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'I have some bad news': Edward Snowden rips ex-CNN WH reporter for saying journalists don't expect government spying and lying

Snowden
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Edward Snowden on video link with University of Buenos Aires Law School, Argentina in 2016
American whistleblower Edward Snowden and many others mocked a former CNN White House correspondent for insinuating that US government lies and spying were unique to the Trump administration and reporters don't expect it.

Michelle Kosinski, who worked as CNN's White House correspondent between 2014 and 2019, claimed on Saturday that "as an American journalist, you never expect" your "own govt to lie to you," "hide information the public has a right to know," and "spy on your communications."

"Trump's unAmerican regime did all of these. No one should accept this," she concluded.

Kosinski was quickly ridiculed, both for suggesting that American journalists were so naive and for making government surveillance and disinformation appear exclusive to former President Donald Trump's brief administration.

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Anti-immigration group designated as extremist by German intel agency, gives state power to surveil group

Pegida Dresden
© by Caruso Pinguin, flickr, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 (edited)
Pegida-Demo in Dresden, 6 February 2016 .
A German state intelligence service on Friday classified the anti-immigration group PEGIDA as a "proven extremist movement," the German news agency dpa reported.

The Saxony intelligence agency said it had enough evidence showing that PEGIDA, which stands for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, had turned into an anti-constitutional movement in recent years.

The classification means that security authorities are allowed monitor the activities and members of the group.

Comment: The German state has become rather eager to monitor those in the population who would dare question its increasingly authoritarian and detrimental policies: Germany's spies target lockdown opponents in yet another alarming example of a 'democracy' using Covid to stifle dissent

See also: The Muzzies Are Coming! Adopt a Refugee!

Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis


Bad Guys

Iran sanctions will only be lifted if nuclear deal conditions met - White House

Biden Psaki
© AP/Evan Vucci
US President Joe Biden • Press Secretary Jen Psaki
Sanctions on Iran could only be lifted if the country comes back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, the White House said on Friday.

There has been some progress made in talks between world powers and Iran, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, and it is a good sign that talks are continuing.

Comment: For insight into just what all this game playing may be attempting to achieve, Scott Ritter in The United States rejoining the Iran nuclear deal is a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily writes:
This logic underpinned the decision of then-president Trump to withdraw from the JCPOA, and seek to compel Iran to negotiate a new agreement which would solve this quandary by severely restricting, on a permanent basis, Iran's nuclear program.

Seen in this light, it is clear that the Biden policy reversal is simply a re-branding of the policy position which existed in the Obama administration at the time the JCPOA was signed. The agreement was simply a means of buying time until a policy capable of permanently constraining Iran's nuclear ambitions could be crafted and successfully implemented.
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EU, India try again to clinch trade deal, sidelining China

Ursula von der Leyen
© AP
Portugal Europe Summit
The European Union and India agreed Saturday to restart negotiations on a bilateral free trade deal, eight years after their first attempt failed and as both sides seek alternatives to China.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke via videoconference to EU leaders attending a summit in Portugal. The two sides announced what they called "a pivotal moment" in their relations by agreeing to resume talks they gave up on in 2013 and to collaborate on a wide range of other issues.

Speaking at a press conference after the closed-door talks, senior EU officials were thrilled by the prospect of closer ties with India.

Comment: See also:


Red Pill

How science has been corrupted

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© Unknown
When I was small, my father would conduct experiments around the house. When you blow across the top of a wine bottle, how many modes of vibration are there? How do you get the higher notes?

Another time, the matter under investigation might be the "angle of repose" of a pile of sand, as in an hour-glass. Does it depend on the particle size? On their shape? Do these factors determine the rate at which an hour-glass empties?

My favorite was the question of what technique will empty a jug of water fastest. Should you simply turn it upside down and let the air rush in (as it must, to replace the water) in that halting, glug-glug-glug fashion, or hold it at a gentler angle so the pour is unbroken? Answer: turn the jug upside down and swirl it vigorously to set up a whirlpool effect. This creates a hollow space at the centre of the flow, where air is free to enter. The jug will empty very quickly.

My father became famous for these "kitchen physics" experiments after he included assignments based on them in a textbook he wrote, published in 1968 and beloved by generations of physics students: Waves (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 3). My sister and I, aged two and five, are thanked in the acknowledgments for having surrendered our Slinkies to the cause.


Comment: The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise, contorting science to political and social manipulation - a timely concept brilliantly laid out by this author.


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The end of strategic ambiguity? US stops pretending it would risk war with Russia over supposed 'ally' Ukraine

US/Ukraine flagbearers
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Servicemen of the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the United States Army before the Ukrainian-American joint military exercises Fearless Guardian-2015.
Would the US go to war with Russia over Ukraine? As tensions escalate between Moscow and Kiev, some have warned that the latter's 'alliance' with Washington could spiral into a conflict between the two main nuclear superpowers.

