The vaccinated now account for a majority of COVID deaths.

There’s a remarkable concession appearing in The Washington Post today:

“a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.”

The latest data shows that 58% of COVID-19 deaths in August 2022 were from people who were vaccinated or boosted. Based on past figures and the current trends, we can reasonably estimate that the number of vaccinated/boosted COVID-19 deaths will only rise. (In September 2021, the vaccinated accounted for 23% of COVID-19 deaths; in January/February 2022, the vaccinated were 42%.)

This is what happens when you rush ineffective and dangerous vaccines.

The FDA’s promises of efficacy – 91% for the Pfizer vaccine and 93% for the Moderna vaccine – were always based on hope, not data. So too were the promises of safety. At the time of the official approvals, both Pfizer and Moderna hadn’t submitted any type of long-term numbers on effectiveness. Their trials were polluted with the unblinding of participants and their safety studies are “ongoing.”

Now, we’re seeing efficacy numbers plummet within months of vaccination. The pandemic is of the vaccinated. The boosters? They’re to the benefit of the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies, as they mask the true problems with the two-shot vaccines.

All the while, Fauci was lying to the public about COVID-19 origins. In May of 2020, he told National Geographic that COVID-19 “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.”

What he didn’t tell us was that he and US government clients were sabotaging and shutting down research and fact finding into the lab leak theory. What he didn’t say was that internal communications among himself and Francis Collins and Jeremy Farrar, revealed through a FOIA request by Jimmy Tobias, discussed “accidental lab passage in animals” and how the Wuhan lab was the “Wild West” and why the lab leak was a serious possibility.

https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-vaccinated-now-account-for-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=274771&post_id=86411849&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Under Grilling From Lawyer for Canadian Trucker Convoy, Trudeau Officials Can’t Name Evidence That Justified Emergencies Act

Last week, the Trucker Commission in Canada showcased testimony from top Trudeau officials from the Privy Council Office who were forced to justify why the trucker convoy protests were designated a “threat to national security” requiring invoking the Emergencies Act.

An estimated 50,000 Canadian truckers traveled across Canada in a massive caravan protesting the COVID mandates. Canadian media tried to paint the protests as Russian propaganda.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unleashed his authoritarian leadership on Canadians who dared to push back against the government, including arresting two leaders of the Freedom Trucker convey protest in Ottawa.

Trudeau employed the Emergencies Act and utilized the near-limitless powers to terrorize and harass the grassroots trucker convoy protests.

While the Canadian Parliament initially voted to uphold Trudeau’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act against the truckers, he was forced to revoke it days later, likely due to lack of support in the Senate.

A lawyer representing the truckers, Brendan Miller, questioned members of Trudeau’s regime over the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act. He absolutely humiliated them.

His questioning of Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council, Drouin was troubling.

Rebel News reports:

On Friday, November 18, the Trucker Commission featured the testimony of top civil servants from the Privy Council Office, including Jacquie Bogden, Jeff Hutchinson, Janice Charette and Nathalie Drouin.

The lawyer representing the truckers, Brendan Miller, questioned Drouin, who served as the Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada from 2017-2021, and is now Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet. Miller grilled Drouin on the proper process of drafting legislation and its implications for designating the convoy protests as a threat to national security.

Drouin:

A movement, a movement, can represent a threat to security of Canada. A movement, a situation.

Miller:

An activity.

Drouin:

An activity. Without having having individuals, or groups, into it, that do meet the threshold of CSIS. I think we need to make the difference between what the movement represented at that time for Canada, versus the composition of the movement, whether or not we had individuals…

Miller:

What evidence and what information of violence at Windsor were you aware of when the Act was invoked?

Drouin:

I think it would have been a mistake to do assessment site by site while we were facing a national movement and situation.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/grilling-lawyer-canadian-trucker-convey-trudeau-officials-cant-name-evidence-justified-emergencies-act/

New York Gov. Hochul Signs Law Restricting Cryptocurrency Mining Over ‘Environmental Concerns’

New York has become the first state in the nation to restrict cryptocurrency mining.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law that temporarily restricts crypto mining in the state citing “environmental concerns.”

The bill was signed on Tuesday after being passed by the state legislature back in June.

“I will ensure that New York continues to be the center of financial innovation, while also taking important steps to prioritize the protection of our environment,” Hochul said in a statement.

