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    Quote Posted by justntime2learn (here)
    China Sends Record 28 Fighter Jets Toward Taiwan

    Quote 15 Jun 2021
    Associated Press | By Huizhong Wu
    TAIPEI, Taiwan — China flew a record 28 fighter jets toward the self-ruled island of Taiwan on Tuesday, the island's defense ministry said, the largest such display of force since Beijing began sending planes on a near daily basis last year.

    Taiwan's air force deployed its combat air patrol forces in response and monitored the situation in the southwestern part of the island's air defense identification zone with its air defense systems, the Ministry of National Defense said.
    Link: https://www.military.com/daily-news/...rd-taiwan.html
    I can't remember who posted this video (I think late January) but after reading justntime2learn post, this video came to mind immediately.
    Lots of fire and brimstone in this video (particularly towards the end) but the latter part of the speech references the General’s comment about Taiwan - something to effect that we will attack Taiwan and people will think its about Taiwan but it won’t be about Taiwan, it will be about North America and this will herald the first attack on America.
    https://www.trunews.com/stream/china...ogical-weapons
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    Republicans discuss "fire Fauci act"
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/...atch_permalink

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    Boris Johnson's Conservative party has had a crushing defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election, a rural parliamentary constituency that is traditionally Conservative and has been held by them for 42 years.

    Factors were said to be the planned HS2 railway line that is unpopular, felt by many to be unnecessary, has spiralling costs and will cut swaths through some lovely countryside, also changes to house build planning regulations.

    I suspect that another factor, on which the MSM is curiously silent, is the government's handling of the scamdemic.

    From the BBC:

    Quote The Liberal Democrats have pulled off a stunning by-election victory, overturning a 16,000 majority in a seat that has always voted Conservative.

    Leader Ed Davey celebrated by knocking over a wall of blue bricks, claiming his party was now the "main threat" to the Tories in many areas.

    The party's candidate Sarah Green won by 8,028 votes from the Tories, with the Green Party in third place.
    Labour had the worst by-election result in the party's history, with 622 votes.

    Local opposition to the HS2 rail line, which is being built through the constituency, and the government's planning reforms, which could see more homes being built in rural areas, were major factors in the poll.

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    Quote Posted by Brigantia (here)
    I thought the story of cracking ANOM sounded familiar; there were a load of arrests in Britain last July.

    From the BBC:

    Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked



    "A top-secret communications system used by criminals to trade drugs and guns has been "successfully penetrated", says the National Crime Agency.
    The NCA worked with forces across Europe on the UK's "biggest and most significant" law enforcement operation.
    Major crime figures were among over 800 Europe-wide arrests after messages on EncroChat were intercepted and decoded.
    More than two tonnes of drugs, several dozen guns and £54m in suspect cash have been seized, says the NCA.

    While the NCA was part of the investigation, it was initiated and led by French and Dutch police, and also involved Europol - the EU agency for law enforcement cooperation.
    Wil van Gemert, deputy executive director of Europol, told a press conference in the Hague that the hacking of the network had allowed the "disruption of criminal activities including violent attacks, corruption, attempted murders and large-scale drug transports".
    The NCA says the Europe-wide operation, which lasted over three months and involved police forces across the UK, has had the biggest impact on organised crime gangs it has ever seen, with 746 UK arrests, including two law enforcement officers.

    The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, whose force made 171 arrests and seized £13.3m in cash, described it as a "game changer".
    She said: "This is just the beginning. We will be disrupting organised criminal networks as a result of these operations for weeks and months and possibly years to come."
    Nikki Holland, NCA director of investigations, said the operational team had described it "as akin to cracking the enigma code".
    "They see this as that significant in terms of getting that inside information, effectively having a person inside an organised crime group telling us what they're up to," she said.

    An estimated 60,000 people, among them up to 10,000 in Britain, subscribed to France-based EncroChat, which has now been taken down.
    The system operated on customised Android phones and, according to its website, provided "worry-free secure communications".
    Customers had access to features such as self-destructing messages that deleted from the recipient's device after a certain length of time."

    "Wil van Gemert, deputy executive director of Europol, told a press conference in the Hague that the hacking of the network had allowed the "disruption of criminal activities including violent attacks, corruption, attempted murders and large-scale drug transports"

    Could just as easily describe our government and security forces it seems to me. If you've been programmed by Line of Duty in UK you'll feel helpless to stand against the corruption.

    I can't tell the good guys from the bad guys any more, there's good and bad on both for sure, and all too many have lost, or never had, a moral compass. What's the criteria for taking a side? Fear? or Fairness? Justice? How do we know what's right when we're lied to all the time? Manipulated, led to believe, rewarded for compliance.

    I note that end of the world apocalyptic boxsets are trending in UK right now, virus and hybrid themes. It sometimes feels apocalyptic, here in the thick of it, thousands moving to the country, getting out of cities. I hope I'll be able sidle off unnoticed myself in August. My biggest concern is that Armageddon might be be millions dying. It didn't happen with the so-called pandemic, overall death rates are lower this year than the previous two.....but it could happen with it's 'cure'.

