World Affairs Brief October 21st, 2022-JOEL SKOUSEN

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World Affairs Brief, October 21, 2022 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.

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This Week’s Analysis:

Midterm Elections: A Rout or a Toss Up?

More Woke Nonsense

UK PM Truss Resigns After Just 45 Days in Office

Vaccine Damage Updates

Rise of Chinese Military Nationalism

Durham Prosecution of Scapegoat Fails

News Shorts

Preparedness Tip: Bone Broth Basics

MIDTERM ELECTIONS: A ROUT OR A TOSS UP?

Never before in my career as a political analyst have I seen more off-the-wall predictions and
uncertainty about a midterm election. On the one hand, we all know that Joe Biden is the most
unpopular, disliked and distrusted president in history. His wife was even booed at a public
appearance at an NFL Philadelphia Eagles game, and yet the mainstream media keeps covering
for his dementia and promotes unbelievable polls showing Biden beating every Republican
opponent, including Trump, in a match up in 2024. On the other hand, political veteran and
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is claiming Republicans could pick as many as 70 seats in
the House and 4 in the Senate. Considering the scale of vote fraud recently, I doubt Republicans
will pick up half of what Gingrich claims, but that would still mean they can take control of one
or both houses of Congress. Of course, what could they do with compromising RINO Republican
leaders like Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in charge and up against Biden’s veto
power? GOP candidates are still so full compromises, there is little to really inspire voters. The
vast majority of Americans are livid about high gas prices, high inflation, and rising energy
prices, and the field of new Republicans Congressional candidates still don’t seem to stir up a
crowd and inspire confidence in real change.

Here is one example: the GOP has fielded a few former NFL football stars for House and Senate
races but they are floundering because of either moral failings or lack of ability to speak and
articulate key issues. Candidates that do have ample charisma and the ability to attack and
embarrass their Democrat opponents have enough skeletons in the closet that the media are either
keeping them cowed or exposing and discrediting them. If the Republicans only end up with a
modest win for control, it will only slow down the Democrat’s freight train to hell in the next two
years, which would only be a limited, but helpful, success.

For all of Trump’s failures to detect Deep Staters within his staff and administration, and his
pushing a dangerous vaccine, at least Americans remember that he gave us energy and oil self-sufficiency. Price inflation was at survivable levels. Weak Congressional candidates try and ride
that energy bandwagon but have little ability to implement a return to MAGA policies with
Biden still in office.

Here are some more details about this emerging conservative problem caused by Republican
RINO leaders not backing real hardline conservatives. The New York Times, the arch enemy of
conservatives, revels in the GOP establishments’ attack on “Far Right” candidates:

As the midterm election season enters a critical final phase, some far-right Republicans are
facing headwinds in congressional races that once appeared to be prime opportunities for
the party to win seats, complicating the plans of Representative Kevin McCarthy, the
minority leader who aspires to be speaker, and fueling Democratic hopes of cutting their
losses in their fight to retain control of the House.

Some of the candidates have risen despite the efforts of Mr. McCarthy, the California
Republican who spent freely to defeat them in primaries and toiled to strike a balance
between courting the mainstream and making peace with the ascendant extremists in his
party’s ranks. Mr. McCarthy now faces possible losses in competitive districts — or the
prospect of adding to the list of hard-right lawmakers in his conference who may be difficult
to control if he becomes the House speaker next year.

Actually, as House Speaker Paul Ryan did during the Trump years, it’s easy to sideline or control
real conservatives by putting them on relatively minor committees and not allowing bills they
sponsor to get prime time. It’s takes a Herculean effort by Representatives like Jim Jordan and
Matt Gaetz to grab the microphone and expose what the leadership is not doing.

The situation underscores the growing influence of extremists styling themselves in the image
of former President Donald J. Trump, and how the Republican Party’s core supporters
continue to gravitate to such figures.

“The story of the last seven years is Kevin McCarthy slowly realizing they’ve lost control of
the party that is now dominated by Trump and the voters who love him and love candidates
like him,” said Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican political strategist. “Trump
controls the base, but the base is large enough to dictate the outcomes of primaries.”

In New Hampshire, recent polling has shown the unpopularity of Karoline Leavitt, the
25-year-old ultra-MAGA challenger to Representative Chris Pappas, a Democrat. In a Saint
Anselm College Survey Center poll conducted late last month, only 39 percent of voters had
a favorable view of Ms. Leavitt, who has repeated Mr. Trump’s election lies, compared with
45 percent who regarded her negatively. Recent polls showed her trailing Mr. Pappas by 8
percentage points, although an AARP New Hampshire poll released last week showed the
race to be neck-and-neck.

Actually, elections always prove these Democrat “push polls” to be inaccurate. They are meant to
skew perceptions prior to an election. Note the emphasis you hear in every mainstream media
commentary about Trump: saying his claims about election fraud is a lie. It is not, but it’s the
mainstay of today’s propaganda onslaught against MAGA conservatives.

