Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.
Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has once again highlighted the dangers of U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine, confirming what Russian officials have warned about for years. Gabbard, who faced fierce backlash for raising this issue when the Russia-Ukraine conflict began, pointed out that these facilities engage in risky gain-of-function research—the same kind that many suspect led to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite being smeared as a “Russian asset” and ridiculed by the mainstream media, Gabbard stood by the facts—facts that remain publicly available on the U.S. Embassy Ukraine’s website. Her warnings align with Moscow’s longstanding concerns about Pentagon-backed biolabs near Russia’s borders, which have never been fully transparent about their activities.
Now, as more scientists and officials question the safety of gain-of-function experiments, Gabbard’s call to shut down this dangerous research looks increasingly justified. If the U.S. and its allies continue ignoring these risks, they may be responsible for the next global outbreak—just as many believe they were for the last one.
Russia’s warnings were dismissed as “disinformation. ” But with figures like Gabbard now echoing them, will the world finally demand answers?
The DTaP vaccine — touted as essential for preventing diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough) — actually puts children at greater risk to the targeted diseases, and makes them more likely to contract and carry pertussis (whooping cough). The latest research confirms what truth-tellers have warned for years: the vaccine is a catastrophic failure, leaving vaccinated children up to 15 times more likely to contract whooping cough within five years compared to their unvaccinated peers.
Even more alarming, vaccinated individuals are now confirmed to be silent carriers of pertussis, spreading the bacteria through their nasal passages while evading symptoms — directly contradicting the media’s relentless fearmongering about the “dangerous unvaccinated.”
Vaccinated individuals more likely to carry and spread pertussis, contradicting mainstream narratives
Death risk from DTaP vaccine (1 in 76,000) far exceeds whooping cough fatality rate (1 in 2 million)
Medical establishment continues to blame unvaccinated despite overwhelming evidence of vaccine failure
The great vaccine deception unravels
For decades, public health officials and pharmaceutical profiteers have peddled the lie that mass vaccination is the only way to prevent outbreaks. Yet the data tells a different story. As Dr. Paul Thomas, a courageous physician unafraid to challenge the medical orthodoxy, explains:
“The risk of death from whooping cough is less than one in 2 million. The risk of death from the vaccine is greater than one in 76,000. The vaccine is killing far more kids.”
Let that sink in. The DTaP vaccine isn’t just ineffective — it’s deadlier than the disease it claims to prevent. And yet, the medical-industrial complex continues to push it on unsuspecting parents, while censoring doctors who dare to expose the truth.
Who’s really spreading whooping cough?
The mainstream narrative crumbles under scrutiny. Far from being a threat to public health, the unvaccinated are being scapegoated to cover up vaccine failure. As the study confirms:
“It’s the vaccinated who are probably the greatest risk [of spreading whooping cough] because they’re more likely to harbor pertussis in their nasal pharynx.”
This isn’t a minor oversight—it’s a systemic betrayal. With vaccination rates hovering around 94-95%, outbreaks are still occurring. Why? Because the vaccine does not prevent transmission. Instead, it creates a generation of asymptomatic carriers, silently infecting the vulnerable while Big Pharma pockets billions.
A disturbing resurgence of whooping cough (pertussis) is sweeping through nations that rely on acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines, with mounting evidence pointing to the shots’ rapidly waning effectiveness and flawed immune priming. Unlike the older whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines, which trigger robust Th1/Th17 immune responses, the newer aP vaccines skew immunity toward weaker Th1/Th2 pathways—leaving children vulnerable within just 2–3 years after booster doses.
While health authorities scramble to blame “better diagnosis” or “more virulent strains,” the real culprit appears to be the vaccine itself. Research confirms that aP vaccines fail to provide lasting protection, with effectiveness plummeting post-boosters. Even more alarming, baboon studies—though not yet confirmed in humans—suggest aP vaccines may not even prevent Bordetella pertussis from colonizing the nasopharynx, unlike natural infection or the older wP formula.
