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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.

Children’s Bones Failing to Develop Due to “Forever Chemicals”

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Children’s bones failing to develop, adult bones deteriorating due to “forever chemicals”
Dr Eddy Betterman

New research out of Southern California has found that persistent exposure to “forever chemicals” like perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) increases one’s risk of bone deterioration.

In young children, PFOS exposure can impede healthy bone development. In adults, PFOS exposure can degrade bone structure over time, eventually leading to more serious bone problems like osteoporosis.

Published on December 6 in the journal Environmental Research, the study was uniquely structured in that it tracked associations between bone density and blood serum levels of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which include PFOS.

“Existing research had established associations between PFAS and bone health, but previous studies, most of them only collected information at one time point from participants,” commented Emily Beglarian, a PhD student at the University of Southern California‘s (USC) Keck School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

“Additionally, many existing studies were focused on non-Hispanic, white participants and many focused on older adults.”

According to Beglarian, Hispanics are often not included in this kind of research on bone health, even though they, too, have a high risk of developing osteoporosis as adults.

(Related: Another concern worth paying attention to involves mRNA-contaminated meat – make sure your food is clean and mRNA-free!)

Research into forever chemicals a new concept

Up until now, very little research has been done period on forever chemicals and their impact on human health. Beglarian further commented that evaluating the safety of forever chemicals in conjunction with bone development and health is “a pretty new area of study.”

For her team’s research, Beglarian looked at data on a cohort of children aged eight through 13 who were recruited between 2001 and 2012. For about a year and a half, these children received follow-up appointments to keep tabs on their bone health in relation to their forever chemical exposure.

Over time, Beglarian et al. calculated the participants’ bone density in conjunction with measurements of five common PFAS chemicals. A young adult group was recruited later on after more PFAS regulations were put in place, resulting in this group having lower overall blood serum levels of PFAS.

Even with less PFAS inside their bodies, the young adults group still showed concerning signs of bone problems, said Jesse Goodrich, an assistant professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine. Goodrich is also one of the new study’s lead authors.

“Even though we saw lower levels in the young adults that were measured more recently, we still saw very similar results, very consistent results between the two cohorts,” Goodrich commented.

“Even though there are some regulations that are lowering [PFAS] levels, we really need larger policies to fully eradicate these, if possible.”

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2023/12/25/children-bones-development-deteriorating-forever-chemicals/

Decoding the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Indoctrinating Your Children Into the New “Fake Sustainable” World Order

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By Mark Keenan

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The word “sustainable” was hijacked decades ago, and it is now deceptively used to advance the agendas of globalist mega-corporate interests who couldn’t care less about the environment.

The aim is to catapult humanity into the arms of UN Agenda 2030 and other deceptive marketing plans entirely aligned with the objectives of the so-called financial elites of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos group. UN Agenda 2030 is not about real environmentalism it is all to scare people into accepting totalitarian authority and limitations to their freedom and personal wellbeing.

UN Agenda 2030 involves a plan to get all people off the land and into so-called smart towns and smart cities, where they will be monitored, tracked and traced; forced to comply with new rules to access digital social credits; and be unable to grow much food. This is also detailed in the World Economic Forum ‘Great Reset’ document.

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Decoding the Real Objectives Behind the UN 17 ‘New Sustainable Development Goals’

Let us take a closer look at the SDGs:

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Translation:

Keep the developing world in vast debt under the pretext of economic development, globalisation and ‘technology transfer programs’ that are marketed with the illusory goal of ending poverty.

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Centralized banking, IMF, World Bank, Federal Reserve to continue to control all world finances. The so-called financial powers that be (PTB) will only cancel world debt (on money they created from nothing) when they can introduce their digital one world currency, social credit system and cashless society, ensuring people must conform to their rules.

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising for the utilisation of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed.

Translation: Rampant expansion of GMO, and no local control of seed banks. “as internationally agreed” means mega-corporate control of genetic resources.

They own a vast number of seed, pesticide and biotech companies. Monsanto was responsible for the introduction of GM crops and toxic chemicals, such as aspartame, DDT, Agent Orange, petroleum-based fertilisers, rGBH, glyphosate, and more. In addition, the godless corporate practice of patenting nature itself is carried out by such companies.

It has displaced thousands of years of traditional agriculture and farmers’ rights. The World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) has facilitated the granting of patents to all genetic material, including seeds, plants, and animals.

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Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.

3.8 By 2030, universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.

3.b Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect development countries.

Translation: Mass vaccination, mass abortion and population control. For evidence of the devasting effects and deaths due to the Covid-19 vaccinations see the book No Worries No Virus

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity…

Translation: UN propaganda and brainwashing through compulsory education from “cradle to grave”. All learners must be indoctrinated into  sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles. What is a sustainable lifestyle? In part it is one that complies with the bogus UN doctrine that CO2 emissions or methane from cows causes climate change. The word ‘ensure’ is also a blatant admission of forced indoctrination. How do they intend to enforce this?

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

5.5. Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

5. C Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.”

Translation: I, and surely everyone, fully agrees, of course, that women, and all people, should be paid equal pay for equal work. However, there is a deeper story here that should be noted and that story involves the tax system. When you understand the tax system you may begin to realise that the UN goal of ‘gender equality’ is not the noble endeavour it may appear to be.

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Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Translation: Privatize all water sources, don’t forget to add fluoride (hydro fluorosilicate, which is an industrial by-product and toxin) and aluminum (which is extremely toxic to humans).

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Translation: Smart grid control of your access to energy. Smart meters that emit electro-magnetic field radiation compulsorily inserted into your home to access your data, and introduce peak pricing, etc. They never tell you about the vast energy and environmental expenditure to build a smart grid, hundreds of millions of ‘smart meters’, billions of smart devices, such as TVs, fridges, smartphones, smart cars, etc.

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

8.1. Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product per annum in the least developed countries.

8.3. Promote development oriented policies… including through access to financial services

8.4. … Endeavour to de-couple economic growth from environmental degradation

Translation: A continuation of the usury economy in which wealth always flows upwards to the private banking system. “At least 7% GDP growth in least developed countries” means the globalists want these economies growing under the whip of globalisation, so these countries can pay vast sums of interest to international mega-banks on fraudulent debt-money loans created from nothing.  GDP growth is always needed so that vast sums of interest collected via taxes will continue to flow from governments to the private international banking cartel. Free trade zones, as espoused by the UN, would favour mega-corporate interests, globalisation, and endless polluting forms of GDP growth.actually illusory.

