Glenn Greenwald has resigned in protest from the very entity --The Intercept--he founded to pursue fact based journalism.
While I don't always see eye to eye with Greenwald, I respect his journalistic efforts to expose the Deep State's efforts to spy on us and to repress us.
Greenwald:The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
When his own creation's editors refuse to publish his investigatory piece on the various scandals surrounding the Biden family, you realize just how screwed we are as a country. Fucked is more like it.
What amazes me --called it naivete--and what has been hard to comprehend, to accept, is the degree of rot within. How widespread --even commonplace it seems- is the willingness of certain fellow Americans to sell out their country and future generations (including their own descendants). These traitors --so easily bought and blackmailed-- permeate our media, academia, political and religious institutions, and even the private sector. In short, it appears every single social and political edifice has been compromised. This isn't partisan at all because the corruption is so deep and pervasive that I fear the "resolution" may lead to our very demise UNLESS concrete, perhaps even draconian, measures are not taken. And taken soon.
In February of 2018, I wrote a piece on this site called "Sedition in our Republic" after the Honorable Devin Nunes exposed the coup against our sitting President.
President Trump's reelection bid received a vote of support Friday from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in a phone interview, "We believe that Trump is going to win the upcomingelectionbecause he has proved himself a politician who accomplished all the major promises he had made to American people, although he might have missed some small things, but did accomplish the bigger promises, so it is possible that the U.S. people who experienced deceptions in the past will once again trust Trump for his decisive actions."
Mujahid added, "We think the majority of the American population is tired of instability, economic failures and politicians' lies and will trust again on Trump because Trump is decisive, could control the situation inside the country. Other politicians, including Biden, chant unrealistic slogans. Some other groups, which are smaller in size but are involved in the military business including weapons manufacturing companies' owners and others who somehow get the benefit of war extension, they might be against Trump and support Biden, but their numbers among voters is low."
Another senior Taliban leader told CBS News, "We hope he will win the election and wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan."
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said Saturday that they "reject" the Taliban support. "The Taliban should know that the president will always protect American interests by any means necessary," Murtaugh said.
The Trump administration signed a historic pact with the Taliban in February in which the U.S. and its allies set a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw by the spring of 2021. The pact requires the Taliban to break from al Qaeda and negotiate a power-sharing deal with Afghan government rivals.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated last month, after meeting with Taliban co-founder and political deputy Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Doha, that the U.S. was set for a full withdrawal from Afghanistan by April or May of 2021.
The Obama administration was unsuccessful in its attempts to broker a similar diplomatic deal. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Bidentold"Face the Nation" in February that the U.S. should draw down but also keep a residual force of "several thousand people to make sure we have a place from which we can operate" should al Qaeda or ISIS gain capacity to strike the U.S.
This week, President Trump said all troops should be "home by Christmas," although it is unclear if that is actually expected to happen or if he was simply reiterating his position on wanting to bring troops home.
The Taliban also noted it thinks highly of Mr. Trump's "America first" creed.
"It is the slogan of Trump from the start that they are not cops for the world and don't want a single flag and anthem for the globe, but their priority is America," Mujahid said. "When there is no interference by U.S. in other countries, we believe they are facing fewer threats compared to their aggressive position. Trump has a concrete policy in this regard and it is better for America."
The senior member of the Taliban praised the president's honesty. "Honestly, Trump was much more honest with us than we thought, even we were stunned with his offer to meet Taliban in Camp David."
The Taliban are religio-nationalists. A product of Pakistan's madaris (religious schools), specifically of the Deobandi flavor. Their reign was brutal, especially towards females and minorities. However, the Taliban were no less brutal than their predecessors, Burhannudin Rabbani's Jamaat-i-Islami. After 19 years of US military intervention, while conditions appear to have immensely improved for females (especially in urban areas) and minorities, these gains might as well be mirages. In reality with Western funding what has been built is a House of Cards vice tangible embedded improvements. The reasons for this failure are varied and complex.
Suffice it to say, history won't judge this intervention favorably. One that has cost American taxpayers' over a Trillion and, worse, led to thousands of US military casualties with no "mission accomplishment" because, frankly, there was never a clear cut mission with an end goal.
