With the Covid excuse wearing impossibly thin, it seems that the global governance is reverting back to “anti-terrorism” as a principal pretext for removing our rights and our freedom.

from thefreeonline on April 25, 2023 by Paul Cudenec at Winter Oak

by Paul Cudenec

Just a month ago, I felt the need to distance myself from a dystopian future I had once described in a fictional work.

I explained, rather apologetically, that at the time I had envisaged the post-9/11 “terrorism” bugbear still being the system’s fear-weapon of choice, rather than viruses or the weather, as was now the case.

However, I think I may have spoken too soon!

With the Covid excuse wearing impossibly thin, it seems that the global governance is reverting back to “anti-terrorism” as a principal pretext for removing our rights and our freedom.

French interior minister Gérald Darmanin has this month been describing opposition to the widely-detested Macronist regime as “intellectual terrorism”.

Moreover, last week I reported from a protest in the Hérault department of France at which the authorities used “anti-terrorist” laws to ban the banging of saucepans, though it didn’t really work!

A similar decree, again based on “anti-terrorist” legislation, was used by the Loir-et-Cher department to outlaw protest and noise-making around Macron’s visit on Tuesday April 25.

This is clearly a strategy that has been decided at a higher level than the merely regional.

Meanwhile, on Monday April 17, Ernest Moret, a young French publisher, was detained by UK police on arriving by train at St Pancras station in London under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

He was questioned for six hours, had his phone and laptop seized, and was then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his devices.

The justification for all this was that he “had participated in demonstrations in France”.

Ten years ago I was detained under the same law on leaving the ferry at Dover, in connection with the Carnival Against Capitalism being staged in London by the Stop G8 network, of which I was part.

Schedule 7 makes it a crime not to provide information to an officer if the questions are intended to investigate ‘terrorism’.

But a fellow campaigner and I refused to comply, insisting that the police’s questions were, instead, targeting political dissent.

The use of Section 7 against protesters has been going on for while, as this 2006 report illustrates.

“Is It Really About Terrorism?” asked the heading to the article, and the answer is clearly still “no”.

The common factor to all these cases is, in fact, protest – protests against the global money-power, its gatherings and its stooges.

The term “terrorism” has been deliberately twisted out of all recognition in order to smear political dissent and to judicially enable police-state repression of protest.

We have been covering this issue for some time on the Winter Oak site.

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Let’s talk about UFOs

from thefreeonline on April 25, 2023 by The COVID Blog

(…..) It is selfish, simpleton human thinking to believe this grain of sand called Earth is the end all and be all for life in the universe – But government and mainstream media suddenly pushing alien and UFO narratives is cause for skepticism as to what’s unfolding now.

Pentagon Expert Testifies on Video Showing Speeding UFO !!

The term “UFO” or unidentified flying object, has been bastardized over the decades. You cannot speak of UFOs without being labeled a conspiracy theorist or just flat-out crazy. Thus the U.S. government officially ditched the term on July 15, 2022, and replaced it with UAP, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

The Department of Defense also renamed the Airborne Object Identification and Management Group (AOIMSG). NASA changed the UAP name again to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

All of the nomenclature maneuvering in 2022 indicates that this UFO propaganda (a term we will continue using) in 2023 was either pre-planned, already known about and kept secret, or both.

UFOs are innately conspiracy and conspiracy theory. So we’re going to stick to the pure, boring facts here, and allow readers to draw their own conclusions.

We could go all the way back to the ancient Egyptians for a complete history of aliens and UFOs. But a better starting point is October 30, 1938.

Orson Welles broadcasted Episode 17 of his CBS Radio show The Mercury Theater on the Air. He narrated an adaption of British author H.G. Wells’ (no relation) 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. The novel is about Martian invaders who aim to exterminate humans and take over planet Earth.

This blogger heard the broadcast for the first time (on a reel-to-reel in a public library) shortly after the Phoenix Lights incident.

