Ultra-vires judges in US, Canada, CBC and active measures: Links 1 for March 17, 2026

1. What happened when Iran launches missiles against the Sunni world’s #1 propaganda organ?

2. Perhaps an expert on US law can explain how a federal judge can somehow stop changes in vaccine policies by the top health agency in the USA? Can judges just override any and all federal laws and regulation? How does this possibly happen?

This feels like the same mechanism at work we saw in the excellent series, Dopesick. If anyone hasn’t seen it and wants to be well informed as well as well entertained, please watch the series Dopesick for a huge part of the explanation for what happened during Covid, even though it was about another US drug crisis.

Federal judge halts RFK Jr.’s changes to children’s vaccine policies

A federal judge Monday dealt a major blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul the nation’s vaccine policies, including the controversial decision to slash the number of federally recommended vaccinations for children.

U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Boston put a hold on the decisions made by an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory committee, ruling that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had improperly replaced the entire committee.

The decision was hailed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading health groups that brought the lawsuit, as well as infectious disease experts around the country.

3. This feels like an active measure to me. It is extremely difficult to believe Iran, who hangs homosexuals from cranes and bridges on a regular basis, would pick a homosexual for supreme leader of Iran. Is it so Trump won’t want to exterminate him imagining that somehow this is progressive for Iran or that the left in the US will be more against Trump and the war? If it was true, one would think the population of Iran would be even more hateful towards the ruling class since they allowed a gay son of the Ayatollah to thrive while murdering all others.

It should be mentioned at least in passing, that when the US, Great Britain and Canada used to hang criminals, they dropped them through a trap door and the rope would snap the neck killing them pretty much instantly. Iran suffocates people slowly to death for minutes torturously, by letting them hang slowly from public places.

Is Iran’s new supreme leader gay? Dead ayatollah feared son unsuitable for role

Bombshell new reports suggest that one of the best kept secrets in the Islamic Republic is that new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is gay.

According to the New York Post, citing U.S. intelligence sources, Mojtaba Khamenei’s sexual proclivities were the reason his despotic dad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t think he was capable of leadership.

The Post reports that when U.S. President Donald Trump was told that the new ayatollah was gay, he burst out laughing. Two intelligence operatives and a White House source confirmed the story to the Post.

“(Trump) has not stopped laughing about it for days,” one person familiar with the briefing told the tabloid.

I dunno this reads like gossip level politics and feels more like an active measure than reportage. If it was on CBC one could be certain of it.

4. Here is an excellent example of a CBC active measure:

Note how Muslims are attacking Jews and Jewish institutions and the CBC frames it as “white supremacists” somewhat like how Democrats in the Congressional hearings on Sharia law in the US attempted to frame the real problem as non-existent Christian nationalists.

Here is a decent definition of Active Measure for those uncertain of the exact utility of the term:

An active measure is a term from Soviet intelligence practice meaning a covert operation designed to influence events, opinions, or political outcomes, rather than just gather information.

The concept comes from the Soviet term aktivnye meropriyatiya (???????? ???????????).

The strategy was heavily used by the KGB during the Cold War.

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Simple definition

An active measure is:

A covert action intended to manipulate public opinion, political processes, or relationships between groups or countries.

Unlike normal intelligence work (spying), active measures are interventionist.

They try to shape reality, not just observe it.

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Typical tools used in active measures

Common techniques included:

Disinformation

• planting false stories in media

• forged documents

Influence operations

• supporting political movements

• covert propaganda

Psychological manipulation

• amplifying social divisions

• spreading rumors or narratives

Front organizations

• fake NGOs or cultural groups used as influence channels

Agent influence

• individuals in media, academia, or politics who promote specific narratives.

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Famous Cold War example

One of the most well-known active measures was Operation INFEKTION, where Soviet intelligence spread the false claim that:

the AIDS virus had been created by the U.S. military.

The story was planted in a small newspaper abroad and then echoed through other outlets until it appeared credible.

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Strategic purpose

Active measures were meant to:

• divide societies

• undermine trust

• damage alliances

• weaken adversaries internally

Often the goal wasn’t to convince everyone of a lie — it was simply to create confusion and distrust.

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Difference from propaganda

Propaganda = overt messaging.

Active measures = covert manipulation operations.

They combine intelligence, psychological warfare, and political influence.

On a personal note, I believe the exact same active measure was used to convince Americans that the mRNA vaccines was a bioweapon against the American people created by the US military. So they did a repeat of the example above and it worked fairly well. We posted a couple of videos on this with our own skepticism of the narrative at the time.

5. Feds appoint “online safety” advisory group dominated by censorship advocates

The federal government has appointed an “online safety” advisory panel stacked with academics and activists known for pushing for more censorship on digital platforms.

The federal government has appointed an “online safety” advisory panel stacked with academics and activists known for pushing for more censorship on digital platforms, focusing on issues like “extremism” and “misinformation.”

Notably absent are advocates for civil liberties, constitutional freedoms and free speech.

Bernie Farber is key among them. Farber launched the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, an organization that tracks and publicly labels groups it considers extremist, has a seat on the panel.

If memory serves, it was Bernie Farmer who falsely claimed that Nazi pamphlets were found at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, when in reality it was found at some Nazi demonstration in Florida much earlier. For more on the dialectically named Anti-Hate network, pelase see the film, Killing Canada by Michael Hanson.

I have heard it said that Bernie Farber is “The cause of and solution to, a lot of antisemitism in Canada”.

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Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/03/17/ultra-vires-judges-in-us-canada-cbc-and-active-measures-links-1-for-march-17-2026/