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Verses for today:
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
John 11:25-26 KJV
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6:35 KJV
...for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:21 KJV
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57 KJV
“Do not fear, for I am with you.”…Isaiah 41:10
A message from the Editor of LIFE SITE NEWS
Dear LifeSiteNews readers,
Whew! News developments these days are extraordinary. We can’t keep up with it all.
The world is rapidly a’changin and we appear to be heading into historic, globally turbulent times. For that reason, today we present you with a timely joint article from Bishop Joseph Strickland and Deacon Keith Fournier – two men of exceptional faith and character who really do care for others and are true servants.
The message is not just for Catholics. There is also plenty in it to benefit all Christians and others sincerely seeking answers on how to prepare and face what seems to be coming. It is a message of hope – just what is needed.
President Biden, or shall we say, those who manage him, are preparing more unprecedented “preemptive blanket pardons” for the top criminals and traitors in his administration to add to that of serial criminal, Biden’s son Hunter.
One of the big reasons Trump and many Republicans were elected was because the public wanted justice to be done for these crooks who caused massive grief and harm to the nation and even many deaths (COVID policies and unjust, self-serving wars) without being charged and imprisoned for those crimes.
The Biden years were lawless, with the government and its agencies exploited by a Democrat mafia determined to destroy the economic and social health of America, its international reputation and the rule of law and the rights and freedoms of all who do not belong to the self-serving cabal.
They used the courts as a weapon against their political opponents. They also used wars to enrich themselves to an extreme degree and did as much as they could get away with to hand over the United States and its government and people to the globalist Great Reset cabal.
They were abusing and preying on the innocent and these preemptive pardons are just another outrageous criminal act. They cannot be allowed to get away with this because it destroys the foundation of law and order in the nation.
We do not and should never want revenge, but justice must be done, or else law does not mean anything, and it will send a message that those elected or appointed to government can still do whatever they want and get away with it. If they get away with this, democracy is for all practical purposes, dead.
Today’s episode of Faith and Reason discusses the pardons, the rapidly changing Syria situation in which the Russians have returned in force today and are turning the tide in Assad’s favor, and the Synod implementation.
There was a big, suspicious shockwave under the Pacific ocean near the coast of California today that resulted in Tsunami warnings. I only mention this because it is highly unusual. We are investigating. That goes along with many sightings of unusual, car-sized drones above sensitive military and other sites in the US and the UK in the past few days.
In the UK, a national emergency was declared over this but no one seems to know what they are or why they are not being shot down. We are also looking into those. That is, with all the talk of war, anything along these lines is causing concern and needs special attention.
Thankfully, in Brazil, its Supreme Court (STF) this week unanimously voted to allow religious symbols in public spaces. This decision binds all state and federal public entities in Brazil. Given the Communist nature of Brazil’s likely fraudulently elected President Lula and the Supreme Court’s seemingly Masonic, evil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, there was no certainty that such a decision would be reached.
We have published an extremely important article today by Christendom College Professor Matthew A Tsakanikas, emphasizing why Congress has no right to force the heresy of Christian Zionism upon faithful Catholics. Everyone should make an effort to read this because there is widespread ignorance among the North American public on this crucial issue that relates a great deal to all the wars that have been and are still being waged in the Middle East at the behest of Israel. PLEASE take some time to read this excellent presentation of facts.
Lastly, breaking good news is that Canadian pro-life heroine Linda Gibbons acquitted of a mischief charge. Bravo Linda!
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BREAKING: Canadian pro-life heroine Linda Gibbons Acquitted of mischief charge
Ontario Court Justice Maria Speyer has acquitted 76-year-old pro-life grandmother Linda Gibbons of criminal mischief for witnessing outside a Toronto abortion clinic earlier this year.
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life heroine Linda Gibbons has been acquitted of a criminal mischief for witnessing outside a Toronto abortion mill.
In a December 5 decision, Ontario Court Justice Maria Speyer ruled that 76-year-old pro-life grandmother Linda Gibbons is not guilty of criminal mischief for holding a pro-life sign outside Toronto’s notorious Morgentaler Clinic earlier this year.
“Ms. Gibbons’ presence outside the Toronto abortion clinic with her sign was meant to dissuade patients from having an abortion, something they have a legal right to do,” Speyer wrote in her decision. “The message on the sign was no doubt very upsetting to patients and staff. They may also have resulted in one patient canceling or postponing the procedure.”
However, Speyer determined that “even if that was Ms. Gibbons’ intended result, it does not amount to criminal mischief to property.”
It is important to note that while abortion is legal in Canada up until 9 months, there is no “right” to abortion in the nation, as the practice currently exists in a legal vacuum with no legislation governing it.
Speyer did point out that during her pro-life witness, Gibbons “did not accost anyone or impede any patient as they made their way to the clinic other than having to step around her.”
