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Is Dead”?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/ruel-f-pepa\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Prof. Ruel F. Pepa\"\u003EProf. Ruel F. Pepa\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 14, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U7o4w-vqk-c\/YCnQTdyaXrI\/AAAAAAAA2tE\/08NipWctyCkvbn49Bod3Yau8ks5rJrVyQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s330\/330px-Lovestamp.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"210\" data-original-width=\"330\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U7o4w-vqk-c\/YCnQTdyaXrI\/AAAAAAAA2tE\/08NipWctyCkvbn49Bod3Yau8ks5rJrVyQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h408\/330px-Lovestamp.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Love is Dead” is the title of British singer-songwriter Brett Anderson’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tdx7Yp1Mbpk\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Efirst single\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;released on 19 March 2007\u0026nbsp;with the following lyrics:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENothing ever goes right\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENothing really flows in my life\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENo one really cares if no one ever shares my care\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPeople push by with fear in their eyes in my life\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove is dead, love is dead\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe telephone rings, but no one ever thinks to speak to me\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe traffic speeds by, but no one’s ever stopped too late\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIntelligent friends don’t care in the end, believe me\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove is dead, love is dead\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnd plastic people with imaginary smiles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EExchanging secrets at the back of their minds\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPlastic people\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPlastic people\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENothing ever goes right\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENothing really flows in my life\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENo one really cares if this horror’s inside my head\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPeople push by with fear in their eyes in my life\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove is dead, love is dead\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove is dead, love is dead\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove is dead, love is dead\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnd all the lies that you’ve given us\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnd all the things that you said\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnd all the lies that you’ve given us…\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBlow like wind in my head\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Love is dead” may only be taken meaningfully if viewed in a context. As a description of a particular event, we may utter it in reference to a specific relationship that has lost its original state of deep intimacy. The statement, therefore, refers and points to a concrete circumstance of actual human experience; something whose real occurrence is not special or unique but commonplace in a variety of conditions. It points to the fact that there is nothing persistently eternal in love. Love comes and goes; it appears and disappears. Its magic shines at one point and loses its brilliance at another. There is nothing permanent and immortal in love. But again, lest we lose track of our reference point, the context is particular–or more accurately, specific–experience and not general, much less universal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/australias-naval-base-in-papua-new-guinea-power-play-in-the-south-pacific-against-china\/5654761\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Australia’s Naval Base in Papua New Guinea: Power Play in the South Pacific against China\"\u003EAustralia’s Naval Base in Papua New Guinea: Power Play in the South Pacific against China\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe death of love in one particular experience does not accurately sustain the idea that love is dead as a matter of generalization for reality proves otherwise. Such is a clear case of hasty generalization that only feeds emotional exaggeration. There could be thousands of instances where we could consistently say that love has already died in the personal lives of diverse individual persons, but love remains alive and kicking in thousands of other people’s lives. As long as there are lovers, love cannot die in the experiences of these people. And in this connection, even if we stretch the scope of signification to the universal degree, love as such will never die.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn fact, even when a partner in a relationship bound by deep love as in the case of two lovers–they could be husband and wife–has already passed on (read: died), the love of the living partner for the former lingers and lives on within the lifetime of the latter. This is, therefore, an affirmation that in certain cases, love seems undying. And what could be the problem if we call this “true love”? Nothing at all, for true love is the love that never dies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGod may die as the German philologist Friedrich Nietzsche figuratively puts it in his\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThus Spoke Zarathustra\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E(in the original German:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAlso Sprach Zarathustra\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E) while advancing the notion that in reality, there is no God at all since such is just a product of human conceptualization. But such formulation never applies to love since it is above and beyond a concept. In fact, the Austrian-Jewish Hasidic philosopher Martin Buber situates it in a more noteworthy location in his\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI-Thou\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E(in the original German:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIch-Du\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E) by describing love as “a relationship-between” and not “an experience-within”. Buber asserts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Love is the responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling – the equality of all lovers. . . .”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPerhaps, appropriating the Buberian contextual configuration would lead us to infer that, on the one hand, “experiential love” which generally depends on an emotional platform as a matter of subjective feeling is the kind of love that could possibly meet its death. On the other hand, “relational love” which draws its strength equally from the energies of individual persons in love with each other is the kind of love that never dies. This notion is likewise echoed in the Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran’s words “On Love” in his monumental opus,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Prophet\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove gives naught [nothing] but itself\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eand takes naught[nothing] but from itself.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELove possesses not nor would it be possessed;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFor love is sufficient unto love.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn the final analysis, we could truly say that for some individuals, love is really dead, but lovers come and go every now and then without losing their sense of love and this assures us that by and large, love is always alive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EProf. Ruel F. Pepa\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eis a Filipino philosopher based in Madrid, Spain. A retired academic (Associate Professor IV), he taught Philosophy and Social Sciences at Trinity University of Asia, an Anglican university in the Philippines. 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This is likely to cause a new war in the Middle East, send out a new wave of refugees, and destroy the cradle of our faith and…\"\u003ESlavery in Our Modern \"Free Market\" World\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E31 August 2015\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5644900\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737246\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/slow-suicide-and-the-abandonment-of-the-world\/5644900\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World  “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.  Society highly values its normal man.  It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.  Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/suicide-prevention.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737246\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/slow-suicide-and-the-abandonment-of-the-world\/5644900\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World  “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.  Society highly values its normal man.  It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.  Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000…\"\u003ESlow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E22 June 2018\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is Global Research\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/ruel-f-pepa\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Prof. Ruel F. 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/stephen-lendman\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Stephen Lendman\"\u003EStephen Lendman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 14, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zc-gTmXsMf0\/YCnPRsC5naI\/AAAAAAAA2s8\/AZkIGOGQf4In4zGyl6dBB7rW3p07WVKvACLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/1280px-Joe_Biden_sworn_in_1-20-09_hires_090120-N-0696M-204a-400x267.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"267\" data-original-width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zc-gTmXsMf0\/YCnPRsC5naI\/AAAAAAAA2s8\/AZkIGOGQf4In4zGyl6dBB7rW3p07WVKvACLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/1280px-Joe_Biden_sworn_in_1-20-09_hires_090120-N-0696M-204a-400x267.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAs US senator and vice president for nearly half a century, Biden supported US aggression against invented enemies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHe partnered with Obama’s preemptive wars on nonbelligerent Libya and Syria, continued inherited wars on Afghanistan and Yemen.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETheir troop drawdown from Iraq was head fake deception. The country remains occupied by unwelcome Pentagon forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAlong with orchestrated coups in Honduras, Paraguay and Brazil, they replaced democracy in Ukraine with Nazi-infested fascist tyranny.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThey supported multiple Israeli wars on Occupied Palestine, along with war by other means on nations free from US control.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAs selected, not elected, president, Biden’s geopolitical team is stacked with hawks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAre plans afoot for escalated warmaking ahead?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWas pledging “to bring a responsible end to wars that have dragged on for far too long” polar opposite of what his hardline geopolitical team intend?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWas saying he’ll “ensure that terrorist threats cannot endanger the security of the American people” code language for continuation of Washington’s permanent war on humanity?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn mid-March, US aggression in Syria will enter its 11th year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EInstead of ending America’s fourth longest war in modern times — after Afghanistan, Yemen and Southeast Asia — Biden appears intending to escalate it on the phony pretext of combatting ISIS (again).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUnexplained is that the US created and supports the terrorist group and likeminded ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETheir jihadists are used as proxy fighters where deployed by the Pentagon and CIA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThey’re recruited, armed, funded, trained, directed, and used to advance US imperial interests in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn Wednesday, Iran’s judiciary head Ebrahim Raeisi said the Biden\/Harris regime is relocating and “strengthening Daesh (ISIS) in terms of weapons, logistics, intelligence, and other aspects,” adding:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“While Iraq, Syria, Iran and regional countries are working together to eliminate the remnants of Daesh, the Americans do nothing but relocate the Daesh terrorists in the region” to continue pursuit of their hegemonic aims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAfter withdrawing from Iraq in 2011, US forces were redeployed to the country on the phony pretext of combatting ISIS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBelying Biden’s message about turning a page for peace by ending ongoing US wars, Southfront reported the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe US “is returning to a level of activity in the Middle East unseen in nearly 4 years.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EInstead of withdrawing US forces from Syria, a buildup of larger numbers is underway.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn Monday, the Pentagon said its mission in the country is once again combatting ISIS (sic).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe announcement came after the terrorist group’s force strength in the country was increased by its US handlers — a convenient pretext for escalating war in Syria instead of ending it once and for all.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESouthfront noted “a massive shift in posture (by) the US,” terrorist infested Idlib province the main battleground in Syria.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBuilding up ISIS forces in Syria and elsewhere assures continued wars and no US regional withdrawal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAre things on the cusp of escalated US war in Syria and perhaps elsewhere?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELast week, AMN News reported that Syrian forces were engaged in “fierce battles” with ISIS in central parts of the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAround the same time, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIsrael carried out “air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan with bursts of air-to-surface and ground-to-ground missiles, targeting some sites in the southern region.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESince early January, Israel terror-bombed Syria a number of times, “including a massive attack on the eastern governorate of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt’s part of undeclared Jewish state war on Syria, missiles and rockets most often fired from Lebanese airspace and Occupied Golan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn late January after Biden replaced Trump, AMN News said southern Syria experienced an increased “wave of violence” by US proxy fighters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“(A)ttempts to ease the tensions in southern Syria have failed thus far…”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAccording to the Biden regime’s State Department:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe US “supports the UN-facilitated, Syrian-led process mandated by UNSCR 2254 (sic).”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“There is no military solution to the Syrian conflict (sic).”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHardliners surrounding Biden falsely blame Syria, Russia and Iran for US aggression with no end of it in prospect ahead under Biden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EClaiming that Washington is committed to defeating ISIS is belied by its actions in support of the terrorist group and likeminded ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDeceptively claiming that the US “is the largest single donor to the humanitarian response in Syria” ignores so-called Caesar Syria Civilian Protection legislation (Caesar Act).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESigned by Trump in December 2019, implemented last June, the draconian measure has nothing to do with protecting Syrian civilians.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt’s all about wanting them starved into submission to Washington’s imperial aims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn stark contrast to claims about providing vital humanitarian aid to long-suffering Syrians, the measure threatens US sanctions on nations, entities and individuals that help the Syrian Arab Republic and its people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEndless war on the country continues under Biden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBased on what’s discussed above, things appear heading for escalating US aggression instead of steps to end it altogether.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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Contact at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Elendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMy two Wall Street books are timely reading:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion, and Class War”\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/product\/how-wall-street-fleeces-america\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/product\/how-wall-street-fleeces-america\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/product\/banker-occupation-waging-financial-war-on-humanity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/product\/banker-occupation-waging-financial-war-on-humanity\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFeatured image:\u0026nbsp;Biden was sworn into office by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens on January 20, 2009. 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The rarest…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"The Threat of a Biden\/Harris Regime in Power\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/biden-harris.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737238\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/threat-biden-harris-regime-power\/5728383\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"The Threat of a Biden\/Harris Regime in Power  Since Trump took office in January 2017, I’ve sharply criticized his domestic and geopolitical agenda — with ample supporting evidence to make my case. I support neither right wing of the US one-party state — nor farcical elections when held that always turn out largely the same way. The rarest…\"\u003EThe Threat of a Biden\/Harris Regime in Power\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E3 November 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5728919\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737238\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/what-biden-foreign-policy-might-look-like\/5728919\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; 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Kennedy, Jr"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch3 class=\"subtitle\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 15px 10px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E(Just a Few of the Reasons Why the Corporate Media has Shamelessly Black-listed Him and the Children’s Health Defense Website)\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Robert F. Kennedy Jr\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy Jr\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 14, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EChildren's Health Defense\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sOkOabmcozI\/YCnOTaFLRsI\/AAAAAAAA2s0\/9-87ung6ad0g1osrBE092j5etQHZAnfBwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/covid-19-400x209.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"209\" data-original-width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sOkOabmcozI\/YCnOTaFLRsI\/AAAAAAAA2s0\/9-87ung6ad0g1osrBE092j5etQHZAnfBwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/covid-19-400x209.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECollated by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Gary G. Kohls\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“In 1986, Congress—awash in Pharma money (over the past 20 years, the pharmaceutical industry has been number one for both political campaign contributions and lobbying spending on legislators) – enacted a law granting vaccine makers blanket immunity from liability for injuries (or deaths) caused by vaccines. The subsequent gold rush by pharmaceutical companies boosted the number of recommended inoculations from twelve shots of five vaccines in 1986 to 54 shots of 13 vaccines today. A billion-dollar sideline grew into the $50 billion\u0026nbsp;vaccine industry behemoth.” —\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“As of 1986, only 12.8% of American kids had chronic (and usually incurable) diseases. That number has grown to 54% among the vaccine generation (children born after 1986) in lockstep with the CDC’s and AAP’s (American Academy of Pediatrics) expanding vaccine schedule.” —\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Since vaccines are liability-free – and effectively compulsory to a captive market of 76 million children – there is meager market incentive for companies to make them safe. The public must rely on the moral scruples of Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, and Pfizer. But these companies have a long history of operating recklessly and dishonestly, even with products for which they can be sued for injuries. The four companies that make virtually all of the recommended vaccines are all convicted felons.\u0026nbsp;Collectively they have paid over $35 billion\u0026nbsp;since 2009 for defrauding regulators, lying to and bribing government officials and physicians, falsifying science, and leaving a trail of injuries and deaths\u0026nbsp;from products they knew to be dangerous and still sold under pretense of safety and efficacy.” –\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Safety testing, which typically requires months and years for other medical products, often lasts only a few days with vaccines – not nearly long enough to spot cancers or chronic conditions like autoimmune diseases(e.g. juvenile diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis), allergic illnesses (e.g. food allergies, allergic rhinitis, eczema, asthma), or neurological and neurodevelopmental injuries (e.g. ADD, ADHD, narcolepsy, epilepsy, seizure disorders, and autism).\u0026nbsp;Vaccine manufacturer’s vaccine inserts that accompany every vial of mandated vaccines include warnings about these and over 400 other injuries including many serious immune, neurological, and chronic illnesses for which FDA suspects that vaccines may be the cause.” –\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“The children who comprise this vaccine-injured generation are now aging out of schools that needed to build quiet rooms and autism wings, install wobble chairs, hire security guards and hike special education spending to 25% to accommodate them. They are landing on the social safety net which they threaten to sink. As Democratic lawmakers all around the nation vote to mandate more vaccines and call for the censorship of experts (including parents of vaccine-injured or killed children) that are expressing concerns about vaccine safety, Democratic Presidential candidates argue about how to fix America’s dysfunctional and unaffordable health care system without addressing the reality of the vaccine-related chronic disease and autoimmune disorder epidemic. The good news for Big Pharma (and Big Medicine), of course, is that many of these vaccine-injured children have lifelong dependencies on unaffordable blockbuster drugs like insulin, Adderall, anti-psychotic drugs, Epi-Pens, asthma inhalers, and diabetes, arthritis, and anti-seizure meds made by the same companies that made the vaccines.” –\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/vaccines-liberal-mind\/5686389\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Vaccines and the Liberal Mind\"\u003EVaccines and the Liberal Mind\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“An overwhelming majority of the FDA officials directly charged with licensing vaccines, and the CDC officials who effectively mandate them for children, have personal financial entanglements with vaccine manufacturers. These ‘public servants’ are often shareholders in, grant recipients from, and\/or paid consultants to vaccine manufacturers, and, occasionally, even patent holders of the very vaccines they vote to approve. Those conflicts of interest motivate them to recommend ever more vaccines with minimal support from evidence-based science” –\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“The FDA receives 45% of its annual budget from the pharmaceutical industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) gets roughly half its budget from private sources, including Pharma and its allied foundations. And the CDC, frankly, is a vaccine company; it owns 56 vaccine patents and buys and distributes $4.6 billion\u0026nbsp;in vaccines annually through the Vaccines for Children program, which is over 40% of its total budget.” —\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“The HHS (US Health and Human Services partners with vaccine makers to develop, approve, recommend, and pass mandates for new products and then shares profits from vaccine sales. HHS employees can personally collect up to $150,000\u0026nbsp;annually in royalties for products they work on. For example, key HHS officials collect money\u0026nbsp;on every sale of Merck’s controversial HPV vaccine Gardasil, which also yields tens of millions annually for the agency in patent royalties.” —\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“In 2009 or 2010, Bill Gates went in front of the United Nations, pledged $10 billion to the World Health Organization, and most of it ended up coming from government, not from him, but he put in a couple of billion. And he declared a decade of vaccines. Nobody paid much attention to him. But he was the first unelected official, with no diplomatic portfolio, who appeared before the United Nations and he made this declaration.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv1278220943MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Immediately, he started putting all of these wheels spinning. He created all of these groups that fight anti-vaccination, and he started promoting vaccines all over the world … and he created all of these quasi-governmental organizations,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cepi.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECEPI\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;[The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness] and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.path.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPATH\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EGAVI\u003C\/a\u003E, [the Vaccine Alliance] that everybody thinks are government, but they’re just Bill Gates. He took over the World Health Organization during this decade. Even the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/13ddacc4-0ae4-4be1-95c5-1a32ab15956a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFinancial Times said\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;no decision is made at the World Health Organization that is not run through the Gates Foundation first. And in 2019, the World Health Organization comes out in January, and says that vaccine hesitancy is one of the 10 greatest threats to global health. Did they offer any scientific study to prove that? No. They just stated it. Immediately, the world fell in order. In 150 countries, legislatures, politicians who are on the payroll of big pharma and pushing\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/vaccine-mandates-an-erosion-of-civil-rights-chd-e-book-available-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Evaccine mandates\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and abolishing exemptions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“In the United States, within three months, 100 bills in 50 states had been entered into the legislative process to mandate vaccines, and to ban exemptions … Adam Schiff, who’d been taking money from Gates, the head of the Intelligence Committee, comes forward and tells the social media CEOs, Pinterest,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/chd-files-first-amended-complaint-lawsuit-against-facebook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E, Google, all of them, Instagram, YouTube, etc: ‘You’ve got to start censoring vaccine misinformation.’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“And then we had the roll up to 2020, and 2020 in January, right on time for his decade of vaccines, we get\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECOVID\u003C\/a\u003E. And\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/truth-rfk-jr-david-martin-fauci-moderna-vaccine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFauci\u003C\/a\u003E, who’s his partner, puts $48 billion into pushing vaccines. Gates gets on TV every day saying, ‘Until everybody gets vaccinated, we have to stay locked down. We’re going to crash the global economy till all of you do what you’re told and get your vaccine.’\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Gates paid for studies to kill Ivermectin, to kill Hydroxychloroquine, to discredit them. We’ve spent in our country $0 on off-the-shelf antivirals, researching them, vitamin D, all the things we know that reduce fatalities for COVID. None of that was studied. None of it was recommended. Instead, all of the money, $48 billion, went to vaccines.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Now, Gates is reproducing that. He has succeeded with his ‘Decade of Vaccines’ beyond anybody’s wildest dreams. And now, he’s gone on to Part Two, which he’s declared the ‘Decade of Food’, and he’s doing the same thing. It’s all chemical food. It’s synthetic food. He owns the ‘Impossible Burgers’, ‘Beyond Beef’ – all of these things, which are loaded with pesticides, and he’s trying to get the farmers off the farms. He’s taking over the farms with his robots and his artificial intelligence in India, in Africa, and now in the United States, and giving us unhealthy food, and it’s contributing to the chronic illnesses that are going to make us addicted to his medications.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Gates owns a big stake in Philip Morris, which owns Kraft Foods and also owns General Foods. And they make processed foods and they make American cheese singles and Cheez Whiz. Those are so devoid of nutrition that the government makes those companies put in vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin C, et cetera. There are some vitamins in them. What Gates is doing now all across Africa, all across the world, is he’s passing laws, he’s buying off politicians and forcing through mandates for fortified food so that you will not be able to sell food in markets in Africa, unless it’s fortified. Well, the food, the goat cheese that the farmer makes in Masai Mara in Kenya does not need fortification. It already has all the nutrients we want in it, but that farmer will not be able to sell that goat cheese in his local market. Instead Cheez Whiz will be the monopoly there. And that’s one of the ways that he’s using what Vandana Shiva’s saying about illegalizing health or outlawing healthy food to open up these markets and compel us to eat his dirty filthy poisonous food.” –\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERobert F. 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Kennedy, Jr.: Individual Rights and Freedoms Under Siege in Era of COVID  All Global Research articles including the  E-Book can be read in 27 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). *** “The COVID-19 pandemic has proven an opportunity of convenience for totalitarian elements who have put individual rights and freedoms globally…\"\u003ERobert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Individual Rights and Freedoms Under Siege in Era of COVID\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E27 January 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is Children's Health Defense\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Robert F. 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border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 15px 10px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAn Interview with Felicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"meta\" style=\"background: rgb(235, 235, 235); border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 15px 10px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"post-info\" style=\"border: 0px; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 349px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"author\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/felicity-arbuthnot\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Felicity Arbuthnot\"\u003EFelicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/radio-islam\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Radio Islam\"\u003ERadio Islam\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 14, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/index.php\/podcast\/48-interviews\/22974-remembering-al-amiriyya-bombing-felicity-arbuthnot.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERadio Islam\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;14 February 2018\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fE6ONw8M1Ck\/YCnNLOg6mCI\/AAAAAAAA2so\/1SdrCZsAf3k1G5h4aN5kXuNaHKo9o7AcACLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/al-amiriyah-bombing-400x268.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"268\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fE6ONw8M1Ck\/YCnNLOg6mCI\/AAAAAAAA2so\/1SdrCZsAf3k1G5h4aN5kXuNaHKo9o7AcACLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h428\/al-amiriyah-bombing-400x268.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFirst published on GR on March 21, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EListen to the interview with\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Felicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the 1991 bombing of Al-Amiriyah\u0026nbsp;shelter in Iraq by the US Air Force.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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Figures for the souls lost, still vary from four hundred and five to…\"\u003EWar Crimes: The Ameriyah Shelter in West Baghdad: The 1991 St. Valentine's Day Massacre\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E14 February 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"17618\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5632969\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraq-st-valentine-s-day-massacres-still-ongoing\/17618\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Iraq: Forty Years Ago. The St. Valentine's Day Massacres: Still Ongoing  Initially published on Valentine's Day 2010. Veteran War Correspondent and Associate Editor of Global Research Felicity Arbuthnot reminds us of the crimes against humanity committed against the Iraqi people at the height of Iraq War I, euphemistically described as The Gulf War. It happened on Valentine's Day. Forty Years of killings…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Iraq: Forty Years Ago. The St. Valentine's Day Massacres: Still Ongoing\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/117618.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5632969\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraq-st-valentine-s-day-massacres-still-ongoing\/17618\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Iraq: Forty Years Ago. The St. Valentine's Day Massacres: Still Ongoing  Initially published on Valentine's Day 2010. Veteran War Correspondent and Associate Editor of Global Research Felicity Arbuthnot reminds us of the crimes against humanity committed against the Iraqi people at the height of Iraq War I, euphemistically described as The Gulf War. It happened on Valentine's Day. Forty Years of killings…\"\u003EIraq: Forty Years Ago. The St. Valentine's Day Massacres: Still Ongoing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E13 February 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/index.php\/podcast\/48-interviews\/22974-remembering-al-amiriyya-bombing-felicity-arbuthnot.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERadio Islam\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/felicity-arbuthnot\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Felicity Arbuthnot\"\u003EFelicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/radio-islam\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Radio Islam\"\u003ERadio Islam\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/index.php\/podcast\/48-interviews\/22974-remembering-al-amiriyya-bombing-felicity-arbuthnot.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERadio Islam\u003C\/a\u003E, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraq-and-the-gulf-war-remembering-the-1991-al-amiriyah-bombing-by-the-us-air-force\/5632969\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1991260440638811160\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/iraq-and-gulf-war-remembering-1991-al.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/1991260440638811160"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/1991260440638811160"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/iraq-and-gulf-war-remembering-1991-al.html","title":"Iraq and the “Gulf War”: Remembering the 1991 Al-Amiriyah Bombing by the US Air Force"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fE6ONw8M1Ck\/YCnNLOg6mCI\/AAAAAAAA2so\/1SdrCZsAf3k1G5h4aN5kXuNaHKo9o7AcACLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w640-h428-c\/al-amiriyah-bombing-400x268.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-6964572072173390794"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-14T20:22:00.004-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-14T20:22:23.230-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Canada"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Global Economy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Militarization and WMD"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Agenda"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New NORAD Warfare Strategies and Canada’s Role in the “Great Game” Revisited"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"subtitle\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 15px 10px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe future battleground which Canada is being prepared to set up is to be found in the Arctic, Matthew Ehret writes.\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"author\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/matthew-ehret-kump\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Ehret-Kump\"\u003EMatthew Ehret-Kump\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 14, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/02\/09\/new-norad-warfare-strategies-and-canada-role-in-great-game-revisited\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EStrategic Culture Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;9 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DU45tm8BzDk\/YCnMf9bTdJI\/AAAAAAAA2sg\/OhD2pj4l6_AAVbuBDfp5ckD1Ka4PS31yACLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/Ehret-1-930x520-400x224.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"224\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DU45tm8BzDk\/YCnMf9bTdJI\/AAAAAAAA2sg\/OhD2pj4l6_AAVbuBDfp5ckD1Ka4PS31yACLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h358\/Ehret-1-930x520-400x224.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAs relations between the USA and Russia continue to fall ever deeper into the abyss, and as China’s Belt and Road Initiative continues to evolve deep into the Eurasian Arctic via the Polar Silk Road, a new era of potential for cooperation as well as nuclear war awaits humanity. The decisions made over the coming months will determine which of those two opposing destinies are selected.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFor the time being, things are looking bad.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn February 5, 2021 the Canadian press was lit abuzz with the headline\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/eye-on-the-arctic\/2021\/02\/05\/norad-modernization-to-dominate-agenda-of-canada-u-s-defence-relations-experts-say\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ENORAD Modernization to Dominate Agenda of Canada-U.S. Defence Relations\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;citing various military think tanks and ivory tower game theorists who should be kept as far from any actual policy making circles if the world is going to survive beyond the coming decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECiting the recent Biden-Trudeau meeting which featured a long discussion about Russian-Chinese aggression and Arctic defense, Andrea Charron (head of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies) states:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Where as before the primary threat during the Cold War was one peer competitor, who wasn’t using greyzone tactics, or at least not to the same extent as now, we now have two peer competitors to the U.S. – China and Russia – and they are using greyzone tactics, and they’re developing more sophisticated weapons like hypersonic glide vehicle weapons,”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe idea being conveyed here is that Russian hypersonic air launched Kinzhal ballistic missiles will soon be stationed in Russia’s north which should cause NORAD to be completely revamped.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOf course, these academics are quick to ignore all evidence of NATO encirclement of Russia and China under the insane “full spectrum dominance” game plan which certain geopoliticians believe will make nuclear war somehow winnable with 21\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Est\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;century technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn the face of this supposed Russian and Chinese aggression, NATO-philes are screeching for Canada’s speedy entry into the NORAD Ballistic Missile shield which it abandoned over 15 years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECiting the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/uploads\/documents\/Hardening%20the%20Shield_A%20Credible%20Deterrent%20%26%20Capable%20Defense%20for%20North%20America_EN.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E2020 Wilson Center report\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;co-written by former NORAD chief Terrance O’Shaughnessy, and published by the Canada Institute, artificial intelligence programs (“SHIELD” and “Pathfinder”) are introduced as the key to the total overhaul of Canada-USA arctic strategy. O’Shaughnessy wrote of SHIELD that “It pools this data and fuses it into a common operational picture. Then, using the latest advances in machine learning and data analysis, it scans the data for patterns that are not visible to human eyes, helping decision-makers understand adversary potential courses of action before they are executed.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnyone who has read Cynthia Chung’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/09\/14\/dr-strangelove-spoon-benders-how-us-military-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-bomb\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDr. Strangelove’s Spoonbenders\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will quickly realize why using AI to pick up algorithms that would normally be missed by human analysts, and generate hair-trigger decisions to counter threats from Eurasia creates a mountain of trouble for humanity, as glitches and mis-readings of Russian\/Chinese intentions can easily escalate unstoppably into a nuclear retaliation by deductive\/inductive machine thinking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENow at this point, many onlookers might make the mistake of brushing off these obvious plans for a revamped NORAD-NATO Arctic doctrine since Canada’s military is negligible, and it is merely a “middle power” that couldn’t possible do great damage anywhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt is to the person asking this question that this report was written.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe British Great Game Past and Present\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe first factor which such a person must recognize is the nature of the British Empire\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eas an efficient power structure dominating the world even today\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnyone confused about this still-existing power structure need only read Eric Zuesse’ new report entitled\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/theduran.com\/further-proof-that-u-s-uk-are-one-empire-not-two\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E‘Further Proof that the U.S. and UK are One Empire’\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;where the author astutely writes:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Although the “Special Relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom was first announced by Winston Churchill at Fulton Missouri on 5 March 1946, in the company of an approving U.S. President Harry S. Truman, it was actually started by Cecil Rhodes in 1877 when he drew up his plan for England secretly to retake America and use it so as to preserve and expand Britain’s empire throughout the world, via the Rhodes Trust. Rhodes was the first person to think up a “U.S. empire,” but it was actually only as a tool for the preservation and extension of England’s existing empire. And Winston Churchill, as a young man at the start of the 20th Century, was an acolyte and friend of Rhodes, and was viewed by Rhodes as being one of his most promising young followers.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Post-WWII Order and the Rhodes Trust Origins of NATO\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn the Post-WWII order, the important tendency for U.S.-Russian partnership which shaped the 1780 League of Armed Neutrality, Russia’s support for the union in 1863 and the U.S.-Russia friendship that made WWII a success was overthrown.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis historic friendship was directly targeted by forces loyal to the British Empire’s grand strategy for global Anglo-Saxon Dominance exemplified by Sir Winston Churchill’s unveiling of the Cold War during his\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.historyonthenet.com\/winston-churchills-iron-curtain-speech-predicting-the-cold-war\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMarch 5, 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Fulton Missouri and the follow-up creation of NATO in 1949 as a military bloc which would operate independently of the UN Security Council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAn under-appreciated role in the formation of NATO and international dis-order more generally during these Cold War years is the British Deep State of Canada and due to the neglect of this fact, a few words should be said about this problem here and now.