Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240222/us-always-planned-for-assange-to-die-in-prison-1116910930.html

On Tuesday, the final appeal for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to avoid extradition to the United States began. Days earlier, his wife and lawyer, Stella Assange, warned that if the journalist is not released soon, the stress of the case and his confinement could kill him, adding that he “will die” if extradited to the US.

💬 “His health is in decline, mentally and physically. His life is at risk every single day he stays in prison, and if he’s extradited, he will die,” Stella Assange said at a media briefing in London.

Julian Assange, an Australian national, could face up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the United States on espionage charges. ● But the US has no plans for Assange to stand trial in the United States, Dan Kovalik, a professor, human rights lawyer and peace activist told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Tuesday.

💬 “If [Julian Assange] is sent to the US, they’re just going to delay the trial as long as they can so that they can guarantee that he’ll die in jail,” Kovalik explained. “That’s always been the plan.”

Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-imperial-feminism-abandons-palestinian-women-how

Maryam Aldossari | Some western 'champions' of the feminist cause have reserved their fury for the plight of Israeli women, ignoring the catastrophic suffering in Gaza | From the outset of the war on Gaza, an unsettling narrative has permeated western media, portraying Israel as a paragon of civilisation starkly contrasted against the bastion of backwardness that is the Middle East. Some pundits have even gone as far as reducing its people to the level of the animal kingdom. ● Such bias is nothing new, further amplified in the UK by outlets such as UnHerd, as media propaganda continues the unsettling tradition of misrepresenting the Arab community. But it has been unexpectedly troubling to hear such distortions echoed by British feminists and activists. ● If you are following well-known UK feminists in hopes of finding a united outcry and empathy for the violence faced by Palestinian women and children, I am afraid you will be deeply disappointed.

Catherine Austin Fitts | The U.S. Federal Reserve and its central banking allies are engineering unprecedented changes in the financial system. How do we know this? Because they speak openly about what they intend to do. | I want to show you three 1-minute videos today that describe the vision of total central control currently being implemented by the central banks. ● The first is a clip from an IMF panel in October 2020. The speaker is Agustín Carstens, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. The BIS is the central bank of central banks, which enjoys the powers of sovereign immunity. The Federal Reserve is one of 63 central banks which are BIS members, including the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of China. In this clip, Mr. Carstens is describing the nature of central bank digital currency or CBDC. The BIS is leading a global effort to implement CBDC, including a partnership with the Federal Reserve. Let’s see what Mr. Carstens says about where he hopes our money is going.

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240216/a-secret-for-six-years---us-ic-spied-on-trump-staff-before-2016-russian-collusion-claims---report-1116811712.html

According to a joint report by three journalists, the US intelligence community inappropriately used its foreign allies to spy on Trump associates in order to circumvent a law that prohibits the CIA from domestic spying. | Three journalists recently published an article in which they allege that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally requested its English speaking counterparts—the “Five Eyes” including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--- to spy on former President Donald Trump advisors and campaign aides before he was elected to the White House in 2016. ● Ray McGovern, who served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, returned to Sputnik’s The Critical Hour and explained his experience with the "Russiagate" conspiracy, adding that the truth was hidden from Americans for more than six years.

💬 “Not only did the [House Intelligence Committee] (HPSCI) authorize the Five Eyes, those are the cooperative security services of the US, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, all English-speaking folks, a vestige of World War Two. They authorized them to collect dirt on 26 Trump staffers,” said McGovern.

■ Biden told his campaign staffers to focus on ‘crazy’ Trump statements – CNN (RT.com)

Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/when-malcolm-x-visited-gaza-september-1964

Civil rights icon spent time in Khan Younis refugee camp and listened to Palestinian poetry, inspiring him to write an essay about the Israeli occupation | The human rights activist and Muslim preacher Malcolm X was killed 59 years ago today, on 21 February 1965. Though mainly known for his advocacy for the civil rights of Black communities in the United States, he also spent much of his life speaking on the struggles of peoples worldwide. ● Particularly during the latter years of his life - after breaking away from the Black nationalist and separatist Nation of Islam - Malcolm began to interact with leaders and organisers across the globe. During extensive travels in Africa and the Middle East in 1964, he met several postcolonial pan-African and pan-Arab leaders, including then-Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, and Guinea President Ahmed Sekou Toure.

