Another Nation Absorbed Into The Blob Of The Empire
And now the imperial blob rolls on to absorb its next target, having grown one Syria-sized increment larger after spending years digesting that nation via proxy warfare, sanctions, relentless bombing campaigns from Israel, and a military occupation
Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria to Moscow, where he has reportedly been granted asylum by Russia. The al-Qaeda affiliates who drove him out have declared victory for the “mujahideen” in Damascus. Both Biden and Netanyahu have publicly taken credit for assisting in the regime change, and of course Turkey’s Erdogan deserves a heavy share of credit as well.
And yet there’s still a bit of a taboo in mainstream western discourse around calling this a regime change operation backed by the US and its allies. We’re all meant to pretend this was a 100 percent organic uprising driven solely and exclusively by the people of Syria despite years and years of evidence to the contrary. We are meant to pretend this is the case even after we just watched the US power alliance crush Syria using proxy warfare, starvation sanctions, constant bombing operations, and a military occupation explicitly designed to cut Syria off from oil and wheat in order to prevent its reconstruction after the western-backed civil war.
People get mad if you say this, but it’s true. It’s just a fact that major world events do not occur independently of the actions of the major world powers who have a vested interest in their outcomes. If my saying this makes you feel uncomfortable, that discomfort is called cognitive dissonance. It’s what being wrong feels like.
Maybe it bothers you when people point out the involvement of the US power alliance in Syria, and maybe you would prefer to believe that a plucky band of heroic freedom fighters bravely overthrew an evil supervillain dictator all on their own like some Hollywood movie. But real life doesn’t move in accordance with your preferences. In real life, the globe-spanning empire that is centralized around the United States will reliably be deeply involved in such events.
When I say this you may want to believe I am “denying the agency of Syrians,” and that “denying agency” is the worst sin a person can possibly commit. But nothing I’m saying actually contradicts the idea that Syrians have their own agency. Obviously there were many Syrians who wanted Assad gone, and obviously there were many people who had their own reasons for fighting him which had nothing to do with the US empire. There is no contradiction between this obvious fact and the well-documented reality that the US-centralized power structure has been balls deep in Syria from the very beginning of the violence in 2011, and that its involvement led to the events we are seeing today.
The claim isn’t that the US empire controlled the minds of Syrians and forced them to turn against their government with no agency of their own. The claim is that the empire put a big fat thumb on the scale to ensure that one group of Syrians got their way instead of a different group.
You can argue that western regime change interventionism will lead to positive results this time (so long as you’re prepared to ignore mountains of historical evidence consistently demonstrating the opposite), but what you cannot do on any rational basis is deny that western regime change interventionism occurred in Syria.
Western liberalism is funny in that its adherents lean heavily on their ability to psychologically compartmentalize away from the actions of the western empire, and indeed away from the very existence of that empire. The western liberal lives in an imaginary alternate universe where western powers pretty much mind their own business and western leaders passively watch violence and destruction unfold around the world whilst pleading for peace and diplomacy from their podiums. They pretend the empire does not exist, and that it is only by pure coincidence that conflicts, coups and uprisings keep occurring in ways which favor the strategic interests of Washington.
In reality it is impossible to understand what’s going on in the world unless you understand that the US is the hub of an undeclared empire which has been working tirelessly to bring the global population under a single power umbrella over which it presides. The few countries who have successfully resisted being absorbed into this imperial blob are the Official Bad Guys we westerners are all trained to hate: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and a few socialist states in Latin America. I used to include Syria in this list, but that’s over now. Syria has been absorbed into the blob of the empire.
And tomorrow the imperial blob will move its crosshairs on to the next unabsorbed nation. That’s the underlying dynamic behind all the major conflicts on earth. This dynamic gets redacted from the mainstream western worldview with the assistance of the western propaganda services known as the mass media, as well as the western indoctrination system known as schooling. This dynamic is redacted from our worldview and hidden from our attention by the plutocrats and empire managers who work to manipulate our information systems, because otherwise we would realize that the US empire is the most tyrannical and abusive power structure on this planet today.
