One Woman’s Fight to Rebuild Syria | Compact

"Traveling in Europe in the 2010s, the Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni was baffled by the questions she would receive. How do you feel, people would ask earnestly, visiting places of such wealth and ease, when your own country has been shattered by war? “I’m always perplexed by this question,” al-Sabouni once wrote, “because I see neither prosperity nor grandeur in Europe.” On the contrary, the cities of the West struck her more as a hideous warning of what a rebuilt Syria might look like.

In Building for Hope, al-Sabouni coined a term for the urban model that disturbed her when she visited cities abroad: the Factory. The Factory is not just literal factories, though they play a part, but the system which has replaced cities of face-to-face trading and shared customs. In the 21st-century metropolis, which serves an insatiable international market, people have no need to talk to each other, or trade among familiar faces; they just need somewhere to sleep, close enough to where they work. The rich get richer and less numerous, “eliminating each other in the game of competition,” while the proletariat gets bigger and bigger, as the Factory expands its pool of workers. “What I see in Europe is growing numbers of people rejected by their cities, deprived of their rights—living on the crumbs of the Factory.” 

When al-Sabouni visited Western cities, she saw ancient town centers turned into Disneylands, and the surrounding areas blighted by homelessness and the brutal real-estate market. When she did events in bookshops, Al-Sabouni tells me, “I would listen to owners and workers in those shops, and often they were on the verge of closing, on the verge of bankruptcy.” And she grew increasingly baffled by the condescension of the locals.

When people from the West say to me, “We must help, because we have too much and you have too little,” I’m perplexed, because the truth is that none of us truly has anything; everything belongs to the Factory … All the prosperity that was generated from colonization or was generated in its wake, and that built the European centers in their heydays, is being sold today to global businessmen who have become the actual owners of the cities … Students cannot live near colleges, employees cannot live near workplaces, traders cannot afford to open shops in the city, farmers cannot afford to farm their lands.

It is an unashamedly moral critique; indeed, an implicitly religious one."

Dan Hitchens

https://www.compactmag.com/article/one-womans-fight-to-rebuild-syria/

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The Climate and Nature Bill has been adjourned until July, but in reality, it is dead.

Private Members' Bills rely on limited parliamentary time. With the session likely ending in the autumn, the Bill will not have time to go through all the necessary stages.

Unless the government prioritises it, which they clearly will not, it will never get another chance.

The adjournment is a victory. We pressured the government into blocking it without a vote. It is over.

Chris Littlewood

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS

"President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is already having a big impact at the $47.4 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), with the new administration imposing a wide range of restrictions, including the abrupt cancellation of meetings such as grant review panels. Officials have also ordered a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel.
The moves have generated extensive confusion and uncertainty at the nation’s largest research agency, which has become a target for Trump’s political allies. “The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.
Today, for example, officials halted midstream a training workshop for junior scientists, called off a workshop on adolescent learning minutes before it was to begin, and canceled meetings of two advisory councils. Panels that were scheduled to review grant proposals also received eleventh-hour word that they wouldn’t be meeting."

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring

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The Big Freeze at HHS, CDC, and NIH ⋆ Brownstone Institute

"The Department of Health and Human Services announced on January 17, three days before the inauguration, a jaw-dropping $590 million grant to Moderna, a driving force behind global vaccination with mRNA shots during Covid. The announcement of this grant changed the fortunes of the company’s stock price, which had been in a two-year slide.

The timing alone cries out for explanation. Was this to dump largess on the deep-state partner before Trump could stop it? Or was it tacitly approved by the incoming administration in order to keep Trump’s fingerprints from it? We’ll know based on whether this goes ahead. It will certainly be a test of the agency’s future under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., provided he is confirmed by the Senate. 

For now, it has all the earmarks of an old regime grabbing whatever it can on the way out. 
Over at the CDC, which exists as part of a suite of agencies under the control of HHS, we have one last communication dating also from January 17. It was to announce the “first-ever National One Health Framework to Address Zoonotic Diseases and Advance Public Health Preparedness in the United States.” 

David Bell at Brownstone has been writing about this for longer than a year. As he describes it: 

“Those pushing it envision a world in which any lifeform is considered intrinsically equal worth to others. If you must choose between your daughter and a rat, the choice should weigh the probability of survival of each, or may do the least harm to other lifeforms after being saved. Within this ‘equitable’ worldview, humans become a pollutant. Ever-growing human populations have driven other species to extinction through environmental change, from the megafauna of ancient Australasia to the plummeting insect populations of modern Europe. Humans become a plague upon the earth, and their restriction, impoverishment, and death may therefore be justified for a greater good.”

The connection here to Fauci et al, and their view concerning spillover diseases from animals to humans – a major reason why they were so insistent on the zoonotic origins of Covid – is rather obvious."

Jeffrey Tucker

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-big-freeze-at-hhs-cdc-and-nih/

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The man on this album cover is not "A Complete Unknown": it's John D. Rockefeller, the man who destroyed natural non-allopathic healing modalities – naturopathy, homeopathy, eclectic medicine (botanical and herbal medicine), holistic medicine, etc., and he is holding one of his highly toxic chemical "vaccine" frauds!

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EI's Ali Abunimah arrested in Switzerland | The Electronic Intifada

"The Electronic Intifada’s executive director Ali Abunimah was arrested by Swiss police ahead of a speaking event in Zurich on Saturday afternoon.

He is currently being detained and has had access to legal counsel.

The arrest came one day after Abunimah arrived in Zurich for a speaking tour."

https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333

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Bill Gates is trying to torpedo RFK Jr! Will he succeed?

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I did question climate "science" at dinner last night so fair enough, I deserve it, I'm going to pay up so I can get my glass of raw milk, just don't tell my fridge as raw milk is officially cancelled for being far too healthy!

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I'm sure it's all good and there's nothing to worry about, just ignore the conspiracy theorists...

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Do you consent?

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Has the World War fought by Artificial Intelligences began yet?

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT?

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So DeepSeek is exposing that US AI investors are being ripped off big time by the looks of it?

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"COVID19 'VACCINE' MANDATES WERE 100% A POLITICAL DECISION"

- UK CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER CHRIS WHITTY

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A short geoeconomic history of the 21st Century in one meme.

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Scientists call for more research into Covid vaccine side effects after unexplained spike in heart conditions | Daily Mail Online

"Canadian experts are calling for more research into heart damage linked to Covid vaccines.
They fear the scale of the issue remains 'under-documented' because they say studies have been too narrow and haven't looked at the risk of these injuries months and years after receiving the shot. 
In rare cases, mRNA shots have been shown to cause myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the sac-like lining surrounding the heart. 
The side effect is rare but exactly how rare is still being debated."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14329779/covid-vaccine-research-heart-effects-new-study.html

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Time to get off at this stop.

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