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May 21, 2021 - Jim Fetzer
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Need to Know (20 May 2021) with David Scorpio and Carl Herman
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This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, where I'm delighted today to be joined by David Scorpio from the exotic land of Ecuador and Carl Herman from San Ramon, California.
We're here to bring you all the news you need to know.
We begin with a blockbuster This is Mike Adams and Natural News at their best.
Connecticut government secretly telling healthcare workers that COVID vaccines are deadly, that they're poisonous, but withholding the same information from the public.
Today, we bring you a shocking true story about COVID-19 vaccines, a government of Connecticut, and an open admission that the vaccines contain dangerous, even deadly substances, spike proteins, documented and known to cause vascular damage to human beings.
It's all admitted right in the open in these Connecticut government documents shown below, which admit the vaccines can be fatal.
They're found at the following links.
Since Connecticut may remove them to hide the truth, we've also set up a mirror at Natural News.
The Connecticut state is admitting they contain spike proteins, claiming they're harmless even while the Salk Institute confirms they can be deadly.
In these documents, you will find astonishing admissions from the Connecticut government.
For starters, review the graph below showing the Connecticut government falsely claiming the vaccine's spike protein is harmless, even while the Salk Institute's published research reveals the protein damages cells.
The research, published in the journal Circulation Research, concludes We show that spike protein alone can damage vascular endothelial cells by downregulating ACE2 and consequently inhibiting mitochondrial function.
As the Salk Institute further explains, this is the first study to show that damage occurs when cells are explained to the spike protein on its own.
Thus, the government of Connecticut is lying to its own citizens, encouraging them to be injected with something that will cause widespread damage, even death.
Here we have some of the documents coming from the DPH, Department of Public Health.
We're getting more information about the vaccines at vaccine.news.
COVID-19 vaccine ingredients include SM-102, a toxic substance known to be harmful to human beings and animals.
More are coming out, where the vaccine checklist document secretly warns healthcare professionals the COVID vaccine could kill them, yet withholds the information from the public.
In this shocking example of what's coming out, the government makes healthcare professionals sign a detailed warning disclaimer.
Listen to this.
I believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
I voluntarily assume full responsibility for any reactions for my receipt of the immunizations.
Neither the provisioning mass vaccination center nor any of the release parties shall at any time or to any extent whatever be liable, responsible, or in any way accountable for any loss, injury, death, or damage.
Suffered or sustained by any person at any time in connection with or as a result of this vaccine program or the administration of the vaccines described above.
They warn healthcare professionals of the risk of anaphylactic reactions.
They also add Feelings of impending doom, loss of consciousness, disorientation, confusion, weakness, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, flickering lights, tunnel vision, change in hearing, loss of hearing, and of course, death.
This is very, very disturbing.
So that Mike Adams is doing everything he can to get the word out, but the state of Connecticut is concealing it from the public.
Scorpio, your thoughts.
This is amazing.
You know, it's never discussed on the mainstream media that these, you know, so-called vaccines are for experimental use.
I mean for, no, emergency use.
Sorry.
Emergency use.
And what that really means, the significance of that.
I mean, you're talking about no liability for the manufacturers of this because they're telling you up front it's emergency use.
And Jim, I'm just astonished by the number of people who are just willing to line up and take this.
You know, just this morning I ran into this woman, you know, an acquaintance.
She's gonna fly to Florida just so she can get the J&J vaccine.
Very proud of it.
Can't wait to do it so she, you know, her life can go back to normal.
And really, people believe all this because they saw it on television, and here we're seeing, you know, the dark underbelly of this beast.
It's astonishing to me.
Well, I did the Power Hour guest hosting today from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Central, and I may have shocked the shit out of everyone listening, because I began with this story, and I went from there.
Carl, your thoughts?
Yeah, powerful story.
Good comments, Scorpio.
So, until we get enough critical mass to demand arrests of these monsters, we're just going to continue to be under their attack.
So, this is no different from their business as usual, like putting mercury into vaccines and God knows who else.
We have VAERS, which is the United States official agency collecting data for vaccine injuries, along with its European counterpart.
I believe there were up to 15,000 total reported deaths after the vaccine.
And these agencies say that in their estimation, they only receive one to 10% of the actual harm.
So if you combine Europe and the United States combined, we're looking at a total of 150,000 to one point.
Five million deaths from the vaccine.
I believe that the German-American attorney's name is Dietmar Reingold, but I may have that horribly off.
He is saying that with his team of a thousand lawyers and 10,000 medical professionals, that this is the greatest crime against humanity in the history of the planet.
And Marcia Engel, who is the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and with Harvard's Medical School, she documents that Big Pharma Their combined profits of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the United States has a profit greater than the next 490 on the Fortune 500 list, and she is on fire at saying that they will never act in the public health interests of the United States public.
Carl, that's very dismaying.
Yes, this lawsuit is going to be humongous.
It's going to be the greatest tort action in history, and for good reason.
Meanwhile, 90 million has been revealed to have been paid in Bitcoin ransom
after 99 firms, including Guess and Toshiba, were targeted by dark side hackers,
the same who closed the colonial pipeline.
This is pretty disturbing.
Roughly half of all organizations targeted by the cyber criminal gang paid ransom money
with the average payment being around 1.9 million.
