Ekatarina Blinova

After President Joe Biden issued an unusual blanket pardon for his son, Hunter, Democratic Congressman Ed Markey has urged the president to extend “preemptive pardons” to other top Democrats whom Donald Trump believes “harmed him” and might otherwise be treated by him in a “fascistic way.”

“After nearly four years of weaponizing US government resources against perceived enemies of certain dynastic political families, Markey and Biden have some nerve suggesting that the Trump administration will be engaging in ‘fascist’ retaliation starting January 20, 2025,” Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel tells Sputnik, referencing Biden’s prosecution of January 6 protestors and labeling MAGA supporters as “extremists.”

US journalist Jonathan Martin reported on December 4 that Biden’s senior aides are debating the issue, and the alleged pardon list might include Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, former COVID czar Anthony Fauci.

“The public has yet to learn how deep the rot became across America ever since 1988, when elites embraced unregulated globalism and a turbocharged spoils system where trillions of dollars in spending that is not audited (by design) can be pilfered or diverted to fund political campaigns and multiple-mansion lifestyles,” Ortel says.

According to the analyst, the political trajectories of the Biden, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Pelosi, and Cheney dynasty families warrant close scrutiny for alleged influence-peddling and other questionable conduct.

Why Hillary and Bill Clinton Need Biden’s Pardons

In 2018, two forensic investigators-turned-whistleblowers, John Moynihan and Larry Doyle, testified before the US Congress that the Clinton Foundation does not operate as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization but acts as a foreign agent and owes the US government between $400 million and $2.5 billion in taxes.

Additionally, Special Counsel John Durham’s probe indicated that Hillary Clinton and her team played a significant role in shaping and promoting the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. According to Ortel, this hoax was used to prevent Trump from investigating the Clintons’ apparent pay-to-play schemes, mishandling of classified information, and alleged money laundering.

Biden’s Pardon Makes Hunter Invaluable Witness

[One] report notes that the Biden family may now have greater exposure since Hunter can no longer readily invoke the Fifth Amendment,” Ortel points out.

The Washington Free Beacon reported on December 3 that Hunter will no longer be able to rely on his Fifth Amendment right to silence regarding any potential federal crimes for which he’s been pardoned, according to two former House general counsels.

The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination; however, with Hunter no longer at risk of federal prosecution for the period between January 2014 and December 2024, he appears to be ineligible for this protection.

The newspaper alleges that Republican lawmakers should jump at the opportunity to subpoena Hunter Biden for new information about his family’s knowledge or involvement in his apparent influence-peddling schemes.

There are a lot of questions concerning the Biden family’s conduct in post-coup Ukraine where Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Pentagon bio-reseach contractor, and where he got a hefty salary from Bursima gas firm.

“Finally, offering Hunter pardons for federal crimes back to January 1, 2014 raises suspicions that Joe may know of illegal activities in which Hunter engaged, years before crimes alleged in the indictments in the gun (2018) and tax (2019) cases,” Ortel stresses.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20241206/why-the-clintons-need-bidens-blanket-pardons-more-than-other-democrats-1121111090.html

By Uriel Araujo | December 9, 2024

After combating terrorism and rebel groups for over twelve years, the former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the capital of Damascus with his family on December 7, shortly before it fell to the rebels. The victorious insurgents are the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) organization along with an umbrella group called the Syrian National Army.

Craig Murray (former British ambassador to Uzbekistan), in a panel about “the end of pluralism in the Middle East”, described the “Syrian rebels” as “a tool of NATO, Israel and Turkey”. This is a complex description for a complex situation indeed. Of the three, many analysts are focusing on the Israeli and Turkish angle—not so much on the American angle, though.

To recap, since the 2011 armed rebellion, Syria has counted on military aid from its allies Iran and Russia. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as well as the (Tehran-backed) Lebanese Hezbollah have in fact been the main anti-terrorist actors in the Levant, by deterring the expansion of terrorist group ISIS (Daesh) and thereby making the region safer for Christians and other minorities. Islamic Wahhabi/Salafi extremists were, after all, beheading some of them while kidnapping others and selling women as slaves.