Except, of course, there is no alliance between the US and Ukraine. This week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken effectively ended the notion that Ukraine has Western backers ready to step in at a moment's notice if it finds itself under attack.

Pressed on whether American forces could be sent into battle against Russian troops to support Kiev in the event of war in an interview with MSNBC, he answered only that Washington is committed to "helping Ukraine defend itself."

In other words, no. Indeed, with these words, Blinken backed up suspicions in Moscow that Washington stands ready to fight Moscow down to the very last Ukrainian, but would never risk its own troops.

Telephone

Trump DOJ secretly seized phone records from Washington Post reporters

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Former AG Jeff Sessions, Department of Justice
The Trump administration secretly obtained non-content phone records for three Washington Post reporters who published stories detailing discussions between Russia and members of former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, according to the Department of Justice.

The Justice Department sent letters dated May 3 to three current and former reporters at the newspaper, informing them that DOJ had obtained phone records from the period of April 15, 2017, to July 31, 2017, the Washington Post reported.

The records included the caller and recipient of each call as well as the duration, but not what was said on the calls.

The letters did not say why the records were seized. But during the three-and-a-half-month period, the three Washington Post reporters had published a story on intelligence intercepts indicating that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions had discussed details pertaining to Trump's presidential campaign with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Comment: Legitimate and legal conversations became the initial false flag for Russiagate, the demonization of the Trump administration and persecution of General Flynn.


Target

AZ ballot audit: DOJ Civil Rights Division attempts to get involved - cites Lawfare activists, media reports as evidence of concern

audit the votes sign
© Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror
The Will of The People
Everyone knew this was coming.... The Feds are attempting to get involved in the Maricopa County ballot audit. The DOJ Civil Rights Division has sent a letter [pdf available here] to the Arizona State Senate claiming their review of Lawfare statements and media reports may show evidence of auditing issues that violate federal laws.

Last week a group of Lawfare activists [SEE HERE], including New York University Law School - which leads to Andrew Weissmann, asked the DOJ to get involved.

The ridiculous letter from the Biden DOJ goes on to cite media reports from the Washington Post as evidence to justify their involvement.

Remember, previously the DOJ narrative was that each state makes up its own election rules. Now the DOJ is saying, falsely, that Arizona might be breaking federal laws.

Attention

Mind control is NOT a conspiracy theory

Mind Control
© Corbett Report
When you think of "mind control," what do you think of?

Conspiracy theorists in tinfoil hats trying to keep the aliens from beaming messages into their heads? Evil scientists using spinning pinwheels and special potions to brainwash their hapless victims into doing their bidding? Sci-fi stories about remote-controlled people?

Yes, the idea of mind control has effectively been usurped by the social engineers so it is largely seen as the stuff of fantasy. Whether that fantasy takes the form of a fun, silly, science fiction story or it becomes the deranged rantings of a marginalized conspiracy loony makes little difference; as long as the general population understands it's a "kooky" subject, most people will instinctively know to avoid it.

But guess what? Mind control is not the stuff of fantasy. It is a mundane reality that is increasingly finding its way into science journals, declassified documents and even the daily newspaper.

Case in point:

"What's in your head? Just like in Nolan's 'Inception', brain tech can hack your mind; 'neuro-rights' can keep you safe."

That rather breathless headline comes not from some independent media outlet, but the Agence France-Presse (via The Economic Times). It turns out that the AFP would like you to know that it will soon be possible to read your mind. In fact, this future technology will be able to know what you're going to be thinking "before even you're aware of what you're thinking."

So why is the dinosaur media bringing this up at all? Like everything else they write, this, too, is a form of limited hangout and an attempt to steer the conversation about this mind control threat in a certain direction. But it does signal one key fact: Having worked for decades to keep the conversation about mind control on the fringes, the social engineers are now looking to bring it into the mainstream. And that should worry us for a host of reasons.

Beaker

China, Fauci and the Origins of Covid

Wuhan Institute of Virology
© NG HAN GUAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
In February of 2021, a security guard moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China's Hubei province.
Before Covid-19 ravaged the world, Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded coronavirus research that included work at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. The idea was to study the ability of such viruses to attack humans, but could a Fauci-funded experiment actually be the source of the deadly global infection? In an exhaustive account of the viral possibilities published this week by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade argues that the Chinese lab is the most likely source of the world-wide agony.

Left-leaning journalists who don't like where this story is going may struggle to dismiss the author given his establishment credentials. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists describes him this way:
Nicholas Wade is a science writer, editor, and author who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science, and, for many years, the New York Times.
The former Timesman writes:
The virus that caused the pandemic is known officially as SARS-CoV-2, but can be called SARS2 for short. As many people know, there are two main theories about its origin. One is that it jumped naturally from wildlife to people. The other is that the virus was under study in a lab, from which it escaped... it seems to me that proponents of lab escape can explain all the available facts about SARS2 considerably more easily than can those who favor natural emergence.