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Journalist Gonzalo Lira Reportedly Deceased, Body in Ukrainian Custody

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Chilean-American novelist and journalist Gonzalo Lira has reportedly passed away in Ukrainian custody, as reported by his father. The sad news was brought to the attention of many via a tweet from American journalist Tucker Carlson.

“Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments,” wrote Tucker Carlson on X. “Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture.”

Lira was apprehended by Ukrainian authorities in May on the grounds that he “publicly justified” the Russian invasion, as stated in a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) press release.

As reported at the time by ZeroHedge contributor Space Worm, the statement from Kiev stated that Lira “has the citizenship of one of the countries of Latin America” but omitted the fact that he was born in California and is also a U.S. citizen.

Following his release, Lira said he was tortured in a Ukrainian prison, explaining that “two thugs held my head and used a toothpick to scratch the whites of my left eye, while asking me if I could still read if I had just one.” Lira informed followers that he was making a mad-dash via motorcycle towards the Hungarian border.

As reported by journalist Alex Rubernstein, the Ukrainian penitentiary where Lira was detained disregarded his claim that he suffered from double pneumonia affecting both lungs.

“I have had double pneumonia (both lungs) as well as pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema (swelling of the body). All this started in mid-October, but was ignored by the prison. They only admitted I had pneumonia at a Dec. 22 hearing,” reads the letter. “I am about to have a procedure to reduce the edema pressure in my lungs, which is causing me extreme shortness of breath, to the point of passing out after minimal activity, or even just talking for 2 minutes.”

In response to Lira’s reported death, his father allegedly wrote:

 “I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son. The responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden.”

2024: The Year of Genetically Modified Synthetic Milk

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It’s not milk, but they claim that it is “identical to what cows make.” The claim of “substantially equivalent” is made for other GMO products as well, but it is all marketing propaganda designed to deceive the FDA and consumers.

Bored Cow’s fake milk contains “ProFerm,” a “microflora” that imitates whey protein. This product was developed by their partner Perfect Day, “a consumer biology company with the goal of creating new ways to produce the foods you love today, beginning in the dairy aisle.”

Using mass spectrometry, the Health Research Institute (HRI), a nonprofit independent laboratory headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa, analyzed multiple samples of Bored Cow’s “original” flavor milk to verify the claim that the synthetic protein it contained was identical to natural milk protein. These outcomes were compared to samples of natural milk from grass-fed cows by HRI.

A fungicide and 92 unidentified molecules were among the materials detected in “synthetic” milk protein utilized by over a dozen food brands distributed by major supermarket chains, according to their testing.

The ingredients listed for Bored Cow’s “original” flavor are:

“Water, animal-free whey protein (from fermentation), sunflower oil, sugar, less than 1% of vitamin A, vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin), vitamin D2, riboflavin, citrus fiber, salt, dipotassium phosphate, acacia, gellan gum, mixed tocopherols (antioxidant), calcium potassium phosphate citrate, natural flavor.”

This mélange is questionably made, starting with the sunflower oil, a typically genetically modified seed oil known for its inflammatory properties. It is not specified on the label whether the whey protein was generated via yeast genetic engineering. Additionally, sugar is the primary input for fermentation, and they are utilizing high fructose corn syrup, a GMO product as well. Everything about this “milk” is awful and artificial.

In addition to a multitude of unidentified compounds, synthetic milk was deficient in several essential micronutrients that are present in natural milk, including vitamin E, omega-3 fatty acids, and certain B vitamins. Furthermore, the synbio product lacked or contained only minute quantities of carnitine forms that are “equivalent to essential components for energy metabolism.”

“There were 69 important nutrients present in natural milk, most of which were completely absent in synbio milk. A few were present in small or trace amounts,” according to HRI’s Chief Scientist and CEO John Fagan, Ph.D. Fagan — a molecular biologist and former cancer researcher at the National Institutes of Health — has been a worldwide pioneer in testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Furthermore, only eight of the compounds could be identified. The remaining ones were labeled as “uncharacterized.”

“The 92 unknown molecules we found have never been studied by scientists. So we don’t know whether they’re safe or dangerous, whether they are nutrients or toxins,” Fagan added.

Fagan expressed concern regarding the presence of Benthiavalicarb-isopropyl, an agricultural fungicide, in the Bored Cow samples.