The fact is that the rebels who have won in Syria now are not of a very different persuasion, and it is no wonder many are now concerned. Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens for one has urged the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs to aid the Christian population in Syria. He wrote: “The advance of extremist armed groups and the capture of Aleppo threaten… the interfaith composition of the region’s population… there is now a looming danger of the complete eradication… of Greek Orthodoxy and Christianity from the wider region.”

Such concerns are well founded. One should bear in mind that (Saudi-born) Abu Mohammed al-Julani, the very leader of Turkish-backed HTS, the group who has captured Aleppo (Syria’s second largest city), joined Al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2003, later establishing its split branch in Syria, the so-called al-Nusra Front. This group, under al-Julani, cooperated with the infamous Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Al-Qaeda’s split offshoot called “Islamic State in Iraq”, later known as ISIL (ISIS) or Daesh.

Al-Julani’s own later split from al-Qaeda and creation of the aforementioned HTS has been described as merely a “bid” to “stress his group’s national, as opposed to transnational, ambitions.” In other words, the group is just another re-branded offshoot of ISIS/Al-Qaeda. And those are the people who have now conquered Syria.

One might disapprove of Assad’s ruling but such a development can hardly be described by most as anything other than a disaster. Turkey (who aids the rebels) and Israel, as already mentioned, do benefit from this outcome, however, for their own reasons—and much is already being talked about that. But not so many analysts are highlighting the American role in all of it.

For example, the US-backed Syrian Free Army (a coalition which has taken control of Hom’s Palmyra district) announced that they are “open to friendship with everyone in the region – including Israel. We don’t have enemies other than the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran. What Israel did against Hezbollah in Lebanon helped us a great deal” – while claiming they are not allied with Turkey. The group, being increasingly dependent on Turkey, is a close ally of the United States, and was even hosted at the American military base at al-Tanf. Turkey, despite its differences with Washington is of course also, let us not forget, a NATO member.

The future of Syria and the concerned parties is far from clear now, there being lots of room for infighting among the different rebel factions. Turkey, which has long occupied northern Syria, has taken advantage of the ceasefire in Lebanon to give the rebels the green-light for launching an offensive (with Iran weakened in Syria and Hezbollah cornered in Lebanon). However Turkish-American differences pertaining to the Kurdish question are to remain a focal point for tensions.

HTS is indeed Turkish-backed but, as mentioned, its roots can be traced to Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other such groups empowered by Washington’s policy. One should not forget the fact that there are still around 900 US troops in Syria (mostly in the northeast, near Turkish strongholds) which witnessed the rebel victory. This has led some analysts to comment that “whether the Pentagon wants to admit it or not”, these troops are “likely involved in the broader conflict unfolding there right now.”

Moreover, there is nothing new about the West praising and empowering brutal terrorism and radicals when such is deemed geopolitically convenient: if former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton under President Barack Obama had achieved her stated goals, Syria would be in a similar situation to Libya since 2011 – in Libya, coincidence or not, arms provided by the US to rebels there also “ended up” in ISIS hands, according to Amnesty reports.

Back to the Levant region, it is a well-established fact that Washington played a key role in the empowerment of ISIS (or Daesh) both in Syria and Iraq (as well as other brutal radicals), with the Pentagon and the CIA arming mostly foreign Islamic militias that ended up even fighting among themselves. This is consistent with American foreign policy elsewhere too. The infamous Clinton emails also show how the US was aware of their allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia supporting Daesh terror.

The White House National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson Sean Savett said in a recent statement that Washington “has nothing to do with this offensive.” Considering all of the above, one can certainly be justified in taking such statements with a grain of salt. For Washington, further destabilizing Syria might also serve the role of “countering” Russia in the region. The US has consistently aided, funded, armed and trained Fundamentalist rebels who operate in the Levant for over a decade and there is no reason to assume anything is different now with the newest developments.

