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August 20, 2023
The Only ‘National Defense’ Needed in This Country, Is Defense Against the Real Enemy: The Ruling Class and the U.S. Government
Gary D Barnett
LewRockwell.com
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
H.L. Mencken
Throughout our history, and today, little, if any defense of this country or its people, has been necessary or warranted. The true enemy of the people of America is, and has always been, its own government. The real enemies are most all the politicians, regardless of party, the courts, the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the IRS, the entire military industrial complex, and in general, the federal and state police forces. In other words, all the ruling class and it pawns in government, its enforcers, and all their institutions and bureaucracies, are the real threat to this populace and its natural freedoms. The ludicrous notion of national defense, and that government forces actually “defend the country,” is an outright lie; propagandized by the State and its mouthpieces in media, simply as a way to gain great power in order to own and control society.
Many will take offence to these statements, mostly due to the fact that since birth, they have been inundated and indoctrinated by false ‘authority’ figures, to believe that they cannot survive and prosper without restrictive laws and rule, and worthless government schooling, all kept in check by severe coercive State prosecution. They are taught (schooled) to abandon their individuality in favor of the so-called ‘greater good’ of a collective society, to depend on and trust others in power to protect and sustain them and their families throughout their lives. This breeds only ignorance and passivity in the face of State terror. Independence, a supposed hallmark of this nation-state and its residents, is literally vilified, and even prohibited in many instances, causing personal sovereignty to be discarded in the name of unified slavery.
We live in a country that has warred aggressively against fictitious enemies, meaning without cause or necessity, more than any other country on earth. It is stated, and supported, that the United States has been at war for at least 93% of its entire existence. I firmly believe this number to be much higher, and with proper consideration, it is likely closer to 100%. If one is to determine the actual damage done, the actual harm due to direct war, proxy war, what is insanely considered ‘collateral damage,’ what is the horrid long term cost to human life in the aftermath of this terror, the total number of causalities, including the dead, would be tens if not hundreds of millions of innocent people. But what is sold to the wrongly named ‘public, is that this country is and has been the savior of ‘democracy,’ a completely evil and failed ideology, which is a gross lie beyond the imagination of any sane and thinking human being.
Yes, the truth hurts, but without acceptance of truth, what is left is a deceitful lie; a manufactured myth so atrocious as to have caused an entire nation’s abhorrent and hostile policies to be supported by the masses to such an extent, as to have caused the most broad-based, aggressive, and egregious destruction of humanity in history. This should be the epitaph upon the death of this empire.
At this time in our lives, aggressive war by this government and all who support its heinous deeds, has graduated from its main objective of slaughtering innocent men, women, and children, in addition to the other devastation, in other countries most everywhere on earth, to include the entirety of this country’s population as well. The major war currently is against all of us who live and work in the U.S. by those who continue to claim to be our protectors. This contradiction is absurd, but is still little understood by the average American, as can be evidenced by the terroristic treatment inflicted, and with little if any resistance, on this society these past few years.
At a time when this country and the world are steeped in madness and hate, more and more atrocities continue to take place, with almost zero empathy evident by the political class. The last evil ‘ruler,’ just one among all, ‘chosen’ by the ‘people,’ was Biden, and this was his response to the State’s complicit murder of those in Lahaina just recently, after a very suspicious and devastating fire had destroyed an entire town and its residents. He had the audacity to offer these poor people who lost everything, including many family members, a one-time $700 payment per household. This was in the midst of giving over $200 million more to Ukraine’s political criminals recently, with plans to give many more billions; this after more than $113 billion has already been paid to enrich the newly rich politicians in Ukraine. (Apparently, blackmail garners payment more than actual need of Americans) This alone should be enough for everyone in this country to grasp how little this government cares about its own, and how worthless all in the governing system have become. To depend on, or trust this scum to defend you from harm, is asinine beyond explanation.
Who will defend you from harm? Who will defend you from foreign invasion, although that has never once happened in this country’s history, not even including the pre-planned setup called the Pearl Harbor attack? Who will defend you from hyper-inflation and the resulting extreme prices for goods? Who will defend you from mass censorship and constant surveillance? Who will defend you from food shortages, energy shutdowns, and extensive restrictions on all transactions and travel? Who will defend your children from the consuming perversion being forced on them at every opportunity with this government’s blessing? Who will defend you from aggression and tyranny? Who will defend you from yourself?
It will never be the evil State that defends you, nor will it be its ‘national defense systems,’ its enforcers in the military and police, the politicians, the banking cartels, the large corporate monsters, or any government at any level. There is only one legitimate defense, and that is self-defense. Only you, each of you, has the ability and desire to defend himself. No other and no State entity can or will ever be your savior. Until that is accepted, expect total serfdom to become your voluntarily accepted way of life.
Much more tyranny is coming. Lockdowns, fake ‘viruses,’ bioweapons, threats and totalitarian measures based on bogus ‘climate change, central bank digital currency, social credit restrictions, more inflation, destruction of money, health mandates, curfews, travel shutdowns, food shortages, transhuman promotion, among many other atrocities, including perpetual war.
National defense is an outright lie, and can never protect you, it can only harm you. There is but one enemy, and that enemy is the State! There is but one defense against this demon called government, and that is when individuals, or individuals working together en masse, abolish all rule. The responsibility for you is you, and any dependence on government whatsoever can only lead to despair, hopelessness, disaster, and enslavement. Defend yourself from this evil State, and break the chains that bind you.
