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EXC: Chief Capitol cop told Tucker 'it's not crazy' to wonder about Ray Epps in leaked Fox interview

Raheem J. Kassam
The National Pulse
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:42 UTC
Steve Sund, Ray Epps, Tucker Carlson
Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steve Sund told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he was not "crazy" to question the behavior of individuals present in the January 6th crowd, one of whom in particular - Ray Epps - had bragged to his friends that he "orchestrated" the entire thing, before the Democrat-run Jan 6 Committee thanked him for participating in their charade.

In never-before-seen footage published exclusively by The National Pulse, Carlson asks Sund about Epps, though without using the Arizona man's name:

TUCKER: "So let's go back to the role of, you said nine out of the 18 agencies in the so-called intelligence community are military, Pentagon supervised... military intel. Would they have been gathering, it sounds like they were gathering information about January 6th before it happened?"

Comment: More from the National Pulse:
Trump Subpoenas Unaired Tucker Interview with Ex Capitol Police Chief

Former President Donald Trump has subpoenaed Fox News in an effort to attain an unaired interview with former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. The interview was originally intended to air as part of then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson's investigation into Jan 6 and the more than 40,000 hours of footage he was granted access to. The National Pulse yesterday released parts of the interview, with further clips due on Thursday afternoon.

One item of particular interest to Donald Trump's legal team is comments that Sund may have made to Carlson regarding the presence of federal agents in the crowd on Jan 6. In an interview with English comedian Russell Brand, Carlson stated that Sund believed federal agents were among the crowds protesting the 2020 Presidential election result:

"I never thought there was a false flag or anything like that. I'm not a conspiracist by temperament... And then I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund - in an interview that was never aired on Fox by the way. I was fired before it could air... He was the chief of the Capitol Police on January 6 and he said 'Oh yeah the crowd was filled with Federal agents.' He would know of course because he was in charge of security at the site. So the more time that has passed, now it has been two-and-a-half years, it becomes really obvious that core claims they made about January 6 were lies."

Carlson's interview with Sund could be a useful piece of evidence for Trump's legal defense, casting further doubt on official government claims about the circumstances of that days events. The unaired Sund interview appears to be a part of a broader legal strategy by Trump to demonstrate that the Jan 6 prosecution is not just a question of the former President's First Amendment protected right to free speech but also to call in to question the partisan media narrative surrounding the 2020 Presidential election and Jan 6 itself.


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Meta starts blocking news in Canada


RT
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:41 UTC
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The move comes in response to a new law requiring tech companies to pay news publishers.

Meta Platforms has announced that it will begin blocking access to any news content on Instagram and Facebook for all users in Canada in order to comply with a recently passed law that requires social media companies to pay their "fair share to news organizations."

In a statement published on Tuesday, Meta stated that effective immediately, links and content published by Canadian and international news outlets on Meta's apps will no longer be viewable by users in Canada. Additionally, Canadians will no longer be able to share any news content on Facebook or Instagram, including articles and audio-visual content posted by news outlets. These changes will be implemented over the next few weeks, Meta said.

Comment: News articles getting posted on social media are essentially free advertising for the news organizations. How backward do you have to be to think social media platforms should pay news organizations to drive traffic to their sites?

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Syringe

Dr. Anthony Fauci is caught in his biggest COVID lie yet


New York Post
Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:07 UTC
ANTHONY FAUCI
© REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueDr. Anthony Fauci is accused of lying during congressional testimony in 2021.
Time for the Good Doctor to take his medicine.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has announced a criminal referral of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice over his apparent lying during congressional testimony in 2021.

Fauci insisted repeatedly that the National Institutes of Health had never funded any gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Comment: See also:

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Henrietta Lacks' family reaches settlement with medical company that profited from her cells

Lea Skene
Fox 11
Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:10 UTC
HLacks
© Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesPhoto of Henrietta Lacks from March 22, 2017
More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks' cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.

Tissue taken from the Black woman's tumor before she died of cervical cancer became the first human cells to be successfully cloned. Reproduced infinitely ever since, HeLa cells have become a cornerstone of modern medicine, enabling countless scientific and medical innovations, including the development of the polio vaccine, genetic mapping and even COVID-19 vaccines.

Despite that incalculable impact, the Lacks family had never been compensated.

Doctors harvested Lacks' cells in 1951, long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family argued that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the HeLa cell line became well known.

The settlement agreement came after closed-door negotiations that lasted all day Monday inside the federal courthouse in Baltimore. Several members of the Lacks family were in on the talks.
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© Ben Birchall/PA Images/Getty ImagesStatue of Henrietta Lacks • 70th anniversary of her death
Royal Fort House in Bristol • October 4, 2021
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Briefcase

Bill would allow suing federal employees who restrict free speech

Ian Smith
FedSmith
Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:50 UTC
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Recently introduced legislation would allow members of the American public to sue federal employees who violate their protections under the First Amendment.

