Former UK Defense Minister Says NATO May Need To Send Ground Forces To Ukraine

The "domino theory" was once used to great effect in order to manipulate the American public into supporting the Vietnam War, but will the same narrative work to get the west to support World War III with Russia?

Former UK Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth seems to think so as he uses this exact claim to justify NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine.

It should be noted that a large percentage of the American populace and most of Europe have no interest whatsoever in engaging with Russia and possibly its allies in all out war, but the establishment appears intent on forcing the issue anyway. The delivery of NATO tanks and the possibility of longer range missiles will no doubt trigger a wider response from Russia, which will then be used by NATO as a reason to escalate further.

At the very least, Howarth does admit what many in the alternative media have been saying for some time - That Ukraine's efforts have ground to a halt without further support from NATO troops. The deliveries of money and weapons are nothing more than a stop-gap; wars are won by men.

The former minister suggests that Ukraine is essentially too big to fail and that NATO cannot allow Russia to prevail in the region, otherwise they will be emboldened to strike other nearby nations. There is zero evidence to support this argument, but it is clear that NATO talking heads are desperate to drum up some kind of public fervor.

Are western citizens willing to fight and die for Ukraine? It's highly unlikely.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-uk-defense-minister-says-nato-may-need-send-ground-forces-ukraine

‘We Were Really Dedicated’: Arian Foster, Marlon Humphrey Claim NFL Is ‘Scripted’

I went ballistic when I first saw this.

The “NFL is rigged” conversation has been happening for years now, but with how things went down in the Jan. 29 AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals (specifically with the officiating), the talks have ratcheted up.

And now, former Houston Texans and Miami Dolphins running back Arian Foster is getting involved, throwing some fuel into the fire with one statement: “The league is scripted.”

Speaking on his “Macrodosing” podcast with PFT Commenter, Foster elaborated on an off-air comment alleging that NFL players receive a script.

“We were really dedicated to [the NFL’s script],” said Foster. “So, it was more, like, that’s what practice was about, practicing the script. This is what goes on. This is what we have to do … It’s like WWF, so we know what’s going to happen, but you still have to put on a show.”

This led to current Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey also claiming that “giving up 200 to Chase was just me following the script.”

When I first saw this clip — I won’t lie — I freaked out.

But when you look deeper into it and watch more of the podcast for context (which I did), it sounds like everything was just a big goof. And by the way, great marketing from these guys to use this clip to promote their show amid all of the ratcheted up “NFL is rigged” talk. PFT Commenter even brilliantly said, “can we clip just that part?”

And they did, hilariously without any context, and now it has everybody talking about their show. Just genius.

Here’s the podcast in its entirety. I started at the mark where Foster and PFT started talking about the “script,” so you can get right into it and see everything with context.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/01/arian-foster-marlon-humphrey-nfl-scripted-rigged-football/

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Tech giants' bloodbath continues: PayPal is latest to slash 2,000 jobs – about 7% of its workforce – as Amazon, Google and Microsoft are among those who laid off thousands

PayPal said Tuesday it will trim about 7 per cent of its total workforce, or about 2,000 full-time workers, as the digital payments company contends with what it calls 'the challenging macro-economic environment'.

PayPal said it will make the cuts over several weeks, with some of its organizations affected more than others. The company did not further specify. PayPal is the parent of Venmo, Xoom and Honey, among other brands.

The company based in San Jose, California, is the latest in the technology sector to trim its headcount. During the month of January alone, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce announced tens of thousands of layoffs. This has mostly been put down to a need to reduce costs as economic growth slows down around the world.

'Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment while continuing to invest to meet our customers´ needs,' PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman said Tuesday in a statement.

He added: 'While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.'

Last summer activist investor Elliott Management bought a stake then worth about $2 billion in PayPal, which said it had entered into an 'information-sharing agreement' with Elliott 'to continue collaboration across a range of value-creation opportunities'.

PayPal Holdings Inc. is scheduled to report quarterly results on February 9.

Shares of the company are down about 53% in the past year. They rose 2.3% to close Tuesday at $81.49.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11700139/Tech-giants-bloodbath-continues-PayPal-latest-slash-2-000-jobs-7-workforce.html

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Minnesota’s Democrat governor signs bill codifying abortion until birth==

'The absolutist extremism of this bill would put Minnesota in the company of just a handful of countries worldwide, among them China and North Korea.'

Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz signed a “right” to unlimited abortion into law Tuesday, putting the North Star State on par with the likes of North Korea according to pro-life leaders.

The so-called Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act asserts a woman’s “fundamental right” to “continue the pregnancy and give birth, or obtain an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise this fundamental right,” declares that this “right” is contained in the Minnesota Constitution’s “principles of individual liberty, personal privacy, and equality;” and forbids localities from “regulat[ing] an individual’s ability to freely exercise the fundamental rights set forth in this section in a manner that is more restrictive than that set forth in this section.”

