Month: Feb 2023

President Biden just gave Ukraine $500 million more to help Kyiv pay salaries, pensions and “services”- Meanwhile in the US Food Aid is being cut and hunger is now widespread.

from thefreeonline by John Stanton on South Front …

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‘The needs of Ukraine are urgent, and we plan to deploy this direct aid to Ukraine as soon as possible to be used on most urgent needs,’ Yellen said. NDTV.com

“In March, 32 states will begin cutting food stamp benefits for more than 30 million Americans, leading toward what some are referring to as a “hunger cliff.” This will mean that poor households will lose about $82 a month in SNAP [also known as food stamps] benefits, even as food prices continue to soar from inflation. (The other 18 states had already ended their emergency food assistance programs.)…The number of infants in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over the last five years. In 2021, the state was given a federal grant of $18.4 million to hire public health care workers. It spent only $3.6 million.” Jeffrey St. Clair, Roaming Charges, Counterpunch

If you complain about the billions of dollars going to prop up Ukraine’s corrupt and dictatorial government (pay their pensions, for example) you are branded a “Putin Apologist” by both democrats (particularly) and republicans alike. What gives?

Many Americans are critical of Biden’s scheming on Ukraine because they never got to have a vote in this multibillion dollar transfer of wealth and machinery to one of the most corrupt nation’s in the world. If ever there were a case for a national referendum in the USA, it would have been over this issue. Biden came to the podium one day about a year ago and essentially said, “The USA is sanctioning everything Russian and propping up our newest puppet, Zelensky. If you don’t like it, lump it.”

Republicans hate the thought of the hungry (children, too) and homeless in America getting any sort of handout from the US federal government, but they support handouts to a half-baked racist country called Ukraine which is happily ripping off US taxpayers with the blessing of America’s most virulent Russia haters like Anthony Blinken and Victoria Nuland, who are akin to sharks during a feeding frenzy when discussing anything Russian.

Guess what? Roughly 24 percent of US enlisted personnel are “food insecure” and encouraged by the Pentagon to apply for SNAP benefits through the United States Department of Agriculture.

Continue reading “The World Gone Wrong: The USA Proxy War Against Russia will Unleash Hell on Earth”

from thefreeonline by The Exposé on February 22, 2023 Comments …

Official figures quietly published by the UK Government reveal that the fully/triple/quadruple vaccinated population has accounted for 9 in every 10 Covid-19 deaths in England over the past two years and 92% of Covid-19 deaths throughout the entirety of 2022.

Should I get a Covid-19 vaccination

On the 21st of February 2023, a UK Government agency, known as the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published data on deaths by vaccination status in England up to 31st December 2022.

The overdue dataset from the ONS is titled ‘Deaths by Vaccination Status, England, 1 April 2021 to 31 December 2022‘, and it can be accessed on the ONS site here, and downloaded here.

Table 1 of the latest dataset contains figures on the mortality rates by vaccination status for all-cause deaths, deaths involving Covid-19, and deaths not involving Covid-19. And it is here that we are able to ascertain the vaccination status of everyone who has died of Covid-19 since the beginning of April 2021 up until the end of December 2022.

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Here’s how the ONS presents the figures for the month of October 2022 –

As you can see from the above, the vast majority of Covid-19 deaths occurred among those who had received three or more doses of the Covid-19 injection during that month. But this isn’t an anomaly.

So we took the figures provided by the ONS and have produced the following chart showing Covid-19 deaths per month by vaccination status in England between 1st April 2021 and 31st December 2022, a period of 21 Months –

The above chart proves that the Covid-19 injections are not effective.

May 2021 saw the lowest number of Covid-19 deaths, with 205 among the vaccinated population and just 84 among the unvaccinated population.

But fast forward a year and we find Covid-19 deaths increased by 450%, with 1,494 among the vaccinated and just 96 among the unvaccinated.

Surely if the Covid-19 injections were effective we would expect to see deaths decreasing year on year, not increasing?

Continue reading “The Fully Vaccinated population were 92% of all Covid-19 Deaths in 2022- It’s all a deadly Criminal SCAM!”

from thefreeonline by Erik Hoffner  on 22 February 2023 by Mongabay via Desertification -free-download . here.…

• Tree planting is widely promoted as a solution to challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss, desertification, and more.
• One less-appreciated benefit of growing trees is for their leaves for human nutrition, but a new book, “Trees with Edible Leaves: A Global Manual,” details more than 100 species whose leaves are highly nutritious.
• Trees are also much easier to grow than annual vegetables, being very simple to maintain once established, and benefit other crops when grown in agroforestry settings.
• Mongabay interviewed Eric Toensmeier, the author of this new resource, which is available as a free download.

Trees are good for many things, and their widespread planting is promoted as a solution to challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss, desertification of cropland and rangeland, to declining freshwater resources.

