This is “The Big Lie” of this middle phase of the election cycle. Nobody in corporate media actually believes a Trump administration would even read the 900-pages of Project 2025, let alone implement any parts of it that weren’t already part of the Trump vision, Agenda47. But they will continue to pretend that the Project 2025 plan, built and promoted by the Heritage Foundation, is what Americans should expect if Trump wins.

It’s nearly as disingenuous as “The Big Lie” of late in the 2020 election cycle when corporate media echoed in unison that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. At least back then there was enough ambiguity regarding the laptop to allow them to pretend they didn’t realize it was real. With Project 2025 and Trump’s constantly renouncing, corporate media has no excuse for pawning it off to the American people as if Trump had written it himself.

Axios posted a lengthy piece today about how awful Project 2025 would be if implemented. The first sentence aligns perfectly with this being the latest variation of “The Big Lie”:

Democrats have warned of the damage that Project 2025 could do to the federal government and access to reproductive care if former President Trump wins in November.

The purpose of the sentence is to claim that a Trump victory would mean implementation of Project 2025. Author Jacob Knutson justifies associating Trump with Project 2025 by claiming that in 2016, Trump carried out roughly two-thirds of the Heritage Foundation’s recommendations. What the author failed to admit is that Trump did so because there was crossover between his platform and the Heritage Foundation’s ideas, not because he took any advice from them.

What’s worse is that Knutson went on to highlight the most “extreme” proposals of Project 2025, none of which are part of Trump’s Agenda47. In fact, Trump has actively and aggressively fought against many of the proposed ideas such as “shrinking the social safety net” and “capping funding for Medicaid.”

Back to the opening sentence, which captures the primary talking point being echoed by corporate media. Project 2025 calls for federal action against abortion. This is the biggest reason “journalists” like Knutson keep bringing it up. Trump has made it abundantly clear that he will not take any federal actions against abortion, opting instead to leaving it up to the states. Only a truly stupid person could write the first sentence of the Axios article unless their intention was to mislead the people.

There are only two possibilities. Either Knutson is extremely unintelligent and cannot make the distinction between what Trump will actually do versus what some think tank thinks he should do, or Knutson believes everyone else lacks the intelligence to see through his gaslighting.

It could be both. It’s probably both.

They can’t hit Trump over the economy. They can’t hit him over foreign policy. They can’t hit him on the border, LGBTQIA+ supremacy, or crime. In all of those cases, Independents and moderates on both sides favor Trump over whoever the Democrat nominee ends up being. All they have is abortion so they’re passing out dunce caps in hopes enough people will listen to corporate media instead of knowing the truth. It’s a hail mary, but it’s pretty much all they have left in their arsenal.

The article below from Axios exemplifies this perfectly. New cancer diagnoses are surging with projections showing the highest instances in history. Most troubling is that despite the aging population, it’s people under 50-years-old who are most affected.

Those who have read recent studies about “turbo cancer” or who have heard reports of adverse reactions “mysteriously” surging since 2021 likely realize that this is all part of a huge coverup. There are clearly many doctors who are dense but it can’t be all of them, yet so few ever speak up to state the obvious.

As for corporate media, they’re perpetuating the lies. Here’s that Axios article. Notice how it’s positioned in a way that’s supposed to normalize the notion of diseases getting worse yet nobody has a clue why…

New cancer diagnoses expected to hit record high this year

New cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are expected to top 2 million for the first time in 2024, driven in large part by an alarming increase in cancers among younger Americans, according to new American Cancer Society data.

Why it matters: There have been major improvements in cancer survival, but there’s a worrying rise in some cancers at the same time doctors are trying to figure out why they’re seeing more young patients with cancer.

What they’re saying: This demographic shift comes with psychological, physical and financial burdens that are less common with older patients, experts say.

• Patients under 50 are more likely to be uninsured, juggling career and caregiving responsibilities, and face a higher lifetime risk of treatment-related side effects like second cancers.
• “It’s overwhelming for anybody, but especially for these younger patients who are going on with their daily lives and then suddenly get this life-altering diagnosis and really don’t know where to turn,” Robin Mendelsohn, co-director of the Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancers at Memorial Sloan Kettering, told Axios.
• “Many feel alone because they’re younger, their friends, many haven’t had to deal with this.”

Zoom in: The proportion of people 65 and older diagnosed with cancer dropped from 61% to 58% in the last 30 years, even as the size of that group increased. The proportion of those diagnosed between ages 50-64 was largely stable.

• “Notably, people aged younger than 50 years were the only one of these three age groups to experience an increase in overall cancer incidence during this time period,” the ACS report said.
• Doctors don’t know exactly what’s behind the uptick in new cases and deaths among younger patients in many cases.

While new cases of colorectal cancer — the leading cause of cancer death in men under 50 and the second-leading cause of cancer death in women under 50 — have been declining among adults 65 and older, they’ve increased 1% to 2% annually in people younger than 55 since the mid-1990s.