    It could all come crashing down and no-one's in charge. I hope we find a way of preventing bullies from taking over again and being told what to do. As import/export gets more chaotic, local communities will find themselves living on what grows here, no more paw-paws or passionfruit pavlova. Pears, Apples and strawberries.

    And then there's the question of ET. ...

    If all of humanity can find their moral compass, otherwise, doomed to be led by bullies?

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    Quote Posted by Phoenix1304 (here)
    Could just as easily describe our government and security forces it seems to me. If you've been programmed by Line of Duty in UK you'll feel helpless to stand against the corruption.

    I can't tell the good guys from the bad guys any more, there's good and bad on both for sure, and all too many have lost, or never had, a moral compass. What's the criteria for taking a side? Fear? or Fairness? Justice? How do we know what's right when we're lied to all the time? Manipulated, led to believe, rewarded for compliance.

    I note that end of the world apocalyptic boxsets are trending in UK right now, virus and hybrid themes. It sometimes feels apocalyptic, here in the thick of it, thousands moving to the country, getting out of cities. I hope I'll be able sidle off unnoticed myself in August. My biggest concern is that Armageddon might be be millions dying. It didn't happen with the so-called pandemic, overall death rates are lower this year than the previous two.....but it could happen with it's 'cure'.

    It could all come crashing down and no-one's in charge. I hope we find a way of preventing bullies from taking over again and being told what to do. As import/export gets more chaotic, local communities will find themselves living on what grows here, no more paw-paws or passionfruit pavlova. Pears, Apples and strawberries.

    And then there's the question of ET. ...

    If all of humanity can find their moral compass, otherwise, doomed to be led by bullies?
    All very valid points; I do believe that this country has by and large lost its moral compass. I grew up in the 70s when everyone knew their neighbours, had a clear sense of right and wrong, helped each other and participated in the community in various ways. Luckily my home is rural and it is like that still to a certain extent, though many spend a lot of time indoors glued to their phones and other devices.

    Maybe if the backs of the 'normal folk' are to the wall, that might drum some sense and responsibility into them? I would hope so, but I think that many would just lose their sanity.

    Pears, apples and strawberries sound good to me! The big problem would be that schools haven't taught their pupils how to cook for a long time, what they'll really miss is their meal prep kits. I don't think that they'd have a clue how to cook from scratch.

    Hopefully it won't come to that, but a lot of people need to wake up fast.

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    Something that could be kind of big, happening in Syria right now

    A US military helicopter got shot down earlier today, still not clear how or why

    The US patrol trucks, are being blocked and returned to their bases by the Russian army. This is not odd most times, but the difference is this, most other times, the US guys stop, chat and discuss with the other side, this time, they are not, they are just circling back and moving away asap



    I'm interested to know, since it seems like there's some info blockade going on, if you see news about the helicopter shot down on your country, specially if you live on the US

    ETA: Translation from https://rusvesna.su/news/1624185697
    Quote The international coalition led by the United States made a new attempt to violate the protocols of deconfliction in northeastern Syria, as a result of which the Russian military blocked the American convoy.

    About this in the new exclusive report "Russian Spring" from the Syrian Arab Republic.

    A unit of the Russian Armed Forces, while ensuring the safe movement of convoys along the M-4 highway in the area of ​​the settlement of Tell-Tamr in the province of Haseke, recorded the movement of a Coalition patrol consisting of four MaxxPro and Oshkosh M-ATV armored vehicles in the western direction under American flags.

    The US military moved without prior notice to the Russian side and violated the existing mechanisms for anticipating conflict situations.

    The Russian military carried out blocking the movement of the US Armed Forces convoy. As a result, the Coalition force unit was forced to turn around and return to its area.
    Russia.
    Don't know how this relates to the shot down of the helicopter earlier today
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    Here's the Youtube apparently intended by the link in the previous post:

    My quite dormant website: pauljackson.us

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    Thanks, i tried to fix it, somehow my edit did not work

    Just to add, the helicopter shot down happened, as far as i know, on the Kurds controlled region of Syria

    As you may know, the Kurds are allies to the US since long ago, specifically worked out by president Biden 10 or so years ago

    This may represent a betrayal or something even worse. But i'm still trying to find more info about this. It seems to be barely any info out there about this


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    great writing as to present realities/


    A House Divided
    by E. P. Unum
    June 21, 2021
    (emphasis added)

    On June 16, 1858, in Springfield Illinois, some 163 years ago, and only 82 years after our Republic came into being, Abraham Lincoln spoke to over 1,000 delegates and eloquently addressed the hotly debated issue of slavery. In that speech, he uttered these famous words:

    “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall---but I do expect it will cease to be divided”

    And so it was, but not before we engaged in a great Civil War resulting in the loss of more American lives than the sum of all the other conflicts our nation has ever been involved in at any time in our 245-year history.