“Nor is there any evidence that Ms. Gibbons blocked or in any way obstructed the entrance to the clinic,” she continued. “Similarly, there is no evidence that Ms. Gibbons intimidated anyone at the clinic or approaching the clinic.”
“I am not persuaded that Ms. Gibbons did anything other than attend near the clinic for the purpose of communicating information to patients, for the purpose of dissuading them from having an abortion,” she explained, explaining that such activity is protected under the law.
Gibbons has been jailed since June after being arrested a fourth time for deliberately skipping a court hearing related to her pro-life advocacy, which saw her witnessing in silence in front of the same Morgentaler Clinic.
In July, Gibbons was sent to a mental health court after she chose to stay silent during her court hearings. In September, two key witnesses testified that Gibbons’ activism did in fact not “interfere” with the abortion clinic’s day-to-day operations.
Gibbons’ first arrest of the year occurred the morning of May 23.
She was released from jail on May 27 after appearing at a bail hearing via video conference.
Gibbons’ activism is largely considered illegal because of Ontario’s “Safe Access to Abortion Services Act,” which was put into effect on February 1, 2018, and was passed the previous year by then-Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government. The law bans any pro-life activity, including praying, sidewalk counseling and showing “disapproval” of abortion within 50 meters of Ontario’s eight abortion facilities.
Gibbons blasted Wynne’s law, saying the “contrived provincial law, the Crown’s self-declared authority” is “that serpent head bows its head to the death mill on Hillsdale Ave making it a justice-free zone, sanitized of any recognition of rights for unborn humanity.”
While the law was implemented by Liberals, the long-reigning Progressive Conservative government of Doug Ford has never challenged the law.
Before her 2024 arrests, Gibbons was last arrested in September 2015 after conducting a similar silent protest in front of the Morgentaler abortion center.
After Gibbons spent 141 days in jail, an Ontario judge in 2016 convicted her of breaking a 1999 civil injunction that bans pro-life activities within 500 feet of Toronto’s Morgentaler abortion facility. This injunction was later superseded by Ontario’s “Safe Access to Abortion Services Act.” Gibbons was released from jail after her conviction.
In total, Gibbons’ pro-life advocacy has resulted in her spending about 11 years in jail for her peaceful witness in honor of mothers and unborn children.
The Liberal federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has in recent months amped up its pro-abortion rhetoric.
According to CLC, abortion has killed in Canada over four million preborn babies, which is roughly the equivalent to the population of Alberta since its legalization in 1969.
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‘Truth Is Becoming More Obvious’:
Author of New Peer-reviewed Study Calls for Moratorium on COVID mRNA Vaccines:
Based on incomplete data, “serious safety concerns,” and potential long-term risks, the authors of a new peer-reviewed study recommend “at minimum” a moratorium on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines.
A new peer-reviewed study calling for a moratorium on mRNA COVID-19 vaccines adds to a growing chorus of voices demanding that public health officials hit the pause button on the shots until definitive safety studies are performed.
The study, published in the winter 2024 edition of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, analyzed COVID-19 vaccine and booster data from Pfizer and BioNTech. The authors concluded that “at minimum,” health officials should institute a moratorium on the shots.
Based on incomplete data, “serious safety concerns,” and potential long-term risks, the authors recommend a moratorium on Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 modRNA (modified RNA) vaccines, according to epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher, administrator of the McCullough Foundation, who analyzed the study in a Substack post.
The foundation’s founder, Dr. Peter McCullough, was one of the study’s authors.
According to the study, the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 shot is a gene therapy “misclassified as a traditional vaccine.” The study also highlighted a lack of toxicology and carcinogenicity testing, deficient clinical trials, regulatory oversight failures and safety concerns relating to the spike protein and lipid nanoparticles in the shots.
“Early on in the pandemic, we and other scientific bodies had been calling upon the government agencies to halt the mRNA shots. Every time, we were ignored. As more evidence is being accumulated, the truth is becoming more obvious,” said Philip R. Oldfield, Ph.D., lead author of the study.
The latest call for a moratorium adds to the list of scientists and organizations that have supported halting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines — including Florida’s surgeon general, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Doctors for COVID Ethics, Americans for Health Freedom and the World Council for Health.
In October, Idaho’s health board voted to stop offering COVID-19 vaccines at its 30 clinics because of safety concerns. Also that month, the Slovak government issued a report proposing a ban on “dangerous” mRNA vaccines.
Another study, published Nov. 29 in Cell Host & Microbe, found that the persistent presence of spike protein at the blood-brain barrier may lead to significant neurological damage — although this study also claims that the vaccine reduces the presence of spike protein in the body.
