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Feds Arrest Sam Bankman-Fried to Prevent Him Testifying to Congress

NC Renegade

SBF of the FTX political funding scandal is about to be deader than a doornail if they have their way.

The man was set to testify tomorrow before the House Financial Services Committee, and now has suddenly been apprehended by police in the Bahamas at the request of the US Gov’s SDNY office.

This means that he will be held in the Bahamas until a formal extradition request is made to transfer, and will eliminate his testimony before the GOP from taking place.
This should be illegal, and is in fact illegal to infringe upon a witness in a crime or suspect in a crime from appearing before congress by abuse of law.

Under 18 U.S.C. 1505

As amended by the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, the prohibitions contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1505 are limited to: (1) obstructions of process issued under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1311-14, and under that section’s omnibus clause, and (2) obstructions pertaining to pending proceedings before Congress and Federal departments and agencies. Tampering with witnesses and retaliating against witnesses and parties in connection with administrative or legislative proceedings are offenses now covered by 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512 (tampering) and 1513 (retaliation).

Effectively, Attempting to use the law to obstruct the law and prevent witness testimony, is in fact a violation of the law.

Will anyone hold them accountable before SBF ends up on ice, is the only question.

Via https://ncrenegade.com/guess-who-the-deep-states-next-victim-will-be/

Banks Freeze Funds of Pro-Free Speech Video Platorm Bitchute

 

Ray Vahey – BitChute Founder and Chief Executive

Two years ago, BitChute became the target of an activist group that attempted to shut us down by pressuring our suppliers. As a result, we lost some server hosting, our office space, and other suppliers. We also lost our bank account with HSBC. A bank account we had held in good standing and without any issues since we launched in 2017.

We initially tried to open a new account with a different bank and transfer our money. However, the new bank rejected us just as the funds had reached them. Our money was returned to HSBC, but we could no longer access it, and even today, we still have not retrieved our money from HSBC.

In August 2021, after failing to get a resolution through the HSBC complaints process, we requested arbitration through the UK’s banking Ombudsman. We were informed of a long wait due to Covid, which had resulted in many bank-related problems for businesses. It wouldn’t be until November 2022 that our case would be assigned. 

Since arbitration started we have provided many details including the bank account where HSBC could send our money. Within a week of handing over that information, that new bank account was suspended without notice. We informed the Ombudsman that we do not want to give HSBC additional bank accounts and prefer any transfer from HSBC use a third party such as escrow, even a bag of cash would do. A necessary action that will likely lengthen the process.

It’s happening again…

That happened 19 days ago, and we still have not been able to get our money from that bank even though we have informed them that we need it urgently to pay bills. It’s not clear for what reason they are keeping it.

Now, nearly at the end of 2022, two different banks have our money, HSBC has held it for almost two years.

About us

BitChute is a politically neutral company that has a diverse community in interests and backgrounds. We require that users only upload legal content that complies with our terms and community guidelines, and we have a team of support staff that ensure that is the case.

BitChute is pro freedom of expression, a universal human right. Furthermore, censorship and deplatforming are poor ways to tackle societal problems as they merely create echo chambers that can lead to bigger problems in the long run. It is important to allow people to express all ideas as this exposes them to immediate opposition and allows for a public deconstruction of any flaws they may contain. If you are against bigotry or racism or hateful ideologies, you should be for freedom of expression.

“Reputational risk”

In recent years financial institutions have been using “reputational risk” to stealthily engage in political discrimination. If a financial institution takes action against a lawful company for its commitment to freedom of expression, that should be a very real reputational and material risk for the financial institution.

The idea that people or companies can be excluded from the monetary system and have their assets frozen over an opinion or lawful actions is despicable. This discrimination must be wholeheartedly rejected if we are to keep free and open societies.