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhile official narratives have tried to spin NATO’s origins as the effect of an agreement amongst all western powers, the fact is that British intelligence operations are the true source, with British-trained Rhodes Scholar Escott Reid laying out the thesis for a supranational military body outside of the influence of the UN Security Council\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/06\/28\/the-age-of-chatham-house-and-the-british-roots-of-nato\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eas early as August 1947.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;It was another two years before the design would materialize as an anti-Soviet military coalition based on the binding agreement that if one member enters a conflict, then all members must so enter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt a Round Table-directed Conference on August 13, 1947, Reid, an ardent globalist and co-founder of the Canadian branch of the London Fabian Society:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/canada-arctic-initiative\/5689662\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Canada’s Arctic Initiative in the Geopolitical Crucible\"\u003ECanada’s Arctic Initiative in the Geopolitical Crucible\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“recommended that the countries of the North Atlantic band together, under the leadership of the United States, to form ‘a new regional security organization’ to deter Soviet expansion.” He went on to state “In such an organization each member state could accept a binding obligation to pool the whole of its economic and military resources with those of the other members if any power should be found to have committed aggression against any one of the members.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe name of the British Imperial game has always been\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“balance of power”\u003C\/em\u003E. Manipulate society as a single closed system by monopolizing resources, and then manage the diminishing rates of return by creating conflict between potential allies. This process can be seen clearly today behind the conflicts manipulated in the South China Sea between China and Philippines, the Diaoyu-Senkaku Islands between China and Japan, wars for oil in the Middle East and the new tension being created in the Arctic. The opposing, typically “American System of Political Economy” has always disobeyed this game of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“balancing a fixed system”\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by introducing creative change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/americansystemnow.com\/category\/the-historic-figures-of-the-american-system\/statesmen\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe American System\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the other hand, has traditionally located its point of emphasis primarily upon\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ecreating new resources, through inventions and discoveries\u003C\/em\u003E, rather than simply looting, consuming, and distributing what already exists. This system formulated by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt proved that more energy could always be produced than was consumed IF discoveries and inventions were cultivated in a creatively developing society, shaped by concrete national intentions and bold visionary goals to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eincrease the powers of production of society\u003C\/em\u003E. The American System is thus understood as an open-system founded upon win-win cooperation while the British System is based on a closed-system worldview under a win-lose operating system where the elite managing nations from above dictate the wars, and diminishing rates of returns to a depopulated society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESince the British system implies that the world resources are limited, then the stronger will necessarily have to loot the weaker… Hence, the system is also “zero-sum”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThroughout the Cold War, Canada’s role as a “middle power” was defined most succinctly by Fabian Society asset Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, when asked what his foreign policy was, explained simply:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“to create counterweights”.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;That is, when the “geopolitical center of gravity” moves towards “capitalist America”, then Canada must move towards befriending “socialist” Russia and its allies. When the center of gravity moves towards a Russian edge within the Great Game, then do the opposite. Although the Cold War “officially” ended in 1991, the imperial Great Game never did, and Canada’s role as a British chess piece continues unabated to the present.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe future battleground which Canada is being prepared to set up is to be found in the Arctic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Strategy of the Arctic in History\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-686576 aligncenter\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ehret0901.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"474\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe struggle for Arctic dominance is currently being defined by the rules of British geopolitics. The above map features the layout of the arctic with dotted lines defining areas still not under the control of any particular nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EToday, the northern Arctic is among the last unexplored and undeveloped frontiers on the earth. With an area over 14 million square kilometers, this area is rich in a variety of mineral and gas deposits containing approximately 90 billion barrels of oil and 1670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This abundance is complicated by the fact that its borders are highly undefined, overlapping eight major nations with Canada and Russia as the dominant claimants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn recent history, American System methods were attempted in the opening up of the Arctic for mutual development and cooperation beginning with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/tomorrows-arctic-theatre-of-war-or-cooperation-the-real-story-behind-the-alaska-purchase\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esale of Alaska to America in 1867\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by the “American system Czar” Alexander II to the allies of Abraham Lincoln. These same forces orchestrated the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway and heavily promoted the Bering Strait Rail tunnel connecting the two great continents which arose by the turn of the century. Early designs for the Russian-American rail connection were\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/william-gilpin-and-the-original-world-landbridge-project\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epublished in 1893 by Governor William Gilpin\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Colorado which gained renewed support by the soon-to-be-deposed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/news\/world\/a-tunnel-to-alaska\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECzar Nicholas II in 1905\u003C\/a\u003E. Russia again revived this project\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/russia-green-lights-65-billion-siberia-alaska-rail-and-tunnel-to-bridge-the-bering-strait\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 2011\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-686577 aligncenter\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Ehret0902.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"701\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThroughout the 20th Century, Russia has developed a far greater aptitude at creating corridors of permanent habitation in the Arctic relative to their North American counterparts which are expanding at a fast pace under Putin’s Eastern vision and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/05\/16\/polar-silk-road-comes-to-life-as-new-epoch-history-begins\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChina’s Polar Silk Road\u003C\/a\u003E. Due to the post WWII Cold War dynamic of tension, much that could have been accomplished, had resources not been so badly drained by Cold War militarization, was not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe beacon of light during this Cold Dark process was to be found in Canada’s 13th Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, whose Northern Vision, unveiled in 1958, hinged upon his $78 million allocation for funds to construct a permanent domed nuclear-powered city in Frobisher Bay (now named Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut), as a test case for a greater nation building program in the Arctic. When Diefenbaker\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewas run out of office in 1963 through a British-steered operation,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;his vision was scrapped, and a new Arctic doctrine was artificially imposed upon Canada.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFalse Polarizations Imposed onto Arctic Grand Strategy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis new imperial Arctic doctrine was modeled around the two (anti-nation building) measures of “conservation” of fixed ecosystems and indigenous cultures on the one side, and rapacious mineral exploitation for the increasingly deregulated “global markets” on the other. Canadian examples of this operation can be seen in the Munk School of Global Affairs, the World Wildlife Fund of Canada (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hugo_Loudon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewhose 2\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003End\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;president was the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell\u003C\/a\u003E), and their powerful affiliate, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, presided over by Pierre Trudeau’s former Principal Secretary Thomas Axworthy. Barack Gold Founder and CEO Peter Munk was one of hundreds of oil barons who acted as founding members of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/isgp-studies.com\/1001-club-of-the-wwf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E1001 Club\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which was created by Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands and Prince Philip of England in order to fund the WWF in its early years. Other Canadian Deep State founding members of the 1001 Club included WWF Vice Presidents\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/maurice-strong-and-the-imperial-attack-on-atomic-energy-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMaurice Strong\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/eiw\/public\/1994\/eirv21n49-19941209\/eirv21n49-19941209_054-permindex_ties_revealed_to_jfk_m.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELouis Mortimer Bloomfield\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAxworthy is a major player in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/2014\/03\/12\/canada-2020-and-the-new-malthusian-takeover-of-canada\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECanada 2020 machine\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;associated with the current Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau. The overlap of major banking institutions like the Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank with the mineral cartels, holding companies and environmental organizations in this structure produces a very real picture that the left and the right are merely two sides of the same imperial beast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe role of the above interests in creating the Arctic Council in 1996 (and the later Circumpolar Business Forum) was designed to trap nations into an intellectual cage of resource exploitation under free market doctrines of zero national planning on the one side, with eco-systems management and zero national planning on the other. Now that the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/harley.larouchepac.com\/a_crash_is_looming_but_a_new_bretton_woods_is_within_reach\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Epost-1971 world financial order is on the verge of collapse\u003C\/a\u003E, these technocrats believe that a new replacement system will allow for national planning, but only on condition that it be directed by Malthusian technocrats and aimed at the goal of lowering the population potential of the planet. This agenda has come to be known as the Green New Deal in 2018 and since evolved into the Great Reset Agenda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETo re-emphasize: When observed from a top-down perspective, both the “left” eco-green movement and the “right” monetarist institutions are one single thing. It is only by foolishly looking at this process from the “bottom up” that apparent differences are perceived. This is just an illusion for the credulous victims of an imperial education system who have been taught to believe their sense perceptions more than their powers of reason. The reality is that this is nothing more than British Malthusian geopolitics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBreaking Out of the Great Game\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe fact is that while the Atlantic economies have currently submitted to the City of London- Wall Street and Troika demands for policies of depopulation, austerity and hyperinflation,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/joe-biden-and-revenge-of-behaviorists-why-statistical-thinking-can-get-you-killed\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERussia and China are committed to true development\u003C\/a\u003E. Both countries are intent on creating a unified block of win-win cooperation based upon the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Eurasian Economic Union and BRICS and that intention is based on anti-Malthusian scientific and technological progress.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/r.schillerinstitute.org\/conf-iclc\/2017\/1024-paris\/hzl.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Belt and Road Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which now involves over 135 countries exemplifies this spirit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe financial system of the trans-Atlantic is collapsing and it will be reset. The only question is, will it be reset by the open system agenda advocated by Russia and China or will it be the closed system unipolar agenda promoted by sociopathic Davos creatures?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIf western societies should wish to have any claim to being morally fit to survive, then this is an optimistic power that we must re-awaken in ourselves fast. For it is only by acting on principles of scientific discovery and progress that a proper perspective can be discovered to overcome the current obstacles to our survival. That is, the discovery of what the future can and must become IF a creative change is introduced into the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe only pathway to avoiding the collapse of the financial system and a thermonuclear war is to be found in imposing Natural Law vigorously upon the claimed “debts” which Wall Street, and the City of London wishes to have bailed out. The expression of this Natural Law takes the form of the restoration of Glass-Steagall laws across the trans-Atlantic economies, eliminating the $1.5 quadrillion debt bomb before it explodes and returning to the principles of national banking for all countries. Under such a reform and by joining in common interest with other nations in the Eurasian zone, a commitment to progress and security can be realized, and such poisonous agendas as the Great Reset can be avoided.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEscaping the British two-sided trap of monetarism and ecologism means going to fusion energy, space exploration, and mining the moon for Helium-3\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.v3.co.uk\/v3-uk\/news\/3068784\/china-wants-to-explore-the-moon-especially-its-far-side-but-why\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;as China is already preparing to do\u003C\/a\u003E. It means closing the fuel cycle, and scrapping low quality “green” energy boondoggles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe applications of a forward-looking space age society using fusion power, involves not only rendering imperial wars for oil and water obsolete (as energy and water will be made both incommensurably cheap and abundant relative to the fossil fuel based system now defining society’s limits), but gives mankind the tools to green deserts, build great projects, create a system of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/russia-wants-turn-old-missiles-asteroid-defense-system-180958138\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAsteroid Defense\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and construct the long-overdue Bering Strait Tunnel, a key link in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-05\/14\/c_136282780.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWorld Land Bridge\u003C\/a\u003E. These are the sorts of long term projects which not only remind us of our common self interests, but as JFK described the space program\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/er.jsc.nasa.gov\/seh\/ricetalk.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ein 1962\u003C\/a\u003E, create goals which “will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWithout this sort of “outside the box” thinking, it is safe to say that the current rules of the game now in place are set for total self-destruction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMatthew J.L. 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But,…\"\u003ELong Past Time for Canada to Exit NORAD\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E12 May 2018\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"2428\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737249\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/continental-integration-of-military-command-structures-a-threat-to-canada-s-sovereignty\/2428\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Continental Integration of Military Command Structures: A Threat to Canada's Sovereignty  Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Continental Integration of Military Command Structures: A Threat to Canada's Sovereignty\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/site_images\/blank1x17.gif?resize=350%2C200\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737249\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/continental-integration-of-military-command-structures-a-threat-to-canada-s-sovereignty\/2428\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Continental Integration of Military Command Structures: A Threat to Canada's Sovereignty  Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.\"\u003EContinental Integration of Military Command Structures: A Threat to Canada's Sovereignty\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E12 May 2006\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-nothumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"29122\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a jp-relatedposts-post-aoverlay\" data-origin=\"5737249\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/deep-military-integration-towards-a-north-american-combined-military-force\/29122\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; display: block; font: inherit; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Deep Military Integration: Towards a North American Combined Military Force  The U.S. and Canada recently signed several bilateral agreements that will further strengthen continental security and defense cooperation. Deeper military integration between both countries is part of efforts to establish a North American security perimeter and better address common global threats.Following the recent Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) meeting…\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737249\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/deep-military-integration-towards-a-north-american-combined-military-force\/29122\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Deep Military Integration: Towards a North American Combined Military Force  The U.S. and Canada recently signed several bilateral agreements that will further strengthen continental security and defense cooperation. Deeper military integration between both countries is part of efforts to establish a North American security perimeter and better address common global threats.Following the recent Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) meeting…\"\u003EDeep Military Integration: Towards a North American Combined Military Force\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-excerpt\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 7.14286em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe U.S. and Canada recently signed several bilateral agreements that will further strengthen continental security and defense cooperation. Deeper military integration between both countries is part of efforts to establish a North American security perimeter and better address common global threats.Following the recent Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) meeting…\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E7 February 2012\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/paul-antonopoulos\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Paul Antonopoulos\"\u003EPaul Antonopoulos\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 14, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KYh2nKcQ_2o\/YCnLkbCqnCI\/AAAAAAAA2sY\/7GOcaYYuXpEiaBIN0kl_1FPvaGF_aDjZgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/Philia-400x225.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"225\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-KYh2nKcQ_2o\/YCnLkbCqnCI\/AAAAAAAA2sY\/7GOcaYYuXpEiaBIN0kl_1FPvaGF_aDjZgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h360\/Philia-400x225.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA geopolitically changing event took place on February 11 when Athens hosted the Foreign Ministers of Cyprus, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iraq, as well as the Minister of State for International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates. The French Foreign Minister participated via video link. Their attendance, whether in Athens or via video link, was for the inauguration of the Philia Forum. Officially called the “Philia Forum – Building Friendship, Peace and Prosperity from the Mediterranean to the Gulf,” the name explicitly highlights the intentions of the forum – Philia, coming from the Greek word for friendship.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe forum was the brainchild of Greek\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EForeign Minister Nikos Dendias\u003C\/span\u003E, who since assuming his role in mid-2019, has been working tirelessly to change the international perception of Greece as an economical and geopolitical nuisance on the periphery of the European Union, to a geopolitical center that connects Europe, West Asia and North Africa together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGreek\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;opened the forum and explained that it is natural for Greece to establish this forum as it is positioned in the middle of two geographical arcs – a horizontal one from Portugal to the Persian Gulf, and a vertical one from the Balkans to Egypt which connects Europe with Africa. Emphasis on Greece’s geopolitical positioning was again made by Dendias, who said “Greece’s ambition is to be a bridge between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Greeks were the original Eurasian civilization. In fact, Greek civilization spanned three continents when we consider Greek colonies in Ancient Egypt and Libya. However, the modern Greek state, which celebrates its 200th anniversary of independence from the Ottoman Empire on March 25, lays entirely within the European continent. Being reduced to the bounds of Europe and thanks to Russia, France and Britain for their contributions to the War of Independence, Greece has always looked westwards rather than towards their ancient civilizational connections in the east. This was especially consolidated in 1952 when U.S.-backed Nazi-collaborators forced Greece into NATO.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUnder Dendias though, the prevalence of Greece’s westward pivot is finally being balanced out by an equal eastward focus. Previous to Dendias, Greek diplomacy and attitude was one of inferiority to their Turkish neighbors – one that believed Greece could not compete with Ankara because Turkey controls the Dardanelle and Bosporus Straits, has land borders with Europe, the Caucasus and West Asia, and has access to the Aegean, Black and Mediterranean Seas. This certainly gives Turkey a geopolitical advantage that it leverages to make demands against the Great Powers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/greece-turkey-clash-nato-teleconference-waging-mini-war-words\/5708896\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Greece and Turkey Clash in NATO Teleconference Waging Mini War of Words\"\u003EGreece and Turkey Clash in NATO Teleconference Waging Mini War of Words\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHowever, NATO’s reliance on Turkey against Russia has been significantly reduced as the Alliance now also has access to the Black Sea via Bulgaria and Romania, direct borders with Russia via Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and can block the Dardanelle Straits via the Alexandroupolis Port in northern Greece. NATO’s reduced reliance on Turkey is coupled with the country’s growing isolation from its neighbors and the Great Powers as it continues to antagonize states through unlawful and unilateral actions in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Cyprus, the Caucasus and the East Mediterranean.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThrough these antagonizations, Turkey has a host of adversaries, especially in the Arab World. It is no surprise that Greece has now created a Forum, where it emphasises its newfound confidence and strategic location, to include France, Cyprus and the Arab countries that have issues with Turkey.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“What unites us all today is the condemnation of illegal acts and the condemnation of irrational acts that undermine peace and security,” Dendias said at the forum, adding “Our goal is to create a bulwark against threats, violence, extremism, intolerance and distortion of religion.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis again is in clear reference to Turkey’s destabilization across the region and its utilization of Political Islam to work towards its ambitions. After highlighting Turkey’s destabilizing actions, Dendias said “the Philia Forum on the other hand is the background for the creation of synergies in various fields, such as the economy, energy, transport, tourism, culture, education, civil protection and dialogue between religions.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMost importantly, in preparation of changing Greece’s global image as a near bankrupt peripheral and unimportant European Union member, Dendias has prioritized engaging all the Great Powers, not just the U.S., in a positive manner. Whereas the West is consumed by Russophobia and Sinophobia, Dendias opened the path to mend relations with Russia, something Moscow has recognized by acknowledging openly why Athens cannot veto European Union sanctions but can still maintain positive relations, and by announcing 2021 to be the year of Greek-Chinese Culture and Tourism. In addition, Dendias was to be the first Greek Foreign Minister to meet an Indian counterpart since 2003. The COVID-19 pandemic put the meeting on hold, but Dendias emphasized last month that “it is a fact that on many issues of international interest, our positions are identical with those of India.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThrough the Philia Forum, Greece is also prioritizing its relations with France and the Arab World. Greece is already acquiring the powerful Rafale fighter jets from France and will likely procure the French-made Belharra frigates. However, it is with the Arab World where Dendias’ work has been most impressive, signing a mutual defense clause with the UAE, the first such agreement Greece has outside of NATO and Cyprus, and building military, economic and diplomatic relations with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iraq.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThrough the Philia Forum, Greece is advertising itself as the geopolitical center that connects West Asia, North Africa and Europe together, thus sidelining Turkey’s traditional role as this meeting point. Greece will certainly remain a NATO and European Union member, and will continue to build its relations with Washington, but it appears that it has taken a much more realistic approach, rather than liberal, to international relations. As part of this newfound confidence, Greece will no longer be bound by the interests of Washington and Brussels, but pursue multipolar policies to its own advantage that includes balancing its relations with the Great Powers and building strong ties with countries to its east. The Philia Forum is the first major step towards not only increasing Greece’s importance in the regional chessboard, but a player that can no longer be ignored.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis article was originally published on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/infobrics.org\/post\/32788\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EInfoBrics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPaul Antonopoulos\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an independent geopolitical analyst.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFeatured image is from InfoBrics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\" style=\"border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERelated Articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \" style=\"border: 0px; clear: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5723458\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737254\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/power-balance-east-mediterranean-changing-france-sends-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier\/5723458\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Power Balance in the East Mediterranean Is Changing as France Sends Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier  The delicate power balance in the East Mediterranean is changing dramatically and quickly as states begin to cooperate to contain and contract Turkish ambitions in the region. Turkey’s drive to secure and control gas and oil supplies has seen its military involve in Iraq, Syria and Libya, while also threatening…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Power Balance in the East Mediterranean Is Changing as France Sends Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/A-Aircraft-Carrier-Charles-de-Gaulle.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737254\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/power-balance-east-mediterranean-changing-france-sends-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier\/5723458\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Power Balance in the East Mediterranean Is Changing as France Sends Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier  The delicate power balance in the East Mediterranean is changing dramatically and quickly as states begin to cooperate to contain and contract Turkish ambitions in the region. 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Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias confirmed this from his Twitter. The appointment of Athanassiou…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Greece's Renewed Relations with Syria Further Isolates Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Greece-Syria.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737254\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/greece-renewed-relations-syria-isolates-turkey\/5712179\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Greece's Renewed Relations with Syria Further Isolates Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean  On Tuesday, the Greek Foreign Ministry finally announced a restoration of relations between Greece and Syria and assigned former ambassador to Syria and Russia, Tasia Athanassiou, as a Special Envoy of Greece’s Foreign Ministry for Syria. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias confirmed this from his Twitter. The appointment of Athanassiou…\"\u003EGreece's Renewed Relations with Syria Further Isolates Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E8 May 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5695024\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737254\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/greece-centrepiece-china-bri-eastern-mediterranean\/5695024\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Greece as the Centrepiece of China’s BRI in the Eastern Mediterranean  A 2018 Pew Survey found that 89% of Greeks found their culture to be superior to others, by far the highest amount of people in Europe where it reached as low as 26% in Sweden, 23% in Estonia and Belgium, and 20% in Spain. 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The Greeks are by far the…\"\u003EGreece as the Centrepiece of China’s BRI in the Eastern Mediterranean\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E15 November 2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; 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Kagame Crimes"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"author\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/robin-philpot\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Robin Philpot\"\u003ERobin Philpot\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/phil-taylor\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Phil Taylor\"\u003EPhil Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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What’s…\"\u003EThe Great Novichok Poisoning Hoax 2.0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E13 September 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5723717\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737256\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/navalny-nord-stream-2-belarus-american-elections\/5723717\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Navalny, Nord Stream 2, Belarus, and the American Elections  The narrative is banal and so familiar: Russia is once again accused of having “poisoned” an individual trumpeted by the Western media as threatening the Russian government’s interests. The minor political activist Alexei Navalny made the headlines after a suspicious incident at the airport in Tomsk on August 20, 2020…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Navalny, Nord Stream 2, Belarus, and the American Elections\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/navalny-hospital.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737256\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/navalny-nord-stream-2-belarus-american-elections\/5723717\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Navalny, Nord Stream 2, Belarus, and the American Elections  The narrative is banal and so familiar: Russia is once again accused of having “poisoned” an individual trumpeted by the Western media as threatening the Russian government’s interests. The minor political activist Alexei Navalny made the headlines after a suspicious incident at the airport in Tomsk on August 20, 2020…\"\u003ENavalny, Nord Stream 2, Belarus, and the American Elections\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E14 September 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5734841\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737256\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/why-navalny-return-same-country-claimed-tried-kill-him\/5734841\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Why Did Alexei Navalny Return to the Same Country that He Claimed Tried to Kill Him?  Russian anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny inexplicably decided to return to the same country that he claimed had unsuccessfully tried to kill him, curiously timing his trip to coincide with the immediate run-up to Biden's inauguration in what some suspect is nothing more than a Hybrid War provocation to establish the…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Why Did Alexei Navalny Return to the Same Country that He Claimed Tried to Kill Him?\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Alexei_Navalny_248af.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737256\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/why-navalny-return-same-country-claimed-tried-kill-him\/5734841\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Why Did Alexei Navalny Return to the Same Country that He Claimed Tried to Kill Him?  Russian anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny inexplicably decided to return to the same country that he claimed had unsuccessfully tried to kill him, curiously timing his trip to coincide with the immediate run-up to Biden's inauguration in what some suspect is nothing more than a Hybrid War provocation to establish the…\"\u003EWhy Did Alexei Navalny Return to the Same Country that He Claimed Tried to Kill Him?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E19 January 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is Phil Taylor's Show\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/robin-philpot\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Robin Philpot\"\u003ERobin Philpot\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/phil-taylor\" style=\"border: 0px; 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/derek-knauss\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Derek Knauss\"\u003EDerek Knauss\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 13, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/prepareforchange.net\/2020\/06\/27\/government-and-media-proven-to-be-lying-to-public-about-covid-pandemic\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPrepare for Change\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;27 June 2020\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mceVa1XkYGo\/YCiByEEdvQI\/AAAAAAAA2sA\/UTyXT1tB7z4zK40GuczzG3DjoJEtj_pMQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/corona-Covid-19-400x267.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"267\" data-original-width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mceVa1XkYGo\/YCiByEEdvQI\/AAAAAAAA2sA\/UTyXT1tB7z4zK40GuczzG3DjoJEtj_pMQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/corona-Covid-19-400x267.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFrom Jchristoff.com:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUS medical doctor and state senator explains that the US government has sent official documentation telling doctors and hospitals to lie about CV-19 death and infection numbers.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fzrajnz%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0IX_3A-sQEVNOwDhy1Whrnv3A3QrGLQIheqBXNehkc2LV4ckAAw3Prsu4\u0026amp;h=AT1qkgy_0Vs1m3dKTN5LQfozpMsH40AqPeJitmcjQGyxE3SnsIso-akZfZG0PIbEXnPsqHZr_vQ2DALSLTTo0I6JIB1VCcI_0xij8v6VqSurBpYpFmpe2EWULtF7wOf-TfkliKGYnvqucH5M38RuvF6W6_lp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/zrajnz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tiny.cc\/yqajnz?fbclid=IwAR16U9hskcP9FdbmXM9uz5TEQ1hZ7d_1u8dltGnhKaoe5Wew542-pg6DImU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/yqajnz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/health_policy\/Provisional-Death-Counts-COVID-19-Pneumonia-and-Influenza.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3OsLiB1XEnYMZxyID7qLL_jXt1FblSrnFM-btH8Eo6BtwStwOVPlMXZ2I\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this added link\u003C\/a\u003E, the US government actually admits that every death counted as a COVID-19 death is either presumed to be caused by COVID-19 or was caused by another disease…and also counted as a COVID-19 death.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AR2fY7dVdMo\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"690\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENY State admits adding thousands to CV-19 death counts with no testing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/tiny.cc\/wwajnz?fbclid=IwAR2GxUFjqGQChVlxKOont38uU4Ki2WZPlgU1HzPpcjWQ-VNRsu9MYUqXT8g\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/wwajnz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(article)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENew York City, already a world epicenter of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/04\/21\/world\/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"\"\u003Ecoronavirus\u003C\/a\u003Eoutbreak, sharply increased its\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/15\/world\/covid-death-news.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"\"\u003Edeath\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe new figures, released by the city’s Health Department,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/10\/nyregion\/new-york-coronavirus-death-count.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"\"\u003Edrove up the number of people killed in New York City to more than 10,000\u003C\/a\u003E, and appeared to increase the overall United States death count by 17 percent to more than 26,000\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-VCEVLYorws\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"690\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMedical doctor in Montana explains that CV-19 death and infection numbers are being faked by US government.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fc9ajnz%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1mtYysTLOUq75uPrY5olGuxOVNV3bgRID8I_rrA3RhprlnTmpTgiasfdM\u0026amp;h=AT1o-BNrpmTms15erKAw0VQNtdup6EJgoK3LTBbzLFTAqFYBEMX4Kdm8u5h_xB3k6mbDLA8jTUwHuXzbj0cCef2tcqZdC6S8yBYHBBtpnthY3VqrrjnXqT3-WaC-16GU9yxRZqSwMmrfn7KmQ23XnMecG8XS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/c9ajnz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGerman virus expert declares social distance isn’t based on science and that CV-19 can’t be found anywhere on any surface he tested.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fzbcjnz%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2s9D9Zu-83VUqckXnY7uzi-p_eu-OOCV4uI8d78Ty7S5JsyzNzz1rtTqw\u0026amp;h=AT0RQokKmPbFhJ0jffHYJZdz5QLrNS0Qy7m1bWcjWG49wFReet2-tyuEG2QuFUr6G1iC-_I4Acogkz0Ybpi5NwxM9NO5nR9FOpxow2TkXAK1rPAEkJAcZiyJc25EsfYfW2NpnnCW-9dJNDkqdtrKFHL__HB6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/zbcjnz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(article)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this added link Dr. Andrew Kaufman clearly explains the faults in the testing system and explain why there is no virus what so ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/r9MG7YY5CrpL\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/r9MG7YY5CrpL\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Spiro Skouras interview)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMedical doctor explains there’s no way to test for CV-19 in the first place, so how is anyone confirming cases, even though most aren’t confirming….they’re just making them up.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3eP2BbD%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2qhKeQMKCnvJpSMTygFM78l2yqL_RnQBoaBwlJNm4CxXA9qA_fYwDOOGc\u0026amp;h=AT2YEMOFPU9AxcFECJnvh98kdjcx_t08NYS2j-rLvH7xn5-6gd9eJWjypzskZBgcJMke9F9bi6SBsblA23f990tO-9N-ISeve6Vjxd0Wy3iNLR4CdSsmeutzPQzQDN-HFpkBJm1Lj5bcj70LNbLggWfskwOG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/3eP2BbD\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EState Health Department in Illinois declares they are faking CV-19 death and infection numbers.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i4i3Krs5aL0\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i4i3Krs5aL0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECanadian nurse comes forward to testify CV-19 death and infection numbers are being faked.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2S7U7mu%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0KF0TKbOlEQi0GnucQ7b65p65cf9a1feFB_TReuBAxCuveVPesOI97U-8\u0026amp;h=AT0yGRN7DRfBPMITLoRmQZeuUdFCr3ryoS33LuGhxgSb6GO9-Kl58cQherl3Tm8lhxVASNWkrIVehKyATZ63I_MzAoB9ObGdwXktiVw9QI3HzcdW1oj_92zyJw4T47TYFKGM_KOykrve9p9CJI2LkXa2Jvix\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2S7U7mu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EInvestigate reporter explains CV-19 statistics are being faked.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2x8nI7N%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3hWk9q7g6gg8127bjE_dUC7loQxIXI5sUKmGhE3_uk24uYG4qcQb5izTA\u0026amp;h=AT01j6X7jXSUiZiYrkwXN35yiq3d0QKVD32UM9aW6GToI5ElI2w8XDWj6ZwBGcrPPrMmZiM18bqveDFpCMNWeS-uGTHAPdIVYps3rjRsSUV5C7D_e_bZCTy9XfdkxKjFJ1NMqiGF1FhAvDnnNqd6KPg1UxlN\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2x8nI7N\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHead of UK National Health Services admits they’re padding the UK COVID death numbers as well, with people who never died of COVID.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2SveoCH%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2h4mThKqlB145pnchO4ZBoV_Q00Bpc32Ab2093ctakMOXTTqd4ekjWWpI\u0026amp;h=AT12_vmIl_VBq0uJTskTjj83epdf57F8eNaxFkpjAXVxfdKIJ2CVsAlk6-tGAG4dI5mUep2VbOYNWQEB9N-1-5izh8hV8PdqHKHv1m4UIaNfDkjf1nF6K86mLhyyfegz_vQFOiuStBW2ObhEP2ZC8g7Cei2p\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2SveoCH\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAfter basic investigating of govenrment statistics, CV-19 death and infection numbers are proven faked beyond belief.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2yMudgU%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1fCTw-kvSZNU5HhBj_2pNFWxGlY9fvszQ9BP_VIH9-KKr3Wo0zs4in6Ss\u0026amp;h=AT0aGCtWY7Ctt7tt2O0IofeZ0CQnFeT7WnM0asIsL4BBOu90HPo16KP3i3jt0kC45QGPd-IxgAN3Zp4wWTFLwMVP5DXo6T4U04cSB1WRuEJ3HZ6jceRPGdT_g5Wy9jA7MCpo4Zlgb3ewZ2iPINXAHuSFbFi7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/open.lbry.com\/@DollarVigilante:b\/here-comes-the-mass-vaccinations-gun:2?t=962\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETwo US doctors come forward to hold a press conference, to discss that the current statistics and the science, in no way, warrant a shelter in place order.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2SeCbXf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1UF_Qhjg__3UlOlre5SVMapAgdb2YaYywVzgRi6_nvNA8aTSSdnwqe83o\u0026amp;h=AT1H8iSdSWJIpY3BzEIyHTJC3c472Pw7pfhZ_-S9wE58zOWfeMzT_ZMTmtbDcDqUJw4A34-9KQCqDdNCQaP6WF1aQH6L8s_giS0MT97obFkMSPXWY1kIL6rDA4rz6b73lhHabDhHm5sSDt_njCMDnpIh7g2g\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2SeCbXf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECanadian member of provincial parliament is polite but obviously hints to some major obfuscations regarding COVID.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2W3KrdS%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3CkqUvZ4b8OZ7UfnahSwN71qCw0v9Yp8qI0_vaHJDUdX5EZAXdDiZM1GU\u0026amp;h=AT070XBnOnoggjWpxKPAH_FGj4xQA85W1VRx5Teg90lJ0QcapYXIEwN6WB0iKNdOmUWLMfzrxyG_bD8Pg8sOqnqw1-N63Tk21cW0JZ6AtUF_lcbQg1wQNY_4TwdB_guBc9ghdyXH8p24vlcs8uTw3lHqEKSr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2W3KrdS\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(article)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EProfessor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control explains that lock downs, social distancing and shutdown businesses to stop the spread of an infectious disease has no basis in science what so ever.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bfN2JWifLCY\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/bfN2JWifLCY\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfN2JWifLCY\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"690\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-death-numbers\/5712605\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers\"\u003ECoronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGerman MD calls corona lock-down measures “Collective Suicide Based On A Spook” after reviewing Sweden, a country that never locked down and didn’t quarantine at all…where everything is perfectly normal.