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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Threatens ‘COVID-Style Lockdowns’ To Stop Protests

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Keir Starmer vows covid-style lockdowns to squash nationwide protests.

By Sean Adl-Tabatabai

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to impose ‘COVID-style lockdowns’ to stomp out anti-immigrant protests erupting across the country.

Facing a full-blown crisis less than a few weeks into office, recently installed WEF Young Global Leader Starmer gathered top cabinet ministers on Saturday as civil unrest erupted in dozens of towns and cities throughout the UK in response to the murder of three young girls and the stabbing of eight others, including children, by a 17-year-old Rwandan-heritage second-generation immigrant on Monday.

Breitbart.com reports: The Guardian, citing the far-left Hope Not Hate organisation, reported that an estimated 35 locations had been scheduled to see protests on Saturday, some of which saw violent clashes between participants and the police, as well as attacks on businesses, particularly in Belfast, Hull, Liverpool, and Manchester. According to The Telegraph, at least 90 arrests were made throughout the country on Sunday.

A Downing Street spokesman told the paper: “The prime minister set out that the police have our full support to take action against extremists on our streets who are attacking police officers, disrupting local businesses and attempting to sow hate by intimidating communities.

“The prime minister ended by saying the right to freedom of expression and the violent disorder we have seen are two very different things. He said there is no excuse for violence of any kind and reiterated that the government backs the police to take all necessary action to keep our streets safe.”

The hardline rhetoric from the PM, who has characterised the protests and riots as “far-right,”  on the outpouring of rage and violence has been contrasted to his response during the deadly and deeply destructive Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, when he infamously took the knee in solidarity with the Marxist movement and described those involved as “people rightly demanding justice”.

The government has also faced criticism for refusing to discuss footage posted on social media appearing to show violent responses from large groups of Muslim or leftist counter protesters.

The prime minister’s response to his first crisis of his expected five-year term has been heavily criticised by the Reform UK party of Nigel Farage, who accused Starmer of failing to address the root cause of the anger, which is mass migration.

On Friday, Farage’s deputy, Boston and Skegness MP Richard Tice, said: “Many millions of concerned British citizens are furious at lawless Britain. Children being slaughtered. Machete mobs abound. Soldiers being stabbed. Police violently attacked in airport.

“Instead of empathy, Keir Starmer labelled folk as “far-right”. Out of touch, clueless.”

However, others have demanded that the government go farther, including Tory leadership candidate and former Home Secretary Priti Patel, who has called on Starmer to recall Parliament to hold an emergency session on the unrest.

One of the more extreme takes on the crisis came from former Labour MP and current government advisor on political violence, Baron Walney, John Woodcock, who argued that the government should consider a coronavirus-style lockdown to stamp out the uprising if it continues to persist.

“I think the government and new ministers will understand the British public will back them in whatever measures they feel is necessary to get this situation under control,” Lord Walney told the Times Radio.

“Back in Covid, they were prepared to back measures that were needed in that situation and I think they would take a similar approach to keeping rioters off the streets now given the scale of damage that has been done to communities.”

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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/uk-pm-keir-starmer-threatens-covid-style-lockdowns-to-stop-protests/

Michigan Secretary of State Encouraging Residents To Report Neighbors for “Misinformation

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Didi Rankovic

Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has launched a campaign to root out supposed “election misinformation” – by urging the state’s residents to report each other.

As if more chaotic divisiveness was needed ahead of the November vote, the idea here, in one of the swing states, seems to be to get people to keep an eye on their neighbors, and if what they see and hear is interpreted as “misinformation” – report it, complete with a photo, “if possible.”

A document from Benson’s office provides a Michigan government email as the address for such reports, while the call to this type of action can be found on the official page about “voter education resources.”

The Michigan Bureau of Elections has published a document that aims to address a host of threats to “a healthy democracy” – foreign, domestic, partisan, “or simply malicious.”

Their actions – and that would be “misinformation” about the election process, voter rights, “or even an issue on the ballot” – are presented as a serious threat to election security.

Other than reporting anything they consider to be misinformation about voting and elections in the state, residents are encouraged to seek sources of information and media outlets that offer “true” stories.