The Censorship Accountability Act (H.R. 4848) would expand current law to allow Americans to bring lawsuits against federal executive branch employees for violating individuals' First Amendment rights, including censoring views on social media.

The text of the legislation states:
A Federal employee who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of the United States, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or any person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the First Amendment, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.
The bill was introduced by Congressman Dan Bishop (R-NC). It has nine co-sponsors as of the time of this writing.
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Toronto schools launches probe into suicide of school principal who killed himself after being 'bullied and harassed' by 'anti-racism trainer'


Internewscast
Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
richard bilkszto
Richard Bilkszto, 60, killed himself in July after suing the Toronto District School Board for emotional distress.



Comment: Original story: DEI Attack Protocols: Principal pays ultimate price for taking on woke school board


The suicide of a white school principal who was bullied after being accused of supporting white supremacy because he challenged an 'anti-racism trainer' has prompted an investigation into diversity and inclusion practices in Toronto.

Richard Bilkszto, 60, killed himself in July after suing the Toronto District School Board for emotional distress which he says began in spring 2021, when he disagreed with KOJO Institute 'anti-racism' trainer Kike Ojo-Thompson.

The KOJO Institute is a for-hire diversity and inclusion consultancy firms that had been brought in by the school board.
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Bad Guys

Nigeria cuts electricity to Niger following coup, cutting off 70% of its power supply


CapitalFM.co.ke
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:24 UTC
power lines pylon
© Mathieu Thomasset
Nigeria has cut its electricity supply to Niger after West African neighbours imposed sanctions on the junta that ousted the country's elected leader last week, a Niger power company source said on Wednesday.

"Since yesterday, Nigeria has disconnected the high-voltage line transporting electricity to Niger," a source at Niger's power company Nigelec told AFP.

Niger depends on Nigeria for 70 percent of its power, buying it from the Nigerian company Mainstream, according to Nigelec, the country's monopoly supplier.

The electricity is generated by the Kainji Dam in western Nigeria.

Comment: As numerous nations in Africa try to shake off the shackles of the West, it seems that the West is activating its vassals to go on the attack: Korybko: Is West Africa gearing up for a regional war?



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Bizarro Earth

Man goes on stabbing rampage and car ramming in South Korea, 13 wounded


Al Mayadeen
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:00 UTC
South korea train
© APFILE PHOTO: A stabbing in South Korea injures 13 individuals, with one person arrested in relation to the incident.
A total of nine people were left with stab wounds on Thursday, while four others suffered injuries after a car, driven by the suspected attacker in the stabbings, plowed through a crowd in Seongnam, a bustling commuter town located close to South Korea's capital, Seoul.

The local authorities swiftly responded to the situation and confirmed the arrest of one person in connection with the attack.

The attack took place near Seohyeon station, a popular area for commuters situated approximately 20 km (12.43 miles) away from Seoul. Known for housing a large department store and numerous shops, the location is frequented by many residents.

Comment: Reported on July 10: 3 children among 6 killed in stabbing at kindergarten in southern China

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The unholy alliance between capital, postmodernism, and left authoritarianism

Toby Rogers
uTobian
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00 UTC
child with parents
Capital has weaponized the ideology of its critics to support its aims

I. Introduction

I'm completely fascinated by the unholy alliance between capital, postmodernism, and left authoritarianism. I have not seen others describe this phenomenon yet so I will report what I am seeing.

Capital, stored wealth, money itself — and all of the power that flows from that — seeks to expand itself. That's what it has always done. As many have pointed out, capital follows the logic of a cancer cell — endless expansion, no matter the results for the system as a whole. (I'm not criticizing capitalism per se but rather the sort of predatory monopoly capitalism that always makes a mess of things.)

For most of human history the way that capital expanded is through the exploitation of nature (taming & breeding animals, farming, and mining). Exploiting nature on a large scale requires a lot of labor so the ruling class developed slavery, serfdom, castes, indentured servitude, addiction, etc. Warfare enables one group to take resources from another so the lower classes were also turned into soldiers. By designing societies to exploit nature, people, and others over the last 500 years the members of the ruling class have obtained so much wealth that they are now able to direct the course of human events throughout the developed world.
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Control Panel

Companies with good ESG scores pollute just as much as those with low ones, new analysis finds


Zerohedge
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 05:45 UTC
ESG info
As if there wasn't exhaustive enough evidence that "ESG" is nothing but a scam, the Financial Times was out this week with a piece detailing how many companies with good ESG scores pollute just as much as their lower-rated rivals.

Don't say we didn't warn you; we have been writing about the ESG con for years now, which along with other "sustainable" investments continues to see hundreds of billions of dollars in inflows from investors.

The FT added to our skepticism by revealing this week that Scientific Beta, an index provider and consultancy, found that companies rated highly on ESG metrics - and even just the 'Environmental' variable alone - often pollute just as much as other companies.

Researchers look at ESG scores from Moody's, MSCI and Refinitiv when performing the analysis. They found that when the 'E' component was singled out, it led to a "substantial deterioration in green performance".
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