21stcenturywire--2020-12-15--Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus is Not COVID. It is War.

Britain ’ s Armed Services Memorial is a silent , haunting place .
Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire , in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns , its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice .
The names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed .
The literature says they “ died in operational theatre or were targeted by terrorists ” .
On the day I was there , a stonemason was adding new names to those who have died in some 50 operations across the world during what is known as “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kenya , Hong Kong , Libya , Iraq , Palestine and many more , including secret operations , such as Indochina .
Not a year has passed since peace was declared in 1945 that Britain has not sent military forces to fight the wars of empire .
Not a year has passed when countries , mostly poor and riven by conflict , have not bought or have been “ soft loaned ” British arms to further the wars , or “ interests ” , of empire .
Empire ?
What empire ?
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Declassified that Boris Johnson ’ s Britain maintained 145 military sites – call them bases – in 42 countries .
Johnson has boasted that Britain is to be “ the foremost naval power in Europe ” .
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times , with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service , Johnson has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defence spending – a figure that would restore the under-resourced NHS many times over .
But these billions are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enemies other than those within who betray the trust of its ordinary people , its nurses and doctors , its carers , elderly , homeless and youth , as successive neo-liberal governments have done , Conservative and Labour .
Exploring the serenity of the National War Memorial , I soon realised there was not a single monument , or plinth , or plaque , or rosebush honouring the memory of Britain ’ s victims – the civilians in the “ peacetime ” operations commemorated here .
There is no remembrance of the Libyans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Prime Minister David Cameron and his collaborators in Paris and Washington .
There is no word of regret for the Serbian women and children killed by British bombs , dropped from a safe height on schools , factories , bridges , towns , on the orders of Tony Blair ; or for the impoverished Yemeni children extinguished by Saudi pilots with their logistics and targets supplied by Britons in the air-conditioned safety of Riyadh ; or for the Syrians starved by “ sanctions ” .
There is no monument to the Palestinian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s enduring connivance , such as the recent campaign that destroyed a modest reform movement within the Labour Party with specious accusations of anti-Semitism .
Two weeks ago , Israel ’ s military chief of staff and Britain ’ s Chief of the Defence Staff signed an agreement to “ formalise and enhance ” military co-operation .
This was not news .
More British arms and logistical support will now flow to the lawless regime in Tel Aviv , whose snipers target children and psychopaths interrogate children in extreme isolation .
( See @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Children , Isolated and Alone ) .
Perhaps the most striking omission at the Staffordshire war memorial is an acknowledgement of the million Iraqis whose lives and country were destroyed by the illegal invasion of Blair and Bush in 2003 .
ORB , a member of the British Polling Council , put the figure at 1.2 million .
In 2013 , the ComRes organisation asked a cross-section of the British public how many Iraqis had died in the invasion .
A majority said fewer than 10,000 .
How is such a lethal silence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer is that propaganda is far more effective in societies that regard themselves as free than in dictatorships and autocracies .
I include censorship by omission .
Our propaganda industries – both political and cultural , including most of the media – are the most powerful , ubiquitous and refined on earth .
Big lies can be repeated incessantly in comforting , credible BBC voices .
Omissions are no problem .
U.S. Marines in Operation Allen Brook in Vietnam War ( Image Source : Historynet.com ) A similar question relates to nuclear war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interest ” , to quote Harold Pinter .
Russia , a nuclear power , is encircled by the war-making group known as NATO , with British troops regularly “ maneuvering ” right up to the border where Hitler invaded .
The defamation of all things Russian , not least the historical truth that the Red Army largely won the Second World War , is percolated into public consciousness .
The Russians are of “ no interest ” , except as demons .
China , also a nuclear power , is the brunt of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and drones constantly probing its territorial space and – hooray – HMS Queen Elizabeth , Britain ’ s £3billion aircraft carrier , soon to sail 6,500 miles to enforce “ freedom of navigation ” within sight of the Chinese mainland .
Some 400 American bases encircle China , “ rather like a noose , ” a former Pentagon planner said to me .
They extend all the way from Australia , though the Pacific to southern and northern Asia and across Eurasia .
In South Korea , a missile system known as Terminal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , is aimed point-blank at China across the narrow East China Sea .
Imagine Chinese missiles in Mexico or Canada or off the coast of California .
A few years after the invasion of Iraq , I made a film called The War You Don ’ t See , in which I asked leading American and British journalists as well as TV news executives – people I knew as colleagues — why and how Bush and Blair were allowed to get away with the great crime in Iraq , considering that the lies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surprised me .
Had “ we ” , they said – that is journalists and broadcasters , especially in the US — challenged the claims of the White House and Downing Street , investigated and exposed the lies , instead of amplifying and echoing them , the invasion of Iraq in 2003 probably would not have happened .
Countless people would be alive today .
Four million refugees would not have fled .
The grisly ISIS , a product of the Blair/Bush invasion , might not have been conceived .
David Rose , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supported the invasion , described “ the pack of lies fed to me by a fairly sophisticated disinformation campaign ” .
Rageh Omah , then the BBC ’ s man in Iraq , told me , “ We failed to press the most uncomfortable buttons hard enough ” .
Dan Rather , the CBS anchorman , agreed , as did many others .
I admired these journalists who broke the silence .
But they are honourable exceptions .
Today , the war drums have new and highly enthusiastic beaters in Britain , America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your pick among the legion of Russia and China bashers and promoters of fiction such as Russiagate .
My personal Oscar goes to Peter Hartcher of the Sydney Morning Herald , whose unrelenting rousing drivel about the “ existential threat ” ( of China/Russia , mostly China ) was illustrated by a smiling Scott Morrison , the PR man who is Australia ’ s prime minister , dressed like Churchill , V for Victory sign and all .
“ Not since the 1930s ….
” the pair of them intoned .
Ad nauseum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic of propaganda .
In July , Morrison took his cue from Trump and announced that Australia , which has no enemies , would spend A $ 270 billion on provoking one , including missiles that could reach China .
That China ’ s purchase of Australia ’ s minerals and agriculture effectively underwrote the Australian economy was “ of no interest ” to the government in Canberra .
The Australian media cheered almost as one , delivering a shower of abuse at China .
Thousands of Chinese students , who had guaranteed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were advised by their government to go elsewhere .
Chinese-Australians were bad-mouthed and deliverymen were assaulted .
Colonial racism is never hard to revive .
Some years ago , I interviewed the former head of the CIA in Latin America , Duane Claridge .
In a few refreshingly honest words , he summed up “ Western ” foreign policy as it is ordained and directed by Washington .
The super-power , he said , could do what it wanted where it wanted whenever its “ strategic interests ” dictated .
His words were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world.
” I have reported a number of wars .
I have seen the remains of children and women and the elderly bombed and burned to death : their villages laid to waste , their petrified trees festooned with human parts .
And much else .
Perhaps that is why I reserve a specific contempt for those who promote the crime of rapacious war , who beckon it with bad faith and profanities , having never experienced it themselves .
Their monopoly must be broken .
