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Throughout This Conflict Every Once in a While Ukrainian Government Officials Have Come Clean About the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Throughout this conflict every once in a while Ukrainian government officials have come clean about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. To the chagrin of the #Obama Administration and #NATO , Russia has not invaded. This latest admission came twice this week. Once by inference and the other a direct admission from Ukrainian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Victor Muzhenko. During a briefing with General Muzenko he announced that: “WE ARE NOT FIGHTING WITH THE REGULAR RUSSIAN ARMY. We have enough forces and means in order to inflict a final defeat even with illegal armed formation present.” If that wasn’t embarrassing enough for the #Poroshenko regime which has consistently stated Russia had invaded and that Ukraine is fighting the Russian Army, it was Petro Poroshenko’s own TV station Channel 5 news that broke the story! Possibly the worst purveyor of this Cold War-style propaganda has been the New York Times, which has given its readers a steady diet of biased reporting and analysis, including now accusing the Russians for a resurgence in the fighting. 2 3 Ever wonder what makes up highly popular #fastfood such as #McDonalds #chicken nuggets or #frenchfries ? If the fast food giants recently launched ‘transparency campaign’ tells us anything, it’s that the public is increasingly demanding #truth and change. But what McDonald’s ‘truth campaign’ isn’t telling us is that much of its food is lathered in questionable, health-compromising ingredients. And people without any understanding of #food are just buying their words without question and actually defending them. In the most recent transparency video from McDonald’s, Grant Imahara explains that there are 19 ingredients in America’s favorite fries, one of which is polydimethylsiloxane, which is used in the production of silly putty. This seemingly ‘essential’ french fry- Silly Putty ingredient has been making headlines, and I can tell you that it won’t be the last headline you see. During his ‘investigation,’ he found that dimethylpolysiloxane is used in the making of McDonald’s fries along with a petrol-based chemical called tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ). While anyone might immediately suspect that these ingredients may pose a hazard (and you wouldn’t be wrong), Grant reassures viewers that these are both safe additives used for perfectly good reasons. You can view the video to see McDoanld’s segment on how its french fries are made, taking a tour through a McDonald’s factory. Dimethylpolysiloxane is added for safety reasons to prevent cooking oil from foaming, while tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is applied as a food preservative. Can’t have fries that don’t last a few years, right? Of course finding such ingredients in the fast food giant’s french fries isn’t so surprising – much of McDonald’s’ food is tainted in more than one way. For example, containing over 70 ingredients, the McDonald’s sought after McRib is full of surprises — including ‘restructured meat’ technology that includes traditionally-discarded animal parts brought together to create a rib-like substance. It also contains a little-known flour-bleaching agent known as azodicarbonamide. There are pesticides, additives, and harmful food-like substances that are NOT okay. 4 5 On 1/25 the leader of #Greek #Syriza party, Alexis Tsipras, promised to end five years of #austerity “humiliation and suffering” imposed by international banksters on the Greek people. “Greece leaves behinds catastrophic austerity, it leaves behind fear and authoritarianism, it leaves behind five years of humiliation and anguish,” Tsipras, who was sworn in as prime minister on Monday, told supporters. The Greek coalition party now has an absolute, 151-seat majority in parliament. Tsipras and Syriza demand a renegotiation of Greece’s £179 billion bailout and a revisitation of the clauses that make the Greek government’s implementation of devastating austerity measures mandatory. Additionally, Syriza is calling for cancellation of over 50 percent of Greek debt owed to ECB banksters and Eurozone states. The victory of Syriza has emboldened the anti- austerity movement in #Britain and on the #European continent. The #bankers are very scared for the first time. The dark agenda to enslave us all is coming apart. Liberation is near... 6 7 The Transportation Security Agency is already well known for conducting evasive searches at #American airports, but new measures may soon see the social media accounts of potential passengers being screened by TSA. Travelers who wish to bypass TSA’s oft contentious security screenings are currently afforded the opportunity to do so by enrolling in the federal agency’s #PreCheck program, an “intelligence-driven, risk-based initiative,” according to #TSA which aims to expedite security checks for frequent travelers and members of the military, among