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November 28, 2022
Major Outlets Call on US to Drop Charges Against Assange
Newsletter“Holding governments accountable is part of the core mission of a free press in a democracy,” the New York Times and European media said.
Through a joint letter published on Monday, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El Pais asked the United States to the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange because it undermines press freedom.
Twelve years ago, those American and European media released excerpts of the revelations obtained in 250,000 documents, which were leaked to WikiLeaks by the then American soldier Chelsea Manning. Following that leak, Washington began proceedings to indict Assange under legislation designed to put World War I spies on trial.
“Publishing is not a crime,” said those outlets, emphasizing that Assange’s prosecution under the Espionage Act sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the U.S. First Amendment.
“Obtaining and disclosing sensitive information when necessary in the public interest is a core part of the daily work of journalists… If that work is criminalized, our public discourse and our democracies are made significantly weaker,” the letter stated.
The CIA plan to murder Julian Assange and the fight to free him | @DoubleDownNews #FreeAssangeNOW #Cablegate pic.twitter.com/8LTjMwQtfx
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 28, 2022
Assange has been imprisoned in the Belmarsh prison in London since 2019, when he was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy where he had been a refugee for seven years.
Former British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved his extradition to the United States in June, although Assange’s lawyers are appealing such a decision.
The British newspaper The Guardian recalled today that the administration of President Barack Obama (209-2017) did not prosecute the WikiLeaks founder for the 2010 leaks because of the precedent that such action would set.
“Holding governments accountable is part of the core mission of a free press in a democracy,” the letter said.
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November 27, 2022
It Was Never About Ukraine
Ted Snider
Antiwar.com
In his March 21 press briefing, State Department spokesman Ned Price told the gathered reporters that “President Zelenskyy has also made it very clear that he is open to a diplomatic solution that does not compromise the core principles at the heart of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.” A reporter asked Price, “What are you saying about your support for a negotiated settlement à la Zelenskyy, but on whose principles?” In what still may be the most remarkable statement of the war, Price responded, “this is a war that is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine.”
Price, who a month earlier had discouraged talks between Russia and Ukraine, rejected Kiev negotiating an end to the war with Ukraine’s interests addressed because US core interests had not been addressed. The war was not about Ukraine’s interests: it was bigger than Ukraine.
A month later, in April, when a settlement seemed to be within reach at the Istanbul talks, the US and UK again pressured Ukraine not to pursue their own goals and sign an agreement that could have ended the war. They again pressured Ukraine to continue to fight in pursuit of the larger goals of the US and its allies. Then British prime minister Boris Johnson scolded Zelensky that Putin “should be pressured, not negotiated with.” He added that, even if Ukraine was ready to sign some agreements with Russia, the West was not.”
Once again, the war was not about Ukraine’s interests: it was bigger than Ukraine.
At every opportunity, Biden and his highest ranking officials have insisted “that it’s up to Ukraine to decide how and when or if they negotiate with the Russians” and that the US won’t dictate terms: “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” But that has never been true. The US wouldn’t allow Ukraine to negotiate on their terms when they wanted to. The US stopped Ukraine from negotiating in March and April when they wanted to; they pushed them to negotiate in November when they did not want to.
The war in Ukraine has always been about larger US goals. It has always been about the American ambition to maintain a unipolar world in which they were the sole polar power at the center and top of the world.
Ukraine became the focus of that ambition in 2014 when Russia for the first time stood up to American hegemony. Alexander Lukin, who is Head of Department of International Relations at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow and an authority on Russian politics and international relations, says that since the end of the Cold War Russia had been considered a subordinate partner of the West. In all disagreements between Russia and the US up to then, Russia had compromised, and the disagreements were resolved rather quickly.
But when, in 2014, the US set up and supported a coup in Ukraine that was intended to pull Ukraine closer into the NATO and European security sphere Russia responded by annexing Crimea, Russia broke out of its post Cold War policy of compliance and pushed back against US hegemony. The 2014 “crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s reaction to it have fundamentally changed this consensus,” Lukin says. “Russia refused to play by the rules.”