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3cG9dHA%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0r-CDpy_WxI2ASfFV08oOELyuaHm63qoxD6-5KZni3HRhMleEzGbyMLzw\u0026amp;h=AT3TQjDH23_j-0XmmeQCfO1D1gBj0LYcPl_tW-4Ahe8LE3ha4SkhivJJddBZsT0rS3FA1D30mGEZNXtbPKo69eExX-W2CUVUz_HwpeD5jyFVJEwKKi94nido_EBsM_YTbm322CJTmupaMSE9tILeYzn3ezDS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/3cG9dHA\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(article)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EState Department of Health in Washington admit to adding people who died of shotgun wounds to the COVID dead count.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/state-epidemiologists-covid-19-related-deaths-likely-being-undercounted-in-wa\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/state-epidemiologists-covid-19-related-deaths-likely-being-undercounted-in-wa\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“There are a number of nuances to the data that we report and often it is very difficult – especially quickly – to make an assessment on the cause of death,” said Dr. Katie Hutchison, Health Statistics Manager for the Washington State Department of Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe state’s current COVID-19 death count includes anyone that’s tested positive for COVID-19, officials said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“We currently do have some deaths that are being reported that are clearly from other causes. We have about 5 deaths less than 5 deaths that we know of that are related to obvious other causes. In this case, they are from gunshot wounds,” Hutchison said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDoctor with several degrees from MIT explains the numbers are being faked and why they’re being faked.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lKEqGmN7J94\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lKEqGmN7J94\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lKEqGmN7J94\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"690\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENurse explains hospitals are empty and laying off nurses because no one is sick.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fx5v3nz%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0LVvjCvsyCSo56dRhHx4MpL7r1MXvIeMm_u1pc8WP57pC2whJmNnxJcJU\u0026amp;h=AT3gGreYJ1uo3LlnsdmfGowgRNUtDFzUntQQzIuJZ1yuMlHzMLNAG2QK_su8qyE5AexXNTkkujO3xYpc-D3mqStolGfwr0aBuJHH8ALC9XsIOBM3PEhcYUxW7eKcgbKxZ5-M0WY4p78j41JkXnsRKPQ3_Rgq\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/x5v3nz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHouston set to demolish a $17 million temporary medical tent for COVID victims….because it didn’t even see one patient.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fsbw3nz%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0LVYLqJu2UCooTzGzPuPZvYwx76Bx6NBB5ZzCFNehE838d9VZIFsw5DJ4\u0026amp;h=AT2t0fWP9O0Ut64GN4HLLJx_kWo5GxXvmzssmYxbEjH0NY_Z2r_SJTlVSPCY2wRjjCsKWxn4fDG3CbjIQV_EvnXJOfShCDCxnVJeRqPxS-KgNuaO-R00yzyVai_F7MlMpTlC7mtbsbqBd2dDgd0SbtTMzzGS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/tiny.cc\/sbw3nz\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(article)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/biztimes.com\/no-plans-to-close-covid-19-alternate-care-facility-at-state-fair-park-despite-lack-of-patients\/?fbclid=IwAR1sr_YWZ0Tqmy0oFVWSmdcfIBF4MUkFbBAUUb9A0VnIew1As6Dw5x-Gk98\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWisconsin government pays $10 million\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for a temporary COVID tent for the “over flow of COVID sickness” yet again…..not one patient.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/biztimes.com\/no-plans-to-close-covid-19-alternate-care-facility-at-state-fair-park-despite-lack-of-patients\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/biztimes.com\/no-plans-to-close-covid-19-alternate-care-facility-at-state-fair-park-despite-lack-of-patients\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2020\/05\/01\/field-hospital-mccormick-place-will-close-after-treating-few-patients-curve-bends?fbclid=IwAR3cB8rxQqC0PgtpmlFp845ukT98HIQHOuSdPAfswEY4FnL83ym2rpk7_n8\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EChicago invests 65 million\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a conventional center to treat 3000 COVID patients. It shuts down after servicing 30.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2020\/05\/01\/field-hospital-mccormick-place-will-close-after-treating-few-patients-curve-bends\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2020\/05\/01\/field-hospital-mccormick-place-will-close-after-treating-few-patients-curve-bends\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/london-nhs-nightingale-hospital-placed-on-standby?fbclid=IwAR1bK24Re4PnJbwk41PBU_VLFsE72ra_8ZXgXyzjGCMvX_NIucVdrY21UJY\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENightingale Hospital in the UK closed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;after ramping up for 4000 beds….and seeing only 50. What sort of pandemic is absent of any sick people?\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/london-nhs-nightingale-hospital-placed-on-standby\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/london-nhs-nightingale-hospital-placed-on-standby\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2020\/05\/01\/javits-center-temporary-covid-19-field-hospital-closing?fbclid=IwAR034NXzcc4o8JXDkFGlEhTserQOCRAiRCHfb2hiQH1L3jSw7V56i_br2vs\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENY field hospital with 2500 beds\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E(costing tens of millions) closes after seeing 18 patients.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2020\/05\/01\/javits-center-temporary-covid-19-field-hospital-closing\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2020\/05\/01\/javits-center-temporary-covid-19-field-hospital-closing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECape Cod 100 bed unit for COVID patients, closes after seeing not one patient.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/capecod\/2020\/05\/cape-cod-coronavirus-field-hospital-closes-without-ever-seeing-a-patient-with-covid-19.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.masslive.com\/capecod\/2020\/05\/cape-cod-coronavirus-field-hospital-closes-without-ever-seeing-a-patient-with-covid-19.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2020\/05\/nj-closing-one-field-hospital-that-was-set-up-to-handle-coronavirus-patients.html?fbclid=IwAR1IQgYk0rY9w2ttCXVwdnu4u1D2rbruItRizq9fgCTdkfKk3ZF3Ppgj5VM\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENJ the same..\u003C\/a\u003E…\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2020\/05\/nj-closing-one-field-hospital-that-was-set-up-to-handle-coronavirus-patients.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2020\/05\/nj-closing-one-field-hospital-that-was-set-up-to-handle-coronavirus-patients.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E660 million spend on 16 field hospitals in the US, waiting for the big rush…….\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/07\/851712311\/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients?fbclid=IwAR0HKZzkZhi9NLX7rwD2ZPi8TsMcfKDJrXqjSqNMvm1aCexuSjkgDgtKsEk\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ealmost no one showed up.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/07\/851712311\/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/07\/851712311\/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERespiratory expert at US hospital explains that nothing is adding up and that the media reports should be questioned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFuneral directors in NY come out to testify that they’re being pressured to toe tag everyone as COVID19 when the cause of death wasn’t COVID19.\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g5f_6ltv7oI\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/g5f_6ltv7oI\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EItalian Leader explains the faking of COVID deaths in Parliament….\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bUCWcft6kao\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/bUCWcft6kao\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnd yet another member of Italian Parliament takes the house floor to explain that not only is the pandemic fake, it’s being used as a back drop to remove human rights and poison people with a new untested vaccine. (speech by Sara Cunial)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3cGOi7t\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/3cGOi7t\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAustrian member of Parliament unloads on the Minister of Health for lying to the Austrian public about COVID-19 and plunging the country in to complete disaster…based on weaponized fear, fibs and fabrications. (member Kickl)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DBQRtj2Rm28\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/DBQRtj2Rm28\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBQRtj2Rm28\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"690\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/fromrome.info\/2020\/04\/26\/mp-sara-cunial-tears-up-the-curaitalia-law-as-a-crime-against-italy\/?fbclid=IwAR2C2pEQtOzRLBAsQn0onDokGfDfj4LODYbfiFq_KL_3g4wAXdg_8_XxSDU\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003En this article with English translation\u003C\/a\u003E, we see another Italian Member of Parliament explaining why people are sick in Italy and how the entire lock down and CV-19 pandemic was a coup in that country orchestrated by outside forces.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/fromrome.info\/2020\/04\/26\/mp-sara-cunial-tears-up-the-curaitalia-law-as-a-crime-against-italy\/?fbclid=IwAR2C2pEQtOzRLBAsQn0onDokGfDfj4LODYbfiFq_KL_3g4wAXdg_8_XxSDU\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/fromrome.info\/2020\/04\/26\/mp-sara-cunial-tears-up-the-curaitalia-law-as-a-crime-against-italy\/?fbclid=IwAR2C2pEQtOzRLBAsQn0onDokGfDfj4LODYbfiFq_KL_3g4wAXdg_8_XxSDU\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETrauma doctor in NY declares all deaths are listed as COVID to pad the numbers, regardless of what they really died from.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2VUrriM\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2VUrriM\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(NYC COVID 19 street testimonial from trauma care worker)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHow many 2 week lock down extensions will it take for you to start understanding? COVID 19 exists on your TV, inside a fabricated government\/media illusion….if you look out the window into reality, no one can find it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWashington Post reports that COVID-19 the greatest hoax ever perpetrated upon the American public in history by media and government.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2KTIOKy\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2KTIOKy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOrange County Medical Doctor comes out to question the validity of the numbers and the sensibility of the government’s response. Dr. Jeff Barke\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMedical doctor and surgeon out of the UK also explains the COVID hoax. (Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Adil)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4OWQmu_Szk\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4OWQmu_Szk\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EReporter in the UK points out more government lying about COVID death numbers. (Paul Weston)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2z7Q17t\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/2z7Q17t\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENurse in United States comes forward to highlight the media is lying to the public about the numbers and busy hospitals.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bVBo5k\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/bit.ly\/3bVBo5k\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPhD in Immunology and one of the world’s most well respected research scientists, explains that the media is not telling the truth about COVID19 – (Prof. Dolores Cahill)\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/Avc6_ftzk3w\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/Avc6_ftzk3w\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMember of Irish Parliament questioning the faking of death certificates……\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YeEj9AYAKs0?t=9\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/YeEj9AYAKs0?t=9\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Strabane MLA questions Covid death certificates)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/home.solari.com\/the-creation-of-a-false-epidemic-with-jon-rappoport\/?fbclid=IwAR3ZvxVaGHYP-DPy0K3lKrLq6GrP-mJh_LBsBlWFYTzxqirGEY-Z51jXI8Y\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this added link\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ereporter Jon Rappoport explains how easy it is to start a fake pandemic and exactly how it’s been done in the past.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/dea52e0a0eb179d51ac5eed99a99bf10?fbclid=IwAR2UlqUF3M-h6rYm0EbbEfyhSfuCOIHv6ZttMuKJkTMe9sNJYQtiUwnzsNc\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this added link the US government admits\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eadding random deaths to COVID death numbers without testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/tens-thousands-coronavirus-tests-have-double-counted-officials\/?fbclid=IwAR3uVUj1Tjh7HXWinJGOi3w4uyeSdJoo3giZjla0Vh8fC7bZGuSg5LIFu8M\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this added link\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ewe have UK officials do double counting COVID infections numbers, because a nasal swab and a saliva swab around counted as two people, when both tests come from the same person.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/tens-thousands-coronavirus-tests-have-double-counted-officials\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/tens-thousands-coronavirus-tests-have-double-counted-officials\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/files.ontario.ca\/moh-covid-19-report-en-2020-04-23.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2sASi9342OjrcbL5q66Bij5cLjQu9mJa5nVIlxCqwOwR3IDRqSWzBIHbk\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this link the Ontario health force in Canada\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;also admits to toe tagging absolutely any death as COVID, whether COVID was involved in the death or not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFormer Supreme Court Judge in UK explains that teh government is fudging the COVID death numbers…..(Lord Sumption)\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RUCuKH2vAp4\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/RUCuKH2vAp4\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid19\/index.htm\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt this link the CDC\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the United States actually removed over 30,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in one night because of the public discovery of their inflation tactics and even with those 30,000 COVID deaths removed…..all other deaths are listed as merely being “assumed” from COVID because they are aware that the test to confirm COVID infection can’t detect COVID infections. It’s all about the CDC getting ready for the lawsuits regarding their fabrication.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe UK Government admits COVID-19 is not a high consequence infectious disease….in March 2020. So why all the government tyranny continuing to march forward.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CqYDPcDSa5o\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CqYDPcDSa5\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CqYDPcDSa5o\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUK Minister of Health Chris Whitty ends up just telling the truth and saying COVID-19 is basically harmless and no greater a threat than the common flu.\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/adj8MCsZKlg\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/adj8MCsZKlg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/marinamedvin\/2020\/04\/15\/israeli-professor-shows-virus-follows-fixed-pattern-n2566915?fbclid=IwAR2vwx9UusP7g8ISn2yyNblQwwICrF8UM_tWuRqIBxx6K1cCqxu1OrnyAdU\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIsraeli professor declares that locking down and closing business does absolutely nothing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to slow the spread of infection…..therefore lock down and business closure has always been completely unwarranted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIf you want to have the entire narrative linked together in a way that easy to understand hit this link.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/londonreal.tv\/1000000-fighting-for-freedom\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/londonreal.tv\/1000000-fighting-for-freedom\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFor people who speak French, these two documents are from Quebec Canada where the government instructs doctors to label any death as COVID, without testing\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15133 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jchristoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sept-1000-1800.png\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15134 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jchristoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sept-1000-1801.png\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn this video we see a COVID testing station completely faked because no real person was interested in taking the test, because no one is sick and they also don’t trust the medical or governemnt system at this point in time. Faked by CBS news to mind control the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lenakaym\/videos\/10222974230973480\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHere we have a Facebook post\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from Lena Kay with 2 million views regarding her family member being listed as during from COVID19 when he in no way died from COVID-19\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Vernon Coleman explains the new revelation that the UK government was conducting a full psychological operation on the UK public and that covid-19 never existed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt was invented as to manufacture fabricated fear, in order to use that fear against the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kvlhVD5TunY\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kvlhVD5TunY\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENY city Nurse comes forward with documents proving that covid positive tests were faked and fabricated….. and it gets worse. This nurse and many other nurses talking about the medical system using ventilators to actually kill the patients….. (Perspectives on the Pandemic | The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse | Episode Nine)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECanada’s top Constitutional Lawyer is now suing the Canadian federal, provincial and municipal governments because nothing they’ve done or suggested the public do (regarding COVID-19) has any scientific or medical validity what so ever. In short, the government has fabricated covid-19 and its solutions out of thin air. Everything from 6 foot distancing to the closing of businesses and from wearing masks to even the idea of sick people having the ability to make healthy people sick……there’s absolutely no science on recording to legitimize any of it.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ghka1b3aPVk\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ghka1b3aPVk\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\" style=\"border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERelated Articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \" style=\"border: 0px; clear: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5733409\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737197\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/gunshots-motorcycle-deaths-count-covid-casualties\/5733409\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Gunshots, Motorcycle Deaths Count as COVID Casualties  Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, families have been separated, businesses have been shuttered and schools have been closed down. Many people are living their lives shrouded in fear of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 — a direct response to media coverage and health officials’ claims of its dire…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Gunshots, Motorcycle Deaths Count as COVID Casualties\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1800x1200_covid19_antibody_test_other-1800x900.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737197\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/gunshots-motorcycle-deaths-count-covid-casualties\/5733409\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Gunshots, Motorcycle Deaths Count as COVID Casualties  Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, families have been separated, businesses have been shuttered and schools have been closed down. Many people are living their lives shrouded in fear of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 — a direct response to media coverage and health officials’ claims of its dire…\"\u003EGunshots, Motorcycle Deaths Count as COVID Casualties\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E30 December 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5710057\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737197\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-death-toll-numbers-game\/5710057\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"The Coronavirus Death Toll Numbers Game  To the casual observer, there appear to be ‘hot’ pockets of coronavirus infections in certain areas of the country such as NYC which reportedly has been ravaged by CV infections as well as the State of Michigan which, according to its Democratic Governor Gretchen Witmer,  has registered the  “third highest…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"The Coronavirus Death Toll Numbers Game\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737197\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-death-toll-numbers-game\/5710057\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"The Coronavirus Death Toll Numbers Game  To the casual observer, there appear to be ‘hot’ pockets of coronavirus infections in certain areas of the country such as NYC which reportedly has been ravaged by CV infections as well as the State of Michigan which, according to its Democratic Governor Gretchen Witmer,  has registered the  “third highest…\"\u003EThe Coronavirus Death Toll Numbers Game\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E19 April 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5725344\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737197\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/pandemic-never-was\/5725344\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"The Pandemic That Never Was  On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. When I think of this scary word it conjures up heartbreaking images of vast numbers of people suffering, precipitated into abysmal poverty. The WHO used to agree with me. For years the WHO on its \u0026quot;Pandemic Preparedness\u0026quot; homepage…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"The Pandemic That Never Was\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/coronavirus-United-States.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737197\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/pandemic-never-was\/5725344\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"The Pandemic That Never Was  On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. When I think of this scary word it conjures up heartbreaking images of vast numbers of people suffering, precipitated into abysmal poverty. The WHO used to agree with me. For years the WHO on its \u0026quot;Pandemic Preparedness\u0026quot; homepage…\"\u003EThe Pandemic That Never Was\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E1 October 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/prepareforchange.net\/2020\/06\/27\/government-and-media-proven-to-be-lying-to-public-about-covid-pandemic\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPrepare for Change\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/derek-knauss\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Derek Knauss\"\u003EDerek Knauss\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/prepareforchange.net\/2020\/06\/27\/government-and-media-proven-to-be-lying-to-public-about-covid-pandemic\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPrepare for Change\u003C\/a\u003E, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/government-media-proven-lying-public-covid-pandemic\/5737197\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1483680840792380367\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/government-and-media-proven-to-be-lying.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/1483680840792380367"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/1483680840792380367"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/government-and-media-proven-to-be-lying.html","title":"Government and Media Proven to be Lying to Public About COVID Pandemic"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mceVa1XkYGo\/YCiByEEdvQI\/AAAAAAAA2sA\/UTyXT1tB7z4zK40GuczzG3DjoJEtj_pMQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/corona-Covid-19-400x267.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-741076421996038417"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-13T20:47:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-13T20:47:20.857-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crimes against Humanity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Iraq"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Middle East \u0026 North Africa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"NATO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Agenda"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Iraq: Forty Years Ago. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacres: Still Ongoing"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/felicity-arbuthnot\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Felicity Arbuthnot\"\u003EFelicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 13, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal research 14 February 2010\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hm6ukV2UexQ\/YCiA7sJsTOI\/AAAAAAAA2r4\/9RBYiOy143EYggEpLRoi7Z1k16PE4WbzwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/117618.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"240\" data-original-width=\"320\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hm6ukV2UexQ\/YCiA7sJsTOI\/AAAAAAAA2r4\/9RBYiOy143EYggEpLRoi7Z1k16PE4WbzwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h480\/117618.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EInitially published on Valentine’s Day 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVeteran War Correspondent and Associate Editor of Global Research\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFelicity Arbuthnot\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ereminds us of the crimes against humanity committed against the Iraqi people at the height of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIraq War I\u003C\/span\u003E, euphemistically described as\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Gulf War.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;It happened on Valentine’s Day. Forty Years of killings and destruction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIraq War I\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;was followed by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIraq War II\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;(March 2003) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIraq War 3\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2014), which was casually presented to public opinion as a bona fide\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“counter-terrorism campaign” launched president Obama in 2014 against ISIS-Daesh, an Al Qaeda affiliate which happens to be supported by the CIA.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe extensive bombing campaign ordered by Nobel Peace Laureate Obama was portrayed by the media as a humanitarian\u0026nbsp;endeavour on behalf of the\u0026nbsp;people of Iraq and Syria.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat next? Joe Biden\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMichel Chossudovsky\u003C\/span\u003E, February 13, 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E***\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EForty years ago, on the night of 13th\/14th February 1991, the Ameriya Shelter, on Baghdad’s outskirts, was deliberately targeted by US missiles, in a war crime which near excelled the litany of criminal acts in the onslaught which then Secretary of State, James Baker, promised would: “reduce Baghdad to a pre-industrial age.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMy memories of Ameriya have been left in their immediacy, rather than again updated. (See below.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn 13th\/14th February this year [2010], the US is still extinguishing Iraqis, detaining without trial (and almost certainly worse) in the name of “nation building” (read: nation erasing) after near seven years of murderous occupation. In the other country the US and UK are systematically destroying, Afghanistan, on precisely the anniversary of the Shelter bombing, they have launched another St Valentine’s Eve and Day massacre. It is also another equally infamous anniversary: that of the fire bombing of Dresden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Operation Moshtarak”, in Helmand Province, the biggest “surge” since the numerous other biggest surges since 2001, in this graveyard of Empires and Afghans, is set to create Ameriya’s incendiary tragedy throughout the towns and villages of the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe US military is to “clear” (read kill) “suspected Taliban” (their trained and paid allies when the USSR invaded) from the region. Rule of law shredded, “suspects” are no longer tried, simply summarily executed. Over the years, a surprising number of “suspects” have still been in diapers. Quite a few have also been in wedding dresses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe US military, of course, reverted to their old habit to “avoid civilian casualties.” They dropped leaflets telling the locals to leave to avoid casualties. According to UNICEF, just 28% of the population is literate,\u0026nbsp; far less in rural areas. In the frozen wastes of a February Afghan winter, where are they to go?\u0026nbsp; (In 1991, the US dropped several tonnes of leaflets with the same warning to the Marsh Arabs in Iraq. Illiterate but not stupid, they sold this bounty to the government, unable to import paper under the embargo.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn 1750, Ahmad Shah’s army, is said to have lost eighteen thousand men in Afghanistan from cold, in a single night in February, the most Siberian month, where the temperature falls to an average low of -8 C., and the eastern reaches of the Hari river can freeze so hard that people travel it as a road.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“This is not going to be a Falluja” said Major General Nick Carter, “that’s not the model.” Oh good. “Moshtarak” means “together”, in the Dari language. At least it’s not the Wild West “Panther’s Claw” mark two, title of the last absolutely “final surge.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn more quaint army-speak, General Carter refers to “inserting” the fifteen thousand testosterone-driven troops, backed by bombs, bullets, possibly the odd bit of white phosphorous and other aids to “pacification” and “bringing the government in behind us.” One could almost think it was a raunchy Friday night on the town, rather than a killing spree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe troops refer to this “insertion” as: “lawn mowing.” What is it about blood baths and gardening euphemisms? Remember those military human shredding machines,”daisy cutters”?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESo as Ameriyah is commemorated in the hearts of Iraqis, a day which is as yesterday for all Baghdadis, keep the Afghan people also in your hearts, in their terror, this Dresden replicating Valentine’s Day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn her new book, to be launched on Wednesday 17th February, Iraqi writer and activist Haifa Zangana comments of\u0026nbsp; Iraq:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“We wanted to put an end to this but we failed. The war and occupation in 2003, apart from shattering Iraq as a country and a people, has brought about many more imprisonments, many more deaths. Abu Ghraib is only one of many symbols. In occupied Iraq, torture became an instrument of humiliation and of a way to force a nation into submission. As we resist occupation now, our message is clear: We did not struggle for decades to replace one torturer with another.”(1)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAn eloquent encapsulation for those in both occupied, invaded, terrorised, defiled lands.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA last word on the Ameriya Shelter comes from Dahr Jamail:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“I learned that the Amiriyah Bomb Shelter has been closed by the Americans, due to the fact that an Islamic Fundamentalist group was keeping it open. I am glad I went when I did a couple of weeks ago, for when monuments\/schools\/buildings are closed and\/or occupied by the Americans here, they have a tendency not to reopen.” (2)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis uniquely poignant shrine, marking an unimaginable end, is now designated: an “Islamic Fundamentalist” site, by Iraq’s liberators, the new Crusaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENotes\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E(1)Haifa Zangana: “Dreaming of Baghdad.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dreaming-Baghdad-Women-Writing-Middle\/dp\/1558616055\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dreaming-Baghdad-Women-Writing-Middle\/dp\/1558616055\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E(2)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.esterrepublic.com\/Archives\/djamail1.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.esterrepublic.com\/Archives\/djamail1.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;http:\/\/\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uruknet.info\/index.php?p=30603\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ewww.uruknet.info?p=30603\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Ameriya 14th Feb 2007.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFelicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; 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The seventeenth anniversary of the bombing of the Ameriyah Shelter in Baghdad, by the United States, incinerating up to fifteen hundred souls, the majority children and women. The full number has never been established as the register was…\"\u003EBombing of the Ameriyah Shelter Baghdad - A Night of Infamy.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-excerpt\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 7.14286em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E2008-02-13 | This night of the 13th\/14th February marks one of infamy. The seventeenth anniversary of the bombing of the Ameriyah Shelter in Baghdad, by the United States, incinerating up to fifteen hundred souls, the majority children and women. The full number has never been established as the register was…\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E14 February 2008\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-nothumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"7788\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a jp-relatedposts-post-aoverlay\" data-origin=\"17618\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraq-s-children-still-paying-the-price\/7788\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; display: block; font: inherit; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Iraq's Children Still 'Paying the Price'  'No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency'. Theodore Roosevelt.'He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn't live his childhood'. Ali Ahmed Said, Victims of a Map, Saqi Books. Three years before the invasion of Iraq, a small film crew were near Mosul, in…\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"17618\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraq-s-children-still-paying-the-price\/7788\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Iraq's Children Still 'Paying the Price'  'No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency'. Theodore Roosevelt.'He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn't live his childhood'. Ali Ahmed Said, Victims of a Map, Saqi Books. Three years before the invasion of Iraq, a small film crew were near Mosul, in…\"\u003EIraq's Children Still 'Paying the Price'\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-excerpt\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 7.14286em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E'No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency'. Theodore Roosevelt.'He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn't live his childhood'. Ali Ahmed Said, Victims of a Map, Saqi Books. Three years before the invasion of Iraq, a small film crew were near Mosul, in…\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E13 January 2008\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is Global research\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/felicity-arbuthnot\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Felicity Arbuthnot\"\u003EFelicity Arbuthnot\u003C\/a\u003E, Global research, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/iraq-st-valentine-s-day-massacres-still-ongoing\/17618\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/741076421996038417\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/iraq-forty-years-ago-st-valentines-day.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/741076421996038417"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/741076421996038417"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/iraq-forty-years-ago-st-valentines-day.html","title":"Iraq: Forty Years Ago. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacres: Still Ongoing"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hm6ukV2UexQ\/YCiA7sJsTOI\/AAAAAAAA2r4\/9RBYiOy143EYggEpLRoi7Z1k16PE4WbzwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w640-h480-c\/117618.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-677072796717125299"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-13T20:41:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-13T20:41:23.366-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel Occupation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Palestine"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticising US Military Aid to Israel"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBy Jonathan Cook\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-q6tbhAxY1qA\/YCh_ZJyjOPI\/AAAAAAAA2rw\/yAdr_NmtQog493RlNFBschphtYuxEvVKQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s529\/us-apartheid-israel-fill-it-up.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"357\" data-original-width=\"529\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-q6tbhAxY1qA\/YCh_ZJyjOPI\/AAAAAAAA2rw\/yAdr_NmtQog493RlNFBschphtYuxEvVKQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h432\/us-apartheid-israel-fill-it-up.jpeg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EFebruary 13, 2021 \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003EInformation Clearing House\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\" - The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2021\/02\/how-the-media-cracks-down-on-critics-of-israel\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Esacked as a Guardian US columnist\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise. He is only the latest in a long line of journalists, myself included, who have run foul of the Guardian’s unwritten but tightly policed constraints on what can be said about Israel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIn the tweet below, I have listed a few of the more prominent – and public – examples of journalists who have suffered at the Guardian’s hands over their coverage of Israel. The thread can opened by clicking on the tweet:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1359605974122831873\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" name=\"I1\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1359605974122831873\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 634px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe unspoken Guardian rule we broke was to suggest one of the following: that there might be inherent contradictions between Israel’s claim to be a democracy and its self-definition in exclusivist, chauvinist, ethnic terms; or that Israel’s self-declared status as a militaristic, ethnic, rather than civic, state might be connected to its continuing abuses and crimes against Palestinians; or that, because Israel wishes to conceal its ugly,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/how-israel-helped-revive-europes-ugly-ethnic-nationalisms\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eanachronistic ethnic project\u003C\/a\u003E, it and its defenders might act in bad faith; or that the US might be actively complicit in this ethnically inspired, colonial project to dispossess Palestinians.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEquivocating editorial\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EParadoxically, the Guardian is widely seen as the “mainstream” English-language publication most critical of Israel. It has long shored up its reputation with the left by publishing seemingly forthright, uncompromising material on Israeli-Palestinian issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EPart of that is a historic credit it earnt. There was a time, long ago, when the Guardian’s pages were, for example, the only place in the mainstream to host – if rarely – the late, great Palestinian intellectual Edward Said. The paper even once allowed its former South Africa correspondent, who had transferred to Israel, to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2006\/feb\/06\/southafrica.israel\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ecompare in detail\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the two countries’ systems of apartheid. It caused a furore – much of it instigated by the Israeli embassy in London – that made the paper even more shy of taking on the Israel lobby.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThat is reflected in the perverse fact that today Israeli human rights groups are far more courageous in speaking plainly about Israel than the Guardian. When B’Tselem recently\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Epublished a report\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;stating that Israel operated an apartheid system oppressing Palestinians not just in the occupied territories but in the whole area under its rule – including inside Israel where officials\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/2018-03-18\/why-israel-is-an-apartheid-state\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Efalsely claim\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;1.8 million Palestinian citizens have equal rights with Jewish citizens – the paper published a mealy-mouthed editorial whose equivocations contrasted starkly with B’Tselem’s passionate and clear critique of a racist system of separate rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EEven then, the Guardian would never have conceded what it reluctantly did in the editorial had B’Tselem not forced its hand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1351132388227735555\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-1\" name=\"I2\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1351132388227735555\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 634px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Low bar on Israel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe other reason why the Guardian looks so good on Israel and Palestine is that the rest of the corporate media is far, far worse. The bar is so low that the Guardian has to do very little to impress. Its unwavering support for Israel – and we will get to the reasons for that in a moment – only becomes clear when someone prominent steps forward to speak as clearly about what’s really wrong with Israel as B’Tselem recently did.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThat invisible line on Israel was crossed by Jeremy Corbyn too, of course – one of the many aspects of his socialist-lite platform the corporate Guardian could not abide. That was why the Guardian was only too ready to join – and often lead – the campaign of smears against him and the Labour party under his leadership that conflated trenchant criticism of Israel (anti-Zonism) with antisemitism. One has to be naïve indeed to believe that the Guardian’s treatment of Corbyn – its simplistic regurgitation of the Board of Deputies’ talking points – was done in good faith.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1292795909823234051\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-2\" name=\"I3\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1292795909823234051\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 634px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIn fact, the Guardian’s relations with Israel and Zionism date back to the founding editor of the modern paper, C P Scott. A staunch Zionist, Scott was critically important in liaising between the British government and the Zionist movement in the drafting of the 1917 Balfour Declaration – the colonial document that effectively committed Britain to dispossessing the native Palestinians, who weren’t even named in it, of their homeland.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe Guardian acted effectively as midwife both to the self-declared Jewish state of Israel and to the Nakba – the mass programme of ethnic cleansing – that was necessarily required to create a Jewish state on the Palestinians’ homeland. And, as documented in the book\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Disenchantment-Guardian-Israel-Daphna-Baram\/dp\/1842751190\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=disenchantment+guardian\u0026amp;qid=1613048625\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;sr=1-1\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003EDisenchantment\u003C\/a\u003E, the Guardian has indulged Israel ever since, much as a parent would a wayward child. It can be critical, even sharply sometimes, but it is resolutely protective of Israel’s image and the interests Israel has defined for itself as a Jewish state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAnd for that reason, the Guardian historically developed close ties to the liberal Jewish community in the UK, much of it in London and Manchester. Many liberal Jewish journalists found the paper a natural home and an ideological fit in contrast to the rest of the UK’s corporate media, which was highly conservative and often openly antisemitic. A culture of critical but unerring support for Israel was always the Guardian’s default position.