Reader’s Links for April 19th, 2023

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    • CNN – New White House plan aims to provide uninsured with free Covid-19 vaccines

      The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday a $1.1 billion program aimed at providing Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the uninsured at no cost after the federal supply is exhausted.

      The two-part initiative would utilize pharmacies, local health departments and federally supported health centers to provide Covid-19 care, according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House. The funds should support the program through December 2024.

      Americans can currently receive Covid-19 vaccines and certain treatments at no charge because the federal government purchased them for distribution to the public. But when that supply is exhausted, the products will shift to the commercial market after Congress refused to provide more funds to purchase additional supplies. Most people with insurance will be able to continue getting vaccinated for free, but that’s not the case for those without coverage.

      One prong of the new program calls for creating a public-private partnership with local and national pharmacies, which administer the majority of adult Covid-19 vaccinations. The federal government will provide a per-dose payment to the pharmacies to cover the cost of administrating the vaccines and treatments, including the antiviral medications Paxlovid and Lagevrio. Pharmacies can also receive one-time payments for each site that targets areas with low rates of access and vaccination.

      To let the uninsured know about the program, the pharmacies will be expected to conduct outreach and work with community groups that focus on underserved populations.

      Just how many pharmacies choose to participate, however, remains to be seen. The US Department of Health and Human Services will work to establish contracts with the pharmacies over the next few months with the aim of launching the program in the fall, according to the fact sheet. It expects pharmacies that have participated in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “COVID-19 Test to Treat” program and other pandemic partnerships to join the effort.

      Also, the administration is relying heavily on drug manufacturers’ providing vaccines and treatments free of charge to the uninsured. It notes several times in the fact sheet that drug companies have committed to doing so.

      HHS also expects that manufacturers will provide the vaccines to participating pharmacies, which will be compensated through the drug companies’ patient assistance programs.

      Moderna said in February that it would provide the vaccines at no cost to the uninsured through its patient assistance program. Pfizer has also pointed to its patient assistance program, which helps people without insurance get vaccines.

      The companies did not immediately respond to CNN’s requests for comment about participation in the new initiative.

      Asked about whether the vaccine manufacturers have agreed to participate, an HHS spokesperson said the agency “has had very positive conversations” with them.

      The second part of the program leverages local health departments and federally supported health centers, which traditionally care for the uninsured. The CDC will purchase vaccines for distribution to the departments and centers, while the Health Resources and Services Administration will support the delivery of vaccines and treatments to its network of health centers.

      The federal government said it expects to purchase the supplies at a discount as it does with similar existing immunization programs.

      Just how many uninsured Americans will utilize the program is uncertain. Not that many people are getting vaccinated for Covid-19 these days, and the rate is lower among the uninsured, some data has found.

      Allowing the uninsured to access the vaccines at no charge is important but so is educating them about the program, said Jen Kates, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

      https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/politics/free-covid-vaccine-uninsured/index.html

    • Pfizer Exec. Sally Susman on communicating during a public health crisis

      Pfizer Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Sally Susman, joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss her new book “Breaking Through” and how Pfizer managed the massive communications challenge that came with rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine.

    • Politician CENSORED for speaking the TRUTH about mRNA shots – Interview with Andrew Bridgen

      Andrew Bridgen has become the most censored politician, Big Tech even took down his speeches in parliament!

      So naturally I had to do what the mainstream media is not doing, interview him to find out why he has been treated this way merely for speaking the truth.

      He talks about The Great Reset, Bill Gates, the disastrous effects of the lockdowns and much more.

      https://rumble.com/v2iz1d0-politician-censored-for-speaking-the-truth-about-mrna-shots-interview-with-.html

    • APRIL 19 2023 – Rochelle Walensky Admits Vaccinated People Can Transmit Covid To Others Due To “Evolution Of Science”

    • APRIL 19 2023 – ‘Do You Believe Americans Should Still Be Wearing Masks?’: Andrew Clyde Grills Rochelle Walensky

    • APRIL 19 2023 – CDC Director Walensky Faces The House Appropriations Committee | Full Hearing

      ( 2 h 11 min )

    • the telegraph -China ‘began developing two Covid vaccines’ before official outbreak

      US senate report concluded that the pandemic most likely came from a lab leak

      Chinese researchers may have begun developing two Covid vaccines in November 2019, before the official start of the outbreak, a US senate report has claimed.

      The claims come in a 300-page document, which concluded that the pandemic most likely came from a lab leak and was the result of a “research-related incident” in Wuhan.

      It said the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market no longer deserved the “presumption of accuracy”.

      The report argued that Chinese researchers appeared to begin development of at least two Covid vaccines at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in November 2019, meaning “SARS-CoV-2 would have been present at the WIV before the known outbreak of the pandemic”.

      The claims give further credence to the lab leak theory and support accusations that China covered up early cases of the outbreak.

      The 300-page report, released to Axios, was the full version of a 35-page summary published in October by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

      It said: “The Covid-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.

      “New information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment.

      “However, the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy.”

      The report suggested that advocates of the natural transmission theory “must provide clear and convincing evidence” for their argument.

      It concluded: “The preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research.”

      No evidence proving a natural spillover
      Scientists, and US intelligence, have been divided over whether the pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV], which had been collecting and manipulating bat viruses, or from a natural spillover at a Wuhan market selling live animals.

      The report said there were “anomalies” between Covid-19 and other diseases that have spilled over naturally from animals to humans.

      And it said, three years on, no critical evidence had been found proving there was a natural spillover.

      It added that there had not been spillovers of the virus in numerous places at numerous times, as might be expected if that was the cause.

      The report also noted that the type of bats carrying the closest virus to Covid-19 lived over 1,000 miles away from Wuhan.

      However, the lab had collected over 200 coronaviruses, and employees had been photographed handling bats with inadequate protective gear, the report said.

      Scientists there had been involved in research aimed at preventing future pandemics, and had sought funding to engineer coronaviruses, it said.

      The report said: “A research-related incident is consistent with the early epidemiology [of Covid-19] showing rapid spread of the virus in Wuhan, with the earliest calls for assistance being located near the WIV’s original campus in central Wuhan.

      “In short, human errors, mechanical failure, animal bites, animal escapes, inadequate training, insufficient funding, and pressure for results can lead to an escape of virulent pathogens, which could, in turn, infect animals and humans and lead to a release of a virus from a lab.”

      No definitive conclusion
      However, the report did not offer a “definitive” conclusion on the origin of the pandemic.

      It said: “More information is needed to arrive at a more precise, if not a definitive, understanding of the origins…and how the Covid-19 pandemic began.

      “Governments, leaders, public health officials, and scientists involved in addressing the Covid-19 pandemic and working to prevent future pandemics, must commit to greater transparency, engagement, and responsibility in their efforts.”

      Last month, Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, said Covid “most likely” leaked from the Wuhan lab.

      Mr Wray said: “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

      The US Department of Energy has also concluded that a lab leak was the most likely cause, although with “low confidence”.

      The energy department oversees a network of 17 US laboratories researching advanced biology.

      Meanwhile, the CIA reportedly remains undecided between the lab leak and natural transmission theories.

      Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said last month there was not a “definitive answer” yet.

      He said: “Some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other, and a number have said they just don’t have enough information to be sure.”

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/18/coronavirus-covid-origin-wuhan-lab-us-senate-report/

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      john campbell – Senate full document

      Lab leak

    • Elton John Testifies At Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On Epidemic Control

  1. Poudre School District is testing out new technology in four schools this spring with a goal of making it quicker and easier to buy school meals.

