We have not been told about Russia’s legitimate security concerns in the face of NATO expansionism. Nor has Ukraine’s significant Nazi problem been honestly reported, with some Western propagandist even promoting them.

The Russian government claims that its recognition and defence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) are born from “compassion” for the people who have been under siege for eight years. However, Russia also needs the new republics as satellite states, providing a foothold for its own national security as it opposes NATO’s advance.

It should be noted that Russia’s military actions, in trying to oust Nazis from their strongholds in Mariupol, Kharkiv and elsewhere, has led to the near destruction of many cities and towns in Eastern Ukraine. As of the 19th March the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR) estimate that 847 civilians were killed in three weeks, primarily as a result of shelling.

The OHCR noted that the “actual figures are considerably higher” but could not be verified. Credible eye witness reports and video evidence indicate that the Nazis in Mariupol and other besieged areas had stopped civilians leaving through humanitarian corridors opened by Russia. There are many reports of Nazi (Asov) atrocities, including the murder of fleeing civilians.

NATO has courted Ukraine as a future alliance member for decades, taking firm steps to admit Ukraine along the way. This has never been acceptable to Russia, whose national security concerns have been consistently ignored.

Only days prior to the Russian attack, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference threatening Russia, not only with a nuclear-armed Ukraine, but a NATO nuclear power on Russia’s south-western border.

Ukraine is a pinch-point for Russia’s natural gas trade with the European Union. The purpose of the Nord Stream pipelines, constructed in partnership with Germany, was to circumvent that problem. It raised the potential for greater EU independence from the US and, with an EU commitment to defence union, presented a possible threat to the US dominance of NATO.

Consequently, the US applied unrelenting pressure on the EU, including enforcing sanctions on German companies, to halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. In response to Russia’s official recognition of the DPR & LPR, German Chancellor Olaf Sholtz immediately announced that Germany would not certify Nord Stream 2 for operational use. Russia began it’s military operation in Ukraine three days later.

Please read Parts 1-3 of this series for an exploration of the evidence informing this analysis. This provides us with what we might call the “official-unofficial” explanation for Russia’s aggression. It is an appraisal founded upon the established, accepted concept of international relations.

However, any such investigation is necessarily incomplete. It fails even to describe the globalist forces that are both ripping Ukraine apart and propelling Russia to act. We will explore these in Parts 5 – 6.

Before we do it is important to appreciate just how far we, as supposed democratic societies, have strayed from democratic ideals. This can be understood if we consider the extreme propaganda and censorship our governments are using, hobbling our ability to discern reality.

The Propaganda Environment

There is little chance that the issues we have already discussed will receive fair coverage in the Western mainstream media (MSM) and none at all that it will cover what we are about to consider. The West’s propaganda, in a rapidly evolving conflict, has at times been absurd.

Immediately following the launch of Russia’s military operation the Western MSM reported the unbelievable bravery of the Ukrainian border guards defending Snake Island in the Black Sea. They stated that 13 died in their valiant defence against a Russian “air and sea bombardment.”

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said he would award the guards posthumous medals for gallantry. It soon emerged that this was a fabrication. None of them died and Russia took the Island without harming anyone.

The MSM reported that Russian forces deliberately targeted a Mosque in Mariupol where civilian woman and children were said to be sheltering. The Turkish media later revealed that the Mosque had not been struck by anything.

The BBC were among a wide number of Western MSM outlets that reported an alleged Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol. This apparent outrage, deliberately targeting pregnant women and their babies, led the BBC to report the comments of the Deputy Mayor who said:

We don’t understand how it’s possible in modern life to bomb a children’s hospital. People cannot believe that it’s true.

Indeed not, because there is considerable evidence to suggest it isn’t. When the claimed airstrike occurred the Russian state officials engaged in some ham-fisted disinformation themselves, alleging that the whole thing was staged using “crisis actors.” They also noted that the hospital had been occupied by the Ukrainian forces, thus presumably making it a military target and undermining their own propaganda.

A subsequent account from the most famous eyewitness, Mariana Vishegirskaya, who Associated Press (AP) publicised as the face of the alleged Russian war-crime, paints a very different picture.

There were certainly explosions but no evidence of an airstrike, as no one heard or saw any planes. The hospital had been occupied by the Asov regiment three days earlier. Tellingly, Mariana stated that the Asov Nazis wouldn’t allow people to leave the city through the humanitarian corridors agreed by Russia.

There have been widespread Western reports of destruction of Mariupol and other cities by Russian forces. However, civilian witness testimony from Mariupol notes that Ukrainian forces also shelled Mariupol, causing much of the destruction. Mariupol civilians reported that Ukrainian forces placed their defences in civilian areas, occupied their homes and other municipal locations including kindergartens, hospitals and office buildings, and even blew up buildings with tanks.

Even the Western MSM acknowledged that the Ukrainian military (including the Nazis) were effectively using the civilian population as a human shields by placing their assets in civilian areas. The Washington Post noted:

Increasingly, Ukrainians are confronting an uncomfortable truth: [. . .] Virtually every neighbourhood in most cities has become militarized, some more than others, making them potential targets for Russian forces trying to take out Ukrainian defenses.

Analysis by French military observers clearly showed that Russia had secured significant military control in eastern and north-eastern Ukraine. On March 29th 2022, during ongoing peace talks between the Russian and Ukrainian authorities in Turkey, Russia announced that it would withdraw its forces from around Kyiv as a sign of “good faith.”

A few days later video evidence emerged from town of Bucha, lying west of Kyiv, appearing to show the aftermath of a Russian war-crime. The horrific footage showed apparent carnage in the body strewn streets of Bucha. The Ukrainian government blamed this butchery on the retreating Russian forces. The Western MSM immediately reported everything that they were told, accusing Russia of the Bucha massacre.

There were some suspicious anomalies in the footage that required explanation. An unusually high percentage of the bodies were lying face down, ruling out identification, and there was an inexplicable lack of blood or other signs of obvious injury on the corpses. Most of the corpses appeared with hands bound behind their backs and many were wearing the white arm bands which Russia gave to civilians in order for them not to be confused with combatants.

In one of the four main videos, unquestioningly accepted as evidence of the Russian atrocity, an alleged corpse appears to get to its feet, observed in the wing mirror of one of the filming vehicles. It is possible that mirror distortion accounts for this. However, these unexplained inconsistencies weren’t the primary reason to doubt the Western MSM’s account.

March 31st will go down in the history of our settlement, the entire territorial community as a day of liberation from the Russian orcs [. . .] a great victory in the Kyiv region.

Reporting his statement, the local media claimed that Russian forces had left unexploded mines in a local factory. Neither the Mayor nor the local news reports said anything about a massacre. Two days later Reuters reported the same mayor, Anatoly Fidoruk, this time alleging that Russia had engaged in the mass slaughter of civilians. Something he was either unaware of or forgot to mention two days earlier.

This unfathomable oversight by the entire population of Bucha, none of whom posted anything on social media even hinting at the supposed mass slaughter during the Russian occupation, casts significant doubt upon the story presented by the Western MSM. The “Bucha-Live” Telegram channel didn’t mention the massacre until the story broke internationally.

Initially, it was reported across the West that 400 bodies were scattered throughout the streets and basements of Bucha. We know that Russian forces completed their withdrawal on the 30th of March. Yet the Western reports of the killing spree didn’t emerge for a further four days.

Following the agreed Russian exit, on the 31st of March it was reported in Ukraine that the first Ukrainian forces to enter Bucha were Ukrainian special forces (the SAFARIS.) They posted a video of their operation on the 1st of April. One body was observed in the video, no execution sites or any evidence of mass killings were filmed.

These “specialist units” were said to be tasked with clearing Bucha of “saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.” Again there was no mention of any massacre in the further reports published on the 2nd of April.

On the same day, the 2nd of April, the New York Times reported:

Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov battalion walked through the remnants of a Russian military convoy in the recently liberated town of Bucha. [. . .] For the past five weeks, photographers with The New York Times and other news organizations throughout Ukraine have chronicled the invasion.

Yet none of these reporters or photographers “chronicled” the Bucha massacre that allegedly occurred at least three days before they arrived in the town. The New York Times (NYT) then tried to double-down on their incomprehensible failure to spot the biggest story in the World, by changing it.

They published purported US satelite images that allegedly pinpointed the position of the bodies. The NYT claimed they had lain there for more than three weeks.

The NYT article implied that neither human nor animal activity had disturbed the location of a single body for the best part of a month. It also required readers to believe that US officials and military personnel knowingly ignored an alleged Russian massacre, without saying a word, not just for 4 days but for weeks.

Regardless of which version of the story people may choose to believe, there is another incongruous aspect. The Russian military, having committed a war-crime either four days or more than three weeks earlier, left the scene without trying to hide any of the evidence. If the NYT’s second version of events is to be believed, they also exposed their own troops to the severe risk of disease for practically the entire duration of their occupation of Bucha.

While there is no evidence that the Asov Nazis staged the alleged bloodbath, circumstantial evidence suggests that possibility. It is notable that no one reported the massacre prior to their arrival in Bucha.

On the 3rd April the world was suddenly regaled with fresh tales of Russian barbarity. It would be good to know what happened to the suspected “saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces” that were “cleared” from Bucha by SAFARI and Asov troops.

Russian military actions have included heavy bombardment of cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv. There is no doubt that they have killed many Ukrainian citizens. However, if we discard the NYT’s rather silly claims, unless Russia commanders lost control of their troops in Bucha, the indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed civilians, following an agreed withdrawal and their identification as non-combatants, makes no sense either from a military or propaganda perspective.

It served only to undermine the peace negotiations. As we will discuss in Part 5, prolonging the conflict is in the US-led NATO alliance’s interests, not Russia’s.

