JUSTICE FOR ALL

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That day was an American calamity. 

Lawmakers huddled for safety. Vice President Mike Pence eluded a mob shouting that he should be hanged. Several people died during and after the riot, including one protester by gunshot and four police officers by suicide, and more than 140 officers were injured in a protracted melee that nearly upended what should have been the routine certification of the electoral victory of Mr. Trump’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr...


But with his return to office, Mr. Trump now has the platform to further rinse and spin the Capitol attack into what he has called “a day of love”.

He has vowed to pardon rioters in the first hour of his new administration, while his congressional supporters are pushing for criminal charges against those who investigated his actions on that chaotic day.

When asked about the reframing of the Capitol riot, and whether Mr. Trump accepts any responsibility for what unfolded on Jan. 6, his spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, instead referred in a statement to the “political losers” who tried to derail his career and asserted that “the mainstream media still refuses to report the truth about what happened that day”. 

Perhaps the moment when Mr. Trump and his allies fully embraced their alternate version of history came on March 3, 2023, when a new song appeared on major streaming platforms.

The song, “Justice for All” featured Mr. Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance while the men of the Patriot Wing, now billing themselves as the J6 Prison Choir, sang the national anthem. 

Mr. Trump recorded his contribution at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, while the choir was recorded with a phone in the Washington jail. The song — a fund-raising effort that the Trump loyalist Kash Patel, now the president-elect’s nominee to head the F.B.I., helped produce — concludes with a defiant echo of the “U.S.A.!” chants that resounded during the Jan. 6 attack.

In August 2023, Mr. Trump was indicted twice on charges of interfering with the 2020 election results: at the state level, for illegally seeking to overturn the results of the election in Georgia, which he had narrowly lost; and at the federal level, for conspiring to impede the Jan. 6 certification of Mr. Biden’s election.

A subsequent court filing by Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the federal investigation, cited Mr. Trump’s steadfast endorsement of the rioters and of the prison choir. The former president, “has financially supported and celebrated these offenders by promoting and playing their recording of the national anthem at political rallies and calling them ‘hostages’”.

Still, Mr. Trump continued to play “Justice for All” at rallies and at Mar-a-Lago, spread his rigged-election lie, drop intimations of false-flag conspiracies, refer to those who stormed the Capitol as patriots — and, now, transformed the indictments into further fuel for his persecution narrative.

In so many ways, Jan. 6 had become part of his brand — a brand in which an attack on the symbol of American democracy became a defense of that same democracy: a blow against political thugs and closet communists, deep-state plots and an unjust justice system.

With the help of Republican loyalists, the Senate acquitted him of incitement at his impeachment trial. The Supreme Court he had helped mold rejected an attempt to keep him off the ballot under a constitutional ban against insurrectionists from holding office. And his legal maneuvering — to delay, delay, delay — succeeded: In the days after the election, Mr. Smith, the special counsel, dropped his election-subversion case, adhering to a Justice Department policy not to prosecute a sitting president.

An emboldened Mr. Trump has already indicated that his presidential agenda will include payback for those who declared him responsible for the Capitol attack. At the same time, Mr. Trump’s repeated vows to pardon those implicated in the Capitol riot, an act of erasure that would validate their claims of political persecution, have electrified the Jan. 6 community of families, defendants and felons. On election night, those keeping vigil outside the Washington jail celebrated with champagne.

‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6

Dan Barry Alan Feuer New York Times








An explosive new study involving almost 9 million participants has exposed a devastating surge in deadly neurological and psychiatric damage among those who received Covid mRNA “vaccines”.

According to the peer-reviewed study, just one dose of an mRNA injection puts recipients at risk of suffering several severe neurological diseases.

The study, led by renowned neuroscientist Dr. Andrea Salmaggi, was conducted by a group of leading Italian researchers associated with the University of Milan and San Paolo Hospital. The results of the study were published in the eminent medical journal Springer Nature.

The massive study included 8,821,812 Italians, making the research one of the largest investigations so far. The researchers found alarming surges in several conditions, including ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attack, myelitis, myasthenia gravis, Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders.

According to another study by Rong et al, the most probable mechanism behind this damage is the toxic spike protein accumulation caused by the “vaccines”.

Study of 9 Million Exposes DEVASTATING Neurological Damage Surge Among Covid-Vaccinated

LIONESS OF JUDAH MINISTRY Substack




Patients whose health has been ravaged after taking Covid-19 vaccines are calling for more support as the Government faces paying out tens of millions of pounds in damages.

Almost 17,000 claims for disability damages have now been submitted after new information emerged about the potential risks including blood clots.

