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    EWTN News


    Those who visit the chapel of the Our Lady of Lourdes shrine in the city of Alta Gracia in Córdoba province, Argentina, witness a phenomenon that has no explanation: In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen although without a doubt the space is empty — there is nothing there.

    According to the Argentine news agency AICA, what is seen is not a flat image but rather a relief, a three-dimensional image with folds in the garment. It is also not a psychological illusion resulting from the exaggerated devotion of some pilgrims.

    Everyone — believer or not — sees it. Additionally, the image appears in photos taken there. A curious fact is that the image is clearly seen from the front door of the church and then fades as one slowly approaches the altar.

    Sources from Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine in Alta Gracia told ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, that although there is no specific statement from the Archdiocese of Córdoba, where the shrine is located, “everything is still the same and there is no new statement.”

    In a Feb. 10 statement to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Father Pablo Pavone, rector of the shrine, commented that “one discovers, over time, that the Mother of God is not democratic. What do I mean by this? That she does not attend to everyone equally, she is a mother and so she knows each one of her children and knows that they have different needs.”

    “Each person comes with his own set of particulars. And if we had to talk about a reason, there are as many reasons as hearts that visit the shrine, and what our Mother does is receive each one and establish a very personal relationship with each one of us,” he continued.

    The Argentine priest also noted that “the second thing is the attitude with which we have to come to the shrine, which is a place where one witnesses numerous interventions of the Virgin in response to the person’s faith; and you try to find a common denominator in all this, in all the people who have a powerful experience, it’s the trust with which they come here.”

    Pavone emphasized that “here the doors are open for all those who want to come, we invite everyone to come” these days or on another occasion because “the Virgin does not keep a datebook for all of them.”

    The chapel of the Virgin of Alta Gracia is located on a large property where in 1916 a replica was dedicated of the Massabielle grotto in Lourdes, France, where the Virgin appeared in 1858 to St. Bernadette Soubirous.

    In 1922 a commission was formed to build a chapel near the grotto. The first stone was laid in 1924 and in 1927 the bishop of Córdoba blessed the chapel. For many years there was a statue of Our Lady Lourdes in the center of the church’s altarpiece.

    In mid-2011 it was removed from its niche or base to be restored and is currently located at the foot of the niche that was left empty.

    One day one of the priests in charge of the shrine was going to close the chapel and from the main door he saw an image that looked like it was made of plaster in the empty space.

    He approached several times, and each time he did so he noticed that the image he saw from a certain distance faded. The truth was that there was actually no image, but he saw it.

    Because of the phenomenon, visible to anyone, the discalced Carmelite friars of the shrine issued a statement in 2011 noting that “the manifestation of the image of the most holy Virgin Mary has no explanation at the moment.”

    “It must be interpreted by the people of God as a sign to increase and deepen the Christian faith and to inspire in the hearts of men conversion to the love of God and their participation in the life of the Church,” they said.

    This year, tens of thousands of faithful made the 48th pilgrimage on foot to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes during the Argentine summer.

    The pilgrims departed last night at 9 p.m. local time from the Plaza de las Américas in Córdoba and arrived around 5:30 a.m. today, Feb. 11, at the shrine in Alta Gracia, a distance of about 25 miles.

    A midnight Mass was offered this morning, the rosary of the dawn was prayed at 5:30 a.m., and then a Mass for the pilgrims was celebrated at 6 a.m. by Alejandro Musolino, auxiliary bishop of Córdoba.

    At 9 a.m. there was a Mass for the communities and movements, at 11 a.m. another for the families, and at 6 p.m. a Mass for the sick is scheduled to be celebrated by Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi, the archbishop of Córdoba.

    At 7 p.m. there will be a procession at the shrine with a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes.

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    Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

    Police identify suspect in Canada mass shooting as investigation into motive continues


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    Canada school shooting updates: 9 dead, 27 wounded in BC’s Tumbler Ridge


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    Mats Nilsson

    US Navy warship collided into a Navy supply vessel during a refuel operation, the US military's Southern Command.