Despite offering short-term defense in early childhood, the aP vaccine’s artificial immunity fades fast, leaving populations at risk. With vaccine-induced protection collapsing after mere years, the medical establishment’s reliance on these inferior shots may be fueling — not preventing — the very outbreaks they claim to control.
A medical tyranny built on lies
The implications are staggering. Parents are being coerced, shamed, and even punished for refusing a vaccine that not only fails to protect but actively endangers their children. Parents are bullied into getting the vaccine for their children so they can attend school. However, there are exemptions in almost every state, allowing parents to do what’s smart for their child: Protect them from vaccine contagion, vaccine damage, and vaccine fraud.
Meanwhile, the media parrots the same tired script of medicos: Blame the unvaccinated.
But the science is undeniable. As Children’s Health Defense’s Polly Tommey warns: “If you take your child for any vaccine, by the way, but we’re talking about the DTaP at the moment, your child could die. Now, who knew that?”
The question isn’t whether the vaccine industry will be held accountable — it’s when. Will the new HHS, under Secretary Kennedy, change guidelines for vaccines like DTaP, warning parents that the risks are far worse to take the vaccine? Will the public wake up before more lives are destroyed? Or will the lies continue to spread — just like whooping cough among the vaccinated?
President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as “gain-of-function” research.
The research, which is also known as “dual-use” research, involves experimenting with viruses and other pathogens that have the potential to trigger a pandemic. Those studies could discover how infectious agents might become more transmissible or make people sicker.
But gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory for how the pandemic started says that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, spilled out of a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan, China.
“Many people believe that gain-of-function research was one of the key causes of the COVID pandemic that struck us in the last decade,” said White House secretary Will Scharf. “What this executive order does first of all, it provides powerful new tools to enforce the ban on federal funding for gain-of-function research abroad. It also strengthens other oversight mechanisms related to that issue and creates an overarching strategy to ensure that biomedical research in general is being conducted safely.”
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According to the White House, the executive order would block any U.S. funding of gain-of-function research in “countries of concern,” such as China and Iran, as well as other foreign nations “deemed to have insufficient research oversight.” The order also prohibits U.S. dollars from “contributing to foreign research likely to cause another pandemic.”
The order also “empowers American research agencies to identify and end federal funding of other biological research that could pose a threat to American public health, public safety, or national security,” according to a White House fact sheet.
The order will “increase the safety and security of biological research without impeding U.S. innovation,” the White House says.
The White House also issued statements from several Trump administration officials who argued that the funding restriction is necessary.
“I commend President Trump for his courage and his vision,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“This is a historic day,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health. “The conduct of this research does not protect us against pandemics, as some people might say, it doesn’t protect us against other nations. There’s always a danger that in doing this research, it might leak out, just by accident even, and cause a pandemic.”
“It’s crazy to think that this entire nightmare was probably the result of some scientists messing with mother nature in a laboratory with technology,” said Dr. Marty Makary, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
RFK Jr. isn’t just confirming that “crimes” are happening. He’s exposing exactly who’s behind them.
For years, chemtrails have been sold to us as just a “conspiracy theory.”
Now, RFK Jr. isn’t just confirming that “crimes” are happening. He’s exposing exactly who’s behind them.
Before we get into Kennedy revealing who’s behind the geoengineering project, we need to start this story with some crucial context.
Back in August 2024, before he became Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to an X post about a “chemtrail pilot whistleblower.”
At the time, he made a bold promise: “We are going to stop this crime.”
Fast forward to today, and Kennedy is doubling down on putting a stop to geoengineering.
Just a few days ago, after the British government announced new geoengineering efforts to “combat climate change,” he responded with an even stronger statement.
“We will soon end this crime against humanity and our planet,” Kennedy said, “and bring justice to the plutocrats who are perpetrating this mass uncontrolled experiment.”
RFK Jr. recently sat down with Dr. Phil, and he stunned the audience when a woman named Emily asked him point-blank about the toxic aerosols being sprayed over us every day.
“My biggest concern is the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered on us every day,” Emily said.
“Bromium, aluminum, strontium—it’s sprayed in our skies. All day long.”
