Last Week Today Episode 152 Show Notes for Monday, May 27th, 2024
Israel’s Annexation of Gaza, Liberals Destroying Canada's Media, The WHO Pandemic Treaty Has Failed (For Now), Klaus Schwab Retires from WEF, Canadian Reproductive Damages from Vaxx's & CNN is Stupid
Israel’s Brutal Annexation of Gaza
Our top story tonight is how Israeli foreign policy in Gaza is imploding.
We begin with the May 24th, 2024 The Telegraph post, “Israel must immediately halt its military offensive, rules International Court of Justice.”
As noted in the May 27th, 2024 Reuters pos, “Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45, prompts global outcry,” Israel’s latest attack has led to mounting international condemnation.
Here’s the May 27th, 2024 WQAD News 8 on YouTube post, “International criticisms continue to mount against Israel after attacks in Rafah,” for more.
The May 27th, 2024 FOX 32 Chicago on YouTube post, “Israel carries out deadly airstrike in Rafah,“ quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as calling the attack, a “tragic mistake.”
Earlier today, as outlined in the May 27th, 2024 National Post story, “Canada increases cap on visas from Gaza, but says helping people flee mostly out of its control,” the Canadian government increased the Visa cap for Palestinian immigrants from Gaza from 1000 to 5000.
Last week on this show, we noted that the US government had put together a large temporary pier off the Gaza coast, which was expected to be used to move refugees out of Gaza to US and EU resettlement locations.
Meanwhile, on college campuses across Canada and around the world, protests continue.
The unofficial Israeli policy on this matter is pretty clear: the Palestinian’s in Gaza will leave the territory or the Israeli military will destroy them.
Also in the News this Week
The Liberals are Destroying Canada’s Legacy Media
Government assistance is destroying the legacy media, according to the May 16th, 2024 The Economist post, “Canada’s law to help news outlets is harming them instead.”
The Economist is generally considered to be the “publication of record” to the vast majority of the world’s elites.
Their post notes that Canada started out with much the same strategy utilized by Brazil, Britain, Canada, South Africa and California, asking tech giants to pay for linking to media stories.
That strategy mostly didn’t work.
As outlined in posts like the May 24th, 2024 Canadian Press post, “Meta's news ban in Canada: screenshots win, local news loses, study shows,” direct links were replaced with difficult to track screenshots and Canadian legacy news was mostly blocked from platforms like Facebook and Instagram, replaced with new media content from small, independent outlets.
The Trudeau government then moved on to direct subsidies, a situation which as noted in the November 30th, 2023 The Conversation post, “Half of private Canadian journalism could now be government supported,” simply looks embarrassing to legacy media journalists who once prided themselves on their fairness, independence and objectivity.
Part of the reason is the quid-pro quo support required by the Canadian government for media handouts.
As outlined in the May 15th, 2024 Propaganda in Focus post, “Freedom Convoy Protesters in Crosshairs of Illiberal Canadian Government,” many of the political issues of the last four years were highly partisan.
The legacy media, heavily indebted to ongoing government media bailouts, were quietly restricted from taking independent stances.
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F049cb8fc-9054-4cad-84e1-9733c2075aa6_738x777.png)
The collapse of Canada’s legacy media continues.
Bill C-63, the so called “Online Harms Act“ is next on the plate of government legislation.
This time, even the reliably leftist independent publication “The Tyee” isn’t sure this latest Liberal media plan is going to work.
They recognize that, while the last two attempts to bolster legacy media were at least attempting to improve everyone’s lot, the current Bill C-63 is essentially censorship intended explicitly to control the new media outlets replacing the now “harmless” legacy media.
A good example of these sorts of outlets are places like The Bureau, an online, new media outlet which really dislikes the current governing Liberal/NDP coalition and is publicly advocating for change.
For fifty more independent, new media outlets, check out the December 27th, 2023 Freedom Forum post, “The 2024 Freedom Forum Listing of Important and Influential Canadian "NEW" Media.”
The WHO Pandemic Treaty Has Failed (For Now)
Talks intended to culminate in the World Health Association (WHO) pandemic treaty seems to have failed, at least for now.
As outlined in the May 24th, 2024 New York Times post, “Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic,” among the sticking points holding the treaty up were “equitable access” to vaccines (essentially the creation of a low cost, forced distribution network for countries which don’t want the product) and financing “to set up surveillance systems.”
