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Tulsi Gabbard Determined to End CIA’s Operation Mockingbird

AP Photo/Julia Demaree NikhinsonKevin Downey Jr.    August 03, 2025

Former Democratic Party presidential hopeful and current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is giving the CIA an enema, and she’s putting the hose where it is most needed: in the sketchy, unofficial offices of Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s not-so-secret department dedicated to propaganda.

FACT-O-RAMA!  Operation Mockingbird was created in the late 1940s to spread anti-Soviet propaganda through news outlets. It was later weaponized for use against Americans. Operation Mockingbird is the grandfather of “fake news.”

The CIA has been bribing/threatening/installing journalists to do their bidding since the beginning of the Cold War. It is believed they had/have roughly 400 journalists, news reporters, and publishers throughout the world, writing what the CIA tells them to write.

In the mid-1970s, Operation Mockingbird was exposed by the Church Committee, led by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho). The committee found that the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and various other alphabet agencies were illegally bugging, wiretapping, and harassing people, even Americans, the most notable of whom was Martin Luther King, Jr.

FACT-O-RAMA!  Former FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover  believed  MLK Jr. was a communist. He may have been correct.

The Church Committee slapped the CIA on the wrist and told them to end Operation Mockingbird, but, exasperatingly, the committee didn’t provide any oversight to make sure that Mockingbird was dead. According to the Church Committee Report on Foreign and Military Intelligence of 1976 (page 455), Mockingbird thrives to this day.

Watch Robert Kennedy, Jr. explain how some of the fake news crims, including Rolling Stone and Vox, are nothing more than CIA-run rumor mills.

COINCIDENCE-O-RAMA!  Operation Mockingbird was first exposed by journalist Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone. Today, RFK, Jr. believes the CIA has control over the very same apocryphal rag mag.

So that leads us to where we are now.

Tulsi Gabbard believes Operation Mockingbird isn’t merely still alive and kicking, but that  it’s being used to slander President Trump. 9In my opinion, it is also being used to spread globalist codswallop.) Even better, Gabbard is dedicated to tearing it down.

IMHO-RAMA!  Operation Mockingbird has also taken over various television shows, like the soon-to-be kaput Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

What you’re about to see is not comedy. It’s tragically cringeworthy propaganda being progenerated by a globalist shill who needs to be drummed out of the comedy community forever.

Welcome to late-night brainwashing, courtesy of, I believe, Operation Mockingbird:

DNI Gabbard claims she is dedicated to ending the unofficial “Operation Mockingbird.” I can’t be more giddy.

I suspect there are no hallway signs at the Pentagon stating “Operation Mockingbird Offices This Way,” and thus stabbing the problem in its heart may prove difficult.

Operation Mockingbird is likely why your hirsute thing-in-law believes Trump said to take “horse pills” to beat COVID, which came from a bat salad, and so many other lies we’ve seen pushed by the media.

I believe the darker threat isn’t fake news, but the seemingly unquenchable thirst for more of the same. Killing Operation Mockingbird is integral, but teaching leftoids they’ve been lied to for decades is the true challenge.

Watch this video, and the meaning of the name “Operation Mockingbird” will become terrifyingly clear:

[…]Via https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/08/03/to-kill-an-operation-mockingbird-tulsi-goes-to-war-with-the-cias-propaganda-yobbos-n4942363

Klaus Schwab Left With Nothing and He’s Not Happy

He Said You’d Own Nothing. Now He’s Lost Everything

By George Christensen

He told the world we would own nothing and be happy.

Now he has nothing, and you can bet your last dollar he isn’t happy.

Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) and the smug, self-declared steward of the global elite, has been exposed. Not by some fringe outfit or anonymous conspiracy theorist, but by his own people, his board, his inner circle, his trusted allies.

Let that sink in: the WEF has turned on its founder.

Klaus Schwab’s downfall is so complete, so total and so grotesque in its detail that it reads like satire. But it’s all real. Nation First covered the early whistle-blower revelations back in April, our epic X thread was viewed by over 8 million people and shared 20,000 times, including by General Michael Flynn. (Click HERE or below to check out that thread… don’t miss the cheeky AI image on post 3!)

And now, everything we warned you about has exploded into the open.

Schwab has been facing a brutal internal investigation commissioned by the WEF’s board of trustees and led by the Swiss law firm Homburger. Leaked preliminary findings lay out a pattern of behaviour that is nothing short of pathological.

Let’s start with the money. Schwab and his wife, Hilde, allegedly racked up more than $1.1 million in questionable travel expenses, including $63,000 in luxury trips to Venice, Miami, Seychelles and Morocco, with no proof of business justification. That’s not to mention the 14 hotel massages he expensed (half of which he only reimbursed after getting caught), the WEF-paid landline and mobile phone for his maid and the Forum-funded driver used during their private vacations.

Schwab tried to justify it all, saying his wife had chaired the Schwab Foundation without pay since 1973, that he had a good-faith understanding with the Forum to cover travel costs and that the driver doubled as a security precaution. He claimed to donate most gifts to charity and defended his fixed salary of 1 million Swiss francs plus a 100,000 franc entertainment allowance.

Then there’s Villa Mundi, a lavish mansion bought with WEF money next to its Geneva headquarters, supposedly used for official business. It turns out Hilde Schwab allegedly controlled access to the entire estate, reserved a floor for their private use, and brought in a designer the Schwabs had used for their personal projects. That’s $50 million in WEF funds. Much of it originating from hard-working taxpayers paying for politicians to attend this talkfest of the rich and powerful. All gone.

And while the WEF was telling you and your children to eat bugs and reduce your carbon footprint, Schwab was popping Moët and soaking up in-room massages on someone else’s dime.

Still not sick enough? Try this: Multiple reports have confirmed that Schwab personally intervened to manipulate the Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report to serve his own political goals. He directly ordered WEF staff to lower the UK’s post-Brexit rankings to prevent the Leave camp from gaining momentum. In fact, Schwab outright told staff the UK must not see any improvement because the results could be exploited by Brexit supporters.

Source The Telegraph UK

This was never an honest economic analysis. It was a political weapon.

It gets worse. Investigators uncovered sexually suggestive late-night emails to young female staffers, a workplace culture driven by fear, intimidation and outright discrimination. Pregnant women were allegedly sidelined. Older women were pushed out. Staff referred to their environment as a “fiefdom” ruled by one man’s ego. Some even formed a support group titled “WEFugees.”

The rot wasn’t just behind the scenes. The whole Davos spectacle had become a grotesque parody of its own messaging. While WEF press releases called for rebuilding trust, reducing inequality, “eating ze bugs,” and saving the climate, the reality on the ground was luxury cars, ski chalets and $1,500 bottles of champagne. Escort agencies in the region even reported a surge in demand during the forum, with sex workers hired under non-disclosure agreements to service elites who spent the day preaching virtue.