Dark web intelligence firm, Dark Tracer, has identified 99 organizations infected with dark side,
including fashion label, Guess, car firm, Toshiba.
Not clear which companies paid, but it looks like it was a lot of them.
Colonial Pipeline was a target of a huge cyber attack earlier, which halted 2.5 million barrels a day fuel shipment running from Texas to New Jersey.
DarkSide bagged the most ransom money in February when it got more than $200 million in payments from 11 victims.
Can you believe this?
DarkTracer identified dozens of organizations infected with DarkSide malware prior to the attack on Colonial.
The dark web intelligence firm published its intelligence report on ransomware gangs on Twitter this week, showing a list of 2,203 victims attacked by 34 different gangs, 99 of which fell foul to DarkSide attacks.
So here you have a percentage of DarkSide affiliates versus DarkSide developer, the share of ransom payments received by the DarkSide developer and affiliates.
Very disturbing.
Very disturbing.
Dark Tracers databases also show the hackers targeted companies across a main range of industries, including car rental company DiscountCar.com, plastic supplier Piedmont Plastics, California-based financial company Oak Valley Community Bank, and Gemzee-based ferry company Condor Ferries.
Not clear which organization paid the ransom, but it could be larger as there may be other payments not yet discovered.
Of the more than 90 million identified, 15.5 went to DarkSide's developer and the remaining 74.7 went to its affiliates.
This is because DarkSide operates what is called ransomware as a service business model.
Absolutely stunning stuff.
Here's some of the records related there too.
Meanwhile, The hacking model benefits both parties.
The affiliate is able to cash in on hacking without having the technical expertise to create the malware in the first place, while the developer is able to take a hands-off approach with the hacking of the target, but still gets a cut of the ransom money.
Under this arrangement, the affiliate takes a much larger chunk than the developer.
While many crypto asset exchanges are legal and comply with regulations around money laundering, Elliptic found that most of DarkSide's payments were sent to exchanges where regulations are not enforced.
Colonial Pipeline had been condemned by national security experts and members of Congress for paying a reported $5 million to DarkSide last week.
Their Bitcoin wallet contains 5.3 million last week before it was emptied and ceased operation.
Not clear if the hackers drained the funds or it was seized by the government.
Well, this is pretty disturbing.
Here's the pipeline shown, which was severely ransomed.
Again, you see the pipeline.
The company didn't say when the issue would be fixed, but claimed it was still delivering products already scheduled by shippers.
Meanwhile, Colonial Pipeline was taken offline on May 7th.
The Hackspark Concerns of a National Fuel Crisis.
More than 10,600 filling stations were still without fuel as of Tuesday.
A staggering 70% of gas stations in Washington, D.C.
were without fuel.
In South Carolina, 43% were dry, followed by 38% in Georgia, 27% in Virginia.
in Georgia, 27% in Virginia.
This is pretty stunning stuff.
Scorpio, it sounds like it's an open ransom, I mean, through the internet.
How outrageous is that?
There's a lot of unknowns in this story.
It's hard to know what's really going on with this because it's awfully convenient that, you know, this oil pipeline gets taken down.
And all indications are that they could have run the pipeline manually if they wanted to.
There was no reason to actually shut it down.
And you also have to ask yourself, why would they set up a situation where somebody could access the internal systems of the pipeline remotely Why not just have it where you have to actually be at a terminal inside the mainframe building there, you know?
It just seems sort of foolish to allow anyone on the internet to be able to, you know, log into, you know, the pipeline and control it remotely.
It just sounds very strange.
And it's interesting too that Bitcoin's involved in all this, and you know, there's a lot of Bitcoin news happening all at the same time.
There was a big crash with Bitcoin just a few days ago.
I didn't realize that they'd paid the so-called ransom in Bitcoin.
And, you know, just, oh, about a week or so ago, maybe two weeks ago, the president of the Bank of England said that Bitcoin would be taking a big hit in the very near future.
Looks like he was right.
Maybe he knew something we didn't.
And now I was just reading before the show that the federal government is going to start trying to regulate Bitcoin and crack down on it, and the IRS is going after it.
So it's just interesting.
I think they're sort of painting a picture here for us where we need more regulation and we need to have an official government, you know, digital currency.
So, and of course, it's awfully convenient that the hackers are based in Russia.
You know, of course, everything bad emanates from Russia.
And one other interesting little detail, you know, I've got a friend that's a truck driver and, you know, he's driving on the East Coast where all the gas stations were shut.
He said, interestingly enough, you know, a lot of these gas stations did not have regular gas, but they all had diesel to keep the trucks running.
So, I thought that was an interesting little side note.
Well, that's a lot of fascinating stuff!
Carl, your thoughts?
Money is dirty at the top and again until the public have enough demand to arrest these people at the top for looting what Robert David Steele and Katherine Austin Fitz estimate about 200 trillion dollars in total and through my own research the benefits they hide the obvious superior mechanics of monetary reform and public banking and those benefits are worth about a million dollars per average U.S.
So until it's cleaned up at the top, we're going to get grifting all down the line, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if these same ransomware grifters aren't the same looters just dealing with one hand and then the other hand.
Now, for the pipeline, engineering is always redundant.
And I've heard testimony from people who claim to be in that profession and they say of course that is applicable in our field too.
I mean it's just an on-off manual opening closing so there it would be stupid to just go ahead and relegate that to some sort of software control.
