The Arabs have always been their own worst enemy, and now they have managed to destroy the Arab world with only Saudi Arabia remaining. Recently, the Israeli Zionist government added a large part of Saudi Arabia to the map of Greater Israel.
he media brothel has presented the HTS terrorist/democratic opposition as Syria’s rescuer promising peace and friendship. But videos emerging reveal a campaign of violence, hangings and machine-gunning of people. It is Muslims killing Muslims, Arabs killing Arabs. The reason Arabs are powerless is that they had rather kill each other than fight against their common enemies. The borders of Arab countries were created by European colonists like the countries in Africa that combined hostile tribes into a country. So Middle Eastern countries contain Shia and Sunni populations. The two sects have been at sword’s point for centuries, enabling the West to use one against the other. Here are a few of the videos of the democratic opposition’s brutal violence. The truth is in the videos, not in the media staged scenes of Syrians celebrating the downfall of Assad:
Iran is largely Persian, not Arab and more unified. But there are progressive, pro-Western elements, and among the young there is desire for lessening of religious restraints. There are always those who prefer sin to righteousness. The US works on the progressive elements and now Iran has a reform government.
Professor Eric Robinson of the University of Liverpool, one of the authors, said: “Foods classed as ultra-processed which are high in fat, salt and/or sugar should be avoided, but a number of ultra-processed foods are not.
“We should be thinking very carefully about what advice is being given to the public, as opposed to providing simplified and potentially misleading messages that grab headlines.”
The wide-ranging report into the urban landscape and public health, released on Thursday, urges the government to do more to tackle what Whitty terms “healthy food deserts” in cities, which the report finds is a major cause of unhealthy eating.
Whitty, who became a well-known and controversial figure during the COVID-19 lockdown era, also points to the cost of food as a key factor impacting poorer people the most, finding that per calorie, healthy food “is almost twice as expensive as unhealthy food.”
Children and families in inner city areas are less likely to have access to healthy, affordable food choices in local shops, restaurants, and takeaways, and are “disproportionately exposed to unhealthy food advertising,” the 430-page report finds.
Four out of five outdoor billboards in England and Wales are in poorer areas, with many advertising junk food, while poorer regions are often “saturated with fast-food outlets,” both physically and online, the study found.
Targeted Food Taxes
Whitty said that businesses must be made to play a part in encouraging healthier eating habits, with proposed solutions including healthy food sales targets, specific taxes on unhealthy foods, and making it mandatory rather than voluntary for firms to report on what types and volumes of food they sell.
“Such measures could level the playing field for large industry actors, pave the way for progressive business and improve accountability for those who hold huge influence over children’s health,” the report said, finding that “meaningful change to food environments is possible.”
Research highlighted in the study shows that, for seven of the 10 biggest global food and drink businesses operating in the UK, more than two-thirds of their packaged food and drink sales came from products classed as high in fat, sugar, or salt.
While “past and present governments have recognised the importance of reformulating the recipes of food and drink options to reduce the amount of fat, salt and sugar in products,” the “failure to mandate this approach” and instead leave it up to industry has led to a lack of meaningful progress, Whitty said.
A number of different groups are quoted in the report, with solutions including an “excess profits” tax on retailers or producers of products with high sugar and salt content.
Supermarkets and shops, especially those where families on lower incomes shop, are often “saturated” with unhealthy food choices, which the report found was exacerbating health inequalities.
Health Inequalities
“Food-related ill health is not experienced equally by children, families and communities across the country, with children and families living in more deprived areas more acutely affected by a food system where the unhealthy options are often the most available,” it said.
The report added that the most deprived fifth of the population would need to spend half of their disposable income on food to meet the cost of the government-recommended healthy diet, compared with just 11 percent for the wealthiest fifth.
It said: “The food environment in parts of cities entrenches inequalities in health and promotes obesity.
“Healthy food deserts combine with junk food advertising to set children and adults up to live a shorter and unhealthier life through obesity and the diseases it causes, particularly in the more deprived areas of our cities.”
Chief Medical Officer Sir Chris Whitty photographed giving a media briefing during the COVID-19 lockdown era. Jack Hill/The Times/PA
The report also looks at how food is produced in the UK, finding that almost as much land is dedicated to growing sugar (110,000 hectares) as to growing all of the nation’s vegetables combined (116,000 hectares).
Humans are “genetically wired to crave calorie-rich food,“ Whitty said, so it is “unwise to think we can rely on education and willpower alone to curb our appetites and to prevent the many diet-related diseases that constitute some of the biggest threats to public health.”
The US government is either knowingly lying to the public about its own UAVs or those of a US defense contractor, or it somehow legitimately does not know what these aircraft are, who they belong to, or where they are taking off from and where they are landing. It’s hard to imagine how the latter scenario could possibly be the case after all these weeks with all the technology the world’s most powerful government has at its disposal for monitoring objects in the sky — but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not true.