And when the walls finally closed in, Schwab lashed out. He filed a criminal complaint against the anonymous whistle-blowers for defamation and coercion. He raged at the board for leaking investigation details, accusing them of betrayal.

“I feel deceived,” he moaned.

Behind the scenes, Schwab had wanted to leave on his own terms, gradually transitioning into a non-executive role and handpicking his successor. He floated names like Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank, but that plan fell apart. The WEF board wasn’t waiting anymore. After receiving the whistle-blower complaint, trustees moved fast to try and salvage the WEF’s reputation. Schwab demanded that the probe be dropped within 24 hours. They refused. Why?

Schwab utterly failed in his leadership to bring about the Great Reset as planned. Now, the globalist elites want him gone. The whistle-blower, the allegations, and the media leaks are all coordinated moves to delegitimise him and strip him of any leverage, so he is in no position to challenge his successor. As long as he was useful, his misconducts were tolerated. But now that he has outlived his purpose, expect more scandals to suddenly surface, increasingly aggressive media coverage, and eventually, if he refuses to quietly fade into obscurity, a sudden news of his Epstein-style “suicide.”

How ironic. He will end up with nothing.

But what of the WEF?

The investigation is still ongoing, with final results due by the end of August, but the writing is already on the wall. Schwab has resigned. Davos is in panic. WEF trustees are leaking like a sieve. The entire edifice is cracking under the weight of its own arrogance.

For decades, Schwab operated with impunity. He handpicked global leaders, dictated policy through backdoor panels, and pushed a vision of top-down technocracy dressed up as benevolent progressivism. And now, the man who promised the Great Reset is being reset by the very machine he built.

What happens next? Expect more media spin. Expect damage control. Expect talk of “reform” and “new leadership.” But don’t be fooled. This isn’t one bad apple. It’s the rot at the core.

The WEF is corrupt, compromised and collapsing from within. Not one more taxpayer dollar should go to support it. Not one more government minister should attend its champagne-drenched summits in Davos.

It is time for governments worldwide to cut ties entirely.  Because this isn’t just about Klaus Schwab. It’s about what happens when unelected elites are given free rein to rule behind the curtain, immune from scrutiny, answerable to no one but each other.

The WEF has failed. It is finished.

Let it burn.

A final thought: Let’s hope Klaus Schwab doesn’t go down quietly or isn’t “Epsteined” too soon. Because as long as they’re fighting each other, the rest of us, the 99.9%, can rest easy knowing they’re too busy tearing each other apart to plot their next grand technocratic scheme against democracy and sovereignty.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2025/08/04/klaus-schwab-is-left-with-nothing/

How South Sudan’s Informal Economy Keeps It Alive

Hidden Strength: South Sudan

Directed by Akuol de Mabir (2025)

Film Review

Link: Hidden Strength: South Sudan

Nine years after the 2013-2016 civil that led it to separate from Sudan, South Sudan is the world’s youngest country, as well as the world poorest. It’s economy is almost totally informal, which means its government has no registration or tax records for its businesses – and no record of the wealth they generate. Increasingly South Sudan’s informal sector also provides public service, including schooling.

The filmmakers interview a number of women who have started small businesses – restaurants, tea shops, car washes, market stalls, etc – because income their husbands earn in the formal sector is inadequate to support the family. One woman started a small business when husband abandoned the family to marry a second wife.

All the women complain about their businesses becoming sluggish due to massive increases in commodity prices.

Unlike the formal sector, South Sudan’ informal sector has better access to resources owing to a large pre-existing social network. This often helps them source commodities and lower prices.

The filmmakers also interview a man who runs a water delivery business. He has a college degree and formerly worked as an administrator but couldn’t make ends meet because many pubic sector employees haven’t been paid in nine months.

At present the major of government sector employees rely on the informal sector to survive. Political analysts credit the robust informal sector with preventing a famine in South Sudan.

Trump’s Brain

Dmitry Orlov

As you may or may not know, Donald Trump was elected to do a job. If you think that this job is to try to Make America Great Again (MAGA), then that’s a piece of false information you will need to unlearn. There is no known force in the universe that can make a country with a GDP of $30 trillion and total public debt of around $150 trillion anything other than bankrupt. The rough $150 trillion number is federal debt of $37 trillion plus non-discretionary spending which was written into laws that Congress is afraid to touch and which now amounts to quite close to 3/4 of all federal spending.

It also amounts to roughly 3/4 of all the value held within the United States by its governments (state, federal, local), its corporations, its banks and its citizens. When that debt goes “Poof!” — as it inevitably will — and, consequently, the payments either stop or are rendered worthless by inflation, Americans, on average, will lose 3/4 of their wealth, although it is far more likely that most people will lose just about everything — through a combination of economic depression and hyperinflation — while the rich will continue to get richer.

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So, what is Trump to do? To answer this question, all we need to do is to examine who stuck him there. And it turns out that it was a bunch of billionaires!  The reason they would want to stick him in the White House is obvious: they have the information I outlined in the preceding paragraph and want to use the time that remains to stop being billionaires and to start being trillionaires. The clever way they thought up of doing it is by having Trump rock the financial markets back and forth, telegraphing his moves to his friends ahead of time, so that they could use insider trading tricks to buy the lows and sell the highs, getting richer each time.

For a time, Trump was doing rather well by them. His first ploy was to use tariffs. He would announce ridiculously high, punitive-prohibitive tariffs against this or that country, with the rationale that the country in question was running a trade surplus with the United States and that this was somehow unfair. Businesses reliant on imports for their revenue would rush to stock up on imported products before the tariffs kicked in. Then their stock prices dove, giving Trump’s billionaire friends a chance to snap them up cheaply. But then Trump would announce a delay during which a deal could be worked out with the country in question and importers’ stock price would recover, giving Trump’s billionaire friends a chance to unload them profitably. But then enough people realized what was going on and this trick stopped working.

And so Trump tried another ploy. He would force officials from countries that are essentially US colonies — have US troops stationed on their soil and are under tight political and financial control by the US — to sign ridiculous deals according to which they agreed to buy huge nonexistent quantities of US oil and gas for which they had no use and to invest huge, nonexistent quantities of money in nonexistent US industries. The list of US-occupied vassal countries includes all of the European Union, the UK, Japan and South Korea. These manipulations would once again present wonderful insider trading opportunities for those who knew the details of the deals beforehand and could trade stocks and futures profitably… before everyone realized that the deals are all fake.

