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Pope's Condition ''Complex'', Hospital Stay Extended %u2022 Channels Television

2025-02-18

[CHANNELSTV] Pope Francis

...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. That was to show how humble he is. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
, hospitalised for bronchitis four days ago, faces a ''complex clinical picture'' that will require the 88-year-old to stay longer than originally expected, the Vatican said on Monday.
"Y'see, he’s mostly dead, but he's not quite dead! There's a difference, y'know."
After initially cancelling events through Monday, the Vatican said the pope's weekly Wednesday audience would not go ahead either.
''The results of the tests carried out in recent days and today have demonstrated a polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract that has led to a further change in treatment,'' it said in a statement.
"Polymicrobial" means they found lotsa little germy things, but they don't know which one's connected to the runny nose, the inflamed throat, the fruity cough, or the occasional projectile diarrhea."
''All the tests carried out until now are indicative of a complex clinical picture that will require adequate hospitalisation.''
Getting old ain't easy. It takes a long time.
Vatican front man Matteo Bruni had earlier told news hounds that the pope was in ''good humour'', had rested well overnight, had eaten breakfast and read the newspapers.
"Hey! Lookit dat! I ain't in the obituaries today!"
"At'sa pretty good, Pope. I'll get the cigars!"
A source in the pope's entourage had also insisted there was no alarm within the Vatican following his Friday admission to Rome's Gemelli hospital.
"Hey, everybody! It'sa da Pope!"
"I ain't alarmed."
Francis was admitted after a ''very busy'' two weeks, during which ''he was weakened'', the source told AFP, but added: ''There is no alarmism.''
"Nuttin' to see here! Move along!"
A Vatican source told AFP the pope was receiving oxygen.
"Alla, she'sa well! Bene, bene!"
Yet the news of the more complex situation raises fresh concerns about the Argentine pontiff, who has suffered increasing health issues in recent years.
"Whaddya think, Doctor Quincy?"
"Hmmm. He ain't dead yet, but I have fresh concerns!"
DIFFICULTY BREATHING
In the days before his admission, Francis had admitted to difficulty breathing and had asked aides several times to read his speeches aloud on his behalf.
"Wottsa makin' you outta breath, Pope?"
"Breathing!"
At his weekly general audience last Wednesday, he said he ''cannot yet'' read his own speeches, adding with a smile: ''I hope that next time I can.''
"I'ma buy a tape recorder... [gasp!] [wheeze!]"
But he had continued taking meetings, including one with the prime minister of Slovakia on Friday morning, shortly before he headed to hospital.
"Don't invade nobody!"
"I wasn't gonna!"
"Call me an ambulance, wouldja?"
Francis had part of one of his lungs removed as a young man and has been particularly susceptible to respiratory infections.
Hmmm... A single point of failure. I'm surprised he made it to 88.
He pulled out of a Good Friday event last year after catching what the Vatican called a ''light flu'', but went on to lead Easter services as planned.
"In nomine [hack!] [wheeze!] Patris [cough!] et Filii [snurf!!] et [choo!]..."
"Hey! We're Catholics! We gotta use local languages!"
"Whatsa national language of Vatican City?"
"Ummm... Latin?"
A year earlier, in March 2023, Francis was admitted to hospital for three nights with bronchitis, which was cured with antibiotics. Another bout of bronchitis caused him to cancel a December 2023 visit to Dubai to participate in the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
COP28 climate change conference.
Boy, he sure missed a good 'un! I heard Al Gore partied until 9:30. The crazed sex poodle left with a woman who looked like she'd stepped from the pages of "Love Story."
The pope also underwent a hernia operation in June 2023 and in 2021 underwent surgery for a type of diverticulitis, an inflammation of pockets that develop in the lining of the intestine.
"Wossa motta, Pope?
"Just my diverticulitis acting up, Cesare!"
"So you gonna be dead soon?"
He has been using a wheelchair since 2022 because of persistent knee pain and uses a cane during rare moments standing up.
"Lucretia, get me my cane, please."
"Sure, Pope. You wanta a little drink too? Maybe some nice grappa?"
Francis has also fallen a couple of times in the past few months, bruising his forearm in January and sporting a large bruise on his right jaw in December, caused by toppling from his bed.
"Wossa motta, Pope?"
"Lucretia pusha me outta bed!"
"I did not!"
"You go tella those bigga lies, you gonna go to hell, Lucretia!"
"Liar, liar, pants on fire! It was Cesare an you know it!"
"My pants onna fire? I ain't even wearin' them!"