“And I know you’ve talked to Dane Wigington about this, he seems to be one of the experts in the field…”
“How do we stop it?” she asked.
Most politicians would’ve panicked, deflected, or dismissed the question entirely.
But not RFK Jr. He looked her in the eye, answered without hesitation, and said, “That is not in my agency.”
He didn’t deny it was happening. He didn’t hide behind bureaucratic language. He simply made it clear: this isn’t coming from HHS.
Then came the bombshell.
“You know, we [HHS] don’t do that. It’s done—we think—by DARPA.”
Let that sink in. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) might be behind what’s being sprayed in our skies.
And according to RFK Jr., “A lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel,” he said. “Those [toxic] materials are put in jet fuel.”
“I’m going to do everything in my power to stop it,” Kennedy added. “We’re bringing on somebody who’s going to think only about that.”
He ended with a vow that few in Washington would ever dare make: “Find out who’s doing it and holding them accountable.”
When it comes to chemtrails, RFK Jr. isn’t pretending this is some fringe theory. He’s saying the quiet part out loud—and taking aim at the deepest parts of the military-industrial complex.
Florida is taking direct aim at the globalist assault on its skies, announcing a new chemtrails hotline for residents to report geoengineering crimes — sending a clear message that those poisoning the state’s air, water, and soil will no longer operate with impunity.
The groundbreaking move follows the recent passage of Florida Senate Bill SB 56, which bans weather modification activities within the state. SB 56 passed the full Senate earlier this month and is now awaiting Governor Ron DeSantis’s signature.
Under the new bill, violators could face up to five years in prison per offense. The law also empowers the DEP to investigate reports, collect evidence, and refer cases for criminal prosecution.
“This is about protecting Florida’s environment and public health,” said State Senator Ileana Garcia (R-Miami), the bill’s co-sponsor. “With no federal guidelines in place, Florida must take responsibility for its own airspace.”
The law directly targets controversial practices such as solar radiation management, cloud seeding, and other forms of geoengineering that are being deployed without public consent or oversight.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), tasked with enforcing the new law, announced it will establish a public hotline where residents can report suspected geoengineering activities — an unprecedented move that further escalates the battle over the skies.
“What I don’t want is for a loophole to continue to grow,” Senator Garcia said during floor debate. “And that we have something as powerful as weather and weather modification to be weaponized.”
Supporters of the bill cite growing concerns over unregulated experimentation with the environment, pointing to projects like the controversial Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program, which has openly discussed spraying aerosols into the atmosphere to block sunlight as a means to combat climate change.
Critics warn that such programs, often pushed by globalist institutions and billionaires like Bill Gates, could have devastating, unpredictable effects on ecosystems, food supplies, and public health.
Florida’s bold move comes at a time when public distrust in federal environmental policies is soaring. By launching a hotline and empowering citizens to act as watchdogs, Florida is making it clear: The era of secret geoengineering is over — at least in the Sunshine State.
What is the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS-Daesh, Al Nusrah, Et Al… )?
The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One “State Sponsor of Terrorism”. The US has supported Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations including ISIL for almost half a century since the heyday of the Soviet Afghan war. In 2014 President Obama launched a “counter-terrorism campaign” allegedly directed against The Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS-Daesh). It was an outright act of war disguised as a fake counter-terrorism operation. It consisted in providing a justification for the extensive bombing of Iraq and Syria, largely targeting residential areas and civilians. In turn, ISIS-Daesh was covertly supported and funded by the U.S. and its allies including Israel. Israel was directly involved in President Obama’s “counter-terrorism” bombing raids directed against Syria, while also supporting Al Qaeda and ISIS mercenaries out of the Golan Heights.
Since 9/11, under various acronyms “The Islamic State has gone Global”. The Islamic State is not limited to the Middle East and Central Asia. West Africa, Central Africa, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Russia, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and many more.
There are Islamic State related jihadist networks supported covertly by Western intelligence in all major regions of the World with the exception of Latin America. The Islamic States (Al Qaeda, ISIS et al) provides the U.S. as well as Israel the justification of “Going after the terrorists”.