“I think the reason this fungicide is present is because they added it to the fermentation process to inhibit the growth of fungi that could contaminate the production system,” he said, “So the things that we see here are not really good for us, let me put it that way.”

HCI’s official report has not been published yet.

But suffice to say, these results contradict Perfect Day’s claim that its product — used by Bored Cow — is “identical to what cows make.”

Read more HERE.

17 Anonymous Biden Staffers Claim Volunteers Quitting “In Droves” Over Israel Support

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A significant number of personnel affiliated with Joe Biden’s presidential campaign appear to be defecting due to the discontent expressed by leftists towards Biden’s endorsement of Israel’s endeavors to eradicate and eliminate the terrorist organization Hamas.

Staffers allegedly authored an open letter to Biden in which they reprimanded him for refusing to pursue a “cease fire” between Israel and Hamas. Seventeen of these staffers allegedly penned the letter critical of Biden’s alleged “in droves” departures from the Biden campaign.

The authors of a letter published on the website Medium and signed by “17 Biden for President Staffers” (who remain anonymous) criticize Biden for his support of the Jewish state. The letter reads, “Biden for President staff have witnessed volunteers abandon their positions en masse, and people who have consistently voted blue for decades are now uncertain about doing so once more, due to this conflict.”

“We write to you as the current staff of your re-election campaign. As we work to mobilize voters to cast their ballots for you in 2024, we must take a moment to acknowledge our tremendous grief, and the grief shared by countless other Americans, toward the violence occurring in Gaza,” the letter states.

“We joined this campaign because the values that you — and we — share are ones worth fighting for… Justice, empathy, and our belief in the dignity of human life is the backbone of not only the Democratic Party, but of the country. However, your administration’s response to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing in Gaza has been fundamentally antithetical to those values — and we believe it could cost you the 2024 election.”

“As your staff, we believe it is both a moral and electoral imperative for you to publicly call for a cessation of violence,” the letter claims. “Complicity in the death of over 20,000 Palestinians, 8,200 of whom are children, simply cannot be justified.”

The letter then makes five additional demands, including that Biden cease all military assistance to Israel and caution against escalating the situation in Gaza.

The purported 17 staffers’ letter is not the first in which Biden’s Middle East policies have been publicly criticized by alleged insiders.

Needless to say, this turmoil and unrest inside Biden’s own regime is a very bad sign for the president’s re-election campaign.

The Great German Revolt: Farmers Bring Government to Standstill
On Monday, farmers across Germany staged tractor protests in the manner of the Dutch to protest the globalist policies of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government.

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In opposition to the leftist coalition government’s proposed hikes on diesel fuel taxes, elimination of the car tax exemption for farmers, and significant reductions in subsidies for the farming sector, farmers organizations initiated their week-long action.

The tax hikes and financing reductions were being considered by the government in an effort to close a $18.6 billion (17 billion euros) budget gap in 2024. While the government was inclined to explore additional funding sources from German farmers, it remained steadfast in its refusal to reduce assistance to Ukraine, which is projected to increase by twofold to eight billion euros this year.

The government announced prior to the week of scheduled farmer protests that it was willing to reverse a portion of the agricultural subsidy cuts and restructure the tax increases over the following three years. The German Farmers’ Association (DBV), on the other hand, stated that such measures would be inadequate to avert the impending economic catastrophe that besets a great number of farmers nationwide.

As a result of the nationwide demonstration that began on Monday, entrances to tunnels, bridges, and motorways were blocked by tractors in several German states. As reported by NTV, access sites to entire cities in the state of Brandenburg, including the urban areas of Brandenburg a der Havel and Cottbus, have been cordoned off by the farmers.

A minimum of 566 tractors, in addition to automobiles, trucks, and vans, reportedly descended upon the city center of Berlin, blocking the Street of June 17th between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column, where a candlelight vigil is scheduled for the evening.

A Volkswagen plant in Emden also ceased production on Monday due to tractors obstructing access roadways surrounding the facility, impeding employees’ ability to commute to their duties.

Joachim Rukwied, president of the German Farmer’s Association, stated that the government was “depriving agriculture of its future viability”. Rukwied stated that the proposed subsidy cuts and tax increases, in addition to rising energy costs caused by years of green agenda policies and the conflict in Ukraine, would cause the average German farmer to lose at least one-third of their income.

The head of the Farmer’s Association then refuted the government’s assertions that it was cash-strapped, arguing that the bloated Berlin government has a problem with spending rather than income and that the government should seek to reduce expenditures in other areas.

