John Solomon

In recent days, federal law enforcement agents across the government received a jarring communication from the Justice Department: a warning they could be prosecuted under a Civil War-era law if they respond to an election polling place with guns, even for a fake report of a crime.

The memo from Corey R. Amundson, the chief of DOJ’s Public Integrity Section that oversees election crimes, was dated Oct. 15 and states it was prompted by inquiries about how the government might respond to Election Day violence.

It was brought to the attention of Just the News by a senior law enforcement official and confirmed by multiple federal agents, some who said their immediate bosses offered additional guidance.

“In our role overseeing federal prosecutorial efforts against election crime, the Public Integrity Section, through our Election Crimes Branch, has received inquiries about the legality of having armed federal law enforcement agents at polling places,” Amundson wrote. “Given the potential relevance of this issue to federal law enforcement agencies and the Department of Defense. we thought it prudent to bring to your attention Title 18, United States Code, Section 592.”

“This statute — which has been on existence since 1864 — makes it a felony for a federal official to send armed personnel to an operational polling place for crowd control or other purposes,” the memo added.

DOJ officials and retired agents told Just the News similar communications about the Civil War-era law have been sent out in prior elections, but this year’s memo has gotten more attention internally because of a recent Election Day ISIS terror plot that was thwarted a few weeks ago in Oklahoma and more recent fire bombings of ballot collection boxes in the Northwest.

The current memo cautioned agents that bad actors might try to trick agents into an armed respond to a polling place with a false report of violence.

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Via https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/sn6pdoj-cites-civil-war-era-law-warning-federal-agents-not-respond

By Ekaterina Blinova

Washington DC is seeing a lot of boarded-up storefronts and buildings. The New York Times is even hinting at the possibility of violence from disenchanted Donald Trump supporters. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel doesn’t buy into the assumption.

“Republicans are a tiny percentage of registered voters [in DC] so it is pure fiction and likely projection that they are poised for mayhem,” Ortel told Sputnik.

“The truth in a fair contest is that Trump and Vance are set to trounce Harris and Walz – deluded Democrats and reliable Antifa and Black Lives Matter mobsters are the ones set to riot, and certainly not Republicans, because they will be celebrating,” he continued.

It seems that the efforts by the corporate media and influencers to sell the Biden-Harris Administration as a “transformative success” have fallen flat. It’s becoming clear that things are actually worse now than they were under Trump, pre-Covid, according to the analyst.

“Political insiders know that Harris is a far worse candidate than Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden were in 2016 and 2020 and that Trump and Vance are a potent slate backed by tens of millions of motivated and enthusiastic voters, who likely will win decisively, absent widespread cheating,” Ortel said.

He doesn’t rule out that those who poured a whopping $1 billion into the Harris-Walz ticket are preparing to throw a spanner in the works for Trump and JD Vance. They might even try to invalidate the 2024 results if the former president and his running mate win.

“I hope cooler heads prevail in what remains of the Democrat party. As of this moment, Trump and Vance seem poised to win a decisive mandate against the Deep State swamp, likely with control of the Senate and a stronger majority in the House,” Ortel concluded.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20241105/washington-storefronts-getting-boarded-up-early-indication-of-harris-defeat–wall-street-analyst-1120780942.html

by John Helmer, Moscow

The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal (lead image) unconscious to silence them. That was six years ago, when they were in Salisbury District Hospital in March 2018. Now, prevented from testifying in public at the public inquiry under way in London, they are still incommunicado, either in prison or dead.

The evidence revealed in the published witness statements and transcript of testimony in four days of hearings at the Sturgess Inquiry October 28-31  shows that British Government officials have lied in public and lied on oath in the courts to conceal what they have been doing to accuse Russia of Novichok poisonings in the Salisbury area in 2018. The Inquiry records show that the chairman and judge, Anthony Hughes (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley),  and the lawyers working for him are actively working to protect the lies and prevent contradicting evidence from becoming public.

Surprise testimony by Dr Stephen Cockroft, the doctor who cared for Sergei and Yulia Skripal on their admission to Salisbury District Hospital (SDH) on March 4, 2018, has revealed that the British Government kept them heavily sedated in order to tell the courts and media that they were unconscious and unresponsive when they had revived.  Government officials ordered the hospital to punish Cockroft from talking directly to Yulia Skripal when she came out of her coma on March 8, 2018.