A super PAC aligned with Mr. McCarthy spent $1.3 million to back Matt Mowers, a former
Trump administration official, over Ms. Leavitt, and an additional $1 million during the
primary attacking Mr. Pappas. Since winning the primary, Ms. Leavitt has not tacked to the
middle, appearing on “War Room,” the podcast hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, two days after
her victory.

In North Carolina, the McCarthy-affiliated group spent nearly $600,000 to try to stop the
nomination of Sandy Smith, a self-described entrepreneur and farmer who has proudly
admitted that she marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But Ms. Smith won the primary,
prompting political prognosticators to rate her district in North Carolina, which had
previously trended only slightly toward Democrats, more decisively blue.

In central New York, Mr. McCarthy poured $1 million into the campaign of Steve Wells, a
former criminal prosecutor and businessman who was more of a known quantity, over
Brandon Williams. Mr. Williams had called the overturning of Roe v. Wade — the Supreme
Court decision that had established abortion rights in 1973 — a “monumental victory” and
suggested that there were instances when a woman’s life should be sacrificed to deliver her
unborn child.

Mr. Williams is ahead in most general election polling, but the Cook Political Report, a
nonpartisan newsletter that analyzes elections, still rates the race a tossup.

The Cook Political Report is anything but non-partisan. It is fully Left/Liberal, as evidenced by
their spokesperson, Lisa Dejardin who is on the anti-conservative PBS News Hour every night.

When Republicans have bemoaned issues with “candidate quality,” they have mostly been
talking about Senate races, where the influence of Mr. Trump helped contribute to a roster of
candidates that has struggled in competitive races [Like Herschel Walker in Georgia].

In the House, Republicans have prided themselves on entering the general election with a
diverse set of candidates that includes people of color, veterans and women, and on quietly
thwarting the ascendance of some far-right candidates who leaders feared would alienate
independent voters and cause problems if elected.

The GOP’s diversity candidates, even when elected, have not had much influence in Congress.

But the contests in which the minority leader and other top Republicans failed to block more
incendiary candidates reflect the enduring influence of the far right and the challenge that
Mr. McCarthy is likely to face should he succeed in winning back the majority. In a very
narrow battlefield, even a handful of losses could make the difference between an
operational majority and an utterly dysfunctional House.

Yes, I fear we are looking at a fairly dysfunctional House under McCarthy’s leadership.

In a few cases, the candidate whom Mr. McCarthy failed to defeat is thriving, and the
outcome of the primary might not affect Republicans’ chances in the general election. Recent
public polls have shown Mr. Williams, for instance, ahead of Francis Conole, the Democrat
competing for an open seat in a competitive district in upstate New York.

Overall, Mr. McCarthy’s super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund sees its primary
spending as a success story. The group helped several Republican incumbents fend off
challenges from more extreme candidates in competitive districts, including Representatives
Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania, David Valadao and Young Kim in California and Andrew
Garbarino in New York.

Of course, the Times would see that as a “success.”

But elsewhere across the country, right-wing candidates whom Mr. McCarthy tried to knock
out have prevailed, bolstering Democrats’ chances of winning a seat.

Sadly, there’s some truth to that, because strong conservatives who defend the issue of election
fraud can easily be demonized by the mainstream press—which they do, every day.

In Arizona, Kelly Cooper, who has refused to acknowledge the 2020 election results and
called for the immediate release of people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, defeated Tanya
Wheeless, the granddaughter of a Mexican immigrant whom Mr. McCarthy’s PAC endorsed
and helped fund.

In the Third Congressional District in Washington, a group aligned with Mr. McCarthy,
Take Back the House 2022, donated to Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, who was one
of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump. But she was defeated in her primary by
Joe Kent, who has said he would oppose Mr. McCarthy for the speakership if elected [good].

Ms. Leavitt initially said she would back Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a hard-right
Republican, over Mr. McCarthy for speaker; she has since changed her position and said she
would support Mr. McCarthy.

That would be too bad. Jim Jordan would make a great Speaker, but there isn’t anywhere near
enough Republican votes to back Jordan. He’s too much a straight shooter for most
compromising Republicans.

“They’ve struggled to paint true Trump believers in a negative light, because that’s where
the base is, particularly in the South,” said David Wasserman, an election expert with the
Cook Political Report. “They have to find other ways to try and disqualify these candidates.”

You can see from the Times’ commentary how deeply the Leftist and mainstream media is at war
with anyone who backs Trump’s sincere but mostly failed attempt to Make America Great Again.

Then there are the races that Mr. McCarthy stayed out of, where extreme candidates have
prevailed and are now imperiling the party’s chances. In Ohio, J.R. Majewski, a
Trump-backed Air Force veteran who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and has expressed
sympathy for QAnon conspiracy theorists, emerged as the surprise winner from a primary in
which the Congressional Leadership Fund did not back any candidate.