Syria
In December 2024, Al Qaeda terrorists supported by US-NATO are portrayed as freedom fighters involved in the “Liberation of Syria”. Described by the media as “rebels” the main actor of the of the coup d’Etat are Al Qaeda affiliated mercenaries, all of whom are supported by the US-NATO-Israel military and intelligence apparatus. .
According to the the BBC “democracy” is to be reinstated under the leadership Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani. of an Islamist terrorist entity entitled Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), previously affiliated to Al Qaeda. [the Data base].
Ironically, this “good guy” Al Qaeda leader Al-Jawlani is still categorized as a terrorist by the U.S, State Department.
And the West applauds, celebrating the victory of Tahir Al Sham.
Their unspoken objective is to install an Islamist State led by Al Qaeda “good guy” proxies, supported and endorsed in chorus by the West’s democratic governments.
Image left Al Qaeda “good guy” Al -Jawyani. “IMF offers support for Syria’s economic reconstruction” under Al-Jayani’s government. “Free market” conditionalities apply.
Image Right: Al Qaeda “bad guy” Al Jayani. $10 Million Reward from the US State Department.
Oops!
Are these not the same Al Qaeda bad guy terrorists who allegedly brought down the WTC and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 under the helm of Osama Bin Laden?
The Global War on Terrorism is Fake
Going after ” Islamic terrorists”, carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to “Protect the American Homeland” are used to justify a military agenda.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists.
The incursion of the Islamic State (IS) brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel.
The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One “State Sponsor of Terrorism”
The Islamic State is protected by the US and its allies. If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have “carpet” bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June [2014]
The Syro-Arabian Desert is open territory (see map below). With state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, CF-18) it would have been -from a military standpoint- a rapid and expedient surgical operation
See Video: Michel Chossudovsky. America is “A State Sponsor of Terrorism”/
“Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the Jihad.”
3. Since the Reagan Administration, Washington has supported the Islamic terror network.
Ronald Reagan called the terrorists “freedom fighters”. The US supplied weapons to the Islamic brigades. It was all for “a good cause”: fighting the Soviet Union and regime change, leading to the demise of a secular government in Afghanistan.
5. Osama bin Laden, America’s bogyman and founder of Al Qaedawas recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US sponsored jihadist war against Afghanistan . He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.
Al Qaeda was not behind the 9/11 Attacks. September 11, 2001 provided a justification for waging a war against Afghanistan on the grounds that Afghanistan was a state sponsor of terrorism, supportive of Al Qaeda. The 9/11 attacks were instrumental in the formulation of the “Global War on Terrorism”.
THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIL)
6. The Islamic State (ISIL) was originally an Al Qaeda affiliated entity created by US intelligence with the support of Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), Ri’āsat Al-Istikhbārāt Al-’Āmah ( رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة).
7. The ISIL brigades were involved in the US-NATO supported insurgency in Syria directed against the government of Bashar al Assad.
8. NATO and the Turkish High Command were responsible for the recruitment of ISIL and Al Nusrah mercenaries from the outset of the Syrian insurgency in March 2011. According to Israeli intelligence sources, this initiative consisted in:
“a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011.)
9.There are Western Special Forces and Western intelligence operatives within the ranks of the ISIL. British Special Forces and MI6 have been involved in training jihadist rebels in Syria.
10. Western military specialists on contract to the Pentagon have trained the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons.
“The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday. ( CNN Report, December 9, 2012)
11. The ISIL’s practice of beheadings is part of the US sponsored terrorist training programs implemented in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Jihadist fighters have met Israeli IDF officers as well as Prime Minister Netanyahu. The IDF top brass tacitly acknowledges that “global jihad elements inside Syria” [ISIL and Al Nusrah] are supported by Israel. See image below:
14 The ISIL are the foot soldiers of the Western military alliance. Their unspoken mandate is to wreck havoc and destruction in Syria and Iraq, acting on behalf of their US sponsors.
