Reader’s Links for April 28th, 2023

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  2. Thomas Sowell: This Is What Socialists Don’t Tell You About The Economy Of The Soviet Union (dry, but on point)

  5. Whistleblower Disappears After Planning to Reveal ‘Explosive’ Information on Biden Family Corruption
    By Kyle BeckerApril 27, 2023Updated:April 27, 2023
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    Dr. Gal Luft, the co-director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, was preparing to reveal explosive information about a Biden family international corruption scandal. Now he has suddenly gone missing under mysterious circumstances after a Larnaca court had released him on bail, Cypriot website Philenews reported on Wednesday.

    https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/whistleblower-biden-knab/

    Op-Ed: Whistleblower Against Biden Family Corruption Arrested – Then He Disappeared

    https://www.westernjournal.com/op-ed-whistleblower-biden-family-corruption-arrested-disappeared/

    • “Once the government is committed to the principle of silence, the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all the citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear”.

      I wonder if the Mail-in guy and Justine Trudeau know Harry S. Truman, the Democratic President of the United States of America said that.

      • It is unlikely they know enough about history to know that.

        The Founding Fathers (at the insistence of a lot of the people) wrote the Second Amendment to make the government fear the citizens rather then the citizens fearing the government. This fact is rarely taught because the current crop of internal tyrants know they can’t win as long as the Citizens/People are armed for the purpose of self defense.

  6. Recent Harvard graduate Emma Heussner, who also works for the Daily Caller as their social media director, walked out of the woke university’s commencement speech after she’d heard enough from Joe Biden’s corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland.

    “Even overhearing his speech as I walked out, it was pretty rich to hear about how ‘awful’ our country is,” Heussner explained in a subsequent interview.

    “Just walked out of harvard’s graduation because I didn’t want to listen to merrick garland talk about himself for 30 minutes,” she wrote.

    Watch her here:

    https://patriotfetch.com/2023/04/harvard-grad-breaks-the-internet-with-refusal-to-listen-to-merrick-garland-wiley/

  7. The other day my eldest got a job as an extra on a movie set. He did it on a lark and enjoyed the new experience, but not before the company in charge put everyone through an antigen test. Yes. Remember those stupid things? After all we now know? And they also threatened everyone with immediate dismissal if they removed the masks they were ordered to wear. Apparently the large cast of extras cared less after a few hours of shooting, and dropped the masks without being punished. They must have figured out that the film company had too much invested in the shoot to fire everyone all at once. Maybe the mild overdose of CO2 in their blood made the cast temporarily smarter, but I don’t think so. Regardless, we should all start acting like extras on a movie set, but leave the acting at home. We’ll call it “Method Civil Disobedience”. Or something.

    Joe Biden is running again, did you hear? Personally, I see nothing wrong with this. In fact it fits perfectly with all the models, and models run all the shows. A model ran the plandemic response. Models run economics. Think of any complex system and there’s a model for it. The fact they don’t work is irrelevant. They provide nice plausible deniability for the politicians and other main actors once all Hell breaks loose.

    The reason why I think Old Joe running again fits the models is because of the communist model. Once commies are in control they make you do ridiculous things just to humiliate and shame you. It makes them feel warm and fuzzy. It also confirms to everyone that they won the war and that we’re in the “normalization” stage of the revolution. Letting Biden run again is crazy enough to qualify as a commie victory flag.

    Imagine being Kamala Harris. I mean, how bad do you have to be when your party stays with the guy whose brain is chip dip? Put another way, they chose chip dip over pickles and onions. Poor Kamala. I can see her doing her crazy cackle when she’s alone in the bathroom looking in the mirror, putting on her face.

    Another method to model real-world phenomenon is called Logarithmic Decay. This looks at complex things that stay the same for a long time then suddenly fall apart, such as your IKEA furniture, and economies based on Keynesian models.

    https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/were-done-with-gradually-weve-now-reached-the-suddenly-part-146899/

    Not every model that fails means the end of the world, though. Sometimes it’s even worth the shame and embarrassment:

    https://youtu.be/_0eINGyJHz8

    • Remember the fluffy Liberal politicians walking in the pink high heels, I had hope…..especially the first in line walking like a ……he sure showed what he thinks about women and then there was Hussen and Alghabra….have you ever seen a Muslim woman wearing pink heel and a ghost outfit?