Events in Ukraine in 2014 marked the end of the unipolar world of American hegemony. Russia drew the line and asserted itself as a new pole in a multipolar world order. That is why the war is “bigger than Ukraine,” in the words of the State Department. It is bigger than Ukraine because, in the eyes of Washington, it is the battle for US hegemony.
That is why US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on November 13 that some of the sanctions on Russia could remain in place even after any eventual peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. The war has never just been about Ukraine: it is about US foreign policy aspirations that are bigger than Ukraine. Yellen said, “I suppose in the context of some peace agreement, adjustment of sanctions is possible and could be appropriate.” Sanctions could be adjusted when negotiations end the war, but, Yellen added, “We would probably feel, given what’s happened, that probably some sanctions should stay in place.”
That is also why the US announced a new army headquarters in Germany “to carry out what is expected to be a long-term mission” while it simultaneous began pushing Ukraine toward peace talks. The military pressure on Russia and support for Ukraine will survive the war.
It is also why on June 29, the US announced the establishment of a permanent headquarters for US forces in Poland that Biden boasted would be “the first permanent U.S. forces on NATO’s eastern flank.”
It is again why, on November 9, the State Department approved the sale of nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System to Lithuania. They are not to be used by NATO in the Ukraine war. But they will, according to the State Department, “support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the military capability of a NATO Ally that is an important force for ensuring political stability and economic progress within Eastern Europe.” At the same time, the State Department approved the potential sale of guided multiple launch rocket systems to Finland to bolster “the land and air defense capabilities in Europe’s northern flank.”
Presumably, the delivery of upgraded B61-12 air-dropped gravity nuclear bombs to NATO bases in Europe is also not in the service of current US goals in Ukraine.
Though to the US, the war in Ukraine is “bigger than Ukraine,” it is also “in many ways bigger than Russia.” Although the recently released 2022 National Defense Strategy identifies Russia as the current “acute threat,” it “focuses on the PRC,” or the People’s Republic of China. The Strategy consistently identifies China as the “pacing challenge.” The long-term focus is on, not Russia, but China.
The National Defense Strategy clearly states that “The most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security is the PRC’s coercive and increasingly aggressive endeavor to refashion the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to suit its interests and authoritarian preferences.”
If Ukraine is about Russia, Russia is about China. The “Russia Problem” has always been that it is impossible to confront China if China has Russia: it is not desirable to fight both superpowers at once. So, if the long-term goal is to prevent a challenge to the US led unipolar world from China, Russia first needs to be weakened.
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Via https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2022/11/22/it-was-never-about-ukraine/
As an Oncologist I Am Seeing People With Stable Cancer Rapidly Progress After Being Forced to Have a Booster
Dr Angus Dagleish
The Daily Sceptic
There follows a letter from Dr. Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St George’s University of London, to Dr. Kamran Abbasi, the Editor in Chief of the BMJ. It was written in support of a colleague’s plea to Dr. Abbasi that the BMJ make valid informed consent for Covid vaccination a priority topic.
Dear Kamran Abbasi,
Covid no longer needs a vaccine programme given the average age of death of Covid in the U.K. is 82 and from all other causes is 81 and falling.
The link with clots, myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes is now well accepted, as is the link with myelitis and neuropathy. (We predicted these side effects in our June 2020 QRBD article Sorensen et al. 2020, as the blast analysis revealed 79% homologies to human epitopes, especially PF4 and myelin.)
However, there is now another reason to halt all vaccine programmes. As a practising oncologist I am seeing people with stable disease rapidly progress after being forced to have a booster, usually so they can travel.
Even within my own personal contacts I am seeing B cell-based disease after the boosters. They describe being distinctly unwell a few days to weeks after the booster – one developing leukaemia, two work colleagues Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and an old friend who has felt like he has had Long Covid since receiving his booster and who, after getting severe bone pain, has been diagnosed as having multiple metastases from a rare B cell disorder.
I am experienced enough to know that these are not the coincidental anecdotes that many suggest, especially as the same pattern is being seen in Germany, Australia and the USA.
The reports of innate immune suppression after mRNA for several weeks would fit, as all these patients to date have melanoma or B cell based cancers, which are very susceptible to immune control – and that is before the reports of suppressor gene suppression by mRNA in laboratory experiments.