15. US Senator John McCain has met up with jihadist terrorist leaders in Syria.
16 The Islamic State (IS) militia, which is currently the alleged target of a US-NATO bombing campaign under a “counter-terrorism” mandate, continues to be supported covertly by the US. Washington and its allies continue to provide military aid to the Islamic State.
17. US and allied bombings are not targeting the ISIL, they are bombing the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria including factories and oil refineries.
18. The IS caliphate project is part of a longstanding US foreign policy agenda to carve up Iraq and Syria into separate territories: A Sunni Islamist Caliphate, an Arab Shia Republic, a Republic of Kurdistan.
THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM (GWOT)
19. “The Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) is presented as a “Clash of Civilizations”, a war between competing values and religions, when in reality it is an outright war of conquest, guided by strategic and economic objectives.
20 U.S. sponsored Al Qaeda terror brigades (covertly supported by Western intelligence) have been deployed in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Somalia and Yemen.
These various affiliated Al Qaeda entities in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are CIA sponsored “intelligence assets”. They are used by Washington to wreck havoc, create internal conflicts and destabilize sovereign countries.
22. The US is also supporting Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China. The underlying objective is to trigger political instability in Western China.
23 The Terrorists R Us: While the US is the unspoken architect of the Islamic State, Obama’s holy mandate is to protect America against ISIL attacks.
24 The homegrown terrorist threat is a fabrication. It is promoted by Western governments and the media with a view to repealing civil liberties and installing a police state. The terror attacks by alleged jihadists and terror warnings are invariably staged events. They are used to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.
In turn, the arrests, trials and sentences of “Islamic terrorists” sustain the legitimacy of America’s Homeland Security State and law enforcement apparatus, which has become increasingly militarized.
The ultimate objective is to instill in the minds of millions of Americans that the enemy is real and the U.S. Administration will protect the lives of its citizens.
25. The “counter-terrorism” campaign against the Islamic State has contributed to the demonization of Muslims, who in the eyes of Western public opinion are increasingly associated with the jihadists.
26 Anybody who dares to question the validity of the “Global War on Terrorism” is branded a terrorist and subjected to the anti-terrorist laws.
The ultimate objective of the “Global War on Terrorism” is to subdue the citizens, totally depoliticize social life in America, prevent people from thinking and conceptualizing, from analyzing facts and challenging the legitimacy of the inquisitorial social order which rules America.
The Yemeni Armed Forces announced a full air blockade on “Israel”, targeting Ben Gurion Airport in response to its escalating aggression in Gaza, according to spokesperson Yehya Saree.
The Yemeni Armed Forces announced that it will enforce an air blockade on “Israel” in a statement published on Sunday, in their latest escalation against the Zionist entity in support of Gaza.
“In response to Israel’s escalating aggression and expanded military operations in Gaza, the Yemeni Armed Forces have declared a full air blockade on Israel,” YAF Spokesperson Brigadier General Yehya Saree said in a statement.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will enforce the aerial blockade by repeatedly attacking airports, with Ben Gurion Airport, known as Lod Airport in Israel, as their primary target,” he emphasized.
The statement called on all international airlines to take this threat seriously from the moment of its issuance and cancel all flights to Israeli airports to preserve the safety of their aircraft and passengers.
“The proud, free, and independent Yemen will not accept the continued violations that the enemy seeks to impose by targeting Arab nations like Lebanon and Syria. This nation [Yemen] does not fear confrontation and rejects submission and surrender,” the statement added.
This comes amid a widespread cancellation of flights to “Israel” by major foreign airlines following the Yemeni ballistic missile that landed just 200 meters from the Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday.
A US appellate court has rejected a ruling that would have re-opened the government-funded media outlet Voice of America (VOA) after it was shuttered by US President Donald Trump.
In March, Trump cut funding for the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent organization that oversees several entities delivering Washington’s messaging to foreign audiences. In April, a federal judge in Washington issued an injunction requiring the government to continue financing VOA and its affiliates.
On Saturday, however, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sided with the government’s argument that the district court lacked jurisdiction over USAGM’s personnel and funding matters. The 2-1 ruling said the Trump administration “is likely to succeed on the merits” in the ongoing litigation.