I don't even know how you would do that for software control without the manual ability to operate the same Equipment.
So this is again just a crime du jour and this tragic comic theater that goes on and on and on until these people are arrested from an overwhelming demand of the American public.
I think you and Scorpio have made a positive case that this is just some kind of fraud.
This is a mind game.
This is a deception being perpetrated on the American people.
It's not a serious threat.
It's a political stunt, which is perfectly consistent with what else has been happening in this nation in the last 10 years or so.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is reported to be running a secret army of 60,000 around the world.
It's called Signature Reduction.
Meaning the public signature is concealed because the army is private or secret.
The Pentagon is running a 60,000-strong secret army of soldiers, civilians, and contractors who travel the world under false identities, embedded in consultancies and name-brand companies, without the knowledge of the American people or most of Congress or, of course, the nations where they are operating.
The Top Secret Army was created by the Pentagon over the last 10 years as part of a program called Signature Reduction.
It operates both domestically and internationally using low-profile clandestine warriors who sometimes don civilian clothes.
The force is 10 times the size of the covert elements of the CIA and comes at a cost of more than $90 million a year, engages with 130 private corporations in locales like the Middle East and Africa.
Despite the undercover army's size and budget, Congress has never held a single hearing about it.
Roughly half the signature reduction force is made up of special forces, highly trained commandos who pursue terrorists around the world, including in Iran and North Korea.
Military intel specialists comprise the second largest element But the newest and fastest growing group is cyber warriors who use false personas and non-attribution or misattribution techniques to disguise themselves so they can track high-value targets, collect publicly accessible information, and engage in influence campaigns to manipulate social media, no doubt by planting false stories and others to affect public opinion.
Signature reduction programs administered by shadowy government organizations have no unclassified definition, portrayed by the DIA as what individuals might describe as operational security measures.
Needlessly vague, of course.
Moscow, in May of 2013, ordered a third secretary by the name of Ryan Fogle to leave the country and released photos of him wearing a blonde wig and carrying four pair of sunglasses, a street map, a compass, a flashlight, a Swiss Army knife, and a cell phone in an instance in which a clandestine operative was outed while trying to recruit a double agent.
Fogel's expansion attracted the attention of the international news media, brought scorn from retired CIA officials about the lack of tradecraft.
In other words, it was original amateur hour here.
Fogel's mock cell phone, however, hit a more sophisticated device.
Brendan Connolly, not a real name, works for a small defense contractor that produces instruments for signature reduction.
Here are some of the equipment found here.
A seemingly outdated phone concealed a covert communication device.
He was wearing a radio frequency identification shield to block electronic tracking.
I think this is just more utter nonsense.
The Pentagon pulling a James Bond act trying to conceal the extent of its operations abroad.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Exactly, Jim.
You know, a signature reduction is just code for keeping the public in the dark.
And whenever you hear the term contractor in this context, that's code for intelligence operative.
So we're just seeing a very small glimpse into a world where, you know, a secret world where power is truly exercised.
And, you know, They don't want the public to know anything about this because they want the public to keep believing in fairy tales of how the senators and the Republicans and the Democrats and the Congress is who wields power.
But there's a whole covert world behind the scenes that are that are actually pulling the levers.
And, you know, so much of what we see, you know, on television and for public consumption is simply a show to keep the public asleep and believing in fairy tales, essentially.
I think you got that exactly right, Carl.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, I'm with the different type of story.
The story of John Perkins, the economic hitman who wrote two bestsellers, and this was after 9-11 where he had to go public and violate his oath of silence on penalty of death to explain the real situation of the world.
He was hired as an economist, essentially recruited by the CIA, but then being paid through A another firm to control political governments of foreign countries so that in Central and South America, those countries became colonies of the US, whereby Perkins would negotiate with the country's presidents and say, look, you're working for us.
We're going to tell you all the deals that you need to agree upon for U.S.
corporations to come and manage your natural resources.
And, you know, you'll get a cut.
And if you play ball with us, then you're in power forever and very, very rich.
If you get any crazy ideas like Those profits of the natural resources of your country should go to your people, then we'll assassinate you either through the media or actually assassinate you.
So on its face, the American public has to recognize that the U.S.
military is the greatest criminal organization in world history.
This is the U.S.
rogue state empire.
Since World War II, the United States in these Wars of aggression, these ridiculous Orwellian illegal wars to dominate natural resources in other countries and the human resources to maximize those profits, have killed roughly 40 million people since World War II in these Cold War imperial neo-colonial wars of aggression.
That's over half a million a year.
That's about 10,000 a month.
That's like 300 every day.
So again, my bottom line is that we're gonna continue to be assaulted.
We're gonna be killed, harmed, and looted until we demand arrests of these psychopaths at the top, including corporate media that hide these facts away from us.
Carl, those are just stunning statistics.
Very powerful.
Meanwhile, we'll be right back.
Get this.
Fauci now admits vaccinated people didn't need to wear masks.
He was just doing it for a show.
When White House senior medical advisor Anthony Tony the Rat Fauci admitted that his decision to wear a mask indoors, even though his vaccine was theater, conservative commentators had something to say about it.
Brit Hume called out Fauci for saying on Good Morning America that wearing masks indoors as someone who is vaccinated was not based on science.