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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

10.b. Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to…  in particular developing countries

10.c. By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent

Translation: “Development assistance” means get developing countries hooked on debt-money loans (created from nothing) and have them put up national assets as collateral. Then later, pull the plug, with a boom-bust-bailout scenario, just as has been done in many other countries, and leave the country in perpetual debt slavery. Virtually every government worldwide is in vast debt to the privately-owned debt-money banking system, see the book Demonic Economics.

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Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Translation: Have a ‘Big Brother’ big data surveillance state and a behaviour-based digital social credit system to keep you under our control.

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UN Agenda 2030 and WEF-promoted smart cities are smart for the so-called powers that be, but not smart for you. Furthermore, sustainable development, as defined in Agenda 2030 involves the mass rollout and utilisation of so-called smart technology. This includes wireless technology, such as WIFI, smartphones, 5G, smart meters, and the so called ‘Internet of Things’, etc. However, it has clearly been demonstrated by thousands of studies, see Endnote , that the above microwave-based wireless technologies utilise electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) that can harm human health, and in particular, the brain development of children. In these studies, EMFs are linked with chronic fatigue, headaches, tinnitus, depression, cancer and chronic degenerative disorders.

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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

*Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.

Translation: Forced austerity, reduced access to resources, and more taxation for the people under the pretext of combatting manmade climate change and other SCP policies – meanwhile our mega-corporations continue to plunder and pollute the natural world, for example to produce many millions of batteries for electric cars.

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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

13.2. Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

13.3. Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

Translation: This is simply promotion of globalist policies e.g., Cap and Trade, carbon taxes/credits, and footprint taxes.

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Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related deaths rates everywhere

16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all

16.4 By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows… and combat all forms of organised crime

16.8 Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance

16.9 By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.

Translation:

16.1. “Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related deaths rates everywhere” means except when we the globalists do it – i.e. implement violence and population reduction via intentionally orchestrated wars, the mass sale of toxic vaccines, the proliferation of drug culture, human trafficking networks, and the promotion of mass abortion. In these horrific punch-and-judy show wars (the economics of destruction) both sides are assured funding, our military-industrial corporations make countless billions from sales of weapons, military technology and equipment; and our mega-corporations secure huge post-war contracts for rebuilding infrastructure.

16.3 means we want you to obey our laws, even though you did not write them.

16.4 “significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows” means except for our corporate ‘legitimate’ military industrial complex that supplies arms to our member governments, especially the US, Israel, Russia, China, U.K., France, Germany, and the G20, which we own and control.

16.8 means we the globalists want all developing countries (that is poorer countries whose people are particularly burdened by debt and whose resources are exploited by corporate globalisation) to be subject to and ruled by our institutions of global governance i.e., the unelected UN, the WHO, the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, etc.

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Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.

17.4 Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress.

17.7 Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.

17.9 Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals…

17.10 Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading systems under the World Trade Organisation…

17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.

17.18 By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries…  to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location…

Translation: Remove the ability of people worldwide to decide how to live their own lives, and promote global authority, mega-corporate influence, and bloated unelected bureaucracy of international institutions, including the UN, the World Economic Forum, and public-private (corporate) partnerships.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/decoding-un-sustainable-development-goals-indoctrinating-children-new-fake-sustainable-world-order/5843937

 

CIA Role in John Lennon’s Murder

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Jeremy Kuzmarov

Covert Action Magazine

The Sixties era officially ended just before 11:00 p.m. EST on December 8, 1980.

That is when former Beatles member John Lennon, a major voice of the era’s social movement who wrote the peace anthems “Imagine” and “Give Peace a Chance,” was shot and killed just outside the Manhattan apartment that he shared with his wife, Yoko Ono, and five-year-old son Sean.

Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested yards from where the murder took place holding a copy of J. D. Salinger’s book, The Catcher in the Rye.

Chapman told police that he had acted alone. Subsequently, Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to a prison term of 20 years to life, with a stipulation that mental health treatment would be provided.

Over the decades, Chapman has given conflicting reasons for why he killed Lennon, citing his spiritual beliefs, his own desire to become famous, and even that killing Lennon would help promote The Catcher in the Rye.[1]

Problem with the Official Story—and a CIA Connection

There is one major problem with the story of Chapman as Lennon’s lone assassin: Lennon was struck by four bullets on the left side of his body when Chapman was on his right side.[2]

There was a man who was standing on Lennon’s left when Lennon was shot: the doorman.

He was identified in 1987 by People magazine’s James Gaines as José Sanjenís Perdomo, an anti-Castro sniper who was part of the CIA’s Cuban exile invasion of Cuba in April 1961.

In pre-Castro Cuba, Perdomo had been a Chief of Police under the regime of Carlos Prios and dictator Fulgencio Batista.[3]

Allegedly, he helped coordinate a CIA assassination squad in Cuba and was the control officer that CIA assigned to Frank Sturgis when Sturgis joined the CIA in 1958 (Sturgis was involved in both the JFK assassination and Watergate break-in).

If the CIA were behind Lennon’s death, its motive was clear: Lennon was an icon of the 1960s peace movement who was planning to revitalize his musical career and could inspire a regeneration of peace and progressive activism in the 1980s to counter the Reagan revolution.[4]

In the 1970s, the FBI had carried out a large-scale surveillance operation against Lennon, who was also targeted by the CIA’s Operation CHAOS.

Lennon was feared because he funded financially troubled underground newspapers, sang songs for social justice and supported radical causes, including an organization that registered young voters opposed to the Vietnam War.

The FBI attempted to get municipal police to arrest Lennon on drug charges. British MI5 also targeted him because of his support for the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) tried to have Lennon deported in a campaign spearheaded by former Dixiecrat Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC).[5]

On the evening of Lennon’s death, once John and Yoko left for John’s last recording session at about 4 p.m., Perdomo spent the next six and a half hours chatting with Chapman.[6] What about one can only surmise.

Typically, it is crucial to the establishment of guilt or innocence that the police conduct forensic tests of the gun or bullets—which in the case of Lennon’s murder they did not do.[7]

After Chapman dropped his gun, Perdomo ordered elevator operator Joseph Many to pick up the gun and bring it to a storage room downstairs. It was then removed but no fingerprint tests were taken by the police—though care was taken to preserve the fingerprints from the copy of The Catcher in the Rye that Chapman had been holding and dropped when the police arrived.

