By Connor Freeman | The Libertarian Institute | May 29, 2023

A bipartisan group of Senators sent a letter to the Defense Department chief calling for an investigation into major American arms dealers accused of systemic price gouging, on Wednesday, according to The Hill.

The letter, signed by the likes of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mike Braun (R-IN) Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), cites former Pentagon officials, auditors, and other insiders who spoke to CBS and accused military-industrial complex giants, such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing, of ripping off the US taxpayer.

During a recent 60 Minutes report, Shay Assad, who worked as a Pentagon contract negotiator for 40 years, cites numerous examples while explaining to the outlet that these firms overcharge the DOD for [everything from] radar and missiles helicopters planes submarines down to the nuts and bolts.

The report said these astronomical price increases have worsened sharply amidst Washingtons exponentially rising demand for weapons systems to both bolster Taiwan in a thinly-veiled effort to destabilize China and support NATOs proxy Kiev during its war with Russia.

Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and TransDigm are among the offenders, the senators asserted. Their letter continues, [these contractors are] dramatically overcharging the Department and U.S. taxpayers while reaping enormous profits, seeing their stock prices soar, and handing out massive executive compensation packages.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the letters recipient, sat on Raytheons board of directors before accepting his current post. The lawmakers charge that these companies are securing profits ranging from 40% to even as high as 4,000%.

The military budget will soon surpass the once unthinkable $1 trillion mark. The DOD has requested a record $842 billion for the next fiscal year, roughly half of which will go to the offenders, just such private defense contractors.

While the Joe Biden administration has asked Congres...

By Ilya Tsukanov Sputnik 30.05.2023

President Joe Biden has confirmed the US is still mulling over whether to send MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) ballistic missiles to Ukraine. What are these weapons? What are their characteristics? And why has Russia warned that their delivery to Kiev might drag Washington into a direct confrontation with Moscow? Sputnik explains.

Thats still in play was Joe Bidens four-word answer to a reporter outside the White House on Monday after being asked whether the US plans to deliver ATACMS to Ukraine. He did not elaborate.

Made to be used by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System road-mobile multiple rocket launchers which the US began to send to Ukraine last summer, and older M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (M270s) sent by Germany, Italy, Norway, and the UK, ATACMS have been touted by US media and politicians as one of the most fearsome conventional weapons in Americas arsenal.

What are ATACMS Used For, What is Their Range, How Fast Can They Fly, and How Accurate are They?

Created in the mid-1980s at the twilight of the Cold War and entering into service with the US Army in early 1991, just in time for a US-led war against Saddam Husseins Iraq, ATACMS are a solid-fuel, surface-to-surface ballistic missile with an effective firing range of up to 300 km, and a maximum velocity during boost phase of up to Mach 3, or 1 km/second, making them difficult to intercept using older air defense systems.

ATACMS characteristics vary wildly depending on model, block number, and configuration. For example, while they can be armed with 500 pound (230 kg) penetrating high explosive blast fragmentation warheads, they can also be fitted with other explosives weighing anywhere from 160 and 560 kg, including anti-personnel and material cluster bomblets.

There are also notable differences in the weapons guidance systems, with older variants relying on inertial guidance, while newer missiles include built-in GPS.

Where Have ATACMS Been Used Before and What Countries Have Them?

Along with the 1991 Gulf War, ATACMS were used extensively during the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s.

Besides the US military, the missiles are operated by just a handful of US partners and clients, including NATO allies Greece, Turkiye, Poland, and Romania, as well as South Korea, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Australia, Taiwan, Lithuania, Estonia, and Morocco have either signed contracts on the purchase of the weapons, or submitted formal requests to do so.

How Much Do ATACMS Co...

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By Marc Eliot Stein, May 31, 2023

Educator and peacebuilder Nazir Ahmad Yosufi was born in 1985 in Afghanistan, and has persisted through decades of Soviet war, civil war and US war to devote his life to helping people see a better way. Along with his academic work, hes a marathon runner and environmentalist, and runs World BEYOND Wars Afghanistan chapter from Hamburg, Germany. Hes the special guest for episode 48 of the World BEYOND War podcast.