Britt tweeted, but he swore it wasn't theater.
Fauci admitted wearing masks indoors despite being vaccinated was based on imagery, not science.
I didn't want to look like I was giving mixed signals, but being a fully vaccinated person, the chance of my getting infected in an indoor setting is extremely low.
Very, very bad.
He admitted this to ABC host George Stephanopoulos, that he's now much more comfortable people seeing him indoors without a mask.
Let me state for the record that masks are not theater.
Masks are protective, how she argued at the time.
So it was theater when he denied under oath before Congress.
Fauci admitted he didn't want to look like a person with mixed signals, but he testified the opposite before Congress.
Disgusting beyond words.
We now return Leader McCarthy and the GOP Doctors are introducing a resolution to roll back the House mandate, which Nancy Pelosi has been pushing.
McCarthy and the House GOP Doctors Caucus are introducing a privilege revolution to force a vote on changing the House mask policy to reflect the CDC new guidance, and it's okay for ditching your mask indoors when you're vaccinated.
House Speaker Pelosi said she would not change the rules to match the new guidelines.
Added lawmakers could resume normal life more quickly if more of the Republicans got vaccinated.
The McCarthy-led resolution directs the House Attending Physician to update the mask-wearing policy currently covering the chamber and committee rooms.
McCarthy and the Republican doctors point to three widely available vaccines against COVID-19 and that Dr. Anthony Fauci observed vaccinated persons are at low risk of spreading.
On Tuesday, a dozen Republicans refused to wear masks during the House Evening Vote series and strategically stood in the well of the chamber to be captured by C-SPAN cameras.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posed a selfie on Twitter with three of her mask-free colleagues in the hashtag Free Our Face, Free Your Face.
Masks are impressive and nothing but a political tool, Greene tweeted, in the opposition.
I couldn't agree more.
Meanwhile, Representative Brian Mast told GOP conference colleagues he was done wearing masks and will refuse to wear them on the House floor going forward.
The Republican resolution slammed the House mask mandate as sending an erroneous message to Americans, leading people to think the COVID vaccine don't work, that it's not based on the best available science.
Meanwhile, the CDC Thursday announced fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks indoors or physically distanced.
And indeed, that ought to apply outdoors as well.
I think the mask mandate has collapsed.
Pelosi last week relaxed mask guidance rules to allow members recognized to speak on the floor, removing their mask before they spoke.
The House currently requires masks and is going to fine them.
Those who fail to observe are subject to $500 fines for a first offense, $2,500 for a second.
Every congressional Democrat has been vaccinated in 44.8% of the GOP, according to CNN.
Meanwhile, this actually was a report on a chart we did not see about the Colonial Pipeline hacking, so we'll finesse that.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
Well, Jim, you know, since the beginning of this debacle, Fauci's been talking out of both sides of his mouth and intentionally spreading confusion about what was going on.
And let's be honest here, since the beginning, masks have been nothing more than a movie prop in the great production of the COVID hoax, because it really psychologically brings to people's minds, oh, wow, this is real.
Look, everyone's wearing a mask.
This is real.
That was the whole point of it.
It was a psychological ploy, nothing to do with protecting people from little microscopic, you know, spiky balls floating around in the air that you might breathe in.
The whole thing is just absurd.
And what's interesting right now, Jim, is there's a lot of pushback going on because I think a lot of people have realized they've been had And it's easy for them to say, well, the vaccines are working.
Look, no one's getting sick.
Well, you know, the vaccines are working because this thing was a fraud from the beginning and the flu season's over with now.
It's summertime.
So no surprise that the case numbers are dropping because it's summertime.
And it's a miracle that the flu disappeared during all this.
And the other thing that's clear is that COVID has been a political tool since its inception here.
Everything from getting Groper Joe elected and covering up the fact that nobody wanted to go to his rallies, allowing for all this ridiculous mail-in voting.
To passing all kinds of draconian, you know, laws, and actually they're not even laws, just mandates by governors to prevent people from living their lives.
So hopefully people will use this as a learning moment, let's say, and refuse to go back to any of this crap and get on with life, because I don't think they're done with this.
We'll see what happens in the fall.
They're already talking about how we're going to need booster shots because there'll be new deadly variations coming, you know, this winter for sure.
So we'll just have to wait and see, but I just hope people keep with the pushback because one thing we see if there's enough pushback, they have to back down because they know there's not enough of them to enforce things unless people willingly go along with it.
Yeah, and of course we knew from the beginning that the virus is only 0.1 microns in size.
The mask can't filter anything that's not larger than 0.3, so it was never going to be able to filter the virus.
It's always been a political statement or a sign of virtue for Democrats who want to show their do-gooders.
Carl, your thoughts?
Yeah, well I hope Fauci gets pushed into an arrest for his connection to the gain-of-function increase of the Wuhan lab.
So this guy is just a pathological liar and a psychopath.
At the very beginning, over a year ago, he went public and said it, I think, was an honest statement.
Of course, people don't need masks.
And then he went back and said, oh, that thing that I said was a lie.
And then he invented a story so that the health workers could get the masks.
And now it's no mask.
And he says, oh, that was a lie, too.
And this is just the psychopathic behavior that will continue.
And may I remind everyone, That masking a healthy population as well as these vaccines are experimental medicine on healthy people, and that is just crazy.