Finally, still on the topic of the Christian minority, US foreign policy—for a variety of reasons—has actually often involved dividing or destabilizing Eastern Christian (both Orthodox and Miaphysitist) populations or sometimes even aiding or turning a blind eye to the ethnic-religious cleansing of such groups or of Christians in general in the Levant region, for that matter.

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Via https://alethonews.com/2024/12/09/syria-falls-to-rebels-who-are-a-tool-of-nato-israel-and-turkey-with-us-role-included/

By Charlotte Harzard

President-elect Donald Trump said that he will pardon Jan. 6 protesters on the first day in office in his upcoming administration.

In an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump told anchor Kristen Welker that “These people are living in hell.”

Over 1,500 people have been charged with crimes connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot in 2021, according to NPR.

Trump has said in the past that he would pardon many of them.

“I am inclined to pardon many of them,” he said during a 2023 CNN event. “I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, got out of control. I would say it will be a large portion of them and it would be early on.”

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Via https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-vows-pardon-jan-6-rioters-day-one-after-getting-office

The federal government’s war on raw milk, small farms, and the Amish is nothing new. However, it has escalated under the Biden-Harris regime as big gov’t raced to put mom-and-pop farms out of business. It’s all about federal agency capture (at the USDA and many other agencies) by the processed foods industrial complex, which views small farms as a competition threat.

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings to lead the Department of Health and Human Services next month, his views on ‘Making America Healthy Again‘ through clean food have put the processed food industrial complex and big pharma on notice.

Headlines featuring ‘raw milk’ surged in corporate media after bird flu cases were detected at dairy farms earlier this year. However, following former President Trump’s victory and the strong probability of RFK Jr. leading HHS, anti-raw milk rhetoric in corporate media exploded in just the last few weeks. Maybe the headlines are surging on bird flu cases – yet we believe this is more tied to the processed food industrial complex being absolutely terrified of Kennedy.

In addition to the soaring raw milk demand, Americans are waking up to the disturbing reality of how poisonous the nation’s food supply chain has become. People are turning to small farms, including the Amish, for cleaner ag products—a move that has infuriated the bureaucrats and their friends in the processed food industrial complex.

The federal government’s all-out war on small farms is pure insanity. However, the motive is not complex to understand when DC bureaucrats and their billionaire friends want to take over the nation’s food supply chain.

Reject the processed food industrial complex. Source your food locally, start a victory garden, buy a chicken coop, get honey bees, and if you’re really up for the challenge… buy cattle. Become ungovernable – and that starts by controlling your own food supply chain – not DC bureaucrats and their billionaire friends who want to eliminate cow farts with experimental vaccines.

Also, isn’t it odd that DC bureaucrats did not push clean food trends and exercise to fix America’s health crisis? Instead, DC elites resorted to their friends in pharma, pushing GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic. After all, exercise doesn’t make the DC swamp and pharma money; every GLP-1 injection and kickbacks do.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/usda-orders-raw-milk-testing-under-guise-bird-flu-amid-war-small-farms

Ethan Huff

The world is waking up to the ugly truth about billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates of Microsoft fame.

In a recent interview – watch below – Gates casually admitted that he is experimenting on poor people in developing India, a country he described as “kind of a laboratory to try things.”

“Then, when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places,” Gates said about how his chemical experiments in India allow him to then export those chemicals to sell in other countries.

“And so, our biggest non-U.S. office for the [Gates Foundation] is in, is in India and the most number of pilot rollout things we’re doing anywhere in the world are with partners in India.”

World calls for Bill Gates to be prosecuted

Gates has always had trouble reading the room, but these latest callous statements in reference to human beings he is using as human guinea pigs is prompting such widespread outrage that the cringe, in this case, is truly off the charts.

“Arrest Bill Gates for crimes against humanity,” tweeted Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10).

Pharmaceutical and vaccine giant Pfizer is also highly active in India where the rules and regulations are much easier to bend. Pfizer tests deadly, experimental drugs on the Indian people before proceeding to commercially sell those same drugs to people throughout the West.