This interview finds two pacifists with vastly different backgrounds speaking across an ocean and a continental land mass while trying to break through the debris of information left behind by past and current generations of institutional violence and war propaganda. The distance quickly vanished as we began to discuss the legacies of war that define Afghanistans relationship with the world and realized that we both saw the same existential dilemma at the core of the planets never-ending disaster: war, ethnic hatred and military profiteering have become habits and self-perpetuating ways of life in the societies both of us live in. When war, fear and societal hatred provide the only way of life that people can imagine, this lack of imagination becomes a death sentence for the human race.

In this wide-ranging interview we found ourselves talking a lot of history: the causes of past civil wars in both Afghanistan and USA, the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union which ended the war Nazir had been born into, our separate experiences of September 11, 2001 and of everything that followed, and even about the historic destruction by aerial firebombing of nearly the entire city of Hamburg, Germany, where Nazir was speaking from.

We also talked about the poetry of Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi (Rumi), Allama Iqbal Lahori and Saadi Shirazi and the philosophies of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Jiddu Krishnamurti and Carl Jung, and touched briefly on another urgent topic: environmental activism, which had been Nazirs original entry point into progressive politics. Thanks to my guest for a really bracing and often surprising conversation,. Musical excerpt: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan based on Rumi.

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RT | May 31, 2023

The FBI has again refused to turn over documents subpoenaed by the US Congress regarding bribery accusations against President Joe Biden, prompting House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to warn that he will seek to hold the agencys director in contempt for obstructionist tactics.

The FBIs decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable, Comer said on Tuesday in a statement.

The Kentucky Republican added that the committee will take steps to hold FBI director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena.

Americans deserve the truth, and the Oversight Committee will continue to demand transparency from this nations chief law enforcement agency, Comer added.

At issue is an FBI informant file detailing allegations that Biden accepted $5 million in foreign bribes in exchange for policy favors when he worked as vice president under then-President Barack Obama. The FBI received the tip in June 2020. The allegations came to light earlier this year, when a whistleblower informed Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of their existence.

FBI officials have missed multiple deadlines to comply with the subpoena, including Comers latest demand that the documents be handed over by Tuesday. Wray has claimed that the allegations against Biden were unverified and that the so-called FD-1023 file in the case must be kept private to protect FBI informants.

House Republicans have sought the documents to weigh the substance of the allegations against Biden and examine whether the FBI has handled the case properly. Comer argued earlier this month that the agency has had the evidence for years and has apparently done nothing with it.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said on Tuesday that he will lead members of his party in voting to hold Wray in contempt if the FBI director refuses to turn over the FD-1023. He added that any sensitive information on the informant could be redacted.

The FBI issued a statement saying any discussion of pursuing contempt proceedings against Wray is unnecessary. The agency said it had offered in a letter to Comer to provide information to the committee in a format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects important security interests and the integrity of FBI investigations. Wray is scheduled to discuss the issue with Comer on Wednesday in a phone call.

Comer has said the allegations fit a pattern of then-Vice President Biden flying to various countries, taking an unusually active role in US foreign policy decisions, then receiving wire transfers from those nations into bank accounts linked to his family members...

By World BEYOND War, May 31, 2023

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OTTAWA Over a hundred people have disrupted the opening of CANSEC, North Americas largest military weapons convention in Ottawa, where 10,000 attendees were expected to gather.

Activists carrying 50 foot banners saying Stop Profiting from War, Arms Dealers Not Welcome and holding dozens of War Crimes Start Here signs blocked vehicle and pedestrian entrances as attendees attempted to register for and enter the convention centre, preventing attendees from getting in for Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anands planned opening keynote address. In police efforts to remove the protesters, they grabbed banners, and handcuffed and arrested one protester, who was later released without charges.

