In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report that received barely any attention: the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, notably subtitled Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender. ‘Multidimensional poverty’ is a much more precise measurement of poverty than the international poverty line of $1.90 per day. It looks at ten indicators divided along three axes: health (nutrition, child mortality), education (years of schooling, school attendance), and standard of living (cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing, assets). The team studied multidimensional poverty across 109 countries, looking at the living conditions of 5.9 billion people. They found that 1.3 billion – one in five people – live in multidimensional poverty. The details of their lives are stark:
As suspected, now with sworn evidence. Furious at the Catalan rebellion,the fascist far right used a terrorist islamic cell they had set up under a pardoned Imam. The lavishly equipped gang was let loose in Catalonia to ”give the Catalans a scare” and hopefully prevent the Independence Referendum.
All this was known or strongly suspected already. Far right sources even gave dire warnings like “Spain can put up with a terrorist attack, but (Catalan) independence would be irrevocable”.Foreign Minister months before the 2017 and “From August things will start to happen”
Indeed but for an accidental explosion the terrorists could have killed hundreds.
Well there was a known connection between the CNI and the Imam who orchestrated the attacks and the Spanish government blocked any possibility of investigating this connection.
We have the 11M conspiracy (May 11 2004) 3 days before the general elections some guys bombed few trains early in the morning in Madrid killing lots of people, short story: government tried to lie about the bombing, they were about to win the elections, but they lost instead because they tried to manipulate the attack to make political gains, since then they pushed to convince the nation everything was a conspiracy against them. Ugly shit.
17A: Villarejo admits the Spanish Secret Police (CNI) let the Imam of Ripoll make a “scare in Catalonia”
The former commissioner of the National Police says he worked to fix the error of the former director of the body, who “miscalculated the consequences”
11/01/2022 – 14.34 Updated 11/01/2022 – 22.54 TOPIC:José Manuel Villarejo
Former National Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo says the CNI wanted to make “a small scare in Catalonia”, but “miscalculated the consequences” with the August 2017 attack in Barcelona and Cambrils. Villarejo said this in a new session of the trial for the Tandem case:
“I continued to work with the CNI until the last day. I was working with them to try to fix the mess of the famous attack of the Imam of Ripoll, which in the end was a serious mistake of Mr. Sanz Roldán, who went miscalculating the consequences to give Catalonia a little scare. “
A year ago, Villarejo had already explained that a very important source had warned of the risk of the attack, but that was not considered reliable.
According to Villarejo, there was a relationship between the Imam of Ripoll and the CNI before the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, and they let it happen.
The former commissioner has stated that he himself remained at the National Intelligence Center (CNI) until the last day to “try to fix the error” of the former director of this body, Félix Sanz Roldán.
In September 2019, the National High Court decided not to investigate the links between the Ripoll Imam and the CNI because he did not consider it necessary to clarify whether there was any connection between the alleged mastermind of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils and the intelligence service… Spanish license.
Following the attacks, there was a lack of coordination and disloyalty between the police forces, the exclusion of the Mossos d’Esquadra (the local Catalan police, later purged and controlled directly from Madrid) from both the CITCO (Center for Intelligence against Terrorism and Organized Crime), and Europol and the lack of information exchange.
The relationship between the CNI and Imam Abdelbaki es-Satty, the agent of radicalization, was locked in a commission of official secrets, waiting for more details to be revealed.
Villarejo has made these statements as a defendant in the trial for the Tandem case, which brings together three separate pieces of the macro-case against the ex-agent.
16 dead and 140 wounded
The Rambla and Cambrils bombings killed 16 people and injured 140 others. The first action, in Barcelona, took place in a mass shooting on the afternoon of August 17, 2017. The next morning, five terrorists ran over several people on the promenade of Cambrils and stabbed others.
According to the verdict, Imam Abdelbaki es-Satty had given orders on how to make the explosives.
The imam was said to be one of the members of the jihadist cell who died a day before the attacks due to an enormous explosion which levelled his Alcanar villa, his base of operations.
Es-Sati is considered the mastermind of the attacks and has been accused of being a confidant of the Spanish CNI, though proof has not been allowed in court.
The attacks backfired due to the massive pacific public reaction and the belief that they were instigated by the Spanish police. The Government resorted to importing thousands of riot police to physically prevent the Referendum, which also failed despite severe police brutality.
Not a single death has been attributed to it in South Africa,1 for example, where it was initially detected.2
Despite that, U.S. health authorities kept issuing warnings as if Omicron were the worst threat yet. The World Health Organization declared it a “variant of concern,” and countries around the world responded by reinstating lockdowns and other draconian measures.3
The Omicron Death That Wasn’t
Then, December 20, 2021, the death of a Houston, Texas, man was labeled an “Omicron variant-related” death,4 and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced that “The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has arrived in full force,”5 necessitating raising the county’s COVID-19 threat level to “Level-2 Orange.”
