The detention of a 'pro-Russian' Orthodox bishop before one of the holiest days of the year is a sign of terrible things to come.

On Thursday, Moldovan authorities chose to detain Bishop Marchel of the Moldovan Metropolis, a metropolitanate under the Russian Orthodox Church, at Chișinau International Airport.

Bishop Marchel was on his way to Jerusalem to bring back the Holy Fire for Easter, one of the most sacred ceremonies of the year for Orthodox believers. According to reports, he was pulled aside for a "thorough inspection" of his person and luggage, had his passport confiscated, and was not allowed to board his flight - even though nothing suspicious was ever found. His documents were only returned thirty minutes after the plane departed.

By contrast, the rival Metropolis of Bessarabia - a different Orthodox Christian church in Moldova, canonically under the Romanian Patriarchate - sent its own delegate, Bishop Filaret, on the same mission unmolested.

"As I have always said: The only difference between the KGB and the FBI is that the KGB has never claimed to be a legitimate law enforcement agency." ~ Jesse Trentadue

Readers may know the name John Ashcroft, attorney general under George W. Bush.

Well, good old Ashcroft was at the heart of a high profile cover-up: the Oklahoma City bombing, according to attorney Jesse Trentadue. The following comes from a court filing provided to ZeroHedge by Trentadue, attorney to OKC bombing accomplice Terry Nichols.

For context (per Jesse from kennethtrentadue.com):

Jesse is the brother of Kenneth Michael Trentadue who died in August 1995, while incarcerated at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Following the death, the Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately deemed it a suicide, denied the medical examiner access to the cell where Kenneth Trentadue was killed, ordered the cell cleaned and painted, and repeatedly asked both the medical examiner and Kenneth Trentadue's family to authorize the cremation of his body. The medical examiner could not legally authorize cremation and the family refused, demanding that Kenneth's body be returned to them. When Trentadue's body was returned to the family, they removed heavy makeup and discovered bruises all over his body, from head to foot. The bruises, cuts, and other wounds depicted an obvious beating and murder.

Now for the story...

Israel is expanding its "Iron Wall" offensive in the West Bank as it approves plans to separate the northern West Bank from the south. The plan is an accelerated prelude to Israel's expected annexation of the West Bank.

Israeli forces escalated their offensive in the occupied West Bank last week across Palestinian cities and refugee camps, killing three Palestinians. The escalation came amid renewed Israeli plans to expedite annexation plans to solidify the expansion of key new settlement projects in the central West Bank, including connecting one of the largest Israeli settlements, Maale Adumim, to Jerusalem.

Last Monday, April 7, Israeli forces opened fire at three children in the town of Turmusayya, northeast of Ramallah, killing 14-year-old Palestinian-American citizen Omar Saadeh. On Tuesday, April 8, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian woman, Aminah Yaaqoub, 30, at an Israeli checkpoint near Salfit in the northern West Bank.

These killings raised the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers since October 2023 to more than 800, as the Israeli army increased its use of lethal force as part of an ongoing military crackdown on the West Bank's cities and refugee camps.

Michigan's Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs "lacks any statutory authority to impose these sweeping, one-size-fits-all mandates," dentist's suit says. Federal appeals court hears challenge to California law.

The scientific rigor behind "implicit bias" has been questioned since at least 2009, when the Journal of Applied Psychology deemed the evidence "surprisingly weak" that the Harvard-designed implicit association test "predicts discriminatory behavior," despite the confident claims of psychologists and pop-science purveyors including Malcolm Gladwell.

"Sexy But Often Unreliable," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin declared in 2011 in reviewing the "replicability of experimental findings with implicit measures."

Even liberal journalists at Vox and New York Magazine found the Harvard test unable to deliver consistent results, and a disclaimer provided in individual test results warns that they are "not a definitive assessment of your implicit preference."

Western Europe is predisposed to tyranny and "global conflicts," Moscow's Foreign Intelligence Service says

The US and Russia are natural allies against "Eurofascism" and the tyrannical tendencies prevalent in Western European countries, Moscow's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said.

The spy agency published a text on its website on Wednesday titled 'Eurofascism, just as 80 years ago, is the common enemy for Moscow and Washington.'

The European Union is warning European leaders not to attend the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Moscow on May 9.

Ostensibly, the rationale for such a ban is that Russia is allegedly waging a war against Ukraine and threatening the rest of Europe, according to the EU. That's one way of seeing it.