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3 heart attacks, 33 hospitalizations at Spanish half-marathon
Yudi Sherman
America’s Frontline News
Third tragic marathon this year; media blame weather
Three participants suffered heart attacks during last week’s Behobia-San Sebastián half-marathon while 33 others required hospitalization, reports El Español. 125 other runners required medical attention.
30,000 participants overall joined the annual 20-kilometer race from Behobia to San Sebastián this year, which had its first race in 1919. Since then, six runners have lost their lives, including one in last year’s marathon who died of a sudden heart attack. The last fatality prior to that was in 2015.
While Spanish media are calling the number of casualties “unprecedented,” they are chalking it up to the day’s temperature which reached 78.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
Media outlets have also blamed the heat for other marathons this year marred by tragedy.
In August two runners died and 74 were hospitalized during the Comrades Marathon in South Africa, reported America’s Frontline News. At least one of the fatalities suffered a sudden heart attack.
News media blamed the local weather, which was recorded as partly cloudy at 71.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
The tragedy follows a similar one in May when America’s Frontline News reported that sixteen people were taken to the hospital after running the Brooklyn Half Marathon, including four runners who collapsed and a 30-year-old runner who died of cardiac arrest. The media blamed the weather, which ranged from low 60s to high 70s with high humidity.
A meta-analysis conducted by York St. John University in 2016 reviewed sudden cardiac deaths in marathons in the 34 years between 1976 and 2010 and found that incidence rates ranged between 0.6 and 1.9 per 100,000.
The total number of runners in the Comrades Marathon was capped at 15,000, and around 20,000 runners reportedly participated in the Brooklyn Half Marathon. That would put the incidence death rate per 100,000 at 13.3 and 5 respectively.
But not everyone is blaming the weather for the casualties in last week’s half-marathon.
“Marathon in northern Spain ends with 2 cardiac arrests and 125 athletes collapsing with severe fatigue symptoms, yet presstitutes have the audacity to blame it on heat stroke when the temperatures at the event never exceeded 26deg. The vaccine is a genocide bioweapon,” one netizen commented on the event.
“Last week. Behobia’s half marathon in San Sebastian, Spain. Balance: – 2 heart attacks – 125 runners treated for heat strokes. Heat strokes in November, with around 15ºC. New normality,” tweeted another.
“Fit sporty people falling like flies with heart issues at semi marathon in Spain… because of heat in November! All normal, nothing to see,” wrote another.
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Via https://americasfrontlinenews.com/post/3-heart-attacks-33-hospitalizations-at-spanish-half-marathon
At least 75,000 Brits to stop paying utility bills in response to unfettered inflation
Dr Eddy Betterman
An activist group called Don’t Pay UK says that more than 75,000 Brits have pledged to “strike” on October 1 by no longer paying their utility bills.
Skyrocketing inflation and other factors are rapidly making energy a commodity only for the wealthy in the United Kingdom, prompting the makings of a social revolution.
“75,000 people have pledged to strike on October 1st!” Don’t Pay UK tweeted on August 5. “If the government & energy companies refuse to act then ordinary people will! Together we can enforce a fair price and affordable energy for all.”
The goal is to convince at least one million Brits to join the fight before October 1 arrives. Reaching this number, say activists, will really help to get the attention of British politicians.
This revolutionary move comes as the cost of living in the UK reaches epic highs. Right now on the misery index, Brits are worse off than they have been in decades, with official inflation numbers expected to reach 13 percent.
Bank of England (BoE) Gov. Andrew Bailey continues to hike interest rates at a rate higher than in the past 27 years, but to no avail. It seems as though the Ponzi scheme known as private central banking can no longer tread enough water to keep the global economy from sinking.
The reason why Don’t Pay UK decided on an October 1 strike is because that is the day that the average British household is expected to pay about £300 for power. This translates to about $362 in American money.
“Couple surging power costs with negative real wage growth, and it becomes apparent households are being squeezed,” reports Zero Hedge. “This excludes soaring prices for shelter, food, and petrol at the pump – this trend is unsustainable and could result in social instabilities.”
Should the entire world strike against unbridled inflation and the corruption that’s causing it?Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brits commenced a similar type of strike against then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a poll tax that she introduced. At the time, some 17 million Brits refused to pay the illegitimate tax.
