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[Reprinted with permission from the author and Liberty Nation News, where this article was originally published.]

Americans have become more distrustful of federal agencies in recent years, including “vaccine hesitancy” because of alleged misinformation about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has criticized HHS and other federal agencies for “regulatory capture” by corporate interests that profit when the government approves their products. The recent departure of FDA employee Patrizia Cavazzoni, who worked for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Inc. before her FDA stint, has drawn criticism as Cavazzoni returned to her former employer.

Cavazzoni was hired at Pfizer by former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who left the agency in April 2019 to “spend more time with his family” …and then joined Pfizer’s board of directors in June of that year. The family relations appear to some to be nepotism: Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine sales amounted to more than $80 billion as of March 2024.

Leaving her post as director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just days before Donald Trump took office, Cavazzonni stated “Leaving CDER was an extremely difficult decision, but the time has come for me to be more present for my family….” Pfizer appears to be a big happy family for many former and future FDA employees, adding fuel to Kennedy’s campaign messaging that he planned to clean up the FDA’s act.

Regulatory capture at HHS agencies allegedly involves user fee arrangements whereby corporations contribute to the salaries of government personnel working on approvals for their products, and “revolving door” intermingling of employees who work both for large corporations and the government entities charged with policing them. Cavazzonni ticks both boxes, as a fan of user fee arrangements and a loyal Pfizer employee who took a two-year hiatus – to work at the FDA.

The Trump administration seeks to curtail user fee programs established in 1992 under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), which permits pharmaceutical companies to fund the hiring of FDA staff to oversee the assessment of submitted products under “commitment letters” approved by Congress, allegedly to enhance efficiency of drug review and accelerate the approval process.

MAHA Takes Aim

Kennedy and Trump likely cannot dismantle FDA programs established under current commitment letters, but most user fee programs are due for reauthorization in September 2027. FDA staff cuts may result in eliminating programs relying on user-fee-funded staff. Remarkably, Scott Gottlieb on February 7, 2025, “publicly suggested that FDA and industry encourage Congress to extend the term of the current user fee amendments rather than renegotiate with the current administration,” according to the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Floom LLP and Associates.

For her part, Cavazzoni was also an ardent supporter of user fee programs during her tenure as head of CDER, stating in an interview that working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic improved efficiency in administering the programs. As reported by Regulatory Focus:

“She also noted that user fee reauthorization processes moved along as parties held virtual negotiation sessions through the past several months. Public meetings will be coming later in 2021, and FDA’s user fee reauthorization packages should be ready for Congress on schedule, said Cavazzoni.”

Ironically, she also mentioned that the pharmaceutical industry and FDA share a talent pool, and that the government can’t compete with the corporate offers: “However, FDA is alert to the reality that industry is now wooing staff who have become accustomed to this flexibility by promising them the opportunity for fully remote work.” The center is now, she says, giving some hard thought to allowing more flexibility in on-site attendance requirements.

Gottleib’s and Cavazzoni’s door-revolving at the FDA is par for the administrative course. Former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan sits on the board of Johnson & Johnson, while former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn perches on the board of Flagship Pioneering, creator of Moderna. Kennedy calls such shifting an ethical conflict, but industry players are all on board with jumping ship (back and forth), even if a stint at FDA or other federal agencies is merely a three-hour tour.

Slamming the Revolving FDA Door

Critics claim the system fosters unacceptable conflicts of interest. Attorney Mary Holland, who replaced Kennedy as President of Children’s Health Defense, told Liberty Nation News:

“The revolving door swings again! It is a national disgrace that people walk out of our federal regulatory health agencies and into the financially rewarding embrace of the pharmaceutical industry. I sincerely hope that HHS‘s new commitment to radical transparency includes ending this corruption between mega-corporations and the state.”