Link: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/biden-backs-dutch-pm-rutte-for-next-nato-chief

The backing from the US President is expected to garner greater support from allies for Rutte's nomination. | US President Joe Biden is reportedly endorsing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the next NATO secretary-general, according to a US official cited by Politico on Wednesday. The backing from the US President is expected to garner greater support from allies for Rutte's nomination. ● Earlier on Wednesday, Politico stated that approximately two-thirds of NATO nations are currently supporting the nomination of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to assume leadership of NATO this year. However, it is crucial to note that the decision necessitates unanimous agreement among all NATO member states. The report also mentioned that Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins are not considered potential candidates as they have not officially submitted their candidacies, according to NATO officials.

Link: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/493677/U-S-policy-toward-the-war-has-been-nothing-other-than-hypocritical

A professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar says the United States’ approach toward the Israeli war on Gaza is purely hypocritical. | “U.S. policy toward the war has been nothing other than hypocritical,” Professor Mehran Kamrava tells the Tehran Times. The professor also says there is no doubt that “the primary objective” of Israel is to depopulate Gaza of “its Palestinian population”.

Link: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/21/720484/Israeli-economy-shrinks-by-close-to-20--in-3-months-because-of-Gaza-onslaught

Israel's economy shrank by far more than expected in the final quarter of last year in the wake of the war on the besieged Gaza Strip, marking sharpest contraction since the pandemic. | Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement that economy plunged 19.4% in the final three months of 2023, as significant resources were diverted to the regime’s military engagement in the war on the coastal sliver. That is the equivalent of a fall of 5% between October and December. ● According to British daily business newspaper the Financial Times, the significant downturn in Israel’s economy was partially due to mobilizing 300,000 reservists, who abandoned their jobs and businesses for extended presence in the military. ● Other factors involved the Tel Aviv regime’s funding housing for over 120,000 settlers, who left the northern and southern regions of the 1948-occupied territories close to the border with the Gaza Strip.

Link: https://ifpnews.com/us-un-resolution-gaza-ceasefire/

The US has vetoed a United Nations security council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the third time, arguing that it would undermine negotiations over a hostage agreement. | The US was the lone vote against a ceasefire resolution put forward on Tuesday by Algeria. The UK was the sole abstention, with 13 votes in support, including those of close allies of Washington who insisted the humanitarian needs of Palestinians outweighed any reservations over the Algerian text. Washington was widely lambasted for using its veto again at a time when nearly 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2 million people are under threat of famine.

■ US veto of Gaza ceasefire resolution ‘shameful’: CAIR (IRNA)
■ Russia reacts to US vetoing Gaza ceasefire (RT.com)
■ China says US veto in UN truce vote makes Gaza 'even more dangerous' (aNews)

Link: https://public.substack.com/p/why-this-one-simple-chart-will-end

Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian | By describing the psychopathological characteristics of extremist movements, we will reduce their power | Over the last few years, Woke progressives have behaved in increasingly odd ways. Black Lives Matter activists in Washington, D.C., screamed at and hovered over a woman sitting peacefully in a restaurant, demanding that she raise her fist in a salute. Climate activists threw soup at a Van Gogh painting, dumped milk on the floor of a grocery store, and cemented their hands to an airport runway. And transgender activists claimed, falsely, that there was a “genocide” against trans people, even though there’s no evidence that trans-identified people are being killed at higher rates than non-trans people. ● Some of these behaviors can be explained by the fact that Wokeism is a religion. Two years ago, the two of us published a chart, “Woke Religion: A Taxonomy,” and an accompanying essay, which described how race, climate, trans, and other Woke activists had created their own versions of original sin, taboos, and myths. We turned the taxonomy into a poster and sold hundreds of copies. Both of us still get emails from people saying that the chart helped them to understand why so many previously secular people appear to be in the grip of a deeply superstitious religion.