This is creating a two-tier society of the vaccinated versus the non-vaccinated.
And the members of Congress who want to challenge this should come up with creative ways to do so.
As a public school teacher, beginning in September of last year, I challenged our school district.
And one of the areas of challenge that went through three levels of grievances and then an appeal to the school board was a meeting I had with the HR assistant superintendent.
And I said, OK, so tell me, do I have this right that As an employer, you have to make sure our safety standards as employees meet or exceed Cal, OSHA, and OSHA standards."
And she said, of course.
I said, so okay, so these whatever masks in California clearly don't meet those standards, right?
And she said, she smiled and said, yeah.
But then when she had to issue the report to me, She gave this bullshit sentence that actually claimed the district was exceeding OSHA and Cal OSHA standards.
And then, of course, you know, my follow-up question, that's fascinating.
Could you please share the documentation of these whatever untested, whatever quality face coverings exceed the standards of OSHA and Cal OSHA?
And then the people, the experts who are giving you this conclusion and the data from which they derived it.
And of course, that's when the district went silent and did not respond to that.
But the good news is, is that our union president and vice president is gonna push that very question
this following Tuesday.
So maybe there'll finally be some progress, at least on my end.
Well, you caught him in a lie, Carl.
And look at Fauci's, admitting he's lying, admitting he's lying.
No one ought to give him the time of day.
He's discredited himself completely.
He ought never to have been in this position.
Meanwhile, Vimo, this is shades of Hillary Clinton and her private email series, server.
Here's why that's a privacy nightmare for everyone.
This is about Joe Biden.
Newsfeed found Joe Biden's Vimeo account after less than 10 minutes looking for it, revealing a network of his private social connections, a national security issue for the United States, a major privacy confirm for everyone who uses the popular peer-to-peer payments app.
Friday, following passing mention in the New York Times that the president had sent his grandchildren money on Venmo, BuzzFeed searched for the president's account using only a combination of the app's built-in search tool and public friends feature, finding nearly a dozen Biden family members mapping out a social web Encompassing not only the first family, but a wide network of persons around them, including his children, grandchildren, senior White House officials, and their contacts.
The president's transactions aren't public.
BuzzFeed is not identifying them, but it's revealing they could discover all of this information.
The safety and privacy of all Venmo users and their information is always a top priority, said a spokesperson.
We take this responsibility very seriously.
By late Friday, the Venmo accounts tied to the President and First Lady Jill Biden were no longer online.
Privacy advocates and journalists have warned about Venmo's privacy problems for years.
Yep, the PayPal-owned app has persisted with features that can place people, including the President of the United States, at risk.
No other social network or service has contact-based friends lists that are publicly accessible by default to anyone and that cannot be made private.
People use Venmo to get paid, often using their real names.
They often also import their phone contact list or Facebook friends list, which the app highly encourages when you sign up, creating networks where people automatically friend dozens, if not hundreds, of other Venmo users to allow them to find After disclosing the connections, it may seem trivial.
Who cares if you know who someone's connected to?
But the public connections can be used to expose very private information.
Using a public friend list, for example, a motivated fan was able to figure out who won a season of The Bachelor.
Other examples are more serious.
Government agencies like the Drug Enforcement Agency have used the feature in criminal cases like the overdose death of rapper Mac Miller.
Using public friend lists and transaction fees, BuzzFeed found two members of Congress who were roommates in Washington, D.C., as well as reporters who were on friends lists with Trump administration officials, potentially exposing their sources.
Venmo's privacy failures were already a big problem for everyday folks.
That's been the case for years, said Jenny Giebert, the acting activism director at Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
All these problems are magnified when we're talking about a major public figure.
Accounts belonging to celebrities have also been found.
It's really fascinating.
There was an FTC suit in 2018 about how Venmo's parent company PayPal failed to properly explain its privacy settings.
Biden's transactions were not public.
He had fewer than 10 friends on Venmo, about equal to the number of voters who turned out for him in the election, but it was easily verifiable I say the parallels with Hillary are rather striking, though perhaps this is not as serious.
senior Biden staffers and the like. I say the parallels with Hillary are rather striking,
though perhaps this is not as serious. Scorpio, your thoughts?
Well, it looks like Venmo is just a wide open door for anyone to see what you're doing.
But frankly, you know, with any of these apps and anything you do online, frankly, I think you're foolish to think you have any privacy.
Your data is going somewhere, either to a private company, the government or some kind of contractor agency.
So, you know, I just I think we should just Except the fact that if you're doing stuff online, you don't have much privacy and don't assume that you do.
Although this looks like one of the worst design apps that's in existence right now.
Carl, your thoughts?
Well, again, when the biggest context is that money is dirty at the top, everything below it can't be trusted and you need to be aware and vigilant.
And just as Scorpio said, assume that whatever data that you have is going to go out there and then protect yourself as best you can.
Indeed, indeed.
Meanwhile, Israel is bombing Palestinian families in their homes, blowing up children in their beds, mowing down people in the streets.
It's almost completely one-sided, yet the media calls it fighting.
232 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank, 12 Israelis.
Specificity in language and numbers matters.
The number, I am sure, is much greater.
Israel continues to pound Gaza with bombs as the U.S.
refuses to join international calls for a ceasefire.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, as unqualified as anyone I've ever seen in the position of Secretary of Defense, has reiterated unwavering support for Israel Their bombs continue to pound Gaza.