Notice the other propaganda term thrown out often to discredit the Right—attaching any
conspiracies they want to label as false with the label “QAnon” whether or not the candidate ever
mentions this Deep State spreader of false conspiracies.

Mr. Majewski’s candidacy has since been buffeted by accusations that he lied about his
military service, undercutting his challenge to longtime Representative Marcy Kaptur. The
National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s campaign arm, canceled about
$1 million in advertisements to help his campaign.

Conservative candidates need to realize that the mainstream Left has the money to scrutinize
every aspect of their background and ferret out any exaggeration or error, as I’ll cover in the
candidacy of Kari Lake for governor of Arizona.

In the general election, Mr. McCarthy has embraced the entire gamut of Republican
candidates, striving to avoid appearing as though he is trying to purge the party of its
Trumpist wing [even though he clearly is]. He is now vocally backing Ms. Leavitt, and the
National Republican Congressional Committee praised Ms. Smith after her victory.

That’s what wolves in sheep’s clothing are good at, playing both sides.

That mirrors Mr. McCarthy’s approach in Washington, where he has elevated some of the
more extreme members of his conference, including Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
of Georgia. The minority leader has made room for some of Mr. Trump’s favored elected
officials even as he worked to defeat others he viewed as unelectable.

“He’s living in a space where he has to conduct two parallel realities,” Ms. Longwell said.
“He can say, ‘I’m knocking out some of these really crazy characters that are making us look
bad,’ and he’s playing ball with some of Trump’s people.”

No, it’s not that benign. Like Senator McConnell, he gives strong conservatives lip service but
undercuts them at every opportunity in private. Sometimes it’s very subtle, such as McCarthy
giving Marjorie Greene some limelight. She’s a firebrand that often means well but she isn’t very
careful about what she says. McCarthy doesn’t rein her in because it allows the anti-conservative
media multiple opportunities to denigrate Trump Republicans by association with her regular
inflammatory rhetoric.

Arizona Candidates

Arizona, like California, used to be a state with a lot of conservatives, but which now has so
many Left/liberals moving into and around big cities like Phoenix, that their numbers are
overwhelming previously conservative strongholds like Mesa and Gilbert—just as Orange
County conservatives got overwhelmed by non-conservative move-ins from California and
foreign immigrants.

Arizona Republican Blake Masters is running a hard fought, relentless campaign against
Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly, which is well deserved. Kelly is another Democrat with a knack for
playing to a few conservative values while betraying them. Breitbart.com highlighted how
Masters took down Kelly in debate with precision attacks:

Kelly presents himself as a moderate Democrat, but Masters dismantled this false persona at
numerous junctures during the PBS debate.

While covering the issue of inflation, Masters noted that Kelly voted against an amendment
to hire 18,000 more border patrol agents in the Inflation Reduction Act but voted for 87,000
more IRS agents. In response, Kelly asserted he has been “focused on the border since day
one” and claimed he is in communication with Arizona officials on “what we need for border
patrol and immigration.” Masters slammed him for evading the question.

“With no great effect because we have a wide-open southern border, so if that’s the best you
can do, I respectfully request you resign and let’s get somebody in the seat who will actually
secure our border,” Masters declared.

While Kelly claimed he has worked to secure the border and that he’s “been focused on [it]
since day one,” Masters noted that he had tremendous leverage in 50-50 senate to negotiate
for security measures. More moderate Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten
Sinema (D-AZ) have used such leverage in other bills. Masters noted:

He’s the 50th vote in the U.S. Senate, Joe Biden needed his vote,” Masters explained. “Mark
Kelly, a year ago, could have dug his heels in and said, ‘Mr. President, I’m not supporting a
single thing, not a single spending bill, not a single piece of your agenda, unless and until we
get border security.’ Biden would’ve had to secure the border. If this is the result of Senator
Kelly being focused on the border, my gosh, he’s the most ineffective and worst senator of all
time. The border is wide open. People are walking through by the hundreds of thousands.

“Go ask a border patrol agent what they think of Mark Kelly. Ninety percent of them will tell
you they’re disgusted by what he’s failed to do. That’s why the National Border Patrol
Council endorsed me, the Arizona Police Association endorsed me,” he continued.

Masters ripped Kelly for his legislation promoting nearly unlimited abortion, up until the very
moment of birth!

Kelly attempted to paint Masters’s abortion views as extreme, but the Republican candidate
turned the tables, noting Kelly sponsored legislation supporting abortion in the third
trimester:

The Republican candidate blasted the collusion between media, big tech, and “apparently
federal law enforcement” to stop the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop reports in the lead-up to
the 2020 election.

“Millions of Americans didn’t get to read about that. They didn’t get to read about Hunter
Biden and his corrupt business dealings with China and the Ukraine. Business dealings
which credibly implicated Joe Biden,” Masters noted.

“And then the media lied to us about it. They said, ‘Oh, that was Russian disinformation,’”
he added. “No, it wasn’t it was true, so when the media is lying to people, helping big tech,
and apparently federal law enforcement, censor information about presidential candidates,
well, I think people start to worry about the integrity of their elections.”