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London City Hall Tries to Put Pressure on Scientists Who Doubted Climate Policy – Report
Sputnik Global
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office tried to “silence” scientists who called into question the effectiveness of the ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) policy promoted by the head of the city, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Shirley Rodrigues, the London Mayor’s deputy for environment and energy, told in emails to Imperial College London professor Frank Kelly that she was “really disappointed” by scientists publishing results that cast doubt on the effectiveness of Ulez, the newspaper reported, adding that the corresponding complaint was sent in November 2021.
In particular, Rodrigues said that she was “deeply concerned” about the damage done to the credibility of the Mayor’s office and Ulez. In response, Kelly promised to write a Ulez-friendly report, the report added.
The report stated that since 2021, Kelly’s research group has received over 800,000 pounds ($1.018 million) from the mayor’s office. However, the publication by scientists led to a cooling in their relations with the London city hall. This, in turn, caused the reluctance of representatives of the scientific community to write any new materials about Ulez, the newspaper noted.
The Ulez initiative was first announced by then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson in 2015. Later, Khan launched an initiative that included, among other things, the installation of special traffic signs and cameras. Since 2020, the London authorities have had to spend over 850,000 pounds to rebuild infrastructure for the initiative, which has been repeatedly damaged by vandals.
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West and East Pakistan Following Partition from India
Episode 32 West and East Pakistan
A History of India
Michael Fisher (2016)
Film Review
As of 2016 (when this lecture was recorded), Pakistan had experienced only one democratic transition between democratically elected governments.
In August 1947 when India and Pakistan declared independence, Pakistan’s first governor general (Muslim League Mohammad spokesperson Ali Jinnah) envisioned Pakistan as a secular state with religious freedom. Owing to his death from tuberculosis a year later, he was unsuccessful in fully implementing this vision. At present, Pakistan is officially a Sunni Islamic state. Its current federal Shariat court has the power to override any law that conflict with its interpretation of Islamic law.
Pakistan’s Main Provinces
Punjab – had the largest population and was also Pakistan’s main agricultural area.Sindh – somewhat less important agriculturally, Sindh was dominated by the majority Urdu-speaking Muhajir community who moved from India to Sindh during partition. There they assumed ownership of wealthy Hindu lands following their expulsion during partition. Their community became the country’s first political and military hub. Its largest city Karachi became Pakistan’s first capitol.Bengal – there were were tensions between West and East Pakistan (aka Bengal province),* from the outset, especially after Jinnah declared Urdu (instead of their native Bengali) as the official language of East Pakistan.Balochistan – the largest region geographically with the richest mineral resources, including natural gas. It’s majority Baloch population has been in conflict with the Pakistani government for more than seven decades, in part because they receive no financial compensation for their rich resources and in part because Balochs in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan have been fighting for seven decades (with major support from the CIA*** and British and Indian intelligence) for their own autonomous region.Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) – Pashtun speaking Pakhtuns straddling the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are also seeking their own independent state. Historically FATA is outside Pakistani government control and govern themselves via Sharia law.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – also self governing under Sharia law. According to Fisher, the Taliban, al Qaeda and ISIS all have a major presence there.Kashmir – currently disputed. Although Pakistan only controls one-third of Kashmir (Azad Kashmir), they claim the entire province owing to its large majority of Muslim residents.Pakistan’s Heads of State
There were no direct national elections in Pakistan until 1958. The members of Pakistan’s first constituent assembly were originally elected to the Constituent Assembly of Undivided India and retained their posts following partition. Its members elected Liaquat Ali Khan Pakistan’s first prime minister, while George VI appointed Jinnah Pakistan’s first governor general.** As the constitution had yet to be written, Khan proclaimed Pakistan a Muslim society that protected minority religions. He was assassinated in 1951.
Following Khan’s assassination, Pakistan’s third governor general (Jinnah died of TB in 1948) Gulam Muhammad dismissed its Constituent Assembly and appointed himself Khan’s successor.
In 1955, Muhammad was forced out by Iskandar Ali Mirza, a retired general, who was subsequently appointed governor general by Elizabeth II. Following his implementation of Pakistan’s constitution, he was unanimously elected president by the new constituent assembly (elected indirectly by the main political parties, rather than popular vote). In 1958 he declared martial law and dismissed constitution assembly but was subsequently forced into exile by General Ayub Khan, who went on to rule Pakistan as a military dictatorship for the next 11 years.
In 1961, Khan wrote a second constitution that concentrated wealth in the hands of the elite, gave the army greater supervisory authority over government and moved the capitol to a new planned city called Islamabad. Khan also entered into a military treat with the US, under which Pakistan provided bases for U2 spy planes. In 1965, he declared war against India (over Kashmir) with US equipment against Soviet-equipped India.
Pakistan’s failure to win control over Kashmir, as well as worsening economic conditions, led to increased popular unrest and a second military coup in 1969. General Yahya Khan become president, suspended the constitution and the judicial branch of government and dissolved the constituent assembly.
The single civilian he brought into cabinet Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (who had studied in the US and at Oxford). Bhutto, who went on to create the Pakistani Peoples Party, was elected president in Pakistan’s first popular election in 1970. His party won all the seats in West Pakistan, and no seats in East Pakistan. Because East Pakistan had a much larger population, their candidate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League won the most votes overall.