    No Russian involvement confirmed or denied at this point in time. 😂

    https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/2021986292217872882






    DD Geopolitics

    🇺🇸 The US Navy destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG-103) collided with the supply ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) during a replenishment operation in the Caribbean Sea.

    Two sailors sustained minor injuries.

    And these people want to fight China.... powerful.


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    Megatron

    NEW:

    🇺🇸 RFK Jr:

    “I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”

    https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/2022061926529036472



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    🇺🇸 From the party that cancels you if you don't like Israel:

    RFK Jr: "I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."

    Bunch of degenerates.

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    Key Architect of ‘Disinformation Dozen’ List Resigns After ‘Epstein Files’ Reveal Tangled Web of Censorship
    by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
    February 12, 2026
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    "The 2021 publication of “The Disinformation Dozen” list of 12 “leading online anti-vaxxers” sparked efforts to discredit U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sayer Ji and other outspoken critics of COVID-19 pandemic policies and vaccines. Five years later, the release of the “Epstein Files” has led to the resignation of one of the list’s architects — Morgan McSweeney.

    McSweeney, chief of staff to the U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resigned Sunday. In 2018, he co-founded what later became known as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which published the “Disinformation Dozen” list.

    McSweeney’s resignation stemmed from his prior support for Peter Mandelson, former U.K. ambassador to the U.S.

    Mandelson is implicated in the Epstein Files for his close ties to disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. McSweeney had advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson to his ambassadorial post.

    Starmer removed Mandelson from his post in September 2025, after emails between Mandelson and Epstein were made public. In the emails, Mandelson suggested that Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a child prostitute was wrongful and should be overturned.

    The Epstein Files also showed that Mandelson shared sensitive government information with Epstein. The U.K. Metropolitan Police launched a criminal investigation of Mandelson, while Starmer apologized to Epstein’s sex-trafficking victims.

    In his resignation letter, McSweeney took “full responsibility” for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson.

    But Ji, listed as one of the “Disinformation Dozen,” told The Defender McSweeney’s resignation shows that “the architecture behind a decade of political censorship is coming into view.”

    “The same political culture that normalized backroom routing of power, deniability, and proxy enforcement is the culture that produced CCDH — and shielded it from scrutiny while it reshaped public discourse on both sides of the Atlantic,” Ji wrote on Substack.

    In its early years, CCDH targeted left-wing political figures and independent media outlets in the U.K. with claims of antisemitism. Later, it targeted “misinformation” and “disinformation” in the U.S.

    The Biden administration and corporate media used the “Disinformation Dozen” list to discredit figures like Kennedy and Ji. Social media platforms deplatformed those included on the list.

    Internal documents leaked in 2024 showed that CCDH sought to launch “Black Ops” against Kennedy and “kill Musk’s Twitter” — now known as X. “Black ops” refers to secret operations carried out by governments or other organizations that hide their involvement.

    The Epstein Files don’t contain evidence indicating Epstein was involved in CCDH’s operations, Ji said. But they do reveal an “operational lineage” connecting Epstein to figures like Mandelson and McSweeney, revealing “the hidden origins of CCDH — and the elite networks now illuminated by the Epstein files.”

    “The Epstein files help explain why censorship became so aggressive,” said Seamus Bruner, director of research at the Government Accountability Institute. “CCDH and similar entities functioned less as neutral watchdogs and more as enforcement mechanisms — protecting systems, not public discourse.”

    CCDH exported UK censorship infrastructure to the U.S.

    McSweeney worked closely with Mandelson as far back as 2001, and he was also the key figure behind CCDH’s launch, according to Ji.

    “McSweeney conceived, incubated and structurally engineered the operation that would later become CCDH — first as a factional political weapon inside the Labour Party, and later as a transatlantic NGO [nongovernmental organization] deployed against journalists, publishers, doctors, and political dissidents,” Ji wrote.