    Today we are once again a House Divided. A great schism has been driven through our nation dividing us on deep political, moral, and religious issues that go to the heart of who we are as a people. For example, there are serious questions that strike at the core of our very foundation and the principles we stand for:
    Are we to remain the Constitutional Republic as envisioned by our Founding Fathers, or are we to become a socialist nation?

    Should our government be centralized with all decisions coming out of Washington D.C. or should we continue, as we have since the beginning of our Constitutional Republic, to be decentralized with States sharing responsibilities for governance?

    Should we rely on big or small government, each with their respective consequences of whether power should be vested in a central government that is all-encompassing or, in the alternative, continue with a decentralized system that has helped America become the greatest most prosperous nation in the history of the world; a nation based on the belief that government should be an extension of the will of the people with power vested in the consent of the governed?

    Should we be a nation that prides itself on the rule of law, or should we resort to the rule of the street?

    The division today is also sadly and inexorably tied to pure hatred and vitriol directed at one man, President Donald Trump, whose only “sin” is that he is not a politician, not a lawyer, speaks in very blunt, direct, and sometimes crass terms, and does not come from the “elite class”. He is, instead, a successful businessman and CEO, and has an excellent command of economics, is a master negotiator, and knows how to lead and get things done. He also worked on our behalf for free, donating his entire salary as President, $1.6 million over four years, back to charities and government programs. Yet the vitriol continues to this day even after he has left office.

    For me, the most difficult aspect of our Divided House is seeing my countrymen so filled with anger and hatred that it cripples their ability to reason. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I am puzzled by the sacrifice of journalistic ethics on the altar of financial and power expediency, and, at times, I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.

    One can't justify this insanity. Neither can one reason with people so entrenched in their beliefs that they are unable to even listen to alternative opinions and instead resort to name-calling and insults.

    We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind! Consider the following sometimes offered as jokes but more often than not are sad doses of reality:

    ● If a boy or man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him. Boys can compete against girls in athletic events destroying every aspect of competition and fair play. The ‘playing field’ is no longer fair.

    ● Somehow it’s un-American for the Census to count how many Americans are in America.

    ● Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good. Russians have always attempted to influence our elections. China now does it in plain sight, but, according to Joe Biden, China “are not bad folks”. Right.

    ● It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.

    ● Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.

    ● People who have never owned slaves should pay reparations to people who have never been slaves. I often wonder whether the descendants of some 360,000 Union soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War to free the slaves should not somehow be compensated by the generations who were freed? No one ever talks about that.

    ● People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees in music history and essential oils and cannot find a job.

    ● Immigrants with diseases such as tuberculosis and the Chinese Virus are welcome, but, as citizens, you better be able to prove you have been vaccinated.

    ● South African doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a lengthy rigorous vetting process, but illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence ( or walk through openings these days) are welcome. I am still trying to figure out how you can walk 2,000 miles from South America in a caravan of immigrants and reach our southern border overweight and with a cell phone.

    ● $5 billion for border security and a Wall is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not. Heck, the Obamacare website cost more than the Trump Border Wall and the Obamacare website didn’t work! Trump’s Wall did.

    ● If you cheat to get into college you can go to prison, but if you cheat to get into our country you get to go to college for “free.” (Of course, it is not free because this cost is paid for by the taxes you and I pay.)

    ● People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President. Boys can use Girl’s restrooms and vice versa, and no one sees anything wrong about this?

    ● We read about and see other countries like Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia adopting Socialism and their economies collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us. And college professors teach this to our young people.

    ● Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now. Look at cities like New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Atlanta. Churches are burned, businesses destroyed and looted, monuments torn down, police and innocent people killed, but no one is held accountable….all because of blind hatred.

    ● Criminals are caught and released back into society immediately, then hurt more people. Stopping them is bad because it's a violation of their rights.

    ● And, pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"? Indeed, today the word "racism" is the most common word used to somehow justify everything and anything.
    Nothing seems to make sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility, and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it's racist to refer to it as The Chinese Virus even though it began in China. We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.

    In 245 years, a mere blip on the radar screen of existence compared to other nations of the world, our country has endured incredible hardships and built the most remarkable country ever known to man.

    ● We pioneered the west, conquered disease, created the most respected healthcare system on earth with innovations in medicine and research that have saved millions of lives, and we shared all of this with the world.

    ● We have fought two World Wars freeing Europe from totalitarianism twice in the twentieth century, then rebuilt 19 nations in Europe and the entire country of Japan from the devastation of WW II.

    ● We have put men on the moon and begun the exploration of our solar system, and we have created more wealth and the greatest standard of living of any country on earth…and,

    ● We have based all of this on a firm belief in freedom for every individual and a government whose only sovereign power comes from the people.

    And today, somehow, young restless people in government want to cast all of this aside in favor of some fleeting, socialist, utopia they seek to impose on us.

    It is a blueprint for disaster and it must be stopped.