More people are coming forward to report that have suffered a severe impact, with some linking their vaccines to major problems such as blood cancer, myasthenia gravis and heart disorders.

Kam Miller, 58, from Leicester, described how her 'fit and healthy' husband Neil Miller, 50, collapsed and died not long after receiving his first jab in March 2021.

His causes of death were initially officially recorded as ischaemic heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis - but, after an inquest, this was corrected to Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis (VITT). 

Vaccines are monitored by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which states that having the jab is the most effective way to reduce deaths and severe illness from Covid.

Data acquired under the Freedom of Information Act at the end of November showed 188 people in Britain had received payouts for severe side effects from the vaccine, potentially adding up to £22.56million if all receiving the full £120,000 payouts.

The awards were granted after applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) which is operated by the NHS Business Services Authority. 

Almost all of these payments were related to the AstraZeneca vaccine Vaxrevia which triggered a blood clotting complication so rare it was missed in original clinical trials.

That vaccine was once heralded as a 'triumph for British science' but came under increasing scrutiny for a very rare complication that causes blood clots and low blood platelet counts.

The jab, developed with Oxford University, can no longer be used in the European Union after AstraZeneca voluntarily withdrew its 'marketing authorisation' in May this year.

AstraZeneca's withdrawal comes months after admitting in legal documents its jab can cause thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), also known as VITT. 

This is a medical condition where a person suffers blood clots along with a low platelet count.

We have lost loved ones, been left disabled and even diagnosed with cancer after taking the Covid vaccine - but no one will take our heartbreaking experiences seriously

AIDAN RADNEDGE Mail Online




The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has responded to a peer-reviewed study conducted within its own laboratory, which uncovered excessively high levels of DNA contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

The study revealed that residual DNA levels exceeded regulatory limits by 6 to 470 times, validating earlier studies from independent researchers that the FDA had previously disregarded.

Published by students in the Journal of High School Science, the study has garnered significant attention since the story broke, with its altimetric score rivalling those of major studies in leading medical journals.

The regulator states the study "does not belong to the FDA," despite it being conducted at FDA labs, with FDA resources, by students under the supervision of FDA staff.

The agency also refused to address the involvement of three of its own scientists—Dr Shuliang Liu, Dr Tony Wang, and Dr Prabhuanand Selvaraj—who supervised the students conducting the study.

When questioned about potential regulatory actions, such as issuing a public alert, recalling affected vaccine batches, or notifying other agencies, the FDA stood firm in its defence of mRNA vaccine safety.

Genomics expert Kevin McKernan, who first identified excessive DNA contamination in Pfizer vials in early 2023, called the agency’s stance evasive and deeply concerning.

As calls for accountability grow louder, the FDA faces mounting pressure to engage with the scientific evidence—particularly that which originates from its own laboratory.



In 2022, US media reported that von der Leyen had communicated with Albert Bourla, chief executive of the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, about clinching a long-term contract to purchase 1.8 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines worth €35 billion ($37.6 billion), even before they passed clinical trials.

Negotiations on the deal were conducted informally in late 2020 via SMS messages and without prior consent of EU member states.

The European Commission President also texted her husband, Heiko von der Leyen, who serves as the medical director at Orgenesis, a company that collaborates with Pfizer. 

All the messages were then accidentally deleted, Ursula von der Leyen claimed.

As a result, she has been accused of “usurpation of functions and title”, destruction of public documents, and high-level corruption charges that were initiated by Belgian lobbyist Frederic Baldan.

The first hearing on his complaint was held on 17 May 2024, when the Liege court confirmed that the so-called Pfizegate case is in line with its jurisdiction and should not be handed to the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), created on the initiative of von der Leyen herself, due to an obvious conflict of interests.

The second hearing slated for December 5 was actually disrupted due to a demarche by the EPPO, which sent a counter-request to the court for von der Leyen's immunity. The EPPO argues that von der Leyen has immunity from prosecution for corruption.

European Commission spokesperson Stefan de Keersmaecker said on January 5 that von der Leyen had canceled all "external engagements" in the coming days after contracting "severe pneumonia."

Pfizergate: What is EC Chief Von Der Leyen Accused of?

Oleg Burunov Sputnik


Meta ha annunciato che John Elkann, Dana White e Charlie Songhurst sono stati cooptati nel consiglio di amministrazione dell’azienda. 

«Sono onorato di poter contribuire al futuro di una delle aziende più significative del XXI secolo», ha detto il ceo di Exor. «Sono felice di apportare al consiglio la mia esperienza globale e una prospettiva di lungo termine, in una fase in cui Meta continua a plasmare e estendere i confini dell’innovazione e della tecnologia».