The Associated Press reports that “the new law sets a two-year moratorium on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants used for energy-intensive ‘proof-of-work’ cryptocurrency mining — a term for the computational process that records and secures transactions in bitcoin and similar forms of digital money. Proof-of-work is the blockchain-based algorithm used by bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies.”

“The law also requires the Department of Environmental Conservation to asses how cryptomining affects the state’s ability to meet its climate goals,” the report continues. “Environmentalists said New York was undermining those goals by letting cryptomining operations run their own natural gas-burning power plants.”

Crypto activists argued that the bill hinders financial growth in the state while ignoring other industries that utilize fossil fuels.

“Cryptocurrency mining requires specialized computers that consume large amounts of energy. One study calculated that as of November 2018, bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption was comparable to Hong Kong’s in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration,” the AP report noted.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/new-york-gov-hochul-signs-law-restricting-cryptocurrency-mining-environmental-concerns/

The Fauci Deposition from Bethesda, MD

https://www.scribd.com/document/585319901/HUGE-UPDATE-Gateway-Pundit-s-Jim-Hoft-SUES-Joe-Biden-and-Administration-for-Violation-of-First-Amendment-Internet-Censorship

Israeli Intelligence Warns Iran Is Mulling Terror Attack On World Cup

The head of Israeli Military Intelligence has warned this week that Iran is mulling an attack on World Cup venues in Qatar amid ongoing anti-regime protests. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva described that he expects Tehran officials to grow more desperate amid the now months-long "anti-hijab" protests, thus the potential for lashing out by a major terror attack grows increasingly likely.

"There is a real concern within the regime that it endangers the regime. At this stage, I do not see a risk to the regime…. but as the pressure on Iran increases, including internal pressure, the Iranian response is much more aggressive, so we should expect much more aggressive responses in the region and in the world," Haliva said.

"I am telling you that the Iranians are now considering attacking the World Cup in Qatar as well," he said. “The only thing holding them back is how the Qataris will react."

He issued the words Monday before a defense conference in Tel Aviv, calling the ongoing protests which have increasingly taken over university campuses and major city streets in the Islamic Republic "extremely exceptional" and now fast becoming a "civilian rebellion".

"The death toll, the attacks on national symbols — this is very troubling for the regime, especially combined with sanctions, the existing international pressure, and the difficult economic situation," the military intel chief described.

Outgoing Defense Minister Benny Gantz also backed the prediction related to the World Cup, alleging the Iranians are poised to create instability outside their country.

Iranian leaders have meanwhile charged that the protests and unrest are a foreign plot, with the spiraling violence which has left scores of police and security services casualties being fueled by Israeli and US intelligence. Over 320 people have died since the demonstrations began. Authorities have denounced the "rioters".

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-intelligence-claims-iran-mulling-terror-attack-world-cup

Russia responds to EU ‘sponsor of terrorism’ resolution

The European Parliament should be designated a sponsor of idiocy, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said

The European Parliament, which on Wednesday adopted a non-binding resolution branding Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism”, should be designated a “sponsor of idiocy,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

The EU’s legislative body passed the decision on Wednesday in a landslide vote in Strasbourg. The document was supported by 494 MEPs, with 58 votes against and 44 abstentions. The resolution merged drafts penned by three different factions of the European Parliament.

The labeling is the EU’s latest condemnation of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. Some individual states, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Czech Republic, previously passed similar resolutions on a national level.

The move is largely symbolic, but the document urged member states to develop a new legal framework, which would allow the blacklisting, on terrorism grounds, not just individuals or organizations, but entire nations.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky hailed the news, declaring that Russia had to be “isolated at all levels and held accountable in order to end its long-standing policy of terrorism in Ukraine and across the globe.”

Moscow accused Kiev’s Western backers of ignoring its warnings that NATO’s informal expansion into Ukraine was crossing Russia’s red line. Ukraine is being used for a proxy war against Russia, and as long as it delivers, the US and its allies are prepared to turn a blind eye to any Ukrainian crimes, officials in Moscow claimed.

According to Russian investigators, the Ukrainian government is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks on Russian soil, including the assassination of journalist Darya Dugina in August and the deadly truck bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October. Western media reported that Washington suspects Kiev’s involvement too, and allegedly “admonished” Zelensky for both attacks.

https://www.rt.com/russia/567050-zakharova-eu-sponsor-idiocy/

Grand jury finds ballot fraud in NYC city council race – and releases report calling for changes to state election laws

A Staten Island grand jury is calling for changes to state election laws after recently discovered numerous instances of ballot fraud in a race for City Council last year, the New York Post reported.

Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon released the grand jury's 38-page report requesting changes to the state laws.

"This report should alarm all involved in the electoral process on Staten Island and across New York city and state, including the general voting public," McMahon said.

The report, which does not specify the race where the ballot fraud was found, stated that it did not have enough evidence to convict anyone of fraud.

It recommended several changes to New York voting laws, including requiring voters to show a government-issued identification when voting at the polls or by absentee ballot.

The grand jury also requested that the local boards of elections be required to have qualified experts to conduct forensic document examination of absentee ballot envelope signations.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/grand-jury-ballot-fraud-nyc-city-council

Anthony Fauci Claims the ‘Real Danger’ Will Be Among the Unvaccinated This Winter

Dr. Anthony Fauci is sounding the alarm again, contending that the “real danger” will be among the unvaccinated this winter.

Speaking at his final White House press conference before stepping down as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and Chief Medical Adviser to President Joe Biden, Fauci sounded the alarm, not only urging testing and vaccination but contending that the “real danger” will be among unvaccinated Americans.

“But the people who are most at risk are the unvaccinated. I mean, we have — 68 percent of our population is vaccinated. You know, that means that we have 32 percent of the population that’s not,” he said.

That data coincides with the findings of September’s survey from The Economist/YouGov, indicating that three in ten Americans have not received a coronavirus jab. Fauci, however, cited general data, asserting that unvaccinated individuals are more at risk for hospitalization or death. However, he did not mention the growing instances of vaccine-related complications, including “the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination,” as detailed by a Florida Department of Health analysis, leading the state to update its guidance on mRNA vaccines, recommending against them for men under the age of 40.

“And if you look at the data, they are just profoundly striking of the curves of death and hospitalization of unvaccinated versus vaccinated versus vaccinated and boosted,” Fauci claimed, adding, “So, there is a relatively smaller difference in vaccinated and unboosted versus vaccinated plus boosted. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get boosted.”

“But the real danger is in the people who have not been vaccinated. So, that’s where we expect — if we’re going to see a problem this winter, it’s going to be among those people,” he said, echoing early rhetoric from President Biden, who last year falsely asserted that “you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” Yet, at that same town hall event, Biden admitted that vaccinated individuals can catch the virus.

He said in part:

And so, what I say to people who are worried about a new pandemic is: Get vaccinated. If you’re vaccinated, even if you do catch the “virus,” quote, unquote — like people talk about it in normal terms — you’re in overwhelm- — not many people do. If you do, you’re not likely to get sick. You’re probably going to be symptomless. You’re not going to be in a position where you — where your life is in danger. [emphasis added]

Months later, Biden asserted that vaccinated individuals could not spread the virus — another falsehood. The twice vaccinated and double boosted president would later go on to contract the virus.

Nevertheless, Fauci is urging Americans to get tested for the coronavirus prior to the holidays.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/23/anthony-fauci-claims-the-real-danger-will-be-among-the-unvaccinated-this-winter/

One last item for your Thanksgiving dinner: some talking points when "that Uncle" comes "at you" about @POTUS

https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1595414110438662144

China’s Playbook For Influencing Washington Has Been Revealed, And Of Course Americans Are Involved

Maurice Greenberg, CEO of Starr Insurance Companies, recently convened with individuals associated with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss U.S.-China relations before briefing the Biden administration on the meeting, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Greenberg’s team featured business leaders and former government officials who favor engagement with China, such as former Democratic Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who registered as a lobbyist for a Chinese company which the federal government later designated as a “national security threat” in 2020.

“They are either demonstrating extreme naïveté or they are fully aware of who they are meeting with,” Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, told the DCNF.

A delegation from a Chinese think tank associated with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs secretly met with a billionaire New York executive and a group of politically-connected individuals last week to discuss faltering U.S.-China relations, The Wall Street Journal reported, as China searches for ways to maintain influence over Washington.

Maurice Greenberg, CEO of Starr Insurance Companies, and a select group of business leaders and former U.S. government officials reportedly discussed issues such as Taiwan, North Korea and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with representatives from the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) on Nov. 11 and 12, the WSJ reported. The Biden administration was subsequently briefed on Greenberg’s conference, which occurred just days before President Joe Biden met General Secretary Xi Jinping in Indonesia on Nov. 14.

