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After Sudan army shoots protesters dead, Communists declare: 'Revolution until victory'

Steve Sweeney
People's World
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:56 UTC
Burhan
© Marwan Ali/AP
Sudan's head of the military, General Abdel-Fattah Burhan • Khartoum, Sudan
Sudanese security forces shot dead at least seven people and injured 140 more after thousands took to the streets in protest against Monday's military coup.

Rallies continued in the capital Khartoum and in its twin city Omdurman as the masses heeded calls to defend the revolution and overthrow the military junta. They blocked roads as they demanded the immediate transfer of power to civilian rule. The Sudanese Communist Party, which played a leading role in the mass movement that ousted President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, called on the people to stand firm. The party said:
"The revolution is a people's revolution. This coup is completely rejected by the Sudanese masses."
It demanded the release of all those hauled in by the armed forces in the aftermath of their power grab, including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.

Comment: A bad-boding combination for the Sudanese: Military control - World Bank - IMF

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Take 2

Live broadcast of Biden's meeting with Pope in Vatican mysteriously cut short


RT
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:29 UTC
Pope Biden
© AP Photo / Andrew Medichini
FILE PHOTO. Pope Francis shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in 2016.
The Vatican abruptly canceled the broadcast of a meeting between US President Joe Biden and Pope Francis today, and Biden's critics are speculating that the Catholic elite may be punishing him for his pro-abortion stance.

The live feed of Biden's visit to the Vatican on Thursday was cut earlier than expected, right after his arrival at the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace. There was none of the expected coverage from inside, where the head of the Catholic Church and one of its most powerful secular congregants would meet. Edited footage of the encounter would instead be provided to accredited media outlets, the Vatican's press service promised.

Biden is the second Catholic president of the US after John F. Kennedy. He has met with Pope Francis on three occasions in the past, but this is the first meeting during his time in the Oval Office.


Comment: It's unlikely to be related to any abortion issue, because Nancy Pelosi met the Pope just a few weeks ago and there was ample footage of their meeting inside the Palace. It's more likely that, since it's becoming a regular occurrence for Biden to be caught falling asleep in these meetings, or suddenly becoming incoherent, the Vatican and Biden's handlers simply wanted to avoid any embarrasing complications.


Comment: See also: Something is wrong with the President

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Attention

Thousands avoiding shots as US Air Force is first to face troops' rejection of vaccine mandate

Alex Horton
The Washington Post
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:29 UTC
US airforce South china sea
© Mqargie Mason/Associated PRess
American fighter jets prepare to take off from the USS George Washington, cruising waters about 200 miles off Vietnam's central coast in the South China Sea on Aug. 8.
Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate, and officials say it is too late for them to do so by the Tuesday deadline, posing the first major test for military leaders whose August directive has been met with defiance among a segment of the force.

The vast majority of active-duty airmen, more than 96 percent, are at least partially vaccinated, according to data from the Air Force. But officials have warned that, barring an approved medical or religious exemption, those who defy lawful orders to be fully immunized are subject to punishment, including possible dismissal from the service, or they could be charged in the military justice system.

Comment: A prime example of ideologically-driven short-sightedness.

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Bad Guys

NATO sliding towards war against Russia in Ukraine

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
NATO Ukraine
As far as Ukraine goes, Ankara seems to be setting the pace for NATO's deepening involvement in the country's war.

Russia is investigating reports of Turkish attack drones being deployed for the first time in Ukraine's eight-year civil war. The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) under the command of the Kiev regime claimed that the drones were used earlier this week in combat against ethnic Russian rebels.

This is a potentially dramatic escalation in the smoldering war. For it marks the direct involvement of NATO member Turkey in the conflict. Up to now, the United States and other NATO states have been supplying lethal weaponry to the Kiev regime to prosecute its war against the breakaway self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.

American, British and Canadian military advisors are also known to have carried out training missions with UAF combat units. Britain is in negotiations to sell Brimstone missiles to the Ukrainian navy.