After nullifying the election and dismissing the constituent assembly, Khan dispatched the Pakistani army to “restore order” in East Pakistan. In Operation Searchlight he arrested and killed large numbers of Awami League activists, while 10 million fled as refugees into India.
India would help organize the male refugees into Mukti Bahini to wage guerilla warfare against the Pakistani army. Together with the Indian army, they captured the entire Pakistani army posted to East Pakistan (100,000 troops), enabling the province to declare independence as Bangladesh.
Following Khan’s disgrace in East Pakistan, Buttho set him aside to make himself martial law administrator prior to being elected president in 1971.
*East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971.
**As a dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations, Pakistan views the British monarch as their sovereign, and all laws passed by the Parliament must receive royal assent (via the British-appointed governor general).
***The US goal was to increase their control over the Middle East and South Asia (as they did Yugoslavia). The map below was originally published in the Armed Forces journal in an article entitled Blood borders: How a better Middle East would look.
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August 19, 2023
This ‘Far-Right’ Bit is Getting Old
Commentary by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times
A great new country music song comes out, by a completely unknown performer, and takes the #1 spot in charts. The mainstream press decries the artist and song as “far-right.”
An exciting movie based on a true story of child trafficking blasts forward to earn more than the expected blockbuster. The mainstream press denounces the film as “far-right.”
An insurgent campaign in Argentina by an economist rocks the election primaries. The candidate wants to crush the central bank and level state bureaucracies that interfere with freedom. The press universally decries him as “far-right.”
Your favorite newspaper covers facts that matter with tremendous accuracy. It’s called The Epoch Times. But your social circles says this paper is “far right.”
You get the message? Anything that rocks the boat these days is called “far-right. The point of the phrase is to recall Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, maybe even Torquemada and Attila the Hun, and conjures up images of shock troops, black boots, goose stepping, and the darkest forms of intolerance and coercion.
It’s all rather strange because each of the above is not about any of that. They are about the opposite. They are calling for ending oppression, curbing government, revealing the truth behind official lies, draining the swamp, ending corruption, and restoring freedom and dignity to the people against the elites.
What in the world is this “far-right” thing the press has going on? It is designed to broadcast the message that anything that is not conventional or left-of-center is necessarily flirting with some dark interwar catastrophe. That is to say, it is a smear.
The smear is so habitual at this point that it probably can’t be stopped. No journalist gets in trouble for deploying it. It cannot be challenged with defamation law, though it probably should be.
In fact, the phrase “far-right” is so opaque, unfalsifiable, and still damaging that it is flung around with abandon by anyone threatened by the slightest change in society’s relationship to the state and its allied interest groups.
Permit me a brief examination of the roots.
If looking to the roots of right and left, historians often consider France. On the right side of the parliament sat the monarchists, established business interests, the ecclesiocrats, and champions of the Ancien Régime. On the left sat the reformers, the liberals, the free traders, the republicans, and the proponents of religious liberty.
Is this where we get the idea? Not really. America didn’t really deploy the concepts of right and left in national parlance until the 20th century. Here the influence was not France, at least not directly, but Germany, especially the 19th century political debates between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the rise of Otto von Bismarck. It was during this time, particularly in the 1880s and 90s, that U.S. elite intellectuals frequently traveled to Germany to study under the fashionable gurus of the time.
We are not talking about American popular culture but intellectual culture, a world set apart but ultimately decisively influential over the commanding heights of civilization itself. The U.S. Ivys were all invaded rather dramatically by a Prussian spirit: historicist, elitist, and thoroughly statist.
Here is where we find the origin of American Progressivism. It was a Prussian/German import. And what was German politics and philosophy about in that period? The poet of the entire German intellectual scene was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a philosopher who came to prominence in the 1820s for his forecast of the inevitable return of the German empire and the unity of society, church, and state.
At least that’s what the old Hegelians wanted, and Bismarck was their champion. They wanted a giant welfare state, a central bank, a powerful military empire, society organized as a unified family, an economically self-sufficient nation, and a state with overweening power to dominate the social order. In music, the leader was of course Richard Wagner: nationalistic, romantic, idealistic, and fundamentally statist. This was the right, or, one might say, the far-right (and yes anti-Semitism and racism were part of that).
The left was more complicated because it was split between the old liberals as represented by champions of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johannes Brahms, who had nothing to do with Hegelianism, and the rise of the Marxists, on the other. The Marxists were the successors to the French socialists who appropriated Hegel to weave into the cockamamie economics a deterministic view of history, which ended up being called dialectical materialism.
It’s a wonder this gibberish ever caught on but there is something strange about the Hegelian virus and the German academic mind. As Ludwig von Mises wrote, it utterly wrecked German academia for a century and a half. More than that, it had a profound impact on 20th-century politics. Marxism spread from Russia to China to Latin America, and Nazism engulfed Europe and painted the map brown.
Do you see where this is going? The Hegelians broke into two large branches: left for the Marxists and right for the nationalists, who ended up following Hitler to the doom of the entire project. That is a more precise way to understand the left and right as it came to be understood in the U.S. context from the turn of the 20th century and forward.
Indeed, the American Progressives were themselves split into left and right, with the left pushing great scientific planning over economic life and the right wanting to deploy national power in war and unifying society in a single familial model that forced women not to work and large-scale industry to replace agriculture.