    According to Ji, much public attention has focused on CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed — who is now facing deportation from the U.S. — and his role in online censorship. “If Ahmed was the executor. McSweeney was the designer,” Ji wrote.

    In 2018, McSweeney and Ahmed co-founded Brixton Endeavours Limited, which they renamed to CCDH in 2019. According to Ji, Jeremy Corbyn’s surprising electoral success in 2017 prompted the organization’s launch.

    Ji wrote that McSweeney, a self-described “centrist,” viewed Corbyn, who represented the left wing of the U.K. Labour Party, as a threat. The two launched attacks against people and media outlets who supported Corbyn, accusing them of antisemitism. The attacks resulted in several outlets and social media accounts being deplatformed.

    The attacks also contributed to Corbyn’s fall from power and Starmer’s subsequent rise.

    According to Ji, CCDH “emerged directly” from Labour Together and a parallel group, Stop Funding Fake News, launched by McSweeney and Ahmed.

    Ji said CCDH used “the same staff, and the same dark-money infrastructure they used to destroy Jeremy Corbyn — then redeployed the identical playbook against U.S.-based health publishers and independent media.”

    Ji said that McSweeney sent 100 Labour Party operatives to the U.S. to support the Democratic Party in swing states before the 2024 presidential election — resulting in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission.

    ‘The same dark funding. Only the targets changed’

    Once it was active in the U.S., CCDH didn’t limit its activities to attempted election interference. Instead, the organization “turned its attention to American citizens — health freedom advocates, independent journalists, and public commentators who questioned COVID-era policies.”

    Ji wrote:

    “The rebranding was seamless. The same organizational infrastructure. The same demonetization playbook. The same reliance on unfalsifiable moral accusations — accusations where the denial is treated as confirmation. The same exploitation of institutional trust. The same dark funding. Only the targets changed.”

    The “Disinformation Dozen” report highlights CCDH’s efforts to target alleged disinformation and misinformation. Facebook’s own internal analysis would later contradict the CCDH’s claim that the “Disinformation Dozen” was responsible for 65% of anti-vaccine content online, Ji said. But “precision was never the point.”

    “Within months,” the White House cited the “Disinformation Dozen” label. “Social media platforms accelerated deplatforming. Advertising revenue collapsed,” Ji said.

    Ji said CCDH “did not act alone.” CCDH’s activities were aligned with those of federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and with those of the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which received funding from the Gates Foundation.

    CCDH had also received funding from the Open Society Foundations, linked to financier George Soros.

    ‘Pure tyranny dressed up as public health’


    Even before the publication of the “Disinformation Dozen,” ISD endorsed CCDH and its efforts to target “misinformation” and “disinformation.” In 2019, ISD, in collaboration with the BBC, published a report that included Ji’s GreenMedInfo on a list of “disinformation-hosting websites” provided by fact-checking group NewsGuard.

    In 2022, investigative journalist Kris Ruby published whistleblower testimony showing that CCDH was one of the organizations providing Twitter with censorship word lists used to identify and target users who posted on selected topics.

    According to Ruby, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Biden “played a significant role in the creation of these word lists.”

    “This was not about misinformation. It was about permission structures — who may speak, who may be erased, and who decides, without democratic accountability,” Ji wrote.

    Several people named in the “Disinformation Dozen” said they felt vindicated by the Epstein Files revelations and McSweeney’s resignation.

    Charlene Bollinger, founder of The Truth About Vaccines and The Truth About Cancer, said she is “grateful to be vindicated — but more grateful that the world is now seeing what we have seen and said all along … as we worked tirelessly to tell the truth about Big Pharma, the medical mafia and the vaccine cartel.”

    “The vindication is structural,” Ji told The Defender. “The files demonstrate that the ‘Disinformation Dozen’ narrative was not about truth — it was about pre-emptive containment of critics who were identifying real power structures too early.”

    “What we’re looking at is pure tyranny dressed up as public health,” said chiropractor Ben Tapper.