The protest was convened to oppose CANSEC and the profiteering from war and violence it is designed to support, promising to make it impossible for anyone to come anywhere near their weapons fair without confronting the violence and bloodshed these arms dealers are complicit in.

Were here today in solidarity with everyone who has faced down the...

By Kyle Anzalone, The Libertarian Institute, May 31, 2023

Several members of the Democrat Party in Congress are urging the White House to provide Kiev with significantly more military support. One representative wants the Joe Biden administration to place non-combatant observers on the ground in Ukraine.

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) called for long-term investment in modernizing Ukraines military. He believes the upgraded weapons will turn the country into a porcupine that cant be swallowed.

One suggestion Crow made was sending non-combatant observers to the battlefield to learn through direct observation and communication with Ukrainian forces. Crow did not specify if the personnel would come from the CIA, Pentagon or another agency. However, deploying any Americans on the battlefield risks them being killed by Russian soldiers.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, along with Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CN), are backing a plan that would send ATACM missiles to Ukraine. The rockets have a range of nearly 200 miles.

The White House has rejected several requests from Kiev to send long-range munitions to Ukraine. The Department of Defense went as far as modifying the HIMAR launchers it donated to Kiev to prevent the system from being able to fire the ATACM missiles. Recently, the Biden administration suggested it may be budging on the issue as Washington backed London sending long-range air-launched missiles to Kiev.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, called for the White House to authorize sending cluster bombs to Ukraine. Groups of Republican Representatives have sent letters to Biden demanding he fulfills Kievs request to send the controversial weapons.

Both Russia and Ukraine are reported to have used cluster bombs in Ukraine. Typically intended for use against personnel and light vehicles, cluster bombs carry smaller explosive submunitions which are released in flight and scattered across a target area. However, the bomblets often fail to detonate and remain on the ground as duds, causing countless ci...

By Liz Remmerswaal, World BEYOND War, May 31, 2023

Peace Witness features those who stand up to be counted as advocating for non violent ways of resolving conflict.

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By Ban Killer Drones, May 31, 2023

A call for Ukraine and Russia to honor a moratorium on weaponized drone attacks is being issued today by a delegation to the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, organized by the International Peace Bureau (IPB) in Vienna on June 10-11.

In view of the escalating drone attacks in the Russia-Ukraine war which introduce a new level of threat through the growing use of a technology that encourages inhuman and profoundly irresponsible behavior, we call on all involved in the Ukraine war to:

1. Stop the use of all weaponized drones in the Russia-Ukraine war.
2. Immediately negotiate a ceasefire and open negotiations to end the war.

The statement is being issued by members of CODEPINK, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Veterans for Peace, the German Drone Campaign, and Ban Killer Drones who will be attending the IPB conference to identify fellow peace workers who wish to organize to achieve an international treaty to ban the use of weaponized drones.

The work of the delegation is supported by the listed organizations supporting the attached call for endorsers of a drone ban treaty.

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CAMPAIGN FOR A GLOBAL BAN ON WEAPONIZED DRONES

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ENDORSERS

The following statement sets forth the demand by organizations in many countries, including international organizations and organizations of faith and conscience, for the United Nations to adopt a Treaty on the Prohibition of Weaponized Drones. It is inspired by the Biological Weapons Convention (1972), the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), the Mine Ban Treaty (1999), the Cluster Munitions Convention (2010), the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2017), and in solidarity with the ongoing campaign for a United Nations treaty to Ban Killer Robots. It upholds the values of human rights, internationalism, representation from and protection of the Global South from neocolonial exploitation and proxy wars, the power of grassroots communities, and the voices of women, youth, and the marginalized. We are mindful of the looming threat that weaponized drones could become autonomous, further extending the potential for death and destruction.

Whereas the use of weaponized aerial drones over the past 21 years has led to killing, maiming, terrorization and/or displacement of millions of pe...