One of the first police officers at the murder scene, Peter Cullen, believed that a handy-man had pulled the trigger but Perdomo convinced him otherwise. A witness pointed to the left side of Lennon, saying “he’s the one that did the shooting,” referring to Perdomo.[8]

British author David Whelan who spent three years researching Lennon’s death emphasized that in the official story Chapman shot Lennon from 25 feet away when the medical reports made clear that the bullets entered Lennon from close quarters.

25 feet is a vast distance for an untrained marksman like Chapman. Dr. David Halleran, who treated Lennon, stated: “not even a Navy SEAL could pull it off at that distance.”[9]

Lt. Arthur O’Connor, who grilled Chapman in the police precinct, said that Chapman clearly had not committed the murder to make himself famous as he “didn’t want to talk to the press from the very start” and was “apprehensive about his wife finding out from the media.”

O’Connor said that Chapman “did not want the notoriety. He did not want the glory of a trial either,” adding significantly that “it’s possible Mark could have been used by somebody. I saw him the night of the murder. I studied him intensely. He looked as if he could have been programmed.”[10]

Was Chapman a Manchurian Candidate?

According to author Fenton Bresler, Mark David Chapman resembled Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy in the RFK assassination, in meeting all the criteria for having been pre-programmed and brainwashed.[11]

After Lennon’s killing, Chapman was found calmly reading J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and surrendered to the NYPD meekly when there was a subway 75 feet away and he could have easily escaped. Chapman had become obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye, casting himself as the book’s lead character, Holden Caulfield, inscribing a note in his copy of the book: “To Holden Caulfield from Holden Caulfield.”[12]

Chapman’s manufactured obsession with The Catcher in the Rye was clearly crucial to the whole operation. Not only was the goal to kill a leading icon of the 1960s movement, which the CIA wanted crushed, but it was also to try to associate Lennon with the phoniness of the adult world that Holden Caulfield, another icon of the 1960s movement, disdained.

Chapman directly referred to Lennon as a phony, stating: “He told us to imagine no possessions [in his 1971 song Imagine] and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts and farms and country estates, laughing at people like me who had believed the lies and bought the records and built a big part of their lives around his music.”

Chapman’s denigration of Lennon fit well with a campaign in popular culture to portray hippies as hypocritical narcissists and antiwar activists as having spat upon Vietnam veterans when few if any such incidents actually took place. The effect was to help shift American political culture to the right and prevent the reemergence of youthful rebellion in the 1980s—as C. Wright Mills’ “power elite” desired.

In Attica Prison, Chapman received the best accommodations of any prisoner, suggesting that there were powerful people protecting him. He was visited by ministers of the fundamentalist Christian Church to which he belonged who doubled as U.S. military intelligence officers.

Chapman had converted to evangelical Christianity in 1971 after a period of heavy use of mind-altering drugs. He had rebelled against his abusive father, David Curtis Chapman, a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force who worked for the American Oil Corporation (AMOCO). In his book Careless Genius: John Lennon and His Maternal Demon, Anthony Gronowicz emphasizes that Chapman’s conversion from drug abuse to Christian fundamentalism made him a suitable target for the command hallucination he may have experienced. New religious converts are considered easy to manipulate because their conversion is associated with a heightened emotional state.

According to UC Berkeley Professor Richard Ofshe, after the formal termination of the CIA’s Operation MK-ULTRA in 1973, the operation continued to be carried out secretly through religious cults.

MK-ULTRA involved mind-control and brainwashing experiments that the CIA carried out in an attempt to manipulate, condition and control people.

RFK’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, is believed to have been hypnotized under MK-ULTRA and programmed into an assassin who was set up as a patsy. His trigger appeared to be a woman in a polka-dot dress, and he appeared, like Chapman, to be calm after the killing and dissociated from the evil in which he had participated.[13]

A person linking Sirhan Sirhan and Chapman is Bernard Diamond, a forensic psychiatrist who hypnotized Sirhan and testified at his trial and also visited Chapman in prison. Chapman was also visited by Milton Kline, another expert hypnotist and CIA consultant who once said he could “create a patsy in three months” and “an assassin in 6 [months].”[14]

In 1975, Chapman worked for the YMCA in Beirut. In Inside the Company: A CIA Diary, Philip Agee recounts how, when he worked for the CIA in Ecuador in 1962, his cover was as manager of the Quito YMCA where he managed the YMCA basketball team.

Lebanon at the time Chapman was there was the first Middle Eastern nation to request U.S. troops under its rightist Christian president to crush a mostly leftist Muslim uprising.[15]

After his return to the U.S., Chapman was flown to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, to assist David C. Moore, the new Director for the re-education and re-settlement of anti-Communist Vietnamese refugees.[16]

After a trip around the world, he settled in Hawaii, a place with a strong U.S. military presence. He joined a small music club in which John W. Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, was already a member.[17]

Hinckley Jr. was connected with the Bush family; he had helped George W. Bush in an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 1978 and his brother Scott, President of Vanderbilt Energy Corp., a company bailed out by Vice President George H.W. Bush’s Zapata Oil, was scheduled to have dinner with Neil Bush, Bush’s son, the night after the assassination attempt.

John Hinckley, Sr., the founder of Vanderbilt Energy Corp., had also raised funds for George H.W. Bush’s political campaigns, and financed an evangelical charity, World Vision International, that served as a cover for CIA operations.[18]

All these latter coincidences are just too much. Chapman’s ties to Hinckley and Hinckley’s ties to Bush—CIA Director in 1975 who worked as an undercover CIA asset in the 1960s—point to the likelihood of their involvement in a conspiracy that connects the murder of John Lennon and Reagan assassination attempt and was designed to shift the political landscape during the 1980s.

Suspicion Cast on Yoko Ono

According to Gronowicz, Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono’s behavior was very suspicious around the time of the assassination. She had his body cremated on December 10, a mere 36 hours after Lennon was shot.

In Careless Genius, Anthony Gronowicz depicts Ono as a manipulative woman who cashed in on Lennon’s death by taking charge of his estate and forcing family members to buy back some of Lennon’s artifacts.[19] By 2022, Ono’s fortune had grown to $700 million.

An upper-class heiress, Ono was the great-granddaughter of the founder of the Bank of Tokyo, Zenjiro Yasuda. Her father was appointed president of the Bank of Tokyo in New York and she attended Sarah Lawrence College, among the most expensive U.S. colleges.