    I believe that today because our House is again divided, we must once again take pride in American Exceptionalism. We need to return to doing the right thing as opposed to doing what “feels good”. We need to return to teaching our children about our history, about those who came before us, what we have accomplished, about values such as integrity, honor, commitment, courage, perseverance, and respect for authority and our elders, and, above all, remind them that we are a nation founded on the Judeo-Christian belief in an Almighty God whose Providence has blessed this great land.

    Abraham Lincoln led our great nation through difficult and challenging times and a bloody Civil War where more Americans perished than in all the other wars our nation has been engaged in. But he reminded us, that even in times of great despair, he was driven to his knees in prayer “because he had nowhere else to go”. He also said so eloquently, that “it is difficult to get mud on your face when your eyes are fixed squarely on the stars.”

    Those words have always made sense to me. I hope they do to you as well. All of us today have a sacred responsibility to stand up and be counted; to express our concern about how our children are being educated; to cast aside the destructive, divisive, and corrosive Critical Race Theory and reinstitute American History and civics in elementary and secondary schools, and once again bring God back into lives, our government and in our classrooms. Even if you no longer have children in school, each of us has a responsibility to step up and do the right thing.

    Let your voices be heard.

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    People still think nothing can happen? And that the usual game of just pushing it to see how far we can go and "send a message" is one sided?

    Well it turns out it's not, and the imbeciles in control and attempting to make a show of power, just hopefully will understand that people's lives are not a game, or pawns on a board...

    *ALSO.. JUST DON'T*

    Clear attempt to follow on Biden words from the last Putin/Biden meeting few days ago, but terrible executed, it's the same broken line of thought

    Quote Britain said Russia was giving an inaccurate account of the incident. No warning shots had been fired and no bombs had been dropped in the path of the Royal Navy destroyer Defender, it said.
    https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...ia-2021-06-24/

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    so ... 39 MINUTES AGO Coin Telegraph Announced ...





    El Salvador to airdrop $30 in Bitcoin to every adult citizen

    "Every Salvadoran adult who downloads the government’s Bitcoin wallet app will be eligible for an airdrop of $30 worth of BTC.

    The president of El Salvador has announced the government will airdrop $30 worth of Bitcon (BTC) to every adult citizen of the country.

    The announcement was welcomed by Bitcoiners, with influencers speculating El Salvador’s government wil need to purchase the required BTC it intends to distribute adding more than $100 million in buying pressure on markets.

    Quickly googled estimates of the adult population of El Salvador varied, with onchain analyst Willy Woo tweeting that Bitcoin’s global user base will grow by 2.5% thanks to the influx of 4.5 million Salvadorians.

    Others placed the Salvadoran adult population as high as 6.5 million (which is actually the total population), with Yahoo Finance anchor Zack Guzman using the figure for some rough back of the envelope calculations suggesting that $195 million worth of Bitcoin will be airdropped across the country."



    Exact figures are hard to find but Statista shows that in 2019 the population aged 15 and above was 4.72M.

    However, crypto Twitter’s euphoria may be be slightly premature, as local publication Prensa Latina notes El Salvador’s citizens will only receive the free Bitcoin after downloading the government-issued cryptocurrency wallet application.

    The news was announced during a June 25 press conference, with President Bukele stating the government’s “wallet app will even work anywhere with a cell connection, and you won't have to have a cell plan for the app.”

    President Bukele also stated that the country’s much-celebrated Bitcoin law recognizing BTC as legal currency nationwide will come into effect on September 7.


    El Salvador’s Bitcoin law was passed roughly two weeks ago. While the move has been praised by the global crypto community, the legislation has faced opposition from a minority political party and the World Bank."

    read full article here:
    https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-sa...-adult-citizen

    well wasn't sure what to think .. but if the World Bank is grieved?

    THEN .. that might just be cause to CELEBRATE!



    more in depth information on cryptocurrency in general can be found here:

    Cryptocurrency: which alt-coins are the globalist corporations backing and why?

    will update or do separate post on more crypto news this time concerning McAfee
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    We should defend our way of life
    to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed,

    so that any adversary
    will never make such an attempt in the future.

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    A similar effort in Russia

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cryptoruble.asp

    Basically, replacing the current foreign currency with crypto currency, as also i think Venezuela is planning along with Iran and other countries that are leaving/trying to leave the current Swift bank exchange system

    The basic idea is not to just drop the dollar, because every country has a separate currency and it would be ideal to have a common one among them, without losing your local one, because it has been proven this approach does not work. So instead, have a shared common crypto currency, but also keep your local one, the current state of the internet allows for that. So that's what they are going for i think


    Quote Posted by iota (here)
    so ... 39 MINUTES AGO Coin Telegraph Announced ...





    El Salvador to airdrop $30 in Bitcoin to every adult citizen

    "Every Salvadoran adult who downloads the government’s Bitcoin wallet app will be eligible for an airdrop of $30 worth of BTC.

    The president of El Salvador has announced the government will airdrop $30 worth of Bitcon (BTC) to every adult citizen of the country.

