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Putni just doesn't want NATO right next door. He's willing to scare the bejesus out of the people OF Ukraine and take a couple areas in the East back over just to back it up, and our President seems to be OK with that.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-tweet-going-toe-toe-vladimir-putin-resurfaces-ukraine-crisis-russia-1681266?amp=1&fbclid=IwAR2QAQe_X-dkDLs0-_DOPgL7W2IP27nDPfA61IxtGRL7rbEZ3cJxfhbWPCE Biden's account tweeted in February, 2020: "Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be President. He doesn't want me to be our nominee." "If you're wondering why—it's because I'm the only person in this field who's ever gone toe-to-toe with him," the then Democratic presidential candidate said. Sure Buddy......

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537161/CDC-refusing-publish-data-collected-booster-effectiveness-aged-18-49.html CDC is refusing to publish data it has collected on booster effectiveness for 33 MILLION Americans aged 18-49 over fears it might show the vaccines as ineffective: FDA expert tells CDC to 'tell the truth' Two weeks ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data about the effectiveness of boosters against COVID-19 The CDC failed to publish a tranche of their data, however - omitting the impact on those aged 18-49, who are least likely to benefit from boosters The CDC are also being criticized for failing to publish their information about child hospitalization rates and comorbidities A spokeswoman for the CDC said they were concerned that the data would be misinterpreted, pointing out that it was incomplete and not verified Critics said that it was always better to publish the information rather than withhold, and allow scientists to analyze and explain what they could Why wouldn't the CDC release the data? Perhaps the same reason the drug companies want the vaccine testing data confidential for 70 years....... https://www.c-span.org/video/?465845-1/universal-flu-vaccine&playEvent

Unintended consequence or intended? (#greatreset) https://thecovidworld.com/canadian-bank-runs-appear-to-be-under-way-as-the-trudeau-regime-declares-war-on-bank-assets-of-citizens/ Canadian Bank Runs Appear To Be Under Way As The Trudeau Regime Declares WAR On Bank Assets Of Citizens The COVID World post date: February 18th, 2022 By Mike Adams Thanks to the tyrannical actions of Chrystia Freeland — a Davos group devotee and the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada — the people of Canada are now rapidly withdrawing their funds from Canada’s largest banks. Three days ago, Freeland announced that Canada’s financial terrorism laws would be expanded to seize all funds — bank accounts, crypto, crowdfunding hubs, etc. — belonging to individuals who supported the peaceful convoy trucker protest… even if that person merely donated $10 to the convoy. And just like that, Chrystia Freeland broke the social contract between bank retail customers and the banks themselves. In one fell swoop, Freeland red-pilled the entire nation into understanding that their money isn’t safe in any bank in Canada, since the government can now seize all your private funds without due process, evidence or any rule of law. The entire promise of banking is that your deposits are your money and that you can withdraw them at any time. But Trudeau and Freeland just declared that all your bank deposits are their assets, and they can loot them at any time without notice, without any due process whatsoever. Suddenly the question emerges in the minds of everyone: So why deposit anything in the banks in the first place? The lawless dictatorship of Trudeau / Freeland Under the invocation of emergency powers, Canada’s government has become a lawless dictatorship, and they are using their tyrannical powers to loot the bank accounts of innocent people who merely want to participate in the peaceful protest against medical tyranny. Making good on the threat, not only have private bank accounts been seized by the Canadian government regime, Trudeau has ordered crypto exchanges to seize the funds of 34 crypto wallets now named by the government itself. These 34 crypto wallets are apparently being used to help fund the peaceful protesters, and the tyrannical (lawless) government of Canada has decided to declare all-out war against cryptocurrency in order to try to stop the bouncy castles and honking. Ezra Levant of RebelNews.com tweeted out: The answer, of course, is a classic bank run as the people of Canada rush to pull their deposits out of the country’s banks before the government steals all their money. The dynamic duo of Trudeau and Freeland, in less than 30 days, has managed to reveal to the people of Canada that not only is their government a terrorist authoritarian regime, but that all their life savings and business assets can and will be looted by that same government without notice, for almost any reason whatsoever. It’s amazing: The Trudeau regime is red pilling people faster than Alex Jones.