As DOGE matures into a cohesive effort to root out government graft, expect Bobby Kennedy to take a dim view of user-fee arrangements that allow Big Pharma to fund their own products at FDA with salaries for their own employees. Americans are now closely watching who makes their vaccines, and who regulates them. Calls to impose time limits between hirings and eliminate conflicts of interest inherent in close-knit user-fee structures are increasing in an environment that many see as justifiable citizen distrust of many federal agencies.

Many Americans believe they are being double-jabbed by an oligopoly of pharmaceutical manufacturers who don’t bother revolving the door but just leave it brazenly wide open. Cavazzoni’s shameless jump into Gottlieb’s Pfizer arms begs closer scrutiny of corporate-regulatory family ties. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s scrupulous eyes are wide open.

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Last week the Pew Research Center released a new survey on religion in America; their first major study of this type since 2014. Upon the survey’s publication, I could almost hear a collective groan from Catholics, since we’ve come to approach such polls with a sense of dread. The question isn’t, “Will it be bad?” The question is, “How bad will it be?”

I won’t bury the lede: it’s bad. Really bad.

Only 19% of Americans self-identify as Catholic, down from 24% in 2007. This is a 20% decrease. By comparison, Protestants decreased by 21%, while religious “nones” increased by 81% and Muslims increased by an astounding 200% (although they still make up a small percentage of the overall population—only 1.2%). Even though the Pew Survey headline suggests that the decline in Christianity in this country may have “leveled off,” it’s clear the overall direction is downward.

The numbers get worse for Catholics. Perhaps the most stunning finding in the survey is that for every 100 people who join the Catholic Church, 840 leave. So when you rejoice seeing folks become Catholic at Easter (which you should), remember that more than 8 people have left by the back door for each one who’s come in the front.

No other religion has nearly as bad of a join/leave ratio. For every 100 people that become Protestant, 180 leave. That’s bad, but it’s not Catholic bad. Conversely, for every 100 people who leave the religious “nones” (i.e., they join a religion), a full 590 become part of that irreligious cohort.

Where are the former Catholics going? Of all the former Catholics, 56% become religious “nones” and 32% become Protestant. I think we all know from personal experience that these numbers ring true. What Catholic doesn’t have family members who have become Protestant or have stopped practicing any religion? It’s just part of being an American Catholic these days.

Like I said, it’s bad. But it’s actually much worse than you might first think from those numbers.

You might have noticed something peculiar about what I’ve shown so far. If so many people are leaving the Church, how is it that the total number has only dropped by 20%? Shouldn’t it be more?

Yes, but there’s something that keeps the numbers slightly afloat: immigration. As the Pew Survey itself states, “immigration has helped to bolster the number of Catholics in the United States.” So while millions are fleeing the Catholic Church, new migrants keep the overall numbers from looking horrific. I’m not saying our bishops are working so hard to keep mass immigration alive in this country to keep the true horrible state of the Church hidden, but the inflow sure does end up having that effect.

However, that’s not all the bad news (I’m starting to feel like a TV salesman constantly saying, “But wait! There’s more!”). All of the numbers above reflect self-identifying Catholics; it makes no distinction between practicing and non-practicing Catholics. If you say you’re Catholic, then you’re counted as Catholic. We know, of course, that what really matters, when it comes to the salvation of souls, is actually practicing the Catholic Faith.

Fortunately, the survey also asks about attendance at religious services, but these numbers are also discouraging. Only 29% of self-identifying Catholics attend Mass weekly. So only 29% of the 19% of Americans who identify as Catholic actually fulfill the Sunday obligation.

At the risk of earning broken record status, I think it’s even worse. The Pew survey doesn’t ask about going to Confession, but based on other surveys I’ve seen over the years, the total number of self-identifying Catholics who go to Confession at least once a year is around 10%. Let’s be optimistic and say it’s actually around 20% and that all those Catholics also go to Mass weekly.

Based on the very-minimally-defined idea of a “practicing Catholic” as someone who attends Mass weekly and Confession yearly, probably at most 20% of the 19% of self-identified Catholics are practicing Catholics.