Hulscher told The Defender:
“Spike protein is a highly toxic substance that causes damage to all organ systems. We can connect spike protein to vaccine-related deaths and serious adverse events as it’s been directly found in the brain, adrenal glands, heart and blood of injured and deceased individuals.”
Dr. Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at St George’s, University of London, told The Defender that either of the two new studies is enough to justify the immediate withdrawal of mRNA vaccines for non-lethal viruses.”
“Both studies confirm what we know about the increasing number of people who seem to progress to severe neurological diseases and rapid dementia after the shots,” Dalgleish said.
Christof Plothe, D.O., a member of the World Council for Health’s steering committee, told The Defender the studies are a “very important summary of major aspects pointing at the scientifically and morally unacceptable flaws of the continuation of a gene therapy experiment for three-quarters of humanity.”
Public health agencies ‘chose not to’ pay attention to vaccine risks
The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons study found that COVID-19 shots never should have been classified as vaccines.
“The COVID-19 modRNA vaccines are not classified as gene therapy products, whereas an mRNA vaccine against a non-infectious disease such as cancer is not classified as a mRNA vaccine, but as a gene therapy product,” the study noted.
According to the study, this distinction is significant because of the different regulatory requirements for vaccines compared to gene therapy products.
“It is a regulatory requirement for manufacturers of a gene therapy product to determine the structure, concentration, and biodistribution of the protein … However, that was not the case for Pfizer-BioNTech’s BNT162b2 [COVID-19 vaccine], as it was misclassified as a traditional vaccine,” the study said.
The study also noted deficiencies during clinical trials. According to Hulscher, the trials “failed to measure critical factors like the amount and variability of spike protein produced in individuals.” He said placebo groups in initial trials were unblinded early, “undermining the integrity of long-term safety and efficacy data.”
The study also noted the “high mortality rate” of 1,223 deaths in the three months after the introduction of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot, in addition to thousands of patients who were classified as “unknown” or who had not recovered as of the time of Pfizer-BioNTech’s initial post-marketing report.
According to the study:
“Such a high mortality rate following medical intervention would have resulted in having any other medicinal product taken off the market immediately. Therefore, the question must be asked: Why were the modRNA vaccines allowed to remain in use?”
Pfizer also “did not conduct genotoxicity or carcinogenicity studies, despite the potential for the spike protein and LNPs [lipid nanoparticles] to cause harm,” Hulscher wrote.
“Although BNT162b2 might not [be] expected to have genotoxic or carcinogenic potential, the encoded spike protein that is produced does,” the study noted. “Therefore, these studies should have been performed. They were not.”
The study also noted that Pfizer-BioNTech performed toxicological studies using “Wister Han” rats — describing this as an “unusual” approach.
“The standard procedure for toxicology studies is to use two species (one rodent and one non-rodent species); in this case, the second species would have been Macaques primates,” the study said, adding that Wister Han rats do not have a similar physiological profile to humans.
“Rats in the wild are associated with at least 55 different pathogens that can pass onto humans; SARS-CoV-2 is not one of them,” the study noted.
Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist at Children’s Health Defense, said he found it “fascinating” that rats were used in toxicity studies for the vaccine. “The main function of the vaccine is to produce spike proteins and these spike proteins do not bind to a rat’s ACE2 receptor,” he said.
The study also highlighted failures by regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“By February 2021, both Pfizer/BioNTech and the FDA were already aware that the product carried significant hazards. Vaccine-related adverse effects were being documented in VAERS” — the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — the study said.
Oldfield attributed legacy media’s downplaying of the vaccine’s side effects to social and institutional pressure. “Public health agencies could have adopted good scientific practice and issued a regulatory document that was scientifically sound. But they chose not to.”
Hulscher told The Defender, “There are 19,104 COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths in the United States reported to VAERS.” By comparison, “In the past, the Rotashield vaccine was removed from the market after only 15 cases of intussusception.” He blamed “widespread regulatory capture” for public health agencies’ inaction.
“The point to take from here is that the mechanisms for these effects are now known,” Oldfield said. “Therefore, they are not ‘potential’ adverse events — they’re real. Bear in mind we still don’t know the long-term effects of these mRNA vaccines.”
A key focus of the study was the distribution of spike proteins and LNPs throughout the body following vaccination. On Substack, Hulscher wrote: “Pfizer’s own biodistribution data showed lipid nanoparticles [and] modRNA were widely distributed throughout the body, including the liver, spleen, ovaries, and adrenal glands.”
Plothe said that after three years, we still “don’t know the quantity of the production of toxic spike proteins in our bodies via this gene therapy. But even more worrying is the fact that we don’t know how long our bodies produce them or, even worse if they will ever stop after the program of production is installed in our genes.”
Hulscher said the liability shield vaccine manufacturers have disincentivized them from reporting such findings. He said they “ignored these massive safety concerns, partly because they enjoy liability protection.”
