MCC Brussels Executive Director Frank Furedi exposes how NGOs, far from being grassroots or democratic, have become a powerful unelected class shaping policy across Europe. ● Funded by the EU and global foundations, these organisations present themselves as fundamental to civil society — but in truth, they undermine it. Furedi argues that they replace genuine democratic engagement with top-down activism, eroding sovereignty and silencing the public. ● "This is not civil society. ... These organisations have got no organic relationship to the people that they're meant to be representing." ● This speech, given at the heart of the European Parliament, lays bare the extent to which the EU has outsourced legitimacy to a self-appointed clerisy — NGOs who masquerade as moral arbiters while answering to no electorate, no nation, and no accountability. [Hat Tip: Hva Mener Partiene]

■ The ENORMOUS scale of the EU's NGO funding | MCC Brussels at the European Parliament (MCC Brussels)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right Israeli government is moving to dispense with all constraints on its powers and get rid of its political opponents within the state apparatus—including the head of the Shin Bet domestic spy agency Ronen Bar and Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara. This is part of its preparations for a broader crackdown on all opposition to its policies at home and abroad. | Last week, in an unprecedented move aimed at eliminating judicial oversight of government, the cabinet unanimously backed a no confidence motion against Baharav-Miara, who as Israel’s Attorney-General is the country’s most senior legal official and one of the few nominal checks on the power of the executive, while also heading the public prosecution. Her position is a fixed-term independent, not a political, appointment. The vote is the first step in a lengthy process to secure her dismissal that will likely go all the way up to the Supreme Court, which some ministers have already said they will ignore if the decision goes against them.

In addition, similar measures will affect Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Switzerland, Japan, and other countries | The US government will impose reciprocal tariffs of 34% on imports from China and 20% on goods from the European Union, President Donald Trump announced. ● In addition, similar measures will affect Vietnam (46%), India (26%), Indonesia (32%), Cambodia (49%), Malaysia (24%), South Korea (25%), Thailand (36%), Taiwan (32%), Switzerland (31%), Japan (24%), and other countries.

■ US Imposes Tariffs on All Countries - Trump (Sputnik)

ExcessDeathsAU | Summary for new readers: | The Australian covid response was a joint US military domestic terrorism operation; a live exercise which was war gamed well in advance under the auspices of the Five Eyes intelligence apparatus via the Medical Countermeasures Consortium. ■  ‘Covid’ was not a health event. It was an act of war on civilians. It was not an ‘accident,’ it was not ‘botched,’ it was not a ‘mistake.’ Lives were not ‘saved by the response.’ ■ Anyone who is saying this, or any document that states this, is lying and misdirecting from the truth, that what happened was deliberate, and people were murdered in multiple ways during a global coordinated military operation. ■ The murder began early in 2020 when people were killed in hospitals and care homes using standard protocols throughout the Five Eyes countries (UK, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada) and elsewhere in order to create panic via the illusion of a widespread deadly pandemic, especially for the elderly and vulnerable.

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