Please spread the word about the unfairness of this, and share this anywhere you can. Let content creators know this is a worthy topic for a video. If you would like to contact HSBC about this or for any reason you can find their contact details here: https://www.hsbc.co.uk/contact/

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Via https://www.givesendgo.com/bitchute

February 2022: New Zealand Freedom Convoy and Occupation

We Came Here for Freedom Part 1

Directed by Alistair Harding

Film Review

This documentary records New Zealand’s three-week occupation of the parliament lawn in Wellington in February 2022. Part1 begins with personal testimonies of protestors explaining their reasons for being there. Many were teachers and health workers fired in November 2021 for refusing to be vaccinated. Far from being a “small fringe minority, as portrayed by government and media, they came from all walks of life.

Next the film replays footage of the thousands of supporters who cheered the Freedom Convoys on as they made their way through the North and South Island to converge on Wellington. It ends with the first failed attempt by the Wellington police to disperse the legal* occupation.

Determined to retain in the tent city they built on Parliament grounds, the protestors pledged not to disperse until representatives of the government 1) came out to speak to them and 2) ended the vaccine mandates for teachers and health, border and prison workers.

When a police line showed up to expel them, they lined up and peacefully locked arms to protect the encampment from police. Despite heavy pushing and shoving, the police failed to provoke a violent reaction or to break through the protestors’ line. Recognizing they were greatly outnumbered, they made a few random arrests, manhandled a few protestors and eventually withdrew.

The failed police confrontation would backfire, prompting thousands more Kiwis to head for Wellington to join the occupation.** As the event was livestreamed on social media, the confrontation was also an eye opener for thousands of others who previously trusted the mainstream media (which consistently portrayed the protestors as fringe right wing violent racists) to accurately report the news.

*According to lawyer Sue Grey, it’s illegal to “trespass” protestors on Parliament grounds because peaceful protest is guaranteed by the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

**I assume Part 2 will cover the second police raid, conducted by cops who were especially “recruited” (for their willingness to crack a few skulls?) from around New Zealand.

 

Vote Fraud Evidence from Maricopa County Lawsuit

Jim Hoft

Gateway Pundit

On Friday afternoon Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake filed a lawsuit to nullify the 2022 midterm election results for the governor’s race in the state of Arizona.

Attorney Kurt Olsen told The Gateway Pundit, “We have put forward evidence that unquestionably shows that this election was stolen with illegal votes and likely fraudulent votes.”

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Never in US history has there been so much evidence compiled of a fraudulent election taking place.

According to the filing, the number of illegal votes cast in Arizona’s general election on November 8, 2022, far exceeds the 17,117 vote margin between Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, certified at the official state canvass on December 5, 2022. Witnesses who were present at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (“MCTEC”), Runbeck Election Services (“Runbeck”), and a multitude of Maricopa County vote centers, as well as other facts meticulously gathered, show hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County.

More from the filing: Maricopa County’s public statements concerning remaining ballots to be counted on November 9, 2022, and November 10, 2022, show an increase of approximately 25,000 votes with no explanation of why the number of remaining ballots could increase.

Maricopa County officials also permitted the counting of tens of thousands of mail-in and drop-box ballots that did not satisfy signature verification requirements.

Here is an example of a certified signature on an Arizona mail-in ballot from the filing.

The remedy for illegal absentee ballots is either to set aside the election under Miller, 179 Ariz. at 180, or proportionately to reduce each candidate’s share of mail-in ballots under Grounds, 67 Ariz. at 183-85.

On Sunday The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and Joe Hoft interviewed Kari Lake’s attorney Kurt Olsen.

Kurt Olsen is very optimistic with this court filing, telling The Gateway Pundit

“Jim, we are very confident about this lawsuit in terms of the evidence and the proof that we have submitted, what we have put forwarded in this complaint with sworn testimony, expert declarations, the actual evidence, for example, of the chain of custody forms that were not produced. And so we can document the failures there, there are images that show the signatures that are both on file and with the state that are used as the control, signature versus signatures on the ballot envelopes for 2020, all of these things that we can document. This is not a case that’s pled largely on information and belief. It’s pled on actual facts and proof that we are prepared to present at trial right away.”