Let’s run these numbers:

• 340 million Americans
• 19% self-identify as Catholic: 64.6 million Catholics
• 20% of those Catholics: 12.92 million practicing Catholics, or 3.8% of all Americans

Compare this number of practicing Catholics to the 98.6 million religious “nones”—there are almost eight times more religious nones in America than practicing Catholics. And then remember more than 50 million of the people who identify as Catholics don’t even do the minimum to be considered practicing their faith in any real sense.

Like I said, the news is bad. Very bad.

The two questions that naturally arise when looking at these dire numbers are:

1) How did this happen?

2) What can we do to correct it?

Obviously, we must answer the first question before we can answer the second, but unfortunately most Catholic leaders are wholly uninterested in that first question. They might want to talk about how we can attract new Catholics, but they will not seriously look at why so many are leaving. Yet, for every 100 new Catholics there are 840 former Catholics. We absolutely must look at what caused this problem in the first place.

Catholics ignoring the problem is the biggest challenge, but there is another challenge: giving simplistic answers. There is no “silver bullet” that will reverse the decline. Just spreading the TLM (the trad silver bullet) or improving catechesis (the conservative silver bullet) or accepting modern sexual mores (the liberal silver bullet) won’t solve the problem. There is no one answer for how to move forward.

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I’ve always been a staunch Pat Buchananite (and later Ron Paulian) non-interventionist when it comes to foreign conflict. During the 90s, I abhorred Bill Clinton’s adventurism in places like Bosnia and Somalia. Black Hawk Down is a great movie, but those American military personnel should never have been placed in harm’s way in the first place. It might seem hard for younger viewers to imagine this, but George W. Bush campaigned on what he called a “humble foreign policy” and “no nation building” ahead of the 2000 election. That was sweet music to my ears as a first-time presidential voter that year, and I enthusiastically voted for Bush.

You can say, “well, 9/11 changed things,” but 9/11 had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Iraq’s government, despite the Bush administration attempting to link the two in order to sell the American people on the war. The reasons for launching a war against Iraq were proven to be, at best, a horrible intelligence failure, and at worst outright lies. Now just about everybody, including most of those responsible for the war, acknowledge it was a mistake, and one that left hundreds of thousands dead, the area destabilized, and under greater Iranian influence. You can say, “okay, but we had to invade Afghanistan.” How did that work out? We ultimately captured and killed bin Laden in Pakistan, eventually left Afghanistan in disgrace after 20 years of pouring blood and treasure into what has been called “the graveyard of empires,” and the very party that was in control in Afghanistan before we invaded is now again in power. We spent two decades sending young Americans to die for absolutely nothing, not to mention the vast civilian deaths.

U.S. foreign policy elites can’t stop interfering all over the world. In 2014, we didn’t like the pro-Russian government of Ukraine, so our government lent support to the pro-Western Maidan revolution. The result of meddling by both the U.S. and Russia was the start of eight years of civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Russia, and Russia alone, bears the blame and the responsibility for starting the current war in 2022 by invading Ukraine, but a lot of parties, including the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., Ukraine, and (oh, yes) Russia, have a share of the blame for creating the conditions that led to the current war.

Since 2022, Russia has grabbed a large swath of Eastern Ukraine and has painfully eked out additional territorial gains, while Ukraine has successfully prevented Russia from taking additional oblasts and has even successfully invaded and taken some territory in Russia. And what has all of this cost? Billions of dollars and at least hundreds of thousands of deaths from both sides. Not to mention the loss of limbs, homes, and entire cities.

Now, in the abstract, of course, I agree that it’s wrong when one country invades another. (Even when the U.S. invaded Iraq.) But as an American, I can’t think of a good reason why I should particularly care whether Kyiv or Moscow controls Eastern Ukraine. These two people groups and nations have a complicated history going back centuries in which this territory has changed hands many times. The current borders are ten years younger than I am. Western Ukraine is heavily Ukrainian nationalist and culturally, linguistically, and ethnically Ukrainian. Eastern Ukraine has large minority populations that are ethnically, culturally, and linguistically Russian.