    PSD will evaluate a biometric finger-scanning pilot program between mid-April and May 25 to see if it makes the meal-purchasing process more efficient at Linton and Dunn elementary, Kinard middle, and Rocky Mountain High schools. Faster checkout times would help PSD to better implement the voter-approved free school meal program, which could yield an increase in meals served.

    https://www.psdschools.org/news/biometric-program-meals

    • redacted – In just 8 Months Germany is in Deep Sh*t

      Germany did not listen to Greta Thunberg.

      They shut down their nuclear power plants and will move forward with a return to coal.

      Some countries are playing hard politics with energy and some are not.

      Argentina and Finland are bullish on nuclear power but Germany wants to go backwards.
      Watch what happens when politics meets people’s lives.

    • The Chinese have been using the Greens to target Western Infrastructure. Though the info-op mechanisms are trademark Made-in-R™. (We’re not the only victims of ChiCom intellectual property theft.)

    • It could be both, my money says that home grown nuts are the major cause and China is supplying the majority of the rest of the attacks.

      • Yeah, sounds about right. Like the MBros, getting us to destroy ourselves with “our own miserable hands”. But how did we get so crazy decadent?

        Bezmenov described a decades-long Soviet operation. Now we’re falling like rotten fruit to the Wolf Warriors who bought the franchise – cheaply!

        If we don’t blow each other up in the next couple of years, we’ll be fighting together against the ChiComs. They’ve leased huge expanses of Russian territory: Russians aren’t happy. They figure imperialism should be limited to sub-Saharan Africa.

        • When I get a computer I plan on doing a time line essay on how the left destroyed the moral foundation of Western Civ.

        • Back in the 70s a group of people were predicting Russia and the US would end up allying to fight China. Neither of us really have any other option.

          I have been wondering if China didn’t push Obiden into goading Putin into attacking Ukraine. I can’t see Biden doing something like that without Chinese permission.

  2. International Ice Hockey Championship Israel vs Croatia Live! (sorry, but it just sounds funny)

  3. 5:52 A New York Jewish father calls out another Jewish New Yorker. (Very sad what the greatest city in the world is becoming.):

  4. Kitchen knives could be seized from homes under crackdown on dangerous weapons
    Ministers are looking to close loopholes and toughen sentences for the sale, importation and possession of knives after a spike in offences

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/18/kitchen-knives-seized-police-crackdown-dangerous-weapons/

    UK may soon seize kitchen knives from suspected criminals’ homes amid dangerous weapons crackdown

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-proposes-ban-large-serrated-knives-seizure-police-suspect-crime

    Kitchen knives could be seized from homes of suspected criminals under new Home Office plans being considered
    Ministers will consult police forces on giving them extra powers to seize knives
    There has been an 11 per cent increase in knife crime in England and Wales

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11985279/Kitchen-knives-able-seized-homes-suspected-criminals-Home-Office-plans.html

    • europravda – ‘I’m ashamed’: Luxembourg’s PM Xavier Bettel denounces Viktor Orbán and Hungary’s anti-LGBT law

      “We don’t demand pity, we don’t demand solidarity, we don’t demand compassion. We only demand respect,” the Luxembourgish PM told MEPs.

    • redacted – So THIS is why they’re so scared of the Ukraine document leaks

      It is a shoot-the-messenger situation due to leaked documents that show officials in the U.S. telling big fat lies about the conflict in Ukraine and downplaying the U.S. role.

      For instance, the documents show that “American-made smart bombs are falling victim to Russian electronic jamming in Ukraine, causing them to miss their targets,” according to Politico.

      A Defense Department official has confirmed this.

      You’d think that Russia would be happy about this validating leak but Russian expert Gilbert Doctorow reports that they are not.

      “It strengthens the argument on their side by those who say that insanity rules in the USA, that you have to be prepared for every eventuality in escalation of the war.

        • APRIL 11 – RFEL – U.S. Envoy Urges Firmer Action To Counter Russian, Chinese Disinformation

          […]James Rubin, coordinator for the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center, said the distribution of the disinformation and propaganda out of Serbia is a major problem that needs to be dealt with.

          […] “We would not like to see Russia Today or Russian media outlets anywhere in the world. We’d like them shut down.”

          […]Rubin said the West has been slow to realize the dangers of disinformation and information manipulation not only from Russia but from China as well.

          […]Rubin said it’s no secret that there are outlets in the Western Balkans that repeat Russian lies and disinformation. He cited an example of reports about biological weapons in Ukraine

          […]Rubin said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken selected him for the job of coordinator for the Global Engagement Center because he wants the United States to increase its efforts against propaganda and disinformation.

          https://www.rferl.org/a/balkans-russia-china-disinformation-rubin/32359395.html

          • Hah!
            The left learned a lot when they fell in love with the USSR way back when. Now they're testing their skills at high-stakes ping-pong.

    • redacted – Did the Pentagon just FOOL everyone with this fake document leak story?

      Something is very fishy with this whole Pentagon document leak story.

      All of the leaks give cover for the DoD to leave Ukraine while at the same time ramping up against China.

      Was this a purposeful leak on the part of the Pentagon to distract all of us?

      Clayton lays out some theories as to why this is the case.

    • On the morning of September 21st Phil Giraldi was fired over the phone by The American Conservative, where he had been a regular contributor for fourteen years. He was told that “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars” was unacceptable.

      The TAC management and board appear to have forgotten that the magazine was launched with an article by founder Pat Buchanan entitled “Whose War?” which largely made the same claims that Giraldi made about the Jewish push for another war, in that case with Iraq. Buchanan was vilified and denounced as an anti-Semite by many of the same people who are now similarly attacking Giraldi.

      September 19, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – I spoke recently at a conference on America’s war party where afterwards an elderly gentleman came up to me and asked, “Why doesn’t anyone ever speak honestly about the six-hundred-pound gorilla in the room? Nobody has mentioned Israel in this conference and we all know it’s American Jews with all their money and power who are supporting every war in the Middle East for Netanyahu? Shouldn’t we start calling them out and not letting them get away with it?”

      It was a question combined with a comment that I have heard many times before and my answer is always the same: any organization that aspires to be heard on foreign policy knows that to touch the live wire of Israel and American Jews guarantees a quick trip to obscurity. Jewish groups and deep pocket individual donors not only control the politicians, they own and run the media and entertainment industries, meaning that no one will hear about or from the offending party ever again. They are particularly sensitive on the issue of so-called “dual loyalty,” particularly as the expression itself is a bit of a sham since it is pretty clear that some of them only have real loyalty to Israel.

      Most recently, some pundits, including myself, have been warning of an impending war with Iran. To be sure, the urging to strike Iran comes from many quarters, to include generals in the Administration who always think first in terms of settling problems through force, from a Saudi government obsessed with fear over Iranian hegemony, and, of course, from Israel itself. But what makes the war engine run is provided by American Jews who have taken upon themselves the onerous task of starting a war with a country that does not conceivably threaten the United States. They have been very successful at faking the Iranian threat, so much so that nearly all Republican and most Democratic congressmen as well as much of the media seem to be convinced that Iran needs to be dealt with firmly, most definitely by using the U.S. military, and the sooner the better.

      And while they are doing it, the issue that nearly all the Iran haters are Jewish has somehow fallen out of sight, as if it does not matter. But it should matter. A recent article in the New Yorker on stopping the impending war with Iran strangely suggests that the current generation “Iran hawks” might be a force of moderation regarding policy options given the lessons learned from Iraq. The article cites as hardliners on Iran David Frum, Max Boot, Bill Kristol and Bret Stephens.