This does not rule out the possibility that Russian troops were responsible, but further investigation is certainly necessary. This appeared to be the position of the Russian government who, having strenuously denied the Bucha allegations, requested an emergency session of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the matter. For some reason, the UK government blocked Russia’s request.

Initially it appeared that the US-led NATO alliance were less eager to discuss the evidence. However, acting as the president nation of the Security Council, the UK’s UN ambassador, Barbara Woodward, then announced that the UK would convene a session to discuss Bucha on the 5th. Woodward changed the story yet again. This time 800 people had been murdered.

Prior to examining any of the evidence, and relying solely upon videos provided by the Ukrainians, Woodward stated that the footage was evidence of war-crimes. This had in no way been established. No one knew what they were evidence of. Woodward clearly implicated Russia and predetermined the outcome of the discussions, so there wasn’t really any point in holding them.

This illustrates the problem we have discussed previously. The institutions, mechanisms and rulings that combine to form so-called international law are worthless. There is no justice to be found anywhere within a system that is shaped by nothing but hard-nosed realpolitik. It is just another weapon to be used in a global power struggle. International law, as it stands, is no law at all. (read more)

That announced 'break with the past' of faking 'intelligence' happened when?

How 'rock solid' was the 'intelligence' about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction or chemical weapons attacks in Douma, Syria?

U.S. 'intelligence', then and now, is pure imagination for the purpose of deceiving the U.S. and 'western' public about the reality of this or that conflict:

It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the world: U.S. officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden later said it publicly. But three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions.

Unlike the U.S. Russia no longer has any 'banned munitions':

The OPCW’s inspection teams have verified the destruction at seven chemical weapons destruction facilities in the Russian Federation. On 27 September 2017, the last of these facilities, located in Kizner, officially concluded its operations.

With the total elimination of Russia’s declared chemical weapons programme, 96.3 per cent of all chemical weapon stockpiles declared by possessor States have been destroyed under OPCW verification.

That is why the U.S. 'intelligence' claim of a potential use of Russian chemical weapons was obvious nonsense from the get go:

It’s one of a string of examples of the Biden administration’s breaking with recent precedent by deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has done so even when the intelligence wasn’t rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance. Coordinated by the White House National Security Council, the unprecedented intelligence releases have been so frequent and voluminous, officials said, that intelligence agencies had to devote more staff members to work on the declassification process, scrubbing the information so it wouldn’t betray sources and methods.

Sure, devote more people for the 'declassification process' of creating mere fantasies or for the the reproduction of public sources:

Just this week, national security adviser Jake Sullivan stood at the White House podium and read out what officials said was more declassified intelligence, asserting that Russia’s pullout from areas around Kyiv wasn’t a retreat but a strategic redeployment that signals a significant assault on eastern and southern Ukraine, one that U.S. officials believe could be a protracted and bloody fight.

That 'declassified intelligence' Sullivan read out was the copy of a public announcement the Ministry of Defense of Russia had made on March 30:

Planned regrouping of troops in Kiev and Chernigov directions is underway.

The first stage of the special military operation conducted by the Russian Armed Forces in Donbas and Ukraine was planned to force the enemy to concentrate its forces, means, resources and military equipment to hold on to high populated areas in these directions, including Kiev. To bring them down on the battlefield and, without storming these cities to avoid civilian casualties, inflict such a defeat on the armed formations of the Kiev regime that it would not be able to use these forces in the main direction of our Armed Forces in Donbass.

All these goals have been met.

At the same time, the Russian army also solved another task, namely - in the absence of an inflow of fresh enemy forces from the western and central regions of Ukraine, through professional military action, using the absolute air dominance it had gained, also using modern high-precision weapons - to create all the necessary conditions for the final stage of the operation to liberate the People's Republics of Donbass.
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Thus, all the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces in Kiev and Chernigov directions have been completed.

The objective of the regrouping of the Russian Armed Forces is to intensify action in priority areas and, above all, to complete the operation for the total liberation of Donbass.

To claim that official public announcement by the Russian military are 'declassified intelligence' is of course bullshit. But NBC News stenographers won't tell you that. Instead we get more of this nonsense:

Multiple U.S. officials acknowledged that the U.S. has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes it has used low-confidence intelligence for deterrent effect, as with chemical agents, and other times, as an official put it, the U.S. is just “trying to get inside Putin’s head.”

Does anyone believe that Putin gives a f*** about U.S. 'intelligence' claims?

No:

Some officials believe, however, that trying to get into Putin’s head is a meaningless exercise, because he will do what he wants regardless.
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The biggest success of the U.S. information offensive may have been delaying the invasion itself by weeks or months, which officials believe they did with accurate predictions that Russia intended to attack, based on definitive intelligence.

Those 'accurate predictions' included the false claims that Russia would invade the Ukraine on February 11, February 14 and February 16:

The noise has become deafening.

• US warns war could be ‘imminent’ in Ukraine - Politico, Feb 11, 2022

> The U.S. intelligence briefing included specific reference to next Wednesday, February 16, as a start date for the ground invasion, three officials — based in Washington, London and Ukraine — told POLITICO. <

• Russian invasion could begin at any time, White House says - Reuters, Feb 14, 2022

'Could' is doing a lot of work in those headlines.

Can we get it a bit more precise?

• DAWN RAID Russia set to invade Ukraine at 1AM tomorrow with massive missile blitz and 200,000 troops, US intelligence claims - The Sun, Feb 15, 2022
• Russia will order invasion of Ukraine at 3am tomorrow, sources say - Coventry Telegraph, Feb 15, 2022

1am or 3am?

Which is it?

And in what timezone?

In fact, Russia had not decided to invade Ukraine at that time. The decision was most likely made after February 19, after the Ukrainian military had intensified its bombardment of Donbas and after the Ukrainian president Zelinsky had threatened to acquire nuclear weapons:

Most of the violations came from the Ukrainian side and the explosions of the fired shells and missile happened on Donbas held grounds. On February 19, at the hight of the fire, Zelensky gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference. He prominently mentioned the Budapest Memorandum under which the Ukraine had given up the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the USSR:

".. Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt."

One of the package decisions Ukraine took in 1994 was the entering of Ukraine into the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Russia understood Zelensky's remark in Munich as a threat by Ukraine to acquire nuclear weapons. It already has the expertise, materials and means to do that.

A fascist controlled government with nukes on Russia's border? This is not about Putin at all. No Russian government of any kind could ever condone that.

The Russian military operation was clearly provoked. It started on February 24, months after U.S. 'intelligence' had falsely warned of an 'imminent' attack, eight days AFTER Ukrainian artillery preparations to attack Donbas had begun, five days AFTER Zelinsky's nuclear speech and two days AFTER the U.S. and its allies had implemented unprecedented sanctions against Russia.

NBC News, as well as other western outlets, allow themselves to be abused by presenting U.S. 'intelligence' claims they know are outright lies:

Game or not, U.S. intelligence officials say it has been successful. Intelligence is rarely definitive, and Biden officials have calculated in some cases that it’s better to pre-empt something that might not happen, rather than stay silent and watch it unfold.

“It doesn’t have to be solid intelligence when we talk about it,” a U.S. official said. “It’s more important to get out ahead of them — Putin specifically — before they do something. It’s preventative. We don’t always want to wait until the intelligence is 100 percent certainty that they are going to do something. We want to get out ahead to stop them.”

Egged on by the 'intelligence' community the 'western' media 'get ahead' and produce one lie after the other.

[...] The recently sensationalized mass graves in Bucha were of its Volkssturm 'civilian defenders' and of Russian soldiers deceased there. They were dug on March 12 and had nothing to do with the recent pull back of Russian forces. Some carefully filmed bodies in the streets of Bucha have likely been casualties of weeks old Ukrainian artillery strikes. Others bound and killed there, likely by Ukrainian Azov fascists, were wearing white arm bands identifying them as neutral to Russian forces.

Only rarely do we get insight from 'western' media of what the people on the ground in Ukraine really feel:

8:58 6 Apr - In eastern Ukraine, some don't blame Putin for the war
Jonathan Beale, BBC News, Donbas

We visited the town of Lysychansk, about a mile from the front line. It's one of many residential areas to have been hit by Russian artillery over the past few days.
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A Ukrainian soldier led us through the mostly-deserted streets to an underground shelter.

Inside in a gloomy room we talked to two old women, who were trying to keep warm in front of an electric fire.

We asked them who they thought was responsible for shelling their town - astonishingly, neither blamed Russia or President Vladimir Putin. They thought their grim situation was as much the fault of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Whenever such rare reality reports, like the above or this one, come out, they get buried in an overwhelming stream of 'intelligence' bullshit and pro-war propaganda:

A video posted online on Monday and verified by The New York Times appears to show a group of Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv.

“He’s still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he’s still alive. He’s gasping,” a man says as a Russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded, is seen still breathing. A soldier then shoots the man twice. After the man keeps moving, the soldier shoots him again, and he stops.

At least three other apparent Russian soldiers, including one with an obvious head wound who has his hands tied behind his back, can be seen dead near the victim. All are wearing camouflage, and three have white arm bands commonly worn by Russian troops. Equipment is scattered around them and there are blood stains near each man’s head.

For every atrocity Ukrainian troops and militia commit U.S. 'intelligence' will create five or more fairy tales of 'Russian atrocities' which the media, well knowing that such claims are likely false, will lap up and repeat.

The only advice one can give in such a situation is to always assume that it is the exact opposite of what any 'intelligence' claims that is actually happening. (read more)

A few days ago, the media were actively discussing the question – who arranged the mass murders in Bucha? At that time, most of the media were inclined toward the actions of the Russian military. However, some facts now cast doubt on the earlier conclusions.

The crux of the matter is that the Russian military was blamed for the massacre back in mid-March, but most of civilians were killed after the troops withdrew from Bucha.