As I wrote in 2010 in a Christian Science Monitor article titled " Bring Back a King," the writing was already on the wall.
The Bush Administration had installed a puppet, Karzai, who had no credibility with the Afghan people. Not even fellow Pushtuns. Initial Afghan exuberance at the overthrow of the Taliban's repressive regime brought about widespread wishful thinking, even amongst a populace that, after decades of war and hardship, should've been more battle hardened (thus wiser) to let their guard down. But their wishful thinking (aka exuberance) was understandably short lived.
The question that one needs to ask is this: Why wasn't King/Amir Zahir Shah not reinstated as the majority of the people wanted?
That is a question for the ages. Even the Taliban's rank and file may have ended their jang (war) and gotten behind a Constitutional Monarchy notwithstanding the Islamists of various hues.
At this stage, it is long overdue to pull out US forces and hand back Afghanistan to the Afghans. This fight is their fight, not ours. What we should do it warn its neighbors, especially the Pakistanis, to resist the urge to meddle (and ensure continued instability), and establish some clear red lines that they must not cross.
The corona crisis must be renamed the “Corona Scandal”
It is:
The biggest tort case ever
The greatest crime against humanity ever committed
Those responsible must be:
Criminally prosecuted for crimes against humanity
Sued for civil damages
Deaths
There is no excess mortality in any country
Corona virus mortality equals seasonal flu
94% of deaths in Bergamo were caused by transferring sick patients to nursing homes where they infected old people with weak immune systems
Doctors and hospitals worldwide were paid to declare deceased victims of Covid-19
Autopsies showed:
Fatalities almost all caused by serious pre-existing conditions
Almost all deaths were very old people
Sweden (no lockdown) and Britain (strict lockdown) have comparable disease and mortality statistics
US states with and without lockdowns have comparable disease and mortality statistics
Health
Hospitals remain empty and some face bankruptcy
Populations have T-cell immunity from previous influenza waves
Herd immunity needs only 15-25% population infection and is already achieved
Only when a person has symptoms can an infection be contagious
Tests:
Many scientists call this a PCR-test pandemic, not a corona pandemic
Very healthy and non-infectious people may test positive
Likelihood of false-positives is 89-94% or near certainty
Prof. Drosten developed his PCR test from an old SARS virus without ever having seen the real Wuhan virus from China
The PCR test is not based on scientific facts with respect to infections
PCR tests are useless for the detection of infections
A positive PCR test does not mean an infection is present or that an intact virus has been found
Amplification of samples over 35 cycles is unreliable but WHO recommended 45 cycles
Illegality:
The German government locked down, imposed social-distancing/ mask-wearing on the basis of a single opinion
The lockdown was imposed when the virus was already retreating
The lockdowns were based on non-existent infections
Former president of the German federal constitutional court doubted the constitutionality of the corona measures
Former UK supreme court judge Lord Sumption concluded there was no factual basis for panic and no legal basis for corona measures
German RKI (CDC equivalent) recommended no autopsies be performed
Corona measures have no sufficient factual or legal basis, are unconstitutional and must be repealed immediately
No serious scientist gives any validity to the infamous Neil Ferguson’s false computer models warning of millions of deaths
Mainstream media completely failed to report the true facts of the so-called pandemic
Democracy is in danger of being replaced by fascist totalitarian models
Drosten (of PCR test), Tedros of WHO, and others have committed crimes against humanity as defined in the International Criminal Code
Politicians can avoid going down with the charlatans and criminals by starting the long overdue public scientific discussion
Conspiracy:
Politicians and mainstream media deliberately drove populations to panic
Children were calculatedly made to feel responsible “for the painful tortured death of their parents and grandparents if they do not follow Corona rules”
The hopeless PCR test is used to create fear and not to diagnose
There can be no talk of a second wave
Injury and damage:
Evidence of gigantic health and economic damage to populations
Anti-corona measures have:
Killed innumerable people
Destroyed countless companies and individuals worldwide
Children are being taken away from their parents
Children are traumatized en masse
Bankruptcies are expected in small- and medium-sized businesses
Redress:
A class action lawsuit must be filed in the USA or Canada, with all affected parties worldwide having the opportunity to join
Companies and self-employed people must be compensated for damages
Leading German lawyer and member of the German Corona Investigative Committee, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich specialises globally in the prosecution of fraudulent corporations. He now leads a stellar team of international lawyers in what will become the world’s largest GLOBAL tort case—against all protagonists and accomplices, in what is now being termed ‘The CoVID Scandal’. In this BOMBSHELL narrative, he lays down the background and details of the upcoming case:
"It is important to note at this point that the definition of a pandemic was changed 12 years earlier. Until then, a pandemic was considered to be a disease that spread worldwide, and which led to many serious illnesses and deaths. Suddenly, and for reasons never explained, it was supposed to be a worldwide disease only. Many serious illnesses and many deaths were not required any more to announce a pandemic.