And it unquestionably is. No other power structure has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression while circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working continuously to crush any group which opposes its dictates anywhere on earth. Not China. Not Russia. Not Iran. Not Cuba. Not Bashar al-Assad. Only the US empire has been tyrannizing and abusing the world to this extent in modern times.
And now the imperial blob rolls on to absorb its next target, having grown one Syria-sized increment larger after spending years digesting that nation via proxy warfare, sanctions, relentless bombing campaigns from Israel, and a military occupation designed to steal its food and fuel.
Our world cannot know peace as long as we are ruled by an empire that is fueled by endless rivers of human blood. Here’s hoping the end of that empire comes sooner rather than later.
The Biden family has been embroiled in scandals and foreign entanglements since at least 2014 — the first year of Hunter Biden’s pardon.
Hunter Biden’s latest charges include tax fraud and felony gun violations. He pleaded guilty in September to three felonies and six misdemeanors after failing to pay over $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019. He also pleaded guilty on charges of falsifying tax paperwork and, prior to his pardon, he was facing up to 17 years in prison.
Biden initially pleaded guilty in 2023 but changed his plea to not guilty after the judge overseeing the case rejected the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Biden legal team’s plea deal.
In addition to tax fraud, a Delaware jury in June convicted Biden of three felony gun charges. He bought a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018 and was allegedly addicted to drugs while he possessed the firearm. He was also convicted of making false statements on the background check form required to purchase the gun.
The tax fraud and felony gun charges are the latest in a string of alleged crimes and corruption surrounding the Biden family.
The Bidens’ foreign dealings drew scrutiny after the New York Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s laptop. A former Burisma executive emailed Hunter Biden in 2015 about an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden. (RELATED: State Department Official Said He Raised Converns Over Burisma Corruption In 2016)
Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, in 2014. Devon Archer, another former board member, told Congress that Burisma was protected by the Biden family “brand.”
Hunter Biden was initially a counsel at the company but upon meeting Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, he was swiftly promoted to the board of directors, according to a timeline from the House Committee on Oversight.
Zlochevsky is the Ukrainian oligarch who reportedly called Joe Biden the “big guy,” according to an FBI file. Zlochevsky allegedly had conversations with Joe and Hunter Biden about $5 million bribes, the Washington Examiner originally reported. Hunter Biden and his business associates tried to get Zlochevsky a U.S. visa soon after Hunter became a board member, according to emails from his laptop.
Special counsel Robert Hur’s team alleged in February that Joe Biden kept classified information on the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy as a private citizen. One of the documents was a transcript from a 2015 phone call between Biden and then-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Hur’s report found.
Burisma was paying Hunter Biden over $80,000 a month for his position on the board during the 2014-15 tax years, bank records show.
Ukraine is not the only foreign nation with financial ties to the Biden family — they also received money from Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Romania.
Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thorton in 2014 and $750,000 to Devon Archer. The rest was placed into Rosemont Seneca Bohai, an entity Biden and Archer shared equally, the House Oversight Committee found.
Baturina met with Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and then-Vice President Biden at a Washington, D.C., restaurant in the spring of 2014.
Rosemont Seneca Partners is Hunter Biden’s investment firm. A Spanish rail company hired the firm to lobby Amtrak and the Department of Transportation (DOT) for government contracts, emails on his laptop revealed in 2023. (RELATED: Sen Kennedy Presses FBI Director To Admit Hunter Biden’s Laptop Content Is Real)
A Kazakhstani oligarch wired $142,300 to one of the Rosemont Seneca entities through his Singaporean company, Novatus Holdings, according to the House Oversight Committee.
The following day, on April 23, 2014, the Rosemont Seneca entity sent the same amount of money to a car dealership for a vehicle for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer represented Burisma in 2014 and tried to broker a deal between Burisma, a Chinese state-owned energy company and the Kazakhstani government, according to the Oversight Committee.
