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Her Majesty's useful idiot? Integrity Initiative-linked Scots Nats MP demands London spy agencies probe Russian 'disinformation'

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Fireworks illuminate the sky over the Red Square during the New Year celebration, in Moscow, Russia. (inset) Stewart Malcolm McDonald
The British Parliament's most enthusiastic Russia-basher wants UK intelligence services to formally instruct MPs on alleged "foreign propaganda." His odd biography for an SNP representative and deep state links make it notable.

Stewart McDonald's interest in Russia is quite remarkable. Until 2018, he showed little or no interest in the country at all, but then, following an opaquely funded and organized jolly to Ukraine, he suddenly transformed into an ardent opponent of Moscow. He also became a passionate supporter of the British establishment position on foreign policy. Perhaps it was the chicken Kiev that turned the lawmaker's head, or maybe something more organized.

During a House of Commons debate on March 25, he demanded UK Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove "arrange a briefing for MPs and political parties, on appropriate terms, with the security services, so we can all better understand the threat [of disinformation] and ensure the integrity of our political discourse and democracy."

Comment: More background on the shadowy Integrity Initiative project:


Bizarro Earth

French air strike on wedding in Mali killed 19 civilians, violated international law - UN

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French military in Mali
A French air strike killed at least 19 civilians in central Mali in January, according to a UN report released Tuesday, which added that the victims were protected under international law. The French defence ministry issued a statement refuting the findings in the report.

On January 3, French warplanes struck near the remote village of Bounti in circumstances that sparked controversy in the war-torn Sahel state.

Residents of the village said the strike hit a wedding party and killed civilians.

Comment: See also: Macron feigns friendship with Africa, issues warnings about China


Control Panel

Pentagon unveils policies reversing Trump's transgender ban

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The Pentagon on Wednesday unveiled rules reversing Trump administration policies that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military, following through on an executive order President Biden signed shortly after taking office.

The new Defense Department policies, released on the International Transgender Day of Visibility, will allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve in their preferred gender. The regulations will also give wider access to health care and assistance with gender transition and aim to prevent discrimination against transgender military members, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters.

"Secretary of Defense [Lloyd Austin] strongly believes that the all-volunteer force thrives when it is composed of diverse Americans who can meet the high standards for military service, and an inclusive force that strengthens our national security posture," Kirby said.

The new rules, which will be effective in 30 days, follow a two-month review at the Pentagon in the wake of Biden's order, which "sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve."

Comment: These "pro-trans" policies are an attempt on the part of the Pentagon to seem "progressive" and "woke"; a clever sleight of hand that belies its true aims - via NATO - towards aggression, chaos and destruction around the planet. As the old expression goes, its like "putting lipstick on a pig". See also:


Blackbox

Joe Biden most definitely ISN'T in charge - so who is?

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The Biden press conference generated obvious concerns and one big question.

Everyone is familiar with the scenario wherein you are at a retail store and find yourself frustrated by a junior-level customer service employee who is giving you the runaround over some matter of store policy. Once you've finally become fully exasperated by the exchange, you finally utter the words, "I want to speak to the manager!" After some attempts to deflect, and an interminable wait, someone eventually comes to the front desk and says, "I'm the manager. How can I help you?"

After Joe Biden's performance last Thursday, every American should be demanding to talk to the manager. That's because while President Joe Biden's pathetic display during his "matinee" presser showed clearly that he is not in charge of our country, it also begged the obvious follow-up question not being asked by the 25 reporters in the room: If Joe Biden isn't in charge of running our government, who is?

Comment: Rounding out some of the picture of influence and control over Biden:


Attention

Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019

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March 27, 2021 two unaccompanied seven year-old child immigrants who arrived illegally across the Rio Grande river from Mexico stand at a makeshift processing checkpoint before being detained at a holding facility by border patrol agents in the border city of Roma.
The number of migrant children being held in Border Patrol facilities is more than double the record that was set in June 2019 during the Trump administration, the Washington Examiner has learned.

As of Sunday, 5,767 unaccompanied minors were being detained inside cells at Border Patrol facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border. In comparison, only 2,600 children were documented in custody at the height of the 2019 border crisis, according to federal data exclusively obtained Monday evening.

The figures underscore the magnitude of the situation on the border, which President Joe Biden and Democrats have refused to recognize as a "crisis." The number of children in Border Patrol facilities is also far higher than the number of children separated from their parents under President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" initiative that mandated children be taken from their parents so that the adults could be prosecuted. In other words, Biden is presiding over more unaccompanied children in government custody than when Trump intentionally separated migrant children from their families. Federal data for the end of Trump's tenure were not available.

