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Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

Granted the population of more than 340 million in the United States of America, replacing the 535 operators in the House and Senate with decent humans not tied to global finance will be easy, too easy!

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

What kind of horse would you call Mamdani? 🤔

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Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

He is the best you can get in the Democrat syndicate. That is not saying much, but I think the threat to strip him of citizenship is not just kabuki. They want this authority and they need is fast. They know that a real movement cannot be tolerated

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

I think sending Mamdani to Alligator Alcatraz would be pure theater. The security state is not quite that far in the Orwellian script. There's still a few more chapters left. Besides, Mamdani is such an obvious AOC/Bernie Dem, hardly someone who genuinely threatens the Empire.

What the Wall Street creepos don't like about Mamdani's primary “win” is it indicated that NYC voters are sick and tired of being economically exploited. But more importantly, his upcoming mayoral campaign “might” awaken the political consciousness of even more of the dumbass electorate. That can't be tolerated, as these hoodlums spent decades creating a catatonic compliant population. 😁

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Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

I think it is a sort of Squid Games

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

Interesting, it does appear these pyschopaths are quite sadistic and derive pleasure from suffering, misery and death.

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Emanuel Pastreich's avatar

Yes. Same old. The greatest danger is that people will underestimate the danger of clowns. As Thomas Mann wrote, referring to the Nazis indirectly, “The insipid is not necessarily the harmless.”

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

Yes , “The banality of Evil” was pointed out by Hannah Arendt.

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

Oh, that Bernie, not much different than other Bernie's or Mort's or others in this or that minyan.

What is it about this fucking Jewish elitist that the dumb Goy Kiddos like so much, and now old democrat grannies are listening to him and AOC do their minstrel show.

But he loves the Israel of his wet dreams, for sure, having spent time there in his youth, and thus, he's brainwashed, in his mitzvah and his chosenness.

Here, from that fucked up source, Al Jazeera:

Sanders’s message at the time resonated deeply with Arab and Muslim American communities, who rallied around his campaign and helped him win the Michigan Democratic primary in 2016, in one of the race’s largest upsets.

But the senator’s current unwillingness to call for a ceasefire has left many of his Palestinian, Arab and Muslim supporters with a sense of disappointment if not betrayal.

Omar Baddar, a Palestinian American analyst who supported Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, said it is “hard to convey the depth of the disappointment” he feels over the senator’s failure to back a ceasefire.

“I know the political climate in the US at the moment is scary, anti-Palestinian and intolerant of dissent, but that’s precisely why Sanders’s voice would be so valuable,” Baddar told Al Jazeera. If Sanders speaks out, Baddar believes his actions will “create the political space” for others to do the same.

Baddar also played down Sanders’s call for a “pause” in the fighting. Pausing “the slaughter of civilians in Gaza is not a moral position”, he said, stressing that the fighting must end.

“Those who oppose a full ceasefire are under the delusional impression that Israel can achieve peace or stability through mass violence, ignoring the fact that Israeli brutality towards Palestinians is precisely why we’re in a situation where no one is safe,” Baddar told Al Jazeera.

“Even in the unlikely scenario that Israel is able to eliminate Hamas, the sheer horror it is inflicting on the people of Gaza will undoubtedly produce the next generation of militants who will want to seek vengeance against Israel.”

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Sanders is the sheepdog for the Democratic Party, don't you know.

https://blackagendareport.com/end-sanders-and-maybe-beginning-mass-independent-left

Bernie Sanders claimed to be running against the oligarchy in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, but meekly surrendered to Joe Biden, the personification of the glad-handing corporate shill and champion of the status quo, once the momentum of the primaries had turned. Sanders said he would resume his duties as a full-time senator doing “the work that needs to be done to protect people in this most desperate hour.”

“A major medical and economic catastrophe was inevitable once the virus was loosed on a defenseless U.S. public.”

But the raw truth is, Sanders surrendered unconditionally to a Democratic Party that is, in the Age of Trump, the electoral representative of the bulk of a fractured U.S. ruling class – the oligarchy. Without warning, Sanders demobilized his legions, even while claiming to continue to lead “a grass-roots, multiracial, multigenerational movement which has always believed that real change never comes from the top on down, but always from the bottom on up.” Sanders thanked his generous followers, nearly two million of whom donated at least $167 million to his campaign. Unknown millions remain unspent, and much more could be raised from even a greatly diminished cohort of Sanders true-believers if the self-described socialist was sincere about leading a well-funded “movement” outside the corporate duopoly. But Sanders is going out as a fraud who will refuse to turn over either unspent campaign monies or precious voter lists to his “grassroots” supporters or anybody outside the Democratic Party.