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Via https://dreddymd.com/2022/11/27/75000-brits-stop-paying-bills-inflation/
Russia, Yemen Discuss Free Russian Food Aid to the Republic
Photo: Twitter/@UNGeneva
Newsletter
Russian and Yemeni officials met on Thursday to discuss the provision of Russian food aid to the Yemeni people through UN-linked mechanisms.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, on Friday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin held a meeting in this regard with Yemen’s ambassador to Moscow, Ahmed al-Wahishi.
The Russian Ministry said in a statement that the two officials discussed “the prospects of supplying Russian food aid, including through international organizations of the UN system.”
During the meeting, the Deputy Foreign Minister and the Yemeni Ambassador agreed on the need for the international community to lead efforts to assist the needy population in a country plagued by a long-standing humanitarian crisis.
On Monday this week, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) published a post warning that in Yemen, as of this year, there are “3.5 million pregnant or lactating women and children under 5 suffering from acute malnutrition and up to 19 million people affected by food insecurity.”
The #Yemen conflict and recent global market disruptions have placed extraordinary stresses on Yemen's private sector.@IFPRI researchers examine the challenges and suggest a way forward: https://t.co/Y3cHs946Bn
@CGIAR @HSAGroup_Global @SikandraKurdi @OlivierEcker @JoeGlauber1
— IFPRI (@IFPRI) November 25, 2022
Noting that the country’s “food needs far exceed current consumption levels,” IFPRI pointed to the critical role of food importers and other private sector actors in preventing food insecurity from worsening.
“Keeping wheat flowing into the country and getting wheat products to consumers through importers, processors and private sector distributors is a critical piece of the puzzle for managing food security.”
Since early 2015, an armed conflict has raged in Yemen, triggering an unprecedented humanitarian emergency. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the world’s leading grain exporters, has disrupted global grain supplies along with other key agricultural commodities.
“Yemen relies heavily on grain imports to feed a population that has long been on the brink of famine,” the IFPRI post said.
[…]Medieval Japan – Samurai, Shoguns and Gunboat Diplomacy
Episode 40: Medieval Japan – Samurai and Shoguns
Foundations of Eastern Civilization
Dr Craig Benjamin (2013)
Film Review
In 1155 the Minamoto family seized imperial power and the shogun they appointed to run Japan’s military affairs ultimately ran the country. The hereditary emperor became a figurehead and was virtually powerless.
Successive shogonates to rule Japan were
the Kamakura Shogonate 1185-1333the Muromachi Shogonate 1333-1465the Tokugawa Shogunate 1600 -1868The Warring States Period
The years 1465-1600 were the “Warring States Period.” With no central ruler, both the Kamakura and the Muromachi Shogonates granted substantial power to the provinces, which held ultimate control over the government and the economy.
Under shogonate rule, 25% of males were drafted into the military, where they provided their own weapons (although they were exempt from taxation).
The Samurai
The literal meaning of Samurai (a Chinese word) is “those who serve the nobility.” Although initially designating the six lower levels of the twelve bureaucrat classes, it came to refer to military men. Prior to the 14th century, the samurai were mere mercenaries. As their behavior became more ethical and refined, they became part of the nobility. At their height, they acquired expertise in martial arts, archery, sword play. and horsemanship. There were many Samurai women (wives of Samurai) who developed exceptional military prowess.
The Europeans Arrive
Portuguese traders, the first Europeans to arrive in the 16th century, transformed Nagasaki into one of the largest port cities in the world. The English subsequently established a trading center at Nagoya, the Dutch at Kyushu and the Spanish at Hirado.
In 1600, the Japanese were very open to Jesuits and other Christian missionaries. However the Tokugawa Shogonate, determined to reduce the risk of civil war, passed laws reducing foreign contact. Even though it became illegal for Japanese to go overseas, some closely controlled trade continued. A few Chinese and Dutch merchants continued to operate in Nagasaki. In 1615, there were an estimated 300,000 Christians in Japan.
During the 17th century, increased rice, cotton and silk production allowed Japanese farmers to engage in commercial farming for the first time. The country’s population increased by 33% to 29 million, as families used infanticide to limit overpopulation.