      Daniel Larison over at The American Conservative has a good review of the New Yorker piece entitled “Yes, Iran Hawks Want Conflict with Iran,” which identifies the four above cited hawks by name before describing them as “…a Who’s Who of consistently lousy foreign policy thinking. If they have been right about any major foreign policy issue in the last twenty years, it would be news to the entire world. Every single one of them hates the nuclear deal with Iran with a passion, and they have argued in favor of military action against Iran at one point or another. There is zero evidence that any of them would oppose attacking Iran.”

      And I would add a few more names, Mark Dubowitz, Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum; John Podhoretz of Commentary magazine; Elliot Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations; Meyrav Wurmser of the Middle East Media Research Institute; Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War; and Frederick Kagan, Danielle Pletka and David Wurmser of the American Enterprise Institute. And you can also throw into the hopper entire organizations like The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and the Hudson Institute. And yep, they’re all Jewish, plus most of them would self-describe as neo-conservatives. And I might add that only one of the named individuals has ever served in any branch of the American military – David Wurmser was once in the Navy reserve. These individuals largely constitute a cabal of sanctimonious chairborne warriors who prefer to do the heavy thinking while they let others do the fighting and dying.

      So it is safe to say that much of the agitation to do something about Iran comes from Israel and from American Jews. Indeed, I would opine that most of the fury from Congress re Iran comes from the same source, with AIPAC showering our Solons on the Potomac with “fact sheets” explaining how Iran is worthy of annihilation because it has pledged to “destroy Israel,” which is both a lie and an impossibility as Tehran does not have the resources to carry out such a task. The AIPAC lies are then picked up and replayed by an obliging media, where nearly every “expert” who speaks about the Middle East on television and radio or who is interviewed for newspaper stories is Jewish.

      One might also add that neocons as a group were founded by Jews and are largely Jewish, hence their universal attachment to the state of Israel. They first rose into prominence when they obtained a number of national security positions during the Reagan Administration and their ascendancy was completed when they staffed senior positions in the Pentagon and White House under George W. Bush. Recall for a moment Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, and Scooter Libby. Yes, all Jewish and all conduits for the false information that led to a war that has spread and effectively destroyed much of the Middle East. Except for Israel, of course. Philip Zelikow, also Jewish, in a moment of candor, admitted that the Iraq War, in his opinion, was fought for Israel.

      Add to the folly a Jewish U.S. Ambassador to Israel who identifies with the most right-wing Israeli settler elements, a White House appointed chief negotiator who is Jewish and a Jewish son-in-law who is also involved in formulating Middle East policy. Is anyone providing an alternative viewpoint to eternal and uncritical support for Benjamin Netanyahu and his kleptocratic regime of racist thugs? I think not.

      There are a couple of simple fixes for the dominant involvement of American Jews in foreign policy issues where they have a personal interest due to their ethnicity or family ties. First of all, don’t put them into national security positions involving the Middle East, where they will potentially be conflicted. Let them worry instead about North Korea, which does not have a Jewish minority and which was not involved in the holocaust. This type of solution was, in fact, somewhat of a policy regarding the U.S. Ambassador position in Israel. No Jew was appointed to avoid any conflict of interest prior to 1995, an understanding that was violated by Bill Clinton (wouldn’t you know it!) who named Martin Indyk to the post. Indyk was not even an American citizen at the time and had to be naturalized quickly prior to being approved by congress.

      Those American Jews who are strongly attached to Israel and somehow find themselves in senior policy making positions involving the Middle East and who actually possess any integrity on the issue should recuse themselves, just as any judge would do if he were presiding over a case in which he had a personal interest. Any American should be free to exercise first amendment rights to debate possible options regarding policy, up to and including embracing positions that damage the United States and benefit a foreign nation. But if he or she is in a position to actually create those policies, he or she should butt out and leave the policy generation to those who have no personal baggage.

      For those American Jews who lack any shred of integrity, the media should be required to label them at the bottom of the television screen whenever they pop up, e.g. Bill Kristol is “Jewish and an outspoken supporter of the state of Israel.” That would be kind-of-like a warning label on a bottle of rat poison – translating roughly as “ingest even the tiniest little dosage of the nonsense spewed by Bill Kristol at your own peril.”

      As none of the above is likely to happen, the only alternative is for American citizens who are tired of having their country’s national security interests hijacked by a group that is in thrall to a foreign government to become more assertive about what is happening. Shine a little light into the darkness and recognize who is being diddled and by whom. Call it like it is. And if someone’s feelings are hurt, too bad. We don’t need a war with Iran because Israel wants one and some rich and powerful American Jews are happy to deliver. Seriously, we don’t need it.

      Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London.

      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47843.htm
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      Is America still Exceptional? (Ukraine War) – Phil Giraldi

      • Judge Nap’s guests are cheerleaders, their observations are stacked against their counterparts on the other side.

        Domestic Russian sources are much more candid. Critics of the military aspects of the operation are tolerated – though ideological discussion is nonexistent.

        Bad moves are not covered up.
        Or at least not all of them.

        For example, the failure to hold Kharkiv last summer – way too few soldiers for the size of the region, “measured in teaspoons”.

        Or when a column of several hundred was wiped out in Zaporizhzhia:

        The shame of Vugledar: why you should not wait for a reaction.

        Watching the videos that the Internet offers from the other side causes a very strange feeling of dumb déjà vu. The same thing, the dates change, the essence, unfortunately, does not change.

        Columns of Russian equipment are moving like in a parade, no air cover, no air defense and electronic warfare escort, nothing. And, if you believe the video from 10.02, when a Russian tank and 3 infantry fighting vehicles were blown up on a freshly mined road, reconnaissance is also not required.

        Ukrainian artillery destroys equipment and people. Our people. Under the cameras of ever-hanging Ukrainian drones. The videos flooded the Internet, the amount of beautifully filmed content from under Vugledar is simply amazing. The full impression is that Ukrainian copters are hanging everywhere. And they film around the clock.
        https://en.topwar.ru/210865-pozor-ugledara-pochemu-ne-stoit-zhdat-reakcii.html

        Outrage at the all-around incompetence did indeed result in a change of command. Lotsa other changes…

        Surprising. Maybe social media is just too slippery, too hard to control. Or maybe the Stavka is self-confident, figures openness on tactical matters will bring more public buy-in. There are real arguments in comment threads of popular sites: “likes” don’t seem manipulated.

        That’s what makes pro-Russian voices in the West stand out as apologists. War is black and white only to propagandists.

    • europravda – Ghost ships and espionage: Russia’s huge surveillance efforts laid bare in new Nordic documentary

      Russia is running a fleet of ‘ghost ships’ in the Baltic Sea with their transmitters turned off — as they map offshore wind farms, gas pipelines, power, and internet cables in the waters around the Nordic nations for possible sabotage attacks.

      Those are just some of the explosive claims made in a new documentary series called “The Shadow War,” produced by public broadcasters from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, which looks at Russia’s intelligence operations across the region.

      “In the event of a conflict with the West, they are ready and know where to intervene if they want to paralyze Danish society”, Anders Henriksen from the Danish Police Intelligence Service (PET) was quoted as saying.

      In one instance, the documentary-makers tracked a Russian research vessel called Admiral Vladimirsky in the Kattegat Strait. The ship’s AIS transmitter, a system used to identify ships and their location, had been switched off, but journalists used encrypted radio traffic to follow it.

      One man on board was wearing a uniform, with a bulletproof vest and an assault rifle, as the ship sailed past wind farms in Scotland, England and the Netherlands.

      Experts say the intelligence information gathered on such voyages is sent straight back to the Kremlin.

      “This is a strategic capacity for Russia, which is considered very important and is controlled directly from Moscow,” says Nils Andreas Stensønes, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service.