It is widely believed in Sanders’ circles that his greatest fear is to become like Ralph Nader, the former Green Party presidential candidate who is still vilified for supposedly throwing the 2000 election to George Bush. But Nader was the least of Democrat Al Gore’s problems and has nothing to be ashamed of. From publication of his corporate-pummeling 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed : The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, and the phenomenal growth of Nader-inspired Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS) two decades later, Nader has been a potent critic of oligarchy who, at 86, still rages at the machine from the outside. But Sanders, who has always caucused with Democrats, cannot imagine life outside the corporate duopoly. Despite his austerity-busting agenda, Sanders remains an “inside man” – in the same sense as criminals of that description. This month he ended the charade and was welcomed back into the “family” – one of the two parties the Lords of Capital can rightly call “our thing” (la cosa nostra).

Sanders punked out early this time around, with language as contradictory and dishonest on-its-face as Trump-speak. “I will stay on the ballot in all remaining states and continue to gather delegates,” said Sanders in his surrender statement . “While Vice President Biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the Democratic convention.” But of course, you cannot keep piling up significant votes and delegates while simultaneously conceding victory to a corporate flunky – thus making Sanders’s “suspended” campaign unfit for even “protest” votes.

For the second time in two presidential cycles, Sanders has lived up to Bruce Dixon’s depiction of him as a “sheepdog” for the Democrats. “Sheepdogs are herders,” wrote Dixon, the BAR co-founder who died last June, “and the sheepdog candidate is charged with herding activists and voters back into the Democratic fold who might otherwise drift leftward and outside of the Democratic Party, either staying home or trying to build something outside the two party box.” That’s Sanders to a T

The July 4 holiday in the United States commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Anyone educated in this country has been propagandized with lies about patriotic colonists seeking freedom from a tyrannical British monarch. Our minds were filled with tales of Paul Revere and Betsy Ross which erase the role that indigenous and Black people played as they attempted to end true tyranny over their lives. The present day traditions of enjoying cookouts, vacations, and fireworks should not obscure the true meaning of this date. In fact, analyzing this history is an absolute necessity.

The men who every school child is taught to think of as “patriots” had two concerns which pushed them to declare independence. First, in 1763 the British emerged victorious after the end of a conflict against France. It was known in Europe as the Seven Years War and in America as the French and Indian War. The American moniker existed precisely because the French allied themselves with indigenous nations against the British. British victory brought them French held territory west of the Appalachians in the region now comprising midwestern states, but they knew they could not easily end indigenous wars if settlers along the eastern seaboard were allowed to go further west.

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Bruce Wales's avatar

WHAT: Local Public Reading Of Declaration Of Independence

WHEN: Upcoming Independence Day

WHERE: City park, Elks meeting hall, church fellowship room, local tavern, etc

WHY: To remind Americans that it is their right and duty to alter or abolish their government if it does not serve its purpose, namely, secure their liberties, etc. My way of saying this will “grow patriotic spines again”.

(Of course, Republic Re-inhabiting efforts provide remedies in a constitutional, law-abiding way.)

HOW: Program of 4 parts with 4 invited people to read/speak on each part

1. Historical context of Declaration Of Independence (findable online)

2. Actual reading of DOI

3. What happened to the 56 signers of the DOI? (Online again)

4. Nation under God

We did this for 18 years in our small town of Payson Arizona in the city park

Some attended annually.

Newcomers often said “I had no idea.” “This ought to be mandatory attendance.”

Some teared up.

ADVICE: Find people who actually speak distinctly and are not afraid of a microphone.

Have a PA system with main microphone for the speakers. And one in the audience for feedback. - After section 4.

TYPICALLY: We ran recorded children CD singing many patriotic songs from National Anthem to Yankee Doodle Dandy as walk-in music, in between speakers, etc.

MY TAKE: Since all were invited via newspaper ad, many political parties and apolitical folk were probably in attendance.

CAUTION: This is not a venue for candidates running for office to speak. Therefore, they are not invited to.

WHO: Over the years teachers, radio announcers, patriotic common folk, preacher, etc were asked to take one of the four 10 minute sections.

RECORD: We had video recordings at the time and even started a readthedeclaration.org site. But it did not do so well.