Okay I need to jot down some thoughts on the “mystery drone” thing because it’s way too interesting a story to ignore.
For those who aren’t aware, since mid-November people have been sighting large drones all over the east coast of the United States, and what makes this so interesting is that the US government is claiming they don’t know anything about them. Don’t know who owns them, where they’re taking off from or where they’re landing.
They’re either lying or telling the truth about this, and either way it’s a major story. Either the US government is keeping secrets from the public about huge numbers of drones that have spent weeks flying over populated areas, or they somehow legitimately don’t know what’s going on with these sightings. Contemplating either of these possibilities should widen your eyes a bit.
And to be clear there really does appear to be something up there. Many of the sightings that are being reported are just the result of a fun news story causing people to look up from their smartphones into the night sky for the first time in years and see things they’re not familiar with like planes and stars — but there are also large, hovering aircraft of uncertain origin.
The clearest footage I’ve seen of these mystery drones so far was presented by NewsNation’s Rich McHugh, who actually turned and pointed to one of the craft in the air behind him while reporting out of central New Jersey. It must have been fairly low down because they got a great shot of the thing; it had fixed wings and blinking lights like a plane, but was reportedly only eight to ten feet wide.
McHugh said he and his crew saw some 40 or 50 of the aircraft in the hour they were on location. He interviewed officers from the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department, who told him the drones evade detection because they don’t give off heat like normal drones, and that one vanished when they tried to pursue it with a police drone. A sheriff named Michael Mastronardy told McHugh that one of his officers reported seeing fifty of these drones flying in off the ocean all at once, after which the US Coast Guard reported seeing a number of the same craft over the water.
So according to one narrative Syria has been liberated by brave freedom fighters and that’s wonderful, but according to another concurrent narrative Israel obviously needs to invade Syria because the nation has just been taken over by evil terrorists, and by yet another concurrent narrative those evil terrorists aren’t evil terrorists anymore because they’re going to be running a US puppet regime.
These are the kinds of contradictions you run into when your policies are guided by the blind pursuit of planetary domination instead of by truth and morality.
The US government is simultaneously (A) justifying Israel’s land grab in Syria by saying the nation has been taken over by terrorists, and (B) talking about removing those same forces from its list of designated terrorist organizations.
The US podium people have pivoted seamlessly from celebrating the liberation of the Syrian people in the removal of Assad to citing the fact that the nation is now overrun with terrorist factions in defense of Israel’s rapid move to militarily occupy large swathes of Syrian land while hammering Syria with hundreds of airstrikes.
At a Monday press conference, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said these moves by Israel “are temporary to defend its borders” and that Assad’s ouster “potentially creates a vacuum that could have been filled by terrorist organizations that would threaten the state of Israel and would threaten civilians inside Israel.”
“Every country has the right to take action against terrorist organizations,” Miller added.
US Government: It is great and wonderful that the dictator Assad has been deposed and the people of Syria have been freed!
Press gallery: Do you oppose Israel grabbing Syrian land?
US government: No way man, don't you know Syria's just been taken over by a bunch of terrorists? pic.twitter.com/zfilinDn4L
During a Tuesday press conference Miller further clarified the US position on Israel’s land grab, saying, “What precipitated their move into the buffer zone was the withdrawal of the Syrian armed forces, which, as I said yesterday, creates potentially a vacuum that could be filled by any one of the numerous terrorist organizations that continue to operate inside Syria that have sworn to the destruction of the state of Israel.”
During the same Tuesday press conference Miller also stated that “there is no legal barrier to us speaking to a designated terrorist group” such as HTS, the group which led the run on Damascus whose leader has been an official in both ISIS and al-Qaeda.
And as it happens the US government has now taken a sudden interest in removing HTS from its listing as a designated terrorist organization, with Politico reporting that there is now “a furious debate playing out in Washington” as to whether or not the group should be removed from the list immediately. Somehow I doubt the debate is actually all that “furious”.
So according to one narrative Syria has been liberated by brave freedom fighters and that’s wonderful, but according to another concurrent narrative Israel obviously needs to invade Syria because the nation has just been taken over by evil terrorists, and by yet another concurrent narrative those evil terrorists aren’t evil terrorists anymore because they’re going to be running a US puppet regime.
These are the kinds of contradictions you run into when your policies are guided by the blind pursuit of planetary domination instead of by truth and morality.
Politicians guarantee that Americans are left clueless on the most controversial or dangerous federal policies. The government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The total is equivalent to “20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with double-spaced text on paper,” according to The Washington Post. If those cabinets were laid end to end, they would stretch almost to the moon. The feds have accumulated the equivalent of hundreds of pages of secrets for each American, blighting any hope for citizens to learn of their rulers’ rascality.
Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, “An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.” Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington.