  8. February 10, 2021, John Guandolo, President of Understanding the Threat said:
    “Friends a number of people have sent me messages over the last week or so asking me how it is that I continue to remain at peace while all the world seems like it is going insane and crumbling around us.

    Here is my simple answer for what it is worth. When we realize there is very little in our lives we actually control—with exception of how we treat ourselves and others in our daily lives, and how well we preform our duties each day and we consider there is a Creator of the Universe who is in charge and has got all this world under control, suddenly the realization sets in and all is well. Not too complicated really”.

  9. IRS Plans to Hire Gun-Carrying Special Agents and Authorized Arrests in All 50 States
    By Jim Hoft Apr. 27, 2023 8:00 pm704 Comments

    A job listing on the IRS website revealed that the organization is still trying to hire armed, arrest-authorized “special agents” or criminal investigators in all 50 states.

    “WE’RE HIRING SPECIAL AGENTS NOW!” states the IRS website in all caps.

    “As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes. Special Agents are duly sworn law enforcement officers who are trained to “follow the money.” No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government,” according to the agency.

    Below are the “Major Duties

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/irs-plans-to-hire-gun-carrying-special-agents-and-authorized-arrests-in-all-50-states/

  10. Children are our most valuable resource.

    DO NO HARM

    Yuval Noah Harari accomplice of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum
    “You will have inside your body electronic implants”.

    There will be:
    1. surveillance-digital ID
    2.Finance – clothes, cooking items, home, it will all be owned by the government.
    3. Scoring – Ranking – Social Credit – citizen who do what they are told will ok.

    Digital technologies and biological systems

    • europravda – Saving biodiversity at a cost: Dutch farmers fight against emissions regulations

      ( 10 min )

      In this latest episode of Euronews Witness, we travel to the Netherlands where many farmers are opposing government plans to drastically reduce livestock in order to slash nitrogen emissions, a major source of pollution in the country.

  13. europravda – Council of Europe assembly recognises deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia as genocide

    The Strasbourg-based assembly’s resolution was welcomed by Zelensky.

  14. FRANCE – 3000 police officers to protect Macron this coming Saturday night

    Tomorrow evening’s Coupe de France final is set to be the scene of several shows of protest against French president Emmanuel Macron’s recent reforms, which will bring the minimum retirement age up from 62 to 64.

    Trade unions are planning to hand out red cards [ and 10 000 whistles ] to fans of Nantes and Toulouse before the match, so as to have them brandished at the president when he takes to the field for the traditional pre-match greeting of the two sets of players.

    Organisers have also made contingency plans should the event be hit with a targeted power strike , a tactic increasingly used in the country in the past few weeks. As well as the red cards, trade unions are also hoping to hand out whistles, to be used on the 49th minute – a reference to the government’s use of article 49.3 of the French constitution, through which, when triggered, opposition can only prevent a bill from going through via a vote of no confidence.

    According to Le Parisien, via AFP, Macron will be at the match, but will not go down to the pitch. There is no indication for the time being as to whether he will present the trophy to the winning captain, as he has done since the start of his mandate in 2017.

    3000 police officers – 50% more than at the Champions League final last year – will be deployed, while Le Parisien add that barriers will be placed in front of certain stands in order to avoid a pitch invasion.

    https://onefootball.com/en/news/emmanuel-macron-will-not-greet-players-before-coupe-de-france-final-37335497

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    twitter @Risemelbourne

    France – Stunning Scenes- CGT Energy 47 has cut the Power during the Football game between Agen and Nevers at exactly 49 minute 30 sec mark as a Symbolic Protest against Macrons use of Article 49.3 in The Pension Reforms..

    + 7 sec video

    https://twitter.com/Risemelbourne/status/1651819455243231233

    • MSNBC – Macron: Global Citizen’s ‘Power Our Planet’ aims to fill $16 billion climate funding gap

      Joe Scarborough talks with Macron about his upcoming Global Citizen Summit in Paris to address the urgent issues facing humanity, and our planet: climate change and poverty.

      Macron says they will deliver concrete results and create a new consensus with emerging and poor countries to reshape and reinvent solidarity.

  15. Unhinged Climate Activists Vandalize Degas Sculpture in Washington D.C.
    By Margaret Flavin Apr. 28, 2023 9:45 am

    The Gateway Pundit has reported on the global rise of vandalism and public temper tantrums by unhinged climate activists.