Neil Young's short-lived temper tantrum is over (quietly)...... I do find it interesting that the "misinformation" he was accused of spreading was actually from one of the doctors that holds 9 patents on MRNA vaccine technology. So hardly "misinformation" IMHO....... https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2022/02/650991/?fbclid=IwAR3_Q5nnxHMHjbJT9XFMDhjF_ma3XOXxi2sjWkJha69nvW2_KJEnFTpP2n8 It wasn’t long ago that Canadian-native, anti-Trump rockstar Neil Young demanded that Spotify remove all of his music after the platform has refused to blacklist podcaster Joe Rogan. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” Young said. “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” Young continued. “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.” Despite this ultimatum, Spotify called Neil Young’s bluff and refused to silence Rogan. Spotify took a bold stand for freedom of speech amid major backlash from liberals, including the Obamas, who demanded censorship on the platform. Singer Joni Mitchell joined Young and also claimed she was removing her music from Spotify. However, it turns out that neither Young nor Mitchell has the power to pull much of their music from the platform. The musicians’ catalogs are on labels that remain streamable on Spotify, reports have confirmed. Young and Mitchell never had the power to follow through on their threats themselves, the report adds. Just over a year ago, Young sold a 50% stake in his catalog to U.K. music investor Hipgnosis for a cool $150 million. Rogan, who is known for hosting a podcast where he gets high and talks about aliens, has dared to ask questions and hold discussions about coronavirus. Liberals accuse Rogan of spreading “misinformation” because he invited highly credentialed physicians on his podcast, which includes cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone who owns nine patents on the creation of mRNA vaccine technology. This has resulted in a collective meltdown for the Left. Numerous high-profile figures have expressed outrage and announced boycotts against Spotify, which hosts Rogan’s popular podcast. Rogan’s podcast is currently the most popular podcast in the country. He averages 11 million listeners per episode and reaches far more people than networks like CNN and MSNBC combined. CNN only recorded over a million viewers in its primetime slots in 2021 while MSNBC averaged 1.53 million. Rogan recently explained the controversy began because liberals are upset about “dangerous misinformation” that came from two episodes. He explained that one episode was “with Dr. Peter McCullough and one with Dr. Robert Malone. Dr. Peter McCullough is a cardiologist, and he is the most published physician in his field in history. Dr. Robert Malone owns nine patents on the creation of mRNA vaccine technology and is at least partially responsible for the creation of the technology that led to mRNA vaccines. Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished people and they have an opinion, that’s different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is.” “I had them on and because of that, those episodes in particular, those episodes were labeled as being dangerous, they had dangerous misinformation in them,” Rogan continued. “The problem I have with the term misinformation, especially today is that many of the things that we thought of as misinformation just a short while ago are now accepted as fact, like, for instance, eight months ago, if you said, ‘if you get vaccinated, you can still catch COVID and you can still spread COVID,’ you’d be removed from social media, they would they would ban you from certain platform,” he said. “Now, that’s accepted as fact. If you said, I don’t think cloth masks work, you would be banned from social media. Now that’s openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said I think it’s possible that COVID-19 came from a lab, you’d be banned from many social media platforms – now that’s on the cover of Newsweek. All of those theories that at one point in time were banned, were openly discussed by those two men that I had on my podcast that had been accused of dangerous misinformation.”

So on January 26, a fully vaccinated co-worker entered Mrs. SF's office coughing and hacking claiming she didn't have Covid since she was vaccinated. (Never mind her grand kids were positive, and she had them staying at her place, she then later tested positive) So started the SF run with Covid-19. By the Weekend (3 days) the onset of symptoms began and both the SF's got tested and were positive. SF's lifetime of travels all over the country and Canada had my immune system on point. I was ill (about like the flu with more aches than usual) for about a day and a half. Mrs. SF had the same but developed a persistent cough that lasted through the following week. Our doctor prescribed a z-pack for her and recommended the Monoclonal Antibodies treatment. Both the Elkhart and the Goshen hospitals receive a limited supply, so she was on the list, but not chosen. Come Sunday morning, her oxygen level dipped below 90%, so on the doctor's orders, I took her to the ER. Pneumonia was the diagnosis, and I was pissed. She had waited over a week for the MA transfusion, but was not "bad enough" so now she is admitted to the hospital where she spent the next 5 days, was treated with Remdesivir and various other meds & steroids (which thankfully she responded well to) just released on Friday. We are not "anti-vax", but she has had a chronic lung condition (sarcoidosis) for over 3 years and based on our doctor's recommendation she did not get vaccinated. (neither did I, even though I have every intention to before I get back on the road to tend to my Canada business). We plan to after the recommended 3-6 month span after having Covid. I was surprised at the array of precautions or non-precautions and PPE each different nurse and doctor exercised, from total gowns and masks to nothing but a mask considering it was Covid based care. It seemed like and the attending doctor confirmed we know it's a virus - and that's it. "We are still learning as we go - kinda like the flu, only worse in some cases".