*** This piece is a version of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stop the War fundraiser , Artists Speak Out , in London .
Follow the work of investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger at his website here .
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John Pilger
21st Century Wire
Britain’s Armed Services Memorial is a silent, haunting place. Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice.
The names of more than 16,000 British servicemen and women are listed. The literature says they “died in operational theatre or were targeted by terrorists”.
On the day I was there, a stonemason was adding new names to those who have died in some 50 operations across the world during what is known as “peacetime”. Malaya, Ireland, Kenya, Hong Kong, Libya, Iraq, Palestine and many more, including secret operations, such as Indochina.
Not a year has passed since peace was declared in 1945 that Britain has not sent military forces to fight the wars of empire.
Not a year has passed when countries, mostly poor and riven by conflict, have not bought or have been “soft loaned” British arms to further the wars, or “interests”, of empire.
Empire? What empire? The investigative journalist Phil Miller recently revealed in Declassified that Boris Johnson’s Britain maintained 145 military sites – call them bases – in 42 countries. Johnson has boasted that Britain is to be “the foremost naval power in Europe”.
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Johnson has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defence spending – a figure that would restore the under-resourced NHS many times over.
F-35 Lightning II pilot from Hill Air Force Base, Utah (Image Source: U.S. Air Force)
But these billions are not for defence. Britain has no enemies other than those within who betray the trust of its ordinary people, its nurses and doctors, its carers, elderly, homeless and youth, as successive neo-liberal governments have done, Conservative and Labour.
Exploring the serenity of the National War Memorial, I soon realised there was not a single monument, or plinth, or plaque, or rosebush honouring the memory of Britain’s victims – the civilians in the “peacetime” operations commemorated here.
There is no remembrance of the Libyans killed when their country was wilfully destroyed by Prime Minister David Cameron and his collaborators in Paris and Washington.
There is no word of regret for the Serbian women and children killed by British bombs, dropped from a safe height on schools, factories, bridges, towns, on the orders of Tony Blair; or for the impoverished Yemeni children extinguished by Saudi pilots with their logistics and targets supplied by Britons in the air-conditioned safety of Riyadh; or for the Syrians starved by “sanctions”.
There is no monument to the Palestinian children murdered with the British elite’s enduring connivance, such as the recent campaign that destroyed a modest reform movement within the Labour Party with specious accusations of anti-Semitism.
Two weeks ago, Israel’s military chief of staff and Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff signed an agreement to “formalise and enhance” military co-operation. This was not news. More British arms and logistical support will now flow to the lawless regime in Tel Aviv, whose snipers target children and psychopaths interrogate children in extreme isolation. (See the recent shocking report by Defense for Children, Isolated and Alone).
Perhaps the most striking omission at the Staffordshire war memorial is an acknowledgement of the million Iraqis whose lives and country were destroyed by the illegal invasion of Blair and Bush in 2003.
ORB, a member of the British Polling Council, put the figure at 1.2 million. In 2013, the ComRes organisation asked a cross-section of the British public how many Iraqis had died in the invasion. A majority said fewer than 10,000.
How is such a lethal silence sustained in a sophisticated society? My answer is that propaganda is far more effective in societies that regard themselves as free than in dictatorships and autocracies. I include censorship by omission.
Our propaganda industries – both political and cultural, including most of the media – are the most powerful, ubiquitous and refined on earth. Big lies can be repeated incessantly in comforting, credible BBC voices. Omissions are no problem.
U.S. Marines in Operation Allen Brook in Vietnam War (Image Source: Historynet.com)
A similar question relates to nuclear war, whose threat is “of no interest”, to quote Harold Pinter. Russia, a nuclear power, is encircled by the war-making group known as NATO, with British troops regularly “maneuvering” right up to the border where Hitler invaded.
The defamation of all things Russian, not least the historical truth that the Red Army largely won the Second World War, is percolated into public consciousness. The Russians are of “no interest”, except as demons.
China, also a nuclear power, is the brunt of unrelenting provocation, with American strategic bombers and drones constantly probing its territorial space and – hooray – HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s £3billion aircraft carrier, soon to sail 6,500 miles to enforce “freedom of navigation” within sight of the Chinese mainland.
Some 400 American bases encircle China, “rather like a noose,” a former Pentagon planner said to me. They extend all the way from Australia, though the Pacific to southern and northern Asia and across Eurasia.
In South Korea, a missile system known as Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, or THAAD, is aimed point-blank at China across the narrow East China Sea. Imagine Chinese missiles in Mexico or Canada or off the coast of California.
A few years after the invasion of Iraq, I made a film called The War You Don’t See, in which I asked leading American and British journalists as well as TV news executives – people I knew as colleagues — why and how Bush and Blair were allowed to get away with the great crime in Iraq, considering that the lies were not very clever.
Their response surprised me. Had “we”, they said – that is journalists and broadcasters, especially in the US — challenged the claims of the White House and Downing Street, investigated and exposed the lies, instead of amplifying and echoing them, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 probably would not have happened. Countless people would be alive today. Four million refugees would not have fled. The grisly ISIS, a product of the Blair/Bush invasion, might not have been conceived.
David Rose, then with the London Observer, which supported the invasion, described “the pack of lies fed to me by a fairly sophisticated disinformation campaign”. Rageh Omah, then the BBC’s man in Iraq, told me, “We failed to press the most uncomfortable buttons hard enough”. Dan Rather, the CBS anchorman, agreed, as did many others.
I admired these journalists who broke the silence. But they are honourable exceptions. Today, the war drums have new and highly enthusiastic beaters in Britain, America and the “West”.
Take your pick among the legion of Russia and China bashers and promoters of fiction such as Russiagate. My personal Oscar goes to Peter Hartcher of the Sydney Morning Herald, whose unrelenting rousing drivel about the “existential threat” (of China/Russia, mostly China) was illustrated by a smiling Scott Morrison, the PR man who is Australia’s prime minister, dressed like Churchill, V for Victory sign and all. “Not since the 1930s ….” the pair of them intoned. Ad nauseum.
COVID has provided cover for this pandemic of propaganda. In July, Morrison took his cue from Trump and announced that Australia, which has no enemies, would spend A$270 billion on provoking one, including missiles that could reach China.
That China’s purchase of Australia’s minerals and agriculture effectively underwrote the Australian economy was “of no interest” to the government in Canberra.
The Australian media cheered almost as one, delivering a shower of abuse at China. Thousands of Chinese students, who had guaranteed the gross salaries of Australian vice-chancellors, were advised by their government to go elsewhere. Chinese-Australians were bad-mouthed and deliverymen were assaulted. Colonial racism is never hard to revive.
Some years ago, I interviewed the former head of the CIA in Latin America, Duane Claridge. In a few refreshingly honest words, he summed up “Western” foreign policy as it is ordained and directed by Washington.
The super-power, he said, could do what it wanted where it wanted whenever its “strategic interests” dictated. His words were: “Get used to it, world.”
I have reported a number of wars. I have seen the remains of children and women and the elderly bombed and burned to death: their villages laid to waste, their petrified trees festooned with human parts. And much else.
Perhaps that is why I reserve a specific contempt for those who promote the crime of rapacious war, who beckon it with bad faith and profanities, having never experienced it themselves. Their monopoly must be broken.
***
This piece is a version of an address John Pilger gave to a Stop the War fundraiser, Artists Speak Out, in London.
Follow the work of investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger at his website here.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-15--Yes, Bill Gates Said That – Here’s the Proof