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAntisemitism smears\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBut to understand why Robinson became the latest victim of the Guardian’s tough policing of speech around Israel, we need to dig a little deeper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ERobinson is also editor of a small, independent, socialist magazine called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003ECurrent Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E. As such, the issues he highlights invariably break with the US corporate media’s craven coverage on a wide range of issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EHis sarcastic, but pointed tweet criticising the billions of dollars the US is sending to Israel so it can buy more weapons to kill Palestinians – and during a pandemic in which Americans are being denied the full promised $2,000 checks – was treated by the Israel lobby, as most criticism of Israel is nowadays, as evidence of “antisemitism”. This was the same kind of antisemitism that Corbyn, Ken Loach and many others on the socialist left have been accused of indulging.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-133099\" height=\"315\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-12-at-6.16.00-AM-680x315.png\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\" width=\"680\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe tweet, which Robinson deleted under Guardian pressure, was only antisemitic if you\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Echoose\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;to see it that way – which, of course, is exactly how Israel’s apologists would like you to see it. Understandably, the nearer critics get to the nub of what is wrong with a self-declared Jewish state ruling over Palestinians, or with the US blank cheque for that Jewish state, the more this lobby goes into overdrive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAn email to Robinson from US editor John Mulholland, who I worked under for a time when he was editing the Observer, the Guardian’s Sunday sister paper, included a line below the main body of text complaining about Robinson’s tweet:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E“Saying that the only Jewish state controls the most powerful country in the world is clearly antisemitic. The myth of ‘Jewish power’ informs murderous hatred. Delete this and apologise.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIt is unclear who this instruction came from – an influential reader, Mulholland himself or someone even more senior in the Guardian hierarchy. It matters little. Mulholland is the very embodiment of what the Japanese call a “salaryman”. He has scaled the greasy pole effortlessly by absorbing and loyally enforcing the corporate values of the Guardian business model.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESilencing socialist critiques\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBut the problem with the Guardian’s interpretation of Robinson’s tweet is that there is precisely nothing in the tweet to indicate that this was its meaning. It is pure projection. Robinson’s tweet critiqued a relationship in which the US indisputably pours huge sums of military aid into Israel\u0026nbsp;– money desperately needed at the moment by US citizens hit financially by the pandemic. That “aid” is going to a state described by its own human rights groups as an apartheid regime and one that may soon be investigated by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. That should not even count as an opinion. It is a fact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1359845660132974594\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-3\" name=\"I4\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1359845660132974594\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 609px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIt is the Guardian’s own antisemitic interpretation of the tweet that suggests this is because Israel “controls” the US. More likely, Robinson believes that the US sends the aid because Israel serves the west’s ugly colonial interests in the Middle East. Israel “earns” that aid – money for armaments – from the US by acting as its regional colonial “heavy”. (And, let’s note, Egypt originally earned its similarly generous US aid for ending its state of hostilities with Israel in 1979 by signing a peace agreement.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe deeper question in assessing the Guardian’s sacking of Robinson – as well as its campaign to smear Corbyn – is this: what line do we as the left cross when we critique Israel? Is the Guardian really protecting Israel from an antisemitic tweet, as Mulholland appears to believe? Or is it policing leftwing speech that highlights the continuing imperialist, colonial nature of our western societies and their economic models of exploitation, domestic and foreign, on which corporate media like the Guardian depend?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1359413843156467714\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-4\" name=\"I5\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-4\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1359413843156467714\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 674px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWhat we have here, disguised as a defence of Jews, is a gradual outlawing of socialist critiques of western states and their crimes. This is happening as those critiques gain ever greater visibility and purchase, assisted by social media and its brief democratisation (for good and bad) of public discourse.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConsistent worldview\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESocialists like Robinson, Corbyn and Loach have a worldview. It is their way of analysing societies and geopolitics that makes sense of how state power operates, and how elites maintain and expand their control of resources to the detriment of others and the planet. Socialism demands change. It requires the reordering of society to ensure much more equal relations between individuals and states to end pervasive poverty and suffering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWe cannot therefore believe both that the US is an imperial, colonial power sponsoring Arab dictators, religious extremism and war crimes in the Middle East to control access to the region’s oil reserves – and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ealso\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;believe that Israel, which assists some of those dictators and attacks others, cultivates its own forms of religious extremism, commits its own war crimes, and is heavily subsidised by the US, has nothing to do with any of that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESocialists see Israel as integral to how western states, especially the sole global military superpower headquartered in Washington, continue to project their power into the Middle East. They see Israel as a proxy for a western colonial project that never went away. Thinking that doesn’t make socialists antisemitic. It makes them consistent, it means their worldview makes sense of all those seemingly disparate events going on around the globe – disparate only because that is the way corporate media presents its narratives to prevent readers from joining up the dots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPassive media consumption\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThis kind of analysis may well\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Elook\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;antisemitic to those – liberals and conservatives – who have no worldview, no values beyond the dog-eat-dog, social Darwinism our western societies have cultivated in them through years of passive media consumption. Robinson’s tweet doubtless looked antisemitic to Mulholland, to Guardian editor Kath Viner, to senior columnist Jonathan Freedland, the paper’s resident antisemitism witchfinder general. But that is because none of them are socialists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThey can read Robinson’s tweet only through the limited perspective of their own entrenched liberalism. If they were socialists, they would never have been allowed anywhere near the senior editorial positions they hold at the Guardian. And the tiny number of Guardian journalists who claim to be leftwing working under them – figures like Owen Jones and George Monbiot – have learnt where the invisible trip-wires are that they must avoid not to lose their employment and their platforms. Which is why you will not see any solidarity from Guardian staff either over Robinson’s mistreatment or over the threat his sacking poses to the speech rights of the left.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"514\" name=\"I6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLcpcytUnWU?feature=oembed\" title=\"Noam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr\" width=\"817\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThis has long been the beauty of the “free” press model for the corporate media. It has allowed journalists to say anything they want so long as the corporate media decides whether they are given a platform from which to say it. And the corporate media has only given a platform to those journalists who have demonstrated that they can be trusted not to stray too far from what is today’s neoliberal orthodoxy at home and neoconservative orthodoxy abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1359771667594100738\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-5\" name=\"I7\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-5\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1359771667594100738\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 434px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Illusion of freedom\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESocialism has begun to revive – if often only as a growing disillusionment with late-stage, planet-destroying capitalism – because for the first time there have been large platforms from which socialists can speak. Paradoxically, those new platforms, like Twitter, have been corporate-run too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EOur plutocratic governments, run in the interests of a corporate elite, and the media, owned by a corporate elite, are battling hard to end that right. They would prefer to maintain the illusion of western freedom. And so they have been trying to silence socialists in ways that make it look like they have the public’s consent. They are recruiting us to silence ourselves. They are, as ever, manufacturing consent for our expulsion from the public square.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1349090148672294918\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-6\" name=\"I8\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;dnt=true\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-6\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1349090148672294918\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-guardian-revealed-its-true-face-in-sacking-a-columnist-for-criticising-us-military-aid-to-israel%2F\u0026amp;siteScreenName=NatCounterPunch\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 634px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWe must fight back. We need to understand that old corporate media like the Guardian are not an ally to the left, they are the enemy. And that the new social media platforms to which we have briefly been given access will soon be snatched away from us unless we fight tooth and nail to keep them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe battle itself is our weapon. Because if we allow ourselves to be swept from the public square without a struggle, if our story is written for us, not by us, none of the onlookers – the wider public – will ever grasp what was really at stake. They will remain blissfully unaware not only of what socialism might have achieved, but certain that we are all far better off now that those “antisemites” will never again be allowed a voice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EJonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His books include “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/middle-east-online.com\/en\/www.jonathan-cook.net\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ewww.jonathan-cook.net\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIf you appreciate his articles,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/supporting-jonathan\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eplease consider making a donation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; 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font-size: large;\"\u003ELiberals heralded this group of life-long scammers, sleaze merchants and con artists as noble men of conscience, enabling them to fleece and deceive the public.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Glenn Greenwald\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kOqdJqpWvi8\/YCh9mD3nlOI\/AAAAAAAA2ro\/dHlvaxfwgI0zQiA1J7RzIw5Rl8oJhStigCLcBGAsYHQ\/s454\/lincoln-project.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"250\" data-original-width=\"454\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kOqdJqpWvi8\/YCh9mD3nlOI\/AAAAAAAA2ro\/dHlvaxfwgI0zQiA1J7RzIw5Rl8oJhStigCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h352\/lincoln-project.jpeg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EFebruary 13, 2021 \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003EInformation Clearing House\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\" -\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;The group of life-long\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Republican Party consultants who, under the name “The Lincoln Project,” got very rich in 2020 with anti-Trump online messaging has spent weeks responding to numerous scandals on multiple fronts. Despite the gravity of those scandals, its conduct on Thursday night was in a whole new category of sleaze. It not only infuriated their long-time allies, but also constituted the abuse of Twitter’s platform to commit likely illegal acts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThat the primary effect of the Lincoln Project was to personally enrich its key operatives by cynically exploiting the fears of U.S. liberals has long been obvious. Reporting throughout 2020\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2020\/05\/lincoln-project-capitalizes-on-trump-rage\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Econclusively demonstrated\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the vast majority of the tens of millions of dollars raised by the group was going to firms controlled by its founders. One of its most prominent founders — GOP consultant Rick Wilson — personally collected $65,000 from liberals\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/everything-trump-touches-dies-film\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ethrough GoFundMe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for an anti-Trump film he kept promising but which never came; to this date, he refuses to explain what he did with that money.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/viral-lincoln-project-ads-did-191512508.html\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Estudy conducted\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;after the 2020 election found that the group’s effect on the election’s outcome was trivial to non-existent — not surprising given its penchant for spending money on ads that aired in electorally irrelevant places such as Washington, D.C. or which circulated almost exclusively in liberal cable news and social media venues, and thus had no purpose other than to enable its consultants to take large commissions from the ad spending. They were producing ads solely for liberals, with the overriding intent not of defeating Trump but inflating their net worth. And it worked: until they were no longer needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EHeading into the 2020 election, most of the U.S. media was uninterested in, if not outright hostile to, any reporting that might have helped President Trump’s re-election bid. As a result, the Lincoln Project continued to enjoy media veneration even as the magnitude of its scam became increasingly obvious. But with Trump now safely vanquished, the Lincoln Project is dispensable, and the protective shield it enjoyed against any real journalistic scrutiny is — like its reputation and prospects for future profiteering — rapidly crumbling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EOn Monday, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAssociated Press\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;published a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-weaver-lincoln-project-crisis-b14be5f06588b8f1d78125d4141394cb\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ecomprehensive exposé\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with new facts about two of the group’s growing scandals. It reported that “in June 2020, members of the organization’s leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-33a03c2280fff515a09c4d51365cb83d\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eco-founder John Weaver\u003C\/a\u003E, including two involving Lincoln Project employees” — directly contradicting the group’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1355921549753262083\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eemphatic denial\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that it knew nothing about Weaver’s misconduct until the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/31\/us\/politics\/john-weaver-lincoln-project-harassment.html\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on them at the end of January. As AP delicately put it, these new materials “raise questions about the Lincoln Project’s statement last month that it was ‘shocked’ when accusations surfaced publicly this year.” The gay news outlet\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Blade\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on Tuesday\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2021\/02\/09\/lincoln-projects-avowed-ignorance-of-weaver-texts-undercut-by-leaked-communications\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;emails and other correspondence similarly demonstrating the high likelihood that the group’s denials regarding its past knowledge of Weaver’s misconduct were false,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/02\/lincoln-project-accused-of-protecting-predator-john-weaver.html\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eas did\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENew York Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca class=\"image-link image2 image2-968-693\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4c13a2cf-6c71-4158-8a6c-bcb35f6af918_693x968.png\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{\u0026quot;src\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4c13a2cf-6c71-4158-8a6c-bcb35f6af918_693x968.png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;height\u0026quot;:968,\u0026quot;width\u0026quot;:693,\u0026quot;resizeWidth\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;bytes\u0026quot;:371474,\u0026quot;alt\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;title\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;image\/png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;href\u0026quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4c13a2cf-6c71-4158-8a6c-bcb35f6af918_693x968.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003E\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Blade\u003C\/em\u003E, Feb. 9, 2021\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAP’s exposé also included highly incriminating reporting about what the group did — and did not — do with the close to $100 million it received in the name of fighting Trump and converting Republican voters into Biden supporters:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the collection of GOP consultants and former officials, being anti-Trump was becoming very good for business. Of the $90 million Lincoln Project has raised, more than $50 million has gone to firms controlled by the group’s leaders….\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince its creation, the Lincoln Project has raised $90 million. But only about a third of the money, roughly $27 million, directly paid for advertisements that aired on broadcast and cable, or appeared online, during the 2020 campaign, according to an analysis of campaign finance disclosures and data from the ad tracking firm Kantar\/CMAG.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat leaves tens of millions of dollars that went toward expenses like production costs, overhead — and exorbitant consulting fees collected by members of the group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E“It raises questions about where the rest of the money ultimately went,” said Brendan Fischer, an attorney with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington. “Generally speaking, you’d expect to see a major super PAC spend a majority or more of their money on advertisements and that’s not what happened here.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe vast majority of the cash was split among consulting firms controlled by its founders, including about $27 million paid to a small firm controlled by Galen and another $21 million paid to a boutique firm run by former Lincoln Project member Ron Steslow, campaign finance disclosures show.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut in many cases it’s difficult to tell how much members of the group were paid. That’s because the Lincoln Project adopted a strategy, much like the Trump campaign they criticized, to mask how much money they earned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThese scandals multiplied even further in the last week. In the wake of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;report about the serial sexual misconduct by Weaver — he has “been accused of sending unsolicited and sexually provocative messages to 21 men, one as young as 14 when the messages began” — one of the group’s co-founders, Jennifer Horn,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/02\/05\/us\/joe-biden-trump-impeachment#jennifer-horn-lincoln-project\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E: “I have terminated my relationship with the Lincoln Project, effective immediately,” citing the group’s mishandling of the Weaver scandal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe Lincoln Project then published a statement attacking Horn by claiming her resignation was motivated not by noble objections to what appeared to be their protection of a sexual predator but instead — in an unsurpassed case of projection —\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveSchmidtSES\/status\/1357857362384666625\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eaccused her\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of being driven solely by money: namely, that she had demanded, and they rejected, “an immediate ‘signing bonus’ payment of $250,000 and a $40,000-per-month consulting contract.” Revealingly, the group refused to say how Horn’s supposedly outrageous pecuniary demands compare to the payments actually received by her male co-founders and other Lincoln Project operatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWhen AP inquired about this, they bizarrely proclaimed that they would provide transparency of their finances only after Trump does. “The Lincoln Project will be delighted to open its books for audit immediately after the Trump campaign and all affiliated super PACs do so,” Steve Schmidt said in response to inquiries about how much of the donations went into their personal bank accounts rather than ads designed to defeat Trump.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAnd then, on Thursday night,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;reported that “leaders of the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump media venture, came under fire on Thursday night from six former workers demanding to be released from nondisclosure agreements in order to talk about John Weaver, a co-founder who\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/31\/us\/politics\/john-weaver-lincoln-project-harassment.html\" style=\"color: #333333;\" title=\"\"\u003Eharassed young men\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;online.” Those six former employees accused the Lincoln Project of having “protected” a “predator.” The article also cited Horn’s claims that when she raised objections about the group’s treatment of the Weaver allegations, she was “yelled at, demeaned and lied to.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ESo that has been the trajectory of the Lincoln Project over the past couple of months. They are drowning in allegations of financial scamming, lying to the public and to their own employees about what they knew about a predator at the top level of their organization, and engaging in open warfare among themselves playing out in public in the pettiest yet most vindictive ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E=====\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBut even by their lowly standards\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Lincoln Project’s behavior last night was so appalling and likely illegal that it provoked\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeathMayo\/status\/1360093680715984897\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ewidespread denunciations\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;even from many of the group’s most prominent supporters, who have thus far been willing to tolerate every deceitful, grifting, unethical and profiteering transgression. Accusations that their behavior was a “violation of federal law” were notably\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gtconway3d\/status\/1360079091291066371\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eled by\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;long-time lawyer George Conway, who shot to cable news and social media stardom in the Trump years by vehemently denouncing Trump despite being married to the former President’s close adviser, Kellyanne Conway. But what made Conway’s accusations so stinging is that he is one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project, one of the most prominent representatives of the group since its inception.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EConway’s public accusation of criminality against his own group came after they tried to intimidate a journalist, Amanda Becker, who was working to report on the group’s various scandals. Shortly before 11:00 pm ET on Thursday night, the Lincoln Project Twitter account, which has close to three million followers,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oilfield_Rando\/status\/1360082335744589825\/photo\/2\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that it was posting the private communications between Becker and Jennifer Horn, the group’s co-founder who recently resigned, in order to reveal how the two were, in their words, conspiring to produce “a smear job on the Lincoln Project.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe unknown person operating the Lincoln Project’s Twitter page then posted excerpts of the inbox of Jennifer Horn’s personal Twitter account as well as the private messages she was exchanging with Becker about the story. Whoever saw those tweets could therefore read not only Horn’s private messages with Becker but also the identity of the last six or seven people with whom Horn had privately communicated, as well as parts of their conversations. In a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oilfield_Rando\/status\/1360082335744589825\/photo\/3\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Esubsequent tweet\u003C\/a\u003E, the group posted even more extensive conversations between their now dissident co-founder and this journalist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca class=\"image-link image2 image2-798-488\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d866605f-59c1-4e80-bb85-c8dcafbe36d8_488x798.png\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{\u0026quot;src\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d866605f-59c1-4e80-bb85-c8dcafbe36d8_488x798.png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;height\u0026quot;:798,\u0026quot;width\u0026quot;:488,\u0026quot;resizeWidth\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;bytes\u0026quot;:238769,\u0026quot;alt\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;title\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;image\/png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;href\u0026quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d866605f-59c1-4e80-bb85-c8dcafbe36d8_488x798.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003E\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003ENow-deleted tweet posted to the Lincoln Project’s Twitter account on the evening of Feb. 11, 2021\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EHow did the Lincoln Project get access to Horn’s private Twitter account? Horn herself\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHJennifer\/status\/1360097602474237952\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Equickly proclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that she did not consent to the publication of those messages. While Becker, as a party to this exchange, would have the legal authority to grant consent to the publication of this particular conversation, only Horn has the right to provide the legally required consent to access her private Twitter account and publish its contents. But that is academic, since Becker\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaBecker\/status\/1360085256469151744\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Emade clear\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a series of tweets that she was outraged by what the Lincoln Project did, negating any possibility that she provided her consent to their publication of her conversations with Horn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAfter Conway, the group’s own co-founder, strongly suggested that they had violated federal law with these tweets, the Lincoln Project deleted them without comment. Neither the group nor its typically vocal operatives have addressed any of the fallout despite numerous media inquiries and extensive commentary. They have, for once, fallen silent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EDue to their hiding, it remains unknown which specific Lincoln Project functionary accessed and posted Horn’s private messages. But one of them, Rick Wilson, shortly after publication, boasted of it as though it were some great accomplishment of which he was proud:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca class=\"image-link image2 image2-888-763\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e3565f76-8005-4d2a-9945-34fbffba8683_763x888.png\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{\u0026quot;src\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e3565f76-8005-4d2a-9945-34fbffba8683_763x888.png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;height\u0026quot;:888,\u0026quot;width\u0026quot;:763,\u0026quot;resizeWidth\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;bytes\u0026quot;:524170,\u0026quot;alt\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;title\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;image\/png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;href\u0026quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e3565f76-8005-4d2a-9945-34fbffba8683_763x888.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003E\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003EA now-deleted tweet from Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, posted on the evening of Feb. 11, 2021\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EConway’s accusation that the Lincoln Project’s behavior here “looks on its face to be a violation of federal law” is clearly accurate (for disclosure: my first job after law school back in 1994 was with the law firm where Conway was and is a partner, though I remained there only 18 months and had little to no interaction with him then or since).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1030\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Emakes it\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a federal crime for anyone who has “knowingly accessed a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/definitions\/uscode.php?width=840\u0026amp;height=800\u0026amp;iframe=true\u0026amp;def_id=18-USC-599163109-692694671\u0026amp;term_occur=999\u0026amp;term_src=\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ecomputer\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;without authorization or exceeding authorized access, and thereby obtains” information from that computer. A separate section makes it a crime to cause harm or damage to the person through that unauthorized access by, for instance, making the contents public. The law provides for punishments ranging from fines to years in prison depending on the motive of the unauthorized access.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe Lincoln Project may claim that it possessed authorized access to Horn’s computer because she had previously worked there. But that authorization would almost certainly be deemed to terminate upon Horn’s termination of her relationship with the group, which preceded her private conversations with Becker. Beyond that, Yashar Ali\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1360105969473122305\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that Horn “did not have a laptop or phone issued by the Lincoln Project,” rendering it even more implausible that they were somehow authorized to access her computer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBut even if one brushes all that to the side and still insists that the Lincoln Project somehow had authorization to access Horn’s computer, their behavior would still likely be illegal since the CFAA criminalizes not only unauthorized access to a computer but also any access “exceeding authorized access.” In other words, if you are authorized to access someone’s computer for specific purposes, but instead abuse that access for unauthorized purposes, then you are still guilty of crimes under this statute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EClearly, accessing Horn’s computer in order to publish her private communications without her consent, after she left, wildly “exceeds” whatever “authorized access” the group can plausibly claim it possessed. Indeed, it is very difficult to imagine a scenario under which the Lincoln Project and its employees who participated in this breach did not violate federal law, which is presumably why Conway, a very careful and accomplished litigator, barely caveated his serious accusation against this notoriously litigious group:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca class=\"image-link image2 image2-314-582\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/703cf107-7c04-4899-8f96-d44f1e784f8f_582x314.png\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{\u0026quot;src\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/703cf107-7c04-4899-8f96-d44f1e784f8f_582x314.png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;height\u0026quot;:314,\u0026quot;width\u0026quot;:582,\u0026quot;resizeWidth\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;bytes\u0026quot;:48332,\u0026quot;alt\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;title\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;image\/png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;href\u0026quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/703cf107-7c04-4899-8f96-d44f1e784f8f_582x314.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ENot only have the Lincoln Project’s boisterous leaders fallen completely silent, but they also are refusing to answer basic questions about what happened here. Earlier this morning, I submitted a list of questions to them (published below) and they have failed to respond in any way, including even with their characteristic fake bravado, insults and threats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThey have transformed into meek, mute little mice, hiding somewhere out of sight. Anyone who has their best interests at heart should hope they are huddled in their criminal lawyers’ offices. All of this silence and hiding and evasion is particularly ironic given the Abraham Lincoln quote they chose to define themselves, that still sits atop their now-dormant Twitter profile, which admonishes: “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Indeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"captioned-image-container\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca class=\"image-link image2 image2-745-583\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/153f4680-766e-4475-9360-2333a3bffa74_583x745.png\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" data-attrs=\"{\u0026quot;src\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/153f4680-766e-4475-9360-2333a3bffa74_583x745.png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;height\u0026quot;:745,\u0026quot;width\u0026quot;:583,\u0026quot;resizeWidth\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;bytes\u0026quot;:139477,\u0026quot;alt\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;title\u0026quot;:null,\u0026quot;type\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;image\/png\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;href\u0026quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/153f4680-766e-4475-9360-2333a3bffa74_583x745.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003E\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Cfigcaption class=\"image-caption\"\u003EEmail sent to The Lincoln Project seeking comment, Feb. 12, 2021 at 8:58 a.m. ET\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E=====\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom the start,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;it was obvious that this disgraceful collapse was the inevitable end for this group. The very idea that this freakish hodgepodge of life-long D.C. Republican consultants were men of profound conscience defending the Republic was a complete and total joke. They are life-long grifters, responsible for some of the most\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2008\/11\/cleland-ad-causes-trouble-for-chambliss-015561\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Egrotesque and amoral attack ads\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the modern era, with a very long and recent history of advocating the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1283452812270153730\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eexact opposite\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;values of what they claimed to represent once they opportunistically identified the optimal Trump-era profit model: namely, relentlessly fleece scared and gullible #Resistance liberals of their cash by posturing as brave and principled warriors against Trumpism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBut their lucrative scheme could never have succeeded without the knowingly fraudulent cooperation of liberal networks such as MSNBC and CNN. Over and over, those Democratic Party spokespeople masquerading as TV journalists — knowing exactly who these bottom-feeding GOP operatives have always been — encouraged their misguided and trusting viewers to regard the Lincoln Project as a selfless and noble bulwark against Trumpism rather than the scamming, grifting, lowlife con it so obviously was from the start.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWhat this sorry episode reveals above all else is that much of American liberalism, including its all-but-official arm in corporate media, replicated, in the name of combatting Trump, every unethical tactic, every deceitful method, and every toxic assault on basic decency that they insisted Trump singularly represented. They allied with the most amoral societal actors, venerated the most corrupt factions, and vouched for the sleaziest operatives in the name of uprooting amorality, corruption and sleaze. The claimed Trump acted without limits or respect for normalcy and truth while proudly relinquishing all boundaries, principles and constraints of truth in order to fight him.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EIn doing so, they became everything they claimed they were fighting. And unlike Trump, who is now gone, these unholy alliances and ethic-free habits that define them will remain and fester forever. That is why when American liberals, including in the media, look in the mirror, what they see staring back is Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt and John Weaver. That is the perfect reflection of what they have become, of who they now are.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EGlenn Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law. His most recent book, “No Place to Hide,” is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Greenwald’s column was featured in The Guardian and Salon.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"left\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EGlenn is one of the three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He left The Intercept in October 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ehttps:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/subscribe?\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ESuscribe to his newsletter\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/56320.htm\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2846920897426998236\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/the-lincoln-project-facing-multiple.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/2846920897426998236"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/2846920897426998236"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/the-lincoln-project-facing-multiple.html","title":"The Lincoln Project, Facing Multiple Scandals, is Accused by its Own Co-Founder of Likely Criminality"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kOqdJqpWvi8\/YCh9mD3nlOI\/AAAAAAAA2ro\/dHlvaxfwgI0zQiA1J7RzIw5Rl8oJhStigCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w640-h352-c\/lincoln-project.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-7835322433859225769"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-13T20:28:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-13T20:28:25.254-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Pharma"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"'Beyond Outrageous': Big Pharma Using Loophole to Get Taxpayers to Fund Billions in Fines for Fueling Opioid Crisis"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\"The tax code is so rigged for the rich that even when they kill people they get a tax break.\"\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"font-size: x-large;\" \/\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBy Kenny Stancil\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0gc0anXi7Ec\/YCh8hLv680I\/AAAAAAAA2rg\/NuvKIlyDtx8M7cQTp4gQdO1zSRGppABtQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s579\/opioid-deaths.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"412\" data-original-width=\"579\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0gc0anXi7Ec\/YCh8hLv680I\/AAAAAAAA2rg\/NuvKIlyDtx8M7cQTp4gQdO1zSRGppABtQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h456\/opioid-deaths.jpeg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EFebruary 13, 2021 \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"\u003EInformation Clearing House\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\" - Four pharmaceutical corporations that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/opioid-settlement-drug-distributors\/2020\/11\/05\/6a8da214-1fc7-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eagreed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to pay a combined $26 billion to settle lawsuits resulting from a deadly opioid crisis they helped create reportedly plan to recoup a portion of those costs by deducting roughly $4.6 billion of the payouts from their taxes—sparking intense condemnation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBig Pharma is attempting to make the public cover some of the fines related to lawsuits filed by\u0026nbsp;dozens of state and local governments highlighting the culpability of opioid manufacturers and distributors in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 people per year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAs Public Citizen president Robert Weissman\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/news\/statement-big-pharma-is-laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Eput it\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a statement released Friday, \"The drug companies are settling with taxpayers (local government entities) and then demanding that taxpayers pay part of the cost (via a federal tax subsidy).\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWashington Post\u003C\/em\u003E, which analyzed regulatory filings,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/02\/12\/opioid-settlement-tax-refund\/?arc404=true\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Friday that \"as details of the blockbuster settlement were still being worked out, pharmaceutical giant Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson and the 'big three' drug distributors—McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health—all updated their financial projections to include large tax benefits stemming from the expected deal.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1360302304801533952\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" name=\"I1\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=commondreams\u0026amp;creatorUserId=14296273\u0026amp;dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1360302304801533952\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fbeyond-outrageous-big-pharma-using-loophole-get-taxpayers-fund-billions-fines\u0026amp;siteScreenName=commondreams\u0026amp;siteUserId=14296273\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=550px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 607px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EWeissman called it \"beyond outrageous for the drug makers and distributors to take a tax deduction for their settlement of city and county claims relating to the drug companies' alleged role in creating and worsening the opioid addiction epidemic.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\"Making this scheme even more infuriating,\" he added, \"is that the opioid manufacturer and distributor companies are preparing to claim billions in tax subsidies via a Covid-19 relief provision.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EAccording to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPost\u003C\/em\u003E, \"U.S. tax laws generally restrict companies from deducting the cost of legal settlements from their taxes, with one major exception: Damages paid to victims as restitution for the misdeeds can usually be deducted.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe newspaper noted that \"Congress has placed stricter limits on such deductions in recent years, and some tax experts say the Internal Revenue Service could challenge the companies' attempts to deduct opioid settlement costs.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EBut the ploy might work, as\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Week\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.com\/5things\/966589\/big-pharma-companies-claim-1-billion-tax-deductions-after-opioid-settlements\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E, thanks to the CARES Act, which \"opened up billions of dollars in tax breaks to companies regardless of pandemic suffering.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EThe\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Post\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;provided an example of how one of the companies may exploit the loophole: \"Dublin, Ohio-based drug distributor Cardinal Health said earlier this month\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/cardinal-health-sec-filing\/9c4f4e12-ae0f-4fe5-8e3c-8ae276eff44e\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eit planned to collect\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a $974 million cash refund because it claimed its opioid-related legal costs as a 'net operating loss carryback'—a tax provision Congress included in last year's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecoronavirus\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;bailout package as a way of helping companies struggling during the pandemic.