this stuff up. The same person who slipped up in an interview and told the world that the corrupt Obama administration was spying on then-candidate and citizen Donald J. Trump, is likely the same person that approved $23 million for Hunter Biden’s Metabiota lab in Ukraine.

    Last week TGP uncovered that the Department of Defense paid $23 million to Metabiota, the firm that Hunter Biden’s invested in and that set up a Biolab in Ukraine

    After Hunter invested in Metabiota the firm obtained millions in funding from the DOD. The individual who likely approved the funding at that time was none other than Dr. Evelyn Farkas. In 2012, Farkas was appointed by President Obama to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. In her role it was very likely that she was the one to approve such a transactoin in the millions to a US company in Ukraine.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/exclusive-person-slipped-obama-spying-trump-person-likely-signed-off-23-million-hunters-metabiota/

  11. EXCLUSIVE: The Same Person Who Slipped Up that Obama Was Spying on Trump Is the Same Person Who Oversaw DoD Unit that Sent $23 Million to Hunter’s Metabiota
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 6, 2023 at 8:00am
    35 Comments

    You just can’t make this stuff up. The same person who slipped up in an interview and told the world that the corrupt Obama administration was spying on then-candidate and citizen Donald J. Trump, is likely the same person that approved $23 million for Hunter Biden’s Metabiota lab in Ukraine.

    Last week TGP uncovered that the Department of Defense paid $23 million to Metabiota, the firm that Hunter Biden’s invested in and that set up a Biolab in Ukraine

    After Hunter invested in Metabiota the firm obtained millions in funding from the DOD. The individual who likely approved the funding at that time was none other than Dr. Evelyn Farkas. In 2012, Farkas was appointed by President Obama to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. In her role it was very likely that she was the one to approve such a transactoin in the millions to a US company in Ukraine.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/exclusive-person-slipped-obama-spying-trump-person-likely-signed-off-23-million-hunters-metabiota/

  12. TREASON! Rep. Waltz Says DOD Told Him China Spy Balloons Crossed US During Trump Years But Gen. Mattis DID NOT TELL TRUMP – Thought He Was
    By Jim Hoft
    Published February 6, 2023 at 10:10am
    Comment

    Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) joined Stuart Varney on Monday morning on FOX Business Network.

    Rep Waltz says current Pentagon officials briefed him over the weekend and said Chinese spy balloons crossed over Texas and Florida during the Trump years.

    Waltz then dropped this bomb. Rep. Waltz said that General Mattis was Secretary of Defense at the time and decided not to inform President Trump because the Pentagon thought Trump was “too provocative and aggressive!”

    This is a treason if true. Mattis put the US in danger, offered comfort to the enemy, allowed Chinese spying on US installations, and then hid this from his superiors, including the President of the United States.

    House Republicans MUST call on General Mattis to immediately testify under oath!

    This is also quite a statement if true since President Trump is the first US president in over 40 years NOT to start a war!

    Mattis must have been reading the NY Times. Big mistake. Let’s hope this man faces justice.

    Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL): My office has been briefed by the office of the Secretary of Defense of the current Pentagon that it happened over Florida, it happened over Texas, and that it’s happened before. We have more detailed questions but what is unclear, Stuart, at this point is, did the Pentagon under the Trump Administration brief the Trump White House and give them the option to take action or did they decide not to brief them for whatever reason? And there is some speculation, I talked to Trump administration officials over the weekend, that the Pentagon deliberately did it because they thought Trump would be too provocative and too aggressive. So that’s what we need to get to the bottom of and one person that I’m waiting to hear from that we haven’t heard from that list is former Secretary of Defense, General Mattis who was the secretary during this time period. What did he know and what did he decide to pass on and brief to the president.

    Either the current Pentagon is lying or the former Pentagon officials were treasonous bastards. Americans deserve the truth.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/treason-rep-waltz-says-dod-told-china-spy-balloons-crossed-us-trump-years-gen-mattis-not-tell-trump-thought/

    • Republicans to Announce Probe into China Spy Balloon Humiliation on Same Day as Biden’s State of Union (VIDEO)
      By Jim Hoft
      Published February 6, 2023 at 12:58pm
      95 Comments

      The China spy balloon tracking model over the continental US.

      On Saturday the Biden regime admitted the China spy balloon crossing the continental US was first spotted a week earlier in Alaska back on January 28th. The balloon flew from Alaska into Canada and down into the continental US. On Tuesday the balloon entered the Idaho-Montana region and crossed the US for the next four days. The China spy balloon was then shot down after it left US territory in North Carolina and had collected all of its data for the Chinese Communist Party.

      This was an unprecedented event in US history.

      The event is the latest example of the not only ineptness but the absolute dereliction of duty of this far-left administration. The Bidens are a national threat. We now know the Biden administration was hoping to hide this from the American public due to an upcoming trip by the Secretary of State to China that was planned for this weekend. It’s clear at this point that the Biden regime is compromised.

      The Gateway Pundit put together this graphic to show how many military bases were in the balloon’s path as it maneuvered across the United States.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/republicans-announce-probe-china-spy-balloon-humiliation-day-bidens-state-union-video/

    • BREAKING: General Mattis Says He HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF CCP BALLOON Flying Over US During His Watch as Secretary of Defense under Trump – ANOTHER LIE EXPOSED! (VIDEO)
      By Jim Hoft
      Published February 6, 2023 at 5:24pm
      80 Comments

      Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) joined Stuart Varney on Monday morning on FOX Business Network.

      Rep Waltz says current Pentagon officials briefed him over the weekend and said Chinese spy balloons crossed over Texas and Florida during the Trump years.

      Waltz then dropped this bomb. Rep. Waltz said that General Mattis was Secretary of Defense at the time and decided not to inform President Trump because the Pentagon thought Trump was “too provocative and aggressive!”

      General Mattis spoke this afternoon at an event in Vero Beach, Florida. Mattis was the guest of honor at the McKee Botanical Garden.

      General Mattis HAS NO KNOWLEDGE of a CCP spy balloon flying over the US during his watch!

      Question: We’ve all been reading about the balloon. We’ve been watching its path.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/breaking-general-mattis-says-no-knowledge-ccp-balloon-flying-us-watch-secretary-defense-trump-video/

  13. twitter @goddeketal

    I’m shocked @mvankerkhove still claims that “masks are part of the comprehensive package to control transmission”, when in fact their sole purpose is to control people.