Gates and his minions insist the billionaire never said we ’ d need digital vaccine passports .
But in a June 2020 TED Talk , Gates said exactly that .
Someone edited out the statement , but CHD tracked down the original .
Some chiseler altered Bill Gates ’ June 2020 TED Talk to edit out his revealing prediction that we will all soon need digital vaccine passports ( slide 1 ) .
But after considerable effort , we tracked down the original video ( slide 2 ) .
Gates ’ minions on cable and network news , his public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all now insist that Gates never said such things .
They say he never intended to track and trace us with subdermal chips or injected tattoos .
They dismiss such talk as “ conspiracy theories.
” Well , here it is from the horse ’ s mouth .
In 2019 , according to a not-yet-purged Scientific American article , Gates commissioned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build an injectable quantum dot dye system to tattoo stored medical info beneath children ’ s skin .
The tattoo was designed to be readable by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Microsoft , has patented a sinister technology that uses implanted chips with sensors that will monitor body and brain activity .
It promises to reward compliant humans with crypto currency payments when they perform assigned activities .
Gates also invested approximately $ 20 million in MicroCHIPS , a company that makes chip-based devices , including birth-control implant chips with wireless on/off switches for remote-controlled drug-delivery by medical authorities .
In July 2019 , months before the COVID pandemic , Gates bought 3.7M shares of Serco , a military contractor with U.S. and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic infections and vaccine compliance .
To facilitate our transition to his surveillance society , Gates invested $ 1 billion in EarthNow , which promises to blanket the globe in 5G video surveillance satellites .
EarthNow will launch 500 satellites allowing governments and large enterprises to live-stream monitor almost every “ corner ” of the Earth , providing instantaneous video feedback with one-second delay .
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also acquired 5.3 million shares of Crown Castle , which owns 5G spy antennas including more than 40,000 cell towers and 65,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ copy of these clips — as Gates ’ power to disappear inconvenient facts is expanding every digital day .
*** About the author : Robert F Kennedy Jr is the son of the former U.S. Attorney General under his brother President John F. Kennedy .
In his work as a vaccine injury lawyer Robert Jr. has produced the suppressed vaccine documentary , ‘ VAXXED ’ and the Informed Consent Action Network ( ICAN ) .
He is also the founder and attorney for Childrens Health Defense .
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Gates and his minions insist the billionaire never said we’d need digital vaccine passports. But in a June 2020 TED Talk, Gates said exactly that. Someone edited out the statement, but CHD tracked down the original.
Pictured: Microsoft Founder and vaccine mogul Bill Gates (2020)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Childrens Health Defense
Some chiseler altered Bill Gates’ June 2020 TED Talk to edit out his revealing prediction that we will all soon need digital vaccine passports (slide 1). But after considerable effort, we tracked down the original video (slide 2).
Gates’ minions on cable and network news, his public broadcasting, social media and fact-checker toadies all now insist that Gates never said such things. They say he never intended to track and trace us with subdermal chips or injected tattoos.
They dismiss such talk as “conspiracy theories.”
Well, here it is from the horse’s mouth.
In 2019, according to a not-yet-purged Scientific American article, Gates commissioned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build an injectable quantum dot dye system to tattoo stored medical info beneath children’s skin. The tattoo was designed to be readable by an iPhone app.
Gates’ company, Microsoft, has patented a sinister technology that uses implanted chips with sensors that will monitor body and brain activity. It promises to reward compliant humans with crypto currency payments when they perform assigned activities.
Gates also invested approximately $20 million in MicroCHIPS, a company that makes chip-based devices, including birth-control implant chips with wireless on/off switches for remote-controlled drug-delivery by medical authorities.
In July 2019, months before the COVID pandemic, Gates bought 3.7M shares of Serco, a military contractor with U.S. and UK government contracts to track and trace pandemic infections and vaccine compliance.
To facilitate our transition to his surveillance society, Gates invested $1 billion in EarthNow, which promises to blanket the globe in 5G video surveillance satellites. EarthNow will launch 500 satellites allowing governments and large enterprises to live-stream monitor almost every “corner” of the Earth, providing instantaneous video feedback with one-second delay.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also acquired 5.3 million shares of Crown Castle, which owns 5G spy antennas including more than 40,000 cell towers and 65,000 small cells.
Please make your own copy of these clips — as Gates’ power to disappear inconvenient facts is expanding every digital day.
***
About the author: Robert F Kennedy Jr is the son of the former U.S. Attorney General under his brother President John F. Kennedy. In his work as a vaccine injury lawyer Robert Jr. has produced the suppressed vaccine documentary, ‘VAXXED’ and the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN). He is also the founder and attorney for Childrens Health Defense.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-16--Project Veritas Releases Audio of Assange Warning U.S. State Dept of Dangerous Leak of Classified Ca

Project Veritas Releases Audio of Assange Warning U.S. State Dept of Dangerous Leak of Classified Cables

