20% Of Retail Milk Samples Positive For Bird Flu: FDA – Zachary Stieber 4/26/24

Source: TheEpochTimes.com

One in five samples of milk from grocery store shelves tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced late April 25.

In a brief 237-word update, the FDA said that initial results from a national commercial milk sampling study “show about 1 in 5 of the retail samples tested are quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-positive for HPAI viral fragments, with a greater proportion of positive results coming from milk in areas with infected herds.”

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Israel Prepares Rafah Evacuation with US, Arab Assistance: Report – The Cradle 4/23/24

Source: TheCradle.co

The Israeli army is closing in on completing its plans for an assault on the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 23 April.

WSJ cites Egyptian officials as saying that Israel’s plan to evacuate civilians from the city will take two to three weeks and will be carried out in cooperation with Washington, Cairo, and other Arab states, including the UAE.

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 202: Gaza’s Civil Defense Finds Hundreds of New Bodies in Mass Graves at Nasser Hospital – Qassam Muaddi 4/25/24

Source; Mondoweiss.net

While Israel continues to attack all parts of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Civil Defense teams report finding more bodies buried in mass graves in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn. The Civil Defense says that some may have been buried alive.

Casualties 

  • 34,183 + killed* and at least 77,084 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
  • 487+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on April 20, 2024. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead.

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The Ghetto-ization of American Life – Charles Hugh Smith 4/25/24

Source: charleshughsmith.blogspot.com

Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.

Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto:

1. The residents can’t afford to live elsewhere.

2. Everything is a rip-off because options are limited and retailers / service providers know residents have no other choice or must go to extraordinary effort to get better quality or a lower price.

3. Nothing works correctly or efficiently. Things break down and aren’t fixed properly. Maintenance is poor to non-existent. Any service requires standing in line or being on hold.

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Cities’ “Doom Loops” Are Even Worse Than You Imagined – Charles Hugh Smith 4/24/24

Source; OfTwoMinds.com

This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home.

A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous sent me this account of the “doom loop” that is playing out in many American cities. The correspondent makes the case that the Doom Loop is not limited to specific cities, but is a universal dynamic in all US cities due to the core causes of the Doom Loop: financialization and the multi-decade decay of cities’ core industrial-economic purpose / mission.

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April 20, 2024: Final Nail in America’s Coffin? – Ron Paul 4/23/24

Source: Antiwar.com

When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024.

On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with.

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 199: Israel Kills 14 Palestinians in West Bank City of Tulkarem – Qassam Muaddi 4/22/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Tulkarem are mourning 14 victims killed by an Israeli raid on the city’s Nur Shams refugee camp over the weekend. The invasion lasted 52 hours and destroyed much of the camp’s infrastructure.

Casualties 

  • 34,151 + killed* and at least 77,084 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
  • 468+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on April 22, 2024. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead.

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FCC Knew Phones Exceeded Radiation Limits, Hid Info from Public and Courts – Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. 4/24/24

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) knew for years that certain popular smartphones exceeded the agency’s safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation when held close to the body, according to data obtained by the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Rather than going public with the testing results, the FCC hid them — even when important lawsuits concerning cellphone radiation’s impact on people’s health were underway.

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Telegram Founder Tells Tucker Carlson that US Intel Agents Tried to Spy on User Messages – Matt Lamb 4/18/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

Federal law enforcement tried to convince a Telegram engineer to change the software so law enforcement could read the messages of its users, the company’s founder told Tucker Carlson during a recent interview.

But he also warned the bigger threat to free expression comes from Google and Apple, which effectively control the use of apps on smartphones.

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Joey Barton’s Troubling Encounters Raise Questions About UK Speech Police – Cindy Harper 4/22/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Joey Barton, the former Manchester City and Newcastle footballer, has been experiencing incessant police visits as a result of his Twitter posts, creating what he describes as an uncomfortable atmosphere of intimidation akin to North Korean strong-arm tactics.