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1360330838362050561\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-1\" name=\"I2\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=commondreams\u0026amp;creatorUserId=14296273\u0026amp;dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=true\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1360330838362050561\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fbeyond-outrageous-big-pharma-using-loophole-get-taxpayers-fund-billions-fines\u0026amp;siteScreenName=commondreams\u0026amp;siteUserId=14296273\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=550px\" style=\"display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 370px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\"Whether the payments will be deductible may hinge on specific word choices in the final terms of the settlement,\" the newspaper reported. \"Though recent changes to the tax code have attempted to close loopholes that permit companies to deduct taxes when they have committed wrongdoing, many companies now push to make sure their settlements include a 'restitution' payment for victims—the 'magic word' that often qualifies them for deductions.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\"Greg McNeil, whose son became addicted to opioids and died from an overdose... said $26 billion is only a small fraction of the epidemic's financial toll and argue[d] the proposal doesn't include what many family members of opioid victims want the most: an admission of guilt,\" the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPost\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003ENot only do \"all four firms disavow any wrongdoing or legal responsibility,\" the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPost\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;noted, but there is now a chance that Big Pharma could make the public foot part of the bill for its corporate malpractice—in the midst of the devastating coronavirus pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\"While tens of millions of Americans are experiencing extreme economic hardship and dealing with intermittent and often inadequate governmental support for unemployment, food, housing, and small business continuity,\" Weissman said, \"Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson, McKesson, Cardinal Health, and Amerisource-Bergen are laughing all the way to bank.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003E-\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/02\/12\/beyond-outrageous-big-pharma-using-loophole-get-taxpayers-fund-billions-fines?cd-origin=rss\u0026amp;utm\" style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESource\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\"\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/56314.htm\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7835322433859225769\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/beyond-outrageous-big-pharma-using.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/7835322433859225769"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/7835322433859225769"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/beyond-outrageous-big-pharma-using.html","title":"'Beyond Outrageous': Big Pharma Using Loophole to Get Taxpayers to Fund Billions in Fines for Fueling Opioid Crisis"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0gc0anXi7Ec\/YCh8hLv680I\/AAAAAAAA2rg\/NuvKIlyDtx8M7cQTp4gQdO1zSRGppABtQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w640-h456-c\/opioid-deaths.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-3722738154317359498"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-12T19:44:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-12T19:44:29.605-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Intelligence"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Disinformation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Science and Medicine"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I’m a Clinical Lab Scientist, COVID-19 Is Fake, Wake Up America!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"author\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/derek-knauss\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Derek Knauss\"\u003EDerek Knauss\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michel-chossudovsky\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Prof Michel Chossudovsky\"\u003EProf Michel Chossudovsky\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/prepareforchange.net\/2021\/01\/09\/im-a-clinical-lab-scientist-c19-is-fake-wake-up-america\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPrepare for Change\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;9 January 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LlmF86MtldU\/YCcgyqtJL-I\/AAAAAAAA2rM\/tNetS6H6zUQi77fXG5Z7lRiEbmbCZ8-RgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/COVID-TRIGGER-400x266.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"266\" data-original-width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LlmF86MtldU\/YCcgyqtJL-I\/AAAAAAAA2rM\/tNetS6H6zUQi77fXG5Z7lRiEbmbCZ8-RgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/COVID-TRIGGER-400x266.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe following statements by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Derick Knauss\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the identity of the virus and on the failures of the PCR test are corroborated by numerous scientific studies including the WHO.\u0026nbsp;See the text by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at the foot of Dr. Knauss’ article\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E***\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"line\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI have a PhD in virology and immunology. I’m a clinical lab scientist and have\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"line\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Etested 1500 “supposed” positive Covid 19 samples collected here in S.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"line\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECalifornia. When my lab team and I did the testing through Koch’s postulates\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"line\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eand observation under a SEM (scanning electron microscope), we found NO Covid\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"line\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ein any of the 1500 samples.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat we found was that all of the 1500 samples were mostly Influenza A and some were influenza B, but not a single case of Covid, and we did not use the B.S. PCR test.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWe then sent the remainder of the samples to Stanford, Cornell, and a few of the University of California labs and they found the same results as we did, NO COVID. They found influenza A and B. All of us then spoke to the CDC and asked for viable samples of COVID, which CDC said they could not provide as they did not have any samples. We have now come to the firm conclusion through all our research and lab work, that the COVID 19 was imaginary and fictitious.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe flu was called Covid and most of the 225,000 dead were dead through co-morbidities such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, emphysema etc. and they then got the flu which further weakened their immune system and they died.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI have yet to find a single viable sample of Covid 19 to work with. We at the 7 universities that did the lab tests on these 1500 samples are now suing the CDC for Covid 19 fraud. the CDC has yet to send us a single viable, isolated and purifed sample of Covid 19. If they can’t or won’t send us a viable sample,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI say there is no Covid 19, it is fictitious.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe four research papers that do describe the genomic extracts of the Covid 19 virus never were successful in isolating and purifying the samples.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;All the four papers written on Covid 19 only describe small bits of RNA which were only 37 to 40 base pairs long which is NOT A VIRUS. A viral genome is typically 30,000 to 40,000 base pairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWith as bad as Covid is supposed to be all over the place, how come no one in any lab world wide has ever isolated and purified this virus in its entirety? That’s because they’ve never really found the virus, all they’ve ever found was small pieces of RNA which were never identified as the virus anyway.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESo what we’re dealing with is just another flu strain like every year, COVID 19 does not exist and is fictitious. I believe China and the globalists orchestrated this COVID hoax (the flu disguised as a novel virus) to bring in global tyranny and a worldwide police totalitarian surveillance state, and this plot included massive election fraud to overthrow Trump.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Derek Knauss\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ci style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a clinical lab\u0026nbsp;specialist focussing on virology and immunology. He is based in Southern California\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serifl; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E***\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch2 style=\"border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serifl; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“False Positives” and the Identification of the Virus\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EExcerpt from Prof. Michel Chossudovsky’s E-Book\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroyig Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d’État and the “Great Reset”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"subtitle\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research E-Book, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"column\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhile\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESARS-CoV-2\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;–namely the the virus which is said to cause COVID-19 (categorized as a disease), was isolated in a laboratory test in January 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ethe RT-PCR\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Etest does not identify\/ detect the virus.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat it detects are fragments of viri\u003C\/span\u003E.\u0026nbsp;According to renowned Swiss immunologist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-why-everyone-wrong\/5718049\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr B. Stadler\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESo if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person,\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;it is not a virus that is detected\u003C\/span\u003E, but a small shattered part of the viral genome.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe test comes back positive for as long as there are tiny shattered parts of the virus left.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;Even if the infectious viri are long dead, a corona test can come back positive, because the PCR method multiplies even a tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [to be detected].\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Question is Positive for What?? The PCR test does not detect the identity of the virus, According to\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-19-closer-to-the-truth-tests-and-immunity\/5720160\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dr. Pascal Sacré,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ethese tests detect viral particles, genetic sequences, not the whole virus.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn an attempt to quantify the viral load, these sequences are then amplified several times through numerous complex steps that are subject to errors, sterility errors and contamination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPositive RT-PCR is not synonymous with COVID-19 disease! PCR specialists make it clear that a test must always be compared with the clinical record of the patient being tested, with the patient’s state of health to confirm its value [reliability]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe media frighten everyone with new positive PCR tests, without any nuance or context, wrongly assimilating this information with a second wave of COVID-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/what-is-covid-19-sars-2-how-is-it-tested-how-is-it-measured-the-fear-campaign-has-no-scientific-basis\/5722566\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"What is Covid-19, SARS-2. How is it Tested? How is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis\"\u003EWhat is Covid-19, SARS-2. How is it Tested? How is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhile the RT-PCR test was never intended to identify the virus, it nonetheless constitutes from the very outset the cornerstone of the official estimates of Covid-19 “positives”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWHY then was it adopted??\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Controversial Drosten RT-PCR Study\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-scandal-breaking-merkel-germany\/5731891\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EF. William Engdahl\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a recent article documents how the RT-PCR Test was instated by the WHO at the outset, despite its obvious shortcomings in identifying the 2019-nCoV.\u0026nbsp;The scandal takes its roots in Germany involving “a professor at the heart of Angela Merkel’s corona advisory group”:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn January 23, 2020, in the scientific journal\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEurosurveillance\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E, of the EU Center for Disease Prevention and Control,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-scandal-breaking-merkel-germany\/5731891\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Christian Drosten\u003C\/span\u003E, along with several colleagues\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the Berlin Virology Institute at Charité Hospital, [together] \u0026nbsp;with the head of a small Berlin biotech company, TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, published a study entitled,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E(Eurosurveillance January 23, 2020).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhile Drosten et al’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEurosurveillance article\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(undertaken in liaison with the WHO) confirmed that “several viral genome sequences had been released”, in the case of 2019-nCoV, however, “\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Evirus isolates or samples from infected patients\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ewere\u0026nbsp;not available … “:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“The genome sequences suggest presence of a virus closely related to the members of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ea viral species termed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related CoV,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;a species defined by the agent of the 2002\/03 outbreak of SARS in humans [\u003Cspan class=\"xref\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045#r3\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E3\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E,\u003Cspan class=\"xref\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045#r4\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E4\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E].\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;We report on the the establishment and validation of a diagnostic workflow for 2019-nCoV screening and specific confirmation [using the RT-PCR test],\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;designed in absence of available virus isolates or original patient specimens.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;Design and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Evalidation were enabled by the close genetic relatedness to the 2003 SARS-CoV\u003C\/span\u003E, and aided by the use of synthetic nucleic acid technology.” \u0026nbsp;(\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEurosurveillance,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;January 23, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eemphasis added).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat this (erroneous) statement suggests is that the identity of 2019-nCoV was not required and that “validation” would be enabled by “the close genetic relatedness to the 2003-SARS-CoV.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe recommendations of the\u0026nbsp;Drosten study (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/How-We-Work\/Quick-Links\/Grants-Database\/Grants\/2020\/03\/INV-005971\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Esupported and financed by the Gates Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E) pertaining to the use of the RT-PCR test applied to 2019-nCoV were then transmitted to the WHO. They were subsequently endorsed by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDirector General of the WHO,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETedros Adhanom.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eidentity of the virus was not required.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Drosten et al article pertaining to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ethe use of the RT-PCR test Worldwide\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;(under WHO guidance) was challenged in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cormandrostenreview.com\/report\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENovember 27, 2020 study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by a \u0026nbsp;group of 23 international virologists, microbiologists et al.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Their careful analysis of the original [Drosten] piece is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cormandrostenreview.com\/report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edamning\u003C\/a\u003E. …\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"en-US\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThey accuse Drosten and cohorts of “fatal” scientific incompetence and flaws in promoting their test” (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-scandal-breaking-merkel-germany\/5731891\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEngdahl\u003C\/a\u003E, December, 2020). \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe results of the PCR Test applied to SARS-2 are blatantly flawed. Drosten et al recommended the use of a 45 amplification threshold cycle (Ct), which was endorsed by the WHO in January 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;Pieter Borger, et al\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe number of amplification cycles [should be] less than 35; preferably 25-30 cycles.\u0026nbsp;In case of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Evirus detection, \u0026gt;35 cycles\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;only detects signals which do not correlate with infectious virus as determined by isolation in cell culture…\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cormandrostenreview.com\/report\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E(Critique of\u0026nbsp;Drosten Study\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe WHO’s RT-PCR “Retraction” (January 20, 2021)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe RT-PCR test was adopted by the WHO on January 23, 2020, following the recommendations of \u0026nbsp;the Drosten study quoted above.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOne year later on January 20th, 2021, the WHO came out with the admission that the PCR test will yield biased results if they are conducted above a certain cycle threshold used for amplification. Below is the text of the WHO’s “retraction”:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWHO guidance\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications-detail-redirect\/diagnostic-testing-for-sars-cov-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDiagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E1\u003C\/em\u003E). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation,\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ea new specimen should be taken and retested\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;using the same or different NAT technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat this admission of the WHO confirms is that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Emost of the estimates of covid positive under the so-called “Second Wave” (with amplification cycles in excess of 35) are invalid,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;which means that the lockdown \/ economic measures which have resulted in social panic, mass poverty and unemployment (allegedly to curtail the spread of the virus) have no justification whatsoever.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMoreover, the WHO is calling for\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;retesting\u003C\/span\u003E: “\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ea new specimen should be taken and retested…”.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThat recommendation is pro-forma. I won’t happen. (It is there to sustain the legitimacy of the WHO). Millions of people Worldwide have already been tested:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the case in most laboratories in Europe \u0026amp; the US),\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%\u003C\/span\u003E,\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;the probability that said result is a false positive is 97% \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cormandrostenreview.com\/report\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E(Pieter Borger,\u0026nbsp;Bobby Rajesh Malhotra,\u0026nbsp;Michael Yeadon,\u0026nbsp;Clare Craig, Kevin McKernan, et al, Critique of\u0026nbsp;Drosten Study\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt the time of writing (Second Wave) the test is being used extensively to hike up the numbers with a view to justifying a partial lockdown with devastating social and economic impacts including the engineered bankruptcy of tourism, air travel and the urban services economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBoth the WHO and the scientific assessments (quoted above) confirm unequivocally that the tests adopted by governments to justify the destabilization of their national economy are TOTALLY INVALID. Moreover, those PCR tests are not routinely accompanied by a medical diagnosis of the patients who are being tested.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. 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No \u0026quot;Second Wave\u0026quot; will Follow  October 2020   Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia Provincial Health Officer, Ministry of Health, Victoria, BC V8W 3C9 Dear Dr. Henry,   I am a physician who has been in family medical practice in BC for more than 40 years and a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC since 1978.    I am writing this…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Epidemiological Evidence: The \" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" follow=\"\" is=\"\" no=\"\" over.=\"\" pandemic=\"\" second=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Dr.-Bonnie-Henry.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" wave=\"\" width=\"350\" will=\"\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737013\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/epidemiological-evidence-the-pandemic-is-over-no-second-wave-will-follow\/5726760\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Epidemiological Evidence: The \u0026quot;Pandemic\u0026quot; is Over. No \u0026quot;Second Wave\u0026quot; will Follow  October 2020   Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia Provincial Health Officer, Ministry of Health, Victoria, BC V8W 3C9 Dear Dr. Henry,   I am a physician who has been in family medical practice in BC for more than 40 years and a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC since 1978.    I am writing this…\"\u003EEpidemiological Evidence: The \"Pandemic\" is Over. No \"Second Wave\" will Follow\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E20 October 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/prepareforchange.net\/2021\/01\/09\/im-a-clinical-lab-scientist-c19-is-fake-wake-up-america\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPrepare for Change\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/derek-knauss\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Derek Knauss\"\u003EDerek Knauss\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michel-chossudovsky\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Prof Michel Chossudovsky\"\u003EProf Michel Chossudovsky\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/prepareforchange.net\/2021\/01\/09\/im-a-clinical-lab-scientist-c19-is-fake-wake-up-america\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPrepare for Change\u003C\/a\u003E, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/clinical-lab-scientist-covid-19-fake-wake-up-america\/5737013\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3722738154317359498\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/im-clinical-lab-scientist-covid-19-is.html#comment-form","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/3722738154317359498"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/3722738154317359498"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/im-clinical-lab-scientist-covid-19-is.html","title":"I’m a Clinical Lab Scientist, COVID-19 Is Fake, Wake Up America!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LlmF86MtldU\/YCcgyqtJL-I\/AAAAAAAA2rM\/tNetS6H6zUQi77fXG5Z7lRiEbmbCZ8-RgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/COVID-TRIGGER-400x266.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-1023247430419248495"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-12T19:42:00.004-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-12T19:42:22.315-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Middle East \u0026 North Africa"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"NATO"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Syria"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Agenda"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Video: US Military Deployment in Syria. Arranging the “Middle East Narrative” to Push the Biden Agenda Forward"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/southfront\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by South Front\"\u003ESouth Front\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/arranging-the-middle-east-narrative-to-push-the-agenda-forward\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESouth Front\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;11 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-muTwhetkMwA\/YCcgMkX-W7I\/AAAAAAAA2rE\/1KNq8ENbDwMWkB24nZKL0TwOnjHxu5e_QCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/Active_Democracy-400x225.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"225\" data-original-width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-muTwhetkMwA\/YCcgMkX-W7I\/AAAAAAAA2rE\/1KNq8ENbDwMWkB24nZKL0TwOnjHxu5e_QCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Active_Democracy-400x225.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe United States is returning to a level of activity in the Middle East unseen in nearly 4 years. This development has become obvious over the weeks since\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EJoe Biden\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;became US President, firstly with a large deployment into Syria, and subsequently with smaller ones.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn February 9th, the Pentagon said that it was no longer in Syria to protect and exploit oil fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt is now back to hunting ISIS.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;Back to the square one of 2014 and the Obama era. 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 26px; line-height: 11px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 26px;\"\u003E\u003Cbutton aria-controls=\"mep_0\" aria-label=\"Fullscreen\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(\u0026quot;controls.svg\u0026quot;); background-origin: initial; background-position: -32px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 0px; height: 16px; line-height: 0; margin: 7px 5px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 16px;\" title=\"Fullscreen\" type=\"button\"\u003E\u003C\/button\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"mejs-clear\" style=\"border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt is a mystery that they were able to make such a sharp and sudden resurgence. It should also be noted that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces allegedly have about 10,000 ISIS terrorists imprisoned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis statement of intent denotes a massive shift in posture for the US. \u0026nbsp;When defending the oil fields the US troops were mostly static, when hunting ISIS they can, once again, roam around and carry out various operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt appears likely that Idlib is now also in focus – US combat drones were observed surveying Greater Idlib. Idlib is a mixed bag – it has Turkish troops, Russians, the Syrian Arab Army along with terrorists and the moderate opposition, although confusing these two groups can be forgiven. The newest, future, US ally is there – the soon-to-be-rebranded Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAn indication of expected escalations and attacks are the Russian and Syrian military drills being carried out near Aleppo during effective wartime. Russia, separately, carried out a naval drill near Tartus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnd, as if by design, long-range missiles attempted to strike Russia’s forces at the Hmeimim Air Base. Drones occasionally attempt to infiltrate its airspace, but missiles are a rare sight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMeanwhile in Western Daraa, the rebel leaders submitted to Damascus, likely fearing the upcoming chaos and wanting to choose a side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFinally, the Biden administration is also working to secure Israeli support. The State Department said it doesn’t endorse Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, but doesn’t oppose it. It also provided a $9bn weapon sale as consolation. Tel Aviv is likely to use these weapons to counter its nemesis – Iran. It does so by targeting alleged Iranian interests in Syria.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESyria remains the lynchpin of US Middle East policy but the US posture in Iraq and Afghanistan has also changed. Withdrawing from the region is now out of the question – ISIS is making a resurgence, and there are other groups targeting American forces and convoys.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn Afghanistan, specifically, if the withdrawal does not move forward, the Taliban are also likely to begin targeting the US again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe democrats are back in control and back to spreading democracy in the Middle East.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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In the past few days, top US civilian and military officials have declared that they are prepared to seek a “military solution” in Syria, put “boots on…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"On Eve of Syria “Peace Talks,” Washington Threatens Escalation across Region\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-syria-flags.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737133\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/on-eve-of-syria-peace-talks-washington-threatens-escalation-across-region\/5503543\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"On Eve of Syria “Peace Talks,” Washington Threatens Escalation across Region  With Syria “peace talks” ostensibly set to begin in Geneva today, Washington has ratcheted up threats of US military escalation throughout the region. In the past few days, top US civilian and military officials have declared that they are prepared to seek a “military solution” in Syria, put “boots on…\"\u003EOn Eve of Syria “Peace Talks,” Washington Threatens Escalation across Region\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E25 January 2016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/arranging-the-middle-east-narrative-to-push-the-agenda-forward\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESouth Front\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/southfront\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by South Front\"\u003ESouth Front\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/arranging-the-middle-east-narrative-to-push-the-agenda-forward\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESouth Front\u003C\/a\u003E, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/video-arranging-middle-east-narrative-push-agenda-forwarrd\/5737133\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1023247430419248495\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/video-us-military-deployment-in-syria.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/1023247430419248495"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/1023247430419248495"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/video-us-military-deployment-in-syria.html","title":"Video: US Military Deployment in Syria. 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The nuance associated with lawmaking, the arcane art of manufacturing the rules and regulations that hold society together, are hidden and therefore unknown to the vast majority of those who participate in the electoral processes that are the hallmark of American democracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMost Americans have not taken the time to follow a bill as it makes it way through the legislative process. Instead, they may hear about it at its inception, and then, if the bill is adopted, watch as the Executive signs it into law. They get the headline version—what the brokers of “truth” in the media opt to say about the legislation, and not what it really represents:\u0026nbsp; an amalgam of special interest money sprinkled with a modicum of societal need, want or desire.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAmericans get their news like a baby bird gets its meal—waiting for a “mother” figure to digest it and then regurgitate it down their collective throats. They are not informed so much as shaped, the byproduct of a system that is built on manufactured consent derived from half-truths, myths and outright lies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFor politics to work in a nation as large and complex as the United States, there must be a rock-solid foundation upon which everyone operates. This role is served by the Constitution, the document which provides foundational principles that guide everything that follows. Adherence to the Constitution is mandatory if everything else that follows is to have a chance at success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut even here, the perception of law-and-order masks a grim reality that the rules collectively embraced as “constitutional” are every bit as partisan as the politics Americans pretend are removed from their system of “blind” justice. For a rule to have meaning, it must be widely embraced as viable and fair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn a system where the final arbiter of the rules is a panel of nine justices whose selection is predicated on the whims of a partisan political elite, the result of many of the most controversial decisions about the very rules that govern society come down to a narrow 5-4 vote, which means that while five justices believe that something is “constitutional”, there are four who do not. If that which divides the two sides is merely an interpretation of legal nuance, then this disparity is irrelevant—the underlying legal principle holds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut when the deviation is significant, to the point that the difference represents a fundamental disagreement, then the law it portends to uphold itself becomes divisive. When something as supposedly as black and white as constitutional law comes down to a single vote by a highly politicized body, the reality is that the foundation it underpins is far more fragile than anyone realizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn top of this shaky foundation of politicized principle Americans have constructed an edifice of governance which is not nearly as solid as they would like to believe. The joists and beams that hold American democracy together are not as flexible as they appear. Like the Supreme Court, they are the byproduct of a bi-polar reality of societal passion contained in the vehicle of two political parties—Republican and Democrat—which must work in harmony if the building is to withstand the storms that periodically sweep across the landscape.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/congressional-democrats-call-on-fbi-to-investigate-their-political-adversaries-kremlin-ties\/5543463\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Kremlin-Trump Connections? Democrats Call on FBI to Investigate Their Political Adversaries’ Kremlin Ties\"\u003EKremlin-Trump Connections? Democrats Call on FBI to Investigate Their Political Adversaries’ Kremlin Ties\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA Unifying Concept\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAmerica was born from a revolution which manifested itself from the failure of the British system of colonialism, and further shaped by a Civil War where a divided nation had to be reformed into a union not through an expression of democratic will, but rather prodded along by the tip of a bayonet. In both Revolution and Civil War, it was the perception that the system of governance had failed the people, rather than the reality, that inflamed the masses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Pennsylvania farmer who marched to Boston in 1775, like the Pennsylvania farmer who marched on Richmond in 1865, was not versed in the political complexities that defined the side he was fighting for. These men fought for a unifying concept, a belief constructed more from passion than fact. For this concept to succeed, there needed to be a fundamental core of agreement, with the space between the differences that naturally arise when dealing with independently thinking humans kept as small as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt is this space that is the key to the success, and ultimately survival, of the great American experiment in democracy. Here, Newton’s Third Law of Physics applies in full force—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. American democracy is not a singular entity operating on its own, but rather formed from millions of threads of beliefs and passions that have come together in harmony.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThese threads work if they operate on the same—or similar—wavelength, bending this way and that in relative unison. There can be pushing and shoving, but the harmonic holds so long as the resistance is minimal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBroken Harmony\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis notion fails, however, when the threads start to collide significantly—a strong push gets an equally strong pushback. The harmony is broken, and the weave of the threads unravels. So long as the American political parties served as a buffer to the passions and beliefs of their constituent threads, harmony could be sustained. To do this, the parties need to operate from the same sheet of music, directed by the same conductor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA unifying narrative must be maintained to shape the perception of the people. When competing narratives exist, they must adhere to a similar core concept, or else risk being torn apart by the destructive echo produced by the space between.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe concept of a “stolen election” is the antithesis of the model of a free and fair election that underpins American democracy. For the supporters of Donald Trump, the events of Jan. 6 did not occur in a vacuum but were rather the culmination of what they believed to be a four-year campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the president they voted for and, by doing so, disenfranchising not only their vote, but by extension their role as citizens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe collapse of the Russian collusion allegations is, today, historic fact. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/floridianpress.com\/2021\/01\/graham-releases-declassified-trump-russia-docs-slams-fbi-probe\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Erecent declassification\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of additional documents related to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation targeting the Trump campaign only reinforce what most Trump supporters had come to firmly believe—that the FBI, working in concert with the Obama administration and sympathetic Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/court-files-reveal-role-of-mccain-aide-in-spreading-anti-trump-dossier\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EJohn McCain comes to mind\u003C\/a\u003E), sought to manufacture a narrative that could sustain the perception of Trump-Russian collusion in an effort to prevent Trump from prevailing in November 2016 or, failing that, serve as the basis of undermining his presidency going forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/carter-page-fisa-warrant-lacked-probable-cause-declassified-doj-order-finds\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Epersecution of Carter Paige\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/trump-russiagate-steele-dossier\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Epoliticization of the Steele Dossier\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/05\/books\/review\/true-crimes-and-misdemeanors-jeffrey-toobin.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ethe failure of the Mueller investigation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;have all been well documented, while the issue of legal culpability regarding the various Constitutional abuses associated with these, and other, activities may never be finalized.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn the end, the lack of legal finality misses the point. In the minds of Trump’s many supporters, there was clear and incontrovertible proof that the establishment was conspiring to suborn the victory they had achieved at the polls. The drawn out political drama that was the Democrats’ first effort to remove Trump from office through the vehicle of impeachment only reinforced this conclusion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EJustice or Revenge?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe events of Jan. 6 represent the culminating moment where the disharmony of American politics brought on by the unbridgeable gap between those citizens whom Trump said he had empowered as the guardians of American democracy in his January 2017 inaugural address, and those citizens who had, since 2017, been struggling to undermine Trump, created a harmonic whose echo tore down the edifice of American democracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAs fervently as the Democrats and their “never Trump” allies in the Republican Party believe that Trump and his supporters represent a clear and present danger to American democracy, so, too, do the supporters of Trump view those who conspired to undo the will of the people as expressed in a free and fair election as enemies of the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThese perceptions remain valid in the minds of tens of millions of Americans as they watch the second impeachment trial of Trump get underway. Some view the proceedings as necessary justice; others as an act of political revenge. There is no common ground, and no outcome—either conviction or acquittal—will change that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EJoe Biden supporters will have four years to try and repair the institution of American democracy, but for all the rhetoric of unity, the impending second impeachment trial of Trump provides living proof that there remains a deep and dark divide between those who support the 46\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eth\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;president, and those who continue to support his predecessor—and never the two shall meet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EScott Ritter\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFeatured image is from Joe Lauria\/Consortiumnews\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\" style=\"border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERelated Articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \" style=\"border: 0px; clear: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-nothumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"7669\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a jp-relatedposts-post-aoverlay\" data-origin=\"5737153\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/9-11-truth-manifesto\/7669\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; display: block; font: inherit; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"9\/11 Truth Manifesto  For evidence that America’s political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9\/11 story is a lie. 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border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/barbara-nimri-aziz\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Barbara Nimri Aziz\"\u003EBarbara Nimri Aziz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yakw-tBgm8U\/YCcev3odAJI\/AAAAAAAA2q0\/cpgH-8JQZOMFcBJC6So3_ZjZdxiV3OyqwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s445\/SnowSheHe_FB.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"445\" data-original-width=\"322\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yakw-tBgm8U\/YCcev3odAJI\/AAAAAAAA2q0\/cpgH-8JQZOMFcBJC6So3_ZjZdxiV3OyqwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w290-h400\/SnowSheHe_FB.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt must have been a winter resident of upstate New York who set Valentine’s Day in mid-February. Because this is our time of year when we really need a lover to wrap around our arms and legs, snuggling up, nibbling chocolates, blossoms on bedside table.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENotwithstanding this conditional single day, February is a downer. Can’t blame it on Covid; February is always a nothing-28 days, so arrogant it demands we endure it for an additional 24 hours every four years. I’m speaking not politically, not ecologically but weatherwise. Weather is what demands almost all my energy after two months asserting itself indoors and outside.