Greenberg’s involvement in politics dates back decades, and in recent years he’s donated heavily to the Republican Party, giving $10 million to a super PAC which supported Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign in 2016. In addition to Greenberg, 12 individuals accompanied him to meet with CPIFA, including former Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman and former ambassador to China, Max Baucus, both of whom belong to a new group Greenberg formed in July which allegedly aims to “re-establish a constructive bilateral dialogue” with China, according to a WSJ opinion piece written by Greenberg.

Lieberman served as a Democratic senator from Connecticut between 1989 and 2013, while Baucus served as a Democratic senator from Montana beginning in 2002 until former President Barack Obama appointed him the U.S. ambassador to China in 2014.

“They are either demonstrating extreme naïveté or they are fully aware of who they are meeting with,” Peter Schweizer, author of “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” told the DCNF. “None of these individuals strike me as naïve.”

https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/23/maurice-greenberg-biden-schweizer-joe-lieberman-max-baucus/

State Duma passes bill banning LGBT, pedophilia propaganda

About 400 legislators, including Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, are among the bill’s authors

The Russian State Duma at its Wednesday session approved the second reading of a bill banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, pedophilia and information capable of causing someone to seek gender reassignment surgery.

About 400 legislators, including Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, are among the bill’s authors. As Volodin noted during the meeting, the bill is being approved exclusively in the interests of Russians. "We should do everything in order to protect our children and those who want to lead a normal life," he emphasized.

The document provides for a ban on propaganda of non-traditional relations, pedophilia as well as a ban on disseminating information about LGBT in the media, on the internet, and in commercials, books and movies. It also includes a ban on statements which may induce teenagers to gender reassignment surgery on the Internet, in the media and in books, audiovisual services, movies and commercials.

Also on Wednesday, the State Duma passed the second reading of a bill introducing substantial fines of up to 10 mln rubles (over $165,000) for propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, pedophilia and information capable of inducing gender reassignment surgery both among minors and adults. Propaganda targeting minors will result in greater fines than information directed at adults and propaganda on the Internet and in media outlets will also result in heavier fines.

The bill introduces separate sanctions for foreigners and those without citizenship. If they disseminate LGBT propaganda among adults, the fine will range from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles (approximately $850-1,650), while propaganda targeting minors will result in fines ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 rubles (approximately $1,650-3,300). In both cases, the fines are accompanied by deportation which may be preceded by detention of up to 15 days. If propaganda is disseminated by foreigners via media outlets or the Internet, then the fines may reach up to 100,000 or 400,000 rubles (approximately $1,650 and $6,600, respectively) depending on the audience’s age.

https://tass.com/politics/1541001

Facebook announces removal of religious views on personal profiles

Beginning Dec. 1, Facebook will no longer allow user profiles to feature their religious views.

“Some profile info is going away soon,” reads a warning sent to Facebook users who have filled in their profiles, including their religious views and affiliations. “Starting from 1 December 2022, the following info that you shared on your profile in About Contact and basic info will be removed… Your other information will remain on your profile, along with the rest of your contact and basic info.”

The warning also provides Facebook users the option to download a copy of the data before the company scrubs it completely from people’s profiles.

Facebook is also deleting other fields on user profiles starting Dec. 1. These fields include “Interested in,” which indicates a user’s sexual orientation, “Political views” and “Address.” All other information, including contact information, will remain.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the situation in a statement to TechCrunch.

“As part of our efforts to make Facebook easier to navigate and use, we’re removing a handful of profile fields: Interested In, Religious Views, Political Views and Address,” wrote the spokesperson in a statement. “We’re sending notifications to people who have these fields filled out, letting them know these fields will be removed. This change doesn’t affect anyone’s ability to share this information about themselves anywhere else on Facebook.”

http://www.madnesshub.com/2022/11/facebook-announces-removal-of-religious.html

Pfizer CEO Bourla Declares Alex Jones an ‘Agent of Evil’

During an acceptance speech after receiving a “Courage Against Hate” award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) earlier this month, Bourla blasted disinformation “agents of evil” who he says knowingly and maliciously spread lies.

“When people use disinformation to create fear, they become agents of evil,” he said before citing “conspiracies” about the AIDS epidemic, the January 6th riot, the Covid-19 pandemic and Covid vaccines as examples of “dangerous disinformation.”

Infowars.com reports: Ironically, Bourla himself uttered a massive lie about the January 6th protest by claiming the events that day “resulted in the death of five police officers.”

In reality, officer Brian Sicknick died of a stroke over 24 hours after the protest, officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself on January 15 and officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police died by suicide four days after Jan. 6th.

Two Metropolitan Police Department officers who responded to the Capitol on Jan. 6 committed suicide in July, six months after January 6th.

The Pfizer CEO also told his ADL audience “there are bright spots amid this darkness” of disinformation, using the recent billion dollar verdict against Alex Jones as a positive.

“Just last month, a jury in this country awarded close to a billion dollars to families of those who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook massacre,” Bourla said as the crowd applauded. “Because one man with a microphone spoke disgusting and disgraceful lies. The jury flat-out rejected his lies and made an unambiguous statement that such evil is not acceptable.”

Yes, Bourla blatantly defamed Jones during an award presented by the Anti-Defamation League.

The Big Pharma leader also praised companies for engaging in cancel culture by cutting ties with celebrities and athletes who “sprew hate.”

This may be one of the most extreme examples of gaslighting the world has seen.

https://newspunch.com/pfizer-ceo-bourla-declares-alex-jones-an-agent-of-evil/

Injuries after magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes western Turkey

Authorities said 35 people were injured, mostly in the panic that ensued after the quake.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck western Turkey, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, while the country’s interior minister said there were no immediate reports of deaths or significant damage.

The quake was at a depth of 2 kilometres (1.2 miles), EMSC said.

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), which measured the quake at magnitude 5.9, said the epicentre of the tremor had been in Golyaka, a district in the northwestern province of Duzce.

“We almost completed our checks in the villages around Golyaka. There is no severe damage reported; only some barns were wrecked in these places … There was a power cut during the quake but authorities are reinstating power now,” interior minister Suleyman Soylu said on broadcaster TRT Haber.

Health minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter that 35 people in Duzce and nearby provinces had been injured.

AFAD and media reports later updated the number of injured to 50.

Most of the injuries were sustained during the panic after the quake, including from jumping from balconies or windows. One of the injured was in a serious condition, Soylu said.

The quake struck at 4:08am (01:08 GMT) and Turkish media said it was also felt in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara.

Dozens of aftershocks were reported, including one of a magnitude 4.3.

The quake demolished the exterior cladding and parts of the roof of a courthouse in Duzce, Haberturk television reported. Among other damage, a two-storey shop collapsed on a narrow street, it said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/23/injuries-after-6-0-earthquake-strikes-western-turkey

Donors withdraw millions in support for controversial programme whitewashing Israeli crime

One of Israel's most successful initiatives peddling state propaganda has suffered a major blow following the decision by major donor, the Adelson Family Foundation, to pull millions of pounds from the "Birthright" Israel programme. The highly controversial initiative offers all-expenses-paid trips to Israel for 18–26-year-old Jews. Since its inception in 1999, close to a million young Jewish adults have visited the Occupation State through the programme. Critics slam "Birthright" because of its racist anti-Palestine messaging and for spreading Israeli propaganda to new generations of Jews in the Diaspora.

According to figures obtained by Haaretz, the Adelson Family Foundation – the single largest donor to "Birthright" over the past 15 years – has reduced its annual gift to the programme from an average of $35 million to $40 million, to just $20 million in 2022. It has also notified the programme directors that its annual gift for 2023 will be only half that sum – $10 million. Contrasted with the 2018 figures when the Adelson Foundation donated some $70 million, the drop in pledge for the coming year is even more significant.

Established in 2007 by Republican Party mega-donor, Sheldon Adelson and wife Miriam Adelson, the Foundation has contributed an estimated half a billion dollars to "Birthright" over the decades. Adelson, a major funder of the US Republican Party and supporter of both Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died last year in Malibu, California, aged 87. During the 2016 US election, the casino magnate gave $82 million toward Trump's and other Republican campaigns, more than three times the next largest individual donor.

The decline in financial aid by the Adelson Family Foundation reflects a general dip in support by donors to the "Birthright" programme. Altogether Birthright's budget next year which, according to estimates, is made up of donations by around 35,000 individual donors, is expected to total just over $100 million – a 25 per cent drop from this year.

Rising cost is said to be one reason for the sharp decline in donation. "The significant cost increases of our program mean that we will not be able to accommodate as many applicants in the coming years, and we know that those who miss out on a "Birthright" trip are unlikely to travel to Israel at all," Birthright Israel CEO, Gidi Mark, is reported saying.

Mark went on to warn of the impact on relations between Israel and American Jews due to the sharp decline. "There has never been a more critical need for Birthright Israel than now," he added. "Without a major immediate increase in fundraising, we will be hard-pressed to have the positive effect we've had on many individuals – and that will inevitably impact American Jewish organisations that are used to seeing enthusiastic young adults return from Israel and take major roles in the Jewish community."

The news is likely to be welcomed by critics of "Birthright", who are increasingly vocal about its whitewashing of Israel's human rights abuse. Increasing numbers of young Americans are questioning the motives behind the all-expense paid trip to a country which human rights group have labelled an apartheid state. American magazine, Jewish Currents, raised ethical questions around "Birthright", describing the programme as one of the most effective propaganda campaigns on behalf of the Israeli government and its Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. It stressed that American Jews committed to ending Israel's Occupation, broadly agrees that "Birthright" is a problem, but there is no consensus on how to address it. "Should young Jews go on alternative trips for a more balanced perspective?" the magazine asked.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20221123-donors-withdraw-millions-in-support-for-controversial-programme-whitewashing-israeli-crime/

Georgia Supreme Court reinstates six week abortion ban

The emergency petition was brought before the court by the Georgia Attorney General's Office.

Georgia's Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily reinstated the state's six-week abortion ban, after it was recently struck down by a lower court.

The emergency petition was brought before the court by the Georgia Attorney General's Office, which asked the state supreme court to temporarily "stay" the lower court ruling and meanwhile reinstate the law, according to Axios.

The lower court decision came last week from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who ruled the law was unconstitutional because it was enacted in 2019 when Roe v. Wade and other U.S. Supreme Court precedents were in place and prohibiting the regulation of abortion before viability, Axios also reports.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-six-week-abortion-ban

Leaked Documents Show Germany Preparing For War With Russia

In the immediate aftermath of the (First) Cold War, the German military (Bundeswehr) went through massive restructuring and downsizing, drastically bringing down the number of combat-ready troops. After the Soviet Union’s dismantlement in the early 1990s, the Bundeswehr was left without its primary adversary, eliminating the need for maintaining hundreds of thousands of battle-ready soldiers. Ever since, as a result of NATO’s change of doctrine, the German military refocused on interventionist style of warfare, aiding numerous invasions launched by the political West.

The country’s conventional forces contracted significantly, with the crisis culminating during Ursula fon der Leyen’s tenure as defense minister, when Bundeswehr effectively became the national laughing stock, with reports of some soldiers using broomsticks instead of guns, while all six submarines were out of service. To make matters worse, German military auditors were saying that the true picture is even worse. The military’s battle readiness was laughable, especially in comparison to the (First) Cold War era, while the interest of German citizens to serve in the Bundeswehr reached an all-time low.

However, it seems the Bundeswehr is now planning to become one of the most prominent militaries in NATO once again. After years of pressure, particularly from the United States, Germany is effectively re-militarizing. According to a report by Der Spiegel, it “must increase its preparedness for a war with Russia.” This was written in a confidential document by the German Chief of Defense Staff, General Eberhard Zorn. The classified document, titled “Operational guidelines for the Armed Forces” was written in late September. According to General Zorn, “an attack on Germany can potentially happen without warning and can cause serious damage, even existential. Therefore, the defense capabilities of the Bundeswehr are essential for the survival of the country.”

The German Chief of Defense Staff stressed the need for a “mega-reform” of the Bundeswehr, adding that, for approximately 30 years, “the focus placed on missions abroad no longer does justice to the current situation, with possible consequences that endanger the system.” Instead, General Zorn thinks that “it must be the Atlantic defense of the Alliance,” with the “capacity to provide visible and credible deterrence, to dominate Germany’s military action plan.” In this regard, specifically, “the Bundeswehr must arm itself for a forced war, since a potential confrontation on NATO’s eastern flank has once again become more probable.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-s-neglected-soldiers-forced-to-use-broomstick-as-a-gun-glnqbndf6

https://southfront.org/leaked-documents-show-germany-preparing-for-war-with-russia/

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-vertrauliches-strategiepapier-sieht-staerkung-der-kampfkraft-vor-a-daa2482e-c68f-4781-bb0a-50a6ad4b3408

In California, 10% of Legislature Now Identifies as LGBT

Of the 12 current or soon-to-be members of the California Legislature, eight were already part of its LGBTQ Caucus, including the leader of the Senate and three other senators whose terms run until 2024.

https://headlineusa.com/california-legislature-identiy-lgbt/