Protests by British university economic students against neo-classical economics highlight the notion that economic education is dominated by theories that defy practical applications and applications that cannot predict, prevent, and ameliorate periodic crises. Students learn economics from unverified and outdated theories, many contradicting one another, which leads to a confused understanding of the discipline and complicated approaches to resolving problems. Adding to the dilemma is that textbooks in Middle Schools, High Schools, and universities lack updates with recent knowledge and contain dubious propositions. It is time to examine several propositions that are prominent and dubious. This examination is not absolute, is intended to arouse discussion, and, hopefully, gauge if the theories should be restated or expunged from current academic learning, textbooks, and public discourse.

(1)   Keynes Multiplier

(2)   Philips Curve

(3)   Disposable income

(4)   Okuns Law

Keynes GDP Multiplier

One explanation of the Keynesian multiplier is:

Marginal propensity to consume (MPC) = 0.8, when people get an extra dollar of income, and spend 80 cents of it. If the government increases expenditure by 1 dollar on a good produced by agent A, this dollar becomes As income. Suppose A spends the 80 cents on a good produced by B, then B would have an extra income of 80 cents. B would then spend 0.8 of this 80 cents, ie, 64 cents, on something else. This 64 cents becomes someone elses income, and this someone will spend 0...

Turkey: Imprisoned Kurdish leader Demirtas retires from politics

Iain Davis With great fanfare, the BBC has launched BBC Verify. The state broadcasters very own, specialist disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring, announced its arrival live on UK TV. She explained that the BBC would verify video, fact check and counter disinformation. So rest assured, no one needs to think about anything. The BBC

Former Russian president and deputy chairman of Moscows security council describes Britain as Russias eternal enemy

David Hughes The Independent May 31, 2023

British public officials are a legitimate military target because of the UKs support for Ukraine, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.

Mr Medvedev, deputy chairman of Vladimir Putins security council, claimed the UKs support for Kyiv amounted to an undeclared war against Russia.

His comments came after Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Ukraine had the right to project force beyond its borders into Russia to resist Mr Putins invasion.

The Ukrainian authorities have denied launching the drone attack which hit Moscow on Tuesday, but there has been an escalation in incidents within Russia either by Kyivs military or local groups opposed to the war.

In response to the Foreign Secretary, Mr Medvedev said: The goofy officials of the UK, our eternal enemy, should remember that within the framework of the universally accepted international law which regulates modern warfare, including the Hague and Geneva Conventions with their additional protocols, their state can also be qualified as being at war.

Today, the UK acts as Ukraines ally, providing it with military aid in the form of equipment and specialists, i.e., de facto, is leading an undeclared war against Russia, he continued.

That being the case, any of its public officials (either military, or civil, who facilitate the war) can be considered as a legitimate military target.

Continues

Lebanon: Explosion kills five members of Palestinian armed group

Syrian government blocked UN earthquake response in opposition areas

Lat Monday (Memorial Day) you'll recall I blogged about that strange shipment of cocaine from Peru that was seized by Peruvian police. The shipment,

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BY MIKE WHITNEY UNZ REVIEW  MAY 30, 2023

The Durham Report fails to identify the ringleader of the Russiagate fiasco, John Brennan. It was Brennan who first reported contacts between Russian officials and persons in the Trump campaign. It was also Brennan who initially referred the case to the FBI. It was also Brennan who hand-picked the analysts who cobbled together the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which said that Putin was trying to swing the election in Trumps favor. And, it was also Brennan who hijacked the Trump-Russia-meme from the Hillary campaign in order to prosecute his war on Trump. At every turn, Brennan was there, massaging the intelligence, pulling the strings, and micromanaging the entire operation from behind the scenes. So, while it might seem like the FBI was leading the Russiagate charge, it was actually Brennan who was calling the shots. This is from an article by Aaron Mate:

it is clear that Brennans role in propagating the collusion narrative went far beyond his work on the ICA. (Intelligence Community Assessment) A close review of facts that have slowly come to light reveals that he was a central architect and promoter of the conspiracy theory from its inception... Brennan stands apart for the outsized role he played in generating and spreading the (collusion) false narrative. The Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate, Aaron Mate, Real Clear Investigations