Voters are treated as not entirely capable of critical thinking regarding their news, so to help with this, the Bureau recommends itself as a “trusted, verified, non-partisan” place where information can be checked as true or untrue.

Here come the “fact-checkers.” These are the places people in Michigan are recommended to go to in order to seek “truth about elections”: the state’s own government’s “SOSFactCheck” page, but also left-leaning Snopes, FactCheck, and PolitiFact.

The Bureau, however, says they are in the business of debunking misinformation, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and verifying the “accuracy of political speech” – whatever that may include – as well as of ads, debates, interviews, statements, press releases.

Speaking of “non-partisan” activities, the Democrat secretary of state just recently introduced a program called “Democracy Ambassador,” which promises those who join will receive information about “non-partisan facts and resources” which they should then spread in their communities.

“Squash misinformation before it spreads,” is one of the messages.

But that’s not all from Jocelyn Benson. Yet another recent document from her office focused on “misinformation and AI.” Here, residents are warned about “partisans, grifters, and other opportunists here at home” out to “hack the minds of American citizens.”

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Via https://reclaimthenet.org/benson-is-encouraging-residents-to-report-neighbors-for-misinformation

Federal Judge Declares Google a Monopolist, Setting the Stage for Major Industry Shakeup

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Dan Frieth

On Monday, a pivotal ruling from a federal judge declared that Google had breached antitrust regulations in its quest to dominate the online search and advertising sectors. Judge Amit Mehta’s decision noted that Google had perpetuated its monopoly through specific strategies that violated section 2 of the Sherman Act.

We obtained a copy of the ruling for you here.

The lawsuit, which commenced in 2020, later expanded to include multiple states and territories, encapsulating the gravity and scale of the legal scrutiny Google faces. Early in the trial, government attorney Kenneth Dintzer articulated that the proceedings would significantly influence the future of internet governance.

The trial’s largely private proceedings sparked criticism from transparency advocates, who accused Google of trying to minimize public oversight and media exposure. Google had successfully argued that opening up the trial fully would risk exposing sensitive trade secrets.

In his detailed ruling, Judge Mehta highlighted that the evidence and testimonies reviewed throughout the trial led to the unequivocal conclusion that Google was engaging in monopolistic practices. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” he stated.

The case, marking one of the most significant antitrust judgments in recent decades, was the result of a major legal challenge initiated by the Justice Department. It reflects a broader governmental and international effort to regulate the expansive power of major tech entities.

The proceedings began in September of the previous year and featured a notable break, allowing Judge Mehta time to deliberate before concluding in early May.

Throughout the trial, federal prosecutors presented their case that Google maintained its search engine supremacy unlawfully, leveraging hefty financial agreements with companies like Apple and Samsung. This enabled Google to set itself as the default search engine across numerous devices, an advantage that Judge Mehta found to be unfairly limiting competition.

The financial scope of these agreements was substantial, with Google disbursing over $26 billion in 2021 to secure default status on various devices, a practice that the court criticized for lacking legitimate justification.

While the ruling stops short of detailing the potential penalties Google may face, it raises significant questions about the future operational landscape for Google’s search engine business. An appeal from Google is anticipated.

Defending its practices, Google asserted that its search services were superior to competitors like Microsoft’s Bing, arguing that its default engine agreements did not infringe antitrust laws.

Furthermore, Google’s legal team urged for a broader interpretation of the search market, suggesting that Google is one among many platforms that facilitate online searches, including tech giants like TikTok and Amazon.

Another significant aspect of the trial was the scrutiny of Google’s internal communication practices. The tech giant was criticized for not preserving chat records, which the government claimed could contain evidence detrimental to Google’s defense. Although Judge Mehta expressed disappointment over Google’s document retention practices, he opted not to sanction the company for these actions.

Looking ahead, Google is set to contend with another Justice Department lawsuit focused on its advertising techniques and alleged monopolistic behaviors in ad technology later this year.