Prior to John’s death, the marriage with Yoko was heading to divorce, according to Gronowicz. Yoko was eight years older than John and cast a maternal spell on him that was beginning to dissipate. The two began living separately and Yoko was using heroin.

Gronowicz writes that Ono, unable to compete musically with her famous and talented husband, grew jealous and resentful.

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If Yoko was involved in the plot to kill Lennon, Gronowicz suggests that it would have been through Samuel Havadtoy, an antique dealer and Ono’s interior decorator and landlord, who had moved in with her, particularly through his attorney Leon Dicker, who had been arrested in 1986 for gun-running on behalf of the CIA-backed dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, who had been plotting a comeback coup after he was overthrown by a popular revolution.[21]

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Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/08/what-three-letters-of-the-alphabet-link-john-lennons-murder-to-the-murders-of-john-f-kennedy-and-robert-kennedy/

 

Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking the Most Israel Lobby Cash

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Alan MacLeod

MintPress News

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#1 Joe Biden, $4,346,264

The largest recipient of Israel lobby money is President Joe Biden. From the beginning of his political career, Biden, according to his biographer Branko Marcetic, “established himself as an implacable friend of Israel,” spending his Senate career “showering Israel with unquestioning support, even when its behavior elicited bipartisan outrage.” The future president was a key figure in securing record sums of U.S. aid to the Jewish state and helped block a 1998 peace proposal with Palestine.

The support for Israeli policies has continued into the present, with his administration insisting that there are “no red lines” that it could cross that would cause it to lose American support. In essence, Biden has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a carte blanche to break any rules, norms or laws he wishes to.

This has included ethnic cleansing and war crimes such as the bombing of schools, hospitals and places of worship using banned weapons like white phosphorous munitions. The arms Israel is using come supplied directly by the U.S. In November, the Biden administration rubber-stamped another $14.5 billion military aid package to Israel, ensuring the carnage would continue.

For his staunch support, Biden has received more than $4.3 million from pro-Israel groups since 1990.

#2 Robert Menéndez, $2,483,205

The New Jersey senator has received nearly $2.5 million in contributions and, in the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7, has been a key figure in drumming up support for Israel. Describing Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as “barbaric atrocities” that were an “affront to humankind itself,” Menéndez gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor where he addressed Biden directly, stating:

Mr. President, in the face of unspeakable evil, we must not mince words. We must not waver in our resolve. Every single one of us in this chamber has a moral responsibility to speak out — unequivocally and unapologetically — as we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel and her people. I’ve been staunchly devoted to this cause for 31 years in Congress.”

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He went on to claim that Israel and the United States are intrinsically linked and were founded on the same principles.

Menéndez also courted controversy after he demanded that the U.S. help Israel “wipe Hamas from the face of the Earth,” even as Israel was leveling Gaza by carpet bombing it.

In October, he co-sponsored a Senate resolution “standing with Israel against terrorism” that passed unanimously, without dissent.

#3 Mitch McConnell, $1,953,160

The Senate Minority Leader is one of the most powerful politicians in America and has used his influence to attempt to force through legislation criminalizing BDS. He has described the peaceful tactic as “an economic form of anti-Semitism that targets Israel.”

McConnell is known to be very close to Prime Minister Netanyahu and supported a bill condemning the United Nations and calling on the U.S. to continue to veto any U.N. resolution critical of Israel. Last month, he strongly opposed steps taken towards applying basic U.S. and international law on weapons shipments to Israel.

Under current U.S. law, Washington is duty-bound to stop supplying arms to nations committing serious human rights violations. McConnell, however, said that applying these standards to Israel would be “ridiculous,” explaining that:

Our relationship with Israel is the closest national security relationship we have with any country in the world, and to condition, in effect, our assistance to Israel to their meeting our standards it seems to me is totally unnecessary… This is a democracy, a great ally of ours, and I do not think we need to condition the support that hopefully we will give to Israel very soon.”

McConnell has received nearly $2 million from pro-Israel groups.

#4 Chuck Schumer, $1,725,324

Next on the list is McConnell’s Democratic opponent, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who had taken over $1.7 million from Israel lobbying groups. In recent weeks, Schumer has taken the lead in steering the public conversation away from Israel’s crimes and towards a supposed rise in anti-Semitism across America. “To us, the Jewish people, the rise in anti-semitism is a crisis. A five-alarm fire that must be extinguished,” the New York Senator said, adding that “Jewish-Americans are feeling singled out, targeted and isolated. In many ways, we feel alone.”

The idea that anti-Semitic hate is exploding across the United States comes largely from a report published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims that anti-Semitic incidents have risen by 337% since October 7. Buried in the small print, however, is the fact that 45% of these “anti-Semitic” incidents the ADL has tallied are pro-Palestine, pro-peace marches calling for ceasefires, including ones led by Jewish groups like If Not Now or Jewish Voice for Peace. (MintPress recently published an investigation into the ADL’s fudged numbers and its history of working for Israel and spying on progressive American groups.)

Schumer, however, has deliberately tried to conflate opposition to Israel’s bombardment of its neighbors with anti-Jewish racism, writing:

Today, too many Americans are exploiting arguments against Israel and leaping toward a virulent antisemitism. The normalization and intensifying of this rise in hate is the danger many Jewish people fear most.”

He has even gone so far as to label Dave Zirin – a Jewish journalist who supports justice for Palestinians – as an anti-Semite.

As Senate Majority Leader, Schumer has used his influence to push through military aid packages to Israel, even as it carries out actions many have labeled war crimes, writing that:

One of the most important tasks we must finish is taking up and passing a funding bill to ensure we, as well as our friends and partners in Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific region, have the necessary military capabilities to confront and deter our adversaries and competitors.”

He added that “Senators should be prepared to stay in Washington until we finish our work” and that they should expect to work “long days and nights, and potentially weekends in December,” until the deal was done.

#5 Steny Hoyer, $1,620,294

The former House Majority Leader is one of Israel’s most vocal supporters in the House of Representatives. Hoyer has demanded that “Congress must immediately and unconditionally fund Israel,” thereby giving the Netanyahu administration the green light to do whatever it pleases.

An ardent Zionist, the Maryland native explained that he believes it is:

…[T]he world’s duty that set aside a land, a land that Israel has occupied for millennia, and said: this is your place of security, this is your place of sovereignty, this is your place of safety.”