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Home Front: Politix

Caroline Kennedy attacks 'predator' RFK Jr.

2025-01-29

[NYPOST] The daughter of former President John F. Kennedy is speaking out against Health and Human Services Secretary designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasting her cousin as a "predator" with "dangerous" views on vaccination who is "unqualified to fill" the role.

Former US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy strongly urged senators in a video message posted on X to reject President Trump’s nominee, the day before the first of two high-stakes Senate hearings.

"He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed," Kennedy said, reading her missive to members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who will quiz RFK Jr. on Thursday. "These facts alone should be disqualifying, but he has personal qualities related to this job, which for me pose even greater concern."

"It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator," added the former first daughter. "He’s always been charismatic, able to attract others through the strength of his personality, his willingness to take risks and break the rules."

That included, Caroline Kennedy claimed, other siblings and cousins following RFK Jr., a recovered heroin user, down the dark path of addiction to "illness and death."

Completely ignoring the Kennedys who preceded your generation down that well-trodden path, dear girl, reaping the benefits of entirely too much money and not nearly enough character.

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Home Front: Politix

Harris forced to preside over the certification of her own defeat as Trump claims historic 2024 win

2025-01-06

[FoxNews] The House and Senate will meet on Monday in a Joint Session of Congress to certify the results of the 2024 presidential vote.

The Capitol riot and contretemps over certification of the 2020 presidential election converted the quadrennial, often sleepy affair of certifying the Electoral College into a full-blown national security event. Congressional security officials began erecting 10-foot-high fencing around the outer perimeter of the Capitol complex over the past few days. Some of the fences extend beyond the usual "Capitol Square" which includes the Capitol building itself. One such fence was all the way around the outer boundaries of the Russell Senate Park.

One of the great ironies in the American political system is that the person who lost the race for the presidency often presides over their own defeat. In this case, Vice President Harris. Harris remains the vice president until Jan. 20. That also means she continues as president of the Senate.

Others have performed this onerous task of certifying their own defeat. Future President Richard Nixon was vice president when he lost to President John F. Kennedy in 1960. Nixon then certified JFK as the winner in January 1961. Former Vice President Al Gore
<span class=Inverse>Al Gore</span>

...Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, Global Warming prophet and speculator, and crazed sex poodle...
ceded his election to President George W. Bush after the disputed 2000 election and tumult over which candidate actually won Florida. Gore was then at the Capitol to seal Bush’s victory in January 2001.

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Home Front: Politix

Biden Awards Presidential Freedom Medals to Hillary, Soros and others

2025-01-05

More names added to this story from yesterday. The logic of most of these escapes me. Last year President Biden presented one of these to Representative Nancy Pelosi, no longer Speaker of the House. I imagine Dr. Jill regrets that now, on behalf of her husband.

[MSN] WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden on Saturday named former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire political activist and philanthropist George Soros recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, part of a group of 19 people selected for the nation's highest civilian honor.

Also, U2 frontman Bono, actor Michael J. Fox, actor Denzel Washington, chef José Andrés and William Sanford Nye, better known as television's "Bill Nye the Science Guy.", soccer player Lionel Messi of Argentina, NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson and a few others.
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In previous years he awarded, among others, Al Gore, former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, John Kerry, soccer player and activist Megan Rapinoe and UMW President Richard Trumpka.

