Need to Know News (30 August 2022) with Joe Olson

The UN effectively "cancelled" Ukraine by a vote in the General Assembly that overwhelmingly supported Russia, where only 54 out of 193 member states signed a statement directed against Russia. This vote not only reflected support for Russia in this conflict but a defeat for the West, demonstrating that most of the states have seen through the barrage of propaganda and disinformation being broadcast far and wide around the world. They aren't buying it. And Bulgaria wants to reverse course and buy Russian gas, where Europe generally has inflicted tremendous damage upon itself with the sanctions it has imposed upon Russia, which are having virtually no adverse effects upon Russia but harming the West enormously. A new study concludes that even a limited nuclear war (say, using less than 3% of the world's stockpile, would nevertheless have vast effects on food production and lead to the starvation of around 1/3 of the world's population of 8 billion, which is a sobering discovery, indeed. Russia is now deploying more and more sophisticated air defenses in Syria, which may curtail US and Israeli strikes in the region. Biden has struck out at conservatives and Trump supporters as "semi-Fascists", but when she was challenged, his press secretary could not define the term, which is an authoritarian and oppressive government that resorts to violence and political persecution of its opponents to attain its goals--a concept that better applies to the Democrats than it does to the Republicans. As more and more information emerges, the history of the first lockdown is coming into focus and suggests that a group of Wharton School graduates with no knowledge of medicine or appropriate procedures produced guidelines with a two-hour deadline, which would have devastating effects upon the nation and ruin millions of lives. Mary Maxwell, Ph.D., LLB, observes, in relation to the Soto v. Bushmaster trial, both sides appear to have been "in on it", where the insurance companies that paid off the Plaintiffs may be anticipating an enormous payoff for themselves when owners have to have insurance for their guns.