“If your governments weren’t under the influence of the World Economic Forum’s young global leaders, they would never have opposed government agencies conducting their own clinical trials for new medicines entering the country,” tweeted “OurVoicesMatter” (@OV_Matter).

“Just look at what happened with Pfizer when India proposed conducting their own trials.”

Another person on X / Twitter could not help but notice how casually and openly Gates talks about his eugenics agenda.

“Treating a whole country as a testing ground shows a complete lack of respect for its people,” this person said in the kindest possible way about who Gates really is.

“Seriously, why do they let this lunatic do this stuff??” asked another about Gates. “He’s not a doctor! He’s some psycho egomaniac that for some reason some clowns listen to.”

It is not just greed that drives Gates but also mass death, suggested another about the psychopathic nature of Gates, which is apparent every time he opens his mealy mouth to start dispensing his reprobate thoughts.

“Is he saying that there are so many Indians that it doesn’t matter, or that their lives are worth less?” wrote another. “If he is, that is actual racism, as opposed to the bigotry that is normally labeled as racism in the media etc.”

Another chimed in that this is par for the course in India, which is being ravaged and raped by multinational corporations and Western government for profit.

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2024/12/08/calls-for-bill-gates-to-be-arrested-swell-after-billionaire-eugenicist-calls-india-a-testing-ground-for-his-chemical-experiments/

National Geographic

Because the Phoenicians were a sea-based culture, archeologists typically study shipwrecks to learn bout their history. Gorem’s Cave in Gibraltar is also a significant source of Phoenician artifacts, including personal charms, scarabs, glass vases.* With the advent of DNA sequencing, this has been a new source of knowledge about their origins and history.

As the Phoenicians left no written manuscripts, most of what we know of them is from Greek and Roman historians. According to Herodotus, Sidon in modern day Lebanon was the Phoenicians’ original homeland, First appearing around 1200 BC, they later settled Carthage in North Africa. With total control over Mediterranean sea trade for 1,000 years, the Phoenicians, operating out of Tyre (Lebanon), were the first international cartel. They also had formidable warships, with a massive intimidating harbor in Carthage.

They built their ships out of the famous cedars of Lebanon, as well as transporting cedar logs to Egypt for the pharaoh’s palaces to Israel for King Solomon’s temple. Discoveries from sunken Phoenician ships reveal they also traded in ostrich eggs (from Africa) a valuable purple dye used Egyptian, Greek and Roman and amber (prized fossilized tree resin).

Statues found at the ancient Temple of Eshman near Sidon suggest their artistic taste mimicked that of their Egyptian, Persian and Israeli trade partners.

Jezebel from the Old Testament was a Phoenician princess who seduced Ahab, the king of Israel, and persuaded him to worship Baal, an ancient Canaanite fertility and storm god.

Excavation of Phoenician ruins in Sidon has only begun recently owing to Lebanon’s decades long civil war. Tabnit was the Phoenician King of Sidon* from 549–539 BC. He was mummified and buried in a borrowed Egyptian sarcophagus. His DNA is being studied to determine if the Phoenicians were related to 1) Canaanites described in the Bible and 2) modern Lebanese populations. The Canaanites inhabited the Levant from 2000-1200 BC. According to Egyptian legend, “Sea Peoples” invaded the Levant around 1200 BC. Some historians believe they intermarried with the Canaanites and their offspring were the first Phoenicians.

Rome’s war on Carthage (referred to a the Punic Wars) lasted 100 years. Rome was eventually victorious in 146 BC (see How Senate Corruption Caused the Demise of the Roman Republic). The strain of the Punic wars led to civil war in Rome and (when Julius Caesar became emperor in 100BC) the end of the Roman republic.

In Carthage in modern day Tunisia only 20% of the population carry genetic markers for Phoenician ancestry. Archeologists believe either the Romans either wiped them out or that the Phoenicians ruled an indigenous population there without intermarrying or encouraging settlement by Phoenician settlers.

From the limited evidence available, Phoenicians seem to have been genetically identical to the Canaanites.

*It’s believed these artifacts are offerings to the gods for safe passage through the turbulent Straits of Gibraltar.