One has to wonder if Leslie Stahl would like to apologize to the former President for her remarks where he actually told her the FACTS about this incident, and she she denied it and then never followed up on the "new" information. (That is now a fact) or maybe she should just retire......

https://nypost.com/2022/02/13/eyes-turn-to-hillary-clinton-not-trump-in-the-russiagate-scandal/ So there you have it. Russiagate, the collective delusion that Donald Trump was secretly a Russian agent aided and abetted by the Kremlin, the topic of uncountable inches of Washington Post and New York Times copy and the entire primetime lineup of MSNBC, was a dirty trick by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Not just part of it. All of it. One of the most diabolical, successful misinformation campaigns ever concocted. We already knew that the Steele dossier was garbage. Christopher Steele was paid indirectly by the Clinton campaign to dig up dirt, which he did by turning to other Clinton operatives, laundering every outlandish rumor about Trump he could find into an “investigative” document. He shopped it to the FBI, which couldn’t verify his sources or any of his stories, but the agency dragged out the investigation to cast maximum suspicion on the new president. In the meantime, Steele found willing accomplices in the media to push his propaganda. The dupes at BuzzFeed even decided to print the whole pack of lies, with the flimsy rationale of “Well, why not?” We got to the point where New York magazine was running a cover story that was one long piece of fan fiction that Trump was secretly a real-life version of “The Americans,” a sleeper agent now seated in the highest office in the land. The Times and Washington Post won a freaking Pulitzer! A made-up story Now another piece of Russia, Russia, Russia is kaputski. A computer server operated by Trump’s company was secretly communicating with a Russian firm, claimed Slate magazine and endless Twitter threads of would-be tech experts. But as special counsel John Durham outlines in his latest indictment, that was just a story made up by tech executive Rodney Joffe, who desperately wanted a job with the Clinton administration. He hacked Trump’s servers, cherry-picked privileged Internet data he had access to, and molded it to look like something nefarious. He was coached by lawyer Michael Sussmann — who was being paid by the Clinton administration, although he lied about that to investigators. Sussmann goes to the FBI as a “concerned citizen” — not a “Clinton stooge” — to try to get them to bite. The ultimate goal: Be able to leak to the Times that Trump is under official investigation. Durham “definitely showed that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,” says Kash Patel, the former chief investigator for the House Intelligence Committee. Beyond outrageous Of course, Hillary didn’t get what she wanted — the presidency. But her operatives didn’t stop, going on CNN to give “very concerned” interviews about a theory they knew was bull. All to undermine Trump’s presidency. It would take three years for the Mueller report to finally put the lie to rest, and we’re now, five years out, at the point where Durham is detailing the full conspiracy. If this had happened to a Democrat, the press would be losing its mind. A candidate for president weaponized the nation’s Justice Department to pursue an investigation into their political opponent based on what they knew were lies. Americans were wiretapped! Some were entrapped for flimsy claims of perjury. The director of the FBI went into the Oval Office to tell the president that there was a sexual rumor floating around, so that it could be promptly leaked to the media. “Outrageous” doesn’t cover it. And still no shame from Hillary Clinton and her supporters, because it’s Donald Trump — anything is fair game to take him down. All these things we’ve been lectured about over the past four years: Norms being broken, internet misinformation, perversion of government — it was all happening. It was the Democrats who were doing it. Think anyone in the left-wing media will notice? Notice this story is basically showing up at one place......I don't think anyone else is going to notice.....