The lawsuit included witnesses from the ballot counting operations.

Kurt Olsen told us the county has numerous witnesses who have stepped forward

“Many, many, many people came together to give their heart and soul to put together the evidence that’s in this complaint. We have employees of MTEC that have given their testimony about what goes on in signature verification or what does not go on as well, which were violations of the law. We have a whistleblower from Runbeck (the Arizona ballot printing company used in the ballot processing process). We have other poll workers and so forth who observed and gave sworn testimony about their observations.”

Attorney Olsen also says another issue that is blowing up right now with Elon Musk at Twitter is the partnership between DHS and other federal agencies to censor Americans and conservative political opponents/

“We have pled and we have direct evidence that Katie Hobbs and Stephen Richer, the Recorder in Maricopa County, were participating in what was called an election misinformation reporting portal. And that’s basically a censorship operation on steroids. We have two examples where Katie Hobbs office would flag. One was a private Facebook post, according to the other was a Twitter post. They would send an email to what the government helpfully set up, which was called misinformation@cissecurity.org, and then CIS and CISA would take that and immediately funnel that to top-level officials at Twitter, and those posts would be removed within hours. And I have been told that there are hundreds of thousands of these requests that are out there… That’s nationwide. But this was a portal and an operation. It was a secret censorship operation that was set up. It became operational around June of 2020, and it was designed for state and local election officials to basically censor content they disagreed with or they did not like.”

Kurt Olsen believes several arguments in the case are very strong. Kurt told us, “There is not one single point that I think is weaker than the other because we were very conservative with what we put into this complaint, what we can prove, and each point is outcome determinative.”

Here is the full interview with Attorney Kurt Olsen.

Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tgps-jim-joe-hoft-interview-kurt-olsen-attorney-kari-lake/

Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion

Nash Landesman

The GrayZone

Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments.

HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS –– The Netherlands is a patchwork of quaint towns and cities interwoven with flat expanses of immaculately-kept green agricultural pasture. The road and rail infrastructure are near-flawless. You could search for weeks without finding a pothole. It is one of the most expensive countries in the world, and makes some of the best steak, cheese, yogurt and milk on the planet. The land is fertile, valuable, and strategically located with easy access to the north Atlantic coast.

So, for these reasons and more, legions of committees composed of unelected, largely unknown figures serving on the boards of an interwoven network of even lesser known private and multilateral bodies, insists on seizing it all, on account of saving the planet from its deadliest enemy: man himself. Their target: the Dutch farmer. “They are slowly killing us with regulation,” one farmer told The Grayzone. It is death by a thousand paper-cuts, or The Art of War by the modern technocrat.

First, some background: Holland exports the most food on earth, behind only America, on a landmass roughly the size of Indiana. Farmers the world over come to study Dutch techniques. The country embraces what’s known as the Mansholt theory—a philosophy of ensuring food security and self-sufficiency that emerged from the second world war as a response to Nazi-imposed famine. To stave-off a similar tragedy, Dutch agriculture embraces the Haber-Bosch process, a method of infusing fertilizer with nitrogen to increase yield efficiency. Invented in the early 1900s by a pair of Nobel Prize-winning chemists, Haber-Bosch is responsible for the existence of half the world’s population today (and is known in Malthusian circles as “the detonator of the population explosion”), thanks to its ability to grow more food on less land.

But now global bodies like the World Bank’s “Climate Smart Agriculture” program, the UN’s “protected area initiatives,” the European Commission and armies of well-funded NGO’s are executing a wholly-comprehensive platform targeting Dutch farmers — restricting both organic and artificial fertilizer use — while asserting “biodiversity protection” as the pretext for snatching land from the productive.

Dutch farmers, in protest, have driven tractors to the Hague, tossed flaming trash onto the roads and sprayed manure across government buildings.