TRY IT - YOU’LL LIKE IT! Amazing how many people will answer an ad requesting volunteer patriotic readings. Amazing how many patriotic bonds are formed through the presenting process.

UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS: The first years two homeschooled siblings recited the DOI alternating lines! Teenage guitarist did a fabulous Jimi Hendrix guitar anthem rendition to start the program. It attracted park wandering bystanders.

A trombonist sonorously played the anthem solo while I asked all of different faiths to contemplate our Nation under God as they each understood Him. After audience sang first stanza of Anthem with small band, one woman sang its fourth stanza after reminding audience that US Congress approved all four verses as our national anthem many decades ago.

Each year was different. But they all had the first 3 sections.

IN ADDITION TO: This is not meant to detract or distract from crucial Republic Re-inhabiting activity. But the re-ignited patriotism and possible contacts for more Re-inhabit activity can only be a plus, in my opinion.

OH, YEA! Get people to help.

GOD BLESS AMERICA: We just need to remind folks what America is!

AND ASK YOURSELF: How many places, annually read our Nation’s “birth certificate”

on it’s birthday?

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

Let's celebrate 1491, Everything after is the crime of the century.

Fuck your save day:

As the Fourth of July grows closer, let us examine the reality of "independence day". BAR is republishing this article from 2021.

The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end slavery. The "patriots" motives were anything but noble.

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” -- Declaration of Independence

The July 4 holiday in the United States commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Anyone educated in this country has been propagandized with lies about patriotic colonists seeking freedom from a tyrannical British monarch. Our minds were filled with tales of Paul Revere and Betsy Ross which erase the role that indigenous and Black people played as they attempted to end true tyranny over their lives. The present day traditions of enjoying cookouts, vacations, and fireworks should not obscure the true meaning of this date. In fact, analyzing this history is an absolute necessity.

The men who every school child is taught to think of as “patriots” had two concerns which pushed them to declare independence. First, in 1763 the British emerged victorious after the end of a conflict against France. It was known in Europe as the Seven Years War and in America as the French and Indian War. The American moniker existed precisely because the French allied themselves with indigenous nations against the British. British victory brought them French held territory west of the Appalachians in the region now comprising midwestern states, but they knew they could not easily end indigenous wars if settlers along the eastern seaboard were allowed to go further west.

Because of continued resistance from leaders such as Pontiac of the Ottawa nation, King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763, which forbade settlement west of the Appalachian mountains. One of the speculators poised to become a wealthier man if settlements were permitted to move westward was George Washington.

He was not alone in his wish to conquer the entire continent and to get rich doing it. Property claims had already been made in these regions, and neither he nor the rest of his cohort were going to let British treaties with indigenous people stand in their way. They largely ignored the edict and went wherever they wanted to go.

Their second concern was whether the British were committed to continuing the previously unfettered right to slave holding. In 1769 an enslaved man named James Somerset was purchased in Virginia and brought to England. He eventually escaped but was recaptured and was in the process of being sold to Jamaica. But Somerset had friends who went to court on his behalf. In 1772 a judge ruled that enslaved people could not be forcibly removed from England.

The ruling didn’t end slavery in British territories and in fact it lasted in those regions for 50 more years. But even this narrow decision was too much for white Americans who feared that the crown might undermine or even end their right to slaveholding.

The ongoing effort to subdue native peoples created more conflict with colonial settlers. Virginia’s royal governor Lord Dunmore joined colonists in encroaching on western native lands and he incited the short lived Dunmore’s War 1774. But the marriage of convenience was short lived as the crown sought to keep the settlers under control by seizing their stores of gunpowder. The battle of Lexington and Concord was just one result of this conflict over armaments. In Virginia it ended with Dunmore taking refuge on a ship offshore in 1775. From that hiding place he hoped to manage people who were determined to do what they wanted. He declared martial law, threatened to burn Williamsburg to the ground, and declared that enslaved people would win freedom by serving in the king’s army. Some 800 of them did just that and formed what became known as the Ethiopian Regiment. White settlers were in a constant state of fear of slave revolts and Dunmore’s actions meant to keep them in check only heightened their determination to run the country without British interference.

While slaveholding appeared to be under threat, British efforts to create loyalty among the people of Quebec again threatened the colonists’ plan to take the entire continent. The Quebec Act of 1774 provided religious freedom to Catholics and declared that their land claims extended to the regions of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley that American colonists wanted for themselves.

The crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement. But their interests were also hostile to one another and war was the inevitable result. White settlers wanted full independence for themselves and no control over their actions at all.