Amid rumors circulating this week about the possibility of President Trump pardoning imprisoned WikiLeaks founder , Julian Assange , new audio has emerged from 2011 of the conversation between Assange and State Department attorney Cliff Johnson , clearly showing how Assange pleaded with the US to act immediately in order to limit the damage of an unauthorized unredacted release of classified diplomatic cables and information from U.S. government .
According to James O ’ Keefe , the founder and CEO of Project Veritas , “ A whistleblower provided this audio to Project Veritas , so that the American people have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his conduct.
” “ Political pressure is building for President Donald Trump to pardon Assange at the end of his first term and this tape goes a long way to rebooting how he has been portrayed , ” said O ’ Keefe .
In the audio recording , Assange alerted the US official that rogue former WikiLeaks employee , Daniel Domscheit-Berg , had taken classified State Department cables and planned to release them online without following WikiLeaks redaction and “ harm minimization ” protcols .
O ’ Keefe added , “ There is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that can not be denied , whether you welcomed his releases or not.
” Currently , Julian Assange is being held as an unconvicted political prisoner by the British government who are intent in handing his over to the US government for extradition in 2021 to face multiple life sentences for alleged espionage charges drafted by the Department of Justice .
Recently , UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , Nils Melzer , has demanded an immediate end to Assange ’ s decade-long ‘ arbitrary detention ’ by the UK government .
Melzer reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is in fact being held ‘ for exclusively preventative purposes ’ , and has since deemed his imprisonment in Belmarsh unlawful and ‘ neither necessary nor proportionate ’ to the legal situation he is currently in .
Listen to the full raw audio recording here : For more details and the full call transcript visit Project Veritas .
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Amid rumors circulating this week about the possibility of President Trump pardoning imprisoned WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, new audio has emerged from 2011 of the conversation between Assange and State Department attorney Cliff Johnson, clearly showing how Assange pleaded with the US to act immediately in order to limit the damage of an unauthorized unredacted release of classified diplomatic cables and information from U.S. government.
According to James O’Keefe, the founder and CEO of Project Veritas, “A whistleblower provided this audio to Project Veritas, so that the American people have a more accurate account of Assange and his conduct.”
“Political pressure is building for President Donald Trump to pardon Assange at the end of his first term and this tape goes a long way to rebooting how he has been portrayed,” said O’Keefe.
In the audio recording, Assange alerted the US official that rogue former WikiLeaks employee, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, had taken classified State Department cables and planned to release them online without following WikiLeaks redaction and “harm minimization” protocols.
O’Keefe added, “There is an integrity to Assange’s conduct that cannot be denied, whether you welcomed his releases or not.”
Currently, Julian Assange is being held as an unconvicted political prisoner by the British government who are intent in handing his over to the US government for extradition in 2021 to face multiple life sentences for alleged espionage charges drafted by the Department of Justice.
Recently, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has demanded an immediate end to Assange’s decade-long ‘arbitrary detention’ by the UK government.
Melzer reports that Australian Julian Assange, 49, is in fact being held ‘for exclusively preventative purposes’, and has since deemed his imprisonment in Belmarsh unlawful and ‘neither necessary nor proportionate’ to the legal situation he is currently in.
Listen to the full raw audio recording here:
For more details and the full call transcript visit Project Veritas.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-16--REVEALED: Facebook’s ‘Independent’ Fact-Checkers Are Political Partisans

Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016 , the Democratic Party machine , mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnational corporate backers .
In 2020 , their strategy seems to have worked , as they managed to bury damning reports about the Biden family corruption which may have deterred millions of voters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the DNC-oriented mainstream media .
They call themselves the “ Fact-Checkers ” and they claim they are neutral and apolitical , only they are not .
However , the real danger is that this aggressive political censorship machine may have already damaged American democracy beyond repair .
An outspoken Twitter activist critical of Donald Trump who brags about being on “ team ” Hillary Clinton is a supposedly independent expert who approves and recommends organisations to become Facebook fact-checkers .
Facebook fact-checkers have extraordinary powers to censor news stories they disagree with , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entirely .
The process of becoming a fact-checker is described as “ non-partisan ” by Facebook but a Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence of political bias and lack of accountability at the top levels of the certification process .
International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University School of Communication professor Margot Susca is unashamedly politically biased but she was responsible for issuing 19 recommendations for organisations to become fact-checkers .
This includes the Associated Press , Check Your Fact , Decrypteurs , Lead Stories , Media Wise and The Dispatch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Ms Susca posted a happy snap with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton where she admitted “ I ’ ve been on Team Hillary since 08 tbh ” and said she was disappointed her likability did not resonate with the public in 2016 .
“ My boyfriend was her nuclear policy fellow for a year when she was in the Senate , ” she wrote .
“ Says she ’ s the smartest , wittiest , most likeable person .
It just never came through I guess .
So f—ing sad.
” Ms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ A projected Joe Biden Win won ’ t erase the racism shown by Donald Trump and embraced by nearly half of the country ’ s electorate.
” ( … . )
“ It is hard for me to be an objective observer of this presidential administration when for years now they have continuously tried to delegitimise and marginalise news reporters for doing their constitutionally protected job , ” Ms Susca said .
However , despite her public political activism Ms Susca holds a key role within the International Fact-Checking Network process which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ licenses to the International Fact Checking Network Board which formally grants the licence .
Ms Susca was also the person who assessed and recommended the grant of a licence to become a fact checker to Australia ’ s left-wing opinion website The Conversation in May , 2018 .
( … . )
“ I ’ ve worked in journalism or media for decades so your accusation that I don ’ t take it seriously is egregious and you should be ashamed of yourself.
” Ms Susca said her tweets were not a display @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news organizations to do fact-based journalism to help average citizens govern themselves in a democracy ” .
“ I think you ’ re starting off from a place of bad faith and you are , quite frankly , missing the point of the tweets specifically and my work generally , ” she said .
Fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network are not automatically allowed to police Facebook content but Facebook only subcontracts organisations recommended a certification by supposedly independent experts such as Ms Susca .
Sky News is not alleging Ms Susca @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only that she may not meet the standards in the IFCN ’ s own Code of Principles which require fact-checkers themselves to be objective and not publicly support a political candidate .
The IFCN Code of Principles states a fact-checker must not be “ affiliated with nor declares or shows support for any party , any politician or political candidate , nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.
” Facebook partnered with the International Fact-Checking Network after the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zuckerberg complaining that the 2016 US election was influenced by misinformation on Facebook .
Update from source : This above article was amended to reflect the fact that grant of a licence is made by the IFCN Board following assessment and recommendations from external assessors such as Ms Susca .
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Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016, the Democratic Party machine, mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnational corporate backers.
In 2020, their strategy seems to have worked, as they managed to bury damning reports about the Biden family corruption which may have deterred millions of voters had the story been reported factually by the DNC-oriented mainstream media.
They call themselves the “Fact-Checkers” and they claim they are neutral and apolitical, only they are not.
However, the real danger is that this aggressive political censorship machine may have already damaged American democracy beyond repair.
Sky News Australia reports….
An outspoken Twitter activist critical of Donald Trump who brags about being on “team” Hillary Clinton is a supposedly independent expert who approves and recommends organisations to become Facebook fact-checkers.
Facebook fact-checkers have extraordinary powers to censor news stories they disagree with, demonetize news organisations and ban news outlets entirely.
The process of becoming a fact-checker is described as “non-partisan” by Facebook but a Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence of political bias and lack of accountability at the top levels of the certification process.
International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University School of Communication professor Margot Susca is unashamedly politically biased but she was responsible for issuing 19 recommendations for organisations to become fact-checkers.
This includes the Associated Press, Check Your Fact, Decrypteurs, Lead Stories, Media Wise and The Dispatch.
(….) In 2019, Ms Susca posted a happy snap with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton where she admitted “I’ve been on Team Hillary since 08 tbh” and said she was disappointed her likability did not resonate with the public in 2016.
“My boyfriend was her nuclear policy fellow for a year when she was in the Senate,” she wrote.
“Says she’s the smartest, wittiest, most likeable person. It just never came through I guess. So f—ing sad.”
Ms Susca also retweeted content that said: “A projected Joe Biden Win won’t erase the racism shown by Donald Trump and embraced by nearly half of the country’s electorate.”
(….) “It is hard for me to be an objective observer of this presidential administration when for years now they have continuously tried to delegitimise and marginalise news reporters for doing their constitutionally protected job,” Ms Susca said.
However, despite her public political activism Ms Susca holds a key role within the International Fact-Checking Network process which allows her to approve and recommend fact-checking licenses to the International Fact Checking Network Board which formally grants the licence.
Ms Susca was also the person who assessed and recommended the grant of a licence to become a fact checker to Australia’s left-wing opinion website The Conversation in May, 2018.
(….) “I’ve worked in journalism or media for decades so your accusation that I don’t take it seriously is egregious and you should be ashamed of yourself.”
Ms Susca said her tweets were not a display of bias but a “call for news organizations to do fact-based journalism to help average citizens govern themselves in a democracy”.
“I think you’re starting off from a place of bad faith and you are, quite frankly, missing the point of the tweets specifically and my work generally,” she said.
Fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network are not automatically allowed to police Facebook content but Facebook only subcontracts organisations recommended a certification by supposedly independent experts such as Ms Susca.
Sky News is not alleging Ms Susca acted improperly when assessing and recommending organisations, only that she may not meet the standards in the IFCN’s own Code of Principles which require fact-checkers themselves to be objective and not publicly support a political candidate.
The IFCN Code of Principles states a fact-checker must not be “affiliated with nor declares or shows support for any party, any politician or political candidate, nor does it advocate for or against any policy positions on any issues save for transparency and accuracy in public debate.”
Facebook partnered with the International Fact-Checking Network after the group wrote an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg complaining that the 2016 US election was influenced by misinformation on Facebook.
Watch this detailed report on Facebook’s allegedly ‘non-partisan” International Fact-Checking Network group:
Update from source: This above article was amended to reflect the fact that grant of a licence is made by the IFCN Board following assessment and recommendations from external assessors such as Ms Susca.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-16--Doug Casey: ‘It’s Going to End Badly with Civil War’