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Government Corruption

Steal The Vote V9.564: fake overseas ballots

2024-09-10

[GP] WAKE UP, REPUBLICANS!... Democrats Are Openly Stealing the 2024 Election with Fraudulent Overseas Ballots

The Gateway Pundit reported extensively on this 2020 voter fraud scheme in numerous battleground states.

One method Democrats used to steal the election was with overseas ballots. We saw evidence of this in several battleground states.

During an Arizona Senate session in February2022, the discussion turned to the UOCAVA voters — these are voters covered under the Uniform Overseas Civilian Absentee Voting Act. These are the men and women who are serving their country in the military and send in a mail-in vote from where they are stationed outside the country. These ballots also include US citizens residing in countries outside the United States.

The act officially covers:

members of the United States Uniformed Services and merchant marine;

their family members; and

United States citizens residing outside the United States.

During the Arizona hearing, Paul Harris, a Maricopa resident and veteran in corporate executive management, spoke to the committee. Harris was a manager during the audit of the Maricopa County audit of the 2020 election ballots.

Paul Harris was tasked with overseeing the UOCAVA ballots during the audit. He described his experience.

Paul Harris: The UOCAVA is the Uniform Overseas Civilian Absentee Voting Act ballot. That ballot is sent out to men and women who work overseas and the people who work overseas to get a chance to work in the election. This is what a ballot looks like that goes out, an 11 1/2 X 19 ballot. When I opened up a box of ballots this is what a ballot looks like that’s a UOCAVA ballot. You know what that is? It’s an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of copy paper.

Paul Harris continued: “Did you all know that our ballots come back like this from our overseas people? Did any of you know thia? It is such a sham that I had people everyday at my table taking pictures of these ballots that were scanned down. It took my team three complete days to count all of the UOCAVA ballots. You know why? Because in 2016 the numbers were apparently 1,600 UOCAVA ballots that came back in the most significant election in our lifetime. In 2020 the numbers were close to 9,600 ballots that came back. And I will tell you as an eye-witness, 95%… all went towards one candidate. And in a state where a candidate won by 10,000 votes that is 8,000 new votes during an election where people were brought home because there was a pandemic… No chain of custody. There’s nothing to identify where this piece of paper came from.

This testimony by Paul Harris is very similar to what we witnessed in Michigan and Georgia.

We reported on this extensively at The Gateway Pundit.

The Gateway Pundit recorded testimony in three battleground states of this happening.

But there’s more…

Back in 2020 election worker and witness Kathleen Alby (sp?) testified at the November 2020 Arizona Senate Hyatt hearing for Rudy Giuliani.

She said baskets of “military faxes” in Pima County were converted to actual ballots at stations with just one person.

The cubicles only had one chair, no observers. She said hundreds (probably thousands) of these ballots had no chain of custody. She and other election workers could not get questions answered regarding this shady process.

AZ State Senator: “Were there a lot of those duplicates (military ballots)?”

Ms. Alby: “Yes. Thousands of them. At one point that’s all that they were processing were the faxed ones.”

Ms. Alby later described the thousands of ballots faxed in from overseas or wherever they were coming from.

Ms. Alby: “I complained about the chain of custody of all of these faxes because there were so many, and I questioned that. Because I wasn’t sure, I mean, I could be in Michigan and I could fax something to Pima County. It could be rerouted anywhere, through any fax. And how do I know it didn’t come from Afghanistan? “

Again, this appears to be a highly coordinated tactic used by the left in several battleground states.

We saw it in Michigan. We saw it in Georgia.

Fast forward to 2024. Democrats announced they are pushing their UOCAVA election fraud into overdrive.

The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray reported on the Democrats’ UOCAVA fake voter scam last week.

In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency.

Democrats paid attention.

Are Democrats really interested in attracting more overseas voters, or is it the flawed voter registration system they use that could be a game-changer in our upcoming election if properly utilized by unscrupulous election officials?