U.S.
stands with its allies.
According to the Palestinian news agency, at least three Palestinians killed in airstrikes.
Lloyd Austin spoke with his counterpart, affirming U.S.
unwavering commitment to Israel.
Biden spoke with PM Netanyahu, also expressing support Israel's Channel 12 reported Tuesday Israel and Hamas were close to agreeing with an Egyptian brokered ceasefire, but it's very clear that Bibi wants to push it.
He wants to take out as many as he can.
The past was prologue, but Afghanistan shows we've never learned the lesson.
A thoughtful piece here by Gordon Adams.
One spring day in 1984, I walk with my daughter Caitlin down a scone path past the back gash in the earth that has come to symbolize the blackness and failure that was the American War in Vietnam.
This was the memorial.
As we reach the middle, the fold where one side ends and the other begins, tears were running down my face.
My daughter, 13 at the time, looks up and asks, Daddy, why are you crying?
My answer?
Because there are 58,000 names here that should never have been.
Afghanistan is the Afghan word for Vietnam, at least for Americans.
Vietnam was where American fantasies and goodness, right, intentions, virtue went to die.
For this generation, Afghanistan and Iraq have provided the same comparable opportunity.
Yes, Afghanistan is different.
Every war is different.
Fewer American soldiers died.
Far fewer lost their ability to function.
Physically, or especially mentally, America not as divided as we are over Vietnam.
Most Americans don't even know where Afghanistan is.
There have been fewer street marches, hippie street theater performances, tear gas.
America has been pretty silent for this one, unlike the last, absent a draft.
Few are directly vulnerable to military service, so no skin in the game, no card burnings.
And yet, Even from a national security perspective, 20 years in Afghanistan seems to prove America has never learned anything.
Same silly assumptions of rightness, same feeling we had a mission only to win but also establish freedom and democracy, same damn waste of money fostering even deeper corruption where the good guys went to make everything better, same phony rhetoric about bright light shining just around the curve.
Even the same dogged impervious enemy who knew the country and people, knew how to prevail, could keep supplying weapons and troops from a rear area outside the country, could claim in the end that this land was their land, that the foreigners would eventually be worn down and leave.
Same for the dusty air bases, miniature reproductions of the American Mall, where the occupiers could hang out in safety, pretend it wasn't happening, the fear, the suicide blasts, the elusive enemy, the locals, who gave them bitter looks from behind as they walked by, carrying a hundred pounds of gear, some of it lethal.
The same endless parade of politicians and policy strap hangers and temporary bulletproof vests sent to get an instant brief on failure, wrapped in the mantle of progress.
They took in the Potemkin briefings by officers in Kripps fatigues who knew how to dazzle, may even have known they were lying, calling it making stuff up.
Like Vietnam, we brought promises of a productive democratic future to a government that really only controlled urban areas and virtually none of the countryside.
So what happened to the locals who detached themselves to foreign military and corporate machine?
They hoped for income, for America even, Believing the bulky, invading behemoth would bring them modernity, democracy, job security, peace.
How do they fare?
God, have we been here before.
Even the endgame is familiar.
A few generals and admirals, once they've retired, will tsk tsk and say they always knew it was a doomed enterprise.
David Petraeus of The World will stride confidently into studios to declare what a terrible mistake it is to leave, to abandon a cause that could have been won and won and won 20 years beyond time.
How our credibility was shot to hell by cutting and running.
And round and round we will go.
Only the American people will care even less than they did about the failure in Vietnam.
Some of the returnees will fold their uniforms in a trunk somewhere in the attic or a box in a tool room in the basement and try to forget about it.
Many will march into post-uniform jobs and do well, make money even.
Others will hit the saloon.
Lose themselves in a glass of amber liquid or in an amber-covered pill bottle.
Some will help further militarize America's police forces by taking field tactics and equipment
they learned in Afghanistan into American streets to at least have order and predictability at home.
And the councils of power down in DC where minions scurry from office
to offer officing solutions and promises disconnected from reality.
The next generation of policy makers will conjure new dreams of empire and influence.
maybe there'll be more soldiers in Dubato or US.
bases in Niger, scooping out ISIS remnants in eastern Syria or towns we'll never hear about, or chasing insurgents deep in Bindaneo somewhere, where the insurgents are sure to outlast them.
We made the world no better with this war.
Once again, we lost our soul.
Shattered more lives, theirs and ours, for generations to come.
With names that should never be there.
When will we ever learn?
Here it is.
All the 53,000 names that should never have been.
Scorpio, your thoughts?
That's a great article.
A lot of food for thought there, Jim.
You know, there are a lot of similarities between Vietnam and Afghanistan, but one thing the author left out is, you know, according to Fletcher Prouty, you know, author of The Secret Team, Vietnam, North Vietnam was actually armed by covert forces, the CIA, you know, to help bring this communist threat and make it real.
He documents it quite well.
He was in a unique position to know such things.
So, America has a habit of creating future enemies.
It's happened many times.
That's just one example.
And, you know, another thing too is that, you know, according to Bo Grites, you know,
both Afghanistan and Vietnam had a lot to do with heroin in poppy production.
You know, Bo Greitz was, you know, said for years that, you know, heroin was smuggled back within the bodies of dead servicemen, and they were actually protecting the poppy fields, just like in Afghanistan.