As you can see in the video above, within hours, the U.S. press widely reported that the first death from the Omicron variant had occurred amid surging COVID cases. Senior contributor to Forbes, Bruce Y. Lee, and MSNBC senior producer Kyle Griffin reported the death as a “reinfection” of “an unvaccinated man who previously had COVID-19.”6
“Naturally, this case makes you wonder how much protection ‘natural immunity’ will even offer against the Omicron variant,” Lee wrote. “Important note for the unvaccinated who believe in ‘natural immunity,’” Griffin tweeted.7
There was only one problem. The man didn’t die “from” Omicron infection. He died having tested positive for the Omicron variant. Journalist Dan Cohen confirmed this December 21, 2021, in a phone conversation with Martha Marquez, who works with the Harris County Public Health department. Marquez confirmed that the man died WITH COVID, not from it — amazing the difference one simple word makes.
Decenas de mujeres ecuatorianas se congregan hoy en una vigilia para seguir el debate sobre una ley que despenaliza el aborto por violación, frente a la Asamblea Nacional (Parlamento), en Quito (Ecuador). EFE/José Jácome
Quito | 11 ene. 2022
Decenas de mujeres se congregaron este martes frente a la Asamblea Nacional (Parlamento) de Ecuador en una vigilia para seguir el debate sobre una ley que, una vez aprobada, despenalizará el aborto por violación, una de las demandas de grupos feministas del país.
Con pañuelos verdes y pancartas, un grupo del activismo femenino realizó una manifestación pacífica en los exteriores de la sede del Legislativo en Quito y permaneció en el lugar con cánticos y gritos sobre el derecho al aborto.
“Luchamos ahora para no morir mañana”, rezaba una de las pancartas que mostraba una mujer con pañuelo verde y mascarilla anticovid, mientras un grupo de policías vigilaba la actividad.
The next breakthrough in stopping Covid-19 may come not from Big Pharma, but from the humble pot plant. Researchers in Oregon in the US discovered that two compounds found in the magic lettuce can stop the virus in its tracks.
Rather than attempting to smoke their way to immunity, a team of scientists at the University of Oregon isolated two compounds from hemp – cannabigerolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) – and found that they bind to the coronavirus’ spike protein and in turn prevent it from binding to the outer membrane of human cells.
note: even hemp, without the magic THC ingredient, contains the amazing oils that block Covid-19
This latter binding process is normally how the virus enters the human lungs and other organs.
The two compounds are precursors to CBG and CBD, which are widely legal and available to consumers. CBG and CBD cannabis oils and extracts are commonly used to treat anxiety, sleep disorders, epilepsy, and a wide range of other ailments. READ MORE: First EU country moves to legalize cannabis for personal use
CBGA and CBDA “are not controlled substances like THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and have a good safety profile in humans,” said Richard van Breemen, a researcher with Oregon State’s Global Hemp Innovation Center.
Van Breemen added that these compounds “can be taken orally,” and “have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection” by the coronavirus.
Van Breemen and his team published their research in the Journal of Nature Products on Tuesday. However, they have a long way to go before doctors begin writing hemp oil prescriptions en masse. While the study found CBGA and CBDA effective against both the Alpha and Beta variants of the coronavirus, it was carried out on human cells in a laboratory, rather than actual human test subjects.
note: MSM killjoys are avoiding the news that marijuana prevents Covid by reporting instead that the smoke is really bad for you.. But of course you don’t have to smoke it!
Still, the scientist sees these hemp compounds eventually being used alongside vaccines to create “a much more challenging environment” for Covid-19. One of the main criticisms of the current crop of vaccines is that they use the original spike protein of the virus as an antigen, meaning that when variants emerge with new spike protein mutations, they are more likely to evade the protection offered by the vaccine.
“These variants are well known for evading antibodies against early lineage [Covid-19], which is obviously concerning given that current vaccination strategies rely on the early lineage spike protein as an antigen,” said van Breemen. “Our data show CBDA and CBGA are effective against the two variants we looked at, and we hope that trend will extend to other existing and future variants.”
Nuclear: economically unsustainable, inherently dangerous and absolutely unfeasible as a solution to climate change. A demolishing letter against those who postulate nuclear energy as part of the solution to the challengeof climate change. The letter is signed by former top-level nuclear safety councils and regulatory authorities in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United […]
From being a total disaster Fukushima has now become an impossibe, unfixable permanently worsening catastrophe
January 10, 2022by Robert Hunziker .. shared with thanks from nuclear-news.net illustrations added
Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers.
The problems, issues, enormous danger, and ill timing of deconstruction of a nuclear disaster is always unexpectedly complicated by something new. That’s the nature of nuclear meltdowns, aka: China Syndrome debacles.
Sonita is an Afghan activist against forced and child marriages. As a child, Sonita was almost married twice—once when she was ten years old, and again when she was sixteen. To gain attention about forced marriages, she released a video called “Brides for Sale.” This was a huge risk—she was living in Iran at the time, where, by law, women are not allowed to sing in public. Despite this, her song became a viral hit, and she received a scholarship that gave her the opportunity to study in the United States. She continues to perform music and inspire young women to stop conforming to restrictive, outdated traditions.
“Everyone is important—both world leaders and everyday people. I hope that together we can create the biggest campaign in the world to end child marriage.”
—Sonita Alizadeh
This excerpt is fromThe Book of Awesome Girlsby Becca Anderson, which is available now through
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