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USAA Becomes Second Bank to Cancel Accounts of Pro-Trump Lawyer John Eastman – Calvin Freiburger 4/18/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

Former Trump attorney John Eastman says that top Bank of America and military-family financial services provider USAA have both shut down his accounts without explanation amid the conservative legal scholar’s ongoing woes stemming from his role in challenging the 2020 election results.

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Billionaire-Owned Media Has Gone Full Throttle to Save Fellow Billionaire, Jamie Dimon – Pam Martens and Russ Martens 4/22/24

Source: WallStreetOnParade.com

The Washington Post Editorial Board appears to have sipped the same kool aid as Bloomberg News.

As we’ve frequently reported in the past, Bloomberg News has spent the better part of the last decade attempting to brainwash the public into believing that the head of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, is a respected statesman of Wall Street. (See here, here, and here.) In reality, JPMorgan Chase has admitted to an unprecedented five criminal felony counts with Dimon at the helm and paid fines in the tens of billions of dollars for an additional crime wave that rivals an organized crime family.

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 196: Israel Strikes Iran, Gaza Health Ministry Says Israel Destroyed the Strip’s Health System – Qassam Muaddi 4/19/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israel targets Iranian bases in Isfahan with drones, while Iranian sources say air defenses intercepted the attack. Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry says the northern Gaza Strip is left without any health services.

Casualties 

  • 34,012 + killed* and at least 76,833 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
  • 468+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

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No, The President’s Uncle Was Not Eaten by Cannibals . . . Seriously. – Jonathan Turley 4/18/24

Source: JonathanTurley.org

President Joe Biden has been long accused of false stories that have ranged from an invented arrest with Nelson Mandela to a zombie-like train conductor. Some are more serious like lying about influence peddling by his family or constitutional norms. However, as a military history nut, one new story stood out this week. President Biden suggested that his uncle Ambrose “Bozey” Finnegan may have been eaten by cannibals in World War II. What is striking about this story is the specificity of the key facts … and the fact that they are entirely false (other than his uncle dying near New Guinea).

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Trump’s New Streaming Strategy Aims To Reshape Media Landscape With Liberated Content – Rick Findlay 4/17/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Trump Social’s new streaming service promises a safe haven for content creators sidelined by mainstream media.

The Trump Media & Technology Group revealed its latest venture this week, a streaming TV platform designed to broadcast a spectrum of content, including news and films, that the company believes is often overlooked by mainstream media and Big Tech.

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28-Year-Old Dutch Woman to be Killed by Assisted Suicide After Doctors Deem her Autism ‘Untreatable’ – Louis Knuffke 4/16/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

A 28-year-old autistic woman is scheduled to die by assisted suicide in May in the Netherlands after struggling with depression and mental illness, with her psychiatrist telling her that her condition is untreatable and will never improve. 

Zoraya ter Beek, who does not suffer from any physical illness, has decided to end her life by assisted suicide after psychiatrists said they had exhausted any means of helping her deal with her mental illnesses, which includes borderline personality disorder, according to The Free Press. 

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Planned Parenthood Exposed for ‘Transitioning’ Children in Missouri, Forced to Turn Over Documents – Calvin Freiburger 4/12/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

On Thursday, Missouri courts ordered Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis affiliate to hand over documents pertaining to its subjection of minors to “gender transition” procedures.

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UK Insurers Refuse to Pay Nord Stream Because Blasts were ‘Government’ Backed – Wyatt Reed 4/17/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks.

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Target Illegally Collects Customers’ Biometric Data, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges – John-Michael Dumais 4/16/24

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Retail giant Target illegally collected and stored customers’ biometric data, including face and fingerprint scans, according to an Illinois woman who filed a class action lawsuit against the Minnesota-based company on behalf of herself and other customers.

Arnetta Dean alleges Target violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting customers’ data without obtaining written consent or sharing data retention and destruction policies.

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Ontario Court of Justice Says Participants Must State their ‘Preferred Pronouns’ During Introduction – Clare Marie Merkowsky 4/18/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

Pledging allegiance to gender ideology, the Ontario Court of Justice is now requiring all court participants to state their “preferred pronouns” before the start of each case.