In this provocative interview , best-selling author and Casey Research founder , Doug Casey , warns of America ’ s deepening ideological polarization and political division , where he contends that “ two groups disagreeing on real fundamentals shouldn ’ t be in the same political entity together.
” In this sense , the resulting intense conflict – even violent conflict – might be inevitable .
As a result the United States finds itself on a historic trajectory from which there may not be an off-ramp .
The current impasse is a result of decades in which the globalist elite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) have been playing both sides of the political isle in order to instigate political polarization with the ultimate aim of destablizing the Constitutional Republic .
According to Casey , despite all of his congenial faults , President Donald Trump was the only president in generations who hasn ’ t been bought off by these same transnational elite interests .
In part one of this in-depth interview with host Daniela Cambone from Stansberry Research , guest Casey posits that the country is “ on the cusp of a civil war.
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In this provocative interview, best-selling author and Casey Research founder, Doug Casey, warns of America’s deepening ideological polarization and political division, where he contends that “two groups disagreeing on real fundamentals shouldn’t be in the same political entity together.” In this sense, the resulting intense conflict – even violent conflict – might be inevitable.
As a result the United States finds itself on a historic trajectory from which there may not be an off-ramp. The current impasse is a result of decades in which the globalist elite (including those based within the US) have been playing both sides of the political isle in order to instigate political polarization with the ultimate aim of destablizing the Constitutional Republic. According to Casey, despite all of his congenial faults, President Donald Trump was the only president in generations who hasn’t been bought off by these same transnational elite interests.
In part one of this in-depth interview with host Daniela Cambone from Stansberry Research, guest Casey posits that the country is “on the cusp of a civil war.” Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-16--Panel Discussion: ‘Coronavirus and the Constitution’

As the new year approaches and governments in the so-called “ free world ” , namely the United States of America , continue to grapple with the economic , social and legal fallout from policies meant to mitigate ‘ the pandemic ’ , we would like to highlight a recent panel discussion chaired by Ronald J. Pestritto at Hillsdale College entitled , “ The Coronavirus and the Constitution.
” Of particular interest is the first speaker , attorney Robert Barnes , who delivered a stunning talk entitled , “ Is Freedom of Assembly Dead ?
” In it , Barnes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and state officials have sought an end-run around the law of the land by using the specter of a ‘ pandemic ’ to enact the suspension of fundamental Constitutional rights of Americans , in particular the the right of the people peaceably to assemble .
Barnes also commenting on the recent ruling in a federal district court in western Pennsylvania , which stated that there was no basis for arbitrary ‘ lockdown ’ orders .
The judge ruled that when the state was asked for evidence and the supposed ‘ science ’ upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were taken , they produced nothing of substance – a travesty which amounted to nothing more than “ a theoretical white paper being imposed on the people of Pennsylvania.
” According to Barnes , this disjointed situation amounted to men in white lab coats administering little more than an open-ended “ live Milgram Experiment ” on the general population .
Speaker Robert Barnes was then followed by author and journalist Alex Berenson speaking on “ The Failure of Expertise ” , and retired lawyer and founder of Powerline , John Hinderaker on “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Watch : PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR WINTER FUNDRAISING DRIVE HERE

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As the new year approaches and governments in the so-called “free world”, namely the United States of America, continue to grapple with the economic, social and legal fallout from policies meant to mitigate ‘the pandemic’, we would like to highlight a recent panel discussion chaired by Ronald J. Pestritto at Hillsdale College entitled, “The Coronavirus and the Constitution.”
Of particular interest is the first speaker, attorney Robert Barnes, who delivered a stunning talk entitled, “Is Freedom of Assembly Dead?” In it, Barnes shines a bold light on how governments and state officials have sought an end-run around the law of the land by using the specter of a ‘pandemic’ to enact the suspension of fundamental Constitutional rights of Americans, in particular the the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
Barnes also commenting on the recent ruling in a federal district court in western Pennsylvania, which stated that there was no basis for arbitrary ‘lockdown’ orders. The judge ruled that when the state was asked for evidence and the supposed ‘science’ upon which the raft of radical policy decisions were taken, they produced nothing of substance – a travesty which amounted to nothing more than “a theoretical white paper being imposed on the people of Pennsylvania.”
According to Barnes, this disjointed situation amounted to men in white lab coats administering little more than an open-ended “live Milgram Experiment” on the general population.
Speaker Robert Barnes was then followed by author and journalist Alex Berenson speaking on “The Failure of Expertise”, and retired lawyer and founder of Powerline, John Hinderaker on “The Politics of the Coronavirus”. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-19--EP #1 – 21WIRE LIVE hosted by Patrick Henningsen with special guest Brian Berletic

Welcome to the first edition of our news livestream show , 21WIRE LIVE , broadcasting out on YouTube , Twitter @ @ @ @ @ 8am EST .
Today , host Patrick Henningsen will be speaking to special guest , @ @ @ @ @ Brian Berletic , formerly known under the nom de plume of “ Tony Cartalucci ” @ @ @ @ @ Destroyer .
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Today, host Patrick Henningsen will be speaking to special guest, independent writer and journalist, Brian Berletic, formerly known under the nom de plume of “Tony Cartalucci” at the seminal blogsite Land Destroyer. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-19--Game Changer? Russia’s Hypersonic ‘Zircon’ Missile Takes Flight