At that time, Maxar Technologies provided images that were proof of the massacre. Maxar Technologies has several satellites (models WorldView-1 32060, WorldView-2 35946, WorldView-3 40115, GeoEye-1 33331). Three satellites were moving in all. The satellites started moving on March 19, but none of them had a trajectory over Bucha (watch the video below). Hence we can conclude that there was no information on Bucha from these satellites.

UPDATE :

The European Union will tighten sanctions against Russia and strengthen Kiev’s support in defense issues, according to German Foreign Minister Anna Lena Berbock on Twitter. European officials attribute this decision to the reports of the Ukrainian authorities about the events in Bucha.

UPDATE:

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that Kiev’s information about the mass killings in the Ukrainian Butcha is not true, and the footage was staged.

The Russian Defense Ministry stated that all the facts irrefutably confirm that the photos and video frames from Bucha are another staging of the Kiev regime for the Western media, as it was a case in Mariupol with the maternity hospital, as well as in other cities.

It was added that:

— All units of the Russian troops completely withdrew from Bucha on March 30, and these shots appeared on the 4th day after that, when SBU officers and representatives of Ukrainian TV arrived there;

— During the stay of Russian soldiers in Bucha, not a single civilian was injured;

— 452 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered and issued to civilians by Russian servicemen in the settlements of the Kiev region.

Following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kiev region, towns located near the capital where fierce fighting has just ended are now the main area covered by the Ukrainian media. Footage shared by locals days ago confirmed that there were civilians killed in fierce clashes that broke out during the Russian withdrawal.

As soon as Ukrainian journalists reached the area, the streets of Bucha turned out to be covered by corpses. Obviously, Russian servicemen are blamed of mass shooting on civilians when leaving the area.

According to the Ukrainian media reports, civilians were shot dead by Russian servicemen when running out of the town. This likely should be a reason why the corpses are laying all together.

In the video, one can see:

• all the dead are lying face down;
• people lie mixed up a body with demonstratively tied hands is seen next to the dead without tied hands, someone is laying next to a bicycle, a few meters away there are bodies with white armbands (sign for civilians in the areas under the Russian control);
• there almost no blood near the dead who were allegedly shot dead by Russian servicemen at close range along the road;
• there are no women and children, only male bodies seen on the video;
• one of the dead is getting up.

Russian forces left the city on March 30. It took four days to prepare fake shocking reports from Bucha.

In general, the installation spread by the MSM clearly shows the approaches that have been repeatedly used in Syria within the anti-Russian propaganda campaign.

More footage from the area leaves no questions on who is behind shelling on civilians. Soon after Russian forces left the town, Ukrainian militants of the so-called territorial defence entered Bucha. They deliberately shot all men who had no blue armbands.

This was confirmed by the video published by the leader of the Kiev territorial defence, Sergei Korotkov, call-sign “Bossman”, on April 1.

The video was titled “The work of the Bossman Boys in Bucha”: (read more)

New York Post:

The six people who were gunned down in Sacramento, Calif., over the weekend were identified Monday and one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting, police said.

Dandre Martin, 26, was booked for assault and illegal firearm possession, Sacramento cops said in a statement.

The department has yet to file any charges against Martin related to the deaths and it did not provide more details. City officials previously stated they believe there was more than one shooter in the early Sunday melee in the city’s downtown area.

The victims were identified by the Sacramento County coroner as Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21; and Devazia Turner, 29.

All were killed when “multiple suspects” opened fire at around 2 a.m. Sunday as locals were leaving clubs and bars.

It looks like most of the victims were not even Messican.

I guess the video of the Mexicans was just filmed near the shooting.

Maybe a couple of them got hit.

But it’s a relief that the Mexicans are not entering the drive-by game.

That could get messy quick. (read more)

Seriously. [Stop doing ‘breaking news’ for more accurate gun violence coverage, panel says: One solution: Build relationships to restore trust in local media., BillyPenn.com, April 1, 2022]:

Here’s something you might not expect to hear from a reporter: stop covering “breaking” news — at least when it comes to crime.

That was one of the most striking takeaways from Friday’s Shift the Narrative panel. Sponsored by the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, and Firelight Media, the virtual conversation centered on a question that’s asked a lot in Philly: How can journalists cover gun violence in ways that rebuild community trust — and don’t retraumatize survivors?

Last month, West Philly and Kensington residents told Billy Penn that constant coverage of individual shootings and a climbing homicide rate not only breeds disillusionment, but also ignores grassroots anti-violence efforts.

These blindspots make sense. Eyewitness and Action News broadcast formats emerged in Philadelphia as a way to make news profitable, with an overemphasis on crime that padded network pockets but isolated Black viewers.

Moderated by PABJ President and Philadelphia magazine editor-at-large Ernest Owens, the conversation asked researchers, community leaders, and journalists to consider the limits of standard crime coverage as gun violence continues to impact households indiscriminately.

More than 500 shootings have occurred since the start of 2022, which is slightly down from last year’s record pace, but still much higher than before the pandemic. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw recently said PPD officers can’t keep up with the pace of violence.

Panelists included Philadelphia Sun reporter Denise Clay-Murray and Temple University Hospital trauma surgeon-slash-gun violence researcher Jessica Beard, alongside the founders of three local anti-violence nonprofits: Philly Truce, Mothers in Charge, and the Young Chances Foundation.

Conclusions? Journalists need to stop framing coverage around individual shootings and start forging relationships with neighborhoods that don’t center on an information transaction.

Trauma surgeon and researcher Beard, whose recent research analyzed local news coverage of gun violence incidents, pointed to episodic framing as the media’s biggest obstacle.

You can think of episodic frames as the journalist’s equivalent to a season of “Law and Order: SVU,” where each individual episode focuses on solving a specific crime, with little overarching narrative.

For reporters, episodic crime coverage means focusing on each incident individually without acknowledging the context: what caused the conflict, what resources the neighborhood has, and how victims or bystanders might describe things differently than police. It’s the default format for local outlets trying to break news fast, but Beard argued that it misinforms readers and viewers.

“I don’t see a lot of value in episodic reports,” she told the panel. “If you constantly consume episodic coverage on firearm injury, [for example] you’re always going to be thinking of it as a crime problem. You won’t know what the solutions are … or what to ask of elected officials.”

How might reporters fix this? With a focus on systemic issues — and a new definition of breaking news.

“I don’t think two guys getting into an argument on the corner of 19th and Lehigh and shooting at each other is breaking news,” said longtime journalist Clay-Murray.

Across the board, panelists advocated for renewed focus on the determinants of crime, like neighborhood disinvestment, food insecurity, and lack of economic opportunity.

Don’t assume people like talking with reporters

With traditional “breaking news” coverage, conversations with reporters can easily turn transactional. The job of a reporter is to extract the information necessary for a story, which can often mean disregarding some pretty flagrant context: that someone’s child just died, a family is grieving under stress, and opening up can be stressful.

And sometimes, that information is sensationalized — meeting the needs of a newsroom, maybe, but not necessarily the needs of a community. Panelist Tyrique Glasgow, who founded the Young Chances Foundations, pointed out that showing crime footage might grab eyeballs on the news, but it could also encourage copycat acts.

“Soon, it becomes a competition to see who can become the next headline,” said Glasgow.

To erode that power imbalance, Clay-Murray and Mothers in Charge national director Dorothy Johnson-Speight offered tips for reporters on how to build relationships with communities that might be distrustful of media intentions.

For starters: Don’t assume everyone likes speaking with journalists.

“Recognize that you’re going into a situation where you have someone who may not want to talk to you and not force the issue,” said Clay-Murray, who recommended dropping notions of deadlines and editorial demands from the conversation.

Meanwhile, Johnson-Speight stressed the notion of creating enduring relationships. Reporters should coexist in these communities when good news happens — or even without any “news” at all. That breeds trust, she said, because it demonstrates a good-faith interest in marginalized communities beyond the headlines.

And sometimes, journalists might have to accept when too much damage has been done and try to rebuild a wholly new relationship, said moderator Ernest Owens.

“You can change the reporters, but not the community’s opinion of the publication.”

If Philadelphia were 100 percent white, would we see anyone advocating for the end of breaking news segments on gun violence? No. Because there would be virtually no gun violence in the city.

In a city where almost every fatal/non-fatal shooting is committed by blacks (or BIPOCs), this is what you get: black journalists begging for an end to individual news reports on black homicide and black non-fatal shootings. (read more)

Consider: Math curricula are being dumbed down because blacks do poorly at math, English grammar instruction eliminated because blacks can’t or won’t learn it, entrance exams for the elite and demanding high schools eliminated because blacks don’t pass them, SATs dropped because blacks score poorly on them, promotion exams in police departments eliminated because blacks don’t pass them. Entrance requirements at medical school are lowered because not enough blacks pass them, AP courses in high school eliminated because too few blacks get into them.

Dangerously, the government forbids white parents to have schools teaching what they regard as desirable material at what they regard as acceptable academic levels while requiring what they regard as civilized behavior. White parents are forced to see their children subjected to what they regard as obscene, semi-literate, violent, stupid, a culture dominated by what seems to them, (and would to any First World country) the opposite of cultivation. When parents whose daughter wants to go into electronic engineering see her forced into pseudo math taught by teachers who couldn’t recognize a partial derivative if it spoke to them in tongues, when she ought to be in AP calculus, they are not happy. But there is nothing they can do about it. Yet.

Imposing black intellectual standards on a country that sees itself in competition with disciplined, studious, bright, and exceedingly numerous Chinese engineers has obvious consequences that already make themselves felt. Much of the white population, aware of this, becomes angry and angrier.

The decline started perhaps when the Supreme Court disallowed the use of IQ tests by employers because blacks couldn’t pass them, and allowed affirmative action, racial discrimination against whites, because blacks couldn’t advance without it. This incapacity is the root of the racial problem. It cannot be solved, if it can be solved in any circumstances, in a politically chaotic and censored country that refuses to address it. Renaming buildings and toppling statutes will improve nothing while raising the level of anger among whites.