The Biden family and their associates received over $3 million from Romania and over $8 million from China, according to the Oversight Committee. The DOJ alleged that Romanian businessman Gabriel Popviciu (G.P.) paid Hunter Biden to “influence” U.S. policy. Hunter Biden made an “oral agreement” in the fall of 2015 to apparently assist G.P. “contest bribery charges he was facing in Romania,” according to the DOJ.
Nearly two months after Biden left the White House in 2017, Chinese company State Energy HK Limited wired $3 million to the account of a Biden associate, according to the Oversight Committee. It was the same account that Popviciu deposited money in, the committee added. (RELATED: Hemingway: The Media Is Mostly Ignoring That Biden’s Brother Is Also Involved In Scandal)
Additionally, Hunter Biden’s former business associate Rob Walker testified that the Chinese firm CEFC wired him $3 million as a “thank you” for work completed when Joe Biden was vice president. The CEO of CEFC also gifted Hunter Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, according to a profile in The New Yorker.
Testimony from a former business associate alleged that CEFEC also paid money to Hunter Biden’s brother, James Biden, for energy deals. Former CEFC associate Mervyn Yan told the Oversight and Judiciary Committee in January the brothers received thousands of dollars per month.
Joe Biden falsely claimed he did not discuss business with Hunter, denied that his son earned money from China and dismissed the contents of his laptop as “Russian disinformation,” the House Oversight Committee found. Biden said Sunday that his son was selectively targeted while announcing Hunter’s pardon.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” Biden said.
The House Oversight Committee sent criminal referrals to the DOJ in June and recommended the Biden brothers face charges for telling Congress false statements about the impeachment inquiry of President Biden.
**U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is ramping up his efforts to hold federal health agencies accountable for withholding critical information about COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects. ** As the incoming chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Johnson is poised to issue subpoenas to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless they fully comply with oversight demands.
Johnson demanded that these agencies immediately preserve and produce all records related to the development, safety, and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
The senator emphasized that the Biden administration’s repeated refusal to provide unredacted documents has impeded Congressional oversight and endangered public trust.
In a letter sent Tuesday, Sen. Johnson lambasted the Biden administration’s health agencies for what he described as a coordinated effort to obscure critical vaccine safety data.
He highlighted a series of heavily redacted documents, including Pfizer reports and CDC communications from 2021, which, according to Johnson, concealed the extent of their awareness about myocarditis risks in vaccinated individuals.
One glaring example cited by the senator involves a 2021 draft Health Alert Network (HAN) message that the CDC never released.
** MORE: ** https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/sen-ron-johnson-vows-subpoena-cdc-fda-hhs/
Ryan Walters supports eliminating U.S. Department of Education, move toward block grants
By Justin Allen Rose Published: Nov. 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM CST OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters sent a memo on Thursday, Nov. 7, detailing how he believes eliminating the U.S. Department of Education would improve public education.
“The federal government has hijacked our education system, using taxpayer dollars to impose harmful policies and control what is taught in our schools,” the memo started.
Within the memo, Walters listed five priorities he wants championed as, “.... we prepare for important and impactful changes to public education policy in the coming months....”
Championing Parental Rights
Ending Social Indoctrination in Classroom
Protecting Patriotism in Curriculum
Stopping Illegal Immigration’s Impact on Schools
Blocking Foreign Influence in Our Schools
Walters states the Oklahoma State Department of Education will be directing their resources to make sure the above priorities are supported to make sure the state’s schools can adapt to possible changes.
The state superintendent also mentioned how the federal government moving toward the use of more block grants could allow states to take back educational authority.
Block grants are federal government grants sent to local and state governments for board purposes. These types of grants allow for flexibility in use, allowing state governments to disperse funds with more ease with less federal auditing and rules on where and what the grant can be used for.
Critics of block grant use say less federal oversight could lead to misappropriation of funds by state and local officials.
Categorical grants in contrast have to be used for more specific purposes and the federal government will audit its use to ensure compliance.
By Megan Twohey, Danielle Ivory and Carson Kessler The reporters are continuing to examine cannabis policies, use of the drug and the rise of the commercial market.