Welles caused [debatable] widespread panic across the U.S. Many Americans believed the alien invasion was real.

President Ronald Reagan said in a September 21, 1987 United Nations address that it would take an alien invasion to unite humanity across the world, particularly the U.S. and (at the time) the Soviet Union. https://www.bitchute.com/embed/nY6nEgqgPkwW/

The 1999 movie “The Blair Witch Project” utilized “found footage” production techniques, and fooled millions of people into believing that film was real.

The foregoing three incidents provide a roadmap to where we are today. The Welles broadcast happened before television was widespread. People had limited access to “information” in those days.

Reagan floated the alien boogeyman idea 50 years later, less than four years before President George H.W. Bush started openly talking about The New World Order. The Blair Witch happened prior to mainstream internet usage, still a time of limited access to information.

US on high alert after military shoots down another UFO !!

The point is that any well-presented story can pass as real to the masses. But now in the information age, if you will, it’s more difficult to pull off a modern War of the Worlds/Blair Witch. That is unless the masses are already trained and conditioned to accept said narratives.

Fast forward to December 27, 2020. President Donald Trump signed H.R. 133, a $2.3 trillion appropriations bill, into law. Attached to the bill was a comment from the Senate Intelligence Committee ordering the Director of National Intelligence to:

“in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act…

A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence [and a] detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace.”

That deadline passed in June 2021. Haim Eshed, the former Israel Defense Ministry space programs director for three decades, told newspaper Yediot Aharonot in December 2020 that Trump knows all TPTB’s secrets about UFOs and aliens. But Zionist leaders ordered Trump to keep quiet to avoid “mass hysteria.”

At least three UFOs and one “Chinese spy balloon” have allegedly been shot down in the U.S. and Canada since February 4. The strangest phenomenon of all is mainstream media’s reporting on all this in unison.

Continue reading “Aliens, AI and AR – Media Distraction/ Boosting tribal politics/ Hiding vaccine genocide /…”

US ships powerful new B61-12 nuclear bombs are arriving in Europe, smashing all Treaties and heightening tensions with max 83 Hiroshima power each — Beyond Nuclear International– Without asking permission the United States is making us the target of nukes on their jets menacing Russia

from thefreeonline on 24th April 2023 by ICAN and Tica Font at Pressenza.

US ships powerful new nuke to Europe, heightening tensions–83 Hiroshimas —

83 Hiroshimas — New nuclear bombs coming to Europe and UK

Since last December, the United States has begun to replace its nuclear weapons on European soil with more modern ones. It is replacing the B61-3, B61-4 and B61-7 thermonuclear bombs with the B61-12, which has become the main US and NATO air-launched nuclear weapon.

Boeing designed the bomb’s new guided-tailkit, giving it additional maneuverability and the appearance of more precision. But, it’s a nuclear weapon, and has different yields, from 0.3kt to 50kt.

These bombs can detonate beneath the Earth’s surface, increasing their destructiveness against underground targets to the equivalent of a surface-burst weapon with a yield of 1,250 kilotons––the equivalent of 83 Hiroshima bombs. 

These nuclear weapons are coming to Europe in a time of heightened nuclear tension on the continent, and even as the majority of people in European host countries want to remove nuclear weapons and join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

American B61-12 nuclear bombs head to Europe

Combined with the lack of transparency around nuclear sharing, this moment raises questions about whether citizens in the host states would agree to be complicit if these weapons are ever used.

 Even if the bombs are American and the US retains launch authority, they would most likely be dropped by Europeans. If the US decides to use its nuclear weapons located in Germany, the warheads are loaded onto German planes and a German pilot drops them. 

ICAN is a broad, inclusive campaign, focused on mobilizing civil society around the world to support the specific objective of prohibiting and eliminating nuclear weapons. 

Share the video to spread the word about these new nuclear weapons and join the movement to eliminate them.