Not all of this degradation arises from the demands of blacks. The conversion of universities from scholarly enterprises into profit centers required the admission of huge cohorts of students neither intellectually or culturally suited to higher education. These, like blacks, have neither the interest nor capacity for genuine schooling. America’s characteristic anti-intellectualism and resentment of superiority plays a part. The argument for it is embodied in the semi-literate gibberish of education majors who themselves are unsuited for schooling. But blacks have provided the throw-weight for the promulgation of peasantry. Pampered white rabble have found that they can force elimination of virtually anything they don’t like by calling it racist.

The renaming of streets and buildings, the toppling of statues, the near worship of a negligible armed robber and semi-derelict, the renaming of military bases in narcissistic self-abnegation are winding a spring. It is dangerous that those angrily promoting the appeasement, the media, the talking heads in New York, do not see the advancing fury. These people, substantially congruent with the coastal elites, elected Trump by being contemptuous of Middle America and blandly unaware of the brewing storm. They are doing it again.

Yet it is black crime that is likely to provide the ignition. The figures are stark, undeniable, at the level of states, municipalities, FBI. These numbers are unknown in any other civilized country. It is perilous that black men rape white women at a high rate, while the reverse barely happens. Sexual transgression pushes primordial buttons that are not wise to push. At what seem shrinking intervals black mobs burn cities, loot and destroy stores., wreak havoc on neighborhoods, and go largely unopposed. Governments at all levels fear them, know that if they respond forcefully, the entire country will go up in flames. The police are cowed and neutered, so crime rises sharply. Whites, intimidated—intimidated so far—flee. Many cities are now only formally part of the United States. The black mobs do as they please without consequence.

The appeasement of blacks, fear that they might riot, runs through society. Increasingly jurisdiction simply give up on enforcing the law. Cities like Chicago and New York have abolished cash bail to that criminals immediately go free, and immediately often offend again. Baltimore and Chicago no longer prosecute minor offenses such as prostitution and urinating in public. San Francisco has made shoplifting of goods worth less than $950 a misdemeanor, the shoplifters not being Asians, with the result that to this date seventeen Walgreens have closed (video). Cities stop prosecuting the jumping of subway turnstiles as this is done only by blacks and Hispanics. The latter won’t riot. The former will, and governments know it. When blacks very often racially attack whites, the media suppress the story. There are many, many of these attacks, covered briefly in local media but ignored by the majors, caught on video that circulates widely online.

Herein lies a great peril. Blacks are accustomed to getting anything they want and growing confident, expect whites forever to back away. Perhaps, living in concentrated ghettos, not reading, poorly educated, they do not realize the certain outcome of an actual war. They are fed by white farmers from afar, heavily outnumbered, with electricity dependent on fuel supplies from sources run by whites.

Twenty-four Black on White Homicides in a Month. Read it. This goes on all the time. Over and over.

The racial attacks on whites and Asians share an unsettling explosiveness, an apparent lack of impulse control or awareness of consequences. A black shoots a store clerk for telling him to pull up his mask. Or black man stabs 96-year-old Asian woman. A black man shoots a white woman because she cut him off in traffic. Black man throws white five-year-old off third-floor balcony. Black man stabs four-year-old to death. Black man shoots white five-year-old in head.

The psychology here is strange. Shooting a child with no provocation in front of witnesses, or throwing one off a balcony in front of witnesses, or shooting a clerk for saying “Please pull up your mask,” all certain to lead to life in prison or close to it, is baffling.

Government and the media hide what is going on. In crime stories they increasingly do not publish the race or photo of perpetrators. This, they say, would perpetuate stereotypes, as indeed it would. Stereotypes are the aggregate observations of many people over time and are almost always accurate. But there is another, and worse, pattern. For example, when a black was shot in Ferguson, black witnesses lied, saying that he had his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot!” The media bought this and propagated it. They invariably go for the bad-white-innocent-blacks narrative and ghetto blacks, who don’t, and often cannot read, believe it and understandably become enraged. An uprising follows.

In particular the media do not make public the very real hatred of blacks for whites. Exceptions and degrees, yes, but the centerline is a powerful hostility. If you doubt this, and the brewing reaction, watch this video by Jared Taylor, one of many white advocates never seen in the media. About the video, two points: First, the examples of black hatred are documented, verifiable, and many. Second, whatever you may think of him, he is an example of what a great many quietly say—quietly because you can lose your job for saying the wrong thing.

What the country is doing hasn’t worked, isn’t working, and shows no sign of working. Things get worse by the month. With Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and so on apparently doing everything they can to infuriate the other half of the country—gun control, open borders, erasing the South, anti-white indoctrination in the schools, promotion of sexual curiosities, on and on, anger will grow. As the man associated with Finland Station asked, “What is to be done?”

Unfortunately nothing can be done. Anything that might work is politically impossible, and anything that is politically possible won’t work. Cosmetics, moral preening, lowering of standards, party politics—none of these will fix the country. In calmer times, saner heads might prevail. Partial alleviation might be achieved by allowing, or encouraging, voluntary segregation, taking white police out of black neighborhoods, letting black neighborhoods decide what laws to enforce within their own boundaries, letting the races decide for themselves what to teach their children, and to the extent possible allowing racial autonomy. Instead, the elites will double down on what isn’t working and nothing will get better, except the monthly sales at gun shops. (read more)

Numerous reports are now circulating claiming that United States Army Major General Roger L. Cloutier has been CAPTURED by Russian forces in or around Mariupol, Ukraine where, the reports claim, he was helping the AZOV Battalion which is Ukraine's official NAZI unit.

According to Wikipedia, Major General Roger L. Cloutier:

Roger L. Cloutier Jr. is a United States Army lieutenant general who serves as the Commander of the Allied Land Command. Previously, he served as the Commander of the United States Army Africa.

Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) formerly Allied Land Forces South-Eastern Europe (LANDSOUTHEAST) is the standing headquarters for NATO land forces which may be assigned as necessary. The Commander LANDCOM is the prime land warfare advisor to the Alliance. When directed by the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, it provides the core of the headquarters responsible for the conduct of land operations. The command is based at Şirinyer (Buca), İzmir in Turkey.

Email to the Pentagon sent several HOURS ago, has gone unanswered which, from a media perspective, is very unusual.  If this report was false, the Pentagon would deny it immediately.  They have NOT denied it.  But no official answer has come from the Pentagon either way as of 6:10 PM EDT Monday. (read more)

Pentagon can't independently confirm atrocities in Ukraine's Bucha, official says

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is not in a position to independently confirm Ukrainian accounts of atrocities by Russian forces against civilians in the town of Bucha, ...
...
"The Pentagon can't independently and single handedly confirm that, but we're also not in any position to refute those claims."

If the Pentagon, which includes the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, could not confirm what the government in Kiev claimed, who else could?

Certainly not the European minions who reacted to those dubious claims by removing more Russian embassy personal from their countries.

The U.S. is again pushing the Europeans into suiciding their economies. The U.S. would of course be the only country that would gain from that.

Its over. The Ukraine has lost the war. Its navy, air force and defense industry no longer exist. The Russia air force is doing hundreds of bombing runs per night eliminating any fuel and ammunition depot that is left in Ukraine.

Without fuel tanks their trucks are immobilized. Without ammunition artillery falls silent. The heavy Ukrainian units along Donbas are now unable to do maneuver warfare. They can not even flee. Replenishment and reserves are unable to reach them. They have the choice of giving up or getting destroyed in place.

Anyone who is still pushing more weapons into Ukraine or tells Kiev to prolong the war is putting more Ukrainian lives at risk for zero [Ukrainian] potential gain.

That's criminal.(read more)

The former Indian ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar calls it an outright fake:

An indignant Moscow has angrily demanded a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over the allegations of atrocities by Russian troops in areas around Kiev through the past month. Prima facie, this allegation is fake news but it can mould misperceptions by the time it gets exposed as disinformation.

A Tass report says: “The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the Russian Armed Forces had left Bucha, located in the Kiev region, on March 30, while “the evidence of crimes” emerged only four days later, after Ukrainian Security Service officers had arrived in the town. The ministry stressed that on March 31, the town’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk had confirmed in a video address that there were no Russian troops in Bucha. However, he did not say a word about civilians shot dead on the street with their hands tied behind their backs.”

Even more surprising is that within minutes of the “breaking news”, western leaders — heads of state, foreign ministers, former politicians — popped up with statements duly kept ready and only based on the videos, seconds-long videos and a clutch of photos, ready to pour accusations. No expert opinion was sought, no forensic work was done, no opportunity given to the accused to be heard.

I had yesterday, at 15:09 UTC, posted a timeline of the events in Bucha on Twitter. Here is an expanded version.

Mar 30 - Ru troops leave Bucha

Mar 31 - Mayor of Bucha announces town 'liberated', makes no mention of atrocities.

Bucha liberated from Russian invaders – mayor - Ukrinform

The mayor of Bucha in Kyiv region, Anatoliy Fedoruk, stated that the town had been liberated from Russian troops.

Fedoruk said this in his video address posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

"March 31 will go down in the history of our Bucha community as the Day of Liberation. ..."

Apr 1/2 - Azov Nazis enter Bucha

Scenes of desperation and death as the Russians retreat from suburbs outside Kyiv. - New York Times

Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov battalion walked through the remnants of a Russian military convoy in the recently liberated town of Bucha on Saturday, just outside the capital after the Russians withdrew.

Apr 3 - Ukr MinDef publishes video of 'Russian' atrocities

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. - New York Times, Apr 3

Footage posted by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and photographs from news agencies showed the bodies of men in civilian clothes on the streets of Bucha, a town northwest of Kyiv. Images showed some corpses with hands bound behind their back.

A screenshot of the original NYT piece was attached to my tweet. It included the sentence:

The New York Times was unable to independently verify the assertions by Ukraine's Defense Ministry and other officials.