The Native Learning Movement
During peace time, the Samurai fell into financial difficulty. While the elite still focused on Chinese culture and Confucianism, the merchants who controlled the cities launched the Native Learning Movement. The latter rejected Confucianism and Buddhism as unacceptable foreign influences. Many unique Japan cultural treasures emerged under the Native Learning Movement – including Kubuki theater, Bunraku (puppet theater) and prose fiction.
During a Tokukawa crackdown between 1617 and 1632, missionaries and Christian converts were tortured and forced to convert to Buddhism.
US Gunboat Diplomacy
In 1854, US Admiral Matthew Perry forced the Tokukawa shogon (by threatening to fire on civilians) to sign a treaty opening Japan trade to the US. What followed was civil war, brought on by extreme popular anger over high taxes. A number of foreign countries provided provided the insurgents with weapons.
In 1868, Emperor Meiji assumed power from the Shogon, and in the 1870s the samurai were officially abolished.
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November 26, 2022
They Lied
h/t The Burning Platform via Straight Line Logic
Via https://straightlinelogic.com/2022/11/25/they-lied/
Joe Rogan Exposes “Meat Wrecks the Environment” Hoax
Dr Mercola
Story at-a-glanceWill Harris is a regenerative farming pioneer who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, GeorgiaHe produces high-quality grass fed products, including beef and other animal products, and is an inspirational example of how to convert from conventional to regenerative agriculture and thrive financiallyRegenerative agriculture, Harris says, “is a kinder, gentler agriculture … we call it biomimicry, the emulation of nature”While it’s an imperfect emulation, it helps to restore the natural cycles that have been broken by industrial farmingEvery agricultural county in the U.S. could replicate what Harris is doing to create sustainably grown food and improved communitiesToward that end, he and his team created the Center for Agricultural Resilience to educate thought leaders on the benefits of building animal, plant and human ecosystems that can nourish communities instead of destroy themWill Harris is a regenerative farming pioneer who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia. He produces high-quality grass fed products, including beef and other animal products, and is an inspirational example of how to convert from conventional to regenerative agriculture and thrive financially.
Prior to the mid-’90s, Harris ran his farm the way his father and most every other farmer in the country had — “as a very linear, monocultural cattle operation,” he said during an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “The factory farm model.”1
He now practices what he describes as regenerative agriculture, warning that it’s only a matter of time before Big Ag corrupts this term “and takes it away from us.” Regenerative agriculture, Harris says, “is a kinder, gentler agriculture … we call it biomimicry, the emulation of nature.”2
While it’s an imperfect emulation, it helps to restore the natural cycles that have been broken by industrial farming. As noted on the White Oak Pastures webpage, “Regenerative agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that seeks to rehabilitate and enhance the entire ecosystem of the farm by placing a heavy focus on soil health with attention also paid to water management, fertilizer use, and more.”3
There are major differences in cows raised on grass versus grains. Those fed grass would have a life expectancy of about 20 years, but Harris states that feedlot cows are so unhealthy at slaughter, he doubts they’d live much more than about three years. “You’re eating an unnaturally obese creature that would never occur in nature and is slowly dying of the same diseases of a sedentary lifestyle, the obesity that’ll eventually kill most of us.”4
‘Animal Welfare Was the Canary in the Coal Mine’When Harris was in his 40s, he became increasingly aware of the pitfalls of the industrialized model of farming. “Animal welfare was the canary in the coal mine,” he told Rogan.5 He previously believed that “good animal welfare” included keeping the animal well fed and watered, in a comfortable temperature range, and not intentionally inflicting pain and suffering. It’s the definition of animal welfare that many still use today.
Harris realized, however, that true animal welfare involves giving the animal an environment where it can express instinctive behavior. “Chickens are meant to scratch and peck. Hogs are meant to root and wallow. Cows are meant to … graze. But in the CAFO confined model, those instinctive behaviors are not an option for them.”6
He changed his cattle operations after this realization. He also quit feeding the cattle chicken litter, which is chicken feces — a widely used, cheap protein source in feedlots. “Most of my transition from what I did 25 years ago to what I do today involved just giving up products and techniques,” Harris said,7 adding that it’s the misapplication of technology that makes agriculture so destructive today. “Reductive science, technology, does not lend itself to living systems.”