I don’t condone or support Russia’s actions, but it’s simply not my fight, and not in the interest of the American people for billions more dollars to be poured into that country. And in fact, it’s quite counter to the interests of the American people. Pro-interventionists point to all of the money flowing into American arms manufacturers because of this war, but I have a low view of that industry because it consistently lobbies for more war. And why shouldn’t it? It doesn’t make money from peace. Meanwhile, we’ve depleted our own supplies of artillery shells because we’ve sent our stockpiles to Ukraine, meaning our own readiness to protect the American people has been degraded.

More importantly, the U.S.-backed war on Russia’s border has brought the world closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point in my lifetime, and I lived through the last decade of the Cold War. Most people don’t think about what that would actually be like, but it would be the end of civilization as we know it. It would mean the deaths of hundreds of millions of people in a single day, and many more over the months to come due to starvation and radiation poisoning. It might set humanity back 1,000 years.

Think about it. In the 1960s, President Kennedy was willing to go to nuclear war over the USSR threatening to put nukes in Cuba. My dad and my grandfather built a bomb shelter in their backyard, as did millions of fathers and sons. It was that serious. Washington DC is over 1,000 miles from Cuba. Moscow is less than 300 miles from the Ukrainian border over which Ukraine-launched American high-tech weapons are being sent to Russian targets. Those facts don’t excuse Russia’s invasion or continued war in the slightest, but you cannot seriously assess a global conflict if you’re not willing to try to understand the other side’s perspective.

I hear pro-interventionists say things like, “We can’t live in fear of nuclear war.” Well, it’s easy to say that, but the entire world lived in fear of nuclear war during the entire Cold War. There were times when nuclear war nearly broke out accidentally between the U.S. and Russia due to human errors. I believe it’s only by the hand of Almighty God that we were spared that. Moreover, the fear of nuclear war was one of the main deterrents that kept the Cold War from becoming a hot war. You don’t have to like the leverage that a vast nuclear arsenal gives to Russia, but that kind of leverage is why nations want to get nuclear weapons in the first place.

Remember in Terminator 2 when the Terminator is explaining to young John Connor how the war between Skynet and humanity started? Skynet kicked off a preemptive nuclear strike from the United States against Russia. It didn’t do it because Russia was the enemy. It did it because it knew that Russia would immediately retaliate. The mutually assured destruction would aid Skynet in its goal of winning a war against all humanity. Even the dopey Hollywood writers were aware of the reality of American and Russian nuclear doctrine, but lots of people on social media think the threat of nuclear war is “no big deal.”

“Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?” This is what John Connor said in shock after the Terminator described Skynet attacking the Russians. You have to remember that Terminator 2 was released a few months before the fall of the Soviet Union. But even by the summer of 1991, tensions had weakened enough that a line like that could appear in a movie and not cause controversy.

That’s certainly what those of us on the Buchananite right expected would happen after the USSR broke up. It was a new chance for peaceful relations. Friendship. NATO’s original purpose, to deter Soviet expansion, was at an end. But NATO didn’t end. In fact, it kept expanding eastward. We stayed meddling in European affairs, and we continued a militarily provocative posture toward Russia.

Had the U.S. not backed Kyiv through words, money, and arms, it’s entirely possible that peace talks, which were underway shortly after the war began in 2022, might have resulted in far less loss of life for both sides, and far less territorial loss for Ukraine. Instead, it’s droned on for three years. Zelensky today said the end of the war is far away. The American and Russian-backed civil war lasted for eight years before Russia invaded Ukraine. Five, eight, or ten more years of war in Eastern Ukraine would continue to decimate the Ukrainian population. I have no interest in subsidizing more death and life-changing injuries. I have no interest in subsidizing more Ukrainian civilians getting kidnapped by military press gangs and sent to the front with little training. It’s time to do what JFK did: ratchet down tensions by negotiating. Let both sides get something that they want and forge a path to peace.