    The @who needs to be defunded and gaslighters such as @mvankerkhove
    must be held accountable for their crimes.

    + 47 sec video

    https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1622211201265537025
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    FEB 03 2023 ( 1 min 37 )

    • FEB 03 2023 – W.H.O. – Global health leader Germany reaffirms strong support to WHO for 2023

      Geneva – Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) today announced a €130 million contribution to the World Health Organization for 2023, reinforcing Germany’s role as a global health leader and one of WHO’s strongest supporters.

      “We are happy to contribute €130 million to WHO this year. For us it is clear: WHO has played a major role in the successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to protect the world from future health emergencies,” Dr Lauterbach said.

      The contribution supports WHO in key priority areas such as antimicrobial resistance, health emergencies, health-systems strengthening and WHO reforms. The funds will be channeled to the WHO-BMG collaborative programme, WHO’s COVID-19 response and the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.

      Germany’s increased flexible funding will provide vital support to WHO’s base programme.

      Germany was WHO’s largest overall contributor in the 2020-2021 biennium and second in 2022, and the country has been the top donor to ACT-Accelerator, a global collaboration to quickly develop, produce and fairly distribute COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments.

      Dr Lauterbach announced the contribution in the presence of WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the sidelines of the 152nd session of WHO’s Executive Board.

      “Germany has demonstrated exceptional political leadership and vision in helping to shape the global health architecture, with a stronger, sustainably-financed WHO at its centre, and a pandemic accord based on equity and solidarity,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “We continue to look to Germany for its support, partnership and leadership as we work together, in solidarity and with a long-term view for building a safer, healthier, and fairer world.”

      Germany is the top donor to WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies, one of WHO’s most powerful tools for responding immediately to acute health emergencies around the world.

      PIC :

      Dr Tedros, Director-General, WHO and H.E. Dr Karl Lauterbach, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health

      https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/funding/dr-tedros-and-prof-dr-karl-lautebach.jpeg?sfvrsn=b8032c08_3

      https://www.who.int/news/item/03-02-2023-global-health-leader-germany-reaffirms-strong-support-to-who-for-2023

    • Bill Gates says he was surprised at being targeted by COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and ‘people were looking for a boogeyman’

      Bill Gates told the BBC he was surprised by some COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

      He said he thinks people were “looking for a boogeyman” around vaccines.

      Gates has poured billions into researching, developing, and delivering vaccines over the years.

      Bill Gates said he was surprised by some COVID-19 conspiracy theories about him and thinks people were “looking for a boogeyman.”

      “During the pandemic, there were tens of millions of messages that I intentionally caused it, or I’m tracking people. It’s true I’m involved with vaccines, but I’m involved with vaccines to save lives,” he told journalist Amol Rajan during an interview the BBC published on Thursday.

      “I guess people are looking for the ‘boogeyman’ behind the curtain, the over-simplistic explanation. Malevolence is a lot easier to understand than biology,” he said.

      Several COVID-19 conspiracy theories have surrounded Gates in recent years. Some suggest he profited from the virus, while others blamed its entire existence on Gates. He has said previously that he’s faced public harassment with people yelling at him for “putting chips into people.”

      Gates has also joked that he was more often the target of conspiracy theories than Anthony Fauci, former chief medical advisor to the president of the United States, because he’s more known internationally.

      The Microsoft cofounder has been a public supporter of vaccine efforts, pouring billions into researching, developing, and delivering vaccines through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

      Gates was also one of the confounders of the Giving Pledge, a promise by some of the world’s wealthiest individuals to give away most of their wealth.

      Representatives for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation did not reply to Insider’s request for comment made outside normal working hours.

      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bill-gates-says-he-was-surprised-at-being-targeted-by-covid-19-conspiracy-theorists-and-people-were-looking-for-a-boogeyman/ar-AA174n5T?cvid=61a8de35dc374d7482158a845cf359b6


    • dr john campbell – Understanding immunity and inflammation, part 1

      ( 35 min 21 )

      A detailed discussion with leading immunologist, Professor Robert Clancy, holder of the Order of Australia, emeritus professor of pathology, doctor of science, consultant physician. This video is for people with a serious interest in immunity and inflammation. First part of a new series which seeks to facilitate an understanding of the subject by tracing its historical development.

  14. zero hedge + American Thinker – Wind-Power Makers Suffer Huge Losses, Want To Abandon Major Project

    The greenies’ dream of “clean” (except for millions of dead birds) energy from wind farms is dying in the face of the poor economics (even with tax subsidies) and unreliable technology. The big players in constructing wind turbines are facing massive losses and write-downs and cancelling big offshore wind projects. Brace yourself for demands for even more subsides to the failing industry.

    The green energy subsidiary of German electrical equipment giant Siemens just reported Thursday that it lost nearly a billion dollars in the last quarter. Via Fox News (Hat tip: Beege Welborn, Hot Air)

    […]The Germany-based company, which dubs itself as “the global leader in offshore power generation,” noted the wind industry has faced various unfavorable pressures leading to negative growth in recent months and years, in its earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 released Thursday morning. The company added that governments would need to further assist the industry to ensure future positive growth.

    […]The translation of “further government action” is increased subsidies, beyond those already offered in the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act,” which mostly subsidizes green energy.

    MORE :

    https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/wind-power-makers-suffer-huge-losses-want-abandon-major-project

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/wind_power_makers_suffer_huge_losses_want_to_abandon_major_project.html

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    twitter @Ljtcu

    The legacy of wind turbines.

    Millions of worn-out wind turbine blades, containing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonates.

    They cant be recycled so they are left to rot. #GreenEnergy

    PIC :

    https://twitter.com/JohnLeePettim13/status/1621790008020504577/photo/1

    https://twitter.com/Ljtcu/status/1621988688740909056

  15. UK the telegraph -Canada is testing sinister wokeness to destruction

    The country used to be known for being boring.

    That was before Justin Trudeau took over

    My natural reaction to Canada, as someone who grew up in its more famous and influential neighbour, used to be a blink or two and a lazy stir of recollection that the country does, in fact, exist.

    But Canada, perhaps aware of its peripheral status, has since the election of its liberal-Left leader Justin Trudeau, left us no choice but to pay attention – for all the wrong reasons. Trudeau, an opportunistic wokester, has turned the country from a dull but relatively sensible-seeming place into a case study in why identity politics – and contemporary progressive ideology – is disastrous if allowed to reach the top. And reach the top it has in Canada, with the judiciary, schools, universities and public debate demented by it in myriad troubling ways.