Judge Cornelia Pillard dissented, warning that the stay order “all but guarantees that the networks will no longer exist in any meaningful form by the time this case is fully adjudicated.”
USAGM senior advisor Kari Lake praised the outcome, posting on X, “Turns out the District Court judge will not be able to manage the agency as he seemed to want to.”
Earlier in the same day, the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RsF), which is advocating for the preservation of VOA, celebrated what it called a “victory against the Trump administration” on Saturday. RsF referenced a message from USAGM informing that the accounts of “1,406 employees and contractors” had been reactivated and that VOA programming is expected to resume “next week.”
The Trump administration seeks to cut excess government spending in order to address chronic federal budget deficits. In the first 100 days of his second term, the US president ordered the suspension of various agencies involved in foreign policy operations, which his cabinet accused of funding excessive projects and harboring potential corruption.
Reform UK has won control of ten of 23 local authorities up for grabs
The right-wing Reform UK party has won 677 out of more than 1,600 seats in England’s local elections, while the Labour and the Conservative parties suffered heavy defeats across the country.
As results began to trickle in on Friday, the party led by firebrand and Brexit proponent Nigel Farage emerged as the strongest performer in contests held in 23 local authorities across England, winning control of ten councils. These included eight taken from the Conservatives – Derbyshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Northamptonshire — along with Doncaster from Labour and Durham, where no party previously had a majority.
Reform also won hard-fought parliamentary by-elections in Runcorn and Helsby, snatching victory from Labour by just six votes after a recount. As a result, the party now controls five seats in the UK Parliament.
According to a BBC projection, if a general election were held today, Reform UK would receive 30% of the vote, ahead of Labour at 20% and the Conservatives at 15%. However, the next general election is not due until May 2029. The last one was held last year and saw Labour secure a landslide victory, riding a wave of public dissatisfaction with the economic policies of the Tories.
Commenting on his party’s strides, Farage remarked: “In post-war Britain, no one has ever beaten both Labour and the Tories in a local election before. These results are unprecedented… Reform can and will win the next general election.”
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that while he felt a “sharp edge of fury,” he said he understood the voters’ choice while promising to “go further and faster in pursuit of… national renewal.” Meanwhile, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch bluntly acknowledged that the elections were a predictable “bloodbath,” stressing that the Tories must continue work to rebuild trust in the party.
Reform UK’s rise has been driven by voter frustration over high levels of immigration, the rising cost of living, and what many see as years of mismanagement by both major parties. The party campaigned heavily on promises to cut migration – including by small boat crossings – lower taxes, and reduce council spending, positioning itself as the only alternative to what it calls “a failed political establishment.”
In 2014, Burkina Faso finally toppled dictator Blaise Compaoré, responsible for the 1987 coup that killed the Che Guevara of Africa Thomas Sankara (see Thomas Sankara: Africa’s Che Guevara).
The country really struggled between 2016 and 2022 with (western sponsored) Al-Qaeda terrorists controlling 60% of the its territory and internally displacing two million residents.
In January 2022, a populist coup brought Caitaine Ibrahim Traoré to power. With 90-99% of the population rural, Traore felt compelled to respond directly to their needs to retain power. He authorized the purchase of 500 tractors to plow farmers’ land for free, in addition to subsidizing the price of fertilizer and improved seeds. His plan was to reduce terrorism by keeping young people continually engaged in successful agriculture projects.
The filmmakers visit a woman’s cooperative of 460 members who have been growing rice in the three years since a government tractor cleared their land. They have also planted trees. They produce enough rice to sell the surplus for their children’s education. Another cooperative of seven hundred women buys and sells rice in addition to growing it. Following the rice crop, they will plant onions, peanut and black eyed peas.
Insufficient water remains an issue. Women have to carry it from a distance, which reduces productivity. They’re organizing to pressure the Taoré government to dig bore holes and wells into an abundant aquifer
At present 80% of Burkina Faso’s population work in agriculture, which is responsible for one-third of the county’s GDP. With the introduction of gainful employment, emigration rates have dropped significantly.
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