In other words, in this parlance, left and right were both versions of statism, a basically insane confidence that experts with power, resources, and intelligence will improve the whole over what essential freedom would yield. They are two flavors of the same poison, both accusing each other of various forms of evil.
It’s always the same thing: confidence that intellectuals can outsmart everyone else in the peoples’ evaluation of their own problems, risks, issues, faith, and solutions. The heck of it is that it is never true. And this truth invalidates centuries of dangerous ideological fantasies which invalidate both left and right.
So when the media complains that people doing normal things and making justifiable complaints against the system as it is are “far-right,” what they are really confessing is their own ideological commitments. They are leftists in what they imagine to be a grand ideological struggle against the right. In this struggle, they want no one to be independent.
The tragedy comes when people take the bait. They believe that because the left is so nuts, they themselves must associate with the right. I’m telling you that none of this is necessary. You can be independent. You can reject both flavors of top-down rule.
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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/far-right-bit-getting-old
Biden Forgets to Unplug Earpiece at Press Conference
Posted BY: Kara | NwoReport
President Joe Biden convened an unprecedented trilateral summit at Camp David in Maryland, bringing together Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Following the summit, a joint press conference was held, during which Biden responded to questions while referring to his notes. Among the inquiries was one about the special counsel investigation involving his son, Hunter Biden. In response, the President declined to provide any commentary, stating, “I have no comments on any investigation that’s going on.
Biden utilized the occasion to criticize former President Trump and his “America First policies,” asserting that they had weakened the nation rather than strengthening it. However, the event took a peculiar turn as it concluded. After the press conference, Biden inadvertently left his earpiece connected, drawing attention to a potential oversight in his media interactions. Additionally, observers noted that the President departed without exchanging handshakes with his fellow summit attendees, a departure from diplomatic norms.
The trilateral summit represented a significant effort to enhance cooperation between the United States, Japan, and South Korea. While Biden’s responses during the press conference, particularly his avoidance of addressing ongoing investigations, stirred intrigue, his comments about the previous administration provided insight into his perspective on foreign policy. The incident involving the forgotten earpiece and the absence of handshakes underscored the intricate dynamics of diplomatic encounters, capturing the attention of both domestic and international audiences.
In sum, the Camp David trilateral summit marked an important step in fostering collaboration among key nations, but the press conference’s content, Biden’s comments, and his post-conference actions all contributed to the broader narrative surrounding the event.
Boeing Dreamliner Pilot Experiences Fatal Cardiac Arrest Shortly After Takeoff
Posted BY: | NwoReport
In a recent development, US Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has raised concerns about a concerning trend in the aviation industry involving individuals experiencing medical events after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. In a letter to FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen and Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup, Senator Johnson questioned the FAA’s actions in investigating cases like those of pilots Cody Flint, Hayley Lopez, Greg Pierson, Bob Snow, and Wil Wolfe, who reportedly suffered adverse events after receiving the vaccine.
The senator referred to a whistleblower who provided data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database, which indicated a notable increase in diseases and injuries among pilots across the Department of Defense over the past few years. This data raised questions about whether the FAA had observed similar increases in disease and injuries within the aviation industry.
Adding to this concern is the unfortunate incident of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner pilot who experienced a fatal cardiac arrest while aboard a commercial flight from Miami to Chile. The incident led to the diversion of Flight LA505 to Tocumen International Airport in Panama due to a medical emergency involving a crew member. Despite receiving medical assistance upon landing, the pilot tragically passed away.
These events underscore the need for thorough investigations and monitoring of health-related incidents in the aviation industry. As the concerns regarding the Covid-19 vaccine’s potential impact on pilots’ health continue to emerge, it becomes essential for aviation authorities to address these issues and ensure the safety and well-being of those working within the industry. The senator’s inquiry into these matters serves as a reminder that constant vigilance and action are required to maintain the highest aviation safety standards.
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Via https://nworeport.me/boeing-dreamliner-pilot-experiences-fatal-cardiac-arrest-shortly-after-takeoff/
August 18, 2023
Maori Party Vows to Remove New Zealand from Five Eyes Surveillance Alliance
Murray Horton
Covert Action Magazine
Increasingly Popular with the Demise of Labour Party Standard-Bearer Jacinda Ardern, the Maori Party Vows to Remove New Zealand from Five Eyes Surveillance AllianceTe Pāti Māori in New Zealand’s October 14 elections is campaigning on a genuine anti-imperialist platform and could be a significant factor in the election because of the declining fortunes of the country’s Labour Party.
Former Labour Party Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the date of the election in a January 2023 speech in which she also made the surprise announcement that she was resigning as Prime Minister, and from Parliament and politics completely (she stepped down as PM in February and from Parliament in April). She has now vanished from public life.
Ardern had been the political equivalent of a rock star when she burst on the scene in 2017 and propelled the Labour party to an election victory. Her leadership was dubbed by the media “Jacindamania.” She was seen as a hip young female antidote to right-wing dinosaurs like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro.
However, for a variety of reasons, she had gone from being her government’s greatest asset to being a liability. And her heart was no longer in it, as she wanted to spend more time with her daughter. In June 2023 her successors in Government rewarded her by anointing her as Dame Jacinda Ardern, “for services to the State.”
Ardern’s successor as Labour Party leader and, hence, Prime Minister, is Chris Hipkins, who was a senior Minister in Ardern’s Cabinet but not the Deputy Prime Minister nor the Labour Party Deputy Leader. In such circumstances, the new Leader is chosen by a vote of Labour’s Parliamentary caucus. This was academic, as Hipkins was unopposed, so the succession process was remarkably quick and harmonious (which was certainly not the case in previous Labour leadership changes). Hipkins thus took over just eight months before the election.