Masters Hammered Kelly, Biden on Inflation

“Two years ago, inflation was 1.5 percent. Now in the greater Phoenix metro-area, we are
suffering from the worst inflation at 13 percent. Joe Biden’s policies caused this, and those
are policies that Mark Kelly in Washington has supported every single time.”

“Joe Biden is spending like a drunken sailor, and at every single opportunity, Mark Kelly
just says yes. He can’t say no to Chuck Schumer. He can’t say no to Joe Biden,” he said in
response to a follow-up.

We need more candidates like Master who are well spoken and yet not afraid to attack in a
credible, enthusiastic manner. But it’s always an uphill battle in Arizona which has it’s own
secret Left/liberal establishment which always fights against real conservatives. A good example
is Mesa’s GOP Mayor John Giles endorsing mostly Democrats in this election. He got elected as
a Republican, but that’s clearly a deception.

Giles is backing Katie Hobbs over Republican Kari Lake and is also endorsing Mark Kelly
against Blake Masters and Adrian Fontes over Mark Finchem in their respective races as well, all
Democrats. His reasoning shows how deeply he is on the other side:

“If there were a Republican that was not an election denier, that I aligned with on all the
issues, I would be thrilled. Show me a Republican who is not an election denier and I will
endorse them.”

There was a record amount of election fraud documented in Arizona in order to hand the state to
Biden, which I have documented in past editions of the WAB. For an elected official to deny
what was clearly proven shows they are on the other side.

Kari Lake vs. Katie Hobbs for Governor of AZ

Kari Lake is a former news anchor.  She has all the charisma, good looks and verbal skills to be a
formidable candidate, but sadly is flawed with some past bad associations with the gay
community that the Left/liberal media have gleefully uncovered.

You can tell when the media recognizes a formidable candidate with excellent communication
skills, whether it be Donald Trump or Kari Lake, because they start to use deceptive and biased
tactics in debates and interviews to keep them out of the public eye or undermine them. Take the
example of PBS cancelling an interview with her and replacing it with the Democrat incumbent.

Citizens Clean Elections Commission of AZ tried to set up a debate between Democrat governor
Hobbs and challenger Kari Lake, but Hobbs refuses to participate, knowing that Lake is a skilled
presenter and debater. Thus, the commission “proceeded with its obligation to arrange a Q&A
interview” with the candidate who did agree to participate — Lake, as MSN.com admitted.

The commission said it was “surprised to learn that Arizona PBS has committed to host a
Gubernatorial candidate Q&A next week” with Hobbs, even though the interview with Lake
had been scheduled and taped ahead of time.

–That’s the dirty trick, biased to the core: Hobbs refuses to debate, so PBS grants Hobbs a
softball Q & A session and refuses to air the interview they already did with Lake. Kari Lake
rightly called it outrageous, especially that PBS had not notified, as required, the Arizona
Citizens Clean Election Commission, with whom it was partnering on debates and the interview,
as the Washington Examiner noted:

“As the CEC’s broadcast partner, PBS’ actions are a slap in the face to the commissioners of
the CEC and a betrayal of their efforts to put on an actual debate,” Lake’s campaign wrote in
a statement.

The commission then canceled the Lake interview in response. Instead of the interview, Lake,
a former newscaster herself, held an event in which she panned the network and her
Democratic rival.

Hobbs rebuffed attempts to organize a debate with her rival, dubbing her a “conspiracy
theorist” and fretting that a debate could elevate her and create a public spectacle. Lake has
returned fire, chiding Hobbs for being afraid to face off against her.

Following revelations that Arizona PBS seemingly circumvented the commission by agreeing
to an interview with Hobbs without informing it, the commission voiced its disappointment
and announced plans to find a new network partner.

They won’t find any mainstream network partner that isn’t just as biased against conservatives.

But Lake’s biggest problem now are the charges of hypocrisy against her for coming out against
drag queens grooming AZ children, when it was discovered she has been a long time friend of
Phoenix’s premier drag queen, Richard Stevens.

Here’s a video of a news anchor interviewing Stevens about his long time friendship with Lake,
including pictures of them together. Brett Baier, Fox News’ liberal Political chief correspondent
also went after Lake for it in a surprise attack that caught Lake off guard. This is considered “bad
form” to blindside a candidate with a personal attack without letting them know beforehand what
they intend to bring up—as anti-conservatives always do. But that’s typical for Baier who is part
of Fox News’ faux conservative team.

Frankly, I’m not sympathetic to Lake’s plight, only saddened that a person with such talent and
potential is so flawed in judgment. She deserves the bad press she got for hypocrisy, and it does
cause moral conservatives to question her sincerity and background.