Earlier this month, Hoyer also voted in favor of a bill stating that anti-Zionism is inherently anti-Semitic, thereby declaring all criticism of Israel to be invalid and racist.

Hoyer has received more than $1.6 million in donations from pro-Israel lobbying groups.

#6 Ted Cruz, $1,299,194

Over his career, the Texas Republican has received $1.3 million from the Israel lobby. After October 7, Cruz sprang into action, announcing that it was “critical” that every American supports Israel “100 percent.” “Israel is going to be demonized by Democrats in the current corrupt corporate media. We need to make clear that Hamas is using human shields and Israel has a right to defend itself,” Cruz said, hitting many of the classic pro-Israel talking points.

Cruz also went above and beyond in his defense of Israeli crimes in a bizarre interview with Breaking Points’ Ryan Grim. When asked if he opposes Israeli officials suggesting a nuclear attack on Gaza, Cruz replied:

I condemn nothing that the Israeli government is doing. The Israeli government does not target civilians; they target military targets… There is no military on the face of the planet, including the U.S. military, that goes to the lengths that the Israeli military goes to avoid civilian casualties.”

When confronted with statements from the IDF directly refuting his point, noting that their focus is on damage, not precision, Cruz flipped his answer around, replying, “Yes, damage to Hamas, to terrorists.” And when Grim gave him more statements from senior IDF officials explicitly contradicting his previous statement, Cruz retorted, “That’s simply not true. They are targeting the terrorists,” thereby defending the IDF even from itself.

#7 Ron Wyden, $1,279,376

Senator Ron Wyden (D—OR) has long been one of Israel’s staunchest advocates in Washington, supporting President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and opposing BDS in all its forms.

In 2017, he co-sponsored a bill that made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, for Americans to participate in or even encourage boycotts against Israel and illegal Israeli settlements.

On the settlements, he was one of the most vigorous opponents of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which describes them as a “flagrant violation” of international law.

For his troubles, Wyden has received $1,279,376 from pro-Israel groups.

#8 Dick Durbin, $1,126,020

In some ways, Dick Durbin owes his political career to the Israel lobby. In 1982, the then-obscure college professor benefitted enormously from AIPAC money to defeat incumbent Paul Findley, a strong proponent of the Palestinian people.

The Illinois Democrat has called for immediate military aid to Israel and co-signed a Senate resolution reaffirming Washington’s support for Israel’s “right to self-defense” in the wake of October 7.

Despite this, he has angered some in the pro-Israel crowd by supporting President Obama’s initiatives to reduce tensions with Iran and has now come out in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza.

#9 Josh Gottheimer, $1,109,370

Despite only being in office since 2017, Gottheimer has already received more than $1.1 million from pro-Israel lobbying groups. The New Jersey Congressman has served as a pro-Israeli attack dog in Washington, co-sponsoring the bill equating opposition to Israeli government policy with anti-Semitism and introducing legislation to block and criminalize boycotting the state of Israel.

In the wake of October 7, Gottheimer has attempted to cancel a number of public figures. Earlier this month, for instance, he tried to pressure Rutgers University into calling off an event on Palestine featuring former CNN anchor Marc Lamont Hill and organizer and journalist Nick Estes, both of whom support Palestinian rights and statehood.

Gottheimer has even caused rifts within his own party, attacking the small, progressive wing of Democrats who have failed to toe the line on Israel and Hamas. “Last night, 15 of my Democratic colleagues voted AGAINST standing with our ally Israel and condemning Hamas terrorists who brutally murdered, raped, and kidnapped babies, children, men, women, and elderly, including Americans. They are despicable and do not speak for our party,” he wrote, making a number of highly incendiary and questionable assertions.

#10 Shontel Brown, $1,028,686

Perhaps no other political case reveals the power of the Israel lobby than Shontel Brown. In 2021, Nina Turner, a democratic socialist, national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 election campaign, and an outspoken advocate for justice in Palestine, ran for election in Ohio’s 11th congressional district. Her opponent was the little-known but strongly pro-Israel Brown.

Brown received more pro-Israel money than any other politician nationwide during that two-year election cycle, helping her overcome a double-digit polling deficit to defeat Turner. Over $1 million was spent plastering Cleveland with attack ads against Turner. In her acceptance speech, Brown praised Israel and later thanked the Jewish community for “help[ing] me get over the finish line”

Since then, she has supported Israeli actions in Gaza and rejected the idea of Israel as an apartheid state, writing:

Let’s be clear: Israel is not an apartheid state. Any mischaracterizations otherwise attempt to delegitimize Israel, a robust democracy, and will only serve to fuel rising antisemitism. I will always advocate for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship founded on our shared values.”

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Via https://www.mintpressnews.com/blood-money-top-ten-politicians-taking-most-israel-money-israel-lobby/286491/

The Etruscan Origin of Western Surnames

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The Etruscan Goddess Uni

Episode 20 Etruscan Families

The Mysterious Etruscans

Dr Steven L Tuck (2016)

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The Western world owes their adoption of surnames to Etruscan tradition, which differed significantly from other ancient naming practices. In Hebrew civilization, the first name was followed by a patronymic.* In early Greek civilization, the first name was followed by a patronymic plus a name corresponding to the person’s tribe. After the rise of cities in the fourth century BC, Greeks used the first name plus a locative indicating where the person was born (eg Socrates of Athens).

The Etruscans were the first to introduce a family name, a practice Romans adopted and passed on to the Western world. Some Etruscan women took both their husband’s and father’s name as a family name, a process replicated in Spanish culture.

In early Rome women only had one name, a feminine version of either their father’s or husband’s first name name (eg Julius Caesar’s daughter was Julia). Subsequent daughters added secundo or tertia to their names.

Greek women were forbidden to engage in any financial transactions beyond weekly food shopping. Unlike Greek homes, which had an exclusively male space called the Anderon (where men held their symposiums), Etruscan homes had no exclusively men’s, women’s or children’s rooms.

Greek culture also tended to emphasize individual rather than collective achievements (there were no Olympic team sports). This is born in striking differences between Greek and Etruscan gods. Zeus, the chief Roman got was a serial adulterer and occasional rapist, with a jealous wife (Hera) who brutalized his rape victims and their offspring. In Greek creation myth, every male ruler was eventually attacked and overthrown by his son. Plato banned the immoral Olympian gods from his ideal Republic.