On August 12, 2024, the DNC released a memo announcing it would spend six figures to collect up to 9 million Democratic votes from overseas.

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Home Front: Politix

How Kamala Harris's affair with a much-older Democrat kingpin catapulted her career

2024-07-07

After Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
' campaign for president flamed out in late 2019, her Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, power-player ex advised against her accepting any offer to be second banana on the Democratic ticket, warning that the vice presidency would actually be the nail in the coffin to any future White House ambitions.

Former the Socialist paradise of San Francisco

...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
mayor Willie Brown - now 90 - wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle warning his one-time lover Harris to decline Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’...
's summer of 2020 offer, because 'historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end.'

'The glory would be short-lived, and historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end,' Brown wrote. 'For every George H.W. Bush, who ascended from the job to the presidency, there’s an Al Gore
...Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, Global Warming prophet and speculator, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore...
, who never got there.'

But as Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
are now falling back in love with Harris out of necessity as they scramble to try and replace Biden at the top of the 2024 ticket following last week's cringe-worthy presidential debate performance, it appears that Brown got it all wrong.

Or at least he didn't account for opportunity knocking, because it is precisely Harris' position as VP that, despite her polling and behind-the-scenes unpopularity, has now made her the obvious choice in the eyes of many to replace Biden.

While Biden has insisted that he is fit to stay in the race and govern should he beat Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
in November, Democratic operatives have reportedly already chosen Harris, and are now even discussing who her running mate should be.

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Fifth Column

Frat Boy Summer is this year's backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women

2024-05-06

[NYPOST] Behold the "frat boys" unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting "USA, USA, USA," and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas
Hamas

...always the voice of sweet reason...
colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.

God Forbid! They look like Trump voters.

This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which only has itself to blame.

Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they’re smarter and more important than they really are.

It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.

Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.

The latest ABC-IPSOS poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That that was entirely down to Trump’s huge 12-point advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.

Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the “Handmaid’s Tale”-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump’s beastly ways.

It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.

The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing “trans kids” as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young Tik Tok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad’s Joe Biden.

But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.

The college gender gap was a crisis when men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!

Now there are 1 million fewer men in college than in 2011, according to Pew Research, with one-quarter of male Ivy Leaguers identifying as LGBT. It’s sexual reparations that nobody had a say in.

There is a cohort of women who are giving the fairer sex a bad name. These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.

So they doubled down, offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity
...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep...
or whatever excuse they could find to avoid looking in the mirror.

During the pandemic they were given the name “Karen” as they marched around in masks enforcing petty rules or flew into aggressive rages during minor parking lot encounters.

When accountability occasionally finds them, they are flabbergasted beyond belief, while the rest of the world quietly revels in their comeuppance.

Karine Jean-Pierre is the avatar of the entitled female.

The White House press secretary is simply horrible at her job. She’s not on top of her material and never provides a coherent answer to reporters’ questions.

But instead of showing a little humility and upping her game she does interviews boasting about how awesome she is at “the hardest job in the White House . . . I’m an historic figure and I walk in history every day.”hen men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!"

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-Obits-

‘Matchless champion of the Jewish people': Israeli, US officials mourn Joe Lieberman

2024-03-29

[IsraelTimes] Allies and opponents pay tribute to the former Connecticut senator, whose career in public service blazed a path for religious Jews in American politics.

Also a former Democratic vice presidential candidate (with Al Gore in 2000), followed by becoming a former Democrat in 2006, when the Democratic party made it clear they preferred their Jews considerably more liberal and considerably less Jewish. Connecticut's voters, however, liked Joe just fine, and overrode the Democrats to send him back to the Senate as an Independent.

Israeli officials joined their US counterparts in paying tribute to longtime US senator and first Jewish vice presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82.

from complications following a fall, it was reported.