https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/trump-blasts-media-for-ignoring-claims-clinton-spied-on-him/ Former President Donald Trump ripped the ”LameStream” media Monday for its failure to cover allegations by Special Counsel John Durham that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an Internet company to spy on Trump. “Can you imagine that, what should be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC,” the former president said in an emailed statement from his Save America PAC. “This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world,” Trump added. The 45th president further accused the media of ignoring the “many Biden corruption scandals” before the 2020 election and “they won’t talk about this, which is potentially even bigger.” “It shows how totally corrupt and shameless the media is,” he continued. Durham, who was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in May 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe, filed documents Friday claiming that Clinton’s campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” computer servers at Trump Tower and the White House in an effort to link Trump to Russia. The filing pertained to conflicts of interests in the case of Michael Sussmann, a Clinton campaign lawyer, who is charged with lying to the FBI. Sussmann allegedly told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker that Sussmann wasn’t working for the Clinton campaign when he handed over documents in September 2016 that purportedly tied the Trump Organization to a Kremlin-connected bank. In fact, the indictment alleges, Sussmann had billed the Clinton campaign for calls and meetings with tech executive Rodney Joffe and the campaign’s general counsel, Marc Elias, in which they “coordinated and communicated” about the allegations “Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the Republicans, in particular President Donald Trump, got caught illegally spying into the Office of the President?” Trump asked. “All hell would break loose and the electric chair would immediately come out of retirement. “The good news is, everybody is talking about not only this atrocity against our Nation, but that the press refuses to even mention the major crime that took place,” the former president said. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the leading GOPer on the House Judiciary Committee, said Durham’s filing shows that Trump was right all along when he accused the Clinton campaign of spying on him and called Russian collusion allegations a hoax. “Yep, there was spying going on, and it was worse than we thought because they were spying on the sitting president of the United States,” Jordan told “Fox & Friends” Sunday. “And it goes right to the Clinton campaign. So God bless John Durham.” Hmmm - Was Trump REALLY right about this? Was it really a hoax after all? I mean did the Clinton Campaign actually spy on the Trump campaign with help from the Obama administration? Wasn't there some history of a campaign spying on another campaign? Watergate comes to mind......

And so it begins.......Having predicted the drawdown of mask requirements and all the other Covid Panic issues to start in March of 2022, seeing the start.....

FIFY.....

Honest answer - Yep. By narrowing the field to a specific sex, Regan eliminated a large portion of qualified personnel....... Was it the right call? Yep. (IMHO)

Isn't that Prejudice the very essence of "Racist AND Sexist"?