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Oct. 7 , 2020 , Russian Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched from the Admiral Groshkov frigate , in the White Sea , north of Russia ( Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP ) Russian state media reported a successful test flight of its new hypersonic missile , the Zircon .
Flying at Mach 8 ( 8 times the speed of sound or around 10,000 kph ) , the missile poses a new and credible threat to the air defense systems of potential aggressors .
Fired from vertical launch tubes on a Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ striking both targets at sea and on land .
This most recent test took place over a range of 350 kilometers , but claims the missile is capable of ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers have been reported .
This would mean that missiles fired from the Mediterranean Sea , for example , could hit virtually any target amid the ongoing Syrian conflict , both within Syria but also in neighboring nations backing militants fighting against the Syrian government and its Russian allies .
Is the West Downplaying ‘ Zircon ’ s ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media has reported on Russia ’ s hypersonic missiles for a while .
And now that the first Zircon missiles have taken flight in reportedly successful tests – speculation among the West as well as an attempt to downplay Russia ’ s technological achievement is in full motion .
Articles like Popular Science ’ s , “ Don ’ t believe the hype about Russia ’ s hypersonic missile , ” claim : The article continues by noting that speed alone is not necessarily an undefeatable trait of the Zircon missile and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maneuverability right before hitting a target – would make it a truly credible and nearly unstoppable threat to the fleets of aggressor nations .
Then there is Military.com ’ s article , “ Why Russia ’ s Hypersonic Missiles Can ’ t Be Seen on Radar , ” which notes ( emphasis added ) : The missile flies with an advanced fuel that the Russians say gives it a range of up to 1,000 kilometers .
And it ’ s so fast that the air pressure in front of the weapon forms a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ radio waves and making it practically invisible to active radar systems .
U.S. Aegis missile interceptor systems require 8-10 seconds of reaction time to intercept incoming attacks .
In those 8-10 seconds , the Russian Zircon missiles will already have traveled 20 kilometers , and the interceptor missiles do not fly fast enough to catch up .
The only hope to stopping an incoming Zircon missile – or any hypersonic missile for that matter – would be to detect it early enough and be able to react fast enough to throw up defenses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ability to maneuver at the last moment to evade these defenses – there is the possibility of intercepting them .
But that ’ s if just one , or a few missiles are launched .
Even a full-fledged US carrier strike group would be able to shoot down only so many of these missiles at one given time .
The footage made available of the Zircon ’ s recent test flight shows it deploying from one of several vertical launch tubes meaning that in the future – multiple missiles will be aboard any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ several vessels can launch several missiles at any given time .
With the possibility of altering their flight paths accordingly – large numbers of missiles could reach a potential target or targets simultaneously and from multiple angles , overwhelming even the best air defenses in a process known as saturation .
This means that should enough of these missiles make it into service with Russia ’ s naval forces and should the need arise to use them – large numbers can be used to overwhelm air defense systems even if they are tuned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zircon missile .
Not only does the development and deployment among Russia ’ s fleet of Zircon hypersonic missiles give Russia yet another conventional weapon serving as a deterrence against Western aggression , the prospect of these weapons being sold to allies would extend a credible deterrence well beyond Russia ’ s borders and shores as well .
In fact , US-based think-tank – RAND Corporation – detailed the threat proliferation poses to US military aggression around the globe in a lengthy policy paper titled , “ Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation : Hindering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” And this “ threat ” to the “ forward-projected forces ” of “ major powers ” – referring almost exclusively to the United States and is multiple , ongoing campaigns of military aggression , occupation , and intervention around the globe – is what the US fears the most .
It is a non-nuclear military deterrence capable of sinking a US fleet or demolishing a US military base built illegally in an occupied nation , and one the US has very few means to defend against .
An argument can also be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretext to oppose a nation of developing or acquiring such weapons either , besides the ability of hypersonic missiles to thwart otherwise illegal military aggression carried out by the US .
For the US itself – a nation surrounded by two vast oceans – the Atlantic and Pacific – the prospect of hypersonic missiles posing a threat to its actual territory is minimum .
Rather , it is its vast deployment of military forces engaged in likewise illegal ( by letter of international law ) military aggression around the globe that are most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s paper advocating for moves to limit the proliferation of hypersonic missiles is already an uphill battle .
While not hypersonic , the incredibly fast and advanced BrahMos cruise missile – jointly developed by Russia and India – is set to be further developed into a hypersonic missile in the near future .
This technology will undoubtedly be proliferated by nations like Russia and China specifically because of the check and balance it serves against US military aggression around the globe – a non-nuclear alternative that raises the stakes and price for US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington and their sponsors on Wall Street with more constructive competition and collaboration as as their only alternatives .
In many ways , Russia ’ s hypersonic missile – the Zircon – is not just a technological achievement or a newly acquired and formidable military capability – it is also a useful component of a much wider diplomatic effort to shift the world from the Western-dominated unipolar “ rules-based international order ” – one underwritten by Western military aggression – and toward multipolarism where the cost of conflict is higher than the cost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher , writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire .
See some of his past work in Tony Cartalucci ’ s archive .
Over the last decade , his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites , and also on the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook ” .
Also , you can follow him on VK here .
RT – Russia successfully tests hypersonic Zircon missile , flying EIGHT TIMES the speed of sound to hit ground-based target ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ missile-test/ Military Dot Com – Why Russia ’ s Hypersonic Missiles Can ’ t Be Seen on Radar : https : //www.military.com/ equipment/weapons/why-russias- hypersonic-missiles-cant-be- seen-radar.html Popular Science – Don ’ t believe the hype about Russia ’ s hypersonic missile : https : //www.popsci.com/hype- russia-hypersonic-missile/ RAND Corporation – Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation : Hindering the Spread of a New Class of Weapons : https : //www.rand.org/content/ dam/rand/pubs/research_ reports/RR2100/RR2137/RAND_ RR2137.pdf PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR WINTER FUNDRAISING DRIVE HERE

