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Dr fakesey graduated at the top of the class in Boot Licking.

The Federalist, 1/13/2021: A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984.

If he was so good, why did he have to destroy the career of Judy Mikovits, PhD? Her AIDS research was further ahead than his. And don't forget the 2 Anthrax scientists that he and bob mueller went after.

Guess I'm not really a fan of his. Oops.

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That's just beautiful.

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We are in desperate need of a real "great reset". A Convention of the States, the first resolution is to repeal EVERYTHING after the ink dried on the 10th Amendment. All the Amendments, laws, regulations, court decisions, alphabet soup departments, etc. EVERYTHING Federal.

Now, let's look at what actually worked out for the betterment of The People over the past 200+ years. The list will be manageably short compared to today.

Send that list to Congress as an all or nothing.

It's a dream, perhaps even a delusion, but might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

How many more intolerable acts by the Federal government are We The People going to allow?

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The main piece I forgot to send!

The United States Enjoys Killing Mockingbirds (but likes to torture them first)

They do it all the time, but this short piece is about the World’s Most Amazing Mockingbird, Julian Assange. Having recently watched To Kill a Mockingbird for a second time in many years, it hit me hard that it’s long past time to tie this famous 1960 movie to the United States fear of truth, along with its eagerness to kill those who speak it.

Cliff Notes, available online, gives an intro to the movie and related items. “To Kill a Mockingbird is primarily a novel about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story covers a span of three years, during which the main characters undergo significant changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town of Maycomb, Alabama.”

Atticus is a lawyer raising his children on his own, with help from a daytime maid. He is played by Gregory Peck, in an award winning performance. At one point Atticus tells Scout and Jem that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Scout is surprised and wants to know why. “Mockingbirds only do one thing and that is to make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens or nest in corncribs. Mockingbirds are innocent creatures who do not hurt anyone and only make the world a better place.”

Mockingbirds are symbolic. They are known for their beautiful songs, with varied repetitions and artful imitations of other birds. Like so many species, these birds are in rapid decline, yet also considered one of the most intelligent species of bird. I fear the same is all too true for bona fide journalists, with Julian Assange heading the list by a wide margin. Ironically and by design, the CIA created “Operation Mockingbird” to infiltrate all major media stations and make sure the other media were “all on the same page, singing the same song.” They succeeded, to say the least, and continue to work relentlessly to infiltrate or censor any media that most humans ever see. (For example: youtube.com/watch?v=oVCbuAlSX0Q )

With a reminder from Scout, characters like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson come to be seen in the movie as mockingbirds, targeted now for exposing truth no one wants to hear. Tom is kindly gentle soul, a hard worker, black, and wrongly accused of raping a white woman; Boo Radley, though out of sight through most of the movie, regularly but secretly gives gifts to the children in the hollow of an old tree. He also helps them in important ways, as they finally come to realize.

Julian and his Wikileaks team have exposed rich and powerful people and governments, mass murderings, plotting and executing political coups, stealing resources, starting wars for corporations, and a list too long to write about here (see The CIA’s Greatest Hits, by Mark Zepezauer). Much of Julian’s work in exposing truth shocked the world--which mainstream media freely used to buttress their income, as they abandon him now--but it was his “collateral murder video” in particular that blew many minds, including my own. Video footage from a U.S. Apache helicopter in 2007 was passed by army intelligence analyst and whistleblower Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning to Wikileaks. The video shows a Reuters journalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, whom the Apache operators enthusiastically shoot and murder in a public square in Iraq. What I can only describe as pathological dialogue, between the airborne operators and their supervisor, goes direct to the heart of darkness of the U.S. Empire. After the initial slaughter, an unarmed group of adults and two children arrive on the scene and attempt to transport the wounded. They are fired upon and killed in their van, as it’s blasted to smithereens.

As the world now knows, we were lied to about “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, although the real aim of this war were and are rich oil fields, with untold billions now being made by Americans and others, in a still unfolding tragedy. Do some homework on Blackrock Investing and take a serious look into those behind “9/11,” if you haven’t already. And watch this short video of reporter Chris Hedges telling why he quit his job at the New York Times before the Iraq War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ETKNHLvEs

Then search: “WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007).” I had to find the URL on Yandex, but after punching a few keys came on this, from DuckDuckGo: youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw If that fails, you may need to do more searching for the 17 min. 47 sec. video (even here the tragic scene with the van and innocents being blown away, at the end of the video, was removed last I looked). I can think of no more fitting summary of the U.S. military-industrial mindset, for a clear insight into your taxes at work, and the desperate need for “turning swords into ploughshares.” [AKA, to abstain from destructive activities, such as war and violence (symbolized as swords), in favor of peaceful, constructive activities (symbolized by ploughshares, a farming implement). The phrase comes from the Bible. E.g., We must turn swords into ploughshares so that our children can inherit a peaceful world.]

If you make it through even half of the collateral murder video, and even if you don’t, I recommend watching or re-watching To Kill a Mockingbird. Black and white, technology of the day, excellent acting and plot, and a credible slice of the 1930s, with societal problems that are on steroids today.

And the all-too-perfect metaphor for what the U.S. and others are doing to Julian Assange for telling truth, and thus to chill and eliminate serious reporting from other journalists, making our First Amendment utterly null and void (the one Amendment that Thomas Jefferson and others have deemed more important than the Constitution itself), and now most likely sentencing Julian to death with 175 years in what is hailed as the worst of American prisons. Here is a one hour video, easily skimmed, for a look into the history and importance of this case: youtube.com/watch?v=oVCbuAlSX0Q (If you click on the link, YouTube may misdirect you to trivia about your browser. If so, copy this link exactly as it appears here and make sure it doesn’t change.)

My personal conclusion, along with recent words from the President of Mexico who offered asylum to Assange, is that if we don’t free Julian, it is time to send the Statue of Liberty back to France, rather than make a further mockery of what the United States claims to stand for. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mexican-president-intervenes-biden-renews-asylum-offer-julian-assange

Daniel Geery

SLC, Utah

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Great one Josh.

Would you be willing to take a look at the following for editing, possibly fixing links? Feel free to say NO, no reason necessary. I'm sending it to DA as well.

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