    The announcement was welcomed by Bitcoiners, with influencers speculating El Salvador’s government wil need to purchase the required BTC it intends to distribute adding more than $100 million in buying pressure on markets.

    Quickly googled estimates of the adult population of El Salvador varied, with onchain analyst Willy Woo tweeting that Bitcoin’s global user base will grow by 2.5% thanks to the influx of 4.5 million Salvadorians.

    Others placed the Salvadoran adult population as high as 6.5 million (which is actually the total population), with Yahoo Finance anchor Zack Guzman using the figure for some rough back of the envelope calculations suggesting that $195 million worth of Bitcoin will be airdropped across the country."



    Exact figures are hard to find but Statista shows that in 2019 the population aged 15 and above was 4.72M.

    However, crypto Twitter’s euphoria may be be slightly premature, as local publication Prensa Latina notes El Salvador’s citizens will only receive the free Bitcoin after downloading the government-issued cryptocurrency wallet application.

    The news was announced during a June 25 press conference, with President Bukele stating the government’s “wallet app will even work anywhere with a cell connection, and you won't have to have a cell plan for the app.”

    President Bukele also stated that the country’s much-celebrated Bitcoin law recognizing BTC as legal currency nationwide will come into effect on September 7.


    El Salvador’s Bitcoin law was passed roughly two weeks ago. While the move has been praised by the global crypto community, the legislation has faced opposition from a minority political party and the World Bank."

    read full article here:
    https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-sa...-adult-citizen

    well wasn't sure what to think .. but if the World Bank is grieved?

    THEN .. that might just be cause to CELEBRATE!



    will update or do separate post on more crypto news this time concerning McAfee
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    in a weird and possibly unrelated news .. we see an unusual transaction indicating the


    Transfer of 842 million to a Wallet Named WHACKD


    here is the link to that confirms this:

    https://etherscan.io/token/0x8b40c8a...00000000000000

    i'd have to check with Jayke to determine the actual value but aside from that? the timing of this is striking as is the "connection" to McAfee

    The image above features a picture of McAfee’s right arms where he got a tattoo that read “WHACKD.”

    Explaining the reason why he got the tattoo, McAfee had written in the tweet that he had been getting subtle messages from US officials saying that they were coming for him.


    even MSM got into reporting on this:

    "Antivirus software magnate John McAfee was found dead in Barcelona prison on Wednesday, hours after Spanish court allowed his extradition to the US on charges of tax evasion. The 75-year-old lived a life full of controversies and it is very much present in the cause of his death as well. Although the cause of McAfee’s death is still not revealed, netizens are revisiting his tweet from December 1, 2019, which they believe is a clear hint.

    The tweet features a picture of McAfee’s right arms where he got a tattoo that read “WHACKD.” Explaining the reason why he got the tattoo, McAfee had written in the tweet that he had been getting subtle messages from US officials saying that they were coming for him.

    The antivirus software pioneer also mentioned that the US officials’ subtle messages to him meant that he would eventually kill himself. Hence to keep the message as a reminder, he got the tattoo just in case. Ending the tweet, McAfee had written,

    Quote “If I suicide myself, I didn’t. I was whackd. Check my right arm.”

    The founder was sending out a message to people that if the reports of him dying by suicide emerge they should know that it was the US officials who wanted him back in the country for the tax evasion trials. Many netizens also found the similarities between McAfee and Jeffrey Epstein’s death that also took place inside a prison on August 10, 2019. Epstein was an American socialite, financier, who was convicted for procuring an underage girl for prostitution, sex trafficking for many celebrities.

    Commenting on McAfee’s 2019 tweet, one user wondered who ‘Epsteined’ him."

    Many users expressed their disbelief at the ominous tweet
    that most likely turned out to be a prophecy.


    read full article here:
    https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/wha...l-3887105.html

    speaking of Epstein here is the wallet bearing HIS name

    https://etherscan.io/address/0x8b40c...9eb06db065f7c3

    much information on cryptocurrency in general can be found here:

    Cryptocurrency: which alt-coins are the globalist corporations backing and why?

    right now, there is much speculation over this crypto transaction and the massive amount of 842 million coins moved. wondering what kind of impact, if any, this might have on the markets? and whether it is, in fact, McAfee's and whether it might signify payment of sorts

    it was after all, McAfee who launched Whacked in the first place

    John McAfee Launches WHACKD —
    An ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’ Crypto

    American entrepreneur John McAfee has launched a polemical meme cryptocurrency dubbed “WHACKD,” marketed with the rubric “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself.”


    "American entrepreneur and vocal crypto advocate John McAfee has launched a polemical meme cryptocurrency dubbed “WHACKD.”

    The token’s full rubric — “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” — was revealed in McAfee’s Nov. 11 Twitter announcement on Nov. 11.

    A dead billionaire, the former first lady... and pizza
    The image used to advertise WHACKD — a portrait of Hillary Clinton with eyes fixed cravenly on a pair of dangling feet, as she clutches a slice of pizza — point to McAfee’s conspiratorial take on the death of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein this August.