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Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Oct. 7, 2020, Russian Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched from the Admiral Groshkov frigate, in the White Sea, north of Russia (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Brian Berletic
21st Century Wire
Russian state media reported a successful test flight of its new hypersonic missile, the Zircon. Flying at Mach 8 (8 times the speed of sound or around 10,000 kph), the missile poses a new and credible threat to the air defense systems of potential aggressors.
Fired from vertical launch tubes on a Russian warship, the missile is capable of striking both targets at sea and on land. This most recent test took place over a range of 350 kilometers, but claims the missile is capable of ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers have been reported.
This would mean that missiles fired from the Mediterranean Sea, for example, could hit virtually any target amid the ongoing Syrian conflict, both within Syria but also in neighboring nations backing militants fighting against the Syrian government and its Russian allies.
Is the West Downplaying ‘Zircon’s’ Capabilities to Hide Fears?
The Western media has reported on Russia’s hypersonic missiles for a while. And now that the first Zircon missiles have taken flight in reportedly successful tests – speculation among the West as well as an attempt to downplay Russia’s technological achievement is in full motion.
Articles like Popular Science’s, “Don’t believe the hype about Russia’s hypersonic missile,” claim:
Despite headlines to the contrary, not enough about the missile is known yet to definitely claim that it poses an uncounterable threats to ships at sea.
The article continues by noting that speed alone is not necessarily an undefeatable trait of the Zircon missile and that an ability to maneuver – particularly end-game maneuverability right before hitting a target – would make it a truly credible and nearly unstoppable threat to the fleets of aggressor nations.
Then there is Military.com’s article, “Why Russia’s Hypersonic Missiles Can’t Be Seen on Radar,” which notes (emphasis added):
The missile flies with an advanced fuel that the Russians say gives it a range of up to 1,000 kilometers. And it’s so fast that the air pressure in front of the weapon forms a plasma cloud as it moves, absorbing radio waves and making it practically invisible to active radar systems.
U.S. Aegis missile interceptor systems require 8-10 seconds of reaction time to intercept incoming attacks. In those 8-10 seconds, the Russian Zircon missiles will already have traveled 20 kilometers, and the interceptor missiles do not fly fast enough to catch up.
The only hope to stopping an incoming Zircon missile – or any hypersonic missile for that matter – would be to detect it early enough and be able to react fast enough to throw up defenses in its flight path. Barring its ability to maneuver at the last moment to evade these defenses – there is the possibility of intercepting them.
But that’s if just one, or a few missiles are launched. Even a full-fledged US carrier strike group would be able to shoot down only so many of these missiles at one given time.
The footage made available of the Zircon’s recent test flight shows it deploying from one of several vertical launch tubes meaning that in the future – multiple missiles will be aboard any given Russian military vessel – meaning that several vessels can launch several missiles at any given time.
With the possibility of altering their flight paths accordingly – large numbers of missiles could reach a potential target or targets simultaneously and from multiple angles, overwhelming even the best air defenses in a process known as saturation.
This means that should enough of these missiles make it into service with Russia’s naval forces and should the need arise to use them – large numbers can be used to overwhelm air defense systems even if they are tuned specifically to counter hypersonic weapons like the Zircon missile.
Raising the Cost of Western Military Aggression
Not only does the development and deployment among Russia’s fleet of Zircon hypersonic missiles give Russia yet another conventional weapon serving as a deterrence against Western aggression, the prospect of these weapons being sold to allies would extend a credible deterrence well beyond Russia’s borders and shores as well.
In fact, US-based think-tank – RAND Corporation – detailed the threat proliferation poses to US military aggression around the globe in a lengthy policy paper titled, “Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of a New Class of Weapons.”
The paper notes that:
…because of the difficulties of defending against hypersonic missiles, relatively small hypersonic forces can pose threats against major powers’ forward-projected forces, or even deterrent threats against the homelands of major powers.
And this “threat” to the “forward-projected forces” of “major powers” – referring almost exclusively to the United States and is multiple, ongoing campaigns of military aggression, occupation, and intervention around the globe – is what the US fears the most.
It is a non-nuclear military deterrence capable of sinking a US fleet or demolishing a US military base built illegally in an occupied nation, and one the US has very few means to defend against. An argument can also be made that there is also no real pretext to oppose a nation of developing or acquiring such weapons either, besides the ability of hypersonic missiles to thwart otherwise illegal military aggression carried out by the US.
For the US itself – a nation surrounded by two vast oceans – the Atlantic and Pacific – the prospect of hypersonic missiles posing a threat to its actual territory is minimum. Rather, it is its vast deployment of military forces engaged in likewise illegal (by letter of international law) military aggression around the globe that are most at risk.
The RAND Corporation’s paper advocating for moves to limit the proliferation of hypersonic missiles is already an uphill battle. While not hypersonic, the incredibly fast and advanced BrahMos cruise missile – jointly developed by Russia and India – is set to be further developed into a hypersonic missile in the near future.
This technology will undoubtedly be proliferated by nations like Russia and China specifically because of the check and balance it serves against US military aggression around the globe – a non-nuclear alternative that raises the stakes and price for US military aggression, thus leaving policymakers in Washington and their sponsors on Wall Street with more constructive competition and collaboration as as their only alternatives.
In many ways, Russia’s hypersonic missile – the Zircon – is not just a technological achievement or a newly acquired and formidable military capability – it is also a useful component of a much wider diplomatic effort to shift the world from the Western-dominated unipolar “rules-based international order” – one underwritten by Western military aggression – and toward multipolarism where the cost of conflict is higher than the cost of fair competition and cooperation.
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Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher, writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire. See some of his past work in Tony Cartalucci’s archive. Over the last decade, his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites, and also on the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”. Also, you can follow him on VK here.
References:
RT – Russia successfully tests hypersonic Zircon missile, flying EIGHT TIMES the speed of sound to hit ground-based target (VIDEO):
https://www.rt.com/russia/ 509546-hypersonic-zircon- missile-test/
NATO – Patriot Missile Fact Sheet:
https://www.nato.int/nato_ static/assets/pdf/pdf_2012_12/ 20121204_121204-factsheet- patriot-en.pdf
Military Dot Com – Why Russia’s Hypersonic Missiles Can’t Be Seen on Radar:
https://www.military.com/ equipment/weapons/why-russias- hypersonic-missiles-cant-be- seen-radar.html
Popular Science – Don’t believe the hype about Russia’s hypersonic missile:
https://www.popsci.com/hype- russia-hypersonic-missile/
RAND Corporation – Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of a New Class of Weapons: https://www.rand.org/content/ dam/rand/pubs/research_ reports/RR2100/RR2137/RAND_ RR2137.pdf
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-19--Death of Democracy? Biden in Bed with Silicon Valley Cronies