• “Colorectal cancers are also presenting with more aggressive disease and larger tumors at diagnosis,” ACS chief scientific officer William Dahut told Axios.
• Researchers are examining whether long-term factors like consumption of red meat or ultra-processed food, medication and vitamin use, and obesity are contributing to this shift.
• “Cancer obviously takes time to grow, especially colon cancer. So we think it’s probably exposures from decades prior,” Mendelsohn said.
• Preliminary MSK research found significant differences in the microbiomes of early-onset colorectal cancer patients compared with older ones. More research is needed but “this might be a signal,” she said.

The big picture: The U.S. cancer death rate has been cut by a third in the last 30 years, partly due to improved screening, a sharp drop in smoking, and more effective treatments against certain cancers.

• But diagnoses have been increasing for some cancers, and there are strong racial and ethnic disparities in cancer deaths.
• New cases of prostate, liver, kidney and HPV‐associated oral cancers and melanoma each rose 2% to 3% annually between 2015 and 2019.
• Cases of breast, pancreas and uterine cancers also increased between .6% and 1% annually during that time.
• Black people were twice as likely to die from prostate, stomach and endometrial cancer compared with white people between 2016 and 2020. Mortality rates were also twice as high for Native American people for liver, stomach and kidney cancers in that same time frame.

The ACS projections exclude data from 2020, when the pandemic’s first year led to a drop-off in cancer screenings.

• The largest delays in diagnoses appeared to be for cancers that tend to be less fatal or asymptomatic, according to ACS. For instance, there was a 16% drop for melanoma diagnosed in men and an 18% drop in thyroid cancer diagnosed in women that year.
• “The question of whether these delays lead to increased diagnosis of advanced‐stage disease and, ultimately, higher cancer mortality at the population level will be answered gradually over many years,” the authors wrote.

Of note: There is some good news in the data. The decline in cancer mortality has resulted in more than 4 million fewer deaths in the U.S. since 1991.

• Still, the study projects cancer will kill nearly 612,000 people this year, up from a projected 609,820 in 2023.

The bottom line: Dahut said the study highlights the importance of timely screening, particularly among people with a strong family history of cancer or who are experiencing symptoms of the disease.

• “Most things, of course, won’t be cancer. But if things seem abnormal, make sure you know you are satisfied by the workup,” Dahut said.

Corporate media has become adept at taking important news that demonstrates the truth and perverting it to reinforce lies.

While it’s a best practice to question everything in the propaganda side of war, this particular piece of intel appears credible. What’s not noted in reports is that forensic analysis makes it very challenging to fake the source of data, such as those being reported on the USB storage device. It would be easier to infiltrate Hamas, upload chemical weapons plans onto a USB device from a computer in Gaza, and plant the device on a Hamas terrorist than it would be to fake the data after the fact. And while I wouldn’t dismiss any possibility, that scenario seems far-fetched compared to the likely reality that Hamas has plans to disperse cyanide in Israel. With that said, here’s the article generated from corporate media sources by Discern Reporter…

The Israeli military has found a USB key with instructions for the production of a “cyanide dispersion device” on the body of a Hamas operative who participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, according to two Israeli officials and a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable obtained by Axios.

It is unclear whether Hamas had a serious or operational plan for using makeshift chemical weapons or whether the group attempted to produce them.

Israeli Foreign Ministry’s weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation department sent a classified cable to Israeli embassies worldwide, including Washington, on Thursday under the headline: “Hamas intention of using chemical weapons.”

The authenticity of the Hamas file could not be independently confirmed by Axios, but Israeli officials have previously shared only authentic and reliable information with allies.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry in the cable instructed its diplomats to privately transfer the information to their host governments and not use it publicly in any way.

Israel has previously shared documents found on dead Hamas attackers since Oct. 7, including information revealing the group’s planning for attacking Israeli villages and military bases near the border. The classified information allegedly included operational plans with explicit orders to kill as many people as possible and take hostages.

The Hamas spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the matter.

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Israel had announced the cessation of all water supply to Gaza on the second day of the conflict, with the Israeli Minister of Energy, Israel Katz, stating that no water spigot would be opened until the release of the hostages held by Hamas.

Behind the scenes, Israeli officials have revealed that the Biden administration has been urging the Israeli government, particularly in the last 48 hours, to resume the water supply, focusing on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Against the backdrop of Israel’s expected ground offensive, Israel had advised over a million Palestinians in the northern region of the Strip to move southward to avoid harm. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have relocated to the south, further straining limited supplies and shelters.

According to Israeli officials, the Biden administration conveyed that it was not acceptable for Israel to instruct Palestinians to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip without ensuring they have access to water. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan stated in an interview with CNN that his Israeli counterpart, Tzachi Hanegbi, had informed him on Sunday about Israel’s decision to resume the water supply to the southern Gaza Strip.