    In October 2022, two disturbed women from the activist group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ on display at London’s National Gallery. Thankfully the painting was protected by museum glass.

    In June 2022, another pair from Just Stop Oil glued themselves to the frame of another Vincent Van Gogh painting.

    In France, a 36-year-old man dressed as an old lady tried to break the glass protecting the famous Mona Lisa painting before throwing a cake on its surface.

    Claude Monet’s ‘Les Meules,’ displayed at the Potsdam Barberini museum in Germany, was attacked by an alliance of German and Austrian activists, Letzte Generation (Last Generation.)

    In March, Letzte Generation also vandalized an artwork near the German parliament building.

    On Thursday, vandals smeared black and red paint on the glass case and pedestal of Edgar Degas’ famous and beloved sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

    The two protesters were hauled off by police inside the National Gallery of Art following their high-profile publicity stunt against artist Edgar Degas’ piece of art Thursday morning, according to footage posted on social media.

    The museum had to close the gallery where “Little Dancer” was located, and adjacent rooms as the director of the National Gallery of Art, Kaywin Feldman slammed the two protesters.

    “We unequivocally denounce this physical attack on one of our works of art and will continue to share information as it becomes available,” she said in a statement, also noting the FBI is helping in the probe.

    The two rabble-rousers were identified as Joanna Smith, 53, of New York City and Tim Martin, 54, of North Carolina by climate group Declare Emergency, the Washington Post reported.

    Video released by the group shows the pair initially using their hands to paint the pedestal with Smith seen painting an unhappy face. Then they escalated to smearing paint on the protective glass to the shock of others in the gallery.

    Declare Action bragged about the disgusting behavior on Facebook sharing, “We are proud of everyone who was involved in this action! Thanks, Troy.”

    On Twitter, Declare Action said, “Around 11 am today two parents who are terrified about their children’s’ futures (as well as all children) made a statement at the National Gallery in DC. Climate change will cause famine, floods, droughts and destruction unless we act now. #DecEmergency #ActOnClimate.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/unhinged-climate-activists-vandalize-degas-sculpture-in-washington-d-c/

  16. 600,000 Patriots March in Jerusalem to Save the Holy Land from Biden Regime Insurrection!
    By Richard Abelson Apr. 28, 2023 8:45 am

    An estimated 600.000 patriots demonstrated in Jerusalem in favor of the conservative government Thursday as left-wing radicals were arrested for attacking economics minister Nir Barkat in Tel Aviv.

    Patriotic NGOs Im Tirtzu, Regavim and others had called for a “Million Man March” on the day after Israel’s 75th birthday to show support of the right-wing government’s attempts to clean up the Justice System, which has been highjacked by far-left activists.

    Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at the demonstration outside the Knesset: “Look how much strength we have. They have the media and tycoons who finance demonstrations. We have the majority of the people, who demand and give us full backing to fix what needs to be fixed. The people demand judicial reform and they will get it. We will not give up,” Smotrich said.

    “It’s amazing to see here all the hundreds of thousands of people who came to say: ‘Reform now! Reform now!’”, said National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: “You are patriots! You are lovers of the people of Israel! You are the beautiful people of Israel! Those [left-wing protest] organizers – like (former Prime Minister) Ehud Barak – don’t just care about the reform, they care that the right is in power. They did not accept that we won the elections, they are not ready to accept it, they will do everything to damage us and harm the State of Israel.”

    I thank the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who came to Jerusalem tonight to support our government. Your passion and patriotism moves me deeply. pic.twitter.com/F0aC0ETAFd

    — Benjamin Netanyahu – ?????? ?????? (@netanyahu) April 27, 2023

    Economics Minister Nir Barkat was attacked by anti-government protestors while he was walking to his car in Tel Aviv Thursday evening. “The rioters confronted and physically Barkat’s security guards while attempting to reach the minister and harm him. A police officer who attempted to protect Barkat was injured and taken to the hospital. Several attackers were arrested”, Arutz Sheva reported.

    “There is no excuse for violence. Violence undermines the foundation of democracy and may lead to the destruction of the country and our transformation into a country without law and order. I wish a speedy recovery to the policeman who was injured and was taken to the hospital. Everyone has the right to demonstrate, but no one has the right to act violently.” Barkat said.

