EDWARD CURTIN—We know that with the planned chaos being used to shock people into submission through fear, there has been a drastic rise in depression and mental distress of all kinds, especially since the Covid-19 propaganda rollout with its lockdowns and deadly jabs. The magic anti-depression pellets dispensed for decades by the criminal pharmaceutical cartels can not begin to contain this sense of helplessness that continues to spread.
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BIG SERGE—The Soviet Union spent a considerable amount of energy evacuating factories out of the German path, although contrary to communist boasting these industrial assets were not rebuilt without a hitch in the rear areas. Evacuating a single factory involved hundreds, if not thousands of rail cars worth of equipment, and in the chaos of the war these loads tended to congregate at railway junctions, creating great heaps of disorganized machinery and equipment.
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Neither the NYT, nor CNN, nor NPR will sound the alarm, so it takes Jimmy Dore to alert us about the Restrict Act
2 minutes readJIMMY DORE—The “Restrict Act” being pushed through Congress with bipartisan support, ostensibly just to keep the Chinese government from spying on us, will allow the U.S. government to restrict the websites Americans can visit. In fact, by using a VPN to circumvent restrictions Americans could possibly put themselves at risk of being sentenced to 20 years in prison. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss this draconian effort to monitor Americans’ online lives.
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Useful Nazis? The rehabilitation of fascists is happening again
10 minutes readAMIAD HOROWITZ—The anti-communist allies that occupied western Germany didn’t only embrace Nazi scientists. Many former high-ranking officers from the Nazi military were brought back to head up the development of a new armed force in postwar Germany. Adolf Heusinger, a leading general in Hitler’s military, eventually became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Hans Speidel, another high-ranking German general during WWII, was the first four-star general in the reconstituted army of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).
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Roger McKENZIE—The United States is interested in safeguarding the profits of monopoly capital, which carries politicians in Washington around in its pockets like loose change. The United States also will not tolerate others, such as China, muscling in on potential new markets or swaying people away from its sphere of influence. China is seen as the biggest threat to the profits of the companies that currently decide pretty much what we will eat and even when we can eat it.