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFebruary is an utter vacuum that sucks up everything delightful about winter and obliterates any hint of sweet fragrances that might follow. I glare at spindly, brown branches crowding the hillsides daring them to sprout a single leaf again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI admit, January’s winter can be pretty. Soothingly silent too; nothing matches moonlight on glistening snow. We’ve had glorious sunny mornings when we’re deceived that the entire world is at peace, blanketed in gentle fluff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAlmost daily, if a bald eagle doesn’t swoop low over the river, I spot one perched high above threads of running water.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/india-violations-of-the-right-to-food-and-work-rampant-across-the-country-made-worse-by-aadhaar\/5632800\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"India: Violations of the Right to Food and Work Rampant Across the Country, Made Worse by Aadhaar\"\u003EIndia: Violations of the Right to Food and Work Rampant Across the Country, Made Worse by Aadhaar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI meet a neighbor at my library who eagerly opens her phone to share a snapshot of meter-long icicles hanging from her roof. (We used to break them off and suck at them. Do kids do that today?)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt’s fun to hear children gleefully leaping into the drifts, with ‘Rover’ clumsily stumbling around them. Despite the mess they trail indoors it’s a deserving break from Covid confinement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut that’s all I concede. There’s treacherous ice under those narrow pathways of packed snow. An uninterrupted slab of ice is firmly embedded into those steps, around the car, along the walk, up the curbside to the pharmacy, grocery store, post office. My car, if accessible at all, is spattered with mud and salt, inside and out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENo stranger to this climate, I prepared for winter: ordered a face cord of firewood early so logs would dry by December; hauled garden stuff inside; plugged door hinges with felt strips; inspected the roof; stretched plastic across single plate windows. Yes, everything’s secure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut this—this– can’t go on past February. I felt heartened a week ago, noticing a change in the arch of the sun. It rises over the eastern hillside at 8:30 now, an hour earlier than last month, and I follow its glow above the edge of the hill behind me until it slips away at 3. This surely signals winter’s end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut no. Our nights seem colder as we move through this endless February. A blizzard arrives every four days, a nasty reminder it’s not over, not for two additional months, maybe 10 weeks. Perhaps longer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWe can’t let down our guard—can’t step into the winter sun without bundling up, without mittens and a hat; can’t put away those extra blankets or clean out the mud room; can’t not repair the humidifier.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EI see a flash of red on the tedious white. It’s a rose-breasted grosbeak! Perhaps the red crossbill? A squawking bluebird distracts me as I rush out to top up the birdfeeder.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFrom Facebook I grab a photo of a crazed looking snow-he\/she, an ideal companion to my Valentine ode to February.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBN Aziz\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;whose anthropological research has focused on the\u0026nbsp;peoples of the Himalayas is the author of the newly published\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yogmaya-Durga-Devi-Rebel-Women-ebook\/dp\/B08K7Q7VMD\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Yogmaya and Durga Devi: Rebel Women of Nepal”, available on Amazon\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFeatured image is from the author\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\" style=\"border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERelated Articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \" style=\"border: 0px; clear: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5572838\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737126\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/portland-in-a-storm-a-case-study-of-confronting-the-human-impacts-of-abrupt-climate-change\/5572838\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Portland in a Storm: A Case Study of Confronting the Human Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change  “The growing homelessness emergency represents a humanitarian crisis and I view it as a moral imperative that we make treating it a top priority. We cannot call ourselves a progressive community while so many people are living – and dying – on our streets...This unfolding crisis is not only catastrophic…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Portland in a Storm: A Case Study of Confronting the Human Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16195667_1914820125413064_2378725966470687904_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737126\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/portland-in-a-storm-a-case-study-of-confronting-the-human-impacts-of-abrupt-climate-change\/5572838\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Portland in a Storm: A Case Study of Confronting the Human Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change  “The growing homelessness emergency represents a humanitarian crisis and I view it as a moral imperative that we make treating it a top priority. We cannot call ourselves a progressive community while so many people are living – and dying – on our streets...This unfolding crisis is not only catastrophic…\"\u003EPortland in a Storm: A Case Study of Confronting the Human Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E6 February 2017\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"16781\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737126\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/global-cooling-in-2009\/16781\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Global Cooling in 2009  2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals  for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore's home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders met to…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Global Cooling in 2009\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/articlePictures\/1998-2009_Temperatures.jpg?resize=350%2C200\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737126\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/global-cooling-in-2009\/16781\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Global Cooling in 2009  2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals  for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore's home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders met to…\"\u003EGlobal Cooling in 2009\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E4 January 2010\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"17593\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737126\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/nato-expansion-missile-deployments-and-russia-s-new-military-doctrine\/17593\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; 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border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 15px 10px 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGovernment scientific advisory groups pushes for tracking people via GPS\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"author\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/steve-watson\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Steve Watson\"\u003ESteve Watson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/02\/09\/uk-covid-police-state-travellers-must-quarantine-in-hotels-at-their-own-cost-have-3-tests-10k-fine-for-going-outside-and-10-years-prison-if-caught-trying-to-avoid-the-law\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESummit News\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;9 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qJ5Mno84KQU\/YCceQ7Vdq0I\/AAAAAAAA2qs\/ezOPbTTdYIAcy1YfFPNLxJ6K6AAyuPsoQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/matt-hancock-uk-covid19-400x333.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"333\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qJ5Mno84KQU\/YCceQ7Vdq0I\/AAAAAAAA2qs\/ezOPbTTdYIAcy1YfFPNLxJ6K6AAyuPsoQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h532\/matt-hancock-uk-covid19-400x333.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnyone traveling to Britain from a country on the government’s ‘red list’ must quarantine in a hotel (which they will have to pay for), and have THREE COVID tests, under draconian new laws being implemented by the government.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe unprecedented and sweeping new rules were\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9242097\/Hotel-quarantine-starts-Monday-ministers-refuse-say-people-staying.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Health Secretary Matt Hancock,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;who said that he makes ‘no apologies’ for such severe measures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFrom Monday anyone entering the country will have to pass three PCR tests in order to be allowed any freedom inside the country after they have completed a ten day quarantine at a government selected hotel, at a cost of almost two thousand pounds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESecurity guards will be stationed throughout the hotels, with police on standby if those inside try to leave before their release date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHancock said that anyone caught breaking their quarantine could be fined ten thousand pounds, while anyone caught lying about coming from a COVID ‘hotspot’ could be jailed for up to a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEven those not coming from one of the 33 ‘red list’ countries, and arriving from elsewhere, will have to test negative before being allowed to travel, then quarantine at their home address for ten days and allow authorities to ‘check that they are obeying the rules’.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECOVID tests, which cost more than £100 each, will be required on day two and day eight of isolation, and must be booked through a new government portal in advance of travel, according to the new law.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIf the tests are positive, a further ten day quarantine will be mandated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFailure to comply with the testing will incur fines of £1,000 the first time, and £2,000 the second time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; 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font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/fraudulent-covid-data-inflating-the-numbers-double-counting-manipulation-of-test-results\/5722405\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Fraudulent Covid Data: Inflating the Numbers. “Double-Counting”, Manipulation of Test Results\"\u003EFraudulent Covid Data: Inflating the Numbers. “Double-Counting”, Manipulation of Test Results\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHancock noted “This includes a £1,000 penalty for any international arrival who fails to take a mandatory test, a £2,000 penalty for any international arrival who fails to take the second mandatory test, as well as automatically extending their quarantine period to 14 days, and a £5,000 fixed penalty notice – rising to £10,000 – for arrivals who fail to quarantine in a designated hotel.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAnyone hoping to escape the crackdown via booking travel through a budget or less thorough carrier will likely be disappointed as Hancock announced that “Passenger carriers will have a duty in law to make sure that passengers have signed up for these new arrangements before they travel, and will be fined if they don’t.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHowever, an aviation source told reporters yesterday “We’re completely in the dark. We don’t know yet whether the Government will want us to deny boarding,” to people who haven’t presented test results or booked into a quarantine hotel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAirports in the UK have also expressed concern about how the rules will be enforced, with a Heathrow spokesman noting “ministers need to work with industry to establish how this policy will actually be implemented at the border.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBorder staff have also said they have not been told anything, with one immigration officer noting “This is all likely to be honesty-based though. Short of us physically getting off the arrivals desks and phoning the hotels to check that those individuals have booked into them, we have no way of confirming.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHancock gave no indication of how long the new laws would remain in place, however members of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) have suggested that lockdowns could\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/515044-coronavirus-mutation-lockdown-sage-years\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Elast for “several years”.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EConservative MPs who\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/22\/senior-mp-british-public-will-rise-up-and-bring-down-lockdown-if-exit-plan-isnt-outlined\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eoppose the current nation-wide restrictions\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;slammed Hancock in the House of Commons,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9241369\/Furious-Tories-savage-Matt-Hancock-forever-lockdown.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ewarning that the country faces a ‘forever\u0026nbsp;lockdown’.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMP Mark Harper asked “When is this policy going to end, if ever? Because if the virus continues to mutate, surely the risk is going to be there forever and so when can it be removed?”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESAGE has also suggested that in addition to the forced quarantines, those entering Britain, including citizens could be\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/enforce-quarantine-by-tracking-phones-says-sage-2bcfjdndg\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Etracked using the GPS on mobile phones.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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Consult your treatment…\"\u003E50 Headlines: Welcome to the “New Normal”\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E16 April 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5707171\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737154\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-19-pandemic-and-coronavirus-suppression-should-schools-close\/5707171\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"COVID-19 Pandemic and Coronavirus Suppression – Should Schools Close?  The world is in the grip of a COVID-19 pandemic that is now impacting relatively poor countries in Africa and South Asia. 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The world is in the grip of a COVID-19 pandemic that is now impacting relatively poor countries in Africa and South Asia. Rich island continent Australia (population 25 million) has only about 1,000 cases so far and has achieved this through tough travel bans, selective testing, contact tracing, case isolation,…\"\u003ECOVID-19 Pandemic and Coronavirus Suppression – Should Schools Close?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E23 March 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/shahbazz-afzal\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Shahbazz Afzal\"\u003EShahbazz Afzal\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eUghtit8hy4\/YCcciX9piGI\/AAAAAAAA2qk\/pz8rl91soNAh_WhW-kjcNtLj9iuUEn2NgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/China-Iran-400x266.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"266\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eUghtit8hy4\/YCcciX9piGI\/AAAAAAAA2qk\/pz8rl91soNAh_WhW-kjcNtLj9iuUEn2NgCLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h266\/China-Iran-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe visit of Chinese\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPresident Xi Jinping\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;to Tehran in January 2016 laid the foundations for a future partnership agreement.\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EHe stated that he sought to open a “new chapter” in China’s relations with Iran.\u0026nbsp; The\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Esaid, “The Islamic Republic will never forget China’s cooperation during the sanctions era.”\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn July 2020, ‘New York Times’ reported it had acquired an 18-page document titled, ‘Iran-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’, which concluded a long-term trade and military negotiations between China and Iran – and would see China invest $400 billion over the next 25 years in Iran.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt would “vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways and dozens of other projects” and allow China to receive Iranian oil at a reduced price in order meet its growing energy needs.\u0026nbsp; The opening statement of the document reads, “Two ancient Asian cultures, two partners in the sectors of trade, economy, politics, culture and security with a similar outlook and many mutual bilateral and multilateral interests will consider one another strategic partners.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThere are many benefits for Iran with the partnership.\u0026nbsp; Although not a member of the strategic Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which includes Iran’s neighbour, Pakistan, the potential for increased opportunities with China with the current arrangement makes achieving SCO membership less of a priority.\u0026nbsp; In return for cheaper Iranian oil exports and other concessions, China injects billions of dollars into its struggling economy.\u0026nbsp; China is now Iran’s largest trade partner, its largest oil purchaser, and its largest foreign investor.\u0026nbsp; With Iran’s economic isolation due to American led sanctions, China provides a much-needed lifeline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe ‘Iran-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ agreement has caused considerable alarm for America.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; China may be seen as undermining America’s plan to isolate Iran and this places China on a direct collision course with America.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; When the Trump administration pulled America out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’, in 2018, it imposed stricter sanctions on Iran, threatening countries with punishment if they did any business with Iran.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/china-vows-to-continue-iran-trade-despite-u-s-oil-sanctions\/5659053\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"China Vows to Continue Iran Trade Despite U.S. Oil Sanctions\"\u003EChina Vows to Continue Iran Trade Despite U.S. Oil Sanctions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPreviously, one of the main factors constraining China’s relationship with Iran may have been the attitude of America.\u0026nbsp; In July 2020, the American based ‘Center for Strategic and International Studies’ had argued that the enhanced partnership could be the prelude to a serious Chinese challenge to the American position in both the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean region.\u0026nbsp; China is now defying America’s position on Iran.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn December 2020, ‘The Wall Street Journal”, claimed Iran had circumvented American led sanctions and “exported more oil to China and other countries in recent months, providing a lifeline for its struggling economy and undermining the Trump administration’s so-called maximum pressure campaign against Tehran.”\u0026nbsp; On 26 January 2021, the Chinese newspaper, ‘Global Times’ reported that China’s top legislator,\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Li Zhanshu\u003C\/span\u003E, called for closer ties with Iran, “China stands ready to work with Iran to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and promote the continued development of the China-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESome observers argue American obsession with Iran is about securing access to Iran’s abundant resources, oil and natural gas – and without a compliant Iranian leadership, this is difficult.\u0026nbsp; America has implemented many measures to create the conditions to bring about the right leadership.\u0026nbsp; Strict and severe crippling economic sanctions against the people of Iran in the midst of a global pandemic remains in place.\u0026nbsp; This has the potential to create the conditions for civil unrest that could see the Iranian leadership fall.\u0026nbsp; The sanctions amount to one of America’s many ruthless and vicious policies in the Middle East.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn 2017, writer and journalist, Andrew Buncombe, penned an article for the British newspaper, ‘The Independent’ – and probably summed up the opinion of many.\u0026nbsp; Describing the impact of American intervention and policies in the Middle East he argued, “millions of people’s lives have been turned upside down, Isis has been allowed to fester and spread, and Iraq is a nation at risk of fracturing apart.\u0026nbsp; Moreover, an untold number of innocent civilians have been killed – by disease, illness, in gruesome tortures performed by local and foreign insurgents, and by the US and UK-led military campaign.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWith regards to the behaviour of China and Iran, there is widespread global outrage over horrifying reports of China’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs, which includes claims of genocide, systemic rape, mass incarceration, slave labour and forced sterilisation – and Iran is the cause of destabilisation in the Middle East, it has been argued.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt the start of this year, Reuters reported Britain’s Foreign Secretary,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDominic Raab\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;and America’s Secretary of State,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAntony Blinken\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;were in talks regarding how to deal with Iran’s “destabilising behaviour” and to hold China to its international commitments.\u0026nbsp; America’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, asserted China, Afghanistan and Iran key priorities for the new administration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEarlier this month, the US\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPresident Joe Biden\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;confirmed America would not lift its economic sanctions on Iran in order to get Tehran back to the negotiating table to discuss how to revive the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’. Iran’s leadership has demanded America lift all sanctions before any negotiations take place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EChina has been crucial in assisting Iran escape deep isolation and rejoin the global economy through the conclusion of the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’.\u0026nbsp; With its multi-dimensional partnership with Iran, China presents a direct challenge to America.\u0026nbsp; Both nations risk falling into the deadly ‘Thucydides’s Trap’ – and Iran could become the battleground between a rapidly ascending power and an established power.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"yiv4552631756MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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Betting and Bluffing in the New Great Game  Future historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. 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Betting and Bluffing in the New Great Game  Future historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation, linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang province in China's far west.…\"\u003EPipeline Geopolitics. Betting and Bluffing in the New Great Game\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-excerpt\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 7.14286em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFuture historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. 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Turkey is a key hub in the emerging New Silk Roads,…\"\u003ETurkey's Erdogan Meet's China's Xi: Sultan Shines in the Court of the Dragon King\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E10 July 2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/andrew-korybko\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Korybko\"\u003EAndrew Korybko\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PjU-QHr0vvc\/YCcbk9k66OI\/AAAAAAAA2qY\/gaALVLwAg94BPlyDFjthJfKeYajZT40uQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/US_PRC_Competition-400x250.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"250\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PjU-QHr0vvc\/YCcbk9k66OI\/AAAAAAAA2qY\/gaALVLwAg94BPlyDFjthJfKeYajZT40uQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h400\/US_PRC_Competition-400x250.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"intro\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIf Biden really knew China’s President Xi as well as he thought, then he wouldn’t have taken their countries’ “extreme competition” for granted. In fact, one doesn’t even have to know the Chinese leader personally to be aware that this is the wrong conclusion to make.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"full-text\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUS\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPresident Joe Biden\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;told CBS New during his first TV interview since the inauguration that he envisions an “extreme competition” with China but doesn’t believe that that this will evolve into an actual conflict. He also shared a mixture of praise and insults about Chinese President Xi. Biden claims that he’s spent more time with his Chinese counterpart than any other world leader, which is why he regards President Xi as “very bright” and “very tough”, but also said that “he doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body”. Biden then continued by saying that President Xi is sending him unspecified “signals”, which is why the American leader won’t treat China the way that former President Trump did but will instead try to “focus on international rules of the road”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe 46\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eth\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;President’s remarks don’t inspire confidence about the future of Chinese-US relations. There were earlier high hopes that he’d change the hostile course of his predecessor in order to enter into a meaningful rapprochement with China. Those expectations were gradually dashed as his officials continued the trend of bashing China and reaffirming the US’ government’s threat assessment of it as their top strategic competitor. Nevertheless, their perceived competition could still be regulated so long as the US has the political will to do so, yet it doesn’t appear as though the Biden Administration does. After all, it already takes it for granted that the two countries will remain locked in what he described as an “extreme competition”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis very strongly suggests that the only changes to its grand strategic approach will be cosmetic. Biden hinted as much during last week’s foreign policy speech at the State Department, which represented his desire to disguise American aggression behind the rhetoric of alliances, democracy, and values. He seems to have referenced them with his quip about the “international rules of the road”, which looks like a euphemism for attempting to manipulate those three for the purpose of strengthening the US’ strategic position against China. Biden thinks that the extensive time that he spent with President Xi as Vice President means that he knows him better than anyone else, but he’s terribly mistaken based on the assessment that he made about China.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIf Biden really knew President Xi as well as he thought, then he wouldn’t have taken their countries’ “extreme competition” for granted. In fact, one doesn’t even have to know the Chinese leader personally to be aware that this is the wrong conclusion to make. President Xi and the Chinese government that he represents have repeatedly called for the US to deescalate tensions and always reminded their counterparts of their will to immediate reciprocate any goodwill gestures to this end. While it’s welcome that Biden doesn’t want to treat China the same way that Trump did, this doesn’t mean that he’s going to change the substance of America’s aggressive strategy towards the People’s Republic, but only its style.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThere is as yet nothing to suggest that Biden is serious about resolving the many problems that he inherited between the US and China. To the contrary, his administration only seems interested in exacerbating them, albeit under the pretext of alliances, democracy, and values (collectively referred to by euphemism as “international rules of the road”). This explains why his government has continued former Trump’s policy of meddling in China’s internal affairs in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea. Instead of being as direct as the former president was about what the US is doing and why, Biden appears to be taking a page from his boss former President Obama’s book by disguising his hostile intentions behind high-sounding rhetoric.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESometimes dishonestly posing as a friend like Biden is trying to do by relying on his extensive experience of private meetings with President Xi to justify the completely mistaken conclusions that he shared about China is worse than proudly embracing the role of an adversary like former President Trump had done. If there was any silver lining to Trump’s presidency, it’s that his unpredictability was itself predictable, which led to accurate predictions that he’d isolate the US through his aggressive unilateral actions aimed at containing China. Biden, however, is trying to sweet-talk the international community with alliances, democracy, and values to get them to support the US against China, which is a much more pernicious policy that must be urgently exposed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. 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Alleged Pro-Trump Election Meddling  It is totally unbelievable to imagine that Trump purportedly solicited China's support for his re-election campaign via international economic means and even endorsed the country's anti-terrorist policies in Xinjiang. Nothing could be further from the truth. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton's book contains many passages that are receiving a…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Chinagate Is the Craziest Conspiracy Theory Yet. Alleged Pro-Trump Election Meddling\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/china-US-flag.png?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737182\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/chinagate-craziest-conspiracy-theory-yet\/5716835\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Chinagate Is the Craziest Conspiracy Theory Yet. 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/alan-macleod\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Alan MacLeod\"\u003EAlan MacLeod\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 12, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/strategic-command-us-must-prepare-nuclear-war-china-russia\/275088\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMintPress News\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;5 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U63c3XkU-_0\/YCcbIsUxM6I\/AAAAAAAA2qQ\/ih8SzgRYH_cr0-UzAfUD9k2tchiM0AQVACLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/nuclear-war-400x400.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U63c3XkU-_0\/YCcbIsUxM6I\/AAAAAAAA2qQ\/ih8SzgRYH_cr0-UzAfUD9k2tchiM0AQVACLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h640\/nuclear-war-400x400.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn an era when international cooperation in the face of pandemics and climate change is essential, the world appears to be racing towards a new Cold War, and unfortunately, few except the military top brass are talking about it.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"has-drop-cap\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWriting in the U.S. Naval Institute Journal, Admiral Charles A. Richard warned that the military must “consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer” and update and modernize its approach to its two principal adversaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons,” he wrote, demanding that the United States “prepare for the conflict we prefer, instead of one we are likely to face.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERichard accused the Chinese of “mak[ing] technological leaps in capabilities in every domain” and Russia of “aggressively modernizing its nuclear forces.” He concluded that “the probability of nuclear use is low, but not impossible, particularly in a crisis and as our nuclear-armed adversaries continue to build capability and exert themselves globally,” and that the U.S. risks suffering “embarrassment” or worse if they do not act.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe admiral’s words closely echo a recent\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/atlantic-council-pens-anonymously-authored-expose-calling-for-us-regime-change-in-china\/275068\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the Atlantic Council — a body that is filled with top American generals and closely linked to NATO. The council advised President Biden to draw a number of “red lines” around China, past which the U.S. would respond militarily. These included virtually any Chinese military actions in the South China Sea, cyberattacks on its neighbors, or even a North Korean strike on its adversaries. Any backing down from the brink, the council insisted, would mean national “humiliation” for the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn recent months, the United States has taken a number of provocative military actions on China’s doorstep. In July, it\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/us-military-warships-aircraft-spotted-miles-off-china-coast\/269810\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Econducted\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;naval exercises in the South China Sea, with warships and naval aircraft spotted just 41 miles from the coastal megacity of Shanghai, intent on probing China’s coastal defenses. In December, it\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AircraftSpots\/status\/1343835094390169601\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eflew\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;nuclear bombers over Chinese vessels close to Hainan Island. Last year Florida Senator Rick Scott\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/335857-scott-china-communist-spy?fbclid=IwAR23O46a9Y3zB1absKaMPMydMCYscAM_1NZgJOsDIoRWgAQhiSg4eyQlUVU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that every Chinese national in the U.S. was a communist spy and should be treated with extreme suspicion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EScott’s words are part of a broader propaganda war against China. In 2011, the American public’s view of the country was strongly favorable. However, due in no small part to fearmongering stoked by politicians and media pundits, nearly three-quarters of Americans (a historic high) hold negative views of China, with less than one-quarter positively rating the country, according to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2020\/10\/06\/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPew Research\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt is a similar story with Russia. During the 2012 presidential debates, Republican nominee Mitt Romney was relentlessly mocked for his position that Russia was an adversary. “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” President Obama famously quipped. Since then, however, the number of Americans with a favorable view of Russia has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2020\/12\/16\/views-of-russia-and-putin-remain-negative-across-14-nations\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Edropped\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from an all-time high in 2011 of 49% to just 19% today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPerhaps due to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/coronavirus-spreads-anti-chinese-racism\/264546\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eincreased\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;nationalistic sentiment, little attention has been paid to the Trump administration’s decisions to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/experts-warn-of-new-nuclear-arms-race-after-trump-signals-us-withdrawal-from-start-treaty\/267181\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eback out\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of every international anti-nuclear weapons deal the U.S. had signed, including the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) and the Open Skies treaties as well as the New START agreement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/netanyahu-and-trump-conspire-to-ditch-deal-with-iran\/5610265\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Netanyahu and Trump Conspire to Ditch Deal with Iran\"\u003ENetanyahu and Trump Conspire to Ditch Deal with Iran\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELast week, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/doomsday-clock\/current-time\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereset\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;their famous Doomsday Clock — an estimation to how close the world is to armageddon — to just 100 seconds to midnight, the closest, in their estimation, we have ever been to complete destruction. Explaining their decision, the committee, which includes 13 Nobel laureates, stated that nuclear nations have,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIgnored or undermined practical and available diplomatic and security tools for managing nuclear risks. By our estimation, the potential for the world to stumble into nuclear war—an ever-present danger over the last 75 years—increased in 2020.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOne piece of good news came down on Wednesday when the White House\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/03\/us-extends-new-start-nuclear-arms-control-agreement-with-russia.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;it had renewed the New START treaty — a deal which limits the number of nuclear missiles the U.S. and Russia can possess. However, on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1801906\/middle-east\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIran\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2021-02-03\/us-reaffirms-support-for-venezuelas-guaido-sees-no-talks-with-maduro\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVenezuela\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/us-will-take-on-challenge-posed-by-china-directly-joe-biden-2363466\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChina\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-admin-us-troops-afghanistan-amid-escalating-violence\/story?id=75547504\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAfghanistan\u003C\/a\u003E, and other nations, Biden appears to be maintaining Trump’s aggressive policies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe outcome of any nuclear confrontation has been well understood by war planners for over half a century. In his book “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner” former military analyst and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg explained that his team calculated that, in the event of a totally successful widespread American nuclear strike against the Soviet Union, with no retaliation whatsoever, at least 99% of the world’s population would die as a result. As he noted:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt is the smoke, after all (not the fallout, which would remain mostly limited to the northern hemisphere), that would do it worldwide: smoke and soot lofted by fierce firestorms in hundreds of burning cities into the stratosphere, where it would not rain out and would remain for a decade or more, enveloping the globe and blocking most sunlight, lowering annual global temperatures to the level of the last Ice Age, and killing all harvests worldwide, causing near-universal starvation within a year or two.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn an era when international cooperation in the face of pandemics and climate change is essential, the world appears to be racing towards a new Cold War. Unfortunately, few except the military top brass are talking about it. Worse still, they seem to be almost delighted at the prospect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlanRMacLeod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlan MacLeod\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;is Senior Staff Writer for\u0026nbsp;MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Bad-News-from-Venezuela-Twenty-years-of-fake-news-and-misreporting\/Macleod\/p\/book\/9781138489233\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Propaganda-in-the-Information-Age-Still-Manufacturing-Consent-1st-Edition\/MacLeod\/p\/book\/9781138366404?fbclid=IwAR2xQQWJd98C25wapG4ynmlEnGvL5wxG_mp5RwpBwtwPDxInjNZ1Oo7KD-E\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPropaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;as well as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org\/index.php\/mt\/article\/view\/65\/56\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ea\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0306396818823639#articleShareContainer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Enumber\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/blar.12940\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eof\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fcomm.2018.00064\/full\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eacademic\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0896920518820934\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Earticles\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;He has also contributed to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/author\/alan-macleod\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFAIR.org\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/alan-macleod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Guardian\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/alan-macleod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESalon\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/author\/alan-macleod\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Grayzone\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/author\/alan-macleod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJacobin Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/alan-macleod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECommon Dreams\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; 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float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Towards a WWIII Scenario\" width=\"125\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/store.globalresearch.ca\/store\/towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-the-dangers-of-nuclear-war\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/store.globalresearch.ca\/store\/towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-the-dangers-of-nuclear-war\/\"\u003ETowards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War\u003C\/a\u003E”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; 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font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPDF Edition\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: \u0026nbsp;$6.50 (sent directly to your email account!)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michel-chossudovsky\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michel-chossudovsky\"\u003EMichel Chossudovsky\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), which hosts the critically acclaimed website\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ewww.globalresearch.ca\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica. His writings have been translated into more than 20 languages.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EReviews\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“This book is a ‘must’ resource – a richly documented and systematic diagnosis of the supremely pathological geo-strategic planning of US wars since ‘9-11’ against non-nuclear countries to seize their oil fields and resources under cover of ‘freedom and democracy’.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E–\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EJohn McMurtry\u003C\/span\u003E, Professor of Philosophy, Guelph University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“In a world where engineered, pre-emptive, or more fashionably “humanitarian” wars of aggression have become the norm, this challenging book may be our final wake-up call.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E-Denis Halliday\u003C\/span\u003E, Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMichel Chossudovsky exposes the insanity of our privatized war machine. Iran is being targeted with nuclear weapons as part of a war agenda built on distortions and lies for the purpose of private profit. The real aims are oil, financial hegemony and global control. The price could be nuclear holocaust. When weapons become the hottest export of the world’s only superpower, and diplomats work as salesmen for the defense industry, the whole world is recklessly endangered. If we must have a military, it belongs entirely in the public sector. No one should profit from mass death and destruction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E–\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEllen Brown\u003C\/span\u003E, author of ‘Web of Debt’ and president of the Public Banking Institute \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\"center\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/store.globalresearch.ca\/store\/towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-the-dangers-of-nuclear-war\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"WWIII Scenario\" src=\"https:\/\/store.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/WWIII-book-ad-GRTV-copy.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\" style=\"border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERelated Articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \" style=\"border: 0px; clear: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5584808\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737187\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/china-sounds-the-alarm-trump-prepares-for-war-against-korea\/5584808\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"China Sounds the Alarm: Trump Prepares for War against Korea  It is not possible to overstate the impact on U.S. and global politics of Trump’s unilateral, surprise cruise missile strikes on Syria at the very moment that he was having dinner with China’s President Xi Jinping. China got Trump’s message. China must either break from the Democratic People’s Republic of…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"China Sounds the Alarm: Trump Prepares for War against Korea\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.liberationnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vinson.