Link: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/assanges-final-appealChris Hedges | Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to

Chris Hedges | Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press. | If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to the United States before a panel of two judges at the High Court in London this week, he will have no recourse left within the British legal system. His lawyers can ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for a stay of execution under Rule 39, which is given in “exceptional circumstances” and “only where there is an imminent risk of irreparable harm.” But it is far from certain that the British court will agree. It may order Julian’s immediate extradition prior to a Rule 39 instruction or may decide to ignore a request from the ECtHR to allow Julian to have his case heard by the court. [...] Julian’s “crime” is that he published classified documents, internal messages, reports and videos from the U.S. government and U.S. military in 2010, which were provided by U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. This vast trove of material revealed massacres of civilians, torture, assassinations, the list of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and the conditions they were subjected to, as well as the Rules of Engagement in Iraq. Those who perpetrated these crimes — including the U.S. helicopter pilots who gunned down two Reuters journalists and 10 other civilians and severely injured two children, all captured in the Collateral Murder video — have never been prosecuted.

Link: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240219/expert-us-supplies-chemical-weapons-to-ukraine-in-violation-of-law-1116879425.html

Russia recorded cases of Ukrainian troops using US-made chemical grenades in the special military operation zone, according to Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian armed forces. | Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops (RChBD) have documented cases of the use of poisonous chemicals by the Ukrainian military. ● According to Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, some of those substances were contained in the US-made weapons. ● In particular, Ukrainian forces used US-made gas grenades loaded with "CS" capable of causing skin burns and respiratory paralysis, meaning Washington violated the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) ratified by the US on April 25, 1997. ● Ukraine received US-made chemical weapons along with HIMARS systems, Patriot missile defense complexes, howitzers, etc "directly from the United States," Igor Nikulin, military expert, former member of the UN Commission on Chemical and Biological Weapons, told Sputnik.

■ Canada supplying hundreds of drones to Ukraine (Anadolu)
■ Ukraine Had Secret Torture Chambers, Burials in Avdeyevka (Sputnik News)
■ US House Lawmakers Urge Colleagues to Back Ukraine Aid & Border Security Bill (Sputnik)

Link: https://expose-news.com/2024/02/18/americas-first-15-minute-city-has-been-created-in-tempe-arizona-do-residents-know-whats-in-store-for-them/

A Tempe, Arizona, neighborhood has been named “Culdesac” and is America’s first example of a 15-minute city, a vision of the World Economic Forum and the globalist cult, who are pitching the concept as being more environmentally friendly. Instead of seeing this development as a dystopian nightmare, Culdesac residents appear to be thrilled at their new way of life, do they have any idea what they have in store for them? | A 15-minute city is a SMART City in an urban environment with omnipresent surveillance and data harvesting technologies that will monitor and record even the most intimate, personal details of every individual inhabiting it. The globalist goal is to collect the data of every individual.

Link: https://twitter.com/_Escapekey_/status/1755915452868432209

When the WEF called 'misinformation' the single largest identified risk in early 2024, it was the latest call of many, with an express, not-so-carefully-hidden objective. | It seems strange that we, in the west, have to put up with even dealing with this question, given that our entire framework fundamentally rests upon a cornerstone of free speech. Yet, here we are. But where did this drive come from? ● And in that regard - yes, a number of recent initiatives exist, including those outlined by Shellenberger. But they don't step back in time to identify the roots - which incidentally is where these issues will have to be addressed. Or else the issue will just come right back when you least expect it, in much the same way those dandelions on your neighbours lawn arrive on yours.