The above tweet went viral with more than 3,000 retweets and nearly 5,000 likes. People obviously recognize the importance of the above timeline for the question of who killed whom, when and how.

Gonzalo Lira, who is in Karkiv, has previously directed a professionally made movie. In this video he asserts that the main 'Russian' atrocity video, which shows cars driving down a street strewn with dead bodies, is of a professional high production quality that can only be achieved with high end equipment. He also remarks on additional evidence from the scenes that points to a false flag operation.

Lira comes to the conclusion that the Azov Nazis have killed some people in Bucha that had been too friendly with the Russian 'occupiers' and are now blaming Russia for it.

Azov gangs are known for such atrocities. Based on the above timeline I concur with Lira's conclusion.

Posted by b on April 4, 2022 at 14:34 UTC | Permalink

Child Abuse and Grooming

There are many forms of child abuse beyond the physical or psychological abuse of a parent or guardian to a child. This might be considered ‘old school’ child abuse and is still prevalent and pernicious.

The idea that children need protection from harmful and abusive parents by the state still holds. However, over the last decade, this has become inverted by ideologues who believe they know better than parents how to raise their children.

For years now children have become victims of a new form of child abuse that’s rooted in completely made-up academic disciplines related to critical theories. The most well-known has become critical race theory (CRT) which teaches a warped and racist view of race relations based on bloodguilt and the historical crimes of one race for which descendants of the same race must atone for the sins of their ancestors. Teaching children that the color of their skin is paramount and to view the social relations with their peers based on oppression and privilege is nothing short of blatant child abuse. To do the same with radical gender or queer theories with young children is blatant grooming.

We often think of grooming in those ‘old school’ terms as physical contact or sexual abuse by monsters. The vast majority of grooming is psychologically driven. Making children confused about complicated and private subjects like gender and sexuality, particularly without the consent of parents, is an insidious new practice that educators believe is their duty and responsibility.

There are monsters everywhere in society, many with criminal records and registered on sex offender lists whom you wouldn’t let your children near and yet in school classrooms across the U.S. (this is mostly an American phenomenon, though Britain and her commonwealths are trying to keep pace) parents allow their children to spend 6-8 hours each day with activist monsters who prey upon their vulnerable children, confusing them about sexuality and gender, and this being the age of epidemic narcissism, often sharing far too much information about themselves and their own sexuality and gender confusion with children as young as three.

This practice hit home personally a few years ago when I was with my 6-year-old niece and 4-year-old nephew. Driving them home one day we passed a pond of geese and my niece spoke of male geese and female geese. We talked about the goose and the gander. Then she asked, “How come with geese there are only he and she geese but with us, we can have more than just those two?”

Again, she was six years old at the time and I was visiting for the first time since she was three. I nearly drove into a ditch.

When I asked where she learned that, she said school. They live near the one city in the U.S. you would imagine as being the center of all this ideological madness. Yeah, that one.

To say I was furious is an understatement. That was before child abuse with masking, social distancing, and school closures. Both kids had two years of their lives stolen from them by teacher’s unions and a psychotic woke butch governor. They didn’t even return to school until a month ago. They just got to remove their masks in school a week ago. One of their new “facilitators” (teachers) is a genderqueer something-something. Basically, a man who wears dresses.

Their indoctrination into this madness is now on overdrive and, as their uncle who lives on another continent, there’s not a damn thing I can do about it, which is partly why I still live on another continent. It’s too painful to watch up close.

How did we arrive at this point where activist teachers, many of them clearly mentally ill, get to groom children as young as 3-years-old in classrooms under the guises of ‘diversity and inclusion’ or ‘tolerance and acceptance’ or ‘creating safe spaces for marginalized groups’?

How does western civilization get to the point where the children are property of the state, to be raised by the state?

Grooming: The deliberate act of bringing a child into a sexual, political, or racial ideology, practice, cult, or lifestyle without the knowledge or consent of his or her parents for the aim of isolating them from their family so the external party can abuse and manipulate them.

How do parents in Blue States put up with this madness? Are they not complicit in the abuse and grooming of their own children?

In my previous posts, I have alluded to the tendency of history to repeat and how each scam from the past is used as a prototype for the current con.  I originally created this substack to bring awareness to the fact the smallpox vaccine campaigns were a very similar disaster to the COVID vaccine campaigns.  Over a century ago, those deadly vaccines actually made smallpox worse, and as public resistance grew, governments responded increasingly draconian mandates and all of that only stopped because of mass protest by the working class.

There are a few other striking examples of where an “emergency” situation was used to enact cruel and legally questionable medical campaign on a vulnerable demographic.  My familiarity with these campaigns and my previous advocacy for many of the forgotten victims of western medicine made me able to predict the seemingly unthinkable situation we are in now.  Of these events, the military anthrax vaccine campaign appears to have the closest parallels to our current situation, especially considering that many of the exact same parties responsible for that debacle have done the identical thing with COVID-19.

The story of the military anthrax vaccine campaigns is horrific and even a few years ago would have been challenging to believe it could have ever happened.  An extremely dangerous medical experiment was conducted in absolute secret on large segments of the military so that a new wave of highly profitable vaccines the NIH was heavily invested in could be brought to market.  Massive casualties emerged (in those who received hot lots), and the military did everything they could to cover it up. 

Eventually outside investigators obtained clear proof that a phase 1 dose response trial (this is the initial part of testing a drug where “small” numbers of volunteers are given a medication to assess its safety for further testing) was being conducted.  Despite this the military continued this experiment for over a decade, and while there were large numbers of victims, the numbers were small enough to sweep everything under the rug.  Now in the present day, it appears that some of the technologies used for operation Warp Speed are the same ones that were developed during this experiment.

Much of this article is sourced from the phenomenal journalism by Gary Matsumoto within “Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers -- and Why GI's Are Only the First Victims.”  An abridged version can also be found within Chapter 16 of Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children.  Both books are only a decade old and accurately predicted much of what was soon to come. 

I understand everyone working on this project has limited time.  However, I would strongly urge any attorneys involved to review the details within Vaccine A, as I believe they will prove crucial for future litigation.  I have put an immense amount of time I don’t really have into drafting this, and I would greatly appreciate your assistance in getting it to the appropriate parties. 

This article will be broken into the following sections:

-Hot mRNA Lots
-History of Unethical Human Experimentation
-Bioweapons
-Lipid Adjuvants
-The Anthrax Vaccines

Hot mRNA Lots:

When Operation Warp Speed was announced, I was hopeful it would give therapeutics the FDA had stonewalled in the past a chance to shine, and apprehensive it would allow unsafe, untested pharmaceuticals to enter the market.  After I and others attempted in vain to attain regulatory approval to conduct non-commercial clinical trials for viable solutions for the pandemic, we each saw the regulatory barriers that had been removed were only to support pharmaceutical profiteering and not to promote public health. 

The thing I failed to appreciate until recently was the significance of the military being intimately involved with Operation Warp Speed.  I hadn’t paid much attention to this, as I thought it was done to expedite the production and distribution of medical supplies.  What I’ve realized recently is that this allowed a lot of horrible people in our government to shape Operation Warp Speed around their pet projects that would normally never be permitted to happen.

Everything about COVID, particularly the PR campaigns for the vaccines screamed to me that something very bad was in the works.  Many of us watched as everything was coordinated to create a once in a lifetime opportunity, step by step, to push through a variety of otherwise unacceptable medical experiments and practices.  As mRNA technology likely represents a potential multi-trillion-dollar source of revenue and the pharmaceutical industry is desperate for innovations (it is getting very difficult to develop new traditional drugs), bringing mRNA to market seemed a likely goal of Operation Warp Speed.

When the COVID vaccines were being developed, one of my early questions was “how are they going to dose the mRNA?”  Within pharmacology, a concept known as therapeutic window exists.  Briefly, all medications at certain doses are toxic, and all medications need a certain (therapeutic) dose to work.  Some medications have a much higher toxic dose than therapeutic dose, so anyone can take the medication at home without worrying about toxicity.  Other more dangerous medications have much closer therapeutic and toxic doses, and hence must be given in a controlled setting. 

As best as I could gather, a major problem with mRNA technology had been that to produce enough protein in the recipient, the mRNA and their lipid nanoparticles had to be given at a dose that had significant side effects.  This poor therapeutic window I suspected was a key reason why despite significant investment, this technology had never been able to make it to market. 

To some extent the issue now seems to have been addressed by enhancing the amount of protein each mRNA would produce.  This was done by attaching pseudouridine to the mRNA so it would not be broken down as quickly (although it also has been argued this was done so a unique and therefore patentable modification existed) and codon optimization. These two innovations also appear to have created new sets of problems, and the R&D situation largely reminded me of the challenges the designers of the anthrax vaccine faced.  The pandemic, like the Gulf War, had created a once in a lifetime opportunity for questionable data gathering and as one of my colleagues put it: “The vaccine isn’t free.  If the government is putting this much money into it, they must want a lot of data in return.”

As the rollout began, I noticed individuals had very different responses to the vaccinations, which seemed to suggest placebos and more toxic or less toxic lots were present.  Similarly, one of my colleagues (who I consider to be a superb diagnostician) told me he was absolutely certain some of his patients had received placebos.  At the same time, as I began witnessing a horrifying emergence of severe adverse events, I also observed multiple cases of close relatives who lived together (such as a husband and wife) having the same, sometimes fatal reaction. 

If we were to assume 0.1% of vaccinations result in death, then mathematically, the odds are very close to 0 that in my relatively small sample size (roughly 40 deaths) I would be seeing cases of the same severe adverse event happen to two people who lived together (I also saw a few other non-fatal things cluster like this).  While there were a lot of possibilities to explain this observation, the best fit hypothesis I had was, as was the case with the anthrax vaccine, there were dangerous hot lots that both members of the household had likely gotten when they were vaccinated together.  From reading numerous reports from online forums, I have found I am not the only person who had encountered this clustering of adverse events.