others. But now in an effort to make that preliminary screening process even easier, TSA may soon let private companies suck up “commercial data” pertaining to passengers, the likes of which may be taken from public social media profiles, personal blogs,and other online material, according to newly filed documents. “Commercial data,” the document continues, includes “public record data, such as criminal history and real estate records produced by federal, state and local governments; other publicly available information, such as directories, press reports, location data and information that individuals post on blogs and social media sites; and wide ranging data such as purchase information, customer lists from registration websites and self-reported information provided by consumers that is obtained by commercial data sources such as data broker.” Beware what you post on social media while you are enrolled in PreCheck – it is fair game, according to the TSA’s request for proposals. 8 9 On July 22, 1946, a group of self declared “Atheist Jewish Revolutionaries” (not Jewish- just terrorists) from the Irgun — commanded and led by Menachem Begin who would later become the Prime Minister of Israel — disguised themselves as Arabs and bombed the King David Hotel in #Jerusalem which was serving as the headquarters for the #British Military and Administrative Command at the time. The information clearing house states: “The King David Hotel explosion of July 22, 1946 (Palestine), which resulted in the deaths of 92 Britons, Arabs and Jews, and in the wounding of 58, was not just an act of “Jewish extremists,” but a premeditated massacre conducted by the Irgun in agreement with the highest (so called) Jewish political authorities in #Palestine — the Jewish Agency and its head David-Ben-Gurion. According to Yitshaq Ben-Ami, a Palestinian Jew who spent 30 years in exile after the establishment of Israel investigating the crimes of the “ruthless clique heading the internal #Zionist movement,” the #Irgun had conceived a plan for the King David attack early in July. According to Dr. Sneh, the operation was personally approved by Ben-Gurion, from his self-exile in Europe. … The Terror Agency’s motive was to destroy all evidence the British had gathered proving that the terrorist crime waves in Palestine were not merely the actions of “fringe” groups such as the Irgun and Stern Gang, but were committed in collusion with the Haganah and Palmach groups and under the direction of the highest political body of the Zionist establishment itself, namely the (so called) Jewish Agency.” The #BBC produced and aired a documentary featuring a play-by-play re-enactment of the King David Hotel bombing in which Izahk Zadok, a self declared “Atheist Jewish Revolutionary” Irgunist who took part in the bombing, is showing the camera crew how he carried the bomb into the hotel hidden in a milk crate. Grinning at the camera, Zadok proudly confessed: “I wasn’t dressed as a civilian or a soldier. I was dressed as an Arab with a gilaba and a keffiyeh with that ring on your head like. Arafat.” Fact: Israel was founded by terrorists. 10 11 On 6 November, 1944, Lord Moyne, the #British Minister resident in #Egypt was assassinated by members of the “Atheistic Jewish Revolutionaries” Stern Gang, who later took over Israel. On Sept. 17, 1948, so-called Jewish terrorists of the Lehi group assassinated Swedish diplomat and nobleman Count Folke Bernadotte, the U.N.’s mediator in Palestine. In 1954, in what has been dubbed the “Lavon Affair,” a group of Egyptian Atheist Revolutionary “Jews” (not of #Judaism at all) recruited by the Israeli AMAN (military intelligence) disguised themselves as #Muslims and fire-bombed #American and British installations in Egypt in a false- flag attack. In 1954, the Israeli secret service set up a spy ring in Egypt, with the purpose of blowing up US and British targets. The operation was code-named “Susannah.” The terrorist hits were to be blamed on the regime of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, with the purpose of alienating the US and Britain from Egypt and Nasser and somehow preventing Egyptian nationalization of the #Suez canal. The ring was discovered. The group was activated in July of 1954. The first bombs were placed in post offices on July 15, followed by the USIA libraries in #Cairo and Alexandria on July 14. On July 23, more bombs were exploded in two Cairo cinemas, in the railway terminal and central post office. The entire ring was soon rounded up, either because of information divulged under interrogation or because it had been betrayed. For five decades the arrogant, eternally deceitful “Atheist Jewish Revolutionaries” refused to admit responsibility for the attack, claiming it was just an “anti-Semitic #conspiracy theory.” In 2005, however, the Israeli government not only admitted responsibility, but held a ceremony honoring the terrorists who took part in the operation with medals of appreciation for their “service” to the “Jewish state”. Neoconservatism and Zionism are NOT Judaism.
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