Mate is right, Brennan was central architect and promoter of the Russiagate fraud. The alleged Trump-Russia connection may have started with the Hillary campaign, but it was Brennan who transformed it into an expansive domestic counterintelligence operation aimed at regime change. That was Brennans doing; he was the backroom puppetmaster overseeing the action and guiding the project towards its final conclusion. What the Durham Report confirms, is that the plan was put into motion sometime after Brennans Oval Office meeting with Barack Obama in July, 2016. Check out this clip from an article by Lee Smith:

The only genuine piece of Russian intelligence that US spy services ever received about Donald Trump...

Israel government proposes Jewish state loyalty oath for diplomats

The undertakings made by Australia regarding the AUKUS security pact promise to be monumental. Much of this is negative: increased militarisation on the home front; the co-opting of the university sector for war making industries and defence contractors; and the capitulation and total subordination of the Australian Defence Force to the Pentagon.

There are also other, neglected dimensions at work here: the failure, as yet, for the Commonwealth to establish a viable, acceptable site for the long term storage of high-grade nuclear waste; the uncertainty about where the submarines will be located; the absence of skills in the construction and operational level in Australia regarding nuclear-powered submarines; and, fundamentally, whether a nuclear-powered Australian-UK-US submarine (AUKUS SSN) will ever see the light of day.

One obstacle, habitually ignored in the Australian dialogue on AUKUS, are the rumbling concerns in the US itself about transferring submarines from the US Navy in the first place. These concerns are summarised in the Congressional Research Service report released on May 22, outlining the background and issues for US politicians regarding the procurement of the Virginia (SSN-774) submarine. One issue for Congress is whether to approve, reject, or modify DODs AUKUS-related legislative package for the FY2024 NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] sent to Congress on May 2, 2023. This includes requested authorisation for the transfer of up to two Virginia-class SSNs to the government of Australia in the form of sale, with the costs of the transfer to be covered by the government of Australia.

A laundry list of concerns and potentially grave issues are suggested, and the report is clear that these are not exhaustive. They are also bound to send shivers down the spine of the adulatory Canberra planning establishment, so keen to keep Washington interested. There is, for instance, the question as to whether the transfer of the Virginia-class boats should be authorised as part of the 2024 financial year, or deferred until a future NDAA.

There is also the matter about how many submarines should be part of the request, whether it remains up to two as per the current request, or larger numbers. With those numbers also comes the dilemma as to what vintage they will be: those with less than 33 years of expected service life, or newly minted ones with the full 33-year period of operational service. (We can already hazard a guess on that one.)

The issue of cost also looms large. What will Australia, for instance, pay for the Virginia-class vessels, and furthermore, the amount that would be needed as a proportionate financial investment in Washingtons own submarine construction industrial base. Such a potentially delicious state of affairs for US shipbuilders, who will be receiving fu......

Leo Hohmann leohohmann.com May 30, 2023

The media is not your friend.

That may sound like an overly simplistic statement, and yet look how many Americans marched in lockstep to the advice of the media over the last two-plus years when it came to taking a deadly toxic, spike-protein laced injection. I personally know many who wish they had not succumbed and taken those shots. Some will admit it openly. Others not so much. But you can see the distress in their eyes whenever the topic comes up.

The corporate media has become so corrupt and its messaging so indistinguishable from the government in Washington that they will literally say anything, read any script, write any fake story, that their mockingbird handlers order them to relay to the public. To do otherwise means instant termination and isolation. The pattern is now there for all to see. We have a plethora of national journalists who have either quit or been fired by their corporate-media bosses because they asked too many questions, or insisted on reporting on forbidden topics. Sharyl Attkisson, Lara Logan, Tucker Carlson, just to name a few. Others like Gary Webb and Michael Hastings died under mysterious circumstances.