The bill cleared both chambers of the state legislature without proposed Republican amendments to preserve some limits on abortion, and on Tuesday it received Walz’s signature at a ceremony joined by Planned Parenthood North Central States president Sarah Stoesz, Valley News Live reports.

“The message that we’re sending to Minnesota today is very clear, your rights are protected in this state, you have the right to make your own decisions about your health, your family and your life,” Walz told the crowd.

Pro-life activists see a very different message in the new law.

“Let’s be clear: The PRO Act would mean it’s legal for any baby to be aborted, for any reason and at any time up to birth,” said Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life co-executive director Cathy Blaeser. “The absolutist extremism of this bill would put Minnesota in the company of just a handful of countries worldwide, among them China and North Korea. Mothers and babies deserve a far more humane and compassionate approach.”

Under the law, “a school counselor can take a student to an abortion clinic without their parents’ knowledge,” warns Tim Miller, executive director of Pro-Life Action Ministries Action. “An unborn child can be murdered up to one second before they leave their mother’s birth canal. There will be no requirement for an abortion to take place in a clinic setting and a doctor is no longer needed.”

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer sent pro-abortion activists into a flurry of activity to preserve abortion “access.” In blue states, Democrats have moved to strengthen the pro-abortion status quo, keeping abortion as widely available as possible while potentially attracting travel from abortion seekers in neighboring pro-life states.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/minnesotas-democrat-governor-signs-bill-codifying-unlimited-right-to-abortion-until-birth/

Nearly 170 Leading U.S. Jews Call for 'Critical and Necessary Debate' on Israel's Far-right Gov't

The statement acknowledges the latest escalation of violence in the region, decries the use of antisemitism as a political weapon and stresses that all criticisms 'emanate from a love for Israel and a steadfast support for its security and well-being'

WASHINGTON - Nearly 170 significant American-Jewish leaders on Wednesday called for a "critical and necessary debate" on several policies undertaken by Israel's far-right government while decrying the use of antisemitism as a political weapon.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-01/ty-article/.premium/170-leading-u-s-jews-call-for-critical-and-necessary-debate-on-israels-far-right-govt/00000186-0df8-d0a3-adc6-4df9c8830000

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DEVELOPING: ABC Journalist Who Went Missing Last April After FBI Seized Classified Documents From His Laptop Arrested for Transporting Child Pornography

A former ABC journalist who went missing after the FBI raided his home and seized his laptop has been arrested for transporting child pornography.

As reported last year, Emmy-winning investigative journalist James Meek went missing after the FBI raided his Virginia home and seized classified information from his laptop in April 2022.

James Gordon Meek, 52, went missing after the feds raided his Arlington penthouse apartment, the Rolling Stone reported.

Meek produced the Hulu documentary “3212 Unredacted” which detailed the 2017 Pentagon coverup of the deaths of US special forces in Niger.

The “lightning raid” was conducted after a search warrant was approved by a federal magistrate judge in the Virginia Eastern District Court, Rolling Stone reported.

“If agents got hold of Meek’s records, the move would have had to have been approved by US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.” The New York Post reported.

Meek’s attorneys lashed out at the US government for leaking information to Rolling Stone.

“The allegations in your inquiry are troubling for a different reason: They appear to come from a source inside the government,” Meek’s attorney Eugene Gorokhov told Rolling Stone. “It is highly inappropriate, and illegal, for individuals in the government to leak information about an ongoing investigation.”

“We hope that the DOJ promptly investigates the source of this leak.”

Meek’s last public statement was in the form of a tweet on April 27, 2022 – His colleagues at ABC said Meek “fell off the face of the earth.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/developing-abc-journalist-went-missing-last-april-fbi-seized-classified-documents-laptop-arrested-transporting-child-pornography/

What Are CBDCs? Here’s What the Central Banks Have Planned for YOU.

An acronym that has recently been tossed around in an ominous whisper is CBDC. What is it, and how does it affect you?

CBDC stands for Central Bank Digital Currency, and these are digital versions of a country’s currency. We’ve talked a lot here on the Organic Prepper about digital currencies and the dangers of a cashless society, and if the WEF has its way, we could be looking at just that – and soon. The governments of the world are hard at work creating tunnels and secret routes that all lead to one place – a one-world monetary system. This is all part of the Great Reset they’ve been touting.

The Central Bank has a plan to implement digital currency in the near future.

As always, it will be positioned as something beneficial to get the less critical thinkers on board first. Then, at some point, it could become the only legal tender that exists, and this will give the powers that be the ability to completely control every financial decision you make.

For the record, governments already have the ability to freeze personal bank accounts. This was tested in Canada last year during the Freedom Convoy when truckers protested Covid regulations. The bank accounts of donors to the cause were frozen without recourse. This actually happened to a friend of mine back in Canada, all because she made a $20 donation to the Go-Fund-Me, which was, incidentally, withheld from its intended recipients.