    The madness of Trudeau’s Canada has reached a fresh, painful high. New rules have come into effect that allow adults in British Columbia – the capital of which is addict-packed, overdose-ravaged Vancouver – to possess 2.5g of ecstasy, cocaine or heroin, as well as the opioid fentanyl, without fear of being troubled by the police. The idea is that with so many shooting up and dying on the streets, the kindest and most helpful thing to do is decriminalise drug possession, ending arrests and prosecution as well as fines and confiscation.

    As Kennedy Stewart, former mayor of Vancouver, proudly pointed out: “It gets the police out of the lives of drug users.” Instead of facing any resistance to their pursuit of deadly narcotics, drug addicts will be given “health service referral cards” by the police to encourage them to get help. The best way to handle drug addiction may not be the threat of punishment, but this measure is bonkers.

    Just as heroin has effectively been made legal on the streets of British Columbia, Canadians have been told not to have more than two alcoholic drinks per week – a drastic change from the previously recommended upper limit of around two drinks a day – because alcohol raises the risk of cancer and other diseases. So: a blind eye is turned to heroin on the streets, but a third glass of wine is frowned upon. As far as a philosophy of society goes, at least in 2023, this is a wacky mixture of the controlling and soulless with the callous and wilfully denialist.

    Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. This is the sort of thing that happens when a society loses its moral bearings and instead embraces woke ideology. Woke is an authoritarian distortion of liberalism: it operates by ostracising and punishing those who don’t fall into line and who can then be called toxic, racist, dangerous and the rest. It demands that the many should apologise to the few, regardless of what they have done or said. Its carapace is a make-believe world in which all states of being are seen as identities, with the most “problematic” or “marginalised” (street heroin addicts, for instance) deserving of the greatest adulation.

    Those who are genuinely deserving of care and attention, meanwhile, are often ignored. Which is all the more chilling in a country whose assisted dying laws have expanded to such an extent that it may soon be not only legal to assist in the suicide of someone with terminal and unbearable physical illness, but also of mental illness. While those with early onset dementia or Alzheimer’s might be the obvious victims of this provision, it also means that people with bipolar or schizophrenia, or depression, could tragically feel pressured into ending their lives.

    Canada’s skewed moral compass is also apparent in its handling of cultural issues. For instance, misgendering someone could be cause for legal sanction. In 2021, a 42-page ruling in British Columbia found that a “non-binary and gender fluid” waiter had indeed been discriminated against by their former employers at an Italian restaurant who “deliberately” called them gendered nicknames such as “sweetheart”, “sweetie,” and “honey”.

    Then there’s the tampering with history for the sake of politics. After unmarked graves were supposedly discovered on the sites of former church-run residential schools for indigenous children, some tried to cancel Canada Day and churches were burnt down – an action that Trudeau called “understandable”. The treatment of indigenous peoples was indeed scandalous, but the evidence for mass murder is not there. Nevertheless, an official inquiry in 2019 determined that Canada had committed – and was continuing to commit– “genocide”. Those who pushed back on the use of that term – Holocaust survivors and those who had witnessed the mass murder in Rwanda, among them – were mocked.

    “I should have realised that the inquiry’s finding that Indigenous people are the victims of a ‘race-based’ genocide empowered by colonial structures would be mocked by pundits in the media,” complained Tanya Talaga in the Toronto Star. “After all, the media is among those colonial structures. My profession has been complicit in the suffering of Indigenous people. It still is.” Eh?

    Canada has gone from being a lesson in enviable dullness and relative common sense to a warning of what happens when you let politicians, opportunistically drunk on the Kool-Aid of identity politics, run the show. With a Labour government looking likely to take the reins here in two years, we need to guard against the Canadian disease spreading through Blighty.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/04/canada-testing-sinister-wokeness-destruction/

    • BBC – Canada seeks to delay euthanasia for people with mental illness –

      How much freedom governments give for people to end their own lives is a debate in the UK that won’t go away. In December, the health and social care committee announced another review into euthanasia policy in England and Wales.

      Many of those engaged in the debate have increasingly looked with interest at events in Canada, whose government has been moving towards introducing some of the least restrictive laws in the world, with plans to broaden the remit of those who can end their lives to those whose sole medical condition is mental illness.

      Those plans have now been delayed for at least a year amid significant controversy. So what does Canada’s faltering liberalisation on the issue tell us about the potential limits of assisted dying, and how might it inform the debate in Britain?

  16. Federal Judge Rules Banning Guns for Marijuana Users is Unconstitutional
    By Brian Lupo
    Published February 6, 2023 at 12:08pm
    146 Comments

    If you’ve ever purchased a firearm through a gun shop or at a gun show, you have more than likely filled out an ATF Form 4473. Most gun owners can scroll down and check the “NO” boxes as it doesn’t apply to them.

    But for some, like myself, we get to question 21e and pause for a moment. The question asks:

    Are you an unlawful user of, addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance

    It gives a warning that even if marijuana is legal in your state, it is still illegal federally, even though Biden has pardoned all simple marijuana possession convictions, which freed zero people from prison and seemed to be more of a political posturing prior to the 2022 midterms

    A federal judge in Oklahoma, however, has ruled that prohibiting individuals from gun ownership because of marijuana use is unconstitutional.

    U.S. District Judge Patrick Wyrick, a Trump appointee, ruled that being a user of the plant does not justify the disarming of citizens: “…the mere use of marijuana carries none of the characteristics that the Nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulation supports

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/federal-judge-rules-banning-guns-marijuana-users-unconstitutional/

  17. Joe Biden Is a Traitor. He’s a Traitor… This Is a Sputnik Moment!” – Steve Bannon GOES OFF on Biden Regime After Spy Balloon Humiliation (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published February 6, 2023 at 11:00am
    154 Comments

    Steve Bannon WENT OFF on the illegitimate Biden regime following the national humiliation over the China Spy balloon.

    Bannon called Joe Biden a “traitor” and called the this spy balloon today’s Sputnik moment.