Treaty negotiations, until now the subject of worldwide protests, are expected to slide back behind a wall of confusion designed explicitly to hide future negotiations, until the next time.
Part of the reason for this, as outlined in the May 27th, 2024 Globe and Mail post, “Disinformation campaign hobbled pandemic treaty, WHO says,” is that the WHO believes that their efforts to craft a pandemic treaty were misrepresented by others.
But, as noted way back in the October 10th, 2023 Freedom Forum post, “The WHO is Simply the Medical Marketing Arm of Whoever Happens to Be Funding It,” the WHO long ago abandoned the traditional practice of medicine to centralize around giant for-profit multi-nationals & unelected UN bureaucrats using illegal "opt-in" money making sales methodologies.
It’s hard to represent that type of context in a positive light.
Klaus Schwab Retires from £345Mln WEF
Dr. Evil lookalike Klaus Schwab is moving away from the day-to-day management of the World Economic Forum (WEF) after more than 50 years at the helm.
As outlined in the May 21st, CNBC post, “World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab to step back from executive role,” the move is part of a “was part of a multiyear strategy to change its management structure, shifting governance to a president and managing board.”
The 86-year-old’s succession plan has been the source of much speculation over recent years, although the organization has remained tight-lipped about its intentions until now.
The May 21st, 2024 Unherd post, “Klaus Schwab’s WEF exit marks the end of Davos Man,” notes that:
For over 50 years, Schwab has overseen the rise of a formidable business empire, worth £345 million in 2022/23, the most recent year for which we have annual accounts. The group includes the convention itself, which takes over Davos every January, and sister organizations.
The May 25th, 2024 Brownstone Institute post [2Capture14], “Is it all Unraveling,” notes an “end of the era feeling” around Schwab’s retirement, plus the expected “torrential flood of information coming from (Anthony) Fauci’s old office (with 155 pages of jaw-dropping emails) and the firing up of a global movement to stop the World Health Organization,” and asks if we’ve on the cusp of taking back our freedom?
Others, including the May 21st, 2024 Kevin Roberts Show on YouTube post, “Klaus Schwab Retires: The era of Davos-style global elitism is on notice | Heritage President at WEF,” ask if perhaps the organization Schwab founded is now a part of the problem and not the solution.
Canadian Reproductive Damage after 2021
But once all the documented malfeasance of the last half decade is exposed and moves into the public domain, there will still be challenges for us to surmount.
For example, the Daily Clout substack under the title, “Behind the FDA Curtain: WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Reports,” collaboration of Over 3,250 physicians, RNs, medical investigators, and other expert volunteers are analyzing the hundreds of thousands of page of internal Pfizer and Moderna documents released under court order, have been doing sterling work assessing what was really going on during “Operation Warp Speed,” the exceptionally fast and untested rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Their most recent post, the May 24th, 2024 Outspoken with Naomi Wolf post, “"Amy Kelly/ DailyClout Reveal Canadian Reproductive Damage Crisis Post-2021" is a frightening overview of vaccine injuries effecting the reproductive cycles on Ontario women.
According to the post:
Kelly's analysis of (Ontario public health data from derived from billing codes from) the years 2015-2019 versus 2021-2022, reveals catastrophic damage to Canadian men and women in categories related to reproductive wellbeing: rises in women with menstrual disorders and post-menopausal bleeding, and "genital disorders"; rises in miscarriage and partial abortion; damage to sperm; and rises in infertility.
This is the first government dataset that provides a comprehensive "smoking gun" revealing that harms to reproduction followed the rollout in 2021 of the mRNA injection.
CNN is Stupid
And finally tonight, we have this very silly piece from CNN, with correspondents Anderson Cooper and Kristen Holmes seemingly quite confused about the size and composition of the people at a Donald Trump rally.
It’s the May 24th, 2024 Fox News post, “CNN reporter surprised by size of pro-Trump rally in 'one of the bluest counties in the entire country'” except there are a few additions.
“Last Week Today” provides context and connections for the most important news stories of the week.
We’re a part of the fast growing alternative, “new media” ecosystem, which grew up around distributed, low cost technologies developed to enhance two-way communications between authors and audiences.
Please support our sponsors below.