Via https://reclaimthenet.org/federal-judge-declares-tech-giant-a-monopolist

Ogedei Khan’s Western Campaigns

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Episode 9 Ogedei Khan’s Western Campaigns

The Mongol Empire

Dr Craig Benjamin (2020)

Film Review

Chingiss Khan’s son Ogedei was approved as Great Khan at a 1229 kuritai. In the celebration that followed, a large number of horses and 40 noble wives were sacrificed for his father’s use in the afterlife.

Believing the sky god Tingari had ordained the Mongols’ conquest of the entire earth, Ogedei immediately launched a three pronged military campaign:

  1. He and his brother Tolui renewed the attack on the Jin Dynasty in China;
  2. He appointed General Subitai to lead his troops along the Siberian steppes to secure northern territories Jochi had conquered during the Khwarazmian campaign (see Chinggis Khan’s Khwarazmian Campaign)
  3. He appointed Generals Chormaqan Noyen and Davir to lead a campaign against Jalal Al-din (son of the deceased Khwarazmain caliph Mohammed Shah), who had returned to Persia.

After fleeing north to Iran, then to the Caucasus, Jalal Al-din wa slaughtered by Kurdish peasants. In 1233, the Mongols defeated Azerbaijan and invaded Georgia and Armenia, which quickly surrendered and agreed to pay duty. They also began military raids into Iraq for booty.

Following Tolui’s sudden mysterious death, Ogedei recalled General Subitai from the Volga River to join the campaign against the Jin Dynasty. The latter ceased to exist after the capitol Kaifong fell in 1234. Mongols then attacked the southern Song dynasty when they attempted to occupy former Jin territory.

Withdrawing from military duties to consolidate the empire, Ogedei called a kuritai in 1234 to approve his plans to extend the Mongol military campaign to the principalities of Rus* in Eastern Europe.

The 150,000 Mongol warriors that set out for Eastern Europe split into two divisions and easily surrounded the 20,000 troops hastily mustered by the princes of Rus. They also used siege engines (built for them by Chinese engineers) to lob boulders and flammable naphtha bombs at the major Russian cities. In 1240 Chinggis Khan’s sons Tolui and Batu led the attack on Kiev. After the capitol was looted and burned to the ground, the other Russian cities were quick to surrender.

Batu and General Subitai then led the campaign against Hungary, which controlled large areas of Eastern Europe, while Generals Adan and Baidar attacked Poland. Thanks to intelligence the Mongols received (most likely from the powerful city-state of Venice**), they knew that Bohemian and Prussian knights were mobilizing to support Poland and attacked before reinforcements arrived.

Soon after Mongol scouts appeared outside the walls of Vienna, Ogedei died in December 1241 (most likely from complications of chronic alcoholism). During the decade it took to appoint his successor, the military campaign against Eastern Europe was put on hold.

*In Russian history, Mongols are referred to as Tatars.

**Mongols signed a trade treaty with Venice (which held colonies across the Eastern Mediterranean, in 1221. Assistance with intelligence is believed to be one of its benefits. See Venice and the Mongol Hordesf

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

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/12373094/12373112

US Military Finds US Cannot Defeat China

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Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

A truly historic event was held in Washington D.C. this week that barely broke into the news cycle, when Eric Edelman and Jane Harman, from the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, presented their findings to members of Congress based on a RAND Corporation published report that came out this week explaining that the U.S. could not win a war against China, and that Americans are totally unaware of the danger they are in and totally unprepared for the consequences of such a war, such as a Cyber Attack that would bring down our ports and much of our network services infrastructure.

It’s one thing to read an article in the Alternative Media warning about the imminent collapse of society we are facing due to current world events, but it ceases to be a “conspiracy theory” when the exact same thing is said by a DoD military think tank before members of Congress.

I am posting the entire 2-hour video of this Congressional report, as well as a link to the actual study published by the RAND Corporation, but here are a couple of clips that together are under 5 minutes long that show how serious of an issue this is that most Americans are totally oblivious to, and that was barely even mentioned in the news this week.

In the actual report, found here and which I have read, the language is even more dire at times:

We also address our report to the American public, who have been inadequately informed by government leaders of the threats to U.S. interests—including to people’s everyday lives—and what will be required to restore American global power and leadership.