In contrast, the Etruscan chief god Tinia and his consort Uni were loving and faithful. Unlike Zeus, Tinia exerts no male dominance and control over Uni and tends to use his lightning bolts for peacekeeping.Tinia always consulted with other gods (usually Terms and Ablo) in making important decisions.

The Etruscans altered numerous Greek myths of violence and doom to reflect positive societal wide values, such as care for the young. Unlike the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite with her string of adulterous love affairs, her Etruscan counterpart Una is more focused on the care of infants and children.

In Etruscan mythology even children of adulterous relationships are raised lovingly. Contrary to Greek myth, in which Helen of Troy returns to her husband Menelaus, in Etruscan mythology Paris and Helen end up together as an exemplary couple.*

Life expectancy in Etruria was 46 for men and 48 for women. This compares with 1900 US life expectancy of 48 years for men and 51 years for women in white populations and 32 years for men and 35 years for women in non-white populations.

*A patronymic is a second name based on the father’s given name.

**See https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2023/12/04/greek-and-assyrian-influences-on-etruscan-metalwork-and-imagery/

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No Christmas in Bethlehem This Year

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A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church's Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh .

A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church’s Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh © Provided by LAist

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack Giacaman enjoys telling customers that every day is Christmas in his shop, which features hand-crafted olive-wood Nativity scenes, camels and crosses.

But this year there will be no Christmas in the city that is synonymous with the birth of Jesus, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Last month, Palestinian leaders of Christian denominations here came together, and citing the devastating war in Gaza made a unanimous decision to cancel public celebrations.

There’s no Christmas tree or sparkling lights in Manger Square or along the cobble-stone streets that should be bustling with foreign tourists this time of year. There will be no Christmas parade with musicians weaving through the old city’s labyrinth walkways, no Santas on street corners doling out joy to children. Instead, the main square is a simple parking lot, without a hint of holiday decoration to be seen.

At Christmas House, Giacaman’s shop, things have been bad since shortly after the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel by Gaza-based Hamas militants that killed 1,200 people, Israel says. Israel’s military has responded with an air-and-ground assault that has killed more than 28,000 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

“This is the worst Christmas. Even during the first intifada, the second intifada, it was not like this,” he says, referring to the Palestinian uprisings against Israel that began in 1987 and 2000, respectively.

Giacaman, a Christian who has lived in Bethlehem all his life, traces his ancestry back to conquering crusaders who arrived in the area centuries ago. At his shop, a small group of artisans are hard at work, shaping statues of Mary and the infant Jesus and stamping out Christmas tree ornaments, all piled up, ready for a holiday rush that isn’t coming this year.

The shop has been in the family for three generations. Over the years, it’s weathered more than a few shocks to the business, most recently the COVID-19 pandemic — but Giacaman says this is the worst he can remember.

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Just off of Manger square, Osama Al-Alli chats with a dozen or so of his fellow taxi drivers, as they wait in vain for a fare. In most years, there would be “many people coming from all the world,” he says, with so many lights. “Now, it’s dark at night.”

Al-Alli, who is a Muslim, worries about the future. “But I am praying for peace, for Israel and Palestine to come together,” he says.

A few feet away, stands the Church of the Nativity, famous for its grotto marking the exact location where Christians believe Jesus was born. The church, first built in the fourth century by the Roman emperor Constantine, should be packed, with a long queue snaking toward the sacred spot. But now, it’s nearly empty.

One of the few visitors is Florida resident Linda Nocera. It’s her fifth trip to Israel, but her first visit to Bethlehem. Nocera thinks the decision by the city’s churches to forego Christmas celebrations is the right one, “because of the war and because of all of the terrible killing,” she says.

“It’s heart-wrenching and I believe it’s not of God in any way, shape or form,” she says. “I am praying to the Lord that there will be an end [to it], forever. And there will be a solution to this.”

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Biden Decided to Destroy Nord Stream 2 ‘Few Weeks Before’ Ukraine Operation Began

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Fantine Gardinier

Sputnik

Since veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed in February that the US blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline the previous September, Western media has rushed to create an alternate narrative involving Ukrainian operatives possibly working at Kiev’s direction, and to discredit Hersh’s revelations.

The White House had already made the decision to destroy the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline by early 2022, several weeks before the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, Seymour Hersh has reported in his latest expose story.

According to his report, based on comments from an American official “who is knowledgeable about the political use of energy,” by the time US President Joe Biden hosted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on February 7, 2022, he had already given the order to a CIA-led team in Norway to find a way to destroy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a liquified natural gas line from Russia to Germany that was slated to soon open.

That was, he noted, “a few weeks before” Ukraine intensified its attacks on the Donbass people’s republics, forcing Moscow’s hand in recognizing the independence of the breakaway states from Kiev and sending its forces into the Donbass to defend them – events that set in motion the launching of Russia’s special operation to neutralize and de-Nazify the country several days later.

After Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics on February 22, 2022, Scholz announced the termination of the Nord Stream 2 project – something he had been under pressure from Washington as well as some other European Union leaders, such as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, to do for years.

The month prior, Republicans in the US Congress attempted to pass a bill that would have sanctioned the Russian side of the pipeline project regardless of whether or not Russia sent troops into Ukraine, and Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, had repeatedly deferred implementation of other sanctions against the pipeline in order to keep Berlin in their good graces.

According to Hersh’s report, the CIA-led team had planted the explosives on three of the four Nord Stream 2 pipes along the seafloor of the North Sea by May of 2022, but Biden delayed their detonation for months without explanation until finally giving the order in late September of that year. The bombs were detonated using a “low frequency sonar device,” he reported.

The veteran investigative journalist suggested the timing was chosen, coming at the start of autumn, in order to ensure Berlin didn’t get cold feet about the operation.

Successive German governments had been enthusiastically in support of the pipeline, which would have brought plentiful and cheap gas into Western Europe, and downplayed Washington’s suggestion that it would give Moscow leverage over European affairs.

Earlier this week, Germany’s Sefe and Norway’s Equinor, their state-owned gas firms, struck a massive $55 billion deal that would see Norway supply one-third of German gas needs for the next 10 years – essentially the same volume that Nord Stream 2 would have brought.

The US official with whom Hersh spoke quipped that the deal was “an amazing stroke of good luck for Scholz, just when his base was facing another gas-free winter.”

“Magically,” the source added, “the deal coincides with Russia’s earlier closure of gas and oil fields that – except for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines – would have been the source of gas for the two pipelines.”