Comment: Hannity reports on footage released by a Forbes reporter about Border Patrol rapid processing centers:
A reporter from Forbes Magazine published stunning new footage from the US-Mexico border this week; showing migrants, children, and adults walking into the United States and being released into Texas "within hours."

"I'm at the Texas-Mexico border. This is one of the underground processing areas that has been setup under a bridge. This is where families are actually coming and unaccompanied minors will just show-up here during the night," said journalist James Langford.

"They go through a basic screening. If they have a child that's six or younger then all these folks will be released into Texas within a couple hours," he added. "All these folks will be released into the United States with a 'Notice to Appear' at court. Some of those hearings are three years later."

Gateway Pundit reports on a brazen industrial-scale smuggling operation. The coyote in this particular run was caught, but not all the illegals:
In the video, what appears to be 100 illegal aliens are being unloaded in the small Texas town 100 miles from the Mexican border. Pearsall had a population of 9,240 up until this semi-trailer was unloaded. The small city prides itself on being safe.


This is insane and unAmerican - the Instagram post reads:

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🆘They're still coming 🆘PEARSALL, Texas — Video sent to KENS 5 NEWS shows dozens of migrants pouring out of a trailer in Frio County. The Frio County Sheriff's Office told KENS 5 the incident caught on video took place around noon Monday in Pearsall, near the intersection of Oak and Nueces streets.

According to the Pearsall Police Department, a person driving behind the truck saw arms and then someone's head sticking outside of the truck's small door. That witness called police.

Authorities said the driver fled along with the migrants and tried to blend in with group once authorities got there, but they were able to identify him as the driver and arrest him. They described the migrants as dehydrated and "soaked in sweat."

In total, 65 migrants were apprehended. The driver of the truck was arrested and placed in federal custody; it is unclear what charges the driver will face at this time. Authorities did not elaborate on the whereabouts of the migrants.

Pearsall PD said they were getting 911 calls from local residents saying they were spotting migrants running through their yards well into the night.

This comes as Republican lawmakers blame the Biden administration's border policy for a surge in migrants at the Texas-Mexico border. In a letter addressed to President Joe Biden Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott demanded answers to what he called a "humanitarian crisis at the southern border."

Officials in south Texas also say they're observing an increase in human-smuggling operations at the U.S.-Mexico border, which they say endangers those being transported.

This is a catastrophic disaster. Joe Biden told them to come and now they're coming by the truck Load, literally.

Call @governorabbott@govabbott Governor of Texas and demand he deploy additional resources to the border to stop the invasion. (512) 463-2000
Smugglers are not particular about how they go about their activities. Border Patrol is woefully understaffed and underfunded to deal with these situations. The children were fortunate to be rescued:

Biden's administration was given clear, repeated warnings about the consequences of their changes to Trump's policies:
Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) said Tuesday that the Biden administration was warned by Border Patrol officials about a large surge of illegal immigrants if Trump-era immigration policies were dismantled.
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Van Duyne said that there are Customs and Border Protection officials "who are at the end of their rope" in dealing with the surge.

"They're doing what they can but they're also very frustrated, realizing that they had actually warned this administration what would happen if they decided to push back on policies that were put in place by the previous administration that were working," she told Fox News.

She added that Border Patrol officials under Trump "were keeping children with their families. They were keeping people over the border. They were keeping them in the first safe country that they came to and what we're seeing is a massive surge now at the borders and the response from the administration, instead of actually reversing policies that have caused this surge.

The Biden administration said that it was Trump's migration policies that triggered the surge, while President Joe Biden during a news conference last week suggested that the number of people crossing the border is routine and occurs every year.

Some NGO groups who spoke to the Wall Street Journal also suggested that the messaging from the administration is encouraging women and children to try and illegally migrate to the United States.

"It's great that the U.S. is welcoming women and children," Pastor Abraham Barberi told the paper at a shelter in Matamoros, Mexico. "But they're also sending the message to families: 'Let's leave everything behind because our children will make it across the border.'"

"We're basically encouraging moms and babies to cross the river, which is not right. And they're willing to do it," Andrea Morris Rudnik of Team Brownsville.

The Department of Homeland Security was contacted for comment.



Sheriff

Trump says he is considering first rally since leaving office as he floats 2024 run

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Former President Donald Trump says he is considering holding a rally in the near future as he continues to tease the idea of a 2024 run for the White House.

In an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, he also took a swipe at the media for playing down President Joe Biden's recent trip and fall on the Air Force One steps, dismissed Twitter as "boring" without him, and said that the new administration's green policies were so far to the left that even Sen. Bernie Sanders would not back them.

The 18-minute conversation for his daughter-in-law's new podcast was his first on camera since leaving power in January.