Once this dawned on me, I checked VAERS and couldn’t believe most of the deaths and severe injuries from the vaccine were associated with specific lots…and nothing was being done.  Later, as this began to be investigated, it was also discovered most of these hot lots appeared to be in red states, which matched the clustering of adverse events within my sample (these were concentrated in Ohio). However, I believe it is critical to not overstate your conclusions, and having talked to numerous data analysts, at the time, while there is data suggest this may be happening, I do not believe there is sufficient data within VAERS to prove red states are being prioritized for more harmful vaccinations.

Around the same time, some of Pfizer’s drug approval documents from the European FDA (the EMA) were leaked.  One regulatory concern discussed in these documents was the stability of the mRNA product (which has likely gotten worse now as most of the strict refrigeration protocols are often not followed and the scaling production of vaccines up from the small number needed for clinical trials verses that needed for billions of people will inevitably lead to production mishaps).  Another was that the FDA had found differences between lots from different facilities.  These made me wonder if part of the variation in toxicity between the lots was from manufacturing issues that were being swept under the rug by Operation Warp Speed, something members of the FDA responsible for inspecting vaccine production had voiced serious concerns about.

Further support for this theory arose from the recent J&J manufacturing fiasco, where the company they had contracted to produce their vaccine, Emergent Biosolutions was required by the (very lenient) FDA to dispose of millions of improperly produced doses.  This manufacturer (previously known as Bioport) has deep connections to the military.  The company was also responsible for producing the military’s anthrax vaccine, and had also been repeatedly penalized and cited by the FDA for serious production quality issues with that vaccine.

Bioport, like the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers now, was also given complete legal immunity to any issues from their vaccine which likely incentivized ignoring safety and appropriate production of the vaccine.  Oddly enough, the manager responsible for quality control at the Emergent Biosolutions plant producing J&J’s COVID vaccine, according to Whitney Webb, had no background in pharmaceutical manufacturing or quality control, and rather had served as a head of military intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While I have been seeing signs of something very nefarious in the works since late 2019, I still hoped against hope this was all simply my own paranoia.  The moment when reality crashed into my face was a presentation put together by Craig Paardekooper. 

For those who do not have time to watch it, he showed that in addition to VAERS having evidence suggestive of hot lots, there is also data in VAERS that suggested Pfizer, J&J, and Moderna had been testing hot lots with various degrees of lethality in collusion with each other.  As time progressed, the toxicity of these lots became more precise, and at one point Pfizer conducted a dose response study that could be observed within VAERS. As this had recently been done to a large segment of the military with the anthrax vaccine, I was open to this possibility, but the fact that something like this could actually be occurring was still very difficult for me to stomach.

With the VAERS data, I acknowledge you could potentially argue the hot lots initially identified arose due to some type of bias.  However, I’ve looked at each of the counter arguments to the clustering of hot lots (Jessica Rose makes a very good one) and at this time I believe Craig’s findings raise serious concerns.  I have also spoken with members of Craig’s team (there are intelligent individuals with a background in this field working together) and they appear to be being very careful to not overstate their conclusions.

In Craig’s subsequent work, using the data he found in VAERS that suggested Pfizer had conducted a dose response study, he was able to identify a simple code from those lots that correlated with toxicity. This had also happened previously with the anthrax vaccines.  A while back I also saw a video where a recently retired Slovenian nurse made a similar claim.  At the time I didn’t know what to make of it or if it was even authentic (which has thus far not been established), but I immediately remembered it after I saw Craig’s work.

Recently, the topic of hot lots has come back into focus after reviewers of the Pfizer FOIA documents found proof that mRNA was being given at different doses.  While this would support the theory I am advancing, I believe this specific conclusion was an example of confirmation bias. When I looked at the table in question, I realized it simply reflected public knowledge of the fact Moderna uses a higher mRNA dose than Pfizer, and different vaccination doses with different billing codes have been developed depending on the age of the recipient.  This does not in any way prove the existence of hot lots, only that data has been gathered to develop appropriate dosing of mRNA.

History of Unethical Human Experimentation:

I have often wondered if the reason the Tuskegee syphilis experiments have received so much attention in the press was to distract from the fact that even more hideous experiments have been performed on vulnerable populations.  Some of those done by Fauci (such as the violent administration of experimental HIV medications to non-consenting orphans in New York that caused them to die in agonizing ways) have been brought the public’s attention because of The Real Anthony Fauci.  Some are discussed in a classic Wikipedia article on the subject.  Many other experiments I have come across are for all purposes unknown, and I am sure there are many more I have never heard of.

The development of medical science has been a struggle of humanity fraught with many mishaps and disasters for those involved.  At the same time, the collective suffering our forefathers experienced, often due to abhorrent medical interventions, eventually made it possible to develop profound improvements in the quality of life for the human species. 

There has hence been a continual debate if it is appropriate to advance medicine through barbaric experimentation.  One example would be animal experimentation.  The life experience of myself and many others has shown us animals are often sentient, and despite this, much of medical research involves barbaric and often completely unnecessary experimentation on animals.  The topic of animal experimentation birthed the “anti-vivisection” movement, which amongst other things, argued that medicine developed through evil would inevitably enact that same evil on its intended recipients, something which often comes true.

Human beings appear to have a limited number of social connections they can maintain an emotional connection to.  As a result, when individuals are in small groups, they typically prioritize the liberty and well-being of those around them.  Yet, when people assume positions of authority where they are responsible for a large number of people, dehumanization frequently occurs and the people they are responsible for become abstract entities whose collective good becomes prioritized over the rights of each individual.  I have observed this entire process in so many ways I am convinced it is an intrinsic aspect of human nature.

As the progression of science is so crucial to the advancement of civilization, and our form of science is largely based on biological experimentation, it is hence a recurring theme that highly unethical human experimentation occurs.  In recognition of this fact, when you complete the training program required in the USA to conduct research on human subjects, the importance of not conducting research on vulnerable groups who lack the ability to refuse to be experimented upon is a key focus of the program. 

At the same time, when viewed from a perspective emphasizing “collective good,” vulnerable captive groups represent the ideal groups to conduct experiments on.  The experimental group can be tightly controlled, preventing many of the common issues with data accumulation (ie. subjects dropping out of the trial).  They also are less likely to resist taking a toxic medication and when something bad happens, they don’t have anyone who will ask questions about what happened to them.

In the past, prisoners, the mentally handicapped, orphans in foster care and those indefinitely confined within medical facilities were frequent targets for horrific experimentation.  Until about half a century ago, it was common to see experiments of this nature be condoned by society and published in leading medical journals and few objections were raised towards those studies.

However, overtime, public protest occurred and eventually experimentation on these vulnerable groups was largely stopped, leading to much of it being outsourced to Africa.  As this reduced the supply of “ideal” domestic research subjects, the only remaining subject pool, the military, was regularly utilized.  Military culture is based around obeying orders from your superiors even if it puts your life in danger and always completing your required period of enlistment.  In short, members of the military often lack the ability to refuse to a medical intervention, something many are all too eager to take advantage of.

Within the military, it has always been considered acceptable for some soldiers to die on the battlefield to achieve a victory.  This logic in turn has been extended towards it being acceptable for a certain number to be maimed or killed in experiments that yield results of vital strategic importance.  However, that often blends with corruption, leading to profiteers conducting numerous ghastly experiments that are not necessary for national security.  War profiteering, the focus on my previous article, is a dark side of our democracy that when understood, helps to place many of these events into context.

After the events of the anthrax scandal happened, and a senate investigation was conducted, laws were passed to prevent the future forced administration of experimental (non-FDA approved) medications on soldiers.  Despite that, existing legal structures still make this feasible to do, such as soldiers being unable to sue the military for injuries from forced medications (due to the questionable Feres Doctrine), the declaration of “emergency situations” overriding soldiers’ right of consent, and the military being allowed to inflict harsh punishments on soldiers for dereliction of duty when they refuse vaccinations.  These punishments included large fines and prison sentences that were levied against soldiers who refused the vaccination.

There are many tragic cases we have all heard in the military with the COVID vaccines.  One of my friends spent 6 months fighting the mandate and produced a strong legal case showing the specific manner in which Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had mandated these vaccines violated both the law and rulings from federal judges (there actually was a legal pathway Austin could have followed). 

His exemption request was eventually approved and then rescinded after a very high-ranking member of the military stepped in and overrode his exemption, not unlike the events at Dover Airforce Base.  My friend now, like many others in the military is vaccine injured and unable to perform his duties.  Many similar events played out during the anthrax campaign and both vaccination campaigns had a devastating effect on both our military readiness and general morale in a profession that is built upon troop morale and patriotism.

Additionally, as excellently summarized within The Real Anthony Fauci, Anthony Fauci has played a key role in transforming the NIH and FDA into becoming pharmaceutical production pipelines where many regulatory officials are bribed to create, test and approve these drugs.  Within this paradigm, required safeguards for human subjects (Fauci’s wife is actually the chief bioethics official for clinical trials in the USA) are frequently disregarded or waived.  A significant aspect of Fauci’s career has been to work hand in hand with the military, both through directly conducting illegal research on their behalf (ie. gain of function research) and indirectly by waiving the ethical safeguards for experimentation on members of the military.

There are so many questionable experiments that have been performed on soldiers I cannot even begin to summarize them (Vaccine A lists many).  For example, in the days of nuclear bomb testing, to study the effects of fallout, the military would station troops in trenches near the detonation sites and inform them the fallout was safe, then give orders to charge following detonations.  One of my patients (a marine) told me this happened to his grandfather who was told by his superiors the fallout was safe; he subsequently died from an agonizing cancer.  However, while many “bad” experiments have been done, I believe the anthrax and COVID vaccines are in a class of their own due to how many people they have affected.