    Epstein’s connection to CCDH and ‘Disinformation Dozen’

    Epstein does not appear to be directly linked to CCDH. But the “same political culture of deniable backroom operations that made the Epstein network functional also produced CCDH,” Ji said.

    Within this network, Epstein “functioned as a switchboard — routing access, capital, and influence between domains designed never to appear connected,” Ji wrote. The domains included government policy, Wall Street, pandemic financing, narrative enforcement and access to elite figures such as Bill Gates.

    Ji said revelations from the Epstein Files, released Jan. 30, showing the extent of Mandelson’s dealings with Epstein, are also damning for McSweeney. He was “widely reported to be Peter Mandelson’s protégé,” with ties dating back to 2001, when McSweeney worked for Mandelson on Labour’s election campaign.

    Mandelson’s social ties to Epstein were known before the files were released. But they were widely viewed as a blip on an otherwise distinguished political career. Now, “that framing is no longer available,” Ji wrote.

    In a 2009 email to JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley, Epstein said Mandelson was “for all intents and purposes … deputy prime minister” of the U.K.

    In a 2009 email exchange, Mandelson and Epstein discussed the former’s efforts to lobby to reduce a tax on bankers’ bonuses. In an email to Epstein, Mandelson wrote that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon should “mildly threaten” then-U.K. Chancellor Alistair Darling as part of these lobbying efforts.

    The Epstein Files revealed evidence showing that Epstein later worked with JPMorgan Chase to develop and finance pandemic preparedness infrastructure globally.

    “The political culture that produced CCDH — the culture of backroom operations, dark money, deniable proxies, and weaponized moral framing — is the same political culture that made the Epstein network possible,” Ji wrote.

    CCDH is under congressional investigation, and deportation proceedings against Ahmed are ongoing.

    In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York earlier this month, the U.S. Department of State described Ahmed as a “key collaborator with the Biden administration on weaponizing the national security bureaucracy to censor U.S. citizens and pressure U.S. companies into censoring.” "

    Related articles in The Defender
    Epstein Pitched JPMorgan Chase on Plan to Get Bill Gates ‘More Money for Vaccines’
    UK Activist Behind ‘Disinformation Dozen’ Faces Possible U.S. Deportation
    Congressional Investigation into Authors of ‘Disinformation Dozen’ Intensifies
    Group Behind ‘Disinformation Dozen’ Sought to ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter,’ Launch ‘Black Ops’ Against RFK Jr.
    Mastermind Behind ‘Disinformation Dozen’ List Took Money From Foundation Linked to Soros
    Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding ‘Corrupt Dark-money Network’ That Censored CHD, RFK Jr. and Others?

    Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender and host of "The Defender In-Depth" on CHD.TV.
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    It only does him credit that RFK Jr. has been so forthcoming about the struggles he had as a young man beset by tragedy, was able to heal and turn his life around to become such an effective and positive force for good in spite of the assassinations of his father, uncle and cousin, and the likely fear that he might be next.
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    RFK Jr: "I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    It only does him credit that RFK Jr. has been so forthcoming about the struggles he had as a young man beset by tragedy, was able to heal and turn his life around to become such an effective and positive force for good in spite of the assassinations of his father, uncle and cousin, and the likely fear that he might be next.
    very well said, Onawah -


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    I was perusing RT news and thought it might be interesting to compile today's headlines for you. I've included links to the articles but please note that many countries and even browsers will block the links, so you'll have to use a VPN and/or "Epic" browser (not available for Linux).