He stopped short of committing to a 2024 campaign, but once again, he suggested that he is open to the idea.

Comment: See also:


Bug

Washington's stunning lies

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Today's political landscape is looking more and more like the classic Monty Python 'Dead Parrot' sketch.

You know the one, John Cleese walks into the shop to complain about the parrot he'd just been sold was dead and he wants his money back. The shopkeeper, Michael Palin, insists it isn't.

Hilarity ensues.

The Dead Parrot sketch is one of the high points of Python's particular blend of absurdism and social commentary that transcends its time.

Everywhere I look I see Michael Palins doing their best to convince us of the most absurd lies to hide the rank incompetence at every level of our society's power structure.

And it doesn't matter what issue we're discussing: masks, vaccines, election fraud, racism, Joe Biden's health, climate change, the sovereign bond markets, lockdowns.


Snakes in Suits

Biden's Ukrainian 'Putin Push' may lead to World War III

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Biden was in charge of much of the "Ukraine project" during Obama's time in office.

In recent weeks President Biden has been saying some rather mean-spirited things about Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Now Russian state sources are alleging that Washington under the Biden administration is ramping up military aid to Ukraine. This comes after the media observed the Ocean Glory, a US cargo ship, began delivering 350 tonnes of military equipment, including tactical vehicles, at Ukraine's Odessa port. Ukraine's Dumskaya news agency said the American vessel carried at least 35 US military humvees for Ukrainian national forces.

Adding Ukraine to NATO and the EU is a long-held dream of neocons like Victoria Nuland and neoliberals like Biden. This is also important to those supporting the World Economic Forum's desire to expand the EU and encircle Russia.

They feel such an action would disrupt any dreams of Eurasian integration which could resist their strategy to reshape the way the world is governed. Putin's foreign policy, coupled with efforts to rebuild the Russian military, has been part of an effort by the former KGB officer to boost Russia's standing on the world stage.

This has helped make him popular with his people even as NATO has slowly been expanding in the direction of Russia, but also makes him a thorn in the side of the NWO gang.

Comment: Good analysis, but this won't lead to 'WWIII'. Putin is gearing up for some big announcement. The Empire is probably aware of it, hence its push to 'sabotage' Russia with another breach of the Minsk Peace Accords in eastern Ukraine. Putin only makes moves when he's sure of success, so no 'general war' (which would obviously be a loss) will result from it.


Question

The "Unvaccinated" Question

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So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven't been "vaccinated" yet. Us. The "Covidiots." The "Covid deniers." The "science deniers." The "reality deniers." Those who refuse to get "vaccinated," ever.

There is no place for us in New Normal society. The New Normals know this and so do we. To them, we are a suspicious, alien tribe of people. We do not share their ideological beliefs. We do not perform their loyalty rituals, or we do so only grudgingly, because they force us to do so. We traffic in arcane "conspiracy theories," like "pre-March-2020 science," "natural herd immunity," "population-adjusted death rates," "Sweden," "Florida," and other heresies.

They do not trust us. We are strangers among them. They suspect we feel superior to them. They believe we are conspiring against them, that we want to deceive them, confuse them, cheat them, pervert their culture, abuse their children, contaminate their precious bodily fluids, and perpetrate God knows what other horrors.

So they are discussing the need to segregate us, how to segregate us, when to segregate us, in order to protect society from us. In their eyes, we are no more than criminals, or, worse, a plague, an infestation. In the words of someone (I can't quite recall who), "getting rid of the Unvaccinated is not a question of ideology. It is a question of cleanliness," or something like that. (I'll have to hunt down and fact-check that quote. I might have taken it out of context.)

Dollar

Hypocrisy at its finest: US announces millions in aid for Syria crisis, caused largely by its regime-change policy and sanctions

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Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken emerging as 'a humanitarian hero' from the UN Security Council's briefing on aid delivery to Syria represents a damning indictment on Western hypocrisy.

"How is it possible that we can't find in our hearts the common humanity to actually take meaningful action?" Blinken said on Monday, calling for the reopening of aid corridors and an increase in aid for war-torn Syria.

Whilst the Biden administration's representative has been praised by Western media as playing the role of a concerned humanitarian, what has been left out of the picture is Blinken's role in starting the war on Syria 10 years ago.

Under the Obama administration, Blinken helped engineer the US plot to aid "Syrian rebels" in order to take down the Assad government. Instead of backing purely "moderate" opposition, the US ended up providing arms and training to armed groups linked with Al-Qaeda. They also backed the claims of extremist groups, helping their war efforts with airstrikes based on reports of chemical weapons attacks - all this supposedly being out of apparent concern for Syrian civilians.