So it is with great dread that I must alert you to the alerts coming out of the mainstream media over the weekend while many of us were enjoying family barbecues, going to the beach, or sitting on a fishing boat. The evil ones never rest. Not when they believe they are in their final end-game scenario of Americas long-awaited destruction. All of the major corporate media outlets, working in collusion with the federal government, put out an alert about the potential for right-wing attacks on the U.S. power grid.

Lets look at just one example.

CBS Mornings, like all of the others, put out a story on the May 24 Department of Homeland Security report warning about White Nationalist attacks on the U.S. power grid as a way to disrupt the country and the governments ability to operate.

POWER GRID THREAT! pic.twitter.com/1lzToKanVW

DR. Kek (@Thekeksociety) May 28, 2023

Oh the drama! Sit up! Take notice! Those evil white nationalists are coming after us!

Notice the very clever tactic used in the above report: the deep-state embedded CBS News started off its report by claiming the attacks would be carried out by right-wing extremists, then they slyly shifted to the actual narrative included i...

Vivek Saxena American Wire May 25, 2023

Critics are crying foul over the decision by Washington, D.C. prosecutors to drop nearly all of the charges originally faced by the man who allegedly rammed into White House security barriers earlier this week.

As previously reported, on Monday evening a man in a U-Haul replete with a Nazi flag crashed into a White House barricade. This man was later identified as Sai Varshith Kandula, a nonwhite, noncitizen 19-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri.

Following the altercation, he was arrested and charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or family member, as well as assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, trespassing and destruction of federal property, according to the New York Post.

But then something extraordinary happened prosecutors dropped every single charge, leaving Kandula with nothing but a single count of depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000, the Post notes.

Critics want to know why.

I dont want to sound paranoid, but that seems like theyre trying to hush this up, Mark Hemingway, the husband of conservative commentator Mollie Hemingway, tweeted.

See more responses below:

Wrong color. Not politically expedient for them.

Mrs Malindo (@MrsMalindo) May 24, 2023

Unfortunately the false flag op was done so poorly they need to bury it before folks catch on even further.

Johnny Wishbone (@JWishbon3) May 24, 2023

So were the charges downgraded because he is a Dem operative or because he is an illegal or both? @FBI

LisaMo (@LisaMoMentor2) May 24, 2023

His truck being completely...

Reflections in a Petri Dish May 30, 2023

Dog Poet Transmitting.

This is a time of great tension around The World. The troubles in Ukraine are a serious matter. The Bankers are in a great deal of trouble because of their deceitful bookkeeping, and generally bad behavior.

They have been engaged in stealing the wealth of The World. Their greed and arrogance which comes from having gotten away with their crimes for generations has blinded them to the position they have put themselves in. They desperately need a wider conflict.

Wars are the source of the majority of their wealth. The usurious interest they are able to punish the captive nations with comes from the debt they were able to put them in through the expenses of war. This is the means by which they steal the resources the future and the fruits of the common labor.

A great pressure has come upon these psychopaths. They are unable to define the cause. It is deeply personal and within. Something is happening but they dont know what it is. This is too complicated for me to address and I only know a little. They are up against it. Their greed is focused on the resources of Russia. Ukraine was a trap they set and the trap closed on them, instead of the other way around.

The threat of nuclear war the global fallout, and the potential ruin of their investments in the countries they are forcing to do their bidding is constantly in their minds. It is a precarious thing. The Good News is that this is the coming age of Brotherhood. There will be no total extinction. What extinction there will be will be selective. Still the possibilities are terrifying for many.

Their greatest problem is Mr. Apocalypse who is going to pull their pants down in front of The World. In concert Lady Awakening is breaking the spell that for so long has held The World in a mesmerized stupor. People will not only see what has been going on through the agency of Mr. Apocalypse they will also understand what it is that is being revealed to them through the force of Lady Awakening.

By the day the pressure on the human mind intensifies and it is processed through whatever weakness whatever appetite or carnal attraction most specifically applies to each and every one of us. For some, it is material things. For some it is sex. For some, it is other appetites. For some, it is power and the desire for influence. In each case, none of them will be able to control the shape their fantasies take.