    Most of the articles are probably available on alternative news sites if you really need to read them. But the headlines probably suffice
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    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday authorizing naval blockades to prevent migrant boats from entering the country’s territorial waters.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632356-italy...migrant-boats/

    The future belongs to the multipolar world, but building it will not come without a struggle, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632344-multi...harova-moscow/

    Libya has awarded new oil and gas exploration blocks to major foreign energy companies in its first upstream licensing round in nearly two decades, as the North African country ties to revive its crucial energy sector.

    https://www.rt.com/africa/632359-for...tion-licenses/

    An Albanian actress has sued the Balkan country’s government over its use of her likeness for a virtual minister for digital intelligence.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632352-alban...ister-lawsuit/

    Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Proton-M rocket carrying the Elektro-L No.5 weather satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

    https://www.rt.com/russia/632354-ros...oton-m-launch/

    South Africa elected to continental peace council. 
    Pretoria has pledged to work closely with other members of the African Union body to tackle security threats, including terrorism

    https://www.rt.com/africa/632363-sou...urity-council/

    China has rejected US allegations that it conducted a secret nuclear test, suggesting that the “baseless” claim was aimed at providing cover for Washington to resume its own testing program.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632364-china...-nuclear-test/

    German govt ‘embezzling’ taxpayer money to fund Ukraine

    https://www.rt.com/news/632358-ukrai...u-wagenknecht/

    Russia and Burkina Faso have discussed information security, as well as future military, economic, and academic cooperation

    https://www.rt.com/africa/632353-rus...-partnerships/

    Switzerland to vote on population cap proposed by anti-immigration party

    https://www.rt.com/news/632372-swiss...n-cap-million/

    The European Commission should take back over €10 billion ($11.8 billion) in cohesion funds awarded to Hungary in 2023, advocate general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Tamara Capeta stated on Thursday.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632380-annul...unds-eu-court/

    Syria retakes strategic military base after American pullout

    https://www.rt.com/news/632361-syria-military-base-us/

    Ten million migrants living in Spain

    https://www.rt.com/news/632381-spain...lion-migrants/

    Ilhan Omar under fire for ‘execute Trump’ tweet

    https://www.rt.com/news/632383-ilhan...execute-trump/

    Zelensky attacks the Olympics. Russian athletes should be disqualified despite breaking no rules, the Ukrainian leader has argued

    https://www.rt.com/russia/632384-zel...-olympics-ban/

    Ukraine to ban Russian literature

    https://www.rt.com/russia/632385-ukr...iterature-ban/

    EU prices killing competitiveness say industry leaders

    https://www.rt.com/business/632382-e...mpetitiveness/

    France calls for removal of UN human rights official Francesca Albanese over Israel remarks

    https://www.rt.com/news/632375-franc...banese-israel/

    The Diocese of Brooklyn, which has already paid over $100 million to victims, has announced that it will pursue a “global resolution” to settle the remaining 1,100 child sexual abuse lawsuits levied against its Catholic priests and staffers.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632387-brook...e-child-abuse/

    Russian military retaliates for Kiev’s ‘terrorist attacks’

    https://www.rt.com/russia/632388-rus...rikes-ukraine/

    US smuggled Starlinks into Iran amid riots

    https://www.rt.com/news/632389-smugg...ink-iran-riot/

    Anthropic has injected $20 million into a political advocacy group that backs candidates favoring AI regulation, thrusting the safety-focused company into the center of a high-stakes election spending war with its archrival OpenAI.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632390-anthr...tical-rivalry/

    US lawmakers accuse DOJ of ‘spying’ on Epstein file searches

    https://www.rt.com/news/632391-doj-s...tein-congress/

    Landslide win for opposition party in Bangladesh election

    https://www.rt.com/news/632394-lands...osition-party/

    Israelis charged with using Iran war secrets to place bets

    https://www.rt.com/news/632400-israe...bets-iran-war/

    New Delhi’s Defense Acquisition Council has reportedly agreed to buy 288 missiles for $1.1 billion from Russia

    https://www.rt.com/india/632403-indi...purchase-of-s/

    Israel’s recognition of Somaliland ‘null and void’ – African Union

    https://www.rt.com/africa/632406-afr...and-null-void/

    Zelensky claims Ukraine is ‘not losing’ to Russia ha ha

    https://www.rt.com/russia/632404-stu...nsky-bad-deal/

    A retired US Army colonel has been sentenced to two years in prison for sharing classified information about the country’s war plans with a woman he met online

    https://www.rt.com/news/632402-us-co...d-war-secrets/

    Russia announces huge Arctic oil discovery

    https://www.rt.com/russia/632399-gazprom-new-oil-field/

    Germany is willing to supply five interceptor missiles for US-made Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, but only if other European countries agree to provide 30 more, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.