Published Oct. 4, 2024 Updated Oct. 7, 2024
https://dnyuz.com/2024/10/04/as-americas-marijuana-use-grows-so-do-the-harms/
In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they consume it practically all day, every day — “a remarkably scary amount,” she said.
From Washington State to West Virginia, psychiatrists treat rising numbers of people whose use of the drug has brought on delusions, paranoia and other symptoms of psychosis.
And in the emergency departments of small community hospitals and large academic medical centers alike, physicians encounter patients with severe vomiting induced by the drug — a potentially devastating condition that once was rare but now, they say, is common. “Those patients look so sick,” said a doctor in Ohio, who described them “writhing around in pain.”
As marijuana legalization has accelerated across the country, doctors are contending with the effects of an explosion in the use of the drug and its intensity. A $33 billion industry has taken root, turning out an ever-expanding range of cannabis products so intoxicating they bear little resemblance to the marijuana available a generation ago. Tens of millions of Americans use the drug, for medical or recreational purposes — most of them without problems.
But with more people consuming more potent cannabis more often, a growing number, mostly chronic users, are enduring serious health consequences.
The accumulating harm is broader and more severe than previously reported. And gaps in state regulations, limited public health messaging and federal restraints on research have left many consumers, government officials and even medical practitioners in the dark about such outcomes.
Again and again, The New York Times found dangerous misconceptions.
Many users believe, for instance, that people cannot become addicted to cannabis. But millions do.
**MUCH MORE: **
https://dnyuz.com/2024/10/04/as-americas-marijuana-use-grows-so-do-the-harms/
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Today marks the one year anniversary of the remarkably successful Hamas raid on Israel, in which some 1,500 lightly-armed Islamic militants from Gaza so greatly humiliated the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country’s entire national security establishment. The consequences of these last twelve months have been enormous, not merely for the Jewish State and the rest of the Middle East, but also for America and the entire world.
For many fatal diseases the cause of death is less the result of the infection itself than that of the defensive immune system, whose massive over-reaction destroys vital tissue, killing the entire organism. And I think that the Hamas raid of October 7, 2023 and the Israeli response may eventually be seen in this light.
Some 1,200 Israelis died that day, probably many or most of them killed by their own country’s panic-stricken and trigger-happy IDF forces, whose Apache helicopters were ordered to blast anything that moved. Although such losses were hardly insignificant in a Jewish population of some 7.2 million and the national humiliation was enormous, if the Israeli government had merely been content to launch a few weeks of punitive bombing attacks against Gaza and then grudgingly accept an exchange of prisoners with its Hamas adversaries, I doubt the results would have been too serious.
Israel had long held many thousands of Palestinians without charges or trial and often under brutal conditions, so releasing these in exchange for the 200-odd Israelis that Hamas had carried back to Gaza would have meant a huge loss of face for the Jewish State, but hardly a threat to the country’s survival. The Israelis could have merely fired a few of their complacent and incompetent local military commanders and strengthened their Gaza defenses, and matters would have probably gone on much like before.
Israel had been riding high at that point, on the very verge of accomplishing its decades-long project of fully normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia, the most powerful Arab state. Israel’s strong partisans totally dominated the Biden Administration while Donald Trump promised to do even more for that country if he somehow managed to regain the White House. Although Netanyahu was hugely unpopular domestically, Israel had just celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding, and its international strategic position seemed better than it had been in many years, so it could have easily taken its Hamas debacle in stride.
But after the events of the last twelve months, I tend to doubt that the country will survive much longer in anything like its existing form, and its collapse may also take down with it the entire political structure of organized Jewry worldwide, which today so heavily dominates both America and the rest of the West. While Israel may face very serious risks from the major regional war its government seeks to ignite, I think the greatest threat to its existence comes from the massive distribution of devastating information that has taken place during this last year.
The plaintiffs claimed victory in Food & Water Watch v. Environmental Protection Agency on September 24.
Judge Edward M. Chen of the Northern District of California found that water fluoridation posed an “unreasonable risk” to human health. This ruling will likely prompt a national regulatory response that will either drastically reduce or halt the addition of fluoride to water.