Along the way, Trump also attempted to rock the energy markets by threatening to impose 100% tariffs on all US-bound exports from any country that bought oil or gas from Russia. Since Russia’s exports of just the oil amount to 3.5 million barrels a day — a quantity which the other oil producers would be hard-pressed to make up for — Trump’s billionaire friends could have theoretically profited from a large spike in oil prices. But then the two largest importers of Russian energy — China and India — told Trump to go pound sand and the plan fell through.

Trump could have come up with some other, similar plans, such as threatening the world with starvation by blocking Russian grain exports (Russia exports grain to over 100 countries) and have his billionaire friends profit from a huge spike in grain prices, who would buy up grain futures ahead of his announcement and sell them at the peak. But then Trump lost his mind.

He probably lost his mind well before then, but it only became blatantly obvious now. What triggered him was a social media post by Dmitry Medvedev, vice-chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. He also has some people on his staff who troll people whom the Russians generally don’t like. Everybody knows that this is a bit risqué and somewhat inappropriate, but it’s good for the morale. Responding to Trump’s shortening the already ridiculous 50-day timeline for “ending the Ukraine war” to just 10 (or 12?) days, Medvedev’s little troll army wrote:

“Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10. He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country.”

Trump responded: “Tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!” This is already quite bad: here’s the supposed “leader of the free world” (to use that old epithet one last time) being triggered by an internet troll.

But then Trump went from just inappropriate to something truly ridiculous, shifting a social media flame war with an internet troll to the domain of nuclear deterrence: “I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.”

This is not an appropriate response. This is a careless, unreasonable and downright demented reaction. Medvedev’s trolls’ reaction to Trump’s reaction was measured and calm: “If some words of the former Russian president cause such a nervous reaction in the entire, formidable US president, it means that Russia is right in everything and will continue to go its own way.”

What Trump ordered to have done in response to a fairly obvious point made by Team Medvedev (which is that serving an ultimatum to a nuclear power is ipso facto a nuclear escalation) is not only illegal but reckless. The US is not ready for a nuclear confrontation with Russia and probably never will be again.

The “two Nuclear Submarines” (sic.) Trump refers to are Cold War era relics of which only 14 are left, built between 1981 and 1997 and carrying Trident and Tomahawk missiles. Meanwhile, Russia has updated its nuclear submarine fleet by 100%, outperforming the obsolescent US fleet in all direct indicators of efficiency while upgrading its missile defenses to a point where old Tridents and Tomahawks are no longer too much of a challenge. On the other hand, the US has no means to intercept the new Russian missiles. Therefore, even if Demented Admiral Trump were to send two nuclear submarines to threaten blogger Medvedev in his Kremlin lair, and even if he were to send all the ancient tubs out on patrol, nothing in the arithmetic of mutual deterrence would be changed. But could he have?

No, he couldn’t have. Because over the past thirty years a comfortably sedate pattern has been established for the Cold War remains of the American nuclear submarine fleet of the Ohio class: four or five submarines loiter about in designated patrol areas. These are, as everyone who is interested can pinpoint with arbitrary precision, in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans while in the Indian Ocean their acoustic signatures have not been detected in a very long time. The same number of these venerable tubs is to be found in a state of conditional combat readiness in the vicinity of certain US naval bases, undergoing extensive maintenance and major repairs. Once these efforts succeed, the tubs are fumigated, ventilated, new crews are trained, and off they go into the Atlantic and the Pacific to entertain the seamen of the world’s maritime powers with their clangs, creaks and groans as they loiter about.

The remaining vessels are suffering from senility, arthritis, prostatitis and other age-related ailments and reside at the various naval hospices, where they remain… you guessed it, “conditionally combat-ready.” Supposing they could be made to move, where would Admiral Trump send a couple of conditionally combat-ready nuclear submarines to sufficiently terrify blogger Medvedev into never trolling Admiral Trump again? To the Arctic? Let’s be serious, the American subs have no competencies for navigating under the ice, which is now routine for Russian ones. Instead, they could drift aimlessly around the North Sea, periodically being hailed in Russian-accented English by nearby surface ships curious to know whether they have been able to pinpoint the whereabouts of the errant blogger Medvedev.

Who can tell what is eating away at Trump’s mind to such an extent that he threatens a nuclear response to a perfectly reasonable bit of trolling from a known troll farm? Perhaps it’s his billionaire friends clamoring for more insider trading schemes. Or perhaps it’s the fact that he’s got his privates stuck in a Ukrainian vise between “It’s Biden’s war” and “It’s Putin’s victory — and Trump’s defeat.” Or it’s simply time for his brain to be decommissioned. His father and his older sister both went senile around his current age. Alzheimer’s was the diagnosis, I vaguely recall to have overheard somewhere.

Maybe it’s that, or maybe in his case it’s frontal lobe dementia. Empathy and emotional stability are particularly vulnerable to neurodigenerative disorders affecting the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and some of Trump’s symptoms, such as thinking it would be a good idea to build a Trump Gaza Resort and Casino, or to send nuclear subs to settle a score with a Russian internet troll, manifest specific problems with empathy and with self-control.

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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/1767ce21-2079-4671-9fc8-cf0ff8b0ead9

The American Academy of Pediatrics: Mining Children for Profit

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By David Bell August 2, 2025

American healthcare is currently providing us with an excellent lesson in what capitalism looks like in the absence of a moral framework. The biggest losers are America’s children.

The Union Profiting from Childhood Sickness

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the major professional association of North American pediatricians, has overseen the rising rates of chronic illness and medicating of American children over recent decades. With 67,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, AAP distinguished itself during Covid-19 for its strident insistence that children’s faces should be covered and they should be injected with modified RNA vaccines, despite knowing from early 2020 that severe Covid-19 was very rare in healthy children.

Funded by sources including Moderna, Merck, Sanofi, GSK, Eli Lilly, and other pharmaceutical companies, the AAP’s members are the cornerstone of the rapidly increasing pediatric pharma market in North America – by far greater than any other region. As a professional organization dedicated to ensuring income for its members, the AAP is like any similar professional association or union and acts in this manner.

The loss of trust in the medical profession since 2020 is fortunately removing the misconception that AAP-like medical societies were primarily altruistic, dedicated to the welfare of others rather than their members. The recent publication of AAP priorities, developed by its membership, should reinforce this loss of trust and so, despite its unusual callousness of approach, serve ultimately to strengthen public health by exposing more clearly the motivations of those profiting from rising illness.

Setting Priorities to Ensure Long-Term Profit

The AAP’s first stated priority is to remove parents from any authority when it comes to decisions on whether to inject their children with various substances produced commercially by its sponsors. While this should be ridiculous, it has some chance of succeeding as the ultimate beneficiaries, apart from pediatricians, are the same pharmaceutical manufacturers who heavily sponsor the election campaigns of most members of the US Congress.