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Cockroft has been recorded as giving the police a 7-page witness statement dated March 19, 2018, of his direct observations as the doctor in charge at the Intensive Care Unit  of SDH on March 8, less than four days after the admission of Sergei and Yulia Skripal:

“I had not realised that this was a sedation hold [sedation stopped]. I felt shocked and a degree of Euphoria that she has woke [sic] up. Yulia nodded her head on occasions throughout the conversation, I would describe it as slow, not a normal nod in terms of the movement, nonetheless it was a very purposeful nod… I think Anna and Rebecca [ICU nurses on duty at Radnor Ward] were shook up that the patient waked [sic] quite as quickly as she did… I was staggered to see Yulia with her eyes open and apparently responding in a meaningful way. Yulia was looking at Anna in a purposeful way, her eyes were wide open, her gaze was directed towards Anna in a way that suggested to me that she had good vision to perceive that Anna was the person that was talking to her. It wasn’t a response we would see from someone with brain damage  There were a couple of occasions when she shook her head from side to side again this was quite slowly, but purposefully. You would need a high degree for neurological function in order to do that. I also asked Yulia if she could squeeze my fingers on her left and the right and she did. She is the one [compared with Sergei Skripal], if I thought there was going to be some real long lasting damage it would be to her and there she was apparently awake”.

Cockroft’s evidence of March 8, 2018, directly contradicts the evidence given on oath in the High Court in London on March 20-22, 2018, by state officials and an SDH “treating consultant” – the name was kept secret in the published court report — that “Mr Skripal is heavily sedated following injury by a nerve agent. Ms Skripal is heavily sedated following injury by a nerve agent. Mr Skripal is unable to communicate in any way. Ms Skripal is unable to communicate in any meaningful way.”  The High Court record can be read in full here.

To read the judgement of Justice David Williams, click on link to enlarge: https://www.bailii.org
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Cockroft’s disclosures also contradict the script which Yulia Skripal read out at a MI6-supervised and Reuters-filmed appearance for two minutes at a US bomber base in the UK in May of 2018. Skripal claimed then “after 20 days in a coma I woke to the news that we had both been poisoned.”  In fact, Yulia woke from her coma after four (4) days.

On July 18, 2024, Cockroft told the Inquiry which questioned him for a second witness statement:

“An untoward event took place on Thursday 8 March 2018. A colleague (Dr James Haslam) had ordered all sedation to be discontinued temporarily to Yulia Skripal. This is quite a common practice on Intensive Care Units (ICU) and we refer to it as a ‘sedation hold’ and would normally be planned and discussed with the team. Unfortunately, having ordered the sedation hold, Dr Haslam left the ICU without advising me. I was present on the ICU treating another patient. As a consequence, Yulia Skripal regained consciousness very quickly and was confused, frightened, trying to get out of bed and was pulling at her various vascular access lines and breathing tube.”

Cockroft then revealed that because the sedation had been stopped and Yulia was no longer comatose, Cockroft was punished by Blanshard, the hospital’s chief doctor.

“I tried to feedback my concerns to Dr Haslam, but he was of the opinion that nothing untoward had occurred, but when these events were reported back to the Medical Director (Christine Blanshard) she had a very different opinion and I was summoned to a meeting with her on Monday 12 March to discuss my management of the incident. There is no formal record of that meeting [sic], however I was suspended from working on the ICU with immediate effect until Yulia and Sergei had either been discharged or died. Apparently by having had a conversation with Yulia Skripal I had been unprofessional and should have left such a conversation to the security services. I was warned by Dr Blanshard that I should not discuss any aspect of the poisonings with colleagues or other individuals and advised that any such discussion would be treated as serious misconduct. As a result of having communicated with Yulia Skripal I was interviewed by the police and my statement recorded.”

The Salisbury hospital official who collaborated with government officials and police to conceal the condition of the Skripals in hospital; to threaten and sanction the medical staff; and to intervene in the treatment of the Skripals, was the SDH medical director, Dr Christine Blanshard. By enforcing sedation on the two patients for the government’s political purpose, without their consent when they were conscious, out of coma, and capable of communicating, Blanshard violated her Hippocratic Oath.

Blanshard has not been called to testify to the Inquiry.

Blanshard and another of the SDH doctors, Dr Stephen Jukes, misled the BBC documentary broadcast on May 30, 2018. The two doctors acknowledged that the Skripals had recovered “at such a pace” but concealed how fast this had been – four days — and how they had then ordered heavy sedation to simulate coma and cover up.  This is repeating a lie by BBC reporter Mark Urban in this, the first documentary of the Novichok narrative by the state propaganda organ.