But the apparent deployment of Turkish attack drones is a potential game-changer. Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov hinted at the graveness when he announced Wednesday that Moscow was carrying out urgent investigations about the purported participation of Turk-made Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Previously, Lavrov rebuked Turkey to stay out of the conflict and to not feed Ukrainian hostilities.
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Microscope 1

Fauci the liar: No 'smoking gun' to hold 'power addicted' Fauci liable for US-funded gain-of-function Wuhan research

Svetlana Ekimenko
Sputnik
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 10:30 UTC
anthony fauci
© AFP 2021 / STEFANI REYNOLDS
US COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci has found himself in the crosshairs after the National Institutes of Health admitted subsidizing "limited" gain-of-function research on infected bats at Wuhan Institute of Virology. The bombshell followed Fauci's persistent denial to Congress that the NIH ever funded coronavirus research at the China lab.

Recent revelations shedding light on the fact that America's premier science institute - the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - was less than forthcoming regarding its funding of controversial virology research have placed Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, in the hot seat.


Comment: With the popular narrative that Covid is a dangerous virus that has killed millions, and the somewhat alternative narrative that the origins of the virus are from the Wuhan lab, the revelation that Fauci is responsible for gain of function research at the Wuhan lab is a true powder keg. In other words, we may see Fauci shouldering the blame for the entire Covid 'pandemic' and, given how pissed off the entire population is, he could seriously burn for it. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

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Propaganda

LITTLE BOY & FAT MAN - The two info-war bombs dropped on Russia

John Helmer
Dance with Bears
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Karen Dawisha (R) Catherine Belton (L)
When the German Army invaded Europe in the 1940s, they applied the doctrine of collective guilt against the civilian populations behind the Resistance and the partisans attacking their troops. After the Germans were defeated, the doctrine and the murderous result of it were judged to be a war crime. The London Charter of 1945, creating the legal basis for the Nuremberg prosecutions, introduced a special provision, Article 9, to turn individual associations of Germans into "criminal organisations".

Collective guilt and guilt by association are hoary old doctrines, and when they reappear these days against blacks, Jews and muslims, for example, they are judged to be crimes of race hatred or hate crimes.

But when the doctrine is advocated in media reports and books about Russia and the Russians running the country since 2000, the doctrine isn't a hate crime. It's a war weapon whose detonators are being primed every day. The second handbook for demonstrating how to clean, load, and fire this weapon against Russia was published last year by Catherine Belton (lead image, right). She and Rupert Murdoch's publishing house HarperCollins call their Russia war-fighting manual Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia, and Then Took on the West. Belton, HarperCollins and the book are now on trial for lying and libel in the High Court in London.

Comment:
Today's enlightened western society (the one that makes the law) is in fact hardly tolerant, especially when it is contested; it is entirely cast in a rigid mold of conventional ideas. Admittedly, to fight contradictors, it does not wield a bludgeon, but uses calumny and, to stifle them, its financial power. Try then to work your way through the tracery of prejudice and tendentious allegations in some bright [American] newspaper with a national audience!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


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Black Magic

It All Makes Sense Once You Realize They Want to Kill Us

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
skeleton painting
"It is now apparent that these products in the blood stream are toxic to humans. An immediate halt to the vaccination programme is required while an independent safety analysis is undertaken to investigate the full extent of the harms, which the UK Yellow Card data suggest includes thromboembolism, multi-system inflammatory disease, immune suppression, autoimmunity and anaphylaxis, as well as Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)." Tess Lawrie, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12
Question- Have the mRNA vaccines been tested on animals?

Answer- Yes, they have.

Question- Were the animal trials successful?

Answer- Yes and no.

Yes, the experiments on mice showed that a low dose of the vaccine induces a robust antibody response to the infection.

But, no, the antibodies were not able to attack the spike protein from a different strain of the virus.
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Bizarro Earth

COP26 & The Great Reset: The not so glorious prospect of owning nothing and passing a cold, 'dark winter'

Cynthia Chung
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Net Zero
Either you go along with the green program (that ignores nuclear as green) or you don't get credit. Which is a policy that will, and is, quite predictably driving up energy prices.

There is a bit of panic flapping about over the number of heads of state who will not be attending, in person, the COP26 Conference that will be held starting on All Hallows' Eve and lasting till November 12th.

The reason for the panic is because, in case you have been living in some bunker underground, we are in the midst of a very serious energy crisis along with hyperinflation, and there are growing murmurings that the very policies that COP26 wants to maximize to full throttle at this conference, are at the very source of what is causing this energy crisis.