Of relevance, promoting or abetting chronic disease in children ensures almost certain chronic disease through adulthood. The AAP is therefore helping to set up lifelong pharmaceutical consumers. Pharma companies are purely for-profit entities, and this is exactly what their CEOs and executives are charged by their shareholders with promoting. The AAP is simply acting as a very willing enabler.

The AAP considers that bodily autonomy is subservient to State-imposed requirements and that the post-World War II human rights of non-coercion and informed consent are subservient to the opinion of someone receiving money to perform an injection. Its approach coincides with the pre-War technocracy movement or medical fascism (in which a declared ‘expert’ decides on imposing healthcare measures rather than the patient themselves choosing it).

However, before discussing bodily autonomy and coerced medicine further, it is worth commenting on the priority list of the AAP overall, as it is fascinating, coming from a group that insists publicly on prioritizing the health of children.

Firstly, what is not there. Among the ten priorities of the AAP of which the elimination of parental rights or religious or cultural exemptions over vaccination of children is the highest, there is not a single mention of what are perhaps the three most prominent issues facing children today, and widely discussed publicly; increasing obesity and the epidemic of autism that the CDC heralds as of extraordinary proportions. While the AAP notes this problem elsewhere, it concentrates on identification and management rather than cause identification. Nowhere among its ten priorities is there any expression of interest in identifying and addressing the causes of rising chronic illness. The closest is a mention of lower costs for childhood insulin injections. The AAP’s priority list ignores diet and reducing levels of physical activity while actively promoting medicalization, seemingly oblivious to the quite catastrophic reduction in health status of the very populations they claim to be serving.

Unsurprisingly for a purely marketing organization, but inconsistent with a science-based healthcare body, the priorities include nothing regarding very obvious concerns of the impact of over 70 vaccinations, with their associated adjuvants and preservatives, now given to children by ten years of age. This number has grown from just a few 40 years ago in association with the deterioration in child health outcomes. The only interest expressed in vaccines is to remove choice from those concerned about such things, and force compliance. For a society of thinking, truth-seeking people this would be extraordinary.

Parents as an Obstacle to Return on Investment

The justification reported from AAP President Kyle E. Yasuda, M.D., FAAP for removing any remaining personal choice regarding prophylactic medical treatment (vaccination) is “the measles outbreaks” in North America in recent years. Jesse Hackell, MD, chair of the AAP’s Committee on Pediatric Workforce, notes that they were associated with the deaths of two children, the first in “many years.” The AAP simply states, regarding safety, that vaccines are “safe,” a stupid claim in medicine and biology in that adverse events do occur to injected organic substances and metal salts, and they vary from person to person (if rare events occur, then ‘safe’ is a relative term). Associations with recent DTP injection and sudden infant death are, for example, fairly well documented.

Regarding measles, it is likely that many AAP members mean well, but are genuinely misinformed regarding the impact of mass vaccination. In wealthy countries including the United States, nearly all measles mortality ceased before mass vaccination was commenced. This is not controversial – it was once stressed in medical school and is well established in national health statistics. An underlying improvement in nutrition, particularly in micronutrient deficiencies, was a likely reason. Mass vaccination then greatly reduced circulation of the measles virus, but could have only a limited impact on overall mortality. Therefore, weighing costs of vaccination (adverse events) against a very low likelihood of averting early death or disability is a real issue, and to ignore it by just reiterating ‘safe and effective’ is ignorant and foolish.

Measles vaccination is good at stopping transmission because it is very effective at preventing infections from being established. This efficacy is significant to the argument that having many vaccinated is a public good. Nearly all vaccinated people will be protected, and at no risk from the unvaccinated. Thus, mass measles vaccination really only makes sense if it is accepted that people should not have freedom to choose over their own bodies and healthcare, or that of their children. The very low measles mortality, far lower than drowning even before mass vaccination commenced in the United States, effectively removed an argument for overriding parental rights. Unless, of course, we are also going to ban children from swimming or walking near rivers or on a beach.

Lastly, regarding concerns over vaccination, many parents are uncomfortable with the role of cells harvested from induced aborted fetuses, often still alive at the time of harvesting. Again, many AAP members may believe the rhetoric that this is untrue, but nonetheless it is factual. It is how we derive cell cultures to develop many vaccines, so the DNA of these dead unborn humans can still contaminate the injection. The AAP, as an institution, officially holds that cultural and religious concerns arising from this should be overridden.

So, in the end, the AAP’s argument seems to come down to one of two possible drivers.  Either (1) they have an ideological belief that they should simply be the authority or decision-makers on children’s healthcare rather than parents (a medical-fascist approach), or (2) they see their role as promoting an extremely lucrative market for their sponsors, from which they also directly benefit, and setting children up for an entire lifetime of chronic illness and pharmaceutical consumption. It is challenging to decide which is less noble.

A third possibility is also possible. Most AAP members are simply going with the flow and have not actually stopped to think through the implications of their union’s policies. However, the motivation for willfully ignoring rational thought probably does come down to a mixture of money and ego, which goes back to the two potential drivers mentioned above.

Medical Fascism Should Have No Future

The AAP will almost certainly continue its path of child polypharmacy, blind adherence to protocols based on the products of their sponsors, and denigration and exclusion of the opinions of parents who recognize the stark reality of deteriorating health in North American children. Parents reading the AAP’s list of priorities would be foolhardy to then entrust their children to such care. Providing that politicians retain integrity and respect freedoms that most assumed were guaranteed in the US Constitution and through basic human rights norms, the AAP will fail in its endeavors and become increasingly irrelevant to public discourse. If they get their way, we will return further toward an approach we thought we had fought wars to overcome.

Fundamental rights of each human to make their own way in life, and protect and oversee their children, underpin any decent societal model. In fascist societies, such decisions are removed and taken into the hands of experts and authoritarian institutions. The people must simply comply as slaves. Medical professions and their academies have a long history of supporting such approaches, and the AAP seems increasingly determined to replicate that path. It should receive all the respect that such an indecent approach deserves.

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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/the-american-society-of-pediatrics-mining-children-for-profit/

Canada still arming Israel despite official ban

Canadian firms play a central role in maintaining the F-35 jet, which has been used to commit hideous atrocities in Gaza.

By Wyatt Reed – August 1, 2025

In the course of a week, Canada accused Israel of violating international law, announced Ottawa will recognize a Palestinian state, and sent aid to be airlifted to Gaza. But a shocking new report makes clear that the proposed 51st state still arms Israel’s death machine.

Canada sent at least 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, weapons parts, aircraft components, and communication devices to Israel since late 2023, despite Ottawa’s repeated claims to have ended weapons deliveries to the apartheid state, a new report has revealed.