    https://www.rt.com/news/632401-germa...iot-pistorius/

    Nigerian troops rescue 11 hostages

    https://www.rt.com/africa/632412-nig...e-11-hostages/

    Russia, the US, and Ukraine will hold a new round of peace talks in Switzerland next week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced.

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    5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

    A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested.


    Original photograph of the artefact published in 1927 by Guy Brunton (left) and the actual artefact, photo by Martin Odler.

    Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, have re-examined a small copper-alloy object excavated a century ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, and concluded it is the earliest identified rotary metal drill from ancient Egypt, dating to the Predynastic period (late 4th millennium BCE), before the first pharaohs ruled.

    The artefact (catalogued as 1924.948 A in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge) was found in Grave 3932, the burial of an adult man. When first published in the 1920s, the artefact - which is only 63 millimetres long and weighs about 1.5 grams - was described as "a little awl of copper, with some leather thong wound round it." That brief note proved easy to overlook, and the object attracted little attention for decades.

    However, under magnification, the researchers found that the tool shows distinctive wear consistent with drilling: fine striations, rounded edges, and a slight curvature at the working end, all features that point to rotary motion, not simple puncturing.

    The research, which is published in the journal Egypt and the Levant, also described six coils of an extremely fragile leather thong, which the researchers argue is a remnant of the bowstring used to power a bow drill, an ancient equivalent of a hand drill, where a string wrapped around a shaft is moved back and forth by a bow to spin the drill rapidly.


    Bow drill in action, New Kingdom tomb painting from Western Thebes, Tomb of Rekhmire, object 31.6.25, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain.

    continue: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles...ptiandrillbit/

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    DOGE open-sources Medicaid data, and Treasury offers fraud bounties— the vaccine hunt is on; Epstein files sink Hollywood agency and nab more Dem donors; inflation hits 5-year low, wages grow; more.
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    🚨JUST IN: Massive protest in Switzerland Against Mandatory Vaccination Law!

    Demonstrators in St. Gallen broke through a police cordon during a protest against compulsory vaccination.

    Local authorities want to impose mandatory vaccination for future pandemics.

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    Navalny crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests against President Vladimir Putin's rule, Navalny was Putins sole political nemesis

    Russia’s Alexey Navalny killed by dart frog poison, European nations allege


    Navalny crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests against President Vladimir Putin's rule

    Five European countries – the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands – have accused Russia of poisoning and killing opposition leader Alexey Navalny in 2024 based on lab results from a sample taken from his body.

    The five governments said in a statement on Saturday that tissue samples “conclusively” confirmed the lethal toxin epibatidine. The poison is found in wild dart frogs from South America.

    Five European countries say findings ‘conclusively’ confirm the deadly toxin in the Russian opposition leader’s body as Moscow calls it Western propaganda.

    “The UK, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands are confident that Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin,” the statement issued during the Munich Security Conference said.

    Russia had “the means, motive, and opportunity to administer this poison”, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office added in a statement.

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told state-run RIA Novosti news agency she’ll comment once the test results are publicly presented – something she noted has not yet been done.

    The five countries said they’re reporting Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention. There was no immediate comment from the organisation.

    Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence he called politically motivated.

    Epibatidine is found naturally in dart frogs and can also be manufactured in a lab, something European scientists suspect was the case in the alleged poisoning of Navalny.

    The poison works by causing shortness of breath, convulsions, seizures and a slowed heart rate and can kill on contact.

    The five countries said Russia needs to be held accountable for its “repeated violations” of the convention.