From a friend: (Tell me he's wrong if you can) PBS news last night: "Scotus needs a black woman appointed because black people and women are 'underrepresented' on the court.” The statement is a lie. 1) The court is not a “representative" body. Congress is the representative body. The court is intended to be a meritocracy where “representative make-up” is immaterial. To think the members of the court must be representative is illogical, zero sum thinking, assuming the impossibility of human “color blindness”. Tell that to the “white" congress that passed the civil rights acts of 1965. 2) Congress is to be a representative body where elected “representatives” of various minorities have a voice, and sometimes a veto: filibuster. 3) The first SCOTUS limitation is that all appointees must be lawyers. 25% of all lawyers are female. 5% are black and 5% are hispanic. 4)One justice represents 11% of the court. Therefore, women (33%), black (11%) and Hispanic (11%) justices are overrepresented on the court compared to peers in the legal profession, not underrepresented. 5) Population is immaterial, but what about it? Is the court a “cross section” of the population or a cesspool of underrepresentation? Hispanics are about 18% of the US population and 11% of the court. Blacks are about 13% of the population and 11% of the court. Women are about 50.5% of the population and 33% of the court.. Since the court has 1 black, 3 females and one for sure Hispanic, and since one must have a whole justice and not a fractional justice: Blacks are “represented", Hispanics are less but still “represented" and women, seemingly “underrepresented". There are lots of reasons why the numbers do not support the underrepresentation of women claim. Apart from childbirth, the single most significant factor is that the percentage of women who choose to seek law as a career, although growing, is relatively much smaller that the number of men.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/blms-millions-go-unaccounted-for-after-leaders-quietly-jump-ship BLM's millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship by Andrew Kerr, Investigative Reporter | | January 27, 2022 03:56 PM No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a Washington Examiner investigation has found. BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts told the Washington Examiner. BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors appointed two activists to serve as the group's senior directors following her resignation in May amid scrutiny over her personal finances. But both quietly announced in September that they never took the jobs due to disagreements with BLM. They told the Washington Examiner they don't know who now leads the nation's most influential social justice organization. Paul Kamenar, counsel for conservative watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center, said a full audit and investigation into Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, is warranted. "This is grossly irregular and improper for a nonprofit with $60 million in its coffers," Kamenar said. BLM previously came under fire from local black activists after the New York Post reported in April that Cullors, then its executive director, had spent $3.2 million on real estate across the United States. The reports followed BLM's disclosure in February 2021 that it closed out 2020 with $60 million in its bank accounts. BLM denied allegations that Cullors spent BLM funds on her personal properties. However, BLM and other activist organizations under Cullors's control offered contracts to an art company led by the father of her only child, the Daily Caller reported. Cullors announced in May she was stepping down and that activists Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele would lead the organization as senior executives. But Themba and Bandele revealed in September that they never actually took the job because of disagreements with BLM's "acting Leadership Council." Both Themba and Bandele told the Washington Examiner they do not know who took over as BLM's top executive after their departure. And neither would say who served on the council. "We never actually started in the position, so we never received any detailed information," Themba said. While a charity's finances are ultimately the responsibility of its board of directors, BLM's bylaws explicitly state that its executive director "shall have charge of all funds and securities of the Corporation." The two remaining BLM board members, Shalomyah Bowers and Raymond Howard, did not return numerous requests for comment asking who has been in charge of BLM and its money since Cullors left the charity in May. Bowers served as the treasurer for multiple activist organizations run by Cullors, including BLM PAC and a Los Angeles-based jail reform group that paid Cullors $20,000 a month and dropped nearly $26,000 for "meetings" at a luxury Malibu beach resort in 2019. Bowers declined to comment when reached by phone on Monday. Howard has spoken openly on Facebook about his work with BLM and his close relationship with Cullors, but he appears to have recently taken steps to conceal his role with the charity. As recently as last Friday, Howard's LinkedIn profile stated that he is the director of operations for "An International Social Justice Organization." His page was modified after the Washington Examiner contacted Howard for comment and now states he serves as the director of operations for a "Non Profit." A reference to Howard's position as the finance and operations manager of New Impact Partners, a Dayton, Ohio-based consulting firm owned by his sister, was also removed from his LinkedIn profile. Also as recently as last Friday, a website for New Impact Partners attributed a quote to "Raymond" from "Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation," thanking the consulting firm for its help solving BLM's organizational challenges. The attribution was removed from the website after the Washington Examiner asked Howard how much BLM has paid his sister's firm. Despite New Impact Partners's apparent efforts to conceal its affiliation with BLM, the consulting firm continues to solicit applications for its "Talent Network," which it says will connect job applicants directly to BLM and other activist organizations. Longtime charity expert Doug White said it's a red flag that BLM won't answer basic questions about its finances or leadership structure. "Sixty million dollars is not chump change," White said. "What BLM does is of tremendous social importance. That they won't give an honest or complete or straightforward answer in regards to its leadership is a concern. Not only do they not have an executive director right now, we think, but they also don't want to tell you how the organization is being run." BLM was not a charity in its own right for much of 2020, a year in which it received a windfall of cash from big corporations and individual donors spurred by the police killing of George Floyd and the nationwide riots that followed. Rather, BLM spent most of the year essentially borrowing the charitable status of two other California-based charities, Thousand Currents and the Tides Foundation, which served as BLM's fiscal sponsors. But the IRS granted BLM tax-exempt status in December 2020, enabling the group to operate as a charity independent of its former fiscal sponsors. And Thousand Currents reported in its most recent audited financial statements that it transferred $66.5 million directly into BLM's coffers in October 2020. Cullors signed the asset transfer on behalf of BLM on Sept. 16, 2020, according to a copy of the agreement provided to the Washington Examiner by the California Office of the Attorney General. BLM published a report last February saying it incurred $8.4 million in operating expenses in 2020 and that it closed out the year with $60 million under its control. But BLM reported to the IRS in August 2020 that it expected to incur precisely $12,706,366 in "Professional Fees" expenditures during the same calendar year, a figure $4.3 million higher than the top-line annual spending figure it later reported to the public in February. Kamenar said his watchdog group believes there should be a "full audit" of BLM to clear up the spending discrepancy. "Bottom line: Lot of questionable financial activity, organizational structure, location of the books, etc. that call for a full investigation," Kamenar said. Data that should be contained within BLM's Form 990 tax return for 2020, which was due to the IRS in November, would help clear up the organization's $4.3 million spending discrepancy. On Tuesday, a Washington Examiner reporter attempted to request BLM's 2020 Form 990 in person at the charity's office in Los Angeles, which the group disclosed as the location its books are stored in previous filings submitted to the IRS, only to be told by a security guard that there has never been a BLM office at the location. An unidentified BLM spokesperson informed the Washington Examiner on Thursday that the group does not currently maintain a "permanent office" and offered to mail a copy of its 990 within two weeks. Alan Dye, a partner at Webster, Chamberlain & Bean who specializes in nonprofit law, told the Washington Examiner that charities that don't submit their Form 990s on time could face fines from the IRS and some state-level charity oversight agencies. Styron, the CharityWatch executive director, said Form 990s are matters of public record and that BLM should have completed its 2020 form by now. "Irrespective of where any person falls on the political spectrum or what their position is on any social justice issue, hopefully, we can all agree that tax-subsidized public charities have an ethical responsibility to be transparent with the public about how they are operating and how the donations they receive are being used," Styron said. "The amount of money involved here is not insignificant." SF thought they may have been a little more organized than this.........?