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737187\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/china-sounds-the-alarm-trump-prepares-for-war-against-korea\/5584808\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"China Sounds the Alarm: Trump Prepares for War against Korea  It is not possible to overstate the impact on U.S. and global politics of Trump’s unilateral, surprise cruise missile strikes on Syria at the very moment that he was having dinner with China’s President Xi Jinping. China got Trump’s message. China must either break from the Democratic People’s Republic of…\"\u003EChina Sounds the Alarm: Trump Prepares for War against Korea\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E12 April 2017\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5502392\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737187\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/reality-and-hypocrisy-north-koreas-nuclear-test-condemned-by-nuclear-powers\/5502392\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Reality and Hypocrisy: North Korea's Nuclear Test Condemned by Nuclear Powers  Relevant article selected from the GR archive, first published in January 2016. The news of another nuclear weapon test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, often referred to in the west as North Korea, has been met with condemnation from the most powerful nuclear armed state of them all,…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Reality and Hypocrisy: North Korea's Nuclear Test Condemned by Nuclear Powers\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/split_korea.png?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737187\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/reality-and-hypocrisy-north-koreas-nuclear-test-condemned-by-nuclear-powers\/5502392\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Reality and Hypocrisy: North Korea's Nuclear Test Condemned by Nuclear Powers  Relevant article selected from the GR archive, first published in January 2016. The news of another nuclear weapon test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, often referred to in the west as North Korea, has been met with condemnation from the most powerful nuclear armed state of them all,…\"\u003EReality and Hypocrisy: North Korea's Nuclear Test Condemned by Nuclear Powers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E2 March 2018\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5730712\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.641px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737187\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/will-world-community-condemn-murder-iran-nuclear-scientist\/5730712\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?  Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/israel-iran.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"350\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737187\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/will-world-community-condemn-murder-iran-nuclear-scientist\/5730712\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?  Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last…\"\u003EWill the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E30 November 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/mark-taliano\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Mark Taliano\"\u003EMark Taliano\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 11, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.marktaliano.net\/ontario-public-health-measures-are-destroying-our-public-health\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMark Taliano\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;10 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-51RahBtKF2w\/YCXc2hXarVI\/AAAAAAAA2qA\/tfz-pAZO87kGxiJDMGWLcY45eMI9LA8PgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s270\/Hillier.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"270\" data-original-width=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-51RahBtKF2w\/YCXc2hXarVI\/AAAAAAAA2qA\/tfz-pAZO87kGxiJDMGWLcY45eMI9LA8PgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/Hillier.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Patrick Philips\u003C\/span\u003E, who practices medicine in Englehart, Ontario, explains in an interview with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMPP Randy Hillier\u003C\/span\u003E, that current public health measures are harming the overall public health of Canadians.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt first glance, this appears to be counter-intuitive, since public health measures should improve public health, but in reality, public health “Covid Measures” are currently a threat to everyone’s health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHow is that?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPhilips explains that the government’s singular focus on COVID means that other determinants of health, including social determinants, are being neglected and denied to the point that our overall health is suffering dramatically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDuring lockdowns, surgical and dental procedures have been postponed or cancelled. Cancer screenings have been postponed or cancelled. Consequently, explains Philips, people are presenting, as an example, with late stage cancer, which under normal conditions, would have been detected and treated earlier. Similarly, people, from fear of contracting COVID, are waiting too long to address cardiac issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHospital emergency services have been under-utilized, explains Hillier, and there were fewer diagnostic tests, and fewer Doctor visits between March and June of 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Philips adds that ICU units have also been under-utilized.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPhilips explains that whereas children have practically NO RISK of dying from COVID, he has seen vast increases in depression, anxiety, and suicidality amongst children. Likewise, elderly patients are suffering from isolation and depression, and are losing their will to live.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhereas Public Health is focusing almost exclusively on COVID, with its fear-mongering propaganda and seriously flawed statistics, Philips explains that at the same time it is failing to address measures that would improve public health — and COVID outcomes. It is failing, for example, to address obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and myriad other factors that contribute to public health outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/video-canada-anti-civid-measures-rally-in-ottawa-on-parliament-hill-against-the-mask-and-social-distancing\/5722537\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Video: Canada Anti-Civid Measures Rally in Ottawa on Parliament Hill, Against the Mask and Social Distancing\"\u003EVideo: Canada Anti-Civid Measures Rally in Ottawa on Parliament Hill, Against the Mask and Social Distancing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EExercise, diet, sunshine, Vitamin D, and social activities all contribute to health and well-being. They also mitigate risks from COVID.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFollowing the advice of “experts” says Philips, is the lowest form of evidence. Instead, data should be assessed against opposing data, and a meta-analysis should be conducted by competent authorities. Decisions should be based upon the meta-analysis. Currently, opposing views and data are being heavily censored by Mainstream Everything.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECurrent government measures, which violate our constitutional rights to assemble and protest and present alternate information, are all toxic in terms of our public health. Unsound public health diktats, an off-shoot of the censorship, have become a danger to our collective Public Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESee the full interview\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/randy.hillier\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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The mass and indiscriminate containment of citizens, the restriction of access to parliament, the courts, medical and educational services, the destruction of local economies and livelihoods, and the requirement to physically distance, along with the forced use of non-medical masking are extraordinary measures that…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"COVID-19 Measures Unconstitutional: Legal Proceeding against Prime Minister Trudeau: Filed in Ontario Superior Court\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6390-e1555982373819.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6390-e1555982373819.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_6390-e1555982373819.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737021\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/legal-challenge-covid-19-measures-filed-ontario-superior-court\/5718243\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"COVID-19 Measures Unconstitutional: Legal Proceeding against Prime Minister Trudeau: Filed in Ontario Superior Court  We are living in unprecedented times. The mass and indiscriminate containment of citizens, the restriction of access to parliament, the courts, medical and educational services, the destruction of local economies and livelihoods, and the requirement to physically distance, along with the forced use of non-medical masking are extraordinary measures that…\"\u003ECOVID-19 Measures Unconstitutional: Legal Proceeding against Prime Minister Trudeau: Filed in Ontario Superior Court\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E27 August 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003EBy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/lyn-redwood\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Lyn Redwood\"\u003ELyn Redwood\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"grDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 11, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"sourceDate\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/moderna-pfizer-vaccines-blood-clots-brain-inflammation-heart-attacks\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChildren's Health Defense\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;10 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zr2OOhd92O0\/YCXb5MyTT6I\/AAAAAAAA2p4\/nOpvJNP_J5Yw2XZBX3BavMQJ1H-x9-VrwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s720\/vanguard-covid.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"585\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zr2OOhd92O0\/YCXb5MyTT6I\/AAAAAAAA2p4\/nOpvJNP_J5Yw2XZBX3BavMQJ1H-x9-VrwCLcBGAsYHQ\/w520-h640\/vanguard-covid.jpg\" width=\"520\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. J. Patrick Whelan,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;a pediatric rheumatologist, warned the FDA in December that mRNA vaccines could cause microvascular injury to the brain, heart, liver and kidneys in ways not assessed in safety trials.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn Dec. 8, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) received a public submission from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/john-whelan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJ. Patrick Whelan, M.D., Ph.D\u003C\/a\u003E. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/beta.regulations.gov\/document\/FDA-2020-N-1898-0246\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esubmission\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was in response to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/beta.regulations.gov\/document\/FDA-2020-N-1898-0036\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eagency’s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Erequest for comments regarding vaccines against\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/news\/republish\/chds-letter-to-congress-urging-covid-19-origins-investigation\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESARS-CoV-2\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in advance of the Dec. 10\u0026nbsp; meeting when the committee would review the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/144416\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPfizer\/BioNTech (BNT162b2) SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for emergency use authorization (EUA)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhelan’s training (at Harvard, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine) includes degrees in biochemistry, medicine and rheumatology. For 20 years, he worked as a pediatric rheumatologist. He currently specializes in treating children with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mis-c\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Emultisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)\u003C\/a\u003E, which has been associated with coronavirus infections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn his\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whelan-FDA-letter-re-EAU-Pfizer-.pdf\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Epublic submission\u003C\/a\u003E, Whelan sought to alert the FDA about the potential for vaccines designed to create immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to instead cause injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESpecifically, Whelan was concerned that the new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/news\/components-of-mrna-technology-could-lead-to-significant-adverse-events-in-one-or-more-of-our-clinical-trials-says-moderna\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EmRNA vaccine technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;utilized by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/pfizer-moderna-vaccines-long-term-chronic-illness\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPfizer\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/did-cdc-mislead-public-allergic-reactions-moderna-vaccine\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EModerna\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has “the potential to cause microvascular injury (inflammation and small blood clots called microthrombi) to the brain, heart, liver and kidneys in ways that were not assessed in the safety trials.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhile Whelan did not dispute the vaccines’ potential to quickly arrest the spread of the virus (assuming that the vaccines prove to actually prevent transmission — also not assessed in the clinical trials), he cautioned that “it would be vastly worse if hundreds of millions of people were to suffer long-lasting or even permanent damage to their brain or heart microvasculature as a result of failing to appreciate in the short-term an unintended effect of full-length spike protein-based vaccines on other organs.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUnfortunately, Whelan’s concerns were not acknowledged, and the agency instead relied on the limited clinical trial data. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/12\/10\/tracking-the-fda-advisory-panel-meeting-on-the-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVRBPAC endorsed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the use of the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 10. The following day, the FDA issued the first\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/covid-19-vaccine-news\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECOVID-19 vaccine\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-takes-key-action-fight-against-covid-19-issuing-emergency-use-authorization-first-covid-19#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%20U.S.%20Food%20and,years%20of%20age%20and%20older.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eemergency use authorization\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;allowing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be widely distributed in individuals 16 and older without calling for the additional studies that Whelan felt were critical to assure safety of the vaccine, especially in children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhy was Whelan worried about the mRNA vaccines causing blood clots and inflammation?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOne of the peculiar and often deadly findings with regard to SARS-CoV-2 infection is widespread damage occurring in numerous organs beyond the lungs.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/coronavirus-destroys-lungs-but-doctors-are-finding-its-damage-in-kidneys-hearts-and-elsewhere\/2020\/04\/14\/7ff71ee0-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EClinicians\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;around the world have seen evidence that suggests the virus may cause heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems. Unexpectedly, however, clinicians observe a very limited or non-existent presence of the virus in organs other than the lungs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHere is what we currently know about the impact of the virus outside the lungs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECardiovascular complications from COVID-19\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThough\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECOVID-19\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was originally thought to be a respiratory infection, it’s since become clear the infection threatens the heart, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Aeshita Dwivedi,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/what-we-know-about-covid-19-and-long-term-heart-damage#Those-with-preexisting-heart-issues-have-a-greater-risk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estated\u003C\/a\u003E: “As the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved, research has progressively demonstrated this virus’s impact on multiple organs of the body including the heart.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt has been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/what-we-know-about-covid-19-and-long-term-heart-damage#Those-with-preexisting-heart-issues-have-a-greater-risk\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that nearly a quarter of people hospitalized with COVID-19 experience myocardial injury and many develop arrhythmias or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jintensivecare.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s40560-020-00483-y\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ethromboembolic disease\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamacardiology\/fullarticle\/2768916\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eprospective study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that followed 100 patients who recovered from COVID-19, the investigators found involvement of the heart on MRI scans in 78% of patients, and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60%. These findings were independent of the severity of the infection, overall course of the illness and time from the original diagnosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn October 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/tct\/89143\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eresearchers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;took a more detailed look at the heart after death from COVID-19 and found “cardiac damage was common, but more from clotting than inflammation” and that “microthrombi (small blot clots) were frequent.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“We did not expect this,” said study co-author Dr. Renu Virmani, of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cvpath.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ECVPath Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Gaithersburg, Maryland. “It seems to be unlikely that the direct viral invasion of the heart is playing a major role in making myocardial necrosis and microthrombi.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/no-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-block-spread-coronavirus\/5734734\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Will Block Spread of Coronavirus\"\u003ENo Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Will Block Spread of Coronavirus\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDr. Hyung Chun,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;a Yale cardiologist,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/what-we-know-about-covid-19-and-long-term-heart-damage#The-damage-could-be-long-lasting\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Esuggests\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK26848\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eendothelial cells\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;lining the blood vessels potentially release inflammatory\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2785020\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ecytokines\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that further exacerbate the body’s inflammatory response and lead to the formation of blood clots. Chun has stated: “The ‘inflamed’ endothelium likely contributes not only to worsening outcome in COVID-19, but also is considered to be an important factor contributing to risk of heart attacks and strokes.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA subsequent\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.051828\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published last month confirmed the findings of microthrombi resulting in myocyte necrosis, indicative of a recent myocardial infarction (heart attack), in 40 individuals who died from COVID-19 infection — the studies also identified microthrombi as a major cause of cardiac injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENeurological complications of COVID\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIndividuals with COVID-19 experience a vast number of neurological symptoms, such as headaches, ataxia, impaired consciousness, hallucinations, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/tct\/89143\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eautopsy studies\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;have yet to find clear evidence of destructive viral invasion into patients’ brains, pushing researchers to consider alternative explanations of how SARS-CoV-2 causes neurological symptoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/covid-19s-effects-on-the-brain-68369\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of 18 COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms who died in hospitals last April, Mukerji and colleagues found very low levels of viral RNA — the source of which is a mystery — in only five of the patient brains. Because the low RNA concentration “seems out of proportion to the profound deficits that people are experiencing,” Mukerji said, “I’d be extremely surprised [if] the majority of cases where people are having neurological symptoms are due to direct viral invasion.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn a more r\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2033369#_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eecent analysis\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published Feb. 4, 2021, in the\u0026nbsp;New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke\u0026nbsp; documented microvascular injury but no evidence of virus in the brains of patients who died from COVID-19. They reported, “In a convenience sample of patients who had died from COVID-19, multifocal microvascular injury was observed in the brain and olfactory bulbs by means of magnetic resonance microscopy, histopathological evaluation and immunohistochemical analysis of corresponding sections, without evidence of viral infection.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIf not viral infection, what else could be causing injury to distant organs associated with COVID-19?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe most likely culprit that has been identified is the COVID-19 spike protein released from the outer shell of the virus into circulation. Research cited below has documented that the viral spike protein is able to initiate a cascade of events that triggers damage to distant organs in COVID-19 patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWorryingly, several studies have found that the spike proteins alone have the capacity to cause widespread injury throughout the body, without any evidence of virus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat makes this finding so disturbing is that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines manufactured by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/emergency-preparedness-and-response\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/moderna-covid-19-vaccine#:~:text=On%20December%2018%2C%202020,CoV-2).\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EModerna\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/144412\/download#:~:text=On%20December%2011%2C%202020%2C%20the,of%20Authorization%20(Section%20II)%20of\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EPfizer\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and currently being administered throughout the U.S. program our cells to manufacture this same coronavirus spike protein as a way to trigger our bodies to produce antibodies to the virus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAccording to Whelan’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whelan-FDA-letter-re-EAU-Pfizer-.pdf\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eletter to the FDA\u003C\/a\u003E, the “Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine is composed of an mRNA that produces a membrane-anchored full-length spike protein.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-020-00771-8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA landmark study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;Nature Neuroscience, published a few days after Whelan’s letter, found that the commercially obtained COVID-19 spike protein (S1) injected into mice readily crossed the blood-brain barrier, was found in all 11 brain regions examined and entered the parenchymal brain space (the functional tissue in the brain).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe researchers acknowledged that such widespread entry into the brain could explain the diverse neurological effects of S1 such as encephalitis, respiratory difficulties and anosmia (the loss of smell). The injected spike protein was also found in the lung, spleen, kidney and liver of the mice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S096999612030406X\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA second study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in December, 2020, in Neurobiology of Disease reported that the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins showed a direct negative impact on endothelial cells and provide “plausible explanations” for the neurological consequences observed in patients with COVID-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe researchers demonstrated that the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a known binding target for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is “ubiquitously expressed throughout various vessel calibers in the frontal cortex.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn another\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1092913420302288?via%3Dihub\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Einvestigation\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers studying brain tissues from 13 fatal COVID-19 cases found pseudovirions (spike, envelope and membrane proteins without viral RNA) present in the endothelia of microvessels of all 13 brains. They concluded that ACE2+ endothelial damage is a central part of SARS-CoV-2 pathology and may be induced by the spike protein alone. Injection of the full-length S1 spike subunit in the tail vein of mice, as part of the same study, led to neurologic signs (increased thirst, stressed behavior).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAn\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0140673620310941\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eobserved complication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children is similar to the atypical\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/health-topics\/kawasaki-disease\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EKawasaki disease\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;shock syndrome characterized by multisystemic hyperinflammation, edema and vasculitis (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mis-c\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMIS-C\u003C\/a\u003E) that Whelan treats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S096999612030406X#bb0250\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EResearch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;has found SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alone to be a potent inductor of endothelial dysfunction, suggesting that “manifestations of COVID-19 shock syndrome in children can be at least partially attributed to its action.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELet’s now circle back to the concerns voiced by Whelan in his letter to the FDA:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“I am concerned about the possibility that the new vaccines aimed at creating immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have the potential to cause microvascular injury to the brain, heart, liver and kidneys in a way that does not currently appear to be assessed in safety trials of these potential drugs.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhelan was referring to the fact that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.scripps.edu\/covid-19\/science-simplified\/how-vaccines-work-against-COVID-19\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EmRNA\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;vaccines work by incorporating the genetic blueprint for the key spike protein on the virus surface into a formula that — when injected into humans — instructs our own cells to make the spike protein.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn theory, the body then will make antibodies against the spike protein to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe problem with this scenario, as we saw above, is that the spike protein alone — which the mRNA vaccines instruct the body to make — has been implicated as a key cause of injury and death in COVID-19 infections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBased on the research conducted to date, it is very likely that some recipients of the spike protein mRNA vaccines will experience the same symptoms and injuries associated with the virus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAgain according to Whelan, “the potential to cause microvascular injury (inflammation and small blood clots called microthrombi) to the brain, heart, liver and kidney … were not assessed in the safety trials.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhelan also stated in his letter that “particular caution will be required with regard to the potential widespread vaccination of children before there are any real data on the safety or effectiveness of these vaccines…”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESadly highlighting Whelan’s concerns, a 17-year-old was\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/17-year-old-in-icu-after-receiving-second-coronavirus-dose-656527\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Erecently hospitalized in the ICU\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Israel complaining of severe pains in his chest a few days after receiving the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESince the widespread introduction of these vaccines on Dec. 14, 2020,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EChildren’s Health Defense\u003C\/a\u003Ehas been following the reports filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the media and emails from individuals and family members who have experienced adverse vaccine reactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAs of Jan. 29,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/deaths-injuries-following-covid-vaccine-cdc\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E11,249 adverse events\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;had been reported to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.openvaers.com\/covid-data\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOpenVAERS\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;related to the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The reports included 501 deaths, 1066 hospitalizations, 2443 urgent care visits, 1447 office visits and 147 cases of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/fda-investigates-reactions-pfizer-covid-vaccine-healthcare-workers-hospitalized\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eanaphylaxis\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhat is concerning is that these reports are just the tip of the iceberg. A 2010 Harvard-executed study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/digital.ahrq.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/publication\/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;vaccine injuries to VAERS represent an estimated 1% of actual injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEven vaccine manufacturers have calculated at least a “\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0960327112440111\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efifty-fold underreporting\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of adverse events.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn Dec. 18, 2020, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Children’s Health Defense chairman and chief legal counsel,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/rfk-jr-david-kessler-covid-vaccine-vaers\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ewrote to Dr. David Kessler\u003C\/a\u003E, then-co-chair of Biden transition’s coronavirus task force and now the chief scientific officer of President Biden’s COVID-19 response, requesting that Kessler consider the long-overdue need for a comprehensive, high-integrity system to monitor adverse outcomes following vaccination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThis request has urgent significance in light of the FDA’s decision to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/how-fda-approved-pfizer-covid-vaccine-warp-speed\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eauthorize emergency use\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the two mRNA vaccines following abbreviated pre-approval clinical trials. Since COVID-19 vaccine companies are immune from liability for injuries caused by their products, our public health regulators have an amplified responsibility to monitor adverse events. To date, we have not received a response from Kessler.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EChildren’s Health Defense shares the same concerns as Whelan and numerous other\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/surgeon-warns-fda-pfizer-immunological-danger-covid-vaccines-convalescent-asymptomatic-carriers\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eclinicians\u003C\/a\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/pfizer-moderna-vaccines-long-term-chronic-illness\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Escientists\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;who have spoken out about lack of adequate\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/peter-doshi-pfizer-moderna-vaccines-need-more-details-raw-data\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Esafety and efficacy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;testing prior to widespread distribution of the vaccines, especially in children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIgnoring these valid and scientifically supported warnings may result in hundreds of millions of people suffering potentially deadly injuries or permanent damage following vaccination. It will also further erode the dwindling confidence that our country has in our federal regulatory agencies to protect the health of all Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWe encourage everyone to be informed consumers when making decisions about their health, especially when it comes to vaccinations. We ask that if you, a family member or friend have suffered any kind of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/thousands-covid-vaccine-injuries-13-deaths-reported-december\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eadverse side effect\u003C\/a\u003E, from any vaccine, do all three of the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFor U.S. residents, first\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/vaers.hhs.gov\/reportevent.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Efile your report\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the official site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGo to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vaxxtracker.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVaxxTracker.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to file a report. This is an outside independent source versus government agency that tracks vaccine injuries globally.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUsing\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/covid-19-vaccine-reactions\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ethis page on the CHD website\u003C\/a\u003E, share your vaccine injury story, pictures or videos. 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Pfizer stated the vaccine was 90% effective when trial participants were exposed to SARS CoV-2, the virus said to cause COVID-19 symptoms. Not so fast. Pfizer’s study…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Leading COVID Vaccine Candidates Plagued by Safety Concerns\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pharmacist-COVID-vaccine.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pharmacist-COVID-vaccine.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pharmacist-COVID-vaccine.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737069\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/leading-covid-vaccine-candidates-plagued-safety-concerns\/5729982\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Leading COVID Vaccine Candidates Plagued by Safety Concerns  “It works!” trumpeted the normally stoic Nature journal about Pfizer’s early release results in a Phase III trial of its vaccine for COVID-19. Pfizer stated the vaccine was 90% effective when trial participants were exposed to SARS CoV-2, the virus said to cause COVID-19 symptoms. Not so fast. Pfizer’s study…\"\u003ELeading COVID Vaccine Candidates Plagued by Safety Concerns\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E20 November 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5734303\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737069\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/10-things-you-need-know-about-experimental-covid-vaccines\/5734303\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Ten Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines  Experimental COVID Vaccines are coming to town, being rolled out worldwide as the transhumanistic New World Order (NWO) agenda dictates. This next phase of the COVID scamdemic is an incredibly dangerous one – the phase where authorities take their sovereignty-violating ways a step further by actually penetrating the body with…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Ten Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/experimental-covid-vaccines-768x553.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/experimental-covid-vaccines-768x553.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/experimental-covid-vaccines-768x553.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737069\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/10-things-you-need-know-about-experimental-covid-vaccines\/5734303\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Ten Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines  Experimental COVID Vaccines are coming to town, being rolled out worldwide as the transhumanistic New World Order (NWO) agenda dictates. This next phase of the COVID scamdemic is an incredibly dangerous one – the phase where authorities take their sovereignty-violating ways a step further by actually penetrating the body with…\"\u003ETen Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID Vaccines\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E13 January 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5734734\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737069\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/no-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-block-spread-coronavirus\/5734734\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Will Block Spread of Coronavirus  On Nov. 9, 2020, Pfizer, Inc. announced that the experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) BNT162b2 vaccine for COVID-19 it developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech SE had an efficacy rate of 90 percent, based on the results of human clinical trials on the vaccine.1 2 3 This news was followed up…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Will Block Spread of Coronavirus\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pharmacist-COVID-vaccine.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pharmacist-COVID-vaccine.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Pharmacist-COVID-vaccine.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737069\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/no-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-block-spread-coronavirus\/5734734\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Will Block Spread of Coronavirus  On Nov. 9, 2020, Pfizer, Inc. announced that the experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) BNT162b2 vaccine for COVID-19 it developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech SE had an efficacy rate of 90 percent, based on the results of human clinical trials on the vaccine.1 2 3 This news was followed up…\"\u003ENo Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Will Block Spread of Coronavirus\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E18 January 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/moderna-pfizer-vaccines-blood-clots-brain-inflammation-heart-attacks\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChildren's Health Defense\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/lyn-redwood\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Lyn Redwood\"\u003ELyn Redwood\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/moderna-pfizer-vaccines-blood-clots-brain-inflammation-heart-attacks\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChildren's Health Defense\u003C\/a\u003E, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/could-spike-protein-moderna-pfizer-vaccines-cause-blood-clots-brain-inflammation-heart-attacks\/5737069\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3637027772019304512\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/could-spike-protein-in-moderna-pfizer.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/3637027772019304512"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/3637027772019304512"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/could-spike-protein-in-moderna-pfizer.html","title":"Could Spike Protein in Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines Cause Blood Clots, Brain Inflammation and Heart Attacks?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zr2OOhd92O0\/YCXb5MyTT6I\/AAAAAAAA2p4\/nOpvJNP_J5Yw2XZBX3BavMQJ1H-x9-VrwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w520-h640-c\/vanguard-covid.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152922108459172323.post-7183900887192876772"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-11T20:33:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-11T20:33:51.631-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coup d’Etat"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Venezuela"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Through the “Bolivar Act” U.S. Congressmen Intend to Tighten the Blockade Against Venezuela"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"author\" style=\"background-color: #ebebeb; 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color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/libya360.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/02\/through-the-bolivar-actu-s-congressmen-intend-to-tighten-the-blockade-against-venezuela\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EInternationalist 360\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;2 February 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GjCSQeGPbUA\/YCXa6nUOGUI\/AAAAAAAA2pw\/biWvYk3_Lv8LnJlJxmH6qgdH17B7oKvjQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/Rick-Scott-y-Marco-Rubio-son-los-operadores-m%25C3%25A1s-activos-en-el-lobby-contra-Venezuela_AP-400x400.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-GjCSQeGPbUA\/YCXa6nUOGUI\/AAAAAAAA2pw\/biWvYk3_Lv8LnJlJxmH6qgdH17B7oKvjQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Rick-Scott-y-Marco-Rubio-son-los-operadores-m%25C3%25A1s-activos-en-el-lobby-contra-Venezuela_AP-400x400.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn January 28th, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMichael\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWaltz\u003C\/span\u003E, introduced to the U.S. Congress a new bill dedicated to Venezuela entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime Act”.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; display: flex; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 500px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1354804298106851332\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1354804298106851332\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalresearch.ca%2Fbolivar-act-us-congressmen-intend-tighten-blockade-against-venezuela%2F5737066\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font: inherit; height: 773px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn an act of cynicism, the creators and promoters of the law tendentiously and symbolically established the contradictory short title of “BOLIVAR Act”, its acronym in English.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe immediate precedent dates back to 2019, when Senator Rick Scott, obsessive opponent of the Venezuelan Government since his years as Governor of Florida, sponsored together with Marco Rubio and Waltz himself the Venezuelan Restriction on Contracting Act, which at that time did not even pass to a vote in the plenary.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIt should be noted that the bill reached the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, where the now Vice President Kamala Harris was a member, and that through a report they justified that legislation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"https:\/\/misionverdad.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Rick%20Scott%20promotor%20de%20Venezuelan%20Contracting%20Restriction%20Act%20%282019%20-%20S%201151%29_govtrack.us_.png\" class=\"transparent aligncenter\" height=\"382\" scale=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/misionverdad.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Rick%20Scott%20promotor%20de%20Venezuelan%20Contracting%20Restriction%20Act%20%282019%20-%20S%201151%29_govtrack.us_.png\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"701\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERick Scott promoter of the Venezuelan Contracting Restriction Act (2019 – S 1151)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EScott is one of the most active operators in the anti-Venezuelan lobby, a character who has been in charge of pressuring the U.S. Government to intensify the unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela, accompanied by Rubio and the fugitive from national justice Carlos Vecchio.