In terms of the land, agriculture is misusing cultivation, chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides, which lead to unintended and unseen changes. When chemical fertilizers are applied, they lead to noticeable changes in growth, but what you don’t see, Harris explained, “is that fertilizer oxidized the carbon, the organic matter, in the ground. It killed the microbes in the soil. It had other negative chemical impacts, but you couldn’t see them.”8
When chemical fertilizers were first widely used, their long-term destruction to the environment were largely unknown. It’s only recently that the importance of soil biology is being recognized.
Downfalls of Industrialized FarmingBefore switching to regenerative farming, Harris spent 20 years operating the farm industrially, including using antibiotics and hormone implants to make cows grow faster. But the technologies that industrial agriculture relies on to “improve” food production are destructive.
“Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, GMOs, subtherapeutic antibiotics and hormone implants … These technologies result in horrible, unintended consequences that adversely affect our land, water, climate, and livestock,” Harris wrote on his blog.9
Further, they’ve allowed agriculture to become scalable to the point that a limited number of multinational corporations control most of the food supply. A centralized food system benefits no one but those who control it, and puts consumers at risk. Harris explained:10
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Embracing Regenerative Farming for HealthHarris’ farming methods now represent the opposite of the industrialized approach, demonstrating how you can convert conventionally farmed land into a healthy, thriving farm based on regenerative methods. At White Oak Pastures, they’ve:13
De-commoditized — Instead of relying on commodities, they produce five types of pastured red meats, five types of pastured poultry, pastured eggs and organic vegetables.De-industrialized — Instead of operating as a monoculture that grows one destructive crop, like GE soy, they’ve created a living ecosystem that includes 10 species of humanely treated animals that live in a symbiotic relationship. All of their land is managed using holistic principles.De-centralized — They were able to break away from the centralized food processing system, building their own abattoirs (slaughterhouses) to retain control of the quality of their products.The industrialization of agriculture destroyed the land, while “centralizing agriculture impoverished rural America,” Harris said.14 “It caused it to be financially irrelevant. It just wasn’t needed anymore.”
But farming the way Harris does enriches the land and provides jobs for those in the community. “I’ve got 180 employees. My payroll is $100,000 every Friday in one of the poorest counties in America, and the town has gone from being a ghost town to a becoming a destination.”15 Every agricultural county in the U.S. could replicate what Harris is doing to create sustainably grown food and improved communities.
Toward that end, he and his team created the Center for Agricultural Resilience to educate thought leaders on the benefits of building animal, plant and human ecosystems that can nourish communities instead of destroy them.16
Regenerative Farming Restores the LandHarris tells Rogan that he has the utmost respect for vegans and vegetarians who choose not to eat meat because they oppose eating animals. But he’ll give you an ear full if you tell him you won’t eat meat because it’s destroying the planet. When farming is done regeneratively, it will help to restore the land and even improve the damage done by industrial methods. And animals are an integral, and necessary, part of the restorative process.
“We are sequestering 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent for every pound of grass fed beef we sell. Ironically, the same environmental engineers did an analysis on Impossible Burgers,” Harris said. “They’re emitting 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent.”17
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Alberta Premier Suspends Cooperation with World Economic Forum
DANIELLE SMITH has been the Premier of the Canadian state of Alberta since October 11 this year. She is a former journalist who entered state politics in 2009. On October 6 this year, she was elected party leader of the conservative United Conservative Party (UCP). Smith has taken issue with both the federal government in Ottawa under Trudeau and the WEF under Klaus Schwab. Still image: Global News
Free West Media
The newly elected Premier Danielle Smith of the province of Alberta in Canada has recently made several powerful statements against the globalist foundation World Economic Forum and its leader Klaus Schwab. She has also decided to cancel a strange consulting agreement that WEF had with the state.
The now-revealed collaboration began in the middle of the alleged Corona pandemic and contributed to the draconian restrictions and lockdowns Canadians were subjected to. There are also those who believe that it is part of something much bigger. At the same time, she demanded that the Trudeau administration end the agenda-driven carbon tax.