      The Admiral Vladimirsky was not the only ship identified carrying out apparent military or intelligence reconnaissance missions: journalists identified 50 Russian ships in the last decade with sailing patterns that took them over oil and gas fields, or close to NATO military exercises.

      How vulnerable is Europe’s undersea infrastructure?
      It’s perhaps no surprise that Russia would carry out such extensive operations to chart critical undersea infrastructure, but the war in Ukraine has heightened tensions further still.

      “There is no doubt that security pertaining to critical Norwegian infrastructure has not been sufficient. Cables are very vulnerable and Russia has spent many years already mapping undersea communications cables and energy infrastructure,” explained Karen-Anna Eggen, a PhD Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

      “They have also, through various economic cooperation, gained access to sensitive data, seismic data for example. Mapping is mainly done with so-called research vessels and fishing vessels, but they are also used to probe and disrupt, which I read as part of a broader preparation in case the security situation in the High North or Europe gets more tense,” she to Euronews recently.

      Last year, after the Nord Stream pipeline was apparently targeted with explosives in the Baltic Sea, Norway tightened security on its offshore infrastructure amid fears of attacks. In April 2021 a section of undersea cable near the Norwegian island of Svalbard, used by researchers and the military, disappeared; while in December of the same year, one of two main cables which connect Svalbard to mainland Norway was also cut.

      Although no country admitted to these incidents, the same Russian fishing vessels were seen crossing the Svalbard cables multiple times before connections were cut.

      “This is a geopolitical important spot for Russia and Russian military activity. Of course, Russia denies any responsibility for the cable disruption, but it matches up in time, location and capacity,” said Karen-Anna Eggen.

      “This is a classical case of covert action with the intent to disrupt, create fear and test Norwegian response.”

      How the documentary came together
      The new three-part “The Shadow War” documentary is thought to be the first time public broadcasters from four Nordic countries cooperated on an investigative project of this scale.

      The scale of what they uncovered surprised the journalists involved.

      “We started doing this research almost a year ago and it took quite a long time to map out what sort of data sources were available to us. we had some theories what was available, but now our project was really how can we do this in terms of ‘big data’, to cover it systematically,” Håvard Gulldahl, the lead journalist at Norwegian broadcaster NRK, explained to Euronews.

      “I will say I was surprised how many ships might be involved in this activity. The scale surprised me, but also the timeframe that this has happened though. It is quite a bit longer than I had expected,” he added.

      Gulldahl said that while civilian and military experts knew about the activities of the Russians, there has been a “paradigm shift” since the start of the war in Ukraine.

      “Activity that we previously interpreted as benign is not the case any more,” he said.

      https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/19/ghost-ships-and-espionage-russias-huge-surveillance-efforts-laid-bare-in-new-nordic-docume
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      https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/skyggekrigen_-putins-spioner-i-norden-_1_3__382096

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    • Russia threatens to arm North Korea if South sends weapons to Ukraine

      Russia has cautioned South Korea over its Ukraine arms aid plan amid the ongoing war.

      The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has warned Seoul about the dangers that come with their plan to arm Ukraine.

      He threatened that Moscow could arm North Korea if the South supplied weapons to embattled Ukraine.

      • Hindustan Times!
        • • India + Russia => true love.

        Notwithstanding the choke chain held firmly by China, North Korea has an enduring adoration for Russia. They’ve offered soldiers from Day One. Fought beside Syrians in every war against Israel, no small thing.

    • MAY 2022 – Has Russia Already Won? Is it “Game Over” for the Rothschild/Rockefeller Empire?

      The fall of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of a highly dangerous new phase of American aggression against a severely weakened Russia. For the Rockefeller Empire, it represented a golden opportunity to destroy their former adversary, Russia, as a functioning agent. If they could succeed in destroying Russia, they believed they could eliminate the only remaining serious obstacle to what the Pentagon called Full Spectrum Domination – total control of land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. One Sole Superpower could dictate to the entire world as it saw fit. This was the mad dream of David, his family and allies.

      The 1990s was a time of immense suffering for the Russian people. As the impending collapse of the USSR became discernable, insiders created a planning group to ensure the continued influence of Soviet-era officials by transferring Russian state assets to offshore shell companies and thus stripping the country’s wealth. One such offshore company, FIMACO, was used to pilfer an estimated $50 billion from the nation. It was through this looting that liquid capital was generated and used by future oligarchs to build their fortunes. An early beneficiary of this arrangement was Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had started his career as a minor Soviet official and whose Yukos oil conglomerate was tied to FIMACO. And FIMACO was tied to Jacob Rothschild, in London.

      In 1991 the Soviet Union finally collapsed. That August, state treasurer Nikolai Kruchina, responsible for Russia’s gold reserves, died by falling from his window. He had been a member of the planning group which originated the plot to steal state assets. His successor Georgy Pavlov fell to his death from a window two months later: the oligarchs were cleaning house. In September, the Russian central bank announced the Kremlin’s gold reserves had inexplicably dropped from the estimated 1000–1500 tons to a mere 240 tons. Two months later, Victor Gerashchenko announced Russia’s gold reserves had actually entirely vanished. While the Russian public was horrified at the revelation, European bankers were less surprised. It was whispered frequently among those circles that Soviet transport planes had been flying to and from Switzerland for months and selling off large amounts of gold. Boris Yeltsin announced his plans to privatize the nation’s assets and the real looting began.

      During the privatization period, the networks of the 2 families wasted no time in opportunistically swooping in to take over Russian industries. The Clinton administration sought to redesign the economic policies of the nascent Russian Federation according to the Washington Consensus: privatization, deregulation, austerity, and the opening up of Russia’s companies to purchase by ultra-wealthy Americans. Foreign investors flocked in and the level of greed among this fifth column of new Muscovites was truly astonishing.

      Enter Putin
      Soon after taking office in 1999, Vladimir Putin, a nationalist with a long career in Russian intelligence, faced the daunting task of trying to undo, or at least limit, the damage that the criminal cronies of Yeltsin and their foreign partners had done to Russia.

      Putin Kicks out the Rothschilds
      The criminality was not limited to foreign speculators. During the early period of privatization in the 90s, the Rothschilds organized a secret society of seven Russian oligarchs entirely controlled Boris Yeltsin’s administration. This group called itself Semibankirschina, named after the Seven Boyars who controlled Russia during the 17th century. The secret society included the following oligarchs: Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, Vladimir Gusinsky, Vladimir Potanin, and Alexander Smolensky. They all worked for the Rothschilds – or London – and more specifically, for Jacob Rothschild.

      In late 1999, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia and the fortunes of these self-appointed rulers rapidly turned for the worse. A new group of Putin insiders formed – the Siloviki (made up of Russian nationalists from the security and business world) and began supplanting the previous access that the Semibankirschina had to the president. From a strong position, Putin negotiated a “grand bargain” with the remaining oligarchs: they retained most of their existing assets in return for alignment with Putin’s vertical rule of Russia. The era of financial gangsterism from the 1990s was over. In 2001, a state takeover of media seized the television networks previously owned by the Rothschild puppets. It was with these moves by Putin, from early March 2000, that led to a break up of Rothschild control over Russia. These oligarchs all belonged to Jacob Rothschild. And, they were robbing Russia blind.

      David Rockefeller couldn’t be bothered with such small takings. Here, the key was to bring Russia into the dollar world – this was more profitable for his empire. In addition, a series of geopolitical confrontations on Russia’s borders served his empire greatly. The first such was the Chechen wars of 1994, and 1999/2000. This, Putin ended quickly and ruthlessly.