“The issue before this Court is whether the Plaintiffs have established by a preponderance of the evidence that the fluoridation of drinking water at levels typical in the United States poses an unreasonable risk of injury to the health of the public within the meaning of Amended [Toxic Substances Control Act],” the federal judge said.
Judge Chen then explained what exactly prompted his findings.
“For the reasons set forth below, the Court so finds. Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered ‘optimal’ in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children. … the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response. … One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk,” Judge Chen explained.
The element about child IQs was one of the most shocking revelations from the bombshell report released by the National Toxicology Program just before this ruling, The Dallas Express previously reported.
“… 18 [high-quality studies] reported an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children,” read the report’s abstract, known as NTP MGRAPH-08.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE DALLAS EXPRESS APP The report went on to say that moderate and low confidence, the second and third highest degrees of confidence out of five, indicate a credibly sourced and plausible negative connection between childhood fluoride consumption and kids’ IQs. It also appeared to be similarly suspicious that fluoridation could be linked to other cognitive problems in children.
“The Court has done what EPA has long refused to do: applied EPA’s risk assessment framework to fluoride,” Michael Connett, the plaintiff’s lead attorney, told DX. “And in doing so has shown very clearly that fluoridation of water presents an unreasonable risk of harm. It’s a historic decision. And, as we await EPA’s rulemaking proceeding, policymakers would be well advised to ask: should we really be adding a neurotoxicant to our drinking water?”
Connett added that he sees no reason why any jurisdiction should wait for the EPA regulatory actions. He urged local authorities, such as municipal water officials, to act now.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held an X Space with Connett the morning after the ruling and congratulated the lawyer on “this extraordinary victory.”
DX asked longtime anti-fluoride activists in Dallas for their thoughts on the ruling.
Former state Senator Don Huffines, who previously appeared with Connett at a screening of the film Fluoride on trial said, “This is a tremendous grassroots victory for moms across America who have, for years, been fighting the forcible medication and poisoning of citizens, including children, without their consent.”
“This heroic ruling clearly recognizes that special interest monopolies control the EPA to the detriment of all Americans, particularly children, who even the EPA admits have brain damage and lower IQ due to fluoride,” he added.
Regina Imburgia, an activist who has frequently appeared before the city council to advocate against water fluoridation, said she was thankful to the judge for his ruling.
“But I cannot celebrate until the fluoride tap is turned off. The Dallas City Council voted to start the fluoridation program and eight need to vote to end it. I hope this ruling … gives the council the courage to go against the pressure and propaganda they get from the vested stakeholders in government (CDC, HHS), medicine (ADA), (AMA), and pro-fluoride shills. The generational harm caused by fluoridation needs to end today,” Imburgia said.
Despite the obvious implications of this ruling, the federal public health agencies have remained unmoved.
The CDC’s website still says, “CDC named fluoridation of drinking water one of 10 great public health interventions of the 20th century because of the dramatic decline in cavities since community water fluoridation started in 1945.”
Fluoride was initially added to water at the urging of federal health agencies and to dental products, such as toothpaste, in the 1940s and 50s because some scientists believed it prevented “dental caries,” commonly known as “cavities.”
Most tap water in highly populated areas, including almost all tap water in DFW, is fluoridated.
DX contacted Director Sarah Standifer of Dallas Water Utilities for comment, but she did not respond by the publication deadline.
History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court case. A U.S. federal court has now deemed fluoridation an "unreasonable risk" to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such. The decision is written very strongly in our favor, and we will share it in its entirety tomorrow. Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the ruling:
"The issue before this Court is whether the Plaintiffs have established by a preponderance of the evidence that the fluoridation of drinking water at levels typical in the United States poses an unreasonable risk of injury to health of the public within the meaning of Amended TSCA. For the reasons set forth below, the Court so finds. Specifically, the Court finds that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligrams per liter (“mg/L”) – the level presently considered “optimal” in the United States – poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children..the Court finds there is an unreasonable risk of such injury, a risk sufficient to require the EPA to engage with a regulatory response...One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court’s finding, is to ignore that risk."
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