    The far-left “Color Revolution” insurrection in Israel is backed by George Soros’ New Israel Fund and the Biden Regime, as Gateway Pundit has reported. Fortunately, patriots are standing strong in the Holy Land.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/600-000-patriots-march-in-jerusalem-to-save-the-holy-land-from-biden-regime-insurrection/

  17. I am Canadian. I am not vaccinated, I am not allowed into the US, a country with an open southern border. I have not seen my grandchildren in person for 3 years.

    To all the vaccinated who do not have a problem with me not having the right to hug my grandchildren:

    “As you continue to watch the persecution of the unvaccinated unfold, remember this. Historically, when society has oppressed a particular group of people whether due to their gender, race, social class, religious beliefs, or sexuality, it’s always been because they pose some kind of a threat to the status quo.
    The same is true of today’s unvaccinated. Since we know the vaccine doesn’t prevent the spread of Covid, however this much is clear: the unvaccinated don’t pose a threat to the health and safety of other fellow citizens—but rather, to the bottom line of powerful pharmaceutical giants and many global organizations they finance. and with more than $100 billion on the line in 2021 alone, I can understand the motivation to silence them”.

    What I cannot understand is the complete lack of compassion on the part of family and friends who seem to relish telling me about the trips to Florida. I pity them, they have lost my friendship. I see them all as some type of lobotomized lost souls who I no longer care to have in my life.

  18. US Lawmaker: 700,000 to 1 Million Illegals Gather at US Border with Mexico to Storm Country After Title 42 Ends (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft Apr. 28, 2023 10:00 am0 Comments

    On Friday’s War Room Steve Bannon reported on the 700,000 to one million illegals gathering at the US border with Mexico and ready to storm into the United States.

    Steve Bannon: We had a Congressman, Andy Biggs, who sat here and said he just got off a conference call with certain executives in Big Counties on the border in Arizona, and they were telling him they had just had a briefing by Border Patrol who said along the Southern border of the United States, there’s 700,000 to a million illegal aliens prepared, when Title 42 comes off, they’re basically prepared, he said, to storm the gates. And the Border Patrol is not prepared for it. The Biden regime is not prepared for this. This Title 42 that comes off is going to be something. And of course, the mainstream media will not cover this.

    Ben Berqguam: I’m over here in Matamoros, Steve. I’m right on the Mexico side of the border. Anthony is on the other side in Brownsville. We were reporting from there yesterday. I’m actually in that camp we were in about a month ago and it has grown probably doubled or tripled what it was then. It had over 1000 then. It has more than that now. And what’s happening is, as they come in, they’re just going across. We have 2000 people a day crossing here… It’s just an absolute joke. And this is before Title 42 goes away. They are lining up, they are mobilizing, and it’s going to be a mass invasion when that goes away.

    The Biden regime is going to destroy this country beyond repair. The gates are open. And the media will not report on this.

    Via The War Room:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?p=926739

  19. the telegraph UK – Raccoon dogs in Wuhan ‘did not spread Covid to humans’

    New in-depth genetic analysis suggests there is barely any Covid-19 intermixed with raccoon dog DNA

    Raccoon dogs blamed for the Covid pandemic were not responsible, new analysis suggests, after samples at a Wuhan market were found to contain virtually no virus.

    Last month a controversial study suggested that raccoon dog DNA found at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in January 2020 was mixed with Covid-19, providing “strong evidence” that coronavirus jumped to humans from the animals.

    The paper was based on swabs taken by Chinese researchers in the market at the start of the pandemic which were recently uploaded to an international database. The authors said it pointed to a zoonotic origin for the pandemic rather than a laboratory leak.

    But a new in-depth genetic analysis of the samples by respected computational virologist Dr Jesse Bloom, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle in the US, showed there is barely any Covid-19 intermixed with raccoon dog DNA.

    Of the 14 raccoon dog samples studied, 13 had no Covid-19 at all, while one had just one fragment of virus per 200 million fragments of animal DNA.

    In contrast, the virus was found in greater quantities mixed with human DNA, as well as species such as largemouth bass, catfish, cow, carp, and snakehead fish, none of which could pass the virus to humans.

    The team concluded there was actually a “negative correlation” between Covid-19 and raccoon dog DNA.

    Dr Bloom also warned that the samples were taken several weeks after the first Covid cases emerged in Wuhan at a time when Covid-19 had already been spread widely across the market by humans.

    “What can we conclude about Covid-19 origins from all this? Probably not much,” he said.