On April 11, Sharon Nicklas, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, announced that all lawyers, clients, and witnesses in the court room must give their “preferred pronouns” at the beginning of each court case – a move that aligns itself with radical gender ideology by implying that man should be referred to as “she” and “her” if requested.

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 195: Israeli Army Withdraws from Gaza’s Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Says Rafah is Next – Qassam Muaddi 4/18/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The Palestinian Red Crescent accused the Israeli army of preventing medical teams from reaching the injured. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch said evidence shows Israeli soldiers are participating in settler attacks in the West Bank.

Casualties 

  • 33,970 + killed* and at least 76,770 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
  • 468+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

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NPR CEO Strikes Out at Editor Who Exposed the Bias of Company – Jonathan Turley 4/14/24

Source: JonathanTurley.org

This weekend, I wrote a column on the continuing controversy at NPR and the bias detailed in a recent bombshell essay by respected editor Uri Berliner. The company has long been criticized for its partisan coverage, including running debunked stories. Now NPR CEO Katherine Maher has responded and appeared to confirm that the publicly supported media company has no intention to bring greater balance to its coverage or editorial staff.

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Facebook Designates Grayzone Journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘Dangerous Individual’ – Kit Klarenberg 4/17/24

Source: theGrayzone.com

The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work.

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Top Timcast Episodes Are Deleted in YouTube’s Retroactive Censorship Raid – Rick Findlay 4/18/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Tim Pool, a well-known podcaster, has shed light on another prominent censorship action taken by YouTube. With retrospective effect, a couple of his most popular episodes of the Timcast IRL podcast have fallen prey to YouTube’s enforcement protocol. Podcast episodes that hosted personalities such as Joe Rogan, Michael Malice, and Alex Jones have now been eliminated from the platform, despite being on the platform for the last three years.

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Australia Bins 35% of Covid Vaccine Supply – Rebekah Barnett 4/18/24

Source: Brownstone.org

As part of its pandemic response, the Australian government purchased 267.3 million doses of Covid vaccines, enough to vaccinate Australia’s population of approximately 26 million people ten times over.

But figures released to Dystopian Down Under by the Department of Health (DOH) this week confirm that, three years into the vaccine program, only 70 million doses, or 26% of the 267.3 million doses purchased, have been administered, while 35% of vaccines doses have been wasted since the start of the vaccine rollout.

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A Secret Internal ‘NYTimes’ Memo Reveals the Paper’s Anti-Palestinian Bias is Even Worse than we Thought – James North 4/16/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The shocking revelation of the New York Times’s offensive internal style guide on language it will not permit in its Palestine reporting should prompt a broad examination of the paper’s longtime bias.

Kudos to the anonymous New York Times staffers who leaked the paper’s offensive internal guide about the language it won’t permit in its reports on Israel/Palestine, and more kudos to The Intercept for publishing it. The shocking revelation should prompt an even broader examination of the biased language that has long been routine in the Times and across all U.S. media.

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 193: Israel ‘Considers’ Strike Against Iran, Continues to Deny Entry of Aid into Gaza – Qassam Muaddi 4/16/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israel says it is considering a strike against Iran “that would not lead to a war” as it continues to restrict aid access to the Strip. Meanwhile, settlers in the West Bank escalated attacks against villages, killing two Palestinians.

Casualties 

  • 33,843 + killed* and at least 76,575 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 462+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

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Biden Admin Tells Congress Famine Is Underway In Gaza For First Time – ZeroHedge 4/12/24

Source: ZeroHedge.com

A top Biden administration official has for the first time declared that famine now exists in parts of the Gaza Strip, more than five months after the Israel-Hamas war began.

USAID Director Samantha Power said it is “credible” to assess that famine is already occurring. Her testimony was issued at Wednesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, where in her introductory statement she laid out that “nearly the entire population” of Gaza is “living under the threat of famine.”

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Police Raid Berlin Conference as Repression of Palestine Activism Escalates in Germany – Abir Kopty 4/13/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Berlin police raided and cut off electricity to the Palestinian Congress conference before banning the three-day event. Organizers say Germany’s antidemocratic authoritarian response to Palestine activism is growing by the day.

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