By sifting through data from the Israel Tax Authority, researchers at Arms Embargo Now discovered what they called “a continuous, massive pipeline of Canadian weapons flowing directly to Israel” comprising over 400,000 bullets, multiple shipments of cartridges, and a variety of parts for Israel’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets. Since mid-2024, Israel received four shipments of Doppler Velocity Sensors, which provide navigation data needed for the F-35’s target acquisition and weapons delivery systems, five shipments of lightweight composite panels used by the planes, and two shipments of Modular Product Testers, which are used to diagnose problems on Israel’s air force fleet.

Of the 391 deliveries identified, the report’s authors were able to track direct 47 shipments of military gear with detailed commercial shipping records sent by Canadian companies to Israeli companies. 38 of those shipments were sent to Israel’s biggest military firm, Elbit Systems, and its various subsidiaries.

In March 2024, the previous Canadian administration claimed to have halted all permits for arms shipments to Tel Aviv, after the legislature passed a non-binding motion declaring that “Israel must respect international humanitarian law” and that “the price of defeating Hamas cannot be the continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians.” In the following months, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Canada no longer facilitated Israel’s horrors, going as far as publicly chiding one concerned Palestinian, “we’ve stopped exports of arms to Israel.”

But just before the apparent shift in policy, Ottawa greenlit a massive number of permits for Israeli-bound weapons deliveries, front-loading hundreds of orders in an apparent attempt to preemptively circumvent their own ban. Of the $30.6 million in military equipment sent to Israel in 2023 – the highest yearly total on record – $28.5 million was approved between October and December. Even today, many of those shipments continue to be fulfilled. To date, just 30 permits for military deliveries have been cancelled by Canada, which made that decision following a similar move by the UK in mid-2024 after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel was violating international law.

“The Canadian government appears to have pursued a strategy of rushing through a record-breaking number of arms export permit approvals to Israel prior to publicly committing to pause approving any new ones,” Arm Embargo Now explained in their report. “This was then quietly undermined by a series of exceptions and loopholes,” researchers wrote, suggesting “the government’s policy shifts were… aimed at diffusing public criticism while maintaining material support.”

Other Canadian institutions to have assisted Israel’s genocidal siege include a number of its universities. A separate report published by Just Peace Advocates found that in 2023 up to $100 million went completely untaxed as it was funneled to Israeli universities from their ‘charitable’ arms in Canada. The money went to a variety of schools with strong ties to occupation forces, including Israel’s self-described “academic home of soldiers,” Bar-Ilan University, which took in around $4 million that year.

In addition, nearly $17 million was sent tax-free to Ben-Gurion University in 2023, which bragged of having “transformed itself into a back office for war” in October that year. Months later, Ben-Gurion announced the creation of two new “elite academic programs for future [Israeli military] recruits, as part of preparations for the transfer of IDF technological units to southern Israel.” The university says it works “in tandem” with the Israeli Air Force Flight School and claims to have trained around 1,000 pilots for military service.

Also receiving untaxed funds was Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, which has been described as “the incubator of most nuclear weapons work in Israel.” Weizmann has well-documented ties to a variety of Israeli spies implicated in efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and drew international attention after it was partially destroyed in a retaliatory Iranian airstrike on June 15.

According to Just Peace Advocates, Canadian sources delivered over $36 million to the Weizmann Institute in 2023.

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Via https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/canada-still-arming-israel-despite

Who Are the Real Protagonists of Antisemitism?

By Prof Michel ChossudovskyAugust 03, 2025

We are witnessing accusations of anti-semitism, in colleges and universities, coupled with police intervention, arrests, prison sentences, for all those who act in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

But there something very fishy going on. 

While Western governments are actively repressing the protest movements against Israel’s act of genocide, —with mass arrests on charges of antisemitism—, those same governments are supporting Ukraine’s Nazi movement which actively participated and collaborated with Nazi Germany in the genocide directed against the Jewish population of Ukraine during World War II

Western countries have been financing the Nazi Summer Camps

Ukraine’s “Neo-Nazi Summer Camp”. Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits

A Head of State sponsored by the CIA

Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Neo-Nazi.

According to NATO: “the war started in 2014

The Smoking Gun: Who Started the War? Was it Russia or Was it US-NATO? NATO Confirms that the Ukraine “War Started in 2014”

Sounds contradictory?

My question is: Who are the Anti-Semites? The answer is obvious. Our Western governments (including the majority of NATO member states), which are generously financing the Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.  

From a legal standpoint, this is a criminal act on the part of our governments, which should be opposed by a vast social movement in all NATO member-states.  

The dominant Nazi faction within the Kiev government regime (which is supported by our governments) exerts its power within the realm of intelligence, internal affairs, national security and the military.

Amply documented, the 2014 US-sponsored EuroMaidan Coup d’Etat was carried out with the support of these two Nazi factions: Svoboda and Right Sektor headed by Dmytro Yarosh, which have committed countless atrocities directed against Ukraine’s Jewish community.

Andriy Parubiy founded in 1991 the Social-National Party of Ukraine (subsequently renamed Svoboda [Freedom]), together with Oleh Tyahnybok. Parubiy was subsequently appointed Chairman of Ukraine’s Parliament (Verkhovna Rada).

According to Andriy Parubiy: Adolf Hitler was “the torchbearer of democracy”. 

“I’m a major supporter of direct democracy,… By the way, I tell you that the biggest man, who practised a direct democracy, was Adolf Aloizovich [Hitler]”. (Quoted by South Front)

Remember Victoria Nuland of F**k the EU Fame

The US Congress, Canada’s Parliament, the British Parliament, the European Parliament, have invited and praised M. Parubiy.

Parubiy with Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (Obama Adminstration)

Here is Victoria Nuland with the leader of the Svoboda Nazi Party, Tyannybok.

With the formation of a new government composed of Neo Nazis,  the Jewish community in Kiev is threatened.  This community is described as “one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the world, with dozens of active Jewish organizations and institutions”.

A significant part of this community is made up of family members of holocaust survivors.

“Three million Ukrainians were murdered by the Nazis during their occupation of Ukraine, including 900,000 Jews.” (indybay.org, January 29, 2014).

Ukraine’s Nazi movement collaborated with Nazi Germany in the early 1940s. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) participated in the killings of Ukraine’s Jewish Population.

The map below is the territory under Nazi Germany occupation (recorded in 1942) extending from Galicia to Kiev and Odessa.

It indicates cities with Jewish ghettos, as well as the locations of major massacres.

