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Ukraine Wants the US to Provide Cluster Bombs to Use With Drones – News From Antiwar.com

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

Cluster bombs endanger civilians by scattering small bombs across a large area and have been banned by over 100 countries

by Dave DeCamp

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/06/ukraine-wants-the-us-to-provide-cluster-bombs-to-use-with-drones/

Ukraine has been seeking cluster bombs from the US to use in its war against Russian forces and is now asking for a type of the controversial munition that they want to adapt so they can be dropped from drones, Reuters reported on Monday.

According to House Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Jason Crow (D-CO), Ukraine is seeking the MK-20, an air-delivered cluster bomb. They said Ukrainian officials were asking members of Congress to persuade the White House to sign off on the delivery during the recent Munich Security Conference.

Cluster munitions scatter small bombs over large areas, making them more indiscriminate than other munitions. According to Reuters, the MK-20 releases 240 dart-like submunitions or bomblets after being launched.

The bomblets in cluster munitions often don’t explode on impact, making them a huge danger to civilians who come across them, similar to land mines. The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions that bans the weapons has over 100 signatories, but the US, Russia, and Ukraine are not parties to the treaty.

Since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions. Kyiv was also accused of using the bombs in populated areas of Donestk back in 2014.

While the US hasn’t banned cluster bombs, its forces haven’t used them since one known incident in Yemen in 2009. The US had been producing and selling cluster bombs to its allies until a few years ago. In 2016, Textron Systems Corporation stopped producing MK-20s when the US stopped selling them to Saudi Arabia. But a congressional aide told Reuters that there are about one million of the bombs in US military stockpiles.

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House Expected to Vote on Syria War Powers Resolution on Wednesday – News From Antiwar.com

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/06/house-expected-to-vote-on-syria-war-powers-resolution-on-wednesday/

by Dave DeCamp

The House is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution this Wednesday introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that would order President Biden to withdraw all US troops from Syria.

Americans can contact their representatives and urge them to support the resolution (H.Con.Res.21). Click here to find your representative, or call the House switchboard operator at (202) 224-3121.

The US currently has about 900 troops stationed in eastern Syria and backs the Kurdish-led SDF in the region, allowing the US to control about one-third of the country. Gaetz’s resolution would give President Biden 180 days to end the US military occupation, which is opposed by Damascus.

The text of H.Con.Res.21 reads: “That, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(c)), Congress directs the President to remove the United States Armed Forces from Syria by not later than the date that is 180 days after the date of the adoption of this concurrent resolution.”

Gatez initially introduced a resolution that gave the president only 15 days to withdraw from Syria. The second resolution was introduced to gain more support for the effort as the longer timeline makes it more likely that Democrats will vote in favor of the bill.

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“They Lied To Us All”: Tucker Exposes January 6 Fraud And Kangaroo-Court Cover-Up | ZeroHedge

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

“The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley,” said Carlson. “They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/they-lied-us-all-tucker-exposes-january-6-fraud-and-kangaroo-court-cover

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by Tyler Durden

On Monday night, Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson dropped unseen footage from the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest which revealed that the entire Democrat / RINO / MSM narrative underpinning the event was a complete lie.

For starters, the surveillance footage show Capitol Police calmly escorting the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, throughout the Capitol complex, and even helped him find open doors.

“The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley,” said Carlson. “They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”

Chansley and his two helpful Capitol police escorts make their way to the Senate chamber 

Chansley, shirtless, adorned in red, white and blue face-paint and wearing a furry bison-head hat, emerged as one of the most iconic symbols of Jan 6. He was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for “obstructing an official proceeding.” 

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The Federal Reserve’s Magic Trick: Big Tech

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

https://rumble.com/v2c03fm-the-federal-reserves-magic-trick-big-tech.html

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Watch “EXTENDED ONBOARDS // CALLUM ILOTT AT THE FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

It has begun!

https://youtu.be/LoclC7v6fQY

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Fauci ‘Prompted’ Scientists To Fabricate ‘Proximal Origins’ Paper Ruling Out Lab-Leak: House GOP

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

As a related aside – the Washington Examiner revealed last week that two authors of “Proximal Origin” who initially expressed concerns over a lab-leak and then changed their tune (Anderson and Garry), received millions in NIH grants under Fauci.

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BY TYLER DURDEN

Dr. Anthony Fauci – who offshored banned gain-of-function research to make bat coronaviruses more transmissible to humans – has been accused by Congressional investigators of having ‘prompted’ the fabrication of a paper by a cadre of scientists aimed at disproving the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.

On February 1, 2020, Fauci and his boss, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and at least eleven other scientists participated in a conference call during which several of them warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China – may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.

Three days after the call, four participants from the call (Scripps Research virologist Kristian Andersen, University of Sydney virologist Edward Holmes, Tulane School of Medicine virologist Robert Garry, University of Edinburgh virologist Andrew Rambaut and Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin) seemingly discarded their concerns over a lab-leak, and drafted “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which they sent to Fauci and Collins.

Also heavily involved (yet not credited) was Dr. Jeremy Farrar, the current Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization.

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Another FBI Whistleblower Says He Was Forced To Inflate Domestic Terrorism Numbers | ZeroHedge

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

Merrick Garland’s personal police

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-fbi-whistleblower-says-he-was-forced-inflate-domestic-terrorism-numbers

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BY TYLER DURDEN

Another FBI whistleblower has stepped forward to tell the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government that the agency had him boost domestic terrorism figures by dividing cases into multiple subdivisions.

FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle from the Kansas City field office told Congressional investigators that the agency had him divide a single domestic terrorism case into “four different cases,” so that the FBI could go to Congress and say “look at all the domestic terrorism we’ve investigated,” Fox News reports.