Another way of seeing the matter is that the conflict in Ukraine is a proxy war sponsored by the EU and NATO to defeat Russia, eight decades after Nazi Germany failed to do it. The Euro elites who have come to dominate policymaking share the same fascist mentality. No wonder, then, that they are against attending the 80th anniversary event in Moscow next month. They need to sully that event by way of covering up their despicable politics.

The event marking the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascism in Europe is a massively important historical date for the entire world. Eighty years ago, on May 9, 1945, the Soviet Red Army crushed the Nazi regime in Berlin thereby ending the most horrific war in human history.

Up to 27 million Soviet citizens - perhaps more - gave their lives in the epic struggle to defeat Nazi Germany and its fascist European allies, including Vichy France, Italy, Hungary, Finland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Russia holds the honor of liberating Europe from the evil of fascism. By comparison, the other anti-fascist allies of the United States and Britain lost less than 5 per cent of the casualties that the Soviet citizens endured.

It is fitting that many international leaders are attending the Victory Day parade in Moscow this year. They include China's Xi Jinping and India's Narendra Modi.

Many others, however, will not be in Moscow, which is lamentable. The American President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer should be present to pay respects to the soldiers and civilians who sacrificed their lives. Deplorably, the toxic politics that have poisoned relations between Western states and Russia have rendered such participation impossible.

What is all the more appalling, however, is the explicit ban on European leaders attending the celebrations in Moscow.

In the space of a week, a cascade of petitions from the military has suddenly demonstrated the realization by Israeli society that the Netanyahu government's strategy in Gaza would neither bring back the hostages nor defeat Hamas.

The Israelis are beginning to become aware of the horrors experienced by the Palestinians, but they are currently having great difficulty talking about these crimes committed by some of their fellow citizens and fail to take into account the 50,000 people murdered in Gaza.

Some prominent figures, such as former chief of staff General Dan Halutz now openly describe the prime minister as the enemy of the Jewish people and call for his arrest. However, these public figures refrain from recalling that the revisionist Zionists were the allies of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler against the Jewish people. It is still too early for Israelis to analyze what they have experienced in recent years.

This movement of ideas has its roots in the criticism that Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained for years against the military establishment. It suddenly developed with the post-October 7 war in Gaza. It is therefore both a revolt against the populism of the "revisionist Zionists" and against the project of an endless war that they carry along.

Trump's actions were neither 'spur of the moment', nor whimsical. The 'tariff solution' had been pre-prepared by his team over years.

The Trump 'shock' - his 'de-centring' of America from serving as pivot to the post-war 'order' via the dollar - has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status quo, on the one hand; and on the other, the MAGA faction who have come to regard the status quo as inimical - even an existential threat - to U.S. interests. The sides have descended into bitter, accusatory polarisation.

It is one of the ironies of the moment that President Trump and right-wing Republicans have insisted on decrying - as a "resource curse" - the benefits of the Reserve Currency status that precisely brought the U.S. the wave of inward global savings that has permitted the U.S. to enjoy the unique privilege of printing money, without adverse consequence: Until now that is! Debt levels finally matter, it seems, even for the Leviathan.

Vice-President Vance now likens the Reserve Currency to a "parasite" that has eaten away the substance of its 'host' - the U.S. economy - by forcing an overvalued dollar.

Former Israeli Defense Minister General Yoav Gallant acknowledged on 7 February on Channel 12 that he had ordered the IDF on 7 October 2023 to apply the "Hannibal Directive". According to him, it was implemented in some places, but not in others [1]. In extreme situations, this protocol provides for killing Israelis rather than letting them fall into the hands of the Palestinian resistance.

In January 2024, The Cradle claimed that at least half of those killed at the SuperNova festival were killed by the IDF and not by Hamas [2].

The Jewish state's communication services later presented a video montage to Western parliamentarians, but refused to make it public. Those who saw it in a private screening, were overwhelmed by emotion and conveyed the official version of the "greatest pogrom in history". However, when they saw the photos afterwards, some of them started to express doubts.

☞ The Hannibal Directive is an Israeli military doctrine developed in 1986 by commander of the Northern Forces General Yossi Peled.

"If you look at Epstein's list, he's not going after Congressmen... They already own Congress with AIPAC" ~Ryan Dawson

Last night, we hosted the ultimate panel for those wanting to learn more about government-pedo-blackmail operations... aka the craziest thing on Earth that media will not cover. It featured the legendary reporter and author Nick Bryant, relentless researcher Ryan Dawson, and was hosted by Ian Carroll one of the most effective communicators of this information at scale.

Below were the highlights for those who missed it though we strongly recommend listening to the full 2-hour discussion: