America First: A Tribute to Pat Buchanan. 1 of 4

January 28, 2023 (1d ago)

There may be no more iconic moment in Donald Trump’s entire presidential campaign than his February 2016 debate showdown with Jeb Bush. The debate, held in Greenville, South Carolina just days before a crucial primary, was rigged against Trump from the start. While polls showed Trump with a big lead, the actual crowd in Greenville was full of movement conservative die-hards nostalgic for George W. Bush. Jeb Bush thought he could use the memory of his brother as a secret weapon to turn the tide, win the state, and save his flailing campaign. It did not go as planned:

For eight years, Republicans had danced awkwardly around the Iraq War, so obviously a national calamity, out of dogmatic loyalty to their last president and to the idea of interventionism itself.

ButDonald Trump broke the taboo. He called Iraq what it was, an idiotic near-criminal disaster, and didn’t back down even as a crowd of the people he was trying to win over booed and heckled.

Seven years on, the battle has been almost won. In 2020, Republicans celebrated Donald Trump as the first president in forty years not to start a war on his watch. They praised him for negotiating an end to Afghanistan, and avoiding new quagmires in Syria or Iran. On Ukraine, it is Republicans rather than Democrats who question the wisdom of spending hundreds of billions of dollars with no strategic endgame on a war that never needed to happen and serves no U.S. interests.

By making the Republican Party turn against interventionism and forever wars, Donald Trump changed the country for the better.And when he did so, he was channeling one very specific man: Pat Buchanan.

Last Friday, Buchanan announced he is retiring-the political column he has written since the days of Barry Goldwater. It is the final end of a public political career that has spanned a half century of decline in the country Buchanan loved so much and fought so hard to save. And if Buchanan can’t boast that he actually did save the country, he at least has the satisfaction of seeing ideas that once made him an outcast from his own party rise to become the dominant worldview within it.Without Buchanan, there would be no Trump. For that matter, without Buchanan, there would be no Revolver.

Of all the people who might be deemed a forerunner of Donald Trump and his political revolution, Pat Buchanan has by far the most worthy claim.

Consider this article from 2015, published just as Trump’s presidential campaign was taking off:

Mr. Trump revels in controversy. But as he assails illegal immigration as an “invasion” and refers to Mexicans en masse as “Jose,” his critics are accusing him of taking controversy a step too far. They say Mr. Trump is speaking in code, using xenophobic images like those or anti-Semitic references to excite bigots without alienating mainstream voters.

[Trump frequently offers] direct and sometimes harsh mockery of foreigners, using his derision to cultivate support for his immigration and trade policies. “I’ll build that security fence, and we’ll close it, and we’ll say, ‘Listen Jose, you’re not coming in this time!’ ” he shouted to applause from an almost entirely white audience at a rally in Waterloo, Iowa three weeks ago.[NYT]..

https://www.revolver.news/2023/01/america-first-a-tribute-to-pat-buchanan/

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America First: A Tribute to Pat Buchanan

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Okay, you probably already guessed the twist: That’s not Trump at all, but a write-up of Buchanan’s presidential campaign twenty-six years ago. All that’s missing is the promise to make Mexico pay for the fence. Buchanan didn’t just share Trump’s views, but his talent for colorful language that drove the regime berserk; a quarter-century before “Crooked Hillary,”China’s Deng Xiaoping was a “chain-smoking Communist dwarf.”

Donald Trump won the presidency by appealing to the Silent Majority, butBuchanan is the one who literally coined the termworking as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon. And throughout his career, Buchanan tried his best to speak for that quiet mass of beleaguered American humanity.

Our resolve is to put America First, to make America First again, and to keep America First. For 50 years, we have liberated, defended, and aided nations all over the world. It was the right and just thing to do. But, now, we must begin to look out for the forgotten Americans right here in the United States. Our great manufacturing base needs to be re-tooled and restored; our economy needs to be revived; our society needs to be healed; and our people need to become one again.

So Buchanan wrote in 1992, during his primary challenge against George H.W. Bush. In the same pamphlet, Buchanan foreshadowed the GOP’s growing realization that toppling the tyranny of woke civil rights quotas is the only way to keep America a powerful, rich, or desirable country.

Equal justice for All. If discrimination is wrong when practiced against black men and women, it is wrong when practiced against any man or woman. All quotas in federal agencies and programs will be abolished — and the ideas of excellence and merit will be restored.

Put up a fence, send illegals home, America-first trade policy, an end to foreign interventionism, no more wokeness: It was all there, 20 years ahead of Trump. But tragically, the message went unheeded. Buchanan was the intellectual son of accountant, not a billionaire real estate tycoon with three decades’ experience as a TV star. Buchanan had the ideas, but Trump had the money, the star power, the meme magic. Buchanan’s 1992 campaign was the last credible primary challenge to an incumbent president, but nothing more. His 1996 campaign might have worked against a more divided field, but against an establishment firmly united around Bob Dole, Buchanan won just four states and 20% of the primary vote.

But Buchanan never deviated or retooled his message just for the sake of popularity. Instead, he willingly endured more than a decade as the Republican Party’s Cassandra.

“In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.” Buchanan wrote that, not in 2020 or 2015, but in 2002. ..

https://www.revolver.news/2023/01/america-first-a-tribute-to-pat-buchanan/

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America First: A Tribute to Pat Buchanan

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In his 1999 book A Republic, Not an EmpireBuchanan correctly predicted the exact-outcome that America’s already-growing meddling in the Middle East would produce: A terrorist attack masterminded by the followers of Osama bin Laden. After the very attack his anticipated occurred, while the rest of the world fixated on the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and nation building, Buchanan saw earlier than anyone the disaster that would follow.

“We should provide some economic and humanitarian aid, but we should not have any troop presence there,” Buchanan said in December 2001, long before the word “quagmire” was on anyone’s lips. In 2003, Buchanan bravely denounced the newly-unleashed Iraq War. The war, he said, was not in America’s interests, and was almost wholly the work ofan obsessive cabal of warlike neoconservatives who had hijacked conservatism.

Buchanan’s positions during the late 90s and early 2000s opened him to almost unprecedented character assassination. In a shameful display of “cancel culture” before the term ever existed, the Republican establishment steadily drove Buchanan out of the GOP and out of the public square through distortions of his rhetoric and warped lies about his personal character. In 1999, John McCain led a coordinated denunciation of Buchanan over his contention in A Republic, Not an Empire that America’s involvement in World War 2 had been avoidable and was not in the country’s interests. In 2003, David Frum labeled Buchanan as among the worst of the “unpatriotic conservatives” for his opposition to the Iraq disaster.

Virtually no Republicans stood up to defend Buchanan’s patriotism, honor, or basic dignity. By 2008, Republicans were citing the Anti-Defamation League to attack Barack Obama by linking him to Pat Buchanan.

But through all of the attacks, Buchanan never wavered. As he and his co-editors wrote in 2002, at the launch of his once-dissident magazine The American Conservative:

[T]here is a great, often unarticulated discomfort in the ranks of many who considered themselves conservative during the past few decades. A friend of ours recently told of an encounter with one of his colleagues. “You’re a conservative,” the colleague said — “so you must agree with Paul Wolfowitz that we should attack Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and all those places.”

Well, no. Not all conservatives do agree that the United States should engage — for reasons that hardly touch America’s own vital interests — in an open-ended war against much of the Arab and Muslim world.

A variant of that conversation might be had about immigration — an issue around which genuine debate erupted for a brief time in mid 1990’s — only to be extinguished by the regnant factions of the conservative Establishment. “So you’re a conservative” that conversation would run. “You must believe that ‘there shall be open borders’ as the Wall Street Journal editorial page habitually puts it…

https://www.revolver.news/2023/01/america-first-a-tribute-to-pat-buchanan/

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America First: A Tribute to Pat Buchanan

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Well, again, no. We believe that America has gained and still does from new immigrants. But we also, after two decades of intense immigration, believe that the nation needs a slowdown to assimilate those already here.

We are told — by some of the more powerful voices on the Right — that these debates are over. … [but] we will be different. … We will question the benefits and point to the pitfalls of the global free trade economy; we will free the immigration debate from the prison to which it has been consigned. And we will discuss, frequently, America’s role in the world, turning a critical eye on those who want to cast aside every relevant American foreign policy tradition — from Robert Taft-style isolationism to prudent Dwight Eisenhower-style internationalism, in favor of go it alone militarism, where America threatens and bombs one nation after another, while the world looks on in increasing horror. [TAC]

In the end, all of Buchanan’s warnings came true: Middle America became a hollowed-out, deindustrialized area wracked with blight and drug overdoses. America’s foreign adventures wasted trillions and achieved nothing. The tidal wave of foreign immigration resulted not in rainbow-like harmony but endless struggles between different identity groups. And all of this culminated in crushing defeat for the Bush-era Republican party that embraced all of these trends. It would only return to the White House in 2016 behind a candidate who finally did what Buchanan had begged the party to do a quarter-century before: Actually reach out to middle America and seek the support of America’s Silent Majority.

“My friends, these people are our people,” Buchanan said in 1992. “They don’t read Adam Smith or Edmund Burke, but they come from the same schoolyards and the same playgrounds and towns as we come from. They share our beliefs and convictions, our hopes and our dreams. They are the conservatives of the heart. They are our people. And we need to reconnect with them. We need to let them know we know how bad they’re hurting. They don’t expect miracles of us, but they need to know we care.”

Sadly, it took twenty-four years for the GOP to field a candidate who did.

Just like Trump, Buchanan’s America-first nationalism exposed him to hysterical hatred. Just like Trump, the press dragged David Duke onto the public stage just to demand that Buchanan disavow him (Do you disavow? DO YOU DISAVOW??).

But to his enduring credit, Buchanan refused to play by the press’s rigged rules. Decades before the term entered American politics, Buchanan was “based”: He said what he really thought, fearlessly. He charted his own political course and was never intimidated by who it offended or what it got him deplatformed from. In an America that was constantly breeding new sacred cows, Buchanan butchered them with glee.

It is heartbreaking to imagine the America that might have been had Pat Buchanan succeeded in his 1996 campaign. It would be an America where the border crisis was solved a generation ago, and the calculated slow-motion replacement of heritage Americans was arrested. It would be an America spared the trillion-dollar calamities of the Afghan and Iraq wars, by virtue of a new restrained foreign policy that kept America out of conflicts that had no bearing on its well-being. It would likely be an America with amicable relations with Russia, instead of pointlessly hostile ones. And, just for good measure, it would be an America without the rotten Bush and Clinton political dynasties.

For America, it is a road not taken. But unlike most Cassandras,Pat Buchanan had the good fortune to live long enough for the public to acknowledge his greatness, whether they knew is or not.

https://twitter.com/AleksDjuricic/status/1619427578284236802?s=20&t=kcPvsPedYYzWXdFiAyPWCw

These countries are failing at their psyop; their disrespect is being noticed. This will backfire on the fiveeyes

https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1619425701760991233?s=20&t=kcPvsPedYYzWXdFiAyPWCw

29 Jan, 2023 15:52

As the Pentagon's favorite think tank calls for a swift end to the Ukraine conflict, is the mood shifting in Washington? 1 of 2

The RAND Corporation, a highly influential elite national security think tank funded directly by the Pentagon, has published a landmark report stating that prolonging the proxy war is actively harming the US and its allies and warning Washington that it should avoid “a protracted conflict” in Ukraine.

What are the US' interests in Ukraine

The report has an unequivocal title, “Avoiding a long war: US policy and the trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine conflict,” which provides a strong indication as to its contents.

It starts by stating that the fighting represents “the most significant interstate conflict in decades, and its evolution will have major consequences” for Washington, which includes US “interests” being actively harmed. The report makes it very clear that while Ukrainians have been doing the fighting, and their cities have been “flattened” and “economy decimated,” these “interests” are “not synonymous” with Kiev’s.

The US ending its financial, humanitarian and particularly military support promptly would cause Ukraine to completely collapse, and RAND cites several reasons why doing so would be sensible, not least because a Ukrainian victory is regarded as both “improbable” and “unlikely,” due to Russian “resolve,” and its military mobilization having “rectified the manpower deficit that enabled Ukraine’s success in the Kharkiv counteroffensive.”

From the perspective of US “interests,” RAND warns that while the Kremlin has not threatened to use nuclear weapons, there are “several issues that make Russian use of nuclear weapons both a plausible contingency Washington needs to account for and a hugely important factor in determining the future trajectory of the conflict.”

And what are the risks for the US

The think tank believes the Biden administration “has ample reason to make the prevention of Russian use of nuclear weapons a paramount priority." In particular, it should seek to avoid a “direct nuclear exchange” with Moscow, a “direct conflict with Russia”, or wider “NATO-Russia war.”

On the latter point, RAND worries that US general Mark Milley’s demand that the conflict stay “inside the geographical boundaries of Ukraine” is on the verge of being disrespected, as “the extent of NATO allies’ indirect involvement in the war is breathtaking in scope,” including “tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and other aid” and “tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support,” along with “billions of dollars monthly in direct budgetary support to Kiev.”

Such largesse could, RAND forecasts, prompt Moscow to “punish NATO members…with the objective of ending allied support for Ukraine; strike NATO preemptively if Russia perceives that NATO intervention in Ukraine is imminent; interdict the transfer of arms to Ukraine; retaliate against NATO for perceived support for internal unrest in Russia,” if the Kremlin concludes the country’s national security is “severely imperiled.”…

https://www.rt.com/news/570618-rand-came-up-with-solution/

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These outcomes are “by no means inevitable,”but still represent an “elevated” risk, particularly in light of incidents such as a Ukrainian air defense missile striking Polish territory in November 2022 – a situation exacerbated by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky falsely claiming it was a deliberate Russian strike. While this event “did not spiral out of control, it did demonstrate that fighting can unintentionally spill over to the territory of neighboring US allies.”

Another incident like that could mean “the US military would immediately be involved in a hot war with a country that has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.” This, as well as a conventional conflict between NATO and Russia, is a prospect Washington should avoid at all costs, RAND argues.

A clear implication is the US could lose such a conflict, one key reason being, as pointed out by RAND, “the intensity of the military assistance” being given to Ukraine by its Western backers is already approaching an “unsustainable” level, with US and European weapons stocks “running low.” This consequently means a longer war equals more Ukrainian territory reunified with Russia.

Is there a solution?

On the subject of territorial losses, RAND is unmoved by arguments Ukraine should attempt to recapture all that it has lost since 2014, as “greater territorial control is not directly correlated with greater economic prosperity” or “greater security.” Land having been retaken by Kiev since September means “Russia has imposed far greater economic costs on the country as a whole.”

RAND also considers the worth of arguments that “greater Ukrainian territorial control”should be assured “to reinforce international norms, and to foster Ukraine’s future economic growth” to be “debatable,” as even in the “unlikely” event Kiev pushes “beyond the pre-February 2022 line of control and manages to retake areas that Russia has occupied since 2014,” the risks of escalation from Moscow, including “

The Kremlin would likely treat the potential loss of Crimea as a much more significant threat both to national security and regime stability,” the report warns.

All these factors make “avoiding a long war…the highest priority after minimizing escalation risks,” so RAND recommends the US “take steps that make an end to the conflict over the medium term more likely,” including “issuing assurances regarding the country’s neutrality,” something that Moscow had requested before the conflict began, to deaf ears, as well as “sanctions relief for Russia.”

However, the report warns against a “dramatic, overnight shift in US policy,” as this would be “politically impossible – both domestically and with allies,” instead recommending the development of “instruments” to bring the war to a “negotiated end,” and “socializing them with Ukraine and with US allies” in advance to lessen the blow. This process should be started quickly though, as “the alternative is a long war that poses major challenges for the US, Ukraine, and the rest of the world.”

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What this proposal ignores is that Western leaders have consistently proven they cannot be trusted to respect or adhere to treaties they have signed and brokered with Russia, such as the Minsk Accords, which former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted were never intended to be implemented, but rather to buy time for Kiev.

It may be the case then thatMoscow won’t be interested in RAND’s solution at all, and choose instead to finish the war on its own terms.

By Felix Livshitz

https://www.rt.com/news/570618-rand-came-up-with-solution/

29 Jan, 2023 11:28

Trump makes Ukraine peace claim

The former US president said he would strike an agreement between Moscow and Kiev “in 24 hours”

Former US President Donald Trump claimed at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Saturday that if elected he could quickly broker a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine. He also lashed out at President Joe Biden’s foreign policy.

“Through weakness and incompetence, Joe Biden has brought us to the brink of World War III,” Trump said.

He vowed to “bring back peace through strength,” stating that the armed conflict between Moscow and Kiev would not have happened had he still been in office.

“My personality kept us out of war,” he said. “If I was president, there would not have been a war with Russia in Ukraine.”

Even now, despite the tremendous loss of lives and destruction of much of that country [Ukraine], I would have a peace deal … in 24 hours.

The statement came as some Republicans have been questioning whether the current amount of US military aid to Ukraine is appropriate. On Friday, four House Republicans sent a letter to Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressing concern over Washington’s decision to provide Kiev with M1 Abrams tanks.

Ukrainian officials have said in the past that peace negotiations with Moscow could only happen if Russia surrenders its newly incorporated territories. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree last year stating “the impossibility” of negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky reiterated on Wednesday that he was not interested in meeting with Putin.

Moscow, meanwhile, has repeatedly called the Ukrainian terms unacceptable. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said late last month that the Ukrainian leadership was dominated by “brazen Russophobes” and was incapable of negotiating.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in late February, citing the need to protect the people of Donbass and Kiev’s failure to implement the 2014-15 Minsk peace accords. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, together with two other former Ukrainian territories – Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions – joined Russia after referendums in September. Crimea had done the same shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev.

(I bet a lot of countries miss Trump, he was unpredictable but not a crazy leftist stooge that will destroy the workd.)

https://www.rt.com/news/570648-trump-ukraine-peace-deal/

29 Jan, 2023 20:59

Civilians killed in another Ukrainian HIMARS strike – governor

The US-made weapons system was used in an attack that left four people dead in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, Evgeny Balitsky said

Ukrainian forces shelled a railway bridge near the city of Melitopol in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, the acting governor, Evgeny Balitsky, said on Sunday. A US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher was used in the strike, which killed four civilians and injured another five, he added.

At the time of the attack, repairs were being carried out on the bridge, Balitsky noted in a Telegram post. All ofthe people killed and injuredin the strike were service technicians involved in the repairs, the official stated.

“The Kiev authorities deliberately targeted a civilian infrastructure object, committing another crime against civilians,” Balitsky said, adding that all of those who were injured were receiving the necessary medical assistance.

The attack came just a day after Ukrainian troops hit a civilian hospital in the Lugansk People’s Republic. The strike, which also involved a HIMARS system, killed 14 people and left 24 injured.

The Russian Defense Ministry called a strike on the hospital an “absolutely grave war crime.” Moscow’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, accused the US of being directly involved in that attack by supplying the Ukrainian forces with the weapons, ammunition and reconnaissance data.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting civilian infrastructure, including with weapons supplied by the West. In early January, six people were killed and 37 injured in a strike on the city of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region. Prior to that, a hospital was destroyed in the city of Tokmak in the same region.

Zaporozhye Region was incorporated into the Russian state in early October together with Kherson Region and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk following referendums in which the populations of those territories overwhelmingly supported joining Russia.

https://www.rt.com/russia/570662-ukraine-strike-himars-bridge-civilians/

29 Jan, 2023 19:39

Creators defend failed Russiagate platform

Hamilton68 was no list of Moscow-backed opinion leaders, but a “nuanced” tool misunderstood by journalists, its founders now claim

(In other words, propaganda that worked exactly how it was designed. Lame excuse! We should call the bots, shills and trolls nuanced tools)

The US think tank Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) sought to clarify its activities on Friday, after internal Twitter messages published the same day by journalist Matt Taibbi called into question the accuracy of its “Russian bot” dashboard, Hamilton68.

The released communications show employees knew many of the listed accounts on the dashboard were neither Russians, nor bots. ASD is now seeking to recast Hamilton68 as a “nuanced” tool misinterpreted by reporters.

The creators of the dashboard, which once claimed to track over 600 Kremlin-linked accounts to provide the West with an authentic window on Russian “influence operations,”published a statement on Friday insisting Hamilton68never pretended the accounts it monitored took their orders from Moscow– only that they were “wittingly or unwittingly” amplifying Russian narratives.

Advised by a bipartisan panel consisting of Weekly Standard editor and Iraq war proponent Bill Kristol, Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, and former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, the ASD launched the dashboard in 2017 “to track Russian disinformation on Twitter,” according to its website. Hamilton68’s primary architect, former FBI agent Clint Watts, admitted the following year he was “not convinced on this bot thing.”

The group blamed “members of the media, pundits and even some lawmakers” for failing to include the necessary context explaining that Hamilton68’s conclusions weren’t drawn from real Russian bots, even though its own advisory committee members are on record in 2017 claiming “Moscow used [the accounts included in Hamilton68] to discredit the FBI…to attack ABC news…to critique the Obama administration…and to warn about violence by immigrants.”

Internal messages between Twitter employees published by Taibbi revealed that the social media platform’s executives had analyzed Hamilton68’s list of 644 putative Russian bots back in 2017, only to find “these accounts are neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots,” in the words of Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.

Roth recommended Twitter “just call this out on the bulls*** it is” as “virtually any conclusion drawn from [the dashboard] will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.”

However, he was discouraged from calling out the group by Twitter's head of global policy communication, Emily Horne, who reminded him “we have to be careful in how much we push back on ASD publicly.”

https://www.rt.com/news/570659-hamilton68-russian-bots-fake-twitter/

29 Jan, 2023 13:37

Pfizer admits it ‘engineered’ new Covid mutations

An executive with the drug firm previously said that the company was creating more potent strains of the virus in a laboratory

US drugmaker Pfizer admitted on Friday that it “engineered” treatment-resistant variants of Covid-19 in order to test its antiviral medicine. The admission partially backs up earlier claims by an executive with the company who told an undercover reporter that Pfizer was deliberately “mutating” the virus to “preemptively develop new vaccines.”

In a statement posted on its website, Pfizer said that it “has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research,” referring to the practice of amplifying a virus’ ability to infect humans and the process of selecting ‘desirable’ traits of a virus to reproduce, respectively.

However, the pharma giant said that it combined the spike proteins of new coronavirus variants with the original strain in order to test its vaccines, and that it created mutations of the virus to test Paxlovid, its antiviral drug.

“In a limited number of cases…such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells,” the company said, adding that this work was carried out in a secure laboratory. The work also sought to create “resistant strains of the virus,” it added, describing a process commonly understood as being ‘gain of function’ research.

Pfizer’s statement came two days after Jordon Trishton Walker, an executive involved in the firm’s mRNA division, told an undercover reporter that the company was “exploring”ways to “mutate [Covid] ourselves so we could create, preemptively develop, new vaccines.”Walker said that scientists were considering infecting monkeys with the virus, who would then “keep infecting each other.”

“From what I’ve heard, they [Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it, but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious,” he explained. “Obviously they don’t want to accelerate it too much. I think they are also just trying to do it as an exploratory thing because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutations.”

Pfizer’s statement makes no mention of the supposed plan to infect monkeys, instead explaining that any work on live viruses is carried out in vitro, meaning inside test tubes or other lab equipment.

Walker was told on camera that he was speaking to a journalist with Project Veritas, a conservative outlet known for its hidden-camera sting operations. After hearing this, Walker insisted that he was lying to impress his date, before attempting to steal an iPad from Project Veritas CEO James O’Keefe.

https://www.rt.com/news/570653-pfizer-engineered-covid-mutation/

I hope this video goes to every world leader knowing pharma (not only Pfizer) is continuing to create more viruses to make more money on vaccines and kill more people. And they are sued to Kingdom Come!

28 Jan, 2023 16:07

Ex-Polish FM names two major Ukrainian problems

The country’s elites have been mired in corruption while harboring geopolitical delusions, Radoslaw Sikorski has claimed

Ukraine was never able to achieve economic prosperity despite having a head start, due towidespread graft among officialsand widely held delusions of being a significant global player, former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has claimed.

In an interview with the magazine Krytyka Polityczna on Friday, Sikorski, who has represented Poland in the EU Parliament since 2019, stated that Ukrainian elites “were simply wasting their time.” In his view, they were “hiding their corruption and delusions of grandeur behind a story” thatthey were playing some big game with the US, Russia, Europe, and China.

The MEP recalled that after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine had a huge edge over many other ex-Soviet republics and members of the former Eastern bloc. In particular, he said the country had “nuclear plants, an aviation industry, no debt and the most fertile land in the world.”

However, even before Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine last year, the country “had a GDP four times smaller than Poland,” the former minister pointed out, adding that Ukrainians “are now paying dearly for this maneuvering” by the elites.

Earlier this week, Sikorski suggested that Warsaw had considered partitioning Ukraine in the first weeks of the conflict. The allegation, however, was vehemently denied by Polish Prime Minister MateuszMorawiecki, who accused Sikorski of acting “like a Russian propagandist.” (Of course!)

Once the second-largest economy in the Soviet Union, Ukraine was Europe’s poorest country by per-capita GDP as of 2020. Even before Russia’s military operation in February 2022, a major economic problem facing Ukraine stemmed from a popular revolt and hostilities in industry-heavy Donbass, which were sparked by a Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014.

Another major reason Ukraine had become something of an economic backwater, however,is rampant corruption. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception index, Ukraine ranked 122 out of 180 countries globally as of 2021. The same year, Freedom House, a US government-financed non-profit organization, describedgraft in Ukraine as “endemic,” noting that the government’s efforts to combat it “have met resistance and experienced setbacks.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/570616-ukraine-corruption-delusions-misery/

28 Jan, 2023 08:13

FBI seizes Biden’s notebooks – NBC

The memo pads contain writing related to Biden’s official business as vice president, a source told the media

Notebooks that US President Joe Biden kept during his time as vice president were among the items seized by the FBI during a search of his home last week, as part of a probe into his mishandling of classified documents, a person familiar with the investigation told NBC.

Despite not being marked as classified, the notebooks were taken because they contain writing related to ==Biden’s official business within the Obama administration, including details of diplomatic contacts, the broadcaster reported on Saturday.

The notebooks were a mix of records on personal and official topics, the source said, adding that pages with no sensitive data could also be considered state property under the Presidential Records Act, as they relate to the activities of the government.

Biden had a “large” number of these notebooks, the person said, but could not provide the exact figure.

When addressed about the notebooks, a spokesperson for Biden’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, said that “consistent with our view of the requirements of our cooperation with Department of Justice in this matter, we will not comment on the accuracy of reports of this nature.”

The possession of notebooks from his time as vice president “raises questions about whether he appropriately followed procedures for preserving presidential records,” as well as “how other vice presidents and presidents who kept similar notebooks while in office have handled theirs,” NBC said.

The 13-hour search conducted by the FBI at the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware has led to the discovery of six more documents marked as classified, including some dating back to his days as a senator.

Biden landed in hot water after it was revealed earlier this month thatseveral batchesof government papers, some marked ‘top secret’, from his two terms as vice president between 2009 and 2017 were found at his office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank, and at his Delaware home, including in the garage, in November and January. A special counsel was appointed to investigate the mishandling of the documents by the 80-year-old president.

Speaking about the scandal last week, Biden told journalists that “there’s no there there,”and that he has “no regrets” about the situation. His comments resulted in backlash even from fellow Democrats, including SenatorJoe Manchin, who said it was “unbelievable”and “totally irresponsible” for Biden to expose state secrets to potential theft.

(Machin is trying to cover his ass and is getting voted out because “it’s unbelievable and irresponsible attending WEF and telling them our biggest problem is the US has a free press!”)

https://www.rt.com/news/570600-fbi-biden-notebooks-classified/

Conference and Rally going on AZ senate meeting with Kari Lake etc on election integrity, 4x the crowd showed up then facility can handle showed up tonight. IRT happening

Watch

https://rumble.com/embed/v1zu83u/?pub=4

>>18250716

Kari Lake lawsuits:3 judges in circuit Court will review the case on Feb. 1st, 2023

Say a lot of prayers!

>>18250723

Sorry its the Appeals court not circuit, it will go the SC regardless

Kari Lake rally of more than a 1,000 people showed up. They didnt expect this becausr its football night. A lot of people there.The fight on election integrity and 2022 stolen election, is not waning in AZ

>>18250741

Positive attitude there anon! Take a break and ask God for a miracle

>>18250709

Yeah we didn't hear about it, they are trying to shut down the reporting on Bidan stealing Top secret documents.Kash said he thinks a lot more is coming out, A LOT MORE!

>>18250780

Dream on idiot!

>>18250767

True that, miracles are everywhere

The Kari Lake rally is is very exciting. Wendy Rogers is chairing the Election Committee this year.

https://rumble.com/embed/v1zu83u/?pub=4

Karen Fann fucked up everything and lied her ass off. She never passed any election laws intentionally after the 2020 audit! This could have been over with. But Fann got a multi billion contract for her company after she left!

How is this gonna work? If Kari wins in court she promises AZ two terms to fix AZ. She seems VP material for Trump, perfect combination of Yin and Yang.

Maybe shes got tp get some political work under her belt first! Any ides guys.

President Trump is on the phone with kari at the rally right now

>>18250930

Kari says to Katie Hobbs “the squatter in the office of Governor of AZ”

“Don’t get too comfortable sweetie!”

>>18251015

Yes sir! They can’t punish him then