Tudor Dixon Challenges Radical Michigan Governor Whitmer

A similar raucous campaign is playing out in Michigan as Governor “Lockdown” Whitmer is
being seriously challenged by Republican Tudor Dixon. Breitbart.com has highlights:

Tudor Dixon, the Trump-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, made a
strong showing in her debate Thursday evening against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) that
focused on abortion, the second amendment, education, and the economy.

Dixon proudly declared she is pro-life “with exceptions for life of the mother,” but noted that
Michigan’s governor must abide by the decision Michigan voters will ultimately make and
not undermine the will of the people. Dixon also slammed Whitmer for supporting abortion
“up to the moment of birth” and voting against a ban on partial-birth abortion.

“As the governor has already stated, a judge has already ruled in this case. Please
understand that the governor doesn’t have the choice to go around a judge or a
constitutional amendment,” Dixon said. “She will lie to you tonight and tell you that the
governor can do something about a constitutional amendment.”

The law means nothing to Gov. Whitmer. Remember that Whitmer, like Gavin Newsom of CA,
defied the courts when the court ruled that their use of emergency powers in the Covid
lockdowns were unconstitutional. Sadly, the courts did nothing when both governors defied the
courts. Dixon had the audacity to even bring this up in debate:

Dixon then accused Whitmer of thinking she was above the state’s constitution and cited the
Michigan Supreme Court’s decision to strip the governor of her emergency powers as an
example.

She’s clearly stated she has no limitations. She doesn’t even want parental consent. That’s
what the proposal that she’s out there talking about every single day says. She’s lying about
my position, and I can see why she’s a little confused about a constitutional amendment
because this is a governor who, time and time again, thought she was above the constitution
of Michigan. In fact, the people had to go to the Supreme Court to try to rip her powers away
even though she held on to them like grim death. This is how she’s going to treat the people
of Michigan. It is not how I will.

Like governor Cuomo of NY, Whitmer also sent waves of sick Covid patients from hospitals to
nursing homes, which caused many other deaths among the elderly who were vulnerable.

Dixon harped on the issue and pressed Whitmer for ignoring the Nursing Home Association
and sending coronavirus-positive patients into nursing homes. Dixon also accused Whitmer
of hiding alarming facts about her coronavirus response and noted that she paid off her
former Health and Human Services director.

Dixon said: “Well, the governor wants you to believe that she did listen to the experts, but we
have the letter from the nursing home association that said whatever you do, don’t send
COVID positive patients into nursing homes, and yet the governor did. When Andrew Cuomo
even backed off of this, Gov. Whitmer doubled down. She even tried to hide the report on the
numbers of how many deaths we had. In fact, she’s trying to hide a lot from this pandemic.
She tried to hide, or she did hide effectively, why her Department of Health and Human
Services Director left. In fact, she even paid them off with a secrecy agreement.”

In summary, while I have been largely disappointed by the quality of candidates put up by the
Republican establishment, there are a few bright spots as I have emphasized above. As expected,
the mainstream press brings out their biggest guns to destroy the most effective conservative
candidates.

MORE WOKE NONSENSE

Homosexuality has been a problem in the world since Biblical times, but the bizarre issue of
denying one’s own biological gender and claiming to be the opposite gender of their biological
reality is a recent idea and a sign of extreme moral degradation in society, if not outright
rebellion against ones innate physiology.

What’s worse is the almost universal acceptance of this trend by persons in establishment
positions of authority, not only to tolerate this but punish those who don’t go along. The Heritage
Foundation’s Daily Signal keeps track of this damaging sociological trend better than most.
Here’s their latest missive on how a Vermont School district sanctioned a soccer coach for
defending his daughter’s refusal to accept a transgender male watching them change in the girls
locker room:

A Vermont school district under fire for allowing a biologically male student to use the girls’
locker room has suspended a father from his position as soccer coach for using male
pronouns to refer to the trans-identifying student.

Travis Allen has been suspended without pay from his job as the Randolph Union Middle
School girls soccer coach, District Superintendent Layne Millington said in a Tuesday letter.
His suspension follows a Daily Signal report highlighting his daughter’s discomfort at a
biological male using her locker room while she was changing.

Allen’s daughter Blake is one of several young ladies who said they were in the Randolph
Union High School locker room changing when the trans-identifying student, a biological
male, entered the locker room.

Several girls who spoke with The Daily Signal said they asked the student to leave, but that
the student did not immediately do so. The girls said that the student stood in the corner and
looked at them while they were changing, causing them to feel uncomfortable.

How about some tolerance for girls who object to being ogled by males pretending to be girls in
women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. The Daily Signal has also documented the number f
persons being fired from teaching from refusing to use a transgender’s preferred pronoun.

A West Point, Virginia high school teacher who refused to use a transgender student’s new
pronouns has been fired… “for insubordination.”

The University of Michigan fired a physicians assistant for objecting to transgender medical
procedures. And, a Christian doctor of 30 years lost his job for refusing to use a transgender
patient’s preferred pronoun. Such reports are increasing every day.

What is this world coming too? It won’t end well at all when the establishment wages war on
good people’s rationale views and judgment about other’s distorted and weird ideas and actions.