It’s worth reemphasizing that the Dutch government is carrying out the same radical experiment conducted in Sri Lanka earlier this year — eliminating nitrogen-based fertilizer, the basis of modern survival. In the southeast Asian country, it led to a famine that toppled the government. The Sri Lankan “disaster” fronted a simple premise: replace something with nothing. And to eliminate Russian gas from the geopolitical scene. The Colombo declaration, signed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2019, celebrated the end of food security and sovereignty, offering in its place a model for import-dependency and agricultural destruction now being imposed on the Dutch.

“They are sweeping the culture from the land,” says Sieta Van Keimpema, a sturdy 6-foot Dutchwoman in her 50s with short, wavy black hair. She is head of the European Milk Board, and leader of the Dutch farmers’ de-facto political arm, Farmer’s Defense Force (FDF).

“Our government has made laws and laws that put us in a corner that you cannot come back from,” she says. “If people cannot put food on the table you get riots. You get an unstable society. I don’t see the benefits to this.”

Her group, Farmer’s Defense Force, is characterized as vigilante populist heroes by some; and as troublemakers responsible for sparking the protests by others. FDF originated after environmental activists, Meat the Victims, forcefully occupied a pig farm in a small Dutch town in 2019. Instead of taking action, police sent in negotiators, prolonging the ordeal. FDF subsequently created a “Bat Signal” whereby farmers can call on a special WhatsApp group to rally others to come to the rescue.

When they aren’t producing food, members can be found battling Brussels or butting heads in the Hague. “We have a government spending 25 billion euros to reduce agricultural production,” Sieta says, confirming official policy. According to heavily-redacted European Commission documents, the goal is “terminating farms” through overregulation, deploying mandatory buyouts if necessary.

Official justifications are not up for debate. Take some of the most insulting regulations, made in the name of “flood prevention,” a puzzle the Dutch have solved since the country’s inception, erecting dykes, walls, levies and canals to build a civilization out of the oceans (as half of Holland lies below sea-level). In its green manifesto, the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency preaches that “more radical policies are needed, particularly for flood protection…The main emphasis is on the planet dimension…a Netherlands that is more sustainable and Future-Proof.” Accordingly, some computer models predict “with 80% certainty” a sea-level rise of 20 meters within the next century, after having risen 2 cm across the last one.

A related justification is that nitrogen leakage caused by agriculture makes Dutch tap water undrinkable, and so farming must be eliminated. The reality is that Holland’s tap water was awarded second best on the continent by the European Water Awards; behind Austria, in a debatable placement. Dutch drinking water is so crisp and clean, it almost makes Evian taste like toilet sludge. The real problem: Holland is 50% composed of mostly independently-owned agricultural operations, and they occupy prime real-estate.

The Dutch environmental report further seems to justify what many have been speculating: “The inflow of foreign migrants [caused in no small part by U.S. wars] feeds the need for expansion,” calling for the elimination of 300,000 hectares of farmland between now and 2040. This will be initiated by “the conversion of agricultural land into nature conservation areas,” without irony. Additionally, rich people need second homes, since “it is assumed that families with a high income will opt to live in green areas. Dutch households display a marked preference for single-family homes with a garden. The Dutch concept of the ideal home will shift, possibly in the direction of ‘gated communities’, [and] more second home ownership.”

To nobody’s surprise, housing developers subsidized by the government and working with the Society for Preservation of Nature Monuments in the Netherlands, have already begun to erect houses in “protected areas,” on lands wrested from farmers. 

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Via https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/08/dutch-farmers-technocratic-plan/

 

Processed Food is the Real “Pandemic” and the Government Couldn’t Care Less About It

Dr Eddy Betterman

The government and media made much ado about nothing concerning the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) as they together destroyed society to keep people “safe” from a “virus” that has never even been proven to exist. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people die every single year from eating processed food and nobody in a position of power says a word.

New research published in the journal JAMA Network says that between 280,000 and 325,000 people, depending on which datasets are used, die annually from obesity caused by a “really dangerous ‘virus’ that’s impacting everyone.” That “virus,” the study explains, is “highly addictive high-carb and sugary processed foods that are making everyone fat, lazy, and riddled with diseases.”