The DEFENDER
Additional LINKS:
§ BREAKING: Prestigious Medical Journal ‘Science, Public Health Policy And The Law’ Warns Covid mRNA Shots Contain Deadly Cancer Viruses That Will Take Over Your Body & Kill You
§ Australian excess deaths are highly correlated with the number of booster vaccinations
§ ‘Truth Is Becoming More Obvious’: Author of New Peer-reviewed Study Calls for Moratorium on COVID mRNA Vaccines
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the last Democrat prosecutor with lawfare outstanding against Donald Trump:
That may not be the case for long.
And the Supreme Court is about to hand Fani Willis one final defeat.
Fani Willis 2020 election witch hunt in limbo
Fani Willis indicted Donald Trump in a preposterous RICO case where Willis’ charges essentially boiled down to the fact that she believed it was criminal for a Republican to challenge the results of an election and ask for a recount.
Willis’ case first got thrown into limbo over a motion to disqualify her and her office from the case due to conflict of interest allegations stemming from Willis putting her lover Nathan Wade on the prosecution’s payroll.
The Georgia State Supreme Court had scheduled oral arguments for December 5 in the appeal of Judge Scott McAfee’s decision to deny the disqualification motion.
But on November 18, the Court canceled those oral arguments.
The Court can still issue a ruling in the case without oral arguments.
And lawyers close to the Willis investigation suggest the inevitable will eventually occur and the Court will throw out Willis’ case simply because the sitting President can’t function in office with a pending criminal trial at the state level – and one that is likely to eventually get ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court to boot – hanging over his head.
“Fani doesn’t see how she’s headed for a brick wall, she’s going full tilt with vengeance and emotions,” a lawyer close to the investigation told The New York Post.
Willis was the one who created this mess by bringing someone she carried on a romantic affair with on the taxpayer dime.
“She’s still so full of herself and hasn’t learned her lesson yet. She doesn’t realize she is her own demise and she’s the reason everything’s falling apart,” the source also relayed.
There is no legal or Constitutional basis for this case to continue on.
Many expect it to just simply go away.
Case unlikely to be resumed after Trump is out of office
“I would be shocked if it wasn’t (dismissed) but Fani has an ego bigger than the entire state so who knows,” the source with knowledge of the investigation explained to the Post.
“The optics on all of this are just not good for Fani,” Dwight Thomas, an Atlanta-based criminal defense attorney, told the Post. “I don’t think the Trump trial will ever happen, even if she tries to get it postponed to 2029.”
The idea that the Court will let Willis’ dubious case hang in limbo for the next four years and let Willis proceed in 2029 when Trump is 82 years old – and when the conduct in question will have long fallen outside the statute of limitations – is ridiculous.
All of these cases were exercises in political meddling.
Willis made Trump take a mugshot thinking the photo would humiliate Trump and show up in every Democrat campaign commercial.
Instead, the picture turned into a defiant rallying cry that spiked Trump’s poll numbers and fundraising.
The lawfare that partisan prosecutors like Willis waged against Donald Trump should never have been allowed to proceed. And the Court is likely to take Trump’s election as an excuse to make it go away.
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Cultural Destruction in Poland by its Puppet Pro-EU Government:
This Cultural Destruction can also be seen in FRANCE – BRITION – Spain – Italy [All of EUROPE is engaged]. The massive influx of Muslim Immigrants is about to Explode!
Oleg Kodolov
TUCKER: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/video/2024/12/05/tucker-russian-foreign-minister-sergei-lavrov/
Russia’s longtime foreign minister describes the war with the United States and how to end it.
(0:00) Is the US at War With Russia? (12:56) Russia’s Message to the West Through Hypersonic Weapons (17:47) Is There Conversation Happening Between Russia and the US? (23:18) How Many Have Died in the Ukraine/Russia War? (28:21) What Would It Take To End the War? (36:11) What Happened to Alexei Navalny? (39:45) Boris Johnson Wants the War to Continue (45:43) Sanctions on Russia (56:31) The Chinese/Russian Alliance (1:02:18) Who Is Making Foreign Policy Decisions in the US? (1:05:05) Biden Pushes the US Toward Nuclear War Before Trump Takes Office (1:08:52) What’s Happening in Syria? (1:13:08) Lavrov’s Thoughts on Trump
TUCKER CARLSON
Canada’s Cops Stand on Guard – for Hamas Bye Bye, Canada.
Bruce Bawer
Yes, this is who “we” are as Canadians – we won’t arrest anti-Israeli rioters who are in our country illegally and who are threatening our citizens while committing blatant acts of vandalism, but we’ll arrest the Israeli leader in a New York minute for doing his best to protect his people from savages. (Netanyahu, by the way, was burned in effigy by the Montreal rioters.)