    Advertisement

    Steve Bannon: This was done by the CCP to humiliate the United States… They flood us with fentanyl and the CCP COVID-19 virus. These are biological weapons and they flood us with fentanyl nonstop is a second Opium War. The Third World War has started. I have said this for years. It’s unrestricted warfare and they’re after us… They’ve bribed half the people in this city. And on Wall Street, and on Silicon Valley and the global corporations… MSNBC goes over there and frickin kisses their ass with the Olympics. NBC’s in bed with the Chinese Communist Party… A mature nation would not have traitors. Joe Biden is a traitor. He’s a traitor… This is a Sputnik moment!”

    Democrats are working overtime to destroy America. Joe Biden has only been in the Oval Office for two years – Can you imagine how America will look in two more years!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/joe-biden-traitor-traitor-sputnik-moment-steve-bannon-goes-off-biden-regime-spy-balloon-humiliation-video/

  18. Yeadon and Rees on ‘The End Game’ for mRNA Gene Therapy Vaccine
    Podcast & Links in Show Notes
    Truth For Health – Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet – January 25, 2023
    https://www.americaoutloud.com/yeadon-and-rees-on-the-end-game-for-mrna-gene-therapy-vaccines/

    Dr. Mike Yeadon and Henley Rees Describe Pharma’s Decent into Doomsday
    Podcast & Links in Show Notes
    Truth For Health Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet – January 31, 2023
    https://www.americaoutloud.com/dr-mike-yeadon-and-hedley-rees-describe-pharmas-descent-into-doomsday/

  19. Mexican Cartel-Style Violence Spreading in California over Marijuana Grow Fields

    Contrary to political rhetoric, Mexican cartel-style killings and gun battles appear to have already reached the U.S. and are spreading — particularly in California. The region experienced an explosive growth of cartel marijuana grow operations that are taking advantage of legalization and lax laws.

    This week, federal authorities clashed with one of two gunmen who are accused of killing a family of six — including a 16-year-old female and her baby. The murders took place last month in Tulare County, California, in what some authorities have dubbed a cartel killing.

    On early Friday morning, federal agents arrested Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel “Nanu” Uriarte, 35, the Los Angeles Times reported. The article identified both men as Sureno Gang members. Uriarte clashed with federal agents in a gun battle. He sustained multipole injuries and had to undergo surgery. He is expected to survive. Authorities arrested Beard without a shootout.

    The two men are facing six murder charges and several enhancements filed by the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office over the January 16 mass killing. Authorities also carried out several raids at homes and prison cells targeting the Nuestra Familia gang. Both the Nuestra Familia and the Surenos have a history of working with Mexican drug cartels.

    According to the Los Angeles Times, authorities found the 16-year-old mother in a ditch cradling her baby in her arms. Both victims were shot in the head. Initially, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux called the murder the work of a cartel, however, he later tried to walk back the claim, the Times reported.

    Tulare County and other counties in Northern California have seen a dramatic rise in cartel presence due to the legal marijuana trade and lax laws around it. Additionally, various cartel figures who have become famous in Mexico are actually U.S. citizens. Among these is Jose Maria “Z-43” Guizar Valencia a top leader with the Los Zetas cartel who was born in Tulare California and is currently awaiting sentencing on various federal drug trafficking charges in Texas.

    According to a report from USA Today, since California legalized marijuana for recreational use, Mexican cartels have moved their grow operations to the U.S. where they can hide among legal farms. The publication reported that in 2021, there were 10,000 illegal grow operations in Mendocino County alone. The issue has already led to various high-profile cases similar to the one in Tulare County last month.

    One of the main draws for cartels is that operating an illegal grow is only a misdemeanor offense in California and that business is cash only. Additionally, the region does not have enough law enforcement officers to patrol those grow sites and enforce laws against illegal growing operations, USA Today reported.

    Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Io****@br*******.com.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fborder%2F2023%2F02%2F05%2Fmexican-cartel-style-violence-spreading-in-california-over-marijuana-grow-fields%2F

  20. IMF issues Russian economic growth outlook that is more optimistic than Bank of Russia’s

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released one of the most optimistic forecasts for Russia’s economic growth for 2023, predicting 0.3% for this year. The reason? Oil exports will defy sanctions, although exports will fall below the pre-war levels.

    International economic institutions are now expressing more optimism than the Russian government about Russia’s economy. In its outlook published on January 30, the IMF upgraded its forecast for Russian GDP growth to 0.3% in 2023, up from the previous October forecast of a 2.3% contraction.

    The IMF’s new outlook on the global economy is also much more positive, anticipating 2.9% growth due to “unexpectedly stable” dynamics, reports The Bell.For Russia, the IMF predicts even higher growth of 2.1% in 2024. This optimistic forecast is credited to the stability of Russia’s oil exports and the redirection of trade from sanctioned to non-sanctioned countries.

    The IMF’s forecast is even more upbeat than the notoriously conservative Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the cautious Ministry of Economic Development, which predict a decline of 4% and 0.8% respectively in 2023. The IMF’s prediction requires a quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.4% for the entire 2023.

    Other major economies are also expected to show growth in 2023, but Russia’s economic growth is predicted to outpace both Germany and the UK, despite the crushing sanctions, and is far, far better than the 15% contraction for Russia in 2022 predicted at the start of the war.

    The IMF upgraded its forecast for China from 4.4% to 5.2%, and for the US from 1% to 1.4%. Germany is worse off, teetering on the edge of recession and anticipated to grow by only 0.1% in 2023, while the UK has already gone over the cliff into recession and is the only leading economy expected to decline, by 0.6%, in 2023. The UK is being hit by multiple problems, including the hangover from the pandemic and the subsequent cost-of-living crisis, but its woes have been made worse by the misguided pro-growth policies of former Prime Minister Liz Truss.

    IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas highlighted the stability of China’s post-Covid reopening and the return of growth among developing countries, including China and India, as other reasons for optimism.

    CBR governor Elvira Nabiullina can be given a lot of credit for her astute management of the macro-crisis caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine and the subsequent avalanche of sanctions.

    Russia’s economy has adapted faster than expected to the shocks of 2022. Central Bank analysts credit this to the stability of the banking system, rising prices for falling export volumes, redirection of exports towards Asia, an effective reshaping of logistics chains, and government support. Business activity in Russia has been recovering and demand has been supported by government spending.

    However, the economic recovery in Russia is uneven and faces challenges such as a preference for saving, difficulties in maintaining imported equipment and staff shortages. A large percentage of Russian businesses have reported staffing problems, despite all-time low unemployment at around 3.8%, which could result in fierce competition for talent and inflationary risks.

