A UK government adviser is confident any future pandemic lockdown and compulsory mask edicts will be met with compliance because people have learnt a new behaviour and, “in principle, you can switch it back on.” | Professor David Halpern told The Daily Telegraph the country had “practised the drill” of wearing face masks and working from home and “could redo it” in a future crisis because people are now conditioned to do what they are told. ● Enforced loss of personal freedoms was one of the hallmarks of the Conservative government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on the outlet’s Lockdown Files podcast, the government adviser set out his claim of obedience through behavioural interventions, even suggesting the nation’s prior experience made it “much easier to now imagine” the population would accept future local restrictions. ● Prof Halpern said that while fear-based messaging in general is not effective, he defended its use in extreme circumstances, choosing not to reference the mass protests that built across the country after the restrictions began in March, 2020. 💬 “There are times when you do need to cut through… particularly if you think people are wrongly calibrated,” he said.

With Washington poised to ship cluster bombs to Kyiv, Declassified visits Kosovo to review the grim legacy of NATO firing this banned weapon in the Balkans. | These scatter a blizzard of ball-shaped bomblets over target areas, like a minefield falling from the sky. Human Rights Watch said NATO killed between 90 and 150 civilians with this weapon across Serbia and Kosovo. ● Thousands of bomblets failed to detonate on impact, posing a hazard to children who mistook their little yellow parachutes for toys. In the decade after the war, these remnants claimed another 178 casualties in Kosovo. ● While this war might seem like a distant memory for those beyond the Balkans, it offers a cautionary tale to Western states now assisting Ukraine’s fight against Russia.

■ US allies slam plan to send cluster bombs to Ukraine (RT.com)
■ Spain categorically opposes the delivery of the weapons (RT.com)

Expert panelists testified how healthy Amish children are compared to vaccinated American children | The current population of Amish folks in America is quickly approaching 400,000, with the largest concentrations of 90,000 in Pennsylvania and 82,000 in Ohio. Amish have settled in as many as 32 US states, and have an average of 7 kids per family, so the population is growing rapidly. In a brand new, comprehensive study (as of June 2023), presented by Steve Kirsch to the Pennsylvania State Senate, it was calculated that for Amish children, who are strictly 100 percent not vaccinated (fully unvaccinated), typical chronic conditions barely exist, if any at all. ● These chronic conditions, also called preventable diseases and disorders, that nearly many vaccinated children and swaths of Americans suffer from, include auto-immune disease, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, ADHD, arthritis, cancer, and of course… wait for it… autism (think ASD and Asperger's Syndrome). ● Maybe scaring people off vaccines is a good thing, for all those pro-jab-fanatics who think every natural health advocate is a "conspiracy theorist" who spreads disease and disorder by talking about dirty vaccines, vaccine injuries and vaccine-induced deaths. During testimony, expert health advocates shared WHY there's never been any reports published regarding the health of Amish children in general, saying “After decades of studying the Amish, there’s no report because the report would be devastating to the narrative. It would show that the CDC has been harming the public for decades and saying nothing and burying all the data.”

Maria Zakharova/Russian Foreign Ministry | For the second day in a row, Russian telegram channels and foreign media have been spreading a fake story about some alleged talks between Lavrov and former American officials in the United States in April of this year, at the instigation of the Americans. Despite our denial, already John Kirby (i.e. the White House itself), the coordinator of strategic communications for the US National Security Council, confirms to CBS that "a group of former US officials tried to establish an unofficial channel of communication with Moscow."

● Once again: NO "SECRET TALKS" WITH AMERICAN "OFFICIALS" RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HAD NO "SECRET TALKS" IN APRIL. And no unclassified ones either. This is a fake, a lie, a manipulation.
● As we have understood from media reports (and now John Kirby) the US side is trying to pass off as a "meeting" one of the usual discussions with political analysts and public figures that the head of the Russian delegation regularly holds "on the margins" of his international visits and United Nations events. Perhaps it is about the meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on April 24, which is currently chaired by Richard Haas. Neither he nor Charles Kupchan or Thomas Graham mentioned in the American press reports hold government posts in the USA. The discussion is about contemporary international relations and the global agenda. NO "PEACE PLAN FOR UKRAINE" WAS EVER DISCUSSED.
● And now for the most interesting part. It is the American experts and political scientists who usually ask tearfully not to announce or report the facts of the discussion in the public information space. They are justifiably concerned about the highly toxic atmosphere in the U.S. media and the reaction of the U.S. authorities. And yes, they openly fear persecution by the obscurantist American officialdom. But the current blasts about "secret talks with officials" and "discussions about a peace plan" are an attempt by the Biden administration to do wishful thinking in the run-up to the election.
● And again: Reports of secret talks between the head of the Russian delegation in New York at the UN Security Council meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the American side in Ukraine are not true. This is a fake. (DeepL.com)