Secondo Mark Zuckerberg, «Dana, John e Charlie porteranno un insieme di esperienze e di prospettive che ci aiuteranno ad affrontare le enormi opportunità che ci attendono con l’intelligenza artificiale, i dispositivi indossabili e il futuro della connessione umana». 

Meta presenta Elkann come ceo di Exor, ovvero «una delle maggiori società di investimento europee controllata dalla famiglia Agnelli», il cui portafoglio «include aziende di cui è l’azionista più rilevante o di riferimento, quali Ferrari, Stellantis, Cnh, Philips, Christian Louboutin, Juventus Football Club, The Economist Group, tra le altre».

Dana White è invece presidente e ceo di Ufc️. Ovvero «la principale organizzazione mondiale di arti marziali miste e una delle proprietà di marchi sportivi più preziose e popolari a livello globale».

Charlie Songhurst è un investitore in aziende tecnologiche. Oggi impegna i suoi denari in 500 start-up a livello globale.

John Elkann nel CdA di Meta. Mark Zuckerberg: «Porterà esperienza nell’Intelligenza Artificiale»

ALBA ROMANO Open




The report into grooming gangs in Telford in the West Midlands told an all-too-familiar story. Groups of men, of largely Pakistani heritage, sexually abused young girls for years while the authorities, fearful of appearing racist, did nothing.

This ought to shame the nation. Over and over again, we have seen the same story unfold. Local councils and police forces, paralysed by the forces of political correctness and identity politics, have failed spectacularly to protect the children and young people in their care.

Rotherham, a large market town in South Yorkshire, is at the heart of the grooming-gangs scandal. Vast numbers of children were being sexually exploited in South Yorkshire each year by organised networks of men ‘largely of Pakistani heritage’. South Yorkshire Police and local child-protection agencies were shown to have knowledge of widespread, organised child sexual abuse. And yet they had failed to act on that knowledge.

Rotherham borough council, South Yorkshire Police and other agencies responded by setting up a child sexual exploitation (CSE) team to investigate the reports. In 2013, an independent inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay was launched. Her subsequent report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, published in 2014, made for horrific reading. It found that at least 1,400 children had been subjected to sexual abuse between 1997 and 2013. Jay detailed how girls as young as 11 had been raped, trafficked, abducted, beaten and intimidated.

Jay was also deeply critical of the institutional failures that had allowed organised child sexual abuse to flourish in Rotherham. 

Rotherham was not an isolated case, of course. By the time of the Jay Report, men had been prosecuted in other potential instances of organised grooming in places like Keighley (2005 and 2013), Blackburn (2007, 2008 and 2009), Rochdale (two cases in 2010) and Oxford (2013).

The cases all bear striking similarities. 

Operation Augusta was set up in 2004 after the death of 15-year-old Victoria Agoglia. She died in 2003, two months after reporting that an older man had sexually assaulted her and injected her with heroin. Augusta subsequently identified at least 57 victims – mainly white girls aged between 12 to 16 – and some 97 potential suspects, mainly of Pakistani origin, across the Greater Manchester region. However, senior officers at Greater Manchester Police deprived the investigation of resources, before shutting it down completely, with the support of Manchester City Council. Only three people were convicted in court.

In June this year, an independent review into historical child sexual exploitation in Oldham found, once again, that vulnerable children had been failed by the very agencies tasked with their protection.

The report contained some particularly harrowing details. Chief among them was the revelation that the ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang, Shabir Ahmed, worked as a welfare-rights officer with Oldham Council in 2005 – despite already having been accused of child sexual abuse. 

The details of the sexual abuse are horrifying. One survivor, Sam, was attacked by a total of eight men during a 24-hour period, and raped on multiple occasions – at the age of just 12. 

Last week’s report into grooming gangs in Telford revealed that ‘obvious evidence’ of child sexual exploitation was ignored for generations – leading to more than 1,000 girls being abused.

The report also references the horrifying case of Lucy Lowe. In 2000, 16-year-old Lowe, her 17-year-old sister and their mum were killed in a fire started by 26-year-old Azhar Ali Mehmood, the father of Lowe’s one-year-old daughter. Lowe was pregnant with Mehmood’s second child when she died. He was jailed for life in October 2001, but has never been prosecuted for any child sexual abuse crimes.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published a report earlier this year into sexual exploitation by organised networks in Tower Hamlets, Bristol, Swansea, Durham, St Helens and Warwickshire. 

A high proportion of the grooming-gang cases investigated by the IICSA involved children with disabilities. It found that more than one in three sexually exploited children had complex disabilities or neurodevelopmental disorders.