The historical odds are against him. In my lifetime (72 years) there have been several such unelected Prime Ministers from both rival governing parties (Labour and National). By unelected, I mean that their being Prime Minister was not endorsed by popular vote in an election won by their party. In every case, Governments headed by these unelected Prime Ministers have lost the first general election after they got the job—most recently in 2017.
New Zealand General Elections Are Fairly Prosaic AffairsHipkins wasted no time having what was dubbed “the bonfire of the policies,” dumping the more aspirational policies of Jacinda Ardern. (She became globally famous largely because of her acclaimed responses to events not of her doing, e.g., the 2019 Christchurch mosques’ massacres and the Covid pandemic. Policies that were of her doing produced much more modest or non-existent outcomes).
Hipkins proclaimed that all of his Labour Government’s efforts would be directed at “bread and butter issues,” in response to the cost-of-living crisis (one in which New Zealand is in company with the rest of the world). This is familiar territory for New Zealand elections, and one in which the Opposition National Party, a conservative party which has been in Government more than Labour during my lifetime, fancies its chances as the self-proclaimed party that can “manage the economy better.”
So far, so prosaic. A little context is in order. Since 1996 New Zealand has had a proportional representation electoral system. So, coalition Governments, headed by either National or Labour, have been the norm. Labour came to power in 2017 in coalition with a minor party (one which had been in coalition Governments with National in the 1990s and then with Labour in the 2000s).
But at the 2020 election—the Covid election—something unique happened in New Zealand’s modern political history. Labour won an outright majority, meaning that it needed no coalition partner (its 2017-20 partner was voted out of Parliament). Hundreds of thousands of National voters switched to Labour. The media quoted people as saying “I voted for Jacinda because she saved my life.”
Labour had an absolute mandate for its 2020-23 term, unheard of under a proportional representation system. It did not need any partners but it invited the Green Party Co-Leaders to be both Ministers outside Cabinet (one holds the extremely important climate change portfolio). But, despite having secured more than 50% of the 2020 election vote (something rarely ever achieved under the old “winner takes all” electoral system), the Ardern government sat on its hands, disappointing those who had voted for it expecting change.
One example: Despite the recommendations of a body that it had appointed (headed by a former Labour Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister), Ardern refused to make any changes to taxes, specifically ruling out a capital gains tax, wealth tax or inheritance tax. This was so in an economy dominated by soaring house prices, making buying a home severely unaffordable, particularly for first-home buyers. National, on the other hand, offers tax cuts as its solution to every problem.
Te Pāti Māori Breaks RanksAll indications are for an election focused on the cost of living, which is the norm. Issues like defense, foreign policy or intelligence rarely get a look in from one election to the next.
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Opinion polls have consistently picked the 2023 election to be tight (some have Labour ahead, others have National). But there will be no 50%+ mandate this year; 2020 was a one-off. And polls have consistently predicted that Te Pāti Māori will play a post-election kingmaker role in forming a coalition—but only with Labour and the Greens; National has ruled out working with it.
“We Will No Longer Act As a Pacific Spy Base for the Five Eyes Alliance”This is where it gets interesting—Te Pāti Māori is very different from its earlier Parliamentary incarnation. In February 2023 it announced its new defense, intelligence and foreign policy, which completely differentiates it from the four larger parties in Parliament: “Te Pāti Māori says a ‘transformative’ defense and foreign affairs policy will see its MPs vote against overseas military support, by New Zealand forces. Co-Leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi unveiled the neutrality policy during their Annual General Meeting…[I]f in power, they would withdraw from the Five Eyes security pact between Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the US.”
“We will no longer be a political football in the wars of imperial powers. We will no longer act as a Pacific spy base for the Five Eyes Alliance [U.S., Australia, Great Britain, Canada and New Zealand],” Waititi said. “We have determined a Māori-centric foreign policy and a Māori-centric defence policy shaped for us and by us without selling or trading our mana [authority/prestige] by just simply asserting it,” Ngarewa-Packer said.
“The Time for War, Killing and Imperialism Is Over”“Waititi said the party’s aspiration was for Aotearoa* to adopt neutrality policies similar to Switzerland. ‘In 1987 Aotearoa declared we were nuclear-free. Te Pāti Māori now declares Aotearoa must be militarily neutral, a Switzerland of the South Pacific,’ Waititi said.” [* Aotearoa is the Indigenous name for the country. It is very widely used by people of all races, in all contexts, and is the semi-official “co-name” for the country.—MH]
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“The party took heat from Ukrainian expatriates last year when Waititi claimed the Russian invasion of Ukraine was caused by the ‘politics of America, NATO, and other countries.” Ngarewa-Packer says Aotearoa should still “stand alongside indigenous peoples in their fight for their sovereignty over their own lands” and it supported the Government’s sanctions bill against Russia last year.
“The party would still fund a defence force but it would be a ‘support force for the Pacific, for our Polynesian world,’ and to tackle civil defence emergencies,” according to Ngarewa-Packer. ‘With the extreme weather events of the past few weeks [i.e., major floods and a very destructive cyclone (MH)], we’ve seen just how important it is that our defence force is focused on responding to threats to our own people,” she said.