In one of his last interviews released just last week, Lieberman heavily criticized US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for the speech he gave on the Senate floor calling for early elections in Israel.

Calling the speech “outrageous,” Lieberman accused Schumer of “crossing a diplomatic red line,” and dismissed the speech as “a case of a high elected official in the US taking advantage of a friend.”

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-Land of the Free

US Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump presidential immunity claim

2024-02-29

[IsraelTimes] The US Supreme Court agrees to hear Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s claim that as a former president he enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution, as the 2024 White House candidate faces dozens of state and federal charges.

The court schedules arguments in the high-stakes case for the week of April 22 and says Trump’s trial on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election will remain on hold for now.

Trump had been scheduled to go on trial for election interference on March 4 but the proceedings have been frozen as his presidential immunity claim wound its way through the courts.

The Supreme Court says it will address the question of "whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office."

It will be among the most consequential election law cases to reach the court since it halted the Florida vote recount in 2000 with Republican George W. Bush narrowly leading Democrat Al Gore
...Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, Global Warming prophet and speculator, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore...
A three-judge appeals court panel ruled earlier this month that the 77-year-old Trump has no immunity from prosecution as a former president.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ominous Rumblings From The Climate Change Cult

2024-01-02

[ET via ZERO] In the past, I’ve referred to the well-funded, well-organized, but scientifically vacuous climate alarmists as a "cabal" with an explicitly socialist agenda.

Indeed, in a political context that’s exactly what they are. But in a religious context, they’re a cult fanatically pushing a rigid dogma.

The climate change dogma is roughly this:

The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased markedly over the past century (true);

human activities have contributed to that increase (true);

Earth has warmed by more than a degree since escaping the harsh Little Ice Age in the 19th century (also true, thank goodness!);

temperatures will continue to rise to dangerous, catastrophe-inducing levels (unproven, unknowable, and unlikely) unless human society is radically transformed by drastically curbing the human use of fossil fuels (a power-seeking agenda that would inflict widespread impoverishment and suffering on billions of human beings).

In connection with the United Nation’s recently completed annual extravaganza in climate change propaganda and hysteria—COP28—long-time alarmist Al Gore (who still wants today the "wrenching transformation" of society that he called for in his 1992 jeremiad "Earth in the Balance") lamented the fact that some people actually disagree with the wildly speculative alarmist predictions (guesses) that he and his fellow alarmists are making about the future.

He blamed social media and algorithms for spreading what he considers disinformation (in more neutral terms: differences of perception and understanding) about climate change.

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Government Corruption

Saint Greta against windmills. The activist took up Scandinavia

2023-10-20

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Viktor Lavrinenko

[REGNUM] The controversial environmental activist Greta Thunberg returned to the headlines of the world's tabloids: a Swedish court fined her for the second time in a year for blocking access roads to the oil port in Malmo, and in Norway they demanded that the environmental activist be banned from entering. The restless Thunberg is making every possible contribution to the destruction of the EU energy system. And this is not surprising, considering who is behind her.

Twenty-year-old Greta is spending this year, as they say, on a roll.

Moreover, the adult world strongly encourages her activities: in March 2023, the University of Helsinki announced that it would award Thunberg the title of honorary doctor of science.

Moreover, what is especially phantasmagorical, the Faculty of Theology of this university decided to celebrate her, opening eight honorary doctorates - one of them was received by the odious girl. In addition to her, professors, lawyers, journalists, translators, and microbiologists were awarded honorary titles.

However, the sign of encouragement from Scandinavian theologians is not accidental, if you know that earlier one of the parishes of the Church of Sweden (the largest Christian denomination in the country) declared Greta “the successor of Jesus Christ.”

Oy.

And radical feminist Anna Ardeen (known for her sinister role in the fate of Julian Assange , whom she once accused of rape) called Greta a “prophet of our time,” comparable to biblical characters.