Now, to be sure, they have a very good reason for trying to frighten the public, because what they want is more money for defense spending, and they need some level of public support to get funds approved by Congress.

Of course if they don’t get public support, they’ll just do it by the tried and true methods that have worked in the past, and if you read carefully between the lines of what they wrote, you will clearly see a veiled threat to use this same playbook:

The U.S. public are largely unaware of the dangers the United States faces or the costs (financial and otherwise) required to adequately prepare. They do not appreciate the strength of China and its partnerships or the ramifications to daily life if a conflict were to erupt. They are not anticipating disruptions to their power, water, or access to all the goods on which they rely.

They have not internalized the costs of the United States losing its position as a world superpower. A bipartisan “call to arms” is urgently needed so that the United States can make the major changes and significant investments now rather than wait for the next Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

The support and resolve of the American public are indispensable. (Source.)

9/11 of course has been revealed as a CIA operation (see: Declassified Guantanamo Court Filing Shows 9/11 Hijackers were Recruited by the CIA) to get Americans on board to invading Iraq and passing sweeping new laws that allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on all American citizens now, and the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was well-known beforehand by President Roosevelt, who knew that it was the only thing that would convince the American public to agree to entering World War II, and therefore allowed it to happen. See:

Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s 9/11

So what this report effectively does is warn the American public and their (s)elected officials in D.C. that if they don’t give the DoD and their private contractors what they want, they are going to punish them by creating another false flag event and then blame it on Iran, or Russia, or China, or all of the above to scare Americans into giving them their full support.

It has worked so well in the past, especially the recent “war on the unseen virus“, so I have no doubt that they’ll try it again.

And what does this report claim is the solution to avoid such a catastrophe from happening?

In short, their solution is to give $billions more to Big Tech and develop “new” technology weapons that will some day, sometime in the future, be able to replace human beings with robots and driverless ships and fighter jets without human pilots, all concepts that, like the idea of driverless cars and AI robots replacing humans in the workforce, are still only concepts that attract $billions in research, but which still have not even been produced and do not work in real world situations yet.

But to do this, they claim that Congress needs to get out of their way and turn all military expenditures over to the DoD and their private contractors.

Therefore, the Commission’s report calls on Congress and the various government departments to “rewrite laws and regulations to remove unnecessary barriers to adopting innovation, budgeting, and procurement” in pursuit of increased deterrence.

Commission Chair Jane Harman told the committee the United States should synthesize all instruments of its power, including private industries, to propel military innovation and the adoption of new technologies.

We underscore that very little progress will be possible without Congress, where a relatively small number of elected officials have imposed continual political gamesmanship over thoughtful and responsible legislating and oversight.

Fights over the debt ceiling, government funding, spending caps, and hot-button social issues weaken our ability to manage strategic competition with our peer adversaries.

We would be far stronger if we returned to the maxim that politics ends at the water’s edge. (Source.)

And even if this magical science fiction technology could one day have practical uses that work in the real world for military purposes, are we so foolish to believe that China and Russia would not have the exact same technology?

Here is the video of the full hearing in Congress earlier this week.

It strangely resembled a Tesla shareholders’ meeting where Elon Musk threatened his shareholders to give him more control, or else he would not develop AI powered driverless cars.

 

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Vatican Condemns Olympics’ Blasphemous ‘Last Supper’ Mockery

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The Blogging Hounds

In a rare move that has left many stunned, the Vatican has issued a statement condemning the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony for its grotesque and blasphemous depiction of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting, “The Last Supper.”

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On Saturday, a week after the blasphemous Olympics opening, the Vatican expressed deep disappointment over the skit, which featured drag queens, a transgender model, and a naked singer portraying the Greek god Dionysus.

This scene, presented on July 26 during the opening ceremony, resembled the biblical portrayal of Jesus Christ and his apostles during their final meal before the crucifixion.

A young child was also spotted in the performance, standing next to the drag queens.

NEW: The Paris Olympics is under fire for including a *child* in their hyper-s*xualized, blasphemous rendition of The Last Supper.