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHe rejoices about it in his web portal rickscott.senate. gov, when he highlights his impressions after the signing of the Executive Order that imposed the economic embargo on Venezuela in August 2019: “I have been asking the [then] [Trump] Administration to use all available options, including an embargo,” commented the Republican senator referring to the fact that months earlier, during that same year, he urged Mike Pompeo and Steven Mnuchin, the then Secretaries of State and Treasury respectively, the implementation of stricter “sanctions” against Cuba, Venezuela and their international allies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe focus of the new mutation of the title in the bill (“Contracting Restriction”) alludes to another operation of the well-known plan to make impossible the financial transactions of the Venezuelan State with any entity, subject or company prominent in international trade. According to the document, the purpose is to prohibit the head of the U.S. Government from contracting persons who have commercial operations with the “Maduro regime”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWho are the promoters of the proposal?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMost of the U.S. congressmen in the House of Representatives who are pushing the legislative proposal against Bolivarian Venezuela belong to the representation of Florida districts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAlthough on this occasion Rick Scott does not appear in the list because he is a senator, it is important to mention part of his dossier as the original promoter of the iniquitous project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-senator-marco-rubio-introduces-bill-to-allot-20m-toward-regime-change-in-venezuela\/5589399\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"US Senator Marco Rubio Introduces Bill to Allot $20M Toward Regime Change in Venezuela\"\u003EUS Senator Marco Rubio Introduces Bill to Allot $20M Toward Regime Change in Venezuela\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EScott is implicated in the largest Medicare fraud in the United States, when he was CEO of the health care company Columbia\/Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). That controversial matter gravitated to the FBI investigation, later made public in 1997, in which the company in question admitted to felony billing and fraudulent practices three years later. Most of these events occurred under Scott’s leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAccording to Sun Sentinel columnist Randy Schultz, Columbia\/HCA gave kickbacks to doctors to refer patients to make them look sicker than they were, so Medicare would pay more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWith that attitude of false concern for Venezuela and a questionable track record, Scott used the Fifth Amendment (part of the U.S. Bill of Rights that guarantees certain protections to a person accused of a crime or involved in a legal proceeding) 75 times for this case and walked away from the company with $300 million in stock and a $5.1 million severance package.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENow, who is Michael Waltz?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHe served for 20 years in the U.S. Army Special Forces, known as the Green Berets, participating in the invasions of Afghanistan and other missions of interference in the Middle East and Africa.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHe then went on to serve in the White House as a counterterrorism advisor to then Vice President Dick Cheney (a noted neoconservative) during the George W. Bush administration.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWaltz voted for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the United States.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn February 1, he signed a petition to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to reconsider his possible plans to close the Guantanamo prison.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHe is president of METIS, a firm dedicated to advising and strategizing for the U.S. defense, national security and intelligence community.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EHe is also a co-founder and partner in an international consulting firm, Askari Associates, which provides consulting and strategic advisory services to foreign governments.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAt the end of 2019, he stated that he was promoting the plan to create the zone of distension or strip on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, managed by the Lima Group with support from the U.S. armed forces.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELikewise, he added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prohibit the U.S. Department of Defense from signing contracts with companies working with the Venezuelan State.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWaltz’s discursive and repetitive line on Venezuela is no surprise, nor is the list of co-sponsors joining him on the bill. Congressmen such as Debbie Schultz and Mario Diaz-Balart are a case in point, as they put forward the idea of labeling Venezuela as a terrorist state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EEach one of the members of that clique is in sync with the interests of the anti-Venezuelan lobby in Miami, without half measures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESome implications of the Bolivar Act\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe new U.S. legislative project takes the character of “bipartisan”, while Congressman Waltz commented that said instrument is the road map that the rest of the countries in the world should take as an example. In addition, he made the worn-out call that the United States must use all means to eliminate any financing mechanism of the “Maduro regime”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"https:\/\/misionverdad.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Foto%20ley%20parte%20humanitaria.png\" class=\"transparent aligncenter\" scale=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/misionverdad.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Foto%20ley%20parte%20humanitaria.png\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe United States has a history of using “humanitarian aid” as a weapon of war against the Bolivarian Republic and unscrupulous financing of the Venezuelan opposition (Photo: Image capture).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWithin the pantomime in which they wrap the subject of “sanctions”, postulating some supposed exceptions that in the end are not taken into account or are an ordinary play on words to the legal sound of the congressmen, the bill adds a couple of points, little specified, which refer to the exception on the shipments of “humanitarian aid”, of course, under the conditions and schemes that the U.S. administration considers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUnder the guise of “humanitarian aid”, the U.S. Government through agencies such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have channeled funding to the Venezuelan anti-Chávez leadership in order to stimulate the strategy of “regime change” in Venezuela.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA fraction of that amount was transferred to Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchio and Lilian Tintori in September\/2019, as announced by Mark Green, director of the agency pic.twitter.com\/mb0iMWTFQG\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E– Sures Organization (@SuresDDDHH) January 18, 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; display: flex; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 500px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: 500px;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"\" data-tweet-id=\"1218337954155782144\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"twitter-widget-1\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false\u0026amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1\u0026amp;frame=false\u0026amp;hideCard=false\u0026amp;hideThread=false\u0026amp;id=1218337954155782144\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalresearch.ca%2Fbolivar-act-us-congressmen-intend-tighten-blockade-against-venezuela%2F5737066\u0026amp;theme=light\u0026amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556\u0026amp;width=500px\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font: inherit; height: 618px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 500px;\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe #USAID reported that it has delivered $654 million to the opposition #Venezuela government to overthrow it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn the other hand, and in light of what characterizes that proposed law, when mention is made of “business operations,” it refers to engaging in commerce in any form, including the acquisition, development, maintenance, possession, sale, lease, or operation of equipment, facilities, personnel, products, services, personal property, real property, or any other apparatus of business or commerce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"https:\/\/misionverdad.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Boli%CC%81var%20Act.jpg\" class=\"shrinkToFit aligncenter\" height=\"720\" scale=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/misionverdad.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Boli%CC%81var%20Act.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"552\" \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe “BOLIVAR Act” intends to deepen the blockade against Venezuela (Photo: Archive)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBased on this, it is evident, firstly, that the oil and service companies in that sector at an international level should cease their operations with Venezuela or should triangulate in order to avoid the attacks of the US blockade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut not only that: the companies must choose whether to do business with Venezuela or with the oil companies of the United States, taking into consideration both monetary and sanction retaliations. However, what is striking about this description is its breadth, since it covers any commercial dynamics, including the acquisition of drugs, medical supplies or even vaccines. Not to mention the food sector. And the same premise applies: companies must decide between doing business with the United States or with the Venezuelan State.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAlthough in practice the U.S. Government has prevented imports in the food and pharmaceutical sectors by the Venezuelan State through executive orders, through the “BOLIVAR Act” it intends to make this imprint official on the legislative paper, a trademark of the blockade against Venezuela and key to the deepening of the economic and social crisis that the country is experiencing in an induced manner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe U.S. political class continues to apply its economic and financial gunboat diplomacy disguised as progressive humanitarianism. These congressmen, unified Democrats and Republicans under the same anti-Venezuelan criteria, continue to move in this macabre and pestilent enjoyment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFeatured image:\u0026nbsp;Rick Scott and Marco Rubio are the most active operators in the lobby against Venezuela (Source: Internationalist 360)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; 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margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5667283\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737066\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/yiiiiikes-john-bolton-threatens-to-send-venezuelas-maduro-to-offshore-us-prison-at-guantanamo\/5667283\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"'Yiiiiikes': John Bolton Threatens to Send Venezuela's Maduro to Offshore US Prison at Guantánamo  National Security Adviser John Bolton—the neoconservative who's played a key role in the Trump administration's effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government—suggested on Friday that President Nicolás Maduro could find himself locked away in the U.S. military prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba if he does not soon step…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"'Yiiiiikes': John Bolton Threatens to Send Venezuela's Maduro to Offshore US Prison at Guantánamo\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bolton-ahs.jpeg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bolton-ahs.jpeg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bolton-ahs.jpeg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737066\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/yiiiiikes-john-bolton-threatens-to-send-venezuelas-maduro-to-offshore-us-prison-at-guantanamo\/5667283\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"'Yiiiiikes': John Bolton Threatens to Send Venezuela's Maduro to Offshore US Prison at Guantánamo  National Security Adviser John Bolton—the neoconservative who's played a key role in the Trump administration's effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government—suggested on Friday that President Nicolás Maduro could find himself locked away in the U.S. military prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba if he does not soon step…\"\u003E'Yiiiiikes': John Bolton Threatens to Send Venezuela's Maduro to Offshore US Prison at Guantánamo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E2 February 2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5669698\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737066\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/mike-pence-orchestrator-venezuelan-coup\/5669698\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Mike Pence: Orchestrator of the Venezuelan Coup. The Invasion Option Is On The Table  According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the US is preparing to covertly arm the opposition in Venezuela.  From Sputnik: We have evidence that US companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of acquiring a large batch of weapons and ammunition in an Eastern European country…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Mike Pence: Orchestrator of the Venezuelan Coup. The Invasion Option Is On The Table\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mike-Pence.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mike-Pence.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mike-Pence.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737066\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/mike-pence-orchestrator-venezuelan-coup\/5669698\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Mike Pence: Orchestrator of the Venezuelan Coup. The Invasion Option Is On The Table  According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, the US is preparing to covertly arm the opposition in Venezuela.  From Sputnik: We have evidence that US companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of acquiring a large batch of weapons and ammunition in an Eastern European country…\"\u003EMike Pence: Orchestrator of the Venezuelan Coup. The Invasion Option Is On The Table\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E27 February 2019\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5706283\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737066\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/venezuela-takes-action-against-covid-19-amid-us-blockade\/5706283\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Venezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Thursday announced that the health system is \u0026quot;on permanent alert,\u0026quot; although there are no Covid-19 cases in this South American country so far. He also reported that landing of flights from Europe, Colombia, and Panama will be prohibited from March 15. Maduro also indicated that the border with…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Venezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maduro.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maduro.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maduro.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737066\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/venezuela-takes-action-against-covid-19-amid-us-blockade\/5706283\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Venezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Thursday announced that the health system is \u0026quot;on permanent alert,\u0026quot; although there are no Covid-19 cases in this South American country so far. He also reported that landing of flights from Europe, Colombia, and Panama will be prohibited from March 15. Maduro also indicated that the border with…\"\u003EVenezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E14 March 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; 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color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGlobal Research, February 11, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"catAndTag\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #362f2d; float: right; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 342.013px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pY6d14xScpo\/YCXZ7cLAwjI\/AAAAAAAA2po\/5mBKhtmRyY8MO_qEH33ddsm5obEJiLplQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/Victoria-Nuland-400x225.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"225\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pY6d14xScpo\/YCXZ7cLAwjI\/AAAAAAAA2po\/5mBKhtmRyY8MO_qEH33ddsm5obEJiLplQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h360\/Victoria-Nuland-400x225.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVictoria Nuland\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;exemplifies the neocons who have led US foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years while evading accountability. It is a bad sign that\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPresident Joe Biden\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;has nominated Victoria Nuland for the third highest position at the State Department, Under Secretary for Political Affairs.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAs a top-level appointee, Victoria Nuland must be confirmed by the US Senate. \u0026nbsp;There is a campaign to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ourpeacecenter.org\/stop-the-nuland-confirmation\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EStop her confirmation\u003C\/a\u003E. The following review of her work shows why Victoria Nuland is incompetent, highly dangerous and should not be confirmed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EAfghanistan and Iraq\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFrom 2000 to 2003, Nuland was US permanent representative to NATO as the Bush administration attacked then invaded Afghanistan. The Afghan government offered to work with the US remove Al Qaeda, but this was rejected. After Al Qaeda was defeated, the US could have left Afghanistan but instead stayed, established semi-permanent bases, split the country, and is still fighting there two decades later.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFrom 2003 to 2005 Nuland was principal foreign policy advisor to Vice President\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/us-vice-president-foreign-policy-dick-cheney\/#!\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDick Cheney\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;who “helped plan and manage the war that toppled Saddam Hussein, including making Bush administration’s case for preemptive military actions based on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.” The foreign policy establishment, with Nuland on the far right, believed that removing Saddam Hussein and installing a US “ally” would be simple.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe invasion and continuing occupation have resulted in over a million dead Iraqis, many thousands of dead Americans, hundreds of thousands with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at a cost of 2 to 6 TRILLION dollars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EFrom 2005 to 2008 Victoria Nuland was US Ambassador to NATO where her role was to “strengthen Allied support” for the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOn the 10\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eth\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;anniversary of the invasion, when asked about the lessons learned Nuland\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2009-2017.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2013\/03\/206272.htm\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eresponded\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“Compared to where we were in the Saddam era, we now have a bilateral security agreement … We have deep economic interests and ties. We have a security relationship. We have a political relationship.”\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp; Nuland is oblivious to the costs. Nuland’s loyalties are to the elite who have benefitted from the tragedy. According to online google,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E“One of the top profiteers from the Iraq War was oil field services corporation, Halliburton. Halliburton gained $39.5 billion in ‘federal contracts related to the Iraq war.’\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003ENuland’s boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, was the former the CEO of Halliburton.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn January 2020, seventeen years after the US invasion, \u0026nbsp;the Iraqi parliament passed a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/1\/5\/iraqi-parliament-calls-for-expulsion-of-foreign-troops\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eresolution\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;demanding the US troops and contractors leave. \u0026nbsp;Now, over one year later, they still have not left.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELibya\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn spring 2011, Victoria Nuland became State Department spokesperson under Hillary Clinton as she ramped up the “regime change” assault on Moammar Ghaddafi of Libya.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2011\/sc10200.doc.htm\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUN Security Council resolution 1973\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;authorized a “No Fly Zone” for the protection of civilians but NOT an air assault on Libyan government forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThat summer, as US and others bombed and attacked Libyan forces, she\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/libya-usa\/us-sees-contradictory-messages-on-gaddafi-future-idUSN1E76B14S20110712\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Edismissed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the option of a peaceful transition in Libya and falsely suggested the UN Security Council required the removal of Ghaddafi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe campaign led to the toppling of the Libyan government and killing of Ghadaffy. Commenting on the murder and bayonet sodomizing of Ghaddafi, Nuland’s boss Hillary Clinton\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Echortled\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;“We came, we saw, he died.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBefore the overthrow,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/globalciviliansforpeace.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/09\/the-standard-of-living-in-libya\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ELibya\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;had the highest standard of living in all of Africa. Since the US led assault, Libya has become a failed state with competing warlords, huge inflation, huge unemployment, and exploding extremism and violence that has spread to neighboring countries. Most of the migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe, or drowned trying to, are coming from Libya. By any measure, the goal of “protecting” Libyan civilians has failed spectacularly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ESyria\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOne reason that Clinton and hawks such as Nuland wanted to overthrow Ghaddafi was to get access to the Libyan military arsenal. That way they could funnel arms to insurgents seeking to overthrow the Syrian government. This was confirmed in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/press-releases\/judicial-watch-defense-state-department-documents-reveal-obama-administration-knew-that-al-qaeda-terrorists-had-planned-benghazi-attack-10-days-in-advance\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Esecret DOD documents\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which state: “\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDuring the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused by, the downfall of the ((Qaddafi)) regime in October 2011 and up until early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria”\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn January 2012, Nuland\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2009-2017.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/dpb\/2012\/01\/181484.htm\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the US is\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;“on the side of those wanting peaceful change in Syria.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EWhile saying this, the US was supplying sniper rifles, rocket propelled grenades, and 125 mm and 155 mm howitzer missiles to the “peaceful” protestors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; direction: ltr; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 679px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/war-and-the-fiscal-cliff-economic-crisis-fuels-military-intervention-in-syria\/5315111\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"War and the “Fiscal Cliff”: Economic Crisis Fuels Military Intervention in Syria\"\u003EWar and the “Fiscal Cliff”: Economic Crisis Fuels Military Intervention in Syria\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe US “regime change” strategy for Syria followed the pattern of Libya. First, claim that the protestors are peaceful. Then claim the government response is disproportionate. Put pressure on the target government to paralyze it, while increasing support to proxy protesters and terrorists. As\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thebricspost.com\/an-eyewitness-to-the-syrian-rebellion-father-frans-in-his-own-words\/#.YCLniOhKiUm\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Edocumented\u003C\/a\u003E, there were violent Syrian protesters from the start. During the first days of protest in Deraa in mid-March 2011,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/143026\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eseven police\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;were killed. As spokesperson for the State Department, Nuland was a major figure promoting the false narrative to justify the “regime change” campaign.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EUkraine\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn September 2013 Victoria Nuland was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. The uprising in the central plaza known as the Maidan began soon after her arrival. To underscore the US support for the protests, Nuland and Senator John McCain passed out bread and cookies to the crowd.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EProtests continued into January 2014. The immediate issue was whether to accept a loan from the International Monetary Fund which was going to require a 40% increase in natural gas bills or to accept a loan from Russia with the inclusion of cheap oil and gas. The opposition wanted the Yanukovych government to take the EU\/IMF loan. The opposition was comprised of different factions, including the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party and Right Sector.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn early February 2014, an audio recording of Victoria Nuland talking the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, was leaked to the public. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26079957\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E4-minute conversation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was a media sensation because it included Victoria Nuland saying, “Fuck the EU.”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EBut Nuland’s cursing was a distraction from what was truly significant. The recording showed that Nuland was meddling in domestic Ukraine affairs, had direct contacts with key opposition leaders, and was managing the protests to the extent she was deciding who would and would not be in the post-coup government! She says, “I don’t think Klitsch [Vitaly Klitschko] should go into government…… I think Yats [Arseniy Yatseniuk] is the guy… “\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe reason she wanted to “Fuck the EU” was because she did not approve the EU negotiations and compromise. Nuland and Pyatt wanted to “midwife” and “glue” the toppling of the Yanukovych government despite it being in power after an election that was observed and substantially\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/odihr\/elections\/ukraine\/eoms\/presidential_2010\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eapproved\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOver the next few weeks, the protests escalated. The President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kiev, Bernard Casey,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ourpeacecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RemarksBernardCasey_condensed_v4.pdf\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;what happened next. “On February 18-20, snipers massacred about 100 people [both protestors and police] on the Maidan …. Although the US Ambassador and the opposition blamed the Yanukovych Administration, the evidence points to the shots coming from a hotel controlled by the ultranationalists, and the ballistics revealed that the protestors and the police were all shot with the same weapons.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe Estonian Foreign Minister later\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ukraine-catherine-ashton-phone-shoot-maidan-bugged-leaked\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the same thing: “behind the\u0026nbsp; snipers it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new (opposition) coalition”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EPresident of the American Chamber of Commerce President for Ukraine, Bernard Casey, continues: “On February 20, 2014 an EU delegation moderated negotiations between President Yanukovych and the protestors, agreeing to early elections – in May 2014 instead of February 2015…. Despite the signing of an agreement … the ultranationalist protestors, and their American sponsors, rejected it, and stepped up their campaign of violence.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe coup was finalized over the coming days.\u0026nbsp; Yanukovych fled to for his life and Yatsenyuk became President after the coup as planned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EOne of the first acts of the coup leadership was to remove Russian as an official state language, even though it is the first language of millions of Ukrainians, especially in the south and east. Over the coming period, the “birth” of the coup government, violence by ultranationalists and neo-Nazis was prevalent. In Odessa, they attacked people peacefully protesting the coup. This\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s9AMjLBIliw\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Evideo\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eshows the sequence of events with the initial attack followed by fire-bombing the building where protestors had retreated. Fire trucks were prevented from reaching the building to put out the fire and rescue citizens inside. Forty-two people died and a 100 were injured.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=loKajkXoTBU\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ebus convoy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;heading back to Crimea was attacked with the anti-coup passengers beaten and some killed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EIn the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, protests against the coup were met by deadly force.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVictoria Nuland claims to be a “victim” because her conversation was leaked publicly. The real victims are the many thousands of Ukrainians who have died and hundreds of thousands who have become refugees because of Nuland’s crusade to bring Ukraine into NATO.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe audio recording confirms that Nuland was managing the protests at a top level and the results (Yats is the guy) was as planned. Thus, it is probable that Nuland approved the decision to 1) deploy snipers to escalate the crisis and 2) overturn the EU mediated agreement which would have led to elections in just 3 months.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhy were snipers deployed on February 18? Probably because time was running out. The Russian leadership was distracted with the Sochi Olympic Games ending on February 23. Perhaps the coup managers were in a hurry to “glue” it in advance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERussia\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EDuring the 1990’s, Nuland worked for the State Department on Russia related issues including a stint as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs. The US meddled in Russian internal affairs in myriad ways.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,19960715,00.html\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ETime magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;proudly proclaimed “\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EYanks to the rescue: the secret story of how American advisors helped Yeltsin win.”\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp; The Yeltsin leadership and policies pushed by the US had disastrous consequences. Between 1991 and 1999,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Yeltsin#\/media\/File:GDP_of_Russia_since_1989.svg\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERussian Gross Domestic Product\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;decreased by nearly 50% as the social safety net was removed. The Russian economy collapsed, oligarchs and lawlessness arose. Nuland was part of the US group meddling in Russia, deploying economic “shock therapy” and causing widespread social despair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMeanwhile, the U.S. reneged on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/the-us-betrayed-russia-but-it-is-not-news-thats-fit-to-print\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Epromises\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to Soviet leader Gorbachev that NATO would not expand “one inch” eastward. Instead, NATO became an offensive pact, bombing Yugoslavia in violation of international law and then absorbing Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic states, the Czech Republic, Albania, Croatia and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EComing into power in 2000, Putin clamped down on the oligarchs, restored order and started rebuilding the economy. Oligarchs were forced to pay taxes and start investing in productive enterprises. The economy and confidence were restored. Over seven years,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/04\/GDP_of_Russia_since_1989.svg\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EGDP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;went from $1300 billion (US dollars) to $2300 billion. \u0026nbsp;That is why Putin’s public approval rating has been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/intellinews.com\/putin-s-popularity-holds-steady-in-face-of-protests-but-russians-divided-on-navalny-202265\/?source=russia\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Econsistently high\u003C\/a\u003E, ranging between 85% and a “low” approval rating of 60%.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EMost Americans are unaware of these facts. Instead, Putin and Russia are persistently demonized. This has been convenient for the Democratic Party establishment which needed a distraction for their dirty tricks against Bernie Sanders and subsequent loss to Donald Trump. The demonization of Russia is also especially useful and profitable for the military industrial media complex.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVictoria Nuland\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/05\/victoria-nuland-steele-dossier-biden\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eboosted\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the “Steele Dossier” which alleged collaboration between Russia and Trump and other salacious claims. The allegations filled the media and poisoned attitudes to Russia.\u0026nbsp; Belatedly, the truth about the “Steele Dossier” is coming out. Last summer the Wall Street Journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-fbis-dossier-deceit-11595027626\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;“the bureau (FBI) knew the Russia info was phony in 2017” and that “There was no factual basis to the dossier’s claims”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWhile promoting disinformation, Victoria Nuland is pushing for a more aggressive US foreign policy. In an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/russian-federation\/2020-06-09\/pinning-down-putin\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;titled “Pinning Down Putin”, she says “Russia’s threat to the liberal world has grown”, that Washington should “deter and roll back dangerous behavior by the Kremlin” and “rebuff Russian encroachments in hot spots around the world.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe major “hot spots” are the conflicts which Victoria Nuland and other Washington neocons promoted, especially Syria and Ukraine. In Syria, the US and allies have spent hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars promoting the overthrow of the Assad government. So far, they have failed but have not given up. The facts are clear: US troops and military bases in Syria do not have the authorization of the Syrian government.\u0026nbsp; They are actively stealing the precious oil resources of the Syrian state. It is the US not Russia that is “encroaching”. The dangerous behavior is by Washington not Moscow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EConclusion\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVictoria Nuland has promoted a foreign policy of intervention through coups, proxy wars, aggression, and ongoing occupations. The policy has been implemented with bloody and disastrous results in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWith consummate hypocrisy she accuses Russia of spreading misinformation in the US, while she\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/russian-federation\/2020-06-09\/pinning-down-putin\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eopenly seeks\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to put “stress on Putin where he is vulnerable, including among his own citizens.”\u0026nbsp; She wants to “establish permanent bases along NATO’s eastern border and increase the pace and visibility of joint training exercises.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVictoria Nuland is the queen of chicken hawks, the Lady Macbeth of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/03\/20\/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war\/\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Eperpetual war.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;There are hundreds of thousands of victims from the policies she has promoted.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Yet she has not received a scratch. On the contrary, Victoria Nuland probably has profited from a stock portfolio filled with military contractors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENow Victoria Nuland wants to provoke, threaten and “rollback” Russia. A quick look at a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/80\/8d\/c5\/808dc534e25e00ecd3e1b299132c78d1.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003Emap\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of US military bases shows who is threatening whom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EVictoria Nuland is \u0026nbsp;dangerous and should not be confirmed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E*\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ENote to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. 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Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERick Sterling\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an investigative journalist in the SF Bay Area.\u0026nbsp;He can be reached at\u0026nbsp;rsterling1@protonmail.com.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts\" id=\"jp-relatedposts\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\" style=\"border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 9pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ERelated Articles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \" style=\"border: 0px; clear: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px -20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5716751\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737032\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/victoria-nuland-alert\/5716751\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Victoria Nuland Alert. 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Her Ambition is Confront Russia to Deter Putin\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/victoria-nuland.jpg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/victoria-nuland.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/victoria-nuland.jpg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737032\" data-position=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/victoria-nuland-alert\/5716751\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Victoria Nuland Alert. Her Ambition is Confront Russia to Deter Putin  It is difficult to find anything good to say about Donald Trump, but the reality is that he has not started any new wars, though he has come dangerously close in the cases of Venezuela and Iran and there would be considerable incentive in the next four months to begin…\"\u003EVictoria Nuland Alert. Her Ambition is Confront Russia to Deter Putin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E23 June 2020\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post1 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"5734463\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737032\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/will-senate-confirm-coup-plotter-nuland\/5734463\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Biden's Pick: Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?  Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia Cold War politics…\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Biden's Pick: Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?\" class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-img\" height=\"122\" scale=\"1.25\" src-orig=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/mail.jpeg?resize=350%2C200\u0026amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/mail.jpeg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/mail.jpeg?zoom=1.25\u0026amp;resize=213%2C122\u0026amp;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0px none; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline;\" width=\"213\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737032\" data-position=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/will-senate-confirm-coup-plotter-nuland\/5734463\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Biden's Pick: Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?  Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia Cold War politics…\"\u003EBiden's Pick: Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E15 January 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-nothumbs\" data-post-format=\"false\" data-post-id=\"27407\" style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 232.65px;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a jp-relatedposts-post-aoverlay\" data-origin=\"5737032\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.globalresearch.ca\/2011\/11\/america-bashes-unesco-democratic-vote-palestine\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; display: block; font: inherit; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"VIDEO: America Bashes UNESCO for \u0026quot;Democratic\u0026quot; Vote on Palestine  Watch as reporter Matthew Lee with the Associated Press grills State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on the United States’ apparent disappointment with the UNESCO vote that welcomed Palestine as its newest full member state. The questions are straightforward and logical, and it becomes clear that the Obama administration is only…\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-title\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ca class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" data-origin=\"5737032\" data-position=\"2\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.globalresearch.ca\/2011\/11\/america-bashes-unesco-democratic-vote-palestine\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"VIDEO: America Bashes UNESCO for \u0026quot;Democratic\u0026quot; Vote on Palestine  Watch as reporter Matthew Lee with the Associated Press grills State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on the United States’ apparent disappointment with the UNESCO vote that welcomed Palestine as its newest full member state. The questions are straightforward and logical, and it becomes clear that the Obama administration is only…\"\u003EVIDEO: America Bashes UNESCO for \"Democratic\" Vote on Palestine\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-excerpt\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 7.14286em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EWatch as reporter Matthew Lee with the Associated Press grills State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on the United States’ apparent disappointment with the UNESCO vote that welcomed Palestine as its newest full member state. The questions are straightforward and logical, and it becomes clear that the Obama administration is only…\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-date\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.6; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E1 November 2011\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #362f2d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe original source of this article is Global Research\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"copyright\" style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003ECopyright ©\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/rick-sterling\" style=\"border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Posts by Rick Sterling\"\u003ERick Sterling\u003C\/a\u003E, Global Research, 2021\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/why-victoria-nuland-dangerous-should-not-confirmed\/5737032\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5367206041641289073\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/why-victoria-nuland-is-dangerous-and.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/5367206041641289073"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/8152922108459172323\/posts\/default\/5367206041641289073"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/counterinformationblog.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/why-victoria-nuland-is-dangerous-and.html","title":"Why Victoria Nuland Is Dangerous and Should Not be Confirmed"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pY6d14xScpo\/YCXZ7cLAwjI\/AAAAAAAA2po\/5mBKhtmRyY8MO_qEH33ddsm5obEJiLplQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w640-h360-c\/Victoria-Nuland-400x225.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});