However, for Greta, the badge of honor from the University of Helsinki was by no means the first or the most significant. What is a doctorate in provincial Finland for her, if in 2019, while still a schoolgirl, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ? In total, she already has two nominations for the Nobel Prize - in 2019 and 2020.

If I recall correctly, Donald Trump was nominated four times. Probably half a billion people have nominating rights, and there’s no entry fee...

At the moment, twenty-year-old Greta already has dozens of honorary titles, including “Woman of the Year” in Sweden (2019), “100 Most Influential Women” according to Time and Forbes, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Mons. She has been repeatedly proclaimed the “Voice of the Young Generation”, “Ambassador of Conscience”, etc. In addition, many newly discovered fauna are named in her honor.

In April, Greta held a solo picket in front of the Swedish Embassy in Brussels.

The action was timed to coincide with the visit of EU ministers to the city and, according to Thunberg, was aimed at drawing their attention to the problem of deforestation.

“We are losing the last remaining natural forests, which are invaluable for carbon sinks, biodiversity and human rights,” Thunberg said. She added that the Swedish model of forestry is disastrous both for the climate, the environment and for the country's indigenous peoples.

And in June, Greta Thunberg, as part of an international delegation, visited Kiev and met with Vladimir Zelensky . There she accused Russia of “ecocide,” blaming the Russian military for the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric station. According to Thunberg, this is “another atrocity for which the world is struggling to find words.”

EXTREMELY ACTIVE LIFESTYLE
Shortly after Kiev, Thunberg went to Strasbourg, where at a meeting of the European Parliament she made a spectacular gesture to opponents of the bill on the restoration of natural resources. Numerous members of the press happily photographed her extended middle fingers.

The document was adopted by a small margin of parliamentary votes, and offended politicians demanded a public apology from Thunberg for insulting people who did not agree with the bill. At one time, Thunberg had to apologize for her call to “put up against the wall” world leaders, but this time she did not ask for forgiveness.

All these facts paint a portrait of an influential personality who has risen into the ranks of people close to the Western liberal establishment. Against this background, it is difficult to maintain the image of a “persecuted activist,” but here petty officials come to Thunberg’s aid, regularly imposing minor fines on her.

Greta Thunberg detained by police during a protest in London
Thus, in early October, it became known that Thunberg again received a fine - for organizing an unauthorized picket in the oil port of the Swedish city of Malmo together with other members of the Reclaim the Future organization. Then she and her henchmen blocked the access road to the port, blocking traffic there.

This is a relapse: she had already carried out exactly the same action there before - in June. A month later, she was sentenced for this to a fine of 2.5 thousand crowns (more than 22 thousand rubles). Immediately after the verdict was announced in the Malmö district court, she again went to the oil port and began to carry out a repeat action, and, like the last time, she categorically refused to comply with the police demand to leave the roadway.

Once again in court, Greta stated that she had not heard the demands of the law enforcement officers. However, she denies that she did anything wrong.

“My actions must be freed from punishment because the planet needs them. The ones we blocked are the ones who caused the climate crisis. My actions were justified ,” the activist said.

Such blatant disrespect for laws, rules and law enforcement agencies could have resulted in a real prison sentence for her, but, of course, no one dared to sentence a celebrity favored by the powers that be to it. As a result, prosecutor Jorgen Larsson demanded only payment of a fine. Thunberg's pocket was lightened by another 5,500 crowns (almost 49 thousand rubles).

Next, Greta began to fight against windmills, or rather, wind power plants. What caused anger already in Norway. The local Progressive Party (FRP) demanded that the environmental activist be deported from this country and banned from visiting it again.

The reason was a protest rally organized by Greta in Oslo against wind power plants, which, according to Thunberg, are destroying the natural habitat of the Sami, the indigenous inhabitants of the north-eastern regions of Norway.

“We don’t need these professional protesters from abroad to be allowed to operate in Norway, especially if they have already committed illegal acts,” FRP spokesman Erlend Viborg said.