An apparent child could be seen joining the drag queens during the performance.

Instead of bringing people together, the planners of the event… pic.twitter.com/5nUSmE72Oe

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 26, 2024

ESPN reported that the Olympic committee is scrambling to contain the fallout. On Sunday morning, Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps issued a so-called ‘apology’ if anyone was offended by the sick performance while maintaining they managed to celebrate “community tolerance.”

“Clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. It (The opening ceremony) tried to celebrate community tolerance,” Descamps claimed during a news conference.

“We believe this ambition was achieved,” she added. “If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.”

Translation: we have no regrets over the performance, and it’s your fault for misinterpreting our intentions, silly Christians.

The Pope’s statement was released in French during an unusual weekend press conference, according to Reuters. The Red Pope Francis stated it could not “but join the voices raised in recent days to deplore the offense done to many Christians and believers of other religions.”

“In a prestigious event where the whole world comes together around common values, there should not be allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people,” the Vatican added.

“Freedom of expression, which is obviously not called into question, finds its limit in respect for others.”

This condemnation follows an open letter signed by three cardinals and 24 bishops from around the globe, calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to “repudiate” and “apologize” for what they deemed “intentionally hateful mockery,” according to Catholic News Agency

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2024/08/04/vatican-shocks-world-with-surprising-statement-over-olympics-blasphemous-last-supper-mockery/

Major Latin American Powers, Hungary Block US-EU Push to Isolate Venezuela’s Maduro

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Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro's reelection in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, three days after the country's disputed presidential election. - Sputnik International, 1920, 04.08.2024

Sputnik International

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was reelected to a third term in office in a showdown with united opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez last Sunday, taking 52% of the vote to Gonzalez’ 43%. The US and its allies decried the results, recognized the opposition leader and demanded negotiations for a “peaceful transition of power.”

Efforts by Washington and Brussels to diplomatically isolate President Nicolas Maduro have failed spectacularly after important members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union rejected efforts to condemn the Venezuelan election results.

In the OAS, major Latin American countries Brazil, Mexico and Colombia abstained from a resolution tabled Wednesday demanding that Caracas release detailed vote tallies and take other steps, including measures to ensure the security of the opposition. The three nations were joined in abstaining from the resolution or being absent from the vote by Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. With 11 OAS members abstaining and five members absent, the resolution failed to attain the required majority to pass.

Permanent Council chairman Ronald Sanders said a consensus could not be reached over a “controversial phrase,” without elaborating.

Across the Atlantic, Hungary blocked a similar proposed joint statement on behalf of the EU’s 27 member countries on purported “numerous flaws and irregularities” in Venezuela’s elections, forcing EU foreign policy czar Josep Borrell to independently issue a statement in the EU’s name.

Hungary’s intransigence is expected to complicate efforts by Brussels to use unanimity among the bloc to justify the leveling of potential new sanctions against Venezuela. Budapest did not explain its motivation for vetoing the EU resolution.

US Secretary of State congratulated Gonzalez for “winning” last Sunday’s vote, with Russia, China, Belarus, Serbia, Iran, Turkiye, Syria, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Vietnam, Madagascar, Namibia, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and others recognizing the results and congratulating President Maduro for his victory.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20240804/major-latin-american-powers-hungary-block-us-eu-push-to-isolate-venezuelas-maduro-1119638367.html

Dow Futures Drop 900 Points, Nasdaq 100 Futures Lose 5% as Global Market Sell-Off Intensifies

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The Blogging Hounds

U.S. stock futures tumbled Monday as part of a global market sell-off centered around U.S. recession fears. Japan’s Nikkei 225 plunged 12% in its worst day since the 1987 Black Monday crash for Wall Street.

Here’s where U.S. stock market futures stand at the moment:

  • S&P 500 futures are down 3.3% after the benchmark lost 1.8% on Friday.
  • Nasdaq-100 futures lost 4.8% as big tech stocks got hit hard in early trading.
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average futures dropped 912 points, or 2.3%, following a 611-point loss on Friday.