The indigenous populations were nearly eradicated in the decades long quest for conquest. Expanding slavery was an integral part of those efforts against native peoples. Genocide could not be carried out completely nor could any accommodation be made with European nations in the quest to control land from sea to shining sea. That is why the settlers declared their independence.

The process of decolonizing ourselves is a difficult one. We have been cut off from our history and we don’t know where or how our people played a part. As we try to educate ourselves we may find it difficult to give up traditions that we have claimed as our own. Regardless of personal choices made on July 4th, the causes of the Declaration of Independence must be known and acknowledged. That is the beginning of true independence for Black people.

Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents . You .

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Bruce Wales's avatar

WHAT: Local Public Reading Of Declaration Of Independence

WHEN: Upcoming Independence Day

WHERE: City park, Elks meeting hall, church fellowship room, local tavern, etc

WHY: To remind Americans that it is their RIGHT AND DUTY TO ALTER OR ABOLISH their government if it does not serve its purpose, namely, secure their liberties, etc. My way of saying this reminding will “grow patriotic spines again”.

(Of course, Republic Re-inhabiting efforts provide remedies in a constitutional, law-abiding way.)

HOW: Program of 4 parts with 4 invited people to read/speak on each part

1. Historical context of Declaration Of Independence (findable online)

2. Actual reading of DOI

3. What happened to the 56 signers of the DOI? (Online again)

4. Nation under God

We did this for 18 years in our small town of Payson Arizona in the city park

Some attended annually.

Newcomers often said “I had no idea.” “This ought to be mandatory attendance.”

Some teared up.

ADVICE: Find people who actually speak distinctly and are not afraid of a microphone.

Have a PA system with main microphone for the speakers. And one in the audience for feedback. - After section 4.

TYPICALLY: We ran recorded children CD singing many patriotic songs from National Anthem to Yankee Doodle Dandy as walk-in music, in between speakers, etc.

MY TAKE: Since all were invited via newspaper ad, many political parties and apolitical folk were probably in attendance.

CAUTION: This is not a venue for candidates running for office to speak. Therefore, they are not invited to.

WHO: Over the years teachers, radio announcers, patriotic common folk, preacher, etc were asked to take one of the four 10 minute sections.

RECORD: We had video recordings at the time and even started a readthedeclaration.org site. But it did not do so well.

TRY IT - YOU’LL LIKE IT! Amazing how many people will answer an ad requesting volunteer patriotic readings. Amazing how many patriotic bonds are formed through the presenting process.

UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS: The first years two homeschooled siblings recited the DOI alternating lines! Teenage guitarist did a fabulous Jimi Hendrix guitar anthem rendition to start the program. It attracted park wandering bystanders.

A trombonist sonorously played the anthem solo while I asked all of different faiths to contemplate our Nation under God as they each understood Him. After audience sang first stanza of Anthem with small band, one woman sang its fourth stanza after reminding audience that US Congress approved all four verses as our national anthem many decades ago.

Each year was different. But they all had the first 3 sections.

IN ADDITION TO: This is not meant to detract or distract from crucial Republic Re-inhabiting activity. But the re-ignited patriotism and possible contacts for more Re-inhabit activity can only be a plus, in my opinion.

OH, YEA! Get people to help.

GOD BLESS AMERICA: We just need to remind folks what America is!

AND ASK YOURSELF: How many places, annually read our Nation’s “birth certificate”

on it’s birthday?

Expand full comment
Bruce Wales's avatar

WHAT: Local Public Reading Of Declaration Of Independence

WHEN: Upcoming Independence Day

WHERE: City park, Elks meeting hall, church fellowship room, local tavern, etc

WHY: To remind Americans that it is their RIGHT AND DUTY TO ALTER OR ABOLISH their government if it does not serve its purpose, namely, secure their liberties, etc. My way of saying this will “grow patriotic spines again”.

(Of course, Republic Re-inhabiting efforts provide remedies in a constitutional, law-abiding way.)

HOW: Program of 4 parts with 4 invited people to read/speak on each part

1. Historical context of Declaration Of Independence (findable online)

2. Actual reading of DOI

3. What happened to the 56 signers of the DOI? (Online again)

4. Nation under God

We did this for 18 years in our small town of Payson Arizona in the city park

Some attended annually.

Newcomers often said “I had no idea.” “This ought to be mandatory attendance.”

Some teared up.