Another paper published by the National Math Foundation cites World Health Organization (WHO) data warning that obesity is on the rise, perhaps most notably among children.

“The obesity epidemic has extended from the general populace to our nation’s children,” that research explains. “Administrators, health officials, and politicians have already joined forces to combat what has been termed a ‘crisis proportion’ of childhood obesity.”

“Research has resulted in numerous community-based interventions, but progress is slow and resources limited. In combination, obesity and math illiteracy each pose a threat to the future of the United States and its principal resource – children.” (Related: Remember in 2017 when quack “scientists” declared that global warming, not processed food, causes diabetes?)

Grow and raise your own food and stop the chemical poisoning of you and your family

Yet another study out of Brazil highlights that “ultra-processed food consumption” is responsible for a 28 percent fast global rate of cognitive decline, as well as a 25 percent faster rate of decline in executive function, meaning mental skills needed every day to work, learn, and manage daily life.

The very same government officials who wanted you masked and “vaccinated” to “protect” you from a fictitious airborne virus are the ones responsible for allowing the use of toxic chemicals, preservatives, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the things people eat that are destroying their bodies and lives.

Does it make any sense to you? Of course not. The reason is because none of this is about protecting anyone from anything – except the globalists, of course, who are trying to protect themselves from you by terrorizing you with fake “pandemics” and force-feeding you engineered poison to destroy your health.

Interestingly, cognitive decline is on the rise throughout the developed West, including in the United States where the number of people expected to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia is expected to more than double by the year 2050.

In the Brazilian study, one group of people was fed unprocessed or minimally processed food while the other was fed common American food items like canned meat, processed cheese, and nutrient-stripped bread. A third group was also fed “ultra-processed foods,” meaning the worst of the worst nutritionally.

Rates of cognitive decline were, of course, worst in the latter group, while they were far less in the healthiest group. It turns out that eating food the way nature intended is optimal for one’s health.

“Despite the comprehensive studies showing how highly addictive processed foods are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans per year and are now linked to dementia, our government remains suspiciously quiet and unaffected by this ongoing deadly ‘pandemic,’” reported Revolver about these studies.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2022/12/12/processed-food-real-pandemic-government-couldnt-care-less-about-it/

Twitter’s Chief Censor Met Weekly With US Intelligence Officials While Trump Was In Office

By John Hugh DeMastri

Daily Caller

Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, had weekly meetings with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) at least as far back as 2020, when former President Donald Trump was still in office, internal communications between Twitter staff obtained by journalist Matt Taibbi Friday reveal.

Yoel participated in one such weekly meeting shortly after the company’s moderation team was thrown into a crisis following its decision to suppress an October 2020 New York Post story concerning a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, according to Taibbi. Roth appeared to explicitly ask the government officials in the meeting to “share anything useful” concerning the laptop story, but they apparently declined to do so.

“We blocked the NYP story, then we unblocked it (but said the opposite), then we said we unblocked it… and now we’re in a messy situation where our policy is in shambles, comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots, and we’re refactoring an exceedingly complex policy 18 days out from the election. In short [fuck my life],” Roth apparently wrote in an internal message, Taibbi reported. “Weekly sync with FBI/DHS/DNI re: election security. The meeting happened about 15 minutes after the aforementioned Hacked Materials implosion; the government declined to share anything useful when asked.”

19. Pickles quickly asks if they could “just say “partnerships.” After a pause, he says, “e.g. not sure we’d describe the FBI/DHS as experts.” pic.twitter.com/d3EaYJb5eR

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

Roth’s weekly meetings with government officials may have involved separate meetings, with not all agencies present, Taibbi reported. “I have to miss the FBI and DHS meetings today, unfortunately,” Roth wrote to a Twitter staffer, indicating that the two agencies may not have been scheduled to meet with him at once.