And just as the British bobbies are always ready to slap the cuffs on Tommy Robinson, the valiant critic of Islam whose very existence makes him a walking provocation to its adherents, the equally cowed and cowardly Canadian cops are unafraid to arrest the reliably peaceful Ezra Levant, who for years, like Tommy across the pond, has long been persecuted by his country’s government (including its so-called human-rights bureaucracy) and its minions in uniform, for daring to call out jihad.
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Montreal. In the 1980s and 90s, when I lived in New York, I made several summertime trips to the Canadian metropolis. It was a beautiful city, pleasant and safe, with a great art museum, plenty of terrific restaurants, and fun nightlife along Rue St. Catherine. If the clerks and cabbies and waiters in Paris responded rudely to my entreaties, invariably delivered in my imperfect but earnest French, their counterparts in Montreal were as genial as could be, at least once it had been established that I was not that dreaded thing, an English-speaking Canadian, but rather an American whose French somehow came out sounding more like their distinctive dialect than like the original version of the language that was the pride of the City of Lights.
Speaking of language, I especially enjoyed walking around Westmount, Montreal’s upscale English-speaking neighborhood, where (as we all recently discovered) Kamala Harris lived when she was in high school. From there – this became an annual routine (or should I say ritual?) – I would walk up a forested slope to the immense St. Joseph’s Oratory, which loomed over the city from the top of Mount Royal. Inside the church, the air was always dense with the scent of hundreds of lighted candles.
Nailed to a high wall and lit by candlelight were hundreds of crutches that had been left there over the decades by handicapped people who claimed to have been cured thanks to the prayers they had sent up from this sacred place. Leaving the church by descending its front steps, 283 in all, I would always encounter a sea of people, all of them at the ends of their pilgrimages, and all of them climbing slowly on their knees up to the great church doors, their hearts filled with faith and hope.
For those pilgrims, indeed, Montreal was a place of hope. Today it is a fallen place, a city that is in the process of being given over to a belief system that bears no relationship to the faith that still, I gather, draws penitents to the oratory on the hill. Promoted to naive Westerners in the years after 9/11 as a religion of peace, that belief system is anything but; it is, rather, an ideology of war, of conquest, of hatred and contempt. On Friday, November 22, as Robert Spencer wrote here the other day, disciples of that ideology and their bamboozled allies took to the streets of Montreal, “attacking police, burning cars, breaking windows, and in general displaying their profound understanding of Allah’s command to ‘strike terror in the enemies of Allah’ (Qur’an 8:60).”
In all the melee, which was planned by a couple of groups called Divest for Palestine and the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles, a total of three – count ’em, three – protesters were taken into custody by police. Also arrested was Montreal native Ezra Levant, owner of the alternative journalistic outlet Rebel News, whose offense was being out on the streets reporting on the subhuman anarchy.
The occasion of this particular outburst was the 70th annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which the organizers targeted because of what they called NATO’s “complicity with Israel’s military,”. Of course, recent events have suggested otherwise: after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, several NATO countries readily announced that they’d be happy to snap up these two felons at the first opportunity and hand them over to the ICC so that justice can be done.
Among the NATO leaders who were quick to sell out Israel in this manner was Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. “We are one of the founding members of the International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice,” Trudeau stated publicly. “We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts. This is just who we are as Canadians.”
Yes, this is who “we” are as Canadians – we won’t arrest anti-Israeli rioters who are in our country illegally and who are threatening our citizens while committing blatant acts of vandalism, but we’ll arrest the Israeli leader in a New York minute for doing his best to protect his people from savages. (Netanyahu, by the way, was burned in effigy by the Montreal rioters.) And just as the British bobbies are always ready to slap the cuffs on Tommy Robinson, the valiant critic of Islam whose very existence makes him a walking provocation to its adherents, the equally cowed and cowardly Canadian cops are unafraid to arrest the reliably peaceful Ezra Levant, who for years, like Tommy across the pond, has long been persecuted by his country’s government (including its so-called human-rights bureaucracy) and its minions in uniform, for daring to call out jihad.
For that’s what the November 22 disorder in Montreal was, of course: not a rally, not a demo, but the latest wave of jihad by enemies within who – emboldened by Hamas’s attacks on Israel on October 7 of last year, as well as by the pusillanimous response of authorities in countries like Britain and Canada – have seized the day, ratcheting up the level of violence in cities across the West. Whatever one may say about these vermin, they’re a patient lot, understanding that as long as they keep pushing, the governments led by feckless fools like Justin Trudeau and Keir Starmer will keep retreating, a few inches at a time, until there’s nowhere left to retreat to.