ADVICE: Find people who actually speak distinctly and are not afraid of a microphone.

Have a PA system with main microphone for the speakers. And one in the audience for feedback. - After section 4.

TYPICALLY: We ran recorded children CD singing many patriotic songs from National Anthem to Yankee Doodle Dandy as walk-in music, in between speakers, etc.

MY TAKE: Since all were invited via newspaper ad, many political parties and apolitical folk were probably in attendance.

CAUTION: This is not a venue for candidates running for office to speak. Therefore, they are not invited to.

WHO: Over the years teachers, radio announcers, patriotic common folk, preacher, etc were asked to take one of the four 10 minute sections.

RECORD: We had video recordings at the time and even started a readthedeclaration.org site. But it did not do so well.

TRY IT - YOU’LL LIKE IT! Amazing how many people will answer an ad requesting volunteer patriotic readings. Amazing how many patriotic bonds are formed through the presenting process.

UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS: The first years two homeschooled siblings recited the DOI alternating lines! Teenage guitarist did a fabulous Jimi Hendrix guitar anthem rendition to start the program. It attracted park wandering bystanders.

A trombonist sonorously played the anthem solo while I asked all of different faiths to contemplate our Nation under God as they each understood Him. After audience sang first stanza of Anthem with small band, one woman sang its fourth stanza after reminding audience that US Congress approved all four verses as our national anthem many decades ago.

Each year was different. But they all had the first 3 sections.

IN ADDITION TO: This is not meant to detract or distract from crucial Republic Re-inhabiting activity. But the re-ignited patriotism and possible contacts for more Re-inhabit activity can only be a plus, in my opinion.

OH, YEA! Get people to help.

GOD BLESS AMERICA: We just need to remind folks what America is!

AND ASK YOURSELF: How many places, annually read our Nation’s “birth certificate”

on it’s birthday?

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Congress just passed a BRUTAL BETRAYAL BILL that robs from the poor and neediest to give more to the rapacious rich and psychotic murderous Military Industrial Complex, NOT what Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and promoting The General Welfare is supposed to be!

We the People must restore The Constitutional Republic!

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! technocracy.news

This horrifying Governor 'Gulag' Hochul, Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

BURN BACK BETTER!

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!

I also have a landline, a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, and I never had or will have those infernal mobile devices designed to enslave you. I also use cash as much as possible, no cash is TOTAL SLAVERY.

It is heartbreaking to witness the holocausts happening and so many fellow citizens are brainwashed/bamboozled by the propaganda media, they are oblivious!

MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE! THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough!

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal! And kinetic military ops!

Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!

Please check out this substack! ponerology.substack.com

JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.

Can't say this often enough!

SCREW THE HYPOCHONDRIA GERMAPHOBIC FEAR HYSTERIA! DO NOT CONSENT! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

For your readers, Sir.

Here, while it is still up on FuckYouTube, free (sic):

https://youtu.be/NgQ6nb0QPIs?si=468hcoYxjSS_XNUg

The BBC commissioned the documentary: The film, made by Basement Films, was intended to highlight the experiences of medics in Gaza.

Impartiality concerns: The BBC stated that broadcasting the material "risked creating a perception of partiality that would not meet the high standards that the public rightly expect of the BBC".

Previous incident and pause: Production of Doctors Under Attack was paused in April 2025 following a controversy surrounding another documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, where the narrator was the child of a Hamas minister. The BBC initially said it would wait for the findings of a review into the earlier film before proceeding with Doctors Under Attack.

Transfer of ownership: The BBC ultimately transferred ownership of the film material to Basement Films.

Broadcast by Channel 4: Channel 4 acquired the documentary and broadcast it, with their Head of News and Current Affairs stating it offered "powerful evidence" about the experiences of doctors in Gaza.

Context and related information:

Allegations in the film: The documentary features firsthand accounts of alleged Israeli military attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers in Gaza, which some argue would constitute war crimes. The film also includes allegations of abuse and torture of Palestinian detainees, and accusations of complicity against Israeli medics.

Criticism of the BBC's decision: The BBC's decision has been criticized by various parties, including the documentary filmmakers, who felt the decision was politically motivated and hindered important journalism. Some BBC journalists also signed a letter calling the decision a "political decision" that didn't reflect the film's quality.

Channel 4's perspective: Channel 4 defended its decision to air the documentary, emphasizing the importance of telling stories people need to know, even if they are uncomfortable. They also stated they conducted rigorous editorial checks.

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