Some percentage of us are focused on higher things. Where your heart is there will your treasures be also. As you can imagine or compute from the obvious very bad circumstances are going to come about. In many cases, the pressure will cause epide...

Al Jazeera May 31, 2023

The head of Russias Wagner mercenary force has again criticised the Russian military and political elite following the drone attack on Moscow that injured two people, damaged property and left some furious the Kremlin had not better protected the capital city.

Yevgeny Prigozhin. Click to enlarge

In an expletive-drenched statement posted on Telegram by his press service on Tuesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin whose mercenary fighters have played a key role in the war in Ukraine blamed the drone attack on out-of-touch officials living in Moscows affluent suburb of Rublyovka

You, the Defence Ministry, have done nothing to launch an offensive, Prigozhin said in the statement.

How dare you allow the drones to reach Moscow?

And what do ordinary people do when drones with explosives crash into their windows?

Focusing his ire on powerful residents of the upmarket Rublyovka area in Moscows western suburbs, Prigozhin spoke of the scum and swine who sat quietly while Moscow was attacked.

In a post on Telegram after the attack on Tuesday, Alexander Khinshtein, a prominent member of Russias parliament from the ruling United Russia bloc, said three of the eight drones had been downed over three Rublyovka villages, one of which is located just 10 minutes drive from Russian President Vladimir Putins residence at Novo-Ogaryovo.

Rublyovka, a patchwork of elite gated communities in the forests west of Moscow, which once boasted some of the worlds highest real-estate prices, is home to much of Russias political, business and cultural elite. Former President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin have been reported to own homes in Rublyovka, alongside many of Russias richest business figures.

Wagner boss Prigozhin, known for his blunt and often foul language, has repeatedly cast Rublyovkas residents as an out-of-touch elite insufficiently committed to the war in Ukraine and has blamed the top brass for Russian failures on the battlefield.

Russian military blogger Igor Girkin whom a Dutch court found guilty of the murder of 298 people who were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over Russian-controlled easter...

Domi Good May 30, 2023

Universal Studios Hollywood is teaming up with Los Angeles Pride to host an all-ages after-hours Pride celebration at the theme park.

The June 8 event will feature photo ops with beloved childrens characters and drag shows.

Inside the Magic reports, Guests can enjoy dance parties with live DJs, meet and greets with 14 Universal characters, exclusive photo-ops, and a Drag Show featuring LGBTQIA+ artists, including Morgan McMichaels, Akeria Chanel Davenport, Jessica Wild, Angeria Paris VanMichaels, and Kerri Colby!

Nearly all rides and attractions will stay open during the event.

General Admission Guests can enter Universal Studios Hollywood at 4 p.m. and enjoy all the Universal Park offers during daytime hours, the report added.

Exclusive event offerings begin at 9 p.m. when the Theme Park closes and last until 1 a.m. (If you arrive early, check out all the shopping and dining available at Universal CityWalk!)

General Admission tickets are $124, and VIP tickets are available for $249.

VIP guests can enter the park two hours earlier, at 2 p.m. The report says they will also have premium viewing areas at the main stage, and exclusive access to the LA Pride VIP lounge.

According to the report, Pride is Universal 2023 is a fundraiser for Christopher Street West, a nonprofit that produces the LA Pride Parade & Festival and other LA Pride events. A portion of each ticket purchased goes toward community Pride programs all year.

Alcohol will also be available.

Source

Cassandra MacDonald The Gateway Pundit May 30, 2023

Chicagos Queer Fam Pride Jam Pride event will feature drag dress-up and makeovers for children.

The event will take place June 17 at the Salt Shed Fairgrounds from 10 am to 4 pm and is sponsored by Lululemon.

According to a report from Block Club Chicago, This free event, co-sponsored by Block Club, is a collaboration between the queer party producers of Slo Mo and the owners of Kido, an award-winning kids boutique in the South Loop.