UK PRIME MINISTER TRUSS RESIGNS AFTER JUST 45 DAYS IN OFFICE

Liz Truss, the newly elected PM of Britain has just resigned. She came from a Leftist background
but had a change of heart over the years and became a fan of PM Margaret Thatcher, who fought
hard to give the UK the most free market reforms and tax cuts ever in British history.

Truss aspired to do the same but doesn’t really understand free markets. She got talked into a
“Mini-budget” that cut taxes for the higher brackets, but increased deficit spending supposedly to
produce growth—but it doesn’t work that way when Britain was already in very high monetary
and price inflation, just like the USA.

Of course, the Bank of England was behind the high rate of inflation in Britain. Like our FED
this central bank has been inflating the money supply—just like most other Western countries,
and Japan. That’s why all other currencies are going down compared to the dollar. They are all
creating fiat money faster than the US, which is astounding given the estimated $13T the FED
created since Covid began.

Truss had two cabinet ministers resign in rapid succession as the entire establishment, including
her own Conservative Party, was fighting her budget. It wasn’t going anywhere. The first to go
was her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng, who was blamed for the falling pound and rising
inflation—though the real culprit is the Bank of England, aiming damage the new PM. Maajid
Nawaz wrote:

Globalists run the international money markets. They were not happy that Liz Truss – and not
their preferred candidate and former Goldman banker Rishi Sunak – managed to seize the
UK leadership. Radicals will not have failed to notice the immediate and visceral negativity
towards Truss in the corporatist media.

What has been occurring since her victory has been a concerted effort to sabotage the sitting
UK government in order to orchestrate a return to power of Globalist acolytes disguised as
Conservative party members.

What is really strange is that Truss named two globalists to replace both conservative ministers
that resigned, perhaps in a futile attempt to placate the establishment: Jeremy Hunt as Finance
Minister and Grant Schapps to replace Suella Braverman. Hunt has been running UK monetary
policy behind the scenes for months now. Both he and Schapps are allies of Boris Johnson.
Johnson gave the UK a corrupted Brexit deal that Truss in some ways was trying to improve.

Nigel Farage, Britain’s most outspoken anti-globalist referred to Truss’ ouster as a globalist
“Remainer” coup and for good reason. All the “Conservative” prime ministers like Theresa
May, and Boris Johnson pretended to be in favor of Brexit, even though they proved by their
actions they were really in favor of the “Remain” (in the EU) side.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak (who was the runner-up to Truss in the previous leadership
battle) are planning on running for the PM position next week. Sunak is a dedicated globalist
who worked for Goldman Sachs and will likely win, in partnership with Penny Mordaunt the
former defense secretary (who had to know about the secret British agreement under Boris
Johnson to fund the new European Army and cut funding for the British Armed Forces.

While I wasn’t enthusiastic about Liz Truss’ election—she lacked Maggie Thatcher’s
toughness—I see now that the globalists can’t tolerate having anyone in power who is not one of
their own, and Truss was not a globalist. Too bad she was squeezed out so soon.

VACCINE DAMAGE UPDATES

I continue to cover the issue of vaccine damage because more information surfaces all the time,
despite severe and persistent media censorship. This is a big conspiracy against human health and
it deserves continued coverage.

Several GOP Governors Vow not to Mandate Covid Shot for Kids In the wake of the CDC
unconscionable authorization of this dangerous shot for kids 5 and younger, several governors
like Ron DeSantis of Florida and Bill Lee of Tennessee vow it won’t be required of school kids
in their states.

The Real Anthony Fauci Movie The documentary here, is free to watch for the next two weeks,
but is actually more about documenting how the establishment exaggerated the Covid pandemic
in order to get people to take the dangerous mRNA vaccine. RFK, jr’s book focuses more on the
evil history of Dr. Fauci’s role in falsifying vaccine trials and using African children as test
subjects, harming and killing hundreds of thousands. The film does a good job at tackling the
evils of the plandemic, and Dr. Fauci’s role in that, but the video itself is a bit irritating to watch.
In typical documentary fashion these days, the filmmaker tries to let all the interviews do the
talking, which leads to disjointed comments and counter comments with no narration in between
to explain the contradictions. If you already know the issues you can follow this, but a novice
would be a bit confused.

Beware the New Respiratory Syndrome Shot   It’s yet another mRNA shots and will likely
have similar side effects to the dangerous Covid 19 mRNA vaccine.  Big Pharma is looking for
this to be another “cash cow” like the Covid shot. [Children’s Health Defense]

Dr. Joseph Mercola documents “How Cancer Deaths From the Covid Jabs Are Being Hidden”
From the Epoch Times:

The fact that tumor sizes have become dramatically larger since 2021, patients are younger,
and recurrence and metastasis are increasing should be front-page news, but you’re hearing
nothing about it. Why is that? Analysis of U.S. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR) data suggests the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been
filtering and redesignating cancer deaths as COVID deaths since April 2021 to eliminate the
cancer signal.