      The military occupation of Iraq was the first major step in the American strategy to move oil into the oil companies of the 2 families. Then, Russian investments in Iraq were lost after the US invasion in March 2003. In addition, following the Afghanistan invasion in October 2001, the Pentagon began spreading its presence in Central Asia – to the discomfort of both Russia and China. For obvious military and political reasons, Washington could not admit openly that since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, its strategic goal had been to dis-member or de-construct Russia, thereby gaining effective control over its huge oil and gas reserves.

      These two wars were but the opening shots of a series of geopolitical oil and energy “pipeline wars” – undeclared wars, but wars in every sense of the word. They were wars, overt and covert, spanning Eurasia, the Middle East and Africa. The energy wars were fought with bombs, with terror tactics, and with drones. They were also fought with sophisticated new methods of political destabilization of uncooperative regimes through what were called Color Revolutions. The goal was simple: Rockefeller control through the Pentagon and the CIA of all significant oil and gas deposits PLUS pipelines to transport, this in order to be able to control the emerging Eurasian economic colossus, especially China and Russia (and later India). The goal would be achieved by any means necessary. The NATO encirclement of Russia, the Color Revolutions across Eurasia, and the war in Iraq were all aspects of one and the same American geopolitical strategy: a grand strategy to de-construct Russia once and for all as a potential rival to a sole US Superpower hegemony. The end of the Yeltsin era put a slight crimp in Washington’s grand plans. Following the Wall Street–City of London guided looting of Russia by networks of the 2 families, a shrewder and more sober Putin cautiously emerged as a dynamic nationalistic force, committed to rebuilding Russia.

      Putin Breaks with the Rockefellers
      A defining event in Russian energy geopolitics took place in 2003. Just as Washington had taken over Iraq, Putin ordered the spectacular arrest of Russia’s billionaire oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky – or MK, on charges of tax evasion. Putin then froze shares of Khodorkovsky’s giant Yukos Oil group, putting it under state control. What had triggered Putin’s dramatic action?

      MK was working for Jacob Rothschild. He was a Rothschild front. In March 2000, MK was present with all the other oligarchs called to a meeting by Putin. The oligarchs had made a pledge to Putin – that if they stayed out of Russian politics, and repatriated a share of their stolen money (in effect, stolen from the state in rigged bidding under Yeltsin) they would be allowed to keep their assets. All of these oligarchs were Rothschild fronts. Most accepted, with the exception of Rothschild’s Jewish oligarchs. Putin went after them, as they broke their pledge to him. And so did MK. He was busy buying up the Duma – Russia’s parliament – as a first step, in a plan to run against Putin in 2004.

      In the meantime Mikhail Khodorkovsky was negotiating with 2 Rockefeller oil companies, Exxon and Chevron, to sell 40% of Yukos Oil (for the sum of $25 billion). Had this deal gone through, Russia’s economic and financial independence would be over. This 40% stake would have given Washington, the US oil giants, and the Rockefeller family a de facto veto power over future Russian oil and gas deals and pipelines. At the time of his arrest, Yukos had just begun steps to acquire Sibneft, a very large Russian oil company. The combined Yukos–Sibneft enterprise, with 20 billion barrels of oil and gas, would then have owned the second-largest oil and gas reserves in the world – in private hands, and not state-owned. The Exxon buy-up of Yukos–Sibneft would have been a literal energy coup-d’état. David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild knew it. So did the White House. MK knew it. Above all, Vladimir Putin knew it and moved decisively to block it. Putin moved against him in October 2003, and arrested him.

      It was during the purge of oligarchs and vulture capitalists that the true power behind Mikhail Khodorkovsky emerged. When it became likely he would be arrested, he arranged to have all his shares from the Yukos Oil Company transferred to the ownership of Jacob Rothschild. The transfer took place in November of 2003, giving Jacob Rothschild a 40-45% control of Yukos, estimated to be worth $25 billion. Putin subsequently liquidated and nationalized Yukos by seizing and selling off its shares to state oil companies. Putin restored to Russia what was stolen by Jacob Rothschild. Once the richest man in the country, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s fortunes turned for the worse. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was criminally prosecuted by Putin for tax evasion and fraud for which he ended up serving 10 years in jail, and was subsequently exiled. When the rigged auction sales of state assets took place in 1995/96, most of the companies got sold for as little as 5% of their value. And, Yukos got “purchased” for less than $400 million, when its true worth was far more than that.

      So Putin has declared war on the most powerful families on the planet. From this moment on, it would be a fight between Putin and the 2 families. Putin has survived many attempts on his life by these 2 networks of power. Ever since Putin arrested Khodorkovsky in 2003, the Kremlin had been putting the engines of economic control into state hands once again.

      One of Putin’s first agenda items was to pay off all debt to the IMF and holdover loans from the Soviet era, thus freeing the nation from Rothschild interference. This enabled Putin to reduce their influence over Russia’s destiny.

      The events in Russia were soon followed by CIA-financed covert destabilizations in Eurasia – the Color Revolutions against governments on Russia’s periphery.

      Putin began to make a series of defensive moves to restore some tenable form of equilibrium in the face of Washington’s increasingly obvious policy of encircling and weakening Russia. Subsequent US strategic blunders made the job a bit easier for Russia. Now, with the stakes rising on both sides – NATO and Russia – Putin’s Russia moved beyond simple defense to a new dynamic offensive aimed at securing a more viable geopolitical position by using its energy as the lever.

      By 2003, after Iraq was occupied by US and British forces, the most urgent priority for the US was the control of Russian oil, gas, and its associated pipelines. For that to happen, a coup in the tiny Republic of Georgia was deemed essential, as well as a similar coup in Ukraine. If pro-US regimes could be installed in both countries, not only would the military security of Russia itself be mortally threatened, but also Russia’s ability to control the export of its oil and gas to the EU would be severely hampered.

      In January 2004, the Rose Revolution put into power Washington’s candidate for President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. With their man firmly installed in Tbilisi, BP and the Anglo American oil consortium moved swiftly to complete a 1,800 km pipeline from Baku via Tbilisi to Ceyhan on Turkey’s Mediterranean shore, at a cost of some $3.6 billion. With the construction of this (BTC) pipeline, a major part in the weakening of Russia’s oil and energy independence appeared in place.

      In November 2004, the CIA put their man into power in the Ukraine. This coup was dubbed the Orange Revolution. Ukraine was of greater strategic importance for Russia than Georgia. This was due to the several oil and gas pipelines transiting Ukraine to the EU. To cut these pipelines at the Ukraine border would have dealt a severe economic blow to Russia when she could ill afford such a loss. With Poland already in NATO, NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia would almost completely encircle Russia with hostile neighbors, creating an existential threat to the very survival of Russia itself. Putin knew this, but his options were limited. Washington knew what the stakes were, and it was doing everything short of open war against a nuclear opponent to push the agenda.

      By 2005, the key oil companies of the two families (London) BP, Shell, Total; and (New York) Exxon, Chevron, had gained control over most of the oil of the Caspian Sea. The control of energy – globally – by the Big Four oil companies of the 2 families, Chevron and Exxon (Rockefeller), and BP and Shell (Rothschild) – was the cornerstone of their global strategy.

      It was clear within the Rockefeller family discussions, and in Washington policy circles, that in order to control those global oil and gas flows, the US needed to project its military power far more aggressively, to achieve total military supremacy, which was what Full Spectrum Dominance was all about. The strategists of Full Spectrum dominance envisioned control of pretty much the entire universe, including outer and inner-space, from the galaxy, to the body, to the mind. Now, you know the sick, devious and cunning minds that brought about Covid, in order to lock down the global economy – Why? – in order to save the Rockefeller Empires financial and banking systems.