    While an autopsy of Epstein’s death concluded that he had committed suicide in prison, the case has since become shrouded in controversies. The billionaire had been arrested in July on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges pertaining to the alleged abuse of hundreds of young girls.

    Since he was found dead at the New York Metropolitan correctional center on Aug. 10 — having been briefly under, and then removed from, suicide watch — the deceased’s lawyers have said they are not satisfied with the handling of the autopsy.

    The billionaire’s web of relationships with President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew — and questions surrounding how far his alleged abuses would have been known to them — have provided fertile soil for a host of conspiracy theories and online memes to take root.

    McAfee — who has repeatedly voiced his skepticism as to the suicide line — told reporters earlier this week:"

    Quote “The man was six-foot-one, he hung himself from a bed that was only five-foot-seven in a manner that managed to break his neck in multiple places similar to someone being physically strangled. His cellmate was taken from his cell six hours before his death, the video cameras were off and the guards in that cell block were sent home early due to cleaning.
    “You add all that stuff up, and I don’t see how a suicide is possible,” he added.

    WHACKD’s protocol design

    McAfee’s WHACKD asset is a “deflationary” ECR20 (Ethereum-based) token and will reportedly be issued via airdrop on Friday, Nov. 15, with an immediate listing on McAfee’s decentralized cryptocurrency exchange.

    The ad hints at a distinct protocol design, indicating that “10% of all transactions will be burned (WHACKD!) + 1 out of 1000 transactions will be burned (WHACKD!).”

    Whether or not the token is real will presumably become clear by the week’s end.

    As reported yesterday, McAfee upheld his staunch libertarian line in an interview this week, arguing that authorities should not require crypto firms and trading platforms to help them control digital currency use in illicit activities.

    He said he gives primacy to the “societal impact of giving people freedom from a [...] corrupted government” over the “small part criminals are going to play in this technology.”

    article source here:
    https://cointelegraph.com/news/john-...himself-crypto

    more information on all things related to McAfee's death can be found here:


    Crypto movements and surges high and low have been spotlighted incessantly lately, with much speculation as to the intent of tpb and whether this is a foil to their plans or by design ... as governments are getting involved in encouragement AND distribution as reported in the post above
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    We should defend our way of life
    to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed,

    so that any adversary
    will never make such an attempt in the future.

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    Quote Posted by iota (here)


    in a weird and possibly unrelated news .. we see an unusual transaction indicating the


    Transfer of 842 million to a Wallet Named WACKD


    here is the link to that confirms this:

    https://etherscan.io/token/0x8b40c8a...00000000000000

    i'd have to check with Jayke to determine the actual value but aside from that? the timing of this is striking as is the "connection" to McAfee

    The image above features a picture of McAfee’s right arms where he got a tattoo that read “WHACKD.”

    Explaining the reason why he got the tattoo, McAfee had written in the tweet that he had been getting subtle messages from US officials saying that they were coming for him.


    even MSM got into reporting on this:

    "Antivirus software magnate John McAfee was found dead in Barcelona prison on Wednesday, hours after Spanish court allowed his extradition to the US on charges of tax evasion. The 75-year-old lived a life full of controversies and it is very much present in the cause of his death as well. Although the cause of McAfee’s death is still not revealed, netizens are revisiting his tweet from December 1, 2019, which they believe is a clear hint.

    The tweet features a picture of McAfee’s right arms where he got a tattoo that read “WHACKD.” Explaining the reason why he got the tattoo, McAfee had written in the tweet that he had been getting subtle messages from US officials saying that they were coming for him.

    The antivirus software pioneer also mentioned that the US officials’ subtle messages to him meant that he would eventually kill himself. Hence to keep the message as a reminder, he got the tattoo just in case. Ending the tweet, McAfee had written,

    Quote “If I suicide myself, I didn’t. I was whackd. Check my right arm.”

    The founder was sending out a message to people that if the reports of him dying by suicide emerge they should know that it was the US officials who wanted him back in the country for the tax evasion trials. Many netizens also found the similarities between McAfee and Jeffrey Epstein’s death that also took place inside a prison on August 10, 2019. Epstein was an American socialite, financier, who was convicted for procuring an underage girl for prostitution, sex trafficking for many celebrities.

    Commenting on McAfee’s 2019 tweet, one user wondered who ‘Epsteined’ him."

    Many users expressed their disbelief at the ominous tweet
    that most likely turned out to be a prophecy.


    read full article here:
    https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/wha...l-3887105.html

    speaking of Epstein here is the wallet bearing HIS name

    https://etherscan.io/address/0x8b40c...9eb06db065f7c3

    right now, there is much speculation over this crypto transaction and the massive amount of 842 million coins moved. wondering what kind of impact, if any, this might have on the markets? and whether it is, in fact, McAfee's and whether it might signify payment of sorts

    it was after all, McAfee who launched Whacked in the first place

    John McAfee Launches WHACKD —
    An ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’ Crypto

    American entrepreneur John McAfee has launched a polemical meme cryptocurrency dubbed “WHACKD,” marketed with the rubric “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself.”


