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Nov 2022
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Episode #122 - Pascal Najadi and How the...

TOM LUONGO
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Pascal Najadi is back on the show to discuss the latest developments concerning Switzerland's attempts to regain its much-needed neutrality as well as the depths to which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is compromised by the corruption of the European Union's war on Russia.

Pascal's Open Letter to the Pope
https://www.kath.ch/newsd/grounding-produzent-papst-franziskus-soll-putin-zu-einer-friedenskonferenz-einladen/
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