Politicians guarantee that Americans are left clueless on the most controversial or dangerous federal policies. The government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The total is equivalent to “20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with double-spaced text on paper,” according to The Washington Post. If those cabinets were laid end to end, they would stretch almost to the moon. The feds have accumulated the equivalent of hundreds of pages of secrets for each American, blighting any hope for citizens to learn of their rulers’ rascality.
“All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers,” George Orwell wrote in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This is where government classification—i.e., secrecy—comes in handy. The more information government classifies, the easier it becomes for politicians to dupe the American people. In Washington, deniability is better than the truth.
Secrecy was usually not a grave peril to most Americans’ rights, liberties, and safety until the U.S. government began warring in the 1940s and on into this century.
Secrecy helped deliver a death warrant for tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese. President Lyndon Johnson fabricated claims about an alleged North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin to sway Congress to give him unlimited authority to attack North Vietnam. Johnson assumed he was entitled to deceive Americans to vastly expand the war he decided to fight to boost his 1964 presidential election campaign. But other federal officials claimed a prerogative to blindfold the American people. When Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester visited Saigon in 1965, he hectored American correspondents covering the Vietnam War: “Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? Stupid!” Sylvester declared that he expected the American press to be “the handmaidens of government.” Most of the American media has followed orders regarding foreign reporting most of the time since then.
“In rushing to approve mRNA vaccines for COVID,” Culshaw explains, “what was essentially a massive clinical trial was conducted in real time on the entire population.” (emphasis added) And it was all justified by Dr. Fauci’s wife, NIH ethics boss Christine Grady,
Bhattachayra and Kennedy can bring to light Fauci’s ties with Big Pharma. No more redactions in the royalty reports for Fauci and other NIH bosses. No more funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
President-elect Donald Trump, survivor of two assassination attempts, has selected Elon Musk for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The goal is to scale down the federal leviathan, and the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur holds strong opinions about federal health agencies and those who run them.
“Remember that one time in the 80s-90s when people died from AIDS treatment and not the actual AIDS virus?” Musk noted in a recent X post. “Remember the one doctor who promoted that treatment?” he further asked and accompanied his comments with a photo of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Embattled Americans know Fauci from his 2020 Covid lockdowns and vaccine campaigns, but key stages of his career need further exposure.
Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966 but in 1968 he took a cushy “yellow beret” job with the National Institutes of Health. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology, but in 1984 the NIH made him director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), went on record that Fauci “doesn’t understand electronic microscopy and doesn’t understand medicine,” and “should not be in a position like he’s in.” The NIAID boss would prove Mullis correct.
Fauci’s drug of choice for AIDS was AZT, a DNA chain terminator abandoned as a cancer treatment during the 1960s because of its excessive toxicity. Despite the record, the FDA approved AZT for AIDS treatment with lightning speed. For more information on that disaster, see Poison by Prescription: The AZT Story by John Lauritsen. Lauritsen’s book was endorsed by, among others, UC Berkeley molecular biologist Harry Rubin, a pioneer in the field of retroviruses.
Lauritsen noted an important study: “Effects of Continuous Intravenous Infusion of Zidovudine (AZT) in Children with Symptomatic HIV Infection,” by Phillip Rizzo et. al., published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Oct. 6, 1988. That study showed that five of the 21 children in the trial died, but Fauci looked the other way. The NIAID boss forced AZT and other toxic drugs on foster children in New York City, with disastrous results. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services (HHS) charted those experiments in his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. But there is even more to Fauci’s misdeeds.
As Grady explains, NIAID is “the branch of the NIH primarily responsible for vaccine development.” Grady identifies Dr. Anthony Fauci as “director of NIAID” but fails to tell readers that she had been married to the NIAID boss for 10 years. This blatant deception proceeds from a health professional with a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University.
The following year, Grady became deputy director of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, and in 2012 the NIH gave Grady the top job. The official NIH announcement makes no mention of Grady’s marriage to NIAID boss Dr. Fauci, and no mention of The Search for an AIDS Vaccine. In that book, Grady touts “the availability and effectiveness of AZT” as a boon to research, and presents children and pregnant women as suitable subjects for drug trials. In advance, Fauci’s wife justified her husband’s actions during the pandemic.
“In rushing to approve mRNA vaccines for COVID,” Culshaw explains, “what was essentially a massive clinical trial was conducted in real time on the entire population.” (emphasis added) And it was all justified by Dr. Fauci’s wife, NIH ethics boss Christine Grady, who notes that “the regulations governing the conduct for clinical trials for vaccines in the U.S. are the same as those for clinical trials of drugs.”
“The transformation of the FBI back into a J. Edgar Hoover-style domestic spy service with sweeping political ambition has been a long-developing story, obscured by a political anomaly.”