The farmer protests in Germany are reminiscent of those in the Netherlands, where their counterparts staged a comparable uprising against the Great Reset-style agenda of departing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, which sought to comply with the European Union’s green agenda by closing thousands of farms.

Political triumph resulted from the extensive demonstrations in the Netherlands; the BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement), the party affiliated with the protests, emerged as the preeminent regional party and the most influential force in the Senate subsequent to the regional elections held last spring. At this time, the party is engaged in discussions with the populist leader and anticipated prime minister Geert Wilders, who is anticipated to form a coalition government.

Office of Epstein Fixer Was Broken Into Just Hours Before Document Dump
Michael Sitrick, a renowned Hollywood crisis manager, states that the theft of computer servers from his Brentwood offices on New Year's Day a "coincidence."

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Esteemed global crisis public relations firm Sitrick & Company, whose clientele included Jeffrey Epstein and a litany of celebrities, was burglarized by thieves who stole company computers over the New Year’s holiday. The theft occurred mere hours before the release of a cache of long-sealed court documents pertaining to the admitted pedophile.

Michael Sitrick and the other occupants of the four-story building bearing his company’s name Sitrick & Co. discovered that their penthouse offices at 11999 San Vicente Boulevard were also broken into by the yet unidentified thieves.

Sitrick told Los Angeles magazine over the phone Thursday that “It didn’t cross my mind,”  when asked if he was concerned about the timing of the burglary, which occurred just hours before a judge ordered the release of roughly 900 pages of documents from the 2015 federal civil case Giuffre v. Maxwell. 

The documents provide fresh perspectives, and serve as a new delivery mechanism for the uninitiated, on the accusations levied against Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. They consist of unpublished deposition transcripts, search warrant records from the Palm Beach Police, and the identities of potential witnesses to their illicit activities. The new information was disclosed as part of a defamation lawsuit filed by the attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who was a minor at the time she claimed to have been trafficked by Maxwell to prominent men, including Prince Andrew.

“It has to be a coincidence,” Strick believes, and claimed that there were no Epstein records in his office. He further stated that he does not believe the criminals specifically targeted his company.

“There were several offices in the building, in addition to ours, which were broken into and robbed. All of our computers are all password and dual factor protected and encrypted. It’s state of the art,” he said. “No one is getting into them.”

According to court records, Miami attorney Roy Black retained Sitrick to represent Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. This was three years prior to the financier’s guilty plea to a charge of procuring sex from a 14-year-old minor, which was reached in a secret plea agreement mediated by prosecutors. Despite this agreement, dozens of young women had testified that they were assaulted by the billionaire at his West Palm Beach residence.

Sitrick, however, disclosed that he commenced collaboration with the convicted pedophile in 2011 subsequent to the publication of an article by the New York Post that featured Epstein and Prince Andrew and commenced as follows: “Meet Manhattan’s raunchy new odd couple — the prince and the pervert.” A photograph of the disgraced billionaire and Prince Andrew strolling through Central Park accompanied the exposé detailing their relationship. Epstein had just confessed to abusing a minor criminally when the exposé ran.

The extent of Sitrick’s involvement in crisis management during the police investigation remains uncertain, and the public relations expert asserts that they never shared a room together prior to the investigation. A contract between Sitrick and Jeffrey Epstein, which is disclosed in court documents, indicates that the disgraced financier began paying the crisis expert a monthly retainer of $30,000.

Epstein, who allegedly committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy, was not the only controversial client of Sitrick, according to authorities.

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the biotechnology billionaire and owner of the Los Angeles Times, is also represented by Sitrick, whom he retained during his involvement in two scandals in 2017. He has also represented celebrities like Halle Berry, Paris Hilton and Christian Slater.

Los Angeles described his firm as follows:

The combination of elegance and pugnaciousness has attracted a vast assortment of clients, ranging from the embattled (the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles) to the weird (the Kabbalah Center)…to the arrogant (the Getty Center) to the overexposed (rock and roller Tommy Lee) to the shady (Carl Freer, the gun-wielding Swedish national whose business partner, Bo Stefan Eriksson, was jailed in April after totaling a $1 million Ferrari Enzo in Malibu).

Sitrick is perplexed as to who might have broken into his penthouse office, given that neither an employee key card nor any indication of forcible entry were present.

“It’s very strange,” he said. “How did they get into the building?”