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Italy Becomes First G-7 Country To Restore Ties With Assad
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, JUL 28, 2024
In a huge development, Italy has broken with its G-7 partners and become the first to restore full diplomatic relations with Syria.
President Bashar al-Assad and his government have long been under US and EU sanctions, having been accused of human rights abuses and war crimes by the West, which funded a decade-long jihadist insurgency in a failed attempt to topple the Syrian leader.
"Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking in front of relevant parliamentary committees Thursday, announced Rome’s intention to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria to prevent Russia from monopolizing diplomatic efforts in the Middle Eastern country," Associated Press reports.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italy-becomes-first-g-7-country-restore-ties-assad
Will RFK Jr Be Trump's Vaccine Czar?
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, JUL 28, 2024
In 2017, shortly before assuming the presidency, president-Elect Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he would be willing to investigate one of Trump’s top-of-mind concerns – the safety of vaccines. Trump’s goal, to have Kennedy chair a “Vaccine Safety and Scientific Integrity Commission,” was soon sidetracked by the Russiagate accusation and then Covid.
In a recent leaked videotaped discussion between Trump and Kennedy, Trump reminded Kennedy about their 2017 discussion and urged him to take on the vaccine issue again. “I would love you to do so,” Trump urged.
Trump’s preoccupation with vaccines coming the very day after the assasination attempt on his life and shortly before his formal acceptance as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee demonstrates that the government bureaucracies overseeing the vaccine industry remain top-of-mind to him.
“Something is wrong with that whole system,” he stated.
“When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a10-pound or a 20-pound baby… do you ever see the size of it, its massive, then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I’ve seen it too many times.”
In an attempt to clinch the deal, Trump pointedly referred to Kennedy’s long commitment to reforming the CDC and the vaccine industry, highlighting the personal satisfaction such an accomplishment would bring, and its importance to Kennedy’s legacy. “And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you.”
In their recent discussion, Trump and Kennedy didn’t discuss the specifics of what a renewed investigation of the vaccine industry would look like, but their 2017 discussion an hour-long meeting held at Trump’s initiation that also included Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence raised the same issues that continue to preoccupy him today.
“He is troubled by questions of the links between certain vaccines and the epidemic of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism,” Kennedy told Science in a telephone interview at the time.
“And he has a number he told me five friends, he talked about each one of them, who has the same story of a child, a perfectly healthy child who went into a wellness visit around age 2, got a battery of vaccines, spiked a fever, and then developed a suite of deficits in the 3 months following the vaccine.
“He said that he understood that anecdote was not science, but said that if there's enough anecdotal evidence… that we'd be arrogant to dismiss it. Those were his words.”
In their recent discussion, Kennedy didn’t agree to take Trump up on his offer. No formal, detailed offer was even made, the call was merely the beginning of a process that Trump hoped would lead Kennedy to join the future Trump administration in a vaccine-related capacity.
The call wasn’t even supposed to be made public – Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy III, leaked it on his own.
“When President Trump called me, I was taping with an in-house videographer. I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the president,” Kennedy explained.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-rfk-jr-be-trumps-vaccine-czar