      MORE :

      https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/05/21/has-russia-already-won-is-it-game-over-for-the-rothschild-rockefeller-empire

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      U.S. Intel, Ukraine Russia and China – Scott Ritter

  5. Elon Musk’s video compilation of Jordan Peterson’s teachings on the subject of AI:

  6. Update: Chicago Woman Brutalized by Mob Describes Harrowing Experience, Boyfriend Faced More Vicious Attack “They Said They Were Going to Kill Us”
    By Margaret Flavin Apr. 19, 2023 8:45 am34 Comments

    The Gateway Pundit reported on hundreds of teens rioting in the streets near Millennium Park Saturday night and the attack on a woman in the entry of a building.

    Dozens of teens surrounded the woman, cornered her in a doorway, and attacked.

    While reports focused on the young woman, and she appears alone in the video posted to social media, she spoke with Fox News to discuss the attack and revealed that she was with her boyfriend, who faced a more brutal attack not seen in the video

    The two were also robbed of their valuables and even their shoes.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/update-chicago-woman-brutalized-by-mob-describes-harrowing-experience-boyfriend-faced-more-vicious-attack-they-said-they-were-going-to-kill-us/

  7. Biden to veto GOP bill protecting women’s sports, calls it ‘discrimination’ against transgender students
    White House: ‘If the President were presented with HR 734, he would veto it’
    Brandon Gillespie By Brandon Gillespie | Fox News

    The White House vowed Monday that President Biden will veto a bill that would prevent biological males from participating in women’s sports should it pass both houses fo Congress.

    The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, or H.R. 734, was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., and is expected to come to a vote on the House floor sometime this week.

    “The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 734,” the White House said in a statement. “For students nationwide, participating in sports and being part of a team is an important part of growing up, staying engaged in school, and learning leadership and life skills. H.R. 734 would deny access to sports for many families by establishing an absolute ban on transgender students—even those as young as elementary schoolers—playing on a team consistent with their gender identity

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-veto-gop-bill-protecting-womens-sports-discrimination-transgender-students

  8. “I Have No Idea What The Jurors Look Like” – Entire Government Jury in Proud Boys Trial Wears Masks and Won’t Take Them Off
    By Alicia Powe Apr. 19, 2023 9:30 am1 Comment

    The demise of law and order following the manufactured COVID-19 crisis is on full display during the historic Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy trial.

    The twelve jurors, who will begin deliberating a verdict as early next week, have yet to take their masks off a single time in the courtroom.

    Government prosecutors are also masked for the duration of the 10-hour cross-examinations during the trial which has spanned 57 days.

    Conspicuously, just seconds after the jurors step out of the room, prosecutors representing the government immediately remove their masks.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/government-covid-mind-control-sets-new-precedents-in-proud-boys-seditious-conspracy-trial-i-have-no-idea-what-the-jurors-look-like/

  9. REPORT: Illegal Border Crossings Jumped by 25 Percent in March
    By Mike LaChance Apr. 19, 2023 9:15 am3 Comments

    Every time a member of the Biden administration talks about what’s happening at the southern border, they try to spin the news and talk about all the things they’re supposedly doing to fix the problems.

    This is absurd, and we know that because the numbers don’t lie.

    In March, the number of illegal border crossers went up by 25%.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/report-illegal-border-crossings-jumped-by-25-percent-in-march/

  10. Crusading J6 Attorney: Spooks Deployed By Homeland Security Investigation Were A MAJOR Player On J6, ‘The Judges Keep Denying Inquiry Into These Informants’
    By Alicia Powe Apr. 19, 2023 9:00 am47 Comments
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    As a jury deliberates a verdict in J6 political prisoner Chris Albert’s case, his attorney, Roger Roots, fired shots at the litany of unprecedented Constitutional abuses arbitrated by the government and facilitated by judges presiding over J6 trials.

    In every single January 6 case the judges allow the government to withhold information about the Confidential Human Sources that were embedded in the crowd on January 6 and months prior among the Proud Boys, The Oath Keepers and other Trump-supporting conservative groups, Roots told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview.

    “The judges keep denying inquiry into these informants and CHS issues. They’ve denied all my motions,” Roots said. “The Alberts trial does not really involve a lot of issues with CHSs, but when an FBI agent was on the stand, I did ask the FBI agent anything about CHSs and there was an objection by the government and the judge immediately sustained the objections so that we couldn’t ask any questions.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/crusading-j6-attorney-homeland-security-investigation-spooks-were-a-major-player-on-j6-the-judges-keep-denying-inquiry-into-these-informants/

  11. Youth Wrestler Sucker Punches Opponent in the Face After Losing Match (VIDEO)
    By Cullen Linebarger Apr. 19, 2023 8:30 am275 Comments

    A witness captured disturbing footage showing a youth wrestler busting his opponent in the face after losing a match.

    TMZ reported Tuesday that the assault happened in Oak Park, Illinois on April 8. The two wrestlers were competing in a third-place 125-128 pound match at the 2023 Beat the Streets Developmental FS tournament.

    Spar Academy’s Cooper Corder (who is in orange) easily defeated Maine West High School’s Hafid Alicea (in blue) by a 14-2 score.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/youth-wrestler-sucker-punches-opponent-in-the-face-after-losing-match-video/

  12. BIDEN ECONOMY: Commercial Real Estate in Crisis – High Value Defaults Continue – Regional Banks at Risk
    By Joe Hoft Apr. 19, 2023 8:00 am85 Comments

    The commercial real estate sector in the US is in a crisis situation. Major office properties are facing defaults on their loans and there are billions in loans coming due in the next few years.

    TGP reported previously on the commercial real estate sector.

    The beginning of the end of the Biden economy is here. Americans are suffering under record inflation, increased lending rates, and ultimately banks failing. Now the banks have to contend with the commercial real estate collapse in historic proportions.

    The best commercial real estate is rated class A. This is the best commercial real estate that is expected to maintain its value and more likely grow in value. But this isn’t happening in the Biden-Obama economy.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/biden-economy-commercial-real-estate-in-crisis-high-value-defaults-continue-regional-banks-at-risk/

    • The left tried to prevent another depression by enacting minimum wage laws. All they have done is ensure that more businesses will close their doors.

  13. NEW YORK POST – Yale blasted for hosting controversial French political activist accused of antisemitism during Passover

    Yale University is being blasted for hosting a French academic accused of horrific anti-Semitism during Passover – defying Jewish groups who pleaded with the college to call off the lecture.

    The Ivy League college invited French-Algerian Houria Bouteldja to speak on April 6, the night of the second seder of Passover, despite calls to disinvite her over a record of alleged anti-Semitism and homophobia.

    Bouteldja has been accused of being a serial anti-Semite and homophobe, after posing with a sign demanding Zionists are sent to gulags, saying she identified with a terrorist who carried out a mass shooting at a Jewish school and calling same-sex marriage “part of homonationalism.”

    She also said people “must support” Palestinian “resistance” including the terrorist group Hamas.

    Bouteldja was invited as part of a “Decolonizing Europe” lecture series organized by Fatima El-Tayeb, Yale’s professor of ethnicity, race and migration, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies – who described attempts to question Bouteldja on her record as “a waste of time.”

    El-Tayeb declined to respond to requests for comment from The Post.

    Yale ignored demands from campaign group StopAntisemitism not to host Bouteldja during one of Judaism’s holiest seasons, when it would be impossible for observant students to debate her.

    Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, slammed Bouteldja as a “vicious antisemitic and homophobic bigot” unworthy of being hosted at any institution.

