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Take 2

It's coming

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© Will Heath/NBC/Getty ImagesWoody Harrelson during the Monologue on Saturday February 25, 2023
Millions of people in the West see the spiritual catastrophe their societies are being led towards. The elites are going crazy, but that is their problem. What we have to do is defend our children from this degradation and degeneracy.
Aimee Therese on Twitter
"It's Coming." That's what Elon Musk said a while back apropos of the Twitter files that show all the US government suppression of Covid-19 information mis-labeled as "misinformation." Think of whatever the truth is as mis-misinformation. Get it? You might have to read that sentence more than once to comprehend what went wrong with the American consensus the past three years. And then you'll begin to understand why the operation is called mind-fuckery.

"It" comes out in weird ways now. For instance, Woody Harrelson's little prank on Saturday Night Live. The A-List actor opened the show acting stoned, talking about how much he likes weed and getting stoned, and, at the very end of his routine, spoke of a "movie script" that spun out in his stoned head:
"The biggest drug cartels in the world get together, and buy up all the media and all the politicians... and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes... and people can only come out if they take the cartel's drug... and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who's gonna believe that crazy idea?"

Beaker

Disinformation Inc: Government-backed group tried to punish sites boosting COVID lab leak theory

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A State Department-backed "disinformation" tracking group blacklisting conservative news outlets pressured advertising companies to punish websites boosting the COVID-19 "lab leak" theory, which a federal agency now says is the most likely origin of the virus.

The Global Disinformation Index, a British group with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit organizations, has continued to come under fire for feeding conservative news blacklists to advertising companies. This same government-funded entity repeatedly applied pressure on companies to cut ties with websites promoting the once alleged right-wing "conspiracy" that COVID-19 emerged from a lab — which the Energy Department recently concluded is probable based on intelligence.

"GDI is part of [a] disturbing constellation of pop-up censorship organizations that all descended on stifling COVID origins discourse online simultaneously," Mike Benz, a former State Department official and director of Foundation For Freedom Online, a censorship watchdog, told the Washington Examiner.

Yoda

Hungary calls for 'European NATO' free of US influence

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© Sputnik / Vitaly BelousovHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin
The EU is doing Washington's bidding since "Americans have the last word," the Hungarian prime minister believes

Europe needs its own military bloc free of American influence, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Swiss magazine Weltwoche on Thursday. The politician accused the US of dragging Europe into a conflict that cannot be won and risking a global war.

"The solution would be a European NATO," Orban said, arguing that America's desire for further expansion of its influence is what led to the current tensions between the West and Russia.

Moscow is concerned about NATO expanding further east into Ukraine and Georgia, Orban stated, referring to his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin just weeks before the conflict between Moscow and Kiev erupted in late February 2022.

Syringe

Damning revelations: Matt Hancock staged "rearguard" action to close schools after Education Secretary won argument to keep them open

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© Press AssociationUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock
The 'Lockdown Files' - the trove of WhatsApp messages between senior Government figures during the pandemic, handed to the Telegraph by Isabel Oakeshott after they were given to her by Matt Hancock to help her ghost-write his biography - continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday.

Matt Hancock mounted a "rearguard action" to close schools despite Sir Gavin Williamson battling "tooth and nail" to keep classrooms open.
Exchanges seen by the Telegraph reveal that the then Health Secretary battled the Education Secretary in late December 2020 and suggested it was "mad" that Sir Gavin was attempting to keep schools open.

Mr. Hancock initially lost a Cabinet argument during which he tried to persuade the Prime Minister to close schools ahead of their return in January 2021.

After Boris Johnson sided with Sir Gavin, Mr. Hancock told an aide: "The next U-turn is born" and added: "I want to find a way, Gavin having won the day, of actually preventing a policy car crash when the kids spread the disease in January. And for that we must now fight a rearguard action."

Messages show that Mr. Hancock immediately contacted Dan Rosenfield, Mr. Johnson's Chief of Staff, and began an attempt to have schools closed before children returned. He then provided his private email address.

As the planned reopening became increasingly chaotic over the following week, with U-turns on dates and testing requirements for secondary schools, Mr. Hancock and his team said Sir Gavin was having to eat "humble pie".

Comment: So Hancock and his cronies found it just too inconvenient to reverse policies causing untold developmental damage to young school children. Got it.

In earlier days, Hancock would be running for his life from lynch mobs. But he'll probably never see a charge, let alone the inside of a prison cell.


Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: The World Economic Forum's 'AI enslavement' is coming for you

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© Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty ImagesWEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab in Davos on May 23, 2022
The mission objective of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is remarkably simple: the smartest, best people in the world should rule everyone else. In WEF parlance, their schemes of total supervision and behavioral modification will create a "sustainable" future for humanity. Humans become nothing more than "things" to be counted, shuffled, categorized, tagged, monitored, manipulated, and controlled. They become nothing more than cogs in the WEF's great trans-humanist, technocratic machine.

When Sir Thomas More wrote his socio-political satire about a fictional island society in the New World, he gave it the fabricated name, Utopia, derived from simple Greek and meaning, "no-place." Although More was humorously telling his audience that his idealized community existed nowhere, centuries of central planners chasing the fantasy of utopian societies have failed to get the joke. Worse, for every peaceful religious community seeking separation from modern civilization, there is a power-hungry tyrant seeking to impose his will upon everyone else.

It seems as if not a generation goes by when some megalomaniac does not rise to proclaim, "If only the world does exactly as I demand, I will deliver you paradise here on Earth." Usually, these same narcissists go down in history remembered as either vainglorious buffoons or bloodthirsty tyrants — often both.

Black Cat 2

UK considered mandating killing of all pet cats to stop COVID

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UK health authorities considered ordering the euthanization of all pet cats in the country during the first COVID outbreak, it has been revealed.

Ex-Deputy Health Minister Lord James Bethell made the admission while trying to argue that governments were caught unawares in how to respond to the virus, remarking, "We shouldn't forget... how little we understood about this disease."

"There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease," he said. "In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had wanted to do that?"

Comment: See also:


Handcuffs

"Get heavy with police" to enforce lockdown, Matt Hancock told Ministers

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Ministers and the country's most senior civil servant discussed how they needed to "get heavy with the police" to crack down on the public during the Covid pandemic. The Telegraph has the story.
WhatsApp messages in the Lockdown Files disclose how Matt Hancock and colleagues gave officers their "marching orders" to enforce lockdown measures, just days before Number 10 staff held a party in Downing Street.

They also messaged about how "the plod got their marching orders" during a meeting attended by the prime minister, the home secretary and Simon Case, now the Cabinet Secretary.

NPC

German FM Baerbock plans 'feminist' blitz

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© Christophe Gateau/picture alliance/Getty ImagesGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock
Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock has put together a platform for "feminist foreign policy," several outlets reported on Tuesday. The revamp of Berlin's diplomacy, due to be made public later this week, will infuse "gender issues" into everything from humanitarian aid and energy to climate change.

"We are pursuing a feminist foreign policy because it is bitterly necessary. Because men and women are still not equal worldwide," Baerbock wrote, according to Politico Europe.

The 80-page report outlines 10 principal guidelines, according to the German news agency DPA. Among them are offering "gender-sensitive" humanitarian aid, involving "women and marginalized groups" in economic development and considering the "gender issues" dimension of climate and energy policies.

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: Orion 23: France holds its largest-ever military exercise, NATO allies also attend 'global geopolitical upheaval' war games

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© AP Photo/Jeremy Bessat/Armee de TerreThis undated photo provided Thursday January 5, 2023, by the French Army shows AMX-10 RC tanks.
On Saturday, the French military's Operation Orion 2023 (Orion 23) began with hundreds of parachutists being dropped in the Tarn region of southern France. On Sunday morning, an amphibious assault was simulated at Sète on the Mediterranean coast.

This first stage of Orion 2023, which continues until the end of the week, involves 7,000 troops from France, the US, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the UK, which are all part of the NATO alliance that is waging war against Russia in Ukraine. Over this week, as many as 2,300 military vehicles will be involved in the war games. These include 40 warplanes, over 100 drones, 30 warships and the Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier.

According to General Yves Métayer, who led the organization of the operation, "We have never done an exercise of this magnitude over such a long period of time." Another officer told France3: "The amount of resources made available, the degree of synergy between the different armies, is unheard of since I joined the army."

Comment: Lest we forget that, amidst its failing proxy war in Ukraine, the US is ramping up its provocations against China; furthermore, as noted above, the French establishment has its own citizens, who are in open revolt, to worry about too: NewsReal: Enter The Dragon: China Sides With Russia Against America




Snakes in Suits

GOP senators confront Garland on protesters outside homes of Supreme Court justices

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© Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesAG Merrick Garland
Republican senators pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices' homes.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) set a focus on demonstrators carrying signs and shouting slogans outside the residences of justices after the 2022 leak and issuance of the Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, which determined that abortion is not a constitutional right.

Lee, a former law clerk, said it is "very clear" that protesters are trying to influence jurisprudence in potential violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1507, which prohibits pickets or parades near the house of a judge with the intent of influencing or impeding the administration of justice.

Comment: See also: Man faces federal indictment for Justice Kavanaugh assassination attempt