Let me address one final common objection: “We have to stop Putin now or Poland and Germany are next.” Every geopolitical foe throughout my entire life has been compared to Hitler by those who advocate U.S. involvement in opposing those geopolitical foes. So in the current context, Putin is Hitler, Russia is Nazi Germany, and anyone advocating for peace is a modern-day Neville Chamberlain. This analogy is employed because it packs a rhetorical punch, but it’s lazy and unintelligent. Hitler had taken Poland, Austria, and France within eighteen months. In roughly three years, Putin has only managed to take maybe 20% of Ukraine. Additionally, continent-spanning wars are incredibly expensive. Even if Putin wanted to reconstitute the Soviet Union, and there’s absolutely no evidence that he wants to, he couldn’t afford the attempt. Russia’s GDP is roughly equivalent to Texas’s GDP.

If Ukraine wants to go on fighting, they don’t need my permission. If Western Europe wants to go to war against Russia on Ukraine’s behalf, they don’t need my permission. But the United States should cut off the welfare. This is not our war. And the sooner we pull the plug, the higher the likelihood that both sides will hammer out a cease-fire deal.

This originally appeared on Being Right.

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Europe’s heads of state were outraged by Zelensky’s reception at the Oval Office. As compiled by ZeroHedge:

• Spanish PM Sanchez says “Ukraine, Spain stands with you.”
• French Foreign Minister Barrot says Putin’s Russia is the aggressor, there is one necessity: Europe, now the time for words is over, time for action.
• German Chancellor Scholz says Ukraine can rely on Germany and Europe.
• EU’s von der Leyen says “be strong, be brave, be fearless, you are never alone, Dear President Zelensky”
• Lithuanian President says Ukraine will never be alone.
• Portuguese PM says Ukraine can count on us to support it
• Czech Republic President says “We stand with Ukraine more than ever. Time for Europe to step up its efforts.”
• EU foreign policy chief Kallas says “Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to US, Europeans, to take this challenge.”
• Polish PM Tusk posts on X, “Dear Zelensky, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone”.
• French President Macron says Russia is the aggressor, and Ukraine is the aggressed people. We were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia 3 years ago, and to continue to do so.

Reading these statements reminded me of how Europe lost its head for Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1803, Beethoven dedicated his Third “Eroica” Symphony to Napoleon (though the composer changed his mind the following year when Napoleon had himself crowned Emperor).

After seeing Napoleon enter the German city of Jena at the head of French troops, Hegel wrote to a friend:

I saw the Emperor—this soul of the world—go out from the city to survey his reign; it is a truly wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrating on one point while seated on a horse, stretches over the world and dominates it.

In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the character Pierre Bezukhov believes that Napoleon is “a giant” who will liberate and improve all of Europe, including Russia.

What could account for Europe’s love affair with the Corsican of Italian ancestry who began his career as a junior artillery officer in the French Royal Army?

Undoubtedly Napoleon was a skilled military commander who was very good at killing tens of thousands of young men, but why did intellectuals and artists all over the Continent lose their heads for him?

The same question might be asked of Zelensky. I suspect that many of his fans have no idea how he rose to prominence in European affairs. Few probably know that Zelensky was the protege of the Ukrainian billionaire oligarch, Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

As Wikipedia describes his rise to power:

In 2019 Kolomoyskyi owned 70% of the 1+1 Media Group whose TV channel 1+1 aired Servant of the People, a comedy series in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays a school teacher who, defying all expectations (including his own), becomes president of Ukraine on an anti-corruption platform. In March 2018, members of Zelenskyy’s production company Kvartal 95 registered a new political party called “Servant of the People.” Twelve months later, they succeeded in getting their candidate past Yulia Tymoshenko in the first round of the presidential election, and on 21 April 2019 to defeat President Poroshenko in the second round with 73 per cent of the vote.