Due to this change, the WHO, which is closely intertwined with the global pharmaceutical industry, was able to declare the swine flu pandemic in 2009, with the result that vaccines were produced and sold worldwide on the basis of contracts that have been kept secret until today. These vaccines proved to be completely unnecessary because the swine flu eventually turned out to be a mild flu and never became the horrific plague that the pharmaceutical industry and its affiliated universities kept announcing it would turn into, with millions of deaths certain to happen if people did not get vaccinated.
These vaccines also led to serious health problems: about 700 children in Europe fell incurably ill with narcolepsy and are now forever severely disabled.The vaccines bought with millions of tax payers’ money had to be destroyed with even more tax payers’ money."
Over the years it has been noted how pervasive pharmaceutical company ads for prescription medicines have become on television and in magazines (even, ironically, in "Health" magazine). The astounding numbers of childhood vaccines and the concomitant rise of Autism cases is no accident, but a disturbing corollary of a health care system that is dysfunctional and, possibly, irretrievably broken.
Advocating a healthy lifestyle as a necessary reality instead of pill popping, our medical establishment by and large has become the pimp for Big Pharma. Our society is sick. Although it is easy to blame rampant obesity and poor lifestyle choices on individual "weakness;" the reality is far more nuanced and malevolent.
Our food supply has been compromised. Our soil and water too. Fluoride added to our water supply has led to an epidemic of cancer and thyroid related health concerns. Rampant use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides has depleted our soil and contaminated our food supply. As a society, we have moved away from home cooking with healthy ingredients to an unhealthy reliance on fast food and take out. Exercise, another vital component for good (aka normal) health, has become a chore for far too many.
Television drug ads bombard people with quick fixes to all sorts of problems that, in reality, are due to poor choices and lead to more poor choices as band aid measures. Take for example, the flashy ads to take a pill to cure a ailment. Note the health warnings that flash by on your screen of "possible side effects" of said drug(s).
Instead of advocating what common sense would dictate (a healthy lifestyle), the conventional medical establishment is all about the pill(s) and vaccines. Rarely do they advocate on their patients behalf and advise sound lifestyle choices. Preventative medicine unfortunately is not the norm these days for a reason: there isn't much money in it for Big Pharma. Instead, the emphasis has become on the "cure." A well used farm analogy comes to mind: closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Shouldn't the health establishment focus on causes rather than "cure"? Rather, the medical establishment (not all by any measure) today seem to be working for big business. A fact which is antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath ("Do no harm").
Now we are heading toward mandatory Covid vaccination. Individual liberty as reflected in "individual choice" seems to be in danger. Close monitoring and "health passports" are being bandied about as "the new norm" in the age of Covid. The biggest fraud ever in human history.
2020 is certainly going to go down in history as the turning point year. The year human beings across the globe in unison readily forfeited their individual liberties without a fight because they were told by their governments that the threat was dire and what was needed was a two week shut down....
Acting as sheeple, most accepted this "new normal" which has destroyed their livelihoods and, for many, their physical and mental health too.
With so many institutions compromised for short term gain (media, academia, health care etc), there is nothing "normal" in this draconian and detrimental "new normal."
May God have mercy on us since our "institutions" seem to have no mercy nor compassion.