Trudeau certainly proved them right on November 22. While Montreal streets were burning, he was elsewhere in the same city, attending a Taylor Swift concert, where, as Levant put it, he was videotaped “dancing like a teenage girl.” Unsurprisingly, critics compared him to Nero fiddling while Rome burned, a parallel I won’t go into here because Robert Spencer has already addressed it definitively and with his usual encyclopedic knowledge of history.
For my part, I’ll merely point out that that this pathetic spectacle perfectly captured the preternatural feebleness of a purported leader who might well have responded to the public disorder by rushing to the scene of the turmoil, ordering mass arrests, and doing all he could to ensure that the punishment for all participants would be severe, but who instead behaved in such a way as to remind any devout Muslim warrior of a bacha – that is to say, a male minor who, in accordance with the common Afghani practice known as bacha bazi, is kept in slavery by an adult male for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
The image of Trudeau at that Taylor Swift performance also brought another act of jihad to mind – namely, the one that took place at that Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena on May 17, 2017 (exactly seven years to the day before the Montreal mayhem), where jihadist bombers killed 17 people and injured 1,071, many of them teenage girls like the ones surrounding Trudeau at the Taylor Swift gig. Both of these jihadist incidents were made possible by gutless governance.
The horror shows in Manchester, like so many other deadly terrorist acts in the West that came in waves during the years after 9/11, has been all but dropped down the memory hole by the media and by Western governments in the name of not rocking the boat – of maintaining public order in the short term. The result, however, has been the increasing empowerment of the forces of Islam – an empowerment that, needless to say, guarantees in the long-term the transfer of authority in much of the Western world from craven appeasers like Trudeau to the unblinking champions of Allah.
Text Messages being Hacked!
FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts:
Republished on December 5 with additional comments provided by the FBI and reports into US political pressure given the scale of these Chinese cyber-attacks.
Timing is everything. Just as Apple’s adoption of RCS had seemed to signal a return to text messaging versus the unstoppable growth of WhatsApp, then along comes a surprising new hurdle to stop that in its tracks. While messaging Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is secure, messaging from one to the other is not.
Now even the FBI and CISA, the US cyber defense agency, are warning Americans to use responsibly encrypted messaging and phone calls where they can. The backdrop is the Chinese hacking of US networks that is reportedly “ongoing and likely larger in scale than previously understood.” Fully encrypted comms is the best defense against this compromise, and Americans are being urged to use that wherever possible.
The network cyberattacks, attributed to Salt Typhoon, a group associated with China’s Ministry of Public Security, has generated heightened concern as to the vulnerabilities within critical US communication networks. The reality is different. Without fully end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, there has always been a potential for content to be intercepted. That’s the entire reason the likes of Apple, Google and Meta advise its use, highlighting the fact that even they can’t see content.
According to a senior FBI official, “within the investigative activity, especially one this significant and this large, the facts will evolve over time… The continued investigation into the PRC targeting commercial telecom infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.”
This campaign, he warned, “identified that PRC affiliated cyber actors have compromised networks of multiple telecom companies to enable multiple activities,” confirming that “the FBI began investigating this activity in late spring and early summer of this year.”
The FBI official warned that citizens should be “using a cell phone that automatically receives timely operating system updates, responsibly managed encryption and phishing resistant MFA for email, social media and collaboration tool accounts.”
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As reported by Politico, CISA’s Jeff Greene added to this, “strongly urging Americans to ‘use your encrypted communications where you have it… we definitely need to do that, kind of look at what it means long-term, how we secure our networks’.”
In terms of what is known about the Salt Typhoon attacks thus far, while the FBI official warned that widespread call and text metadata was stolen in the attack, expansive call and text content was not. But “the actors compromised private communications of a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in the government or political activities. This would have contained call and text contents.”
The scale of the hacking campaign and the implications for US critical infrastructure and the security of its networks has created an unsurprising political storm. As reported by Reuters, “US government agencies held a classified briefing for all senators on Wednesday on China's alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to burrow deep into American telecommunications companies and steal data about U.S. calls.” Following the briefing, “US senators vow[ed] action.”
Reuters also reported that “a Senate Commerce subcommittee will hold a December 11 hearing on Salt Typhoon and how ‘security threats pose risks to our communications networks and review best practices” There is growing concern about the size and scope of the reported Chinese hacking into U.S. telecommunications networks and questions about when companies and the government can assure Americans over the matter.”
During Tuesday’s original media briefing, CISA’s Greene reportedly suggested “that Americans should use encrypted apps for all their communications,” (1,2). That means stop sending texts iPhone to Android, albeit iMessages and Google Messages are fully encrypted while on those platforms.
Greene added that “our suggestion, what we have told folks internally, is not new here: encryption is your friend, whether it's on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communication. Even if the adversary is able to intercept the data, if it is encrypted, it will make it impossible.”