The FBI also reported tweets to Twitter, one of which former Republican Councilor John Basham of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, posted, which alleged that “Between 2% & 25% Of Ballots By Mail Are Being REJECTED For Errors!” according to Taibbi. After deliberation, the team applied a “Learn how voting is safe and secure” label to Bashman’s tweet at Roth’s discretion, with one employee noting internally “it’s totally normal to have a 2% error rate,” Taibbi reported.

Another FBI-reported tweet was related to allegations that mail in ballots were being subjected to “shredding,” that had been “proven to be false,” according to one Twitter employee, citing a PolitiFact article, and requested “a moment” for the team to take action on it, Taibbi reported. Taibbi did not indicate whether or not the company took action on this particular tweet.

“Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally,” Taibbi tweeted. “We looked. They may exist: we were told they do. However, they were absent here.”

Via https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/09/chief-twitter-censor-weekly-fbi-meetings/

Investment Giant Vanguard Quits Net-Zero Climate Alliance

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By Rachel Koning Beals
Market Watch

Vanguard, the world’s second largest mutual-fund and exchange-traded-fund manager, is pulling out of a major financial-sector alliance intended to help tackle climate change, the firm announced Wednesday.

Vanguard, in a statement, said it will track its progress independent of the alliance, as an effort to provide “clarity” to its investors.

Some environmental groups who follow pledges toward net-zero greenhouse emissions from the lifeblood of the economy — the financial services and banking sector — called the exit a major blow to the effort. These groups argued that such a move is kowtowing to “anti-woke” sentiment that claims investments focused on the impending clean-energy transition and other pro-climate actions only come at the expense of investment returns.

The alliance, called the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), was launched in late 2020 to encourage asset managers to hit a net-zero emission target by 2050 and help keep a rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That’s a voluntary temperature goal agreed to at the pivotal 2015 Paris climate meetings and is seen as the marker key to slowing atmospheric warming, calming acidifying oceans, preventing coastal erosion, and limiting severe droughts and other deadly and expensive environmental changes.

Plus, the NZAM pact ostensibly means that members would have to be more transparent and align goals within the peer group, its proponents argue.

“We have decided to withdraw from NZAM so that we can provide the clarity our investors desire about the role of index funds and about how we think about material risks, including climate-related risks,” Vanguard said in a statement on its website.

“Such industry initiatives can advance constructive dialogue, but sometimes they can also result in confusion about the views of individual investment firms. That has been the case in this instance, particularly regarding the applicability of net zero approaches to the broadly diversified index funds favored by many Vanguard investors,” the statement continued.

The Biden administration has also tried to steer the U.S. economy as a whole toward net-zero emissions by 2050, as have most major industrial economies. Net zero can be reached by burning less fossil fuels like coal, oil CL00, +0.79% and natural gas NG00, +0.99%, but also by offsetting greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon-sucking tree planting or carbon capture and storage at the point of combustion.

“This change in NZAM membership status will not affect our commitment to helping our investors navigate the risks that climate change can pose to their long-term returns,” Vanguard said, adding it will continue to provide investors the information and products seen nudging the U.S. toward net zero emissions in coming decades.

Along with BlackRock BLK, +0.50% and State Street STT, +1.16%, Vanguard, with roughly $8.1 trillion under management, is considered one of the Big Three index fund managers that dominate much of American retail investing and retirement planning.

“Vanguard has long lagged even its own industry peers in mitigating climate risks, but at least it claimed to be moving in the right direction,” said Casey Harrell, senior strategist at climate policy group Vanguard S.O.S.

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BlackRock also made headlines in recent days and weeks after Florida said it is moving $2 billion in taxpayer assets from accounts with the fund manager, whose leader Larry Fink has declared fighting climate change a major investment theme of his lifetime and beyond. Florida’s Republican chief financial officer said big asset managers should focus on delivering returns rather than on promoting environmental, social and governance, or ESG, principles.