    “StopAntisemitism is horrified Yale provided this known racist a platform to spread her poisonous ideas,” Rez told The Post. “Furthermore, we are extremely disappointed that Yale President Peter Salovey ignored requests from students, alumni and StopAntisemitism for dialogue surrounding the Bouteldja event.”

    Other critics of Bouteldja’s visit, including actor and Jewish advocate Jonah Platt, said they were dismayed by the timing of her lecture, which occurred on the second night of Passover.

    “You cannot have free and open debate if you’re purposefully or ignorantly planning this discussion for a time when the other side of this supposed free and open debate is very obviously not able to attend,” Platt told The Post. “That’s a mistake.”

    Platt accused Yale of being apathetic or intentionally harmful by allowing Bouteldja’s appearance during Passover.

    “It feels underhanded, like there’s a sinister agenda at work,” Platt continued. “I certainly empathize with the students who feel they were not being taken care of or seen or heard by their university.”

    Bouteldja, who could not be reached for comment, did not address accusations of being homophobic, antisemitic and anti-white during her April 6 appearance at Yale, The Yale Daily News reported.

    When one student tried to ask for an unequivocal statement that she supported LGBT rights and condemned an anti-Semitic mass murderer, El-Tayeb called the question a waste of time, The Yale News said.

    “Whether this event was scheduled for the second day of Passover deliberately or by oversight, the net effect was that many students who otherwise would have wished to make their voices heard were not able to do so,” Uri Cohen, executive director of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, told The Post, adding it disenfranchised many potential protesters.

    “Hate against Jews is one of the oldest and most nefarious ills of human history, and we’re seeing it increasing dramatically world-wide right now, including here in New Haven. The world needs less hate — not more, and I hope that the campus community will do better in this vein going forward.”

    Bouteldja has long been one of France’s most controversial academic and political figures.

    Her book “Whites, Jews and Us,” which has a foreword by the firebrand former Harvard and Princeton professor Cornel West, claims that the existence of Israel is a plot by white Europeans to uphold white supremacy.

    In 2012, she publicly aligned herself with Mohammed Merah, an Islamic jihadist who murdered a rabbi and three children in a mass shooting at a Jewish day school and killed two off-duty soldiers during a series of attacks in Toulouse, France.

    She blamed “white supremacy” for the attack, which French authorities said at the time were clearly anti-Semitic.

    “On the 21st of March 2012, I went to bed as myself, and woke up as Mohamed Merah,” Bouteldja said, claiming that the mass murder had endured an “incredible Islamophobic political and media campaign” in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.

    “Just like me, he knows he would be accused of anti-Semitism if he supports the colonised Palestinians, and of religious fundamentalism if he supports the right to wear a headscarf,” Bouteldja said. “Mohamed Merah is me, and I am him.”

    She also dismissed the 9/11 attacks as “towers are struck by airliners and collapse like a house of cards,” and described the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London of 2005, when four UK-born suicide attackers killed 56 innocent commuters as “bombs explode in the subway.”

    Bouteldja, who moved to France as a child from its former colony of Algeria, has accused French Jews of being part of “white supremacy” by themselves oppressing the country’s Muslim population.

    A Yale spokeswoman declined to provide additional details about Bouteldja’s lecture when reached by The Post.

    Yale’s assistant vice president for university life, Pilar Montalvo, told protesting students that the lecture would not moved to another date due to its stance on free speech, the student newspaper reported.

    “Antisemitism has no place at this university,” Montalvo told students. “There is a great deal of work underway to support the Jewish community on campus.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/yale-slammed-for-hosting-anti-semite-during-passover/

  14. China’s massive local debt problem

    https://youtu.be/9p9dAJQdEAc

    This is the part the Western Media ignores, China has massive bad debt problems. When the Economies of the Western Nations crash China is going to go down as hard if not harder.

    • When you add in all of the bad debt from the open banks the number is much larger.

      Yes the US has a catastrophically large debt, but concentrating on that debt and ignoring China’s is going to make the economic and political collapse much worse.

  15. Macron booed by angry French after signing pensions reform

    French President Emmanuel Macron was loudly booed by crowds in eastern France on Wednesday as he embarked on his first trip out of Paris since signing his unpopular pensions reform into law.

    Macron had been encouraged by allies to get out and meet voters after signing the reform after months of protests, with some fearing he was becoming too reclusive inside the presidential palace.

    But as he arrived in Selestat in the Alsace region, some locals chanted slogans including “Macron resign!” and booed and jeered the 45-year-old, with some personally heckling him.

    One man accused him of having a “corrupt government on a scale we have never seen before”, adding for good measure: “You will fall soon, you’ll see”.

    Macron told the man his ideas were “unfair”.

    Asked by a journalist how he felt about the booing, the president replied: “I have had it worse.”

    It was not all condemnation and some people offered him encouragement, including one retiree who told him: “Keep going.”

    Macron commented: “There are people who are not happy. Everyone should be free to express themselves. Afterwards, the country has to go forward.”

    Saucepans
    On an earlier stage of his trip Wednesday, police pushed back dozens of protesters banging kitchenware ahead of the president’s arrival in the village of Muttersholtz.

    Pot-bashing, a form of protest with a long history in France, began during Macron’s address to the nation on Monday evening after he signed the bill into law over the weekend.

    “It’s not saucepans that will enable France to move forward,” Macron said as he visited a wood factory in the village.

    “The reality across the country is not just those making noise with pans or grumbling.”

    “You will always see me with people… I have to keep going,” he added.

    The president made very few public appearances to speak to voters during the three months leading up to the legislation being signed into law, whose flagship measure is hiking the retirement age from 62 to 64.

    Political opponents and trade unions have urged protesters to maintain their campaign against the law and called for a new day of mass protest on May 1.

    ‘Expressions of anger’
    The images of the heckling comes as polls show Macron’s popularity ratings close to their lowest ever levels.

    The next presidential elections in France are not until 2027 and Macron by law cannot stand a third consecutive time. But analysts have warned the current situation is playing into the hands of far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

    The scenes recall Macron’s visits around France during the so-called “Yellow Vest” protests of 2018-19, when the head of state was frequently confronted by angry hecklers or protesters.

    On Tuesday evening, a private trip by Macron to Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris, also saw around 300 demonstrators voice their anger at his pension changes.

    “People will make themselves heard but that’s part of the moment,” an aide to the president told reporters on Wednesday, adding that there would be “expressions of anger most probably, support perhaps.”

    The head of state was slapped in the face in 2021 by a 28-year-old unemployed mediaeval history enthusiast during a visit to a small town in southeastern France.

    After Wednesday’s visits, Macron is set to visit a school in the southern Herault region on Thursday.

    https://insiderpaper.com/macron-booed-on-first-trip-since-pension-reform-afp/

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  16. JUST IN: Home Depot Worker In His 20s Is Shot Dead Trying To Stop Shoplifter In Lawless Dem-Controlled State
    By Patty McMurray Apr. 19, 2023 12:00 pm105 Comments
    TruthGettrGab

    A male Home Depot worker in his 20s has been shot dead while attempting to stop a shoplifter in the lawless state of California.
    100 Percent Fed Up reports – The employee, who has not yet been identified, has been referred to by co-workers as “Blake” and is reportedly a male in his 20s.

    The Home Depot store is located in Pleasanton, CA, East of the crime-ridden city of San Fransisco, home of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D).

    The murdered Home Depot employee was working in the loss prevention center when he attempted to stop an in-store theft.