    “We should analyse everything, but these data don’t tell us how the pandemic began.

    “Environmental samples taken over a month after humans started spreading the virus do not reliably indicate outbreak origin.

    “If we ever learn the origin of Sars2, I suspect it will come from information on events that occurred in November 2019 or earlier.”

    The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was associated with a cluster of early cases, which has led some scientists to suggest that it is where Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans.

    Raccoon dogs were considered a likely candidate because they are known to be susceptible to the virus, yet no DNA linking the animal to Covid-19 had ever been found.

    Earlier this year, a group of Chinese scientists uploaded genetic data from swabs taken in the market during the early days of the pandemic which seemed to show raccoon dog DNA mixed with Covid-19.

    The upload was spotted by Dr Florence Débarre, an evolutionary biologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, who published a non-peer-reviewed report with colleagues claiming it showed “strong evidence” for an animal spillover.

    Before publication, the story was also leaked to The Atlantic which claimed it was “the strongest evidence yet that an animal started the pandemic”.

    Chinese scientists who collected the original samples published their own study in the journal Nature saying there was no way of knowing if the raccoon dogs were infected, and warning that the origin of Covid could not be determined from their samples.

    Researchers pointed out that humans had already been infected by the time they first took swabs in January 2020, so even if the animals were infected, they could have caught the virus from humans.

    The Chinese team also found Covid-19 in sewers, suggesting that infected humans or animals may have helped spread the virus. Previous studies have pointed out that the largest concentration of Covid-19 was found near the market toilets.

    The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was just a few miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology which was collecting and carrying out experiments on bat coronaviruses – the closest relatives to Covid-19.

    Last week a US Senate committee released a 300-page report which concluded that the pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak which was the result of a “research-related” incident in Wuhan.

    The report said that the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market “no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy”.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/27/covid-19-start-origins-not-wuhan-raccoon-dogs/

  20. twitter @disclosetv

    NEW – Biological men who changed their gender can not escape possible conscription in case of war, according to the draft law of the center-left-green-liberal government in Germany.

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1651881866666934272/photo/1

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1651881866666934272

    UPDATE – Justice Minister Buschmann (FDP) clarifies: “The legal assignment to the male gender remains if a change request is made in a direct temporal connection with the case of defense.”

  21. Turkish Evacuation Plane Comes Under Attack In Sudan
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    FRIDAY, APR 28, 2023 – 09:50 AM
    Heavy explosions and gunfire have continued to rock parts of Sudan’s capital Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman despite a ceasefire. At least 500 people have been killed, including reportedly two American citizens, as fighting reaches two weeks amid the power struggle between two rival generals representing Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces.

    “Many areas that saw very active fighting at the beginning have become quieter than before. Yet, I cannot say there is a total ceasefire in those places,” a Khartoum resident told Al Jazeera on Friday. “I don’t think anyone has gone to school in the last 14 days. I don’t think anyone has been to a hospital.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkish-evacuation-plane-comes-under-attack-sudan

    A massive foreign evacuation effort involving many countries sending military transport planes has continued for the better part of a week. The United States administration, however, has said that it is not conducting a large-scale evacuation operation for the estimated 16,000 US citizens who live in Sudan, many of them dual nationals who have made the country their home.

    But this international rescue effort appears to now be coming under threat, after new reports that a Turkish evacuation plane came under gunfire while landing at Wadi Seyidna airport outside Khartoum. The aircraft, a C-130, had its fuel supply system damaged by the ground gunfire.

    The Turkish defense ministry confirmed the damage but without naming a culprit. “Light weapons were fired on our C-130 evacuation plane … Our plane landed safely. Although there are no injuries to our personnel, necessary repairs are being carried out on our aircraft,” it said.

    The national army said the Rapid Support Forces of Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo mounted the attack on the plane as it was landing, but the RSF rejected the accusation as part of the national army “spreading lies”.

    “Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight, and it is not true that we targeted any aircraft in the sky of Wadi Seyidna in Omdurman,” the RSF said. Fighting has been witnessed elsewhere in the country, which could signal a slide toward full-scale civil war, as the AFP is reporting 74 dead in two days of fighting in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina.

  22. Princeton students host musical titled ‘To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before’

    The show’s description promotes local abortion facilities

    A group of Princeton University students performed a feminist musical over the weekend focused on abortion and “self-empowerment.”

