Day: July 24, 2021

Why is disgraced ex-spy Christopher Steele involved in a controversial group seeking harsh Covid restrictions?

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By Kit Klarenberg | RT | July 24, 2021

Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6 spy, is involved in the ‘parent’ organisation called Independent SAGE – a collective that regularly criticizes the UK government for not introducing tougher measures to achieve ‘Zero Covid.’

Why is disgraced ex-spy Christopher Steele involved in a controversial group seeking harsh Covid restrictions?

Faux Populists Shill for the Permanent War State

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Faux Populists Shill for the Permanent War State

In 2018, the Pentagon announced a shift away from their failing policy of counterterrorism in the Middle East and North Africa toward a new National Defense Strategy of so called “Great Power Competition,” with Russia and China. Instead of turning toward peace, free trade, and diplomacy, this policy change will come at enormous opportunity costs such as further distorting our economy, practically guaranteeing boom-bust cycles of ever intensifying severity, as well as reducing the average American’s standard of living. It would impoverish the very people who desire genuine populism.

Right-wing Catholic moralists outed a Catholic official as gay

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Right-wing Catholic moralists outed a Catholic official as gay

But one of the biggest takeaways here is how, amid what is becoming an epic battle inside the Catholic church, the traditionalists have shown they will stop at nothing. Personally, I think it’s a sign of weakness, an act of desperation by people trying to retain power who know they’re losing, as Catholics have changed with the world, many even leaving the church; it mirrors the larger political struggle in the United States.