Thunberg's staff are protesting against this decision. “Deporting civil disobedience participants would be cruel and illegal,” Thunberg’s lawyers Olaf Halvorsen Rönning and Maria Hessen Jacobsen said in a statement .

WHO IS BEHIND GRETA?
Greta Thunberg is a popular public figure who is used by world-class business structures for their own purposes. It is no secret that at one time Greta was supervised by the Swedish PR man and businessman Ingmar Rentzhog (using her name, he raised a million dollars for his environmental startup We Don't Have Time) and the owner of the Stockholm PR firm Iles PR, Helena Iles (an old friend of the girl's mother).

Thunberg has powerful patrons behind her - support for her actions was shown by representatives of George Soros's Open Society Foundation (recognized as an undesirable organization in Russia), the Global Marshall Plan organization founded by influential American politician Al Gore , the Bill and Melinda Gates ONE Foundation, and even the famous Rimsky club _ In photos and videos , many of the most influential politicians in the Western world can be seen next to Greta.

In the Western world, the sect of “climate fighters” represented by Thunberg is as influential as other equally radical sects: BLM, LGBT+, feminists. The result of her vigorous activity was peculiar.

After a wave of “school strikes for climate” organized by Greta in 2018, Swedish railway companies recorded an 8% increase in demand for their tickets - after all, Greta denies air transport as ungreen. In the May 2019 elections to the European Parliament, the “green” parties gained 21% - their best result in the entire history of the European Parliament (except, by the way, in Sweden itself, where the “ecologists” lost two mandates).

Having taken such power, the “greens” began to implement their “agenda” so intensively that already in 2021 (that is, even before the loss of direct gas supplies from Russia) they brought the European Union to the brink of an energy crisis . In addition, the EP decided to introduce an environmental tax on air tickets, which will reduce their affordability for poor Europeans.

At one time, OPEC stated that they considered Greta Thunberg as a serious threat to the global oil industry. And according to the calculations of the French futurist and political activist Alexandre Laurent , for his country, the implementation of Thunberg’s demands will mean a fourfold reduction in energy consumption, which will put France on par with Nigeria and Egypt. According to Lauren, if France, as Greta demands, abandons nuclear, coal and gas power plants in favor of solar and wind ones, then the country will suffer the sad fate of neighboring Germany.

At one time, the Germans spent incredible amounts of money on a program to phase out nuclear energy, and as a result they produce several times more greenhouse gases than the French. After all, wind turbines and solar panels cannot provide regular and constant generation - and traditional coal power plants have to be turned on. And German voters are reacting to this - in the recent elections to the Bavarian Landtag, the Greens there worsened their results.

By diligently contributing to the destruction of the energy sector of the European Union, Greta, consciously or unconsciously, works for the interests of a third state, which has a vested interest in weakening its competitors from the EU. A state that has already taken over the European gas market. Everyone knows its name - it is located on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Britain

UK Government Moves to Begin Jailing ‘Climate Deniers'

2023-09-16

[h/t Gates of Vienna] British lawmakers are advancing a disturbing piece of legislation that seeks to begin jailing so-called "climate deniers" who fail to comply with the green agenda.

Isn’t the current government there Tory, not Labour?

The UK Government introduced legislation related to enforcing globalist "Net Zero" measures.

However, the bill has set off major alarm bells amongst freedom-loving citizens across the country.

Many are questioning some of the draconian "Net Zero" measures contained in the flagship Energy Bill.

Last week, the legislation cleared the Commons at the third reading.

Buried in the Energy Bill are new laws that see property owners facing criminal charges for opposing the "Net Zero" goals.

Under this new legislation, those who fail to comply with the green agenda will be punished for their role in contributing to the alleged "climate crisis."

Citizens who fail to adhere to energy consumption regulations could face imprisonment for up to a year and fines of up to £15,000 ($18,700).

Prosecutions may also occur for providing false information about energy efficiency.

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