In an unexpected twist to this story, both the United States and Ukrainian governments turned on Kolomoyskyi in 2020, indicting him for multiple crimes in both countries. As with all things and people in Ukrainian politics—which has long been dominated by rival oligarchs worth billions in a country whose annual household median income is about $1000 U.S.—the reality of Kolomoyskyi’s affairs would probably be extremely difficult to elucidate. That fact that the Biden and Zelensky regimes turned on him doesn’t necessary mean he is guilty as charged. More likely, he’s no better and no worse than the rest of Ukraine’s shady oligarchs, including Victor Pinchuk, who was the single largest donor to the Clinton Foundation.

I mention Zelensky’s career because it reminds me of the movie the The Wizard of Oz and The Matrix about the difficulty of distinguishing reality from an elaborate and convincing simulacrum.

For now, it seems that Zelensky continues to hold great sway of the minds of Europe’s heads of state, just as Napoleon did in 1803, when Beethoven dedicated his beautiful Third Symphony to the Corsican artillery commander.

POSTSCRIPT: Several of my dear readers have suggested in the comments that I compared Zelensky to Napoleon. I did not. I compared Europe’s adulation for Zelensky today to its adulation for Napoleon during the first decade of the 19th century.

Here’s is Herbert von Karajan conducting a performance of it by the Berlin Philharmonic.

This originally appeared on Courageous Discourse.

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‘Germans are either at your throat or at your feet,’ quipped old war lover Winston Churchill.

Today, Germans are at our feet – an astounding 80 years after the end of World War II.  Though mostly reunited, Germany remains an occupied nation reduced to second class status and afflicted with war guilt.  Japan – also occupied – remains in a similar status.

The recent German federal elections brought the moderate, polite Christian Democratic Union to power, ousting the feeble, namby pamby Socialists whose primary goal was not to offend anyone.  Many younger Germans, fed up with Germany’s subservient behavior, voted for the new AfD, a moderately conservative party.  But AfD was blocked from the coalition leadership after a chorus of howls from the press and rivals that it was a neo-Nazi party.  AfD’s leader is a big-boned woman whom German media claims is a lesbian who lives with a south Asian younger lady.  Hardly a reincarnation of the Third Reich.

The liberal German and US media kept running reports on Auschwitz and other wartime atrocities.  No one took time to mention the Soviet concentration camps or the 27 million killed by Stalin in the USSR.  No one mentions that ‘Nazi’ stands for ‘National Socialist.’  The feeble US-dominated German press never mentions that World War II was begun by France and Germany, or how many times Chancellor Hitler tried to make peace with London and Paris.  Or how much German territory was detached in 1945-1948. 

The most significant point is that Germany remains under US military occupation.  This happened as result of what we believe was the Soviet threat in 1945 and after.  General George S. Patton understood this well and said that the US should have attacked the Soviet Union, instead of Germany.  He was killed soon after in a mysterious vehicle crash.  Pavel Sudoplatov, a former KGB general, claimed in his very interesting book, ‘Special Tasks,’ that the Roosevelt administration had many high-level Soviet agents.

Today, of the 84,000 US troops in Europe, 39,000 are permanently based in Germany, 10,000 in Britain, 14,000 in Poland and 13,000 in sunny Italy, more in Turkey and the Baltic states.  Many are air force personnel maintaining America’s control of the skies over Europe.

Of course, one must ask why 80 years after the end of WWII the US still maintains such large forces in Europe – not to mention Japan.  The US says it is defending against a possible Russian invasion.  But three years of war have shown that Russia is no longer the military juggernaut it was in the post-war years when its military forces numbered in the millions.

Russia’s Vlad Putin is a convenient bogeyman.  Claims he intends to invade Western Europe are nonsense. He might try to reclaim the Baltic states.  US claim’s that Putin wants to annex parts of the world are pretty rich considering the US invasions of Panama, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, Iraq, Somalia and, most lately, Trump’s territorial claims on Canada and Greenland.