An alert into the ongoing telco network hacks jointly issued by FBI, CISA and NSA—as well as other Five Eyes agencies—was released on Tuesday.
The lack of end-to-end encryption to protect cross-platform RCS, the successor to SMS, is a glaring omission. It was highlighted in Samsung’s recent celebratory PR release on the success of RCS, which included the caveat that only Android to Android messaging is secured. It remains a stark irony that while Google and Apple separately advise Android and iPhone users to rely on end-to-end encryption, when it comes to RCS it’s still missing, with no timeline in sight for a fix.
The mobile standard setter, GSMA, and Google have said encryption will be coming to RCS, but there’s no firm date yet. That assurance seemed a response to the backlash post Apple’s update with the media pickup on the security issue. Apple—whose iPhone ecosystem includes ever more fully encryption, has not commented.
There is an ironic twist to these warnings. As PC Mag commented, “this push to use end-to-end encryption is ironic since the FBI has long complained that the same technology can stymie their investigations into seized smartphones and online accounts belonging to criminal suspects.”
Given this, the FBI’s precise wording is critical, with an emphasis on responsible encryption that has been mostly overlooked in reports. Responsible in this context means providing access to user data through lawful requests, including—potentially—content. While this may come across as a subtlety, it is anything but. This rules out many of the largest, best known messaging platforms—such as WhatsApp and Signal, as they cannot provide access to any content absent an endpoint (device) compromise, accessing the data at one end of the end-to-end encryption.
That said, my advice remains to use the fully encrypted WhatsApp over RCS for any cross-platform messaging, at least until such a time as RCS adds its own full encryption between iPhones and Androids. Once you step outside Apple’s or Google’s walled gardens, this security protections falls away. With many good secured platforms now readily available, it’s not worth taking the risk. The need for full security has never been greater given the ongoing cyber threat landscape.
There are other fully encrypted platforms as well—notably Signal, the best of the bunch, albeit with a much smaller install base. Even Facebook Messenger now fully encrypts messaging, making standard SMS/RCS texting even more an outlier. Signal and WhatsApp also enable fully encrypted voice and video calls cross platform, and so they should also be your default choices given this FBI/CISA warning.
Ironically, Apple’s iOS 18.2, due this month, will enable iPhone users to change the default messenger on their devices from iMessage. Timing really is everything.
Pete Hegseth Makes Big Announcement About AG Position:
In a scathing statement on Wednesday, Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s beleaguered choice for defense secretary, reaffirmed his dedication to winning the position. Hegseth promised to “fight like hell” to demonstrate that he is the best person to lead the Department of Defense, despite concerns about his credentials and previous behavior.
But there is no guarantee that he will be confirmed. The claims of wrongdoing from Hegseth’s history, such as his time as a Fox News host and his previous military service, have alarmed Republican senators.
Meeting with senators and the Senate Armed Services Committee was a “wonderful process,” according to Hegseth. He continued, “That’s what Donald Trump asked me to do. Your job is to bring a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Your job is to make sure that it’s lethality, lethality, lethality!”
“Everything else is gone. Everything else that distracts from that shouldn’t be happening. That’s the message I’m hearing from Senators in that advise and consent process. It’s been a wonderful process.”
The U.S. Secretary of Defense nomination for Hegseth was announced by President-elect Trump in November. Trump is allegedly considering other candidates, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for the Defense Secretary post in the midst of the scandals. Hegseth was outspoken about Trump pressuring him to run for office, but the president-elect has apparently had serious conversations about appointing his erstwhile main rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as defense secretary.
The New York Times reports that Trump is excited about hiring DeSantis, citing that it would make for a “big story” by elevating him following their election contest. Additionally, the president-elect has praised Governor DeSantis’s leadership in Florida, where Trump resides, and frequently draws attention to his military experience, calling him “a Navy guy.”
“It is the classic art of the smear,” Hegseth said on Megyn Kelly’s show on Wednesday. “Take whatever tiny kernels of truth — and there are tiny, tiny ones in there — and blow them up into a masquerade of a narrative about somebody that I am definitely not.”
“I look forward to an honest confirmation hearing, not a press show trial based on anonymous accusations,” Hegseth wrote on Wednesday in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
In a vehement response to a recent NBC News article, several Fox News stars have also publicly denied the accusations made against Hegseth. Ten anonymous current and former Fox employees were cited in the NBC piece, which claimed that Hegseth engaged in troubling drinking behavior while serving as a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. Many of his coworkers dispute these allegations. Two people who claimed to have smelled alcohol on Hegseth more than a dozen times before his appearance on television are among the accusers. Hegseth reportedly made an appearance on television after talking about being hungover, according to the article.
“Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air,” NBC reported on Tuesday. “Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set.”