When the New York Post reported on revelations of corruption regarding Joe Biden and his son Hunter , the reaction from Silicon Valley ’ s Big Tech monopolies was to censor , bury and ban anyone posting it .
Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook even went so far as to block all posts and accounts that linked to the story , including that of the White House Press Secretary.That was just three weeks before the election .
As for the mainstream media , they simply ignored it and called the story ( a real story ) “ Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worked , these powerful interests coordinated their efforts and circled the wagons , and got the result they wanted – which was to bury an important story and protect the Democratic Party ’ s candidate .
Just how tight is Biden and the Democrat Party with Big Tech censorship machine ?
Already , the US president-elect is reported to have appointed former employees of Facebook and Amazon to his transition team and cabinet .
John Naughton writes : “ Biden ’ s transition team is packed with tech industry insiders .
Tom Sullivan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Department of State .
Mark Schwartz , also from Amazon , is heading for the Office of Management and Budget , as are Divya Kumaraiah from Airbnb and Brandon Belford from Lyft , the ride-hailing company .
The US Treasury gets Nicole Isaac from LinkedIn , Microsoft ’ s department of spam , and Will Fields , who was Sidewalk Labs ’ senior development associate .
( Sidewalk Labs was the organiser of Google ’ s attempt – eventually cancelled – to turn Toronto ’ s waterfront into a data-geyser for surveillance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complete .
What is at stake going forward is free speech and the right to fair and free elections .
Host Tucker Carlson talks with conservative commentator Candace Owens about Big Tech executives ’ millions in donations to the Biden 2020 campaign , and the direct danger to democracy posed by the widespread systematic political censorship being imposed by Silicon valley .
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When the New York Post reported on revelations of corruption regarding Joe Biden and his son Hunter, the reaction from Silicon Valley’s Big Tech monopolies was to censor, bury and ban anyone posting it. Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook even went so far as to block all posts and accounts that linked to the story, including that of the White House Press Secretary.That was just three weeks before the election. As for the mainstream media, they simply ignored it and called the story (a real story) “Russian disinformation.” As if. But it worked, these powerful interests coordinated their efforts and circled the wagons, and got the result they wanted – which was to bury an important story and protect the Democratic Party’s candidate.
Just how tight is Biden and the Democrat Party with Big Tech censorship machine? Already, the US president-elect is reported to have appointed former employees of Facebook and Amazon to his transition team and cabinet. John Naughton writes:
“Biden’s transition team is packed with tech industry insiders. Tom Sullivan, from Amazon, is earmarked for the Department of State. Mark Schwartz, also from Amazon, is heading for the Office of Management and Budget, as are Divya Kumaraiah from Airbnb and Brandon Belford from Lyft, the ride-hailing company. The US Treasury gets Nicole Isaac from LinkedIn, Microsoft’s department of spam, and Will Fields, who was Sidewalk Labs’ senior development associate. (Sidewalk Labs was the organiser of Google’s attempt – eventually cancelled – to turn Toronto’s waterfront into a data-geyser for surveillance capitalism).”
The circle is complete. What is at stake going forward is free speech and the right to fair and free elections.
Host Tucker Carlson talks with conservative commentator Candace Owens about Big Tech executives’ millions in donations to the Biden 2020 campaign, and the direct danger to democracy posed by the widespread systematic political censorship being imposed by Silicon valley. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-19--UKC News: 2020 Xmas Round-up and Look Ahead to 2021

In-studio co-hosts Brian Gerrish , Mike Robinson , Patrick Henningsen are joined by Alex Thomson for the end of year @ @ @ @ @ of the top stories from 2020 , and looking ahead at what may be in @ @ @ @ @ : PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR WINTER FUNDRAISING DRIVE HERE

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In-studio co-hosts Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen are joined by Alex Thomson for the end of year Christmas special, looking back of the top stories from 2020, and looking ahead at what may be in store for 2021. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-20--Episode #354 – ‘Don’t Cancel Christmas, Cancel Fauci’ with guests Hesher, Basil Valentine

Episode # 354 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on this week , December 20 , 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen , broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network ( ACR ) … 5pm-8pm UK Time | 12pm-3pm EST ( US ) | 9am-12pm PST ( US ) This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR this week with host Patrick Henningsen , covering the top stories in the US , Europe and internationally .
As Christmas and New Year ’ s draws ever nearer , Governments and their Media mavens have decided to escalate their divisive war on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the general public .
In the US , Dr Fauci has taken to TV to assure children that they ’ ll be safe because he vaccinated Santa Claus .
In the UK , government ministers continue to send mixed signals about the alleged ‘ pandemic ’ – keeping the people in a continuous state of unease and uncertainty , and all the while scapegoating all of the devastation , pandemonium and policy failures on ‘ the virus ’ .
This strategy appears to be a deliberate .
Then suddenly , just like that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Mainstream Media have decided this supposed ‘ new mutant strain ‘ of COVID is somehow “ more transmissible ” – prompting governments to react by… shutting European borders .
With this new level of insanity , it seems clearer than ever that absolute power has corrupted political leaders absolutely .
Where is the love and Christmas cheer ?
Rest assured , we ’ ll give some out in the first hour , and also connect with Hesher , host of ACR ’ s Boiler Room , to get a Xmas update @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hour , we ’ ll connect with our Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport , Basil Valentine , for more intrigue and outlandish media bombshells this week .
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Episode #354 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on this week, December 20, 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen, broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR)…
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This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR this week with host Patrick Henningsen, covering the top stories in the US, Europe and internationally. As Christmas and New Year’s draws ever nearer, Governments and their Media mavens have decided to escalate their divisive war on the Holiday Season and the minds of the general public. In the US, Dr Fauci has taken to TV to assure children that they’ll be safe because he vaccinated Santa Claus. In the UK, government ministers continue to send mixed signals about the alleged ‘pandemic’ – keeping the people in a continuous state of unease and uncertainty, and all the while scapegoating all of the devastation, pandemonium and policy failures on ‘the virus’. This strategy appears to be a deliberate. Then suddenly, just like that, and without any real scientific evidence, the Mainstream Media have decided this supposed ‘new mutant strain‘ of COVID is somehow “more transmissible” – prompting governments to react by… shutting European borders. With this new level of insanity, it seems clearer than ever that absolute power has corrupted political leaders absolutely. Where is the love and Christmas cheer? Rest assured, we’ll give some out in the first hour, and also connect with Hesher, host of ACR’s Boiler Room, to get a Xmas update from the USA. In the final hour, we’ll connect with our Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport, Basil Valentine, for more intrigue and outlandish media bombshells this week. All this and much, more. Enjoy the show…
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-21--Hitchens: ‘Government’s COVID Pseudo-Science Will Lead to Politic Crisis’

Since the beginning of the so-called ‘ pandemic ’ in the UK , the government has gone from one failed policy to the next , and yet the mainstream media are still propping up Boris Johnson ’ s disastrous collective punishment policies like lockdown , and senseless shut down of schools across the country .
Speaking with talkRADIO ’ s Mike Graham , renowned columnist Peter Hitchens predicts that the UK government ’ s hamfisted handling of the COVID pandemic and Brexit will soon lead to a ‘ political crisis in the “ not too distant future.
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“ The government is obsessed with a crisis more or less invented out of statistics , ” said Hitchens .
The journalist called for the future country to be run by “ people who love the country and care about it and know about it.
” “ We should try and get into politics the superior type of person , people who actually understand how life is lived , who are genuinely knowledgeable and intelligent rather than this ridiculous class of ambitious ex-special advisers climbing to the top.
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Since the beginning of the so-called ‘pandemic’ in the UK, the government has gone from one failed policy to the next, and yet the mainstream media are still propping up Boris Johnson’s disastrous collective punishment policies like lockdown, and senseless shut down of schools across the country.
Speaking with talkRADIO’s Mike Graham, renowned columnist Peter Hitchens predicts that the UK government’s hamfisted handling of the COVID pandemic and Brexit will soon lead to a ‘political crisis in the “not too distant future.’
He also describes the uselessness of the pseudo-scientific claims. “The government is obsessed with a crisis more or less invented out of statistics,” said Hitchens.
The journalist called for the future country to be run by “people who love the country and care about it and know about it.” “We should try and get into politics the superior type of person, people who actually understand how life is lived, who are genuinely knowledgeable and intelligent rather than this ridiculous class of ambitious ex-special advisers climbing to the top.” Watch:
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