Grooming gangs: the making of a national scandal

RAKIB EHSAN Spiked


Per anni ci siamo battuti per far comprendere il valore della canapa come risorsa economica, ambientale e sociale. Abbiamo spiegato, con dati alla mano e il sostegno della scienza, che questa pianta non rappresenta una minaccia, ma un’opportunità concreta per il nostro Paese. 

Oggi, una scelta del governo mette in discussione tutto ciò che è stato costruito: il divieto di produrre e commercializzare fiori di cannabis, inclusa la canapa industriale non psicotropa (Art. 18 Ddl sicurezza) rischia di infliggere un duro colpo a un settore in crescita e a un futuro più sostenibile per l’Italia.

La canapa è molto più di una pianta: è una soluzione per un’economia più verde e circolare. Grazie alla sua capacità di assorbire grandi quantità di CO2, crescere senza pesticidi e rigenerare i terreni, rappresenta un’alternativa sostenibile in molteplici settori. Non è un caso che in pochi anni sia diventata un pilastro per l’innovazione agricola e industriale, con un giro d’affari che ha raggiunto i 500 milioni di euro solo in Italia e che coinvolge oltre 3 mila aziende e più di 15.000 lavoratori.

Oli, tessuti, cosmetici, materiali per la bioedilizia: la canapa ha dimostrato di poter generare prodotti utili e competitivi, contribuendo allo sviluppo di filiere locali e alla creazione di posti di lavoro. 

Tutto questo progresso rischia di essere annullato da un provvedimento che sembra ignorare il potenziale economico e ambientale di questa pianta.

Mentre molti paesi europei stanno avanzando verso politiche più aperte e progressiste sulla cannabis e la canapa, l’Italia sembra tornare indietro. 




Major lawsuit has been filed by leading civil rights attorneys on behalf of the daughters of Malcolm X in an effort to litigate claims of state complicity in the 1963 murder of the Black revolutionary leader.

The suit comes in the wake of a reinvestigation that led to critical exonerations of two of the alleged killers in 2021. The outcome will turn on proving the U.S. government’s role in allowing the assassination to happen — to the extent, new evidence suggests, of actively facilitating it.

In the $100 million suit, known as Malcolm X Shabazz et al. v. USA, the defendants are listed as the United States of America, the City of New York and none other than J. Edgar Hoover, among many more named NYPD, FBI and CIA agents or their estates. These organizations are accused of obscuring and influencing, by various means, the circumstances around Malcolm X’s death.

The lawsuit is a legal gesture of historic proportions. 

When Malcolm X was assassinated by volleys of gunfire 59 years ago, on February 21, 1965, he was standing onstage to speak before a crowd in New York City’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife, Betty Shabazz, and his daughters, including then-2-year-old Ilyasah Shabazz, were both present at that horrific scene.

The current lawsuit is based on new evidence that includes unearthed documents from COINTELPRO (the FBI’s infamous “Counter-Intelligence Program”) and other agency and NYPD sources.

Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, said: “I’m grateful to stand here with my sisters, and with a competent group of legal experts, as we seek justice for the assassination of our father. The truth will be recorded in history”.




LETTURE




It is hard not to like Satan. 

He is Western culture’s original rebel, the bad boy who dared to defy the authority of God. He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about goodness. “Heav’n’s awful monarch” is, in fact, a bit of a tyrant. Satan and his band of rebels will not submit to “forced hallelujahs”.

“Paradise Lost” (1667) retells the story of the fall of man; Milton sought to “justifie the wayes of God to men” by probing themes of sin and innocence, moral obedience and free will. But as Orlando Reade, an academic, writes in a new book, Milton’s poem has found other earthly meanings. From the French revolution to the Arab spring, readers have turned to “Paradise Lost” in times of political struggle.

Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.”

Why do rebels and revolutionaries love “Paradise Lost”?

The Economist



There is a particularly fine and insightful chapter on the use made of Milton by prominent figures in the Haitian revolution, for whom a literary sensibility was “a crucial indicator of the capacity for self-government”: Jean Louis, Baron de Vastey, claimed that it was not the liberated Black Haitians, but rather their former masters, who were “like the infernal spirits” conjured by “the immortal Milton”.

Malcolm X read Milton’s works while imprisoned. Malcolm’s ability to interpret was the foundation of his political activism. "His rejection of western civilisation was an epic act" in which he both read Paradise Lost against the grain and captured something of Milton’s own internally divided energies.

Satan and Beelzebub on the fiery lake “hold their heads above the surface of the water, like two lizards in a Jacuzzi”; God heaps endless suffering on Satan “like a tourist at a bottomless buffet”, and Satan contemplates his minions’ prospects in hell “like a tech chief executive contemplating child labourers in a mineral mine”.

