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The Approaching Storm of Totalitarianism

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So, it looks like GloboCap isn't going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a global pseudo-medicalized police state, or that appears to where we're headed currently. We appear to be heading there at breakneck speed. I don't have a crystal ball or anything, but I'm expecting things to get rather ugly this Autumn, and probably even uglier in the foreseeable future.

Yes, friends, a storm is coming. It has been coming for the last 16 months. And GloboCap is steering right into it. I, and many others like me, have been tracking its relentless advance like a self-appointed International Pathologized-Totalitarian Hurricane Center (you know, like the one in Miami, except all the meteorologists are "conspiracy theorists"). We have documented all the propaganda, the lies, the manipulation of statistics, the abrogation of constitutional rights, the New Normal goon squads, the corporate censorship, and all the rest of the roll-out of the new official ideology and the totalitarian measures deployed to enforce it.

Our efforts have not been in vain, but they have not been successful enough to change the course events are now taking ... a course of events that has always been clear, a course that every totalitarian movement needs to take to get where it's going. You can't remake entire societies into quasi-totalitarian systems without civil unrest, chaos, rioting, war, or some other form of cataclysm. Brainwashing the masses is all fine and good, but, at some point, you need to goad the people who are resisting your new totalitarian "reality" into getting unruly, so you can crack down on them, and transform them into official enemies, which appears to be what is happening currently.

Eye 1

US to censor text messages to stop 'misinformation' - well, 'if it saves just one life,' who needs privacy?

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The White House is tying itself in knots to silence anyone questioning the mainstream Covid-19 narrative, and, whatever you think of vaccines, its latest plans are only the first step toward making thoughtcrime a reality.

The US government is done playing "good cop" with regard to the "vaccine hesitant." The Biden administration, which recently opted to send 'volunteer' vaccinators door to door in what may be the most ill-thought-out public health campaign in US history, doesn't just want to meddle with your body anymore - its plans to control "misinformation" you may send by SMS text message indicate it's intent on controlling your mind as well.

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci is leading the crusade, blaming "Fox News or whomever" for crafting the vision of "a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you've got to do something that you don't want to do." Fauci clarified that it wasn't government officials, but "trusted messengers who are part of the community". Noticeably, he didn't address the "doing something you don't want to do" part - a telling oversight in the minds of those who are convinced the campaign is indeed a coercive one and those who've been paying closer attention to who makes up the door-to-door vax packs.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - Deconstructing the Covid Narrative with Investigative Journalist Rosemary Frei


Info

Pathetic: Bill Barr runs to WaPo for cover after President Trump releases letter of him bailing on Pennsylvania election fraud probe

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President Trump mentioned at Texas CPAC last weekend that the US Attorney in Pennsylvania sent the President a letter recently where he claimed former AG Bill Barr told him not to investigate the crimes and corruption that occurred in the 2020 Election in that state.

President Trump then released the letter on Monday he received from former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William McSwain.

In the letter McSwain shared the following:

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Attention

The US is fooling itself if it believes the EU backs its aggression against China as serious transatlantic rifts over Beijing remain

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Then US VP Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkle
Chancellery in Berlin • February, 2013
Angela Merkel's final visit to Washington as German leader today is supposed to be about forging closer ties - but it will serve only to underline the very different approaches being taken by Europe and the US towards Beijing.

There's a saying that a week is a long time in politics. What this means is that politics is, at heart, unpredictable. One thing can happen, and it appears easy to draw quick and definitive conclusions from it, but then, suddenly, another event occurs that suggests the opposite. You think someone or something is done for, then they spring back.

To put it simply, politics isn't a straightforward journey, it can go one way, then another, and seldom are things cast in stone. Never has that been so applicable in describing the unusual trilateral to and fro between the United States, the European Union (or more plainly, Germany), and China.

On the last day of 2020, the EU and China reached an agreement in principle on the comprehensive investment agreement (CAI) - a deal that is loathed by the US. Commentators, including me, pointed towards a growing transatlantic rift between Washington and Europe that was solely Trump's own doing and hailed it as a strategic masterstroke by Beijing.

Arrow Up

Lebanon spins further into crisis as Hariri abandons bid to form government

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Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri
Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri abandoned his months-long effort to form a new government on Thursday, dimming the chances of a cabinet being agreed any time soon that could start rescuing the country from financial meltdown.

Hariri announced his decision after meeting President Michel Aoun, saying it was clear they could not agree, underscoring the political squabbling that has blocked the formation of a cabinet even as Lebanon sinks deeper into crisis.

Hariri, a former prime minister and Lebanon's leading Sunni Muslim politician, was designated in October to assemble a government following the resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Diab's cabinet in the wake of the Beirut port explosion.

Footprints

Resignation of Ukraine's interior minister weakens country's central power, expert claims

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Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov
Arsen Avakov, whose resignation from the post of the Interior Minister was approved by Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada on Thursday, has a significant influence on the country's security, defense and law enforcement system, and has links to big business. In this way, his stepping down weakens the country's government, Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics Ruslan Bortnik told a TASS correspondent:
"Avakov's resignation with his business connections, with his influence on the security system - the entire police force was built by Avakov - potentially, undoubtedly, weakens the power structure. Despite the fact that it seems that the concentration of the security system in the president's hands will grow, this is a weakening of the power, and this is the laying of a foundation for more serious street and political risks in the future."
Additionally, the expert thinks that the former interior minister later himself may act against the current authorities:
"The crisis between Avakov and Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky is only aggravated by this resignation. At the government's moment of weakness, at the moment of a new political crisis we'll see Avakov's game against the president's office."
According to the expert, the return of the former minister to big politics is only a question of time.