    The Pleasanton Police Department has released a statement regarding the murder that took place inside the Home Depot store by the suspected thieves:
    Pleasanton Police Investigates Shooting:

    Pleasanton Police Department is actively investigating a shooting that occurred at approximately 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, inside a Home Depot store located at 6000 Johnson Drive.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/just-in-home-depot-worker-in-his-20s-is-shot-dead-trying-to-stop-shoplifter-in-lawless-dem-controlled-state/

  17. JUST IN: Florida Board of Education Expands Ban on Classroom Instruction of Sexual Orientations and ‘Gender Identity’ to ALL Grade Levels
    By Cassandra MacDonald Apr. 19, 2023 12:45 pm1 Comment

    The Florida Board of Education has expanded the rules from the Parental Rights in Education law, erroneously branded “Don’t Say Gay” by detractors, to all grade levels.
    The policy previously banned instruction of sexual orientation and “gender identity” in Florida’s public schools from kindergarten through third grade. It will now apply through 12th grade.

    The changes did not require legislative approval.

    “It is wrong for a teacher to tell a student that they may have been born in the wrong body or that their gender is a choice,’ Desantis said while giving remarks in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday morning.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/just-in-florida-board-of-education-expands-ban-on-classroom-instruction-of-sexual-orientations-and-gender-identity-to-all-grade-levels/

  18. UN Issues Report Pushing for Normalization and Decriminalization of Pedophilia
    By Joe Hoft Apr. 19, 2023 11:45 am266 Comments

    The UN is pushing a report that declares pedophilia is a human right. This is why the US needs to get out of and stop funding the UN.

    Elizabeth Yore was on Steve Bannon’s War Room to express her concerns with a new report being pushed by the UN that recommends making pedophilia legal.

    Yore has been standing for the safety of children for ages. She has her own website, labeled Yore Children where she shares current events on the subject and how you can help.

    Yore Children’s mission is as follows:

    Yore Children advocates for the global protection and innocence of children and fights to end child exploitation in trafficking, pornography, and abuse, by exposing predators, and by promoting laws, investigations and policies which elevate the dignity of our most vulnerable.

    According to Yore, the UN is reportedly pushing a report that calls for the normalization and decriminalization of pedophilia.

    Liz Yore shared on the War Room on Tuesday:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/un-issues-report-pushing-for-normalization-and-decriminalization-of-pedophilia/

  19. Pakistani man to be prosecuted for offering €21,000 bounty to kill Geert Wilders
    https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/18/pakistani-man-prosecuted-offering-eu21000-bounty-kill-geert-wilders
    The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) will prosecute a Pakistani man for posting a video online in 2018 in which he offered around 21,000 euros for the murder of PVV leader Geert Wilders. The OM is charging the 37-year-old man with an attempt to provoke murder, sedition, and threats.
    The OM submitted a legal request to the Pakistani authorities to serve the summons to the suspect. The Netherlands does not have a legal assistance treaty with Pakistan. “It is, therefore, uncertain whether Pakistan will cooperate,” the OM said, adding that the country ignored a previous request to question the suspect.
    According to the OM, tracking down and prosecuting online threats is very complicated. Most such threats happen through social media, and identifying the person behind an account requires the help of social media companies. “Sometimes they cooperate, sometimes they don’t.” Most cases also require further investigation in a suspect’s home country to establish that they posted the threat. “Without a legal assistance treaty, there is very little chance that the local authorities will cooperate.”
    “However, in this particular case, the suspect is identifiable,” the OM said. “He is a famous person in his own country. As a result, the Dutch police recognized him in the images.” The OM summoned the man to appear in court on August 29. He will be tried in absentia if he fails to appear.
    The threat was posted online around the time that Wilders was trying to organize a competition for the best cartoon featuring the prophet Mohammed. That sparked outrage in the Islamic community, as the religion does not allow the religious figure to be depicted. Wilders eventually called off the competition due to threats against him.

  20. Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bomb on Biden Crime Family – Oversight Committee Has Evidence of Biden Family Connections to Human Trafficking of Prositututes from US, Russia, Ukraine
    By Jim Hoft Apr. 18, 2023 9:10 pm2417 Comments

    Prior to the 2020 election, The Gateway Pundit released sordid details from the Hunter Biden laptop. The mainstream media and regime lapdogs refused to report on the criminal conduct of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and the Biden Crime Family, in order to protect them days before the 2020 election.

    The Gateway Pundit reported in October 2020 on Hunter Biden’s Russian orgies, his many nights with Russian hookers, his father wiring him money for his prostitutes, and his fears of being blackmailed by the Putin regime.

    Now there is more evidence that it was not just Hunter Biden who was linked to the Russian prostitutues. According to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the House Oversight Committee has evidence the entire Biden Crime Family was involved in human trafficking that involves prostitutes from Russia, Ukraine and the US.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-drops-bomb-on-biden-crime-family-oversight-committee-has-evidence-of-biden-crime-family-connections-to-human-trafficking-of-prositututes-from-us-russia-ukraine/

  21. Trump Says He Would Authorize the Use of Military Force Against Mexican Drug Cartels
    By Cassandra MacDonald Apr. 19, 2023 3:55 pm97 Comments

    Former President Donald Trump, the current 2024 Republican frontrunner, has announced that he would authorize military force against Mexican drug cartels.
    Trump was discussing Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) legislation introduced by Reps. Michael Waltz and Dan Crenshaw.

    “I would do that,” Trump told Breitbart News in an interview.

    Trump released a campaign video in January discussing his support for using the military to curb cartels, but had not weighed in on this specific legislation previously.

    The proposal has been condemned by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

    In addition to being irresponsible, it is an offense to the people of Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said of the possible use of military force.

    Trump said that he likes López Obrador, but that the invasion of our country must be stopped despite his disapproval.

    “I also have a very good relationship with the president of Mexico,” Trump told Breitbart. “He’s a socialist but he also happens to be a gentleman. You can’t have everything, right? But he’s a great person. Certainly, I would deal with him. This is an invasion of our country — this isn’t just people walking over. This is an invasion. Many of these are people we do not want in our country. They’re very bad for our country. They’re very bad and dangerous. But this is an invasion of our country. Nope, we will stop it and we will stop it immediately.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/trump-says-he-would-authorize-the-use-of-military-force-against-mexican-drug-cartels/

  22. Senate Democrats Fail to Temporarily Replace Feinstein on Judiciary Committee
    By Cristina Laila Apr. 19, 2023 4:39 pm123 Comments
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    Senate Democrats on Tuesday failed to temporarily replace Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.

    Dianne Feinstein’s absence from the Senate is holding up Joe Biden’s judicial confirmations.

    Feinstein, 89, has been MIA since she was hospitalized for shingles last month.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/senate-democrats-fail-to-temporarily-replace-feinstein-on-judiciary-committee/

  23. When You Are in Black Skin, then You Can Disagree with Me!” – Don Lemon Has Unhinged Breakdown as GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Buries Him Alive During Debate on Gun Rights and Civil War (VIDEO)
    By Cullen Linebarger Apr. 19, 2023 6:50 pm0 Comments

    Don Lemon suffered an epic meltdown Wednesday morning during an interview with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

    The topic of conversation centered around 2nd amendment rights for Black Americans.

    Lemon was angered over Ramaswamy’s astute statements at an NRA conference last week regarding southern Democrats preventing Black Americans from owning guns after the Civil War.

    The disgraced CNN host deliberately twisted his words, attempting to deceive CNN viewers into believing Ramaswamy said the Civil War was fought only to give Black people gun rights.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/when-you-are-in-black-skin-then-you-can-disagree-with-me-don-lemon-has-unhinged-breakdown-as-gop-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-buries-him-alive-during-debate-on-gun-rights-and-civil-w/