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Best of the Web: Meet Ray Epps, Part 2: Damning new details emerge exposing massive web of unindicted operators at the heart of January 6

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Comment: Revolver News has brought Pulitzer-level investigative skills to bear on the January 6 Capitol Hill false flag. Make sure to read Part One.


Six weeks ago, Revolver News published a blockbuster investigative report on Ray Epps — a man who, more than any other individual, appears to be the key unlocking the question of active federal involvement in the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6th.

Out of all of the thousands of January 6's protesters, and the thousands of hours of publicly available footage from that fateful day, Ray Epps has turned out to be perhaps the only person nailed dead to rights confessing on camera to plotting a pre-planned attack on the Capitol. On both January 5 and January 6, Epps announced multiple times, at multiple locations, his upcoming plot to breach the US Capitol. He then spent hours attempting to recruit hundreds of others to join him. On top of it all, Epps was seen leading key people and managing key aspects of the initial breach of the Capitol grounds himself.

Comment: Thank you Revolver!


Attention

Bill Gates calls for governments to censor social media and celebrates 'The New Normal'

Perpetual doomsayer Bill Gates has called for censoring social media in his latest effort to combat so-called "disinformation".
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On December 7th, Bill Gates released his 2021 Year in Review on his blog "GatesNotes". In this annual blog, former Microsoft founder and "philanthropist" treats us to his personal review of 2021, as well as predictions for what to expect in 2022. There are a number of points worth dissecting, but first, let's provide some background for those who might be wondering, "Who the hell cares what Bill Gates thinks?".

For the last two years, the international public has been confronted with the opinions of Bill Gates. Despite not having any formal medical training or experience, Gates has been paraded in front of the public by the corporate media. Of course, this could be related to the fact that Gates has given over $300 million to various corporate media outlets in recent years. Either way, his thoughts, views and opinions have been promoted as the gold standard largely due to his apparent 2015 "prediction" regarding the next major pandemic.

However, as regular readers of TLAV will no doubt be aware, Bill Gates is anything but a benevolent philanthropist. As exposed in my 3 part 2020 investigation "Bill Gates' Web Of Dark Money And Influence", Gates' agenda is much darker than most people imagine.

In May 2020 I outline the situation:
Bill Gates has used his immense wealth to garner influence and media time, spreading his message of fixing global health issues while he continues to make billions. Using the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to dole out grants and donations, Gates has created a web of organizations who owe their budget to the foundation or answer directly to Gates. By tracing the Foundation's investments and Gates' relationships we can see that nearly every person involved in the fight against COVID-19 is tied to Gates or his foundation by two degrees or less. This gives Bill Gates and his foundation an unchallenged influence over the response to the pandemic. Equally worrisome is Gates' call for global lock down until the entire world has been vaccinated and given a digital certificate to prove immunity.
These connections to international health bodies, via his foundation, first sparked the #ExposeBillGates movement in the Summer of 2020. Thousands of people around the world protested and rallied seeking to expose the danger of Gates' proposals. Additionally, Gates seems to be something of a psychic, where he calls for certain proposals and weeks or months later nations begin to implement the proposals.

As I wrote in June 2020, "over the last four months Bill Gates has made dozens of media appearances where he has called for several controversial "solutions" to COVID-19. Gates says these proposals must be implemented before society can go back to "normal", including calls for extended lock downs, health surveillance (aka contact tracing) and digital certificates."

What Gates was originally describing as "digital certificates" have now morphed into so-called "immunity" or "vaccine passports," a form of digital identification that will hold an individual's health data, as well as their vaccine status. As I noted at the time, during a Reddit AMA, Gates stated,
Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.
Now, in late 2021, we can see that many nations around the world have followed the advice of Bill Gates. This is why it's relevant to understand what Bill Gates is calling for and what he is "predicting" about the future.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Pandemia Today, Pandemia Tomorrow, But Not Forever

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It's Christmas time. For normal people that means spending quality time with loved ones and reflecting on the year we leave behind us. For governments and their authoritarian followers, that means more lockdowns, more boosters, and more mandates - even as their rationale for keeping the pandemic going (new variants) is evaporating as the virus becomes endemic and mutates into a mild form.

On this last NewsReal of 2021, Joe and Niall check in with the CDC and Fauci in the US, and the SAGE Committee in the UK, to hear from the horse's mouth(s) just how decoupled from reality Covid restrictions have become. Most still can't see it. Will they ever? Probably not, but in the meantime other events are going to eclipse 'the Rona' in 2022. Buckle up people, we're in for a WILD ride!