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Demand for Military NeutralityTe Pāti Māori President John Tamihere spelled out the party’s conditions for being a coalition partner in a May 2023 mainstream media interview: “And the one which will scare lots of horses is his demand for military neutrality. This, he says, means ‘being a friend to everyone and an enemy to no-one,’ and acting only to defend our own territory and act as a peacekeeper, but no longer being part of the Five Eyes spying compact with the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia, or, in his eyes, kowtowing to Australia’s military decisions.”
“And the Chinese? He’s got no problems there. They are a good trading partner; he wants Huawei here to provide telecoms competition (he has a thing about the cost of duopolies on the working man); doesn’t worry about them spying given how the whistleblower Edward Snowden showed how the CIA has a propensity to spy just as much on its friends as its enemies.”
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As a post-script: there was one very recent New Zealand election, 2014, where spying was a campaign issue. Here is a very brief summary. A German-American billionaire, Kim Dotcom, came to New Zealand in 2010 under a fast track immigration “investor plus” immigration scheme (someone who had invested $NZ10 million in NZ). His company, Megaupload, was a leading player during the file-sharing phase of the Internet. But the U.S. tech moguls of the time cried foul, claiming that Megaupload was just one big copyright violation.
They wanted to get Dotcom, and the U.S. government went after him. In 2012 New Zealand’s very obliging National Government mounted a spectacular U.S.-style police raid (using the anti-terrorism Special Tactics Group, involving 76 cops and two helicopters) on Dotcom’s multi-million-dollar rental mansion. Dotcom and several of his Megaupload executives faced extradition proceedings to answer the U.S. indictments.
This is where it gets interesting. During the court proceedings it was let slip by the police that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), New Zealand’s partner agency in Five Eyes, had been spying on Dotcom in the lead-up to the police raid. By law the GCSB was not allowed to spy on New Zealand citizens or permanent residents (Dotcom was a permanent resident). The then-Prime Minister, John Key, publicly apologized to Dotcom in 2012.
But did the Government punish the GCSB for its crime? No, it rewarded the criminals and changed the law to make it legal for the GCSB to spy on New Zealanders. In 2013 tens of thousands of people marched against the GCSB Bill but it sneaked into law by the narrowest of margins. At the 2014 election Dotcom founded his own political party and formed an alliance with an existing party which already had one MP in Parliament.
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Some Pfizer Vaccines Were Contaminated — What Does That Mean for Millions Who Got the Jab?
By Julie Sladden and Julian GillespieBrownstone Institute Multiple internationally recognized laboratories confirmed the findings of Kevin McKernan, a microbiologist and former team leader for the Human Genome Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that some Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccines were contaminated.
The alarming discovery by scientist Kevin McKernan, et al., of DNA contamination in vials of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has raised significant concern in the scientific community.
Meanwhile, the reported finding has attracted criticism from those quick to “demonize” anyone questioning the safety, efficacy and sanctity of the “vaccines.”
McKernan’s detractors — and there have been plenty of them — have criticized everything from lack of peer-reviewed publication to speculation about the viability of the anonymously sent vials.
Now, don’t get me wrong. Criticism and open debate in scientific inquiry are good things. After three years of censorship and stifled debate in science and medicine, one thing is patently clear: Freedom of speech is paramount to the truth.
Let’s be clear on another thing. The peer-review system is essentially broken. The same players with vested interests in the pharmaceutical industry curiously have the same influence on the research and publication industry.
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This, then was the motivation behind publishing the results online with a call to action for scientists in the field to independently verify the results.
Answer the call they did. McKernan’s results — for the Pfizer product (BNT162b2) — have now been independently verified by a number of internationally recognized laboratories confirming both the presence and levels of DNA contamination across different vials and batches.
So, in asking the question “Is the result reproducible?” the answer (for the Pfizer product BNT162b2 at least) is “Yes.” The contamination is real. These results now lead us to ask some other questions which hang heavily in the air.
Questions like, “How bad is the contamination?”, “What are the regulatory authorities doing about it?” and — the question on everyone’s lips — “What does this mean for the billions who took the jab?”
These questions deserve answers.
So, how bad is the contamination? There are two things to consider here. Firstly, what are the levels of contamination and secondly what are the components of the contamination?
As previously reported, levels of DNA contamination in the Pfizer BNT162b2 product came in around 18-70 times over the limits set by regulatory authorities. These levels of contamination have also been confirmed independently.
To put some perspective on these numbers McKernan explains in terms of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for COVID-19:
“You were probably swabbed with one of those nasal swabs to get a Covid PCR. You would be called positive of a CT (cycle threshold) under 40. We’re getting CTs under 20 with the contamination of the vaccine.
“That’s a million-fold more contamination than you would be called positive for having a virus. Now, the virus they’re swabbing is outside of your mucosal membrane in your nose.
“We’re talking about a contaminant that’s getting injected, bypassing your mucosal defences at a million-fold higher concentrations…There’s an enormous difference here in terms of the amount of material it’s in there.”
The manufacturing process, as discussed in a recent BMJ article, points to how DNA contamination may have occurred. The clinical trials were run using “Process 1” which involved in vitro transcription of synthetic DNA — essentially a “clean” process.
However, this process is not viable for mass production, so the manufacturers switched to “Process 2” to dial things up. Process 2 involves using E. coli bacteria to replicate the plasmids.