It is no secret that there will be the very vigorous attempt to strong arm the heads of state that do end up attending this conference into signing onto these fully maximized COP26 policies which are likely to only exacerbate the problem, with the projection that citizens across Europe are expected to spend a very cold and dark winter this year....during what we are told is an ongoing pandemic....and this apparently an acceptable thing.

Comment: One can easily imagine how these developments will be used in the Western narrative against Russia: "Russia is behaving irresponsibly towards its neighbors and cannot be trusted or considered a reliable nation where the correct use of its natural resources is concerned. Something must be done!"

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Syringe

CDC Director: 'We may need to update our definition of fully vaccinated' as booster eligibility increases

Brittany Bernstein
The National Review
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:06 UTC
walensky
© Greg Nash/Reuters
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday that the U.S. may need to amend its definition of "fully vaccinated" against COVID-19 as more Americans become eligible to receive booster shots.

During a White House COVID-19 response team press briefing, she remarked:
"Right now we don't have booster eligibility for all people currently. So we have not yet changed the definition of fully vaccinated. We will continue to look at this. We may need to update our definition of fully vaccinated in the future."
Walensky's comment comes after the Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday. The agency also authorized mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines, allowing Americans to receive a different vaccine for their booster shot than their original vaccine.

The agency had already authorized booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine last month.

Comment: The CDC is desperate to come up with viable reasons to continue the inoculation façade. Fauci goes on to offer the 'carrot' for 'the stick':
Anthony Fauci said Sunday that COVID-19 vaccines could be available for children in early November, providing a boost of optimism for some parents seeking to get their kids inoculated in time for the holidays. Fauci told This Week host George Stephanopoulos on ABC:
"If all goes well, and we get the regulatory approval, and the recommendation from the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], it's entirely possible, if not very likely, that vaccines will be available for children from 5 to 11 within the first week or two of November."
On Friday, Pfizer released a study that indicated that its COVID-19 vaccine was almost 91 percent effective for children aged 5 to 11 years old. Children were reported to have similar levels of protection against the original COVID-19 strain and delta variant when they were given 10-microgram doses that were spaced three weeks apart, according to the company.

A review by the FDA later on Friday found that the benefits of the Pfizer vaccine outweighed the risks for children in most of the scenarios considered. The agency noted that in lower levels of COVID-19 transmission, there was the risk of more hospitalizations related to myocarditis stemming from the vaccine.

But even in that instance, the agency said, "the overall benefits of the vaccine may still outweigh the risks under this lowest incidence scenario."

Fauci's remarks come ahead of an important meeting slated for Tuesday when the topic of whether children should be recommended the Pfizer vaccine will be discussed by an FDA advisory panel.
Should we trust a 'pick-n-choose' study of a product by the producer and primary sales beneficiary?

See also: Fauci: Vaccinated Americans can enjoy holidays with family

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Target

Brazil senators support criminal charges for Jair Bolsonaro over Covid crisis


The Guardian
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 01:41 UTC
Bolsonaro
© Eraldo Peres/AP
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
A Brazilian Senate committee recommended that president Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world's second highest Covid-19 death toll.

The seven-to-four vote on Tuesday was the culmination of a six-month committee investigation of the government's handling of the pandemic. It formally approved a report calling for prosecutors to try Bolsonaro on charges ranging from charlatanism and inciting crime to misuse of public funds and crimes against humanity, and in doing so hold him responsible for many of Brazil's more than 600,000 Covid-19 deaths.

The president has denied wrongdoing, and the decision on whether to file most of the charges will be up to prosecutor general Augusto Aras, a Bolsonaro appointee who is widely viewed as protecting him. The allegation of crimes against humanity would need to be pursued by the international criminal court.

Senator Omar Aziz, the chairman of the inquiry, said he would deliver the recommendation to the prosecutor general on Wednesday morning. Aras' office said the report would be carefully reviewed as soon as it was received.

Regardless of whether charges are filed, the report is expected to fuel criticism of the divisive president, whose approval ratings have slumped ahead of his 2022 reelection campaign — in large part because of Brazil's outsize Covid-19 death toll. The investigation itself has for months provided a drumbeat of damaging allegations.
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