    The IMF forecasts contrasts dramatically with the latest CBR macroeconomic survey in February, where the polled professional economists forecast a collective 2.9% decline for this year.

    The Russian Economics Ministry plans to revise its macroeconomic forecast for 2023 in March-April, as specified in regulations, and it does not see any point in responding to immediate fluctuations in oil prices. The Central Bank will update its forecast in February.

    Analysts polled by the Central Bank in a monthly survey conducted on January 27-31 expect Russia’s GDP to shrink by 1.5% in 2023, though in December they forecasted a contraction of 2.4%. The CBR itself says the contraction in 2023 will be in the range of 1-4%, although Nabiullina said in January that there was a good chance that the result will come in at the more optimistic end of the range.

    First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said at the end of December that the situation in the Russian economy will be “far easier” in 2023 that it was in 2022 and that GDP growth might be in the range of “about zero” to minus 1%.

    The main findings from the CBR survey include:

    Inflation: In the February survey, the median forecast of the inflation for 2023 rose by 0.2 pp to 6.0%. Analysts still expect inflation to return to near 4% in 2024 and remain within the target of the Bank of Russia thereafter.

    MORE :

    https://intellinews.com/imf-issues-russian-economic-growth-outlook-that-is-more-optimistic-than-bank-of-russia-s-269012/

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    channel 4 UK – UK economy to do ‘worse than Russia’, warns IMF on Brexit
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    • Washington Post – Gates: Putin has weakened Russia ‘probably for a generation’

      “Whether or not the Russians are defeated, Russia at this point has been significantly weakened for a long time to come.

      The hundreds of thousands of young men who have fled the country, many of them in tech, many of them entrepreneurial not wanting to fight and be killed in Ukraine, that’s the loss of a huge resource for Russia…

      Putin has significantly weakened Russia, probably for a generation to come.” – Robert M. Gates

    • Washington Post – Gates on a defeated Russia and the nuclear threat

      … we need a strong government in Moscow to maintain control of all those weapons.”

    • twitter @Trollstoy88

      Polish PM Morawiecki urged Zelensky to “temporarily transfer” the territories of western Ukraine under protection of Poland:

      “The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state.”

      http://www.twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1622603125839241216

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      US envoy to EU ‘convinced’ Ukraine will win ‘with the weapons we’re providing’

      Mark Gitenstein, the US ambassador to the EU and a close confidant of President Joe Biden since the 1970s.

      • Finland to Obtain Anti-Tank Missiles from German-Israeli Eurospike

        Finland has contracted German-Israeli weapons provider Eurospike to deliver Spike fire-and-forget anti-tank precision-guided missiles in a $242 million sale.

        Partner Rheinmetall Electronics said this order “underscores the tremendous trust placed in EuroSpike GmbH: the German-Israeli joint venture is now an industrial mainstay of the anti-tank capability of many EU and NATO member nations.”

        Eurospike is a joint venture with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which will serve as the product manufacturer.

        https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/01/31/finland-anti-tank-spike-missiles/

  21. ANOTHER ONE goes up IN FLAMES: Canada

    ** Seafood Processing Plant Goes Up in Violent Blaze – It’s a Total Loss **

    A food processing plant in the Canadian province of New Brunswick went up in flames Friday.

    Jim LeBlanc, owner of W.E. Acres Crabmeal Ltd., said the structure was a “total loss,” according to the Canadian Television Network.

    LeBlanc told CTV News the fire was started by an explosion in an oil drum.

    https://t.co/iYbAUYffAu

  22. Florida ‘Neo-Nazi’ Leader, Maryland Woman Arrested After Telling FBI Informant of Racially Motivated Plot to Attack Baltimore Power Grid
    By Cristina Laila
    Published February 6, 2023 at 1:45pm
    372 Comments

    The Feds arrested a Florida-based ‘Neo-Nazi’ leader and a Maryland woman for plotting to attack 5 substations in Baltimore.

    Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, of Florida were arrested last week in what prosecutors have alleged was a racially motivated plot to attack substations in Baltimore

    The FBI told reporters on Monday they believe they thwarted a “real threat.”

    “This planned attack threatened lives and would have left thousands of Marylanders in the cold and dark,” Erek Barron, US Attorney for the District of Maryland said in a statement. “We are united and committed to using every legal means necessary to disrupt violence, including hate-fueled attacks.”

    The threat posed by domestic violent extremists is evolving and persistent,” Special Agent in Charge Thomas Sobocinski, said. “The FBI will continue to work closely with our law enforcement and private sector partners to identify and disrupt any potential threat to the safety of our citizens.”

    Sarah Beth Clendaniel told an FBI informant about her plot last week and was swiftly arrested.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/florida-neo-nazi-leader-maryland-woman-arrested-telling-fbi-informant-racially-motivated-plot-attack-baltimore-power-grid/

  23. MARK STEYN – Has OfCom Popped Steyn’s Balloon?

    As a follow-up to his recent Clubland Q&A, Mark answers more questions from Steyn Club members around the planet on the big story of the weekend – the Chinese balloon – and related matters, such as the American way of war and the rise of the ChiComs. Plus the woeful state of free speech, and a favourite telly theme.

    Click above to watch. Mark Steyn Club members can read the full transcript here.

    Steyn will be conducting the next Clubland Q&A live around the planet on Friday – and, ahead of that, we’ll also have a brand new episode of The Mark Steyn Show.

    Mark’s Mailbox is a special production of The Mark Steyn Club, now in its sixth year. Among the pleasures of membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you’d rather sample the above in non-visual form, please log-in here.

    ~If you prefer Steyn live in person, don’t forget this summer’s Mark Steyn Cruise down the Adriatic. Mark’s guests include his favourite presidential candidate and peerless comedienne Michele Bachmann, longtime EIB comrade Bo Snerdley, Brexiteer John O’Sullivan, plus Steyn Show mainstays Leilani Dowding, Alexandra Marshall, Eva Vlaardingerbroek and more. More details here – but hurry because, despite the Great Reset and confinement to “fifteen-minute cities”, certain cabin classes are going fast.

    ~Notwithstanding Mark’s brace of heart attacks, we had a busy weekend at SteynOnline, starting with Mark himself back in the chair for our Clubland Q&A. As Florida Steyn Clubber Patricia Carpin wrote:

    What a joy today to hear you in full glory! And to hear you sing so beautifully in French brought tears to my eyes!

    Stay safe, stay free and do stay with us.

    Rick McGinnis’s Saturday movie date offered Doris Day in Teacher’s Pet – and Tal Bachman concluded his survey of U2, with a cameo appearance by George W Bush. Steyn’s Song of the Week celebrated African-American History Month somewhat heavier on the African than you might have expected.

    If you were too busy firing that balloon that’s been hovering over your end gable for a week and a half, we hope you’ll want to check out one or three of the foregoing as a new week gets underway.

    If you enjoy Mark’s long-form interviews with the likes of Jordan Peterson, Naomi Wolf, Christopher Caldwell and Helen Rappaport, we’ve made them easier to access in our Netflix-style tile-format archive page. As with our poetry and fiction and music home-pages, we hope this makes it easier to pick out some Steyn entertainment of an evening come the next lockdown or ChiCom EMP balloon.

    https://www.steynonline.com/13231/has-ofcom-popped-steyn-balloon
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  24. Israeli Left FREAKS OUT, Calls for Civil War, Fighting in the Streets, and Killing Netanyahu
    By Richard Abelson
    Published February 6, 2023 at 1:30pm
    244 Comments

    The left-wing Israeli opposition escalates its calls for violence and civil war as the new right-wing government tries to rein in the out-of-control Supreme Court. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called them what they are: Sore Losers.

    Speaking at the Israeli Bar Association in Eilat on Wednesday, left-wing attorney David Hodak said that he would “have no choice but to use live fire” if someone tried to force him “to live in a dictatorship”, the Jerusalem Post reported.

    “If it becomes necessary to go to war over that, I’ll go to war. People are prepared to take up arms … And I’m telling you: If it comes to that, I’ll do it. … There might be a civil war here, unfortunately,” 70-year old Army veteran Hodak escalated.

    In a telephone interview the following night with Channel 13’s current-events program “Hazinor,” Hodak doubled down on his statements. “If they impose a dictatorship on me, I’ll fight,” he said. “What’s not clear?” Asked if he’d do so with weapons, he replied, “Even with weapons, if necessary.”

    “I will do anything necessary to prevent a dictatorship”, Hodak said. “I hope the protest proves effective. If it doesn’t, we’ll proceed to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. If that doesn’t succeed, we’ll go for violent civil disobedience

    Ex-Pilot Lt. Col. Ze’ev Raz, one of the organizers of 2021’s violent protests outside the house of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called for Netanyahu’s assassination: “If the prime minister assumes dictatorial powers, he has to die, plain and simple, along with his ministers and followers. We, too, should have din rodef (a Jewish law authorizing the murder of someone who intends to harm or kill others”, Ruthie Blum reported on Arutz Sheva.

    In a speech on Saturday night at a rally in Haifa, opposition leader Yair Lapid called for “fighting in the streets”: “We’ll fight here in the streets. We’ll fight in the Knesset. We’ll fight in the courts. We’ll rescue our country, because we’re not willing to live in an undemocratic (country).” Ze’ev Raz was interrogated by the Israel Police on Sunday and had to walk his crazy comments back.

    Speaking before the Knesset, opposition leader Yair Lapid called the judicial reform “not just erasing democracy, it is the painful destruction of our joint existence.”

    The Israeli left cannot win elections, so they have used the leftist Supreme Court to obstruct Netanyahu and the patriotic right wing at every step. Now that the new government wants to restore the balance of powers, they are freaking out.

    Yair Lapid said that “for the first time in my life, I am concerned that it (Israeli democracy) won’t survive. If the government completes the legislative process it began, it will be irreparable. The fracture will be too deep. Already now, more and more people are saying to themselves that we are no longer one people. That their country has given up on them,” Lapid said.

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly pointed out the hysterical left were just being sore losers.

    “Losing is not easy, but in democracy, there is no other way, you have to know how to accept the verdict of the voter and lose with dignity,” Netanyahu said.

    “Many things can and should be debated, but there is one thing that cannot be debated, and that is sedition to violence and calling for murder. This is crossing a red line. Democracy is the rule of the majority, not the rule of the gun”, Netanyahu said.

    Writing on Twitter, Netanyahu said that “I expect the leaders of the opposition to act to calm the mood of the people – first and foremost to stop the wild incitement that is raging against me, against my family, against the ministers of the government and against leading members of the Knesset.”

    Photos of the previous protests in Tel Aviv were apparently doctored to make the crowd seem bigger than it was.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/israeli-left-freaks-calls-civil-war-fighting-streets-killing-netanyahu/

    • ~ Color Revolution™ ~

      Israel’s Ehud Barak compares President Herzog to Nazi appeaser

      Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak uploaded a picture showing President Isaac Herzog as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to social media on Friday. Chamberlain negotiated and talked with Hitler and the Nazis at the beginning of World War II…

      National Unity Party chairman MK Benny Gantz, responded to Barak’s post and said that “former Prime Minister Barak did well to apologize for the tweet against the president of the country.”

      Gantz also added that “the dangerous coup d’état must be stopped with a legal and fierce protest. Those who value Israeli democracy should focus on this, and not be drawn into extreme comparisons that are out of place.”

      https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-730564
      ……….
      Ehud Barak was a good buddy (customer?) of pedo Epstein.

    • Our revered Elder weighs in:

      The hysteria over the Israeli government is far worse than anything the government is remotely likely to do

      This is really getting crazy.

      Nothing has happened…

      The government is not going to reduce the rights of gay people. It is not going to impose a theocracy on Israel. It is not becoming a dictatorship…

      Nothing is happening to remotely change Israel’s status to anything other than a liberal democracy.

      The only argument that critics can make is that the proposed judicial reforms give too much power to the legislative branch, but now most people recognize that the judicial branch – which can dismiss government officials for literally no reason except what it considers “reasonable” – has far too much power as an unelected branch of government. Perhaps the proposed reforms go too far in some specific ways, but the general idea of reforms is quite reasonable and hardly the earth shattering change that they are being portrayed as.

      Everyone agrees there should be a balance of power. The only disagreement is where to draw the line. It is an important debate, but it is hardly a real crisis that threatens Israel’s democratic character…

      It seems to me that the over the top reaction to the Israeli elections are more dangerous than anything the government itself is likely to do. Over the weekend, we saw direct, public incitement to violence from Israeli liberals [leftists funded by Soros/Koch, engineered by professional coup-sters.]

      https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-hysteria-over-israeli-government-is.html

      Time:
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      ………………………
      “Haaretz advertising in the NYTs. A paper that literally backed court packing.”