And from: Tica Font, member of Centre Delàs and WILPF Spain, published by Pressenza

It is a free-fall bomb equipped with state-of-the-art navigation systems and a versatile warhead that can be configured in four strengths, 0.3 kiloton (kt), 1.5 kt, 10 kt and 50 kt depending on the target, making it a low to medium-yield weapon. This type of weapon is referred to as a ‘first-strike’ weapon.

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The country’s Supreme Court is hearing petitions on the recognition of same-sex marriage

A five-member constitutional bench of India’s Supreme Court began hearing arguments on several petitions that sought legal validation of same-sex marriages on Tuesday.

The hearing comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in September, 2018, which had decriminalized gay sex.

Objections were overruled as the chief justice stated he considered the matter of “seminal importance” and said he would “not allow anyone to dictate how proceedings will happen in this court.” 

The judges limited the scope of the petitioners’ submissions to recognition of same-sex marriage under the Special Marriage Act of 1954, instead of religious-based personal laws, in the absence of a uniform civil code (UCC).

“There is no absolute concept of a man or an absolute concept of a woman at all,” Chandrachud remarked after Solicitor General Mehta submitted that the Special Marriage Act’s intent is to cover the relationship between a biological male and biological female.

“It’s not the question of what your genitals are. It’s far more complex, that’s the point. So even when the Special Marriage Act says man and woman, the very notion of a man and a woman is not an absolute based on genitals,” Chandrachud said. 

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing the petitioners, sought their legal recognition as spouses

. “We cherish and desire the same institution of marriage as it is respected in the society. Now under the Domestic Violence Act, even live-in relationships are allowed,” he said.

The senior counsel also cited the social stigma that LGBTQ individuals face in all walks of life. “If you do not have full enjoyment of life, you will not have dignity. We are facing the disdain of the majority… what about the stigma in place?” he asked.

He also argued that transgender individuals were already recognized in India under the 2019 Transgender Persons Act.

Advocate Menaka Guruswamy, also arguing on behalf the petitioners, pointed out the individual rights inaccessible to same-sex couples.

“Marriage is a question of rights. I am not able to notify my partner for life insurance. I cannot buy insurance from the Supreme Court Bar Association for my family.”

The Supreme Court has urged both the defendant and the petitioners to finish their arguments .

Though there is no official data available about India’s LGBTQ population, the government estimates the figure at around 2.5 million.

However, activists claim a much higher number of over 135 million, or about 10% of the country’s population.

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from thefreeonline 0n 24th April 2023 by Anarchist Rising

I don’t live in the US, but perhaps I should have a disclaimer on the off chance any 3 or 4 letter agencies come snooping for keywords: I have written previously about my anarchic approach to violence as a pacifist, and that piece was even cited by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism as a point of opposition to violence. Leave me alone.

So, with that noted, bouncing off a conversation that took place in a university seminar I was at today, let’s talk about ecoterrorism.

There was quite the amusing ripple of tension in the room when some people, myself included, touched on some more “extreme” measures with regards to climate action.

My contribution to the discussion was more a critique of the media focus on groups like Extinction Rebellion or Stop Oil – groups, granted, whose purpose is to generate controversy and agitate for action through keeping issues in the public eye.

Support Marius Mason Marius Mason is a transgender anarchist, environmentalist, and animal rights prisoner. Marius was convicted of sabotage and arson as part of the struggle against environmental destruction and all forms of domination in 2009. Marius was arrested during a period of targeted repression known as the Green Scare and is serving a 22 year sentence.

But while these acts of, as the power point slides put it, “benign lawbreaking” certainly achieve that, it was clear many in the room disagreed with those tactics as inconvenient.

Putting aside the inconvenience of catastrophic global climate change now and in the future, this did raise the poignant question of who should be disrupted.

And there I agree – there are a number of ways direct action can be more beneficial. Unfortunately, such action does not generate as much national or international discussion.

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