Fears of a U.S. recession were the main culprit for the global market meltdown after Friday’s disappointing July jobs report.

Investors are also concerned that the Federal Reserve is behind in cutting interest rates to bolster an economic slowdown, with the central bank choosing instead to keep rates at the highest in two decades last week.

There’s also an unwinding of the once-hot artificial intelligence trade going on. Tech shares were among the worst performers in early trading Monday:

  • Nvidia tumbled 9% Monday after going into the session already down more than 23% from its recent high.
  • Apple cratered more than 8% after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in the iPhone-maker in half.
  • Other losers included Tesla, down 7%, and Broadcom and Super Micro Computer down more than 9% apiece.

In Asia overnight, Japan stocks confirmed a bear market as Asia-Pacific investors had their first chance to react to the sour jobs figures in the U.S. from Friday.

The 12.4% loss on the Nikkei — which closed at 31,458.42 — was the worst day for the index since the “Black Monday” of 1987 hit Wall Street. The loss of 4,451.28 points on the index was also the largest in terms of points in its entire history. The Dow lost more than 22% in a single day on Black Monday.

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2024/08/05/dow-futures-drop-900-points-nasdaq-100-futures-lose-5-as-global-market-sell-off-intensifies/

Taliban gets $239 million in aid after failure of State Dept. vetting

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Taliban leaders may have moved to Afghanistan from Pakistan | Inquirer News

By Terrance Kibble

The Islamic extremist Taliban has received at least $239 million in U.S. aid aimed at counterterrorism after State Department vetting procedures fell apart, according to a government watchdog.

The government watchdog, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), issued a July 2024 report identifying at least 29 grants where the Taliban may have erroneously received counterterrorism funds.

SIGAR “investigators found that the State Department failed to comply with its own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements in Afghanistan,” Judicial Watch reported.

The funds came from State Department divisions called “Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor” and “International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.”

The SIGAR report identified more than two dozen instances where these divisions failed to keep proper vetting records.

The SIGAR report includes a response to the findings from the State Department.

A June 2024 letter from the State Department claimed “the majority of the Department’s Afghanistan-related awards fully complied” with vetting requirements” but acknowledged “the gaps in compliance highlighted in the report.”

The letter expressed the State Department’s “commit[ment] to ensuring that all program offices comply with applicable . . . vetting requirement.”

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Via https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/taliban-gets-239-million-aid-after-bad-state-dept-vetting

Changing the Food System from the Bottom Up

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Low PUFA Eggs – angelacres

Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • Around the advent of the American Civil War, in the 1870s or so, is when they developed the technology to extract oils from seeds. Before then, the average LA intake was less than 5 grams a day, and likely closer to 2 or 3 grams
  • Eggs and bacon are two sources that, today, have very high LA levels, thanks to being fed an unnatural and PUFA-rich diet
  • The mainstream is so convinced that saturated fat is bad and PUFAs are good that they’re now starting to use technology to turn the saturated fats in ruminant animals into PUFAs
  • Ashley Armstrong’s farm, Angel Acres Egg Co., produces eggs that are low in linoleic acid (LA), as nature intended. On average, her eggs contain 17 to 20 milligrams of LA, which is about one-quarter of the LA found in conventional eggs
  • Armstrong has also started a new private member food system called Nourish Cooperative that offers milk, cheese, low-PUFA pork, low-PUFA chicken and grass fed beef. Angel Acres Egg Co. and Nourish Cooperative both ship farm-fresh food right to your door

The video above features an interview with return guest Ashley Armstrong, a certified personal trainer with a Ph.D., MS and BS in engineering, and cofounder of Angel Acres Egg Co., which specializes in low-PUFA (polyunsaturated fat) eggs. On average, her eggs contain 17 to 20 milligrams of linoleic acid (LA), which is about one-quarter of the LA found in conventional eggs.

She’s also started a new private member food system that offers milk, cheese, low-PUFA pork and low-PUFA chicken, called Nourish Cooperative. Both ship farm-fresh food right to your door.

“One of my favorite topics is essentially just returning back to how food used to be made,” Armstrong says. “One-hundred fifty years ago, the dietary linoleic acid (LA) was naturally low, so people would just go to the grocery store and their food options didn’t have a bunch of linoleic acid.