And of course, Afghanistan has tremendous natural resources, most notably the lithium mines there that are really second only to Bolivia.
So that's another factor in all of this.
And, you know, the other reason America loses these wars is that we really have nothing to fight for in Afghanistan, whereas the Afghanis certainly do.
And it's just an example of trying to force Muslim countries into the, you know, to shoehorn them into Western-style democracies and Western-style civilizations.
And I don't think we have any right to do that.
Each country needs to decide the kind of civilization they want to have.
And we don't necessarily have to like it.
Each country has to work things out amongst their own people.
America isn't some, you know, godlike, you know, entity that can just come in and, you know, kill a bunch of people and somehow turn it into a democracy.
The whole idea is actually pretty absurd when you think about it.
And, you know, going to the first article about Gaza, And Israel, it's really interesting how they're always saying that, you know, the fighting continues or it's a war between Hamas and Israel.
It's not a war because, you know, the Palestinians don't have an army.
They don't have an armed forces really.
And, you know, it's interesting.
they're saying a couple hundred, no, 250 people were killed.
You know, according to other sources, over 400 Palestinians have been killed
and actually 70,000 people are now homeless within Palestine because of this.
And those are the figures that Amy Goodman on Democracy Now was citing,
who was a pretty unreliable source for most things, but she does seem to report more accurately
about the atrocities in Israel than other news organizations,
although she's not reliable on many things, but it's also good to watch Democracy Now occasionally
because it throws off the algorithms.
YouTube will have no idea who you are if you watch a couple episodes of that along with the stuff you usually watch.
And you know the last thing the guy the point just going back to Afghanistan briefly Is that militarizing the police, this really is a big issue because they do give priority to, you know, vets from Afghanistan in the Iraq War to become police officers, which is really terrible because most of these people really are suffering from PTSD and were horribly traumatized by the things they were forced to do and unleashing them as police officers within the United States
Is not good for them and it's not good for America either.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
100%.
I think BB wants to make them all homeless so they'll leave Gaza.
He's really trying to depopulate Gaza.
He's even talking about conquering Gaza as though it weren't the world's largest concentration camp completely under Israeli control.
Carl, your thoughts?
Yeah, well said, both of you guys.
So, the Israeli government has a war blockade onto Gaza, which is war, and it isn't a war with, it's a war on Gaza.
and that this is, Jim, exactly it is a concentration camp and that Israel is free to slowly starve, torture,
and then engage in direct harm and killing through military attacks.
And corporate media in the United States is complicit in this for these crimes.
And this is part of the ongoing total.
Well, actually this is indirect.
This isn't part of the total.
But if you take again that 40 million killed through the US direct military attacks, it's the same thing.
And all of it is Orwellian illegal.
And all of it is promoted by US.
corporate media criminal complicit lies.
For Afghanistan, beginning in September of 2001, the U.S.
went to the U.N.
Security Council.
The UN Security Council took legal command of the case and they issued two resolutions that are binding to all of the member nations for international cooperation, arresting the people guilty of 9-11 or the suspects for 9-11, and then putting them on trial.
The U.S.
instead threatened to invade unless the Afghan government cooperated with the U.S.
for military invasion and the arrest of Osama bin Laden.
The Afghan government said, OK, provide us evidence that bin Laden has been involved in any crime and we'll arrest him.
The U.S.
through George W. Bush famously said, We don't need any evidence.
We know he's guilty.
The Afghan government had a world press conference begging the world to stop the almighty U.S.
military from crushing their country.
And now, 20 years later.
20 years later of poppy heroin profits.
20 years later of raping that trillion dollars of resources.
And that's the rogue state empire that will only continue through death and evil, to lie, to loot, and to kill.
Wonderful, wonderful statement, Carl.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Scorpio.
And I just want to add on to what Carl was saying, and it's no accident that America is now going through an opioid crisis, both with heroin and other opioids as the result of this.
This is part of the business model that was enacted during this war.
American-made, baby!
Yeah, that's right.
Great stuff, you guys.
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Here's a comment.
Reminds me of the song Secret Agent Man.
There are all sorts of idiots attracted to that concept.
This is no doubt a signature reduction.
The idea has numerous objections attached to it.
One is the idea of corruption.
Accountability for funds is always a problem.
Abuse is the norm rather than the exception.
Don't ask me how I know, but I know.
A second is glaringly obvious.
Diplomatic immunity is routinely abused by embassy and consulate staff.
The worst that can legally happen to them if they're caught is they are declared persona non grata, PNG, as it's called in the business, and given a short time to clear out, typically two weeks.
Those operating without diplomatic status are referred to as illegals.
They have no legal protection and the penalties can range all the way up to death upon capture.
There are reasons for the traditional ways of conducting international relations.
Nevertheless, there's never any shortage of individuals who are either naive or see a mouth-watering chance to make off with loosely monitored money.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were apparently heaven for this last breed.
Meanwhile, Eric wrote of Need to Know on the 18th, I was somewhat surprised at your team's response to the Daily Fail, PCabe's name for that venue, meaning the Daily Mail, article about people preferring to continue wearing masks.
I read the article before hearing your show, and my take was it was sheer propaganda, attempting to convince people that it's fine, even good, to continue wearing masks.