The point is – how can a nation that has been occupied by a foreign army since 1945 be truly independent?  When it was revealed the US National Security Agency was tapping the cellphone of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, all the red-faced Germans dared do was huff and puff a little.

Germans should resume acting like a strong and proud people instead of beaten dogs.  Germany is the locomotive of Europe.  For Europe to reassume its key world role, Germany must lead the way instead of awaiting email instructions from Washington.

And it’s high time to forget about WWII.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

Did Covid-19 ever exist? There is no evidence the SARS-COV-2 virus particle was ever isolated and purified according to responses from 225 governments, health agencies and the CDC. This information came as a result of FOIA requests. 

See here.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

If anyone had any doubt, Steve Bannon remains a Christian Zionist. It will be interesting to see if he supports US fighting a war with Israel against Iran.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Watson Institute

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Today marks the 32nd year anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which was carried out by followers of The Blind Skeikh.  The convicted bomb-maker, Ramzi Yousef, entered the United States in 1992 with alleged Mossad mole Ahmed Ajaj, who was arrested at JFK Airport.   Ajaj was carrying multiple passports, videos of suicide bombings, documents on fabricating fake IDs, and plans for constructing bombs.  From prison, Ajaj played a major role in facilitating the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing.

Robert I Friedman reported in The Village Voice that Ajaj was a possible Mossad mole according to Israeli intelligence sources.  Ajaj was identified by the FBI as a senior intifada activist and according to federal sources and the Israeli police, Israel expelled Ajaj in 1991 to Jordan for conspiring to smuggle weapons to Palestinian militant groups.  However, according to an Israeli newspaper, Ajaj was never involved in intifada activities or with militant groups.  Instead, Ajaj was a small-time criminal who was arrested in 1988 for counterfeiting U.S. dollars and was convicted and sentenced to prison.   During his prison stay, the Mossad apparently recruited him per Israeli intelligence sources.  Friedman wrote, “By the time he was released after having served just one year, he had seemingly undergone a radical transformation. The common crook had become a devout Muslim and hard-line nationalist. Soon after, he was arrested for smuggling weapons into the West Bank, allegedly for El Fatah.”

According to Friedman, Israeli intelligence sources asserted that the arrest for weapons smuggling, and Ajaj’s torture and deportation, “were staged by Mossad to establish his credentials as an intifada activist.” Also, the Mossad allegedly “tasked” Ajaj to infiltrate militant Palestinian groups operating outside Israel and to report back to Israel and that it is common for the Mossad to recruit common criminals.

Friedman wrote, “If Ajaj was recruited by Mossad, it is not known whether he continued to work for the Israeli spy agency after he was deported. One possibility, of course, is that upon leaving Israel and meeting radical Muslims close to the blind Egyptian sheikh, his loyalties shifted.  Another scenario is that he had advance knowledge of the World Trade Center bombing, which he shared with Mossad, and that Mossad, for whatever reason, kept the secret to itself.  If true, U.S. intelligence sources speculate that Mossad might have decided to keep the information closely guarded so as not to compromise its undercover agent.”

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Thanks, John Frahm.

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Trump Gaza (Rhymes with Trump Plaza).

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Thanks, Rick Rozoff.

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Writes Vicki Marzullo:

This is a wonderful video from Brion McClanahan,”Trump the Wrecking Ball.”  I learned quite a few things in this video.  I highly recommend it.

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Ben Bartee

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House Republicans passed a budget that includes spending cuts and tax cuts. But is also raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. Only the heroic, principled Thomas Massie (R-KY) voted against it. Why do Republicans need to raise the debt ceiling unless they plan on a spending orgy like when Trump was president the first time?

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Writes Gail Appel:

Europe has only itself to blame. We don’t owe them anything. They’re so rabidly Russophobic that they’re commiting suicide within their own borderless caliphate.

See here.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

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