According to the WW II Holocaust Museum:

“Before World War II, the 1.5 million Jews living in the Soviet republic of Ukraine constituted the largest Jewish population within the Soviet Union, and one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe. … The number of Jews in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (UkrSSR) rose to 2.45 million people [from 1939-1941]”

Amply documented the OUN-B and its National Insurgent Army (UPA) were actively involved in the massacres of Jews, Poles, Communists and Roma in major cities including Odessa and Kiev.

At the outset of Operation Barbarossa, (June, 22 1941) in coordination with the death squads (Einsatzgruppen) of Nazi Germany, members of the OUN-B were instrumental in the killings in the City of Lviv, Western region of Galicia, resulting in the massacre and deportation of more than 100,000 Jews:

“The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive pogroms and massacres of Jews in June and July 1941 in the city of Lwów. (Lviv, Lvov) in German-occupied Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine (now Lviv, Ukraine). The massacres were perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists (specifically, the OUN), German death squads (Einsatzgruppen), and urban population from 30 June to 2 July [1941].”

The members of OUN-B actively collaborated with the Wehrmacht’s occupation forces (1941-1944).

In Ukraine: “..up to a million Jews were murdered by Einsatzgruppen units, Police battalions, Wehrmacht troops and local Nazi collaborators” (emphasis added)

On September, 1 1941, the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian newspaper Volhyn wrote, in an article titled Let’s Conquer the City, namely Lviv:

“All elements that reside in our land, whether they are Jews or Poles, must be eradicated.

We are at this very moment resolving the Jewish question, and this resolution is part of the plan for the Reich’s total reorganization of Europe.

The empty space that will be created, must immediately and irrevocably be filled by the real owners and masters of this land, the Ukrainian people”. (Emphasis added)

The map below is the territory under Nazi Germany occupation (1942) extending from Galicia to Kiev and Odessa.

It indicates cities with Jewish ghettoes, the locations of major massacres.

In this regard, the Janowska concentration camp was established in the outskirts of Lviv in September 1941.

Lviv had a Jewish population of 160,000. The Janowska camp combined “elements of labor, transit, and extermination”.

“By the time Soviet forces reached Lviv on 21 July 1944, less than 1 per cent of Lviv’s Jews had survived the occupation.“ (Emphasis added)

“By the time Soviet forces reached Lviv on 21 July 1944, less than 1 per cent of Lviv’s Jews had survived the occupation.“  (Emphasis added)

What this means is that our governments —which claim to be firmly committed to social democracy– are actively supporting and financing the Neo-Nazi Kiev regime. 

 

Specifically, the German penal code prohibits “The Denial of the Holocaust” as well as the “dissemination of Nazi propaganda”.

We are dealing with something far more serious than Nazi “hate speech”, namely the relationship of the German Government with the Kiev regime’s Nazi Movement.

Our governments, including the totality of NATO member states have been instructed by Washington to SUPPORT and SPONSOR Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi regime, which came to power in 2014. in the wake of a US sponsored coup d’Etat.

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There can be no peace when elected governments are supporting Ukraine’s NAZI Movement.

There can be no peace when US-NATO are actively supporting and financing Neo-Nazism in Ukraine.

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There can be NO PEACE when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit (scheduled for 9-11 July 2024) has already announced its unbending support for the Kiev Nazi regime.  

NATO is the protagonist of fraud and crimes against humanity.

NATO’S MANDATE IS TO SUPPORT NAZISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM.ABOLISH NATO, NATO-EXIT.

NO NATO, NO WAR.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/guess-who-are-the-real-protagonists-of-anti-semitism/5860428

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln. Ellen Brown

By Ellen BrownAugust 03, 2025

This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regulate stablecoins, a category of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value, the Act is highly controversial. 

Critics variously argue that it anoints stablecoins as the equivalent of “programmable” central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), that it lacks strong consumer protections, and that government centralization destroys the independence of the cryptocurrency market. Proponents say the rapidly expanding stablecoin market not only provides a faster and cheaper payments system but can serve as a major funding source to help alleviate the federal debt crisis, which is poised to destroy the economy if not checked, and that the stablecoin market has gotten so large that without regulation, we may have to bail it out when it becomes a multitrillion dollar industry that is “too big to fail.”

For most people, however, the whole subject of stablecoins is a mystery, so this article will attempt to throw some light on it. It will also explore some historical use cases demonstrating how the government might incorporate stablecoins into a broader program for escaping the debt crisis altogether.

Stablecoin Mania

The cryptocurrency craze began with Bitcoin in 2008. Conceived as a decentralized alternative to government-issued currency, Bitcoin uses blockchain technology — a transparent, tamper-resistant ledger that all users can view and verify — to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions without relying on banks or payment intermediaries. But to be widely accepted, a currency must have a stable value, and Bitcoin’s value has vacillated wildly. Stablecoins were devised to solve that problem. They are cryptocurrencies that are backed by safe assets (e.g., short-term U.S. Treasuries). Supposedly, holders of stablecoins can redeem the coins at par and at will for cash, just like demand deposits and money market funds.

Stablecoin use has exploded in recent years. As of March 2025, their total market capitalization reached $232 billion, a 45-fold increase since December 2019. Projections suggest this figure could hit $400 billion by year-end and as much as $2.8 trillion by 2028. Stablecoins Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) dominate the market, holding 86% of it. In 2024, stablecoins processed $27.6 trillion in transfer volume (the total value of stablecoin transactions recorded on blockchains), surpassing the combined volume of Visa and Mastercard. Daily volumes could hit $300 billion in 2025.

Stablecoins are said to be transforming cross-border payments, remittances and DeFi (decentralized finance). They offer faster, cheaper transactions and are used in 71% of cross-border payments in Latin America. In crypto markets, stablecoins account for 60–80% of trading volume on major exchanges. Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa lead retail and professional-sized stablecoin transfers, with over 40% year-over-year growth. Major banks and fintechs are also integrating stablecoins or have started stablecoin initiatives, including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Stripe, JPMorgan, PayPal and Société Générale.

Despite their name, however, stablecoins are not entirely stable. They have faced liquidity crises and transparency issues and are vulnerable to runs. Hence the need for regulation. The GENIUS Act of 2025, signed July 18, 2025, requires stablecoin issuers to be banks or approved nonbanks, to maintain 1:1 reserves in safe assets (e.g., U.S. Treasuries, cash) that are audited monthly, and to comply with KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) rules.

The “Backdoor CBDC” Issue

Was the intent of the Act to create a “backdoor CBDC”? The concern of critical commentators is with privacy and “programmability” — the ability of the issuer to program a digital currency in order to control or block its use.

Skeptics of the backdoor CBDCs theory note that President Trump signed an executive order banning CBDCs in January, citing privacy and economic stability concerns, and that stablecoins are not centrally issued but have many private issuers globally. Any digital currency is “programmable” unless specifically protected against it, and most of our currency is already digital, created on the ledgers of banks when they make loans.