“One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall,” the piece claimed. “None of the sources with whom NBC News has spoken could recall an instance when Hegseth missed a scheduled appearance because he’d been drinking.”
Will Cain, a longtime co-host alongside Hegseth, dismissed the report with blunt language. “Bullsht. 100 percent bullsht. Actually…horsesht,” Cain posted on X (formerly Twitter). He later added: “Your story is horsesht, @NBCNews. Put my name on it. On the record. It’ll be your only on-the-record source. Signed, the guy who sat next to him for eight hours every week for five years starting at 6 a.m.”
Rachel Campos-Duffy, another Fox News colleague who worked closely with Hegseth, echoed Cain’s sentiment. “The losers at @NBCNews never reached out to me either. @WillCain is right—your story IS horsesh*t. You now have 2 people who sat next to him 8+ hours a week on the record. Will you retract or correct your story?” Campos-Duffy wrote.
The Republic Brief
Buck vs. Wingham:
The owners of Buck & Jo’s, a restaurant in the heart of Wingham, went viral when they repeatedly stood their ground against the health department’s illegal demands during the “apocalypse.” Two hundred fifty thousand people watched the standoffs online, most shocked that someone could say “NO” and stand their ground, turning the establishment into a tourist attraction for Freedom Fighters across Canada and several US States. It took 972 days, but they stood their ground until they cleared their names—a battle that cost them virtually everything.
A line was literally painted at the threshold of Buck & Jo’s, a line they would not let segregationists pass, a line that would be defended. Behind that front line was a Canadian Flag planted in the dining room floor, with a warning sign that stated: “We reclaim this property in the name of the Former Glorious & Free Canada…All Charter Rights will be defended on this property. It would be wise not to test our resolve”.
Some Town Halls currently think they can pass any bylaw they want and attach a massive fine for non-com pliance. Then, if you don’t pay it, they put it on your prop erty tax bill and then sell your home if you continue to refuse to pay. If you disagree with Town Hall, they can easily abuse their power by falsely claiming they have authority on private property, then send in corrupt by law enforcement officers to destroy your life and/or take all your property. Municipalities are the absolute lowest level of government, yet they claim to have more power and authority than all other levels and can violate our Bill of Rights without consequences.
After the 2022 municipal election, a standoff between Buck & Jo’s and North Huron by-law enforcement began when Town Hall demanded the restaurant remove elec tion/political material from inside and outside their business and home. Anything with the phrase “Vote Buck” was illegal, according to the Corporation of North Huron.
Buck had several emails and a meeting with by-law enforcement where they demand ed he comply. Buck explained to the enforce ment officer that their by-laws only apply to their corporation as stated in their own bylaws. Buck also got North Huron’s CAO to confirm their bylaws only apply to the lands described in the bylaws, which are the corporation’s assets such as parks, roads, town hall, etc. Buck also clarified the reason he advocated for and got the Wingham police disbanded was that the council was using them to prop up their regime and that by-law enforcement was now the only remaining pillar of support they could use to illegally abuse and harass citi zens/dissidents. The enforcement officers are standing down and refusing to violate Rights at Buck & Jo’s.
Requests for the job description of the bylaw enforce ment officer have gone unfulfilled, most likely because one does not exist. North Huron Reeve/Mayor Paul Heffer was confronted at a meeting on October 10, 2024, about his claim that his corporation has authority over private property. Heffer refused to answer who told him he had this authority and admitted he was cowardly for failing to identify his co-conspirators.
North Huron Reeve/Mayor Paul Heffer was warned that he would be treated like any other burglar if he attempted to illegally trespass and seize private prop erty. It should be noted at the 18 July 2022 North Huron council meeting, Jason Younan, Inspector-Detachment Commander for Huron County OPP, clearly advocat ed “Taking care of business” (lethal force) if you find an intruder in your home and you “believe” your life is under threat.
Now you know who took your freedom and who is claiming to have dominion over you. You also know how one small town took back its streets, businesses, and backyards by having a truly free press and the courage to stand up to authority and demand answers. The Truth is, once you fully realize that you have private property rights and bylaw enforcement has no authority on your property, you will be free…at least on your own property.
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DRUTHERS
Why Syria?
Pastor Rick Wiles on TruNews calls the US forces "occupiers and oil thieves" who covertly back extremist Muslim rebels from time to time as an excuse to invade Syria. Because Syria prefers to affiliate with Russia, China and Iran, 3 nations experiencing tremendous Christian revival. President Assad is a God-fearing man. He and Putin went to church last Christmas together.
So, while Russia and Syria are trying to save the Christians in Aleppo, the US air force is attacking Syrian forces!
In the wake of the takeover, Christians in Aleppo have become “the target of widespread crime and vandalism” and basic necessities such as food and medical care have become scarce, IDC added.
Patrick Bestall
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