The event will also feature vendors, prioritizing those who are LGBTQ and Black, Indigenous and people of color.

The festivals programs include wellness activities facilitated by LGBTQ artists and healers, including family yoga and fan decorating, Kaza said. Day-long activities include fan decorating, drag dress-up and makeovers, the report continues. Natty Bwoy Bikes & Boards, a local skateboarding school, will facilitate a skating area, and legendary house music choreographer Boogie McClarin will teach dance lessons, Kaza said.

The event will culminate in an all-ages dance party.

The dance party will put all of these components together, Kido owner Keewa Nurullah told Block Club. Theyll have learned the dances, theyll have the drag artwork on their face and theyll have had this entire day of fun to celebrate.

Kido, a childrens boutique, has also previously organized a pro-abortion march.

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Ethan Huff Natural News May 30, 2023

In the name of keeping children safe from mass shootings and other such threats, the Dallas Independent School District (ISD) has launched a new pilot program with a company called Davista that uses artificial intelligence (AI) robots to monitor each and every student at all times, and report back to the mother ship whenever a student deviates from his baseline behavior.

A chilling, real-life manifestation of the type of futuristic, dystopian technologies portrayed in movies from the past, Dallas ISDs AI scheme will remove all personal privacy from every students life. Using a complex and advanced algorithm, each childs behavior will be monitored and recorded continuously for use in predicting what that child might do at some point in the future.

Much like what was depicted in the 2002 sci-fi action film Minority Report, Dallas ISD aims to identify pre-crime activity with students in order to punish the ones who display behaviors that administrators, or in this case the AI robots they tasked with spying on students, find suspicious.

The alarm that the surveillance system will sound is triggered not by a concerned parent or teacher or administrator, but by a computer that targets, tracks, and predicts the future behavior of children under its never-blinking electronic eye, explains Joe Wolverton, II, JD, writing for The New American.

(Related: Will Dallas ISDs AI surveillance robots force students to become white-hating, left-wing automatons?)

If students photos and personal data gets leaked to the dark web, Dallas ISD will be complicit in criminal offenses against minors

The fact that Dallas ISD is openly bragging about this new AI spying system is nothing short of chilling. Administrators in the district clearly think they are above the law and seem to be overlooking the fact that if anything goes wrong with the system, their own heads will be on the chopping block.

Imagine for a moment that a hacker invades the system and pulls all the data on students, many of whom are underage, in order to leak it to the dark web. Dallas ISD will quickly find itself criminally culpable for this offense, which is more than likely to occur at some point.

Would the apologies of the administration of the school district be sufficient to satisfy the concerns or squelch the r...

Times of Israel May 30, 2023

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh

Iran on Monday announced that it had finished testing a new hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defense systems and that it will soon be unveiled.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who commands the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corpss aerospace unit, said the development marked a great leap in the field of missiles, and that  the hypersonic missile has a high speed and can maneuver both in and out of the Earths atmosphere.

Hajizadeh first revealed the development of the hypersonic missile last November.

It will be able to breach all the systems of anti-missile defense, said the general at the time, adding that he believed it would take decades before a system capable of intercepting it is developed.

Hypersonic missiles, like traditional ballistic missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons, can fly more than five times the speed of sound.

A hypersonic missile is also maneuverable, making it harder to track and defend against.

While countries like the United States and Israel have developed systems designed to defend against cruise and ballistic missiles, the ability to track and take down a hypersonic missile remains a question.

Iran said the missile had been successfully test-launched, with State TV broadcasting a few seconds of footage of what it said was the launch.

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Chris Busby | April 5, 2023

Freedom of Information request by Dr Busby to Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston UK showed increased level of Uranium in all the environmental measurement filters. He discusses the health implications of this for Europe in an interview, where he outlines what his research found in Iraq, increases in cancer and congenital birth defects in Fallujah. His paper on the Ukraine Uranium in UK is at: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat

The findings in Iraq were recently discussed in a Guardian article at: https://www.theguardian.com/news/data