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Financial commentator Mark Goodwin contended in a recent interview on the Corbett Report that a programmable currency issued by a private stablecoin company could actually be more dangerous than a CBDC. Some of these companies aren’t even domiciled in the United States, and they are not subject to Federal Reserve control. In a July 26th podcast, macroeconomic historian Miles Harris explained that risk like this:

How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap. U.S. Debt is Now $36 Trillion!

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Propping Up the Bond Market and the Dollar 

The rapidly expanding stablecoin market is projected to be able to fill the void left by disenchanted governments that are dumping Treasuries and “dedollarizing” in response to Western sanctions and U.S. tariffs. According to Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), who sponsored the GENIUS Act, it could lead to stablecoin issuers becoming the “world’s largest holders of U.S. Treasuries by 2030.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says stablecoins are a strategic tool to “lock in dollar supremacy.” As financial commentator Lyn Alden observes, when residents of countries with unstable currencies (such as Argentina) purchase U.S. stablecoins to protect their savings from runaway inflation, the stablecoin issuer uses the local currency of the purchaser to buy U.S. Treasuries. In effect, the local currency has been converted to U.S. currency. That is also true for other institutional uses of stablecoins.

The problem with privately-issued money, however, is that untrustworthy issuers are subject to destabilizing bank runs; and that has been true for centuries. Gaining the confidence of users requires regulation to establish the stability and liquidity of the stablecoins, and hence the need for the GENIUS Act.

How Lincoln Solved His Debt Crisis

In a 2023 research paper titled “Taming Wildcat Stablecoins,” Professors Gary B. Gorton and Jeffery Y. Zhang compared stablecoin issuers to the private “wildcat banks” that issued their own paper currencies as banknotes during the Free Banking Era before the Civil War. Private state-chartered banks issued their own paper banknotes, which were thinly capitalized and of uncertain reliability and exchangeability. Bank runs were common. The problem was solved through the National Bank Acts of 1863 and 1864.

The Acts sought to stabilize a very chaotic system of private currencies by encouraging banks to acquire national bank charters that would allow them to issue a uniform national bank currency. To ensure its uniformity and stability, the banks were required to back their National Bank Notes 1 to 1 with federal bonds or precious metal coins deposited with the U.S. Treasury. This pool of liquidity — the forerunner of today’s central bank “reserves” — not only stabilized the currency against runs but helped fund the war effort and created a market for federal debt.

It helped, but the bonds purchased by the banks were not sufficient to fund the government’s needs. British-backed bankers were demanding 24–36% interest on loans — usurious terms that risked “recolonizing” the U.S. through debt. President Lincoln avoided that crippling debt by reverting to the funding mechanism of the American colonists – government-issued paper money. Under the Legal Tender Act of 1862, the Treasury issued $450 million in U.S. Notes or Greenbacks — fiat currency spent directly into the economy for soldiers, supplies and contracts.

These innovations allowed Lincoln’s government to bypass foreign lenders, fund the Civil War, and preserve the country from colonization by debt. A similar approach could arguably solve the government’s debt crisis today.

Fast Forward to 2025

The United States now grapples with a $36.72 trillion federal debt and an interest burden projected to be $952 billion for 2025, consuming 18.4% of federal revenues. The debt to GDP ratio is an unsustainable 124%. Neither raising taxes nor slashing the federal budget will solve what is essentially a math problem: the debt-at-interest is growing faster than the economy itself.

The GENIUS Act, requiring stablecoins to be backed by U.S. Treasuries, follows the same funding model as the National Bank Acts, and it has the same limitations as a funding model. Stablecoins can bolster the market for U.S. debt, but they won’t tame the voracious interest monster that is consuming the federal budget. President Lincoln largely met his funding crisis with currency issued directly by the Treasury, and President Trump could do the same.

This would have to be done, however, through the Treasury, not the Federal Reserve. The Fed can only issue “bank reserves” and is not allowed to fund the federal debt by buying Treasuries directly from the government. It must buy them on the open market, with reserves injected into the reserve accounts of the banks of the sellers. The banks then credit the sellers’ deposit accounts with dollars, but the dollars go to the sellers, not to the Treasury; and the interest on the bonds goes to the banks, due to the Fed’s controversial policy of paying interest on the banks’ reserves.

Today, this interest paid to the banks is actually greater than the interest the Fed earns on the bonds it buys from them, resulting in a negative balance in its portfolio. In a recent interview on Fox News Business, Treasury Secretary Bessent said the Fed was “losing $1 billion a year because of a mismatch in the bond portfolio from the short-term rates.” In 2023, this loss amounted to $114 billion; and it actually accrues to the Treasury, since the Fed is required to rebate its profits to the Treasury after deducting its costs. The Fed has now amassed a negative balance that will take years to pay off.

Thus Federal Reserve purchases of federal securities through “quantitative easing” won’t solve the debt problem. Treasury-issued currency, on the other hand, is legal and constitutional, as established by Lincoln’s Greenbacks and the subsequent legal tender cases of the Supreme Court; and it could actually solve the debt crisis.

Dealing with the Inflation Question

Printing the whole $37 trillion needed to pay off the federal debt would no doubt be inflationary, and Congress would consider it a bridge too far in any case. But the Treasury could print enough to cover the interest on the debt, or to buy the debt as it comes due, or to cover the budget deficit.

The risk, of course, is that an out-of-control Congress will run the presses as a “magic money tree” to fund all of its pet projects; but limits could be put on these expenditures. They could be required to be “productive,” adding to GDP, lowering the debt to GDP ratio to manageable levels. The German government did this in the 1930s with Mefo bills, avoiding speculative exploitation of the funds by issuing them as payment for specific industrial output.

The People’s Bank of China has hugely increased the money supply of that country without creating price inflation. Prices have been kept stable by increasing supply (GDP) along with demand (money). (For details, see my earlier article here.) Increasing the country’s GDP has been facilitated by China Development Bank, the world’s largest development bank, which has funded massive infrastructure and development across the country.

HR 4052, The National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2023, is currently before Congress and has 48 co-sponsors. Like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that pulled the U.S. economy out of the Great Depression, the bank is designed to be a source of off-budget financing, without adding new costs to the federal budget. It follows the model of the First U.S. Bank established by Alexander Hamilton. Capitalization is to be with debt-for-equity swaps: Treasuries held by the public will be traded for shares in the bank, paying 2% over the interest earned on the Treasuries. For more information, see the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank’s website.