Running Time: 01:41:19

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Robot

UN talks fail to open negotiations on 'killer robots'

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© Wolfgang Kumm/AFPThe international campaign Stop Killer Robots has been pushing for negotiations aimed at adopting an international treaty.
Country officials and campaigners have expressed disappointment after United Nations talks on autonomous weapons systems - known as "killer robots" - stopped short of launching negotiations into an international treaty to govern their use following opposition from manufacturing states.

Unlike existing semi-autonomous weapons such as drones, fully-autonomous weapons have no human-operated "kill switch" and instead leave decisions over life and death to sensors, software and machine processes.

The regulation of the industry has taken on new urgency since a UN panel report in March said the first autonomous drone attack may have occurred in Libya. This week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres encouraged the 125 parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) to come up with an "ambitious plan" on new rules.

But on Friday, the Sixth Review Conference of the CCW failed to schedule further talks around the development and use of the Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, or LAWS.

Comment: Looks like we're one step closer to a "Terminator" scenario. See also:


Megaphone

Taliban leaders appeal for help warning economic crisis will result in migrant crisis, US blocking billions of dollars of bank reserves

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© AFPTaliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a function to mark International Migrants Day in Kabul.
Senior Taliban officials appealed on Saturday for international help to combat a deepening economic crisis that has fuelled fears of another refugee exodus from Afghanistan.

The comments, at a special meeting to mark the UN's international migrants day, underlined the new Islamist Taliban government's push to engage with the world community, four months after they seized power in Kabul.

The movement's deputy Foreign Minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, said it was the responsibility of countries like the United States, which have blocked billions of dollars of central bank reserves, to help Afghanistan recover after decades of war.


Comment: Withholding desperately needed money is yet more evidence that the US hasn't really 'left' Afghanistan.


Comment: Other foreign embassies are satisfied that the Taliban are providing stability and are progressing, which reveals that the 'reluctance' by these aid agencies and the US is a political maneuver and is likely a way for the West to continue to exert undue influence in the country: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?




Star of David

ADL knickers in a twist as Trump claims Israel 'had absolute power over Congress'

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© AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, FileUS president Donald Trump (left) welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019.

Comment: The Independent's Feinberg gets his licks in right off the top.


Mr Trump's comments are reminiscent of longstanding antisemitic tropes

Former president Donald Trump has said that the state of Israel once had "absolute power" over the US congress but no longer does because of former president Barack Obama and President Joe Biden.

Speaking to Israeli journalist Barak Ravid during an interview for his recently released book, Trump's Peace, Mr Trump's comments came immediately after he told Mr Ravid that there are "people in this country that are Jewish" who "no longer love Israel" as much as "the evangelical Christians" (whose support for the Jewish state stems from passages in the New Testament that say Jews returning to what is now Israel is a precondition for the end of the world).

Comment: Trump now has the freedom to speak plainly. He's quite correct:


Pirates

NATO feigns attempt to make deescalation deal with Russia, claiming must be based on 'reciprocity of confidence building measures'

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NATO has said that it is ready to work on enhancing confidence-building measures with Russia on the condition that the Kremlin works to reduce tensions on the border with Ukraine

In a statement issued on Thursday, the US-led bloc insisted that any dialogue "would have to proceed on the basis of reciprocity, address [its] concerns about Russia's actions, be based on the core principles and foundational documents of European security, and take place in consultation with" the NATO's European partners.


Comment: By this point, it's only propagandised Westerners who haven't suffered NATO bombing campaigns that would believe NATO has any integrity.


It added that should Moscow "take concrete steps to reduce tensions, we are prepared to work on strengthening confidence-building measures."

"We reiterate our long-standing invitation to Russia for a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in the near future," the statement read.


Comment: NATO invites them for a meeting however it has just expelled eight of Russia's diplomats from its HQ over extremely serious allegations that it has, as of yet, to provide evidence for. In response Russia's FM Lavrov said rightly said that "we do not have the right conditions for elementary diplomatic activities,", and "If NATO members have any urgent matters, they can contact our ambassador in Belgium".


Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:




Light Sabers

Belarus reiterates possibility of hosting Russian nukes, Russia has yet to comment

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© Reuters / Sergei KarpukhinRussian Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile systems are pictured during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Russia.
Belarus could decide to host Russian nuclear weapons on its territory amid growing tensions with the West and fears of a NATO buildup in neighboring states, specifically Poland, Minsk's foreign minister has warned.

"As President [Alexander] Lukashenko said, we are considering the possibility of deploying nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus as one of the potential responses to future possible actions by the NATO bloc on the territory of Poland," Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview on Friday.

In late November, Lukashenko floated the idea as an option if US atomic missiles were to be deployed deeper into Eastern Europe.

Comment: It remains to be seen what Russia's officials have to say on the matter, but the two countries are cooperating in most areas, including militarily, and Russia could maneuver nuclear capable weapons into the region relatively unnoticed, however, one would suppose that it will save any announcement like this for a later date, should NATO continue its provocations on Russia's border:


Syringe

Appeals court reinstates Biden vaccine mandate for business, setting up Supreme Court showdown

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A federal appeals court on Friday night reinstated President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private companies with more than 100 workers, reversing lower court rulings and setting up a likely showdown before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration had the authority to Impose the mandate due to take effect Jan. 4.

"Given OSHA's clear and exercised authority to regulate viruses, OSHA necessarily has the authority to regulate infectious diseases that are not unique to the workplace," the court concluded in its majority opinion. Within an hour of the decision, the small business group Job Creators Network filed an appeal to the high court, saying the appeals judges
"irresponsibly upheld an illegal rule. This mandate adds an incredible burden on small business owners who are still suffering negative effects of the pandemic. This mandate will make it even harder for small business owners to find and keep employees."
The ruling came after several challenges from GOP-led states and conservative and business groups were consolidated before the Cincinnati-based 6th circuit.

Comment: The Court of Appeals will not be the last stop on this mandate train wreck. Each jolt from the administration produces a bigger reaction across the country. OSHA is not a medical expert and has no authority in this matter.
The Labor Department announced on Saturday that it was pushing back the date for businesses' compliance with its vaccine-or-test mandate following a federal appeals court ruling on Friday.

In a statement released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the administration said it was "gratified" by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit decision to reinstate its mandate.

The Labor Department said in a statement on Saturday that "to provide employers with sufficient time to come into compliance," it would not be issuing any citations for businesses that were not in compliance with the emergency temporary standard (ETS) before Jan. 10. Noncompliance citations regarding testing requirements would also not be issued before Feb. 9 "so long as an employer is exercising reasonable, good faith efforts to come into compliance with the standard," the department said. The announcement from OSHA pushes that deadline back by one month.

In a win for the federal government, the 6th Circuit issued a decision on Friday to dissolve the 5th Circuit's stay on the mandate, saying in its ruling that "OSHA has demonstrated the pervasive danger that COVID-19 poses to workers — unvaccinated workers in particular — in their workplaces."

However, officials have already signaled that the 6th Circuit's decision will be appealed. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) tweeted on Friday:

We shall see to whom the Supreme Court pledges allegiance or does its job.


Bad Guys

Will Ethiopia become Biden's Libya 2.0 or a driver for an African renaissance?

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© Wikimedia CommonsMorning traffic in Axum, Ethiopia
The situation in Ethiopia is rather simple to understand as long as you don't believe western media spin doctors, Matthew Ehret writes.

Many westerners trying to make sense of the events in the "dark continent" of Africa have many barriers standing in the way of their minds and reality. This must be the case, for without such filters of spin proclaiming Africa's problems to be self-induced (or the consequence of Chinese debt slavery), we in the west, might actually feel horrified enough to demand systemic change. We might come to recognize that the plight of Africa has less to do with Africa and more to do with an intentional program of depopulation, and exploitation of vital resources.

Despite a rich history and over a billion people living on the continent, Africa suffers from the lowest per capita rates of electricity and potable water in the world. Of the 30,000 children who die needlessly each day from preventable causes (disease, water availability, hunger, etc), the majority are from Africa. Living standards are in turn abysmally low for the 340 million Africans who live in extreme poverty while insufficient healthcare infrastructure, and sanitation has resulted in a massive rate of infant mortality that reaches as high as 80-100 deaths per 1000 for many African nations.

To the degree that certain uncomfortable facts are kept obscured, this façade has been maintained.

Recently, a stone has been thrown at the glass artifice of false narratives that has attempted to maintain the belief that Africa's problems arise from authoritarian governments or "not enough democracy".