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Part 4 of the Media Roots Radio Smallpox Bioterror Hoax miniseries starts just 4 months before the launch of the Iraq war. In this episode Robbie lays out a litany of exclusively pulled TV archive clips, official US documents and official statements in late 2002 and early 2003 which make a strong case for the ‘pre-event’ Smallpox vaccination program playing a crucial (but memory-holed) role in the propaganda talking points deployed by the Bush administration for the war. Colin Powell mentions smallpox in his infamous UN speech about Iraq’s alleged ‘mobile biological weapons labs' and the fear became so intense domestically that 40% of Americans polled at the time believed that a smallpox bioterrorism attack was ‘likely’. If you’d like to hear the entire miniseries (Parts 1-6) become a Media Roots Radio subscriber @ https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio for as little as $5 to gain access.

Extra Materials:

Smallpox News Clips Video 1999 - 2006
https://bit.ly/3Ig2inN

the Smallpox Cache
[ documents compiled by Robbie Martin relevant to the smallpox story ]
https://bit.ly/3KRwqYw.   

2002 CDC Smallpox Vaccination Plan
[ the entire series of documents including revisions to the CDC's smallpox bioterror response plan for state governments ]
https://bit.ly/3iel7NF .   

Part 1: the Wheel of Winter's Darkness & Smallpox Bioterror Scares [UNLOCKED]
https://bit.ly/3q8nw0E .   

Part 2: the Smallpox Doomsday Failsafe Scenario, 100s of Tons of Virus 'Missing' [UNLOCKED].  

Part 3: the Smallpox Vaccination Rollout Begins, J. Hauer's Biodefense Ploy, Iraq 'May Have the Virus' [UNLOCKED].   

Part 4: W Fakes Taking the Smallpox Vax & Project Bioshield on the Eve of War [UNLOCKED].  

Part 5: Did NBC Reporter David Bloom Die From the Smallpox Vax? Scooter’s Japanese Spank Bank [Patreon exclusive].  

Part 6: 'Failure’ of the Smallpox Program, USAMRIID’s Monkey Mad Scientist Retracts Amerithrax Silicon Claim [Patreon exclusive]. 

https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio

UNLOCKED: W Bush Fakes Taking the Smallpox Vax & Bioshield on the Eve of War Pt 4

At the beginning of the century, as Russia’s economy stabilised under Vladimir Putin, a once-great power began to engage in military conflicts abroad: Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2014, and now in 2022, the invasion of Ukraine.

This renewed assertiveness and expansionism is the product of more than just one irascible leader, however. Russia’s political players and networks have become deeply influenced by traditionalism, a strain of ultra-conservative thought concocted by Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian spiritual ideologue and favoured philosopher of the global far-right. Calling for the creation of a Eurasian empire and an end to notions of progress and equality, this metaphysical view of geopolitics now unites a number of illiberal regimes, from Budapest to Tehran to Brasilia.

So who is Putin's philosopher? Aaron Bastani is joined by Ben Teitelbaum, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of War For Eternity, to learn about the rise of traditionalism, from the margins of western politics towards something like its centre.

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

#NovaraFM: Putin's Philosopher and the Global Far Right

Living standards are set to fall this year by a greater amount than at any time in the past 70 years. Did Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement rise to the challenge? We speak to Gary Stevenson. Plus: Johnson's response P&O response and Will & Kate get rejected by Caribbean countries. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.

Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

TyskySour: Sunak's Spring Statement

Rishi Sunak was today grilled by MPs on his spring statement.  Michael Walker and Barnaby Raine explain why the chancellor lied when he said his mini-budget was “progressive”. Plus, Biden’s dangerous gaffe; Zahawi crumbles under pressure; Tory gagged alleged rape victim; Kuennsberg to replace Marr.

TyskySour: Sunak Misleads MPs

For A While

New Track Released By The Musician Omar Fadel Hadi

mixing and mastering by Omar Fadel Hadi

Far Beyond The Dream

Date of lecture: Thursday 12 January 2023

About the Lecture:
UK science has chronic diversity issues and shortages of specialist teachers in schools. Orbyts is a multi-award-winning movement founded at UCL, and now running across the UK, that creates partnerships between scientists and schools that are proven to address these issues. The programme provides school students with relatable science role models while empowering them to conduct original research projects. This structure of regular interventions, inspirational role models and active ownership of research is proving to be transformative; dispelling harmful stereotypes and profoundly shifting perceptions of science and scientists. It is particularly impactful for groups historically excluded from science. For example, our partner schools report 100% increases in girls uptake of A-level physics, following participation in an Orbyts project at GCSE. The programme has enabled more than 220 school students to become authors of scientific papers in the last 5 years. 
This year, Orbyts researchers will partner with schools to support research projects on: medical physics, exoplanets, aurorae, AI and machine learning, plasma, space weather and quantum physics.  Dr William Dunn will showcase a whistle-stop tour through some of last year's Orbyts projects, where possible letting recorded presentations by the schools do the talking.  