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Via https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vanguard-second-largest-fund-firm-quits-net-zero-climate-alliance-11670436839

 

Twitter exposes Deep State mass brainwashing

By Martin Geddes

The level of criminality involved is simply breathtaking

The Twitter Files scandal continues to unfold day by day, confirming beyond any doubt what many of us have been saying for years: there is a “Deep State” alliance of government agencies, (quasi-)private organisations, media, and intelligence professionals engaged in mass censorship to cover up organised crime, notably crimes against children and treason.

The key facts to date are that:

Twitter executives lied under oath to Congress about their policies and behaviour

A blind eye was turned to child pornography and human trafficking on the platform, making staff complicit in such crimes

The policing tools that were meant for legitimate ends were instead used to censor individual free speech and give a false impression (via trends) of collective sentiment

There were active attempts to influence the 2020 election, including narrative control, suppression of candidates, removal of open debate, and the deliberate targeting of the elected President for deplatforming

There was direct collusion in censorship with the FBI, DNI, DoJ, bringing into question whether Twitter is meaningfully a private entity or just a (deep) state front and proxy

There was participation in creating a false narrative around the January 6th protests and hiding that the President requested people to peacefully disperse

The DNC and Democrat politicians were lobbying to silence their critics and opposing candidates — notably Katie Hobbs in Arizona

There are large numbers of past and current employees with direct or past ties to government agencies, with unclear (at best) loyalty

The Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, has a long track record of promoting underage sexuality and frequently references paedophile themes

The Deputy General Counsel, James Baker, attempted to suppress public knowledge of FBI involvement, while being a former FBI agent

Direct messages were not private as claimed

The placement of John Podesta’s neice onto the Trust and Safety Council eliminates even a pretence to political impartiality

A portal to the CDC allowed unlawful removal of First Amendment speech rights of those who questioned the totalitarian Covid public health narrative and Big Pharma interests

The attempt to unseat an existing President is treason — we are watching a (failed) coup in progress

The mass media fails to report on treason, perjury, sedition at Twitter — making them complicit in the coup effort

The horrors continue to tumble out, and other people are doing a great job of combing through the details. This is only going to ramp up: Musk appears to be the frontman for a “white hat” military intelligence operation to take down Big Tech and the legacy media. Twitter always was an information weapon, never a social media site. As the corruption is exposed, there no doubt will be increasingly desperate efforts to discredit it or distract. It is practically certain we will see false flags to pin atrocities on those who attempt to bring accountability, as well as disruption to current mass communications networks.

The deeper story is that a “state within the state” has clearly emerged. Another example of this is the ability of Perkins Coie to use a backdoor to gain access to FBI and NSA databases to spy on American citizens unlawfully. The infiltration and betrayal is everywhere, with private contractors who ultimately service the interests of criminals or foreigners. What we are confronting is a complex network of treachery, greed, and subversion that has operated in the shadows for a long time. The active and ongoing suppression of this story is itself the big story.

What all criminals seek is freedom from accountability, and controlled operations in the courts, media, law enforcement, lawmaking facilitate the cover-up of crimes. The seriousness of what Twitter has already been proven to be doing cannot be overstated. The invisible algorithmic and policy rigging of the public square to promote lies is textbook mind control. This kind of mass brainwashing is Soviet or Nazi level of tyranny. We are watching an Orwellian entity depositing facts and events into the “memory hole”. It naturally causes us to ask who was the puppeteer, and what other puppet shows have been going on.

Given the sudden about-turn in behaviour by Tim Cook at Apple upon meeting Elon Musk, we can reasonably surmise they have been up to wicked things too, and the latter has the goods on the former. Given Apple’s dealings with the CCP, that’s not surprising. It is hardly news that Facebook is a criminal outfit used to spy on the public and enforce absolute narrative control. TikTok is socially engineering the West (and especially the young) so as to weaken our society and make it more vulnerable to CCP takeover. Sitting behind these brands are entities like DARPA, supplying the silent weapons for the quiet war on human consciousness.