In the words of now retired USAF captain Richard Rovert, who tried to protect the servicemen at Dover Airforce Base from anthrax vaccination:

“I write about some of the most vulnerable of society's members: our men and women in uniform…Unfortunately, these brave defenders of our freedom are defenseless against the mandatory use of dangerous vaccines, such as the anthrax vaccine. For the past sixty-four years, the United States military and other government agencies have used our servicemen and women as test subjects, often in secret and without informed consent. Moreover, there is no end in sight; there are additional biodefense vaccines waiting in a pipeline to be tested on our soldiers.

Sadly, this is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented fact. In December 1994, right after the first Gulf War, the United States Senate released a report titled, "Is Military Research Hazardous to a Veteran's Health?" This report outlined the unethical use of servicemen and women as test subjects. The report revealed that the Pentagon had quietly used soldiers in clinical trials and did not record the resulting information in their medical records, preventing the soldiers from receiving appropriate follow-up care. Many were simply left to die.“

A frequently cited poem from the Holocaust states:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Each time something bad is done, it is first normalized on a vulnerable group, but before long shows up on your doorstep.  What Fauci did to the gay community during the AIDS epidemic was horrendous, but few spoke out for them because they were a heavily marginalized community at the time.  He subsequently did the same thing in many other places (i.e.. in Africa with Ebola), and eventually to the entire country.  Much of what he’s done to the world over the last few years would never have happened if as a society, we had stood up for these forgotten people.

Captain Rovert also was aware of this and predicted the near future:

“I want you to burn these two letters and two numbers into your consciousness (MF59) so you will remember them because squalene will next be used in civilian vaccines”

New vehicles sold in the United States will have to travel an average of at least 49 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under the new federal rules. The requirement would have been at 32 mpg if going by rules under the Trump administration.

Specifically, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said fuel efficiency requirements will increase by 8 percent annually for 2024 and 2025 model years, and 10 percent annually for model year 2026.

The Trump administration had in March 2020 rolled back fuel efficiency requirements to 1.5 percent annual increases through 2026. The Obama administration had required 5 percent annual increases.

The new regulation (pdf) marks a slightly bigger increase than the proposal outlined in August 2021 by the NHTSA in a joint rule-making process with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of efforts to improve gas mileage and reduce tailpipe pollution.

The EPA announced similar rules (pdf) in December 2021.

[Homosexual] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the new rule “means that American families will be able to drive further before they have to fill up, saving hundreds of dollars per year.”

NHTSA estimates (pdf) that under the rule, consumers could save $1,387 in fuel costs over the life of a vehicle. but the average cost of a new vehicle would also increase by almost that much—$1,087. (read more)

• The White House is rolling out a series of new actions and aims to support LGBTQI+ Americans on Transgender Day of Visibility 2022
• It comes a day after Arizona banned gender-affirming surgery for minors 
• Biden is side-stepping states that have removed LGBTQI+ youth resources from their official websites by launching a federal government site instead
• Airport security checks will move past 'the current, gender-based system'
• The Biden administration also condemned 'dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks' working their way through GOP-led states
• More than a dozen states have passed limits on trans youth sports participation
  

The Biden administration announced a slate of new actions on Thursday to support transgender and LGBTQI+ Americans in the face of what the White House called 'dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks' in the president's latest battle with Republican-led states.

'The evidence is clear that these types of bills stigmatize and worsen the well-being and mental health of transgender kids, and they put loving and supportive families across the country at risk of discrimination and harassment,' the White House said in a fact sheet.

New measures include an effort by the Homeland Security Department to make airport screenings more gender-neutral and a host of new educational resources on gender-affirming care for kids and teens, after several Republican governors placed limits on accessing such information.

The State Department will also be rolling out an option for people to select 'X' as a gender on their passports beginning on April 11. 

To support this, the White House said in a fact sheet, the government is 'working closely with air carriers' in the US to 'promote the use and acceptance' of the 'X' passport option.

United Airlines and American Airlines already allow passengers to pick 'X' as their gender. A third airline will roll it out this fall, the White House said.

The Transportation Security Administration will overhaul 'the current, gender-based system' with 'more accurate technology' to screen travelers later this year to improve 'customer experience of transgender travelers who have previously been required to undergo additional screening due to alarms in sensitive areas.'

The TSA is also updating its guidelines to remove 'gender considerations' during airport security checkpoints. 

'Every American deserves the freedom to be themselves. But far too many transgender Americans still face systemic barriers, discrimination, and acts of violence,' the Biden administration said. 

'Today, the Administration once again condemns the proliferation of dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks that have been introduced and passed in state legislatures around the country.'

The White House is also launching a new website with resources for LGBTQI+ children and their parents to circumvent states that 'have removed critical information about mental health resources for LGBTQI+ youth from official state websites.'

'Transgender youth often face significant barriers in accessing supportive resources, and are at greater risk of attempted suicide,' the White House said. 'These resources include best practices for affirming an LGBTQI+ child, and information about suicide prevention services.'

It comes after Texas' Health Department reportedly removed pages on suicide prevention for LGBTQI+ youth from the state's website earlier this year. 

Florida's Department of Education removed 'LGBTQ-inclusive antibullying resources' from its web pages in December, according to the Advocate. 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office told DailyMail.com, 'It is simply indefensible that the Biden Administration DOE has officially endorsed policy guidance that directs school staff to keep secrets about children from their parents.' 

On Thursday the White House also announced it directed The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, an office within the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), to release new information to medical providers 'confirming that providing gender-affirming care is neither child maltreatment nor malpractice.'

It's also making sure resources on gender-affirming care are getting to parents, students and teachers via a new HHS web page after Arizona announced it would ban the medical treatment for minors on Wednesday. 

Similar bills are working their way through Alabama and Texas' state governments. 

Conversations surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation, particularly in the classroom, have become a flash point for Republicans. 

Idaho's legislature passed the first sports participation ban on trans youth in 2020, though it was blocked in court.  

GOP Governors like South Dakota's Kristi Noem and Florida's DeSantis have led the charge to place limits on trans youth competing in school sports, claiming transgender women have an unfair advantage over biological females.

Fourteen states so far have bans on transgender students participating in sports consistent with their gender identity, according to the Movement Advancement Project. 

Noem signed an executive order in March 2021 restricting participation in women's school sports to those assigned female at birth. 

Last month she signed a similar bill into law, making South Dakota the first state to pass such a ban in 2022.

DeSantis has come under fire from LGBTQI+ activists and Democrats for signing into law a bill that bans teachers and other school staff in kindergarten through third grade from discussing 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' in the classroom.

Teachers can be sued by parents for running afoul of the new law, which critics dubbed the 'Don't Say Gay' bill. 

[Illegitimate] President Joe Biden denounced the law as 'hateful' earlier this year. It goes into effect July 1.

And on Wednesday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey became the latest Republican governor to sign a bill limiting trans youth participation in sports in addition to the ban on gender-affirming surgery for minors. 

Biden released a statement marking the eve of Transgender Day of Visibility that same day, which also took aim at states limiting access to resources for trans youth.

'In the past year, hundreds of anti-transgender bills in States were proposed across America, most of them targeting transgender kids. The onslaught has continued this year. These bills are wrong,' the president said. 

'Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation's values.' (read more)

In 2021 Elon Musk created overnight millionaires by pushing the Dogecoin meme. In 2022, he may be gearing up for something far more dramatic. The world’s richest man might be on the cusp of launching a global crusade to restore freedom of speech.

Is a new platform needed?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2022

Creating an alternative platform could be interesting, though several of these exist already. Twitter remains, by Elon’s own admission, the de facto public town square. Despite its severe censorship, it is still the only major digital public space where anonymous accounts can interact with celebrities, journalists and business titans (including Elon), where world leaders engage in spirited public diplomacy, and where dominant cultural and political narratives incubate and spread.

The most exciting possibility is therefore the most obvious one: Musk should simply buy a controlling stake in Twitter itself. He could certainly afford it. At $31 billion, Twitter’s market cap is less than 15 percent of Musk’s current net worth. Even if one regards Twitter stock as entirely worthless, Musk could theoretically buy a controlling stake in it and still be the world’s richest man by fifty billion dollars, and free speech would be restored to the “land of the free.”

But in practice, it’s not that easy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to imagine a project more dangerous and difficult than restoring free speech to a major tech platform like Twitter. At the same time, it’s hard to imagine a more worthwhile project. Restoring genuine free speech would do more for patriotic Americans than the GOP taking back the White House in 2024, and it would pose a greater threat to the ruling Regime than anything Russia, China, or Iran might plausibly do.

Free speech online is what enabled the Trump revolution in 2016. If the Internet had been as free in 2020 as it was four years before, Trump would have cruised to reelection. Massive censorship and suppression are the tools needed to prop up Covid tyranny, the Ukraine war fever, and the idea that Lia Thomas is a “woman.” America’s decrepit and illegitimate ruling class intuitively understand this: Absolute freedom of speech, or even the speech norms that prevailed a mere decade ago, would instantly cause the American regime as we know it to crumble.

In short, transforming Twitter back into a real free speech platform would represent nothing less than a declaration of war against the Globalist [Anglo-]American [Zionist\ Empire. 

To fully understand why this is so, it is crucial to understand that Twitter is anything but a conventional “private company.” A company like The Home Depot might have a market cap ten times as large as Twitter’s, yet in terms of power and influence, who controls Twitter is profoundly more consequential. Home Depot would probably not remove its best selling paint cans or cardboard boxes from the shelves. Twitter, on the other hand, deplatformed its most high profile user, Donald J. Trump, while he was the sitting President of the United States. This is only the most dramatic example of censorious policy changes that restrict information flow and profit for Twitter.

In 2020 Revolver explored the Tucker Carlson Paradox: Tucker Carlson Tonight is the most popular program in cable news, yet no other networks try to imitate its content. The reason, we argued, is that ratings (and by extension profitability) are not even the real point of major news outlets:

For a media empire operating at the highest levels, the influence it wields on the public’s mind is far more valuable to the ruling power structure than any self-contained profit that could be generated by optimizing their news product to suit the taste of the audience.