A﻿bout the Speaker:
Dr. William Dunn, Ernest Rutherford Fellowship at UCL Astrophysics group

Orbyts: Research-with-Schools Projects that Transform Inclusivity in Science

Date of Lecture: Thursday 19 January 2023

About the Lecture:
After the Second World War new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism. 
Yet in the 1960s, a secret decision was taken to offer the US a base at Diego Garcia, one of the islands of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, create a new colony (the ‘British Indian Ocean Territory’) and deport the entire local population. 
For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. In 2019, the World Court in The Hague, which ruled that Britain illegally detached Chagos, that the islands belonged to Mauritius, and that the UK must end its illegal occupation. 
For three years Britain resisted the ruling. A few weeks ago, however, it changed its mind, and began negotiations with Mauritius to return the islands and allow the Chagossians to resettle. 
Philippe Sands shares a story about the making of modern international law and the fight for justice, as told in his new book The Last Colony.

A﻿bout the speaker:
Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard.

Lunch Hour Lecture | The Last Colony

"History will cast a shadow over Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan," the Washington Post’s David Ignatius warned in April of 2021. "Biden's Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy," George Packer cautioned in The Atlantic magazine in August of that year. "The Cost of Betrayal in Afghanistan," wrote The Atlantic Council’s Ariel Cohen in Newsweek shortly thereafter.

When news broke in April of 2021 that the Biden administration planned to withdraw all documented US troops from Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, media outlets almost uniformly rushed to issue condemnations. How could the US, and the West more broadly, simply "abandon the Afghan people," especially women, we’d so bravely liberated? How could the US just up and leave, when it had invested and sacrificed so very much to counter the Taliban over the course of two decades?

This outrage stood, and still stands, in stark contrast to the media’s default state of indifference to the suffering people of Afghanistan, and the US’ extensive role in engineering that suffering. For many decades now, American, British, and other Western media have only really seemed to be concerned with the plight of Afghan people, namely women, when it serves to bolster the case for war, occupation, and the continuation of US regional hegemony. Meanwhile, during Afghanistan’s now second winter of famine after having more than $7 billion dollars stolen from its economy by the United States and its allies, these very same pundits and outlets are uniformly silent on this unfolding human rights disaster, caused, again, in large part, by the United States itself.

On this episode, we examine the media's pattern of selective, chauvinistic outrage when addressing the welfare of Afghan people. We also study how media diminishes the enormous role the US has played in destabilizing the country of Afghanistan and endangering its people, how media portray US military solutions as the only means of support for Afghan people, and how media treat Afghans as little more than pawns in a game of US soft- and hard-power expansion and domestic media-focused moral preening.

Our guests are Hadiya Afzal and Julie Hollar.

Ep. 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine

Adolescent, il débute dans Mera Naam Joker réalisé par son père, Raj Kapoor, qui le sollicite trois ans plus tard avec Bobby dans lequel il compose un couple amoureux et moderne aux côtés de Dimple Kapadia. Après avoir longtemps joué les jeunes premiers, on le retrouve dans des seconds rôles de père à partir des années 2000 dans des films tels que Hum Tum,Fanaa ou Delhi 6. Il a obtenu plusieurs récompenses pour ses interprétations. Rishi Kapoor appartient à l'éminente famille de Bollywood des Kapoor. Il est l'un des fils du réalisateur et acteur Raj Kapoor, le neveu des acteurs Shashi et Shammi Kapoor, le frère de Randhir et Rajiv Kapoor, l'oncle des actrices Kareena et Karisma Kapoor. Rishi Kapoor est marié à l'actrice Neetu Singh dont il a un fils, Ranbir Kapoor, également acteur.

Radioplus Presente 80 chansons inédite..

Rishi Kapoor : 4 Septembre 1952 – 30 Avril 2020

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