A constitutional republic is not a democracy: lasting individual liberties trump the passing fashions of the mob. Yet it still requires democratic processes for legitimacy and accountability, such as clean elections, and fora that support open public debate on policy and candidates. If those who commit politically-motivated crimes cannot be exposed, then you just have a corrupt cartel in charge, not an actual representative government. You can try to justify what was going on at Twitter, but that means the only worthwhile debate left is whether you are a fascist or a communist.

For me this isn’t an abstract or distant thing. My next job is to injunct Durham County Council for trying to extort money out of me with menaces, as they have gone full-on totalitarian. I have had my public platform taken away to bring wider attention to criminality and injustice. My ability to earn a living as a writer and artist, and have enough to pursue righteous projects, has been sabotaged. By making a stand I am risking bankruptcy if a corrupt court ignores the law, and awards costs against me. Many friends and colleagues who might have supported me have instead departed my life because they bought the lies being knowingly promoted by Twitter (and others) as “normal” and “accepted”.

The Twitter employees are just the minions, and ultimately we need to see those who designed the mass mind control swing for war crimes. That said, it always takes people who are willing to compromise themselves — to pay that mortgage, get that holiday, avoid that relationship conflict — to facilitate evil on this scale. There has to be accountability right to the base, so people no longer feel safe “towing the party line” believing they are protected from consequences. Many of Twitter’s staff collaborated in an attempt to enslave us all using evil techniques, and they need to feel the heat for their cruel actions.

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Via https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/twitter-exposes-deep-state-mass-brainwashing/

Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

Tirenes ramming each other

Episode 1: Technology in the Classical World

Understanding Greek and Roman Technology: From the Catapult to the Parthenon

Dr Stephen Ressler (2013)

Film Review

In this fascinating introductory lecture, West Point engineering professor Dr Stephen Ressler gives the example of the 480 BC Battle of Salamis to illustrate the role of technology in the Greeks’ victory over invading Persians. Although both sides had tirenes,[1] the Greeks had the advantage because 1) they could pull their tirenes up on shore at night to prevent teredo worms from boring into the wood (because they remained in the water overnight, the Persians’ wormy vessels became water logged), 2) Persian tirenes were manned by slaves and captives, which required the presence of an additional 30 troops on each tirene, rendering the vessels too top heavy to steer efficiently and 3) because the Persian troops, fearing a Greek surprise attack, kept their sleep-derived rowers awake all night.

Ressler views classical technology as quite ingenious, despite the classical era’s era’s resource and energy limitations. During this first lecture he demonstrates a scale model Roman torsion catapult known as a palintone. Storing torsion in animal tendons (which store 20 times as much energy as steel), the palintone was cocked with a windlass.[2]

According to Ressler, prior to the onset of Greek civilization, humankind had only developed about a dozen revolutionary technologies (animal power, metallurgy, stone masonry, terracotta tiles and pottery, the wheel, the lever, the pulley, the arch and the sail.

However the 1300 year classical period[3] witnessed a wealth of technological innovations, despite the paucity of new inventions (the screw, the water wheel and concrete). Ressler credits the classical technology explosion to 1) a deep qualitative understanding of engineering principles, 2) creativity and 3) the availability of royal patronage. [4]

Our current understanding of Greco-Roman technological innovation comes from archeological evidence and Marcos DePrevius Polio’s De Architectura,[5] the sole surviving classical treatise on architecture and engineering.

[1] A sea vessel powered by 170 rowers used mainly as a torpedo to ram other vessels[2] Invented by Greek scientist and engineer Archimedes, a windless moves heavy weights by rotating (with a crank or belt) a horizontal cylinder.[3] 800 BC – 476 AD. Greek civilization dates from 800 – 323 BC (when Alexander the Great died). The Roman Republic dates from 509 – 27 BC and the Roman Empire from 27 BC – 476 AD.[4] According Resler, (owing to the absence of wealthy rulers) neither Greece nor Rome experienced much technological innovation during their periods of democratic rule.[5] In Roman times an “architectura” could be to an architect, engineer or urban planner.Film can be be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/146678/146680