      Court Packing Can Be an Instrument of Justice
      https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/court-packing-amy-coney-barrett.html
      ………………………
      Len Khodorkovsky @MessageFromLen

      This is an ad by a liberal Israeli outlet targeting liberal Americans with an inflammatory message about a democratic debate in Israel in a paper widely considered to be anti-Israel. If @haaretzcom considers @nytimes
      to be likeminded on Israel, that says a lot about Haaretz.

      https://twitter.com/MessageFromLen/status/1622269797940486145

    • The Israeli left’s violent rhetoric and phony ‘apologies’.

      Boy, has it ever been a busy several days for Israel’s anti-government propagandists. Though it’s hard to believe that they could have sunk any lower in their lies about the evils of Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s judicial-reform plans, they managed to outdo themselves.

      Let’s start with opposition leader Yair Lapid. In a speech on Saturday night at a rally in Haifa [he] declared that the protesters present, as well as those in Beersheva, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, “came to say that they don’t want to live in a country where people who work are less important than people who don’t work, and where people who serve in the army are less important than people who don’t serve in the army, and that people who don’t abide by the law are more important than people who do abide by the law.”

      Huh?

      Describing the demonstrators as “people trying to save their country,” he assured the crowd that he and his supporters “won’t let that happen.” Talk about Freudian slips.…

      https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-israeli-lefts-violent-rhetoric-and-phony-apologies/

      • Sorry , every time my reply is denied. Says access denied on error page. Never seen this before.

          • Ya a problem here. I guess when scraping text from somewhere else it can have something embedded in it. That’s why my reply won’t go through. I will try a text editor and if that doesn’t work, I’ll scrape text from a dif source. I’m always learning with this stuff it seems.

      • What this priest says about the marriage rules sounds correct to me. I’m no expert tho, never claimed to be.

        There is an esoteric and exoteric meaning in all religions of the world. (Except for bibical Christianity as far as I know- John 18: 19-20 19The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. 20Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. 21Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said. 22And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? ). We see all these differences in the religions of the world, because of our understanding and knowledge of their doctrines, we are the outsiders.

        To the insiders, the esoteric meaning of each ritual, symbol, word is known. All the religions end up being the same , just worship the diety in a different name or either in its male or female form. So it doesn’t matter to the Bidens what church they get married in, its all the same religion. You are an elite insider if you can be VP or Pres of USA.

        Secondly, this priest is playing one side of the game (knowingly or unknowingly) while Biden is playing the other side. The Hegelian Dialectic doesn’t stay in the boundaries of politics, also used in the religious world too. The pope, biden , etc play on, let’s call it antithesis, while the conservative catholic cardinals play the thesis. What will be the synthesis? This applies to Islam, etc etc.

        This church spoken of in the video, correct me if I’m wrong Yucki, is called Tillman Chapel. It seems to be some sort of all world religions -church.

        World Peace Flag Ceremony at Tillman Chapel in the Church Center for the United Nations-NYC-USA
        By May Peace Prevail On Earth | October 27, 2015

        “September 21, 2015

        The Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN, the Church Center for the United Nations, and an impressive list of coalitions and organizations including the World Peace Prayer Society co-sponsored a day-long vigil for the International Day of Peace at the Tillman Chapel in the Church Center across the street from the United Nations on 21 September.”

        https://www.worldpeace.org/2015/10/world-peace-flag-ceremony-at-tillman-chapel-in-the-church-center-for-the-united-nations-nyc-usa/

        1 Thessalonians 5:1

        1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

        3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

        4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

  25. Biden Asked Why “China Would Make Such a Brazen Act” By Flying a Spy Balloon Across US – His Response is Shocking (VIDEO)
    By Cristina Laila
    Published

    Joe Biden on Monday afternoon returned to the White House after a long vacation weekend at Camp David.

    Biden stopped to chat with some reporters before shuffling away and turning in for the evening.

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    Biden was asked if the spy balloon will change his State of the Union speech.

    “No,” Biden said.

    Why would the Chinese make such a brazen act?” a reporter asked Biden.

    His response was shocking.

    They’re the Chinese government,” Biden said laughing.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/biden-asked-china-make-brazen-act-flying-spy-balloon-across-us-response-shocking-video/

  26. Joe Biden on Monday afternoon returned to the White House after a long vacation weekend at Camp David.

    Biden stopped to chat with some reporters before shuffling away and turning in for the evening.

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    Biden was asked if the spy balloon will change his State of the Union speech.

    “No,” Biden said.

    Why would the Chinese make such a brazen act?” a reporter asked Biden.

    His response was shocking.

    They’re the Chinese government,” Biden said laughing.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/biden-asked-china-make-brazen-act-flying-spy-balloon-across-us-response-shocking-video/

  27. WATCH: New Video Released Shows Double Amputee Stabbing Man Before Police Shoot Him Dead as He Runs Away on His Stumps
    By Cristina Laila
    Published February 6, 2023 at 6:07pm
    220 Comments

    California – Huntington Park police officers last month fatally shot an armed double amputee trying to run away on his stumps.

    Anthony Lowe Jr., the 36-year-old double amputee, was armed with a 12-inch butcher knife and had just stabbed someone unprovoked, according to reports.

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    Huntington Park police received a call about a man in a wheelchair who had just stabbed another man.

    When police arrived to the scene they saw Anthony Lowe hop out of his wheelchair with a large knife in his hand.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/watch-new-video-released-shows-double-amputee-stabbing-man-police-shoot-dead-runs-away-stumps/

  28. Former Vice Chair of D.C. Police Union Arrested For Fraud
    By Anthony Scott
    Published February 6, 2023 at 6:23pm
    102 Comments

    The former vice chairman of the D.C. Police Union was arrested over the weekend for “allegedly defrauding the DC government.”

    Medgar Webster, who previously served as the vice chair for the DC Police Union was arrested for fraud for allegedly working a second job at Whole Foods while he was on duty for DC Metropolitan Police Department.

    Webster reportedly made $33,845 with the MPD while he was supposed to be on duty but was instead allegedly working at Whole Foods where he made $45,945 between January of 2021 to April of 2022.