    “To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before; A Love/Hate Letter to Storytelling” explores “the challenges of being heard and cultivating self-empowerment as a queer, cognitively-disabled (ADHD) woman in artistic spaces that traditionally center archaic, western, patriarchal narratives grounded in firm structures of storytelling and comedy,” according to a program description.

    The production, written by Princeton senior Jenni Lawson, debuted on Friday and Saturday in the school’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

    Lawson is a history and theatre major who is “[e]specially passionate about the production of New Works, musical comedy,

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-students-host-musical-titled-to-all-the-babies-ive-killed-before/

  23. APRIL 28 2023 – Trudeau’s keynote speech in New York | ‘Promise of progress’ key strength of democracies

    Trudeau gave a keynote speech to the Council on Foreign Relations during his trip to NYC.

    • sky news australia – Trudeau ‘getting away’ with his ‘nasty dictatorial coup’ in Canada

      ( 13 min 24 )

      Trudeau talked in “dehumanising terms” to his citizens during COVID when people refused to get the jab and is now “pretending” none of it happened, according to author Douglas Murray.

      Mr Murray’s remarks come after Mr Trudeau claimed he never mandated COVID-19 vaccines.

      “It is quite scandalous, and I hope that the Canadian voting public for once actually notices this lie,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

      “Little Justin got away with his little mini nasty dictatorial coup in Canada, and unfortunately, he’s getting away with it still.”

    • Trudeau addresses Council on Foreign Relations – April 28, 2023 ( FULL )

      Trudeau delivers an address and takes part in a question-and-answer session

      • Self-deluded peacocking Pollyanna puffed up with his own moral superiority which is based on a complete denial and ignorance on what actual scientists have to say. A WEF little puppet, a threat to Our Canadian way of life. What is horse pucky?

    • sky news UK – Global Citizen brings leaders and celebrities together address climate change

      Ursula von der Leyen, Hugh Jackman, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, Gayle King, and Hugh Evans speak on a panel looking at the challenges faced by climate change

    • ctv news –Trudeau’s thoughts on leadership in 2023 | Armchair discussion at Council on Foreign Relations

    • global news – Danielle Smith photo with extremists charged during “Freedom Convoy” raises eyebrows

      Alberta United Conservative Party leader Danielle Smith posed for photos with campaign supporters Wednesday night, including three people who were either fined or charged for their role in the so-called “Freedom Convoy” to Ottawa.

      Smith had posed with James Bauder, his wife, Sandra Collins Bauder, and Harold Jonker at a fundraising event for Eric Bouchard, the UCP candidate for Calgary-Lougheed — former premier Jason Kenney’s riding.

      The Bauders are both facing charges, including mischief to obstruct property, disobeying a lawful court order and obstructing a peace officer.

      The report from the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act during the 2021 convoy named him as one of five figures who played important roles in mobilizing the demonstration, though they didn’t always act in unison.

      Bauder’s Canada Unity group had prepared a “memorandum of understanding,” demanding that the senate and governor general force Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the provinces and territories to override government public health measures to slow the spread of COVID-19.

  28. ALEX BERENSON

    Look, another paper showing bivalent mRNA boosters are basically a marketing gimmick!

    Added bonus, this one is from a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

    You know, the good people who helped bring you the mRNAs.

    Yes, volunteers given bivalent strains against Omicron BA.1 had a stronger response to the original “wild-type” Covid strain, than BA.1. Volunteers given a bivalent against BA.4/BA.5. had a stronger response to the original “wild-type” Covid strain than BA.4/BA.5.

    This is a teeny tiny little problem because the wild-type strain no longer exists in the wild, or anywhere outside of labs.

    Then why not just use the old boosters instead, you ask? For the same reason Taco Bell updates its menu! Keep the kids coming back.

    (It’s funny because it’s true. Maybe a little less funny when it comes to biotechnology, but who am I to judge?)

    Added added bonus, those Omicron strains basically don’t exist anymore either, newer Omicron strains have replaced them – and the jabs work an order of magnitude LESS well against those than against even the earlier Omicron strains.

    Don’t take it from me. The researchers wrote:

    Titers against BQ.1.1 and XBB.1 were 8-22 times and 13-35 times lower than against BA.1 and D614G, respectively, with the Wildtype/Omicron BA.1 vaccine. Titers against BQ.1.1 and XBB.1 were 4-12 times and 8-22 times lower than against BA.4/BA.5 and D614G, respectively, with the Wildtype/Omicron BA.4/BA.5 vaccine.