“After a couple of weeks,” Urban said in the film, counting from March 4 and March 18, “there were gradual but distinct signs of progress. The exact timing of that and details of the drugs given remains matters of medical confidentiality.”   – minute 8:20.  Urban has been revealed – and was recognized earlier by Sergei Skripal – to have been an informant for MI6.

Stephen Haslam was the second doctor with Cockroft  in treatment of the Skripals in the ICU unit known at the hospital as the Radnor Ward. Haslam’s witness statement to police on July 9, 2018 – two days after Dawn Sturgess’s officially recorded death — conceals that Yulia Skripal had recovered consciousness as soon as the sedation was removed four days after her admission to SDH. Haslam also conceals what Cockroft’s March 8 record shows – that Yulia Skripal could breathe and speak without the tracheostomic intubation visible later (right).

Instead, Haslam now claims to the Hughes Inquiry that while under sedation the two Skripals were subject to a tracheostomy on March 21; this, Haslam says, was  maintained for a week for Yulia until March 28; for Sergei until April 5.  Haslam provides no medical reason for this procedure.

The timing of the tracheostomy was during the High Court hearing on their purported incapacity to speak or express their consent to medical procedures. The timing also was just before technicians from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) arrived from The Netherlands to take blood samples from the Skripals. The state-ordered sedation and tracheostomy prevented the Skripals from talking to the OPCW. For more details of the OPCW fix by the British to report Novichok, read the book (right).

Haslam also reveals in this statement that the 33-year old, previously healthy Yulia Skripal was suffering medical symptoms on her admission to the hospital which were more life-threatening than the condition recorded for her 66 year-old diabetic father, Sergei.

“Overall, the clinical picture was one of profound compromise of the central and peripheral nervous systems,” Haslam testified, comparing daughter with father, “and her condition was worse than that of her father.”

Medical experts who have reviewed the case and patient details and the Inquiry testimony, express surprise that the younger, healthier patient had suffered collapse simultaneously with the much older, health-compromised patient if, as the British Government alleges,  they had both been contaminated two and a half  hours earlier at the front door-handle of their home.

A leading British specialist on organophosphate poisoning comments:  “[It is] somewhat amazing that both Skripals throw up at the same time, then collapse at the same time. Throw up because they were both in contact with a Novichok door handle some 2 1/2 hours earlier. Everything [in the Inquiry hearing] today seemed to be drawn into confirming the official narrative.  We get right up to the collapse at the bench, but up to that point there are no symptoms from the older diabetic man. Not much use if the world’s most dangerous chemical cannot prevent an older, diabetic, overweight chap from driving, drinking, eating, walking, then collapsing some 2 1/2 hours later after the door-handle attack.”

“When I discuss the Skripal saga with my forensic colleagues, they all agree on the fantasy and fabrication. However, they have professional image to consider, so their heads are not above the parapet.”

The sources believe the only likely explanation for simultaneous collapse on a bench in Salisbury city centre, and the contrastive condition of Yulia and Sergei, is that they were attacked by a poison spray at the bench itself, and that Yulia was hit by a larger aerosol dose than struck Sergei.

The CCTV recordings, contemporary witnesses, and British police evidence at the Inquiry confirm there were no Russian agents at the scene at the time.

To prevent the Skripals from communicating from the hospital with the Russian Embassy in London and their families in Russia, the Government had arranged for doctors, experts, and lawyers to lie in the High Court at a hearing on their condition on March 20-22, 2018.  That their testimony has now been exposed by Cockroft at the Inquiry to have been false was put to Vikram Sachdeva KC, by email yesterday; Sachdeva was the lawyer appointed by the Government to represent the Skripals in the High Court proceeding.

Sachdeva (right) refuses to answer.

The British media and state propaganda organs have failed to recognize that when Cockroft’s witness statements and oral testimony were revealed on Thursday, the official narrative of a Russian Novichok plot collapsed. The BBC report omitted entirely what Cockroft had revealed about Yulia Skripal’s recovery after four days.

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Via https://johnhelmer.net/novichok-show-trial-suffers-sudden-death-shock-from-doctors-testimony-that-government-officials-sedated-the-skripals-to-stop-them-talking/

Credit: Gage Skidmore

When asked by NBC News on Sunday about banning certain vaccines, former President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility.

Trump said he would speak to Robert Kennedy Jr. about the matter, calling him a “very talented guy.”