This does not mean that profit is irrelevant to a media company. In Tucker’s case, his stratospheric ratings are a great tool of leverage, and without profit, a company must continually court new investors. But the point remains that for a serious media enterprise, profit is always secondary to influence.

READ THE REST: Power Over Profits: Here’s The Dirty Little Secret Behind The Media’s True Business Model

The Tucker Carlson Paradox applies in its most extreme form to a platform like Twitter. Twitter’s market capitalization of barely $30 billion is extremely modest by Big Tech standards. Even Snapchat is twice as valuable. And yet, as the global public square, Twitter is also the epicenter of narrative formation, a key promotional vehicle for journalists and celebrities, and an increasingly critical stage for public diplomacy and hybrid warfare between state powers. Twitter gets to decide which “freedom fighters” deserve to have their slogans go viral and which “authoritarians” and “domestic terrorists” need to be suppressed and censored. Twitter’s relatively marginal market cap belies the existential threat it would pose to every dominant institution in the United States (including the national security apparatus) if it implemented a policy of real unfettered free speech.

If Elon Musk bought Twitter and did nothing more than return it to the speech norms it had ten years ago, that act alone would constitute a “national security threat.” The threat posed to America’s joke institutions and the clowns who run them would be, in fact, existential.

This is not to dissuade Musk from purchasing Twitter — just the opposite, in fact. Revolver points this out to demonstrate how bold a move it would be — one of the very few which, if successful, would be a genuine game changer rather than a fake and performative gesture.

But if Musk opts for the path of boldness and glory, he should be prepared for historic backlash from the regime. The entire system would mobilize against Twitter reflecting the same cancellation strategies the Regime systematically employs to control politicians, websites, major businesses, and even countries. Twitter would get the “George Floyd” treatment on steroids. The Regime would employ the “George Floyd” tool recently used to “cancel” Russia, but directed with laser-like focus on a single company and its lone brilliant, iconoclast leader.

In The Prince Machiavelli wrote of the fox and the lion. A good prince will know when to use to his advantage the skills of each in dealing with subjects and enemies.

As citizens of presumably once-free societies, the metaphor still stands in dealing with the tyranny of the state. One must know when it’s time to embrace the cunning of the fox, or the savagery of the lion when confronting the fascist wolves who prey upon the herd of defenseless sheep.

The lions are warriors. Their strength and bravery in service for good are only possible when not being exploited by the nefarious aims of a corrupted state.

They can serve as humanity’s shepherds who have moral and ethical duties in protecting and guiding the flock.

But are there still lions among us?

It’s been two years since healthy people of the world were locked in their homes. Two years since a hundred nations colluded and conspired to abuse their citizens by collectivizing risk for dubious invisible harm whose prevalence could be manipulated through tests that were never meant to diagnose anything.

It’s been two years since they intentionally started killing people in hospitals to amplify the fear and eliminate a few million future pension liabilities in the process, a few million expendable carbon footprints.

It’s been fourteen months since they continued the killing under the guise of a cure. They’re moving in on the children and infants now. Eager to start killing them too if not rendering them sterile.

And they haven’t stopped because there is nothing to stop them.

Allan Stevo says it’s good to get punched in the face. It is indeed a privilege. There are endless life lessons to be gleaned after getting punched in the face. It toughens you up. Prepares you for conflict.

How much can you truly know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? C’mon, hit me. 
- Tyler Durden

What about getting beat down, kicked, muzzled, locked out, jabbed, bloodied and clotted for two years with a side of medical apartheid, mass psychosis and post-traumatic stress disorder? Is that a privilege too?

What are we to learn from all this abuse? All this intentional killing, this culling of humanity?

What are the lessons?

How much time is enough to allow war criminals to appear on our televisions and pretend they have answers to the crimes they manufacture?

How long until the victims clean themselves up, dust themselves off, rise from the hills they think they hold and will die on, empty and pointless as they are, and finally go on the offensive?

Revenge and retribution are deeply rooted desires for those with a profound sense of justice. Equal justice requires a fair process with infallible evidence and uncorrupted institutions.

Revenge requires passion and ability. Courage to mete it out. Risk and sacrifice to deal with the consequences.

Retribution can be its own form of equal justice when the criminals control all the institutions once entrusted with that process.

When lions roar they are sending a warning to all nearby that they are encroaching on claimed territory and their further advance will be met with appropriate offensive action.

They’ve overtaken our territory and scared all the sheep into herd formation, conditioned to be reflexively obedient. Millions were unknowingly sent to their slaughter.

There were no lions who roared.

Did you hear any? Are there any lions still among us?

Now they want us to rally our spirits and pride around a Cold War relic called NATO, against their new manufactured evil, and pretend the past two years of abuse and killing never happened.

They expect us to move on and forget it. To accept our new behavioral conditions, responding to the threats they tell us, when and how they want.

They want us to believe Putin is our enemy and Russians are evil.

Did Russians lock you in your home and abuse your children? Did Putin threaten your job if you didn’t get injected with a deadly bioweapon? Did he tell the FDA to spike all early and effective treatments so more people died?

The greatest evils through history were hiding in plain sight, always projecting something they were not, engineering circumstances in their favor, often cloaked by a wall of rhetorical cover.

Today’s evil parades as philanthropy, its servants the wealthiest men on the planet with utter disregard for humanity and the future.

We are their subjects.

Subjected to manipulation, control, subjugation, elimination and conversion to a post version of humanity.

This did not start two years ago. This will not end on its own.

By not investigating their crimes and holding the criminals responsible before the once blindfolded lady of justice they are telling us everything we need to know.

The criminals responsible are in power everywhere. They’ve removed her blindfold. Now she looks away when they tell her.

They will not hold themselves accountable.

They will only commit more atrocities because they are hardly human themselves. Guilt and remorse are what separate humans from animals. That's also what makes lions so indispensable, the ability to render justice dispassionately.

Without consequences for their actions, they will not stop.

Only sheep take such abuse over and over and still behave with passive credulity.

Some are trying to argue the constructivist and relativist points of good and evil. That there are no such things in this world and it’s not so black and white. Only a sheep would view the past two years through a clear lens and still reason this way, refuse to see the evil is everywhere and name it accordingly.

They’re betting we are all sheep now, and there are no more lions among us. No more savage beasts to go hunt and tear the limbs of those responsible for our imprisonment and abuse, for the culling of the population through two bioweapons and now manufactured food and energy crises and soon another world war.

They have shown us no respect, no deference, no humanity and no mercy. What evil rulers have ever shown their disposable subjects any of those?

If they are engineering another war, they expect all the brave soldiers to fight on behalf of them, their true enemies, and against a manufactured one. What will they be defending with their ultimate sacrifice other than the ability of global evil to continue its crimes against humanity?

Bravery is not fighting for evil, against the crises they create. If courage requires that silly government label of ‘dishonor’ then go and be courageous, and be discharged. There is only honor in disobeying an evil government, some might say a moral duty.

They forced you to get injected with a deadly bioweapon they engineered in a laboratory. They were going to dishonor your service by discharging you if you didn’t surrender your bodily autonomy to an experimental injection and now you’ll go and fight their fictitious enemies alongside literal Nazis?

Walk away, soldiers. You’re wearing the uniform of your real enemies. The flags of your fathers were mostly false. The nation you've been brainwashed to serve hasn't existed for a long time. The document those in power swore an oath to uphold is detested by your superiors up the chain of command. Your [illegitimate commander in] chief is rotten and demented and controlled by global evil. All institutions that once existed to protect your basic human rights have abandoned you.

Your war is our war. Your enemies are our enemies and they are not in Russia.

Walk away brave soldiers or risk being sheep to a different slaughter.

You can go and be lions instead.

How long are we supposed to wait and do nothing? How long are we supposed to watch people die and pretend it was a sudden coincidence of snow shoveling or hotel room headboards?

They’re pretty confident there are no more beasts to roar for our pride anymore.

But what if they're wrong? What if the lions are out there among us?

Those in this world who can render justice as beasts of no mercy will sooner or later go forth and know they are doing what the captured systems and institutions will no longer do. This won’t be anarchy. It will be revenge.

We used to call it revolution; one brave lion is all it takes.

Is there one brave lion left in this world?

If there is they’ll know they are setting the scales of justice in the world back to level. They may know that it will require meeting a finely-dressed global evil with unapologetic full-frontal savagery that’s public and brutal.

If there are lions out there still and if they ever want peace again, where they can sit on a hill and roar and feast with their cubs without bother they’ll first have to hunt.

Their entire life’s mission was for this purpose. They may be resting on a hill somewhere already, thinking they have found peace, roaring at all the wrong things, their territory already overtaken, their pride already slaughtered.

They can liberate humanity from the darkness before it swallows us all and more savagery and bloodshed will be required for complete liberation. They can set the world right before millions more sheep become statistics.

The sheep will cease being so when they recognize the lions are their shepherds. Some of them will then become lions too.

The criminals are out there. Hiding in plain sight on the boards of companies, in the halls of bureaucratic institutions as the benevolent philanthropists with all the latest solutions to create profitable windfalls from the chaos they unleash.

Time is not going to be our great healer, our great equalizer, and it may only be a great concealer of the truth. It will only allow for more death and suffering, for the criminals to consolidate more power and for the darkness to spread.

The time for embracing the cunning of the fox might be over.

Time nor the fox will balance the scales of justice. But maybe lions can.

If there are still lions out there God forgive them when they realize they have no more territory and so stop roaring and start hunting those responsible for culling their pride.

And when they start, let them hunt as lions do and show no mercy as we were shown no mercy.

May their hunt be brutal and savage. A future warning to any evil still lurking in the shadows to stay there or risk being shredded limb from limb.