Pistol

Ex-military were conned into assassination of Haitian leader, Colombia's president says, though some were willing participants

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Murdered president of Haiti Jovenel Moïse • Colombian President Iván Duque
Colombian President Iván Duque has revealed that a small pocket of his country's ex-military arrested over the assassination of Haiti's Jovenel Moïse knew about the plot in advance, while others in the group were blindsided.

Moïse was killed in his home on July 7 by gunmen - allegedly a squad of foreign mercenaries, including Colombians and Haitian-Americans. The president's wife was seriously injured in the shooting.

New information released by the Colombian police on Thursday said two former soldiers had prior insider knowledge of the mission to assassinate the Haitian president. Police chief General Jorge Luis Vargas said:
"We know that Colombian citizens Germán Rivera and Duberney Capador participated in the planning and organization of what was initially an alleged arrest operation of the president of Haiti and for this, they contacted more people in our country."

Comment: Looking into the background of those involved in the massacre of President Moïse there are apparent connections:
Colombian military officials
© EPA
Colombian officials have said 13 of the 15 nationals suspected in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse served in the country’s military.
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Ken Hoffman told the Washington Post :
"A review of our training databases indicates that a small number of the Colombian individuals detained as part of this investigation had participated in past US military training and education programs, while serving as active members of the Colombian Military Forces."
It is common for Colombian forces and other security personnel in Latin America to undergo US training. Hoffman did not say how many of the men received training or what kind, adding that the Pentagon's review is ongoing.

The country's military has had a close relationship with the US Green Berets, who help train their elite counterparts in guerrilla warfare, the outlet reported. Foreign military training provided by the US is meant to promote "respect for human rights, compliance with the rule of law, and militaries subordinate to democratically elected civilian leadership."

Meanwhile, Colombian President Ivan Duque said:
"There was a big group that were taken on a supposed protection mission, but within that group, there's a smaller group, which were those who apparently had detailed knowledge of what was to be a criminal operation."
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Take 2

Malfunction at the podium? Psaki announces vaccines 'can still kill you' in eyebrow-raising slip-up

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© Reuters / Leah Millis
A bizarre video of the White House Press Secretary advising on "communicating clearly" about vaccines, after she'd told Americans they "can still kill you," has half the internet shocked, while the other half hasn't quite noticed.

The clip shows Jen Psaki apparently responding to a question about vaccines during a Wednesday press briefing, stressing the importance of staying on message and praising actress and singer Olivia Rodrigo, who came to the White House to raise awareness on the subject.

But Psaki's message soon takes an odd turn, as she suddenly declares that the vaccines the Biden administration is desperate to convince more Americans to take "can still kill you" - even if you're "under 27." She made the comment after noting there are areas in the country with lower vaccination rates among people under that age - seemingly meaning to say Covid-19 can still kill even young people.

Red Flag

Ex-Kamala Harris staffers describe toxic offices dating back years: report

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Reports of an unhappy working environment in Vice President Kamala Harris' office are ringing a bell with former staffers, who have described similar experiences dating back more than a decade, according to a new report.

According to Business Insider, Harris alumni have been buzzing about a Politico report last month that described the Veep's office as "chaotic" with a "tense and at times dour" atmosphere. One source quoted by Politico described it as a place where "people feel treated like s — ."

"So many people recognized themselves in it, or recognized treatment they had seen or treatment they had heard about and dismissed," one former staffer told Business Insider, adding that they had sent a link to the story to their therapist with a note that read: "Rarely in life are we publicly vindicated."

Business Insider's story cited interviews with 12 former Harris staffers about the work environment during her stints as San Francisco's district attorney (an office she held from 2004 to 2011), California's attorney general (2011 to 2017), and a US senator (2017 to 2021).

Chess

'Russiagate' redux: The Guardian's spooky anonymous 'sources' claim Putin put Trump in power, but there's still no hard evidence

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Ever since former US President Donald Trump's shock 2016 election victory rocked the American political establishment, commentators and talking heads have been looking for someone to blame. The easy answer has always been Russia.

On Thursday, London's Guardian newspaper delivered the latest installment in this long-standing 'Russiagate' tradition. Rolling out a series of supposed revelations, intended to shock readers with the scale of the alleged deception behind Trump's win, journalist Luke Harding, who has previous experience in publishing fake stories on this theme, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin "personally authorized a secret spy agency operation to support a 'mentally unstable' Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election."

The rationale for the move was apparently that a Trump White House would be more sympathetic to Russian interests, and would sow chaos in the country. Intelligence and security agencies were supposedly told they should use "all possible force" to put the then-Republican front-runner into office. If the plan existed, it backfired catastrophically, given that relations between Moscow and Washington deteriorated to almost unprecedented lows during the years that followed, with sanctions and political rows becoming a regular occurrence.