“Where, really, I was working on one case,” O’Boyle continued. “But, the FBI can then say, well, he actually had four, and so we need you to give us more money because look at how big of a threat all this domestic terrorism is.

He also said that the FBI created a specific threat tag for pro-lifers “THREATSCOTUS2022” amid the leak of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center – as opposed to the raging pro-abortionists nationwide.

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The Real Threat Of 15-Minute Cities | ZeroHedge

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

To many, I’m sure FMCs sound incredibly cool. But don’t be fooled by the name. FMCs are actually “smart cities.” As I have noted elsewhere, the word “smart” is really just a synonym for surveillance. These ultra-modern, tech-saturated monstrosities use hundreds of thousands of sensors to vacuum up copious amounts of personal data.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/real-threat-15-minute-cities

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BY TYLER DURDEN

Authored by John Mac Ghlionn via The Brownstone Institute,

Big Lies, Big Data, and the Rise of Bigger Brother

The Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright recently discussed a new “international socialist conspiracy” that has taken the world by storm. “Fringe forces of the far left,” he noted, “are plotting to take away our freedom to be stuck in traffic jams, to crawl along clogged ring roads and trawl the streets in search of a parking spot.” The name of this “chilling global movement?” he asked, sarcastically and somewhat contemptuously: The “15-minute city.”

Wainwright believes these cities are simply part of a “mundane planning theory.”

He’s wrong.

A few days after Wainwright’s piece was published, three academics called 15-minute cities (FMCs) “the hottest conspiracy theory of 2023.” In a truly elitist manner, they poked fun at those who dared to question the motive behind FMCs.

One needn’t be a card-carrying QAnon member to have fears over these Trojan-like creations. Before going any further, it’s important to get our definitions in order. As the political scientist Kelly M. Greenhill has noted, not all conspiracy theories are wacky, and not all conspiracy theories are wrong. Take the Watergate conspiracy theory, for instance, or the fact that Edith Wilson made most of the executive decisions after her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, suffered a stroke. Quite often conspiracy theories turn out to be accurate.

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‘You’ll Be Hearing From Me as Long as I’m Here,’ Daniel Ellsberg Vows After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis – Antiwar.com Original

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

“I work better under a deadline. It turns out that I live better under a deadline,” the Pentagon Papers whistleblower quipped.

https://original.antiwar.com/Brett_Wilkins/2023/03/05/youll-be-hearing-from-me-as-long-as-im-here-daniel-ellsberg-vows-after-terminal-cancer-diagnosis/

by Brett Wilkins

Daniel Ellsberg, whose leaking of the Pentagon Papers and decades of antiwar activity have inspired generations of whistleblowers and activists, said Wednesday that he has terminal cancer, but that there’s “tons more” movement work for him to do before he’s gone.The former nuclear war planner-turned-disarmament campaigner, who is 91 years old, notified friends and supporters in an email Wednesday morning that he had “difficult news to impart”:

On February 17, without much warning, I was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer on the basis of a CT scan and an MRI… I’m sorry to report to you that my doctors have given me three to six months to live. Of course, they emphasize that everyone’s case is individual; it might be more, or less.

Ellsberg, who will not undergo chemotherapy – he says it “offers no promise” – wrote that he is “not in any physical pain.”

“In fact, after my hip replacement surgery in late 2021, I feel better physically than I have in years,” he said.

“As I just told my son Robert: He’s long known (as my editor) that I work better under a deadline. It turns out that I live better under a deadline,” he quipped.

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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: FDIC Plans a Bail-In with YOUR Money

Posted by M. C. on March 7, 2023

I’m not the world’s mathiest person but it didn’t take any extravagant calculations to discover that is 0.0126 cents for every dollar that is allegedly “insured.” Only 1.26% of the money that is “insured” actually has existing liquid money available to pay you back.

Bail your cash out and buy a good safe.

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/fdic-bail-in/

Things are rough in the US economy, and the FDIC seems to be making plans to handle further collapse. How? By helping themselves to YOUR money that you have on deposit, safely (you thought) tucked away in your bank account.

If I’m right, a lot of people are going to be financially devastated in the not-so-distant future.

Think I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist? Well, as we’ve seen, that often means you’re just ahead of the game. There are several reasons that I believe it may come to this, not the least of which is that there’s a publicly accessible video of their meeting in which they discuss how to do it, when to do it, and how to keep the public from freaking out about it. The time to come up with a strategy to protect your money is now, and it couldn’t be more urgent.

Let’s take a closer look.

What’s the FDIC?

FDIC stands for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. From their website, we find what that means:

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system. To accomplish this mission, the FDIC insures deposits; examines and supervises financial institutions for safety, soundness, and consumer protection; makes large and complex financial institutions resolvable; and manages receiverships.

They go on to say:

Since its creation in 1933, the FDIC has been an essential part of the American financial system. In the 1920s and early 1930s, a rise in bank failures created a national crisis, wiping out many Americans’ savings. Since FDIC insurance began in 1934, no depositor has lost a single penny of insured funds due to bank failure.

Sounds great, right? It is when it works properly.

Depositors do not need to apply for FDIC insurance. Coverage is automatic whenever a deposit account is opened at an FDIC-insured bank or financial institution. If you are interested in FDIC deposit insurance coverage, simply make sure you are placing your funds in a deposit product at the bank.

The standard insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category.

The FDIC provides separate coverage for deposits held in different account ownership categories. Depositors may qualify for coverage over $250,000 if they have funds in different ownership categories and all FDIC requirements are met.

All deposits that an accountholder has in the same ownership category at the same bank are added together and insured up to the standard insurance amount.

If the bank fails, FDIC covers the balance of a depositor’s account up to the insurance limit.

So we know how it’s supposed to work, and how it’s worked up until now.

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