“Well I’m going to talk to [Kennedy] and talk to other people, and I’ll make a decision, but he’s a very talented guy and has strong views,” Trump told NBC.

Trump did not offer a specific position Kennedy may fill in his administration but said, “He can do anything he wants,” while speaking in Arizona on Thursday.

Kennedy recently posted on X that a Trump administration would advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from tap water on day one.

In a post to X on Saturday, Kennedy said water fluoridation is “industrial waste.”

“On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” Kennedy wrote. “Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”

Kennedy added that Donald and Melania Trump want to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Last week, Trump said that if he is elected, Kennedy will work on “health and women’s health ” and the nation’s food supply.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. we have. And he’s going to work on health and women’s health and all of the different reasons, because we’re not really a wealthy or a healthy country,” Trump said during his rally in Nevada.

“I told Bobby, ‘I want you to take care of health, I want you to look at the food and the food supply and what we put on the food and all sorts of — you can look at, but let me handle the oil and gas, Bobby,’” Trump added.

Kennedy runs a non-profit called Children’s Health Defense. According to the organization’s website, its mission is to “end childhood health epidemics by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable, and establish safeguards to prevent future harm. We fight corruption, mass surveillance and censorship that put profits before people as well as advocate for worldwide rights to health freedom and bodily autonomy.”

The organization provides legal assistance with fighting mandatory vaccination in schools and the workplace.

During his presidential campaign, Kennedy said he would prosecute any official who engaged in criminal wrongdoing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It is dawning on mainstream figures like Anthony Fauci that their Covid policies were a public health disaster,” Kennedy began. “Lots of us are angry about the mandates, the lockdowns, the censorship, the insanity. But we need to avoid the toxic quagmire of retribution and blame and focus on ensuring this never happens again. Clean up the regulatory agencies, get corporate money out of public health, and guarantee free, open, uncensored public and scientific discourse.”

Kennedy continued, “Of course, officials who betrayed the public trust must not be allowed to hold power. I will remove them from their positions and, if laws were broken, my attorney general will prosecute.”

“Just to be clear, I will prosecute any official who engaged in criminal wrongdoing during the pandemic,” the candidate said. “Corrupt individuals are a small part of the problem. Our agencies have been captured by corporate power, but the vast majority of their staff are decent people. We need to get corporate influence out of *all* regulatory agencies so that they can serve the people honestly.”

“Not retribution, but justice!” Kennedy said. “As President, I will direct my attorney general to investigate and prosecute every person who knowingly defrauded or deceived the American public about the safety and efficacy of medical products and I will obtain justice and compensation for every American who was injured or suffered the death of family members from those actions. As a presidential candidate, I’ll continue to expose corruption to obtain justice for the injured.”

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/trump-does-not-rule-banning-certain-vaccines-says/

Episode 6 Niger Congo: Biggest Language Family in Africa

Language Families of the World

Dr John McWhorter

Film Review

The Niger-Congo language family consists of 1000-1500 languages spoken south of the Sahara desert. One out of every 13 people in the world speak a Niger-Congo language.

Not much is known about the original Proto-Niger-Congo language (which these modern languages are derived from). According to McWhorter, speakers of Niger-Congo languages separated so long ago that most have their own unique grammar, syntax and vocabulary. Moreover only a few of these 1000+ languages have been studied, and many are already dying.

It’s characteristic for Niger-Congo languages to have many genders (noun classes) Swahili, the best known Congo language, has eight genders: for (tools, animate objects, inanimate objects, botanical nouns, long things and abstract concepts). Swahili is spoken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and a few other East African countries. The dominance of Swahili in Africa stems from its adoption by Arab trades as the language trade. Swahili has adopted numbers and many common words from Arabic.

Swahili was also adopted in the US Black nationalists during the sixties and seventies. McWhorter finds this ironic as African Americans trace their origin to the West Africa, where totally different languages are spoken.

Swahili is part of the Bantu sub-family of the Niger-Congo language family. At present there are 500 Bantu languages, including Kikuyu and Kongo. The Bantu languages spoken in Northwest Africa (Nigeria, Cameroons) are totally unlike Swahili.

Colson and Zulu are very similar Bantu dialects spoken in South Africa (which only appeared in South Africa around 1600 AD. There is also a tiny island of Bantu speakers in Sudan.

Linguists believed Bantu languages emerged after the click languages (see The History of African Click Languages) and replaced them in most areas. For example, Pygmies gave up their own language when their region was overrun by Bantu speakers.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/6120000/6120012