Continue reading “Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download”

om thefreeonline on February 21, 2023 by Free West Media ..

Clear majority of Austrians say no to war

VIENNA – According to a recent survey by Unique Research, 65 percent of Austrians want Ukraine to stop fighting. They want peace talks. It is interesting to also note that only Green voters want fighting to continue.

Ukraine-Krise: Österreich erwartet 200.000 Flüchtlinge | Heimatkurier

The effects of the war are becoming more and more dramatic. A current survey done for the magazine Heute is therefore unsurprisingly very clear: the Austrians have had enough.

They feel that Ukraine should finally sit down at the negotiating table with Russia, even if that means giving up territory.

Escalation spiral continues

“There are no compromises with the Russians,” according to Ukrainian President Zelensky. Not only has he demanded battle tanks, but Kiev wants cluster munitions and phosphorus bombs. The reason for the constant escalation lies not least in the situation at the front.

After months of fighting with thousands of dead, the Donbass “fortress” Bakhmut is about to fall.

Only Greens are still for war

While many European politicians (and much of the media) continue  their warmongering, a peace movement is therefore sweeping through Austria. The war is only still popular among the Greens.

Some 49 percent of the former pacifist party want Ukraine to keep fighting while 48 percent want peace – the rest are unsure.

Austria protest as far right Freedom Party tastes power – BBC News

Only 21 percent of respondents believe that Ukraine should continue fighting, while 65 percent have called on Kiev to negotiate.

The call for peace was most pronounced among FPÖ voters, with 86 percent in favor of a speedy end to the war, even if Ukraine would have to make concessions to do so.

Bisher rund 110.000 Flüchtlinge aus der Ukraine in Österreich

Similarly, 63 percent of SPÖ voters want to go down the path of diplomacy and 59 percent of ÖVP supporters call for peace. Among Neos voters, 54 percent are in favor of immediate negotiations.

from thefreeonline on 21st February 2023 by MedyaNews and World News …

Both Israel and Turkey couldn’t wait to again start bombing civilians in Syria. Aid is little and late due to US sanctions and border blockades.

Multiple casualties were reported in a “residential neighborhood” of the Syrian capital. Syria is currently seeking to recover from the February 6 earthquake, which did not affect Damascus but which killed more than 44,000 people across the country’s north and southern Turkey.

At least one missile hit the Kafar Souseh neighborhood of Damascus overnight, severely damaging a residential building and causing multiple deaths and injuries, state news agency SANA reported early on Sunday, blaming the Israeli military.

A volley of missiles fired from the occupied Golan Heights targeted Damascus and its surroundings around midnight, and even though Syrian air defenses were activated, at least one of the “hostile” projectiles directly hit a multi-story residential building, the agency said.

 More than a dozen killed in Israel’s ‘deadliest attack’ on Syria

At least five people, including one soldier, were killed and another 15 civilians injured in the attack, a Syrian military source told SANA, adding that the “Israeli aggression” led to the “destruction of a number of civilian homes” and other “material damage.”

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The Israel Defense Forces have not acknowledged the strike, in line with their long-standing policy of not discussing operations outside the country.

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Turkey attacks Rojava despite natural disaster at home:

Kurdish officials say a Turkish drone targeted the Kurdish city of Kobane in northeast Syria , posting the photogra ph of a person who killed in the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said a Turkish drone hit a military vehicle which it said belonged to the SDF in Kobane.   The UK-based war monitor also reported casualties from the SDF ranks. 

Afrin Canton, near the epicenter, has received little or no help or attention despite being one of Turkish Erdogan’s occupations with ethnic cleansing, and much worse than Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

Despite earthquake disaster in Syria-Turkey&its humanitarian impact,Turkish govt still insists on its hostile policies based on violence&war. 🇹🇷 UAV targeted #Kobani today, with no regard to human_catastrophe. Ongoing escalation serves no one but harms both Turkish&Syr people. pic.twitter.com/uFwttwbwsm

— Elham Ahmad (@ElhamAhmadSDC) February 13, 2023

However, citing a pre-emptive right to self-defense against Iran, Israel has carried out “hundreds” of bombing and missile strikes against Syria since 2011.

Syria has repeatedly protested the raids as a violation of its sovereignty, to no avail.

Sunday’s missile bombardment is the first major attack since a series of devastating earthquakes killed thousands of people in northern Syria less than two weeks ago.

Neighboring Türkiye, which suffered catastrophic death and destruction, has received more attention and international aid, with rescuers from around the globe flying in to help.

Israeli airstrikes kill five in Damascus:

In Syria’s case, only a few select nations have come to its aid, with the government in Damascus blaming Western sanctions and a years-long US-led economic blockade and occupation for exacerbating the crisis and hampering relief efforts.