It’s unclear to what exactly the official was referring; possibly the May 2022 closure of western traffic in the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which runs from the northwestern Siberian Yamal Peninsula westward into Europe via Poland.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20231222/hersh-biden-made-decision-to-destroy-nord-stream-2-few-weeks-before-ukraine-operation-began-1115756868.html

Britons Increasingly Turning to Food Black Market

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Home Office data shows shoplifting has reached the highest level since records began. Photograph: John Angerson/Alamy

Rafiq A. Tschannen

Muslim Times

Goods such as meat, cheese and confectionery stolen in large amounts to be sold to people hit by high cost of living

Increasing numbers of people are turning to a growing black market for food to supplement their diets as prices rocket, experts have said.

Meat, cheese and confectionery are among the items being stolen in large quantities from shops and lorries in order to be sold to people hit by the cost of living crisis.

With food prices rising, figures in policing, retail and academia said action was needed to stop people exploiting the rising demand for stolen food.

Retailers are reporting a record year for shoplifting, costing the industry £1bn this year, according to the British Retail Consortium’s estimate. Home Office data shows the crime has reached the highest level since records began, while the proportion of shoplifting incidents that resulted in a charge has fallen.

Andrew Goodacre, the chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association said the cost of living crisis had made people “think of alternative ways of sourcing items that are essential to them”. He said shops that had not faced shoplifting in the past were reporting thieves clear whole shelves in seconds.

“I think that’s because the black market has got so much bigger,” he said.

Prof Emmeline Taylor, a criminologist and shoplifting expert at City, University of London, agreed. She said, facing a cost of living crisis, many consumers were more willing to “turn a blind eye” to stolen food.

She said: “I don’t think hardworking people who are now finding themselves in poverty are suddenly turning into criminals overnight. I think it’s more complicated than that.

“A lot of people are more willing to buy stolen goods than to actually shoplift themselves because they’re one step removed from it.”

Taylor said people told themselves it was a victimless crime, that theft was built into the business models of big retailers, that supermarkets were the real criminals for raising prices or that shops were ripping off farmers or their own staff.

She said this was known as neutralisation, essentially “moral justifications that people conjure up to make themselves feel better when they’re doing something wrong”.

“Another technique of neutralisation would be, ‘Well how was I supposed to know it’s stolen?’ And that’s much more palatable for somebody than knowing full well themselves that they did steal something. So that’s where I think the cost of living crisis is creating the demand for stolen goods.”

Wendy Chamberlain, a former police officer turned Lib Dem MP who chairs the all-party parliamentary group for the elimination of food banks, said it was “not surprising” that people were obtaining food through criminal means.

She said important nutritional foods had “essentially rocketed in price” and that food poverty could be particularly acute this time of year, with food banks providing only essentials that were generally “not particularly attractive or nutritional”.

She said: “When money is tight, when they’ve spent a long time saying ‘no’ to other family members, the opportunity to buy something a bit more premium and high end, with ‘ask no questions’, and ‘off the back of a lorry’, as it were, is appealing.”

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She pointed out how, when universal credit claimants were given a £20 uplift in their payments during the pandemic, food bank usage dropped. During this time, crime statistics show shoplifting also fell.

She said one way of reducing the market for stolen goods was for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to urgently tackle the backlog that was causing people to miss out on crucial cost of living payments.

“It’s about processes within DWP not working so that people that really need the help can get it,” she said, adding that more research was needed to understand how big the black market had grown and how the criminal supply chains could be disrupted.

In October, police and the government launched an initiative called Pegasus, with £600,000-worth of funding provided by some of the UK’s biggest retailers. Among other things, it involves a new police intelligence team aiming to target organised crime gangs moving into retail theft.

It is being led by DCS Jim Taylor, who is the head of Opal, the national intelligence unit for organised acquisitive crime.

He said: “Professional knowledge tells us and history tells us that during a cost living crisis – high inflation and high unemployment – community crime rises. What we’re trying to do here is be ahead of the curve. We know that crimes like this are increasing and actually we know that it’s the organised element to it.”

A government spokesperson said police should be taking “a zero-tolerance approach” to shoplifting, adding: “We support millions of people every year to get the benefits they are entitled to, including providing advances to those who need immediate help, and to help people struggling with the cost of living are delivering an additional £3,700 on average per household.”

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Experts Warn WEF’s Net Zero Goals Will Kill 4+ Billion People.

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Patricia Harrity

The Expose

The World Economic Forum (WEF) and its fellow unelected globalist leaders are pushing for governments around the world to phase out fossil fuels. Leading experts have spoken out against their plans and are warning the public that the WEF’s “Net Zero” goal to eliminate fossil fuels will result in the deaths of over four billion people or more.

The “Net Zero” target to end fossil fuel use is part of the WEF and UN’s “Agenda 2030” and “Agenda 2050” plans for humanity and involves dramatically reducing fossil reliance by 2030 and completely eliminating their use by 2050.

The WEF continues to push its agenda and has been calling for taxpayers worldwide to pay $3.5 trillion per year, which they insist is necessary to fund the noble global power in order to meet the globalist organisation’s “Net Zero” goal of “decarbonizing” the planet.

However, critics argue that “decarbonization” is just a euphemism for the WEF’s anti-human agenda and experts are raising the alarm about what this will actually mean for civilization, which includes the death of over four billion people.

Starvation

Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg is just one who has warned that ending fossil fuel use will lead to the deaths of around half of the world’s population through starvation alone.

“4 billion people are dependent on fossil fertilizer for food,” Lomborg notes. “Without, 4 billion will starve to death. “It is time to call out the astoundingly destructive & misanthropic campaigners,” he declared.

The article Lomborg was responding to was by British economist Neil Record in the Telegraph, who argued that the number of people that might die was closer to six billion.

Six Billion Would Die in a Year.

Neil Record reported: “If we literally just stopped using fossil fuels and “did without the natural resources on which the world, its economies and populations depend, most likely six billion people would die within a year.”

Breaking down what would happen in a world without fossil fuels, Record notes that most people would suffer blackouts due to the grid being so seriously compromised, possibly fatally, and they may be widespread and permanent.”

From day one, gas users would be the first to feel the change of no more mining of coal; the world’s oil wells shut down; the world’s gas fields likewise, and in 10 or 15 days, the UK would have to turn off its gas distribution system as it would be unable to maintain pressure.

In turn, the domestic supply would be shut down too – gas would stop flowing, and some 21 million households (74% of the population) would no longer have heating, hot water, and cooking facilities.