Getting the plasmids out of the E coli. can be challenging and result in residual plasmids in the vaccines. But there’s another concern.
When plasmid contamination is found, there is a potential for bacterial endotoxin to also be present. This endotoxin can produce serious side effects if injected including anaphylaxis and septic shock.
Australian professor Geoff Pain remains most vocal providing extensive details on these endotoxins.
Sequencing of the plasmids from the Pfizer vials resulted in another “accidental” discovery. Something was found that wasn’t in the sequence map disclosed by Pfizer to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This something is called an SV40 promoter.
The SV40 promoter is a sequence that turns on gene expression, like a switch. It is also a potent nuclear localization signal, meaning it makes a beeline for the nucleus.
The entire SV40 genetic sequence came to infamous prominence in the 1960s having been found to have polluted the Salk polio vaccine, causing a subsequent surge in cancers. We’ll return to the concerning significance of the SV40 promoter sequence in a moment.
Subsequent experiments suggest that most of the DNA contamination is fragmented, which is by no means benign. McKernan states:
“Much of the DNA is actually linear because they do go through a step trying to fragment this and (linear DNA) has a higher propensity for integration than circular plasmid DNA.”
It seems that a significant amount of the DNA is in this form and presents a greater risk to humans in terms of risk for integration into the genome, than the circular DNA.
To make matters worse — as if things could get any worse — it appears that much of the DNA is packaged in the lipid nanoparticles (LNP).
“If the DNA is actually in the LNPs, we have different risks, as… this will then transfect the mammalian cells and become a genetic alteration. Now, whether it integrates with the genome is secondary, the fact that you’re getting foreign DNA into the cell is a risk in and of itself, because it could partially get expressed, or it could muddle around with other transcription, translation machinery that’s in there,” McKernan explains.
Let’s recap. We have DNA, which is mostly packaged in LNP and designed to travel all over the body and enter cells, delivering its genetic cargo like a trojan horse.
Some of this DNA may contain the SV40 promoter sequence — the one known to make a beeline to the nucleus and turn on gene expression.
McKernan states an obvious concern:
“If (the SV40 promoter) becomes integrated into the genome it will turn on gene expression wherever it lands. If this happens to be an oncogene (a cancer-causing gene), you’ve got problems.”
This dear reader, is only one of the many possible adverse effects of injecting synthetic DNA into humans.
The scientific literature acknowledges the potential for foreign/synthetic DNA alone to be oncogenic (cancer-causing), infectious and prothrombotic.
In addition, genomic integration of a viral promoter like SV40 can contribute to cancer and is well known to cause leukemia in gene therapy trials.
You can see why scientists are alarmed. These concerns were presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 16. What have they done with this information you ask? Probably filed it in a box somewhere in a deep dark warehouse between the words “conspicuous” and “conspire” is my guess.
When we consider the above it is clear why strict legal rules exist in the field of genetic science especially where humans are involved.
Rules designed to (actually) keep people safe from the potential known and unknown consequences of messing with the genetic integrity of human life.
Which brings us to the next question, “What are the regulatory authorities doing about it?”
From what we can tell, nothing.
The independently verified contamination alone heralds a serious quality control issue that behooves immediate attention from the likes of the FDA, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the EMA.
Combined with significant adverse event data and climbing excess mortality rates around the world these shots should have been pulled over two years ago. Indeed, we would postulate they should never have been approved.
This unfolding story is by no means over. Serious questions have been raised asking whether these products, which have been injected into billions around the world, were approved illegally.
The disturbing revelation was raised in a recent landmark publication by one of the authors. It appears that even without DNA contamination “the so-called ‘vaccines,’ from the beginning fulfilled the legal definitions for being categorized as genetically modified organisms [GMOs].”
They, therefore, required GMO licenses. It would appear those licenses are missing.
The Australian Federal Court is being asked to consider this issue in proceedings recently filed under the Gene Technology Act against Pfizer and Moderna.
Australia’s TGA and the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator were thoroughly informed of the GMO and synthetic DNA contamination by the lawyers responsible, but neither office has bothered to reply nor comment.
In a statement to the press, instructing solicitor Katie Ashby-Koppens says:
“We took this case on because neither of the appropriate regulators were doing anything about it.
“The Therapeutic Goods Administration and Office of the Gene Technology Regulator were both put on notice in 2022 that these products contain GMOs and they have failed to act. It has been left to citizens to do what the Australian Government won’t do.
“Every single person who has been injected with these products has received a GMO that has not been through the expert regulatory process in this country. The human genome could be changed permanently, and no one was informed.”
If all this bares out, at best the regulatory bodies have failed in their duty to protect the people. At worst, they have been complicit in a crime with consequences for the world’s population and generations to come.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-covid-vaccine-contaminated-gmo/
U.S. Ramps Up Battle to Force GMO Corn on Mexico
By Common DreamsAfter two-and-a-half months of failed negotiations, the U.S. government on Thursday intensified its effort to quash Mexico’s limits on genetically modified corn imports by calling for the formation of a dispute settlement panel under a North American trade deal.
After two-and-a-half months of failed negotiations, the U.S. government on Thursday intensified its effort to quash Mexico’s limits on genetically modified (GM) corn imports by calling for the formation of a dispute settlement panel under a North American trade deal.
In a 2020 decree backed by agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health and worker groups, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced plans to phase out GM corn and the herbicide glyphosate by January 2024.