    "American entrepreneur and vocal crypto advocate John McAfee has launched a polemical meme cryptocurrency dubbed “WHACKD.”

    The token’s full rubric — “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” — was revealed in McAfee’s Nov. 11 Twitter announcement on Nov. 11.

    A dead billionaire, the former first lady... and pizza
    The image used to advertise WHACKD — a portrait of Hillary Clinton with eyes fixed cravenly on a pair of dangling feet, as she clutches a slice of pizza — point to McAfee’s conspiratorial take on the death of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein this August.

    While an autopsy of Epstein’s death concluded that he had committed suicide in prison, the case has since become shrouded in controversies. The billionaire had been arrested in July on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges pertaining to the alleged abuse of hundreds of young girls.

    Since he was found dead at the New York Metropolitan correctional center on Aug. 10 — having been briefly under, and then removed from, suicide watch — the deceased’s lawyers have said they are not satisfied with the handling of the autopsy.

    The billionaire’s web of relationships with President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew — and questions surrounding how far his alleged abuses would have been known to them — have provided fertile soil for a host of conspiracy theories and online memes to take root.

    McAfee — who has repeatedly voiced his skepticism as to the suicide line — told reporters earlier this week:"

    Quote “The man was six-foot-one, he hung himself from a bed that was only five-foot-seven in a manner that managed to break his neck in multiple places similar to someone being physically strangled. His cellmate was taken from his cell six hours before his death, the video cameras were off and the guards in that cell block were sent home early due to cleaning.
    “You add all that stuff up, and I don’t see how a suicide is possible,” he added.

    WHACKD’s protocol design

    McAfee’s WHACKD asset is a “deflationary” ECR20 (Ethereum-based) token and will reportedly be issued via airdrop on Friday, Nov. 15, with an immediate listing on McAfee’s decentralized cryptocurrency exchange.

    The ad hints at a distinct protocol design, indicating that “10% of all transactions will be burned (WHACKD!) + 1 out of 1000 transactions will be burned (WHACKD!).”

    Whether or not the token is real will presumably become clear by the week’s end.

    As reported yesterday, McAfee upheld his staunch libertarian line in an interview this week, arguing that authorities should not require crypto firms and trading platforms to help them control digital currency use in illicit activities.

    He said he gives primacy to the “societal impact of giving people freedom from a [...] corrupted government” over the “small part criminals are going to play in this technology.”

    article source here:
    https://cointelegraph.com/news/john-...himself-crypto

    Crypto movements and surges high and low have been spotlighted incessantly lately, with much speculation as to the intent of tpb and whether this is a foil to their plans or by design ... as governments are getting involved in encouragement AND distribution as reported in the post above
    Don't believe or trust me on this, or anything. But do hear me out and consider..

    $whackd, in some levels, or groups or whatever, doesn't not mean "whacked" as in the Italian Mafia taking down someone, it means "I'm done here, moving on and got my insurance stash", that's why the cash sign is there, and is not correctly spelled, it is a play on the original meaning of "getting whacked"
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    Just so you are informed, as i can see there's a very big blockade of information across west/east countries right now, but i do believe you need/deserve to know the truth..

    As i write this, there is the start of a big operation on northern Syria, from the Russian air force, this is going to touch the Turkey/US supported forces that are occupying certain strategic places in Syria, to allow the so called "democratic forces" (also known as Al Qaeda) to continue to operate and destibilize Syria

    This may not play well with the US plans described a day ago, about remaining in Syria to protect the oil fields that support Al Qaeda and to help them keep in control of the last remaining territory they have occupied by force so far. More news will come on your day time, maybe. I will update if possible as well

    If you have a good understanding of what's really going on there, you will know that the so called "democratic forces" or SDF, are nothing but another face for Al Qaeda, and that lots of the members are also ISIS members, or where at some point. And that it's not really much different in ideology than the ISIS that was supposedly 'defeated' a year or two ago

    This is preposterous, because we know 'daesh' is standing right there, on that picture, as an honorary member
    https://twitter.com/CJTFOIR/status/1...372771841?s=20
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    Here's a shocking case from Germany, and the accused has become a cause celebre. A man has been jailed for not paying his TV licence even though he doesn't own a TV or radio; every household in Germany is legally obliged to pay for one even if they don't own a TV.

    In Britain you only have to buy one if you watch live TV; they used to hassle people who didn't buy one, but since the lockdown malarkey they're no longer knocking on doors. Here's the German case from the Telegraph:

    Quote Jailed German TV licence refusenik becomes an unlikely cause celebre

    A 54-year-old man has become an unlikely cause celebre in Germany after he was jailed for six months for refusing to pay the country’s television license fee.

    Georg Thiel has spent the last 113 days in an 86 square foot cell with a toilet in the corner. He is allowed to walk in the prison courtyard once a day.