“I have no idea if Kash Patel will do a good job or if he’ll even make it to office, but answering the question of why he was chosen as FBI Director isn’t hard: ironically, it’s the FBI that now needs to be disrupted, urgently, and he’s at least shown a willingness to do it. I doubt they’ll go quietly.”
President-elect Trump nominated Kash Patel, author of the aptly titled book “Government Gangsters,” to head the FBI. Matt Taibbi wrote an interesting article explaining the unconstitutional overreach of the FBI from the 1960s to present as a force to disrupt domestic political dissent to a spy surveillance agency and its dubious attempts at redemption by portraying itself as a serial killer chaser in the 1980s-90s:
When I heard Kash Patel had been tabbed by Donald Trump to run the FBI, I could already imagine the pushback and moved immediately to start the just-published article “The Bell Finally Tolls for the FBI” piece. The thought was that the role Patel played in preparing the “Nunes memo” was both the clearest example of media corruption from Trump’s first term and also the most easily demonstrated episode of FBI malfeasance. Since I had to spend an unnatural amount of time on the topic over the years (it even intersected with the Twitter Files and Hamilton 68) I quickly found myself in the weeds of the “memo” tale, when there’s a larger argument about why the FBI needs a major reorganization that someone needs to make amid what’s already an ugly fight about Patel’s nomination:
The transformation of the FBI back into a J. Edgar Hoover-style domestic spy service with sweeping political ambition has been a long-developing story, obscured by a political anomaly. In the first phase of this nightmare, between 2001 and 2016, the post-9/11 Bureau used the pretext of an enhanced counterintelligence mandate to throw off some mild restraints that had been placed on it the last time it had to be slapped down, i.e. after the Church Committee hearings in the 1970s. The second phase of its transformation took place after the election of Donald Trump, when the Bureau remade itself on the fly as a kind of government-in-exile, empowered by an outpouring of public and media support to view itself as a counterweight to the Trump government.
This dichotomy has probably helped prevent a full portrait of the FBI’s makeover from appearing. The more troubling aspects to phase one were mostly found in reports by a then-adversarialACLU or in testimonials of agents and investigators who spoke out in places like Democracy Now! or the Southern Poverty Law Center, with examples being people like Colleen Rowley and Mike German. The post-Trump exposes of FBI excess meanwhile often appeared in places like Mollie Hemingway’sThe Federalistor broadcasts by the likes of Tucker Carlson or even sites like The Conservative Treehouse, and the signature FBI whistleblowers of this period were agents like Steve Friend, Garrett O’Boyle and Marcus Allen, testifying in front of Republican elected officials like Jim Jordan.
Yet while the people won’t voice righteous anger at the state’s control of our highways and byways, the schooling system has left them unable to rhetorically defend the state beyond elementary slogans. They say things such as “I like roads,” and “We need roads,” and “You want to live in a world without roads?”
The irony, of course, is most citizens don’t even like the roads we have. They simply cannot imagine a world in which roads exist without the state’s monopolistic powers.
Approximately eighty million Americans were expected to hop in their motor vehicles and hit our nation’s roads for Thanksgiving last week. Despite the immediate “lived experience” of abysmal transportation infrastructure, most people will not level criticism at the state as such. You can thank the government-supremacist, anti-capitalist, state-run compulsory schooling system. Murray Rothbard said:
“…since the State began to control education, its evident tendency has been more and more to act in such a manner as to promote repression and hindrance of education, rather than the true development of the individual. Its tendency has been for compulsion, for enforced equality at the lowest level, for the watering down of the subject and even the abandonment of all formal teaching, for the inculcation of obedience to the State and to the ‘group,’ rather than the development of self-independence, for the deprecation of intellectual subjects.” [Emphasis Added]
Yet while the people won’t voice righteous anger at the state’s control of our highways and byways, the schooling system has left them unable to rhetorically defend the state beyond elementary slogans. They say things such as “I like roads,” and “We need roads,” and “You want to live in a world without roads?”
The irony, of course, is most citizens don’t even like the roads we have. They simply cannot imagine a world in which roads exist without the state’s monopolistic powers. In truth, people can build (and have actually built) roads through the free market. Mises Institute Research Fellow Chris Calton observed:
“…in the early years of the new republic, Americans underwent what some historians have described as a ‘turnpike craze.’ The term ‘turnpike’ specifically refers to roadways constructed and operated privately. Early Americans, wanting to connect their communities to the developing market economy, eagerly subscribed to turnpike corporations for local roads. In fact, turnpike corporations were among the first for-profit corporations in the country, and dramatically widened the population of shareholders at a time when corporate stock was rarely available to the public.”
Most Americans don’t realize this. So, they are left to complain about their roads. A lot. And the complaints are not just about deteriorating roads, heavy traffic, and the occasional collapsing bridge. No, many Americans are convinced the roads are inherently destroying society.
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