Under pressure from the U.S. government and impacted industries, he issued a new decree in February reiterating plans to block GM corn imports for human consumption by then but lifting the deadline for imports intended for livestock feed and industrial use.
While AMLO’s move was seen as a concession to the U.S. and lobbyists challenging his policies, the Biden administration in June still requested 75 days of formal negotiations.
After talks ended Wednesday, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai confirmed the decision to form a panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“Through the USMCA dispute panel, we seek to resolve our concerns and help ensure consumers can continue to access safe and affordable food and agricultural products,” Tai said Thursday.
Tai continued:
“It is critical that Mexico eliminate its USMCA-inconsistent biotechnology measures so that American farmers can continue to access the Mexican market and use innovative tools to respond to climate and food security challenges.
“Our bilateral relationship with Mexico, one of our oldest and strongest trading partners, is rooted in trust and honesty, and there are many areas where we will continue to cooperate and work together.”
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack similarly said that “Mexico’s approach to biotechnology is not based on science” and “the United States is continuing to exercise its rights under the USMCA to ensure that U.S. producers and exporters have full and fair access to the Mexican market.”
The Mexican Ministry of Economy responded in a statement that “Mexico does not agree with the position of the United States” and “is prepared to defend the Mexican position before this international panel and demonstrate: 1) that the national regulation is consistent with the commitments signed in the treaty; and 2) that the challenged measures do not have commercial effects.”
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has previously supported Mexico’s efforts to phase out GM corn and glyphosate and on Thursday challenged claims by U.S. officials and agribusiness about Mexican obligations under the treaty and the potential economic impact of the policies.
“U.S. agribusiness exporters, the biotech industry, and their allies in Congress are pushing this case, intent on compelling Mexico to accept U.S. exports without debate. It is an assault on Mexico’s food sovereignty,” said Karen Hansen-Kuhn, IATP director of trade and international strategies.
She continued:
“Trade rules should provide a forum to protect and advance rights, rather than block them.”
Hansen-Kuhn on Thursday authored an op-ed about Mexico’s rights under the USMCA while ITAP senior adviser Timothy A. Wise wrote about “exaggerated claims of economic damage” that “sprang from a convenient set of assumptions, all of which are flawed and now outdated in light of the more recent presidential decree.”
“As Mexican Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro stated in response to the USTR request for technical consultations, Mexico’s decree is based on science, and she will challenge the U.S. government in the consultations to show ‘quantitatively, with numbers, something that has not occurred: that the corn decree has commercially affected U.S. exporters,’” Wise also said.
“The Mexican government will show what has occurred: Its cherished tortillas are being contaminated with glyphosate and GM corn,” he continued. “And they intend to put a stop to that.”
As Reuters detailed Thursday:
“Under USMCA’s dispute settlement rules, a five-person panel, chosen from a roster of pre-approved experts, must be convened within 30 days, with a chair jointly chosen and the U.S. side choosing two Mexican panelists and Mexico choosing two American panelists. The panel will review testimony and written submissions and its initial report is due 150 days after the panel is convened.
“Previous USMCA dispute panels last year ruled in the U.S.’s favor in a dispute over Canadian dairy quotas, and against the U.S. on automotive rules of origin, siding with Mexico and Canada.
“There have been other disagreements between the U.S. and Mexico, most notably over energy in which the U.S. has argued that Mexico’s nationalist policy prejudices foreign companies.”
Arturo Sarukhán, a former Mexican ambassador to the U.S., said on social media Thursday that “of the two consultation processes — energy and yellow corn — this is the one that is politically most relevant for the White House in 2024,” given the significance of agricultural states such as Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin to Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection, and the Republican nominee, which could be former President Donald Trump, who signed the USMCA.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-states-force-gmo-corn-mexico-cd/
Mikki Willis on the Maui Fires
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Theories are spreading online that the devastating fires on Maui allegedly started “too suddenly” and “burned too harshly” to be classified as a natural wildfire. The general consensus among Maui locals is that these deadly fires were not a natural disaster, but a deliberate act.
As we all seek the truth, it’s important to stay grounded in facts and reality. Here are some details worth contemplating:
A viral video suggests that it depicts lasers setting fires to Maui… is actually a video of a transformer exploding in Chile.The head of the Maui Emergency Management resigned just one day after he defended his decision of not deploying evacuation sirens.Cell communications went down.While the fires were raging, the water supply was turned off, leaving residents and firefighters unable to save businesses, homes, and lives.Citizen-chartered boats on course to rescue residents were turned away.Maui’s Police Chief also oversaw the controversial Las Vegas massacre in 2017.President Biden offered only $700 in emergency assistance per Maui household the same week he allocated another 24 billion dollars to Ukraine.The World Economic Forum was spearheading a plan to use Maui as a prototype for AI-controlled clean energy.In January 2023, a conference held in Maui focused on transforming the entire island into a “15-minute smart city.”Real estate developers have been pushing hard to acquire Lahaina. Indigenous locals have denied every offer to sell their sacred land.Only time will tell what really happened on the beloved island of Maui. Do technologies exist that could be responsible for these fatal fires? Yes, they do. Are there people heartless enough to orchestrate such an unthinkable act of mass murder? Unfortunately, there are. Man-made catastrophes – which often present similar signs as these tragic fires – occur more often than any of us would like to believe.
To better understand the dark motivation to destroy American properties, see this clip from The Great Awakening:
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