    Yet he has not been convicted of any crime. He is being held under the German equivalent of a bailiff’s warrant because refuses to pay the license fee. Under the archaic law, he can be held in prison for up to six months unless  he either pays the debt or provides details of his assets.

    But because he has not committed any crime, the German public broadcaster WDR must pay the cost of his incarceration, which is already over €14,000 (£12,000). It is far more than the €1,827 (£1,570) he owes in unpaid license fees, yet the WDR has refused to release him, and appears hellbent on making an example of him.

    “I’m doing this for retirees, single mothers and low-income earners like me,” Mr Thiel told Welt newspaper. “It’s worth it to me.”

    Mr Thiel has no television. He doesn’t have a radio either. Unlike in the UK, there is no exemption from the license fee in Germany for those who don’t use the services paid for by it. Under German law, every household must pay the license fee, currently €17.50 (£15) a month, whether it has a television or not.

    That has fuelled an anti-license fee lobby every bit as vocal as the UK’s, and Mr Thiel has become a poster boy for the cause.
    He has attracted the support of the far-Right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which has long opposed the license fee.But he has been at pains to make it clear he does not support the party. “I’m actually on the Left,” he has said. “I have nothing to do with them. I don’t fight for politicians. I fight for poor people.”

    Under German law, the licensing authority can seize the assets of those who refuse to pay. The trouble is Mr Thiel doesn’t appear to have any. He earns €14,000 (£12,000) a year, and lives in a shack he rents for just €288 (£248) a month. He sleeps on a mattress in the kitchen and cooks on a gas burner.

    He has a protected bank account for low earners, from which money cannot be seized unless the balance rises over a certain limit. The television company insists he has enough money to pay his license fee, and is demanding he declare his assets before the courts so it can seize the sum.

    But public opinion appears to be turning against the broadcaster’s tough stance. A senior MP from Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) has become the first mainstream politician to speak out against Mr Thiel’s incarceration.

    “It’s a threat to society if a violent criminal can get away with a suspended sentence, but someone who doesn’t pay his license fee ends up in jail for months. You can’t explain that to people,” said Carsten Linnemann.

    Mr Thiel is adamant he won't back down. Under German law he cannot be held for more than six months for the unpaid fee. After that he must be released whether he pays or not.

    “Another two and half months. That’s no problem for me,” he said.
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    Immense anti-lockdown protest in London last Saturday - The mainstream media barely talked about it and lowered the numbers. Airial footage.

    The revolution will not be televised.

    Please share this video.

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    Hi Brigantia, I cancelled my direct debit for the UK TV licence back in September last year (2020). I have had several threatening type letters since then culminating in a visit from a TV license inspector on Friday morning 25th June 2021. He was at my door for about two minutes and left very quietly after I told him that I wasn't interested and didn't watch television.

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    Quote Posted by Pieman (here)
    Hi Brigantia, I cancelled my direct debit for the UK TV licence back in September last year (2020). I have had several threatening type letters since then culminating in a visit from a TV license inspector on Friday morning 25th June 2021. He was at my door for about two minutes and left very quietly after I told him that I wasn't interested and didn't watch television.
    Really? I'm shocked to hear that! I cancelled mine two years ago and haven't had any further contact from them.

    Did you just cancel the direct debit, Pieman? I filled out a form to end the license and sent it off, and on that form I said that I no longer watch TV, which I don't. (To think that in the 1970s people would say that there was only rubbish on TV... if only they could see the absolute dross on it now...)

    I would have thought that in these social distancing days, they wouldn't call at peoples' houses; there are plenty of accounts of them demanding to come inside which they have no legal right to do unless they have a warrant.

    Let's hope you have no further visits!

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    Quote Posted by Mashika (here)
    Just so you are informed, as i can see there's a very big blockade of information across west/east countries right now, but i do believe you need/deserve to know the truth..

    As i write this, there is the start of a big operation on northern Syria, from the Russian air force, this is going to touch the Turkey/US supported forces that are occupying certain strategic places in Syria, to allow the so called "democratic forces" (also known as Al Qaeda) to continue to operate and destibilize Syria

    This may not play well with the US plans described a day ago, about remaining in Syria to protect the oil fields that support Al Qaeda and to help them keep in control of the last remaining territory they have occupied by force so far. More news will come on your day time, maybe. I will update if possible as well

    If you have a good understanding of what's really going on there, you will know that the so called "democratic forces" or SDF, are nothing but another face for Al Qaeda, and that lots of the members are also ISIS members, or where at some point. And that it's not really much different in ideology than the ISIS that was supposedly 'defeated' a year or two ago

    This is preposterous, because we know 'daesh' is standing right there, on that picture, as an honorary member
    https://twitter.com/CJTFOIR/status/1...372771841?s=20
    Thanks for your posts Mashika! It is good to see things from different angles and perspectives!

    Years ago, we use to get a good look at things from around the world, but now as we all know things have changed. We have to get news from other countries and sources or we are at the mercy of one agenda.

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