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White House bends to gender ideology

23 January 2021
The new White House website has a "Contact us" section, asking visitors to fill out an ID questionnaire.
This includes a "Pronouns" drop-down menu:
she/her
he/him
they/them (neutral)
other
Prefer not to share.
The president decreed that everyone has the right to choose their gender. This implies that everyone is free to choose whether to use a men’s or women’s toilet, whether they participate in men’s or women’s sporting competitions, (...)

Lockdown measures have no impact on Covid-19, says Stanford

23 January 2021
According to Stanford University, which compared the epidemic curves in 8 different countries having adopted authoritarian policies against Covid-19 (business shutdowns, curfews, lockdown) with those in 2 other countries which simply opted for providing the population with appropriate advice, the results for the two groups show no significant difference.
The study was carried out in Germany, Spain, the United States, France, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for the first (...)

Biden-Khamenei secret negotiations

22 January 2021
For two months the administration of President-elect Joe Biden has been holding secret talks in New York with envoys of Iranian President Hassan Rohani.
However, when the administration of President-elect Donald Trump engaged in talks prior to the inauguration with the Russian ambassador to Washington, they were ensnared in the phony Russiagate investigation. But here too, two different yardsticks have been applied.
On 9 January 2021, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sent a message (...)

Jack Dorsey censors governments too

21 January 2021
In 2019, Twitter censored accounts in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Bangladesh and Spain in order to block the dissemination of "state-backed news."
Also in 2019, Twitter began blocking institutional accounts, such as, in Venezuela for example, those of the Central Bank, the armed forces, the press office of the Presidency and that of the Ministry of Finance.
In 2020, Twitter had sealed an agreement with the British government to combat "lies" (sic). Soon after, he took part in the US (...)

Mark Zuckerberg censors governments

20 January 2021
Mark Zuckerberg’s company Facebook is already used to censoring governments. After closing French Army accounts in the Central African Republic and Mali in December 2020, plus those of the incumbent President of the United States in January 2021, Facebook has also just closed those of Ugandan president Museveni’s team.
The decision came a few days before the Ugandan presidential election in which President Yoweri Museveni was running for a second term, in an attempt to favour his adversary, (...)

Pentagon moves Israel under Central Command

18 January 2021
The Pentagon has five regional commands in charge of implementing imperial policy. The heads of these commands are dubbed "viceroys" after the British viceroys during British India .
CentCom (United States Command for the Greater Middle East) will henceforth also oversee Israel, which until now fell within the EuCom area (United States Command for Europe) .
The Pentagon is reorganizing its regional system, taking into account the normalization of relations between the Jewish and (...)

Ayatollah Khamenei bans US, English and French vaccines

16 January 2021
On the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran canceled the import of 150,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines donated to it by the Iranian community in the US.
The Supreme Leader authorized the importation of Chinese, Russian and Cuban vaccines, but banned the entry of Western vaccines, specifically from the US, UK and France. In fact, during his 8 January televised address (dedicated to the memory of General Soleimani), the Guide pointed out that the United States had just (...)

FBI anticipates armed protests nationwide

13 January 2021
An FBI memo points to plans for armed protests expected to take place in each of the 50 US states on the day of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, as reported by Fox News .
Let us recall that the conflict is not between Republicans and Democrats, but Jacksonians pitted against the two major political parties. It should therefore not unfold in Washington D.C., but in the federated states.
Joe Biden’s inauguration theme on 20 January 2021 will be "America United." Security for the (...)

USA: General Flynn calls for suspension of the Constitution

5 December 2020
General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, is believed to be the mastermind behind the 1 December 2020 full page ad in the Washington Times.
It consists of a petition by an Ohio-based group, We the People Convention, urging President Donald Trump to act as his most illustrious predecessor, Abraham Lincoln.
During the American Civil War, the latter suspended the U.S. Constitution, proclaimed martial law, shut down opposition newspapers, ordered the (...)

Pentagon arming the Talibans, says WaPo

27 November 2020
Officially the Pentagon is fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, but according to the Washington Post [13], it is secretly arming them, professedly to help them fight ISIS (aka Daesh), another official enemy of the United States.
At the same time, however, numerous testimonies from several countries of the "Greater Middle East" reveal that the very same Pentagon, who is officially fighting ISIS there, is covertly arming it.
These facts prove that the Pentagon is still going after the (...)

Consensus: London allies with Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube, Reuters

27 November 2020
A British association called Full Fact, has created a coalition between, on the one hand, all the relevant ministries of the United Kingdom and Canada and, on the other, information giants Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube and Reuters, in order to fight against disinformation on the internet in English.
Today, most of the major power governments have set up a specialized service to disseminate their own propaganda. The most effective in this pursuit since WW1 being precisely the British (...)

US exploits religions to divide Syria

26 November 2020
To stoke up separatism in Syria, on 28 October 2020, the United States illegally sent a delegation - led by Nadine Maenza, head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and Steve Berger, pastor of a Evangelical church in Nashville - into the so-called "7 km" buffer area located in the Northern province of Deir ez-Zor, controlled by Kurdish militias serviceable to the US occupier.
These individuals conferred with the joint presidency of the militias’ (...)

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen in Saudi Arabia

23 November 2020
According to the Israeli press, on 22 November 2020 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen travelled Neom, in Saudi Arabia, to meet with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman ("MBS").
Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have official diplomatic relations.

British military out to attack anti-vaccine talk, reports The Times

23 November 2020
According to The Times, the British signals-intelligence service (Government Communications Headquarters, aka GCHQ [photo]), has been tasked with countering anti-vaccine arguments on the internet.
The British government is quite convinced that such arguments could only have been planted by its hereditary enemy, Moscow. It therefore authorized its intelligence services to adapt the tools used against the propaganda of the Islamic Emirate (Daesh) to tackle this new enemy.
The GCHQ has the (...)

Evo Morales’ triumphant return to Bolivia

22 November 2020
Former Bolivian president Evo Morales has returned from exile. He had fled his country in October 2019 during the coup d’état hatched by a homegrown Ustashi group linked to the CIA and the OAS [17], to thwart his re-election. The international media had then falsely reported that he was forced to leave amid a wave of protests.
However, the putschists were ultimately compelled to hold elections, which were won on 20 October 2020 by President Morales’ party in the first round [18] .
He made a (...)

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