The signal is being hidden by swapping the underlying cause of death with main cause of
death. Uncontrollable turbo-charged cancers the medical establishment had never seen
before only started to occur after the rollout of the COVID jabs.

Before it was manipulated to eliminate the safety signal, data from the Defense Medical
Epidemiology Database (DMED) showed cancer rates among military personnel and their
families tripled after the rollout of the shots.

After the rollout of the COVID jabs in 2021, cancer patients have gotten younger, with the
largest increase occurring among 30- to 50-year-olds, tumor sizes are dramatically larger,
multiple tumors in multiple organs are becoming more common, and recurrence and
metastasis are increasing.

Pro-Vax Bodybuilder Who Dared Anti-Vaxxers to Use Him as Test Case Dies

News Wars has the story,

A professional bodybuilder who trusted the Covid vaccine enough to challenge anti-vax
conspiracists to use him as a case study suddenly died last week. ‘Those of you who think the
vaccine kills people can use me as a test. If I die, you were right,’ said Doug Brignole.
Brignole, 62, reportedly passed away last Thursday, with not much else known other than the
fact he was extremely fit and healthy prior to his death and was evidently preparing to
compete in the 2022 Mr. Universe competition in Las Vegas this week.

Brignole isn’t the first bodybuilder to die following vaccination. In October 2021, Infowars
reported on the unexpected death of 28-year-old FedEx driver and bodybuilder Jake
Kazmarek who passed away four days after receiving his second dose of Moderna’s
experimental Covid-19 vaccine.

As highlighted by The Liberty Daily’s JD Rucker, “the jabs seem to be most harmful to those
who engage in strenuous physical activities such as athletes.”

Indeed, Canadian physician Dr. Charles Hoffe underscored in July 2021 he discovered
vaccinated patients suffered from “reduced effort tolerance,” meaning they get tired quicker
while doing normal everyday activities, possibly due to microscopic blood clots and vessels
being damaged by the jab’s spike proteins.

80 Young Canadian doctors ‘died suddenly’ in past 2 years while fully COVID-19
vaccinated: Citizens Free Press reported several months ago on Canadian doctors dying after
taking the vaccine, and the number back then was only 30!

RISE OF CHINESE MILITARY NATIONALISM

News Wars citing RT.com reports that China’s dictator for life, Xi Jingping vows to elevate the
Chinese military to “World-Class Status” by 2027—right in the middle of my WWIII prediction
window when I believe China will be ready to join Russia in a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the
West.

President Xi Jinping promised that the Chinese military will be brought to “world-class
standards” by 2027, when it marks its centenary. He made the claim in his opening speech at
the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party on Sunday.

China currently has the largest military in the world in terms of manpower, with more than 2
million active soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute also ranked the country as the world’s second-biggest seller of arms, after the US,
in its research for the year 2020.

US Admiral Gilday warned that China is moving up its timeline to take Taiwan, as the Daily
Mail reports.

China could invade Taiwan as early as this year, US Naval Chief Admiral Gilday warns as
Xi Jinping solidifies his grip on Beijing and the Communist Party.“It’s not just what Jinping
says, it’s how the Chinese behave and what they do,” Gilday said at an event held by the
[globalist] Atlantic Council Wednesday. “’What we’ve seen over the past 20 years is that
they have delivered on every promise they’ve made earlier than they said they were going to
deliver on it”

And according to Fox News,

Sec. of State Antony Blinken backed up such predictions earlier this week when he said
China is speeding up its timeline to take back Taiwan

DURHAM PROSECUTION OF SCAPEGOAT FAILS

Special Counsel John Durham took FBI informant Igor Danchenko to trial claiming he lied to the
FBI by saying he had spoken with Charles Dolan, a Clinton associate, about information in the
false Steele dossier, even though an email from Dolan to Danchenko made its way, nearly
word-for-word, into the finished product.

But Danchenko was acquitted because the issue was so flimsy. Durham has a habit of only
prosecuting the little guys and never the FBI leadership which is calling the shots. Durham even
took time at the trial to criticize the FBI for not investigating more fully Danchenko’s claims. He
said,

FBI agents should have performed a “detailed review” of Igor Danchenko, the source, and
his statements, including a behavioral assessment, an examination of Danchenko’s finances,
and a polygraph test, at least some of which were recommended by FBI experts. With the
evidence presented during the trial, jurors could conclude that the FBI “mishandled the
investigation,” according to Durham.

After discrediting his own government agency, it’s no wonder Danchenko was found not guilty
of all charges! When are conservatives going to stop hoping that Durham is going to go after
anyone in the Deep State?