    Lower is worse, kids. Lower is less diluted, meaning way more antibodies to beat back the virus.

    The researchers concluded:

    Our findings highlight ongoing concern that the breadth of antibody response from current updated vaccines is not optimal for the pace of virus evolution.

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    Not optimal is a very polite way to put it.

    Remember, one of the great advantages of the mRNAs was supposed to be that they were plug-and-play, that Moderna and BioNTech could swap out genomes to catch up with the new spikes.

    Turns out that even if we skimp out on all that pesky human testing that normally lets us be sure (sure-ish, anyway) that the jabs are safe, we can’t keep up. The virus mutates too fast, and we can’t predict how it will change, we can only respond.

    Oh well. Maybe GPT-4 will fix the problem and enable our species to keep up with these brainless but oh-so-efficient little virions, though I suspect it (the AI, not the coronavirus) is more likely to eat us first.

    Paper is here.
    https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad209/7111740
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    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/look-another-paper-showing-bivalent/comments

    • Colonel alleges Canada is secretly changing COVID death tolls

      Provinces and territories across Canada are secretly changing their COVID-19 death tolls, the National Citizens Inquiry heard.

      According to retired Lt. Col. David Redman, offices across the country have been changing their tolls to a reduced figure.

      As of April 25, the Government of Canada’s website listed 51,921 deaths from COVID-19.

      “That’s the number Theresa Tam still uses to scare the hell out of you every day that this is a horrible disease,” Redman told the inquiry.

      “But, quietly behind the scenes, every province and territory in Canada has been amending their data.”

      Presenting his testimony, Redman referred to a figure of 36,659, more than 15,000 lower than the official figure — a drop of almost 30%.

      “This is from exactly the same day off of exactly the same website from the Government of Canada,” said Redman.

      “Why is that? Because they’re very carefully now removing all of the people that died with COVID, not from COVID.”

      “They’re cleaning up their act before we come looking for them.”

      Redman also presented data on who died from COVID-19, showcasing the vast majority of deaths (91.3%) were in seniors over 60 with severe multiple comorbidities.

      Deaths in those under 60 accounted for the remainder of the 8.7%, “a pattern like pneumonia,” according to Redman.

      https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/colonel-alleges-canada-is-secretly-changing-covid-death-tolls/article_1a519658-e535-11ed-9a62-17bcb40b0dfb.html

  31. Looks Like Another Empty Vault to Me!”- Geraldo Rivera Gets Roasted After Vile Tweet About Tucker Carlson Following Tucker’s Departure – Greg Gutfeld Issues Sarcastic Response
    By Cullen Linebarger Apr. 28, 2023 10:45 am174 Comments

    Geraldo Rivera is maybe the most odious and dumbest person left on Fox News. America gave him a brutal reminder of this reality earlier this week.

    Rivera refused to wish Tucker Carlson well after he was ousted from FOX News. Instead, he smeared Tucker’s character for revealing the truth behind what really happened on J6.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/looks-like-another-empty-vault-to-me-geraldo-rivera-gets-roasted-after-vile-tweet-about-tucker-carlson-following-tuckers-departure-greg-gutfeld-issues-sarcastic-response/

  35. the conservative tree house Wait, WHAT? – DOJ Inspector General Reveals More than 10,000 Federal Employees Have Access to NSA Database for Surveillance Inquiries

    Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified yesterday that more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government. These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

    Approximately 30% of those 3.4 million search queries were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches, what the politically correct government calls “non-compliant searches.”

    Additionally, IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have access to conduct these searches of the NSA database; a database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason.

    If we were in a functioning system of government everything would be stopped right now, and no conversation would be taking place that was not about this issue.

    This is the total and complete surveillance state being talked about as if we were discussing what’s for dinner.

    This is beyond jaw-dropping.

    […]

    MORE :

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/28/wait-what-doj-inspector-general-reveals-more-than-10000-federal-employees-have-access-to-nsa-database-for-surveillance-inquiries/#more-246093

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    twitter @RepMattGaetz

    BREAKING: DOJ Inspector General ADMITS that the FBI has done 3.4 million warrantless “backdoor searches!”

    Over a MILLION of which were in error.

    + 1 min 50 video

    https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1651590780752916480

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