It's a rather strange topic for a journalist to pursue unless assigned.
Interestingly, also, how said journalist was able to find these people who are so happy to mask up.
Also notable was a complete lack of loads of evidence of harm from the mask, even for those who are using their less-than-attractive features as an excuse to cover up, is the fact that many nasty skin, teeth, and gum conditions result from wearing masks.
In my opinion, that was a propaganda piece.
How appropriate, Eric.
I can't thank you enough.
Excellent.
Meanwhile, my piece on what's wrong with conspiracy theories, up about two weeks, has over 850 comments.
Check it out on Oon's Review.
Many are desperately attempting to defend the official narrative of 9-11 with very little success.
Meanwhile, remember, Although six of my books have been banned by Amazon, five remain available at Moonrock Books, including Nobody Died in Boston, Either, and We Didn't Go to the Moon, Either, From Orlando to Dallas and Beyond, Political Theater in Charlottesville, and the Parkland Puzzle, How the Pieces Fit Together.
Meanwhile, our final thoughts.
Scorpio, yours.
I thought that was a great email by Eric and he hit the nail on the head.
It definitely was sheer propaganda.
Totally agree.
And really, in a sense, it was just an article to sort of enable and to try to continue masking because it seems like, you know, the people who pulled this scam on us are disappointed it's going away so quickly.
I think they were hoping on keeping this going for years and that still might be the plan.
We'll know better When we get into fall and winter this coming year, with some super-duper triple mutant variant that's so dangerous you're gonna have to put your mask back on.
You know, who knows?
At least there are some counteracting forces in this, and there's a lot of pushback right now, so we'll see where that goes.
And Jim, I was just looking at that picture you were showing of the Pentagon with that
piece of airplane that was, you know, sitting there on the lawn without any smoke damage,
no no indication that it was in an explosion, just lying there by itself and a piece small
enough that it could have been dropped from a van.
Because remember, they had that big covering in front.
And then as soon as they took the covering off, oh, look, there's a piece of airplane
there now.
It's just so pathetic.
The lies we're supposed to believe.
And you know, Darrell Wayne, the retired pilot, has stated several times that if an airplane
had tried to make those maneuvers to hit the Pentagon that they showed on the radar, that
the airplane literally would have fell apart in midair due to the forces on the wing. So
the whole thing just doesn't hold together to anyone that has any knowledge or has looked
into the subject. They really do rely on people's ignorance to keep hoisting this garbage onto us.
100% spot on. Carl, your final thoughts?
Yeah, and just to emphasize that is that these aren't innocent errors, but
these are criminal complicit known acts of lies.
So I want to thank our readers for engaging but not just here of course but in the broader society where the contest is being fought.
The idea of that first comment of secret agent man, yeah we're propagandized in a psyop that is through The entertainment industry of James Bond and NCIS and even Star Trek to participate in this most criminal organized crime of the best weapons given to these people who are gullibly lied into these invasive lie started illegal wars of aggression killing millions and looting trillions and
If people don't know, in the surveys around the world, the U.S.
is considered to be the most dangerous country to world peace.
I think three times more than the next nation.
We are taking a look at this bifurcation between the vaccinated who are given permission to take their masks off versus the ones who refuse the vaccine who wear the masks of shame and to be silenced.
So in this crazy, crazy, disturbing world that we're looking at, where there still isn't daylight of any breakthrough, I do encourage people to be strong with what we can control, which is what we think and what we say and what we do.
That's all that we have.
And then surrender the rest, if you have a part of you that is spiritual or religious or whatever, to stand strong in this test of faith.
If you are more rational or scientific or both, then yeah, it's just critical mass and you'd better add more mass to the side of the scale that you want to win because the contest is on.
Either way, our best wishes for luck in the engagement and to do your best because that's all we can do.
Two final thoughts.
One to my colleague David Scorpio from the exotic land of Ecuador.
Yes, that piece of debris wasn't there for 45 minutes after the crash.
In fact, the Pentagon lawn was perfectly clear and clean of debris, indicating no plane had crashed there.
It turns out, in my conjecture, to have been dropped from a C-130 that was circling the building, not only does it show no signs of having been involved in a violent crash or having been exposed to an intense fire.
If you look carefully, there's a piece of vine entwined in the wreckage that is not indigenous to the Arlington, Virginia area.
A retired attorney, James Hansen from Columbus, Ohio, Tracked it back to a crash of a Boeing 757, of which there have been very few, that occurred near Cali, Colombia, where the pilots lost their way and crashed through a jungle where these vines are endemic into the side of a mountain.
The salvage was conducted by an Israeli crew that just happened to have it available to plant on the Pentagon lawn on 9-11.
Fathom that.
As far as my colleague Carl Herman from San Ramon, he's made so many wonderful points about these wars.
It's terrible that Nixon, when he abandoned the draft, Took away the motive for American families to care about decisions of war and peace because they felt they had no skin in the game.
They knew it wouldn't be their children, their sons, or their daughters who would be involved.
If we want to restore democracy to America, ironically, we need to bring back the draft.
Then American families will care again about these decisions and not let them be made by the executive branch, who is no longer even accountable to Congress, or simply making these actions to benefit private corporations and contractors who make millions, billions, even trillions off of looting nations, as has taken place for 20 years in Afghanistan.
Thank you for joining us.
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