NEWS SHORTS

Biden Sec. Of State starts Promoting the North American Union Again: Conservatives
thought this EU style merger of Mexico, the US and Canada had long been defeated, but the
Biden administration is planning on reviving it, and all its globalist implications. [You Tube]

More Biden Family Corruption: Biden’s family got “interest-free, forgivable” $5M loan from a
Chinese energy firm (now bankrupt) that partnered with Hunter Biden and James Biden (Joe
Biden’s brother). A 2017 business email with new information was released by Sen. Chuck
Grassley calling on the DOJ to investigate. Fat Chance. John Solomon has the story here.

Joe Biden to Release 10-15 Million More Barrels from Strategic Petroleum Reserves Before
Midterm Elections This is clearly a ploy to try and lower gas prices to gain political points with
the voters. High gas prices are a major campaign issue, along with inflation. Someone better
check to make sure Biden doesn’t sell it to the Chinese like he did with an earlier release.

Alex Jones Billion Dollar Judgment Sets a dangerous Precedent: After a judge and jury fined
Jones almost $1B this week, the lawyer for George Floyd’s family says he plans to use this
precedent to Sue Kanye for “causing emotion harm” to Floyd’s family. Infowars.com says
“Ambulance-chasing attorney salivates over Jones’ $1 billion verdict.”

Elon Musk Reverses Decision to Shut Down Starlink Internet for Ukraine The woke media
had pressured Musk to shut down his free Starlink Internet Service which has been helping
Ukrainians and its military to access the World Wide Web. But he apparently saw the ulterior
motive behind this and changed his mind. He’ll continue service even though it is costing him
millions. [RT.com]

PREPAREDNESS TIP: BONE BROTH BASICS by Andrew Skousen

As the weather cools down warm soups are especially good again. Garden harvest makes for
good soups. The core of every good soup is good broth, an often overlooked aspect of modern
cuisine. In fact, for over a generation bouillon cubes have taken the place of real broth and only
recently has the time-honored tradition of making broth from chicken carcases, meaty bones and
other less-favored parts of animals become popular again. Nearly every culture has a recipe for
making bone broth. All the nutrients in the bones, tendons, feet, gizzards and other parts that
aren’t so palatable can be extracted into broth simply by simmering them in water. The nutrients
in this broth are very nourishing to yourself and the microbiome of our digestive tract, which is
the core of a healthy body. Some cultures consider broth so healing it can “heal the dead.” Here
are some tips for making this most basic healthfood.

Chicken broth is the easiest to make and forms the foundation of the best possible chicken
noodle soup. You can make it from just one chicken carcass or a few bones, but it pays to save
up from a few chicken dinners to make more broth at once (broth can be refrigerated, frozen or
pressure canned for later). For each carcass add one whole carrot, half an onion and a stalk or two
of celery. Cover with good quality water and bring to simmer. Just when it starts to simmer a
scum of foam will appear on top of the liquid. This is impurities, grime, and blood residue that is
brought to the surface by the bubbles. Skim this off and discard. Cover and let the broth simmer
for at least 30 minutes. The longer it cooks, the richer the broth, but 1 to 3 hours is typical for a
good result. Pour off the liquid through a strainer and you will be amazed at how something so
simple and gentle can be so soothing and delicious.

Beef and other larger bones are turned into broth in the same way, but they benefit from a longer
cooking time, preferably between 8 and 24 hours. For the best flavor, roast the bones in the oven
first for 45 minutes on 400 degrees. The bigger bones have marrow inside which is very healthy
and a delicacy that is eaten with a little salt on toast. Marrow can be scooped out of cooked bones
with a narrow spoon or butter knife or tapped out on a cutting board. A little meat with bones
makes for a better beef broth, so add a little chopped stew meat if your bones are too clean. .

Fish broth is an excellent soup all on its own or as a base for fish chowder. Typically this is made
from the bones, tail and head of fish, but you can use a whole fish too after gutting. If you want
fish meat in the soup, fillet the fish and add the fresh fish meat to the broth at the end, since it
gets overcooked easily. Oily fish like tuna and salmon result in a fishier broth, but can still quite
good. The best fish broth comes from wild cod, but whole rockfish are also very good, and much
easier to find at a good quality fish-monger and even some grocery stores. Fish broth is the
fastest broth to make, simmering for only 40 minutes to an hour.

The bones in any bone broth can be cooked multiple times, but as you would expect, the broth is
weaker each time it is cooked. The weak broth is still valuable, especially as the base for cooking
where you would normally add water, such as when cooking rice and beans. If you cook them
long enough, the bones will eventually get crumbly and break down, eventually turning to chalky
bits that can be ground up for calcium supplements or for casting on the garden compost pile
(bone meal is a popular soil amendment for potassium). Until the bones start to break down there
isn’t much calcium that leaches out of the bones unless you add a splash of vinegar. This helps
dissolve the bones and bring out the calcium, magnesium and other minerals. Even before the
bones start breaking down there is plenty of benefit in the first batch of bone broth—gelatin and
collagen melts off the bones first from the joints and tendons. Many cooks value a broth that gets
good and stiff after cooling, because it shows how much gelatin is in it, which is very healing and
nourishing. [END]

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