    Per an affidavit Webster allegedly worked up to 485 hours at Whole Foods at the same time he was clocked in for duty at the MPD.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/former-vice-chair-d-c-police-union-arrested-fraud/

  29. U.S. Mideast Diplomacy Isn’t Advancing Peace or Democracy

    During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Jerusalem this week, he demanded “calm” from both Israel and the Palestinians – with a moral equivalence inherent in his call…

    No less outrageous were Blinken’s lectures to Netanyahu about preserving democracy, treating the government that garnered a majority of Knesset seats on Nov. 1 as essentially illegitimate.

    https://www.jns.org/opinion/us-mideast-diplomacy-isnt-advancing-peace-or-democracy/

    O’Biden is running a color revolution in Israel right now. Orchestrating it every which way. We’ve seen this movie before.

    The election was not even close. There is no “threat to democracy”: there are saboteurs whose leftist/Islamist agenda has nothing to do with democracy – or Israel, for that matter. (v. Brazil)
    …………………………..

    Violence is NOT the biggest Palestinian threat to Israel

    …Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes… argues that the failure of Israel and its supporters to insist that the Palestinians concede defeat in their efforts to destroy the Jewish state is at the root of the problem….

    Israelis who advocated for the Oslo Accords believed that they could end the conflict by simply declaring that it was over without understanding that the other side wasn’t going along.

    Their arrogant unwillingness to accept the truth that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was lying about his desire for peace prevented them from seeing the situation clearly.

    Pipes also argues that the main challenge to Israel is not the Palestinians’ terrorism, terrible though it may be. ==Their ability to generate “toxic hostility among leftists== who accept the Palestinian narrative at the U.N. and other international forums that have as their goal making it a pariah state” is a much greater strategic threat…

    https://www.jns.org/violence-is-not-the-biggest-threat-to-israel/
    ………
    There Are No Two Sides Here

    No, there are no “two sides.” There is no “cycle of violence.” There is a Palestinian side, which is pro-Iranian or jihadist, which has no interest in reconciliation and in peace, but rather in the destruction of the Jewish state…

    All the violence belongs to the side that supports terrorism, that educates its children to hatred, that identifies with messages of anti-Semitism and racism.
    Those who prefer Jihad over peace and reconciliation – they are the problem, even if they are portrayed as the weak side. Those who prefer rockets to welfare – they are the problem.

    A few days ago there was a suicide terror attack in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. Muslims murdered over 100 Muslims. The real enemy of the Muslims and the Palestinians is terrorism, Jihad and Hamas, and not those who fight them.

    https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/355660/there-are-no-two-sides-here/

  30. There May Be Ethical and, in Some Cases Legal Misconduct by Every Single Member of the 2018 LA County Board of Supervisors” – Corruption Expert
    By Joe Hoft
    Published February 6, 2023 at 5:00pm
    90 Comments

    With the latest corruption reported in LA it looks like there may be ethical and in some cases legal misconduct by every single member of the 2018 LA County Board of Supervisors.

    There’s a lot of corruption in LA. and it seems to be getting worse. We’re seeing massive corruption in the Biden Administration and in the DOJ. It’s no surprise that it’s happening everywhere.

    Wherever you have Democrats in power you have massive corruption. L.A. is now the case in point.

    This beautiful and historic city is now being led by corrupt politicians.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/may-ethical-cases-legal-misconduct-every-single-member-2018-la-county-board-supervisors-corruption-expert/

  31. UN criticizes Israeli plan to ease gun ownership requirements after terror attacks

    UN rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an end to the “illogic of escalation” between Israel and the Palestinians amid a spike in deadly violence, criticizing plans to streamline and ease the requirements for Israelis to carry weapons.

    Turk condemned Israel for measures that “can only lead to further violence and bloodshed,” following a surge in terror attacks and clashes that have drawn calls from the international community for calm and restraint.

    “Rather than doubling down on failed approaches of violence and coercion… I urge everyone involved to step out of the illogic of escalation that has only ended in dead bodies, shattered lives and utter despair,” Turk said in a statement.

    “Recent measures being taken by the government of Israel are only fueling further violations and abuses of human rights law,” he continued.

    “We know from experience that the proliferation of firearms will lead to increased risks of killings and injuries of both Israelis and Palestinians,” Turk said.

    The UN rights chief was referring to the announced overhaul of the National Security Ministry’s firearm licensing department following a series of terror attacks.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-criticizes-israeli-plan-to-ease-gun-ownership-requirements-after-terror-attacks/

    ~LoL~
    https://www.israelhayom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Glock.jpg

  32. MEMRI:
    ISIS Editorial Titled ‘Kill The Jews’ Calls For Global Religious War Against Jews, Suicide Attacks, Operations Targeting Synagogues In Israel, Europe, Worldwide

    The following are some of this week’s reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs…

    On February 2, 2023, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 376 of Al-Naba’, its weekly newsletter. The issue’s feature article, titled “Kill the Jews,” called for a global religious war to be waged against Jews, wherein Muslims should attack Jews and Jewish sites of worship everywhere.[1]

    Muslims Must Shun The Jews And Prepare For War With Them

    The editorial derides the Jews as being diametrically opposed to the Islamic ummah.

    “Allah revealed the qualities of the unbelieving Jews in many verses in his wise book, and He described them in detail and precision. There is no doubt about the wisdom of this precise, divine description… [woof-woof].”

    The editorial … underscores that the roots of the conflict with the Jews are not political, but religious.

    “Most people have disregarded the Quranic characterization of the Jews and its aim…. They have instead concerned themselves with a historical narrative of events, thereby deviating from the roots of the conflict. They determined that the war with the Jews is a national conflict whose reason is ‘aggression against lands and possessions…”

    “Kill The Jews By Any Means”

    “We reiterate our call and reminder to the youth of Palestine that their war with the Jews should be [waged] within the blessed Quranic context, that is, a religious war far apart from ignorant nationalist views that contradict the Quran and Sunnah.

    “We stress and affirm the advantage of targeting Jewish temples and synagogues and subjecting them to bloody attacks […] We advise them to equip themselves with explosive belts, for their absence from that battlefield has lasted too long.”

    To Muslims at large, the editorial echoes its call for attacks against Jews globally.

    “We incite Muslims everywhere to fight the Jews and target them in their neighborhoods and synagogues that are spread across Europe and elsewhere. Kill the Jews by any means, constrict them, and [be part of] the start of the war that burns the unbelieving Jews…”

    https://www.memri.org/reports/isis-editorial-titled-kill-jews-calls-global-religious-war-against-jews-suicide-attacks