    British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper met Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, at the Munich Security Conference. She said the new findings are “shining a light on the Kremlin’s barbaric plot to silence his voice”.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2...itical-nemesis


    Alexey Navalny, centre; his wife Yulia, second from right; and other demonstrators march in memory of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in Moscow in 2020

    ‘Science-proven fact’?
    It’s unclear how the samples from Navalny’s body were obtained or where they were assessed. Cooper told reporters “UK scientists worked with our European partners to pursue the truth” on Navalny’s death.

    Navalnaya said the “murder” of her husband is now a “science-proven fact”.

    “Two years ago, I came on stage here and said that it was Vladimir Putin who killed my husband,” Navalnaya said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

    “I was, of course, certain that it was a murder, … but back then, it was just words. But today these words have become science-proven fact,” Navalnaya added.

    Navalny was the previous target of a nerve agent poisoning in 2020 that he blamed on the Kremlin.

    He was flown to Germany for treatment, and when he returned to Russia five months later, he was immediately arrested and imprisoned for the remaining three years of his life.

    The UK held a ‌public inquiry into the poisoning in Britain of Russian double agent Sergey Skripal in 2018. It concluded last year that Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack. The Kremlin has denied involvement.

    Russia also denied poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent-turned-Kremlin critic who died in London in 2006 after ingesting the radioactive isotope polonium-210. A British inquiry concluded that Litvinenko.

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    Navalny crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests against President Vladimir Putin's rule, Navalny was Putins sole political nemesis

    Russia’s Alexey Navalny killed by dart frog poison, European nations allege
    Alex Christoforou has a bunch of fun addressing this with a full 19 minutes of deadpan humor at the start of his video update for today.

    The winning YouTube comment:
    Guaranteed to make you croak!

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Quote Posted by rgray222 (here)
    Navalny crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests against President Vladimir Putin's rule, Navalny was Putins sole political nemesis

    Russia’s Alexey Navalny killed by dart frog poison, European nations allege
    Alex Christoforou has a bunch of fun addressing this with a full 19 minutes of deadpan humor at the start of his video update for today.

    The winning YouTube comment:
    Guaranteed to make you croak!
    Just ridiculous isn't it. Olga Bazova has of course already lampooned this idiocy with one of her 'weapon' series, with: 'Putin is using frogs as a weapon'

    Re-posting this from the WW3 thread:

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    Current Navalny 'bilge' being promulgated by Western 'media':

    Seems the European media have been watching episodes of Midsomer Murders, a popular detective series that is still running but became much loved by some with John Nettles (formerly 'Bergerac' in the 80s) playing the role of DCI Barnaby.

    I've seen it, definitely remember it, and it was genuinely the first thing I thought of

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233062/

    Midsomer Murders: Season 11 - Episode 5
    The Magician's Nephew

    Brief: The traditions of a local cult in Midsomer, the Temple of Thoth, appear to be related to a series of murders using poison of the poison dart frog.

    85, Albert Embankment, use interesting sources

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    not only do we have poor frogs being turned gay..... :-(



    now they are weaponizing them.....

    sing to the tune of Pink Floyd's - Another Brick in the Wall.....

    'Hey Warmongers.......leave them frogs alone....'

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    Bill, beware of the anti Putin frogs from Ecuador...!

    there must be millions!
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    What happened to your 'free speech' president, MAGA? He never existed - it was all wind and bull**** to deceive you so he could get elected to do what his Cult owners planned all along. Tell them what they want to hear and then do the opposite. T'was always so.

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    Israeli producer Dana Eden (52) was found dead on Monday, Feb. 16, in her hotel room in Athens. She was a co-creator of the Apple TV+ series Tehran, about Mossad agents in Iran, and was preparing its fourth season.

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    LOVE THIS!!! 🙌🏼 LFG B Make “harassing” Bill Gates great again 😅 he’s an enemy to all of humanity.

    Something we can ALL agree on.

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