“In their panic, people might turn to electricity for their cooking and heating, but wait…” says Record, who adds, “The UK electricity grid relies on natural gas as its “buffer” energy source. Every day, demand varies according to consumer demand, and the other main energy supplier, renewables, are highly variable and can only power the grid when gas is picking up the lion’s share of the gap between their output and consumer demand.”Source

So the moment that the main gas distribution system is de-pressurised, the grid-balancing system fails and power cuts ensue.

Electricity demand would have rocketed through the switch to electric space heating, cooking and water-heating, and so it seems very likely that the sudden excess demand would be undeliverable, and therefore that the grid would spiral into uncontrollability resulting in no electricity. This also means there would be no communication systems no mobile phones and no television.

Without power, there will be no running water and no heating and the most vulnerable people will start to die, according to Record. Initially, this will be the elderly in their own homes, then in hospitals when the diesel backup generators run out of fuel. Within the first 25 days new “existential problems emerge for ordinary people in the form of food availability and distribution.” Source

Starvation Begins From Day 25 

Day 25 – By the twenty-fifth day, diesel and petrol are likely to have run dry, although, Record says that he is probably being generous with the timing here, but what this will mean is that food distribution would fail, and so as most of the population are entirely dependent on bought food they will begin to starve.

Interestingly, it will be only the isolated rural communities, and those who are agriculturally self-sufficient would be relatively unaffected.

Day 50 – Many people in urban areas would now be near death from starvation, Record claims, and “law and order would have broken down” and due to the “increasingly desperate search for the means of survival” he suspects there will have been “mass conflict and slaughter taking place.

Without the sanitary conditions that we have due to power, water supply, and sewage flow, we will see a return of Victorian diseases such as cholera and dysentery.

Day 100 – money and status will be irrelevant as time passes and just three months after the world stops oil, Neil Record, guesses that around half of the world’s population of approximately four billion, people would be dead “The first to die would be the urban poor; then the middle and upper classes”

Again, the survivors would be those in rural areas and able to live off local agricultural produce or live off dwindling food stocks.

For fifty-five percent of people in urban areas, it will be almost impossible to access food and safe water as there will be none of the normal distribution routes for food or storage facilities (chillers/freezers) without electricity, and without pumped water, clean water would be unavailable, or close to impossible to access. Source

A Year Without Oil – Murder and Mayhem.

Day 365 – after a year without oil Record says “perhaps a further two billion people would have starved or frozen to death, leaving, say, two billion left alive remaining food stocks would have been exhausted or spoiled, and the inevitable breakdown of law and order would have meant many would meet a violent end.”

“Competition for scarce resources, so elegantly solved by the invention of markets and prices, would be replaced by murder and mayhem”

There is now no going back as the means to reverse the just stop oil experiment would have gone.

“The mass extinction would have robbed societies of their cultures, education, and survival techniques. A new dark age would ensue” and as Record says this is a nightmarish scenario, but claims that everything in this scenario is well supported by fact. Source

Meadows Depopulation

Members of the WEF have repeatedly suggested that mass reductions in the number of humans on earth would help the organisation reach its green agenda goals, and as Slay News has reported, Dennis Meadows who is a “celebrated member of the WEF, has called for a staggering 86 percent reduction in the population of humans.

Meadows who is one of the main authors of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth.” and an honorary member of the Club of Rome as well as a member of the World Economic Forum. argues that the goal can be achieved “peacefully.”

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Via https://expose-news.com/2023/12/23/experts-warn-wefs-net-zero-goals-will-kill-4-billion-people/

Pentagon’s Operation Prosperity Guardian “Falls Apart” As Spain, Italy, France Reject Request   

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Australia is the latest country to reject a request from the United States to send warships to the Red Sea under the command of the Pentagon’s Operation Prosperity Guardian to protect commercial vessels along the critical maritime trade route from Iran-backed Houthi.

Defense Minister Richard Marles told Sky News that Australia’s military would not send a “ship or a plane” to the Red Sea but would triple the number of troops for the US-led maritime force.

“We need to be really clear around our strategic focus and our strategic focus is our region,” Marles said.

The Pentagon’s formation of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a new task force to protect shipping from Houthi drone and missile attacks in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea, requires increased warship patrols by the US and allies. This will create a security umbrella over commercial vessels to defend from attacks.

Reuters said about twenty countries have signed up for the Pentagon’s new operation. However, several countries, including Australia, Spain, Italy, and France, have rejected the Pentagon’s request to participate in the operation.

Spain’s Defence Ministry said it would only participate in NATO-led missions or European-coordinated operations – not ones commanded by the Pentagon:

“We will not participate unilaterally in the Red Sea operation.” 

Italy’s Defence Ministry voiced similar concerns, indicating it would send naval frigate Virginio Fasan to the Red Sea but only respond to requests by Italian shipowners.

“Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea has practically Collapsed as France, Spain, and Italy have all announced their Withdrawal from the US Command Structure for the Operation, with the Three Nations stating they will only conduct further Maritime Operations under the Command of NATO and/or the European Union and not the United States,” X account OSINTdefender wrote. 

Another X user wrote:

“France, Spain, and Italy aren’t withdrawing because they don’t want to escalate the conflict. On the contrary, they’re withdrawing because they don’t believe the operation coordinated by Biden regime will protect their vessels. This is the result of a weak ‘President’ / lack of leadership.” 

The number of warships around the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait has increased this week.

We reminded readers of Zoltan Poszar’s prediction of central-bank-analogized ‘military protection’ and said it’s soon to become a reality… and just like that, it has:

Protection is a conceptual counterpart to par. When you decide to take money out of a sight deposit, you expect the same amount back that you put in (par).

When you sail foreign cargo from port A to port B, you expect to unload the same amount of cargo that you onloaded.

Banks can deliver par on deposits most of the time. When not, central banks step in to help.

Commodity traders can deliver foreign cargo from port A to port B most of the time, but when not, the state intervenes again: not the monetary arm, but the military arm of the state.

What central banks are to the protection of par promises, the military branch is to the protection of shipments: foreign cargo ne

As of Saturday morning, the number of container ships in the Red Sea with destinations to Asia, Europe, and the US is less than five.

This once-busy waterway that connects to the Suez Canal has seen a plunge in container ship activity this week

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagons-operation-prosperity-guardian-falls-apart-spain-italy-france-reject-request