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Not that long ago, news about ISIS was everywhere. But suddenly the controlled media took on a new narrative: "Finally, ISIS is no more, thanks to the American superpower."
Well, no. A new caliph (Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi) replaced the previous one, and the Islamic State is still at war with the West, recruiting, educating, inspiring, and equipping a worldwide following. Their official magazine, Al-Naba, still proceeds weekly from the Central Media Office of the Islamic State.
For your files and study, the web site thereligionofpeace.com maintains an updated list of ISIS attacks, assassinations and terror killings (476 and counting,) along with other Islamic attacks since 2015. During this time period, there have been a total of 2911 Islamic attacks in 53 countries, in which 27722 people were killed and 26192 injured.
Front page of Al-Naba:
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.
The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison, 1795
Somebody typed a prompt, and a virus came out.
Sixteen of them. Genomes written by artificial intelligence, ordered as synthetic DNA, assembled on a bench, and grown into stocks that replicated and threw off offspring. Thirteen carried mutations that match no known natural sequence. The scientific paper ran in the publication Science, and its senior author disclosed funding from the Gates Foundation.
Six years ago, on April 6, 2020, Bill Gates sat with Trevor Noah and said a vaccine was the only thing that would let us return to normal — and announced that his foundation would start building the factories before anyone had seen efficacy data. Scale during testing, he said, rather than waiting for results. A great many people heard optimism. Some of us heard a schedule.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
"There are times when a people tolerate an evil for so long that they cease to recognize its enormity. The evil acquires procedures, professional language, political constituencies, legal protections and respectable explanations. Eventually bloodshed receives a clinical name, partiality becomes public policy, and injustice—once sufficiently regulated—begins to look almost ordinary."
-- Bill Evans