Link: https://expose-news.com/2024/02/19/calls-to-drop-the-charges-ahead-of-final-julian-assange-hearing/

Two high court judges will hear arguments on whether Assange can appeal the ruling to extradite him to the United States | [Today] the 20th and again on the 21st February WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face his final hearing before the United Kingdom’s High Court regarding his extradition to the United States. Assange’s hearing will determine whether the Australian journalist—who has been imprisoned in London’s Belmarsh Prison since April 2019—has exhausted all of his U.K. appeals and will be extradited to the United States, where he has been charged with violating the 1917 Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for publishing classified U.S. military documents and files on WikiLeaks over a decade ago.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-16-uk-data-pandemic-vaccinated-2021-to-2023.html

Analyzing the excess mortality of vaccinated people | It wasn’t long ago when governments and public health authorities around the world demanded that every person show their vaccine status to exercise basic freedoms. That totalitarian scheme ultimately backfired. Many of the people who once flaunted their vaccine status and called for “vaccine passports” are dying suddenly anyway, and now they have become a pariah, as their cause of death and vaccine status is concealed from the public. But the irony is: Vaccine records are archived and population mortality data are being analyzed, and this data tells a horrifying story. ● According to data from the U.K. Health Security Agency, (UKHSA) there have been approximately 61,000 unvaccinated deaths and approximately one million vaccinated deaths from 2021 to 2023. During this time, populations have been deceived. While everyone has been harmed in some way, we have collectively suffered through a pandemic of the vaccinated. The mortality data out of the UK screams of crimes against humanity.

Link: https://newsaddicts.com/programable-hydrogels-found-blood-covid-vaccinated/

Scientists are raising the alarm after discovering that vaccinated members of the public have “programable hydrogels” in their blood that can be used to transmit and receive data. | The alarming discovery is detailed in the scientific paper for a study conducted by Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea. The paper is titled “Hydrogel Platform Enables Versatile Data Encryption And Decryption.” ● Mihalcea explains that the hydrogels can be used as a “human interface” to connect remotely with other systems such as digital IDs, vaccine passports, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). ● The building blocks of Hydrogels are being found in the Covid vaccines. Hydrogels are being found in the blood of those who have received the Covid mRNA injections. They are the so-called blood clots that are being found around the world. These Hydrogels can now be programmed, encrypted, and decrypted.

Link: https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/17/hansjorg-wyss-climate-power-television-ads-electric-vehicles-biden/

A green nonprofit that is indirectly funded by a foreign billionaire is pressuring broadcasters to drop advertisements that criticize the Biden administration’s massive electric vehicle (EV) agenda. | Climate Power wrote to numerous broadcasters this week demanding that they stop airing American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM)-funded advertisements in swing state markets that rail against President Joe Biden’s plans to impose widespread EV adoption in the coming years. The charitable organization affiliated with Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss health care mogul and billionaire philanthropist, donates millions of dollars to the Fund for a Better Future, which was the fiscal sponsor for Climate Power until 2023, a spokesperson for Climate Power previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Link: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/abbott-construct-forward-operating-base-national-guard-border-efforts

The construction of the base is part of Operation Lone Star, Texas's unilateral effort to secure the border that has prompted a number of legal disputes with the federal government. | Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday announced the construction of a "forward operating base" near the southern border to bolster the National Guard's efforts to secure the border in the face of perceived federal apathy toward the unprecedented surge in illegal crossings. Abbott announced the base during a press conference in Eagle Pass. The base will be situated on 80 acres of land near Eagle Pass and able to house up to 1,800 troops in individual rooms, plus an additional 500 in the event of special deployments. "Texas is expanding our border security capabilities by building a new Texas Military Department base camp to increase and improve border security operations in this area," he said. "This will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas Military Department soldiers in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and efficiently."

Link: https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/18/marco-troper-susan-wojcicki-son-youtube-chief-executive-officer-found-dead-university-california-berkeley-campus-overdose/

A 19-year-old male student was discovered dead Tuesday at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr Campus, SF Gate reported. | Marco Troper, the son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead in the residential hall complex of the campus, according to SF Gate. While the results of a toxicology report are pending, Troper’s grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, shared her suspicions with the outlet that Marco’s untimely death was due to a possible overdose, though the specifics of the substances involved remain unclear. “He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” she said. “One thing we do know, it was a drug.”