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The GENIUS Act can stabilize the bond market, but it is only a stopgap measure, buying time in the battle against an ever-growing debt. To escape altogether, as Lincoln’s government did, Congress needs to issue some of its own “sovereign” money. If issued for productive purposes in a sustainable way, this money could arguably fuel the economy without reliance on federal debt markets at all.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/genius-act-national-bank-acts-1863-64/5896771

US imposes visa sanctions on Palestinian Authority officials, PLO members

United States Department of State logo and U.S. flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

By Susan Heavey and Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) – The U.S. imposed sanctions on Palestinian Authority officials and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization on Thursday, accusing them of undermining peace efforts with Israel even as other Western powers moved toward recognition of Palestinian statehood.

The State Department said it would deny visas for travel to the U.S. by those it was targeting, although it did not name any specific individuals.

“It is in our national security interests to impose consequences and hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments and undermining the prospects for peace,” the State Department said in a statement.

The State Department said the two Palestinian organizations had “taken actions to internationalize” their conflict with Israel, including through the International Criminal Court, and said both had continued “to support terrorism.”

The PA and PLO serve as representatives for the Palestinian people and have long pushed for recognition of a Palestinian state by international organizations and foreign nations. The two groups had no immediate comment on the U.S. move.

There are signs of a growing diplomatic divide over Palestinian statehood between Washington and three fellow Group of Seven allies.

Late on Wednesday, Canada said it planned to recognize the State of Palestine at a meeting of the United Nations in September, ratcheting up pressure on Israel as starvation spreads in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

France said last week it would back Palestinian statehood and Britain said on Tuesday it would do the same at September’s U.N. General Assembly meeting if the fighting in Gaza had not stopped by then

U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted that recognition of Palestinian statehood would wrongly reward Hamas, the militant group that is battling Israel in the Gaza Strip. Since returning to office in January, he has been vague about his position on a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel has denounced the moves by France, Britain and Canada.

‘MORAL DISTORTION’

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in a post on X, thanked the U.S. for its “moral clarity” in sanctioning the Palestinian officials, saying the action “also exposes the moral distortion of certain countries that ran to recognise a virtual Palestinian state while turning a blind eye to its support for terror and incitement.”

State Department deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott declined to say whether Thursday’s U.S. action was linked to or in retaliation for the three countries’ plans to recognize the State of Palestine.

Asked about the timing, he told a regular media briefing that the sanctions resulted from a report to Congress from a twice-a-year review of Palestinian compliance with their commitments.

It was not immediately clear how the U.S. visa ban would affect Palestinian diplomats.

Under the 1947 U.N. “headquarters agreement,” the U.S. is generally required to allow access for foreign diplomats to the U.N. in New York. But Washington has said it can deny visas for security, terrorism and foreign policy reasons.

Pigott said waivers of the visa sanctions could be considered on a case-by-case basis.

The U.S. sanctions follow an international conference this week at the U.N., hosted by France and Saudi Arabia, that aimed to work towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel and the U.S. boycotted the event.

Also on Thursday, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bid to salvage Gaza truce talks and tackle a humanitarian crisis in the enclave, where a global hunger monitor has warned that famine is unfolding.

The Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led fighters stormed southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Since then, Israel’s offensive has killed more than 60,000 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to Gaza health officials, reduced much of the enclave to ruins and displaced nearly the entire population.

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Via https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-imposes-visa-sanctions-palestinian-authority-officials-plo-members-2025-07-31/

“Cruel, Disgraceful and Needless Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars”: No One Happy About Trump Admin Burning Nearly $10 Million Worth Of Food and Contraceptives

Kevin Dietsch / Getty ImagesAlana ValkoJuly 29, 2025 

If you recall, back in January, Trump and his (former) DOGE head, billionaire Elon Musk, halted funding for all federal foreign aid in their attempts to purge the government of “waste and fraud.”

The cuts quickly affected over 177 recipient countries, cutting off critical supplies of food and medicine, and shutting down treatment centers to tackle HIV and the prevention of other diseases. Amid the cuts, the Trump administration also ordered the burning of about 500 metric tons of food meant to feed families and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which sparked outrage online.

@aaronparnas / Via tiktok.com

Now, in their continued shift away from providing foreign assistance, the Trump administration is set to incinerate $9.7 million worth of contraceptives intended for poor nations, despite offers from the United Nations and a nonprofit organization to purchase or cover the cost of repackaging and shipping the supplies, according to a Reuters report.

Per the report, the US government will spend $167,000 to incinerate the supplies, which include contraceptive implants, pills, and intrauterine devices that are due to expire between April 2027 and September 2031. The US State Department said no condoms or HIV medications would be destroyed. The supplies, currently stored in a Belgian warehouse since the January aid freeze, are being shipped to France for incineration.

In a statement with Reuters, the Belgian foreign ministry said they “explored all possible options to prevent the destruction, including temporary relocation” with US authorities. “Despite these efforts, and with full respect for our partners, no viable alternative could be secured. Nevertheless, Belgium continues to actively seek solutions to avoid this regrettable outcome,” they said.

According to NPR, the $9.7 million in contraceptives could have provided pregnancy prevention for over 650,000 people for up to one year, and as many as 950,000 people for three to ten years, depending on the contraceptive method.

Axios reported that a US State Department spokesperson cited several policies that prohibit the government from providing abortion-related assistance to foreign organizations as the reason for refusing to donate the contraceptive supplies. Reuters, citing a source, reported that the decision was made in accordance with the Mexico City policy, an anti-abortion measure Trump reinstated in January that bars the US from funding or working with organizations that offer or support access to abortion.

The decision has drawn widespread backlash. Two Democratic senators, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Sen. Brian Schatz, have introduced legislation, the “Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act,” to try to prevent foreign assistance commodities like food and medical devices, including the $10 million in contraceptives, from being destroyed or wasted. “This isn’t just wasteful, it’s cruel,” Sen. Shaheen wrote on X.

California Rep. Judy Chu said she was “horrified” and called the decision “cruel, disgraceful, and a needless waste of your taxpayer dollars.”@RepJudyChu / Via x.com

Beth Davidson, a county legislator in New York, called the story “bizarre” and warned that without access to contraceptive care, more women and girls will be forced to turn to unsafe abortions, increasing the risk of maternal death. She wrote, “Women and girls abroad with unintended pregnancies will seek unsafe abortions. Women and girls will die. Trump would rather waste taxpayer dollars than prevent maternal deaths. Just more of the hypocrisy and misogyny that will forever define the Trump administration and everyone who stands by him. Shameful.”

@BethDavidson17 / Via x.com

The public is not too pleased either.

“It would actually cost less to deliver them than to burn them, so this is just pure spite,” one person said on Reddit. “Hell, offer to sell them for about the cost of burning them, at least someone would benefit.”

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Via https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pure-evil-everyone-losing-over-225356892.html