Here's a scary thought (far-fetched as it may be) 1) Biden nominates Harris to SCOTUS (assuming she passes the hearing process) 2) Biden picks Hillary for VP (and gets his pick through a simple majority of both houses of Congress) 3) Biden retires (or his presidency ends in any manner after January 20, 2022) 4) Hillary becomes the next President........ Boom.......

https://nypost.com/2022/01/26/spotify-sides-with-joe-rogan-removes-neil-youngs-music/ Spotify has sided with its podcast superstar over Neil Young. The legendary folk singer gave the streaming behemoth an ultimatum earlier this week, saying he refused to allow his music on the same platform as Joe Rogan. The “Heart of Gold” singer accused Rogan and his podcast of spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines. Spotify reportedly paid more than $100 million to be the exclusive home of Rogan’s show. Young, meanwhile, stands to lose 60% of his streaming income from his defiant stance, he said in a statement on his website. “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users,” a spokesperson for the company told the Wall Street Journal. “With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators.” Since the start of the pandemic, the spokesman noted, Spotify has removed more than 20,000 COVID-related podcast episodes. Still, Young’s protests were not sufficient for it to drop its lucrative star talker. “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon,” the spokesperson added. Rogan’s podcast has attracted an estimated 11 million listeners. Young’s letter — which is now deleted from his website — did not mince words in accusing the streaming giant of giving an undeserved platform to Rogan and his COVID-19 vaccine “misinformation.” “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” wrote the 76-year-old rock icon. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.”YouTube scraps Joe Rogan podcast episode over Nazi Germany comparison The note even included a formal ultimatum: “They can have Neil Young or Rogan. Not Both.” In a statement posted on his website, Young thanked his publisher Hipgnosis and his label Warner Records/Reprise for supporting his ultimatum. “Losing 60% of worldwide streaming income by leaving SPOTIFY is a very big deal, a costly move, but worth it for our integrity and beliefs. Misinformation about COVID is over the line.” He went on to nudge other artists to take a similar stance. “I sincerely hope that other artists can make a move, but I can’t really expect that to happen,” Young said. “I did this because I had no choice in my heart. It is who I am. I am not censoring anyone. I am speaking my own truth.” Although Young did not specifically note which episodes he took issue with, Rogan did recently host Dr. Robert Malone, the “anti-vaxxer epidemiologist” who was recently booted from Twitter for alleged dissemination of vaccine misinformation, The Post previously reported. YouTube removed the episode, in which Malone compared the climate surrounding US public health to 1920s and 1930s Germany. Representatives for neither Joe Rogan nor Spotify immediately returned The Post’s request for comment. SF is not surprised, but Is SF the only one who sees Neil's hypocrisy here? The activist singer who once stood for anti-government, free-speech and most other liberal causes, decides to take this stand against free speech with the government over a vaccine? FTR - SF loves a lot of NY's music, and hasn't listened to Joe Rogan or even uses Spotify, but just found this interesting.