Anyway, a digital currency could mean such controls as automatic taxation or where and when you’re allowed to make purchases – all at the push of a button. The most likely way this will be rolled out is to “fight inflation” and “fix the economy.” As per the IMF:

A world with lower inflation (and even zero inflation) and no persistent recessions may sound like a pipe dream, but we argue that it is possible by transitioning to an “electronic money standard.” Such a transition requires eliminating the zero lower bound, which central banks can achieve using readily available tools. Breaking the zero lower bound implies that the optimal rate of inflation will be lower than in the presence of the lower bound. This will empower central banks to quickly restore full employment and, over the medium term, possibly move toward targeting full price stability with zero inflation.

Obviously, any kind of manipulation like this is false, and while there may be some temporary relief, it won’t solve the underlying problems with our economy.

(Want to learn more about how you can starve the beast? Check out our free QUICKSTART Guide here.)

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/cbdcs/

Awkward moment Cardinal George Pell's memorial is hijacked by comedians from The Chaser - but did they go too far?

Cardinal George Pell died in a Rome hospital last month

His memorial was at St Mary's Cathedral on Wednesday

The Chaser comedy team tried to enter with a fake coffin

The Chaser comedy team have pulled their latest stunt outside Cardinal George Pell's memorial by trying to 'bury' a coffin full of 'evidence' with him.

The controversial former archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney died aged 81 in a Rome hospital last month from heart complications which followed hip surgery.

Comedian and The Chasers War on Everything star, Charles Firth, along with Chaser colleague, Lachlan Hodson, attempted to crash the memorial at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on Wednesday, where the Cardinal is lying in state.

The duo tried carrying a coffin filled with boxes labelled 'evidence' into the cathedral, referencing allegations that Pell was aware of historic child sex abuse cases within the church and did not act - and the child sex abuse conviction against him that was quashed by the High Court in 2020.

As mourners went inside the cathedral to pay their respects, security were cutting ribbons tied to fences on the outside by sexual abuse survivors and their supporters.

In recent days, a support group for clergy abuse survivors, Loud Fence, had been tying colourful ribbons as a symbol of solidarity.

But church security has repeatedly been cutting them down.

Sexual abuse survivor Paul Auchettl organised the ribbon-tying protest. His brother was also a victim of clerical abuse, by a priest under the leadership of Cardinal Pell in Ballarat during the 1970s.

Mr Auchettl's brother ended his life some 25 years ago.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11700839/George-Pell-funeral-Chaser-hijack-cardinals-Sydney-memorial.html

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“It May Necessitate New Elections” – Texas Gov. Abbott After It’s Revealed Harris County Election Day Ballot Paper Shortage Far Bigger Than Estimated

As previously reported, Texas Governor Greg Abbott in November called for an investigation into “widespread problems” with Harris County elections during the midterms.

One Harris County race in particular raised eyebrows.

Corrupt Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo ‘won’ her reelection by nearly 16,000 votes against a popular Republican opponent.

Hidalgo’s top three staffers are under indictment and law enforcement booed her during a commissioners court meeting in October.

Republicans spent millions to unseat Lina Hidalgo but she still somehow won her reelection.

“I’m calling for an investigation into the widespread problems with the Harris County elections last Tuesday.” Abbott said in November.

“The allegations of election improprieties in our state’s largest county may result from anything ranging from malfeasance to blatant criminal conduct.” he added.

Republican voters in Harris County were disenfranchised on Election Day after they showed up to vote at 8 pm but were turned away from the polling station.

After being told they could vote until 8 pm, the voters were told the voting time cut off was actually 7 pm.

It turns out the paper ballot shortage on Election Day in Harris County was far worse than initially estimated so Greg Abbott said “it may necessitate new elections.”

According to KHOU 11, “121 voting centers did not initially receive enough ballot paper to cover voter turnout.”

The shortage of ballot paper at some Harris County voting centers on election day was more widespread than the Elections Administration Office estimated, according to a KHOU 11 analysis of equipment and voter turnout records.

The county’s post-election analysis on the extent of the shortage was “largely inconclusive.” After reviewing help desk logs and calling presiding and alternate election judges, the county estimated 46 to 68 voting centers ran out of their initial allotment of paper.

KHOU 11 Investigates compared ballot paper packets allocated to the total number of votes cast and discovered 121 voting centers did not initially receive enough ballot paper to cover voter turnout. The county allotted each of the locations six ballot paper packets, or enough for 600 ballots. But the total votes cast exceeded that amount, sometimes by hundreds of ballots. For example, 946 election day ballots were cast at the Bellaire Civic Center, 990 at Warner Elementary School, and 1,037 at Salyards Middle School.

The election day controversy left some voters and election judges furious.

“Harris Co. election ballot paper shortage far bigger than initially estimated,” Greg Abbott said. “It’s so big it may have altered the outcome of elections.”

“It may necessitate new elections,” Abbott said.

“It WILL necessitate new LAWS that prevent Harris Co. from ever doing this again.” he said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/may-necessitate-new-elections-texas-gov-abbott-revealed-harris-county-election-day-paper-ballot-shortage-far-bigger-estimated/