On October 11, Danielle Smith was sworn in as premier of the oil-producing province of Alberta in Canada. It came just five days after she won the leadership election of her United Conservative Party (UCP), largely on promises to stand up to the federal government in Ottawa. It is led by the increasingly unpopular Justin Trudeau, who has been leader of the Liberal Party of Canada since 2013 and Prime Minister of Canada since 2015.
He distinguished himself during the alleged Corona pandemic as one of the most tyrannical leaders in the world, violently cracking down on peaceful popular protests. Trudeau is a member of the notorious globalist organization World Economic Forum (WEF) elite school Young Global Leaders (YGL).
YGL is a leadership program within the WEF, where politicians are schooled and initiated into the globalists’ plans and are then helped into leadership positions.
‘I find it offensive’On October 24, barely two weeks after taking office, Danielle Smith made a move that sent the establishment in Canada into a tailspin. The new prime minister harshly criticized the WEF and its chairman and founder Klaus Schwab.
“I find it uncomfortable when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders like the head [Schwab] of that organization [WEF] has,” Smith said after a ceremony where her ministers were sworn into the new state government.
“I find it offensive. The people who should be running the [state] government are the people who vote for them. And the people who vote for me and my colleagues are people who live in Alberta and who are affected by our decisions,” explained the Premier.
“So quite frankly, until that organization [WEF] stops bragging about how much control they have over political leaders, I have no interest in being involved with them. My focus is here in Alberta, to solve problems for the people of Alberta, with the mandate I received from the people of Alberta,” said Smith, announcing the suspension of the province’s cooperation with the globalist foundation.
Alberta’s new leader was referring to provocative statements made by WEF chief Klaus Schwab. One of these that specifically concerned Canada was done in 2017 at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics where political commentator David Gergen interviewed Schwab. The WEF chief then said that his organization had “infiltrated governments” all over the world. A visibly proud Schwab then also named several heads of state, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as examples of the WEF’s global power and influence.
“Yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I learned that half of his ministers or even more than half are actually our Young Global Leaders (YGL) of the World Economic Forum,” said the arch-globalist Schwab.
WEF health experts?Danielle Smith further revealed that it has emerged that the province of Alberta has a cooperation agreement with the globalist foundation WEF, something she wanted to end right away.
“They signed a kind of partnership with the World Economic Forum in the middle of the pandemic; we have to deal with it. Why on earth do we have anything to do with the World Economic Forum? It must end,” the new Prime Minister declared firmly.
She was immediately harshly attacked by mainstream media in Canada, who accused her of espousing “extreme right-wing conspiracy theories”, while mainstream media abroad tried to black out her statements.
Many Canadians were surprised to learn that the globalist organization WEF had a direct contract with one of their state governments. They were even more surprised when they heard what the agreement was. It did not concern consultation regarding economic issues or even “Agenda 2030 and the global goals for sustainable development”, where the WEF works closely with the UN – or as many critics believe rather dictates to the UN.
Instead, it turned out that early in the alleged 2020 Corona pandemic, the WEF stepped in as health consultants to effectively dictate the pandemic measures taken by the Canadian state of Alberta’s health authority, Alberta Health Services (AHS). Danielle Smith has been a strong critic of this authority and how it, like the previous state government, handled the pandemic.
On October 21, ten days after taking office as prime minister and three days before the sensational announcement, Smith commented during the “Question Period with Premier Danielle Smith” on the Western Standard media website that the health authority AHS would be held accountable for both the cooperation with the WEF and the “health councils” which they had given to the state government over the last two years. Canada stood out during the pandemic as one of the countries that had the most repressive restrictions and lockdowns in the world. Not least, vaccine-free citizens were grossly discriminated against.
“I think Alberta Health Services is the source of many of the problems we’ve had,” explained Smith, who also described the cooperation with the WEF as “useless”.
Many Albertans were well aware that the health authority AHS was driving the very unpopular restrictions and regulations, as were many other health authorities around the world, but they did not know that the globalist organization WEF was the one pulling the strings. It came as a shock to many and some questioned how the WEF could contribute medical expertise.
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Via https://freewestmedia.com/2022/11/25/canadian-pm-danielle-smith-suspends-cooperation-with-the-wef-2/
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