It was, in my opinion, probably easier to source food back then. And now we’re inundated with not just PUFAs from vegetable oils, but also from animal products as well, because some animals are just vehicles for vegetable oils. The statement that ‘You are what you eat’ has never been more true because of how much the agriculture industry has changed over the last 100 years.”

Modern Diet Is Loaded With Harmful LA

Around the advent of the American Civil War, in the 1870s or so, is when they developed the technology to extract oils from seeds. Before then, the average LA intake was less than 5 grams a day, and likely closer to 2 or 3 grams.

Today, most people exceed that by the time they’re done with breakfast. As noted by Armstrong, eggs and bacon are two sources that, today, have very high LA levels, thanks to being fed an unnatural and PUFA-rich diet.

Eggs and bacon are typically perceived as healthy food options, especially among carnivores, but what most are missing is that LA is a metabolic poison that impairs, if not destroys, mitochondrial function and, as such, conventional eggs and bacon is a recipe for ill health. The good news is there are ways to raise eggs and pork that aren’t loaded with LA, which is what Armstrong specializes in.

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Why Healthy Eggs Are So Important

Chicken eggs are an enormously important part of our diet because they contain nutrients that are really difficult to get from other foods, choline in particular. Choline, found in ample amounts in organic, pastured egg yolks, was first discovered in 1862.1

It was officially recognized as an essential nutrient for human health by the Institute of Medicine in 1998.2 Since then, we’ve learned that choline has a long list of health benefits. For example, it’s required for:

Healthy fetal development3
Optimal brain function, memory and cognition
Nervous system health — Choline is necessary for making acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in healthy muscle, heart and memory performance
Cell structure — Choline is needed for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine, better known as lecithin, which is required for the composition of cell membranes
Mitochondrial function4
Metabolism (energy production)
DNA synthesis
Methylation reactions5
Cardiovascular health
Liver health, as choline is needed to carry cholesterol from your liver; a choline deficiency could result in excess fat and cholesterol buildup6

Research7 published in 2020 also concluded that choline has anti-inflammatory activity and can be particularly useful in those with insulin resistance and/or metabolic syndrome. And, while a choline supplement was good in this regard, eggs were far better.

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Mad Science — Transforming the Fatty Acid Profiles of Animals

As explained by Armstrong, livestock are classified into two types — ruminant animals, which includes cows, lamb, goats and deer, and monogastric animals such as chickens and swine (and humans).

Ruminant animals have a complex digestive system consisting of, typically, four stomachs. Their digestion involves a variety of microbes that help break down the food they eat. These digestive microbes also convert dietary PUFAs into saturated fats through a process called biohydrogenation. As a result, ruminant animal products tend to be lower in PUFA, even if they’re fed a high-PUFA diet.

Monogastric animals have just one stomach, and whatever fats they eat is translated into their tissues. This is why conventionally raised chicken meat and pork are so high in PUFAs.

Unfortunately, the mainstream is so convinced that saturated fat is bad and PUFAs are good that they’re creating technologies to manipulate the fatty acid composition in ruminant animals. In other words, they’re using technology to turn the saturated fats in ruminant animals into PUFAs, which is nothing short of a disaster.

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While monogastric feed diets are already very high in PUFAs, conventional farmers are also using dried distillers grains (DDGs), made from the waste products of the ethanol industry, which is driving the PUFA content in monogastric livestock even higher.

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This wouldn’t be quite as bad if it was given to ruminant animals, as they have the capacity to convert the PUFAs into saturated fat. Alas, they’re giving it to monogastric animals like chickens and pigs, turning those foods into something that can only harm your health in the long run. Unfortunately, there are no regulations around the use of DDGs, so we don’t know how much is being used, or who’s using it.

Barriers to Healthier Foods

Equally unfortunate is that farmers like Armstrong, who understands nutrition and wants to raise animals right, are held back in more ways than one. She can’t take advantage of government subsidized feed, for example. She also doesn’t have the benefit of scale.

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