The finest and most difficult balance is between lauding Milton as a rich resource for those in search of inspiration and of freedom, and recognising the abhorrent characteristics of his imagination that have made him amenable to his more repulsive interpreters: these include Milton-worshipping white supremacist participants in the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and in more recent times, the attraction to Milton’s works expressed by the psychologist Jordan Peterson, guru of online “incels” and misogynists. 

They are responding to off-putting tendencies in Milton’s own mind, which veered between assertions of human equality and the insistence that some groups – perhaps the English, or Protestants, or just Milton himself – were superior.

Milton can be viewed both as a symbol for the individual lives crushed by the modern prison industrial complex, and as a symbol for the forces doing the crushing. 

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost by Orlando Reade

Joe Moshenska The Guardian




Cast out of America in 1952 as a political subversive, the Trinidadian historian C.L.R. James was imprisoned for a time at Ellis Island while he challenged his deportation. From his cell, James — the author of “The Black Jacobins” (1938), still the seminal history of the Haitian Revolution — had a view of Manhattan’s glittering skyline. 




This episode inspired him to write “Mariners, Renegades and Castaways”, an unusual book of literary criticism that read the American character through “Moby-Dick.” According to James, there is always an impulse toward American totalitarianism as embodied by someone like the narcissistic and megalomaniacal Captain Ahab, content to use anyone as a means to an end.

In the Luciferian figure of Ahab, Herman Melville had foreseen the “rise of a personality who, in championing American values, would lead America astray”. Melville was an adept reader, and Ahab can be traced directly back to John Milton and his rendering of Satan in “Paradise Lost”.




This year marks the 350th anniversary of both Milton’s death and the printing of the 12-book edition of “Paradise Lost”. 

A 10,000-line blank verse retelling of Satan’s rebellion against God, the subsequent war in heaven and the temptation of the first couple in the Garden of Eden, “Paradise Lost” is a maximalist doorstop, a touchstone wherein Milton promised “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme”. 

“Paradise Lost” is also a radical story, a complicated and at times ambivalent testimony about tyranny and resistance, liberty and revolution.

“The political vision of ‘Paradise Lost went on to influence … revolutionary struggles in America, France, Haiti and elsewhere”.

For those revolutionaries, Satan was sometimes a rebel to be emulated and sometimes a tyrant to be resisted, but Milton’s own republican convictions — built on the principle that “man over men/He made not lord” — were unassailable. An advocate for both free speech and regicide, Milton can seem stunningly contemporary in his politics (despite being a Puritan, of sorts), which has made “Paradise Lost” ever relevant.

Reade is particularly illuminating when he writes about Milton’s influence on the Black radical tradition, explaining how the poet appears in the 1789 slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, in the 1816 writings of the Haitian revolutionary Pompée Valentin Vastey and in the speeches of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X. All of these figures “grasped something true about Milton’s poem”, about its deft understanding of resistance. As Malcolm X wrote in a prison letter to his brother, “When you think back over all of our past lives, only poetry could best fit into the vast emptiness created by man”.

In our own era of right-wing moral panics and culture war posturing, abandonment of human rights and encroaching authoritarianism, Milton and the freedom to read him remain urgent. 

Hard not to think of some contemporary politicians when Milton writes of how “one shall rise/Of proud ambitious heart, who not content/With fair equality … Will arrogate dominion undeserved”.

What Satan’s Biographer Can Teach Us About Tyranny and Resistance

Ed Simon New York Times

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Unitree Robotics (Unitree) has just released a new open-source full-body data set that lets its H1, H1-2, and G-1 humanoid robots move more naturally.

The released data can even enable the robots to dance like humans.

The new range of motions is showcased in an accompanying video released at the same time. The data was captured using LAFAN1 motion capture with the data compatible with all of the company’s main available robot units.

Unitree’s HI and H1-2 robots were explicitly designed for high-power performance. H1, in particular, set a Guinness World Record land speed record in March of 2024 by sprinting at 7.38 mph (3.3m/s) on level ground.

That broke the previous speed record for a humanoid achieved by Boston Dynamics’s Atlas at 5.59 mph (2.5m/s). 

Unitree was founded in 2017 and is based in Shanghai, Hangzhou, China. They have since become a world leader in robotics and aim to integrate them into our daily lives.

To this end, they want to democratize legged robotics and make them as common and affordable as modern devices like drones and smartphones.

Unitree’s robots have been featured in many major global events, such as the Super Bowl pre-game show and the Olympics, and have gained widespread recognition.

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